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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA,‘ THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943

luhlcrlption Delivered, 55.00 l-‘lll, H.001 otlio- Provinces Q UJJ, 85.00-

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CAPTURE 0F CATANlA SEEN lMlVllN EN T

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Mediterranean Sea

Two-month aerial pounding oi Sicily’: airfield: end pom aoltcned up island for Allied invasion

main object

defences of Catania.

Mediterranean successes, yesterday's Bastille Day battle in S

French fleet-in-the-making to take

That A is loft of Mus. llni‘s turils it faces

War Situation Last Night

By Kirk: L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst

The fifth day of the ‘remendoul Allied sur e into Sicily saw a vast pincer movement in the making with its Br tish and Canadian eastern and American western jaws nearly I00 air line miles apart and crunching forward for decisive action on the Catania. plain.

Between these two fost moving forces, Canadian and American and British troops appeared pressing forward in the centre toward the next

ve, the low ridge of hills flanking the Catania plain to the south. On the west, United States forces had turned the end of the ridge in the capture of Naro Junction. To the east Gen. Mont omery’s British arid (Jnnlldian spearhead driving toward the or dangerously close to vital road and rail in ersectiong giving access to the flank and rear of Axis forces endenvoring to hold the hill the centre. Tile Algiers radio said the Allies had driven a wedge into the

Whatever the Allied plans for ea itallzing on initial and startlln

conquered France has known since her fall. The sound of the il_v is all hut audible in southeastern France. The word oi‘ it is being (tinned into eager French ears by Allied radio broadcasts.

And with it goes word of the. passing of Martinique from Vichy to fighting French control- With it went another addition to the fighting

Mediterranean and freeing continental Franco of the Axis invaders. llictl succcsscs in Sicily means ultimate destruction of what ' . now-divided navy goes without saying. Wherever it destruction at sea or in the air. And the dav is not distant when a restored French fleet can take over custody of t e whole Med- iterranean. releasing British and American scapower from those waters to concentrate on the German and Japanese fleets.

GOO-ODD

Enemy Says Battle ls Nazi Defence

LONDON, July _(AP|-_'l'he Gcrnlzln attack in Central Russia remained stalled for the second day ill the Orcl-Kursk area today and Nazi soldiers were driven from "sev- eral populated places" in another unnamed sector before a Soviet. counter-attack Lhnt left the flcld strewn with the corpses of about 2,000 German officers and men, the Soviet midnight communique salll.

The Germans, meanwhile, pictur- ed the Russian battle as a German defence of Russian oountcrattacks near Orel where lhcv said Soviet attackers broke through east and north of the city. They were push- ed back to their original positions later, the Germans said.

(Another Berlin broadcast said "our llltllck has been temporarily stopped by heavy rainstorms." This broadcast was relayed by the BBC and rccortlc-d in New York bv NBC.)

In the ll days since the German

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rt of Ca ania seemed at

bastion iii

cvelopment came on the hrightes

its own share in dominating the

SlCILY'S AIRFIELDS and naval bases are key objectives of Allied in- vasion forces Map shows the island's principal cities and its agricul- tural and mineral products.

llow Sicilians ire Reacting

By JOHN GUNTHER.

lvprcsentlng the combined American

PM! (Distributed by the Associat- ed Press)‘

All ALLIED FORCE COMMAND i051‘, Julv 14 _Slclllans in some villages have blotted or scrawled out “Evvlva Ducc" and "Evvlva Mussolini" signs on walls and bulld- lilRS and subtltuiled “Evvlva Georfle Vi." British officers returning from Sully told me today.

Other parts of the island's DOD- ulalion sccm entirely inert. and ipalhetlc to the invasion and unin- tlresfed in the allied troops estab- lshlnr themselves.

Peasants and village folk sit on‘. tile pavements as troops come in to rlnnk and smoke and hardly‘ kok up as they ride past on their mules.

Tllev are not hosille when ques- tlonrd but show a marked antipathy lo the rxlsusl regime and especially lo the Gcrlnans.

Bfilllllllii EVENTS

—Q— "Dance in Brookvalc School Tlursully- night, July 15th. 7-14-21-

"RJll B‘ T Jl 115i. BOUT 1°18“! llic llllidea “y 7-15-51

"Dance, cal and drink at D1"- lllllllflu l-‘l-stlval to-nlght. 7-1511- "Sz. 'l'crcsa‘sml>llntly at R0111) 51‘- monl. July 16th. 1-14-21-

‘"590 Rusllco Players ln Hunter

Rue: Hall, Tllursdnv. Play starts 9-30. Dance after. 'I~l3-3l "Dulce. Morell- Hall, Friday illZh

. ally ltith. Onllcst. .

