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U. S. Praises. Our
Price Control • Law,
•
New York Financial House
Complim;ent'a7 r Says Galt,
Reporter
Even if there ate some features
of which. they do not• quite ap-
prove, Canadians generally en-
dorse the government's price con-
trol stem. •
y
It is ,of • interest to learn that
this appreciation is, .shared by,
those.. who know something about
finance in ..New York City. This
is what the Guerant Trust Com
'pa.ny of New York, in its monthly
publication, says: '".Not other" fea-
ture of.the Canadian wartime
regulatio• . of the • national econ- ..
only, Perhaps, • is •ao widely coma
mended by .: competent -observers
within. • and without the. Dominion,
as is the new • venture in' .compre
hensive; price control. This ,pion:
•eerin g ' -measure evidehe
ces•reco -
g
• nition of the inevitable • latn:eness •
of any general attempt• to control
commodity a •.prices - directly ..if
• changes in. 'pertinent labor costs
are .left unres.trieted; as they are
, now in the United States
In another]ace the
P publico-
tion says: "Increasingly, it : ap- .
pears, opinion -in the United:States
Manifests' a conviction that, not
• only • in the .field of price. control
but in others' as well,, our Cana-,
than • neighbors,' .repeatedly revis-
ing procedures sin the light of ex=
p'erience, are learning. practical-
-....a—aaelea—aaaaaaateleasonsa. that lye can•-=profitalayalleaa
'the organization of our own• war
. effort '.alongside therm.
QUEEN'S BROTHE_R__.
VQIC
of �+TH(E
.P's eJr
Tim OFFENSIVE WINS`
When Hannibal'.s armies were
at the very ,gates of Rome the
Romans sent' an,• expeditionary
force ,,,,against his homeland of
Carthage..And Rome .won the
war. Wen • the `infidel Turk
threatened. all Christendom, •the
West did not wait';for him to. come
and conquer. The crusaders ad-.
vancecl to the' Golden' Iforn,, de-
feated the Turk. and. -threw him
out of Europe. At the first bat-
, tle of the Marne Foch desiiatched
to the' indecisive .Joffre this mes-
sage: "My right is exposed, m°y
• left ;s heavily. attacked,. 'my .cert-•
tie is unable to hold aita position:'
I cannot redistribute. my forces,
-The' ,situation • is. excellent. I shall
attack,"
•—Kitchener Reco:rtj:
_.o .
HE'S ONLY HUMAN •
To no one—mere than to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur 'himself,must
many of these ieferencea to him
seen A. bit overdone,. '• He is a
good soldier, a capable leader-
who has done a good job •in. the.
Philippines, and, we • hope, will
lead the United Nations forces in
the .Pacific to vic. Pry.; But, he's
only human; he can't perform
miracles, And p.utting him forth
• as a superman isn'•t 'fair to him
th
or to e cause. • •
-St. Thomas Times-.ouvna1,
• '. WHY QUIBBLE?
;Cs.LO.:'protests to -the National'
War: Labor Board that wage.•rates.,
set for' shipyard' workers at Kipg-,
s.ton,• coiling -x:7(4. and hfidland
are lower than those in effect at
•jToronto'axed :Port Arthur...And;
.,by the .samne token, a bit better
than those at 2Plymduthr where
whole night shifts„have been rub._ .
bed out, While putting in., 16 hours.
withituf, overtime..
=Windsor.
—4.—
PR PAGANDA T' '
• "The dark meat of a chi.eken
•contains.• about twice :as much ,
a n• as • to tg.t °t•meat. .
Slick bit•of pronag•anda. by father,
who doesn't ge for vitamins
• self, to make the rest of the . fa .
mil''- take a leg • and lay • off the'
breast.. • : • ,.. '
+'Ottawa Citizen.
