_ March 29, 1940 THE ADVOCATE ETERMINATION of the Lib- . eral party machine to squelch members who voted against Can- jada’s participation in the present fwar reached a new high last tweek. i Throughout the province Prem- ier Adelard Godbout has thrown ithe full weight of the provincial lorganization behind the federal ‘authorities in an effort to freeze out the Liberal members who g bave refused to accept the party line, and betray their 1935 man- date from the people. | Speaking at an ‘official’ Liberal Prally last week, Premier Godbout ‘Stated that ‘the official Liberal candidate is my candidate and will be approved by all my friends.” This, in effect, meant that the provincial patronage would in future be extended only to those who stooged for the im- perialist section of the Liberal party. These tactics are best seen in the Three Rivers constituency where W. Gariepy, the present Member, has been denounced and W. Poissan nominated by a pack- /ed convention. In a letter to God- bout on March 10 Gariepy flayed this attempt to silence him and ‘Stated that “his is a regime of jabsolute terror and contrary to the principles which our party has always preached.” The election in this constitu- ency, where Gariepy is running as an Independent Liberal, has been deferred because of Pois- son’s death. e@ SIMILAR case occurred in the Laval-ITwo Mountains riding where the member, Liguori! La- combe, is fighting bitterly against republic. | Viborg is an important naval port, set at the head of the gulf -of Viborg which cuts deep inland from the gulf of Finland. Separ- ating the port from the gulf of Finland to the east is the long wedge-shaped peninsula of Koi- visto. Koivisto district was used by thoss first interventionist forces as a base for their war- ships. Ships based there open- ed fire on the front line forts ef Kronstadt island protecting the immediate entrance to Len- ingrad, . Keoivisto is sheltered from winds and storms, and thanks to the existence of Seiskari and La- yansaari islands is well protected against sudden naval attacks, Viborg has a well protected but Shallow harbor. Uuras, situated seven miles southwest of Vibore Serves as a port for big ships. Vi- borg lies at the mouth of the Si- amaa Canal which connects it with the huge Siamma Jake sys- tem and which makes navigation Possible for hundreds of miles inland. In addition to the waterways along the gulf of Finland and the Siamaa Canal, five railway lines and seven highways con- verge at Wiborg from different directions. Lake Ladoga is the biggest lake in Europe, 32 times as large as Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Lake Ladoga is 124 miles long and 78 miles wide and covers an area of 6,480 square miles. EXHOLM and Sortavala are the biggest towns on the northwestern and northern 7s ARTICLE, although written before the federal elec- _tion, is presented because of its informative value in indi- cating developments in Quebec. When parliament met last September, 10 Quebec Liberals supported an amendment to limit a $100,000,000 war supply vote to conduct of naval, military and air operations “in or ad- jacent to Canada.” These Liberals were E. Lacroix, Beaux; M. Raymond, Beau- harnois-Laprairie; I.. Dubois, Nicolet-Yamaska; P. Gauthier, Portneuf, J. A. Crete, St. Maurice-Lafleche; C. Parent, Quebec West and South; H. E. Brunelle, Champlain; I. Lacombe, Laval-Two Mountains; A. Sylvestre, Lake St. John-Roberval; W. Lacroix, Quebec-Montmorency. Hight of these Liberals, E. Lacroix, M. Raymond, P. Gau- thier, J. A. Crete, C. Parent, H. E. Brunelle, A. Sylvestre and W. Lacroix, were re-elected as official Liberal candidates this week. L. Lacombe in Lake St. John-Roberval and L. Dubois in Nicolet-Yamaska were two of the three Independent Liberals elected, the third being L. Bertrand in Terrebonne. All three were opposed by official Liberal candidates. what he calls the St James St. cligue. Led by Francois Leduc (ex-Duplessis minister and now back in the Liberal fold) a drive is under way to smother him un- der a barrage of slanderous ac- cusations. Lacombe was the Lib- eral member who introduced an amendment in reply to the speech from the throne regretting ‘that the government did not deem it fitting to advise the governor- f£eneral that Canada should re- frain from participation in any external wars.’ Lacombe is supported by 2 froup of students from the Bloc Universitaire who, together with the people in the riding, forced the opposition candidate during an election rally to meet La- SOVIETS OCCUPY 1917 INTERVENTION BASES ERE red flag which flies over Viborg today must awaken gloomy nostalgia in the hearts of anti-Soviet intervention- ists of a generation ago. It was from this port and the neigh- boring fortress of Koivisto that the interventionists of 1918- 1920 based their naval operations against the young socialist shores of Lake Ladoga. Kexnolm which has a population of ap- proximately 5,000, is situated at the mouth of the Mukist river, two miles from Lake Ladoga. Its favorable position contributed to the development of timber and fisheries industries there. Sortavala, which has also a population of 5,000, is situated on the picturesque northern shores of Lake Ladoga. It has a cellu- lose factory and a paper mill. De- Posits of iron ore have been dis- covered in this district where franite is also quarried. Pitkaranta, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake fa- doga, is the main center of the mining industry. Hogland Island, biggest of the islands in the Finnish gulf, ceded to the Soviet Union under the peace treaty, lies in the midwest part of the gulf of Finland and is 24 miles from the Estonian coast. The peninsulas of Rybachi and Sredni on the northern coast in the Arctic ocean are connected to the mainland by an isthmus measuring approximately two and a half miles in width. The coast in this region is ice free the year round because of the Gulf Stream. Hango peninsula, which is leas- ed to the Soviet Union, juts far out into the entrance to the gulf of Finland and is of cardinal im- portance in defending the gulf. The peninsula is intersected by- a belt of sea cliffs which form natural fortifications and can hold a fleet at bay at the mouth of the gulf. G | 384 Pages suppression. “The Socialist Sixth of the World” By the DEAN OF CANTERBURY. In Britain the Dean is castigated as a ‘Rebel Priest,” and he suf- fers the scorn of the dark forces of reaction. But his pamphlet, “Act Now,” won for him the respect and affection of the masses of honest people. All his writings show that he justifiably opposes capitalism for its inhumanity, anarchy and destructiveness; and this new book reveals that his respect for the Soviet Union arises from the high moral contrast it presents, by its abolition of ex- ploitation so that abundance and freedom displace hunger and That the Dean is subject to attack is not surprising, for the profit- “eers can get little satisfaction from such words as these: —>>) Postpaid $2.05 “..-In no sense is our economic system scientific. Still less is if Christian. Placing a premium on selfish motives, it in- fluences the acquisitive instinct, tolerates hunger amidst plenty, and smasheshuman lives .... But dawn breaks over the east; and in that fresh dawn men see the promise of a new world.” wide circulation is imperative. This book is made convenient for reference purposes by being divided into departments, thus the “RISH AND DECLINE OF CAPITALISM” is separated under captions of “EVOLUTION,” “<“CONSUMMATION” and “FRUSTRATION.” Most important of all this is a book that will convince people never before influenced by progressive literature; therefore its NEW AGE BOOKSHOP : Wote New Address: ) Room 14, 163 West Hastings Street. ——— Vancouver, B.C. —7 combe squarely in debate. Stung by this response, the Liberal pa- per le Canada accused La- combe’s supporters of ‘smashing’ the meeting. The Montreal Ga- zette referred to the voters in the riding as the ‘most rabid in the province.’ Likewise, in Terrebonne con- Stituency and in St. Johns, the dissident Liberal members have been ‘guillotined’ by packed nom- ination conventions working un- der orders. It is in the St. Johns district, it is worth noting, that two municipalities last year passed resolutions condemning partici- Pation in foreign wars. EADERSHIP in the rural rid- ings is now being fostered by the Quebec Bloc Universitaire on the slogan: Anchor Anti-Con- scription in the People. Even in those ridings where the present lLiberal members have tended to temporize they have been forced to extreme ora- tory to convince the electorate that they are still militant anti- conscriptionists. This emphasis, however, has failed to stem the tide of independent candidates who have invaded almost 20 con- stituencies. Of course, it is in- correct to assume that all inde- pendents are anti-war, but the fever-heat of the non-participa- tion sentiment may force many of them to make this program- matic. In fact, it must be remem- bered that Duplessis received 45 percent of the provincial vote on the basis of a non-participation slogan, e BF THE 10 Liberal members who voted on the amendment to the speech from the throne, two are running as independents, and three of the remaining eight ‘QUEBEC LIBERALS MANEUVER face opposition from independ- ent candidates. The conspiracy of silence main- tained by the Montreal press Makes it impossible to determine from here the exact character of this independent opposition. This conspiracy is maintained in less- er degree by Quebec City papers, Since none of them support the Speeches of the ‘rebels.’ The pur- pose is, of course, to isolate and smother any idea of the wide- spread character of the opposi- tion. On Saturday, March 17, how- ever, a significant front-page leader appeared in Le Devoir (previously a Duplessis paper) in which was analyzed the choice facing the electors. It came te the conclusion that the two old parties cannot merit the confidence of the vot- ers and that only the independ- ents can be supported on the basis of their opposition to the war. It continues that ‘the time has arrived for a decision. We must not have illusions (of the ability of the old parties to prevent con- seription). Agitate. Face the reality. Choose. Vote . . . Vote for the candidates who have proven their independence, other- wise what is half bad now will be completely bad on March 26.’ Although Le Devoir’s instruc- tions are to vote against partici- pation, and prevent as much as possible any further extension of Canada in the war, it recom- mends a vote for Maxime Ray- mond (Beauharnois) and all those who last September ex- pressed their opposition to the war. Yet it must be realized that Ledue of the provincial cabinet boasted at Layal-Two Mountains that Raymond had ‘made peace’ with the party. OST significant in the official Liberal campaign here is its bitter drive against its own mem- bers. The Conservative opposi- tion has not yet received any- thing like the Laval-Two Moun- tains attack on Lacombe and it is becoming increasingly appar- ent that the main objective of the party is to wipe out the dissi- dents, whom they seem to regard as More dangerous than the Tor- ies, no doubt because they repre- sent such a widespread and aroused electorate. As Le Devoir says. ‘Ihe Tor- ies imposed conscription in 1917 after Sir Robert Borden prom- ised it would not be done, and although the French-Canadian Liberal deputies were united against it they were betrayed by their English-speaking col- leagues.” It is for this reason that neither party can be trust- ed today. $40,000,000 CHEQUE FOR WANG CHING-WEI pee the feverish campaign of publicity for the Wang Ching-wei ‘government’ which the Japanese militarists hope soon to establish in China is the growing dissatisfaction with the war in Japan proper and the belief of the militarists that establishment of the puppet regime will strengthen them at home. This was the analysis of the maneuvers centering about the moves to proclaim the ‘new gov- ernment’ at Nanking contained in a leading editorial this week in Pravda, central organ of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. Pravda also laid bare another incident in the stage-setting for the Wang Ching-wei ‘govern- ment’; the transfer of $40,000,000 from a Japanese bank to the ac- count of the Chinese traitor. Pravda’s editorial said: “The Japanese press and the prostitute press of Wang Ching- wei has raised a hullabaloo about the ‘success of the Wang Ching- wei movement.’ The newspapers, however, have discreetly passed over in silence a certain small event preceding the ‘important’ day in Nanking. “On Feb. 24 the Japanese Special Bank in Yokohama gave Wang Ching-wei a check to the sum of $40,000,000 to or- ganize ‘the new Chinese gov- ernment.’ “What is taking place behind the scenes of this latest per- formance in Nanking? Following Prime Minister Konoye’s declara- tion of Dee. 19, 1938, in which he exponnded ‘peace conditions’ Jap- anese statesmen as well as the Japanese press emphatically maintained that the new govern- ment? would be established de- spite everything. The Japanese however, overestimated the forces of capitulation in China. = ANG CHING-WEI and his followers have no mass support whatsoever. “The flag of the ‘new govern- ment ’bears the slogan: ‘Peace and Against the Comintern.’ Here the stage managers in the Nanking performance have again made a blunder; as early as 1937 the Chinese people understood that this slogan conceals the out- right policy of the seizure and enslavement of China by the Jap- anese militarists. “The Japanese imlitarists have to hasten the establishment of the ‘new government’ for Wang Ching-wei’s success is necessary to Japanese military circles since the ground under their feet in Japan proper jately has become ever more shaky. “This session of the Japan- ese parliament reflected, al- though to an inconsiderable ex- tent, the growing discontent at the policy of the military which has led the country into a blind alley. This discontent is di- rected above all against the military circles for their pol- icy in China. It is coming from the lower sections of Japanese society, but it is also shared by sections of the ruling class who fear the disastrous conse- quences of the bankrupt policy ‘building a new order’ in East- erm Asia: the continuation of the war for the complete en- slavement of China. “The split in the Shaikai Tai- shuto (Social Masses) party, whose leadership is closely con- nected with the most aggressive circles of military leaders, is an indication of the growing opposi- tion to the policy of the military Clique in China. The expulsion of Saito Takao did not put a stop to the growing discontent in the country. “In the opinion of the military clique the establishment of the Wang Ching-wel “guvernment ought to reassure perturbed Minds in parliament as well as outside its walls. Hence the Nan- king performance and the latest hullabaloo about the ‘successes’ of the Wang Ching-wei move- ment are Merely a poor smoke- Screen to conceal the growing Weakness of the home situation in Japan.” SHORT JABS by OF Bill The Soviet A mistake crept into this column last week. One paragraph, entitled ‘The Soviet Hammer,’ was Hammer. left out and an item carried over from the week before was printed in its place. Blame the proof-reader. The item omitted was the most important in the whole column, so here it is. A few weeks ago, Harold Denny, writing from Helsinki, told us that a battle alleged to have occurred at Suomussalmi would some day be recognized as one of the decisive battles of the world. It would, he said, be compared to the battle of Poitiers where the forces of Charles, known as ‘The Hammer,’ grandfather of Charlemagne, defeated the Moors in the eighth century, and thereby decided the fate of Hurope, decided whether the European peoples of the future would be Moslems or Christians, Aside from the fact that it was not at Poitiers but at the battle of Tours that the Saracen Moors were defeated by the forces of Martel the Hammer, no battle of any consequence’ took place at Suomussalmi. If any fight did occur there it was a very minor engagement, probably between the patrols. Most likely it only occurred in the minds of the White-Finnish general staff which supplied Denny with the elaborated details of some skirmishes between small units. A real world decisive battle did occur, however, during the White- Finn Soviet conflict. Molot in Russian means ‘hammer.’ Vyacheslav. Molotov, means Vyacheslav the Hammer, and, at the Mannerheim line, the forces of the Soviet Hammer inflicted a decisive defeat on the forces of world imperialism. In that battle it was decided that the peoples of the world of the future shall live under the liberty of a Com- munist system and not as the suffering, groaning, exploited slaves of capitalism. The truth about this great world historic event is only now being admitted in the press. Declaring that ‘now it can be told,’ the corres- pondents who for months wiped out Red army battalions daily (on paper) are now writing that Finnish and neutral military observers are mystified. They cannot understand how the Red army could main- tain such a relentless offensive for such a length of time. It has never ibeen done by any other army in history. And the imperialist politicians are ‘shocked.’ One of the reasons for the success of the Red army was that there were no foreign war correspondents with it to spy on it and expose its plans to the enemy. Another reason was, that while the reactionary circles, including so-called laborites and socialists, in all capitalist countries, were helping ‘Butcher’ Mannerheim, the real workers were assisting the Finnish people and the Red army, Claude Coburn’s newsletter, The Week, for March 20, quotes a mes- sage from Oslo stating that Norwegian and Swedish railwaymen not only ignored Daladier’s appeal, but systematically held up Allied sup- plies to Mannerheim, with the result—now public property—that there are today, in the northern line across Scandinavia, many carloads of Munitions and arms, idle and useless. This too, in spite of, or maybe because of, the jailing and persecution of Communist party members and the suppression of Communist papers by Social-Democratic poli- ticians. Funeral This great victory of the Red army has made impossible for all time, any effective challenge March. to socialism by the forces of imperialism.