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CHARLOTTEEOVW'N. CANADA, sAruRoA1nDrcisMaaR 12. 1942

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

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OFA

MERE MAN

Diligence l: the mother of goini luck.

Annual Iubacrlptlol Delivered. ‘LII B; Iallr P. l l. $4.00: to other Provinces and U, l. A. $0.00

HON. OHN BRACKEN T0 LEAD CON SERVATIVES

.133 Big Nazi Planes__ Downed

In four days.

By EDDY GIL-MOB! _ Associated Press Staff Winter Moscow, Der, lil-fsaturdayl

“spa-The Russians have des- big Axis transzort ‘ones in the

l, Stalingrad area. “Kym; i1 total of 138 in 1011i‘ days, and 1h Amll‘

e Red has "occupied height! of considerable tawcalim- rtnrice" in the area oi Velikie ulii cu the frozen crcitral font. crisis announced early tofay. Friday midnight COMIMENI Rusy-‘ns destroyed S6 nail . and killed more than mm (‘m-mans during yesterday's operations which were marked by Rpellwd German counter-attacks m. Hill] fronts and Russian consol- dviion of positions yrested from

Zlied Field

Canada's First “Wren” Wedding

HALIFAX, Dec. 11 —lC P) — Canaan's iirst “wren" wedding took

race lie-re tonight when Miss Bar- E1119. itusscll 01 Winnl-WE. 1411“ oihcor in one women s Royal oen- lhifill Nuvy Service. was married to IAEUQAUJJMKQDTQ Ottawa, of the Can iaii my.

Although performed in the tine’

01.11201 0i Canada's most war-like

' esidJllfilllllelll. , HALCB, dockyards the ceremony was as traditional as the Lciic-ngrinb Wedding Mblvh that ivns played on a. portable M8811 lbciit the size cf a music box.

The bride came down the 10-foot aisle oi the little Chapgl on the arm oi Rear-Admiral 11W. Murray. Of- ficer Commanding the Atlantic Coast, and wus accompanied by Mrs. briih Dobson, Winnipeg, aso s third officer in the W.R.C NS.

Kneeling before the small. leake- lhiltultnl‘. the cou le took their Foils as Rev. JJ-l. raven. Naval Chaplain from Springhiil. N. 8.. performed the ceremony. Sub-Limit. 1-‘0. Marlin. R C.N.V.R.. of Ham- ilton, Ont, supported the groom.

BLIND RIVER. Ont. Dec. 11 — it?) - Dr. J. M Robb. former Ontario Minister oi Health in the Conservative Government of George 5 l-lenrv. died mt his home here. lie was 66.

taming. Events.

—u- “Brooizfleld Concert, December IZnd. 1142-18-21

"Christmas concert Argyle Shore lllll. Dec 22nd. 12-12-11

"Christmas Conart and Dance ln 0i'\\'1.‘il cove, Dec 2i. 12-12-11

"Dance Orwell Hall, Monday, 11c. ii Miiliiew Orchestra. 12-12-11

"Fnrnisrs wishing to ship dress- ed hells and sows advise McGui- gaii and Boyle. 12-7-71

'_'Rllll\llllig8 sale Trinity Church lli-l. Saturday, Dee. 12, 6 P M. 12-11-21

"Billing live and dressed poui-~

"Y dilly. highest market price: paid. Bervce and satisfaction our motto. F. B. Conrad d: Co. 12-4-31

"Reserve Dec. 21st for Christ- IMB concert in Lot 65 Hail. 12-7-12-18

“Almv goanlfrgon Variety Ocnait h a ursdey Dec . ' 11-14-10

“Borden if?» an ping Club lfammgfihoss at Albany pevery ‘rues- ‘Yé ucking if road still open.

