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Covers Prince Edward IslandLlke the Dew,

lib. l8 -— A! _ radla broadilargthe

_I text the Three oom- “ amuse tonight without com- ment. ending the by ying the Soviet Nut ll An- “God Save The King “The Star led Il-

Ebb.

NDON. -f gov “Crimea Charter"

tonight

pa n political as well as

twins pa; geographical map of Europe.

WASHINGTON, Feb. ll-(AP) lo 0f British.

TTENS.

A LAB. form the militia of

eedto

s

, m M 4 dsyg,‘ it was r armoun ay. as o a pact ‘reached by the RAW and Gthe

en.

rihilfiTosll‘... “m” vac-roars, Fob. r: - (or) ...

John announced .h the British Columbia l bla- tuo tolls: that the Pro elal

‘T llf"""""’ll." YEN’ 0 ll Blah...“

fllfv out these

UITAWA. Feb. 12 —- (OP) _. Prime Minister Mackenzie tvllilht announced the appoint- liii‘ 2‘. i211". Mam“ WE‘ . _ o lludo Department. e - lfr. Mackenzie. a partner in e

c altered ac- o a %%‘%. Commerce of. McGill

"In trsted his tin n have dilveril o‘ “it'd ins thlea. mltfassa usazutlll; west coast of l , my]. I It announced . the scale and the trtmttwsb... Um sum ° h“ 92nd Divgon co inued WITH ‘IQ B M. la-(fteutsrs) - Allied forou drove forward toda in the three l“!!! Miles of the illhtlrrfl _ W00 on Rcmrea

Mandalay“.

island and along Burma Road.

Coming Events t

"Bilfrkley va. Milton at Ml-llicln rink tonight. Game starts at 0:80. . 2-13-11

"luring iivo and crossed poul- "Y- Plum too n: meet. la- llae Cold swmzwfil rr-rr-tr.

I l-"s'-'t"‘.*lr...:'zu “arc "i! kn. r-ac-tf. dressed h and sows “inn as" Boyle. a-la-sl. "vsleltlne Dance m Aibio 311i. Wodneada, roan’ if 14£ "in lol- best ilcatumos. wj-O-di. IO!

natltuto dancenand sale of

Irldav.

11inch In Will-shire al,

.

“Vliflhtlno Social in Wheatley River- Hell. rl-loa . rem 1cm I! not ilne mono-yo. rota. Hlc-ll.

sa “i

hay ls wanted im- "liilteiv. Ph .11 m,“ "I'll-on. 1.3M’... o-a-tl.

eszh -___ wmmlmillfirtlne Alxtturliwtgll Tea

six. A9101! and ‘mm "°"'- 2-1143: *<=3?'lii"°'n3l°i;’ moat‘ ' v O 1:5,. - ls aha as - s-rr-ll "if w.» .. . l-l-°nir-ao“°‘t‘l'a'.t. “nth-ti. "W" until a airlock Irf mer- "d lmul llso. o c Green. and °' °"'"- ' ' l-ss-al “ll- Dlmatauu

a _ Oolldfl Drums- wsrnro-rll nor-at

‘s3--(AP)—TI1C drew kn- , mediate favorable reaction in Great ' ‘Britain

Fob. 12 — (A!) - E. the (National Liberat-

tack

Km; “MAMA 34 Killed

S. May Draw Heavily“ Canadian Potatoes

UITAWA,

The United States may draw heavily upon Canadian sources to meet the threat of a potato shortage in certain areas, it was loomed today.

Canada last year harvested one of tho largest crops in several years-Madam bluhels. In tho ive years 1080-1040 the Canadian crop averaged 6.597.000 bushels.

The United States crop amount- ed to 3'10. . bushels last year. smaller by 18 r cent than the 104d crop but fve r cent larger than the average y old of W000.- 000 bushels in the 10-year period 1983-1942. Last year's crop, though considerable. ls consldcea insuf ficlent to meet over-all needs, and prospective imports are expected to he heavy.

