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THE SCENE of to-day's a moment's notice, once in, this fighting in Finnish Lap- same curly toe keeps it in place. land, where Soviet troops venient to carry them than to and Finns struggle for pos- manoeuvre them through the session of the Arctic Road, close-growing trees. is not familiar to many.
Fighters in this Northern A few fishermen of vary- Iand these days never see the ing nationalities go there sun. In fact all this month during happier times to they will probably see no day- catch the salmon and trout light.
Bétween noon and 3 p.m. a that abound in the lakes and
rosy glow on the horizon lights rivers. A handful of mo- up the snow in a theatrical and torists take their cars up romantic way.
the sandy high- way from the Arctic Circle, where the Hel- singfors - Rova- niemi railway ends, to Liina- hamari, the lee- free harbour on the Ocean.
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Beating The Bomber? THIS is a
war of paradoxes. Russia brands Britain and
what it has been urging them to do for years. For weeks the world's mightiest armies face each other without any fighting worth talking of taking place. It is therefore perhaps not surpris.
of any other race because they are a nomadic people.
The little Lapp, most timid
This is the Story of
A H
A
MOOI
H MOOI was six years. For a moment Ah Mooi's heart nearly stopped beating. old, small and golden She was terribly frightened and brown, slender. and was turning to run away when remembered the little brother fastened on her back. She stood quite still and held his small feet.
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How glad she was to hear someone calling.
THE southern half of the road and harmless of souls, travels with a mouth like a folded she
is pretty but monotonous. hundreds of miles every winter Endicas Ar-forests completely after new feeding-grounds for flower,
One lovely morning, when cover the rolling countryside. the reindeer that are his wealth. Living in their pointed skin Here and there a river cuts the road and while unfrozen must tents, they settle a while round all the rice had been gather- be crossed on a floating plat. some place where their beastsed and when Ah Mooi's
houf away the snow and
The creature stopped as in a ing notched billets of wood on browse on the moss they love. mother had a little time to
along and fastened large strap the wires that stretch from bank The men spear holes in the ice spare, she called Ah Mooi. moment a big "foreigner" came to bank. But beyond Ivalo, of the lake and fish under con-
Ah Mooi knew why she had to his Alsatian. When he saw which boasts a tiny hospital, a ditions freezing enough to deter hotel and a few shops, the the toughest of Messrs. Hardy's been called. For days she had the small Ah Mooi locking so so happy and excited, pale and frightened he spoke to her in Chinese and told her not по one would have
to be afraid. scenery improves. The enorm customers, Then, the feeding heen
its with all their belongings to the guessed this; Chinese children ous lake of Inari can be seen be ground laid waste, they move on (though
usually 80 grave and
tween the trees, with thousand little islands.
next suitable spot.
It is only in summer, when their are
# clonk, huge milts
there is a small Russian monas transport animals. He and all his necessary of his reindeer to act as
been
A
Soon Ah Modi was telling him
to her mother.
ing that the claim of Dr. Gocb-
Tai she would be punished. bels' Propaganda Ministry that
At Salmijarvi and Pitkajarvi reindeer are turned loose to range at tranquil) for she had been pro that if anything had hurt Ah fifty per cent of the British air- where battles are now being wall over the w long that the in one mised that soon she was to The foreigner said he would take Lapp stays any length of time in one planes which raided Wilhelm- fought, is the grandest stretch place and even then he makes many begin to carry Ah Tai ("Little her home and explain everything
canoes, in-Brother") on her back. -of-country to be seen. Pitku- excursions in his skin shaven and Cuxhaven were jarvi, ("Jarvi" means "take"), cluding one grand trek down to A Rovaniemi to sell the skins collected brought down
particularly beautiful. tells heavily is
during the winter.
The reindeer provides the Lapp against Germany's chances of huge stretch of water is backed
by a great hill which in summer with his winter clothing of skin and FOR some months Ab Mool had THE foreigner, who was really A very kind doctor, loved ultimate success.
and winter is equally impressive. fura hood,
prepared for this. the Chinese as much as they all From the British point of The road runs along the cast and loose fur stockings to tuck into
shere and the western shore is his soft, high boots. These are also Sometimes several sticks would loved him. Very soon Ah Mooi
stuffed with straw against frost-bite. view these raids were highly in Norway.
wife be fastened to her back, then an was telling him how, to-day, Reindeer horn provides his with needles and weaving-shuttles old doll and later a bundle; and she had been allowed to carry successful; but no attempt has
North of this point irees and with pins for her hair. His Ah Mooi could hardly wait to be Ah Tai for the first time. been made to deny that the at- gradually_grow fewer and children drinic reindeer milk and his
allowed to have Ah Tai fastened While she was chattering away tacking force suffered heavy smaller. The next stop on the feasts are at reindeer meat,
Then, too, he trains as many as in the me-tani which grand-in her silvery voice the doctor bus route is Yialuoslari, where losses. Heavy losses, too, have
mother had embroidered so was watching her carefully, noticing that Ah Mooi's eyes been inflicted upon German air-tery and an inn. Some miles family and their luggage travel over beautifully.
were inflamed and sore. The. planes striving to bomb the further on is Alaluostari, where the snow in "puikas".
