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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941
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IS REPORTED CRACKED
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Asking Strike Vote At General Motors
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'Stalling' Is Charged by CIO; Acute Shortage Of Soft Coal
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Scn.sational reports la.st night were that a German column had cracked the main Greek-Briti.'li defen.se line near Lari.i.sa and Mt. Olymp.s 1^1 Thf Italian and Ger¬ man   forces   had   met   after   the
Detroit, April 12. (UP)-The United Automobile Worker* (CIOi tonight sought from its estimated Ifi.'i.nno members in General Motors Corp. plants authorization to take .1 .strike vote if ne,9;otiation« on i;.M contract revisions are not com¬ pleted by April 20. j The strike threat developed while workers at the Ford Motor Com- ; pany, anolher of the automobile industry's "Bijf Three." prepared to iTturii to Jl.'il.000,000 worth of de¬ fense work next week after 10 drivs of idleness in the UAW-CIO .strike settled yesterday at the Ford Ri\er  Rouge   plant.
Walter Reuthcr. UAW-CIO direc¬ tor nf G.VI locals, said if a strike WHS called, union members work- in? on approximately .$700,000,000 in defense contracts would remain st Ihfir jobs. GM spokesmen re- ' plierl, however, that the corpora- ¦ liin's c,lo«»iip,i«i«li|^i(ifoven syste;n rn.ilii not operate with such k sfEresnlion of defense and regular pi'idiiition employees. Hnlriing   .>!«««  .Meetings
Ma.ss meetings of 7<i union locals St GM plants throughout the na¬ tion were being held this weekend tc get the strike vote authorization. Eighteen already have made the aulhoriiation, Reuther said. A .strike vote will be taken if GM offi¬ cials do not hall ".stalling" tactics nil UAW-CIO demands for a union ."hop, 10 cent general hourly wage inrrease, two weeks vacation with pay, recognition of a shop steward system and "adeqiiatc" compensa¬ tion for workers drafted into mili¬ tary service, he ,said.
Contract negotialioii.s have con-i 'tinned for the past month and under terms of the present agree- msnt, the fiO-day negotiating period expires April 20. Union and corpo¬ ration representatives have been meeting tliree times weekly.
.lames   F.   Dewey,   federal   labor innciliator who helped patch up the   to   work   and   eliminated   the   last Ford dispute, is expected to return   major    labor    dispute
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Athens, April 12. (UP)—Refu¬ gees who arrived here today after a terrifying journey from Bel¬ grade reported Ihat the Danube was afire with flaming oil when they left the Jugoslav  capital.
One Briton said that the streets of Skoplje were strewn with tho bodies of German parachutists and another reported he saw Australian troops blowing up bridges near the Jugoslav border.
Among the refugees was Mrs. Mary Brock, wife of an Ameri¬ can newspaperman, who brougtit her pet fox terrier. She said the dog "stood up and harked furi¬ ously at German dive-bombers as they swooped low over our heads."
Reds Rebuff Hungary for War on Serbs
Condemn Attack On Jugoslavia After Peace Pact
DEFENDERS PRAISED
Nazi Ambassador To Moscow Leaving To Report at Berlin
Minister Says Action Forced By Germans
Xazi drive from Skoplje Ml. .Serb.s were reported still lighting hard in the mountains (61. Karly invasion efforts .saw the Italians move in at Kranj (2i, the Ger¬ mans al Maribor  <2i   and an air
alt.ick waa unleashed on the Vodice air base (3i. One of the drives to cut into Jugoslavia quickly   took   Nish   (7).
Monastic Pass  runs south  into (Jreece   from   Bitolj.
MEOIAIION EFFORT ^/•'"«>«<'. Nazi Column
Closing in on Tobruk
IS DIRECIEO AT SOFT COALSTRIKE
17 Minor Strikes In Progress as Ford Battle Ends
33 Axis Planes Claimed by RAF as Battle of Africa Wears
Tobruk may Indicate that the cur¬ tain is about to go up.