Clifford Peters l-ls-nl.

"Oil hand Blue Stone Arsenflte 0f Lime. Bcoklng orders for Hyd- rilc of Lime to arrive. Dillon 8c Blunt-ll. l-la-ll.

"Entertainment by Charlotte- lown talent, Kinkora Hall, Friday. My 15m. Dance after.

7-10-1345.

H"Uluoadlng cor "Purina Feed" wlgfgo and Saturday at York. filall covehelégiyOlll order. C. F1354‘

G"Sce Fort Augustus Players in ‘BOTEQWWTI I-lall Thursda n Play lirts at 8.30. Dance a mp1s“

“Will taxes including dog tax ‘m rears on August 15¢, to Spring- "le school. wil be collected DY

w- By order of Trustees. 7-13-15.

8:'Alll'i'llill Parade and church imrllfit in United Church, King!- Rez}. airway} iiuly 18th at 3 Rm‘; '1’"'"~’P-' e 5 r u bi-ii-lll

"Travellers Yuri Hall rrlliuy c {Immi- Little cloollopmr" by M River players. Adm ion 2s

3° "mt-l. - 7-15-21

"silt! "Th: Maid From Missouri" glffllvwwn lioll bv rel-l Augustus

We. Thursday, July l5. m-ll

"(J0me to afternoon tea by 0erlt~ lyillnmylliy Women's Institute on w Links lawn this afternoon.

Flour young flyers, a Canadian, an American and two Australians, are back at their training Station on the east. coast of Canada deeply thankful for the spectacular RCA. F‘. and Royal Canadain Navy search tht. resulted in their rescue.

The men were the crew of a plane that developed engine trouble and oancaked into the sea lost week north of the Makdalen Islands. They were picked up after they had spent 24 hours huddled together in ll rubber dinghy drifting in the op-

en waters of the Gulf of Si. Law- rence. With their adventure over. each airman expressed the same

thought. “When the rescue planes and then the ship came in sight we were filled wittl pride at the coop- eratlorl between the Navy and the R.C.A.F. We rcolizlecl the spirit. that brought. iii-em out to look for us in spite of such difficult weather."

‘Ille four men are Warrant Offl- cer Second Class John A. McKay of 3&1 St. George Sh, Ivioncmn, New Brunswick, wireless air lltillllcrl Flight Sergeant C. .B. "Brownie" MacDonald of 109 East Fortleth St.. Kansas City, MLssouri, pilot: and Sergeants W F. Watts and C. J. Turner. bcth nf Bcndl. a suburb of Sydney, Australia, navigators.

Together they started out cn ex- crclscs in a plane from thclr llcmc station. 'l"hcy completed the first parts of their course without. i-rcub- l2. “But Just after we turned on the last leg, the starboard motor fal- tercrl and failed," Sgt. Watts 0-‘1- plalned.

Signnllcd To Summersilll-

MacDonald. the pilot, tried em- ergency measures but they were url- succcssful. He decided there Wflfi

led lo Summerslde "Single enitlnfr bomber trying to make Magdalens

"We continued on for six or seven minutes but. itlerl we begun losing height llncl couldnt hold our course. We knew we were in for it.‘ Sili- Watts recounted. "We hit the water with mnasly crack but the plane

Axis Report

(Associated Press Staff Writer)

LONDON, July i4—(AP)—l"lercc fighting along the whole Sicilian front was reported by the AXIS partners todav and Rome admitted that the Allies are “now thrusting towards the southeastern moun- $154011? religion‘: and ‘facing the

a an a p a n.

Offering "the stubbornest. slstancc," German and Itol troops "dispute the Anglo-Amen leans every inch of ground arid ln- flict heavy losses on them. Mid the German milits _ commentator. Capt. Ludwig sci-tor us. in a Berlin

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f, P-"l- Tlckets 2s cents. >—-

7-15-11

broadcast recorded by The A5- . l t d Press. " WTlliiE tune of "hard fighting and

Had ilirillliiig Escape .. rom Disabled Plane Off Magdalen Islands

wasn't out of control. The port motor was sill functioning as we plunged and the nose submergid about a fool. The pilot dill a good job all through."

