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Smash plot To overthrow Argentina Gov’t

QMNOB ALREB. July 31—(.AP) _-smaslihig of a "subversive plot intended to overthrow present auth- orities" oi Argentina was announ- ced p, police at Parana lodnv i.i- m- n series of raids in that. provin- cial capital. u reputed hotbed of Nazi nciiviiv.

A lnrer quantity of propaganda doCllfllfllln was reported seized in house; whose doors and walls the raiders said were decorated with the

‘Supreme

to Provincial

swastika.

Nine pcTSOiiS were arrested in the alleged plot which police said was ieinrnd in the linger of Argentina jtiuini: iiorili\\'iii'd along Uruguays inland frontier and controlling wet-; envoys lentiiiig to Pztraguny, Bolivia and Brazil.

The mid was the latest in a ser- ies oi anti-Nazi moves in South Ainr-i-iczi. V _

While Gcrmn-n Minister Ernst Wciidlei" ivnlu-d cii the Chilean‘ coast ior ii boat to Japan as a re-l stilt of his election from Bolivia.‘ another Gcrmnn envoy. Ambassador Edmund Von Thermniin. was iindci" me lire o Argentine Congressmen. in coiin " with his protests. against . * of a portable rndiol transmitter consigned bv nir to the German Logulion in Peru.

Peru llilll co-opcrated in uncov- ering the rnclio shipment by pass-t in! a sDPcinl liiw to prevent its en- te" untry

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Premier King. Says E. Africa» ill occupied

l .___. OTTAWA. Juiv ill-(CP)—-Pi‘lme Minister Mackenzie King in n stain- inent tonight said it was announced in London torlav that “the whole of the territories formerly known iis Italian East Africa now are areas in cccupniien of His Mnjestv." (Last reports from London were to the effect that there still was e small pocket cf enemy resistance inn section of southeastern Ethi- 0i>il.| llir. King's reference to the Lon- »- don announcement wits ninde in a statement ilcclnrinq that so fur us the ifalflllll! with the enemy net ls concenied. niitiiorizntion hns bccii

"aiiv bodv 0r persons. whether cor- toiiiie or incorporate, carrying on business" in the former Italian ‘er- rltcrics,

Such authorization vras withheld under (lu- nct while aiiv section of Afi-irn still was occupied by

Coming Events

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'fThe DiClilC at Ti-ncndie has been bosboncii itideiinltelv. L-l199-B-l-1e. "w: l‘ a- - - , island ‘golf: C“1L‘§§Y§-q§§’.‘l’;',

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"Irr- Crcam and Dance Kelly's ems 11011. Friday. August 1st.

L-ll46—7-;l0-3l. “See Aunt. ‘Tillie Goes to Town)

HmJzimcs Dramatic Club. TO\\l1._ m . Georgetown. Monday. August h- L-1l03-8-1-2i. "ll/noted to bu -Bolognn ortic Blfigflié mpgwvgal selves, all grades, stormy Co" Lg. Dilces. Islnnd Cog? "Livestock Feed Warehouse $315M’ _$t~. oncn Saturday evenings mm 9A0 (daylight saving) for m tllllcnce of farmers. Your pat. "080 solicited. L,_9_

u ii Livestock Shipping Associa- mvoslmdlflfl hogs, lambs and 6m “ill fl-l usuul points, on usual H C ieiever there is stock offer- ml-r ontcct our local agent in other Wmmunity for trucking and "mrkeflflk services. L-9.

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, -_% palm‘; agent for the Livestock m“ ‘"1! Board. will be glad to u", gm" ‘mks from your door My ‘l; fXtra charge each Tues- Rhj” “Jfy Allan stewiirt, French cum" Clmllflhers Store. Kelly's qi’: or Knud Jorgensen, 14-11. 4-21.

. and Justice A. C. Sounders are in

pug scheme under the Agricultur-

_i_under - zi-‘tlie Lieutenant Governor in Coun-

Opliiions filed ln the Supreme Court by Justice A. E. Arsenault

disagreement as to the Jurisdiction and competence of the Provincial Government in establishing a pro- posed Sheep and Swine Market-

nl Products Marketing Act.

