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fn the last few months, industrial operations in Caitala ilIlYC expzmderl rapidly as business 11,15 become iirqinixt-il to meet increasing war- time demands, S.l_\‘S the current Monthly Re- view of The Bank of Nova Scotia. Indicative of the gcticral situation, the Bank's Index of In- rose sharply’ in April and May, ff nviutll was nearly 8 per cent higher than during the first quarter of the year and was at the highest level ever recorded.

The Review states that business has reached l. third phase in its tvartime transition—one of ' 'l‘h<.- first phase was the immediate and partly speculative trpswing last Fall, which to an i:npurtaiit degree reflected the course of eveius ‘n 'il(' Ifnitcd States. The sec- ond was the pause which lasted throughout the winter, during nliivh the influence of the Am- Wi was lrirut-‘rv offset by the ef-

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e; for the capital of ii as Prince Etlwartl zircnt in wartime than lltiiliiiill was lllilflt‘. In only have been heft-re the outbreak" zifliri" further insistent \._,i.~ pu: through Parliament, fore the project got iterveued and pro- , 1g it iiidefiititclv. | tieiglibors in

who are able to llle Rlllticct. and was told the Government con- upon the i what thev want in the, llad we alert |

administration. long-delayed wharf would also he wartime

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In the pl< phase, which date: from the epring, lhiiiiiiiiiiit t'\'l“‘l nres for war purpose have reavlii li n i~ t4 to provide the lead- ing stiniulu- ti , -n and employ-merit. In addition, lirizziiii iht- iti’l"l~'<'1i her purchases of foodstuffs, llii'il‘l.li- ~l miter raw materials, and has ziﬂiviii‘ i writ‘. the groundwork for heavy purvlia-t - of in» and lllltllillnllg in lhi; country. .\l~i"<~ thin :li:t, :iii- sitnnp in the Un- ited States l-riivvil shin! ii\\'li attd has been fol- lowed by a notable iniiir-‘uii illl]|l‘ll\'l‘llI('lIl. Cau- ilfllfll] exports ilIlYv inert -:'<i ‘Iliiﬂlﬂlllflibf 3m] the rise has iii-n av» illll.l‘i'i llv lill‘ cnliin;_v.(;(f of liitroiii-ziii nuirrv- of nipply for a number of I basic eoumuiditivs, such as pulp and paper, and lumber.

During Itecess

Now lllat l'.':rli.iiiiiiit has ailjoirrilerl, hope is ‘ti liv tit.‘ ttiiina _iiiuriial that members

i d. nut \\'lliltIl'-'l\\' into inun-

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_ l.i~ ‘l nniel a. r i . ln tlr-se days, wlvn eiwin- n: i.» v.:'h Tl‘III.'Il‘$('I(‘s§ speed, Ill- fiiriiiaiiiti nil" l‘: a vintinuous process. It must bl- ifvwit rngi . if", enabling the country to lniziw from li iv to day" how tiauadzfs war ef- fort is t1i“f“'l"<\iv"f.

In l-Iuglautl, where the national will has been

ieggs, and had had to slaughter much of

forged into steel by leadership, they hear from their ministers, One day it is Mr. Churchill. IIW next .\lr. Duff Cooper, the next .\Ir Bevin or .\lr.

by facts, inspiring by exbortation. They under- stand democracy‘.

\\'e in Canada, stiys the journal, need that British \\';l_\‘. (Jur ntinistcrs in this war have been

(ﬂ't)\l§(’ and inspire, to challenge heroic effort. As

3y Mall Ill r. u. f. aI-W usr vwr. also tor 6 IWIIWR a consequence, and perhaps inevitably, there has 51.2.". lur " '

been too tiiuch of confusion, too much doubt land hesitation. “If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, \\'ho shall go fowarrl to the conflict?"

Two stiggcstions zire offered by our tawa contemporary:

I. That dirring the parliamentary recess Prime Klinister [Qing should hold a weekly conference with the press.

z. That Minister of Defence Ralston, ac- companicil by Minister of .-\ir Power and Min- ister of Naval Affairs MacDonald, should also hold weekly press coilfcrcnccs.

