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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-05-14, Page 2VOICE OF THE PRESS WHEN A TANKER IS LOST When we hear that another tanker has fallen prey to Atlantic riders few of us realize that aaomething like 62 million gallons of crude oil has been lost to the died cause. (Tanker capacity varies from 20,000 barrels to 100,000, so 52,000,000 gallons is at reasonable average.) Those millions of gallons in pictures might register more effectively. One tanker's average load would aaupply enough gasoline to drive 1,000 cars as far as the moon and back. That is enough gasoline bo take all the care in Halifax completely around the world. It is enough to supply every ambu- lance, every police car, every bus, every truck, passenger ear and fmtrm tractor—every user of gaso- line in Canada, for a whole week. It's quite a loss, —Galt Reporter HITLER FREEDOM Released from an internment camp en the beneficent orders of Hitler, a Norwegian Bishop has been granted the priceless privi- lege of living in a cottage guard- ed by twenty men and surrounded by barbed wire. In case there was any doubt of it, this is a splendid example of what the Fuehrer means by the "freedom" Ile is going to give the eountries be has conquered. —Windsor Star CHESTNUTS But now that blacksmith shops are returning to the landscape, the question pops up: "Are there enough spreading chestnut trees to work under?" Or should we have left that old chestnut in the fire? —Stratford Beacon -Herald OH, YES? Boston's A.R.P. wardens are provided -with lipsticks for mark- ing casualties, but it has yet to be established whether suspicion lel wives will believe their bus- banda when they say: "My dear, 1 was just helping the wardens in a practice blackout." —Windsor Star DOES SHE WEAR 'EM7 "They took a rib from the man to make a woman, and now they take his vest, his patch pockets and taouser cuffs to make her a ruiform."—Winnipeg Tri- bune. But yen haven't accounted for our other pair of pants. —Ottawa Citizen NEGATIVE SAVING .1r each automobile we are lot making this year we have. savedenough tin for 1,000 cans. But Ws impossible for us to not make enough autos to get all the tin we need. —Food Industries HAVE UNFROZEN LEGS Sale of bicycles has been "frozen" in the United States, and new machines of adult size are hard to get in this country. Fortunately we still have our lege, and unfrozen. —Ottawa Journal THOSE TELLTALE SYMPTOMS If he looked worried and sunned, and now looks cheerful again, he has decided to quit trying to quit smoking. —Portland Maine Express SCOUTING . . The difficulty for maintaining suitable leadership for Boy Scout Groups throughout the Dominion, due to the heavy enlistment of Scout Leaders and older Scouts in the Active Service forces, was one of the problems reflected in the annual report of the Boy Scouts' A: sociation for 1041, just keeled. The resulting drop in boy membership of six per cent was less than expected, however, and has to a considerable extent been made up since the October Scout Bens s on which the report teas based. New leaders for the Scout Troops are being sought ,among oiler men and for Wolf Cub packs among women. Membership Analysis The 1941 total. consisted of 89,552 Wolf Cubs, 41,866 Boy Scouts, 665 Lone Scouts, 974 Sea Scouts, 1,342 Rover Seuuts, 168 Rover Sea Scouts and 6,906 lead- ers not counting 247 Rovers reg- istered as Scoutersr. Number of Units There were 2,166 Groups, which included 1,601 Packs, 1,965 Troops, 135 Rover Crews, 38 Sea Scout Troops, 4 Sea Scout Pat- rols and 11 Rover Sea Scout Crews. Badges In all, 31,071 Cub Badges were passed, including 18,024 Rank Badges and 12,147 Proficiency Badges. Rank Badges to the number of 25,520 and 21,k18 Proficiency Badges made up the &out total of 47,333. The Rover Badge was issued to 273, and the Rambler'. 13adge to 6, making the Rover total 18(3, "CANADIAN SOLDIER" v��•.. }; mon*... �' v „,-.r-..,•...�,.-�,F- eteselasseaAwaa- For one of a. series of portraits of the men in Canada's army, Lilian Torrance Newton, R.C.A., has chosen a typical example of our fighting forces—young, alert, resolute, coolly defiant. The title 'aCanadian Soldier" is as comprehensive as it is simple. This paint- ing has been reproduced in Post Gard size and is being placed free in canteens to be used by men serving the Canadian army. Bishop Explains Overseas Travel Wartime Ocean Voyages In First World War and Now Air Marshall Bishop has hit upon the right way to talk to Canadian fighting men who have been balk- ing at the type of transport afford- ed them on their voyages overseas, comments the Ottawa Journal. Up until now our officials have been beendling them two ways: repri- manding them for lack of discip- line or apologizing for the poor traveling c ondition s. Billy Bishop put it this way in ,a)lealting to a group of airmen at Balifax: "I can only hope you will be eompletely comfortable, but I'd like to toll you of my own experi- canse. During the last war I made eight crossings of the Atlantic. Hy drat tam 1 *ailed on the Caledonia out of 3intreal. She was a cattle lit, built in 1890, and we took 16 days to cross and we crossed without an escort. There was not as inch of that ship that did not stink Two hundred horses diad on the way over." That, says our No. 1 airman, was wsa•timme travel in 1914-1913; and that, to one way os another, is