The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-05-03
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis

&kk0lxxS " llllC HIGH w Viz
and stood by while the minister
pronounced the "ashes to ashes and
dust to dust" and the flower petals
Tell on the slowly sinking coffin.
James Alonzo Henley (2-12-1867 to
4-27-1945) after several months OF
failing health was gathered to his
fathers and many of us feel lonely
for his going. Born at Richland when
that then thriving village was the
center of a section OF fertile lands,
His father later moved to Pickens,
where two of his sisters still occupy
the old home, and then Lon came
here. A kind fate dealt him a most
personable girl to wife and together
they reared a family of fine boys
and girls. Never a strong man ply
Gcally. he none-the-less contrived
% prosper as a carpenter and build
er and gave all Of his children a
fair education, maintained a COM
Portable debt free home and leaves
q mental inheritance Of fidelity,
snergy and trustworthiness more
valuable than worldly riches. Asleep
n Jesus.
The German Army Il Going to
Pieces judging by the speed of the
Allies advance and the number Of
prisoners taken daily. The junction
az the Russian and American Armi-
Is on the Elbe River south of Ber-
lin has cut Germany in two. Patton
Is driving along the north bank Of
the Danube south of Bohemia while
the Russians are driving up the
river from Vienna and a Junction
Of those armies is imminent, then
Germany will be cut in three parts.
The pockets are being rounded up
and the Huns exterminated by
death or surrender, much as they
treated the unready Polish army
five years ago to start this val. In
north Austria and south Bavaria Is
The rugged mountain country who're
II has been ~announced that supplies
have been accuxnnlltea for q long
siege and where selected divisions
have been ordered to rendezvous for
q fight to determination. Eight to
the death" may sound all right to
Hitler, Himmler and those other
arch criminals who are to be execut-
ed anyway but it won't sound so
good to their followers after they
have q chance to think it over a.
while. II they do hold up there
they will be shot, bombed, burned,
starved, out quite ~pleasurably by
the Allies. The only objection is that
we would lose some of our men we
want back and it would take addi-
tional time.
In North Germany and Holland
the British are tearing the Huns in
to isolated pockets. They have TAX
en- Bremen at the mouth of the
Wesser dixie New Orleans is at the
mouth Of the Mississippi and at
once drive for Hamburg, chief eGr-
man port, near the Elbe mouth. The
while the Russians have Stettin on
the Oder and are driving west to
join the British at the Elbe. Doubt
Less this juncture will be made be-
fore this issue Of the Advertiser Is
printed. The Germans will have to
surrender piecemeal since there
seems no government to surrender
all at once. Denmark can likely be
recovered soon though at great ma
terial cost to the Danes who win
suffer losses to public works, ship
ping, bridges-what ever the Huns
have time to destory.
There are 100000 QeImsn Soldisxs
IN Norway which HE most difficult
country to Invade against determin-
ed opposition. Steep mountains, deep
narrow inlets from the sea. narrow
valleys make it comparatively easy
for a determined defense to hold off
much greater numbers OF attackers.
There again the German soldiers
may not be 50 enamoured at contin-
uing to die for the Fuehrer after it
is plain even to them that he isn't
worth fighting for-if they ever get
that way. There are said to be 800
German submarines in the Norwe-
gian Fiords, long and deep and
crooked and well defended. How
ever the English have raided them
and sunk the Tirpitz in one SO like
ly they will handle the subs in due
time. The Germans still have pow
erful bases on the French Atlantic
coast and they yet hold Dunquer-
que on the Channel. Summer is still
q fair guess for the end of German
resistance.
In Italy the American and British
armies steady pressure applied to
the German armies there were said
TO be n Hun and 5 Italian Divisions)
has at last given the wanted result,
the enemy has been dislodged from
his strong positions and cut into
groups that are being exterminated.
1t was assumed that the German
divisions would withdraw into the
very, ltjbng mountain retreat in
AUST Ind Bavaria and join other
divii for a guerrilla warfare.
Fewt6f them will be allowed to
escape out of Italy and that is to
the good for we had rather extermi-
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