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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, MONDAY, ocromzu 16, 1944

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GERMAN S COUNTER-ATTACK AT AACHEN

Hungarians Ask

‘Canadians Drive Into Tough German Pocket

Lt.~Gen. Crerafs Troops Make Progress Against Enemy In Schelde Estuary.

Formosa

Bomlaed 3rd Iime

PEARL HARBOR. 0C}. 15 -- (A p1 f Fighting off strong Jflpzmqéc 1r attacks, United States Pacific 11cm task forces smashed At Fur- mosn and Luzon again l-‘riduy and dvsuilfwd at least 91 enemy air- 1111111115.

x11 last report the fighting still was under \v11_v, and there wore strrng lhtliczltions that the battle 111011;: 111s approaches to the Dcent Wzlsk build r1". up to 11 uemendous pe.

The Japanese have announ- ced 111111 thsh- fleet is in action, 2111110111111 111m» 11:15 no imlwat- ion hen; that this was so.

Admiral Chester W Nimtz, couunnhdcr 1:1 r1111‘! cf Pacific Oc- em areas, n1111c1111c:d the continuing raid in :1 >1*.111111:1iq11'c today.

-- plane losses so z

11.1 comment on Jup- 1s to lnve sunk or dam- ‘ 5’) American shi . first hit. Formosa '11‘ ‘e task forc/rs fought groups of enemy aircraft 111111 11112111, 11nd again bombed 11nd strnfrd island ‘nsxallatlons and ship- pilrl Thllrsrlnl‘. P

Ills u~c of the phrase "Imperial A11" librce" indicated that urmy as well as navy planes might have pa:-

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ALLIED SUPREME I-IEA UA . TERS Oct. l5—tCP)—Lt.-geQn. l‘; D- G. Crerlfs Canadian troops govt I thhree-pronseo offensive 111w

e zoug Nazi cket south f Schelde Etuarypllgdsy. o m’

The Canadians, striking forward in three different sectors rapidly sofenlng German resistance, were wthtn less than two miles of lop- ping off the entire eastern segment of the German pocket south of the Schelde.

The Canadians took 500 prisoners Saturday. bringing their total bag of the last few days to 1,300.

Except for a fcw hours in the momma. the weather has been cloudv 11nd raihv and R.A F. planes supporting the Canadians have berm kept to the ground.

Labor Shortage ln Moncton Plant

FRBDERICTON, Oct. l5 - (GP) —Agricult\1re Minister Taylor said tonight a serious labor shortage

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eXlsts in 111,. packing plant of the $11111. Canadian Company at Mone- ton He appealed for 60 men to rellevn the sliortngg and enable slaughter of Maritime hugs when randy for mmker Mr. Taylor said the labor situation at Montreal and Toronto plants was equally serious,

Sweden Halts Bearing Exports

LONDON. Oct. 15 -~ (OP — A

|Rcutcr dispatch from Stockholm

tonight said the Swedish foreign

lofflce announced that Sweden had

stopped all bolLbearlng exports to Gel-runny.

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- i? —:1_——~ By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst

Allied armies ln the west from the Lesser Rhine 111 llolland to the Belfort Gap leading to the upper river in France are slugging it out with blttenend Nazi defenders with no certainty that winter will not catch them short of a decisive breakthrough. '

They have onlv two weeks tn go to avert a weatherubound stalemate unlikely to ease off enough for major ground operations until next March or April. But they also have the word of the Supreme Cum. murder. " l Elsenhowm, that it will be no slt.down winter cam- pllgn in any event. The enemy ls due for a. winter of unrrlaxing strain aground as well as by slr he told u press group in Paris.

The Allied Com “ did not dismiss the possibility of an internal collapse in Germany to end the struggle as suddenly as the First Great War ended lass than a month short nf 26 years ago. 1t still could hup. pen. The plight of Nazi Germany today is lncomparubly worse from 1s military standpoint. than was that of Imperial Germany in mld.October. 1918. when the German crack_un began.

That playivno part in Allied or Russian plans to push the attack ceaselessly, ln and out of season.

