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To Scourge Reich From End To End Bomber Chlef Warns German People of More and Heavier R.A.F. Ralds Te Come rere 'Air Marshal SirY Arthur T. Har- ris warned the German public in @ recent broadcast that British and American bombers would "scourge the Third Reich from end to end" unless they over. threw the Nazi regime and madé" peace, Harris, chief of the R.A.F, Bomber Command, told the Ger- maus that a whole American alr fleet had just arrived in England, that an epic storm of destruction was about to break over their heads, and that "you have no chance", Beside. it, Harris said, the pul. verizing assaults by more than 1,000 R.A.F. planes on. Cologhe, Essen and Bremen will pale into insigniicance, and city after city will be wiped off the map, "Let the Nazis drag you down to disaster with them if you will," he challenged the Germans. "That is for you to decide. You can . overthrow the Nazis and make peace." : Remarking that American air- men only now -had entered the fight in Europe, he said the first U.S. squadrons in action over the continent were the forerunners of a whole air fleet which has just arrived: in England, He added: "So you realize what it will mean to you when they bomb Germany also? I have just spent eight months in America. I know what is coming over." R.A.F., losses in the gathering operations against Germany so far are less than five percent of the bombers sent over the Reich, he said. : : ) "Soon we will be coming over every night, every day, rain, flood or snow--we and the Americans," Harris promised. "It is up to you to end the bombing war." "In comparison with what it will be like as soon as our own production of bombers' comes to flood and American production doubles, then redoubles---all that has happened so far will seem very little," he said. ' He said one Amercian factory alone is already turning out ev- ery two hours a four-motored bomber that can carry four tons of bombs to any part of the Reich, "There are scores of such fac- tories in the U.S." he added. Remorseless Objective Asking why the R.AF. now Is bombing Germany on such a scale Harris answered his own questiont "We are bombing Germany city by city in order to make it impos- gible for you to go on with the war. : "That is our object. We shall pursue it remorsely, "City by city--Luebeck, Ros- tock, Cologne, Emden, Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Ham- burg--and the list grows longer and longer." Observing -that America has Just entered the air fight jn Eur- ope, Harris continued: "Remember this:. No matter how far your armies march, they will never get to England. What- - _ever their victories, you still have to settle the air war with us and America. "You never will win that, but we already are doing so now." U.S. And Britai Plan Postwar Aid. Anthony Eden Outlines Brl- tain's = After-War. 'Policy Sketching the outlines of the -.- future peace "at one of the grav- est hours of the war," Forelgn Secretary Anthony Eden said that Great Britain is ready to meet and work with the United States in shaping the postwar world, In a speech which was generally ~~gogarded as the most definite pro-- nouncement of Britain's after-war policy that has yet been made by a British statesman, Mr, Eden echoed ideas previously expressed by Vice-President Henry A, Wal lace and Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, - "With the United States, Russia, China, and other nations, we shall take our part in working for the ~development- ofa - world-wide -clv- -. lization," Mr. Eden continued, naming three urgent problems of peace: 1. Complete disarmament of the ABBTOSSOT POWOrS. Som _ 2. Feeding of the starving popu. - +iptions. #3, Enabling the devastated, im- poverished. and economically un. developed countries to restart thelr industry and agriculture, Two principles which ghould govern the solution of these proh- lems eh listed as follows: 1. Receipt of financial and ;eco- nomic ald "must not result in the . loss ot the Independence of any country." 