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Nazis Write Off Italian Industry As An Asset

French Industry Too Becoming A Liability: Ger- mans Likely To Resist To Bitter End.

May Disclose Pacific Role For B. C. A. F.

OTTAWA, July l‘! — (OP) — It was reliably ned here to- day that Air Minister Power is preparing an nnoihcement which will disclose a new role for the Canadian air force in the Pacific theatre.

The announcement may dia- close that an air mission al- ready has been sent to Australia for the purpose of making ll"- parstlons’ for the establishment of Canadian aqnedrons in that area and also lily t0 arrangements or a. flow of trainees from the Commonwealth Air ‘Training Plan to the Pac- lfic

Canada already has sent more than c. score of officers to Aus- tralian. New Zealand and Am- erican forces in the Sonthwat Pacific for training in jungle and amphibious warfare and it was aasumed they were the ad- vance nerd of an nt

force.

Another faetor ia lishmeat of i-por Navy bales on Pacific coast and it h that the V!’ take some part at least in the convoy of supplies on Pacific routes iIt as it la doing on the Atlantic. _

Italian Government Recognizes Partisans

ROMS. July 1'1 - (AP) — The Italian government recognized to- day "the armed bands of parti- sans fighting against the German invaders" as Aaert of Italys war effort and vote to ask accords of the Allies which would regular- ilc the position of these gucriilas an‘? give them material and moral

C-Cbiiiifi EVENTS

a- r nu 1m. M” u’ m‘ y 1-0-111.

"Show - Malpeque. Wednesdays;-

school.

"Dance in 718m

lillliotvale flunsdwy, July 30th.

n

Dance. St July 3m. oltzforcrs Orchestra.

"Dance. Mored Hull Wednes- coy. July itch. New orchestra. 7—l8- .

"Dance. Iona l-lslll, Wednesday. My ism. Millvxe-w rj-zl-w m

to Variety Concert. Bt.

"Come

Columna‘! hall. cit. Columns, July 18th. ‘l-IB-Lil.

"Cedar posts unloedingMagptlol- Siding today. it. A. s Haven. 7491*

"Dance, Vernon lloll. Friday. July 3m. ilahview Oruneotmi w fl

bsrrl Anyone pert ill be cs on mu pro y w prosecuted. Lewis lueuy fltenhwe.

5C6!)

"Dance in Stanley anon mu. cThc v

Aid of Red Gross prisoners of war boxes. ‘fhursday. auly a0. Bale cf 7-18-2041.

bulk wheat

s cream. “Unloading

Cl!’

Tuesday, Wednesday forenoon, and m

Thursday. McGuigsn and? goyle.

3i.

"Ice Cream social and Dance 3t 00W ‘havens Hall Tuesda . “Ir u. Prcceedl in no of n

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"Gee, Vernon River "Button M“ v-ie-n.‘

. Peters Bay. rrwayfi

By IANDAL NEAL!

Renters Diplomatic Ccrrea adent

LONDON. July l'l—(OP- utsrs) - The Germans have not only stopped all coal deliveries to Italy but are taking steps to move ex- isting ccal stocks from north Italy to Germany. according to reports received here. As industry in oc- cupied Italy ia dependent on Ger- man coal supplies since ths lib- eration of Sardinia, this means the Germans have totally written off Italian industrial capacity as an asset.

It may also foreshadow ntions for an eventual

FEDEX‘- erman

evacuation. Evidence ts also accumulating that industrial conditions in

France are causing the Germans fsr greater concern than those in occupied Italy.

According to latest information Prench industry working for Ger- many is almost at a. standstill and industrial deliveries to Germany have virtually ceased except from areas on the German frontier.

These deliveries includ -‘ air- crsft, earn-engines, manufactured rubber. explosives and ball bear- ings, the loss of which directly af- fects the German war machine.

This collapse can be attributed to Allied bombing and the subca- age by the French army of the interior.

Competent observers conclude that France. until six months ago an invaluable industrial asset to Germany. has now become a def- inite liability.

