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© in the U. S. Fliers Get Tough Training . Preflight Process Described by Bill Cunningham In Lib. erty The greatest sports story in the history of civilization is rapidly taking form at four widely separ- ated college addresses in this awakened and war conscious na- ~ tion of ours. / 1's a new program for the training of United States naval aviators -- 30,000 of them -- a yeary They will be fighting fliers, most of them--aerial duelists and dive bombers. This is an aerial war, It will be won in the ain Its far reaches make it a master responsibility of the navy, Ow- ing: to a recent change in service requirements, this will be a divi. sion of high school graduates as well as of college men. The new thing about this pro. gram is toughening process that will put these men in the air the hardest, toughest, most resourceful, most physically fit, and, if possible, the most daring und courageous aerial warriors who've ever skied or dived a plane into a fight. Be- fore they ever even see a flight trainer, they will be put through the stiffcst physical regimen of any group of fighters in any sort of uniform. And that means any, They'll hike 40 miles a day, They'll be given expert instruc- tion in every type of hand to hand combat. They'll learn to swim great distances with their clothes on. They'll be taught all the crippling wrestling hoids, all the cunning tricks of ju-jitsu, how to break a mans arm, how to kick, in the groin, how to kill a man: with 'the 'bare hands, and they'll have strength enough to do it. MRS. W. E. WEST Director or woulen's voluntary Services Division," Department of National War Services, and a former assistant deputy minister Ontario Public Welfare Department. The purposé.of the Division is to unite both volun- tary war work and civilian ser- vices in such a way that the whole volunteer movement 'marches for- ward in a co-ordinated whole on a community basis, Air Raid Damages Famous Cathedral Canterbury capes Direct Hit -- Other Historic Buildings Destroyed _ The. German air rald June 1 on Canterbury, cradle of Anglican Christianity, damaged the famous cathedral, destroyed several his- toric buildings and much of the resldential section, it was disclosed not long ago. The damage to the cathedral was estimated at many thousands of dollars, although the edifice es- caped a direct hit by high explos- "ives which however, wrecked the modern library and deanery, and battered Kings School, England's oldest public school. ' Hndreds of the cathedral wind. ows were blown out. The whole area was littered with rubble and "~'ghops and homes in the yicinity. were set afire. The ancient stain. ~*~ed glass had been removed from the cathedral at the outbreak of the war. Incendiaries fell on the cathed- ral roof but were smothered be- fore serious fire could, 'start. 8t. © Augustine's chair on which arch. bishops for centuries eat during _ the enthronement ceremonies was undamaged, but &t. George's Church. -was destroyed, In the town Fountain Hotel, 800 Yyears old, where Queen Elizabeth atayed, was burned out, as well as several places with Dickensian "tions. Prominent residents of the town eald morale never faltered. One of them sald: "I still wonder at . the perfect calm and courage. of the people of Canterbury. Hund- reds of people are homeless but the only anxiety expressed was 'how much can [| do for someody else?" \ "1 had to learn to handle my- self," said an officer, "before I could learn to handle men," a prefight physically. lald waste | itself the Royal' associa. Cathedral Es- live up .shoning." PRIORI IIT nm ho AER IYER 27 2 A mm a xe § a PEP TALK IN EGY --r------ . Gen, Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck rallies a group of British soldicrs in lgypt trom tne car in winch he has been touring tho front since taking over active command ot Britam's eighth Army, Auchinledk's encouraging presence, as well as his strategy, has awed British and American 1orces to cneck the drive of Rommnel's Axis invaders, VOICE "PRESS AN AMAZING MAN What an amazing man is Churchill! Here he is over. in Washington again conferring with the President of the United States, Sixty-eight years of age, carry- "| ing 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 Viking! How many persons, much youngér, could to such a schedule as he must,_go through constantly? * --Kingston Whig-Standard ---- PRONOUNCING "RATION" Speaking of rationing, there seems to be some "difference of opinion about its pronunciation. The dictionary allows both the long and short "a," but since tho military have always used the short "a" that gets the prefer- ence, which makes it pronounce "rashoning," rather