.\t these conferences representatives of the press could get war effort activities outlined for them; cottld get answers to questions that the public keep asking, could get (what is equ- ally importatitl the sort of “background? off- the-record informatitnt which prevents false re- ports and harmful, ittislearling speculation.

EDITORIAL sores _

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The celebration of Montreal's Ter-Centenary in i042 is likciv to be alaoudoned for lack of fnntls. .\lreail_v $40,000 has been spent in pre- llllllllllry [Il‘L‘l)£ll'5llllil‘l5, but the new regime at the City Hall, having voted 310.000 for work till October, intimate that no further funds will be

granted fur the purpose. * w:

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john (ialswortlrv, tiovclist and playwright, born this date I867. Has shown himself as much a skilled psychologist as a writer of fic- tion; skilled in the analysis of character and social rel.'itionsliips. “l tll'illl\' the wine of aspira- tion and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.” u The Hon_ the Speaker and Urs. Glen. who left for Pictou yesterday. enjoyed their visit herc im- mensely. .'\s a politician, Mr. Glen had a dis- tinguishetl predecessor from the same place in Scotland, Rcnton. Durbartoitshirc, in the per- son of Tobias Smollett the novelist, whose masterpieces are “llumphry Clinker" and “Peregreite Pickle." llis chief political lampoon was “The Adventures of an Atom." ill i ill it

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It is now strggested that the Italian campaign in North Africa is part of Hitler's plan for a tnalor operation in the basin of the Mediter- ranean. Arguments against the plan are the fol-

lowing: First, local successes, however spec- lﬂCUl-‘lr. cannot provide a decisive advantage because the liritish imperial position possesses

immense depth. and second. success in the bled- iterranean cannot alter by an iota the British sys- tem of blocltarle against Germany’.

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There is not going to be a war-time Imperial Conference in lnnrlon, as some anticipated. lnrd Davies in the llouse of Lords interrogated. Lord CﬂililCﬁlf‘. Fecreiarv for the l7ominious_ on

sidererl the present time inopportttne “for invit- ing Dﬁlﬂltllﬁn ministers to London for an Im- perial war conference or other discussions. but they (the Governmcittl will certainly welcome such discussions if an occasion offers." m n-

Twelve million laying hens. or about two- thirds of the Netherlands stock. will be slaught- ered before Fept. 15 because of a shortage of chicken feed. Reports from abroad recently re- vealed that Denmark, too, was tutdergoing rationing of butter and increases in the price of her poultry and a large part of her livestock. Nor- mal imports of 1,500,000,000 feed units annually from the Linitcd States, in the form of cotton- seed-oil cakes and various kinds of grain, have been completelyr shut off, necessitating rigid re- strictions in Denmarks normally bountiful econ- omy.

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More than two hundred French-women domiciled in Britain have addressed in French and English an open letter to Prime Minister Churchill and to General dc Gaullc, who is or- ganiziug a French legion in Britain. The Eitglish version reads. “In this hour of sorrow the wo- men of France now resident in England desire to convey to you ho\v deeply they associate themselves with the sentiment expressed in your statement issued after the disaster which has overtaken our beloved country. _.;\lready many of us have experienced the loss of nearly every- body and everything we held dear. Nevertheless, our resolve ls unshakable to work at all times and in all ways to help England to win the struggle for freedom, in the result of which, un- der your leadership. we have supreme confid- ence. \\'e fully realize that the ruthless war which France has recently experienced will now fall upon this country, which we consider our own. and we wish to play our part in the struggle in front of us and so destroy the ambitions of these cruel and perverted dictators."

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The war is beginning to deprive the Germans of their beer. Ilops and other ingredients are hard to get, so the authorities have declared that a substitute, which has the virtue or otherwise 0f being non-alcoholic, must take its place. The new German war-time heer is made from svrup. sugar, apples, carbonated water and beer

Icolorinl; ln zrrecent trial case the Reiclfs Fin-

ance .\linistr_\', investigating whether it belonged to the category of “beer-like drinks" decided that it did and that it should, therefore, be subject to the saute taxes as beer. This (lecision was not I'l‘ll'i('l't'fl because of the striltiitg similarity to bcer of this i)f‘\'(‘f‘.'lf__'(! but because it has already attained a illgqree of pupuitirity that makes it dis- tinrtly worth taxing. The brewers have raised a l<ivk-——-\vliicli is more than the new beer does —becatise it costs them much more to produce. than orrlitlaryr beer ,and must be bottled instead of Imrrelleil. Quite a ferment has been created which of course, is different from fermentation.

