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LS RNS FCN AS v7] ERS ASN Easy a' FNC i SN 3 Cr) eo SR i a Ss SAT = ah RE SO ne a ne S SRE - * pupplies. . progress is being made In restor- © Walon, People of Russia Out To Fool Huns By Gregory Clark The Germans have won all thelr battles go far In this war by novel ty and suiprise. The people they have crushed, including such Bri- tish forces as they have bested, were people who for one reason or another were unequipped with nov- . elties and had no capacity to sur- prise the Germans. The people of France had been patiently rotted by novel and skilful political dis- sension." The British troops with >» whom [I shared the retreat in Flanders in 1940 were to all in- tents and purposes, as" far as equipment and training were con- cerned, the same troops with whom I had' been demobilized in 1919. But the reason the Russians have held out against battle-sea- goned German armies ever freshly supplied with novelties, both ma- ~yerial and intellectual,. is that the Russians themselves, at the very outset, adopted the principle of evdr doing what the enemy might expect you to do is fatal to the German character. If you creep into a room to say hoo at some- body, and somebody says boo at you, it throws you off balance. Have Surprised Germans Technically and mechanically. the Russians have astonished and suprised not only their enemies but their allies in the high develop ment of engines for ing, in their planes, transport gud tanks. In the military art, the Rus- sians have made contributions to the world history of war in we breaking: down of big armies into small armies, each complete unto itself in hoth fighting power and supply. < But in additfon to organized novelty and surprise, the Russians have for months been running a competition amongst the men, the boys, the girls and the women, every last one of whom lawfully regards himself or herself as a fighter for Russia, to see who can © think up the most outrageous sue prise for the Germans. And when you get every regiment, every hat- tery, every air squadron, every fae tory and every village and farmer competing In such a contest, the Germans are very likely to be sur- prised. Pavel Nikitin, 'one of the war correspondents of the Red Star, Russian army newspaper, * tells this: : "Not all Russians are big men. A soldier named Viaschenko, who Is still alive and kicking, is all arms and shoulders] and hardly any legs. He has developed the most extraordinary technique of long poles with boat hooks at both ends by which he travels over the roofs* of Stalingrad, crossing "streets and lanes by swinging across on his pole, and also light ropes with hooks at the end which he flings across streets from roof top to roof top, trapezing himself Almost anywhere he likes. With carbine, bomb and 10-pound pack- els of TNT, he has wrought havoc in astonished German headquart- ers and outposts; for what sentry can see a white rabbit In the snow at night? And who can see a white cloud drift amid the blizzard, high overhead? Crawls Through Sewers "With a Russian lumberjack's packsack containing 60 pounds of TNT, Vlachenko recently crawled through a sewer system, many hundreds of yards of which was believed to be in ruins, and de- stroyed a bridge immensely valu. able to the Germans in Stalingrad. He was gone two days and we thought he was killed. Then "the bridge blew up. So we had a feast ready two more days for Vlaschen- ko's return. His own explosion had given him a hemorrhage of the nose and ears and had strained his eyes in some painful fashion. But he was only four days in hos- pital, and the last 1 saw of him 'he was. rigged up in hig white nightshirt, with a new 20-foot dur- alumin pole the Engineers had 'made for him {in his hohor, and his coils of delicate rope, off for . another night's "novelty and sur- prise for the Germans in Stalin. grad." | It is not the government, the war council or the army and air command of Russia that is fights ing on our side right now. It ls all the people of Russia, No aid is too much or too good for them, Send your contribution and use your ingenuity to think up ways and means of inspiring others to send theirs to the Canadian Ald to Rus- sla Fund, 80 King St. W., Toronto. Consumer Goods . Reach North Africa 'The United States War Depart. mient sald recently that large quan- titles of American consumer goods have arrived in North Africa, These supplies, the 'department " #ald, have relleved the urgent need of food, clothes, fuel and medical It reported also that '4ng normal economic life. Fuel has Been supplied for fishing boats and farm tractors. Consumer