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, 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.
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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.
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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
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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,
•
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. 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
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Ited...t.S.S.,...z.r-,Str. •
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"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!
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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?
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