The Lucknow Sentinel, 1942-08-13, Page 7To Scourge Reich
From End To End
Nu
Bpmber Chief Warns German
People of More and Heavier
R.A.F. Raids To Come
•
• ` ' 'Air Marshal Sir Arthur T. •Har -
*is warned the German public in
a recent broadcast that . British
and American bombers would
'sco,>jtrge the Third Reich from
end to end". unless they over-
threw the Nazi regime and made
peace. .
Harris, chief of the R.A.F.
Bomber Command, told the Ger-
mans that a whole American alr
fleet, had just arrived in England,
that an epic storm of destruction
vrsso ethe 1 f -tu" tixci alt w: ec' ' their..•
• heads, and that. "You have . no
chance".,,-
-a iieside it, Harris said, the pul-
verizing assaults by more,,, than
1,000, R.A•:F. planes on Cologne;
Essen and Bremen, will pale limo
insigniicance, and 'cityafter city
will be wiped -off the map..
"Let the Nazis. drag you elolvn•,
to disaster with 'there if you will," '
be challenged the .Germans.. "That
is for .you to decide. You.' can
overthrow the Nazis and make
• peace."
Remarking that American air-
men only . now., bad entered the
fight in Europe, he said the first
.U.S. squadrons in action over the
continent were the forerunners of:
a Whole air • fleet which has just
arrived in England. He added:
"So you realize what it will
mean to you when they bomb --
Germany also?, l have just spent
eight Months in America. I. know
what n ger
R.A.F. losses in the gathering.
operations against Germany so far •,
are less than five percent of the
bombers sent over ttie Reich, he
said.
"Soon' we will be coming over
every' night, every day, rain,flood
or snow—we and the Americans,"
Barris promised, "It is up to
you to end the bombing war."
"In comparison with what it
will be like as soon as our own
production of bombers conies to
flood and American . production
doubles, then''redoubles—all that
has happened so far will • seem
very little," he said.
He+said one Amercian factory
alone ' is already turning Out ev-
ery two hours a four -motored
bomber that can carry four tons
of bombs to any. part of the Reich.'
"There are scores of such fac-
tories in the U.S.," he added.
Remorseless Objective,'
seeeking•'-:ehy tit.. R..e e_neesafe9
• Sans 6Y'�7 8`b t ff ie t.`ee'l nee
-- . 1=a:i. -, •+�3, "germany city.
..�e-
Bible_ for you to go on with the
war:
•
"That is our object. We' shall
pursue it remorsely.
"City by city-tuebeck, Ros-
tock; Cologne, Emden, Bremen, .
Wilhelmshaven; Duisburg, am-
burg—and the list grows Id gel'
.and longer." I'
Observing that America has
just entered the air fight in Eur-
ope, Harris continued:
"Remember this: No matter
how' far your armies march, they
will never get to England. What-
ever their victories, you still have
to settle the air war with us and
America. • ,
"You never will win that, but
we already are doing so now."
U S. And Britain
Plan Postwar Aid
Anthony Eden Outlines B'ri-
tain's After -War Policy
Sketching the outlines of the
future peace "at ,one of the grav-
est Hours of the war," Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden said that
Great Britain is ready to meat arid
work with the United States in
shaping the postwar world..
a speech Which was generally
regarded as the most definite pro -
I Afghanistan'
nonncement of Britain's 'after.war As long as the Russian armies
policy, that has yet been made by
en remain intact, withdrawing from
s British statesman. Mr. Eden one position to the other, Germany
echoed ideas previously expressed 1
Ace -President Henry,, A Wal-
• lace and Unde secretary' of--State-•-
Sumner Welles.
' "With the United States, Ru via,
China. and other nations, we shall'
take our part in working for the
development of a i•orid-wide ci:v-
-eaaa-111ization, • Mr- Eden continued.
naming three 'urgent problems of
•peace:
1. Complete disarmament of the
aggressor 'powers.
