Marine Corps base named after Gen. Lejeune
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Report of joint action of Allies cheers Willkie
Formation of war unit spurs hope for lasting world peace, he says
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Parachutists scorn tag of supermen
‘Just fighters commuting by plane’ – and first jump’s not always the hardest
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The Pittsburgh Press (January 25, 1943)
Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
A forward airdrome in French North Africa – (Jan. 24)
The 10 men who brought their Flying Fortress home from a raid on Tripoli, after they had been given up for lost, will undoubtedly get decorations. Nothing quite like it has happened before in this war. Here is the full story.
The Tripoli Airdrome was heavily defended, by both fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns. Flying into that hailstorm, as one pilot said, was like a mouse attacking a dozen cats.
The Thunderbird – for that was the name of this Fortress – was first hit just as it dropped its bombload. One engine went out. Then a few moments later, the other engine on the same side went. When both engines go out on the same side, it is usually fatal. And therein lies the difference of this feat from other instances of bringing damaged bombers home.
The Thunderbird was forced to drop below the other Fortresses. And the moment a Fortress drops down or lags behind, German fighters are on it like vultures. The boys don’t know how many Germans were in the air, but they think there must have been 30.
Our Lightning fighters, escorting the Fortresses, stuck by the Thunderbird and fought as long as they could, but finally they had to leave or they wouldn’t have had enough fuel to make it home.
The last fighter left the crippled Fortress about 40 miles from Tripoli. Fortunately, the swarm of German fighters started home at the same time, for their gas was low too.
The Thunderbird flew on another 20 miles. Then a single German fighter appeared, and dived at them. Its guns did great damage to the already-crippled plane, but simply couldn’t knock it out of the air.
Finally, the fighter ran out of ammunition, and left. Our boys were alone now with their grave troubles. Two engines were gone, most of the guns were out of commission, and they were still more than 400 miles from home. The radio was out. They were losing altitude, 500 feet a minute, and now they were down to 2,000.
The pilot called up his crew and held a consultation. Did they want to jump? They all said they would ride the plane as long as it was in the air. He decided to keep going.
The ship was completely out of trim, cocked over at a terrible angle. But they gradually got it trimmed so that it stopped losing altitude.
By now, they were down to 900 feet, and a solid wall of mountains ahead barred the way homeward. They flew along parallel to those mountains for a long time, but they were now miraculously gaining some altitude. Finally, they got the thing to 1,500 feet.
The lowest pass is 1,600 feet, but they came across at 1,500. Explain that if you can! Maybe it’s as the pilot said:
We didn’t come over the mountains, we came through them.
The copilot said:
I was blowing on the windshield trying to push her along. Once I almost wanted to reach a foot down and sort of walk us along over the pass.
And the navigator said:
If I had been on the wingtip, I could have touched the ground with my hand when we went through the pass.
The air currents were bad. One wing was cocked way down. It was hard to hold. The pilots had a horrible fear that the low wing would drop clear down and they roll over and go into a spin. But they didn’t.
The navigator came into the cockpit, and he and the pilots navigated the plane home. Never for a second could they feel any real assurance of making it. They were practically rigid, but they talked a blue streak all the time, and cussed, as airmen do.
Everything seemed against them. The gas consumption doubled, squandering their precious supply. To top off their misery, they had a bad headwind. The gas gauge went down and down.
At last, the navigator said they were only 40 miles from home, but those 40 miles passed as though they were driving a horse and buggy. Dusk, coming down on the sandy haze, made the vast flat desert an indefinite thing. One oasis looks exactly like another. But they knew when they were near home. Then they shot their red flare and waited for the green flare from our control tower. A minute later, it came – the most beautiful sight that crew has ever seen.
When the plane touched the ground, they cut the switches and let it roll. For it had no brakes. At the end of the roll, the big Fortress veered off the side of the runway. And then it climaxed its historic homecoming by spinning madly around five times and then running backwards for 50 yards before it stopped. When they checked the gas gauges, they found one tank dry and the other down to 20 gallons.
