CANADA’S WAR EFFORT

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23739, 10 September 1942, Page 3

CANADA’S WAR EFFORT

MEN AND MATERIALS (0.C.) OTTAWA, August 7. Canada is driving ahead to her maximum effort in the war. Overseas, Canadian air squadrons are battling almost nightly over Germany. Canadian bomber crews joined in. heavy attacks on the strategic centres of .Bremen, Wilhemshaven, Duisburg, and Hamburg.. Over Malta a Canadian pilot destroyed seven enemy aircraft. Brief dispatches relate how a Nova Scotian air-gunner. returned to his unit after being reported missing, presumed dead. In the Essen raid on June 1. he had bailed out over enemy territory but escaped. Across the Dominion volunteers are offering for the new Commando Force of United States-Canadian , Amies. The first Canadian troops assigned to the force have already arrived attHelena, Montana,, for training which will include phi;aehl&6; and- marine- landings. mountain fighting, and desert warfare. The new unit is known as the Ist Special Service Force, and is under the command of Colonel Robert Frederick of the United States Army with Lieutenant-Colonel McQueen, of the Calgary Highlanders, as second in command. Canadians and will serve together in the force, which will have a distinctive uniform. At home, the Minister of ; Labour, the Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, speaking at .St. John, New Brunswick, indicated new measures to regulate manpower, More shipping was needed, Mr Mitchell urged, to supply the fighting forces. He added that “nothing can nor must stand in the way of this supreme necessity a* this critical juncture of the fight.” The Metals Controller urges every Canadian to join in the hunt for copper articles. “Copper,” he says, “now ranks with steel at the top of the, list of salvage metals needed for the war programme."