'0 AZI DIVISIONS TRAPPED BY

Broposed Change In New Car Ferry Under Dﬁcussion

Matter Brought Before Trade Boa rd Council By Mr. R. E. Match.

liichliead Bugle Ii llevi Paper l

AT THE 5TH ARMY BEACH- l" t SOUTH 0F ROME. Feb. 3 Ths first newspaper to be issu- . in this sector is the “Beach- . in Bugle" edited by Lieut. Sum- Wilson of New Rochelle, NY. which, 5th Army censor, also .. rs the hewsloaper, which is a ted on a Gupicatlng machine. t appears daily and deals with news is picked up from cor- .. hdents‘ dispatches. It also yes official communique: plus i. p and wise-cracks. The newspaper first made its ppeirance three days after the Illlflil and since then has fol- wed an editorial policy that i- beachhead i, hero to stay and t it's a rather pleasant beach-

The People's aper Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Proportion your strength of your estate.

MAXIMS

OIL

Mona MAN

charity i; the

A proposed change in the design of tho new car ferry for the Bor- den-Iormentino route, to pro- vide for four instead of railway tracks occasioned interest- ling discussion at a. meeting yes- terday of the Charlottetown Board of Trade council. President Mor- ton Dew presided.

The matter was brought up by Mr. R. E. Mutch. who said he had been informed by Hon. G. H. Barbour, Minister of Public Works, that such a proposal was being made by a gentleman from Sum- merside. who W83 acting at the suggestion of the railway author- ities. Mr. Mutch said he knew nothing of the matter at the time.

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1944

Macliicol Says East Must Help Develop Wm

Proposed Huge Power And Irrigation Project For Prairies.

By James MoCook

UITAWA. Fob. S — (CP) —John R. MacNicol (PC — Toronto, Da- venport) said today in the House 9! QWiII-Ono fhﬂt Eastern Canada must rally to support of the west 111 885980118 the Iwv lopment of ir- rigation and power Jojects to make

possible 30.000 additional prairie farm homes.

Prolecls he proposed for prairie betterment might cost $100,000,000, he said. but the money would be

Guinea in the “ ' gressive routs this year.

and at

out. central Poland, Borne (Bovno) merit of tho Narvli ‘ “

will

Poian d

beach-hood south of Borne.

weli spent for the benefit of Can- ada as a who]; as well as of the‘ west. i Last summer Mr. MacNiool trav-'

examining possible irrigation pro- Jects, river flow and power sites. "I am convinced the west has. not had a. square deal, and as an eastern member it is my duty to

but had made inquiries. and un- dersiood that the Summerside.

land Thursday morning in con- nection with this matter. |

Col. K. S. Rogers asked if the proposal had anything to do withl changing over from oil to coal burning.

Col_ C. I... MacKay said he un- derstood Nova Scotia was press-

igid ii you don't mind shelling »~ bombing most of the time.

Juvenile Crime ls Serious In Montreal

-l~: C. E. Guerim- sentencing lis for l. series ofburglnries in his city's suburbs, today- said ‘luvenile crime is so high ‘that

l: serious and it is about lemethlng be done about it

lllltliiG EVENTS

-"llorse racing New Glasgow liver Saturday. Feb. 10. 2-4-2i

"East Roy it Rink tonight. Cvvohead vs, Shlcks. League

time ..

"Girl Guide Itummag sale. St. IIIMI Hall, Saturday. at: new.“

"Rummage big-today in Sal- lllion Army Hall at l. p.m_ a 4 u

"Unloading No. 5 bulk wheat it Emerald today and Saturday. MN $1.66. ﬂ-t-li

"To arrive, bulk wheat. bulk vii-I. bulk barley. Book now. Mc- (luigin and Boyle. 2-4-51

2-4-51

“unloading car No. l bulk bar- lty rrlday and Gullah and Boyle. 2i

"loading Hogs for Davis do Prater at Murray harbor. Monday. Primary 1th.. Murray River, Tues- lll’. February 8th. J. J. Beck.

