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flliW DIR-HI, Jan. 21 - (OP) - Brltlsh amphibious troops success- fully invaded i-‘tamree Island in the third of a series of advances this month down the west coast which have carried a total of more than so miles. mung troops went in on the gfltlllfll and northwestern beac at the IO-fle long island avy guns and a concentration of laiuted the more defences. - This

latest jump of b0 miles and pflurs of the northern areas of the island gave the Allies a base flanking south Burma and creat- ed a major threat to the Japanese, already on the defensive and in "nous plight in northern and central Burma.

Search Underway For 6,300 Draftee liome Defense Troops

rim croETor ssoo Draftees Has Arrived Overseas.

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(By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, Jan. Dl-Mllltary and civil police were continuing tonight a roundup oi some 0,300 absentee home defence troops, most of whom will be classed as desertera in a day or so.

The mass absenteeism was dis- closed Saturday when Defence Minister McNaughton announced the arrival in Britain of Canaries first 8,300 overseas drafteoa of this

war.

The General said that at one time 7.800 of the 15.600 men tick- eted for overseas service were over- due but 1,500 have since returned either voluntarily or bv apprehen-

sion. About 950 had rejoined their units last week. The troop movements began

Christmas week and the draftees were accompanied by the “normal quota of iuuiorcements"~presum- ably Beneral service personnel from home training stream.

99n- McNeushton did not say whether the movement included In)’ general service conversions from draitee units or whether there were any last minute conversions before soiling.

A total oi 85.000 conscripted men were in uniform in the First Great War and only between a quarter and a half of those were sentover- seas with a much smaller percent- ile Bfltllfllly reachin the front.

When the order- n-council was passed last Nov. 23 making 16.000 of the 70.000 homo defence troops

McNaughton told the Commons he wanted 5.000 additional trained in- fantrymen in December and Jan- llal and 6.000 in succeeding WcEhurTliFaEFoege 1. ca. l)

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Enemyfalling Back Towards Siegfried Line

PARIS. Jen. 31 -—- (OP) —- Th9 United States 8rd Army was over- runnlng northern Luxembo s l0- night. cnnnprng the once-powerful no one“ i551‘;

n e i ga ns five miles and smashing with bis una at the enemy new falling tv-ck for the haven of the Sisfrzd

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Pacing Allied armies that are at- tacking along most of the Silo-mile Western Mont, lit-Gen. George Patton's troops struck from the

mountain-balm ittle Duchv from Belgium and filrhtini to Within ii mile of one main enemy escape

road.

Meanwhile the British 2nd Army fought two miles deeper into the Germans’ Roar-Mass River sali- ent ln its drive acrom the Holland appendix and the German border north of Aachen. beating back strong counter-attacks in a heavv snowstorm that slowed the ad- vance.

The United States lst Army. some 18 miles north of the 3r Army thrusts. closed from north and west to within three miles of St. Vith, without whose roads and railways many Germans may nev- er get out of the lMi-snusro mile stump which is all that remains

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EDMONTON. -Jan. 21- Senator W._A. Cirlelbalh, 0.8., 0.M.G., D. 8.0., v.11, 8.6.. former Inspector General oi the Canadian Army for western Canada, died suddenly to- day at his home following a heart attack. He had been ln falling health for some months, l-ie was

1d. Senator Grlesbach was a soldier and legislator. At 22 he Wis l trooper with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in louth Africa and had the rank of Major-Gen- eral during the first Great War. he commanded the lst Can-

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By KIRKE Ii. SIMPSON. Associated Press War Analyst

The Russian winter offensive dominates the war news of the world. Reaching from the Baltic to the Danube, it outmodes every previous operation nf this nr any nthcr ivar in size. power and speed.

It. holds uncalculuble potentialities despite official Allied reluctance to ascribe to it yet possibilities for bringing on early cud to the war In Europe. For that reason it overshadow: even the impending new Chur- chlll-Roosevclt-Stalln meeting, or the amazing spectacle of Japanese failure for many days to muster more than token resistance to Gen. MaoArthul-‘s power-laden invasion on Luzon or to react effectively to Admiral llalsey's surface and air sweeps in the South China. Sen.

