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ee ------ oo 4 = -- Er ro? - NP oh Po Z nd NC a or Sha 7 - Fat ed NAT, Ottawa Carls Use of Rubber Drastic Regulation Necessl- tated by Spread of War to the Pacific bi, No crude rubber or latex may be started Into process between midnight Dec. 13th and Jan. 2, 1942, Alan H, Williamson, Con- troller of Supplies in the Depart- ment of Munitions and Supply, ordered, "This order, brought about by the spread of the war to the Pac- tic, followed on .the heels of the + order freezing supplies of new and unused pneumatic tires and tubes in Canada. The new ruling does not apply to war orders, Mr. Williamson said. The system of quotas now in effect may be discontinued and new regulations ordered before Jan. 2. Reason for the ban on the whole. pale or retail sale of any type of rubber automobile or truck tire in Canada may not be readily ap- parent, says the Ottawa Journal, Canada's action coincided with gimilar orders issued in tho United States and Britain and is a direct result of war in the Pacific; that and the fact that rubber is a vital defence material, its use becoming increasingly great as the manu. ture of lige tanks increases and the need for all types of army transport grows. Source of Raw Rubber The raw rubber supplies come almost exclusively from the South China Sea area, Malaya, the Bri tish Iast Indies and The Nother. lands East Indies. Until the Pacific sea-lanes are cleared of Japanese warcraft American motorists may take it for granted little of the available stores" will be released for civilian use. Stocks on hand are not large and will no more than meet military and vital war needs for" a matter of months, There {8 some synthetic production in the United States but at pre- sent rate of use a year's output of this typo of 'rubber would last only a few weeks, The experiment. al Ford plantation: in. South Am- rica is as yet, it is reported, pro- ducing little. So not a_ single new tire now may cross the counter of any retail outlet in either Canada or the Un- ited States or Britain unless op a new car. Motorists and truck own- ers will have to depend on their old rubber, or an having old tires rebuilt, Even the supply of rebuild- ing material is problematical, Coast Commander Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt com- mands all U. S. military forces in the far west and Alaska under new Pacific Coast defense setup, His headquarters are at San Francisco. Boy Scouts Pledge Aid To Roosevelt A telegram to President Roose- velt- pledging "full -and -whole- hearted co-operation" in the na- tion's war effort by 1,600,000 Boy Scouts, Cubs, and their adult lead- ers, was made public by Dr, James E. West, Chief Scout Exe- tutive. The Boy Scouts displayed in the last World War, Dr. West said, "that there are many projects Which can be appropriately and puccessfully undertaken," and he mentioned that the Scouts sold 2,360,977 Liberty Loan bond sub- "seriptions_and located 20,000,000 rd feet of much needed walnut, among other achievements, Dr. West announced that the Honolulu Council had reported _ Miere were no known Scout cas- _ balties in the Japanese attack on "Hawaii, and .that Scouts there were rendering first aid and giv- - Ing general assistance, Ancestors Notified A The Japanese (kad, lag, i sturesque ritual costunio, offici-. ted his ancestors that apan was at war with the United Btates, a Tokyo broadcast an- 'nounced, Gs VOICE OF THE PRESS SPIRIT OF CHINA --Chungking has a Rotary Club, the members of which are partly natives and partly British and Am- ericans, At the bottom of the usual weekly notice recently there ap- peared the following verse: "And when we meet again, let's epeak Of . anything you like--of pigs © that squeak,. Of our vacation--books or toys, Of our imagined troubles or real Joys, Or vice-versa--but--my friend, Don't ask me when the war will end, Don't whine about the price: increase, Don't tell me that your ser- vant's squeeze, Don't tell me of the housing dearth, Don't tell me there's no peace on earth, Don't say that transportation"s bad, ch Don't wall that coffee can't be had, Don't sing that old worn-out re- frain, . Please --don't--when "next we meet again!" = The spirit of Chungking is rep: resentative of the will of the Chi- nese people to break the spirit of Japan. ' --St Thomas Times-Journal, --y-- NICKEL IN THE WAR Some striking facts are present: ed in a statement made by the In- ternational Nickel Company of Canada, Limited. World nickel pro- duction and consumption this year have set all-time records, and more than 90 percent of it Is being used In war orders. The United States this year has used more than two- thirds" of the world's total nickel oulput--double the peacetime fig- ures. Prices were unchanged this year at figures which vailed for 16 years. And in an ef- fort to meet a constantly growing demand International Nickel is spending $35,000,000 to_ increase its production by 50,000,000" pounds annually, Canadian nickel is playing a vl tal role in the war,+and it is a source of satisfaction to all Can- adians that their base metals in. . dustry has seized so magnificently its