The area. sown to potatoes in Canada last year was 514900 acres, and at the 12th Dominion- Provlnclal agriculture conference held here ember. it was recommended that 523,600 acres —two per cent less than in 1 be sown to potatoes this year.

British Columbia growers ob- tained lr lighter yield than 104i and Manitoba experienced an unsatlsfactoy year. However. Ontario had an increase of 4,000 scros and a yield increase of 1.- cocoon bushels over 1043. due to favorable weather conditlorls and specialised attention to the crop by commercial growers.

‘There was a marked increase in yield in Quebec in 1944 as com- pared with 194,3. amounting to 5.000.000 bushels. Nova Scotla. which does not f re heavily in the growing of po atoes. roportcd an in of 3,000,000 bushels

over. 104d. while» the. .. lold _ws.s "elldoptibbllly"’gbdd"""llr "Prince Edward ‘Island. The Prairies and British Col- umbia are the only areas shlgw;

u the rlo is such that these areas can read- ily be supplied.

By Tornadoes

ATLANTA. Fob. lil -~ (AP) — At least 34 persons were killed and more than 200 injured, most of them on the outskirts of Mont- gomery, Als.. in a series of tor- nadoes which swept across Als- bama and Miesissmpi today. ‘Pwentilstwo bodies, 15 of them Negros. d been brought to Mont- gomery undertaking establish- ments four hours after a tornado cut a lralf-nlcon atch around the Alabama cop ta.l's western and southern edge.

At least eight were killed and more than 45 lulu-red in two small communities near Meridian, Miss when the storm struck there an hour earlier.

Negro was killed and be- tween 15 and Negriles

south-

Foplllllsslls CAPTURED

Bclicvc Big 7' Allied Push llot Yet 0n p

(By The Associated Press)

q,’

PARIS, rub. iz-Klovo and Pruem i German 's

push from the

adian-British

when the

LONDON Marshal i119

F

River at two

BIIIIOUIIIXXI

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Fifty

hands.

B DOUGLAS AMABON fan Press War ' ’ Correspondent)

TI-IE 1ST CANADIAN

ARMY IN GERMANY, Fob. l2 (OP Cable) — The Canadians carried their war of the waters across new, unseen scru today against an enom who mustered only feeble ion cg fantrymen bucking over the flood- ed soll of rn frontier Gor- many to the rsilwsy running from ea lured Klovo to the Rhine. a war. it was weird and alow and difficult and unorthodox but. with all those things, it was mov- inglahead hero on the northern ha of the 1st Canadian Army {lift “

was mov ahead on

umborlng mob ty of the "Buffalo" an aulohiblolu vehicle that took the infsntrymen out in- to the unknown and out them off from communications except by wireless or by more Buffaloes. an bro t to than the lne

ulchna ‘Pwator rata” as a gift of a Cau- adlan divisional commander.

Garmm rlardly Flaunt ftiaawsrtoda lnwhich Colman hardyfburo at ‘rhohresratanoscmonry

"may. m. u. nay a-ra-u

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west

The 1st Canadian Arm Kleve. northern anchor Westwall with pressed on two miles southeast within 22 miles of Wesel. in the northwest corner of the Ruhr in- dustrial basin, last great source of German war power.

Kleve, a city of 20.000 was the first major prize taken in the Cau- flvo-da ive. Its capture threatened to turn the Allies loose around the north flank for s slashing drive behind enelmy forces defending the Rhine

3

n.

Both Klove and Pruom stood firm Allies were rsmpsgin

throu h Western in Brit no closer to Klevo than the of the Iteichswcld-now largcy overrun-and the United Statcslst “u”

(Continued on page 9. Col. d)

striking rapidly towar frontier only 28 milas away. The Gennailhglgh Contmarlld also

the

Rhino.

