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ir) 1 British 'Lost Unit' Returns To Camp 8tory of Successful Fight Through German Lines Seven miles behind the German lines in Tunisia, out of food, al- most without ammunition and eut off from all means ,of communi. cation, the Allled fgrces were be . Ing attacked continuously and one ~ Ot Britain's crack fighting units @has given up for lost, "But four days after vanishing nto the mountains toward Tunis, staggering from exhaustion, hun- gry and mud-caked, the first "lost unit" of the North African cam- paign fought. its way back into the Anglo-American lines, unbeat- en and earrying its wounded. From the major who had been twice reported dead on this front but who is a very much alive and fighting Yorkshireman as the sec. ond in command, the story of one of the most remarkable fighting exploits of this war was pleced together as the red-eyed but still grinning Tommies marched into a frontline command post. i Three days before Christmas the unit, with 55 mules, setw through the mud into the moun tains held by the Germans. So boggy were the muddy slopes dur- ing the first night of 'creeping single file through the German lines, the men were able to aver- age only. two miles an hour, "During the night I fell off into a ravine and was knocked un- conscious," the major related. "When I came to, the unit had gone I decided to try to get back to the llnes and at dawn hid in the bush, "I was less than 300 yards from a German battery and watched them all day. That night, almost the first thing, I ran into German patrols. They challenged me and I cut loose with my revolver and jumped into the rocks. They start- ed shooting with everything but I got away." Mules Die of Exhaustion His unit continued to push on, out of communication with Allied lines because its radio had been smashed in a fall. Heavy rain made travel difficult but the men pushed on, although ten mules died of exhaustion. Near their objective, members of the unit shot up a German ow post. Earlier, the dense fog had litfed and the Allied fighters were spotted by the Germans. From their lofty mountain position the Britishers could see enemy forces preparing to attack them. Shortly before midnight Christ- mas Eve the attack came. "Our commander .grabbed a rifle with the rest of us and we 'went to it," continued the major. "The Germans tried a winkling (bayoriet) charge, but our lads stood firm and gave it to them and they fell back." 3 The three-hour attack ended at 2 o'clock Christmas morning. With food and water gone and' ammunition almost exhausted,--the - commander decided to withdraw. He calmly wished his officers a "Merry Christmas," then ordered them to lead the battalion in a #ight through the German lines. 'While the Germans laid down withering machine-gun' fire, the badly exhausted unit--sleepless gor three days--kept going through and around the enemy positions until the first groups stumbled into. héadquarters. The wounded were carried on' improvised stretchers. The unit, which fought in France wntil Dunkerque and can trace Its. history to the Battle of Gallipoll, was among the first to land at Algiers in the Allied invasion of ca. Cost Of Living Rises In Britain , British Find Living Costs Doubled Since 1914 The British Government: an- nounced last week that the cost of living was exactly twice what #t was in July, 1914, the month the first World War began. By comparison, in the United Btates the cost of living as mens. wred by the National Industrial Conference Board index is up only about 64 per cent from .the same month of 1914, i In Britain, the food index jump- ed a point during November, chief-, ly because the price of butter was boosted two cents a pound. That put food costs 64 per cent above the July, 1914 average, The average level of clothing prices during November, however, declined enough to offset the price of food and hold the general index "to only a slight increase over the 'Nov. 1 figure. 3 , There: were other changes in . the food line in prospect, and Bri dons face toastless breakfasts in restaurants. A survey Is under way to find out how much fuel could be saved it toast were stricken from menus, ~Bausages soon may be skinless, the Ministry of Food said jn an- other announcement, The Govern: ment, incidentally, has decided to make tank and airplane parts in the 200 soft drink factories it Is taking over, - a wi Red Army artille part in the smashing = -- _-- Amir 3 3 % 9 : Sa ud oa shows a team of motorized anti-tank gun crews on the central front, its relentless sweep west of Velikie Luki, toward the Latvian frontier. ed 5 Reta Hh Be Ti SR SER RUSSIANS-<LOOKING FOR NAZI TANKS TO BUST F; J ry, particularly anti-tank guns like those pictured above, played an important Russian offensive against the Germans. The photo above, radioed from Moscow, where the Red Army continued LESSON 111 . JESUS WINNING SOULS - John 4:1.42 PRINTED TEXT John 4:27.42 GOLDEN TEXT, -- He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, John 4:36. : Memory Verse: Let us love one another. I John 4:7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.