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...Montreal, last Wednesday, the raids began. Squads of Mounties and provost officers (military policemen) hunting for Army deserters and draft dodgers swooped about the city in convoys. At dance halls and cabarets they blocked exits, herded all men together, examined their papers...
...police blocked the doors, began to question every draft-age man who came out. There were boos. Suddenly someone tossed a Coca-Cola bottle at a Mountie and scored a clean...
...nearly 1:30 a.m. before Drummondville's police thought things had gone far enough and began to disperse the mob. As quickly as they could, the Mounties and constables headed out of town. They took nine suspected draft dodgers or deserters with them. Conscription-hating Drummondvillians had freed the rest...
...contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that she would be subject to Britain's labor draft if she were banned, was freed by the court, which ruled the contract "extraordinarily stringent...