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WIFE TORTURE
- VICHY• LEGION;; DISTINCTION OR EXTINCTION • -
r '`,3"^L"�,c..r.b:,.: .C� n.;.:4. :hh??:f.L.3�`.t.ti5Guar.' x�4d0f.. ial'ir. :✓.,�1v..ka- .,.cwxwwo,,:, t -...ve.:•.444•,' :ea�,i,.•'•••.•... a�..`w..,:.:z
” 1VIowng . along,''a, frozen Russian plain, without benefit • of appurtenances. of modern war, a. unit of the French L 'ion ff htin g for
•
Adolf Hitler.. on the Eastern Front. pass a ruined homestead, ,•They`figlit to' win for France a place of distineti.on,in the Ne'w .Order. Their'
liquidation is proceeding. •
Curchlil's Pre.War Rhetoric
' :•` (A Syndicated Anisic •in United States ' Newspapers, •liy
• Tam Trealaor,,
e poatisai 'wolves are aft
.. Mr,'. G.ur.eliill: . •
The' accusations are beingsmad
that 'he •h'ypnott;ze`d. En land' .wit
rhetoric; and ' drugged 1.1ter • wit
phrases. •
1. have no axe to grind .for• M
Churchill. 1 have never met - him
nor have • I visited •England sine
the war:,'nor am I.,a particular: ad
wirer of ,the 'English, . -
ILowever, if k;uglan•d had pe
nutted herself to be hypnotized b
• Mr. Churchill's rhetoric • •a littl
sooner,' it ahe had drugged hersel
with 'bis phrases • 10 years earlier
she would not be where she la now
It is • obvious to anyone • with a
grain 6f .sense flint England's•de
feats' at 'Singapore, Crete,. I\orway
and Dustkirk • were ..not due' to, lack
4f planning by •M'r, Clt.urchil
�• They were due to England's fail-
ure to take his perfectly.' extra-
ordinary war=nipgs during tjie' '10
years 'before he. came to power.
He 'has.' only .inherited the vast
• load ''of 'fuilnre'.agonist .Which he
warned .Englanti so c-.igorotrsiy year
• after .year• •in the face of abuse
and ridicule.' ' •
Itx iaust • nuke Mini' is ugh, if :a
ni.a.u. can laugkt 'at a time ,like 'this.
•-thaC'• ire, win's'ton. Churchill;' is be-
ing, bland for. the •d'efeais:
Those to blame. have gone and
iu goiug,tlhe•y passed their.l.pp':id of
fitilure en to,t'liis g'alla•nt. old than
'who told thein again, titd . again
what .would, Happen. • '•
And it 'has ira.fipen'Prl, t +t1 —v rte.:
g'eauce.• ,
er "He ' 'cornea • forward,". said Mi;
Herbert Samuel,. "and 'tells the na--.•
e- tion that we •ought straightaway.
h : , to' double :and iedowbls,•our air,
h ' force fakir ut tlrfies as big as we have.
' now , ,. That is rather the 'fang- •
r- • uage . of• a Malay ,;running amok
-than•of a responsifrlle British states -
e man. It' is 'rather tire. language 'of
.blind and causeless panic." -
'And they • are blaming Church-
•-
1111ttb t.. Singapore .didn't have en•
e' ough airplanes! ,
e Both these statements, Church:
f Ell's, and Samuel's, were inade 'in
And is the following the sort
of .phrase that wbuld' daug' the Bri-
- -
"We are a rich and easy prey..
' -•, Ni country- is - o;• vulnerable and
f .:1 .Drat:try-. anal i— et-tereavepay
pillage .than •our• awn. With our
A
,cnoerttous Metropolis here,' the '
gteiiteht target' in the world, a
kind . of tremendous. fat, '. val-
uable' cow' tied. ,up' to attract a
••-haaa•a. of area:: we are. ill a poli-
„ tion in which we have • never
• • herrn. before; in Which, no other'
cqunrtry' in the World is at the
pt•e't enctitre.^ }
That was •also itt ;19:;4 't
He' was accused. of• being caught
unaware. ,But it .wasn't unaware,'
that. he was caught., H'e :Was • caught
-helpless to act because he "the
. years' that: the locust' hath, eaten"
his political adversac'ie- beat him
back, '
;Does--t-he: folio wiire--sauud like a
man 'wlio - would "lie cal ght.
