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ln wr whole pack being shipped, each - |- New Body Armor For Land Forces Australian Invention To Be Tested by Army Officers 'Australjian-nvented body armor for troops, samples of which are being prepared for testing by army officers, will not welgh plore than "seven pounds. © ~ "Although full details of the fin- vention cannot be given for fear of handing the enemy assistance in' the race which has developed to produce some suitable type of armor for land forces, it has been learned at. army headquarters in Melbourn that. thd Australian {n- vention fs of a revolutionary tybe, and has: good prospects ot proving acceptable, "The armor {3 somewhat similar to fhe bullet-proof vest. Its total weight "may be considerably less than seven pounds. Final samples are 6till in the course of manufao- ture: / Appears Superior Type The armor will be of the apron style, Frontally, it will give full protection, it is claimed, from the neck down to the crutch. At the rear, it will protect the torso from the neck to the base of the: spine. It will be so. constructed that ft will not hamper movement In any way, Yet it will have {im portant features, which will en: able it to defleét missles readily, at the same time being impene- trable to small arms ammunition, Including sub-machine gun fire, also to shrapnel and' bombshell and grenade splinters, - Whether the body armor will - become part of equipment. issued to Asutralian soldiers within 12 months depends on . exhaustive tests which will be made by the army authorities when samples are available within the next few ° weeks, * A British experimental type ot armor. also is .being examined, but army officers said that at a glance the Australian invention seemed to have features which made it superior to the British and to known types with which the Ger- mans have been experimenting. "WELL TIRED 28 co. » . Marcy McGuire arrives in Hol- Jywood for a movie tryout with pwr of bicycle tires -- but no e. icye Canned Salmon Is Requisitioned Although canned salmon is stillfN-~> available in limited quantities on the shelves of grocers, Canadian housewives must soon reconcile themselves to the loss of this favorite table delicacy, states C./ B. Powell, sales manager for Brit- ish Columbia Packers Ltd., Cana- da's largest canners of salmon. The whole of Canada's 1942 salmon pack has been requisition. ed for use of the British govern- ment. ~ Last year this country gent one and a half million cases to Britain--a considerable contri- bution to the larders of the mo- ther country and to Empire war - fronts. This year, even with the British family will receive an av- erage of only one can of salmon: every month or two, ir This sacrifice, though tempor- arily inconvenient, will be made willingly by Canadian families, in the opinion of Mr, Powell. While the Canadian diet remains little affected by the war, that of the British family has in contrast been reduced to the merest es- sentials, with nearly all milk re. served for children and a weekly meat ration of only twenty-five cents per person. Loss of shipping and the conse- quent premium on. cargo space has forced the British government to confine its imports to goods with high concentrated - nutritive value, and sucli foods as Ganadian canned samon have become vital to the health and morale of Bri- / tain's people. : VOICE PRESS A VERY WORRIED MAN A man we know in a city a couple of hundred miles from here is very worried. He had a German maid when the war start- ed and after a long time his friends persuaded him he had. better tell the authorities about the girl, Although the man was quite sure she, was all right, he , finally went to' the police. He told them the maid was German, he was sure she was all right, but he thought he might as well let them know, just in' case. "She's all right," the police assured him, "We've been listen- ing to the telephone conversa- tions from your. house for a long time." . - Now the man is wondering just what he, himself, might have been saying on the telephone to his ¥als,--Windsor Star, SUN GLEAMS And now, do you want one lump or none? The government can take our car--if it will keep up the pay- ments, Maybe de Valera is sore be- cause we do not now help him out with those sweepstakes, -And if you win your fight against the dogs, weeds and bugs, it is a victory garden. That last speech of Hitler's sounded MBke a man hollering be- cause he expected to be hurt. ' Father always looks back to the good old daps when grand- father 'was earning a living for him. Wonder if that leader in India, C. R. Rajaggopalachari feels hurt when somebody mispronounces his name ?