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September 29, 1941.

Russia's Greatest Author Describes

Soviet Guerilla Troops at War

GERMANS

THINK

TOO SLOWLY!

By ALEXEI TOLSTOY

Named in 1939 as Soviet Russia's greatest living writer, the author of this dispatch, who is now acting as a war corres- pondent, is a nephew of Count Leo Tolstoy. To English readers, he is known for his two novels, "Pater the Great" and 'Darkness and Dawn."

"We left no witnesses, set ure to returned to the forest." There we

MOSCOW-They lay in sian bayonets were noticeable. fragrant grass in a thick nut I ordered the men to hold their to the tank trucks and planes and copse. Their telegraph instru- rifles on their knees." We 8001 spent the entire day. We heard ments were well concealed. The spied three blue lights. This tanks passing and peppering the sky, pallid in the heat, was de was the German 'stop signal' at forest with machine-gun Are but we

serted.

the head of a motor column.' were well sheltered.

Turned To Dvinsk

"Schmelkov, the driver, switch-

There must have been an ed on the riding lights. Before "At nightfall we decided to make anthill nearby, for every now us we saw a seven-ton truck our way along the River Dving and and again Lieutenant Zhabin packed with cases, a white diac look for a spot to break through. kept brushing an insect from with a black Swastika on the The Nazis have no regular front, they Three officers in a wedge and if you have your wits radiator.

speed in a his check. He seemed in no

side road peered in our direc about you, you can always creep hurry to get on with his story. ilon, poking flashlights at us, through their lines.

advance full

narrow

"As we moved forward we could

"The German soldier is not Schmelkov, the driver, switched allowed to think." he said, "it is on the headlights, the officers see Dvinsk with fames reaching to considered dangerous. His skull blinked and shaded their eyes the very clouds. Such luminations

seen to be better than movie shows to the Germans. Their plance circle We drove calmly' past them around burning towns, fring at re- trees and driving woncu, children and old folks back into the flames,

is not fitted for fast action. He with their hands. is slow on the pick-up. That is where we always get him, in and the motor column with our those few seconds while he is heads averted so as not to show the red star on our helmets. trying to put two and two to- Adding speed we dushed through gether."

a deserted village,

"But Comrade Zhabin," inter-

Halted By Grenade "Near a wooden church in mi open automobile snt a wrinkled German

Indicate news which is strictly copyright rupted the man with the note- snder the provisions of the Telecommun-book in his hand, "tell me how bears the Indieation "Up" is received in you managed to spend so many offleer, with a drooping Adam's ap- Hongkong on the date of publication by

rations Ordinance, 1936. Buch new AE

the United Preu Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous

arrangement.

80

"I've got Schmelkov, a driver with a head on his shoulders," Zhabin replied.

"Well, we were mad and spoiling for a scrap? We stopped a passenger car with three German officers and before we finished them off we made them turn their faces toward Dvinsk. They must have found it less enter- taining than a movie on this occasion, "We eut many telegraph wires

days behind the Nazi lines with ple, examining a map with the aid of tnd then attacked a column of ten 25 Red army men and get away a flashlight. I barely managed to tank trucks. We finished off their unscathed."

seize one of our men by the arm; crews, emptied the tanks and set fire he was about to lean out of the cob for it made too bright a fire. We saw to the gasoline. We regretted thin and hurt a hand grenade.

three heavy tanks and regretted that "Nevertheless the officer's susplet- we had no bottles of gasoline with ens inust have been aroused. We ̈us."

"But two grenade throwers took were soon overtaken by a 20-hors power motorcycle with A sidecar all, the grenades they could from Carrying ៦.

machine-gunner. This their comrades, ran ahead and hid "You ask how we got behind the my soldier let his grenade go at the roadside and each of them the German lines? I was order- and with such good effect that the threw a bundle of grenades under

"The first one rose up on its rear

Bayonet Effective

·

a tank.

ed to concentrate all signals in machine-gunner rose a yard and

half out of his sidecar as if he wanted the hamlet of Dubki and main to tell us something important, white and blew to pieces from the detona- tain contact with headquarters the driver and The cycle toppled tion of its own shells. The others to the bitter end. While there headlong into a ditch.

were damaged and could only keep "AI dawn' we reached a small firing into the darkness." I got myself surrounded,

"Towards evening two Ger- wood and here our gasoline ran out.