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Marshal ‘lioncv’: Forces Advance fruit’ Flirt-

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Rusian

of

Heavy Wind Storm In Vancouver Area

VANCOUVER, Feb. l2 - (CP) - Ono hundred and fifty trees were blown down here yesterday 5 as high westerly winds. reaching gale proportions, Pacific coast area. P. B. St su erintendent of Stanley sad the storm was the worst hound frelght_tl1r_l_ll_ off flejracksa yancouver ln fi_v_e__y_ears.

Opposition To Canuck Advance Is, Light

But Flooded Country Makes Movement Difficult; Amphibious “Buffalof Provides Transport.

places to fight from. The waters have that. but the waters have als

denied

noss in n1 fit sis nce.

the Canadians Ertograss that would norm- o such a pattern of ro- ‘rhe waters are over?-

thos

infi

— ortressoa of western y

front line of defence-doll today leforo the onslaught of two Allied armies striking 11d mileg

a rt in the forefront of an expecmi big

lfed the then

Bons-

0

swept within '14 Saxony capital of

in a swift 15-min advaIiG§_m_aLiL_c‘-JJ_ ' one Berlin-Prague highway.

Berlin said tho/t. Rusian troops already had crossed the Bohor points near Bunzlslu, d the Saxony

BIEQC

forces 11nd broken into the centre of Schneidemuhl, German centre and fortreeg city 00 miles of Stettln near the Polish Schrleldernuehl has been encircled and besfccd since Feb. l. miles south emuchl the encircled bastion Poznan was "ablaze from end to end." Berlin sold, as Russian shook troops also broke into til tho», last big Polish city in German

rail

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in

o wift-

where. They submerge the land. They hide trees sometimes to their

0P!- Tiifiy 8 and climb high little houses. dyked.

into

on

They molest

Highlanders In Action

It vrcs across the waters that Ontario rrlcmndfll M!

rode

the villages the sides of the

Y

to the railroad between Klove and afte a canal

their advance.

Out there on the waters

from the 1a

ndind t sot “‘5'ill.‘.l“.""'."l°“i ‘iii-M- some

quarters said been captured loony C"

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German Po

the Buuslana at S example of

against Ellllllld» only

Rudolf Semmlor, commentator decl

“Slmllarlyfl In thought that the had reoeiv

cannot _ overlook

durance."

to increase tho pulstion. now so Eh, to 00.000000 by

monweolth will seek of British migrants, come Euro ns Coullmonwea lth

bring to Australia years after the war children from These will be

lshsngitllorl»

the Danish Peninsula. close-range attack on the central Oder line. it ' ‘ ’ _ of " 4 could ‘ American air fleets now based in Britain. The “east. west, north and mouth" phrase of the communique could have quite another meaning. Berlin will shortly be in Russian hands and that an Allied break- through to the Rhine and beyond oa the north flunk in the west could provide air base altos in northern Germany itself from which to smash at close tango at u. Null lad stand in tbs great central plain of “ennany.

“Plants To Step Up War Against Japanese

“Churchill AnlfRoosevelt Held Meeting At Malta Prior To Talks With Stalin. ___.___._» |

fortitude should be followed by the Ger- mans in their present plight. “When in the summer of 1940 German for-cell were poised to all!

possomod a f" a paltry 1.000 maohin

Sommlelr continued. mun people need not take a. lerrf out of their enemies‘ book. but. 1t

To achieve that akn the

War mSituatio

318ml!

0f outstanding importance in

muniqus of Maseru. Churchill. Roosevelt and Stalin la their announce-

ment of a joint military Itaff "close-working partnership." It bodes Ill for German hopes of long stavlng off a complete military collapse.

