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n, imlssmly sionrlln no“, ,, the much as

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Covers Prince Edwardllslond Like the Dew

Guardian. Founded .

R. C. A. F’.

crew were still eager for

mills than they had experienced

over enemy targets.

To oblige them. FL C. W. ‘m, DFC, of Charlottetow 2.1-.

dipper. ended his

chance to strnfe German tr tanks, and radio installations.

On a tl-rvlight attack on a launch- ing site for German “flying bombs“ near Goromlos, France. the bomb- gr had unloaded its cargo on the target and was scuttling for home barrage about 20 milcs inside the French One piece of flak blasted the mid-upiper gunner’s turret, hi‘;

when caught in a flak

0085i.

s panel in ront, bounced back hit him on the nose. seriously hurt.

Long-Awaited

Forced to take violent sction. P-L. Higgins put his craii into a dive. the crew was so. close to ground that tlicv could see man troops, tan s, and radio staiiations looming up ahead. long awaited chance had c The mid-upper gunner, PO Keiray of Victoria, B.C. i053 moral Road), the rear gunner. bomb aiiiicr. manned the guns and went

Chance

oi their rgvcs." said the Cnna gunner.

the tanks opened up on us machine guns and rifles. “There was also ll. horse

The last thing we saw it was

real fun while it last-ed." he r-iuded.

Distinguished Career

FE-L. Higgins has had a distin- guished operational career with 55

forties. 27 on his first tour and I on his second. Arriving ovcrscas in July. i941.

he made two or three trips as a

second pilot on Wellingtons. then switched to Halifaxes

captained a crew on many sorties to the Ruhr Valley, Hanover, Ham-

burs and Cologne. He had trips tn Bremen.

roug

mamflflcs. Lorne Valley, August i 8-4-21. "Dance Fiat River Hall. Aug. "lh- 8-4-2i "Si. - ,.,. . . Show imdsidib ‘Filth/Fin’ sabiiiiil-“Fl:

"UnloadlngcAlblon Nut Coal at

Milton, B

Webster. 8-

d Ladies‘ Aid ice cream soci 4-11 l"

dev- Augmit 4th. s iiiugiiiiemaiiock. Hilda Cake. Dilloiierci? gpiligil. and

Picnic St. Crapaud.

"A cisélfm“ Airgun 9th

Milivi g.

"Dance in North Wlltshire Hall, Music by Char- 8-3-2i

Friday, A hnmwn igust 4.

flDPy Gang. "Bows:

will not be

W0 nigh! heel/y sows for shipment e to that aefgecai:

August non ‘smmponsorald Emmet" Clow - e-s- .

l1. i IDMBrsuFii ltliigtgapgr, nd Dance s. nor ' “Th! Murray Harbor ll?’ Me

Magus four P. M. Bay a

00L bu" lvestoeis u» ill Hurray town,

hols d i as follgwrzg

m"; Remington. Alban .

- i . ll"..i’.l"“““"- “’ ml“. wmmunity for trag-

He was - not

- ova sivc

iii a momviit

both Englishmen.

action. , ‘We could almost see the whites

"The troops digging on the bcachcs fled for cover as we opened fire, but those guarding

cart riloiig a road. The fire from our guns startled it and it boltt-d.

running. Wc also razed about 20 buildings close by the radio instal-

lations with long bursts before breakiiiil off the attack. 1t was con-

Tivice during his second tour he ht it k se

Bonnie ElIEllTS

twine Traverse Church of Scot- i

Twinc. u-i- Johns Wednesday. 8-2—3l.

"Dance. Orwell Hall Monday, ‘um "1- ew Orchestra

Bhl Monday. Await rooka. 8-4-14.

Marketing Board week of Aug-

honc cur A cnt

Three M flight Liout. Higgins

Ends Operational Career By Straffing

1. was the pilot's final sortie on his . second tour of operations and his

H1018

Hi-

tst. Avards) a Lion Squadron operational career in a blaze of glory by diving his big Halifax bomber to within s00 feet of the earth and gave his gunners and the bomb aimer a

oops.

and

alr-

the Ger- in- The omc. Con Bal- and

into

dian

with

and

still

He. and

five

3-21.

Oil ~ll

4-14.

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‘ m1. m“... y... Ourdhl Two our.

Nazi Tanks‘

FUR-LT. HIGGINS, D. F. O.

with only three engines operating. Caught in a barrage over Essen. this flight engineer was wounded and the starboard inner engine rendered useless. He continued on to his objective and got his bomb a\vay before returning to base on three engines. Another night over Osnabruk, Germany. an engine caught fire and he was forced to fly home on three engines.

Awarded the DFC, rt-L. Higgins s snt. a few months at an opera- i-onal training unit as sn instruc- tor before joining the squadron to start his second tour. He made 16 trips with this squadron including two to Berlin.

