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PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 The Oshawa Daily Times iY Succeeding . THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER bs (Established 1871) K- independent newspaper published every wee a ri except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres.; A. R. Alloway. - Managing Director 8 Oshawa Daily Times is & member of the BT Daily Newspapers Association the On- | * Sario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of | Circulations. 4. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 10 cents per week: $2.60 for six months, or $5.20 « per year if paid in advance. mail anywhere in Canada carrier delivery limits) $125 for three months, $2.26 for six months, or $4.00 per year if paid in | advance. . By mail to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable strictly in advance. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940 Jews Are Aiding Britain Spreading malicious rumours regarding Jewish war effort is just another of those (outside Oshawa . Cadet Training to be More Popular Strange effect of the new war to date and one which will be noted with interest in Oshawa, is the change in public senti- ment about cadet training in schools. Fol- lowing the last war, opinion was strong . against the continuation of this training and various 'corps in high schools and col- legiate institutes were disbanded and boys turned their attention to other activities. Opponents of school cadets argued that it savoured of militarism. Now, new Ontario Department of Educa- tion regulations contain recommendations that all boys in the last two years of high school receive thirty minutes' physical training each school day, even if it re- quires an extension of the school day. While cadet work is not specified, the Minister of 'Education believes many schools will start cadet training in the fall, and this, of course, will furnish the necessary physical training which has pre- vailed for many years in Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Nazis May Attack Gibraltar hal Sas ; This map shows how the Axis powers are reported to be preparing to assault Gibraltar, the mighty fortress that guards the entrance to the Mediterranean. Spain's entrance into the war is reported hinging on FLEET AWAITS ATTACK ORDER AGAINST ITALY British Officers Sure Duce's Ships Will Not Fight Till Cornered naiexandria, Egypt, July 18 -- The Eastern Mediterranean squadron of the Royal Navy was back in Alex- andria standing by for new orders to carry the fight to the Italian Fleet, which the British squadron put to hasty flight after an "accl- dental" encounter a week ago. I was permitted to go aboard. the Britich ships writes Larry Alan, A. P. news writer, and talk to the men, who told at first hand how the Ital. fan Fleet fled to safety through the Straits of Messina beween Sicily and Italy, after briefly exchanging shots at long range upon encountering the British ships off Calabria, toe of the Italian boot. x The Britons said they were con=- voying ships from Malta to Alexan. | dria on the afternoon of July 8 when | they got word that the Italian Fleet Leaflet Raids Justified By Successes of R.A.F. In Bombing of Germany Enabled Pilots to Famili arize Selves With Ter- rain and Drop Explosives On Targets London, July 18 -- When war came some military authorities con- ceded Britain's Royal Air Force little chance against Germany's luftwaffe, pampered darling of the Nazi high command and tempered by service in Spain's civil war. Ten and a half months later these authorities have changed their minds. Scanning the British records they find the one-time step-child of the fighting services has destroyed 2,548 German aircraft and made 295 successful bombing attacks on mili- tary objectives in Germany, As German guns frown on the English Channel and Hitler's troops mass for the attack, the Royal Air Force, veteran of thousands of bat- tles over the war-pocked landscape of Europe,'and carver of hundreds of jagged scars in Germany's indus- There have been perhaps 300 other raids on German military objectives in Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Way sve they succeeded? y do they fly over Germany night after night pit return with what announcements describe as "minor losses " One officer explained it: "Leaflet raids did fit, Everyone laughed at them last fall, but they taught pilots routes, flying condite ions and German an!i-aircraft bate tery tactics, Crews learned Ger. many until it was as familiar to them as Britain, When the time came for bombings we usually could find our way through to objectives." Fighter pilots, the Great War's "Knights of the Air," are a sober and workmanlike lot in the second Great War, Service, Not Maw Gone are the days of single come bat, nights of he-man drinking. The Air Ministry has steadily deprecated individual exploits. "The service, not the man," is its guiding maxim, wae at sea, and turned about to hunt | tria] regions, emerges as one of Nevertheless fighter pilots reap Italy's success in the