NEW MATCH-BOX FOR U.S. TROOPS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 5

NEW MATCH-BOX FOR U.S. TROOPS

New York, Oct. 11. The United States War Department developed a match-box enabling troops to strike lights in most adverse weather. In tests boxes were soaked in water for more than a month without affecting the contents, 20 matches. The box also contains a small emergency compass.

commando is superior to the Japanese, say these returned soldiers. They base their claim on the fact that the Australian casualties in a series of harassing raids on enemy bases at Lae and Salamaua have been practically nil. Most of the Australian raids in this area were macle at night. “We would watch an enemy post for days,” one soldier explained. “We would learn the strength of the endmy force and its routine. Each of our men would be oiven a certain job to do. Then we would hop in, clean the place up, and disappear in the jungle.” “You have to kill the Japanese to stop them,” declared another man. “You can wound them severely, but they still keep coming, even if they can only crawl, shooting all the time.” FAMOUS ~“GESTAPO GUS SERVED COFFEE TO GENERAL MACARTHUR (Special Australian Correspondent—N.Z.P.A.) (Recd. 10.25 p.m.) Sydney, Oct. 12. “Gestapo Gus” has become famous in Australia as the man who served coffee to Genera! MacArthur at the head of the New Guinea jungle trail. Gus is mine host at “Cafe de Kerbstone,” where exhausted soldiers refresh themselves after the stiff climb from Überi (at the end of the road into the ranges from Port Moresby). At this canvas hostelry General MacArthur and several officers examined Gestapo Gus' menu, which was headed “Fine Foods from Every Country." Details were:—“Soup: Dishwater. Joint: Bullybeef. Dessert: Prunes and Rice.” The price list read: "Generals .9s lid. colonels 7s 6d, majors ss, captains 3s 6d, loots 2s, sergeant-majors Is 6d, white boongs (privates) buckshee." The distinguished visitors drank coffee from enamel cups. Gus asked General MacArthur for his autograph in lieu of the normal charges. "Good luck, Gus! I enjoyed the coffee Douglas MacArthur,” wrote the South-west Pacific supreme commander. -,y‘' ''■