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lence, with the pro-Nazi Iron
Guard revolutionists = Is they
were identified BY the Rumanian
government - having seized the
Bucharest postoffice, radio sta
ton and military airport.
The Rumanian legation In Bud
apest said IL had received adj
vices from Bucharest that mo-
torius communists and very
young Iron Guard legionnaires
were behind the rebellion"
The legations account con-
tinued:
Yesterday, 800 legionnaires
organized by General George
Petrovicescu massed in front Of
the premier's office and started
firing at the building with ma
chine guns.
Premier Antopescu decided
that was sufficient. He instruct
ed the army and police to re-
establish order. They quickly
cleaned out public buildings
throughout the country.
"These communists and very
young legionnaires surrendered
in a body, weeping openly and
expressing their disgust in them
selves"
Belgrade dispatches said that
the conflict ragged in Bucharest
and through the provinces, and
that Iron Guard insurgents had
massed 10000 men in the CAPT.
tai.
Several army commanders
were said to have joined the re-
volt, and troops from the army
corps at Brasov were reported
headed for Bucharest in trucks
to join the rebellion.
Capture Of the Italian strong
hold of Tobruk left Britain's
African armies in control of 80
miles of the Libyan seacoast to-
day and in position for a posi-
BILE drive against the Fascist
bases Of Derna and Bengasi.
Thousands Of Italian troops
were reported captured by Aus
tralian forces which swarmed
into Tobruk at noon yesterday
after q 36-hour frontal assault
eliminating q 16-day siege.
Reports from the front in
dicated the number Of prison
ers would be swelled by hopping
up operations now in progress
west Of town.
British circles in Cairo, jubi-
lent over the victory, expressed
belief nothing short Of German
Intervention on q major scale
could save the rest Of Cirenaica
eastern Libya) from capture
by spring. Should Adolf Hit
Ter decide to intervene, these
circles said, the British would
have attained an important OBJ
jective - forcing the Germans
to divide their forces for q two
front war.
The Royal Air Force, mean
while, carried the fight to Ger
many with overnight attacks
during which. the British said,
steel, oil and munitions works
at Dusseldorf in the heart of
the industrial Ruhr were pound
ed for the 21st time.
Raj fighter planes, with six
Polish filters among their crews,
also were reported to have car
ried out two daylight machine
gun attacks on Nazi airdromes
in German-occupied France yes
terday.
The Germans, who engaged
in only limited aerial activity
over Britain last night, ack-
nowledged some bombs had been
dropped in western Germany,
but said damage was limited to
private property.
oIlIISAI OCSSAOyCA lOScSS WGAC
swelled to 81 by the admiralty's
announcement that the 1870
ton Hyperion had been sunk by
other British warships after
being left helpless by 4 mine or
torpedo. The date and place was
not disclosed.
The Greek high command re-
ported new successes on the CEN
trail Albanian battlefront, high
lighted by destruction Of a 100
truck italian convoy by Greek
bombing planes. The Greeks
said they had captured new posi-
tions on the central front and
had repulsed four Italian coun-
ter attacks with heavy Fascist
losses.
TRAVERSE CITY-(R -Po-