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Evening star., 1941-04-06
AVOID TALK THAT AIDS SPIES, F. B. l. WARNS
Reminds Thot ndscreet Remarks Moy Be Overheard
By COL Frederick Palmer.
Military Expert. North American Newspaper Alliance

to check up on all the indiscreet talk by
the "well-informed." There are only l.
900 agents to cover the whole United
States, Panama, our new bases, Alaska
Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Meanwhile, the
F.B. I. has surveyed the protective facili-
ties of 1900 arms plants listed in the
United States.
Industry Cooperating.
1--WE have had absolute cooperation
from industry, which fully realizes what
we all have at stake" said Mr.. Hoover.
"But the managers, foremen and labor
cannot know the tricks of spies and
saboteurs as we'll as we of the F. B. /.
So far, considering the immense high
pressure increase of industrial output, the
damage by sabotage or accidents has not
been at relatively higher rate than In
normal peace times"
Two instances illustrate the value OF
F. B. I. inspection of plants. In one
instance the agent asked to see the vault
in which blueprints and plans were kept.
1t was locked. The Oman opened 1t.
How Gomez" The explanation was quite
simple. The combination numbers were
pasted on the vault.
In the other instance, big hole had
been broken into a paperboard incloSure
of a secret part of plant. Somebody
had crawled through to see what was
on the inside.
make no mistake about the foreign
agents." said Mr.. Hoover. They are
far more numerous, far better trained,
far more facile and better co-ordinated
than the espionage system we had to
deal with in the World War. Don't con-
ceive that the expert is moving about
in a clumsy way, speaking broken
English. IF he is in the open at all, he
speaks good American English.
"He is especially selected and trained
for the country in which he is to serve.
In that country he is all things to all
men, as 8 link in system, to get in
formation. He does not spend his
money in direct bribes. His is a far
more subtle method. 1t is the American
himself suborned in the ISM service
who Is the most dangerous.
SabOteur Bides His Time.
1--WE have had no Black Tom explo-
sions, we have had no big sabotage
actions such as in the first World War,
but we must be prepared to forestan
something far more serious. The saboteur
prepares thoroughly, bides his time, and
strikes hard by surprise inside power
plants and arms plants"
ANY volunteer spy is only feeder
for the expert It is quite possible there
are a thousand Gestapo experts now IN
Evening star., 1941-04-06
YUGOSLAVIA COMPOUNDS AXIS WAR LORDS
Balkan Front Opening Up Forcing Hitler Divert Troops

Within less than one week the whole
aspect of the war has changed. The
hard-boiled, realistic, professional mill
tary and naval men in Washington who
were estimating the situation gloomily,
on the basis of figures, just as the banker
investigates prospective borrowers re-
sources, are now displaying broad grins
of satisfaction. A small state in the far
away Balkans-Yugoslavia- been
the cause of the change.
The present estimate in authoritative
quarters, based on hard facts, is that
Germany has no more chance to win this
war than 1t had in 1918. The detection
of Yugoslavia has definitely created
new Balkan front where the Germans
will have to fight with large proportion
of their might. Airplanes and tanks
which have won German victories in
Poland and in Western Europe can be
OF relatively little use. The YugoslavS
have decided to withdraw to the barren
region of Macedonia, where the noun
tains and the narrow valleys are worth
as much to them as the panzer divisions
would be if they had them. The Greeks
will be able to release the balance of
their forces from Albania and resist an
eventual German attack from the
Struma valley. After the spectacular de-
feat of the italian fleet in the Mediter-
ranean there is no serious threat in
Mussolini's mare nostrum" to the Brit
tsh and American transports which will
soon be rushing food and war materiel
to Greece and Yugoslavia.
All this is fully realized in Berlin.
Hitler die not let his famous temper
go this time, but is determined to punish
the Balkan nation which has put sand
tn his usually well-oiled machine.
Western Troops Transferred.
According to the latest information re-
ceived In Washington, German forces
from France and Belgium are quickly
being sent east. Even units of the air
arm, which have been standing by for
several weeks to begin the famous blitz
against Great Britain have been ordered
to proceed to the Balkans at once. Ger
man troops stationed in Carinthia and
on the Brenner Pass have received orders
to move toward an unknown destina-
tlon"-so the reports read. But the un-
known destination is we'll known every
where. They are making their way to-
wards the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes. Hungary still has an un-
settled account with the kingdom of
Peter II; the Banat and a portion of
Northeastern Croatia are claimed by the
Budapest leaders. Following Hitler's re-
quest, 100000 Hungarian troops are now
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Battle for Britain

