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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-10-07, Page 3Yr' 0 SUBURBAN HEIGHTS l;r G UYAs W14041$1$ ur *Id 14 x .eA It' a .MN, nrd WHA'( FRED ?ERLEV MINDS MOST ABOUT CROWDED TRAINS TNESE DAHHC(NETGUfMOOR BECAUSEHE CAW( Wn' O'P NGSMEBDY OR WRECKING 1415 NEWSPAPER 3.2q-43 wti`Yans emstuecaunintrwagme THE WAR • WEEK — Commentary on Current Events The Lang Arm f Allied Afrpower Strikes Inside Hifl.r's "Fortress" With the Russiaus reported across the Dnieper in several places, the French practically in control of Corsica, Allied forces seizing the Aegean Islands, Yugo- slav guerillas holding most of the Dalmatian coast, and the British - American armies pushing up the Italian boot, the walls and roof of Hitler's "fortress" are bent and breached, says the Christian Science Monitor. Not only has Germany beeu put clearly on the defensive; her lines of defence have been sharpely contracted. How much the shape of the war has been changed since July is only clear when we look at those encouraging circles the mapmakers draw to show how far Allied Tlanes will go if they fly 300 or 600 miles toward Berlin. The circles are not only overlapping; they are beginning to blanket the whole area under Nazis control. No German can get outside the 600 -mile arcs from Allied bases. The Russians on the Dnieper are no farther from eastern Germany than London is. Bombers based in Corsica or southern Italy will be only half as far from southern Germany as when they flew from Africa. Fighter -Plane Umbrellas The Liberators which did such damage to the Ploesti oilfields had to go nearly twice as far as they will when the British - American forces have fixed up bases on the Aegean islands. Al- lied bombers which have just struck at the Brenner Pass prob- ably started from Sicily; from Corsica they can hit the same targets—or any other along Nazi supply lines in northen Italy with half as muck fuel load. The pres- ent drive for tate Italian airfields around Foggia aims at similar AWARD WINNER Major-General Guy Granville Simonds, of Kingston, Ont., who has been awarded the Distinguish- ed Service Order for services in the Sicilian campaign. advantages, particularly for at- tacks in Yugoslavia. Not only do the air -arcs warn of the bombing the Nazis must expect; in Italy, southern France and Yugoslavia, they tell a story of fighter -plane umbrellas for Al- lied landings . and ground oper- ations. Allied air bases in the Ae- gean Islands will probably force German abandonment of Crete, for which they open the way to landings in Greece. The Ring Tightens Of course it is 'easier to draw the pretty circles on the map than • it is to establish bases even in reconquered territory, to supply them and then to develop the air mastery that the maps seem to assume. But the resources for such moves are building up in Allied hands. Soon the Germans, wherever they try to fight, must cope not only with strafing of their front lines, but bombing of all their supplies and communications straight back to the most remote factory or ammunition dump. The Nazis are shortening their Iines, desperately trying to hold the Allies off as far as possible. But the ring tightens. The long aim of airpower, striking far inside, should make the position clearly hopeless to the Germans long before they have been forced back to such lines as they held in 1913. 500 Pounders in 1939 World War II's aerial offensive against Germany began on Sept, 4, 1939, a little more than twenty-four hours after Britain declared war. Planes of the RAF's Bomber Com- mand attacked German warships at Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuet- tel, at the entrance to the Kiel Canal. The biggest plane available for the raid was the two -engined Wellington Mark 1-A. The biggest bomb used was a 500 -pounder, With the Wellingtons went some Blenheims, much smaller. The fleet of twenty-nine planes was the largest Britain could risk on a single mission. The loss of seven planes, almost 25 per cent, was prohibitively high. Except for one raid on Helgoland there were no more major attacks until December. 