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8 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1943 A PASTORAL SCENE IN N6RTH LANCASHIRE AMERICAN WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS Taking Over W.A.A.F.s' Work at U.S. Air H.Q. in Britain From our London Staff THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Criticism General From oar own Correspondent New Delhi, August 13. Mr. Joshi, the labour leader, referring to Mr.

Sorensen's recent letter in. the Manchester Guardian," said found the last scene of the W.A.A.F. to W.A-A.C. change-over. Sergeant Broad-Stanley, of the W.A.A.F., stood beside the switchboard, which was manned by several W.A.A.C.s and two English girls.

At the sergeant's desk sat Sergeant Victoria Contarini, of Hollywood. Our operators, no, I suppose you call them telephonists, will be ready to take over entirely at the end of the week," said Sergeant Contarini. But they had to learn the English phrases and they found the pronunciation of English names was difficult at first. The W.A.A.F.S have helped us." The could take over most of the clerical work straight away. They knew the American official letter style, which the W.A A.F.s had had to learn.

But they needed English coaching in operational duties, and they are not yet ready to take over the teleprinter work. One advantage of the W.A.A.C.s' arrival, in the view of a male private, is that the meals are tastier. Messing Officer Biolo, of Michigan, gives individual salads and doughnuts from her own recipe. But that is no slur on the W.A.A.F. The last messing officer was a man.

At Bomber Command one can still see W.A.A.F. Quarters and W.A.A.C. Quarters written up on different doors of the same barracks. Captain Frances Corwick. the W.A.A.C.

officer in charge, savs that lipsticks and hair slides are passed from the American to the British dormitories. But no invidious comparisons are made by the girls about their issues of equipment. The W.A.A.C.S have arrived with four pairs of silk stockings and four of cotton, with four pairs of shoes and two shades of uniform. But they have also brought a civilian suit which thev are not allowed to wear even on leave. The W.A.A.F.s have a clothes advantage there.

A picture taken at Esthwaite, near Hawkshead. THE FRENCH PURGE IN N. AFRICA Special Commission Set Up From our Special Correspondent During the last fortnight the first contingent of American W.AAC.S, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, to arrive in this country have been replacing at Fighter and Bomber Headquarters of the Eighth Air Force-Some of the English girls stayed on to coach them in their work. By the end of the week the transfer will have been completed, and only the few girls in Air Force blue who have permanent work with the British liaison officers at American headquarters will carry on the happy experiment of working side by side with their American colleagues in khaki. The English girls are sorry to go, and the commanding generals of the Eighth Army Bomber and Fighter Command talked of them yesterday with high praise.

Said General F. L. Anderson, of Bomber Command, I hope the W.A.A.C.s can do as well as the W.A.A.F.s have done. I admired their work when I was here in 1914. In Washington, when we were discussing parsonal planning.

I said, Why can't we copy the good things the British have done in using their women and since they have been working for me I have been impressed by their serious attitude. The relationship between the W.A.A.Cs and the W.A.A.F.s since they have been working together." he added, has been as good as that between the American Air Force and the R.A.F., and that is the best in the world." General F. O. Hunter of Fighter Command, said much the same. But as I am a man from the deep South," he added.

my English secretary has had a hell of a time understanding me. Now I have found a sergeant from M.ssissippi." TAKING OVER At the telephone switchboard in Fighter Headquarters yesterday one P.O. WORKERS Executive Government Warning For several hours yesterday the executive of the Union of Post Office Workers discussed the position that has arisen as a result of the Government's warning to established Civil Service organisations that afliliation to the T.U.C. would mean los of establishment and pension rights No statement was issued. Earlier Mr.

T. J. Hodgson, general secretary of the union, discussed the matter with Sir Walter Citrine, T.U.C. scncral secretary, and the T.U.C. General Purposes Committee It will be thrashed out at next week's joint meeting of the T.U.C.

Council, the Labour party, and the Parliamentary Labour party, at which a report by the T.U.C. General Purposes Committee will be considered. The application for affiliation by the Union of Post Office Workers will be considered by the T.U.C. in September if the union intends to pursue it. The Civil Service Clerical Association, the Inland Revenue Staff Federation, and the Post Office Eneineering Union have already made it clear that, while at one with other Civil Service organisations in desiring restoration of the right to affiliate, thev are anxious to prevent anything being done which might aflect the harmonious relationship between the Government and the Civil Service.

