The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-07-09, Page 7�mpo*rtant 'Dates
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In
Libyan Battles
From Campaign of 1940 Ti
40.ne 1942
The' Axis 'armies ...in North M-
irka now have won ,back fee... -the
second time most of the territory
Which the Britishe army took from
the. Italians, in the original desert
4am.paign •of 1940-19.41.
' Twice British armies have •ad-
Tvaneed- across--the--b.itrya ^••••desert- ,
to Bengasi .and twice they have
been driven .back to the Egyp-
tian frontier,
.'These are the important dates:..
Dec. 8, 1940—British army
Opens , offensive to drive • out'. the
•Italians who had penetrated Egypt
70' miles'to Sidi. Barrani-
Ian. 22: 194 L—Tobruk •captor-
. •
•;,arts,' . �includi:ng four., generals, •
taken... prisoner. '
Feb, .6, 1941.—British. troops,•
capture• 'Bengasi, 34'0 miles west' •
of "Egyptian frgntier. • ,
April 4, •1941 -,-Axis tlarmies To. •
take • Bengasi.
• April •12, 3931 --Tobruk. gncirc=
• led aiid put under, siege, by Ger-
mans 'and . Italians. ' • • •
• ; h April .•13, 1'9411 -Axis '. armies •
again reach Egyptian .frontier: ,
• ,Dec. 6, 1911—British 8th ' Army
opens nevi • offensive in Libya. 2.
Dec.. ,10, 1941girds-Besieged. gar- .
eon 'of 'Tobruk relieved;
=
.Dec., 25, 1941British' troops
enter Bengasi.' for second time.
•
. Jan. 29, 1942 -Axis troops re -
hate Bengasi for second .trim.,
, Jtithe 18, 1942—Axis, troop►•
- - --. — �ag�rl laee=T-ole ak-• ,under_:
siege,
ap.
�. ;June • 21, 1942—Tobruk c p-
• tured ' by Alia, with :estimated'
45,000 British ' prisoners, Axis .
armies in 'Egyptian 'frontier .reg -
..ton. •
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O F T 11.E
PRESS
SAVEA MIND E. •,
Minutes , make hours,,. hours
make days, -days make years an4
Bears make a lifetime, •So we all
try to save minutes. . Some safety
wizard haat doped it out.
Take a man whose earning car-
eer • has 25 years to go. That,
makes 13,14$,040':minutee. (Fig.
-ure--it--eut, if y-ou-.will.. - : We lids_
allowing for 'six leap years)_. .We
,dash across the street against a
light. If we win, we save Et min-
ute. If we lose, we donate itp to •
thirteen ' million Minutes to 'Death.
Kitchener Record.
LIGHTHOUSE HEROINE
Speaking of heroines, we think
000.Ital- Mrs, Harold Fraser, 'Wife of the
keeper of Ship Harbor,
N.S., deserves some. recognition.
She has lived on a small 'island`
for 38ears, brought up' a family
of five children • there' and taught,'
thein herself because .there- is no
school. ' And she hats just visited
the mainland for the first time.
in'ten months.—Brockville Rec-
order and Times. ,
THE . REASON *my •
Frederick C. Oeschener, trained
U.P. correspondent just out of
Germany, ,says the. •war can be
ended this'year by the new phase
of war just opened by Britain in
• ' the air. In brief, he says, the
Germans cannot take it. The
Britons did, but,, they were British.'.
—St. Catharines Standard. "
PRINCE IN RIO
OLD-TIME SURtE'I<i'S6--
Dr. Allen Dafoe has a • good.
word to say for the old house-
• and -buggy •days. Mani a time,
he says, he had topull a hair out
of his horse's tail to use for a
thread in en operation. He does
not 'recommend these practices,
but says that he often had to
resort to: it•in.earlier days. -Ham-
ilton Spectator. • •
WORKERS IN SLACKS •
Sound reason dictates the de-
vision by Premier Hepburn that
girls • in the Ontario Civil,; Service.
may• wear slacks or paint :their
legs to 'simulate .stockinb , 'if they
wiski o o so. , it-isart
what these •girls.. wear on , the i
legs, that .counts, it is what th
do with their . hands and th. :
heads. -Windsor Star.
