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3 hydre puds and Chief Conimis- ; ot oes Hrorvind Tyhon Ditce : of Los Angeles. A a - 3 uary ine of 1943 mong the multitude of things required by the armed forces are maps--millions of them, says {he Btratford Beacon-Herald. It is es- sential, when troops are making & landing on foreign soil or mak. ing thelr way into unknown "oui. try, that they know, the position of every road, stream, hillock, village and everything 'else in the topography; every place where the enemy is likely to plant ma. chine:guns or other weapons and devices of defence, The British forces and their Allles are marv- ellously supplied with 'such in- formation, The. centre of this organization is the Directorate of Military Burveys. If a commander wants to know the territory of the An- daman Islands in the Indian Oc- ean, or a sector of the Zulder Zee In Holland, the directorate can supply the right maps in an in- stant 'ud when the map has been pickeu out coples can be printed for every man taking part in the expedition if need be. For instance, when Allied forc- es sailed for North Africa, 9,500, 000 maps. were printed and issued for every sector along that vast front. Each man was handed a packet after he embarked, 'and when he had been at sea some time and was given permission to open his packet he not only knew where he was going but all abdut the kind of land he would have to fight in, The same thing took place In regard to Sicily and Italy. No doubt there are many millions of maps ready for the "second front." Ce . . Between January and June 1943, 60,000,000 maps were produced by the Directorate. of Military Sur- veys. During the whole of the last war only 30,000,000 maps were printed, There are special maps for alr men who have to read them by a dim amber light. This "target for tonight" map is printed in magenta and black, the white representing water, Under the amber light the targets show up speedily and uh- mistakably. The colors are so ad-_| apted that the eye quickly ad- - Justs itself .from the bright light --of the, huts .to tle pale light of the intérlor of a bomber. ' Doubtless the Germans had' mil lions of carefully prepared maps for the invasion of the British Isles. These are just salvage paper now. : THE FIRST ONE Sgt. Kathleen Bird, C.W.A.C,, of Fetonte, who js believed to be the t woman orderly room sergeant in # men's unit in Canada, She is ' stationed . at Canip Borden with No. 15 Company, ineer Services and Works, RCE. ,8gt. Bird, whose home is at 30 Beaconfield Avenue, Toronto, has been in the Canadian Women's Army Corps for "19 shonths and has recently com- pleted' a course at the Canadian Army 'School of Administration, Kemptville, Ont, Her sister, Edith is a sergeant attached to M.D, # Headquarters, at Toronto. Navv Has. Trouble With 'Dried Spuds \ 5 The British plane swooped low to drop a message. "We've boiled em, stewed 'em, fried 'em; Now: how in the hell do. you; prepare 'em fo eat?" the sage sald, «foo ¢ "The note referred to potatoés-- "the fledse-lend deliydfated variety, fey had heen flown to" H.. M. 8 cori ous whe i ol oo, cipating i ew Georgie drive Toe Solomons, & In response ito, the message a | torpedo bomber flew to. the Vie tofious with 1,100 pounds of 'de- en the British aircraft with harsh, waplegsan t purgatives? Discover, as thousands have, that KELLOGG far gentler tohel correct cohstip- al due to lack of dictary "bulk"! KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN really "gets at' this ommon cause of cons IT'S FOOLISH TO KEEP ON "DOSING! ® Why go on desing' another day ALL-BRAN is a far better, - p ppli "bulk" RT for easy, natural elimination! If this is your trouble--try eating an ounce of ALL-BRAN daily, or several ALL-BRAN muffins, Drink plenty of water, At your grocer's, in 2 con. venient sizes, Made by Kellogg's in a, THE WAR + WEEK -- Commentary 'on Current Events Allies' Anzio Beachhead Withstands German Attacks ye" i). & J Repeated Heavy 7 7, dram Is rrr «Two Allied battlefields in the maps above are separated by 50 miles, varying from the mountainous terrain near Cassino to the swamp- land south of Rome. Nazi legions are attacking the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead in force, while Allied armies are seeking a break-through in the Cassino bulge. shown at top. ty Lower map shows locations in Italy of close-ups Thanks to the valor and deter- mination of the American and Bri- tish soldier the immediate danger to the Allied beachhead at Anzio ap- pears to have passed. With the return of weather which permits the resumption of air