Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday june 26, 1943 the stars and stripes weekly French Compromise paves Way for Unity Page 3 hot Root supreme War Council will Rule armies of two groups Algiers the French committee of National liberation reached a Compromise solution to its various troubles this week and began functioning in Earnest As a provisional government tile solution was reached after a conflict Over military reorganization Between Gen. Henri Honore i Rand and Gen. Charles de Gaulle Early in the week had threatened the commit teen a very existence. Gen. De Gaulle insisted on an immediate reshuffling of French officers Gen. Giraud pleaded that in by reorganization should Progress slowly. It was Only after the allies had indicated their desire to keep Gen. Giraud at tile head of the French armies in Africa that the de gaullist gave Way on this vital few int. Tile allies had no thought of interfering in internal French r iou tics but they did believe that any measure affecting the French army recently re equipped with american Materiel was their concern. Important step tile Compromise solution was Little More than a reaffirmation of the positions now held. Gen. Giraud was to continue As Comman Der in chief of the regular armies of French North and West Africa and Gen. De Gaulle remained As chief of All other forces in the French Empire including the fighting French army in Africa one important Concrete step was taken by the committee. That was the formation of a supreme War Council which the generals can use in Hie task of re equipping reorganizing and coordinating their two military bodies. Immediately named to serve on the Council with Hie two top generals were Gen. Alfonse juin Giraud Schiel of staff and Gen. Edgar de iat mint de Raudies chief of staff announcement of other names to a Erve on tile Council will probably be made this week end. Friendly parting i f behind the scenes Develon merits within the committee Early in the week could be cons rued As a struggle for Power it could be Laid that As a result of last weeks moves Gen Giraud had last none of his. But even the most optimistic observers agreed that there could not lie indefinitely two Heads to one government and two commanders to one army. From the committees sometimes acrimonious discussions has emerged the figures of Gen. Georges Catroux and Jean Monnet As moderates who do much to hold the committee together by pro Josing compromises acceptable to both sides Algiers merchant cited for bravery Andre lewd Ess 48-year-old Algiers business Man. Received the Croix de Guerre from Gen. Henri Giraud commander of French forces in Ortli Africa for daring intelligence work behind the German lines. He joined the corps France a Tough outfit and disguised As an Arab he rep Gedly Fiene rated the German lines turn no Over a diary information of great value to authorities. Hts son was a fighter Pilot in the Royal Canadian air fort e and was killed Over Malta after shooting Down a dozen German planes. Italians warned of air assault internal trouble faces worried dictator Gen de Gaume is said to have been Adamant in his demands last week but he yielded in the end. And following the meeting of the committee Early this week Giraud and de Gaulle were said to have parted with a Hearty handshake. Stimson lists War casualties Washington total casualties in the North african Campaign numbered 18.738. War Secretary Henry l Stimson disclosed. This figure included 2.574 killed. 9,437 wounded. 1,620 missing and 5,107 winners. Total army casualties for the entire War to Date amount to 57.-958. Or. Stimson said. Broken Down this figure includes 7.528 killed Iii action or died of wounds 11,128 wounded 22.687 missing and 16,615 prisoners of War. Total casualties for the Navy Marine corps and coast guard were announced As 23.346. Secretary Stimson stated that Hie philippine Campaign  Hie most sex Lens Ive to Date owing to the Large number of captured and missing after Correl id s fall. Philippine casualties were 31.100 including the philippine scouts. In the Middle East including the ninth air Force which operated Over Africa the Mediterranean and Italy 106 were killed. 97 wounded 214 missing and 46 pit Mer a total of 462. The italian people were warned Over the United nations radio from North Africa this week to stay away from War industries and from lines of communications. Italians wer reminded that it was Thor Alliance with Hitler that is bringing bombs Down on their cities. At the same time it was stated that the allies have no de sire to destroy innocent lives. How much effect this new warning has had in Pele was not evident in a rth Africa this week but ail reports from Neutral capitals. Combined with radio reports from Rome it Elf. Tended to substantiate rumours that Benito Mussolini was having a hard time keeping his War Wear country in one. Tile new Man of the hour in Rall see a a Ltd to be o to scoria to in to Bond now