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er a --, U-Boat: Flotillas On The Increase / "Five Britain, U.S. May Face New Era of Surface Raiders Britain has increased her naval personnel three or fourfold over - peacetime strength, 'spokesman in England disclosed, asserting that the expansion has "been "faster than in any other " war. an official 'Remarking that the Battle of the Atlantic "has become a battle .of the Seven Seas, he said that at no time has Britain had less than "2,000 ships at risk 'on' all - oceans. He reported that the 'United States was taking measures "to make the task of 'the U-boat -mora difficult" while Britain was providing. shipboard fighter air. craft protection for convoys and last year had mounted 12,988 anti-aircraft guns on merchant ships. Merchant and fishing vessels, he said, now have shot down 76 enemy planes, probably destroyed another 40 and damaged 89. _German U-boat construction undoubtedly has reached an un- precedented scale and U-boat flotillas are growing monthly, he added. ; A new period of raider activi. ty by "both German and Japa- nese" surface prowlers may be approaching, 'he warned both Britain and the United States, after almost a year without mer- cantile losses from German sur- face warships. BIG BEN past § two, Yep, right on ' the "dot. Yank in London checks his ak with Big Ben, ~which "has 'been "faithfully tolling the correct time for Lon- doners through eras of peacg and war for. 84 years. 'Beekeepers Must : {Keep 'Bees Buzzing Ontario beekeepers are sin -a fortunate position again this year _for there is a yawning market for every pound of honey the bees of "this province cantproduce; says the Cornwall Standard - Freeholder, Byron: 0. Lott, Ontario honey in- «spectdi*:of the co-operative, says the British Ministry of |Food wants 2,000,000 pounds of honey this, year--smore than Ontario can: produce. Last year Ontario's total 'crop was augmented 'by supplies 'from 'the northern United States, but ithe U.S. entry 'into the .war has changed that condition so _that plans are afoot for Manitoba | honey to makéjup the deficiency "in 'Ontario's total available ox. port, and the amount requirea -under the British order, Ontario honey has long enjoyed the reputation of the world's fin- rest product, 'due largely to ell. nate, Prairie province honey has been rated second, Ist iyean apiarists 'of Ontario received nine wents per: pound," eontainers*fur-- ished, one. of the best prices in many years. made for coming season prices but' it'is 'expected 'that they will ing. No predictions 'ave + VOICE THE PRESS YOUNG MEN DOING BIG i Bll Kaseberg is a 27-year-oM young man whose name f{s not familiar to many Canadians. Bat, he is the superintendent of the $3,000,000 Boeing Afrcraft plant on Sea Island at Vancouver, He is just one of 'the young men en- gaged dn diréctifig production of. warplanes at that base. Officials ot the compafly say all the men who "carry the load": are under 30° years of age. , 'Young men smart enough .to study perial engineering a few years ago are etriding right ahead in 'aircraft manufacturing today. Their servitos are valuable because nfore and more warplanes are needed by the United Nations. Without those planes our combat , armies cannot meet the enemy on anything like even terms. ) Other young men will fly the completed planes. These gallant pilots and other airmen are the individuals who offer their lives that we ? might live, --~Windsor Star --Oess : TWILIGHT OF THE GODS * It isn't funny any more, but merely a little sickening, to read of Berlin radio broadcasts beamed for East Asia telling how }Yotan, the (ierman pagan god, is one with the Japanese god of the sun and the winds as fellow-symbols ot pure Aryanism, linking Germany and Japan in a supernatural bond. The appalling thing about all this twaddle is not merely that it Is irrational, silly, and 'faked. It is that millions of people have been induced to act on the orders of the kind of mind that porduced it, That, too, is what we are fight. --Kitchener Record AE THINK IT OVER Chinese dig out roads with their bare hands. Dutchmen plek up old rifles and fire into a warplahe- hidden sky. Australians clutch at bullet-torn throats -- while some Canadians, living better - than they've ever lived before because of war work, won't invest in Vle- tory Bonds until they're pald a "cost-of-living bonus! . Windsor Star --_--0-- SCORCHED EARTH The Russians blew up their great $110,000,000 dam, and Pearl Har- bor, which cost close to $1,000, 000,000, is badly smashed, and the Dutch burn up. $100,000,000 worth of ofl wells, and Singapore, which cost $500,000,000 is practically ruined. This war is making the last: look like a mere skirmish. --Ottawa Journal 0 "BAD MEDICINE" . The Nipponese soldier carrles a 25-25 rifle, 400 rounds of ammuni- tion, five days of iron ratlons-- rice and sardines -- a tin hat, a -spade, first-aid 'kit, a fanatical spirit and a bitter hatred