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The Brussels Post, 1942-7-22, Page 2IRON HORSES BOLSTER INDIA'S DEFENSES Natives of menaced India, curiosity overcoming their caution, clamber over tanks newly arrived in "greatest convoy ever to leave Britain for Far East." - VOICE OF E PRESS WHAT'S WRONG? We quite often hear the ques- tion asked: What is wrong with ens educational system? One tnewer was supplied to us re- cently by a radio broadcastea and $t is not so far wrong at that. °[1h trouble with education, he stated, is that the teachers are afraid of the principal, the princ- 1 is afraid of the inspector and e school board, the school board ftf afraid of the parents, the par- ents are afraid of the children and the children are not afraid of nyone.—Carleton Place Canad- iosi- HELPS THE FARMERS The editor and staff of the Bowmanville Statesman have worked overtime to get their paper "to bed" so that they ma;' to free to go out and help at llama work. " Not only this, but the paper's farm editor has for two seasons taken a whirl at hay- ing, harvesting and threshing. Well, we'll wager there'll be wigs on the green now, up in Durham County. Congratulations, fellow editors. This is one time when bay forks and -rakes and culti- vators will be mightier than the penl—Kingston Whig -Standard. WORRIES EFFICIENTLY Prima Minister Churchill told' hie friends in Washington that he had so many worries that he had to set up a personal priority sys- tem for them. To a colleague who was complaining about his minor troubles, Mr. Churchill ex- plained that he had had so many worries for so long now that they grad to have a top priority to claim his interest. One day, he ex- plained, Kharkov has A -1A prior goy; the next day Egypt. In that way he explained jokingly, he would "worry efficiently" WARTIME SLOGANS By their slogans ye shall know them! United Nations—"Keep 'era Flying"; Germany—"Keep 'can Dying"; Italy—"Keep 'em Diving"; Japan—"Keep 'em Flee - Ing"; Vichy France—"Keep 'em Lying"; and Han. J. L. Ilsley— "Keep 'em Buying".—Hamilton Spectator. EVENING THINGS UP There are always compensations. Little Willie has been bewailing the ban on the manufacture of kids' bicycles, but he gets a lift Out of the similar action that has now been taken with respect to lawn mowers.—Windsor Star. ONLY REALIZATION The only times some people realize there is a war in progresa is when a budget speech increa"hes their taxation or the Oil Con- troller reduces their gasoline re- tons.—Brockville Recorder and 'dimes. GOOD IDEA A contemporary says it would he a good idea to talcs autos away from all careless drivers, where- upon the streets would become safe, quiet ---and almost deserted. —Brantford Expositor, ORIGIN OF ANTS Scientists find ants existed 60 million years ago—probably they Marted with the first picnic.--- Eitehener• 'Record, Open Golf Meet For Seagram Cup Will history repeat itself? That's the question Canadian Golf fans are asking themselves, for if past history means anything there will he another playoff for the Can- adian Open Golf Championship and the Seagram Gold Cup at Missis- sauga on August 6, 7 and 8. The approaching open will be the third held at Mississauga and in each of the previoua struggles there have been deadlocks, one being decided by a thirty-six bole playoff and the other by one that went twenty-seven holes. In the South round in 1931 Walter Hagen had 282, after slipping to a bad 74 in the final round. In the play- off the Haig soored his only via - tory in the Canadian open. Seven years later Slamming Sammy Snead and Harry Cooper tied with a total of 277. In the eighteen hole playoff they both carded brilliant 67'e and after a consultation with the R. C. G. A. officials it was decided to play Rine additional holes. On these final holes Cooper slipped badly turning in a 39, while ,Snead who was really hot from tee to cup, Dame in with a 34. N ? 1I (JE CE A Weekly Column About This and That in Our' Canadian Army Hitler must hang! And that i'o •thright statement may be taken as a compound sentence for the whole gang of Nazi leaders, After the fighting finished in 1918 there was a lot of talk about bringing the Kaiser to trial and demands for punishment of the leaders of the German people —but, as time went on the fer- vour died down, Christian tenets were mouthed by- the very people who later en were the apostles of disarmament, and — nothing was done to show the German people that it is an evil thing to let loose the forces of evil on mankind. Nothing was done? Nothing! Oh Yes, a few colonies were put under mandate—the German mind would expect that; reparations were claimed—and partially for- given; and, almost immediately, loans were made to Germany to assist in the rehabilitation of trade! What did the Army think about all that? I can speak for only one Sergeant in that army. But I am sure that what I felt was echoed —and intensified—by the moth- ers of dead sons, the widows, the orphans. What good did the Christian attitude do? Was it really a Christian attitude? Let's answer the second ques- tion first. I don't think it was. I think that was a time when, remembering that Christ said "turn the other cheek," we for- got that the same Christ drove the money -changers out of the Temple! Perhaps you are wondering where the Individual Citizen's Army conies into this. Don't worry, it comes in all right! The Individual Citizen's Array — that means all of us, don't forget— is concerned and very deeply con- cerned, with everything that goes on in the world today. There is not a thing that hap- pens that does not concern each one of us. The death of a U. S. Army aviator somewhere over the Coral Sea is just as important to the whole scheme of things as the loss of a Canadian -made tank in Libya. Death has hardly touched us yet. By the time the "Great War" was as old es this one thousands of Canadians had been killed in battle. There was hardly a home in the Dominion that had not been shadowed by the dark angel's wing. And by the same token there was hardly a home in the whole of Canada that was not straining every sinew to help beat the enemy. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher A /%///i�f/�%//% "!/i1/// /i f v �c 'oybb • // /�a l t "He thinks it's only fair to give the animals a sporting chanco.'l Then death, sudden violent death, had become so common- place that "Casualty Lists" in the daily papers occupied more space than the "Sports Pages" do today —and were as eagerly scanned. Today as much space is given to the drowning of two office cadets in an Army Week display as would have chronicled the deaths in action of 300 men in the 1914-19 Wer. What a shame! What a shame that we should need an "Army Week" to focus our thoughts on our soldiers. It is symptomatic of something half-hearted and lack- adaisical that all over the Domin- ion it should be necessary to stage demonstrations to remind us that there is a war going on. But "Army Week" or "Navy Week" or "Air Force Week" should be every week. We must generate the proper state of mind about this war. It is our war. Not the war of the soldier, the sailor or the airman. And it will fall to those ,of us who could only help in a very limited way to back up the fighting forces when their job is done and see to it that a grim retribution falls upon the guilty. There is nothing soft about our men in uniform. Let us see to it that there is nothing soft about us when the day of reckoning comes. Every lamp post in the Unter Den Lin- den should be a gallows, there must be a gallows—occupied by Darrion bait—in every hamlet, every village, every town, every city in occupied territory that has known the weight of the Nazi scourge, the stench of Italy, the malarial infection of Japan. There is a job for us privates in the Individual Citizen's Army —a job we will do whole-heart- edly_as we look—and we shall look—upon our comrades on crutches or following "Seeing - Eye" dogs or as we place flowers under memorial windows .in our church yards. Right now there is another job to do, the job of conserving every.• thing that is needed for the busi- ness of waging successful war. It is a simple job. So simple we may not think it worthwhile. It involves such things as cutting out joy -riding, carrying parcels from the store, turning last wint- er's coat, giving up smoking, drinking less tea and coffee, doing without alcoholic beverages, hay- ing shoes 'repaired even when the. uppers are shabby. It involves reporting infrac- tions of the price ceiling orders no matter how abhorrent "snitch- ing" is. None of us would hesi- tate to tackle or report a spy, or a saboteur. Neither should we hesitate to report a commercial saboteur—for breaches of the price ceiling are acts of sabotage against the law-abiding. The storekeeper, wholesaler, manufac- turer, landlord or other business man doesn't just break a law— he harms you. If he gets away with it because you keep silent the spectre of postwar inflation loons closer, if the ceilings are maintained postwar inflation will be averted ••and we'll have time to ace that the war has not been fought in vain. To Send Clippings Instead of Papers Post• office officials last week said a general campaign is being planned to encourage Canadians to send newspaper clippings rather than complete newspapers over- seas. The plan has already been pre- sented to newspaper associations and is being supported by the Canadian Postmasters' Associa- tion. "In most cases clippings are quite sufficient to give the news and would overcome the terrific waste in shipping space which there is at present with thousands of papers being sent overseas," a departmental spokesman said. THE WAR - WEEK — Colnnlentary on Current Events German And Japanese Thrusts Menace Russia's Supply Lines The story of Russia's military strength is the story of apace, end. less space, Armies that have crowd- ed all rivals off the face of Europe have marched into Russia and been swallowed up in the vast brown landscape rolling away to the east, Napoleon learned 130 years ago that a battle won in Russia does not have the same meaning as a battle won in Aus• tris; there Is always room in Rus- sia for another battle. Adolf Hit- ler learned last year that each mile forward in Russia, each great in- dustrial town destroyed, only means another mile to go, another town to destroy. Last week, 1n battles spaced hundreds of miles apart,. Hitler's armocl might tried to solve the problem of space, says the New York Times, Germany's Objectives The German effort presumably had two objectives: (1) to take possession of important arteries of traffic by which strength flows from one part of the Soviet body to another; (2) to block the routes over which come war materials from Russia's Allies across the seas, The accomplishment of these objectives would make Soviet transportation problems more dif- ficult. It was conceivable that Rus- sia's resistance might be split into two parts, each of which could ob- tain supplies from the other only with the utmost difficulty. Drive To The River To win the first and greatest of these prizes the Germans aimed their chief drive at the Don River. An announcement from Berlin described the Red Army as "de- structively beaten" along 220 miles of the Don front. Moscow reported heavy Soviet counter-attacks de• signed, apparently, to divert the main weight of the German drive from reaching toward Stalingrad and the Caspian, hundreds of miles away. The Wehrmacht's goal seemed to be no less than to cut Marshal Timoshenko's southern army in two, to isolate the whole Caucasus region. Then Hitler could