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[p810 Aug. l0 — (Satur- h,,_|cl*)- Berlin broad- cast quoted a German war lnillhtry official statement to- g" a; saying “we must. be

spared for a “erman with-

rawal from France."

"We must expect the low of places with world famous names,” the statement said with a scarcely - veiled reference to

rls.

The broadcast. by the Ger- man Agency Transocean, was recorded by the Ministry of lu- formation.

Protest Article In Dollar's Magazine

QUEBEC. Aug. lit-(CPU-The

i Quebec City Council tonight pass- ed a resolution protesting against

an article in Colliers Magazine 0i’ Aug. l9. entitled “Canardc/s Cross."

in which Frank Gervasi said that French and English-speaking Can- adians “from birth control to the war effort arc as far away from one another as Hitler is from Dc-

lnccracy " The resolution said the "libelous article. . .15 detrimental to tr

war effort and to the voluntary en- listment within the Dominion oi Canada and more especially in the Province and city of Quebec "

The preamble to the resolution laid information irl the article. sup- plied by "malevolent mid anonr- mails persons about. the character and courage of the Frcilch-Carl- adians is quite erroneous."

BUMING EVENTS?

"Dance. Lorne Valley, Aug. 22. 8-l8-2i

v "Show - Moreli Tucsday.

B-lii-lii

"Dance. Iona Hail, lvlondzrv,‘ liiifiist 21st. 8-

—;— i

"Show - Mt. Stewart SliLUX-i

any. Shows a and 1o P. M. 8-17-31.

"Booking orders for Asphaitl Shingles. N. Aubrey Cutclific. 6i i

"Holy Redeemer li/Linsbrcl Review‘ lit. Stewart, Friday, Augusta 2159th.

"Benefit Dance. Cardigan Credit Union f-loll, Monday. August 21st. Webster's Orchestra. 8-l9-ii.

"Chicken Sii r at. York l-iall, weil$rrdrfi“i..eo§i” ' . Beginning at Five o'clock. 8-i9-2iu.

"Wanted large, good used bagsl bran or shorts size. Smaller bags 3° 800d. Dillon d: Spillettaa w m

"Notioe-Dingwoll R: Rossit-efs M". Morcli. will b: closed August M. 12nd. 23rd for stock taking.“

3-in-1. .

"Chicken Suwpcr. Dance. Con» M Bonn. Wednesday. August} mi- Supper served 5 to 10.8 w m i

"Hunter River-lo-llay "Aunt Til-

lit Goes To Sea". in Victoria Hull,

Aiisiiit a2. 1f not fine. the follo\v-

‘"8 "lslit- 8-19-31 I0 i?‘

Farmers are invited to take

Vlitiltze of our‘ expert miérkledtiing

v O pf‘ CG! 8551115 . VE‘

Moi Marketing Board. 8-18-21 no "'_‘

Biivin liiar M do at Frd- gicion. Eueedoy ‘inlay M. Yocrk. ‘$1094 . , P.M. New Iiuvcn. ‘ wii-‘orellygd Pailngaglfig? ‘W! Jmtiglbdh. “a om il-IQ-ii:

"Annual meeting of th P. E. I. fiiglflarv Medical Associgtion will

rid on Wed., Aug. 23rd at 2 "\- ln office oi mm 31:839. ttllharlottetogn. Atll

gen y-requeste to a - ma‘ DT- J. O‘Keeff, as???

A. “Wdfreasurer.

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rice hall and u airliswvinrgerful era ve. ve ‘Mooney. No gghcstros led hi’; wiliircdfl“ Come on puma.“ you com§_%e;iy

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"u'°li°¢I Market ing Board wnh"! all"!!! Week of Aug- “ - llpiektilelowshlioollliday p.m. - ore , urray '""°‘"- "lac. Charlottetown, Mon- Blh. Alberton, O'Leary. Miscouche. Tuesday N. usual hours: Charlotte- °Pih~ Wiltshire, Hunter Kinkora. Kensiugton, Ai- Tmfliih! service at prac- m Points. Phone our local t, - Your locality. Cannot ac- uoifi hen