Front line press observers report Allied troops at grips with the foe are skeptical of reports that they are confronted by a raging and bob.tail army hastily thrown together to fill manpower gaps. 1n action the Nazis continued against all odrls to prove themselves hurzLhittlng and resourceful.

There are several factors ln the actual military situation in the wast still to be computed before ‘.1 winter stalemate of some sort can be sold to have nrrlved. General Eisenhower lnferentlally pointed out one in noting Russian progress on both flanks of the fanflung eastern war front.

Russian invasion of the East Prussian breeding ground of Ger- man Junkerlsm was an accomplished fact. A wldcirnntcd Red Army breakthrough tn the Baltic had all but sealed off many thousands nf Nazi troops northward. Germany's heretofore deeply guarded Baltic front was being exposed to sea. air and amphibious attack.

southward. Russian, Romanian and Yugoslav Partisan forces with Allied help from the Adriatic side had virtually sealed off the Balkan Peninsula as an internment camp for Nazi forces still south of the Danube Ind the Suva.

Mr. Bracken Discusses Income Insurance For Farmers And Fishermen

ALLISTUN. ONT.. Oct. 14 -—- 1 am an ovarian. And I am a Can. 0

I adian. 1 speak to you in b th cn1)_ L k g d ucities. I speak to you as‘ gnc 11:11 " seeks to correct the malor SOCl1lll injustice of our day-the 11mm, share of the national income that‘

BOes to formers and farm women

Troops On Western Front Wait For Big Offensive

— Weather Is Cool And Mud Is Getting Deeper But Still Time For Another Mighty Smash,

Plane Bra-adios Into Gity

COQUILL. ORE“ Oct. l6 -— lAPl — A11 airp-lnnc. bllcved to bc a nuvv plane plowed throutzh a 2111111) of houses here today Wit. noses said they believed several

persons were killed.

Coming Events.

"Show — Morell.

"Show, 5t. Pters, Wednlegday.

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“Donor. Um! Geek Hall. 0t. 1on1. Refreshments? 10-10-11.

"Chicken Supper. Murray Har- bor Hall. Wednesday. Octobleg llsfltgi.

"Notice-New Ration Books Will be distributed at. Brsdalbane. Oct. 18th and 19th, noon to 9 p. m- L. S. Seaman. 10.14.21

"Auction Flrty Fivrs every Mon- dfly nlitht at 8 dclock. Sprint! Park Fife 111111. until further notice.

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"Come to the hot goosa sup. Der at Bonshaw, Wednesday. Cct. ober l8. United Church. At l... T. Helium's. , 10.14.21.

"Come to xxm-trv Bea Chicken '5“ r in Che Vallev Hall. Wetl- "9 fly. IOctober 18th. Supper serv- Qd from 6 t0 10. 10-16-11.

“Chicken Supper at Nell Mc- Klnnuns. New Haven. Tuesday. Ovwber 11th. Women's Institute. slmbcrs from 6 o'clock. 10-10-11.

“Du _—_ m". nee in Mt. Stewart Legion

Don Slaw.

r "Notice - Arriving in c. few days M" mixed feeds Book your require- Irneuts now and Ret of! our prlw- .

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By Charles Lynch Renter Wur Correspondent wrrn BRITISH FORCES sourn

‘or NIJMEGEN. Oct. 15 - (ca.

Renter) -It is mid-October and a. bitng wind sweeps over Holl- and. All is quiet on this western front.

Tl1c nights are cold, and ell-m when the sun shines ull day it does 11ot really tukc the chill out of the 2111'. The autumn leaves have com- plctcd their color changing and most o1 111cm have fallen to the ground.

Each day you see -more and more soldiers 2'11 their greatcoats or with their muffler; around their chins or shivering in their battle- dress and swinging their arms to keep warm.

The marking on the maps changes but little-and where a lwadquarters of a front l111e was yesterday. you can no doubt count on finding it today. The mud gets lust s little bit dee-

er each day and the roads just 11 ittle bit more impassable. The word "No Man's Land" comes into increasing use and instead of "slit.

trenches" you begin to talk about1

Just plain "ditches " And they all have water in them.

