B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 65, 21 August 1944, Page 1

B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

THE ‘ ‘ HUMAN SIDE OF THE ARMY. Lance/Corp. Kelly (India Con* maud), recently sent the following letter to F. 11. Grisewood, who comperes the messages broadcast by relatives to their men in India, in the 8.8.C.’s rc» gular programing called “India Con.mand”:— “Once more there has been an argument as to whether or not your name is spelt “ise” or “ies. ” However, 1 managed to find you the last time I wrote so I am spelling it as I did then. That is beside the point for what I want to do is, thabk you, Miss Bucknell and everyone else who made possible the wonderful broadcast forwarded to ny. Reception was perfect, and 1 think that the way you handled the job was super. “I think I ought to tell you of a series of events leading up to my receiving your broadcast. My unit is in the front line in Burma and when one of my pals came to join Us from base this day last week, 1 learned of my request being granted. My heart sank, because, who ever heard of a “civvy” wireless in the line? Anyway, a letter pleading with a couple of my’ superiors resulted in permission for our wireless to come forward fronv base. Then, the Japs took a bit of licking and we had to move forward. Again, my heart sank . . . To cut a long story short, the set arrived after a hull day’s road journey, half an hour before the broadcast; and, amidst the crashing of our guns, I heard it!

“Best of luck to you .and yours. Thanking everyone once more. ’ ’ R.A.F. AFTERMATH. A million ions of rubble has to be cleared away after any of our great major attacks. Meanwhile, astronomic man-hours are wasted on rehabilitation, repair and replacement. 1 believe that Hamburg is estimated to have cost 400,000,000 man-hours to German war production within a period of three to six ninths after the attack. Huge additional losses of man-hours also occur indirectly in replacing the consumer goods and in a hundred other ways.’’— Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck talking in a 8.8. C. Radio News Reel. CHILDREN NONPLUS A QUISLING. Norway’s children have earned a special place in the chronicles of this war for their courage in resisting the Nazi overlords. Even the smallest of thein, seem to feel that orders from the invader or his collaborator cannot be for the good of Norwegians. A Norwegian clandestine paper, Black and White, now in the hands of the BBC, reports how pupils of one school flatly refused to buy a German reader written by their Quisling headmaster. Numbers of the children were expelled. Others were threatened with a spell at a corrective school and even that they would be sent to a German labour camp But none of them was intimidated. And this copy of Black and White reports that the struggle has ended with all the expelled pupils being readmitted ami the utter defeat of the Quisling headmaster.