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Zurich Herald, 1945-03-08, Page 6THE SKIRL -O -THE PIPES The stirring wail of the Scottish bag -pipes refound 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. UPPED IN SHIFT Noe Marshal Alexander .. 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 y.• .may'Ap :::�p .. . 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 them on November 15, according to caption of this photo radioed from Stockholm, 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 fiend 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 Dal. NOT SO BIG Boris Zulauf, 18, a worker with Canadian Vickers, Montreal, build- ers of the fantous Catalina (PBY) flying boats, is here seen verifying the electric wiring on one of the motors. The kid -for he is ju; a kid—is hardly 5. feet tall, but he knows his business. Said he v./J:1 the photographer caught. Inn: "I'd do anything to see more and more 3f those babies take off to fight the Nazis," TOUGH JOB AHEAD Tomasz Arciszewski, above, 68 - year -old Socialist leader who haE been placed at the helm of the new Polish cabinet in London, has pledged himself to seek a settle- ment of 'th.: controversial Polish - Russian problem. 'NEIGHBOR' CHIEF? Nelson Rockefeller, above, co- ordinator of Inter -American Af- fairs, and boyhood friend of Secretary bf State Stettinius, may be namel Assistant Secretary of State, with Latin American re- lations as his specific bailiwick. BLAST OPEN ANTWERP PORT Alf Q'r}si.::.:i.M:;.:.;<::'i.�A�s�i�.(�'•.:Yi�i::�:.::........: A mine explodes near the shore as the British Navy clears the Scheldt River, .paratory ti. opening the strategic port of Antwerp tr Allied shipping. The entire Scheldt channel has been swept clear .0 mines and large co.rvoys 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. 3emborn fayg Oct?? ' Geisenkirclien, al•l' ee., ",5.S.P.1 T4 --� Oberhausen bUISBURG Mulheim Hattingen Veibert DUSSELD0110 Dulken •Hogen 9 "41.,I tj chweIrn1 Wuppertal ' 'JAI fl ;ams Reid -Z' Solingen Ludenschoid •'fir''. AREA OF MAP The map above shows Germany's Ruhr Valley area—som, 6100 square miles wherein is cc_..ea- 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 itsflat 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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