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Canadian Soldier Tells All He Knows By The Marquess of *Done- gal in the London Sunday =~ zDéspatch sm oe The following story comes from a Government official's letter ta me, I' know him he is not given to writing letters to the press for fun: .. "At a daytime canteen in a small resort in the south of Eng- land; Mrs. P., who is a voluntary 'worker therein, was addressed ag "follows : by "a Canadian soldier; "Well, md'am, we've been walt. ing long enough for action. Now we've got dt; we're not going to take Jerry's pants down at Dieppe tomorrow morning, we're going to take them right off. Yes, we hop off from here at -- tomorrow morning!" "Mrs. P. presumed he was jok- ing." She 'kidded him along' by saying that maybe he had got a personal invasidn of Berlin all fixed, too. But the soldier insist. ed that what he was saying was true. 'You'll read about it in news- papers, ma'am', he said as he walk- ed out of the canteen. "Mrs, P. thought no more about it and went on with her work of serving in the canteen. But ima- gine how she blamed herself for not taking the soldier's name when, on opening her newspaper, she did read about the Dieppe raid." Well, the fact of the matter fis that a lot of- Canadians who left that little resort did not return. I do not say that they were all kill- ed or that the talking of that par ticular soldier was responsible. We are officially told that warning was given to the Germans from fishing boats off the French coast. "I doubt very much if such a last. minute warning could have en- abled them to muster so concen. trated a resistance round Dieppe. Of course, it. only so happens that the soldier concerned was a Canadian. But being Irish-Canad- ian myself, perhaps I may maka this comment without offence, I think that we Irish and we Can- adians like talking more than the English, the Scots, and the Welsh do. It is, therefore, the more nec- essary for us to be on our guard. 10 i CENTER The Japs may have invaded her Malay homeland, but they can't make a monkey out of Mabel. She's busy licking war stamps.to help win the war. Tide Goes Down In Royal Baths King Takes Leading Part In Fuel-Conservation Plan SKing George, the Royal Family and everybody else at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will bathe in no more than five inches of water from now on. It is part of Britain's fuel-con- servation plan in which the King is taking a leading part. The monarch ordered every bath-tub in the royal households painted with a black or red line at the five-inch level and a notice posted calling attention to the ne-. cessity for fuel .conomy; the Bri- tish Press Association disclosed. Likewise, the King directed that not more than one small bulb shall be lighted in a bathroom or in any Palace bedroom and that additional bulbs be remoyed. No central heating is used at either the Palace or the Castle at Jrgsent and King George has for: idden lighting of fires. There are to be no fires in any bedtoom ex< $ cept on physician's orders. 'The number of boilers at Wind: *, dor. Castle has been so reduced that on four days each week there isino hot water in some residential parts of the Castle and occupants of those rooms have to obtain it from the kitchen. Fuel economy measures also "have been introduced in kitchens and all unessential lights in palace «corridors have been removed, personally, and-- VOICE PRESS VALUE OF A GARDEN It is a little harder but a great deal more serviceable to teach the child at home and elsewhere that the world owes and will give it nothing that i is s not paid for in hon. est labor," The child who is led to cultivate a garden regularly will very likely be willing to do other - helpful work when occasion de- .mands, and at the same time will be cultivating a character full of promise for the . duties of later years, --Guelph Mercury ees 'AL-CAN' HIGHWAY Official announcement is made that the Alaska Highway, 1,600 miles from Fort St. John in Brit. ish Columbia to -Fairbanks in Alaska, will be through and ready for Winter use December 1. It is to be known as "Al-Can" Highway -- Alaska and Canada. --Vancouver Sun --0-- THE WILLKIE VERSION "God bless you, and give 'em- hell," says Mr. Wendell L. Willkie to American troops in Egypt. Which is, being interpreted, simply the colorful Willkie version of that other time-honored injune- tion, "Trust in God and keep your powder dry." --Windsor Star --0-- BRIGHT SPOT The Canadian Navy has lost more ships in the