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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-04-30, Page 7te. .▪ 44 , 1%w 'Jeep' Rides Waves With Ease • , • Amphibian Can •Do. Every thin th L • g e and Model Does T.he Army's "jeep" has jumped from gullies, through -the "bathtub stage," into the, ocean lead!, the United States War Department re.; vealed recently, with the announce- ment of. a motor transport order for the mass production of -an'une reyealed number of amphibian trucks to be Wit. on the "jeep"" chassis, • Army cifficiele • reported that the watere"jeep" teas an even more • ektraordinnty vehicle than its .land . counterpart, since it can do every- , thine the:•"jeep" •does onland and then repeat- the, performarte&S:in the :Water. It Will go through swampie jungle ,tindergrowth, '•or ride 'the mean way.es 'with ease, - . • the War Department said, adding . • that it will transport spldiers as 'fast as -tett miles: an hour on the . • ' water and sixty' mile's an hour on land. , According to the • War Depart- • . itient, the Siterniy has been looking, . ince June, 040, for an , amphibian vessel with, the Mur swheel drive tharecteristics of the "jeep." Fin. ally, ix eel -operation with •a 'flea of naval architect, P. C. Putnam,, technical aide of •the National Pe- te* ResearCh Committee, e con- ducted tank tests on .verietiejnill forms that could be ;applied •to the. ' '"jeep." chassis. This wits•generally known, the ; •Arthir said,- as "the' jeep •in the• bathtub stage," Then the research " -dieolosed thast-th&-tarlieeettld4-atd-e tached j0 the standard chassis and •that assembly' line production was possible. •' • •,. am' • • LAVAL'S .• GENERAL • . . • efeefiefeeeteeneetteeeeteiet,;:s es• •Gen. Henri Dentz, Who. foughtthe British in S.yria, is believed in 'line for a 'high military pest •in the new Vichy government of Metre Laval. • ,Panama Mosquito Fleet Manoeuvers , Fleet of 'Patrol Torpedo Boats Helps To Guard Canal • One of the mightiest forces serv- ing in the joint air, sea and land defence of the Panama Canal is the fleet. of . United States eatrol. torpedo boated -PT boats—now op- erating in the *attire off Panama. The mosquito fleet of the Pena - Ma sea frontier now is on • daily.' battle manoeuvers, And correspond- ents have just '•been permitted to • see Cho performance of these *nines in tropical waters, • The PT boats have speed, -drive, . swing, power end deception. They • zig-zag deceptively, then delve in hard on their target, r• One target fol' simulated attack In the 'day* matioeuvere wits a •coastwise freighter. . The vessels of the mosquito fleet. .-"keiconeerged. on the taeget ship, and it was easy to pictures how 'these • shifty little runners maintain the attacking edge in any :combat. • They can feint more • cumbersome • enemies into position for an •at- • tack, and thenspeed in—the tiniest , sort or ttAgete-tb loose theft tor- pedoes, Young Officers , • Junior oflicees• of the mosquito fleet, commanding the individual • boats, are keen, .quirlethinkifig • • lieutenants • and .ensigns --average • age about 25. • • Crews are picked men—chosen from a waiting list according to • bureau of navigation tests, -Beery member of theeeniallecessw la trained to handle any of the • • assignments abotain, and any cas- ualties •suffered •during an engage - tient need not destroy the boat's eget tivenees. • Boats are on . the alert always - day and night. ' A night take -off tan be executed in a feiv minutes for the, men . sleep aboard no mat. ter where the 'Melt is • SURE BET ' 'Assures 'Sweethearts 'I' 11 e i r Be'aux in ereiee Aro Safe from Sirens,"' Sitl3,'S a headline on the , Wenesn's Page. Wanna bet. tester? —Windt:tit St SI. VOICE OF T E • PRESS WISHFUL THINKING Mu• ssolini is •e valet . fit, bald- lwadeel man of 59, wine also loves • go around thumping on Ms bare chest in emulatime of youth- ful vtrility. He, too, may Well he flirting with the undertaker, but that does not prove that Italy. 