Even the formal recapituiatlon of the battle of the Belgian bulge by Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters, disclosing that the enemy gamble "has not seriously affected our own plans and preparations for future operations," took a secondary news rating against the background of the Russian drive to end the war.

Whether the I‘ High Command had sought to evade a total disaster in the east by a quick and deep retreat in the face oi the Red Army onslaught in Poland or been caught too extended to check the Russian juggernaut was still uncertain.

There was no doubt. however. that every eastern gateway to Ber- lin from the Upper Oder Valley to the Baltic coastal plains was being menaced by the Russians.

Evacuation of the Slovakian rump was reported by Berlin as the Russians drove beyond captured Krakow to sever its communication lines and outflank the vital industrial heart oi German Silesia now in sound of Russian guns. It was already outflanked from the north by

,.‘ of l‘ ‘ k . There ‘ little , __ ‘ that the surging Red Armies on the southern wing of the offensive could be brought to a stand short of the Val: and Oder vallles. if there.

It seemed clear that in less than a week the two main Russian Vlatula o-‘dgehead drives had been welded into a. single massive salient reaching clear across Poland. Northwest of recaptured Warsaw other Red forces were plunging down the Warsaw-Danaig railway and flank- ing highways toward a trio of critical German communication hubs upon which contact between East Prussia and the rest of the Mich de-

ndl. p. In the west, crushing losses inflicted on the Naals in the Belgian bulge battle as revealed by Eisenhower's headquarters went far to justify the indicated belief of his staff that the foc had been stripped of the means of renewin, his counter-attack anywhere on a major scale. There was definite confirmation, too, of the assertion that while the Ger- man gamble in Belgium had bought a little time at shocking coat in casualties, it had not materially delayed British-American plans for renewing the assault on the Siegfried Line to match Russian pressure

in the east.

Moscow Radio Asks For Drive From West

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(By The Canadian Press)

IDNDON, Jan. 21—Moscow radio tonight prodded the Allies for a 5|; y,“ front, offensive. de- claring the Russian drive across Poland had "set the stage" for it.

"The Russian offensive has plac- ed the‘ Allies in a much better Dus- ition. not only to counter an? new surprise attacks by the Germans. but nlpq to stage an oifenaivethetn-

Tarlac (iapiured In Luzon‘ B_a_il:le

Yank Troops 65 Airline Miles North 0f Manila

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AD- VANCE COMMAND. Jan, 22._ iMondayi-Unlted States stn Army iorzcs have captured Tarlac, pro- vinclal capital 65 airline miles north of Manila, headquarters an. nounced today.

Thrice. a hikhway and railroad hub. is 22 miles north of Fort Stotscnburg and Clark Field, once the principal U. S. Army posts on Luzon Island.

The airfield has been the almost constant. target of Allied planes since invasion forces first moved int/O the Philippines with the land- ing on Leyte Island last Oct. 20.

Occupation of Tarlac put tne Americans 43 airline miles inland from the Llngayen Guli beach- ‘lIIOBILQWIIEIQ they landed on Luzon an. .

Former Island Man Seriously Injured At Sydney

EYDNEY. N.S., Jan. 21-Herbert McWilliams, 68, Sydney steelwork- er. was seriously injured early to- night when struck by an automo- bile near the intersection of George and Durchester Streets.

Taken by ambulance to the City Hospital, ho was examined by Dr. Gordon MacDonald who reported both legs were broken-the left a compound fracture-and possible skull fracture.

Mcwiliiams. it was believed, was crossing from Dorchester to the opposite corner on George Street when struck down.

The driver ci the car, Joseph MRCLQQG, 35. foreman at a local garnsc, is charged with occasion- lng grevlous bodily harm and has been admitted to $2,000 bail,

He told police he did not see McWlllialns who suddenly loomed up in front of the cal‘ and efforts to avoid striking him were unsuc- cessiul.

McWllllolns. who is employed at the electrical department of the steel plant. is a tiatlve of Prince Edward Islzllld and has resided here ior over 35 years.

All uncle. Ambrose Barry, lives atltiorrell Station, VP. E. I.

