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Order Becomes Effective On July 15.

Warn ll. S. Cities May Be Bcmhed

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The warning came from a highly-lalaoed source asking npt to be l entitled by name. "The war is approaching a vigorous comma]? andmsnythlng can hap- pen." e as .

Observers believed the warn- ing carried the clear implica- tion that": auclh sir attacks occur. m ry ca ers expect the country to "take it" in the rfaliaagoa thaawlgajor“ air a reng comm! to o ens- ive operations overseas, and any change in that strategy could only prolong the war with a msnltant waste oi the lives of soldiers and sailors.

uppueMBr liar. Electric Co. Granted

An application oi the Maritime Electric Company for the supply and sale oi electric service to the territories heretofore served by the Nor-ii Tryon Electric Company, was granted by the Public Utilities Board at a. meeting held in Mo- Gulgan and Trainor's law office on Wednesday.

An application for the erection oi a pole-line highway from Charlotte- town to North 'I‘ryon via Bonshaw. and the servicing of the route. was also granted. Briefs on behalf oi both applications were presented by Mr. V. A Ainsworth. divisional super- intendent for the Con-many. There were no contra representations.

Dr. I. J. Yeo, chairman oi the Board. presided. Commissioners Thos. Johnatc-nc, Sllmmerside. and J. J. Condon Georgetown, also sat on the hearing. Mr. Condon acted as secretary.

Mr. Ainsworth told the Board lhat electric line construction was held up by difficulty in obtaining metal. Pole erection along the highway will not begin pending a permit to be received by the company from the meinls ccntrnller, said Mr. Ains- worth. Meanwhile. the Maritime Electric Company will proceed with a land survey of the territories to be used for pole placing.

EYE ACBO“ “"7. CHANNEL DOVER, Errol - tCPi ~Sev— en young glrls in a canteen amuse themselves hv tailing the ‘lme from a clork in the centre of Calais ac- ross the Channel. On clear days thcv can plainly see the French coast and t~llsr hrwdin-gs. and with glasses can sec the hour and minute bar‘? on a clock tower in the town

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-n_ "Horse Races at Riverside ‘Frock, Vernon. on July 21st. 7-2-61. "Dance French River l-Iall Fri- day July a, _'i-il-ll "Dance in Morell Hall Fgitlll’.

July 2nd. Clifford Peters 0h- estm.

"Rummage Sale, Trinity social Hall, Saturday, July 3rd, 6.00 P.

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"Concert and dance at Wiltdllm

UITAWA. July 1 — (OP) - Laocr Minister Mitchell tonight an- nounced issuance of the thirdwm- pulsory employment transfer order which will make thousands of men

- Ancluding many in wholesale ea- tabliairmerlts - - available for more essential work after Juh- 15.

The order, like its two predecess- ors, applies to men in age groups subject to call ior oomrplfisory milit- ary service and. in line with the Minister's recent ann-uncement in the House oi Commons, to youths of 16, 1'1 and 18 years of age.

Subject to compulsory transfer to more esential work by National Selective Service under the third transfer order are men in these ago

ps in:-

1. Any wholesale activity except the wholesaling of the following commodities: farm products other than tobacco: food products; lum- ber and building materials; plumb- ing. heating and ventilating supp- lies: electrical equipment for indus- trial use; machinery and ecui-p- merit; gasoline, oils and greases; fuel and ice; farm supplies; metals. minerals and chemicals; paper and its products; books, newspapers. magazines and sheet music: watches clocks and timing instruments: leather and leather goods; scrap metal. junk and waste.

2. Raising of special livestock like race horses, and dcgs. cats and oth- er pets.

3. Flower growing.

4. Horticultural services, except tree surlcry. ~ 5. Leather currying, finishing. embossing and japannink. 8. Brewing.

7. Manufacturing in any of the following lines: fur goods; robes and dressing gowns; neckties and scarves; curtains and draperies: metal household furniture; house- hold furrliture of other kinds except mattrisses and bedsprings; metal office furniture: rattan and willow- ware; cigar boxes and fancy boxes of wood; mirror and picture frames: perfumes. cosmetics and other toilet preparations; and hand bags and small leather goods.

