IYS§IA l . . - ) The violence of war has been resumed on the first front. - - 1 ith Americans and British opening the second front with such success, the wcrld - - a waiting a new Russian offensive - to put the new double~f~ •* front•nutcrackel\-preasure on Nazi Ger■ any. This, of course, has long been kno~n to be the master plan of Allied strategy, and today the Soviet Armies went into action to play their part in assailing the lazia fro ■ both the .- The sector of he Soviet offensive is at the pushing ahead for distances of from seven-and-a•half to nine ■ ilea, on a nineteen aile fron~t~---- further The every heart In France American troops have captured Mont Du Roe (Roke) a sum m it at the southwestern edge of CberbQurg. And this gives a clue to the kind of to d todaJ ... ~ The hope of several da7s ago that the dooaed lazi forces might break quickl1 has not been fulfilled. They are putting up a desperate battle, nerved by a aavage order given to their officers. Their coaaanding General has directed the officers to shoot an1 soldier who shows signs of weakening. And that has increased the gria fur1 of the defense. . One German prisoner states: •we••• were with a Corporal who threatened to shoot us if we tried to surrender. He saw me tr1ing to tie a white flag to ~gB ¥~AD tQ~-F~ANCE - 2 · a stick•, explained the prisoner, who adds: •the bombing and shelling were so terrible that I said to him -- 'I can't stand it any more, I must surrender•.• Two or three other German soldiers joined hia, and they dashed away, with the Corporal's bullets whistling over their heads. They came in and surrendered and so have soae others. But, for the most part, the lazis are fighting it out to the end - helped by those hills. 91 pill-boxes, etc, rtv. FRANCE ------ Thee h ~ ights have been for ifi~ wit~ m~ z es of p ill boxes, rtillery o itions. Te b t le here is de ~c rib d ~ s the most violent of t h e invasion thus far; a ferocious strug g le t close grips; our ttroops are resortin g to cold steel. They we q ve their way forward under a blislering fire, and go at the enemy with tommy guns, hand 6 renades, and that weap o n of the closest fighting, the bayonet. Th e rocket bomb attack a g ainst southern e..Aiw,,, England~~l\today;-~~~"--AU~it---4.L.....,~Ht-H..,..,__ streaking a cross the Channel. And a new feature has entered the p icture - a larger and more powerful rocket. This was stated in the London Bouse of Coaaons today by Herbert Morrison, Secretary for Home Security. Be described the new and bigger robots as having a greater wingspan and as looking ■ore ii ■ an ordinary fighter plane. Liaewise, they are faster • and carry a heavier charge of explosivet. for Home · ecurity added that the s ■ aller type of rocket is loaded with a twenty-two hundred pound bomb - the aize ot a blockbuster. The la~ger kind carries more~ The impression one gets is th a t the t w o weeks o f rocket a ttack have been more serious than the guarded statements i n London mi g ht indicate - the robot assault bein g •• ot such character that it is important not to let the e nemy kno what is b ~ in g hit. 'f.odw,-..t.-~ BABOTS -2- ---- - The military eff ct of the Nazi aovelty has slight, the principal consequehce being that a num er of British and A ■ erican planes had been switched to the battle of the rockets. Today the rocket launching platforms were targets for a thousand tons of bombs although bad flying weather i . apeded air action generally. Today the Lon on at ■ k stock market had a hot rumor - th a t Fiel Jarshal Von Rundst~dt, Com ma nd er of the Ge rm n armie. in Fr a nce, has been p utting out peace feelers. According to the report, Rundstedt was doing this apart fro,n Hitler and the Nazis - ..,. making in uiries about peace terms on his own. Or rather, in behalf of the German Army Command. The implication is that Rundstedt and the other ~erman Generals are offering to toss out Hitler and• the Nazis - sacrifice them for the purpose of making peace. This rumor has no confirmation of any sort, but it had the London Stock Exchange buzzing today. f •h p•~lie scene ~oda,- Der •~•eBee of Hitle1re ■ e ~ Feuhrer makes no appearance as the Commander-in-Chief ~ of the German Armies. A, Bo.- has he issued any of those ~ shouting exhortations to his soldia, urging thea on to Razi frenzy. Nor, in the battle of Cherbourg, bas there been a s tirring com~and from Bitler personally to fight to the death. All of which is very different from previous phases of the war - the Russian campaign, for example. Then Bitler established hie headquarters at the front, and bowled procla ■ations. In the Stalingrad disaster he gave franti c orders for a fight to the bitter end. Be was much in publio evidence in Geraany all along - but not now. • And yet you'd think that the supreme criai1 of the invasion would have brought the Kazi dictator into the foreground, doing everything*•• he could to incite his Nazi troops to a frenzied fight. Der Fuehrer aeema to have disappeared.