--December, A.D. 27, Place.--Jacob's well, near Sy- char, in central Palestine. "And upon this canfe his dis- ciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a womanj, yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?' The expression, 'No man eaid,' seems to imply that no man ventured to question our Lord's reason for talking with 'the wo- min, There is a lesson for us in this. When. we cannot under stand tho reason of our Lord's dealings with souls, let us hold our peace, and try to believe that there are reasons which we shall know one day. A good servant "in a great house must do his own duty and ask no questions. The Woman's Testimony "So the woman left her water- pot, and went away into the city, and eaith- to the people, Come, sce a man, who told me all things "that ever I did: can this be the Christ?" It is almost a universal experience in every age, and' among every type of people, that as soon as they have found the Saviour they must go and tell others about it, Thus, our Lord's command to go into all the world preaching the gospel rests solidly upon the natural, normal urging of the Holy Spirit in the regen- erated life. Some pcople are drawn to Christ by His teaching; some by His holy character; and some by His sacrificial death; some hy the hope which He of- fers; others in other ways, This woman marveled at Christ because of His knowledge of all that she bad ever done. Earnestness and Humility _ "They went out of the city, and - were coming -to--him." --We-- aro astonished at the immediate effect of 'the woman's words. However, three causes may have, in 'a secondary sense, been at work, Her honest, enthusiastic, solemn manner; the circumstance ° that she felt the matter so im. portant as to humble herself by alluding "publicly. to her sinful life; and lastly, the desire which many of them felt for the com. ing of the great Deliverer. Earn-- estness and humility are the two great requisites in an evangelist; and offen where we least expect it, God has prepared the way for the reception of His truth by 'ereating in a soul a hunger and thirst ~ after His righteousness. Think it therefore not useless to 4 speak to Samaritans about Israel's Messiah. : NS Christ's Teaching "In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat, But hs said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath-any man brought' him aught to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work." In these words we have a revelation of 'the true meaning of what He had been doing in connection with this woman. He had been doing the 'will of God and accomplish. ing his work. He had dealt with her'as to bring her face to face with the reality of her past, and leading her forward had given to her the water of life, This was preparing all over, the sowing and the will of God; this was His work. Having said this, He in- dicated to His disciples' that this algo was their work. "White Unto "Harvest" "'Say.not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh the har. vest? behold, 1 say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the ficlds, that they are white already unto harvest." These words suggest victory, reward, ac- complishment. The ploughing and the long vigil done, and at last the fields ready for the reaper. Two notes merge in them, those of opportunity and responsibility. Fields white to harvest constitute Is there any greater calamity!in agricul- ture than harvest ungathered? Is there any greater tragedy in the redemptive purpose and process of God than harvest ungathered? Joy of Harvesters . "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together." 'To receive wages' describes the joy with which these harvesters are to be filled when gathering all souls and introduc- Ing them into the kingdom ot heaven. - Sower and Reapers "For herein is the saying true, One saweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon. ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered .nto. their labor." Christ is the sower; His apostles are the reapers, - As compared with His labors, theirs might be esteemed as none at all, Belief of Samaritans : "And from that city many ot the Samaritans believed on him' because of the word of the wo- AMERICAN INDIAN HORIZONTAL Answer fo 1 Famous 16th' century Indian, 8 He belonged to the --={ribe, 12 Pattern block, 13 Less common, 15 English coin, 18 Tree.. [SADORA 18 Metal, 19 Warble, 21 To huriy. 