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...work well done on Canadian farms and in Canadian forests, some German prisoners of war will be allowed to stay in Canada. So the Government decided last week. When the last boatload of some 2,000 P.W.s leaves Halifax for Britain this week, an estimated 200 will be left behind to be freed and eventually placed in jobs. The P.W.s who stay must speak English, be anti-Nazi, unmarried and under 35. And they must have been recommended and requested by the Canadian employer for whom they worked...
...week's end another big batch of hopefuls arrived in Canada to seek just that. The Empire Brent pulled into Halifax with 831 brides and children aboard. All but 20 (headed for the U.S.) would settle in Canada, bring the number of the British brides and children who have arrived close...
Canada might still haul enough wheat by rail to Halifax to meet its promise to Britain. But the race would be close. Britain, which would like an extra 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, is unlikely to get any of it. Canada does not have it to spare, despite a near bumper crop of 418,000,000 bushels...
...troopship Samaria unloaded 980 Army veterans at Halifax last week. At Brussels, the last 55 Canadian soldiers on the Continent (except for 44 deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...
Found: a dormitory for Kilroy's nine children. James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Mass., who says he first wrote "Kilroy was here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...