2. Any assistance or guidance 'given: a country "unpracticed in the art of self-government must "be auch as fo help It achfeve Its i own development." CANADIAN FIREFIGHTERS LEAVE FOR BRITAIN 3 Announcement of the safe arrival in I : 4 - s 4 cf -* Fd i ' A Th ay 24 LJ) F845 SRY, ¥ LRA i A H , Eas Lh ih FARE Ts bt 2 SR, ah ¢ $5 3 i JH aii iat] a kat nda deo Fw a ead d "gy ih odo ' --_------ RA ss BRERA -------- ee - War Services, is shown .ondon of a detachment of Canadian firefighters" réleases the above photograph, taken at an inspection parade on the eve of their departure, R. LaFleche, associate deputy minister of National Major General I. inspecting the men, accompanied by Flight Lieut. G. E, Huff, officer commanding the Canadian Corps of Firefighters for Service in Great Britain, F/I, Huff appears at Gen. whom there are now two detachr veterans of some years with Can LaFleche's right. ments in England, are well trained adian fire departments. These Canadian volunteers, of in firefighting, many of them THE WAR - WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events WHERE WILL RED ARMY MAKE LAST STAND TO.STOP NAZIS? Not one. step backl The exe- cution of this task means the preservation of our country, the destruction of" the - hated enemy and a guarantee of victory. With these words, Joseph Stalin last week called on the Rod Army for a alesperate stand against the advancing Wehrmacht, says the Now York Times. He gave notice to his 190,000,000 countrymen that their nation had never =Taced a graver moment--not even in a past that has been scourged by invad- ing' Tatars, Mongols, Swedes, Poles, French and another gen- eration of Germans, The feeling of crisis had been matched only last Fall when 'Adolf Hitler's guns were heard in Moscow's suburbs and tho capital's cltizens were sum- moned for "the hourgof supreme sacrifice." It was a feeling that rippled ominously from seared meadows and orchards of the Don valley, from bloody river crossings and machine-littored fields at the fringe of the Caucasus, Into the capitals of the Allies abroad. The plight of the Russian colossus was the plight of the whole antl- AZETessor cause. 5 The Axis sweep to the Don in the first month of the grand 1942 campalgn had overrun some 30,000 square miles of grain and cattle country. It had breached the Ros- tov entrance to the Caucasus, opened the way for a drive to the lower Volga and the Caspian. It 'the Germans could add the farina ~o0f the North Caucasus to thelr | White Russia," Ukraine and Don 'Basin conquests, they would pos- sess perhaps a. quarter of the Soviet's cultivated land. It they could take the oll fields of the Caucasus, they would hold the fountainhead of 80 to 90 per cent of the Sovlet's petroleum. At the Volga and the Caspian they would ~ be in position to sever the Allied supply line from Iran. Russla's Final Stand? German - successes - along - the - Don, according to the Christian Science Monitor, Talse "the all- Important question whether and where the Nazis can be stopped. WIIL-it be at the Volga or in the Urals? Will they. be able to cross the Caspian Sea and threaten India from bases in Iran, Turkmen, and Afghanistan?" As long as the Russian armies remain intact, withdrawing from Jone position to the other, Germany cannot even dream of having won victory over Russia, The Russian Front {is extremely flexible but its "final stand" will always de- pend upon the army. No: natural obstacles except the mighty Volga River protect the Russfan_hinter- land. ; The Urals are a geographical conception, the traditional divid- ing line between Europe and Asia, 'but their hills and 'forests never mislead Russia to a Maginot Line complacency, Thé Importance of the Ufals Is based, on their natural resources and the induatries which have been built around them but not on strategic considerations. From that point of view, the Cau- casus alone shields the two main approaches to the oll of Baku, - 'Russia's . Manpower ' The Russian military strength, therefore, depends primarily upon its manpower and the amount of . available planes, tanks and guns. "It does not matter whether the three latter are produced in fac' torles close to the front, or far from the oa, or shipped from - A the United Nations. What matters ls that trained soldiers get them In time for use. In manpower the Russians have a great advantage over the Axls and their satellites. While the wo- men take over the work of men, millions of soldiors are mobilized," Russia can put nto the field train. ed armies of 10,000,000 and 20,- 000,000 soldiers without affecting its war Every year 1,600,000 young Rus. slan 'men come into the military age. Their number will rise to 2,000,000 by 1946, On the other hand, the German manpower res- ervoir supplied 640,000 men who - reached the age of 20 in 1940, while the number of new recruits will decline to 530,000 by 1948. Russia thus produces three timea as._many young men fit for mili tary service as Germany. : The Russian armies can retreat and resist over a distance of sev- eral thousand miles. Russia has 3,000,000 square miles of forests chiefly east of the Urals and there its