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British Forces Advnnce

ifharlottetown Sailor Tells Of Cairo Sinking

Lieut. Edward (Ted) Shaw home on Furlough; describes battle when Enemy attacked Malta - bound

Convoy-

. Edward "T " 511"’- We Lileilitcrow members of t-he HMS. no which was lost in the three- yimcu» against enemy planed ,, submarillcs in the Mediterran- ii in August, was back In Chad'- tetoun vesierday for l well

llfd rest. He has been granted a 0.3.0.111. iqiu-‘lliiggiiiyand arrived in

a 0n i - girlie tears lo the day he hfld I95 ooi on her decks for the first time. ‘eiii. Shaw regretfully abandoned

‘Cairo’ with the crew when the idlll British ship was struck eiir the stern by B11 A315 °- 191v aboard a destroyer which -- off tlic members the iiio, he declined to watch the ll-difflfllit cruiser. which Wu! ihed olt b)‘ a British destroyer oniink to Dian. go to the bottom.

'1‘wo Canadians

Lleul. Shaw was one of the two iliadians on board the ill-fated iser wliicli was mt enroute to sieved lvinlta ln the some bottle '1 lcost the British the loss of - cruiser Manchester and the alr- nii carrier Eagle. Surgeon Lieut. A. G. Lauc. "roronto, Ont. was '1 second Canadian on the 4.500- ». Cairo. ll was on August 12 that the iiro vras torpodoed. Axis planes - rained bombs on the lame vol‘ ironi dawn uniil almost iuk. suddenly. however. they aban- aed the task and things ouietkd im. There wcac still about 20 min- lfli€lt before dark and Lieui. aw, along with a. Petty Office.‘ -- three seamen. was seated in the doctor's room which was situated llloi-u-ard and high up on the l). lie was relaxed reading _ a ilaziiie iind having a last ci - 2.1: before dark when the su - llllt‘ struck without warning. esiiip "shook all over" and in- i Jilly and simultaneously the four New up their lifebelts. Not a word alien slluktli, They knew they Bvlllt iiiid blowizg up their elicits was iin immediate reaction < the ioructiolng. The Charlottetown boy had the llrviioncs of a telephone on mouthpiece strapped to him. i did not know where the ship had _ hit. but shouted into the phane. helcu iill rl_ ht down there?" Tflerwly came ack instantly. "Yes whats happened?" He informed than below “we've been torpcdoed." n they were given a lookout ltoniinued on page S. Col 5)

AITACKEI) BY THREE MEN

TORONTO. Sept. 11 — (GP)- , Harmon 25. Royal Cana- X'"i Mounted Police Officer from , it Bus". u. s. visiting here. ‘ his liiiv fractured and his face ‘trill’ cut when h‘ men. it was learned today.

lllnnon fought back. but tho ll KOt away, There was no one iiiid at the time. It is believed " was the motive but the ilints Bot nothing.

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New Rubber Czar T0 Be Named Soon

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 —(AP) - President Rccsev-eil, said today that the new rubber czar wcmd be named soon, probably on Monday, and that the most of the recom- mendaluom of the Baruch com- mitlee which investigated the rub. ber situation would be put inflo effect simultaneously.

However, iue nataon-wide gas- oline rationing is not expected Io become effective until later, due to be “necessity of preparing rel-ion o .

Twit Mussolini For Faflure

11 - (OP) — for hi5 failure AnglmEgy tum oroes

LONDON. sea“- Twitting Mussolini to attack the Sudan with nu far neuter in 1940, the war office commen [oglpy mm, "any Italian Gemral ho looks back at that time ""199 feel inclined to kick himself foo-"the waste of those previous weeks-

11mm‘; costly procrastination at l. time when he had 300.003

to throw against only 7.000 spread British troops in thin to. in s 150-17180 Abyssinian cam-

l0. ubves from Ethiopia. Erltme and y!- "There was not-hing to stop hi!!!’ gwige. up through the Budw- Mm let said. "If he had only known it, resolute and oo-oidiriot- ed attacks might have closed the 31w; and Italy might have con- buted Africa. as Germany was contributing Europe to Axis spoil-S-

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Island Gov’t Denies Use As Axis Base

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Laval Says F r e n -c h Putting up Only “Token Resistance.”

IONDON. Sept. 11-(AP)- Bri- tish force: advanced quickly into the interior of Mbdagascai- against ll ht opposition today while the is and government denied it was use as a secret Axis base and head-of-government Pierre Laval in Vichy protested the United States endorsement of the British campaign to take the French pos-

out of the sphere of Axis intrigue.