W sows until further no- 8-l8-2il

“>1 NIP‘ T Klfi

10-211 1.-

flew inntg the rail! Yrfrliai over four Europthn 0mm‘

tries. From British mo. nan. fari- , i h bomb- 3§’i§‘5h%3“£{"§t ohixhieldsvyoii de-

Of Toulonl

hit was officially dimmed a. lies Pout, only

area of Brlgnoies 30 clue north of Toulon in an flanking drive

tly submerged when the scuttled their fleet

1941. was sought out by

crew members rc

Germans had used h bard the Allied

Direct hi the 7.600 -

troops.

in the har

Headquarters announced southern French an almost incredible and said 7,000

low

from complete.

French In Paris Rcaiiy .For Signal g

Bv ALEX SINGLETON

LONDON, Aug. l8 —-(APl _ mystcrlous voice broke in on the long-silent wavclc th of the Ger- man-controlled P s radio today and shouted in German, "They're looming," as strong French under- ‘Vgrouna warriors awaited the signal .for an uprising timed with the en- 'try of American tank columns now lure lug the French capital's en-

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Paris. anticipating deliverance. has the biggest and most well-knit force ni’ all the resistance norms

rance. Col-Jean Drumooit. a 33- ycar-old French underground lead- cda told a press conference here O ay

For security reasons Drumon/t did not say what Paris’ shadow army was going to do when the Allies reach Paris. The name Drumonit is an assumed one because this high- est milking resistance officer yet to

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{reach London still has a wife and:

two daughters in Franco. | But he said Paris’ patriots were the largest group of a. total stron er than the stand n1 army of 5 The Swiss raido nuotcd a Vatican report that the Pope might infer- vene in an effort to spam destruc- tion of Paris i Frenchmen hers were grimly ex- ncctant that the Germans would both put up s. fight d try 'i"il"lEl'I.= theclty as much as possible in riletaliation for thc bombing! of r n.

il-Boat Shells Fishing Graft

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. I8 — (AP) — An enemy submarine, believed to be German. surfaced recently in the North Atlantic and fired four shots, barely missing the 74-foot. New Bedford Scallop- er. the Friars, crew members Id

to a)’.

Coming into port with a 1.000- gallons catch. the crew said the st- tack occurred at night when the fishermen, shrouded in a dense fog, were dredging for scallops in a KiOO-foot shoal.

hThg-beubmarifie ‘fired four shots t en ecame s en .

The navy said it was the firlt submarine that had been sighted in two months in the North At- lantlc.

force sage-war French .000 men.

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at a swift-moving lhllldiflflmgtli- umn surged into the vicinity of Col- six miles northeast of Toulon. While far to the north 311ml?! SPoarhead Punched into the miles almogt ou -

The 26,500 ton Strasbourg. par- French at Toulon in Allied medium bombers and several dir~.

CHARLOTTETOWIN. CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1944

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ROME. Aug. is - American and within

Hfiéich troops in the invasion of Frlnoe to seize a "fleeting but defi

sou hern fiance today drove ag- victory over Nani

oinst Toulon both along the coast They were able to tra

and 20 miles inland in I threst- Allied saughter pen in

cning ilaukin movement behind mid better traps, bring Paris within sight of the great nave base

Situation Last Nigh

one segment o ormafldy, enfold

out Iclri;lll‘i:tui,l‘|;on_ enemy abililtlyrt to reach or hpld

IIIIIOLSHAQIOLAIIIMSIIUIYIHIWNAUIIYII five days of Gen.‘ Eisenhower's dramatic call to hla troops h

nite opportunity" io achieve a lnlim“

foes. they have responded: gallantly.

a powerful Nazi army in the escaping elements in bigger their forward nutrola and the Slelnle line.