army could disappear before the eyes of the" invader without the danger of a crushing defeat. As the Germans advance, that prospect becomes increasingly probable. Nazl Drive For OIl It the Nazl forces are driving for Russia's great oll reserves of the Caucasus, their purpose Is not only to secure the ofl for them. selves, but-to deprive Russla of ono of its moat vital supports in 'the war. Germany wants to cut off the oll from the powerful Russian war machine and_put out of combat those tanks and airplanes upon which everything depends now.and which already have dealt most severe blows at the enemy. Russia has a completely mechanized agrl- culture which deprived of oll could not function. : While the huge spaces of Rus- sla will permit its army to with- draw --properly,- thus evading In. definitely a final German victory, the Germans - would attempt to blockade Russia economically and to reduce its fighting power to insignificance, = .- The Germans are on théir way to the Volga and an occupation of Stalingrad and Astrakhan at the Casplan Sea would cut off all com- munications between the Central Front and the forces which protect the Caucasus. Besides this mili. dary threat which as such may be, less, serlous In the case of a strong army dofending the Caucasus, the flow of Rusalan oil toward the in- dustrial centres of European Rua- sia would come to an end. Industry or agriculture. . Russia would suffer tremond- ously under the loss of 85 per' cent of its oll output. Great stocks of oll have been accumulated, how- ever, and in addition with tho re- maining production Russia's arm- fes would not be crippled. Wat tactles would have to be changed, transportation have to be curtailed, agriculture neglected, but there would ba sut- ficient oll for the war machine. We must not forget that even tho (ler- man war machine is considered to run on less than 70,000,000 barrels of oll annual consumption under full warfare. Tho next would permit Russia to roduce its war of movement and thus save much gasoline and permit new stocks to accumulate. 'Russian agriculturp would suffer but power substitutes made from grain and wood, most abundantly available In Siberia, would permit the continuation ot the use of trac- tors and vehicles. Finally, more horses could be raised in a rela- tively short period as the oil stocks would permit the maintenance of curtailed consumption of oll over a period of several years, -Scorched carth policy would de- prive- Germany of the conquered oil at least for several months. But it could not be prevented from _ utilizing the abundant oil resourc- es of the Caucasus sooner or later, once In possession of this region, From the Caucasus German armies would threaten the oll of Iraq and Iran and make the Un- ited Natlons position there most precarious. The well-developed Russlan river and canal system would permit the .dlstribution of the oil to the Ukraine and over the Polish and Baltic river ays- tems to the consuming centers of --Gormany,-- Even it Russia can withdraw all its 40,000 tank cara and the large number of oll barges, destroy all pipelines and oil wolls and save the Black Sea Fleet by the con- cession of free passage through the Bosporus to United Nations ports, the whole strategy of the war would have to be changed, ~ . Germany would have. gained a most important base on her way to India, and its strong air fleet, once supplied with the urgontly needed ofl, could harass the Un- ited Nations supply lines in the Middle East and keep the Russians at bay behind tho Urals with the main instrument of the air force and a relatively small land army in the cast. Thus, the bulk of the German army would he freed to fight -elaewhere, ~~ OH, MEMORIES! Word comes from Regina that Saskatchewan will need 80,483 men for harvest labor this season, Oh, for the good old days of the Harvest Excursions! --Owen 'Sound Sun-Times would - winter ~ VOICE PRESS A ROUGH IDEA disorganize the defences and stun the people who are going through it. At Colégue, it is said that one bomb fell on the average every six seconds. If you. are afraid of lightning, think what it would be like to go. through. a thunder storm with a new lightning flash every six seconds, Then remein- ber {ont probably none of those lightning "strokes hit your town, while every bomb scores: a hit and blows up something. That will. give you a rough idea, at least. . » -- Fergus News-Record --0-- SOME FOOL'S VICTIM If a psychiatrist investigated the fears of non-swimmers he would probably find that carly in lifo they had been mischievously or deliberately pushed into the