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New Body Armor
For Land Forces
Australian Invention • To Be
Tested by Army Officers
Australian -invented bodywater
dor troops, samples of whlbh are
being prepared for testing by army
officers, will not .weigh more than
seven 'pounds.
Although full details of the In-
'vention cannot be given for fear
' of handing the enemy assistance
in ,the. race Which has developed
to produce some suitable type of .
armor for land forces, it has been
learned at army headquarters in
;Alelbourne •that the Australian_ in
vention is of a revolutionary type.
an has -good prospects of proving
aeceptable. ,
-The •armor is ,somewhat
;Lei
similar
to the bullet-proof vest. -its total
•weight, may be considerably . 'less
than seven poggds: " Final .eamples ,
are still in the coarse of manufac-.
•fi•
'turd. ' .
Appears Superior Type
-'The-armor-wiii--be ofTthe agree'
, style. Frontally, it will give full
-protection, it is claimed, from -the'
neck, down, to the *crutch. At the
rear, it will protect, the torso from.
the neck to the base of the spine.
R will be so constructed that
It will not tamper movement in
any way. , Yet it will have int-.
' portant .features, ,which •.evill•en-
able it to'deflect missies readily,
at th-o '*t'ar`e time being impene
triable to sntall arms ammunition,
, Including suten echine _gun fire,.
also to shrapnel and bombshell''
.. and grenade' splinters.
Whether the body armor will
become' part ofe equipment , issued
to Astitralian soldiers within 12
" months • depends : on exhat=stive
tests Ilic1i •Will he Made by the
ariiiy .. authorities pollen samples
'are available . within the ipext .few.
: Weeks. '
A British experimental type. of
armor also is being examined, bat
army officers said that at a glance
• the .Atystraleau` invention 'seemed
to Wive.: features which. Made•
!superiorto the British and to
knawn types with the Ger-
mans have been experimenting.:
WELL TIRED
1
V•,C
.OF THE
PRESS
A VERY WORRIED MAN
.0. man we know in a city n
Couple , of hundred •mileit from
here is very worried. He had a
German ,maid when the war start-
ed. and after - a long time his
friends persuaded him he had
better tell the authorities about
the :girl. Although the man eras
quite sure she was all right, he
finally wept to the police. He
told them the maid was German,
he .was sure • she was all right;
,but be thought .he might as well
let thein know; just in case.
"Sue's all right," ' the •police `
assured him, "We've been listen-
ing r "' the • telephone' converse-
tions ,from ,your .house ,for a long
time,"
Now the man. is wondering jest
what he, Wniself, might .have been
saying on • the telephone to his
Pals.- `Windsor 'Star,
SUN GLEAMS
And now, do you want . one.
• lump or none?
"The government can take our
car -if it .Will keep' up the pay-
rnents.
Maybe de Valera is sore be-
cause we ' do not now help' him
out with those ' sweepstakes..
And if you_ gain - your -------fight
against the dogs, weeds and :bags,
it is a victory garden.
:That .:'last speech • of Hitler's
sounded like a .titan hollering , be-
cause , he expected to be hurt.
%Father• 'alw.ays'looks back to
they good, old daps when grand-
father wastearning a living for
Wonder -if-that- leader in fndia,
C. R. Rajaggo'palachari feels hurt
•
When ' somebody .: 'mispronounces
his name? -Brandon Sun.
NOT EVEN A LITTLE
The Treaty of Versailles was not
a brutal nor inhuman'treaty, •es-
pecially if judged by standards
previously - set by Gerinany. If
it had been .enforced, the demos-'
as ries--tanld-Stet-ioday-bre-fsg. . le
ing ter, their lives. he. fatly that
miss.! not be repeated after this
war is the folly of . trusting the
Germans, or the Japanese, ever.
-Port Arthur News -Chronicle.