',ping? •
' Bewaare, Germany iti a country
fertile'1u-military surprises..The . .•'
. great .Na peleori in the years. atter
Jena, was completely taken by
surpi-ise•'by the strength. of the
German army -which fought' the.
' lar of Litteratio
:•*
•
• Surely eo reader believes - for.
.,oiie.instant that ..Mr. Churchill was
so stupid. that 'lie' -did net thipk . to
• protect • Si'ngapere with .aircraft,
• Not the.Mr.- • C•lierchill who
r:e
paclted fo10 'long for e1y years
talk:: d_onunan.t.. rale .• 'ttizt a r.._
4K::
• England's Queen, 'J iizabeth, ar•.
• rives by clipper 'as ,a representa-
tive'. of the . British Ministry" of
Economic ,Warfare. •.
Britain Boosting
Far> -Production
•• 6,000,000 More, Acres 'Un'der. -
Production Than Before War
•
Hebert •Hudson;. Minister of Ag
riculture, said in, the House ' of
Commons' that when this' yea'r's
ploughing is completed the United
Kingdom wilt have approximately,
6,000,000 more 'acres under culti-
vation .than before the . war
"The harvest of 1942 night well
the a critical factor in the future
history not only of this country
but of the world," Mr. Hudson
declared. .
He said tens of thousands of
small• farmers whose land: did not
exceed. 150 acres, constituting 80
per .cent ' of Britain's farms, are
"working as hard as anyone in
the country, many of them making
little .ritore than, if as much; as
a farm laborer:",,
The Minister said •tire preseiit
number- of .vegetable garden al •
o lotinents is .nearly 1,750,00.0, or
•
•
•
almost double the pre -war -^.figure, •
and said that "at a very'conserv-
ative estimate they can produce
-,vegetables to the value ,of $•i4, -
i00,000.'
Mr, , Hudson gave these 1941,
acreage'.figures, for the country
as compared with '1938 and pro-
" ' dieted a further increase in them
all .this year:,potatoes. more than.[.
1,-000,01'00, compared with 700,000;
•' vegetables 4;000,000 -compared
with 2,500,000; • oat 4,000,000
compared with 2,500,000; He• said
the country Is aiming at a record
of 405,000 acres of sugar• beets
this'year. •
•
"We have 16w, taking the
country as awhole,"-he went 'on, .
"pretty well reached the limit of
tillage .acreage that -we can -man-
'age with such supplies of • labor,
machinery arra-fertiliz'er's that 'are
in sight. Our main task from now
on is the much more •: difficult one
of ihtproing ' the general manage- '
•m.ent of farms and increasing the•
yield of existing arable and re-
' Snaining grass." .
He:al;isl the 'United• States has
sent `over a drainage expert to
determine what technical machin-
ery assistance 'could be given. He
announced that plans have been ,
Made' for using an farms all pos-
• sible supplementary h•elp, 'ineiud-
,rug school boys and. girls, ,more
Italian Prisoners as they becotile
seailable,'and voluntary land elub •
members. •
•
• and blow in at 3 a.m.: • with the'
announcement, •"Sorry,, dear ;—
that's Military information."
—Winnipeg Tr%I,iune.
• —0—• '
AND: SHIRT TOO
people. who think 'they can't -get
by • without . a two=trouser suit
'should' give some, thought 'to what
it wogld feel like • if we had the
pants 'behtett right off us.
—Ottawa Citizen,
—0—
TIMELY WARNING .
A Toronto baby, ate her father's.
gasoline cou•oons. kfe'd . better
•watch his spare tire --if any.
