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.!TEW BRUNSWICK
• The -Previncial, .general election in
New llitinswick On. Monday TgaVe the
GoVerninent tharProvince
ienewed lease-otefilee.._with_ 4 1, a, r ger
m Mr th n ipat
'Liberals Won thirtsix Seats, seven
IrKgc,t • than ;fa the' Oreviour, election,
4134. 'the, Celiservativea twelve„ The
forty-one eaudidates
in the ,field, failed to 'elect any of them,
. and MoSt of thein have apparentlY lost
their deposits., •
This was the:fifth of a series of Pro-
. Yincial generaleetions within a little
over . year. In August of last „year
the Liberals were "ousted in• Ontario,
giving away to a Conserva,tive ,•Oov-
ernment vviiich is helding office with,
., ittin,oriir of 'spats, the haying
eleeted nearly as Many as the Con.-
,skerfatiferiiiiIC70071beia:WIrirov..'
Liberal dovernment was! defeated. the
-C.C.F. almost a, clean sweep of
the Provinee. In Alberta” the •Social
Credit party ret,ained office with a
victory as sweeping as that of tp.e
in 4aSks.tcliewan„. .a close vote in
tfaxieb,eeIhe Liberals were defeated 'bs't
Gte _ 'Onion Nationale; 'althOligh- tliey
poiled a 'ConSiderably-larger aggreglite
vote in the, Proiln"Ce. New BrunsWiek
thus. has given the Liberals their first.
vleterY in the five Contests.. The Cour
,servatives bad their only Wid--„,-in
Ontario, The 0.07rfter Its imprefir-
sive. showing,-hrTntatit, and Saske.
ewaix,. nail. little or no, success in. the.
last„three elections, the'..resuits.
• what discounting its - to be a
national:party, although'its geodshow-
• ,1 • ,
pesition. second only to the Liberals
'in the total number of seats Wen. in
the five electiong. -
On: the each of the
'three -ffiarn7parties-7Can-extract Konl
comfort from the veting of the Oast
thirteen months --the • Conservativeg
train their win in Ontario; the 0.0.r„
• *from their victory hi Saskatchewah
• and their good shOtving -in Ontario; the
• Liberals from the fact that, although
they hold 'office :only. one otthe- five
Prevince4 they are still it 'strong party
in all of them except Alberta.'
•
41/72' at the peace table after .tlie con.
elusion ot the warv 'The werld cannot
te.orget, and Atr. C/earchill Certainly
dOeSzet, that ItalY aCcepted
eorouana to enter' the ,,War , when he
thonght_that watshepeiessly
deteated. rrhe niemOry. . 'that
cowardlY ACtion keep Italy from
aiiy but a very small Voice
in:tlie after -war deliberatthas.
v. •
• The whole' cause. ot„the disunity
' ' Canada teda,y is the thought
, that Quebec is running, the Domin-
toil with the other eight Provinces
tagging acing and being compelled
• to d6 whatever'Queliec orders. TI*.
• recent Quebec general. • election. .
brOught -speeehes from. Many per -
Sens. who would -have been in- .
terned had, theY uttered these same
speeches in Ontario er Any, other ,
• Province except Onebec.--Windser .
arrest Vim on the War
AVOW
its ofensiye installailena, Th. Mk"' atrategie calealatiOn, .11:14at PrlAlia
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'fly, newly' ...i. Ilmge TRAINIOSTO FOR 0 DAV Inetz TAsavo.'tilno and awiniMiats ac. 1Faintic Centre, _ "rat.t04:tehriteliteters 'the NtzttanextUaga tD24414trilroiltst
,
. We 'first learned that 1 our ditelaiOn . clOut, t•W urli'Y 100 Cle*Ylse4 a sYatent* line "IPIv4 al
it Wabi 3.11,0)47 wvaassietn40:t4Iink:staale;:lairligintatirst'ainneette' of 'tt,11114ttiG lallvt:Q'd14°T.:e14'41) w3$ a
Natnts,11.).!,.Ive learned cleareil. out rOad blot** atid 1 hold upon' German sentiment letil"fittiW.---' "
Carnet° Lazy geadowa, piatrorm *bent lanes threugh tile Minefields, ami the it is the original 11111101a, as „ahottn,„,„
eyelit, in, a.uty, loot illy 4,,ctmery bat,iiii"Y feet Mi. the air, with a seetion, artillery eanie attiteret. went lilt() POW,' gUiShea trOm DraMlehbUrg:,. tile symbol
Atter S'ant)er latit nigist• a. Tiaitor
the next concession, jimmy came o taliou wnS engaged' iti firinS when- the ground, below. FO,V Weeig0 Cargo Net unresieting picture -postcard landscape,
., tot railing and the.net Stretching to the tion and,Started firing tUriensly at the of the secular German. aphition" to ex- •
Macdonald, ,who lives behind tu; On port Teutonic Culture.T.hte tlie SlaTOuie
ain' IsledUllr. raerli., ,3d:Utlie eXdellTsetrawiiielgx the miXed Slav -Teuton rtiee " brought
lain: .0dejn; eth4eiebvareel doinerg:ano:ntduattrOinereswhieolit°
`-k7 01114:1Y°Paenv.:tice
this fall and hell prOb0,1#Y titaY• there =
in tor eur 800141 AISSault .task,' a-eu
, Seen' OntraUkk .01tSe O.,:fW,e'rfritreir-beettOtO-41,31(1, -3310re,4iat^eenfidePt.