fascist party Secretary. A a Bopeep am Wren try nicked by Mussolini to Stem the tide of defeat isms Orza has in Evem weeks of office manned to a Ake the Lim a Barht Cordule v nov from his erstwhile Boss Prev de vees Are knifed these dare in scoria name Oplt ave of scoria s first acts a to dismiss it orc 6  am it ofed he t once and to complain that the a a internal situation Quot in Tlajy had not been j Kroner a handled Vichy prisoners freed from african Camps members of the italian Rove or / a a Tan hat e beep Malinet the in ads of t or Poh a out areas while th0 i or a Sci let has in Hateau staved within the for Walls of or i i i to in Rome fee a scape Jav it pro a word for months now a Tummy his own Rew it pay or i poro1o or Al med tile of Quot Day a Tho to a moment for Italy has Arr Ted 1&Quot the government has the a with out mucin Success to St pm the Ewa his of refile yes from pen hrs of Industry tens of thousands of italians have also Anna Rentle 5�en streaming intr porn to escape Tho Bern Hiners. Doubtless p Quot a i no Iii at porno was the on of place in t t a i y the Quot fro Yeti in ant Vine Fried to twit a too to this he herring passenger traffic into the capital engineers invent intricate Gadget Allied Force Headquarters among tile Many Odd jobs undertaken by the British Royal electrical and mechanical engineers during Battle action was me construction of a tiny electro Magnet to take bombs splinters out of a mans Eye. The machine was constructed in three hours from Odds and ends of a junk pile. It w worked Brig. F a Hibberd. Director of the engineers also told How Shell holes in armoured vehicles Are sometimes repaired a by welding into the Hole the  of a similar Cahl it or Shell he mentioned that during the Early Days of the tunisian Campaign reme recut ered As Many As 2.900 vehicles in a three Day pet Tod.  Force Headquarters the Gates to Freedom have been throw n wide often for the last of approximately 7,000 persons i who were interned in concent a a lion Camps or confined to work companies when North Africa was part of Vichy according to a re-1 Dort of the joint commission of political prisoners and refugee issued last week i since the commission began functioning last january internees of Many nationalities a Stonish. French English. Poles. Russians have been liberated the knotty problem of freeing these men has been in tile hands of a commission headed by Samuel Hamilton Wiley american Consul i general Here and j. E. M Carvel British Consul general who have Ben working in conjunction with the French authorities. I there has been some criticism at the length of time it has taken to free these prisoners whose main crime has been that they Jipos do in like Pierre Laval and other nazi collaborationist. Tit this. The commission Points out that two considerations impeded the Rah of a it eed at which the prisoners could be released first the commission had to make arrangements for the maintenance of the internees. Second for reasons of military Security an investigation of the background of cacti Man was required. Of the 7.000 persons estimated by the commission to have been released about half were in Algeria. Half in French Morocco because records in concentration Camps and other Pisces of restriction were often Sketchly kept. Absolutely exact figures could not be determined a Large portion of those Given Complete Liberty were men in labor Eom Nanies on Tive Mech Terr Ane a niger railway or in the Coal mines of Kenada. To Weir residence was restricted to the area in which they worked. Many of the prisoners were Spanish republicans who were interned following the collapse of the loyalist cause in Spain. Many of these exiles have signified to Weir desire to become residents of Mexico and negotiations Are now underway to secure that country a Mission for their entry. Transpiration is another problem however to be faced in moving tin republicans to latin America. Meanwhile Many former internees Are now employed by the u. 3 army under work contracts which will end immediately if passage of Mexico is arranged. Still in prison Are about 200 foreign refugees mostly Spanish republicans who Are serving sentences imposed for infractions of prison rules or for conducting t it Lent political demonstrations. Their eventual amnesty has been assured by or Jules a Barbie new French commissioner of National education. Justice and Public  output up in great Britain 1 London that Britain. In it thus is winning on the production front was indicated when Oliver Lyttleton. Minister of production revealed that Britain turned our 40 percent More munitions in the first Quarter of this Vetr thin in the same three months of 1942. He descried tins Ais a redly stupendous feat Quot adding that British munitions production it it reached a Point where Quot we can think of Quality lather than Quan-1  meets political crisis Curtin s government meets opposition Canberra june 25 Australia May have a new