last few weeks than it comprised at the outset, And it still is a great fighting force. The way the navy has been built up is one of the bright spots in Canada's war effort. --St. Thomas Times-Journal i Opis ) USE FOR JEEPS A thought is that the jeep will make a dandy post-war baby car- riage for the kind of tough baby our posterity will have to be, --Stratford Beacon-Herald li THEN COMES HIS CHANCE Armed with the trusty stiletto, there would still be nothing for the Duce to do until someone op- ened a second back. --Winnipeg Tribune --0-- FASHIONABLE NOW A reader wants to know what to do with an old felt hat. The answer is: Wear it. That's what ve're doing. --Owen Sound Sun-Times --0-- WOMEN'S RAIMENT A Chicago lecturer contends the average woman wears better than the average man. But not 80 much. --~Chatham News Perhaps they will be putting an amusement tax on the few hours we hold our wages. --Brandon Sun 110 Million Pounds Sugar From Alberta The beet experts say, according to the Lethbridge Herald, wé can look forward to something Illke "350,000 tons of bheet§ tHis harvest, - and on that basis we may expect to extract some 110,000,000 pounds of sugar besldes considerable mol. asses, The molasses, a low grade product, will mostly go to the 'manufacture of alcohol for the war effort. But it is In the sugar that a rationed Canada is Interested. The sugar ration is halt a pound per person per week. That means that the 800,000 people of Alberta will consume some 21,000,000 _ pounds In a year, Saskatchewan will require about 25,000,000 pounds. We will be able to supply these two, provinces with their ration requirements, give Manito- ba 10,000,000 pounds, and still have 54,000,000 pounds general requirements and to ship to the people of Ontario where we are already shipping the surplus sugar of last year's crop. Blackout S. Shore . Of St. Lawrence A Federal Order-in-Councll has been passed calling for a complete blackout of the south shore of the 8t. Lawrence which will go into effect at once; The blackout will be etfective from IYlsle Verte, 40 milek up- river from Rimouski, down through the entire coastline of the Qdspe penihsula bordering on the * St. Lawrence, and 'around the Bay Chaleur shore as far as Douglas- town, The darkened area will extend inland for five miles. The andoancenfenit sald the blackout "had héen ordered 'to guard against the possibility of "bombardment by enemy -submar- ines." ° The new regulations will require a total blackout of street. lights and {lluminations, and will prevent interior lights from betag visible from the outside. Train and auto- mobile lights in the area will be some NO. TELLING... _..}. "left to supply | shaded, - ns TATA 1s 04 of IAL TPA Lie . ide ~ 54! w R agg / ' ' ---- === ' HERE'S HOW IT STARTED THE WAR = WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events y -- -- | TURN OF WAR TIDE SEEN || Ng | IN END OF 80-DAY PERIOD 2 Atl the end of the. 80-day period * What can be said, in the opinion fixed by Minister of Production of these military observers, is that Capt, Oliver Lyttleton, Britons ap- the past 80 days have witnessed pear inclined to agree with him | the fallure of Hitler's best chance that- the war has begun to enter to scors a major strategic success ; a new. phase, writes Mallory Brown Jn the war by carrying through by fn the Christian Sclence Monitor, this year destruction of the Sovied In a speech at "Aldershot on' | armies In the south and in the July 18, when the Nazl "rive In vast pincer movement centered om tho Caucasus and on tho Don was the Suez Canal, etting under way, Captain Lyttle- , n i A elred ivy no time since No Longer Imminent the Battle of Britain have we stood Bighfy days ago it looked as M fn graver peril, It would bo folly he had a good chance of carrylog to deny that these 80 days in front out both these aims. Today, ale of us are some of the gravest that though the potential threat to we have ever faced." Suez still exists both from the In another speech at Sheffield, Caucasus and in North Af-ica, the Sept, 16, Captain Lyttleton again general feeling here is that /nefths referred to this 80-day period, say- er of these threats is. any longer ing, "Nineteen or 20 of these ro- fiuminent. It is now considered main, and at the end of that time, unlikely Hitler will be able to the war definitely begins to enter force his way through the passes into a new phase" in the Caucasus mountains before - Provided emphasis is put on the winter; and in Egypt there are word "begins," it is probably cor- slzns the initiative is no an in ; : = : s : 2 rect to say that British opinion the hands of General Field ar yg 0 -- she 3 y See the ball right by the base? Yankee Red Rolfe dropped it--enabling Cardinal Sam Musial to us a whole agrees this is the « aso SUR Toul) Be oF arr slide into third safely on W, Cooper's single to centre. With Musial on third, and Cooper on first, the today. It is certain most military x : ho Ty EF ieo stage was sect for the 4th inning, G-run blasting that followed Kurowski's single. Cards finally won commentators and editorial writ. and munitions, pa : 4 this fourth World Series game at Yankee Stadium, 9-6, ers of leading newspapers and and planes from the United States, magazines seem to support this is piling vp on the side of the SCOUTING conclusion. It is based on the fol United Nations. Thus there dre une te lowing factors: doubtedly grounds for hoping that Russian. resistance, especially at Two Boy Scouts of the 1st Factors In Conclusion Stalingrad, in the past 80 days has Headstone Troop, Middlesex, Kug- won for the Allies tho respite they land, found a "llve" hand gren- 1. Tho German attack at Stal needed in order to build up, equip, ade. One lad remained on guard ingrad is still being hold. Captain and concentrate thelr forces on while the other went immediately Lyttleton, in predicing the war © hig-sealo offensive action in the to socure a disposal squad to dls- would enter a new phase at this | fiir. pose of the Sargeras Saapox be- time, said "We are Sapo ing Whether this future is to be fm. - . 3 o vo . fore anyone was harmed. the breathless moment when, | mediate or much more remaole re. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army oe ) a Russia can hold on to her present | ying the secret of the United Nae ; Stopping oft at Merrickville dur- ositions for a few more weeks, teneral Staffs. Not very much has appeared in dent youngsters will thoroughly Ing a two-week cruise, members balance will begin to Swing - ES, ent lie these columns about the Army Pay appreciate the wisdom of such a of the 30th Ottawa Sea Scout in our direction, and when the Moscow correspondent In Moscow Corps which organization, ot regulation--in fact most of them Troop arrived on the scone of a tenn Toreoe of the, greatest ron course, performs _ong.of- the. most hnve-tried to-do the same thing serious automobile accident. The alliance which the world has ever second front has aroused intonse ? important functions in the [ndh. wilh varying dostecs of auicoess. boys, headed by their Scoutmaster | geen aro going to give us first Interest in England but has not vidual Citizen's Army; and in this Right now it would be well tor fmprovised a stretcher from thelr hers ol Ristori e ] os ngland has case when 1 say individual citi. all of us to practice a similar re- oars and a groundsheot and ro- Th victory. Co altered the prevailing view of 3 , i cihv ec 8 i E 2. Hitler has apparently failed military experts that the ultimate . zen's army [ mean the army of gulation upon ourselves. And right moved the Injured They gave 15 GENiaYe Bhs or Lig suger tlh : ! fighting Canadians of all ages who now, through the -regulations of tiest 244 and expertly treated and 3 ay Et fis ren decision as to the time and place a: eh -- vices and Trade i o a ary objectives fixed for this year's of a sccond front must be left 3 probably bear the word Canada on the Wartime Pr bandaged seripus lacerations on Russian campaign, Military con- with military and political chiefs, their shoulders. Board, we are actually beginning the faces and arms of the occu- sensus- in Lond is that his ti ¢ " 'av. " . : v _- ; ce as sensible a system aces 1 i sensus-in London ds that his time who alone have full knowledge of The charge is sometimes level to peactice as sensi Wi pants of the vehicles until-the ar- SCUEATIE 42. vii. SOSH Wish ro hl Tc oatlons. ht a Aer war raw | Tho. smittors we fond to on tha || FIAT of & doctar, chip hg Rol wal N : : ol y 0) ally falls, Manzhal Se Time eo i little consideration fs givon to the far-flung frontiers of the fight for To ralse funds lo invest in war i A wil ri Mil . inescapable documentation that civilization. bonds, Wolf Cubs of Sheffield, and Russian arms still formidable Beef Exports _ oy Xs gd] pi go In the lush years we cheerfully England went i for demestic s6r- along the otis front. I'urther- Drop Sharply 3 mortgaged our pay, sometimes for vice, They organized a group of more, Axis losses have been en- ) fitted, fed, _housod, paid, trans. months and years in advance, to boys to go out and scrub floors ormous and are bound to have ------ ported and supplied once they are pamper ourselves with such luxe and de polishing of one kind and weakened the offensive strength Canadian beef cattle exports to. part of the army. 2 uries as automobiles, washing ma- another. The money received was of the German military machine, the United States have dropped Ton onion. we {ake hid entirely |. chines, radios, pianos, chesterfield Invested "in bonds, which after tha .