\HE Soviet Union has been winning brilliant

By JEROME DAVIS

MOSCOW.
victories. In

- this happy result the supplies furnished by Canada have
ived their part, however humble.

‘The average Canadian citizen may not realize the quan-
j of supplies which we have sent to the Soviet Union
Hse goods have come in by the trainload on the average

#mce every five days. Every

ada brought them.

}7as Making a trip of inspec-
i of these Canadian supplies,
fF the ambassador from Can-
| Dana Wilgress. What we
\did not include supplies be-

sent under mutual aid, but

r gifts from the Canadian
© Russia Fund.

est we were taken to the
tal supply division. Here
bandages, adhesive tape

tape and other medical
ites. Some were labelled
2 son and Johnson, Mont-

Quantities of Canadian

id kits, packed in compact
_ Cases were stacked from
ter to the ceiling.
asands of wickless oil
manufactured in Toronto
icaring the label “Coleman
were piled on shelves.
‘were in -great demand,
at the front and in the
‘ated regions.
atities of x-ray supplies
Kodak, and hundreds of
marked “General Electric”
diled on the floor.
tassador Wilsress asked:
did these goods come from
az” The warehouse direc-
» Jlained that many of them
}1 via Viadivostock, others
He northern route through

steamer which sailed from

Archangel, and still others from

dhe south through the Persian
gulf.

They are then shipped where -

they are most needed—to the
children’s homes, to he regions
which have been taken from the
Germans, to hospitals and clinics
for factory workers and invalids
in the reconstruction areas and
for the front.

We saw 6,000 axes from Eaton’s

marked “Hdge-Rite” brand. Some

were being shipped to the army,
and they will also be used for

_ reconstruction purposes.

Canadian supplies thus play a
part in starting production again
in the cities and towns which
had been laid waste.

- the clothing department we
saw bales marked “Canadian
Aid to Russia Fund,” and also

huge boxes from “Russian-
Canadian Federation, Vancou-
ver.” The wires on the bales

were broken before our eyes so
that we could see the gifts at
first hand.

The bales contained nearly
every kind of clothing worn by
man—some brand new, some
second-hand.

Bass

pes res

All these gifts bring home to
the Soviet people the tremend_
ous amount of goodwill and
gratitude that Canadian people
feel for them:

We were also delighted to
learn that ecards with friendly
greetings accompany the Parcels,
Particularly with sifts for chil-
dren. The cards are sent on to
the recipients, together with a
translation in Russian.

The Soviet people particularly

appreciate the thousands of
men’s suits and overcoats. Al-
paca coats are valuable. There
were excellent leather coats and
aviators at the front are en-
thusiastie about Canadian flying
suits. One I saw carried the
label of the Holden Company of
Ottawa. Piled high were 30,000
Overall suits manufactured by
the Northern Shirt Company, of
Winnipeg, and these were in
great demand.
-_€anadian supplies already re-
ceived, included 5,728 bales of
clothing and shoes with a total
value of $1,267,000: 3,282 bales of
hospital goods, including sheets
to the value of $534,000: 2/819
boxes of vegetable seed, includ-
ing wheat, valued at $35,000 and
100 cases of flint lighters, worth
$133,000.

Cor figures are hard to ap-
preciate. You have to see the
people using these things to
really appreciate what this Ca-
nadian aid has meant. I have
been at the front and seen a Red
Army officer wearing a wrist
watch sent from Canada. It not
only makes him more efficient,
it also gives him an indefinable
exhiliration to feel that Canad-

iv

Greetings !
| This May Day finds the democratic nations united
on a program for the defeat of fascism and the estab-
‘ishment of a durable peace with security for all.

WE SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM

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Distriet Council No. I

panada Aids the Soviet Unio

ians are back of him as he goes
over the top.

Again, I have gone into the
devastated villages retaken from
the Germans. For two years the
people have been shot, imprison-
ed, hanged, starved and spit
upon. Their homes have been
burned, their food and clothing
seized. What our help means to
_them is beyond measurement.

Take the case. of the mother
with three children who lives in
a mud hole, near Kiev. I have
seen. her home which has been
burned. What does Canadian
friendship mean to her? She
has received blankets and cloth-
Ing which help to Keep her and
the children from freezing.

“Tell Canadians we Russians
thank them and will never for-
get what they did for us in our
difficult times,” she said.

Multiply these cases by thous-
ands and you have a faint picture
of what such aid means, Tf the
Canadian people could see the
aevastated areas, could visit the
Grphanages, children’s hospitals
and the Russian heroes at the
front, I know that no matter how
much they have already siven,
they would give and give agkin.

Without Russian aid we could
never have won the war.
Soviet Union has taken the full
brunt of the devastation. Because
of this, Canada and the United
States have been spared.

The full debt we owe to the
Russian people ean never be
fully met. It is good to know
that Canadian supplies have al-
ready been put to use. Ambassa-
dor Wilgress can well be proud
of the generosity of the Canadian
people. >

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