The opinions filed were in an. swer to the following questions, referred to the Supreme Court in baiico by the Lieutenant-Governor- in-Council for "hearing and con. sideratlon."

l. Is it within the jurisdiction and competence of the Llelllklb ant. Governor in Council to estab- lish the aforesaid scheme?

2, In particular, is it within the jurisdiction and competence of

cil to establish the sold scheme, containing. as it does, paragraph 5 (a) thereof?

(Par. 5 (a) leads its follows: “For the purpose of this scheme the Sheep and Swine Marketing Board e-hall have and may exercise the following powers: (a) to regu- late the time and place. and to market and or arrange for the marketing of sheep and swine, and to determine the manner of distribution, the quantity and quality, grade or class of sheep and swine that; shnlhbegnprketed

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Claims

Activities Exist In

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA. riupKv A

Court

Judges Disagree 0n Ma rketingAct

Contrary opinions ‘filed as

jurisdiction

and competence.

llo predictions lie Leningrad

BERLIN. Julv 31-(CP)—Gcririan military lenders made no specific claims and indulged in no predic- fions tonight as to the fate of Len- n

Rrad.

side by side with this retlcence. however. was gpeculntlon in unoffic- ial Nazi sources that Leningrad. second citv iii Russia. and the cld capital oi‘ the Czars. might soon be placed under actual siege.

Press desnntches to German newspapers told. of seven Rtmsian

sions being destroyed in the fiorthem sector of the long bottle ne.

German armies are attacking Leningrad from the south; in Es- tonia. the high command said to- day. they threw back the Russians in the latest operations. The Finns ore descending on Leningrad from the north.

Dispatches from the regions where the Finns alone or Finns and Germans are operating stressed the difficulties of the terrain and tcld of some instances in which the re- treating Russians drenched forests with naphtha. then ignited them with artillery shells to form blazing barriers to the German-Finnish ad- VBDCE,

Subversive Jap

U.S.

Chairman Martin Dies threatens to expose

Commercial Attaches tin

less activities halted.

WASHINGTON, JlllV 3l——(AP)— Chairman Martin Dies (Deni-lex- as) of the United SllliBS House oi Rcpicseiittttivcs Committee on tit.- Auiericun itctivitics stud loony iie would expose stiovc sivc ilCtlViLlCS of Japanese coiniiiei-einl attaches Blld other agents in Ainerioii unless the

Mexico rejects Nazi suggestion

lllon. J. G. Gardiner

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llere to discuss Farm problems

Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Ottawa, Federal Minister of Agriculture. arrived in Charlottetown by plane inst night. on a tour of the Mari- time Provinces. He is here to indi- cate the livestock and dairy pio- duetion increase needed. and to find out the assistance necessary to en-

able farmers to simply . was met at the Charlottetown Airport; bv Hon. W. H. Dennis. Pro- vincial Minister of Agrloultuhgf. Mr. _ tcr

Today he will vlslt the Experiment.- al Farm and from there go to the North Shore to attend a luncheon with members of the Provincial Government. This afternoon at four o'clock. he will meet with a representative fcnners

row he leaves for Plctou. N. 8.. and from there will go to Halifax and other Maritime centres.

In an interview last night. the Minister of Agriculture spoke of the need for more pork products for Britain For the next tear. starting October i. that country hopes to import 600000.000 pounds of Wilt- shire sides. This is 175.000.000 pounds more than this year's quota. and probably three times as much as einv vear before the war. It is expected. however. that before this finished. Canada- will ship 55.000.000 bounds more than asked for.

The object of his visit here is lo see if ll; is Doss arid ad _bl_e

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Montreal man Ganadian Minister To Iceland

tallon.

OTTAWA, July 31 —(CP) —John Doherty Kearney, 48-year-old Mon- treal barrister, has been selected as Canadian high commissioner t0 Ireland.

Late today, Prime Minister Moc-

Kearney will succeed the late John Hall Kelly who established Can- ada's first high commisioner’: of- fice in Dublin early in 1940. Mr. Kelly died March l0.

