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little has been heard lately of Germany's “f otten garrisons" have been sitting out the war at Dunkerque. Lorierit. St. Nazaire they are still there. and not forgotten by the Canadians who are iii". them methodically. Photo taken at Dunlrerque. shows Sgt. Murphy and Sgt. R. Ilaggeriy,‘ both of Charlottetown, P. E. L,

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Holman Ltd. Donate @500 To Red Cross Drive

Sunimerside Campaign Given Splendid Start By i Prominent Firm.

i-Ycar-Dld Boy that Accidentally

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The Summersid Red Cross cam- paign committee have been given a splendid start in the drive which °Dens today by the receipt of a cheque from R. T. Holman Ltd. for Fifteen Hundred Dollars. This splendid contribution by this ol established firm is indicative of the effective support which they a1. ways give to any national or com- munity undertaking. In this do- notion they exceed the amount of their last year's subscription by Two Hundred and F ty Dollars.

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Two Men Questioned In Ski-Trail Murder

MONTREAL. March A — (CW- Police said tonight they had ques- tioned two men during the week-

oi. end in connection with the ski-

0rd P on earn: “his "ih- n not fine following 8-6-1

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trail murder of nine-year-old John Benson on Mount Royal more than

a week ago. The two men. police added. 111ml‘!- ed bail at the Juvenile Court more ago and were not be-

for the B

N’! time they were in arrested. ~ Saturday, golico said the two men were Ulric ratton. alias Lucien

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2D German Divisions May De Dut Dif

BOMNEY WIEELEI i.» month...‘ - “f? 5 a sense. n new cz-mile break-tI-irough resch- ed the Baltic coast at Koiberg to- ilflll. slicing Eastern Pomerania into three v ‘segments. out- fienking Berlin's port of Stettin and trapping scores of thousands of Gemian troogs in one of the war’s Breatest dou le encirclement op- “bufii. lining l0 V 6 ml or l‘

strongholds in l. four-djay advance, Mars a1 Gregoy K. Zhukovb 1st White Rusaia6d'Army reached the coast at Kol 55 mllea east, of the heavily-for" isd an of Swinemuerige. wldée

nounced. The twin assault, which ripiped

h staggering German nes

oomed the chance o a Nani flanking attack against t iin-bound Red Army. loc double-bolted the door to an 8.80- square-mile area to the east, in- eluding Dansig territory.

It was estimated that elements of 20 divisions, possibly as man as 200.000 Germans. now were cu off from_ central Germany.

Stresses Importance ,0! .i!lcii,nii1s.; lino _,, In "Federal Field

P. McTague, chairman of the Pro- gressive Conservative party, said yesterday no oiitical party could get itself elec without "taking full cognizance of the women's vote and cultivating it."

Addressing the women's commit- tee of the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada he said the party wished women to take their place in Canadian politics not only as party supporters and members of the House of Commons but also as cabinet mini s and members of the Senate.

Mrs. J. Leslie Hodges of Mon- coordinator of Women's Progressive Conservative Associa- tions throughout Canada said they must. take none but the ‘best avail- able women and "place them in a constituency where they can win."

"Not only that. but we must see we "l?.'.‘"°...““¥i ."°"‘°“..i’.’ tilt ca re us y e r appo m to cabinet posts. e should aim to have at least one woman candi- date in every province."

Officers elected were: Chairman, Mrs. H h ‘ . these)’. N.B.; vice-cha rman, Mrs. .1. H. Currie. Vonda, Sash; 1113101113 o aniaing secrets y, Mrs. J. Le is edges: deputy co-ordinators, Mrs. Robert Sutherland, Charlottetown- Mrs. C. F. Phinney, Saint John, N.B.; Mrs. A. L. Moss, Amherst, N.S.- . Anthine Fortin, Montreal; Mrs. E. .1. Hallctt, Oakviile Ont: Mrs. M. S. Donovan, Brandon, an.; Mrs. A. S, Dennis, Vancouver.

Yank Fleet Dauses Japs Heavy Losses

By ROBERT GEIGIR. ARD A US. WAR-SHIP. m TIIRS rch

left smoke of Japanese destruction rising in its wake for 1,000 iniiu from Tokyo to the ayukw Ill!!!“

and beyond.