Deep dusk enveloped the field. Five more minutes and they never would have found it. This weary, crippled Fortress had flown for the incredible time of four and a half hours on one pair of motors. Any pilot will tell you it’s impossible.
That night, I was with the pilot and some of the crew and we drank a toast. One visitor raised his glass and said:
Here’s to your safe return.
But the pilot raised his own glass and said instead:
Here’s to a goddamned good airplane!
And the others of the crew raised their glasses and repeated:
Here’s to a goddamned good airplane!
And here is the climax. During the agonizing homeward crawl, this one crippled plane shot down the fantastic total of six German fighters. These were officially confirmed.
U.S. State Department (January 25, 1943)
Monday, 25 January
At the last minute, as the President and his party left for the airport at 7:45 this morning, the Prime Minister, deciding to accompany him, got into the President’s automobile in bathrobe and slippers. Marrakech was the place where the trail split. Au revoirs were said.
At eight o’clock, the planes took off toward Bathurst, 1400 miles to the southward, crossing the Atlas Mountains in flight. In another hour, the planes flew through a pass at 9,000 feet and emerged finally over the endless wastes of sand first seen when flying up on 14 January.
Völkischer Beobachter (January 26, 1943)
U-Boot-Gefahr und Nordafrikaverwirrung –
Churchill muß wieder nach Washington
vb. Wien, 25. Jänner –
Zuverlässigen Nachrichten aus Lissabon zufolge, hat Churchill vor einigen Tagen eine neue Fahrt nach Washington angetreten, die dritte seit dem Eintritt der USA. in den Krieg. Als Gegenstände seiner Aussprache mit Roosevelt werden die gemeinsame Kriegführung und einige Nachkriegsprobleme angegeben. An erster Stelle soll eine Vereinbarung über den Zustand in Französisch-Nordafrika stehen. Churchill will die Schaffung eines gemeinsamen Oberbefehls an dieser Front zur Debatte stellen, ebenso einen Ausgleich zwischen de Gaulle und Giraud. Schließlich wird auch wieder von jenem Obersten Rat gesprochen, der schon seit langem vorgeschlagen wurde und in dem die USA., die Sowjetunion, China und England vertreten sein sollen.
Zur Lage in Nordafrika bemerkt die englische Presse, die Verhältnisse gestalteten sich im Rücken der 1. britischen Armee, die in Tunis kämpft, „täglich verworrener.“ Der Observer zeigt sich darüber beunruhigt, daß „die wirklichen Kämpfe bald zum überwiegenden Teil eine britische Angelegenheit sein“ würden, und das Land sei:
…beunruhigt über Englands Rolle in einer politischen Transaktion, für die seine Soldaten vielleicht den Preis in Blut bezahlen werden.
Daß gerade auf diesen Punkt eingegangen wird, ist begreiflich, da England bisher gewohnt war, seinerseits Verbündete vorzuschicken und sein Blut zu sparen. Im übrigen ist es schwerlich ein Zufall, daß in dieser Lage in den USA. einige Senatoren vorgeschlagen haben, Amerika solle sich in Zukunft auf die Versorgung seiner Verbündeten beschränken und ihnen den Waffenkampf im wesentlichen überlassen. In New York World Telegram schreibt der bekannte Leitartikler Raymond Clapper dazu, es sei anzunehmen, daß sich der Kongreß bald mit diesem Vorschlag befassen werde, der:
…den Vorzug hat, außerordentlich praktisch zu sein, da die USA. jetzt bereits durch Masseneinberufungen Gefahr laufen, die Knappheit an Arbeitskräften zu verschärfen.
