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Men Of Dover
Heroes Of War
Skilled and Bombed Civilian
Workmen . Build Coaital
Defenses
.•
:Amens the heroes' Of the Was;
are the. civilian • workmen who,.
't have been building. coastal de7
fences. on • the cliffs of 'Dover.
They.have been shelled, bombe'
and ••madltine gunned, but they,
.have 8014 to, their task. They
bad • no •slielters, and all they
could do •`wnen "trouble" came
, was to scatter. , • .
. Mr. 11..1,1Maishall; who super.
• intends one. section. of ,the
sayS.. "I' have an average 'of fifty.
• • •snen• Under „me. and we have not
a.. working' day since the '
• outbreak; of - war."• '
• "Although . in •Other sections
• they have not been: so Ineky„np ,
to . the pres'ent we • have •net heal •
' a • pasualty:
Mr. Marshall .said the giags,
.L...:by..long_eXperienee, had _reduced.
• .bomb, • shell and, machine gun
• , • • . bullet dodging to a fine art.
"When they hear the scream
.of a:t shell, .the whistle .of a fal.- •
. Lit.4 boinb,or the roar of a .diving
=.1etir'eraft, they just drop their picks
and shovels, fling themselves flat
until 'after the 'bump', and then •
• . return placidly to their work..
"From where my men are at
' work. they can' see the flashes'
,of the long-range guns on the'
. • .
"The 'shells take • just over' .sev-
enty ' seconds to reach England,
• and the . lads ''•have come to. •be
'es.ble • to- . judge -Sesesity ,See.ondss..
as acc,urately as .thou.gh they. had
.1 •a stop
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CUTEST
VOICE
F, THE •
PRESS
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ONLY FIVE PRESIDENTS
The •C.P.R. he been „in exist-
• ence since 1881 and in all that
time it has had only five presie
dents,' D. C. doleinan the latest
of them All his predeceasoul
have been great men and great
• Canadians -Lord Mount Stephen,
• Sir William Van Horne, Lord
Shaughnessy and Sir Edward
•Beatty.. -Port ' Arthur Newt -
Chronicle.
Boy/ NEW ORDER WORKS
If Hitler wanders why Ellrel 7
eans don't react more 'enthusiase
his New Order, he • may
find that the Nazis have looted,
eteninetied countries of$80.90,-•
• 0004(00 in Cash and geode' And
that the total in victims for Nati, _
firing squads has' reached; nearly
'400.;000. •Btiffalo Courier -Ex-
. press.
•
tittLESS PURCHASE
,Goering is reported .to be put-.
tit* his money into Italian paint-
ing, and other art treasures. It's
rather a silly performance. Where
•he's going after the war is over,
there , won't be any spase for
hanging such things. Windsor
LIGHT COMMENT •
The Mail" of England
publishes blackeat and lighting- •
up time Ton'Iti front -Page; After -
• giving the hours, there is this
• comment: "Your safety depends
on your 'blackout, deenit make
light of it." -Woodstock Sentinel-
' Review.
• REAL "VICTO- RY GARDEN"
' A Californian •was digging 'in
• his backyard last week when he
unearthed a tin can. Inside was
more than • $1,00'O. • Tile finder
• bought: defence bonds. That was
a real Victery Garden.rant,•
ford Expositor. •,
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•SIGHTS AND SIGHTS
Uncle Sam's foresight is better
than his laindsight-tis-he-teunds--,.
up spies who Might acquire an
insight into the bombsight. -The
WindsOr • Star.
TYPICAL OF , GENERAL
The teener of Gen. McNaugl•p
• ton's return to England was typ-
ical -he, went On a troopship with.
• nen, taking_ whatever xiskai
seet
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• Marine • paratroopers at San
Diego certainly • had the situation
well in hand when they named
Actress Joan Leslie as "Cutest
'Chutist." • and , the girl they
would like most to be marooned °
with, on a cloud. • •
• -
• . :SERIOUS FACES
Have you noticed how serious
week-endiriniteriatt rook, to prove
they are not Pleasure -driving—
• Stratford Beacon -Herald. •
ACCIDENT NEWS •
In a collision at a nearby in-
tersection last evening, two tires
and tine passenger were reported
hurt. -Detroit News.
• OPTIMIST DEFINED
An optimist -is a mart who plants
• a garden and throws away his
• wife's • can opener. -Kitchener
• Record.
