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¥ i pe Condemn Nazi "Bestial Policy" Those Responsible For Crimes Against Jews Eleven of the United Nations and thé French National Commit- tee recently condemned @iermany's "bestial policy" of Jewish extermis 'nation and resolved that those res, ; sponsible for such crimes shall not escape retribution, The statement was endorsed by the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwe- gian, Polish, Soviet, United King- dom, United States-and Yugoslav Governments and the Fighting - French. Other United Nations are expected to subscribe to it later, The statement, made public in Washington and London, sald In part: 4 Text of Statement "The German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territor- fes over which their barbarous rule has been extended the most ele mentary: human rights, are now carrying Into effect Hitler's oft. repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people In Europe. "From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in con- ditions of appalling horror and brutality . to eastern Europe. "In Poland, which has becn made the principal Nazi slaughter house, the ghettos established by the in- vader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled -workers required for war industries. None of those | taken away are ever heard of again, "The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm ave left to die of ex-: posure and starvation or are de- liberately massacred in mass exe- - cutions, The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reck- oned in many hundreds of thou- sands of entirely innocent men, women and childlren, "The above mentioned Govern. ments and the French National ommittee condemn in the strong. icy of cold-blooded. extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to over- throw the barbarous Hitlerite tyr- anny. They reafilrm thelr solemn resolution to ensure that those responsible fo these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end." ~ Britain Has New 'Woolwich Arsenal Handles Spiders' Webos, _China Eggs and Siege Guns Britain has a second "Woolwich Arsenal," built "somewhere in the north" on land where grain grew, -a few months ago. 2 Operating over eight miles of roads and 12 miles of rail track, thousands of tons of war material "are handled -weekly, ranging from -the smallest precision instruments 40 heavy artillery pieces. One department alone--the en- gineering and signals stores--deals * with 57,000 different kinds of equip- ment, from spider webs and china eggs to siege guns. The spider webs are used for the hairlines in detector instruments, and the spid- ers arg billeted in the gardens of the staff. The china eggs help the carrier pigeons to feel "at home. - Houses for Workers Rows of neat, semi-detached houses have been built for the hun. dreds of women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service working in the depot. They live six or 10 to a house, In which there are tiled bathrooms, cheerful lounges. There are churches, a hospital, a theatre and cinema, rows of shops. : The brigadier in command has watched the depot grow from a small wooden hut fn the middle ot a wilderness of muddy paths to to- day's self-contained township han- dling 10,000 truckloads of war sup- plies as a monthly routine. Today in place of 'the hut is a- huge building where rows and rows of staff workers -- soldiers, ATS. and clvilians--look like a regiment on parade' at their desks, Documents pass through the ranks "on a conveyor belt. Precision and 'Speed - The alliance 'of precisipn with, speed i8 80 good that United States authorities sent one of their ord. nance experts across by bomber to study the depot's methods, It took him a month to digest all the gadgets, : ' One of the A.T.S. lecturers on wireless components is 'a slim 18. year-old corporal who less than a year ago was working as a dress esigner and didn't know a con. denser from a transformer. 'In 'the Instrument shops is a sergeant, who is a little difdent about her studies at five British and foreign universities, her B.S, at Edinburgh with first-class hon- ors, and her knowledge of French, German and "a litle Russian." The pride of the depot are 23. oar-0ld twins from Sussex. They ave not been separated since join. "ing up 17 months ago, got their ~first stripe on the same day, and n6w are working in the sanie shop. st possible terms this bestial pols VOICE PRESS ONLY THE BEGINNING Before this war is over & is more than probable that our liv- ing standards will be so drastically changed that not 'a single person in Canada but will realize what sacrifice really means. We are only just 'at the béginning. We have to go a long 'way yet before we shall catch up with our fellow- citizens in Britain--if, ipdeed, we ever do. The one fact.we have to keep ever before us, day by day, is that, no matter what sacri- fice we are called upon to make, we must be ready to make it, and willing to face it. That way alone victory lies. --Petrolin Advertiser-Topic : ---- WINNING ONE RACE The Italians are reported In the van of the enemy retreat in Africa. When the British cut off a section of Marshal Rommel's army, it is understood most of those in the trap were Germans, The Italians had gone on ahead, getting out in front in the race to the rear. The Italians have to show