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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-08-27, Page 3w U -Boat Campaign In South Atlantic tnci•easeu Activity of Raid- ers Menaces Allied Ships • A large-scale offensive by Ger- man '-surface and- submarine era against the heavy and Increas- ingly important Allied merchant traffic in the South Atlantic was : predicted by informed British naval sources. Report'from neutral and Axis sources indicated, it was said,' the attacks already- had started. • These sources cited Rio Le Jan- eiru s • receipt of SOS nre. ages. re- porting au enemy surface raider I;000 miles pft the Brazilian coast and the German High Command's -claim that.45,231''tons of shipping , bound. foi• Egypt had been Sunk • recenty by 'German suhmnarineis' .off, theeAmerican and . West African coasts. Not • Drily is • the. South Atlantih •, the 'chief supply` route to India and. Egypt, but • under present condi= tions it is probable 'the most'; Im- portant means of sending supplies • to Russia 'via. Iran, Wheat -and beef from South America also traverse the new danger area en route' to. Britain. Surface Raider Reported A naval source reported a num-• berme€ -armed Ax-is--merehar-t-raid era ••reached 'the South Atlantic ' from ports on the 'Bay of Biscay since • the ,fall; of France. • Two were; destroyed by the British . cruisers.,, Devonshire . and •Dorsetshire in" December, .1941.' DISPatch 1941. - Dispatch of .another • Axis mei. chant cruiser to the area and•in- p'reased ' submarine activity there indicates that. as anti-submarine , 'defences along the North ' Ameri- can coast improve . the German major undersea effort rnay'" be • transferred s to the new •hunting ground. • The Gentans, he said, would be, more likely to riska inerchant cruiser than, a warship, because a '.surface raider. 'takes great risks f•' anti. the Germans' would bereluc=.. taut to gamble another of their di- minishing sgnadi•on of, •heavy 'war-• ships. i `. sou'esaid that•submartn es - ' would be the greatest• -danger in the South Atlantic because the South .Atlantic is "very crowded and the chances of a surface raid- er being 'sighted. 'were ' "very great.". Once been a.raider would • have to Steam southward into a "dead area Until search slacken- ad, he • said. " RECEIVES WING AT GRADUATION EXERCLiES • R: We Yeo of ,Toronto, Ont., who' was presented with his Air.. iaxigator'Aa iaig�113t1 •G,: _C-ole/wan, . chairman, .of Canadieeu Air Lines Limited, at the Wings Parade of •No: 9•Air Observer School St. John, P.Q. on :August, 14.. No. 9 A.O.S.: is .operated by Dominion Skyways (Observers) 'Limited, supervised by Canadian- Pacific Lines. Limited in • conjunction . with the British Commonwealth'Air • .Training Dian: Canaciian,'Pacific Photo. ' INDIVIDUM itizeffS 7.-11i!'' MAtu lCE a a , A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army "What,- more drill?" * You've probabl heard your ffrielids in the services grumble about 'drill. I've done it myself. And I"ve joined• in arguments in which John Citizens have held forth, on the; subject. In the early days • of this new war i found :myself lending a ready ear' to complaints that "Bow and arrow soldiers" were wasting the boys' tins;, with allot of "barrack -- i in something equally, useful in the hays "away.back when:"n_" - . . Novi', this 'is mere. etippeeition, why could not the origin of "form platoon" have been for the.purpose of teaching sobers . how to form squares rapidly. and instinctively in the days when the "square" was the unit of battle formation? You remember., those gaily -color-• 'ed chromes of •Britishinfantrymen VOiCE OF THE PRESS • • NOT SO Bee .,. AFTER MA. R,ecently • we ' looked into the matter Of our personal incoome tax and forced savings, ''Or, to be. quite • accurate, •'we . enlisted the help of someone whose arithmetical skill is greatly superior to our own and watched the' tax being work- ed out. It was . considerably less than we had thought it would be. As '`a result' we . are' enjoying a pleasant, though probably deceit - aye, . feeding .of wehlth . Wo suggest, that won take 'the plunge and look into your' own situation if °you have' not . already done so. The recent budget was admittedly - a • stiff,:- one, ' .bat. Mr; Ilsley alias ;not picked :the -country .clean;, he:• • knows that there.'m;ust. he a certain' amount of . money left 'after tastes at -Y paid, or . we shalt not be able' to live. Hee .has' left tis enough ,to, live ori, if we are ,careful. Indeed,• he, has don e better--t-hap that; helms left us enough to be able to save, 'andto •buy. War Savings Certifi Cates, which are 'undoubtedly the. best • investments' offering these days. w. -A-Peterborough Examiner. DU Y 111 ;FORES`i''R. Benedictine monks, for ever 90tG years' have been cultivating one , of . the world's finest forests. It surrounds •'an ancient hermitage, abotit fifty- 'miles sou'kheest"" of Florence, Italy. A 'report in an , American 'forestry magazine says that this forest •is as fine as it was'nearly 1,000 years ago,' though , lumber' has,he'en taken out of it great. quantities... - The monks plant new trees as fast as they cut down pid ones. • Our ,forests are ' rapidly' disappearing. Unless we w eelse's anada ,e ant a tr s, C tt , too, will have to plant -•a Use Tor each one' logged Forest destruc- tion is our greatest waste. (7uelps 7erciiry-, COT DOWN RAGWEED Rag sed is a heavy crap' and auffere from hay fever are hav- ing a t ugh time of it. The.: mtini- cipalit'yshould make a • thorough cleanup of the, vacant ' dots in town, and ' owners of gardens ehotild make sure that they. are 'kept clear of the weed. You may not. be a ' watery -eyed. ' sneezer yoursif, but there are others to think of who are. and- people can. TlE WAR, - WEEK 4 Commentary United States In Battle Of • No matter what may be the final outcome of the • battle still being fought in the Solomon Is- lands, says The New York Times, one fact emerges_ cleatly'; the United States, in close collabor- • ation• with its allies; has taken the offensive. •'We are not try- ing to .cheek a Japanese advance, as we. were ip the Battles of Mid- • way and the Coral Sea. Instead, -rave are tea l:lee by •-sea, by :-.41c and by' land 'to wrest from the Japanese control ..of a strategic 'area which •they have 'held' and which- . we intend to use as a .'base far further. offensive, opera-, tions :against 'them: ' • ' • As- yet• we know Tittle of . the. 'details...Or the action except ',that • ;,Ant'eriean . troop§' have „succeeded •;iit'forcing a heeding after a naval, • .,engagement ' in vfhieh our. losses, orftlie basis•of the latest available inforniatioii; • amounted to "at least one cruiser sunk and 'two cruisers, twee destroyers and one ' transport damaged.'.' We may be reasonably'• certain of two other' facts. . First, the Japanese claims • .,of: destruction inflicted on' our • . fleet arefantastically.. false. They announce' at • wen -ei .our .ships 'bad -been sunk.or put; out' of action. If we• had suffer • - ed even half . this loss the battle would have 'ended then and there in art • Allied °-disaster---:-, Sedond tat- -- is' .unlikely that we would risk, an a.ttaclt jeopardizing the whole • balance of,' naval ' power in ethe- Pacific. 'This action linked' with the bombardment. of Kiska, can.: only. be 'one phase of otif Pacific strategy.' We will .hardIy.. give back' to• Japan ' the, fruits' of our ,great defensve' Victories 'in the Coral .Sea and at Midway.' Indeed, the- present offensive: • is ' based, upon those victories. Japan .has:.: been 'so bard hit, particularly •by "Tier' losses, in- plane'earrierg that •: the • initiative rests for . the first time in 'our hands.' The long dead- lock is broken; and by us. 'Now, .after' a • heavy .naval'•en u :troops, •gagement, o r ' Arperican marines, and.. Australians, are striking striking','h�,rd -by'land both at the enemy garrison and at nefvly' built. airfields.' Even if., they should fail to drive the Japanese°• into. rhe' sea, they will at least „have. forestalled,, and broken up a ' gathering -:ene-iny • assault.. . on. L on Current Events Talcs Offensive• Solomon Islands • may well. 