CANADA'S FRONT •
the_ military experts 'an
Ifi
• itOYA wCCIACK 942 MODE
Britain's King George, investigates the. riding qualities of. a U. S.,
Army jeep during as recent visit to American forces in northern '.
Ireland. The .jeep is being driven by Russel Fs Mann, of Oxford, Ia.
N
er in gasoline who aids 11 motorist
to evade the gasolineregulations
is every bit as dangerous to the
,war effort as the 'low chat°aeter_.
who aids draft' violators° to escape`
their duty. •
-A number of •people with whop;
1 have been talking recently have
posed en interesting question.' It
is: "What is the Reserve 'Almy
going to do about men in rural .
districts and smaller centres who
want to join but have no Reserve
Army unit near them?"
• A few days ago I travelled tor
some time on the same train as
"Sam" Browne, ' Director -General
____ara•.the..I3.esetsa_-army,._ end ._that._
was one of the ,qu-estions we dis-
cussed.
At the moment the Reserve
Army is so far below strength in'
the centres in which unit are
established that the first job to
be done is its recruitment .up' to
strength and., the training .of men
who are ' handy to :the wineries'.
Except i,n' towns- where there' are
armories'.it is lard 'to find'suit
atble headquarters. Eventtielle,
'however; plans will be considered
to bloke. reshrve training 'available
to as many men 'who , are not`.
eligible for active service as posy'
Bible...
Major-General Browne was on
his way to Montreal to address a
-meeting. ef-rhe Recruiting Com-
mittee that has set itself the task
of raising 10,000 ,men' for .the Re-
,serve Army in that • city.
He .said that similar campaigns
in Toronto and the West 'hacf been
very successful and that they had • '
reached '• their quotas in a very
• abort; time.
A. funny thing got into the papers
few days ago, It was a"story
from Ottawa .saying that the Army
would follow the lead :'of' • the
ard
by prohibiting uniform trousers
with • cuffs and •pleats,.'
What's. funny 'about ,that?' Just
this, that it' has been i,e the dress
regulations- forte long- t_iae.:-that
, officers' , slacks must' . not , have
cuffs. They never have had 'pleats.
• So, as a matter of fact, the Iii
;dividuai Citizen's. Army, in doing
withoutcuffs and pleats on its
trot_seis. ,is following the . Army'e
lead,. hot the other }ray round'. ,
Here's a eiece of Citizen's Airnry
slang -foe a• change This is .tri be
found on. invitations: It. is:
°'B: Y. 0.,T." or ' B Y.O.0:". or
"B.Y.O.S." ,The meaning? Simple!
Bring your own t?*a, or Bring jour
own iff OT. Bring your own ---
THE 'WAR' WEEK ® Commentary on Current Events
United Nations In Agreement
On Plans, For Conducting War
• Adolf Hitler 'hes said "the de
vision lies' in the. East," and in
that direction last week a grand
German bid for advantage ap-
peared -to- be shaping, according
to the New York Times:' A lenge
.. foreseen pincers drive ,toward the
Middle- East the upper prong
through the Ukraine arid the
Crimea," the lower prong across,
-Libra and Egypt -=seemed: -to--'bat•--
passing from a preliminary stage.
Against the Wehrmacht'k steadily
mounting pressure the •armies of
the 'Aklies, . fell back. There was
' no cheer for the anti -aggressor
peoples o n the realization that the
Nazi' aggressor—despite, a Winter
and . Spring of setback, and stale- r
mate--cou1'd still rasp, •the ' to
•i""flab, e —hoose'the fiit=ld uL battler,;
-:But there • was hope that • the lines
in Russia • and North' Africa .would
stiffenthat frpm Allied high par-
, leys, capped by, the- latest .eonfer=
. 'ence between President Roosevelt
and ' Prime • Minister . Churchill,
would emerge a plan and a course.