Select Airmen
By I. Q. Tests
• Farmers In 'Canada : • •.
Meet War Problems
• If the war does nothing else
for Canada, says The. Owen Sound
Sun -Times; it will have produced. ,
Much more strongly organized
Terming ,•industry, one ' which
knows its own •problems, .and :has
• the 'ability to Meet -:them effic-
iently.. An all-out war . effort'
on the part of Canada must, 'of
necessity, embrace agricultural .
industry. Farmers throughout
Canada, .and particularly -in Grey
and Bruce • Counties, are meeting
the problems I which war_ has
-irrotight them with resolution and
courage. . . .
•
• Help is scarce. Rates of pay
for farm help show a wide difs
ferenee---at-.-consp.ared-to....P.V...ebs
taindble 'in other 'ilhdustries. , The
: farm produce is Welty needed.•
• yet': feed is high. Implements -
are hard • to get. Ceiling . prices
iinpose festrictions Which are Ri-
miest crippling.
• The fartstera Who
can blame them'? • But . do • they
on strike? They do not. They
• go right ahead 'producing the,food
• which. Canada, • Britain- and the
United Nations mat, have if they
• are to be victorious. • They work
long hours; they produce grain, ,
and feed and cattle, sOmetinies
at a loss. t Btxt the important
thing is they •continue to produce.
• They have faith that eventually
the importance of the agricultural
industry will be .recef.tnized. • •
In the meantime,. the 'farmers
of t Grey 'and . true6 are doing ,
,everything in their, power to
prove their stock, Make • their
fields -more productive, and to
introduce • more up ,- to - date
• methods. •
, When a British bomber returns
ed hone from a raid, in. Erato
a foot -long piece of telegraph
1:alc was itnbedded in its Wing.
High Standard of Education
Not Necessary'''N,ow
', Intelligence testa instead of
education standards are now used
by the United States .army air
force in selecting men for air
crew, training. Hen,' Robert Lovett.
assistant secretary of war for
• air, •and Maj. -Gen. BartonA
Yount, chief . of the air force
• training command, said at re-
cent press conference at. Ottawa.
• Applicants for air crew duty
are given a "screening" test Which
'determines their' intelligence, abil-
,iti ,and suitability regardless of
their education, General Yount
said. Fornierly the air arm re-
, qiiired a mart to have the' equiv-
alent Of two years In college be-
__fere he *mild be accepted -for
• . sir ere* training,
'Now *e don't ask a man what
his education is. We find out,"
Said. the general. •
• (Applicants for enlistment as air
crew in Canada must have corn-
_ 'Dieted their high: schoolecluea,
tion.)
, Nov System AccUrate
"The .test is surprisingly .accur-
ate," said Mr. Lovett. "1, believe ,
We are now 'getting men of the
inost'unnsnal competence and giv-
ing everybody' a fait break."... •
Under the old system, said . Mr.
Lovett, a man wlio played feat -
ball in cellege for two years and
• perhaps took a course in animal
husbandry and agronomy to qual-
ify for football could get into the
air' force, while a man with a
keen mind, a deeire for knowledge
• and perhaps a lot, of experience
- tinkering 'with inotars would not
get In, des.pite :the tact the foot -s
• 'ball player . might have "As much,
water on the brain as water ott •
the knee." ••
The tieW system recpgnizedthe
fact that education and intelli-
gence 'We're not. necessarily the
same thing. • ' ,
INDIA TRAINS. p'ARACHIJTISTS TO' DEFEND HER SOIL
sitettse•SiSSSS:ell:S'
_ Turbaned, shorts -clad sons' of menaced Mother India learn a modern form of warfare from an
R.A.F. -instructor_shown• giving a "dragging"' dein onstration to his parachute battalion.
We can stop be -devilling sortie
• of our fellqw-civilians who have
underta'ken the thankless task of
trying to 'teach us to be sensible.
We can start making things*easier
• for storekeepers, wholesalers and
tviviDuAL
1 e ....
• manufectnrers who are getting
SI !R L. r together and. advising the War-
IFLW,I N ,. '. time Prices and Trade Board how
best it can control their busi-
nesses for the comnion good.
We can help to make' the most
A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian AnnY
One of ,the hardest things any •
•old soldier has to do is, to learn
not only • to keep his mouth shut
•on the question of -ehliStment
but to keep his thoughts in order
as well. It is fatally easy. to. Iciok,'
•at a -strapPing fellow in civilian
• clothes and wonder "why the
blanketty7hlaak he isn't in khaki."
