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_ SAAN - To x -- U-Boat Campaign In South Atlantic Increased Activity of Rald- ers Menaces Allied Ships A largescale offensive by Ger- man surface and submarine raid ors against the heavy and increas- ingly important Allied merchant traffic in the South Atlantic was predicted by informed British naval sources, LY Reports from neutral and" Axis sources indicated, it was said, the attacks already had started. These sources cited Rio Ge Jan- oiro's receipt of SOS masages re- porting an enemy surface raider , 1,000 miles off the Brazilian coast and the German High Command's claim that 45,231 tons of shipping bound for Egypt had been sunk recenty by German submarines oft the American and West African coasts, : Not only is the South Atlantic the chief supply route to India and Egypt, but under present condl- tions it is probable the most im- portant means of sending supplies to Russia via Iran. Wheat and beet from South America also traverse the new danger area en route to Britale. Surface Raider Reported A naval source reported a num- ber of armed Axis merchant raid- ers reached the South Atlantle ~~ from ports on the Bay of Biscay since the fall of France. Two were destroyed by the British crulsers Dovonshire and Dorsetshire fn December, 1941, Dispatch of another Axis mer chant cruiser to the area and in- creased submarine activity there indicates that as anti-submarine defences along the North Ameri- can coast improve the German major undersea effort may be transferred to the new hunting ground. The Gemuns, he said, would be © more likely to risk a merchant cruiser than a warship, because a surface raider takes great risks and the Germans would be relue- tant to gamble another of their di- minishing squadron of heavy war- ships. This source said that submarines- . would be the greatest danger In the South. Atlantic because the South Atlantic is "very crowded" and the chances of a surface raid- or being sighted were "very great." Once seen a raider would have to steam southward into a "dead area" until search slacken- ed, he said. How Frenchman Ay Gained Freedom - Jacques Ig First French Hos- Nf . tage To Escape To Britain A Frénch shopkeeper wearlng the uniform of the Fighting French with the ribbon of the Croix de Guerre and wound strips earned "in the last war stood. proudly in # Gen. Charles de Gaulle's head- quarters and told of tho dash to freedom that saved him from Naz machine-gunners. Jacques, whose other name must' remain secret, is said to be the - first French hostage to escape the - Germans and reach Britain -- w= vEgcape aloiie might have been -.easler, but he knew the fate that A would befall his wife, Gabrielle, and their 16-year-old son, Louis, it they were left behind; so they fled together. Gabrielle came to the press con- ference, but Louis was tgo busy signing up in the fighting French Air Force. Last year 50 hostages ranging from 17 upward were shot In Jacques' home town in Western France in reprisal for the slaying of a German officer. Jagques Warned The Nazf command ordered the seizure of 60 more hostages and A. Jacques was on the list--wlth ' good reason. For months past he and Gabrielle had been receiving "Fighting French" pamphlets. They didn't know "who sent them but eee thoy-copled-and-sent them to many others, Jacques was warned the night before he was to be arrest. ed. . Within-aa hour he was on the train to Paris with wife and son. But there he was told an exit visa would be granted only with per mission of his home-town police, This and other means" failed, so a Jacques and family set out on their own for Unoccupied France, Within a few hundred yards of the line of demarcation a German i girl In uniform--one of those who ® ! check credentials at the line-- : asked for a Iift in the "motor" car they had hired. Frontier guards waved them on when they saw her with them.- Three months passed before the faniily finally obtained permits to go to North Africa. It was then March and only a short time ago were they able to escape from "Africa. ; Of thé possible Allied invasion of France, Jacques declared with * laughs and gestures: . : "Every Allied soldier should bring three rifles--two for "the Frenchmen ready to fight at their side. Tho landing would he a sig- nal for a general revolt." "tha whole thing f ---articles-about-Battla Dell "written RECEIVES WING AT GRADUATION EXERCISES 21 R. W. Yeo of Toronto, Ont., who was presented with his Air Navigator's wing by D, C. Coleman, chairman of Canadian Yacifio Air Lines Limited, at the Wings Parade of No. 9 Air Observer School, -St. John, P.Q. on August 14. No. 9 A.0.S. is operated by Dominion Skyways (Observers) Limited, supervised by Canadian Pacific Air Lines Limited in conjunction with the Brilish Commonwealth Air Training Plan.