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Zurich Herald, 1942-07-16, Page 6PEP TALK IN EGYPT aaataae Gen.Sir Cam.,e J. la nuc h n:eel+ raaies 'a grace tip British Sold ier6 in i'.z,''e'l.i: main the car '1.1 which he has Leen ea..:..r .: isen: -ince. taking over active command of .Britain's x iglhth Army. Auchiu1eck'a encourage ra penia ee, ,a; e -ea as Hs strategy, has a idea ii1•itieh and American xorces to cheek the drive of Renaut:<_ . axis . nme<:.. Va-!'ICl..t V i i 1; ER£SS AN AMAZING MAN What an amazing man is Churchill! Here he is over in Washington again conferring with lite President of the United States. Sixty-eight years of age, carry - lug the tremendous responsibili- ties of an Empire, with its arm linked into other countries of the world, and yet he seems to cross the Atlantic with the daring spirit of an early Vikinga How many sersons, much younger, could lives up to such a schedule as he Tenet go through constantly? —Kingston Whig -Standard PRONOUNCING "RATION" peaking of rationing, there geonm to be some difference of epinion about its pronunciation. The dictionary allows both the long and short "a," but since the htailitary have always used the short "a" that gets the prefer- ence, which makes it pronounce `'drachoning," rather than ray - *boning." Anyhow it seems ap- aropriate, considering the sub- eet, that the "a" should be short. —Brantford Expositor —0— NAZI MOTTOES In 1940 German propaganda proclaimed, "We have won." In 1941 the motto was: "We shall win." in this year of 1942 it lass been again changed, to read; "We must win." Anyone trying to express in a nutshell the de- velopment of German public re - tion to war events could do no worse than to remember this ser- as a'f mottoes. —St. Catharines Standard —0— RICE FELLOWS, THOSE HUNS A German U-boat commander, who used to be consul at New Orleans, torpedoed an American chip, and when the survivors had taken to a small boat he told them to row a certain direction to bend. The sailors, knowing their :nuns, rowed in the opposite di- xection—and ethane to shore safe - Nice playful fellows, those Rant I —Ottawa Journal —0- -Windsor Star —0— PERSONAL INTEREST Everybody seems to know rough arithmetic to figure out what's coming to him. —Kitchener Record. BUDGET EDITORIAL EDITORIAL OUCH! —St. Thomas Times -Journal Little Cheap Guns For Second Front Britain is producing a a2 sub- machine gun to arm saboteurs and patriots expected to help the Allies open a second front in Europe, it was disclosed recently. The weapon, which looks like a dime -store version of the Tommy gun, can shoot nine -milli- metre German, Italian and French smmun'ition and has been tested in commando raids on the French •past. The gun is regarded as highly useful ,tor shock troops and home guards, but its cheapness, mili- tary experts point out, makes it an ideal weapon for big-scaie dis- iaibution. to saboteurs. Fitted with a magazine holding 34 rounds, the gun can fire at the rate of more than 500 rounds tk minute, is effective up to 200 yards and has a useful life of more than 5,000 rounds, Eight magazines go with each Alun and when loaded they weigh enly eight pounds. The guns will be easy to sow in occupied coun- tries by parachute or by smug - The gun is called the 'Sten," a word used to "'oneeaI its de- eigners real names. One Royal Ordnance factory is producing thein at the rate of three a min- ute. �vn A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Array When 1 cane home from the last war 1 heard a lot of grousing about some fellows who had spent the war years working in muni- tions plants. It wasn't the sol- diers who complained—they simp- ly said: "Lucky stiff, that's what I would have done if I had had any cense"—it was the older civ- ilians. They seemed to feel it was wrong for some people to have earned "high wages" while others did the fighting. Just who should fight and who should stay at home is a hard problem—and one that is really solved only by` those who volun- teer. No columnist is in a position to snake a forthright statement on the subject because he cannot know all the circumstances that lead to an individual's decision. Neither, I suspect, can anyone be arbitrary on the subject. But we can all wonder. And this is the sort of thing that makes us wonder. .A. fear days ago Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator in the Un- ited States, said to an audience ,at a. meeting of the American Medical Association that the Cin. Red