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T - = ML Peace-It's Wonderful THE COLBORNE EXPRESStiOLBORNE, ONT., JUNE 29, 1944 As calm and peaceful as if the war were on another planet is the scene abov Claire L. Chennault's fighters in the China-Burma theater of operations rel; on one of China's most healthful plateaus, Camp Schiel is equipped with bash facilities and tennis courts. ,. boats, hunting CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM Gwendoline P. Clarke • Will you come exploring with me -- just you and I and Tippy. You will? -- that's fine, then let's be going. But .wait, we had better take that mosquito dope along -- nasty little animals, those mosquitoes, they can sure take the joy out of life. It's pretty warm, you think? Well, yes, but then it's summertime, isn't it, so what else Come along, we will start up the back lane, through the pasture field, across the bush and over to the track. Yes, you guessed it -- ■we're to ^ go exploring for wild What a wonderful growth of grass there is in the lane -- that's because the cattle have not yet been pastured here -- next week it will be a different story, and the walking a little easier. See how well the spring crop looks.. . yes, there are thistles there -- and chicory too. along the fences. We don't like the look of them at all but still there is a limit to what one man and his wife can do on a hundred acres. Look -- do look -- over there near that blackthorn tree... TITO'S RIGHT HAND did you ever see a wild canary quite so yellow... and hear how sweetly he sings. Now we must hunt for that place in the fence where we always get through to the track How the years fly... such a little while it son came exploring with me. And how soon they tired of picking berries -- the creek was a much greater attraction. There was far more water in the creek in those days and in it both the children learnt to swim. Right here at this bend -- we called it "the raspberry corner" -- is where Bob nearly drowned. He was about three years old and was playing happily at the edge of the creek while I was teaching sister to swim. But he didn't stay there... and he went down twice before I reached him. Well, here we are at the track. Mercy -- where's Tippy? I hear a train coming -- it will scare the life out of her. "Here, Tippy... come here little dog. Ye?, we'll pick up "lygUggHMftnl tight tintitTne^raTri^mrs^^rre^nyv Don't tremble so, little dog, nothing is going to hurt you. See, there's the engine driver, waving to us." Well now, we had better start looking for strawberries in real earnest. After all, that's what we came for, wasn't it? Or was it? Strange how even a wild strawberry patch will run out. This is the place where the berries were so thick year after year -- and now there is hardly a berry. But here is a new patch... "No, Tippy, I am not kneeling down to play with you.. . scram now... go chase a rabbit. How can I pick berries if you sit down on top of them?" around, picking where we can, climbing fences when we come to then, at mosquitoes which persist in attacking us despite our attempts to repel them. We are enjoying our rendezvous with nature, and we don't want to go home. But we must. There are hens and chickens to feed and, on a hot night like this, Partner will be looking for a drink while he milks. Conic to think of it. we could do with a drink ourselves. How many berries have we got? Is that really so important? WetU if you must know there are enougto to make a good feed for two i>eo-ple for dinner tomorrow! Was it worthwhile, did you say? -- wouldn't it have been more practical to slip down town and buy a quart, even at 35c? Well, that depends on one's sense of values. Out here where, as one looks towards the far distant horizon -- which doesn't seem so very distant after all -- earth and heaven seem to merge into one. There is a "peace that passes all understanding" and one's faith is once mone restored. Faith that somehow, sometime, all the ugliness and suiter-,, ing that is in the world today wilt come to an end. That out of the maelstrom of human misery thalfe will emerge a better world in wlilc i all men may live in peace. You see what I mean? One ca. \ not buy hope and a new faith wjj f a box of berries from a store, bit one can find them out where tit wild berries grow, out where tl* birds sing songs of freedom for at who wish to hear. SUN DAY S C H OQLm L £' S S 0 ~ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON July 9 TAKING POSSESSION OF CANAAN. -- Joshua 13, 14; Judges 1:19-21, 27, 28. PRINTED TEXT, Joshua 14:6-14; Judges 1:20, 21. GOLDEN TEXT. -- Thou hast wholy followed Jehovah. Joshua 14:9. Memory Verse: The Lord is tat helper. Hebrews 13:6. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. -- The exact time of out lesson cannot be definitely det?«? mined, but must be located somewhere between 1390 and 1370 B. « Place. -- While many geographi>-cal terms are mentioned in thi| lesson, the principal place is Hebf ron, south of Jerusalem, still a great The Portion For Caleb and Caleb the son of .lephunneli the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that Jehovjm spoke.unto Mofts the man of God concealing me and concerning* Thee in Kadesh-barnea," Caleb meets his oM comrade and leader, and Mo-es tin- servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy M saw alt the diFK*ultics and dangers' with God on'their s:de all would Blessings for the Faithful "Nevertheless my brethren that h:r-t ..holly followed Jehovah my God." Caleb and Joshua threw their whole power into the effort to save the people from cowardice and di--a-tcr, wholly following the Lord. Great blessings are promised to' the faithful who follow the Lord, not partially but wholly. "And now behold Jehovah hath strength now, for war, and to gq out and to come in." God not only, prolonged ms hfe but had pre-) served his strength in. full vigor. There is no doubt that Godliness tends to cougevity, or that by liv-j life. Caleb's Inheritance THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current fcvents New U. S. Superfortresses Strike Mighty Blow At Industrial Japan America struck a mighty blow against Japan last week, says The New York Tim:-. Making their Japan 'in "ongest^aed"ai"r raid The air blow at Japan brought rclluccd'the Hying' fortress. Liberator, Lancaster and Halifax to the signed and built under wartime foo" wmg.'iuin '-compare^'with the 103 feet of the Fortress: its OS-foot length to the Fortress' 73-foot length. It is armed with 50-caliber mounted m power turrets that can be swung in all directions. 1'owered bv four 8.200-horsepower Wright engines (the Flying Fortress uses four 1,200-horsepower engines) it is reported able to carry more bombs farther and faster than any other plane in the world, perhaps reach a fifth of the way around the world. Days of Preparation quired to bring these huge planes into combat. In India tens of thousands of Indians-and thousands of Americans labored building rear bases for the big ships. The Americans worked sixteen and eighteen hours a day and astonished British "old India hands" by persuading Indians to work similar hours. In China, where advanced bases were built, the task was even more difficult. The story of how the B-29 bases in China were built is one. of the most inspiring of the war. Plans for the bases were developed in Washington in the fall of 1943. In mid-January, Generalissimo Chiang ■ Kai-shek ordered the greatest conscription of man-power in Chinese history since construction of the Great Wall 2.000 years ago. Wi.hin 17 days, an initial force of 200,000 Chinese peasants and been assembled at the site in West China and the work began without cement mixing, rock crushing or road building machinery, or other mechanical devices. The power was provided b}' human beings; the equipment , was their hands. The force sometimes , The crushed rock used for eacli or the fields was enough fur a 20 ^Wl: Teh Chinese r.iso tu.lt tcr- material was scarce so the buildings were primitive affairs. 2600-Mile Trip Almost a year .to the day after the first Superfortresses rolled off the assembly lines, the Twentieth Air Force, set up especially for these huge aircraft, to employ them the world, sent them out for their first major mission over the east China Sea to Japan, a trip out and back that could uot.have been less than 2.000 miles and was probably much more. Long-range flights in the European theatre seldom cx- "The'firtrSuperfortresses arrived over their target, Yawata, center of the Japanese steel industry, source of perhaps SO per cent of out th tiiu sp, k, that mai have been 30,000 feet or more in-the air. will be with me, and I shall drive them out. as Jehovah spoke." The of the enemy but Caleb knew that if God was with him, and' he had no doubt about this, then none Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Je-phunneh to Kenizzite unto this dav; because that lie wholly followed Jehovah, The God of Israel." For the third time we are reminded of Caleb's whole-hearted allegiance--to the Lord, and t'lis time we are told it was because of this •that'this special inheritance was granted to him. Success Through Faith "And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.. And the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day." Caleb