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Warfare in The Arctic

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Beating The Bomber?

do for years.

is not familiar to many.

Fighters in this Northern A few fishermen of vary- land 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, that abound in the lakes and rivers. A handful of mo- torists take their cars up the sandy high- way from the Arctic Circle, where the Hel- singfors Rova- nlemi railway ends, to Liinn- hamari, the icc- free harbour on the Ocean.

Between noon and 3 p.m. a) rosy glow on the horizon lights. up the snow in a theatrical and romantic way,

by

Truda Panet

During the night the glories jof the shimmer- Ing sca-green and pink Aurora Borealis ราง y thrill them in the Northern

Arctic sky. Otherwise they must depend on the moon and stars to light At intervals all the way up the Year the sun appears again and their way. Early in the New road are little red wooden every ""day" la considerably hotels, clarmingly furnished, longer than the one before, where in summer students from hastening, towards the 24-hour the University, speaking several length it attains at the end of languages, look after the com- fort of tourists und of passengers from the twice-a-day buses, that take two days over the full journey.

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June.

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THE NATIVE inhabitants of

the country suffer, we can hope, possibly less than refugees of any other race because they are a nomadic people.

The little Lappi, most timid

the snow and

This is the Story of

A H

MOOI

H.MOOI was six years For # moment Al Mooi's. old, small and golden She was terribly frightened and heart nearly stopped beating. 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.

How glad she was to hear someone calling.

The creature stopped as in a moment a big "foreigner" came along and fastened a large strop to his Alsatian. When he sa the small Ah Mool looking so pale and frightened he spoke to her in Chinese, and told her not to be afraid.

to her mother.

OR some months Ah Mooi had THE foreigner, who was really

been prepared for

a very kind doctor, loved this. the Chinese as much as they all

THE southern half of the road and harmless of souls, travels with a mouth like a folded she THE

is pretty but monotonous. hundreds of miles every winter Endless fir-forests completely after new feeding-grounds for flower. cover the rolling countryside. the reindeer that are his wealth. THIS is a war of paradoxes. Here and there a river cuts the Living in their pointed skin

One lovely morning, when Russia brands Britain and road and while unfrozen must tents, they settle a while round all the rice had been gather- S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. France as aggressors for doing form that is propelled by hook- can hoof away

crossed on a floating plat- some place where their boasted and when Ah Mool's what it has been urging them to ing notched billets of wood on browse on the moss they love. mother had a little time to

For weeks the the wires that stretch from bank The men spear holes in the ice spare, she called Ah Mooi.

to bank. But beyond Ivalo, of the lake and fish under con- world's mightiest armies face which boasts a tiny hospital, a ditions freezing enough to deter

"Ah Mooi knew why she had each other without any fighting hotel and a few shops, the the toughest of Messrs. Hardy's been called. For days she had worth talking of taking place. It scenery improves. The enorm customers. Then, the feeding been so happy and excited, is therefore perhaps not surpris- tween the

ous lake of Inari can be seen be ground laid waste, they move on (though no one would have

trees,

with all their belongings to the its with ing that the claim of Dr. Goeb- thousand little islands.

next suitable spot.

guessed this; Chinese children

usually It is only in summer, when their are

Soon Ah Mooi was telling him 80 grave and belk' Propaganda Ministry that

that if anything had hurt Ah At Salmijarvi and Pitkajarvi reindeer are turned loose to range at tranquil) for she had been pro- Tai she would be punished.

will over the whole country, that the mised that soon she was fifty per cent of the British air- where battles are now being Lapp stays any length of time in one

to The foreigner said he would take. 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

of country to be seen. Pitka excursions in his skin canoes; in Brother") on her back. shaven and Cuxhaven were jarvi. (arv?" means "lake"), eluding one grand trek down to brought down tells heavily is particularly beautiful. A Rovaniemi to sell the skins collected against Germany's chances of huge stretch of water is backed during the winter.

The reindeer provides the Lapp by a great hill which in summer with his winter clothing of skin and ultimate success,

and winter is equally impressive, tur-a hood, a cloak, huge mitts, From the British point of The road runs along the east and loose fur. stockings to tuck into view these raids were highly in Norway.

shore and the western shore is a soft, high boots. These are also Sometimes several sticks would loved him. Very soon Ah Mooi stuffed with straw against frost-bite. be fastened to her back, then an was telling him how, to-day, Reindeer horn provides his wiie successful; but no attempt has been made to deny that the at- gradually grow

North of this point trees and with pins for her hair. His Ah Mooi could hardly wait to be Al Tai for the first time.

with needles and weaving-shuttles old doll and later a bundle; and she had been allowed to carry fewer, and children drink reindeer milk and his tacking force suffered heavy smaller. The next stop on the feasts are of reindeer meat.

allowed to have Alı Tai fastened While she was chattering away Then, too, he trains as many as in the me-taal which grand-in her silvery voice the doctor losses. Heavy losses, too, have there is a small Russian monas necessary of his reindeer to act as bus route is Ylaluostari, where been inflicted upon German air-tery and an inn.

transport animals. He and all his mother had embroidered 80 was watching her carefully, Some miles family and their luggage travel over beautifully.

noticing that Ah Mool's eyes planea striving to bomb the further on la Alaluostari, where the snow In "pulks These are

were inflamed and sore. The English coast. And a German there is another Russian church. narrow, boat-shaped sleighs holding

A me-tani is a large square doctor had lived a long time in Then there are no more signs one person only. Once in, you are bomber was brought down by of human life until Liinahamari in. for good, so to speak. Should sling made of strong cloth and China: one of the things that the Royal Air Force Patrol be- is reached,

your very wild puller decide to run with coloured embroidery on it-made him sad was that so many away, you may furn somersaulis and be fore it reached British shores.