operations the Allies have renewed their offensive. The fighting is still indetermin®e; but the tide seems to be runni in our favor, and if this view is correct the Anzio battle has already achieved one important result... It has robbed Hitler of a quick and impressive victory for which he "tried hard--a victory which was to demonstrate his continued striking power for the benefit of Germany's own morale and that of her satel- lites, and to impress both Russia and the Western Allies with the hopelessness of any new invasion and a new fropt in. Europe. What- ever further results the Anzio battle may "produce, the frustration of Hitler's calculations will alone jus- tify its cost, says The New York Times. But the stubborn resistance which the Germans are putting up, both around Anzio and: at Cassino, is a renewed 'warning that even after more than four years of war Ger- many is still a powerful enemy. Neither defeats in the field nor the wholesale bombings of German cities and war factories have been able thus far to break German fighting - morale, Nor, judging from. reports from the front, have German arms diminished either in quantity or in quality, except for the relative de- crease of German air power. In fact some German weapons are de- clared to be even superior to our own. And with the approach of spring, which promisés at least temporary surcease from Russian pressure Nazi hopes for prolong ing the war are rising ggain. Fight from Room to Room * The Italian campaign cannot be 'considered: wholly typical of what Allied Invasion forces would face in France, For in Italy the Allies have been confronted with the same difficalties which the Germans faced in the mountains of the Caucasus and about Stalingrad. Mountains are natural fortresses which always favor the défeirse, and. cities which the defender ds willing to sacrifice can be conyerted "into similar strongholds, That was shown by Madrid in the Spanish civil war, shown by Leningrad, aad in sl. 5 me measure talingrad. Es oh 2. malfer scale, it is again being show by Cassino, _ For here, as at Stalingrad, the fight building and from room to foom. i . ls proceeding from building to | lB Berlin, ; Lesson Of Campaign Nevertheless, the lessons of. the Italjan campaign and the ascertain. able results of the bombings have been such that a good deal of the unwarranted optisism of a few months ago, about the war in Europe being "all but over," has disappeared, Even military quar- ters are beginning to revise their timetable of victory. adds new emphasis to the qualifi- cation which General Eisenhower attached to his famous prediction: victory is possible this year, but only if "every man and woman, all the way from the front to the remotest hamlet, does his or her full duty." - British Warships Rehearse Battle A little glimpse of the Royal Navy at its deadly ganies is given in a London despatch which tells of the careful plans made for dis posing of the German battleship Scharnhorst should she come out of hiding and give battle, says. the' Ottawa Journal, Several times the British war ships in Northern watefs rehearsed for the big day they hoped would come. A Britist ship represented the Scharnhorst, went through the .motions of 'attacking a convoy, of running for safety, using every protective and defensive device the enemy might be expected to bring into, play. Most of the ships actually engaged when the Scharn- horst did finally come out took part in the manoeuvres, and we are stold there "was an amazing simi- larity between the atcual action and the reliearsals, This was intelligent anticipation of things to come, and but for these careful preparations the Scharnhorst might have escaped, Mustang Is Answer To New Nazi Plane The British-Designed, American: "built Mustang plane apparently is more than the answer to the new German rocket-bomb plane, says The Kansas City Times, In their fizst fifteen missions the Mustangs have destroyed or damaged eighty- seven German planes with the loss of only six Mustangs. These fighter _ planes have such a long radius. of operations that they haye been able to 'escort American bombers to within 100 miles of And this For Faster Relief of British Do Real Job of Salvage "All Sorts of Weird Things" Handled In Twelve Huge Warehouses Scattered throughout the Brite fsh' Isles are twelve huge ware- houses filled with Army, Navy and Afr Force clothing and other ma. terials, relates the St. Thomas Times-Journal, Samples of these goods fill shelves of an office of the Ministry of Supply in London where experts decide what can be done with all the stuff, They han. dle everything