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A Churchill Crossed Atlantic As 'Mr. X' Prime Minister So Closely ¥ Guarded Few Saw Him " If German communiques an- nounced a month ago that Ger- AT naan vo ps liad suriounded Prime - Minister Churchill, Field Marshall 4 Sir Archibald Wavell and about ; 20 other high ranking British of- ficial, for once they would have n close to the truth. Churchill's ship, carrying him to the United States to attend the Washington conference with Pre- sident - Roosevelt, also had on. board nearly 400 German prison- ers of war--some of them high ranking officers, captured by ~~ Allied forces during fighting in North Africa, News of the fact Churchill had traveled in the same ship with German prisoners was withheld by censorship until today, Only a Glimpse Officers on the ship that car- ried the British Prime Minister-- \. '80 closely was he guarded they failed to catch but a glimpse of him during the entire Atlantic crossing. Even when Churchill made his frequent strolls around the bridge officers could do no more than get a fleeting glance of the cigar-puffing statesman, ! No one saw the Prime Minister J board the ship and few saw him land. During the entir '» the crew said they referred to i Churchill as "Mister X" and few believed stories that their distin. opi) . guished passenger was the British Prime Minister. Germans Derisive Canadian soldiers who accom- panied the German prisoners to this side of the Atlantic, said the men laughed derisively when they arrivéd to hear that the Allies had all but wiped out the Axis forces { : in North Africa. { "Nothing but Yankee propa- | n ganda," they told their guards. | "We all know the British will be completely knocked out of Africa within six weeks. We were told so before we were captured." The prisoners said their com- manding officers had told them ; - that "we can't lose the - fight. We'll have the British out of here in no time." i The Canadians said the prison- = ers told them that they didn't a" - expect to be in Canada long "be- cause the war would soon be over --in our favor." Eight of the prisoners almost - reached the North American con- j tinent ahead of their 400-odd mates. They managed to squeeze - through "the ship's portholes "and jumped into chilly harbor waters ~~ while the boat was still some dis- tance from sliore. They weré in- tercepted by a naval vessel and returned to the bikin ~ Artillery Masters Bomber and Tank Value or Modern Cannon Proved at Stalingrad It is now agréed by eminent military specialists that one not- _ able result of this war has been to bring the high-velocity._gun in- - to its own again, writes the Lon- don correspondent of The Ottawa Journal, The modern earmiion BtHLS| remains the queen of weapons. This was proved under:such vary- ing conditions as at Stalingrad and El Alamein. The advent of the air bomber and the tank was supposed in many quarters to have revolution- ized warfare and superseded ar- tiltery. Precisely the contrary ls the realistic fact. Both the bomb- or and the tank, though the latter much more completely than the ', former, have been mastered by 2 artillery. Even the heaviest and stoutest tanks cannot stand up to = an' efficient artillery barrage if it. is concentrated properly. hE ~The role of the 'tank still re- mains important for rapid flank- ing movements, but as an instru- ment of frontal attack it can be blown to pieces with certainty. This fulfils a prophegy made to- the writer by a former tank com- mander more than a year before this war started. Even the air bomber is being gradually master. ol ag a weapon of any precision by A.A. artillery. Bread And Butter Saved From Mold Eighty-five million pounds of butter will be protected against mold this year in the Uni So , States by impregnating wrappers f "- «and tub liners with a mold inhi. : ___ bitor developed by Du Pont chem. . ists, More of the preparation will be used than ever before to save butter from spoilage in bd warm, humid climatés. The mold freo life of butter will be tripled without changing flavor, texture, nutritional value or appearance. . The inhibitor consists of propor- tionate salts naturally present in very small amounts 'in many food: - stuffs, Three billion loaves bread will be safeguarded in 1943 by adding the salts to the dough _ visiting this port later--said-that--}- "somewhere in England." L----film-star--has flow: CLARK GABLE, MOVIE PRODUCER © Capt. Clark Gable, u. S.A A F, is pictured above, seated at the waist gun of & Flying Fortress, chatting