. McKay, Beey. 11-12-31

“Hunter River Starch Ilactory close; y not? it'll: ""°" ‘P1211511

"about: 1m and dressed ohm:- "u all klliél°iilixi“““‘é“i' 51$ “mml River. o-sri-slu-tr. “Miiview Bhl in Oi b will load 51212101‘ the 1.1.533 51mm at Mili- mt gteation ccsnmeneing Monday

‘m! M camber 14th. List stoc ilton Jenkins, u

"Livestock Msrketi

rig . Board loadi he? at All usual points “med 0 of December 14th- mam lY- some stations. Highest l Prim bald weekly 12-12-11

"Bimini crossing of Cart fo "Qlf," "Ch ‘hllldlfilflflgiirflyflllg signal" Ill h°ls w u-rve st pm ‘t °l11 8-14 hours after eaving "out ‘$333 giifikfh ‘iiiiiisii ‘uhunilfllfd- ' 12-12-11

Russians run up impressive results

Pound Japs At Bana

the enemy. , Aside from tlie ‘violent engage- ments‘ near Vellkle Luki which re- sulted in the capture of important hilltops. the Russia bulletin did not mention any changes i; the general situation.

(The Germans said that the Russians were attacking vainly southwest oi Kalinin and at L~ke Ilmen soutti of Lenfngrad; that Nari infantry and tank divisions had encircled a Russian shock group on the central front: that weak Soviet forces were destroyed north of Stalingrad; and that a dcmioiating hill was taken in ttie Don Bend. The communique claimed the destruz-tlon or csctire of 1.262 Rtlssian tanks this month.

Guns

Iy DEAN SCIIIDLEB fated Press Staff Writer

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Dec. 11 - (AP) — Field artillery hurled tons of shells into the shrinking Japanese hold around Buns today after American troops repulsed a second counter-attack on their beachhead between the villa e and mission.

Ot er United States and Aust- ralian troops captured nearby Jap- anese pillboxe; in fierce bayonet charges.

The companion enemy base at Clone 12 miles up the coast. was anese stu bcmly held a nine-m 1e stretch of hot beach sands between Capes Killerton and Endaiadere. Generally the enemy positions are not more than a mile wide al- though a few Nlpponese are hold- infi out on the trail to Soputa. six m es inland.

The latest Japanese assault on the American wedge to the sea between Buns village and Cape Endairadere opened Wednesday night at b am. Enemy mortar fire from the mission and villese swept the small United States forces. but the were well-eh- trenched, and he d firmly.

Nine bombers escorted by 18 fightezs dropped hundreds of bundles oi supplies to the beleag- uered Japanese yesterday. b Allied lo-pounders, onortars loo-mm guns prompily laid down {devastating barrage where the bundles dropped 'I'he capture of large sup lies of food and munit- ions at na belied the belief that the Japanese were starving

,cr despezately short of supplies.

Allied troops made a fresh ad- vance on the Buns airfield, already under artillery fire.

Many Potatoes Lost In Fire

ARLO,N.B..D .11 _<cr1- Mo's? than 8.0M surfs of WWW!’ m1- the greater part certified seed stock. and the lame 9014M W"; house owned bv Vaughan Coo were destroyed by n"! Willi?“- Dsmoase was estimated at batman m. and I30. - in of t Io blaze. which broke out lit ‘l 0- clock, was not known

The

wssused Isa c

house for potatoes. A bu ct bri-

itize - c2: first: ‘L’ us‘.i......"..'"u. one build

lng. . k had left Chairlo. situat- Odulitlgogfll shore town of Dal- housle. earlier in the evening i0!’ Montreal where he is to be 111111105 tomorrow.

Veteran Jan Troops Stab At Chinese

A-eelgllpmnllfim aiiwwnm

CHUNGKING, Dec. 11 ~01»- vetei-an Japanese troops, with fresh reserves 201$:- l:

a "‘ ......""'1m us llnrglllhee from invasion tho hllh corrmand n ton t.

About e Japanese. atrikinl in three columns, began offensive opezntiona Dao. l against Cbineae forces in western Yunnan in the area north of Tongyueh and welt of the lalwoan River's HD1101’ M80-

a commu ue bald.

The re did not specify wheth- er the fighting. heavy the first two days and m ecntinulnif. n: the start of the large-scale enemy drive that an army lpokesmsn here had fcreeas" would be made with Kun- rnlug, Yumiank capital. a; its ulti- mate objective.

f: two forced to parachue to

building. owned Byuur. 0019:]

Hon. John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba ior the last 20 years who was elected (yesterday leader of the Progressive- onservative Party.

A slim, grey. mild-mannered man

59, Mr. Bracken has taken poi- iticel and economic crises in iils stride. With the political labcl oi “Liberal-Progressive” he has led the Manitoba vernment through difficult years or the Prairie 1.11‘- mer. fie has shown he has a pretty clear idea oi what that farmer thinks, a problem which has baf- fled mflny another ambitious pol- itician.