Of action to turn the tide.
Middle /East , _
A Nazi conquest of the Middle
East --roughly the region ' running
from. the Caucasus through ,Asia •
Minor to the, Nile''Valley=would
have far-reaching. consequences.
It would: (1) gain for the Ger-
man•military and economic ma
chine -'-th'e petroleum. sources • on
which the Russians and the Anglo-,
American forces in Africa ,and
Asia depend; (2),`win control over
the 'Mediterranean and Red Seas
- nd er-c b '-
pire in two; (3.) , open an, avenue ,.
to junction with. the Japanese in
' •India or. the. Indian Ocean;,° (4) •
slam 'the Persian• Gulf' door of
supply to die U.S=S 1t-in`short,
it' would spell catastrophe for' the
United, Nations, darken their pros -..pros-
pect of victory; certainly prolong
'the war.
Stroke Against .;Germany
Against the. Fuehrer's .convic•
tion ,that the decision in World
War II 'lies'ea,stward of the Reich's
frontiers stands' the conemtion of,
the angio-Ainerican-Russian team
'that the decision must be sought
in. Europe itself, by a concentrated
treke--a_ainst ..Ger-nian-y 'That
belief goes ,back ,many months.
It was expressed in the Atlantie
Charter, whichheld up' Hitlerism
as Enemy.'No. 1. ' It has been
maintained . despite the blows de=
livered by Japan since Pearl Har-
3tsr d --by-t`he eedL--te _disperse -
iAN'MAtIRICE
IRWIN
A Weekly Cohsmn. About' This and That in Our Canadian Army
Niue times out of ten the person
An' ingenious ' reporter made a
tour' 01 gasoline ' stations a few -
weeks "ago au demonstrated how
'to buy gasoline "without giving -hp
Coupon.. ' . .
He .wrote an article ' that was
featured heavily in his paper and
.e . number , of readers spoke of it•
as a 'fine public`•ser%ice. '
To the 'Enforcement Counsel of
the •Wartime Prices and . Trade
Board the .article looked a ,little
different.
They said:. "It would have been
a fine Ipt blic service •if the bright
tsun-g-.- man • ,lied brottglst
gat whom the morai5is pointed pays
no heed to it. 'And' those who, do
Beed -,it. don't heed it!
A somewhat • 'similar situation
arose ' a few . months ago when a
.racket 'w:as uncovered• in one Can-
adian city.. This ond. was. operated
by-armatr•-who-trek-fes-40l-chances,.
with a drug which• he administered
to young Men ,.who did 'not .want
to serve, tithe army.
Reporters• who got hold of the'
story admirably, from a ne'wspap-
er's point of view, wanted to get
their teeth inta-lihe story and: un
aT . ar"tV3 • ^YY•
a front that needs attending to
right -here M. Canada—• the Farad
Front. .. '`'Crop Commandos'; can
meet the, crisis.—Brantford, Eta:
,positoe. '.
LINGERING FOGS
Weather men claim that Most
fogs disappear .between :8 and 10
o'clock in .the morning. But we
hate seen some humans remain
"in a fog" ,until well ,on in the
afternoon.—St.' Thomas' Times-
• Journal"
Prince • Ernst von Staten :oergi
former Austrian vice chancellor,
arrives, in Rio de Janeiro .from
the Belgian•Congo, where he' was
-associated with Free French be-
fore break • with General de
Gaulle. .
Girl Tests First •
- Nylon •Parachute
.?. c aleiily n if .she were going
out on the porch to bring in the•,
daily: paper, Miss Adeline Gray
stepped out of an airplane 2.000
feet . above Brai.iard Field` at
Hartford: Conti.: recently and -
floated to earth under a nylon
parachute. It as the world's
first. "live" test 'of a Parachute
made with 'thi• fabric ,instead of
silk..