From all this the inference might be drawn that Gcnnanv is in the correct posture for laying down her arms. This might ABVC been true of the Kaiser's Germ- any. but not of Hitler's.

Everything tends to indicate that the policy of the Nazi oligarchs, in agreement with the German high command, is to drain German manpower and material resources to the lost drop and to resort to every form of terrorism. from fly- ing bombs and other instruments of their species to wholesale mas- sacres. such ss that at Oradour- Sur-Glane. in the hope of secur- ing a compromise peace.

Answers Questions Re Corvette Repairs

OTTAWA, July l7 — (OP) - A totalwf $140,364 was paid last year to the Sydney Engineering and Drydock Company at Sydney. N. 5.. for repairs to the Canadian corvettcs Regina and New West- minster, it was revealed today in a return tabled in the Commons for Clarence Gillis (C.C.F., Breton South).

The some return said the gov- ernment had no information on whether any company had a right to use the section of the Rhodes Curry wharf at Sydney. owned bv

Cape

ALLIES Tnnzltifiiifi

“On ToKoni

Forward Simp 0f Russians Is Still Unchecked

IONDON. July l7-—-(AP) — The M1110’ flushed W1

victories, made "on to Konigsberg’ 1Y8 bfil/FIBWY lon-liht as it advanced westward within 4o nules of coat Prvumlafs inal boundaries and e pow m. outer of fort-

_ e German reescs of Be ystok and Brest 1M0- vsk on the eart of pic-war Pol-

and. The Soviet communique unmoun- lccd of the midge-

cap- 01 b0 38 and II? 0f Brest Ilitovsk and Bialystok, respectively. and an ap- proach to within seven miles of the east Latvian frontiers at Oscvdvc.

More than 410 towns and villages

were captured in today's drives. sold the ue re- corded by the Soviet Monitor. while trout-line fighter planes

swooped over east Prussia in strai- ing attacks which ave that lun- kers homeland a b r foretaste of in scion

v . Hevicusly the Russians have been reported st -the borders of district annexed to Within d0

advance had gone much nearer.

Konlaoberg. chief cast Prussian city was about 140 miles distant as the Russians approached from several points. but the szppecred still unable to stem advance or even unset the Soviet tune-table. They lvroilght up fresh divisions straight from Germany

make dwperste last dnnds. but were being meshed down in same manner as the Nazi snnles finely hzsvc‘ been ripping apart since unc .

The Germans continued to tell of developing Red Army attacks in the south of ore-war Poland from the Duck Tarncpol areas. but the Romans kept their silence-con- cerning um sector.

Codbout Is Shcutcd Down At Meeting

LAUZON, Que. Jul l7 - (GP) ~ A scheduled elect on campaign address tonight by Premier God-| bout was interrupted by part ofl the audience 1n attendance who started singing and shouting when- ever the Premier began his talk. The crowd sang "O Canada," and shouted "what about Gucnnette.” each time he rose from his choir. (The reference to Guennettc was to Georges Guennette who was shot and killed by Royal Canad- ian Mounted Police seeking him on a charge of attacking s police

officer) Alphonse

ens ‘the

Severlal times Mayor

the Sydney Engineering and Dry- dock Compiny.

Anti-U-Boat

OVITAWA. July 1'l—(OP)-Ca.n- Mo's anti-U-boat fleet was hon- ored wdozv when Navy Minister llhodo rd

nsld azmounced mwu six medals and l8 ntentiorzs in dis-

prisonas. The carus aided in the action.

median Corvette

Montreal‘ and Ottawa. Dicti service

e n".?s‘l°"on%‘é'€€ inset-ton, Ilaltfsx. ‘ha’ fr‘ a‘ '5e§rn£n' 5.11.. Brace, Saint

c , . .

The crew of another expert U- boat . st. Cath- crin won four honors. Llout. W.

G. erham. Vancouver. won the 0.! .O.. mt O ldmard

ltoker 0.]! inn.