--Canadian Pacific Photo. IRWIN A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army "What, more drill?" You've probably heard your friends in the 'services grumble about drill. I've done it myself. And I've joined in arguments in- which John Citizens have held forth on the subject. In the carly days of this new war I found myself lending a ready ear to complaints that "Bow and arrow soldlers" were wasting the boys' time with a lot of "barrack- square stuff." And for quite a long time, al though for its precision and snap- -..Diness..I like..drill,- I-was inclined | to subscribe to the opinion that a lot of it was wasted time, and to label myselt a "bow and arrow soldier." $y Two weeks ago, when I was first introduced to the new "battle drill," I began to see the light. I suppose the reason for that was because I had -to convince Re- serve Army recruits that there is a reason for the drill 'to which so much of their early army life Is devoted. In order to supply myself with good reasons to pass along I had to think -about the subject con- siderably more than I had prev- fously'and, as Is so often the case, - nto a pattern, Until then my sole excuse for drift 'had been that it is tier, in the early days of a soldier' training to teach him that he | part of a group and that the group is not capable of functioning as a unit until it has become integrated through constant practice. In ad- dition, of course, there Is the fact that a body of men marching un- der complete discipline will move with less fatigue than a similar body walking at random. I hadn't thought of the origin of the drill or the underlying reasons -for-its Institution. And I probAbly wouldn't have puzzled that out for myself yet if it hadn't been nec- essary for me to study the "battle drill" that is now a part of Army training. : There have been one or two in England 'and published In Can- adian papers. . One of them, by Captain Kin Beattie, Toronto newspaperman, who is now Press Liaison Officer at Corps Head- qliarters, emphasized that jt had been received with enthusiasm by "the Canadians, but did not go fato much detail about the drill itself, Two' reasons for this lack of de tail could 'be that a written des- cription of a drill 1s a pretty dull' subject or that for security rea- sons no details of the drill are to be mado public. y For either or both of those rea- sons this column will content ft- self with saying that Battle Drill la a serles of exercises designed to make good battle field habits Instinctive and that the dri, which can .be carried out literally anywhere, is practical and does 'Just what Is Intended. Introduction to Battle Drill gave me a shock and brought the re- alization that "drill" actually can have a goal, that Its purpose is not necessarily as abstract as 1 had thought, From that shock, came the reas. oning that "barrack-square sold- toring" probably had its origin INDIVIDUAL ESR _form half company." Forming two --essary "to have "drill movements \ A - Scotsman bullt the first self in something equally useful in the days "away back when." "Now, this Is mere supposition, why could not the origin of "form platoon" have been for the purpose of teaching soliers how to form squares rapldly and Instinctively in the days when the "square" was the unit of battle formation? ~-- You remember those gally-color- ed chromes of British infantrymen in battle, don't you? The - front rank knelt and with its fixed bay- trige" "for the protection of the rear rank which stood with mus- kets poised ready to mow down attackers by volleys. It 18 easy enough to picture the troops marching to battle in col- umns of fours and to imagine the command, "at the halt on the left, deep as they carried out the order, the leading group would then be in position to meet a cavalry charge. It sounds reasonable, doesn't it? And at that time the drill would have as much to recommend it as Battle Drlll has today. Off the battlefield it is still nec- for the orderly handling of troops, and for soldiers of the Individual Citizen's Army drill has its uses too, Drill for civilians? Sure! We've all been drilling eyer sinco gasolins was rationed. That particular drill didn't affect us all, but the next one did. That's right! Sugar! But oven more important than -the absolute rationing of sugar announced May 26 was the voluntary rationing of tea and coffee we were asked to carry out. "It was a drill, a drill to train us _ for the battlefield when absolute rationing of tea and coffee should come, How seriously we took that drill governs our fitness to "take it" now that we have no choice. The soldier or sailor or alrman they can carry out a joint job. We soldiers behind the lines will have more and sterner orders to obey before this job Is done--let's do our drill cheerfully and be ready for what Is to come. propelled . torpedo from plans , drawn up by an Austrian, VOICE THE PRESS NOT SO BAD, AFTER ALL Recently we looked into the matter of our personal income tax and forced savings. Or, to be quite accurate, we enlisted the help of someone 'whose "arithmetical skill is greatly superior to our own and watched the tax being work ed out. It was considerably lesa than we had thought it would be. As a result we are eénjoying- a though- probably decep- tive, feeling of wealth, - Wo suggest that wou take the plunge and look into your own situation it you have not already The recent budget waa admittedly a stiff one, but Mr. lisley has not picked the country he knows that there must certain amount of money after taxes are paid, or we shall not be able to live. Ho has left us enough to live are careful. Indeed, he bas done better than that; he has left vs. enough to be able to save, and. to buy War Savings Certifl- which are undoubtedly the investments offering these ---Peterborough Examiner. wie DUTY IN FORESTRY Benedictine monks for over 900 years have been cultivating one of the world's finest forests, It surrounds an ancient hermitage, fitty miles southeast of Italy. A report in an American forestry magazine says that this forest 1s as fine as It was nearly 1,000 years ago, though lumber has been taken out of it quantities. The