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POUR
'Pi
SOLDIERS
IN
ITALY
QUIP-JEST
'
If
L.
4
Slit
Trrnrh
Humor
Rtmlfd
lA
Make-Shift
-UotneV'
Oossipj
"Pencil
Paper"
Jieachw
100th
.T
;
iM
.
-
(Canadian
Presi
War
Correspondent)
'
WITH
THE
CANADIAN
COHPB
IN
ITALY.
May
2
Khaki
Clofie-una:
nr.
f:
m
"Windy
City'
is
a
muddy
town"
where
a
troop
of
a
Can-
'.adlan
field
resfcnent
makes
Its
home.
The
name,
needless
to
say,
Is
the
gunners'
own
Inspiration.
There
Is
nothing
permanent
about
Windy
City
for
when
the
troop
moves
a
-new
site
Is
carved
from
the
mud
with
plcts
and
shovels.
The
"major'
is
L.
Bdf.
A.
E.
Pattemore
of
BrocTnllle,
Ont,
The
streets'
.bear
such
names
as
"Dud
Avenue"
and
-Shrapnel
Street"
while
slit-trench
homes
are
called
"Jump
Inn"
and
"Dive
Iim."
A,
daily
pencll-wrUten
paper
(
called
"Qan
Flash"
Is
edited'
and
published
by
Onrs.
J.
M.
Beckett
of
Calgary
and
"U
V.-Bourque
of
Winnipeg.
It
carries
such
enlightening
items
as
"one
litre
equals
one
and
three-tpraTters
pints."
'
Another
dally
"pencil
paper"
is.
the
"Daily
Dozen."
edited
"by
Pte.
E.
(Doc
)
Criddle
of
Dorchester,
Ont
for
the
men
of
his
company
in
the
Royal
Canadian
Regiment.
Assistant
edl-tor
Is
Pte.
Nick
Kowalchuk
of
Burlington,
Ont.
i
The
Daily
Dcxett,
written
on
i
nctepaper
scrounged
in
Compo-!
ba.so
last
November,
reached
its
j
100th
edition
March
12.
It
car-
.
ilti
news
items,
cartoons,
poems
J
and
items
about
the
troop
and
i
"
is
designed
-said
C
idtfie.
nj!
keep
the
morale
up
-a
bit.'
!
Criddle
has
lost
four
brothers
I
in
this
war,
three
with
the
af
fre-
m
England
and
one
"her.
Hii
father,
li.-CoI
JOe'rl
griddle,
served
with
Ihe
medlcil
corps
here
and
now
Is
hi
Eng-
It
was
open
season
on
fish
.'ihen
soldiers
from
-the
West
;;Nova
Scotia
Bezimen
found
a
nun
ceiiae
me.
abmux,
uis;
haiid
Grenades
jn
lieu
of
fish
hpVfcs,
the
Marithnes
-feturaed
j.'ijwith
.a
catch
that
.provided
fflsbs
for,
several
messes.
tPies.
J.
A.
Euxrett.
Yarmouth,
njs
and
W.
a.
tilinmelman.
L.T.
Burgess
and
C'T
Quinn,
all
of
"Halifax,
were
some
of.
the
f
lucky
easterners
who
enjoyed1
Italian
mackerel
for
supper.'
They
said
this
"lovely
tastmg
'
j
fish
resembles
a
Canadian
srwlt.
t
t:
Members
of
the
West
Nova'
;
rri4tpicneer
platoon
fat
tompetrog
ttHv
In
a
"best
beard"
competition
.
Zu.jf.l4l;i
a
prize
offered
by
the
bat-jyi.-talion
comma
n
dl
n
g
.officer.
-
.
T
flfn,
r
Alto
fm
X
n
O
T5
r.M.
fsfii
ham
of
Kouchlboasouac.
NJ3.,
cii'.feiwith
the
platoon
commandert
Pa
Lieut.
Leslie
Mo.qre,,.
Lonir
$&rancb,
Ont,
running
thlrd;"
.Anyone
want
to
compete
witn
OSM.
G.
M.
'Stephen
of
To:ontJ
for
a
long
service
record?
Stephen
has
had
23
years
consecutive
service
in
the
army,
the
last
38
with
the
43th
Highlander
arid
the
previous
three
with
the
12th
fork
Rangers.
One
night
Pte.
Joe
Oagnier
3
Sydney
Mines,
NS.,
'went
out
oil
;
;
patrol
with
the
Cape
Breton
Hlghlanders.
He
dropped
a
knife
(
ci
wnicn
ne
was
very
proua,
so
back
he
went
alone
to
retrieve
,
"
m
it,
When
Joe
returned
ne
had
I
two
knives,
both
of
German
'
origin.
Say
"his
fellow
soldiers:
"Pity
help
those
Heirrics
if
Joe
ever
loses
his
ldt
of
clothing.
TheyH
&i
Ilfeeze
to
death,"
C.N.R.
Traini
Fr
tlr
r.at
Sally
fxcfpt
tiundajr
,
t
pjn.
:lom
the
rast
-
J
jZiuilir
except
Monday
..
10;45
p.m.
-
"rr
ttrrmt
.
titniday,
Monday,
Wednesday.
Tburxday
uul
Trligj
4
0411.
f'nt
lrrcv
iltniUjr,
TuexUy.
TbursdAf,
rrlday
and
RtturCtsy
....
n
a.jn.
MOVIES
OUT
OF
BOU?q
3
BASINGSTOKE,
England
W
Twelve
of
16
boys
who
pleaded
tuitty
to
theft
were
'ordered
by
the
court
not
to
bo
to
movies
for
the
next
six
months
alter
the
lather
of
one
of
the
boys
suggested
his
son
had
come
under
the
lnfuencc
of
"lurid"
films.
'
'fl'.s
.
-A.
A
(OWL
putM)
m
-
M
IS
QND
PURCHASE
CT0RY
IN
VICTORY
Iinal
Victory
will
depend
upon
complete
unity
of
effort
.
.A
unity
symbolized
in
the
term
Tnitcd
Nations.
The
degree
to
which
there
is
a
unity
of
.purpose
(Of
all
C
anadians
,
irrcsjwtivc
of
race,
color,
political
or
religious
creeds,
will
mark
the
success
of
Canada
s
contribution
to
the
comb.ned
efforts
of
the
Allied
nations.
Whatever
the
price
.
.
whether
it
be
time
.
.
money
.
.
or
even
life
itself,
it
must
le
paid
for
Victory.
Kvcry
dollar
and
every
person
must
become
a
cor
in
a
miirhty
machine-like
effort
to
?7te
Svir
AxIm.
,'mvcrs'
Yo,,r
Provincial
(Jovernmcnt
is
subscrihinK
57,000,000
to
the
Sixth
ictory
Ian,
which,
with
former
purchases,
will
make
a
total
holding
of
$13,000,000
in
Dominion
(lovcrn-in
en
t
nonds.
,
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v
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VICTORY
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OF
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