—Stratford • Beacon --Herald. `
Predicts Drop In
Britain's :Population
Great Britain will be populated
by "old folks" after- thewar, a'c-'"
cording,-to—=Sir -Henry Bracken
bury,, writing. 'in the..British Medi=
eat Journal.
"Nothing can prevent this dun=
ing the next thirty .or,fortyyears,"
•Bracke.nbury's.article said.
."Unless' effective measures can
. be taken 'to 'increase • .the number,
df births and.•the size- of fatnilles,
similar results will follow during
the subsequent . gencratidn.'• •
It lies been estimated that 'the
'total population of England ,and
Wales will decline by 3 10,000 •
, by 1965• .
-British -CaI.1' Planes
.By Fighting •Names
''We trust it is not unpatriotic^
to say that in the matter' of find-
ing good names for fighing Blanes
the .British have it all •over us. of
`the United States. According to '
newspaper accounts,' General
Knudsen arrived. in Des Moines • -
in, a "21 -passenger- army trans-
port." The same issue . carried a
story about; Lieut. E. H. O'Hare
shooting down six Japanese, bomb-
ers in his "fighter plane."
The British, on the, other hand,
have given names .to their. plane
types. We refer •to one plane as .
a •Lockhead• P-38;. the British call
at the "Lightning." A plane
Which we call 'Consolidated B-24-,
they call "Liberator." ' They say
l'Catalina" •for our Consolidated
t k BY -F..
fAs for British -made , machines
" wli`d has..failed to ' be' thrilled by
the mere sound of Tornado,
Whirlwind; Spit,fiue or. Defiant?'
Must we battle for freed,oin and
human eights. ' in Consolidated
PBY-lis?
It is probably a small matter,, '
but we••should like "Xnockotits,"
"-Cyclones" and "lagies" . better. '
•
.....1.. - te' .4dfa.-Y_T-:.<,.-..� .:.__.
•No•t the Mr..'•Chur chill • who. knew
before. 'any- of us Whitt ••airc...att
meant. - • • .
' . He 'didn't' get 'ah -craft to Singe-
' pore 'b'etitaise he co'uldn't. He was .
,too busy repairing the. damage.,
wh.icli his political enemiesdid'
many • years ,ago 'when •he had. no
power 'anti,' when . he wan' treated:
with cold disdain as an unwanted
ttutside'r;
As he • 'said, during the 'past
months he. has had'. Germany at'
his throat. and -Italy at his ,belly..
• He 'was hard 'put:, not to lose
North Africa... ' .
AAs lie said, it' took •him four
months to get a'ship to Egtpt and
back, carrying pieties.
• How .long would -it take theta
to • get .,them to Singapore.? .A,ltd
where was he to get the ships?
• Tie longer' the ,.trip to Libya
took, 'the fewer ships • he had to.
spare for Singapore.'
As to..the 'stupidities., and the.
failure •in ., the actua} •defence hf.
Singapore. , those are not ' Mr.
Churchill's. Those are 'the'. iltevit-
able Conseilneuc.es 'of • a .hopeless'
•situation.• • • ''
Demoralizatioti precedes the eel,
tainty of disgraceful defeat.
a '1 n
I .will, give you:a• .few -samples of ' '
Mr. Churchill's "rhetork'," prior to
the, war. This word "rbetocic•' was
used. by 'Ilia. deit'actore in •the sense •
of hollow, plirtises. See' liow hollow,.
this phrase is.:.. • '
'"Fqc: all these • reasons we
we oua:itt to decide now to train-. -
taut, at all costs, in the next
10 years, an air' force •substan-
Melly ' 'sitonger• than Ciertiiany,
and that it should .(be'c•dusidered
a. high crime against the state.
