New Hope Burns For Canadians 
     
    
   
   
    
     Closing 1942 with a series of smashing victories and a general 
     
     heightening of the offensive spirit, all through their ranks, _the 
     
     United Nations are now approaching the brightest New Year since 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the outbreak of the second World War. Symbolic of the new spirit 
     
     of attack is this photo/showing Allied infantrymen in the act of 
     
     capturing a tank on desert from RommeYs once proud Afrika Korps. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
     A British Tom y relaxes in the shade of an army truck  the reads Field 
     
     Marshal Smuts’ “Plans For a Better World”. Many thousands of these tmcks 
     
     have been shippedfliifom Canadian plants to the fighting forces in the desert. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gasoline rationing, which was tightened in 1942, may be 
     
     even tighter in 1943. But if the saving of gasoline at 
     
     home can speed victory, thriftiness 1s well worth while. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Large proportion of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tommies load a led hot (i-poundor 
     
     turned out lit (1an:1(la. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada turns out thousands of these sturdy, speedy universal carriers many of 
     
     which are seeing action in Africa. 
     
     vehicles come from the Dominion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     8th Army's mechanized 
     
    
   
   
    
     as Allies Victoriously Enter New Year 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Grim “never say die” Fighting French gunners man their llofors gun in desert 
     
    
   
   
    
     battle. SWHTHIS of these 40-mm “ack ack” guns, in use in many 
     
    
   
   
    
     theatres of war, 
     
     Inore than 1,000. 
     
    
   
   
    
     come from huge Ontario gun plant which has already delivered 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     nwllundreds of these tank busting guns are 
     
     Scores 01' Canatliair-lauilt ZS-ponnders paved the way for 
     
     ll10l1tgOl11C1'y'S advance. Churchill calls this weapon. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “,\vorld’s best field 31m". 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     "Vvva- a 
     
    
   
   
    
     of travelling blood banks. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada's greatest contribution to the success of the African campaign was its 
     
     steady output of munitions of all kinds. The men and women who oil in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     also the men to drop them. Hundreds of Canadians took 
     
     country's many arms plants may well feel proud of the part they have plflyed- 
     
    
   
   
    
     They rate highly with their British users. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada has not only supplied bombs to the African front - but 
     
     the air offensive. serving with the R.A.F. or the R.C.A. .~ The 
     
    
   
   
    
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     In the African campaign many lives were saved because 
     
     Blond (imizttiuns of some 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canadian may have saved a fighter on desert front. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     bombs were produced in 
     
    
   
   
    
     art in its kind. This huge factory turns out more than 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada in the Empire's largest plant of 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     100,000 bombs 
     
    
   
   
    
     a year. Its products have hammered our enemies on many fronts. 
     
    
   
   
    
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