--Brandon Sun. NOT EVEN A LITTLE The Treaty of Versailles was not a brutal nor inhuman treaty, cs- pecially if judged by standards previously 'set by Germany, It it had been enforced, the democ- racies would not today be fight- ing for their lives, war is the folly of trusting the Germans, or the Japanese, ever, --Port Arthur News-Chronicle, CAUSE FOR WONDERMENT Picture the wonderment of a woman watching circus 'animal trainers making tigers and lions and elephants lie down and roll over and obey every slightest mo- tion, just after she had failed to get one small child to go to bed, --Christian Science Monitor. BIG SCALE EFFORT Russia does things on a- big scale, as is evidenced by her mob- ilization of one hundred and fifty million men, women and children to help produce food and-gather-- "the" crops this year. -- Hamilton Spectator, PREFERS THE COW A. thoughtful editor in the prairie country prefers a cow to a saxaphone, because in addition to making the same noise it gives milk,--Stratford Beacon-Herald, Vitamin B-1 Puts Pep Into Oldsters Aged men 'in the spotted vest stage and old ladies who no longer cared how their skirts hung have been restored to natty dressing by taking. Vitamin B-1, This effect on interest in per- sonal appearance was reported to the: American Psychiatric Associ- ation by six doctors of the Wor- Cester, Mass., State Hospital. ~These aged persons had reached the stage where their minds seemed about gone, After two months on the vitamin, and other good diet which probably also helped, they became neater, more tidy, took an interest in personal appearance. This was particu- larly true of the most dilapidated oldsters. Two of them recognized their families for the first time since entering the hospital. They be- came more sociable and had better appetites, : "The administration of vitamin therapy," said the. report, -'"in- senile psychosis has materially - changed the behavior pattern of the individual patient to such an . extent that some have become better hospital citizens and gome have returned to the community," English. Dog Brings Fresh Eggs Home : Don, a spaniel in Ayrshire, 'England, is helping "With the war effort, Eggs are scarce, and a hen on a farm has the bad habit of laying her eggs far from the hen house. This used to mean loss of time, but now Don has come to the rescue, "Every day he follows the hen, waits until - the egg is laid, picks it up in his mouth without cracking it and carries it to the farmhouse kitchen, bl CY e The folly that . _| must not 'be repeated after this a Salvaged glass is nearly 100 per cent, reclaimable. RS iat > 5 Here a workman shovels salvaged glass that has been ground into powder. Melted to a white heat in a roaring furnace, it will go to ingenious machines that mould it into useful articles. A Weekly Column About This and That in The Canadian Army "Canadians must supply more tanks, more guns, more men, more bombers, move rifles." You have heard public speakers reel these sentiments oft time and again and audiences stamp and cheer and, let us hope, dash off to buy more War Savings Stamps and Victory ~Bonds, ) Well, so long as the audience reacts that way why should any- one worry? And yet there 18 a worry there. It's the grouping together of ma- chines and men, It's bay psychology. It illus. trates too well the Colonel Blimp type of thinking. What right has a politician to - think of men--your son or bro- ther or father or husband or sweetheart--in the same bredth as machines? We can sweat and sacrifice and save to "supply more tanks, more guns, more bombers, more rifles." We can and we must! But it is. not our «our sweat when te men go. That 1s theirs and we have no, right to -|- be .smug and complacent when they volunteer no matter how close we are to them or they to us. You'll hear the same type of speaker say, "Mrs. Blank in my constituency has given two sons to the Army." > Mrs. Blank' hasn't given her sons to the Army. They weren't hers to give. Let us rather say that Mrs. Blank gave her sons the, character that made them ready to offer their services, perhaps thelr lives, to their country, But don't let us class them with the machines that are belng built to aid its soldiers by the Individ- ual Citizen's Army! The men who put on thelr coun. try"s uniorm when that country is fighting for the existence of she Christian world, do it for the same 'teason their fathers did. There is no burning fire of patriotism in thém, no inward, silent sound of Kipling's lines, no proud thought of sacrifice, no strong call of duty. They put on the uniform because they are men and men fight to protect- --their-- own and preserve their heritage, . They don't get into uniform be- cause politiclans or preachers jingoes or Colonel Blimps tell them it's = their duty--neither should we who are not permitted to wear uniform need to he "needled" up to put our backs into backing the soldiers up. "Not permitted to wear uni. forms." But we are! Wo are por- -mitted - to wear ~unitorms- of- our own design and manufacture, We can wear uniforms representedby sacrifice or or . "all? * turned coats, by frayed cuffs, by lack of frills to save cloth for vital needs, We can wear uniforms by walk- ing to save gasoline, by abstaining from candy to save sugar, by wear- ing old clothes, eating plain food, by buying two War Savings Cer- "tificate stamps Instead of going to a movie. That way we can be privales in the Individual . Citizen's "Army-- and it's a lot harder to be a good private than a good general! That way we can supply the men in uniform with "more tanks, more gung, more bombers, more rifles." The farmer who patches up an old hoe, the holisewife who makes over an old dress, the school-boy who walks sedately past a good slido to save wear and tear on his boots--or maybe the seat of his pants--Is supplying more ma- chines to the troops Those are the thoughtful people. What about the thoughtless ones? To be thoughtless these days {3 to be unpatriotic--and to be un- patriotic these days is close to treachery. - Perhaps we should drop fancy language these days, perhaps we would better understand what harm thoughtlessness can do it we wero to call