some prowess on the battlefield, so they dre running faster than the . Boche. --Windsor Star ---- WITH A CAPITAL "M" In Retailers' Bulletin the W. P. T. B. spells it "Schicklegruber'; in a recent Victory Loan adver- tiscment the Department of Ki- nance had it '"Schickelgruber"; Hitler's ols man used to spell it "Schicklgruber'" -- but actually the Fuchrer's name is mud. --Fort Erie Times-Roview --0-- A YOUNG OLD ONE It may be hard to get a boy as a helper here but what must it be in Cardiff, Wales, when this placard was placed outside a shop: "Boy wanted, not over 70"? . ___---St. Thomas Times-Journal Seopa THE OLD DAYS We can remember the time when "shortage" only meant that the cashier_had skipped out with some funds." --Brandon Sun df CHEER UP! a Don't let the price of butter upset you, It can be made from grass. All you need is a cow and a churn, . : --Chatham News --_---- SUGAR BORROWING Remember when you could slip in next-door and borrow a cup of sugar? --Stratford Beacon-Herald --0-- TWO EXTREMES You can't think on a low level and live on a high plane, : --XKitchener Record Liquid resin {8 being produced fn Sweden and will be used in many Ways. WISHFUL WAAC There's something about a sol- dier, even a feminine one, Mrs. Burma Lee Taylor evidently fig- ured, Police say she got herself a trim-looking uniferm and went about im eraonating a WAAC, She's shown above in custody at Atlanta, where FBI officials are helding her for investigation, - Janek did not tell them so--and Li SR SR SERA Ap PI Bs The lazy fellow astride his pal's back has had most of Auckland, N. Z., in stitches because he even d his fellow opossums cannot snitch h ines on his favorite perch so that is dinner, 4 THE UNCONQUERABLES "THE DAY IS Janek, for so we shall call him, was a child of the mountains. But as a youth he had developed a mechanical turn, and when 1939 rolled round, the little shepherd boy was no longer recognizable in the city chauffeur, vho was then further transformed into an avi ation mechanic. When, after weeks of desperate fighting, the Polish. forces had to surrender, Janek be- came a prisoner of the Germans, from whom ho escaped to Soviet territory, and then to Warsaw. There personal tragedy awaited him. Iis home had been bombed to rubble and his family killed. Although not recognized as an escaped prisoner-of-war, his free- dom was shortlived. The Reich had need of labayers. - Janek was strong and excellent for farm work, the Germans judged--though soon he found himself hired .out as forced labor on a German farm. oo * . . To the German authorities, the Polo was a serf and they quite overlooked the no :ibility of his being clever. He laughed as he told the Warsaw lady to whom he had come with a letter from her husband in the Reich, about hls "service" to his "employers"; how... he, a peasant child, familiar from infancy with farm animals and farm tools, had played the clumsy fool. Iliow he could never remem- ber to feed the cows at the proper time and ruined the milk supply; how he wrecked the wagon and ruined farm tools. In short, how he spoiled everything he touched. . . . Thus because of hls apparent inability to do anything right and the damage he did, he was pro- nounced worthless and returned to Poland. Back on his native soll, COMING--" he suddenly wags no longer the rustic, heavy-handed bungler. The light which he had so carefully shielded during his labors in Ger- many, came back in his eyes. So it was that Janek joined the underground army which is making ready for the "day that is com- ing"--working stolidly, waiting impatiently--hoping for the orders that will' say that the moment fs at hand. "Far," he firmly asserted, "the day is coming when 'they' will lack 'the iron they hurled at us and without it they are worth nothing. Then one of us will handle a dozen of them." § --Christian Science Monitor, Never Again The "Never Again" Association of Great Britain defines its pro- _ gram as follows: - "Never again must the German people be allowed to organize for war; "Never again must we win a war and lose-the peace; "Never again must we sign any Treaty with any German Govern- ment until the German people have proved that they can honor their pledges and behave as good neighbors; ' "Never again must the British be caught napping; 3 "Never again must the sccur- ity of this country and the lives of our children be jeopardised he- cause of a mistaken tenderness to brutes; "Never again must we listen to the lies of Germany's friends | our midst; . "Never again must we rely on anything but our own strong arm and that of our proved friends." LIFE"S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher AR 2 WILL-YUM, £7 ' ', mph d UTE vas. hy ty t 4 [TREE] i J ", [) ATT --~ Loh ! oh (RE Wha fo w log laste 5-22 peep AeA/ER] « "Mom caught him burying one of her biscuits." THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events In January of 1942 the days were dark for the United Nations fi: the Kast, nor was there much cheer in the Wes}, says a writer of conquest unleashed at Pearl Harbor was flowing toward its high-water mark. The Red Army and the terrible Winter of the steppes were beating "against the Wehrmacht, but Marshal Rommel in Libya and U-boats in American coastal waters were striking pow- erful. blows. Everywhere the Al lies fought desperately for time-- time to mobilize