8,000 Pounders Now Last week the bomber offensive against Germany was being writ- ten in terms that dramatically marked the change wrought in four years. Wellingtons are only medium bombers now. The largest bombs weigh 8,000 pounds instead. of 500. Maximum bomb loads have climbed from two tons to more than eight tons. Bomber fleets regularly run to the hundreds of planes and operate day after day, Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons last week that RAF alone had discharged on Germany three times the weight of bombs in the last twelve months that it had 111 the previous twelve; in the last three months the load was half again as great as in the preceding three. He said: OTTAWA REPORT$. That Canadian Farmers Cart Be Proud of the Results of Their ' flog -Raising Program Farmers of Canada have made it possible to supply Britain ,with the product of seventeen million hogs, valued 'at four hundred million dollars, Since the war began, the total shipments of bacon to Britain have been in excess of two bil- lion pounds. In addition to these bacon deliveries, Canada has sent overseas nearly 40 million pounds of frozen pork liver, kidneys and tongues, 13 million pounds of • canned pork, 4 million pounds of lard and nearly a million bundles of hog casings for the manufac- ture of sausages. Not only have Canadian farm- ers supplied the people of Britain with their bacon, but they have also acquired a reputation for regular deliveries of a quality product, a reputation which will be needed in the competitive 'ex- port market of post-war years'. Meat rationing has helped .in the fulfilment of the bacon con- tract to Britain; limitations on the quantities of bacon and other pork products fol. domestic :use - have made more available for ex- port. xport. How much more is shown in an announcement from the Meat Board which states that dur- ing the first part of this summer Canada exported 43 per cent. more bacon than in the similar period of 1942. This 43 per cent. increase was obtained with only 18 per cent. increase _n hog marketings. The relaxation of the system of dis- counts on heavy hog. made ,this possible. The average weight of hog carcasses has risen from 148 pounds before the war to an esti- mated 165 pounds at the present time. While heavier hogs have been acceptable as a wartime emergency, they will not be de- sirable in peace:ime. The heavy- weights increase the quantity;, of bacon, but they don't. make for better bacon, and farmers must bear in mind that heavier hogs will not be satisfactory for com- petition on the British market after the war. . • * * * To assist good growth in young pigs farmers feed them skim milk and buttermilk. Other farmers with no milk for fe .ding, mix twelve pounds of concentrate in every hundred pounds of '.the grain ration. There is the pos- sibility of wastage of high pro- tein - supplements through the idea that by boosting the protein • supplement from 12 to 24- Dcupp s the pig will grow twice as fast. This is not so. Unnecessarily large amounts of concentrates have been fed to pigs on some farms when they would be just as well off without it. Any amount over the ndrazal require- ments is wasted. A young pig uses excess protein only for energy or fattening and farmers agree that there are cheaper ways of putting fat on a pig than by laying out money for protein •supplements. Supplies of com- mercial protein feeds are limited and it is only by using these feeds and dairy by-products in the most economical way that the large number of pigs required can be raised successfully and cheaply. * * * Livestock men emphasize that proteins are necessary for young pigs and pregnant or nursing sows. But when a pig reaches one hundred pounds, it will make "The havoc wrought Is indescrib- able." New Nazi Bomb There were signs of stiffening defenses on the raids over Ger- many . Interceptors rose to meet the bombers far from the targets and others 'hovered over the scene of activity. In two nights the RAF lost fifty-eight of their big planes. There were no signs of new defensive weapons, Mr, Churchill did, however, reveal the use by the Germans of a new bomb—"a sort of rocket -assisted glider" and controlled from a par cut aircraft. Used so far only against coastal shipping, its ef- fectiveness is not yet clear. THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME And these Canadian troops on Kiska never realized it more than they do now. They're bunking In a filthy, poorly constructed shack that the Japs used as a hospital until better quarters are set up. The more bonds you buy, the sooner these boys can come back to the comforts of home. reasonable good growth on feed grains alone. By limiting protein supplements to young pigs, more hogs can be raised on the same amount of purchased supple- ments. V !ICE OF TH PRESES.. MATTER OF TECHNIQUE A Western Ontario soldier com- plains he is afraid of the girls in North Africa, because, with their faces covered, he cannot tell whether they are 16 or 60. And some persons who never have been out of North America can point to a similar bafflement.