Außer diesen Fragen, die das Verhältnis der beiden Seemächte angehen – es gehören dazu auch die Schiffsraumnot und der Kampf gegen die U-Boot-Gefahr – wird bei den Besprechungen Churchills mit Roosevelt die Stellungnahme der Sowjetunion eine Rolle spielen. Es kann in London und Washington nicht übersehen werden, daß sich Stalin zu den Nachkriegsproblemen, die im Lager seiner Bundesgenossen unabhängig erörtert werden, nicht äußert. Er hat lediglich befriedigt zur Kenntnis genommen, daß England bereit ist, Europa weiterhin den Sowjets auszuliefern und er sieht darin eine willkommene Unterstützung der bolschewistischen Weltrevolution, deren Entfesselung und Ausbreitung mit Waffengewalt das Ziel Moskaus war, ist und bleibt. Das ist Stalins Programm – daher sein Schweigen zu den englisch-amerikanischen Projekten, die von der Illusion ausgehen, man könne die Sowjets als „Ordnungsmacht“ in Europa einsetzen und doch sich noch selbst neben den Bolschewisten auf dem Kontinent behaupten. Da natürlich niemand England ein solches Seiltänzerkunststück zutraut, möchte sich Churchill in Washington eine nachdrückliche- Unterstützung beschaffen und gleichzeitig durch die Einsetzung eines Viererrates Moskaus Aktionen an das gemeinsame Handeln der Briten und Yankees binden, also auch weiterhin die Hauptlast des Kampfes den Sowjets zuschieben.
Diese Bemühungen bestätigen nur erneut, wie fieberhaft sich England, das in der feindlichen Front nur noch an dritter Stelle mitläuft, bemüht, aus seinen Bundesgenossen das Letzte herauszuholen und eine Führerstellung vorzutäuschen, die in keiner Weise gegeben ist. Der englische Ministerpräsident sieht sich genötigt, immer wieder nach Washington und Moskau zu fahren, während Roosevelt und Stalin die Briten ruhig an sich herankommen lassen. Schon dieses äußere Bild ist bezeichnend. Es umschreibt den wirklichen Hintergrund, auf dem sich diese Besprechungen vollziehen: Englands Verlegenheiten geben den Grundton an!
Die führende bulgarische Zeitung Sora schreibt dazu, nicht umsonst verlangten die Sowjets die Eröffnung der zweiten Front.
Sie wissen gut, daß England Sieger in Europa nur dann gewesen wäre, wenn die Briten an ihrer Seite im Herzen Europas einen Großstaat gehabt hätten. Noch besser aber wissen die Sowjets auch, daß sie allein in Europa auf dem Kontinent Deutschland nicht schlagen können.
Außerdem wollten sie nicht allein kämpfen, sondern auch die Briten und Amerikaner bluten sehen. Jeder Versuch, in Europa zu landen, sei aber bis jetzt gescheitert, und die Tätigkeit der U-Boote werde auch in Zukunft solche Versuche zum Scheitern bringen. Die Reserven Deutschlands, Italiens und Japans seien noch längst nicht in den Kampf eingesetzt. Man solle stets den Gesamtblick für die Ereignisse haben und dürfe sich nicht von einzelnen Phasen beeindrucken lassen.
Brooklyn Eagle (January 26, 1943)
U.S. MASSES TROOPS TO CUT OFF ROMMEL
Axis reports large force in Gabes area
British seize town beyond Tripoli – Allies blast Tunisia targets
London, England (UP) –
Radio Rome said today Axis reconnaissance planes had discovered large-scale U.S. troop movements in lower Tunisia, indicating Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s 5th Army was about to thrust toward Gabes to cut off the retreating Afrika Korps.
Gabes is 100 airline miles from the Tunisian border and above the French-built Mareth Line, which the bulk of the Afrika Korps remnants was believed to have reached.
Radio Paris broadcast a German report that British Commandos had struck on the Tripolitanian coast between Tunisia and Zuara, 32 miles from the border, in an effort to cut off the Afrika Korps. Nazi Radio Paris claimed the attempt had been “frustrated.”
At Cairo, the Middle Eastern Command announced the victorious British 8th Army has captured Zaura, 30 miles west of Tripoli. Allied bombers blasted the Axis airfield at Medenine, 68 miles inside Tunisia, Sunday night, and also hit nearby targets.
A United Press correspondent reported from southern Tunisia several days ago that U.S. troops in the area near Gabes might soon be engaged in the biggest fight of their lives.