It is not so easy to marshal your
• thoughts and_ weigh the many
reasons that may. exist. •
• I suppose the principal reason
• that such thought enntrol is tieceS
sary is the fact that very few
men you see wearing C.R.P. buts
tons today Were - conscripts.
It has been brought out in the
TITOuse of, andagaizi
i
that the number • of conscripted
soldiers who reabhed 'France in.
19.I.7-1913 was a very small pro -
,portion of the Canadian Expedi- •
• tionary Force, •
One great unfairness in public
• thinking and newspaper' editor-
• ials, it Seems to mes is' the Con-
- stant-direetion sof-bliatssat _youth.
' Teed`s-
• " We are not being 'fair to. the •
• man who was too young to do his ,
bit in 19.14491$. He missed that
• because of youth. H.e's' missing
this one sbecaose he's "tee( old."
Too Old to fight,:that is.
Maybe none of us 'will 'be tool
01i:1'th:fight! • '
In the meantime if anyone is
tO lose his present opportunities
• for a space let'S give seme con-
• sideration to the • man who is
• estabished. He has something t• le
_go back to. He has had a chance
and will, pick up" the threads again
when he goes back.
Besides, hiS business training
cp' be•useful in the Army. He can
-do- a-reale-job-in:, admittistrat,
quertermaSter, ordnance, trans!
• port• and shriller services.
these jobs he'can release some ot
• the young, fit men doingthat kind
• of 'work in - Ottawa' and other
headquarters tudai,.
•Sure ills a young mans war-
' a war that can use, and use well,
war. •ran
• being ,taken in the direction of
thinning out the elder officers -
you still":ffon't see Generals in
• their thirties.
And I donq think you should.
Nevertheless, it is "still a matter
• for comment when a man in hiS
late twenties is promoted to
• Major. -•
Let's have the emphasis on the.
younger man -not the youth,
• Let's fill ,our administrative and
training staffs • with older, but
• not aging men.
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sesessesedessidessesederSdiedds7.1"A'4.11,=;:-./....., •, ' -
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of -what, Leon- ••Headerso.n
SSgiorictus :scarcities." There is p�
more rubber available from .our
usual sources -all right, let's stop.
renning our cars at .alf. . How'
Many of our. 'father s had Cars?'
' It is not 'enough just , to ••con-
fine 13rciur .use of 'sugar to the
weekly 'three-quarters of a'siound
'you.'ere allOweds--try. to get along
On..eiglit. ounces.. • • •
• . That- extra quarter 'pound may
put an , extra. quarter inch .of ,
'bayonet into, ,a Nazior a Japan -
The -Individual Citizen's Army
fights with its 'own. :weapons. on
• the hone''front.• • • '
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THE WAR . WEEK .:--. Commentary on Curr;nt Events
•
Japan's Violent Attack On china.
Imperils Cause Of United Nations-
A1ong a land front in• Eastern • and Kunming: Chinese veterane
Asia -some 1,500 miles in length, demolished Widget( across s the
POmParablit in its • sween• to the. ".• steep canyonseut• by the Salweeu.
Russian battlegrognd-s-aoldiers t and Mekong .Rivers, harried the
Japan and China were manoeuv- , invaders with guerrilla ' tactics,
ring and fightinglast week.- ae.; prepared to meet the onslaught '
cording to The New York Tinies. • of some 100,000 Japanese ,said to
The Mikado's 'genes* were' tak- . be 'massing in Burma, Th.ailand.
1Ing up the initiative again in the, . and Indo-China. The main Japan -
"incident" . begun at Peiping's • 'ese objective 'seemedto. be. the
'Marco Polo Bridge alino,st five • area around Yunitsn's
yeaes• age. '1'heir objectives were • Kunming,. .where the Chang Kai'
• not eumpietelY cleer; bat from shek government has established.
arms. factories tarried inland from
Yunnan'a1 gorgee to the ,coastal.
• region's below • Shan.glisti• the . the oecu'poihe.clescrasect„0:r.i.dor,
wince of their columns IseChines
re- dm-
inouenoseibilities •for the cause of The provinces .between. :Shang,
hi and 1C'enton” have never been
the'United Nations. ' •
kirst conquer China
cotnpleteli' o.verrun.They•:have
• ' .
