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: = RS a . serted $ fiver "has rusted beyond re- _to make sure i Will Hitler Scrap The Eiffel Tower? Famous "Structure "Would Viel 7,000 hy of Metal =n iE 'Eiffel, Tower about. to- into the hands of German treckers? dispatch printed in Sweden as: that the world-famous pair as the result of neglect." If the Eiffel Tower has really fallen to 'disrepair. this has hap- pened against the desires of most Frenchmen, says the Stratford Beacon-Herald, For they .know that every six years the towering pride of Parisians had been paint. ed by 65 daring' workmen who' traditionally refused to wear safe- ty belts (although atleast five were killed on each job). A year ago the German 'invaders talked covetously of the tower's 7,000 tons of metal. The rust story sounds suspiciously like a Nazi lie_spread as a forerunner to the destruction of the best-known feature of the Seine landscape. * . . Built for the Paris Exposition in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has been called "an .up-ended bridge that went nowhere except into the heart of bourgeois France." Alexandre Gustave Eiffel himself once admitted: "I. know it is atrocious, but there it is, and there it stays." And-so all 984 feet of the Eiffel Tower stayed --its massive toes dug deep below 'the bed of the Seine and its head lifted serenely into the haze. gi The builder slept soundly in the tower while the German planes of the last war attacked the City of Light. He read poetry there while the shaft swayed four feet in the wind and the Summer lightning leaped and crackled in the fretwork. Both the man and the tower looked down cynically -on riot, royalty, and tourists. To- gether, for decades, they calmly survived the demands of highly artistic people that "this mon. strosity" come tumbling down. * Lr J * * ™ By June, 1940, when the Boche came again, Eiffel had been dead for: 17 years, but his tower saw the German panzers arrive, and it wore, in shame, the hated swas- tika. Greedily the aggressors eyed the metal loot, but hesitated to rub salt into the bleeding wounds of the French masses. And so the Eiffel Tower was spared-- for the time, But now its end may be near. It will be so easy-- and so typical of Hitlerism--to find an excuse, in the rust that Is cating into the structure, to destroy the tower, and steal the iron scrap. Invade N. Africa With Barter Kits U. S. Sales Campaign Work-. ed, Says Stratford Beacon. Herald When--North American troops landed on the shores of North Af- rica, they hegan an invasion that was psychological as well as phys. ical. One objective was to sell the native populations on the Idea that here was a genuine army of liberation. Recognizing that "folding mon- oy" would make little impressjon on native labor, Major-General Ed- mund B. Gregory, Quartermaster- General, provided the American forces with a large supply of gold coins and 2,000 tons of barter goods. Gold belonging to the Un- ited States has long since heen converted into bullion, so the coins were borrowed from Can. ada. Every sixth soldier was issued a "barter kit." These included beads. scissors, clothes, perfumes, candies, cigarettes, sugar, tea, and coffee--and the items were dished out to the natives both as gifts and as exchange for work. And that the natives would have no doubts .as to the identity of the troops, each sol dler wore a small American flag on his left sléeve or undér the camouflage netting of his helmet. It was a sales campaign In cap- {tal letters--and ft worked. The gold and barter kits told convine- 11g tdles to the North Afticans: (1) traditionally, conquering arm- 165° ravage, but here was one - which gave instead of taking. away; and (2) America was a na. tion so rich and powerful that fa the mldst of ts greatest war ft had such a surplus' of goods fit could still attord to deal gener- ously, Ji - oer Toe Threat 'Mhde To German People Paul "Joseph Goebléls, Ger. man propaganda minister, who has been trying to whi up' Gérs man war energy by chilling the blood of radio listeners, threaten ed them with a new Allied atrocity if they' failed to win the war for Hitler. He warned them they would be forced to learn English and that English spelling was very difficult. I ) "Yast Week a Paps | Parls* CLEANING UP IN TUNISIA Handy horse tromgh somewhere in Tunisia makes a wash basin for British paratrooper cleaning some of that embattled