Mediterranean. a | 0 § SRS F EPERR LI EE ay vo » as important as exercise. \ Nazi tricks to undermine Canadian morale. Anyone familiar with the propgganda tac- tics used in Germany will recognize the method. Agents are "planted" on crowded street cars and in other ways facilitating whispering campaigns across the country. And the sad part many unsuspecting Can- adians have assisted by repeating these rumours and sometimes exaggerating them. In France some 60,000 Jews, many of them refugees, joined the colours. In Palestine almost every able-bodied man, 135,000 in number, registered for service on the side of the Allies. Commenting on the Jewish war effort in England, William J. White, noted American correspondent, writes: "When I left the States, the following joke was current: The guy asks you if you have heard the name of the new Jewish war song. So you say no, What? So he says, 'Onward Christian Soldiers," and at this point everyone is supposed to laugh. "Only no ope over here would laugh now, because it is so completely untrue that it wouldn't raise a smile. "My London hotel is fairly new, conveni- jent, comfortable, and very inexpensive. For the last two reasons it is patronized by many refugees who have managed to escape Germany, Poland and Czechoslo- vakia, who have to be very careful with what little money they have managed to squeeze through the teeth of the Nazi fine- tooth comb. "They are of all ages, but the thing which you can't help noticing is that every Jewish boy or man anywhere near military age is in uniform. Furthermore, since I have got the hang of the new British in- signia, I notice that practically all of them are in the infantry, which, let it be re- membered, is no branch of the service to get into unless you are really looking for trouble and anxious to find it, which most of these kinds obviously are." Through the Canadian Jewish Congress the Jews are well organized for war work and have made valuable contributions to the many "auxiliary services, patriotic funds, and so forth. No official figures are available in regard to Jewish enlistment, but it is known that Jews are well repre- sented in all branches of the service. One Canadian Jew who has distinguished himself in action against the Nazis is Fly- ing Officer William Henry Nelson, of Montreal, who has been awarded the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross and has been twice congratulated by His Majesty for his achievements at Sylt and Stavanger. It would be well to investigate, through reliable sources, any rumours that may be spread 'regarding the Jewish war effort. At any rate, it would be helping Hitler to repeat any of them. Be Moderate in Everything " The Health League of Canada sounds a timely warning by reminding those who are going on their summer vacation that one of the quickest ways to spoil the effects of a holiday is to take exercise too strenu- 'ously. If you are a sedentary worker of middle- age, don't imagine that the holiday mir- aculously enables you to plunge into day- long outdoor sports and compete success- fully with much younger persons. Start your exercise gradually, and don't mind resting when you are tired. Rest is quite Maybe a day spent fishing would you more good than I! a day spent in ¥iolent exercise. Over-exercise of the digestive organs is as bad or worse than over-exercising the muscular system, the Health League states.' "Don't eat just for the sake of eating, eat when you are hungry. Do everything in moderation," | Canada Again Welcomes U. S. Tourists Vacation-planning citizens of the United States who have been looking to the Cana: dian border as the gateway to a glorious ° holiday will welcome the news that crossing this boundry is still a simple matter. No passport is required of them by either country. However, the United States now asks them for proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or an affidavit of birth by a blood relative, upon their return. Word from Ottawa is that tourists may buy what they please in. Canada and take away with them money left over. Thus, with war having closed ocean lanes once popular for cruises and with favorable ex- change rates, Canada is greeting many visi- tors from her neighbor to the south and both nations are continuing in the tradition of goodwill and understanding which for over a century has marked relations be- tween them. To the angler this news is particularly encouraging, for, as Outdoorsman Ben East points out in an article in the current Rotarian Magazine, one of the greatest fishing areas left on the North American Continent lies in Canada. It's the Algoma country of Ontario, lying just above the east end of Lake Superior. 