HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1944-10-26, Page 3WAR IS AN OLD, UL i STORY TO CHILDREN IN CHINA
Sturdily wielding three chopsticks instead of the usual two, this
Chinese baby, watched by his mother, eats in peace, if not in comfort.
Thousands of Chinese children were born in war and have never known
long their daily routine as to become accepted as a commonplace of
homes. This was at Tengchung, first Chinese city .east of Burma
This little Chinese refugee makes a charming picture as, carrying Fellow=refugees returning to Tengchung, a Chinese youngster helps
her family's belongings, she returns to her home in Tengchung. an old blind man over the heavy rubble that covers the streets.
any other way of life. Retreat before a relentless and cruel invader, or huddling in their huts in fear of his bombs and shells, has been so
existence. But recently in one city in China the tide turned, the invader was driven out, the refugees returned to what was left of their
to be freed, after five weeks of bloody fighting, by, Allied troops and Chinese. The photos above, showing scenes in liberated Tengchung.
AACHEN DEFENDERS CRY "KAMERAD"
Ready to call it quits, a group of Nazi soldiers with arms overhead are glad enough to surrender
to the Allies after five days of fierce fighting for the ancient city of Aachen. More than a thousand
enemy soldiers were captured during the first as sault on the besieged German :ity.
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ROYALTY SLEPT HERE
'Tell me, how does it feel to rest in a soft bed again," the corres-
pondent at the right asks four fellow reporters who make them-
selves t'home in the outsized bed in the late Kaiser's former home
near Spa, Belgium. "Home," they say, "was never like this."
IT'S WOOLLIES TIME IN HOLLAND
Armored troops in a front line holding position somewhere in Hol-
land, pause in their fighting to receive their first issue of cold
weather clothing, including the proverbial winter woolies, which
are being handed to the Allied soldier at the left,
AGA KHAN WE
S
Moulana Hazer Imam Sarkar
Sahib His Highness Sir Aga Sul-
tan Mahornmad Shah Aga Khan,
C. C. X. E. (top), better known
as the Aga Khan, recently was
married at Geneva, Switzerland,
to 38 -year-old Mlle. Yvette Blanche
Labrousse (below), pictured when
she won the title of "Miss Prance"
in an international beauty contest
in Argentina in 3930. The Aga
Khan, 07, one of the 'world's richest
trien, is spiritual 'head of 20,000,000
.ZViohaxnmedans in India,
SPECIAL ASSISTANT
Major General G R. Turner, C.S.,
M.C., D.C.M., 54, of Ottawa who
has been appointed special assist-
ant to the Department of Pen-
sions and National Health. Gen-
eral Turner, who recently returned
from overseas, has been on re-
tirement -leave from the Canadian
Army.
JUST TWO BOYS AT HEART
These two lads are tough .. they have to be .. they're members of one
of Canada's famous tank regiments. They indulge in a few minutes
of "horse -play" in front of their tank with Dutch head-dress tucked
into their berets. Canadian Army cameraman caught this pose some-
where in Holland.
A SMILE FROM A ROYAL VISITOR
Princess Elizabeth is shown talking to a wounded soldier during a visit to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
She accompanied the Queen on a round of visits in Aberdeen.