The Luftwaffe scarcely operated last
week. On the English front all is quiet,
ominously. Germany is giving her at
tention to the Balkan situation. The R.
A. F., however, took no vacation. 1t
blasted the French invasion coast" and
German Channel shipping by daylight
and then followed it up with fiery night
raid on the Nazi battleshipS Scharnhorst
and Gneisenau, berthed at Brest. The
26,OO0-ton Nazi sisterships are believed
by the British to have led the assault by
surface craft and U-boats in recent mer-
chant operations in the Atlantic. While
the R. A. F. swarmed over the Channel,
German Big Berthas" on the French
coast pumped shells into the Dover area,
but no casualties were reported among
the English.
The attack against the Scharnhorst
and the Gneisenau brought no direct hits
on the war vessels, but
Atlantic their docks were struck,
Situation according to the British.
The British meanwhile
reported a drop in the ship losses for
the week ended March %. The Germans
sent to the bottom II ships of SO 141 tons,
according to the Admiralty in London
The average weekly loss has been $1,000
tons. The British did not attempt to
explain the drop, saying:
1T would be unwise to deduce that
our troubles are nearly over or that
We have mastered this great menace to
our ultimate victory. We must still be
prepared for losses, sometimes exception
ally high and sometimes lower than this
weeks figures. 1t is too early to jump
to any conclusion
The British reported a technical ad-
vance-a new type of high explosive
bomb. In night raid on the German
port and industrial city of Emden this
bomb had results which appeared to be
devastating" Masses of debris flying
through the air were outlined against
the glow of the fires" a communique
said in describing the effects following
when one of the bombs was dropped.
The Ministry of Information in London
quoted pilot as saying he saw houses
take to the air" when the bombs burst.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

Two young men employed in an arms
plant tell a friend at lunch in cafeteria
about the new gun they are helping to
make. In a restaurant of a first class
hotel heads are bent low over black
ties and white shirt fronts and ears
primed for 81 have it right from an
inside source that"
At a women's luncheon in another
restaurant, the wife of man in one of
our defense services says, Don't whisper
it to anybody, but Jim told me only last
night the very latest"
To the two young men who were ex-
planning about the new gun and its
purpose, I made this kindly suggestion:
Il am not so sure that j. Edgar Hoover
might reach the ears of one of Hitler's
Gestapo agents in the United States"
what do you take me for? A fifth
columnist?" one young man said.
TITS free country" the other said.
you've got no authority to stop us
talking"
1t is to be hoped that the two young
men will take the talk I had with the
director of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation more seriously than hint
from stranger.
Responsibility for All.
During the current national emer-
gency it is imperative" Mr.. Hoover said,
that every effort be made to prevent
vital information from reaching spies
and saboteurs. The entire job cannot
be done by law enforcement alone, nor
by the management of industrial plants.
1t is the individual responsibility of each
employe i'll American industry to see
to it that he is not unwittingly the out
let for data of value to foreign agents.
A passing remark may appear trivial to
the one making it, but, if this is over
heard by spy and added to similar
thoughtless statements by others, the
release OF vital national defense informa-
ton may be the result.
I'm this time of mortal world suspense
when curiosity is so tense and the
temptation to satisfy it so great, the best
way is for neither man nor woman who
is in the know, owing to job in an
Office or plant, to trust any one but
himself or herself with the secret
He is the same alert j. Edgar Hoover
as when he flashed into fame with his
G-men. In addition to fighting public
enemies of the Dillinger type, the F. B. T.,
in close cooperation with the Army and
Navy Intelligence Services, now has the
responsibility of fighting the agents of
Hitler's Gestapo in the United States
and all the forces allied with 1t.
There are not enough F. B. I. agents
Evening star., 1941-04-06