with a couple of soldiers, aking an army training film on air gunnery. Great Britain's Forestry Plans 2,600,000 Acres To Bo Added To Forestry Resources British timber imports before the war cost over $300,000,000 wu year, home. consumption only con. tributing' four per cent of he do- mestic 'requirements, states 'the St. Thomas Times-Journal. Blr William Jowitt has announced In the House of Commons that the Government will embark upon a vigorous . forestry policy, which will one day supply one-third of national requirements, The Forestry Commislons pro- poses, with the assistance of a committee which will investigate and co-operate with private wood lands, to add 2,500,000 acres to the national forestry resources. This will take a long time, the plan being to bring to production 1,000,000" acres during tho first decade after the war, at a cost of $200,000,000, and 1,500,000 acres during the next ten years, the State bearing one-fourth of the cost of planting and maintenance until the areas become self-supporting. At the present moment the Com- > THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Should she lose this war Japan will begin to plan for another con- fifi, "Tiadiert "Avend, Jat Eastern |" correspondent and obserypriot Ja- pan's riso to military nffght, sald In a recent.address. : "The crafty calculations of the leadér in Tokyo," déclared Mf. Abend, "are to the effoct that after the United Natlons have tinally brought Hitler to uncouditional surrender, the American people and their allies will bo so war weary that they wlll insist upon "a compromise peace In the Far Jast--a compromise leaving Japan in possession of at least halt of her present gains." An inconclusive peace of this kind, Mr. Abond added, would ac- tually be a victory for Japan, "She would prepare and walt for a new opportunity and attack us agaln at some period when, In slack times of peace, we seomed to have lost most of our present allies," he wont on. | Anything Short Of All-Out Victory Will Bring Another War Upon Us In Russian Bkles The war, in, Russia' ow oak | "was predominantly A war in the' air. Both .the Luftwaffe and the Red Ale Force traded heavy blows by day and by. night. Nazl {lleva staged two massed ralds on Gorkl, upper Volga' dly noted for its automotive and munl. tions plants. A fleet of 6500 Sovlot bombers smashed back at rall junctions hehind the enemy lines in tho vicinity of Orel, Nazl astrong- point linking tho central and southern fronts. Germans' rotall- ated by raiding Yaroslav, 150 miles north-east of Moscow. Russian pl. lots countered with a secles of mighty blows at Nazl alrdromes and communications, One of these, on Thursday night, employed 700 Soviet planes in what was called the greatest Russian aorial atlack of the war, It resulted In the de- struction of 150 German planes and numerous ground installations. The scopo and ferocity of the ale Problem of Caring For War Captives Must Be Fed, Clothed, Hous ed and Carefully Guarded Think what (t means--176,000 Gorman and Italian soldiers takes prisoners in ten days or so, for "the remainder of the war to be dependent upon the United Nae tions for food, clothing, quarters, says the Ottawa Journal." Here 1s a captive army of mem equal fn numbers to the combined population of Hull and Ottawa, men, wonien "and children, It is - equal porhaps to the total able bodled male population of Toron. to. i 4 Here aro 176,000 hubky, hungry men to_he fed, to ba clothed, to get medical service when they are ill, to be provided with decent liv. ing accommodation -- above all, to bo guarded. They cannot be loft in a military zone," where an es- caped prisoner might do great harm. Ships aro noeded to supply them with the necessilles, and a considerable military forco foe puard duty. These new captives augmont onofously the problems of the vast numbers of tho hun. OTTAWA REPORTS 4 That the General Safety} of the Canadian Nation Has Been Well Served by Parliament There probably never has been a session of Parliament during which the institution which has been constituted the democratic machinery for controlipf national administration has not: been sub- jected to criticism for tardiness and verbosity. The present ses- sion of Parliament, opening Janu- ary 28 last, and just recently dealing with its War - Appropri- ation measure, is no exception. And yet, impatiently as we may hear or read lengthy dis- cussions' on this or that item of administration -- some of them admittedly of no general import- ance--it will be well for members of a democratic