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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-04-22, Page 7• • r • 17 000,1 UU . Me n Axis Antes A Lot To :Se Disposedof,. Says the Ottawa . Citiien U. S. War Secretary Stlmson's • estimate. of .the fighting strength of • the Axis.'armies should have a sobering effect •upon iktliose who • atkakiftliFlaira he act o • an eapi "~vr advise -at' There .area lot of Axis soldiers to 1te-disposed of before the end is an. sight, . • . Mr,. Stimson, 'defending U ••S,• _. glans._ -to_• establish ..-an army of 8,206,000. said that the Axis haft 17,000,000''Mader rms., : •• Germany '.arid hes`, -Lru'ro ati, satellites have • a 14,000,000. Phe Japanese -have, ap•- - proximately 3,000,000 under, arm's. • Speaking, of Ger'many's'. 14,000,- 000 troops; Mr: Stimson said' that !"11,Ussia and Britain together have a much smaller number." This may come as a serprise to those. who have blan-dly assumed that Ru'ssi., with a population `of • 1;3,000,000,' . w•ith.a population of. 183;000,00.0, —the usual 10 per cent. They for- get that.' aim -third' of Russia's.. population has 'come under enemy'' domfnatiou,.: and. that Russian 'Casa •ualt`s have • been enormous. c,have German casualties' been ' enorinoua. But). Germany has had the• advantage of drafting millions... • of semi-slavesa to work in her . fac- ' torics and on her ..farms, thus re-. 'leasing many more nen than wonld Otherwise • lie;' available?• f"oi! •tire' army, - • What the, strength, of, the British .Army is •must •of 'necessity remain • .a secret, but Britain .is fully mobil- ized: where are no more men. to, •oall, • tip, eacept- those coating of age. -That,ineausi that the needed superiority in striking• power must - ;come fibro the United States. And an army ' of 8;200,000 Americans will. rat mean,too great a sullener- s'ty, 'f • Mr.-Stimson's -figures are • eecurate° N .arba e Pails In Chinese Home No• r=ood. 'Wasted, Writes :.pearl • Buck in ..Collier.'s-• • There can be no argument in • ,China. about ;food: It is consid- - erect aiitple reason °for giving up a good jolt anywhere if the foot( os ... the region' is not what one likes or • , if the: table provided is inadequate • or badly prepared. . . With this • reverential attitude' toward food, waste of • food is . theiefore unheard of.. And consid- ered as. hear a .real in • as• the Chinese allow to anything. Every part Of a duck,' for instance; is _ used in •its own ivay. The blood is made •into .pudding. The skin.: -:...reastecL,cxisp .lend_ bt v_aan 1s al od • • off and, eaten with .hats jelly and thin pancakes. The flesh. is ,cut 'off and served with chestnuts., 'The Wtb-leis• are chopped and com- bined with a vegetable: perhaps bainboo ,shoots,..seasoried with, the . proper condiments. The feet are • screed its soup. The head !Ps cook- 'eel and• split open -and the :brains. . are a delicae,y,-though•' scarcely a • inoutliful. _ There are therefore no garbage:( pails in the Chinese h. ouse'hold.• There is net such thing in •a Chin- ese kitchen nor. did .I ever see one I • in any Chinese - House; •A 'few ; •- outer yellow leaves of a cabbage • • are' buried in a compost heap. So, are the' few bones, that have peen' crocked for matt -eta Everything else is eaten. Leftovers are' never thrown away. • The 'knowledge 'of'famine is al- ways in. every Chinese mind, even of those who have never suffered 'from or seen a famine. "Eat," the' 'Chinese 'subconscious" say ,• "for there -are always those whd starve and, life being ''than it is,' some day you may ,be one of the starv- ing." tarv- m It' causes • me, I must confess, a good deal of anguish to' pee . ericar, garbage. So much of it isTlfaoil • thrown away. The Chin • - ese sense of sin stirs in the. 4=leaven ferrgives much to man but not waste of that .which it has given to' feed hurt. • o How Ships' Hulls