111171.tlia Metille rmehoerealunnalo
istni the' kernel of militarY Oermtiny
to say goodbyelo us beeause he's plan- battalion eensmander brought„the word. ,.,
ning-onlaking-a-trip but to Yaneem.erw6 started tr
nut°, next vring" - '' riculum , et extraarclinarY ' .thuvc44•14- the list Of 'desPls.ed elaaseA.- But short- •We learned. to live On lc ratiens. NOY' iroirt and bioodVileh we caliTrUiw ...
„ _ SOred news. diSpatcheStrens England to - tot la image the descent w t
sprains and bruises, every Mari in the slang got mixed ,Witlx our A,rni,V tat'.
respect for the engineera from Frederick the Great tO,Bisrnarek.
thing ill the waY- of 'a celebrity in WS endless .repetition, The heavily ceat; IY;. and atter a ceneiderable Miraber et'
Jniamy, I Should explain, is some. ;less and ---like all arany scnooling ...-4 We learned
hecallso as a:IVY I eau well .veniCra"e' our heine4Own papers iavariablY. Spoke ,ea60;
ou tau . T M ,,, ,, d their hazardous' job and Our Ad-. and Ilinfienburg. ' • •
infa tr tilreadY Po tlote. eller* '0. torCeS in the north
of our aCtivitiee as !‘intensifve in.' even When* the 'net was ehalten miration for the, Al Yi. ., . , - r . y , _ . ,
toWnship. He's getting along in years, ,
9 preliaroliens," au ' ae.eurate ,but i violently to repreSent the possibility of great,' was increased. t wa „: b the direct conseaUenca or g• Penetras
Oen to the piano shore are.111 any
him' as ' being „almost A legendary,
not articularly "graphic •deseription. 'that it had the really tough job; the
etent eatotrOphie. „The whole' of the
t� the city to . falieleSsons and ,zalso to
further ails actufell* stUdies... aillgr4 that invasion drill, acedsing ,th
Q.- With the waist:huckle laritastened UcK
knew ,how to wear Ills Web equiPment
a rough Channel .erossing. a Every man
main j'Ob. " ' ' . ,,_
talion wegs.,alerted fox. Hxexcioe and and Vstonia and MaintatIning" the '
In tlie-iniddle„of -May -when,' ..thelmt-
figure., In. „Alais 'boyhood,' lie was 21,-. vast_ t
.41 :pules ' oedopying Lithtittnia, Latviai „.
Vlevet -.Singer...and itis fatUr sent btu,.
We etirsed threuglx, eleven mOntlis f
took tO•learaing„like a duck 'to water
But. We now can see , that' the ariny',$
-- 0 'quick removal, .itlet 'in eaSe), /IOW tO. A VgflgnAa,=74T.14PgNa.,:
lished a 'song of. Itis O*11,, • ' . fore'siglit, .trauslated *into ielir dry .
and tliV (first'vtliing we 'hue.O.' hme .phb-
, seem . --4, . . , - .. .
keep ills rifle and .entrenching -tool *
trona' tangling in the kePes, • .aucl. hOlv. ,:_ , „
wille9::-dtootafeC14.'euiAtilPraellpieittltionett). •
higher alithorities of insanity or Worse. .
mopt trivial; details., 04 .-,the. 'Proposed 1
_ to tie his bands and -feet for greatest exited. "Tn $ . 10 the real thing," It seeins . noNf impegable that 1 the '
Germans can evade the neeessity ,tor , •
Lor -a year or so, because he -w6nt to
operation, rty3 the grOund ,of sstweesS .
a, cOMplete :absenee of tension in our eVUellatiOn by tlea. 'rile WitladraWal',ot
went` the ,,rtunor. There 'was- .alraoSt
Nethiag was beard 'et biro. after that runS,” and our forced 'attention to the itt-. •*,
on D Day.. • : Oh the*Assumption; which was cer- camp. Not that manY of Us doubted the northern armies Mutt be aeknow.. .
