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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest lnk."

Tlll.'RSD.-\Y. APRIL 24. 19;“.

The Balkan Campaign

Appliczil 11- 11. 11- in 11111111121 as well as to our

neigl111111<< 111 1111- l‘11111'1l Suites was President l{1'111s1-\1-i1's 1111111)‘ :1<l\i1‘e 1o view the war "If! the liglt o’. l1i>111-.‘\" 111111 not allow ourselves “to

pinnuclc 1111c 1l:1_v because of a l‘.ri1i.~l1 111-tor; 111 1111' .\l1'1litcrr;111c;u1, only to sink tu tlic 111-pal» 11111-1‘ on word 11f German successes." The 11111111 thing, he emphasiled. “'15 to keep war supplies moving to Britain. _ '

At tremendous cost, the Germans are gaining temporary s11c1‘1-.<.<cs 111 the Bzilltans. In the mca11\vl11lc, 1111s 1111111-111) 111 their planned 311F108 invasion of l‘l1‘i1.'11n mcnns loss of ti111e whicl‘! is becoming an lllCfCLHlilglV vittil factor in Hitler's CillClllilllivllS. llis only hope of winning the war is the e: - tlcstrucliuu of llritisl! resistance. S0 far front his l’-.‘1ll1;n1 11111211111117 achieving this re- sult, Washington authorities are of opinion that it is useless 1o him economically. Neither Yugo- slavia nor Greece produce oil or any of the other nmjot‘ war tnttterials in which there are existing or potential sl1ortngcs in Gertnaiiy; and any other economic gains are more than offset by the (lztmage to the Nazi war machine. Greece is holding out valiantly, notwithstanding the surrendcrof a section of the hard-pressed Greek army. The retirement of the Greek king and government from .'\1hcus to the strongly forti- fied island of (frete means that the Balkan struggle, even if the whole Greek mainland should have to be evacuated, will continue,- with the addrd advantage of bringing the guns of the British .\'.'t\_\‘ intn freer play.

We should not, therefore, allow ourselves to be discouraged by reports of Greek reverses, or imagine that thcy affect in any decisive way the. 11111111 issues of the wzir. At a pace which would 11c inconceivable six 1110111115 ago, the United States is tnoving into mass production and sup- ply of planes, ships and armaments for Britain. livcry- 1lzty across the .~\1lantic these supplies are lreing sped; e\‘1-r_v weck 111 increasing quantities. l1 i.‘ 111.1111 111.11 they will soon be cunvoycd by 1:. S. warships, lcstving I3ritisl1 convoy ships for other pressing duties. 5o it c2111 be truly said that every flrty the war continues in the Balkans, in North Africa. or in any part of the hledi- tcr1‘.111c;111 is zt gain for the .\llics and a 1115s for

Hitler.

11c liftcd 111 :1

Glorious Greece Ihuh-r the bcuding: "The (ilury mitt i5 Greece", thc New York ll/o1‘Id-'I‘rIrgru1n. says: “llow the battle of (ircece will come out, we don't know‘. l‘1111 we do know‘ that a little land has g1‘11\v11'g1‘1-;1t again. \\iin or lose, her sacri-

fice lcinrllr. 111-w ci-urtigc, 111-w hcroisnt raises new hope 111!‘ 1111 11111) love liberty everywhere.

"Pcrhztps this is pour balm for the wounded, \\'l]1|~(j l111n11's are sucked, whose families

stumble zimong the shcll holes of the (lead but 111411111- 111.t_ t 1111s 1111-11‘ grim choice. Deliber- aiciy‘ they chose stiffcring us l11't1cr 1111111 will- ing surremlcr to 1111,- conipieror. And thereby thcv still find 111111111‘.

55111-11 :1 pt-uple 1111111111 be iuserlsitive to the

\\-1.1~!.1‘_.~, ,-,\.;,1-d. lt 111u~1 lwlp 111cm to know that 1111- p111 .‘ 111' 11111l1it111l1-.< in the citslzived lands, as 111 the 1lc111111‘1‘:1ci1-~. are wijh them.

