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Government

i » In reply to s question by Mr. B. P. MoPhee, Premier Campbell tab- led in the legislature yesterday the following account of contingentii- abilities of the Province as at Dec. 3i:

1040 1901

$100,300 $100,000 31,700 31,700 50,000 50,000

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S, 260,000 242,200 292,200

Urge Action To Eliminate Bottlenecks

HALIFAX, March 31 —(CP)— Federal action to eliminate uwo major bottlenecks in Nova Scotia— the Strait of 01.11150 ferry and the llig_I\\\'Hy-1'£11l\\’fly underpass at the main entrance to Haliiax-was urged in the Lieglsliltllre today by fiovei-nment and Opposition mem-

ers.

The House unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Federal Government to investigate the Halifax bottleneck immediately "with a view to having the condi- tion removed" Industry minister Harold Connolly, who introduced the resolution, said that if a dis- aster should require an exodus from Halifax, “the tragedy at the underpass would exceed anything thrit has taken place thus far in the war."

In the event of an attack by air or sea, the minister said, the nar- row underpass would make it. lin- pcssible either to move reinforce- ments into the city or to move the population out Chief responsibil- ity for the continuance of this condition, he declared, lay in “lack of co-otaeration" by the Federal Government

Premier A. S Mnolvllillan, Pro- gressive COFFETVMlVE leader F. M. Blcl< and C C P. leader Donald MacDonald were among those culi- ing for action as the resolution pre- cipitated u full-dress debate.

M. Patterson, (Lib. Cape Breton West) at the same time. gave notice he would move a sim- ilar resolution with respect i0 the Strait of Czinso situation. declaring n causeway should be constructed nrrcss the narrow stretch of water r an estimated cost of about $5,-

000.000

Any suspension of the Strait service. Mr Patterson said. would result in the closing of Carve Bre- tcirs coal mites and steel plant. "and the people oi’ Cane Breton would be faced with starvation "

Premier MacMillan and C C F‘ l leader MacDonald both agreed the Canso condition should be

Opera Star Starts Comeback

CHICAGO, March SL-{APJ-An urban opera audience tonight ap- plauded the same sort of stuff that evokes cheers from prize fight crowds-courage as exemplified by Marjorie Lawrence.

Rolled from her dressing room to the stage in a wheel chair and seat- ed on a divan throughout the per- fcrmance, she sang the role of Venus in the Metropolitan Opera Company's presentation of Tann- hauser.

It was the soprano’; first ep- pearance here since she was stricken with infantile paralysis in Mexico 18 months ago, In those dark days her career seemed something that belonged in the past.

The diva/s muscles responded to treatment. Soon she was able to be propped up in her chair near a piano long enough to sing for a. few minutes

Tonight was a milestone on Miss Lawrence's comeback trail.

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Matapan Gave Britain Mastery lnMcditerranean

By FOSTER BARCLAY Canadian Press Staff Writer l-ONBXKON.“ 124E011 sic-gm;

. e engrav beside the epic battles of ' and Jutland. sealed Ilfilys fate in the Mediterranean and gave Britain undcniable mast- ery of Mussoliiiis "more nost- ruglht d i b

a au ac ous attle, fun ht. in pitch black darkness, alum; 5,- max naval warfare, but. it brou l-it to a close a nhnse during wh ch the _ Rflyal Navy extinguished Ilfilys chances of participating with her fleet in the British with- drawal from Greece, the battle of Crete. an assault upon Malta and many other pcssibil ties.

The official story cf the Ro a1 ‘Navy's amendancy in the Metllt. errancan culminating in the "bat,- tlc of Ma-tntmn" is told for the first time in “east of Malta, west: 0! S1102," 8. gripping talg of ngyg] wdaéfaw against overwhelming

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Malta. Suez and Alexandria might have fallen if the Navy hul not‘ succeeded in maintaining its control of the eastern Mediterran- ean durin the first i8 months of the war, he campai in Abyg. sinla and Syrlfl woud not have been possible. the allied osition in the Middle East would ave been endangered and the Axis might

have reached the Indian Ocean from the west. The landing of Al. lied forces in North Africa would have been forestalled.

