PAGE
TVVO
R.A.F.
STAGING
POST
IN
AFRICA
One
Canadian
Among
Personnel
flt
iMarble
Arch,
Tripoli-tania
By
HAROLD
FREEMAN
Canadian
Press
8Ufr
Wrlu-r
MARBLE
ARCH,
Trlpollcania,
Nov
28
tf
The
doubtful
honor
of
being
probably
the
most
sand-rursed
ijlfctJoYi
of
the
RJV.F.
in
Africa
goes
to
the
staging
post
of
R
A
F.
Transport
Command
most
Rrntefione
of
.
Mussolini's
architectural
adventures.
The
arch
itself
towers
CO
feet
nbove
the
lorte
roadway
through
thii
partj.oX
the
Afjjcan
desert.
It
rijs
magnificently
out
of
the
df-.prt.
sand,
but
nobody
.
ever
sefts
it
ept
the
men
of
the
staging
post
and
the
crews
of
incoming
planes
who
use
it
as
a
landmark.
It
rf.ands
in
lone
splendor,
24
hours
by
road
from
the
nearest
sizable
town.
Mussolini
erected
it
to
mark
the
boundary
between
Tiiorjitanla
and
Cyrenalca,
but
apparently
something
was
wjron
with
his
calculations
because
the
true
boundary
is
several
miles
ear!
ward.
The
staging
post
consists
of
Christmas
Cards
From
our
wide
selection
of
fine
quality
cards,
distinctive
designs
and
many
messages
you'll
have
no
difficulty
at
all
in
choosing
your
way
of
saying
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
to
your
friends.
Buy
Now!
a
dozen
concrete-covered
buildings,
a
personnel
of
about
Including
one
Canadian
an
excellent
field
and
an
almost
steady
afternoon
sandstorm.
It's
the
most
penetrating
sand
Imaginable,
whipped
regularly:
each
afternoon
by
a
west
wind.
j
it
gets
into
eyes
and
hair,
pene-i
trates
clothing
and
chafes
the
I
skin.
It
sifts
through
tightly-
closed
windows
and
doors
to
spread
over
the
floors
and
Into
the
beds
of
the
living
quarters.
WO.
2
Earle
West
of
Shelburne
NS.,
is
briefing
officer
at
the
desolate
outpost.
'
A
Halifax
here
jn
the
shadow
of
one
of
the
stevedore
in
peace-time,
whose
i
wiic
iiuw
iira
ai.
tiuiu,
na.,
iir
has
been
at
Marble
Arch
for
three
months
after
serving
as
a
radio
operator
aboard
Transport
Command
planes
being
delivered
to
India.
He
thinks
Marble
Arch
Isn't
so
bad,
although
like
everybody
else
at
the
post
he
can
talk
for
a
long
time
about
the
disadvantages
of
living
in
a
perpetual
sand
storm.
He'd
like
to
'get
back
to
flying
J.
H.
Scott,
managing
director
of
the'
Riverside
Mine,
was
here
today
on
his
way
back
to
San
Francisco
after
a
visit
to
the
property
in
the
Portland
Canal
district.
St
Dibb
Printing
Company
BESNER
BLOCK
THIRD
AVENUE
NOVEMBER
IS
Of
HE
TIME
TO
GET
YOUR
GIFT-MAS
LIST
OFF
YOUR
CHEST
EARLY
See
our
stock
ot
Cards
and
Gifts
THE
VARIETY
STORE
:
XA
f3
3
Drop
Wm-
F,
Stone
y
"CLOTHES
OF
DISTINCTION"
SEE
BRITAIN
AS
FASHION
CENTRE
War
Training
JWJll
WW
Women
in
Designing
Says
iTaues
.Congress
LEICESTER,
Nov.
28
0
The
Women's
Advisory
Committee
of
the
Trades
Union
Congress
suggests
there
is
a
great
scope
for
women
in
the
dressmaking
sphere
after
the
war.
It's
annual
report
said:
"Hitherto
Paris
has
been
regarded
as
the
centre
for
exclusive
dress
and
fashion,
although
In
the
Immediate
pre-war
year3
America
was
Increasingly
be
coming
the
centre
of
popular
fashion.
4
"Efforts
should
be
made
to
es
tablish
this
country
as
the
chief
centre
for
design
and
fashion."