wartime travel in any age. The government should do its utmost to provide good passage—and the troop) in turn should be ready to Wm what's coming. Place Orders Now For Winter Coal Frank G. Neate, Deputy Coal Administrator for Canada, urges all users of coal, from the small householders to the big industry, to place their orders at once for the next winter's coal supplies. He said the Dominion will be lucky if it gets 500,000 tons of Welsh coal this season, compared with importation of 630,189 tons last year and added the trans. portation facilities for coal will have to meet the insistent com- petition for space by priority goods. Coast To Coast Postmaster General Mulock has announced that, starting May 1, regular air mail service will op- erate daily, Sundays excepted, be- tween Moncton, N.B., Sydney, INS., and Gander and St, John's, "As a result of this new ex- tension •of service, the island al Newfoundland, in the Atlantic', will be connected over a 3,918. mile trans -Canada air route, with Vancouver Island in the Pacific, in under twenty-four haws by the clock for the westward trip, Mr. Mulock said in a statement Burglars who break into house* and steal all the soap are be- coming common in Scotland. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Nehel< "Okay, you can look now. . . . You missed ill p� In Spies Of Japan U. S. Schools Collected Military Secrete Says Frederick Lewis, In Liberty Japanese language students— almost always Jap army or naval officers in disguise—were a vitally important part of the Jap plan for spreadiug subversive propa- ganda and collecting military and naval secrets. The task was fax beyond the resources of the staffs. Hence the idea of "naval attaches" advantageously located and easily accessible to the individual Japa- nese. For any such unjustifiable distribution of ranking army and navy officers in a friendly country, some disguise must be adopted. Physical disguise was, of course, impossible; Japs carried their na- tionality in their faces. A voca- tional disguise therefore must be found. Hence the language stu- dents. These young men, usually lieu- tenant -commanders or comman- ders in the imperial navy, were assigned to at least six months' preliminary training in the naval intelligence service in Tokio. On arrival in the United States they reported to the Japanese embassy in Washington, which was the G.H.Q. of Jap activities, and they remained for a brief time on duty in Washington under the watchful eyes of embassy officials. Then, as fast as they acquired a working knowledge of English, they were told off to take tech- nical courses in American univer- sities, with instructions to travel extensively throughout the United States and Canada during all va- cation periods. When their edu- cation in American customs and conditions was believed to be com- plete, they were assigned to resi- dence in American key pities like Boston, Philadelphia and New York on the east coast, and Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles on the west coast. Once established, they either con- tinued their "education" by en- rolling as students in neighboring universities or accepted posts as instructors in Japanese language schools, of which there were a geeat many, especially on the Pa- cific coast. These language schools were similar to the German and Italian and Japanese language schools in South America, which have made our good neighbor policy there so difficult. Britain Improves Her Shipbuilding Merchant Vessels Built With Eye To Peace Cargoes can be handled twice as fait as in 1989 by the ships now Ieasing yards in. a steady stream all over the United Kingdom. Scores of new tankers, large and last refrigerated cargo ves- sels, and general cargo carriers of several sizes axe already in service—a triumphant vindication of the policy of the British Ad- miralty not to adopt one standard type of merchant ship but to use a number of types developed be- fore the -war for different trades, Exact plans used in this colossal program have been sent to Canada and the United States where ships are now being introduced at the uleprecedented rate of two a day. Britain's standard ships are a Tory great advance on their pre- decessors of 25 years ago; indeed, in many respects they are better than those launched just before the war. Besides possessing twice the capacity of the 1939 vessels in handling cargo, today's, whether steam or diesel driven, have a higher speed. The new merchant fleet has practically every item which will be needed in peacetime, a useful indication of the official view on the result of the Battle of the Oceans. Accommodation has been improved beyond belief. The fo'c's'le has gone and the modern tramp has deck houses for its petty officers, seamen and firemen specially designed. Here they sleep in cabins with two berths, wardrobes and mirrors. There are bathrooms and they have their meals in separate small messes. Even passenger accommodation which will be needed when peace comes has not been forgotten, a.nd it has been done as artistically as if there was not a U-boat under the ocean. REG'LAR FELLERS—Crash! THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events German People Become Restive Under Constant Bombardment Many interpretations have been made of Hitler's latest speech to the Reichstag. If the speech can be taken at its face value, it is a very en- couraging one for the