The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-24
War

army IRE. AN elgnt-StOry apart
ment house in which mipers
operated. had every window
shattered.
BUS platforms In front Of the
National theater were red with
blood -. across the street lay .
pile Of blood-soaked hats and
shoes Of victims 80"
The revolt began after the
assassination Sunday Of q Ger
man officer attached to the Nazt
military mission. Struggle for
the Bucharest radio and other
official posts has been . see-saw
affair with the government now
claiming the upper hand but still
appealing desperately for restor-
alton Of law and order.
General Ion Antonescu, Ru-
manian Chief of State and Pre-
mier, in an appeal to the army
last night said the condition was
critical and the life Of the State
Threatened.
The government threatened
to execute every civilian failing
to turn over all weapons to
authorities, and declared rebel
lious Iron Guardists would be
tried by military courts.
Officially the uprising has
been charged to "miSled" young
Iron Guard hotheads and "eom-
munist- inspired" elements. But
one traveller reaching Sofia, hui
gafia, from Bucharest said the
rebel Iron Guards wanted their
leader, Horia Sima, TO head the
government. General sAntonsscu
still u influenced by parsons
belonging to the regime OF a.
dictated King Carol, according to
this source.
1T II generally believed that
German troops finally will have
to establish order" the traveller
said.
British army units moved
westward from captured Tobruk
toward Derna, Libys, the next
biz italian fortress on the Med
iterranean coast. Motorized pa
trolls already were reported near
Derna and B0mba. The latter IL
an italian seaplane base which
the British said was abandoned
because Of heavy RAJ raids.
The British said they took at
least $4,000 Italians In the as
sault on Tobruk. Another report
from Australia said Army Min
lister Percy Spender had received
word that g 1000 prisoners had
been taken and that Australian
casualties would not exceed
800"
In north Africa, military cir
cles predicted the British army
of the Nile would follow up the
capture Of Tobruk with IN inten-
sified offensive on the entire
African front.
British sdvance forces were
reported already sweeping west
and south Of Dsrna, % miles be-
yound Tobruk on the Libyan
coast, and some quarters believed
Gen. Sir Archibald p. Wavell
might attempt to push straight
across the Cirenaicaff hump" 70
attack Bengasi, $50 miles west
of Derna.
On the Albanian front, the
Greeks reported. they had thrown
back heavy italian counter-at-
tacks In some Of the most iptense
fighting Of the war and now he'd
started . new offensive north q
Klisura.
A Greek spokesman said 260
Fascist prisoners had been taken
along with quantities 81 'mOrtars,
machine guns end oeher mater
ials and several new. mountain
heights and Villages hsd been
captured. "a
Premier Mussollni's High
Command; noting only ''patrol
actions" IN the war with Greece
acknowledged. that Dritish war.
planes had bombed. Italy's big
naval and cir base on the Isle Of
Rhodes, in the eastern Mediter-
ranean. W
Halle Sslassie, ex-empsror Of
Ethiopia, now u In Ethiopia &C
lively Leading his loyal tribes
men In 3 revolt sGainst their
Italian conqusrors, Il was dis
closed today. He entered. Ethio-
pia from The Ansslo-Eg yptian
cudan In q British bomber Jan.
10.
In Albonie the Greek army
captured smother $50 ItalIon
trisouefs n bitter fighting notsh
q Klisura. Athens dispatches
said. ~
Ceylon b on The coast Of m