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JAPS REPORT TERllIPFIG DRIVE 0N H000 K

Soviets Report Germans Are 0n The Run

lieds in big llffensive oil Extermination.

Russians Report Suc-

cess After Success u...

From One End Of Entire Front To Other.

(By Henry: C. Cassldy, Aa- sociated Press Staff Writer) MOSCOW, Dec. 15—(Mon- dgy)-(AP)—~ Rampant Red armies declared today they lad the Germans on the run in a retreat approaching the scale of Napoleon’s cold and dismal retirement f r o m Moscow and had overtaken the backtracking Hitler leg- ions with a headlong cam- paign of extermination.

The Communist organ Pravda said the Russian armies already have destroy- ed an "entire generation of Nazis.”

From one end of the broad snowy-crusted front to the other the Russians reported success after success: the threat to Moscow eliminated by the rout of the Nazis in the greatest debacle yet to befall Hitler, his efforts to encircle Leningrad smashed, his hopes of getting at Cau- casia’s rich oil fields thwarted. ' since the start or the German invasion last June 22_ the Rus- sians reported, Hitler has lost 6.- 000.000 men, more than 16,000 taillis, 13.000 plane. and 19,000 CflllllOll. '

The newspaper Pravda attributed the German failure to encircle Moscow to insufficient Nazi forces snd mlscalculation of Russian strength,

The extent of the danger which hung over Moscow at the height of the Nazi campaign against title capital was disclosed today by Lt.- Gen. Leonid Govorov, Soviet com. mander in the sector to the southwest.

from Deo. 1 to 4. Govorov ssld in s Pravda interview, the Ger-

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llutoh Pyramid ~ Japan's losses

BATAVIA, Java. Dec. 1l—(AP)—

ldluns Pyramid Japan's losses on , the reinforcement sea lanes to Ms.- lllyu, the Royal Netherlands navy report/xi tonight sending two more lhiiis to the bottom for a two-day total of six sunk by it alone.

A communique reporting the new lction off ilre east coast of Malaya Y identified the latest two ships to 80 ‘down as a tanker and a freighter.

It crsdiied the sinking only to "our

.; naval forces." 5 Netherlands submarines were de- ,- tilled officially Saturday to have ‘"1111! four Japanese transports in ; same waters with a ‘ass of pro- Plbly 4.000 Japanese troops.

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IONDON. Dec. 14- (or) - A German supply ship “blew up and disappeared" when hit three times by bombs oif the Norwegian cout Wu morning. air ministry sources from rushing wiuxnttackcd

mu heig g, olluldcg flying a Hudson bomber.

Turkey to remain Neutral, ll. S. told

WASHINGWJN. Dec. 14 -(AP)_ Turkey today notified the United States it would remain neutral in the “new conflict which has Just broken out."

The Turkish ambassador, M. M. Erlcsun, delivered a note. address- ed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, which said:-

"I have the honor to inform your fllfllllflwy that in o. telelram dated Ankara, Dec. 10. i041. but received in Washington only this morning, I Hm directed by my government to notify the government of the Univ ed States of America that the gov- ernment of the republic has decid- ed to extend the neutrall of '.l.‘ur- key to the new conflict ch liu lust broken out.

“Please accept. Mr. Secretary of State, the assurance of my highest consideration."

Waterslide Takes huge Tol|- in Peru

LIMA_ Po Dec. l4—(Arl—-n tremendous ‘ldo which l!!!“ the departmental capital of Haul-u Saturday took n toll of more than 500 lives and wiped out the oltyu entire residential section. accord- ing to reports reaching here today.

Manuel Paliua, owner of is Limo- lluns-us bus line, told The Assoc- [gegd Prep; by telephone that con- ditions were "indescribable"; that. the slide 0f water. mud. rock bu! lava was 150 feet high and more than half a mile wide when it hit; that 500 bodies were in the local hospital and hundreds of others were strewn along the roads for u much no nix miles outside Huaras. and that bodies were be- ing brought to the hospital in truckloads.

"No one llvlng in the northern residential section is believed to hnvc escaped alive." nld Palms. llc ndded that no fur lt Ind not been possible to lsccrtnln the cause of the catastrophe. First rc- ports said it might have been due to an eruption of the nearby Ratnquenhun volcano, but Palms reported tho volclno showed no signs of activity.

He said nsnuy small Indian com- munltleo hsd been wiped out, and that the tons of rocks, and mud had thrown the Santa river out of its course.

Rescue work was hampered fur- ther by the foot that Ill earth tremor pl 0:50 A.S.'l‘. this morning, the longest nud inost violent slnco the disastrous “quake of May 24, 194l)_ threw the population into a panic.