‘mores BY TllE WAY

Don't think that clvlllaru do not count. in wartime, and that the fate of the country depends en- tirely on the professional soldiers. It is easy CXIOLIZFA to laugh at. the amateur inventor and the armchair strategist. But In the last war amateur soldiers invented the Stokes mortar and urged its use A civilian invented the hydrophone, the instrument used for hunting down U-boats. Politicians saw the importance of high explosive while some professional soldiers wlth memories of the Boer war In their minds, relied on shrapnel. Lloyd George described Monash, the Aus- tralian leader as “the most re- sourceful general ln the who» Brltlsh Army." He was a civilian turned sitldler. So was Currie, "the brilliant military leader” of the Canadians. So were George Wash- ington and Oliver Cromwell. This war may be won by a clvifitm, an- other Cromwell to save the 'lIk‘I‘- ties of his nation. — London Daily Express.

An American magazine, paying tribute to the statcsmanship of the British Ambassador to Washington, recently wrote: "In this city of strain (Washington), Lord Lothlan last week moved less like the last of the Ambassadors, presenting his countrys desperate case. than l.ke the spokesman of a cause that will never be homeless as Ion" as the English tongue survives." The quo- tatlon ls as much an epitome of ln- formed American opinion as it ls a dewrllltlmi of Lord Lothian. The other night the Ambassador gave further evidence of his diplomatlc ability by his straightforward plea to the American people to under- stand the European situation as it affects tlicm. It wouid not be enough to picture Great Britain as the Maglnot Line of the United Slates. as Lord Lothiatl did. ivere it not increasingly evident, that. the fate of the Americas may very well be bound up with that of the Uni:- ed KIIIEKIOIH- Lord. Lclhian was using no more figure of speech; he “'55 "m" Placing emphasis on a point of vlew which has apparently been accepted by the Roosevelt Ad- ministration and b_v the aspiring Republican Party. ‘There is a dan- ger. however. which he clarified by implication. that the Unitel States may concentrate on its mvn pre- paredness program to the point. of reducing or withholding txtal sup- ply from Great Britain. It was perhaps with this in mind that the Ambassador" told the tiatioti that: Britain needs, "most urgently." (lg. stroyers and armed motor b: .5, that a. hundred of these now might mean the difference between suc- cess and failure. - Montreal Star.

No Pulitzer Prize material In "The 01d Homestead“, an r-"iﬁnne drama by the late Denman Thcmp- son. of Swanzev, N. H. But in h "i boxofflce terms it has given “.'\bl€'5 Irish Rose." and "Tobacco Ruff" a run for their money. Thompson dld pretty well with it while he liv- ed, sewing as his own sfur and touring the ccuxtttjv in the era \v"en twcfistsd maralitv drama of “The Drunkard" type was all the rage. But “The Old I-Icmestea/l“ has achieved its immortality through a unique community theater. The LOWn 0f Swanzcyy where the play was wrltcn and where its action l; set, is surrounded on a1‘. SlCl95 with the mighty art theatres of New Englands “straw-hat circuit“ The Swﬂllzey thflllam-lcal farmers and housewives-make :10 urti-tlc pretensions, but thcv d.) ntake a lct of ‘money. They have eonstructtd their own antpltltnrater of 25W] seats, more than twice the sme of the normal Broadway theatre More remarkable, they always manage b0 fill it. And more romazk- able still, they always present the same play: “The Old llwmeaead“. It 1s only fair to explain that thee rustic producers do not face the Droblem of maintznninz a eon- tinuous Broadway run Thgy only give three performances u ytar. during a week in July. Yet this nas enabled them b0 lift the mcrtuag: on the Swanzey Center Con- gregational church. And this year they expect to get the organ repatr- ed and bulld a. basket-ball eourt for the parish. "The Old Homestead" ls doing pretty well. - New York Herald ‘Tribune.

