Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-06-18, Page 7Japan's Bamboo V 0 1 C E And Paper Cities At • •a recent, pehlisherte luneh.eoe Bruce Le.neastee, author of Bright To Pbo Wanderer, made the • fol- lowing enlightning remarks re- gerding, the nrobablit. damagefeel*t done by bombing TOkyo-ande-other • Japanese cities: - As. .soon. as dee news' of Peed Herber reached the States, the .t first . reaction was, natitially, deep -angee. Then; unfortune.tely, came • • a • geeat „ vindictive riebbing .ef .hands: -"Just •wait until our planes • • fly ewerthe it bamboo anil papeee. ' • cities!". This cry was taken up by the:public .in genal, fostered • - by nueierdife Columniste, •inanY. of ._ whom. should have known better through residence in Japan it has brerigae *aye\ of wislifute • thinkingthat,..to me% mind,."isedan-;•• • . gertmee The average citizen:(and • too . Oftenthe writer) seem' to Iiave•conjured up i'picture.oi a few . 'Allied' bombers: flying 'Over 'Hoeshit scattering, rather •casually, a. e •• few' . incendiary • bombs. ' Easy, • • ien'e it? Whyr-tw.oeor three .bonibee • • WOUid wipe..out ,any one of their_ _ bantheo •.and paper cities! • • 's M • •• T&iat's fine. But the cities newel •.; .. paper and they aren'i • bamboo. • The vital points, of Tokyte ,Kobe, Nagoya, Yokehama are brick, 'con- crete, steel, stone. (At this. point- . • .Sorneone arises to sag': "But e've • , rieen pictures of -e") Of course he has seen,. pictures • of Japanese houses. But how are they Melt?, --e-theseltapanaseeetyle_hease.. !ma, tO • -begin ewith, a_ roof of heavy tile. (Nik baeiboo;• not Paper, not • th.atelie-theugb yen wat find thatch in the, county district; it's . • not very billam.ntable„ tine. tocore stant:exposare; to a rainy climate.) This roof is about: 50 to 60 per cent' of the house Theesupporte. • .• .• are macleof cedar or pie, not see- •• . ,esoned as •we know the, term-. •The • • , walla are mud -plater laid over a . .• network of syithes. 'Paper is often, • ' • pasted over .sliding, removable tor -widows,. hut .ofelater... , • • • ...yeare, glass eha s.- •heen • used :more , and • more. -;This epaper, is so• in- • flammable that •it . will burn off its • frame With* '-even charring the • wood. .Pet ifions beiwienhme—: •are ofteu. 'a heeyy. spongy' earn- " board • set fn wood fremesand little morecombustible -than. wood. • Berries charcoal thee in big pots; • there is no. heat. . There is little, fi ny, furniture to burn. • And • annelid°. (Which, again ..is not sensed of a low. combustion point) is. used only for trimniiugs,•:Orna- OF THE PRESS WOMAN IN THE. CHAIR ' Though it was Accomplished • uietly and Without .cerenapny., ee rely hietorie .ocoasion tookeplace or Ed nton•East, sat briefly as Chairman of -the Committee of he Whole House at Otta*a.. enarked• the . first time a woinen: has ever presidedover a •sitting' Of either House of Parliament 'in the Dominion Capitale• • ' This c-ountry has been competes.; tively backward in putting wiise men • in •• Parliamentary 'office. There are but four of them in the Commons and Senate • tocleye, But we are eirogreesinge • Mrs. _ Casselreanhe Seecupancy. of ,the Chair, brief though it -was; "denione., strates 'how far ..we • ha•ve,.'gone elonge the road ef -finally . admit- ting ',that' .w.omen :are "PerstinS,'!. ' • ., • :. WindsoreSter .• •s•-•0-- • CORSET LORE , • • Discussions as to the possibile ity a'a.shortage of feminine form compressors such as corsets and - girdles due to the need of • con- serving steel and rubber for war • needs recalls the lines • of Samuel Hoffensetin: •• • , . • Nothing . from • ir atraight. .line - swerves So sharply as a woMares. curves.. . enieSe . are. ' indeed times that'. ertruht—tielhe---seidieset .stouts. •. Some •time -age in, land • Corsets werd rationed bee cause of the acute, need Of steel. It was then Louis 'Shaw Wrote: • The ship of state for an even keel, Needs 'tons and tons of corset e steel, • . -T-he-die is- mit, -the fates have • .written- . • '• • • . The, ladies no*, must • beige for