Zurich Herald, 1942-11-26, Page 30,0
BOMBS AWAY!
This remarkable picture was taken from the bomb bay of an
American Flying Fortress, just as two bombs were simultaneously
released and sent on their mission of destruction toward the German
submarine base at Lorient, France. In the city's pattern, between
and around the bombs, can be seen the smoke puffs of previous hits
during the raid.
VICE
O F T U E
PRESS
THEY'LL GO OVERSEAS
The question is frequently
asked: "What happens to the
young officers who are employed
as instructors at the O.T.C,?" The
answer is: "If they are physically
fit and otherwise qualified, they
go overseas like everyone else."
This is proved by the recent ar-
rival in Britain of a group of these
instructors who will now join ac-
tive units on duty in that coun-
try.
—Brockville Recorder and Times.
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SAME IDEA
Chaplain Forgy of 'Praise the
Lord and pass the ammunition' is a
bit apologetic over his immortal
outburst at Pearl Harbor. $e
need not be. When Oliver Crone
well's troops were about to cross
'a river to attack the Royalists the
great Protector ended an address
by saying: Put your trust in God;
but mind to keep your powder
—Montreal Gazette
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FINEST HOSPITAL
Families of men in the armed
forces overseas will take comfort
from Viscount Bennett's descrip-
tion of the Canadian Red Cross
Hospital at Taplow in England. He
says it is by common consent the
finest h.os ital in design and equip-
ment over there. The Canadian
wounded and sick are assured
splendid attention,
—Windsor Star
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NO REPORTED CASE
Motorists think that magistrates
are too inclined to take the side
of the pedestrian in disputes, but
they should remember that there
is no recorded case of a pedestrian
running down a car, with fatal
results.,
—Peterborough Examiner
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SIMILAR TACTICS
Why is a Jap like a girdle?
They both sneak up on you and
it takes a good yank to pull them
down.
—Old Bill of the Dunnville
Chronicle.
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REAL LEMON -AID
At a benefit auction- in Wales
to help the Red Cross a lemon sold
for $132. That sounds like real
lemon -aid.
—Stratford Beacon -Herald
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WHY DON'T THEY?
If only the women would use
their heads while buying a hat.
Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph
Hitler Orders Extra
Holiday Food Ration
Germans will receive a small
extra food ration as a special
Christmas gift, according to a de-
cree published in the German Of-
ficial Gazette, D.N.B„ the official
German news agency, announced
In a broadcast.
Tho extra ration will include one
pound of flour, a quarter -pound of
butter, a half -pound of sugar, about
two ounces of coffee, two and one-
half ounces of cheese, a quarter -
pound of cantly and a small bottle
of .spirits.
In place of the coffee and spirits,
children will receive a 'baif-pound
of candy.
, The special ration also 'vial in-
clude between four and six eggs,
SCOUTING
Boy Scouts of Queensland, Aus-
tralia, did not let difficulties stand
in their way when their country
needed old rubber. Heading up
the drive the boys made an amaz-
ing showing. One country troop
rigged up tackle at the top of a
100 -foot precipice and hauled up
200 old tires which had been thrown
over in palmier days. One pack
of Wolf Cubs borrowed a pony and
canvassed the farming country,
returning many times with their
cart full to capacity.
* * *
It may not be generally known,
but Lord Baden-Powell, founder of
the Boy Scout movement, was in-
duced to give up his army career
to lead the Boy Scouts organization
by King Edward VII. King Ed-
ward also instituted the King's
Scout Badge, the hallmark of the
finest among Boy Scouts.
* * *
Boy Scouts of .Toronto are as-
sisting in a salvage campaign which
is expected -to supply enough wool
for 44,000 military uniforms. The
boys make regular collections of
wool clippings from some 240 To-
ronto clothing stores. The money
raised by the sale of these clip-
pings is being donated to the Citi-
zens' Committee for Troops in
Training.
* * *
In a recent radio broadcast J.
