WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 8 June 1943, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

•8.0.W. RUGBY, J’une 4. Men and women who have given outstanding service, in war factories .and civil defence, and in l act r practically all parts of the war effort on the home front, as well as merchant navy heroes and those who figured in the protracted Battle ot Malta, received awards in the second section of the Birthday Honours List. Mr Morrison, M.P., revealed that a Parliamentary delegation, comprising two Commoners and six peers is going to Canada to inspect Canada s war effort, and confer with repiesentatives of America, New Zealand, Australia and Canadian Governments on post-war problems. Not one of the 485. inhabitants ot Lidice, the Czechoslovak town that the Germans destroyed on June 10 last escaped. Reports reaching official circles in London say that on June 10 German bombers appeared ovei Lidice, and dropped incendiaries. The village, meanwhile, had been surrounded by tanks, and when the inhabitants tried to run for their lives out of the burning houses, the Germans trained machine-guns of their tanks on them and shot all without exception. For a while, there was hope that two men succeeded in escaping, but that later proved illusory.

Sir S. Cripps paid a special tribute to Irish men and women, both in Ihe services and in factories when he spoke at Belfast, to-night. Reaffirming that after the Germans were defeated in Europe, Britain would do her utmost to defeat Japan, he said an American Senator need not doubt Britain, because “the people who fought alone and unaided against the whole strength of Germany and Italy after Dunkirk, would not fail against Japan.” S'r S. Cripps stressed as of great significance the fact that while a Council of War had been in session at Washington, the Food Conference of Ihe United Nations had been meeting at Hot Spring's. “The great lesson is that last time we neglected economic and .social nroblems in favour of political. We over-emphasised the rights of small nations to the exclusion of essential economic inter' dependence of all nations, great and small alike.”