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The Seaforth News, 1942-01-22, Page 6✓ OICE OF THE P RESS SPIRIT OF CHINA eathe "gloss has a Rotary 010, tate members of witch are partly natives and partly British and Ann erteane, At the bottom of the usual weekly notice recently there' ap- peared the following verse; "And when eve Meet again, let's speak Of anything you like—of pigs that squeak, 02 our vacation—books ar toys, Of our imagined troubles or real lope Of Tice-versa--•but—my hien,, Don't aak me when the :war will end, Dont whine about the priest- iuereaae,. Don't tell me, that your cos. ?ant's squeeze, Don't tell me of the holleing dearth, DMA tell me there, no peace on earth, Don't say that ta'ansfiortatlon'a bad, Don't wail that coffee can't bo Lad, Don't sing that old worn-out re - :rain, Please—don't—when next -we meet again!" ,The spirit of Mu/Wiling la rep• aesentative of the will et the Oto• - nese people to break the spirit o2 Javan. --St Thomas Times -Journal. —v -- NICKEL IN THE WAR Some striking facts are present- ed in a itatentent made by the In- ternational Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. World nickel pro- duction and consumption this year have set alldinte records, aud more than 90 percent of it is being used In war orders. The United .States this year has need more than two- thirde of the world's total nickel output—double the peacetime Ag- ents, Prices wore unchanged this year at figures whtoh have pre- vailed tor 16 years. And in an e1 - foot to meet a constantly growing demand International Nickel is spending $36,000,000 to ileorease its production by 60,000,000 pounde annually. Canadian nickel is piayiug a vi - cal role in the war, and it is a source of satisfaotion to all Can- adians that their base metals in- dustry has seized so magnificently Ota chance for public service.' —Ottawa Journal. A FREE COUNTRY? We read with vast surprise that guards have been pieced inside the Japanese embassy at Ivash- iegton in order to prevent Mr. No- mura slitting his belly ,;pen in the ceremonial Japanese style. Surely if Mr. Nomura wants to commit suicide lie should be al- lowed to do so. What is happening to America." 11bert'? —Winnipeg These Press. —y— LIFE CHEAP TO JAPS Oriental life is about the cheap - eat thing on the market, It 6,050 Japs are sunk it means nothing except that 6,000 Jape are remov- ed as a potential lighting force. Breaking down Jap morale cannot be an objective at all. That may seem calves, but it is the key to their ,0ilosophy. —St. Catharines Standard. GOOD OLD DAYS The Instate controller announces a ban on a whole lot of doo-dada and things, including brass cloth• es hooks; which brings us back to the good old days when we hung Mur coat and hat on a 3 -inch nail stuck in the wall. —Ottawa Citizen. —v— ALIBI Goebbels must be hard put to it for a satisfactory story explaining the large-scale German retreat in Russia. Couldn't he just say the teeny is corning home for Christ- mea? —Christian Science Monitor, —v -- A. coifed rattlesnake, we are told, it able to strike two-thirds of its length, Now let's see—how long is Japan, and how far away from Our British Columbia coast? —Stratford Beacon -Herald. —v— PLACE FOR GOSSIPS Wonder where gossips would eland if there wasn't any middle of the sidewalk. Kitchener Record. THE BOOK SHELF BOTANY BAY by Charles Nordhoff and Norman Hail A penal colony of Australia In the eighteenth century Is the set- ting Lor another thrilling tale of adventure by Nordhoff and Hall, authors or "The Bounty" and "The Hurricane." Hugh Tailant is convicted in Ragland of highway robbery and Id sent atboard a convict ship to servo it life senteuee. at Botany` Bay. On the swine beat ie Neltie 'Garth sentenced for protecting two highwaymen. Talent, Nellie and a Yew, fellow prisoners determine to escape Ettore the pltiOid, sordid life of the settle- meet..Atter heart -breaking delays a:et treeless attempts they set sail Babe Ruth, the veteran King of Swat, is doing all he can to help keep Uncle Sam right in there.pitcbin' against the country's enemies. The photo shows the Babe in New York looking over $100,000 worth of United States Defense Savings Bonds he has just purchased. in a small boat, are picked up by a freighter and eventually landed to England. A pardon for Hugh and the pros- pect of hie lido partnership with Nellie bring the story to a rery happy