Mud-drenched. chilled. British veterans will tell you that. it is not in the book for German soldlers to go on fighting. Evidently the Ger- man soldiers do not read the bonk-

And each lng day brings wlrver nearer. Soon there will be no leaves left on the trees. 5001i the boggy ~ ground will stiffen with frost. Soon the up lea. Whlvh 11°" drop in the lrmm under concus- sion of the guns will have rotted.

And there is time for one more mighty smash st the Germans; not I jab on the scale of the current cree- ping operations st Overloon. but s mighty smash all along the front aimed at n knock-out.

Our troops wait end wonder when it will come. Across the flnnbleak fields. the Germans wait and also wonder.

The Germans know they cannot win the war 11nd yet they are not convinced they must lose it. ‘rhere- tore they seem willing to head into the sixth winter-

For our men in the trenches, win- ter is a bleak ,.rospect. For the Germans it must be an indescrib- able one. '

11m)‘ day brings it closer: each day of this mid - October GUM 0"

and farm workers. sold Hon. John :1‘- ‘ in an address here Satur.

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1 loos 11 "the prcblcm uoth as r1 (B? "we 0H3’?! ggg) "f Th‘ Canadian and as a farmer. What I “no ‘t’ 15 (c?) _ propote- 1s he: :1 plan 1r mime a. QPTAWA- ‘°> '_ .

Prime Mmlstc1 Mdnkenzle KmG

special appeal to farmers alone. but <1 pliu 1111111111 511211.: appeal 1o ever" C dim because. 11s the inlusilce i112 111111131‘ carries 1s re- moved, the economv of Con. Bdfl as a. whole is strcnizthcucd. _

1 he'd n :11)‘ r.a:.d 11:1 ofiarhl coov of what is called: “A11 Act for the Support of the Prices of; Agricultural Products 111111111: th2< transition from War to Peace."

his is 1111 Act sponsored bv the Dominion Government. It ls 1 pollcv with respect to farm UHCES The 111.111 is faulty. 1t covers u ‘transition’ pvrua only 1s main in force-I I111

announcement of the setting up oi’ departments of reconstruction. veterans affairs and national health has aroused speculation as to who would be appointed de- puty minister of the new branches of government.

Walter S. Woods, Assoclatr De. puty Minister of Pensions and National Health. has frequently been mentioned as the 11201.7 choice for the deputy mixilster‘: post in the veterans affairs dc.

;_ -lC_ont'1111ed_on_p11ge V7,‘ Col._3)

tlon 12 o1‘ 111c A"? ".11 10d as may or determined. by pr _ clamation of the Llovernor 1n

Council published in 'I‘l1e Cznmdn Gazette " ‘

There are basic lGZlSlIILlOIl to wmcl ect attention. The first. basic dr. feet is that it covels cnly transition period from war to ' ; cc. There is not even :1 defiui on; of what that period from war to; peace is to be. Having l'€$‘,.ll'd to. the time of its introduction intci Parliament and the Govern. ment's attitude to the problem ml th eoost. 1 fear that. the orlod that it hncl in mind is an elec. tlon period. I11 any tnse. it is not. today that the fruxncr is . g ink about. and not. the trar 11011 period; 1t is not the immediate tomorrow that ls troubling the farmer; what he is worrymg 11. bout is the uncertainty of the future — the day after tomorrow -- the when the present Canadian markets overseas are likely to be curmllcd and the prices of the farmers’ products collapse or fluctume widely to his’

Fetsamo In Soviet Ilands‘

IQIDON. Oct. l5 — (G) — The capture of Petsamo, northern Finnish port, was announced to. night 1n n11 order of the day by Marshal Joseph Stalin.

