LONDON — (ALN)
— Just one month before
Allied troops landed in
France their command-
ers received the following
statement from the
French underground:
“As the decisive days are
nearing, for which the .

French people have pre-
Pared with fighting spirit and
self-sacrifice, “tlhe National
Resistance Council wishes to
assure the Allies that the
French people are resolved to
take their full part in the
great effort toward libera-
tion.”

Prom the reports of sabo-
tage seeping out of France
only a few days after the Al-
lied landings, it is clear that
this pledge is being fulfilled,
as the mass demonstrations
against local Vichyites by the
French people in the towns
and villages liberated by the
Allies and widespreaa >pera-
tions show.

A potent factor in the suc-
cess of the first Allied land-
“ings was the wholesale de-
Struction of rear commiunica-
tions which hampered the
“movement of Nazi reserves.

These actions have as their

background four years of
poverty and starvation for
the entire people of Prance.
During those years, the ma-
jority of French men and wo-
men who did not themselves
undergo arrest, torture, exe-
cution or deportation to Ger-

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“Armies north of Honan,

Internal Strife

Responsible for

Defeat in China
MOSCOW —— As Jap-

anese and Chinese tnoops
fought at the very gates of
Changsha, the Soviet mag-
azine, War and the Work-
ing Class, this week stress-
ed that internal strife in
China was largely respon-
sible for “the severe defeat
in Honan province.”
The failure of Chinese
troops in Honan cannot be
considered due to an acci-
dent,” declared War and
the Working Class, “but is
due to the general situa-
tion existing in China.”
Discussing the> Kucmin- yards.
tangs blockade against the Bruce, who is president of
Chinese Communist the Amalgamated Ship-

Sitdown
Provoked

by Bruce

One, thousand day shift
workers at Burrard South
shipyard downed tools for.
several hours) on Thursday
this. week in support of 120
members of the recently
organized Shipwrights, Join-
ers and Caulkers Industrial

Union who protested the
Managements permission of
Malcolm Bruce to enter the

which \the members. of the
industrial union had broken
away as a result of his dis-
ruptive actions in expelling
their business agents and
bringing court action against
union members, had entered

the Soviet organ remarked
that the best troops are
entirely out of the battles
against the Japanese,’ be-
cause the Chinese Army,
“is * overburdened with

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feudal survivals.”

Vancouver —
Ousts Commissioner

“The EUnet North Vancouver have taken the first decisive step to-
ward control of their own affairs,” |
and Shipyard Workers Union and publicity director of North Vancouver LPP
Branch, remarked, on learning the result of the plebiscite taken in the city of

North Vancouver this week, where over | 200 citizens of North Vancouver—
approximately one-half of those eligible to yote—turned out at the polls to

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Charles Saunders, president of the Dock

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oust the commissionership in favor of a municipal government.

“14 now remains for the people themselves to complete the restoration of
Civic democracy by electing a progressive administration in the December elec-
It is to be hoped that they will complete the job by decisively rejecting
Saunders
Saunders

tions.
the city manager plan proposed by the ratepayers’ association, ~
stated. “‘The North Shore branch of the Labor-Progressive Party,”

continued,” will rally its strength behind candidates opposed to the city mana-

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Sseum in Rome in the front seat (left) of a jeep.
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