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CHA FE -- "now appeare "all the bells throughout LJ Malta's Flags Fly And Sirens Shrill ed by Heroic Little Island The shrill cry of the siren which a "few months ago sent townsfolk of Malta hurrying to = the cellars, brought them to the rooftops on the day of victory in Tunisia to survey towns and = of land that to be safe and secure for ever against the threat of enemy occupation, . This island race has been cac- customed to fighting for 2,000 years, These people's ancestors. took part in the Punic Wars and later fought the infidel, prefer- ring death to subjugation. More recently, on the last European fragment held by the Allies, the Maltese stood firm against the air assaults carried out for weeks on end, and almost without re- spite. They pinned their faith on the coming of a day when they might be free of anxiety and when they might begin to think of rebuilding their demolished homes. . The Day Has Come As soon as the news of the fall of Tunis and Bizerte had reached the island, it was scheduled that Malta and a neighboring island a few, miles nearer the enemy should ring. But the bell-ringers could not wait and the peals began at once, Of the three enormous bells in the 12th century Church of St. Angelo, two had been de- stroyed. The one remaining start- ed to swing heavily in the bel- fry, with two men tugging the rope. That was the signal for all the other bells on the. island. France Stripped Of All Manpower Patriots Will Have No Op- portunity To Help Allies The manhunt in France to fill German war factories and assure that the Allies will find no help from patriots when the "second front" is opened, continues un- . p ' abated, says the Paris correspon- dent to the Swedish newspaper D'Ageénce Nyheter of April 20, 1943. "When I wanted to order my return ticket to Vichy," he writes, "the toutist office declared 'we cannot send it as we have no er- rand boy; he has been laken to Germany.' - "In a restaurant where I want- ed a drink of mineral water, I was told nothing had been served - there for the last fortnight ow- ing to lack of labor. My old friend, a priest who is the editor of a church review, cannot print it--not for lack of paper, but" because there are no typograph- ers. My chambermaid "has red eyes because her only son was sent to Germany. cierge's room a 20-year-old 'wife sits weeping. After three months "of narriage her husband has been sent: to Germany. At the elec- "trician's and the locksmiths shops it is the same story. 'We have no stock and we can repair nothing --all our workers have gone.'" el vid Australian Natives | Adept At War Work Australian natives in the mili- tary forces now form a complete battalion. There was some hesi- tancy in agrecing to this step -but these men proved themselves 'resourceful, intelligent and keen to learn, according to a report of the Aborigines' Friends' Associ- ation, They quickly mastered the Morse code, adapted it to their own language, and used it imme- diately in flashing messages with * eléetric torches between islands, fishing boats, and villages. Before joining up most of the natives were skilled, professional fisher- men. : They drill like trained soldiers, and handle modern weapons ef-' ficiently, the report says. The aborigines within Australia proper, even those in the interior, are being drawn iffo service to some extent, for they possess qualities which may be of vital assistance in case of invasion. Much may be léarned from the aborigines, in obtaining game in arid regions, in finding supplies of water, in tracking and camouflage. They aro' past-masters in all these things. ' : One Whale Steak Weighs Two Tons Whale ténderloin looks and tastes a good deal like beef. Us- ually used for animal food, for human consumption it can be corned' and canned or broiled as fresh steaks. A full whale steak is 16 feet long, weighs five to seven: tons; a single whale has as much meat as 126 steers,--Time, ------ Victory in Tunisia Cetebrag--- In .the con- - More than half a million On- tario school children in 7,624 Ontario schools took part in a province-wide Quiz Contest spon- scred by the Ontario Committee during the Fourth Victory Loan and here are the 13 provincial finalists on the steps of Toronto _city hall, Standing in front of the officials in the background are Harry "Red" Foster, master of ceremonies, and the Quiz kids Ontario's Quiz Kids ry ey from left to rizht, aye as follows: Thomas Russel, Englehart; Stan- ley Iwan, Brawford; Claude Arn- old, Windsor (wer Iwan's shoul- der); Ian Smith, Brampton; Ron- ald Boyce, Norh Fredricksburg (over shoulder); William Ander- son, Fort Williai; John Thom- ham, Petrolia; Ruth Blezavd, Lon- don; Angela Morrisey, Downey- ville, John Thomson, a farmer's son, got a $060 bond for his vic- tory in the contest which was held in Simpson's Arcadian