of the White-Man. You can't fool with 'that sort of guy. --London Free Press ; --pe THAT BONUS Trying to figure out what the cost of living bonus means, who gets it that shouldn't, 'and who doesn't get it that should, together with ty problem as to whether anybody gets it and when, is a new game that has taken the place of the crossword puzzle. --Peterborough Examiner i Edi) ots PLEASURE DRIVING "What do you mean by "pleasure" driving--=when "Junior wants to 3) faster, Grandma wants to go slow- er, the baby cries and Ma stfil de- mands to know where you were last night? --Windsor Star -- GOING NOWHERE NOHOW All this extra daylight isn't :go- ing to mean much, with no place --to-go- and nothing-to goin next ~ Summer, --St. Thomas Times. Journal ' =o A WAY ouT When they start eating less sugar maybe the women-won't need the rubbek girdles they may not - be able to get. =Sherbrook Record ene hea dope "ROD BOUNCES BACK 'Premior. Tojo «calls China a spoiled child --. but is having a tough time giving it a licking, --Kitchener Record | Norwegians 'Rode To Work In Style Sixty-five workers were order. _ed transferred 'from Oslo to Get. man ships near 'Bergen. They were handed money for "travel. ling expenses" and 'told to be at the East Railway station in time to catch a certain train, Only three of the sixty-five showed up; the others had van. ished, When the three. reached" Ber gen, they-found three buses wait:' ing to. transport them to the works in place, 0: the great amusement of spectators, each of the 'three boarded a separate bus and rode _.be yell up to last year's mark... offito. ths. new. cic in_style.. te Y= impudently 'not look like fighting men, but . . IRICE AMV IN A Weeldy Column'About This and That in The Canadian Army In the Great War of 1914-18, a common Bisasantry was to sug: "gest that i#%- man was a black- smith in civil life they made him a cook in the army, Actually, ) never ran across an instance, al- though 'there were times while struggling with a Tecalcitrany piece of plum duff that I thought that the cook would probably make a good blacksmith. "There is no doubt, howéver, that the ,army in earlier days, in common / with private business, very fre- quently employed a man in the wrong place because it didn't know his capabilities, "Them days have gone. for- ever.' Today, the Individual Citizens Army welds individual citizens - into a composite force of special ists each employed in his proper sphere. And this doesn't happen by ac- cident! Before very long there will not be a single instance of a square peg in a round hole from Lance- + Jack to Lieut.-General -- we can: go even further than that---from Private to Field Marshal, I am not sure whether psychol. ogy is an art or a science. Prob. ably the psychologists are not sure either, but personal' managers in industry--and don't forget your army' is the biggest single industry in Canada today----Jong ago found out that psychologists could im. efficiency and' prove industry's cut down waste of materials, man. hours and man-power by testing the capabilities of applicants for employment, ~~ N This is what the army is doing today through the Directorate ot Personal election which applies a capability test to soldiers of all ranks in order to determine their fitness for their present jobs, their capability ~ to undertake greater responsibilities, their apt. itude for instruction in specialties. Colonel G. B. Chisholm, M.C, and Bar, of Toronto heads this 'per- - sonnel. selection - directorate and he has gathered to serve with him in this important work some of the outstanding men in the Do. minion. They amrive at their conclusions by the combination of an interview and what is known as an "M" test, Those of you who are familiar with general knowledge tests car- ried out periodically 'by "Time" magazine will have some idea of what these tests are,. There is a difference, however, in that the "M'! test, developed after experi- ! ments conducted with more than © 10,000 Canadian soldiers, is 50° designed that it discovers the ca- pability of the subject rathut than just his general knowledge, A And its conclusions, sometimes combined with other special tests, determine thé potentialities of the man tested regardless of his edu. cational 'standing, When it was first announced "that every member of the Cana- dian army would undergo thia test, considerable trepidation was reported. There was apparently a sort .of tribal fear of the arts of the medicine man. This has now been dissipated, largely be. cause many a man who might otherwise have been condemned to the modern equivalent. of "foot- slogging" today, as the result' of the "M"" test, has been trainea in one of the many specialties required in a modern army. For the benefit of this column, I was permitted to take this test. I can't 'tell you what it consists of because there are thousands more yet to try it, but I can tel 'you, and I am assured by members of 'the Personnel