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v the acton hteepkess rum warn qqmml fejffgg mr john smith of kltchanar vuu wren dorothy clayton was home from gait ovr the weekend don faroe is jhome from pickering oouece or the christmas houdaye juno tslbot u home rem lorrtto academy waterdown for the vaoa- tkm qpoan rumley is home from brank- aome hall toronto for the christ mas vacation mm charles bchtoffar who has baas visiting her slater mra nalua kelly at acton has returned to maryland stoker 1st class jamas robertson and mlaa marie mitchell of hamilton spent a few days last weak with uuc and mrs stuart cants and other ac ton friends attends are pleased to ess mr leonard atkinson is able to be home lain and with improved health attar several months treatment at christie street hospital in toronto leading wren jean simons wjl cns of uttcs comwallls nov scotia has been spending this week as the guest of her aunt and uncle mr and mrs george clbblns weekly war commentary continued from page three at the weakend the germans laun- chad their btggeet and fiercest coun terattack in the west since dday and by mldveelc had plunged more than 30 mllea inside belgium a m blackout was clamped on thla vector of the front but report ao through said that american writ army position had been overrun for 20 mlle northward from uixenv bourgs northern tip and that little country also has been reinvaded by the nazis one dispatch eatd that the important belgium town of malmedy had fallen but there waa no confir mation the germana were amid to be fight ing with a newhorn ferocity throw ing a new vweapon of undlsrlosad nature against both the flrat and ninth american army sectors and feeding heavy concentration of armour into lccy polnta deaplte heavy losses a shortage of ammunition admit ted by both gen elsenhower and president roosevelt may be a decid ing factor in thla battle berlin propagandists meanwhile wm making the moat of the situat ion it waa hinted that the nad counter offensive may he a peace drive dealgried through attrition to gain aomethlng better than unconditional surrender for germany carman broad also used the counter attack a an answer to the question of htlera whereabouts the carman radio aald we can tell you now why hitler has been silent he la not hi tout hai been busy preparing thla new offensive down to the minutest detail prime minister churchill told the commoni a great battle was going on along the western front but he re fused to give details and supported gen eisenhowers action in clamp- lug a news blackout on the latest de velopments mr churchill also re fused to give a general review of the war and the creek issue until after christmas though he did bay the situation in greece where british troops are fighting greek resistance troops had improved he made it clear however that if the commons wanted an immediate review of the greek picture it would have to take a vote of censure and hla government would stand or fall on the outcome of such a vote mr churchills challenge was hot accepted halloa meaajrcr gave address atwardyadinarr void cibafdiiii flloty erf urn-dcan- sunday december tth 1044 christmas worship services 1100 am morning worship sermon- with the shepherds to bethlehem 12 15 pjn church school 7 00 pjn evening worship candle lighting and carol sing ing service tableau vlvant manger scene wen iwc 27 tt i m mlflwoek ji pmmlflgye home of mrs da service at the 1 kins est willow street mo come let us adore html a happy christmas to all ahnrttj tatttabtaete actom manse- willow street christmas sunday im 1100 am jtfornlng worship the key words of the chrlatian rev- elation 7 laove 300 pjn the sunday school and junior bible class 7joo p m otristmas carol service and sermon thurs dec school chrj 21 8 pin the sunday farlstznas entertainment rhey that wait upon the lord ahall renew their atrength speaking at the wardene dinner on monday evelng at the c in burlington mr hughes cleaver mem ber for halton county cave a ayamp- ata ef developments regarding e-en- foroements that will prove tatereatlog not only to thos wivo were permitted to attend the function but to residents of the entire county below we glue the text of hla address 1v have recently had a erlsts in thla country arising out of the ahort- ge of reenforoemeot for the army in addition to the open sessions which have been reported in the press we se session i cannot glee you information which i beard at the eaalon but i am at perfect lib erty tafldve you all other information which i have learned in my remarks tonight i can give and we agreed unanimously osjr army headquarters forecast what our casualties would be and we made plana to provide for a steady alow of to enforcements to meet these fore casted casualties when ananpower of a nation u being sad right up o tte full limit h would be prodigal to was te manpower to have reenfocneirenla trained and sitting around k their heels a long period of time in advance of the time when they would bo required the practical thing to do la to have a ateady and an ample flow of reenfoteemente passing through the training campa tbe forecasted army casualtlce a to the overall picture have plowed to tat eery accurate and today we have total enfernainent pool everaeaa quite as large aa we fllanned and aulaa i happy christinas to all j ample but aa to infantry wltlch mp- resents only one fifth of our army a very serious error was cnade our infantry casualties have nearly doub led what we eatimejted they would be it la futile at this time to blame any- one far this error but tt is only eon- mon sense to state that the error