Bec'olrne Magnetized it is not divulging al� ything to say that' when sltips,are! uilt their bulls becotne pi•�rtunuent 1 magnets, at stay magnetic "all their, .lives' kdiss they are treated . by the I1.oyal Navy's "de-gaussing" ex- perts, ft a verset .is •built head to north her bows become "red" and her stern "bite," Magneticallyspeaking. If built head to south her permanent magnetism Is "blas'" bows' and "red? stern. Wheat a. ably takes shape Tying east end' west het' port 'and statiboard sldee become iter magnetle poles•.. This pernianent' hull', magnetism is_ Viethincn-"ttr'ed ran 'the-.ir oxi and steel structure -J. -all the ha.temel'ing, cut- ting,, andbending of 'her; plate's . a=nd- gliders,. , whicheturn's -theeVelrarlo hull into a "bard" magnet, •in fact' it 'becomes part of the earth's mag - tette tie);d, .This fact 'Inks always been allowed for whet' , a ship's compasses are adjusted prepara- tory to her going to sea. P,1? , tS S, A BUSY moues , Gordon -Ross • is one of the hardest -headed men in the Cana--; dia a Parliament. He manages to operate an orange grove in , Ca1.i- ; o r•ia, .a"large wheat farm (tear 'rtlUlbs:ose: tiw atnai :the liseeitsees .of—leaf attive parli•amentariatt. Last year .M•r. Ross became convinced Oat ' America would be, short Of, vege- table pils, an he bquglit up all the sunflower seed,he could find and raiser .Caneda._s_ _..targeste sbigle_..; crop. af. sunflowers.—Tey--w re— prr o• fitwble and they provided .rase - ,full ailsf Vancoti°.ver.'Sun MANPOWER. ON THE ..FARM' ' A horsepower is roughly esti.:' ....mated to be the work which one and one-half hors's cab 4o, And 'a- manpower, '•on the farm, is. the work of eight hired' men done by. a -€aster, his. wife; :arid- a tiog, —Peterborough I xarriiner, • —o— INTERNATIONAL •FORGE. • Americatn•cbombers were escort ed back to their' bases after ;a.., raid,. by Norwegian fighter planes led, by a New: Zealand wing .corn - mender. • That's • the. 'kind .. of —League • of '•Nations that means • ',something., '—Windsor Star o ENCIRCLEMENT • • The Axis in . • Tunisia have in - front of them the British, 'Americans and the French, above. theta the . British and American - ai.r fleets and. behind them the' blue Mediterranean and the Bri- tick Navy. . • —Port Arthur . News -Chronicle .1 —o BILLY BISHOP KNOWS • " "Air Marshal Billy Bishop • is still urging a "healthy 'hatred" of'•,the Axis.. He, doesn't seen •to think• that a titer- "This- hearts. -rate:' rn_gre- Tff Yil-`does you attitude is enough. • g' • -Satilt Ste. Marie- S4r. • THE SAVING GRACE 'A sense of• humor: may lie de- fined' as that which saves a .girl ..in slacks front • .going into Ilya- • t'erics at sight of a 1928 snapshot of her mother' in knickers. ' T „ • --Boston Globe' _a__ • WHAT WE SHOULD: DO • We should emit worrying about Russia quitting ,and dropping' be- hind until wp catch up with Rus- sia, - • , Brandon Sun —a-- LEGiTIMATE HOARDING4; If you must hoard, concentrate on accuntulat•ing• war savings' cer.-. tifreates,' ' • "Ships Used To Be Launched By Min. Launching a ship with chain- pag-ne. means mare than swinging a bottle against a• steel prow. To prevent splinters front flying. into the. face of the lady who says christen thee Tuseatoosa," the bottle is encased in a mesh holder. Provisirm is also made for a sixty - foot .strip • of red, white .and- blue bunting woven to keep its shape -alter •the'boftTc hhs b�eti smashed,. 