~ \~e i••••••• ••••a.•• word of him. And, this leads to the London surmise that the German commanding generals have chucked Der BlTLER - 3 Fuehrer ri g ht out of the picture, and sent hia into exile at his Berchtesgaden mountain retreat. One sharp indication of the attitude of the German officers toward Bitler and the Razis is found in a military document captured in France. Thia docuaent was signed by Lieutenant General Rudolf Schaud, and is a report to co ■ mandera on the Italian tront. Lieutenant General Sch■ ud inform• thea of the execution of 1eYen officers who were charged with aaking fun of Bitler. The docu ■ ent puts it in these word• - •they were guilty of a breach of their oath of alleaiance to their Fuehrer, · by slandering, aootin1 and insulting his person•. One can i ■agine the ill- fated Ger■an officers doing a take-off on Der Fuehrer, a thin& which any coaedian can do so readily. F ~ ~ ~ ~ " - ~ J.-to ~ a. ~~'~~g_~ _ _.t;.-t;_. ~ .. ~~- r __ .! ... °"' . .,_,...., ~-~ ftw','Vl•) 0 , . - ~ ~ WIIV'"l, ~~~ • .....t to: b, ~~ 1 ~ fa-: n J. ~~ out The truth i s/about the~illing of eecaped war prisoners in Nazi Ger■any. The story was told in bitter teras by Foreign Secretary Anthony Iden, in the London Rouse of Coa■ ons. Be said the British Go•ern■ent had full ••idence of cold-blooded aurder co ■■ itted lazia, the•••• ■urder of titt7 prison••• ot war. Anthony Eden told how it all ca ■• about. At a pri1on caap near Brealau, an eacape was planned b7 Britieh capti••• of war. fith infinite labor and 11creo7 they du1 a tunnel - a tunnel ae•enty-ti•e feet bel~• the surface and two hundred 7arda lona. It led to a point outside the caap, and on a night in larch •••enty-aiz prison••• stole through the tunnel and aade their •a1 out. Twenty-ti•• were flying officer• of the t R.A.1. The escape was diecovered pre ■ aturelJ, •hen lazi auards spotted the last tour prisoners eaergin1 fro• the underaround passage. There was a widespread hunt for the fugiti•e•, and ■oat O'f the■ were recaptured. Then what happened? It beca ■e known that ■an1 ot the escaped prisoners of war had been killed, and the Razis ga•e an explanation. They claimed that lBISONERS - 2 the prisoners had been shot while escaping or while resisting recapture. Thia •ersion now turns out to be a frau~, and today in the House of Coaaona the Britieh Foreign Secretary re•ealed the brutal truth. lift) of the prisoners were taken by the lazi Gestapo, and herded off in e ■ all 1roups, and executed. One of the aost cold-blooded tbia war. 1:·--• ... -._ ... 11.411~~~ fro ■ Yarioua aourcea - including a statement fro ■ the Bitler govern ■ ent itself. After the first phoney explanation had been given out b7 the la11a1 London aade a for ■al inquiry of Berlin - acting through the neutral Swiaa government. And no• an answer baa been reoeiYed. The Ger ■an govern ■ent states that during the aonth of March there were a nu■ber ot escapes by -a.J.'~ . Prisoners of war~ and clataa that these were directed ' :," • by the Allied ailitary authorities. The Geraans maintain that the escapes were planned for both military and political reasons. ~ iAe priaooer1 of war, apea 1•ttia1 A PBISOIERS - 3 were to the cou tries that , under lazi Bence, in dealing with .:apes, the Bitler authorities gave, what the Ger■an statement calla - •especially severe orders•. And that phrase, •eapecial}l severe ■i orders•, ie a conte1aion. Toda7 the Foreign Secretary denied that any order• to escape had ever been given to Briti•h pri1onera ot war or anJ inatrations to en1a1e in 1ubversive aotivitie~ against the lazia. And be vowed Allied venaeance a1ain1t the Bitlerite• responsible f~r the•••• executions.- •#oul or~ainala•} he rightly , called the ■• iIRIIES The sailors •ho sent ■oney to proYide wage increases for strikers are getting back their donation. Thia••• announced by the la•y tonight, with the additional infor■ ation that the la•1 does not approYe of the dra ■ atic gesture. The story is that the crew of the seaplane tender eooa Bay raiaed tour hundred and t••l•• Dollar• and aent it to the Aaaociated Pr•••, &aking the A.P. to P••• the ■ oner along to atriker1 at the lright Aircraft Corporation. The purpo1e •aa, in the word• of the letter -- I■ •to help pay the waae inoreaae the ■ oaey-bun1ry 1tritera are de ■andin1•. The A. P. thereupon 1ent the four•••••• hundred and twel•• dollar, to the Secretary of the ■ ••1, and tonight the word ia that the caah will go right baot to the ere• of the eooa Bay. And, at the•••• ti ■e, the la•J iaauea a stateaent saying that it certainly doe, not appro•e of atrikee in war tiae. •But neither does the lavy•, iIBIU§ - 2 decl a res the stateaent, •condone expreaaiona by ita personnel or resentaent, however sincere, which are in disregard of official