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To Hit Germans "Colossal Crack" Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery called on his 8th Army last week to "drive the Germans north of Rome" and promised that "we Will now hit the Germans a_colos- sal crack." . In a personal message to, his 'men who have sliced deeper into the German defence system north. 'west of the Sangro river in Italy, Gen. Montgomery sald: "The -Allles have conquered about one-third of .Ifaly since we invaded the country on Sept. 8. But the Germans still hold the ap- Proaches to Rome apd that city 1tself. "The'time now has come to drive the Sopa, north of Rome. We worthy of the best traditions of the 8th Army and the desert alr orce, "The enemy has been outfought by better troops ever since we Tanded In Sicily and: his men do not like what they are getting, The Germans are, In fact, in the very condition in which we want them. g "We will now hit the Germans a - colossal crack. Good luck to you all'and good hunting as we go for- ward! Crime of Shooting Rare White Deer A photograph shown in some newspapers this week shows a Minnesota hunter standing beside the carcass of « white deer which he has just shot, says The St. Thomas Times-Journal. We con. of the hunter at seéing the beau- tiful animal sprawled across the bonnet fo his cat. The pictures of dead deer with blood dripping from their nostrils with their happy killers posing alongside, never appeal to us--but shooting a white deer! The number of wild animals, deer included, although they are harmless to livestock, must be kept down, and the only way is by shooting. There are some hunting men whose "fingers itch at the trigger whenever they see something alive in the woods. But something should be done fo pre- \ : vent them from killing rare speci- ~§ mens. If white deer could mul tiply their kind they would add cur woods. There should be a law forbidding the killing of white deer, Pending 'appointment of a sue. cessor to Lieut.-Gen. A, G. IL McNaughton who is relinquish. ing command of the First Can: adian Army, Lieut,-Gen. Kenneth Stuart, present Chief of the Gen- eral Staff will hold the Acting Command, . I4.-Gen, Stuart has been Appointed, Chief of Staff at Canadian Military Headquart- . ers in London. "© (Canadian Army Photo) $e Ice Cold Water For all cattle in" winter, par. ticularly. foradairy cows, a lib- eral supply of good clean water i . taken off the water before drink- : ing. As pointed out by W. D. Al bright, Superintendent Dominion Experimental Farm, Beaverlodge, Albe: "starey-coated, consti: tle shivering hump- ey troughs on a bleak ina manner so --~ {COMMANDS FIRST Y CANADIAN ARMY is necessary..'And an. important thing is that the chill should be fess we could not share the pride © DontGiveCatle are an object of sym- mat or. hrunken "profits." e er ce-co mala do not. drink he Il amcut ocks nal they do. ~ functions: n, fll-thrift standing Rlvestisty that repairs a : are not on the rationed Mast, and . that thei | of ow MERGPE, ATLAS, PLEIONE ' AND ALCYONE ARE IN THE | STAR GROUP, ° CPLEIADES," NEXT: When red hail fell, "SEVEN SISTERS" L EE Sp -- $3 ONE of the best known groups of stars in the heavens is the Plelades, which frequently is erroneously called the "little dipper." These "Seven Sisters" figured prominently in ancient celebrations of the beginning of spring, since they once marked the sun's place In the heavens as it crossed the equator traveling north, By William Ferguson OTTAWA REPORTS That New Regulations Will Tighten Control On Purchase Of Farm Machinery Farm machinery production and use "is being watched anxlously by the Government these days. Ottawa 1s very conscious of the fact that vital food production may be atfeéted by any miscalcu- lations of the requirement of the farmers In this direction, for manufacture of farm equip- ment have been very considerably enlarged during recent months, new equipment is still ditficult to obtain compared with normal times, It is still necessary to ra- tion a wide varlety of items of farm - machinery and equipment and to otherwise control the sale of these goods, and the Adminis. trator of Farm Machinery for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board has announced some new regu. latlons which tighten the control over conditions under which new farm machinery