'mark the turn of the tide in the Pacific. •a'he Rusian 'armies of the South were reeling back last week be- fore Nazi .hamrnerblows. • Ian some ,places the German war machines were moving forward at the rate • of fifty miles a day. • The peril\ to Russia was grow- ing .hourly. In 1942's great 'of- fensive Hitler was coming. ever t I1 - n ' .. T `S'i r 1'C:Y i:.., _.ia 'L- l..a Jl)jCf: Z, tives: to encircle. and isolate Rus- sia from the aid sent by her dis- tant allies; to, 'drive at wedge be-' tween 'the Southern and Central Soviet forces; to, cripple 'Rtlssia!s Writs' output ansupply lines by ..the capture' od f. =such.' centees-•:as.- Stalingrad, the.. domination of 'such-. a.'vital river. as the Volga. Pos.' session ,of the Caucasus oil fields, would be a prize of doub'le value; it -would„ not only replenish the' dwindling fuel • stocks' of •the Wehrniacht -but .might' seriously hamper the mobility'of the highly niethanized Soviet arrhies. :Marching south and east . into the 'Caucasus, the' Germans had ),eft, huge Russian forces in their, flanks, and in their rear;Strik- ey ing ower, aur d, e ra might be able to take. advantage of the Nazi position. Tlie day may home. when Russia will be asked to hit 'from the east while the -second front is being' establisheit in the west. At all events, Wintei will come again. • Disorclees In " l dia 1"he ,first ' ,violenti ,outbreaks of . theivi i e i d sobedieince .campaign *ere followed by a lull; --the disor- ders in they larger' cities began 'to die down. The British saiv suc- cess •in their 'plan.•to. "dise.onnect" the leaders \•of the revolt from their 'followers by arrests. London' reported that the- movement had not received widespread support `in'ie countryside: "iloVKeeer; violence' flared 'up anew in Cal- cutta and other cities as' the Bri- •tish studied more 'drastic methods of combating Gandhi's campaign: In England ' itself. -and elsewhere in the woe'ld there was. •concern lest '•the whole affair degenerate: into mere suppression of a -revolt. ' It was felt that more was. requir- ed;' that India must be won • to•: • wholehearted support of the Uni- . ted.'Nations' war effort., 'Help' Foe Malta h&te.,-,. �i f stt. trent; W- .. 'the . •: unsinkable er craft •-• ; a:�i i'er -Whose- planes operating -from three airfields, ,harry and smash. at Axis. , shipping, to North Africa, at Axis air bases in Sicily. Italy,, and. Greece. Frobases only sixty miles em wee°,,_Attie eleentbers Have raided' it. more than 2;000 times e more than any • other • place • in' the' world—in their efforts to .knockit out'o.f the war. At One.time an entire • German air fleet • was assigned • to the ,task,-. Malta has cut bomb shelters deep into' • her solid rock, and lives,' for tin Most part, underground. But front • the times of the Carthagipiantt . six centuries before Christ, Mat- ta has proved hard to take. Last week England sent rein forceme-nts to• Malta to use in has _ attacks on the ships which were strengthening Romniel's desertt' armies in Egypt. Pi great convey,. protected by warships, was dis- patched to the little ' island. As' the vessels sailed past Italy's " hOot" a great sea battle develop- • ed. Axis • forces determined to • block theconvoy's passage, struck at it with everything they had. ' They hit it with dive=bombers,' Ts -hi ata fledeiedrethee-_eri.»ripally%' .. the fast little terped'o-carrying "E -boats." On the allied side the • "bulk of the Mediterranean fleet! • was, reported engaged., London for long time'rema;'iried. silent,'.' -admitting only the loss of the air' craft' carrier: Eagle;,. Berlin earl home'claimed, heavy damage in.. • flieted—more-than" fifteen vessels sent . 