Mr. Brackenw ancestry reeds like a roll call oi the United Kingdom since his ancestors came to Can- ada from Scotland, Ireland and England. Even a stranger realizes the combination of ancestry, dil- igence, experience ‘and tolerance has brought about something that attracted the enthusiasm of ‘he restless west,

Born at Elllsville. Ont. June 32. 1883, he went to Brockvllle Hi "r1 School and the Ontario Agricu- tural College at Guelph before heading for the University of lli- incis He is a bachelor oi scientif- ic agriculture.

Mr Bracken was pr

(By Klrke L. Simpson. Associated Press War Analyst)

It la a‘ moot question whether llitler’: most recent high command shakeup is due exclusively to disappointments In Russia or partially to fear of more sinister circumstances brewing for him at home. There is no doubt, however, that his present hand-picked army boss. the politico- militarlst Gen. Kurt Zeltzler, is on a hotter seat than any of the pre- decessors picked by Hitler.

Zeltzler took over two months or more ago although his elevation to ehief of the general staff to succeed the dlsmissed or demoted Gen. Raider of the old German army caste is only norw confirmed by Berlin. At the time of the change In command, things were going none too well for Hitler in Russia. A row with his chief generals for projection oi the Stalingrad attack into the winter seemed to he the occasion for the switch

became a Russian fortress. I

There have been minors aplenty for months oi a widening rift be- tween llitler and the army old guard. It is at least possible that the Junkers of the military caste. lwho originally accepted Hitler as did German industrialists as a means to their own ends, always expected some day to get rlrl oi hlnr-anrl Hitler knows it.

Fighter Planes Team l/Vith Ground Forces

Allies Hurl Back Twin Enemy Attack By

C O

In addition to the Russian campaign muddle. he now has the Allied second-front in Africa to vex his slumbers. That developed after. not before. Zeltzler took over. It takes no great stretch of imagination to see Holder and Von B auchltseh, who stabbed his toe in Russia last year, and all the rest of the out-of-flvor Prussian military hierarchy laughing in their sleeves at their urn-start. blackshlrt rival. He has the worst mess on his hands of any general of this war.

O I O I I Q

Armoured Columns.

of field husbandry at the University of tchewan-froin ieio-te i920. then president of the Manitoba Agricu tural College for two year-i. In 1922 he was provincial premier and he has been in that office since. Mr. Bradfen, married in 111cc. has four children. He is a member of the United Church of Canada.

Two Killed In” Mid-Air Brash

11—-<CP)—Two another

euith when is, pair of single engme train- ing aircraft colittcd in mid-fill‘ Dec. 9 near St. Fulferce. Q10» "w, Eastern Air Czimmeld unmounted, here today.

The aircraft. from me R.C.A.I‘.l. station at Bugotville, Que, were practicing formation flying when

HALIFAX. Dec. airmen were killed and

tion and tang ed with The two killed were Flt. set. Jo- seph Guy Bertrand whose next-of- kin was his o1 UOriginsl, Cuts les Joseph Va‘1ee. kin was his father. 791 Marentette _A\‘e.. Wirdwr- 0111'

Sgt, Eertrands ia‘her is Mem- ber oi Parliament fir the conttu- ency 0f Prescott.‘ Ont. nzid a for- mer mayor of LOnsl1YBl~

m; pftll‘ who paracliuted to swfety were PO. Jrmcs Kenneth Allison and int. Ssh Joseph Ger-ed Robert. Bl"lr. (Homelowns of two unavailable)

Twin-Englned Plane Cram"

MONCTON. N.B., Der. i1_<ci>~ ._Tw'o members oi the R.C.A.Y‘. were killed and the, third ""1"!" of the crew 0f a twn-"Ivlfwd RC A1‘, plane was injured this after- negn fr: p, ctrush at the Scouzouc. N. .. a rpor .

Names of the crew were withheld Bending notification of next-of-

in.

wire’: next-oi-

Canadians Released From Internment

OTTAWA. Dec ll —(CP) - Three mcrnbers of the Confldllfl Navy have been released from in- ternment by Vichy French author- itleg in Algiers and have reached mgignd, naval headquarter; here

ounced

aim Mil!-

Bub-Lt. Jackson apearin. R 0- NJLR... whose next-of-kln is his mother. M11. Edna M spesrln of Peita leoo. Mao. wlll return W Oanarla for leave. the statement gfldfi m‘ gggAlggtlained at Camp La oua rl -

e other two-Midshl men All- an Hopkins Wlknot of tawa and John Henry McGi-egor Cocks of umdon, On .-are awaiting furth- fi- appointments with the Royal

avy.

