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Zurich Herald, 1945-02-22, Page 6THE SKI 1,0 -THE PIPES The stirring wail of the Scottish bag -pipes resound 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 .Rte. 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, Indian 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 In his first public appearance in months, Hermann Goering, left, is shown congratulating two Luftwaffe officers after decorating thein on November 15, according to caption of this photo radioed from Stockholm. UPPED IN SHIFT TOUGH JOB AHEAD Tomasz Arciszewski, 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 the controversial Polish - Russian problem. 'NEIGHBOR' CHIEF? MEL 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 (PBY) flying boats, is here seen verifying the electric wiring on one of the motors. The kid—for he is jus 7 a lord ---is hardly 5 feet tall, but he knows his business. Said he v t m the photographer caught hm: "I'd do anything to see more and more A those babies take off to fight the Nazis." 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 explodes near the shore as the British Navy clears the Scheldt River, ,paratory tc opening the strategic port of Antwerp to Allied shipping. The entire Scheldt channel has been swept clear .,f mines and large co_ivoys 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. BUN' 4:41101,.. 3 $ ���4HerM'o elsenkircheo Doundi.-; ti �� I� ESSEN •:a: I <:?:�Gv-? B • ochuth II111I11111111111111111 �bhf\'n w ! "J Bensberg• q►i� 111111 1111111 The map above shows Germany's Ruhr Valley area—somi: 6100 square miles wherein is co_s:.en- trated what has been called the world's most powerful center of industrial 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. 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