He holds the distinction of tak- ing Air Vice-Marshal O. M. Mc- Ewen. MC. DFC and Bar. air of- ficer commanding the Canadinn Bomber Group in England. on one attack on a French target. On another occasion he was accom- panied by G-C “Doug" Edwards. officer commanding the station.

With Lion Squadron Transferred to the Lion squad-

ron. F‘.-L. Higgins banged in l2 more trips within five weeks be-

fore becoming eligible for re- patriation to Canada. I The ace pilot of the bomber

group Joined the RCA?‘ in Char- lottetown, P.E.I.. in Sept. i940. He took his training at No. 1 I.TB., Toronto, elementary at Windsor Mills. Que, and won his pilots wings and sergeant! stripes at Moncton, NB, in July. 194i. He was commissioned oon alter ar- riving overseas.

F.-I... Higgins is the eldest son of Police Sergeant and Mrs. J. W. Higgins of Charlottetown. Thirty years old and single. he has a brother Earl, and a sister Edna, at home. Before joining up he was employed by the Imperial Oil Company in his home city.

Says Bracken To llun In lleopawa

WINNIPEG, Aug. Il-(OPF-‘Iilw Winnipeg Free Prue said today that Jorin Bracken. Frog-Cons. natmal leader, will be a candidate

NccDawa in the next federal elec- tion. The ,_ member is FD. Mackenzie, liberal. One of the smith Winnipeg seats was also mentioned, but it is un- derstood that Mr. Bracken prefers to seek election in s. rural con- s-tllmtenw.

Soviets Tcll Grist Story 0f Atrocities

MOBCOW. Aug. 3 — (AP) - A grim story of patients being atsrv- ed to death and killed by diseases spread intentional] at a German hospital in Slavu during the two years of Nazi occupation wsl told today by the Ukraine State _utrocities committee.

The committee, which included medical experts, said 150,000 pati- snia tied and that only 5M were alive n the hos ital when Slavuts, 100 les west o Kiev. wss retaken -by the Russians.

Soviet newspa ers full- Pbde display, wit accusations that Ge l-lerclcd patients into rooms where 1,000 were dying of typhoid and

tuberculosis. cu a dolly from ground

B

Stsrv d in diet of‘ flopirgsdo

od . "irsstfih and buried allvs Red

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4,1944

i‘ War

that way to victory over “

even hours sway.

more open road to Berlin.

ltennes of the Vlro-Orne sector.

Whatever the reason. the result

time.

“Situation Last Night

By Klrkc L. Simpson. Associated Prom War Analyst

Nnusds o! French towns familiar with tho Ilm Grout Wisr no racing through the wur news now as American armored power storm: through Brittany toward the broad open volley of the Loire.

Brest, Si. Nunlre, Bonnu, Nantes, Angers, they all stir memories of another war. The lighting men from this side of the Atlantic passed generation of Germans lu 19i7-18.

With American capture of Ienucs. the critical communications hub in Brlttl-ny. the lute of the {not peninsula that thrusts westward into the Atlantic lasso-led. Thai it is but leebly held by tbs Germans is now

w u.

the entry poi-i. in France

for fresh wuves of Aimericun srrned power can be no more than iluys or

An obvious first major objective of the Allied incursion into France, once the bloody beaches of Normandy had been left behind. has been nlued. At Ruined. or now probsbly beyond l4 on route co its next goal, the lat-moving column which took the city in its stride is already churning the dust of the northern slopes of the Loire Valley. The streams it crosses now sll flow into the Loire. And up the Loire lies the great interior mllitnry highwny across Francs from west to east, the longer but

There in no definite hlni yet of just how the foe hopes to meet the crisis ln h-snce. nor of Allied prepsrstlom to exploit successes in l ' ‘any that have obviously brought. the whole invuslon operation up to schedule. High Allied staff spokesmen visualised s chance nvcn before the full of the cnciny to decisive lotion snd complete defeat ln

It nuy be to keep such lmpdrtsni channel ports as Le Hiwrs out of Allied hnnds that the loo hss so concentrated his defence In the Orne sector. Or It may be under Berlin orders to hold there to the bitter cud to protect robot bomb launching centres further east behind tlic channel ccsst that Brittany was risked and lost.

has been Allied success in

1 the front sufficiently to bring the whole weight of General llfontgomery’: ever increasing 21st army group into action ‘

‘aneously fur the first

"Exminict New Ferry Ready Oct. 1945

OTTAWA, Aug. 3 -— (CP) - Trausport inister Mlcliaud said tonl hi, In the Commons

construct on of a new Yrince Ed- wan! Island car ferry is proceed- ing on schedule and the vessel is expected to be completed in 0c!-

94 . RC. Black (P.C.-—Cumherlsud) urged that it be coal-burning rnther than being operated by diesel engines as now is planned and so use unul available in the Maritlmu. Munitions Minister Ilnwe lnier- koierl that Prince Edswrd Island wns likely to become an import- ant oil nroducer.