Abundant testimony. has been. , remained . certirlor. for geode
supplied bY the words And actions bronglit, through isterkede- toFree .
of .Japaee.Se militarists tte to thee ssChina. The ss harbor: airfield's . which' •
fundamental role of China in nets. Japan.
tve waassl, teievfoeidd raids 011
ona•
blueprint • of a.ggrandizement.. As
ss,far back. as the sixteenth -century ' land -and -air ••campaign by. eome•
ecnj1erGr deyoshi, thesSeinurni •106,000 Nipponese troops in this •
,•thought of, their 'sprawling neigh-
breregai°1c1=1. inWcashin'Ehe'selciisnogla titoopug a
e,
• bon as,an avenue for •ernied... ex-
cursions asdistant as India,' ditio1,0=era.th:..m4en:c.,ceen.tloj.1701tuinlegkAiliir;
thhugli Ilideseshi wee told• by the
claimed ssto , have inflicted 11014' •
King' of Korea that Nippon• in at • -
tossers on a Japanese expedition•
tempting . to subjugate China was
••
like a bee trying to sting a: torlanded frism the sea thesceaStald
toised . The. „convictions • of .the• • theatre.
• modern. Samurai ;., have •been re-,..• . • Japan, Drives Inland •
•corded Ulna by the • .istemo•riel • A .number of .widely Separated'
asicribedi to • • Baron . Tanaka In -• actions' in China's Central. preys
• 1927:— , • • • . • , • itiees indicated that ths invaders • -.
fl order to scOnquer China -were • tryingto destroy •important ••
we s must first conquer Man- • • ..a.oply and ,cdmixidnicailoil .centree..,
• charias and Mougolia In, arder." for. Chungking's.regulans' -..end • .
• guerx•illas. ' An 'advance began'
to conquer the world, we must
above the Yellow River, •apPar-
• ently' to nieip .up resistance •• in
Shansi. • Below the Yangtze, .. a
drive.. seemed under' way ..toward
Changsha, 'where. the Japanese
Are 'Mother' Subs
Helping U -Boats?
-L arge Undersea , • Supply
• Boat's • W oat id •Great
• Menace
first sconauer China, If we sue- ,
sceed in conquering China, the '
rest of • the Asiatic countries
'. ' and the South Sea . countries •
will fear us and. surrender to use
• ' • • Prospective, Gains • ' •
The war, against China, it :is
clear, has been regarded :.as vitel
•, ,in . Order' to 'gals* , (1) bases on 1
the Asiatic mainland both- to Pro-
. tect 'Japan's rear and to provide
• springboards for further ' - a:Pan- • .
sion; (2). resources, such as the
iron, coal, oil, grain and, timber ..
of Manchukuo: (3) 'control lever
a people ' w ho actoun t-ferd(s-quer--
ter of ,the world's population .And -
who. Must be shackled:before they.,
"awaken". ' The • campaigns de-
• veloping laet week . appeared . to '.
. 'some, .obserVers to be. an effort to
clean up the long -dragging China
incident,. perhaps . to knock China
Opt' of. the war and thereby to ' •
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nen in their middle twenties'a
•
s
• guerrillas) that can find the right
niche for a young man of any age;
• ., So let's not look too askance.,
at the young feliow of 19-23. Per-
haps they will •be 'the better .sols
, diers for a chance first to. appre-
• ciate•that they have a stake in the
country. •'
And those of us who are. con- ;
• donned to be civilians, what about
us? • •
•
There is plenty 'for us to do.
And most of it is easY. That's
probably what makes it .so .hard! •
LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
• "'des:-
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"We.can divide the weight in half, but, what about the fortune?"
laseesseteesse=e-st
of •her Deutschland of World, War
1, to suenly her TJ -boat nests along
'the' • A. flantic coast.: .. •
There has been talk ,for years
of great, 'earg.o-carrying1 s u b -
marines under construction in the
Belch, but s no „definite inform -
It tierntatiy: has ruck vessels
And, is prepared to use . them in
any .number she May intreduce.e
new and important factor into the
war. ,
With her 1,000 and' •1,500 -ton.
undersea •warcraft 'operating in
packs outside America's' haybOrs,
such mother -craft carrying eil,
ammdnition' and supplies would
give her. a tremendous increase
in strikieg power. The • largest
known undersea warcraft was the
2,700 -ton French Surcouf. recent-
ly sunk; The 'smalle.D..are Japan's
two-man boats /Such ' as .were used
at Pearl Harbor.