It was learned that before evac¬ uating Mekili—near where three British generals were captured— the BIrtish salted the wells so ss to complicate the German supply problem.
The most successful RAF action
Cjovfriiment mcdintion efforts were focused Saturday nifrht nn the 12-day worl%-stoppage of 400.000 soft coal miners and .i threatened strike of 160.000 employees of the huge   General   Motors  system.
Settlement of the Ford strike at Detroit   started   12,').000   men   back
By WALTER (OLLINS
Cairo, April 12.   (UPi   -A German armored  colun.n   was   reported   to¬ night to be closing in upon Tobruk,'was  an  attack  upon  the  De  Erna 90    miles    west    of    the    Egyptian ' aiidrome in which 16 Messerschmilt
.,      t5„ „.i    Ai..   T;'n..o« no's were destroyed on the ground frontier,   as   the   Royal   Air   Force   ^^  ^^.^^^  ^^  ^  j^^;^^^_.^  ^^  J^^^^^^^^
launched    a    pre-battle     offensive i,,^    ^^    (^^^^    ^pf     ^    Heinkel,    a
again.st enemy aircraft that brought juni^^rs  .12  troop  carrier,   and  two
down 33 German and Italian planes, ^jher   aircraft   shot   down   in   air
Briti.sh forces contacted the Ger- combat ~ a total of 21.
mans  both  west and  southwe.st  of j^-^^, (.oi„n,n Attacked
next   week   to   take   up   the   tense
situation   between   the   union   and
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Tn  Exclude  llefeiii,e  Workem
Ueuther's promise to exclude de- ffuse workers from a strike, if and Hheii ordered, was an unusual pro¬ posal and the first ever made in the current outbreak of walkouts in defense industries. Corporation spokesmen said virtually all G.Vl faciories were engaged in defense work and that it would be im¬ possible to separate It from other production. It was pointed out that strikers in key plants of large automotive companies invariably tie up output  along  the  line.
A union spokesman said, how- 'vrr, thai departments engaged in rtefrnse work were "self-contained" units. He charged GM's defense If rfidurtion was only "a fraction" "f Its total work and that most of 'he equipment used in making "iitnniohiles was not used on de¬ fense materials. The exact tech- "i'liic   of   separating   the   types   of
1"nrk has not been  determined, he said. Soft (onl Conference I'ermanendy Broken
N'ew York. April 12. (UP) - I^'ffnrts to relieve a soft coal short- "ge nearing the acute stage hogged f'own here tonight and hopes thnt 400,000 miner? would return to work after two weeks of idleness appcni- 'd  flim.
The goveriimenl. operators and "facials of the United Mine Work- fi's nf America agreed that Ihc ^•''el industry already was experi- ""ing a fuel shortage and thnt snother week without production "¦"Uld seriously affect national de¬ fense.
¦^ The Appalachian Wage-Hour Con- (Continued on Page A-21
in    defense industries
.Seventeen minor strikes were in progress at the week's end, three of them in the process of .settle¬ ment by the Defense Mediation Board.
At New York, federal labor ex¬ perts took a "recess" in negotia¬ tions lietween southern bituminous coal mine operators and the United Mine Workers (CIOi in their dead¬ lock on 11 wngc-boost issue. tiO.omi .Miners Affected
The southern operators, em¬ bracing   l.'iO.OOO   miners   in   13   dis-
Tobruk.    At    one    point    the    Nazi
forces had driven to within 2,5 miles
of   Tobruk   from   the   south   while
other armored troops  were  on  the
road that leads from Ain El Gazala ,
to  Tobruk,  a  distance  of about 30   !l!^,f'y_AO" ;T,'\'^.'"^;^•"^ ^f.*.''"''''"?
miles.