Vichy dispatches said the Bri- tish forces had made their land- ings after naval barrsges and air attacks begun yesterday morning on the west coast. from Mozam- bique channel and were advancing on the island ca ital Tannanarive, with the inhoapi a1 terrain as their mOst serious barrier.

Laval said the defending forces were “very insufficient-and I re- gret it." and the French on the Island were described as putting up mere token resistance intended ' bove all to save our honor."

(The Italian radio broadcast a Tokyo dispatch asserting a. Japa- nese submarine had sunk a. 10.000- ton British transport in Mozam- bique channel between Madagas- car and the East, African coast. slppcrently referring to a. sinking c aimed Wednesday in a German broadcast quoting a dispatch to the Italian newspaper La Stamper.)

Several allied ships have been reported sunk in the last several weeks in the vicinity of Madagas- Nil‘. . <

News Briefs

FORT BENNING. 0a., Sept. 1l—(AI’)—The nucleus of the first Canadian parachute balls.- lion-w enlisted mcn and six offiacre- received the silver wings of qualifed jumpcrg from the American parachute school hero today.

OTTAWA, Sept. l1-(CPi— Re- venue Mlnister Gibson today an- nounced ihe appointment of court- land Elliott. of Toronto. on econ- omist. as a member of the Board of Referees authorized under the excess profits tax act. The boa-d of Referees conducts hearings and makes taxation decisions in cases brought before it under the act.

LONDON, Sept. 11 —(CP Cable)- L. S. Amery Secretary of State for India. denounced Mohandas K. Gandhi in the House of Commons today as an “arch sahoteur" and declared "we want. India to be free’ In reply to a suggestion that. Bri- tain keep open the door on nc- gotlutlons with India».

WASHINGTON. Se t, 11—(AP)—- A 35.000000 campagn to build health and iecreatlon facilities for merchant sailors in all the import-

Ied ant ports of the Utflted Nations

was launched today by I ""111" industry committee headed ‘ry Henry J. Kaiser, west coast ship- builder.

Remind Women To Register

OTTAWA. Be t. 1I—(OP)--As l last-miuntc rem rider to Canadian women between 2o and M veers o! age who are compelled by law to register with National Selective Service next week. Mfl- RH 39W"- asslstant director of National Bel- ective Service. said today women should avoid makin any BTW" b?‘ carefully checking list of those who must resistor-

wlth only four exceptions, all women in the 20 to 24 year old group must, register. whether HWY are. married or sin 16. ‘Thole who will not be relllli t9 N818“! l‘ this time are: (1) Women now gmployed with insurance compan- ies and in i011 0i llnemllloy- ment insurancc commission regis- tration cards 411 or 418i (Iii In- mates in institutions: m Women in the armed forces: end (4) mem-

bers of religious orders. LONDON PREPARE!

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Rapidly At g Madagascar Defender; Are

War §ituati0n Last Night

(By Kirko L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst)

If India is the next attack goal let by Hillel‘ it" his Jflllfllwfle Axis mute, there is no doubt that this time Brit-all}. Ilfiillli-e Perils that faced 0

her in Egy t centration, Even n Mr.

forces were deployzg was timed to coincl e

Complete British occupation of a. stumbling block in the Axls forces in the Middle East that s to assault upon India. w capitalize on

making.

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got the ump ou the en Churchill voiced his Parliament on the Indian situation. powerful British to mop up Madagascar. That hls India exposition with that move is obvious.

r a second-front con-

fintiaud sooth ltatement a , sea. and land

the huge French island must. prove

athway, whether if. is a junction of Axis

be attempted, or whether a Japanese internal disturbances there is in the

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The excuse offered for the Washington-approved British action was

Ja nesc submarine actlvil no terlng over the Island.

in the Indian Ocean, those Nipponese plane: could not have

Madagascar.

off Madagascar and Japanese air nless they came from the decks of carriers

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Their presence was i lure Indication of threatening Japanese activ- ities against the Allied supply lines round the Cape both to India and Egypt and the Middle East. It warranted the London and Washington

assumption that Vichy might he wlnkin effort to set up secret Japanese submarine and m.‘ bases on the

Axis great French island

O If so, British action has gone azascar not. only eliminated as a. Allied supply routes in the Indian porting base for reconsider any project for invading

cean but uva. United Nation use Tokyo probably would be forced to

ut, if not d"*cct.ly fostering,

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fur to scotch the plan. And with Mad-

t on the flunk of the hie as a powerful sup-

sslble more s

India across the Bay of Bengal.

