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The Seaforth News, 1944-06-29, Page 6As calm and peaceful as if the war were on another planet is the scene above, which shows some of Gen, Claire L. Chennault's fighters in the China -Burma theater of operations relaxing at Camp Schiel. Located .o.ri one of •China's most healthful plateaus, Camp Schiel is equipped with basketball courts, boats, hunting facilities and tennis courts. I CHRONICLES Sy Cwendotine P. Clarke [ of MUER FARM • • • Vi'S.1 you i -nue exploring, with did you et er see a wild cane y just you and 1 and Tippy. quite so yellow._ and hear how Yon will? — that's fine, then let's sweetly he sings. he Ilut wait, we had better * * takt that mosquito dope along — nasty little animals, those mosqui- tos,. they can sure take the joy out life. It's pretty warm, you tbt.i? Well, vest, but then it's stmostertime, isn't it, 50 Willa else cat; me expect? WI: Will brats: lane, through the oastmet fiet., across the bush and over to tht ;rack. Yes. you guessed it — NN0 7i to go exploring for wild strsw•serrie,.. -Nvonderitil growth of gtxs. there is in the lane — that'a hes: use the cattle 'have not sect btes Stistured here — next week it will 'se a different story, and the w1 .og a tittle easier. See how welt • the ring crop looks,.. yes. there arc :llistles there — and chicory ::L•ng the fences. -e don't like tn of them at till but still tiv-t•-•• is a -limit to what one man l -tis wife can do on a hintilred aerss. I.00lt — it look — over tilts., near that blackthorn tree... TITO'S RIGHT HAND Responsible for planning of many of the Yugoslav guerrilla battles against Germans is Maj. Gen, Arse Yovanovich, above, chief of staff for Marshall Tito, famed Partisan chieftain., Now we must Mint for that place in the fence where we always get through to the track. How the years fly... such a little while it scents shire daughter and our wee son came exploring with rim. And how soon they tired of picking ber- ries — the creek 1.003 a much great- er attraction. There Was far more water- in the creek in those days and in it both the children learnt to swim. Right here at this bend we called it "the raspberry cor- ner -- is where Bob nearly drowned. He was about three years nit and was playing happily at the edge 1'11 the creek while 1 Was teach- ing sister toawirn. Buthe didn't stay there... and he went down twice before t reached: him. Well, here we it at the track. Mercy — where's Tippy? I hear a. train vein -ling --it will -scar- the life out of her, "Hero. Tinny... (tome herr little dog. Yes, we'll pick you up and hold you good 3114 tight until the train has gone by. Don't tremble so, little slog, noth- ing is going tit hurt you. See, there's the ensile driver waving to 11s." s u Well now, we had better start looking for [i'a lvteris' 15 eal earnest, After all. that's what we. came for, wasn't it? Or was it; Strange how even a wild straw- berry patch xvill run our. This 13 the place where titer berries were so thick year after year — and now there is hardly a berry, tut here IS a "NO, Tippy, T ant not Isiteclittg lottotOpl.iy with scram now.., ao clue a rabbit,Nw can. I pick berriesif yon sit clown On top of them?" And so it goes... wo wander around, pi -king whet-, we can, rlimbing, fences when we coil.' to them, swatting, every now and then, at mosquitoes which persist in attacking as despite our attempts to repel than. We ..re enjoying our rendezeons with natare, and we don't want to go hisme.• But we stands There are hens and chickens to feed and, on a .11k night like this, Partner will be looking for a drink while he milks. Come to think of it, we could. do with a - drink ourselves. THE HITLER GANG "Four heads ache worse than one'might be the title of this new photo, just received from neutral sources, showing Adolf Hitler with rnilitary, -naval and civilian chieftains during recent inspection at the Fuehrer's headquarters. Left to right are Hitler, Field Marshal Keitel, chief of staff, Admiral Donitz, navy commander. and Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo. How many berries ltavi we goL? Is that really so important? Well, • if you must know there are enough to make 0 goon feed for two peo- ple for dinner tomorrow! Was it