The
report
said
large
numbers
of
women
will
have
been
trained
in
drawing,
designing,
planning
i
and
tracing.
The
textile
Indus
though,
"and
most
of
all
I'd
like
tr,es
wouM
do
we"
to
plan
now
to
get
back
home."
to
enage
women
with
this
basic
experience
for
training
In
dress
designing
and
fashion
eenerallv
In
addition,
women's
wartime
training
and
experience
In
branches
of
engineering
could
be
used
with
great
advantage
In
many
branches
of
housing
and
furnishing,
the
report
said.
LETTERBOX
P.
T.
A-
APPRECIATIVE
Editor,
Dally
News:
The
members
of
the
executive
'of
the
Prince
Hunert.
Pnnnt.
Teachers
Association
would
like
permission
to
use
your
newspaper
to
express
their
thanks
to
the
many
people
who
donated
so
liberally
In
the
recent
Parent-Teachers'
Association
tag
day
and
also
to
the
special
appeal
which,
our
organization
sponsored
on
behalf
of
the
local
schools.
It
was
very
gratifying
to
us
and
I
am
sure
to
the
teachers
to
see
such
widespread
and
concerned
interest
in
the
educational
welfare
of
the
children
of
our
communityan
Interest
that
expressed
Itself
so
concretely
in
such
liberal
donations.
The
returns
for
this
generosity
will
be-found
in
the
better
facilities
.which
our
children
will
enjoy
.
,1
.
iii
iup
scnoois.
,
We
are
attaching
a
list
of
the-j
subscribers
and
to
them
we
want
,
to
extend
special
thanks,
i
P.T.A.
EXECUTIVE.
Corner
of
6th
and
Fulton
HALF
MOON
SNACK
(Manager,
George
Lum)
Specializing
in
Lunches
Chow
Mein
Chop
Suey
From
11
a.m.
to
3
a.m.
Opposite
Sunrise
Orocery
liirls!
.
Take
My
Tip.
.
.
in
and
see
the
large
Clirialmas
Gift
assortment
at
Bill
Stone's
.
.
.
YOU'LL
FIND
SOME-
i
THING
JUST
mmiT
m
FOR
HIM
!
.
YOU
ARE
CORDIALLY
INVITED
TO
INSPECT
OUR
STORE
THE
DAILY
NEWS
Is
Back
From
;
Native
Meeting
.
At
-Alert
Bay
First
of
many
debates
from
various
villages
along
the
north
coast
to
return
here
after
attending
the
recent
convention
af
Alert
Bay
of
the
Native
Brotherhood
of
British
Columbia.
Johnson
Russ,
chief
councillor
uf
Greenville,
arrived
in
the
city
yesterday
afternoon
and
will
proceed
by
gasboat
to
his
home
on
the
Naas
river.
Mr.
Russ
describes
the
convention,
which
was
attended
by
some
300
delegates,
as
a
most
successful
gathering
at
which
much
was
accomplished
In
the
interests
of
the
natives
as
a
a
whole.
nuuic.
Next
llAt,
yxriXl
year's
3
conven
vunVCII"
INCIDENTS
OF
WAR
LEAD
TO
REFLECTIONS
By
ALAN
RANDAL
Canadian
Press
War
Correspondent
WITH
THE
CANADIANS
IN
FRANCE
AND
BELGIUM,
Nov.
,28
Things
you
renumber
j
from
watching
this
war:
!
The
fellow
who
wanted
a
Ger
lights
carried
by
German
nris-
oners
with
three
slides
enabling
them
to
thine
yellow,
green,
red
and
blue
light
as
occasion
demands.
Also
the
man
who
said
ho,
had
found
the
rexson
for
the
German
army's
alleged
low
morale.
He
said
it
was
the
Issue
teaspoon
which
had
a
hole
in
the
bottom.
Only
on
investigation
It
proved
to
have
a
degree
of
merit,
being
not
a
tea
spoon
but
a
tea
cooler.
You
pick
up
a
teaspoon
full
of
hot
tea
and
let
it
dribble
back
into
the
cup
and
eventually
get
the
whole
thing
to
drinkable
temperature.
Very
nifty
but
hardly
geared
for
war.