than ray- Anyhow it scems ap- propriate, considering the sub- ject, that the "a" should be short. --Brantford Expositor om NAZI MOTTOES In 1940 German propaganda proclaimed, "We have won." In 1941 the motto was: "We shall win." *- In this year of 1942 it has been again charged, to read: "We must win." Anyone trying to express in a nutshell the de- velopment of German public re- action to war events could do no worse than to remember this ser- ies of mottaes. i --=St. Catharines Standard 0 : NICE FELLOWS, THOSE HUNS A German U-boat commander, who used to be consul at New Orleans, torpedoed an American * ship, and when the survivors-had taken to a small boat he told them to row a certain direction to land. The sailors, knowing their Huns, rowed in the opposite dl- rection--and came to shore safe- ly. Nice playful fellows, those Huns! at oe --Ottawa Journal oo SH --Windsor Star ier PERSONAL INTEREST Everybody seems to know enough arithmetic to figure out what's coming to him. --Kitchener Record. ---- BUDGET EDITORIAL OUCH! ~--St. Thomas Times-Journal Little Cheap Guns - For Second Front Britain is producing a £2 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 ammunition and has been. tested in commando raids on the French coast. ' The gun is regarded as highly useful for shock troops and home guards, but its cheapness, mili- tary experts point out, makes it an ideal weapon for big-scale dis-~ tribution to saboteurs, Fitted with a magazine holding 84 rounds, the gun can. fire at the rate of more than 500 rounds a minute, is effective up to 200 - yards and has a useful life of more than 5,000 rounds. Eight magazines go with each gun apd when loaded they weigh only eight pounds, The guns will be casy to sow in. occupied coun tries by parachute or by smug gling. . r - The gun is called the "Sten," a word used to conceal its de- signers real names, One Royal Ordnance factory is producing them at the rate of three a min- "ute, IRWIN 3 N MAURICE A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army last war I 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 1 would have done if I had haa any sense" --it was the older civ- ilians. They seemed to feel it was wrong for some people to have carned "high wages" while others did the fighting. Just who should fight and who should stay at homo is a hard problem--and one that 'is really solved only by those who volun. teer. No columnist is in a position te "make 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 few days ago Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator in the Un- ited States, said to an audience at a meeting of the American Medical Assotiation that the Ons When 1 came home from the ited States nceds 3,000 doctors every month for the Army ana Navy. He said: "There is an apparent lack of interest on the part ot 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. We civilians don't need doce tors as badly as will_the soldiers when the big battles get under way. For a tummy-uche 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. It there should not be enough doc- 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 of our medical men. We take it for granted that they will como at whatever hour of the day or night we call; we take it equally for granted that they will come 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. Seo does the Air Force. quite a number of young men. finished training and new shingles 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 cuffs--1'd hate to think of a Canadian public man making =a speech like that of Paul McNutt, It all gives one very furiously to think! What are we doing to help along the successful prosecution of the war? - . LIKE THA Fi " 4 Ny) r-- ' a We C= SE 2-1v PED, _ This year _ " Aro we feeling that because there is nothing spectacular we can do that the little things are not worth while? We do, some- times, and it's too bad. That old saying, "Mony a mickle maks a muckle," was never more true than when applied to the work of tho individual citizen in a 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 down to only one how much shipping space will that save?" It will save very little -- but; multiply that one cup by 18,000,000 and seo what the saving is then, Let's work' it, out, aian, taking 200 cups as equalling one pound, means a saving of 32% tons of tea every day. , A ton of tea occupies approximately 100 cubic feet of cargo space-- $0 our ono cup of tea saves 3,260 cubic feet. What can a stevedore do with 3,200 cubic feet? Well, roughly speaking, that is a pile eight feet high, 20 feet wide and feet long. It would accommodate two Valentine tanks or goodness knows how many cases 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 36d days! Not bad?