is sold. War material must come first ~ and implement plants both in Can- ada and the United States are Btil engaged on war orders. The supply of metal, although' improv- ed, 1s not yet nearly adequate. this respect' that arrangements have been made by Mr. Bloom, the Farm Machinery Administra- tor, with the United States War Production "Board for the release 'of greater supplies of metal for use In making'farm machinery, 3 *. * The new regulations now an- nounced .and included in a gen- eral 'consolidation of the farm machinery rationing order, con- cern the sales of machinery. One to his own use machinery that he has obtained for re-sale to permission from the Board to do 80. Another provision is designed 'to prevent farmers from .selling used equipment merely for thd purpose of bbtainlng new. From now on, no, application for new equipment will be considered fn previously filed with the Board's representative, a statement de- scribing the ysed equipment he 801d, ' giving his reasons for sell ; Ing it, and 'a description of the 'new machinery he Intends to buy. It 1s useless for him to try less he has a notice from the ~ Board's representative that his application for the new equipment will be given consideration. . 'Another provision has been "made which is designed to pre- vent farmers, who 'have already _ been refused application for new 'machinery, from repeating their "application through relatives. The Board now requires that applica- tions for. new 'machinery: must property on which the: new : Sai Caio 4 However it is some help to know "for farm equipment re aro some thirty items rat! 85 Sar the for Poultry Breeders "In spite of the fact that quotas against the same. prohibits a dealer from putting customers, unless he has proper" . ofrprofessional dog tight fans. A these cases unless the farmer has * to proceed with his purchase un. | 'come only from those who have 5 esastold or freehold interest * ma equfpment which are not announcements issued re 11 be 00d news to poul- ti try 'breeders across the country. The = Department of Agriculture has announced that additional sup- plies of anthracite coal will be imported from the United States for the exclusive use of poultry breeders and hatcheries. This will apply to the distgicts where this fuel is customarily used. The otHer announcement comes from the. Wartime Prices and Trade Board "and places a celling on the prices of both soluble and insoluble types of poultry grit. The celling prices which went in. to effect on December 16, affect manufacturers, , importers, "whole- salers and retailers, VOICE OF THE PRESS KNOWS HOW 3 Dunnville Chronicle "would 'like to know: "Why do people spend money they have not got to buy things they don't need to impress: people they don't like?" All we can suggest 1s the standard wo- man's reaion--hecause. : --Owen Sound Sun-Times. RE Sescarhigd MAKES HIM SQUIRM Hitler must find it a pain in the neck to read. the handwriting on the wall when his 'ack fs almost ' --Kitchener Record. EACH GOT HIS DESERTS . A Canadian soldier pald '£1 for a bottle of whisky in 'an Edin: burgh' pub. The Canadian got cold tea instead of whisky, and the pub owner 'got 30 days, Neither got what he wanted, but wha each got was good for him. : --Ottawa Journal, --0-- FAR BELOW CANINE LEVEL Detroit police arrested a group dog fight promoter Js a man sév- eral degrees below a dog. --Detrolt Free Press. | A NIGGER iN THAT WOODPILE ~ Ask 'Some consumers about coal,- and they shout: "For peat's sake don't 'mention ft!" : ~--Hamilton Spectator. --e WHAT? AGAIN? Newspapers, lke ladies, have to be careful, When there's a letdown 'thelr slip shows. 3 -mand of the Auglo-American fn. . many." - . of knights and minstrels, merch. for freedom. Anglo-Saxon political development, when the English first appeared as a nation, ; The - Champlain Road, an histor. ical romance of Ancient Huronia, in Ontario's Georglan Bay Dis- trict, which won the Governor- General's' Award for Fiction In 1939, the Canadian National Raflways as Publicity Representative for the Central Reglon, Mr, McDowell is one of the many fiction writers trained by practical journalism. Widely known among press and magazine writers, his early years were spent as a reporter and fea. ture writer, 'and 'he worked for a period In the .United Kingdom. Franklin Davey McDowell . . . The Macmillan company « « « « --Ottawa Citizen, Price $3.50. a --. Eisenhower To A threefront land offensive to be launched simultaneously against (ermany from Russia, from Italy and from Britain across the Channel, with Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower In supreme com. vasion army, was disclosed by President Roosevelt in his Christ. mas Day radlocakt to the natlon and to the armed forces In every theater of the globe, writes a cor respondent of THe Christian Sel ence Monitor, . The Cairo and Teheran, Iran, conferences with Marshal Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chlang Kal- shek and Prime Minister Winston Churchill brought. the President announced, agreement 'on every point ocncerned with the launch- Ing of a gigantic attack upon Ger- Mr. Roosevelt revealed the broad pattern of the climatic operations now in the making. Campaign. High Lights He evidently felt It would be The Book Shell Forges of Freedom By Franklin Davey McDowell Like a tapestry come to life this novel of fourteenth century England presents a vivid panor ama of life fn that romantic and turbulent age when the roads of England were the meeting-place ants and pedlars, outlaws and conspirators. Mr. McDowell re-creates bril- lantly the medleval scene and the pattern of life in England when, after three hundred years of Nor- man. occupation, Englishmen from every walk of lite 'drew thelr swords or forged them to tight There are many dramatic meet- ings in this novel, pictured in all the- pageantry of the period: the meeting of John of Gaunt and the "QGrossers"; the march on London when Watt Tyler met the King and his followers with Sir John de Redeware, Lord Willlam de Rose and their partisans, Forges of Freedom tells the story of that critical perlod. of . ) . ii David Franklin McDowell . . . Mr, McDowell {s the author of Identitled for many years with Forges of Freedom , . . By Direct Western Assault Into Heart of Germany ,ho help to the enemy to make Known: That the Russian Army will continue {ts stern offensives on Germany's Eastern Front, -- That the Alllgd armies in Italy and Africa will bring relentless pressure on Germany from the south. % And that the encirclement will be complete as great Amerlcan and British forces attack from other points' of the compass. The President explained that General Eisenhower was selected to lead the combined attack from these other points because "his performances in Africa, Sicily and Italy have been brilliant" 'and be- cause "he knows by practical and successful experience the way to co-ordinate air, sea, and land power." : Shifts In Commanders London revealed that General Eisenhower's assistant will be Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgontery, the famed commander of Britaln's Eighth Army, that Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. will succeed Gen. Eisenhower fn the Mediter- ranean with an American general assisting him, and that Gen. Sir Harold Alexander will command the Allied forces'in Italy, A British officer, to be an. nounced by Prime Minister Churchill. wlll succeed General Eisenhower In the Mediterranean and both the new commanders will have American and British subordinate commanders, The choice of an American for the Channel operation was dlc- tated by the proportion of the burden to be borne there by Am- erican forces. The Mediterranean Is to become largely a British un- dertaking, British troops have from the beginning carried most of the load and now provide near- ly three fourths of the troops op- erating In Italy, { Amerlcan forces entered that area originally on the assumption that the French In Africa would resist Americans less tenaclously than they would resist the Bri- tish. French Africa now being in the. war as an ally, that factot no longer governs. America's land weight In Europe therefore shifts back to England as" a base and an American commander be- comes loglcal for that area. Magnitude of Problem Indicating the gathering strik- ing force now available In Britain and the powerful reserves which will be ready to follow up the coming cross-Channel invasion, as well as other operations, Mr. Roosevelt said "there are now 3, 800,000 men in the American arm- ed forces serving overseas and that by July this number will rise to over 5,000,000. But with the settling upon