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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-10-29, Page 6PAGE 1%/, 11 1131 S+A+ORTR 1N4WS Japan and the Axis se good..as they were live menthe By Brigadier General TI, S. Sewall, For the last month Japanese tomes have been trying hard to win back the losses in the Solomon Islands, and hi New Guinea they have launch• ed a determined attack 'towards Port Moresby, the key outpost et Austra• lea's northeastern defenses. These operations de not neeeesarily indicate that it is Japan's intention to invade Australia: The Japanese military leaders must realize that such a ven- ture would have small change of suc- cess, unless they can first cut the communications between the United States and the Allied base in Austra- lia. All Japanese activity in the southwest Pacific appears to be dir•- ' ected towards that objeotive. If they can block the approaches to Austra- lia from the northeast, they will teal comparatively secure against an .A1 - lied attack trout that continent, and they will then be able to turn their attention to improve their position on other fronts, General Wavell, in a repent speech, likened Japan to a boa constrictor that has swallowed a goat and now has to go away somewhere to digest it. The boa constrictor requires peace while digesting his goat, and Japan wants safety from interference while developing and consolidating her con- quests in the' East Indies, The Indies are only a part of the vast territory occupied by Japan and designed for the new Japanese East - Asian sphere. The link between Japan and ]ler new Empire is by sea, and to secure these communications, marit- ime supremacy in the west Pacific of events happening all over the is essential. Japan has not been able world, recording American commen- to open up land communications through China to Indo-China, Siam and Burma. Chinese armies have re- cently regained most of the import- teen during the night and early ant railroads by which. it might have morning• been possible for Japan to keep in As control room operators they bal- touch with her conquests on the once the Your or five microphones mainland. which may be in use together, con - Exposed to Attack from Four trolling the volume on each micro - Quarters phone. They fade" from one pro - Japan itself, and the enormous ter• grain to another and give the starting ritorial block from Manchuria • to cues in the studios. Burma and New Guinea, is exposed As program engineers they are re - to attack from four different quart- sponsible for balancing orchestral ars: from Vladivostock in the North, concerts, dramatic productions and from a full-scale naval action against similar broadcasts, As ' effects" girl supply routes in the Pacific, from the they make the sound effects heard fn Indo -Burmese frontier in the West, feature programs. Before the war these women were The first of these and from Australia e four potentia] the South. secretaries, actresses, housewives, threats (from Vladivostok) does not journalists or shop assistants. They become an actuality unless and until had no technical knowledge of broad - war breaks out between Japan and Casting, But the. B.B.C. gave them the Soviet Union. Japan has now ap- then two training courses — the proximately one third of her land first, in elementary principles of forces conceutrated in the north, and broadcasting ane electrical engineer - there have been rumors all this Stun- ing; the second, in the specific jobs Titer that an invasion of Siberia was they were to fill. The women learned imminent. It would have ben a great general production by working on help to Germany if Japan had made specimen programs, where they took an attack an Siberia to coincide with part as artists, announcers or engin- the offensive on the Bon. That no eers. Perhaps the most interesting and move was made then is an indication that Japan intends to pursue her own most warmly human job undertaken interests and take action, which by women of the B.B.C. is the pro suit Germany, only if such action duction of programs for overseas coincides witb her own interests. These include programs describing It is said that in October 1941 Hit- Britain to listeners in the 'United ler sold Japan the idea that Moscow States; contacting British parents and Leningrad were bound to fall, with children evacuated overseas; and because of this Japan decided to contacting families with Britiahers serving abroad; and keeping the Em enter the war. It is not surprising if Japan