Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
Axis Prepares 10 Fight
All Along Coast From
France 10 Black Sea
Holland Placed Under
Martial Law to BuIk
Any Outbreak There
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 10.-Intensive
Axis preparations to ward off
any Allied invasion attempt were
reported under way today from
the south coast of France to the
Black sea as the German-I tal-
ian debacle in North Africa en-
tered its final phases.
Although Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini seemed particularly con-
cerned over the prospects of an
Allied drive through Southern Eu-
rope, reports from Holland indicated
the Axis was not overlooking the
possibility of an assault across the
English Channel.
All of Holland was placed under
martial law last night. the Neither
lands news agency Aneta reported
and Dutch sources were convinced
the action was taken by the Ger
mans in an effort to forestall any
armed outbreak in connection with
an Allied invasion.
frightening Axis fears, 400 Allied
planes raided the Sicilian harbor of
Palermo Yesterday on the third an
niversary of Hitler's invasion of the
Lowlands, leaving that important
base flaming and smoking under
the heaviest aerial onslaught of the
Mediterranean campaign
Nazis Push Through Hungary.
In the Balkans, German troops
were being moved southwark
through Hungary at rate compar-
able to that preceding the Axis at
tack on Greece and Yugoslavia, &C
cording to travellers from Europe ar
irving at Ankara. Stockholm dis
patches reported Germany was
sending modern weapons to bolster
Bulgarian defenses.
Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler has hurried to the Balkans
to demand the suppression of Ger
man opposition and the deportation
of all opposition leaders, it was re-
ported from Geneva by Tass, official
Russian news agency.
A German radio commentator
Yesterday underlined the Balkan
developments when he said report
ed tAllied) troop movements to Cy-
pruS and troop concentra tons in
Palestine and Syria point to a cam
palgn against Southwestern Europe,
but the enemy will be repulsed at
every point of our southern front"
He boosted of the strengthened de-
Tense of the Dodecanese, Syclades.
SporadeS and other Aegean islands
generally.
German Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel, previously reported to have
left North Africa to take charge in
the Balkans, was said by London
newspapers to have ordered a speed
up OF new construction by Greek
forced labor, The newspapers re-
ported that Rommel also had Or
dered the construction of new strate-
cIcal highways between Bulgaria
and Greece.
Giraud Calls for Patience.
AT the southwestern end of Hitlers
conquered territory, the German
labor corps was rushing construction
OF new anti-lnvaSion defenses along
the French, Mediterranean, accord
Ing to German broadcast recorded
by the Associated Press, which also
disclosed that the key French port
OF LIE Havre had been ordered evac-
uated. Tass quoted German news
papers reaching Stockholm that
mass arrests have been made at
Vichy for underground subversive
activity" and that special identifi-
cation cards have been issued to the
populations of prohibited zones on
the French-SpaniSh frontier.
The invasion theme, though in
different note. also was sounded YES
terday by Cen Henri Giraud. who
told his French homeland in a
broadcast from Algiers that "Tomor-
row the European fortress will be
attacked" He warned that the
struggle would be hard and per-
haps long"
Don't be impatient" he eau
toned Frenchmen. Don't give pre-
texts for savage and bloody repres-
SION. Wait until we are ready to
strike together"
And in Italy, where millions of
italians were summoned to observ-
ances of Army and Empire day, Gen.
Attlllo TeruZzi, minister of an Ital-
ian Africa that no longer exists.
warned that Italy's whole future was
at stake and said, 1--WE will fight to
the last drop of blood"