“lilorhnis is 1111- word for kirccce."

mCiilling Mr. King

11 1. ,-<-,,..1-11-1l from l.<111<l11n. that l‘rimc Min- Nm- (mu-quill i. 111111111 111l111lrluc1111ferc11ce \\'!Ill ti“. hi-mls- 111 1111' 111111111111111 li1)\'l‘!‘!llIlClllS for cmisultyttinn 1.11 1v:1r strategy. 'l'he attendance of ]'1‘c111i1'r .\l1-11'/.11-\ of \11-1r:\li:1 :nnl l‘rz1.<er of New Zczilziinl, 11-1111111 .\lr. t'l111rcl1ill invited some 1i1111- now 111 11.11 l.1.111l1111_ is already assur- ed. 1! is 11111l1-r~1111.1l 111:1! l‘r1-1ni<'1' _li\l1 $111015 "l $011111 .\fric;1 1l1-4ll'l‘\ 11. 1.1- pr1~~1-11t. but that he tunv 11111 1.1- .-1l1l1- 11. 541-1 :111:1_v just now mvlng 111 the-cxigcncics- 11f 1111- ~it11.'ui1111 c1111fr11n1ing him at l111n1c.

This 1'1-f11'1'111‘1- 111 l‘r1-111‘1'r l\'1111_g_ 1|11111c1l from a. (_‘:111:1di:111 1'11“ 1li.p.-uc11 111.111 14111111111. czm- "or {n}! 11. 1.1- 111' pcinlinr i1u1‘r1-~! I11 1111' pcoplc of (Ymznlat: "l1 is 11111 1111111111 wl11-1l1cr l‘rin.e

.\lini.~!1-1‘ .\l;11*l.1-11'/.11- b11143 prc~1-11<:1: is deemed tirgcnt. 111-12-111-1‘ 1111- ('.'111:11li:111 ;11‘n1_\‘ is 11111 011,111;- ed 111 ztcttinl bzutlc. 11111 his cmning tyould please the llritish z111tl111r11i11~_ 111111 111 1111' pu~l liztvc said they \\‘11ulrl :11\\':1_\~ 1.1- dclighlcd to see :111_\‘ of 1111- l)11n1i11i11n l'1‘1-n111~r~."

There is, c11111|111'11!.~ the $y1lncv I'0.rI-R1'rr1r4I. gnmpihing 1-r_\-p1i1‘. 211111 11111 at :1ll rt-nssuring. 111 this‘ 1lis|1.'111‘l1. livcn n11.r1' pt-rplcxiiig is :1 pro-- rcpinl rcccnlly 1-111;1|1:11i11g from llluuva which staff's 111:1! .\lr. King will 1111! be nble to attend ghi< i-npnrlnut 1v:11‘ cotmcil in l.1111d1111 br-cmrsc of "prr-s»: 11f work" :1! 1111' (‘:1u:11li'111 1‘.'1pit.'1l.

Nothing, suggests our Sywlney- 1-111111-1111111111111‘. should prevent Canada's Prime Xlinister from attending such :1 crmfr-rcnce. Nothing can pre- vent him if he desires to go. Nothing will pre-

for the leader of this Dominion in such an emergency is at the council board where the supreme crisis of the Empires most formidable war demands his presence. As leader of Cana- da's Government Mr. King never failed to at- tend an Imperial Conference at London in the piping times of peace. On. every such occasion he sat near the head of the Board The impend- ing invitation is more urgent than any that ever reached him in pre-\var years. The people of Canada will certainly expect their Prime Min- ister to attend the coming war conference at London.

Words In Season

‘ If any country hats reason for discouragement, 1t is CZCCllO5lO\'Zll\'lll. whose only l111pe of 1131101141 resuscitation is a British victory. Under the tyrannous Nazi yoke, strbjected to a long and continuous process of suppression and ruthless Licstapo persecution. 1l1e soul of the gallant people remains steadfast and inviolttte. Recently. 111 Montreal, Dr. Puvlttcck, consul-general for Czechoslovakia, expressed his firm convic- tion that there is nothing to worry about — “Britain is going to win.” His remarks come as s. merited. if unconscious. rcbulte of the timorotis. “\\'e should not grumble,” he sky's. “we should not worry; we should work and fight that much harder. \\'e need all our strength for positive things, 11ot for moaning. \Vl1at our present posi- tion is does not count. It is the future that. counts. After all. 1n the last wztr, the Allied pOSlllOll was bad for months and years. Finallyr, Germany was defeated, as I am sure she will be this time."

-. EDITORIAL NOTES .-

A coloured sergeant was drilling a band of rookies. “Eyes right,” he bellowed. An ex- asperated trainee who was experiencing great difficulty’ in following commands, shouted back: “How does you know you is?”