_ No, it's not bad but it's only a frac- tion of tho cargo space that can bo saved if we ali of us cut our ten consumption in half! Of course it isn't spectacular, this voluntary contribution that works no havdship on us, but it is another way in which the Indi- vidual Citizen' Army can make it possible for our sons and broth: ers and sweethearts and husbands to do the spectacular war work because wo are willing to stand behind them even in the little things, : Interne Japs Who Refused To Work Japanese workers at Geikie and Doecoigne, two road camps near Jasper, Alta, have refused to work, a spokesman of the British Col- umbia Security Commission said recently, and 13 of tho 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 29 the num- bor of Japanese now being "held. Sixteen others were- interned at Vancouver: &fter what appeared to be organized outbreaks. at other camps. The work striked are in protest against the separation of Japau- eso men from their families and delays in receiving pay cheques. "The commission ia handicapped in removal of Japanese from the British Colymbia defence area," sald" Major Mellor, spokesmaii for the commission, owing to the re- _luctance..of citizens -in_. proposed settlement areas to accept the evacuees, "Many people are blind to the fact that security of the Pacific coast Is a national, not a local problem." An extensive buildings program to accommodate evacuated famil- ies ia contemplated in British Columbia and the prairie proy- inces before the winter, but the size of these operations cannot be determined until Ontario farmers dectde how many workers they require on sugarbeet farms. Approximately 7,600 Japanesa remain in Vancouver awaiting re- moval. Old Navy Signal "Greek" To Yanks The old and always welcome signal "Splice the main brace" came from King George's ship after he reviewed British and Un- ited. States naval forces recently, Amértean ships all obediently hoisted the samo signal but no ope knew why, Then it was explained it meant every British eailor got a double issue of rum to drink the King's health, It was suggested that may- The saving of one cup of tea by every Can- ~ able "tions with the few --opinions-----ot- | THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Black Sea Repair Base Lost When Sevastopol Fell The fall of Sevastopol, acoord- fng ta the Christian Sclence Monitor, may have left the Rus- alan 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 -atand | the Soviets were maklug agalost 'the Nazi advance, naval observ- "era viewed with apprehension the failure to dislodge thé Gérmans - from. thelr 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 floet bas made no lmpor- taut contribution (0 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 hostilitice with Germany, consisted of one old 23,000-ton bat- tle cruiser armed with 12fnch gunsg, five small modern cruisers, three old cruisers, and some old destroyera 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 it is safo to Soa force. However, assume that it still has a strength far superior to any other force in that area. * Italian Naval Ruse At one time there was a rumors "ed attempt to coerced Turkey into permitting certain units of the Italian Navy to pass 'through tho Dardanelles under the guise of having been transferred to the Rumanian flag, but it this effort actually was made, nothing camo of it, and the Russian Fleet con tinued to control the Black Sea. There (13 no question but that Nazi steategy includes a drive on the oil producing regions in the Near Fast, and-it may have oven the more ambitious design of striking across southern Asia. Should Japan be successful In ts offort to dispose of serious Chiness resistance, it in turn will then be free to begin a push west- ward, which if "successful, would permit theses | bizarre join hands. Each will then have access to badly needed raw materials which the other possesses in consider- 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- nations" which have managed to remain _unin- volved in the gargantuan conflict that has spread all over the globe. Despite the former pessimistic experts, Germany seems to have all the ofl 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 ofl Jor a long time lo come from the Caspian area, should it pass into their control. It would ecem a simple proce- dure to carry oil across the Black Sea from Batum to Galatz and thence up the Danube by oil barge. However, the oll comes from the shores of the Caspian Sea, and Batum on the Black Sca Is mere- ly the terminus of a 400-mile pipe line, none of which would be in existence by the time the