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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNQW, ONTARIO 4.
Alex MacIntyres,Letter
After Virny ` rnY' "battlefield. I minutes to . xake. the poison that
tour" soon,.._came to. an end • for I they had carried with them. No
Valenciennes and Mons *ere. one can, deny that the German
soon behind. and. I. was ,proceed, nation produced soiree . of the
ing rapidly: eastwardthrough blackest pages in history yet I
' Belgium ? y motorcycle: T,ncden- have nothing but .admiration for
tally is was in. that area -that the the individuals • 1 have met and
full
Significance of ' the tern it is not due to their scarcely
•'`Belgium • block roads" waa car-' concealed efforts to prove that
ried .home, but nonetheless 1 ar- they are far from being a race
rived isafely; uncomfortably, of human 'beasts, •Of all the
at Liege, From there 1•ptoceeeded ; European nations Germany , s
by a railway passthrough Aachen most like home, and the, Germans.
-
,.to Cologne ,,and then- on to• one -with the Dutc, Danes and Nor-
'
: o f the Friesian. Islands • on, the wegians are.most'.like North Am
German north coast where 1 had ericans.
the good fortune'to combine with: However I must not deviate
another ' Canadian -Oxford' `friend. further., My railway pass :.was
ip order to• represent the Canad valid for a return' ;Journ.ey to
ian university, Students i'edera . ' Cologne and from there. I hitch_
tion at an international student ,.hiked',oh the the auto-bahn with
conference.. We were (both for the intention of accepting an
tunate enough to; spend eighteen vitation to a Yugoslavian stud-•
expense -free; days working andent's m
hoe., I• was most ..keen to
sometimes playing with sixty- visit this communist ibut bitterly
.,five students -from eighteen dif- 'an ti -Russian' country,, but the, at
ferent countries. 'At first my in- tempt• was a failure as it was.: not
ability to speak anything. more possible for me to wait in Munich'
than very basic German worried fdr. the five, days that would have.
me somewhat but '. soon. it : was, been required to obtain the. elus-
.evident that everyone • spoke ive='Yugoslavian . visa. As• a result
• .&luent English andWthat all the I immediately hitch -hiked• ':back
`discussions. would be held in our to Heidelberg in order •to visit a
language which has now replaced German' .friend. This, art of "car)
French and German' as the inter- stop" as the Europeans call it is
',national tong40 ';These • amazing some `experience, in itself. On
Europeen 'students .do of • strug- flashing a ,Canada sign, I receiv-
,kle with a . language, `they speak • ed my first ride With. a German
it fluently and, I •was. tolencoun- 'truck driver who . explained in
• ter one or. two ,Who spoke as `English that lie had learned the
many as six languages.' This dig-: 'language. during his stay in Can -
;Viet. of Germany, is. most inter- ada as a prisoner of ,war. He 'left
esting... and this •particular,, prey- me at Koblenz where; after, my
ince (Holstein) gave its name. to ' spending 1 hours and the night
.'the° common breed of • cattle. My/ .sleeping a(nd standing on .the side
hotel .Window afforded a. vista of of the 'road,•.,an. American soldier
the:North-Sea abut .this view was finally arrived to revive' ny fast
rendered unusual by a pill -box 'sagging hopes. Ding' the .fast
in the foreground and by the fact: During
three hundred and fifty mile trip
that ariy �rooromate; an Austrian,: to ' Munich : he told me of his :pre-' had : at fifteen patrolled • these posed visit to. Yugoslavia: and thus
same. beaches: as a day -time sen after hours of vain ''attempts I
'try in the final .year of the war.. had'•obtained a thot>;sand_mile..ride
This eighteen day 'visit was mar which only the. lack :of •a :.visa.
red only by , a fishing ::trip in • a prevented ' ane • from accepting,
stormy North Sea 'When for the However I saw .Munich, D:achan
first time, I joined everyone else . and Bavaria, and' Heidleberg, the
in being violently '.sea -sick: ° ' Oxford of Germany, was ,more-
' ' than worth ,tie effort '
many but the country.•' is so Faso After hitchLhiking northward
cinating that •,.it . is perhaps bet- along the beautiful Rhine valley
ter to .emit • almost all :comments . I' arrived succesvely in • Bonn the
' here 'and to promise to write a capital, in Cologne and: then fin -
letter lin 'Germany itself. • Suffice ally iback '. in . Liege, 'Belgium,
it to say that the. .powerful :race ` where my bike had been .stored..
