Zurich Herald, 1943-02-18, Page 3"AN HISTORIC 1VIOMEN'r
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This handshake between General Henri Giraud (left), High '
Commissioner for French North Africa, and General Charles De
Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, symbolized a closer under-
standing and a promise of eo-operation between the two French
factions. They are pictured in the garden of a villa in Casablanca,
• • French Morocco. Seated between •them, his face obscured by their
gesture of friendship, is President Roosevelt, who commented:."This
is an historic moment." •
Ways Of Saving
Men Of The Sea
•
Experiences'., of scores of men
who reached safety after their
merchant vessels were torpedoed
will aid other merchant seamen in,
savnlg tiheir own lives.
• Studies by. the United States
Coast Guard, experiences and em-
ergency nmeasures taken by men
driating in lifeboats have been pub-
lished. in a life-saving primer "de-
signed to; help 'save seamen's lives
it their ships• are sunk.". •
"Simple. .things ,that the land-
lubber disco%saes us trifles not
Worth :tccitlhering ' about," the coast
guard :eaye, "can mean the differ-
ence "between life and death to
men in. a lifeboat",:': •
A bit ed.. metal—past of a tin
can.—fastened to the oar of one
]if@joat glittered brightly in the
.�$un and attracted attention of a
rescue vessel. Now, the 'coast
gbard says, every life boat will
have a metal mirror to reflect the
eon's rays.
There'll be plastic whistles in
every seaman's equipment, too.
Police whistles now are carried --
but they're metal, and in extreme
cold can't be used without tear-
ing the lips.
Ladders from engine rooms fix-
ed firmly in place,. rescued men
?lave reported, frequently snap-
ped or were torn loose by the con-
cussion when torpedoes struck a
ship. The result — ships will have
supplementary chain or wide lad-
ders hanging loosely.
The food problems im.,life boats
also have been studied. To sup-
plement dry 'rations the ' coast
guard recommends canned fruit
juices be placed in all boats.. •
Illness caused' by •drinking'salt
water also.is outlined in the book.
It tells how to catch rain water •
in canvas spread in the life boat
--+but, here's the trick, the first
catch of water must be 'discarded,
for the canvas Anvariably is coat-
ed with salt spray which pollutes
the first: catch.
WCDICrIgiti'th Forty
Publisher Didn't
Know Everything
This is the •story of an Amer-
ican publisher who. discovered
when he flew back from England
that one of his co -passengers was
David Bowes -Lyon, brother of
Queen. Elizabeth, writes Leonard
Lyons in The New York. Post. The
publisher engaged him in con-
versation and began to criticize
VOICE
OF TIME
PRESS.
ABOUT HORSEMEAT
Although somehousewives are
hostile to the idea of• .cooking
horsemeat none of them have ac-
tually kicked over the traces yet.
On the whole we expect that plans
in that respect will go off without
a hitch. But look out for gallop-
ing indigestion!
—Peterborough Examiner
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PLAN A GARDEN
The Food Controller says there
will be rationing. of most foods in
Canada beforehehinkd aef futhis
is
year. Why not
now and prepare for a bang-up
backyard garden to produce fresh
greens for the table, real health
food for the Summer season?
—St. Catharines Standard
the British for their failure to
solve the India problem. The Brit-
isher reminded the publisher that
30,000,000 Indians were born
within the- last few years and
that the problem is a constantly
changing one, involving countless
difficulties. But the--publislier' -
continued to criticize the British
for failing a solution. Bowes -
Lyon listened and then inter-
rueted: "By the way; if I weren't
the Queen's brother, do you think
I should make a speech about
Negroes and America." The noted
publisher stared at him and ans-
wered: "Don't you dare."
Are. Best Workers
Britain's' huskiest women ..axe .
not all with the fighting iorees or'a-'
i Sri the, civil defence'set?vides. In..
one. comparatively., small Thames •
-
Nide area, which,.cannot bui'other-
wise identified,) 800 wolueneelralp'
• the crow—.work at one of. the 'big-
gest raliroad :freight• dei otsial
When women were Beate hired.
in March, 1911, it was estimated
that fire *men ,would du:;,t le y:
work of three inen. , After a few; .r
months the 'prrportione lyes re- '
duced to fear te'' i:'hi:ee,• ane! today
•-• It is about level. The. only job
they Catena dols locolnative drit.- •
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HE DISAGREED
In a letter before Pearl t Har-
bor a German citizen rep
to
his American cousin as follows:
"Dear Uncle Karl: We are all
fine. The war has harmed none
of us yet. Hitler says e isCogiv-
ing -
us a new prosperity.
Hendrick, who disagreed, was
buried yesterday." Financial Post
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WHERE ARE THEY?
Hitler is demanding 250,000
Hollanders to fight his battles for
him. What has become of the
"master •race," when it needs so
many foreigners to do its fight-
ing, if its defeat is to be staved.
off?
—The Argonaut
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THEY WILL REPAY
Remember, the birds you feed
now, while snow covers the
ground, will repay kindness -by
guarding gardens 'from insect
pests next summer.