CARLISLE AND A HALL SUNDAY CONCERT Licence Difficulty The Carlisle magistrates yesterday declined to grant a licence on their present information for a Sunday concert by the Halle Orchestra at a Carlisle cinema. The application was made on behalf of the Halle Concerts Society by Mr. Edwaid Tyson, manager of the cinema concerned, who. in answer to questions toy the magistrates, said that the concert would not be for charity. He pointed out.

however, that the H.ille Orchestral concerts were considered to be of educational value and explained that the orchestra was subsidised by the Government through C.E M.A. The Chairman (Mrs. Isa Graham) said that it was not usual for the magistrates to grant licences when a charge was made for admission and the proceeds were not for charity. The Halle Orchestra have previously given a Sunday concert in Carlisle, which proved extremely popular, but since then the justices have decided that licences for Sunday concerts shall not be granted unless they have a charitable purpose. Cinemas are open in the city on Sunday.

Mr. R. B. Hesselgrave. secretary of the Halle Concerts Society, informed the "Manchester Guardian" last night that a new application for a licence will he made to the Carlisle justices on Tuesday, and, with the information that would then be oiTered.

he thought there was a reasonably good chance of receiving permission to hold the concert. He had pointed out to Mr. Tyson that the society was not run for financial gain and that all profits from concerts were devoted to music. Mr. Tyson has been asked to-make the new application on the basis of this explanation of the society's function.

The Government of India's contempt for the Indian Legislature seems to have infected Mr. Amery. but Parliament must Insist upon being taken into its confidence regarding Mr. Gandhi's correspondence. To-day's food debate proves conclusively that the Government of India is isolated from every party in the country and cannot tackle urgent problems with the necessary vigour and imagination.

The Executive Council must make room for representatives of the parties enjoying public confidence. To-day's food debates in the Assembly revealed that there was nb support for the Government. Every speaker, including the European group leader, Sir Henry Richardson, expressed dissatisfaction with the Government's handling of the problem. Criticism centred on the inordinate delay in establishing a Food Department, frequent changes of policy, tailure to deal firmly with hoarders and profiteers, and the ob-structiveness of the provincial Governments. Mr.

Griffiths, organiser of the national war front, described the Central Government as weak and spineless. Its attitude towards hoarders had made it the laughing-stock of the country. Several speakers complained of hoard-, ing and profiteering being practised by' men occupying high positions. The Food Member's narration of his difficulties failed to carry conviction. The spokesman of the Moslem League said it was a pitiable confession that the provincial Governments and the' major political parties withheld cooperation from the Government of India.

Referring to Sir Azizul Haque's appeal for public support for the Government, ha asked whether a Government that persistently and consistently ignored the Legislature and public opinion could legitimately demand support. The home front had been completely ignored and, the whole structure of the Government being rotten, he doubted whether the Government as constituted at present was capable of finding a solution of this most essential problem. MR. RAJAGOPALACHARI'S SUGGESTIONS Bombay, August 13. Mr.

Rajagopalachari. the ex-Premier of Madras, declared to-day that the moral and material support of Congress would be available for an Allied campaign against the Japanese in Burma if the talks between Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt resulted in the coordination of Indian politics with the strategy to be adopted on the Far East front. This can easily be done," he said, "by scrapping the present Executive Council and establishing a provisional national Government instead. Nationalist India does not want the Japanese in India or in a dangerous position anywhere as-near as Burma or Malaya.

If enlightened American opinion pulled its weight with President Roosevelt, and he pulled his weight with the British Prime Minister, there could be no difficulty in recognising that the solution of the moral and political deadlock in India is an important and necessary steo in the autumn campaign in the East." Reuter. BROADCASTING REVIEW By our Radio Critic Gracie Fields, broadcasting yesterday in Break for Music," an N.S.A. concert in a Lancashire factory, was at her best and her audience was with her all the way. Her genius is one of personality, and the listener to the broadcast could never doubt the warmth and spontaneity of the response. They laugh with her almost before the laugh is due, and they laugh because of that extraordinary zest and vitality, that vigour of voice and accent, which are the Lancashire heritage of Gracie Fields.

