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REDS TEAR HUGE GAP IN ENEMY LINES

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iikyo Saya lliiiiiaiilan ialiiiiat Nae Resigned

j KI. Mani O-(AP) ,5, Tokyo radio, in a broad- rd by NBC, stated in-

nlrlit that “Huey ling resigned en bloc.

mm“ to a Berlin dispatch miller detail: are na yet un- gglnable."

lraclicn la Siillicct if Senate Debate

drllAWA. March l-(OH-John lrackll. National Progressive Con- gmtivg leader, was the subject

tilt‘?

criticism from Senator J. Farris (Ii-British Colum- in file lenate today while only. Conservative members ism at what they called a ' tical" speech by the British lumlaia member. ltaator hrria spoke for more than an hour, dealing particularly vltil the fact Bracken had; aide no attempt to gain a seat in parliament. The Pr ve Con- nvaiive leader. Senator C.C. Ball- aoiyne, took the floor when Sena- tor lhrris had concluded- He lid the discussion was cut of or- pr and ahould never have been Conserva-

ilioilmed. Proimesive in members had no intention of rt in it M“

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ate Leader Dr. J8. King was ill: onl other member to speak Ia aai Opposition members ab-

peared over sensitive and there iliouid be freedom oi discussion on

yiialii matters in the Senate.

Senator Farris said he had been larilell of "petty politics" for in- inducing the subject. but he non- diicieii it a matter of public im- portance and contrary to the oust institutional procedure that Mr. laden should remain . outaide plliarnent and continue to carry a: an active political campaign.

liar lliak Insurance llataa Are Gut Again

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IDNDON, March 0—(OP)—The ltlliituic oi London Underwrit- er announced today a downward revision in war risk insurance rates Ii South American voyazea.

chillers include:

Atlantic and Pacific ports to or

ill North Africa (Atlantic). 0 llllnat T per cent;

North Africa (Mediterranean). hnlnst a 1-2 per oent;

West Africa, 5 against 6 per lent ior outward voyages and 4 W‘ cent (unchanged) fllr inward

East Africa. (North of Beira) ' lfainst ‘I per cent for outward and il-l against 5 ior inward.

Tallinn Boinhcil By Soviet Planes

EBIOCKHOLM. March 9-(AP)-— "5515" blnncs tonight bombed Minn lltEVCl), the cmpital and P301‘ port of lmtollia, dispatches :31 Helsinki to the Swedish Pp ss

M! Army troo s across the Nar- Wl River are iltllc more than 100 "tilts cast of 'l‘alllun.

iitfiiiiiu EVENTS

I *8 Hove t Iuilw "fly esday. Alelx MacDonald. 3-10-17-21. "Runners all. Trinit Social Em-Beturaay- lidearch l-llh at a M- a-lo-al.

"Woman-york Point “Htth M "itim Electric t- ‘Itv. Magch Tim. e 3:13am. u “T Whig i-lisrbor shlpplrlg Olub ““ El forms Llllmy m

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Shippers Placed _I_rl__Pa”c_l_ Position

Navy Enlistments By Provinces

OTTAWA. March 0—(CP)—Thc Royal Canadian Navy has grown from 56.000 men in January i048.

to nearly 87.000 men today. lt was disclosed in the Commons today by Navy Minister Macdonald.

speaking on the naval estimates He said the wrens had grown from 1.000 to 4.500 in the aama period.

I-le reiul a. table, showing these

enliatanenite from the beginning of the war to last Dec. 31'- Province Officers Ratings P. E. I. B3 1J0 Nova Scotla. 500 5.008 New Brunswick 140 2.106 Quebec i281 0.20; Ontario 8.0M U350 ni 3Q 6,910 Saskatchewan 1M 4.066 Alberta 196 6.778 Brit. Columbia 1.060 8.675 U. 8- A.. Nfld., and other sources la! 323

tale 5,946 Grand ‘Ibial — 70.085. Knox Says Critical

UfflIiSlVBS Near‘

WASHINGTON, March 0- (AP)

-.‘uavy secretary Frank Knox told me

Congresi today the Axis nowknows the only remaining chime-Q

it has for victory ls Allied disunity and to 0mm“

hie said this last enemy prop can be knocked out by extension of the lend-lease act.