refuses again to accept Hitler's nice in touch with the, mother estimate of Russia's strength. The country. Jill Allgood produces one of these Red Army in the Far East is known — „Something Going on in Britain to be formidable in numbers and equipment and the 'Soviet authorities New" `- a series of broadcasts from have announced that the reserves coal mines, hostels, army, navy and transferred to the European front air force messes. Miss Allgood, form - have come from western and lot a seeretary in a legal office, went into nursing at the outbreak of eastern Siberia. When Wlil Japan Attack Russia 7 war, then joined the B.B.C. and be - It is probable that the Japanese came a star overseas producer. have their own means of obtaining Enid Maxwell runs a two-way pro - information about the Russian gram — "Children Calling Home" and "Hello Children." She used to be on strength, and that they have made the B.B.Ca Children's Hour," and their own decision as to when, 4f and deckled her war job would be to keep how they will attack. Much will de - family contact between evacuated pend on the extent to which Germ - children and their parents. any can cripple the Russian military Girl friend of the R.AF, in Can - machine in the immediate future, and the pressure which the Allies will be oda and the United States" is Jane able to exert on the Japanese Empire Welsh, who has been on the stage, films and radio, and was an A.R.P. in the South and West. The decision transport driver during the blitz. will be made in Tokyo, and the She tours all over Britain to gather strength of the Allied Nations will do up .and bring to the microphone the more to influence Japaneseromplans families and friends of the melt in than any "guidance" from Berlin. the R.A.F. Of the thre other possible quarters Six other British girls whose pro - from which the Japanese could be grams are well-known to service men threatened, the time has not yet come for a full-scale naval assault upon Japan's oceansupply routes. Step by step fighting for more island bases appears to be a necessary pre- liminary before the Allies wi11 be in' RENS, Licensed Auction a position to launch such F W.A an attack.Perth and Huron Counties The southwest monsoon season has eer f or Sales Solicited. Terms on Application ended, and operations on the Assam -1 Farm .Stock, chattels and real estatf Burma frontier should be possible proper+y, R. Ro. No. 4, Mitchell before long, though the terrain pre Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this Mitchell Rents great difficulties either for an invasion of Burma by the British, or HAROLD JACKSON of India by the Japanese, The Licensed in Huron and Perth noun. chances of a successful coastwise ad-, ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction 'wince by the Japanese along the guaranteed, For information, write or phone Harold Jackson, phone 14 shores of the Bay of Bengal are net on 861; R. R. 4, Seaforth. age. Snob. en operation Would require strong naval and air support, and it is Probable that the 'Japanese, have greater need for theee arms in their operations in the Peciilc, There are many indications that the Allied ail strength in India, is mounting rapidly, and it Is doubtful if the Japanese could make much headway, unless they assemble a larger force than they have at pre- sent in Burma, The task for which General Wavell's field army is .pre- paring in the Plast is to expel the Japanese from Burma and to open up the road by which China can again be supplied, Up to now the army in India has been on the de, fensive through necessity, butwith its increased strength, it will sobn be ready to change its role to the offen- sive whenever the Allied High Com- mand decides that the opportunity has come. Women Who Rule the Air Waves By Marion Slater. War has knocked down the bars against women in radio jobs which used to be "for men only," In Britain the women have invaded the record- ing and control rooms, and are hand- ling overaeaa programs, There are 600 women technical as- sistants doing men's jobs in the eng- ineering branch of the British Broad- casting Corporation. As recording operators they help make disc, steel tape or film records tators and speakers for the North American, African and Pacific News- reels, which are broadcast from Bri- abroad, are; Jane Carr, whose pro. gram "It's All Yours,'° ,goon to British forces in isolated pmts et the world; Marjorie Skill, heard by New Zeal' antlers ie the Middle .East; Margot Davies, who runs "Calling Newfound. land"; Betty