"Wanton to lruy livo and dressed Wckens and fowl. Paying to

Witt prices. Island Cold Storage W. l-td- s-zc-tf. ."Bea View Hall, Friday. Feb. l. Cards, Crokinole, Bazaar with unch. Admission 25c. If not fine, lldnday. 3-3.

h“ hogs for Davis s.» f" Wm! Thursday afternoon

Lﬂlbanv and Emerald Every im- v forenoon until further notice.

"whim you order cars of grain

“myth us you need not worry a-

Wqualliy We t t i- t n nac iereit in that Bro Fe ‘Irollmluslugianiael (Ihec 2on-

°“ Awwv- 2-3-21 “mg You get right back to "mew naps for Davis a “hgﬁf Y1K. ‘tarwi-lrrfﬁiiiy delay 10th it Mon Thuradmlﬂh Fbbnmw it another vesr.’

n torus. Ke McKin- h u _ "ms statement amigo Oardixan. harming :43- m, pmy makes n tha it will ..,,o,,u___Arr-——,v, m, w, w "iomrﬁnaarai. has. .2) M 051a rowsna. moral

. I‘ "

and take delivery 4mm our s

M '5- G. O. reen, grnea- y

ﬂaw‘ “Ilclllly represent

Ins for ‘t rock bottom "mlebiectlvc.

MONTREAL. Feb. a - (CPl-—|

ihi situation has become extra-me»

Saturday. Air- m

more. p Asked

a1 "CharlottetownT 309

"Nahum- - "II car No. t 55:55“: If‘ ml I“ "N! Book Yﬂllftlearlrg-

"that ' ____ a"? w“ “frThihrsil LONDON. m». a - is? u; Mil" ‘"'- °~ °- m: m::ci.:::"s..a“s......

the Mont- hrmer in

ing to have this provision model "That is something that will have to be fought by the Boar of Trade," he snicl. Coal l; detlnitely not as efficient as oil. The present ferry was saved from disaster last yt-ll‘ bﬁflll” she had two boilers on oil.

Mr. Mubch: “It is Deisel elec- 41-h; they are planning for the new lferry, I understand.’

Col. MacI-{ayz "There are head- Iﬂclltfg in that too." ' Mr. Mulch: “ ut this change

is not dealing with driving pow- er at all. it is the track accom- modatlon."

Col. MacKﬂyi "They will!“ have to change the docks l! tlity did that."

M“ Mulch; “The answer to that is that the terminals are about done anyway"

Mr. Dew: "Will they not be adequate for the new ship as she

I d?" ‘sltljrlnxil/lutch: "Oh yes. ll they ..

Ivlr. Dew: “They would want to us? craze terminals for the old sh P. -"

Col Rogers: “If they did build

l , ti r should be dock- The: £7§Cllim0€il€lOn r a lllihi» summer type otnboat that can run in by the hour.

. K : "who la promot- ingolthéuzlialllge? Is there lily]. word of at?"

tll Mulch: "Yes. we have word!

ML It is a local cmvﬂlllh"

of that. Freight Car 010W"!

Mr. Mutch said the not meet with his washgo incriasemglse

1 car - csgllalitiy tgdlditlgrlai trasck. The "Charlottetown" carried sixteen freight cars". the "Prince Edward Island“ carried twelve. The new ferry is designed to carry nine- teen. A fourth track would of course enable her to carry R "W

qm regard to the length ‘I (any, Mr. Mulch said

Continuing. proposal did approval. It

of the new h two lengths are given in te Dlans. She wllinbe "312 feet 0W1‘ all, and sis n bp- The least; shown for the “Prince Edwin; “hum-- i, 2953, and for te

Mr. Dew m .0.‘ act anvthlas bigger than the new ferry yo“ will require“: my." breakwater

C . anilitnevlllytA. Ilinsworth: "Herc We -have a situation where DIM? gnave been passed by the Depar t’ merit of Transport and a contﬂw lhas been let based 0th thew Dill“-

Vtcrking For Alliance

dl tht Russia and the Oleohl wele war-kin for a Slay Alliance

HO ﬁr‘? Bgllgt-Cllgglldslovak all!" but was "part of at l" t entity and one of

party was leaving for the main-l Md

t1 > quota. regulations are being amen-

wl-w my voice in attempt to see that it does get a square deal." he

s .

