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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, Tmmsoliv, ivoviamniciz 2, 1944

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It is easier to be pious than k be

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Mall. $4.00: other Provinces k ll-LA. 85.00. Subscription Delivered, 15.00.

DEFENCE MINISTER RALSTON RESIGNS

PAllied Ships

Heading For Antwerp

British And Canadians Remaining

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Ilavy Will Raise Pacific Force 0n lie-Voluntary Basis

~ I . 1 - (or) —'1'he agar-Adlai: eontiniient tniit

. - l- ilic will m: role-w EQIEfK-feofililiitriifv‘ D0515 Wm‘ b‘. 3.“? mil demobilization iiiior the defeat of Gerniaiiv lllflll made on a “first- m, first-exit" b0515-

Tliis \\‘.ts disclosed liere today by Capt. Ii. lticMustcr, naval director or pirsiiiiriel. B5 11c vllURllT-l m"

'* ldllS milling ~ is the ‘oictiirez—_ viliJlil. Uillli tilt Lift“ lillly.

., Jihkill, Lili.‘ Cdliilllk ’ ictcu ire-in men who rc-I

nieii will ciijov a leave!

b‘ I'll . , . oi iinspr-ciiiitl lciigzii _iii Comical before aoiiitz to the Pacific.

4, Certain Iver iiieii will be re- tdllibll i.i ‘ilii sufvllle "rcetiroless of their ash ,

o. Tut . ll 11R naval personnel

;.l hc zl on li iteicral, ‘iirst-iii out" dtiiiobllizationl

pliiii.

ti. There will apparently be 110i special \..ii;u.ii~,,ii llll)’ but iiziv stat-merit Iiitlliis out inut those who, Japanese Cdlllili-ingli i oi service n. lily for lileliei- mus-I venue-out . _ _

fhe If,(..li.i wiilcli like the, navy. ls believed ready to use _'ilI iliird of its sirciitrtti ill the Facile}, has alreaciv azineuiiccd fir; re-vclv uiiiirv {Hun illlti in. partial demob- i ion on .l "ilrst-iii. first-out’

‘Alli’ army. said to b_c Lvoiilenipliv, tine using ii dlVlSiOll in the Poe-i announced uts,

llic has not ict

plans. lithe iiavv planning to give; . ilic fv . a leave iii L,iii-_

thr- across the ucrlli . i ic boss blv to biiff.‘ iii the Philippines rather than rc-i turii across ilio Atlaiitlc itiid iic-' coiiiliniiv Iiriiish forces to Indian ses. '

Saint John I’. 0f G. To observe Birthday

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Nov. l -— (Cl" .- Knights of Columbus from the Maritime Provinces. otlicr Canadian points and the United s res are expected to at- tt-iiu oi VtlllCCS here Nov. I4 and 15 iii iii; the 40th anniversary o: the S. it John K. of C. Coun- cil Ne. 937,

Coming Events

"Show - Canoe Cove Friday. 11-1-21.

"Show-Murray Harbour SoutlhI Betta-day. 11-1-21, ,

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_"l-- . , Goose Supper Zion Hull, Prince Street, ‘rues- day. Nov. ‘l. 11-2-11

"Annual Bazaar, Rollo Bay.

Tuesday and Wednesday, November h iiiiu iltli. Don't miss it. lO-ZB-Qi.

Bflloroiii-ace Dance. st. Peter‘: "l; Flldfly 3rd. Good prizes. Clif- fordr Orchestra. 11-1-21.

{Jéifth Pr" hid‘ e ay

and Lunch at I Hull. November i 11-2-14

. "Masquerade Dance at Fort AI-lkustus Hall, Nov. 3rd. Good ""18"- 10-8l-2-Bi.

. co"-\nnuul meeting Rural Mall lnlltggfsclassgflotlgn will be held ll 3 dclodir. M aturdny’ will-g

"cflme to the Social I i w“ 1 even n: n_ ....."a2,."al-.,.?“<"Y' "atria.

At All) C. Green and A. C. l0-31-3l.

"A quontlt of pressed iiii i! muted lmme lately. Paying high- "n filigree; price. Knud Jorken- Hum" Rfifgrcton, Phone 1:35-22,

‘ ‘Livestock

m“ be Marketing Board

10mins an allotted quota 1M at the following shipping I,” , “luduflh! week of November Elnhra ‘infill’. Montague, Cardigan, Mu" . Bouris, St. Peters, Morell. charflxtegynbourirulgsggyneforeggaei "m" ‘Mu time. North Wiltshlre.