'There are rivers where you can take walleyes on every cast with a chunk of pork rind," says this writer. "Other rivers where it's nor- thern pike in place of walleyes, and the fishing is every bit as good. = The lakes? More of 'em than are shown on any map, more than you or any other man can name. And in scores and hundreds of em nobody save maybe a roving prospector or bush trapper has ever dipped a fishhook. "Go whenever you can," he urges. "Some of the greatest trout fishing in the world awaits you, Spring to Fall, up there beyond the highway's end. You'll fight square- tails until your wrist aches and eat 'em until your eyes bulge. It's a brand of thrills that's worth going half around the earth to get, the fishing in these brawling wild rivers and dark lakes of the green Algoma bush." Editorial Notes A " A room without books is a body without a soul.--Cicero. If you want the city to look its best don't throw rubbi%h on the street. Your king and country need you. The -Ontario Regiment is again making an ap- peal. Oshawa will be a recruiting centre. A family in New York State admits to having been on relief for the past twenty- six years. They evidently were making a career of it. Some satisfaction may be derived from the quiet preparation being made by the Canadian National Exhibition for the an- nual show in Toronto next month. Far from interrupting the country's wark work, the Exhibition will really enhance our ef- fort by helping to reveal in part what in- dustry and agriculture is doing in co- ordinating the effort of individual citizens into a national contribution. Everybody likes to have a look once in a while at what the other fellow is doing, and the Exhibi- tion gives them such an opportunity. A Bible Thought for Today RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good* and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.--Micah 6:8, FRANCE DIDN'T REALIZE DANGER Failed to Call Up Enough Men to Meet Germans, View of Andre Maurois | | | Montreal, July 18 -- Andre Maur- | | ois, noted author who was French | official eyewitness wich the British Expeditionary Force in France, sald today that lack of men and a "fool. | ish" understanding of Germany's striking power led to the French col. lapse. "We should have realized that the tanned, dapper writer said in an interview, , "That was a grave mistake." > Maurols, commissioned as a cap- tain, had been atiached to BEF. headquarters at Arras as liaison of- ficer, a job he held in the World War. He arrived here last week- end to join "his wife, who previously fled Frnce. "We were s0 optimistic, we didn't realize how fast and how much the Germans worked and we struck to the old idea that defence was better than offence," said Maurois. "Even today, I can't understand how it all happened. n "The last few months have taught us one lesson -- that the time fac- tor is the most important thing. Ten divisions today are better than 200 divisions in a year's time. Look. ing back I realize that part of the disas.er was due to the fact that the fisrt seven or eight months were mostly wasted." Maurols said that as the Ger- 10 the BEF. moved. forward to Louvain. Four days later the BEF. started to retreat. "We couldn't un- ized it was because the Germans dan." Real Trouble and then the real trouble started. population began to panic. The Germans knew how to cause one, too. Just one bomb in each litle village and hamlet, and within an | hour the places were deserted and the roads were choked with fleeing, terrified evacuees. We couldn't move. "I don't think the British army ever fought better," Maurois said, "but there were refugees along the slow retreat through Arras to Am- lens." It wae at Amiens that Maur. ols saw the Welsh Guards making a desperate stand against the ade vance units of the German mobi- lized forces. On June 10, sald Maurois, his Government sent him to London to make an appeal to the British people and to explain the desperate situation. For 10 days he worked hard -- "I got a magnificent re- sponse," the author added. "But on June 20, I think it was, the armistice was signed. My work was finished." Maurols was demobilized immedi- ately and he decided to join his wife who had escaped to Portugal, thence to this continent. He will leave here shortly for Boston to de- liver a series of lectures at the Lowell Institute. The author said he thought the threatened German invasion of Brit. ain would be beaten off because the British spirit never had reached a higher level -- and that is a big thing." W. G. Hunt Victim ~ Of Heart Attack Peterboro, July 18 -- Resident op- erating engineer of the Peterboro filtration plant for many years, Wil. liam George Hunt died suddenly at his Smith Township home Tuesday night, after suffering a heart at- tack while seated at the dinner table. ; Mr, Hunt joined the staff of the Utilities Commission in 1910, and in 1917 was placed in charge of the filtration plant, where he wag large. ly instrumental in perfecting the operating methods. A native of England, he came to Peterboro 33 years ago, He became prominent in fraternal circles, and was an ac:ive member of Peterboro Lodge, AF. and AM, and Court Peterboro, Can- adian Order of Foresters. what we wanted was men and more | men, but we didn't ask for them," | mans marched into Belgium May | derstand it then, but alter we real- | had broken the French line at Se- | Back the BEF, went to Brussels | "It was about this time the civilian | To Raise New Platoon Veterans' Home Guard | | Peterboro, July 18.