latent power, to co-ordinate separate efforts, to catch up in preparation with their enemies, R . The outline ¢f the Allied plan took shape. In the military field the task was to hold basic fronts-- a strong line in Russia, a bastion in Britain, a new Pacific defense anchor in Australia. In the pro- duction field a_ wartime goal was set by President Roosevelt for the world's mightiest industrial ma- chine. In the diplomatic field, the informal. alliance of the anti-ag- gressor nations became the form al pact of the United Nations, pledged to common victory. February It was Japan's month again. The dominating event was the fall of Singapore, the mighty' anchor 'ot the Allied defense line stretching across the Kastern seas to Pearl Harbor. * . March - A The Rising Sun touched the zenith of it conquest in Java, Bur ma and the Australian islands. In a little more than three monthg tho aggressors In the last had won 1,000,000 square wiles of ter- ritory inhabited by more than 100,000,000 people. They held the world's most important sources of rubber, tin, quinine and hemp, as well as rich ofl fields, inexhaust- ablo iron, wolfram, manganese and copper deposits. They were bol- stered now for a long struggle. . The Allied world could only hope that the battles In Oceanla "Japanese, that the campaign in Russia was sapping German pow- er. It cried for a shift from de- "fensive to offensive strategy. The cry was premature. America's fao- tories and tralning camps--the welght that might turn the battle --were still mobilizing for total war. April The greatest developments were on America's production front. In -the words of Donald Nelson, Am- erlca's production chief, "the decks had been cleared." The auto {n- dustry was the symbol. It had com. pleted the ripping out of great peacetime conveyor belts, had in- stalled machines to make guns, tanks and planes, Now. full-scale production was in sight. On the battlefields the Allies Iteld grimly to delaying actions. The delaying In the Philippines drew to a close; the Japanese, the severest defeat over suffered by the United States overseas. Only in the air were por- tents bright. The bombing of To- kyo and the heavy raids on Germ- any's Baltic shore were evidence of mounting Allied air power, . May ~~ Both sides were girding for a new phase of the global conflict. The aggressors. struck . the first blow, A Japanese thrust, aimed supply line between America and the Antipodes, was beaten back sharply in the Coral Sea. But the German thrust took shape as Hit ler's most grandiose, a colossal pincers' drive, one arm through Southern Russia, the other through Egypt, to the foodstuffs and oil of the Caucasus and the Middle Ilast, "In the Kast," the Fuehrer had said, "the decision will fall." Ho had to hurry. The shipyards of America were now launching two vessels a day to ferry muni- tions and men to the world's battle-fronts. The big bombers, were shuttling over 'to England, where commanders spoke confi- dently of 1,000-plane raids on tho Reich. Tho subjugated millions In in the New York Times. The wave ' ible supplies of foodstufis, valu- and Asia were wearing down the Bataan fell to. either at Australin or the Pacific "invasion of Europe could 'Rising Power Of United Nations Marks The Turning Of The Tide the tempo of the silent battle of the underground. , June This (8 the "month of drama, though the drama did uot burst upon the world until a day In November. In the White House at Washington | President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill dis- cussed "the war, the conduct of the war and the whuning of the war." They talked against a grim background. The Wehrmacht was battering the last redoubts of Sevastopol and surging toward the Don. The Af- rica Corps took Tobruk and swept deeply into Egypt. Despite hard counterblows--the Red Army's flevee resistance, the RR. A. K's massive raids on the Rhineland, the American Navy's great victory off Midway--the United Nations were still losing. : Such was the cheerless canvas of the global conflict as the two leaders reached a momentous de- cision. They decided on a grand offensive to be launched in 1942, It was designed to win North Af- rica as a prelude to attack on the Axis domain in Europe. In utmost | gecrecy orders went out for the start of immense preparations. July Not since German cannon wero heard in. Moscow's suburbs had Russia's peril been so grave, The "panzers rumbled again at Blitz pace. Thirty thousand square miles of fertile steppe were put behind them within the month, and they were rolling hard through the Donside's feather grass, {ts rye and wheat, ita old Cossack villages, toward the Vol ga and the Caucasus. If. Ititler could command the lower banks of Russia's "Mother River," If he' could seize the Caucasus, a ter- rible, perhaps mortal, blow would be inflicted on the Soviet. Major oil resources would be lost, the southern route of supply from the "outer world via pian would be severod. The burden of battle lay still on the broad back of the Red Army, and though the cry went up for a second front to ease-the load it was yet in vain. Tie British were hard pressed -to--stop. Rommel some seventy miles fist the Nile Delta, The United States needed more lime to mobilize. But, be- hind the visible scene, weapons from the American mass-produc- tion lines were moving overseas