clection staff, that 'my reaction is pretty gen- erally shared, that it was inter- esting, informative, and a very pleasant experiehce -- in fact, when this 'job is finished, [ woula - like to be dble to copyright some of the tests and collect royalties from them as excellent parlor games. Each test--is_led wp to by a short sample which is carefully explained by the 'examining offi- cer and no man is allowed to- race the stop watch until he thor- oughly understands the nature of the test he is about to undertake. It is not an."L.Q." test--it is a test of capability. It doesn't 'show entirely what a man knows ---it does show if he is capable of learning. The tests are car- ried out in groups of not more than fifty and there is an assist- ant examiner - for- each fifteen men. To us, the individual citizens who employ the "individual citi- zen's army, the "M" test is an assurance that when the .Cana- dian army has an opportunity to get down to it, the right man will be. in the right place and the right result may be confidently expected. WINTER CONVOY By LIEUT. E. H. BARTLETT, R.C.N.V.R. "Around a table six men were | . gathered. They wore no uniforms, did One had felt four ships tor- pedoed beneath him, Another had felt the blasts of both torpedoes and bombs, A third had stood to his posL on his ship's bridge while shells from the guns of a surface raider struck home, and had lived to be captured by the German raider and to be rescued by British de- stroyers. A fourth, his ship disabled for many anxious hours, had ralled helplessly in the Mediterranean within striking distance of Ital ian warships . . . and he chuckled as he told of how the "Eyeties" were afraid to come out "into their own blooming Mare Nos- trum!" = These were not men matching tall tales, but captains of ships in the Merchant Nayy gathered, .on.the eve of sailing once again into the war zone; in friendly con- clave in a Canadian Naval Centre. Their references to the experi: ences they had known were brief, for these experiences were behind them, and the job which lay ahead was now all that mattered. . From their talk, though, their stories were gleaned. The story, as a. start, of the captain 'four times torpedoed. fighting chance, His son was sailing with him in one ship, an 18-year-old boy who already had qualified as an able- bodied seaman, and already could claim to be a veteran of the Batfle of the Atlantic, The captain was on the bridge when the torpedo struck. Where his son was, he had not known. The ship, heavy with a cargo of machinery, sank in 48 seconds. The captain was flung from the 'bridge to the sea, without even his life belt to give him a Astern of lis ship an oil tanker had also been struck, and her. cargo was flaming on the sea's surface. On the fringe of this blazing oil the cap- tain battled for his life, He swam clear, helping support himself with pieces of wreckage and debris from what had been his ship." "Avound him his officers "and crew, those who had survived, waged an struggle. An oil-covered seaman swam to his side. "You'd better take my life belt, sit" he advised, "I'm a better swimmer than you." ) The -- captain's indignant pro- tests were quelled by a firm "Qh, cone on, Dad" from the seaman. It was his own son, Both father and son were res- equally desperate .cued, together with many others of their- shipmates., And father | black A 7 iris Yi, SALE > - 5 C iE n A = and son are back at sea again , , anything, And I don't want to, where torpedoes might bear thelr but not in the same ship. There's a lit 't to the strain a ship's cap- tain can stand, - The second eaptain is very proud of his ship, She is brand new, 10,000 tons of cargo carrier built despite Hit- ler's boasts that he would blast "the Old Country's ship-yards to shambles. The captain, short and spare but very wiry, tips the scales at 122 pounds! ; Behind him . is an RT with an enemy surface raider. It was the same raider which caught the Zamzani, and she came up to his ship in the pitch dark' of a night, 24 years afterwards to the day, when he first was tor- pedoed in the original Great War, Outlined in the blazing search- _ lights of the' raider, his ship was an -casy target: The first salvo sent his funnel crashing to the deck, whipped off the after end of the bridge, set the deck carge alight. The sccond salvo carriet away the foremast and the wire- less "cabin and crumpled inte twisted metal the steering gear and engine room telegraphs. With the ship steaming helplessly in an erratic cirele, the captain ordered the crew to the boats, Three boats were lowered, their shattered, charred hulls taking water fast but at least keeping the survivors afloat. After seeing all his men safely from the ship the captain with the third engin. cer who had remained with him, took to the water. Ten minutes later he was picked up by the rvaider's launch, whigh then" picked up his crew. For about a month they were prison- ers, The story of