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been closed down and the enemy's bomber force has been practically abandoned, General Eaker relates. German tanks and trucks have been cap- tured in perfect condition, but with their gas tanks dry, as tlle AlliEs advance across the Ger- man borders. The loss of the Ploesti oil fields in Romania was the bitterest blow of the war for the German oil supply, General Eaker says. The Americans lost 350 bombers and 3.500 fliers in crippling the Ploesti fields, bu; he terllls it worth the cost. Before the attacks began, Ger- many was getting 26,000 tons ,of petroleum products daily from Ploesti, and just before the oil fields fell to the Allies, production had been cut to 3,000 tons daily.

Germany has nlucll in store yet, according to General Eaker. Armed with more big bomb- ers than his force ever had before, “German targets are due for tllc greatest weight of bom- bardment they llave ever received, and the \vill- ter weather will not protect them." Air power alone may not win the war or reduce Ger- many to,her knees, but the Nazis continue to face the prospect of a highly unpleasant win- ter in which her resources will be further de- pleted and her means of making war cllt to the vanishing point.

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Morning Deity (Founded in ill!) Preeident: Uelt. Col. W. Chester 8. Mel-Ire Vice-President: .I. IL Burnett. F. J. I. Secretary: Lient. Col. D. A. idnollnnnn, 0.8.0. tditor and Director: J. B. Burnett, IJJ. ieeocinte Editors: Frank Weller end Lieut- Inn A. Burnett. B.C.N.V.B- (On Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Then the Weakest Ink.‘ '

WEDNESDAY, DEC. M, 194d

-—- i.’ Would You MAKE A "HIT” with HER ?

"will! counte Ill "It leg‘ nus," Goebbels philosophizes. “is which side makes the fewer lstakes." 0i OOWBQ. the size of important. too. Or would ths N351 abglzliiflptffl llzitniséer rather forget

B B BC 0n R .... (Windsor Star.) “ma?

War Correspondent Packard has been expelled tmm Yugoslavia. reason, she says, is that she remarked in e dispatch upon the numerous icti-lres or Marshal "rito and Sta n in Bel. grade shop windows, and the ab- sence of (pictures of Messrs. Roose- velt an ChurchilL-(Kitchener Record.)

Goebbels 1m soda telling u... “Gemini lflvpie that they are nOW armed with stolclsm." That pro- mises to be a poor substitute for aircraft, tanks, s, Laflfleshiy)!‘ ammunition, bombs an: 1 t}. 05h" requisite-s of moeern war- fare. - (Brockville Racer-er.)

People in Canada who know something of the difficulty created this country by the shift of Population to manufacturing cen- tres. can have some slight idea of what the condition must h; 1h Ensland where a similar industrial concentration is multiplied a thou- ifllld-iold by the destruction of ZIXPYIES by bombs-(Galt Record-

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WATTERWORT"

COLD small; - Milnlflllle E

The courts are in session-

The little killers ere dragged

Those who killed by the tene an the fiftiel.

Who hipped the aged end rob- bed tn

sho - Soon the gniddlzbiled slam will march forwnrd—

‘A PAIR or satay SHOES WILL p0 1r -

Eleanor

12-13-w.|_m P s ‘Tl l? ri- Riltillrl h".

Who wi ed out villages end burnt slna towns‘ _ . molten with dignity the bi‘ kil-

lem will follow-

Those who killed by the tens of thousands and hundreds of

ousands.

Who ravaged great cities and flourishing provinces.

And the clay w l come when with thunderous fanfare-

Tolling of h llel

Christmas Seal Campaign

While the response to date in the Christmas CHARMING DESIGN Seal campaign has been gratifying, it is worth noting that this is tlle last week of the campaign and that it is the filial effort which counts. Everyone is familiar witll the purpose of this appeal, Wig-fit is to raise money for the work of controlling tuberculosis ill Prince Edward ls!- al1d- The Tuberculosis League, is doing splen- did work in this connection, alld the progres- sive plans outlined at the recent annual meeting of the League provide for still further progress ill the near future. .\I0ney, however, is badly needed. livery cent raised in the Christmas Seal campaign will be put to good use ill the sav- ing of precious lives. Only a fe\v days are left ill which to put tllc cnulpaign “over the tap", z-llll it is hoped that the response, frolll all parts of the Province, will be collullellsurate with the tlrgellcy and importance of the appeal.