He spoke in continued debate on the throne speech, with Ton.- lteid (L. - New w ‘ n m3) vic. tor Quelch (ND - Acadia) and G. K. Fraser (PC - Peterborough West) also speaking during the 5f. temoon.

Tracie Minister MacKliuion an- "Qlinced that Canadian wheat, board

ded to permit dclivcry of l8 bush- els of wheat. per authorized acre during the present crop year, an increase of four bushels from the present. quota limit. The increase will be deferred until the when; Boemrhas‘ beer-Fable icraiss- nu country points to at least s, i0 hush- el quota.

Affects All Canada

Mr MacNicol said the failure of prairie farmers due to drought had meant the rulnation of much hus- iness in Canada. Esstem Canadians especially had not been fair to that country.

Southern Alberta. rivers should bei harnessed. Under treaty regulat-| ions with the United States. into whose territory the rivers flow, it! was implied that if one country did ml Ellen-lit to conserve the watersl

the others could have them. Water was allowed to run away on the Canadian side. and unless action

lcontlnued on page s, Col. 0)

Germans Expect 8th Army Drive

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. AL- GIERS. Feb. 3—-Tlle Germans were reported here today nervously a- waiting an attack on the British

the army‘s right flank. Two days a- go the Canadians were reported to have seized a crossroads 1% miles from the town of 'I‘oi1o. four miles from the coast.

Senate Discusses “Threats” ByG. G.l-'.

OTIAWA, Feb. s - (W) - The position of the Senate if a CCF government attains power in Canada was discussed in the Up- per House today by two Senators —Salter Hayden (L., Ontario» and John Halg (PC, Manitoba)- during the Throne Speech debate.

Senator Hayden said "threats" from some quarters to abolish the Senate it it fails to approve measures of such a government showed either lack of understand- ing or complete disregard for| the Constitution. Senator lfalg said that while the Upper House might block socialist measures on their first presentation, if the stand of a CCF government were endorsed in a. second election the Senate would have to give ap-

proval.

Senator Cairino Wilson (I... On- tar-lo) spoke on health insurance and stressed the im tanco extending health lerv es.

iio Serious Injuries In Ii. S. Derailment

u] lunrx-eed. Feb. Il-JCP‘), __ er an fremlfitrlaraiilrrunni mitigilimllallil!

m verpooi was erailed eleven miles east of here a coach carrying H

post-war security lystem of wh in. Anglo-Soviet aarcsmﬂ" another particularly imiﬁfm"

2i part.”

DBSIQIIKQIS turn over on its side. None of the

1 _, .C.A.F. Joyiiiiien-Roaeua‘

8th Amiy front in Italy, extending down Malpequc Bay before the inland from the Adriatic Sea. A war. The boat at North 311M160 Canadian Corps is in the line as will be undc-r the charge cf Ssh,

l Gen. Ilrsncisco Franco ma

of "m"

tonight cousin! b0

pectation nf a new attack.

Th; slaw paced German am‘. Japanese maiks of victories reached more than a year ago at li-l Allhiein. on New

By Kirke L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst

from tbs high-water

’ may be up into pro-

A startling Berlin admission of a new and deep Nazi retreat, almost. to the Bug River ilhe iii Poland, seems to indlcato rlisintegr German centre. Capped by a new entrapment disaster in its Dulepu‘ bond, Nazi “evacuation? of the molt

of the

Ill

communications hubs in and Lutak, and indicated abandon-

in northeastern Estonia, can have no other meaning than an attempted continent-wide Nazi fligrit to this sheltoi- of the "east wail" from which Hitler launched his iii-fated Russian cam-

II.