society to remem- ber that all of the advantages of - the British Parliamentary system are not wrapped up in its legis- lative -deliverie$--the number of new laws that are passed or old laws amended; or even in the degree of detailed attention given to items of past and proposed expenditure. = . Ll . For Parliament's biggest single advantage to the people of Can- __ada at large lies in its fulfilment of the function of a safety valve against simmering discontents, misconceptions and . misunder- standings, as well as political aberrations of one kind and an- other--some of which, after all, may be accepted as orthodox in the tomorrow. In other words, even when Parliament is not tick. "ing off actual legislative accom- plishments, it is providing to every element or group which feels itself at odds with things as_ they exist. _the- means of let ting off "steam." * A few members may be clrarg- ed with talking too much, and undoubtedly there are those who take up-a relatively large portion of Parljament"s time; some par- ticular item or measure may be debated and discussed at a length that a majority of Canadians will regard as totally unjustified by its ~ general importance; some atti- _ tudes may be adjudged to be dic- tated by "polities." And yet it seems to this observer, after " looking at Parliament for a good many years, that it all comes out right in" the "wash" of dcbate and in the ultimate excrcise of" the keen judgment of the elec- tors who-are required to pass on the personnel of their national assembly, And it has seemed over a long distance that the gen- eral safety and well being of the Canadian nation-has been pretty well served in all the processes that have gone to fill the pages of Hansard. . * This onli does not for a moment submit the view that electorate in the Canadian - ocracy can safely sit back and fail to scan and study the doings and the sayings of Its members "and 'the Ministry which happens. to be in power; indeed its urge is in the opposite direction. Only as an clectorate understands ! things can a democratic society function well. Instead of accept- ing dogmatic denunciations of the institution which is his safeguard aganist tyranny the democratic elector should be prepared to do his own thinking and arrive at his own conclusions, 3 Every one of He 245 members. who constitute the House of Com- mons is sent there by a majority vote of the people in the con- before baking. stitucncy which he represents, ¥ he speaks. The degree of inde- pendence of party which he should" or should not exhibit in the House of Commons is another subject altogether, and worth consider- ing, but from the standpoint of . time. taken to. discuss local mat- ters in Parliament, if casterncrs are to become impatient and in- tolerant of time taken by west- erners, or urban dwellers critical of time taken to discuss items of peculiarly rural interest, or in- "deed if there is any considerable "intolerance by the majority against time taken by minorities, then an extremely important function of Parliament may suf- fer. THE BOOK SHELF CAPRICORNIA By Xavier Herbert _ This novel of lifo In Northern Australia won the Commonwealth Literary Prizo Competition on the occasion of Australla's 160th An- niversary. The author must now be counted ainongst the great na- tural story-tellers of our time. The story is built around the efforts of a halfcaste, the son of a white man and a bush woman, "to win a place for himself Tt--ts--| intensely interesting, bursting with life, tough, full of humor and Vio. lence, and provides as -authentic a picture oft Australian frontier life as has ever been made avail able. Ot his book Mr. Herbert writes: ~ "My 'Capricornia' is a hymn book written in adoration of Australia, . . The Land of the Unshackled Southern Cross, the Australlan earth itself, out ot a passionate' love of which alone can a true Ausirallan- Nation grow." . vCapticornia . . . By Xavier Her. bert . . . The Ryerson Press . .. Price $3.75. Token Of Gratitude To Gen. Montgomery In "one world," Wendell Willkie reports that General Montgomery's library, the collection of a life timo, was destroyed as the re- sult of a German rald over Eng- - land, "A"movement. has been begun in New York, relates The Toronto Telegram, to replace the library as a token of the gratitude and * admiration of the American peo- ple. In addition to finding dupll- cates of the volumes destroyed, 'ft Is planned: to include a collection of Americana, with the books autographed by the authors, the solection of these books to