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l.” moat shining - “'0. m. m” have come i=lcm ‘Mme; with a disability.

I‘ ded I887 di v "u" - glflfifigfi‘; (glrardian, Two Cents.

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lgomania Electric Light Rate Reduction

Cut In Urban Domestic Rates To Be Followed By Cuts To Rural

And Commercial Users.

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Is Promoted

M a meetins yesterday of the Board of Commissioners of pub. llc Utilities for the Province. a drastic revision downwards in the ‘charges for residential electrical ._ services in Charlottetown was _ Igrantcd. ‘ The new rates. which follow " " lprevious . ‘actions. will mean a isflvins t0 light users in the city ' oi approximately 811.000 annually, states Dr. I. J. Yeo, chairman oi ‘ | the Commission. ’ One feature oi the new arrange. ment will be a. reduction of twenty. iive cents per month on all ae- counts if paid within fifteen days r0! receipt oi the account. r It is also proposed to make sub. ‘stantlal reductions in rural rates. beginning about the middle of September.

linll’ made with a view to rate re- .- riuctrons. which it is hoped to bring |lnto effect within the next few

r months. New Urban Rates i The new rates for urban dom- estic consumption involving a mini.

LIEUT. con. w.w. mu

mum oi 10 kilowatts ener will be $1.25 monthly, from whic a de- Conzntulaflcns a“ d“ h duction of twenty-five cents is

made ii payment is rendered \vith- in fifteen days. This is the only rate which is not reduced, and it affects only eleven persons who eonstitutethe total number regu- larly using i0 kilowatts or less. ac- cording to the\company‘s records.

For the next 1B0 kilowatts per month the new rate will be 2 1-2 cents per kilowatt hour.

Over 200 kilowatts per month twill be at 2 cents per kilowatt

our.

Ma n W.W. Reid, formerly of 1km P. EJ. Highlanders. who hLiS been pl-o-. mom] LieuL-Ccl. and posted toi the crlh ltcglm-Ini. in Italy. The,‘ Lira .-Col. has made rapid progress lloce he left the P-EJ. Battalion ivo years ago and wcnt overseas.

orfiis To

s t 1 The old rate. after the con- a sumption of i0 kilowatts, provides

that the next 83 kilowatts be

-—-- charged at 4 1-2 cents per kilo-

watt hour; the next 160 kilowatts at 2 1-2 cents, and over 203 kilo- watts at 2 cents _

The residential service to pri-'

VATICAN CITY. Aug. 25—(AP) -PODe Pius XII will make a world broadcast over. the Vatican City

radio Scot. 1. marking the frfih vale houses includes lighting. dom mllllvcrsflfy of the start of the esiic electrical appliances. cooking,

heating, refrigeration for motors horsepower.

The new rates are the result of long discussi and negotiation with the Maritime Light and Pow- er Company, and it is felt they will be of substantial benefit to the public. Dr. Yeo stated in an interview last night. l-le expressed his warm appreciation of the aet- ive and! willing cooperation shown by the company.

Other members of the Utilities

and power not exceeding one

Ii. 8. A. F. iiari ictive Week

WTAWA. Auc. 2s - rcr» —-In three days alon:~—last Thursday,

"M" “"1 sfilufdflyflperatlons of Board are Messrs. Thomas John- R- C. A. F. fighter and flghter- ston, Summerside. and J. J. Con- bomber squadrons in Normandy don, Georgetown.

reached a peak "far beyond" that ‘

Bl llnv period since D-Duy, the

R-QAF. said tonight in its week-

ll illmlnflly of overseas operations Plllslllns the retreating German‘ “whirling to escape .

through the narrowing Fnlaisc- “Kenton sop. n. c. a. 1-‘. Spitfires’ ‘ndfybhoone flew more than 800i llortes as they struck with "para- til-ins effect‘ at enemy tanks. finillorl. armored righting vehi- ces and mobile columns along the mm oi roads leading to the Seine.