a sugar hoarder a traitor, the man who connives to get a double-breasted suit a traitor, the joy-rider a traitor, What do you think? Must Get Tough With Ourselves Mr. Donald Nelson has summed up, in a minimum of words, the task facing us all in North Ameri- ca, says The Vancouvet Sun, "Before we try to get tough with some one else," he says, "we've got to get tough with ourselves." That is the whole test. Are we ready to get tough with our. selves? Obviously we have not done so up to now. Largely civil- ization in America--a distortion of the Declaration of Independ- "ence--has been life, liberty and the pursuit of flabbiness. The process of making ourselves tough enough for this war has barely begun yet, but it is the only pos- sible means of victory--the tough- ness of the individual man and woman, How tough are you? How tough in willingness to give up luxuries, to accept inconvenience, to live a different kind of life and to be cheerful through it, As we all can answer this question, we shall win or lose the war. THE WAR. WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events June begins this year with a better military prospect than any one had good rcason to hope for threo months ago, and certainly far better thap any one had dared « to hope a year ago. 'As June opened last year, Germany had been everywhere victorious; or- ganized Yugoslavian - resistance had been crushed in an appalling- ly 'short time; the British had not only been swept out of Greece, but humiliatingly driven out of Crete, suffering huge naval losses in the operation. Hitler's repu- tation for invincibility, says the New York Times, had never been | higher, vs Outcome in Libya Doubtful But as June opens this year A reputation for invincibility has been badly battered. The long- heralded Nazi Spring. drive in Russia has not yet begun, If the Nazis are inflicting huge losses on the Russians, they are une _ doubtedly still suffering huge losses themselves, and their pro- gress is being fought savagely every foot of the way. The out- come in Libya is still doubtful; but in place of the stories a year ago of clouds of German planes over Crete and'of British soldiers without air protection, the British are able to report today ghat the RAF. has a five-to-three air supremacy in Libya, and with the help of that air supremacy was able to wreck 400 Axis tanks and trucks in two days. Britain Pays Back Most sensational and unexpect- ed of all, however, is the news , greeting readers as this June opens that 'considerably more than 1,000"--perhaps -- 1,260 -- planes from Britain have in a single night, in the greatest air raid of history, swept over Ger- many and brought death and de- "struction to Cologne and othev areas in the Ruhr and Rhineland. At the beginning of June in 1941, a prediction that this would hap- pen within a. year would, have been-considered a mere daydream, Britain, at long last, is able to pay Germany back, and on a huge scale; for even in the ter- rible bombings of English cities in the Fall and Winter of 1940. 41 it is estimated that the Ger- . mans never used more than 500 bombers in any single night. More to Follow "This is a herald," declares Prime Minister Churchill, "of what Germany will receive, city by city, from now on." If this rate of bombings can be sustain. ed, there can hardly 'be much doubt regarding the ultimate re- - sult, even if Britain and America this Summer do not succeed in opening up another front on the European Continent. For the damage td Germany's morale, war production and communications could so diminish German land striking power as almost certainly to keep Russia in the war. Even if we grant that air bombing alone cannot win the war, and that the final step -in victory must come from land power, we cannot forget that growing British and American air power is today. supplemented by active and by no means mere- ly defensive Russian land power. Battle of Kharkov June this year opens, in short, with great grounds for hope; but certainly not grounds for over- confidence. On the admission of both sides, the great Battle of Kharkov has ended. Both sides claim the victory. . In point of fact, the Russians--and Germans seem to have fought each other to a standstill, using up all imme- diately availaole reserves and in the end reaching a tactical dead- lock. Nevertheless, certain stra- tegic results are bound to flow from an engagement so prolong: cd, sormassive and so bitterly con- tested. The Germans claim the victory because their flank attack stop- ped the Russian drive before Kharkov had falleh. They do, indeed, retain possession of the city and its jupction of rail lines. They did inflict heavy damage on the attacking forces, as Moscow admits, But at all times they were on the defensive. Spring Drive Held Up The real significance of the battle is that, because of it, the Germans could not launch, as June, 1942, Opens With Grounds For Hope But Not Overconfidence early as they might have wished, their general offensive in South Russia, No doubt the Russians would have liked to take Kharkov; but also, no doubt, they are right when they say their primary pur- pose was to' prevent an all-out assault on Rostov and the Cau- casus; ol fields.. The. Nazi drive on Kerch was a clear indication of the direction meant to take, But thus far the drive. on Kerch has gone no farther, Summer has already come in South Russia and Marshal Timoshenko has