Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                / saturday june 12, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Pace 5 French organize it and muss new liberation. War committees Paux named head of Morocco armies face unification Algiers. June Llu the newly Mouneu French committee of National. Liberation this week named two sub bodies which will Aid in so Eining the French Empire and in directing the War Effort. A War Council of four members a generals of Gaulle Giraud and Georges and Jean Monnet a will Deal with a i the decisions of War a rational consultative Council of la men will act in an advisory capacity to Hoe committee of Liber it  and j s a sounding Board for French France As to am is j til the f Fen ing the Bor opinion Well As in metropolitan the Empire. Icons acclimated to the bang politics of Washington a tie complications of the to Civ were rather my stiff it a for econ of All instance Jean Monnet i expert was a Mem Bree governing groups. Tho App Iron sent of Gabriel up a it in int general of moroc Ato placing Gen. Auguste Nogues a1. It was announced during the week leaders United t All appearances the National cd Iii tree a it us conducting its business with Harmony. The personalities of cd Aud and de Gaulle wit a preside d s co presidents were in it a Ager a obstacle to Progress As Lap had appeared to be during negotiations prior to the formation of the committee. Be that nil political questions had he a in settled. Outstanding Compo Ltd w As the reorganization of the re French armies. There is App Antly still a Little enmity Between some f the Gir Audist troops an i Many of Tho fighting French s a lid or it. They fought each other in s a in the summer of 1941 and Cert in officers and men have not forgotten. In Tho recent Tunis an Cam  their was no such Good no red rivalry Between the 19th zip. H cup s Aret the forces of Gen la clout and Larini Nat As existed Between the British and  a i i Ifni it different toe question of material is equally completing. The fighting French have British equipment Giraud s i ups Are being reared with amen an weapons and pc j hides it is obvious that a Correl j Tiai a the two groups will be new try before the unification Al i tie French is a military As Well j As i to ii in Al fact. The Speed with which the com 1 nut a ironing out other Dif be Hes Cave the Man in the j Street Strong Hope that this problem also would be met and then til government could get Down to the i a of governing the son ii american Republic of j Uruguay  the first to recon i rite French government i official big life quarters Emp a a that London and Washington were certain to approve tile new by do a soon As it had consoled edit a if. Its representatives wont i find ubi edly be admitted to tit Allied War councils. A the f in or French writer. Amend arrived in Algiers Dur the week after six months of by but. V Ebell n a n Ramirez becomes Argentine head nazi general leaves air after admission Rawson leaves Post after policy fight with Cabinet when Gen. Kurt von radio spokesman for the High comand. Went on Over radio Berlin last hit i mar. German the air week he apparently forgot to Check with his Boss. Propaganda minister Coch in that broadcast he told the world that Germany would t pull a Spring offensive in Russia this summer because it has adopted a new a i icy called a passive  this week. Gen. Dittmar failed to come on the air for the first time in three years. His successor announced that Germany was indeed planning offensive As Well As defensive action in Russia. One conclusion could be that Gen. Ditt mar s absent mindedness resulted in his being jerked off Hie air for telling the truth. Germany Clearing wreckage in Ruhr is i London there have been no j figures for May Are not yet Avail i Eavy Raf raids on Germany Able but the fortresses Are known since the beginning of june but to have bagged As Many As join sabotage strikes continue As Axis fights partisans it my the Industrial Ruhr Valley so ill is Clearing away the wreckage from i the 5.500 tons of explosives dropped on Dusseldorf Dortmund. Duis Berg and Essen during the month of May. Photographic reconnaissance re Veals that the mighty Krupps armament works at Essen is two thirds impaired. More than two Hundred separate factory buildings Are damaged. Over two thirds of the entire Industrial capacity of Germany i and about one third of the capacity of All Axis controlled Europe j is concentrated in the Ruhr Val-1 Ley. Tipiere is no Dis it Ersal of Industry As in England lord Seilo me. British minister of econ Mic warfare pointed out. Tile Ruhr is a Superb target and makes the entire Germany pro Duchon line extremely vulnerable to spasmodic interruption. Where Hitler has moved some of his Iron arid steel plants to Belgium. Luxembourg and France the have fallen Short of their a a induction goals for Lack of Coke declared lord Selborne. In All Germany and of culled Europe during May some 12.500 tons of