ending. Botany Bay .. -, by Charles Nor- !off and Norman Hall .... Mc- Clelland and Stewart . . Price 59.00. Saving Ontario's Natural Resources No. 70 Beaver occur all over Ontario. They were absent for many years from the southern portion of the Province but have staged a mar- vellous comeback under the protec- tive laws and ere now found In many places close to our Tannins, eceaeni nitiea, They should be wel- comed by the muskrat trappers for they raise and hold the water lev- ols on many small creeks and lakes that provide good habitat for the smaller Sur bearer. in the North country the bear- s. are becoming more important each year. For a Iong time the In- dians and the white trappers were encouraged to get all the fur they could with the result that they periodically found themselves with- out any animals to catch. When this happened they starved or tbey had to be supported by the Gov- ernment, a rather costly procedure for the people. s A few years ago the government decided to put certain areas under management in an effort to Drove that the Indians could be made self-svtpporting. One such area was set aside around the Whale River OA the east coast of James Bay, About 60 beaver were the total population of many thousands of square miles of the region. The Indiana, who were very poor, were told that they could have complete rights to the region but they must leave the beaver until they in- creased and in the meantime the Government would bire them as guardians. An educational cane - Paige was started among these rarest people with the result that they now know that the beaver is theirs by right but that it must be protected and fostered until the increase is large enough to yield an annual take. Atte last information I received showed that the beaver inthe area had increased to 60,000 Pairs and that the Indians were fully aware of their potential value, In a year or so they will start to catch part of the increase but you can be sure that it will only be part. They would not go back to the old ways oven if they could. SCOUTING . . a One of the current wideepa•ead war service activities of Scouts is the collecting of medicine bot- tles for military hospitals in prac- tically every province. Bottle et certain sizes are sought, as called for. A. recent request was .for col- ored bottles, and gallon glass jars for the Central Medical Stores. Al- ready many thousands of dollars have been saved to the Govern- ment by this Boy Scout aotivity. N • • 000,000 tons of wastepaper was collected by Brtiish Boy Scouts during 1941. * • • For courage and coolness shown in the rescue of a young mother and her baby and an elderly wo- man during an air raid, two North- umberland Boy Scouts, brothers, bane been awarded the Scout Gilt Cross -for Gallantry. The brothers, Joe and John Chambers, 15 and 17 years respectively, were on street Sire watch during a blitz. A bomb partially wrecked a house, •and a young woman ran out, tem- porarily unnerved. The boys has- tened to her, . and got her lately to a atelier. They then learned, Evora her disjointed remarks, that her baby was ,still in the house. Jan leaped over a fence, entered the house, found the baby, and returned, shielding it with his body nom shell fragments and flyless glass. He brought word also that there was an elderly woman in the house, and that she refused to leave. Together the brothers re- turned, and between them picked up the old lady and brought her to safety. „ • * As a variation from Scouwt'war hero stories from Britain comes a unique aocount of the circum- stances under which a London Boy Scout was chosen to take the role et Oliver Twist in a radio presen- tation resentation for that famous story of Charles Dickens. Mr. Hugh Stew- art of the B. B. C„ who had for some time been seeking . a boy with the desired voice, suddenly heard it on a crowded bus. The bus stopped, and before he could reach the lad, who was in the uni- form of a Boy Scout, the boy dis- appeared. Stewart had noted the color of the Scout's neckerchief, however, and through this was able to locate his Scout Troop, then the boy himself. The toy, Scout Phillip Jones, agreed, and Ida voice .will be heard in the role of the famous little Dickens charac- ter Who had the courage to ask for more porridge- T; -IE WAR-'1'WEgK Ccmineiliary on Current Bvents Ebb and Flow of World War Across Oceans and Continents The ecce° of the wee ie