Nazi Guns In Schelde Estuary.

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aimy, lootlly admitted that a skil-

ii‘ 40,000 German troops who for sever-

I of Flushing."

Reported

Battle To Knock Out

LONDON. Nowl -(OP)—Brltlsh and Canadian shock troops, iii- eluding British Ctlnfliafido; thrown ashore under cover of g, blazing Royal Navy bombardment. smashed onto Ilvalcheien Island at the en- trance of the Schelde Estuary iri Holland from Lhg gut, we“ and south today in a strong assault to

out the lact German bat- wriel bI-rrloc Antwerp to Allied chipping,

tLn a broadcast curly Nhuraday, the Berlin radio and Allied ship- ping already had entered the three-mlle-Iwlde estuary bounty g0;- Antiverp.)

'I‘roops of the British 2nd. Army blfwdfllvd their foothold on the Mass River ‘in South Central Hol- land to more than 1| mile and maintained relentless pressure against‘. Ccrniziii rciirguards.

A spokesman for fit-Gen. Demp- 59)’. commander of the British and

ful withdrawal from the Brcda, pocket had saved the bulk of some

al days were threatened with efl-I l-"lllment. He said only enemy rear- guai-ds were left south cf the Maris and that the main German 15th Army now was fortifying ii new Rot- terdani-Ariilieni defence line. British Commandos of the ‘ist Canadian Army swarmed ashore on the southern and western coasts of

Vlalclis-rcn IslrintI-ivlilcli moos- urcs only eight by l0 miles scalar iii We @1111)’ dawn and were making, Hood progress tonight, Canadian’ troops at the saiiie time fought their I way through a virtual wall of rlazl‘ steel In storming across f1 cause-I way from South Bevclaiid Island]

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on the east and establishing a firm foothold on lllalchcrcii.

Clio Commando force made at n the harb r and 15131 I ' 50 or 60 l iiig boats. B ti. . faiitry followed the Commandos ashore. Ross Munro. Canadian Press War Correspondent reported. and ‘practically landed ln the streets‘ Commandos and infantry penetrated decn Into the toivri and although It was not eu- tlr ly captured by tonight many‘

ions of the port were in the hands of the Toriimies. he added. I

'f‘l~.c German Radio said a “heavyi brittle" was raging for the town.‘- whfch sits at the southern tin of Walt-heron and commands the three iniics entrance to the Sclieldc fromI the North Sea.

A second landing was made at Wr-stkapelle at the extreme westernI tip of Walcheren and eight miles, northwest of Vlisslngen. A heavy; fog obscured the landing boats from‘ German shore batteries. When the weather cleared offer noon Allied medium and flehfcrs bombers swar- msrl over the island and battered every enemy position they could lo- cate.

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Heavy naval KIIII fire supp- orted the soabnrric landings. Dcrlln said that, Nozl fliers had scan n British brzttloshlu of the King George (35.0% ton) class. four cruisers and numerous lnuillnz vessels standing off- shore, "which Indicate: that other attempt: on Walclieren are to follow."

Late front line dispatches to- night snid all German guns on Wol- cheren were silent. PPYMPS kflmk‘ e1 nut by naval gunfire. The orilv German euns on Waleheren which moaned the flooding oi the little inland last. month when Allied hom- Irrs Iweached protecting North Sea dikes were believed to have been at Vllsslngen and at Mlcldel- bu“. four hills-s to the north. almost all the remainder nf the Island was rppnrted to be under water except at. low tde.

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British Sub In Bold Bay Raid

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NEW YORK, Nov. l- (C?) — A British submarine. 0n the sur- face and in brood daylight, enter- ed the Japanese-held anehoi-aze of Port Owen off Southern Burma rc- cently, destroyed two gun bout!- and swept out a aln before the enemy realized w at was happen- ing, the British Information Ser- vices said today.

The Channel was too for the submarine to shallow for diving, but, sold the commands . "It was felt that the rick involved would be offset by the advantage of our rise."

Iisur coasters, lnclu lng one am- munition ohlp were destroyed be- fore lunch on another day of the

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some patrol.

The commander, tit-Cmdr. ll. P. Young, D. B. 0., D. S. ., a 'ornier London publisher. is he

first. British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer tn command a sub- marine.