Court, and four others--Ian Smith, Wil liam Russell and Stanley Iwan--tied for sec ond place with 325 worth of War Savings Certificates each. Anderson, Thomas THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events If Britain Could Take Blitz Bombing Why Can't Germany? The Royal Air Force, which saved Great Britain from inva- sion and which together with the growing American Air Force has been waging a non-stop air offen- sive against Germany, has scored another triumph, says The New York Times. With unexampled daring, skill and ingenuity it has blasted two of Germany's most important water dams which ave vital parts of the whole industrial . and transportation system of Western Germany and has there- by delivered the most devastat- ing single blow dealt from the air so far. Large sections of the in=-- dustrial Ruhr, already crippled by continuous area bombing; are completely paralyzed - today by lack of water or electric power; and while an intricate canal sys- tem carrying the bulk of Ger- many's war traffic is running dry destructive floods, are rushing down the 'Ruhr, sweeping away power houses and railway and road bridges, and inflicting heavy cauaslties, In thus spreading the effect of their effort way beyond the bombed area, the R.A.F. has found one of those ideal targets _air men are looking for. dealing a crippling blow to' Ger- "man war production it has pro- vided an impressive overture for the invasion of the European continent. Plants At a Standstill One of the dams blasted is the Eder dam, ncar Hemfurth, which held back a lake of four and a half square miles and a ddpth of --- 164 feet with an estimated 202,- 000,000 tons of water. The other is the Mohne dam near Soest, backing up a lake of four square miles and a depth of 125 feet with ah "estimated 134,000,000 tons of water. Between them they controlled two-thirds of the whole water storage capacity of the Ruhr. = They provided innumer- able plants in the Ruhr with water and "hydro cleetric power; they regulated. the water levels of the Ruhr, Weser and Fulda Rivers .and the whole canal system which connects the Ruhr with the North Sea ports and the Elbe, and be- yond it with Berlin and the Bal. tic. Both have been . breached; and plants power are at a standstill, A New Enterprise Blasting water dams is' a com-~ pletely vew. enterprise for an air force. been picked, the R.A.F, found the best way of doing the job, It could have been done perhaps by day- light precision bombing, in which the American Air Force special. izes. But inasmuch as such vital targets are heavily defended, the cost would have been heavy too, The RAF." came at night and dropped mines into the lake which the current swept against the sluice gates, The results demon- strate the efficacy of this method, which will probably Ve -Tépeated elsewhere until the Gernfans find a way to meet it, b The Germans may contemplate the irony, but also the justice, of history which brought it about that this particular target was suggested to the RAF, by a And in" depending on their 'But once the target had ° refuges from Berlin whim the Nazis had driven from the coun- try. The Blockade Principle The current great offensive of the British and American air forces, according to The Ciris- tian Science Monitor, is more than a "softening up" process, as tie familiar phrase has it, for tha putting ashore of tanks and foot soldiers. It is more than an effort fo reduce the output of German war dustry, It is the effective ap) cation of the historic block- ad principle to a new element-- trite = By striking with overwhelming foree at trans- portation apd industrial centres, Allied air power is now "doing in the heart of Europe what Allied sea power 'did so successfully on the continent's periphery in the - last war, le, retarding or halt- ing the swift flow of men and materiel to the points where they are needed most urgently. Militarily speaking, a fortress or-an army is only as strong as its links with the sources of its strength, The knowledge of this has long been one of the key- stones of German military and naval policy, Aerial Blockade - One reason the. Polish armies were destroyed in 1939 was be- cause Poland was unable to get men and planes to the front due to the Luftwaffe's depredations in the rear. ~ And the capitulation of French arms- appeared to be necessary after the break-through at Sedan largely because France could not prevent German air bombs from choking her highways and her railroads. But vastly more significant than these examples, it was the use of acrial blockade by the Allies that" resulted in the dra- matically swift collapse of Ger- man and Italian resistance in Tunisia, The last fight was over in Tunisia as soon as the Allies penetrated the outer German for- tifications because - Allied bomb- ing had made_ it impossible for the foe to obtain fresh