U.S. Auxiliary Ship Is Lost

WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 -(AP) -'Ilhe United States Navy delta"- ment announced today that the U. S B. Alchlba. a GJW-ton auxiliary cargo ship was lost in the solem- ons area recently. "as the of enemy action."

lleavy Bombers Gross Channel

LONDON, Dec. 1l—- (C

to blast war centres ln

and Germany. east coast observers heard

and other aircraft high ove Channel enroute toward cupied Europe. The R.A.F.. and have made two big raids week. hammering Turin on

carrying out the largest sweep of the war on Sunday

suddenly one dropped from posi- Congress To the se'o"id. AdJourn Dec. 17

WASHINGTON. Dec

17

Britain's heavy bombers hflldtd for the continent again tonight

For more than an hour south-

roar of R.A.F.s biggest bombers

R.C..'\.F-.

successive nights in addition to

Pl-

Hilly

the r the o‘, . this fwo

day-

ii ——(AP)— 51W". E- °~ 5°‘"'1'"“'~l Dunccratic and Republican leaders and $81» Cm" were reported authoritatively today to have agreed informally to ad- o. R. Valet 01' journ the 77th Congress finally Dec

The decis‘on, reached after ex-

lleport Yugoslav

liiuerillav Leader

Falls From Power

I SCOTT YOUNG

Stiff Writer

LONDON. Decf 11 -(CP Cable) —Rcports that Gen. Drain Mihail-

ovic has fallen from wer

Yugoslav Guerilla

in the

f ght against

the Axis have reached London with

the arrival of two men who with Yugoslav patriots until

months ago.

fou ht a ew

The reports. denied vlgomll-il? b? spokesmen of the Yugoslav Royal

Government here,

[EVE 501118 6113'

denee to rumors which have cir- culated in London since Mihailcvic was attacked three months s80 in

i

broadcast over a station describ-

ing itself as the "free Yugoslav

radio."

Unofficial Yugoslav sources here

say Mlhallovic did not

command

more than 13.000 of the estimated

200.000 fighting Yusoslavs

since

November, 1941. The Yugoslav I0"- ernrnent steadfastly terms such

menla "rumors" and said Mihailovic “ls safe an

state

toda d wel.

and Just as mweriul as ever "

‘Hie “free Yugoslav radio“

state-

ment stacking Mihailovlc was not

circulated generally be

overnment denials of ltd

of the truth.

t the radio said it was drawn up after a meeting of ‘Ill representative

Yugoslavs irom districts of enelo, Boka

and Bnadiak

atatanont charged that Mlhailovie

id by the All! f0

was dlstur nces between

foment various

tended conferences. is expected to ed preclude the passage in this session flflnbfly further controversial legis- a on.

groups of Yugoslav patriots which refused

ta come under bis

09111-

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Events in the Stalingrad some since then have well proven the gen- erals sounder in military judgment than either llitler‘; military intu- ltlon or his yes-man Zeltzler. Stalingrad has not been taken. it is the besieging Axis army in the Stalingrad salient, itself under Russian near- enclrclement siege. that now ls in perll.

1t can be assumed that Zeitzlefs assignment was to liquidate the Stalingrad situation quickly in Hitler's favor. To do that. by llitler’: own pronouncement to his people. he had to take the ruined clty that

ly-arrived fighter perfect co-ordinaton w h ground troops, played a llig port yesterday in stopping and hurling back twin Axis armored columns that struck at the Allied Tunisian base cf Medjez E1 Bob, 35 miles southwest of Tunis

out in movement io the main Allied for- ces before Tebcurba was struck by a shflfp Allied counter-attack and driven back with the number oi tanks. a re ort from Ai- lied headquarters sai .

preaching from‘ the east. was mltted within 2,000 yards of Med- je-r El Bab before it came tinder a cocnentrated blasting from Allied tanks, artillery. iiifantrv and alr- cruft and was sent reeling from the field. leaving her" of its a cases Allied tank losses were said to have been "much lower" than those of the enemy

