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RAF Photographs * production 50 percent. since. the 'Mire Season' Has Arrived In Russia Rain and. Mud Herald Come "Ing of 8now and Ice Before winter comes in Russia there is an interval which the Ger- mans "have christened the "mire season," Berlin has just announc- ed its arrival. It brings rain and mud as a 'dismal promise of the snow and ice to follow. It is in such weather that Hitler must now finish his summer offensive. Around Rzhev, west of Moscow, correspondents report that such "roads as exist are hub deep In slush. On the Stalingrad front rain has been falling on the: steppes since Sunday, Even in the Cau-. casus the Nazis say their opera. tions have been halted by downe pours, This supposedly sunny - southland between the Caucasus Mountains and the.Caspian Sea oc- casionally suffers some of the worst blizzards which Russia ex. periences, Henceforth we may ex- pect increasing. reference to weath- er in German communiques. Nazl Lines Extended By strategy, by courage and by good fortune the Russians have brought the Nazi armles to their utmost extension in what Is for them the worst possible period. Obviously forces on the edge of a swamp have an advantage over those which must attack through the swamp. Much of Russia has begun to turn into a swamp. For the investment of Stalingrad the Nazis have no near base. Kursk, the rail centre from which they started, is hundreds" of miles away, The rail system between Is 80 inadequate for the purpose of bringing up the vast tonnage of munitions and supplies: required by the siege that It has to be sup plemented by thousands of trucks and even horsedrawn vehicles, When these are bogged in 'mud, operations at the front are pro- gressively slowed down. The Rus- sians, on the- other hand, have been. driven closer to their bases. Above Stalingrad 'they control the whole length of the Volga, They do not have'to drag their supplies through the mud. For them the "mire season" is a frlendy one. They welcome it; ~~ - HE RESISTS Admiral Darlan, above, head 6¢ the armed forces of Vichy France, organized ground and naval oppo- sition to the landing of American troops in Africa, © Exploding Bombs Development of Night Photo. graphy. Aids British Airmen One reason for Git increased accuracy of R.AF. bdmbing in Germany is the great development of night photography, says the St. Thomas Times-Journal, The public has 'seen many pictures taken at the moment of explosion, or soon after; and many have wondered it special planes dived low in order to take pictures; but that is not the method at all. As an aircraft releases its 'bombs a photo-flash with the as- tonishing- power of - 50,000,000. candles is automatically dropped and explodes with a flash which must be terrifying to the German people even without a bomb, The flash only lasts one-tenth of « second and a camera with the. shutter already open takes the picture of the bombed 'area. The new 50,000,000 candle-power bomb does the work that used to require ten or twelve operators, Hundreds . of these pictures are taken in every raid. They prove whether the bombing has been successful or fot. = As a great area is lighted up these pictures also enable the intelligénce rec tion to determine whether the enemy has devised anything new in the way of camouflage, J It is not uncommon for crews fo hang around the bombing sta- tion after a"raid, instead of going to bed, to see what the pictures of.' the "show" reveal. '": India' has increased its steel THE ONCE- MIGHTY LUFTWAFFE _. 5 Ea These fuselages are part of more than 100 Axis bombers put out of commission by Allied air attacks and later captured by, advancing Allied. forces in Egypt, Land troops have lined up the fuselages at an air field in El Daba, Egypt, which until a few days ago was miles behind the British lines. VOICE OF . THE © PRESS WORLD NEEDS THE EMPIRE "Some think the time is appro- priate to write the obituary of the: British Empire as it has been constituted. Let them not forget that this Empire is the greatest man--that whatever 'happens to it in years to come the world is infinitely better today because of «its existence." --Ottawa Journal --0-- TREATED LIKE AN ENEMY Italy's food and resources are being sent to Germany. The Ital- _ ian people will begin to wonder whether Mussolini put them into this war for, or against, Germany. Certainly they don't get any bet- ter treatment than that Germany gives her encmies, EN --Chatham News ~~ GIRL WARNED he'll be yours for the duration, for unless he's 'willing, you can't di- .vorce him, That's a warning in the Great Falls Tribune and it might be heeded here as well as in Montana. -- Lethbridge Herald ---- - LONG, LONG AGO Do you remember those days, long ago, when stores advertised "leaders," and you might have read something like this: Two pounds of sugar and a pound of coffee with every purchase of a new tire! --Stratford Beacon-Herald --Q-- STRANGEST CASUALTY The strangest war casualty to - 'date: In' Atlanta, the zoo's big baboon, Tommy, beloved by thous. ands of school children, went into & decline for lack of bananas. -- Stratford 'Beacon-Herald --Q-- A MARRED BIBLE _ A new Nazi-edited edition of © the Bible to be put on sale In Adolf Hitler. Nuff said. --Sault' Ste, Marie Star ---- SIZING. UP. MAN No mere man is as good as she thinks he is before marriage nor so bad as she thinks he is after- ward, --- --Brandon Sun ' ---- ' JAPAJATION "Japs Violate White Flag to Slay 28 U, S. Marines." That wasn't violation. It was Japana- tion, - Kg --Windsor Star --) SOLDIERS KNOW BEANS Don't ever try to tell a Cana- dian soldier that he donk know beans, + --Kitchener Record Swedes Using Wood To Run 'Automobiles It's a wood pile and not a filling station that a Swedish motorist steers for nowdays in Sweden, ac- cording to a Swedish official now ~in Montreal, Wood has replaced gasoline