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(By Doon Campbell, Reuters Correspondent, who landed on the beacher with the Allied Com- mandos on June 6, 1944, and has just re-visited them)
The Beachos, Normandy, June 7. A goat tothored to a post has the ditch-a shallow ditch about 200 yards
from the shingly beach-all to itself now. Six years ago today men dodged death and fought for life in that ditch. They clowed at the soggy soil for depth that meant shelter from a withering hail of German mortars and shells.
ANTI-RED BILL IN CAPETOWN
cemeteries.
Earth spurted in with every year after year, either to see the explosion and water seeped bridge again or to say a prayer at through their clothes; but the one of the many nearby military wounded, Arst victims of the "I have so тапу English Allled Invasion of Europe, friends," he said. "They write to thanked God for that damp,ine and come here and go to the dirty ditch.
kitchen and make their own tea Most of the men, lugging heavy-just like home." packs and collapsible bicycles Major John Howard, of Oxford, scrambled on over the ditch. has written in Gondree's visitor's A few moments earlier these book: "Our success signal-ham Capetown, June 8.
Commandos in green berets, their and Jam. Visits 1944. 1040, 1947, The South African Govern-faces smeared with camouflage 1049 and many more I hope."
Orderly rows of white crosses, ment's new Anti-Communist grense, tumbled off rainps drop. Bill, presented in place of ped from invasion craft on to the each with a name and a rank,
coast of Normandy, another which the Opposition
They tried to bolt up the beach had criticised as giving the but the weight slowed them.
They edged along Government "tyrannous con-
wall, crossed the rond and the trol over polítical activity," ditch anct the enemy-ridden specifically outlaws the Com-woods beyond swallowed them munist Party of South Africa. up.
The new measure was given a Arst reading in the House of As- sembly yesterday and its terms were published today.
a garden
The casualties stayed in the ditch watching the war-winning guns and tanks, first a trickle then a flood, pour ashore.
They would hardly recognise their diteli now. It looks deeper Under the new measure, or-and safer than ever it did then ganisations promoting Communis- und gruss covers all the scars. ile activities could be declared unlawful and certain periodicals or other publications could be prohibited.
Clean again
And the beach, that bloody
A man got off his cycle to offer a pamphlet.
"A free souvenir", he said.
mark the cemeteries.
Local people honour the dead with fresh flowers,
Some people come back every year, horing unidentified soldiers will bear a naine the name of father. husband, brother or son.
the
crosses
Caen rebuilding
of
THREAT TO
RUBBER SUPPLIES
Washington, June 7.
A warning that Russia was threatening the United States natural rubber sup- plies marked the start of the Senale hearings today on the future of the Government's synthetic rubber industry.
Senator Lyndon Johnson (De- mocrat, Texas), Chairman of, a Senate Armed Services Sub-Com- Harbour had the free world's sup- mittee, said that not since Pearl ply of natural rubber been in such great and visible peril..
He said that Communist control or Communist seizure of South East Asia, the source of 6 per cent, of the world's natural rubber supply, In not impossible, nnel must be reckoned with in policy "Rubber could be cur first decisions about synthetic rubber. Casualty in the cold war," Sona-
for Johnson sakt.
The United States is increnning the output of its synthetic rubber industry because. of waning_sup- plies and soaring pricer of South East Asia's natural rubber.
Plants now in operation could step up production perhaps 20 per cent or more to 'rate well over 500,000 tons a year, officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation estimated.
In Caen, battered and braken but freed more than a month after the landing, a man knelt in There were no plans and. no Confessional in the shell of the necessity, a spokesman sald, to Church of St. Pierre and a band bring into production the United banged out a samba in a night-States Government's "moth-ball- club.
ed" plants which stood idle for any future war emergency.
the The demands on
RFC- operated industry from American, rubber companies had mounted by the month as prices for na
ural rubber increased.
The June' output of synthetle rubber would be 20,000 tona and the July production 24,000 tons, not counting private pro-
Great new housing schemes, models of architectural simplici- ty and practical efficiency, are replacing bomb-baltered ruins.
Churches in Caen at throughout Normandy still bear the most naked scars of
"We expect to go higher than that," the spokesman said.
The Finance Corporation esti- mated that United States con- rubber sumption of synthetic would reach 480,000 long tons this year at the present rate of
It increases the maximum beach, mined and raked by coas- penalty for certain offences to 10tal batteries, is quiet and clean
Pit-props still hald up some years, compared with Ave years and bare again.
The only noise now comes from houses and one large store can In the original Bill.
Communism, for the purpose the gentle waves and the ham- only do business on the first two because the top two are of the Bill, also includes any doc-mers knocking back a roof rip- doors
gutted. At least one Bailey bridge trine or scheme which aims at per off on D-day.
The barbed wire, stashed be- still spans the canal. But the the encouragement of feelings of
duction. June 6, 1944, is drobness has gone and the lem- between European and fore dawn on hostility
porary wooden shacks are vanl non-European races of the Union. rusty.
The Governor-General is en- An old bool belonged to something from this town which is
rising again. abled to declare as unlawful by soldier. proclamation Eray organisation which professes or has, on or after May 5,
5, 1950, and before the commencement of the Act, pro- fessed by its name or otherwise to be an organisation for propa- gating the principles or promot- ing the spread of Communisin.
