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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-01-08, Page 7TAKING HEAVY TOLL IN FORCEDWITHDRAWALS Hardened troops like these, of the crack Manchester Reghnent, are taking a heavy toll of Jap invaders on the beaches and in the jungles of Malaya. At one time many Canadians were with the Manchester.. A two-way Japanese offensive is pushing south towards Singapore and north into Burma. Creed of Nazism Vs. Christianity Nazis Reject Centuries of Human Aspirations, Relates the New York Times The ways of German propagandu m this war are harder to fathom than those of the last war. There must be a purpose. to the Nazi at - Wks on Chrlstlanity and in Bele Ita's willingness to bare those at- taoke broadcast in this country, One can't readily grasp what the purpose ie. Not long ago Baran permitted a despatch to quote from anew German best seller in which ahs assertion is made that "We gel+mans have been called be fate to be the first to 1u'eak with Chris - Canny." Is this the way to culti- vaite a friendship for Nazism in tett. Halted States, in Latin Amort• es, or in Axis Italy? It even stirs to protests in Germany Itself, as a letter from the Catholic biehops, road in German pulpits, testifies. The Nazis do not merely reject Obristianity or the Hebrew Testa- ment. They reject 25 centuries of human aspirations. If they axe weight there is no truth in any one at the following quotations: Ideal of Civilized Men Right expiration .. is the asple- ation toward renunciation, the as- piration toward benevolence, the aspiration toward kindness.—From • the Aryan Eightfold Path of the Gautama Buddha. Perfect vj1tue 1s not -'to do to °there as you would not wish done to yourself.—Confucius. The more he helps others, the more- he benefits himself, the more he gives to others the more he gste himself.—From the Tap -Te -King, attributed to Lao Tze. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,—Levitlous. Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.—From. the Sermon on the Mount. This ethical idea—for it is a Dingle thing, not in the least con- fused—runs through all great re- ligions, and all philosophies that have had an enduring hold on men's enaginations. It 1s the ideal of all civilized men today, however fm' it may be from realization in the individual or communal fife. In. the non -Nazi port of the world it does not need defence. One would think that the consciously clever Nazis, however foul their actual purposes, would pay lip service to it. But they do not. In that arro- gant and 'stupid indifference to other people's dearest sentiments lies, perhaps, the seed of their doom. French Fear That Race Is Dying Out Decline in Population Rel- ative to That of Other Coen - tries . There le a great fear that has haunted the ,rinds of Frenchmen, in peace and In war, for genera- tions: that their race is in danger of dying out, says Newsweek. ]Suer since Napoleonic times, the popu- lation of Prance has declined rela- tive to that of other European countries. From 1870 to 1913 Ger- mans multiplied at the rate of six times that of Frenchmen. The looses of the World War were a staggering blow to France. Actual French casualties in the present conflict were only a frac- tion of those suffered in 1914-18. But the peculiar , development of this wear has .brought the threat of racial' ofterminntion closes' to )Branco than ever before, There are three reasons for this: (1) the plight of the 1,350,000 Pb'enoh prisoners still held by the Ger- mans, (2) the etdect of the food shortage on children., and (3) the effete of rationing on adult*. in Washington, Ambassador Gas- ton Henry-Haye complained re- cently that tha'French prisoners received' no extra rations from home via the International Rod (inose—as the 60,000 British pris- oners do, and have scarcely enough to eat, In Vichy, a spokesman blamed the detention of the pris- oners for a 40 per cent decrease in the birth rate and predicted that "at this rate the French will disappear in twenty year's." At the same time Vichy issued a series of alarming statistics that reinforced the envoy's plea. Some 52 per cent of its kindergarten chil- dren were 111 from privation, while infant mortality had trippled dur- ing the first half of 1941. French babies now average only five pounds at birth and ten -year-olds weigh fourteen pounds leas than British children of the acme age. Similar conditions malnutrition and the lack of medicine, fuel and warm clothing prevailed among adults and sent the death rate for the first five months of 1941 up 43 per cent among -.people over 60 and 29 per cent among those under 60. 