'to --the bottom; , Later ' London• . reported' that part 'of the coevoy had gotten through -Malta had received' its ' much-needed planes. ; Besides , the loss 'of the Eagle, the sinking • of the cruiser Manchester was an- nounced. Two attacking ' sub- marines • were claimed sunk iii what was described as one of' the largest naval operations of the ther British • units heavily bow - herded 'the Italian island. of Rhodes, Axis - threat to Cyprus and Syria. ' There -,were signs,: _last week_ of a new threat in the unceashii straggle for supply on 'the. Atlas• _ . tic Ocean.' FronheBrazil came see ports -of an ,Axis 'surface raider'' preying on Allied shipping off :the - , coast—a large, fast, 'oil -burning v- wasbelieved to have. •. easel which a e. d sunk at least one ship and, attack- , ed 'other's since its presence be- came known: Survivors from- tor- -. pedoed vessels landed at South American ports 'repeated the tale so often told in more northeia c^aaters hi 'submarine' ,attacks" - unguarded Uniee"d',Nations freigh- ,:.ters. London believed Germany had embarked on a large -scala'' combined surface raidsr. end U= boat campaign in outh Atlantis waters. . p S ri w, Term Mall Gained Freedom Jacques Is First, French Hos- tage TO Escape To 'Britain A French shopkeeper wearing the uniform of the Fighting, French • with the ribbon of. the• CrOix de' Guerre and wound stripe, earned in the last war stood proudly in ' Gen. Charlesde Gaulle's head - ;quarters • and •told of. the- dash .to • freedom that saved him from Nazi 'machine -gunners. ' Jacques, whose other name tenet remain, secret, is said to be the , first 'French hostage to escape the Germans and reach Britain. • Escape-• alone' might' have been " easier, ,, t ' e knew the fate that •would 'befall his wife. Gabrielle, and their -116-year-old' son, 'Louisr' if they 'were left behind; se, they fled together, • Gabrielle came' to the press con- , Terence, but Louis was too busy signing .up in the fighting French • • Mr Force.. ' Lasi year,. 50. hostages ranging front. 17 "upward were shot hi Jacques' • home town in Western France.'lfl reprisal for ,,the, slaying of.a German officer. • Jacques Warned The Nazi command ordered the • seizure of • 50 more hostages' and •Jacques was on the list -With good- reason.. For months past he and Gabrielle had been receiving eFightiug',French" pamphlets. They.' didn't know who sent them but they e'opied and sent them to many 'others. Jacques was warped the 'night before he was to he arrest- ed'. • • ' Within a,, hour he was on the train to 'Paris with wife' and son. Blot thet°e he ryas -told an exit visa Would i- -granted only with per' mission of his home -town police. This . and other , means failed; so• Jacques and family set out on . their own for Unoccupied France. Within a' few' Hundred yard's of the line of demarcation a German girl in unhorse -one of those Who • check credentials at • the, line --- asked fora lift ,in 'the motor; car they had • hired. • Frontier guards. waved • them on .when they saw bet with pent, ' • Thrice months passed before' the family ,,fittal•ly obtained permits to go to North Africa. It was then March and only ai, short time ago Were • they able to escape. from, A fleets. ' 1 i va Of the psi,cable • � li ed Its ion s of France Jacques declared with laughs and gestures: • . • "Every Allied soldier should •. bring three rifles -two for the f'`renFl mee ready to fi.gjtt 'at their ' .;aids, 'the tainting would 'be a sit - nal for , a general revolt," A V ' • Ainr'for:%quite a -tong tine,:.:al- sough ,,for its'- apreeeisian•aa'€ l'isnap-. ines'S I like drill, 1 ;was inclined to subscribe to the opinion that a lot 'of it was wasted time, 'and. to label myself -a "bow and arrow soldier_" , Two -• weeks. ago, when I was first• introduced toAtte' new "battle - drill," 1. began to see the light, .I suppose the reason for that was 'because. I had. 'to convince Re- serve Afmy recruits that there is ,a for‘the. forthe• drill to which so much of their early army life is devoted: . .In Order to ,supply myself with good reasons to pass along I had . to 'think • about the subject con- siderably more than I had', prev- iously and, as is so often the ease, the•Whole thing fell into a pattern.' Until then lily sole excuse ,for bin had—le—en that it -is- necessary in the early days 'of, a soldier's .' training • to teach . him 'that he Vis part of a ''oup, and• that'the group is not- capable of functioning as a. • unit until it has become integrated through. 