HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1943-3-31, Page 7WITH CALM BORN OF FAITH
Shielding themselves from the tropic sun with umbrellas, as imperturably as if being lowered over
the side of a warship in a battle area were a commonplace occuiience, sisters of the Catholic Order of
Mary Immaculate are pictured arriving at Guadalcanal.. Stationed on another Solomon Island, they
were captured by the Japanese and held until rescued by American forces. Two priests and a nun were
Trilled before the Americans arrived.
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Plane Flies 2,000
Miles Without Pilot
Crew and .Passengers Ball
Out—Plane Flies On
This is the story of a United
States Army plane that flew
2,000 miles with no one aboard.
She.reversed course and flew by
herself to crash in Mexico after
her crew and passengers bailed
sot because tail flutter, vibrations
threatened to tearethe ship apart
in the air over Florida waters
Two men are missing....
The four -engined plane took
off the night of . 'e,6, „9 from
Southern Florida on a routine
flight to South America, Aboard
were the crow of six; two passen-'
gena, and considerable cargo. The
plane was 80 miles out when a
bad flutter had developed in the
tail. Losing altitude rapidly, the
plane dropped from9,000 to 5,-
300 feet, while the crew and pas-
sengers jettisoned the cargo in an
attempt to stop the vibrations.
Automatic Pilot Set
Insead, the vibrations increased
and the pilot turned back toward
Florida. When the pilot thought
he was over the coast, he ordered
the others to use their parachutes.
Then be headed the plane out to
sea, set the automatic pilot for
level flight so the craft would
not become a menace ashore, and
bailed out.
Shortly after noon the next day
Mexican authorities reported a
plane had crashed in the moun-
tains of Northern Meitico — a re-
port which gave the Mr Trans-
port Command a first-class mys-
tery for several days, because no
such plane was supposed to be
in that part of the world.
Men on, foot finally reached the
plane and an investigation pro-
duced serial numbers which idem
tified it as the ship abandoned
off the Florida coast, Somehow,
its course out to sea had been re-
versed, and it cut across hundreds
of miles of ocean with no one,
aboard, crashing when its gas
tanks were empty.
Liner Yields Steel
For War Effort
The naval training ship. Cale-
donia, formerly the Canard liner
Majestic, has been raised from the
Firth of Forth to furnish nearly
40,000 tons.. of steel scrap, for the
war effort.
She sank after a fire Septem-
ber 29, 1939, but she was raised
on the first attempt. after 1,800
portholes and all openings in her
bull were sealed for the project.
She had been towed inshore.
About 13,000 tons of high qual-
ity steel have been removed from
the hull and at her hreaking-up
berth it is expected she will yield
25,000 tone more.
200,000 Square
Miles Recaptured
An indication of the extent of
the groat 'Session successes of
the past three months is found
in the statement from Moscow
that 200,000 square- miles el
Soviet ferrite* have been retaken
from the invaders the equiva-
lent of a tract 500 miles song and
400 miles deep, crass -crossed with
railroads and studded with im-
portant towns,' says the Otteave
fennel. It is a tract one-half as
large es all Oftario, land and
water, which has 407,?G,,2 square
indica, and roughly Word,/ cover
the area from the Quebec border
to Windsor, North to Sault Ste.
Marie and the vicinity of Jame
Plight of Poland.
Under The Nazis
The barbarous Bache conceives
of a Made -in -Germany "new or-
der" as a long series of restric-
tions on all the European peoples
crushed by the Nazi war machine
and savagely policed by the in-
famous Gestapo, says the, Strat-
ford Beacon -Herald. Poland's
pitiful plight is a fair example of
Hitlerism running amok in a Ger-
man-occupied country.
The Polish Review lists some of
•tthe cruel restrictions decreed by
German authorities in enslaved
Poland — the same brand of
tyranny as Canada would suffer
in the event of an Axis victory.
Hereunder are quoted some of the
"strictly forbidden;; rules im-
•posed on the Polish people, who
are not allowed by their German
masters to do any bf these things:
To speak Polish in public, or
nae Polish names of cities or
streets.
To print any book; magazine or
paper in Polish.
To play or sing any Polish mu-
sic, or patriotic song.
To worship in church.
To belong to any religious, sci-
entific or social organization.
To attend any school mr college.
To go to operas; theatres or
concerts.