strength or to shift what strength he had left. oo It is concluded that a similar T@ult awaits the Axis in Europe. -------------- almost incessantly Unless the Gévrmans find somo means of drastically reducing the - effectiveness of the present aerial assaults, they can hardly escape a similar collapse," And. thus far they have given no indication that they will find such means as long as they are engaged up to the hilt in Russia. Morale and Fconomics The question is often asked: "If Britain could take it, why can't Germany?" It is not so much a question of morale as it is of economics. _ Germany. is. approaching the bottom of the barrel in manpower, production, resources, and stocks. Anything taken to replace losses caused by bombing must inevit- ably be ut a sacrifice ofwar pro- duction. For this r¢ason a lon of bombs on Essen today is worth far more to the United Nations -than-a-ton-of bombs--on--Birming--- ham was to the Germans in 1940, ~The naval blockade restricts Germany's access to many vital raw materials. The air raids make the shortage worse by bombing oil stocks and refineries, © - The Naval Blockade The naval blockade has forced Germany to divert nearly 35 per cent, of its electric power supply to synthetic plants. The air raids make things more difficult hy bombing large power stations. The naval blockade added to Germany's transport difficulties by driving its coastwise traffic off the seas. The air raids reinforce these efforts by attacking loco- motive and railway wagon fac- tories, and rail junctions. In sum, the air offensive is lo be seen as an ally, not only of the army, but of the navy. And while Britain proved it could, with dif- ficulty, take less, there are solid reasons why Germany may prove to be unable to take more. U.S. War Loan Goes 5 Billion Over Top The United States Treasury announced last week that a grand total of $18,533,000,000 in secur- ities were sold in the second war Joan drive, 35,533,000,000 more thin was originally sought in the greatest Government financ- ing campaign in history, As a rseult of the success of the second war loan, Under- Secretary Daniel Bell said that plans' for another campaign in August have been postponed until September, _ representatives in « Brams, supplies of T [OTTAWA REPORTS That Canada's 1943 Food Pro- duction Drive Will Be Greatest in Que. History... That More Sugar For<Canning Will Be Allotted To Rural Than To Urban Residents Tho present sessiong of Parlia- ment is likely to keep the people's | 'Ottawa until mid-summer, but in and out of pars liamentary recess and after Par- lament disbands, the best experts that Canada's Civil Service and _private industry can provide, con- tinue to wrestle with the detail ot wartime controls such as civiliz. ation has never before attempted. The problems, of the rural resl- dents are veing? kept in mind In the development of all ration pro- s. In tho matter of tho pro- vision of sugar for canning, for example, tho Foods Administra. tion, "Wartime Prices and Trade Board, recommended that house- wives in the country should be al lotted more than those who dwell in urban areas. Tho policy of granting sightly more to rural dwellers, than urban tesidents was alopted by the Board's Ration Ad ministration, and = with it hoth urban and rural housewives will generally agree, Preserve Wild Fruits There are certain obvious reas. ons for this polic For one thing, rural housewives have always been in the habit of "putting down" more fruit. Not only is this cus. tomary but in most areas in Can- ada necessary. Farm women for the most part must "preserve" a very considerable supply of fruit and store it in their own cellars, otherwise their cupboards would be pretty bare in winter time when cold and ice and snow pre- vent them from going far afield for provisions. It is generally ree- ognized that the city housewife has easier access to industrial commercially canned goods amd uses them to a much greater extent than the countny woman. For another thing. the rural housewife has, ten chances to one, berry bushes in her "own garden and fruit trees in her own orchard. She has about her, more than likely, vast open spaces where berries of ono sort or another grow, somelimes on bushes dlong the roadside, sometimes on plants like the will strawberry, on other times on trees like the wild plum, All of these (raits ave tasty and should be picked and used as far as possible. _ Local Ration Boards The Ration Administration has "et Dn coma L524 local ratios boards. The distribution of sugar for canning is being left in their hands, as it is felt that they are --meore-- fully --coomizant ot total con-; ditions and" local needs than any- one sitting in Montreal or Ottawa covld be. To them has been left the task of sorting out applications for canning sugar and forwarding to the honsewives the coupons for the maximum amount