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Both these younglngilsh airmen have won the D.F.C. for outstand- iiu: "i! 0' gallantry-but you'll never learn from them what those deeds were. Like the rest of the R..AI-‘. men who arrive l“ Can-up,‘ to contribute their skill and experience to the C;.“,n]on“.ca“h a“. siieme. they?! rather talk about someone elsc‘s feats of ilariul: The pair are Flight-Lieut. John Hopkins, D.F.(‘.., 0|‘ Cardiff Wales. and Flying Officer Daggan-Smith, of Auckland, N1, ' '

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Men of Canada's armed forces get answers to many b:fflii-g questions it information booth in Toronto Central Y.lll.C.A. Prcaty Joyce Horsey, daughter of Chairman J. W. Horsey of the Y's publicity committee, bends over a. map while June Edmison, a comely Winni- peg girl attending college, smilingiy answers questions. At lWss iiorsey's RIGHT is Lleut. H. Rustad Royal Norwegian Naiul Air Force. Facing Miss Edmlson, LEFT to RIGHT: Aircraftman l), Kibbe, lt.C.A.F.; Sergt. C. W. Farrant, R.(J.E., and Aircraftman P.J.S. Stogerer, lt.C.A.F.

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0o: masks and gas are becoming familiar ti» the b0." at Lon: Branch military training camp. Number One platoon. (town's Own Rifles, tried out the [as ehambe. recently. They felt quite eoinllorlabli- with their masks on, but they wept when they tried tcargas without the lllltiis. Lance-Corporal Brash is shown all set i0! ti" ‘Nb

n" G. l. Brooks offlcilil! l at I-‘lngol, 0nt., officers to the long line of Fairer oys. These planes ore

lilo than a minute after Air 00mm“! we! a». a bostlbilil llltl new!’ "M" "Ill inon broke from the hens"! "l" m"

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ruin-an to lly in Canada. J. A. piaifs founding, as “one of aviati M. A. Shcrrick and Ralph Bell,

Air General Aldo Pellegrinl, above, was one of those Pepnrlmi killed when an Italian military plane, Cﬂrryiiis members of the iisiiini Armistice Commission, crashed. All on board the plane, which was en route from Rome to Turin, di-s in the crnckup.

Some of these Candaiari It..-\_.F. officers, posted home for duty ln“lloscoe" Turner, Flying Officer Bob Bilssett, D.F.(‘..; R0, Russell epipire air schools, were raiding objectives in_ Germany and Italy less Wiens, I-ZO. Jack Greenwood, and Squadron Leader Ted English, an a, month ago. The men are from LEFT: Flight Lieut. F. W. ED-F-C-

Rcsentmcnt of Chinese against fellow-countrymen who serve the Japanese invaders has made existence precarious for these puppets. Above, puppet Chen Kung-po (in overcoat) is inaugurated .\la,vor 0f the Japanesemontrolled Shanghai Special illunicipallrv, Note -l guzirdat left, with bouquet of flowers in one hand - and a pistol ready in the other.

lLMJLf-Ltiy (l i uesiuibcit uec. ll irate of tiie Commu.w altu air 0n's greatest days.“ The pioneer flier is shown with 'I‘.C.A, Stewariiess director-general of aircraft production for Canada.

i , , RC‘. Anderson tacks up one of the 1.000 safety signs whixh police are

posting throughout the city in an effort to reduce the toll ot’ 3gp].

dents for the rest of 1940. A flag of safety is to be flown at oity hall until the first fatality occurs.

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Chicago's lake front highway.

volume of the moment. The new glnecr Otto E. Jclinek.

In drastic shnkcup of It ﬂizm army high commiruil, Gen id- tore Bostico, left, was put in

charge of the strategically import- ont Dodecanese Island-s. Companion of Premier Mussolini in early Black- sliirt days, and veteran commander of Ethiopian and Spanish wars, he ls considered an exponent of

Youth of elllm by countries LEFT: Aircraftman Fred Ralph.

smashing blitzkrieg attacks.

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Trafflc lanes, "made to order“ by curbs that rise. Curbs are normally flush with the pavement. Hydraulic I'M-Wt! "will HIM inch“. making various combinations of lanes

nations. enrolled in the fight l-galnst nazlism, gt g, Toronto dinner on the first anniversary

Linton, Canada; Arthur Schwager, Australia; J. C- Ganilerton,

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i i. i- _ Vague but persistent minors in Athens say Bruno Dlussolini, eliicst ' sou of Il Duee, was shot iiown and killed in n raiil on Salonicu iii ' November. Another unconfirmable report of a sinlilar nature )l;\il o: been circulated in regard tn an aerial encounter over southern j’ Albania. Since positive identification proved inlpiissilvle, the truih ' about either of these rumors may not be known until after the our. 1/1.]

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stood when the chairman called the roll of the Commonwealth air plan. From P. T. Lauzon. France; G. Kaplanis. Greece Scrgt. William England; Arturo Wiedman, ,l'eru;

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Ireland; Lake Ontario has been used for the past tbri-i- weeks

_ ill I testing area. for Alracobras, ittlll-milc-an-hour fighter aiffrnft

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made for Britain by the Bell Aircraft in Bviiffato. Thi- first M‘ sou rolled off the production line about three weeks BIO. a clbmpglny M.

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veterans of the Battle of Franc they helped to keep the skies clear while Allied way to Dunkirk and across the channel. They

sway. the drone of their motors ers on the [round could hear faint machine-gun fire. On tli, grzuttd,

eptlieir patched sides revealing that forces fought their took off rtnd soared i

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flcial said. Laki- Ontarin is being used for "avcclcraicil firing tests" of the six macbiiiriiuns and single oannon mounted all metal plane.

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Fighting was reported general in the Sollum-l-‘ort (Tapu o-llardia i‘: a . - _ _ area rm Dec. l7, with an l-iilian division led by .\laj.~(-i-n. Noel L‘, ’ ' Bcrcsforil-Pcirsc fighting beside British, Australian and New ‘lieo-

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other gunners were firing service machine-guns at targets backed by heavy concrete stops. and the noise echoed menacnlzly a; g m. alistie oecompan‘ n: to the mock battle. in the skies above. The school's formal opening crime on the first anniversary of the fulnd- l lug of the Commonwealth air training plan.

lani! troops. (‘aptiuc of Hollum. last Italian stronghold in Egypt, and For‘. Capone. first big defence post on the Libyan side nf tho !' frontier. provided the British with two invaluable hoses from which to start a ilrivo against the battered Italians in their richest African ‘~_i colony. i"

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