Britain. • . , • e--Dunneifle. Chronicle' LESSON '• FOR FATTIES Ten co-eds • of ' the ,'University- ' of Chicago went without •.sugar in their—feed-,-arid—drink • for tire , weeks by way Of experiment: At the end of that- time ,they had. lost an aggregate of over. 25 pounds. This may • teachsome- thing to. men, as well as women, in the fatty • forties and fifties. -e-St. Thomas. Times -journal- - ., • • •W;iNTElf)'' TO KNOW • ' • ' . • 4 ,th23, 4 ';''M'S134°.M{P.tioltrikfi Irkwriri ' • the family- bath -tide- tun 194, •per cent of the time. Waterepressure • (ter:tire fightingeourgosee) is good ' in most cities:especially those in the, hills. ' '" • • This is not to say that a Japan- . ese house, or ,city, ie not inflein- maiele, It eis, highly so. In fact. • • It's * nearly 20 •per cent as intim- • malele as our Americanecities with their row's of shingle -roofed three deckers and tenements. • A, Can- • • • adian city, where more brick. plas- ter and tile are' used than with us, would -be •closer • -to Japanese hi eafety than would our. -This is* • note -tee -Say that bombing • will not. help beat Japan.' It will help eller- meuely. ' But a Japanese city will, have to be bombed as thoroughly • as, Bremen or Kiel.. A few bombs /nem American.,canadian or •Aus- tralin planes••aren't going to burn up the. Empire. If we sell our selves on the idea that they are,' we're in for a bad s io' k. 41 • Brtish W. A. A. F. Did Splendid Job 'Britain% W.AA.F's---ehe girls of the Women's Aueilliary Air Force 'e -did• their biggest job last week. ' They played an impOrtant part in the success of the 1,000 -plane raid on Cologne,' The W.A.A.'F.% assisted the R.A. F, men in the planning .arid exec's tion of• the raid..Some of the girls • acted as Interpretation officers at the bomber command headquarh ers, where they passed days pre-_ • paring rge •-• ts—a _maps whieh the Bombers carried. e As meteorological clerks in. the. .."'Weather • section, ,,others provided The forecasts which decided what night the raid; was to be. launch - • THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST • The great tank now confronting a liberated America,: which more ' • than three-quarters of ei century •ego fought a .four -years war to free the slaves, is to aid,in work- ing out the freedom of the whole world from Slavery, -The Christian • ..SCierice Board of Directors told several thousand Christian. Sci- entists gathered in annual meet- ing in Boston last week. • Meeting in their Mother Church • under the world -enveloping shad- ow of what is probably'the gra-vest threat to political and religious freedom since the advent of Chriatianity, the visitors were re- minded in a report .by The Chris-; ----tiiiiiseScientee-Breat-deeo`!• feeLecture ship .that the union of Britain and • America Was foreseen forty -lour years ago by Mary Baker Eddy; Diseeverer and Founder of Chris- tian • Science, as the instrement thienig5 which the rights of free •peoples everywhere might be Per- • inanently established and protect- ed. • This welding together of • the twogreat democracies, under the • 'impact of an international crisis, Said theLecture Board, is the •consummation of the fond hopes of all Christian Scientistee The Board alluded specifically to a poem • written in 1898 by the • Leader a this world-wide religi- • ous movement, Mrs. Eddy, which reads in part as fellows: • • 'Brave Britain, blest Amerieal Unite your yoUr battle:Plan; • Victorious, all who live it,— •'The' love for rebel and- mace". DIV! e'le • , AZ MAN MAURICE E _ Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army We cheerfully and voluntarily ration ourselves in the rise of tea, eteffeeeendougare-Why not ration' ourSelves in the use of gasoline? If we can drink our fewer cups of tea and coffee unsweetened why can't we walk a mile or two and save the gasoline we woutd have used for war uses? Across this country from coast to coast business experts are de- voting -their talents to the working • National unity is a term that has been loosely, Often Medi too loesele interpreted to mean the interrelation of English 'and • French speaking Canadians. pe. generally accepted has. this inter- pretation' become that most of us • seem to have forgotten that na- • tional unity is non-existent so long as the tribulations of Cane.