country's mud off his boots, GIVES UP PRECIOUS DISHES, PANS TO CAMOUFLAGE MINES False Holes Dug in Roads To Delay German Advance, What Have Canadians To Sacrifice, So Precious To Them? Money Means Relatively Little But We Can At Least Give It. By Gregory Clark The Russian sergeant was ex- plaining to the woman by the roadside that his 20 men -- who had come in three trucks--were up to. Eg "We are mining the road," he sald, "A whole regiment of Ger- man. tanks has broken out of Stalingrad. They may come thls road. We have been sent to delay i them." "Why are woman asked. "Because what. can I 'do with 18 'mines?' cried the sergeant bit: terly. "When they hit the first one, they will all stop while the you swearing?" the pioneers -get out and search and' find the other 17... "They can't leave the road," sald the woman cheerfully. "If they get out in these drifts, the swamps will swallow their tanks like frogs." "I know, I know," said the ser- geant. "Then don't hide sald the woman. "Just pretend to hide them. Dig here 20 holes, and put three mines at random fin three of the holes." The rest are dummies. But it will take them just as long to test the dummies." "You're a smart woman," sald the sergeant. "What can we put on top of the dummy holes?" "Plates, tin pots, anything," sald the woman, "I'll get mine." "And while the mine layers dug the mines," holes and buried only three mines" at random in the sett, the woman The Pacific Ocean Calm and Peaceful Greater In Area Than En- tire Land Surface of Globe The Pacific Ocean was named by Magellan, the great Portuguese who was the first man to cross it --ninety-elght days under sall, from the Straits of Magellan fn South America to Guam, W. B, Courtney "writes in Collier's, He called It "Pacltic"--calm and peaceful. In this respect, Magel- lan was lucky-----as many a Yank fighting man could testify, out of his green-faced misery. In {ts storms, as in all other things, the Pacific drives the most conserv- ative to superlatives; it Is biggest, widest, deepest, bluest, quletest, grandest and wildest, ee 0 Its area is greater than the en- tire lang surface of the gobe. You could drop the whole United __ States In any one of several ex-- panses of the Pacific, and none ot {ts frontlers would touch as much as an Islet. Yet §ts map in places Is as salted with Islands as the Milky Way is with stars; although even here you may cruise among them fon days, as our transport did, and not sight land--so far are thoy apart. ¢« + 0 The Pacific is nearly twice as large as the North and South At- lantfe combined, and {t has more than double their total of water. It contains more than alt of all the water on earth, in. cluding oceans, seas, rivers and lakes. It is more than 9,000 miles long from Behring Strait to the Antarctic Circle; and {t 1s 10,000. miles wide at the equator, It takés the un' ten hours to. cross 'it, or nearly one-half of fits day's jour. ney, It has the greatest known deépi--the Philippine, east of the islands, and the Nero, off GJuam, for instance, both going down six miles or moré. Its average depth is over two and a halt miles. By contrast, even the: latest German U-boats cannot submerge with safety more than 600 feet: hd amount . came back with a sack full of her precious dishes and pans. . At half-mile intervals along that ravaged road, the Russlan ser- geant and his party dug tts ot 20 and more holes, buryidg only enough mines to make the selt "deadly; the rest they topped with | NY tin pots and plates that would ring dangerously to the German's probing rods . . . and delay them another half-hour. For a dummy takes as long as a real mine to investigate. The Germans came. They were delayed. And the Russian antls tank troops arrived in time to wipe them out, body, soul and hardware, -- - But you have nothing you pos- sess which i3 as precious to you as those dishes were to that Rus- sian woman. living fn a shanty. --- What's your giit to the cause? Address it to the Canadian Ald to Russia Fund, 80 King Street West, Toronto. Let Skeeters Bite To Aid Science. Six men sititng for hours every day in a sealed tent in Northern Australia encourage a cloud of mosquitoes to bite them, prefer- ably at the<rate of 10 a minute. They are entomologists racing against time to develop a more ef- fective repellant of the malaria- carrying anopheles inosquito as the rainy season closés up north. A repellant must be