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C.Omir ai do School
For Canadian Ari y
Brisk, efficient Lt. -Gen., H. D.
Cx. Crerar said recently that Can-
ada's entire army df more than
13.0,000 men in,•Britairi is being
given Commando -type training'
with the aim that .it will spear-
head • the 'eventual. Allied. attack..
. "We are shifting from defen-
•sive to offensive and building an
army that can estabisll a 'bridge-
head and hold it,•" •the .53 -year -
Ohl commander of 'a corps in the
Canadian •Army said, in an inter-
view in which he revealed that
every paymaster, cook, infantry-
man, and' officer is b.eina given •
the name, training as Britain's
f'anlous riding forces.
Ivey ` Canadian,officers, have
been to! Command;training .head-
quarters for Andy and now. haves'
i' established ' -•a School 'giving the
'same type: • traitiing.'•with ' a 'few ,
mere. Arduous North-- American',
ennbellishmen•ts. Training in -
crudes one. 'month land and "one
month sea operations. • . •
.Because .a large proportion of.
C'anad'ian__ -._ti o ps. _ _ , e..: naturakia
ry : woodsmen, accustomed to' living
outdpors, many- .of the prelimin-
ary Coi•iimando courses used in
training Britain's city -bred troopu
are unnecessary for men' from
'the Western Hemisphere, . •
JUST IN CASE
The R. Frederick C., Hickey,
chemistry teacher - at, Providence
' (R, I.) college,. puts' just enough.
- —a -deadly -Lea site -•-gas lit--a-bottle--
• .to enable air raid" wardens ,to
learn' what this. poison 'gas smells
• like in a sniff; test. r
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SIMILAR, SITUATION HERE
•
"First the boys front the counig.
ry come to the city, to work. in
factories. Then there isn't enoagh
help. to plant, cultivate• and mar,
ket food crops, So Uncle Sant
goes to the cities to find'men tq
send back to the farms to do the ,
work there.'4. Those are the
words' of an Areerican commen-
tator. •It. sounds a bit daffy.
But Canadians can't afford •to
laugh, because we have a similar.
situation here.—Kitchener • Rec-
lard..
"SPOONING" DAYS
•
A • Washington 'official says moo•
• .torcars mustn't be used .:for
"petting parties'► -•--it's a waste••of
gasoline. Perhaps the parlor and
front porch will come into their
own again, and there may `be a
:revival of the old-fashioned ham-
mock. .. And in the' old days nt—
.was called "spooning"; we.are
told. ---Ottawa 'Journal.
WOULDN'T STAY PUT
Paper serviettes are among the
items now ' brought under the
paper -saving' economy program of
the Wartime Prices and Trade
Board. ' As la colleague used 'to
ood.
things were n o g
:say, the, t ,
_-.anyway,. c rept to ._a dicier yn;t#t.
a wooden leganda thumbtack.
:a -Brantford Expositor. '
'REVISED VERSION"
A recent'Vart,One depicting an
exciting aquatic rescue in 'which
the rescuer had a d'•ifficalt choice.
to make suggests that a ,popular
• song might now be rewritten to
read: ..
•
"So 'I pulled her, out on shore
And . she's mine far eve'rmore."
• ,`Who, the lady, Mr. Gallagher?"
"No;' the • tire • tube, Mr. Shean."
-Stratford Beacon -Herald.
IT'S HOPELESS
•
Defence Minister, Ralston inti-
mates • the "women's 'army" may
be used to operate searchlight
batteries in 'home, defence.. It's"
'trard-eyrough; teslip anything over
a modern female in the 'dark, b'ut
when they have searchlights—
wov.l—_- Wiudsor Star_
CH LDREN WAR'S VICTIMS, Thi WORLD 'ROUND
- -:Following the -ruthless -pattern -set -in -Europe, children of • the - -Orient,; too young to -understand the
'terror which hascome upon them, are driven from their homelands bythe relentless forces of war
Evacuated from Sumatra when the Jap invader spread his terror, these •Javanese and Chinese young-
sters pose willingly at the Port Melbourne, Australia, liospital 'which has 'become their refuge.
THE WAR - WEEK —. Coinrrlentary on Current Events."
German and Russian Armies..
Massed F o r ` Mighty . Conflict . .
The massed armies of 'Russia
nto
an ha
oved r
erm v I:
and. G y e�.-.m�--. -
sudden action. The German at •
-
tack in the Crimea 'appeared: to •
be the first step in Hitter's long -
heralded spring :drive • aimed at
the soil' and mineral wealth of the
Caucasus. (fit was reported' re-
cently that German • tanks and
trucks, were using 'olive' oil as a
lubricant)
While the Russians were being•
• forced to retire slowly in the
Crimea Marshal Tir;ioshenkois
division's ladnehed a •counter move
4 -in fact it 'might be •called. an,
• offensive . move and 'brake
through the Nazi lines at Uttar-
•kov, the great industrial :city' of
the Ukraine. So begia.s ' the third
phase . of the 1 ,ussd-German ;war.
First Phase of War
The first phase began almost •
a year ago .when the German
armies, , marching eastward, met
—and: -overwhelnne4—time—Russian
`forces 'firm the Baltic to the
Black Sea.