CAUSE FOR WONDERMENT
Picture the .wonderment of ' a
Woman watchnn4 • dream .zlniinal
.1'
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WHERE -YOUR SALVAGE GOES
Salvaged glass is nearly 100 per cent. reclaimable. Here a
workman.. shov'e's salvaged. glass that has been ground Into: powder.
Melted to a white ,heat in a roaring, furnace, it will go to ingenious
machines that mould it• into useful articles.
ff iw�
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sA Weekly Column About This and. That, •in The Canadian Army
"Canadians must supply more.
tanks, store 'guns, more men, more
bombers,' more riders," You have
heard public speakers ' reel these
sentiments off time and again and
audiences stamp and cheer :and,
hbr t-ns=hope-dasheie
'War Saving* Stamps and Victory -
Bonds. '
well; so kite ati • the audience
reacts that way, why should any-
, one' worry 7
And yet there is, a worry there.
It's • the grouping together of ma-
chines and Men.
, It's bag ; psychology. . It inus-
catetJ61 = i1��� tfcr k-Rtcm
Marcy i&i:c iruire ,arrives in Hol-
lywood for a movie tryout with
plenty of .bicycle tires - but no
bicycle..
Canned Seton
Is Requisitioned
Although canned salmon . is still
available in limnited quantities 'on
the shelves ,of grocers, Canadian
housewives must soon t reconcile
t.henpsekvcs to the loss of this
favorite tahk delicacy. states C.
B_ Powell, sales manager for Brit-
ish Columbia Packers Ltd., Can.a-
ida's largest canners of salmon. '
The • whole of Canada's 1942
salmon pack has been' requisition-
• ed fair use of the' British govern-
'went.,Last year this country
sent oe and a half million cases
to Britain -a considerable contri-
bution to the; larders of the 'mo-
ther country and to hEmpire 'war'
fronts. .This year. even' with the
whole Pack being shipped, each
British family Will receive an av-
erage of only one can of salmon
every month or two.
This sacrifice, though tempor-
arily inconvenient, will be made
willingly by Canadian families, in
. the, opinion of Mr. Powell: White
the Canadian diet remains 'little
affected bee the rear, that of the
British , family • Inas in contrast
been reduced to. the merest es-
sentials. withnearly all milk re-
served bar children and a weekl
meat ransta of only tvvenfy-fi e
cents per person.
, •l:oss of shipping and the cons
quer! • premium on cargo space
has forced the British government
to coimfoene ir,'s im orts , to goods!
•with high can:entirated nutritive
value, and such food- .asitadian
Canned sniveler have beeodee vital
to the hcalih and morale of Brie'
!air's people.
overand obey every slightest mo-
tion, just after she had failed to
,get. one small child to go to bed.'
Christian 'Science' Monitor.
BIG ,SCALE' EFFORT
• Russia- doh : "filings an ` a' big
scale, as is evidenced by her mob-
iliza.tiotn of one huadredand fifty
million men,, women and •children
to help produce food and gather
the crops'' this year. Hathiiton
Spectator.
PREFERS . THE 'COW
I A thoughtful - editor in tlfe
prairie country • Prefersa cow to
a saxaphone, because in addition
to making the same ,poise it givea
milk, ---Stratford • Beacon -Herald.
tamin B-1. Puts
Pep Into. Oldsters
Aged hien in the spotted vest
stage and •old ladies who no longer
cared how their skirts hung have
been restored to natty dressing
by taking. Vitamin B-1.
This effect on .interest in per-
sonal appearance was reported'to
the Ameriiexn Psychiatric Associ-
ation by six doctor's 'of the Wor-
cester, : Blass., State Hospital.
These aged persons had reached
the . stage where their minds
seemed, about gone. After two
months on the vitamin, and other
good diet which probably also
helped, they became 'neater, more
tidy-, took an interest in personal
• appearance. This was •particki-
tarty true of the mast dilapidated
oldsters. -
Two of them aecognized . their
families .fpr the first time since
entering the hospital. ' They be-.
Cams -more {sociable and had getter
appetites.
