The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-29
War

fights and swept over opposing
lines in bombing and machine
cunning attacks.
A British war bulletin said
two Axis columns had united
around Knightsbridge, barely Is
miles below Tobruk, after rae
ing around the British left
flank at Biz Hacheim, the tiny
wells of Wisdom" oasis so
miles southwest of Tobruk.
The British said one of the
Axis columns thrust directly
north in an attempt to reach FL
Adem, Is miles south of Tobruk,
but was hurled back.
London military quarters said
Rommeps onslaught apparently
signalled the start or Adolf Hit
ler's long-heralded grand often
sive of 1912, and declared they
expected the African drive to
be followed by a German often
sive in southern Russia, striking
toward the oil-rich Caucasus
from positions now held along
/ the Sea of AZoV.
Conjecture also conferred on a
possible NaZi air-borne attack
on Syria and Iraq Persia.
On the Soviet front, the bitter
18-day-old battle for Kharkov
continued inconclusively amid
unconfirmed reports, broadcast
by the Vichy radio, that Russian
artillery was Smelling the Ger
man-held pittsburgh" Of the
! Ukraine.
On the southern flank, 80
miles below Kharkov, Marshal
Semeon Timosehko's Red ar
mics reported they crushed in
cessant German tank and infan-
try attacks in fierce all-night
fighting and indicated no major
setback despite Hitler's claims
of an Outstanding victory" for
the Axis.
German military circles de-
clared flatly that the battle of
Kharkov had ended and that
fighting continued only in an
area south of the city against
remnants of Soviet forces.
Hitler's fiel d headquarters
said merely that German troops
were hopping up, with the
IN u m b er Of prisoners and
amount Of booty mounting
steadily"
The Nazi high command said
the Red armies had attacked on
the central Moscow front and
had been repulsed in fierce
! fighting, with some of the Rus
! slams enCirCled.
A Soviet Communique pic
tured Russian filters as inflicting
havoc on the invaders, reporting
that in Wednesdays fighting
alone they destroyed % German
planes and wrecked 80 Nazi
tanks, 235 trucks, 80 munitions
carts and six railway trains.
Meanwhile, underground re-
ports reaching Istanbul said Hit
Ter, beset by new troubles at
home and abroad, had impris-
oned Field Marshal Gen. Wal
Their Won Brauchitsch, former
commander in chief of the Ger
man armies, along win IA high
Nazi party officials in a sudden
purge.
No explanation for Won
BrauChitsCh'S arrest was given,
although previous reports indi-
Gated that some of Hitler's high
est military chiefs had defied his
life-and-death power over them
and insisted that the fuehrer
give up his personal direction of
the Nazi war machine.
/ In German-conquered former
/ Czechoslovakia, Hitler's gcstapo
was reported to have arrested
hundreds of Czech officials, uni
versity professors and students
and executed six persons as an
aftermath Of the assassination
attempt against Reinhard Hey
drich, Reich's protector for
Bohemia and Moravia.
Fears of wholesale bloody
reprisals were widespread.
The borders have been
closed and the whole protector
ate is one vast prison" a Czech
government spokesman said in
London.
HeydriCh himself, wounded
in the spinal cord and spine by
three bullets, was reported in
grave condition.