That was the basis of the confidence expressed 1n the "Big Three“

summary of the conference that it would "result In shortening the

Boer aahdlla-

It

Told To Emulate British, Russians

LONDON. Feb. 1i —(Beuter1) nnan radio toda

y hold up aa an which

that country plann and e " Dr. radio political 1942. ie was Soviet Union

her death blow,“

“The

what they and eru-

Australia Hopes To Treble Population

GANBIBRA, Feb. l2 —'(CPl-— Australia Tropes treble her present popllla/tlon of 7.300.000 in the next 56 years ar keel! h" population essential. tlsh composition, Hon. nels Iorde. Deputy Prime ator, said to-

the future of Australia as a Pac- ific notion it wougobo necessary

mmmwoalths per cont Brit- the your 2.000. Com- a stoa flow and wel-

withfn throo 01,000 orphan

Europe. mainly Greek, Yugoslav, Dutch, Norwegian. Pol-

f1 Last“ blight l

L. SIMPSON the final Crimes conference com-

It was fairly certain wbaa the first (‘Big Three" announcement re- vealed fall agreement cu concerted military operations as the first aotlon taken that a three-way over-all staff control system bad been With huge Russian armies up to or beyond the Odor in the east and Allied forces closing In on the Rhino throughout its whole length in the west, direct personal inter-staff directives ’ ‘ troops movements now can be put into quick execution. be reduced to its tactical application and made effective in s. matter of hours, not days or weois.

With the out and wmt battle lines hardly more than 300 miles apart at their point of closest approach to each other on the central Oder and the lower German Rhine, intimate collaboration is feasible. That is hardly an hour's flight by a fast military

At the very moment that the “Big Three” made public their final communication promising “new and evan more powerful blows . . . into the heart of Germany from out, west, north and south." the armies lu the field on both sides were making good on that pledge. The Kleve and Pruom bolt positions west of the Rhine fell respectively to Canadian and American armies. Their capture obviously paved the way for a nrsior British-American offensive drive Into the Cologne plain from the Boer-Haas lino in the centre once the .. w... released

Strategy can

plane.

Inclusion of the "north" among potato from which the new and mighty attacks planned at Yalta would be launched stirred speculu- tion. Land haeea for air strokes from that direction would require

. .. m m .

With BerIn alread

Norway or preferably on swaying under Russian is not ' ‘

the a forward base for Anglo-

nray he based ou expectation that

VALEITA. Malta, Feb. ll-(CP) —-Plsns for stepping up the war against Japan as well as finishing o the conflict in Europe were discussed on this war-torn Medit- erranean island by President Hoos- lelvelt and Prime Minister (X-lurch-

l

They and members of their staffs then flew t0 their Crimea meetlnl’ with Premier Stalin.

This information came from 1 high-ranking American officer and constituted lire only mention of Japan in connection with the Big Three meetings.

Meeting here with Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt were manv of the chief figures lmon whom the flnal clean-up of Japan may rest.

The Prime Minister had with him Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. the First Sea. Loni: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal. chief of air staff; Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wil- son, chief of Britain's military mission to the United States: Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke. chief the Imperial General Staff and Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexan- der, Allied military commander.

The President's party included Gen. George C. Marshall. army chief of staff; Admiral Ernest J. King. chief of naval operations and many others. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander cf the Pacific

present but this was notconflrmed.

The Prime Minister arrived at this Mediterranean island base oe- fore Roosevelt and mude his tread-

ln quarters in a warship during his

stay. There was a note of sadness connected with his visit. for 15 persons connected with his party were killed when their plane crash- ed in the Mediterranean. Bodies of the victims which were found were brought ashore and buried on the island and injured members were treated here.

Mr. Roosevelt landed on s Malta alrdrome which swarmed with pianos. He received a thundering ovation from the people as he toured the island. He made n ape- cial point of st ing beside a bronco plaque on a alace wall which bore an inscrl ion of the citation he gave to the Maltese

island on Dec. __B._l

people during his previous visit to m m..._

o, of their parents help was provid-

fleet. was reported to have been_

‘ The plbdlfl made in poverty or suffarl pros

MAXIMG

OIA

MERE MAN

‘should be made good in Y.