Mr. Kearney has visited Ireland on several occasions, his last vlslt bein; in 1937 when he went over- seas to appear before the privy council in London.

No information was available at the Prime Minister's office on the date of Mr. Kearney‘: departure mi- Dublin but he is expected w

(to-operating

TORONTO July 3i -— (OP) -- Canaxiws oil controller. G. R. Cot- ti-elle. said today that "reports w the effect that compulsory rationing (of gasoline) in Canada. is on tne way have no foundation ln fact. 1_t would seem that the citizens of this country are going to save the nec- essary quantities of gasoline and oil through voluntary conservation and that the oil controller's prediction that rationing will not be necessary

hone y his methods can be turned against him." .

Rovernmciit puts c stop to them ; i- '.i‘iie '.l‘ex:iii stud his committee MEXICO CITY. Jilly 3! ~— (A?) had testimony from n former em- -Mexico rejected tonight, 5, m. pierce of the _Japnnese Consular quest from the German govern“ service in Huwaii tlint the Japanese mom that the Mexwfln Dvemmem nnve many iishin" vessels on the] Wnetmtl 1t d 3 i west coast capable of quick coiivcr- p‘ 5 I"? U" 9 States B811 05$ sion into torpedo boats and tzut Washingtons blacklist of pro-axis Jliplanese oiiiitrlcarstvheliiluvevnélré:fluent firms ham con crences w i " o '. Th e _ Dies said there was an esbéciully. ed u; Mmtllganogozfiemgjpnfiagrixzge lnrge coiigregniiun of such vessels‘ "m u 5 _ ut 'I‘erininnl island off Los Angcics,‘ l1 T6911. WhlCh MCXlOO 1080706411 Clllll. lie snid his committee hnul as "imperious and unacceptable." lcitiiyiopy Cvlthat sgnw of "fig The office o! foreign minister 5P5 1°59 ‘e “Mlle-s” ' Ezequiel Padilla made pubic (Fe Zlgécdlhfi‘ m and m , exchange of notes between him and Between 3.000 and 5.000 Juparpcse‘ German minister Rudt Von Collen- coiniiierciiil uttllfllllfS still ttre in wiis berg, country. Dies said despite the nb-l rogntion of the commercial trcntyl with JllDilitmlif inéistcdw théihidtlgp] izovernmcn e s D5 R9 them. together with about 1.000 etc-l change students ll‘0lll Jnpnn. and break up the concentrations of Jan-

nnese fishing fleets in America her-l

boi-s. i

Otherwise. lie siiid. he would cullj l1 hearing of his coiiunittee nnd make public all the testimony and other information in his possession .

lied Gommandi Prepared blow With 3 million

IONDON, July Iil-(CPE-‘Ihe Red command is preparing a coun- ter-offenslve of more than 3.000.000 Russian troops to begin with!" W0 weeks if by then it ‘.8 deemed that the German invaders have expand- ed theli‘ reserves. soviet military informants declared here today-

Russian reservists. it was said, are bein assembled and completely equippe for this prospective push.

The'thrust. if it comes. wil be headed by great masses of tanks and armored ciirs covered by fighter and bomber aircraft. it was added but it was lndicnted- that this would be the only similarity with the German advance into Russia.

mg gangg n, wag explained. would be kept in the closest contact wit-ii. infnntry and cavalry-M"! 9°

revent the Geininns fmm repent-

TOKYO. July 31 — (AP) -— The highest officials 0t Japan's foreign ministry cast aside diplomatic nu- tlne today to make a full and hur- ried apology to the United State: for the Cnungking bombing of ilie little gunnoat ‘Putullo-even before such an apology had been formally demanded.

Ainbiissiidor Joseph C. Grew had no time this morning to leave to make the American protest before the vice foreign minister. Kumoichi Yamamoto. appeared at the Em- bassy with a request for an inter- view for his chief. Foreign Minister Vice-Admiral Teiliro Toyoda.

WASHINGTON. July 8i -- (AP)—-Sllmhfl' Welles, noting secretary of state nnnounced tonight the United States had

the Japanese government on the U.S.S. Tutulln M. Chung- klng, Chine, uid that the in- cidcnt was regarded u closed.

