The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-03-12, Page 3:0.044 0'04
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U -Boat Flotillas
On The Increase
• Britain, U.S. May •Face New,
Era of surface Raiders
Britain has increased her naval
Personnel three or fourfold ,ever
peacetime strength; • an official
• spokesman in England disclose.d, •
asserting that the exPanaion has
been faster than in any other
• Remarking •that the Battle of
the 'Atlantic has becenae a battle..'
• of .the Seen Seas, he ,said that'
at no time- has Britain had - less
than 2,000 Ships at risk on, all
oceans.
• He reported that the United
Statee was taking measures "to
'make the' task of the 'Id -beet
11101 4 if f icult'f While Britain was
providing shipboard , fighter
craft.: prcitection" for 'conveys. arid
last year ,had nectunted. 12,93a.
ariti-aircraft guns oh 'merchant
• Merchant and fishing vessels,
he ..said, -now have shot down 76.
enemy planes, probably destroyed
another 40 and damaged 89.
German U-boat construction
undoubtedly haa_reached an un-
precedented scale and Ie -boat
• flotillas • are growing monthly, h.
'added.
neW period of raider activi-
ty ble . "both German and Japa-
nese" surface prowlers may be
approaching, he warned both
- Britain and the United States;
almeat• a year without min:"
centile losses from Germinesur-
.
fade Warehips. • •, •
VOICE;
•O F THE '
PRSS
• YOUNG MEN DOING BIG JOB
Bill Kaseberg is a 37-yearold
young • Man whose nam.,e is not
tuningr to inany Canadians. But,
he is the 'superintendent 'Of the
-e3,00(4000-Boefig Aircraft plant on
Sea -Island at Vancouver: He is
just one of the young men en-
gaged- in 'directing 'production of
warplanes at. that base,.. Officials
of the company say all themen
who "carry the load!' are Under 30
yeers of rtee. •
.Young men Smart enough to
study eerier ,engiueering •a few
.years, ago are striding right ahead •
in aircraft manufactstRAg• today.
Their services are valuable because
more• and. more, warplanes •-are..
, needed by Lthe • United 'Nations.
Wtthout these planes our, combat
airnie not meet the enemy on
anything like even penis. ' • :
Other, young mei will fly the
completed: planes. Tliese gallant
pilots. and ;other airmen are the
lndiytdual Who offer their lives'. :
that we- might live. . •
• -Windsor 'Star
• TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
•
It •.isn't funny any more, bid
in'erely' a little sickening, te read.
of Berlin radio .beeadeasts beamed
for Peet Asia telling how. Wotan,
the Gentian pagan god, is one with.
• the Japanese god of the sate and
the winds as eellow-syfribole •of
seeeee..,Aeseeeesne....sseseeeeeGeseeene • , vate to FieldeMarshale s
• and, Japan in a supernatural' bond.
•' The appalling thing about all this
• twaddle is not merely that it is
• irrational, silly, and impudently
faked. It is that -millions of people
lae.ve been. didaced . to act on' the .
orders of the kind of mind that .•
pnrduced it.
that; toe, is what- we are fight-
ing-. -Kitchener Record
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N MAURICE
;IRWIN
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A Weekly Cohuh. n About This and That in The Canadian Army -
In the Great War of 1914-18, • what these tests are. There is
a common pleasantry was to eug! a. difference, 'however,in that the
gest that if 'a man was a black- ."M".test,'develoPed after .eXeterie•
smith in civi . life they made him rents conducted with more than
a took i1fe Actually; 1 10,000 Capedianseldiere, is so'
never raz _aceoss an instance, al- • `edesigned that it discovers the
though there were , times while • pability of the subject ratheir. than
.straggling With- a eecalcittane .just his .gerieral knowledge.
• piete of plum duff that I thought • And , its ConclusiOng, sometimes
-' that the cook wbuld probably.' combined' with, other. special tests,. ,
„ make a good blacksmith.- '" There, determine -the „potentialities of the
is no doubt, however, that 'Man tested' ee.eardlege of his etitie
army in earlier' days, ,in common optional ' standing: • '„
;With private businese,very fre- ••When it. was •fiest. anuoupeedque*ly.
..e.mployed • e Man in . the that. -every *Mehrber. of the. Cana
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wrong place. because It . dian , armY`, would -updergo. this
know "his 'capabilities. ' • etestecon'slderable trepidation was
"Them., days • have gOne for.. , reported, There . was apparently
ever." • •a sort of tribal fear of the arts-
..
