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A RR, . APRN EF EEN SEE SIRI 8. = . 0] Fil % eS AL 4 . CASAS LARS S$ A For BELA = ge Canadians Land ="On Sicilian Beach By Ross Munroe, In_ The Christian Science "Mgnitor. A convoy carrying assault troops from Britain sailed for the Mediterranean and went right to the Sicilian beaches without being attacked by aircraft. The whole 2,000-mile trip was without any trouble, We sailed right through the Sicliian Chan- nel and Malta Channel toward Pachino Peninsula in daylight, with the whole invasion armada concentrated in one gigantic convoy. The day before the attack, we started to head in the general direction of Sicily, and everyone was keyed to a high piteh. In the as rset RT Thos {Ne Aside morning the wind started to kick Ne 2 : ~i1 up whitecaps on the Mediter- RY ranean, which until then had been AH as calm as a mill- pond. Canadians Prepare Down in the mess decks, the ~; ERS STS CS and were addressed by their colonel. Similar meetings were held aboard the other ships as the zero hour approached. "We are on the eve of a night in history that will never be for- gotten," said the colonel. "We will look back on this night, and our children will. We on it as the night we started 'to put the skids to the enemy." Then everyone vepeated the Lord's Prayer and shook hands all around. . No Air Attack Sas There still "was ho air attack. Unbelievable! At midnight we .. saw great flashes in the distance + *where Sicily lay. Our bombers were hitting their targets. Trae- ers reached into the sky... There were some coastal searchlights ---- playing over -the sea We were too' far out ther to be bothered by them. ~ At 1 am, we went down the ~ side of our ship in an assault "Tending craft. and hit the swell which lifted us high in_the air. We rocked about and moved among the ships which now were anchored a number of miles off Pachino Peninsula. Finally, we x located our motor launch and clambered aboard. ; Through a megaphone, our motor launch told the flotillas destined for our beach to follow him, dnd we started off. British_ Commandos were on the Canadian left flank and another British formation on the right. The air attack and naval bombardment had set Pachino ablaze." Wooden buildings in the town of 15,000 population, were burning. Shells Crashed Around Them We crept in closer until we could see the low, dark coastline of Sicily in the shadows. Tre- mendous explosions boomed---out in the night. [ think it must have been bombing far inland. We could see gigantic flashes. Dawn was creeping up asl transferred from the motor launch to-a landing craft for beaching. Just then, tank landing * craft bringing up the first wave of the Royal Canadian Regiment cama up and in we went, Some beach defenses wera still pegging away with their final shots before being wiped Hut. A coastal battery half way between the beach and Pachino. was firing with six-inch guns. Shells crash- ed in the sea around us. They were too close for comfort but did not hit a thing. Situation In Hand Canadians were swarming over the beach and our craft leaped through thé surf in smoke, con- fusion and noise. ..The landing eraft hit the sand bar and stopped short. We piled over the side and plunged into four feet of water. We waded frantically through the breakers and ran onto the beach. Troops swarmed off their eraft and went. through a gap in the wire defenses which had been - eut by sappers a few minutes be- ~~ fore. Infantrymen were already . spreading out in the sand dunes on the other side of the wire. Not an enemy beach machine gun 'was in action right here, More gaps were cut through the wire, which stretched the whole length of the beach, which was eandy and 60 yards wide from the - + sea to the dunes where the wire © was located, For half an hour we waited tensely for enemy planes but they never.showed up. The beach was organized now and special British beach groups had the whole situation in hand, Waste paper collected in the United Kingdom from November 1, 1989, to August 31, 1942, ! unted to nearly 2% million rig It would have required 460 ships, each of 5,000 tons cargo Ri Canadians were preparing for the Rt Janding.' They got their kits to- D A + 3 = gother daubed a Title more oil on their weapons, sorted out { grenades, and loaded up with am- J munition. E They were having a whale of a 2 time. 3 i The officers met in tbe lounge will look back - "that conimander on our little, leaping re t hese days, when tea must yield the utmost in flavour, quality is of supreme importance. Ask for. . SALADA TEA TO THE HILT Percival Christopher Wren CHAPTER XVIII MemoYtjes "again surged through