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AIRMEN'S DINGHIES
Rubber dinghies carried by air
crews of the.R,A,F, in a pack.
measuring 16 inches by 8 inches
are one of the contributions to
Britain's war effort made by Un-
ited Kingdom manufacturers of
corsets,silk stockings, maekin-
tophes and so on, Like the carbon
dioxide gas used for inflating the
dinghies, which , normally goes
overseas in millions of bottles of
BritaIn's famous table waters,
most of the goods -normally pro-
duced by these companies are
known to shoppers in most 'parts
of the world,
These rubber dinghies haveal-
ready saved many lives, for rn
cold weather airmen wearing the
"Mae West" jacket who came
down in the sea could not expect
to survive half -an -hour's immer-
sion. Now, however, even a 400
lb. man can sit in his dinghy, stop
leaks from a pin -prick to a can-
non shell hole, propel it with a.
pair of rubber hand -paddles
(made by people who usually turn
out ladies' underwear), light sig-
nal flares (supplied by firework
manufacturera) and sustain him-
self with emergency rations sup-
plied by the makers of dainty
]boxes of chocolate.
—St. Thomas Times -Journal.
TO BED BEFORE MIDNIGHT
From the Canadian Osteopathic
Committee on War Effort comes
a suggestion which at first glance
may be laughed off by many but
which in reality is worth thinking
*bout; it is that we should all be
in bed by midnight.
Many statements have been
grade by responsible authorities
that our health standard is not
what it should be, and the nervous
and labor strain of these days is
working a heavy and increasing
toll. The osteopaths point out
that more rest is the cheapest and
yet most effective answer to this
inroad upon our vitality, and few
who study such matters will dis-
egree.
—Ottawa Journal.
DRESSED TURKEYS
Turkeys, the 'Wartime Prices
and Trade Board rules, are dress-
ed only when they are bare. It is
just another of those mildly con-
fusing anomalies, such as the fact
that bread rises when it sets, and,
in the price of sleeping car ac-
eomodation, the lower berths are
always higher than the uppers.
—Windsor Daily Star.
NAZI EMERGENCY
If Mr. Churchill suddenly were
to take personal command of all
the British land forces we should
know a grave emergency had
arisen. That is what Hitler has
done in Germany, and it must be
an event of deep significance.
—Ottawa Journal.
ISN'T IT A SHAME?
Berlin correspondent complains
that the Russians are attacking
the German invaders at night and
that Nazi soldiers are "under con-
tinuous strain and can find no
deep at all." Now, that's what
we'd call downright mean. -
Windsor Star.
TIMELY TID-BIT
"Hitler is reported to be search-
ing in the state libraries of Paris,
in occupied France, for a copy of
Napoleon's reputed secret memor-
andum, entitled 'How I got out of
Russia.' "
—Woodstock Sentinel -Review.
NEUTRAL
As the British writer, Vic
Oliver, well says: "As far as the
present international conflict is
concerned, I am completely neu-
tral. I don't care who kills Hit-
ler." —Windsor Star.
RULE OF BUGS
A chemist, alarmed by priori-
ties, says that without insecticides
bugs will rule the world. What
makes him think bugs don't rule a
large slice of the world right
now?
—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
INKLING OF TRUTH
"Some women who say they
suffer in silence may mean that
when in silence they suffer."
-Beli.eville Intelligencer,
FITTING
Germans pronounce the letter
"J" as we pronounce the letter
"Y." Thus Japs become "Yaps,"
Well . . .
—Woodstock Sentinel Review.
RECIPE'
The best way to improve a
vegetable dinner is to add a nice,
juicy steak.
—Vancouver Sun.
Scrap For Warships
Enough scrap metal has been
collected in Britain in two years
to furnish material for two cruis-
ers, i 0 or 12 destroyers, 10,000
anti-tank guns, 15,000,000 shells
and 10,000 tanks.
,TAS'
IN ISH"` CAUGHT BY UNCLE SAM.
