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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-01-14, Page 3•British. 'Lost Unit' Returns TO:Camp - 'Story.• of Succeeafsai Fight Thrugh German Lines • • Seven miles behind e the German lines in' Tunisia, out o! food, al - meet without ammunition and cut off from all •means of commune .• cation, !the Allied. forces were bee ling attacked continuously, and one' ' of , Britai:n'.s crack fighting Units was given up • for lost. • r. But ,Pour: day's. after ..vanlshing' into the mountains toward Tents,, staggering e from , exheus.tion,, hung. , ern an mud -caked, the first ;'lost of the North African; cam` Amiga fought,', its WayFb'aek onto ' "tee Anglo-Aanerican lines, unbeat en and carrying Its' wounded-' . Froth the major. who had been. twice • reported dead• on this. front ,but' who is a very much alive end fie'htin:g Yorkshireman as the sec - end in command, .the story• of one of the most 'remarkable fighting explolts" of this war was pieced ! together as the red -eyed •:but still ginning. Tommies• marched I"nto a • frontline command post. ` Three days before Christmas the unit, '• with 65' mules, set out• through the mud into the moun- tains .held by • the Germans. So e� .boggy. were the' muddy slopes .dur- 4. •, ing the first "night of ',creeping . Single' file through the . German .lines,. the .men were. able to. aver age only tivo miles, an. ho r .• 'During'the night `I fell off •into a ravine and was •knoeked• un- conscious,!! the .major reIaled:• "When' I . came to,, the . unit had . gone••1 decided• t' txy •Q to .get, back to the' lines' and at •dawn hid • in the bush. "I was 'less than 300 yards from • : a Germai% battery.'and•, watched them' alt •day. Teat night, almgst '-the .'first thing,.' I: ran into• ,German patrole-: • They • challenged . •me and I cut lopse with my :revolver, and = -� „iinnp.ed' i-ntoaehea oeksa'lrey--yt ,rte got. away,.'!, Mules 'Die of„ _,Exha:ustion this unit .continued to push • on, out of, -communication with Allied lines because its rad,io had been smashed in. a fall. ''Heavy; , rain made ravel -difficult scut the men • e ,00hed -on, although- -ten mules -died of exhaustion:. - Near• their objective,: membere of this unit shot up a German !out- post. IJ Earlier;• 'the •dense , fog hail lifted and° the • Allied: fighters 'were, •• spottedby the°. Germans. Froin their lofty mountain position the Britisshers could see enemy. forces. • preparing to attack• • them.. . Shortly before' midnight .Christ- mos Eve the attack came. "Our commander trained a aifre with the rest of us' and we, • went.to' it," continued the Major. "The peewees ,tried..,.a.: ,thug (bayonet) r char e, 'bat, our. lads• stood firm and ave it, to Mein and they fell back."'ireete , ree-mei attack, elided at •• • . 2 o'clock Christmas morning. • With, food. and water gone and ammunition almostexhausted; the Commander deckled to Withdraw, .Ie calmly ,wished bis officers a Merry Christmas," then ordered • them , to lead the battalion in a • might through ,the German lines. While the Germans laid . down Withering machine-gun ' fire, the .badly exhausted 'unit_sleepless 'dor three days=Rept going through • and around the. enemy positions, until the first groups 'sturnbled into headquarters. Tlie wounded - ver a carried tin •• imprefised stretchers. The unit; which fought In France • until Denkertaie and can grace its • history to the Battle of Gallipoli, ` was among the first to land at Algiere in the Allied invasion. of ed shooting with everything but .I • THE RIGHT 1 CONSULT THI 'lean teIephM ALL -OUT -PF ;Sour telephone is part of b carrying an abnormal wartime 1 hold up messages on Which proc • , ,y R1J5SIANS-LOOKING FOR NAZI, TANKS TO BUST jib Ce 7k r Red Army artilter. ,>.. y,' .particularly anti -Tank gu ns like those.. pictured above part in the- smashing Russian offensive ,radioed fro _ imp,o eow, shows a team of• motofized anti-tank -against the' Germans.' The'photoabode, radioed from Moscow, • '.