A heavy attack was made on the German column moving up the road from AIn El Gazala toward Tobruk.     It   was    estimated    that
(ieneral Captured
(London's war oflfice announced that Gen. Carton de Wiart. British commander of the troops which. fought in IS'orway, had been cap¬ tured while en route to the Middle Kast. The Rome high command said he had been captured in, Cyrenaiea.) |
According      to      well - informed i sources  here,   the  major  battle  for ' Britain's foothold in Libya had not
Copenhagen, Denmark fvla Ber¬ lin)—April 12. (UPi-The Danish foreign office tonight declared void the agreement between the United States and the Danish minister at Washington placing Greenland under American pro¬ tection.
At the same lime, the foreign office announced the recall of Henrik de Kauffman, Danish min¬ ister to Washington. I The agreement, which gave the \ United States permission to es¬ tablish air and naval bases and other military facilities at Green¬ land, was said by the foreign of¬ fice to be void under International law.
(Announcement of the agree¬ ment in Washington said it had been signed bv Kauffman "on be¬ half of the King of Denmark." Denmark Is German-occupied ter¬ ritory.)
Danish Foreign Minister Harold Scavenius sent a note to the U. S. charge d'affaires charging that the agreement had been concluded "without knowledge of the Danish king or the legal Danisli govern¬ ment." .Scavenius protested in ad¬ vance against establishment of United States military bases at Greenland.
He luimed Einar Rlechiiiherg. counsellor of the Danish legation at Washington, to be charge d'af¬ faires.
Hull to Decide on Recall Suniinnns
Wa.shington, April 12. (UP)—Dr. Henrik de Kauffmann. the minister from Denmark, will let Secretary of State Cordell Hull decide whether he shall obey or Ignore a summons from Copenhagen recalling him be¬ cause he signed the Greenland de¬ fense agreement, a Danish legation
By HE.NRY SHAPIRO
Moscow. April 12. (UPi Soviet Russia tonight denounced Hiin- gai-y's action in joining in the attack upon .Jugoslavia and it was learned that the GerniHii ambassa¬ dor, (?'oiint Frederic von Schuleii- berg, will leave for Berlin tomor¬ row, presumably to "consult and report"  to his  governmeiit.
The  Soviet  statement,  condemn¬ ing   the   action   of   Hungary,   was the latest in a series of pronounce¬ ments   by  Russia  which   have   dis¬ approved    Bulgaria's    joining    the Axis,    reaffirming    friendship    and non-aggressive     intentions     withi Turkey,   and    on    the   eve   of   the [ German   attack   upon   Jugoslavia   - j grniited that state a part of friend- i I ship  and   nonaggression. |
I The Soviet criticism of Hungary declared that her action was par¬ ticularly doplor.Tble because it came at a moment when the .lugo- siav-Hungarian frieiulship pact was only  four mouths  old.
The Soviet expression was made in a statement hp Soviet Vice- Commissar   for   Foreign    relations
A.  V.  Vishinsky  to the  Hungarian 	
minister, Joseph de Kristnffy, who ^————
had   called   upon   Vishinsky   to   tell    (iyeeJm Repulse   Xttock him   of  Hungary's   action, ! ^^  Monastir  Gap
PrenB Pritlsew Jugoslavs
The     statement     came     as     the    ".v HE.XRV  T.  (iORRELL Soviet    press    continued    its    flood       Athens, April 12.  (UP)    A Greek , of    dispatches    giving    prominence   .spokesman    reported   tonight   that
Germany Claims Panzers Pouring Far Down Coast
Say New Battlefield Developing While .'{Hies and Nazis Are Locked in Great Battle in North of Greece; Athens Reports Armored Column Repulsed in Phlorina Sector; Germans Seeking to Turn Flanks
'Stt'n Yoik, .\piii 12 (I Pi—Columbiii Br«»arfc»»«tf»f S.v.stem ippnrted tonight that its correspondent at Ankara had advised them hy cable of German reponts that Na/.i tioitps ha\e cracked the main Greco-British line in the leRion of .Mt. Olympus, and have occupied Lari.sjsa.