10 about to break into 30,000 pieces. The more we refrain indulg- ence in wishful thinking about how soon the Axis countries are • going te 'fall apart; and the quick- er we get busy tearing them apart, the better it will be for us. —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph: EMOTIONLESS ' 'To many of us: in tile. weetern_ :world &teeing emotion Of any kind is :wholly ',unfaniiliar; do not hate, do not love, we • are' not strongly patritstie apd :our „laugh- ': ter . is frbm the teeth 'outward.. Our emotional range is pitiably • linaited; we are its cold and apath- etic as fish. We shall never win a war unless we are deeply Stirred. —Peterborough Examiner. _0— . FEW CLOTHES CHANGES • The Wartime Prices and Trade • .Board • order • restricting, hence- forth,- the mantifacture of • men's suits to single-breasted, cuffless Models, will save cloth but will not greatly upset even the Beau Brummels. After all, about the only thing the trouser cuffs were good for was to collect' stray match ends and lawn mowings. •• 7 -Brantford ExpOsitor. ENOUGH •FOR BOMII3ER • • Tillsenburg schoolboy, fishing in the Otter River, foiled' 16 gallDes of gasoline some chiseler had • buried in ehe sand. Sixteen IOUs?". Not a &Teat deal—hut it might be sufficient to get a hard- ' pressed • bomber haek to Britain after a •'raid on the Reich. —R. M. Harrison in, Windsor Star. PATRIOTISM • And then there is ,the steno- gra,pher in the front Office who can • decide Whether' it is more .• patriotic to erase and save paper, --Dr—to-else a -clean stteete-and,ea-ve the .eraser! —Stratford Beacon -Herald. UNANIMOUS WISH What we wouldleke to see is one large. appropriation to handle the German subs. Soinething in the nature of a sinking Jane__ TTT_ • NO SCARCITY THERE! • National. Research Council •says dandelions can't e'e used to dnake rubber; ' not enough of them. Has, • • theeCeimeil even seen our lawn?: • ----Owen Sound Sun -Times. . —0— Bomb The Truth. • Into Nazi Homes Block Days in the "Boy of Bengal • Cuitac 14a9Pur berbompur• Vifionogrom ..4„,,Coconado HIsrt:abod Nell° e Bayof Bengal MADRAS • ANDAMANf,- ISLANDS le • coloribo Triricdrnafee. t•liC68Ait CEYLON DISTANCES IN STATUTE MILES From Ooleutto: From Ceylon: Akyob, 300 Andomons, 800 Andomons, 700 Sieeeeets, 1700 Colombo, 1200 From Cosonada: Singapore, 1800 Andamons, 800. 'YA Indian Ocean . . •. . .. • • Massing of allied and, Jap hattle fleets presages one of history's biggest naval encounters in the Bay Of Bengal. Map shows prospec- tive battle arena and target towns along the eastern coast of India. }141 MAtlittiCi RWIN 1 to serve reg'ultt 14 in any 01 the May war organinations still has an opportunity to be iet value. Be- tween the ages of 21 and 60 they are eligible to •offer their blood ' to Blood 'loam' eunies of the Canadian Red Cross Society, Thiele ensiles operate in a number Of cities 'right across the country. They, are staffed by volunteers. As a matter, of fact the man or woman who cleans out the attic, remoyes • inflammables from the cell se and generally takes every • precaution against fire, is a good private Iildier an the Individual Citizen' S Army. If and when...the. day 'comes that incendiary bombs shower down on Cailadnin municipalities the house- holder ' who can handle . his owee • fires •is doing a good job by leaving the firefighters clear to . handle worse blazes etseadiere.