Her qualities have made her successful on the stage with every kind of audience, but hearing her in this broadcast so soon after her return one could not but feel that she is never so much at home as when she is at home in Lancashire. Certainly one could realise that the workers whom she was entertaining had found somebody whom they could greet with unreserved enthusiasm. Some oi her songs were of the simple comic type of which she makes such success others were more serious, for she can turn to the the serious as sincerely as to the comic and her singing "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition was a stirring performance. The BB.C.s production of "Peer Gynt" on Tuesday showed that even so big and so difficult a proposition as this play may be successfully handled in radio if it is approached boldly and with imagination. This was no polite, tepid, and fidgety presentation of a wild, highly symbolic, and ultimately satisfying drama, but a strong and full-blooded production, one.

moreover, which lasted for nearly three hours, and which, in its closing sequences, with the music of Grieg and the voice of Ralph Richardson, was as moving as anything ever heard in radio. The translation was that by Norman Ginsbury the production Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Creswell. Ralph Richardson, always brilliant in broadcasting because of his extremely good voice and sensitive, deliberate use of it, was obviously the. right choice for Peer Gynt He moved through the play like the symbolic figure that Peer Gynt is, standing for folly, failure, apd desire, yet encompassing in his soul the greatness of humanity and the ultimate surrender that brings man home. Mr.

Richardson nas never done anything better in radio than thi3 performance. Miss Gladys Young as Aase, Peer's mother, was extremely good; better in the closing scenes of her part than at the beginning, when the general impression of the play, partly given by her acting, was rather too quick and shrill. But when the impact of the opening scenes, which were, so to rpeak, rather a handful, or earful, for the listener, had died down and the play opened out in its full, dream-like, end powerful range the voices ail seemed well attuned to its mood. Marjorie Westbury as Solveig, and Lucille Lisle as the Dovre King's daughter acted well, and in the extensive cast others one noticed particu larly were Powell Lloyd as the Dovre King and Alexander Sarner as the Button-moulder. NEW HULBERT SHOW FOR MANCHESTER "Something in the Air," a new musical show with Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert as its principals, is to open for a three-week run at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Tuesday, August 31; thereafter it will go to London.

Miss Courtneidge will appear as a W.A.A.F. and Mr. Hulbert as an pilot Gabrielie Brune and Jean Gillie are also in the cast, which includes a lively, dancine chorui rte Mr. W. T.

Morton, Superintendent of School Buildings in Salford, retires next week after 37 years' service with the Education Department. After an idle week work recommenced in the big Canadian aircraft factories yesterday, but thev will not be in full operation before Monday. The conditions under which 20,000 employees work are being drawn up. The Salford W.V.S. salvage stewards organisation has just completed two years of work, during which it has been directly responsible for collecting over 2,000 tons of salvage.

It now has over 1,400 members engaged in systematic weekly collections. Pleading guilty at Manchester City Police Court yesterday to stealing two suitcases and an attache-case, with contents, value 31, from London Road Station, Manchester, Herbert Kershaw (65), Henry Street, Ardwick, hotel porter, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Charged with altering his Army discharge certificate to show that he had served in Francs, Crete, and Greece, and had been awarded the Military Medal and the Croix de Guerre, when, it was stated he had never been out of England, John Casey (31), Ridsdale Street. Pendleton, was fined 2 at Salford vesterdav. At Ormskirk yesterday Edmund Leatherbarrow (52), Liverpool Road, Lydiate.

a war reserve constable at a Government factory, was sent to gaol for one month's hard labour for steal ing 6041b, of tomatoes valued at 35 from greenhouses belonging to a "market gardener at Maghull. Leatherbarrow admitted to the police that he had been going three times a week for the past month taking tomatoes. For ten years a member of the fire service and organiser of Malta's fire-fighting defences against Axis air bombardment, Mr. J- Goodman is leaving the (South Manchester) Division of the N.F.S. to take up the position of Assistant Fire Force Commander for East Kent.