23 Mental state of an army. 24 Exists, . 25Grieved at 47 Sun god. * : heart. 48 Compass point 28 August (abbr.). (abbr.). 49 Male relative. 29 Sleeper's 51 Want. couch. 63 Extortioner. 30 Greek letter. 85 Tenant of the 31 Finish, crown, 33 Two plus two. 69 Antiquated, 35 Ream (abbr.)}. 60 -- or 16 He was a ---- or tribal leader. 17 Long grass, 19 Lacerated,. 20 Fabulous, 22 North America (abbr.). 23 Volume + (abbr.), 26 Right (abbr.}, 27 Excess. 29 Beetle. 32 Church title; Puzzle 34 Grain. VERTICAL 36 Lunar orb. as 2 Notions, 88 Strife. 3 Helps. 41 Variety of es _ coflee, -4Climate. 3 Migdle mute). 8 Transposed 46 A puddle. (abbr), 48 To scorch, 6 Derby. B60 Gaelig, 3 52 Biblical} 7 Bristlelike tip. ** [00 87 City. wonderful 8 Mister' (abbr) 54 Through, .° 39 Label. powers were 9 Standing 66 Red Cross 40 Pomeranian ascribed to erect, (abbr). dog. him, 10 Operatic 67 Dutch (abbrif) 42 Crazy. 61 He was the melody! . 58 Look." 43 Preposition, ~---- of a poem 11 Fellow. $9 Postscript (abbr.). 45 Fold of string. by Longfellow. 14 Half an em} man, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did." Just this one woman had brought all this about. She had brought it about for the reason that she her- self had been radically changed in character by the power ot Christ, and filled with a high en- thusiasm for souls. By her simple timeliness and activity in wit- nessing, she set a marked re. ligious movement on, foot, and led many souls oyt of darkness into light, and out of death into life, ' Request of Samaritans ~ . "So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days." In reading this passage, we cannot but be vre- minded of a similar incident, not long before this, when John and Simon asked the Lord, dwellest Thou?" with the result that "they abode with him that day." Oar desire to abide with Christ is only the echo of His de- sire to have us abide with Him, Saviour of the World "And many more believed be- cause of his word. And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savi- our of the world," It is a great hour when a young man, brought up in a Christian home to believe in Christ as the Son of God, and the Saviour of the world, beeause of his faith in the testimony of his father and mother, finally comes to know Christ in a very personal way, not because of what some one else has said, but because he has heard the Lord speak out of His own Word, and knows whereof he believes by a personal experience, Canada Plans Cut In Wheat Acreage Lowest Mark Singe 1918 Objective For {1943 Acreage reddction is no guar- antee of smaller wheat crops, the Dominfon Bureau of Statistics 'states in a report on the wheat situation, but crop conditions next ar are; not likely to be as fa- rable as this season and it acre- age reduction fs carried out next Springs the 1943-44 crop year shpuld sce an improvement in the atistical position in North Amer- fea. The objectives for Canadian ag- riculture in 1943, including wheat, wore outlined at a Dominion- Provincial conference early in De- cembher. The Burean said Canada's wheat acreage reduction program next year will be "quite drastic." The Bureau said Canadian farm- ers have been asked to reduce wheat acreage to its lowest level since 1918 and If this goal is reach- od It will mean a reduction of more than 11,000,000. acres or 39 percent from the. peak level of 28,700,000 acres attained in--1940; All efforts . to curtail wheat "crops through the medium of re duced acreage were frustrated in 1942 by the unpredictable weather man. A brand of weather was serv- ed np in Canada and the United States which resulted in record ylelds per acre and the production of enormous crops. Edison Forecast Rubber Shortage Thomas Alva Edison was a prophet as well as a great inven. tor, his son, Gov. Charles Edison, has learned. A magazine article quoting the inventor as predicting the war and the rubber shortage was received --by-the-Governor--from--a friend. The article, written in 1927, stat. ed: "The United States never has had and never will have on hand enough rubber to run the coun. try for more than a year. "Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and I have been considering what this country would do in case of a war which would cut off our rubber supply, "Don't- make any mistake about that war. It will come. We may run along forfa good many years without it, but sooner or later na- tlons of Europe and Asia will combine against the United States. The first'thing they will do will be to cut off our rubber supply." ls "Where © - people listened, RADIO REPORTER x row | "Outside the wind is howling . . howling . . Kowling. Flakes of snow driven by the icy blast of winter pile in gently curved un- dulations around that lone cottage in the