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THE WAR WEEK --- Commentary on Current Events
Allies' Anzio Beachhead Withstands
Repeated Heavy German Attacks
..Two Allied battlefields in the maps above are separated by 50 miles,
varying from the mountainous terrain near Cassino to the swamp-
land south of Rome. Nazi legions are attacking- the Anzio-Nettuno
beachhead in force, while Allied armies are seelang a break -through
in the Cassino bulge. Lower map shows locations in Italy of close-ups
shown at top.
„ Thanks to the valor and detere.
niination of the American and Bri
tish soldier the immediate dauger.to
the Allied beachhead at Anzio ap-
pears to have passed. With. the
return of weather which permits
the resumption of air operations the
Allies have renewed their offensive.
The fighting is still indeterminate,
but the tide seems to be running
in our favor, and if this view is
correct the Anzio battle has already
achieved one important result. It
has robbed Hitler of a quick and
impressive victory for which he
tried hard --a victory which was to
demonstrate his continued striking
power for the benefit of Germany's
own morale and that of her satel-
lites, and to impress both Russia
and the 'Western Allies with the
hopelessness of any new invasion
and a new front in Europe. WVhat-
ever further results the Anzio battle
may produce, the frustration of
Hitler's calculations will alone jus-
tify its cost, says The New York
Times.
But the stubborn resistance wttich
the Germans are putting up, both
around Anzio and at Cassino, is a
renewed warning that even after
more than four years of war Ger-
many is still a powerful enemy.
Neither defeats its the field nor the
wholesale bombings of German cities
and war factories have been able
thus far to break German fighting
morale. Nor, judging from reports
from the front, have German arms
diminished either in quantity or in
quality, except for the relative de-
crease of German air power. In
fact some German weapons are de-
clared to be even superior to otir
own, And with the approach of
spring, which promisee at least
temporary surcease from Russian
pressure Nazi Topes for prolong-
ing the war are rising again.
Fight from Rooln to Room
The Italian campaign cannot be
considered wholly typical of what
Allied invasion forces vvotild face
in Prance. .For in Italy the :Mies
have been. confronted with the salve
difficulties which the Germans faced
itt the ti intains of the Caucasus
and about Stalingrad, Afountaint
are natural fortresses which always
favor the defense, and cities which
the defender is willing to sacrifice
can he converted into similar
strongholds That was shown by
ititadrid in the Spanish civil war,
shown. by 1 t nitigrad; and hi 'ii-
prenir measure by Stalingrad.
Thoul;•li on a smaller scale, it is
again being shown by Cassino.
For Here, as at Stalingrad, the fight
k proceeding frtrnt building to
building and from room to room.
Lesson Of Campaign
Nevertheless, the lessons of the
Italian campaign and the ascertain-
able results of the bombings Have
been such that a good deal of the
unwarranted optisisin of a few
months ago, about tate war in
• Europe being "all but over," has
disappeared. Even Military quar-
ters are beginning to revise their
timetable of victory. And this
adds new emphasis to the qualifi-
cation which General Eisenhower
attached to his famous prediction':
victory is possible this year, but
only if "every man and woman,
all the way from the front to the
remotest hamlet, does Itis or her
full duty."
British Warships
Rehearse Battle
A little glimpse of the Royal
Navy at its deadly games is given,
in a London despatch which tells
of the careful plans made for dis•
posing of the Germa:t battleship
Scharnhorst should site come out
of hiding and give battle, says the
Ottawa Journal.
Several times the British war-
ships in Northern waters rehearsed
for the big day they hoped would
come. A Britisl. ship represented
the Scharnhorst, went through
the motions of attacking a convoy,
of running for safety, using every
Protective and defensive device the
enemy might be expected to bring
into play. Most of the ships
actually engaged when the Scharn-
horst did finally conte out took
part•in the manoeuvres, anel,we are
told there was an amazllig simi-
larity between the atcual action
and the rehearsals.
This was intelligent anticipation
of things - to conte, and but' for
these careful' preparations the..
Scharnhorst might have escaped:
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Mustang is Answer
To New Nazi Plane
The British -Designed, American -
built Mustang plane apparently
is more than the answer to the new
German rocket -bomb plane, says
The Kansas City 'Butes, lit their
first fifteen missions the Mustangs
have destroyed nr damaged eightye-
seven German planes with the lose
of only six Mustangs. Tlie:c
fighter pieties have sueh a `1c'itg.
radius of operations that : the..y
have been able to ;escort .atuierieae
bombers ta +'.'tl•ie 'es
Belin.