parliamentary election As a result of a Clase vote m parliament yesterday. The government of prime minister John Curtin laced with a Quot no confidences a motion squeezed through with a margin of Only one vote. It was one of the Sto Miest sessions the Commonwealth parliament had Ever held. It All concerned charges made earlier in the week by Edward Ward minister if labor and National services j he accused the government of for 1 Mer prime minister Rupert l. Menzies of having formulated plans for the evacuation of the Northern part of the country in Ca it a of a japanese invasion. The Curtin government had nothing to do with the plans but Ward accused it of having allowed them to disappear. It was then tile Quot no Confidence Quot motion was made. Opposition members of the aus Allan War Council a consultative body threatened to withdraw unless wards charges were repainted prime minister Curtin then instructed an investigation be made and it the result sub Stan j hated tile charges an official enquiry would be held. Other officials involved in the current War dispute included speaker of the Commonwealth parliament. Walter Nairn and chairman of committees. John j Henry Prowse who earlier tins j week offered their  s Ruhr rocked by Allied air bombardment Luftwaffe answers threat launches new fighters  Roar of Allied bombers Bent on reducing Ute Industrial Ruhr to dust Rase to a Crescendo this week being pursued in Earnest deadlines was the Experiment of bombing Germany to submission an Enji ariment which Winston Churchill recently told the american Congress is Quot Welt Worth trying so Long As other measures Are Nat  the week brought two Raf night raids of Over 700 Lianes and the i test Daylight visit of american flying fortresses to the Ruhr. Millheim a steel and railway Center. And Krefeld. Important traffic and factory Point were smothered in a rain of Block busters and in Centary bombs unleashed by great formations of British heavy bombers. Fortresses of the 8th Usa of set off a holocaust that burned for Days at the nazis synthetic rubber Plant at Hills no quiet an Axis military observer broadcasting from Germany said a a during tile last 48 hours there was not one quiet minute for the men of the German fighter squadrons and anti aircraft guns. There was no doubt that Germany was feeling the e blows and was determined to do everything to Stop them. New fighter squad Rons were put into the Field by the Luff Wafe. It could not be said hint the Allied losses were Small. From the Krefeld raid. 44 bombers failed to return. From Mulheim 35 bombers Are missing from the double american attack on Hills and the former general motors factory in Belgium. 20 fortresses did not return. But the great Experiment of bonding was made nevertheless and director of the Experiment. Air marshal chief sir Arthur travers Harris had said there is no easy was. Bombing is a Tough slow was easy Only by Cornu Arison with a tremendous land and sea Campaign economic target seven German arms centers which form a tight Little half Circle in the Ruhr have been visited with wide destruction and death within the past month. They Are in addition to Krefeld and Millheim. Dortmund. Essen Wuppertal bochum and Oberhausen. Many different kinds of economic targets come under the Allied air assault sometimes single factories Are attacked to cripple an Industry on which several others Are de it indent. Thus breaking a link in a Chain that May a of far reaching importance. Good examples Are recent raids on the radio factory at Friedrich Shaffen. On tile machine tool works at Dusseldorf and on the synthetic rubber Jant at Huls. Other raids Are conducted with the idea of destroying a whole Industrial Center. Mulheim and or Feld last week Learned what this Means. Kich Coal area for a Long time now. Tile germans. Conscious of the Beautiful target the crowded Ruhr makes have been attempting to disperse i heir heavy industries into their satellite domains farther from Britain based bombers but in the Ruhr is to Weir richest Coal Deposit. The Lack of Coal elsewhere and sad state of the Reich a transportation situation Combine to thwart efforts to remove too Many of the industries. Despite a dispersal Aioli by the Ruhr is still big game. European air operations of the week outside the Ruhr included Raf pounding of the docks at Rotterdam the German Airfield at Abbeville and tile Cannon and locomotive works at be Crusot. By no meters Sank five enemy escort vessels in a sweep along the dutch coast Raf bombers and fighter bombers attacker without loss targets at meat pie Saint Omer and Maut Watuis in France the inability of the German air Force fighting on two major fronts. To deliver effective counter blows to Royal air Force attacks is shown in the official British statement that tile germans have dropped on Britain in tile past six months Only a Little More than half the Bomi weight released Over Dort inv in one hour on the night of May 23