If correct, this would mean that the main British- (ireek line had been broken at it.^ ea.stern hinge. From harissa the (iermans would have^itimit 130 miles to go before  reaching .\thens. V    ,
(The Ankara report as heard in nwidon quoted Axis quarters as reporting that .Xnglo-Giwk forces in the Mt. Olympus region were isolated by the (femuin break¬ through and might be forced to surrender. It taid that the .Jugoslav government and diplomatic corpK had taken refuge in a small mountain town in Bosnia, .southwest of Belgrade. !
(It quoted the .lugoslav legation at .\nkara as saying the bulk of the Serbian army was withdrawing intact into the Bosnian mountains, where it could hold out for weeks if supplied by way of the Dalmatian coast.)
The report indicated that a new battle was expected to develop shortly in the I.arissa sector where .\nglo- (Jieek forces near .Mt. Olympus were cut off and sur¬ rounded, it was said.
A .Jugoslav embassy spokesman in .\nkara was quoted as saying that the vast ma.jority of .Jugoslavia's armed forces are intact and have not begun to fight yet.
\ Nazis and .Mlies Open ' Fierce Rattle for (ireec« I By HARRISON .'«ALISBl BY I'nlted Press .Staff Correspondent
Nazi   blitz   columns   and   British
and   tribute   to   the  stubborn   fight Greek   troops   had   hurled   back   a   troops  and  Greece  .Saturday   night
being   put   up   by   Jugoslavia   and heavv   German   attack   in   the   re-   "'Pre  locked   in   the  opening   phase
Greece   against   Germany. sion'of  Phlorina   hv  an   armoured , "f  »  K''e»t   battle   upon   which   the
Trud,   the   newspaper   of   Soviet Nazi column whicli "poured" through    fate   "f   Greece   and   possibly   the
youth,     pointed     out     todav     that the vital  Monastir  Gap.   The  gov-   whole war in the Middle East may
Germany     was     numericallv     and niiment   official   declared   that   the    turn.    Reports   from   the   fighting!
mechanically   superior   to   her   foes engagement    wa.s     "more    severe"    front were skimpy and clouded  bv
but that "operations of the first than first reported. | censorship and propaganda, but it few davs do not vet permit a fore-i     He explained  that  the spearhead ^ wa"  evident   that   at   both   end.s   of
cast of future developments. 1 of   the   German   armoured   column ' the   ,W-mile   ""I'thf"'   defense   line
"It is ncccs.sarv tn hear  in  mind had   driven  .southward   from   Juso-   m Greece _^from  Phlorina to (.lan-
the   rugged   mountainous   terrain." slavia   through   the   .Mona.stir   Cap    I'^a    the   battle   had   been   Joined.
Trud    said,    "hampering    the    dis- to the vicinity of Phlorina, western       At   this   moment   in   the   crucial
position    of    German    forces    and anchor of the Greco-British  north-   '¦"mhat. Russia played ann her wild
possibly  enabling  the   Jugoslavs  lo eni   defense   line,    i Phlorina   is   at   ''"'¦d-    She    denounced     Hungary s
undertake counter-measures." the opposite side of the gap from '"'t""' '" joining in the attack upon •Tapanese   Alinister
Confers willi Stalin
Moscow.    ,\pril     12.
tricts of the Apiialachian mining ; yet opened and there was no con- region held out against a pi oposed firmation of reports abroad tnat wage differential elimination whicli \ fierce fighting had started. How- would cost them .1:1.40 per day per ever, the contact between the (Continued on Page A-2> British      and      Germans      around
with many German casualties. A Mes.sfrschitt 110 which attempted to   intervene   was   shot  down.
In the attack on Derna direct .spokesman said tonight, hits were registered upon hangars i The legation spokesman would and tents. Two German planes j not give hi.s opinion of what he were reported shot down in a raid i expected   Hull   to  tell   the   minister
but American diplomatic experts had not doubt but that the secre¬ tary would ignore the recall me.ss¬ age. De Kauffmann plans to call on Hull Monday. Danes "Under Duretw" The spokesman described the re-
on   Tobruk,   one   n   G-51   and   the other a Junkers 87.