Ohlef Engine

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Is Honored In Awards

n contact which her

Beams d Leed- officer Lt-Cmdr. Groos. was con- “m,

' a Arfiicum ru. measure. onus

Allard of Lsuzon appealed to the "Wd “Jstihc lmccilcirvuk..-

Fleet

Port William Ont. members of the crew

V n ILR. Brace. ver-

ix Officer. Vhztwla. Lieut. DAB. Boyle. fin-

le Scotland. m gfiivtocd-t o. mp5. Him. {ans}: . ricer camp vmdm.

“Wm when the

i e Gstineau was about to leave convoy because a distiller feot. She obtained an underwater Comnmndlng

fident ‘wu a sub. A moment later “ca "so: a..ua=:°.,...."~ m" szmocohu. "costumer.- Pbnnel.

When the lJ-boat

e lost number of those mentioned in the present -liat of awards have tics transferred to other shins and two of the ratin mentioned in dispatches have been ere-l

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Covers Prince Edward é Island Like the Dew

Mr all ralate sunshine.

MAXIHS

OIL

MERE MAN

blow German hopes of halting the Mnnrian Lakes in east Prussia.

cleared the east bank oi’ the stream already have crossed it in several pl

low than.

glad converging drive at Warsaw.

i

captured Kowel to the Carpathians.

Family

an Arniy Troops Cross Arno River

By NOLAN!) NORGAARD

ROME, July l7 - (AP) - Brit- ish Bth Army troops today burst across the Arno River xiorthwest of the provincial capitol of Arczzo which they captured Sunday. punc- turing one of the natural defences in front of the Gothic Line in the centre of the Italian front.

American troops moving up the Tyrrhenian coast area drove with- in four miles of the heart of LIV- orno while French forces were» locked in heavy fighting for the road junction of Poggibonsl. 2i miles southwest of Florence, which they took last Friday.

The swift advance of 8th Army

lWar lSiituationwiLast Night

By llirkc L. Simpson. Associated Press War Analyst

lull-n trwm who took Grodno in upper pa]... to match simultan- eos close investment of Kaunas in lower Lithuania apparently have rip- | ' PM! u ICC-niile-witlc gap open in Nazi eastern defences. shattering at one l short cf the}

Red Anny avalanche

will! M"! key bostlons of the German secondary defence wail firmly I in Iulainn hands, the strongest natural link in the Nazi front guarding communications with the Baltic States would be punctured. It lies along the north-south course of the Nernnnas River between Kaunas Grodno. Current Moscow bulletins indicate Red Troops have virtually all along this vital sector and may-

uces in pursuit of the foo.

German troops north of the river now are vlrtuully dependent upon l a. Baltic Sea supply lines to maintain themselves or to make their way‘ southward before the great Russian trap closes in to the Baltic coast he-

It remains to be seen. however. whether Russian strategy calls for‘ that or for a turn souihwcstwawl in Poland from Grodno for a, wide-an-

South of Grodno other Russian columns are bearing down on the Bialystok outpost for Warsaw from the east and a sweep down the Grud- no-Builystok railway would face no natural barrier to prevent a pincer movement on the town and n break-through to reach or bypass Warsaw

The fall of Grodno and indicator! early Russian capture nf Kaunas

paves the way clearly for a tremendous expansion southward of thr- at- tack to bring info action Russian Ukrainian armies all the wily from

King Gives Cost Of

Allowances

family allowance scheme us

ll/illlirlie.‘ day in ‘i-ile Commons. I He mialde the statement

moving a. resolution lyrcluninaaw the introduction of st '

tablash the allowances. The

duced and given first reading. Ml‘

s250.000,000 a year. The

coogoo w $60,000,000

scale of allowances.

o child l0 or more years old bu. less than 13, and $8 a month for n

than . The allowances. scheduled w be-

tanks nnd infantry beyond Arezzo} so surprised the enemy that thcv were unable to destroy a bridgr. across the Arno. Engineers who.

had been assigned to blow up thci span were seized. 5 Phe point where the crosslngr

l

was effected is approximately miles southeast of Florence and] perhaps 20 miles south of thcl enemy's “Gothic Line” defences‘ running from Florence to Rinuni| on the Adriatic Bee. Hard fight-l ing was reported raging tonight around the bridgehead, just 50111.11 cf the village of Castlgllon Iilboc-f

chi.

