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3 Months May Finish Nazis

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IDNDON, July 18 — (OP) _ Nazi radio broadcasts acknowl- edged tonight that Gen. Mont- somery had carried his attack with British and Canadian troops east of the Orne river sud one com- ments asserted the war would be decided in lees than three months.

“The wer now is in its decisive

Hitler Uneasy ilver Prospect 0f llew Landings

phase." said commentator Jesn ___ Paquls on the Nazi-controlled LONDON, July is _ 5gp) _ Paris radio "In less than three

months we shall know if'the Allies have won or lost. On the east front its now purely a question of life or death. On the west front the Allies have thrown into battle all the forces they can muster- and the bitterest fighting must be ex.

pected.” _ Gerrnen-oontrdled Vichy

Uneasy over the prospect of new allied landings, Hitler has creat- ed a new anti-invasion corn- insnd in Belgium and Northern France and at the same time has taken civilian control in this region out of the hands of the military and placed it under the Gestsutl.

A dual shakeap. announced in

s broadcast by DNB, German agency, placed Joseph Grohe, 42-year-old high officer of Bit- Ier’: Elite Guards, as Gauieiter of the entire region and gave the military command to infantry Gen. Grace. The new setup ousted Col-Gen. Alexander Von Faiirenhansen, n fricnd of Field Marshal Karl Von ltundstedt. who had been commander of Belgium and llol- land since May 20, 1M0. and sub- seauently of Northern France.

Hitler himself issued the de- errc, DNB said. and stated that the change took place today at Brussels.

Von Itnndsiedt has been re- ported in Lisbon making round- about pence feelers. Grase's new command. white subordinate to eourmander-ln-chief Field Mar- sbsl Gen. Gunther Von Kluge, covers the area in. which the Nazis predicted a-seoolid Allied invasion "between Dunlrerquo and Ostenl."

CODIIANBOB ACTIVE LONDON‘ —(OP)-— A Commando

rroupof the Polish underground forceg on Jun 11 carried out a‘ k successful attefcx on Plncyow in! e s fiuthvm Polamli.h"rhey livid ‘the a wn or seven ours sett rig rec‘ N n f i100 prisoners, states a. report re- - e lfnimfi- ‘s”“““"" Twit: s. sry e essery w o recently at 9i had 121 deecendents. IDNDON‘ July m __ (AP) _ Red Armies of the south in a pow- (ldhillti EVEN-TS

ceived by the Polish government here, erful new offensive have cracked "Ehow at Canoe Cove Hid-av.

The radio ssid the Allies, with great artillery and mighty air support. had carried the fighting east of the Orne. and a German High PP nd okesman, Lt-Gen. Dittmar, declared that "the mo- ment has come when our last ounce of strength must be mer- Bhlllofl. es the enemy's superiority weighs heavily on German diers."

One German account of the of- fensive said the Germans were nt- tempting a fluid defensive against 30 divisions’ which this version said Gen. Montgomery was em- ploying.

Fire Chiefs Chitown At

Three-Day Convention

open German defences around the great bastion of Lwow in pre-war Poland, spilling through reeling Nazi forces for three-day gains of

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laps Face “Great National “Crisisff

Army ilonnanil is Shaken llp; Tojo Still Top

NEW YORK, July is - (AP) — Tokyo announced today that Pre- mier General I-lideki Toto been relieved as chief of the Army owarshaku smxofhil ' High Com

sup opens - mend in two dais in the face of what To o celled "an un- precedenly great national crisis."

The navy. chief sufferer in re- cent heavy defeats in the Pacific, underwent a. similar shake-up Mon- day, when s. relatively obsc Ad- miral replaced the Navy Minister.

The shakeup was announced in s series of broadcasts recorded by The Associated Press and U. S. Government Monitors. Other broadcasts told the Japanese peo- ple for the first time that Saipan had been lost with all its garrison and most of its Japanese civilian population. stressing ' the gravity of the cri .

Toto Still Top Man

WASHINGTON, July i8 — (AP) —Premier Tojo still is top man in the Japanese war ‘-' which apparently is being streamlined for uture clashes with Allied forces driving steadily toward Tokyo.

This was the interpretation that For Eastern experts —- who can- not be identified by name -plsc- ed_to<_iayv_;or1_ the designation gf___6g:

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Yesterdsy was a big day in the three-day convention of the Mar- itime Fire C eis’ Association now

In the morning sit i0 o'clock. the convention was officially o ne-d by Prwkient Karl Walker o1 red- erictcn. N.B. The invocation was then offered by the Rev '1‘. E. MaoLennan otter which Premier J. Walter Jones welcomed the de- legates to the Province.

rtls Worship Mayor J.ll. Bis-n- chard being unavoidably absent, acting-Mayor W. . wel- comed the delegates on behalf the City oncl extended to them the freedom of the City.

lVLr. J.A. Webster, Chairman of the Board of Water Commission- ers also extended a hearty ‘welcome

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Spr. Oliver Ross, Georgetown, P. E. 1., is one of the Canadian des- psteh riders, who help keep open the lines of communication in Nor. mandy-(Csnadlan Army Overseas Photo).

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By Kirlre L Simpson, Associated ‘Press War Analyst

German hopes of holding the Allied invasion front in France on a sector too narrow to serve as 1r base for major offensive operations have been blasted with apparent loss oi‘ St Lo to Aimcrlcan troops on thel right and a. British-Canadian drive across the Ornc southeast of Caen on the left, _

It is still too early to say whether a general German retreat in Nor- mandy is in progress. There is no doubt, however, that the reported loss ' of St. L0 and the cracking of the Ornc barrier repn-scnt Nrui reverses; tending to compel prompt re-adjusirnent of the front.

