The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-14
Germans Leaving COlOnels Instead of Maj. Generals
 in Command of Troops RUMANIA AND HUNGARY
 ASKED TO SEND MEN Wave of Fear and Doubt Sweeping Finland as Axis
 Make Mass Arrests
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, January IA. (UP) - Germany reported new Russian offensives on three fronts today, admitted reverses on four fronts and indicated that Adolf Hitler was becoming desperate in his search through the satel- ite Balkans for more fighting men. German broadcaSts re- ported that the Russians were attacking at Voronezh, 2l0 miles northwest of Stalingrad, an anchor point of the German line; in the Tuapse area of the Black Sea coast, and around Leningrad.
 Breaks in the German line, though the Nazis minimized their importance, were admitted on the Voronezh, Tuapse and Leningrad fronts and on the Stalingrad- Don front.
 Stockholm dispatches reported that the Germans were evacuating generals and staff officers by plane from the pocket west of Stalingrad leaving colonels instead of major generals to command divisions and heutenantS instead of majors to command battalions.
 These reports said the Russians had thrown at least 100000 strate- gic reserves into their offensives.
 A series of German broadcasts discussed the conference between Hitler and Marshal Ion Antonescue, Rumanian dictator. The Hungarian and Bulgarian war ministers al- ready had visited Hitler, according to reports, and Berlin announced that the finance minister of the Croat puppet regime in Jugolsavia had been called to Berlin. It was reported that the secretary genera. of the Spanish Falange party, the official government party, would leave for Berlin tomortoS
 Pressure Exerted
 There seemed little doubt that Hitler was exerting all possible pressure on Rumania and Hungary to send more men to the Russian front and was meeting with stub born resistance. He was apparently urging Bulgaria to send men tc Russia and Ion Montenescu's case German emphasis on the value of Rumanian oil indicated that he was trying to squeeze more gasoline out of Rumania.
 Instead of needing the hints in German newspaper editorials that closer cooperation with Germany was desirable, Spain published an official red book on the recent Spanish Portuguese discussions of the formation of an Iberian bloc.
 Germany'S situation was compli- cated by increasing f1rmness of other countries toward it's policies.
 The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter yesterday attacked Fritz Saukel, German labor leader, who suggested that neutralS send work CTS to Germany.
 "The neutrals need their workers themselves" the newspaper saiG. "Sweden,s frontiers are closed to this kind of traffic. Germany has her own workers, prisoners of wal Q and all the slave laborers from oc. cupied countries. These are not enough"
 United Press advices said Ger many had notified Turkey that it could not complete delivery of B. 100000 Turkish pounds ($45 5,233,- !. 000) worth of goods, about one third of them arms, by March 31 as scheduled. Germany pleaded that Turkey had changed specifications
 AS the result of the Ger1nar welshing-which was expected Germany was expected to receive much less chrome and other good which 1t urgently needs from Tur: key.
 British sources quoted the Hell sinki newspaper Suomen SoSialden1- okraatti, one of Finland's rlewspa- perS, as expressing good wishes for Crown Princess Juliana on the ap- preaching birth of a child and as
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