| for this year at least. sharply in recent weeks, mainly for. granted that -a- man's pay will suites, rosowood furniture for our war will be donated to the.Baden- | "3 he prevailing view hero is due' to Government action to reach him no matter on what front bedrooms and a hundred other Powell Memorial Fund for the that the Nazi offensive launched maintain home supplies, according 2 ration Lis Lis asi p things that in a more spartan ex. eration. of kp Hous du Linon, in Southern Russia this summer to the Agriculture "Dapariments nd Juve. istence we can vory well do with. Boy . . " i » " was an all-out attempt on the part livestock market review. larly regardless of how often the ou op simplify, ori 5 ROLES I" ig i bey Fon to aiken tia Soviet nin In the week ending September : Troop, England hadn't enough cou: fes to impotence, if not actually 10 only 63 head of beef cattle family moves or how often he Today under the consumer pons to provide themselves with to destroy them. He has certainly CLOTHS the WAteer sane] 1.864 Inoves, - credit regulations such mortgag. Troop neckerchiefs. Not to be failed in this so far, in the same period last yes I It must be remembered too, that ing is on a sounder economic denied them, the boys secured .an In og Li ¢ en Foul other Individual Citizen's Army, basis, down payments must - be old bed sheet, dyed it, and made 4. Confirmation of this is seen oct : Ai Le ger es As year taxpayers" Tike you and me, are | TEreter" the hatance which- is-paid-- [their neckerchicfs--from-iti------ | here in three speeches by Foreign pes Cattle jesporis Yee 21,396 entitled to get an accounting of by installments must be cleared * . B Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, | read against A066 dnd 04 eo all the moneys that are spent for more quickly--witht the result that A new edition of "Scouting for Richsfulirer Iitler, and Reichmar- | Pony Pagan across the us by our government. ' much more of the money in our Boys," which since the beginning shal Hermann Goring, whith sig- B01: ut - "2 oatly Biaiths of the Today thero are hundreds ot pay cheques is our own. of the movement has heen the nitcantly enough coincide with a theta saul x ship- thousands of Johnny Canucks in This is just another form of the handbook of the Boy Scouts, has the closing week of the So0day wy is i an By MI, with 3 khaki each getting his $1.30 a day assigned pay of the soldier and is just bEen published in Ingland. period outlined by Captain Lyttle- 1° 't 99 SaRre 20,166 head --or more according to their rank one way in which by approxima. | It js a memorial edition in honour ton. These specches, especially poi Hs), ys ; nd: : --and the translation of these in- ting his conditions we may feel of the author and founder of the Hitler's, have been generally fn. ner pre oped uyimg ar- \. § dividual sums into Battalions, closer to him in the carrying on Scout movement, Lord Baden- terpreted in England as evidence Paani en)s ih ihe, United 2 Brigades, Divisions, Army Corps of our own job of war work -- Powell, It is not generally known, that Nazi leaders now acknowledge I id 20 000 anadian and Armies, calls for the opera- which is to support in every pos- but next to the Bible, the hand- they must henceforth abandon the ho ate are allowed to cross tion of an accounting system that sible way the man in uniform, book "Scouting for Boys" has had offensive and take up a broad de- the Som er Jal, with certain might well be expected to stagger A few days ago in Montreal a larger circulation than any other fensive strategy toward - the war numbers allocated for quarterly even a civilian merchant prince. there was an excellent example of. hook published in the present cen. as a whole. porias, The last quarter quota That, very briefly, is a sketch the civilian equivalent of "pay tury. This, broadly speaking, is the will open oa Octolier 1 and if they -ot-some of the work of the Royal--| deduction" when three