another song. publishea.' ult beeame
, Olir. practice ibegan with backing up„, reets' that much, Of the la.ndbig would that the attack Welild Shortly take ledged to be within the capacity of the
Europe. When he came back he had
quite populairtand most all .the local
',Service batter f picked' out a likely„ take ''' place ;at night, the battalion place, for we could See that too many erieniy!.s sea -power 'in the Baltic. • The
People enjoyecV.A 'game of trying to
figure out how miich money lie was stretch , of . moors, fenced out ',..the..methodically set about , learning to troops were inVolyed for a dry run. Russian air force can and certainly
raoting„,4 Ills pieta° 'ilk' a ' ilqwsPaPer dimensions . of a landing cra..ft, , tank, tWerk in the dark, -.For a period Otir. We waterproofed,;Our yehieles, 48 *be- Will harass the retreat bY' land and
and on. thie the battalion's drivera time schedule was turned exUctly up -
fore... We binned the few letters that water. But ea the „surface there can
*oarkg, . praeliseclr. loading (backwards, so ' tbat
or 'Magazine Would ,send the fignres side down...• Reveille was at 0 as usual, had aceuniailated'Sinee the last burning. be little impediment td the evacusitiOn,
on landing they -could drive straight [ but at 6 p.m. We took road inarclies Oxtra, ratiOus, were issued, lifebelts for the Russians have no tercet.; iit the
Then lis fatter
- ha uitu off), Vach. vehicle ,itad an asaigned .,
diea and lie canie 'from 3 to 5 a.m.,-.' ate luneli at Mid -
were * distributed • and tested, final. *attic capable ' of keeping the. f*tt, ,
home for the funera
,. tT' deck space hardly sgreates than ,itS i lit and ,"evening" passes were cheeks 'were made on weapons, dog- against such,,forraidable junitt4 of naval '
prosperoirs but tired. Tie went aw
after the finierdi and reappeared a okvii length and had to be backed on neon, most. confusing for a Mau wale
issued froin ••itetreat•at 6.39 a.ta., 'until
, tags and shoes; all in accord With re' Strength '413 ' ti4e cruiaer • 15ippe,r and
board tip ;the simulated ramp, pushing hearSalt; * There were, to. be Pure, a the wicket battleship, Admiral Scheer,
manth later and gradually the news
jr a - 11:- - Oil our _
found the *falba` just °Poling *stead few noveltiet3; gas,resistan,t ctothing, But even if 'the armies'. of the north
:-.was-.46ing-:-talstar 4)11: the.-taFr..4f--- ,..'e-Y7'..'4tr.geY,-,Y.Otleles:tlieAlrYer"!..,1.se...._..
went----4troun ,that-„.„,linsraL-_Maedonald, , . net clOsin .g at the time for him to ,„,,,,,w,,,,,,,T,44,‘,,,,,,;„
tablets, seasickneSS ekape from their precarious position`,
•omit b to • 11 ht again elsewhere, the territory_
ar-back-as-the'-enclrof-.71iis traller-and- '
period -was. -a -,:great boono_to,sorae.;...no
-*.-14,...0.14,11.1104ea: - The night -in -day ""14.'"' -**J1''''•***, --1,-*
And,-'. before D.--.Dat•-•.the - entire. , assault • they. -Wiii-be] oreed_lte-ithantien, IS . Of 7*
,
of the ' folks Would evere--belieVe--•it .., efeli:thetOnglieStinoter:sergeant-could- •three, .-Inetifdlug:-viery-- priVate,WA " 111 -1),V -Strategic -importance:It..includerS-=•-z- -
Star. . • _
!tar_perhaps forgets that the,
Meat: draStic action, takeli:ggaiii4fany,
ier'S'ea prominence in Canada-- was
the internment 'for tOur yeari- a ex -
Mayor Hud e of Mentreal, wig of the*
most popular figures in the Province of
Quebec. • r,
• • „iv *
The M.Pe- for -Bruce,- Capt. Tomlin-
straw hat working around the farm. deal effectively with motor • n rk
-a briefed,. on the Vans. for the operation the whele_sonthern shore -Of -the"- Gat
in.- cow' lete detail. 431. .roOm for of Finland.; and its occupation by -the
until. they aaVV. in overalls AUcl niustjje guided by a man using liana:.
Later on he started singing, at local full of' drivers win) made indnstrious _
signals. We pradtibed t3igiialling and
affairs . . churen. ' suppers, „concerts.
and such like. Tie was a grand singer
and, -rt great- and,, my generation
grew up to think Of .him as being. one
of the greafest anew iirlhe world.
ss. -tithe -older folks„ 'Wondered, in. the
way---of-ell people, as to why jimrny.
had suddenly given up the; Worldly
life for the •country life, They natur--,
Lilly wondered why gave the
money and the fame, hut Jinany never
talked. •• lie farmed -and now and again
appeared in the city for a concert', but
rtheinajority of. the time he spent back
the. larns. ...Ong thing I.' always
noticed was 'that -Jiraniy Was 'happi.
