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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
IT'S A SMALL WORLD

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Back In 1905 when County
Clerk Guy L. Brown was .
private In the U. s. Cavalry,
his commanding officer ut
Fort Meade, s. D. was Lieut..
F. p. Lahm. Later, after he
and brother Wayne established
the clothing firm Of Brown
and Brown In Mount Glenn
ems, Guy followed the career
Of his former superior through
the newspapers.
Lahm became quite well
known as a balloonist, several
times competing in balloon
events sponsored by James Cor
don Bennett, Of the old New
York World. And that was the
last Guy heard of Lahm until
yesterday.
Circuit Judge James e.
Spier, whose county building
courtroom In q floor above
Browns office, brought In the
Second Army Air Service
Book. The Judge bought the
book when he was . flight
commander overseas during
World War I.
On the flyleaf was picture
Of Lahm, then lieutenant col
lionel. He was also Judge Spier's
commanding officer, so it's no
wonder that Guy and Jim fig
ure it's q small world.
The Judge and Guy are both
we'll past the active combat
stage, but both loom large In
the home defense setup. The
Judge Is publicity director AM
Brown rations everything from
tires to dynamite.
TOURTELLOT AT SEATTLE
Friends of Lieut.. Col. George
p. Tourtellot, former Selfridge
Field man, will be interested to
know he is now assigned to duty
at Seattle. Wash. Tourtello. was
a lieutenant while with the first
pursuit group.
Lieut.. Col. Tourtellot this
week wrote to the county
clerks office asking . birth
certificate for his son, George,
Jr., now aged 10. DR.. @. G.
Fleumer was the attending
physician when George was
born On Dec. II. 1898.
AL TO STEP ASIDE
We asked Al Noe. the chair
nan Of Draft Board No. I. In
What manner his status will be
determined after he register
for selective service on Monday.
Feb. 10. Al, now crowding 20
II . father, 20 he pobably won't
bear arms, but the problem In
trigued ~, nevertheless.
Nee sayS that ~ S(ntno YIN
be detsFmined ~ anetAsf
draft beard. The same pre-
esduss viii apply - sxania-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
Two Lose Lives
in Train Crash

HUNTINGTON, Ind, Jan. ~
.-R-The Erie Railroad Yards
reported two trainmen were
killed early today in q rear-end
collision of q freight and a pass
enger train, eight miles north
west Of Huntington, near Bippus.
The dead were Herman Kess-
Ter and William .oung, engineer
and fireman, respectively, Of the
Fries Chicago-to-New York At
lantic Express passenger train.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27

By EDDY GILMORE
WITH THE RED ARMY ON
THE CENTRAL FRONT. Jan.
27-(R)-All Il definitely not
quiet on Russia's Western Front
and the blue eyes Of Lieut.. Gen.
Leonid Govorov were cold when
he was asked why Adolf Hitler's
invasion army was Withdrawing.
"It's important that your part
of the world finds out" he said,
THAT the Red Army IL the first
army to make the German army
retreat-and in haste"
The 45-year-old conqueror of
Mozhaisk went on to list rea-
sons. He declared the Russians
have superiority In artillery,
both in quality and numbers; the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
Valiant Band
Cuts Way Through
Strong Jap Lines

SINGAPORE, Jan. 27-(R)
- Two British officers and sew
en- Gurkha soldiers cut off from
the main force in northern
Malaga early in the war have
reached Singapore after 40 days.
They fought their way out of
several tight corners. crossed the
main road in constant use by
Japanese trucks, then padded a
small sampan 200 miles across
the Malacca strait to Sumatra.
A rapid drive by japanese
tanks separated the two officers
and $50 men from their bat
talions Dec. IS in northern Ke-
dab. Attempting to make their
way through the jungles during
a heavy storm while the jap
anese attacked, the party scat
tered.
The officers and the seven
Gurkhas sloshed across 20 miles
of flooded rice fields and final
ly reached q village on the coast,
where Chinese guided the party
to the sampan.
Tn small craft had neither
oars nor sail so the men cut
palm fronds and fashioned crude
paddles, then set out for Penang.
The wind blew the sampan to-
ward the sea at night and the
next day q cross current foiled
their attempts to reach Penang
50 they decided to allow the wind
to help them toward Sumatra.
200 miles to the south, whence
they came to Singapore.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
Farmers Fight
Time Advance
Likely to Affect
Cows, Pigs. Hens

BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 27-(R
Southern Idaho has in pros
pect an advance to what Is now
central time-and the states
farmers complained today that
the change likely would disrupt
the schedule of their cows, pigs
and hens.
The boundary line between
mountain and Pacific time now
follows the Idaho Montana bor-
der south to the Salmon river,
then cuts clear across Idaho
past the Oregon line. It turns
east again alone the Nevada
border, leaving southern Idaho
and the extreme eastern fringe
Of Orgon jutting far west of
other regions included In the
Pacific time belt.
The Idaho Chamber of Com
merce asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission to place the
southern counties in the Pacific
zone-so that when clocks are
moved ahead Feb. 9. The entire
state would have the same time.
But the Interstate Commerce
Commission in o r m e d state
chamber secretary Earl w. Muir
ply that it had no authority to
make the change because an act
Of Congress placed southern
Idaho in the mountain zone.
At the end of the first World
War, Murphy explained, Idaho,s
Public Utilities Commission un-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
Zero Weather Discounted
as Factor in Defects
conqusror Of Moxhaisk Ssys Red
Artillery is Superior 10 Naxis'

Russians are additionally good
bayonet fighters and the Ger.
mans are not. British tanks are
being used to good effect: The
Red air force Ii active in often.
sive operations.
CAN'T STAND BAYONETS
mot one time" he asserted
"have the Germans withstood 9
bayonet charge"
The general discounted below
zero weather as major factor
but said overconfidence had
caused the Germans to pay in.
sufficient attention to their rear
and "there is considerable weak
ness about German fortified.
TONS.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
1heRambling Reporter

ing physicians assigned to the
draft board-providing they're
within the age limits, Of
course.
WHAT TO DO?
The law, it seems, sometimes
contradicts itself. Following an
automobile accident, deputies
are supposed to (1) move the
damaged cars rapidly from the
highway, and (2) take pictures
Of said cars without moving
them.
Assisting Prosecutor Howard
Carroll says Sheriff Jake
Theut's men have found the
solution. They pop out Of
their cars, snap three or four
pix and then move the da-
mayed autos off the road. All
Of which takes only . few
minutes, Howard says.
e. ID. r,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27

IMPORTANT! u you haze already or.
dsrsd Defense SssmPs delivered 70 your
koms, sose e the dps 70 haze your
carrier Increase ths order.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27

lOc IN DEFENSE SAVINGS sTAlHs
spiu ~ ~ &c., 3Dng s
Csc IN DEFENSE SAVINGS srAMEs
sciu provide sesdisss ass1
$3.50 m DEFENSE SAVINGS srAlns
prs5Sr : ~ -
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i ,shse 60 bsnhse 2s
5000 m DEFENSE SAVINGS STA1oP8 sT s S23z
ssiu buy - GsSj sssI 81 81
$1,000 m DEFENSE SAVINGS SFA1GPs s
,siu buy 1oe sssy III
Guard Your Country and Yer 49, SZl
FILL OUT THIS ORDER FORM 11
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27
Order DEFENSE SAYINGS STAMPS deliuered your
home regularly each ,ceek through your carrier boy
The MORE STAMPS you BUY, the MORE PLANES WILL FLY

Ctars Army Of Dollars marching NOW against
the enemy. Buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps-
the quickest, that everyone help R The
Rcmember that tanks and planes and gums
money. Much ef this naoaey fres ths pes-
ple-vo.sssry, In the Americas Way. Nos sift, bus
losR - repaid With nseres-e4oO for every $500
you invess-fos that, soo, y The American Wsy. But
there ID nos % Ice. Your mooney b nssded
NOW. without delay h - put 10 work q escs 10
defeat those who have declared upon ss-shsss who
have killed people n eold Mood, and whs,
you read this, plotting desperately destroy THE
America love.
You needn't h rich 10 Do your part. Defense Bonds
little STATS and you can start buying Defence
Bonds By buying Defense Stamps, u l0t. when your
newspsper carrier eal coeca this week. give him your
order for many l0t Defense Ssmps yos Afford
each week. Yosr gned order win b al that b nscsssay
have him deliver and collect for The Stamps regularly
each week. until ordered By you 10 discoaiinue.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-27

successfully ps4iiions1 los G. y
state Commerce CoG 81,
order mountain time ~ o6UC I'
Idaho, which thsn 49, r. MI
Pacific 1oue. u. Ill Ii 4. & I,
So the late eenatne y
Gooding askod CougroDo ~ 0v<
ride the commisBion ap4 u Y
obtained passage q n ~ I "
Ing the change. u. q ,.: y e Il s "
Now, rs argued. 4 ~ elG
are turned up another Aou y
will, in effect. proyido \ eu1lxu
time for . region that = - -
Their east than ssctio1D Whie1i u
have Pacific time. .;Sls IS
Farmers complain 1not }H;
biggest problem = ttQies -
cows. the pigs aud ~ h1s III
argue, won't wake ~ ~ Gi 4 4. q
er-but the farmer Wiu ~ ~
pected to get hls work 49, |
daylight hours 3ust ~ - v. Il " \
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Strike Notices
Up Since Dec. 7