“We can be certain oi victory if we continue to pull together.’ Knox told the House o! Represen- tatives ioreism affairs committee which is considering l lslation in extend the mutual aid or another year beyond June 30.

Testifying that the Allies are "on the threshold of critical cifenslvea" that. will dwarf all activities of the past. Knox said:-

“lf our Allias are to do their best for us as well as for them- selves. they must have confidence than the pipeline of lend-lease nup- plles will be kept full. As their partners in the United Nations. we must male; certain that they can throw their full power into the H8110"

DutchPTF-o Organize Gov't In Australia

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Southwest Pacific. March 9-—(CP- ANETA.)—Ol1zanimtion Aus- tralia. of a Netherlands East Indies government, io take over the In- dies when they are reconqllered from Japan. is aXPQCV-‘d W be mm‘ piemd bv June, Dr. i-lubertus .1. van Mock, Netherlands minister of overseas territories. disclosed in an interview today. Van Mook an- iicliratcs early re-conquest of the Indies._

Fleet Rcinforcements For Russia Being Considered

iSays Ultimate Disposal of Italian Fleet May Not be Settled Until End of war.

March 0-(OP)-—The ed arranflmbn te trsnlfc of wurahipe in which Italian ahloe with

LDEEON, Ruaeia from either the British 0r Italian Navy has been under con- sideration, Prirnc Minister Church- ill fold the House oi Commons to- diliinbd‘ 3.3mm“ $"1é‘.‘i§*i'°ll.i3§ Eng“, be settled until the end of war.

some members were critical ov- er the method by which President Roosevelt made the ""0 “mum”

10 1|, mgm an thg subject 0i the Il-Bllflll

"Walla ior Devi; at may urad ai t, he“ and Ilneral . Every Iri- ‘i "Ma '2' 3i . _..... “afield-la ear in Wheat, m. fiy 1 n laturday. 111m and a,‘ ‘"5’: bu: 1m. at a ‘a-a-ai.

"'<'>i.°°“iiN‘li°u“i‘£ Fri , nd . urc l waadfiki about it now becaua: of "'a oertalu degree oi uraerloy which had developed Mr the P"- bk-En’ President Roosevelt had gaidAfi the Prime Minister stated “the question of the future em- ployment and gdlliwll 0f W’ n‘ alien fleet has been the whim ¢g "m, dlacuaalm, and in Perm" uiar oenaidc has been liven m the immediate reinforcement of the Soviet navIy either from Anglo- Aanericsn or talian resources. Mr. Churchill in his carefully‘ worded statement said

Navy at his

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Protest lweinst a recent order of the Dominion transport controller allocating all refr erator ears to designated Ontaro co es, went forward yesterday from the BMW Growera’ Association and was supplemented later by a strongly worded telegram from P em er J. Walter Jones on behali a! the Prince Ekiward Island Clov- °“i‘i.‘°“isr.mi. s...

e r’: am addres- sod to fir. AM. Shaw, Agllcultural Eolfilplies Board, Ottawa, read as

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“We protest allocation oi all refrigerator cars to deelgnaiod Ontario cons ces, also inter-

," of all pment oi variet- ias other than Cobbler, and also the uva‘ against our usual customers for pota- toes. We protest against lack of refrigerator cars and the

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be at its peak. Cars should be allocated from railroad office at C‘ lottetown."

Serious Shortage

The serious refrigerator car shortage has been worrying pro- ducers and dealers here for some time. Th; situation was dealt with bv Mr- J. W. Boulter, manager oi the Potato Growers Association. in speaking before the Legislature yesterday in connection with a brief presented by the Federation

partlo the danger of losing the pro-

ularl

fitabe S. seed potato market, through nobility to fill orders whih must be filled this month. It, is “ 11y impossible to aeti heated cars. 0n top oi this pro-

m has come a regulation from Ottawa. ordering that the next available 105 cars must be shipped

Ontario Priority

Premier Jones quoted from a statement by Ml‘. Lockwood. trans- lpori. controller, advising that a arge quantity of seedyvas required for Western Ontario from this Province, and that these should move before the 15th oi this month. “Cars for these menus," it was stated, given preference up to a. total of l05 refrigerators. Until Ontario pri- oritv ls filled, “no cars oi seed po- tatoes can go anywhere also.