Planes Overhead down for a meal. Suddenly one of man motor trucks packed with We camouflaged the trucks and sat unsuspecting Nazis drove into our men clamped his teeth on his recital and sprang lightly to his Suddenly Lieut. Zhabin stopped Dubki. We calmly let the Ger- biscuit, turned his head, jumped up feet.

ferns. We heard mans through and then began and dashed into the peppering them from the flanks a squeak and there he was return-

JAPAN MORASSED

ONLY the

super-optimist could hope for a violent change in Japan's political philosophy at this time, and continued lip ser- vice to the Tripartite Pact which marked its anniversary hardly comes 19 A surprise. The deeper meaning behind this political gesture is not obvious, but doubtless the im- pression which has held for so long-that Japan is playing for

ing, dragging a lod ot about nine time before making decisions

At once all was movement beneath by tire hand, a close-cropped, snub- the nui bushes. Five Nazi bombers which will irretrievably commit

passed overhead at a great height. Let me go, compinined the boy, Scarcely five minutes had elapsed "When they piled out of the nosed boy with furlous eyes. her-remains dominant. Addi-

machines and scattered, we 'Don't you see I am a friend."'

ince the signallers had passed word tionally the official tokens to the cheered and went after them

to the airileid, when a squadron of Tripartite Pact may be a back-with the bayonet. The Ger-

our fighter planes appeared on the proved Intelligent, scene. They hummed like a stretched handed method of indicating mans don't like that.

-Before-the-sun-rose-he-had-led wire powerfully and formidably and managed to get away: that the Washington - Tokyo

us into another part of the forest, rose steeply, above the bombers. talks are doomed, and this point

"Their officer dashed into On the edge of the forest stood gaso

The heavy Nazi planes turned tall. and five German But too late. The sound of machine- some reeds and hid himself in line tank trucks

made short the water with only his nostrils Aghting planes. We

work of them.* German sentries uns was heard from the pallid sky, The fighters swooped. One -bomber showing. We found important were pacing up and down to keep suddenly turned its nose downward

themselves awake. My snipers

had documents in his bag.

them biting the dust in a few mo- and fell, leaving a long trail of smoke

behind it.

is given emphasis by the Hunan offensive which coincides with the Tripartite anniversary.

The latest Japanese offensivo in China has its importance for it threatens to wreat from Chungking control of Hunan's rich mineral resources and its vast rice production; neverthe-

with machine-guns.

German Nerver

Some The ·lad

"We started up the German ments. trucks and I piled by 26 men Then we jumped out of the ferns, into them. We drove along the with a loud hurrah. That cry had front behind the Nazi linea. bad effect en German nerves, worse For the first hour or so we did than howling bombs. The Fascists

crawled out of their holes, Some

put not meet a soul.

up, their hands at once, others, began Wo ring wildly with automatics. bayoneted 28 of them. One air- man we pulled out of his plane by his parachute strap.

"Our steel helmets might be jess 1 substantial Japanese taken for German in the dark success in this area will not be ness. Only our four-edged Rus-

sufficient to determine the Sino- Japanese conflict and must, therefore, be regarded more as a determined attempt to appease discontented spirits in Japan with a tangible milltary achieve.... ment.

The Political and military developments of the past few weeks in the Pacific serve only to illustrate and re-state the hopeless muddle into which Japan has placed herself. She has made herself practically friendless, choosing to lean towarda Nazi Germany who has demonstrated only too often that she makes pacts solely for her own gains, and that should the occasion ever ariso she will not hesitate to put Japan against the wall, Japan'a military, com- mitments in China and' else. where are now causing her grave concern and her vital war resources are being tapped to a disturbing extent. These aro factors which normally would give any nation pauso to think¡ but Japan is in a political as well as a military morass, and op- portunistic action is Ukely to.. continue to remain the creed of her loadors acreed which finally must bring for the nation. unhappy resulta, ...

"Enemy planes," he called.

CAPTAIN CASTELLO -HERO

Captain Castello, of the Red Air Force, was on a raid over Germany, His pinne was hit and burst into arnés,

Instead of baling out, he nose-dived towards a -cluster of all storage. tanks and deliberately crashed.

Soveral caught and

exploded, Are to trucks,

fire selling

The picture above was radioed to London via New York. Below is an artist's impression of his

feat.

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-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON- Penalty Doubles Hard to Figure,

EAR Mrs Culbertson: I don't a club, then led low toward the know how others feel about spode queen. I put up the king It but to my way of thinking, the and shifted to the ace and queen of most tantalizing department of trumps, trying to break up the bridge is penalty doubles. Some cross-ruff. The heart king won, the times, when- we double with what spade queen was cashed, and de- looks like a a rock-crusher, the de- clarer then used his last trump to ... clarer romps home with the contract rue

rue another club. The spade laughs in our faces; other Umes, disposed of dummy's last club, and when we have nothing resembling a when declarer continued spades, I sound double, the contract may go could take my high trump when- down three or four tricks. Take the ever I pleased, but that was the end. following hand, for Instance. I. On reanalysis, we agreed that no unhappily, was West.

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Chicago" ola E L A Comments are scarcely in order. it is hord to imagine that anyone would question. West's double of four hearts, but I cannot share my correspondent's incredulity that the contract should have been fulfiled. Not that I would not expect to de feat the contract with West's, hand

I simply mean that everyone, my selt included, has had far better. doubles go astray. There are very few "guaranteed” doubles

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