Richard" Wendover's mind. Giltraza Fort! By the time he had reached Ganesh half its de- fenders were dead, including Ma- jor Denborough, Captain Scott, ""ing no one in charge of the native officers except' Captain Alexander Breckings, LM.S., the Eurasian doctor, And then Breckinge's amazing deed. No one would ever know whether he went mad, berserk; whether he hoped to rehabllitate himself, or whether in those tre- mendous moments, the spirit of his grandfather, General Sir Percy Wereker Breckinge, had risen up within him and seized the ecap- talney of his soul. Probably all three motives: had contributed, with the last-naiWed most power- ful, as his dying words had beén, "I am a General's grandson." : Yes, and when the rolieving torce had marched in and Ganesh had come to his beside overflow- Ing with joy, congratulations and triumph, -how- the good' chap's face had fallen when he had told him that he wasn't going to use Breck- inge's confession, Nor get himself- reinstated in a blaze of glory as the innocent hero of a shameful wmiscarringe of justice and. the noble hero of the dofense and sal- "vation of the Fort that Breckinge had wished te surrender Singing Hadj. ~ Nor had he been quite honest with Ganesh. He had pretended his main~ reason had been that he really couldn't use the con- fesison and blacken and damn for- ever the memory of the man who had died im the act of saving his lite. : In the first place, he shrank from the idea of more publicity, another court martial. And again, especially after the horrible con- finement of the siege, he longed for the mountgins. . No, whatever it may have heen at first, life as a Pathan wag now better than existence, as an Eng- lishman. ' to the . . 'e He was a hillman now, and-- So and no otherwise--so and no otherwise, hillman desire "thelr Hills. And then there was Shere Khan. Could he turn to him after all they had seen and done to- gether, dared and suffered to- gether, after each. saving the life of tho other at the risk of his own; could he turn td Shere Khan and say, "Well, I'm,off, I'm going back to India and the regiment," knowing that there was no return to the regiment for Shere Khan? Ho had desorted when Wendover was cashiered and kicked out, had stood by him an shown him how 'to make a new adjustment to life. And lastly, what was possibly the strongest motive, probably the real motive had been*his consum- ing hatred of Baijlltzin, his ingati- able yearning to deal falthfully with Baflitzin, to cut out the cank. er that corroded his soul far more than bad the injury which Breck- inge had done him, Anyway, he had strick to his point. He had "fone his own way and, In spite of what the Brigadier and Ganesh had sald to him after the rellet of Giltraza, he had slip- ped quietly away from the fort with Shere Khan. He had rotlred Don't wofty about lice and feather mites, "Black Leaf 40" controls them. . 7 "Cap Brush" Saves Money Our "Cap Brush" spreads "Black Leal 40"evenlyon the roodtand does an effic clentjob.Saves money, Ask your deales for the"Cap Brush"and full directions, op on Origin b ctory Sealéd i sola 'by Deng, $4 Hardware, - [} Feed p Seed Storen ISBUE No. 34--43 eapacity, to transport it. Cc and, Licutenant _ Henderson, Jeay: . it they could make it to Shere Khan's fort and settled dawn to the peaceful life of a Border clansman whose rifle ls never far from his hand. And again Shere Khan had helped him, had saved him, re- stored his sense of proportion and mental balance. ' . . . , That winter morning, when as they sat sunning themselves upon the fort wall, suddenly as if read- "had said: "Huzoor, the hour has struck. Ho himself has come south and is even now in Kabul." "Ballitzin?" "None other, Last night ere we returned from hawking, one came with a message, left it and passed on In haste. By the description of the man and what he said, "twas that Mahbub Ali Hazelrigg Sahil's man, who was with us at Giltraza before we got Into the Fort." "Mahbub Ali? And what was the message?" : The Bear has come out of his forest; seek for him in his den, in the bazaar of the gunsmiths wherein is the house of Ilderim tho Gun-Runner, And he had-known at once that Balilitzin was in Kabul and, prob. --ably in the 'guise -of a "Prosperous Afghan merchant, was staying :in the house of tho. Russophile agent, the good Ilderim the Afghan, with whom he himself had once cross- ed from Muscat to Persia. found themselves byt two days cand, mounted on ga pure bred Ba- dakshani mare, a bay with three white "socks; his servant riding a half bred Kabuli mare, a flea- bitten grey, long-cared, ewe-necked and .somewhat goose rumped, fol lowed by four wellladen donkeys looked after by an 'Afghan and three Tungans, themselves look- after by two Turki-Chinese half- castes. S06 thus and now (jul Mahommed, the Pathan who had been Richard to be sitting raking over hig bit- + Te . 