He accounted for seven Japan- ese vessels during the trip, and In addition made important recon-

Huntei- Rlver- Kcnslu . gton until I P- m. Albany until 3 p. m. 11-2-21

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,nalssonees in shallow and danger-

P. E. I. Pilot Officer interned In Sweden

Word hu been received by D. and Mrs. A. D. MacLenrian Wey- moutrh st, City, that their 80h, Pilot Officer Douglas Hayden MacLennim, is re ed to have been interned in Sweden, follow-

ing air operations overseas. PO.

ririan went overseas in February 1048 and has co feted one tour of operations. He at-

tached to an R. A. F. squadron, which recently attacked the giant battleship ‘Tirpitz’ ’ at. Alten Fjord, Norway. This operation took place from a Russian base where the young fliers spent ten days. This wiu one of the most daring operational flights of the war and involved a round trip of 5000 m es.

Loan Total

57.9 Per Beat '

0f dfbieotive

-—— a At tlie close of business yester-

day 57.0 pcr cent of’ the ‘Prov- inces $3,300,000 objective in the Seventh Victory Loan had been. subscribed, it was learned from

figures released by headquarters. Actual subscriptions reported tot- alled $1,912,650.

Bv districts. with the quota in brackets, subscriptions were as follovrs: Siiinmcrside, $434,350 tsi30.000); Prince County outside suininerslde, $272,300 t495.000); Charlottetown, $782,550 ($1.000.- 000); Queen's County outside Charlottetown, $275,350 $425,000): Kim's County, $148,100 $350,000).

Germany. No strong natural barriers bar Hungarian capital from the south

the Tics-Danube corridor. The Hungarian city has been long

Vienna is carried out.

Mflltarlly, Diullpelt ll of prilio by the Nazis into an Important purtant probably than Vienna. It

hard surfaced roads centre there.

for exerting: their pressure in the

The Austrian attachment to I ed bv force and left smouldering I

vance on Vienna. reserves to guard all fronts at the

' ~ , , 0 War Situation Last N ght I ‘It I .. " ‘ "*—" ~ai"m I By KIBKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Prell War Allllyst) Powerful Ind armies in the Tina-Danube corridor In Ilflgary have

planned to within two score miles of Budapest in a tliree-day-oid renewed offensive aimed at the vital southern gateway to Austria and

tlon of Budapest would expose Vienna itself to Russian pressure, In even now less than 200 miles from Russian-seized Izak, midway of:

Whether a. Russian march on Vienna is to await capture of Ihulzi-l

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pest. which could prove a slow and bloody business, remains to I-

Russlan deployment in the Tin-Danube corridor is on a scale to suggest it may be encircled and by-passed while the advance against ‘

great communications triangle, Ber!inJvarsaiv-lludapcst, upon which the Nazi continental conquest concept very largely rested. ,Iri riddi- tlori to traffic on the Danube, a dozen or so fflllWkbyS and many broad.

Ilowcver. there could be for greater political and military viiluc in bringing Vienna. under close threat than In storming the strong interior defences of Budapest. The Russians hove shown a gcriiu-i

it could yield ilie lrrcaicst results at the least coat and a lied ariiiv crossing of ‘the Danube below Budapest to Implement the potential threat to Vienna. ivould cause no surprise.

followers. .It might be fanned to flame by an Immediate Russian iid- At least such a move would

ing strongly toward it powerful Allied attack In the west and a Rusiaian‘ drive at the some lime against Warsaw.

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luil:i-‘ ‘ It} licderal

lwlft Red army approach

and east. And the fall or OTTAWA- N9“ 1 '_ (C

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called tlic gztteway to Vici: r U\\'

dead-Leader Traipor I a Prisoner

Importance. It ha: been eonverteilI war lndiivtry centre, more im-I

also la the stiuthcrn pivot of tlie

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whole southeastern theatre Wllfi‘.

Hitler's war chariot iriis achiev- ‘ ent against him um] his l

further strain .‘\z I moment when the signs are pt ril-

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LONDON, Nov. 1 — (Al?) —T';‘.CI Red Army thrust armored spear-I I3 a-_

licads Willllfl d0 niilcs of iid than‘

Crash‘ Victim Had Been Recommended“; For Gtimiriission

MONTREAL. Nov. 1 — 1CD) - L/iC. Joseph Odoiii Rodolphe Gly- artl, who was killed in the tjYlsllt of an aircraft at Mount Pic it.

slniiing as a Pilot Officer, It ' ' hCIld- i

announced at R. C. A. F quarters here today‘, - LAC. Glrard, whose wife lives.

in Regina and who was a incin-I ber of the Royal Mounted Police in Montreal be-i fore he joined the R. C, A. F. was!