The Nani retreat in the centre virtually nuliifiea the German stand south of Vinnitsa which has balked for many dI-ys Bissslari cutting of the Warsaw-Odessa. rail trunk, the last through line connectiii, shattered German south flank in Russia directly with Germany via

the now

No less ominous omens can be discerned for the Nazi front in Italy. The rlghi wing of the Gustav llllg is obviously buckling under the 51h army thumb-screw on its feeder and

escape linen from the Nettilrin

0n the 8th army front the Germans are reported jittery with ex-

The situation seems much the same for Japan in tho Central Pacific, Loss of major Atolls of the Marshall group with their good alr- strips

fence system.

cued some 890° “m” l“ m” we“ within air range of Truk seriously dents the whole iwipponess Pacific de-

Namur Is. In Marshalls‘ Captured By U. S- Forces , __

ii. G. A. F. Winter Rescue floats For Province

g- . be on service shortly, at Tig- and at North Rustlco. where they will be operated by R.C.A.F. Marine Craft Crows. ‘These boats will be used for res- cuing airmen ivhu may happen to be forced down on icc fioes.

The boats are patterned aftcr the old capes boats which used to carry malls and passenge .. years ago across Nortliumberland Strait, under winter ice condi- tions. They have been constructed by Lester Campbc-il of Cape Traverse. who with his father, built capes boats during the years before Great War I. The boats are of wood construction, about 18 ft. long, and are fitted with two metal-shod runners to facilitate their passage over tho ice. and the liuil is sheathed with galvan- ized iron. Leather harness straps are. provided for the SIX 01' 50"" men of the crew when the boats are being pulled across the ice. They are cquippc-cl with four oars and a sail for travel in open water.

The crews for these winter res- cue boats arc men who volunteer- ed for the service and are large- ly former hfnrltime fishermen The boat at Tlgnlsh Run will be under the charge of Sgt. Morrison. whose 110mg i5 at HardysChannel in Malpeque. and who fished up and

Wll nlsh Run,

Murray of Cape Breton. i These boats may be_loaded on - hitched‘ Eeliflvilh hgrlslcxi: and taken to n P0 ll m‘ 9 nearest their obiliillye» 5mm‘ where they will Pulled "if rowed across the ice imu WRWL These will afford a means 0T M‘ tempting a roscue of air crEWS niaroohcd on iiic ice when ﬁller!!!‘ wand’ be no other means “gr, reaching them due to the picuth ~ ice conditions mound PEI. n e

winter.

Flying Officer wmuBurkshagr craft Detection CoiiJS d H u: from Eastern Air Common .1 ‘auxin! fax, is at. present onltiic swork. where he is doinll I115“

Wm, local Aircraft Detection Oorili officials in the matter of the 1189 o1 chess winter rescue boats.

no n. Fob. Q—(OPl--SD%IT£ li?‘ih'i§l‘llii“ln°’illﬁilklf“lénlirliliui provoked speculation as todrylgcggli brain oil which

wimAltllirldnrlgiz lilo“ ithholdllls.

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By WILLIAM HIPPLE

U.S. PACIFIC MEET HEAD- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR. T. H. Feb. 3 —- (AP) — Namur Is- land at the northern tip of Kwaialein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and four nearby le have been captured by United States marines in the developing Central Pacific offensive.

Seizure of thesotihy spots of lapel, LnnoiilwBd~40¢BU¢~by ziifai Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific Naval Commander. gives Ameri- can forces full opportunity to re- pair and use the threo airstrips on Roi Island, captured earlier.