4 Suddenly he heard ga sound, snatched up his rifle and sprang to his feet. Almost gas quickly as Shere Khan, wrapped from head to "foot in a dirty sheet, sprang from the stark stiffness of his corpselike rigidity. and knelt beside him, rifle at. the ready. "Who's there?" cried ,.Wend- over. ; . And a cracked and quavering voice replied froin the darkness. "Only me and another ass," as into the light cast by the fire upon which Shere Klian "threw a hand- ful of dry grass and twigs rode tho cherryfolored silk-capped beg- gar bazaar, - "M.I. 16 blew In just after you left," he said. "He's on his way to see the British Resident at Kashgar--on a rathef more im- portant matter. Russo-Chinege Ching-Kianfi stuff. Told me that your man Is for Jalalabad and the Border. He's' meeling a caravan from Tashkent there, and there are going to be great doings in the Singing Hadji's country again, Apparently 'they are t going to Kabul for fear the bufllon that is going' south with them stays there for good, 1 should think your best plan = would be to get straight down into the Singing- Hadji's country, Get there before he does and lay for him there. You can "get word to G.6.H.8. from there and he'll got a move on. I ghould think a few of these bombing planes they've sent to India would make the Singing Hadj sing a different tune it they, could hover over his home town occasionally-- from Hun * -2ana, that is. -Anyway, you'd have earned your corn for the rest ot your life if you could Hut Bailitzin out of business," : "Yes. Nothing like combining business with pleasure," growled Wendover, "What about a pot of good hot tea?" "For the love of God!" shivered the cherry-capped beggar man, who spoke such admirable Eng- lish and knew so much of the af. fairs of Comrade-Colonel Nikola} Ballitzin, Rlchard Wendover and Ganesh Hazelrigg of the Intell: ence Department, and of the local nglo-Russlan-Chinese situation, AY . LJ L Major Bartholomew Hazelrigg, who could afford to make such confessions, freely admitted that - the Hadji of Turangzal was one of the people whom derstand, When that notorious and potent he did not un. ecclesiastic had been a Mullah in ng his very thoughts Shere Khan . At last in Kharkand they had --Dbehind_him ashe rode 'to- Samar Wendover the British officer, cama. ; ter memories, huddled in his posh- - teen beside-the embers of the fire. "him 'No one could tell him ang "The waves, traveling from mole. Bross' comrades. A veteran' of the Battle of Britain during which he maintained: a constant stream of vocal opposition to the Germun raiders, "Bob," a terrier with a rather dubious parentage, this time with the Canadian troops in. the Mediterranean. now recognizes Pte. Peter Bross, of St. Boniface, Man., as his mas- ter and was smuggled aboard a troopship in a kit bag by four of "Bob" seems to be trying to mike between: seasickness and a good romp." is at war again, serving Ny GLOOMY BREAK WN ISPNESS = RAH- oa. oh CRISP A RAY. Ra tay laggy n tan a L/ Cool. Spread your favorite light cake ice cream. Cut in squares and on each press on one of the pe..ch halves. Sa:rve with a thick raspberry syrup,' Cantaloupe and Peach a la Mode Cut small, very ripe, chilled cantaloupes in half, sprinkle with fruit sugar. Fill centres with sliced sweetened: peaches, top "with whipped or ice eréam. =~ "Boh" up" his mind, ' the Charsadda district of Pesh- awar he had been noteworth and respected for his justice, ithpar tiality, and incorruptibility as a judge administering Mohammedan law and custom. And talking one day with the Hazelrigg 18arned that that of- fice, mw man unusually well jn. formed, considered the Mullah of Charsadda to be an admirable and valuable friend of the Government, if only because he was a stout up- holder of authority and the scourge of all who defied it and broke its laws. What, then, was Major Hazel- rigg's surprise to learn on his re in Afghamdstan and Turkestam= that the Mullah of Charsadda had fallen from grace, had changed completely, and from being a pillar - of society, a prop of authority, an impartial judge and loyal subject' of the King Emperor, had become a violent agitator against the Gov- ernnlent, an embittered sedition- Ist and an active and dangerous enemy of the British, What has so c¢hanged the ad- mirable Mullah of Charsadda that from a firm friend he had be- come a bitter. foe? The Commissioner could not tell Hazelrigg determined to find out for himself, - Sojourning in the houses of the