In o. few seconds all the crewman were out on the wing and the din- ighy was inflated and launched. Mc- ‘Kay went back lllto the plane to attempt further signals and Walls also made a similar" trip.

The aircraft floated for 25 min- llics and for awhile the nlcn re- mained on the wing. But when the nose b92811 to plunge and the tall tlltcd they took to the dinghy. They had floated about 200 yards away when the plane sank.

Meanwhile the distress signal had brought. quick action at the home station. All aircraft taking part in the exercises were notified; plan-cs were diverted and the search was on

Command observation

Control at Eastern Air headquarters; to all posts of the Ccrps: to neighboring All"

ions. appealed to naval authorities mirlcswecbcr

vlllc: another

patrol. The ships all met in ren- dezvous.

search. The four airm-cn were wcll known at the camp and thclr erm-

' to the rescue. Tll- scorch was very invasion. ' personal. Alorc out in their dinEllY. the

only one chance and McKay 51811111" four nlrnlcn. loo. could tell scorch- elldangered by the weather. Evcljv tow minutes wovcs would brcak cvcr them as they lay

lng time was

Notifications went. out to Flying

Aircraft Detection Force stations: to all the RC AF. Air-Sea Rescue units; and other organizat-

Thc F'l_vlng Controller in Hallfag an

received zlll immediate response. An cmerltcncy signal went out to the mhcswccper i-LMCS. Drummoncl- was placed in readiness: and a flotilla of Flllrmllcs from Gnspe Joined the

The home station led in the aerial

. rude-s clamorcd for tho chance tn flv

lleceives Wings

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A popul- member of hockey and boxing is lit Prince of Wales (Tollcgc, Charlottetown, LAC. S. W. Lcightlzer ivas among the many newly-fledged pilots who received their wings from Air Marshal L. S. Brcadner. C. B.. D. S. 0., at No. 2 S, Uplands, near Ottawa. on Frill afternoon, Jilly 9. Syd- ney lkillllilllll‘ also was a member; of the Ligurian Dramatic Guild in‘ (thzlrlotteinlvn. ll;- is a son of Mr. aiid.Mrs. John F. Lcillhlllfl‘. 53 Bayfielil Sl., Charlottetown.

llellyllommel Shot Down

BER-NE, Switzerland, July 14 — (AP: -A Swiss dispatch from the French resort of Aix-Les-Bains said lilat German Field Marshal Erwin Romnlcl left there aft/er the Alllcs launcllcd their invasion of Sicily.

It sllid he had been resting there but lcfl, hurrirclly" by automobile with his staff for Lyons after the

,Firei Chiefs

Summer Students

A attack began, Soviet ccmmunlques have listed more than 40,000 Ger- mans killed, about 1,392 German planes brought down and 2,919 tanks destroyed, or damaged.

The Berlin radio said the Russ- lrms had attacked with “very strong forces" from north of Orel t0 Sukn- lnchl, a. rail junction 1'70 miles

th Y f SACKVILLE, July 14 _(cl=\_'rllu. ,‘,°.‘,‘.,,,“§§“§,,fi“°“°“ “d 9° “m”

I76 students enrolled for the 20m This se-“lim 0i ‘he MQVWWQ Summer. comlnunhlllfeoulbbtlindrecgllfedelliergig: school at Mount Allison University, mdio Bflnn‘ m, U“, Aswchmd orzanlzcd and elected officers today.‘ Py-gss‘ suqggstfd m" the Rgd Army

The officers are: President Morris! had “cm-wed Succésses m the ex; A- MKCDZEYTB 5V MaYUn-si N-B-dtendcd sector The Nazi Generals vice PTQSRWM M11<1P9d 380055,‘ sold “Crernlnlrrcscrt'cs have launch- Maywood. Illinois: Secretary-tren-gcq a counmeatryacku The battle sllrer, Donald Estabrooks, MCAClZllll-l nm-th of QM “n5 declared "m, N‘B' 1111111"?! "Willi rzrcat violence." Russ- lan sources said nothing of an r-x- lcnsirln of the front,

Both sides agreed that the sector south 0f Orel was quiet.

Elect Officers

Veteran Banailian llivision In Action

LONDON. July l4 —(CP)— The Canadian 1st, division, which land-

. ~_______ Jillled Planes czl ill Sicily lastAsaturday and new

had more than 3 1 2 vcars of trail». lng experience.