Striking as swiftly and audacious- ly as they did at TOKYO. hundreds of carrier planes bombed two of the

important def

most

‘of u» ityukyil

Thursday-part of

defame to Tokyo and to the Chino o0

n} today the fleet made a drama c rescue of seven or eggs: men from two life relic drif

n the water alter a raid on the Japanme househud.

mlDNDON -— (OP) ~61 ‘All? “g Q WHICH 0h i '

hrlnyt are synchronised by 1m BBO time "p pa’ from Creanwi ohggyawn__ the lame time s nai used bv million! of Britons act their clocks and watches.

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OTTAWA. March 4 — (OP) —C. '

ALTIC

{War Situation Last

Niglhi l

By KIRK! L. IIIIISON. Alaociated Prue War Analyst impending spring weather In Western Europe might delay a final

Ge military collapse.

It Ia hardly more than day-u before curing thaws must be reckoned with by both the Rulslanl and the Allied Armies In Western Europe. Marvels of unstained communication service have been wrought behind both urlnlea despite winter handicaps to achieve the positions on both fronts for the final effort to ltab through to the heart of Germany. Spring floods, particularly in Poland across which run for hundreds of

mlloa vital Russian eupply Iiuea. offer ever

transportation pro-

blems to be overcome if that two front victory drive is to go through

without pause.

There are intimation: from Moscow that the piuac Iu the mlln Russian drive on Berlin at tbs Oder-Nclase line has been due in part to 1 . . ..

that spring dllllcr.

acrcaa Poland cu a scale to meet

Spring thawu at the end of an unusually hard winter will trouble

General Eisenhower's supply forces but not to the same extent

Allied and

r blghwaya. The deeper into e

in Remain. t. brlnainl near the front for the final

as It will back to y feed to the front

lines or to '

over hard surfaced Preueb. Belgian, Dutch and German o, t Germany the troop! get the better the road

up additional forces and massing supplies drive on Berlin and Dresden or both. how-

ever. the Russians have very obviously withheld that attack on the Oder

to accomplish other essential corridor to the Oder.

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south of

purposes. That waa to widen the Warthe m; y, gggjgg its flank against any possibility of attack of major soul!!-

co Th“? partially accomplished when Ukrainian troops on the a Whig, llulglgn Army along the middle Oder pushed up c

Nelaae and bolstered their own-left flunk against the Sudeien Moun-

tains. This week-cud saw

a Russian twat-thrush in

lbore lino euat of Stettin. That break-through has

forces in E tens P merauia ‘Bnulgurlfit baa ended :1 Mum! 0f II desperate “

to cave In the right flank of“! Pomerania.

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llgl; acco Iiahed on the north with A‘ "xuserania tifa‘: has reached the Baltic

doua something ‘more than wail off aub-

the Dauaig corridor. llld effort In the Oder from

preparation foriuii scale re-

lReport U-Boats Reacly For Desperate Campaign

300 Submarines And Light Surface Craft Based In Norway, London Hears.

Statement Dy Defence Dept. Ile Rifle Incident

OTTAWA. March 4 — (C?) — Dolnco Headquarters announced tonight that a field general court nurtial in the: United Kingdom has awarded Ptc. WJ-I. Smith l8 months’ detention after he pleaded guilty to charges that he threw his rifle and two kit begs into the see during a. recent. troop move- ment to England.

The departmental statement. which did not identify Smith fur- ther. said the information was contained in a message received at, Defence Headquarters from Canadian military headquarters, London, Eng.

The announcement said that during the court inertial proceed- ings Smfti said:

"On Jan. 2, i046. as I was crossing the gangplanit. embarking on the ship for overseas, I delib- erately threw my rifle and two kit bags overboard. I floured the mil- itary police would taka me off the boat when I did this. I do not know the umber of the rifle. as I had lust received it the night before.

(Continued on page 771313)

More Shipping Assigned To France

waisnmowrou. mica 4 —(AP) -The Foreign Economic Adminis- féanttiotr} announoehdv-Sgzurday nizht

a ve more ve been as- signed to carry smiles and food to France. in ad on to the a promised for Maids 81

The action, which follows critic- ism of the United States Govern- ment's slowness in sending civilian relief to the liberated French, means that 38 ships must sail this man to make on II-All cornln tmeuts for ia quarter. i

Nine which have sailed aiuee the start of the year and at: which arc r rind "read! in Io" will deliver 16,000 long tons of food, indua t, war

lice and mate valued at

.000.

so lies. uiehaaed Pgcslorih will g: n3}. the 02.5 M000 lend-lease lnccrnent signed with the French provisional government film's... "for t: thlfilnew grail! be Plld for by the Ircuch

as aniline wane!