A mass of torn, twisted and dented steel is all that remains of this two-man Japanese submarine
that was shelled, rammed by a destroyer and blast ed with a deptirbomb during Hawaiian blitz. The
forward half of the craft has been ripped to pieces. The wreck was raised by U. S. Navy from bottom
of Pearl Harbor for first-hand examination.
Army of Russia
Still Marches On
In September, after a lively
few `months, the German High
Command said;
"Russia es a military power is
finished."
Last July 2 Dr. Otto Dietrich,
the Nazi press chief, sounded off
prematurely on the same topic,
and wound up with:
"I have never misled you."
What he said that day Includ-
ed:
"The power of residence of
the Soviet armies has been broke
en."
"Unbelievable chaos has closed
over the Soviet armies."
"The encircling, dismembering
and annihilation of the . huge Red
forces guarding the road to
Minsk and Moscow has been coni•
pleted."
Some other little gems from
the Dietrich press conference:
"The last Russian army groups
are being wiped out."
"There Is no doubt that the
whole Russian front is smashed."
Air Raid Sirens
For Ontario Cities
Ontario's larger cities will have
air raid sirens very soon.
Production of an English -type
siren is under way at Bu•lec, Lim-
ited, Scarboro, Firist order from
Ottawa is for 60.
The sirens can be heard four
and a half miles away under good
conditions. It 1s, a twin -note type,
automatically controlled by a
"whaler relay" which transmits
the warning signal or the "all
clear" as desired, by operating a
designated switch. The siren to
be made is of the type approved
by the home office, A.R.P. depart-
ment, In England.
U. S. Airlines In
Emergency Test
Oranges from California, pe-
cans from Oklahoma, oysters
from Baltimore, baked beans
from Boston and scrapple from
Philadelphia — a veritable feast.
Only it wasn't. .All these delica-
cies were flown to New York re-
cently not so much for eating
purposes as for a testto show
how the 862 transport planes of
the United States' 19 commercial
airlines could carry 2,896,000
pounds of food to New Yorkers
in a war emergency.
It's A Long Time
Between Stitches
Mrs. Caleb Fox Jr., Production
Department Chairman of the Red
Cross in Philadelphia, reports that
a middle-aged volunteer showed
up with a half-completedknitted
sock and asked more matching
yarn to complete it.
Noticing it was an off -shade,
Mrs. Fox inquired when It was
started.
Came the reply:
"During the first World War."
Americans To Stay
In Canadian Forces
Canadian officials ray that
United States volunteers in Can-
ada's fighting forces are expect-
ed to remain where they are era-
ther than return to the United
States for service.
Nearly 10,000 men from "south
of the border" aro serving in the
Canadian Army, and 10 per Gene.
of the air crews trained and in
training for the Royal Canadian
Air Force are from the States.
The female frog deposits from
600 to 1,200 eggs annually.
BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL
i
The million -dollar Cathedral in Manila, where Japs rained bombs
on the undefended Philippine capital.
Theatre of War
In Vast Pacific
Many Thousands of islands
In Pacific Brought Into .The
War, Relates The Sault St.
Marie Star.
7ufis is an 'amazing' war which
1s now in progress in the Facies
Ocean.
Mr. Churchill, When he announc-
ed the opening of the British of-
fensive in Libya a few weeits ago,
spoke or the operations there being
like those of a sea battle, with
strategy and tactics being extend-
ed over a wide area. But even Mr.
Churohi•ll did not at that time
vision operations of the scope of
those now, being carried in the
vast expanse of water' that lies be-
tween Asia and the Americas
From Yokohama to ancouver is
4,280 miles and from the 'same Jap-
anese port to San Francisco is 4,-
525 miles From Yokohama to
Honolulu ie 8,440 miles.,
Russia's 1,500 mile battle line
has seemed a tremendous distance.
But it 'is dwarfed by a war which
takes distances such as those in
the Pacific.
