Daily Post - 01.12.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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L) A I L Y POST
Holy Russia
If Karl Marx was right m
calling religion the opium of the
people, the air over Moscow
must have been blue with
fumes last month:
Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett,
Archbishop of York, who is on
a visit to Patriarch Sergei of
the Russian Arthodox Church,
declared that there is complete
freedom of worship in Russia,
that the Soviet Government has
stopped all antireligious propa-
ganda. Said the Archbishop:
“Stalin, being a great states-
man, has recognized the power
of religion.”
To listeners in Germany the
Moscow radio beamed speeches
by Germa nclergymen, Catho-
lic and Protestant. Many of tlie
speakers were said to be cap-
tured German army chaplains.
They praised Mscow’s National
Committee for a Free Germany,
told how the Russians allow
them to practice their religion
in the prison camps, urged list-
eners in Germany to pray for
peace, work against the Nazis.
A German clergyman, whom
the Russians call Jose': Kaiser,
read prayers in German every
morning through the Moscow
microphone.
Orthodox priests appeared
on the street in their biack cas-
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socks for the first time since
the Bolshevik revolution, As-
tonished children troted along
heside them, asked who they
were.
Round The Press
Continued from. p. 2.
ordinately fond of their strange
■craft, and look with pained in-
credulity on finical civilians
who consider the ships some-
thing less than yare and yacht-
like.
The 36-ft. Higgins landing
boat turns up in the list under
two designations: LCV Land-
ing Craft, Vehicle), when it
ferries a light tank, or LCP (for
Personnel) when 50 men ride it
-ashore.
As early as 1936 the Navy ex-
perimented with tank ligthers,
and from these tests emerged
the LCM (Landing Craft, Mec-
hanized), a 50-footer which car-
Ties a crew of four and a
medium tank. As an intermedi-
ate step between this small
boat and the ocean-going LST,
the Navý designed a 100-ft.
LCT (Landing Craft, Tank),
which can be carried to zones
Hontoomery Smashes
Continued from page 1.
trols, which met no opposition
whatever, have been carried
out over the battle area. Hea-
vy and medium bombers, how-
ever, have flown further afield
to attack enemy rail communi
cations and airfield.
Flying Fortresses and Mar-
auders bombed Grosseto air-
field, eighty-five miles north-
west of Rome, scoring more
than thirty hits on the run-
ways and hangars. Rail targ-
ets between Rome and Leghorn
were attacked, ás were also the
railway yards at Pescara on
the east coast. Airfields and
ports in Albania have come in
for the attention of Allied air-
craft, which also, for the
first time, bombed Sarajevo in
Yugoslavia. Here, Mitchells suc
cessfully hit barracks, and re-
pair shops, as well as rail com
munications.
From all these operations,
three Allied aircraft failed to
return.
To-day‘s Middle East com-
munique reports the smashing
of an attack on an Allied con
voy in the eastern Mediterra-
neari.
Although bad weather has
cut down operations, enemy
shipping in the Aegean has not
been neglected.
Allied aircraft losses so far
for the week have been two
machines.
The Hungarian radio to-day
reported that to waves of Bri-
tish and American planes
crossed the west boundary of
Hungary heading northwards.
of operation on the deck of an
LST or a cargo vessel.
War Builders. Deadlines for
invasion operations had been
set by the Allied Joint Chiefs
of Staff. In order to meet them
it eventually became necessary
to divert some naval construc-
tion facilities to the task. Even
such an urgent program as the
construction of destroyer es-
corts was deferred. The land-
ing-boat prográm has cost more
than a billion dollars. And the
Navy is turning out more of
them for future operations.
A Chungking radio message
reports that Chinese troops
troops have routed two Japan-
ese north of the important town
of Chang-teh. Breaking thro-
ugh the enemýs lines at six po-
ints, our Chinese allies are
now in hot pursuit of the re-
treating Japanese.
Fortresses Blast
Breien
London, Nov. 30th.
The air offensive on the
Western front was kept up
during the night by RAF Mos-
quitos, which attacked targets
in western Germany. At the
same time. Intruder aircraft
went for enemy airfield in
France and Holland.
Not one plane is missing
from the night's operations.
Yesterday, Flying Fortress-
es with hunderbolt and Lightn
ing escort, gave Bremen its
second daylight hammering
within a week. Other daylight
targets included low-level at-
tacks on rail junctions by
Mosquitos, and the shooting up
of shipping off Brest.
“fieysir”
A change of owners of the
“Geysir“ Garage has taken
place. The new owner is the
“Hreyfill" the Drivers' Co-
operative Society in Reykjavík.
The society is going to carry
on the business at the same
place with an increased numb-
er of cars.
Icelander Escapes Mazis
An Icelander has just arriv-
ed here, who made his es-
cape from Norway in a motor-
boat together with four Nor-
wegians. He bought the food-
stuffs and oil needed for the
voyage from a German flying-
officer.
Icelander said that the
people of Norway suffered
semi-stravation and its morale
being unbroken.
Iceland ship Nissinp
A small ship, “Hilmir" is
sopposed lost at sea in Faxa-
flói on her way from Reykja-
vík to Arnarstapi on Snaefells-
nes. The ship had on board a
crew of seven men and four
passengers who were two mar-
ried women, a child and one
man.
Both ships and planes have
been looking for the boat, but
all their searching has been in
vain.
In Reykjavík
Today ...
MOVIES
GAMLA BÍÓ: “The Tuttles of
Tahiti“ æith Charles Laugh
ton, Joan Hall. Peggy Drake.
NÝJA BÍÓ “Gentleman Jim“
æith Errol Flynn.
TJARNARBÍÓ: “The Moon and
Six-Pence“ æith G. Sanders
Herbert Marshall.
AMERIGAN BROADCASTS
Icelandic Independence Day.
1300—1400 Salute To Iceland.
No other American Broad-
casts. Scheduled because of
the Observances of Iceland's
Independence Day.
A Check-Up on
Nazi Sadists
London, Nov. 30th.
The Inter-Allied Informati-
on Committee has issuéd a
statement, based on eye-wit-
ness accounts of German bru-
tality against women in occu-
pied territory.
In Yugoslavia, girls have de-
liberately been flogged to
death for refusing to give in-
formation to the Germans.
In Norway, women have di-
ed in concentration camps to
which four year old children
have been sent. Norwegian wo-
men teachers have chosen to be
sent to concentration camps
rather than teach Nazi prin-
ciples in their schools.
In Greece, women had
trudged weary miles with
their children to beg the Ger-
mans for food, only to be told
by them that were only half
their number left, there would
still be too many by. half.
Similar stories are told by
escaped civilians from Czecho-
slovakia and Russia. In Poland,
German atrocities beggar des-
cription.
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