The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Inside Washington

WASHINGTON.-The are many new and
nasty surprises for the Germans as the United
Nations storm ahead on the enlbattled road to
Berlin.
Along with general discussion of the Rus
sian-desired front in western France, the Unit
ed States Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Soviet
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and
their aides will discuss new weapons of war to
hasten the end of the global conflict.
Informed sources now are certain that Hull
and Eden will tell Molotov that no French
front can be opened I'D until spring-prob-
ably May-when the usually turbulent waters
of the English channel are calm.
But the implements of war will be ready
when the time comes to strike. These are be-
ing developed and tested in American and
British laboratories and trial fields in the ut
most secrecy. They will more than counter
act any surprise which the German scientists
have in store for the invaders from the de-
mocracies.
Responsible quarters think it unlikely that
Hitler will use gas last desperate gamble
to prevent defeat
They hasten to point out that vast supplies
of gas are available to the United Nations
and that the Nazis would come off a terrible
second best in wars EXTREMIST savagery.
In the field of secret weapons, the Russians
have gone the Nazis better in mass-pro-
device has smashed entire Panzer divisions
to bits on the Russian plains
The Russian cannon-carrying, armored
Stormvoik fighting plane is credited with be-
ing of the most potent counter weapons
that has sent the German legions Keeling
groggiy backward across the Ukraine and be-
You'd the Dnieper.
One American observer recently returned
from Russia was so enthusiastic in his praise
of the Stormovik that he declared: This
flying tank buster has outmoded the armored
forces''
Military experts are not quite so positive
in their statements, but they agree that the
Stornovk is red hot'' counter to the tank
forces and has been a potent factor in stop
ping the Germans.
The plane is virtually a flying steel hull
The entire fuselage enclosing the engine. can
mons, pilot and observer machine gunner
even the gasoline tanks-is sheathed in ar
mored steel that will stop anything short of
direct hit by heavycaliber shell.
Fifty-caliber machine gun bullets bounce
off this armored shell like pebbles Even the
propeller boss, housing the mechanism for
changing the propeller pitch, is armOred.
The plane carries two armor-piercing 37-mm.
cannon, flies at high speed in low altitude at
lacks and has even knocked out the German
Tiger tank a Cotton mcrster.
One SOlQler SLauOneQ IN washington Will have
an epic story to hand down to his grandchil-
dren which does not concern the war at all.
The other day, leaving the war department,
he stepped into cab and asked the driver to
take him to the Army War college, but under
wartime regulations the cab had to pick up
full load before leaving.
A couple of minutes later a lieutenant and
captain whose identities must remain secret
came along and upon being informed OF the
cabs destination, got in.
Hardly had the machine left the Pentagon
building when the captain CURLY said, Driver,
we are in hurry to reach the Union station.
Take us there first and then you can drop
your other passenger at the War college"
For a moment the silence was SO thick 1t
could be cut. Then said the cabby to the cap
tain: 1.-THE law says the first passenger die
tates the route of the cab when you got
in told you 1 was headed for the War col
lege, and'' the cabby laconically continued,
81 hope you like it, sir, because that's where
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