Evening star., 1943-08-22
Americas 89th Week of War
207th Week of World War II
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Il have nothing to offer you but
blood, sweat and tears" Winston
Churchill told the British Empire
when he assumed the Office of Prime
Minister in England's darkest days
of the war.
During the past week that state
ment echoed over Axis Europe, am
plified many times by the fall of
Sicily, the capture of the Aeolian
Islands north of Sicily, the unre-
lenting air raids which are softening
the continent for invasion, the
steady progress of the Russian
Armies as they slowly grind the Nazi
forces backward along a 500-mile
front and the radio warning to the
patriots in the occupied countries
that the day of deliverance is near
at hand and that they should be
prepared at any moment for the
word to strike from within in CO.
ordination with Allied assault from
without.
That the Nazi high command believes
the attack on the continent is near was
evidenced by numerous statements dur
ing the week and the action yesterday
warning the French people that unless
they turn in any fire arms they possess
by Tuesday, those caught with weapons
will be tried and subjected to the death
penalty. The same stern measures also
will be used against any found guilty of
destroying crops or carrying on any other
act of sabotage.
There were many reports that all gov
ernmental Offices were being moved from
Berlin into the interior, and Hungary,
concerned over the range of the Allied
big bombers was said to have laid plans
to declare Budapest an open city.
Little Denmark, vital link between
Germany and Norway, was torn from
one end to the other by revolt against
the Nazis. Trains, factories and other
war essentials have been sabotaged at
numerous places and the government is
seeking to determine whether the people,
like the Swedes, prefer to risk the anger
of the Nazis and forbid the passage of
NaA troops and supplies to Norway or
continue to acquiesce in the exploitation
of their country.
In Britain, the invasion coast is being
rapidly cleared of all civilians while
London reports that two Polish armies,
superbly trained, are now awaiting the
signal to invade and fight their way
back to their homeland
Up in Quebec, President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill are carry
nf
some rumors having it that the main
topic is the methods to be undertaken to
smash the Japs. 1t is hardly possible
that Allied plans are not fully prepared
for whatever the next steps in Europe are
to be because action on as vast a scale as
that which is to come in that theater
demands tremendous concentrations of
men, material and ships requiring many
weeks of preparation.
At any rate, out of Quebec has come
reiteration of Britain's determination to
carry on with all available facilities until
the Japs have been completely beaten
down.
Yesterday it was revealed that Amer
lean and Canadian troops had landed on
Kiska, but strangely found no japanese
on hand to resist. Air attacks two days
before had been met with wear anti-air-
craft fire, but heavy fog on the following
two days, it is believed, permitted the
Japs to escape by boat, leaving the Aleu-
tians completely in American hands for
the first time since the Midway battle
OF last spring.
In the actual fighting in the Pacific,
the Japs are retreating rapidly toward
the inner defenses of Salamaua, strong
point of their New Guinea defenses,
while American troops consolidate their
holdings on Vella Lavella, strategic Solo
mon Island which puts the Allies astride
the entire group.