Germans laid hands on it. In addition, the wells themselves and thelr 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 S00 USES How Uinta svauons help by awrupung all lines of communication wit the - outside would, Rosipy, which is almost within "lines of + ingly --and allies to -hreak "sels in With Rostov and Batum fo Nast possession, Russia would appar ently have no source of oil, except from the {ileld at the north end of the Casplan, although it ia quite possible other unannounced oll developments exlst in .the Ime _terlor of Russia or ln Siberia. Nazi's. Long Lines If Germany aévriously contem- plates a push eastward from . whichever apringboard it acquires, be It Egypt or the eastern shore of the Black Sea, tremendous du ficulties in the way of extended communication will be involved. Unfortunately the Nazis seem to be able to maintain seen impossible lines of supply have thrown previously aoe cepted military doctrine concern. ing them into the wastopaper base ket along with numerous othed military tenets. Nevertheless, wator trausporfas tion remains the easiest way to carry troops and' supplies, and control of the Black Sea will pers mit the quick and uninterrupted transfer of Nazi hordes to Batum and other castern Black Sea porta, To obtain this advantage the Rus. sian Black Sea Fleet must be ime mobilized, and one way to obtain this result is to deprive it of bases. Few Natural Harbors Unquestionably Nazi bombers have made a shambles of the ex. tensive naval base - facilities at Savastopol, but in the past the Russians have proved very 'adept In moving manutacturing facilities to safe locations when it became evident that they were thereaten ed by the forward surge of Ger. man armies Consequently, it fs quite possible that repair facilities and even one of the sizable float. ing dry docks at Sevastopol had been moved to some other Black Sea port before German bombs could reach them, i The Black Sea has very tow natvral harbors of any size, So- vastopol being the only one of consequence, Practically every other harbor in the entire area is sheltered by breakwaters and none are large, . Northern Route Menaced Tho situation in the Black Sea has now become critical. In view of recent British and Russian re- verses, Turkey, whatever may be its "inclinations, witl not-open-the Dardenelles to the British Fleet, In fact, were this favoritism shown, British ships would probably be unable to run the gamut of Nazt planes In negotinting the Aegean and the -Dardanelles. The railroad from Murmansk fig already menaced by the Germans. Should their push from Finland ba successful, railrond connectlons with Archangel will be the next objective, and should the Nazis into the Caspian, Russia will be in danger of losing all lines of communication over which sup- plies flow from its allies, Turns Out Ship. ~ "Every Three Days Canada 98 now turning out a new merchant ship every three days, and during the month of June ten will have been: launched as compared with five in May, Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, revealed recently. In the program, Canada is sup posed to "provide 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping this year, anainly of 10,000-ton deadweight essels, with some 4,700-ton ones. Up to the present in merchant ship-building, the "Dominion has 20 of her 10,000-ton cargo ves- actual service, She has 17 more launched and in the water, and being fitted. There are 33 more building, together with geven of the 4,700-ton type. When the program got under way there were only eight berths capable of holding the 10,000-ton ships mn building. Now there are tory, with cicven more tor the 1, ivu-ton vessels, stated Howe. UL the rmwercnant ships beng turned out, vo percent of the i lnoor - and matedials, inciuaLig steel, 13 Ganastan, Une of the 1U,0uu-c0n vessels can be lauach= } XH, IY 2 7 (Ceapeigat, 1985, by Feed ive | be the crews of the. liguorless |. Nazi grasp, is located on an oll ed in cighty days, and made ready 0 a Ng i " United States warships got donble pipe hne-waeuce ofl is disteibats for actual seataring in another "We'll hve to let her go. . +7 Conomane: all in love with her and ies b.onIN BOdRL i 21 Wrotgaout Russi by rail] thirty-five days, oy - E - " REG'LAR FELLERS--A Sad Case By GENE BYRNES ~ ; ; : STOP YOUR CRYING J 1M WELL, VMY DONT YoU TAKE WELL, BE SURE AN WAKE. i SURPRISED 10 SEE A" BIG TE 10 THE MOVIES, 100 ? ME UP. WHEN YOU COME. BOY LWE YOU CRYING / I CAN PUT MY CLOTHES BACK CAUSE 1 NEVER CAN . : : ON IN A JIFFY / SLEEP WHEN YOU AN POP ur 1 9 i yo ) 4 _ '@ O 9 Pig U8 Pal Olen AR A'S trssrved "Io Nes - ~y : , 1 ; 1 ! 2 an EEYATS : Haat A UPRIGNUUE NE ESM FRIST Eto NR a pS IR I RY QO MVE