• taday, the ilin.divid.uai Citizeii!ti • • of the medicine man. • This
new. been dissipated, largely • be -
into
vseids • •individual citizens
into a compesite force of special- cause many a man :Who might
fists eadh.- enniloged in 'his proper otherwise have ;been eonderon•en
sphere.. • , ; • • • • , • to..the, modern, equivalent of "foot -
And • this doesn'thappen by ,ac-' •..slogging" today, as the result of
cident! • . • : •• • the "M" • test has been traine•e..
' Before very long there will not in. one of the, many . specialties
be: a single instance of a square • •,requieed.in a. modern 'army. .
peg in around hole .from., Lanees 'For• the benefit of • this ..,coltimn,
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Jack to. Lieut -General we can. I was .pernaitteeto take this test,..:,
I' can't tell you, what it. consists'
go even: further -than, that-l-frorn
of because there •are thousands
--neare'yeteto--tryeiteebut-tecaft'Ltelle-
You,. and I am .assured by meinbers,
' of the • Personnel election. 'staff;
that my •reaction is 'pretty gen-. •
--erally• shared., that it was inter.
. eating,: 'informative,' arid- a very• . ,
pleasant experience in' faet, •-
When this job. is finished, 1.woulet
• .
like to! be • able to copyright some
of the tests and • collect toyalties..
.from, them as • exCelleet Parlcir •
egainese: • °
Each test. is led up , to -by „a
' short sample which is carefully".
explained by the examining offi-
• cer . and no man, is 'alloWed ;.tO
• race the stop watch until he: thor
• oughly understands the nature of
the -test heAs--about44-unde-rtake,--
• It i not an "I.Q." test -.---it is a ••:
.•.test • of capability. . 1 doesn't
show entirely -,whet.a Mere knows
-it- does -shim' if he is 'capable
of ' learning. The testa are, car-
ried out. •in groups of. not tmore
than fifty and there is an assist-
ant examiner for, ,each fifteen
men. ••
.I'T
Chinese, dig Out roads with their
bete heeds,. Dutchmen pick up ,old •
rifles and. • tire into. a Warplanes.,
hidden sky. • Australians cletch•at
bullet -torn throats. smite
, • Canadiaus, ,1Iviu better than
--4hey've.-e-vetieelivect-eiRefiersee • •
• of •war work, won't env -est in Vic-
. tor*. Bends mieil tney're paid -a' '
, bonus!' • ..
.. • . -Windsor Star
"Five pelt two. Yep, right on
the dot." 'A Yank in , London
• >checks his .wristwatch. With Big
• Ben, which- has been faithfully
• tolling the .correct time. for Lon-.
' doners through 'erasetf peace and
war for 84 years.
Beekeepers Must
Keep Bees Buzzing
• Ontai io :beekeepers are in a
fortunate position again this year.
fon there isa yawning market for
every pound of honey the bees of
this province can produce, says the
Cornwall Standard .- Freeholder,
Byron 0. .Lott, Ontario honey in-
speetor of the co-operative, says
the • British Ministry of Food
wants 2,000,000 pOiinds of honey
• this Year -more than Ontario can
produce. Last year Ontario's total -
`crop wile augmented by supplies
from the northern 'United States,
but the U.S. entry into the war
has changed that condition so
that plans are afoot for Manitoba
'honey to make up the deficiency
• in Ontario's total available • ex-
port, and • the amount required
under the British •order.
Ontario honey has' long enjoyed
• the,' reputation of the world's, fin-
,
est product, due largely to ell -
mate. Prairie„provinee honey "has
been rated second. Last yeas,
-apiarists of Ontarioreceived ni'te
cents per pound,' containers fur-
nished, one of the best- prices in
Many Years. , No predictions are
made or coining season ptices.
but it is •expected that they will
be well up to last year's mark. "
I am not sure whether psyrehol-
ogy is an ert or a scienee. Prob.,
ably the psychologists are not sure
either, but' personal managers in •
industry -and don't ftirget your
army, is the biggest single industry
in 'Canada today -long ago found
•
out , that psychologists could in
prove industry's •' efficiency and
cut down waste df Materials, man-
hours and man -power by testing:
tlie-eaPiFitities of amine -Cults fer
employment •
This is what the. army is doing
today • through the ,Direeterate of
Personal election which applies a
• capability test to soldiers of all
LrenkseittesterieteteLde - gg g •
ir
.fitness for their present jObt,
their • capability • to Undertake
• greater responsibilities; their apt-
itiide for instruction in specialtiee.
