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PEP TALK IN EGYPT Gen. >..' ' ....... J. K. Auchioleck rallies a group of L!iiit?h soldiers .11 ..,;;. i .. irom tuc car .11 which to has L'l-i'ii touring the HUM i vine* taking over active command ol Britain's eighth Army. Auchmleck's encouraging presence, a* well M hii strategy, has aided Bnti&i and American loive* to cneck the drive of iiomn.i-. .- Axis aivaders. V U I L O i- PRESS AN AMAZING MAN What an amazing man m Churchill! Here he is over in Washington again conferring with te President of the United States. SUty-eight years of age, carry- fa( the tremendous responsibili- ties of an Empire, with its arm linked into other countries of the world, and yet he seeing to cross Ike Atlantic with the daring spirit ef aa early Viking! How many feraons, much younger, could Ibe up to such a schedule u h* Mat go through constantly? Kingston Whig-Standard PRONOUNCING "RATION" Speaking of rationing, there seem i to be some difference of Stion about its pronunciation, dictionary allows both the )*ng n d short "a," but since the ttltary have always used the abort "a" that gets the prefer- ence, whioh makes it pronounce "iMhoning," rather than rsy- aoning Anyhow it seems ap- Kiriate, considering the sub- Wist the "a" should be short. Brantford Expositor o NAZI MOTTOES In 1940 German propaganda voclainibd, "We have won." In 1941 the motto was: "We shall win." In this year ot 142 it !- been again changed, to read: "We must win." Anyone trying to express in a nutshell the de- velopment of German public re- action to war events oould do no worse than to remember this ser- ies e< mottoes. St. Catharines Standard MICE FELLOWS, THOSE HUNK A German U-boat commander, who used to be consul at New Orleans, torpedoed an American chip, and when the survivors had taken to a small boat he told taem to row a certain direotion to land The sailors, knowing their Vans, rowed la the opposite 41- reetlon and came to shore safe- k Nice playful fellows, those --Ottawa Journal Windsor aHar o PERSONAL INTEREST Bverybody seems to know oftougfc arithmetic to figure eut fcet'i coming to him. Kitchener Record. o BUDGT EDITORIAL O U C U I St. Thomas Times-Journal Little Cheap Guns For Second Front Hritain is producing a t'i sub. ehlne gun to arm saboteurs patriots expected to help the Allies open a second front in Kturope, it was disclosed recently. The weapon, which looks like * dime-store version of the Tommy gun, can shoot nine-milli- snotre German, Italian and French ii, u and has been tested SB commando raids on the French eoaat. The gun is regarded as highly eful for shock troops and home guards, but i.s cheapness, mili- tary experts point out, makes it u ideal weapon for big-scale dis- tribution to saboteurs. Fitted with a magazine holding 4 round*, the gun can fire at the rate of more than 500 rounds si minute, is effective up to 200 .., and has a useful life of sore than 0,000 rounds. Eight magazines go with each gun and when loaded they weigh enly eight poumta. The KUIIS will be easy to HOW in occupied coun- tries by parachute or by smug- BBC. The gun is called the "Sten," a woril used to conceal its dc- sugncrs real names. One Koyal Ordnance factory is producing them at the rate of thiee a min- ute. {^DIVIDUAL Itizeits , MAtJWCE Al /) IR_WIN /Til A Wockly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army When 1 came borne from the .*i war 1 heard a <ot of grousing about some fellows who had spent the war years working in muni- tion* plants. It wasn't the sol- diers who complained they simp- ly Mid: "Lucky stiff, that's what I would have don* if I had haa any sense" it was the older civ- ilians. They seemed to feel it WM wrong for some people to have earned "high wages'' while others did the fighting. Just who should fight and who should stay at home U a hard problem and one that a, really solved only by those who volun- teer. No eolumnist is in a position to make a forthright statement on the subject because he cannot IUMW all the circumstances that lead to an individual's decision. Neither, I suspect, can anyone be arbitrary on the subject. But we can all wonder. And this is the sort of thing that makes us wonder. A few days ago Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator in the Un- ited States, said to an audience at a meeting of the American siedioal Association