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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., JUNE 21, 1945 BOMB-BEARING JAP PAPER BALLOON Officials examine bomb-bearing paper balloon w According to recent announcement by U. S. War and Navy Departments, Japan has been sporadically attacking western United States, with, no damage. Here Maj. J. F. Bolgiano, Army Air Corps balloon expert, holds release valve; Capt. W. B. Standard cf Army Intelligence holds shock absorber; FBI agent W. G. Banister holds flash bomb device, and Ensign P. M. Jackson, Navy Intelligence, holds roll of fuse attached to bomb._ LOOKS WRONG, BUT IT'S O. K. That's a British soldier at left, standing in meek expectancy while an armed German sentry checks his papers before letting him pass. It goes on every day in Crete where the big German garrison has been allowed to -etain its arms, for fear of attack by che vengeful natives. Germans live in Suda Bay area and Allied personnel must have special permits to enter. BRIDGE ON TANK--TANK ON BRIDGE The photos above are the first released of the British Army's "Sissors" *ank, which carries its own bridge with it. From a normal position on the top of the tank, the bridge portion is lifted by a hydraulic arm, as shown in top photo and deposited across narrow streams. The bottom picture made in Holland where narro streams and canals abounds, shows the bridge in use. RE-ELECTED Returning to Lyons after release from Nazi bondage, M. Herriot is shown receiving cheers from citizens of Lyons. The former Premier of France was re-elected Mayor of Lyons upon return. DEFEND PETAIN In a book published in Montreal, French professor Louis Rougier, above, says that aged Field Marshal Henry Philippe Petain, instead of being a traitor as now charged, kept France and the French fleet from going over to the Axis while he headed the Vichy government. MAYOR OF NAHA A pistol-packin* "city father" is Maj. Anthony Walker, above, of Fairfax, Va. He's the new mayor of Naha, capital if Okinawa, "elected" to the job by his division commander. MONTY DELIGHTS DUTCH LAD registered on the face of this young Dutch boy, autograph the lad's notebooK during a recent COMMAND PERFORMANCE--TO LEARN THE TRUTH townspeople of Burg-gteinfurt, Germany, showed re« sentment against British occupation forces, Allied Military Government authorities ordered them into the local movie theater, as pictured at top left, to see "Village of Hate," documentary film showing German atrocities at the notorious Belsen and Buchenwald murder camps. Top right, women emerge from the theater, grim-faced, some weeping, after seeing the filmed horrors. At right, Capt. A, Stirling, Assistant District Provost Marshal, orders a woman to rewitness the picture. She was laughing when she came out of the theater the first time. SYRIAN ROW SPOTLIGHTS ALLIES' MEDITERRANEAN HEADACHES The Big Five--U. S., Britain, Russia, France and Chii«--meeting to deal with the Syria-Lebanon dispute, would undoubtedly find themselves ensnarled in major problems involving North Africa and the wholi- Middle East. Particularly delicate, in view of possible general Arab uprising in North Africa, is the great powers' attitude towardthe Arabs League, (diagonal shading) composed of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq Trans-Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Map above locates some of the painful questions for which Big Five will have to find answers.