The age groups subject to milit- ary call-up - - and hence subject to the transfer order along wit-h youths of 16. 17 and 18, are set forth by the minister as".-

"Every man who was born in anv year from 191‘! to 1924. and who has reached age 19. regardless of wheth- er married or single; and to every man born from 19:12 to 1916 who on July 15, i940, was unmarried, divor- ced or judicially separated, or was then a. widower without children. even if such a man has since marr- ied: and it also refers to a man who has become a widower since July 15. 1040. and has no children now liv- lng; as well as to men who since that date have been divorced or judicially separated."

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HMIILTON. Bermuda. July 1 - (CP Cable) - A new market for Canada's seed potatoes was seen here today when it was announced by Sir Howard Trott. chairman of the Ben-nude Agriculture Board, that E. A. McCaTp would leave lhorilv for Nova Scotia to arrange a contract for that Maritime Prov- ince to supply seed potatoes for this British colony.

GESTAPO IN LAWS TONDON — ICP) —- A husband giving evidence in court gave a new name to oft-maligned mothers-in law when he told the judge "I am

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Airman Killed At Ch’Town

A member of the RAF. was kill- ed Wednesday when he was struck by the whirling propeller oi an air- craft at the RAJ‘. station in Char- lottetown, the Eestem Air Comm- and at Halifax announced last nigtht

The airman walked into the path of the plane while it was tarclinggthe announcement said.

Name of the victim, who came from the United Kingdom. was not: announced pending notification of his next-to-kin.

Churchill In Statement 0n Giraud Status

lily Lynn l-Ielnzerling Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON, July 1 - Prime Minister Churchill in the House of Commons today that the British and the United States Governments had asked the De Gauile - Giraud National Ccm- mittee of Liberation on June i9 that Gen. Henri Giraud be retained "on military grounds" as commandor of French armed forces in North Ai- rica for the present.

A request for assurances "that there should be no important change in the French command in North Africa at the present time," was made to the Committee. he said on behalf of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower, Allied Commander-in-Chief.

The representation “was made on military QHQ nds and implied no decision to inv:st Gen. Eisenhower with full control over the political organization in North Africa." tho Prime Minister said in response to a question by Emanuel Shinwell,

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Mr. Churchill's unequivocal words came amid the stormy reaction oi the press and some political circles hero to what was described some newspapers n5 sllghting treatment of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, Fight- ing French Leader.

Following so closely nn Mr. Chur- chllls statement yesterday that heavy fighting would occur before fall in the Mediterranean, the state- ment. was seen as along the line oi last Sunday's analysis by Klrke Simpson. Associated Press Staff Writer in Washington. of the view that the De Gaulle - Giraud diff- erences would not be permitted to threaten the success of any Allied military operations in the Medit- erranean area.

North African dispatches reported on June 22 that the French Comm- ittee had decided that Giraud and De Gnulle each would retain com- mand c! his own forces. In other words, Giraud retained his post in line with the British — American rsquest on June l9.

Mr. Churchill said this request- was made “in view of the prolonged discussions between the French leaders in Algiers on questions in- volving the character and control of the French armed forces and the serious ‘ffrrt. which this might. have on the furtherance of the war eff- ort and the safety of the Allied forces." ‘

The Prime Minister, depreciating “any undue attention to the per- sonality of the new French organiz- ation." said:-

“The committee is working on the basis oi collective responsibility and it is our hope that all its mem- bers will merge their personal and individual interests for the common good oi fiance.

"The British Government have consistently encouraged the union of Frenchmen in the fight against the AXis and for the liberation of France."

‘Main Port In Sicily Is Blasted From Air

ALLIED l-IEADQUAMIRB 1N NORTH AFRICA. 1 -- (AP)-

Americsn heavv bom rs, encoun- tering little opposition, smashed the main Sicilian Port oi Palermo yea- terday in an unrelenting aerial pre- lude to trsns-Mediterrarlean amph- ibious operations that lnuat be the greatest in h Iisoo

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War Situation Last Night

By Glenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst The Allied offensive in the southwest Pacific now extends over an

arc of nearly B00 mils but a dispatch from Gen. MacAr-thurs head- alarters says it ls "only a small beginning" of the great strategic plan yet be unfolded. Most oi the evidence supports this estimate.

