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real trouble with the Soviet,
So too are the French and the Swedes, but in both Moscow and Berlin it is Britain which is especially singled out for threats.
This aid is going to Finland as part of the League of Nations movement to help her resist aggression, but Russia knows the arms and planes come from London and Paris, not Geneva.
Reports the last few days have shown-a-considerable amount of help going to Finland from Britain and France.
Right at the start Britain sent between twenty and thirty fight- ing planes. France has shipped thirty of her newest planes and in addition, anti-tank guna and ammunition.
Britain is sending a second and much larger shipment of planes and dipping into much- needed stores of anti-aircraft equipment and gasoline to help the Finns. Sweden is sending volunteers and army and affording transit for the Allied supplies.
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Those who have convinced themselves that nation wholly selfish in anything they do may try to say that helping the Finns is only self-protection. Undoubtedly for all the nations which cherish freedom and order interests as well as ideals are involved in Finland's gallant stand. That is true even America. But let 129 acknowledge that much of the effort in every country to help the Finns springs from unselfish admiration for courage and decency.
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Surely in the generosity which is providing aid there should be room for the appreciation of good motives. Certainly Ameri- cans can see that they risk little. compared with the Allies.
Britain and France might eastly say, "Sorry; but one war at a time is enough." Not only are tlioy facing the possibility of drawing Russia's attack; they can ill afford to give up any war supplies.
They are straining to get planes for their own defence. They do not know what they may need should Germany open up full force in the Spring. Every bit of assistance they give the Finnà is a real sacrifice. Let us pay tribute to it as to the widow's mite-though it is no mite in Finnish eyes, or Russian.
war is
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BY COMMANDER H. PURSEY, R.N.
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OTH Germany's imports and her exports are now liable to seizure by the French and British navies, The Allies' two-way blockade of Germany is well under way.
How is this new stranglehold on German trade being operated?
It will add to the already heavy task of those responsible for the Allies closo watch on all European Overseas trade.
These sentinels are now more watchful than ever at the gate- ways of the sea routes-the British at the Orkney Islands, Dover Btraits, Gibraltar, Malta and Port Said, and the French at Dunkirk, Le Havre, Marseilles and Oman,
Neutrals engaged in bona-fide non-enemy trade can reduce to à minimum the inconvenience to their ships by two methods:-
(1) by sending an copies of the mani- fest of the cargo to the Ministry of Economie Warfare in advance of the ship, or
(2) by declaring the cargo to a British consular authority in the neutral country and obtaining a navicart.
passport which carrien genuine neutral This is equivalent to a commercial goods through the control stations with the minimum formalities,
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plain about what they consider inter- Though cerlain neutrals may com- ference with their legitimato trade, they prefer our method of examination and Prize Court, which has caused no damage to a single ship or person, to. the German "sink at tight" polley and ite loss of innocent women children.
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Under this policy, Germany in the Great War destroyed 1,700 neutral ships, often with no warning, and over 2,000 lives.
The most important part of the blockade is the interception of ships at sea, and the most hazardous task is that carried out by our Northern Patrol in that large, tempestuous area of nome 200,000 square milca, bounded by the 270 miles from Scotland to Nor- way and the 400 alles between. Boot- larid and Iceland.
Pursuing zigzag courses to reduce the chances of being torpedoed by submariacs, the patrol of cruisers and armed merchant cruisers steam in a line some 30 miles apart-the valble distance from the crow's nest of tach ship being about 15 miles in fine weather.
It was a unit of the Northern Patrol which in the Great War fought a clas- ale duel with the first raider to be dis covered attempting to run the gauntlet of the blockade.
The R.MS. Alcantara, on February 20, 1910, sighted a strange ship and pursued her, the crew being ordered to taction stations" as a precaution. Flying Norwegian colours, the stranger cialmed to be the sa, Rena from South America with a cargo of coffee.
Buddenly the Rena's ensign staff dropped, her steering box opened to reveal a gun, naps on her aldes tell to urunask other guna, and she opened
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man mider the Alcantara immediately Renilaing she was a disguised der- reinilaled, and, though her steering tona na duct that lasted for a quarter gear was disabled. hotly engaged the
of an hour.
By this into the Resa, repeatedly
it, was badly on fire and almost in- visible in the clouds of smoke. She having been ordered, the survivors censed fire and, abandon
Bhip" took to the boats.
lets and had to erase fire. As she was By now, the Alcantara had a heavy obviously sinklog, her captain also gave the order abandon ship," and in s short while she turned over on her beam enda and sank.
naval auxillary vessels llerally Thus, two peaceful lacre fitted out fought themselves to a Anish, Other British ships came on the scene and rescued the survivors.