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in massive strength today,

during the First Great War. Berlin said that Sovi Silesia. Once that German

Russian spearheads were only 47 miles from the big Sllesian com- munications city oi Breslau on the Odor after capturing five towns.

In one of the greatest military spectacles in history, white-hooded Soviet troops and flame-throwing tanks moved across the snows of western Poland and into Germany. In Poland they were reported 219 miles clue east of Berlin, and lo the southwest, where the crossing into Silesia was made, were within 200 miles of the enemy capital.

“A llie d operations have brought Illtlerito Germany to ruin." declared the Moscow newspaper Pravda. which said that Germany's final rout was an absolute certainty to be mckoned in the near future.

In One of the greatest military comebacks in history the Russians had marched 1.170 miles from Sta- lingrad on the Volga in two years. and sent three big Soviet armies crashing onto German soil.

A thick smoke pail hung over the plains and forests on a twist- ing DOV-mile front from the Baltic to Budapest as the Russians slash- ed on westward through blizzards and biting sub-zero winds in p\lr- suit_pf a broken German army ituglbllng back toward the home-

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Marshal Ivan S. Konevs lst Uk- raine Arlny was the one that rolled into German Silesia, immediately menacing Breslau. its capital and Germanys ninth city on the west bank of the Oder River.

It was Marshal K. K. Rokossov- sky's 2nd White Russian Army that. thrust into southern East Prussia and swept to within 60 miles oi‘ the Baltic behind Konlgsberg in a big pincers movement aimed at lopping oil that entire province. Third White Russian Army troops under Marshal Ivan Cerniak-Hov- sky. 37-year-old tank expertrrlean- while toppled Gumbinnen, in their continuing advances in northern and eastern east Prussia. Gumbin-

nen is l5 miles east. oi the road jurgtltln of Insterburg.

Luftwaffe Failed In gBig Comeback Attempt

By CHARLES LYNCH Reuters War Correspondent WITH THE

AIRFORCE, Jan. 21 -— (Reuters) -New Year's Day was to have been the Luftwaffeb big come-

ack.

Streaming across thc front in an all-out bid to take the Allied bases by surprise. the Germans met with a certain amount oi success-mud suffered even lieavl- er losses than the peak day m the Battle of Britain.

Jan. l. 1945, will always be a date in acrlnl history-and this is the story.

It cost the Germans 300' planes and more than lliiflls- F01’ weeks the enemy had secretly

planned a big surprise attack on Allied airfields in Holland and Belgium and to carry out. the op- erations they liad summoned from all over Germany the pick of their most experienced pilots.

Strict Secrecy

Strict secrecy was maintained and until a few hours before teak- ing oif the pilots had no idea what they were being called upon

to do.

Then they were told to fly at roof-top hei ht. towards Allied aid bases and ecp absolu radio silence in an attemt to baffle defences and catch t e defenders

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but to disrupt personnel strength. Six Allied pilots were 0st.

The Germans. on the other hand. liad 200 planes shot out of the skits by ground gunners and fighter pilots brought down an- other 100.

More than 100 German pilots including formation leaders are known to have bccn killed or taken prisoner bv the Americans and Britons. ‘Phelr losses were great- er than those during the peak days of the Battle of Britain

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Islanders 0n Hospital Ship Lady Nelson

HALIFAX. Jan. 2l-— (CM-An- other large contingent of Canadian servicemen invalided home from the lifuropean fighting fronts and Britain is due to arrive here to- morrow morning aboard the Can- adian hospital ship Lady Nelson. More than 500 members oi rm three] forces will be aboard the

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Authorities of Military District No. 0 announced tonight a formal Welcome "Ollld be given the casll- alties from the district-Nova Sco- tia and Prince Edward Island-af- ter the)’ had landed. Relatives and friends will be on hand to greet them at the district depot here. and Liane-Governor H. E. Ken- dall, Premier A. s. Maclvlillan of N0" 500th and Mayor J.lll. Lloyd of Halifax have been invited to attend.