As Mr. Churchill told Parliament, there are only two dlsccrnablc

routes for such an attempt-b

land from occupied Burma or across the Bu." of Bengal. Wee s ago Parliament was assured by the A

by sen d.

miralty that Irrespective of other British naval commitments in many seas, powerful forces had been concentratcdfln the Indian Ocean.

Secured by complete occupation of Madagascar. the British position

on the sea flank of any Japanese

to span the Bay of Bengal is

strongly reinforced. Ceylon and defence installations 0n the west coast.

of India now manned, Mr. Churchill

said. by more white as well as Indian

troops than in the history of Anglo-Indian relations, are prepared to of-

fer stout opposition.

Pilane Crashes On Roof

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- BUYFPAID. N. ‘L, Sept. 11 - (CP) - Two workers were killed and about 60 injured late today when a. flaming Ourtfsnwright aircraft. from which leaped to safety, plowed into the roof of a. building of the Cur-tiss- Wrlghg airplane division plant.

William Davey, general man- ager cf Cuutis plants here. said ham-es of the dead and injured were not, immediately available,

Six hospitals reported their em- ergency wards jammed a5 ffeets of ambulances brought in the victims. several of whom were said to be critically injured,

Davey reported that test; pilot J. Bertrand Purnell parachuted to the ground after the ship caught fire “at a high altitude." Purnsil was slightly burned, Davey said. Cause of the fire was undeter- mined.

Damnge i0 the plant, into whidi the plane plunged, was "very slight." he said. and production continued.

Warn Battle 0f Atlantic Still Raging

OTTAWA, Sept. 11 - (GP) — Royal Canadian naval hfldqum- ers in a statement tonight wamed that although shipping losses in the Atlantic drop materially in July and Augus, the battle of the Atlantic was “of far greater scope than ever before ex ri. enced" and was waged as reent- lessiy as ever.

The statement, Lwuied thmu the naval information office, sad the shrinkage in lmes in the sum- mer months should not cause "too great a. felling of false optimlcu."

Nazi Tanker ls Destroyed

nONDON. Bent. 1l—(0P)— The Admiralty announced a German tanker was destroyed and an enti- dli-erafl. vessel probably destroyed in an early morning naval en- counter off the coast of Holland today.

An enemy armed trawler and at least six other small naval craft were "severely damaged" while the British navy lost a motor gunboo-t.

thg com_r_nunlgue said.

Plant Factory

Report Big 1L8. Victory Over Japflanes

By CLARK LEE

Associated Press Stuff Writer

AT SEA WITH TIIE U. B. FLEET OFF THE SOLOMONS, Aug. Zif-tllelaycdi- (AIM-Tho greatest air victory n! the war against Japan has been won by American fliers who today shot down 96 enemy planes in a far- flung battle liver Guadalcanal Island and ovor a navy task force. United States losses were eight pilots missing,

In addition, and wltlhout loss of a single pilot, a small group of United States dive-bombers and torpedo planes damaged a huge Jap battleship of the Mutsu class, and a heavy Jap cruiser.

Today's total was the largest number of enemy planes over shot down by American fliers iii one engagement.

(The alr fighting was presum- ably In connection with the re- pulse of an enemy force of war- ships and transports which ap- proached Guadalcanal frcm the northward. The presence of the transports indicated, ln the words of a. United States navy communique. “that an atton-pt to recapture the shore positions In the Guadulcanal-Tulagl are: was intended?)

To Interview Premier King

BELLEVILLE, Ont, Sept. 11- (C P)—A United Ghurch general coun- cil delegation of six commissioners left this city tonight for Ovawa where they will be received by Prime Minister MacKenzie King tomorrow at 11 am.

Tho delegation will present re- solutions passed by general council regarding a severe Oilftilfillflllt of the liquor traffic. unanimously en- dorsed by the council in session

Members of the delegation 1n- clude: very Rev. John W. wood- side, Ottawzr Rev. l-LS B st:ot-. hard. Lunen urg, N S ; Rev. An- drew lzoddan. Vancouver; Rev. John Coburn, Toronto; Mr. SJA. Bran. ion. 11¢; Prince Albert, sask, and O W. Taylor, President of the Unit- ed Chumh Association of Toronto.

‘The dciegstlon will present a re-

rt of its interview with the Prime lnister prior to adjoiirnriient of the general council Sept. 1B.