• its relentless sweep west of Velikie Luk toward the Latvian• frn crews on the ontier.' ntont, where the Red .Army continued cutler, ... U N• .y. • _Io�r LESSON Ili " JESi1SW.INNING _SOUL John • 4:1-42- . PRINTED TEXT John 4:27.42 • GOLDEN TEXT. He ireapeth . receiveth wages, gathereth -fruit .unto life ete John 4.36 Memory Verse: Let 'us love another: I John 4:7. ' THE, lLESSON IN ITS. SETT 'Druce• ---December, A.D., 27; Place. --Jacob's well, near .akar, in central Palestine..• -"And upon this' came his es ci 1 -� and d bh • ey ..__. marvelled - he was speaking. with'a warn yet no. man 'said,°'What seek thou? or,' Whyapeakest 'thou' w her?".. The expression, 'No , said,'seems to imply that !['o m ventured to question our Lor reason ,for talking with the man, There is a leeson for us this. When we cannot • and stand the reason of our Lor dealings with' souls, let us 'h our peace, and try' to believe th 'there are reasons which we.sh know one day. A gobd servo in a great, house must do his o duty and_eekaie.quue'stions.:.. The . Woman's Testimony 8 that and al. raid. one !NG' • Sy dis- that an; eat th ma n art d's wo in er. d's •' old at all nt wo "Sol the woman' left her w•ater- eaneet .aed went away into -416,04;7 - and saith to the people, .Come, see a 'man, who told me all things . th et t ev el, I did: can this be the 4''hrist?". It is 'almost a' universal exPeriencea in every age, and among every type • of people; that -as soon as they have, found the Saviour "they • must go and tell others about it. Thus, our Lord's command to. go into' all the world preaching the gospel rests' solidly upon the natural, normal urging ;of the $oly. Spirit in the -regen- erated life.. Some people are drawn to Christ by His teaching; swrio_by I3is-holy-cltazai�ter- ,r.. some . by ---'His sacrificial. death; some 'by the hope which I3's of.. ' fere; others in: other ways. This woman marveled at Christ because of His knowledge Of all :that she bad ever 'done. Earnestness and Humility "They, went out .of the City, nd Were coming to him-" 'We ro astonished S't the immediate `. ffeet of the woman's; words. owearer, three causes may 'have, n a secondary sense,. been •at work.' Her honest, enthusiastic, olemn. manlier; the circumstance iat she felt the matter so im- rtant 'as to htianble Herself by hiding publicly to her sinful fe; and lastly, the' desire, whidtlt. any of them' felt, for the corn. g of the great -Deliverer, • Earn- tness and humility. are • the two' eat requisites in en evangelist; d- often, where' we least expect God has prepared, the�.•way .for e reception of His truth by 'eating in 'a -soul a hunger and est after •His rin'hteou; e 1 ere: ore not useless to eak to aniaxitans about •lerael's a a e H •i s tI Po 'al li in es an ittk e1 thi sp Messiah. Christ's Teaching "In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, habil, • eat. ,But 'he. said unto .thein, .I have. ,meat to eat that ye -know not. The. disciples therefore said one to,iinother, Rate any' nine,,bi•titnrz'ht rsim"',anghf...t;O. hili _ Jo_ ;•..y .,.:�. un 'a rem, .', y meat is .to+.do the will of • him Met setfi}l me.„ and to' acooriiplish his' work;" In these words we have . a revelliiition of the true,niegaring of what He had been doing in connection • with this woman. Re had been doing the will of (cod and aceornpliih- in; his work,..e ..lead dealt -with--- her as to bring her face to face with 'the reality of her past, anti leading her forward had given to iter the water of life. -''his war, 1 • the will of God; this was `Hiss. work. Havingsa.id this, He in- dicated to His discip•Ies; that thie also was their work. • "White Unto Harvest" •• "Say not .ye, there •are yet four inonths, and'then' coinet7h the har. vest? behold, 'I say unto you, -Lift, up your eyes; and look on the fields; , that . they are. white already unto harvest." . These words•suggest victory, reward, .ac- cemplishmeht. The .ploughing and • preparing all over, the sowing and ''the , long. vigil done,- and at, last rea•y-N or t e reaper. Two notes meage in' them, those of . opportunity • and responsibility Fields white . to harvest constitute a ,call and a challenge., Is there any greater •calamity in; agricuI- ture thanharvest ungathered? Is ' there: any ,grreater tragedy in the redemptive purpose ose : an p rp dPn ss •oce - • of G' od than .