Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-08-15, Page 2Mernnbers of Second. Canadian Division Arrive In England Lien. J. L. Ralston recently announced in the I3 ouse of Commons that members of the Second Div - felon, C.A.S.F., had arrived safely in England under the leadership of Major-General Victor Odium, who Is &lawn, ABOVE, receiving the cheers of his troops as he boarded the transport for the voyage to England. Ti H E WAR -WEE K—Cornmentary on Current Events Italian Drive In Africa Aimed at Capturing Suez, 3taay's long-aweitrd attack on the British in Africa casae last week, giving the harraesed people of Bri- tain. something else to w orry about 'besides an imminent German hive - glen. Should Mussolini's legions eaeceeci in their objectives, it was sreaiized, Italy would gain a com- plete semi -Circle of holdings that stretch from Tripoli to the middle et Africa's east coast. a strangle- hold on the Suez Canal and an open Toad to India. Should Germany aet successfully in concert with Italy, /striking through the Balkans, the Axis powers would be do a. position to seize the principal sources of the British oil supplies in the Near East. cut off the ratnmt:nication lines of the Empire. (The new southern war zone was been to extend about. 5,000 miles along the Mediterranean. the .lied Sea and the Gull of Aden, and hun- dreds of miles inland in the north- east and east corner of Africa. Spe- cifically. Italy appeared to be strik- ing at Egypt, through Libya; at British Somaliland, in a 3 -pronged advance from Ethiopia; ami at the vast interior regions of the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan and Kenya, again approached from Ethiopia). The noted British correspondent "Augur" in a, wireless to the New York Times expressed the opinion that the Axis plan is to gain con- trol of Africa, cutting that contin- ent in two. Starvation Tactics? Speculation concerning the man- ner of Germany's move against the British Isles alternately favored ru- mors that feverish military activity was going on in German -held zones opposite England in preparation for armed invasion at the word "go"; and opinions expressed by such for- eign sources as Count Ciano's "I] Teleaeafo" which said: "The Ger- mans' new tactic is starving the, British. The German generals Rant to conquer London by isolating it from the nearby arteries which ev- ery morning unload in Covent Gar- den, in Billingsgate and on the docks tons and tons of foodstuffs that London does not produce and without which the 7.0(40,000 inhab- itants of the city t•r,aid not• resist one month." The Nazi press itself was silent on the invasion plan although of- ficial German quarters intimated that preparations were being made for the final battle, saying, "Ger- many will strike at the right hour and in the right place, not before." Air Offensive Seizing the air initiative, British bombers and fighting planes during the week wrought witdeepread hav- oc in a series of systematic attacks on more than 100 Nazi cities, I.n- eluded among the objectives were the Krupp munitions plant at e - sen, supply depots and airdromes in northwest Germany, the naval base at Kiel, air bases oceupied by the Nazis in Holland and France. The planes bombed and maehine- gonned troops, truck and armored nee columns and armored trains moving up just rteeees the English Channel, Rumania Carved BALKANS: After twenty-seven years of territorial eontroversy, Re - mania and Bulgaria were seen hast Week to be on the verge of reach-. Ing an agreement whereby Ilulgaria would get baek southern Dobruja. (Dobruja• went to Hematite In 191 after Bulgaria's defeat in the se. oond Balkan war). It was alto ex- pected that, King Carol would very shortly erele a strip of western Transylvania to Hungary, who had long been clamoring for territorial revision. These settlei'ients were obvionaly part of an Axis plan to establish a new order in south- eastern Europe, dominated of course by Germany and Italy. But where did Turkey stand? 'Where did Russia come in? The Christian Science Monitor correspondent in Istanbul reported having learned from a high Turk- ish diplomatic source that a tacit Turko-Russian accord had been av- arived at under which Turkey agreed to shift its military concentrations westward in exchange for a Rus- sian guarantee of inviolability of the Caucasus frontier. Such a move would effectively block any further Axis expansion eastward. Says War Will Spread RUSSIA: An address on Russia's foreign. policy last week by Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister Maa.i- tov cleared up a number of mysti- fying points. After predicting that the present war would spread to in- clude the whole world (with the 'U. S. on Britain's side), he told the Supreme Soviet that the "Soviet Union must enhance its vigilance in the matter of its external secur- ity, and in the matter of strength- ening all its positions, both at home and abroad." Behind his exposition of policy could be seen the fear that the "imperialist" (anti -social- ism) war would be turned against the Soviet Union. Generally suspicious of Great Britain, Premier Molotov neverthe- Iess said that London had shown a desire to improve her understand- ing with Moscow by the appoint- ment of Sil Stafford Cripps as am- bassador to the Soviet. 