"The adrninistration of vitamin •
therapy,", said' the repert,. "in
senile psychesie , has materiially
chanSed the behavior pattern of
t the individual patient to such • an
extent that some ' have beeome
better hospital citizens ,and some'
have returned to,the chinnunity."
English Dog Brings
Fresh Eggs Home
Don, a spaniel in Ayrshire,
England, is helping with the War
effort. . Eggs are scarce, and a
hen on a farts has the bad habit
of laying her eggs far from the
hen house: This used to mean
lose of time, . but now Don has
come to tite rescue. Every day
he follows the .hen. waifs until
the egg is laid, picks it up in his
mouth without craekipng it• and
carries it to the farmhouse
kitchen. .
a rug' f -ras a po it.ecian to
think of . men -your son or .•oro•.
ther or father 'or husband or
' sweetheart --in the same breetli. as
- machines? • • - ' •"
We can• sweat and sacrifice and
sate to •.?upply more tanks. more.
gal ts, moil TRInifi'ei's; 'Snore ```ilex "' -
We can and we must!
Belt. it is not `our sacrifice oc
oe.r' sweat when le men go,: s That
is theirs and we have no right to
be smug: and complacent. when
they i olunteor . no matter how
close we are to them or theyto. us.
Yon'Il bear the same' type , of
speaker say; "Mrs. R3Csnk in my
constituency - has ' gii en ; two sons
to the Army."
Mrs. Blink hasn't given her
sons to the Arrny. They weren't
hers to give. Let us rather say '
that :firs. Blank gave her -Soros thee
cbat•acter that' Tirade thein ready
to off r - their• services. perhaps:
their lives, to their country.
But °don't let us' class them with
the mzehines that are being built
to aid its- soldiers by .tine Individ-
ual Citizen's,Army! ,
'The men who puton th::ir•cotin-
' tree's eirtioren when that country is
fighting for the existence cowry
the
.Christia.n world, do it• for the same.
reason their fathers did, There is.
.no, burning -fire. of patriotism in •
them,' no inward. si!etrt sound of
Kipling's •Sines. , no• • proahi thought
of sacrifice. no s:rong Call •of dtnty.•.-
They put on the unifohn because
they are men and men fight to
protect their own and preeerve
their heritage. -
They don't get •into uniform be-
cause politicians or preachers or
,jingoes •or• Colonel Blimps tell
them tit's their deny -neither
should' we who are not permitted •
to wear uniform need to •-be
"needled" «p, to put our backs into
• backing the soldiers up.
"Not permitted to wear uni-
forms." But we are! We are per-
mitted to weal` uniforms of our
own design and mannnf'acture. We'
can wear eni€orris represented:by
•
'turned coats, . by frayed cuffs; • bye'
lack of frills tei save cloth for vital.
needn_
We can wear uniforms .by walk-
ing to save -gasoline. ,by abstaining
'fromcandy to save sugar, by wear=
sting plain -food—
by.. buying two War Savings .Cer-
tificate stamps insteadof going to
a m.oyie, '
That way we can be privates he
the Individual ' Citizen's Army-
and it's a,lot harder to be . a good
private than a gond general!
That way we can supplythe
men in uniform wih' "more tanks,
tc
THE WAR - WEEK -® Commentary an Current Events '
June, 1942, Opens With Grounds
For Hope But Not Oirerconfidence
June begins this year with a
'better military prospect than any
one had good; reason to; Nhope for
three months l ago, and. certainly
far better than any one had dared
to hope • a .year ago. As June
opened last year, Germany had
. been everywhere• victorious; •or-
ganizedYugoslavian ' resistance
had been crushed in an appalling-
ly short time; the. British bad not
only been .swept out of' Greece,
' but humiliatingly driven out of
Crete, suffering huge,. naval losses
in the operation. • Hitler's repu-
tation foe invincibility, says the
Iew York Times, had never been
higher. •
' Outcome in Libya Doubtful •
But as June "opens • this :'year.