It children suffered in this way dashed from rock to rock on the often of birds and flowers. Because this harbour remains very hard ground but you cannot get has four long ends to fold and and often went blind, These German losses have open throughout the severest out unless you eat the traces and let tie round the body. Very often been ascribed to marked superi- Winter it was rapidly becoming him go. If you annoy your rein the babies are nearly as big as treating and often curing them, He had found a way of quite a settlement; A large inn, deer he may tum round and try to a petrol station, several dwel. go you, pulka and all. But sup- the small children who carry posing you get a docle beast, the ling-houses and godowns were motion is pleasant. He can attain them! there when I last visited it five quite a considerable speed with his years ago and by now it must clumsy, lolloping galt, and cover Ah Mooi came and listened devils." be very much enlarged. All this many decen miles a day under good whilst her mother told her how

conditions.

careful she was to be of Ah Tal. tract of land north of Pitkajärvi Soviets claim to have conquered is called Petsamo, so' when the

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"If you sit, Ah Mooi, remember or captured it, it is probably an

RESIDE the native Lapp, many to leave plenty of room for Al BE

have settled up in the Tai behind!" northernmost parts of their country exaggeration,

and the loss of their farms and Subsequent events may cause Progress by troops, over villages, burnt by retreating armies, this judgment to be revised.ed country is of necessity desolate regions lead at the best of

sort of heavily wood will cause terrible suffering.

Farmers and wood-cutters in these SOON lovely fat Ah Tal--who two or three years ago. But ao far, it is the logical con- difficult . almost insuper- times an extremely hard life.

was several months old-was clusion from the course the war ably difficult in summer: Grent

Bye and bye, after much talk- During the short summer, tor-fastened up tight to Ah Mooi's ing with Ah Mool's parents and. has taken.

treacherous swamps called "mas- mented by mosquitoes, they must small flat back and Ah Mool put grandparents, who really matter- 8a8" cover low-lying Manifestly it is a conclusion between lakes and can only then and hay to feed their beasts during the tiny feet, and felt im- very important in China, it was

land work 24 hours a day in their fields

to collect green stuff for themselves a small hand to each side, haldjed most, for grandparents aro: greatly to the advantage of the be crossed by those who know the 7 or 8 months of snow.

agreed that Ah Mool should go: Allies. It is not they, but Ger- the ice and snow make them there is little that can be done out-of-

them well. In winter, of course, In the winter, spart from trapping, measurably happy.

with the doctor. many, whose power is built on safe and, with their lack of often move down to Rovaniemi for "tiger cap with two pointed doors. Those who can afford it, Ah Tai wis wearing his an assumption of the overwhelm trees they prove, like the Ice the winter, returning to their farms fur ears, ao that any wandering

bound lakes, the only places at the first sign of thaw,

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this

Finns

It is these hardy men who are ovil spirits would think it was

but it usually meant hospital often too difficult, for Chinese parents are afraid of the"foreign.

Somehow this was Ah Mooi's lucky day, for just as her mother came out to most her, the Chief of the next village came by. He hurried forward and told Ah Mooi's mother how. the wonderful foreign doctor had cured his son's eyes, some.

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By the time the rice was next. ̈ harvested, littlo Ah Mool was

ing striking force of airplanes. where progress on skis is at all aghting on their own ground to keep a ferocious tiger and not a baby completely cured and back, with

It is not they, but Germany, swift. who will suffer most if this

their own country. striking power be neutralised.

It would be difficult to find a more and give it a wide berth. Ah Tai again fastened in the me determined advenary than the Finn If, in fact, the bomber cannot INNISII skis have, as, a rule, from giving up despite privation and which separated the rice fields hospital and how kind the with that inborn quality of "sisu",

She trotted off and walked tan to her mail back. She told him of all the wonderful that quality which prevents a man along the narrow grass verge things she had seen in the big always get through, Germany none of tho complicated exhaustion. will have lost the advantage harness needed by skiera In Should the Soviet, with her over a corner by the well.

from each other and was turning "foreign devils had been.de mountainous districts. A sim-whelmingly superior numbers, over- upon which she very largely re-ple strap allows a curly-toed his country, she will find that

To-day Ah Mool, is happly. boot to be slipped in and out at land of real or successful victory".

oven then she very far from any

Suddenly a hugo creaturo employed As Amoh to

the came springing towards her. doctor's children.-C. :

lied.