An  Italian  plane was shot down at sea fiO miles north of Alexandria and in Ethiopia the South African Air  Force   raided   the   Gimma   air- ; drome   and    caught   three    Italian
bombers,   a   fighter  and  two  other   call   and   the   Danish   government's
U.S. Steel Faces Threat Of Strike on Tuesday
Pittsburgh,   April   12.   (UP)-The industrial   empire   of   U.   S.   Steel I orders
ha.s   about   $460,000,000   irt   defense
planes on the ground. Two enemy fighters  were  shot  down.
Other attacks were carried out upon Sfcilv and at least tw:o Ger¬ man planes were shot down, at¬ tempting  to  attack  Malta.
Five British planes were reported lost, two in Greece.
Berlin Hay* English Pursued In Libya
Berlin,   April   12    (UP)-
German i
There   was   speculation   that
and Italian forces in Libya were officially reported today to have broken    British    defenses   west    of
action in voiding the Greenlandic agreement as to he expected and as made "under dure.s.s " from the Ger¬ man authorities who now control Denmark. !
The spokesman said that quite contrary to the expressions In the ! telegram, he was certain that everybody in Denmark received with pleasure the news of the agreement giving the United States right to establish air bases and  fortificalions  in   Greenland.
g^Qlj Jugoslavia.   .Moscow   reported   that
Aided   bv   tanks   and   numerous the   German   amba.s.sador   was   ex-
(UP>    .Tap-   armoured cars,   the  Carman  infan- PP'tfrt 'o leave tomorrow to report
anese     Foreign     Mini.ster    Yasuke   try plunged ahead until  it reached »"''   consult   with   his   government
Mat.suoka, concluding a week's visit : the   Greeks    who   were   braced   in but there was still no tangibe sign
to   M0.SC0W,   conferred   with   Jo.sef I prepared      po.sitions.        Motorcycle 'hat   the   Soviet   proposed    to   us.
V. Stalin for two hours tonight and   outriders   preceded   the   main   hody ""-'''{^'"f   'tronger   than   words   In
expressed to him "deepest gratitude   of   Ihe   German   force,   the   Greek the  Balkan crisis.
for a reception which helped clarify   spokesman said. British in Action
Soviet-Japanese  problems."                 1     Greek troops held firm despite  a A     government     spokesman     at
Premier-Foreign    ("omniissar    V. ' fierce assault by the Germans, the Athens  reported that Greek troopi
M. Molotov was present during the   spokesman said and inflicted heavy had   met   and   repulsed   a  German
conversation.                                            losses   upon   tho   attacking   troops, armored     column     which     poured
(Matsuoka   reportedly   ha.s    r^eeu   rolling Ihem back to the  north.       ' through    the    Monastir    (Jap    and
seeking  to negotiate a'non-ag?re.s-   Dsoisive Bullle Opening flowed   up  to  the   region  ot Phlnr-
sion  part with Ru.ssia.)                              The  action arniind   Phlorina was ina.    Brilisii   troop.,   also   were   re-
The    Japanese    foreign    miniUer   the opening phase of what was ex- ported to be fighting in this region,
was expected tn leave on the tr.ins-   pected   quickly   to   develop   into   a According       to      .some       Britiih
Siberian     expre.s.s     tomorrow     for   decisive  battle   for  Greece. sources,    the   Germans    may   hav«
Tokyo.     On   hi.s   way   home    from       (A  British   Broadcasting  Corpor- reached     Phlorina.    a    key     roads
visiUs   to   Berlin   and   Rome,   Mat-   ation    report    indicated    that    the town   which   might   put   the   .N'azia
suoka   originally    had' planned   to   battle   of   Phlorina   now   is   raging, in  a   position   to   flank   the   .'SO-mil.
