HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-04-08, Page 3Fishermen Defy
Nazi .Submarines •
Edmund Gilligan, novelist, speak:
Ing at t'he Famous Authore' lunch.
eon in• ,Philadelphia` told tat' the
unsuceessfulcarupaiin by German
submarines- to terrorize. American-
and
merican•and Canadian *deep sea •fishermn.
relates The Toronto Telegram.
' Purpose .of this little-pivb1Ticized
Miami of total war: To deprive ue
an'd,' our Allies of the ;&00,000 -ton
haul Of babbitt, haddock and cod
'Which conies: into the Gioueester,_
wharf cath year. •Gilligan said
"kirst, the U-boat commanders
wo,eld surface near 'the•.schooners
eft the Grand Banks and send for:
the captain. They'd tell .him: •`If
we catch'you out here again we'll
kill you.' He •• was. .ekpeeted to.
pass the wordamong the. dorymen.
"Waren that rdidn't work, the
U;boat's would •surface.'sudd 'suddenly,
fire .a. heave -to shot and give tlie.
crew just time to get into the
dories before sinking the schooner. •,
But those Gloucester • men. ' and
Canadians kept going out,— they
hate the • Germaps - with , a --rare.
• fierceness.
"Now the subs surface and 'fire
right' off. They even go further.
.They have plantedMines under
floating hulks with ?wounded still
aiboard 'so that when. a corvette
conies up,`,• ',
"But 'the schooners still go mit'
--I
don't, know vAiei or where--
, tied
here,'and the catch still coiner in. Drag.
gingnets--close-to-shore'reunder•'-the -.
, protection of naval patrols has
even -increased .tlie-catch.-.be-yand..;
menial years."'
•lin • a recent broadpast from
Gloucester, Mass., two 'fishermen
• 'told •ot personal experiences with
enenly subs: •in ,one case the fishne.
ermen were ordered into their
- dories rand their . schooner was
• • sunk, In the •other case, though
the with wae. on: the•surface, 'no
ttentpt was. made to• harm the
nhermen,' ;apparently lest larger
,•,prey be', warned..
•
NOSB ° BAG
• New .M-5 gas mask for cavalry
horses fits, snug on Ike onoSe and
has ,flexible hose cnecting to
canister df air -purifying material.
•
Husband Passes'
The Ammunition
•United .• States Grandm•pther •
• Is .Country's No. el W. 0..W.•
.Mi's.. Ruby 'Barnett, '41 -year-old Q
grandmothe'r, has had. to 'give up
squirrel and rabbit .hunting. She's
too busy test -firing rifles and ma-
" chine gun's six days a week at the
•
..Aberdeen„ Md., 'proving Freund.
' • In. New- York to• broadcast. a
. don't _' worry - about production
message, to ' service' men overseas,
Mrs. Barnet was the first woman
test-firer•'at Aberdeen,' is the, only
---gr artot aer�.jn._t1i .thi ed States,,_
following • that shoulder -bruising
. trade and is the.' country's' No..1
W., O. •W. -•- Women' Ordiranee
Workers.
She told about her job • at. a
press conference, recently'., • She
not only test -fire's Garand rifles,
carbines and submachine guns•=-•
blazing away' until the barrel ex -
e pends •ot, thea mechanism . fails—
but she also. assembles the wee -
pons, a job she says.. is more dif-
ficult than mixing 'the ingredi-
'ents for a cake. There are 170 •
parts for a Garand rifle, she in-
stanced.-
wanted to do my bit," Mrs.'
Barnett 'said, °`so 11 months ago
I applied for a job at Aberdeen,
• where my husband, James, hauls.
am"munp'tion • to the 'firing ranges.^•
We make quite a team. He, passes
• %the 'ammunition and I shoat it
Up" . .
