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\_Y§’f' ice-lio- lesfiNigff iAlliecl Armies Surge AheadHEasi: of Rhine BULLETIN

_ PARlS, itlarcn 1.1- (CP)—In a spectacular day of gains, foiir Allied armies surged forward today from firm lodgments illong 200 miles of the Rhinos east bank from Rees to Worms. (ierrnan resistance WllS disintegrating al-

_—' ' most everywhere SAN FRANCISCO M‘ h ' ‘ . ' . , _ ..

(fir) _ Th, yapfinugrcpufi; Three United btates arnnes pushed toward Berlin in ,agzaiyhifgifiiféglzfé‘;dlfigigiazfl break-throughs and the British "iii Army, with elements at Okinawa Island in the Ryllkyu of the 1st Lanadian Army, heightened the power of the chain Monday morning lJopanese

time). There was no Allied con-

flrmatlon.

grand Western Front offensive. by pushing eight miles

north 01' the Rhino onto the Germain plain. hurdling one Churchill Visits East 0f Rhine

river lrzlrriel" on the lierlin route and slashing across n super-iiighlra_v running" to northern Holland. The l-tzige ‘for this new often was set by epic Rhine crossinirs Friday IllPjlll and Sntul‘ y by the British 2nd, American 9th and elements of the 1st Canadian Armies. LL-Gen. Dempsey. the 221d Army's commander was ln the Artillery Shell Lands Within 50 Yards Of British Prime Minister. wrrn THE F's. 9TH ARMY, March 25 ~— (AP) - Prime Min- ister Churchill came within 50

field 1211s‘. of the Rhine. Tanks of the American) 3rd Anny, which crossed the great irctcr bar- Yar): of being hit by a German ar- tillery shellltoday as he inspected the blasted _Wesel Bridge after a

1_o yrncas i i“

By ELTON C. FAY. Annotated Proo: Wu Anulylt

Th"! i I ITBIIII Dolllbility that the Germans will fight out the int round of tho war on the illrtintegrating Rhino line rather than full back to o redoubt in the llplundl.

lf co. the decision will not be entirely of choice. The “ mind. its Rhine ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ by o, ‘ ‘ of r ' III-‘ofnfronted with the moat difficult of all military manoeuvres-disen-

ng. .

Some of Hitler‘: molt oherirhed troupe. including the let parachute Army. Ire engaged It tho northern end of the line. They can't let loose: Allied force: are :t their throats; they don't dare turn to run. And if s!!! dad. the once fine German road not in blasted by armada of Allied

rcra . .

lpcok of new frouia. Sot- tlng up a now front :oro:: the flat land of northern “ wl h trunlportatlon cut to piece: and the whole are: under :eri:i would be all but lmpocelbie, t llglw rapidly the enemy‘: Rhino lino l: going to pleceil is exempilil ’ no o y In the reports of now Allied crowing: but in the swift linking up of Ill-borne Ill" ""11 Iround forces of the Allies on the lower Rhine ‘Yldlehcld. One of the valuable ntriliutlolia m:de by airborne troopu fl to drive the enemy from positions where he can obrerve and correct hi: own artillery fire on the crossing grep],

There ha: been a uuddcn deceleration in the rate of prisoner-o tak- en. Presumably part of this is accounted for by the swift lunges of the Alllod force: with resulting enclrclement of :m:li groupl. But in part, the decline in the Gernun will to light probably r ' in the In. oreuiug prisoner toll.

Thi: i: not to ::y that tho morn-lo slump ho: extended universally, even among civiiianl. Ono report spoke of German civilians and police firing at Allied troops. ullng balooka: and rifles.

Mull"! m!!! ll)‘ ihilt the Nlli cilto troopl. heart of the party's pow- er. oln be counted on to fight until they f:ll. They are the tough young men of the 8.8. througlliy lndoctrlnoted and bottle-wise killers. The age group of thou men I: about 18-81 yearn.