in the textile line, also old ropes from the Navy, hose pipes, camouflage nets, used paras chutes, old or obsolete towing tar- gets for the R.A.F., and, as a re- cent speaker on the B.B.C. stated, "all sorts of welrd things." In one month, 1,300,000 items ot outer clothing were sorted and graded in these depots. A vast amount of repalr work is done, but what Is not repairable is used In a multitude of ways. A great deal of the stuft will be converted to rellef of the populations when the occupied countrles are liberated. Wornout battle dresses are ré- paired, dyed" brown and betome sults for prisoners of war, or they may be dyed green for agricultural workers, or for workers In var- fous war industries. One important wartime discovery has been how to take the shrink age out of socks, The Ministry of Supply has millions of pairs of socks and stockings which had been worn by members of the wo- men's divisions. By a process known as "defelting," the shrink: age fs. removed, and the socks and stockings are repaired and made as good as new, +. * From old hose pipes overshoes are made for men loading tankers so that they will not make sparks with their feet. These pipes are also made into snowshoes and in- to mittens for women handling steel sheets with sharp edges. The cotton from R.A.F, towing targéts is made into rain-water catching sheets and the netting from the end of the target is made into vegetable bags for the Navy and for Ice bags. The cotton fabric of antl-gas capes js de-giled and used for superfine wiping rags. Various. kinds of cotton fabric, useless for making up, go back to the services as wiping rags. Three thousand tons of wiping rags a year are supplled by the disposal department. Oily rags are de-oll- ed and cleaned until they fall to pleces and then they are pulped for paper. Old tentage is used for making a new type of kit bag for the A.T. -8. and the W.A.A.F's. The old type |]. is awkward for a girl to handle, It is too heavy to sling onto her shoulder and too long to carry by the string, so many of the girls got the habit of dragging them along the ground. The new .type is shaped like a sports bag with two canvas rope handles. It opens _lengthways and is fastened by press studs. . + 0° The ship's ropes have the worn outer fibre removed and the inner fibres are respun, The worn fibres go to paper manufacturers for a speclal kind of paper used In plas- ties. The A.T.S. girls have a shoulder bag when walking out, and these are now made from the sleeyes of firemen's coats, with a, slp fastener from a bomber pilot's, harness. Glider tow ropes are re- modeled to make ropes for boxing } rings and for tug-of-war contests. _From old charts of blue-prints very fine linen handkerchiefs are made. Many prewar Army uniforms are sent in, and one of the uses to which they are put is to sell them to film companies for old battle scenes, . Another. extraordinary. job of salvage has been the canyas from blitzed premises and asbestos wool from gas respirators. which -have been converted into heavily padded suits for the men who train the bull-mastiffs that guard air- ' dromes. "Waste not, want not," is an old motto. Britain has learned lessons that will be most valuable after the war, An estimate that Japanese fac- tories are turning out aircraft at a rate of 1,200 or more & month came from high quarters, coupled with a report that the Japanese--like the Germans--are concentrating signi- ficantly on defensive types, CHEST COLDS . Muscular Aches & Pains Tired Burning Feet MASSAGE WELL WITH BUCKLEY GQ STAINLESS be YT WHITE RUB A OTTAWA REPORTS That Discharged Servicemen Are Advised to Take Jobs Now And Save For Placement on Farms Later In view of what happened last time, the question of Service men going farming after the war is apt to be looked on with a pretty big question mark in rural communi- ties, rs As far back as 1941, when the Department of Pensions and Na- tional Heglth sponsored the Order- in-Council known as "The Post- Discharge 'Rehabilitation Order," careful consideration has been given to farm settléinent as to other phases of re-establishment, and the plans set up seek to avoid pitfalls of the period following 1018, While employment is at its peak men interested in farming wha are being currently discharged are ad- vised to take jobs and to save for later investment in agriculture, ac- cording to officials in charge of re- habilitation. To date very few have been set up under the Re- establishment Order. . . . Those eligible must have had previous satisfactory practical ex- perience in' farming, or may quali fy after serving