explosives were drop Ted by i Fth English based rap and 8th american air Force. The Price Tor these Large scale operations was 250 bombers lost bringing the to til lost in the first five months of 1943 to 874. But these bombers especially in flying fortress also took a Large toll of German interceptors a single Large raid. And there were Many Large raids in May. Gen. George c. Marshall. American Chiel of staff at his press conference Here in Algiers was enthusiastic in his Praise of the flying fort As a destroyer of planes As Well As a Blitz Queen tile Luftwaffe has also had to Deal with the red air Force. Moscow claims that they shot Down 2 150 German planes in May. An indication o f the Large scale Battle for domination of tile air Over the russian front. The current Lull in Allied Oigt Era Lions Over Europe was unexplained. The weather had not been Overly poor. While the quiet did t worry the germans As much As did Hie bombings still they took it As an ominous Omen according to underground reports reaching London. Quot was it the Lull before a new storm a they were asking. London the spirit of resistance inside German occupied and German dominated Europe was Oil the Loose again this week. In France Greece Holland. Bulgaria. Poland and Russia patriots and organized bands tripped up the nazi War Effort by sabotage and strikes. A report from Rome told of several bombs exploding in a hotel occupied by italian staff officers which injured six men. Oiler explosions damaged the Vilice of Jacques Doriot s French nazi party and the offices of Hie pet a in regimes propaganda service. At Saint Brieux Iii France patriots bombed Hie German police Headquarters. On the Amiens Didier railway. 13 cars were destroyed. Near Ribar ourt in Oise. A Tram carrying nazi troops on wide spread eave was derailed killing and insuring Over too. On the canal de Bourgogne. Dams were dynamited and Barge Trail in interrupted Tor three Days. Greek partisans won a Victory j j Over German troops and yugoslav j patriots Are fighting their was i South for a juncture with greek and albanian forces. Greek pa-1 i not killed 200 germans in the old Aegean town of argon. At the same time the nazis took control Chiang s armies rout japanese living under dose nazi surveillance run boat defense Ottawa a organization of a.  civil in and service defense Sevem. Deigned particularly to com thu boat menace id the s Lawrence River w s announced to common by prime ? Kine special instruction in submarine de Eek Iii and air plane identity a-1 been in to All residents of in Hie lower St. Lawrence submarine activity is  the St. Law rence area a son. Smuts asks for new Public works plan and the Gulf the House of minister Macho Tow Quot Reg a Ped t Tuv i invasion warning London a another invasion a it a to the people of France broadcast on bbl this week a High British officer warned the  ii people to receive rumours of lit Lings with great Reserve As tin rumours might be deliberately St a a a i by the germans in the hone to it elements of resistance would Chad get themselves Johannesburg. South aft or a local authorities throughout the Union of South Africa lat week were a ked by Premie Jan Chri it a  Smuts to begin preparations on Public works programs for Post War employment. Org mixed by the government the v it t. Post War reconstruction Phi has As its nucleus Ca nit Al de veto ment and housing with a to f a i expenditure in immedrue1 years following the a rare Send of More than 25.000.000 Sterling. Chung King not since the Batties around Hankow in 193 j have the chinese fought with so much spirit As during the a t 12 a is foreign observers cabled. Gen j Chian Kai Shekus armies a e turned the japanese adv arc against chunking into a rout not Only has All lost ground Bren recovered but permanent Nippon in it sit ions around Lungting i a and West of Hankow in hup4 province were being stormed Ana taken. By More important than re actual earns is the new fight in spirit injected into the Civilise. Weary with six years of War. Thev Itow have an air Force bait y of All railway lines Iii Greece. A retort from Albania said that italians seem to have Given up in their Battle against albanian partisans and now the Long Rocky Billie land i., in the hands of patriots Iii the Ukraine partisans made a night attack on a railway station. Killing tile German guards the partisans mined railway lines and a German train was blown up. A locomotive and 16 cars loaded w Ith ammunition were destroyed the Netherlands ministry of information in London has announced that or. Folkert Post Huina. A member of Hie traitor Musset s state secretariat was killed. This is the third member of Hie puppet Cabinet to die at tile patriots hands. Buenos Aires As the third Argentine government within ten fays settled into off be. The tumult you it political scene within the country presented a confusing picture tile train of events was set in Mot on this w Eek by the coup d eat that ousted president