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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-12-03, Page 7EDDIE RICKENBACKER RESCUED IN PACIFIC Looking a little skinny, but with his famous smile still in evidence, Capt. Eddie Riekenbacker was ready for a jeep ride to his first square meal (soup and ice cream) in three weeks, after his rescue from a raft somewhere in the South Pacific. The plane in which he was making an Army inspection tour was forced down in the ocean after running out of fuel. Two companions on the raft were rescued with him—a third died at sea. Photo was radioed from Hawaii to San Francisco. VOICE OF THE PRESS HITLER'S CONTEMPT Louis Lochner, former chief of the Associated Press in Berlin, de- serves credit for revealing Hitler's pronouncements regarding his Axis partners. In many speeches before the war, Hitler denounced the leaders and rulers of Italy and Japan. He called the King of Italy "that nitwit of a King," and be spoke of his son as "the treasonable scoundrel of a Crown Prince." Of Japan's Mikado, he said: "The Emperor is a counter- part of the last Czar. Weak, cowardly, undecided. May he fall a victim to the revolution." —The Argonaut. —o— HOLD THEIR AFFECTION The soldier who mails his girl friend a letter now and then has a better chance of finding her waiting for him than the fellow who forgets his sweetheart. That's the position of most businesses today. They've got to write "ad- vertisements" to their old loves if they wish to hold their affection till and after the war it over. —Midland Free Press Herald. —o— A VERY GOOD REASON We have been asked: When the Nazis are sinking so many ships in the Atlantic,, why aren't we do- ing the same? The answer is: The British Navy swept the Atlantic of enemy merchant vessels long ago, so there are none left to sink. —Windsor Star. LIGHT AS BOGEY -MAN Leaving a light on all night will not keep the bogey -man away, be- cause our biggest bogey -man threat today is hydro shortage. So keep this bogey -man away by turning out lights at every oppor- tunity. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. —0— IT'S ON HIS MIND Hitler promises that he will never flee across some • neutral frontier as the Kaiser did. But, all the same, his utterance shows that his mind is dwelling on the thought of a getaway. —Hamilton Spectator —o— "WAR THEATRES" "War theatres," the fighting' fronts are called. Since lots of people still think of the war as a show to be watched and enjoyed, why not? —New York Times --0— LONDONER Here's a new definition of the Londoner -----a man who hopes for the best and prepares for the burst. —Montreal Star —o— LETT HIM HAVE IT Field Marshal Rommel's army may break the speed record in re- treating, for all we care. —Stratford Beacon -Herald Soldier Puts Pay into War Bonds When pay day rolled around the other day at the United States Army Air Forces Technical Train- ing Command School, Private Mathias Brantner, a Link '.Grainer atndent, didn't show up for hit money. Officers questioned Private B9rantner, .a former,lumberman and student flyer from Portland, Ore. He explained that the army cloth- ed and fed hire, he didn't drink, smoke or gamble -•••-so what did he want with money? At the, officer's suggestion, he lrurehased war bonds with his ac- cumulated $100 in pay and 'allotted almost his entire future prty also to Sear bonds. • Rornrlrnel Barely Escaped Capture Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel barely escaped capture near To- bruk, the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish Telegraphic Bureau said in a broadcast by the Vichy radio. The correspondent quoted Ger- man militai y authorities as saying Rommel had been directing the rear -guard defence personally and had gone back to look over the situation when several British tanks appeared suddenly. The tanks were near, the corres- pondent said, and it was only by fleeing with the greatest speed that he managed to escape. Churchill Wins By 100 Per Cent Lady Montgomery, 78 -year-old mother of General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the rapidly advancing British 8th Army in Libya, telegraphed him birthday greetings and said: "1 am tempted to address it Tripoli." Sir Bernard, who was 55 on November 17, told Prime Minister Churchill before he was appointed to the command: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I ant.100 per cent fit." Military e i r c 1 e s say Mr. Churchill replied: "I smoke, I drink, and I am 200 per cent fit." Mr. Churchill will be 68 Nov. 80. Canada Sends More Supplies To Greece Two Swedish freighters — the Akka and the Arrowange—steam- ed out of Montreal harbor last week for Piraeus, port of Athens, with Canadian wheat, powdered milk and large quantities of medi- cine for the loppressed people of Greece. They have been guar- anteed safe conduct by all war- ring governments. The wheat was the gift of the Canadian government through an international arrangement while the powdered milk, totalling 36 tons, and medicines were supplied by the Greek War Relief Fund of Canada. Three New Types of German Bombs Time Germans have introduced three new types of bombs. One weigths five pounds with an Incen- diary section that ignites on land- ing and a larger charge that goes off seven minutes Iater. A second also combines incendiary and ex- plosive splosive material, so that on im- pact sixty small metal containers filled with thermite and six larger fire -pots containing pre -ignited magnesium filling are thrown out. The third is a phosphorous -oil bomb which ignites spontaneously and which later explodes to scat- ter its sticky liquid contents. The heavy delayed - action explosive charges are intended to prevent attack on a fire so that it can gain headway. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher . op3•rigla, MB by Prod Mho) 5 i2 ,4'2N.r e "They keep giving me the busy signal." ...13.16.1111.1 t.' rti luey and Curley of the Anzacs. Si' PAW a ",5,PTS iN11 ME BACK . DOC , TRAVELS LIP OVER Mt SHOW -MR . ROUND ME. 'TUMMY bOWN ONE. LE.C.1 -'... uP THE. OTHE1Z....- When Automobiles 'erg Not Popular Life As It Was Lived Here 45 Years Ago We cane across the following item, in our twenty years ago files, says the Hanover Post. It had been reproduced then from. a fifteen -year-old paper, and had appeared originally in one of the Walkerton weekly newspapers under the headline "The Auto- mobile Nuisance." "In Kincardine one day last week, an automobile frightened a horse, the horse ran away, the driver was thrown out of the rig and had his leg broken. It is be- coming very apparent from incid- ents like this that something will have to be done about these auto- mobiles. For several years past the farmers in the vicinity of To- ronto have been agitating for a law to restrain automobiles from using the public highways but so far have not been able to accom- plish anything. But gradually the nuisance is becoming more gen- eral. "Nearly every town in the prov- ince has its automobile now and some of them have more than one. The machines go scooting through the country in all directions and no road is sacred to them. Horses that are easily enough controlled in the presence of a railway train will go crazy at the sight of an automobile and accidents such as the above are happening all over the country. It will not be long before the automobile will drive the farmers off the public high- ways altogether unless something is done to restrain them. "The farmers built these high- ways in the first place and are taxing themselves every year to keep them in repair and it must be more than a little annoying to them to be thus dispossessed by this new machine. What they' ought to do is to pledge every candidate for parliament to use his vote and influence in favor of a law prohibiting automobiles from using the public highways altogether, or at least under con- ditions that will not interfere with traffic." SCOUTING, A refugee Boy Scout from Ger- many, now a Patrol Leader in a British Scout Troop, has been arwarded the Certificate of Gal- lantry for extinguishing several fires during an enemy air raid. An officer of the Iocal fire brigade related how the lard, Herbert Er - mann, aged 16, took considerable risk as the incendiary bombs were of the explosive type. Boy Scouts of Thorold, Ont., performed a useful service for the local Kiwanis Club, making a com- plete survey of their town to as- certain the names of all men on active service, so that each might be sent a Christmas box. Whilst hurryhig to work one morning, British Boy Scout James Eden, aged 15, heard that bombs had dropped near his home and demolished some houses. He ob- tained permission to return, and silent seven hours at considerable risk to himself assisting in rez- one work. For a great part of the time he worked in a space too small for a man to enter. When enemy aircraft bombs de- molished a school in the south of England recently, the head master died with many of his pupils. At Imperial Headquarters of the Boy Scouts this headmaster is listed with a record of 18 years devoted service as 'Scoutmaster of his local troop. Richard Todd, a North 4 an- couver man now with time Mer- chant Marine, had a month to spare in tate Middle East while waiting for a ship. Iie spent that month organizing a .Boy Scout Troop among British boys who were stranded there for the dur- ation of the war. He secured per- mission to organize the Troop . from British headquarters, and bought uniforms for the boys from. the Boy Scouts Association of India. THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Hitler Must Defend 6,000 Miles Of Land and Seacoast Frontier Russian forces, attacking south of Stalingrad and In the great loop of the Don River, have penetrated the German defensive lines, taken great numbers of prisoners and war material and threatened to out off the whole of the Nazi forc- es between Stalingrad and the Don River, German forces in the Caucasus are being held to a standstill as the severe Russian winter sets in. • Three .months ago the Luftwaffe made its first concentrated attack on Stalingrad with orders to ;mash resistance and open the way to the panzer divisions. To- day, dispirited and exhausted Ger- mans are fighting desperately, not to occupy the city, but to pre- vent a major disaster by Red Army encirclement. The German Triangle It is two thousand miles from the German outposts on the Span- ish border to the North Cape of Norway, says the New York Times. It is another two thousand miles from the North Cape to the Caucasian oil fields. It is two thousand more miles from the Caucasus back to the Spanish bor- der. Within those lines lies the triangle of German power as the fourth Winter of the war begins. Hitler stands behind a three - cornered frontier with six thou- sand miles of land and seacoast to defend. At nearly every point along