Turnips from Prince Edward Island were “expected to go in or- dinary box cars immediately. time relieving to some small extent the refrigerator car situation." iIt was polnigd out, by Mr. Boulter that turnip shipments in unheated cars at this season would likely result in total loss.)

"Total orders on hand today for refrigerator cars," the statement continued, "is over 200. There are twenty refrigerator cars in tho Province today available for ship- ment and belni; 1000011-

According to the Premier's in- formation, the total orders on hand yesterday for refrigerator cars was 200. Only twenty refrigerators were in the Province yesterday available for shipment.

The emergency has ‘been accen- tuated b_v the fact that the car ferry has been held up by ice. making onl two trip! Wednesday

under their own crews are co-operating in the war against Germany.

(President Roosevelt in reply to a question at his press conference said that the Russians want part of tbn Italian navy and that about

inthe

one-third of tn, en ships o;- their equivalent would be tum- ed over to than. The Badoglio

government in_ Italy immediately ex med over the Roose- vet announcement and asked ai- iicials in Italy for "the mos‘. com- plete. urgent and necessary de- tails" of the lln-) Preside

the public and brought an appea to Brztaiife voluntary censored preaa tp refrain irom comment pending an official This r ueat was enera - ‘EB. Ohurelall’: atatsnent was followed by criticilaia by members of parliament of the way the news waa refined and by demands that in the ture firmer-tent announce- nlerlta on the war be given aim- ln Washington

and London.

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[Sees Men Who

Will Take Part In Invasion

By ROSS MUNRD

SOMEWHEEE} IN ENGLAND. March 9—-(CP)--The King today saw thousands of his forces deat- ined for the forthcoming western

u invasion when he walk- ed nearly four miles through long lines of Canadian soldiers drawn llD on both sides oi roads in their

camp area. Arriving in mid-morning, Hi1 Majesty began the inspection.

broke the tour for lunch at Can- adian headquarters and viewed more troops in the afternoon. He also saw some oi the Canadian Armys nursing sisters at a. easil- alty clearing station unit of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

Several times during his visit of l l-2 hours with the troops the Kink. wearing a field marshals uniform. paused to speak to offi- oers. privates and non-commis- sioned officers. As he went down the lines 0i different regiments. each commanding officer walked beside the King and told oi the unit's preparations for the attack on Europe.

e King questioned officers about weapons and training and displayed the keenest interest in the details.

He lunched with lit-Geri. Keri- neth Stuart, acting Canadian army commander, May-Gen. P. J. Mou- talrile, senior officer at Canadian military headquarters in London. and several high-ranking Canad- ian invasion commanders whose names may not beniipclcqall.

Says Things lhuch Bcttcr At Anzio

WITH THE ALLIED FOEtCES AT ANZIO. ‘March 9—(CP-Reut- ersl-Gen- Sir Harold Alexander Allied commander in Italy, to war correspondents after a tour of inspection last Saturday that "things are much better on the beachhcad than when I was here last three weeks ago."

“Then I said I was confident we would pull oii this new landing behind the enemy's main front.” he continued. “Somebody implied that I was an unwise man to say that but I was absolutely den .

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"I was confident. firstly because‘ arm-y stalemme on two 1mm“

we have got magnificent men, Brit- ish and American: secondly, be- cause we have magnificent equip- ment; and, thirdly. good leaders

Navy Minister 0n Dcmohilization

OTTAWA. March 0—(CP)— Navy Minister Macdonald discus- sing demobilization and reliabili- tation as he presented naval esti- mates in the Commons, said today that with servicemen thinking of the post-war world "should we not try to ensure, so far as we can en- sure, that liic here will be a little better than it was before."