J: Floyd Smith, vice president
and chief engineer of the pioneer
Parachute Company of Manches-
ter. which developed the nylon
• 'chute, declared After the test that
as much, progress in the develop-
ment of nyloi ✓bail been made in
the past .' tip>o !xeara, as was made
in silk for parachute.; in twenty
• years.
The attractive :Miss Gray. asked
how she felt and how the 'chute
acted. confined her remarks to
"all right."
Employed by the Pioneer con-,
cern as a rigger„ she is 24' years
Old and 'has made thirty •three
juumpst, ....... •
_
`"S i Nations" Sign
Declaration` of War
Chiefs of the Six Nations In -
diens following approval of a de-
claration'of war,.in a vote• in the
longhouse on' the Tonawanda Re-
servation. will athemblt with their
war drums and in full regalia at
Syracuse, N.Y.. to, 'sign a formal
declaration of war* against the
Axis then hoard a train for Wash-
ington. They will present the
declaration at the White Hoiise
for President Iloocevelt's signa-
ture. .The Six•'Nations declared
vier against Germany in 1917, and
iten't thousands .of braves into
hattie:
Chicks Hatdhing
Despite 'Bombing.
Though, Regularly Shelled
Farmer Refuses to Leave •
�C'hicks are hatching. eie'es lain
ing- arid., •cowe enuring on ,a farm
'on .the Dover Cliffs which 'is i
• i 1
reg-
ularly shelled by. 1L t er`s :guns,
only 22 miles away
Shelia • have fallen in and
around the .fartayartl, the ne'trest
.in • Britain to the Nazi . artillery.
a barrage balloon over it has been
shot down Gtr" times, and often 'a11
harms, have had 'to shelter sunder
their tractors- and implements
front to :cline-: utttiers in the sky '
overhead. But the farmer: and his
people stubbornly refuse to loa ve. .
, • • • •
These dell tnt farmers, Mr, Gil-
bert Mitchell; his wife and sister-
in-law. took over Reach Court
Farm. St., Margarets -tit -Cliffe, near
Dover, a.year before the war with
a dairy herd of 34 cows. In 1939
they plowed up a large proportion
of the 120 acres of • permanent'
pasture to grow the feeding stubs
no longer so easily obtainable from
overseas. Defence works were put
up all round their farm,but dur-
ing -the ' Battle of Britain they
steadfastly refused to leave. gath-
ering in not only their 'own har-
vest but rescuing ,t'rops on other
'farms which had to be evacuated.
• • •
Farther"..defense %vor%a have
now been erected and most" of
Beach Court Farm. is being taken
-over by the Military. But they are
carrying on with what is left, and
.[-.::..Mz,_\ tcheli is' managing for the
Kent War Agricultural C omntittee -
antlaett.nsive area of surrounding
farruland ',•which ivotrid otherwise
have liortie no .top •this year: His
19 -year-old sister-in-law, Miss
(iraeo Harrison. hats joined the
' Komen's Land Army', and is now
driving tractors,' white Mrs.. Mit-
ihell is .bitching chicks 10 the
nn-st vulnerable inr hators lit. Bit-
4
#sin.
on. tt 'run ea' n _ to tng eo,o
readershow to do' it!"
A narrow view? It wasn't that
the lawyer ' feared. 200.000 people
would break the law. But he did
know from sad experience that
a percentage would.
It's something like those "Crime
Does Not Pay" movies. you show
potential.,gau'gsters• and racketeers ••
how to do something they hadn't
thought ' of and then point a
moral-
•sugar.
And whyi'no't? There's a tear. on!