.
powers-
_ 2. Feeding of the starving pope -
eat ious.
ope•rations. • •
3. Enabling the deeestated, iin-
povereshed and economically un-
developed cauntrie to restart their not on. strategic: considerationti.
tndtistry and agriculture. '.• ." From that point et view. the Can -
GANM:1A.N FIREFIGHTOS LENVE..FOR BRITAIN
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Announcement of the safe arrival in London of a detachment of Canadian -firefighters releasee
the above photograph, taken at an inspection parade on the eve of their departure. Major General la
R. LaFleche, associate deputy minister of National war Services, is shown inspecting the men,
accompanied by Flight Lieut G. E. Huff, officer commanding the Canadian Corps of Firefighters for
Service in Great Britain- `F/L Ruff appears. at '-Gen. LaFleche's right These Canadian volunteers, of
Whom there. are now two detachments in England, are well trained in firefighting; many 'tif -`diem
veterans of some years with Canadian fire departments:
1 "fHE WAR 7 WEEK Commentary on Current Events
HERE WILL. RED MY IV AiC y
A -CT err w wink n CTAP N A7iS?
beizi S L" -AND TQ S a ..>a. a vz raZI ti
Not one step back!. The ere-'
the United Nations. What matters
cution of this task means the is• that trained soldiers get ' them
preservation of our. country, ' in time for use.
manpower
Russians have
In man h
t P
ction of
the � hated thedestru II
1
a great ' advantage over the Axis
and their satellites. While the wo-
men take over the wqrk of men,
soldiers
'
Millions of ,are mob zed. .
Russia can put into the field train-
ed armies of 10,000,000 and 20,-
000,000 soldiers without' 'affecting
its war industry' or agriculture.
Every year 1.600,000 young Rus-
sian men: ,come into the military ' '
age. Their number will rise ` to
2,000,000 by' 1946. On the other
band, the German manpower res-
ervoir supplied 640,000 mets who
reached the ' age of 20 in 1940.
while the number of new recruits
will decline to 530,000 by 1946.
• Russia thus produces three'times
as . "many voting emelt fie -far
enerny' and • a' guarantee of
• victory.
With thesewords, eoseph Stalin
P the. Red
Arm
last week called on y
for a desperate, stand against the
advancing Wehrmacet, says the
;•New 'York Times. He gave notice'
to his 150.0('0.000 countrymen that
their nation had, never faced a
graver moment—riot even in�a past
that has •been scourged by Inved-
ing Tatars, Mongols, Swedes;
Poles. French and another gen-'
erat)on of Germans,, The feeling of
crisis had been Matched only last
Fall when AdoIt Hitler's gens were
heard in Moscow's suburbs and
the 'capital's citizens were sum-
aenete:'elee er , tee .• eveFr ?t,.-s�ng
epee ar r4
'rippled . ominously froth seared
resee.r encu ala rr eCarC s^_t,. tige>1E3Yee�1^''er ee .te
valley, from bloody =river -,ter .^^ ings
and machine -littered fields at the
fringe of the Cagcasu-s,� into the'
capitals of the Allies abroad. • The
plight of the Russian colossus was
the plight•of the whole anti -
aggressor cause. -
The Axis sweep to the Don in
the first month of the grand 1942
campaign had, overrun some 30,000
square miles 'of grain and cattle
country. It had breached the • Ros-
tov entrance to, the Caucasus,
opened the way for a drive to the
lower Volga and the Caspian.' If
the Germans could add the farms
of the. North , Caucasus to their
White Russia, Ukraine. and, Don,
Basin conquests, 'they would pos-��
sess perhaps a quarter of the
Soviet's cultivated land.' If they
could take the oil fields of the
Caucasus. they. would bold the
fountainhead of 80 to 90 per cent
of the Soviet's petroleum. At the
Volga and the Caspian they would
be in position to sever the Allied
supply line from Iran.
Russia's Final Stand?
German successes along the.
Don, according to the Christian .
Science Monitor. raise the ali-
important question whether and
where the :Nazis can be• stopped.