Meanwhile the Red Army fou ht on the Hungarian plains wit in 150 miles of Austria today as Bud- npes. announced officially that it was seeking an nrmlstlcewith the Allies. and Berl n implied that other Soviet troops had crossed into Ger-

mlsfortune. 1 When that uncertain day of‘ fifflfflf P§¥§f§§,§.“ a 27 mm “m” pactoiolcollxu czgn 1vldle price "flluw In the south lhealiussinns were T. l? besleging Belgrade, Yugoslav cap- (Qonunued on page 2 COL 3) gslhgrtl: the aid of Marshal Titus

Violent tank battles with Ger- man and Hungarian forces still raged on the Hungarian Plains be- tween Szolnok. 50 miles southeast of capltulatlng Budapest, and Deh- recen. 115 miles east of the Magyar capital.

ll. B. Transit Officiallfasses i

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. Oct 15 — (CPJ-Cuthbcrt v. hlorgan. 15 sup. ervisor of transit control for New Brunswic died 111 hospital here Saturday night after suffering a

hem-t attack l0 clays ago. His eldest son. Capt. Huuh G. Morgan. was killed at. Ortona. Italv. lust .

ember and another son. F0 James 0. Morgan. R C A F" lost his life in an air enlmllcment over Boulogne last month. A third Cpl. Francis R Morgan. is in the army. Mr. Morgan was the firs: officer to enlist at Saint John 111 the First Great War. Wounded in Irena‘. he held the rank of Motor at the time of demobilization.

lie is survived by his wife. t/wo

1 the western front.

sons and live amount“!-

__i_survived by_t\vo childrc11_

Six- Ton Bombs Hit 1

"l Big German Dam

Nazis Seize Capital; Seek To Block 11love

By RICHARD KASISCHKE wrmow, Oct. 1s 1A?) -l The Hungarian Government of, Admiral Nicholas Horthy sued for; peace tonight, but as Russianl annies drove across the country's central plains toward Budapest the Germans and prcuGermun ele. lmelnts apparently seized the cap._ a

_The petition for an armistice, wzth the .Allies was broadens 1.1-1 the Budapest Radio early this cv-i enlnlz in an order of the day signed by Ftegent Horthy.

b Then the Hungarian Nazis-pro,

sumably aided by German S S ‘ divisions rushed to Budapest from; Vienna-took over the rado. Tbcv called for the "elimination of the

the Hungarian Army and home front‘

to fight on beside Germany. , Horthy. according to a rr-portl broadcast by the radio 1t T111".

France. was seized by the Gestapo and taken to Germany.

Egg Tossed At Sinatra Starts Riot

NEW YORK. Oct 15 — tABt — Somuthlng-most observers Sllld it Wus an egg—struck Frank 511101111 as he sang “I don't know why’ on‘ the Paramount theatre stage Sui- mtlfly night. halting the show and touching off an audlenct- ulsiur.‘

bancc that police had difficulty inl b‘ quelling. ‘

A5 Sinatra strode off the since, several l1undred of his young 111‘ l“ and female fans. some 5114211111114 u. thers weeping. converged 011 a. youlh in the 20th row Six polictmcr. .111:l a number of ushers pushed 11110111111

mond Paige, struck U1) the .5 Spangled Banner as the disturbance ‘ was at its height. and the shrickzn: and pushinz began to SllbSldE. The youth believed to have done the

' n8 was released. at Sinatra's request.

Island Native Dies At Glace Bay

GLACE BAY. N. S , Oct _16 —, (C?) — Gus Darrin. 56. a hutivc of Prince Edward Island. dlcd 111 hos. oltal hue Saturday after a short illness.

He came here whc11 in his teens

played as a firemztn ut St Jck-FDAS. Hospital Ilsides his widow" he 151

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1.0110011, Oct. 1a _ 1A?) — R A. l“ Lancastcrs dropped six- tcn bombs on the Sorpq (ullll m Germany. 20 miles soil lleust 0i

Dortmund. this mo1~11111gy1111n 111 reports “indicate thauchrcct .

were scored,“ the A r MlnlStfY a1111- .

ounccd toniBhl _ 3

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picked Lancaster snugdrcr. It wusi

the lust a1111ou11ced time that R C 1 . . Tflfil hBCl 11113171?“ {CU 110W “earthquckv bombs 011 Clczmmay

Returning Canadians smd the;

dam which hud a concrete cocci

feet

bafi was sumessfullv breached 1 t. Lt. G ell 0f nlpeg who was 111 lhc 1ll‘SL_ wnv of, the attacking force said 1t was n high level assault. 111 reverse of 111?" tactics used when the Eder and, Mohne dams ware brcahced. '1 he» new tactics fooled the Germansl who sent up only llzht antimlrcrnft’ fire. he said. l aorpc dam was attacked in the dramatic raid 111 11,1". 15H}. when spcclollyztralned R Al‘ 1 crews ripped ouch thc Ivloi1nc ‘H.111 Edcr dams. flooding Ruhr Vallcy Towns and. it. was reported drown.‘ thousands of Germans

None of the squadron of Lan. casters nor cscortinu lifustmuzs was! lost in today's attack ,the Air Min.‘ llt-ry communique said.