as automobile fuel, Cars have heen converted to run on a form of gas instead of gasoline, and nearly every machine In Swedish cities has this device, Cars will run about two hours without a refill, * Then, according to the Swedish visitor, the motor- ist will pull up at a spot where & lot of wood is bagged up, For about 10 cents he will buy a bag of wood, dump it into his little gas converter, step on the starter, and he is away again, A curious fea- ture of this gas process is that the. poorest fuel paradoxically is ac- tually the best, and good wood is bad, as far as the car is concerned. © Emotion affects the eye func. tions.of 80 per cent of the people, war started. recent tests have shown, agency for good ever fashioned by - Girls, if you marry a man in - khaki, better make up your mind : Germany will contain a picture of THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Allied Plan For Victory Seen In Offensive Action In Africa (Axis forces in the western des- ert, after twelve days and nights of ceaseless attacks by our land and air forces, now are In (ull retreat. Their disordered columns are being relentlessly attacked by our land forces and by the R. A, F. day and night. United Nation forces continued to pour Into French North Africa after 70 transports had unloaded 140,000 ground troops, Marines and Rangers at various points along a 1,000-mile length of the Moroc- can-Algerian coastline in the great- est naval landing undertaking of the war. 2 1 Now at last after the long months of uncertainty and ddubt we know what the Allied master 'plan for victory is to be, With" American troops landing along the north and northwestern coasts of French Afrlca, the die 1s cast--we 'are going to lay siege to Hitler's fortress of Europe from all sides and draw in those siege lines where they are most remote from the enemy's citadel. The. whole picture fits together now--the reason for Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's powerful attack on General Fleld Marshal Erwin Rommel at this time, the reason for the great suppy and repair bas-. es in the Middle East, the reason for fleet and shipping concentra- tions at the western end of the Mediterranean, the reason for our diplomatic dallyings with Vichy, the reason for the recent bombings of Northern Italian ports, even the reason for the heavy American troop concentrations In Great Brl- taln, and the reason: for the meth. " odie development of a great chain of air bases across Central Africa. Turning Point In War We believe that history wlll say that on Nov. 7 the blow was struck that marked the turning point in this war and, the beginning of the great offensive against the Axis Powers, This is not too high a valuation to place on the opera- tions which an American expedl- tionary army, supported by British naval and alr forces, has launched In North Africa. Hazardous as these operations may be, and how- ever long and hard the road that lies ahead, we know now that we are no longer merely hitting back on the defenslve. This is offensive action on a major scale, under- taken in a zone of operations that "les close to the main masses of the German and Italian Armies. It 1s the opening of the Second Front on that face of the Kuropean Con. tinent where the cnemy Is known to be least prepared to defend himself. L Strategic Factors It is clear at once that the Am- erican landings in Africa, at the saute time as General Montgomery continues his victorious pursuit of Marshal Rommel's forces, com- pletely change the strategic ple ture of the war, In the struggle for Egypt and Libya, the Italians and Germans have operated from In. comparably shorter supply lines than the British, Ships from Great Britain .to "Sues, clrecumnavigating the whole of the continent of Afri- ca, have had to travel the immense distance of 13,000 miles. By a sim- ilar route the distance from New York to Suez is 14,200 mlles, It the American forces now suc- ceed in establishing. firm beach- heads at several chosen strategic points and it the British are suo- cessful in capturing or annihilat- ing Roufmel's remaining forces in North Africa, this whole situation will be transformed. The average LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher 0 = Z : Z " 77 Z ". Z bed 55% 7, \ "Batch 1s fillin' but a withdrawal slip for the $26,700.75." supply-line distance from England to the North African coast by sea will be 'reduced to 2,000 or 2,600 miles. This means that ships from England can bring supplies in one- fitth to one-seventh the present time, It would be almost the equiv. alent of "multiplying fivefold the number of merchant ships avail able for supply, It would mean a tremendous economy, in ships and time, an incalculable increase in the ability of the American and British forces to hold what they + had gained. Direct aif communica. tion from England Would sbe pos. sible. Afr and land routes could be established directly across Africa from east to west. The British and American forces in "Africa could be firmly linked, The American landirigs In Alglers at last make It possible to end either the reality or the threat of ald and supplies by Vichy France from that direc. tlon to German or Italian forces. They make It possible to cut oft former avenues of escape for such forces. Above all, they expose the "under side" of Eurdpe to invasion. Risks Involved We must reckon with the fact that if the American landings pre- sent enormous opportunities, they also involve commensurate risks. They can bring hitherto immobiliz- ed French land and naval forces into the war against us. Although Hitler has seized this excuse to occupy the rest of France, the Ger- mans and [Itallans will still have, it they are able to exploit them, shorter lines of communication to Libya, Tunisia and Algeria than the British and ourselves. Our forces in Africa must be. constant. ly velnforced and supplied. The Axis, with whatever sea and alr power It has or can get into the Mediterranean, will attack our con- voys, Moral Factors From this demonstration of our power and our purpose the con- quered peoples of Furope, Impat- lent for the day when they can turn with fury on the Nazi beast, will draw fresh strength and cour age. Our Russian allies, fighting superbly, and for the most part alone, through so many months, will see In the arc that reaches from North Africa to Southern Europe the shape of the Second Front which they have urged us to "establish. The fow still hesi- tant and still skeptical nations in ent to destfoy the milf tary ppwer ot Hitley's Germany. 