that the Un- ited States needs 8,000 doctoi* ever/ month for the Army ind Mfctf. He said: "There is an apparent iaek of interest on the part ot /our profession to volunteer be- oenei of reluctance to give up private ineome for army pay." Tbai was a strong statement, but McNutt j not noted for with- holding his punches. We civilians don't need doe- tors as badly as will tb soldiem when the big battles gut under way. For a tummy-ache or a broken leg we can wait a few minutes or hours if thti civilian doctors have to spread their tal- ents over more of us. But * ahell-torn soldier can't wait. H there should not be enough doe- tors in the Army to give prompt attention to badly wounded men because too many stayed home to look after us it would be a traf- edy. Perhaps e a*k too much W our medical men. W take it fesr granted that they will come at whatever hour of the day or night we call; we take it equally for granted that they will com* whether we have a record of pay- ing our bills or not; and we alao take it for granted that they will give quite a bit of thtir time t free clinics. The Army needs doctors. Se> does the Air Force. This yea* quite a number of young men finished training and new shingle* will be cropping up sll over the Dominion. Let's hop* that a good percentage of these ahinglea will take the form of pips on thw shoulders or ringi around tha cuffs I'd hate to think ef a Canadian public man making a speech like that of Paul McN*4. It all gives one very l'iiiuuei>- to think! What are we doing to bate along the sutceoeful prosecnttofc ef the war? LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Nehei- "We'll have to let her go. . . Cuitomer* fal can't cat! '." in love with her and Are we feeling that because there is nothing spectacular we can do that the little things are not worth while? We do, some- times, and it's too bad. That old saying, "Mony a mickle msks a muckle," was never more true than when applied to the work of the individual citizen in a war. Take this business of voluntary rationing, for example. You've heard people say, "We only drank two cups of tea before it was rationed. Even if we do cut down to only one how much shipping space will that save?" It will save very little but, multiply that one cup by 13,000,000 and see what the saving is then. Let's work it out. The saving of one cup of tea by every Can- aian, taking 200 cupe as equalling one pound, means a saving of 32 \ tons of tea every day. A ton of tea occupies approximately 100 cubic feet of cargo space so our one cup ol tea saves 3,250 eubic feet. What can a stevedore do with 3,250 cubic feet? Well, roughly speaking, that is a pile eight feet high, 20 feet wide and 20 feet long. It would accommodate two Valentine tanks or goodness knows how many cases of rifles or Bren guns. The stevedore could load about 80 one ton aerial bombs in the same space or eight universal Carriers. One cup of tea a day. Multiply it by 366 days! Not bad? No, it's not bad but iff only a frac- tion of the cargo space that can be saved if we all of us cut our tea consumption in half! Of course it isn't spectacular, thw voluntary contribution that works no hardship on us, but it w another way in which the Indi- vidual Citizen's Army can make M posible for our sons and broth- ers and sweethearts and huebanda to do the spectacular war work because we are willing to stand behind them even in the little thing*. Interne Japs Who Refused To Work Japanese workers at Geikie and Deoolgne, two road camps near jMper, Alta., have refused to work, a spokesman of the British Col- ombia Security Commission said recently, and 13 of the ringleader* have been arrested and are en route to internment at the Cana- dian immigration detention shed* IB Vancouver under guard. The arrests bring to 'M the num- ber of Japanese DOW being held. Sixteen others were interned at Vancouver after what appeared to b* organized outbreaks at other amps. The work eirikee are in protest afatat tine separation of Japan- eee men from their families and aeUyi in receiving pay cheque*. "The oommlssion le handicapped ta removal of Japanese from th* British Columbia defence area," aid Major Mellor, spokesman for fee commission, owing to the re- laotance of oltisene in proposed ettlement areas to accept th racueee. "liany people ate blind to the tact that security of Uhu Pacific ooast is a