Zurich Herald, 1941-10-09, Page 2ROAD TO LENINGRAD NOT FIT FOR MAN OR BEAST
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one of many difficulties encountered by invaders in epic -battle for
Usually free -wheeling Germans find this road toward Leningrad from the northeast a muddy one.
Official German photo portrays
heroically defended second city of Russia..
VOICE
OF THE
PRESS
GERMANY ABOLISHES THE
BIBLE
The Ottawa Bible Society reveals
that sales of Bibles in Germany
dropped from 250,000 in 1939 to
68,000 in 1940. Berlin and Vienna
are the only cities where the dis-
tribution of Bibles is now per-
mitted.
This is hardly surprising. How
could the Germans display any in-
consistency in their policies of
:pillage and rapine; in their god-
less acts of murder and destruc-
tion. The only surprising thing
about it is that Bibles still can
be distributed in Berlin and Vi-
enna, although no doubt P� haps
is in
diminishing numbers.
those who receive the Bibles are
at once placed under suspicion.
In the Bible there always is to
he found something to solace the
WI at heart to give strength to
the worried and weary;
ogivh e the
eeel meanjuf t) life on
he
Razis Would not Want
coo�ma n
Germany tilblgs is .
might lead to great confusion in
the minds of Germans who are still
dart convinced that the Nazi creed
ie the only one.
The Germans, in their devilish
drive for world domination, offer
in their subjects no room no hope,
for solace, for charity;
for persons of good will; for those
whose minds do not run to
the
Nazi pattern. So Germany
annot
allow tree circulation of the l3ible.
People might read there that the
way of the unjust, of the trans-
gressor,
r ngressor, of the cruel They ppres-
s-
sive, is a hard way.
might
become doubtful. It would be too
bad for Hitler if a great many
in Germany became doubtful.
—Ottawa Evening Journal.
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THE WAR u WEEK — Commentary on Current Events
Two InvaSIlO
Invasion of E. rope and England
Riddles Considered:
There is very great danger that
the Nazis may force their way
into the Caucasus, thus jeopardiz-
ing the Allied position in the Mid-
dle East and the whole Mediter-
ranean iei-
ranean zone. The gravity o
situation calls for a lnajor -
traction to relieve the pressure
on the Red armies. Would a
general invasion of Western Eur-
ope be the answer? Mr. H. G.
Wells, the .British writer says:
"Today, we have command of
the sea, we have the submarine
problem well in hand, and we have
mastery of the air. That means
a more or less complete blockade
is possible. But
fectve than it some-
thing
thing
that. It means immense and de-
cisive striking power. The Ger-
man conqueror today most precisely parallel is el
r position to
ed him of lying,• and 'eft the house
sti i ruming. Reports say- he went
for a walk. When he returned to
the House he apologized to the
speaker and the the House and
asked for complete withdrawal of
his remarks about the Prime Min-
ister.
The point in this repeated story
is that Mr. Gallacher went for a
walk.
There's nothing like going for
a walk when a man loses his tem-
per and makes a fool of himself.
The walk clears his head and
brings him back to rationality,
--.St. Thomas Times -Journal.
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FARM EFFICIENCY
Pigg is pigs' is not a good The artime motto for farmers,
pres-
ent emergency creates an extra.
ordinary demand for fodstuffs
which rules out any blind depen-
dence on what Providence may
choose to produce from the fields.
It requires a stepping up in pro-
duction both in quantity and qual-
ity, and this fact is recognized by
action taken by governments botn
here and in the United States,
The .Dominion Department of
Agriculture is engaged on a cam-
paign to improve the quality of
Canadian eggs. The American De-
partment sets out on a house-to-
house canvass of the farms, to put
over a campaign having as its
object the fitting of 1942 crops to
wartime needs,
To the layman, and perhaps to
many farmers, an egg is an egg.
But, as the Dominion authorities
point out, there are graduations of
quality in such products, just as
there are fruits and vegetables and
grains. With Britain appealing for
more and more eggs, the govern-
ment does well to issue practical
instructions whereby, through pro-
per rearing, housing and feeding,
hens can be made to produce a
higher quality,
There must be more specific
planning of farm production. ' ne
time has, temporarily at least, gone
by for farmers to gear their out•
put to the exigencies of local or
district markets which they can
determine by personal uoservation.
They must prepare to serve distant
consumers, and they must turn .r
advice and guidance to the authori-
ties who are acquainted, through
study and negotiation, with the
needs of 'Britain.—Windsor Daily
Star.
HE WENT FOR A WALK
William 'Gallacher lone Commu-
nist member, lost his temper in
the British House of Commons the
other day, called Prime Minister
Churchill a blackguard and accus-
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EDUCATION KEPT UP IN
BRITAIN
When the heavy German bomb-
ings of Great Britain destroyed
schools among other buildings, edu-
cation was disrupted for the time
being. However, by this time 96
per cent of the children taking
elementary classes are rceeiving
full-time instruction,
And, satisfactory progress has
been made in restoring upper edu-
cational facilities.
It is good that the schools are
being continued. The children of
' today will be the men and women
of tomorrow and it is highly im-
portant that their education be
not neglected.
