Askov American., 1940-11-14

Immense oil fields, of particular
value to the Germans, are reported
to have been destroyed by the earth
quake.
Bombs and Warships.
Meanwhile-on that other major
front: The Germans seem to have
been as unsuccessful with their at
tack on the British Isles as have the
Italians with their attack ESQ far)
on Greece. But, of course, the
bombing war goes on between Great
Britain and Germany, and especially
the British aspect of it is gathering
speed and fury.
Last week Prime Minister Winston
Churchill warned the British House
of Commons that from now on the
German government was likely to
expand its war; he thought Hitler
would not keep on relying on his
air force chiefly, but that he would
also revive his naval warfare against
British shipping in order to make
the blockade of England complete.
A few hours later, word came that
German battleships and dive bomb
ers had destroyed number of con-
voyed British ships on their way
from Canada to English ports. Since
then, there have been additional re-
ports about the sinking of British
merchantmen.
Hitler Speech.
Hitler also held the floor for a
while, for on November 8, he went
to Munich, as is his custom on that
date each year, to commemorate the
anniversary of the unsuccessful nazi
"Putsch" of 1923.
One year ago. on the same date,
a bomb exploded in the tavern
where he had spoken a few min
utes before; this year British
filters circled above that particu-
lar section of the Bavarian city,
dropping bombs which may have
made it bit uncomfortable to
be in Hitler'S boots for a while,
and it is said that when the
speech, contrary to custom, was
not broadcast via radio, it was
due to this most unwelcOme Brit
ish visit.
Judging from officially released ex-
cerpts of the Hitler address, he said
nothing new or startling; he re-
peated former insistences that he
would fight Great Britain until it
was completely crushed, and he said
that there would be no peace with
out an absolute German victory.
Chamberlain Dead.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain, for
mer prime minister of the British
empire, is dead at the age of II
years; he was son of the famous
British statesman, Joseph Chamber
lain, received the traditionally care
full and thorough English academic
education, entering Parliament in
1918; prior to that, he had been lord
mayor of Birmingham, his native city,
and later he served his country as
postmaster-general, health minister,
and chancellor of the exchequer. In
1887 he succeeded Stanley Baldwin
as prime minister, and in this ca
pacity negotiated the agreement of
Munich by which Sudetenland was
ceded by Czecho-Slovakia to Ger
many, and by which he, as he too
optimistically hoped, secured peace
in our time"
Less than a year after that
agreement, the second world war
had started.
Now that Chamberlain is no more,
the general opinion is that he meant
well; that he sincerely believed peace
possible; that he lacked vision, and
that he was devoid of some of those
abilities which characterize first
rate statesman of the worlds great
est empire.
u. S. Election.
Last weeks presidential election in
the United States aroused lively in
tereSt abroad; while the German, the
Italian and the japanese governments
were silent about the outcome, they
authorized or permitted their press
to say that Mr.. Roosevelt's reelection
would mean American participation
in the war within a short time.
Democratic nations, hoping but not
actually believing, the same thing,
expressed qualification, for the lack
of policy-change in Washington was
taken to mean continued support of
Great Britain-"short of war;.