Evening star., 1941-12-12
.H'iher's S Gang Custer
Is Prerequisite 10
Peace, Russians Say
Agreement Of U.S., Britain,
Soviet Also Must Come
First, Provdo Asserts
~ tt,e Associated Press.

~ We Associated Press.
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Dec. Ia
Ousting Of "the Hitler rang" and a
Joint Moscow London Washington
agreement are listed here as prereq-
uisites OF any peace between the
Soviet Union and Germany, for
which feelers have been reported
from Berlin.
(Tfle official Communist news
paper. Pravda reported at Mos
cow that the German peace feel
ers were put out through the
Berliner Tageblatt. The Tageblatt
article asserted that Moscow
Was ready for peace if Germany
guaranteed not to occupy Rus
sia and abandoned the policy Of
attempting to annihilate Com
I munism)
David Zaslavsky of Pravda, the
official Communist party newspaper,
cited these conditions in an editor
ial, saying:
THE Hitler gang is ready any
day TO sign a peace with Russia If
only our government would talk to
them"
At the same time, the Soviet gov
eminent received from United
States and Japanese diplomats
formal notification that the United
States and Japan are at war.
The United States notification,
made by Embassy Councillor Walter
Thurston, was received in what was
described here as a cordial atmo-
sphere"
Hitler's speech Heard.
I Adolf Hitler's war declaration
speech also was heard here by radio
There was no immediate official
comment.
New army gains on both the
southwestern front and at the cen
ter before Moscow, where Germanys s
high command is declared to have
substituted Field Marshal Siegmund
List for Gen. Fedor Won Book, we're
announced by the Soviet Informa-
ton Bureau in a Moscow broad
cast today.
"a Pravda report also broad
. cast today from Moscow said So
Wet cavalrymen of 1t. Gen. Kos
tenko had "recaptured an area
containing about 300 villages" in
the Olets area south of Moscow.
CGermans are hiding in attics,
cellars and even in chimneys,"
the newspaper declared, in the
hope that they will be able to
reioin their units under the cover
of darkness"
Gondon commentators ex-
pressed belief that local Russian
drives we're developing into full
scale counterattack along the
whole line against the FROST
bitten German legions maneuver-
ing now. by Berlin accounts, to
dig In for the winter.
(If there was ruse in the
German announcement that
large-scale warfare would be dis
continued until spring, they said.
the Red Army's seizure OF the
initiative apparently doomed IT.
Wage Violent Battles.
sOn a number of sectors of the
western and southwestern fronts"
the Soviet communique said, our
troops. waging violent battles
against the enemy, have occupied
Z number of populated points" l."
Huge quantities Of war supplies
were said to have been seized this
week in the recapture OF TlkhVln,
il0 miles southeast of Leningrad,
preliminary figures including AZ ar
tillery pieces, 81 tanks, 10 armored
ears. 1O2 trucks and hundreds OF
infantry weapons.
"The Hitler gang dreams OF peace
with u.s." Zaslavsky wrote, because
the whole of Germany longs for a
cessation of the war, foreseeing
catastrophe. Hitler promised the
Germans victory and deceived them.
Now he promises peace and he IS
also deceivlng them.
Zaslavsky said peace with Ger
many would come only after the
German people banished their leader
and his followers and this peace
will be only by agreement with
Great Britain and the United
States"
The Soviet press continued
through yesterday to publish COM
munioues on the new war in the
Pacific without comment. with most
of the reports from United States
and British sources.