The_ Russian. armies were push-
', aala - a nr Inhttainlyr,tttiiir
Produces Magnesia
1, The 'lsroductian ' of pure -mg:.
nesia for the first time at Wake-
field, Que., was announced re-
cently by the Aluminum Company
of Canada, Limited, with the.
opening of the • flrin's new mag-
nesia
agnesia plant.: •
'Declaring that the firstrun was
"entirely satisfactory, F. E. Dickie,
manager of the plant, 'stressed
that magnesia is a highly import
ant war ' material andis,made
from Canadian raw materials. Ile
added that extensive deposits of
brucituc limestone in the Gan-
•• .neau Valley are being used as
the ore • for the high grade -imago
nesia, which will be produced' new
in substantial' tonnage. •
• Austria and Greece were Can- •
ada's pre-war sources for the high
grade inagnesites, although 'Can-
adian magnesites had. been used
in making setae. grades of iefrac
-tory materials. ; Magnesia is used •
in the vulcanizing of rubber, re- •
fining of gasoline and. lubricating
oils, 'insulation of steam pipes- and
boilers, for •flooring and for the
manufacture of chemical and
pharmaceutical products.
•
Boy- grouts Make •
Good 'Commandos
Canadian and American Boy
• � ''T'" Scouts make the best . Commari-
dos.'
That , is the opinion of `'Major
J. S. P. Armstrong, chief of the
"hate school", designed to pro -
°i `+s'. i Cnmmnnd v
��nce..super-.tOUgl o fQr
' • A six-fok, two-inch former To-
ronto
insurance' salesman, Major
.,Armstrong spends all his tine
develoing was and means of in-
creasing , th°E .c9asual,ty rate'' in
the German army. ,
.w- "We grab all the former Boy
,Scouts we can," the handy -haired
-
°major declared as. he explained
the schools curriculum for death
in a headquarters shack . nick-
named "Slaughterhouse".
"Boy Scouts know how to take
• of themselves in the open
and live off the land, which is
essential for a Commando," . he
added.
Four. days in the week every-
one in the school does his task
at the "double" from davit • to
dusk. Four nights a week for.
'a month after working all day
they'.practise night Bindings and
attack.
A coin-operated mailbox that
aut�omtically• steams, postmdrks
-and mails 'letters is hi service
Chicago.
"lii'13ha SAV ir1 :TATS,"
When we were youngsters, we
had•• to hide -behind the barn . to
;cad the kind • of ljlood-and-thun-
der stuff that our „children' now
get on the radio every day—Kit-
cheater Record, ,.'.
WAR TALK
Strategy is something you plan
to do to the other fellow, 'and
tactics are what' you do ,in a
hurry after' you discover your .'
strategy hasn't clicked.—London
Free Press. • 1 •
THE RUTH •
Summer slacks, and., some are
not slack enough•.—St. , Themas
Times -Journal • . ; , -
Sailors' ' Patronize
Tattooing Artist
'Professor, iccorates Hairy
• Chests of Canadian Seamen
•
Favorite 'artist in the thronged
port of Halifax is. Professor Fred-
. erick A..Baldwin, despite the fact
' that he never so much 'as touches
a palette or easel.
His work is •done with needles
and garish dyes, with the hairy
chests and muscular arms of the
sailors in the' Royal Canadian
Navy atld merchant marine as his
canvasses. He is the' seamen's
artist by common appointment,
and a man is still regarded as a
landlubber until he has 'squirmed i The food situation in Germany
under -"11W" h firt3's- oi-"th[i�s`sh'o�rt; ,1. itself, as' weiI as' in the occupied
MU•1 eixt-tat, iLa , 11l . t X731
"scoriihed earth." Depth of Rus-
sian defense and lenglhening_Ger
man•.like:s of communication slow-
ed upthe Nazi advance. •
•
• Second • Phase of War
•
:With the . 'anno'u'ncement.. on.. _
Nov. 29, 1941, that the German
had been• hurled back at.
Rostov, gateway. city' to the Cau- .,
easss, the `second phase of the
war began., Throughout the 'win-
ter • Russian connterdrives forced
the retreating Germans westward.
When aping came. the Red Army
.had recaptured about 100,000
square miles • of the 500,000
overrun by the Nazis in the war's
first phase.'
• Battle of Production
• Throughout the winter, too, the,
battle of production was ' waged
behind the fronts. German ' fac- -'
tories were speeded +up to capa
city -production • of guns,. tanks,,
trucks and planes... Fresh troops,
youths of 17 and 18 years, were
mobilized. Workers' were called
in from occupied countries , to
inan. the war plants, releasing`
more. Germans for the fighting
front. •
It _is stated that Hitler has
moved 100. 'divisions, a total of
more thfin-a million men, through
Poland. During 'last winter he -
maintained about one million men
on the Russian- front. He gar-
risoned in the Baltic states about
one .million . -men. These last
moved the inhabitants out of
their hones and took .possession.
They wintered well -and are now
well placed . for active fighting.
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t e Canadian army: •
genial Englishman, (
Go to him and he will give you
• fine arm etching 'whose reds
and blues will never fade to let
you forget a girl named 'Manila or
: Mabel. Or he will pick out, in sub-
dued pastels and Pinks a touching
scene called , "sailors'• memorial"
ebowing, - inside a laurel- ;