The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-29
Observations
German Army TO
Have Numerous
Rough Surprises
BY Helen EsSsry

Germans as the United Nations
storm ahead on the embsttled road
10 Berlin.
Along with a general discussion
Of the Russian-desired front in
western France. United States Sec
Rotary OF State Cordell Hull Brit.
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, Soviet Foreign Commissar
Niacheslay Molotoy and their aides
will discuss new wea pons Of war 10
hasten the end OF the elobal con
flict.
Informed sources now are Ger
tain that Hull and Eden will tell
Moiotov that no French front can
be opened uD until spring prob
ably Mayhem the usually ur-
buient waters OF the English Chan
mel are calm.
Bur new implements OF war will
he ready when the time comes 10
strike These are being developed
and tested in American and Brit.
ism laboratories and trial fields IN
The utmost secrecy. They will
more than Counteract any surprises
which The German scientists have
in store for the invaders from the
democracies
Responsible quarters think il
unlikely that Hitler will use gas as
last desperate gamble 10 prevent
defeat.
They hasten 10 point out that
vast supplies Of gas are available
10 the United Nations and that
the Nazis would come or terri
bic second best in wars EXTREMIST
ssyagery.
In the field OF secret weapons.
The Russians have gone the Nazis
one better in s-producing a
tank buster" on wings This
lsthal device has smashed entire
Panzer divisions 10 bits on the Rus
SIAN plains
The Russian caunon-carTying ar
mored Stormorik fighting plane
is credited with being .one OF the
most potent counter weapons that
has sent The German leeions reel
ing groggily backward across the
Ukrabne and beyond me Dnieper
One American observer recently
returned from Russia was so en-
thusiastic in his praise Of the Stor-
moyik that he declared This
flying tank buster has on NODDED
the armored forces.
Military experts are not quite
so positive in their statements. but
they agree that the Stormovik is
red hot counter TO the tank
forces and has been a potent factor
II stopping the Germans.
The plane is virtually a flying
steel hull. The entire fuselage en-
closing he engine. cannons. pilot
and observer machine gunner
even the gasoline tanks-is sheath
ed in srmored steel that will stop
anything short OF direct hit by
a heavy-Caliber shell.
Fifty-caliber machine gun bullets
bounce off this srmored shell like
pebbles Even The propeller boss.
housing the mechanism for chang
ing the propeller pitch. il armored.
The plane carries Two armor-
piercing 37mm cannon. flies at
high speed in low altitude attacks
end has even Knocked out the
German Tiger tank-a 6O-ton mon
ster.
One soldier stationed in Wash
ington will have an epic story 10
hand down TO his grandchildren
which does not concern the wa-
AZ all ...|
The other day. leaving the War
Department he stepped into a cab
and asked the driver 10 take him
TO the Army War College. but I'M
der wartime regulations the cab
had 10 pick up a full load before
leaving
couple Of minutes later a lieu
tenant and a captain whose identi-
Ties 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 cap
tain CURLY said, Driver. We are in
a hurry TO reach the Union station.
lake us there first and then you
can drop your other passenger at
the War College
For moment the silence was
so thick it could be cut Then
said The cabby to the captain. The
law saws the first passenger die.
tates the route OF the cab when
you Got in ! told you J was head
ed for the War College. and. the
cabby laconically continued, Il
hope you like It. sir, because that's
where you're GOING