.whatever:governanent is lit p0% ,
er., if dint force is allowed, •even
for a month, to fall su•bstan-•
tialty below' the potential force
•which may. be pest;ess3'il by that
country: abroad." •
,For' which, or for sim'il'ar ,re-,
Mark's, ' he , was attacked in this
vein by. his, exponents: '
cd rile pian
the German ;army which . fought;
• •in the campaign or:Leipzig• Was,
three•'.or four times'as strong as
he expected.• Siiniia.rly:. w;ten the
Great War•° broke, out the French :
general' staff had no idea of the
reserve divisions which would
he lirought immediately:pita the
-field: They expected .to be • con-
'fronted by15 army corps.: 'ac-
' tua.Ily nore,than'•40 came• against
therri. Pt',is • never 1q 'isable to' •
underrate the • militam grutlities
of this i-esourc•etui •.and gifted •
people; 'nor to underrate the
dangers that -May, •he la:ought '
against or.'" .
.This was in ISai'. ,
% *
'In. the same •speed. lie. said: :
The `` Lord President ested-
m,e nd,us'ell not to indulge .in '-
e Paante," I hope we ,shall not'• in=
Bulge in paha... But I wish' to
•
say' this-:• 1t is very much .better.
sometiiues. to' ha't'e a •'pan.fc bei
'forehand and then to be" -quite
ealr *beethings happen, than
_
• to ,be extremely cairn beforelaii
•and to get in • a apatite when
thitigs hap pen..Nothing, has :stir •
-
, prised • nre more than ---t .Will not
say the indifference. bttt• the
coolness—with which .thy cow
•mittee •has treated the extradr-
dinary revelatioi'is of the Ger-
man air 'strength relative, to our
eountr;r. ;For the first.. time. for •
cou'turies, we are not fully equip •
-ped to re•pal'•or retaliate for an
• invasion. That CO an island' Deo -
pie is.as'tonishing. Panic -indeed!
•The position ' ie the other way
round. %l%e are the incredalo is,
• indifferent 'children of eentttries
• of security behind the shield of
the Royal i\avyy :'llot yet able'
to wake up to the wonfutly
•ttansfoi•nied• conditions of the'
modern •wovida .
•
•
'The • only great--fails:re of •i1dr,
C"hur•chill was his inability to drive'
these thoughts through Aa , lot of
thick skulls--oua- own homegrown
skulls among the. thickes,t:' .
\' straight 'lace. The criss-crossed'
lace, the sante as that used by the
Naval Reserve,, gave'•there vet an-
'other link with. the merchant `•ser
vice 'in which.:.the; ' now salla • ,
The • commodore was ;htinself of
the Naval Reserve, had. command=
ecf liners in•'peace-time and war-
ships in conflict. In the last. war
he "bagged" a .submarine, but die- .
claims any :special- merit in the
• f,eat;
"Just •chased hth- into' a mine•-
• field, ycii ]nioi'," he explains, •
with a .rather • diffident smile.. •
"heard her iilow up,._ and that's
all there Was to it. Only prop-
lent was not to- get too • close to_
Ins' ourseat cs, tricky things
;
they e._r•_-.. -
,1t is on record tltat. he ,"bagged
two :.ubtitarines' this -war, ,before
'.'-he -was- transferred from his
fighting ship to sail with .the
merchant fleets. ' but of ,these.'
two he 'tells nothing, •ai is .,the
Way ail' the . Silent Sett ice.
When it comps, ..to, talking of
the merchant ship captains, then
it is a different matter. •
:He.. holds• :them • in t'he •ltighesi
• esteem, and dove not hesitate to
• say so. • . .
-Where is a`-? Norwegian captain
for whbnt he - has an espec'iall'y
high regard. He tells'of hew 'thii
captain, in 'a tanker full of • fue;
oil; kept his ship in line although
two torpedoes had ..struck horite.
Ocie, hitting .aiitiii�hi[is, hio -set
LIEUT. E. iH; BAI 1[ ETT,
, •They are '-" Convoy'• Cotnmo-
• d'o•re'a,".,. • in .whose ranks are .ad-
• rnirals : who once commanded
• battle fleets in 'the Seven Seas. ••
To -day they conintand fleets of
comparatively : slow, lumbering •
merchant ships.: . . .. .