•• • - . Not, meal like !minters? Well, Iezi Met env. • If you wereto work out theactual pereeetage of his • time a soldier 'spends :in fighting • yeti *hula find that other miclinary• , „prosaic dades:. take:up more of:his „. time than 'they do of yours. Bating takes a fair amount of „Oat time, for the Royal. Canadian termy Service Corps sees to it that every Soldier—ma matter where be Is—gets his Mad. • . • And that's Where we members of the Individual Citizen's • Army. come in again.. The ..soldier' has: to be fitterthan: we have, to be. So we can "fall in" by being a: little Morecareful how we "fall: • to" -at the 'breakfast, •lunch and 'dinner table. • The soldier .needs to be clothed and equipped. The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps looks after that, • *nig -I . . . - . WAR . WEEK — Commentary on Current EV-entS. ...,., . : . . . ... „...... _. Allies Launch Aerial Offensives '.. United Nations Support Russia Raids •by American bombers on enerny-held besets in the Philip- pines and on four gleat cities in Japan would appear to be a sign of a gathering Allied aerial Offen- sive in the Far East. Last. Week a formation of Fly- • ing Fortresses, protected by fight- ers, flew 2,000 miles from Aus- tralia and blasted 0. Japanese sea base in. the Philippines and other important strategical objectives. .Japan Attacked A little more than four months after Japan's treacherous attack en Pearl Harbior the forces of the • United States carried the war to • the heartof Japan in an air is% sault•ou her major cities. The ex- aent of the, damage has not yet been • •discideed. • bY , the United- , Natione ut publiValarie in Japer) appealed to be widespread. The Japanese dread a visitation of • high explosives and incendiary • bobs over their match -box cities ''of flimsy, wood-andspePer homes. Effect On Morale The four• cities attacked were: • Tokyo, capital of Japan, the world's third largest city and a great industrial centre; Yoke - llama? the seaport of' Tokyo, a great naval base and-' home of Japan's largest motor car factory now producing war ' vehicles; Kobe, • naval I did- shipbUilding centre; Nagaya; third largest city in dapan, which is the chief centre; Right! 'Inrat'Senidrete We--conie—nr-s for-- t e m•nu ac tire e military again. We eau make a suit last aircraft. longer to provide wool tor,a eat- Whatever the effect on Japanis. • • forth.; we can Orange from -silk to war industries and population A Weekly Column About This and That m The Canadian Army lisle hoSeete make more bags for • centres there is no doubt that the cerdite; .we can' eat les§ suger to attack. has sti ul t d : Ala NOt very much has been Said yet • abilut, the • Pacific. Rangers, .whose extstence. on • the British. Columbia • coast was mentioned recently after ae. mipisterial inspection if the.. ast defeaces was carried out.• • .0ne reason is" that not very much 'is yet known outside of B.C. But, this 'much is certatn. •The organization • of guerrilla' hands, composed of hunters, trappers, loggers and other dead' Shote whose amilinrity with the_eountry led with. 'their prowess' at wood- • craft and 'hunting makes the for- midable adversaries is a foidvard move. Many of theee ' bands haves been in existence for some time now. They' were •• formed be,' the men themselves and ;exch . • .an ___ismeineeveteirs erdett & as; a oreyeareandia• weep -ewe he knows he can rely on. • They are not military formations and eonsist mainly of old -timers, - many of them' old :soldiers who know a few tricks they learned in the last war. They know every noels and cranny of the ground they are prepared to defend. Montreal for thel' past two ' years, a somewhat similar branch m a e • ed • peoeiele more quiets energy for the ' morale and coeversely will have boys overseas.' • ••• Coneiderably. dampened the spir- its of the Japanese people. 