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VOICE OF THE PRESS WHEN A TANKER IS LOST When we hear that another tanker has fallen prey to Atlantic muter.- few of us realize that something like 62 million gallons of crude oil has been lot to the allied cause. (Tanker capacity varies from 20,000 barrels to 100,000, o 52,000,000 gallons is m reasonable average.) Those millions of gallons in pictures might register more effectively. One tanker's average load would upply enough gasoline to drive 1,000 cars as far as the moon and back. That us enough gasoline to take all the cara in Halifax completely around the world. It in enoug<h to supply every ambu- lance, every police car, every bus, very truck, passenger car and farm tractor* every user of gaso- line in Canada, for a whole week. It's quite a logs. Gait Reporter HITLER FREEDOM Released from an internment camp on the beneficent orders of Hitler, a Norwegian Bishop has been granted the priceless privi- lege of living in a cottage guard- ed by twenty men and surrounded by barbed wire. In case there was any doubt of it, this is a splendid example of what the Fuehrer means by the "freedom" he is going to give the countries h has conquered. Windsor Star CHESTNUTS But now that blacksmith shops an returning to the landscape, the question pops up: "Are there enough spreading chestnut trees to work under?" Or should we have left that old chestnut in the fire? Stratford Beacon-Herald OH, YES? Boston's A.R.P. wardens are provided with lipsticks for mark- ing casualties, but it has yet to be established whether suspicion- ful wives will believe their hus- bands when they say: "My dear, I wai juet helping the wardens in a practice blackout." Windsor Star DOES SHE WEAR 'EM? "They took a rib from the to make a woman, and now they take hi* vest, his patch pockets and trouser cuffa to make her a uniform." Winnipeg Tri- bune. But you haven't accounted for our other pair of pants. Ottawa Citizen NEGATIVE SAVING For each automobile we are not making this year we have saved enough tin for 1,000 cans. But it's impossible for us to not make enough autos to get all the tin we need. Food Industries "CANADIAN SOLDIER" HAVE UNFROZEN LEGS Sale of bicycles has been "frozen" in the United States, and new machines of adult ize are hard to get in this country. Fortunately we still have our legs, and unfrozen. Ottawa Journal THOSE TELLTALE SYMPTOMS If he looked worried and aatuunvd, and now looks cheerful again, he has decided to quit trying to <|uit smoking. Portland Maine Express SCOUTING . . . The difficulty for maintaining uitable leadership for Hoy Scout Groups throughout the Dominion, due to the heavy enlistment nt Scout Leaders and older Scouts in the Active Service forces, was one of the problems reflected in the annual report of the Hoy Scout*' Association for 1!M1, just icMiiril. The resulting drop in boy membership of six per cent wa* lens than expected, however, and bus to a considerable extent been made up since the October Scout CCM.-IW on which the report wa based. New leaders for the Scout Tnmi'.i are being sought among older men and for Wolf Cub packs among women. Membership Analyii* The J!M1 total consisted of 39,652 Wolf Cubs, .|l,(i(i Boy Scouts, 605 Lono Scouts, 974 Sea Scout*, 1,1)12 Hover Scouts, 108 KOVI'I Sen SdlUtS Illlll li, i'i'ti lr.nl- ra (not counting 247 Hovers leg- bterril us Scoutera). Number of UniU There \\cre ;!,!<><; Groups, which included 1,001 I'aclui, 1 ,!(!& Troops, Cii'i Hover Crews, 38 Sea Scout Troops, 4 Sva Scout I'm rola and 1 1 Hover Sea Scout Crews, Badfet In all, 31,071 Cub Badges were passed, n. mling IK, 'JIM Hunk liailc.i and i-'.i i .' 1'roficiency Radges. Hank Kadgcs to the number of ->,...:o und 21.H18 Proficiency Hailges made up the Scout total of 47,333. The Hover Itarlge was ismied to 'J7l*, and tilt Hat. I I. i' r .1". to 8, milking Ihi l(o\cr lotul 2H6. For one of a series of portraits of the men in Canada's army, LUias Torrance Newton, R.C.A., hae chosen a typical example of our fighting forces young, alert, resolute, coolly defiant. The title "Canadian Soldier" is as comprehensive ae it is simple. This paint- ing has been reproduced in Post Card size and is being placed free in canteens to be used by men serving the Canadian army. Bishop Explains Overseas Travel Wartime Ocean Voyages In First World War and Now Air Marshall Bishop has hit upon the right way to talk to Canadian fighting men who have been balk- ing at the typo of transport afford- ed tin-in on their voyapes oversea!!, comments th Ottawa Journal. Up uilll now our officials have bee-n handling them two ways: repri- manding them for laok of discip- line or apologizing for the poor traveling conditions. Billy Bishop put it this way in speaking to a group of airmen at Halifax: "I can only hope you will be completely comfortable, but I'd Ilka to tell you of my own experi- ence. During the last war I made eight crossings of the Atlantic. My first trip I sailed on the Caledonia out of Mntreal. She was a cattle boat, built In 1890, and we took 16 days to cross and we crossed without an escort. There was not an inch of that ship that did not stink Two hundred horses illed on the way over." That, says our No. 1 airman, was wartime travel In 1W14-1S1S; and that. In one way or another. Is wartime travel In any age. The government should do its ulmo.st to provide nood passage and the troops iu turn should In; ready to take what's coming. Place Orders Now For Winter Coal Frank G. Neate, Deputy Coal Administrator for