King George ls Back In Britain

LONDON, Aug. 3 —- (C)P — The King, returning to Britain by air alter a 10-day tour of the battle- fields in Italy, said in a message to- night that the Germans had been “out generailed and out-fought" on the Italian battlefields.

The message was addressed to Gnecrai Wilson, commander-in- chief of the Mediterranean thu-

constitutcncy of B

110 Divorces Are Granted A

OTTAWA, Aug. l - (0 P) - Parliament this ear has granted ii0 divorces, eats lishing a high record for the last i0 years, Sen- ator John T. Haig, chairman or the divorce comm toe, reported to the Upper House today.

Of e ii0 ossu dealt with b the Senate committee this year i ori inched in Quebec and three in

cc Edward Is and. Partial n- uiiaslon of fees was recommended by the committee in 40 cases. The i944 cotsl com sr with 92 in 1948 and 30 in l .

Sqdm-Ldr. George Hill Reported @ing

IDNDON, Alli. S — (OP Cable) ._aqusdron Lender George Hill. D.F.C. and two Bus, of Plctou, N.S., one of the RCAFa leading fighter pilots. was today officially re rted ' lng.

a was credited with the des- truction of st iesst 14 enemy sir- craft and once tackled six enemy planes single-handed so that a colleague who had baled out could reach ssf

Gives Assurance Of Best Possible Service Pending Ferry Overhaul

Assurance that the S.

Scotia will “work ar- ound the clock on any and every day as necessity requires" in meet- ing Island transportation require-

F”

transportation committee of the Charlottetown Board of Trade from Mr. J. P. Johnson. vice pre- sident and general manager of the Atlantic ional Railways.

Mr. Johnson writes that he is "delighted with the manner in which our mutual interests are be- ing handled in close cooperation. which is the only way."

The Prince Edward Island. he states, left noon on July l9 ior drydoclr, "and everything that I can think of has been done in the way or impressing all concerned with the vital need of the return of this ship at the earliest possible dat "

e.

“On Sunday. July l6, Mr. John- son took the executive vice pres- ident, Mf. Walton. over to Cape Torinentlne and Borden so that ne would have a clear understanding of the difficulties in handling the traffic durin" t absence of the Prince Edward Is and. “I am sat- isfied that this official will do his utmost for us," Mr. Johnson says. He adds.

“I also requested Capt. Meguire to keep me fully informed and to wire me promptly anything that displeased him during the progress of the work. and I will not hesi- tate to communicate with Prem- ier Jones and yourselves as occas- ion imy demand

“There.will be no limit to the hours of service by the Scotia. This ship will work around the clock on any and every clay as necessity re- quires.

Old Home Week

“During Old Home Week, we shall give preference to passenger truf- ic and. if we have to delay dead freight. we can catch up on this later on. There will also be an officer at the ferry tenninal during that week to regulate matters.

=T2§rurnatas“shs“s;i-<'T6T"?i=

Goal Miners Go Back To Work

l -— (O Minister tonight

y _ . D. that

HALIFAX, Aug. Nova Sootia Mines Currie announced

nearly i1000 striking coal miners in by

the Alb on. MacGregor and Allan shaft, at Stellarton. N. S.. retur ned to, w k after s five dsy work

stoppage.

The miners went on strike last Saturday following tbs dlnn 0f two workers sfter u dis ute safety regulations in tho m cs. Stnlisrton local U. M. W. ch conditions in the mines were not safe. and culled s strike, {equating government investigat- on -

Mr. Currie said the miners re- turned to work on the Afternoon shift today. foliowin | this morning. The rovin pertinent of Mines had Promised an investigation into safety condi- tions as soon u the men mum-

“if! in.

merits, has been received by the.

i I

Region. Canadian _Nat- h

P. E. I. Tunnel Included In Suggestions

Report New Survey Of island Transportation .Possibilities Not Yet Ready.

‘OTTAWA, Aug. 3-(OPi—-De- velopment of three Maritime Pro- vince transportation projects. a bridge or causeway over the Strait of Dunno to connect Cope Breton Island with Nova Sootia. a tunnel under or s causeway over North- uiznberland Strait to connect Prince Edward Island with New Bruns- wick, and the Chirgiecto Canal was urged today in t e C mmons by Percy Black (PC-Cumberland) during sion of transport de- partment estimates. _

In reply to Mr. Black's rtuestsons on plans arid iu-osress. Transport- Minister Michaud said he was sympathetic to the idea of the Cl-iignecto Canal as a post-war pro- m. He Slifl no detailed studies

been mad S t

Como o

hld recently been renewed on the improvement of transbor be- tween Prlnce Edward Island and the mainland. He had not yet re- ceived a report from the engineers.