To visit museums, libraries or
educational centres.
To pursue any professional ca-
reer except medicine under Ger-
man law. •
To enter any public park or
garden or sit on any bench in a
public place.
To eat in restaurants or cafes.
To visit barber shops, except
those partitioned off to segregate
Poles.
To travel without permit, or to
use express trains and motor
buses.
To use automobiles or ride bi-
cycles, except for cycling to work.
To use playing fields or swim-
ming pools.'
To visit health resorts or bath-
ing beaches.
To buy clothing or footwear,
except work clothes and wooden
shoes. •
To shop except in certain stores
and at certain hours set aside for
Poles.
To buy imported foodstuffs.
To own 'cameras, radio sets or
phonograph records.
To own or use boats on and be-
tween the Oder and Vistula riv-
ers.
To own land or any real estate
whatsoever!
The surest, proof .of the mad-
ness of Hitler: and his ilk is their
belief that a Europe robbed of
every vestige of human liberty
will accept the "New Order"
which the Nazi gangsters are en-
forcing on helpless Poland. Free-
dom cannot be obliterated for
long by bandits—as Hitlerite Ger-
many„ will one day realize.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
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THE WAR WEEK •—' C'pmmentary on Current Events
The Race Between United Nations
And Axis Powers for the Offensive
]Following up the recent etate•
nrputs of both President Roosevelt
and Prinre Minister Churchill that
the United Nat•lou's will now carry
1110 war to the enemy, American
and British generals and admirals
announce that their armies, navies
and air force are poised to strike
on all front, says the New York
Times, Admiral Niniitz's 'forecast
ofan early air anti nasal offens-
ive against Japan is matched by
the London broadcast to the
French people filet "the date of
an Allied invasion of I.urope is
not far off."
This is the crucial psychologlc-
al time at which to strike. To de-
lay much longer may cast us dear-
ly later on. For our enemies are
not standing still. On the contrary,
Although Timoshenko is staging a
new offensive in the north, the
Germans, aided by new reserves
and "General Mud," have already
succeeded in slowing up the main
Russian drive, and in the oriticai
Donets Basin have checked it com-
pletely, at least for, the present.
And the Japanese ore not only
driving ahead in Ohina, but are
also 'massing forces north of Aus-
tralia for what may be an attempt
to invade that continent. Further-
more, while the Japanese are rap-
idly developing the regions they
have 'conquered a.nd are thereby
growing stronger day by day, the
Germans have etarted out to mo -
Wilms he last reserve of the whole
European Continent for a final
desperate effort in the same all-
out fashion as the Russians did
in their own country. Finally,
Germany is obviously trying to
strengthen her political align-
ments, and has apparently suc-
ceeded in tightening her hold on
Italy, and possibly Finland,
Axis Possibilities
Tlhe Ger'man Propaganda Min-
ister, Joseph Paul Goebbels, has
promised that the Wehrmacht will
again thrust east this yeas to seek
the final victory which Hitler has
said Hes there. But there were
signs that Germany would try to
hold in the East while she turned
her main forces west against he
armies of Britain and America.
The Ftieha•er himself, in a message
to his old party comrades on the
twenty-third anniversary of na- •
tfonal' socialism, promised only
mobilization "to an extent exceed-
ing that of any war in history."
In the West, two directions of
attack were available. One led to-
ward the British Isles, bristling
with guns, guarded by millions of
determiued men. Britain wa't the
hub around which all the Allied
military projects for Europe re-
volved. For that reason the temp.
Wien to risk an all-out attempt
to take it might prove irresistible
to German military leaders, who
have never shown themselves
locking in boldness. But the cost
was certain to be high.
Tho second lay toward the south.
Ids objective would be to drive
the Allies out ,of North Africa and
secure the southern shores of
Europe against invasion from that
quarter. It might take the form
of a giant pincers, one arm 01
wb'ich would go through Spain,
perhaps bypassing Gibraltar, to
Morocco and the supply routes of
Ole American, British and French
forces operating in Tunisia, while,
the other pressed through Turkey
and along the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean into Egypt. From
Switzerland last week came re-
ports that Germany was trans-
ferring troops through France to-
ward the Spanish border, and
Turkey's President warned his
country that the ."war contagion"
night spread.