..his 'reputation' for .invincibility has
been badly battered. • The.' long-
heralded Nazi Spring drive. in
Russia -.has.. not .yet -begun. ; If .the.
Nazis are inflicting huge - losses
on ' the Russians, .they are un-
doubtedly still suffering huge
-losses themselves, and. their pro-
gress ie being fought savagely
every 'foot of the way. • The but -
come in Libya is. still doubtful;
but in place of the stories a year
ago of clouds of German: planes
over Crete and of British soldiers
without air pretectidn, the British '
are able •to report today that the
R A.1c. -has ,..a five -to -three. 'air.
supremacy in tibya, and with the
ir'.. supremacy '
help ' of that a s p y was
able to videck400 Axis tanks and
trucks in two days. '
Britain Pays Back ,...
M1ost • sensational and 'unexpect-
"ed of all, however, is the news '
greeting - readers • as this June
opens that "considerably „ More .•
than 1,000" -perhaps - 1,250 -
planes from 'Britain • have. •in a
single night; in the- greatest air
raid of .'history, swept over Ger-
many and ' brought.°(death- and 'de-
sstruction to Cologne and other•
areas in the Ruhr and Rhineland.
At the beginning of June. in 1941;'.
a - prediction that this, would hap-
pen .witifin a year would have
been considered a mere' daydream.
Britain, at long last, is , able 'to
pay 'Germany back,,.'` and ort .a.
'-huge scale; .for even in the: ter-,
riblv bombings• of. Enpli.sh .cities
in the Fail and Winter of 1940-
41 it . is estimated that the . Ger-
mans never used more' .than•" 500
bombers in any single night.
early as they might have wished,
their general offensive in South
Russia. ' No doubt the Russians
wo ild have liked to take Kharkov;
but also, no doubt, they are right
. when they say their primary pur-
pose was to . prevent an • all-out•
assault on goatee and the Cau-
casus oil fields. The Nazi drive '
on Kerch was• a "clear indication
of ' the direction the Germans
meant to take. But, thus far the
drive on . Kereh'ha$ . gone no
farther. Summer • has , already
come in South. Russia and• Marshal
Timoshenko .has plainly• upset the
Nazi timetable. The Main forces
• of the . two' huge armies have. not.
yet'corse into action. A regroup•
ing:will be .necessary -before they
doe.. The first chapter of the
"Spring drive" seems clearly to
.demonstrate.' that' the easy Ger-
. - man -victories- of last Summer are
no longer possible. Th1eugh the
Russians have fought magnifi-
cently for nearly a .year, 'in spite
' ' of tremendous losses, we do not '
knot*. how long they' can go on.
Battle of Atlantic
We 'Ourselves mast face in all '
-frankness :the fact that we have
been losing,. and are ' still ' losing,
•the . battle of the Atlantic. A sta- • .
tistical '•sunrmary• published late.
fast week showed ; 221. merchant
_ships, an and either
registry ''sunkon this side of the
Atlantic t since mid-January. '
Against this, even when "pee-
sumable" sinlrings are taken into
considera..tion; the. ;rarrher ;oz -glib-
marines 'sunk here appears to, have
been only about one-tenth of -this
:figure. •
Yet shipping . is. the ..bottleneck
through Which practically the
whole. American contribution .to
the war (with •the exception of
long-range planes) must be fun-
neled... The British' depend upon:
us for 'their food supplies. The'
British planes that rain destruc
tion on Germany depend upon us,
and above all ' on American tank-
ers, for their gasoline supplies.
The .. most important question to
ask about - the t rrifie bombing ,
just reported over • Cologne is
whether such bombings can now
be sustained. 'We must not forget
that this is the first large-scale.
bombing ;operation over Germany
since that over Mannheim on May
19, .and before . that since Ma
FROM
" ISANKS; • • • POST O.MFiO.RS
DEPARTMENT' STORES '• DRUGGISTS
GROCER$ - , TOBACCONISTS
sODK • STORES and outer RETIOL •STORES
appeared. It reads: "American
ec-=-Embassy' Economic Warfare' Sec-
a -ton" '
ton'-''... - ..a .-
ltfane .of the small staff behind
those doors wears. a': uniform' or
carries a gun. '
Kill With Money •
But their job is to»kill the e-
emy, too -with money nand some-
times batter; .that. 'device the.