Fighting French enter Tripoli
Gen. Jacques Leclerc announced his Fighting French forces, which had driven 1,300 miles from the Lake Chad region, entered Tripoli yesterday. They were now ready to join the 8th Army in its pursuit of the Afrika Korps.
The Middle Eastern Command was still vague about the relative positions of the 8th Army and the Afrika Korps, although units of the 8th Army were reported more than 24 hours ago to have crossed into Tunisia in hot pursuit of the Germans and Italians.
Allied bombers and fighters carried on their relentless day-in-day-out harrying of the Afrika Korps. The Afrika Korps was machine-gunned and bombed near Zuara yesterday, the Middle Eastern Command said, and hits were scored on a vessel in Zuara Harbor.
London press hails news of ‘momentous decisions’
Watch for big news
The Brooklyn Eagle is now receiving from United Press correspondents a series of dispatches of transcendent Importance which will be released for publication tomorrow. Watch for these dispatches. They will appear in all editions tomorrow. All major radio stations will make announcements at 10 p.m. tonight.
London, England (UP) –
Today’s newspapers, anticipating an important announcement on United Nations strategy and policy, displayed arch headlines as these over dispatches from their Washington and New York correspondents:
Biggest Talks of War.
United States Awaits News on Tiptoe.
Momentous Decisions by Allies.
Grand Strategy in 1943.
United States Expects News to Stir World.
Two newspapers published editorials on the general war situation.
The News Chronicle, Liberal Party organ, said:
The United Nations are waging at least four wars which in no sense are subject to common strategic direction.
The vast resources of the Allies can only be brought to bear with full effectiveness in terms of a fully concerted plan… individual interests must be subordinated to the supreme interest of winning the war as rapidly as possible.
The conservative Daily Mail said:
Formation of anything like a supreme war council would be warmly welcomed by Allied peoples. We have always taken the view that complete unity cannot be achieved until such a body has been set up. However, there is much to be done yet and coordinated policy would be but the first step toward doing it.
The Chicago Sun said today in a copyrighted dispatch from London that Gen. Charles de Gaulle, head of the Fighting French, and Gen. Henri H. Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa, had reached an agreement. U.S. and British mediation aided in the agreement, the Sun said.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, replying in Commons to a question by Sir Thomas Moore, Conservative, said he understood suggestions for formation of a United Nations war council had been canvassed in the United States as well as in Great Britain but he had nothing to add to them.
Frederick S. Cocks, Labor, submitted a question to Eden for answer later whether he would make representations in order to improve the flow of political news from North Africa.
It had been expected there would be a bombardment of questions for Eden on the appointment of ex-Vichy adherent Marcel Peyrouton, as Governor General of Algeria, but members apparently awaited further news of the African political problem.
Eden last week had sidestepped questions regarding Peyrouton, asked him by opponents of the policy of including ex-Vichy men.
Axis radio stations continued broadcasting reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill had left London to confer with President Roosevelt.
Today’s Völkischer Beobachter, official newspaper of the Nazi Party, quoted by the Berlin radio, said “the meeting” was a sign of British embarrassment. The newspaper suggested questions to be dealt with probably would include “Russia’s attitude.”
Völkischer Beobachter said:
It can no longer pass unnoticed in London and Washington that Stalin makes no statements regarding post-war problems which are being ceaselessly discussed in his Allies’ camp. He merely contentedly acknowledges the fact that Britain is ready to deliver Europe to the Soviets, in which he sees welcome support of Bolshevism for a world revolution which it is Moscow’s aim to break loose, spread by the power of arms.
The British Premier is always forced to travel to Moscow or Washington while Stalin and Roosevelt calmly let the British come to them.
The United Press New York listening post recorded the following English-language voice broadcast by Berlin:
Churchill has left London to confer with President Roosevelt, it is learned.
Churchill intends to inquire into the view of the American government on Soviet aspirations in Europe so as to be able to pursue his own interest in that sphere accordingly.
Another topic of the conference is said to be the subject of setting up a council of war which would include Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek.