Edgar Hoover•, head of the Ameri-
can F.B.T., stated that most of his
men had early training as Boy
Scouts. He told the story of one
former Scout who "for months, with
fellow agents, maintained a daily
radio contact with Na.zy spy head-
quarters in Germany. At any mo-
ment there was the possibility of
his identity being revealed and
his lite snuffed out by the agents
of a nation that long ago strangled
its Boy Scout movement. But this
was no deterrent to hhn or to
other special agents who have car-
ried with them the lessons of their
Boy Scout days."
* * *
Across Canada just now Boy
Scouts are opening up their Toy
Shops, and at Christmas thousands
of toys will be distributed to in-
stitutions and to the children of
soldiers serving overseas. In Mont-
real last year 8,089 articles were
distributed through 03 social agen-
cies. In this total were included
590 dolls and 507 stuffed animals,
repaired by the Girl Guides of the
city,
Tiny Gadget
One of the tiny assemblies in
the gyro horizon and directional
gyro indicators for warplanes,
says Pathfinder, weighs only 15-
100,000 of an ounce; 3,000 off
them could fit into an ordinary
needle.
THE UNC rrNQUERALES
Nurse Becorrmes Underground Reporter
in the early winter of 1939 a
wounded Polish officer picked his
way through the ruins of Warsaw
to the apartment he had occupied
before the German invasion, It
was in . one of the few buildings
that had escaped destruction or
serious damage.
Waiting in the apartment was a
nurse who had cared for him as a
child. The nurse immediately as-
k-en-cid
s-
rv. ed her former authority and
took him off to a workingman's
home. The Germans, she said,
would take his apartment. The
next day the officer's quarters
were requisitioned and the nurse
was ordered to serve the German
occupant.
In a few weeks, his wounds
healed, the Polish officer became
the editor of an "underground"'
newspaper. He proposed to, "steal".
his own excellent short-wave radio
from his apartment in order to
obtain foreign news. But the
nurse had a better idea. The Ger-
man was away from the apart-
ment all day. She would listen
to the l3ritish broadcasts in Polish,
take notes, and relay them to the
officer.
At first the Polish officer was
dubious, But the nurse was in-
sistent and finally he consented.
From the first the scheme was a
success, The amateur reporter
provided much valuable informa-
tion and was greatly pleased when
she read her "news" in the "un-
derground" paper, She -felt she
was making an important eontri-
bution to .continued Polish resin•
tanee.
One day, however, the German
returned to the apartment earlier
than was expected, and she was
caught red-handed. The Gestapo
subjected her to a severe grilling,
but she kept her silence in spite
of all threats.
The German authorities sen-
tenced her to twenty years at hard
labor. The nurse went to prison
• 'with her head held high and a
smile on her face. She knew that
her one-time charge was still at
liberty; that he had found another
source of foreign news, and that
the secret paper was still giving
the Polish people a reason for the
unquenchable hope that was in
them,
glish Farmers
Praise C radians
Farmers in south-east England,
having reaped and stored the fin-
est harvest in history, are now
paying tribute to the magnificent
help given them by Canadian sol-.
diers during the summer.
Lord Monsell, South -East Reg-
ional Commissioner, told report-
ers: "Our farmers would have
been in very great labour diffi-
culties if it had not been for the
help of the Canadians. Most of
the men had experience of Cana-
dian farm work, and bur farmers
regard them as thundering good
fellows."
The Canadians worked in large
forces from the first haysell to
the carting of the last load of
corn. Since then they have been
lending a hand at threshing and
baling, and many are now help-
ing to lift potato and root crops.
Some of their work has been
performed as part of their mile
itary duties, but many of them
devoted their leave -days to vole
untary work in the harvest fields.
In a few cases, so eager were
they to help, they walked from
farm to farm until they found
work.
Lord Monsen said that apart
from their land work the Cana-
diens have rendered grana ser-
vice in civil defence. "At every
bombing incident," he said, "the
Canadians have been among the
first on the scene, anxious to
lend a hand, ready and willing to
take instructions from whatever
officer was in charge.
"Fine fellows, fine workers and
fine soldiers."