• 'Nazis . made so popular.
' Eaeh day, some .. 'of 'the staff'
goo to the British Ministry of"Eco-
nomie 'Warfare. • There, in a.
brown -panelled • room, , they , it
_Lai# :•--three British .economl'c ex-
perts around a • table filled' with
reports - reports ,of.. cotton for
• sale in Turkey, opium •in Persia, '•
tungsten in Portugal and hides
e .'saner was pa c+ s u
old hoe, the bouseville alio makes;
over an old dress, the school -boy
• wlao walks 'sedately past a good
slirie.. in save wear .and tear . on
his bouts--ormaybe the, Seat of
leis pants --is supplying- more Ma;
'Chines' to Hie:trebled' '
• Those are the. thoughtful peciple:.
What about the tbei t t gas- ones?
To be thoughtless these days is .
to be' nnpat•riotic and 'to he un-
patriotic .tleee days is close to
treachery.
Perhaps we should 'drop "fancy
lan:gunge these. days,. perhaps, we
would better 'unders'tand: 'what
'harm : thoughtle;snese can' do if
we were' to .m11 a sugar hoarder
a -traitor, the man. who ;I'Connivis
to get a double-breasted slit a
traitor. the Ioyerider a traitor. ei
`What •do yo¢ think•
Must Get Totiftli.
With Ourselves
a
tlr. Donald Nelson has summed
up,' in a minimum of words, the
task facing ns all in 1,4or•th Ameri-
ca, says The Vancouver
°'Before we try to get tough with
some one else, he says,, `.`we've_
• got to get tough--w:th ourselves."
That is. the !:hole test.. Are we
ready • to' gat tough with our.
selves" Oiiv-ieusly we have . not
done so .up..to now. Largely civil
ization • in America -a distortion
of the Dec:aration of 1ndepend-
encc-bas been life, liberty -and
the . pursuit of flabbiness. • .The
process of Making ourselves tough
enough- for this war has barely
begun yet, but it is the only pos-
sible means of victory -tire tough- .,
ness of the individual Man and
woir,an. How tough are you? How •
tough in willingness to give up
I,tLtjmries, to accept inconvenience,
to live a differentkiind..-of' ' fife '
„
and to be cheerful through it
ail? As we all can answer this
question, we shall vein ,or lose the
War.
Prime : Minister Churchill, "of .
what Germany will receive, city
by city,' from now on." If this.
rate of bombings can .be ,sustain-
ed, there can hardly • be much
doubt regarding the u.ttimate re-
sult, ;even 'if Britain• and~ rnerica
this Summer do not succeed in'
• opening; up another front on the
European , Continent. Fol the
damage to Germany's morale, war
produetion and communications
could so diminish . German land
striking power as almost certainly
to keep Russia ie the war. Even
if we grant that air bombing alone
Gannet win the war, and that the
final step in victory must come,
from land power, we cannot forget
' that greiwing British and Amer'"carim
air power is today ' suppleented
by aetive and by no means mere-
, ly defensive Russian land power. ..
Battle of Kharkov
June thisyear opens, in short,
with great grounds for hope; but
certainly not .grounds .for over-
confidehee. On the admission of
both 'sides, the 'greet Battle of .
IUharkov has ended. Both sides
claire, the 'victory.. ' .In point of
Let, the Russians and Germans
seem to have, fought each .other
to 'a standstill, using up all innme-
diateiy available reserves and in
the ,end reaching a tactical dead-
loek.' NevertheIess, certain stra-
tegic _result.; are 'bound to flow,
from, an ,engagement so prolong-
ed, so mateiveand so bitterly 'con-
tested.