100,000 Axis Troops tied up In Yugoslavia

By Alfred E. Will Anoolntcd Press Staff Writer

IONDON. Doc. l4 -(AP) —Blim. fair-haired Dray: Mibsiloslo, u. men colonel in be before the (formula overrun

country, has been raised to tbe rank of full eneral in recognition of his "magnificent work" in org resistance to the Nell oooupltiou.

Mathew" so..." pear and Cleooe, o patriot or- mles waxing smell scale war.

The v government in Im- don, in snnound Miiuilovic psolnoiion today ce dei- fihaguovic. dab o’ resc proportions grown military opal-atlas; and could no looser be regarded ll inflo guer- ls warfare.

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(By KIRK! L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Wu Analyst) A week after the full of the first Japanese bomb at Purl Harbor,

the United States has shaken down back effectively. It is rallying all its fighting or

to its grim role and begun to fight

working manpower, old and young,

for service n needed. It ls munterin the total strength of its mater- hl resources, so vast that the nggregute staggers lmlglnntlon. I I I I

And lt has tlino to look abroad as the whole western hemisphere rallies with it to meet the Axis challenge and to speculate on the fact

that only two nations of strategic

importance in the vast and in-

trloato war pattern still are merely onlookers. Turkey and Eire,

flow long Turkey can ronauln nlocf only the Axis muster minds ln Berlin know. It may be next on Hitler's conquest schedule, now that Russia. bu; balked his search for oil.

Spain and Vichy France can be rated as

belligerent. Both are playing the

only technically non-

Axis game and either might be

beckoned or cujoled by Hitler Into the fighting to serve his once more revised war strategy. Neither, however, stands so squarely athwart his road to adequate oil resources a1 does Turkey.

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Russian rebuff of Natl peace feelers has done nothing to ease Japanese concern as to her northern as well as her Pacific and China

Sea frontiers. It seems merely a strategy before Russia will strike.

question of time and anti-Axis Maxim Lltvlnoff, the Soviet Am-

bassador to Washin to», describe; Japan us the “common enemy."

Sweden and Swl

’, hemmed ln by tho Axis, do not figure

ln the grand llfl'fl_y of the widened struggle. Finland can be dis-

regarded unless Russlan initiative Atlantic supply lines from Britain I t

.eopens the Mi... ansk route,- for and the United States. I I

All of this leaves, in tragic isolation, Eire, nomcombatant pos- lcssor of the prlina geographical key to what might happen In the Atlantic now that tho Pacific has been fanned to a war flame.

The single discernible lnovo th

at could quickly meet a situation

of curtailment of American Atlantic naval aid and depleted British warships lwould be availability of Irish bases to British and American patrol craft. From the west coast of Eire they could operate 0n a short Atlantic turn-about for s-efuelllng and rest for sea-weary crews.

That would in effect increase their two fold. Watch Eire as well as Turkey,

numbers constantly at sea nearly

The Emerald Isle has a strategic

importance utterly out of proportion to its size, population or natural

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Send out patrols from landing on Luzon Island in Philippine group.

N0 spare tires For new ears And trucks

OTTAWA, Dec. l4-(CP)—The Munitions and Supply Department armounced tonight mat. passenger car and truck manufacturers have been advised that irum uec. 15 they will notbe allowed to equip new automobiles and trucks with spare til‘

ea. "In view of the current situation in the Pacific we have iounu necessary to take all possible steps so conserve our supplies 0t rubber,’ motor vehicles controller J. H. Berry

sai

Yesterday R. C. Berkinshaw. chairman of tne Wartime lnctusaies Control Board. sold that permanent orders repute. e sales oi rubber gigs: are expected within s. week or

ll s.

"It ymust be clearly understood that the tire freezing order (forbid- ding all sales of new Pneumatic tlrul) is onéy temporary." Mr. Berk- lnshaw Ill . "lt is

tires by thou Hi9- ment. and bu been put into Qgftfect pending is: of l permanent order. ‘The new order, expected within the next week or 10 days. Wlll mil-lib it possible for all legitimate require- ments for new tires to be filled, and will protect. existing inventories so tires mny be made available for essential uses." In tonight's statement, Mr. Berg said every now truck and car 1 l d “with four new tires when t. eaves e isctory. buyers of new vehicles second-hood time and curried n spam.

ll. B. Silver Fox,

"“‘ Production up

IHICTUN. Dec. ll-(fib-

Mclood predicted He estimated a slight decrease fox production but about the some ‘nliglunt ‘gimm and nowe t W" y l‘ ‘incl-cued value. “g block for. original fur form uunosl. as: is practically ignored by forced-

MANILA, 5:40 a. m. Monday, Dec. 15-(5240 p. m. A. S. T. Sunday)- (AEU-Japanese iorces which have establish-ed a foothold around vigan were reported sending out patrols today in 0n apparent effort to \vid- en their holdings in the face of at- tack by United States army bomb- era which were disclosed to have sent. four Japanese trocpships to the bottom oi the China Sea and badly battcrcd three others.