2 Itselt cannot he impact of this news. Proof of that, and a sug- gestion of the effect which ft may have on the morale of the German people, is to be found in the fact that Hitler did not dare lo let a single day pass without broadcast- ing his assurances that the land- ing, of an American expeditionary , force on a Second Front can be dismissed. as unimportant. But It is, above all, in France, . more even than fn Germany or In Russia or In the smaller natlons of Europe, that: the news of our landing In Africa will have pro- 'found repercuesions.-- What these will be, in the days that lie ahead, no man can say for certain. It is possible that the renegade Laval ceed for a time in confusing French .opinfon and In delivering some of the strength of the French people into the service of their mortal enemy. But of this we feel certain: that any such success for the be- trayers of France will be of short duration, if it fs achieved at all, and that above the din of battle in North Africa the French people wilk hear and answer the summons of de Gaulle, the real leader of France in this hour of crisis, er" On 8ide of France Through two long years of bitter misery and fmmensg danger the French people have rejected every advance and every demand that Hitler has made for thelr "collab- oration." That they hope passion: ably for Hitler's destruction we may he sure. That we shall fight until wé have achieved his destrue- tion they may bo certain, In the very act of landing American boys on French soil in Northern Africa, wo say to the French people: We are in this war on the side of France, that she may live again. This is the meaning of victory for us, and nothing short of this will do. : The South Sea islands are the exposed peaks of vast, submergea mountain ranges rising from the floor of the Pacific, two years ago, when the British and the befuddled Petain may suc. | AAR Pilot of an R.C.A.F. Kittyhawk fighter climbs aboard his plane before going aloft on a patrol in Alaska. Canada's airmen, serving with those of the United States in the northern outpost, have already drawn Jap blood. Germans Fortify Channel Islands Britons with relatives and friends living under German oc- cupation on the Channel Isles have been given news of conditions there that is both comforting and disquieting. . Latest semi-official reports said the Germans have 10,000 men stationed there. Technically, these men form an army of occupation, Actually, they aro concerned mainly with keeping the whip poised over 25,000 foreign labor- ers imported from European na. tions to work on large fortifica- tions the Germans are throwing up with desperate speed. Expect British Attack Comforting is the inference that $6 Germans expect a Bri- tish attack. Because more than garrison was withdrawn and the Germans came, the idea of need- ing fortifications would heve been laughable to them. They were the attackers and they were confident their next move would be forward. Now they are trying to build in-~ surance against a British move that would smash them back, Disquieting is the news that de- spite the vastly-inereased" popula- tion of the little group of islands, the food stocks have not been in- creased and clothing stocks--ex- hausted long ago--have not been replenished. Causing even more concern are reports that 'some male British subjects--have disap- peared from their homes recently. There is fear that they have been taken to continental Europe for forced labor. The Germans on the islands-- some of them civilians sent for administrative jobs -- generally are said to ve acting correctly to- ward British subjects, 'however. © They hold little but contempt for --ee---- tho Russians, Poles, Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians and others among the imported laborers, The food ration is small, Heavy laborers are allowed six pounds of bread weekly (women 4% pounds) and four ounges-of butter. Other known rations are (weekly) Sugar, 2 oz.; potatoes, 5 1b.; er- satz coffee, 3 oz.; cocoa, 2 oz. fat, 2 oz. Officially, the islanders can buy six ounces of 'meat each week, but usually there is none for sale, Radios are not allowed ia * homes in which there are no Ger mans billeted. There are plentiful stocks of coal, but' islanders ex- pect to see little of it. The Ger- man army of occupation will be comfortable, what is left going to - the civilians. So the Channel islanders are on the verge of what scems like a winter more difficult than the last. They have only one enjoy- ment, one ray of hope, but it is a concrete one--the sight of R.A.F., R.C.AF. and-American air forces speeding almost daily onli across the channel to strike at the Nazi chains binding Europe. No Change Likely * In Coffee Ration There is small likelihood of any alterations in Canadian tea and coffee rations during the life-time of the current ration book, It was said in Ottawa last week in reply to reports that Canada would fall in line with the new United States coffee ration. The American quota of one pound cvery five weeks is an_odd figure which will not divide even- ly into pounds, months or weeks, For Canada to attempt to confo-m would mean revamping her entire unit system. 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