yThere was something senile, child- ish, about the circus act Mus olinf staged 1n Rome the other flay, 1:1 an effort to show the world he's still the lie-man he used to be, or thought he was. The man who wanted to be Caesarhas degenerat- ed-lnto a little poipznjav who goes out of his way to prove he still can strut. After ten minute; of strenuous horsemanshfp, we're told the Duce relned In his mount and asked a group of Nazi newspaper- men: "Am I sick. weak tired?" Even they mlFl- MW been amused, lf not disinterested. In any event. why should 1t be necessary for Mussolini to play broncho-btistier for the edlflcatton of agents of his Axis Partner? was 1t an inferiority ce-m. pleX, an admission of his military and economic importance. that drove hlm to say, in effect; "See. I'm not the miserable thing ycu think I am I stlll can ride a horse.“ It wssn‘: like that ln the old days when Mussolini generally took his foreign P0110)’ from London and didn't have to give command performance to prove he had hair on his chest. There was a photographer around to record every pose in those days, and British and American papers, taking his virility for granted, were full of Mussolini artJ-Il»; desperate equestrlanLs-m of last week makes one wonder lf he doesn't yearn for those happier times, realizing that ége nations he double-crossed were e ones which treated him bes .- Wlndsor Star. t

Consider one detail. we (tho United States of America) have l. national policy which we call the Monroe Doctrine. It means that. we wlll not. allow any European nation to secure a. new foothold on the YVHJArn Hemisphere. We say that

we have that policy, we think the Policy has been enforced for 1% year-s by our strength, our Novy. But It. was never we who en- forced it. There was never a time When we could. It is the Birtlan N"? lhlt kept European natlom from seizing land ln the Western Hemlsphere, Brttaln dtd not want them to, and the Brltlsh Navy re- ventecl them. 1f now the Br tish NHW dISB-Pmars, or ls no longer Britain's. we should have to do

what the British Nav has done. But we could not. I we had l Navy five times Great Britain's

pres-ant one It would not, be enough, For It. was not merely the Britta-i Navy that upheld the Munroe Doc- trine. It was the particular spot. ln whl-h that navy had its home. Its base. England. sitting to the west of Emvpe, commanded the gateway

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More Marching Feet

(Halifax Chronlcle)

The sound of marching feet wlll grow still louder In Canada, wtthln a few wedts. as the 80W!!!- ment calla up 30.000 men a month for nulltary training. Thirty-nine training centres wlll be establlsh-

PAYING THE DEBT

Sir:- To those nations who are trying to destroy what the Lord God commanded to be bullded up, them shall be a horrible ending.

They have slithered their awful way through gore of Innocent vic- tims, worse than Caesar, worse than Herod; the present situation ls worse than anything ln the im- nals of the world, nothing such as we have before u: at the Dfelﬁﬂt time, has ever been chronicled.

Stand firm Great Britain, thou wert not. named thus In vain. light on! fight on! and great wlll be thy victory.

Clear a5 the clarlons call. strong as the sound of the trumpets be- fore whlch the walls of Jerlco fell down, will be thy help. thou fight- est not In vain.

The days of miracles are not past by any means, though what we might term a. miracle would not. be such to Him. who guides Hts people on to fulfil a. vast purpose.

Great. Britain will fight on a- galnst most. awful odds. when H . the Great God of Israel wlll sound the roll of thunder and an ever- swelllng avalanche of’ revulsion wlll ovsrwhelm those who built a ma- chine so blg, so unwieldy and so ruthless that it. becomes uncon- trollable, The mechanized automa- ton wlll run amok. to what- end we know not-time wlll tell that.

The rumblings of the thunder of discontent ungovernable, of hate and the Inner growing of the de- slre for revenge against the Nazi murderers ln the dominated coun- tries, wlll be heard when the pangs of hunger and sheer starvation drive in desperation those who lLs- ten to the crles of famlshed and perishing women and children. whom they cannot help, to such a frenzy of rage that the results will he far reaching: isolated sectors at. first. later leading Into a general turmoil, a bitter winter it. would serm is ahead cf Europe.