Warren, who broadcasts to Australians in the Middle 10ast° Una Marson, whose program is "Call- ing the. West Indies," and Jean Gil- bert, whose, "Mello Gibraltar";' has' made her known as "the Lady of the Rock." These girls divide twenty-five pro- grams among themaelves. Twenty- four hours a day those programs go out to different sections of the world, keeping the men ill the fighting forces in constant touch with their homes. "Please, sir, me gran mother— "H'm, yes, I know that old story; she's dead and —" "No, sir. Me gran'mother wants me to git off an' take her to de ball game." BREAKFAST PANCAKES ANTIDOTE FOR BLUES PANCAKES for breakfast"elim inate the early morning blues these war days, says W. W. Swin dengeneral superintendent o dining and sleeping car service Canadian National Railways. ourdining car e' passengers smell flap- jacks, well, the world just looks bright- er," Mr. Swin- den says in an- nouncing the C.N.R. dining car service is pushing pan- . cakes" these days as a war. measure as it allows for use of some of the surplus Wheat W. W. Swiaden coop Plus the and Chef saving of sugar as a sweeten- ing through She nee of maple syrup or honey as cane sugar substitutes. The Englieh way of serving pan- cakes, sometimes used on C.N.R. diners, allows for baking of cakes with butter and jelly or butter and marmalade. They are piled one above the other, thenut cut no serve. shape(' pieces, pie AUCTIONEER Jasper Pancake Mix 1 cusp flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, a pinch of salt, 2 whole eggs and 1 egg yolk. Add the grated rind of 1/2 orange,• 1 cup milk and 1;4, cup melted butter. Mix well and fry pancakes 6 inches in diameter. Melt Campfire Marshmallows in a double boiler and spread over the pancakes. Roll the pancakes, sprinkle with sugar, cover with syrup end glaze in a hot ovenr's Oatmeal Griddle Cakes One cup cooked oatmeal, 1 cup white or whole-wheat flour, 11/1 Clips milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 table• spoon butter (melted). Method: Add milk, yolk of egg, salt and melted butter to the cooked oatmeal; beat for three minutes, then add flour and baking powder, which have been sifted to-. gether. Add white of egg, stiffly beaten. Fry on a hot, well -greased griddle or thick frying pan. The batter must be very thin. Serve with syrup. Cream of wheat, or rice, or al- most any cooked cereal can be used up like this. Tk9URSPAY, OCTOBER 28, I942. START THE BOND FIRE SCOTS LAWN BOWLERS CELEBRATE A JUBILEE Fifty-three years ago, says the Edinburgh Scotsman, a letter appear- ed in its columns by James Brown, of Sanquhar , Dumfriesshire, stressing the need for a national authority to regulate and administer the . pastime of bowling in Scotland. The interest it aroused led to the formation of the Scottish Bowling Association, which celebrates its jubilee in Sep- tember. Highlights and sidelights of those intervening 60 years are re- corded by the minister of Dirieton, the Rev. H. 0. Wallace, in a brochure published by the S.B.A. Council to mark the occasion. Brown, who wrote a "Manual on Bowling," became the first secretary. of the accosiation, which opened its career with a inebership of. 122 con- stituent clubs. Three years later he resigned to emigrate to Canada. To- day, in spite of wartime difficulties, the membership is 601 clubs. The Scottish Association has been the prototype of other organizations formed throughout the bowling world. James Brown was not only the prime mover in organizing the S.B.A. and in etablishing the rules of the game, but he also described the ideal bias for the bowl, which before his day had been a sort of haphazard. After his removal with his family to Canada he lived' in Westmount, Que- bec, and he and two sons organized the Westmount Bowling Club. He survived the emigration about twenty (b -- years. His son, Willie Brown, has a nation-wide reputation as a curler and bowler. On at least one occasion he has skipped a rink from hte Pro- vince of Quebec in the Macdonald - Brier competition for the, curling championship of Canada. "You were always a foul -tinder," growled the wife, "Yes, dear," responded the husband, meekly "I found you." ANIMALS DEAD or DISABLED Quickly removed in clean sanitary trucks. Phone collect 219 MITCHELL or Ingersoll 21 WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED punter Check Books We Fire Selling Quality 8.00ks Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. The Seaforth 'News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,