German surrender of st Lo, reverted in field dispatches though not yet confirmed by headquarters, is significant. The liormany cross-roads town was a bastion for the now dangerously exposed Lessay-Countances

reach terrain suitable for an immediate zrrlvnnce up tlm shallow Tire Valley.

Whatever the sudden collapse of St. Lo may indicate as to a general German withdrawal. its capture was oi’ prime importance In the battle that General Montgomery. Allied field commander has been waging to get elbow room for larger our-rations. ‘

Better weather. permitting the full force of Alli/ail tactical nir sup- myg of noun,‘ 11-00“; to b“ brought inin nlny for the first time in many days, undoiibtedly had much tn do with the. Allies’ double suc- Qggg, Th; weather has gone against the invading nrmv more than ‘(i108 since the great adventure was launched it scriouslv off-sci. tcmum-"lf iv at least. the inectlmable advantage of almost unchallenged Allied mastery of the skies over the battle area. -

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Caen

Through Wall 0f Dwelling

A car proceeding east on Eus- ton Street eorly this morning, ap- parently at a high rate of speed, went out of control and crashed through the wall of a house at l-‘i Euston Street, occupied by Mrs. Roy McGee and family.

Two or three persons, including a baby, were sleeping in the room where the car broke through the wall. A baby's crib was pushed half way across the room by the force 0f the blow but fortunately no one was injured.

The driver, and possibly a com- panion, fled before police arrived.

Before the car struck the wall it snapped off a lamp post crashed through a veranda.

and

City police were on the scene quickly and at once began search for the driver of the vehicle.

Some time after the crash the car was still wedged into the wall of the building. From what could be seen of the wreckage it np- peuged to have been badly dam- age

Details 0f Family Allowances Not Yet Worked llut

OTTAWA. Julv 18 —(CP)—— De- tail, of the Job the government feces in paying allowances for some 3,- 500,000 children under the proposed fsanilv allowance scheme have not yet been worked out, bu; intentions m1- to deccntrolize the administrat- ion as far as possible, official sour- ces gold today.

Estimates place the number of Canadian families with children under 16 at 1,500,000, but approxi- nut-zly half of them will lose what» over allowances they .1;,7.i.'1 through income tax adjustments and just how much each family will gain by the silowance scheme scheduled to come into effect July 1, i945. will depend 0n the income tax levied 1111:1121‘ the next budget.

Net cost of the family allowance szhtmc, pmvi-cied for in .1 bill now bcl -e the Commons, ha 8r pin:- vzi at $200,000,000; 4111131" pcr cent oi Canada's Mr bud-

a canadlm“ l means should be devised, either by

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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ADVANCE COM- MAND PO_ST, July lll - (Wednesday) -- (CP) .-_Bri1i5h and Canadian forces appeared in excellent position early ,today for a continuance of the smashing assault beyond Caen, and news of the highest importance may be imminent as spearheads of the Allied armored forces appear io have

pushed several miles southeast of the city.

GAP TORN IN LINES

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, July l8 -.. AP) — Marshal RolnmePs flank nearest to Paris was burst open east of Caen today in a great British-Canadian of- fensive and through the gap Gen. Illonigvimery hurled his pent-up force of armor across the Orne in punch inio 75 square miles of smoke-shrouded ruins l-eii by an unprece- dented battering by more than 6,000 Allied planes.

MONTY CALLS IT BREAK-THROUGH

This smashing blow, which Gen. Montgomery himself termed a “break-through", rolled southeast. across the flat country south and southeast of Cacn tonight with :1 power recalling the historic British assault at El Alamein in Eryn!-

On the American sector to the west. American troops today captured the hillside hinge stronghold at Si. Lo af- ter an eight-day battle, forcing a German withdrawal of a mile to 1 1-2 miles and threatening a crumbling of tire Nazi positions westward to the Chet-boring Peninsula coast.

HUGE AERIAL SHOW

Using air-power as well as the artillery barrage for which he is famed, Gen. Montgomery, the Allied Ground Commander, opened the onslaught in the Caen area st dawn under cover of the greatest aerial bombardment since. D-Day-a crushing assault by 2,200 bombers of all kinds which pounded tire enemy with 7,000 tons of explo- sives and moved along just ahead of powerful forces of British and Canadian tanks and infantrymen.

Gen. Montgomery struck at the gateway io interior France, driving into the heart of the Nazis’ strongest posi-

away. Britons and strong armored and mobiloi dl giogandinz h) miles sout-heastwardv M0NTREAL_Jmy18 __(CP,_ J_ called at Supreme Headquarter mm “me m!“

Heavy fighting Eight with the t m angwCersz. ans caning ou e n ‘ . Vaucelles on the east bank of the‘ forces speeding out into the Caenl pl311’1—ODt‘l‘i, ideal tank fighting a . . _ . _ 1 Th9 new oiienslva’ ammmcad m‘ lldaltmigrizigliiiise“gfzlxéllifllc ‘by surprise, and the headquarters $108311 0i 111-901‘ ill Qlleb“ H1115! be l cl Montgomery‘ based on the defeat oi the Bio.

tions, protecting the route eastward to Paris, 120 miles was resins to-l -" Orne across the river from Coon! t . Labor-Progressives country seven w l0 miles wide an ' I ‘the f%" snecml mess conferencg; legislature, told a political meeting statement so-l 1s well satisfied

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W’ to buy Tea and CoEee by the "flavour" standard,

vital to retain the co-operarlon and,‘ good will of the United States. Earlier, Ennanuel Shinwell, Labor,

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if he were aware that =i1cre ls con- siderable disqulet in British indust- rial circleg and elsewhere about the number of internationel conferences being held Mien: "we must be faced with a falt aocompli. preventing us from proceeding with our own in- tcrnntional policy."