10

41*

llied

doomed.” The conference, which in the military field but in

out Roosevelt agreed with Minister Churchill and Stalin to fol-n in obtain- thc liberated peoples of ‘the Atlantic Charter pl e of the right to choose their governments. In that he opened c new era for American foreign policy. Absent from the communique which was issued simultaneously in London. Wash- lrlgton and Moscow was any ref- erence to Japan.

The nine points are:

l. Detailed agreement among Great Britain, the United States and Russia on military lens against Germany which "will re-

t in shortening the war." Aa if the German people over the head of Hitler, t com- munique warned them: ‘Nazi Ger- many is doom . The German poo e will only make the cost of the lldefeat hetgvior to thunselves

- a

Prime Premier i-rlg for

lees resistance."

2. A final decision to split Ger- many into. zones military oc- cupation after victory. The United States, Great Brits/in and Russia each will occupy a zone. and France will be invited to occupy another. l1 she accepts. as she is expected to .do. the control com-

awiii ~be to- ill-- clude French members. Victory ls to be followed by destruction of Nazism and militarism and elim- ination or control of German dustry capable of war production.

8. A co ion will be set up in Moscow to consider the amount of German reparations, and how they should be paid. The com- munique spoke specially of repar- ations in kind--presumab1y labor

Wzaalrliamsagrlisfir- 186 Soldiers

Worked 0n Island Farms In i944

Total For liminion Was 4,000 Selective Service Head Reveals.

OTTAWA. Feb. 12 (DP) —- Soldiers worked more than 80.000 man-days on Canadian farms helping harvest summer and fall crops last year, Arthur MscNa-ln- ars, director of National Select- lvc Service, announced today.

Apart from the granting of compassionate leave for men to work on their cum farms or those

ed by more than 4.000 soldiers with haying and harvesting in eastern Canada. potato and apple picking in the Marltimes, tobacco and fruit harvesting and food pro- ceasing in Ontario, grain harvest- ing on the Prairies and general farming in British Columbia.

By provinces the number of soldiers employed was: Prince Edward Island, 1B6; Nova Scotia, ; New Brunswick. 400; Quebec. 66: Ontario, 86d; Manitoba, 523;

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CQMJLUDES

ar-Reaclring Plans

(Canadian Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- (CP) —Plans for destruction of Nazism and Fas-

cism and the restoration of democratic. permanent peace through the world were an- nounced today from the Big Three conference just concluded at Yalia in the Crimea. Irl the most comprehensive communique yet issued from a Churchill-Roosevelt conference, the two Allied leaders and Marsha] Stalin declared

“Nazi Germany is

lasted eight days, produced detailed decisions, not only the even more difficult realm of European politics.

The City Council last night, at a regular monthly meeting. shelved a proposal to erect a comfort stat- ion on Market uare, after tend- ors for the build ng were read by Councillor Percy G. Gay. chairman of the tender committee. One, from M. F. Schurman and Com- pany. Ltd, Summersi‘ . was for a price cf $18,105 without heating or wiring. The other, from H. J. Phillips and Company, Charlotte- town, for $17,906, without plumbing or heating.

Coun. B. Earle MacDonald said he was not in favour of building the comforgt. station Al; this time.

cost of

other". th

idea the sto-ti

gotten.

I881].

mlttod by contractors. gested the cost would be less after the war.

The comfort station sulZKW-ioll hm been before the Council for some time now. It was proposed to rect it on the corner of Queen

oonlaueaFlT-lléilibalfvr‘ L

Fur Auction Prices Arc Unchanged

MONTREAL, Feb. l2 — \CP)— Prices at Canadian fur auctions here today were generally un- changed from those prevailing at the auctions of a month ago. Ot- ters showed a 10 per cent aci- vance in price, while raccoon and Canadian squirrel pelts were 10 per cent lower.