Those are tho men the Nut party hope: (o now f:ding hope) to take into the fultneu of Bavaria and Aiutrla. It f: true that :t the south- ern end of the front the prospect: are better, even good. But they are only : part. prcuumubly o email port, of the total elite troop strength.

Cleavage Of Opinionpln Commons Shown Up By

‘attack.

l!

shown hero o: rho appeared loot year while tak- ing part in the invasion operations off the French ccasL-(RCN Photo). 4

I. M. O. B. “'.l‘renton.lan," one of the Royfll gguadlan Navy's eorvettee was sunk recently by a brpedo from l. German U-Bcat. One officer Wflfi filled and five ratings are missing. “Trentonian" is .

Canadians Capture First Town East OfRhine River

North Nova Scotia Highlanders Include Regiments Taking Part In New Drive.

Casualties in tcrvette Sinking

rier l~‘r .1 night, set thc pate in a ZT-miie s 'e."p that carried 40 miles. beyond the Rhine and across a cap- tured bridge over the River Main possibly 235 miles from the enemy

i5 minute visit to the 9th Army's

bridgehead east of the Rhine.

While the Prime Minister was

peering through binoculars at; the

remains battered Wesel, from

capital. The United -States 9th Army the shattered western end of the bridge, a German artillery shell

broke out into the open through the cnciilys Rhine line, crashed eight miles or lnore beyond the Rililie, was within reaching dis- tance of a Berlin super-highway, and was but. l0 miles from Essen, lllfilllStfilfil heart of tthe Reich. landed 50 y rd - _ om U: Tie United Stabs 1st Army crackled in“, ihes mfffliy c‘ ' biust the bonds of its Renlagen- Erpol bridgehead between these two

OTTAWA. ivlmn as -(ce>- in List of casualties-Lone officer and five ratings-aboard the torpe- iioed corvette 1r ' with iext-of-kin follows:--

Killed ln Action

By R088 MUN") nt-oe... William

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iw-lvcctock . til m‘;

Stephen, Gordon Kent. Lieut. .C.N.V.R Toronto.

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Beck. Moyle Kitchner. 1a.. R.C. it, Mrs. Bertha Ellen Beck ‘ to), Lunenbunl. N. S.

athririe, Robert Thomas, Ab., 1 .N.V.R.. Windsor. cumfer. John Alfred. 1.11.. RC. VB. Windsor. Y "iturvey. Colin Bancroft. 1a.. R17. Iii... Mrs. Mary l... Harvey, (wife) I Globe Ave, Sydney, N.S. licCoi-mlck. John. Stoker 1st tliu. R.C.N.V.R., Belleville. Ont.

Coming Events

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"livestock ‘Markelting logs a usua po lnneek of March 26th. itliiltcal agent for service. 3-24-21

"lliltitlltoa Dance and Auction llltln Mlllview Hall, April 2nd. Blake and Ings Orchestra. 3-26-11.

"Taking hogs at Hunter River Thursday afternoon and Friday liiitil noon. Borden Bagnell. 3-26-31

"UVUAOCK MEIKBUZIR BOGIG will’ 1108s ut Murray Harbour. lggvlllo ind Uigg Monday. sMarch

Board

"Garden seeds, w: heésatt iiariettel. a . York. one

All the latest Send for tree thur Vesey.

"livestock Marketing Board d"); hugs at St. ‘Teresa, Mon- ill! filternon. March 26th. Joseph "Whitby in charge. 3-24-21. "lflfldlilg Hogs

h for Davis d: Her btd, Tumday. ifntil further “"1"- Flve Houses. J J. Lhfzlllllk

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haibdook Marketing Board in: at. Elmira Monday

11086 lftcrnoon. March 26th. John Pierce In charge. 3-24-21.

wh ailing car No. t Buck a "t at Vernon River, March lh 11nd 71th. Gordon R025.“ u

‘"011 account of road conditions Will not be buying pigs any- fllm but Fredericton until further Filth Knud Jorgensen. 3-26-31 . "hitching hogs m Charlotte- mh Tlellfifldl hay tofternooin ' 0X1 i’ SEIV C9. Qflnciviilivievi’, o 3-24-21.