United Na- tions, claims the New Yorlc Times. Hitler found it necessary to repeat once more all his old alibis for his failure to destroy Russian resistance. Winter came four weeks too early, and where Napoleon had to combat temper- atures of only 25 degrees below zero, Hitler's men and their equipment encountered temper- atures 53 degrees below. He ad- mits that neither German soldiers, tanks nor locomotives were pre- pared for the sudden onset of cold, He admits that German nerves snapped and that disci- pline brake down, at least at cer- tain points. He, admits, in fact, that his whole army was at one time threatened with disaster. He does not promise now to beat Russia even this year, and he hints that another winter cam- paign there may have to be faced. His warning that if Germany los- es now it can mean its annihila- tion is not the statement of a conqueror to a nation of people who consider themselves con- querors; it is the ory of a leader on. the defensive. Apology To People What Hitler hoped to accom- plish by this speech it is not easy to see. It is a long apology to the German people foe• the very ex- istence of the war; Hitler des- perately seeks to pin responsibil- ity for it on his enemies and par- tieularly on "the Jews." The world has now listened to too many Hitler speeches of this sort to be influenced gteatly merely by one more, However much com- 2art we may take in his latest ad- missions or omissions, we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled. Whether the military forces at Hitler's disposal today have some serious hidden weakness, or wheth- er they are stronger than ever, the only policy of the United Na- tions must be to continue to strike now with all the force at their command. People Restless Der fuehrer's Words, mainly to domestic affairs, may have been an echo of the con- tinuous performance which the United Nations air arm has been staging over Europe day and night, day after day, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Germany has been free from military ac- tion on. its home territory for so many years that the German people may be showing signs of restlessness under the constant bombardment from the air. Hit- ler's subjects are not able to take it with the same nonchalance and indifference that they give it. They may lose their taste for war quicker than they acquired it. How otherwise account for the law, passed by the Reichstag, empowering .Hitler to remove any man from office without le- gal proceedings? There is noth- Ing comia in the Reichstag vot- ing a law. Hitler already had this power. The purpose was to warn the country that disaffec- tion would be swiftly dealt with. directed Hitler Worried 'This public reiteration of the dictator's powers may have been a means, too, of notify/pg the Gorman people that no grtrnblin would be tolerated for failltre et the Nazis to achieve the -elusive victory they have categoi'leally promised every year sitaee the invasion of Poland. In saying that German •`equip - went would be better mode to stand the rigors of wintisr in Russia than was the casein the season just passed, Hitler 3)riplied that there would be no victor over Russia this string 4V suns-, mer. But it is not the egment so much as the human nracbine both at the front and at home that der fuehrer is wearying about. Explaining his defensive war- fare in Russia on the geounds that 1941-42 was "the vyaret winter in 140 years," Hitt¢5 de- clared "we succeeded in mas- tering threatening catastrphe." But another winter? The ;Ger- man people remember What they had to sacrifice to keep the armies in the field Wahl* campaign. Can they or will they continue to do It? Access to supplies Is not being In- creased. Germany was free from the air threat during this period, It will never be free again. Critical Period Approaching These facts go a long way to upset the promises with which Hitler, in typical rhetoric, inter- larded his address. It is very fine for Hitler to tell the nation that "tbe Bolshevist colossus Will bre beaten by us so long and until such time as it has been smash- ed completely." But what about the air raids? What about the growing threat of a second front in western Europe? With sub- jugated Europe in revolt where will he obtain the man power to crush Russia—or any other ese- emy—completely? The world knows today that Germany's might is not invincible in any field of operations. The United Nations are going forward to crush the nation which has repeatedly launched war on Eur- ope, The end will come sooner if the German people realize this. It is the fear that they will wbich haunts Hitler. Some diplomats suspect that. Hitler's speech was designed to blind the United Nations to the enormous power that the Nazis will throw into the approaching campaign but officials do no un- derestimate Hitler's s t r e n g t h. There seems to be, a general agreement that the next three months will provide the crucial point of the war. Churchill's Son t Joins Commandos Capt. Randolph Churchill, son, of Britain's Prime Minister, has joined the Commandos in the Middle East. Capt. Churchill, 30, is at camp undergoing the inten- sive training required of Com- mandos. Member of the Queen's Own Hussars, he filled a staff post in Cairo with the tempora ary rank of major until recently. ADVERTISING. AGENCY APPOINTMENTS F. W. Gross A. R. 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