- • ehans in any of the, provinces ate charred bet__Cenadians in the •• • Dutch Harbor • Dutch Harbor issituated on tiny eAerialcarile Island in a deep helot of the northernshare of much larger Unalaska Wand, Mae of the long chain of Aleutians which eteing out in a sweeping are toward Japan. ' It is about 2,835 •air mile e from Tokyo on • ethe- Southwest, and 2,345 entleti fteineSan-Pranciseo- on the South eagit. -It thus forms the apex for uglilyee triangular line which might • be,e_lrawn on -the map be- tween ,the three . points. From Seattle, Wash.; to, Dutch Harbor is about 1,900 air .miles. •" .• - The United Statesslas been ' building fortifications there since 1940. • •Their extent, has' :been, kept decret. • • •" Dutch Harbor, which until 're- . pently was only a village with 'a trading .poSt, a fuel oil depot, , a4 a naval radio eta:then, re.ceiv- • • ed its%ranie ,because of the tion •that a Duteh ,ship 'first en- • t,ered ,its bay; a 'bulletin, from the• ', National - Geographic S'o eet„e t y pointe out. Russiah navigators, however, early came 'this way.• .,"They • knew • the -then-busy fur- sealing--centie by its native Es- •.kieno name . of Udakta. . Later, • the, harbor becathe a way station' • for .vessele ' making for theegold rush regions of the 'Yukon and • Nome, Alaska. • Dutch Harbor is ,,13/e miles long • by half a mile in' Width. • Water • • isdeep near the -shores and in • , most parts of the harbor; violent • 'gales occasionally . sweep • these Waters, whenmariners are warned' : to look out for williwaws, sudden guatt..L.40.1(1 land; air. cOmmon• alpeg.mountainous'coasts of 'Nigh -- latitudes.. - • .• • • 1, reeeT, _ -sea% le..hie A e hateproheymeterelo? is the recent flurry over the re- duction of the gasoline rationing unit in the Maritime • Province from five gallons to two due to a -shortege which by the time*-thid 'reaches print may have disappear- ed. There was- a perfectly natural- • feeling down! east that it was not • fair that Maritimers should be on "short commons" when drivers 'the other six provinces still could- ' obtain their fell ration. •' Ottawa answered by pointing out reasons that • fully justified the reduction. All of this, is a preamble to the As motor transport drivers, still others drove air crews to:searting. points. and awaited- their -return with ambulances ready in case of need. They kept the telephone lines , open ' from' desk until after Aawn acid also worked in long shifts at teleprinters and in opette Cons rooms as code and cipher Merits.' ' • As rallio girls W.A.A.F.'s passed landing inetructioee by telephone to the returning crew's. Tho,y pre - •pared, and peeked food for, the oat -going aitinen •and had 'tea mid coffee ready ,when they arrived beck. • • The work of these "back room" girls •continued long after the hest -- �f the returieng crews were hornet In bed„ Thee were on the phone sending. eue details pt missing planes and helping gather .the news. • headquarters's, in Nemo*, East Africa, by ,a native telegrapher down the line. The telegram , read: "Three • bons 'on platform.. Station master in Water tank. •Please wire tin. structions.''' • ' e -Boston Globe • BRIGADIER IN IROQUOIS Brigadier 9.. M. Martin, !mined to c'ommand, a brigade in the 7th Cliadian Division, is a full- blooded Iroquois. Tecumseh( would be proud of him, especially as he loeght•eirersees during the Great War with the- Canadian infantry and the Royal Flying Corps. —Brockville Recorder and Times —o— TASTE RF: BO• TH It was Wordsworth's lament that "plain living and•high think- ing are no more." But now the plain -living is being enforced and we are he. inning sortie tall think- ing. ' • •• —Kansas .City Star NO OIL; NO DUST • Why worry? There won't be enough road oil torlay the dust • that motorists won'E raise anyway. • " —Kitchener Record -•• Tank Fights Duel With