national, not a local pvofclem." An extensive building program to accommodate evacuated famll- ta is contemplated in British Columbia and the prairie prov- inces before the winter, but tb* Ue of tfcese operations cannot be determined until Ontario farmers deeide how many workers they require on sugarbeet farms. Approximately 7,600 Japanese remain in Vancouver awaiting re- moval. Old Navy Signal "Greek" To Yanks The oi<) and always welcome Ignal "Splice the main brace" oame from King George's ship after he reviewed British and Un- Hed States naval forces recently. American ships all obediently hoisted the same signal but no one knew why. Th*n it was explained It meant every British eailor got a double issue of rum to drink the King's health. It was suggested that may- be the crews of the liiiuorless United States warshliw got double Ice .! i', mi sodas. THE WAR - WEEK Commentary on Current Events Black Sea Repair Base Lost When Sevastopol Fell Tin tall of Sevastopol, accord- ing to the Christian Science Monitor, may have left the Rus- sian Black Sea Fleet without a bate where repairs can be under- taken. All during the months when en- couraging IICWH came from Russia concerning the successful aland Uie Soviets were making against the Nazi advance, naval observ- er! viewed with apprehension the failure to dislodge the Germans from their hold on the Crimean Peninsula, and the attendant threat to Sevastopol, the only ade- quate base left the Russian Navy In the Black Sea. This fleet has made no Impor- tant contribution to the Huseian war effort other than presenting a serious obstacle to German do- mination of the Black Sea. It is composed of a heterogeneous col- lection of ships, which at the out- break of hostilities with Germany, consisted of one old 23,000-ton bat- tle cruiser armed with 12-inch runs, five small modern cruisers, three old cruisers, and some old destroyers and submarines. At various times during the past year the Germans have claimed the destruction of several units of toe fleet by airplane bombs, none of which have been confirmed by the Russians. Con- sequently, no one knows the pre- sent strength of the Soviet Black 8ea force. However, it is safe to assume that it (till has a strength far superior to any other force In that area. Italian Naval Rust At one time there was a rumor- ed attempt to coerce Turkey into permitting certain units of the Italian Navy to page through the Dardanelles under the guise of baring been transferred to the Rumanian flag, but if this effort actually was made, nothing came of it, and the Russian Fleet con- tinued to control the Black Sea. There li no Question but that Kail strategy includes a drive on the oil producing regions in the Near ast, and it may have even Ui<> more ambitious design of triking across southern Asia. Should Japan be successful in 1U effort to dispose of serious Chinese resistance, it in turn will then be free to begin a push west- ward, which if successful, would permit these bizarre allies to join hande. Each will then have access to badly needed raw materials which ttae other possesses in consider- able quantity, and the preetige attendant upon the control of an area extending half way around lie world will undoubtedly have a far-reaching effect on thtlr rela- tions with the few nations which have managed to remain unln- Tolved in the gargantuan conflict that has spread all over the globe. Despite the former pessimistic pinions of experts, Germany em i to have all the oil and Iti derivatives that It requires for the stupendous military efforts It eierta at several widely separated war fronts. "Scorched Earth" Effective to view of the very effective "ecorched earth" policy heretofore carried out by Russia, the. Nazis can have no hope of obtaining oil for a long time to come from the Caeplan area should it pass into their control. It would eem a simple proce- dure to carry oil across the Black a from Batum to Galatz and thence up the Danube by oil barge. However, the oil comes from the snores of the Caspian Saa, and Batum on the Black Sea U mere- ly the terminus of a 400-mile pipe line, none of which would be in, existence by the time the Germane laid hands on it. In addition, the wells themselves and their facil- ities would have been thoroughly wrecked. It appears more probable that Germany's immediate objective in the Black Sea thrust to to deprive Russia of oil rather than an at- tempt to bolster its own supply. It might also be part of a plan to Isolate liu-M. from United Nations iit-Ui by disrupting all lines of communication witn the outside world. Robtov, which is almost within Nazi gra*p, is located on an oil pipe Hue whence oil is distribut- ed throughout Russia by rail. With Rostov and Batum in Nazi possession, Russia would appar- ently have no source of oil, ex'.pt from the field at the north end of the Caspian, although it tm quite possible other unannounced oil developments exist in the in- terior of Russia or in Siberia Nazi's Long Lines If Germany seriously con.