The initial thrusts. into the new Georgia group in the Central Solo- nlons and along the northeastern coast oi New Guinea, apparently are the two prongs oi o. plnccrs directed toward Rabaul. on New Britain, the main base set up by the Japanese in their Island con nests above Aus- tralia. But Rabaul may be oni an intermediate objec Ive, although its reduction would be a major m tary accomplishment.

To the north lies Truk in the midst oi Ja n's powerful outposts in the mandated Islands just above the uator. o the northwest lies most oi the rich Island Empire Japan seize from the United States, Britain and Holland in the first six months oi the Pacific war. If the drive from the Pacific were co-ordlnated with an eastward thrust. from the Indian Ocean that whole region oi conquest nlight be sliced off from the rest oi Ja an'a holdings. It is not unreasonable to assume that some such en- terpr se was discussed at the Washin ton war council in May.

The initial advances by the Alli forces Jargely American, under the overall command of Gen. MacArthur, were aga nst the Islands nearest territory already in Allied hands. Beyond Guadalcanal and the Russell Islands, into which the Americans had moved in recent months, the closest Japanese territory was the New Georgia. group. The move into Woodlark and the Trohrland Islands was an easy, unopposed step from nearby New Guinea shores. At first glance, therefore, it would appear this was in the Island-hopping pattern.

But the United States is definitely committed against such tactics.

llcncc it is logical to assume that these first Island landings are merely in the phase oi clearing the brush away before the real assault

Sir Patrick Duff And Lady lluff Visit Province

Declaring that he had long look- ed forward to seeing Prince Edward 1513Y1<1¢ M111 OXDressing unbounded faith in Canada's postwar future. Sir Patrick Duff, Ottawa, Deputy High Commissioner for the United KlflEdom to Canada. arrived in Charlottetown Wednesday after- noon in the course oi an official Maritime tour.

Sir Patrick was accompanied by Lady Dllif. who is an active mem- ber of the Red Cross Society in Ottawa and who showed her keen interest in this work by visiting the local Red Cross headquarters tvith- in a few hours oi her arrival.

Sir Patrick paid his respects to His Honour Lieutenant Governor IePage Wednesday afternoon. and yesterday. with Lady Duff, visited

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WASHINGTON, July 1--(CP)-Aliied forces have seized two strategic points in the Central Solomons and from one of them is battering a key Japanese air base with artillery fire.

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LONDON. J11 i- (OPl—BritL\h fighter comman aircraft damaged three medium-soiled freilhtfls and four minesweelpers in an attack on a German convoy oii the Hook o! Holland today, the air ministry news service announced.

Typhoon bombers made the at- tack st masthead height, executing their runs in the face of intense fire from ship and more batteries and weaving in and out oi the cables oi the convoy‘; balloon ber-

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TORON O, July _1 — (OP) __- Just; one ay in advance‘ for the newest Axis guess for “invasion clay” a former German Army officer pub- IZSIlCS in Canada the first clear-cut plan for an Allied invasion of Eu- rope. The author is L. V. Randall of Montreal. an almost unknown essay- ist who cnmc to Canada six years ago.

The invasion blueprint is no wishful-thinking guide in an easy victory. It is a cold assessment of the high cost of a vital task. its primary aim. the author says, is "lo show how foolish it is to sncaklight- ly of an invasion or think that. it can be startled just any day."

Five - Front Plan

‘Ilhc plan outlined - - after a hali- bcok-lenglh military estimate of the situation - - is a. five ifont campaign starting in the Mediterr- anean and taking three weeks to reach its peak. a smashing drive at France from England. Its key strat- egy is to win bridgeheods on Eu- rope's west or northwest coast for the launching of strong attacks co- ordinated with hammer blows on the eastern front.

Five years in the- Gcrman Army. Mr. Randall finished the First Great War as commander of a Bav- arian infantry battallion - - in which Hitler was a corporal he “doesn't remember." Because he saw the inescnpability of developments. he lcfl. Germany in i931 and lived for six years In Swilncrlnnd, trav- elling extensively in Europe as ban- ker and industrialist. before coming lo America.

