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I la Britain on a lend-lease basis. "ENGLAND'S LEND.LEASE FOOD FOR YANKS n I a mpamsmmsssssS Uhr hd of Se ASA Sh at ' PUA ETI Ph Ea ¥ * deal HAY bd 45 414 lt He SERS In case you've been wondering, here's some of the return the / Americans are getting for their lend-lease to Great Britain. All these foods--including the familiar shredded wheat--are grown or pro- cessed in England and are turned over to U, S. forces, along with British-made clothing, as payment for some of the goods sent to THE WAR -- WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Under fascism ~ the historic Dodecanele Islands -- seized by Italy from Turkey in 1912 -- became strongholds from which Mussolini hoped to control the Eastern Mediterranean, Strate- gically the most important of the group is tiny, rugged Leros with one of the- best harbors in the Aegean, There Italians built a ened two vital waterways, - the Dardanelles 250 miles to the north and the Suez Canal _ 450 miles to the southeast. The fall of Italy made Leros and adjac. REF ent islands prizes of a race be- PET teen Nazis and British. For : "the former they were outposts : of Fortress Europe; for the lat- + ter they were springboards for a Balkan invasion. British units were rushed from the Near East vow -- to hold them against Germans from near-by Greek islands. Battle off Turkey Much of the ensuing fight .was obscured by censorship but last week the outcome became clear. British. headquarters in Cairo, which had previously admitted the loss of two islands, announced the fall of--Leros. Outnumbered on the ground and blasted by a virtually unopposed Luftwaffe, ey 8,000 British and 5,000 Italian troops surrendere. after- five days of fierce battles Germans promptly. launched an air attack on the sole remaining British gar- __ rison in the Aegean archipelago, : on the Greek island of Samos, Pug 4C miles north of Leros and with. gia: in sight of the Turkish coast. P 3 ' A Costly Nazi Effort The Nazi eflort -- first real Wehrmacht victory in more than a 'year--was generally viewed as a desperate and costly attempt to . ~ Southeastern Europe, aimed ~~" _- chiefly at impressing Turkey. In / this it appeared to have missed fire. Recent Turkish g¢onferences 3 with the Allies in Cairo, after the i Moscow = Conference, were fol- SL ; lowed last week by a Cabinet : bode meeting in Ankara, From the 2 Turkish capital came various signs that Turkey might end its neutrality. i irg ~NEW CHAPLAIN f -fohorary promoted from the rank of Honor ary Liout-Colonel and named Prins eipal Protestant Chaplain of the "All Saints Anglican. Church, Ot« tawa, naval -and air base which threat-~ "burn, M.C; B.D, who has been - bolster the German position in ~ 4 Canadian Army. He is rector of . Will Non-Belligeient Turkey : Throw In Its Lot With Allies? The question of whether Tur- key will throw in its lot with the Allies is one of the vital ques-' tions in the war situation today. Turkey would toss substantial weight on the military scales, already tilting sharply against Hitler, if it would join the Allies either passively with land and harbors for bases or actively with its well-trained Army and vig- orous Air Force. Immediate gain for the Allies would be availability of air bases from which Axis' key points in the Balkans could be intensively bombarded, possibly by shuttle raids to fields in Southern Italy, Ploesti with its oil treasures is only about 300 miles from Is- tanbul, while Bucharest and So- fia are even less. h Turkey's Air Strength More than three gears ago Turkey began. rebuilding its Air Force, which then numbered only about 300 'first-line planes. Now it almost certainly is several times that and many 'could be funneled in swift! © by British and Americans to excellent: mil- itary airfields, . / The largest and best of the air- dromes is Ekhischer, about 200 miles southwest of Istanbul, but others are well placed all over the western part of the nation, ircluding Istanbul, Ankara, Iz- mir, Adana and Diyarbakir. Turkey's Army Turkey's peacetime Army strength is about 200,000 which could be swiftly raised to 500,000 by general mobilization, 1,60C,000 more trained or parti- ally trained mer in reserve. The Turkish sold' r's reputa. tion for toughness and. courage is well established and after near- ly two years of intensive Lend: Lease aid fro.a the United States and Britain he is believed by far the best-equipped of all Balkan fighting men. The Army is rich in anti-tank and antiaircraft artillery and in coastal defence guns as well as lighter weapons. Tanks are avail- able in sinall numbers, but due to the terrain and lack of roads in Turtey--and in the near-by Balkans where they might fight offensively--this is not- regarded as'a_ major handicap. Under the vigorous 'leadership of Kemal Ataturk and his suc- cessors the Army Staff has been ---kept-at--a- high-level of protict--}-- ency and committed to aggressive tactics, : Turkey's Harbors Turkey is weak in the naval category, with only one 22,000- ton battle cruiser as a backbone of forces that. include two an- cient 8,000-ton cruisers, eight destroyers and a dozen subma- rines, Its harbors along the Aegean, Including one at Izmir, could be an invaluable jumping-off point Yowever, for naval blows against Greece and the Aegean Islands. Significantly, perhaps, British official sources declined informa- tion on Turkish naval installa. tions, : : -- The Last Man A German soldier captured southwest of Dniepropetrovek ia Southern Ukraine told the Army that his division, ihe 948rd Securitp, had been ordere to fight to the last man, Then the soldier added: "I'm the last man." | Star. with" SCOUTING... Among the wartime services of the Boy Scouts of Halifax has been the delivery of over 35,000 hand. bills and posters for government organizations, . Finding they had $60 surplus following their summer camp, Pi y Scouts of the Niagara Falls "dfs. trict donated the money to the Chins Up Fund to ald British Scouts who have been bombed out. . ®.