. .• and he was rretty good farmer
v. •
'8"(mr'a gir-g0.04.44Vit.th. Pat"
eanadian--forces,*and- s,onia-of_h_ls con,
stituents, including some Liberals,
have been .grilmbling about this and
declaring that' they should have a
member who stays at home and. at:
end9._to_the affairs of -his riding at
Ottawa. Some 'of the Conservatives
thought they .• mighl prollt from this
feeling, . but when. the . Conservative
convention, was. held -it Selected, an-
other Man Who is on -aCtive. Berk -rice and
'who says "he is going, to stay in the
army untinie-cv-IFFV•Wer.,,, - -
ation• is the object of some amusethent
niong--.-ebservers of_th • •
.* *
The end of the war was in.- sight -
discovered how hard it is to let Just
one. man at .a tithe do all. the directing,
Yet how hopelessly confused the driver
gets .when heLhas more than,a single
adviser. Paeli Owed load, .to add to
Simi .fasalii041,. en clrlYergJea...Peci- tft ing Pr°grainme of
the confusion, , backs - ta -its oWn -whim- •
handle- all typos, from the-liondereus-$1.0;"d
howitzers down- to the frisky . jeep i . th-Speeittl, attention- to.
more than.ordinarY
trailers. They backed threfigh,clust. physical fitness. The; artillery is sup-
posed to rld,e 't� a`ivork; despite that
and mud, in daylight and in dark (us. theory. Vve marched at least twelve
rniles a week 'during these eleven
ing dikoned-out fiashliglits for signal..
ling.) • ' : . niontlxs, niost%of the time in tour -Mile,
By Noiremb ' - - -- - - speed marches every Other day . oyer
and the infantry reginient it supperts
. . er when our battalion
wept to assault.training cedtre on the the rolling reads with full 'field egnip-
ment,,including water in one's canteen:
expert nt backing aS any ontfit in the
iti .fivery • battert- was .required to bring
all its -men to the pointofcoMPleting
windy- coat, we were undoutitedlk
' •th t time •out 'to catch „a.'breath :
following eiaants, taken in series,
army: And our driviirs were talking the
seraping and polishing soundS in the
dark blit-tWhose vehicles, .at *dawn,
were -list -as dirty as. ever,
These spehial subJeets were all Sliver -
in). • ed u on. a•re lar artillery train -
as -Last night when-he,Was_atthe house about the postwar cars they Intended „,,,. .
Jimray was running hia fingers over to b__,
uy With three forward speds •s..0 PUSP-ups, , a. 300 yard 'kuu--wit us
' ' h'
Leillawd 0 -waterproof -our. vchielesr,-t'tseconds;.,a'! 50.yard .crawl - under
the piano keys and' he, started to Sing,. and 'no. reverse. We had` meanwhile *:1'
) Olga *ire carry. a Man 25 yards,
A-S-Watitl--rentrld-just-aee-anyself-lnie • -...•...._- ,_,..
at the elin.ch. jimmy is 4 lot older rinignlY,. of Making mudpies ' out of it and, finally„.:march foni ralleS in net
iggy-back and t en-fi'de7f-ar2rYards7
at thaf.-first garden -party --on the -limb •laborious precess, wilich7tonsists, verrts
. . me young again . WhenSeals
' he •
seams, , 'rents and electrical.eon-
could n
&al- grease--and-islastering---up---aat moree
-' et make -time gra(e were -trans.'
net
. 45 minutest , Men.,
Itmade Who
no , e basn't-loSt his old skill -
finished be turned and said, “t -suppose nee ons., , 'Our. riversbeen o , , -•
ti ' '0 d ' had'' b - t Ierred to other outfits'.
you wonder like everybody .else why " ' ' ' ' th battalion wae
1 • canie.. back here." The qtiestion
stopped me and so. I didn't .say any-:
thing. TheA he Went on. '
•
that
"I discovered a long time ago'
fame is: a fleeting thing. For a little
time I was conceited and swelled.- up
with' my - own hnportance. I found
but, however, That theifeepie who gave*
me the most attention were the ones,
• who were there simply because of the
bit or fame I had. There were too
many, artificial .people. in that werld
and 1 came hoto.e. - I -haven't regretted
it a bit. „ I have to go away now be-
cause of my -health, *Don't ever let
anybodY tell you "that fame is, worth
It. It '•-isn't. I've .10 a good full
life•here. ori tbe farm and like to feel
that I've added ' a -bit-to this- coat, -
'doubt was gone. .Yet at the' briefing Russians must open up an easy Way o ,0
there was no ?parent exeitement ,ex- approach to Finnish territory, includ-
cept •a ripple 9 '..aileasea. agto,nishment ing the. capital citY of Just
Wnett the Colonel:Announced. the "nui.h-' across the Gulf. . „ • -
ber of tons of bombs:ilia serWiiiirebe •e •brealtdowir-of Gerinan. -strategy-
dropped on our particular beach prior in the north must cempel-the German
tb-tlie-heu'r-when-wo.-*eukl-jand......-:- rulers to face the realitlea, of _their
I do net mean to kay that the men military position. This vast calaraity,
in the battation.--were not frightened with the still vaster consequences that
by'tb,e prospect•of,the Job ahead., But (Continued on page Ti) • '
there certainly iVas none of the ner- . .
vous uncertaiiity-that mighthave been
expressed. We felt • cenfident---.more
confident in fact than, was jtstified-
hecauSe we had reason to believe tha
• every r piteparation had.-beeiV made.