He said ha did not think thc fighting men wanted "fantastic promises and impossible assuran- ces" that after the war they would enter an entirely different sort of life where the state would “pour out money in unending and un- silinled flow from a magic horn of

elity."

"Wiliilt they want most, 1 slmpect, is to take up again the broken skein of their peacetime lives t0 return to their families and friends from whom they have been separ- ated. to enjoy once more the riv- "was. pleasures and respons bili- iies ox‘ Canada life," he said.

"Lot us try to give them that sip-- portunity. Let us do what is right and reasonable by them in the mat- for of demobilization grants. war service gratuities and pensions. Lei. us honestly try to help those who need help to re-establish themselves in civil life."

He said that in the navy, as in the other two services, n director- ate had been set up to give study to the problems of dean liaation, rehabilitation and kindred mat- ters. It was understood that the directorate is headed by Capt. Paul C. rpm nf saint John N. B.

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By Kirlae L. Simpson. Associated Press War Analyst

morale aa may be the air blows being dealt Berlin and the Niall Luftwaffe by Americas bombers and their fighter ea- cortl. it la in southweatem Russia that the moat immediate prospects of a

Staggering to

major German military catastrophe

Despite unscasonnbly early thaws, the Russians have forged a gigantic

trap around anywhere from 500,000 to the llnicner anal the Dniestea- Rivers:

inched Odessa-Warsaw railroad, has only a trio of single-track and vulnerable connections into Romania upon which the Germans must mainly rely either for supply or to escape wage. ward before the first Ukrainian army breaks through far in their rear to

seal their doom.

Berlin broadcasters made no effort to conceal the gravity of that sit- uation. The thaws in southwestern Russia, which thc Germans hoped

would seal this culminating Russian Nazi high command.

Instead oi‘ helping, they are impeding German operations. [wilds now

are huh-deep in mud.

Gen. Horace Sewel: official British military commentator United States estimates that thr. three single-track railways which cross

the Y‘ ' ' into ' have a

can be traced. 1,000,000 Nlll troops caught between

Their main supply line. the double- been out by the Ruaalam, lelving

attack, have come too late for the

in the ", less than hllf the

amount required for supplying the (Nari) divisions in the Dnlepcr salient, Yet lie iollrlll no evidence that tho German commander has yet started s. general withdrawal from the Dnleper-Dnlester trap.

"The German army has shown great capacity in escaping from the worst consequences o! their strategic gambles," Sewell nildell.

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Of Information

Government Measure.

Nazi Casualties In Italy Now Number 40.000

man forces have bought a temp-

fronts at a cost of approximatclly 40,000 casualties—killed, wounded and captured-mince thc latter part 8f January, it was estimated to- a

y.

Added to 54.000 casualties suffer- ed on the Anzlu beachhead south of Rome since the Allied landing there Jan. 22, the enemy has los: another 9.000 men in thc savage fighting an and around Cassino. about 60 miles to the east, on the main 5th army front, Allied head- quarters a ounces. Possibly 7.000 more German troops were esti- mated t0 have been put out oi‘ ric- tion olon the Garigliano river in western tzliy and in the mount- ains near the Adriatic Sea.

Reconstruction Bill Introduced ' Without A Policy

Opposition Strongly Protests Lack

Asks Question y llc Doctors For! Rural Districts

OTTAWA. March 9 — (CP) — Speaker J.A. Glen told Hon, Dr. H. A. Bruce iP.C.-'l‘oi\'>ilto Parkdule) in the Hmlse of Commons today to place on mi: order 0008i‘ a question he asked regarding a report that the lmvedzlment planned to sup physicians to rural who led for them.

Dr. . .J.P. hlaclvllllan, Pro- gassive-Consmvutive lander in the

lrlco Edward Island legislature, referred to the plan yesterday, IPerlsions valid national defend‘ ofiiciala in Ottama said they hadzrft heard oi‘ any silich plan. 'l‘hey ad- ded that Dr. IvincMillan must have been referring to a previously an- nounced s 0n that doctors at- taclazd to e dioal

Carla Me ent and Assignment Board nsible for thc grading of men e for service-be al-

l? communities

lovwd to help out thc doctor showt- ele in some communities by taking logic civilian wonk.