The Roi airfield, with its dis- persal area on Namur. formed the most formidable air bass the Ja- panese had constructed in the Marshalls in more than two de- cades of control,

At the southern cnd of the Atoll. on Kwajalein Islet. stiff JRDBHBBB resistance continued. Ah enemy counter attack there Tuesday night was thrown back with heavy Nipponese losses. ,

Enemy casualties on Kwalﬂlel" Island were heavy. runninit Bbmll 46 dead to each fallen American, snid a Navy spokesman. adding that the known Nipponese dead. up to Wednesday night. tolllll-‘d 1.250, out of an original sarriwn

0f 2,000.

Preliminary estimates of cas- ualties in the Roi-Namur area in- dicated the United States 115d lost less than l00 killed, with 400 wounded. the spokesman reported.

With m ' " a moments at its command, the 7th Infantry Division was expected to out I to the spirited resist- Kwajalein Islet. Its cap-

Ad-- sew

lure may provide American forces.

since J apanese

airfield

th with ario erth“ the

was known

were at work on one there before...

the invasion.

Germans To Defend Rome

LONDON. Feb. 3 — (CF) — The Germans were reported to- night to have notified Pope Pius XII that the fate of Rome will he “subject to military consider- ations" but the Pope has ""3"!- od to abandon "his Rome.

The Ankara. radio said the German ambassador to the Vati- can, Baron Ernst yon Welrsaec- her, handed the Pope the state- ment regarding iuliltary needs from Field Marshal Gen. Albert

Kesseirtng.

Thig intimated that the Ger- mans intend to defend the city, with whatever destruction that might entail.

EARTHQUAKE RECORDED

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 3 -(AP\ described as "moderate" was recorded on the Franklin lnstituto selsmograph at 8.23 am. EDII‘. today. Dr. Rwy K. Marshall of the Institute stair said he was unable to determine

the direction definitely. but he be- lieves the shock may have occur- "d ‘£13221

Smooth Sciillnq For W hen you l

e I55 locked

Greatest Trap ‘Since Losses gAt Stalingrad

Germans siErZr Reverses All Along 1,1176- Mile Front.

B! JAMES M. LONG

LONDON, Feb. 3-(AP)—PremIe-r Marshal Stalin announced tonight that l0 German divisions-gob- abﬁ’ between 120.000 and 1 .000 mew-have been trapped by an overwhelming twin red anny olf- fenslve in the Ilkraime. while Ber- liri announced the evacuation cf the strongholds of Rowne (Rovnol and Lutsk (I/uckl in a sensational

50-mI1e Axis retreat deep inside pre-war Poland. Capping these staggering

German reverses along a 1,000- mlle front was a lute Associat- ed Press Moscow dispatch say- ing that. the Soviet Leningrad army had smiisiivii across the Estonian frontier to take four villages inside Estonia, great/est trap since

tEfIIIIKI-ilﬂ the , the lst. and 2nd Ull-

S raine armies under Generals Niko- lai 1-‘. Vatutih and Ivan S. Kohev captured 300 towns and vi s inl a five-day l00-mile break-through to Join forces along: the Zvenigo- ioka-sphola line. miles south of the middle Dnieper River. The two armies "thus cioard a . ring of enoirclement around an en- lemy group operating north of this gline, numberin nine infantry and one tank dlvl ons,” Stalin said in an order of the day broadcast 11y Moscow and recorded by tho Soviet

Radio Monitor.

Th i0 G divisions were in a circular pocket alp- proximately 50 miles in disanelor, They now face annihilation. It seemed unlikely the German oom- mand could rntister sufficient e-

S >~ ; ‘n. sailed heavily as it is on

every sector on the long eastern on .

DRUMIIELLER, All!" Fob. l - (OP) — The lived Deer Val- ley coal mine, one of tho lar- gest producers in tho Drum- heller Valley district. closed down today as a result of lack | o! orders. It is one of six min- l es in the district forced to sus- | pend operations through the

closing of the eastern market for Alberta coal-

MONTREAL. Feb. 3 -— (C?) -~ All known disorderly houses here have been closed for an "undeter- mined" period by the Mirnicipal Police Morality squad, it was an-

.. . . r m

e , it was explained, was taken in keep- ing with the nation wide social hy- giene csmpagin.