The Royal Navy's Mediterranean F'leet under Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham averted time pqggf- biliiios with n victory on the sen Cfllllpilfiiblf‘ to the Ruynl Air Fur- cc-‘s triumph in the “Battle Britain," the book said.

Alien Refugees

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CHAPTER IVI JANE HAS TBOUGIITI ‘

At almost the precise molnlmt that Mather put the Plane down on his return to Neasboroush. B!!!

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, O "Aimed at pigeon and killed I- crow." Inrbrook could not get the jingle out of his head. - “ ‘m not a crow, and I'm not dead, and Jerry wasn't aiming at a pigeon. I'm fed up to the teeth with this job and I'm starving." u "The ger we can soon cure. Bill said, producing half a. loaf from one pocket and some greasy cheese from the other. “Unless theres

As Students

OITAWA, March 31 - (cm-or 230 alien refugees who have been released as students 122 are attend- ing Canadian universities, said a return tabled in the commons w. day for GR; Boucher (Prog. Con. Carleton),

The largest number, 46. are at. tending the University of Toronto. There are 32 at lvlcGill, i8 at Queens University, Kingston, Ont., nine at the University of Manitoba and five at Dalhousie Uiverslty. Lslifax. Others are at Men/raster University. Hamilton, Waterloo College, Waterloo, Ont., University 0! Mimlreal. Ottawa University, British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, and Acadia, wou. ville, NS

Extraordinary Gonference At Washington

WASHINGTON, March Iii-MP) —The plans of Allied strategists for ultimate destruction of Japan- ese military pcwer have been dis- cussed in detail at an extraordi- nary conference of the United States Army-Navy command with 15 high ranking officers from Pa- cific war zones.

The War Department disclosed today the meeting, held in Wash- ington, bogan three weeks ago at the call of the US. Joint chiefs of staff. It was called to acquaint the commanders in the Pacific with the policies and plans decided upon at the ‘recent Casablanca conference which concern the fut- ure actions in which their theatres will be involved."

Lt.-Gen. George C. Kenny, Nova Scotia-bcrn author of the smash- ing air victory which san-k all 22 ships of a Japanese convoy in the battle of the Bismarck Sea, attend- ed. So did Mat-Gen. Richard K

Sutherland. Chief of Staff to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Allied ccm- mander in- the southwest Pacific.

Gerinany Faces SeriousShortagc 0f Manpower

By SCOTT YOUNG Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON, March 31 — (CP) —

Germany is facing a manpower shortage probably the most. dras- tic in the history of warfare.

Reports reaching this country indicate that, this greatest of al Germany's manpower crises may be too big t0 be solved by ruthless concentration of industry and im- portation of foreign labor.

broadcasts from occupied and unoccupied parts of Europe and information sent out of Ger- many by neutral correspondents stress the urgency of the predica- ment. It is estimated that Germany must, call up at least 1,003,000 men make he: aimed forces as strong as they were before the great offensive: c! i042. It is known that these men can be found in factories and offices, But it is also known that they are men who have escaped conscrip- tlon so far because they occupy key posts, There are no qualified sub- ritutes available.

The merciless conscription of labor from the occupied countries of Europe goes on, but the Germ- ans are first to adhiit that this type of labor has its vital limita- tons. These workers from con- quered lands-they are estimated at about 8,000,000—work with little heart. They take extensive sup- ervision, and their output general- ly is small. They loaf scientifically, exasperuting their conquerors. They use vital food. Their useful- ness in some types of work is rec- ognized, but if Germany is to find Germans to sugply her man we: needs during t. s year whlc the United Nations hope to make the most decisive of the war. holes will be left in the nation's civilian

unwilling workers.

It is estimated roughly that per- fume, jewelry and stamp shops, whih are to be closed entirely by recent decrees, employ only about 95,000 persons, and that the re- taining types of affected shops, which employ about 625,000, can be reduced only about so r cont without causing serious d tion of essential services,

It. is believed that by this wiping out of small retailers, by other concentrations of industry and ef- fort and by lengthening work- weeks. 1.030.000 women and med- lcally-unflt men ma be released to take the places o the men the srmy, navy and air force needs. But these people will be of low quality for the jobs they must fill.

