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The pro.sr-nt siruwnle Is no ex- ception. nays The New York Russian reliance on artll- Very as one of the answers to Nazi lllitzkrit-jf has proved well founded. Among the Soviet weap- ons praised by military men are * 45mm. anti-tank RUII, Jhe Putilor 76.2mm. field piece, a double-pur- pose antiaircraft and anti-tank fun, of the xame caliber, and a big IBl'mm. (six-inch) cun mounted on a 52-ton tank chassis. Used In con- Junction with aircraft, tanks and the rarllr of defence In depth, Biiia'.li many a Panzer spearhead. Through much of the war tln-lr prih. !> roll' lias lii">n defensive. Red Pincers Tightening I.a.-t week Russian artillery was being lined to good effect offen- sively. It wag playing an Increas- ingly Important part In the great Sm. drive on Orel, major NHZ! supply base and hinge between the Inva/ler's central and southern . front H. For twenty months Ger- mans had been digging In arouml the itv. creating a maze of tr-n- 'ies, plllhodes and strong points miles ID depth. To blast a way through the interminable bar- ricade massed Russian batteries laid down drumfire reminiscent of World War I. With their aid the Red pincers slowly tightened, closing In on Orel from the north, the fast and the- nouth. After near- ly three weeks of ferocious fight- ing. Soviet legions wore within a few inili-s of their gial. An esti- mated 250.000 German troops were In danger of entrapment. I), -i riptioiis of Ihe battle by Moscow correspondents pictured enemy reserves being hurled la . fruitless counter-attacks against Russian tank and Infantry units. The '..MUMS were ordered to fight to the death. Thousands of them did. Tholr resperate defence ap parently was slowing the advance of the fled Army. Nevertheless, ths Russians pushed nearer to the vital rail line running west to Bryansk, seized strategic heights north of Orel, crossed the Oka River to the north and south of the lity. Red cavalry entered the Struggle, seeking to exploit a breach opened by troops pressing up the railway from Kursk. Widespread Fighting Activities elsewhere on the long East 'Tii front wore overshadoweil by the struggle for Orel. Fighting was reported southeast of. Lenin- grad. where the Red Army ap- peared to he trying to widen the corridor to the Soviot I'nlori's lecoiKl largest city. Local clashes) continued noiir Helgorod, where the Nazis' summer ilrlve had mint- to grief Moscow rommiin!<|Uf> told of tifnh i-rivmy attacks in the Dunlin, v.. evidently aimed at re* Ilevlnf! thi! pressure on Orel. 350 miles to the north. Helnii'l theso vast operations on the Russian front some observers gllini'-' d the outlines of a nnw German Htratpgy. It appeared to be a strategy of defence, born of necessity. One of its symptoms wai Dm presence in Hie Orel sen- tor nf a defence weapon Rimsians have uii knamed "Ihe iron crab" a mobile armored pillbox for ma- chine, iMiiini I'.H lhat car be trans- ported by truck and li rled In the ground wherever namled. The Nads were also laying vast mine fields. From such signs It might be deduced that henceforth the Herman General Staff Intends to husband its dwindling manpower against the day when it must de- fend Fortress Europe on overy side. Hamburg Under Fire Target No. 1 for last we*k was Hamburg Germany's second larg- est city, Us greatest port, a vital centre of cuastal and Inland ship- ping, home of many Industries. Bight times In six days llrltlsh and American bombers swarmed over the sprawling city on the Kii'". Observers estimated that 8,000 tons of bombs were droppd In those 144 hours a weight greater than that the Luftwaffe looMed over England In the eleven- month "blitz" of September, 1940, in .Inly, 1941. At times the bombs came down at a rate of almost a ton a second a drumfire* of huge '."i in. Under the Impact, *rilps, liarfics. cranes, fac- luriiM and waruliousL'S sh.udde.red into i Ins tlien burst into flames. Cluiids of smoke lowerod five nnl'v, Into the sky from fires up- p'lrriiiljr beyond the control of sl'rpless flreflRhterm Yet this was not all. Wllhelmshavori. Kiel, U I'nnuende, Warnernuiula and Win strow, all Industrial and ship- ping centres, some of them Im- portant U-boat bases wore hit. Inland cltlos of Hanover, Kassel and Oschersleben- turning out gum, planes and tanks -- heard the thunder of pi an PS and the crash of bombs. What can remain of Hum burg under such repeated and heavy blows only reconnaixance photo- graphs can tell. It sei-mod clear that Important parts of tt must be blackened ruins. It was clear also that another objective of the Al- lies was being realized the dis- organization and extension of the Helen's sorely taxed defences. Pilots on the later raids to Mam- burg MtCOUnt6F6d more planes and heavier flak, apparently drawn from other suctions. But that they were not enough was Indicated by reports that In the five days. In all raids, 200 German fighter planes were sbot down by thn Americans alone. The R.A.P. re ported Its bomber losses ware, running to only S pr o-tnt Rubber for War Medium-sized tanks require 500 pounds