these lines the German position is, or soon will be, exposed to direct attack. On the west side of the triangle Britain already dem: inates both sea and air. What re- mains of the German Navy, ex- cept or submarines, is bottled up in continental ports. The initiative in the air attack has passed to Bri- tish hands. There are a hundred points on the Bay of Biscay and the long Norwegian coast that can be hit by cdrnmando raids in steadily greater force. War, Cold, Hatred On the east side of the triangle there is war every foot of the way across the plains of Russia. There is war; and there is cold; and there is the fierce hatred of people who have scorched their land rather than let it yield an ounce of sustenance to the invader. On the south side of the triangle the line is safely anchored, at its eastern end, in the neutrality of Turkey. But west of Turkey lie Bulgaria and Rumania, fair-weath- er allies of the Axis; Yugoslavia, already in revolt; Italy, smolder- ing with trouble; the inadequate- ly protected southern coast of France, vulnerable to attack by a series at island stepping -atones across the Mediterranean *cm Africa Within The Triangle Hitler must .mount guard over a front lige six thousand miles in length. And even then his task is only half completed. For this line along which he fights to defend his power faces in both direc- tions. It faces out, against en- emies who are in an increasingly favorable position to deal him heavy blows, Au•d it faces in, against enemies who will give him no quarter when he falters. We may be sure that the coincidence of throe great historical facts-- Rommel's rout in Egypt, the suc- cessful landing of the Americans in North Africa and the final smashing of Hitler's 1942 offens- ive by the amazing Russian arm- ies --has fired the people of every temporarily conquered nation in Europe with fresh faith in an Al- lied victory and new courage for the unrelenting war of sabotage in which they are engaged. From this point forward Hitler will meet with even more determined op- position from within his triangle than any he has yet had to face. He will have to make war upon whole populations. He will have to area his soldiers against death and terror in the dark. He will have to beat down the mounting doubts of his own people, And he will have to mobilize, for u war of defense on many fronts, a German industry and a German transpor- tation system which have already felt the srear,and tear of three hard years of war. Design of Winter This is the situation as Hitler enters the fourth Winter of the war of his own choosing. But the design of this approaching Winter is not of his own choosing. He did not plan the war this way. It was his purpose and his plan to iso- late his enemies, destroy them one by one, find Quislings who could do his work for him suc- cessfully and harness a great com- pany of slave states to the Ger- man Reich. Now he finds this pur- pose thwarted, and opposition mounting on all sides. There will be long, hard fighting before this war ends in the destruction of Hitler and his armies. But we now have reason to believe that this fighting will take place whol- ly within, and at no point outside, the present triangle of German power. THE UNCONQUERABLES Through Storm and Gunfire To Service Arne Jensen was 22 the day the Germans invaded his native city of Bergen in Norway, "I think maybe it was that morning I be- came a man," he said later. "It is a terrible thing to realize an enemy has invaded your home- land and that you can do nothing. I hope you people in the United States realize what such a thing means." Arne knew he could never sur- render or accept the Nazi rule. Sonia day, he realized, he must escape and carry on the fight for a free Norway. One night a .member of the Nor- wegian "Underground" told him to hurry to a waterfront rendez- vous. Waiting in a 52 -foot fishing boat with a battered old .rotor were six other men and two wom- en—one a nurse, the other the wife of an American -Norwegian. * * * With the stealth of a lengthen- ing shadow in the evening sky, the little boat slipped out to sea, to begin a voyage of 300 miles. Before long the boat was tossed about in a sudden storm. "The waves dashed Lace time sides," Arne said. "We bailed furiously to keep from being swamped, Every minute we thought we would sink." When the storm ended at dawn, everyone was exhausted. But there was to be no rest. A (1.man patrol plan dived out of the morn- ing sun and machine gun bullets splattered all about them, Three "A Chaser Needed" RSaki. PO% . A PEN mums umit,E- F E0 Dele E GT MY BleYCI.E. igen times the plane dived to the at- tack. When it soared off, one pas- senger had been killed, and water was pouring through bullet holes in the bottom of the craft. While Arne and a companion plugged up the holes with pieces of their clothing, someone said a prayer. The old motor sputtered on, tarrying them steadily closer to the Shetland Island. That night another storm blew up. The little band struggled through the long hours once more to keep their craft afloat. "At times," said Arne, '9t. seemed almost hopeless, Bet we kept bailing." The storm wore itself out at dawn on the second day, and a few hours laxer they sighted the Shetland Islands. 'There friendly hands helped them ashore. -fed thein, and gale them shelter until the authorities cout3 inverei Bate their papire. 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