Bear, of,' ail would We. ':.Corrie on
your own feet"—there's plenty of
:use for gasoline id ...the Tank
• Corps.. '
.
to • them that publication' of these
details 'not' only might 'encourage
other .malefactors to start similar
rackets but 'might also. 'result in
deaths from ignorant, toying with
dangerous ilrues the whole story
dropped frdm ,right. '
Tnis parallel:between what we
civilians du, and whet• happens in
the Army • gets very at. one at
times. doesn't 'ii" —
Yes. I -mean just -that. The deal-
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
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€flltyt O .. ,a,,.: ,R,To Gun Furniture
A: north ' of England ' factory
wliieh used to make cricket ' bats
has new turned over to produc-
ing butts and stocks for •Tomnny
guns an.i rifles,' says The St.
Thomas. Times -Journal- . '
• It occurred to its manager: when
war broke out _that'his machines.
could be adapted .for tuaking • the
wiioden "furniture." of guns. The
.suggestion was pooh-poohed at
fir.>t;, but. he won .the day and got
his contract.. `
Today. • the machines, which
.three years ago were turning out
cricket bets, are shaping four
slabs of )toad into' rifle butts in
as tnany;n:inutet. Other machines
complete the ninety-two processes
which at.e necessary before the
butts and stocks go ir.:o the • atn-
nioiiia chamber: to iirelloiv: `-They
'.are then treated with linseed nil.
The craftmen w'ho made the
cricketcricketbats n''aiiaan that eo.la-v
,
out of a p;ie.of othc.- ritles, a seq-
sone 1 .*- ar .: reran w i! still ch -e
their werit `.,)r its 'fear .
•lance of a still unsolved sub.
marine problem; the .Westera .
Pacific of a JaJpanese threat that
hangs over every square mile of
land and water from the, Aleu- .
tians to New • Guinea and from a
point somewhere west of,Midway
Island to the trampled fields of
South China and the rainy wilder-
ness of Burma. Defeat. lies bee
_-.dtipd..the,-1 nited Nations, despite
- the. magnificent fighting of
Russians and the `Chinese, the air
raid. over Europe .and our owe
naval victories in. -the. Coral See
• .and` off Midway. We • have to be •
prepared • for further setbacks. • •
Well-informed military ,critic^
know some of the reasons for
these' defeats.', The. real trouble
ohviousl-y• ,Wes that. mut side
not •have, 'enough Strength at' the ..
-right times at 'the- right places..
There have.• been failures in gen-
• eraiship. • It may,,be, - also, that ..
we have ,leen dealing with physi-,
cal laws Which.- no general, how- '
ever gifted,' could have overcome.'
in the time so. far at our disposal..
Non-military .nations may 'have a
•supetior , Material ' ,and' • spiritual '
strength,' but this' does--not-meatte-a-----
• that -they can easily and, quickly
bring it to the right point of con-.
• tact. .TO 'win this • war we have
to learn how ,to, do title.,
,Coming Operations
Neither the: g•'neral public nor • •
the newspapers which try,to serve
it ..have enough information to :lay .
• down a 'strategy. fora a world war. . • -
.That fearful. responsibility — the,
duty to say yes or no' to specific
e .•_
p ani-"feI'is' Ia.�gely`�'on -tw �---
'
President Roosevelt and...Prime..
Minister' Churchill.: They '.Must ,
decide how-mueh-strength. we,can ,
loin. to the_ e-xisting.'strength of
China, of Russia arid of several
• other 'fronts.. 'These" were tkit
o• questions which they discussed •in
Washington, and the' joint, state-,
ment which they ',issued ' recently
declares, that as a result of their .
discussions . • the United 'Nations
• "have never •been in Such• hearty ••
and,'deteiled_agreentent pp plana
•' for winning,rhe • war as they are
today." China's critical :need •of
aid 'receiv ed consideration; It• -is •
. promised' ".that ,"coming opera-. •
'71,0 Mt" ufthe-tt tt•ite�d=Nations-`gilt
e,r
divt:.lIerman strength from, the •
attack .ona Russia."• • • •
40,00a Children
Died • Fleeing Nazis
— 7.&.•an.-.e ni..;iF— .i3...,,+3'.—
Cow Helps Soldier
To Escape Nazis
A Fr..•n' h soldier who e -caped
from a (i,ertn in camp in
Sile:i.r said that he h.td led•a low
acro -s nicst .of Germany. and had
been mista'ten by ``alit patios as
a farmhand taking the ar.•imai tet
.patters. He. an the bedragg:ed
row atrived in AI;icne four weeks
after he loft the prison camp. He
said the 'cow had, nearly died of
-fatigu , arra they ha& to re.t .t'--
eral• days ins the Rhineland. He
sold the cow to an • Amiens Ma-
ther.