'With regard to Germany, relations with whom he declared had improved, he ex- pressed the opinion that the Reich had failed in its objective — to bring the war to a close on terms which it considered desirable. Japan's New "New Order" FAR EAST: A Japanese foreign policy which seeks domination not merely in "East Asia", as formerly, but in "Greater East Asia" — in- cluding French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies -- was announc- ed to the Japanese people last week Premier - Prince Fumimero Kon- Premier—Prince Fumimaro Kon- oye. Obviously widening the breach between the Japanese Empire and Britain and the United States, the government statement disclosed these Intentions: 1, creation of a "new order for Greater East Asia" with th.e ultimate aim to "establish a stabilizing farce for a self-suffic- iency embracing not only Japan, Manchukuo and China, but also In- do-China and the East ladies;" 2, re-ammament on a scale sufficient to take care of the new develop- ments; 3, construction of a govern- ment in which every person must serve the State, with national ec- • enemy planned toward strengthen- ing national defense; 4, changes in the Japanese educational system, to emphasize service to State; 4, end of "toadyism" to other powers (Great Britain and the U.S.)—"and henceforth we will not make a vain effort to grasp the hands of those countries which cannot be turned into friends." At the same time that Japan moved to extend further control oyes Indo-China, Chinese troops of the Central Government were re- ported to be Marching tawaz'd the frontier of Indo-China. A Japanese thrust through from the Indo-China coast would directly menace the southwestern provinces of China, Chiang Kai-Shek's main stronghold. Two Opinions UNITED STATES: The split in U.S.. opinion over the policy to be followed toward the war in Europe was thrown into bold outline last week by two widely divergent speeches by prominent Americans, the one (General Pershing) urging immediate and strong aid for Great Britain, the other (Colonel Lind- bergh) calling for an American peace effort and preparations to live with a victorious Germany. As a representative of the first school of opinion, Senator Key Pitt- man of Nevada, Chairman ,of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee, underscored the suggestion that the United States trade fifty American destroyers for British battleships. No Food for Belgium During the week the Secretary of State called upon the people of the U. S. to prepare for sacrifices and hard services in this critical time. Though referring to the conclusions of the Havana Conference, it was believed Mr. Hull's woa'ds implied approval of the compulsory mili- tary illtary service bill, then before the Senate, CANADA: The biggest sensation in some months was created in the Dominion last week when Mont- real's mayor Camille). Houde was whisked off to a concentration camp and interned — for urging his fel- low -Canadians to disregard the law requiring all citizens to register. The best news in some mouths came when the British Government agreed to buy 100,000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat. The House Adjourns Parliament adjourned, during the week, until November 5, having pas- sed the unemployment insurance hill and placed a new 15c processing tax on wheat (going into flour for domestic human use) . . . Before the House rose, Finance Minister Ilsley revealed that Canada's actual and anticipated financial commit- ments for war services in the pre- sent fiscal year, ending March 31, 1940, amount to $950,000,000. Following a meeting in Ottawa of the supervisory board of the Com- monwealth Air Training plan, it was announced that the training time for airmen would be,,cut in or- der to speed matters. Three weeks less training will be the new re- quirement for pilots, six weeks less for wireless operators. m VOICE OF THE PRESS CHANGE OF LOCALE Wild life used to be confined to the forests; now it's at the beaches.—Kitchener Record. 0— LIFE OF THE PARTY Now the life of the party is the one who can talk louder than the radio.