* . Lord Burghley, one of the worlil's 'greatest athletes is now Chief Scout of Bermuda wheté he is Governor. Lord Burghley was a Patrol Leader in the Scout Troop at Eton College. * . . . Total membership of the Boy Scouts Association in Great Bri- tain 1s now 409,307 an Increase of 57,000, despite the fact that since the outbreak of war 46,000 Scout leaders and Rover Scouts have en- listed in the services. LJ L] . . The Boy Scouts of Toronto rais- ed over $18,000 on their annual Apple Day in October, the largest sum ever raised by any Scout Apple Day. It was an Increase of nearly $4,000 over the previous year, Practically every Scout Apple Day In Canada recorded an. increase in receipts, Flies 800 Hours In Steam Plane Steam engines for aircraft, burning unprocessed fuel oil and requiring less space than inter nal combustion gas engines, could be put into large scale produc- tion for military purposes in nine months, says a Chicago inventor, Louis C. Trosky, who says he has flown 800 hours in a steam- driven plane, uses a piston-type engine, and a boiler _of thin tub- ing and his burner "is a combus-J tion of an automobile carburetor and a paint spray gun." It will use almost any fuel, he said, from crude oil to lard. A head of steam giving 600 horsepower, he ex- plained, can be got up in one min- ute, 20 seconds in a cold boiler, Trosky said a steam plane will take off in one-third the distance of a gasoline plane and it will "climb at angles unthought of in gas planes," and the higher the altitude, the faster .the climb, Propellers can be shifted into reverse, as brakes, "and leave a diving enemy plane ahead of you, dead -in your sights." He said "the steam engine is noiseless and vibrationless. Hitler Knew What ~The Germans Like "Hitler Invented nothing; he merely understood what the Ger- mans like," sald Emil Ludwig, the famous biograplier in .making a protest against the tendency in gome quarters to draw too sharp a llne between the Nazis and the German people. Mr. Ludwig there puts his finger on something that is too often forgotten, says ¥YThe Sault Daily Nearly all the ideas and practices which have come to be associated with the Nazi's" have had a dominant place in German historical and political thinking and .all too often in German ad- "ministrative practice for a long period, and in the past century and a half, while most other na- tions. have been moving to a more clvilized ideal, have steadily in- creased their hold on the German people, y As Mr. Ludwig says, Hitler in- vented nothing. All he did was add some hysterical language in bad German. It is that root evil In German thought which must some- how be reached, , 50 he attended to his duties _ home, All Sorts 0f Sports By Terence Morton A Walker Extraordinary All who are interested in the history of Durham cattle will re- call the name Barclay of Urie or Ury House, near Stonehaven, but many are perhaps unaware that besides doing much to develop the Shorthorn,"the family also pro- duced the greatest pedestrian of all times, in Captain Robert Bar- clay-Allardice, - Of the Captain's many extra. ordinary feats of endurance, his walk of 1,000 miles in as many suc- cesiye hours on Newmarket Heath In 1809 is best known. Now a thousand hours is 41 days, 16 hours, and to walk 24 miles a day for nearly six weeks, with only short snatches of rest, sounds al- most béyond human endurance, but the Captain made little of fit, and the day after finishing the ordeal he was in perfect health, . . . To give a detailed account of the Captain's performances would cover much paper. We there- fore list but a few of them at ramdom. In 1806 he walked 100 miles over rough roads in 19 hours. dxclusive of stoppages the time taken was only 171% hours, or an average of 53% M.P.H. A year later he left his house at 2 a.m, and walked a considerable dis- tance at attend a cattle sale, where he remained on his feet for five hours. He then walked home, having coyered 78 miles of hilly road in 14 hours. . . . Purely for amusement (he backed himself heavily' in many of his matches) he walked to the house of a frlend in Allenmore In Aberdeenshire, where he dined and slept." He rose at 5 to go grouse shooting and tramped at least thirty miles in the mountains, He dined with hls host and in the evening set out for Ury, a distance of 60 miles, which he ac- complished in 11 hours without stopping. The Captain was not one to go to bed in the morning, and that afternoon walked 16° miles to Laurencekirk, where he at- tended a ball and danced most of the night. Returning to Ury by Lom. he spent the day partridge shooting. Supposing he walked only 8 miles when shooting at he must. have .covered- at- least 130 miles all told, plus being out of