WASHINGTON. ‘Fob. I — (A P) - Gen. George C Marshall told the United States tonight that "great battles" tnipeiul in Europe and the Marshall Islands thrust in the Pacific is only the preview to more action there but he userted that the people at home still fall to gnsp the magnitude of the effort needed for victory

FREDERICTON, Feb. a - rcpil - Although no official statement was nasde on the subject. Feb. 22 was indicated today as a likely date

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Explanation Resignation

im-oniv. McNAUGHTON

Ferry Held lip For Repairs At Tormentin-e

The car ferry was tied up in Tlormentirie for at least eight hours last hiilit. Part of the delay was while some wort: wag dong oh the boat buy, its nature was not lear- ned early today.

At 3 o'clock this morning can. adian National Railways officials said the was that the boat would probably bomrtildy to start in "about 20 min- u .

Ico conditions, described as heavy all day, were said to be improved, with less wind blowing to pack the pans.

It was understood that the ferry was stuck for some hours during the day of! Borden. When the ship finally got moving the crossing was made to Tormehtimi in two and p, half hours. ‘lire boat, docked at the ins-inland terminal at 7.15 p. m.

latest information they hadl

Subscription Dellsvsrd, is,» Illlnlttltli other Pruvlnreo ll (LBJ. 85,00

REDS

McNaughton Repudiates‘

Given For From Arm

SEIGNIORY chug a“; (CPI - na-ocirQllle" i c ﬂllilllwll. former Coirimaiidcr Canadian Army oversea,‘ m“ “may 10X‘ a brief m“ hem" “QPWPIFIE to Defen- Headquarters iii Ottawa and ll. "ﬁwillﬂllermen "I am feeling Qbf so.utely fit,_g,1 ~ -. . WYIJWIlQ with mclgle b nuthma lbll Gcii. vl-N- 1- Ded down froni liﬁufrilli’ which 333$‘; gltililnrsftrvino Montreal h; tions. answer ma"

I'M). G. L.

step-

"I had a pie t, . I H"! fevliuu vclflaxlihvgliacilai mid W bouid a few dfl\s hero 1U! avllllOllﬂiiy," he 331d’ owe 5mm see Vi at comes after that."

An Ottaiva reporter said that

when Gen. McNaught h d Riven leave of absend): frgm bellil: {ﬁlly command the reason given alas hi; health. The reporter ask. 0th is thatuciually the reason 01 your resignation?" The lit-General ieetered on his ﬁll“ drew his Kreatcoat back lg thumbs in UIISFHCLCFISIIL; gesture.

“Nvlhinc Wrong With m" "11""? is nothing wrong out};

ma." he said. have hr. ides, u. at lessons for my resignation were given here. 1t is up to those who_ made the statements re. sardmz my health to explain them."

Gen» Mﬂlﬁllﬁhtoii indicated ho

plans at some future Limo to hold *1 Iilrmil Press conierence. When asked if he had any comment 9h the overseas army's spirits and whether it was still as anxious as over to get at the enemy. he said: ‘I dont think I have the right l0 “like ﬁlly comment on the situation. I will, irbuevar, a. sbon |as‘_I .arh free to do so. | _ When I call in the press and give them an opportunity to cfogg. examine m0. you can count on it that I will follow the same prg- cedure that I have followed our. inB the past four years and that is that I will be entirely frank and truthful."

"Still In The Army"

_A _ newspaperman asked: ‘While you have left the army command you are still in the aririy, aren't you?"

Says Farmers Will

i. Supplied With

Sufficient Feeds

is". ~'s......°""r-...**.rn~v i; t“: . . . 8 Ii OBI vod the tgelegram

f Davidson.

can of. May have to take more lfmik" grain ‘out will be supplied

The telegram was in reply to froth Mr- Gillaes asking for nation as to what effect the em- baa-go on grain shipments by r from the west would have.