'Preparation .of the.bottle takes 'about five• Bout^.,, • • . ' The whole .ceremony'dates'front . a time 'when a launching was at- tended with human sacrifice.'With a decline in bloodthirstiness • red. wine was used — symbolic blood. • 'At first the wine was drunk t a • toast and the cup flung -'Tl e ship.. Champagne was introduced simply because it was more' ex- pensive. • Once eupon •a time men • (priests in: very early times) al- ways launched ships. In the nine- teenth century women took their places. • • • 23 'U -Boats Lost In Month Of March An und•ergrotnid German radio station . said hist week that Ger many lost six submarines tiering March 5n tlie, Atlantitt or 'Medi= tenranean and that 17.eaildition•a1 U-boats did not return to base and .are. regarded .as lost. ' • The, ht'oadcast said nine . others were. damaged bet; utadt poet and. 1'1• were 'damaged slightly" tln all, 1,039 :crew members were dead, . missing or „possibly. 'prisoners. March losses exceeded February, the broadcast Said. , • New construction still .is" ahead of I.J=boat:losses, according to the radio, but only a little' and Allied defence measures are improving. . It's; Double Suirrnmx°.r__ 0 Great Britain last .week went on.donble summer time until Aug. 1"5 tWP take advantage of the early sunrite, , The .change.shortens the black. out by an hour. The tteiv time puts G'r'eat' Brit- ain six hours ahead of eastern'' war time its the tinitetl State, ct • With. wings taken off and•tiedbeneath the transport;, this British • P-40rWarliawk-fits snugly inside..a'giant Douglas C-47'Skytrain some • - • ..where in Africa... The P-40. 'was being .flown.. to• a base for repairs. THE WAR WEEK Commentary - on Current Events Bombings Alone Cannot Bring War To Success ul...- Conclusion That the .most adifficult..period• of th•e war is still ..in the fndef- finite ;future -•and that the victory may not be won until 194.4-1915, or .perhaps, later, :probably, stem from the..increastng' effectiveness .of the • Nazi U -beat, ca.mpaign, If the Allies cannot deliver `men and -;satppltes.. to•• the f t hitt t fronts i o nts they acannot win the war/ If their. 'already haz ardour supply lines were disrupted. for any long: period of time it would: be _Moat -difficult and, per- haps, impossible for them to launch their•offfcially promised as- saults pn 'Europe this year. The Nazis( have •the•'aliflity 'to get up off 'the floor as they•did':on the Southera front -iu Russia 'is the feeling in sone quarters• that the .Russians may .have over - 'exerted themselves in their',great offensive. There is also the pos- sibility that tbe.'.Luftwaffe is not ,dhad, liut is.. merely 'playing •pos sunt. ' Step -Up Air Assaults , Yet, the Naa'ts can he,. defeated., under water as. well as on the laud and 'in the 'fir. The' Allies were late .in tackling tate submarine:1►i•o`fileiui`in eat -net -Ti ut th nasus . for combating It are becoming • • available,, The so' -called '"rim -of -the- , wheel" tote -sir t-hat-beat-biErg-; faun lyases in Britain, North Africa, the Middle EEast'aLtd Ft,t•ssra could 'be decisive has gained sti iig-1-h in official. quartet's. • RimAof-the-wheel' • a d Too a f e s. would step'tp the current ,air. as- saults "on ` German industry and :'transport to . twelve 1,000 -plane raids per month.. They hold that.' • when 36'such;raids• ha•d••been.made, 'victory would be..within the :Allies' glgEp: • ' 'The , rim -of -the wheel. theory is. strengthened, rather than. • weak- ened, by the fact that 'its.. pro- portents: do not held that 'air bomb= ings alone can bring the 'War -to 'a successful •conclusion. "After the rim-of-thewheel has been' made secure, 'after Gerritany has.. begn contained., after-: the air:. attacks. have been brought to a pt'oper in- leusily ftg,i! ail 'i S Trion fly. be.