submarine. There are number of ships
already on the high seas carrying ma
terials authorized by the lease-lend bill
to Yugoslavia and Greece. Why con-
tinue to play the hide-and-seek diplo-
matte game any longer, says II Duce
openly in Rome, when the United States
must henceforth be counted as bel
Igerent?
Hitler Wants Time.
Whether Signor Mussolini expects to
rally public opinion behind him by the
introduction of the United States as an
other belligerent, or whether he would
prefer to go down spectacularly defeated
by first-class power instead of little
Greece, is matter which nobody is able
to answer. But the fact is that II Duce
does not want to wait any longer, while
Hitler is in favor of playing for time.
II Duce seems to believe that Americas
official participation in the conflict might
force Japan to act in the Pacific. This
was true until last week, but Matsuoka
must have been unfavorably impressed
with Hitler's diplomacy in Yugoslavia
and still more unfavorably impressed
with the prowess of the italian Navy in
the Mediterranean last Sunday. 1t may
be that the Japanese Premier arrived in
Berlin and in Rome with the intention
of pledging his country to a close COL
laboration against the United States, but
it is doubtful whether he will carry out
this intention.
Hence, the Reich, which continues to
be strong military power, is faced with
war on two fronts and with the possible
and overwhelming participation of the
United States IN this conflict.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
By Constantine Brown

being mobilized. All in all, according to
the best information obtainable in
Washington-and this comes from all
over Europe--the Fuehrer, while swal-
lowing his anger, is preparing an army
of between two and three million men
for the two-fold purpose of Furnishing
those who have disappointed him and
preventing the British from forming
front in Southeastern Europe, whence
eventually Germany might be attacked
from the rear.
The Yugoslavs, the Greeks and the
British are fully aware of what is going
on. Conveys of between 10 and 80 ships
reach Greek ports daily with war sup
plies and imperial troops from Egypt and
Cyrenaica. The Yugoslavs are con-
vinced that they will have to stand the
brunt of the attack and are making the
necessary preparations to evacuate and
spare the horrors of war to all the parts
of the kingdom which are untenable.
That is to say, the whole industrial and
rich farming regions will have to be
abandoned, while the army and the gov
ernment establish war headquarters in
the region between Scopje and Bitolj. A
serious war in the Balkans, however,
will deprive Germany of many of the
essentials for carrying out successful
blitzkrieg against the British Isles. Thus
the first plan of the British general staff
an important diversion-has succeeded.
Germans to Fight Alone.
The war in the Balkans will be man.
to-man affair and no longer man against
machine. In this war, which will in
volve large human sacrifices, the Ger
mans might be considered to be alone.
Nobody denies that they are good fight
ers, but the question is whether they
for long time.
OF the original axis there is little left.
Italy can be counted out of the war
or, to say the least, she is an ally much
more burdensome for the Reich than
Austria was in the last war.
First-hand reports from Americans
who have returned during the course
of this week from Rome and other
Italian cities indicate that the country
is in more desperate condition than
France or the other Western European
countries occupied by the Reich.
Mussolini and his followers are the OBJ
ject of hate of the people and the army.
The feeling among high-ranking officers
of all the services is running high and
if it were not for the presence of some
$4,000 German troops in the country,
with twice that number at the borders.
a revolution might have broken out sew
Evening star., 1941-04-06

