The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-01

Heavy bombers attacked Kiel, dropping "a good weight of bombs on the docks" Q colmnunique said. One British bomber was lost in that operation.
 A force of BlenheiTn bornbers at- lacked the German base at Sylt, in the North sea. It was heavily en- gagged by German fighters and beat them all off without casualties, al- | though two Blenheirn planes were slnct down by anti-aircrafS fire, the Air Ministry said.
 Another large force of Blenheinas, escorted by fighters, swept north ern France yesterday evening. The bombers' objective was a power Sta- ton near Lens and, according to the communique, bombs burst in the center of the target and the roof of one main building was seen to collapse" In battles between fighting planes during the sweep, six German and one British plane were shot down, the communique said.
 An Air Ministry bulletin said Ger man fighting planes over France in most cases declined combat.
 Other War News
 Rome, July 1.-(UP)-Russian parachute troops equipped with heavy machine guns and n1otars terrorized the Rumanian town Of IIast (Jassy) and fought in the streets with Axis forces, the Iasi corres- pondent of the newspaper Messag- zero reported today.
 q heard two or three rifle shots in the street." the correspondents dispatch said. Tn few minutes thee was the rattle of a machine gun. As teelphone communications were cut off anyway, I abandoned trying to communicate with Italy and dashed for the bomb shelter.
 Russian parachutists, I was in- formed by other people, dropped into Iasi and with the aid of Jews sta- tioned themselves in houses from which they were sniping. The sound of rifle and machine gun fire was interspersed with explosions of mo- tars with which some parachutists were equipped. Sub-machine guns and heavy machine guns were in strategic positions throughout Iasi. Turkish reports said 2,000 Russian lparachutists landed in the Rumanian oil fields.)
 Although many parachutists were rounded Up the city cannot be de- |scribed as tranquil. The situation is now under control but for time it was becoming difficult" 500 Communists Executed Bucharest, Rumania, July .-(UP) The Rumanian government an- nounced today that 50 Communists had been executed in the Russian frontier region for aiding Soviet par- achutists. It said that all persons would be shot, along with their families, who failed in future to de- nounce Russian agents or fifth col- unanistS.
 Budapest, reporting the 800 ex- cautions in the Iasi area on the Bes- sarabian frontier, said that the vic. tins were Jewish Communists"
 In . conlmunique the government said:
 'The Soviets employ every means of sabotage, disorder and aggression behind the front. They have par achutists, spies, terrorists and other Iagents who contact their local agents and the Jewish Communist popula- tton, for the purpose of organizing acts of aggression.
 Some have been captured and punished. At Iasi 800 Communists who fired against German and Ru- man troops were shot.
 Future attempts on their part will be met without mercy. The local population must denounce all sus- poets and new arrivals. Those who do not denounce such will be shot together with their families" Helsinki, Juiy .-(UP)-Gunfire was audible today from the Hango peninsula where Russian garri- son holds leasec coastal fortress and from joints along 1000 miles eastern Finnish frontier. The Finnish high command will issue commuuique on Finnish German operations today and the populace was expectant since there have been no official reports of Finnish action since the war be- gan.
 The Russians have been sighted burning and destroying property on the Soviet side of the Russo Fin nish frontier and 1t was believed the Finnish high command may have ordered offensive operations because of the danger that the bulk of the property in former Finnish territory would be destoyed by Soviet forces Tn retreating from the frontier.
 Grave fears were expressed for the fate of viipuri, former Finnish port now held by Russia and 1t was reared the city might De reduced to ruins by the Red forces. British Destroyers Sunk
 Rome. July 1-(UP)-Two British deStroyers were sunk and a third was heavily damaged in Axis air and submarine attacks in the east ern Mediterraaean, an Italian war communique said today.
 One destroyer was said to have been sunk during an attack by Ger man and Italian planes on q Brit lsn naval formation north of the Mbyan port of Barbia. The other destroyer sunk was torpedoed by an Italian submarine in the east ern Mediterranean, the conuluniuue said.
 The communique listed another destroyer as having been heavily damaged during the air attack.
 Brisk air and artillery activity was reported on the Tobruk front. where German and Italian planes bombed supply depots and forti- fications of the besieged British garrison.
 In Ethiopia, British attack on the Italian garrison at Debra Ta- bor was completely smashed" the communique reported.
 Gayda Is Talking
 Rome, July L. (UPl-- United States Secretary of Navy Frank Knox openly declared the intention