Ve-111 it be at the Volga or in 'the
Urals' Will they be able to cross.
the .Caepian Sea and threaten India
from bases in Iran. Turkmen, and
-.cannot even dream of having won
victors over Russia. The Russian.
Front is extra -nee -1y fie ibie'-`•but'--
its' "final stand" will always de-
pend' upon the army. No natural
obstacles except the mighty Volga
River protect the Russian hinter-
land.
The Urals are a .geographical
conception, , the. traditional divid;
ing line between Europe and Asia,
but their hills and forests never
mislead -Russia to.a Maginot Line
complacency. ',The importance of.
tee.reals is based on their natural
resources and the induetries,which
have been built -around them but
Two principles which shout cavus atone .shields the tbco main
govern the -FIT) of these -prop pp
a roaches ' ththeoil-of-"•-Bakn.
lents eh listed as follows: Russia's ManpowEr
1. Receipt of . financial and 'eco-
nontie aid "must not result in the • The Russian 'military strength;
loos of , the independence of any therefore. depends primarily upon
country." , its' manpower and the amount of
2. Any assistance ' or guidanee • available planes, tanks and guns.
given a country "unpracticed to it does not matter .whether the
the art • of solt-governtuent „must three • latter are produced in fac-
be such as to help it achieve its • tones Close, to the front. or far
•own development" from . the front, or ahiiipe4. from
Russia - would • suffer .tremend-
ously ender the loss of 85'per cent
of its oil output.- Great stocks of
oir"-havik been accumulated; =-how
with the re-
maining
•and in addition
maining production Russia's arm-
ies would not be' crippled.
War tactics would have to be
changed, transportation would
curtailed,'agriculture
have to be c
as
neglected, bet there' would be ;sue-
ficient oil for the' war machine. We •
must not forget that even the Ger-,
man war machine is 'c,oneidered to
run' on less than 70,000,000. barrel's
of oil annual` consumption ' under
full warfare. The nest • winter
wetted permit Russia to reduce
its war of movement and thus save
much. gasoline and permit - new
stocks to accumulate. • •
vim Russian agriculture would suffer
but poster substitutes . made from
grain ; and wood, most abundantly
available in Siberia, would' permit
the continuation of the use of . trap -
tors and vehicles. Finally, • more
bones could be raised, in a rela-
tively short period as the oil stocks
--weu-ld-: permit -thee maintenance -of
Co'
OF THEW
PRE.
A ROUGH IDEA
Boru'bing on a huge scale must
disorganize the defences and stun
the people who are going through
it. At Cologne, it is said -that, one
bomb fell on the average every
sir seconds. If you are afraid of
lightning, think what it would be
like to go through'a ' thunder
storm with a new lightning flash
every six seconds: Then' remem-
ber that probably none of -those
lightning strokes hit your town,
while 'every - bomb scores a hit
and blows up something: That
will- give you a rough idea, at
Fergus News -Record' -.
SOME FOOL'S VICTIM
If a psychiatrist • investigated
the fears of non swimmers he
w.eill 'pr"`olia.:lYly fill`d dist"'early' in.
life; .they ,had' been mischievously
or 'deliberately 'pushed into $he
•water,, or •.ducked when they .did
not. expect it and get a fright,
Children should never be made.
afraid .ef''the water. •
-St. Thomas Times -Journal.
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AREN'T' WE ALL? `
Explaining his attempt to es-.
cape from a Quebec military • hos-,
pital, a captured German merch-
ant seaman .said that he was "fed'
,tip with the war,"We haven't
accomplished . our purpose. until
we have made another Nazi, much
more highly placed, feel. the same
A
Way,
• —Windsor Star•
•
50 • YEARS AGO .,
In one day recently•seven car-
loads of cheese were shipped• from
Listowel for the British market,
and, three carloads from Atwood.
This' made ' $20;000 worth ' of
cheese shipped in one day from"
the factories of one' oistrict.
-Stratford Herald, July'24,
1892.
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AREN'T
YOU'RE BRITISH, •
YOU?,
What's• this? Are you going
around with your head in . a
sling? Are you losing heart be-
cause the war' is going a bit thick
these days?
