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Zurich Herald, 1942-07-23, Page 6IRON HORSES BOLSTER INDIA'S DEFENSES eshsaleeeee Natives of menaced India, curiosity overcoming their caution, clamber over tanks newly arrived in "greatest convoy ever to leave Britain for Far East." lama VOICE O F T H E PRESS WHAT'S WRONG? We quite often hear the ques- tion asked: What is wrong with eiinr educational system? One answer was supplied to us re- cently by a radio broadcaster and is not so far wrong at that. ' 4a trouble with education, he *Sated, is that the teachers are celzaid of the principal, the princ- al i,s afraid of the inspector and a school board, the school board ilt afraid of the parents, the par - ,ants are afraid of the children and the children are not afraid of anyone.—Carleton Place Canad- ian., iaseeies HELPS THE FARMERS The editor and staff of the 4iowmanville Statesman have worked overtime to get their Wiper "to bed" so that they mac- be free to go out and help at Jam work. Not only this, but the paper's farm editor has for Shwa seasons taken a whirl at hay- ing, harvesting and threshing. Well, we'll wager there'll be wigs qn the green now, up in Durham eounty. Congratulations, fellow editors. This is one time when bray forks and rakes and culti- vators will be mightier than the pon!—Kingston Whig -Standard. WORRIES EFFICIENTLY Prime Minister Churchill tole' kis friends in Washington that he bad so many worries that he had t set up a personal priority sys- $aaar for them. To a colleague who was complaining about his seinor troubles, Mr. Churchill ex- plained that he had had so many worries for so long now that they bad to have a top priority to claim hie interest. One day, he ex- plained, Kharkov has A -1A prior- ity; the next day Egypt. In that gray he explained jokingly, he **slid "worry efficiently" WARTIME SLOGANS By their slogans ye shall know f}Ittem! United Nations—"Keep '"cam Flying"; Germany—"Keep 'cma Dying"; Italy—"Keep 'em ylug" Japae—"Keep 'ens Flee. *gr'; 'Vichy France—"Keep 'em keying"; and Hon. J. L. Ilsley— "Keep 'em Buying".—Hamilton lipectator. EVENING THINGS UP There are always compensations. 3.,irttle Willie has been bewailing Eine lean on the manufacture of kids' bicycles, but he gets a lift out of the similar action that bas now been taken with respect We lawn mowers.—Windsor Star. ONLY REALIZATION The only times some people realize there is a war in progress ie when a budget speech increases their taxationor the Oil Con- troller reduces their gasoline re.- tions.—Brockville Recorder and Times. GOOD IDEA A contemporary says it would be a good idea to take autos away ilxom all careless drivers, where- upon the streets would become We, quiet ---and almost deserted. ---Brantford Expositor. ORIGIN OF ANTS Scientists find ants existed 60 million years ago—probably they ,started with the first pieniC.–• - Hitch ener 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 be 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 previous struggles there have been deadlocks, one being decided by a thirty-six hole playoff and the other by one that went twenty-seven holes. In the fouth round in 1931 Walter Hagen had 282, aftea slipping to a bad 74 in the final round. In the play - ort the Haig scored his only vic- 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's and after a consultation with the R. C. G. A. officials It was decided to play rare additional holes. On these final holes Cooper slipped badly turning in a 39, while Snead who was really hot from tee to cup, mime in with a 84. lfizeu'S. UR°CE mit. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army Hitler must hang! And that forthright 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 domande 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 on were the apostles of disaemanient, 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 comes into this. Don't worry, it comes in all right! The Individual Citizen's Army — 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 yes. By the time the "Great War" was as old as 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 sante 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 "He thinks it's only fair to give the animals a ,sporting chance." 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 war. 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 Weelc" 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 carrion bait—in every hamlet, every village, every town, every eity 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 erutches or following "Seeing - Eye" dogs or as we place flowers tinder 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 leas 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 looms closer, if the ceilings are maintained postwar inflation will be averted and we'll have time to see 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," e departmental spokesman said. REG'LAR FELLERS—Dangerous Practice SW./ WAKE UP/ WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU ? DO YOU 1HINK ¥OO'RE HOME IN BED? WAV MOIR IN; lipp r J OH, BUT I'M TIRED / I WAS UP, TILL TEN AFTER BOO LAS' NOT THE WAR • WEEK Commentary on Current Events German And Japanese Thrusts Menace Russia's Supply Lines The story of Russia's military strength is the story of space, 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- tria; there is always room in itus- ela for another battle. Adolf Hit- ler learned last year that each mile forward in Russia, each great in- dustrial town destroyed, only ?L means another mile to go, another town to destroy. Last week, in battles spaced hundreds of miles apart, Hitler's armed might tried to solve the problem of apace, 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- floult. 