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Novorossisk on Bl Been abandoned

(By Henry C. Cassidy, As- sociated Press Staff Writer)

MOSCOW, Sept. l2—(Sat- urday) — (AP) — Russian troops defending Stalingrad under a “lighi-to-the-deziih"

Professor Jone-than c, Menu", order were reported official-

Dran of Illcdicinc. McGill Univer- Sll)’ who has been

$crvivvs in charge professional m-[lvi¢ics_ He have the rank of Brigadlgr,

Only One 0f Three Lives To. ‘Wear His 1L0.

LONDON, Sept. il-(CP) —The Victoria. Cross. the Empire's most coveted military decoration, has been awarded to three heroes of the battle of Libya but only one has lived to wear it. the War Of- fice announced today.

Ono posztiuimoiis award was to Private Adam Wakcnshaw, mem- ber of a British anti-tank gun crew, whose lcit. arm was shot oft in a. point-blank duel with a Ger- man motorized gun in the Libyan desert lust July.

Wlicii all other members of the crvw were killvd or knocked out. ho lllflllilqCd with one haiicl to load and fire his two-poundcr five times. Another enemy shot blew him away from his gun and 1n- jiircd liini further, Slowly he drag- god himself back and was prepar- ing to fire again when a, direct, hit on his ammunition killed him,

Australian Hirivute Arthur Gur- ll-(‘y made a one bayonet charge sllfllCillg two enemy machine-gun nests at El Elsa last July 22. and inst was seen alive charging a third 005i» inside which his body later was found.

Thu l-liird Victoria Cross went, c; South African Sergeant Quentin Smytlic uho, although wounded, took command nfhis platoon when its officer was shot and then stalked and destroyed a machine. gun nest with grenades.

Nether-lands Navy Gets Torpedo Boats

MONTREAL, Sept. 11 _ (CP) ._ The slllklllg power ct the Royal Netherlands navy was increased by iciur motor torpedo boais today. Ready‘ for active service, the speedy W“ “Ere turned over i0 Nether- lands navy men by the Canadian power boat CCmpany here

G P Ludcn, consiiLgeneral of the Nclficrlands took part, in 3, brief ceremony commissioning the beats. designed by Hilbert Scott- Pfiillf‘. In addition to machine guns the (lcstructive craft ciirry rm. p660 tubrs. depth (‘hllrges and smclg-Ascrecn npparatug

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of all est struggles of history. but

ly today to have stopped the Nazi tide in one of the great-

the Red army of the Cau- i

LONDON, Sept. I1—(CP)— The German radio said tonight the Russians are counter-at- tacking fiercely at Stalingrad. particularly against wedges driven into defences north and south of the beleagllued “"1-

casus has abandoned Novo- rossisk on the Black Sea coast.

Courageously holding their ground under constant ar- tillery and dive-bomber charges, the Red army west and southwest of Stalingrad

beat. off constant German infantry charges, destroying 14 more Nazi tanks and kill- ing hundreds of the enemy, the communique said.

Death at Russian hands was promised for any Red exhibition of cowardice in the epic struggle on the western bank of the Volga.

It was the first time the Russians had stopped the Germans west of the city

after the Nazis really began moving in from that direc- tion this week. The Soviets had wiihdrawn four times in the previous four days. Soviet troops even counter-attack- ed southwest of Stalingrad iii one sector to thrOw the Germans “back to their initial positions" after sev- oral Nazi assaults had carried the enemy into Russian defences, the communique said.

The Germans had claimed the capture of Novorcisslsk last Sun- day. The withdrawing Soviet uri- its apparently retreated into the mountains which sweep close to the sea between Novorossisk and

Tuanse, 65 miles farther south along the coast.

Russian Successes

Continued Russian success was reported at Mozdok on the Terek river 60 miles west of the Grozny oi fields.

Still fighting against

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Daesseldowrf Under

Heavy Pall Of Smoke

Allied bombers leave trail 31 planes lost.

By ROBERT BUNNI-ILLE Associated Press Stuff Writer

LONDON, Sept. ll- (APl- Duos- selzlorf in tho Rliliw lay mnrkcd today in a pull of smoke loft by hundreds of British bombers last night in the accelerating RAF. offensive to cripple the stipply cen- tres of the German army.

The 50th attack nn the city cost 31 British bombers but the price was considcrorl small compared to iho fiery, explosive destruction left in the metal. pnachiiicry and chem- ical industries. It was the seventh large R.A.F‘. nltiick on the Reich in l0 nights and tho round trip carried the big, black bombew 600 miles through stout ciicmv defences.

Other objectives wlilrli the air ministry did not nnmo were attack- ed in western Germany. Fighters meanwhile carried out offensive pntro‘; over cncmy-ocmipicd territ-