German forces in

converging fire of Allied cannon. A

revealing. They tell of triple northeastward on the flank of thc

Mum on he wide lower ri Massive Allied the main German to pieces beyond won although its full fruits cannot There has been no informaiio

ver. power in air and

n from any source as to German dis-

’ and chaotic

pa . the shrunken golilket writhing in death agonies under the

significant Allied blackout covers news

as to the whereabouts of armored elements in the Paris vicinity or slicing ill anew between the harried foe and the Seine, but Gel-man reports are American 3rd army

spearheads driving Nari retreat to the Seine. after they

had already cut the enemy off from Paris. forced him into flight toward

on the ground has virtually decimated

army in France in five days. ft has definitely been torn effective counter-actions and ii mllfor victory ls already

yet be calculated.

Closing iiay At Exhibition

Yesterday ended what was odds the most successful Ex ibi

heat, for the sun cured ‘merci lesaiy down throug clear

-G.erman§ Is Faiiure .

tion ever held in the Province. It is true there was a “little too much of the good thing” in the way of

skies

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llllll Hour Effort By

ALLIED SUPREME

By JAMES M. LONG

day after day so that the ther- mometer hovered around levels it has not reached for many years. But it did not rain. And then last evening, Just as the last heat in a great day's racing was over, the sky began to darken. Soon a few drops of rain fell, then they came faster and thicker. And then it ined.

oi the rain. the calling up the ivinning drivers and care-

“woHtuHdedTKTrIQeiiYCQI. 8):;

llth-ilour attempt to avert Vmay spell an Allied victory Mighty Allied forces

l2 miles away by capital.

German

German 15th Army guarding the north French rocket

Geri. Eisenhower summoned his fiel soon may be reflected in new and 0V€1‘\l'l‘l€l

ect hits were scored and fires and

positions east of the Seine. Rcirlforeements intended for the Normandy front. may have been halted along the upper reaches of the stream be-

explosions were caused by the bombs, rtcd.

Although Partly dismantled. the

e; gum w bom_ sea or even outflank other river . _ Another angle on the reported deflection of the flew-man retreat rout" ts also were reported on "f ton cruiser Le. Gallisson-

riiere, a. defitroycr and a submgring r.

known assault casualties for the

invasion were 300.

G Iflgllfé, erm

had been taken in e Ogi-rilfitpgtlltlnig:

to fish governlnen . M t

low Paris. If not. the slanting of stream would mean that a wide

t ready open to Allied crossing tos r

to the northeast i»: the adder! iimnl

troops there.

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LONDON. Aug iB-(APU-Rus- slan troops have advanced 31 miles on a 75-mlle front west of the Vis- tilla River in a surge threatening to snap the Axis Walsaw line guar- ding tho csla. night in an order of the day

h Sandomierz, west bank strong-

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saw. was captured by lviarshal Ivan S. Konev's lsr. Ukraine armies. the order of the day said. The Rus- sians previously hed been reported within 35 miles of Krakc within '75 miles of German llesia. This smash through Poland io- ward industrialized Germain Silesia. occurred as Soviet naval fliers said that German troops retreating into cast Prussia, far to the north. now were burning their own villages n- long the border in the path of Rus- sian forces whose spearheads alrea- dy might bc fighting on German soil for the first time in the war.

Channel Residents Prepare For Return

LONDON. A113. l8——(CP)—'I'lllrty thousand TESIGEHLS of the Channel Islands now in Britain have com- pleted census forms to determine who will return first to pclxornl pri0l‘l.i._y work when lilo (icrmans are forced to evacuate.

“The refugees Wlli not all be able to return home when the Islands are liberated." said an official of the Channel Islands refugee com- mittee which took the census. "Those whose presence will be rc- quired to get things going again will be the first to return. The repat- riation will be tlflydlllled by the Bri-

the German retreat toward Rouen down

oiriflank that front nil the way fo the linen east

thr- citv. There would be no conceivable million"

if the Seine line below was not also strongly held. surrounded and cut off to warrant scoping up some

Reds Make Advance

German Silesia

plproachcs to German Sll-I Mars all Stalin disclosed to-i

d ll0 miles from besieged War?

and .

ctch of‘ the river closer to Paris is lil-

ication it elves of Nazi evacuation ground for holding it It could be too easily thousands of German