No Tinife •Limit -
Reichsmar'shal Hermann Wil-
helm Goering, acting in his capac-
ity as Gerrria.ny's supreme war -eco-
nomic authority, has decreed there
efiail he no limit.. oti ' the number
of hours which German .factory .
workers may be required to labor
daily, despatches from Berlin, re-
ported- T rent1y, • .. . ' , . . •
' • Iii Issuing ;the' decree under the
t?Em'• r C,I° ni:
•)xenon of lahor,• Goering was said
to have de•cl:ai`ed there' Woi•e n
j
' limitett•ons. on the services" de
intended of the troops and ttia.t Abe
'sail i pi•inci,ple should apply`ck tl e
home front,.
Goering•also dtreeled that all war•
pla-nts ni'aintaiu their' working
schedules on Saturdays. and Sun-
days the despatches said. •
• .
•
a.
On•
guard against atter enemy attack 'on the wooded British. Columbia shore are 'these •Pacific t-„ast
•ern wildei,n.ess_ where -a ---foe re -ht _coneei.. bl .. -, r..- .
8 nYa 3r ludo. They, are also trained for�gueiilda warfare.
OF 1,-C
PR•E'SS
Militia Rangers Armed with rifle, axe and map, these' Canadian sharpshooters patrol the • pictures • ue .
_west _ q .
•
• BEER PROBLEM
One of the Most amusingspec-
taclesof this' period is presented
by the individual who was a rabid
champion of all-out war a few
monthsago• but who now threat-
ens a revolution if he has to sacri-
ce }�t-noriiiRi .tntak of been.
'Why should beer escape ration-
- when real necessities of life-=••.
from which it is Most distiinctly
excluded,—are in such short supee
.ply that they are distributed by
coupon?
--'Brockville Recorder and /Times,
EXPERT SPOTTERS
Wonien • will be trained asair-
craft spotters; in .:order to teach
the art .o ihiale .members of' the
Royal 'Canadian Air .Force..They
should do' a grand job. ' Anyone
who cart, after a two-second
• glance, tell the color, material, -
• style, and even the probable'
price, of every stitch another wo-
' Irian is wearing, is just naturally.
cut ••out for that sort of work.
' =•Windsor' Star
--o-
THE THREE• H'$
This Spring and 'Sumtner' it will
be the "patriotic thing to drop the.
•-'three- Iirs•-i•ri••-faVer-•-of---the'••_three
H's — hoeing, hitching- and har-
vesting. •
• -Stratford Beacon -Herald
• LOOKING AHEAD
• Travelling, aboard the future' •
sky -train, which is to consist of a
string of gliders, an experienced `
wirewalker can easilee,get back to
the diner. .
—Winnipeg Tribune
yp—
'.REASON WH•Y :.. _. -
• A commanding officer' cannot•
have his. .wife with "him at 'the
front because he is 'expected to
be the commanding officer. • .
Brandon Sun
R. A. F. PUN • •
A young wife was recently
'accused' of running away from
• her' R" A.' F. 'husband. A bolt '
from the blue. •
—'.Montreal. Star
I, —o—
ANALYSIS OF LIFE
Every- day mere people find
:Out that life is what you make It
rather than just what you make.
Kitchener Record
Dutch Seacaptain ,
Otiitwits Germans.
A high official' of the Pan -Amer-•
' teen Lines vouches for tihi.s story „
or a 'Dutch captain of a seagoing
tugboat i chose craft was common-
' (leered ' when, the Germans took,
Rolland, writes Walter Winc ell,
111s tack, the Nazis inforuied..lin,
would be to tow. a string of barges
loaded with German soldiers out •
. en. geetil? eines t.,,.,.C,llaih#A,eLeeacb
. day so that they could get used to
seasickness, in preparation for the'
coming invasion of England. Day
• after day he cheerfully escorted
his' .unhappy etla'go• t6 the -most
violent parts of the Channel, got
then good and ill, brought thein
back..
Finally the captain suggested to
the; eli'tYitita"titliiii 'o:ileel's ' "Why'.
not have the soldiers get used to .
_ i sror ontSr` o e
'Ing theta out at night instead of
in, the daytime?" Whey agreed.
Next night,• the captain took out
his ° string of sit barges, towed
thein near enough tti the British
coast to ensure their capture and
Cut them `loose. Then he. made Por
the open sea and . i''eae4 ed' Der -
muds.; w -here he now tuletlir piles
his tugboat 'trade.