discovered, manufactured in large quantities and distributed to the troops. The: main objectives of the rescarch- ers are to protect. the troops in the New Guinea jungles and over- _ come the ever-present danger of - malaria outbreak on the Aus- tralian mainland. Malaria can put' out of action large numbers of troops for a prolonged period. Guerilla la Warfare . Within France Watch for reports of organized guerilla warfare within France not unlike that in Yugoslavia, though on a smaller scale, says Newsweek. Information leaking out of the country indicates that planned resistance is already under way. Disbanded French VOICE OF THE "PRESS ARMY P,0. EFFICIENT with'a. record. Mailed to him: in England in October, 1941, it fol- lewed him to Malta, Egypt, Libya and back to Egypt to West Af- rica, back to England and then to Canada where it caught up, But it caught up. The Army Post Of- fice knows-its business -- Owen Sound Sun-Timés : GOOD ANSWER An.old lady in Holland gave a clever answer 'vhen charged with listening to BBC broadcasts, "The Fuehrer," she said in her own defence, in London in June, 1940, Since then I've listened to London every day to make sure I wouldn't miss what he said when he got there," --Toronto Ster. . ALL IN ONE JUMP A 16-year-old Toronto boy, missing since Cctober 1, has been found in Georgia, where he is training with the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. His is a modern success story. He took off from his mother's apron strings and landed in parachute harness.--Windsor Star, OUR OWN ENEMY For high taxes, crowded street- cars, the shortage of gasoline, rubber, sugar, coffee and tea, we can blame Hitler if we like. But for nutter rationing we have only ourselves to blame,--Ottawa Citizen, THOUGHT FOR STRIKER When his son asks him, ten years hence. "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" surely no father will relish having to an- swer: "I went on strike in a war industry plant."---Stratford Bea- con-Herald, IT'S WORTH SAVING And don't take too much stoen fn that rumor that the Germans are planning to scrap the Eiffel Tower. It's such an excellent jumping-off place for Adolf when the time comes.--Ottawa Citizen, WHAT A QUEER WORLD Sufficient evidence of the dis- location of the world: The Japa- nese are just as busy making gasoline out of rubber as we are making rubber out of gasoline.-- New York Sun, THE GERMAN HEELS News stories say the Germans are being rocked back on their heels. The heels, no doubt, are Hitler, Goering, Himmler and and Goebbels.--Kitchener Record, An instrament has been devel- oped that enables blind persons to make precision inspection of certain machine products in war industries. wOwen-Sound -Pilot- Officer-has- ~ just "recently 'received a letter "announced ho would be Air Base Built In Three Days Englneers Use Alrborne Rest ying Equipment Home 4 "Africa, B ~ Gen' Stuart. 6. Tay Se: gineers --- alr-borne road-bullding equipment which makes it possible to comstruct advanced alr- bases almost overnight, id When ft became necessary to establish advanced airdromes to support the action In Tunlsla, Gen- eral Godfrey sald, a call was put in for the air-borne engineers. With their" equipment, they were flown fn cargo - planes to points as close as possible to the selected sites. Within three days, Flying Fort: resses were taking off from the first base, and a second base was completed the next day. "Our Allies couldn't belleve thelr eyes when they saw equipment be- ing unloaded from airplanes and going right to work," he reported. Portable Hangars This*kind of forchandedness, he sald, 18 golug a long way toward solving the dificult supply prob- lem in North Africa, where for 1,000 miles there ave only a singla railroad and a narrow highway system along the coast. Among -the equipment, speclally designed © for transportation In planes or gliders, are light-weight, portable hangars, a gasoline-oper- ated lighting unit for night con- struction work and lighting the field for night flying, a road scraper which can be hauled by a jeep, and rollers to be filled with water or sand. - The air-borne aviation eugineers were first organized last summer, Thelr training was so rapid, Gene eral Stuart sald, tliat within six months they wete at work fn Eng- land and ready for the North Afrl- can campaign, where most of their work has heen ploneering, Tough Training "The flea behind them." he ox- plained, "is