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 of the Soviet aupply; 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 German fleet, con- sisting, according to reports from Moscow, of the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket -battleships Scheer and Luetzow, 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. From 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 epoke also of heavy bomb- ing raids on Nazi airfields in Northern Norway and Finland, the bases for 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 been long ex- pected; predicted for early Spring, then late Spring. Both on land and at sea it constituted Hitler's attempt to solve 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- tation system a threat as great as were last year's battles. if it were not checked, and if it turned southward, toward the Caucasus, it could be the gravest mena.: s yet in the Wehrmacht's drive toward the Middle East, Others pointed out that space was still ott the side of Russia. East of the Don, they pointed out, ]lee the yoiga and east of the Volga the TJrals and beyond that, the wide expanse of Siberia. Battle of Aleutians In the mist and rain that .shroud America's Aleutian islands on 280 days of the year's 365, a battle relatively small in scale bur, Wise, nificant in strategy is being fought by Japan and the United States, The action begau when the Mikk ado's forces raided Dutch Harbor on June 3 and shortly thereafter put troops ashore at the tip oil tb.e archipelago that thrusts :1,604 miles from Alaska across th* North Pacific. The United S'tatee hit back at the invader with at- trition tactics, seeking to deet of landing groups and the ships eines plying them. A report on the pro- gress of the battle was issued not long ago by Washington. Submarines In Action American submarines, it we disclosed, had penetrated the waters around the three Western. most islands seized by the Jesym• ese--Attu, Agattu and Kiska, The fogs that have hampered iong- range air bombers helped s ween the undersea raiders' movements. Two weeks ago their torpedoes sank four enemy destroyers; left a fifth in flames. The toll brought Japanese naval losses—mostly in- flicted by Army planes—in .1J.eu- tian encounters to fifteen vessels sent to the bottom or damaged. United States losses have not been disclosed, save for tuispoeie Pied damage at Dutch Harbor, but it was evident that the Japanese were extending their grip be the Aleutians. Their eastward advance from Attu. to Kiska spanned 230 miles. They were surely cresting air and naval stations that could play an important role in the North Pacific theatre. Japanese Menace Grave From Kiska it is 615 miles tie Dutch Harbor. From Attu tt isi 695 miles to Russia's Kamchatka defenses and 765 miles to a ara- mushir, Japan's northernmost have al base. Thus, the Nipponese are in a central position (1) to drive toward • the North American con- tinent, (2) to intercept an Allied move across the North P3.eifio against Japan, (3) to strike the U.S.S.R. from a new flank, (s) to cut a possible line of supply from Alaska to Siberia.. Despite the gravity of the Japanese menace, it was believed, the' Allies child not yet spare forces from the many other global theatres for a campaign to regain the tar - leu; tans. Gneisenau May Be Out For Duration The 26,000 -ton German ba.tle- ship Gneisenau, which slipped through the English Channel from Brest February 13 despite a heavy British aerial attack, id anchored in the former Polish port of Gdy- nia with her three 11 -inch gun turrets dismantled, British asrtal photographs showed recently. About 30 feet of the ship's fore- castle deck also has been removed and the British expressed the be- lief she had suffered such serious damage that she "may be ou` for the duration." The Air Ministry said it would be impossible to make the necessary large-scale re- pairs on the vessel at Gdynia The Gneisenau was bombed re- peatedly, while she was tied up at Brest from March, 1941, until the clay she slipped out of the FrenONt port with other unite 01 t.be tier•• nran fleet and successfal.ly elrrlod. the British. The Air Ministry said the ship suffered further elarrAge on the flight from Brest., The ministry statement added that the Gneisenau, firet taker to Biel, probably was hit ;again dur•• ing a British raid on Kiel Fel;ru- ary 25. The .peetographs, made in tlay- light some time alter that raid,, also showed the German depot ship Monte Olivia or a liner of t'hs same class burned out anti :nano. near the battleship. WHERE ARE `OUR MANNERS ? DON'T YOU <1 ow TWAT 'NEN You YAWN You'ae SUPPOSED TO HOLD YOUR HAND OVER `�--STOUR MOUTH? By GENE BYRNES L DID THAT ONCE AN' E GOT &$"f Aissugusai maasurwiii //b talefhteotzta gac�at6R ?a;P 1 a Minna nrif a9ix Y;Si-