The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-16
DIARY OF THE WAR
Condensed for Readers of The Re
publican

up with Soviet armies as NaZls
pushed on toward Moscow Two
drives were gathering power. Rus
slams were also having difficulty in
south along Sea of Azov, The British
and American supply mission in Mos
COW said the city would hold out and
that Russians would fight behind
Ural mountains even if Moscow fell.
Roosevelt asked Congress to amend
the Neutrality Act to permit arming
U. S. merchant ships. Panama's Nazi
minded president fled to exile in
Cuba. The new president is prepared
to cooperate more closely with u S.
SATURDAY - Nazis claimed a
break-through on 31O-mile front and
appeared to be trying to encircle
Moscow. Russians claimed that count
erattacks had smashed any encircling
movement. Reds admitted continued
Nazi advances however. Germans also
claimed successes along Sea of Azov.
There were rumors of a pending Ger
man armistice offer to Russia but
this was denied. England announced
supplies were enroute to Russia.
British bombed the Nazi supply route
to Russian front, hitting four ships off
Norway Hitler's firing squads were
busy. Two more Frenchmen were shot
in Paris, and 25 Czechs were con-
denned to die for economic sabotage.
SUNDAY-Evacuation from Mos
COW of all women and children not en-
gagged in vital war work was ordered.
Russia poured reserves into the fight
on Central front and said Nazis were
letting loose flood Of lies in hope of
a moral effect, as the new offensive
was already ten days old and still
without decisive result. U. S. Navy
seized a German radio station in
Greenland and captured it's operators
along with ship and crew. There was
some action about Tobruk in Libya
British bombers were declared taking
huge toll in German industrial re-
sources. Hamburg was described as a
dead city" Eagle squadron joined
British in attack of Nazi positions in
France, Belgium and Netherlands.
MONDAY-Nazi army behind a.
600 tanks crunched ahead toward
Moscow. The key railroad junction of
Bryansk was occupied by Nazis. Reds
said their troops were fighting furi-
ously in center and that Leningrad
and Odessa were holding. Russia
asked Britain and U. S. for $4,000
tanks and munitions for a spring
campaign Germans claimed eight
enemy ships sunk in Atlantic British
loosed a series of new raids on Ger
man shipping. Two heavy British
raids We're made on Italy's Mediter-
ranean shipping. Skirmishes marked
the war on the North African desert.
A German finance man declared
Russia was already annexed economic
ally to the New Europe" A former
Italian foreign minister urged Italy
to forsake Axis collaboration and to
rediscover America.
TUESDAY-Reds insist the Nazi
thrusts had been slowed down, but
Germans claimed they were advanc-
ing at top speed, some units actually
operating east of the longitude of
Moscow. British thought Nazis
would be stopped 70 to 80 miles short
of Moscow because of strain on
mechanical equipment and limit of
human endurance on both sides.
There were more appeals in Britain
for more direct British-American
faction to aid Russia, and rumors of
British offensive action in Italy,
North Africa or Russian Caucasus.
There were also reports 10000 British
had landed at Archangel Over 300
British planes heavily bombed por-
lions Of Germany and channel ports.
WEDNESDAY - Germans within
65 miles Of Moscow on west. In south
they were 100 miles from Rcstov, the
important Don river city Russians
said invaders had been slowed down
and actually halted in places. Germ
any claimed Nazi sweep was irresist-
ible and claimed they had knocked
out of action million Reds, of whom
half were prisoners. Germans con-
coded Russian reserves were still
pouring into line. Russia's general
said the Germans would never take
Moscow. There was criticism in Lon
don of extent of British aid to Russia.
Churchill would allow no discussion
in Commons at all Italians claimed
damage to two British battleships.
British said three Axis merchantmen
had been sunk, two German supply
ships hit off Norway and that occu-
pied France was attacked by many
bombers
THURSDAY - Germans were adj
vancing toward Moscow from north
west and west and Soviets admitted
the hour of extreme peril had struck.
Nazis said new troops were moving
up. Russians said the total Of Nazi
dead was enormous. Observers feel if
Hitler fails in this attack he is fin
ished until spring and might well have
lost the war. Britain's continued
aerial offensive on Western front
was keeping half of Hitler's fighting