Daily Post - 13.04.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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Tuesday, April 13th, 1943
News In Brief
Belgians unearthed at Gilly,
Hainault, three rich coal seams
just below ground level: within
a few days 50 tons were sold
to Black Market men for £9
a ton.
* * *
Two soldiers of the Swiss
frontier security forces have
been sentenced to 12 years’
imprisonment for treason.
* * *
Announcing appointment of
General von Unruh as Ger-
many’s manpower dictator, Das
Reich calls him an “iron
broom”; his headquarters is 'k
train, from which emanates “a
Prussian atmosphere of duty,
unpretentiousness, and com-
radeship”.
* * *
Paris reports to Zurich say
General Weygand is at Schloss
ober Asperg, near Ludwigsburg,
in Wurtemberg, a prison camp
for officers.
* * *
Two Belgian children, in-
jured by a German land mine
while playing in the sand dunes
near Ostend, died.
* *
Albert A. Bull, fitter’s mate,
School-lane, Wing. Bucks, was
sentenced to four months’ hard
labour at Linslade for an assault
on an airman at night on a
country road.
$fi •$* . H*
China has long been anxious
for India to throw its full weight
into the war, Madame Chiang
Kai-shek told the Press of Los
Angeles.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek and the Chinese people
generally believe that India
should have its freedom when
it is prepared for it, she added.
The question was whether
and to what extent India was
prepared for freedom.—British
United Press.
A SLIP OF THE LIP
MAY SINK A SHIP
U. S. Opinion
Two Way Ald
by Raymond Clapper
Washington.—A period of
complaint about Lend-Lease is
inevitable when you have a
budget that makes a midget out
of all previous ones, high taxes
that are going higher and
grocery stores just fresh out of
everything. *
LEND LEASE COMPLAINTS
In times of denial people are
disposed to complain irritably.
Those who don’t make $25.000
a year complain about those
who do. People who have to
walk complain about the lucky
ones who ride in government
automoblies. When there is no
butter at the store you natur-
ally complain about butter
going to the foreigner.
HELP IN RETURN
for anti-aircraft defenses. The
British tell our government
that two-thirds of the civil and
military labor available for
military works and services in
the United Kingdom is being
employed on work for the Am-
erican Army. We are getting
hospitals, barracks, officers’ ac-
. commodations, air fields, re-
pair depots and their mainten-
ance. We r eceived 13.000 bi-
cycles for personnel transports
on air fields. The British, as
rceiprocal aid, print the Stars
and Stripes and Yank, and re-
cently they supplied Christmas
cards to American canteens.
They also have supplied steam
rollers, pile drivers, cooking'
ranges and much minor equip-
ment, such as potato peelers.
I America
| Says . . . .
We are told that “severe
Luftwaffe losses are forcing
Hitler to husband planes”. We
think he’ll find that, unlikq his
obedient Hitler Mádchen,
planes just don’t reproduce
themselves that way—not even
to perpetuate the glory of the
Greater Reich.
* * *
Laval has ordered the use of
radios restricted to a “simpli-
fied” type—that cannot receive
foreign broadcasts. Obviously
he wants to regulate the ether
himself to make sure his vic-
tims are properly anesthetized.
* * *
This story was picked up in
Berlin: A German general was
asked when he thought the
war would be over. He replied:..
“When the British are eating
rats—and we are eating ersatz
rats.”
We are sending far more
materials out on Lend-Lease
than will ever come back. Yet
Lend-Lease is not entir^ly one-
way traffic. Our forces in a
number of places overseas are
receiving substantial benefits of
Lend-Lease aid from foreign
countries. In fact we have had
some Lend-Lease aid sent to us
over here. The British sent us
anti-aircraft guns for use on
the East coast and barrage
balloons on the West coast.
ICELAND TO FIJIS
Most of the reciprocal aid
which has come to us has been
from the United Kingdom, in
the form of materials and ser-
vices made available to our
troops in England, the Middle
East, Iceland and the Fiji Is-
lands.
We have received artillery,
small arms, grenades, land.
mines, sound locators and radio
location equipment, Spitfires,
25-pounder guns, some 2,000,-
000 clay pigeons for target
practice, degaussing equipment
for our ships, repairs of battle
damage to American naval
vessels and bunker oil and
other supplies for our naval
ships when in British ports.
BRITAIN
We have received drawings,
specifications and production
data for many secret devices,
such as radio-locator equipment
WEST AFRICA
The Office of War Informa-
tion made a compilation of the
foregoing items, and it adds
that in West Africa the United
Kingdom has contributed sub-
stantial sums for airport and
harbor installations available
for use by American forces and
Pan-American Airways.
AUSTRALIA AND
NEW ZEALAND
Australia is supplying large
quantities of food and clothing
to American forces there, a
program that American autho-
rities estimate may amount to
$50.000.000, which is a^consid-
erable figure, in view of the
size of Australia’s population.
New Zealand is giving our
Navy and Marine Corps rela-
tively large supplies, including
camps, warehouses, hospitals,
miscellaneous buildings and
construction projects, at the ex-
pense of leaving last winter’s
earthquake damage in Welling-
ton unrepaired. All supplies,
equipment and facilities which
New Zealand has 'built • up in
the Fiji Islands were turned
over to our forces. New Zea-
land is running short of food
because of the quantities she is.
Lend-Leasing to our navy out
there. At one time New Zea-
land had to suspend its pro-
gram of milk for school child-
ren becáuse of the require-
ments of American forces for
Lend-Lease milk.
\
FIGHTING FRANCE
We get some reciprocal aid
from China, India and the
Fighting French in New Cale-
donia. Russia has no reciprocal
aid to spare, and we have not
requested reciprocal aid from
some South American coun-
tries. We hope to get some from
the colonial resources of Belg-
ium and the Netherlands.
OTHER COUNTRIES
Although the traffic is heav-
ier outgoing than incoming, we
are receiving some real and im-
portant reciprocal benefits—
and from people, most of whom
have been at war for more
than three years, and who have
felt the rigors of war which
are just beginning for us.
Nedleal Aid to Russia
Remitted to Mrs. Churchill . 10,000.000 krónur
Further Contributions:
Already Acknowledged ........ 1,218.93 krónur