• harvest vungathered? • Joy' of Harvesters - 'l'Ie :that aeapeth reeeiweth wages, "and gathereth • fruit unto life eternal; .that. he ;that .sdw'ethu '' • and ' he that reapetrh may rejoice together!' 'To :receive wages'' deserib.es the joy with'which these. .• harvesters 'are, to be: filled when gathering .all souls and . introduc ing them into ' the kingdom • . of heaven. Sower and Reapers "For• . •herein is the saying true,':. One'. soweth and another reapeth. li'th sent, you to 'reap at n hereon . n ye have zip* labored others _have labored, and 'ye are entered •nto their labor." Christ is the sower; His apostles are the :reapers. As competed with His labors, theirs might. be esteemed as none at all. Belief Of Samaritans " An d from thatmany City of the• . Samaritans believed on,him because -of the word of'•the 'wo=,' r. HORIZONTAL 1 Faatrous 16th Century Indian. 8-11e belonged to the. —. tribe. 12 P,utternt block. 13 Less common. .15 Englis colic, •,: 16 Tr •. 18 Metal, • 1'9. Warble. ----21a'o.-hurey..: 23 Mental' state of an army. 24E xlsts•, .. 25 Grieved at heart. , 28 August (abbr.). • 4 A E f iCA M R N INQIAN . Answer to Previous Puzzle - ISADO UR ME A AD 0 AN RE A A A O TE ST D A Tom: A A GREECE 47Sun,god.•V]ER'IITCA487Compas's point_ 2Notions:•'(abbr.). 3•Helps. Malve 29 Sleeper's •couch.• ' 30Greek letter: 5 31 Finish:33 Two plus two. 6 3 Ream (ablir:).6 37City.•, 39.Labell. �• 9 e relatt 1611e was a, --- or Arita leader: l Long grass. 19Lacerated,. 20.Fabuloits2 22 North Ali -lei -Ica 23 V(aolubbrnrer.). 26 Ri _ ht (lib. 27 Excess. 2932 C' Beehtle, • ur ch t't. i le`. •� 34 Grain: 36 Lunar orb. r. ' 4381:\VStaltifeiety •oi: , 51 Want. 4 C1iMate. s coffee, 53 Extortioner. • . 5 Transposed Middle mufti.'; 46 5(abbr.)., 48 To scorch. crown. • '' .8 Denby. ' ' • 50 Gaelic, 9 joared, '-1 52 Biblical'. ,0a--, or 7 Bristlelike, tip; erful ' ' BMistee tabor-) prophet. 54'Through,ascibed to O 42 Cray.... 81 43 Pr sition. 116 Fold of string, LJ z" 21 s were 9 jt1 He was the ---.f a poem 11, by, Longfellow.14 5 • 6 ' 7 Standing , 56 Red Cross. Ferect • (•abbt -); Opera tie ' 7,Dutch (ab.ble Fellow. , 59 Postscript Half an em: „. (abbr.). H 9 1. 14 II i7 15 IU, 11 a1 19 zz 23 25 26 27 z9 31 33 34: 43 3Z 3s 36 46 48. 50 51 5x 55 53 54 59 ri.04,4,0 POP --Pulling a Fast 0 e! ,•6 man; who tesxif}ed; Tice ' beide me all things. that eller I did," Just. this one woman had brought 'all this .about, She had ,brought it about for the reason that she her- self had -been radically' changed in .character. by the power of Uheist, and filled' with a high'..en- •thusiasm,for souls.' Ey het simple timeliness. ' and activity in wlt- neraing, she set a'• Marked re- ligious-movernent on foot, and led many' souls out of darkness into light, and out of death int? life. '• Request., of Samaritans '"So when. the Sarriaritans came unto him, they besought hirci abide with them: and he' abode' there two days." In ..reading this • passage, • we cannot. • but be re- minded, of a similar incident, 'not' longe before this, when •John and Simon + asked the ' 'Lord, . "Wheredwellest Thou?" ,with the result that "they , abode with. hini .that day:" Our desire to .abide : with Christ is only the echo of His de-, ; sire to have us abide with -•• eSaviour.