"l6é5fnilJd I Flre Damages I Coal Mme

GLACE BAX N. S. July 1 —(CP) - Fire csriy today damaged the bankherul of Dominion Coal Com- pany's No. 4 Colliery here - - old- est operating coal mine in North America - - but company officials said later they expected the pit would be back in-to operation tomor- row.

No one was injured in the fire. The coliiery was idle for the Dom- inion Day holiday as ilhe flames, breaking out near the IDP of the towering bankhead, melted one oi the thick hoisting cables to send a cadge crashing to the bottom of the AGO-foot shaft.

The No. 4 colllery - - known also as Caledonia - - has been in con- tinuous operation for '74 years. It. is one of the most consistent operat- or's in the Glace Ba field and had

not had a major acc dent since i880.

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WESTERN FRONT — British fighter command planes damage thrcc German freigllters and four mincswccpcrs in attack on convoy off Hook of Holland, British naval observers expressed belief Germans losing one submarine for every Al- lied freighter sunk.

DIEDITERRANEAN — American heavy bombers smash anew at main Sicilian port oi Palermo in

. wake of heavy British assault on

ferry terminus of‘ Mcssina.

NORTH AFRICA- Giraud asked to remain as commander of French forces in North Africa, Churchill announces in London.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC - U. S. sen. and air forces smash back first Jap counterattack, downing at least 65 planes while troops ashore

on New Georgia. Island capture Vii-n Harbor, miles from Munda air base.

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‘Capt. Kelly Awarded Llcyds Medal For Bravery At Sea

HALIFAX, July 1—-I.loyds Modal for Bravery at Sea was today pro scntcd ‘to Captain P. A. Kelly, if. BE. of the Canadian National Steamship. Halifax by W.G Mlllcr local manager on behalf of R.B. Teakle general manager of the compnrly. ill the presence of a re- presentative gathering of local shipping and port authorities. The incident that gave rlsc e award was the sinking of the Cun- adinn National Steamship Lady Hawkins oi which Captain Kcliv was chief officer at the time, by an enemy submarine. Llnyds war Medal is bestowed upon officers and men of tile merchant nary fishing fleets in cases of exception- al gallantry at sea in time of wnr: 251 seamen have received the award since the start oi the war. Capt- ain Kelly was only recently ln- vested with the Insignia oi a lifcm- ber of the Order of tho British Empire at Government House in Ottawa and was presented with a silver tray by the Dominion Gov- ernment for the same action.

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Pickering. two of the children. were received by Sir Pat- rick and Lady Duff. They gave p brief account of their experience here and were congratulated by the visitors on being in such pleasant surroundings.

sir Patrick also visited the RA. F. General Reconnaissance station here.

The? leave this morning for Moncton. where Sir Patrick will vlslt the R A.F' personnel depot. They will then go to Saint John and Fredericton, where he is sche- duled w speak.

P.E.I. Like Home

"Since I came to Canada I have zliwayys wanted to visit Prince Ed. \vard Island," Sir Patrick told :1 Guardian representative on his a:- rlvnl. "I came in o. convoy with many Canadian officers returning here after a long spell of duty in Great Britain. There was one from Prince Edward Island who spoke so loving- iv of his home, and as I heard him describe it, it almost sounded like home to me. with its red soil like Devonshire or Worcestershire. and all its kind scenes.

“You always make people feel at home in Canada." 11B added feel- ingly, "but Prince Edward Island looks to me like home as well.

"In Great Britain we have been set by Providence and geography to be the foremost garrison and the Springboard of assault. Whenever we look back. as we so often do with gratitude. to see the direction whence all these gallant reinforce- ments of men. munitions, food. etc. have been pouring to our aid, it is the Maritime: which, across the mists and wastes of the Atlantic we descry firat-—like s friendly hand stretched forth to grasp our own

ii vast distances separated us from the horrors oi war. But once you art up in an airplane it is only a few hours. Canadian fliers who bombed Germany one night were in Ottawa the ncxt night. I flew in a bomber back t0 Britain my- self not long ago. and so many