-Christian Science Monitor
FRONT COMING TO HIM
They now say that Hitler is
afraid to return to the Russian
front. But why bother, if der
front is corning to der fuehrer?
—Winnipeg Tribune
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REVERSING CHARGE
"Butter shortage caused by
storm," .announces a Toronto
paper. Oh, no; "Storm Caused
by Butter Shortage."
—Ottawa Citizen
o Scout, Week
February 21 - 27
Open Scout Meetings To Be
Held During Week
T e Chief •Scout for Canada, His
Exellency the Governor-General,
has; ya•oclaimed the week of Febru-
ary 21-2? as annual Boy Scout
Week ten oug'houit Canada. During
tihie week Canada's Boy Scouts
and Wolf Cubs will be displaying
their movement to the public.
The week will be featured by
special national broadcasts, father
and son gatherings, open Scout
and Cub meetings, displays, sal
Bea and other gatherings designed
to give the public a picture of
what the world's largest boys'
movement seeks to do for the
bees of Canada.
Air -Sea Rescue
When United Nations planes,
_..raiding. from Britain, 'areeele :t sen..:
over continental Europe, the fly-
ers know that their chance of es-
cape is good if they can reach the
sea before bailing out or crash-
ing. In waters around England
the Air -Sea Rescue service, with
its speedy ambulance boats and
specially equipped planes, has
saved more than 1,300 air crews
since 1940.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
t•
•,
Eighty Or. cent of the women
are married • and a lar <,ge iproor, ,.
,;tion. have .childreal Thoye who do
'not have ''relatives 'at home :,put
,. the children in„ day nuraer'1T:s..
A recent relltitt o:f the British
Supply Council states -that 40 per
relit of Britain's production work -
era tee :women. Shipyards employ •
three times as many women te•ork-
ers as they did a year agog' alil.,,t
15 per cent, or 105,000 di tie'
railroad employees are women.
Women over forty make the best
workers and are "more• thorough
more reliable and more willing to
learn," the repoz't concluder,"
By Fred Neher
"What did
ithe Anzacs,,..., . . ;,t. rf I x s to
2tnC� Curley �? '
1 tell you about reading at
the breakfast tabled!"
His Excellency the Governor-
General, the Earl of Athlone, is
the Chief Scout for Canada, His
Excellency is peculiarly suited to
tie highest ,Scout office in the
Dominion. As a young lieuteuant
in South Africa at the turn of the
century his commanding officer
was the then Col. Robert Baden-
Powell, later founder of the Scout
movement. The Chief Scout tells
the story that Baden-Powell often
discussed with him his ideas about
Scouts, many years before the or-
ganization was launched. The
Governor-General was also Chief
Scout of South Africa when he
filled the vice -regal office in that
Dominion. Since coming to Can-
ada he has continued his keen
interest in Scouting, attending
meetings of the Dominion Execu-
tive • Committee, and frequently
appearing at Scout rallies. He is
• an enthusiast for the Scout uni-
form and has appealed to Boy
Snouts across Canada to wear the
full standard uniform on all suit-
able occasions, and to wear it
creditably.
THE WAR . WEEK - Commentary on Current ,Events
Threat To Australia Removed
New Disasters F acing Hitler
The long anal hard-fought battle been
a xaeeted d thatby n Tunisia would
s General
for the Island of Guadalcanal in e
c'the Soloruons apparently has end- Eisenhowersetisn and c proceeding
gtiaorwn
ers reports that its troops had h
ed, Ja�pauose Imperial Headquart• hi supply lines, although in so " .
been withdrawn atom the Island, doing he has risked reinforeement
The conquest of this island of Nazi forces in Tunisia.
w'hioh safeguards Australia and
Rommel probably got into Tun -
our lines of communication gives isia with about 50,000 men and
American forces undisputed pos.- found there 125,000 other ,li..xis
session of a base which becomes troops -115,000 in all, They are
awell-equipped and have suocess-
elLPataci?lc. It was an exclusively
the to Japans major bases In fully mounted them' .88 guns ou
t
Aties'iean show and the first land some tanks, thus out -ranging., for
victory to smash the Japanese the moment, certain American
myth of invincibility and demon- tanks. it -is unlikely that the Axis
strated that with proper training can supply larger forces than
the Aanerican soldier Is far super- these already in Tunisia; the Al-
ior to the Japanese. Moreover, by lies in time will outnumber and
being forced to admit "withdraw- outgun them. Wbile there is every
al" the Japanese military have confidence that the Axis will be
lost face before the emperor and driven out of Tunisia, the job is
the people of• Japan. a tough one and cannot be aecom-
Kursk Recapturedplished in a few weeks.
The fall of Kursk, according to Somehow or other the impres-
Sian has got around that Bizerte
The New York Times, is one of
the great Russan victories of the and Tunis and other important
war. Recapture of this key city towns along the coast of Tutaisia
opens a broad new corridor for the are just so many apples which
entire Russian offensive. It is the can be picket! whenever we can
first breach in the German Win-
tertall Wall that stretches from the job—and that it won't take a very
Baltic to the Black Sea and the • tall boy at that, writes W. H.