Subsequently Grew was lslwd l0 call at the foreign office. There. in " ’°"'.i“t‘t°°¢~§.°3¥§"i‘i€'.§t..ll°m§$i assure o m. the riituns incident and inform- ed th t the Japanese amtcd Mme! everywhere had been instructed t0 take the utmat (fare that American

t am . Drg/Ftgiizlltll-ltle. the chgefnalde of n the Soviet menoeuvie of yield- JEWYW” “mm” ° “y c“ him ‘"“‘ n sziixllr.s:"scm sun

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A Russian source claimed that ganiflgnmuummseervfoe. o m Ger-man morale already was shplk- Ambassador GNW dflhered mm en. Smiling broadly. he added: In totem a “m; g geyephone and

p g 0"!‘ provenance '0, M“ mm!“ cable censorship whlc-i ha/d ore- troopl we are shown-g Hitler how Wm,“ new, o; m, “pun; incident

accepted official apologies of -

lenve before long. Ten days ego Jean Desy was oi)-

po‘nted first Canadian minister to 5am evident‘: is

Brazil and a few days later Char- les J. Burchell was recalled 1mm his post as high commissioner to Australia to become the first nigh commissioner to Newfoundland.

Duke of Kent Ilas busy day

OTTAWA. July 3i ~(CP> -- A private government house dinner for the Duke oi Kent ionlSN

wound up the busiest day the King's brother has 5P6!"- ilme he landed from Britain last Tuesday morning for n six-week aerial will‘ of Canada.

The Duke today inspected No. 2 service flying tralnmg school of the British commonwealth air training plan at Uplands Field. near Ottawa. and the Ottawa air station of the Royal Canadian Air Force near suburban Rockcllffe.

Thousands of Ottawims end visi- tors sew HLs Royal Highness as he drove through the city in an open

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Grack Jan Troops Reach Saigon

SALOON. Hench Ludo-Chine July Zll-(AP)—.A fully-equipped Japanese army of crack troops. ob- viously ready for action and tskinl ted. foi-imlly occu-

lt. was obvi vers that Japan had cent a first.- class army to occupy mill bases in southern French Ludo-Chine in accordance with the azmement be- tween Tolwo and Vichy

At all points alone! the SOO-milp stretch of India-China's loutheu. coast from Toni-me down h Saigon the Japanese occupation troops seem prepared to go inbo action if necessary. -

The Japanese officers seem to be leaning over backwards. at least for the present. to establish themselves as well-disciplined military folk. similarly. henchmen celled upon to co-opemte with the occupiers do so with few words. Those

fr m leavl It the oounrv until this mgminz’: [diplomatic moetim.

i ho 24 noun’ notice int Jill winimgiicqolwn mount.

is becoming noticeable."

ls well justified.”

A statement from Mr. Cottrelle at hand showing

Canadian motorists "are responding whcle-heartedly” wit-h his appeal for conservation.

The reduction. he said. indicates

that consumption has been 15 per cent less fcr all Canada and close‘ to 30 per cent in some of the lnrsz- er populated eastern Canadian dis- tricts. Mr Cot

figures were based on the first i0 days of the operation of restrictive regulations

trelle said. that the

He added that police officials re-

port “a sharp decrease in the ‘rite of speed on the highways and the

thinning of traffic in many cities

lnterpretiitgi

L The War News

(By Kirke L. Simpson. Assoc- iated Press Stuff Writer) Berlin's insistence that the

fall or Leningrad. former

Czerist capital of Russia, is

impending iii subject to sus-

picion. perhaps warranting the Moscow reply of "Nazi propaganda."

If the city is actually close- ly beset by the German-Fin- nish nllies, there had been no previous indication that the Berlin claim was made at. n. time when planes from British aircraft carriers were laiuich. fng an attack on German-held or German-used bases on the Arctic Ocean. About the same time, moreover. Harry Hopkins the American director of aid to foes of the Axis was in Moscow extending assurances of help to Russia.