goods 'are rationed under French super- winter fight | "shall [5 Somewhere in Alaskan waters, a N JOIN THE NAVY AND B-R-R-R! avy photographer shot this view of a big PBY patrol bomber being walked into a land berth by its Navy ground crew--up to their waists in ice-speckled, freezing water, Keep Both Eyes On Winning War On August 4, 1917, Lloyd George Spoke as as Follows: While the Army is fighting so valiantly, let the nation behind it bo. patient, be strong, and, above all, united. The strain is great on nations and on individuals, and when men get overstrained temp. ers get ragged, and small griev- ances are exaggerated, and small misunderstandings and mistakes swell into mountains. Long wars, like long voyages and long jour- neys, are very trying to the temp- er, and wise men keep watch on on it and make allowances for it. There are some who are more concerned about ending the war than about winning it; and plans which lead to victory, if they pro- long the conflict, have their dis. approval, and the people who are responsible for such plans have their condemnation, £ Let us keep our eve steadily on the winnhg of the war. May I say let us keep both eyes? Some have a cast' in their eye, and while one eye is fixed truly on victory, the other is wandering around to oth- er issues or staring stonily at some pet or partisan project of thet own. Beware of becoming cross eyed! Keep both eyes on victory. Look neither to the right nor to the left. That is the way we shall win. If any one promotes' national distrust or disunion at this hour, he 18 helping the enemy and hurt- ing his native land. And it makes no difference whether he is for or against the war. As a matter of fact, the hurt is deeper if he is for the war, because whatever the pure pacifist says Is discount- ed, and, as far as the war Is ¢8n- cerned, discredited. Let there be one thought in every head. If you sow distrust, discontent, disunlon in the nation we shall reap defeat. If, on the other hand, we sow the sceds of patience, confidence, and unity, we garner In victory and its fruits. The last ridges of a climb are always the most trying to the nerves and .to the heart, but the real test of great endurance and courage is the last few hundreds or scores of feet in a climb up- wards. The climber who turns back when he is almost there never becomes a great mountain. eer, and the nation that turns back 'and falters before It reaches its purpose never becomes a great people. You have all had exper- fence In climbing, no doubt--per- ha In Wales. Any mountaineer can start; any sort of mountaineer can go part of the way; and very often the poorer the mountain- eer, the greater Is his ardor when he does start; but fatigue and danger wear out all but the stout- est hearts, and even the- most stout-hearted sometimes fail when they come to precipice. But If they do turn back and afterwards look up and see how near they had got to the top, how -they curse the faint-heaited. ness which bade 'them give up 'when they were so near the goal! Britons To Draw. _ Belts Still Tighter ---- Britons are going to he asked to tighten their bolts a few more notches, the Food Ministry said in announcing that reductions will be made in food, rations, but added that the process will be so gradual it may not be noticeable for some time. Reductions will begin Jan, 11 and will be sprea 'over six months, reduction was not announced im: mediately, The move will make more shipping space available for the war materials, the last slippery" - Extent of th¢ Britain Takes War Work To. Workers Small war factories are operat- ing In many tumble-down buildings in Britain, and thousands more nay be opened soon in empty shops, barns and cowsheds, dere- let churches, mission halls, and garages. The Ministry of Supply, Labor . and Production, in London, plan to give work to 750,000 married women able to "do part-time tasks of a simple kind near. their homes. Part-time work is now done by 250,000 women and a million more are needed. : - 'Fhe . obstacle is that most of those who want parttime work _ live in rural and urban areas away from factories. The plan Is to take the factories to the workers. Navy To Have New Ration Kit - Emergency Food Containers for All Life Rafts A better chance of survival for shipwrecked sailors huddled on life rafts. was held out not long ago, thanks to a food-holding de- vice evolved through 'research - work carried out by officers of the Royal Canadian Navy, : Naval headquarters announced that a new "emergency ration con- ----E sand all the other belligerents are - prospective output of United States ms iy U. S. 1943 Budget 