3,300 planes a month are flaw- iing Off American assembly li3Oh . and their•weight is being felt on the battlefront. • It is, reasonable to 'hepe that ,they _Will. in increaa • ing strength and power of destruc- tion cam defeat to the Japanese homeland. ' • British Naval Lossek 7ecent-MIMI naval losses in the Far East have caused grdat • concern and much criticism •- Mlibel naval strategy These • losses may be due, in part, to the, • dilution of navy personnel: It has• ' been necessary .to take into the • service „many 'men who were not eanee functions 'differ from those of th•e • 'Rangers •ste the 'extent , that em- phasis in training has been against the.. possibility dif. sabotage. Thieputfit, in edition: to :stetaiiii: ing its. own rifles •and ammunition, •also supplies :care .arid- gasoline. it ' its training is based.on niditifica- . tient Of .:Canadian keeonnaii- enit 'training, training hand beaks' of' the German Panzer Tem Wintringliam's• useful _little_n_o_okleteon...neekneatleadsa-0 war eand a' liberal. •sprinkling of imagination• , ". • : •' • The ,men—mostly rotund middle aged .eitizens whohave lost' much of their rotundity since they stat- ed .trainingseeiniforiee • themselves in khaki overalls and wear black berets and armlets • tee • , - °' plant defence and open order skit.- misbing around the outskirts of • Men treal, • Air •Raid Precautions work, un- der various ifemes in different parts of the Dominion, is another ' branch of the Individual Citizen's Army that provides scope for ing wee workers: And Matte a 'prie vate soldier serves in that army without belonging to any unit, of any kind. The man or woman who is un- able to join the Canadian, Arne or tine11 . • street - fighting; Indus Leta • • • of the fndividual Citizen's Army has been in existence. This is F' known as the Mobile oree of the Civilia P idte ti n C t 'Cast 3 -Dur minds back, you people, to the • 'worst days oe' Cov- entry or ;Plymouth : or %Birmingham. Rejoice to hear that damage just , great • has been done to Essen, with bigger bombs and bombs hot so big as they .will be. For neier' forget that,these bombe are drop- ped on' an enente that sat round!. a table at one time or other and. said, '1,oe's have a war.' They also said: 'Ml our • German .history ehows that war never: hurts ns; it hurts the other fellow.' Germans pillage and ravage, with rape and rapine, generation after ' genera - Don in their heighbors' hdpies and • gardens and 'emerge unscathed. in their Own homes. Bei. never again. The leimieing pilots and , the work- ers in the bomb fact tries are teaching the Gerrean People that war hurts their own fireside. To knock some of. the picture,postcard stuff as well as the. war factories ' off the face of Germany will do more for futeve filteopea• peace than dictating, terms froth .the out in any other Vers lines." — London Deity lerpree,i, Men Are Wanted 45 To 98, Years • On April 1. The Detroit News published a "Wanted—Male Help" advertisement which reed: Wanted: A-1 toolmakers, ex- perienced jig and fixture in- spectors. Age limits. 45 to 98 . • years, .„ Bhit it was no April iFool joke. "That. 98 years," said •Albert F. Ktieticke, personnel director for• In- United -Slates Naval Ordnance pion 'Of the Hudson Motor' • Car CompanY, • "is' no inismiet. It means what it says. If an A-1 , toolmaker or jig and 'fixture he specter is still, able to work or to instruct yOunger men, we want him for war work even if he is 100. We d-ont, want men staying away because they may. think they are too old." If a policy of employieg. older ,men for aleimportant war. work south!. certainly. blanket discrine 'nations against Workers over Or even over 60 01'70., iteneatetime occupations- seem to. be unjust. if not newise. Chrietiae Scienea Monitor.. '''''edaseneenik:R`e:T' n r co ommi tee. Its The .1.4dt-retinal Citizen'a Army? • That's us . ' • • In The Garden 'By GORDON L. SMITH • Don't Rosh Planting • Many mere flowers and Vege- , tables are lost through; 'planting • too soon than too Jet& and in war time especially we cannot afford such waste. There :ere, it 'is true, a. few. things that are no hurt by • sowing early, plants that natuial- ly • reproduce themselves • in Can- ada. • In this category will be onions, garden peae,' parsni