Or
the
man
In
Antwerp,
who,
when
asked
"which
way
to
the
war?"
said,
"first
to
the
right,
then
two
blocks
to
the
left,
go
straight
ahead
and
you
are
there,
at
the
war
goodbye.''
INTERESTED
IN
CIVIC
AFFAIRS
Fish
and
Cannery
Workers
to
Take
Hand
in
Contest
Instructing:
their
executive
i
nit-mbers
to
scrutinize
very
close
ly
the
candidates
for
civic
office
mayor,
aldermen
and
school
t.
utees
of
this
city.
At
a
meeting
Sunday
evening,
the
opinion
was
voiced
that,
since
the
dvlc
governments
are
the
ones
with
which
the
general
public
has
the
closest
contact,
i
they
should
quite
properly
receive
close
attention
from
the
trade
unions
in
which
men
and
I
women
of
all
political
parties
find
a
common
meeting
ground,
,
It
was
also
the
feeling
of
the
i
meeting
that
the
trade
unions
should
not
give
their
approval
to
a
candidate
merely
because
he
claimed
to
represent
labor.
Paul
Taranger,
president
of
i
the
branch,
gave
clear
expression
i
to
this
idea
when
he
stated
that
Labor
must
"
Jud?e
candidates
vmiwiwuvLrt
a
ami
.
mit
y
1U1
d
3WUV
(7111,
a
having
only
recently
come
to
"not
on
t,le
basis
of
what
they
.
l
.
m
.
.
..
.
.
.
tVitntr
nf
t
V.nnAl..n
4
.
.
me
i
ron
i,
ana
suddenly
lounu
"
uiruucires,
nui
un
uie
himself
at
a
street
intersection
Dasls
of
what
they
call
them-
of
Le
Portel
which
is
a
suburb
selves,
but
must
Judse
the
can-
or
Bonlogile
and
it
seemed
as
dldates
?n
the
basis
of
what
though
most
of
the
German
they
have
done
in
the
past
to
army
had
gathered
here
and
further
the
welfare
of
the
com-
divested
themselves
of
their
rnunlty.
We
must
choose
men
steel
toppers.
You'd
need
a
wno
have
given
leadership
in
the
truck
to
take
them
away.
Past
to
progressive
enterprises
The
cool
courage
of
men
of
and
wno
8've
evidence
that
in
the
Highland
Light
Infantry
who
t,le
future
they
will
do
all
In
had
an
observation
post
which,
their
power
to
better
our
city
"
seemed
to
look
straight
down
Tne
members
felt
that
in
hav-
Into
the
mouth
of
the
great
Cap
their
executive
survey
the
Oris
Nez
cross-channel
guns.
1
flelJ
nf
candidates
for
civic
of
Even
while
the
attack
was
on.
flce
they
were
giving
a
practical
or
at
least
getting
teed
up.
these
guns
fired
occasionally
and
the
lookout
men
said
you
could
almost
feel
their
hot
breath
up
there
in
their
post.
The
Germans
had
their
position
well
taped
for
mortar
fire
so
the
boys
asked
that
we
drive
away
slowly
so
as
not
to
raise
too
much
dust
and
draw
the
fire.
O.K.
Joe,
thafs
o.k.
with
us.
The
tremendous
size
of
the
cross-channel
guns
at
Sangatte,
east
of
Calais,
taken
out
by
troops
from
the
Marltimes.
'
And
their
extensive
and
carefully
laid
mine
fields.
And
the
soldier
who
said
be
careful
and
caught
a
mine
himself
a
few
minutes
later
and
how
badly
you
felt.
The
tricky
little
issue
flash
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political
action
committees
be
set
lip
throughout
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nation.
Alderman
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secretary
of
the
plant
committee
of
the
union
at
Sfal
Cove,
reported
on
Ihe
work
of
the
city
council
during
the
past
year
and
told
of
projects
which
they
hoped
to
put
they
seek
election
and
to
make
i
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effect
in
the
near
future,
recommendations
in
line
with
!
their
findings
to
the
next
general
meeting
of
the
union,
shore
workers
enrolled
in
the
Prince
Rupert
branch
of
the
Fish,
Cannery
Reduction
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and
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be
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at
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rapidly
approaching
elections
for
Queen
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delegates
from
the
north
will
be
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heme
during
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present
week.
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