-5MART STYLING M¢L¢°d a Ben" . ell,

W. B. BENTLEY, l Q r. a anunn. g, a

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SUPERB FITTING‘ '

o h I-le who killed by the tens of He who destroyed nations u rooted civilizations- He w o was mightier than God- More majestic than the henomena of Nature- Hailed at morning. Hailed at noon. Hailed at night. Hailed at birth, Hailed at death.

There will be long display of the vast knowledge

Of the law and the command- ments. ’ ' '

National and international,

Ancient. and modern;

There will be passionate pleas-

There will be cyclonic oratory-

There will be solemn and severe warnings of magistrates

Fearful of uncharted precedents-

There will be poetasters and ven- dors words

Whining about the quality of lnercy and the glory of for-

g eness And judgment will be pronounc- ed— some will be sentenced to prison. Some will be shot in the back Some will be hanged. An eye for an eye, a limb, a life for a life- But how shall one have a thous- and eyes plucked out? How shall one have a hundred thousand limbs torn off? How hang one a million times- ,. . ten jmilliion timers? ted l ~ - ' Y Human ust ce can e me onY w’ _ The dead of man against man harbored

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The USSR established this date 1922, tllc outcollle of the revolution begull ill 1917, and continued until all the various nationalities or rather llations, witllin both European and Asiatic Russia were conlbined in one Soviet republic; it is now one of the “Big Four" powers which are at war witll Germany, tllc others being Brit ain and ller Donlillions, United States alld rFIallCC.

The Port of Antwerp is now he- ing used by ocean-going liners. That means a continuous flow of the blssest and heaviest stuff which an army requires, with un- loading facilities at hand, and w- crating inland and free from storm. The Canadian Army gave an heroic effort, to makp all this gosflilgle- (St. Catharines Stan-

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LUSTRO US BLACKS

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The Question

As Guardian readers who have followed id detailed llallsard report 0f the (plcstioning 0f General AlCNflllglllOll ill the il-ouse of Conllllolls are aware, the whole subject of overseas rein- forcements was very thoroughly gone into by members of all parties during the discussion -n the conscription issue. Col.‘ lialsiolfs ques- tions were of special interest, ill view of lllS knowledge of all nlaltcrs relating to the l7e~ fence Departlllcllt. But it renlained for Mr. Neill, a Liberal nlcnlller from British Colum- bia. to pllt into words the question present in most lllillds. It llfifl reference to General Mc- Nauglltolfs repeated assertions about the sup- erior merits of the voluntary system. Here it is:

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Children of all ages for many years have been thrilled with the story of The Three Bears. Now comes the news from Fleshertcn that a hunting party has shot three bears, and brought home the vrlls- It is to be hoped that these were not "the" three bears so dcfll‘ to nll children's hearts-(Olven Sound Sun-Times.)

The enenly counter-offensive has created an immediate reaction in the hard metal i."- dustries. Orders for commercial purposes have been cancelled and \var industry fllililllfliCfllf‘ resumed. In Montreal there are queues for al- lllost everything. people being lined up for banks, stores, railways, vendors, etc. About the only places tllerc is no line-up are the churches But Christmas Eve will sllow long lilles with stools also waiting there for the first Mass or Christmas service.

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If even half of the time wasted l" “SURE 0th?!‘ people to do things were saved, those things could he done twice over nnd the better for a little personal attention, 1t, has become so ill public offices that n letter is necessary to open a window or close a door. That letter breeds others by way of r5-

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Little progress has been lllade with new Cnr Ferry plans as expert advice seems against a

1r the nation which

the shamed silent And all the dead-

70 ft. larger ship negotiating ice conditions at

"In view of your former position, does not the changed policy of the Government and the fact that you have not changed . justify and compel you as a man of honor to tread the same narrow path of self-sacrifice that was trod by your predecessor and force you to resign, so that someone else can carry out the new policy of the Government which now is so entirely dif- ferent from that which you advocated this after- noon and this evening? . . I ask you the ques- tion, again, as man to mall. In your honest opinion, would it not be better for the cabinet to which you belong, for the Liberal party to which you now adhere, to the greater interest sf the people of Canada whose interests I know you have at, heart, and the welfare of Canada and the best interest of the war, if you gave way to a man who believes ill the policies to be car- ried out, by the Government, who can tell us flatly that he is going to do everything he can to carry out the policies of the Government. and whose whole record will be behind carrying out the new policy?"