Instead of ,spending two-thirds.,
of their nine-. gain t eorsing
• from ',bases in Germany • and oc-
• cupied France.. the time of • a U-
boat' § operation would be. limited
only by the necessity' of reet for:
its crew:
This problem of crew relief is
one . of the. greatest worries of a
• saimutripe fleet conimander;
Transport . subniersibles • m i g•h
eolve'that also; by providing con -
Stant rotation.
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Ths World Was 1 trues' •
Atlantic cruises. of the .2,000 -ton
Deutschland, which took 16 days
each way, were startling in the
United States at the time. On her
first voyage • she brOught a .760-.
ton cargo. Vesselsthree times her
vessels' hall .as largeas battle.
cruisers, might keep • a suhrua.rhie
fleet operating far from. home •
basses almost ledefinitely.
Modern India is divided into •
nine major religions, 2,400 castes
• .enti,:tribei and. speaks .225. leng-•.
Stages.
Ma) o.• t inns -
Allied offensive might be launch-
,
• Japan Strikes •
• The bloWs were aimed in sev-
eral sectcira: ' ,
• • The spearhead of the rapid. jap-
anese thrust from', Burma into
Yunnan.. China's wild southwest-
ern proyirice, • encountered stiff
resi.etance on the Burma Bead,
about ,halfway between LaShio
have suffered defeat in previous
camp-agna. . • .
The peril confronting Fr
'China was emphasizedny Chung,
king spokesmen, It was insiste'
• that the Japanese were eoncen-
tratipg, for. e decisive blow against
their sildeet opponent. The Allies
were :warned that "China needs
• all the help per friends can send
• us with • the I utmost baste." The'
• j'e
es.
aid niost urgently requested was:
"First, bonibere and p trr suit
planea; :second, bombers and pur-
suit planes; third, bombers. and
pursuit planes."
Cann China 'Hold Out?
'The•.pr.obleni qf meeting Chung -
king's plea was admittedlytciugh,
s--Thedaresenals ot- Arderie.a,-ands-Brie ° ' •-•
son s over a tb e' or ere
was some opinion that the new,
Japanese ' campaigns ' in China
were stillenbordinate to drives
being shaped against India, Atil-
tralia or Siberia,. The shipping of
the United. Nations was strained
to the utmetst. The hope was that
Asia's greatest nation- wo•ild hold
out untilit vast reserves of man.
power could be buttressed with
equipment, to match the invader'i.
"Old Man MacLeod":-
. •
•
Old Man MacLeod, 'they called ,
• him affectionately in the ferried
fishing district of •Stornoway, •
Scotland, and !'when war came he ..
lifted his nets for ,the last time. -
The Old Man joined one . of
Britain's "traMps. His son, point-
ing out that thed-,Allt spray surged
in his veins also, sailed with him.
Just' the other day, the ,father, •
Able Seaman Neil. MacLeod, wass
awarded. .posthemously
• War .Medel for bravery' at ''sea.
A 'member of the British mer-
chant marine'whose ship had beep
• torocdoed, he directed .the
bf a lifehopt to land. although •
in .dying cdndition. •
• The Old Man was below decks
• when tho. torpedo, struck. The
shock' fractured.his legs. The
Ship was sinking- a.s he struggled
Ite climb Shreugh ,a hole .to the
'deck. , felt .linelk but someOne.
threw hint 1 rope. •
,Waving .help aside, he reached
the 'deck, crawled along on hands
and knees •and lowered. himself.
• into a. lifeboat. Ile knew' the
ways of shall craft and believed
he. could be of service, Then
tees his ton • was in that boat
and land was not far away. . •
So
the old'. fishertnan . sailed
• the boat to land. -And all the
tittle he knew he was dying. Now
his son' is back at ,sea, aaains
Tile e1tation read: "While lying.
in the boat he handled thefore-
sheet and, halyards 'and advised
the officer in • charge about sail.' •
.ing. When rescued he smoked a •
pipe end joked with the doctor.
He showed 'great courage and a
fine spirit although he knew he
had not, long .to live." • ., •
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No 'Coupons .Neded
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There is only orie place in Bris
tain to ,lbuy. clothes without turn.
'ing in , clothesrations coupons.
,It is' the' pawnbfokers.
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