'constant practice. In, ad- dition: of course, there • is the fact that a ,body 'of men marching un-. der complete discipline will move • with • less fatigue than a; similar. • boli walking at random- • I" hadn't..thpught of the 'origin of the drill or the .underlying reasons for its institution- 'And I probably wouldn't have puzzled that out for - myself yet if. it hadn't been nec- essary. for me to study the "'battle drill" that is now a part of Army • treining. • There have been one or two articles about Battle Drill written in England and published in ' Can- adian papers, One of them,' `by Captain Kin Beattie, Toronto newspaperman, who is now Press Liaison Officer at Corps , Head- . quarters. emphasized that it, had been received with enthusiasm by the Canadians, hut did not go into Much detail about the drill itself. Two reasons for this' lack' of .de tail could be that a written des- . cription of a drill is a pretty dull. subject or that for security rea- sons no details of the drill are to 'be made public. For either or both 'of those rea-' sons : this column, will content it- self ,With saying that Battle Drill • is a 'series of exercises designed to make good battle field habits instinctive 'and 'that the drill, which can be carried •out leteralty. anywhere, ,is practical and does just what is intended. introduction to, Battle »rill gave me a shock and brotUht the re- alization ,that "drill" actually Can have a goat that its purpose •id not necessarily as 'abstract as i had thought. From that shock came the, read- oning that , "barrack-squhre sold-' . tering" probably had its origin r 463.01t 4�1 �EEHi aashe. Bank • krnelt ..and .with rats fiaed•.bay-. weonets•;foamed:«a ;sort 'of•''eheara€!-•dq• 'frise" 'for the • protection• oft the rear, rank which. stood With.* inns- kets •poised ready'. to .mow do'wti attackers by volleys. It 'is easy: enough • to picture.. the 'troops' marching -to -battle in :col- umns of fours and to .imagine ' the command, ."at the halt on the left,' form half company:" • Forming two . „deep as they carried out the order; the' leading- . group' would then 'be • in position sio • meet a' 'cavalry. . charge. ' ' . It sounds reasonable, 'doesn't •it? And • at that time the drill, would have - as much to .recommend . it 'as Battle. Drill hastoday. • ' '' Off .the battlefield it is -still nec- essary 'to have drill movements for the orderly handling' of troops, nd.. . r soldiers of. the Individual Citizen's Army drill has its uses, too. Drill for civilians? Sure!. We've all been -drilling ever 'since.gasolin'e was rationed. 'That particular drill didn't affect us .all, but the. next ' one 'bid. , '. • 'That's right! Sugar! But even more important than the, absolute .rationing of sugar announced Mate' 26 was the • voluntary rationing .of _ tea and coffee We were _asked to. 'carry' out, • I it was.'a. drill; a di••ila to train us for . the battlefield when absolute - rationing (4 '.tea' and coffee should come: Hosi seriously we took that drill governs• •our fitness to •''take it" ,now that we have no choice. The soldier or. sailor or -airman expects to' be given orders- that . Will co-ordinate individuals so that -they' can carry_ out a joint job. We soldiers behind' the lines will 'have more 'and sterner orders to obey -before this job is 'done -let's do,our drill cheerfully and by ready for what is to 'conic.. --:stant.ty snee iiig-ametTrubbing their -eyes. --Siamese Reporter. DO THEY EVER? .. "How Sergeants Get Soldiers to Like Thein,t' • says a headline. Which will -be ..the first -inti'ma tion 'some soldiers have heard that,t.