BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Grey River Argus, 15 September 1945, Page 5

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

“CLOAK AND DAGGER OUTFIT”

(Rec. 10.50.) NEW YORK, Sept. 13. The Office of Strategic Services, known as “The Cloak and Dagger Outfit,” revealed the story of its several thousand-clandestine commandos who operated behind the enemy lines in sixteen* countries. They delivered more than twenty-seven thousand tons of supplies and weapons to underground movements, sabotaged before invasions, supplied military intelligence, and rescued several thousand airmen. O.S.S. men were relentlessly hunted by the German Gestapo, Japanese Secret Police and enemy troops. Hundreds were caught, tortured and executed, but they still reported enemy troop movements, defences and literally thousands of important bombing targets. About twenty thousand tons of supplies were sent to resistance movements by parachute and another ten thousand tons by secret shipping. * O.S.S. men formed the heart of the international “secret army,” which included British, Belgians, French, and Poles and which operated in France and the Lowlands. The last O.S.S. job was a mercy errand, when teams parachuted into Japanese prison camps to arrange for the rescue of prisoners. O.S.S. was not connected with the S.A.C.O. KONOYE NOT WAR MONGER. (Rec. 9.30) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 Prince Koyoye’s statment that - he proposed a meeting between himself and President Roosevelt to settle the Japanese-American differences before the Pearl Harbour attack is borne out by the State Department Records, which show Prince Konoye frequently suggested a meeting Between August 8, 1941 and October 17, 1941. When Prince Konoye was replaced b v General Tojo, Mr. Roosevelt would not agree to a meeting unless the Japanese would' give a tentative commitments in harmony with American policy, and Japan’s professed desire to pursue a peacetul course. Every effort to obtain commitments failed.