A me-lani is R large square doctor had lived a long time in English coast. And a German there is another Russian church. narrow, boat-shaped sleighs holding
Then there are no more signs one person only. Once in, you are sling made of strong cloth and China: one of the things that
in for good, no to speak. Should bomber was brought down by of human life until Liinahamari your very wild puller decide to run with coloured embroidery on it made him sad was that so many, away, you may turn somersaults and often of birds and flowers. It children suffered in this way the Royal Air Force Patrol be- is reached.
be dashed from rock to rock on the fore it reached British shores.
Because this harbour remains very hard ground but you cannot get has four long ends to fold and jand often went blind. These German losses have open throughout the sovereat out unless you cut the traces and let tie round the body. Very often
winter it was rapidly becoming him go. If you annoy your rein- been ascribed to marked nuperi- quite a sotticment. A large inn, deer he may turn round and try to the babies are nearly as big as ority in the British fighter a petrol station, several dwel- gore you pulka and all. But sup- the small children who carry
posing you get a doelle beast, the
can attain them! planes. But the more considered ling-houses and godowns were motion is pleasant. He and generally accepted view is there when I last visited it five quito a considerable speed with his
years ago and by now it must clumsy, lolloping galt, and that air-defence is to-day so well be very much enlarged. All this many dozen miles a day under good organised and efficient that, tract of land north of Pitkajarvi is called Petsamo, so when the both in Germany and in Britain, it has got the upper hand over the attack.
Subsequent events may cause this judgment to be revised. But so far, it is the logical con- clusion from the course the war has taken.
conditions,
These are
cover
Ah Mooi came and listened whilst her mother told her how careful she was to be of Ah Tai. "If you sit, Ah Mooi, remember
Soviets claim to have conquered RESIDE the native Lapp, many to leave plenty of room for Ah
or captured it, it is probably an exaggeration.
Finns have settled up in the Tai behind!" northernmost parts of their country and the loss of their farms and over villages, burnt by retreating armies, wood. will cause terrible suffering.
Farmers and wood-cutters
almost insupor- times an extremely hard life.
He had found a way of
treating and often curing them, often too dillcult, for Chinese but it usually meant hospital parents are afraid of the"foreign devils.'
Somehow this was Ah Mooi's. lucky day, for just as her mother came out to meet her, the Chief.of the next village came by. He hurried forward and told Ak Mooi's mother how the wonderful foreign doctor: had cured his son's eyes some two or three years ago.
Progress by troops this sort of heavily ed, country is of necessity desolate regions lead utter in these SOON lovely fat Ah Tal-who was several months old-was
Bye and bye, after much talk- difficult
Great During the short summer, tor-fastened up tight to Ah Mool's ing with Ah Mool's parents and ably difficult in summer. treacherous swamps called "mos mented by mosquitoes, they must small flat back and Ah Mooi put grandparents, who really matter.
work 24 hours a day in their felda Sag" cover low-lying land to collect green stuff for themselves a small hand to each side, helded most, for grandparents are Manlicatly it is a conclusion between lakes and can only then and hay to feed their beasis during the tiny feet, and felt im very important in China, it was agreed that Ah Moof should go greatly to the advantage of the be crossed by those who know the 7 or 8 months of snow.
In the winter, apart from trapping, mensurably happy
with the doctor. them well. In winter, of course, Allies. It is not they, but Ger- the ice and, snow make them there is little that can be done out-of- Ah Tai was wearing his
doors. Those who can afford it. many, whose power is built on safe and, with their lack of often move down to Rovaniemi for "tiger" cap with two pointed an assumption of the overwhelm trees they prove, like, the ice- the winter, returning to their farms fur cars, so that any wandering By the time the rice was next.
bound Inker, the only places at the first algn of thaw. ing striking force of airplanes. where progress on aicis is at all aghting on their owit ground to keep a ferocious tiger and not a baby completely cared and back, with It is these hardy men who are evil spirits would think it was harvested, little Ah Mool was It is not they, but Germany, swift.
their own country.
Ah Tai again fastened in the me- who will Buffer most if this
It would be dimcult to find in more and give it a wide berth,
taal to her small back. Sho determined adversary than the Finn She trotted off and walked told him of all the wonderful striking power be neutralised.
with that inborn quality of "alsu", that quality which prevents a man along the narrow grass verge things, she had seen in the big If, in fact, the bomber cannot FINNISH skis have, as a rule, from giving up despite privation and which separated the rice fields hospital and how kind the always get through, Germany nono of the complicated exhaustion.
from each other and was turning "foreign devlla" had bean. harness needed by skiorn In Should the Soviet, with her over-in corner by the well. will have lost the advantage mountainous districts. A sim-whelmingly superior number, over upon which she very largely re-ple strap allows a curly-toed even then she is very for from any
run his country, she will find that Suddenly 4 hugo creature
came springing towards her. boot to be allpped in and out at kind of real or successful victory.
lied.
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To-day Ah Moot is happily employed as Amah to the
doctor's children.-C.