Colonel .G. B: Chisholm, M.C. 'and
Bar, of TorOnto beads this Del.-
sonnel selection directorate • and
he has gathered to serve with him
in- this important work •;some of
sn
minicar.• They eurPli'tie.•at their'
conclusions by the combi-nation of
an interview' and what is •hnown
as an "M" tete.' • . • •
Those •of you who are farhiliar •
with general knowledge tests car-
ried •put' periodically. by' "Time"
• magazine will have seine- idea -of
• ' 'SCORCHED EARTH•.
.TheiRussiens blew up their great
1.110.,000,000 ,dam, seed. Pearl Har -
bole' ' which . cost close, 'to $1,000,-
hhebe*tlse-eeeeeehetieeeeed--thes--
Dutch- burn hp I00,,00000. worth
of' on wells, anti Singap-ore, .which.
cost $500,660,000 de "practically
ruined. Thit war is making the
lest look like a niece skirmish.,
• • -Ottawa Jburnal
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"BAD MEDICINE"
The NippOnese soldier carries a
25-25erifle,. 400 , rounds of animuni-
• tion, five :days of iron rations --s
rice and sardines - a tin' hat, *-
spade . first-aid let, 5 tanatical
spirit and. • a bitleft hatred of the
:White Man. You an't fool with '
. that sort • of • guy.
• -London thee Press
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"THAT BONUS . •
'trying to figure out what. the .
cost of, living . bonus means, who
gets it. that , shouldn't.. and .who,
doesn't get it 'that should, tegetheri
'with the problem • as to whether
anybody gets it and. when, is a new
game that has taken the place of
the crossword puzzle.
erhorough P.xaminer
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PLEASURE DRIVING
What do you meati by "pleasure"
driving -when Junior wants to g�
faster, •Grandma -Wants to go. slow-
er, the paby 'cries and Ma still de-'
mends to . know where you were
last night? '7 -Windsor •Star
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'60ING• NOWHERE NOHOW
Ali this extra 'daylight isn't. go-
ing to mean_ inuch, with no place
to go and nothing •to g� in next
Sinunier. •
-Si, Thomas, Tinies-Journal
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A WAY OUT
When • they 'start eating less
sugar maybe the women won't need
the rubber girdles they may not
be, able to get.
-Shererook, Record
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ROD BOUNCES BACK ;
, Premier. Teijo calls • China a
. spoiled child - but Is having a
toughli time giving Use' licking.
• -Kitchener Record
• Norwegians Rode
• To Work In Style
• Sixty-five: workers were order-
ed transferred from Oslit to Ger-
man, 'ships near Bergen. Thel.
were handed money for '"traVol-
ling expenses" and told to be at
the East Railway stet* in time
to catch a certaih train.
Only three of the sixty.five
• ' showed up; • the others had
„ When the three. •reached Bet.
gen, they found three .buses wait-
ing to transport them to the work.
ing place.
•To the great amusement of
spectators, each of 'the three
boarded a separate bus and rode
off to the 11 CNI1 jobs in style.
1,
and son are :bask at sea .aggia .
but not in the same ship. There's
a .IiI,. to the strain a Ship's ealt-
(Win can stand. .
The. second , Captain is 'very
proud of -his 'ship. •
She & brand new, 10,000 tons
of cargo carrier bailt despite Hit-
ler's • boasts that he would blast
the Old Country's ship -yards to•
shambles. The captain,. short and
spare but very wiryl tips the scales
at. 122 pounds! •
• Behind him is e an encounter
with an enemy ,surface raider. •
It was the same raider which
cairght- the Zetnzarn, and she .eame
up to his ship in the pitch dark.
of a night,. 2I yearsafterwards
to the day, when he first was tor-
pedoed in the original.'Greet War.
•. butlined inthe,blazing search-
theraider, shia 'ship was
ean easy target'. The first 'gated
gent his funnel...-erashing.to the '
• deck,' -whipPed off the after.elide
of, the bridge ; the -deck. c-aro
. alight.. ,TheSecondeealve cerrieeLe
away the foremast 'and the wire-
less cabin, . and . crumpled into
• twisted_ ' inetal•• the .steering_geer.._,
and engine room ttlegraPhs.•With
the ship•seeatning helplessly in, an
erratic..eitele, the captain ordered
the crew tetlie boats:. , • • '
• „Three beats were lowered, their
shattered, •charred -hulls -taking
water fast but • at least keeping
the survivors afloat. After. seeing
•all his men safely from. the ship ,
• the captain, with the third': engin....
eer who had hernainech with
•toOk to the.;‘,Vater. • . .• • •
• Tenetninutes,lahereehdwasteieleed
.which
then
., up by- the raider's, launch; hich
then picked up his crew.: For
• ahout a ,-roonth they were prison-
ers. . .The.story of their release
• when ;British destroyers overtook
their prison :Ship is now a -matter..
of history. But the captain's page
in history would ,not be',comPlete
ivithont•the information that 'serv-
ing with him in his hrand new •
10,000 -ton ship of today are the.
