The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-11
Armistic Day Hears
 New War Ru1nblings
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two weeks has been so meager and repetitive that military experts in London were able to draw only two definite conclusions:
 1. The weather on the Moscow front is so severe, including ice and snow, that operations on both sides are sporadic and on a smaller scale.
 2. The Germans appear to have made no important advance in more than two weeks and have suffered freuuent Russian counter-attackS of . local nature, including the encir- element of some Axis forces near Volokolamsk.
 Repeated new Axis thrusts at the T11ia front were said to have been turned back by the Russians. The Germans made no specfic report on the Moscow front except to tell of one local advance in which about 100 prisoners were taken.
 The Germans claimed to have pushed forward on the front south of Leningrad to within 70 miles of the Finnish lines on the Svir river least of Leningrad) in drive to complete encirclement of Lake La- doga.
 On Southern Front
 On the southern front, Berlin claimed further gains but acknowl- edged heavy fighting in the Kerch and Sevastopol sectors of the Cri- Tnea and reported continued luft- waffle bombardment of Russian po- sitionS, troop concentrations and ships. The NaziS claimed that only a few Russians would be able to evacuate from Sevastopol, but gave no specific news of gains in that area.
 A new and probably stronger Axis attack appeared to be in progress on the Ukraine front, centertng around Rostov and in the Donets Basin but the Russians claimed that the enemy had made no progress despite "fierce" fighting and persist ent attacks.
 At the other end of the Axis, Italy reported that British bombers again had raided the Naples and Brindisi sectors, keeping up heavy battering attack on Axis supply lines to North Africa.
 Axis planes bombed the Suez Canal sector and drew from Brit lsfl authorities another threat to bomb Rome in event of aerial at- tackS on Cairo, which is a Moslem holy city.
 The British admiralty boosted its figures for Italian losses in an att tack on a Mediterranean convoy, as- serting that with the aid of subma- zines the British had sunk three Fascist destroyers and damaged two others. The Italians had admitetd loss of two and damage to one de- stroyer.
 In occupied Europe, the British V-fog victory radio propaganda campaign called for an Armistice Day "dead march" in which the peoples of NaN-conquered countries would hamper the German war ef- fort by moving slowly throughout the day.
 Attitude Of Japan
 Tckyo, Nov. 11.-CUP)-Prime Minister Winston Churchills war threat against Japan was viewed in informed quarters today as a last minute attempt to apply pressure on the eve of the negotiations spe- cial envoy Saburo Kurusu is to con- duct with the United States.
 A government spokesman said Churchill's declaration did not cause surprise and expressed the opinion that he was merely follow ing in the path of Secretary of Navy Frank Knox.
 (Cnurchill said that if the Uni- ted States became involved in war with Japan, Britain's declaration of war would follow within the hour. Knox had predicted 8 U. s, clash with Japan)
 Koh Ishii, the cabinet spokesman, said that Churchill must have en- loved sounding his views"
 He said Japan was not surprised.
 We would have been surprised if Churchill hadn't said so," he said. '.He is following in the example of Colonel Knox"
 Japanese observers regarded the British statement as making plain that Britain's policy in the Far East absolutely depends on the United States"
 Churchill Unfair
 They felt Churchill unfairly placed the burden of maintaining peace in the Pacific upon Japan where, as the Iananese view 1t, the United States