-of -the Wor_, ld '_ .' "And many.more. believed be- cause ;of his word. And they said to. •the woman, Now• we,believe, not because of thy speaking: fog -awe have heard' for ourselves; . and know that,this is' indeed the Sa•i- • our of the .woii-ld." ; It is a great' hour when'''a young man, . brought up in•a Chzstian home: to believe in Christ as the' Son of God, and' the Saviour -of the World; °because lits of , faith in the:'testimony of. his father • and mother, finally comes to knew Christ in a 'very personal way,. not • because of what some one else has said, but because ;he has heard • the Lord speak but of , His * ownn Word, and " knows. where :if he believes by' a personal experience. ' Canada Plans Cut , InVheat Acreage Lowest • Mark • Since 1918.Objective . Fora '1943• Acage reduction, is no uar- antee of. smaller wheat 'crops,• theDominion Bureau- ofSta4i G' .s res . states: •tn a report on, the. `'wheat situation, •lent crop' conditions' next year 'are not likely to :'be a.s fa•=vorable as this': season and• if acre -Age: ,refl•uctien, is carried out next•'Spring the': 1943-44 crop year shoulel see 'an improvement In thestatistical position• in' North' Amer -ice-,.,. Theobjectives forricultur•e in 1943, including wheat, were outlined • at a Dominion="Provincial conference early `.in .De- •eember.• The, Bureausaid Canada's w -hat, acreagereduction ' program, 'ne.xt 3ea� ax=i.11.-lie_ �,quf-te_.d•i.astic'"_The Bur eau said 'Canadian fa.rg-ers',have • been'. askdd do reduce wheat acreage to' its lowest l-vtart -e 19' -an if• this goal' is reach- ed` it' will mean a 'reduction of more • than 11,000,000 acres or 39 percent from the peak level of 28,700,000 'acres attained in 1940. All , efforts' to curtail wheatcrops through; the medium of reduced acreage .were frustrated in1942 by tate unpredie'table.weathea•-. man. A brand of „weather was sereed. lip in Canada and the United States which resulted in record ' ylelds per acre 'and the .production of enormous crop's; E isto r- Rubber Shortage Thomas Alva Edison. ..was a . prophet as•we111 as •a great inven- tor, his son, Gov. Charles Edison,. has learned. • • • A magazine •article' quoting the inventor. as, predicting the war and the rubber shortage was received by the. Governor, froiri••a friend. The article, written in 192.7, stat- ed: "The United States. never ties had and never: will have on, hand enough• rubber to run tie .coun• try for more than a yeah•.' •"'Henry(rord, Harvey, Firestone,' ,'and I have been considering what this .fountry would, do 'in case of a ,war which would tut off our • • rubber supply. "Don'.t make any mistake about that war. • it '`will come.' • We may run along for a gobd many years e•without-it, 'but" s'anitor or 7a1 Ft' iia - tions of Europe and Asia will combine a Ain - t;,d -" es• e first thing their will ,. do will. tie, to cut off our robber supply,, a , • A-AI0 REPORTER R;�.FROST "Outside the wind is howlin 'g•.. 'Last October marked the be,.howling . , howling. Flakes of ginning' of a new. era in the Can- sne driven by'theicy blast°:of adian, educational system. FoI-, winter pile' in 'gently curved un- Towing the lead given by the net- duIat'ions- around that lone cottage~ 'Welke 'of t"Iie United' ;;States,the •in'the ;wilds of nature. The •roar- Canadian .Broadcasting Corporaing bf the storm drowns out the tdon, •.three monthsago, began a stealthy raising of alattch and the co-operative series of school` pro.. quiet tread of a masked••figure • . grammes which found. educational' • es, dagger in hand, .Jaspai sneaks authorities co'ilaboreting offieially up behind his•.unsuspee g vtetiin.' to pi•ovide''classroom lessons overThere 'is a quick flash of steel .. the :hie. ' With the: completion. w an unearthlyshriekwhich sets the the exzerireental peeled,'. the: plan shivers running up and down your isebeing considerably expandedVin,spiine . ; and all is still, except; for . thea New Year.'' Every Fridaythe howling of the wind. 