Op• pi+oaelen.g a m erica in of vastness, extending from the Western taboret. of America, acppas tbe Pacific, atreas Asia, Aurope and Attlee, and h 011ess the Atlantic to the eastern chores of America, Everywhere. lu the Pacific Japan is on the offensive. Hong Kong is bot g mercilessly pounded, the i''h1•lippines 'increasingly harried, Siugapore threatened by an over- land drive bone Malaya and Pearl Harbor preparing for further con- fliot. Singapore The naval base on eal g+apore 15• land' has been called the world's largest. Fifteen years of labor and 080,000,000 went into Its construc- tion. It oan'hold the entire: Bri- tish fleet, drydock :the biggest battleship. Its'eighteen•inch coast- al guns have a twenty -five -mile range, Dominating the sea 'lanes between the .Indian Ocean and the Waters Oct 'Oceania, guarding the oil and rubber of the Indies and the tin of Malaya, Singapore is widely regarded as impregnable to attack trent water, most vulner- able to attack by land. It was by land last week that the Japanese were striking towarth this key tb One Allied Far Ilastern defense. The only land approach to Singh pore runs down the Malay Penin- sula, From its beginning at the top of the Gulf of Siam to its end above Singapore, the peninsula or Thailand, in the first days of the Pacific conflict, opened the way tor an unopposed Japanese drive more than half way clown the nar- row approach teethe British Malay- an frontier, some 360 miles north of Singapore: The sinking of the ROyal Navy's capital ships, Prince of Wales and Repulse, gave the Japanese' control of Malayan wat- ers, With these advantages, .pias numerical superiority, the soldiers of the Rising Sun battled 'their way forward last week against' the stiff opposition of British Em- pire troops„ Jungles and Mountains Mile terrain, in many ways, was one of the most difficult yet en-• countered anywhere in the world by the war's fighting men. Mal- aya's damp, hot jungles climb up the , sides of granite mountain ranges. Rubber plantations,,a few paved roads built by the British, to open pits of great tin .mines, break roils clotted mass of under- growth. Along the peninsular coast lies a belt of fairly flat, open ground. The almost' impenetrable bush fa.ahe home of tigers, leop- ards, elephants, rhinoceros, ram- pire bats, brilliantly plumed birds and deadly reptiles. Its climate has always been unhealthy for tbe white man. The Japanese had apparently prepared carefully for the fighting in the4lush wildernese. Clad in lighhtweightunifroms, supported by ono -man tanksand other special equipment, adapting the infiltra- tion and ambush tactics of the Am- erican Indian, the Nipponese sol- diers forced back their foe. At one point they were 260 miles from Singapore. They compelled the ev- acuation of Penang on the West Malayan coast; that exotic resort town and secondary naval base could serve as.a springboard for a jump to the Indies or for raids on Burma -and -India -bound ship- ping. Meanwhile, a Japanese laud- ing on British Borneo appeared to be an attempt to gain a base on Singapore's flank. Philippines In the first phase of the war Nipponese blows were chiefly aim- ed et Manila, Last Week a laud offensive was attempted. Tokyo as- serted that troops were landed on beachheads north oftee • capital and later fax to the south on the island of Mindanao. A hold on this island would provide Japan with valuable bases for raids on Manila. Hong Kong Siege A century -old outpost of empire, the island of Hong Yong (thirty- -two square miles) is perched on the South China coast, overlooks the long supply route between Ja- pan's main islands and the Malay Peninsula. More than a year ago Hong Kong's link With the Chin- see hinterland was severed by Jap- anese troops; still it served as a clearing house where Free China ordered the American goods that eveetuallY' traveled the Burma Rotel. Tile city long stood as a taymbo! of British prestige iu the G.e,:-a, ha teas le en Anglo-Japan- eee war was seen as a potential menace to ,Nipponese sea lines; Ito prolonged defense would'inean a diversion of Japanaae strength from otther. more Vital . -sectors, Last weelr—rte recon of-eieg0- 0I1e Empire garrison on Hong Kong was hard pressed. A Japan• eoe land-and-ahr' assault oa0tered IS o w l o o n the city's mainland soatees...A landing was _effected on Hong Hong island itself and quickly , the invaders rolled