worthwhile, did you say? wouldn't it have been more practi- cal to slip down town and buy a quart, eveu 51 1150? Well, that de- pends on tmes sense of values, Out here where, as one looks to- wards the far distant horizon — which doesn't seem SC) very distattt after all ,-- earth and heaven seem to merge into one. - There is A 'pent: that passes all understand- - Mg" and one's faith is once more restored, Faith that soon:110u, some- time, all the ugliness and suifets•- ing that is in the world today will come to an end. That out of the nittelstroin of human misery there will emerge a better world in which all men may live in pease. . * YOU 500 whatj moan? One can- not buy hope and a .nets faith with a box of berries from a store, but one can find thent out where the wild berries grow,. 001 where the • birds •din siams of freedom for all who wish to hear: • • - SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON July 9 TAKING POSSESSION OF CANAAN. — Joshua 13, 14; Judges 1:19-21, 27, 23. PRINTED TEXT. Joshua 148-14; Judges 1:20, 21. GOLDEN TEXT, — Thou hast wholy followed Jehovah. Joshua 14:9. Memory Verse: Thv i.ord is toy helper. I John's 11:1 THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. -- Th•xact time of mut lesson cannot be definitely deter- mined, but most be int some- where between 131)11 and 13711 1, C. Place. — inano geographi- cal terms are nientioued in this lesson, the principal ',lave is Itch- ron, south of 3 ecu -bit, still 't great city. The Portion For Caleb "'nen the children of Judah drew night unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of jepluirmell the It:L.510011e said unto hint, Thou knowe,t the thing that Jehovah spoke unto Moses the man of God concerning me and conceraing Thee in Kadesh-barnea." Caleb 'Fleets his old comrade and leader, and reminds him of the 1•ortl which Jehovah liatl spoken to Moses con- cerning them both (14;24, 30). "Forty years old was 1 when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnett to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart." \Vet! would Joshua and Caleb remember the day \ellen they were sent by oses to spy out the land, They satv all the il11ficulties and dangers. but in tbteir 018100 they Saw that with God on their side all wonlii be well, Blessings for the Faithful "Nevertheless my brethren that Went up with me... because 'll'hoti hest wholly followed Jehovah my God." Caleb anti Joshua threw their whole power into the effort trssave the people front cowardice and di- saster, wholly following the Lord, Great blessings are promised to the fait] fel who follow the Lord, not partially but wholly. "And now behold Jehovah ha th kept me alive... even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and (0 conic in," God not only prolonged his life but had pre- served his strength in full vigor. There is no doubt that Godliness tcnds to congevity. or that by liv- ing for self and sin we shorten life. Caleb's Inheritance "Now therefore give 1110 this THE WAR - WEEK — COMmentary on Current Events New U. S. Superfortresses Strike Mighty Blow At Industrial Japan America struck a mighty blow against Japan last week, says The New York lines. Making their first offensive thrust against Nip - pons home islands, the new 13-21) Superfortre,x,, operating from bases in China, struck al inclustrial japan in the longest -ranged air raid. in history. The air blow at japail brought into play 0 battleship of the air that reduced the Flying 'Fortress, Liber- ator, Lancaster and Halifax- to the status of ntedium bombers. De- signed and built under wartime pressure, the Superfortress• 1 I 1.2 - foot wingspan compared with the 103 feet of the Fortress; its 118 - foot length to the Fortress' 72 -foot length, It is armed with 50 -caliber machine guns and 20 -mm. cannon mounted itt power turrets that can be swung in all directions. Powered by four 2,200 -horsepower Wright engines (the Flying Fortress uses four 1,200 -horsepower engines) it is reported able to carry more bombs farther and faster than any other plane in the world, perhaps rie,oarellt.a fifth or the way around the %d Days of Preparation .