The further Germany and Italy reach out the greater wlll be the devastation, more countries wlll be- come involved, some seektngto gain prestige they would never nope to attain at any other time. Spain ls now paying the debt of her aid from Germany and Italy; to what end? Seeking expansion for a. peo- ple who are ln a minority of num- bers on account of their recent ctvll war.

Italy and Germany, not France are setting the pace there. dictat- ing to another puppet what he must do and what his great gains wlll be. Poor Spain! those enemies within thy gates who helped that; mouthpiece, your leader, wlll ruln you and uprisings wlll again be your fate, have you not. had en- ough? Disease such as you have never known nor are able to cope with will thin out your population already thinned by war.

Gibraltar and no doubt Portu- gal are behind this latest move of Germany and Italy, the extending coastline for further submarine ac- tivities rlzht on the open Atlantic.

Could Europe as a whcle, look forward and see the awful abyss right tn front, they would recoll with horror.

Germany reachln out with blood soaked hands, steaing the food from the widows and orphans. that she has madez- from the helpless, the innocent, the women and children, the babies in those lands overrun by her heartless and dom- lneerlng hordes. yet even from she soldiers she has dtsarmed who for the moment are helpless to ald those of their own whcm they would, better far that they had fought. on, than exist wcrse than slaves; tn a state of send-starvation al- ready, wlth an even worse outlook ahead when winter descends upon the oount-rles of devastated Eur-

ope.

Three definite motives would seem to be lnsplriniz the Nazis In the occupied countries.

Unarmed populations are easily handled by Nazl ruthlessness even to the extent of mowing them down with machine guns occasionally as examples of what would be the re- sult nf anv attempted adverse re- actlcn to their rule of terrorism. such as was the ease tn Poland.

The continuous and forced trans- ferrlng of pnpulatlozu from ter- ritories where they are known (mostly male) to G-ennnny proper. or other parts of her overrun and dominated notions, to do foroed manual labor of u military nature for their food; their llvea for the time belong to Gennany-when they are reversing all the fortifica- tions and entrenchments and other mtllt-arv preparations to point away from Germany-tn other words the Nazis are forcing those r ,‘ at the point of the gun to build up wlthln their own or other countries. fortifications and security for Ger- many, whilst at. the same time those unfortunate people being ln a strange location would be much less liable tn create any serious up- rlslng, knowing not those whom they would be mingling with, nor being able to trust. them.

In this way the Nut rellmo of which the Gestapo It n dreaded and horrible part. (a. select aggre- gation of the moat ruthless mur- derers headed by the most. cold- blooded and heartless criminal In Europe) are able to reach far aut- alde their own borders and domin- ate vast territories, humiliate, en- slave and murder other popula- tltms. with a minority of numbers, whlLst they can keep a large army In the fleld and transfer a large pert. of that force from those coun- tries they had conquered at first. to their latest. scenes of mtlvlty. keeping up In this way a greet show of force at various time: on all fronts.

Germany has not the mlnpower to dominate all these countries aha now holds, In any some. only by the most awful of crlmlnal and brutal heat-themes. whilst. the populations of those countries are forced to produce what she needs. she ts bringing ruln and lnvoe on herself.

I am, Blr, m,

JOHN"

from Europe. It, cunmlnded the gateway to the Baltic-no nation on the Baltic could plus out through either the North 59B 0r the Brltlsft Channel. And Britain, by owning Gibraltar, slyntlarly commanded ﬂu! gateway from the Mediterranean. To do what Britain has done W0 should not only have a. Navy as great n Bfltllnh, we should have also the equivalent of Brit-sin‘; com- mand. And there ls hardly any conceivable way by whlch we could have such conunand. _ New York

Herald mum».

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what. he can when called. better to be trained now than to be rushed through sketchy preparation when an im- mediate emergency arises.

genuine and their expressions wrath against; Hitler may be spoken from the heart. It is to be noped they are.

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ed to s...» the new mllltla- men, separate from the regular camps of the Canadian Active Ser- vlce llbrce. These 39 centres wlll be busy as the awkward sguads be- gin to learn the rudlmen s of sol- dlerlng.