—Brandon Sun. --0— TEMPERAMENTAL M.P.'s Members complain of t h e draughts and sudden changes Of temperature, ilii the House of Commons at Ottawa. Can it be due to those fellows who blow hot and c"old? —Hamilton Spectator. —0— PRISONERS COULD DO IT Canada needs transcontinental motor roads. Germany has a won- derful system of wide, cement highways. Many of the Germ.un roads were made by prisoners, taken by Germany in the last war. There is a proposal to send Herman prisoners' from Britain to Canada, for internment. A few thousand men could be kept, safe- ly, in camps north of Lake Su- perior, and they could earn their keep by building a much-needed road. --Port Arthur News -Chronicle. —0-_-. ONE THING LACKING To the farmer has come in re- cent years the telephone, the mo- tor car, the radio, hydro -electric energy, the rural mail delivery and other conveniences to make his life less lonely and to remove many of his disadvantages of liv- ing in the country. Among mar. y of the advantages that have not yet come his way except in a few communities, is protection against fire. And we wish to point out that there is no reason why `this should be long delayed. —Guelph Mercury. Dry Edition An American magazine prints two editions, one for people who drink beer or wine and one for teetotalers. The features are the same but readers on the dry list may have the edition with all ad- vertisements for alcohol omitted. Light-coloured clothing is more comfortable in hot weather be- cause it tends to reflect the heat which dark objects absorb. Study Of A Princess Princess Margaret Rose, who celebrates her tenth birthday on Aug. 21, is fond of painting and is seen here engrossed in her work. Britain's rulers have declin- ed to send their children to safe- ty of Canada, In Ontario, in the face of an ac- ute farm labor shortage, a contro- versy raged over the Hepburn scheme to put city schoolboys to work on farms. Of course, the far- mers didn't care much for the idea -- the boys would be "mare bother than they're worth" - . rural school trustees generally thought the "relief situation" should be cleared up first. The "M ir e ll se" ,trod As A Royalist Hymn Oril in of F'rance's Stirring Song Comes to Light Until recently,, most if not all London theatres played the "Mar- eeillaise" at every performance, and the B. B. C. used the same stirring song to introduce its Sun- day evening news bulletin. The British people began to ask ques- tions about the French national anthem and learned without sur- prise (does not most of their China come from Staffordshire?) that Roulet de Lisle's celebrated composition derives, not from the south of Franco, but from Stras- bourg. A BATTLE SONG EMERGES It was while the French armies were assembling on the Rhine in April, 1792, to meet theforces of Austria, says a letter to The Times, of London, that de Lisle wrote his song, which was first printed under the title of "Chant de Guerre de l'Armee du Rhin." Not until a few weeks later did a party of volunteers from Mar- seilles marching on their way to Paris sing the song, and give to it name and fame. As Gulliver's Travels began a, a political satire, and became an entertainment for children, the "Marseillaise" started as a Roy- alist hymn, and developed into the battle -song of the Republic. To- day the Republic itself is under- going strange and sad vicissitudes, from which it is the confident hope of all democrats that it will emerge as triumphantly as the "Marseillaise." Dentists Invent !' ew Toothbrush A tooth brush which works like a fountain pen, its dentifrice corning through a hollow handle into the bristles, has been per- fected by two South Carolina dentists. There'll be aver -time gaiety. beilliant rAGIEI+t1T draxynatizixng the GtN it -igloos OLD SOP totbrilly D eesing, AA, Scieoce, and furl froleslead. - ^1 WOMEN c WORK eril!i 6e featured this year. OARED CROSS 'uvIll civ plain its Work, s1... , Inow 'lrbete'•l!l be i",,, y a lea ,.drecla ,:! you can help° istunug model hones, $'e, cores.. f beer hon EMI IiIti,CWIAN112.ED *1fkR V 5NICILE a will be shelve at the Iftxbitbitiou• Menu- aacttaas of all types of eve twenties wilt ttll show 1S you bow IND Its object, they toy, is to appeal to some of the 91,000,000 ( that figure is right)) Americans who never use a toothbrush. This fig- ure is based on estimates the Am- erican Dental Attie iation Made on manufacturers' figures. t'roavct St. Lowrance Starch Co. tld. 020 LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher ala to the 5tio.ceCEO NE;Srn..�z 7-:L7 T _ (Copyright, z6, t oa Miter) warmor '"We're givin' it away to asking the sanest questa;,n this week." REGIAR FELLERS—Morn's Lucky Day CAN Y'BEAT THAT i' PINHEAD! WON 'rHE MEDAL. IN SCHOOL/ v AN' ,THE TEACHER SAID HE COULD HAVE ANY TI -4 ENC.nRAVED ON IT THAT HE WANTED, AFTER PINHEAD GIFTS TFIROUgt-t THROWN' BOUQUETS AT FtIMSELF I'D LIKE TO READ WHAT 6, ON THAT Id1EOAI. e Ileetsteqt FELLERS !I HAb My MEDAL ENGRAVED WANNA SEE IT ? Ey GENE B R.NES