Who:in 1945 weremost thorough- • From Liege my route: led south,-
ly beaten to 'their '..knees have ward • through the huge picture
directed their 'great:, energies.. so ;sque forest or Ardennes to Bas•'
Well .that. by 1952. they are so togne,where on Christmas, .Day
far ahead of the Freneh • and. 1944 the ` American forces had a
English• recoveries that they Have difficult task in checking Von
been able to .pu'ui Cally announce
Runs'tedt s..counter,attack, iri the
their w.illinigness to lend- money.. Battle of the Bulge. This, is the
to: other nations, The war pia= area where the Germans'•succeed-
lires of ruin and desolation were ed in infiltrating hundreds of
not carefully. +selected, in cities troops in American 'uniforms into
like 'Cologne ' and Essen 'there 'the rear • of the lines. They spoke
<.still ' are : interminable acres . of 'perfect : English but with English
ruins • to prove that these cities accents and since no 'Englishmen
were once almost totally destroy-' were within: miles these Germans
ed. Yet the survivors' knocked were soon apprehended.
the rriortar. off••the bricks that had. • At • Sedan on. the Meuse ' the
been .blown ' into the rniddle 'of 'German break -through.' occurred
• the streets and; • 'On leVelled-up in 1.940., Sixty ° miles south-west-
bomb :Craters they put these ward hes Rheims with its .beauti-
bricks together tobuilt neat mod.,• ,ful gothic cathedral and the evi-
ern 'shops. Maybe fifteen years Bence of • the havoc wrought iby
;ago' the shoprkeeper owned. a 4- G'errnan guns which in the 'First
storey department store but' now -War destroyed •1:2,000 of the city's
at least he it, back in, business 14,000 buildings: West of Au.eims
and he stays open. until . he is : thehighway to Paris soon begins
certain that the last customer has its winding course down the his-
gone hom--a strange contrast to toric Valley of the Maine On its:
the .conteiltme tdaily nt thais . beautiful slopes the ideal• co31di=
l
Making the, French and English tions of 'drainage, ' Sunlight : and
problems more grave. One of the. chalk deposit in. the :soil predh(4.e
tragedies it- • that .the genius of the 'Special grapes . for the pro-
• of
the: German. was turned from .pro- : duction of champagne. It is n
during. Leitz microscope' lenses to ,by chance that this district .'of,.
making!bombsightingFrance is called, "Gharnpa:gne"
Mechanising.- and gun.._.t The -whole. area depends •almost
s. Hitler had'a Brea
mass ,behind him :but the great entirely on its special industry.
mass Was not the whole German In the Maine Valley especially
populace' and I have some, Mat- in 1914 and 1918 savage fighting
trial on this subject to include iri . took, place. After war began on
• "ger letter. The concentration August 3rd, 19'14, the Allies . fell
camps in 1939 enclosed over .back until by September 4th they
2,000,000' victims, many of whom were ori the Maine line of de-
were , higghly placed German of, fence.. Then. the French • general,
ficials. who, did not., agree 'with .Gallieni; .`ordered a successful
the Nazi theories. The 1944 bomb counter-attack and .on the '6th;
attempt err Hitle''.'s '°life was only • Marshall. Joffre gave his. famous
evidence of a great long-smould- : corntnand„''A11 troops Who'are nu:
eririg conspiracy which • had the longer able to advance should die
SUlpport of men, like Rommel. where they stand' rather • than re-
iiel was` not a victim of 'a.treat". They Meld> , by the
, ;until
strafing Allied pilot. He 'was the 13th the great Victory of the
.`victim of the Gestapo who. cane
to his home and gave Yum five
I could ' write much about Ger-
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Maine:had been won, Paris was
saved, the Ger vans were check,.
PAGE NINE
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HE IS[ WELL,v.,QUALIFIED
TO HELP 'YOUPLAN A
SECURE FUTURE.