100 Billion Dollars More Than All Other Bel ligerents Spending In Year' The most expensively worded book in history--the United States Budget which will call for cash spending of more than $100,000, 000,000 in the next fiscal year-- went to press last week. Because it Is also one of the big- gest and most complicated books published each year, ft will not be ready for public reading until Jan. 11, when clerks will read the introduction to both houses: of Congress, ' Containing about 1,000 pages of fine type, the annual financial blueprint of the Federal Govern- ment will be primarily a bill, ten- dered as part of the price of vie- tory. 7 The document will contain a few million dollars for routine things like forest conservation or beetle control, but the direct war costs for the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, and simi- lar activities, alone, are about $100,000,000,000, " That's about $30,000,00,000 more than is being spent in the current fiscal year, which will end June 30, 1943. It's about four times as much: as was spent by the United States in the. World War, It's more than England and Germany, spending, a year, put together. At that, officials said, the only" reason the figure wasn't bigger is that it represents the largest sum which the experts believe can be spent in a year, considering the war factories. Winged Cannon We will some day see aircraft that are simply winged artillery pieces, says Collier's. They will go along with ground troops and armored forces, doing much of the work now handled by big mobile rifles and howitzers. - . © The biggest cannon has a range of twenty miles or so; a smaller 'piece mounted on a plane has a range equal to that of the plane, plus a little. Hundreds of miles, in other ivords, The Bell P-39, with a 20 or 37-millimeter can- non in the nose, is a sample. The Russians have used it to destroy German tanks in quantity. The Russians have another ship of their own which operates simil- arly. . . "A 37-mm. shell from a plane is just as deadly as one fired from the ground, generally speak- ing, and the aerial cannon is much easier to move around. It can go find a tank, rather than wait for a tank to find it. The flying cannon of tomorrow will be stable, enough to allow more accurate 'The rooster that crows Ss aiming than is possible now, . Hang On Tightly To That Rooster He May Be Needed To Wak en You At Crack of Dawn It you are still lucky enough to. possess a rooster, then hagg on to him and encourage chanticleer to herald the dawn, says the Ham- ilton Spectator. The disturbing fact ls that alarm clocks are be- coming scarce and may soon be as rare as a heaping sugar bowl, ! may yet 'be something more than a neigh- borhood nuisance. Not only are no more civilian alarm clocks being made by most - manufacturers, but the supply of. them has been largely exhausted in wholesale and retall circles. Considerable 'brass and copper went into the production of alarm clocks, and these are now. essen- tial war materials. Germany and Japan used to supply the world market with many sueh clocks, but the last thing the AxI¥ desires to do right now is furnish the democracies with any device that contributes to their alertness and gets fe workers to their jobs on time. One company is turning out a plastic alarm clotk which re- quires only a little steel for its inner mechanism, but this product goes only to the fighting services. Some neighbors' radios can be depended upon to wake up the soundest sleepers at a regular hour every morning; hut once it be- "tomes known that this is viewed as a service of convenience it will no doubt be diseontinued prompt- Iy. A vain and lusty rooster there- fore appears to be the last hope when your alarm clock finally glves up Yhe ghost and there are no more spare parts available to make it tick. ' : War Tomatoes Replacing Roses In the glasshouses where roses and' carnations bloomed in peace time, British flower farmers hope to produce this year 50,000 tons of tomatoes. They are also growing great 'quantities of out- door food crops, One nursery alone, whose out< put in 1939 was entirely of cut flowers, produced last year 950 tons of tomatoes, 125,000 let- tuces, 320 tons of sugarbeets, 100 tons of onions and 75 tons of carrots, all from glasshouses or from land previously planted with flower crops. | This year 82% of. the nursery's total glass area is planted with tomatoes and 80% of jts outdoor growth is growing food crops. Since the war Britain's flower industry. has been controlled by "horticultural cropping orders and its employees are reserved at the age of 30 only if they are en- gaged