The plan I; to train each group for a 30-day period, but how thoroughly the men wlll be traln- ed 1n that, period depends on the efficiency of the arrangements and the general co-operatlon which the authorities receive. There must be few. surely, who hold any doubt as to the Importance of general mlll- tary training. Grim and startling events of’ the past seven months must. have impressed everyone with the need for military strength ln Canada, the best mll-ltary strength we can produce

The happy. bllssful days of letting things move along, without much regard for what ls happening across the ocean. have gone. They may never return In the lifetime of most of us. When peace comes, we shall have to continue more mllt- tary actlvlty than we dld during the past twenty years. This coun- try must be a nation of trained fighting men who can be mobilized at; short notice for immediate lotion

General training is a step in the" right direction. It ls a fact, regard- less how disagreeable, that every

man ln this country must be ready

to play some part in the war ef-

fort. Whether he can help best by

carrying a rifle, working a lathe.

or cooking ln a shlp‘s gallery, ls something which he and the au- thorities should determine. coming registration should help to settle such questions.

The But. everyone must be ready to do It ts

a hasty and

Check The Refugees

(Windsor Daily Star) Within the past. few weeks a num-

ber of refugees have come to Can- ada from Germany or German-oc- cupied countries, such as Austrm and (Jacobo-Slovakia. these Individuals turn up _ great tale of wrath against Hitler and the Nazis. sorts of maledlctlons on the head or the mehrer. ‘Ihey talk ln warlike terms of what they would do, lf only they c0uld meet, Hitler face to face.

AnVZIYIEbIY with u

They call down all

Maybe all of these refugees arr; o

On the other hand, what. assur-

ance has Canada got that some of these refugees are not Nazi agents who are being planted In Canada by the Germans? l-low do we know that the hot. statements against the Nazis are not. just a lot of camouflage?

These are matters of grave con-

cern for the general safety of the people o! this Dominion. We cannot afford to have our sympathies ex- ploitéd to the extent of _ enemy agents with open arms. It IS a blg job to check all these people,

receiving but we must. be vigilant. Still N0 Blitzkreig

(Montreal Gazette) If Iiltler plans to attempt lnvns-

lon 0f Britain, why doesn't. he sot. about lb-What Is he waiting for? ~

For answer, study those quiet, lac-

onic communique whlch the Alr Min- istry has been issuing daily since France collapsed June 18. No sensa-

tlonal e aims will be found ln them;

jlllﬁl; a calm listing of attacks on vil- a damage" here. an oll tank set aflre there, docks and battles destroyed In a. Channel port or ordnance factor- les blasted ln some German indus- trial town-No single one of them sounds like very much. Taken to- izether. they present a dreadful ag- grezabe for Germany.

centres, with “cortslderabe

There ls plausible ground for call-

EXAMINATION

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lng Hitler s. madman but none for calling him n, fouu He knew none

ain were to be successfully attack- ed. He knew every week, every day, gave the British more chance to mend the gaps ln their f01¢f¢55 walls, replace the material aband- oned ln the retreat to Dunkerque, reform and rearm their disorganized battalions. draft a new strategy I0!‘ battle alone. No mere overs: nt let. him into the nearly twp mont s de- lav durlnz which Brttam has accom- plished these things, and built up a strength that has cnaitged the peo- ple'5 mood from desperate courage to calm conﬁdence.

It. is the Royal Alt Force we may thank for this relief. Day after day night after, bombers have carried destruction into the camps where the Nazis were assembang their forces for assault. Not the lull which cloaked his preparation for Scan- dinaviais rape, not. the disastrous confusion which paralyzed resist- ance in Flanders and France, but a steady rain of deatn has been Hlt- ler’s portion as he made ready for this greatest, and this last exploit of a meterlc career. Now. we are told. from both British and German sources yesterday came forecasts "the bit: push" would start any day now_ Vcrv well, says Britain, let it come.

It ls coming

WILD PLUM

They are tmholy who are born

To love wild plum at flight.

Who once have passed lt on a road Ghmmerlng and white.

1t ls as though the darkness had Speech of silver words.

Or as though a cloud of stars Perched like ghostly birds-

They are unpitled from their birth And homeless in men's sight

Who love, bet-fey than the earth, Wild plum at night.

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