To the United Nations, this is the most heartening aspect of thr- German home front. Because apart from the fem-l shortage, which shows no sign of reaching a stage which could be coiled vital, and apart from the dislocation cf Ger- man family life caused by the im- mense losses in Russia. Germany is in fit and fighting shape.

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down with water if the coast out- side 1s clear enough for us t0 80 out and lock for some."

Benn had not noticed the ber- rel, w ch had already been to go . "Lummyl Perhaps it's 'v

i iongfi" He had served in France in the 1914-1918 war. Conners produc- ed a tin mug, and drew of! a sam- ple. “It, isn't. But it's good," he

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Bill followed his companions ex- ample. "Cider of a sort," he deciar ed, "and, as you say, good. In the circumstances, nectar." It was a makeshift, but quite satisfying meal, and after it had been ut away. and both men se. tied own to smoke, Benny asked. "And now what's the programme For all the good we have done we might have stayed in England. I liked that pub at Elswich." “Certainly we fell down on the job of getting the pers," Bill agreed, "but I don't t ink we fail- ed entirely. We're reasonably sure that Mather got awa with them, and that means, wi any luck. they're in England by now. We don't trust Mather at all, but; if he gets across our people will watch him retty careful . And the formu a is out of erryls hands, anyway.

"We did our share. But for our intervention I'm sure Mather would have failed to get clear. One of the Huns was right on to? of him wh.n I purged in and clou ed him."

"It was a good scrap While lli lasted," Benny conceded. “All the same I'd like to be out of here. Now that pub at Elswich——" broke ofl as a thought occurred to him. Then he went on:

"By the way, there's been some- thing on your mind ever since that scrap at Elswich efore we car. t. across the water. Seen her before, hadn't you?"

Lorbrook relit his cold pipe. "Yes," he answered. “I expect you gathered there was . . . a coldness between us. People work- ing in our game should not be in- tcrested women-except, of Cfiltllbl‘, from a business point 0! v ew"

- "Bah!" Benny was scomful. “Shouldn't be interested. If you could have seen yourself, looking at her like a sick cow . . . an Y0“ haven't been much different ever since!" _ . . _

In a pleasant house just about I mile from The Hopping Man-the incident in the wood was also tho main theme of the conversation. whenbawne had noticed that his niece had been preoccupied eve!‘ since the attack. While she had kept house for him there haci been several occasions on which she had faced danger without tur a hair. Whenbawne was sure B something other than the attack had affected her.

“ls there soinethin! vowwould like to tell me, my dear?” he asked.

June Whenbawne shook her head slowly. "I don't think so. Unillf. she answered. "Why do you ask?

“I thought maybe . . . somethinl nap ned in the wood."

" mething certainly did." The girl affected brightness. “Your head should tell you that. I did not exactly enjoy the expeflehcfi o‘ beingmauied by two heft prunes-

"And that is all?" HEXIDBWIIB sounded unconvinced. "I thought maybe . , . The men who came to our help . . . saved our lives, er- hapsi Did we thank em adequatel ‘l I thought there was a little col ness, especially as far as the bigger man was concerned."

Jane came over to her uncle, and smiled down at him. "Uncle, you're a dear," she said. "You don't. miss much. do you?"

“I am twenty-six" - she turned to study her reflection in the big oval miri-or—"and though I sa it. reasonably attrac ive. Is it no to be expected that in my life there have een ex riences entirely un- connected wit chemical research and looking after my very clever uric a "

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On the still snowy Russian front, the Germans gener- ally welcome warmth, but this fire set by Soviet guerillas cost the Nazi; tanks, Picture from a neutral

source shows parks-clad Germans trying vainly to salvage tanks from granary fired by Rlllllllll. in foreground was only one saved.

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MOTHERS WITH LITTLE SONS

Oh, mothers with little sons,

And loving hearts to teach,

You are God's chosen ones,

Give hearing, I beseech.