plainly upset the Nazi timetable, The main forces of the two huge armies have not yet come into action. A regroup ing will be necessary before they do, The first chapter of the "Spring drive" scems clearly to demonstrate that the casy Ger- man victories of last Summer are no longer possible, Though the Russians have fought magnifi- cently for nearly a year, in spite of tremendous losses, we do not know how long they can go on. Battle of Atlantic We ourselves must face in all frankness the fact that we have been losing, and are still losing, the battle of the Atlantic, A sta- tistical summary published late last' week showed 221 merchant ships of American and other the Germans registry sunk on this side of the Atlantic since mid-January. Against this, even when "pre- sumable" sinlings are taken into consideration, the number, of sub. marines sunk here appears to have been only about one-tenth of this figure. Yet shipping is the bottleneck through which practically the whole American tontribution to the war (with the exception of long-range planes) must be fun- neled, The: British. depend upon us for their food supplies. 'The British planes that rain -destruc- tion on Germany depend upon us, and above all on American tank- ers, for their gasoline supplies. The most important question to ask about the terrific bombing just reported over Cologne is whether such bombings can now be sustained. We must not forget that this is the first large-scale bombing operation over Germany - since that over Mannheim on May 19, and before that since May 8. If such bombings, which on such a scale might determine the out- come of the war in a surprisingly short time, are to be kept up, as they must be to achieve any such result, night after night, our sup- plies to Britain by sea must con- tinue in an uninterrupted and ever-broadening stream, Economic Warfare Squeezes Germans Axis Feeling Effects of Pressure By United Nations ni A half million dollars worth ot -- sheepskin gloves -are bought in _ Spain and 3,000 miles away in Russia two months later German fingers freeze on the triggers ot their rifles, A million dollars 1s deposited in Turkey to buy dried fruits, ana the - German people tighten their belts another notch, This is cconomic warfare ----- slow, unspectacular, but far- reaching and deadly. Since De- cember 7 the "United States has taken her place beside Britain on this war front as well as on the lighting fronts of Australia, India and the Middle Bast. On the door of a small apart- ment just off famed Berkeley Square a small brass plate has BANKS .. POST OFFICES DEPARTMENT STORES + DRUGGISTS OROCERS + « TOBACCONISTS BOOK STORES and other RETAN sone appeared. It reads: "American Embassy Economic Warfare See tion." None of the small staff behind those doors wears a uniform or carries a gun, Kill With Money But their job is to kill the en= emy, too--with money and some- times barter, 'that device the Npzis made so popular, . Each day some. of the staff go to the British Ministry of Eco- nomic Warfare. There, in a brown-panelled room, they sit with three British cconomic ex- perts around a table filled with reports -- reports of cotton for sale in Turkey, opium in Persia, tungsten in Portugal and hides in Irak, Cables start going out: Buy the cotton -- Germany needs it for clothing, Buy the opium -- Germany needs it for drugs. r Buy the tungsten -- Germany needs it for munitions. Buy the hides -- German sol- diers are short of boots. Battlefields Narrowed What the price is doesn't mat- ter. Nor does it matter that Bri- tain and the United States con- trol more hides and cotton than they can use. : " Britain has been engaged in this type of warfare since the war began--pouring out millions." She fought battles in the Bal. kans, for chrome, oil, bauxite, tobacco and a hundred other items, Now the battlefields are nan rowed. Britain and the United States have shut Germany and Italy out of the South American field through the blockade, That has become a naval matter and Germany now can buy only in the places she can reach by land. Turkey is the main battle. ground, closely followed by Spain,' 'Portugal and North Africa, Barter System' Agents in Britain, the United States and the Axis countries scour theso regions daily in a grim race to find something of use. Sometimes it isn't money the sellers want but barter for some- thing they need. And "the hard-pressed Nazis find their own device used against them, Their industries tied up with war orders and their rail- roads overloaded with troop and "munition transport, they cannot guaranteo deliveries, ' The United Nations, with con- trol of the seas and plenty of money to buy goods in South America for barter if they lack the articles themselves, can sup- ply anything that is asked. "This is one war front on which the Axis is in retreat," one Am- erican official declared, Germany plans to compel 6,000 unemployed women and girls to work in industry or agriculture. 7. Chalo 3 train, ---- RELAX OR PLAY High In the Luurcntiansy . . . at this Inxurious hotel, where see- vice and atmosphere hove ale ways attencfed a distinguished cllentele + . . Superb culsine by a famous chef . . . nll private sandy beach, glorious walks and (ralls, AND NO -- TRANSVOITATION problem . . ain, bus or ¢énr will take you there In leas than two hours. Write for bkit. nnd rates, THE CHANTECLER Ste. 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