.stay   In   Moscow   only   until  Thurs-   London   reported   fighting  was  go- nortern defense line from the r*ftP.
day
(Continued   on   Page  A-l.Ti
Nazi Hint Anglo-Creeks Fall Back to New Line
Corp. tonight faced tht threat of a j g^^^^j,] agreement had been reach-   Tobruk   and   to   be   smashing   on .strike Tuesday midnight with nego- i ed   and   only    legal    technicalities 1 eastward, while Nazi airplanes car-
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tiators planning to meet again Monday afternoon in an effort to coiicili; ;e contract demands of the CK) Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
P'or   four   hours,   representatives of   the   giant  steel  corporation  and
were   being   ironed   out. j ried    out    heavy    and    destructiv*
When Harold Ruttenberg, SWOC raids on the Portsmouth shipyards
statistician, and John A. Stephens, and the Bristol harbor In England,
the   corporation's  statistical   expert rj-j^,,   official   DNB   news   agency
on   wages   and  .salaries,   joined   to- reported   that   two   British   Hurri-
day's   conference,   it  was   felt   that ,.^„f,   fighters   attempted   to  attack
some   final   agreement   was   being ^y^^    French    coast    near    Dunkirk
attempted    on    'he    unioii s   \vage j^j^^j  ^.^^e   pounced   on   by  German
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the SWOC conferred today on the , (|pn,and which would add .$50,000.- Messerschmltts which shot one union'.s demands for a 10-cent-an- | qoo annually lo the corporation's ^own. Another British plane, a hour wage increase,  exclusive  bar- j payroll. ; Bristol-Blenheim, was said to have
gaining rights,  dues collection .sys-: National  Booitls Wages crashed In flames when it attempt-
tem and six other requests. But 1 a new factor was injected into ^^ ^„ fiy ^„ gy^^ i),e Belgian coast, they adjourned until 2:;i0 p. m. ! the pay question this week when , ^^^ ^^.^ ^^^^ "hundreds of Monday without announcing what National Steel Corp., headed By progress was being made on a new Ernest T. Weir. anli-CIO indus- contract. trialist.   voluntarily   granted   a   10-
Unlcss a third extension is grant-j tent-an-hour wage boost to its ed to the contract which originally 20,000 employees, A few small expired April 1, or a new agree- companies followed suit, ment is reached, the SWOC threat- In Ihe midst of its negotiations ens to call out on strike Tuesday with UK. Steel, the SWOC has for- midnight the corporation'.s 240,000 warded its 10-cenls-an-hour wage employee.s in its far-flung mills Increase demand to other major which produce a third of the na-1 producers such as Bethlehem. Re- tion's steel which is so vital tn the I public Inland. Ynungstown Sheet defenae  program.   The  corporation 1 & Tube  and Jones * I^ughlin.
tons"   of   bombs   were   dropped   on Bristol  and  that  the  port was  se¬ verely damaged. j Axis division.s are  "continuing in pursuit   of   the   beaten   enemy"   In Libya,    the    high    command    said. adding   that   German   and   Italian dive   bombers,   escorted   by   fighter planes, rained heavy bombs on the . harbor works at the port of Tobruk. [ A   British  transport  was set  afire (Continued on Page A-2)           '
(ierniaiiy  Promise*  to React >t Proper Time
Berlin.   April   12.   lUP)    German! spokesman     today    described    the United .States occupation of Green¬ land   air  bases   as   "illegal."   prom ised    that    the    Nazi    government would   "react"   at  the   proper   time and  said  that  the  Balkan  military campaign   had   been   a   "shattering, blow " tn the prestige of President Roosevelt.
The German government will have no reai lion to the Greenland developments until the attitude of the Danish government at Copen¬ hagen is made known, it was stated, "but then wc will take ap- ; propriale   reaction."
Berlin Indicates War Still Fierce In Jugoslavia
r. S. ARRESTS ORCHESTRA LEADER
Laredo, Tex., April 12 (UPi Blue .Steele, nationally known orchestra leader, was arrested by federal officers here today on a fugitive warrant alleging he assaulted a federal officer. Steele wan held un¬ der 113.000 bond awaiting transfer to Monroe, La , where the original charge waa filed.
