Daily Post - 03.09.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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DAILY P0ST
Russ Gain Along
650-fflile Front
(Continued from page 1.)
sian troops of the important
towns of Lisichansk and Voro-
shilovsk in the Donetz Basin,
north-west and west of the big
town of oroshilovgrad, as well
ns of Budyennovka, 25 miles
ieast of Mariupol, and that of
the big town and most impor-
tant junction Sumy, some 100
miles due north o f Poltava.
The communique gave no
further details, except stating
that along the entire front, the
Red Army wedges between
Smolensk, Briansk, Poltava,
Stalino and the Sea of Azov,
are being driven deeper, while
Soviet bombers and fighters
continue their day and night at-
tacks on key points in the ene-
my rear,, and on the German
columns as they fall back.
The term “elastic defence”,
which the Nazis are using to
describe their retreat, is caus-
ing amusement, even among
the Germans themselves. This
elastic defence, now including
the abandonment of Orel, Byel-
gorod, Kharkov, Taganrog and
Sumy seems to be made of a
special German “ersatz”-rubb-
er—it will give, but it won’t
snap back.
Round The Press
Swiss messages report that
the air-raid panic has spread
from Germany to Austria. The
evacuation of Vienna is in full
swing.
The Government Thinks of
Everything Note: Owing to
the meat shortage, Hollywood
producers of Westerns have
been requested to. omit scenes
of stampeding cattle.
In Washington, D.C., a pat-
ent has been awarded for a
folding-bed attachment for
desks.
At a Seattle hotel these
days you make your own bed.
A sign says: Maid Year Oout.
At Omar Khayyam’s restaur
ant in San Fransisco patrons
who dutifully eat everything
on their plates get 10 percent
of their checks back in war
stamps.
King Christian of Denmark is
Still Prisoner at Amalienborg
London. — In Denmark, violent disturbances continue in
various parts of the country. Telephone communications with
Sweden are still cut off, but it is known that sabotage continues
in spite of drastic measures.
Messages from Sweden report that in clashes in Copenhagen
50 people were killed and more than 100 injured yesterday.
German troops stormed the police station with tanks and hand
grenades, as the Danish police authorities refused to hand over
their headquarters to the Gestapo.
Swedish correspondents today reveal that the fighting for
the naval base at Copenhagen went on for three hours. More
than 200 Danish sailors gave their lives holding the German
trops back while their comrades blew up their ships.
Members of the former Danish government have defied
German orders to meet to discuss further plans for Denmark’s
future.
King Christian and Queen Alexandrine are still interned
in their palace Amalienborg in Copenhagen, whereto they were
moved by the Germans from the summer palace Sorgenfri, just
outside the capital.
The Danish Ambassador to Sweden has annonuced that he
no longer is taking instructions from Copenhagen in view of the
fact that since the Germans took over, the constitutional Danish
government has ceased to function.
BICYCLE EXPRESS TAKES
FLOWERS TO BRITONS
Because of wartime demands
on transportation, English
flower growers may not ship
by train. But flowerloving
Londoners still receive a few
blossoms, some of them by
bicycle express. Cyclist from
ornwall, for example, pedal
120 miles, hand their flower
load to another team which
cycles the next 120 miles; a
third team pumps the remain
ing 65 miles to London. High
prices make the trip profit-
able.
British Tars in
farious Tasks
By all odds America’s
most unusual farmer is the
British sailor.
Of this man of the sea, turn-
ed man of the soil, far too
little has been said. But 200
such international good neigh
bors are now putting in their
shore leaves where most pe-
ople would least expect to find
the Royal.
They’re on the farms of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
feeding chickens, milking
cows, driving tractors, picking
apples, and doing the thous-
and and one other chores that
are a part of the daily rout.ine
on the nation’s rich eastern a-
gricultural acres.
City dwellers get the im-
pression that these sailor were
farm boys back home. But
that’s not the case at all. Many
of them had never seen cows
except in picture books.
The men recieve about 8
shillings a day for their labor,
plus room and board, and bo-
ard on the average farm these
days is æhat a city dweller
thniks of as a banquet.
In Honolulu, Judge Franklin
devised a special fine for black
out violators: $25 and a pint
of blood. The physically unfit
pay an extra $25, to buy blood.
“If your line is rough and
words come slow, we’ll write
that letter and she’ll never
know.” “Wring tears or cash
by mail, Amour methods ne-
ver fail.” With these slogans,
two soldiers established a lett-
er writing service for their
comrades at Fort Greely, Al-
aka. For a letter to an old lvoe
thé rate is 25 cents; to a movie
star, $1; a “super lovey-dovey
sweetheart special” is 89 cents.
Customers’ names are a “mi-
litary secret.”
A Harlem butcher despair-
ingly posted a sign: “Leg o’
Nuttin’.”
No Harm Trying. In Twin
Falls, Idaho, Robb Richard
Smith, 3, who once “backed up
against the wall to get a good
start and ran right through
the front bay window,” ate a
pile of cherries, pits and all.