111 111 =01 Twenty-five tons of surplus Ontario fruit is being put to good use by the Ontario Women's Institute. It is being turned into jam for Can- adian soldiers overseas and for London relief purposes as well. 1t- u St. George's Day celebration passed off all right, but without enthusiasm. 0h, for a Dr. Fullerton, a Father (iaulhier, to rottse the people with their inspired oratory. Today, most of our local public speakers are as dull, insipid and flat as Prime Minister King himself. 1k 11 1i e1 Daniel Defoe, Etiglish author 211111 pnmphlvtcer, died this date 1731. In I719 he achieved SIICCESh with “Robinson Crusoe," which has since been acclaimed throughout the world as one of the toaster-pieces of English prose literature. It was founded on the actual experience of Alexander Selkirk" told by himself to Defoe. ‘l! ll‘ ii I Thomas Kondert, Rumatiian-born and unem- ployed citizen of Kitchener, Ont., has presented the Dominion Government with a $500 bag of gold left in his care several years ago and un- claimed since. kondert said he was giving it as a contribution to the nzttimfs war effort. 111 =11 111 101

Mr. ll. M. l-lzuiscn, ski expert and a tiativc Norwegian, believes the army ski troops should substitute one long pole for the two short regu- lation poles. Mr, Hansen says a 15-foot pole can be used as a break 1n fast stops, :1 balance after the manner 0f a tightrope walker and a "feelcr" for thin ice. The disadvantage of two light poles, he says, is they “are not strong enough for heavy use and the circular ring near the bottom of each pole gathers snow.”

111 n1 1r n1 Perhaps if more alwpcrtls were lnkcn to O‘.- tztwzi. there would be more respect for law and order at l1o111c_ I\Ir. Khl. .\lz1rtin, I\'.C., City Mug- istrate, is to be congratulated on having his judg- ment sustained by the highest ("ourt 111 the land, and Premier Cnmpbcll on having his provincial legislation sustained.

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“Nectls must when Devil” Ilitlcr. “drives,” ln view of serious shipping difficulties, the Aus- trztlizui (iovcriiiiieiit is now mztlcing pltms for in- crcztscd (ltnneslic production 11f cotton. Aus- tralia previously imported almost four-fifths of her requirements, and although her cotton-grow- ing awcztge has dotibled this year. production is

The l_i11\‘('1‘n111e11t of (Qtieenslzunl PZll‘llC!ll2!l‘l_\' is conccittrating 011 this problem 111 view of that State's very stiitztblc climatic c1111ditions. e 1v 1r 111

It i: to be hoped the voice of the Canadian Fulcrntioii of Bitty-ors now in c1111fcreuce at Ot- tawa will be l1cnrd and given 211101111011 to by Prime hlinistcr hlackenzie King 1k Co. .\l.1_yor Roy llolmaifs is the only Prince lidwurd lslznnl voice l1car1l in protest at (Jtunva. our duly elect- cd Federal ntembcrs having been as duntb as thc pmverl1iztl .\l:tlpc1|uc oyster. Lct the truth bc knmvn, this province is being ignored so far as \1‘11r1l1 while \1‘.'tr contracts are concerned, wbilz: willingly 11nd pzttriotictilly‘ being 1111-11 white us‘ regard coiurilnitioiis 11f 1111-11 and nnmcy.

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\\'l1:1t gets 0111-3 gout lll('.~(‘ dziys is the ziurlztciiy of I)FI)fC\Sllill§ll Iiztcifists 111 blunting llriittitl 11nd 111-1‘ l)o1ni11i1111s for not having gone to war s1111ucr. 'liatke Sir .\'11rn111n Angeli, Nobel llcuce l'1‘iz1 wiurer 01' I933. for instance. lle is now in 1' "..\. and this is‘ what he 111111 the lloston City Club :1! a luncheon: “lt is :1 simple truth 1o sziy 111:1! l1<'1‘.'1us1' we in llritztin wx-rc deztf to the 1‘1‘11-.~ ri~ing from the homes nf 11.1.1.1 snlttslutd by the invader‘, wt- 111111‘ lmvc 111\\‘i!11<'.~'s 1111' ru1l1~ lcss destruction by invadcrs of :1111‘.i1'nt linglisti shrines." Ye! he is the author of “T11: Greu Illusion," (H110), slnnving 1111- futility 11f w;n and cunsequt-iit grncrul in1p11vvris|1|11c11l. even of

the victors. 111-z whole public life has been spent 1n preaching pzicificistn 21nd nnti-tvnr doctrines. l\111v whcn !l1c consequences arr- upnn us, 11c

vent hinji unless he desires not to g0. The place blames his country for following his advice.