water, or ducked when they did not expect it and got a fright. Children should never be made afraid of the water. --St. Thomas Times-Journal 0 AREN'T WE ALL? Explaining his affempt to os. cape from a Quebec military hos- pital, a captured German merch- ant seaman said that he was "fed up with the war." We haven't accomplished our purpose until we have made another Nazi, much more highly placed, feel the same way. Windsor Star --0-- 50 YEARS AGO In one day recently seven car- loads of cheese were shipped from Listowel for the British market, and three carloads from Atwood. This made $20,000 worth of cheese shipped in one day from the factories of one district." ----Stratford Herald, July 24, 1892, 0 YOU'RE BRITISH, AREN'T YOU? What's this? Are you going around with your head in a sling? Are you losing heart be- cause the war is going. a bit thick - these days? : What's the matter? Keep that chin up! You're British aren't youl --Windsor Star TRY TO AVOID THIS It is a terrible thing to raise children who are just as thought- less of you as you were of your parents, --Brandon, Sun Canada's New Catalina Plane Destined to Play Important Role In War and Peace Canada's new Catalina PBY-5 amphiblan planes, far-ranging eea scouts of a growing air armada, are described officially as possess. ing the greatest range of any two- engined bomber in the world. N are destined to play an {important role in both .war and post-war plans. Built In a huge plant employing nearly 2,500 women, the aircraft has more than 100,000 parts and takes more than 100,000 man-hours to produce. Its hull is as long as a Pullman coach and its wing span fs 80 great that 10 automobiles could be lined end to end along the length of each. Its wing-floats are as big as canoes. Maximum speed- of the Catalina at an altitude of 8,000 fect is about 300 miles per hour and its cruising speed at the same altitude is ap- proximately 175 m.ph. It has a ceiling of almost five miles -and its maximum cruising range would permit it to fly from Halifax to without refueling. The wartime rolo of these patrol ships is important. They summon the fighting planes and ships whon the enemy fs sighted. } . And after the war ls .over, those aircraft will stjll be In great deo- mand supplying the peacetime answer to the neod for long-range transoceanic flying boats. Bombing on a huge scale must ™ the world. ~~ '| third:day, were the voluntary ones ~~ The new 14-fon, $250,000 alrcraft --Vancouver-and -back- to Wihnipeg 1 Says. Mrs. George Morin, Grande- Baie, Quebec: YWe have been users «of KELLOGG'S, ALL-BRAN for a long - time , . , and for a good reason. ALL-BRAN, besides. being a most delicious cereal, really does keep us regular . , naturally," Why don't you try Avi-Bran's "Better Way" to cocroct the cause if you're troubled by constipation THE BEST WAY WE'VE EVER TRIED IS ALL-BRAN'S BETTER WAY "| due to lack of the right kind "bulk" in your diet ? But remember; ALL-BRAN doesn't work like cathar- tics. It takes time, Eat it regularly and drink plenty of water. Get ALL-BRAN at your grocer's, in two - convenient size packages, or ask for + the individual serving package at restaurants, Made by Kellogg's in on, Canada. 1 J I: LI E 7) IRWIN E's | TInY A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army "Revell will be at 3.30 am." "That's how the order road when the unit of the Reserve Army with which IT attended Summer Camp gorepared to return to its armoury and to disband for a week's rest from evening parades, the citizen- soldiers to their jobs (n offices, factories, stores, warohouaes, _rall- way yards and the dozen other classes of Industry from which they came. Sounds a little tough to the av- erage man who can sleep in until six or seven, doesn't It? But It was not tough by the time we had finished fourteen days ot training. Wo took it Is our stride as we had - taken the daily 6 a.m. reveille, the long hours of training and the oc: casional night operations which formed part of the intensive pro- gramme undertaken by eanits of the reserve army in summer camps throughout tho Dominion, Our units were made up of men between tho ages of 17 and 19, and 36 and 50. And when I say men, [ nu it as regards both ends of thedscale. It is a toss-up whether the youths or the middle- aged were the keener men. There was cortainly very little "soldier- ing",--to use a term that should be banished from our vocabulary, - After a heavy roule march there was a falr sized "sick-parado" but it- was not the "slck-parade" to which old soldlers are accustom: ~ ed. The line-up consisted of men anxious to have their