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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 guns 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 arms 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 for Amerien. But let acknowledgo 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 Ailles.

Britain and Franco might easily say, "Sorry; but one war at a time is enough.". Not only are they 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 Finns 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 developing

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 Allles' 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' close 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 Straits, Gibraltar, Multa and Port Sald, and the French at Dunkirk, Lo-Havre, Marseilles-and-Oran

Neutrals engaged in bona-fide non-enemy trade can reduce to à minimum the inconvenience to their ships by two methods:-

(1) by zending on copies of the mant- fest of the cargo to the Ministry of Economic Warfare in advance of the stulp, or

(2) by declaring the cargo to a British consular authority in the neutral country and obtaining a pavicert.

This is equivalent to a commercial passport which carries genuine neutral goods through the control stations with the minimum formalities.

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Though certain neutrals may com- plain about what they consider inter- ference with their legitimate trade. they prefer our method of examination and Priza Court, which has caused no damage to a single ship or person, to the German "sinic at sight" policy and its loss of Innocent women and children.

Great War destroyed 1,760 neutral! Under this policy, Germany in the 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 largo, tempestuous area of some 200,000 square miles, bounded by the 270 miles from Scotland to Nor- way and the 400 miles between Boot- land and Iceland.

Pursuing zigzag courses to reduce the chances of being torpedoed by submarines, the patrol of cruisers and armed merchant cruisers steam in a ilno some 30 miles apart-the viable distance from the crow's nest of each ship being about 15 miles in fina weather.

Il was a whit of the Northem Patrol which in the Great War fought a clan- ala duct with the first rulder to be dis covered attempting to run the gauntlet of the blockade.

The R.M.B. Alcantara, on February 29, 1910, sighted a strange ship and pursued her, the crew being ordered to "netion stations" as a precaution. Flying Norwegian colours, this stranger claimed to be the aa, Rena from Bout America with a cargo of coffee.

Suddenly the Rena's ensign staff dropped, her steering box opened to reveal a aun, flaps on her sides fell to are. tinmask other guns, and she opened

Realising she was a disguised Ger- man raider the Alcantam immediately retaliated, and, though her steering gear was disabled, holly engaged the Řena in a duel that lasted for a quarter of an hour.

By this time the Rena, repeatedly:

hit, was badly on fire and almost in- viable in the clouds of amoke. She censed 'fro and, "abandon `ahip** having been ordered, thó survivors took to the boats.

list, and had to cease fire. As she was By now, the Alcantara had a heavy

obviously sinking, her captain also gavo the order abandon ship," and in a short while she turned over on her

benim ends and sank.

as naval suxiliary vessels literally Thus, two peaceful liners fitted out fought themselves to a finish. Other British ships cama on the scene and rescued the survivors.

The courage and devotion to duty of the crows of the Alcantara and Rawal- pindi are typical of those who man the Northern Patrol Their work, an the.... late Lord Balfour, a First Lord of the Admiralty, aaid. WAS

"more con- tinuous, more important and more suo cessful than that of any other branch of His Majesty's naval forces,"" many's exports on top

The now measures against Ger

of months' intensive blockade of her threa imports-are bound to have a tremen doua inquence an the Nazis' power to carry on the war. German overseas export trade should now be almost ex- tirely cut of

In the Great War the blockade re duced Germany's foreign trade from £1,180,000,000 in 1913 to £160,000,000 Lu 1910--a mere one-seventh of its original volume.

Last year the total value of Ger- many's overseas exports was about £100,000,000.

During war she will naturally divert as much of thorQ exporta as possible to neighbouring countries, and this will reduce her normal neaborne exports.

Nevertheless, it is estimated that she will loso £45,000,000 ns the result of the Allled blockade.

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'AMPOLSKY, Quovadis, famous Royal Canadian Mounted Costello and Zorn Police are packing their scarlet they'll be swinging a kit coats in moth balls to join the first down Piccadilly soon. For division. 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 McVeigh, In this regiment. But then you would expect Macs-particularly exiled Macs-to join à Highland unit. And you might expect them to want to fight for the "Old Country."

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But it's Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zorn who represent the spirit of that great part of Canada which is made up of s many different European peoples.

Besides Yampolsky, Quovadis, Costello and Zorn, there are Smith, Archambeault, Brown and Legault. For the first overseas division 18 entirely representative of all tho Canadas, upper and lower, English and French.

It includes smart lads from Van- couver Island, where the Pacifo laps, gunners from Moose Jaw on the rolling prairies, riflemen from St. Jean in old French Quebec, and engineers from Halifax on the Atlantic seaboard,

But they will have some tough nursemaids to watch over them, for

their Arctic outposts,

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"If you had mannors, Solma, you'd stop interrupting me with your troubles while I'm telling you mine!”

For every Canadian soldier re- ceives alx shillings a day, besides £0 a month separation allowance for his wife, and £3 à month for each child.

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Out of the backwoods the fron- termen are coming down to the big cities. Harry Hooper, just from the wilds of the Cariboo, looked as hig as a bear in his hand-sewn moose-skin suit with its beaver tail 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 Rockies. "I'm so tough they'd have to muzzle me to give a grizzly a chance."

(But Harry Hooper wasn't so tough when he talked about his friends-his horses and his dogs- which he had to shoot before leav- tng to enlist..

They hadn't fitted "Tex "Lebere with a uniform, and he still wore

his ten-gallon hat as he lounged. on the rifle range. When it came. to his turn to shoot, he missed the target completely at 100 and 200 yards, but clipped the bull at 500: yards. His fellow soldiers couldn't. understand it.

"Wal, it's this a-ways, fellans," said "Tex," giving his trousers a Back in Texas wo jest rtcii, throw stones at anything 100 or 300- yards away."

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Like Highlanders Yampolsky, ¡Quovadia, Costello and Zorn, most Canadians fols Scottish regiments from choice rather than ancestry. It's the uniform that gets them.

So when the Canadian Army' jadopted the new British over-all battle-dress I went down to the Seaforth Armories at Vancouver. In the great hall I bumped into a tall Highlander. His kilts hung in: smart plenta, his knees were not. too hony, and his calves under the. check stockings were shapely,

"What do you think of this new uniform?" I asked him.

From

haughty; far-away look of a warrior thinking of battle- fields OVOTUCAS his expression charged to one of worried bewild- Brmont,

"Listen, bud," the Highlander said, speaking in broad Colle accent. "We don't have to go. traipsing around in dom garage men's suits, do wo?"

"Say, bud," he wont on," a High-. land regiment can't parade in those monkey-ducks.: Why, „we'd" look like the boilermen's union on

plenic."

As I left, he followed me with. pleading eyes:

Peter Stursberg ›