chance for public service. --Ottawa Journal. Sh LO, A FREE COUNTRY? We read with vast surprise that guards have been placed inside the Japanese embassy at Wash: ington in order to prevent Mr. No- mura slitting his belly 'open in tho ceremonial Japanese style, Surely if Mr. Nomura wants to commit suicide he should be al- lowed to do so. What is happening to American liberty? --Winnipeg Kress Press. ey LIFE CHEAP TO JAPS Orienlal-life is about the cheap- est thing on the market, If 5,000 Japs are sunk it means nothing except that 5,000 Japs are remov- ed as a potential fighting force. Breaking down Jap morale cannot be an objectjve at all. That may seem calous! but it is the key to their philosophy. --St. Catharines Standard. oo GOOD OLD DAYS / The metals controller announces a ban on a whole lot of doo-dads and things, including brass cloth. es hooks; which brings us.back to the good old days when Wwe hung our coat and hat on a 3-inch- nall stuck in the wall, --Ottawa Citizen. ee ALIBI Goebbels must be hard put to it for a satisfactory story explaining the large-scale German retreat in Ruesia. Couldn't he just say the army 1s coming home for Christ. mas? or --Christian Science Monitor, --y-- A colled rattlesnake, we are told, is ablo to strike two-thirds of its length, Now let's see--how long i8 Japan, and how far away from our British Columbia coast? --Stratford Beacon-Herald, se PLACE FOR GOSSIPS Wonder where gossips would stand if there wasn't any mkldle of the sidewalk. , H --Kitchener Record. THE BOOK SHELF - BOTANY BAY" by. Charles - Nordhoff and Norman Hall A penal colony of Australla in the eighteenth century is the set- ting for, another thrilling tale of adventure by Nordhoff and Hall, authors of "The Bounty" and "The Hurricane," Hugh Tallant {s convicted In England of highway robbery and is sent aboard a convict ship to servo a life sentence. at Botany Bay. On the same boat is Nellie Qarth sentenced for protecting two highwaymen, 1 Talent, 'Nellie and a few fellow prisoners determine to escape from the pitiful, sordid life of the settle ment, After heart-breaking delays and fruitless attempts they set sall have pre- "decided to- put certain areas under si % SCORING FOUR-BAGGER FOR DEFENSE --_-- iyo th Soro m v . Babe Ruth, the veteran King of Swat, is doing all he can to help keep Uncle Sam right in there pitchin' against the country's enemies, The photo shows the Babe in New York looking over $100,000 worth of United States Defense Savings Bonds he has just purchased, in a small boat, are picked up by a freighter and eventually landed in England. ' A pardon for Hugh and the pros- pect of his life partnership with Nellie bring the story to a very happy ending. Botany Bdy ... by Charles Nor- hoff and Norman Hall . . . Mec- Clelland and Stewart . , . Price $3.00. « Saving Ontario's Natural Resources No. 70 Beaver occur all-over Ontario. They wero absent for many years from the southern portion of the Province. but have staged a mar- vellous comeback under the protec- tive laws and are now found in many places close to our farming communities. They should be wel- comed by the muskrat trappers for ~ they raise and hold the water lev- els on many small creeks and lakes that provide good habitat for the smaller fur bearer. In the North country the beav- er are becoming more important each year. For a long time the In- dians and the white trappers were encouraged to get all the fur they --could with' the result that they' periodically found themselves with- out any animals to catch. When this happened they starved or they had to be supported by the Gov- ernment, a rather costly procedure for the people. % A few years ago the government management in an effort to prove that the Indians could be made gelf-supporting. One such area was set aside around the Whale River on the east coast of James Bay. About 60 beaver were the total population of many thousands of square miles of the region. The Indians, who fyere very poor, wéve told that they could have complete rights to the region but they must leave the beaver until they in- creased and in the meantime the Government would "hire them as guardians. An educational cam- palgn was started among these forest people .with the result that they now know that the beaver is theirs by right but. that it faust be protected and fostered until the increase is large enough to yleld an annual take. : The last information I received -. showed that the beaver in the area had Increased to 50,000 pairs and that the Indlans were fully aware of thelr potentlal value. In a year or 80 they will start to catch part of the increase but you can be pure that it will only be part. They would not go back to the old ways -even if they could, ' SCOUTING . . . One of the current widespread war service activities of Scouts is the collecting of medicine bot- tles for military hospitals in prac-- tically every province. Bottles of certain sizes are sought, as called for. A recent request was for col- ored bottles, and gallon glass jars for the Central Medical Stores. Al- ready many thousands of dollars have been saved to the Govern- ment by this Boy Scout activity. * 100,000 