LANSING, March 13 (UP).-
The state labor mediation board
today revealed a monthly increase
in strike notices since Pearl
Harbor
The board said IS notices OF
intention 10 strike had been filed
since December Z. most of which
were settled in one 10 four days.
The board said 274 disputes.
asking either for assistance or
notifying of intention to strike
have been filed since December Z.
The board estimated that about
70 per cent of strike notices re-
ceived involved plants working on
defense contracts. Strikes re-
naming unsettled include one
non-defense strike dating from
November, one from January. one
from February. and four in
March.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
The War Today

AUSTRALIA - japanese naval
force reported off Buka Island.
in the Solomon group 1000
miles northeast of Australia.
page IL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
tress has downed 100 Japa-
panese planes and stands firm
after absorbing the heaviest
bombing attacks on record.
page ~
RUSSIA - Powerful new Red
forces attack from Leningrad
10 the Sea Of Azov: even the
Nazis admit enemy attacks
from Orel 70 Taganrog.
page ~
LONDON British bomb Kiel
naval base and northwest
Germany, losing eight planes.
Page p
PACIFIC-United States sub
marine sinks four ships In
japanese waters. Page p
BURMA-BrItish stabilize new
defense line 20 miles north
west Of Rsngoon. Page 6)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
OCD at Work
Everything
Co-ordinated!
For instance Pine-P o n g,
Archery. Weieht-Liftine
and So More

ASHING TON, March l3
GNS) Senate Harry F. Byrd Of
Virginia thought he had discovered
the zenith in what he considered
non-eSsential Office of Civilian
Defense activities when he exposed
appointment Of national CO
ofdinator of bowling bat thatwaS
a mere nothing.
For the Virginia Democrat dis
closed today he has been very
much aStonished" TO find not only
that OCD has appointed national
co-ordinator of bowling. "but 81
other co-ordinators of various
activities in sports and recreation. "
such as ping pong and marbles,
which he doesn't consider much OF
IAN inspiration 10 the American
boys who are fighting under Mac
Arthur for their lives and our
security"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
SeiZeS EZiO PIMA
Metropolitan Opera Basso Held on Ellis Isle Afte'
Boosting Of Friendship With MussoIini

FBI agents said Pima had never
been openly identified with pre-
Fascist organizations in this cou,t.
try but had frequently told of bis
great friendship for the Italian
dictator.
Pima was scheduled to sing in
Faust at the Metropolitan to-
morrow and was TO 60 on tour
with the opera company to fulfill
engagements at Baltimore. BoS-
ton. cleveland. Dallas and other
cities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Jap Thrust
Peri|sU. :. Aid
To Australia
Enemy Naval Force
Sighted by Planes
Off Solomon Islands
BY FRANCIS MCCARTHY
United Press star Correanondent

MELBOURNE, Australia, March
ia Japanese thrust into the
Solomon Islands despite persistent
Allied aerial counter-blows today
indicated an attempt to cut supply
lines from America and spread a
huge pincers around northern Aus
tralia in preparation for an inva.
sion.
Although Allied bombers (pre,
sunably including United States
craft, continued to strike at the
japanese invasion bases in the
north, the air ministry disclosed
that japanese naval force was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

NEW YORK. March 13 GNS).-
Ezio Pima Metropolitan Opera
baSSo, was detained on Ellis Island
today because he boosted. Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents
said, Of his friendship with MuSso-
lini.
The Italian born, 50-year-old
opera star will be given a hearing
within the next two weeks before
an alien board. He may be interned
for the duration unless he can con-
vince the board of his good inten-
tons toward this country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
HardHOOd Tires

30 ~ r ~. ~. J, March -
CINSi - Claude II b b ers d.
builder. inventor and author
claimed today 10 have the answer
10 tho rubber tire shortage.
He has devised hardwood auto
mobile tire, toughened by a chemi-
cal process. Using the hardwood
tires on the front wheels only.
Ilabbcrstad demonstrated I heir
value by driving IS miles an hour.
He said tho hardwood tires lacked
sufficient traction for use on the
rear wheels.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Mrs. Steinbe(k Wins
Divorce From Author