Fall of Arezzo permitted" Cun l adlan armor which is opera!‘ ‘ with British infantry in the moun- tain country southwest of *h.:~

ty to resume its northwav" push, after being unable to make any substantial gain for ll days.

Credit llnion, League Meetings Scheduled Today

I

‘llodtw the seventh annual meet- ing of the Prince Edward Isl-an Credit Union will be held nt Prince Wales College. Mr. Donald A. MacDonald. the resident whose gale is at Glenf n, w pre-

n.

In the will be ward lsl-

, P.E.'f., and of the form mnchi- riealvLco-operntivejil Indiona.

Fqwler, istrativc. training

come effective lv 1, 1945, would n

Ju .

Canada under l6 years of age in accordance with fhc male. How- cver. the benefit for large families would be limited.

The rates in the, various ago groups would bc relucod . $l_ I1 month in respect fo the f

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140,000 Active Service Soldiers Now iln Canada

OTTAWA, July 1v _. <0?» __.\;>- -

pnkvlrnnlely 140,000 men who en- listed in the Canadian Army for active service now are in Canada. Defence Minister Ralston s My in n tabled reply to a question ' *1 John Diefenbaker (PC-Lake (.01.

l.

Ralston said that probably 53,000 or more "are or can be mule available as reinforcements .x' overseas service." Another 50,- hc sold, are of an age or mil‘.-

fngv category which prevented tlum serving) overseas, although 30mg might e sent for special ut

y. l-lc added that there were Z5.- 000 men who, while "not defin- ltcly unsuitable" for overseas ser- vicc are in age groups, medical categories or yanks "such that only a limited number of them con be absorbed within establish- ments of the overseas army."

He said 10,000 men were employed on the staffs of admin- and servicing units in Canada and 8.500 of them of the Veterans‘

were members

Guard.

a n‘:l

OTTAWA. July l7-(CP)—'l1lc pru- rpcsezl by the government will COM. about $200,000,000 a year, Prime lvmcl-zciuic King said w-

Sca Cadet

rc- solwL-icn was passed. the bill intru-

. said the estimate was prepared by the lilnarlce Depart- ment and the Bureau of Statistics.

The gross outlay. under the bill. said Mo". King. was estimated u: amount recoverable b_v reason of cancellat- ion o: inccone tax exemptions ml‘ dependent children would be $50.-

1‘ e bill outlined the proposed The scale would be $6 a monfli for a. child less than six years old; $0 u month for a child six or chore years old and less than l0 years; $7 n month fur

child or more years old but lcss

ald to- -

now Mrving in Franco, is the son of f/Ir. Wcsicy Pnynter and the lntg Mrs, Pnyntcr of French River.

Mrs. Elmer S. Manhood, New London. has rcceivrd a letter from her brother, Crvy SpL-lvfcjor Fred L. Poynt-cr, in which ho =mfrs that he landed on the coast of France on June 6.

"I om becoming quite familiar with ‘Jerry’? he writes, “and he 15 about as far from u; 35 our p1g¢9 homo is from the school."

Evidently the boys live well at times: it," he says, "but right now we have beefsteak and onions frying

a pun. Often We have goose. lllfkél’. and lots of chicken. I don't know how 5t is. but these birds will persist in walking in front of QuX‘ rlflcs just when we are feeling him- Eryn

Camp C, cos At Pi. Prim

Ninety officers and ratings from the Clurlottc-lcvvn Sen Cadet COPDs K011i wen: under cover at Camp Buxzhzm yesterday for a training period WillCh will continue for more than a week The ratings arrived in two buses before neon time Mid wore allotted quarters and by lost night had settled down to camp liic.

During the any they enjoyed a swzm and a soilbail come m acl-

lng which was Just beginning to ,gs:v. under wny.

