Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 3, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 December 1940 — OVERSEAS BITS [ARTICLE]

OVERSEAS BITS

Mail—Lisbon air mail shipments were resumed, first flight carrying 3,000 pounds, a lot of letters. I Home —Stay home for Christmas is the German slogan this year, people being to,ld that railroads will be needed for war purposes, and not for travel. Surrender Unconfirmed reports were that a first-line French battleship had surrendered to the British at Gibraltar. Americanized —A veteran of the Argonne battle of American troops in France, seeing the Greco-Italian Pindus mountain fight, said the Greeks fought like the Yanks, from rock to rock and tree to tree. Classes —W. L. White wrote from London that he couldn’t understand Kennedy’s statement that democracy was dead in England. He said all classes mix on equal footing when the bombs fall.