Blllriliiii EVENTS

‘alliance. Lorne

Block Escape From Le llavre By Sea

LONDON, Aug. 25 — (A P) — British and American light naval forces intercepting Nazi ships try- i to escape from Leflavre at the Se ne's mouth early today biw HP an escort vessel, an armed trawler and an E-boat. and damaged at least five other enemy warships in a ser- ies of running battles.

Valley, August Wobsters Orchestra. 8-28-11.

"l" W191i. feed oats and crushed “lt- “Klingon at Boyle. 8-23-51.

u ‘_"_‘ Chicken supper and da t m‘ ‘MW- Wednesday. Seonto.‘ stir. 12-26-29-2-5

Eastern Harvesters Reach Winnipeg

WINNTTPEC. All. l-Jwl-A- bout 100 harvesters from Ontario

Declares

' ,- With regard to the use of com-I lmercial electricity, studies are be-'

service has

strides" during ils second vcar and Rained the confidence and respect of the naval serviccfcr general el-l

United States and had‘ DQSS them "though when. of course I cannot say."

Air Conference

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1944

Bucharest Bomhed By Nazi Planes

B! Wade Werner

coupon, Aug. 2s - (a German planes heavily attacked the “treason capital" of Bucharest today, and King Michael's new pro- al government declared war on the Reich. calling on both Rom- anian tmo and civilians alike "to rise and fght the Germans“ at u. time when Adolf Hlilers whole Balkan edifice was fast collapsing.

Chaos in the Balkans. with irrep- arable harm to the German war machine. was evident in these oth- er reported developments:

Berlin acknowledged a big re- treat was under way hy Nazi div- isions trying to escape the Soviet steamroller sliding down to the G-alati Gap, key to Balkan Plains. and the; NazLs seemed likely to give up all Romanla:

Bulgaria was on the verge of try- ing to lump on the Allied band- wagon:

Germany quickly “reshuifled" the puppst Hungarian goevrnment under Premier Doeme Szwjay to meet the new dangers from the southeast-a reference to Romania's

desertlon and Hungarys peril from

ithe threat not only oi Russim 'troops hut Romanian soldiers eager to regain Transylvania.

gary under Nazi dictation in was reported.

erting in droves to the Russians and also turning to fight the Germans,

tlon aaglnst the Axis is part of Moscow's official demands upon the country, with the approval vol the United States and Britain. It is part of the price Romania mu pay to “work its passage home.’

Armistice terms for Bulgaria based on unconditional surrender were reported under consideration in Washington and London. There were reports that Bulgaria was bout to break off diplomatic ve- lations with Berlin and had begun moving; her troops out of Greece and Yugos avia. Russia, who is not at war with Bulgaria, is being kept informed of Allied negotiations with that country.

Says Wrens Make Tremendous Strides

OTTAWA. Aug 25—-(CPl—The Womens Royal Canadian made

Naval ' “tremendous l

flciency and tact. vice Admiral C.

C. Jones, chief of naval staff, said

today in calm-trending thc W R C.

NS. celebrating its second anni-

versary Aug. 29. Admiral Jones said "excellent re-r

ports" had come in from Ha1ifnX.' Cornwallis. N .5 and divisional establishments acrcef Canada o! the work the Wrens were

. the west ecrrstl

r us. ’ Wrens in the United I{ll‘li'§d0ill.tll€r ewloundlnnd ‘ groved their worth. and it was

le that more might iollow

lllaritime Premiers Asked To Join Ill

SAINT JOHN. N.B.. Aug. 25- (CP)—At the annual meeting of the Mari Board of Trade in October probably at Kentvllie. . . ma Premiers and authorities on air transportation will be invited to join a confer- ence on air service development in the Atlantic Provinces. it was

"D s .., * i 60 harv t liondggcnigllartiuixgfiisllsElli-in school’ lgfiwrrtifm HaSllfaxl-‘Tll: soldiers HMML were on_route_to_l)_ur_i_, __. ______

learned today from Saint John B0lIii_M__TflflC_Clf_l_iJ_l€i-l8.

‘ I Li‘ 500k! mm"- MN- oililleiillcv rglitclhligllm

8-9-01. ‘Jggitflcc Iona Hall, Wednesday, 30th. Millvlew orchestra.