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I must uuzture them. - London Sun-

Thc Continent strains and sweats under Nazi domination. Their workshops are orianmed‘ to mnnItLn our enemy, guns once in- tended for our mutual deIen-e are redirected to bring death and dis- astcr to the British Isles. So we

day Despatcii.

Canada has shut down on lur- ther exports of timber and wheat to Yokohama. The fact will act like a jolt on the merchants of Japan who do not favor the Axis tie-up. Japan w!!! enjsy the Sit.- uatioti still less when all the 1m- pllcatlons 01f loss of trade are realized. - Vancouver Sun,

A man called on a London Auxiliary Fife Service pa! and, found l1 m standing cn the hearth- rug with his back to the fire. 'I‘I1.ey discussed the weather, Hitler, gar- den ‘pests, etc._ and presently a spark flew out and landed on the seat of the ARS. man's trousers. I-Ic tock no notice. "Your trusers are smouldering", said his friend. “I know" replied the A.F‘.S. man. "burtlus is my day off"|- Tit- Bits (London).

Every Canadian who has inherit- ed‘ money or accumulated money or is earning money can fight. naziism on the financial fr:nt. Fortunate- ly this includes almost all those who are able to work and a large proportion of those whose working

I

days are past. And the financial

front must be held if the fighting

front is to hold. Our men in Bri-

tain and on the sea and in the air

cannot. fight unles we supply them

with the “too!s", and tnols cannot, and will not be supplied them un-

less money is torthccming to pay

forl the making. - Edmonton Jour-

na .

Discoveries of gold which show promise of commercial importance are reported by the Department of Mines and Resources to have been made ln the Northwest 'I.‘err!torles.I Already a total of 500 claims has, been staked‘ in the new field which lies about I50 miles north of Yellow- knife settlement, and reparations have been made for t e carrying out of extensive exploratory and development work during the com- ing summer. Interest in the dis- coveries is based largely, of course. on the hvpe that they will mark another important stage in the growth of mining in the Territor- ies. Prior to 1929 the principal mineral developments In the reg on were the location and partial de- velopment of lead-zinc deposits near Pine Point. Great. Salve Lake, and the discovery of o1! at. a paint. about fifty mile-s below Norman on the Mackenzie River, where there fife now three prcduclitg wells and a. refinery. During that year de- posits of copper were staked‘ at Hunter Bay. Great Bear Lake, but 1t was the discovery in I930 of the ores of radium and silver at E0110 Bay 011 the east side of Great Slave Lake 111111031. provided the first. real incentive to search ‘ 1' minerals In the Territories. A few years later gold was discovered in the Yellowknife River area. It was from the Con property in this area that. the first g:ld brick produced in the Northwest Territories was potired ln September. 1938 By the end cf February, I94! this mine and the Rycon and NeEus mines in the same area had produced gold to a total value of more than $4.500,000. Three fiber properties in the area are tienring the production stage. In September, 1940, Slave Lake Gold Mines Limited resumed de- velopment. oi its claims on Outpost. Island and the property was brought into productzon early in i941 when a. mill with a daily ca-

pacltvkwf 50 tans of ore was put in operation. _ Quebec C-hroniele- Telegraph.

A young and totally inexperienc- ed officer who had only a few days before joined a R.N.V.R. training school someivfzere on the south coast. got a lift. to Dover Inst May when our little boats were very busy crossing the Channel, He was wearing his new uniforms; the singlepwavy stripe glittering in the sunshine caught the eye of a longshoreman who, with s chum professing kitowledge oi‘ engines, was struggling to get a kick out of 1m ancient lfebost. “Know the way over?" asked the old‘ salt, who had never been far frcm the coast. The youngster hesitated, then quite definitely said he did. A day cr two later he was reporting to lllS senior cfficet‘, after bringing buck 36 of the B.E.F. and fcrrylng off others from the benthes. "How ever dd you get there?" ‘It was like going down Piccadlly. sir,‘ he replied, "I just joined up with the crowd until | the engine ccriked and we drifted out of sight o! them." Hp went cn: 1 "Oh, we got the engine off again ‘ml the end." "And then?‘ ‘I steered

for the guns. sir." "Steered for the:

still far below normal domestic l'C!|llll'(‘l!l[‘lllS. l

guns." shark's of Nelson and of Drake. -- Ottuwn Journal.