States needs 3,000 doctors every month for the Army and Navy. He said: "There is an apparent leek of interest on the part o± your profession to volunteer be- cause of reluctance to give up private income for army pay." That was a strong statement, but McNutt is not noted for with- holding his punches. Ove civilians don't need doc- tors as badly as will the soldiers when the big battles - get under way. 1'or a tummy -ache or a broken leg we can wait a few. minutes or hours if the civilian doctors have to spread their tal- ents over more of us. But a shell -torn soldier can't wait. ± there should not be enough doe - tors in the Army to give prompt attention to badly wounded men because too many stayed home to look after us it would be a trag- edy. Perhaps we ask too much ei our medical men. We take it for granted that they will come at whatever hour of the day or night we call; we take it equally for granted that they will comma whether We have a record of pay- ing our bills or not; and we also take it for granted that they will give quite a bit of their time to free clinics. The Army needs doctors. So does the Air Force. This year quite a number of young men finished training and new ahinglea will be cropping up all over the Dominion. Let's hope that a good percentage, of these shingles will take the form of pips on the shoulders or rings around the euffs—I'd hate to think of a Canadian public man making a speech like that of Paul McNutt It all gives one very furioualir to think! What are we doing to h along the successful promecuidifia of the war? LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher, "`We'll have to let her ga. Jr/ /� ! f .l.t°ogYr'i 19H.,bY -�d leehar.? Customers fall in love with her and can't eat! 1" avwsratalorremozoonwomiew REG'LAR FELLERS—A Sad Case STOP YOUR CRYING I'M SURPRISED TO 3EE A 8!G BOY LIKE YOU CRYING J Are we feeling that because there is nothing spectacular we can do that the little things sere not worth while? We do, some- times, and it's too bad. That old saying, "Moray a sickle maks a suckle," was never more true than when applied to the work of the individual citizen in e war. Take this business of voluntary rationing, for example. You've heard people say, "We only drank two cups of tea before it was rationed. Even if we do cut clown to only one how much shipping space will that save?" It will save very little — but, multiply that one cup by 13,000,000 and see what the saving is then. Let's work it out. The saving of one cup of tea by every Can- aian, taking 200 cups as equalling one pound, means a saving of 32?i: tons of tea every day. A ton of tea occupies approximately 100 cubic feet of cargo space— so our one cup of tea saves 3,250 cubic feet, What can a stevedore do with 3,250 cubic feet? Well, roughly speaking, that is a pile eight feet high, 20 feet wide and 20 feet long. It would accommodate two Valentine tanks or goodness knows how many eases of rifles or Bren guns. The stevedore could load about 80 one ton aerial bombs in the same space or eight universal Carriers. One cup of tea a day. Multiply it by 365 days! Not bad? No, it's not bad but it's only a frac- tion of the cargo space that can be saved if we all of us cut our tea consumption in half! 'Of course it isn't spectacular, this voluntary contribution that works no hardship' on us, but it is another way in which the Indi- vidual Citizen's Army can make it possible for our sons and broth - ere and sweethearts and husbands to do the spectacular war work because we are willing to stand behind them even in the little things. Interne Japs Who Refused To Work Japanese workers at Geikie and Decoigne, two road camps near Japer, AIta., have refused to work, e spokesman of the British Col- umbia Security Commission said recently, and 13 of the ringleaders have been arrested and are en route to internment at the Cana- dian immigration detention sheds in Vancouver under guard. The arrests bring to 20 the num- ber of Japanese now being held. Sixteen others were interned at Vancouver atter what appeared to be organized outbreaks at other catnaps. The work etu'ikes are in protest against the separation of Japan- ese men Bram their families and dslaye in receiving pay cheques. "The commission is handicapped in a'emoval of Japanese from the Btritish Columbia defence area," aid Major Mellor, spokesman for the commission, owing to the re- luotanee of oitizene in proposed settlement areas to accept the evacuees. "Many people