their release when British destroyers overtook their prison ship is now a matter of history. But the captain's page in history would not-be complete ~ithout the information that serv. ing with him in his brand new 10,000-ton ship of today are the Chief Officer, Third Engineer and three sailors of the crew whe survived the raider's guns. Meet, now the captain found it "really amusing" (his own description) when his ship was torpedoed. True, he got every one of his men away safely, with- out one as much as being scratch- ed, but . . . amusing? . "You know, it was the coal which made it funny," he re- counted. "When the torpedo hit home the pressure in the holds forced the coal up through the hatches, almost like a fountain of dust. By the time [ got down from the bridge to the boats I looked like a nigger. "We pulled away watched her go down. We were ,quite happy, you know, because we had .been able to send out a call for help, and a few hours later a big Sunderland flying boat came along. We had quite a talk with our lamps. during which he told us to stay where we were, because help was on its way, We lay-to at sea anchors and had a who clear and good sleep, and were picked up _all smiling in the niorning, - "Nothing to talk about, really," he added, rather . diffidently; "Quite amusing, all of it." Not so amusing was his next experience, a bombing attack in which his ship was set afire and four men killed. For 24 hours, with the help of a patrol boat which came alongside, they fought the fire, and then his ship was towed safely. to port for repairs. The ship is back at sea to-day « .. and so is her captain. It was "the luckiest man afloat" who took up the tale. He's as quick to laugh.as he is to move, and his crew says that in a jam "the old man' moves fast. "In the last war my. father went through all of jt, and didn't sce a thing," he said. "In this war I'm doing the same thing. Just take the ship out, and bring her back" again, "I think it must be because I had my scares in the carly part of the war, Just before war broke out a German battleship passed us, and we didn't know whether we were at war or no. And later on, a German raider got very close to us, but she didn't sce us. And then we broke down off the Ital- ian coast, but the 'Eycties' were afraid to come 'out after us and when they did try to make a run for us some of our destroyers whipped in and chased two of them ashore, "No, I haven't scen from I'm a seaman I am, not a bloom. ing hero," None of them think they are heroes, these men who take the ships to sea. There's not one of they who does not light the grim Job ahead with quiet laughter from the experiences which have passed. There's the favorite tale, for in. stance, of one of the captains _ whose steward, a calm imperturb- able Englishman, had been in yhe - habit of dischssing with him the chances of 'being torpedoed. "Stop talking about it," 'captain ordered one day, "just be like me. I say 'if the torpedo has my number on it, I'll get it: IC it hasn't, why worry." " The captain chuckled. "It wasn't long after that when we got hit," he'continued. "My 'steward came to the cabin just as 1 was leaping out of my bunk. '" 'Excuse me, sir,' he reported, with a face as solemn as an owl's, 'but the torpedo with your number on it appears to have arrived."" In the resultant laughter the conclave broke up. The men who were going into the danger areas the . numbers were on their way back to their ships, The next day they sailed. This Duck Was A Friendly Bird The return of a friendly greater scaup duck. to her usual feeding - grounds near Victoria, B.C,, for the fifth consecutive year, fs re: ported. Identification 'of this bird fg made . possible by an official numbered band placed on her foot in- 1987 by a fisherman, The ' fisherman makes a _practicé of feeding diving ducks in a certain ara, and after a few weeks the birds come in answer to his whis- tled call. This duck became so tame that she did not resent handling. Upon her return each year the duck at first shows the customary warl- ness of the species, but in a short time gradually becomes confident and reaches the point of fearless. - ness where her friend and protec- tor can pick her up and read the band number, THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events United Nations In South Pacific Make Last Ditch Stand In Java from -Pearl Islands of Ran- For 7,500 miles Harbor through the, Oceania to Singapore and , goon lie the outposts and bastions of the United Nations. In three months of Japanese advance, the outposts have fallen -- Guam, Wake, Hong Kong, Manila, Mal- aya, the outer possessions of the Netherlands Indies. The mightiest bastion, pore, guardian of the sea-gate the Pacific to the Indian Qcean;. is now a great strategical base for the enemy. The two remaining bastions, Java and Burma, are being pounded by con- centrated Japanese forces. The Japanese offensive and the Allied defence have both been a race against time. 