eral weeks ago. But the leaders Of the
anti -Mussolini groups are not concerned
with the German forces alone. They
are afraid that an untimely revolution
might bring chaos and Bolshevism into
the country, since the rallying point of
all the ItalianS-the throne-has become
equally unpopular. Both King Victor
Emanuel and the heir to the throne,
Prince Umberto, once the white hope of
those who foresaw the downfall of Fas-
cism, are now placed in the same cate
CORY as Mussolini and Ciano. 1t appears
that soon after the first reverses in Al
bania, Field Marshal Badoglio presented
the king and his son with detailed
list containing the names of army, naval
and air force officers who, at a given
moment, might be used to GUST Mussolini
and his followers. The king promptly
handed over the complete list to II Duce
and thorough purges followed imme
diately.
ii Duce Tries to Force Issue.
Signor Mussolini realizes the situation
and knows that his days are numbered.
He apparently wants to go down with
bang. Presumably he intends to justify
himself before history and his people
by proving that Italy and Germany
alone could not have faced a world
coalition against them. Whatever the
reason, it is fact that II Duce is press
ing hard to bring the Fuehrer to a show
down with the United States and force
the issue-that is to say, hasten the entry
of this country into the war.
Hitler is calculating; Mussolini is i'm
pulsive When the news of the seizure
of German, Italian and Danish ships
reached Rome, Mussolini is said to have
telephoned Hitler that the cup was full
to the brim and that this latest provo
cation of the United States must not be
allowed to remain unchallenged.
1t is true that of the two notes pre-
sented to the State Department, the
Italian note was couthed in more mod
crate terms. 1t is equally true that the
Italians followed the protocol and had
their Ambassador in Washington present
the note to an Assistant Secretary of
State, while the Germans delivered it to
an usher in the basement of the State
Department by an ordinary messenger
boy. But this is in keeping with the
policy of the axis, which demands that
Germany take the lead and the others
follow. 1t is known in diplomatic quar-
tiers in Rome that Signor Mussolini is
urging Hitler to break of diplomatic re-
lations with the United States and to
sink the first American ship which might
appear before the periscops Of . German
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Home Front

Diplomacy sizzled on the American
front all week. Saturday night United
States Coast Guardsmen seized two Ger
man ships, % Italian ships and SO DAN
ish ships in American harbors on the
grounds that sabotage was planned
against them or had been committed
against them in violation of the Es-
pionage Act of 1917. More than 300, 600
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British cruiser was sunk and two other
warships were damaged. After the
smoke of battle had cleared away,
British warships picked up 849 Italian
sailors and 81 officers from life RATS.
When all was done, Admiral Sir Andrew
Cunningham, the British commander in
chief, praised his men in this message:
Operations just concluded have given
us a notable success over the enemy.
Skillful handling of our cruisers and un-
tiring efforts of the feet air arm have
kept me well informed of enemy move
ments, and the well-pressed attacks Of
torpedo aircraft on the Littorio so re-
duced the speed of the enemy that we
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leave British light advance forces in the
forward area exposed to the strength of
the present German-Italian attack. The
British forces were withdrawing in good
order to concentrate in region of pre-
pared position.
The r. A. F. struck back fiercely
at German and Italian forces moving up
the Mediterranean coast in Libya, Fri
day. The axis mechanized forces which
drove the British back 180 miles con-
sisted of two divisions, about 10000 men.
Military observers said the port of Derna,
224 miles east of Bengasi with fresh
water supply vital to desert fighting, was
a logical base for the next British stand.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Balkan Front

"The army, the air force and the navy
are ready to do their duty" Gen. Dusan
Simovic, the Prime Minister of Yugo-
slavia, proclaimed to his country Mon
day. The next day the German govern
ment began, with an old formula, to
prepare the German people for action
against Yugoslavia. The German press
printed stories of atrocities against Ger
mans in Yugoslavia, the same sort of
stories that had been printed in years
gone by about the Poles and the Czechs.
One story said German had been seized
by Serbs and branded on the face with
sWastika. Viktor Won Heeren, the Ger
man Minister to Yugoslavia returned to
Berlin
The Yugoslavian government prepared
for the worst, dealing with the most diff
cult internal situation, the
IuqoslovIo Croatian question. Early
Preoores in the week it was uncer-
tain whether Gen. Simo-
vic and King Peter would be successful
IN keeping Vladimir Mack, the Croat
leader, in the cabinet. The government
needed the full allegiance of the Croat
minority in order to make united stand.
The situation grew ominouS by Thurs
day. Germany ordered all but two men
of her Legation staff in Belgrade home
to Berlin. Motorized German troops
were reported massing in Rumania op-
posite the Yugoslav frontier town of
Bella Crkva, so miles from the Yugoslav
capital of Belgrade, and at Szeged in
Southern Hungary. In Budapest, the
Hungarian capital, Count Paul Teleki,
Prime Minister, killed himself supposedly
in protest against the demands made on
him from Berlin for cooperation with
Germany in the move against Yugoslavia.
Vladimir Mack announced he was
entering the Simovic government as Vice
Premier and the nation thus seemed as
sured of unity, despite German and Ital-
ian efforts to split it. In reaching an
agreement with Mack, it was understood
Premier Simovic had agreed to publish
a statement reaffrming Croatian home
rule and had accepted Macek's demand
for three-man crown council to guide
17-year old King Peter.
The Yugoslav general staff rushed
fortif1cation of the strategicauy impor-
tant Vardar Valley while they awaited
the dice to fall for peace or war. At
the weeks end, travellers reaching Bel
grade from Hungary reported they saw
parading through the streets of Budapest
hundreds of tanks, trucks and light field
artillery with hundreds of machine-gun
motorcycles. The war machines headed
for Szeged. From Berlin came dis
patch by way of Rome saying Nazi forces
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African Front