and with them were going masses of troops. * August Most Americans had never heard of Guadalcanal. They learu- ed quickly, after' the marines ar- rived, about its strategic place in the Southwestern Pacific. An air- fleld hacked out of fits coconut groves by the Japanese could com- mand approaches to Australia and the supply line between the Un- ited States and the smallest con- tinent, When the Americans seiz- ed it, they blunted the fasthest prong of Japan's advances in Qc- cania and changed the tide ot battle in one corner of the East, The Solomons action was fm. portant, spectacular and hearten- ing, but the first front was still Russia. And in Russia the focus was Stalingrad. The Wehrmacht pushed toward the key city on the Volga and toward the epic battle that may stand as the Verdun of World War IL Russiagipbre than ever, wanted a recon trot It fell upon Prime Ministér Chure- hill to tell Joseph Stalin that an not be promised for 1942. Instead, the British and Americans would seek to divert German strength by an attack on North Africa. « September To sicg-heiling followers in Ber- lin's Sportspalast the Fuelrer de- "clared: "We must hold everything and wait to see who tires soon- est." His words were a significant admission. His grand. drive for the East had fallen, shpet. In the Pacific (We initlative also, seemed to be slipping from Jipa- nese hands. October Powerful Allied action--in the Solomons, across Egypt--held the stage, On the battlegrounds the most HN cheering news came from #he Solo- Iran and the Cas- mons, where a formidable Japa nese fleet was repulsed by the American Navy, Reports were fave orable, (too, from Alamein, where the British were battering Rome mel's fortifications, November The whole complexion. of the war changed. As the Americans splashed ashore in North Africa, the mo- mentous decision taken {n the "White louse in June, the great secret preparations of Summer and Fall, wero revealed. A major diversion had been created to re- lieve Russia, a ring of steel w-s being forged around Germany, The crucial turn in World War II seems ed at hand. Hitler's reaction was strong and essentially defensive. He dispatche ed troops to Tunisia, key to the Central Mediterranean. He occus pled all France and snatched foe tho fleet at Toulon, only to see it go down, selfscuttled. He and the Duce had to put aside the dream of a march to the Nile. December Everywhere the United Nations were on the move or dealing ef- fective blows -in North Africa, in Russia, in the air over Germany, in- Oceania and in Burma. They were activating overseas France for a powerful role. They were une dermining Italian resistance with bombs and propagandh. Germany and Japan were far from beaten; it seemed certain thar they were givding to wrest back the initia. tive. But they were much nearee to being beaten than at the year's start, SCOUTING ... One ¢f Cynada's busiest men, Jackson Dodd3, has retired as Gen- cral Manager of the Bank of Montreal. Althouch holding one of the most important administra tive banking positions in the coun- try, Mr. Dodds has always found time for an active interest in the Boy Scouts Association, being chaitman of the finance commit- tee of the Canadian General Coun. cil. Mr. Dodds will continue to take an active interest in the Boy Scouts. . . * Former Scout leaders, now on active service, continue to give service "to Scouting. The Nova Scotia Provincial Council reports that Don Lopces of the R.C.AF., former Scoutmaster of St. Cathe arines, gives six nights a week to assisting troops in the Maritimes, while Pat vans, a former Que- bee leader, has made 13 visits to Maritime Troops. The two airmen also conducted a leaders' training course at. Sydney, N. S. - * . wy 3 Boy Scouts of Great Britain played no small part in producing the greatest harvest in British history this past summer. Boy Scout Troops all over the nation operated "Dig for Victory" gar- dens, and raised thousands of tons of vegetables for home consump- tion. Canadian Scouts supplied them with 1,000 pounds of garden seeds. . - LJ Boy Scouts of the Punjab, [n- dia, are mourning tie tragic death of one of the Scouts, Wing Commander H.W, Hogg, C.LLE., O.B.E., Commis. sioner for the State of Punjab, Commissioner Hogg built up the organization in that state from a few thousand boys to more than 100,000. He was killed by dis- gruntled Ghandi followers, to- gether with his son, while journey ing to his Air Force post. Come missioner Hogg did as much as any man- in India to break down the barriers of caste, and scores of his Boy Scout Troops had a mem- bership composed of boys of all castes, ' . * * Dr. George I. Christie, Presi- dent of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "told a recent rally of Boy Scout leaders in To- ronto that the war has rooted Canada of many of its brightest young men, and thus it becomes essential that the Boy Scouts be adequately trained to shoulder the heavy burdens that lic ahead. Facing a salt shortage, South Africa Is making it from. -brine pumped from shallow pits. the Axis rcalm were stepping up x - 3 : Bluey and Curley of the Anzacs "Tough on the Dog' By Gurney (Australia) po You "Hh FEED TW MASCOT ON DOG + BISCUITS , BLUE BREAK IT DOWN, WE CANT AFFORD DOG | BISCUITS ANY MORE J HES GOT To EAT WHAT WE, EAT Now // ~~ \ oe hic NN » 3 Oy a / world's gregtest..