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It seems possible that Ber- lin felt the need of off-setting

this encouragement to Rus- sian defenders of Leningrad. At any rate. it is obvious that the front door to Leningrad from the west. the narrow 40- miie strip between Luke Petpus and the coast of the Gulf of Finland. is still held by the Russians. _

That means the main fist"- ing on the extreme Baltic flank Ls still in Estonia. west of Lake Petpus. That lonlf water barrier guards the ap- proaches to Leningrad from the west for a distance of nearly 100 miter. _

Ti_1_Q__wfii_0_S_li dangerous Nazi __

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ucusr i. 1941

K nlsivio

After a gruelling sham bottle in which a 2nd Division reconnaissance group acted rs "parachute troops" hunted by another Canadian bat- Lieut-General A. G. L. llicNaughton congratulates the “enemy" officers. He shakes hands with Vancouver, artllieryman attached to the reconnaissance unit other officers in the group are Lleuts. H. S. Peck and C.I’.ii. Pci-tcous of Montreal: David Crnll. former Mayor of Windsor, Ontario and Alastair Buchun. son of the lute Lord Tweedsmuir. '

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[Stubborn Battle Goes On As Nazis‘ Aim At Moscow‘

40th day of war finds Red Army still battling enemy in familiar sectors

(By Henry (Tzissidy. Associated Press Staff Writer) ‘ Al0::‘.(.‘0\\', Aug. l—(l"i'idii_v)-(l\l’) - Strong Red army counter attacks have hurled the (icrmzin invader! back with heavy losses in (lie bitterly contested Smolensk approach to lyloscmv, the Soviet information bureau re- ported today.

in a communique, it sziidz- i

“Specially stubborn fighting developed in the Smo- lensk direction, where our troops by counter attack! threw back the enemy with heavy losses.

"We captured prisoners and booty. Our air force, co- operating with lfiilfl troops. dcnli blows t0 enemy mech- anized units and infzintnv."

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42 German attacks in the smo. 0f Eastern ll. S. Service Station

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leiisk sector since July 16. nlvcnys retaining control of the key city which the Germans claimed more than two weeks ago had fallen. Elsewhere along the front, the 40th day of the war found Russian troops still fightin the Germans in the same famlfiar sectors. the

Soviet coirimuriiqtic said. These {i- were around Porkliov and Novor- WASHINGTON, Julv lil-(AP) slicv. roughly 150 to 200 miles A night "blackout" for 100.000 gas

line service StdLlDfLg from Mimic Florida was proclaimed today b ixiierior Secretary Herold lckes. ef feoiive Sunday. Aug. 3. to niect predicted petroleum shortage in th Uiiilcd Stittcs enst.

Stations in the Atlantic seaboiu statics ivoulci be closed from 'l p.

7 s. m.. seven days a. week. un-

der this action. until the oil em Rene)’ chutes or other ourtnilmei

southwest of Leningrad and Zhitomir, the western approach t0 the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Besides stipporting the Smolensk counter offensive. the Red nir force was credited with downing l5 Gcrmim planes the previous day~wednesday~at s. cost eight Russian craft. destroying l2 more On airdromes deep ln the

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0n visit here

Mr. D. Dewaal Meyer Ottawa representative of the Union of, South Africa to Canada. arrived in‘ Charlottetown lest evening to sbendi a. combined’ business and holiday visit on Prince Edwiud Island. Hi.» position corresponds with that of ii high commissioner" itnd it is the first uipiomutic appointment. of its kind between the Dumiiiioiis. l

The object Oi his visit here isl to get in closer touch with the; people and to see tvhat the province; is like. He is also quite interested. in the warm seit bathing to‘ be cii-j icyed on Island beaches. This was] iecoininencled to him by friends iit ottawn so he decided to come heiel and sec for himself, Tomorrow liisl wile and tum children will arrive here and meet lum at Bracklcy. Beach where they will remain for} two weeks.

‘today lie will cnll on Premier’ Clllllliiocll and His i-loiioiu‘. Lieuten- iint Governor B. W. LmPngc. ,7

Mi: Meyer received llic appoint-l

ment as representative ci the tin-I

ion two and one-half ‘veers ago. 1342-; w