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to have graduated from No Bombing: and Gunnery school a‘. Mount Pleasant Nov. 3. lie 1rd

placed sixth in his class and recommended for eoiiimlssioiii:ig the (lav before the crash '

fluadruplets Born At Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 1 P) - Quatlruplets — three girls and a boy-were born today to the wife 0f a securities and exchange cum- nilssloii financial analyst.

Mrs, Joseph Clrmiiiello gave birth to the children in two minutes by coesarlaii operation. the first ever periormed for a quadruplet birth.

X-ray examinations had shown that hiiadrupcts were expected but the news had been kept from :Iie mother.

A doctor told her while the caes- arlan was being performed. She re- ceived splriol annstliesio.

Her husband walked a corridor cut- slde the delivery room during the births.

"I've never seen so many hands and feet in my life," said Dr. John C. Ulery, obstetrician, who super- vised the operation.

Quadruplets are born on an average of once in every 658,503 births. b

Before the operation. Cirmineilo said his wife believed she would have twins.

Ari hour after the birth. Drill- lery said all the babies were heal- thy arid all were expected to sur- vive. Each weighed between three and 3 1-4 pounds.

Explosion“ In Paris)

PARIS, Nov l ti-alnload of explosives blew u noon today on a suburban aria siding not far from a cernetc 1 where Gen. De Gaulle had made r1 speech ii few minutes earlier. but it was not ascertained Whether l-hfl blast was an attempt on his life, an accident or robots!!-

Beveral sections of Perle W!" showered with objects officially des- cribed only as "prvlficiflefl

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(AP) —- A

h; r 5 disclosure ofcsltetslgi-li. ‘butngiliigcletsslve Official announcements flnollv 149mm“

the source of the explosion as a train and said "the number lrlif’ tri- (lms and damage were SW18 - 1'

oue waters.

raid sirens had sounded-

‘ o l'\'v'lllCll announced

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pest today, capturing more

100 coriimuiiltlcs, including tlic big railway centre and iifajcr dc- zncc Misti/on of Kecslicinct‘, iii an tiffciisivc rolling norlliivcstivarrl b“'\\f‘£‘il the Danube and Tiszii

cuiiiixiiiiilque, tlic gains rliingzirv and that tlic Germans] hail lzccii completely cleared from: filC Pctsnmo region of Arctic Fir | lune‘, said nothing of the Pa! ‘ti East. Prussiin and West L'l1\'i1\Il sectors of the long eastern ircrit. It llliifiG clear, however, that a I, r I drive across the plains‘ "I - hoary was progressing fiend- Ily towards its goal, Budapest. Kecskcmet was the lust impun- nnt barrier in that open coun-

Potato And Apple Yield Increases

UITAWA, Nov. 1

, (C P) Th ailllle crops in Nova Scotla, Ontario and British Columbia are expected to total 16,437,400 bushels this your compared with 12,89,200I hi 1943, an increase of 3.595.200 bushels. the Dominion Bureau of Statistics said today Its latest Survey of fruit crop yields.

The potato crop was estimated lat 47,540,000 huiidreclwelght com- lmffid With 43,541,000 in 194'! Th9 EIIICYEIISQ of 3,999,000 hundredweiglit I was due botii to an overall increase Iln acfeflke and a higher average yield Phi’ acre.

letitia ls-Ilew ~ gllospital Ship

I MONTREAL. Nov. i - (CP) --'

ITlle former Anchor - Donaldson liriur Letitia had shed her drab ivar-turie eaimoutlage for a coat o1 glistening whitepboldlv decorated with red crosses. ‘but the new garb ls only outward sign of alterations within, which have transformed the Letitia from a transport - cruiser to f1._Ill0(‘i8l'i'll/0l.V'9Ql1ll7DD'-’d 7u2-bed floating hospital.

lugn the refittini! is completed. she will join the Lady Nelson Iii the task of transporting Canadian

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Army Within 40

y9ll2dB§1__fll0fl‘l_ __t_lie __bott1e>froiits._§1n the war began.