• . 9., 7 aTr
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THE V1AR -. WEEK -- Comment4ry on
Europe Is "' HitIer's ' Fortress:
Is It Impregnable To Allies?
•
Current -tven'ts
How strong is the. Festung Eur-
opa, that' apparently plays so ,pl'om- •
,fnent a rolee in German defense.:
plans? Wliat parts of it are nature-
-. built- -and._ where a -.hats-:-t'he .'.Organic-•
ation Tod t" - to': till;in -gali"s-"wall:"'
• man -built fortifications? Where are
its' slopes •and outpost's that ca`n
be 'abandoned without inviting ca-
tastrophe,, and where .are its maim. •
lines that • must be held •at any
• cost?'
A careful .study of the many
`Complicated factors involved leada
to the' conclusion 'that unless their •
resources are too seriously Strain—„
ed in Russia or North Africa' or •
their wet.. industries and • inner
transport lines• too badly .damaged
' by aerial .attack the Germans have
at their command 'a "last=ditch
fortress that will be 'able ,to with-
stand everything but the . fullest.,,
possible 'striking power of the ;;iJn-
ited N'attons.•.
• Frain • behind• their far-flung '.
European battle'thents the • Ger-
mans _will be. able to make large- '
scale military sorties, says. Ernest
S.•• Piste), in the *Christian Science
• Monitor, • The plains of France and ,
TiBelgi.um, and those at the foothills
of the Alps and the Carpathians
leave ample. elbow -room for anti
---•bit-louts-;-•-effiensfve.defensive-••-•man--'. -
euvers. 'Moreover, while a' retreat
to the Festung Europa would bar
Hitler from the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean, it'•would keep 'North
"Sea and Baltic ports in, liispos-
session.. eThe submarine warfare
would go on.
Forts- Rushed by Germans
. No particular- knowledge a mili-
''talfy strategy or tacti•os is neces-
sary to know that only in the
South and Southeast of Europe.
does a natural, defense line exist,
This line runs from Sari •Sebastian
at the Spanish -French frontier.
straight .across •the continent to
Bulg•aria's • Black 'Sea coast..
It is yenned by the Pyrenees,
.the Alps, the :Dinette Alps; , the
Bulgarian mountains,. , and ' 'the
northward -bent semicircle of the
Carpathians, ;find is interrupted
only along the 30O -mile stretch of
Frances Mediterranean; coast.
However, the sityation is °differ
ent at the eastern, northern and ..
'western fringes of Europe. Except
for the Pripet .Marshes which
make part' of the Polish -Ukrainian
frontier impassable, the 'borders of
the continent are relatively- easy
to • invade • unless • protected . by
man=built• forti,fieatiens..•
The German High .Command, in
proparing • to ..meet ah invasion
teem whatever direction it 'may
come, 'has been building fortifies=
tions at a frantic pace from the,
barren fjords Cif Norway dome •to
France's lovely Cote d'Azure:, ' •
•
Norway and Low Countries,,'
• In Norway,' apart .from tens of
thousands of 'native labor•non-
• • scripts, some 200,,000 Germans,
60;000-=i sslan- :peleonei_sLof-eavaie
-11;000 7taliaii`s; -and lesser- iffirdber e
of . Poles., Czechs, ,Danes, French,
Belgians, Dutch and Serbs are em-
;,ployed: in the building :of fortifica-
.-tious. Kristiansand, Stavanger, Berl
gen, Trondheim, and Narvik have
been strongly fertified' and i4, bas
even been rumored that , the Gere
mans' )built a defense line tomer
where • across Norway. ,
The ,extent of .anti-invasion:pie-
'pai•atfons. in Iiolland ,can be gath-
ered from ,the. fact that during the
last fe;w months almost the .entire
civilian population has been re,
movies' from' - the coastal areas.