of sugar that it is possible to provide for canning purposes. These coupons will he delivered by June 1st when the canning season opens. Citizens' Responsibility Rural dwellers are urged to re member that all rationed commodd- ities are provided them in trust, Tea, coffee and srgar come to this country at the risk of sailors' lives, Take the case of sugar alone, for example, Some of North America's largest sources of sugar supply aro now in enemy hands, and war on tho high geids hag greatly cur tailed our imports from remaining sources of supply. Imports can be brought in only at great danger to sailors and ships, In the case of meat, we must help to feed those who are keeping the war from our own shores. It ig the patriotic re- sponsibility of every citizen to use these rationed commodities wisely and well. Mass Transport ~ Flight To India The longest and largest" mass transport flight in history has been completed by American commercial pilots flying Amer- ica's newest and biggest cargo planes, They flew from the United States to India in 414 days with- out loss, carrying 90 tons of cargo 15,000 miles. "not see the ROLL YOUR OWN rier boys has arisen through the older boys moving into jobs left vacant by young men who have enlisted." To fill. the gap The Toronto Star has turned to cgr- Crier girls and with hardly an ex- ception they have proved to be excellent business people. In adopting the role of carriers, many young ladies have assumed a new air of independence. But what girl wouldn't want to turn to something in her spare time that offers a profit of several dollars a week? . ' Carrier salesmanship standards have definitely been improved with the advent of girls 'to this important phase of newspaper distribution work. The contact with the public and the general all-vound business experience of- fered to carriers has, on the other hand, greatly repaid the young ladies who have ventured into this field. ~ As in other forms of industry that have turned to girls and women to fill the thinning ranks of available malé workers, carrice - boys will now have to be on their toes to meet this new competi- tion. There is one thing certain, though. The end of the war will end of the carrier Now that they have estab- lislied themselves as. good, con- scientious newspaper carriers, they should go on filling this role for years to come. ve girls. TOO FAR DOWN! We have not been so sure we: wanted to "get down to brass tacks" smee we learned that ex- pression originated from an old" custom of putting the initials of the deceased on the lid of his coffin with a set of brass tacks. That's too far down by some six feet to hold any attraction. -- (Kitchener Record) | yards of debris 50,000 square rebuilt on the nn restored comple Photographs buck and plast still churned up shelter on the been converted" while restored Russian soldiers ing the battle f . Stalingrad had schools. Other of the Stalingra noted: "In all dren's tions and stores the population The first mains is ready The delayed up lake ports on lake partial compen season is over, feet above the = March. - This news underneath freighter can haven't been nrental, show neat single-story houses. of outs where men of the Sixty-sec- ond Army a few months ago took now bear the names of individual themselves among the ruins dur- The Moscow radio reported that distri dining rooms, medical and chil- help centres, section of The Great Lake: oC 'High This Year navigation, but the re- est point since gan and Huron were floating room for deep-load lines, and a few extra inches of water the mean tons more cargo above it. snowy, rainy winter and spring . Ld It's No Longer Stalingrad Rises ' . -A Man's World From Her Ruins "Newsgirls" Solve Problem Civilians Spend Sundays Ree of Carrier Boy Shortage pairing Roads and Houses Wartime brings all kinds of Every Sunday since the liber changes in industry. The call to ation cof Stalingrad the entire arms has even been felt in the able-bodied population has work- delivery end of the newspaper ed on the vepair of roads and business. A shortage of good car- houses. Over a million square has been cleared, yards of housing win road has been tely. . published recently er among ground and littered, Dug- Volga bank have into public baths, apartment houses who distinguished or the city. *. * reopened twenty: accomplishments d population wero. icts baths, shops, communica- - for the supply of are in operation. the waler for {low." spring has held levéls may be a sation before the It is at its high- 1860 and Michi. yearly 1.36 10-year 'average in gives promise of keel of a big hundreds of The completely detri- LIFE'S LIKE THAT AH 2%, . " ' 7 7k 7 7 vA By Fred Neher 7% itl IDK2 [| Gs . IN Vid (Daas bp oasstriviat Kens raisins = rae, Coz "Butterworth never takes 'No' for an answer." 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