- th'e.' time .to equip' .our land forces ....ter a .Concerted • , push against a tottering .German strum. ture. Russian troops. •frons. Russia, British and American troops from the' Middle"East land bridge, Bri- . tisb,. •American and French: troops from the .Gibraltar, bridge, British and American troops swarming at last over the C1taune1-these are the .land...movements which can administer the coup• de' grace. The •-rtim•e• -f-ot •it --v i•1-1-be-afiter--o r cone. • bitted .air pciaver, has' cut the hub out • of the ,wheel," This appears• to be,.the cui•l+eu ian•'of a acck. Advance • Notice An •interesting proposal is ' that bout•bing scitedules be announced by radio a week in advance. When LIFE'S LIKE 'TA's' /7/ -r '"By,Fred• Daher it,- 29 "Say soinething, Dwight!' You've passed '•your:driver's test!!!' the bomber's leave their bases Weir takeoff would be announced also. Thus, it is argued, industries in a score or Wore of ;cities •would • be paralyzed: The theory demon • - strates• contempt, which. appears -to be justified, , for tlbe Nazis' ab- . Illty to fight off .bombers. Where Is The Luftwaffe? ' In view of the- clear-cut and mounting air . superiority of • the. :United Nations; .in the European and African "theatres, and • ici ie* . also .ef,.the-a ea'wb a+l larsa,l{*9s .a -Winter offensive, one certainly. is • 1 •entitled to • ask what has become of the vaunted .might of the Ger- men air .arm. From time to1Ttime there are- reports:' of great reserves • f--gianiaahoisbere- in, the ,.1teieIi bonibere capable of making - the. 7,000 -mile . round trip .flight ,from • the nearest availableEuropean fields to our own ,Atlantic shores ' with • a .bomb load, In this' connec- tion some figures of distance ape . highly significant, since,• range is• • a balancing •factor against• .Load: It is only 93.0 Miles from Berlin . to•. Nryasnia, only 230• • from S.trto- -. 1t=nsk to Moacow, 350 •from • •Greece. to Tunisia. 350 front• Naples to' .Kizer:tt'•, 1(10 from Cagliari to that -:Ti•a u•nisn stronghold and ninety miles trent Sicily to 'the same"port, From Peels to London is only. 220 a miles. If the •Flying Fortresses.'and 'Liberators and the R. A, F.'s Lan- '] casters and •Stirliugs have. been able to make the, devastating raids .,from Great Britain on German cities—ft is 580 ' air' miles ' free' • 'Leaden 'to •Berlin—wliv have note • ' the German boinbers of this re puted. armada struek in reprisal • on Great Britain, laid waste Most --caw,. or -turned the whole tide in Tunisia from the near -by spring.' boards of Italy and • Gveece?.' • Does It Exist?• " Pt'esumabip the answer is to be found itt several factors. in' the I first' plaee, one' may question the •.existence of any' such fleet. Fail - ire ' itwhen the tidef r t to use of f ee don' is • running so, heavily against the Axis in' the af'r on each of the .. several vital fronts surely puts `a large .intetragatioir porttt•a siert its reality+, Secondlye shortage' in • both •quantity and quality of fuel • and lubricauts'niay make. ,full use: of 'existing •• aircraft by the Ger- mans. impossible. Thirdly, the con- • stant •attl•ition of. both pilots and planes of the Luftwaffe may, have • defile'ted necessary fighter. pro: 'tectiou for such bombers' as' are•• available to a.'oint when"the ca not .satelp be risked: It ifs probable that all these ;factors enter- into 'the mystery of• Germany's pro- gressiteiy developing' eo•mparative weakness 'in the ,air•, - "Sittrny • .Ducks" • iN.'oar. of all • times, it . wuold be . foolish . to • , underestimate ' t h e strength• of • the enerpy. He may have cant. . up his sleeve which will' prote cl'angerouc indeed. ;Ina • creasi.n,gLy ',11, appears,, however, twat' liutit.ing 'factors as to produc- tign. design an& certain accessory.. ,weakricsses of 'the Geruitin combat air aria are contributing to the "--rntnrrrtmg" odds •i u f r c u t of . the Un—= itrd, Nations. in the skies. Rirsstan ;courage and 'blood-. have shown • that the ;•dread •Pari: ars were not 1uviuc'rhle. In the harsh, broken ' rount ry of North Africa the 'Stukas •' have. been described as '"sitting (theles" and have. •fallen prey tee- the Lighterings and the 1k7ir]iawks, the .(Mitchells and , fhe 1\Iaranders In an everincreasing 'bag. •It he- . gins to appear• that the berueda•led._ •Goeeleg.-his• trimsed h.is.