--:Clijef-Of-fieereeThied Engineer -and —
three set afir• the raider's • guns.• ,
Meet, '• now the ceptain., who...
found it -"really amilsieg", (his
own .clescriplion , when his ship
Was torpedoed:, True, he .got.every
One of-lInTien away Safely;--wittF---
ont•one.as such as ,being scratch- •
ed, but. , ;. amusing? • .
. .
."You- knots; it as the •coal
.which made it funey,". he re-
counted. "Wheri. the torpedo hit •.•
home the'. pressure in the holds •
forced the coal'. up .though e the
e hatches, alino'st like a 'fountain of
tiacle . dust. By the time.. I 'got
ownrem' the- ri etota tka
I looke.d like.a nigger. •
phfldwaiiid
watched her go down: We were
,. quite happy, yod know,. begiuSe
We. had been able . to. send out a
call for help, and .a' •few heirs
later a big Sunderland flying boat
'came along.. We had quite a talk
with Our lamps 'during which -he
.told us to stay where we were,
because help was on its .wa,• We..
lay -to• at sea anchors and had a
good sleep, and Were • picked .up
,All emilingein the morning• .
"Nothing to talk about, really,"
he added, rather diffidently;
"Quite aniusing, all, of; it."• .
,, • Not so amusing was his next
exited -el -ice; - a bombing attack in
which his hip was .set afire .and
fouP men killed, • For 24 hews,
' •
•with the•help Of • a ,•patrol boat
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anything. • And 1 don't want toi,
I'm a seaman I am, bot a bloom-
ing hero,"
None of them think they are
heroes, these men who - take the
ships to sea: • There's not one of
them who does not light the. grim
job ahead with quiet laughter
from the experiences which hava
passed.
There's the favorite tale, for in-
' stance, of one of the captains
whose stewardot calm imperthrb-
able Englishman, had been in ehe
habit of discussing with him the
chances of being torpedoed.
"Stop talking about it," the
captain ordered one day, "just be
like tile. 1 say `if the torpedo has
my number on it, get it If it
hasn't, why 'wry.'"
• The , captain chuckled.
"It wasn'tslong after thet when
we • got hit," he continued. "1111.5
steward came to the .cabin just as
I -was leaping out of my bunk.
• " 'Excuseeme, sir,' he 'reported,
with a fece solemn as an
• 'but the torpedo with your number
• on it appears, to have arrived.'"
In the resultant laughter the
" eeticleve -broke-up. The men who
!were going into the danger areas
• . •
where torpedoes might bear the*
numbers were on their way beck
to thele Alpe.
The next, day they sailed.
- This Dpick Was
• A FriendlY Mid
The return of a *friendly greater
seaup duck to her-us:1ml feeding
grounds near Vitoria, B.C, for
the fifth consecolltive' year, is re -
'ported. '''- •
Identification of this, bird 131.
-
made • possible by an • official
numbered band placed on her. foot
.in'1037 • by .4 fisherman. The
fisherman ritekes a practice ' of.
feeding diving ducks in a• certain
area, and. after ' •Iew Weeks., the
birds come in'answer. to his v.this-•
tied •
• This .duck. became so 'tame that
she did not reseht. 'handling:15pp*
'• het return 'eachyear the duck at
•• ,f iret 'ehos thecustomary warie• •
ness of the ,species, but in a •sliert •
',timegradually: becoines ., confident •'
'arid reaches the point Offeatless-
ness where her friend and protec- .' •
toe-eanepick her up and...rea.d, the_
• ..band•number. • .