VISITING CHICKENS
Why does a chicken cross the
road? Usually to get in the neigh-
bor's garden. A Kansas City wo-
man was sick of having' visiting
chickens in her garden. She pushed
them into a taxi and drove off to
police headquarters. Police held
the chickens until their owner
showed up and promised to keep
them on the right side of the road.
—Sault Daily Star.
IT WILL NOT
Victory will not be won by driv-
ing a car 60 or 70 mile an hour
with the letter V stuck on the rear
window—Petrolia Advertiser -Topic.
for the Germans to import 70,000
men to garrison that region.
Invasion of Finland
Russo Finnish peace feelers
might indicate that the Allies
were laying a groundwork of a
fifth ,colurnn in Finland to tie in
with a possible landing in North-
ern Norway. With the possession
of Northern Norway and Petsamo
in Northern Finland the way
would be cleared for a supply
route to Russia around the North
Cape, the White Sea ports of Mur-
mansk and Archangel. Pettisamo
is a strategical point for another
reason. Near the city is one of
the few significant nickel de-
posits outside of International
Nickel's Sudbury mines which
produce 85 per cent. of the
world's output of melee.
Invasion of France
Heavy raids on the French
coast could be made without
great risks. It might be possible
to establish beachheads in suf-
ficient strength to permit of ex-
tensive operations. The Germans
would then probably be compel-
led to divert troops, tanks and
war planes from the Eastern
front to prevent the raids from
developing into major operations.
Invasion of England
The other invasion question,
the invasion of Britain by the
Axis powers, might be answered
by the fact that Germany has
been forced to remove many
troops from France and the oc-
cupied countries to the Russian
front. There only remain about
twenty-five divisions in all the
occupied countries and these are
made up mostly of raw recruits
and older mien. It would seem
impossible for Germany to re-
organize her military machine in
time to attempt an invasion of
England before the bitter gales
of whiter have gripped the English
Channel and the North Sea.
London The Citadel
But it should be remembered
that the threat of invasion is al-
ways present. Britain simply can-
not afford to weaken herself too
much. She is the final citadel
in this fight for freedom. Lord
Beaverbrook said: "I am confi-
dent, no matter what happens in
' Russia — and the Russians are
giving a superb account of them-
selves — that Hitler will strike
at us. I believe this because he
cannot get peace anywhere ex-
cept in London. There is no use
his trying to get it elsewhere,
sid there can be no peace for
Hitler as long as London stands.”
Napoleon at his culmination,-- He
has spread himself out on an ian-
mense frontage exposed to our at-
tack and he cannot tell from hour
to hour where he maynot be at-
tacked.
Germany now enters upon. a
new phase in her final war. She
will, I guess, try to dig in on the
Russian front. Will the Russians -
let her? She may make a -last hy-
sterical rush at England, •but the
pincers are closing in on her.
Manifestly we ought to have
everything planned and prepared,
including a local revolt at every
point from the White .Sea down
and into the Baltic and round. the
French and Spanish coast—where
Franco may at any time get o:d on
the German side of the fence—
and down to Dakar. We ou.git to
have three or four expeditionary.
forces hovering ready for separ-
ate or collective action, embark-
ed, ready fora descent acs; any
one of the thirty or forty possil.le
weak points.
If this hovering counter-attack
is ready for the enemy, what will
he be obliged to do in reply? Ile 1
must detach how many men;, ,how
much material, to ` be ready to
meet the corning blow? Far more'
than we shall need, We can
select our point of attack calmly,
easily, and we can strike, .:land
and establish ourselves --,-at One
place or at several places. .Jerry
must scurry from one point to
another along his immense front
to meet these enquiring thrusts.
He must do it in great force. He
must maintain forces on his Wes-
tern Front as large or larger
than those he has entangled,i}7 the
bear's grip to the east.
I do not think that the much
talked of invasion of Britain can
happen now. There may be a
raid but I doubt if it will be much
of a raid. On the other"''s''.
cannot believe that all til xe 'zI!
vasion manoeuvres which t „a..i'o-
ing on over here da not Allude
an invasion of the Continent,. 1
am convinced that presently, and
the sooner the better, one of
these sham -fight manoeuvres will
just turn round and strike at the
neck of Denmark, or Brest, or
Bordeaux, or Trondhjeln, or Mur-
mansk or Morocco, or, after the
Iran fashion, to safeguard us'
against further fen ce-sitting, in
Spain." '
Invasion of Norway
Both the location and the peo-
ple of Norway favour a British
invasion; Raids have already
been successful there because the
Norwegian Fifth Column is the
most daring and best organized
in all Nazi held territory. In the
north the Norwegians were never
beaten by the Germans, neither
were they discouraged. Their re-
sistance to the invaders has been
so active that it was necessary
Save Ontario's
ResQ {: rces
No. 58
Migratory Routes
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Starch labels for each Ptc-
ture desired—or
1•Rive Syrup label, one lice
ct from
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"To sing Torpedo"—"SkyRRocket"—"Lightning"— ,
"De£iant"--„Spitfire —
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"Hurricane” or "Catalina"
the list of 20 other pic-
tures will be sent with your
first request. Specify your
name, address, picture or
pictures requested --enclose
necessary labels and mail to
the Si. Lawrence Star hOnt
Limited, 420
by two routes reaches the Atlan-
tic coast in the vicinity of South
Carolina. The Mississippi and Cen-
tral flyways start in the Macken-
zie Delta and follow clown the
Great Plains to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Pacific Flyway starts in Al-
aska and the Mackenzie Delta and
follows the Pacific Coast to Mex-
ico. Except along the coasts, the
boundaries of these flyways can-
not always be sharply defined, par-
ticularly in the northern part of
the interior, for the reason that—
broadly speaking—all the country
from Nebraska north to the Ar -
tic coast is one great breeding
ground that is used by many spec-
ies of migratory waterfowl. From
about latitude 45' southward to
the Gulf coast, however, these fly-
ways are fairly well narked, and
it is within this region that most
of the sport shooting takes place.