• Their years of sea experience
made them • invaluable when war
broke, out,:and thecall, to service
Once more' brought them gladly
from.wretil=.,went t'o serve' afloat
again.. '
Time .and again they take their
fleets through the. danger areas.
They sail in .merchant ships= -but
they get their 'share of •gunfire
and of action,•'..khowwhat it is to
see •tjteir -fighting escorts seek. ou t
;and engage the eft in aiiiLkttn.t e-�-
too, the responsibility of man-
oeuvring fleets in battle. again-•
this time the, Battle of 04 'At
lantic. • : • '
They have . no staff offitiers.
-„,few rtac:al, e' •
pose ,their "staff'," .j.Gst•, enough
men to .maintain constant. signal,
service to .the rest. of 'the :fleets
from the merchant ship,'' which
beat' . ' the commodores. Their
'quarters. are generally ,craritped,
sometimes • suncoUifortabffe but'
the eoutniod'ores : who -;once , paced .
their Admiral's Walk, ignore their
changed rales as . they , .glory •in„
their active participation in' the .
war at sea.
ere tee suet ;cont-
modot•es -'in eh'e ivarnnioth• fleet
which. this :writer acconipaitied, id :
an escorting Royal Canadian Navy
coryette, to sea. Three 'commo-
dores, forat a certain' point the
fleet was to divide into separate.
convoys; each bound for their own
ports in the war areas.
trw .f ca ii.
trardor c lento' theaiuereliant--._._
There was the senior comp
whose ` ship was to take the' head,
of ,the like when the fleet set sail.
" He :had his Vice -Commodore ane
the 'Rear-Criinmodore;,each to lead,
pia own division.
Their" badges of rank showed
no differentiation, . Each, ?on his
sleeves, bore the broad gold ring
of conimodore's rank; in the Navy. ^.
• Above the ring. was the • small'
circle •o f crass -crossed braid' which
'.denoted the befinvoy appointments.
In .th•e Navy they.wonki have worn
the regulation "eicecutive' curl": of
.her afire.' The other; hitting her
stern, should have -bat. did not
—send her to the botte'm. Ari es-
cort 'ship stood . a-iid• helped the
tanker' fight her fire, and .then
escorted her as she'strugged back
into position tn. , the ;convoy. -, .
"I signalled to find out whethete
the tanker ;could keep up;': the
. commodore recalls, "and was, told.
that she'. could, ' but she '.'couldn't
stand any weather.' 1 •should jolly
well; .think, she could not:. Why,.
her bttlkhead's were going one •by
qne and .I don't know how she
managed even ' to reach 'port."
"You know," he added, "that.
captain must have' been, very much
of a man. His ship was'.spreading..
.a, shell ot.•oil.._.from, her.:leakJng.V:.
tanks, and he signalled 'me, to ask
'if he should leave the convoy as
he Was afraid the oil' would give
away our position to . the `subrnar-
• ines. Of course, I'' refused to let
hint ,got Jae' would have •heen 'sunk
as sure as fate;if he•. had left our•
protection, But just think' of it•',
=two torpedoes 'already • anal lie
• was ready to go off and 'commit
scuicide 'in, order not to';bring
danger to us." •'
The , convoy .commod.ore could -
see how the. Norwegian ,captain •
' "was quite a man." He' did -not
seem.- to think that his own .decis-
ion to 'keep the ship under hia
protection initself told a 'ate!"
'lie has . a .sense 'of amour'
which, :.however, rather deserted
-him:one`clay when; having broyght
through a large convoy which" had
, been .under incessant' attack, and .'.
which had seen eight 'ships tor. •,
pedoed, five. of ''which -had been'•
'sunk, he was .ordered. to Gibraltar.,
Hetold,'his: wife, .s-agiiely, .the
r7 - _-
d es.-veu-� -tar"
� e- hili: -
r
"Youknow" he sa a
to me 'well, it looks as if ,you will
be in the thick of, it, no*.'