,Republie, (New ''York-)1.-
VHE RUSSIAN ADVANCE TO THE
• .So the Nazi § are ready to...oxiit ft'
,the Allies WeAld give them 'ireasonable
terms.", But vitth Churchill, Roosevelt
hack in 1940, • but . most of 'us
lacked Citurghill's prescience to
✓ lize it then. -,•-• London Free
Press. „. „ - •
• The end • of the war might haye
been seen .back In _1939, as soma, as
"appeasement", was thrown -out the
door a'nd. Britain made up her mind.th•
fight. Some things have-'corae to pass
since_ then which were ' not foreSeen
eVen • in 1940 -Hitler's invasion Of
Russia and the Japanese attack on•
the ignited States -and these' have.
brought victory sooner tban otherwise
could ,have been expeeteC but who,
when Britain -once Cook 'up. the Cudgels,
teddintt weuld-refuse- to4.1it,
is.:nothing for Germany btit. inicon- until, iii some way or other, she had
ditional AuTender, Won the decision?
ii.11.40111.• 11M• i rod Wel
'been telling about. the difficaities holi- official Canadian. fag, are receiving ;in-
daY visitors to that town....Meet in creased 'attention. Though there are
getting something to eat. So The, those 'Whe..Would have nothing but the
Signal -Star is not the, only paper tliat.,Union Jack, it,. being 'recognised'
•tells ' readers %quit as •going on that- Canada -is an:iiv eneugh and
about toWis •
, •
Aliied
troops are now only. a .few
• mules freei Itelgiana,- and -place aiamei
which became faMiliar in the last, war
• are"aga.in appearing In ,despatches. • If
tbo-Canadians getto *ins 'there may
• be, among them an. odd few who were
there. in Nevenaber, They will
, know • their ".wayi_,, around in *that part
of the country.
r*
bailaditins reseqed frome *German
internment cavil) .near-Parip' describe
the' food. that was allowed to them in
the cainit as -horrible and Say they
would' alr.haie perished had it ,nofbeeA
for Red- ross paree s. is an
•staUnientaidiould be .remem-
: • time• --triae-4ted•--Cros
appeals for funds: .
• * *
The greatest grain ;novenae/it An
,history 18 taking place on the. Great
Lakes tag 'year, and Goderich's
,transshipping facilitied-are n� small
' factor in the nioveinent. , ;Virhen. the
navigailon.season ends there, Will Ve.
impressive retOrd'of the traffic handled
, by the Ociderich ElevatorComParty
and. the railway lines running out of
9r°411hr.'1P.
..,
iinportant enough to have a-tiag of her'
own, as seine of other doniiniona, govern' our fetid production. --Liegis-
smaller - than , Canada, . already have. lation. and conferences will not do
Most _ the :designs submitted have Next te the axiality and ability of
• e .her -people, time .:top ,; -six inches of her.
the- 'Union.' Jacli, in the 1/PPer left-hand soil, is still canada's ''greateii asset
coiner with_ soniething, _distinctively It -is the solid teundation fact support -
Canadian in the field, It "is be big. ing the whole echnoiny'of the country
urged, however; that it such a tag is . ..a fact which legislators and eon -
to be- adopted for Canada. it should be -fe.rees ,weuld do 7611, to,keep solidly . in.
'
done without 'ftirther delay. To. * minim
great. many Canadians, •perhaps the • itus" wit
majority--conSidering' those of lorench On American nghting fronts the,
descent and the large numbers. who army prints little ,bne-sheet news -
have migrated from, Continental.
Eurobe-•-the 'Union Jack is not
Signigea.nt of hiStOry .and_ tradition ,as
It Is to those of Angle-Saxen, stock,
and it decisioa.**WdklaYed wit!
