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The great news that Allied troops had begun landing on the northern coast of France broke early yesterday morning on a ‘world waiting lfillSCl)’ for just this message. Prom now on, the battle is joined on the western front. It is ivhat our boys have been training for with such intensity and single purpose during many long months. How many Canadian soldiers are in action, of course, will not be known for some time. Recently; however, their comman- der, General Crerar, declared that “thcrelare inore than a quarter-million Canadians trained and ready for the last battle, and it may he gsguiuerl that a large portion of these forces Wll be assigned to the invasion.

tinr Iit-ople at home must he prepared for news of heavv casualties, while the beachheads are being established and secure footliolds gain- ed in encmv occupied country‘. The Gerlllflfli have been preparing their western defenses for more than two vears. Pre-iiivasion information published in London indicated that they‘ liad established a coastal defense 1on8. Pflflclllalll’ of concrete pillboxes and gunposts with large minefields covering the areas around these static emplacements. For miles barbed wirc was strung. Many coastal ports and villages are believed fortified in the same manner as at Cassino and Ortona in Italy where scores of houses were turned into strong points and guns placed in cellars. Further inland the enemy undoubtedly will have strong defenses hinged on key towns and cities and bolstered by more mine fields. German reserve divisions are like- l_v concentrating on this line, prepared to strike at formations advancing from bridgeheads.

Some things they no longer liav'e._ll0\\'fil'efi One is the initiative. Another is effective means of counteracting the tremendous air superiority which the Allies now possess. ‘It may taken for granted that every last detail of the invasion plans has been checked and counter-checked by

Invasion Launched

for many civilian: ll well n: soldiers. When the bombing was most severe many hundred: of patient: were brought from all part: of Eng- land, including a number of badly injured chil- drcn ivho had been evacuated from a bombed city.

. ollowing the Canadian invasion force: into the Mediterranean theatre, Cbnadian nursing sisters were prepared for the casualties of the Sicilian campaign. In a stubble field in North Africa 1,000 miles from Gibraltar, a Canadian hospital was set up and was functioning with- in ten days.

Canadian girls in field manoeuvre: with mobile hospital units in Sicily and Italy are following the steps of the British sisters with respect to the adoption of more practical uni- forms. Gone are the traditional cloaks and skirts to be replaced by the khaki battledrcss—' trousers and tunic bearing the medical insignia. They are on actual cmualty stations for only two months at a time and then return to the going back to the lines. A number have been returned to England to pass on their experience to hospital staffs there. All this has been in preparation for the great event on which the curtain has now risen-Abe invasion of north- western Europe. -

EDITORIAL NOTtS -.

Canada is paying half thc cost of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan estimated at $i,500,ooo,o00. The United Kingdom pays the remainder less payments by New Zealand and Australia for the cost of training air crews.

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Canadian egg production objective for 1944, is 10 percent higher than i943; of the i944

production, at least 10 per cent may be sent to the United Kingdom. i i 1 I

Girls who told thc police that two foreign parachutists had landed near the quay in Ballina, Eire, and later admitted that it was all a hoax were sent to prison. The police searched the quay area three days and nights. Maureen Corri- gan, 2i, a domestic servant, was sentenced to six months, and Charlotte Brownlec, i9, to three months. U i l i

Norway and Sweden became separate nat- ionalities this date I905. the former country scceding from the Union and becoming a separ- ate kingdom under Prince Charles of Den- mark who became Haakon VII; in 1907 Bri-