' " 'In; the thick ,of. it' ",.. he -re-
peated, ``,wonder what she, thought
thatalast' convoy was?"
With. his sense of hdmour is an
understanding of his fellow-tnen
-whishmake's him many friends.
We escorted him to .his ship, a
stub -nosed • cargo -carrier whose
captaiii-was waiting at the top of
the gangway to. receive him.
There were no shrilling pipes
or sideboys : in ceremonial salute., .
Instead there was the greeting of
REG'LAR ,.FFLLtRS—The Gadders
kw 'i "vie'
\ (t ilii
two friends, a broadly amilin`
welcome from the ship's captain,
and a firm 'hand -shake. ' •
`Not a very c.enefortable b.ualt
` for you, • commodore," the captain,
warned. ••
"Don't worry, old man, I nevelt'
take my clothes off on this job
anyway," was the reply. "Let's
just get onwith it."
His signalmen Trade their wag'
.to the bridge,, and a. flaghoist rose
on the halliards. The captain
gave a'brusque order or two, and
the anchor windlass clanked into
action In a matter of minutes,'
the- ship Was°, under weigh,
—=the
commodore and his fleet were:
"getting on with. it:"
The •nice and Rear Cornmodorea
were similarly engaged. The. Viee .
(he had heen 'an . edmir;al) was
rtthe>, proud of ',the :fact that he
had "drawn'•' an oil tinier "for hie,
i' itlantic-crossirig ,
• ":Iostr. comfortable, ships 'these,
• you knew" he ha'd drawled. "Very.
gttdd aceomniodation, if'•s a pleas-
ure to sail •in 'ern."
"Most cotrrfortable"—"good ace
commodati.on"—yes, but his sig-
. •nalnicn tell, too, that their "old
roan" doesn't take his clothes off
when he seeks his bunkof settee
for his sleep. At any minute°'.of
the day' or. night he is ready for • •
instant- action, wh-reit lis:-ano'hher --
good naval trait. -
They are "too old to command
' fighting ships, now, but still they
take their ships, :into the fight.
(ince they hoiste'd their flags in
mammoth battieShips, and''direct
ed---f-leet-s a f-figltiitig
ow
they ;.are :Pleased . when they
".draw", .a tanker,: ah thea b•skil!
f s bent 'taw rd 'sl ' a d �epherding•' lum-
bering, cargo carriers - •
And, in the experience they
• ;gained in fighttarg
skill they have brought to direct
in.g:niel',thant ships, lie one;' of the ' '
reasons why the convoys are "get-
, ting. through." ••
Which is all. these •commodores,•
who once were' admirals, nak.
Red •;Rains ,Follow
Raging Dust Storms .
When 'dust storms haven. been
raging in .Australia's dust bowl,
which 'takes in most of the'Wand
area, red rain is common-ra'in
. which falls :through the -dust pall
overhanging • the country, '
When a, really big . storm blovVs
up inland, 13.,000,000 -tons of valu-
able top soil is swept into the
•
it metes crevana on the coast; Senna
se tie, i , u ,• :n: ...-.
helps to thicken •the red sediment
Which -'coats . part of- the seabed
there, ' while. •some carries on and '
paints .a pink tinge on, the snow
Of the New Zealand Alps.
Wind erosion has affected 10;-
000,006 acres- of Victoria alone..
The State " Rivers .Commission
spends £100;000• a ,year on clear-
inb sand . out of its ' irrigation
channels, •;trains are derailed and
roads` covered, But the dust goes
on piling up. Loss. of product=
ivity isestimated at £500,000
a year.
LIFE'S....LIKE THAT
By ' Fred Neher
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want a.divorce, alimony and a retur ut!
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