Italian Sub TIM WAR WEEK ---, Cotiuneotary on Current Events Six Months Afte Japan Strikes The Japanese military leaders are presented by the New York Times as advantegeouely sitting in the centre of a circle. Their qpponents have had the task of deciding et just what point On that • circle theyeewould strike. After the peeeineinary move against Pearl tt.a1.30r they moved ectuth. There - they • strengthened themseliee on the rubber end tin of Malya, the MI and 'rubber and foodstuffs ot the Indies. Then it was west into • Burnett, the gateway to Southern • • China and India. While their arm- ies last week marched toward and ,hammereci at the .vital central and coastal regions. of China, their, navy again fought in the NorthePacifie. Still their lead- ,, ersotild ',Otiose watch of pel these, moves -woUld be- the main blow. '.Midwaylt Attack e • The•Japaneee had done little in, the north Paeifk since 1'earl Her- : her. Her ships and Zero fighter planes were busy in the south. • Ship Plane teams won sontrel of the Macassar Strait from' Ample - pan forces operating with •the Dutch and British, defeated a UP, ited Nations fleet in the Java Sea.. Not until Japan reached the Coral °Sea did her' string of ,vi - tortes. end. These, supported -by land-based .aireraft, a United Na- • tions fleet drove a strong Japan- ese . task force north • into her, • the_e_geited ,Naticins newly conquered islet!ds,• there was no'. thought that that __ _o thugh_. was 'final. '• Last Week' exactly six months_ • after the surprise attack on 'PearI• . Harbor, Japan again tried • her • luck in the north. Raiding parties of'Japanese aircraft, hit at Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Is- • lands. Southward one' "other ,heavier attack' was directed against Midway ' Island, American outpost between Pearl Harbor and • Tokyo. • This time the • Japanese did not find American planes titled up on_ the groend, so limey'easy •ctergets •for • elapeerese bojbers. • They were in the ,air and fighting'. • Japanese airplane carriers, ,battle-, ehips, • cruisers and- • transports eesuffered--headamage,---dam:age Scoutmasters; Cut -misters and : , Commissioners of inclia 10,41 year contributed 10,000 rupees, or 750 pounds, to Britain's War Dis- tressed Seouts Fund for Scout air raid sufferers.*• , 4. • Toronto • Boy • Scout Leaders have been giving cooking instruc- tion to a •detaelienent of fifty girls •• of the Food Administration Ser.: • vice of; the Canadian Red 'Cross 'corps. The course is being given at the Crooked"Creek-Boy-Seout--- • campsite, and is a feature of pre- parations being 'made by .the Red Cross against any War eventudlity which may call for the' emergency feeding •of large numbers of per- •, One war service job of 'Bethnel Green (London). Boy Scouts was rection recently of 4,000 sele-Migr. eit Tee - see e• • Peati 14.rbor North Pacific - has a base ewhich may , one day, b:e the springboard for an atlas straight at the heart of Japan. pa. . tensively it stands guard over the Alaskan territory whieb has come ' to have increased strategic value• I, with the increased military value , of airplanee. From Alaska the : • • wide teaches of Ilia Pacific grow • small, come within the operating • range of aircraft: the 5,135 miles. fr-omTokyo to San Francisco. be- come 2,345 Rom Duteli Harbor. As' long ago as 1920 Alaska was called '"The keystone of the Ma- gic ar,eh".• •Effect Undetermined Midway islaed, the second eb-: • jective of the. Japanese force, in • an atoll of two tiny islands emc- ees:uided: by • shouts and • reefs. Guarded heavily by Army, Navy; • , :end .Marine forces, it constitutes aleemit au outer defense for' Pearl H,erbote 1,300 miles away., Amerie 'cd's" bastion in ,the mid -Pacific. In • Japanese hands it could be the base for harrying attacks against the hi g ships -berthed' at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese • have paid it constant ...attention, attacking it 'at -leaet once each month—ex- cepting for April—since' the start of the • war. But the attacks have been light by occasionall airplanes . •or submarines.. Careiers and battle. • ships operating near Midway lent • week were attacking forcps. of a • • • diftetent order. • It seems quite' conclusive • mew • • that the. Japanese ran into a trap" se-a-t-eMideray=elisiance-•-anti_eehaeeetitese_ee________, e • were badly stung. But the full' ex- .