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LONDON. March 4 - (or) - Packs of swift new long-range U- boats, are being concentrated in Norwegian waters for a last dos- percte cambliSh mainst- Allied sh ping in the Atlantic.

orwegian officers have report- ed upwards of 300 German sub- marines and a considerable num- ber of light cruisers, destroyers and other smaller warships now based in Norway's sheltered Fjords.

This fleet-practically the last of Germany's once-powerful navy -ia protected by strongly construc- ted stations of concrete blocks 26 feet thick and built into cliffs. with ferro-concrete roofs and room for eight or nine U-boats in each

These stations. a to Nor- wegian sources. are diSf-XTDUCCG a- l the entire coastline.

ere have been reports from inside Germany. leaching border listening posts. that only about 80 U-boats are operating in the present campaign but that if this

erlmentai operation" is success- ful the German High Command will throw its whole force for what m ht be a last fling against Ai- ii shipping. i

With this concentration of U-: boats. light cruisers and destroyers the Germans are expected to launch Goebbels’ recently pro sea- camnlian. which he declared would disrupt Allied shipping and stop the flow of men. guns and am- munition to the fighting fronts.

Saint John Barber Suffers Double Blow

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. March 4- (CPi-Arthur W. Wright had no sooner ‘ ‘ ,.esterday from Montreal. where he reported loss of 05.000 in cub. thin h! W“ arraigned on his wife's charge of non-support.

A former barber here. Wright said that after selling a house in saint John he planned to buy i- nother in Western Canada and then

his wife but he was drimcd and robbed in Montreal by a taxi driver. He fainted while

rting the loss to ‘Montreal

cc. cut his head in falling and meat i0 days in Hcpltal. .__._.__.__

22 U-Bont Experts Reported Lost At Sea

LONDON. March 4 —- (OP) — Twenty-two of the highest German on submarine warfare, -

ol the chief of the ilth Flotilla. died week! llc when their experimental U-boat was sunk dur- ing manoeuvres in a fiord near Ber- gen. Norway a BBC Stockholm dent said toda . The 61f-

, were experimcn with u new submarine technique, he add- ed, and sabotage is suspected.

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ES OF COLOGNE

Nazis. Rhine

Crossing ls

By EDWARD KENNEDY ' I

PARIS, March 4 — (AP)

— Tanks of the United States

1st army split the defenders of Cologne with a drive to the Rhine today and infantry chased the retreating Germans to within two miles of that Rhineland capital. where they

could see plainly her towers

and wrecked buildings.

The UnitedSfaies 9th army, baffling nine miles north-

ward in an attempt to crush

thousands of crack parachute

troops, stormed into Duisberg’s cross-Rhine suburb of Homberg in an attempt to seize its bridge and break inin

that great Ruhr Basin point.

While battered elements of three German armies fleeing across the Rhine were boxed into an area l5 miles wide and no more than i0 miles deep, the enemy eight miles southwest of Duisberg headed off pursuit by blowing the ‘Uerdingon super-highway bridge in the face

he Americans.

Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt threw in motley battle groups of all types in an attempt to protect the retreat of thousands of his crack parachute troops, a field dis- patch said.

The lst Canadian Army on the north caught the full fury of this

desperate stand and was checked fi

before Xanten, the hinge which the Germans are using to protect the approaches to two other escape bridges at Wesel.

Farther west. where British troops of the 1st Canadian Army and American forces joined Satur- day, progress was slowed only by mines and demolitions and in the link-up area of Geldern all con- tact with the enemy was lost.

Among the towns ca tured by the British troops as t ey joined the Americans in the push cast against tho Rhine box was Kap- gelen, four miles northeast of Gei-

em.

Most of the Hochwald, a fir forest which was made a strong- point of the German defences, was cleared,

West of the line of British-Am- erican junction, along the Maas, British troops entered a numbe of towns unopposed.

Berlin said tonight massed Am- erican tanks and infantry had made a full-scale assault in at- tempts fo cross the Rhine in the vicinity of Ducsseldorf and Kre- feld butolairued the German de- fenders had smashed all at- tempts to establish a bridgehead on the river's eastern hank.

