Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-07-21
Gueriuas
Harass Axis
Stewart Says Bands in
Occupied Territory
Work Havoc With Hit
ler's Plans.
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press ColumniSt

Washington, July 2l.-So far a.
large scale conquest is concerned.
military men agree that this isn't
an era of informal fighting. Huge
armies are the order of the day. with
coolies OF training, thousands of pom
dcrouS tanks, countless tons Of as
sorted heavy artillery and ammun-
ton. and an infinity of technical,
skill to manipulate 'em.
Such maSsings of strength IRE re-
quired to overrun various countries
or fractions of 'cm, first bca,Inp
down all concentrated opposition
Subsequently, though, the gurl.
lila periods arrived al Elmer
Davis Washington office q! war
information has been investigating
II on the strength of reports cSpc-
cially from the Balkans ard from
Jap-occupicd areas in China. The
orctically these regions are under
subsection. In fact, however. their
bands of only scmi-organilcd sni-
pcrs arc worse pest to the nom-
nal victors than arc big forces i'm
opposition to 'cm. An axis army
i'm battle with a foe tina, stands M
against il and permits itself 10 be
annihilatcd. isn't such problem.
Being licked, its LICKED. But
swarmS of gucrillaS. raidng and
i'aiding and making their getaways
before they can be CXlcrmlna,cd.
arc constant source Of almost in
( tolcrablc worry.
The naZi system, of course, is TO
massacre the inhabitants of "A whole
village in the vicinity of any place
/ where one of these attacks occurs.
/ All in Days IIork.
Yet the gucrillaS seem to say,
. "Oh, well, it's all in tho days work."
and keep on at il. Indeed, the mas
SacrcS' victims apparently wink at
it. They continue To give aid and
comfort 10 the GucrlllaS regardless of
the consequences, perhaps counting
on escape, in each individual case.
AT any rate, guerilla warfare,
while old-GaShioncd originally, seems
To have been improved into some
thing pretty modernly effective.
/ The plane is referred to as a mech
. ''''-NN 'NNSIsi uSNClpIJlllCIllS.
Well, SO it is mcchanized. but isn't
ii guerilla-csque mechanization?
. The owl thinks so.
Air raids by the British over
naZily-occuDicd continental Europe
surely were gucrilla-eSque perform
anceS. Their purpose wasn't 10 oc-
/ cupy any enemy positions immcdi-
/ lately. Their aim simply was en-
durance-juSt like ht-tnd-run guer-
lila grounding tactics in the Balkans.
Ditto that Doolittlc scoot over Japan.
ParachutiS;S aren't anything but
guerillaS: they're a suicidal bunch
but they're not occupational. They
can't land in sufficient numbers.
but they can make mundane life
intolerablc.
The submarines a guerilla like
wise.
The Chinese arc ideal gucrillas.
too. except that they lack the up-to-
date equipment.
In short. the guerilla business is
Il rcvcrSion Ia old methods, hithcr-
To supposed To be ancient and for
gotten. but now coming back into
military style again
Speaking of the plane:
What that thing will do TO civil
life after the wars over is liable
! 10 be caution.
just now its entirely monopoIiz-
cd for military purposes. but it's due
to come into lis civilian own as soon
$ it's turned loose over the world
as soon as It's released for ordinary
passenger and commercial transpor-
| tatiOn usage.
Groceries by Plane?
The darncd thi"g will haul pass-
| cnGcr train>-cldCrs.
And freight trains also.
It'll be surprising if grocery stores
don't deliver orders 10 customers
aviatorially.
There's talk of landing-strips.
alongside highways. for planes to
light on. so that the dclivcryman
can get off. chase across the stree,
and get 70 your front door in a coll
| pic Of minutes.
Nobodv'S afraid of plane any
more. either
! can remember when anybody
who got into ono Of 'cm considered