The Seaforth News, 1945-06-28, Page 7BOMB -BEARING JAP PAPER BALLOON
Officials examine bomb -bearing paper balloon with Jap inscription.
According to recent announcement by U. S. War and Navy De-
partments, Japan has been sporadically attacking western United
States, with no damage. Here Maj. J. F. Bolgiano, Army Air
Corps balloon expert, holds release valve; Capt. W. B. Standard
of Army Intelligence holds shock absorber; FBI agent W. G. Ban-
ister holds flash bomb device, and Ensign P. M. Jackson, Navy
Intelligence, holds roll of fuse attached to bomb.
LOOKS WRONG, BUT IT'S O. K.
That's a British soldier at left, standing in meek expectancy while
an armed German sentry checks his papers before letting him pass.
It goes on every day in Crete where the big German garrison has
been allowed to ••etain its arms, for fear of attack by the vengeful
natives. Germans live in Suda Bay area and Allied personnel must
have special permits to enter.
BRIDGE ON TANK -TANK ON BRIDGE
The photos above are the first released of the British Army's
"Sissors" bank, which carries its own bridge with it. From a nor-
mal position on the top of the tank, the bridge portion is lifted by
a hydraulic arm, as shown in top photo and deposited across nar-
row streams. The bottom, picture made in Holland where narro•
streams and canals abounds, shows the bridge in use.
RE-ELECTED
Returning to Lyons after release
from Nazi bondage, M. •Herriot
is shown receiving cheers from
citizens of Lyons. The former
Premier of France was re-elected
Mayor of Lyons upon return.
DEFEND PETAIN
In a book published in Montreal,
French professor Louis Rougier,
above, says that aged Field Mar-
shal Henry Philippe Petain, in-
stead of being a traitor as now
charged, kept France and the
French fleet from going over to
the Axis while he headed the
Vichy government.
MAYOR OF NAHA
A pistol-packin' "city father" is
Maj. Anthony Walker, above, of
Fairfax, Va. 'He's the new mayor
of Naha, capital of Okinawa,
"elected" to the job by his divi-
sion commander.
MONTY. DELIGHTS DUTCH LAD
Great delight is registered on the face of this young Dutch boy, as Field Marshal Montgomery took a
moment off to autograph the lad's notebook during a ri;cent visit to the First Canadian Army
Headquarters.
COMMAND PERFORMANCE -TO LEARN THE TRUTH
Because townspeople of Burg-
steinfurt, Germany, showed re•
sentment against British occupa-
tion forces, Allied Military Gov-
ernment authorities • ordered them
into the local movie theater, as
pictured at top left, to see "Village
of Hate," documentary film show-
ing German atrocities at the notor-
ious Belsen and Buchenwald mur-
der camps. Top right, women
emerge from the theater, grim-
faced, some weeping, after seeing
the filmed horrors. At right, Capt.
A. Stirling, Assistant District
Provost Marshal, orders a woman
to rewitness the picture. She was
laughing when she came out of the
theater the first time.
SYRIAN ROW SPOTLIGHTS ALLIES' MEDITERRANEAN HEADACHES
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YALTA
Wilt Britain and France endorse
Soviet pressure on Turkey for
military alliance and freedom of is
exit from the Black Sea through
the Dardanelles?
What is Russia's
position on Iran oil
fields where U. S.
and Britain have
huge investments?.
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Mediterranean Sea Skil)
Tunis
Should Greece get Do-
decaneso Islands,
which she claims from
Italy?
it What will Franee's postwar
position be m relation to her
vital north African empi e
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?
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Who will B itain and F once
dee•de abou Tripol'tan'a and
Libya, Italy's, main pre war
colonies in At ice?
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;EGYPT:
What will Britain's position
be in Egypt, Trans-iordania,
Palestine and Iraq?
What will be ste-
t.us of Arab
N' League, the Inde•
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petulance of whose
seven memberD
count ies has been
re ognized?
ADEN
PROTECTORATE
The Big Five—U. S., Britain, Russia, France and China—meeting to deal, with the Syria -Lebanon dispute, would undoubtedly find them-
selves. ensnarled in major problems involving North Africa and the whole Middle East Particularly delicate, in view of possible general
Arab uprising in North Africa, is the great powers' attitude towardthe Arabs League, (diagonal shading) composed of Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Iraq Trans-Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Map above locates some of the painful questions for which Big Five will have
to find answers.