(icncrzil McNaughton hesitated before ‘tit- ienlpting a reply‘ alld .\Ir. King was instantly in the breach with a plea for indulgence. Nlr. Neill-an old hand-remarked that the Gen- eral need not auswcr-“but if he is the mall I think he is, lle will." X0 answer was forth- coming.

of

existing piers. lllendation of two ferries of the S. S- Chal- lottetown dimensions and two piers with double crossings seems to be commending itself to tlle powers-tllat-be at Ottawa. Messrs Lea alld hic- Laelllan do not seem to favour the practicalvl- ity of either tllllllel or causeway‘.

The Board of Tratle's recon.-

i i i 11K It is not generally realized that United King-

dom lend-lease arrangements with the U. S. A. occasionally operate ill the reverse direction. example of this aspect of lend-lease was giver when tlle Minister of Food announced that. be- lweell now and December 31st, the United Kflg- dom is going to build up the U.S.A- raw cilcoa stocks, which will otherwise fall 46,000 tons be- low the nornlal working lllillinlulll. ()f this totll‘, 25,000 tons will he made available for ship- ment direct from West Africa. 21,000 tons, including an inlmediate shipment

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The remaining

5,000 tolls of beans, will be taken from home

stocks, which are satisfactory.

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Farm Prices

lished in liberated Nijnlegen, where Canadians are stationed at present, the following striking example was qnoterl of tllc difference between ililletiug German and Allied soldiers \vitll tlle

Dly- Ill time there is a two-inch file on the most trivial of circum- stances nlclurllng tlle lost art of saving papelz-ivictorla Colonist.)

One of the most astonishing rec- ords of tlle war ls found in the revelation that in the movement of 10,600,000 British Army person- nel by sea up to the end of Sep- lembfll‘ only 2.978 lives were lost by enemy action, a number which makes up only .0028 percent of the total. says The Sault Ste. Marie Star. Considering the elaborate Preparations tllc enemy had made and the bit; start it had in both submarines and airplanes. this t: lln astonishing achievement, and it was due not onlv to safeguards maintained by the Royal Navy and the RAF, but to good planning at the War Office.

1- The only bit. of British soil the Germans ever managed to occupy were the Channel Islands. And as Allied forces battle through the weltel- of the Reich's border de- fences after freeing thousands of Square miles 0i territory, those islands still remain under Nazi occupation. To many Britons it ls a painful nnomalv. Militarlly, lwwcver. the islands-rare not im- portant and there is n possibility that that swastika will be flying there until the end of the war. Under international law, the nccu- pylng authority is responsible for the care of the civil population. But with the islands cut off from

Human justice is puny and frail and evanescent.

And those who will go to prison will say:

“What are five years or ten years or twenty years of our life Compared to the thousand

years and the ten thousand

years and the twenty thous- and years

Of those whom we hurled into prisons?"

And those who will be shot or hanged will say:

"One must die sooner or later What is an hour's torture, Compared to the millions of clays of torture

We have perpetrated?

It was worth whilel"

And the killers of the future will read about the trLa

Andi laugh and be stirred to sot-

O

n_ “So little for so much! It ll worth whilel"

Before the bar of the Eternal Three million ghosts- Ghosts of those burned in colossal

furnaces. Ghosts of those ssphyxiated in trains and caves, Ghosts of those seared in

and buried alive. Ghosts of those starved and flay- edd and gassed and gut-rip- Dt? ~ ‘ Ghosts of infants, Ghosts of boys and girls. Glamorous with play, Ghosts of women. Young and old and. laden with

lime

ones.

The dead of the nation which in- voked vengeance For a crucifixion two

years old- The dead of the villages- The dead of the small towns- The dead of the great cities- All the dead understand.

thousand

They who are buried in the mud.

And they who are buried in the waters,

They who are blanching upon the

sands. And they whose ashes are tossed by the wind.s— All call to the living of the Barth: “You are your brother's keeper '-

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X0 better exnlllplu of tllc fluctuation of farlll prices over tllc years can be llad than ill thr- 'eport just issued by the Statistics Branch of rlle Ontario Department of Agriculture, giving tlle history of farm prices for 62 years. The (anndiall Federation of Agriculture passes some of these figures on because of tllc interest ill planning for stability ill post-war years.

For hay, tllc average price, 1882 to I943 has been $10.70 The low was in I898 at $6.22. and tllc lligll lll 1910 at $24.25 per toll. In I932 the price averaged $7.24. and similar low prices were recorded ill I940 when tllc average was $6.50. and in 1938 when it was $6.92. Ill 1926 the average was $12.75, For the 10 years frnll. ‘.902 to 1911 the average was $9.97, for the 110K! tell years it was $15.88. for tllc next ten, 1933‘ 1931, it was $11.08, and for lllC llcxt tell _vc:ll's, from 1932 tn 1941, it was $3436.