British Do Real
Job of Salvage:
"All Sorts of Weird Things"
Handled in Twelve Huge
Warehouses
Scattered throughout the Brit-
ish Dales are twelve huge ware-`
houses filled with Army, Navy and
Air Force clothing and other nia+
terials, relates the St. Thomas;
Times -Journal. Samples of these
goods fill shelves of an offiee-,of
the Ministry • of Supply in London
where experts decide what can be
done with all the stuff. They han-
dle everything in the textile line,
also old ropes from the Navy, hose.
Pines, camouflage nets, used para-
chutes,
arachutes, old or obsolete towing tar-
gets for the R.,A..P,, aud, as a re-.
cent speaker on. the B.B4O. stated,
"all .sorts of weird things."
In one month, 1,300,OQ0 items of
outer clothing were sorted .and
graded in these depots. A vast
amount of repair work is done, but
what •is, not repairable is Used in
a Multitude of Ways, 'A, great "deal ..
of the stuff will be converted to
relief of the populations *hen 'the
occupied countries are liberated.
Wornout battle dresses are re-
paired, dyed brown and become
suits for prisoners of war, or they
may be dyed green for agricultural
workers, or for workers in var-
ious war industries.
One inipoi',tant wartime discovery
lias been how to take the shrink-
age out of socks. The Ministry
of Supply has millions of pairs of
socks and stockings which had
been worn by members of the wo-
men's divisions. By a process
known as "defelting," the shrink-.
age is removed, and the socks and
stockings are repaired and made as
good as new.
From old hose pipes overshoes
are made for men loading tankers
so that they will not make sparks
with their feet, These pipes are
also made into snowshoes and in-
to mittens for women handling •
steel sheets with sharp edges. The..
cotton from R.A.P. towing targets
is made into rain -water catching
sheets and the netting from the
end of the target is made into
vegetable bags for the Navy and
for ice bags. The cotton fabric
of anti -gas capes is de -oiled and
used for superfine wiping rags.
Various kinds of cotton fabric,
useless for making up, go back to
the services as wiping rags. Three
thousand tons of wiping rags a
year are supplied by the disposal
department. Oily rags are de -oil-
ed and cleaned until they fall to
Pieces and then they are pulped
for, •paper, • •
'Old tentage is used for making a
new type of kit bag for the A.T.
S. and the W.A.A,F's. The okl type
is awkward for a girl to handle.
It is too heavy to sling onto her
shoulder and too long to carry by
the string, so many of the girls
got the habit of dragging them
along the ground. The new type
is shaped like a sports bag with
two canvas rope handles. It opens
lengthways and is fastened by
press studs,
* * *
The ship's ropes have the worn
outer fibre removed and the inner
fibres are respun. The worn fibres
go to paper manufacturers for a
special kind of paper used in plas-
tics. The A.T.S. girls have a
shoulder bag when waikiug out,
and those are now made from the
sleeves of firemen's coats, with a
zip fastener from a bomber pilot's
harness. Glider tow ropes are re-
modeled to make ropes for boxing
rings and for tug-of-war contests.
From old charts of blue -prints very
fine linen handkerchiefs are made.
Many prewar Arniy uniforms are
sent in, and one of the uses to
which they are put is to sell them
to film companies for old battle
scenes.
Another extraordinary job of
salvage has been .the canvas from
blitzed premises and asbestos
wool from gas respirators which
have been converted into heavily
padded suits for the men who train
the bull -mastiffs that guard air-
dromes,
"Waste not, want not," is an
old motto. Britain has learned
lessons that will be most valuable
after the war.
Ari estimate that -Japanese fac-
'tories are turning out aircraft at a
rate of 1,200 or more a month carie
front high quarters, coupled with a
report that the Japanese -like the
Germans—are concentrating signi-
ficantly on defensive types.
For Faster Relief of
CHEST COLDS
Muscular
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OTTAWA RUMS
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That Discharged Servicemen Ary
,Advised to '.Cake Jobs Now
And Save For Placement
en Farms Later
Its view of what happened last
tithe, the question of Service men
,going farming after the war is apt
to be looked on with a pretty big
question mark in rural communi-
ties.
As far back as 1041, when the
Department of Pensions and Na-
tional Health sponsored the Order -
in -Council known as "The Post -
Discharge Rehabilitation Order,"
careful consideration has been given
to farm settlement as to other
phases of re-establishment, and the
plans set up seek to avoid pitfalls
of the period following 1018.
