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September 19, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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So Cool and Refreshing.

-ERNIS

THE BH, 3, 6, 104, Dandi racist enviery

BUSHMILLER

THIS WAR IS

IS FULL OF SURPRISES

Hitler Got First of Them

LONDON,-No war in history has been more full of surprises than this war between Britain and Germany, writes A. C. Cummings. Hardly any of it has gone "ac- cording to plan." Even its victories have surprised those who won them.

Не

Hitler got the first surprise.. British force in the desert attacked was sure Britain would his magnificent Libyan army, chased it hundreds of miles, and forced it never go to war-especially over surrender. Another

army in- the invasion of Poland. Von vaded Ethiopla, set the Emperor Ribbentrop pledged him his back on his throne and destroyed word on it. -

the entire "Roman empire in Afrien," Poland got the next surprise. It about which the Nazis boasted so wna overrun in a few weeks and its loud and so often. army wiped out by air-bombing and tanka.

of

Greek Resistance The marvellous resistance of the France's turn came Inter. At the Greeks and their campaign in stari of the war oll the French Albania was as big, e ́surprise to the generals assumed that the Germans Axis powers us the switi collapse of would promptly take the offensive Yugo-Slayla War to Britain and and besiege the Maginot. Linn. In-Turkey and Russi.. stead of which there were months That Malta should be able to hold

quiet all

along the battlefront. out against the might of the Italian Then happened the most shatter- and German air bombers was yet ing surprise of all-the Invasion of another surprise. So also was the Holland and Belgium and the break-landing of the Germans in Libyn through Into France with the col- and their recovery of thousands of lopse, in a few weeks, of what was square miles of territory lost by the conaldered to be the finest and best Italians, The Iraq revolt took the trained army in the world.

British

Government by

surprise. The daring air invasion of Crete

Crete by the Germans astonished everyone. Dunkirk was an immense surprise And the heroic defence by a small for the Hun. He could not belleve British force, bereft of adequate air that a British army with its back to defences, was no less unexpected. the sea could escape in such num-The Germans planned to take Crete bers from the furious onsel of his in 48 hours; they actually needed

nearly a fortnight,

Dunkirk Epic

tanks and dive bombers.

Then came the Battle of Britaln— Germany's lavasion of Russia is a tremendous surprise not only for the latest of the great military sur- Goering's Luftwaffe which thought prise and the one that Impressed the itself invincible, but for the rest of public greatest. the world which foolishly believed Britain was beaten.

Hess' flight to Britain was the biggest personal surprise of the war. Mussolini's lurn to be surprised There may be others of the same Was not long delayed. A small kind.

British

Spy

This is a Rus-

MERCY FOR ALL-War-broken humanity receives succour from a nurse.

sian nurso giving aid to German war prisoners captured on the battlefront,

Abyssinian Described

Campaign Is

Officers

By

Two officers now in London, one a South African, the other a captain in The Black Watch, have given very interesting accounts of their experiences in the

Carried Abyssinian campaign. Both fought on the southern front, but many hundreds of

Secret To

To The

The Grave

George Johnson Armstrong, 38-year-old British engineer, who was executed for treachery at Wandsworth Jail recently 'carried his family secrets with him to the grave.

If he had any relatives living he, He was the first British subject to never spoke of them from the time be executed under the Treachery he was arrested until the warm.] Act, passed, in 1040, sunlit morning when he walked to

Hallows. Nobody made application tomseo

the

wrote to him.

lasted an hour and 20 minutes.

miles apart.

Even after his appeal had failed This Home Office statement threw great

tance

The South African described his arrival near Nairobi, the reaching 125 in the shade, water had husty settling down of his formation in order to carry out fur- to be carried as much as 200

miles in drums. ther training, and its swift uprooting to invade Abyssinia in

The Black Watch ofeer was with the area. of Lake Rudolf. Leaving the cultivated and inhabit the force which fought its way ed part of Kenya behind, he marched-some-500-miles, the last through Somaliland Into-Abyssinia part of the trek being across the desert and waste of lava in and finally to Addis Ababa, a dis- the northern part of the colony, to Marsabit, a sort of oasis in African, Kenyan, Gold Coast, and

of over

2,000 miles. South the wilderness where there were elephant and rhino.