strike for the wells that normally produce 90 per cent ot the Soviet supply; he could seek to cut the Allied supply line that runs from Iran up through the Caspian. Sea Battle In North To win its second objective in the war against space, a German battle squadron skirted Norway's towering North Cape. Once round the cape the Germanfleet, con- sisting, according to reports from Moscow, of the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket -battleships Scheer and Luetsow, the heavy cruiser Hipper and eight destroyers, was on the main supply route from the de- mocracies of the west and the Red armies. There, guns blazed, After the fighting was over con- flicting claims by some govern- ments, silence from. others, left a confused picture of what had oc- curred, The Germans said that their ships, supported by land- based aircraft, fell upon an Allied convoy, sank a heavy American cruiser and destroyed all but six of a thirty -eight -ship flotilla. Flom Moscow came the report that the German attack was halted when a Russian submarine torpedoed the Tirpitz twice and that the German ships withdew while the convoy sailed on to a Russian port. The Soviet spoke also of heavy bomb- ing raids on Nazi airfields in Northern Norway and Finland, the basesfor the forays against the Allied supply line in the Arctic, 1942 Push Starts Observers" in Allied countries were ready to concede that Hit- ler's "big push" for 1942 had at last started. It had •bean long ex- pected; predicted for early Spring, then late Spring. Both on land and at sea it constituted Hitler's attempt to saire the problem that baffled Napoleon—the defeat of Russia: While the battle along the Don was being fought on a limited front compared to the great battles of last Summer and Fall, there were those who saw in its threat -to the Russian internal transpor- . tatiou system a threat as great as were last year's battles. 10 it were not checked, and 11 it turned southward toward the. Caucasus, it could be the gravest menao" ,vet in the \i'ehrmacht's drive toward the Middle Bast. Others pointed out that space was still aft tho side of Russia. East of the Don, they pointed out, lies the Volga and east of the Volga the "Urals and beyond that, the wide ranee of Siberia, Battle of Aleutians In the mist and rain that s'.roud America's Aleutian Islands too 280 days of the year's 366, a battle relatively small in scale bur sig nificant in strategy ie being t.ught by Japan and the United States: The action began when the Niilt- ado's forces rattled Dutc]i Harbor on June 3 and shortly there fte{' put troops ashore at the tip at the archipelago that thrusts 1,800 miles from Alaska across the North Pacific. The United i':ates, hit back at the invader with at- trltion tactics, seeking to destroy, landing groups and the ships sup- plying them. A. report on tits pro. grecs of the:battle ;vas issue•'• not long ago by Washington. Submarines in Action American submarines, it was disclosed, had penetrated the waters around the three Western- most islands seized by •tbe Japan- ese—Attu, Agattu and Kiska The fogs that have hampered !ens-- range eng;range air bombers helped screen the undersea raiders' movements. Two weeks ago their torpedoes sank fo,ur enemy destroyers, left a fifth in flames. The toll brilight Japanese Claval losses—most:» in- flicted by Army places—in :t,leu- tian encounters to fifteen vessels sent to the hottont or damaged; United States losses have not been disclosed, save for unspeci- fied damage at Dutch harbor, but it was evident that the Japanese were extending their grip in the Aleutians. Their eastward advance from Attu to Kiska spanned 230 miles. They were surely meting air and naval stations that •iould play an important role in the North Pacific theatre. Japanese Mehace Grave From Kiska it is 616 mi1>i to Dutch Harbor. Proem Attu it is 696 miles to Russia's Kamc:tatke. defenses and 766 miles to P.ara- mushir•, Japan's northernmost nav- al base. Thus, the Nippones$ are in a central position (1) to drive toward the North American con- tinent, antinent, (2) to intercept an Allied move across the North Pacific against Japan, (3) to strike the U.S.S,R. from a new flank, ta, to cut a possible line of supply from Alaska to Siberia, Despite the gravity of the Japanese menace, it was believed, the Allies could not yet spare forces from the many other global theatres for a campaign to regain the fair -lieu trans, Gneisenau May e Out For Duration The 20,000 -ton German bat)e- - wG ship Gneisenau, which slipped through the Dnglish Channel from Brest February 13 despite a heavy British aerial attack, is anchrred in the former Polish port of !kly. ria with her three • 11 -inch gun turrets dismantled, British aerial photographs showed recently. About 30 feet of the ship's fore- castle deck also has been reme-rod and the British expressed the be. lief she had suffered such serious damage that she "may be our for the duration." The Air Ministry said it would be impossible to make the necessary large-scale re- pairs on three vessel at Gdynia The Gneisenau was bombed re- peatedly while she was tied t1 , et Brest from March, 1941, until the day she slipped out of the French port with other milts of tho /4er- man fleet and successfully eluded 'the British. The Air Ministry:said the ship suffered further damage on the flight from Brest. The ministry statement added that the G•ueiseuau, first take» to 1 del, probably oras hit again dui. ing a Britishsaid on Kiel Fe';ru- cry 26, The photographs, made in nay. light some time after trat raid, also sliowetl the German dtpot ship Monte Olivia or a liner of ;she same class burned out and noc:red near the battleship. REG'LAR FELLERS—Dangerous Practice By GENE BYRNES SAY,/ WAKE UP,/ WHAT'. 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