• • • .teut•of the damege they have'eurt. 'fered and its effect upon poesible, future Japanese operations re.. Mains to be determined. U. S. Strategic Seccerei • • Other operations, perhaps eve li •' • enother attack on Hawaii Or an • Offensive • against Russia, . may 'have been dependent upon • the • success of the MidwaY attack an4 . the mysterious. happenings near •Dutela Harbor. And in , repuleing • . r . the • Japanese. The Pacific Fleet •• A • may .weil have dealt the enemy. a • • *severe blow 'in the E eat. But it would seem too. early to conelude far out of Proportion, it is report- that he--Japaneee7defeeteasect-dise eti. The ,Midway area not only "Itnet.ell. probability,. the Japanese ed. to that suffered by the defend. • remained in American handeehut •possess sufficient sea and atr the, JaPanase force appeared to strength, even . after the Midway limp off .after a bad mauling by losses ape subtracted, to, •attempt sfAuremrsy, Navy -and ated. ltIarine..K.Corpa, Keystone Of Pacific . United Natioas. , either new offensive actions or to • ' any operalions undertaken by the, Put up. strong resistance against • wee -re; , • 99 rl ^ Val_Agliff_ . 4 la_ ,.._ ----'=',IS. . p'. • . charge that we are failing to live • • up to our privilege 'of serving in • the ranks•of the Individual Citi- zen's Army. . How? • It should be obvious! •• Have we in ,the central And - western parts of the country any , moral right to five gallons of • gasoline when because " of trans,. portation or any other difficul- • ties, fellow, privates in Guy behind the lines army who -are ' much loser to actual warfare' arid pp-' tential attack—have to •be reduc- ed to two gallons? • "• • • 'Why, if there is. tree national :unity, - do we not spare the 'public eM.barraSsment of Minister e we employ to govern us by Volentar- • ily reducing our consumption of gasoline to the lowest level forced upon any geograkhical section of the Dominion? , • Citizens of countries where "verboten" is ' a familiar word read garbled accounts. of , out • pre- ' • • vincial differences, accounts •that• . . ' gnif ied_eto the • point Of making some of us appear to be "Oppressed minorities," when such stories are -• published: But the feet that such stories are pub- . liihed is the fault of the citizens who fail to give the lead. to those they have set in authority. • " What seems to be the first duel between a tank arid a submarine at sea was foughtejnst before the British campaign in Libya opened, says London Calling. A British • officer, telling. the story in a BBC bioadeast, explanied ho*, in making. oat preparations for the , offeneive, we reinforced the To- bruk gatrison with heavy infantry tanks Without the Germans suspect- -the tanks were taken up to Tobruk in small bargee—shallow draft vessels with no great turn of ,speed. One barge was hosing geritly alonethe coast bound for Tohruk when an Italian submar- ifie surfaced near her and opened fire, The crew of the tank were abc ard and fortunately in their, machine when the attack began. The turret of the htaills was just • protruding above the gunwale of the barge,; it Was rapidly swung around and a tweeepounder with atinor-piereing shot was turned on the Italian submarine,- The Italian got the shock of ' his life when little flat-bottonie .ed tub of a boat suddenly un- leashed rapid and sustained fire that was altogether too accurate. The siebrimrine ceased fire and dived. The barge and' cargo went On its way , 11 horrors, of inflation arrATinaintae stocks -of essential war goods fo our fighting fortes. Some o • these men serve without pay, tn others—away from their norma • ations—sacrifice the norma • ✓ War Savings Stamps were- the, f admission tickets sold at the door e for a Boy Scout and Girl Guide I erttertainment at the Noranda I High. School. oce ads, the • in • ing " boy 40 the .of we out wa con can mon gooa. The soldierewho leaves a $150 a month job to volunteer to serve in teniform fo'r (in the case of a single man) a little More than up . , aneernents -, and -•' promotions ... . . . . y could expect it 'they . 