Rabbit Same By
Any Other Name
The recent announcement of
the price board that henceforth
dyed rabbit must be called dyed
rabbit and nothing more sent a
Toronto reporter into the trade
to find out under what guises the
rabbit had been operating, states
The Ottawa Journal. His list fol-
lows:
Arctic Seal, Australian Seal,
Super Seal, Electric Seal, Baltie
Fox, Beaverette, French Sable,
Lapin, Squirreline and many oth-
ers.
The reporter also found out
while he was at it that Alaska
Sable now becomes natural or
dyed skunk, Genet is dyed or na-
tural cat, Moufflon is goat and
Wolf Fox is dyed dog.
We can just 'hear Mrs. Janes
calling out the window to her
friend in a waiting ear: "Half a
jiff. I'll just throw my skunk over
my shoulders and be right down."
Foods May Be
Sent To Prisoners
Certain types of food now may
be included in parcels sent to pris-
oners of war by their next of kin,
•;°.otternal Affairs Department an-
nounce' recently. Previously only
clothing, small personal items and
chocolate was allowed to be sent.
Under the new arrangements, lim-
ited amounts of dehydrated fruits
and berries, dehydrated soups,
shelled nuts, hard chocolate and
cocoa, coffee, tea, sugar or hard
candies, dried chipped beef, spices
and. curry powder may be sent.
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ARE LITTLE GIRLS
MADE OUT OF
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ARE MADE F/
Ti -JE Wry • WEEK commentary on Current Events
Political Policy Of United States
In Campaign In N or t h Africa.
This is a good time, says the
New York Times, for a little pa
tience, and eonfidence as well,
about the political policy our Gov-
ernment is pursuing in North
Africa, The situation is admitted-
ly a strange one. Our friends the
Free French are nowhere in the
picture. Instead It is Darien, until
a week ago the colleague of Laval,
who is organizing North Africa
on our side; Darien who appoints
General Giraud as the Command-
er•in-Chief of the French forces;
Darien who uses the American -
controlled Algiers radio to broad-
cast, in the same breath, a call
to arms against the Germans and
a elaim that his authority to make
war upon the Germans derives
from Petain, who Is a puppet in
Gemman hands. It is in these per-
plexing circumstances that the de
Gaulle committee in London an-
nounces that it is "taking no part"
in the present situation and will
accept no decisions made by the
Americans and British "should the
negotiations result in arrange-
ments which would in effect con-
firm the Vichy regime in North
Africa."
Criticism Premature
There will be some bewilder-
ment in this country also, and no
doub4 the charge will be made in
certain quarters that our Govern-
ment has once more embarked on
a policy of "appeasement" at the
expense of its real friends. But
such criticism, 1•n our judgment,
will be premature. It will also be
made without full possession of
the facts in a complex situation.
A great military operation is un-
der way in North Africa. Whether
it succeeds or fails is a matter of
touch-and-go. Only the military
commanders in the field, and the
Government officials in Washing-
ton who receive from them the
first-hand information which they
have gathered on the spot, know
what problems we face in North
Africa, what obstacles must be
overcome, what risks must be tak-
en, what means must be used
both to save the lives of American
boys and to assure the success
of the vast military enterprise
whieh we have launched from a
distance of three thousand miles.
Surely there is only one thing
that counts at the moment. This
is to obtain control of the whole
north coast of Africa, Tunisia
included, as the necessary first
step toward the liberation of
- France herself.
Patience Urged
Whatever obscurities or appar-
ent contradictions there may be
in the present American political
policy in North Africa, we do not
for a moment believe that the
course our Government is follow-
ing means that we have mistaken
our enemies for friends, or lost
interest in the real cause for
which our friends are fighting—
namely, the life of the French Re-
public. We urge patience, and con-
fidence, on the part both of Am-
ericans and of their French col-
leagues in arms. The French Re-
public never had a better friend
than President Roosevelt who dir-
ects our policy in this crisis.
Battle of The Soiomons
Though we do not know, the
New York Times continues, and
far reasons of safety cannot be
told at this time, how many Am-
erican ships were damaged in the
Solomon Islands battle, in addition
to those which were sunk, there
can be no doubt that we have won
a naval victory which will have
far-reaching eoLsequenees on the
course of the war in the Pacific.
