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Jumping the Fence. By no means all the deserters were French Canadians. At least 600 members of the Oxford Rifles, transferred to London, Ont., from the West Coast at year's end and headed for overseas duty, did not return from leaves. When members of the Dufferin & Haldimand Rifles were rushed to fill the Oxford's ranks, at least 100 of them went A.W.O.L. by scrambling over a 6 ft. fence...
...over Canada, police were so busy rounding up deserters* that, in London, Ont., a provincial police official remarked: "The nearest approach man's ingenuity has made to perpetual motion is the process of draftees going A.W.O.L., being picked up by police and put back in barracks, to go A.W.O.L. again...
Meanwhile the Kingston, Ont. Whig-Standard has posed some fine questions. Exactly what is a horror, program-one capable of inspiring horror? Then will that keep off the air dramatizations of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe? Richard III? Othello? Macbeth...
Better Half. In Windsor, Ont., Goalie Jim Hogan stopped half of a flying hockey puck with his armpit, saw the second half skim into the net, protested when officials allowed the goal...
Charles Burrows, a carpenter in Brougham, Ont., got his second summons for military service, with a sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...