Stoneman, Chicago Daily News.
fall of the city necessarily imperils This just isn't true and people
the whole structure of German will avoid disappointment later on
Russia. in Scutal Russia. Beyond if they understand it.
Kursk the Ukrainian plain stretch -
The fact is that our line from
es to the Kursk
r' Cap Serrat on the northern coast
of
The loss of Kumay have con- right down to .Sheltie, northwest
sequences for the Germans as dis of Sfax, is fairly good from a de-
s as the annihilation of their Pensive viewpoint, but no more.
besieging army at Stalingrad. Both The Germans and Italians opposvte
cities were symbols—Stalingrad
us have even better defensive posi
of heroic Russian resistance and
tions all along the line, and our
Kursk of German power to strike.
Kursk was the bridgehead from efforts to kick them out have been
which the Summer offensive was costly and in the end poli! Be -
launched last year. Stalingrad was pone we sari go for Bizerte and
the tidal mark at which it r^iter- Tunis or even for Kairotzan in the
ed and failed, Within five months south, we have to puncture anum-
of Hitler's invasion the Nazis had ber of fine natural positions which.
seized Kursk and its network of are heavily fortified and strongly,
manned by excellent fightiug men.
strategic railways. For fifteen
That job or series of jobs will
months they have been fortifying have to be undertaken by good
the city, linking • it up with other infantry and the price will prob-
"hedgehog" centers, developing it ably be high.
as a base for attack and a fort -
The statement that our equip-
ress to resist any assault. Yet the ment is better than the enemy's
Russians swept over it in a single is subject to serious reservations
day. as
coParrned. as the Tunisian front is con -
This indicates one of two things,
perhaps both. Either the morale Our troops have fought wonder -
of the German Army, after four fully, even though we have not
months of defeat, has` deteriorated yet won a clean-cut battle against
seriously or the German High the Germans.
Command has decided that its im-
mediately available reserves • and
supply system aro unequal to ,the
task of holding the e941 Votary
line in the Ukraine. It may be
the Germaus werealready with-
drawing, 'from Kursk -When the
Russians struck, and Were neither
in strength nor mood to fight.
Now that the Winter Wall • has
finally cracked, Germany must
eouint heavily on the possibility of
Russian exhaustion and the likeli-
hood of a sea of Spring mud to
bog down the Soviet drive. But
that delve is still rolling ahead
with undiminished power, while
German efforts to "disengage"
their armies seem to weaken.
General Mud is still far from the
battle line. And in the north,
where fresh Russian armies are
gathering, his arrival will be de-
layed even .longer.
London experts predict that Hit-
ler, facing the dire necessity of
shortening his lines and concen-
trating his forces to avert a new
defeat, will use last year's Win-
ter line as a stopping point only,
and that he will retire, eventually,
to the Dnieper where he may be
able to bold while maneuvering
elsewhere. •-Bush a retreat under
constant pressure would add great-
ly to his enormous losses.' It is
considered doubtful that he can
stand up under great new deple-
tions of strength because Russia,
without counting Lease -Lend aid,
'already out -produces hint in many
categories, despite her own great
territorial:aand industrial losses.
Preparations in Tunisia
It is estimated that -the Amer-
icans are at least two months far-
ther advanced in North Africa
than they would have been if the.
Darien deal had not been • consu.m-
ated and the french had net capi-
• tulated. Yet, because 'of mud and
other factors, including the fact
that green United States troops
are introduced to combat by easy
.stages, their progress has been
Army Rejects Man
Waacs .Take Wife
Mrs. Frederic ,Ainour, twenty-
three years old, kissed her hus-
band good bye when he left to
take his Army examination.
"Be a good soldier, dear," she
said. "I'll carry on." She wept
a bit, then said to herself:
"I'm going to help him. The
sooner we all get into this, the
sooner it will be over and we
can be together again."
.An hour later, she enlisted in
the Women's Auxiliary Corps.
Then she returned home, expect-
ing an empty house, a solitary
dinner. Instead, there was Fred-
die wearing an apron, stirring an
omelet.
"Surprise, dear. I haven't been
accepted," he said.
"Surprise, dear," she replied,
"I have!"
Russian Tricks
Annoy Germans
The German press is attempting
to explain •defeats on the Sbviet
:front by declaring that the Rus;
sians tricked them, a Swedish cores
• respondent reported recently.
Russia's concealment of her
real military power and skill in
camouflage resulted in surprises
for the Germans even during the
second year of the campaign, the
press complained. .
•:' The Russians,,were said to have
changed the • names of • many
'places, built new towns whose
-existence was kept secret ' and
laid new raihvatys which were not
shown on any ;maps availableeto
the ,Germans,
slower then was antieipite!l. It had
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YEP 'KNEW
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Moslem Sagacity
The wise men of neutral Iraq,
When told that the Allies would
crag,
Reflected a while,
Then replied, with a smile,
"Kindly go sit on a tali!"
PHONE UNDER FIRE
F u_:hole ia the deem# ��iiUne
booth for these Brtisii signalmen,
on the job despite nearby shell
blast. They are sending me sages
through on the African front
where nearly all axis forces have
been cleared out.
By Gurney(An.slraYa)
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