b ed for two nights and nearly three days, to make no men- tion of a night's dancing. * . Much could be writtén of the Caplain's powers as a middle-dis- tance and distance runner; as a" weight lifter, having once lifted 1155 1bs.; as a boxer and trainer of pugilists. He prepared Alex- ander Mackay to meet Simon Byrne for the championship, but alas the fight proved fatal for Mackay, and it is believed--but was never proven--that Barclay was s0 chagrined at the result that he challenged Byrne and thrashed him, VOICE PRESS THAT TEARS IT "Dad's old suit," says a Journal headline, "can blossom into smart outfit for milady." Could, perhaps, except that Dad is wearing It. --Ottawa Journal. is HE NEVER GIVES UP Armchair strategists have pre- dicted that the war wlll last any- where from three months to nine the Pelangio. PELANGIO LARDER Borders Chesterville to the east for approximately one "and one-half miles. Diamond drilling now under way on- GEORGE CHAPMAN & CO. 200.BAY ST. -- TORONTO. The Constantine Arch. ROME: At left is the Tiber, in background St. Peter - h h The Colosseum. Sack by Germans or Liberation by Allies? Fate of Eternal City Remains Uncertain 's and Vatican City. i t ? wb TH : a0 aa An » ait 1 Victor Emmanuel monument. OTTAWA REPORTS That The Contribution of Qur Farms In The War Effort Is Of Ever Growing Importance. Remarkable agricultural develop- ments have taken place in Canada during the four war years. To pro- vide food for Canada's armed forces and to meet the increased 'requirements of the people of the United Kingdom has been a major Job which has been recognized as an invaluable alhievement. * . * Canada's -accomplishment has been summarized -by Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, as follows: "We have armed de- fensive and offensive forces rapid- dy approaching a million men, More than 7,000,000 of our people over 16 years of age are producing to maintain and save the lives of as many as possible of the million who will defend our 'way of life. About one-third of this 7,000,000 are engaged in producing food on our farms. They are part of that great body of the men and women who are necessary to maintain the fighting force which Is doing the most important job of the mo- ment." ) There are many. other accom- plishments, however, not so well known, although nonetheless vital to the well-being and offensive power of sailors, soldiers and air- men in every theatre of war. As years before the Axis folds up. In- teresting predictions might be of- fered, also, as to when the arm- chair strategists will fold up. -- Christian: Sciénce Monitor. wy THE DUCK HUNTERS The poor duck hunter in his blind 1s chilled In front and wet he- hind! It's seven hours since he fed, And twenty since he's been to bed. It's cost him near a hundred bucks- To hide here from the silly ducks, ; Which presently, ere day dawns dim, Will rise and hide themselves , from him! --The Dunnville Chronicle, Yo -- OVERHEARING BEST + 'What *they hear isn't as helpful to our enemles as what they over- hear, ' --Kitchener Record. the areas of battle have beém ex- tended, the dependence of the armed forces on the farm home front has increased, and this de- pendence extends from clothing and personal equipment to the weapons of war. . - . . The war, too, has demonstrated the necessity of a close hond be- tween agriculture and industry, In- dustrial production is closely de- pendent on agricultural output and the mechanized agriculture of to- day nedds industry as an for its surplus production. The de- mands of war have taxed the in- genulty of Canada's s plant - breeders; - botanists, entom- ologists, pathologists and others, in developing new crops and in combating the insects and diseases that might destroy them in the fields or in storage. From farm to battlefront there is a continuous struggle to safeguard the high quality 'of the products, Ad - * The foundation for the multi- plicity of war coutributions hy Canada's farms is largely seed, outlet * scientists-- - theréfore it is important that good seed be used. During the progress of the war, many sources of seed have been cut off, but home pro. duction has been developed with the result that most seed formerly imported now is produced jn Cane ada, It is equal in quality to that which was imported. Flax for fibre and flax for oil are which have been outs standing in Canada for the great Increase in production for war pur Crops poses, Whereas only about 8,000 acres were planted to fibre flax in 1930, there were close to 50,000 acres of it this year, chiefly in eastern Ontario and western Ques bee. The product of this flax fibre is linen which has many war uses, Flaxseed ofl has Industrial uses, such as in paints, linoleums and" other products, but it is indispens- able in munitions manufacturing, for all shells and bombs are coat. ed in oil and the flaxseed oil which Canada "has developed is equal to any in the world. This year close to 18,000,600 hushels of this seed are expected from about 2,798,000 acres; LIFE'S LIKE THAT - ZF p> i "Every time | call signals somebody up there yells, 'BINGO'! |" By GENE BYRNES - LAND THEN, IN 1620 THE BRAVE PILGRINS REACHED OUR SHORES AND LANDED ON PLYMOUTH ROCK! PLEASE TEACHER (VE See PLYMOUTH Rock! [SAW 1T ONCer WHEN \ VISITED MY GRAN FATHER WELL HOW Nice PINHEAD! SUPPOSE You DRAW A PICTURE OF \T FOR THE CLASS, AND {LL PIM AT ON