Mr. and said recently 1t had been decided to review some of the old surveys on the Chignecto Can- al project which lied een tinder consideration l-t different times since Confederation, but depart- mental engineers had been busy on- war work and what iittic time they had had been given to the Prince Edward Island project.

Of the Canso Strait project Mr. Michaud said:-

"This is a project of such mag- nitude thatt it could not be under- taken under present day conditions and it will have to await the end

the weir before receiving con- sideration from the Province Nova Scotiia or the Dominion Gov- ernment." -

John R. MacNlool iPC-Toron- to Davenport) supported the Chig- necto Canal project and said he had made a personal investigation of the matter some years ago.

" I am convinced the country owes it to the Maritime Provinces.‘

e said.

The project woudl cut 500 miles off the water distances between Saint John and Charlottetown and between Saint John and Montreal It would also shorten substantially the distance between Charlotte- town and Boston.

Mr. Michaud said after the war he hoped a definite roposition would be laid before parliament es the Canal would be "a. great asset to the transportation system oi Canada." In 193B reports on three different routes for the Canal pla-

troops and armor spread virt St. Nazaire.

Still other American forces spread out eastward from Avranches at the base of the Cherbourg Penin- sula, pushing to MQPLfllll, 20 miles from Avranches, and narrov. the sack in which six German d . sioris were trapped when British forces broke through‘ south of Oaumonl and drove to Vire

These British troops. now forc- ing their way eastward from Vire in a move which threatens the stubborn German defences south of Caen. were reported to be cn- countering stiffening resistance. but had the support of RAF ‘l‘y- phoons.

In Confused Retreat

Two enemy armored and four infantry divisions. which had been holding back the Allied advance east of Granville, were in con- fused retreat as Americans and British forces tightened a nose about them between Mortain and Vire. At latest reports they had a gap l 1-2 miles wide through which to flee and were abandoning tanks and other equipment in their haste to escape.

Resume Bridge-Blasting

Allied air forces in rising force resumed their bridge-blasting campaign to keep the sprawling Loire-Seine triangle scnlcd off and prevent Lil.) Germans from bring- ing up forces for a counter-attack against the line of armor swiftly sealing off the peninsula.

Gen. Eisenhower innilc his 10th visit to the Allied battlefront. conferred with Gen. Illontgom- cry. Commander of Allied ground forces. and Gen. Bradley, the American Lommander. and re- turned to England "all smiles.” It was announced for the first

time that the crack British Guards armored divisions had been in ac- tion ln Normandy and took part in the thrust southeast of Caen toward Virnont. Its present sec- tor was undisclosed.

COFFEE EXPERT HELPS

KINGSTON Jamaica —(CPi-_. The department cf commerce and industries in Jamaica has secured the services of on expert in coffcc proceaf-ing. grading and bulking until the completion of the market-

ced the cost at between $40,000,000 t0 $60,000,000.

In

liazis Appear To Be lletreating From Florence '

ROME, Aug. 3 - (AP) —Ger- man troops are pulling back be- hind the Greve river preparatory to s. withdrawal from Florence and advance units of the British 8th Army already have stabbed within three miles of the historic city. field dispatches said tonight. Loosening of German defences became apparent overnight and it was believed the enemy would pull into a tight pocket behind the Grave where it flows below the southwestern edgc of an attempt to hold until troops can be moved through Florence, Associated Press corres- pondent Lynn l-feinlerllng wrote from the front. German defences began giving sway during tho night an by morning it was observed that the enemy definitely was out. rcsumably to avoid urthar loss n manpower trying to hold their lines on the ridges. Effective work Allied dive bombers helped convince the G l it was time to fnli back.

On the western and of the Ital- lsn front the enemy showed de- termination w nuke a desperate stand along the Arno river and on both sides of the besieged cit of Pisa strong German patrols o up to 200 men hit into American ptositions on the south bsnk oi’ the

var.

T0 PREPARE CELEBRATION

MILLTON, N.B.. Aug. 8 — (CP) -'l'hl| little town wants to be ready for an appropriate observ- ance whenever Germany surrend- era. The Town Councl has de-

cided to set no ‘I committee to prepare pious or a celebration.

ing of the 19-13-44 crop.

4,000 Allied Fighters Action Yesterday

LONDON, Aug. 3 —- (CP) — More than 4.000 British, Canadian and American bombers and figh- ters struck today at the German aircraft industry, communications and robot installations in a mount- ing August offensive.

It was the greatest daylight as-i RAF‘ ‘

sault of the wnr for the heavy bombers when they smash- ed at two flying north of Paris. Canadian Halifaxes and Lancastersparticipnied in this attack. with Canadian Spitfire- squadrons flying in escort.