— Windsor Star. —0— UNHAPPY MILLENNIUM A British humorist tells of the rationing problem that is develop- ing in the United Kingdom as the war progresses. People now 'stand in line to find out what line to stand in to get rationed supplies. — St. Thomas Times - Journal. _0_ TOUGH CHICKENS Ad in a western weekly says: "For sale, 900 -month-old Rhode Island Red chicks." And all this time we've been blaming it on the carving knife.—Toronto "Saturday Night" --o— • TABLED MISHAPS One-third of all accidents occur in the kitchen, says a safety states - titian. And thy're placed on the table just as of they hadn't hap- pened,—Kitchener Record. —o— THINK OF THEM If worried about what the Winter will bring you, just think of the prospect before the Cana- dians now forming part of the Kiska garrison. — Brockville Re- corder and Times. • —o— IN THE ARMY NOW A Denver musician wants soldiers gently wakened by the soft strains of a violin rather than a blatant bugle. What, no break- fast in bed?—Christian Science Monitor. —o— NEEDS A SECONDER It seems to be the belief of al- most every woman that she needs someone to help her keep a secret—Guelph Mercury. Life of a Private We stand in line to get a pass We stand in line to wash. We stand in line to find a place To stand in line .. , by gosh. We stand in line to draw our pay We stand in line to spend it. But fellow sten, we never have To stand in line to lend it. The Ration Board In Kindly Mood. According to the Deloraine, Man., Times the ration board there has been entrusted with a very delicate secret. The board received the following letter: ' "When I registered my war ration book No. 1, I asked you not to put my age on the front of the book but just to mark it 'legal age'. Now, listen, if 'age' appears on the new hook just mark it 'legal age' again. My husband thinks that I am only four years older than he is and he will be very angry if he finds out the truth. I will remember you in my prayers." The Deloraine paper says that the ration board has decided to keep a stiff upper lip so that Friend Husband will never know. French Coast Strip Cleared Of Civilians According to reportss reaching the Allied • Governments in Lon- don, the Germans have cleared all civilians front a 50 -mile strip on the southern coast of France in anticipation of a possible Allied invasion thrust there. A large corps of Nazi engine3rs was said to have been sent into the cleared area to speed con- struction of additional fortifica- tions and defense works. The Book Shelf DAYLIGHT ON SATURDAY By J. B. Priestly For that superb modern story- teller, toryteller, J. B. Priestley, a huge mech- anized industry is alive with human interest. In "Daylight On Saturday" he tells a story of drama and excitement within the window- less walls of a vast camouflaged aircraft factory somewhere is England. Here men and women live, love, hate and aspire amid the glare of bright lights and the roar of machinery. What happens to them in the plant and out of it, how their lives enmesh and clash under the heightened strain of war, is a thrilling story—passionate, col- ourful and tremendously interest- ing. Daylight On Saturday ... by J. 6.' Priestley . . - The Macmillan Company of Canada . . . Price $3.00. Missionaries' Work Valuable To Army Missionary work done in the Solomons in previous years paid dividends during the American advance on New Georgia. A Methodist mission near Maz- da had taught many natives to speak English and several were employed by American forces to lead thein through the jungles. LOOKING DOWN IN THE MOUTH Making the ship look like some gigantic fairy story ogre about to swallow a snack of helpless humans, a tank -landing ship swings wide its doors to receive a complement of troops en route to the fighting front. The photo above shows for the first time the hitherto heavily guarded secret of how the bow opens to receive and discharge cargo. REG'L..AR FELLERS—Right! YOU'RE A FINE 013E I've BEEN WAITIN' HERE FOR NAL AN HOUR AN' YOU SAID YOU WAS ONEY GONNA BE A MINIT. IT WASN'T MY FAULT f MRS. MAHONEY 15 GONNA 14$ STAY AT OIJR HOUSE ALL if.6 r, MOM GET THE HOUSE py.J NIGHT AN' 1 HADDA HELP 1 HADDA DUST OUT THE EXTRA ROOM AN' HELP MOM GET THE BLANKETS DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE CLOSET AN' PUT A GUEST TOWEL IN THE BATHROOM. By GENE liYR1NES 77.k.1.7. tf.. stat OMrc. d8..,io / ,@