\• tremendous effort was re- quired to bring these huge planes into combat. In India tens of thou- sands of Indians and thousands of Americans labored building rear bases for the big ships. The Ame- ricans worked sixteen and eighteen hours a day and astonished British "old India hands" by persuading Indiaus to work similar hours. In China, INhere advanced -bases were built, the task was even more dif- ficult, The story of how the /1-29 bases in China were built is one of the most inspiring of the war. Plans for the bases were developed in Washington in the fall o[ 104.1. In mid-January, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ordered the greatest con- scription of man -power int Chinese history since conslametion of the Great Wall 2,000 years ago. ;Vithin 17 days, an initial force of 200,00n Chinese peasants and been assembled at the site in West China and the work began without cement mixing, rock crushing or road building machinery, or other meek:mint devices. The 1115000 50/04 provided by lot - 'man beings; the equipment was their hands. The force sometimes numbered 4:10,outi. The crushed rock used for each of the fields was enough for a 20 - foot wide highway 50 miles in length, Tell Chinese also !milt bar- racks for crews of the 11-20's but material was staree so the build - logs Were primitive affairs, 2000 -Mile Trip .\11nost a year to the day after the first Superfortressei rolletl off the assembly lines, the Twentieth le Force, set up itsperially for these huge aircraft, to employ them for strategic purt.o.(es anywhere in the world, :sent them snit for their first 111/0 Or mission over the east China Sea to Japan. a trip imt and back that could. not have been less Malt atm() miles and was probably nitwit more. Long-range flights in the European theatre seldom ex- ceed 1,1100 miles. The first Superfortresses arrived over their target, Yawata, center of the Japatto-e steel industry, source of perhaps 80 per cent of Japans pig iron, at 0:50 in the evenings sent huge bloek-husters doe It on Lite forest of chimneys below. Japanese searchlights sought out the tiny specks that may have been a5,050 feet or more in the air. hillscou n try, whereof Jehovah apoke in that day; for thou hearti- est in that clay how the Analchn ,,vere there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that jelteivalt will be With Me, and 1 shall drive them out, as Jehovah spoke." The hill -country was still in the hands of the enemy but Cala) knew that if God was with hitn, and be had no doubt about this, tlien none could withstand 'Anti „Joshua blessed him: and he gave 11 001011 unto Caleb the son of lephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became the in- heritanee of Caleb the son of je- phmineh 0 Kenizzite unto this clay; because that he wholly fol- lowed Jehovah, The Cot! of Israel." For the third time we are re- minded of Caleb's whole -hearted allegiance to the Lord, and this time we are told it was because of this that this special inheritance twos granted to hitm Success Through Faith "And they gave Hebron unto ("aleb, 05 Moses had spoken: and he droves out thence the three sons of Anak. And the children of Ben- jantin in jernsalem Onto ads day," Caleb was a man of faith and com- pletely succeeded in the difficult tasks which he believed God led him to undertake: the children of Israel dqually promised victory over their 'ellen-dos, did aot eonmlete these victories as they should, hat fnilerl to utterly drive out the ene- my, IniR 1' 11 tv did hot frl'oa the An tisairera Ft fire filled the skies. Night fighters roared to the attack. All But Four Return All but four of the Superfortress- es came back safely. Tn o were lost in operational accidents and the crew of 000 was saved. One •was clowned by the Japanese. The fourth is listed as "missiag." Jap- anese propagandists told their peo- ple: 'We should not think that wet have been passively attacked, but that we have actively pulled the ettemy toward us." Allied observ- Ors estimated the raid had knocked out la per cent M japan's steel productioos at least temporarily. The attacle opened the possibility that soon japan would suffer the same kind of strategic bombing that bas cut so heavily into Ger- man war production. Japan, ex- perts have pointed out, is more vulnerable to air attack than Ger- 711tInY. japan's industry • is largely concentrated in six major