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The recent arrival in Buenos Aires of. E. Guy Johnson speeds a poignant re- fugee project for resettlement of 60 families banded together in a pacifist Brotherhood and now seeking a new home in Paraguay after being driven out of Germany and refused sanctuary in other countries, reports 'the "Christian Science Monitor.”
Some of the members are reported already on their way from Europe. Mr Johnson has come from New York to meet them and conduct their pioneer colony in the' Gran Chaco. The first assignment is 81. Included in the entire group are 150 children, besides single men and women who accompany the familles in their life of Christian sharing.
All things are held in comman by the community. In the wilds of Paraguay the members will scek to win the freedom of living according to their interpretation of Christianity, including abso- lute pacifism, simplicity, and communal survice.
Originated In Germany
ARMY'S
LATEST CRAZE
444.1/2 Planes Destroyed By A.A. Fire
ANTI-AIRCRAFT
batteries
in the British Isles destroyed 444 Jand a half enemy planes during 1940, says an Air Ministry's re- view of the year.
That odd half represents the runners' share of bomber finished YOU have seen soldiers with which R.A.F. fightera com-strange emblems, such as
a loft,
Out of Germany in the post-war distress of 1020 came
Eberhard Arnold, well-known
munity, known as Bruderhof. trumpeting elephant, stitched on In the total were both night scholar and at one time General their uniforms; you have seen and day raiders, seen and un- Secretary of the German Student Army vehicles with similar de-seen targets. Christian Movement, gathered a vices painted on them. You There is no mention of air- few others around him and began will see more of them. It is the craft so disabled by the guns their new application of Christian
sockat and human | Army's latest craze.
that they could not get home. The badges have no official
Bruderhof now numbers.
eute.
300 SOME
Age-Old Urge
But their widening use is a modern instance of the age-old urge which made prehistoric man carve stronge figures the badge of his tribe-en
Since September 1 a total of 331 enemy planes have been shot down, nearly an average of three a day.
Three times in 1940 Britain's A.A.
more gunners shot down
than 50 enemy aircraft in a week, and once the weekly score reached 70,
Their most successful day Was August 15, when they destroyed 23 enemy machines.
Spreading to other countries, the signiflennce, according to the people of many nationalities, melud-War Office, and are not officially in British, German, Swiss, Dutch, designed or approved, Swedish, French and Italian.
Three communities In Europe were carrying on before the present world crisis become
One was near Frankfurt in Germany, another in the Small principality of Liechtenstein in the Alps, and the third at Astonknights of old to emblazon a "strange 11 definitely destroyed. Gunners on
Wiltshire, England. Keynes
his shield. device" on On its Germans for of some 200
And so you will find some of the Tyneside and Tees-side contributed LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY | Deres the founder community began
men who wield the modern counter-even between them; Southamption, to experience diflculties soon after Imported by
Nazilsin ette to power. Scerel Part of battle-axe and lance busy Harwich and Dundee made up the
balance. State Police raided the farm on Apell decorating themselves with a black 14, 1937. All property was confiscat- ert and the members had to leave Germany.
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his cave walls; and induced the
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Busy 90 Minutes Dover's share was greatest with
On August onoflter, 21 aircraft Others have been sewing on figures ranged irem 200 feet to 20,000 feet. were shot down, from heights which of a witch on a flying broomstick; a
Ifeavy a batteries of 4.5 and 3.7 charging rhinoceros; a striking score calibre, lighter guns of 3 inch and pian, or one of a dozen other em 40mm..
and
machine-guns all played their part in getting this "bag"; and The Flying Stork
of the 21 were destroyest within also found it expedient to move, so Tree-lovers have managed to act one and a half hours during the trai England berurue hendquarters | Illustrations of an oak, an ash' and
evening "Blitz." of the Bruderhof. In wartime, ajan rim adapted as their mascots.
The Liechtenstein community
blems.
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In 1918 an alreraft flying at 8,000
group faces popular dis- Another-a ying stork-is the out of reach of gun approval, and so auther move be-colonel's way of using his thank
came necessary.
Closely related to the Bruderhof in purpose are utterian communities in United States and in Canada, Bruderhof united During 1920 the with the futterinns of the Western Hemisphere. Followers of Jacob Huter, an Austrian who started the movement some 400 years ago in the Tirol, the utterians now have more than 20 settlements in the United
fulness for a new-born son,
Stole From Palace
batteries, but the average felght at
which this year's 444 successes have been scored is 16,000 feet—or more than three miles,
Popular Fallacy
Statistics over the past year have shown that, despite the much greater height and higlier speed of the 1940 raider, it is costing very little more in ammunition expenditure to bring
A carpenter who stole a silver down a "night bird" to-day than was
States and Canada. The Mennonites gilt box and key worth £10 from needed to destroy a low-flying day
are a similar society.