REG'LAB' FELLERS—That's a Help
i
m -ta E v eery on
• and Washington. •
An offensive against' 'the Ger: -
man homeland presu.ntably •syn-
chronized ' from, • the first front,
Russia, arid a . second front
Western Europe -would have ob-
jectives as grand • as• those of Hit-
.
ler in 'the Middle East. It would: -
(,11 squeeze 'the- Wehrinacht in
'the• nutcracker of a two -front
war; '.12 )', put into play the , mil-
.Iiohs of troops and reserves of
materiel ••unused and' waiting in
the British Isles; (3 ) relieve pres-
sure on Russia and Egypt; (4)
• encourage revolt •among Europe's
subjugated millions, the restive et
"third front." Ip short, it Would.
be•desigped to knock Germany -out.
of the war t• then' forces deuld be
concentrated' to deal with Japan.
Allied Strategy
The 'translation of the broad
Allied _plan. into .attion has had to
wait' on time—time to gear rela- •
tivel'y unprepared eeonoi lie . to
total war.' In a sense, the military
• effort of the United Nations ev-
erywhere has been a delaying
battle until the aggressor:' head. -
start in building araries and arms
cou:d he over:on:e. It, seemed
,clear that last week's weighty dis-
cussions in the White 1-losee were
concerned -with whether suific'ent-;
time had yet been woe., whether
dela.: iiia tacti:s must stili be the
chief Allied strategy or whether
the threat '-to the Middle East
teeth he coup:e rte 1 by the opening
of the promised serand • frint
against Gertr any. .
.Aitied Setbacks
The w -az d map has rut red a
sco.:..::g fa, c ori the democracies
euri(tr the past seven oays. North
ge
the Lkr.rine of a sava�c \azi at-
tack that has 'pushed back the
.lhets:ar. :lues; .the •Western Ate
not long ago that 40;000 children
died' on the 'roads of France,
Stine of 1940 in' the exodus of • a .
reftigees fleeing the _Nazi terror.,
They quoted ' a statement made
to an assembly• of the French
Red Cross Society • held at Nice
in unoccupied France., - •
.The newspaper Petit Nicois was
quoted as saying that the figures
made,. public °'at the assembly
."leave us dumb with horror".
"40,000 little bodies bhried. by
the Red Cross in 'graves dug in
.the fields," • the newspaper ex-
claimed. --"Host many others were
• killed and buried in unknown
graN es ?"
•
Spitfire Pilots
"Take The Cake" •
Every,„ time Spitfire pilots sta-
tioned at an airfield near•'London,
sho'o`t down •an airfptane' they lit •
-
eraliiy "take the cake".
The Czech ,ntes.s- caterer -bakes s
,special cake for every successful
pilot—but not until he has as-
sure,, himself that the enemy air-
craft was, destroyed and not ,)last •
"winged".
Until recently, the Czech, ,~hose •
name nrust remain secret becan$b
hi fancily 'is .still iti Czechoao-
vakia, prepared • the food,; for the
pilots of the "ace" ustralian No.
.4:32 .Squadron. and two • of ,hia
best rake "customers-' have been
Squa.iron Leader . "i'addy" I inn-
• cane ,•and Squadron Lea .er ,l:eith
"Bluey" Truscott. ,
Trrscoa, who has just returned'
to Austra.ia, took`, his last eal:e •
•with hint to eat on the journey.'
, • t e
leadir.'g• another squadron based ' •
at the same airfield, received his
37th c ake the other day.
By GENE BYRNES
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