Except for the region of Vi an, 200 miles north of Marlila on .u- zoil’: west coast, there was only lo- cal activity.

Sinking of the transports was an- nounced Sunday night in an nrllly headquarters communique which said that "the situation both on the ground and in the air was well in hand as the first week of milllaiy operations came to a close."

The Japanese transports were sunk by United States fliers off Northern Luzon, and are in addi- tion to four Japanese transports sunk Dec. l2 by Netherlands sub- marines in the Gulif of Siam off

loss of about 4.000 lives

The Netherlands authoritlcg to- night aoded to their toll, announc- ing the striking of two more vessels. a tanker and a freighter, off Mal- a.

ya. Today's American communique did not lve the dates of the action, It out the Japanese already had paid dearly in troop, plane and

(Continued on page 9, Col a) ONE MISSING AFTER. FIRE

or. LIN, Que, Dec. l4-—(0P)— One person was missing after 100 used pensioners. nuns and child- ren filed out. of the Hospice st, Lin when fire destroyed the build-

lllear Berlin Admit bad. ‘ Time in Russia

IDNDON, Dec. l4 — (GP: -- “Thc British Broadcasting Cor- opoiution sold tonight that from 4 Berlin has come the admission j "that the Germans have lost the initiative in Russia."

“And for the first time." the BBC added, "German home lis- , tellers have been treated to ex- . plantations of the German rever-

sa o." ‘ The BBC recited in detail to- night's communique broadcast. from Moscow. It concluded its review of the Russian 'ront by quoting a Helsinki newspaper as saying Finns are "snocized" by German losses. together with the newspaper's explanation that the

losses were caused because the l German army is "neither train- i ed or equipped" for winter fight-

ing.

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Air Minister Says Gov’t plans Selective Draft

Manpower T0 Be Or- ganized To Give Best Results, Maj. Power Declares.

MONTREAL, Dec. 14 —(CP) — Air Minister Power said Saturday night the Dominion government puyxvtes to bring about. national selective service in an effort to put every man and women in his most valuable place in the present emer- gency.

In his address at the annual din- ner of the Dominion Commercial Travellers’ Association, Ma]. Power said that under the national re- sources mobilization aict passed last year "the government of this clo- mlnion has llle fullest authority and jurisdiction to enable it bring about national selective ser- vicr. not only of our manpower. but of our woman power also."

‘These powers we propose to use in this emergency which confroilis us, and in an endeavor to see to it. that every man and woman in this country carries on the worlr which will be of the greatest poo- sible benefit to the state as a whole," he said.

“We will organize manpower for the defence of our shores. so as not to be a liability to our friends and allies, and so that there Jrall be no chink in the armor of the demo- cratic front.

"We will mobilire manpower for the greater production of munitions and food so as to be an asset to our friends and allies.

"We will organize our women to work in the arsenals, the shops and the factories.

Canada faced greater danger than she ever had before. The Pa- cific coast was "in the front line of battle." The days of assurance oi easy victory were past.

"But ast. also are the days of panic; eft. only a grim realiza-

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ll.0.A.l&'. ls missing

UITAWA, Dec. l4-—(CP)--'1‘hree mm won reported killed on active service oversees, tlwo previously rc- ported missing were ground dead and two were repor miss- ing after air operations overseas in the Royal Canadian Air Force's 136th official casualty list issued Saturday.

Five were reported killed on no- tivo service in Canada. one dead from natural causes in Canada and one previously reported miss- ing after air operations overseas

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Bibi" Louise Belul-s Che-rite of wghe liotr brill: lo i124 the num- lltrveslntgrlluode “died in thw“ 1b.‘ b“ o‘ “twins-i tllinmm‘ 9 . reported Wm 1w ma. lie wu fighting tar-ted ° c‘ y m” e w“

her wsy through u. heavy cloud of smoke om an upper floor.