Mr. Gillies said he believed the eurrbargo would have the effect of lnoreasing the ce of grain slight- ly at least would also neo- essitate the use of poorer quality grain. especially in oats

INCREASE r000 cnors l COLOMBO - \CP)—— Ceylon 1.1.53,

lnﬁrﬂllsed iier rend production. In. the spring of i943, plans were made

one

for the opening oi’ the fifth sess- ion of New Brunswick! 39th legis- lature.

to put another 211,000 acres under food crops immediately and a furth- er $4,000 acres six months later.

By RICHARD G. MASSOCK

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ITALY, Feb. 3 -- (AP) — The German stronghold of Cassino tot- tered today under sledgehammer Allied blows, heralding the end of three mo of hard, bloody fighting to crack the enemy's main mountain defence line across Italy and to open the way for s. 50~mile drive to form a junction with Allied landing forces south of Rome.

(A Cairo broadcast heard in London declared that “street fighting l; going on in Casnlno. Tanks have forced a break- through and Allied infantry is pouring into the townﬂ’)

Bitter liouse-to-house fighting was expected inside Casslho be- fore the last Nazi "suicide squads" were wiped out. American troops were within 500 yards of the towns rubbiegl streets at nnc point. and it W85 practically sur- rounded.

North of Cassino. French troops. including Moroccan Ooums and _ Algerian and Tunisian sharpshoot- c-rs, mop d up remnants oi Ger- lman res nco in tho bleak nun

Enemy Grip On Cassino Slips Under Allied Blows g

and widened the breach in the Gustav Line. Lat- est reports sald American infan- try had taken new heights on Mount Castellone. lust to tho [northwest of Cassiuo, from which they could fire into its streets. An Allied communique, in a ,modei of understatement. said lthat Casaino was “threatened seri- Iously," and that desperate Nazi mounter-attacks to save the for- itress-town guarding the broad Liri Valley had been repulsed.

Enlarge Boachhead

Of the Anzio. or brcachhcad. front headquarters said only that "hard fighting" was in progress and that the British and Ameri- can forccs there had enlarged their holding, against stiff Nazi resistance.

The-re still was every expecta- llon that. Ficld Marshal Albert Kesselrlng would throw a poorer- ful counter-offensive against the landing forces the moment h: thought he had sufficient fire

OWE-i‘ to drive them back into he sen.

ihfor- A

Llbftie-rflilh l

‘Bo far al I know, I'm still in

m! lmly." Gen. McNaughton re- plied. To a query as to whether he loontcmplated entering polities. the General said that wa a lead- im question to which lie could give no answer.

Another question asked him was: —“Gen. Montgomery (Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery. desig-

nated commander of British in- vasion forces) has stated that the war will be over within a year. Do you agree with him?" "Much depend; on high stra- tegy." Gen, McNaughton said. Gen. McNaughton said he did not know exactly when he will report to Ottawa headquarters. In the Geherays party were his wife, his aide-de-camp, Lleut. G. . Ran of Windsor. Ont., and Mai-Gen. R._ Turner, who was the Canadian army's liaison of- ficer with British military auth- orities in England. ,_ _ _, Group Capt T. K. McDougall of Ottawa. the Generals son-in- low and Mrs. McDnugail were here to meet Gm. McNaughton

is Foo MM: e clearer WHY pom

1’ MAKE A winter "

High tide thlg morning at 8.29 and tonight. nt 7.46

Sun sets this eve-hing at 6.10 and rises tomorrow morning at S

.17. Full moon Feb. 9, 2.28 am. Summersidc tide l8 minutes lat- er than Charlotteiowri. DAILY AIR SERVICE

Charlottetown — Summerside — Moneton

Leave Charlottetown 1.35 a. m- [100 noon. 4.30 p. m. Arrive Charlottetown Llil o. m. , 5.45 p. m. 7.05 p. m. ' soup/iv sll-RVICI Leave Charlottetown l8 noon. . Arrive Charlottetown 5.45 p. m.