SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 May 1947, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

PLENTY GREASE A sign of the times: Candle grease on the carpets of city householder*. A carpet cleaner told us yesterdny that candle grease was met with Ui country carpets, but only recently had it appeared on carpets from the city sent in for cleaning. mountain not to blame - An official rwport from Wellington and a wave which hit the Wahine have absolved the Mountain Iviajx-hu of any blame tor the last earthquake Wanganui had. A section of the Press, it will be remembered, tried to tie up the mountain’s eruptive tendencies with the tremors the river city has felt recently. Nothing to it. The mountain is innocent WIN—OR HANG. Judging by the way German generals are being dealt with by Allied War Crimes Tribunals, the future motto of any great military houses of our land, or of staffs, will be. Win* or be hanged!" Kesselring. the general who commanded the forces which so long held the New Zealand- » ers at Cassino, Italy, and was responsible for tlie German campaign right back lo Trieste, has been found guilty of a major war crime—shooting people as reprisals. Nobody makes excuses for such happenings as that, but we know only too well that men like Montgomery and Eisenhower probably would have been made just as responsible for such actions of junior commanders had we lost the war. The only difference perhaps would have been that, had we lost, the Germans would have shot our generals out of hand, or hanged them. We try them, and hang them afterwards. Whichever way we look at it, l lie lesson of this war. and lite birth it gave to tribunals and cdttrts, is: “You'd better be on the winning side in the future, irrespective of your politics, your medals or your ability as a strategist.”