8-28-41

u ‘_“"_- Altsiksglcfile in aid of Basilica u Hohmg y. Saturday afternoon ROME‘ Mm a _ (A?) _ up ' 843'“ to e00 heavy bombers from Italy smashed at two Naai aircraft fac- tories and two airdromes in Cae-

"Unloadin . 5 B car both barley and "lly meal Saturday and Monday. , "mi Boyle. s-zo-ar “Annual

Dimmsln Bean Supper. Bingo. lumber 4th?r§3f:,,g§1é~ "regime-Ty. Sen- 8-26-110-9-2-81.

ion of a searin assault on Hit-| let's Balkan hol inga which had brought destruction to 1M enemy planes in the ast three days and

emy's dwindling war potential

Bi 1 tt i out parts B"! meals 11531.3.“ other Elfifrfi fir? ltllgggegsclhlanritt-‘llg ‘fighters. Iii

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ltaly- ased Bombers Continue Heavy Raids

i airdrome, all at Brno in Czecho- Slovalrin. and an airfield 40 miles northeast of Brno. Several Nazi ilghm-‘flvletlte °“°l.r‘i§’wi‘.r lllyd th ontinua- cortin 8 9TB W 9 B 9 9 9 she-shun. ma“ in c big bogmbers so perfect that not one was even attacke air.

I dono vast des ruction to the en- {eagsrdny A1195 blend! from this in

"Annual B - . for their own loss of 10 planes M d aznar at. Peters Bay, southern’ Europe. _ 1 I t In‘? and Tuesday. flept. 4th Todays carefully-selected tar vnailsaiggér glsgysu;ali%geg_

slavia. Czechoslovakia, Northern airplane engine factory and =anl Italy and Southern France.

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from the

rang over six countries

heatre shot down 53 enemy craft

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The People's Pape

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Covers Prince Edward ilsland Like the Dew

Mwar On Nazis

War Situation Last Night

I

By Kirke L. Simpson, Aaoaeiatod Pun War Analyst

Eye-witness accounts of the liberation of Park and of the surrender oi’ the Nazi garrison highlighted the war nun from Europe ere; but it was on the Seine, on each aide of the city that even grimmer events for shattered German armiea were being enacted.

It was there that military developments more potent than Paris re-

for lay road-

gairled by its rejoicing people were taking shape even though partially masked by a significant Allied official allenoe.

France or upon other Nazi conquered peoples is yet to be fully assessed. its impact too. upon strictly military factors in the Euorpean war equat-

evcn the most optimistic military minds have yet considered possible. Even so. Paris in the cold and grim light of military strategy govern- ing Allied operations in France, still la an incident of the battle. not a major- or decisive victory. And it is a war to a decision that the Allied armies arc waging. Down the Seine death or surrender faced another segment of beaten German armies. Junction of a Canadian column with Americans at L ' 5 appeared to have split in two the pocket west and south of tho Seine from which mmuants of broken (Barman armies are desperately seeking escape across the river. It doomed those caught west and south of the Canadian-Arrmrican junction to tho same fate that marle a Nazi charnel house of the Falaiae-‘Agentan pocket. I what (ha; may mean for the remainder of Gel-roan forces west of [the wide Seine Estuary below Ronen is yet t0 be learner! but "W" P9P" ,is great. Final destruction of the Nari ‘ills and 15th army elements is i “Slit... ls a f‘ ' ' Allied ' ,.. “ . There is evidence it is :50 near complete success in the lower Seine area that the German hlih r command has already abandoned hope of stalling the attack for long on the Somme-Marne line now in progress. harried by bilmblnl! B11191“- l Southeast of Paris. up the Seine. the Loire and the Rhone American columns are moving under a tight censorship screen that hints at oven

Paris had been written off for lily: in the Allied campaign aa certain to fall. The psychological effect upon French patriot uprhlnga elsewhere in

ion is yet to be guaged. It could accelerate German defeat at a pace not

Everybody

ALLIED SUPREME

line of the Somme

Canadians, advancing along Bay from Le Havre.