^m- plates a push eastward from whichever springboard it acquire*, b* it Egypt or the eastern shore of the Black Sea, tremendous dif- ficulties in the way of extended lines of communication will be involved. Unfortunately the Nazis eeem to be able to maintain seem- ingly impossible lines of supply and have thrown previously ac- cepted military doctrine concern- ing them into the wastepaper ',n&- ket along with numerous o:br military tenets. Nevertheless, water uansp: 't.a- tion remains the easiest way to carry troops and supplies, a.n<l control of the Black Sea will ^r- mit the quick and uninterrupted, transfer of Nazi hordes to Baaint and other eastern Black Sea port*. To obtain this advantage the Rus- sian Black Sea Fleet must be im- mobilized, and one way to olr.iUn, this result is to deprive i: of ba^ea. Few Natural Harbors Unquestionably Nazi bom ters have made a shambles of the ax- tensive naval base facilities at Sevastopol, but in the past tJie Russians have proved very adept in moving manufacturing facilities to eafe locations when it becime evident that they were there^-an- e<l by the forward surge of Ger- man armies Consequently, k is quite possible that repair facilities and even one of the sizable float- Ing dry docks at Sevastopol iad been moved to eome other B'aek Sea port before German boruba could reach them. The Black Sea has very t<*w natural harbors of any size. Se- vastopol being the only one of consequence. Practically e>ery other harbor in the entire arei is sheltered by breakwaters and none are large. Northern Route Menaced The situation in the Black 3ea has now become critical. In view of recent British and Rutsiar, re- verses, Turkey, whatever may be Us inclinations, will not open -Jie Dardenelles to the British Flaet, In fact, were this favoritism sh: -vn, British snipe would probably be unable to run the gamut of N'azi planes in negotiatipg tht -Ae<^au and the Dardanelles. The railroad from Murmansk Is already menaced by the Gerniius. Should their push from Finian'l be successful, railroad connect; inn with Archangel will be the next objective, and should the Nazis break into the Caspian. Rui will be in danger of losing all 'meg of communication over which u.p- pile* flow from its allies Turns Out Ship Every Three Days Canada is now turning ou- a new merchant ship every three days, and during the month of June ten will have been launched as compared with five in May. Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, revealed recently. In the program, Canada is sap-, posed to provide 1,000,000 ttna of merchant shipping this y^ar, mainly of 10,000-ton deadweight vessels, with some 4,700-ton ones. Up to the present in merchant ship-building, the Dominion has 20 of her 10,000-ton cargo -"js- sels in actual service. She ia 17 more launched and in ;he water, and being fitted. There are 33 more building, icge:her with seven of the 4,700-ton type. When the program got under way there were only eight berths capable of holding the 10,000- T .on ships in building. Now there u- iouy, with eleven more tor ihe 4,700-ton vessels, stated Howe- Of the merchant ships b?ing turned out, i>o percent of the laoor and materials, ineiU'irnf steel, in Canadian. On, of the. 10,000-ton vessels can bt iaurch- ed in eighty days, and mime ready for actual seafaring anothei thirty-five days. REG'LAR FELLERS A Sad Case By GENE BYRNES fi u STOP YOUR CRYINQ / I'M SURPRISED TO 9EE A* 6K, BffT LIKF YOU WELL, BE SURE AN WAKE ME UP WHEN TOO COME. BACK tVXUSE I NEVER CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU AW POP qo our/ ran B I ARE AND IF YOU'RE A VtRY GOOD BOY WE niQMT BRING, BACK ~"- WELL, WHY DOMT YOU TAKf Ml TO THE MOVm.TOOf I CAN PUT MY CLOTHES OH IN A JIFFY/