And think of the many thousands
of isands which as scattered over
that great area. There are some
7,088 islands in the Philippines,
which stretches for a distance- of
one thousand miles'. In Japan,
without taking into a000unt the
territory it holds in China, there
axe some 2,322 islands, stretching
over 1,600 miles, and having a
population of 100,000000. people. In
the. Netherlands Indies there are
about 2,000 islands, spread over a
territory 3,000 miles in length' from
Singapore to Borneo Then in ad-
dition there are the scores and
hundreds of islands which owe al-
legiance to Britain, Prance, the
United States, Russia, Japan, Aus-
tralia•, New Zealand which are dot-
ted over the map.
Airplanes and modern war ves-
sels have brought a strange war
to a strange territory.
Nazis Hide Truth
From Own People
The. Germans are trying' to hide
from their own people their huge
losses in Russia by regulating
obituary notices, asserts London
Calling.
Since the start of the Russian
campaign there have been four
orders regulating obituaries, it is
said.
The first prohibited firms and
party organizations from publish-
ing
them; the second ordered the
reduction in size by half; the third
limited the number to twenty-
five daily, and the fourth instruc-
ted editors to censor the text.
• ees and War
Horsy mixed with foods and
drinks were inciu..ed in the daily
diet of the ancient Romans. So
highly did they prize this food
that the Roman Lmpice armies
even carried their own bee -hives
with them wheneser they invaded
a 'foreign land.
m
THE WAR - WEEK --- C eplmentary on Current Lverlts
Allied Heads Meet In, Washington
To 'Plan Defeat of Axis Powers
"Tho Prime Minister of Great
Britain," . chid the Presidential
Secretary, Mr, Stephen Beene on
the evening of December 22, "is
now with the President, He ar-
rived by 'air and was met by the
Pt'nn air n n
Washingtonesidetat , Hae was accostatiompaniedear
by Lord Beaverbrook and a tech-.
, nical staff;" "There is, of
course," continued Mr. Early,
"one primary objective in the con-
versations to be held between the
Nr'eeident''and the British Prime
Minister and the respective staffs
of the two countries. That purpose
is the defeat of Hitlerisin through-
out the world.
"It should bo remembered that
many other nations are engaged
to -day in this 'common task.
Therefore, the present confer
ences in Washi-rgton should be
regarded as preliminary to further
conferences which will offically
include Russia, China, the Neth-
erlands and Dominions. It is ex-
pected that there will also be in-
volved an over-all unity in the
conduct 'of the war. Other nations
will be asked to participate in the
over=all objective."
Issues Involved
The problem of co-ordinating
the vast issues involved could be
summarized under the following
beadings:
1. Britain, . America, China,
Russia and. the Netherlands stand
unshatteyably united against any
separate peace with any part of
the Axis and they axe making
the fullest conceivable pledge to
each other that only a peace ap-
proved by all will be accepted by
any. _
2. A supreme. Allied War
Council will be immediately or-
ganized
..
to direct the composite
strategy against the composite
forces of the Axis. The highest
and most critical decisions of pole
icy will be settled by common
agreement in the interests of the
most effective war plan and all
the theatres of the fighting will
be co-ordinated in the interests
of this common strategy. This
is to give effect to Mr. Roose-
velt's repeated declarations that
the world -scale aggression of the
Axis can only be defeated by the
world -scale strategy of the Al-
lies.
3, There will' be an unreserved
poolingof theimplements of war
and they will be dispatched to
the fronts where they are most
needed in accordance with the
necessities of the broadest strat-
egy.
4. Russia's entry into the war
against Japan will be decided by
joint agreement as to when and
how it will be most effective.
5. There will be agreement on
the essential peace objectives
outlined by Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr; Churchill in the Atlantic
Charter.
6. The alliance will not au-
tomatically terminate with the
conclusion of the war. It is de-
signed to constitute the beginning
of a peace alliance against fur-
ther aggression—the
urther'aggression—the beginning of
a world policy force to prevent
future war.
7. The mechanism of Close
consultation is planned to form
the basis of economic and social
collaboration in the period ; of
post-war reconstruction.