I fLieul. Ian Balrnctt is in charge! o

, the camp The corps itself is,’ gconunundcd bv Llcut. Norman

I Saunders. I I purlng the Gav short talks were , mven by Isleut. Ian Burnett and by ,1he camp padre. Rev A. LeDrcw , Gardiner. l The

Tents are set' 1 out h true naval precision. ‘ilfcrc .15 a szcres and provisions building a galley 1s connected to the

and 1.. ters

; zcnt bv shel

1i the line w provided by

_C€flllll', _'.\lUl'_l‘L' iOCd which l5

;L: Ccok DOOllLlIL: cf ll. .

1S. n Clmrloztc. the naval trai establishment in Chur- lc ttetown .

—-~- | Will Discuss World I

Peace Organization l

__._ I I WASHINGTON, July 17 —- (AFN - Secretary of Strife Hull an-[ ‘ pounced today that exploratory; |confercnces on organization of a; iworld security agency mil be held‘ here, probably early in August. but that Russian and Chinese repre- sentatives will not participate in, the same meetings. j LONDON — (CF) - As bananas. form a useful addition to the diet of children suffering form cocliac disease, _nrrnn:::mcnf5 are being made by the Minister of Food to import enough bananas in dried‘ form to provide all necdful supplies forlhls _ purpose.___ l

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR LONDON. July l7 —- (AP) -_ A1 newly-launched Allied nir offcns-' lve against the Germans‘ “sccond| llnc" of communications reached. its peak today when some 2.000 Alllcd heavy bmnbcrs and fighters struck from Britain and Italy bridgrs and other rail targets in a great arr. nrcuml Paris and in soulhcrn Franco.

Those blows came as the Rus- sians in the mist disclosed Lhnt their fights-rs hnd been attacking tnrgcls in East Prussia. thus mak- ing a three-way offensive against the Germans.

Most of the

a =-

henvy bombers l

“'3?

“You would hardly believe.

dition to their regular comp tram-~

lbe officially opened by the pm!-

Three-W Way Al: r Offensive 1 On Against The Germans

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(CF) — Evrecy and St. Lo

Field Marshal Rommel,

irecy, a strategically-situated

l

the suburbs of St. Lo itself.

Iall. 00-001 other Provinces I II.I.A. lLh Subscription uelleverd. is,“

Zl-HELD TOWNS

gsbperg” Red Battle

Evrecy And St. Lo Cracking Under firessurei

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, July 17 _

were cracking tonight under

the pressure of the greatest co-ordinaied Allied drive since D-Day and Headquarters announced additional penetra- tions as fighting raged in the streets of both these strong- holds of the enemy's Normandy front.

caught off balance again by

the British attack which was launched Saturday morning , recovered and threw five divisions into the battle in an at: [tempt to check the British tide threatening to engulf Ev-

town in the corridor between

the Ornc and Odon Rivers 9 1-2 miles southwest of Caen.

‘ American forces driving to sever (he road running " 1 northwest from the vital road junction of Si. Lo near the Cn-y SghMaJ-nr R I“ Puymeh , centre of the Normandy front, to Periers over-ran Remilly 1 Sur Lozon and were less than a mile from this important lateral road, while other American troops smashed into

l Don Whitehead, Associated Press correspondent, said

1 one American formation was

in Si. Croix De L0, an eastern

I suburb of St. Lo, 1 l-4 miles from the centre of the city , Earlier field reports said Americans penetrated the city

A Renter field froth the British sector sold that the Germans still controlled Evrecy it- self late today.

As British forces advanced on a ni ‘c front southwest of Chen. seek’ ' room for a lnnge towards Paris, Gen. Montgomery. the Allied ground commander, sal in a. broadcast from the Normandy bcschhead that in view of Ai- licd successes it wal "dllie likely” that Germany could be finished _off‘ thisAyear.

' This was confirmed by head. qunricrs which said. however. pet- _rols now were and southeast ,0! the fawn.

Canadian Artillery n. mo...

Canadian artillery is stinportlng the British thrust, sold Ross Mun- ro. Canadian Press War Corres- pondent. in a field dispatch. He added that Canadian ground Ftrooos were not directly involved