Guadalcanal fliers foil Jap raiders
Washington (UP) –
U.S. troops consolidated their positions at Kokumbona on Guadalcanal and continued their offensive in the face of enemy resistance, the Navy announced today.
At the same time, American fliers foiled a large-scale Japanese attempt to bomb Guadalcanal when enemy airmen were intercepted before they could reach the island. Four Japanese Zeros were shot down. No U.S. planes were lost.
Beside capturing several supply dumps and a considerable quantity of munitions, U.S. troops killed 293 Japanese and took five others prisoner in the Kokumona operation.
Women’s auxiliary of Marine Corps planned by Navy
Washington (UP) –
The Navy Department is considering establishment of a women’s auxiliary to the U.S. Marine Corps, it was learned today.
Under questioning by Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-CT), Cdr. J. C. Webb, an official of the Navy Personnel Bureau, told the House Military Affairs Committee that a Marine auxiliary was “under discussion.” He said no name for the proposed auxiliary had yet been selected.
Nelson breaks with Jeffers on rubber output
Asserts he’s satisfied – House to investigate blast at Army and Navy
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Wallace sees post-war utopia if we face facts
Vice President tells radio listeners plain people must be heard
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Flynn resigns as Democratic Committeeman
Farley in line for job – Senators to vote on appointment tomorrow
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The Pittsburgh Press (January 26, 1943)
Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
A forward airdrome in French North Africa – (Jan. 26, by wireless)
The Flying Fortress crew that made air history this month by flying 500 miles from Tripoli with its left engines out, after shooting down six enemy planes, was composed of men who were already veterans of the war in the air. They had been decorated for missions over Europe. They already had two official kills and several probables to their credit. The Tripoli mission, which only by a miracle was not their last, was their 22nd.
The skipper of the prize crew is Lt. John L. Cronkhite, of St. Petersburg, Florida. They called him Cronk. He is short, with a faint blond mustache and a very wide mouth, from which the words came in a slow drawl. His shoulders are broad, his arms husky. Usually, he doesn’t wear a tie. He says he isn’t married because nobody would have him. He’s 23.
Cronk’s father is a St. Petersburg florist. He has three pictures of his mother and father in his room. I spent the evening with Cronk and his co-pilot and navigator after their return from the dead. When he walked into the room, Cronk picked up something from the bed.
He said:
Hell, I can’t be dead. Here’s my dog tag. I forgot to take it with me. I can’t be dead, for they wouldn’t know who I was.
He and his co-pilot are bound by an unbreakable tie now, for together they pulled themselves away from death.
The co-pilot is Lt. Dana F. Dudley, of Mapleton, Maine. That is a little town of 800, and Dud says he is the only pilot who ever came from there. He is a tall and friendly fellow, who got married just before coming overseas. His wife is in Sarasota, Florida. Dud says one of the German fighters dived toward his side of the plane, and came on with bullets streaming until it was only 100 feet away. At that moment, what might have been his last thought passed through Dud’s head:
Gee, I’m glad I sent my wife that $225 this morning.
The navigator is Lt. Davey Williams, 3305 Miller St., Fort Worth, Texas. He too was recently married. The pilots give Davey all the credit for getting them home. He was about the busiest man on the trip, navigating with one hand and managing two machine guns with the other. When they thought they were done for, Davey said to the pilots:
I’ll bet those guys back home have got our stuff divided up already.
He said he mainly thought about how he was going to get word to his family that he was a German prisoner, and he felt sore that friends of his would soon get to go home to America while he’d have to spend the rest of the war in a prison camp.
I didn’t get to talk to the other members of the crew, but their stories are just the same. They all played their parts in coaxing the broken Fortress home.
They are Lt. Joe Dodson (bombardier) of Houston, Texas, and Sgts. Carl Olson of Chicago; John King of Hartford City, Indiana; Thomas Klimaszewski of Alpena, Michigan; Robert Jackman of Cleveland; Fred Littlewolf, a Chippewa Indian from Bagley, Minnesota, and Ted Nastel of Detroit.