Allied Possibilities
On the Allied side, too, there
were
twossibl 0'
r
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p Ov09.n
O e was
an assault upon the northern or
western shores of Europe from
the British Isles. The other was
an invasion from North Africa to.
ward what Winston Churchill has
called "tore soft underbelly of the
Axis," the souther'u shores of
Europe. Combined, fibeae two
moves could forma a grandiose
pincers aimed at driving the
Wohrnracht back from all the Eu-
ropean eouutries it bas conquered
onto German soil. From Sweden
last week carne reports that Ger-
man .air observers had seen actly-
Ity in British harbors pointing to-
Ward an audaeloue attempt to In-
vade the Continent. •
' The caleulattons of beth sides.
hung largely on what would hap -
Pen along the vast Eastern Front,
The Germans' ability to launch
new thrusts would 'depend on tbels
ability to halt the rolling offens-
ive of the Red :Arany. The Allied
Plana depended on Russia's abil-
ity to tie down large numbers of
German divisions,
General Mud Enlists
The first signs of Spring were
seen last week on the southern
reaches of the 1,000 -mile Russian
battlefront. On the 'Ukrainian
plains the snows were melting.
Soviet soldiers took off their cloth
helmets, bared their heads to soft
winds from the Black Sea. The
rich earth, hard as iron during
January, was beginning to clog
the treads of Red Army tanks.
Soon Russia's ally, General Win-
ter, would give way to Russia's
foe, General Mud.
To military observers the ap-
proach 01. Spring is South Rus-
sia was important. Its probable
effect would be to slow the Rus-
sian offensive, already one of he
moat sustained drives In the his-
tory of modern .war. Since Nov.
19 Soviet armies, trained and
equipped for Winter fighting, had
Veen rolling over snowy plains
and frozen rivers that offered few
natural obstacles. Their avowed
purpose was to throw the Nazis
out of Russia The attack had
broken a formidable enemy de-
fense system along the Donets
River; had smashed forward in
places 400 miles from its starting
point at Stalingrad. But ahead
stretched another 400 miles of
Russian soli and another great
defense system based on the line
of the Dnieper River. The task
facing Russian generals—already
struggling "'kith a major supply
problem—Was, to crack the second
defense, line before Spring thaws
could bog down the Red Army's
momentum.
Words From the East
Last week Premier Joseph Stal-
in, in an order of the day marking
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Red Army, noted once again that
Russia was bearing the, main
weight of the war and that a
second front had not yet been es-
tablished in the west..At the same
time he declared that the Rett
Arany had been created as an in-
strument of defense and not of
0Ongneat.
Some observers saw in this an
indication that the Russians would
halt their advance when and if
they reached' their old borders,
thus freeing German troops for
operations in the West. With thia
view President Roosevelt took
sharp issue. From other Russian
sources oame predictions of a
joint• victory by the United Na.
than that seemed to set aside
fears that the Red Almy would
slacken its efforts.
THE BOOK SHELF
EVERGREEN HOUSE
By Louise Platt Hauck
Attractive young Cynthia Bar-
stow is very hospitable by nature.
She welcomes, therefore the as-
sorted relatives, who have been
drawn' to the nearby city to, en-
gage in defense work, into the
rambling old house which she
shares with her grandmother.
Then, she adds several young men
who have been unable to find
living quarters elsewhere. The
resulting situation inevitably pro-
duces daily problems and compo.
cations, but Cynthia revels in
solving ' th t
e n. Even Evergreen.
House itself catches the excite-
ment and fosters several love af-
fairs, not the least of which is
Cynthia's own unexpected ro-
mance.
Evergreen House ... By Louise
Platt Hauck ... Dodd, Mead &
Company , . Price $2.35.
Enlistments of Canadian Na-
tional Bien in the active army are
sufficient to form six infantry
battalions.
Brutish Alcohol
Distilleries Idle
Most British alcohol distilleries,
including those normally used for
whisky, are out of use and are
being used in storage, sags Ing
dustrlal and Engineering ChM.
istry, Instead of taking over the
whisky making plants for the
manufacture of alcohol for mill.
tary purposes, the government
prefers to import alcohol from
the United States and Canada, as
a considerable saving of shipping
is effected by importing alcohol
rather than the raw materials re-
quired to make it,
They Did It!
They were coming along the
desert road when they suddenly
spied a number of the enemy.