General Eisenhower and his associates. Every man is trained to do his particular task supreme- ly well. The Navy, 0f course, is working in complete cordination with the land and air forces. ‘ The Russian drive from the east has also been timed to fit in with the western invasion plans. That was indicated recently by a Mos- cow broadcast. which recalled that the collapse of France. the Dunkerque evacuation. the Vichy-German armistice, and the initial amid! on Russia in i941 all occurred in jun¢._ and commented griinLv: “june, I944, is a dismal month for Germans. The Red Army faces thein—an immense force ready to deal power- ful blows. The storm in the west may break a! any ummenf . . The day of reckoning for june 1940 and jiine 1941 is coming for Hitler-s Gernianyt" _ _ The day of i-eckoning-and also of liberation for thc millions of oppressed people of Europe. His Rlajesty the King emphasized this point in his inspiring address yesterday, in whiclnhe urggd “a \\'O!'ld-\Vl(lC vigil of prayer and dedica- tinn" at this time. as well as the complete con- fidence of the Allies in the outcome 0f the tremendous struggle now under way.

In Battledress

More than three-iitiai'ters of a million Can- arlinii nicn and women wear uniforms 0f thc fighting forces. llchintl this huge array stands a small bandT-not quite 31500-05 ale" iflld trained young nursing sisters who are carrying on iii thc tradition of their service. 2,807 of them arc iii the Royal Canadian .-\rniy Medical Corps, :37 in the Royal Canadian Navy nurs- ing service and 370 in the Royal Canadian Air force. There are 40 women doctors in the arm- ed forces, four in the navy, 25 in the army and i1 in the air force. .\n intcrestiiq; account of them appears iii thc current issue of “(janailzi .-\t \\'zir", an official publication issued by \\'ar-- time lnforiiizitzziii lloaril.

The first call for trained women to nurse 1111' Canadian fiirirs came in 1885 during the North- west liclicllion. Six graduate nurses and four sisters of the Order of St. john answered that plea and proceeded "to the front by the Moose jaw 'l‘rail.“ Though their service received mer- ited appreciation, it was not until june, 1399. that a general order was issued stating “the creation of a Canadian Army Nursing Service is in contemplation and will proceed a1 a future date." _

The first Canadian nurses went overseas to the South African \\'ar in r899 and returned late in i902 with their place so well established in the forces that in r904 provision ivas made for a nursing reserve of 25 members, which was raised to a permanent corps in 1906. Nurs- ing sisters became recognized as army officers, and ivere given relative rank. This Canadian procedure was later adopted by the United States and ivitliin the past few years by the British Army.

During World War I more than 2,000 nurs- ing sisters served overseas and their heroism ivoii them nearly 60o decorations and mentions in despatches. After the armistice the perman- ent corps of the service was retained and a current registry 0f qualified women available for active service was set up. Thus it was that when war broke out in 1939 there was no ques- tion of a tedious reorganization and it was but a quick step tn mobilize again for immediate action. ‘

During the ivorst of England's blitz. Can- adian nnrscs went heorically about their jobs when death fell from the skits. They cured

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tain, Germany, France and Russia guaranteed the integrity of Norway, a. guarantee which prov- ed worthless when Hitler invaded Norway in 1939-

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Out-work is on the increase in Britain. Lat- est figures gave 40,000 persons engaged on in- ciustrial work in private homes and other make- shift out-ivork depots, 17,000 in London alone. They work on the average of 22 hours a week: their output is good, and the quality high. Part- timc factory workers now number nearly a million.

base hospitals for less exacting duty before 1

"r1111 oiiAgLglmizrown compiling

Illglllights ot- ltalian Campaign

By The Canadian Prcu

Here ls s, chronology of the Ital- lan campa.gn:—

Sept. 3, 1943 — Brll-Lsh 8th Army, including Canadian, invades toe of Ital moron; Meslna Strait; from Sic y; secret mllltaa-y nrmlstloe with Italy signed 1n Sicily, effective

Sept. 8 — Italy’; unconditional surrender announced.

Sept. 9 - Alllecl 5th Army lands at Siilemo south of Na les; Ger- mans bomb and sink Ital an battle- ship Roma.

Sept. 10 -— dlsarm Italians ln north; Allies oc- cupy Taranto.

Sept. l2 — Gemini; announce they had freed Mussolini.

Sept. 14 — Fifth

battleships, ports.