Report Nazis Dig

NEW YORK. Aug. lB—(AP)— Thirt thousand German soldiers are ging trenches in Paris and fortifying the suburbs. the Swiss newspaper Die illustrierte of Luc- erne said in an article reported to- day by the office of war lnforfnat-

A special effort has been made in recen months to fortify buildings ’ b Nazi civil and military

Eomb?

| LONDON. Aug. l9 -— (Satur-

. dill’) — (C?) — The Berlin radio

iclrl this tale today: ' l "A new and larger type flying

bomb carrying a. pilot hit Lon-

don Friday. The pilot took the

hornh over its target and then

bnllcfdgoylt lat-the whet “minute.

just before the crash.”

iioude Has Plan: For The Nation

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MONTREAL, Aug. l8 — (C Camillien Houdc said tonight. as h arrived back in Montreal after tour years in internment that "I have no immediate plans for myself. but for the nation — yes."

Surrounded by his wife and three daughters as he was interviewed While his train approached Montreal, the former mayor said "I am waiting for events which could bring a great change."

Such events he listed as the end of the war. a federal election or _de- velopments in the provincial pol- itical flcld.

l’ offices .the article said. and tank

horrors oi a siege or pitched battle, the article declared.

Famed British Unit With Canadian Army

LONDON, Aug. 18 — (C? Cable) - The famed Seaforth Highland- ers, a crack British Army forma- tion, was disclosed today to have been part of the British force serv- ing with the 1st Canadian Army in France during August.

This was the first mention of any individual unit in the British forces fighting under LL-Gcn. Crerar.

Nazi Snipers Still Active In Florence

ROME. Aug. 1B -— (AP) —Ger-, man snipers still were active in the; northwest and northeast suburbs of Florence today, delaying completei Allied occupation of the city. l

Missionaries’ Winter Prospects

0e local government officials in the Islands remained at their

ts when the Geitmans movrd n. 'l‘here has been no official news of how they have fared under the Nazis although some residents who hay; escaped since the occupation have said that they heard no re- ports of atrocities and that. in gen- real, German treatment of the Isl- anders was favorable.

Rommel Still In Command

MEDITERRANEAN ERS. .

HEADQUART Reuter)—Aitiiough Marshal Rommel still com- mand of German forces in north- ern France. Mo] -Gen. Ludwig Bierlrigcr, first German Genera-i captured in southern France. told interrogators here.

Bieringer said he did not know the extent of B/ammcfs injuries, caused when his car was strafed from the air and collided with a trgg,_killirrg_ the_dl'lVBX‘.

0,000 Allied Planes In Action Yesterday

B1 AUSTIN BIALIIIAI

NMJN. A08. i0—(AP)-Ail.ied blasted n

ing battle

and shot out of f-ho l! 33 909m!’ ii hte in speetaeu‘ battles with a“ n Gannon

E ‘s? 8 E". 5 as Q l 5 i3-

tefmrporariiy resultant. rte. Sixothmisand Allied “was” Dill!!!

be e the smith nfn cilhi- “will

a were pounded by ti: heavy bombers

nxpo tati t . Mrllélfiwlé hfiafifntiii? erranean area hammered anew ct Plioesii oilfield:

Bil: airfieids and a plane engine works in the area stretching 70 miles north and 1'76 mil east of Pans from Britain, Others swung over in Holland and Belgium. battering bottlenecks on transport routes.

It was announced officially the “my wag made not only to inter- rum the flow of flying bombs to launching sites but also to hammer any efforts to reinforce and sup-ply - Germans nortimuthgvsaine atréd to impede any a. em es- tablish defences there or north of. the Somme.

Reported Bleak

OTTAWA. A118. l8 -— (C?) —Ob- iiite missionaries at more than a. score 0i Arctic Circle stations are iaclngthe bleak prospect of a win- tel- without supplies through loss of the mission ship Francoise Marie Therese which piled on a reef Aug. l3 in fog and drift ice south-east gt; Slzgllsbury Island in Hudson

ra .