rest with a committee of representa tive Intellectual minds. Sitka spruce and Douglas fir seeds have been obtained from the Un- ited States. Britain will stil noed, of that vast program, to import two-thirds of her lumber require. ments, and we trust the Dominlon and provinces will put themselves in splte In a position to secure the bulk of that market. THE PRESS VICTORY GA GARDEN ETIQUETTE Assuming that some of our "Victory Gardeners may not bo familiar with the dictates of oti- quette in certain eventualities, we pass this along from a correspon- dent of The Kansas City Star: "Our ncighbor's rooster was over this morning for a lettuce break- fast, and we're having him stay "this evening for a 'chicken din- ner."--Ottawa Citizen. POST-WAR PROBLEM Sir Gerald Campbell, British Minister in Washington, recently spoke thus on the prospects in the --post-war-- work: may avise from time to time. ~There is nothing so terrifying in that--provided we learn how to disagree without being disagree- able."--St. Thomas nal. "KAMERAD" IN ITALIAN Rome reports have Mussolini trying to figure out a formula for peace. No. use struggling, Benito. The only way is t« come in like all other gangsters do--- wtih your hands up. --Stratford Beacon- Herald. EXPLOSIVE VEGETABLES Asparagus left in the oven too ploded and blew out the kitchen windows. Boy! Think what might have happened if it had . been spinach!--Windsor Star, HE'S EARNED IT Coal miners in the United States are again on strike, and almost any day new John Lewis should be receiving his Iron Cross from Hitler.--Hamilton Specta- tor. WEEK OF SUNDAYS Housing conditions are .so bad that people are sleeping "in the churches on week days, too. --Winnipeg Tribune. Dutch bulb growers have given the name "Spitfire" to a new tulip, and the Nazi authorities are incensed. + vo : "Disagreements Times-Jour-_ long in a Kansas City home ex- | Four Freedoms until the Jack-tho- Rippers among nations are dis- armed and punished." Turn In The Pacifio Until a month ago Australian leaders andZspokesmen at General Donglas MacArthur's headquarters were expressing alarm at the pros- pect of an imminent invasion of Anstralia by the Japanese. Official reports spoke of the establshiment ~ of Nipponese airfields capablo of basing 1,600 airplanes in the 1s- lands curvng north of the coli tinent. As if to point up the threat, Port Darwin suffered an alr raid by at least (ilty Japaneso planes early In May, not long after sev- enty to 100 planes struck hard at the Allied base at Milno Bay, New Guinea. . Last woek, by contrast, the of- ficial tono in. Australian was one of utmost confidence. Prime Min- {stor Curtin said in Canberra: The pressure on this country 1s to be thrown back on the enomy. The holding war that was imposed on us under circumstances of great difficulty has been an ob lHgation under global strategy which has been discharged. Australia as a Base N The Primo Minister went on lo aay not only that he did not think the Japanese could now invade the country but also that Austra- lia could le used as a base from which to launch "both 'limited and major offensives" against Japan. In Washington Sceretary of the Navy Frank Knox spoke of steady additions to the "Anierican sea "strength in the Pacific--a strength - which already commands the sea, - according to Prime Minister Cur- tn. The Army announced that new forces of American troops-had ar- rived in New Zoaland, and in Aus-_ tralia it wag announced that the R.A. A. I. had heen built up to a point where it exceeds American afr strength quantitatively ELEN not qualitatively, Action Impending To these factors great wolght was given by observers who have for some time cxpected an Allied move to break the long period of quiet in the South-west Pacif- ic. Only in the 2ir has action been pushed recently. Americans are established in * Northeast New Guinea amd on Guadaleanal and the Russell Islands in the Sol- omons and from their "air bases they have.been pounding steadily at, Japanese inteallations. Last week their big planes rained forty tons of bombs on Rabaul, on the northern tip of New Britain, koy base of the whole Japanese stra- tegical structure north of Austra lla. The first such heavy attack since March 23, this, too, seemed a possible portent ol imminent ac- tion, .whon hig impression of the waiing pow- er ofythe Nazis.in tho dic: Tha. ave of what is expected to ba Cermany's third effort at a crushing offonsive against the Sov- fet Union finds Reich Marshal Her- man Goering's vaunted Luftwaffe gradually ehanging