Daily Post - 31.03.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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Santiago, Chile: — United
States Vice Presádent Henry
A. Wallace, addressing over
one hundred thousand in the
national stadium at a mass
meeting here sponsored by the
Union for Victory Association,
said that the tour had strength
ened his belief in the Ameri-
can republics dream of demo-
cracy and fratemity among na
tions.
Wallace said: “People have
the capacity to face tragic rea-
lity in our times. It is a great
responsibility which falls upon
all people of the new world as
a depository of western civil-
ization and culture. This re-
sponsibility must be shared ac
cording to degrees of evolution
of each country. In my coun-
try, people are intimately aw-
are of this historic responsibi-
lity. This is why our countries
are united and ready to elimi-
nate the world from the plague
of Nazism.”
Wallace spoke in Spanish. —
Chilean President Juan Anton-
io Rios and other high Chile-
an officials stood behind him
during the great ovation which
was awarded him. It far excee
ded any other ovation award
ed him on his South American
tour.
The Chilean foreign minist-
er also spoke and said that
when Wallace returns to the
United States to tell his coun-
trymen “In the extreme south
of the hemisphere under the
southern cross there are five
million Chileans laboring for
humanity so that tomorrow
they may enjoy the liberation
outlined by President Roose-
velt.
Femandez said that since
Pearl Harbor Chileans had im-
mediately doubled their pro-
duction of copper and iron for
the exclusive use of the Uni-
ted States, that war factories
and Chilean ports had been
placed at the disposal of Uni-
ted States vessels.
' Earlier Wallace had visited
workers’ settlements which pro
vide spacious living quarters
íor as little as two and a half
doUars monthly. When WaU-
ace arrived the people were
shouting “Vivi Wallace,” but
when he left they were shout-
ing “Vivi Don Enrique” (Long
Live Henrv).
Polish
Massaere
London. About two thousand
armed Germans including
troops, battled with Poles res-
isting a roundup for deporta-
tion to forced labor in Germany
50 Germans were killed, many
others seriously wounded in
these fights which lasted for 10
days in the Krasnobro district.
Planes, tanks, artUlery and
quantities of machine guns
were used against the Poles
Hundreds of Poles who had tak
en no part in the resistance
were kiUed in reprisals.
Hitler To Take Over
Navy
New York. The British radio
quoted Stockholm reports as
saying that Adolf Hitler now
plans to run the German navy
whose submarines are a major
threat to the supply lines which
the allies must keep open to
invade Euröpe.
Coastal Forces In Action
London.
'An admiralty communiqué
announced today that light
British coastal forces, under Lt.
Commander H. McDuffy have
eneountered four German pa-.
tröl boats off the Dutch coast.
One enemy ship blew up after
the British attacked and anoth-
er was damaged severely. The
British forces suffered slight
superficial damages and two
minor casualties.
*’Oilw
Washington: Tests by Ameri
can experts have revealed the
existence of numerous oil fi-
elds on the Arabian coast of
the Persian Gulf and the Red
Sea. — Fighting French en-
gineers who retumed to Cairo
after spending some months in
Arabia by government invita-
tion suggest that Arabia might
equal Iraq, in oil production.
Washington. The army air
forces has announced a com-
plete reorganization of the air
staff, reducing force HQ
branches from 44 to 19.
D-Boat CampaiOB
A. V. Alexander, speaking in
the House of Lords, said: “In
spite of damage and losses
caused by U-boats, the Mer-
chant Navy, had added two
million tons in excess. of their
losses in last eight months. No
day of the last six months has
passed without at least one at-
tack being made by an ene-
my submarine. In next few
months, our fleet of escort ves-
sels will increase.
Our own losses of submarin-
es have been grievous and
heavy.
Svesk Taken?
A German High Command
Communiqué, broadcast by the
Berlin in Radio, claimed today
Nazi troops had taken the Rus-
sian city of Svesk by storm. —
The claim was not confirmed
by allied quarters.
Bengal,s ”Hot Reception“
London. RAF fighters gave
the Japanese a hot reception,
French Forces Uniteí
Fighting French Commandfcr
General Charles de Gaulíe, has
pledged himself to end all di-
vision of French forees Ao
bring about the fullest possible
cooperation against the Axis.
De Gaulle is leaving shortly fcor
North Africa for a coníereBee
with Gen. Giraud, the adbtnin-
istrator of French North Af-
rica. De Gaullle praised Giraud
as “a great soldier and a noWe
figure.” Then he told all the
French people who heard his
voice, “We shall find means te
insure that the French Empire
shall be but one empire, that
French strength shall be but
one strength and that the voíce
of the French people who figbt
shall be heard in the world as
one voice, and that, above all,
this empire, this strength and
this voice shall be those desir-
ed by the people of this nation.
when the enemy tried to raid
an airfield in Bengal on Sat-
urday, shooting down 10 of
the attacking planes. British
ground gunners accounted for
two more.
Rita Hayworth, the most talked about actress in Hollywood and
possibly the loveliest, poses in a lace number designed especi-
ally for a movie with Fred Astaire.