should have been detected sooner and the minister ef national safeaoa alitmild not have required to sp e seas to learn ef it on the 19th ef october last the cabinet was faced with this urgent jltow our wish so one and all as that vsmu- ohnistmas will bo be itanfucst visaiblo and the vesr stnoad brine creator joy and flannincsa j6qunc whithorns garage lwisnit iam asomi wham 111 i i 1 i i i 1 1 1 you irly oonu picture and r nroblem noon soxeeled tt et know that you rt to hear thelrensfcaxjnsntalu to ta found iv only dlntereltos of onlon vaa ea to baptm umh sunday december 24th 1944 jijoo sjn viod sent ius son u ujoo pjh sunday school and bible too pm christinas tree carols and ion everyone welcome a floyd smith jeweler watches cuackm jewbubbv 75 quebec street west tiuelfh ont mardonald used furniture antiques irpaolsterlaa beflnbluac bepalrs gusrantnkl llluheiit quality work at iteaiuinahle frloes 80 machttaell st cudph has something new been added story thla u the tenth wardens dinner at which i have bad the opportunity and ntaponslhllty ef addressing you aa your federal member politics are eut of place at a meeting of this stature while i will refully endeavor to abide by thla rule yet 1 ahoulot warn you at once that the subject svmch i am cuacuaelng tonight makes any position rather difficult v knew that you want to bear the full vtory about the lack of infantry ieenforee- ment an it may weu be that as a member supporting the gevertmiettt i may av prejudiced however i will give the facta aa i see them lettfta the chips fall where they may i will say nothing utentlonatly to offend ivone and v am of course aaaured in advance that my conservative friends in the audience will at least discount my remarks to their true proportions indeed i will be fortunate if they do not underate them on ortohttr iftth colonel ralston r- lurned from overseas and immediate ly met the prime minister and re ported that a serious shortage of in fantry kwenforcemrnta would devel op before the nd of the year and asked that n sufficient number of draftees should be conscripted cabin et council wan called immediately on the following day and a memorandum was received fiam army headquawer accordingly in tlte debate in the house of commons much was aald alwmt a telegram from overseas which colonel natton saw early in august the importance of this message was both emphasised and minimized but tlie fact remains that it was not shown to the prime mlnslter nor the cabin et and the first inkling of uny short age which was received by the prime minister or the cabinet was late in october no one disputes this- fact to us ordinary individuals when we have a reenforcement pool of fully trained men now overseas which runs into many tens of thousands plus other 120000 volunteers in of which at least onehalf are physic ally fit for infantry service overseas it u difficult for ua to undftktand how a shortage could have occuried in any branch of the army our to tal army commitments is sis divisions our total voluntary enlistments are over three times that amount how could a ahprtage have occurred when these figures do not include the deaf- howard graff north ambucam un hmttiu the beat means ef sneeting the em ergency wtiether we like it or nut we have a large group n canada who are opposed to aitonacriptian until tt absolutely necessary tttla sroup are not all rvanch oanadlana seven tytwo per cent ef the draftees are english speaking of the group who are opposed to conscription until tt necessary a large majority ef theaa will support conscription wheal tt i necessary but the actual sveed muat first arise vrom now on v apeak only for my self if i had been a member of the cabinet and teeing up to our actual conditions here ft would flrat want to know if the toeaaforeeraent problem could be solved by a transfer ef mee from branches of the army where we now have a surplus to the infantry where we have a shortage if i found litis could not be done in time would want time to at once acquaint the general imhllc of the farts i would then discharge the officers who neglected td report tlie shortage which started to develop many mon ths ago alt of this would take only a matter of weeks and i would then enforce conscription to tlie ektent that it was necessary in substance title is prahicjilly what hanprned ttte minister ef l- fence wai not content to have any de lay and he resigned the prime mltt- ikter and the new minister of de- 1 fnv appcalm to the iflooo infantry trained draft to enlist voluntarily he is crltlflaed for falling to threat them that they would be conkcripted if they did not enlist at once lie would have been equally criticiaad if he had threatened the prime min ister has reminded us that when we launch a victory loan camalgn we do not threaten people that if they do not subscribe voluntarily we will con script their wealth he sees no good reason for threatening our soldiers in any way different to the way in which we treat wealth the campaign for volunteers would have aucceeded if everyone would have supported it in stead of supporting the campaign for volunteers the conservative opposi tion the conservative press and even the officers commanding the draftees joined in a campaign to attack the voluntary system and to blame the government when it became apparent that the christmas greetings may the christmas season brine everyone la our com munity a good measure of faaopines and may we extend to one and all that old but sincere christmas greetide a haiff c1s1stma8 klora cloaeel all day sjrjelaytioeaa day lovellub mux stoekt acton ontario laolawiskdsakttdsafsatil