What's, the matter? Keep that.
thin tip!. You're. British aren't
you!
—Windsor Star
TRY TO AVOID"THIS..
It is a terrible thing to' raise
c-ene-n-ash re- ust as thought
Says Mrs. Gebrge Morin, Graede- due' to lack of the' right kind of
Bale, Quebec: "We have been users "bulk" in yotir. diet? But remember,
of xeu�WGG's ALL -BRAN for a long Au sw.x doesn't work like cathee-
time . .. and fora good reason. tics. It takes. time. Eat it regularly .
ALL. -BRAN, • besides being • a most and drink plenty of water. Get,.
.
delicious cereal, really.does keep . ALL -IMAM at your grocer's. ni two
us regular - . , naturally.' conveaient'size I'Rrkages, or ask for Why don't you try eateaarw's the indieidupl' eeruing wee -nee at.
"Better Way"•to cq rect the cause restaurants: Made by Kellogg's in
if you're . troubled by constipation London: Canada,
"A Weekly Column Ahont,. This a -
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"Ry�veille' will be at 3.30 a.m.'
Thatfs cow the order read when•
the onitl of the Reserve Army.with
which I� attended Summer Camp
• prepared to return to its armoury
and to disband for a week's rest
from evening `parades, the citizen- •
soldiers to their jobs in offices,
factories,'\ stores, warehouses, rail-
way yards and the dozen other
classes of industry . from which
they came. •
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-`-S;ounds--ia-;little• -tough to -•-the ar-
erage man{ who can sleep in until'•
six or seven, doesn't it? But it
.Was not tough by the time we had
finished fourteen' d ys of training
We took it is our stride as we had
the
reveille,
taken the daily 6 a.m: re
long hours of training and the oc-
casional night operations which'
formed part of the intensive pry -
gramme undertaken n lay. units of
the reserve army insuinmer ps
throughout the Dominion.
Our units were made up of men
beta e.en the 'ages of 17 and • 19,
and 35 and 50. And when I say
men, I mean it, as' regards both
ends of the scale. It is • a toss-up---'
whether the youths or, the middle-
aged were the keener men. There
•
was certainly very Ji tie "soldier=
ing"; to use a term that should
be banished from : our vocabulary.
After 'a heavy route march there
was a fair sized "siclaparade" but'
it not "sick- grade:' to anldiAr
which old soldiers are heeusueit•-
The- .Russian, ,armies'' can: retreat-
emaseleiseseetteivaereesetetletereaeeceeselemicea
-.eral . 'hin d._:aniles. .uselte bas 'I
3,000,000 square' miles of forests
chiefly east of the Urals and there
its army could disappear before
the eyes of the invader without
the' danger of . a crushing defeat.
At the Germans advance, „that
prospect becomes increasingly
probable.
Nazi Drive• For Oil' •
d are driving
for reeerves of
thepose is not
onlyfor them-
selRussia of
on supports in
the war.
Germany wants to cut of the
oil from the powerful Rlussiau war
machine' and put out ' `f combat
those tanks and airplanes upon
which everything depends now and'
which already have dealt most
ksevere. blows at the enemy. Russia
has' a completely mechanized eget-
culture which de'prived of oil could
not fuft'ction.
f the Nazi forces
Russia's great oil
Caucasus, their put
I, to secure . the oil
yes, but to deprive
e of its most vital
While, the, huge spaces of Rus-
sia will permit its army to with-
draw properly; thus evading in-
definitely a .final German victory,
the Germans would attempt, to
°blockade Russia economically and
toreduce its fighting power to
insignificance.
The Germans are on : their way
to the• Volga and anoccupation of
Stalingrad and Astrakhan at the
Caspian Sea Would cut off all com-
munications between the Central
Front and the forces which protect
the Caucasus. Besides this mili-
tary, threat which as such may be
less serious in the case of a strong
artnf 'defetitfing-the -Caiticasus; the•-,
flow of Russian oil toward the in-
dustrial Centres of European Rus-
sia Would conte to' an end.