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b11111 s and .. vc 11o1111d.| ed the 111m“ . .=1\- aim not [ until today .. s thc rnemv able: to 111011111 r1 countenaltack 1n any‘ l

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16011112111 hold on (1.11. vclopl1zr11is 0.11110 ton the 1l1:11111111;_' s " lied follow-up operation

11;; 11:: r.'1f1"1'1-:111-:.~.1> ‘ill-IN. Oct. 15 _ (31181 .. .- 1 serves E2151 of Aachen for severnl d:1_\'.~. 1:111 11.11.11

.-'\.1"r.1v, which has been muss 11 strain r

F91’ P¢a¢¢ T?!’ 111-fuse Armored Ancl nksntry firoups

armored and infant

tack shortly after noon toxin)" 11nd in 11 drive from Weiden overrun advanced .\1u-

ericnn positions before the 111i':1:1t1'_'.'111;;1 ti. e

Wcirbu l.» f.\'c m‘ 11or;l1';;.' of the (111 1.1

Thr- Gel 11 tz. i111: American (left-mes

barrage raked t ed the 11111101"

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LONDON.

Oct l5 — ‘CF. al G 111211 news . ta- 1 '

. 1 illfl’. 1:111 Rommel had vrotl1ltls "

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In“ 1. mun almv gm 5mm‘ ~ a "‘* . 011 the western from: ' slmflbl" 1 Hitler ordered 1 stale funeral 5UGPP~ R lhc Gcr- lfor the crafty German field turn. 1n 11 -.. vcd s11_n_ munclcr 1 :11 nm. bv parnclult". 1 12011111151. aged 53 was "om 11f 110.11 :-1\' 1:.1 sports Which circled four 1110s’. sucrvwful nranv lord's m5‘ C1113 iwhose nume will be lmkcd

Tl11s ‘attack had been antlcipnt. ed for two day's as observers saw man. guns and tanks being con. ccutrtttcd cast of Aachen.‘ Div

force.

COL. F. l. ANDREW

The

Afrikn corps," D N B. said

"The desert fox" as Rommel bt"- before

I ever \\'l'.1l the heroic battle of c1117 l 1 l

‘came known in his retreat ; tllt‘

1 the defence of Normandy ‘Allies invaded France.

i Rommel has been reported

Am r 2111s Cuntinflpd ",- "dead" several times smcc D.c.nv tz-kc ' from the lchcn HALIFAX. Oct. l5 — (C?) — 811d “'85 believed to 113V!‘- parr 1 1v 1 1151s barn 1 (Iprpr, Prom" ‘m u.’ Lm-Cul F I An-‘ wounded when 111s staff cor . l? fill to 11:0 dcnth 1o 1101:! 11:0 C1111: 1m, Strafcd by Allied 31.11105 scverf. first 111.1111‘ citv to he nlzdrlird . idzng Nu, . 11111111115 '11 b_\' Allirs r11 (icrntwr SO11. The ticpol. Huh! . 1o 1l1e rank of (‘ul- D I? Bfs nnnouncenwnt did 11;»: fact film 5111. wz-rc chopnrcl s anhouimc-d at M IJ No. say when Rommel was vvoundlr ' .111" t1 112- p mp “NHL i .-._~,.5 w“ g1]; 11c!‘ whcn 11c died (c\v\t-~~1.1 . l '. who is a native of The, d€59rt YOK." born ht Hi1. “on. m1 11:0 7. C91. 31 ' E 1 ‘ ha. 15.011 denheun 111 Wlutenxhrr: 1:1 \' -. -»~ — M“ big “my. . embtr. 133l,bec.1111c r1151: '

comm ndctl No 62

Cunlrt- u‘. Fleeing Greece;