We have sent a Japanese battle-
ship, three heavy cruisers, two
light cruisers, five destroyers and
eight transports to the bottom of
the seas, and in doing so we have
struck a blow that has sent the
enemy reeling from the scene of
action, so badly confused, in the
later stages of the battle, that he
is reported to have fired on some
of his own ships.
Full Details Not Known •
Mare time must pass before we
can learn the full details of the
battle, but it is already clear that
we made skillful ase of both our
seapower and our airpower. The
Navy notes the great assistance
it received from General Mee-
. Arthur's heavy raids on the in-
vasion fleet at Rabaul and at
Burn, The bare outlines of last
week's communique cares, their
own evidence of the ability with
which our surface ships were
fought and of the gallantry of the
crews that manned them. The vile-
tory
imtory is all the more promising be•
cause it was won within a few
hundred miles of the great Japans
ese naval base at Truk by an Am-
erican fleet operating from an
provised island base which was
in turn far from the centre of our
naval power at Pearl Harbor.
Enemy Will Come Again
Sharp and punishing as this
blow bas been, we must a. «me
that the enemy will return to the
scene of battle to renew his chal-
lenge.
hafflenge. He is drawn irresistibly to
the southern Soiomons both by
his desire to command an air base
important to the defense of Truk
itself and by the inability of the
Japanese military to accept a loss
of "face." He will come again. but
when he comes he will sail with-
out some of his finest ships. We
have won a victory that brings
appreciably closer the supremacy
of American seapower in the Pas
eific.
Report To Britain
Mr. Churchill, speaking in the
House of Commons last week, re-
viewed the battle of Egypt and
the American -British invasion of
North Africa. He dwelt on the
amount of time and careful pre-
paration necessary to these enter-
prises whose initial success, re-
quiring a delicate precision in the
combination of so many elements,
seems to the layman almost mir-
aculous.
Mr. Churchill's account was ac-
companied with a reproof and ad-
monition deserved by many well-
meaning persons in Great Britain
and the United States. Where is
the second 'front? Why is nobody
doing anything for Russia? What's
the matter with the British? Well,
Russia was told that a landing
on the Continent would be made
this year if it could be. When this
turned out to be impossible, the
North African expedition was fit-
ted. out, Mr. Churchill went to
Russia and explained the situation.
He and Mr. Stalin parted in "mu-
tual understanding." B u t for
months a hullabaloo of censure
was made in entire ignorance c
the facts.
Thanksgiving For Victory
The President's wise and gen
erous coarse after the fall of To-
bruk in letting the British have
our best tanks and a lot of sell -
propelled 106 -mm. guns was not
forgotten by Mr. Churchill. The
Prime Minister's stoic determin-
ation to look forward unafraid
to blunders and disappointments
inevitable in wan was reiterated.
From his sober prose a touch of
poetry stands out pleasantly. He
said the etherch bells would ring
out all over England. Instead of
an air raid warning they would
be a thanksgiving for victory. One
thing of the old, quiet, "green and
pleasant land," of cathedral clos-
es, of peaceful villages and parish
churches.
A Wartime Holiday
In Great Britain
A young married couple in Eng-
land recently determined to spend
their first wartime holiday on the
western coast. A hage crowd was
at the station, but they managed
to get into a crowded compartment
when, to the wife's dismay, she dis-
covered that she had left her ration
cards at home. Returning home and
collecting the books, they gathered
up their luggage once again, only
to discover that their "macks" had
been left in the first train.
The next train not, being due
to leave for au hour, they adjourn-
ed to the station buffet for a stim-
ulant. In the crush at the counter,
a tall fellow's elbow was jabbed
into the husband's eye, which need-
ed first-aid. When at length the
by now disgruntled couple arrived
at their destination, they learned
that the landlady was too ill to
accommodate them. The new ad-
dress given to them was half a
mile farther from the sea.
Nothing further happened to up-
set their peace of mind until on
reaching home madame found that
she had once again left her ration
book, behind. -_and on the mat in
the hall reposed her huthutd'd
calling -up papers.'
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