'The Mikado's + legions have struck swiftly to gain territory and establish footholds from which to step to the next point of attack. They must strike "unceasingly. to hold these gains before the United Nations can as- semble overwhelming - power. in men and instruments of war. The United Nations must follow a pol: icy of delay and attrition until they are strong enough to launch a counter offensive. General MacArthur's men, iso- lated ini the * Philippines, hold- ing out beond all expectations, launched an amazing offensive raid. © The Chiness in the Asian hinterland and the Australians among the islands north of Port Darwin are also doing their share in 'a wearing down cffort against the Japanese. Java Encircled A vast pincers movement has been executed against Java, [ arge "invasion forces were, landed in Sumatra to the west of Java; air bases established in Borneo: to the north and the main airport seized in the island of Bali to the south. The encirclement of Java appears ed to be complete. In the meantime, the United Nations made plans to hold Java whatever the costs might be. They marshalled the full might of = their sea and air power in readi: About two Japanese ar- Allied scout ness for an assault. weeks ago a large mada was sech-.by planes approaching the northern Java shore. With powerful air support the Allied fleet steamed out to the attack. In the en- suing battle, both sides suffered heavy losses but the Japanese ships were forced to withdraw and the victory was with the Allies. Java had hit back, Since this great naval battle, "however, 'the Japanese have suc- ceeded in landing an estimated army of 85,000 men 'in Java. Against these, the United Nations depend on the Indies army, num- bering about 200,000, plus Ameri- can and Australian soldiers. It' is claimed that Allied plans have been made to fall back if nccés- sary to.the interior highlands, there to make a stand where the -mountains rise 10,000 feet. Jap Gains In Burma Japanese gains in Burma have resulted in the virtual closing of Singa- step in the Burma Road. Thousands of Chinese laborers are rushing con- struction in a new life-line for supplies from India to China, and it is hoped in Allied quarters that Chinese isolation will be of short duration. The security, not only of China but of India was endangered by the advance of the Japanese in Burma. With Rangoon ih their possession, the Japanese would have a base for sea and air at- tacks on the great peninsula of India with its 350,000,000 people. Change In Command Gengral Sir Archibald Wavell, Supreme Commander of the Un- ited forces in the Southwest Pa- cific, has been ordered. to resume his former post as Commander- in-Chief of India and Burma, - leaving the Netherlands in com- mand of the final battle for the East Indies. Gen. Wavell's obli- gations will be the: co-ordination of the defence in India and Burma with the military operations in China. | India must play an in. creasingly important part in the developing strategy of the war in the Far East. As the war pro- ceeded, it was chosen as the cent- ral point to which most of the war munitions of the United States would be sent and from which they would he distributed to the thea- tres of war. Recognizing this, the Japanese have already pushed _ their ships into the Indian Ocean in an attempt to interrupt the flow of supplies to the ports of Bombay and Calcutta, © An in- vasion of India by the Japaneses appears to be the next major their plan of pushing westward to meet the forces of their German and Italian allies somewhere in the Middle East. Nazi propaganda is now direct- ed against the people of India to rise in revolt and overthrow Brit- ish rule. The Nazis are pledging Indin "all the support in their power. Japan is conducting ® similar campaign, promising te include India in her of Asia", RE Keen expectation. has been aroused in India by the British government's promise as to, India's future status. India emphatically is on the side of the Allies in the war, especially on China's, The Hindu Congrss party insists, how- ever, that if this is a war for democracy, it must end British Imperialism and recognize India's independence. Non-party - groups would be satisfied with a national government consisting of officials responsible to thé erown with foil dominion status after the war, The Moslems want no major changes that will jeopardize their rights and their proposals for the creation of a separate Moslem state in India. So, a deadlock arises. However, a hope of ulti- mate settlenient could come from a. declaration by the United King- dom government of what powers it would relinquish to allow the formation of an interim national government representative of all pariies. "new order REG!LAR. FELLERS-- Hidden - Assets : DONT PUT THOSE Tickers } POCKET, Hi HT- JT Eos 37 keer iH voR HAND 2° oe IFQOLIN' WITH THAT yf Ie WELL BE LATE FOR oOVIES -- GENE BYRNES 3 ack v . pats 7 aR LAA ]