Sept. 20- German; announce ev- acuation of Sardinia; French, with some U S. trcops, land on neigh- boring island of Corsica to start cleanup of that territory.

Sept. 28 — Eighth Army occup- 108 Ffiégiflk important network of alr bases.

Oct. i - Naples falls.

Oct. (l-Flfth Army wins Ben- evento; 8th lands at Termoll on Adriatic next day.

Oct. Ill-Italy declares war on Germany after Premier - Marshal

uel elude Germans 1n Rome and escape to south Italy.

Oct. 14 - Fifth Army erases Volturno; heavy rains slow drive, Germans ctlg Into strong moun-

tain positions Nov. 3O - British crossing sangro lnto enemy's maln

River break winter line.

Dec. 21 to Jan. 21, 1044--In slow, bitter fighting British troops cross lower Garlgllnno River; Ani- ericans and French close tn upon Cassinn on main road to Rome; Ca- Canadlrins take Ortona on Adria-

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Jan. 22—FEftl1 Army troops land at Anzio south of Rome but fall to dviert German; from Casslno oi- cut German communications along Ar-nlan Way.

Feb 15 — Allied planes attack Benedictine Abbey atop Mcntc Cas- slno but. resulting ground attack on Casino tall".

March 15 - Allied planes ram Casslno but {all to dislodge Ger- mans.

May 5-—Allled planes wreck Pes- cara dam on Adriatic slde of front, loosing torrent on German posit-

lons

May l1 -- Eighth and 5th Armies launch bl: rirlve between Crnslno and Tyrrhenlzin Sea at 11 P H.

May l8 — Casslno falls.

May 19 - Nazis abandon Gaeta and Allies break into Hitler llnc ef- tler crushing Gustav llno

y 23 — Anzlo beachhead for- ces launch thslr attack

May 5'4 — Beachhead troop; cut Aupfan Way: Canadian: break Hlt- ler llrie farther inland.

to single line movlnc; on Rome. June 2 -— Vclletri. fortress tr-wn l8 mllPs southeast of Rcmc on An- plfln Wav frills; Valmcntcna, 20 miles from Eluvial Cltv on Vla Cas- lllnn farther inland. nl=n captured.

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Wages in Canada are level,

was’ _ L»... now at an all-tiine-hl well in advance of the pre-ivzir higlri

age, the wage rate index in 1920 ivas 112.7, in i939, 105.3, in i942, 127.5. TlllS gives only a partial picture, as overtime pay and bonuses are not included. The total amount paid in wages and salary in 1939 was $2,550,ooo,0o0 compared with $4,7oo,ooo,ooo in i943. . i I! i Ill

One of the world's youngest cities is Koin- SOlIlOlSk-0l1-;\I'|'IUI', built by Soviet youth in a remote area in the Far Eastern part of the USSR. Some 12 years ago there was nothing on the site except two small villages with a total population of 10o. \Vithin five years thc city liad grown to 70,000, and before the war increased still further. The surrounding coun- try is rich in coal, iron, gold, timber and furs, and Koinsomolsk has become a large industrial centre. Instead of virgin taiga, broad fields and orchards girdle the city. A large Palace of Soviets is under construction, and plans are being niade for a Palace of Culture and thc finest theatres in the Far East. m o- o i:

Gainlingay, England, with a population of 1,440, is paying its own war gratuity to all who lc-ft to join the armed forces. It has provision-

June 4 - Rome captured.

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i920. Based 0n 10o for the iggg-to-igggilriverii

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all of the 10,000

It would take ' rlwte practise rive

archltecis in p

years to prepare mg the bomb-ct: London, England .100 estate ..ic 11.01.1606 01 Berlin and other German cities-Ghat- hmm Dally News.

More than 150 young women In Ottawa. have registered as “llllby- mlnders" so that U110 mothers of the children are i-clleved of home worry for an evening or two catch week when they can partlci‘ . ivar activities. Phat, we submit, is real war s:rvlce.—Brockvlllc Re- corder and Times.