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THE WAR - WEEK -Commentary onCurrent Events
United Nations. In South Pacific •
Make Last *Ditch Stand In Java
For 7,500 miles from Pearl •' the Burma Road, Thousands -of
Harbor through the Islands of Chinese laborers: are malting con -
Oceania to Singapore • and Ran- ' structio_e in,a new life -line for
gnOn-lie-the-ailtoests _and_b_astions , .supges from India to China, and. ,
of the United Nations. In three it • is hoped an -Allied
months of Japanese advance, the: that Chinese, isolation will be a
outposts have fallen •-e- eem, • short. duration., ••
tWake°,• Hong Kong Manila, Mal- The security, not only of China .,
aya, the outer- possessions of the , but of India was endangered by .
Netherlands Indies.• . • the • advance of the •Japanese in
The mightiest bastion, • Singa- Burma. With ,Rangoon in their
•
• pore, guardian of the' sea -gate possession, the Japanese , would
•from the Pacific,, to :the Indian have a base for seaand air at -
Ode , for an, th
is 'noeenemy.
w eaogreyat stTletwoteg,ical tacks on the great peninsula •of
base
-Javae" and
-Burma, are being pounded by cons
centrated;Japanese forces.
. The Japanese offensive and the
Allied defence have both been a
race against time. The Mikado's
le dons ave struck swiftly to gain
• territory and establish •foothol s
from which to step to the next
•pkisint of attack. They must strike
unceasingly to 'hold these gains
before the United Nations can as-
semble overwhelming power in
men and inetrumerits„of war. The
United Nations must follow a pole
• icy of: delay and attrition Until,
the are- etre- erahe h to leunch
a counteroffensive.
• General. MadArthur'e men iso-
• lated • in the Pfillippiges,hI
ing out beond all electations,
launched an amazing offensive
' raid. The ChineSe in the Asian
hinterlandand the Australians
among the islands north of •Port
Darwin are also doing their share
in a wearing down „effort against
•the Japanege." .
Java %Encircled
• A vast pincers movement has
been executed against Java. Large
„invasion forges were .landed in
•Sumatra to the west Of Java; air
bases 'established in Borneo to the
north and the main airport seized
in the island of Bali to the south.
The encirclement of Java appear-
ed to be, coriiplete.
In the meantime, the United
Nations made plans 'to hold Jaya
aeleatevea the' costs might be.
They marshalled the full might of
their sea and air power in readi-
ness for an assault. About two
weeks ago a large Japanese
mada was seen by Alliedscout
planes approaching the northern
Java shore. With powerful air
support the Allied fleet steamed_
out to the attack. In the en-
suing 'battle, both sides suffered
heavy losses' but the Japanese
shipswere forced to withdraw
and the Victory was with the
Allies. Java had hit back.
Since this great naval battle,
however. the Japanese have suc-
ceeded in landing ae estimated
army of 85,000 men in Java.
Against these, the United Nations
depend on the Indies arm', num-
bering about 200,000, plus' Ameri-
can and ••Australian soldiers., it
' is claimed that Allied planshave
been made to fall back if neces-
sary to the interior • highlands,
there to make a 'Stand where the •
mountains rise 10,000 feet.
• Jap Gains In Burnie
Japanese gains in Burma have
resulted in the virtual closing of
who. employ the individual ditiee
zen's army, • the "M" •test-igeeher
• assurance ' that . when, the Cana -
•:dime army has all- opportunity to
'get, down to it, the right Man, will
be .in• the- right place "and the
right ' result may • be. confidently
expected. • '
WINTER CONVOY
By LIEUT. E. H. BARTLETT, R.C.N.V.R.
• Around a table six men Were : • His son was sailing with him in
gathered. one ship, an 18 -year-old boy who
• They wore no uniforms' di
not look like fighting men, but .
One had felt four ships tor-
• pedoed beneath him.
Anotlier had felt .the blasts of
both torpedoes and bombs.
• A third had stood to his post
on his ship'sbridge while shells.
from the guns of a surface raider
struck honie„: and had hved t,be
captured by the German raider
and to be •rescued by British de• •
Stroyers.
A . feurth, •hls• ship disabled for
many anxious hours, had rolled .
helplessly in the Mediterranean
withinesteiking distance of ital-
ian
warships . . . and lie chuckled
as he told of how the "Eyeties"
Were afraidto come out "into
their own blooming Marc Nos-
trum!" •
• These were not men matching
tall tales, but captains of ships
in the' Merchant Navy - gathered,
on the ,eve of sailing once again
into the war -tone, in friendly con-
clave in a Canadian Naval Centre.
Their references to- the experi-
ences they had known were brief,
for these experiences were behind
• there, and the job 'which lay ahead
was now. al] that 'mattered.
Front .their 61k, though, their
stories were gleaned.