Nigerian columns started off on A frontal advance on Moyale operation, as rain had turned the February 2, after long and careful He was sentenced on May 8, after from this point would have been black colton soil of the valleys to large dumps of food, ammunition,

preparation

-and

the assembly of Inn Old

Bailey trial held in secret.

glue, so that mechanical transport The appeal. also in secret, was practically impossible in facc

was Immobilized.

stores, petrol, and water. hini during that time. Nobody dismissed after hearing which of opposition, so

n

a turning

Again water was all important, in The place was extensively, mined, movement was made round the and when the South African troops wo contrary senses. The Juba river escarpment and the entered it they found a considerable had to be reached with a rush in order to acquire drinking water to and he must have realised there was a little more light on Armstrong's enemy's defences. The arm-types. Its capture led to the cutting continue the advance, while

factory for making mities of li

the no hope, Armstrong made no re-crime: few months ago he offered his oured cars were driven straight off of the strong fallen, force in through at the Bighest possible speed

Whole

operation had to be carried versations with the prison officials services to the German espionage through the scrub on a compass Moyale. and with the chaplain.

organisation operating against Bri- bearing, with Abyssinian guldes

for fear not of a lack of water but When the last out of this espionage lain, through the intermediary of assisting them to keep direc

Water Carried 200 Miles of too much-In other words,

the drama was staged, with the planing one of the Germon consuls in the

In addition to Abyssinian Irregu- coming of the rains. tion. of the usual notice on the prison United States.

Iars not to be confused with the

Juba was reached, but the door to the effect that the executioni "On his subsequent return to this Mega, which the speaker described Patriot forces brigade of East chemy's resistance was stout, and had been duly carried out, there was country he was arrested and put up

as "a miniature Keren," was entered Africans operated with the South after two days the advance was com nobody to rend it.

for trial."

from the north, whereas the garri-Africans. As in many operations of pletely held up and the prospect of son was expecting the attack to come the sort, the decisive factor was crossing the river, here 200 yards in from the south, and its capture water supply, and a water-hole was breadth; began to appear poor. would otherwise have been very an objective equivalent to a great] Akali,

Again a grent turning move was costly. Even so, the fighting was railway junction in a civilised coun- carried out. The flanking force, sharp, and it was

few tanks and dimcult tey. With a temperature sometimes furnished

with armoured cars, had to cut is way through forest-where trees fve feet in diameter had to be removed -lo cross a marsh, and to bridge the Juba at an unguarded point with the material found on the spot.

ference at all to relatives in his con-

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CHOLERA MADE NAZIS FLEE

Confirmation has been received in Cairo of news that a cholera epidemic has broken out in Crete and in districts of the Greek mainland in the neighbourhood of Athens. The Ger mans were obliged to evacuate Crete almost entirely as the scourge claimed a mounting toll of victims,

Enemy Surprised

It succeeded in getting astride the rond behind the enemy, who Was taken completely by surprise. Tho objectives were captured in precisely the opposite order to that customary. The Italian, hospitals first fell into our hands, then their depots, then troops walted for no more, but clear- their headquarters. The front-line ed out and made for the const at top

M

All their hygienic experts could not combat the pestilence

Mogadishu was taken after the breeding from polluted wells and corpss-covered hills after necessary landing ground for ow:

fighters those 12 days of titanic fighting. Now Army doctors are grad been tested by the sim- expedient of driving armoured working overtime inoculating all German and Italian soldiers in cars across it. As the column was Greece.

good with lights on joined it, being Ince in the and it was not had forcibly demanded why the

returning with this

news.

Hitler's Italian fallers in Greces for Crately given until a ser

At the same time technicians back: Yes; and look what they got are getting on well with their for it." systematic looting of the coun-are complaining that neither love try. Their latest confiscations nor money gets them anywhere with included all stocks of olive oil the Greek girls. and metal objects even down to gardening tools.

Wedding Rings Too

Cold Shoulder

indro

." The

A

Mogoda

they werd

troops.

kept on that to be full of capture of

up opened and greatly facilitated the any feminine society, for Greek men drive to Harar. This 860-mile trek are telling their womenfolk: "Give in approximately seven days the Italians the cold shoulder-they none the less a belong to an Inferior race."

trative feat.

They are obliged to live without of supply by sea from |

was

renirkable

adminis

Greek women are even being forced to surrender their gold wed- ding-rings.

It is reliably learned that every Administration was throughout re- News which has just reached dawn sees the bodies of Italian sol-markably good. At one time, sald Greek quarters in Cairo adds that diers lying in the gutters of lonely the South African, his division was the-women Are handed ព sum of sirceta n Greece's towns and on a front of nearly 400 miles. Gen money and on Iron substitute when villages.

Berat Cu

Cunningham

controlled they give up their rings,

Indignaut peasant women who to warn them never to go about un-through senjar liaison officers using

It has hot been thought necessary widely ***

forces

largely protested were told: "You are no accompanied.att

| aircraft, though' betler: than Italian women who But men and themselves jostled manders themselves also covered gave up their gold wedding-rings away from their companions in the vast distances by, this means, think- Juring the Abyssinian wars blackout, and the next minute they ing nothing of dyker several hundred

splisted Atharis woman backed).

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