•
•
en Iva -GermanYaef-et-hs•- quered
oil at Least for several months.
But' it could not -be prevented•from
utilizing the abundant oil resource
as of the Caucasus sooner or, later,
once in possession, of this region..
From the Caucasus German •
armies 'would ''threaten the oil'et
.
Iraq and Iran and make the Un-
ited Nations- position .there most
',precarious. The well-developed
Russian' river and canal system
would permit the distribution of
the oil to. the ,Ukraine , and over
the Polish and Baltic river. .sys-
tems • to • the consuming centers of '.
Germany. .
Even if Ruadia can withdraw all
its 40,000 tank cars and the large
number of `oil barges;, destroy all-
gpipelineS and oil wells and save
the Black Sea Fleet by the con-
cession 'of -free f assage through
the Bosporus to United Nations
ports. the whole strategy of the
war would .have to be changed.
Germany would have • gained , a
most important base on her way
to India, and its strong air fleet,
once supplied with the urgently
needed oil. could' harass the Un-
ited Nations supply lines In the
Middle East and keep the. Russians
at bay behind the Urals with the
main instrument of the sir force
and- a relatively small 'land army
in the east. Thus, the, hulk • of the
German army would be freed to
fight elsewhere.
OH, MEMORIES I
Word comes. from Regina that
Saskatchewan will need '30,483
-men--for- harvest. labor„_ths season.
Oh, for the good old days of the
Harvest Excursions!
—Owen Sound Sun -Tines
•
--43eandon...Sun
•
Canada's Ni*,
Catalina Plane
Destined , to Play 'lir+portarit
Role 'in*eiyar and .Peace •
Canidae new Catalina PBY-5
amphibian planes, ,far-ranging sea
scouts of a growing air armada,
are described officially as possess-
ing the greatest range of any two -
engined bomber.in the world.
The new 14 -ton, $250,000 aircraft
are destined to play an important
role: in both war and post-war
plans. •
Built in a huge plant employing
nearly 2,500 women; the aircraft
has more.. than, 100,000 parts and
takes more' than • 100:000 man-hours
to produce.' Its hull is as long as
a Pullman coach and its wingspan
is so great that '10 automobiles
could be lined end to 'lend along
the, length ofe e•3ch. its wing -floats
are as hie' as canoes. - ' •
Maximum speed of the Catalina
at an altitude o[ S,000 feet is about
200 miler .per hour and its cruising
speed at the same altitude is ap-
proximately , 175 m.p.h. It has a
ceiling of almost , five miles and
its. maximum eru.ising range would
permit it to fly from Halifax to
Vanceuve And back to Winnipeg
without refueling: _
The wartime role of these patiol
&ships is important. They summon
the fighting planes and ships when
the enemy is sighted.
And after the war is. over, these
aircraft.. will .,.still.-he.-in-....gr,t de-
mand supplying the peacetime
answei-;to the need for long-range
transoceanic flying boats.
they are patriatie citizens debae-
red, by age or other limitation time ;
taking their full part in the job
of work eve have to do. They are,/
for a grim business snit
preparing
- they are going more • than half way ' .
'to meet "their .instructors in the
use .of the death dealing equip-
ment made available to them. [or
training. -
The men in y platoon, by ithe
time they returned from camp,
bead fired more rounds from Brea
''; ...
,gum ;ni___two. �seeks__thas
last . 'war I had fired from a rifle
by the'time I had been in the army ..
teh menthe: They fired with
on short • and long ranges: The
received instruction in the hand-
ling
i YtheB
-en.
tri n
lin ands P got-
g
stripping
and enad
They 'learned ,a,bout hand gr
and they put in Strenuous . home;
practising the' right way to deliver
these presence to • all enemy..They
had their 'first lessons in "battle- ,i
drill." They • practised . stalking:
through the open. and '•through.
cover.-' -They learned the filets
-principles "of bayonet figh g
but they didn't learn to "gt fuse'
brings us to the •Second
ream referred to, above. There•
are two things that soldiers grouse
about most. One is . the . endless
round of unimagnaative drill, the
other, have you .guessed? -food. •
There, was no room for. either et
these complaints. Especially ' the
was the p latter which.' caused many au' old.