Men from other districts will be moved from the ship directly to waitingphospltal trains. which will leave as soon as they are loaded. Edward Island soldiers

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ADE GERMANY IN STRENGTH

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LONDQN» Jflll- 21 — (AP) — The Redji-rmy invaded the main body of Germany,

sweeping 19 miles inside industrial Silesia on a 56-mila

front and capturing the German mil't h ' f T ' _ -

lunge into southern East Prussia on ilafililsinillzuiirorit. annenberg m a new 16 m“: German-revered Tannenberg is the burial place of Field Marshal von Hinden-

burg and was the scene of that German lea der’s defeat oi" the Russian Imperial Army,

ct spearheads were only 10 miles from the Oder River in defence _ls forced the German war machine mayfollapse,

Nova Scotia Promised Brzdge Gr Causeway Across Canso Strait

HAL _ IFAX. Jan. 21 —- 1GP) — Assurance that a bridge or causeway llvlll. be built across the Strait of Canso has been received from zlle Fedenll (wvfifflment. Premier A. S. MacMillan and Industry ltliuisler Harold Connolly declared today on their return from a trip to Otca o. ‘The Strait, which separates Cape Breton from the Nova Scoiia gijakgalgdiniww i5 {Til/Weed bl’ I tflllfl-clrrying ferry. The Premier snzd woerksr g g project would have a high priority” among post-war publlg He also declared Reconstruction Minister Howe had promised cor- slderation of a proposal to regrade and re-align the Canadian National gailrvays line between Sydney and Moncton, which is linked with the flagella: Canso project for the improvement oi Maritime transportation

liiillllllilliilll-lllili Harbour Ice °""‘“‘" ""“’

LONDON, Jan. Zl-The Mos» cow radio said tonight that there had been an extraordin-

Saturclay willie horsemen were having the track on the harbour cleared preparatory to racing in

ary meeting of military leaders at Adolf Hitler's headquarters to review the alarming situa- tion on the broken eastern

the afternoon. the new City truck front.

which was being used with snow ~—_-i_-_

plow attached, owing to the old BUlLDlhG RESEARCH truck being out of commission due __-

to a broken spring, broke through DUBLIN. — lCPI—Ell'€'s mink;-

try of industry and commerce no; established a special committee lq deal with research for the builcillzq industry. especially in regard l: materials and construction.

the ice at a spot about 200 feet from shore and almost opposite rm-t mzlward. The driver, Clifford Sherren, was uninjured.

The ice was about l5 inches thick but was not in firm condition, oth-l erwiso it would have sustained the: weight. Fortunately the water is not deep. about eight‘ feet being the maximum at high tide and flve feet at low tide. The break- through was gradual. the rear end subsiding slowly, leaving the plow

llotlsr ls Also lite R001 or ‘ll-if. Most lnvoefcnf

ragga: attached to the, ‘ihymx Efforts to pull it out with tne\ {p335

material on hand proved unsuc- cesiul so the. services of Frankl Quinn, Charlottetown contractorl for moving houses and other such} work. were obtained. Yesterday. morning Mr. Quinn P181180 sleighs on opposite sides of the, break-through alter willing lielpcril had cut the ice surrounding ltnl Heavy timbers were laid across the; slelghs and grapplings made secure. to the truck. Then a wlndless was‘ set up on the ice and ropes xverc secured around the truck. Willi this apparatus and the labours of many citizens. including the May- or. City Councillors. horsemen from Milton. North River, Bracklcy and‘ surrounding parts as well as local} the plow wart;

two y

was gradually brought up on solid ice. Last evening recovery of tlle equipment was well under waygand the contractor estimated the job would be completed before noon todey- . In the ion-g history of ice racmd here. which has catered to the rec- reation o! many thousands oi Imlb. including some 3.000 on two ilitsl“, noons last February. and in i110

'l'ORON'i‘C. ._ v4.1. __ Minimum and llldkllnlun: Valli- couver 28, 42: Edmonton 36; Regi- nn. 7, 27; Winnipeg l6. 26: Toronto i9, 3i; Ottawa 11, .6; Montreal i0, Z3. 'ec 1.3, Hi; llullcloll 3B. lli~ Hall ax B, 24; unnrlultctosvn 6. l6.