An organisation insy be declar- ed unlawful if the Governor- General is satisfied that its pur- pose or one of its purposes is to propagate the principles of or promote the spread of Commu- nism, or the further achievement of any of the objects cf Commu- nism.-Reuter.
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It told the story of the Second Front landing on Sword Deach.
The wreckage of ships that still never reached the beach sticks out above the surface of the Channel a grim and weird reminder of it all.
The other beaches-Juno, Gold
and Omaha-are much the same Pill-boxes are still thera
war.
So many churches had. their demand. towers and turrets shot, off be- Of this, 64,000 tons would be cause so often snipers took up turned out by private companies, position in them ond could be the rest by Government plants. silenced only by blowing themReuter.
down.
Lack of money slows up the patching and repairing of these holy places.
38 children
38 years
"the Atwood, Oklahoma, June 7.
Marshall Aid has helped Le Havre, one of the most devastat A board advertises bathing ed cities of France, to make. a. sults and fishing nets near spectacular come-back from a Omaha,
deadliest down and out port to of the one beaches, where American a. second in the country. sault troops fought all day and took about 50 per cent losses to gain a toe-hold.
Six years ago Le Havre had lost: 12,500 buildings; 80 per cent of 14 miles quays; alx-sevenths of storage Instellations; seven dry docks; and 00,000 inhabitants."
Before leaving the Germans The squat pill-boxes with Bop-blasted everything in the port not ping, uscless guns trained on the already shattered by more than
The only boards six years ago bad skull and cross-bones and
aid "mines" in German.
beaches are still there, ugly as
ever.
One has a lot of initials-and a few hearts pierced by Cupid's arrows-scratched
Its rough concrete-surface.-
on
Two navvies baltered straight the steel wire lacing these relles
of the Atlantic Wall.
of
120 air raids.
Three hundred wrecks showed above the harbour waters.
Modern port
Thirty-eight children in 301 years-that is the motherhood record claimed by Mrs. George Berry, an Oklahoma farm wife.
Like the woman in the nursery rhyme who had so many children she didn't know what to do, Mrs. Berry, who is 66, has had so many she has a hard time keeping count
of them.
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to 1039 she gave birth to the CHANGE following: one set of quintuplets, one set of quadruplets, three Today, Le Havre is 60 per cent sets of triplets, five sets of twins, reconstructed and the population and 10 children born singly. All has climbed back to 125,000 com- 38-28 boys and 10 girls-were by
There are many memorials inpared with the pre-war 155,000. her first husband, John Womack, brick, stone and granite rising it is fast shaping into one of the who died in 1939. The children from dy ttle flower gardens. most modern and best equipped w
were horn in or near Dallas, Some are to the glory of the ports in the world.
Marshall Plan millions to Nor-Texas. Only 11 are still living. voldiers" or to "remind future generations
childhood the sublime mandy include such allocations Many died at birth or in early
as: 69,000,000 francs for hospital
"There are few records to sup- Heroes."
Sotteville, outsido Rouen; Many of the streets, shops, at
her port
claim. However, the hotels and cafes have new names 30,600,000 francs for school at
awarded 1940 as like The sacred road of the Caen: 20,903,175 francs for school Kiwanis Club of Dallas Liberator" Hotel "Happy Land- at Coutances; 17,750,000 franes her with a gold medal in
Villers-Bocago; the most prolide mother in that ing" and "Rue Marshal Montgo- for hospital at
and 8,250,000 francs for school ateity. The Club checked with |mery."
neighbours and credited her with Georges Gondree, "Brat French-St. Lo
Small town rehabilitation 37 children, most of them barn in man to be liberated," has chang-
no less impressive the family home. She has since ed the name of his place from efforts are
recalled an additional son, Floyd, "Station Cafe" to "Pegasus Bridge than the big projects.
Near by, a pile of rubble is a born in 1938-United-Press.
new town Villors gleaming Bocage,
Argences, which had not a window for more than two years, has neat, red-led roofs now,
Cafe."
He gives guests cards with the Airborne crest and the words in Airborne maroon: "15 yards from the first bridge to be captured by the 6th Airborne Division on the night of June 5/0,"
9th. G. 10th.
Walter Pidgeonment of bagpipes.
FOREIGN OFFICE DENIAL
London June 6.
However long and painful the process, Normandy is perceptib
A Foreign Office spokesman ly getting back to peace.
The hedges along which men today denied news agency re- crawled for cover are thick again ports (not Reuter) that the Prime and the apple-trees, stunted by Minister, ME, Clement Attlee, ed assumed "charge of the Foreign shells, are bearing fruit.
Hubbor-wheeled tractors moveOmce, along good roads once pot-holed
Gondree remembers Commando Leader Lord Lovat making the vital link-up with the Airborne June
on that bridge to the 'accompani- Clark Gable
Like most hotel-keepers in Van Johnson Brian Donlevy this area, Gondreo has a "season."
He said that the Minister of in /
It begins a few days before June
by steel-tracked tanks, and cows State, Mr. Henneth punger, is the rich in charge of the Foreign Office 'COMMAND DECISIÓN” [“.
His big regret Is that he has are grazing nguin on only two rooms to accommodate pasture without fear of going up during Mr. Ernest Bevin's illness. the scores of people who come on mines.-Reuter.
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