areas, four of them on the island of Hon- shu and tWo on the island of Kyu- shu. It would take less effort to spread havoc here than it did to damage Germany's more widely :antlered industrial Centers, Iceland Severs. Denmark Ties 'rhe people of Iceland, one of tl:c world's oldest democracies, voted 70,520 to 31S5 to sever their 700 -year-old ties with Denmark and form an independent republic, final figures an last week's plebis- cite just released showed. ' About 98 per cent of the eligible voters on the island participated. The young republic probably will be proclaimed Tune 17, an. Iceland national holiday. The Milling, Iceland's legisla- tive body, prepared to convene June 10 to name the island's first President, who will serve for one year. Thereafter, a president will be elected by the people for a four- year term. They Were Waiting To See Montgomery That's a nic5 little story which has tickled out of Denmark re- garding R.:noon:1's anti -invasion inspection. A crowd of Danes filed the street in front of Rommel's hotel in Copenhagen, but remained af- ter he had 0010C out and had driv- en away, 'Phe police tried to move them on, but without SUCell,A, and finally they asked them why they waited. "We're waiting to see Monigl.. niery", several of them repliesi, "He always romes along right hi- liiiid Romniel." Production of dates 10 the (jolted Strays iris increasel to an soinual harvest of about 1 5,000,1100 pounds- three times as notch as 10 sears ttgo. BEIVIEDALED PADRE vstemotslltstl'nri,Mis • Most decorated chaplain in this war is Albert John Hoffman, above. • of Dubuque, Ia., awarded the Dia. tinguished Service Cross at tho Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich, Award was given for extraordinary bravery in Italy, where Chaplain Hoffman lost his left leg. He also holds Purple Heart and Silver Star, latter given for bravery in African action. VOICE OF THE PRESS FINAL DOWNWARD STEP IStarshall Petah' has orderedFrench- men to obey all orders of the Ger- mans and to co-operate with thent against the allied invaders, an order which must forever remove the name of the aged marshall front the French hall of fame, —Niagara Falls Review TIP TO DEMOCRACIES This century isn't half gone and already the Germans have started two world wars. Perhaps hereaft- er the democracies will have sense--.--• enough not to pussyfoot when Ger- many begins to goose-step. —Kitchener Record TWO EXTREMES Korean women wear hats three feet in diameter, The other et- treme is three inebes, and our own darlings have gone thither, —Ottawa Citizen — SOMEWHAT ALIKE Hitler .says Ise has no intention of winding op his career as Napoleon did. Neither had Napoleon. —tjtiel3ec Chronie,le-Telegraph Chinese Use Pigeons In Jungle Warfare That the Chinese have used cars rier and racing pigeons for hund- reds of years is pointed out by a British officer in Calcutta, India, and he tells of one firm that has used them 1100 years without inter- ruption. The Chinese division he had been With in. Burma had great success with them in jungle war- fare. 15 HORIZONTAL 1 Pranksters' night. 8 Bull (Sp.). 9 God of love. 11 Ocean. 12 Stable division - 13 Color. 15 Deficient, 17 Penetrates. 20 Male parent. 21 Drone bee. 22 College cheer. 23 Paid publicity. 24 Railroad (abbr.), • 26 Form of "be.;' 27 Mimic. 29 Peruse, 31 Musical composition. 32 Let fall. 34 Old Testament (abbr.). , 36 Three -toed sloth. 38 Storehouse, BO Answer to Previous Puzzle VI OLE `50L. A Ygi. L! R A tit E S,!t T gt.aE TESPI D 1 riCqiil opmp !' HE I RS gl0S:- C OP 0 I AL 11:11114, FIR ET MY5'L, R ti N G 1./ E M A T VIOES 40 Mal'elous fa iy of this night. 42 Sturdy tree, 43 She rides a broom tonight, 45 Electrified particle. 413 Edge. 48 Canon, 49 Adherent of NestoriuS VERTICAL 1 H dclen supply 2 Land measure. 3 Not a winner. 4 Harangue, 5 Eel -catcher, 6 Comparative suffix. 7 Direction, 8 Afternoon in.trty: 10 Perceiv e. 05 11. Blemish, 14 Apothecaries` unit of weightt 15 Spain (abbr.). 16 Centers. 18 Nominated, 19 South Dakota (abbr,). 25 Knock, 26 Bustle, 28 Pictured vege- table promi- nent this day') 30 Arab. 31,Indian, 33 Ache 34 Whirlwind, 35 Expression of repugnance. 37 Opposed to out. 39 Swiss river. 41 Not high, 44 Also. 47 FO1'111 o "1." 48 Musical note,.