• The stery, as a start, of the
• captain four times torpedoed.
alyeadY had .qualified as an able-
bodied seaman, and already:. could
claim to be a veteran of the' Battle
of fhe Athletic. ••
. The captain was on -the bridge
when the torpedo .Struck. Where.
, his soil was, he had not known.
The ship,' heavy. with a cargo of
- machinery, sank in 48 seconds;
The captain whs flung froin,
the eleidge 'to the • sea, without
even his life belt to give him a
fighting -chance. Astern of his
ship an oil tanker had also been
'strtickearid hereargo was flatting
on the sea's surface. . On the
fringe of this leltiZing oil -the cap-
tain battled for his life.
He swam clear, helping support .
himself with pieces of wreckage
and debris from what had been
his ship. Around him his offipere,
and crew. those who had survived,
witeed• an equally desperate
struggle.
• Areoil-covered seaman swain to
his side.
"Yeted better take my life belt,
sir" he advised, "Pln a better
swimmer than you."
The captain's .indignant pro-
test,s were quelled by a firm -"Oh,
come on, Dad" from the.. searean.
It was his et -neon. -
Both father and son were res-
cued, together with manye,others •
of their shipmates. And father
• which carne alongside; they feught
the. fire, and then ,his ship was-•
towed safely, to ' port . for repairs.
•The ship is .back at sea to-dae
. . and so is her 'captain..
It was "the luckiest; man afloat."
who took rip the tale, •• He's as
quick to • laugh as he is to move,
and his crew sgy6 that in a jam
"the old man" moves' fast.
• "In • the last war • my father
. went through all of it, and didn't
see a thing," he 'said. "In this
war I'm' doing thesame thing
Just take the ship out, and bring
IMr back again.
'"I think, it •must be because I
. had my scates in the early •part
• of the war. Just before war broke
out a German battleship passed
us, and we didn't knowe•whether•
we were at war or no. And later
on, a German, raider got very close
to us, 'but she didert see us. And
then we broke down off the Ital-
.,
• Ian coast,. but the `Eyeties' were
afraid to .come out after us and
:when they did try to make a'rue
for us same of , our destroyers
' whipped in reed ehased two of
' them; ashore.' !No, I' haven't •seet
India with its 350,000,000 people.
General Sir Archibald Wavell,.
Snpreme Commander of the Un- '
ited forces in the Southwest Pa-
cific, has beed.ordsred to resume .
his former post aseeCommander-
in-Chief of India and Bermae-
155.7ding the --Netherlands iirxonie- .
niand of the final battle, for the •
- East Indies:. Gen. .Wavell'seohli-
- gations will be the co-ordination
• of the defence in India and Burma
with the military operatiOns in • .•
China. India must 'play 'an in-
creasingly impottant 'part in the '
developing. strategy of the ymiein ' •
• the Far East:, As thee war prO-
•cee , it t,
gal point to which 'most of the war
- munitions of theeldnited--,StatesT,
uld,be sent and. from., which they
would be .d•istrilited to the thea-
tres Recognizing this, .
the Japanese have 'already pushed
their' ships into the Indian Ocean
in an atternp`t1/4 to„,interrupt the,'
flow of supplies to the ports of
Bombay and Calcutta. '
itt-
a.sion Of India by the Japanese
appears 'to be the next major
step in. their • plan of pushing
westward -to meet the forces of
their German and h Italian allies •
.•somewhere in the Middle East.
Nazi propaganda is now direct-
ed
Against the people of,judia to
..rise in revolt aud overthrow Brit- .
ish ule. The Nazis -ase Wedging '
India . all the .seppore in their
• power. , 'Japan is conducting g
similar'. campaign, promising
include India in her "new 'Order
'of
Keen 'expectation 'has been.
' aroused in India by the British
• government's promise as to India's
futuPe status. India emphatically
is on the side of the Allies. in the
war,- especially on China'. The
.Hindu Cengrss party iriklits, how-
• ever; that if' this is a war for• ,
democracy, it must end British
Imperialism arid 'recognize India's
independence.' Non-party • group;
would be satisfied with a national.
government consisting of' officiate
responsible to:the crown with full
dominion status after the war.
The Moslems want no major
changes that will jeopardize, their
rights and their proposals for the
creation of a separate Moslem
• •state in India, So, .a deadlock
arises. However, a hope of Wit -
mate settlement codid comeefront
a deciarittion:by the United
King-
dthn government of what powers
• it would relinquish to allow the• '
formation or an interim. national
•government representative of all
• parties.
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