His appointment as Divisional Officer of the Manchester division was his first after the Government had sent him in 1941 to co-ordinate the fire-fighting forces of Malta into a single service. He will be succeeded on Monday in the South Manchester Division by Divisional Officer G. Judge. GIRL "18's" TO REGISTER Women born between January 1 1925, and June 30, 1925, both dates inclusive, are required to register on Saturday. August 21.

Women who are already rendering whole-time paid service with the armed forces of the Crown in the A.T.S., W.A.A.F.. W.R.N.S.. or whole-time paid service in the nursing and medical services attached to these forces are not reauired to register. All other women, whether married or single, with or without children, must register, even though thev mav have registered previously, as under the boys' and girls' registration or the nursing and midwives' registration. After registration women will be considered for transfer to vital war employment, but it is not proposed to compel a woman to transfer to work awav from home before reaching the age of 19.

OUR FOOD SUPPLY Lord Woolton Ootimistic I have never been so optimistic as I am now," declared Lord Woolton, the Food Minister, at Kidderminster yesterday. We have been able to bring in quite a quantity of food, which is a great comfort to me. I do not know whether it is a great comfort to the British public, because at the moment I do not propose to increase their rations." The reason was one of simple precautions. We had been through difficult times, but now we were better off than we had been during the war. The nation was healthier ihan before.

Our naval and air forces had made the Atlantic rather a safer place for our Mercantile Marine than it had been for quite a long time. PIT COURTS AND ABSENTEEISM Many cases of absenteeism at South Yorkshire collieries are being dealt with at pit tribunals without recourse to the police court. Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries, Limited, is experimenting at Bullcroft Colliery, and in three weeks the pit "court" dealt with forty defaultcis. At the Askern Colliery absenteeism has been reduced by the tribunal, and some of the offenders have had their fines refunded for maintaining good time for four weeks after being fined. Other tribunals are in the experimental stage at Dinnington, Bentley.

Maltby, and Denaby collieries, in South Yorkshire. A POSTHUMOUS AWARD The Colonial Police Medal for gallantry has been awarded a Liverpool man, Constable Harold Randolph Perriam. of the Palestine Police Force. While on patrol in Hebron in April Perriam arrested an Arab who was wanted on a charge of manslaughter. The Arab was armed with a revolver and a Perriam was killed while in the execution of his duty on June 22.

Loionet Uhver fatanley. Colonial Secretary, in a tribute to Perriam, wrote By his action he displayed courage of the highest order. His death was a great loss to the force." Perriam enlisted the Palestine Police Force in August, 1942. Before that he was in the Arm v. SAVED CREW ON ICE-FLOE When an Anson aircraft with a crew of four made a forced landing on an ice-floe in the Gulf of St.

Lawrence Carl Burke, a civil pilot with Maritime Central Airways. Limited, Canada, made four landings, picking up one man each time. Although he was by no means certain that the ice would hold his 'plane he returned to recover valuable instruments. For his outstanding skill and extremely courageous action he has been awarded the M.B.E.. it is announced in last night's "London Gazette." The British Empire Medal has been awarded to William Henry Mussell.

Port Rowan, Ontario, for saving the crew of four of a 'plane that had been forced down on a lake. He reached them just before the 'plane sank, after a difficult two and a half hours' journev bv launch and skiff. the Canadians were believed to be resting. There was some feeling, however, the London correspondent added, that there was QrvmptViiTicr mrtr Canadians' inactivity than the need for res i ana pernaps some grounds lor conjecture that the Canadians were pulled from the line while discussions took place as to their ultimate disposition in the armed line-up of the United Nations. There was feeling among Canadian refpnlti nartinTnatincr in nno exercise after another in Britain sbme oi mem secret mat iney wju oe used in any assault against the European fnrtrice nf fjprmanv Tirnnor doubtedly the use of the Canadian Army Churchill's discussions with Canadian leaders in Quebec.

Just how the Canadian Government feels about the use of Canadians as a complets army or regrouped as British formations has not been made clear, as the question has not come up publicly or officially in Britain as yet, the correspondent continued, but the best assumption is that the Canadian peopla want their own army. Canadian press correspondents who move with the troops in Britain say the men want to fight as a whole, as they feel they will eventually. Associated Press. OBITUARY Col. E.