Gen- eral Eisenhower for the fnvaslon command comes new Indications of the magnitude of his problem. The time cannot be very far in the distance. To take the fullest advantage of the Russian winter offensive it must come in the very early spring--hefore the spring thaws In Russla, or not much after the beginning of the thaw. The Germans must not be allow- ed time to move forces from the Eastern to the Western Fronts. Element of Haste That writes an element of urg- ent haste Into. the preinvaslon bombing schedule. Not only must maximum damage be done to Ger- man war Industry during the next two or three months. but the In. vasion coast itself must be soft. ened and the primary coast de- fenses must be reduced to the minimum possible effectiveness, The President frankly warned that the biggest and costliest bat- tles are still to be fought, and he sald of though Its success was certaln, its cost would be high and the time might be long. . Poor Fido - Britain has saved 460 thousand tons of shipping space in a year by importing "telescoped" meat. This is meat-from which all bones have been removed, REESE THE WAR . WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events the planned invasion, OX tm a Eh, aa------------ CANADIANS IN SICILY These ancient ruins in Sicily, crumbling evidence of a former civilization, was the setting for this Church of England communion being given here to a group of Canadians by Major Serson Clarke, of Ottawa, after a recent church service. seas Photo), (Canadian Army Over- Some Kind Words For Lowly Skunk The lowly skunk has been given a lot of most undeserved pub- licity, according to a man who claims to know much about these little animals, says The Trenton Courier Advocate, This man tells 'us that when a skunk is trapped, the other skunks will bring him a bed to lie on. Further than that, they will bring him food. He says he can prove this, If what this man says is true, and we are not doubting him a bit, name any other animal, wild or tame, that is so 'considerate of its own at a time like that. Newfoundlanders Doing Full Share Out of a male population in Newfoundland of 40,000 between the ages of 20 and 40, more than a quarter have volunteered to serve abroad. Numbers of these men are with Newfoundland Ar- tillery Regiments of the United Kingdom forces; with the Royal Navy, the Royal Air.Force, the Merchant Marine and the Forestry Unit, Many have enlisted in the Canadian armed forces. In this war as in the former world strug- gle, the Newfoundlanders are do- ing their full share of the fight- ing. Still Gets Z£iround On High-Wheeler From Regina comes a picture ot a man In his seventies riding a high-wheel bicycle, relates the Woodstock Sentinel-Review. This machine, more than halt a cen tury old, Is used today just as the ordinary bicycle or automoblle --for the purpose. of "getting around." What a difference in mechanism and in time and events between that high-wheaeler the latest tank. oat The owner of the high-wheeler is R. J.-King, .a Regina contrac. tor. He says he "learned to.get on the thing (quite a chore) back In Wingham, Ontarlo, 50 years --ago." Mr. King sald that he "used to go to work on it back in On. tarlo--Went a-courtin' on it, too." Not without interest, in the light ot the story and background of this high-wheeler, 1s the fact that it was built fn Coventry, England. The firm which bullt it was still making bicycles when the war broke out. Probably the firm's building was blown to bits in the infamous Coventry - blits, The machine's front wheel {8 about 414 feet high. Tires are solid rubber. "Sometimes," Bays Mr. King, "if you lose your bale ance, she'll throw you like a bucks Ing broncho." With 'wo attempt at lightness, It shodid be sald that such news as this helps all to keep their balance in a troube led world. THE MORNING FRONT DOOR By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 2; htt Ufo boku ol | 4% | TP Hw: , Eas [) Wn Fortis RIDE 0] 10 TRAIN adh ~ REG'LAR FELLERS--The Human Transport 8 By GENE BYRNES HY AREN'T YOU OUT FIGHTING NOT ME, MOM! MY GOODNESS! THATS NO WAY [/ OH,t DONT MIND THE BATTLE / "WITH THE REST OF 'THE I KNOW WHEN 0 PLAY SOLDIER - TO DESERT IN WHAT GETS ME 1S THAT JIMMIE - , PINHEAD ? Ne TIME OF BATTLE DUGAN ALWAYS MAKES BELIEVE HE'S WOUNDED AN' IT's UP TO ME TO LUG TM HOME / and Y 5 7 i i a A DREN i