The British progress in East Africa
now is almost as swift as was the British
progress in North Africa two months
ago. Marching toward Adds Ababa,
whose capture in 1886 was an occasion
for great rejoicing by the Italians, the
British took in rapid succession the towns
OF Diredawa and MeiSso Meisso is on
the railway between Adds Ababa and
Jibuti, about 18O miles east of the Abys-
sinian capital From Diredawa to Meisso
is go miles, covered in five days.
In Eritrea, neighboring Abyssinia, the
British occupied the capital of Asmara
and then continued their
Eritreu march southwark This
Victories indicated the Fascists
were retreating along the
coastal road toward the Abyssinian bor-
der instead of toward Massaua, Eritreas
chief seaport some 72 miles northeast
of Asmara. Only an Italian garrison
inSecurely holding Massaua under the
threat of British naval guns appeared
to stand between the British and possess
sion of Eritrea, Oldest colony in Italys
CTuulDlllS empire.
Far to the north the British troops in
Libya withdrew from their forward po-
sitionS to new positions north of Ageda-
bia. This movement was followed up by
axis mechanical forces. A British spokes-
man in Cairo said this activity was a
minor operation" But then the British
moved further back; they evacuated the
town of Bengasi 80 miles north of
Agedabia. Bengasi, capital of Cyrenaica,
was captured by the British February 7
after 61-day offensive across the west
ern frontier of Egypt.
A day later the British Middle East
headquarters in Cairo indicated that
major engagement might be in prepara-
ton in Libya, with the announcement
that concentration of our advance ele-
ments" is taking place in Libya in the
face of German-Italian drive. A high
official spokesman of the British said:
1--WE shall allow the enemy to penetrate
eastward until he reaches a point where
we are satisfied we can give battle with
the assurance of success"
This spokesman, who left Bengasi Is
minutes ahead of retiring British troops,
said current developments
Beneosi in the western desert were
Reversal exactly like the situation
when Italian Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani's army advanced to-
ward Sidi Barrani, Egypt, last fall. 1t
would have been senseless, he said, to
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Review Of Eighty Third Week of War
By Blair B0Hes.

The Balkan balloon
The orders OF diplomats the
relations
end impossible
the two countries btzkrieg
awaited.
IN Northern Africa where the British renqused
Italians two months after they captured another
empire as they marched toward Adds Abba
BRUSH hold
AFRICA and the Balkans strengthened
the Italians in the
Relations between
deteriorated President
atach Admiral Alberto La Germany Italy protested
United States rejected the
German and italian vessels
Evening star., 1941-04-06

Control of the Mediterranean is a
factor in the control of North Africa.
Axis troops and supplies must move
across the Mediterranean, either by boat
or by plane. All week the British added
new details to the story of their naval
victory over the Italians week ago yes
terday.
The Italians lost the 10,000-ton cruisers
Zara, Fiume and Pola and the destroyers
Maestrale and Vincenzo Gio-
Naval berto, all sunk by the British
Bottle The battle went on at night,
between 10 pm. and mid
night. The British apparently were un-
scathed, although the Italians claimed
Evening star., 1941-04-06

in Bulgaria and Rumania were ready
for action
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Prisoner Dies of Hurts
Received in Cell Fiqht

A 64year-old colored man died
early today in Casualty Hospital OF
injuries received in a fight with a
fellow prisoner in No. IL precinct
station August II, according to
police.
The man was Charles Dickson of
the 1000 block of Sixth street NV.
Police said he was being held on an
open charge at the time of the
scuffle, and no further police action
was taken. The other prisoner, also
colored. was admitted to Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation
after the fight.