Canada, urges all users of coal, from the small householders to the big industry, to place their orders at once for the next winter's coal supplies. He said the Dominion will be lucky if it gets 600,000 tons of Welsh coal thU season, compared with importation of 630,189 tons last year and added the trans- portation facilities for coal will have to meet the insistent com- petition for space by priority goods. Coast To Coast Postni:. \rr General Mulock has annoum that, starting May 1, regular a.r mail service will op- erate daily, Sundays cxcepted, be- tween Monctou, N.B., Sydney, N.S., and Gander ami St. John's, Nfld. "As a result of this new ex- tension of service, the island of Newfoundland, in the Atlantic, will be connected over a 3,1)18. mile trans-Canada air route, with Vancouver Island in the Pacific, in under twenty-four hours by the clock for the westward trip," Mr. Mulock said in a statement Burglars who break into houses and steal all the soup are be- coming common in Scotland. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher Spies Of Japan In U. S. Schools Collected Military Secrets Says Frederick Lewis, In Liberty Japanese language students almost always Jap army or navaJ officers in disguise were a vitallv important part of the Jap plan for spreading subversive ;-':t .< ganda and collecting military and naval secrets. Th task wfcft far beyond the resources of the staffs. Hence the idea of "naval attaches" advantageously located i,i.<\ easily accessible to the Individual Japa- nese. For any such unjustifiable distribution of ranging army and navy officers in friendly country, some disguise must be adopted. Physical disguise was, of course, Impossible; Japs carried their na- tionality Jn their faces. A voca- tional <lsgulse therefore must be found 1 . Hence the language stu- dents. These young men, usually lieu- tenant-commanders or comman- ders in the imperial navy, were assigned to at least six months' preliminary training In the naval intelligence service iu Tokio. On arrival in the United States they reported to the Japanese embassy iu Washington, which was the O.U.Q. of Jap activities, and they remained for a brief time on duty In Washington under the watchful eyes of embassy officials. Then, as fast as they acquired a working knowledge of English, they were told off to take tech- nical courses in American univer- sities, with Instructions to travel extensively throughout the United States and Canada during all va- cation periods. When their edu- cation In American customs and conditions was believed to lie com- plete, they were assigned to resi- dence In American key cities like Boston, Philadelphia and New York on the east const, and Seattle, San Kran Cisco and Los Angeles on the west coast. Once established, they either con- tinued their "education" by en- rolling as students in neighboring universities or accepted posts as instructors In Japanese language schools, of which there were a great many, especially on the Pa- elfic coast. These language schools were similar to tbe Germau and Italian and Japanese language schools in South America, which have made our good neighbor policy there to difficult. Britain Improves Her Shipbuilding Merchant Vessels Built With Eye To Peace "(>!.. iv, you can look now. . . . You milted ill 1" Cargoes can be haudled twice as fast as in 1939 by the ships now leaving yards In a steady stream all over the United Kingdom. Scores of new tankers, large and fast refrigerated cargo ves- sels, and general cargo carriers of several sizes are already iu service a trluraphaut vindication of Urn policy of the British Ad- miralty not to adopt one Mamlard typ of merchant ship but to use a number of types developed be- fore the war for different trades. Exact plans used In this colossal program have been sent to Canada and the United States where ships are now being introduced at the unprecedented rule of two a day. llnl.im'.- standard ships are a very great advance on their pre- decessors of 25 years ago; indeed, Iu many inspects they are better than i hose launched Just before the war. Besides possessing twice the capacity of the 1!I39 vessels Iu humlliiiK cai'KO. today's, whether steam or diesrt driven, have a highi-r speed. The new mrrchant fleet has practically every Item which will be nt'i'dt'd in peacetime, a useful indication of the olliclul view on tin- result of tin- Hal tie of the Oci ans. Accommodation has been Improved beyond belief. The fo'c's'le lias nono and the modern tramp has deck houses for Its petty ortlcfrs, seiuuen and llremen sprci.illy designed. Here they sleep In cabins with two berths, wardrobes and mirrors. There are bathrooms and they have thoir meals In separate small messes. Kvcn passenger accommodation which will be needed when peace comes has not been forgot ten, and It has been done as urtlstkally as if there was uot a I'-boat under the ocean. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events German People Become Restive Under Constant Bombardment Many Interpretations have been made of Hitler's latest speech to the Reichstag. If the speech can be taken at Vta face value, It is a very en- couraging one for the United Na- tions, claims the New York Times. Hitler found It necessary to repeat once more all his old alibis for his failure to destroy Russian resistance. Winter came four weeks too early, and where Napoleon had to combat temper- atures of only 25 degrees below ero. Hitler's men and their equipment encountered temper- atures 53 degrees below. He ad- mits that neither German soldiers, tanks nor locomotives were pre- pared for the sudden onset of cold. He admits that German nerves snapped and that disci- pline broke down, at least at cer- tain points. He admits, in fact, that his whole army was at one time threatened with disaster. He does not promise now to beat Russia even this year, and he hiutu that another winter cam- paign there may have to be faced. His warning that if Germany los- es now it can mean its annihila- tion is not the statement of a conqueror to a nation of people who consider themselves con- querors; It Is the cry of a leader on the defensive. Apology To People What Hitler hoped to accom- plish by this speech it is not easy to see. It is a long apology to the German people for the very ex- istence of the war: Hitler des- perately seeks to pin responsibil- ity for it on his enemies and par- ticularly on "the Jews." The world has now listened to too many Hitler speeches of this sort to be influenced greatly merely by one more. However much com- fort we may take In his latest ad- missions or omissloiffe, we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled. Whether the military forces at Hitler's disposal today have some serious hidden weakness, or wheth- er they are stronger than ever, the only policy of the United Na- tions must be to continue to strike now with all the force at their command. People Restless Der fuehrer's words, directed maimy to domestic atfairs, may have been an echo of the con- tinuous performance which the United Nations air arm has been staging over Europe day and night, day after day, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Germany has been free from military ac- tion on its home territory for so many years that the' Germaii people may be showing sign? of restlessness under the constant bombardment from the air. Hit- ler's subjects are not able to take it with the same nonchalance and indifference that they give It. They may lose their taste for war quicker than they acquired it. , How otherwise account for the law, passed by the Reichstag, empowering Hitler to remove any man from office without le- gal proceedings? There is noth- ing comic in the Reichstag vot- ing law. Hitler already had this power. The purpose was to warn the country that disaffec- tion would be swiftly dealt with. Hitler Worried This public reiteration of ^ dictator's powers may have been a means, too, of notifying the German people that no grumbling would be tolerated for failure of the Nazis to achieve the elusive victory they have categorically promised every year since the invasion of Poland. In saying that German equip- ment would be better made to stand the rigors of winter' In Russia than was the case in the season just passed, Hitler implied that there would be no victory over Russia this spriug or sum- mer. But it Is not the equipment so much as the human machine both at the front anil at home that der fuehrer is worrying about. Explaining his defensive war- fare in Russia on the grounds that 1941-42 was "the worst winter in 140 years," Hitler de- clared "we succeeded in mas- tering threatening catastrophe." But another winter? The Ger- man people remember what they had to sacrifice to keep the armies in the field in this campaign. Can they or will they continue to do ft? Access to supplies Is not being In- creased. Germany wss free from the air threat during this period. It will never be free again. Critical Period Approaching These facts go a long way to upset the promises with which Hitler, in typical rhetoric, inter- larded his address. It \a very fine tor Hitler to tell the nation that "the Bolshevist colossus will be beaten by us so long and until such time as it has been smash- ed completely." But what about the air raids? What about the growing threat of a second front in western Europe? With sub- jugated Europe in revolt where will he obtain the man power to crush Russia or any other eo- emy completely? The world knows today that Germany's might is not invincible iu any field of operations. The United Nations are going forward to crush the nation which has repeatedly launched war on Eur- ope. The end will come sooner If the German people realize this. It Is the fear that they will which haunts Hitler. Some diplomats suspect that Hitler's speech was designed to blind the United Nations to the enormous power that the Nazis will throw into the approaching campaign but officials do no un- derestimate Hitler's strength. There seems to be a general agreement that the next three mouths will provide the crucial point of the war. Churchill's Son Joins Commandos Capt. Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's Prime Minister, has joined the Commandos in the Middle Kast. Capt. Churchill, 30, is at camp undergoing the inten- sive training required of Com- mandos. Member of the Queen's Own Hussars, he filled a staff post in Cairo with the tempor- ary rank of major until recently. ADVERTISING AGENCY APPOINTMENTS F. W. Grow A. R. McGill At the Annual General Meeting of Cockfield, Brown A C'o. Ltd.. held in .Montreal, *'. W. Gross and A. K. McGill were elected to fill vacancies on the board of directors. Mr. Gross has been with th agency since li30, Mr. McGill joining in REG'LAR FELLERS -Crash! By GENE BYRNES &RIAK6/ BREAKS ./ THAT QIVES ME A SWeil. IDEA ' A& MANAGER OP REQLAR FELLERS BASEBALL TEAM I'D LIKE TO MAKE A DEAL. WITH YA / SUCCESS COMES TO THE MAKl WHO CREATES HI6 OWN OPPORTUNITIES ./ REMEMBER THAT. 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