The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-04-30
Terrible Hatreds Kind|ed
By Blood Revenge Spirit
RUmors From Embatted Nations Hint of Plans
For Organized determination Of
Enemy Peoples.
BY BAUKHAGE
Netos analyst and Commentator.

numerically when the. war is over.
To meet this, the other nations are
talking about turning the tables and
beginning organized mass murder OF
Germans everywhere the moment
the Nazi armies lay down their
arms.
Only the other day, talked with
widely travelled Russian newspa-
per man, who said frankly that he
believed this was the proper course.
How powerful this spirit Of blood
revenge really is and whether it will
be carried out one can only guess.
Another mystery Of which there
are only tiny hints is the power and
scope OF the underground move
ments in the occupied countries and
the extent to which Allied agents are
now working hand-in-hand with the
saboteurs in France and Belgium
and particularly Holland. Hints leak
out. 4.-s,s
Saboteurs
A secret German report which
reached Allied hands stated the fol-
lowing m
Sometime ago, English parachut-
lists landed near Prague. When. they
were held up by the local police,
they obeyed the order, hands up
But they carried a special device
on their belts with a pistol from
which cords ran to their hands. The
latter fired the pistol. Thus they
succeeded by quick and appro-
pirate movement in accounting for
the policemen
Here is part Of another enemy
report, revealing the activities be-
hind the lines. It came through
Italian military channels:
During the attack on the Fuka
Aerdrome (Africa) the enemy Allied
troops put up distress signals. They
succeeded in enticing the sentries
away from their posts for a time
and successfully carried out their
sabotage"
Reports have come Of British
,saboteurs gaining entrance to fac
tories in the daytime, planting time
bombs and leaving. A device has
been perfected which can be car
ried concealed in the handAI have
held one-attached by a clever
means to a tank car or a locomo-
tive, it would blow it to pieces. That
is only one of hundreds of ingenious
gadgets which have been perfected
for this strange work of secret de.
struction that is going on every
where. Even more. ingenious are
the methods which the underground
organizations in France and italy
are using to obtain arms and sup
plies for the insurrection when the
moment comes.
Some day, ian important state
ment from the White House" will
come, heralding events many of
which we have not even dreamed.
While the airplane factories turn
out bombers and fighters, the air
minded leaders continue to make
their air plans for peace. The lat
est scheme which has come to my
attention is an announcement from
the Northeast Airlines company
which says this company has made
application for helicopter service
to carry air mail and air express
in New England.
These little planes that can rise
straight up and hover, can land on
a parlor rug. They would, in this
proposed service, land on the roofs
of post Office buildings-provided, l
take it, that the buildings are not
of the rocco vintage with peaked
and pointed and turreted roofs.
The service would carry first-class
as well as air mail, according to
the application fled with the Civil
Aeronautics board. Four hundred
points would be included. The little
flying automobile" would not only
fly between towns and cities but
would carry mail from urban centers
to the large airports where the mail
would be transferred to the air
liners.
A national labor service act still
hovers just beyond the horizon. The
chief purpose Of Manpower Commits
sioner McNutt's intricate plans, in
GLIDING shifts of men from nom
deferrable industry to war work is
to build the machinery so that when
the act is passed it can be put into
effect at once. p
Now that the farm labor problem
has been taken off McNutt's door,
step, and with the definite ''back-to-
the-farm" trend, congress may ease
up on McNutt and give him the
money he needs to build his pre-
national service machinery.