are blind to the fact that security of the Pacific coast le a national, not a local problem." An extensive building program to accommodate evacuated famil- ies is contemplated in British Columbia and the prairie prov- inces before the winter, ' but the size of these operations cannot be determined until Ontario farmers decide how many workers they require on sugarbeet farms. Approximately 7,500 Japanese remain in Vancouver awaiting re- moval. Old ��'vv Navy Signal y- "Greek"To Yanks The old and always welcome signal "Splice the main brace" came imom King George's ship after he reviewed British and Un- ited States naval forces recently. American ships all obediently hoisted the saute signal but no one knew why. Then it was explained it meant every British sailor got adouble issue of rule to drink the King's health. It was suggested that may- be the crews of the liquorless United States warships got double ice cream sodas. THE WAR w WEEK --• Commentary on Current Events Black Sea,Repair Base Lost When Sevastopol Fell The fall of Sevastopol, accord- ing to the Christian Science Monitor, may have left the Rus- sian Black Sea Fleet without a base where repairs can be under- taken. All during the months when en- couraging news came from Russia concerning the successful stand the Soviets were making against the Nazi advance, naval observ- ers viewed with apprehension the failure to dislodge the Germans from their hold on the Crimean Peninsula, and the attendant threat to Sevastopol, the only ade- quate base left the Russian Navy in the Black Sea. This fleet has made no impor- tant contribution to the Russian war effort other than presenting a serious obstacle to German do- mination of the Black Sea. It is composed of a heterogeneous col- lection of ships, which at the out- break of hostilities with Germany, consisted of one old 23,000 -ton bat- tle cruiser armed with 12 -inch guns, five small modern cruisers, three old cruisers, and some old destroyers and submarines. At various times during the past year the Germans have claimed the destruction of several units of the fleet by airplane bombs, none of which have been confirmed by the Russians. Con- sequently, no one knows the pre- sent strength of the Soviet Black Sea force. However, it is safe to asaume that it still has a strength far superior to any other force in that area. Italian Naval Ruse At one time there was a rumor- ed attempt to coerce Turkey into permitting certain units of the Italian Navy to pass through the Dardanelles under the guise of having been transferred to the Rumanian flag, but if this effort actually was made, nothing came of it, and the Ruseian •Fleet con- tinued to control the Black Sea. There is no question but that Nazi strategy includes a drive on the oil .producing regions in the Near Past, and it may have even the more ambitious design of striking across southern Asia. Should Japan be successful in its effort to dispose of serious Chinese resistance, it in turn will then be free to begin a push west- ward, which if successful, would permit these bizarre allies to loin hands. Each will then have access to badly needed raw materials which the other possesses in consider- able quantity, and the prestige attendant upon the control of an area extending half way around the world will undoubtedly have a far-reaching effect on their rela- tions with the few nations which have managed to remain unin- volved in the gargantuan conflict that has spread all over the globe. Despite the former pessimistic opinions of experts, Germany seems to have all the oil and its derivatives that it requires for the stupendous military efforts it exerts at several widely separated war fronts. "Scorched Earth" Effective In view of the very effective "scorched earth" policy heretofore carried out by Russia, the Nazis can have no hope of obtaining oil for a long time to come from the Caspian area should it pass into their control. It would seem a simple proce- dure to carry oil across the Black B'ea from Batum to Galatz and thence up the Danube by oil barge. However, the oil comes from the shores of the Caspian Sea, and Batum on the Black Sea is mere- ly the terminus of a 400 -mile pipe line, none of which would be in existence by the time the Germane laid hands on it. In addition, the wells themselves and their facil- ities would have been thoroughly wrecked. It appears more probable that Germany's immediate objective in the Black Sea thrust is to deprive Russia of oil ,rather than an at- tempt to bolster its own supply. It might also be part of a plan to isolate Russia from United Nations help by disrupting all lines of communication with the outside world. Rostov, which is almost within Nazi grasp, is located on an oil pipe line whence oil is distribut- ed throughout Russia by rail. WELL, WHY Matt' YOU TAKE FOE TO THE MOVIE'S, TOO ? i CAN PUT MY CLOTHES ON IN A JIFFY,/ With Rostov • and. Beam iu Nazi possession, Bessie, would appar- ently have no source of oil. ,j>caeft from the field at the north. enol of the Caspian, ^ryiihougli it is quite possible ethee unann uncH1 oil developments exast in the in- terior of Russiaa, oh in Siberia. Nazi's Long Lines If Germany fieri' u'sly &)» leni. plates a push eeetward front whichever springboa.'d it W741111445, be it Egypt or the e'astere nittire of the Black Sea, teemend.anu dif- ficulties in the way of extended lines of communieo-tion will be involved. Unfortumcely the Miele seem to be able to I:haintain H'a u- ingly impossible Knee of supply and have thrown p7'eviouely ac- cepted military doctrine concern- ing them into the wo.elepaper bas- ket along with r..;hz3r;'obi other military tenets. Nevertheless, warns• trap: porta- tion remains the e'fas est v'a.y to carry troops and ,eupplie,i, control of the Black Sea will per- mit the quick and uninterrupted transfer orNa.zi hordes to Batman and other eastern Black Sea parts, To obtain this advantage thct. ieus- sian Black Sea Fleet must be im- mobilized, and one way to obtain this result is to depa..fve it of lames. Few Natural Harbor; Unquestionably Nazi bombers have made a shambles of i.he ax- tensive naval base facil:ties at Sevastopol, but in the pant the Russians have, proved ver;' adept in moving manufacturing Z -i ilitiee to safe locations when it became evident that they were tliereaten- ed by the forward surge et Ger- man armies Consequently, •it is quite possible that repair Meanies and even one of the sizable Zoat- ing dry docks at Sevastepo) had been moved to sone other Black Sea port before Ge='man bombs could reach them. The Black Sea has ve,'c' few natural harbors of any size, Se- vastopol being the only ene of consequence. Practically every other harbor in the entire 14 sheltered by breakwaters u'1 ».one are large. Northern Route letenaced The situation in the Blaik Sea has now become critical, In view of recent British and Busmen re- verses, Turkey, whatever may ba its inclinations, will. riot open the Dardeneiles to the B,.'itisl. Jt'k ct. In fact, were this favoritism ,shown, British ships would probe:ay be unable to run the gamut .>t Nazi planes in negotiating the Aegean and the Dardanelles. The railroad from iiurnienslt le already menaced by :he Germans. Should their push frexa Fini,aald be • successful, railroad Bonnregions with Archangel will be the next objective, and should the Nazis break into the Caspian, Ramie will be in danger of lasing all )Hues of communication over which sup- plies flow from its enies.- Turns Out Ship Every Three Day' Canada is now tehiing out .a new merchant ship every three days, and during tie month of June ten will have aeen launched as compared with five in )\fay, Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister. of Munitions and Supp y, revealed recently. In the program, Cariada it ;ap- posed to provide 1,000.000 toes of merchant shipping this year, mainly of 10,000 -ton deadweight vessels, with some 4,700 -toe ones. Up to the present in merchant ship -building, the Iamninion has 20 of her 10,000 -to» targe ves- sels in actual service. She has 17 more -launched and in the water, and being fitted. There are 33 more building, toete.ther with seven of the 4,00 -tor. type. When the program got under way there were only eight 'aertha capable of holding the 10,000 -ton ships in building. New there are • ,.way, with eleven snore for the 4,700 -ton vessels; stated Howe, Of the merchant ships being turned out, 95 percent of the laoor and materiele. Menlo emit steel, : is Canadian. One of the 10,0U0 -ton vessels ma be launch- ed in eighty days, one rade ready for actual seafarinbt in attotlhe4 thirty-five days. motramiossomateleiallea DON'T BE SILLY/ PAPA AND Y ARE GOING OUT ALONE AND IF YOU'RE A V Nall 400D Bay VIE MIGHT BRING YO0 BACK S0MET1-IINa NICE,/ By GENE. BYRNES ME UP WHEN YOU /CBE SURE OME BACK CAUSE L NEVER CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU AN' POP et0 OUT,! 4 J: 41.1.0.E r.t, Oi ' 44a1 ,i61t. touer4A ', ,