latter *"..areStill An:11er :aiitauxubered,
pni6n• .eomPletelY
ignored in the:Selectiontof„a 'flag design.,
In the closing day a o • e latssession
o Parliardent the Pr e" Minister ex-
pressed wish for a flag recognized as
Cana.d.fath Would:like to ,see the
flag that Our Canadiari--men are kight-
ing under today," he said, 'presurnably,
referring to what is kadwn as the
Canndian . Possibly -'the matter
will, he 'brirglit to a decision in Alio
next Parliainent. • • "
to have•considerable, weight *even hi, a
• THE JPOP,;$1,X,,,_. ,CtiEp . every degree of wetnes.At. night TO' practiee :in Moving from base eamP
''.. (Lonctoirlrree, Ss-) . attendealecturesirevarionsasspects-a-tent-eity-marshalling-Area'snear-the._ •
-Dr-E. &--- Archibald,-directo of the- -9f--ain--iiibkilig-.'elieratious-;491nrunniea- - coast-7-and--trom-there-to-the„do_cks
om mon xperimental P„arLus, Lec tions, air support,.the medical preb.; ivnere our ussautt-craft:----whultl---0
-. the ni. ,s , a l. , d f * th: „ , , •* . , 'waiting, Tills .ni itself is a complicate
ly• dreW attention` to -a fact which •Ls, em an so or
'easily Overiooked m id t pf a Graduation from Ahe ATC consisted operation. An, artillery battalion fills:
our _diseussions, dissertations, . laws, of a moek assault,bk Our emnbat teitm.,[ a, number of craft, and spills over•into
plans mid Conferences. Said lie: "I 'a • Manoeuv,re Which gave everyote a 'many more, •with its rear and forward
cannot too s,trengly emphasize tlie.fact chance to eMploy the;new. skills. Our.- I echelons liaison officers 'and forward
that, next to our fa.rmere owri ability, battalion leaded its equippient en `to , observer's with the infantry, reconnais-
the soils of Canada will. contiaue te LCT's from the sandy- beach at dusk, I, sauce parties in. early waves and ser -
division waterproofing' school, and each' • EVelY inafl in
ma.n hiatried his knowledge by water- I qualified as a sliorpshooter .,leastl tAining a confinnous trent has been
proofing his. own truck and driving ' with his individual weapon, a grade abandoned ; and where ordered terra-
jol fully mnto the sea up t his fenders higher,. that. is, than. the usual stand- ations can still be held•together in the
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BALTIC:
The victorious Russian armies.stride
.weatmaglIda. by day- With eyer_More
majestie authori y,
ceded no recovery from -the great Ger:
man collapse, Nothing thte enemy can
do gives any sugges,-Maallat her..ca,n
rer-Organize sfildelently„to. ,ght-a-netherj
pitched battle. All pretence of main-
uncomfortable and muddy, vas beauti- iprogr .ss, the, battalion continued" with
fully ' organized. The course was de-, I Boma exercises: practicein .select-
signea. prhtarily to teach the infantry ling and.- occupying positions, in : sur- no time' ;before these •positions, ••bat
the intricate individual andteam k-eyiug and wire -laying, practice.- in sweep. on, well -knowing that they *need
,techniquea for storming German coastz radio. operation and the use of signal not be anxious about the • result .of a
in Oserving froin our grass- i siege where the. enemy is in. no con-
al:defense ,pillboxes. * 'While the in': flags.
fantry,„•learned to manipulate flame- , hopper planes,. in gun drill and-hrceri-i-dition to attempt relief. ' They are nevi
throwers and 'dynamite 'ilenaolition: Opting of all types of fire ;I all of these certain • of . winning the race' of the
charges ; and how as as a team, toAp-!0Terlaid with the ever-present, hercii- United, Nations. for entry into the . •i„ ......
proach a concrete "hedgehog" bristling ;lean task of keeping ourselves. and sant Reich, an ..honor that ,none bf their Ilipt:
with automatie,weapons, the .artillery i eqUipment, shipshape - 'Tare, , and 'allies will grudge to a'peopfe'who have- taiii: .
waterproofed its vehicles, and practised.. Cleaning of Material.' . *„ ..- endured' Se talieli and raade";sO out
(this time • on full-scale con. I About January. we began formal stailding a..ContributiOn, to the common
crete 'replicas of LCT's) 0 We ekPeri- . dress rehearsals for p •Day,. a. series cause: •,•• • • .. • .
melted with firing our howitzers from Of amphibious ' exereises,, eadh'with an The moral effect of thia first.inVagion
IiiiP**-16 Shore and' ger the ,:feek.0-11riv14-intriguing:,..feadej_iiiiiiie_ainl-ArapPringi ..of.,:-Oes_ManyWhiefi-7-it .1s--certalir.---the.'
ing through sand of eXeiV,grlide ana! ()ft gogt,;:seete-CY. 'lin& One"1- Was ''eliefiliSt e-annetinn4VOSttene/-*Intiftfor&
The assault" training centre, Celd, ard. And when nothing else was in
path of the irresistible _advance, the
best they .can do is to Shut themselves
uP in.- fortresses. Tlie Russians: vvaste
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THE CktiADIAN FAIRIlAiiICS4IORSU
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'The, Gerpians show their usual leek
'Of Suraitii understanding when, 'on the
eve of the invaSion of their • own
-country, they ,sefid hembs indlseritoin-
-ately t�- 'loll civilians and --do -Other
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non-tallitary dataake En•gland. If
the **Eritish. people :needed anything
• to ',steel their :resolution. dealing
with. the Germans, the "Germans theta,
•selves have supPlied '
. * * ••.., „*, ,,
• Paris 'is eelebrating wig's,' 2.1ts
liberation. after *foil • yours under the
tfettaanet hit a few days before.