tons of wastepaper was collected by Brtilsh Boy Scouts during 1941, * . * For wourage and coolness shown in the resens of a young mother ard her baby and an elderly wo- man during an air raid, two North- umberiand Boy Scouts, brothers; have been awarded the Scout Gilt Cross for Gallantry, The brothers, Joe and John Chambers, 16 and 17 years respectively, were on street fire watch during a blitz. A bomb partiaiiy wrecked a house, and a young wsinan ran out, tem- porarily unnerved, The, boys has- tened to her, and got her safely to a shelter. They then learned, ~ "from -her disjointed remarks, that- her" bhaby was still in the house. John leaped over a fence, entered the house, found the baby, and returned, shielding it with his body from shell fragments and flying glass, He brought word also that there was. an' elderly woman In the house, and that sho refused to leave. Together the brothers re- turned, and between them picked up the old lady and brought her to safety. 5 As a variation from 'Scout war hero stories from Britain comes a unique account of the circum- stances under which a London Boy Scout was chosen to take the role of Oliver Twist in a radlo presen- tation [for that famous story of Charles Dickens, Mr. Hugh Stew- art of the B, B. C, who had for 'some time been secking a boy with the desired volce, suddenly heard it on a crowded bus.. The 'bus stopped,.and before he could reach the lad, Who 'was in the uni- form of a Boy Scout, the boy dlis- appeared. Stewart had noted the color of the Scout's neckerchief, however, and through this was able to -locate his Scout Troop, the boy himself. The boy, Scout Phillip Jones, agreed, and his voice will be heard in the role of the famous little Dickens charac- ter who had the courage to ask for more. porridge, then - THE WAR » WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Ebb .and Flow of World War Across Oceans and Continents The scope of the war. is ap- proaching a maximum of vastness, extending from the western shores of America, - across the Pacitic, across Asia, Europe and Africa, and across the Atlantic to the eastern shores of America, Everywhere in the Pacific Japan is on the offensive. Hong Kong is being mercilessly pounded, the Philippines Singapore threatened by an over- land drive from Malaya and Pearl Harbor preparing for further con- flict. : Singapore The naval base on Singapore Is- l. land has been called the world's A largest. Fifteen years of labor aad $80,000,000 went into its consfruc- tion. It can hold the sri(ire Bri- tish fleet, drydop'v the biggest battleship, Its efghtgen-inch coast- al gung ~im¥e a twenty-live-mile rang@" Dominating the sea lanes between the Indian Ocean and the waters of Oceania, guarding the oil and rubber of the Indies and the tin-of Malaya, Singapore is widely regarded as -impregnable to attack from water, most vulner- able to attack by land. It was by land last week that the Japanese were striking toward this key to the Allled Far.Eastern defense, The only land approach to Singa. pore runs down the Malay Penin. sula. From its beginning at the top of the Gulf of Siam to its end above Singapore, the peninsula of Thailand, in the first days of the Pacific conflict, opened the way for an unopposed Japanese drive more than half way down the nar- row approach to the British Malay- an frontier, some 3560 miles north of Singapore, The sinking of the Royal Navy's capital ships, Prince of Wales and Repulse, gave the Japanese control of Malayan wat- ers. With these advantages, plus numerical superiority, the soldiers of the Rising Sun battled their way forward last week against the stiff opposition of British Em- pire troops. and M tai The terrain, in many ways, was one of the most difficult yet en- countered anywhere in the world by tha war's fighting men, Mal aya's damp, hot jungles climb up the sides of granite mountain ranges. Rubber plantations a few paved roads built by the Brigish, the open pits of great tin mines, break .the clotted mass of under- growth. Along the peninsular coast lies a belt of fairly flat, open ground. The almost impenetrable bush is the home of tigers, leop- ards, elephants, rhinoceros, vam. pire bats, brilliantly plumed birds and deadly reptiles. Its climate has always been unhealthy for the white man, The Japanese had apparently prepared carefully for the fighting in the lush wilderness. Clad in 3 lightweight unifroms, supported by one-man tanks and other special equipment, adopting the inflitra- tion and ambush tactics of the Am- erican Indian, the Nipponese sol- diers forced back their foe. At one point they were 2560 miles from Singapore, They compelled the ev- acuation of Penang on the West Malayan coast; that exotic resort town and secondary naval base could serve as a springboard for-a jump to the Indies or for raids on Burma-and-India-hound ship- ping. Meanwhile, a Japanese land. ing on British 'Borneo appeared to be an attempt to gain a base on Singapore's flank, Philippines In the first phase of the war Nipponese blows were chiefly alm. -ed at Manlla. Last week a land offensive was attempted. Tokyo as- serted that troops were. landed on beach-heads north of. the