s lettuce rad- LIFE'g LIKE THAT • By Fred Neher 4.4 ,:e-nteeed iteeere... es=eseeeere ISSssZSZ •••• eseeeteeteseedeeee Ited...t.S.S.,...z.r-,Str. • ••••• "Just an air-raid precaution, Mr. Smithei:s !" • pier. Some factors in this struggle • are favorable to. Russia and soma • to Germany. Russian representatives , state • that their.production is almost as' "great as it was before the German attack. This is important because the Russian losses in the early part of the war were extremely • heavy. Russia's strength is further •a • bolstered by the -increasing volume • _of 'War.' material reaching her from Great Britain and the United Stat,ees. • The armies have been •• tried and haee_proved themserves; they are new 'Seasoned ,Veteran. treeps, While losses in manpower • on both :Sided have lseen trenien- • dous it isetonsidered that Russia has • .4 larger eeseree- of fresh* (Loops 'than Hitler has; and there - can be no doubt that Stalin's seedierweathered • the winter • campaign much better than did . the poorly clad soldiers of Hitler. Strength of Germany dthe Russians have • failed; to • " • break the Leningrad blockade • and, even with the'help .of General • Winter they have not been able • to •reduce the German strategie • strongholds. The Germans stilt , • retain vital posit:ton& frain which they can threaten Moscaw and the main lateral railway supplying the • Ru:ssian front. • •,Success in the expected German • offensive in Russia will •depend• ' • largely--on-sSapereority.'4--The • feeling is that it catincit be step- ped up to its 1940 peak of effici- eecy. The cream of, German: air- • men 'has been Used sup arid though: Germany., may be able to replace lost planes,: she cannot replace , 'first -rank personnel. ' The losseif • German officers, in the air and "'l • On land, has been*a significant feature 'of the ;earonaign. ' The Red Army had to face at • • the start of the war • in Russia, • a huge, welletrained-air-areinda • • ten •thousand strong, Whith was later- increased ;to. fifteen thous • and. At the end of March, 1942, ' it is' estimated the Luftwaffe's" • •• - loses •aIle -d 3-80-00 ' airmen. . Consequently it is now manned chiefly by 1,9 to 21 •year old youths, • many of eiehom have only had from three • to si, menthe ' training growing might of the RoSal .• 7-and' : thee •feowers"---- -cnelethne ". batchelor's !Maoris, eweet. 'pees, •alyssum. All of these and • some more will 'stand"' moderate fie*, and throughteut most of . Canada • can be sown just •as• soon as the • soil can be worked. Bat there are • a great many • more flOwei•s and • vegetables - that will. not • survive frost. ,Thene, must not- be • ',own • outside • until the 'weather reaIIj turns warm'. Actually they willnot make'•any 'growth until .the soil is • warm, usually' in nild-May or later:: Therng e in nothito be gained by rushing them in too Sohn. • • Cultivation • . One •cab. ' hardly overemphasize the importance of „early cultiva- lion, once of course the'sciil. is fit • to . work. A little digging in the garden then is worth a whole burst of ' feverish' energy later on. At this time. when the soil is moist • it is a simple matter to get out • twitch and other weeds. to stir the ' ground deeply B doi • help push growth of vegetables and flowers and conservemoisture and plant •food., If this essential job left for a few weeks •then • weeds have developed tougher roots and are hard ,to remove and much valuable moisture is lost, In the dryer sections of Canada, free quent cultivation is depended upon to .COnSet'Ve the' scant and it *ill keep - vegetables growing steadily which ,they elitist do if they are to be tender, Robot Device Used As Blackout Warden Perfection of a "robot bleckbut warden" which douses store win- dow lights .and. illuminated bill, . boerdsigns automatically' Piet as soon as street lights are toted off in a 'blackout