blisters or callouses fixed up so that they would not have to miss drill per- fods the next day ---- not of meu determined to wangle a "light duty" permit from the medical officer so they could evade the 'morrow's responsibilitios, There were many things about this year's Reserve Army camps that amazed the old soldiers who attendod them and casily the most outstanding waa the enthusiasm with which .the new recruits ab- sorbed instruction. The only "awk- ward squads", after the second or that assembled under good natur- ed non-commissioned officers dur- ing off duty hours. You would find them in the tent lines practising anything from Jeft and right turns + by numbers to the "present arms" from ~ the '"order." During the morning and afternoon 15 minute rest perolds when the only smokes of parade hours were Indulged in, discussion groups formed them- selves around officers and N.C. 0.8 to ply them questions as to the "why" of this, the "how" of that,~and the practical application . of training to warfare. It was, until you thought about it, incred- ible! When you thought about it the answer soon became apparent. Those men have joined tho re- serve army, according to thelr age - classifications; for two reasons. The youngsters in order to save time fin their preparation for ser- vice when they are old enough lo volunteer; 'the middle aged to fit themselves as fast as possible for home defence duties when they become necessary, The Reserve Army men of today are not "Saturday night soldiers", they ara patriotic citizens - debar red by age or other limitation trom taking their full part In the job of work we have to do. They are preparing for a geim business and they are going more than halt way to moet their {instructors in the use of the death dealing equip- ment mgde available to them training. EL The men In my platoon, by the timo thoy = returned from camp, had tired more rounds from Bren guns in two weeks than. In the last war I had fired from a rifle by the time I had been in the army ten months. They fired with rifles on short and long ranges. They received instruction in- the hand- ling and stripping of the Bren gua. They learned about hand grenades and they put in strenuous hours practising the right way to doliver- these presenta to jan enemy. They had their first lessons in "battle- drill," They practised stalking through the open and through cover. They learned the basla principles of bayonet fighting -- but they didn't learn to "grouse." This brings. us to the second reason roferred to above. Thore are two things that soldiers grouse about most. One is the endloss round of unimaginative drill, the _ other, have you suessod 2--food, There was no room for cither of these complaints. Especially the latter, whith caused many an old soldier %t8 "gasp. Fed under the new scale of rations N.C.0.s and men enjoyed -- and that word is well cliosen -- 'such meals as these: i Breakfast: grapefrult Julcae, wheat or oat meal porridge, scrambled oggs on toast, bacon, marmalade, toast and coffee. Lunch: soup, .cold roast beet, two vegetables, apple ple, tea, Suppor: beef stew, two vegoe- tables, bread pudding with choco-' late sauce, bread, butter, tea. Sometimes there .was cake. One meal was baked Virginia ham. On Friday's, fish and macaront and cheeso marked the two big. ~ meals ---and-you didn't mix it alt up in the same tin "dixie" that had held your shaving water earl fer. : Do those rations look heavler te you than the amount you consume at home? They are! But soldiers --eoven Reserve Army soldiers at- tonding camp' for only two weeks --need heavy rations. You can't be on your feet from six in the morning till sometimes nine at night, carrying a nine- pound rifle, a bayonet, weh equip- ment over rough ground and smooth, marching or doing phys- ical trajning, without good food and lots of it! That's why we are rationed. That's why eight ounces of sugar, a minimum of tea and coffee must suffice. One of the jobs of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board is to con- sorve food for our soldiers, here and overseas -- and those of us who are good soldiers will help the Board do that job. - Australia normally has a supply of 1,760,000 horses and exporta _about 4,000 annually, eo 'REG'LAR FELLERS: Lip Reading 'By GENE BYRNES T A SEE THE WAY ~~ My FATHER WEARS HIS GLASSES! RIGHT ON THE END OF HIS ; NOSE ! THATS NUTHIN'Y MY GRANPA WEARS EM OVER MIS MOUTH NEARLY / HE'S CRAZY. TO WEAR GLASSES IF THAT'S 'THE WAY HE DOES! ed VC AN rights Feel << J ZNO HE ANT! 77° HE WANTS TO SEE WHAT HE'S TALKIN' ABOUT! #. - 2k A YE SXF ETAL WH -- Hig 3 oe