Large sections• of the waterfront
cities were torn down to make
:room for mine -fields, tank traps,
coticrete pill -boxes 'and, gun em-
placements.. Reports from The
Hague indicate that, the •Du!tch
Capital looks worse noW than Rot-
terdam
otterdam did after the air bombard-
ment in May, 1940. •
' The .coastal ,defense zone in Bel-:
gium is. said :to Se 15'"'tii' ariniier-
deep. Here, too, Civilians • have
been either evacuated farther ,in-
land--oreeeleasticalleherestr-ieted in
then' • movements. New fortifica-
tions have been erected in the
Province of Namur along . the
Meuse River in order to check a
possible Allied attack from North-
ern France.
The Coast Defenses
'Phe Channel coast and the At-`
Untie • roes t ofFrance were fettle
in 1941 and 1942. The whole'
shoreline is studded with concrete
gun emplacements of all calibers.
After the Allied 'invasion of North
Africa the defense zone was ex-
tended'to the Mediterranean coast.
Workers,of. •the Organization
Tont'are Sid to be working, on a
defense belt some 30p miles long
and five miles ,deep.A second line
of fortifications was built between
Lille and Amiens, running, south-
eastward along the former bor-
der of unecc:utiied France wp to
Switzerland. 'Pheve'is, •fn addition,
still'the old "Siegfried' Line" or
"West 'Wall," built . in .1938-1939,
which guards the German frontlet
against attacks from French
ritory. + '
In Italy, where the coast line is
too long to be fortified ,properly
In its entire length, the main work •
was • done en Sicily and on the ,
Southeastern . tongue. of the -Pen-
insula' guarding the entrance to the
Adriatic Sea. The second' line Of
defense • runs far •upin the north
along the former 4ustrian-Itaiian
border,
Fortifications are being built in
southern Greece, and Salonika, at
th'e mouth of the Vardar Valley,
• has been transformed into a for-
. ' able strongpo,
Munition's and' Fuel Stored.
Similar work is •going on in
Thrace; Macedonia, • Serbia, Al-
bania and do some points of . the
Dalmatian •coast, .Neither. has the
Nazi .defense program • neglected
such European island -outposts. as
'Sardinia, Crete, and the Dodeca-
nese.
Weapons, ' ammunition and' mo-•
tor fuel are being transported in
large quantifies to all serategio
points: ' .Except for gasoline,., the
,strain on the Reich's reserves •Is
not as heavy • as one might pY'e-
suiiie., Phd'booty front early Nazi
conquests now .conies, in handy.
Large caliber artillery' pieces from'.,
the: ,former tzedhosiovakian bor-
der fertlficationsi and the "'French
Maginot Line are now-• in position'
at the fringes of Europe.
However, • all this extensive
work does not .mean the German
High Comanand contemplates de-'
fending the whole of Europe: Such
_a pr positlen is' ruled out; b _sheere
lack , of -manpower. Most of the
newly built defenses are intended
to delay . rather than to stave off •
• the attacker,
Areas of Abandonment
Moreover, it is reasonable to,
assume that. German plans en-
visage the. abaiidon.ment of ' eon-
enterable parts of. Europe. In this
category belong Sardinia, Italy
with Sicily, the •;coastal region of •
r o• a t i a, Montenegro, Albania,
Greece, and even some ' portions.,
�of. Btu-lgaria.' .
• In ,the North, Norway, Finland,
• Estonia, and about 'two' 'thirds of
Latvia are likely to, be written oft
The sante applies to a:goodly por-.
tion of 'France and Belgium, while
Holland and Luxemburg can be ex-
pected 'to be defended with ex-
treme tenacity.
Thos, the innerinost 'fortress •
wan, that is, the ' line 'where 'the
Nazis will t`hrciw in every last bit
-of their strength,runs' roughly
g I'
yam :the_: _Dutch lI'elgian ._-border; -
region southeastward,. protecting.
the Il.uhr Valley; then 'southward.
somewhat inside France to Bps.:
•',argon; skirting the Swiss frontier,
including•. Lyon, and from' there
taking a sharp turn 'to the East
.along the Alps, , through Austria,
then through the. Yugoslav moun-
tains• southward to Nish, and
northward along the Carpathiana
up te. Cerrnauti and ,either•
Brest -Litovsk to Memel, or taking
the Pripet Marshes in its stride,
u`to,the Drina' River and to Riga.
