HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1945-04-19, Page 2THE SKIRL -O -THE PIPES
The stirring wail of the Scottish bag -pipes re3ound over the quiet of a Dutch countryside, while
these pipers of a Canadian Highland regiment practice behind the lines. Pte. W. D. Dewar of Glen_
Nevis, Ont., shows these wee Dutch kiddies the "mysteries" of a set of pipes, while Pte. J, A.
MacKenzie, Toronto gives them a Scottish tune.
NEW CANADIANS' ASSEMBLY LINE
Thousands of babies will be washed and dressed on this assembly
line in the next year or two when most of the 26,000 British wives,
who married Canadian servicemen overseas, and their babies will be
coming to Canada to their new homes. The Canadian National
Railways, with the co-operation of the Canadian Red Cross Society
has set up a nursery, special rest room and a welcome canteen at
Bonaventure Station for their convenience when passing through
Montreal, centre for connecting trains to all parts of the Dominion.
The photograph shows members of the Voluntary Nursing Auxiliary
of the Red Cross caring for the babies, while the insets show two
of the nurses minding babies while the mothers rest.
BRITISH AND INDIANS TRAIN TOGETHER
British, Ind:an and Gurkha paratroops are being trained intensively
at a parachute school somewhere in Northern India. Volunteers
come from all units in India, and in six days, are turned into efficient
parachutes with six jumps to their credit.
Photo shows paratroops dropping from a plane in quick suc-
cession during their training.
GOERING DECORATES NAZI AIRMEN
7n his first pubiic appearance in months, Hermann Goering, left,
is • shown congratulating two Luftwaffe officers after decorating
them on November 15, according to caption of this photo radioed
from Stockholm.
UPPED IN SHIFT
Marshal Alexander
General *Wilson
In a shift of command necessitated
by the recent death of Sir John
Dill, Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G.
Alexander was promoted to field
marshal and appointed supreme
Allied commander in the Mediter-
ranean theater. He replaces Gen.
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who
goes to Washington to represent
Great Britain on the Allied war
council, where he will also be
Prime Minister Churchill's per-
sonal representative, suceeding the
late Field Marshal Sir John Dill.
NOT SO BIG.
Boris Zulauf, 18, a worker with
Canadian Vickers, Montreal, build-
ers of the famous Catalina (PB'S'')
flying boats, is here seen verifying
the electric wiring on one of the
motors. The kid—for he is ju
a Tad --is hardly 5 feet tail, but he
knows his business. Said he v
the photographer caught Inn: "I'd
do anything to see more and more
A those babies take off to fight
the Nazis."
TOUGH JOB AHEAD
Tomasz •Areszewski, above, 68 -
year -old Socialist leader who has
been placed at the helm of the new
Polish cabinet in London, has
pledged himself to seek a settle-
ment of tha controversial Polish -
Russian problem.
`NEIGHBOR' CHIEF?
Nelson Rockefeller, above, co-
ordinator of. Inter -American Af-
fairs, and boyhood friend of
Secretary of State Stettinius, may
be namel Assistant Secretary of
State, with Latin American re-
lations as his specific bailiwick.
BLAST OPEN ANTWERP PORT
A mine explodes near the shore as the British Navy clears the
Scheldt River, .:paratory t,. opening the strategic port of Antwerp
tel Allied shipping. The entire Scheldt channel has been swept clear
mines and large co.lvoys now are steaming into Antw .rp harbor
regularly.
'MEIN DUCKS'
The German "kampfschwimmer" or "battle swimmer". above
struggles to don "duck feet," part of swimming gear to blow up
bridges, according to German caption on photo, which was radioed
from • Stockholm.
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The map above shows Germany's Ruhr Valley area—som6100 square miles wherein is co::..en-
trated what has been called the World's most powerful center of' ndustrial activity. In effect, it is
a gigantic coal pile which stokes German industries. From it they get well over 100,000,000 tons
or hard coal a year and Ruhr coke smelts three-quarters of the Reich's iron and steel output, Over
its flat landscape, grimy with work -dust, hangs a pall of smoke from the thousands of factory chim-
neys that needle up from the close -packed towns. Once the core of German strength, some ob-
servers now see the Ruhr as Germany's Achilles' heel—an all -vital spot whose destruction or cap-
ture by the Allies would so wreck war production that Hitler's armies simply could not carry on.
BENITO BIDS ADOLF ADIEU
An emaciated and careworn Benito Mussolini stands at the
window of a train somewhere in Germany and bids goodbye to his
Axis partner Adof Hitler, The photo was taken from a captured
G r r el which recorded the Facist leader's visit to the
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