The status of the ducks and geese
in the different flyways, tierefore,
is of great interest not only to
naturalists but also to sportsmen.
Last week 1 told my readers
something of banding and this
week I wish to continue. When a
bird is banded it is liberated with
an aluminum band on its foot, on
which is stamped a serial number
and a return address. If the bird is
shot or otherwise killed the shoot-
er returns the hand to Ottawa or
Washington. This is known as a
recovery. On a large map the point
of banding and the point of re-
covery are marked and a line
drawn between the two points,
This line is the approximate mi-
gration route of the bird, partic-
ularly important when the recov-
ery occurs the same season as
banding. Eventually a great num-
ber of recoveries are recorded and
the migration route of the species
is worked out.
With the waterfowl it has been
discovered that these migratory
routes fall into four main areas
across the country and these have
been designated as flyways. Thus
migration routes are individual
lanes of bird travel from breeding
grounds to winter home, and tilt-
ways
iyways are those, broader areas into
which many migration routes blend
or come together in a definite re-
gion.
The Atlantic flytvaY starts in the
north and follows the coast south
to Florida. Another migratory
route of this flyway starts at
• James Bay, crosses Ontario to
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and
REG'LAR FELLERS—Figures Don't Lie
I GOT TO coaDOWN TO THE
el!".
CORNER TO SEE HOW MUCH
I WEIGH! MOM WANTS ME TO
CHET THIN, SO 1 WENT ON A DIET!
REIN' ON A DIET IS SUidtPTHIN'
FIERCE! 1 ONLY HAD FOUR ICE
CREAM CONES THIS AFTERNOON
INSTEAD OF FIVE ! ,--- — "
THE STORY OF BABAR
THE TRAVELS OF BABAR
BABAR THE KING
By Jean de Brunoff
Not many books, written for
children, give real enjoyment to
the older person who, perforce,
reads aloud to the rising genera-
tion; but the grown-up, with
"the heart of a child," will get
as much pleasure out of these
three stories as will the children
for whom they were written.
They are the continued story of
the elephants Babar and Celeste,
all their elephant friends and a
dear little old lady who loves
elephants.
The illustrations, full of homey
touches and subtle humour, will
gladden the eyes of the grown-
ups as well as of the youngsters.
The skilful use of clear, flat col-
our and strong line drawing,
achieves an amazingly graphic
effect, free from confusing de-
tail. Such illustrations cannot
fail to have a favourable influ-
ence on the child's art
education.
The Story of Behar; The
Trays
of Babar; Babar the King . . o
by Jean de Brunoff ... The Price
millan Co, of Canada . .
each . . $1.50.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
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Boy Scouts continue to take an
important part in the various
drives of the National Salvage
Campaign throughout the Dom-
inion. On one Saturday some
3,000 Scouts of Montreal and en-
virons collected 250 tons, with
the proceeds of which was pur-
chased a mobile tea canteen for
the Salvation Army. The can-
teen is now serving military un-
its of the district on route march-
es, or during field days.
Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts of
Nakina, Ont., gathered a full
railroad car load of scrap metal,
From the returns they sent $70
to the Toronto Telegram's Fund
for British War Sufferers,
A two days' and a night's fight
with a forest fire that threatened
the settlement .of Five Rivers,
N.S., won high commendation for
Boy Scouts of the 1st Milton,
N.S. Troop. According to the
Liverpool Advance, only those on
the fire fighting line realized how
critical the situation was, but the
Scouts carried on throughout the
night, and "took it like men."
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A $2,000 ambulance was pur-
chased by the subscriptions of the
Boy Scouts of Scotland and pre-
sented to St. Andrew's Ambu-
lance Association.
Like the Boy Scout organiza-
tions of other countries overrun
by the Nazis, the Germans
hav
now banned the Boy Scouts
Norway.
Abyssinia's rulers claim to trace
their descent back to Ring Solo-
mon.
BUB�UUBBBLES. i/
By Fred Neher
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"Pve been invited out for dinner tonight!"
MISTER }-10 SAN, WILL
YOU PLEASE HOLD ME
UP SO 1 CAN SEE
HOW MUCH I LOST '°
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By GENE BYRNES
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SW:T'Y-FOUR PoUN'':
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