SALINAS. Cal March II
INS) Mrs. John Stcinbcck to-
day was granted an interlocutorv
divorce decree from her author
husband
The i0-ycar-old writer, whose
social-ConscienCe novels include
Grapes Of Wrath" and "Of Mirc
and Men" did not contest the
action. which was based on 4
charge Of cruelty Mrs Steinbecl;
was awarded Sll1.000 in cash
H. bank accounts of $1,000 eacr
and $4,000 in government bonds
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Curfew in San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. March Is
GNS).-Things were getting a lit
tie boisterouS in the early morning
hours in San Antonio. so the civil
ian and military authorities agreed
today on an IL p. m. curfew. Sol
diers hereafter will be forbidden
on the streets after the deadline
unless on official business.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
HOSPITAL BLACKOUT

Under the direction of Douglas
+. Mccormick. hospital attorney
and defense chairman, Ford Hos
pital was holding its first practice
air raid blackout Many weeks OF
planning and preparation were
being tested.
Overhead in three planes flying
al 1900 feet, were Civil Air Patrol
observers and Or. Frank Hart
man, staff physician, who had
gone aloft to see how effective
was the blaCkout.
They reported:
successful
Doctors and nurses were
equipped with flashlights and train
mems electric lanterns.
When the call, Number so.
first notice" (code so that patients
would not he alarmed) was is
sued. nurses and orderlles placed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
u. s.
Ignores Big
Rubber Stock
New Yorker Says
Secret Process Can
Supply Nation
BY KINGSBURY SMITH


Int'i News service stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. March ID
Charging that tho government S
lack of knowledge concerning
available rubber sources is in
comprehensive. Elliot f.. Simp-
son. director Of the DreXSagc
Rubber Company OF New York,
today issued a statement asserting
that hundreds of thousands Of tons
of various types OF rubber can be
obtained quickly in Latin America
and Africa.
Simpsons statement also claimed
that a Florida planter has dis
covered secret process for de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Message Ia T.. =.

CANBERRA, Australia. March
- CUP).-Prime Minister John
Curtin confirmed today that he
had sent an important message to
President Roosevelt and il was
understood that a formal reply
was awaited.
The message. which may have
concerned United Nations use of
Australia as an offensive as we'll as
defensive base. was delivered 10
Mr.. Roosevelt by Minister Richard
Casey al Washington.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
81 CO-ORDINATORS

Among these 81 co-ordlnator'
Senator Byrd listed:
a national badminton co.
ordinator, r. Ward Starrett,
Chicago
a national archery co-ordi-
nator, II. a. McCune, Pine Bluff,
Ark.
a national baG-punching CO.
ordinator. Albert a. Nino, Upper
Darby, Pa.
a national billiards co-ordi-
nator, Charles c. Peterson,
Chicago.
a national canoeing co-ordi-
nator Theo. Altcnder, Phila-
dclphIa
A national code-ball co-ordi-
nator, William +. Code. Chicago.
A national miniature golf CO.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
FIRST HOSPITAL READY

Ford Hospital is the first in this
area TO be fully equipped ant
ready for any emergency Nc.
Cormick explained, All 1.087 EN-.
ployes have been assigned dutic-
and have been drilled, he ex-
planned.
The hospital generates its owr
power, but is equipped so that
Edison power can be used if It's
plant is bombed out.
"All operating rooms and
laboratories are equipped 80
that in the event Of both power
plants being put out of COM
mission emergency electric Ian
terms can be used" Mccormick
said
Since December "a the hospital
has had an emergency crew OF
four doctors. two nurses, an or
derby and an ambulance driver
who arc on 2i-hour duty. he re-
vealed.
This emergency crew is al
ways ready TO 60 anywhete in
the city when needed" MCCor-
mick explained.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Big Fortress
1900 Bombs
= I4-Ineh Mor+ars
Knock Our Force
Landing on Bataan
BY FRANK HEWLETT
United Press stan Correspoudent