houris of the Peshawar Bazaar, loafing and sleeping in the lodging where caravans end the Journeys begun in Khivg and - 'Bokhara, Tashkent and Samareand, smok- ing' his hookah about the camel: dung fires, dipping into the sooty fleshpots wherein bubbled_the us- cious stow of the talls of fat- tailed sheep while he exchanged the news of the day, he talked of this and of that, 'of kings and khans, of sneers and emperors-- and of the Mullah of Charsadda ~-who, formerly an upright judge, Was now a fugitive in the Moh- mand counfry; ga firebrand, agj- tator and fometer of rebellion, who had given his daughter to the notorious Abdul Ghaffar Khan, outlaw and terrorist" (Continued Next Week) Fatal Sound Sound waves in water, such as those caused by. depth bombs, may kill up to eighty feet, navy medi- cal reports show, says Pathfinder, cule-to molecule, have a speed of 4,078 feet per second, about four times that of sound in alr, At distances up to 150 feet they dam 'age the small blood vessels in the abdomen and affect the flow of blood to the viscera. ! A Record Harvest Expected in China The harvest In the parts of China, under Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek "Is oxpected Yo bo of record uantity this year," The British dio sald recently. "Seasonable rains have already resulted in the reaping of large crops, and the autumn prospects aro*deéscribed as favorable," add: ed the broadcast, Defence sandbags are being made from domeatic fibre in Brit- ish East Africa, ° ~Commilssioncr of the Division, turn to Peshawar after 'an absence TABLE TALKS SADIE B. CH Some Tasty -- For Early Autumn -- The homemaker's 'at table courses early dessert. arrange her meals day. And fruits are on the m evenings are, chilly, we like to 'turn our atfentioh of dessert which have been neg- lected during the hotter months. Apples, pears and peaches, are now at their best. fruit puddings a long, slow bak- ing seems to produ flavor. . If baking a deep filling of apples and sugar should be baked slowly for about one and one-quarter hours until apples have that reddish before placing the top. served with whipp dessert~fit_for royalty. Baked pears mal seasonal dessert, fortunate enough to have maple syrup, place pears baste with the syrup. These may be served hot or cold. of ginger to pears freshing. This may a sauce or chopped ger added to whipp Try these peach so.aething different: Peach Surprise Cook large extra fine whole peach (pitted) in a (1 cup sugar to 1 Cook- until soft but not broken. rest for the day from chief anxieties of menu-planning, if she.plans the meat and vege- Every wise woman real- © izes it saves time and strength to now as the last fresh This type of pie chilled and Pear Tapioca 1& cup quick tapioca 1% cup boiling water % teaspoon salt 3 tablespons lemon juice D 1 tablespoon orange juice . esserts 2. tablespoons syrup from _ ~~ maraschino cherries % cup corn syrup 6 | ripe large pears . Cook tapioca in double boiler with water and salt until clear. Add lemon and orange juice, syrup from cherries, sugar and corn syrup. Peel and core pears, place in baking dish with cavity up. Place cherry in each cavity. Pour over tapioca mixture, bake until pears are tender. Serve cold with Whipped cream. Pear Conserve - Peel and pare one peck pears, run through food chopper, weigh, and for, each pound of pears add % 1b. sugar. Put fruit sugar and ¥ cup water in preserving kettle. Let come to a good boil; add grated rinds and strained juice of two lemons and 1 can grated pineapple; % cup chopped ecan- died ginger. Cook two hours, "stirring "occasionally; then pour into jars and seal. AMBERS mind can be the and then the early-in the arket and the to the types In all baked ce a superior apple pie, the brown. eolor, cover on the En AT ¢ id Miss Chanibers welcomun personal letters from interested renders, She Is plensed (0 recelve suggentions on toples for her column, and Ia always ready to listen to your 'pet peeves." Requests for reelpes or special menus are. In order. Address 'your letfers (o "Miss Sadie, B. Chanibers, 73 West Adelalde St., Toronto." Send stamped self-nd- dressed envelope If you wish a reply. * ed cream is kes a lovely If you are in casserole, A flavor is always re- be added to candied gin- ed cream, desserts for Animal Hair Used By Aviation Industry Another role in which farm pro- ducts are helping fight the war was revealed today by The Fire- stone Tire & Rubber Company, Animal hair is being used in many important aviation products, com. sugar syrup cup water). Plum And Apple, Butter METHOD--Wash fruit, apples, cut in pieces and leave skins on. 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