monks new trees as fast as they old ones. Our forests rapidly disappearing. Unless we want a treeless Canada, we, too, will have to plant a tree for logged. Forest destrue- tion Is our greatest waste. --Guelph Mercury. wt} CUT DOWN RAGWEED Ragweed is a heavy crop and sufferers from hay fever are hav- ing a tough time of it. The muni: cipality should make a thorough of the vacant lots in and owners of gardens make sure that they are kept clear of the weed. You may a watery-eyed snecezer but there are others to think of who are, and people can- not do their best work when con- stantly sneezing and rubbing thelr onets formed a sort of "cheyal de. f..eyes. em ---Simcos Reporter. Ds DO THEY EVER? "How Sergeants Get Soldiers to Them," says a headline. Which will be the first Intima- tion some soldiers have heard that sergeants ever do. - : Windsor Star. -0----- HOOT, MON! They say that one of the oddest sights in the Canadian army over- seas Is that of a Chinese lad in a playing the bagpipes In an Highland band. Hoot, mon, your shirt tail's oot! ) St.Thomas --Times-Joiirnal. | Britain Calling Subjects Home The British Government, through its consulates, is advis- ing its subjects abroad, including those in the United States, that they will be given financial and 'other assistance in returning to the homeland to volunteer for military or civilian service. Free passage to -the United Kingdom will be paid to all ac- cepted volunteers, said a recent announcement of the British In- formation Services. Offers of service will be con- sidered from both married and un- married men and women, | expects to be given orders that -|----A-departure from existing prac- "wlll co-ordinate individuals so that tice, said the Information Ser- vice, is an.extension of the térm "British subject" -- to include "aliens of the second generation born abroad who would have been British but 'for the failure of their parents _to register birth at a British consulate." ) Volunteers are being asked to supply themselves with a good supply of winter clothing. "THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events upon those viclories. been so hard hit, particularly by her losses_in plane carriers, that first time in our hands. The long dead- lock is broken, and by us. Now, after a heavy naval en- including American marines and Australians, are striking hard by land both at the enemy garrison<and at newly they should fail fo drive the Japanese into the sea they will at least- have forestalled No matter what may be the final outcome of the battle still being fought in the Solomon Is- lands, says The New York Times, clearly: United States, in close collabor- ation with its allies, has taken . We are. not try- ing to check a Japanese advance, as we were in the Battles of Mid- way and the Coral Sea. we are striking by sea, by air and. by land to wrest from the Japanese control" of a strategic areca 'which they have held and to use as: a base for further offensive opera- tions against them, As yet we know little of the details of the action except that American troops have succeeded in forcing a landing after a naval engagement in which our losses, on the basis of the latest availabl ! "at and two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged." We may be reasonably certain of two other First, the Japanese claims inflicted fleet are fantastically false. They announced that twenty-eight of our ships had been sunk or put If we had suffer- ed even half this loss the battle would have ended then and there in an Allied disaster. Instead, to on Second, It would risk an attack jeopardizing the whole power in linked with the bombardment of Kiska, can only be one phase of our Pacific hardly give back to Japan the fruits of our victories in Coral Sea and at Midway. Indeed, is based Japan has the if broken assault on To the United Nations' peopl ---who have watéhed "50 long th bitter retreats of their small for- ces from outpost after outpost in the Southwest Pacific arca, the indication in Solomons action lay in the fact that their troops had undertaken the offensive; that in the distant islands the cornerstones, perhaps, were-being laid for further drives to push the invader from his new- ly won possessions between Aus- Burmese jungle. A battle is being fought which the our the the up the may well mark the tide in tho Pacific. The Rusian armies of the South were reeling back last week be- fore Nazi hammerblows, places the German war machines were moving forward at the rate of fifty miles a day. ' The peril to Russia was grow- ing hourly, In 1042's great of- fensive Hitler was coming ever closer to realization of his objec- tives: to encircle and isolate Rus- sin from the aid sent by her dis- tant allies; to drive a wedge be- tween the Southern and Central Sovict forces; to cripple Russia's arms output and supply lines by the capture of such centers as Stalingrad, the domination of such a vital river as the Volga. session of the Caucasus oil fields would be a prize of double value; it would not only replenish the dwindling fuel stocks of Wehrmacht but might hamper the mobility of the highly mechanized Soviet armies, Marching south and east into the Caucasus, the Germans had left huge Russian forces in their flanks and in their rear. ing power built beyond the Urals might be able to take advantage of the Nazi position. The day may come when Russia will be asked to hit from the east while the second front is being established in the west. At all