Toklo radio has made a broad- cast which evcry American can heartily endorse. Icemlnoing the Nlps of their duty to die for Hiro- hlto. the broaccaster broke liito Japanese verse ivhlch translates about as follows: “In serving on the seas. be a corpse saturated with water. In serving on land. c a corpse covered with weeps. 1n t-lfl‘\’- lnz lnthe sky, be a conpse that challenges clouds." It's okay by us. 411101180 News.

Although much his been heard of American flylxig nurses. little has been sold of the admirable work done bv our own Nurses of the Aar. Baolv wounded men belmz flown m from. are always accom-

ally fixed the bounty at $160 a inan, but thc amount may he more or less, according to length of service. Only a few ivoinen of (iainlingay arc with the forces, but they, too, will receive the ivar gratuity subscribed by the people. Gaiii- lingay declares that no other small town in Bri- tain is doing more for its men of the services than Gamlingay is planning for its 140 men now with the colors. It has collected more than, $7,000, most of it within the last two years. In addition, it is sending $2 a quarter pocket money to all the servicemen stationed at home. Those overseas have this amount credited to them. Gen. Nlontgomery has written to the fund's or- ganizers thanking them for the “magnificent

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Henri Bourassa’: hatred of Britain and everything British lives on in his old age. The other night he said to a Bloc Populaire rally :- “When they speak of a crusade for Christianity I cannot forget that our first co-opcration with British imperialism contributed at the end of

ant little nation in South Africa." There was no extermination, asserts the Ottawa journal. From the battlefields of South Africa there rose a great new nation, tree in name and free in fact; a nation created through British states- manship, and with its fruits seen in the grand spirit of jan Christian Smuts in leadership of his people by the British side in the present fight for freedom. That, apparently, is some- thing the heart and inind of Henri Bourassa cannot understand-Abe spectacle of a people who can forget the past. accept the. present, and ook hopefully and without barren hate to the

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no flylngjralzilng tn prepare them

for the ion. ‘These nurses are drawn

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Research work lo amazing, but Nature ts wonderful. Gulls fly over the ooeon In all iveather-blrds are

lostr-Iur-bemlnu nnlmals know what sort of wmtcr we are poms; to lave-caterpillars chaizge nto butterflies-trees can haul sop 250 fee): out of 11;}: ounce umml 0111.1 0t

' h ca thrmlgh solid substinices-mnyflles ve l2 hours and turtles 200 years. —l.ondon Free Press. , otgnaczpe than 100 yenn the City

has n my t-n - Belly of one Peter Morlxclg filggoo tin; conslderuttlons

the last century to the extermination of a vali- Y.

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Badogllo and King Victor Eminan- n

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Herbert hm Gordon t: the new deputy minister for air, promoted to lgltcutzgt ‘In succession to S. L.

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He Ls u» 11m ‘c1 ll t m hold the III deputi" “W” hip, m! . do Cutout and - 5- 170M111. having been promi- nent tndustrhllstgewho took time off from their prlva lllalrs to help the government.

coons . Herbert Gordontsanythlng but g cog. Quiet tn speech and scholarly ln 0p ear- ance. he ls nevertheles“ a v fgble prodigy or energy-u he would have to be to work as second ln comm- and to energetic Alr Minister "Chub-

y" Power.

b How the new deputy came to be working for the zovernment at all ls a, story ln Itself. It was alter the last war. and, he admlts. he was going to make s. fortune. Just back from overseas, he bought a 1,500- ncre farm Sask., planted 800 acre; with flax. h was then selling at $5.05 r bushel. One day ln the aul-umn of 1919. lie liad everything ready for lht- harvesting of an estimated 15.- 000 bushels. Work was next day That night lt snowed -,1 real blizzard The following morning the snow was three fest deep on the ground — and on the