regulations•. Then the la•J goes on to mention -- •publicity ■ eeking•. An investigation i ■ to be made to deteraine how the whole thin& happened. At the aaae tiae, in Congreaa today, Representative Compton of Connecticut di s cloaed ao ■e correapondence that he haa had with Lieutenant I. r. Ja■ea of the Sea Tender Cooa Ba7. The Lieutenant 1ent two letter• to the Congr•••••n protesting againat 1trikea -· particularl7 • a C. I. O. walkout at Loctlan Ohio, that••• in progreaa on D • Da7. The Coasr•••••n •rote in reply that the D;--Day atritt •••• in hi• words, •particularly unfortunate•. But he aaaured the Lieutenant that the strike situation waan•t aa bad aa the published newa •••• would see ■ to indicate. c1114 From China we continue to have oainoue Chungking reports that the Jape, having captured great railroad center of Changsha, have toward Benyang, another vital railroad junction. And Benyang is the site of an iaportant 1llied air ba1e - aaybe one ot the flying field ■ troa which the giant 8-29'• took oft to boab Japan. Tonight the Jap1 are only twenty-five ■ ilea away froa Benyang aad the air ba1e. Cbungking aaye it looks ■ore and more aa it the Jape, driving down the railroad froa Bangkow to Canton, will succeed in their purpoae - which is to cut China in ll■ two and eetabli1h a continuou1 rail connection fro ■ Manchuria on South. In fact, if the Japane1e caapaign 1ucceeda, the far eastern eneay will e s tablish overland coamunication all~he way fro■ Manchuria to Singapore - down the length of China to J a p ~ controlled Indo-China, and then down the lalay Peninsula to Singapore. liBSTITYIE P~CIFIC_ ~ ' ~ o r a b l e newa keeps coaing fro m the far spaces of the Pacific, news featuring Jap aircraft carriers. Adairal Ni ■ iiz &i•es ua new information about the ene ■y losses in llonday, the batth t,J/- the " the aea and air conflict on eastern Philippines. One Jap aircr a ft carrier had already been liated a1 aunt, aad no• another ia added -- a a ■all one. Thia ene ■y flat- top had been reporte d .._,. da ■ aged1 and now it haa been ,.~..;:;:.ff that th, ••ashed up oarrier went to th, botto ■• Still larger n••• te1la of the torpedo~ina of a big aircraft carrier, a twent7-thouaand tonner. The attack waa deliYered b7 an•••*• A■erioan aub■arine. The twent7-tonner flat-top was blaated b7 three torpedoes, and ia listed•• - probabl7 aunt. On the island of Saipan, the focus . of action today was on a tall mountain.• peaL1allei !apohe~aft Aaerican troopa w ere pushing up the slopes - ao•in& ••••• toward what is belieYed will be a deciai•• battle. The principal Jap forces are on the other aid of the mo~ntain, and the cli ■ax ia expected when the , ~ . ricans aet acroae and.-=•~t:......:t~h~•~•~·-----------__, Toda7 our Co■■andin& General aaid: ••• baYe aot ■et the bulk of the enemy forces yet - a lot of their beat ■ en are concentrated back ot Tapotohau•. The fightin g now g oing on i i ot · a familiar ••**•• pa tt ern - p arties of fanatical Japa tightin1 to can before kill a s many a s they~aix•aax)•J\ they themselves are kil ' ed. In d esperate jungle conflict tney are conduct in g a delaying action.-·•hile ~heir ■aia torea .. i i ~••• •~••• there eaa ~ .. ""••••' ef bhJ uatccuu, The battle for Saipan can hne only one result.: · The Jape,,.. 1/-t.'i:(, hl!:::t'' are now without any hope of reinforcement or relief. -\Ilia.: • i t t :i: - I I ' 'II. i - hi i DC s C 1 for O. t ,. F 1 ' . " • l • • i zg 5 ke • ~ - - QUESTION We know that the A ■erican soldiers fightin& in lands of the tropics have a lot of weird peril• to contend with. G. I. Joe is particularly aware of the 1pooky dangers, and so ■ etiaea he wonders. Thia la illustrated vividly in an incident reported by a larine Corps coabat correspondent, Seraeant John•I. !. Caapbell, toraerly of the Loa Angele• l■al Herald- Expr•••• !he u1capap1••••=•••1••n4.ui1•••••• • ••• ••~ Be tell• how, when the Marine• were about to invade Saipan 1 ieta-., a aedical officer called the aoldiera of an artillery unit together and warned th•• ot the dangers in the la~ding. )lot counting the Jap1, he listed the f■t• following: In the surf theJ aust beware of sharks, . ...,,_ barracuda, sea snakea,Aeneaones, ra1or-aharp coral, polluted waters, poison fish. And, of all things, loot out for the giant claaa MN,~ N•• capable of anappin& a ■an•a leg lite a bear trap. ~ ' t ; Ashore, they~~ take precautions against ... QUESTIOI - 2 leprosy, typhus, the yaw1, typhoid and paratyphoid, ~ - - . den g ue fever, dysentery, and an aaaort ■ent of akin and eye infections. Also - saw grass, which some call sabre grass, all kinda of poison insecta1 "'-' snakes and giant lizards. The soldiers listened attentively, and when the list of variegated perils was compl e te, one G. I. Joe raised hie hand and asked •Sir, why don't w e let the Japs have the ialand•. (2..J. ~ ~~ .s ~..., ~ w--.- ~ ~ Y""'~ •