CONTACT . HIM TODAY
alta Cr.
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JOHN DAVIES•
Kincardine, Ont.''
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DO FALL. PLOWING FOR
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Russell Gaunt,: Ed . McClenag- 1
han, Robert. Adams, Charlie .and
Stanley.. Moore, Millan- Moore &
Carl McClenaghan gathered re-
cently With tractors, to finish the
plowing : on the farm' of Mr. Ed-
ward Moore.. Ed, ';has - been in
Wingham Hospital 'since .the end
Of :October when 'he . had his left
arm badly , mangled in a : 'corn
picker ` aifd• it was necessary ' to
amputate it below theelbow:
DONN,YBR'OOK •
The Donnybrook Sunday School
are ,holding their Christmas con-
cert in the church on Monday
evening, Decer lber 15th.
9th, at the home of • Mrs. Robert
Chamney. The election Of officers
for' the coming year will .:be held
ed'and the Russians' 'Are'' ready,
to .launch theirAttack in the . east.
In this ' battle the”, Paris taxis,;
soon to be known as : the Maine.
taxis, were rushed out of the
city to take men from Paris and
from other Perth' of• the line to
the main battle. Each of ' the six
hundred cabs; made two trips to
move'six thousandmen who were
able to turn the tide in favor of
the. Allies:
This .was • the " last district be
fore. Paris,--.so__perhaps iny letter_
can perhaps best end here. Much
has meen . omitted but since a
book could' not :enclose all . the
details your readers will perhaps
accept this much: Perhaps they'
toe will become even more con-
scious :of the fame of '.the Canad-
ian soldier, The French have not
forgatten•the achievements Of the
unassuming seldom -heard 'veter-
ans who still walk in the streets
of hundreds of Canadian. 'town's•
and• it is largely because of them
that to be a Caftadian in France
is to have the key' to all of the
famous French hospitality.
'I must end here bait • perhap's.
you will allow,'me tb digress and
to . extend my best regards to
yourself • and . to, 'your readers. I
hope 'that my .•Lucknow friends
will accept this as "a group let-
ter" and by g forgiveso doin me
for failing in the almost imposs-
ible task' offinding enough time
to write great numbers of .Sep
arate letters.
•'With best regards again,
lectors of Huron Townsl
HAVING SERVED AS . COIINCILLOR tor the
past seven yeas, I have. been .asked; many times
to leave my name • for Reeve
ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 8th' my : name will
appear on the ballot for Reeve, and•.1 take this
means of soliciting your support.'
I' ELECTED I WILL DO MY UTMOST to serve
the people of Huron Township without favor to :.
any.
Yours: Sincerely,
Dick) Martin.
and the, W. A. are holding a
bazaar and bake sale. . •
• Mrs. Clarence Chainney enter
tained.'at a shower in . honor of
Miss Anne Chainney on' Friday
evening:
The W.1Vt S and W.A.will meet
on Tuesday afternoon, -December
&KZ
CORRECT TO SERVE
ON ANY OCCASION
If you have found that "your present Bookkeeping system
is inadequate -or it . has been. criticised by the Tax Dept.;
whynot discuss the matter with me.
During .the• past nine years I have installed upwards of
• fifty simple accounting systems among small Business en
Professional Men and Farmers located '
.... d for the most rt in •
Bruce and Huron : Counties. The Installation Fee is moderate
-the cost of the actual book verysmall .nd; the,s stem'
a
• Y once i,
installed can be, run by yourself with a periodic Audit and
Annual Statement by me or on..a monthly audit basis with i
an annual statement and Income Tax Return. This can be . !
arranged according to your capacity to • absorb* the cost.
o
There 'is no financial obligation ion your rt, to
:.....y pa discuss .1
your problem.. k
The system -referred to above meets all requirements of
the Income Tax Dept. and: also the Unemployment Ins. Comm.
S. JO:
Business and Tax Service Office in the Kilpatrick
LIICKNOW, ONTARIO a .
In. attendance at Office :TUesday, Thursday & . FridayV,
Saturday•by appointment. -- Plone Office 23-w; Res. 23-3
• Sincerely, Alex _ -. .
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