WITH GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S
ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES,
March 10 (delayed) .-Corregidor.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's fortress
island in the mouth of Manila Bay.
stands firm today after taking
what its men believe to be, pound
for pound and acre for acre, the
heaviest airplane bombing attacks
on record.
The bombing of Corregidor has
cost the japanese 120 planes Off
Icially claimed and many more
damaged and undoubtedly downed.
Nearly half of some attacking
fleets, heavy, medium, light and
dive bombers, have been shot down
by the islands guns.
Recently the japanese have con-
fined themselves largely to nui-
sance and reconnaissance raids,
and Corregidor, its battle scars dis
appearing and the Stars and
Stripes flying from its highest
point. continues to be a headache
to the japanese war lords.
ANOTHER RECORD
Aside from the bombings they
have stood up under, bombings
which they believe to be heavier
than those on Malta, Chungking
and Coventry, considering that
Corregidor is only Is square miles
in area, the men of the fortress
claim another record.
The crews of the great coastal
guns say these are the first
American sea coast guns to be
fired at an enemy target since the
Civil War. They say that maybe
this claim may be disputed but at
least they are the first to be fired
on an enemy ground troop con-
centration.
That was when the 14-inch
mortars knocked out a japanese
force which landed on the coast,
on the flank of the Bataan PENN.
sula troops, last month.
The jumbo shells cracked the
enemy resistance and led to the
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
IN THE
NEWS
.HE English have often
been "kidded," not only
by Americans. but by

"HE English have often
been "kidded," not only
by Americans, but by
their fellow ISLANDERS
Scotch, Irish and Welsh-on
their slOwness to discern the
crux of a proposition.
One ancient American jibe
declares that you must never
tell an Enghshman a joke on
Saturday night lest he awaken
TO the point and laugh i'm
church on Sunday morning"
However, the English have
not been any slower i'm realiz-
ing the Importance Of the
Pacific situation than the
Americans have been.
Both nations have had
their minds centered on VIC
tory in Europe.
Both nations have regarded
this war as another war for
territorial or commercial SUI
premacy.
Both nations have cOnsid-
cred il a repetition of the
wars of Napoleon the Great
in 1915, or of Napoleon iii in
1871, or of the world war Of
1914.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

reported off Buka Island in the
Solomon group three days ago.
Nothing further was known re-
garding this force, which was
sighted by Australian planes about
1000 miles northeast of Australia
and some $40 miles east of the
New Guinea invasion bases estab-
llShcd by Japan on Huon Gulf.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

ID Of the present situation.
Such i not the point
of this particular joke.
THIS conflict is not that
kind of war.
To find the presidents Of
this kind of a war we have
got to go back in history to
the time of Attila and his
Huns in 4Jl \. d., and To the
time of Genghis Khan and his
Mongols in 1925.
This war involves not
merely a redistribution of
European territories among
European peoples, a read
justment of commerce, a
realignment of nations, il car
rieS a menace to all Occidcn-
tai races, wherever they are
TO be found, and to all OcCi-
dental culture, wherever il
has been extended.
This column has told these
conspicuous facts to England
on many a Saturday night
diguratively speaking) and
England is just beginning to
(Continued on Nox, Doc 81 .,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
DOMINATE SEA LANES

lis objective appeared 10 be the
long chain of islands. including the
New HcbrideS. stretching south
eastward toward New Zealand and
dominating the sea lanes over
which reinforcementS and supplies
must come from America.
Regardless Of the destination Of
Continued on Next Page. Col. 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
The Weather

The sun VIII SCI Al 7.4S p n today
and rise tomorrow At 81 m
The moon Will set today az 4l4 m.
and rise tomorrow at 6.27 a m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Number 30. first notice
Number 80. first notice"

As the announcement was being
repeated, doctors, nurses, order
lies and maintenance employees
were going quickly TO their sta
lions and the lights throughout
the large buildings began to blinl;
out,
In few seconds. looking from
the outside the nine large builo-
ing Of the hospital were dark.
Inside the business of running
a 5S2-bed hospital went along as
usual
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Hospital BIacked Out
Henry Ford Staff Of Nurses and Doctors on Alert
in Dark in Air Raid Practice

blaCkout curtains at windows
wherever light might be seen from
outside. Shades were drawn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

TT HAS been blindly be-
lieyed that the war would
end i'm a Waterloo or a
Sedan, and that the bOunda-
ries of various European ma
tons would be altered and
that certain. large sums
would be paid in indemnities
by one side or the other, and
that otherwise everything
would remain very much as il
had been before the war. and
that there would always be
an England"
Germany and France had
fought out their differences
on previous occasions. just as
Germany and Russia are
fighting now.
England had been on the
side that was best for her in
terests, and after the main
cOntending European nations
had fought themselves into a
state Of exhaustion England
had picked up a few of their
belongings scattered here and
there i'm the fray and had
added them 10 her empire.
And everything had turned
out jolly well, don't YOU know,
and a bit of all right.