that they can get futo flelds captured by paratroops or , on invaded islands right with the attack-units to make reaily for alr operations with a minimum of * delay. . "The saving of a few hours or days In the construction of such airdromes may have a great bear- ing on the outéome of a whole campaign." The air-borue aviation engineers go through a tough training course, They are chosen from the Alr Forces personnel for their stamina and special skills, They must have both basic combat and engineering training. Then they are instructed in operations of their specialized equipment, special engineering courses, advanced training with such weapons as submachine guns, carbines and rifles, and a course In Commando exercises. SIDE GLANCES 7 By George CI Clark = EWEW Weapon ot his aviation-ea-..J. with THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events .-SPrime Minister. Churchill aud President Rooseyelt,. together w Eqlielr 'chiefs of staff and other concluded a ten-day conference at CAqblanca, Morocco, in which a gen - programme of military It has been disclosed that the United Nations would be satisfied with nothing short of the enemy's unconditional surrender, excluding the possibility of a negotiated peace. Roosevell's statement that the de- struction of populations was not intended, but rather the destruc- tion of a philosophy based on con: quest and terror, General Giraud, High Commis: sioner for French North Africa and General de Gaulle, leader of Fighting France, were also pre- sent at the conference. For obvious reasons, no delalls of the decisions reached at this historie Casablanca conference have been given to the public. f "French Problem "It fs evident from the place ohosen for this meeting, held with- fn a few hours' airplane flight from the African battlefront, that the French problem was upper most in the minds of both Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt. Nel- ther felt it safe to temporize long- er with a situation which found Fronch factions in an open quar- rel and British and American op- inion drifting dangerously apart. . Fortunately Mr. Roosovelt and Mr. Churchill have more in com- mon than have most of their critics, on both sides of the At. lantie, when any question regard. ing France becomes the Issue, says the New York Times. Both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill know France intimately, under stand France, and cherish a long friendship with the French people Both are men of action, impatient Wort awd - the disagree- ments growing out of words, when there is fighting to be done Both passionately desire the re- birth of the French Republic, French Leaders Meet Sharing this faith, and meeting on Irencht soil, they could not fail to end the schism which has divided FPrepchinen heaving arms against a common foe. The joint statement made by General de Gaulle and General Giraud has in it all the essential elements of an understanding that will suffice une til the war is won. The two lead- ers have met. They They are "in entire cement on mittary--and- civil - officials, . have. strategy for 1943 was worked out... This was qualified by Mr. - have talked. dent and promising. - "Theatre by theatre," the entire field of the war was surveyed, "and all resources were marshaled for move Intensive prosecution of the war by land, sea and ale There was "complete agreement Churchill, Roosevelt Meet In Africa Leaders Agree On 1943 Strategy French Empire, to surrender hots 3t convictions about the political ~~ "°° fecds of DOSLWAr France, We cane ns .ngt expect the political disagree- ments which so deeply divi pre-war France, and so dangerous. ly sapped the strength of the Third 'Republic, to vanish miraou lously overnight, merely because we would like 'to see all French. men united fo' every hope and every purpose. \What weé can ask, and what we can now expect, is that Frenchmen .of every party and of every faction will subord- ] inate political disagreements to a the fmmediate and . essential task of driving from the soll of France Smaart the arch-fiend, THitler, who pols ons and corrupts and tyrannlzes the French people. PRY A Fair Bargain 1: We are entitled to beliove that fi the agreement reached between 2) \ General de Gaulle and General Qk (59 raud at Casablanca under the aus- pd pices of the chiefs of state of the i two great English-speaking demoo- ¥y J racles carrles this implication 