Daily Post - 17.03.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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Weather Still Harapers
Tunisian Flghting
Enemy Airfield Raided By Marauders
London, March 16th. — The lull in the landfinhting continu-
es in Tunisia, while bad weather has also restricted air opera-
tions.
North African messages re-
port that there have been no
important developements on
the Tunisian battlefront, and
that apart from patrol activity
there is little to report from the
land fighting. The Axis has al-
ready withdrawn to the high
ground overlooking the road to
rfedjanan, while our present
position commands the road
running inland to Beja.
Bad weather is still keeping
a check on air operations, but
it has not kept our aircraft al-
together idle.
An enemy airfield 50 miles
’Rommel Was Mad‘
. — Montgomery
“Rommel must have been
mad to attack me,” Gcneral
Montgomery said in an intervi-
ew when inspecting the recent
battle area.
“We had a grand scrap here.
I had no idea Rommel would
dare to attack me. I have no
idea why he attacked me, ex-
cept when jmu catch a rat in a
trap he kicks in all directions
“He kicked at the First Army
and the Americans.
“I guess he thought he had
to attack me, too. He must
have been mad.
“The Eighth Army is strong,
so strong we beat him off with
out losing one tank. He lost 40
in this sector alone. When he
attacks he is attacking an ex-
perienced army. That is just
what we want.
“I wish he wóuld do it a-
gain.”
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Unable to salvage either
food or water they existed only
on what fish they could catch
and what rainwater they could
hold in their outstretched palms
“Bundles for Britain” offici-
als provided the rescued with
warm clothing and equipment.
inland from Sfax was succes-
fully raided yesterday by Ma-
rauders, escorted by Lightnings
and Spitfires. Bombs were
seen to burst all over the air-
field and among some two do-
zen aircraft parked on the
ground. The German strong-
point at Toujane, near the.Ma-
reth Line, was also attacked,
while in the north, heavy bom
bers attacked an enemy con-
voy in the Sicilian Narrows,
scoring a direct hit on at least
one supply ship. All these op-
erations cost the Allies two air
craft.
’Think Of
Next Winter“
Dr. Goebbels, writing in Das
Reich yesterday, urged the Ger
man people to think ahead to
the perils of next winter.
é
Losses this winter, he said,
had been “high enough to cau-
se considerable difficulties” so
that it was necessary to prev-
ent similar future situations.
Urging that it was wiser to
“over-do total mobilisation rat-
her than not to enough,” Goeb-
bels declared that Germans
must work and fight as if their
very lives were in daily danger
if they really wanted to live.
“The situation on the east-
ern front has changed in our
favour,,but the pain and aux-
iety which befell us udring
the dark winter months must
be our companions also dur-
ing the coming weeks and
months.
“Any one who indulges in
complacent illusions proves
'that he has failed to under-
stand the meaning of the seri-
ous winter crisis in Russia—if
we should not warn him in
time he may well tumble into a
new crisis. The remedy is mo-
bilisation and employment of
all our national strength.
Giraud Calls
For United
Front
London, March 16.
The message General Gir-
aud broadcast last night to Gen.
Catroux, High Commissioner in
Syria, has created great inter-
est.
In this message General Gi-
raud declared that now was
the moment for all Frenehmen
of good faith to unite against
the Axis, and to give that un-
ion concrete form. He asked
Gen. Catroux, recently appoin-
ted liaison officer between him
self and Gen. de Gaulle, to in-
form the Fighting French lead-
er of his readiness to see him
as soon as a meeting could be
arranged.
The people feel that General
Giraud, by repudiating Vichv,
has removed all points of vari-
ance between himself and de
Gaulle, and that they now rea-
lise that Giraud sincerely wish-
es to unite all Frenchmen a-
gainst the Axis.
Mr. Cordell Hull, U. S. Se-
cretary of State, commenting
on these broadcasts and state-
ments of the two French lead-
ers, declared today that in his
opinion General Giraud had
made possible the union of all
elements desiring the defeat of
the Axis.
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Millíons
John Pierpoint Morgan, head
of the American banking firm
of J. P. Morgan and Co. whose
death was announced on Sun-
day, was all that popular ima-
gination concewes of the multi
millionare. He had four homes,
a £500,000 yacht, priceless art
treasures, a private bodyguard
of detectives . . .
Son of a man whose enor-
mous weaTth gave him the pow-
er to influence the destinies of
120,000,000 Americans, he in-
herited £ 18,000,000 and the
throne of a great financial em-
pire.
He’ spent more than a quarter
of his life in Britain, and it was
his custom during his summer
visit to divide his time between
Balmoral, as a guest of the King
and Queen, his mansion in
Grosvenor Square, London, and
his 2,000-acre seat, Wall Hall—
named after Wall Street—at
Aldenham, in Hertfordshire.
As ^uler of the house of
Morgan his word could mean
the prosperity or depression of
nations, the happiness of misery
of millions of people.
To the villagers at Aldenham
he was known affectionately as
“The Squire.” Iiere, be bred
prize pigs, attended the Parish
Church on Sundays, and made
friends with swineherd and
milkmaid.
In the last was he acted as
agent for the British Govern-
ment in the United States, rais-
ing loans and buying arma-
ments. He spent £400,000,000
in contracts for Britain,
£200,000,00 for France, and
his firm reaped a commission of
£6,000,000.
The affairs of the house of
Morgan came before the Ameri-
can Arms Inquiry in 1936,
when J. P. Morgan, his fierce
temper roused to the full,
denied emphatically that he
“mRnœuvred” the sterling de-
cline in 1915 to change the
policy of the Wilson Adminis-
tration. The inquiry found al-
legations that the United States
went to war to safeguard the
Morgan investments was not
proved.
He spent many holidays with
the former and present Arch-
bishops of Canterbury, and was
an intimate friend of Lord
Baldwin.