"Fix bayonetst" ordered the
officer. They fixed. "Charge!" he
yelled, and they charged—their
officer leading them.
They utterly routed the enemy
and took prisoner 18 men of
Rommel's Afrika Iiorps,
The officer was a Lieut. Hull,
transport officer to a battalion of
Green Rewards.' The men he led
into battle were two middle-aged
cooks from battalion supply eche-
lon. •
Hull and the cooks were bring-
ing up rations in a lorry when
they spotted the Nazis in the
desert. There was only one thing
to do and they did it.
'ONTARIO- -
NOTICE TO TRUCKERS
HALF•LOADING REGULATIONS
Copy of an Order-in-Counell ay -
proved by the. Honourable,- the
Lieutenant -Governor, datethe
23rd day of February, A.D., 1998.
Upon the recommendation oi''"the
Honourable the Minister • of Highways' ' ""
and Municipal Affairs, the Committee
of Council advise that, pursuant • to
sub -sections 3 and 9 of section 35 of the
Highway Traffic Act, (Chapter 288,.
R.S.O. 1937), the provisions of the sale
sub -sections be declared to be applicable
to the King's Highways described on
Schedules A and B attached:—
SCHEDULE "A.7
ttached:SCHEDULE"A"
Highway
4 Hanover -to Fleshertoii and Wing -
ham to Highway 9
e Highway 21 to Tobermory
7 Wisebeach to Parkhill and from
7 miles east of Peterboro to Perth.
7A Manchester to Highway 28
9 Orangeville to Schomberg
12 Midland to Orillla- and. Beaverton
to Brechln
14 Belleville to Marmora
15 Elgin to Smith's Falls
38A Kingsville via Lakeshore Road to
Highway 18
18B Ruthveu to Highway 18
19 Mllverton to Tralee
21 Forest to Owen Sound
23 Mitchell to Elginfleld
24 Guelph to Orangevnle and Shel-
burne to ColUngwood
25 Milton to Acton
27 Dundas St. (Highway 5) to Barrha;sf,s--
29 Arnprior to Smith's Falls
30 Brighton to Havelock.
31 Ottawa to Morrlsburg
32 Gananoque. to Hlghtvay 15
33 Stirling to Bloomfield and Platen
to Kingston
34 Hawkesbury to Lancaster
35 Newcastle to Highway 7
37.Belleville to Actinolite
38 Cataraqui to Highway 7
39 Windsor via Belle River to. High-
way 2
90 Corunna to 91,1.1 miles south
41 Picton to Ealader •
42 Westport t0 Forthton
43 Winchester to Alexandria
44 Carp to Almonte
45 Cobourg to Norwood
47 Stouffvllle to Highway 12
48 Port Bolster to Highway 12
49 Klelnberg to Highway 50
50 Highway 7 to Highway 9
51 Caledon to Highway 24
52 Highway 2 to Peter's Corners and
Highway 8 to Highway 97
53 Duff's Corners to Highway 20
54 Cainsvllle to Cayuga
55 Hamilton to Highway 53
56 Blackheath to Highway 3
57 Bismarck to Highway'Srl,;,
'59 Woodstock to Delhl
89 Atherley to Washago
73 Dorchester Road to Port Bruce
74 Belmont to New Sarum
79 Watford to Highway 2 via Both-
well
80 Alvinston to Highway.2
81 Delaware to Gland Bend
82 Port Franks to Highway 7
82 Brewster to Russellrinle
84 St, Joseph to Hensel!
- 58 Amberley to Highway 7
' 87 Bluevale to Harron
86 B n cad -to Bradford
89 Primrose to COotstown
91 pontoon to Stayner
92 rtlmt'ele to Wasega Beach
93 Waverley to Highway No. 11
97 Tilckson. to Fruiter
009 Dundas to Higlnvay 29
Tilbury to Blenheim via Merlin
Woodstock to Thamesford
Thamesfor8 to Highway 7 via
Kintore
Eglinton Avenue,. Dawes Road to
Senrhorn
SCHEDULE "11"
All roadslying north Of the, Severn
River and north of Highway 7 from
Sunderland Corners to Perth and north
and west of Highways 15 and 29 from
Perth to Arnprler, with the exception
that this will net apply to Highway 17
from Arnprior to Pembroke.
Toronto. Ontario, Feb. 27, 1943.
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