was reported , by ' a Cambridge industry which has installed the 'devices in vi - us east and west coast cities. The apparatni is based on the • 1 1=4 kir several years has been carry- ing full crews, with new trainees taking the places of the regulars when on furlough. It is granted at there are no • better trained seamen anywhere. Japaneee mer- chant seamen have also been ex- traordinarily well trained. The enemy is apparently able to con- • centrate enough power at the • right time and in the right place. --Great Britain has been sorely lacking'• in dive -bombers and ;efficient torpedo - carrying air- craft, but it must be remembered, in criticising •British naval strat- egy, that the Allied navies have not at any time yet Met the Jap- anese • navy on anything like equal terms. , Stren h of Ruisia ••• 'The prime ann. of .the United Nations is' t help Russia at alI costs and the prime aim of Hitler is to knock ' out Rtissia this sum- occupied France. .British'bonebers • have flown one .. thousand smiles " inside' 'enemy territory, ,in day- ' . light, to attack factories. • • •So continuous have been ,the Royal Air Force assaalti On the continent lately that they keep " One and a half million German • soldier's,. airmen', : ground 'Stiff •. observers, , firemen , and • other civilian defense workers .• tied • down. Thus • none of them, Says -the. London SiTimes, dap be, with, • drawn for service on the Russian front'where the Nazis are sending every available , mart. The best. German pilots are beinh—kept in the West to meet the British, and anti-aircraft ships also, have to remain off the German coasts in- stead of, being sent elsewhere. • • Thus the power- of the Royal Air Force in .diverting the 'Left- Waffe• is a measure of Britain's aid to Russia. well-knovqn principle of light con: • trol by the electric eye, and .the • arrangement is such that a small • bole containing themechanism is pointed . directly at a street. light. When the street lights are doused, the , breaking Of the light beam activates a photo -switch in the "robot warden", .causing • Signs or store %,4:111(10WS with. which it is 'connected tb he darkened innediately. Good Nazi gcheme • • For Repair Work • ' ender the non-cormaittai title of "Wei. Ttade Business Front", a remarkable army ,repair organ- :, iidtion. has ...been,.....establiehed. -in - Germany., Its .purpose is to get all worn army clothing and equipment "made new" by • work- ers in. occupied countries, thus saving 0erman workers for hone tasks. • :Thousands of uniforms from REG'LAR FELLERS—Not Mercenary' • LAW NCE mccioNiqLe; TNE IMMPEEN SWIMMER,' JOS' siemeo AsCONTRAO FOR A HUMERI) TI4OUSAN# DOLLARS TO QIVE , SWIMMiN. etHiBiTIONt ALL Arzooti' NEqLOBE! 1 .,v„,m,,,., \‘,.%ske:.• v.x.,,,,tiee, \ 1":•;.!A T"NAT'S NOT O N s' 4\ WONNAFULSI CAti' \ . . . ,„ YOU it,', ..t.A,*„.,‘ '4' ..„ . "".• '''''"N • ..--••%••Ast\ : 60 1' ? ,%,.. .„,.....„ •.k.;., •,,,t,:iii4.' to0 •,••• e‘e. t:w the Russian front have already been. distributed among 'Belgian factories, 20,000 pairs of worn bidets have been sent to the fam- ous Bata factories at Zlin, Czecho- slovakia, leather equipment to Holland and the •Balkans. Widomi's Treasure One of 'the acts of the Ger-. mans in Paris ha.,,,been the '0(1- ing of the safety deposit boxes in the various banks. In one bank was...a .safe belonging to an old lady in black. .The officer in charge said. "May I beg of you, .Madanfe. to be ,goosi endugh to . "Certainly., dr." replied the lady, and when the safe was op.: •-oiled- the -officer v'as amazed to see nothing whatever hut a shin- ing sword. He turned to the lady, 'who simply said: "That 15 'my late hushand's sword: 1 am the widow of Mat- shal .Foch.' The Officer Dirtied pale, saluted and withdrew. By GENE BYRNES NO, r. CAN'T, BUT La,' ALBERT I-IERp CAN, °Rey HE DOES IT FOR • INUTHIN? ' • 26S 2 Ali,itthis.reitrved •,