The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-27

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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER - 1912
HOPING FOR THE BEST
The big push to knock Italy out
OF the war and topple Benito Musso-
llni from his gangster throne IS
under way in earnest The de-
vastating attack by the Royal Air
Force on the great industrial city
in Turin, the greatest in a series
OF ten carried out during the last
few days, lends emphasis to the
plant OF Rome broadcaster that
"Italys hour has struck"
The Raj scared over the Swiss
Alps to deal out this crushing new
blow to II Duces aspirations as
American, British and Fighting
French forces edged closer to
Bizerte and Tunis in North Africa
General Sir Bernard Law Mont
gomery's British eighth army,
meanwhile, occupied Benghazi for
the third time since the desert war
started and pressed on 10 the south
and west.
All OF England's heaviest type
mbers-Hahiaxes Wellingtons,
Strings and Lancssters-partici-
pated in the raid on Turin. Only
three failed to return TO their
bases, proof OF ltalys dwindlins
defensive strength.
Turin is the site OF the Fiat Au
tomotive Works. where most OF
Italy's tanks, armored cars and
planes are turned out. and in add
tion it generates the hydro-electric
power which keeps most Of the
country's factories in motion.
The British government ex-
presses the belief that Italy is not
long 10 remain in the war and that
the cause OF the democracies can
best be served by constant air at
tacks upon her citadels OF strength
while the Allied armies in North
Africa proceed with the grim task
OF eliminating the Axis from its
south Mediterranean bastions.
And Germany sees the hand
writing too Blood, sweat and
tears" for Germans are predicted
by Nazi Propaganda Minister 10.
seph Goebbels in his newspaper
"Das Reich. Goebbels says the
Germans can take II" as well es
the British. and he predicts hard
times ahead
In an effort to belittle the Allied
campaign in North Africa, he says
an occasional reverse cannot be
avoided. He knows very well that
reyerses are going TO be the COM
mon trend for Axis armies and lie
is getting his people into a mood
TO accept them, hoping in the mean
time for bit u luck that will help
In bolsterlug. the German morale
There is little consolation for
Hitler in the news OF continued sue
cesses of American troops in the
Pacific areas. nor in the fact that
Russian forces on a 1900 mile
front from Leningrad TO Astrakhan
are maintaining the offensive,
striking savagely at the enemy at
every opportunity, particularly in
the Caucasus where the Soviets
smashed up a German army OF so.
900 men. inflictiug Is, 900 casualties
in this sector alone.
II must be disheartening to Hit
ler's war-weary and winter-fearing
troops on the Russian front to see
that they will soon be faced with
a general Russian offensive on all
key sectors.
Josef Stains armies may be e1-
pected TO take the initiative short.
ly on all fronts. This will be a
SCATTERING blow to the Fuehrer's
hopes that he would be able TO
sit out the winter at positions al
ready won and launch a new attack
In the springtime.