Decided To Move
the
sen-
bird" at the end of the last war, Buckingham Palace was tenced to six months' imprison-gunnery is that the unseen enny A popular fallacy about A.A.
ment.
aircraft heard overhend can ever be The man, Patrick O'Flynn, at the point at which the guns are aged 24, a native of Cork, ap-fring peared at Bow Street Police Court. He pleaded-guilty.
It Needs Thought Assuming a ralder, is passing over- Prend 25,000 ̃ ̄feel up and flyin; ht"300"
"After ng seeking, and many dis- appointments," decines Mr Johnson, "the Bruderhof communities decided to migrate with the help of the Mennonite Central Committer, to
Div. Det. Inspector Swain saidm.ph, the sound of its engine ap- Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where there ate already between 2,000 and 3.000 Flynn was employed by contractorsparently overhead will not be heard
These people pioneering Mennonites. have for 400 years shared the saune conviction
against bearing, anns and have themselves suffered persecution It is hoped that within a year or two branch community may come to the United States. For this par. pose a
a missionary group is remain- ing behind in England.
for this."
to repair windows at the Palace.
on the ground until it has passed With a screwdriver he opened about two mites beyond the averbend cabinet in one of the corridors and stole the box and key.
He was stopped in the street with the properly in his possession.
His wages were £6 10s, a week, Previously be earned £10 10s.
week,
point.
And to hit it with a shell at that great height the A.A. gunner may have to aim at a point four miles farther still.
វា Then, if the raider does not alter course or height, as it almost in-
"No doubt he thought the gilt arti-variably does when under fire, climb-
Costs for the transfer to Paraguay jeles were gold," said the officer.. and establishment there are estinal-
ed at $50,000. The American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia serves u a clearing house for the Kroup.
Ex-M.P. Found
Strangled
Lonely Nazi
ling shell and bomber will meet.
Sweden Feels
War
Pinch
There are touching notes of loneliness and bravado lò un- Discovery In Alps
censored news coming out of Sweden to-day. The following WILLI MUNZENBERG, fer- quotations are from a letter received in the U.S.A, recently. Both merly a leading German Com the writer and his friend must necessarily remain anonymous.
"As you know, Sweden is slaughter lots of animals to offset the munist M.P. and publisher, has been found strangled in unoccu-pretty well surrounded by Ger- food shortage, pied France,
man forces, but on the other "There is, for instance, some scar- clly of such a typical Swedish artiele we have considerably He was for some years the hand
as butter. organiser behind the scenes of strengthened our defences. We "Sugar, bread, sonp, coffee, cheese, many camouflaged international have one of the best armament etc. are distributed on fond curds, but conferences under a "non-Party" factories in the world, and we cheese-ore fairly large, and we do not or "United Front" flag.
have started to manufacture our hate to go hungry or dirty. But, as the supply of coal is very limited, we have to burn wood and are not a temperature allowed to maintain above 60 degrees in our apartments. Hot water is distributed only twice a week.
Since 1038 he had been a refugee own planes and tanks. How in France, and apparently lired of the part which the Comintern made ever, this production is not yet him play.
what it should be and we are Moscow's Suspicions. very sorry that the U.S.A. has Moscow suspected him of organis-cancelled our large orders for ing "United Front" committees and planes. conferences that were not dominated
the ratlons--with the exception of
Not Lost Hope
"Despite our Isulallen, we have not Tost hope for a happy end of the war. "One of our biggest problems is we are quite determined to defend by the Communist Party, dist
dismissed him
for the gasoline and oil supply, but we our liberty.. representative Western Europe, and finally expelled have him from the Third International.
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its
attacked by his former political friends.
Vanished
1
shore in men con-
succeeded In substituting "Some time ago I heard a story He then founded a Socfallal group churcont to a large extent and are about a Swedish colonel who wanted of his own. and WHA viciously experimenting with burning wood to test the spirit of his regiment. He I think some of his men disguise them- direct for certain purposes.
relves and approach the we have enough gasoline for aviation front of a battery. The and army use, but practically nothing sented, not without hesitation. for private consumptian.
The colonel
took up his position with die nitery. When his men saw the supposed enemy approachi
War
He vanished during the German invasion, anel
subsequently found strangled with a rope around
Necessaries Scarce
his neck in a wood near Grenoble in "Of course, we are very happy to Ing. he commended their vigilance,
the French Alps.
have been able to keep out of the ordered them to hold their fire and The "News for German Socialists war so far, even if we suffer a sear- told the story. The result was quite in England." a monthly bulletin pub-clty of some necessaries. The har- unexpected, however. The colonel Hished in London, comments:
vest was only about 70 per cent. received three bayonet wounds and
"While the circumstances of his normal and, whereas Sweden used to was only saved by a sergeant, who death could not be deanitely estab- be a rather bli exporter of certain confirmed the truth of his story. Untied, they may be presumed."
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