--Another pla- toon of the Vpterans' Home Guard | is to be raised in Peterboro im- mediately, according to an an- nouncement by Major G. F. Arm- sirong, M.C., officer commanding | No. 3 Company. Recruiting started yesterday with the object of enlist- | ing 40- men for permanent duty. Recruits, who are required to be under 50 years of age, must be | veteritas of the Great War with | overseas service. | RCAMC. TAKES OVER HOSPITAL Built in England by Cana.| dian Red Cross--in Buckinghamshire London, July 18 -- The modern | $1,000,000 Canadian Red Cross Hos- | pital built by contributions of the | people of the Dominion was handed | over to the Royal Canadian Army | Medical Corps at a formal ceremony. | In the quiet Buckinghamshire countryside where it is situated, the splendidly equipped building was | presented by Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett to Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian high commissioner, who accepted it on behalf of the Canadian Gov- | ernment. It was immediately turned | over to Col. R. M. Luton, director- general of the Canadian Medical Services. Now it is ready for its work of mercy and healing. One ward al- ready has a handful of patients -- boys of the R.CAM.C, unit which is staffing the hospital. They are suffering from flu or colds. Col. C. L. T. Ar.hur, of Winni- | peg, 18 in command of the unit and the matron in charge of the nws- | na sisters is Miss J. Machray, of | Winnipeg, Le-uen. A. 'G. L. McNaughton, the Canadian commander, Sir Ed- ward Peacock, Canadian-born di- rector of the Bank of England, and Viscount and Viscounless Astor, on whose estate the hospital has been built, were among the notables at- tending the presentation ceremony held beneah the porch of the main entrance of the big brick and steel structure. Fifty comely Canadian nurses, wearing atiractive blue and white uniforms, were lined up on both cides of the entrance, with a de- 'tachment of the R.C AM.C. beyond. Chairman | Col. George Nasmith was chair- | man, while Capt. J. G. Brown, of | Sheridon, Man., padre of the unit. offered a prayer of blessing for the hospital. Mr. Bennett paid tribute to the work done by members of the Can. adian Red Cross advisory commit- tee in connection with the hospital, among them Dr. Thomas Cotton of Toronto, a consultant at the war office, He also thanked two anony- mous donors -- one who contributed the estimated cost of the originally- planned 300-bed hospital (the pres- ent one can hold as many as 750 men) and another who contributed the approximate cost of the equip- ment, The former Canadian prime minister expressed the hope that those using it might find solace, peace and comfort. If some of them were beyond human ald, he said, "it will not be forgotten that their dust has made some part of this dear island forever Canada." Mr. Massey, accepting the hospital, said "the achievements of the Can. adian Red Cross have made a con- tribution to our war effort which it is impossible to measure" and as- serted that "no unit of its kind any- where will surpass it." Picton Man, Aged 90 Plants Own Garden Picton, July 18.--Still hale and hearty, E. P. 'Stanton yesterday marked his 90th birthday at hig home here. Surrounding his home is a large garden which he planted and cultivates himself, All his life was spent in Prince Edward County, where he fermed in Athol Township, where he was born, Before the death of his wife seven years ago, they celebrated their | ly accidental," golden wedding anniversary. it. The officer of one battleship said: "We first sighted the Italian Fleet, vastly superior in number to our units, at extreme range, The Ital- fans opened fire first, but did not hit any of our ships. "Most of their fire was directed upon this ship, which had steamed ahead of the other units of the Brit- ish Fleet. "Our destrc-ert and cruisers also | opened fire, ariving off a flotilla of enemy destroyers which was at- tempting to torpedo us. "Our ship scored a hit on one of the Italian battleships. "Subsequently the fire from our cruisers s:ruck one Italian cruiser and one destroyer. Immediately afterward the Italians retired under a smoke screen laid down by their destroyers. "We pursued, and were incessantly atlacked by Italian bombers, who dropped close to 200 bombss with- } out scoring a hit. "We followed the Italian Fleet al- most to the mainland, then turned back toward Egypt, the Italian bombers keeping up their attacks until we were within radius of our fighting planes from Egypt. "The Itallans were vastly super for in numbers and the operating speed of their ships -- both of cruis- | ers and of battleships -- proved to | be much faster than ours." | The British naval command is- sued a statement ridiculing Italian accounts which called the encounter a "stupendous victory" for Italy. Actually, the statement said, the Italians quickly retired under the protection of thelr air forces to their own coasts, "where they stood for one brief moment to engage the British Fleet a' extreme range." "Within gq few