Lone Fighter Pilot
Defence The Fleet'
' • Mighty -Mediterranean . Fleet
Air .Arm Grew From 'Single
• , Fighter Pilot .
A single fighter pilot was the
Sole air defence for the entice Brit--
Ish Eastern Mediterranean fleet
far a' toile during the early part
Of the War, the Admiraltydisclosed
I eceuti .
Front such a humble beginning
grew... th.e mighty fleet air arm
which, 'with a• daring surprise at-
'. tack the night of Nov, 11, 1940,
struck a• paralyzing brow at • the
Italian fleet' `as it lay at emelt r
'-in Taranto Harbor.
• The story, was 'told for the first
tithe' by the Admiralty' in a • book
let "East of Malta and West of •
Suez," which detailed" the work of
the'• Eastern 'Mediterranean fleet in
the first • i'8 months of the, war.
This fleet was without, aircraft
• carriers 'for the first nine months
of weir, the-Admniralty said. -Then,
' iii ' May, 1940, the 20 -year-old car -
ren Eagle -- since sunk= arrived
from tire•East Indic$:
. The -Fleet 'Is Saved •
She had . two squadrons 'of 'tor-
pedo -carrying Swordfish planes and
later acquired four Gladiator fight-
ers as the basis• for. a. fighter squad-
ron. '
But there was not a flghiler' pilot
aboard. So for a while the, elying
master of the Eagle, Cmdr. C. L.
• Keighley -Peach, went up alone to
defend the entire fleet.
. On ' oiie occaeion . he, we'nt. up
with •a bullet still in his thigh from
a previous• encounter, and shot
• down an attacking eneiny plane. '
Later Cipdr. Keighley -Peach
.traInert • two •' of the bomber 'pilots.
aboard the Eagle as fighter pilots; •
the booklet said,. and between
them they destroyed 11 enemy air-
craft and "somehow' contrived to
Bluey ;and Curley of the Anzacs.
''ELL ME.
iYouRS ,LP
FIRST OF ALL -II r oTN6 UP. `
GETS=A UNiFOIZM.•.1M DT SED UD,
•
•
Montgomery: "Forward To Tunis;
Drive The Enemy Into The Sea
• "(By a Staff Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
with the Allied Forces in North •Africa)
• On the eve pf the battle .now
surging along -the Mareth line,
General Sir Bernard L. Mo.htgom-
ery gave the troops fife following
message:
"On the. fifth.Of -March, Mare
shal Erwin Romrriel addressed •his
troops in the "mountains overlook-
ing our positions and 'aid that if
they did not take Medenin and• ,
foi,ce the Eighth:A'rmy to with=
'draw, then the days of Axis forces
.in Nortli Africa^ were numbered. •••
"The next day, the sixth of
Marek; he attacked tire" Eighth
Army. . He should Piave ., known
that the Eighth Army never •with-
draws; therefore his attack could
end only in failure -which it .did,'
"We will now, show Rome/tel..'"
thathe was right in the statement
,he 'made to his <troops.
• ---`The;..•iiayte of---Aaris-foreees--in_--
' Nprth Africa. •are. indeed num-
• .bered. '
• "The. Eighth Army and the
Western . Desert Air • Force, ; to-
• gether. constituting one fighting
' machine, are ready, the advance.
We '411 know what that means;
and 'so does the enemy.
•-"Tn •'the, battle that is, now to
start; the Eighth Army will de-
stroy the enemy now facing us: in '
the Mareth positions, will burst
through the Gabes gap, ,will then
,drive northward on 'Sfax' and
Sousse and finally- Tunis.,
"We will net step er let un t31
Tun.ie hasbeen captured and the
enemy„ has either given' up " the
struggle or 'been pushed into the
sea.
"The operations now about to, • • .
begin' :will ivark the Close of the
campaign •in, North Afr'i9a, Once--
the battle' starts Ails •'eyes of the• •:. '.
whole world' will be On :the Eighth
md millions of people will'
lisArteny tad
wireless every day—.
hoping .,anxiously for good news.