•) reatest chance. The. failure to date of the vaunted Luftwaffe to rescue Rom- mel.. and:to 'strike beck blo\v for 'tuinotis.• blow-. on Britain 1: •per- htiaps the most, heeriening i to rent' aspeta of- the' war. • British Armies Will Take • Sure Revenge , British armies !rave,' already in this 'war "date • a greet dear more fighting than itt •apt 10 he;recog- Wised, says The Navy (Nonfinite They have had sad and serious revenue-ofti>•n because.- tho dies,. here,, Matted , impossibly: against .them, and sometimes beratlse per: forma uce fel silent of iotweption. • But. the .Bnit+ish 'armies which bow gait with the small highly braided ex peel iulIary 'force which fou flit its •rftly •ort of Dunkirk and went 'on with the iir-.trfTicicxttli bruited contingents • Which • flier,' 'their danietelest 'in :Norway, are now a g'rttat and 'fot-ni1da,ble power, Tttey. (sill. we .are iniviticed. ' take a litre' acid ampft tetent';e for 011 the..setbac.ks Which• ttaec-. have ' suffered. ' THE UNCO QUE ABLE8 AN EASTER MORNING IN POLAND • Around It table le a. crowded. shabby roome in. a •Polish city, ogee thriving•^'and proud of its place ; in' the march. of civilization and ,progress; but 'now shattered and in decay, a little -.group had gathered to,res.t, ttagether the Fas- tet;t ,•re .7itast „»oc�'apaiod 'sIth 1t -^Meal Itt -days ..of Naeee, atlas •+,vas ,a poor parody,t • But by indomitable endeavor, pooling of resources, and. " egen .ity, enough -had ;been p•r•ovided' t, serve , as . symbols, o[', the °-tra ittonna Poilish -Easter' fare:, Th'd assembled- Corniany. mostly women,on this outstanding' Polish - • - famijy holiday, were i -n ore'k'e'enly' ..,aware' than• en' ordinery,,,'days . of the tragedies that • had befallen, and of Loved ones they would never see again. But on this occasion they had, .aa it were, aves.oJved to put away sorrowful thoughts and st Ile and talk •'af other things. Au for_ a, time thingswept _well.. T•lieua ,,young • woman Who had sufferedrecent lose found the strain too great and broke into weeping: Conversation :hushed. In-' stantly an elderly woman ,rose' from her' piece, laid her hand upon the • girl's, shaking shoulder and standing erect, in. a" voice . without •a tretuor addressed her: . • "Do not 'weep,' Today, the. Day of "lie 'Resurrection, is not a. day • for tears Reinember' the" ;words of the Lord,;Id.i's assurance that.He . .. would rise again.,And He, did rise,. and we. Ate cele'batieg His resur- rection, as so main,y, have, celebrat- ed it before us, pd Will celebrate' it after us. Dor�l't weep; .:for• Po- land K Ill , rise again. . And then . the martyrdom of your dear .ones ill •be enshrined and .live forever .- in ..the Memory 'of the •nation,. and God and our dear "country • will comfort. you:" With that, . the the: rnte}•riupted,•,:couversation. • 'were strong with a' reassured faith and .confidence, 's'trorig• ofi"a certainty rise again. •. •. speaker-- walked slowly • beck to her'. ehafx at the end of the table Bat the sobbing ceased, and the voices `tlit`aE took ` 'up en the knowledge that what has .never perished 'must "And' t scented," said the •guea who related this .incident, "as ,f� the room had suddenly been Hite with sunshine.'' - Fog h Nay LonggT'. . * , .; sem t �- - Research in aviation to furthej the. War efforthas brought .many new advances in the' industry, ht. eluding an invetation that• mean* they eliipuiatiocal_LtI►i< zar. ase _. blind -flying •through fog, ,even at. . • • . night, says President Ernest ' R. - Breech of the tendix Aviation Corporation. ' •" ' • He, divulged no details, stating.' that "these "developments are so, broad_ in the -scope of ,their appli.. cation for military. •purposes that ' T' cannot hinf.to you hoe this has been accomplished. " _ • ' cI cater tell yon that, it:1a_nia• : -•-• longer . experimental, and . I. can gii=e you positive .asaurance that _.fog,even at night, will join, the, long list of weather hazards icon• quered by man in his desire to fly.