'Sadden- morning at ten o'clockover the ly: ." "If you" like €hat sort ofcoast to :coast' networ�•,-schoall a.' story, .a,real spine:;tinger-,•your children will be entertained arid - station should" be CFRB, Toronto, instructed by the "`Heroes of and your time 10 to 10.30 Sunday -Canada" series. 'You 'night callnight, "The Hermit's • Cave•" 'it an easy .way to study history:'You've no doubt heard the .series- . ,Many an:d tiffany' a 'boy' or `girl intbefore. • These stories are back Canada to whom the. text -book • on the ,aironce again;' exciting, 'pioneers .of'this, Derninion havehysterically dr.an1atic'and.-thzallyng. remained until now nebulousfigas ever. • ures, will; find' these builders 'of a * �`the; ast 'emer ha_ p gi,a as living, vital ' "This.is London calling.'' ii, ,,,, people,' •current da radio' voices will be few. ovine •s •of- a iadiio to•:interpret the 'courae.ag uric ,ac; re.ceiver in Canada who: have not coniplishnients of the. heroes of heard . those words with. theiryesteiyears. in, a modernnglish intonation: Thenow.,dramatic setting. "As part of thisfamiliar identification of:broad- series., the 'last Friday. of every .;casts originaftingnnGreatBritainmonth will be, devoted to '"Cana-wasfirstBeardat9:30 a mL n. -'..•..than -horizons' dealing `with na- don ti`n)e, December 19,th 193 tional events,, ox_ _w:iths ectaland came' from a small ~studio .n achievements' of man,:. as the of --the heart,.of the British capital,. asfeet 'the • Canadian way- of life- a little' studio audience of 'five Then again, Caria'dian children are eople listened. That audience to .participate in -two . o e o.consisted of. five men . , two; umleia "School' of •the Air" series, secretaries, •a studio, pianist, a • • Mondays and Thursday morningsnews-reader and' the •well knownat' 10 o'clock in, which' young commentator'Vernon ' Bartlett.Canada will' exchange with young -This 'was, •the prelude,`• so tb speak,America stories .o€, exploits and of the .first of 'thee series of in -people wha have contributed toternational transmissions of thethe building of 'North America. B.B.C.. which 'was to beardsix'aYe`� History .made easy. Makesdayslater and whiclx canted'the some of ..us' grown-up folk, wish voice re *, I�Ingvve--trod•-}rad-the-chanceto do like=*wise 'in outs oivn.days_of_theelitf:le--- red •school house; .way back. 'George_ Yth_.to_:.five-�.con-tine3-itsDec. 25th, 1932. The.transtiii.s- sions..Were :directed at' that time 'to 'the mern.bers of• the •' British Commonwealth, were .picked up by short wave receivers, at strategic points,,,a.nd then rebroadcast •ove'rth.e standard wave 1�.e thn gday `.`This is .London'na .'.phrase rebroadcast' '•either di;rectly or by means of 'recordings , b •over thr3y' ee 'h nu die s id taton. in• sthe American sphere ; . , in•Can- 'Ada, : 'the Lt.S.APuerto:Alaska, Hawaii ., as well• asstations all over- the. wor•ld,•'wher•e- English , is spoken or 'understood. The tremendous expansion o1fighting fronts in which soldiers of . the• United• Nations� face the- eiieniy has necessitated- an• ever • increasing• scope, of B.B.G•tran_s•mission service; abroad. Thus is nad•io play-ing--its-•:•irrij� ta•'iit `part in co-ordinating the step of those who, niarch along the -Road ,to Victor Wazited-A-C3plel Dye-. ;The''Sonden •was•a,supplybase'forr fou ar. xmies th ' •'. 'ae Birtl.h the'' •Indian, the Soudan Defence Forcearil. ,the Ethiopian. Among; thee. more unusual activities was anp •'attenst 'top finda f`"ast dye 'as 'camouflage. for. white'.,ca`tnels.• LITEN TO" fiRY •.(tems of interest 'From Ontario Weekly Newspapers EACH S iUNDAY 'AT2 P.M. CF'R8&© on w our dial THIS CURIGUs WORLD Iti1 °' r _ By William Ferguson • Z PACO RRC 'OCEAN HAS MORE ot_rARE AMILES OF fl 47$se THAN THERE ARE SQUARE MILES OF OOPR. 1942 BY NER SERVICE, INC, VARENTS HOLD CHILDREN DOWN WHILE:THEY'RE GROWING UP," WAR TO/WES , Is PERMISSIBLE TO FL,/ THE PLAG ter„,_„, / NEXT: Are Inumning birds poisonous? PEGASUS 1:WAS AIV M MO:l'.T#j. 4,10-RS1E By J. mILLAg 'WATT, MA's AN EiERNAL •