We must not let them be anxious.
Let us see that theyget', good.
news and plenty of it every day;
"T`reacli o-ne'ef-us"ii`WSlits silty ` :'" "
and .. putts his full weight, then •'i
nothing :eau' stop the Eighth
Army. And'' nothing will atop it.
"With faith . in God and the •
justice of ourcause; let us go for -
:ward to victory.•' -
"Forward to, Tunis. Drive. the -
enemy into the seal
preserve the fleet from • a':major
casualty." '
"In the eery 'days of the war
our naval force's achieved on sea
the sort of thing;, that the R.A.F.
did • in the Battle of Britain,"
added, • • -
-Nine Out Of Ten
Say "Rash-uhn"
With all the talk about ration-.
3ng,....says:.':Abe Aces_",res---oePiib_.`"'°
lishing,f it is inevitable . that peo=
plc- who ray 'ray-shuhn should •bee
irritated by'-hea?ing•. others say
rash-jihn, .and vice -versa. The note
under :`ration" in "War Words:
Recommended" Pronun•clati ons" ` by
W. Ca:bell Greet offers comfort to',
• both sides. -
• The ray-shuhn group are follow-'
Ing the tendency ; of ' speakers of
• New Englandand the northeastern,
Sections ' of the country: The rash=
• uhn _crowd are . in a goodly com-
pany which includes .President
Roosevelt, Win s ton Chuinchiil,
'James F. Byrnes, director of eco- -
nomic stabilization; Lnon Render-
• son, Elmer. Davis and Eddie Rick-
, enbacker, In fact, if you use rash-
uhn, yeti: are going . along with'
probably nine out of ten Ameri-
cans in allwalks of life, as well
as with •the British (whose dic-
tionaries areinclined to'ignore
ray-shuhn) ;' but .if you prefer ray -
„Oahu 'we .can't call you wrcing___
It seems to be purely a' matter of
individual choice. -Live apd let
five, we say. •
.LIFE'S -LIKE THAT
Bigger And Better-
Nazi.
etter -
Nazi Subniaruies •
T'he submarines Germany is ne'
• ,ing'm today are ,as far ahead ,of the ,
• tIeboat that` sank the Lusitania in.
1915 as the' four -engine bomber f8
ahead of the Sopwith Camels that .
Lumbered over the German lines
25 . years- ago, says The C.ornwaU °
Standard -Freeholder.
They are better than 200 feet ,,
•overall with a' 20 -foot beam and'
a• submerged' displacement of 882
tons. rT`hey. carry -12. to 13tor•
pedoes :plu quick•firing ..gun -oi -
foiuinch' alibre Or larger "Carry'
i 4
n 5
veva
they can c i
g , eY rurSe on th9
surface at 17% to 20 knots:and
have a range of 14,520 miles. They
have a double hull with oil .cont' '
. partments: betwegn ”"to absorb' the •
she, of depth charges anddeep'
water,. nit construction- permits •
rithstand the pressure, of
oms or 600 feet of water.
and' Wiwi it necessary ' to clay a
depth •. c arge within .15 or" 20 feet '
to.'send the U-boat still• deeper on._
a one-way trip to the bottom. Ger-
niany, is" turning out-25.to"30 n
n on:tli.
Food Is Ammunition
1t's up to us now to get Out
and dig. The people of•Britaintdid.
Cabbages grew in the heart of
l:ondon. Lettuce sprouted on Alm•
tops of bomb shelters. Hands that•
swung the golf club reached .to piCie__'-___•
up the hoe. Nimble fingers that
danced over ,typewriter keys took .
on •the•, task of, weeding: • •
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By Fred ' Neher
"Now if I come in for any more chocolates this •?'week, don't
• iet me have any."
"Now he's confessed up,"
Wild A FULL Ki'T.._1 WAS LOADED UP.
Ali' LAST FRiDAY....1 WAS,. BLOWN UP....
you
•
Gurney (Australia�_..
NOW 14 'BANDAGED UP,
AND FLAMiNI' WELL FED UP
e
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