- "Mati'°s genius has added' an- other great invention to the long list' of engineering adances' that now assures :the airline pilot, re- ' ,,gardless•of actual weather condie. tions,a ceiling and visibility nn- • • limited " •s . r Sir Edward Beatty • With " his. employees his • tela• • tions were .the finest, says The Ottawa Journal. There was the day, telling- his great heart, • wbea. Grant. Hall brought" him a list or workers-'tp be laid off:. • It Wes a cold wintry day,.. "E. W.," as .ttiey called him, looked at the. list, .thea turned ;to. a • window to gaze out st, a blizzard that wags raging. All he. • said 'was: - • , "This is. a helleva• day to :let men outGrant. Letts• forget, it.4-, "-Thus Edwar'd'Beatty, sportsman, :T. hu'mantiarian, •philanthropist, Way builder; • in .heart And soul: a ,big ..Canadian To him, • to all his kind; OUT country• and Empire ,oars :moll; • May wekeep long and: ..honor his • inemory. • • Tugs Go o Sea by 'Rail HEN shits go down to the sea by. all's difficult'transporta r is involved, A record in rail problem rail transport 'has been set by operating officers of the Canadian National Railways in the recent: successfiil movement of two large tugs, built far inland, to the 'seaboard: "\Vard" and "•tVatch," 'terms as sociated with -security-and, guardian- ship, are the- names of these tugs, ' They were transferred from their • native element in Georgian Bay • waters over the lines of the National System to an East Coast seaport • where they .are now engaged in war work, These, 60 -foot overall. tugs Were bash. at Owen Sound, given their trials there, taken from the water and swung oa}. board• flat cars •to begin a railways journey of more .. • Akan 1,300 miles ,. ° That' sounds simple but a, tug cannot be knocked ddw•n or folded upp particularly in' this- insiapes • where the steel hull's are Welded. • -Height and breadth bf ` the hull provided material for z lot of operat- ing • • headaches whin. lasted "from Owen Sound to the Atlantic. Placed en- her side oh a flatcar the top of t he load was 18' feet, 0 inches'above the top of the rail The actual halm. of • t•he't it,14•r• eet..6 inches sn Muwhen •loaded on' the car the hell projected two 'feet beyond the ear edge on one:side, the awkward posi- - tion being due 'to the necdtsity for' establishing. a•safe•centre:of gravity. Overhang constitutes a problem, on ante part of a railway and particularly so at curves,. It was necessary for the National System engineering • depart - meat. to •check .the plah of every bridge between the terminal points, a sbig task when carried out over .' 1,300 miles, Some clearances were of th.e .'scantiest,] the sntallest- being barely one inch from the top of the load at a point where• a' highway crossed over the railway,• The side overhang was a bigger probletit than -the height and, it was nate sary to tirrrttnge for every train in which 'this load was'included to tL(?\ .-at..restricted S,pQed..yihen_thc second -track ttas vacant. The•eritire .transportation int Ayes( a series of inrefully:pl.vtrterl, movements. • The t ransportat ion IN. carried out wucces.fully. wind • '•Ward" and "\rater(" ate' ,new• in 'salt water performing i rte:r tasks of 1 paving kirges in the C'an•a liana National lightc^rage sera tee which daily handles . 'great quantities of supplies and war material taken free the rail terminal and trarisTerEed- Io - shins carrying ital tai•grdes for the'1`nited Nations. REQ'LAR FELLERS—He's Stuck with 'Em UI l'L4 Purr 1Asrr:'"-� ON 1145t• STFIN , AN' pAs'rEYAEM 114STOW MittiMt MY 'TAM is Pi 400D i'LP1GG Nair is. x.! WtitSt S TMr ALSVm WELt,TNAe$ A FUNNY ONtI 1 HAD -men I+t MY NAND oete WO S..� MOWS (440! 1, •. •• I bib you bo ANYTtuN4 Wier; FIVE FCRtt4N STAMPS I HAD Just' A By GENE BYRNES. fteli tr o ser.$ gytoas