Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-01

tNSIllS- Jul llo Oiie 10 ESPECIALLY
excited
Several imminent blank spots
in German shrewdness have long
been evident and Won Ribben-
= trop'S party is one of them. BY
footing himself into the belief
that a new European order
could be started with straw-men
from non-eXistent nations, he
thought he could fool the rest
of the world into the same stu
pidity. No one here bothered to
answer him.
NEITHER are apprehensions
~ high about the consequences
of loss of the former Soviet
capital. The Reds have been
moving their manufacturing
plants out of Moscow and their
other western industrial areas
for several months.
Like the Chinese, but on a
grander scale, Stain has shifted
a nation back to temporary
safety.
Small machinery was taken
up and lifted on trucks. Both
machines and workers were
transplanted, far back from the
front mostly behind the Urals.
Heavier machines were placed
on flat freight cars and shipped
back. Blast furnaces and such
facilities too large to move were
blown up.
Consequently, Hitler is not
likely to find much in Moscow
or in Leningrad except empty
streets and he may have to fight
for them, street by street.
THE Reds started buying
Il machinery and building ma
terials here two years ago to
construct secondary munition
plants, hydro-electric dams and
other industries at every point
along the trans-Siberian rail-
road. A hydro-dam has just
been completed in the Irtysh
River there to furnish 100000
kilowatts. Other similar prof.
ects are near completion.
But even the successful trans
migration of a nation will cause
delays aHd=shaFp= dinfiHutien=ef
production. Hence, these facts
do not mean Russia has been
saved--only that the NaZis will
find little or nothing in the con-
quered territory.
The fall of Moscow would give
the Germans control of what
was formerly rs per cent of
Russian industry. 1t would be
physically impossible to move
that much of a nations produc-
ton without dangerous hiatus.
Consequently. long range hope
for Russian success beyond next
May is shared by only a portion
of officials here. This govern
ment's unspoken opinion is that
unless the United States gets
large quantities of materials in
through Vladivostok before
Spring, the Russians cannot hold
out.
SABOTAGE is suspected in the
~ increasing number of pas
senger railroad wrecks, yet in
terstate commerce commission
authorities are not attributing
them to foreign agents.
September and October of this
year recorded a 20 per cent
increase lin the number Of
wrecks over the same two
months last year. an increase
of 29.4 per cent in the number
killed and o.5 per cent in the
number injured. Yet there were
only 18 wrecks Of sufficient
consequence to warrant ICC
investigation. ....
ICC authorities are inclined
to think most Of them can be
attributed TO mentally unsettled
persons. A flare-up Of that kind
Of crime has been noticed since
the war began.
Australian authorities are
more than half-seriously COM
planning that the far eastern
issue of war or no war is being
handled by Messrs. Roosevelt
and Hull exclusively. Said one
such diplomat:
"You are doing the negotiat-
ing and we will have 10 do the
fighting"
He meant on land; ;, -
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