One of those freakish little things happened to Lt. Dodson. He had hung his sunglasses on a hook in the nose compartment. A machine-gun bullet knocked out both lenses, but he didn’t touch the frame. If he hadn’t moved just a second before, the bullet, which grazed him, would have killed him.
When the Fortress finally reached home, Cronkhite decided to go through the co-pilot’s window onto the wing. As he stepped onto the wing his feet hit some oil and flew out from under him, and he went plummeting off the high wing onto the hard ground. The doctors thought he had been wounded, and picked him up and put him into an ambulance.
It sounds funny now, but as Cronkhite says:
I wouldn’t have given a damn if I had broken a leg when I fell off the wing, I was so glad to be on the ground again. I just felt like lying there forever.
Völkischer Beobachter (January 27, 1943)
England zur Atlantikschlacht –
„U-Boot-Krieg nimmt völlig neuen Verlauf!“
dnb. Stockholm, 26. Jänner –
Der Londoner Korrespondent von Dagens Nyheter stellt fest, daß nach Auffassung der Mehrheit der englischen Sachverständigen die U-Boote die gefährlichste Waffe Deutschlands im augenblicklichen Kriegsabschnitt seien. Die Bekämpfung der Unterseeboote sei daher das Hauptproblem der Achsengegner. Die immer ernster werdende U-Boot-Gefahr hat nach Londoner Eigenberichten zu erneuten lebhaften englischen Presseertörterungen geführt.
Der Manchester Guardian erhebt die Forderung nach einem Ausschuß für die Bekämpfung der Unterseeboote mit Churchill als Vorsitzenden. Die Daily Mail erinnert daran, daß bei Beginn des jetzigen Krieges in England vielfach die Meinung vertreten worden sei, daß Unterseeboote im Zusammenhang mit den vorhandenen Abwehrmitteln nicht mehr die Schiffahrt bedrohen könnten. Jetzt seien die Engländer eines Besseren belehrt worden. „Der gegenwärtige U-Boot-Krieg nimmt einen für die Demokratien völlig neuen Verlauf", stellt Daily Mail in einem Leitartikel fest. Früher seien nämlich die Schiffsversenkungsziffern von Monat zu Monat zurückgegangen, während sie jetzt immer weiter anstiegen. Dieser „Rhythmus“ habe etwas äußerst Gefährliches an sich. Er drohe in eine Katastrophe für die Verbündeten auszuarten. Mit den größten Befürchtungen müsse man dem U-Boot-Krieg in den Frühjahr- und Sommermonaten entgegensehen, wenn schon in den Wintermonaten so viele Schiffe den U-Booten zum Opfer fielen. Das Beunruhigendste am gegenwärtigen Verlauf des U-Boot-Krieges aber sei die Erkenntnis, daß Deutschland offenbar in der taktischen und technischen Entwicklung der U-Boot-Waffe der von den Verbündeten angewandten Methode der U-Boot-Abwehr weit vorauseile.
Auch die USA. stark beunruhigt
Die Schlacht auf den sieben Weltmeeren stehe wieder im Mittelpunkt der USA.-Presse, schreibt der Neuyorker Korrespondent des Daily Sketch. Das hätten die Achsenmächte ihren Unterseebooten und deren gewaltigen Erfolgen zu verdanken. Man müsse daran denken, daß der Gegner seine U-Boot-Kampagne bei ungünstigen Witterungsverhältnissen durchführe. Aus dieser Erwägung heraus zeige man sich in den USA. stark beunruhigt.
Der bekannte Leitartikler Raymond Clapper gebe dem auch in der Zeitung New York World Telegram Ausdruck. Er bemerkt unter anderem, den Demokratien ständen auf See schwerste Zeiten bevor. Andere USA.-Biätter dringen, wie der Washingtoner Korrespondent des Daily Herald meldet, in die Regierung, endlich genauere Angaben über die Schiffsverluste zu machen. Es sei lächerlich, schreibt die New York Times, wenn das Marineministerium der Öffentlichkeit Tatsachen verheimliche, von denen man vernünftigerweise annehmen müsse, daß sie dem Gegner nicht unbekannt geblieben seien. Man prahle, wenn einmal ein Geleitzug seinen Bestimmungshafen erreiche, doch werde gründlich geschwiegen, wenn nur Bruchstücke von ihm eintrafen.