The word is now a ghost-l, piece, With crime, to grasp our men. Yours is the gift, and yours the

grace To bring back love again. Mothers, I bog you heed

What intemperate hand; have done, How the hearts of anxious mothers

bleed, Till love and right have won. For the broken homes, the ruined

youth, And the driead ones hidden away Are a challenger to all womanhood To lead the better way.

Strip from the monsters frame His glittering robes of lies. Show him in all his shame

He To children's visioning eyes.

Show him the lust to sell

Is the brewer's low of might,

And wine held out to trusting youth L; murder in God's sight.

Dear mothers, of all little ones, The years lie in your hands,

You are the chosen leoders_ They wait for your commands.

Not till your-ips declare

"We in this cause shnll fight!" Shafl ‘ruined homes be bright and

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And ravaged '"""'= be right. —EFFIE L. STEACY Landsowne, Onl

wnsr Amour 01m CHILDREN?!

MR A- H Purton. Director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, made a statement wcenl-r or pmsectttlopg n- gainst mothers for neglecting their I "I see. And even lf-fwe ligfiidre the usual cliche about the small- ness of the world. thepfact remains that unexpected meetings do take place in unexpected circumstances. Yes I think I understand."

"You could have said an that in “alf- as many words." Jane laughed. As for understanding, I doubt ii‘ I d°~ Indeed. I'm not sure I iully understand myself. Perhaps peuplc engaged on work such us ours should not become too interested in —other matters."

(To be Continued)

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The March meeting of the south Winsioe W. I. was held at the home of Mrs. O. W. Campbell. After the 1690851118 0f the Creed and Roll Call the minutes of the previous mew"! were read and approved. lve members and four visitors Wre present. Sic-k Committee re. Ported one member of the commun- ity 111. The secretary was directed to sand fruit to that member. It was moved by Mrs. Taylor and seconded by Mrs. stackford that a book on Rural Science be purchased for the school. Red Cross, reported 4 prs, shorts, 3 sweaters, 1 pr, pyjnmgg 1 pr. seamans socks 1 quilt. $20 was voted for the Red Cross Drive. Coll- ection $1.65. Next meeting is to be held at Mrs. Taylors 0n May 7th. Roll Call to be answered by exchange of seed and flowerslips. Lunch Committee Mrs. H. Diamond, Mrs: Lloyd Diamond. Mrs. J. l-‘ord.

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children, which have increased by 33 per cent. since the outbreak of war. "Many serving men's wives.‘ he said, "are spending all their allow- ance pay in dance halls, public- licuses. and cinunas, and are not taking interest in their homes, or caring for their children. Oui- in- , ‘ had to break into one house nnd rescue two children who were in danger of being burned to death, while their mother was out enjoy- ing herseif."

In Birmingham, the City where 5n- Edglfl‘ sanders, ten years ago, made his shameful speech that amused the couuntry because he said that the liquor trade wanted millions of boy; and girls who did not know the taste of Beer to be- come Beer drinkers-in that city, where the campaign to get these children was first launched, the con- vlctlohs for drunkenness for the age group 17-21 have advanced from 30 in i031 to 314 in 194i.

The Brewers’ Journal (18-3-1942), writing of the Royal Commission on Licensing, said: “After expending nearly two and a, half years in time, and £19,050 in money, the Commissioners appointed “to in- quire into the working of the lnws relating to the sole and supply of intoxicating liquors," presented their Report in a bulkv volume of some 300,000 words. “Ten years ago the Trade was digesting that astonish- ing document. To-dny it can re- fcct with interest and gratitude that not one of its drastic and radical recommendations has found its way to the Statute Book." Is that the answer to the present con- dltion-it is certainly part of the answer. It is part of the reason whv, a» Fflisebeth Barrett flrownlnR once wrote. "the child's sob Curses deeper in the silence "than the strong mon in his wrath " Any new mttei-n of society. on the Beveridge Plan, or any other, emerging after the war wi" carry no safety if the Liquor Traffic continues