The Therese had delivered only. 10 pcr cent of her ZOO-ton cargo of fucl, food and other supplies when she broke up on the reef with no casualties. Bearded and stocky. Bishop Marc Lacroix and a small party of priests. Captain Antolrlc Fournler. his 12 crewmen and sight cskimos were rescued.

The priests will remain in the area of the wreck to continue their mission Work willie the captain and his crew now are en route back to Montreal on the government ice- breakcr N. B. McLean which expected in the at. Lawrence River in September.

An Oblate Father here said today th su “ at the mission stat- ld be about exhausted and the missionaries would suffer "real hardship and deprivation." He rid- ded they would be able to keep alive by hunting and fishing with the Eskimo and living on a diet of wrilru‘ and seal meat.

Fool Questions i At Conference l

a tired voice so low that it vras scarcely audible, that he was roe questions which he had neither the time nor the responsibility for aus- ivering.

the executive office and there was particular interest in the Presid- fen__t_'s_h_eg_lth_b_e_cailse_of _the ghastly

'I‘he situation in northern Flor-l‘ enoe was reported officially to have, improved since Yesterday when

German tanks were believed to nave. penetrated the area.

r. o. a. Protestsl

l _..__. i By C. B. Blackburn l

wasrrmoron, Aug. l8 - (or)

— President Roosevelt, fresh from.’ a 35-day tour of the Pacific, met,‘ Washington correspondents ‘ what probably will go down on the record as “the conference . "

today at fool question press’

‘Pwioe the President. speaking in to marry; protested) being asked l

The President looked fit and

tanned but his voice lacked the cus-. tomary vibrance and sparkle, and r ere was a hint of what might nave been a return of his sinus trouble.

About 100 correspondents crowded

col. a)"

(continue-din use a.

, whole of France.

HEADQUART ERS, Aug.

a Normandy debacle and has in the battle for France, it were driving the beaten 15th

all but bridgeless Seine, and American tanks smashing to the vicinit

accounts — had blocked off til

ming blows to

r

and 7th Armies toward the

y of Paris-only eir retreat toward the French

d commanders to an urgent conference which

break the German grip on the

The surging line, were develop- ing a great envelopment movement west of Paris. where a senior Bat-l ish officer disclosed the Germans,

'lmd rashly committed roughly half lhcir crack 15th Army l This was the first intimation thati

Field Marshal Gen. Guenther Von Kluge had brought across the Seine important elements of his army guarding the Channel coast and rhe rocket ronsts to try to extricate the battered 7th from Normandy.

British. American. Canadian Polish, Netherlands and Bel- gian troops — the last two dis- closed for the first time to be in action - were in hot pur-

_ suit of the estimated 40.000

gfiadpss ‘garrgmntilgtffigai at the to 100.000 enemy troops who had The Nazi occupation authorities ‘queued "W" u” Nwmam” do not want to aspire Pa,“ the pocket with the bulk of their

tanks and were heading toward Rouen. '

Both the 7th and 15th -- the only striking force the Germans had along the Atlantic Walk-vrere estimated to have had up to 25 divisions at D-Day.

Half of the i5th army. it is cs- Itimated, was thrown into the lost

battle of Normandy in the last two weeks and has been badly mauled. Replacements brought in to guard the Chnlmcl arc believed to be low grade and spread all the way through the Low Countries.

New Blows?

Allied Supreme Headquarters, lapsillg into silence to mask pos- sible new blows, found occasion to announce officially that it was

iversailles, seven milm outside Par- S

Headquarters said the Falaise- Argclltall gap now had been narr- owcd to two miles — a front-line broadcast said it had snapped shut around 'I‘run. southeast of Falaise- and that British and Canadian ad- vances from the north threatened to split up what remained of ihcl pocket into three parts.

Enemy "Maseacred"

"unable to confirm" earlier reports. that American forces were near]

Flight From

By WADE WARNDI

LONDnOéN, AUR._ l8b—eéAP) —-N8Zi propaga a agencies an pauper- ing the German people for the shock of wholesale ight-on the cast- ern front pattern-from large sec- tions of France today and announ- ced that American collrmns had al- gcavdy reached within 12 miles of axis