'and fis this promise. $d Certainly {t carries, on eur side, Hy a commitment from which we can- hey not escape with honor: a commit. at ment to vse all our Intelligence {vy and all our power to make certala fy that no post-war government fis set up in France except in accord. ance with tha freely expressed wishes of the French people. This is the falr bargain slgned at Casablanca. Complete Agreemgent Concerning the military decls- fons reached at the conference we are not entitled to go beyond the language of the communique Itsele. But that language is crisp, confi- ®t upon war plans and euter- prises 10 be undertaken during the campaign of 1913 against Ger many, aly and Japan, with a view to drawing the utmost advantage from the markedly favorable turn of events at the close of 1942." The Americans and British were at all times in "close touch with Stalin and with Chiang Kai-shek. Attending the conference were field officers from the African campaign, fresh from experlonce with the newest weapons and the latest tactic The- whole discus- sion took place in the realily of a present battlefield from which at- delight and ir was plain that the writer had planned it that way. When Quisling's official newspaper ran an indigaant editorial in piy, re. the laughter was all the londer, the end to he achie which fs tacks may he launched in a hale il - the sty of the French people dozen directions at the Continent * (h and the triumph of human liber- of Enrope. fe 1 ties by the defeat of the enemy." The communique ends on a bua- po They will attain this eid "by the inesslike note: Phe President, jos uniton of ali Frenchmen fighting the Prime Mini rand the com- 5 side by side with their allies." bined staffs, having completed ' HS ' This is as much as we need ask. their plans for the offensive came 3 ) Nor Lave we the right to ask more paigns of 1047 have now separate i We cannot expect Feuchmen, fn ed in order to put them into active ' A France itself or in any part of the and concerted execution." £ . 13 THE UNCONQUERABLES bo They Still Retain Their Sense of Humor - } <8 Laughter continues to be a po- Noor Calis may at times think tent secret weapon of Europe's of Hitler when they sing about conquered peoples, and the grim the "dreaded prince? a Nazis have yet to find armor thick Meanwhile in the Netherlands yi enough to ward oft the thrusts of the able subjects of Queen Wilhel- 7 wit, ceasm and sative directed mina aontinte to find ways of . 2 against them, drowning ont unwelcome Nazi he? In Norway recenty the Quisling- speakers. When a crowd does not VE ists had to forbid all newspaper peal its bicycle bells for this pur- mention of 0slo's rat-extermination pos, it may. resort to such cheer- Ahan campaign, One leading journal lent ing and applause that the speaker ih "enthusiastic support of the drive gives up in disgust. on } two years ago, with a strong edi- * Li * torial entitled: "Out With the But a new stratagem was used Rat!" _ To readers who substi- to hait a Dutch Nazi propagandist tuted the word "Nazis" tor "rats," who sought, hy teudspeaker, lo the editorial provided no end of ailress the town of Hilbarenbeck. No sooner had he begun orating than the "carillon, of a nearby church ivexplicably_began to play, The Nazi shouted for 15 minutes, Lis every syllable drowned out-by soldiers have been turning up at' In more sober velu, a Swedish the bells. Finally he had to com- prearranged meeting places in re- newspaper reports that the Nazis pel the burgomaster to order the mote sections, notably in Auv- ave forbidden the singing of © air radd sentry atop the church DINE ergne and the Pyrenees. These Martin Luther's famors hymn, "A tower to turn off the musie, \ men have been responsible for Mizhity Fortress Is Our God," in By such teieks and thrusts, by several acts of sabotage that have Norwezian churches becaue of the subtly-phrased newspaper an- slowed up traffic between France stanza containing the lines: ; notncements amd by anti-Nazt 3 and Spain. There is vie known Their dreaded prince no more Jokes that spread like wildfire, if instance of a German infantry Can farm us as of yore, the unconguerable people have? patrol's exchanging fire with M221) 9 MEA SEEVICE IC TES UL RAT OFF 2-1 His rage we can endure, made humor and derision a pow- night raiders and sufferin u- " ' nk vous . ty " a 9 For. lo! 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