events, Winter will come again. Disorders In India The first violent outbreaks of the civil disobedience campaign were followed by a lull; the disor- ders in the larger cities began to The British saw suc- cess in their plan to "disconnect" leaders of the revolt from their followers by arrests. London reported that the movement had not received widespread support the countryside. However, violence flared up anew in Cal- cutta and other cities as the Bri- tish studied more drastic methods of combating Gandhi's campaign. In England itself and elsewhere the world there was concern lest the whole affair degenerate into mere suppression of a revolt. It was felt that more was requir- ed; that India must be won to wholehearted support of the Uni- ted Nations' war effort. die down. the United States Takss Offensive In Battle Of Solomon Islands turn of the Help For Malta The little island of Malta, nine- ~Ay-one_square_miles--in-extent; is the unsinkable aircraft whose planes operating from three airfields, harry and smash at Axis shipping to North Africa, at Axis air bases in Sicily, Italy Greece. " From bases only sixty miles away, Axis bombers have raided it more than 2,000 times-- more than any other place in the world--in their efforts to knock it out of the war. time an entire *German air fleet was assigned to the task. has cut bomb shelters deep into signs, closing-up--broken-windows «~~ wise assist in the work of the Boy By Fred Neher ~e - "ls jt true about him havin' a girl in every port?" her solid rock, and lives, for the most part, underground. But from the times of the Carthaginia six centuries before Christ, M ta has proved hard to take, Last week England sent reine forcements to Malta to use in its attacks on the ships which were strengthening Rommel's deserk | armies in Egypt. A great convoyy protected by warships, was dige« patched to the little island. As the vessels sailed past Italy's "boot" a great sea battle develope ed. Axis forces determined to block the convoy's passage, struck at it with everything they had, They hit it with dive-bombers, U-boats and warships--principally the fast little torpedo-carrying "E-hoats." On the allied side th "bulk of the Mediterranean: fleet was reported engaged. Londoa for a long time remained silent, admitting only the loss of the air- craft carrier Eagle; Berlin and Rome claimed heavy damage ine flicted-----more than fifteen vessels sent to the bottom. Later London reported thad part of the convoy had gotlen through--Malta had received its much-needed planes. Besides the loss of the Eagle, the sinking of the cruiser Manchester was ane nounced. Two attacking sub- marines were claimed sunk im hed what was described as one of the ! largest naval operations of the / war. While the sea battle raged, 5 ther British units heavily bom- h barded the [Italian island of i Rhodes, Axis threat to Cyprus « and Syria. There were signs last week of a new threat in the unceasing struggle for supply on the Atlan- tic Ocean. From Brazil came re- ports of an Axis surface raidee LI 'preying on Allied shipping off the red coast----a large, "fast, oil-burning ox vessel which was believed to have sunk at least one ship and attack ed others since its presence bea... came known. Survivors from tors pedoed vessels landed at South: American ports repeated the grim tale so often told in more northern waters of submarine attacks on NPY unguarded 'United Nations freigh- 2 ters. London believed Germany had embarked on a large-scale combined surface raider and U- boat campaign in South Atlantie waters, - SCOUTING . .. Following air raids s ervices carried out by the Boy Scouts of Bath, England, included parading the stre¢ts with traffic detoue---- with various improvised materials, and serving for many hours ab municipal feeding centres. Oldee Scouts helped in extricating th dead and injured from bomb houses. LJ . * Anyone who has or can make the time available, or can other- hs Scouts Association is not only making a worthwhile contribution to the winning of this war, but possibly even more important, towards the huilding up of the future manhood of this country." --Col. R. G. Whitelaw, Director of Military Fraining.---- scm . LJ . When the Lord Mayor of Shef- field recently appeared before a meeting of the Sheffield County Scout Council he wore, in addition to his badge of office as mayor, a Scout Wood Badge, "indicating that he had taken and success. fully "passed the senior Scout leaders' 10-day. camp training course." LIE A bed in the Middlesex Hospl- tal, England, has been named af- ter the 10th Marylebone Rover Scout Crew, in recognition of the valuable services rendered at the hospital by "them since the out. break of the war. "ere A young soldier in a British tank unit was found to have aa extraordinary -- knowledge of 80 -- -- many things that he was frequent ly asked to give lectures to his unit. He demonstrated some car- pentering hints, cooking, first aid, map reading , telegraphy and woodcraft. He was looked upom as something- of a- freak: Finally the Sergeant Major asked where he had acquired all his knowledge. "Cigarette cards?" he suggested. "No, Sir," said the young soldier, "Study for Proficiency Badges when I was a Boy Scout." : - REG'LAR FELLERS--That's Different WELL , WELL, WHO'S BEEN PICKIN' ON #4Y 0 FREN : JIMMIE ? By GENE BYRNES THERE'S NO USE OVER SPILY M Rag UL Fur Offs AD ribs rsneved N Neh BOY / IF IT WAS ONEY MILK THE LICK IT UP, BUT INK MOM YiLL DO, THE LICKIN'/ WHEN 11