By GEOROE \\. GRIGG JR,
Berlin, April 12, (UP) Germany tonight awaited announceman the fall of Belgrade —rumored al leady to have oicurred tn cap a week's swift action in Adolf Hit¬ ler's   southeastern   blitzkrieg,
German quarters were notably .silent on the fighting in (ircece. There has been a dearth of reports since the fall of Salonika but Na^i sources drew attention to reports from abroad that the British are falling back to a secondary defense line across mid-Greece, from loan- nina lYaninai  to Larisa.
If such reports are correct, it may indicate that the British and Greek forces are menaced at the northwest corner where Albania, (Greece and Jugoslavia meet by the juncture of German and Italian forces in the Ijike Ochrida area. Tr.\ing to Turn  Flank
Other reports indicated that only a preliminary engagement waa in progre.s.s but the Greek spokesman said it was heavier than origlnaUv indicated.
At the other end of the line Brit¬ ish reports indicated a battle tn progress on the plains of Gianitia, 30 miles west of Salonika. A report cabled hy the Columbia Broad- down   into  Gree.e   to   the  west  of   <-asti"ff  S.vstems   correspondent   at
the Phlorina sector.
Ankara   claimed  the   Germans had
,,„, I.    ¦   1     .      .u  .    .1 broken  through  the  eastern  hinc.
(This    m cut     ndicate    that    the      ,    .u      /       .       , .u      »
», ..        .        ..11    .u. of   the   front,   plunging   south   of
Nazis are  attempting to  flank  the ,,„,.„.  r.i,.™„,,. .„ „»,,,_    t ..1..
., r» ¦.¦ u /-.      I    1  # 1 .Mount Olympus to occupy Larisa.
northern British-Greek defense line ^^ ^'„^   (onflrnied
along  two   routes:   -he  road.s   fion.       .p,,.,   „„,a,i„nal   report   wa.   not
lanv   °''*'.'i'       f     TT   "^"¦"'Tu    ""L confirmed   from  anv  other  sourc.
^any   southward   and   the   route   througl^ ,^  „.„„,^  „,^^,,  ,j,„,  ^^^  j.,^,,
t   of   Monastir   Gap   and   Phlorina,   just        ,     ^    .   ,„„,,.„   ,v,.   ,. ..   ,,   .   _,
« .,.    ^ L     J    ^. ,    . onlv   had   broken   the   first   line   or
I   al-   east of the Ochrada-( orizza roule.i j.,„.,.„  u„.   1...1   ,1 i,u-j  .u.
defenses  but had  also grabbed  th.
eastern  anchor  of the second  lin.
which    is    thought    to    run    from
Larisa   to   loannina   iVanina). What was  known definitely was
that   the   air   force   on   each   aid.
were  in  constant  action,  poundinf ..........       .     ,        , the   rear   lines   of   each   opponent
^.^"[ '."_"?? ^'.^lilL"/j;.V_'',"?"'L"::'.!   The  British  attacks were  centered
A late report by the DNB of!i- 1 iai news agency claimed that Luftwaffe formations on the south¬ east front today concentrated on airfields and troop concentrations, partiiularly  in  North   Bosnia,
Informed   German   quarters   said
thus far 14 Serbian divisions have been smashed,
"Marching columns were scat¬ tered by bombs and transports, and concentrations west of Belgrade between the Sava and the Danube were partly scattered and partly destroyed." D.N'B said. "Thirty-one enemy planes were destroyed or daniHged on the ground in an air attack on an airfield of North Bos¬ nia."
Orman    quarler.s    aaid    tonight
The roads from Ochrida, won hy , that  the   Wehrmacht   would   press the Gr.elti from th. lUIIan., lead (Continual on Pag. A-2)
on Ihe passes and roads leading southward into Greece from Jugo¬ slavia. The Luftwaffe concen¬ trated on the port of Piraeus and the Salamis roadstead where. «c- (Continued  on  Page  A-13i
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