The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-04-29
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Terrible Hatreds KindIed
By Blood Revenge Spirit y
Rumors From EmbattIed Nations Hint OF Plans
For Organized determination OF
Enemy Peoples.
By BAUKHAGE
Neps 4naIyst 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 E
Germans everywhere the moment
the Nazi armies lay down their
arms.
Only the other day, | talked with
a 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.
Sdboteurs
A secret German report which
reached Allied hands stated the fol-
lowing:
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 pistol from
which cords ran to their hands. The
latter fired the pistol. Thus they
succeeded by a quick and appro-
pirate movement in accounting for
the policemen.
Here is a part of another enemy
report. revealing the activities be-
| hind the lines. 1t came through
Italian military channels:
During the attack on the Fuka
[ Aerdrome tAfrica) the enemy Allied
troops put up distress signals. They
succeeded in enticing the sentries
away from their posts for 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 hand-I have
held one-attached by clever
means to a tank car or 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 Instruction when the
moment comes.
Some day, an 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 a helicopter service
to carry air mail and air express
I in New England.
These little planes that can rise
straight up and hover, can land or
parlor rug. They would, in this
: proposed service, land on the roofs
of post office buildings-provided,
r take it, that the buildings are mo-
9 of the rocco vintage with peaked
: and pointed and turreted roofs.
: The service would carry first-class
!, as well as air mail, according K
: the application filed with the Civil
s Aeronautics board. Four hundred
a points would be included. The LITTLE
!. flying automobiles" would not onl.
h fly between towns and cities bu
!, would carry mail from urban center
l. to the large airports where the mai
d would be transferred to the al
y liners
Y A national labor service act still
S hovers just beyond the horizon. TIL
n chief purpose Of Manpower Commits
d sioner McNutt's intricate plans, In
Guiding shifts Of men from non
8 deferrable- industry to war work
= to build the machinery SO that Whe
Ie the act is passed it can be put int
r. effect at once.
G Now that the farm labor problem
q has been taken off McNutt's door
n step, and with the definite "back-tc
" the-farm" trend, congress may cas-
S, up on McNutt and give him tn
s, money he needs to build his pre-
tie national service machinery.