back' the thin lines of the defenders, 113 Leiden it was said that British Empire strategists had long ago "written *Sr as -inevitable-the loss of the outpost, • Nazis Retreat The war that came to IDurope• in September, 1939, is entering its' third Winter.' Its first was one of . great uncertainty -the period of the "phony ware' when anillions lay in idleness along the Western Front while Germany,' flushed with victory in Poland, quietly prepay. ed her next Blitzkrieg. The second Winter (allowed .Bngland's darkest hour, when her cities shook to.. their ipi udations 'under merciless. Nazi bombings, when only the ace vane of General Waveli in Libya and the heroic resistance of Greece against the lumbering Italian ;arm - les brought a ray of hope, Today, at the threshold of the war'a third Winter, the , picture of the battlefields in 17arope favors the Allies. In sub -zero cold last week the German armies- on the Ruesiau front were failing back, pushed by a widening series of foreeful'Soviet offensives,. in Libya the all bot beaten German Africa Oonps was struggling to prevent withdrawal from turning into full- fledged rout as empire troops swept onward through the desert. Jap Sub Operates From Mother Ship Midget Two -Man Submarines Used In Attack . on Pearl Harbor ' • Allied naval forces in the 'Pacific may find pitted against them "schools" of tiny, two-man Bub- marines—probably no bigger than ° a whale. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox revealed that they were used in the "sneak" attack on Pearl Har- bor. lgnox said ane was destroyed by depth charges and another was captured. Naval experts estimate these tiny cubs are about 60 feet long, seven feet wide; and have a dis- placement of about 60 tons, There is no 'indication as to how many were used in Pearl Har- bor, but they apparently did no New .,,Air Force Chief In I-ltliwaii Brig, -Gen, C. L. Tinker Is the now commander • of U., 5, air forces in Hawaii, damage. At least one, however, did succeed in peneta'ating the harbor defences aud coming within "et. few yards" of an American ship before it was destroyed, Submarines the size of tee' Jap- anese two-man craft are too entail 00 operate over -distances emitter than a few hundred miles. Naval experts assume that those engag- ed• in the attack against Pearl Flarbor were oiterathhg 'Sols 11 mother shin etaticned out, at sea. This ship, probably a recondition. ed freighter, 'would be large en- otigh to •carry several on these "baby subs," naval experts said. It was assumed that the mother *lip carries them within cruising range of their objective and then dowers them into the sea, That Would present no technical prob- lem, since the U, S. crane ship Hearaarge has' *ranee than • can lift 200 'ton weights. Naval observers believe that the baby sues are miniatures of reg- ular submerinies. Oncein. the water they would proceed to .their target with bat- tery-driven electric motoa•s . driv- ing them at an estimated .eight or nine knots below the eureace, Standard Diesel -type engines would give them 12 or 111 knots on the surface. The chief asset of su h tiny craft is their ability to operate in shallow waters and to get through harbor defences. Once within striking distance 01 thee - prey they would loose smaller, p1'obablyy 10 foot torpedoes. They would not have to carry the staadard,20 foot torpedoes because they attadk at shorter range.. Navaleep,ertS estimate that two- man submarines would be able to stay at sea five days before re• turning to their mother ship or base. Living quarters would be extremely cramped, and, supplies and fuel limited. Prepared Mr. Churchill who spends his week -ends in the country when he's not too busy to get away from Downing Street disclosed that he carries a tonnny-gun in the back of his automobile—just in case of parachutists. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher Q\.fy- a by cu., i , .. i , , ro,mr.. I . 9-12 .;© it�E//.E.-2. "Office politics . . . . he's campaigning for a raise!" REG'LAR FELLERS—Slightly Used CERTAI1-(Y5 MISTER DUFFY / iF 1MU WANNA BUY A NEW CAR JUS' TURN IN YOUR OLE ONE- I'LL GIVE YOU ASWELL DEAL ctI FV/ 1 DONT CARE WHAT CONDITION IT1N JEST' BRING IT HERE AN I'LI.. CAVE YOU 5O % OI't IT BACK 50 500N ? FAST WORK, MISTER DUFFY /BUT WHERE'S YOUR OLE CAR ? By GENE BYRNES entheetetteet THAT'S 1T Je THIS HAIRPIie WHAT HELD THE W1-IEEL. ON IS AI4 I NAVE LEFT" - i tb