. to rasp ki under' the
ed Tim ben=t er coneeeted of -Men- o' ratio-sa . •C,- •:a. -.t
.tom t.T�a+e-.. ...-___-.. •. f
anxious to have their blisters or
.d 1p -s'o--t't+'a` ,, ' they
-would 'sire*Ii ' rcr ',reins' t iltTper-
iods the next day not o,f men
edeterinined- tb -wangle a "light
duty" permit from the' medical
officer so' they, . could evade the.
morrow's responsibilities.
4
There. -were` -many-.;firings about
this yea;•s Reserve Army camps
that.\amazed the old soldiers , who,'
attended them and easily,the most
outstanding was the enthusiasm
with which the new recruits ab -
so bed instruction. The only "awk-
wd squads", after the second or
T a were. the voluntaryones
bird day,
hat •assembled under good .natnr-
d non-commissioned officers dnr-
ng off duty hours. You would find
them in the tent lines practising
anything from left -and 'right turns
by numbers to the "present arms"
from the "order-" During the
orning and afternoon 15 minute
st peroids when the only smokes,
parade hours were indulged in,
fission . groups formed them-
e ves around officers and N.C.
0 to ply them questions as to
the why" of this, the "how" of
tha and the practical' application,
of raining to warfare. ,•It was.
Anti you thought about it, incred-
ible!
ncred-ible!
«'h n you thought ,about it the
anew soon became apparent.
't,These .\ men have joined the re-
erve army, accordiiig to their age
c assifications:' , for two 'reasons.
T1 e yottttgsters- in order to save
tithe in their preparation for ser-
vice, when they are old enough ,to
voluneeer; the middle aged to fit
themselves asefa_ st as' possible .for
home defence duties when they
nine -7eeessaaee ,..--:- _ __ _
The, Reserve Army men of today
are not "Saturday night soldiers",
REG'LAR FELLERS -Lip Reading
y'Ol1CiirrA SEE THE WAY
MY FATHER WEARS 1415 .4IASSESi
RIGHT avPIOttisE s Eta c ins
AMIN
it Ili+ - "-
it=
•
ase11 .chosen -such.„. meals eve
Breakfast: grapefruit j n't e se
wheat or o -at meal porridge,.
scrairibled , eggs • on , toast, -bacon,
marmalade, '° toast and coffee. •
-Lunch: soup, cold roast beet,
tyro vegetables apple pie,, tea.
SuPpeer: beef stew.-•, two vego'-• _
tables, bread pudding with choco-
late sauce, bread; butter, tea.
:Sometimes there was cake. One
meal was baked Virginia harts,
On Friday's, fish and macaroni"
and cheese marked tile- two big
meals — and you didn't mix it all
ftp in the same tin "dietie" that
had held your shaving water earl-
ier.
Do those rations look heavier is
:you than the amount yon consuls
at home? They are! But soldiers
—even Reseree Army soldiers at, It -
tending' camp for only two week,
—need heavy ' rations.
You can't oe on your feet from
sii in the morning till sometimes
nine at night. carrying a nixie -
pound rifle; a bayonet, web egei"-
went over rough ground and
smooth, marching or doing phys-
ical trainin_e. without good food
and lots of it!
That's why we ate • rationed.
Teat's • why eight ounces of sugar,
a minimum of tea' and coffee must
suffice. • , •
One of the jobs of the" Wartime
Prices and; Trade Board is to con-
' serve food for our soldiers, hers
and overseas — and . those of ea
who are good soldiers will help
the Board do -that job.
_.--...._„Austrhlia..tiormallyy .has_ a sappl7-- -
of 1,7a0;000- -horses and exports
about 4;000 anpually.
By. -GENE BYRNES.
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WAY
NO; HE AIN'T!
'11E -WANTS TO SEE.
WI AT—HE 5 TALkit:(' ABOUT!
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