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ends of Ml‘. and Mrs} ‘ .- * d, will be Death Yesterday 0am I . from Ot- ,, 1 I r son Squadrcii- ‘ Mr Leith Breaker: -1 D» I It W r uteri missirnzl I 4 of tlic, living ___ ,_ i Civfllliifly‘, I ,' ' his iat The death occurred in Charlotte-I 1 ‘ iii the iii town last. evening of Mr. i ‘l s twice iiarrnivi)‘ Breckeii, formerly Deputy l’ \ ion hi5 PlTmBI tlionotary of thc Supreme down in enemy ter-;

and Rggigtrglr Qf L119 "P lll 51111109, lllld 110W in, In that

l1 s been

Chancery, after .i lei'igtliy' lllnc“ III‘ I He was eiizhty-five y- (if ~ fllltbiTfllk of the, The late Mr. BYCIJ was - -.,i< . . wcrrcos more. 1y known and estcciiiuj, p llCll- couple t years. I-Ie was larly by members oi the fiPllCll ted lll i043 for his initiative. in l civ ;ind success In bringing

and Ber with wliciii 'hc “air, daily contact for about half a cmtury. He was a son of tht: Lit:

t i ‘enemy planes, of ‘which he 111d nine to his credit. In_ addi- Hon. Frederick Bracken, senior lulu 10 U19 D- F- C- 50901011011» he partner in the law firm of Brrhk- implicit illtfybfll‘. for 51025001101}! “l5 en and Fitzgerald, at one [ifllc a entitling liim to this distinction.

prominent member of the Lcgis-I -—- loture and subsequently Postmiiso- er of the Province. I

Mr. Bracken was born here July» 20, i850, and was educated in Charlottetown aiicl at lxlllgS Col- lege, N. S. He served as law cie 1 for some time in his father's of- fice. He was £l-1)p0llli(’(i Dejulii‘ Prothonotory and Registrar of the Court of CflfllLCFy about It'll: 2 i892, and filled these posltio . well as that of Master of Chan-Z cery, with the greatest competency and faithfulness until his retire- ment a few years ago.

Mr. Breckcn was a prominent member of St, Peter's Cathedral, ond was chairman of the i-ioara of Trustees for several years. He was also a member of the Masonic order for many years. i

In his younger days he was an excellent tennis player and took a keen interest In promoting this

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His mother, the late Mrs. Fred Breckeii, ivas formerly Miss Helen‘ Emslle, of saint Joliii, N. B., and

N. B. Invests $'I,500,000 In ‘victory Bonds

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Nov. i -- tCP) — A Seventh Victory Loan investment of $1,500,000 by the, province of New Brunswick ,vzisi announced tonight. The Provln-I clal Government bought the same, amount of bonds in the Sixth‘

Loan.

Other special names subscrip-, tlons announced toiiizlit includ-t Ed: Cit’ of Saint Joliii, $300,000; City o Moncton, $105,000; At- laiiilc Sugar Refineries Limited. saint John, $200,000: G, E, Bar-I IJOill‘ Co. Ltd, Saint John, $100- wzis a first cousin of the late Mrs. 000; Nisincliestci" Robertson Alll-‘ Chm“ P0111191‘. clly- son Limited, Saint John, $80000.

Mr. Brecken had one brother, ' -‘-~ - -'" ~~ ~- Dr. John Bracken, who died sev- eral years ago. His only slstcr,I Mrs. Vernon Longwortli, died‘ some years ago. first cousin: Mrs. Charles Leigh, passed lwa ‘ quite recently. Another cousin Mrs. Tennyson, formerly Miss Laura Mitchel, of’ California, who! has visited here frequently and! who is widely known as a mink,

MOSCOW. NOV. l—tGP Cable) —-l

vras learned Sources close i0 the government would g0 no further than ‘llild 1'£‘$l.‘£"0d on "the question of reinforcements for overseas.”

iiial decisions had not. been in there were persistent reports lCol. Ralsto

G

mer commander of the

Army overseas. , , Gen. McNaiiahtori could not be

‘" reached for comment tonight, f ‘

.suppert Cvl. Rzilston in whatever

II/Ioscow Paper Attacks Canadian College Teacher

l‘) — Defence reliably tonight.

While it was understood that f‘

n would be replaced by en. A. G. L McNaughton, for-

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