eetokpecset h our very best wishes to you we are saying it in person to all whom we can see and lo tie sure that we have not missed anyone we here and now fiend our very best wishes to you for a very merry christmas stoke closed monday and tuesday our store will be doacid oa tuesday december astfa asweuasoacbrsstamasday burlington word was received this wednes day morning that pte davidson peart son of mr and mrs gordon peart guelph una had been killed in action in italy on dee 4th accordlne to a trade paper report a new local construction company the bayvlew construction co with headquarters at the bank or com merce building water streets have now applied for a charter one of the worst storms in years 1lt burlington and district esrly tues day momlnir and as a result traffic was completely tied up and business ceneralty was at a standstill during the day burlington sea cadets are to hsvi fme nee headquarters of their own to be located on the brant park prop erty this was decided on at a meet ing of the committee of the burling tonnelson navy league branch held on thursday evening john anderson of toronto who re sides at the sherwood inn suffered severe head cuts and body injuries when it is alleged that be came tn contact wtth a car aa he rrneauj over brant street in front of the public library shortly after midnight on fri day last gaxette l gregory theatre friday dleczafbeat tt man from fru3co michael oshea anne shirley musical musical movleland cartoon helicopter chapter s the great alask an mystery atvbday dieccaibcb 13 matinee at s tort of forty thieves lynn roberta richard powers hi good lookin harriett hllllard klrby grant fox news monday toecdstmbet ts two girls and a sailor van johnson june allyaon joae iturbl disney how to play golf sport mallard fllttst- tees it is equally difficult to us to appeal for volunteers could not suc- understand why it was necessary fored stettln the necessary re-en- col ralston to so overseas to find i forcementi in time then an order n- councll wai passed on november 23rd just one month and three days after the emereeticy occurred conscripting for overseas service 16000 draftees s 000 are sailing this month another b000 are salllne in january and the balance at the rate of 2000 a month this additional number of men whl adequately supply our reenforcement pool for infantry until next may both the prime minister and general macnaughton have definitely announ ced that while the voluntary system will be continued yet if at any time in the future further draftees are required they will be conscripted what has been done waa exactly what colonel ralston asked for when he returned from overseas and as a consequence when the vote was taken he supported the government it is true that he complained of the mon ths delay but i leave my audience to decide as to whether this complaint la reasonable it is also true that be now contends that all of the draftees should be conscripted now whether they will be ever needed or not here again i leave it to my audience to decide whether thla la wise in the light of actual conditions aa we have them in canada we still have a large body of people who are opposed to un necessary conecrlptlon and some of them uve in thla very county is there any justification for needlessly antagonizing them is there anything to be gained by the needjeas show of compulsion or force it might cause serious trouble and is there any compensating gain 7 right now i am going to taut pen itlcahy but t trust not otfeaihrerj will anyone tell me of any good rea son why the goruervatlve party would oppose cenacrlptlon as they actually continued on page eight out that a shortage was developing in one branch of the army re-enforce- menta but notwithstanding all of these its an infantry shortage did occur and the only apparent source from which the shortage could be made good in time was from 16000 draftees in canada whose infantry training was welt advanced in order that you may fully under stand the problem may t digress for a moment to explain the facts in pre vious wars most of our army was in fantry but in this war on account of its highly mechanized nature alt na tions were lead to stress the useof modern equipment this time the in fantry only represent one fifth of canadas army the infantry reores- ents a total front line personnel of less than 35 000 in the canadian army canada is not fighting thla war alone we have allies we are only one small member of the allied team j total war for canada in these circum- i stances means that we should do what we can best do for the common cause as a result of these facta it was decided that one half of our war effort at least one half if not more would be war production we have over a million workers in war indus try in addition to building and man- j nlng our own navy and our own alr- force we are giving away annually a billion dollars worth of tanks planes guns shells ships and food to our slllcs we also decided aa to what would be our maximum goal with respect to our naval force our air force and our army and no criticism has been made wtth respect to these decisions all of our commitments have been fully kept now let ua come to the army we agreed aa to what size it should bo w d talbot mill street acton ontario a bright and happy christmas to all at this glad season of the year we renew again the j remembrance of oor happy relationships of the past 4 we wish for all our friends customers and for everyone a bright and happy christmas and abund ance of good cheer throughout the coming year pallantsclothingstore usjbasajssssiijt dssajsijlizitiuji attma-