Accerding tO a neWaPatier deSpatetx,
selcireS Of People lost, their lives through,
the burning of i- leiretis **tell they
vr.ere' Attending, :although; «they ilittst une .reports cOMMOn Wild fruits •.0et friends in TOtonto tills week'.•-
Mr. arta Mrd. llussel Ferster and
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Iairre been' Within bearing 'Of .:..A:111641- curring alinotA to-Argile tidewater, and tarall ,- of Markham are spending a
there Oxge All:lit/Os 01.!, People, in Paris •
over tied oi*er again. Each tinle. he cl_n_arters, We Sailed nut into., the
Vegkables :at 00PPermine *Ang-.13ern.!* few'artis With velatives in this vicinity.,
Nvil.8, t:vne"kn1101; th°:itY4 .uartlaatin:11)nr::Ou'Wlitlag:1:,
ing 01.0Where, Good llotte, elOse to the. Arctic Circle, Creme unit held -a quilting at Inc hteule methodietilly fished...out of the Water saw the familiar coastline Ahead would
Svpipiltitasli,:di,ongsppitiotltee.rea, sarik ri.nd
.* * ,. , tatoos have been grown. for two gen- of Mra. Wed' Potter last Wednesday;
Pritile Minister Church is Silrely *ratiOnS, and vines IvetePventy inehes A potAttek topper was serVed. •, The Smaller landing craft tire loaded. hvervenraneecteh:d7Pogst:dthbeetovyiniolaexy. ,11,148g.8tittrilihtrse wi.tnads
riaglit In telling the italitin people that: tall en IelY 13111' with ft Yi°1(1 of 3C11'
bushels per here.-Proni Royal llaules tittle left for the West on Weduesdft3r Shere with tilt* men transferring OVer '
Walter Iervim. Bob, Harris and Iiiek' from tranvorts lose 411 to ti,I;ceytte:ebiiiieys, bombardment on .the bolo, and
ttatly cannot eipeet to mit -as a Pm Mont:Illy Pliotter for August. • 't0'..lielp With. the harveSt. ' . ,., ' '' the side . On heavy rope
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AGRIPULTURE IN TOO PAR
. ;NORTH
Viimate 51h110 is not a bar te, agri-
cultural Production," as -Witness the
the first -time- the drivers-had.,laadflrice trains'. .late. .The .battaliOn,
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n. chance to back on. board in earnest. both Alien and. equipment, had to be -
Loading of personnel, both lefantry broken clown into groups according ,to
Ana- Continted-,most , of the rthe - time. scheduled for :landing, and
pitch-black night, a cold and ghostly 1 each group _had to arrive at the right
busifiespi. Finally when We were all dock at the proper time. All this;.:Was
loaded, -the .landing craft sorted then3,- as mu!th an exercise for the supply
selves out aceording to assault waves troops who housed and fed is and tb.e
and the flotilla. sailK on -a choppy sea 1 '11ransportation Corps-whieh moved us,'
a few miles up the beach to eircle oft-• as it wag practice for the battalion.. "
hore • , Hachof these final rehearsals stirred
For my .battalion the Main probleni, up, the 'minor that we were actually
now was getting our. equipment ashore, I on the way to France.' On puck One*
moving the trucks and. giinS throxiiii We were ordered to destroy all perstn-
papers, in the eneiny's Ianguage,,givmg•
th arrew beach exits the 'engineers al -letters in our possession, turn in
tun, accurate and late War news on one
side and on. the reverse setting forth
thei,aavantage of immediate.surrendor,
gays The New Yorker. The sheets are
dropped in hack of the enemy lines by
had swept free Of - dummy mines, and diaries for safekeeping and empty our
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getting into position to fire'ln support wallets of anYtlihig which might furn-
of the infantry!s advance inland. , It ish, a clue to *our military -identities
aoutided easy. • It went; lir fact, ,quite beyond narae; rank,. and -serial' nuinbee:
Well. Yet . even thik first taste lin: ,That seethed going pretty' far for just
1ane.,,$)LAell; Well, the: other. ay pressed us with the difficulties involved a 'airy run.'' Theii, an extra and free,
in Normandy a--"'Ntti-1---surrenderesLiand, -in a, landing. theinvitations in every PX rgition wagrAsSued, along with three
inthecourse of -his- interrogation-bY' ' - -• ' .• - , .• ,
_ithe::•..e.rossixt '
-- • phase- for --things-te....--ge-.-;,wildly----an
-04:11itelligenc&-officers-,- pettishly, asked 41.-00168,1y,.. , wrong. . The .idaumuvre , ..ceuto..., rtut, ,,be,;.,e0uwieteis., _sure , ,r4s,t. _
Lasted from dawn until dark when, not the real thing until we
what had happened to the. little news-• 4
news for several 'days,. he .sald, • and camp and , hot toed; and many of us 1 and' found that. no Assault craft were
wet- and 'tired, We headed hack ,for , marched down to. the moonlit dockS
.papers. His platoon. hadn't. had any
was getting' bitter about the service. wondered how our attack. would ha -vel waiting. - • t . ..
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gone if there had .been .pernialis waitd A eonsiderable pertion of the coast,
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1,00KiNG. TO OTTAWA.