By Charles Lynch Router War Correspondent

HONFLEUR, France, Aug. 25 — | (GP --- Reuter -- From two rallies, [away I studied Le l-Tavre through.

powerful binoculars today-and found rt almost impossible to bcllrvel the Germans are still there. My van-l tage point was vlllerville, betwcen~ Trouville and Honfleur, directly ric- ross the mouth of the Seine from Le Havre. ;

1f the Germans are there, they| must have seen our every movement,| but there was no sign of life in they great port. I could make out every house ill the city and see the water-l front in detcril~evcn to the em-l

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IN RETREAT T0 SOMME, MARNE

May Abandon Much CF Channel Coasi:

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HEADQUARTERS, Aug. 25 — Guenther Von Kluge was reported swinging his beaten German armies back to 1hr

and the Marne today in a headlong retreat which would much of the channel coast and

The battle in the pocket 20 miles long and 15 miles deep, appe British, Americans, Canadians and

the vicinity of Paris.

ma. oo vlneoa u.s.a. .. starfish. use.‘ "

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(AP) — Field Marshal Gen.

abandon

south of the Seine, swiftly whittled io an area of only ared likely to be ended in another 24 hours as other Allied troops pressed in from all sides. The

the coast, captured Honfleur, five miles across the Seine

Dispatches said sideroads in the Seine pocket were lined for miles with the litter of wrecked German tanks and military vehicles, enemy dead piled in the ditches and un- der trees or draped over burned and smouldering equipment. ~

lilies Seize

Tumultuous Demonstration

Open fighting between l-lungar-y

vania. ceded by Romania to liuno-E l9"; .‘ Romanian troops were surrend-

dispatches said. This Romanian Fifi--

lFiame Thrower

dlhurchill ilas l yTalk With Pope

ROME, Aug. 25—(CP) — Prime Minister Churchill conferred today wlln l-fopc Plus_ XII in a. 48-min- ute private audience observed with

_ all the splendor of the Papal Court. 1 “It was a_ pleasant conversation." 5 Mr. Churchill was rcpolted to have hold the Ohammrlaln oi the Cape form Sword. As his car drove away ; from the Vatican. a group of Alli rsoloiers recognized the British

Prime Minister and cheered him. - Mr. Churchill was accompanied .by Sh‘ Francis Osborne. British ‘Minister to the Holy See.

In one oi the formalities upon the Prime Minister's arrival. Swiss guards in 15th century uniforms pres-cured H1811‘ halbards as Mr. Churchill passed throuwh the Cle- mentine room.

"That's a sight for away from daily reality," Mr. Churchill said.

Reveal Details 0f “Brocodile”

WASHINGTON. Aug. I — (AP) - British authorities tonight took secrecy wraps off the fire-breath- ing ti-ton Churchill "Crocodile", a tank-mounted flame-thrower capable of hurling its lethal blaze 450 feet ahed and even around cor- ners.

The potent British weapon was introduced to the Germans at the Normandy beaches. Since than it has been used with what the Brit-

u “deadly efiec urning a ath for British and Canadian orces through Hitler's strong- in France.

The British supply council and" army staff in the announcement of the new weapon called it the most powerful flame-thrower in the world.

Designed to burn out strong- points of the Atlantic wall and save infantry lives. the "crocodile" uses a special new type of fuel. Its flames can be licocheted off a nearbv surface. in the manner of a billiard shot. to burn out pillboxes and trenches hundreds of feet

away.

The flame sun ia mounted on a standard Churchill tank. with the fuel carried in an armored trailer behind. The flame equipment can be jettisoned in case of need and the tank can o te thereafter as an orthodox hurchili. with no cut in firepower.

The announcement laid British. troops first -used fiance-throwers to put a coastal battery out of action in the Dieppe raid in which units of the Canadian and Division con- stituted the majority of the l0- tacking force. and have been work- ing on their development ever

ed t e French leader.

,l:lcater blows for the foe h the making . Once the junction of the northern and southern invasion forces ls ians and Romanians in TransyI-r effected-tho roost decisive battles of the war in the west may iakle $21110 on the upper Marne, the Mouse. the Mossellc. the Rhine and ire .:r.:sr just as they were fought in the First Great War.