.
. The Germans claim the victory
because their •flank attack stop- '
ped the Russian. drive before•
Kharkov had fallen. . They do.
indeel, •retain , possession of the
city and its junction of rail lines.
They did inflict heavy damage on
the attacking' forces, as ;Moscow
admits. But at alt timesthey
were on the defensive. •
$pring Drive Held Up
The real significance of the
'battle is that, because of it, the
Germans could • not launch, as
ccm
come of the war in a sur.prisiigly
short , time; are to be kept up, as
they must;. be .toachieve, any such
result, night after night, our sup-
plies to Britain by sea trust con-
tinue in an uninterrupted' and
ever=broati,etrino' stream.: `• . ,
'
ECcbliOriakWarfare- Squeezes Germans
—.P, d.,".`AMP ..
inIrak. __...-
Cables start going out:
Buy ' the' cotton- - Germany .
needs it for clothing.
Ruy • the opium tee Germany'
needs it for drugs.. ' " •
Buy the tungsten - Germany
needs it for munitions.
Buy the hides .-' German ' sod
diers' etre .short of •boots.
attlefields Narrowed •
What the price is doesn't mat-
ter. Nor does it `natter that Bri-
tain and- the United. States con-
trol rnore hides and _.cotton thaa '
they can use. :
Britain' has been engaged in '
this type of _ warfare since the
war began-pouringout mil•lions._
She . fought betties; in the 'Bala
kens,' for , chrame, oil, bauxite`
tobacco and a hundred other
items. , • ' •
, Ne.w the.. _battlefields-- are,-narc
•
Axis• . Feeling Effects of
Pressure By United' Nations
A. half million dollars worth of
sheepski;ji gloves are bought in.
Spain, and 3,000 miles . away in
Russia two months later German
fiegers freeze on the -triggers of
their rifles. . -
A'mllion'dollars Is deposited in
Turken to buy dried fruits, 'aro
the . German people tighten then.
`.-'belts another no c1i '
This ' is economic warfare -
slow, •unspectaeular, but far-
reaching and deadly. 'Since De-'
cember 7 the. United States , has
• taken her place beside Britain on
this war front as -well as on the
righting fronts of • Australia;
.India And the Middle East.,
. On the door of a small Apart-
ment -just off. famed Berkeiey
Square a small brass plate has
Italy out of the South American
field' through 'the blockade. That
has become • a naval matter "and
Germany n w"can buy only in the
places she lean reach by 'land•..
Turkey is the main battle-
ground, da eTy; followed by Spain,
Portugal an4 North Africa:
' Barter- Systole,
Agents 'in Britain,. the United,
States and 'the' i Axis countries..
scour these regions daily - in a-
g►rim race to . find something , of
use.
Sometimes, it isn't money the
sellers want bat barter for some-
thing they need.
And the hard-pressed Nazis
find .their own, device used against
them. Their industries tied up
with war orders and their rail-
roads overloaded with troop and
',munition transport, they cannot -
guarantee deliveries.
The United Nations, With con -
trot of the seas and plenty of
money to buy goods. in South
America' for barter if they lack
th'e articles themselves, can sup-.
ply anything that is asked. -
" "This is one war front on which ,
the Axis is in retreat,'.' one •.Am-
erican official declared.
Germany plans to compel 6,000
unemployed women and girls to
work in industry or agriculture.
high in the 1,a:rrent:oma+, . . . 'at
this 3u -curious hotel. ...there ser-
vice and atmosphere hate a1 -
way's attracted a distinga.shed.'
clientele . superb cuistne by
n (anions chrf . . nit sport:•. a
prirate sandy bench, gloriouie
w •rcaiks and transit. ,t:Yb NO
TtiAr.I'oRTATtO' problem .
• cz Strain, bus or' car will take ;rims
there in tens than two honeys.
Write tor hklt. and rates.
' THE CHANTB,CLER '•
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