capital and later far to the south on the island of Mindanao. A hold on this island would provide Japan with valuable bases for raids on Manila, . Hong Kong Siege A century-old outpost of empire, the island -of Hong Kong (thirty-- two square miles) Is perched on the Sout China coast; overlooks the long supply route between Ja- pan's main islands and the Malay Peninsula. More than a year ago Hong Kong's link with the Chin- ese hinterland was severed by Jap- aneso troops; still it served-ds a clearing house where Free China ordéred the American goods that incréasingly harried, - hour, - depth charges and another : REG'LAR FELLERS--Slightly Used eventually traveled: the Burma Read. The city lopg stood as a symbol of British prestige in the- Ulit, Its role in an Anglo-Japan- ese War wasgseen as a potential mepace to" Nipponese sea lines; Its prolonged defense would mean a diversion of Japanese strength from other more vital sectors. |. Last week--its second of siege-- the: Empire garrison on Hong . Kong was hard pressed. A Japan. ese, land-and-afr. assault 'captured Kowloon the city's mai section, A landing was on Hong Kong islan quickly the invaders rolled -the_ thin lines of the defenders, In London" it--was--said that British Empire strategists had long ago "writtén off" as inevitable the loss of the outpost. Nazis Retreat - The war that came to Kurope In September, 1939, fis entering its third Winter, Its first was one of great uncertainty--the perlod of the "phony war," when millions lay in idleness along the Western Front while Germany, flushed with victory in Poland, quietly prepar ed her next Blitzkrieg, The second Winter followed England's darkest their foundations under merciless Nazi bombings, when only the ad- . vance of General Wavell in Libya and the heroic resistance of Greece against the lumbering Italian arm: fes brought a ray of hope, Today; at the threshold of the war's third Winter, the picture of the battlefields in Europe favors the Allies. In sub-zero cold last . week the German armies on the Russian front were falling back, pushed by a widening series of forceful Soviet offensives, In Libya the all but beaten German Africa Corps was struggling to prevent withdrawal from turning into full fledged rout as empire troops swept onward through the desert. Jap Sub Operates From Mother Ship Midget Two-Mari Submarines Used In Attack on Pearl Harbor Allied naval forces in the Pacific may find pitted against them "schools", of tiny, two-man Bsub- marines--probably no bigger than a whale. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox _ revealed that they were used in "the "sneak" aftack on Pearl Har- bor. Knox said one was destroyed by was captured. : Naval experts- estimate these tiny subs are about 50 feet long, seven feet wide, and have a dis- placement of about 50 tons, There is no indication as to how many were used in Pearl Har- _ bor, but they. apparently did no ai / REEL Brig.-Gen. C. L, Tinker is the new commander 'of -U, 8, air forces in Hawaii, when her cities shook to - damage, At least one, however, did succeed In penetrating the harbor defences and coming within "a few yards" of an American ship before it was destroyed, Submarines the size of the Jap- anese two-man craft are too small to operate over distances greater than a few hundred miles. Naval experts assume that those engag- ed in the attack against Pearl Harbor were operatifig* from a mother ship stationed out at sea. This ship, probably a recondition. ed freighter, would be large en-. ough to carry. several of these "baby subs," naval experts said. It was assumed that the mother ship carries them within cruising range of their objective and then lowers them into the sea, That would present no technical probe lem, since the U. 8S. crane ship Kearsarge has cranes than can lift - © 200 ton 'weights, Naval observers believe that the baby subs are miniatures; of reg- ular submarines, i Once in- the water they would proceed to their target with bat- tery-driven electric motors driv. ing them at an estimated eight or nine knots below the surface, Standard Diesel-typé engines would give them 12 or 13 knots on the . surface, sr is The chief asset of such tiny craft is their ability to operate in shallow waters and to get. through harbor defences. Once within ° striking distance of their prey they would loose smaller, probably 10 foot torpedoes. They would not have to carry the standard 20 foot. torpedoes because they attack at shorter range. Naval experts estimate that two- man' submarines would be able to stay at sea five days before re- turning to their mother ship or base. Living quarters would be extremely cramped, and- supplies and fuel limited, ph Prepared Mr. Churchill :who spends his week-ends in the country when he's not too busy to get away from Downing Street disclosed that he carries a tommy-gun in the 'back- of - his automobile--just in cas¢ of parachutists. ; LIFE'S TR SRN RR CERN LIKE THAT ~ By Fred : Neher a, 72 gpho Nene? | "Office politics . + « » he's campaigning for a raise!" CAR JUS IN OLE ONE=« I'LL A SWELL DEAL CERTAIN'Y, MISTER DUFFY / IF YOU WANNA BUY ANEW it By GENE BYRNES = Rn TR RA