Hore-Belisha gegen die Verheimlichungstaktik
Die argentinische Zeitung La Razon veröffentlicht einen Aufsatz des ehemaligen britischen Kriegsministers Hore-Belisha. Dieser kritisiert darin die britische Verheimlichungspolitik bezüglich der Schiffsverluste.
„Der Seekrieg geht unter größtem Geheimnis vor sich", schreibt er unter anderem.
Unser Kampf hängt von unserer Überlegenheit zur See ab und von der Möglichkeit, Truppen, Lebensmittel und Munition zu verschiffen und die notwendigen Rohstoffe einzuführen, über seinen Verlauf sind keine Informationen von zuständiger Stelle ausgegeben worden. Im vergangenen Kriege sowie im gegenwärtigen bis zum Juni 1941 sind regelmäßig die Flottenverluste bekanntgegeben worden. Seit diesem Datum aber sind keine Nachrichten mehr ausgegeben worden. Es liegt kein Beweis dafür vor, daß der Feind durch diesen Wechsel in der Nachrichtenpolitik gelitten hätte. Im Gegenteil, es besteht der unangenehme Eindruck, daß unser Stillschweigen auf die Unmöglichkeit zurückzuführen ist, all unsere Anstrengungen gegen die schreckliche Gefahr des Unterseebootkrieges zu konzentrieren. Es ist notwendig, das Publikum über die Tatsachen zu unterrichten, so wie sie sind, um zu vermeiden, daß sich mit Recht Furcht der Gemüter bemächtige, wenn ein so großes Stillschweigen bewahrt wird.
Der Wahlbetrüger Roosevelt –
Eine Karte entlarvt den Schwindler
dnb. Stockholm, 26. Jänner –
Die New York Times veröffentlicht soeben eine Weltkarte, auf der alle diejenigen Stellen besonders hervorgehoben werden, an denen sich zur Zeit amerikanische Truppen befinden. Die 50 bezeichneten Orte sind:
Nordirland, England, Französisch-Marokko, Algerien, Liberia, Anglo-Ägypt Sudan, Eritrea, Ägypten, Palästina, Irak, Iran, Indien, China, Australien, Neuguinea, Salomoninseln, Neue Hebriden, Neukaledonien, Neuseeland, Fidschiinseln, Samoa, Hawai, Midway, Alëuten, Guatemala, Nikaragua, Costarica, Natal, Galapagosinseln, Santa Elena (Ekuador), Aruba, Curacao, Kanada, Island, Trinidad, Britisch-Guayana, Surinam, Brasilien, Santa Lucia, Antigua, Jungferninseln, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaika, Kuba, Bahamainseln, Bermudas, Grönland, Neufundland und Labrador.
Die genannte Karte entlarvt aber zugleich auch den Präsidenten der USA. als einen infamen Betrüger an der Bevölkerung seines Landes, die ihn im Vertrauen auf seine ausdrückliche Versicherung wiederwählte, er werde dafür Sorge tragen, daß die Vereinigten Staaten von diesem Kriege ferngehalten werden, so daß auch in Zukunft keiner ihrer Söhne außerhalb der westlichen Hemisphäre zu kämpfen brauche.
USA.-Soldaten provozieren
dnb. Vigo, 26. Jänner –
Wie aus Blida bei Algier bekannt wird, kam es dort zwischen einer USA.-Patrouille und einer Gruppe von Mohammedanern zu einem schweren Zusammenstoß. Die nordamerikanischen Soldaten gingen mit Kolbenstoßen gegen die Eingeborenen vor. Die Angegriffenen setzten sich darauf zur Wehr und verletzten zwei USA.-Soldaten so schwer, daß sie im Lazarett starben. Die Militärbehörde nahm darauf Massenverhaftungen vor.