The 1st division is the veteran formation of the Canadian Army. It arrived in Britain in December, 1939, with LlL-Gén. A. O. L. Mc- Naughton (then a Major General) as divisional commander.

For sccurltv reasons 1t has not yet been announced which senerali officer commands the division 1n.- Sicily.

LONDON, July 14-(AP)—Unit- ed Slates bombers and swarms of smaller Allied British planes ldarkened the F‘l'ench skies today with bombing attacks on an air- craft. factory and park at the real Le Bourgct airport in the aris suburbs and four other German

installations.

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lThcy 4210f down l h . . ancs, of which fel to tc The “"15"?” 115d bee" P“ the iicndly bomber guns over Le Bour- iii-iii. Eleni??? $1901} ETZZ i)? get‘ Aimlmi repair and assembly its units went to Scotland 1n the spring of 1940, on their way to Nor- vlzay, where thcy were scheduled to attack Trondheim. 1

But they were turned back be-, fore embarking when the British; diversionary attacks further north‘ scored initial successes. Shortlvi afterwards the Norwegian cam- paign collapsed.

In June, i940, just. before France fell, a brigade of the 1st dlvlslon .- . . —.-. crossed the channel as part of a 1110"“ “"9 POUIldQd-

German

(The Berlin radio suddenly ceased broadcasting late W'cd_ ncsdny night, indicating perhaps another R. A. F. assault on the continent.)

The day's operations by the R. A. ‘F., thc R.C.A.F., and the Americans added up tn probably the most powerful offensive yet. delivered on the German air

force in western Europe

British plan w send a new a» A Joint communique by the air - . lninlstl and U S. fill‘ force set Al- pedltionuy ‘owe to Md “annulled l0 lit eight bombers and

But the military situation hlld il€' tcriorrltecl there s0 rapidly that it . . . . ,, w“ decided "D rem“ m“ blllmd“ spgtllli-l-“Eilrgstfllhliivliilhe widespread which had pmelmted deeply 1M0 dllvliulil attacks which followed a France without, however, meeting hpflvy R Aqr mm on m9 “m. the canny, _ _ livlzir‘ l'.lll\Vl'l_\‘ cclltrc of Aachen in In 1942 the lst division provided _<.n1t1;\\-p_<t Gpflnflny 1H5; m 1t the troops that occupied Spltsberz lu-ol-l- alrflelds u: Amicns-Gllsy, Ab- en, a task which was cnrrledlhevllle and Tricqueville. throughout without encountering W ' *':---" the enemy. The Canadians destroy-l ed military objectives on the island;

{four ilflllififS but (lid not further

usysians Launch Counter-Attack

12,000 Axis Prisoners Are Taken In Sicily

Still No Serious Opposition From‘ Enemy; Rapid Advance Continues.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AF. RlCA. July 14 — (AP) — Britain’s victorious 8th aim)’. bolstered by the Canadian 1st division, to- night bore down on Catania, port city half-way along the eastern Sicilian coast toward the prize of Messlne opposite the toe of Italy, and late dis- patches said Catania’s fall was imminent.

_ln the southwest a powerful force of Americans,- whlch already has taken more than 8,000 prisoners, scored a 15-mlle advance on the left flank, cap. tured two more key airdromes, and struck inland toward Caitaglrone, southwestern gateway to the Catania plain which it was believed the eighth ar-

my already had reached on the east. More than 12,000 prisoners s1tc-;‘~--

gather have been (faptureltll on Sicily was announce ton g f. and 0n~ N ilWSlilfill 1 I alillllll" "Wflslvn

lthe fifth day of the campaign Axis The American middle column, , For Canadians

‘Iyzed. In the words of one mlll-

defences appeared to be still para- hmlrlcd tnwnrd Cataglmme, last JVRS PQDOYIQd only‘ a few miles from there, flghtlngaGcl-mnn unit; at Nfsceml. The Americans were‘

11106201}!!! the most opposition-and capturing the most prisoners.

By Louis v. ululm i 1 lCanadian Press War Corresponder‘ l, Al-GIEH-S. Jilly 14 —(CP csblelq SQVPUHTD Will‘ COYPPSDOIIElPIlIS ‘z credited to the Canadian 1011a are lcportirlg llle Sicilian invasfo for the Canadian peOple, Four them accompanied the Original rm

Ahead of Time Table

But an zlllled commentator" said that. ln the overall picture the glues "are n01; really niegting flllyl

"0115 ODDOS on" and lspatches 1 ,. .