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The harvesters went home, and Bet rich quick Gordon declded he dldn‘t care so much for fanning alter all The government was. then giving quarter sections o1’ land to returned soldiers. Surely lln gavsvizuiszit would like to purcliare his land for this purpose. . tter gettlng nowhere with the Soldiers‘ Settlement Board rtlflclals 1n tlte west, lie came to Ottawa to sell the idea to the chairman. The chair- man didn't bite, but he did ask the crstvrlillc farmer lf, in vlew of his kuawlzrlge 0f the west and other experience, he would care tn lcin tltc board. Gordon accepted and

ltlnies. That ivris in 1920. and he has been with the government since. B-elvlng his somewhat severe as- sccb-when he ls not smiling -- He:- bert. Gordon is one of the friend- llcst, lIlOEf, approachable of sanlor officials ln Ottawa. Hts philosophy ls that people are all pretty much the some and that if the other person senses klndllnass tn oneself, he reclpimate; and the two get a.- long fzimousl- .

"I adopted this attitude," he says “because I found I dldirt. have the qualifications to browbeat anyone anyway." He is most popular with the 18,000 civilian and many thous- ands more service personnel of vuhcm he ls the administrative lzeacl. He ls noted among his cm- ploy-ces for his sympathetic under- standlnc: and good nature. When It was _polnted out to h'm that. the picture which ascctnpanlss this article portrayed hlm as a rather firm -lo ' g individual he replied l, It's about time some start. lhlnklng I ain a severe prison." ‘

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But. hls klndnes notwithstand- ing, Gordon ls an a 1e and uncom- prcinising administrator. An em- ploye cf the department viho rl- ecntliv liad occasion to be reprl- miiizdcd by the deputy minister, rcmaikcd afterward: “I W85 never hit ivlzh a brick wrapped up lri s0 many fea-thcrs before.”

Gordon was born at Kings- borougli, Prince EdJWBfd Islan , in 1882 one of flve sons of a Baptist. clcrgyman Rev. Dr. Jclin A. Gor- don 11nd Margaret MacDonald. An- cestry on both sides was Scottish.

shortly after the family moved

St. John. N. B.,

When he was 1 _ to Saint John, and there he made his high school ccursc.

The next move was to Montreal, where Dr. Gordon became stcr of the First Baptist Churc

town St. at

become a law-y

and went to McGlll University.

Two years later, however. in 100E. ivlien he was 21, law seemed to have lost. its appeal, and in its place came an undeniable yeamlng to g0 west.

In Winnipeg he became manager for a lumber company, was even- tually sent. ta the bush between

task was to sucipl ties foi- the Canadian Ne- tlona road to the coast.

The years up untll the mlddlg of World War I saw hlm in various parts of the Prnlrle Provinces, still engaged lu lumbering. after a brother had been overseas, he enlisted as a. gunn ln the Canadian Field Artillery,

after he donned the King's uniform He remained there until demobil- lzation. "I guess I am one of few men o enlisted a; a gunner and was when demo

he replcd frankw when aied about promotions.

It was then. tn 1010, that impur- chased his Ill-fated farm ln su- kiitohewan, lost. everything liad and, In early 1000 Joined the

Board.

Board superintendent. for the Marltlsnes untll 1022, he wu then made superintendent for Alberta where for the next five years ho haaisdlod

Ho was called back for revaluation o! all soldiers’ settlements throughout the coun-

mln 1900. he was transferred to e In charge of the admlnlstriaton of the Farmers’ Creditors Annapo- mcnt Act. aimed at sdJuotlng he debt. of funnel-s which wen often at Interests u 111111111 as 0 per cent.

ls was an aopo t-ment tn which he was the object of pfentv of cri- ticism. particularly frcrn the Ben- ate Banking Committee. several of whose members had 1m In the institutions 0o whldi the fann- ers owed money. In the flve year: during which he held this t, Gordon was iesponslble for the ow- erliiz of farmers‘ debts from 8300, 000,60) to 5200060000.