apprenticeship with a successful farmer in addi- tion to 'having served in a theatre of war, or had not less than 12 months' service, or be in receipt of a pension. The Veterans' Land Act 1042 provides a maximum of $4,800 on fand, and a maximum of $1,200 on equipment. A tenth of the value of the land, (in the case of $4800, the amount would be $480), must be paid for in cash and two-thirds of the property value over a per- fod of 25 years with interest at 815%. The cost of equipment is not repaid, and no annual instal- ment is over $195 including in- terest. A veteran who has a job and wants to buy a small farming property tiearby comes within the same limits as to amount and con- ditions" of payment. g » * A veteran who owns a farm may secure through the Veterans' Land Act funds to pay off a mortgage, make necessary improvements, or buy additional stock and equip- ment. He may borrow up to $3,- 200 (but not more than 60% of the value of his property), to pay off a mortgage, or up to $2,500 (but not more than 50% of the value), to pay for equipment. The loan is secured by mortgage at 3}2% pay- able over 23 years. Available to those buying farms are properties bought by the Gov- ernment for soldier rehabilitation, or properties chosen individually +30 long as these arc approved and "come within the price limits set 'by the Veterans' Land Act. > *. Ld For several wecks purchases of bacon for the United Kingdom have averaged: over 20,000,000 pounds, an average of which if kept up for fifty weeks out of the year A Easy to roll, delightful -- to smoke FINE CUT CIGARETTE TOBACCO would mniean 1,000,000,000 pounds of bacon, Hon. J. G. Gar- diner, Minister of Agriculture told the House of Commons recently. Mr, Gardiner said little value should be attached to rumors of a meat shortage when replying to J. H. Blackmore, Social Credit leader in the Federal House as to whether there might be a beef shortage next year. Explaining the present surplus, he said this was due to lack of shipping and steps have been taken to divert addi- tional ships to Canadian ports not only to handle additional bacon stocks, but also to lift surplus quantities' of beef and mutton, and recently the Meat Board was able to accept immediate shipment of some seven million pounds of beef, The Minister felt there is every reason to believe that in future all surplus ~ beei available will be handled and lifted as oficred" for export. With plans in hand to ex- port also accumulated stocks of mutton and lamb, a better market for this class of livestock is in sight, \it The Reason Why Malta Is British Malta has a wartime history that goes back to the time of the great Phoenician traders, says the Ot- tawa Citizen. As the island of Mal- ta, of course, it has-its place in Bible history, for it is the island converted to Christianity by St. Paul, who was shipwrecked upon it while a prisoner of the Ro- mans. a : During the Crusades the Knights of St. John were granted Malta and they held it throughout the great siege against the Turks. As the centuries passed, the knightly erder fell into dicrepute. With the coming of the French Revolution, by which time the pre- ponderance of the French Kuights within the order had upset the in- ternational equilibrium, conditions became hopelessly disrupted. Later when Napoleon set out to conquer Europe he took posses- sion of the island, Native Maltese patriots, however, resisted the French, and in the knowledge of _ the presence of the English fleet under Nelson in the Mediterran- ean, the Maltese, under Canon Caruana, appeared to the admiral to take possession of the island in the name of His Majesty. The British Empire has grown in many strange ways. But Malta is British because it wanted And now, as Malta, G.C, the George Cross having been award- ed by the King in recognition of _the stand of the island against an- other enemy, it is doubtless still 'content to remain so. to be.' . Reinforcements The Marietta, Georgia, Rotary Club publishes a weekly newspaper called Rotalight. The following appeared in a recent issue: QUICK WORK IN 3 ACTS, 1. Australia--MacArthur appeals for reinforcements, 2. Quebec -- Roosevelt and Churchill promise reinforcements, 8, Eleanor arricc: in Australia, --Magazine Digest Approximately $10,000,000 worth of gold is containgd in a cubic mile of sea water, WHEN NERVOUS TROUBLES MAKE ME "SHAKEY" | FIND DR.MILES NERVINE HELPS TO RELIEVE NERVOUS TENSION AND CALM ! JITTERY FEELINGS There's plenty these days to make people nervous, And overtaxed nerves can turn nights and daysinto misery! 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