DéiGa-trlléifspeaia; l In liLg Pa

ris

Speaking to cheering crowds in front of the prefecture in Paris Gen dc Gaulle proclaimed tonight the 11b-

will not rest until we march ‘into enemy territory as conquerors. ’ The President of the French Committee of National Liberation, back in the capital after four Tim's of fighting from exile. told ‘his ex- ultant listeners: "France Will take her place among the great nations which will organize the peace." His speech was broadcast by the Paris Radio and the shouting and singing of the crowd could be clear- l heard, repeatedly interrupting‘

t At Ch ’t0wn

Give German Army 2 Months

"fiance ha; rights abroad." Gen. De Gaulle continued. “France is a reat nation and she has rlghrs which she will know how to make heard.

"She has the right to security.

"She has the right to insist that, she never again be invaded by the; enemy who so often has invadedi h

er.

"She has the right; to be in the first line among the reat nations who are going to or an tn.

LONDON, Aug. 25 — (C P) —.

eration of Paris and declared “Wei

the port.

although cntly a dead city.

by Erhish and Belgian troops ab- out noon.

The citizens of Honfieur were throrrging through the streets. shou- 121112,’ and cheering. Already several girls. who had ind dealings with the Germans had their heads shaved and were being led through the city.

Hcnilcur. like Deauville and Trou- , lle to ti" west was u-ltouched.

The Germans pulled ou. before the Alllcs arrived and there was no . street fighting.

I The coast road leading to Hon- =fleur leads through mllc after mile of defences laboriously thrown up by the Germans-defences that oe-

was pierced. in places they looked more formidable than those en- countered on the beaches where the invasion took place.

and life of tne word. "France is .. great world power-. she knows it and she will act so

cause this is of supreme interest,‘ that is the interest of humanity- . "Mne and women, we here in a; Paris which stood erect and rose. in order to free herself—-a Paris. oppressed, downtrodden and mar-. tyred, but still Paris. ‘ “Paris is free now—freed by the hands of Frenchmen-the capital of fighting France. of France the‘ great eternal. I “It is not enough that with the aid of our dear and splendid Allies we should drive the enemy from our soil. After what happened to France, we will not rest or be satis- fied until we enter-as is the only l right- upon the enemy's own soil as conquerors. ,

"we are going to fight on to the last day-to a day of total and com- plete victory."

More Rumors 0f Bordeaux Capture

IRUN. WAIN. Alli. 26-05.?)- Infoamaflon rea this border town today from the FHFJ. said Bordeaux. France's fourth largest city. had been liberated.

(Capture of Bordeaux by French and American forces also was re- ported Thursday by the French radio at Algiers. but no mnfinnot- ion has yet come from official sour- eel

ea. m or of Bordeaux. Arlen Mar uet, Dvglirty Minister of the inter in erre Laval! Vichy

government in 1040. was arrested within a-n hour after the port was taken. according to the French bat- riot amhorities.

that others may also know it. be- in

STOCKHOLM. Aug. 25-iAP)-' Many Germans now uivo the Ger- man army onlv lwo more months the struggle with Allied troops but believe Nazi last-ditch flamers will drag Germany through chaos for months after that, the news- paper Morgontidninllen said today

It quoted two Swiss newly re-| turned from Berlin.

Another Swede, on engineer who. lived in Stc-ttin and Berlin for the last year. said Berliners called the collapse of the Germans around Paris and the canitularlon of Rom- ania the "beginning of the end" and ~ openlv expressed the hope for peace. b_e_i‘ore__wlnter. *__

Russia

otl gap defences between the Dun- ube River and the Carpathian mountains today in a slx-dav whirl- wind offensive which Moscow an- nounced had cost the enemy 100.- 000 killed and 105.000 captured.

Talelve German divisions of up- wards of 60,000 xren also have been surrounded and 13.000 o! thorn cap- ured in the last two clays south- west oi fallen Chisinau. provincial capital of Bessarabia, a. Moscow communique said and the 7nd and 3rd Ukraine arm cs under generals Mallnovsky and ol ukhin now have linked up for a smash toward Bucharest. within 112 mlles oi Sov- iet advance columns.