. , ing for us in the dunes insteild 02- four .Or five Miles ef the beach and the
In , an able review Of Canada s umpirea with their gaily colored ilags. 1 beautiful countryside inland to a depth
tank -Led political plot -fire,' The." New Other assaUltsr• On other coaSts:Jiiii! of ,six' or eight miles:had been entirely
taught the army tliat a tragically Iarge.;,eVacuated for our manoeuvres: 'The
York Times 'loints out an. anonittly ,..
Which 'so far has .eseriped. ideal . cop- number of .soldierS could' be lost by , beach was almoSt a duplicate of: the
merit, • obserVes The Vancouver Sun.. drovviiing in the few hundred yards Normandy beach: .the intensively cul-
' Tile. Thnes 'Writer calls attention to from' ramp to sb,ore, in, Water' theoretic- 1 tivated faruiland 'with Small -fields
th'e insistence of the Provinces on their ally no more than knee-deep but often, inarked by 'hedgerows- was it close
"rights"... as against the, Federal 'Goir- .111 fact; o'er a. man's head.- SO' we: approximation, Of our present • bsattle-
erninent, 'which 'lg. '9.celrol: . of exceed- learned.. to sWim Or at least, iir the i field. in ,fFrance. We' ;were instructed
ing its authority. - • Case efuta' few hui)eleSslY 'newb'xioyent !not to shoot up historic landinittks and
But it is' extremely funny, thinks not to be 'terrorstricken by the Slid, 1 to avoid unnecessary' claixtitge; • other -
The Tniies; .. that when it cornea to ..The battalion Swam througn all, but •,.A...wise we had n Al*, .hand. The artil-
Nvanting anything. done the aPpeal ',43- few weeks of the cold wirittlr, several, MT for the 'irk* tithe 'got to shoot .on.
yields of certain. ereps even Within the • Last week weeto kttathe 'fi':rst net of the. nesi&: hundred proWliling Plembers a ; the: what bad 'been poptilated ,land instead
Polar Bonn- Club. We swam in Streanie,r1
t-hrlitedualArrotfsnsgectltilvVaetedwelir:ldasl,idteldr
xiVers; pools . and static water tankS,-'t a
anyWhere .a Man could practise the tIP .fenee, posts tind'blast through -hedge-
difileult art of Staying afloat in spite4of , rows that *ere in. the ;way of etir guns;
helinet';:fatigues And ariny boots. Once exelting shift after 80; many. months' of
a man ' littd, proved hie' . ability . to &infirm and damage reports..,.
negotiate roughly fifty yards .he was ' Our last .Manpeuvres -Were, full-scale
aieused from further ordeal. . . . ' landings by eoinbitt team, ttY division,
, ' With one . eXception every Men in. anti then bY"0.skeletonii,ed Corps, each
the battalion* teamed
at" least ' t° fl6at' t we6omeldiet:mill',.te:ve•eraYra4p°,•!raeilvivitglvtahreniollidg .
The lone failure (probably due'to,SOnle
peduliar ' bond donditlen) persisted, in rumor that a DO was finally ,at hand.
We would repack piir ,PerSonal. belong -
sinking every time despite heroic
elterts ,,b3'' the 'sailed ef instructors, ings, recheck our erganikational eqUip.
He began the eourse, lioWever, •8c, Anent. fuut move oat to , marshalling
,frighterted by water that the sight of- areas,. completely ready to go on to
the pool. Made him nauseated, •„.0..t. the ..ti,,''rttaCiebe'r•oiciefn IldeOewesns4 to rIthitiobaadtsta,liwono
end of the iesSons he was *rifling to
plting‘ head lira down...file gido,at the embarked; a eonvoy- formed, and, . fin.:
000. WhaehlUst goes to',:sholV:tbat deep end of the'' peal,. mid ' Ife.'"did se '4111',V4 uu word hem 'higher had.
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in Russia, "'At peaVeriodge, Iatitade
55k • north; tests 'baste :1).00i, Made of
v'ittOPti croPk .of from
ten to Of teen. years, with these average
Marquis Wheat :8G -bushels, Vie -
tory' oats $6
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Along the 00tii. paralleV; crabapples
ripen beside ctreat 81ave• Lake; vege,"
tabl..4. And green fed grow at, the
Thelon- innetuary; at 63°. W., A Ifeth,
Premier of Sagitatebelvan, Mr. Doug,
las, was to go to 'Ottawa:and ask that
the 'Federal. .Government -should *take
over responsibility for. half of the
$17;000,000, . debt incurred by the
farmers of his:Provinee for seed grain
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'W. TraWartlia spent Friday itx London,
• Mrs, M. 11111ott and family spent the
week -end at Listowel Witirgier pareritS,
Mr. -Porter. • • • .
-111ra. ,T. MacMath. is the guest of
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we calf to see- that you
have coal for next winter.
fiut to ,,a.Ccoinplish ,we
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Aion. We'receive Our sup-
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instalinents. If _you .want
to be,. jassu.red • of yotix'
quata, you should 'order
now,, and receive share
of she 'instalment we 'now
• have ori- hand.
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(1).Place your entire fuel order,at once.,
(2) Accept your fuel whene0er we are able .to.de.
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