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By destructive Al“ Dawn Sunday

3 - hour fire

Fire of unknown origin, which broke out in a vacant garage early yesterday morning at Sourls, ue- stroyed the building, also a nearby boar g house and. gutted a vacant tailor shop. Fanned by a south east breeze the iames spread quickly through the garage which was owned by Mr. lrviilg Fraser aild then jumped to the boarding house operated by Mrs. John Ryan. The tailor shop was formerly run by the late Mr. Norman Pearce

assignment

LONDON, Dec. 14—tCP)——'I'he um y» dlswgermflusbgu‘ ‘.’<’$.‘.‘§“w.‘i.“.€’§&’i.2.‘iii‘.ii}°§...§°3§ .' .m. e oun er e e- bartingnt oi the vtown was on the mg?“ as °b5ew°r5 “feigned T°k.y_° scene a few minutes later and bat- P131315 °f a 19-‘ n9 939115“? tied the flames for two hours be- against the colony and Chuuekule fore the "all out" was sounded accounts of a strong drive toward building in which the fire Canton to ease the pressure on the started was a. commercial garage British forces. but had not been in use since the (Tokyo said the Japanese touch- summer. Mrs. Ryan and a maimed or; their big push on gong who were-sleeping in the dwelling Kong at dawn an“. me garrison house which W215 Oil the west Slut} rejected m ultimatum to sup of Lire burning kgargge 8n t ‘tandem sree, were awa ene an go ou of the house. A small amount of edmggxfggncglxlhnfhwxrigvf cgpw" furniture was removed from them f m e K “an m‘ dwelling before the fire got too °I1 ° e 5°“ W‘! ¢°1°l1¥ much headway However, n, was were‘ without confirmation in of- soon a mass of flames ‘and despite ‘MW Fluallfils 119W. the efforts of the fire fighters soon ll W“ $8111. llflyievfir, that H0118 was a smouldering ruin. On the o - K0118 l5 W011 guarded and its cap- ite side of the garage, was e tine would prove a hard assign- lor shop. Soon the flames had merit, reached it, but here the firemen Chinese Aid Defenders

were able to check its advance. Theibresidgncel of lglionthlrvinbg Ilka-

ser, s uae cose e urn ng _ ___ buildings, was not damaged. Water clgrfiggcwczgélgsa‘ p1?§;s-ed14m‘,‘ru’>t was constantly applied‘ to it in or- Lacks on me 1h,‘ d e a; der to prevent it catching too. Japanese tomes ‘tgreflal ‘egos:

There wuis no official estimate of

th dam used b n. fi blut K°I18 with 118110118 some on at n; e“ belielgveedmm be 1% thee vll-gmity Tamshui 0nd Plngshair IIOIIt lino o; $_ _ pm-tmiy covered by m. dispatches said today.

sufancg. Tamshui and Pingshan are near The garage was a one-storey the frontier of the Crown colony wooden bui ding; the ding and arc east of the Canton-Kow- holésetha ffiiw$y frame structure loon rail/ways. an e or on a one-storey Pingshan is about eight miles bllildln8. north of t-hc mainland frontier of Three streams of water were the crown Colony and about 18 played on the blaze by the firemen miles west of the Canton Kowloon who obtained their supply of water rauway Tamhu, is - n from one of the specially built. res- normwést of P. h m 95 ervoirs, maintained by the town to; ‘n95 a" a

this . A bo .

oi tliguige ngniinuignequ $5.15; opt Cemwh Will D0 Pm

a steady stream flowing through

the three lines o! hose. Firemen (YITAWA, Dec. l4—(CP)—-Cana-

were directed by their Fire Chief, dian troops in Mr. Daniel McLaren. -

Flotilla of 3 Italian Sruisers

beleaguered Hong Kong will do everything they can to live up to rllc traditions of Can- ada's “my. Brig. J. K. Lawson ad. vised Defence Minister Ralston in a recent cable.

Coi. Raiston on Dec. a gent, g, messfliie W Brig. Lawson, oom- manding the Canadian units in HQ"; $0118. expressing the D0. mliliOIls confidence in the Do- mlgillcwrfsLgontlngent.

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IDNDON Dee 14 ~ All "m" our power to malniaideryttiigniselllt flotilla of three Italian cruisers ap- traditions or the cmadmn army, Wrenllii was W199“ m“ bePwwP The Crown Colonv of H ' dusk Friday night. and dawn Satui- Kong now has been Hinder J 011R day by submarines and British and neae Esau", for “V” 1 alm- Netherlands destroyers in the Med- were h“ bee - a dayl- iterranean, successive Admiral vet when‘ n X10 Offlvial word conhmuniques indicated Saturdayh e1‘ We Comedians have n