Daily Post - 21.10.1942, Blaðsíða 3

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Saved By The
Weather Jían
Whitley’s Narrow Escape
This is the story of a flight
lieutenant, a navigator in a
Whitley. “We took off one
winter night and, just as the
Meteorological Officer had
warned us, we ran into bad* *
weather. • At 0,000 feet. we
íound ourselves in thc fdthiest j
clouds, which iced up every- ;
thing at onca.
“There was ice on ihe win- f
dows and thc wings, and bits of
it were ílving oíj the px pellers.
Suddenly our Whit.ley got out
of control. The captaih cculdn’t
do anything with it. and we
spun round and down Things
looked pretty bad and the cap-
tain called throuch tho inter-
com. that w^e might Uave to bale
out. We all got our parachutes
ready. I'iu' as navigatrr i ktiew
what the Met. forecast had sug-
gested—that there w'ould be
better weather at 3,000 feet. So
I told the captain, and we hung
on. The tail gunner had al-
ready climbed out of his turret
and was ready to jump. But
when he looked along the fuse-
lage, he saw that the rest of us
were not yet moving so he
scrambled back, plugged in his
intercom. and was told that we
wopld get out of the ice.
“And we did. We broke
cloud at about 3,000 ft., just as
the Met. man had said, and
straightened out at 2,000 feet.
Everything was all right then.
We just went on, finished our
job, and got safely back to
base.”
Attack By Women
Buerillas
A Soviet guerilla detach-
ment which operates in the
Bryansk forests and includes 26
girls recently attacked a Ger-
man-occupied village. They
closed in on the place from two
sides and disposed of íhe
guards.
Suddenly a shot sounded
somewhere on the edge of the
village. The Germans ran out
half-dressed into the streets,
but it was already too late. Men
and women guerillas had
broken into the village and
were shooting point-blank at
the enemy.
One of the first to attack was |
UA ILY P O S T 5
RL’SSIAN TANKS TAKE OFFENSIVE ON SOUTH WEST FRONT
Blood I xport
To Germany
The results of the Icelandic
parliamentary elections for the
Reykjavík constituency were
announced yesterday. Complete
returns for the rest of the
country will not be available
before the end of the week.
The following are the results
for Reykjavík, with the figures
for the elections of last July for
purposes of comparison. The
names of the parties are trans-
lated into their nearest English
equivalent, but it should be
remembered that this is only
approximate.
Out of about 25,200 people
eligible to vote in Reykjavík,
20,074 went to the polls., or
practically 80% .
Voting was as follows:
July Now
Sjálfstæðisflokkur (Conservatives) 8,801 8,292
Sósíalistaflokkur (Communists) 5,335 5,980
Alþýðuflokkur (Social Democrats) 3,319 3,303
Þjóðveldisflokkur (a new party) 618 1.284
Framsóknarflokkur (Progressives) 905 945
The 8 seats now allotted to Reykjavík, are as a result of these
votes, distributed as follows:
Conservatives ..................... 4
Communists ........................ 3
Social Democrats.................. 1
In the Nazi-occupied village
of Zakharovsk, in the Kursk
region, the German comman-
dant announced to the popu-
lation that on September 4 all
adults and children must re-
port at the school premises for
vaccination. The peasant ign-
ored the order.
Then the commandant sent
soldiers to herd a large group
of people into the school yard.
German physicians selected 26
persons, including 14-year-old
Peter Solntsev, 11-year-old
Vera Gracheva and 9-year-old
Ekaterina Dvornikova, and
took from them large quantities
of blood, without any regard to
medical procedure.
Nine persons, including five
adolescents, died of loss of
blood.
This means that of the two been won by the Conservatives
additional seats added to and the other by the Commun-
Reykjavík by the electoral ists.
change of last summer, one has I
Under a credit arranged by
the Canadian Government Rus-
sia is now able to draw up ta
approximately 9,000,000 bush-
els of hard spring wheat or
flour.
AUSTRALIA AND RUSSIA
Washington, Oct. 19.
The first Australian Minister
to Russia, William Slater, was
presented with an Australian
flag when he left today to take
up his new post. He promised
to deliver the flag to Stalin
with the Australian peoples
greetings to the Russian people.
Both Britain and the United
átates are jointly committed to
supply Russia with 2 ¥2 million
tons of wheat and flour, and 1
million tons of sugar. This is in
addition to all other war sup-
plies which flow to her daily.
*
Out of a total European po-
pulation in South Africa of
2,000,000 nearly 200,000 or ten
per cent. are in the armed
forces. Recruitment is still
going up.
Blóm 00 Ávextir
Valya, a machine-gunncr, and
her friend Tanya. They quickly
occupied a point of vantage and
opened heavv fire. In this at-
tack 100 Nazis were kilJed.
Prásoners were taken and four
machine-guns were captured.
Rosaries for soldiers of the Catholic faith.
Blóm og Ávextir
Hafnarstræti (next to Liverpool).