‘Y uired . "

Re Important

The Government ran into stormy weather in the Laegislatureyestor- day in putting through a bill to create a Ministry of ltecorlstruct- lon. without vouchsafing any in- formation with respect to govern- mcnt policy on the subject.

The bill was introduced by Hon. Mr. Hughes under the title of an Act to amend the Public Depart- menis. soc. 1 provides, as an ad- dition to Sec 9 of the existing statute, that "there shall be a D9‘ of the Government of the

called the Ikpfllliment oi Reconstruction. over which a Minister of the Crown styled the Minister of Reconstruction shall preside."

In committee, with Mr. Hunter in the chair, the promoter maids no attempt to outline the purpose of the bill until asked for an ex- planation by the leader of the Op- Position.

Mr. Linkletter said this locked like a duplication oi legislation which the Dominion Government is putting through, involving url- necessary expense and overlapping.

Mr. Hughes said the same crit- icism might be applied to the De- partment of Agriculture. ‘The Gov- ernment was merely seeking auth- ority to establish a. Reconstruct- ion department. It did not nec- essarily mean that it would be established right away.

Mr. McPhee: “Is it thc intent- ion to appoint a Minister?"

Mr. Hughes: "Phat may er may

ot be d<7ne."It will depend on

n the situation Mr. lVlcPhee: “is it the intent-

ion to pay him a‘ salary?" wug1fg@l_ ,,,§,,,§,‘§“ fit“ W81“ Mr. Hushes- There will At s acite region and w§

the moment. some member of the Government may be named Min- istor of Reconstruction. As things

develop it might require a salary, tnti

a. separate department We can't tell at thg moment what is req-

Voices Protest

Mr. McPhee: "I feel that there is not anything like sufficient in- fom-iation before the committee to enable them be vote on this. much lees discuss it. This is a matter which may involve a large expenditure, or it may not. We don't know anything at all about what the result may be. and the bromoter is unable to toll us. We do know that the platform oi the

_(C5rltinu on pagehiiolli-fb T Expect Little Gas From Tar Sands During 1944 OTTAWA. March il-Ii. is not ex- pected that gasoline in quantit will be u-oduced this year in the

Athabaska tar sand development undertaken in agreement with

Consolidated Mining and Nlmleillting cal-too

Company of Canada. ted. Mines Minister Crerar said in a re- turn tabled today in the House of Commons at the request of C. If. Johnston (Bow Rive-rt. N0 defin- ite dafo has been set for the com- pletion of the plant but it is being constructed to handle 000 tons of

dian Troops

_ Legislature

-t.ry's transportation system threat-

Fanncrs’ Brief Presented To

firm requirements were pre- sented to the members of the Leg- islature yesterday bv a delegation from the P. E. I. Federation oi Ag- riculture headed by Prcsldcn". J. J. Trainor, who presented a com- prehensive brief dealing with mat- tera covered by resolutions recent- lv Bdvpted at the Federation's rc- cent annual meeting.

The brief urged, among things, establishment of labora- tory facilities to cover examina- tion of butter for mould and yeast; provision 0f grain storage facilities within the province; rc- tention oi the present free freight policy in operation from the Head of the Lakes to points east; rural, electrification; immediate csizib- llshment of a reconstruction com- mittee to deal with postwar prob- lems: RCMP. assistance in en-j forcing dog tax collections; ap-g poiniment of a field lnan for pro-i motion of natural products; rc-l forestntion; ‘llbolition of csseniiah, iiy certificates in trade with New- foundland: additional allocation for this Province of potato spray- ers: emphasis on agriculture in any program of technical training to be adopted, including remodel- ing of the agricultural course zlt PrlllCfl of Wales College; organiz- ation oi a few amalgamated school units on all experimental basis; further assistance to cooperatives; use of government ditchers for surface farm drainage in Lhg Mont Carmel. &mont Bay and other districts; transportation.