A. Ewart Boyd Colonel E. A. Ewart, whose death at the age of 63 was announced in our later editions yesterday, was known to the public as Boyd Cable, author and journalist. He was an adventurer of land, sea, and air.

In the Boer War he served as a scout in 1900-1 in the first year of the Great War he served in France in the R.F.A., then, after six months' invalidism, transferred to the R.A.F. Between those wars he sailed before the mast, was a teamster and a tramp in Australia, a farmhand in New Zealand, a trimmer, fireman, tnd greaser in steamships. He knew the sea from the forecastle of ships under sail and steam. His life in those years was the very stull of a boy's adventure cook. His first novel, By Blow and Kiss." I was set in Australia.

That, and perhaps also his breeziness of manner and I accent, which, whatever it cosmo- i politanly was, did not announce his real origin, led to the impression that Cable was Australian. He was in fact a Scotsman, born in India in 1879, and educated at the Aberdeen and Banff grammar schools. Cable's war stories brought fame. The fiction of the urst uerman war was of two kinds, contemporary and subsequent, and the authors who waited had the best of it. Cable was at the front when he wrote Between the Lines and other volumes of war stories.

They were tales of action celebrating heroism without much concerning themselves with the psychology of heroes. Photographically, they were effective and heartening. The series of war books ended with the publication in 1919 of "The Old Contemptibles times had changed the vogue of bulldog military fiction had passed, and resourcefully Cable turned to the sea. The man from the stokehole became erudite in nautical history and an authority on flags. He wrote a Hundred Years' History of the P.

and film producers turned to him for stories and. to their credit, sought his advice as nautical consultant. It remains true, however, that Bovd Cable public figure and as writer wn military and that he had definitely his period. NEW SOVIET AMBASSADOR The appointment of Mr. Feodor Gusev as Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain was announced in an official decree issued in yesterday.

He succeeds Mr. Maisky. who has been appointed a Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Gusev has been Soviet Minister in Canada since last October.

He is 39 and has been only six years in the Diplomatic Service. He sp'eaks English fluently and has made a study of British institutions. He left Canada on June 26 to go to Moscow for consultations. Reuter. A German tank leaving a Algiers, August 12.

The National Liberation Committee at its meeting to-day decided upon the establishment of a commission of "epuration," to use the French term which signifies the removal from office and position of influence of all persons who while holding responsibility acted in a manner to assist the enemy or hinder the Allies, or help in the overthrow of republican laws and principles. The composition of the committee is not yet fixed, and it is known that some commissioners do not feel confident that this is the right way of setting about the business, which all agree is necessary. However, some such purge is demanded by public opinion, as well as by most of the personalities who are now directing the French war effort, and even if the procedure seems foreign to British tradition it must be remembered that Britain has an easier task in letting bygones be bygones because crimes committed against the nation, whether in good faith or bad, have had consequences so much less grave. A special announcement issued tonight defines the tasks of the commission. It defines offenders much as they have been defined at the start of this message, adding, however, the class of those who have knowingly derived or sought to derive direct material benefit from the application of Vichy regula 'PLANE RESCUE B.E.M.

for Cheshire Farmer Entering the blazing wreckage of a crashed 'plane, Mr. Frank Hitchin Willis, a Bickley (Cheshire) farmer, released one man, dragged him clear of fifteen-foot-high flames, and put out his burning clothing. With help, Mr. Willis then extricated another man, who was, however, already dead. Mr.

Willis, who received burns in his rescue work, has been awarded the British Empire Medal, it was announced in last night's London Gazette." Mr. Thomas Galley, a farm worker, of Norbury (Cheshire), is commended for brave conduct when an aircraft crashed and caught fire. Mr. William Stevens, a workman, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, is similarly commended, and Mr. Ronald Walter Alfred Phipps, an L.M.S.

temporary leading porter, is commended for rescuing a man who had fallen across the rails of an electric track. The airman saved by Willis was a dudiI piiot who had been flying in a training 'plane. The other occupant of the plane who lost his life was an instructor. The crash occurred in April. enemy during their retreat.

tions. It affirms that the commission whose objectivity and impartiality will be complete," will be guided only by the desire to reach all truly guilty parties. The statement adds that the commission will have to distinguish between those who executed the orders of their superiors without havine the necessary authority to discuss them and those who, goina beyond their strict obligations, knowingly associated themselves with a policy directed against the nation and against republican and democratic institutions." The statement goes on to define further categories of people aimed at bv the decree. They include not only members of Parliament, Ministers, civil servants, and members of the armed forces but also members of councils of professional bodies, such as doctors or lawyers, and persons connected with such services of information as the press, wireless, and cinema. Anti-Semitism has been the principal crime of professional bodies Dreyfusards are now to get their second revenge.