on food production. tainer" has been devised and adopt ed. It is regarded so favorably that United States and British naval authorities have asked for specifications and may adopt fit. All life rafts_now will be stock- ed with the new containers which include water in specially designed ilns which will not rust nor break even at 15 degrees below zero, chocolate bars which will stand heat to 212 degrees without melt- "Ing, chocolate tablets, concentnat- ed biscuits. Nl The ration kit is no bigger than a woman's overnight bag and is coated with salt-water-resisting paint. The water can holds 16 ounces of water of a formula which will not cause rust. A food container to go Inside the kit Is a little bigger than a sardine can and holds 12 choco- late tablets, each 70 per cent. whole milk; two bars of chocolate, enough to last-a man 'two days. All foods are processed to stand up to ster illzation without spoiling. It {8 proposed to put four Kits on each 10-man raft and eight on each 20-man raft, lashed into spe- cial compartments. With 25,000 - kits on order the work of re-equip- ping rafts is expected to proceed. Bach kit contains eight tins of water, eight tins of food and eight packets of extra food In the form of sealed milk tablets. "Eat slowly" is hte only diree- tion given on the container. This is necessary because of the high caloric content of the food. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher X 7 . C2 RR A Se 7 7 "1 have this trouble every winter. « + « People demand their coffee. steaming hot!" THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Shipments of Fuel To Africa May Be Decisive War. Factor battleship Lorraine (22,189 tons), Shipment of large quantities of-- fuel to French Africa has caused * drastic restriction in the sale of gasoline in the 'Eastern States, says The Christian Science Moni- tor, These measures for the con. "servation of gasoline have offic- fally cut pleasure driving and. con- siderably hampered economic ac. tivity of large parts of the Ameri- can population. Yet these restrictions have been necessary to stabilize Anglo-Amer- ican conquest of vitally important positions" in French North and West' Africa. 'The United "States military administration needs large quantities of material and fuel not only to supply the Anglo- American fighting forces but re-equip disarmed French ty and to restore economic life in these regions, - . Recent reports from French Af- rica indicate that these large-scale American shipments to Africa may contribute to bring about a com- plete change in the balance of forces in the Mediterranean and in the South Atlantic. French' mil itary and economic power in Af- rica will be increasingly mobil ized and put into the service of the United Nations. New French Army The most important item in the framework of this mobilization is the organization of a new French army under the command of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. Vichy disposed of 150,000 colonial troops in North .and West Africa which, however, were poorly equipped. They particularly lacked anti-tank , and anti-aircraft guns, planes, tanks and other 'modern material. Only a small part of the French army so far has received modérn American equipment and only some regiments are operat- Ing with the Anglo-Americans on the Tunisian front, The bulk of the French Army has remained in Its cantonments in Algeria and Morocco and hag to be reorganized and restrained for modern warfare. In the meantime immediate mo- bilization of the classes 1934-1939 (men from 23 to 20 years) has been ordered in order to re-enforce the new French army. This means that if sufficient American war material is made available a French army of approximately 200,000 men will fight side by side with the Anglo-American forces In Africa. More than 1,000 exper- lenced French war pilots are said to be In North Africa and will be re-trained for service. They are being armed with fast new Ameri. | can fighter planes. - ight Yet re-organization and re-train- ing of so large an army, mostly composed of North African and Senegalese troops, takes time. The Axis 1s well aware of this diffi- culty and is hurrying men and ma- terial to North Africa. It is likely that Hitler will attempt not only to strengthen his hold on Tunisla, but even to throw the Anglo- Americans out of North Africa he- fore mobilization of the new French army is completed, The struggle for North Africa has just 'begun. -- French -Naval Units Meanwhile the Frenck naval Bquadron at Dakar ang the rem- 'nants of the French Fleet in North African ports are likely to operate, with the Anglo-American: units in the near future. Admiral Sir -An- drew Cunningham, United Nations naval 'commander in North Afri. can waters, disclosed that already several small units of the French Fleet, probably destroyers, are helping Allied warships to convoy supply. ships in the Mediterranean, While the restoration of the two big battleships Richelieu and Jean Bart, (each of 35,000 tons), both heavily: damageq by British and American naval guns and planes, will take long months, a force of three modern cruisers (each of 7,600 tons) at Dakar and two smaller cruisers at Casablanca 1s probably available at once. So are halt a dozen destroyers, 10 to 15 submarines and a large number of supply vessels which had been: laying at Dakar and in North Afri can ports, The disarmed, French squadron at Alexandria, comprising the old four cruisers, several destroyers and submarines, m'zht also be re- fitted and induced to join the Un. ited Nations forces. Allled Ships Interned It appears, however, that . French commanders are not anxious to bring their larger ships into the battle line, Not only are they reluctant to put themselves under British or American mand but, after the scuttling of the bulk of France's naval forces at Toulon, they consider it their duty to-keep at least some rem- nants of the once proud French fleet out of war, Appropriate guarantees for replacement of lost ships on the part of the United . Nations might dissipate these ap- prehensions. France had approximately 700, 000 to 800,000 tons of French mer- chant shipping 'in the Mediter- ranean which did not fall into Axis, hands, Vichy-France, more- over, interned 35 Allied ships ot 120,000 tons. Yet In recent months the Vichy Government leased 400, com-- « 000 tons of their ships to Fascist | Italy. In November, 1942, the interned Allied merchant vessels were handed over to the Axis, accord. ing to a statement of the British Ministry for Economic Warfare. The number of ships operating under the.. French flag between France and North Africa and tak- en over by the United Nations after occupation of Algiers.and Morocco has not been disclosed. Admiral Cunningham, however, has stated that an agreement had been reached with French author- ities in Africa under which French merchant ships in North and West Africa would be employed, sqme directly in Allied service and some ~ to meet the economic needs of French Africa. Shipping Losses Replaced Allied spokesmen have declared that United Nations losses in"ship- ping since during landing opera- tions in North Africa have been _ completely replaced by captured French merchant vessels. It Is likely that not less than 100,008 tons of French merchant ships have fallen into Allied hands. The United Nations position 'in North Africa will be considerably eased if the American High Com- mand succeeds in reorganizing the French transportation system which has disintegrated since the defeat of France. Reports from American war correspondents in North Africa disclosed that French locomotives were worn out and that most of the French cars in North Africa had deteriorated and broken down when used by Allied troops. - Anglo-American forces, therefore, had to' rely almost en- tirely on their 'own means of transportation, which has consid- erably delayed their advance into Tunisia, : Now, however, sufficient quan. tities of vehicles are available and United Nations supplies are dispatched over the Morrocan-Al- gerian coastal railway and over the strategic highways which the Fernch had constructed in North Africa. Allled air facilities in these regions are alse rapidly improving and expanding. Stalin Is Named "Man of the Year" Joseph Stalin was named by | Time magazine as its "Man of the « Year" for 1942, ¥ "The choice of any man of the year is In no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good," P. I. Prentice, publisaer of Time, said in making the announcement, "Nor.is it a moral judgment," he added. "The two criteria for the choice are 'always these: Who had the biggest rise to fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) . or for worse (like Stalin, 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side un. leashed this world-wide war)." Time, which has been -desig- nating a "Man of the Year" since 1927, picked President Roosevelt last year and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1940, Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs "Spoiling a good trick" tor 'By Gurney. (Australia) I Take an osowary ARMY ISSUE BR{ONET- so THEY IN A Use. To woRk SAY HE CIRCUS osH, | ForGoT To TewL YER, 1 OPENED A TiN OF RAT POISON WITH THAT BAYONET THIS MORNING. eens omit