Milford chronicle., 1942-08-28

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Pack trains in mountainous sec
tors are often necessary and here
the mule, slow but sure-footed, plays
an important role. Our Army buys
thousands of mules paying from SITS
to $3.50 for each. The mule eats
less, carries more, and some de-
clare is smarter than the horse.
Your purchase Of War Bonds and
Stamps helps pay for these Army
Mules. Invest at least ten percent
Of your income in War Bonds every
pay day. U.S.. Treasury Department.
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At long last the United States
navy has gained naval supremacy
in the South Pacific, and the willy
Japs, who thought that Americans
had grown soft through years of
peace, are finding out that we can
travel 1900 miles and whip the
Foga of Yamamoto any day in the
week. Although the ''Nips" have
been forced back in their attempt
to. succor what remained of their
forces in the Solomons, it is the
belief of naval men that the final
showdown is in the offing-the
time when the massed grand feet
Of Imperial Japan will chose TO
fight it out with the combined fleets
of United States and Australia.
This battle will be of epic proper
tiohs, with every nation involved
throwing their all into the gamut |
of battle. The mighty ships of
Nippon, some reputed to be of 45,- |
900 tons mounting 16-inch giant |
rifles, will run up against ships of |
lighter tonnage but manned by the
best sailors in the world. Then |
old, fat, foolish Yamamoto will be
given his share of the ocean-the |
bottom.
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In China the Japanese have run !
into a3hornet's nest. After spend |
ing the lives of thousands of their |
best men in gaining air-ports in the
interior. which they thought might |
be the Shangri-la from which jim
my Doolittle and his men took OFF |
to bomb Tokyo, have after terrific
Chinese counter attacks, b e e n
forced to relinquish their ill-gotten
gains. Years of war has only
strengthened the resolve of the
Chinese people to drive the little
men from the Land of the Setting
Sun, back into the sea that spewed |
them forth. The people of China
are our allies; they look to US to |
furnish them with the sinews of |
war. They from an unlimited re- !
servoir of manpower will select the |
men best fitted to handle the arms
that we are able to furnish. For
years it was generally thought that |
the Chinese soldier was a poor |
fighter, but the Sino-Japanese war
has shown that the descendant Of |
the Artistic Mings and the war-hke |
Tartars, when properly armed and
bravely led is a soldier second to |
none. To this the Japs will testify. |
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In Russia, the hordes led by
Butcher Book continue to Chamber |
over the mounds of their own dead |
in an intensified drive against
Stalingrad. Military experts say
that upwards of 100000 men are |
being used in this great assault.
Russians are fighting bravely and |
have recently been reinforced by |
thousands of reserves, and hun
dreds of new tanks, including not
a few General Grants and Lees
from United States. Whether the |
Soviets will be able to keep the
Nazis out Of Stalingrad remains to
be seen. The Germans say they are
35 miles from the suburbs now and
the fall of the city will be accom-
plished in few days. 1t seems
to this writer that he heard the
Nazis boast once before that they
were in the outskirts of Lenin-
grad and the fall of that city was
imminent-that was a year ago.
Then again German advance units
advanced so close to Moscow that
thSJ COulu see Tue lowers Oh the
thousand churches in Russia's
Holy City. Something happened
each time and the steam-roller ad-
vance petered out. Some people
say the Nazis command took to
quarreling before Leningrad, and
the order for the final assault did
not come until the snow started to
fall. At Moscow they say Hitler
lost his nerve and refused to order
the final assault, when he realized
that it would take the lives of
100000 men, thus winning the emf
nifty of Butcher" Book, who was
plunged into a state of ecstaey as
he anticipated the bloody battle to
come. What really kept the Nazis
out Of Leningrad and Moscow and
what may keep them out of Stalin-
grad, was. Russian "guts". You
can't lick people that won't be
licked.
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