A German 'I‘ransocean broadcast shortly before midnight said the Americans were bringing up sev- eral dlvisions "in great haste" in an effort to force a bridgehead across the river barrier from s. bend ,_ " Dnesseldorf. but claimed the “crossing attempts by superior infantry and tank‘ forces were frustrated."

Another enemy claim was that U.S. troops were rushing u rubber boats northwest of Duessel orf, ap- garently intending "to cross I the

hine as speedily as possible.’

This same broadcast added the German High Command, for rea- sons which must "remain secret". had ordered its troops to disengage as soon as the Americans launched their offensive, but that neverthe- less "German losses are consider- able."

Gen. Eisenhower's offensive had rolled tq the Rhine's west bank inl such strength for most of its '15 miles from Nilmegen to Duesseldori l that anti-tank guns were blastingl German pillboxes on the east bank while heavy artillery shelled the wai- factories in the Ruhr.

N. B. Lumber Cut Reduced 25 Per Cent

SAINT JOHN, NB" March 4- (CPi—Operators and government officials estimate that New Bruns- wick‘s lumber cut this winter will be 20 to 25 per cent below average as a result of unsually heavy snovi during the season.

‘Double Aerial Blow

Is Dealt At

By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

LONDON. March 4 —- (AP) —

American and British heavy

bombers. guarded by hun-

dreds of fighter planes. dc-

Ilvcred a double punch at

Germany today. striking Ruhr

transportation facilities and a

variety of targets throughout

southwestern Germany. It Wll the 20th consecutive day of attacks on Germany.

At the same time Italy-based American heavy bombers from Italy attacked rail lines in Austria and Hungary serving German troops on the Hungarian front.

More than 1.000 heavy bombers of the United States Dih Air Force protedted by 500 fighter planes al- tacked Ulm and other communic- ations and industrial centres iii the Munich area. Some of the format- ions were forced to return in their

bases in llbigland without reach-

- crashed on

i News Briefs

GUAM, March .i - (lvlnnduy) —-l_APi stiffened Japanese roslstflrloe held American gains to local nuances of 50 tn 100 yards on Iwo Jimo yesterday but several hundred more enemy troops were killed in a counie . attack.

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HALIFAX. March 4 ~ (or. -_ Winding up its cross-Canada fact- nding tour, the Royal Commis- sion on taxation of co-cperatives opens a third-day sitting here t0- morrow at 10.30 AM. with at least seven briefs scheduled to be sub- mitted to the five-man commis- sion under Mr. Justice Enrol M.w, McDougall of Montreal.

LONDON. March 4 — (‘Reu- lelal i Princess Elizabeth. heiress- presumptive to the throne, has joined the auxiliary territorial service com_ blq to the Canadian Wome ‘s Army Corps and is training as an of- iber driver. it was announced from Buckingham palace to- night.

PARIS, March 4 —(APl -—Mad- eleine Carroll, Red Cross worker on leave from duty with a hos- pital train, was quoted in an inter- view in the newspaper France Soir Saturday as saying that she in- tends to quit the films after the war and devote herself Io the care

200 French war orphans,

JERSEY CITY, N.J. March 4 — (AP) Crooner Frank Sinatra has been disqualified again for military dub‘ and classified as en-f gagcd in work “necessary to the; national health. safety and inter- est," draft officials announced yes-l terday l

OTTAWA, March 4 — (CP)— Thirty-five China roaster-type I sicamen; —- 15 of 1,350 irns and I 20 nf 350 ions - will start

building in Canadian shipyards In May. the Munitions Deparf- . merit announced today.

Hospital In White Cliffs Of Dover

DOVER, ENC... March 4 — (CP) -A hospital has been built in the white cliffs of Dover-a series of tunnels 150 feet under the chalk which is as dry, comfortable and veil-equipped as any modern hos- pital in the country. .

The place was built when the threat of invasion hung over Bri- tain. to give doctors a quiet, safe place to work.

when Germans guns were firing across the channel several shells the ciifftop. They iveretft even heard in the wards.

. BRIGHTER SPORTS DUDS

LONDON — (CP) Clothing manufacturers are planning to. make brighter clothes for sports- men, particularly golfers. They have designed PLUHDTOOf suits on iihc lines of a light batlledress, ivitli zipper fasteners, and the color scheme at first will be liSht blue and green shades

Germany

|ing their targets because of the weather.