firms en. | * i hd reasoning that underlies most Bri are available about 50,000 beef Canadian Army Pay Corps. It is gaged in the business of selling Boy Scout Apple Days which are tish press comments in the con- cattle may be shipped at the pre- - not by any means the full picture -| &0ods on the installment plan usally held all across Uanada clusion of Captain Lyttleton's 80- ferred rates. --there are such things for in. | ~Were convicted of violations of the about the middle of October have day pericd. In informed circles, SH mmm------ : stance as advances of pay to men ig Madi i o i mae Au Smporian contribution » however, certain warnings are to - oing on leave, deductions to be artime Prices and "Trade Board. solving tho problem of apple mark- be heard. First is that the sjtu- " ; as from pay for carelessly, lost Each was fined sums ranging eting in Canada. Apple Days have | ation of Stalingrad itself is still PLENTY OF COAL = or mislaid equipment, stoppages from $300 down to $100 plus the become so numerous that many serious and that it remains to be AVAILABLE! ow of pay occasloned by necessary payment of costs--sums not great thousands of bushels of apples ara seen just Row heavy a blow has Says G. C. Cooke, Rresident of : punishment and the provision of enough to hurt the pockets of the required annually to fill require. been struck at Soviet military Blue Coal monetary allowances In lieu of dccosed firms, but none the less ments, and thus' a tseful markot strength by the Nazi's territorial In a recent: broadcast, Gordon be rations and quarters, when a sol a deduction of their pay which ig found for a fruit which has suf- gains, which include some of Rur- C. Cooke, president of D. L. & W. » dier is detailed to a job of work [| formed part of the greater pun- fered much because of export re- sia's richest mineral, industrial, Coal Co., producers of "blue coal", which docan't permit him to live ishment afforded by the publicity strictions due to the war, and agricultural districts. said: "In this coal crisis we must in barracks. that hig avon to their mation. -- A second warning is that Jt share and share alike. If you don't None of this can be done with- of rules that have been established would he unwise to overestimate receive all the coal you-order at out "a paper war" and most of for the benefit of the whole of Britain And Turkey the significance of speeches by the one time, the reason is that it Is done by men who would be Canada, Make Trade Pact Nazl leaders. Hitler has proved he your dealer is trying to put some much more highly paid doing the As time goes on thero is little F-- is a past master at ving speeches «coal in every bin and can only same type of work in thelr peac- doubt that the fight against in. BBC said last week Britain has as part of a propaganda smoke partially Hl your order at present, able occupations. flation -- both present and post- concluded an agreement with screen intending to mislead op- So bo -patient, You'll get all the Amongst the list of items to be war -- will put those.of us who Turkey under which it will take ponents as to his real intentions, coal you need. There's enough coal attended to by the Pay Corps, you serve in the Individual Citizen's a large part of this year's Turkish Third, in well-informed military to keep every home warm this Se - will remember I Hsted "assigned Army on the home front much -| exports, incleding much copper, circles it is emphasized that the winter." . pay. Every married man must, closer to parity with the soldiers hemp, flax, olive oil and dried new phase has at the most only Remember, when widening coal, and every single man is encour. in battle-dreas. Let's hope we can fruit, begun, It would be a mistake to to make sure it's "bluo coal" , , . aged to, assign a proportion of his serve as cheerfully as they do, re- In return, Britain will deliver expect to see at once any of the the coal you can depend on for 3 pay to his wife or his next of kin. gardless of what our "pay corps" manufactured goods, steel and "first evidences of victory" refer: greater comfort and heating satis- ar Fathers and mothers of improvi- fs compelled to do to us. grain, red to by Captain Lyttleton, _ faction all winter, - 4 REG'LAR FELLERS--Correct By GENE BYRNES ] ™ Ss UP ON IF YOU READ SOME &) HERES ONE / OF THIS STUFF IN ; WHAT'S, THE MATTER WITH THATS EASY! puss' THIS BOOK You. SURE, | WOULD! THIS Si NCE -* THE TOAST, THE TOAST WAS HAVE A ? 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