'The Germans provided the final irony. Recently six famous Palls restaurants, Maxim's, Fouquet'e, Tour -d' _Argent, Laperouse, Drou- ant, and Carton, were freed of food restrictions. A meal there, without wine, costs the equivalent of about $7.50 or higher—a price that only Nazis can afford. Boats For Britain Great War Order A writer in the Toronto Finan- cial Post gives a vividly encour- aging picture of Canada's "Boats for Britain" program, Briefly, this is it: Cargo ships: 158 ordered, 7 launched, estimated cost $275 millions. Corvettes: 185 ordered, 77 launched, 40 delivered, esti- mated cost $81 millions. Mine- sweepers: 85 ordered, 59 launch- ed, 40 delivered, total cost $51 millions. Destroyers: 2 ordered. Wood boats: $9 million program over 50 percent. complete. Thus Canada's greatest war order and, insome respects; the finest part of her war effort. J MISS CURIOUS WORLD Fergusson I tl IN KANSAS, . THERE ONCE LJVED TURTLES • fl4 ZV$ FEE? -LAA''/ SCENTISTS SAY; THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SPECIAL - 43/2,4 /A/ PECIALB/2,4/N FOG7�/ ATTACK ANIS KILL ePooITT/_ES/VA S/ THEY JUMP $NTO THE AIR AND DESCEND LIFO THE SNAKE WITH THEIR SHARP HOOFS, AND THEN SPRING AWAY. A SPECIMEN of the giant turtle that once swam the Kansas seas may be seen at the Peabody Museum, at Yale University. It far exceeds in ,size any turtle living today. The creature probably became extinct when larger and more voracious animals developed in the ancient seas. NEXT: How many square feet of akin do you have on your body? Arctic. Frontiers Ideal Battlefields Advantages In Arctic Cam- paigning ' Would 13e With De- fenders The United States did exactly right in moving into Greenland and ?deland before the Nazis had a chance to attempt it, and in mak- ing secure our hold on Alaska by Means of new army and navy baso. in Alaska, if the views expressed recently in Philadelphia by Vilh- jaimur Stefansson, noted Arctic explorer, are correct, Science Ser- vice maintains, Dr. Stefansson de- clared that the Arctic regions, far from being an area impossible for winter fighting, are almost ideal battlegrounds for properly trained and equipped troops, The time when manoeuvring in the Arctic would be really difficult le in summer. Then, the vast level stretches of marshy ground, threes ded by wide, shallow rivers and dotted with tnnuanerable lakes, would be veritable troop -traps, es- pecially for mechanized forces. But in winter, when the land is frozen and the lakes covered with deep ice, fighting vehicles on wheele and tractors and ski -equipped airplanes can get about with greatest facil- ity, The Far North, despite wide- spread impressions to the contrary, does not have a worse winter cli- mate than many parts of the Northwestern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada. In fact, many Arctic lands have rela- tively mild winter climates. Ice- land, which lies below the Arctic Circle, and Spitzbergen,. which is well above it, are kept "air con- ditioned" by liranchea of the Gatlf Stream. Advantages in Arctic campaign- ing would lie with the defenders. By adopting the "Indian fighter" tactical used by the Finns when they were resisting Russian invaelon in the winter of 1939.40 defenders] of almost,any Arctic terrain could de- feat greatly superior numbers of invading troops. But if the Arctic frontiers were not defended, the great river. like the Mackenzie and t11 Yukon would form great high- ways for easy inland marches. Work of Red Cross Covera Wide Field Mr. Justice P. FI. Gordon, Chairman of the National Execu- tive of the Canadian Red Cross, in an address recently, gave many people a new conception of the work his organization is doing comments the Windsor Star. It is a subject on which there le great lack of information, and on which the public should be in- formed. To many people, the Red Cross is simply an organization that sends bandages and similar medi- cal supplies to the' war zone. It is, of course, much more than that. It does work that is under- taken and can be accomplished by no other organization, Its service in keeping prisoners of war in touch with their relatives, and in furnishing then with food and other comforts, for instance, would be sufficient for any asso- ciation, but it is only one of many activities of the Red Cross. That it is engaged in tracing eight mil- lion people in occupied countries for their relatives will conte as a surprise to many. These are just examples of the unique services performed, and they demonstrate how greatly this organization deserves the support of all the people, Nazis Hoist By Their Own Petard Can you imagine this? Fact, nevertheless. Seems Hitler pre- sented Mussolini with a squadron of Stuka dive bombers and the squadron promptly ran out of gas just as it was flying over British - held territory in the Middle East; and, quite naturally, it being im- possible to scuttle an airplane without unpleasant consequences to the skipper and bis crew, the Stukas fell right into the hands of the British and they have been flying some of them ever since, Italian insignia and all. 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