was a man of faith and completely succeeded in the difficult tasks which he believed God led him to undertake: the children of Israel equally promised victory over their enemies, did not complete these victories as they should, but my. s:m„>v |,e'-;ailse thev did not w'-<-"v >T,v.v ::.,• Lord. - Responsible for planning of many of the Yugoslav guerrilla battles against Germans is Maj. Gen. Arsa Yovanovich, above, chief of staff for Marshall Tito, famed Partisan chieftain. THE HITLER GANG "Four heads ache worse than one" might be the title of this new photo, just received from neutral sources, showing Adolf Hitler with military, naval and civilian chieftains during recent inspection at the Fuehrer's headquarters. Left to right are Hitler, Field Marshal Keitel, chief of staff, Admiral Donitz, navy commander, and Heinrich Himtnler, head of the Gestapo. Anti-aircraft fire filled the skies. Night fighters roared to the attack. All But Four Return All but four of the Superfortresses came back safely. Two were lost in operational accidents and the crew of one was saved. One was downed by the Japanese. The fourth is listed as "missing." Japanese propagandists told their people: "We should not think that we have been passively attacked, but that we have actively pulled the enemy toward us." Allied observers estimated the raid had knocked out 15 per cent of Japan's steel production, at least temporarily. The attack opened the possibility that soon Japan would suffer the same kind of strategic bombing that has cut so heavily into Ger- perts have pointed out, is more vulnerable to air attack than Germany. Japan's industry is largely concentrated in six major areas, four of them on the island of Honshu and two on the island of Kyushu. It would take less effort to spread havoc here than it did to damage Germany's more widely scattered industrial centers. Iceland Severs Denmark Ties The people of Iceland, one of the world's oldest democracies, voted 70,536 to 365 to sever their 700-year-old ties with Denmark and form an independent republic, final figures on last week's plebiscite just released showed. About 98 percent of the eligible voters on the island participated. The young republic probably will be proclaimed June 17, an Iceland national holiday. The Althing, Iceland's legislative body, prepared to convene June 10 to name the island's first President, who will serve for one year. Thereafter, a president will be elected by the people for a four- They Were Waiting To See Montgomery That's a nice little story which has tickled out of Denmark regarding Rommel's anti-invasion A crowd of Danes filed the street in front of Rommel's hotel in Copenhagen, but remained af-4«-h*-4wm come out and had driven away. The police tried to move them on. but without success, and finally they asked them why they waited. "We're waiting to see Montgomery", several of them replied. "He always comes along right behind Rommel." Production of dates in the United States has increased to an annual harvest of about 15,000,000 10 years ago. BEMEDALED PADRE Most decorated chaplain in thia war is Albert John Hoffman, above^ of Dubuque, la., awarded the Distinguished Service Cross at the Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich. Award wan given for extraordinary bravery in Italy, where Chaplain Hoffman lost his left leg. He also holds Purple Heart and Silver Star, latter give* for bravery in African action. VOICE OF THE PRESS FINAL DOWNWARD STEP Marshall Petain has orderedFrencli-men to obey all orders of the Germans and to co-operate with them against the allied invaders, an order which must forever remove the name of the aged marshall from the French hall of fame. --Niagara Falls Review TIP TO DEMOCRACIES This century isn't half gone and already the Germans have started two world wars. Perhaps hereafter the democracies will have sense enough not to pussyfoot when Germany begins to goose-step. --Kitchener Record TWO EXTREMES Korean women wear hats three feet in diameter. The other extreme is three inches, and our own darlings have gone thither. --Ottawa Citizen -- SOMEWHAT ALIKE Hitler says he has no intention of winding up his career as Napoleon did. Neither had Napoleon. --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Chinese Use Pigeons In Jungle Warfare That the Chinese have used carrier and racing pigeons for hundreds of years is pointed out by a British officer in Calcutta, India, and he tells of one firm that has used them 500 years without interruption. The Chinese division he had been with in Burma had great success with them in jungle war- BOO! 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