Only a few years ago people were: saying that birds would be seared‘ out. of the air by aircraft and that. hull the migrants which came to us. from abroad would prcbably change‘ their habits. But the plain fact is, that the average bird nowadays‘ takes less than no notice of an air-l craft. A few months ago I was on- one of the busiest airciiomes in the south of England‘. Bzmbers, fighters‘ and reconnaissance tilanes were | coming and going every minute. It is a Ingiily secret sort. of Pceadilly, circus of the air. Yet as we tax ed across the grass in a whacking! great Anson-one of the Coastal, Command ml1\lll‘l0S——llS englnesi roaring like thunder, the seaguils barely bothered to get. out of the‘ way. They fluttered up from under the wheels sn clzse that I thought they were going to be cnuzht in the

.orsc1e'w=. Phcasnnts were walking about on 1:11: edges of the airfield and lust September pnrtridges actually nested on it. I11 fact, just‘ belcrc the war started a pair of ,rob‘ns nestrd in Percy Homernls ‘tilane at, Dcnham. The nest and‘ ezgs went off to Brighton most days and llic mother waited at the nirdrtxne until tho machine came back. - By wnntvvorih Day in the London Listener.

the successful British- Norsvogian raid on 1.0101011. the Gznnnns have heavlv rcinioicori 111m c n-t patmls, One of these, opt-rntng 11cm- nergr-n was rec-ow- 11 ..i!er!ng after nght-lal! when aud- denly a shape appeared on n 11111- side out of the darkness. "Halt" i-rlezl a sddler. Bx! when lithe-r shapes appe- red the Germans drop- bed everytli 11g they had and ran for their lives. The " hopes“ then remained in full control oi’ the h‘!l They were 12 sheep! Next day the Gcnnnn commandant posted 016MB 1,9 m; effect that all shew must be

Since

, tunnel is a r~conclitioned divid into ~ compartments - ‘ against. the

l Britain Sees It Through

‘Conquered’ Peoples Aid British As Spies

PAUL A. TIERNEY- War Editor. New York Poet

(Copyright, 1M1, By

The first. line of British defense is an information system which ex- tends into every corner of Europe and. ls particularly strong in the German-occupied regions. Military movements of even a minor charac- ter are rapidly reported. 1384381159 British agents have the active c0- operation of the vast majority 0! the civilians suffering under 1111B German yoke. _

It. was, for instance, the 8W1" transmission of details of the Ger- matvembarkation drills" which en- ablec! the British to surprise and blow to pieces a German concentr- ation o1 considerable size. This ex- ploit, 1 have been reliably informed. was the basis for the invasion rum- ors 0f last September.

I believe that what happened fil- that time was this‘. Through their 0w“ and through Dutch 118611“. the British were Elven Wmlllel-e m‘ formation of me times- olflw 1M manner of the Nazi "invasion r0-

hearsals." As a, result. the RAF caught the Germans completely 11v surprise and literally blew the

barges out of the water, while rain- ing bombs heavily both on the barges and on the troop concentrn- Lions alongmtéhe shore.

I have n assured that many thousands of men were killed. U"! that bodies later were washed up on me English coast. giving rise to many‘; speculative versions 0f Whli had appene .

My informants ma me they be- lieved the Germans may

‘ be!‘ in

New York Poll, 11w)

leading toward the actual defences are closely minded.

Quite different from the defwm of the cliff-lined puts o! the wast. were those in other sectors I was also able to we at. first. hand.

Tank Barricade: _

Imnglnq a stretch o! country with hardly a hill worthy of the name, with the terrian five miles inland nearly as flat and smooth as the beach itself. The beach it- self is studded with anti-tank barricades. Sometimes these are great. concrete "blocks. sometimes steel pillars.

"There's enough barbed wire in Elngltmd to build a fence a mile high around North America." alld a major grinning.

It looks that way. At least. no German is going to pop out of his boat. and run up the beech. Nor. tig-ough that tangle o! barbe. he

The major strides ‘if! and I follow him.

"Now," he says, “you're going to get. wet," and he turns sharply to the left.

The hole in the sand la about three feet long and two feet wide, and t; the opening to an under- ground passage. The passe. is in- deed wet, and darker than dark.

A ‘Preach System

snned s r that the shattering of the concen- trations may have forced the Nazis to abandon It for the time. How- ever, my informants severally agreed that the conflict took Place before the Germans had actually put in sea.

The exploit was not publlclled If-

the time because British authorities. yiaturnlly elated by their success in breaking up one attempt at its veyy source, did not. want to 81W 119 3,111,151, publlg the possibly fase idea. that. the Naziheould al-Wfl?! be o easily dealt wit . S Because of the excellence of the information system. the Bfltlsh B" quite sure they will not. be taken by surprise by the GeTmBBS m 91W comer of Europe-