Conference In 'Moscow
It is significant that the initia-
tive of this Allied' Council` did not
spring from any single one of its
members, It arose almost shnul-
taneously from all. of them, in-
cluding strong leadership from
Generalissimo Kiang Kai-shek
in Chungking. The councils
from which the present argument
is emerging have been in progress
for some time in Washington, in
London and in Moscow.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Prime Minister Joseph
Stalin in Moscow have reached an
agreement in full on conduct of
the war and especially. on "the ne-
cessity for the utter defeat of,
Hitlerite Germany", There was
also an exchange of views on
questions relating to- the post-war
organization of peace and securi-
ty.
In the last war, lack of con-
certed effort cost, the Allies dear-
REG'LAR FELLERS—Mouseproof
ly, In this war, with the =ti
Axis coalition sprawling over most
of the lands and seas of the world,
prompt action is now being ,taken
to weld the Allied forces into en
efficient fighting unit, The sl?•ug-
gle, Mr. Churchill said; if man-
aged well, would take only half
as long as if managed badly.
Grave Problem,'
In speaking of the otislanght o.f
Japan which presented grave
problems, Mr, Churchill said:
"If people ask me, as they gave
a right to ask me in England,'
why is it you have not got envie-
equipment
nileequipmentof modern a.re.ai and
modern weapons of all kinds in
Malaya and in the Ilan niches,
I can only 'point to the- victory
General Auchinleek has gained
in the Libyan earnpai* Had
we divided those gradually -grew -
lug resources between Libya and
'Malaya, we would have ` been,
found wanting in both spheres,
If the United States has been
found at a disadvantage at eer•-
taui points in the Pacific, we
know that it is to some extent
due to the fact that you, have
been giving us of your equip -
Ment for the defence of the Brit-
ish Isles, and aboveall for your
help in the' Battle of the Atlantic,
on which all depends, and which.
fs, in consequence, ;successfully
and constantly maintained.
(if course it would have been
much better if we had had en-
ough resources of all kings to
be at full strength at all threat-
ened points, but considering how
slowly and reluctantly we
brought ourselves to large reale .
'preparation and how' long those
preparations took, we had no
right to expect to be in such a
fortunate position.
Post-war Problem
The choice of how to dispose
of our hitherto limited resources
had to be made by Britain in a
time of war and by the United
States in times of peace, and I
believe history will pronounce
that upon the whole, and it is
upon the whole that these .niat-
ters must be judged, that the
chocie made was the right one."
Although Mr. Churchill stated
in Washington that conversation
would not include post-war prob-
lems, that the present emergency
came first, we must consider his
words spoken to Congress. "If we
had kept together after the last
war, if we had taken common
measures for our safety, the re-
newal of the curse need, never
have fallen on us."
After winning the last war to-
gether with partnership between
Great Britain was dissolved and
each went their respective ways,
even becoming rivals. The ques-
tion of war debts, the selfishness
of British and American commer-
cial policy, the disarmament com-
pact, the lack of accord of the
Far Eastern Policy all worked to-
gether to break up the union of
the English-speaking peoples,
This is the mistake which Mr.
Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt are
now trying to repair.
•
Normandie. Seized
By United States
Armed coast guardsmen, acting
on naval orders, /lave seized the
$60,000,000 P2bneh liner Norman -
die, one of the largest, -proudest
and finest shins afloat.
Led by Capt. John. Baylis, guards-
men swooped down on the 53,423 -
ton liner .at the Hudson River pier,
where she has been. laid up mice
the beginning of the war.
The Normandie could be used
either as' a transport or as an air-
craft, carrion. She was designed and
built io speedy conversion.' Capt. ,
Baylis said, he had removed about
200 seamen from her,
In Washington, the department
of justice said the French seamen
would be released and placed on
Par
Buiole.lt in 1936, tine Normandie' is
the third largest ship in the world,
exceeded only by the British Queen
Elizabeth and the Queen Mary,
Her length of 1,020feet makes
her four times the height of. the
Statue of Liberty—a gift from
Prance to the United. States.
By GENE BYRNES