Milford chronicle., 1943-10-01

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So the Ulster Bag" more often
called the water camel" or just
camel" is used. The Lister Bag"
is a khaki colored canvas bag hav-
ing a capacity of about 80 gallons.
1t will require many War Bonds
TO provide enough "camels" for our
fighting forces at home and abroad.
Yours tool Back the attack with
War Bonds" is. Treasury Department
zee
The American Fifth Army under
the aggressive command of General
Mark Clark of North African fame,
and the redoubtable English Eighth
Army under the command of Cen
eral. Sir Bernard Montgomery, are
driving the German hordes under
the generalship of Marshal Kessel-
ring out of the Southern Italy.
With the capture the middle of
the week of the huge air base at
FOggia, the entire southern front
was placed in deadly peril, and
many of the Nazi satellites in the
Balkans, watched the capture of
this important base with a great
deal of anguish and with mighty
good reason for the capture of Fog
gia. gives the Allies the greatest
air base in Southern Europe, and
one of the largest in the world.
and from which they can launch
their tremendous fleets of flying
fortresses 500 miles to Munich, the
birthplace of the Hitlerian Rats
$50 miles to Vienna, one of the most
important centers of Nazi aircraft
manufacture, $50 miles to th6 gil
gantic PlOesti oil fields in Rumania.
cutoff from this oil supply Hitler's
legiOns will he forced to "HoOf II"
YugOslavia, where the undying
Serbs are writing one of history's
most glorious pages, is also close
TO this mighty base and the Ser
bian patriots may rest assured that
the guns and other supplies will
come in faster by plane.
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In Russia. the Nazis long war
weary. are coming to the end of
the trail. The rcvitalized Reds"
are smashing forward, dozens of
miles day Recent dispatches
from this front say that the upper
Dnieper front seems near collapse.
and the Russians are wasting no
time but are driving steadily ahead,
to cut the German hosts
off in the Bend of this great river.
Kiev. the mighty capital of the
Ukraine is slowly being invested
by the victorious Russians.
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When one thinks about the war
effort il is generally along lines of
of ships. airplanes.
.anks. guns and munitions. Most OF
rs know little of the peace time
practices that are Indispensable
o the smooth functioning of our
war machine. No better example
AN be offered than the trained en-
yineers made available by the fire |
insurance companies for fire pre-
'ention work. They cooperate with
he Army. the Navy and the Coast
iuard to prevent fire destruction
n Army cantonments. training
enters. hospitals. supply depOts.
,avy shore establishments. private
hipyards. industrial plants,
rharves, and war supplies through
ut the country awaiting shipment.
he service rendered to the gov
by the engineers of the in
urance industry will never be full
Y known to the general public.
he lives and dollars they have
aved by preventing fires which
,ould have interrupted the flow of
ritical supplies, are beyond esti- ,
late. They receive no citations.
ut final victory will be hastened or {
elayed depending upon the sue
ess of their efforts in blocking one '
our enemy's greatest allies, fire. {
ife saving and property saving {
ldeavors of this kind have long {
cen fostered by the fire insurance
,mpanies through the coordinated
of the National Board of
ire Underwriters. 1t is this type
planning for peace time efficien-
, and safety that is the invaluable t
,ntribution of private enterprise ]
our war production effort 1t {
labled the United States to break I
| records in building war mate \
ais almost overnight, to the utter c
and dismay of our a
Iemies.
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1t is a matter of record that med S
al service for American armed Il
rces is unequaled throughout the
lrld, and fatalities among our o
,unded are unbelievably low. The II
for such a service was an
dependent American medical sys-
n and privately supported and Il
Grated American Red Cross. t.
lis combination was ready to give d
,dical care which could not have B
en- secured in any other way. The m
,od plasma service of the Amer al
N Red Cross will do down in C.
tory as one of the mot remark ii
le life-saving activities ever re- "
'ded. Without it, countless thou re
Ids of American soldiers and til
lors would never return home. sa
e of the things to be proud of vi
,ut American medical eryice and OF
Cross service is that it is a Al
timonial to the superiority of te
vate initiative and enterprise in ar
ence and relief work. as con- Sc