A. . Canadian Corvette. Modern

WOXIIEII 8-11

By Lewis Hawkins Associated Press Staff writer

IDNDQN. Dec. 11--(AP)—Ne\v- lanes. hitting in it Allied

One of the Axis ‘columns lashing a threatening flanking

loss of a

llitler Seeks To Block Uprising Within Germany

By ERNEST AGNEW Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON. Dec. 11 -(AP)——I-litler can-red the policy of Nazi party dcmuiation over Germany a stride forward today following the shake- up of the high command which has made Gestapo-trained Gen Kurt Zeitzler the chief of the General. Staff. A decree broadcast friqn Berlin

D.N.B. said Gauiaters, hereto- fore simply district party leaders, henceforth will have the authorit, cf district defence commissions As such they are zcsponsible to no one except Hitler and Heinrich Himm- ler chief oi the Gestapo.

London Conclusions

London sources drew these con- clusions from the decree, the shaketip in the higli cnnmand and relwed lllO\t‘\Z—

l Hitlci- is giving more and more parse." to those he can trust as a possible preventive against an iiiteiial uprlsin and a repetition of the i918 colapse.

>2 The Fuelirer is committing himself more and more to a de- fenswe policy,

3. He is throwing down another challenge to the German junkers.

The Daily Mail also reported an- other change in the German hi h crmmand coincident with t e shnkeup which made Zeitzler. a fervent Nazi but little-known sold- ier, chief of the Army General Staff: Admiral Fricke, another man without an advance build-up, Cll ef 0f Admiral Erich Raeders Navy General Staff. and Cob-Gen. Hans Jeschonriek, who had escaped the general notice of London ob. servers, as chief of the Air Fore; General Stuff.

The Daily Mhil said Maj-Gen. Adolf Gallancl. 30, Germany's lead- i:i air ace and ungest GeneraLhss been noooinie inspector general of German fighter plrmeiorces.

Party first Policy

In connect '11 with the Gauieit- er Decree. C~crvers pointed out that Hltlers pclicy of "party first" was being injected into the neart of Guzman militarism whose lead- e;s remember that Hitler was only a corporal in the last war

During the past three months n11 important exccufwe posts in the Reich have been taken ever by' trusted men of tho party's inner ring. niniiy of l.l‘i'|‘.‘l close to Himm- ler. 1' was pointed out.

The second Nnzi column. sp-

a “substantial num- nks behind. In both

An Allied spokesman was lavish

in praise of the aerial stipport elv- eii the defending forces. saying that fighter planes swooped the Nazis after the battle begun and "strafed the enemy like hell."

to attack

He said that the twin enemy ns-

sault- wae made in "some slruvrtli."

"We lost a, few turks." it report- Ore Axis f'1‘re athrvked frrn the

North along the ivest bank oi the MedJerda. a stream 11111:" mend- E1"! An Allied counter-stark. liunc‘ed immediatelv. was said ti hi-o "cs- troyed a nrmber of ewuiv innks. but riotliirg was added to the im- it of enemv rvetvntlcn or whether the attack po=itlvelv w"s iejiiilsed

northeast ih'o"g'i ‘Tcbnrbn.

The second Axis attark cime

from the cast and reached nnrint only 2.020 yards from Mrdjez Bab: but when engaged by All‘ed artillery assault formation was withdraw. the announcement said. llertalng several destroyed tanks be- n .

E1

and fighter aircraft ifie forced to

French troops fouaht side bvsldo

with Britons and Ameriraiis fri the engagement. the communique said. Allied one oi the Axis columns.

Corvette Rescues Passengers, Crew

planes aided in repulsing

Dec ll - (GP) #1118: l

b ht afe to p0 t 194 men. mu‘ ‘d cliyiildren rlescued from a

OTPAW

Canadian merchantman torpedocd iii the Atlantic. the navy announced tonight in a press release which told how the corvette crew pitched 1n to

help the survivors-even to meeting

requests for baby diapers. safety pins and tasty chicken sandwiches.

The announcement said without further identification that the sur- vivors had been lend)?‘ st a "west- ern Atlantic port." e 104 - the entire ship's company-included 50 passengers. of whom so were women. 1i children and l! men. The oungest a seven-months-oid baby: ‘he oldest was 83.