of rubber, and pontoon- bridge sections over 1,000 pound*. The gasoline tank ulone of a Ply- ing Fortress uses 500 pounds of bullet-scaling rubber, while large bombers require over ] ,200 pounds. Excavation trucks used by the army with tire diameters of a'/i feet require about 3,500 pounda. OTTAWA REPORTS That Farm Living and Operat- ing coitt Have Not Risen Ai Much as Selling Price Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Wartime I'ricps and Trade Board has analyzed In the most interest- ing fashion the Canadian farm ec- onomic picture 'and reinforced with facts and figures the warn- ings Issued by national leaden against the clangers of inflation. Canada's own dose of Inflation after the lust war, be saiil, was small as compared to Germany's, but the benefits conferred on Can- adian farmers were equally trans- itory. Although farm prices in Can- ada as a whole had more than doubled In the period 1913 to 1920 the apparent improvement In the farmer's position was largely an illusion because farm liviug cost and operating expenses rose near- ly as much. The slump in farm 'prices start- ed In 1920 and gained momentum rapidly. In three years they had dropped 50 per cent. Hut the prices of all those things the farmers had to buy had not fallen as rapidly and taxes and mortgage fonts had remained fixed. And by 1923 the farmer had discovered that the relation between farm prices and farm costs had been less favor- able than before Inflation began. "And no It will he again." said Mr. Gordon. "If we are foolish en- ough to let Inflation take hold." The. Wartime Prices and Trade Board Chairman declared; "The real Interest of agriculture Is best served by a long period of stable prices. I have no quarrel with those who contend that the farm- erg of Canada were not receiving proper return for their labors and who say that notwithstand- ing the improvement of the last few years their position Is still not all that It might be. Hut to- day we have not the goods and services available to increase the standard of living, or evn main- tain it. Our resources are pledged ID a war for survival the most costly of all wars." Paying tribute to the fanners for the magnificent job they were doinK in wartime food production, Mr. Gordon told the Alberta Fed- eration of Agriculture that "the agonf of war Is no time for any agony of war Is no time for any more than that, it is shortsighted to believe that concessions extract- ed from the communlty*by virtue of wartime shortages could be maiiiiaiiied. Intelligent agricultur- al leadership will make neither of these mistakes. It would rather study and press for action which will insure stability now and postwar." After praising Canadian farm- ers for the increase In volume of food production by more than 25 per cent last year despite man- power shortage. Mr. Gordon went on to discuss the economic posi- tion of the farmer today. The of- ficial index showed, he said, that farm prices had risen 43 per cent since 1939, and if wheat were left out, prices, on the average were 50 per cent higher, aside from sub- sidies. The Wartime Prices Board, he said, had not frozen agricultural prices at a relatively low level as some critics had declared. Not ronly had there been the improve- ment in prices referred to, but, he added, there had been more adjustments in prices for farm products than for anything else the Hoard had dealt with. Agreeing that farmers' expenses had gone up also, be declared that "taken as a whole, farm living and farm operating costs have not risen nearly as much as the sell- ing price. The margin between In- come and expenses Is almost double the pre-war figure." Use of Sprained Ankle Is Advised Immediate and normal use of a sprained ankle and foot, almost irrespective of the type of local treatment adopted, definitely hastens recovery according to Lieut. Commdr. Paul E. Me Mas- ter, USNR, writing 1 in the Jour- nal of the American Medical As- sociation. Uniformly beat result* were, obtained when all pain in the injured part was suppressed by injections of procaine hydro- chloride. "Patients who returned! immediately to normal activity and used and moved the foot and ankle improved much more rap- idly than those who did not," Dr. McMaster said. CLASSLESS GREENHOUSE... SHATTERPROOF FOR SAFETY... i SERVING THE UNITED NATIONS WITH WAR ALCOHOL Up In the nose the bomb aimer sits In a coiy little "greenhouse" all his own. Between him and the stars and empty space below is a curved, crystal-clear material that looks like glass but isn't. Tougher by far than glass, shatterproof for safety, it is a clear transparent plastic that can be shaped and moulded to serve a thousand war- time uses. Plastics are infinite in variety, indispensable to modern war, and fabulous quantities of pure war alcohol are required to make them. Alcohol plays a vital part not only in the making of plastics, but in the manufacture of synthetic rubber, in keeping fighting planes ice-free, and in the war against infection in hosoitals and on the battlefield. 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