from an of- fensive to a defensive force In its essentials. "Thug, although the ma- Jor part of the German air strength 13 still concentrated on Adolf 1Tit- ler's most vital front --that Is to the east---it would appear tosbha n virtual certainty that unless the Reichsfuchrer ws a (rick loft In his bag that no one has heard about, his aerial striking power will be relatively weaker than In either "1942 or 1911. ' New Soviet Planes This Is what the sane corros- pondent had to say in a lator dis- patel about the Soviet air strength: The Red Air Force . .. Is prob- ably more dynamic than In 1941, it was untried, or In 1942, when it was outnumbered and the partly evacuated Soviet, aircraft in- dustry was not yet in full produec- tion and Allied supplies were nol yet important. Already this Spring the Russiang have unveiled two brand new models and thrown them into action + may be somewhat significant, since until the present moment nol a single new Gorman typa has ap- peared here in 1042. This In-itselt -- [= pects Is believed To lio one of the mission has some 300,000,000 young "Anything short of an allout battles wero Indicated by a Mos. reds of thousands previously take uo trees in various stage of growth, victory In this war will bring an- cow summary covoring the first finds rousands previous A t oH Treo Seeds Collected other upon us--probably within week In June. This claimed a bag " Rigi ) because most o Aly To cope with a vastly Increased less than twenty years. of 7562 Nazl planes to a loss of them ay Germans. i planting campaign, preparations "It we permit the Japanese lo only 212 Soviet aircraft. - Shipping Problem Nin An aerial gunnery specialist, the former are boing made for a large increase keep halt of what thoy have won, The: Cd in Battle Tho_disposition of these enorme \ mission, and now is engaged in of nursery stocks. The Commision It we permit. them lo remain tho s ae a ous masses of men must be the during the winter organized 8 Tutors of part of East Asia and To foreign correspondents In the cause of concern to Allied authors 5 collection throughout the country lo brutalize 200,000,000 subject Russian capital It seemed clear ities, Many prisoners of war have' 4 of last year's treo sceds. It now human beings, they will contrive that the Soviot air force held the heen sent to prison camps In , XA 'I'he member cannot help but have holds adequate stocks of Norway to uso tho resources of that area, edge over the once mighty Luft South Africa, but there must be "or intimate knowledge of the inter- spruce. Scots pine and hard- and that brutalized manpower, In walfo. In a recent dispatch, Tha limits to this movement. The sug- ) ests and the wishes of the par- wood seeds, as well as considerable a war of rovengo agalust us. New York Times correspondent gestion has been mado that this ticular group of people for whom quantities of larch. Supplies of There will be no security for the (. IL. Sulzberger thus summed up latest batch be brought to Canada \ and the United States, but here ht tho problem of shipping comes up 3 again. Already in this country we havo camps of prisoners of war, and the occasional ono escapos. i When that happens wo all declara angrily that these men should ba kept moro securely. Ara we sare we could manage perhaps another 100,000 of them? Some would have them work on Canadian | farms. That might do with Italians, but perhaps not so satisfactorily In the case of Hitler's fanatics, ly i kl Soviet Optimism Thus It appeared that in the great battles expected on tho Ruse sian front this Summer Hitler will lnck at least one of the potent t ¢ weapons that brought the fall ot HX Franco in 1910 and enablod his i armies to sweep deep lilo the 2 Russian homeland in 1941. In dl (aaa visions tho Wehrmacht fs 'still h2 mighty. It is bolieved still capabla 0 of massing powerful. tank forces, But without control of the alr, at least locally, military experts give it but an outside chance lo repeat past victories on the eastern front, In such of the ovaluation proa- chiet reasons for- theo present: So-, viet optimism as the hour of, do- cision draws near. head td i ' ll) Hn To I I Iii | ] i) il i] i "I've got a husband that whistles, a dog that barks and a parrot that screeches--now stomps!" ( I's ] A, COPR. 1343 BY Ai Le | & J eu want something that Va REGLAR F ELLERS--Seeing Double By GENE BYRNES I'D CERTAINY 'LOVE. TO SEE THEM! CAT IS THAT WHAT KIND OF A THAT'S A Moree? . CAT! SIAMESE Ma corre GWAN! DON'T KID ME! J KNOW WHAT A SIAMESE . CAT LOOKS LIKE! 4 : . EA