While employment is at its peak
Men interested in farming who are
being currently discharged are ad-
yised to take jobs and to save for
later investment in agriculture, ac-
cording to officials in charge of re-
habilitation. • To date very few
hat been set up under the Re-
establishment Order,
* * *
Those eligible must have had
previous satisfactory practical ex-
perience in fanning, or may quali-
fy after serving apprenticeship
with a successful farmer in addi-
tion to having served in a theatre
Of. 'war, or had not less than 12
months' service, or be in receipt
of a pension,
The Veterans' Land Act 10.42
provides a maximum of $4,800 on
land, and a maximum of .1,200 on
equipment. A tenth of the value of
the land, (in the case of $4,S00,
the .amount would be $480), must
be paid for in cash and two-thirds
of the property value over a per-
iod of 25 years with interest at
_33x"5. The cost of equipment is
not repaid, and no annual instal-
ment is over $105 including in-
terest, A veteran who has a job
and wants to buy a small farming
property nearby comes within the
sane limits as to amount and con-
ditions of payment.
* *
A veteran who owns a farm may
secure through the Veterans' Land
Act funds to pay off a mortgage,
make necessary improvements, or
buy additional stock and equip-
ment. He may borrow up to $3;
2b0 (but not more than G0% of
-4e value of his property), to pay
off a mortgage, or up to $2,500 (but
nbt more than 50% of the value),
ti pay for equipment. The loan is
scured by mortgage at 3;- ; %a pay-
able over 25 years.
Available to, those buying farms
are properties bought by the Gov-
ernntent for soldier rehabilitation,
or troperties chosen individually
so, tong as these are approved and
aonea7 within the price. limits , set
by the Veterans' Land Act.
> *
For , several weeks purchases of
bacon for the United Kingdom
have averaged over 20,000,000
pounds, an average of which if
kept up for fifty weeks out of the
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FINE CUT CIGARETTE MIMEO
year would mean 1,000,000,000
pounds of bacon, Hon: J. G. Gar-
diner, Minister of Agriculture told
the House of Commons recently.
Mr. Gardiner said little value
should be attached to rumors of
a neat shortage when replying to
J. H. Blackmare, Social Credit
leader in the Federal House as to
whether there might be a beef
shortage next year. Explaining the
present surplus, he -said this was
due to lack of shipping and steps
have been taken to divert addi-
tional ships to Canadian ports not
only to handle additional bacon
stocks, but also to lift surplus
quantities of beef, and mutton, and
recently the Meat Board was able
to accept immediate shipment of
some seven million pounds of beef,
The Minister felt there is every
reason to believe that in future all
surplus beef available will be
handled and lifted as 'offered for
export. 1Vitli plans in hand to ex-
port also accumulated stocks of
mutton and lamb. a better market
for this class of livestock is in
sight,
The Reason Why
Malta h British
Malta has a wartime history that
goes back to the time of the great
Phoenician traders, says the Ot-
tawa Citizen. As the island of Mal-
ta, of course, it has its place in
Bible history, for it is the island
converted to Christianity by St..
Paul, who was shipwrecked upon
it while a prisoner of the Ro-
mans.
During the Crusades the Knights
of St. John were granted Malta
and they held it throughout the
great siege against the Turks.
As the centuries passed, the
knightly order fell into disrepute.
With the coining of the French
Revolution, by which time the pre-
ponderance of the French .Knights
within the order had upset' the in-
ternational equilibrium, conditions
became hopelessly disrupted.
Later when Napoleon set out to
conquer Europe- he took posses-
sion of the island. Native Maltese
patriots, however, resisted the
French, and in the knowledge of
the presence of the English fleet
under Nelson in the Mediterran-
ean, the Maltese, under Canon
Caruana, appeared to the admiral
to take possession of tite island in
the name of His Majesty.
The British Empire has grown in
many strange ways, But Malta is
British because it Wanted to be.
And now, as Matta, G.C„ the
.George Cross having been award-
ed by the King in recognition of
the stand of the island against an-
other enemy, it is doubtless still•
content to remain so.
Reinforcements
The Marietta, Georgia, Rotary
Club publishes a weekly newspaper
called Rotalight. The following
appeared in a recent issue:
QUICK WORK IN a ACTS.
1. Australia—MacArthur appeals
for reinforcements.
2. Quebec Roosevelt a n d
Churchill promise reinforcements.
3. Eleanor arrives in Australia.
—Magazine Digest
Approximately $10,000,000 worth
of gold is contained in a cubic
mile of sea water.
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In the meantime, eat more natural
food, .. get your vitamins and take .
sufficient rest. Effervescing Nervine
Tablets are 35c and 75c. Nervine
Liquid: 25c and $1.00.
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