• sergeants ever 'do. • • , -Windsor, Star. O A' Scotsman built the first self- propelled - torpedo from plans drawn up by an Austrian. -. • HOOT, MON! . •• They' say that one of the oddest , sights 'in "the Canadian army over- seas is that of a Chinese lad in a • kilt ' playing the bagpipes in' an Eastern ' Highland band. Hoot, mon, your shirt tail's sot! —St. Thomas . Times -Journal: Brit•ain Calling • Subjects •Home - • The British Government, through' its consulates,•. is advis- ing its subjects abroad, including those in the United !States, that they will be giehn financial and other , assistance in returning to the lioinela.nd 'to volunteer for military or...civilian service:,., ' • • Free passne, to the ,United Kingdom Will he paid to all, ac- cepted volunteers. said a recent announcement of the British In- formation Services. Offers of service 'will be con-, sidered from both 'married and un- married men and womeir. A departure from existing prac- • tice, said the Informl1,,tion Ser- vice. •is an extension ofi the term -, "British subject" . — to include "aliens of the second veneration born abroad who would have been, British but for the failure of their parents to ,register birth at ^a British consulate." ` 'Volunteers are being asked to supply iihemselees with • a; good supply of winter clothing: • • -eche eh€ he he!d .. so e4ong°-`t=he' bitter -retreats •.of their' •sena:ll : tor- ces. 'from' outpost after outpostte in the. Southwest Pacific area, the, • nnoel .hopeful indication in; the Solon:oes action. lay , in , the fact that their trchiehehad: ;undertaken the offensive; that in • the distant islands the cornerstones, perhaps, were being laid for further ,deices to. ,push the .'i°rivaderfroth, his new-' • ly ;wen •possessions between. sus-,, tralia . 'and the • Burmese. 'jungle: • A, battle is being -,fought which . LIFE'S LIKE THAT Syr Fred Neher "Is it true about him havin' a girl 'in every port?" SCQ' u G s • Following air .. raids' s ervicea carried out ' by ,the; Boy Scouts of Bath', England, included parading, the streets wit • ,-n; seithes.rani nsehnepe asedemateriele • :easel --serving ,for . many,: J em's municipal feeding centres.- : Older' -Scouts helped in extrlc-sting the • dead and injured from bombed..• houses. - ' •*' *• • • .. -tremae; who _dills'-ur ea'n 'ma'ke- the time. available, or `can other wise assist in 'the work of the Boy .Scouts 1 Association. is not onlse • •. making a -worthwhile. contribution' to the winning of this. war, but ' possibly , even more 'important, ,towards the building 'up of the 'future manhood of this 'country,'• —Col. R. 'G, 'Whitelaw', Director. of Military Training. a . r S * When the Lord Mayor of _Shef field recently appeared before a meeting of 'the Sheffield County. _ e of :office 4as Scow unit tiro his badhe wore,' rn a • g mayor, a' Scout Wood Bacjge, . "indicating • that he' had °.taken and success-' fully passed the senior . Scout • leaders' 10 -day; camp training' .. c•nursc." . t e A bed in the Middlesex. Hospi-. - t,ii. -England. has. been named .af- ter the 10th Marylebone Rover Scout Crew..:te recognition of the valuable services rendered at -the. hospital by, them since the. out- 'bresk of the sear. ' • e *' A.' young sc,ldler in a British) tank. cunit 'e-1'found to have an. e•xtrac>rditiare 'knowledge, of so . many thi•nes that he was frequent - l'3' asked tet give :ectures to his unit. He demonstrated sonic car- ,,,l,ei tern, hint, coekine f,=rct aid, h. -_e he map teed in.. , tele' ra pity and aoodiraft- He was •loekeh upon :i something of a' freak. Ftna:lty the Ser:chnt Major asked where he had acquired ail' his kn'ow edge, " C iearette 'cards"" he suggested. "No, Sir." said the young. soldier, -Study for. Proficiency Badges • Mien. I wa; a Boy Scout." •H REG'LAR FELLERS ---That's • • Different .. By GENE BYRNES- - - WELL ,WELL., WFIOs BEEN PICKIN ON MY t�NPRIEND .IiMMIE . D v • 4=,....• * a �".•. ' J _/ % j All iNF1tE'S IVO USE CRYIN' OVER SPILT MILK,M'BOY I :-.;7-5"--✓, ,_---„,....-- % Y CAT'WOULD L K IMtUP• WHVN IFS, INK ' LICKI ' L. --.- .-- ..` .. f./� BUT' r Wile. - / ` ,�` y' '--..� -e-''' �. ' SPILT A• BOTTLE OF i .. INK ON OUR Nqw CARPET/ `.: 1Jtl�-Ii!00 >f l`\�\, e • ` = ,..• -` , + — • ' 16 _ i . :„moi ,ti#. ! ' Y I ' 4 s^- i �- DO THE LICKIN r.• . y - ..... I /ref Ps 6 r ._ t'A 'I A.11 s • a ►� O ... C' , _ iAr�, .:. iimit----_ -'-= .� t . r�O o 0r ..�� ...... N ' - .....;" ` 14 _ j>'�wss0 �t� p 7;29 �. g,,, rot OM, 13 •tit. ,«....:, .. A