wilds of nature. The roar- ing of the storm drowns out the stealthy raising of a latch and the quiet tread of a masked figure as, dagger in hand, Jaspar sneaks up behind his unsuspecting victim, There is a quick flash of steel . an unearthly shriek which séts the shivers running up and down your spine . . and all is still except for the howling of the wind, Sudden- ly . ."" If you like that sort of a story, a real spine tingler, your station should be CFRB, Toronto, and your time 10 to 10.30 Sunday' night. "The Hermit's Cave." You've no doubt heard the series before. These stories are back on the air once again, exciting, hysterically dramatic and thrilling as ever. 1 . . "This is London calling." There will be few owners of a radio receiver in Canada who have not heard those words with their English © intonation. The now familiar identification of broad- casts originating in Great Britain was first heard at 9.30 a.m. Lon. don time, December "10th, 1932, and came from a small studio in the heart of the British capital, as a little studio audience of five That audience consisted of five men . . . lwo secretaries, a studio pianist, a news-reader and the well known commentator Vernon Bartlett. This was the prelude, so to speak, of the first of the series of in- ternational transmissions of the B.B.C. which was to be heard six days later and which carried the voice of His Late Majesty, King George Vth to five continents . Dee. 25th, 1932. The- transmis. sions were directed at that time to the "members of. (the British Commonwealth, were Prekaa p by short" wave receivers at. strategic points, and then rebroadeast Byer the standard wave lengths. To- day "This is London calling' is a phrase rvebroadeast either di- rectly or by means of recordings by over three hundred stations in the American spheve . LL in Cane ada, the U.S.A, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawai . as well as by stations all over the world where English is spoken or understood. The tremendous expansion of fighting fronts in which solliers of the United Nations face the enemy has necessitated an ever increasing scope of DBLB.C. trans: mission' service abroad. Thus is radio playing its important part in co-ordinating the step of those who march along the Road to Victory. " Last October marked the be- ginning of a new era in the Can. adian educational system, Fol. lowing the leAd given by the nét- works of the Vhited States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion, three months 'ago, began a co-operative ~scries of school pro- grammes which found educational authorities collaborating officially to provide classroom lessons over the air, With the completion of the experimental period, the plan is being considerably expanded in the New Year, Every Friday morning at ten o'clock over the coast to coast hetwork, school children will be entertained and instructed by the "Heroes of Canada" series. You might call it an easy way to study history, Many and many a boy or girl in Canada to whom the text-book pioncers of this Dominion have remained until now nebulous fig- ures, will find these builders of the past emerging as living, vital people, current day radio voiced to interpret the courage and ac. complishments of the heroes of" yesteryears, ©... in a modern dramatic setting. As part of thfs gerivs, the last Friday of every month will be devoted to "Cana- dian horizons' dealing with na- tional events, or with special achievements of man, as they af- feet the Canadian way of life, Then again, Canadian children are to participate in two of the Col- umbia "School of the Air" series, Mondays and Thursday mornings at 10 o'clock in which Li Canada will exchange with yofing America stories of exploits and people who have contributed to the building of North America, Yes, History made easy. Makes some of us grown-up folk wish we had had the chance to do like- wige in our own days of the little red school house, way back, Wanted--A Camel Dye The Soudan was a supply base for four nrmics, the British, the Indian, the Soudan Defence Force and the Fthiopian. Among the more unusual activities was an attempt fo find a fast dye as camouflage for white camels. LISTEN TO "COUNTRY NEWS" {tems of Interest From Ontario Weekly Newepapers EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. CFRB--860 on your dial | THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson % PACIFIC @C © Parents HOLD CHILDREN DOWN WHILE THEY'RE GROWING UP," Sexe LILY DALE MEYERS, 1r0erixX, Arizovra, BO NEXT: Are h EAN pi HAS MORE SQUARE MILES OF MATER THAN THERE ARE SQUARE MILES OF LAND ON THE ENTIRE FARA YS DURING WAR TIMES IT IS PERMISSIBLE TO FLY THE FLAG TWENTY FDR OURS CL AOAYL wy, | aN NN By J. 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