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"IIELLO, DADDY!” As he stepped from his train,

Lord Ilaw llaw was promising s Christmas invasion when PM. G. II. Smith wrote his lust letter home. "That would be a nice Christmas box. but I think well give hirm a better one than he would give us," says Smith, who was in a Canadian unit which reached ‘France last spring, ilrirer S. D. Dickson (RIGHT) has had more than one nur-

Hon. C. D. Howe. minister oi sui» ply, received a warm welcome fro n 111's daughter. Mr. Howe had Just returned from a trip to Ellqlind. His ship was torpedocd on the way over.

NEW SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

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Brig-Gen. George 5 Patton. commander oi thc second armored dlviion at Fort Benning, Ga, is wen-mg c. new uniionn designed ior tank oilicers.

MORE Tnnmnio runs

Canadian laetorics arc humming a tune oi promised victory thcsc days as they tum out increasing numbers oi training planes In which thousands of students will be instructed under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In this photo workers in s Canadian plant arc shown a§embiing an Avro Anson machine used ior training bom- ber crews»

Proof that s. lot oi good German explosive is wasted over Ritalin is this picture o! s stack oi German timg bombs, unexploded, that were dug up in a. quiet country town i! Somersetshire. The town is apparently on the route from the German bases to a seaport city which has had its share oi raids. Anti-aircraft fire and British Spit- fires drive oft‘ the Nazi raiders, who start for their home again and on the way back jettison their bomb loads, which quite oiten fall on the little town which no one would describe as s military ob- jective. liIost of the bombs have been dug up near the cemetery and in open land. A number did explode bciore they could be removed and a numbcr of the heavier type; were taken out into open land and

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row escape during Nazi raids on Britain. Transferred from III ambu- lance unit, he is now a stair driver covering irom 150 to 200 mild every day. One letter home tells how he was passing s ncw ol‘ houses lllhPll the whole street was rocked by high explosive and 20 persons killed. At CENTRE is one oi the pictures oi wrecked raiders Driver Dickson has sent home. Recent letters say the blitzkrieg is faltering.

Things may lock dark now, but the Germans haven't got a chance

to lick the British, says John William Wright, 86. So he told Queen Elizabeth oi Great Britain. Above, slightly deal Mr. Wright cups his ear during a, chat with llcr Majesty, when she recently visited a Y.V\’.C.A. . ."' tial community center in smart Belgravia, re- quisitioned by authorities to shelter the homeless.

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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gagne, or Cornwall, Ont., became the parents oi a daughter weighing only 2 1-2 pounds. Dec. l6. Dr. Elzear Emsrd kept the spark oi life burning during the first day by surrounding it with hot water bottles and blankets. On the evenins oi the second day. Mr. Gngnc returned home irorn work to iind the baby growing‘ weaker. Its logs were growing cold and blue. It was cold outside and the parents feared the child would die ii they tried to take her to a hospital. Gagne had heard oi incubators. but there was none in the city. He set out to trv to make one. secured s cardboard packing case about two icet long and l8 inches wide, and with some odd pieccs oi wood constructed s. irame in it to hold the child. Under- neath the frame he put a till-watt electric light bulb and holes were cut in the box for ventilation. The baby has been living in its card- bolard‘ home ever si_neg. Doctors say its chances oi survival are ex- ce en .

The big British battleship King George v, one of the hm: powerful iishilns ships III the world, moves up Chmwlke Bu: sitar n mm dash scrose the Atlantic to bring Lord Ilnllisx, British Amhsssador- designate. to U. S. Because the waters st the Annlpolis, Md., dock!

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,,‘ to accommodate the 35,000-ton ship, It had to anchor several miles oil-shore.

Viscount Ilaliiax, new British Ambassador to the U. S. who country by the President, coniers, above, with Secretary Imuncfll sfter visit that “we see thlnil very much 1""-

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l mcnsmzso BATTERlNG-RAMS-These British sun carriers, berm the battered Wflii "Y F“

Ospusno, symbolise strength all II“ 0i British desert advance on Italian stronghold!-

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PRAYER BEFORE IMTTLE-Beiore moving’ on to cinch with Itlllsn ices, British cntly as priest celebrates sunrise rnsss on barren Libyan desert. Same men later

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