'st,ifia' . Discussing- the- previous spare - their own jobs. • ' _ ' time treinitig of • young' recruits, hese men don't enjoy restrict: : for the ' lineerial Fetces, Brig.-. and controlling. their neigh:. e General , Clark, for over . 30 years re—it takes a Nazi" mentality . a training officer of ' Regular enjoy that sort of thing—and Army and Territcirial units, -was y welcome. action on the part recently quoted as giving first Cana -die*, that makes their place 'to, •fornicr Boy Scouts. Said et:easier.' • . General Clarlc:•":4. batch of First Why can't ive,then, who are all 4 , Class Scouts or • King's ;Scouts • to win 'the war in. the best . • would prove 'more aceeptable to y we can, make rationing and., , a Commanding, Officer or !a 'Sere trol , unnecessary. . Surely we . geant •;Major as recruits than a ,stint ourselves for the cone, • , similar riumber of lads with any ' . other ' forte of. spare -time occupa- tion 'in their' past." , . . ** . * . e* * The newest Canadian Boy Scout, war, service project •ie the sendingito o la amo . , • t t - • . us rationed himself much more British Boy Scouts now unable 'to verelyeehan we have been celled 4 secure them. . „ • • , • 0I1.ga tea, coffee, gasolitre: an . dA growing proportion of • the men of H. • M. Forces who have . distinguished. themselves . in im- portant ' actions with the enemy : are being discovered es former. Boy • Scouts or,, Scout leaders. Among the Swordfish _, pilots who attacked the warships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and gave their lives, was • Lieut. Blight a mem- ber of the 159th North London a ily se up tir on fu wi su eo of of pi eA vi tr se ac to 'fe c es, as this is written, are the ly rationed commodities. It's ney. how ger .of them tie in the -each other. The use of less gar reduces the "spare tires" me of us carry around. The Use, less gasoline increases the life. "spare • tires" we rennet re - ace. Have you joined the Reserve rmy yet? Encouraging signs are. Boy Scout Troop. Lieut. David sible in some parts of the coun- L. Davies, who took a prominent y since this workable body was -part in the SI' Nazaire raid, also t up to give those ineligible for • was a Scout, and the complete job tive eervide-F---tiVersteasete chance— --of.----civarterinaseering" for an- -train themselves for home de- other commando raid was handled • nce 'but I have not heard any by a former Scoutmaster. ' Lord ommanding officer say yet that Levet, leader of the Boulogne e can't haridle any more recruits. Commando raid, is Presideet of • That's another branch of the ;the Inverness-shire Boy Scouts ndieiduel Citizen's Army! • Associatien. ' 4 A A . 1. seeseeeese dra.wethe et:Aherne& este:se-on—et American t r ohieftains. Their' military value; to America was- great. Duteh Harbor, a' small, island of matted grass and 'five trees, stands near the base of the Aleutians, that are out:1,500 toward Japan e It. hi ii "Place df rain and snow and fog sand hard wind*, and eltere United States REG'LAR FELLERS—What's in a . Name? SEt HERE, YOU, YOUNG 0 SCALAWAG STOP BOUNCING , • THAT , BASEBALL AGAINST, ' • THIS WALL ! ,,,elapane. - 1=21=1...1911.0.31101.2=11=72.A.9, of Miclwaier American, foreee ham- achieved a strategic success • of no inean importance. From Mid- • • ., Wee% the Japanese could" have efle raided Pearl Harbor and 'possibly . I • - could hive launched a major Pa- • , • eftiee offensive- • with the West Coat and the, Panama Canal as ' ultimate Objectives. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher • "Why do CONFOUND IT, BOY! NOW CAN A 'PERSON REST WITH THAT ETERNAL THUMPING GOING ON? NOW, 40 AWAY! you always avoid me? !!" By GENE BYRNES: ATHLETES • PHOOEY •," t., U $ vol ri•e rio'. heee.• eleyez • 9 " 4.1 •