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The courage and devotion to duty of the crews of the Alcantara and Rawal- Northern Patrol. Their work, as the pindi are typical of those who man the.
admiralty, said, was Jato Lord Balfour, a First Lord of the inuous, more important and more suo-
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Tho now measures against Oer- many'a exportaan top. of imports-are bound to have a tremen- three months' intensive blockado of her
carry on the war. dous laduence on the Nazis' power to expart trade should now to almost en- German ovEISENS tirely out of.
duced Germany's foreign trade from £1,180,000,000 in 1913 to £160,000,000 in 1918-a mero ond-seventls of its original volume.
In the Great War the blockade re-
Last year the total value of Ger-
naturally divert as much of those many's overseas exports was, about £100.000,000. During war ebs will exports as possible to neighbouring countries, and this will reduce her normal seaborne exports.
Nevertheless, it is estimated that aho Will 1080 £45.000,000 as the result of the Ailled blockade.
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Police aro packing their scarlet conta in moth balls to join the first. division,
For every Canadian soldier re..
AMPOLSKY, Quovadis, famous Royal Canadian Mounted Costello and Zorn - they'll be swinging a kilt down Piccadilly soon. For in spite of their names, they will be among the Seaforth High- landers of Canada who will shortly be leaving for England with the first overseas division from the Dominion,
Of course, there are all kinds of Macs, from MacAdam to MeVelgh, In this regiment. But then you would expect Macs-particularly exlied Macs-to join a Highland unit. And you might expect them to want to aght for the "Old Country.”
But it's Yampolsky. Quovadis,
•Costello and Zorn who represent the spirit of that great part of Canada, which is made up of so many different European peoples. Besides Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zorn, there are Smith, Archambeault, Brown and Legault, For the first overseas division is entirely representative of all tho Canadas. upper and lower, English and French,
celves six shillings a day, bealdes £6 a month separation allowance for his wife, and £3 a month for cach child.
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Out of the backwoods the fron tiersmen are coming down to the big cities. Harry Hooper, just from the wilds of the Cariboo, looked as big as a bear in his hand-sewn moose-skin suit with its beaver infl-- trimmings, and moved as silently as any in his mocassin shoes.
"Let me at 'em," he roared at me in a voice that would have shaken the Rocklos, "I'm so tough they'd have to muzzle me to give a grizzly a chance."
(But Harry Hooper toasn't so tough when he talked about his friends-his horses and his dogs which he had to shoot before leau- ing to enlist.)
They hadn't atted "Tex" Lebere with a uniform, and he still wore
It includes smart lads from Van- his ten-gallon hat as he lounged couver Island, where the Pacific on the ride range. When it came laps, gunners from Moose Jaw on to his turn to shoot, he missed the the rolling prairies, ridemen from target completely at 100 and 200 St. Jean in old French Quebec, and yards, but cilpped the bull at 500- engineers from Halifax on the yards. His fellow soldiers couldn't Atlantic senboard,
understand it.
But they will have some tough nursemaids to watch over them, for 10 their Arctic outposts, the
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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"If you had manners, Solma, you'd stop interrupting ma with your troubles while I'm telling you mino!”
"Wal, it's this a-ways, fellahs," said "Tex" giving his trousers n. hitch, "Back in Texas we jest throw stones at anything 100 or 200 yards away."
Like
Highlanders Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zora, most. Canadians join Scottish regiments from cholco rather than ancestry,. It's the uniform that gets them.
Bo when the Canadian Army adopted the new. British 'over-all battle-dress I went down to the Beaforth Armories at Vancouver, In the great hall I pumped into tall Highlander. His kilts hung in smart pleats, his knees were not too bony, and his calves under the-- chock stockings were shapely.
"What do you think of this new uniform?" I asked him.
From a haughty, far-away look of a warrior thinking of battle-- fields overseas his exprcasion changed to one of worried bowild- ermont.
"Listen, bud," the Highlander said, speaking in broad Gaelic accent. "We don't have to go traipsing around in dem” garage mon's suits, do wa? "
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"Bay, bud," ho went on, a High". land regiment can't parade in those monkey-ducks. Why, wo'd look like the bollermen's union on a plonic."
As I left, he followed me withi pleading oyes.
Peter Stursberg