minutes, the ac- curacy of fire of the British Fleet- forced them to retire at full speed under cover of their coast de. fenses, and the British Fleet was left as master of the battlefield." The statement said at least twenty Italian planes were sho! down, fif- teen of them by naval anti-aircraft'| guns. | The British officers to whom I | talked said the encounter was "pure- and expressed the belief that the only way they ever will get a réal chance to smash the Italian Fleet will be to force the fight directly into the Italian shore bases. Officers and men said they were eager to get a better crack at the Italians, but that the foe appeared bent on purely "hit-and-run" tac- tice. None of the British ships showed the slightest sign of damage. JEWS DISAYED BY WAR RULINGS Reduce Number Entering U.S. From Germany-- Many Rejected Berlin, July 18 -- eJwish people in Germany look with increasing dismay at a combination of war circumstances and United States state department regulations affect- ing their deparure from the Reich. The two factors, it was sald are cutting down the number of Jewish emigrants to the United States. Several Jews sald they had been on the point of receiving visas, had sold their furniture and other properties and even bought rall- way and steamship tickets, when they were abruptly rejected. They said the new line of ques- tioning was evidently based on Yate and July 10. fears in the United States of Fifth Column operations. - Take Special Care Reliable sources said there was no new line of questioning involved but | that recent instructions from the | state department in Washingon ad. vised "special care" to pass only ap- plicants capable of becoming true Americans, Transportation troubles also hind. er emigrants. The European coun- tries, along with the Italian en- trance Into the war, combined to cut off all but the most circuitous routes to the United Staes. 4 Moreover, no visas are being is- sued to 'prospective emigrants un- less they are assured they have a way of leaving Germany. A few are finding their way through Siberia, but delay In make ing transportation and the slow journey often cause the four- months' visas to expire en route, leaving the emigrants stranded. Britain's outstanding weapons and bulwarks against invasion, The war-time picture of their R. A. F's achievements -- its aircraft its men, its traditions, its heroes-- has to be put together from sources both official and unofficial. Barrage For Months Figures on R. A. F. battle accom. plishments are supplied by the air ministry, but the ministry of aircraft production does not discuss figures, Estimates of how many planes Brit- ain has and is making 'or buying have. to comp from neutral sources. The R. A F.'s bombers, particu- larly Wellingtons (known to their crews as SWimpies"), Hampdens and Blenheims Nqave since May 10 main- d ninety-five separa.e attacks wexg carried out on military objectives in the two months bet Compa this wholesale desiruction, Gi bombings of British shipping industry are rated here as me bee stings against clashes of the jon's paw. A four-sided area on the map of Germany connecting Aachen, Gob- lenz, Osnabrueck and Emmerich, has been pounded and smashed night after night. In this area are Germany's heavy industries which feed munitions and material to her armies, The third Reich's most im- portant railways criss-cross it, Here are items from R.A.F. score sheet against towns in that area: "Hamm bombed 14 times. Direct hit with heavy bomb on Krupp arms works. Soest (an important rail- way junction) bombed seven times. Cologne bombed 15 times; direct hits on chemical works observed." "Book of Bombings" These are samples culled from the "Boeck cf Bombings." Four inches thick, it concerns only Germany. | the richest praise, They have ace counted for most of the 2548 Gers man planes shot down--"known to be destroyed" is the Air Ministry's phrase--from the outbreak of the war to July 11. Bombers pounding airfields such as Amsterdam's Schi. pol and Rotterdam's Waalhaven have destroyed many more grounded planes. : Despite rigid rules on formation flying and intensive training, fighte er pilots retain the old glamon Theirs are the most daring agas. The very names of the planes; Spite fire, Hurricane and Defiant, breathe drama to small boys and solid citi zens alike. Their own losses have been cone siderable. But generally they ree deem the loss of one British plane with five German aircraft. HIDES, LEATHER EXPORTS CONTROLLED All exports from Canada, of hides, kins, other than fur skins, and eather henceforth will be subject to | license by the Wartime Prices and Irie Board. All export shipments will come under the scrutiny of Maurice Samson, Hides and Leather Administrator. This order is made to ensure that adequate suypucs of raw materials and finished pro- ducts will be availedle for military and civial needs. THE CENTRE OF CONVENIENCE IN WITH A CLUB RESTAURANT OF INTERNATIONAL FAME | ( b ORUMMOND & ST. CATWERINE STREETS A 2 SUITES 150 BATHS RATES '3 4 50 |. 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