Ramon Casino from office Leader of the revolt was Gen. Arturo Rawson aided by the former minister of War. Gen. Pedro Ramirez. Tiu revolt was interpreted abroad As a protest Aga Hist the false Lieut Ralitz of president Castillo a policy that kept Argentina from lining no w Ith the United nations against the Axis. Then the world was startled to learn that Rawson had stepped out of tile picture turning the government Over to Ramirez who assumed the presidency. What tile Atti Ude of Ramirez will be toward the Axis can not yet he determined. In his first statement he declared that he i l pursue a policy of Friend slip with the american Republica and neutrality with the rest of the world that was the same dip Oma in double talk which seemed to have been the reason for overthrow of Castillo. Policy difference Pawson a resignation was said to indicate a difference of opinion on foreign policy Between himself Aud his ministers. Certain quarters insisted that Ramirez favors a Neutral and strictly Argentine policy. One of Hie first moves of the new government was to suspend the trips Olsion of All radio code massages abroad. This policy in effect cuts off All secret messages by Axis diplomats to their countries. Initial unrest brought about by tile turn of events was said to in Over As the Ramirez government reported con Duons were approaching Normal. The provisions i government was harshly recognized by five South american countries Brazil Paraguay. Uruguay. Bolivia and Chile. It was also recognized by Germany and Spain. Meanwhile Chile the Only Oiler Neutral country besides Argentina in son i America seemed to be moving toward the same Type of crisis As its neighbor. The ent re Cabinet of president Juan pies resigned in Mot est against Hie neutrality nol icy tin development forced president Rie it to Call off his United states Trio scheduled for the coming we Eek nazis try again for Veliki Luki Herriot deported London the Swiss radio reported that edouard Harriot. French statesman and former Premier. Lins been deported to or Manv. When last heard of. 11 a riot i interned in a prison Cam no noir Lyons where he had b in j sent Quot because of the courageous Mai German stand he had taken i following the German invasion of France. 1 american and partly ame tantra1 Nee chinese that i Knock n Down Jap fighters at the ratio of 14 to i and is strafing tie retreating columns of Japan e and River traffic it was Hie t me in the Quot China incident Quot fist t a like the chinese had held anything air superiority i Ite in Hie week the Chang Khz Asci 14 h american air for e was sending bombing miss Oil behind the japanese lines even As far of eld As indo China in Burma land operation were confined to patrol activity chief v n tile Man Daw Buth Daung or the first torrential rain of the Monsoon period came Down Early this week. Making larger military operations impossible for some time to c in. Fortress retired London after 25 missions Over enemy territory tile Battle scarred. Riving fortress Quot Memphis Belle Quot has been retired from Active service and will return to Hie United states with her Crew to engage in a War Bond Selling tour. The ship which is named after Pilot Robert k Morgan s Fiancee. Will be the first bomber to return i rom tins theater under its own Power from Active combat. At an official Farewell party the fortress was honoured for of averaging one enemy each Mission it completed. After a swing around tile principal cities in the United states Crew members will be assigned to training new airmen for combat. Benes to Moscow Vav a so i Noton Doc t or Edna re Benes. President of Czecho Slov Kia will leave the United states shortly for Moscow where he will discus a Long St and ii r Boteler problem with Jose Stalin. Moscow although each Day s soviet communique began As always with a no material change took place at the  there was at least one major clash during the week the germans took the initial in be on the Kalinin front in an attempt to recapture Veliki Luki West of Leningrad. They made fairly extensive Gams but the red army counterattacked and recaptured the lost ground. All along the front from the Barents sea in the North to the Black sea in the South the tension of poker faced Maneu vers remained. Hitler still held Kovoros Sisk Ana Stalin held his i Sichansky Bridgehead in the Donetz Basin. The air War remained the tug news. The Luftwaffe. About too its record Strong raided Gorki soviet aircraft plane for carried out raids against reported heavy armoured formations including Mark it Tiger tanks massed at or i and Belgorod natural springboards for an enemy offence on the Central front. D a pile tile Static nature of the la two months of War. There have been some severe casualties Moscow said. Three nazi divisions have been riddled on the Leningrad front some 7.009 have been killed on the Donetz sector. At Smolensk Over 5.000 fell last week the germans l it a 456 planes. Moscow did i get mention its own losses