Information services certainly have much to answer for, as your correspondent was able to see yesterday in a perusal of the local press of the armistice period. There are glaring falsifications of British speeches or statements and judicious omissions from Vichvist pronouncements which were plainly imposed from above, as papers for at least a month after the armistice were openly pro-English, publishing with the greatest prominence British victories in the skies over England or in the Libyan sands. THREE KILLED Lorry and Express Collision Three people were killed and several injured last night when the lorry in which they were travelling collided with tne railway gates at Lincoln Road crossing. East Markham, Notts, and was caught by a passing express train. Linda Hibbard.

a Women's' Land Army worker, of Newcastle Avenue, Worksop, and Hector John Ridley, of Abbey Road. Worksop, were killed in stantly, and Doris Newbury, land worker, of King Road, Warsop, died on the way to hospital. The lorry was in collision with the 1 25 p.m. express from King's Cross to Hull at Tuxford North. The up and down lines were blocked Although the locomotive was only slightly damaged a fresh one had to be obtained for the train, which was delayed for an hour and a half.

The 3 p.m. epress from Leeds to King's Cross and the 3 30 and 3 50 expresses from London to Newcastle had to be diverted by way of Lincoln and Grantham. Normal working was resumed last night. "INVASION DAY WILL COME" Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers, Commanding General of the European Theatre of Operations, told 71 officer cadets from the United States Army in England yesterday that our objective was unconditional surrender of the enemy or else his total destruction.

In this theatre the job is the destruction of the Nazis. Night and day we are invading enemy territory. The German war effort is being paralysed. The war is being carried to the enemy by our Eighth Air Force. In the day and by the R.A.F.

at night and day after day and week after week it is being intensified. "You must prepare yourselves and your men to follow up this destruction and to complete the conquest. You must be ready at all times. When you will be called upon cannot be said, but the day will come, ot else the night, when you will cross these narrow waters and strike the enemy with all the force at our command. That invasion will continue until Nazi Germany is a dead page in the history and the Nazi armies have surrendered unconditionally." He warned the officer cadets not to be deceived into a state of weak and wishful thinking.

Victories in Africa, Sicily, hi Russia, and in the Pacific are by no means final." AMERICAN RED CROSS CLUB Manchester's American Red Cross Service Club, at 36, St. Ann Street, has a full programme of entertainments for next week. There will be dances on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, and dinner music every other night, with a request programme of recorded music later on Tuesday even ing, an RAJ', variety show on Wednes and a two-hour "cinemobue" entertainment on Friday. The club holds open house frem early afternoon Ci.oTir i fr Vi i e3tforilxaf hunt before the dance, and an American Red Cross floor show as the main event of the evenang. THE EASTERN FRONT FUTURE USE OF CANADIAN ARMY One of the Questions for Quebec Ottawa, Augtjst 13.

The Canadians are apparently no longer fighting in Sicily, and it is believed in London that they are the subject of "the Canadian-British discussions whether they should be used now and in the future as a complete Canadian Army or broken up and integrated into the British armies (said a Canadian press dispatch from London published in Dominion newspapers to-day). This is a tremendous question for the Dominion, which all along believed it would be represented in the field by the Canadian Army as a whole, the dispatch said. The correspondent wrote that it was considered that it was to raise this question that Mr. J. L.

Ralston, Canadian Army Minister, raced home after only a few days in Britain, where he had been expected to stay. for some time. While it was not announced just what 'disposition was made of the Canadian troops who made such a fine showing during the first few weeks in Sicily, it was obvious that they were npt in any recent action as they have not been mentioned in Sicily communiques during the. last few days. From Algiers the Canadian press jporrespondent Louis Hunter wrote Jhat Russian village set on fire by.

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