~ n h ,saul fo.c_c. The rest came to Norm mme 0e“ t at the invaders Africa with reinforcements which

were ahead of their tl 4.1 , ppm to crush the Axis timings‘; lg-glwd ills. as the invasion start,

armies in all operation similar to

that in Tlmlsla. The four i British troops, and the Canadians g2?“ $32210 ‘g5 attached to the 8th Anny, were ‘ ‘ . reported within l5 miles of Catallla T10 canadm“ during the afternoon after a swift Pmsis; PM" 20-milc HKlYPFlCP from fallen Auzus- Simmer‘! 0f ".18 til, whose port was found to be CBC- 3m W11‘

slur 0f tho Bri- tish Urlltcd Press and L 1o n ei Shapiro of the A Montreal Gaz- ette. Shapiro wal

viccrlblx.

At this rapid clip the 8th nrmv should be nearing Catsnla unless serious opposition had dgvglqpgd at thevlntermedlate inland foams of Ientllu and Carlentlni on the edlzle|

of the Catanln plain below volcanic l Chow“ 117*’ 1"" Mount Etna. Cntonfa itself is wlih~ fmm , a "W115 cut ally natural defences. l Calmdm“ 1nd“

lX-lldent war cor. Pusult Continues T, m ‘Psmndfms 1"

one dlgpgtch 1d um ‘rd 0f the 13 OthPr correspondents 0; Cfltamm whhqiaynkq beeglgbosggjlone is acmodllnrl to allied head: 3mm (mm ma and all pmmblv quartcrs. flvo are rlccrcclrcd to air could hear the guns of the invad- E W’ ' ' ers.

A Reuters News

(Continued on putt‘ T Col 2. ‘ Agency corres-. pondonl ln a dispatch from Slcilvi said the invasion had laecomc "a- pursult of an almost nolrmsistlllg‘ tfF-flilli" and was nhcad of schedule l ln the race up the eastern coast. l

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that he tries out food rcclpcs on his wlfc and so for she has romainodl

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Meet llere

close together trying to find warmth ln the five foot space of the dinghy. The sk, became overcast: visibility

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Fierce

Fighting In Sicily

Enemy Tune Resembles That Used When

Rommel in Retreat In Africa. i steady Allied reinforcements was By GORDON TAIT closely akin to what the Axis pro-

paganda machines illlYflfl W119“ Field Marshal Erwin Rommefs army w-ns retreating ylcross ubya.

Both Berlin and Rome predlctfll new Alllcd landings on the West coast of Sicily.

In a cheer-up broadcast to the Italian people, the Rome radio sold that ony new were the British, Canadian and American forces bc- glnnlng to face “the lilk of dc- fcnslve Itnllnrl and Clcrlnan YE- scrvcs which prove placed like man- ccuvlablc ma ses ill the centre 0i the Islmlll.“ "lore Allied lancllnit! might. be m: ‘x this broadcast said in apparent "Ullltnfllltln whv the full wclght n: Axis strength had not been thrown in to halt the Allied advances.

Next Year

AINT JOHN. N B. July 14 —(C Pis- Chief Karl Walker. 11m ‘b191, of (he Ficderlcton Fire Deimfmwnh was elected president of the Marl- tlme Fire Chiefs‘ Assoclatloirl At the concluding session of the annual convention here tllLs after- noon. Al the some tulle _lt was dc- cltlcd that the association would hold its annual nlfctlng next year at Charlottetown,

Ofilwr officers for he comlnll year are:

CllLcl J. S. Walsh, cllmpbcllton, first vice-president: Clllvi FY00

Burt. Rcscrvc Mines, N S., second vice yrcsldcnt; Chief Charles A, Cllnnlnlzham, Saint John, S00"- farytzcrlsurer. rte-elected; hlldlwfl. Chicf H. M. Mcrsereau, Sydney, N. s__ Captain E. Percy Howard, lnt. John, and F‘ R McLaluc. Chill‘- lotiemwn, rc elected.

ennui-o 1'

FLORENCE, N.S., Julv l4 -FCPl “Efforts to arbllrntc n (llsnutc at thr- Nova Scctlo Stccl and Coal (‘onlpanyfls Florlllcc Cclllcrv failed today when R. R. Dickson. resid- ent superintendent. refused to dis- cuss tho issue ll'l\'."l\'f'll whllc the

mine le idle because of a strike.