The nvcrzlgc price of oats for tllc 6.! years‘ ‘rug, 41.11 cents. lligllcst was lll 1920 at ‘)/-T cents. lowest wn.» lll I305 Ill 30 $91115» 11ml l‘? 193,,» i; “"115 :5 cents. The average for 11X"- 1911 was 311.7 cents, for 1912-1921 was 58.5 eente, tor 1922-1931 was 47.1 cents, and fol 1932-1941 it was 34.4 cellis-

Avcrzlgc for barley‘ lll the 62 years “"115 57-5 cents :1 bushel. lligllcst was ill 1919 3t iii-s cents, and lowest was ill 1898 at 27 “m5- i" 1932 it was 30 cents. Average for 1902-1911 was 50.1 cents, for I9l2-2I W85 36 Ceflli- and fm" 1922-31 was 04.2 cents, and for 1932-41 wa". 48.9 cents. ‘

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regular German communications, itle supply situation has been tie- terlorating and the British popu- lation of sixty to seventy thousand needs food and medicines. Today the British parliament was ill- formed that arrangements have been made for relief ships to take in cargoes for British civilians, The safe conduct promised by the Germans in no way means that the enemy is becoming tender- tlelirted over the plight of natives. It merely means that they see here a chance to ease the burden on themselves-(Montreal Star.)

Canada. and Ottawa in parti- cular, will have pleasant mem- ories of Baron Silvercruys, Min- ister. and latterly Ambassador, from Belgium to the Dominion since 1937. His promotion to the post, of Ambassador to the United States will give wider scope to his experience, and Canada will con- gratulate hilll on this recognition by his Government of ills proved flbility in tllc field of diplomacy, out in tllc Canadian capital our congratulations are mingled with a deep sense of personal loss. Baron sllveffifllys- Bllflve. handsome, ami- able. discreet and dignified, is the picture of the perfect diplomat. But those qualities. important us "my may be. are tllc least of his qualifications for Belgian diplomacy. He represented his country with zeal and understanding, although cut off from Belgium during the German occupation. l-rs travelled in and studied Canada, and came to s. sound knowledge of our pmh. lems, our capacity, of the seyvlggg Belgium and Canada can render- one another. And he added to the fund oi international amity by

living fruit,

Ghosts of men,

White bearded men.

And men in the midst oi’ life. Grandfathers and fathers

sons- Three million ghosts Accusing The nations of the world! . . .

These were great nations, Mighty and rich and cultured. Nations which proclaimed Liberty,

y.

Fraternity-

Nations which proclaimed

All men have inalienable rights- Nations which worshipped the

,God 0f love

And called Him Father of all.-

Nattons with societies for the pre- ventlon of cruelty to animals, Nations with hospitals and found- ling homes and homes for the aged and charitable institu-

tions. Nations with the Red Cross and the cross upon their churches. Kindly nations-sensitive nations -eivllized nations.

These were the nations which dis- ed the injunction, Illevocsble as the pulsing o! the

s rs And the heaving of the seas: "You are your brother's keeper!" And the Eternal said: "Let there

be Justice!"

And the little killers

Killed by the tens and the fifties And whipped the aged and robbed . the shops;

And the middle-sized killers Killed by the hundreds and the

thousands And wt out villscee and burnt

people of Holland. “An official of the Allied Military Administration was in for some extra- ordinary experiences when lle recently nlade the round of our towll to pay out billeting money for Allied soldiers. At tlle first house he visiterl, tlle housewife sllook ller head alld said, “Oh no!" She would not accept a single penny. She lzad enjoyed the company of the Allied soldiers and felt that what she had done was only a trifle conlparcrl to what the Allied troops had done for them. No-tlle money was to go to the Red Cross, or to those hurt during tlle days of battle. At the next house the reception was practically the same: “You'd better givc this money to tlle Red Cross.” Througllotlt the day this refusal to accept payment was repeated: ill one case tllc official was told, ‘My son is ill a German prison camp—so I could not possibly take a cent for lodging a few Allied soldiers." The official had retained about one llunllrctl dollars at tllc close of his work; llcxt (lay this amount was practically iluilblell."

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England hes recently been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Bank of England with pardonablc pride but a curious reluctance to admit that the institution owes its existence to a Scot. No daubt the Bank would have come into being sometime in any case, but it was \Villianl Paterson's idea that was ‘the germ of the conception, alld Paterson himself was for tlle first vear one of its directors. To-day a Scot. Lord Catto, is its Governor. The Bank