"livestock Marketing mid

hogs at Bedford Tuesday "kmon until train time. ‘Jlimnllfl in charge.

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Germans Report ilevv Airborne Landings

LONDON. March 26 — (Mon- day) -- 1GP) _ The German armed forces radio reported that new Allied airborne landings were mode Sunday on the east bank of the Rhino River.

This report said landings were made "north and southeast of ‘Wcse-i" and described the alr- borne forces a; "strong."

Huge Jap Plane Engine Plant Left in Ruins

By MORRIE LANDSBERG

GUAM. March 26—-(Mondel') " (APJ-Much of the nose M"- subishi aircraft engine 911ml» 119M‘ Nagoya. is in ruins today frcln n. daring low Pfvlmw“ Sllrgmy superfortress raid which cost” t sec planes from the lamest B- c- molition force to hit Julia"-

The Nagoya attack on the hilt; sublshl and other lndustriag plan was a rapid follow-up c! he clo- sest surface bombardment cf the war to the Japanese mainland fir‘; day and Saturday. when U" e

' states task force 58 bombed and

.hll d the Ryukyu Islands. only 30C ‘iniles southeast of Nllllltms home Islands.

Radio Tokyo. in l brolllflllt today. predicted an American lttempt to land in the ltyflklll would be made short-ll’-

Twentieth Alrforee Headquarters a; wpghfngton announced the loss of the three B-il9s over Nasal’! and said "8006 results with fire! and explosions at the target. Welt‘ obtained by visual and fnstrtlmrllt bombing. Fighter and anti-aircraft. opposition was moderate.

While the official announcement, said that a "very 111189 159k "l", b! MaLGen Curtis E. Lemays Marianas-based 21st Bomber Gom- mcnd made the NWO B- Strike. unofficial estimates PM"! ‘he number at more than 200 in this 11m. n-ao raid on Nagoya and "@- inity since last mid-December.

Tokyo radio admitted that fires burned until '50 am. Th6 "Y" bombs fell on hour after mid- night.

__________ Air-guys CELEBRAB!

ATHENS. March 2545*’) - (AP)—Ali Athena turned out to- day in surging. cheerful crowds to watch eelernonicc marking the 124th anniversary of Greek "ide- pendence. The regent, Archbishop Damasklnos. and Li-‘Gm- R- M- Sggblg, British commander in Greece. along with mem of the diplomatic corpl. reviewed a Wwhour parade of Greece's ren- ewed military otreBBt

_____.___ CLARK GABLE IN iiosrlrili.

LLYWOOD. March 26—(AP) 0E3 Gable of the screen. iniured gltghtly in : traffic accident, wail in hospital today for treltonent of .1 laceration on the right lea and

his studio announced

rm THE canamms n: T12; LOWER RHINE ‘BRIDGE- HEAD, March zs-(cr Cable) - Canadian infantry today captured their first town east. of the Rhine as the British-Canadian bridge- head was extended to a depth of six miles at. the maximum 1701M with a. base of l2 miles along the

river.

This bridgehead also is linked now with the United States Bth Army south of Wesel. The Highland Light Infantry of Ccnada. ITO!“ Gait, Ont., took the Rees-Emme- rich highway after some street fighting early this mornlllfl-

Opposition to the Cflnfldlflfll l! as stiff as anywhere along the bridgehead perimeter and it is inevitable that the coins t» 510W over dead. flat country. However, the Canadians. holdins m9 "will" western end of the bridgehead, are in firm position and all day Sun- day kept hitting out at the en- e

my.

Infantry of the German 15th Panzer Grenadier Division has been identified opposing them l" long the Rees-Enrmerich road and prisoners also have been taken from the 8th Parntroop Dlvl-ifrm which fought earlier along the Hochwald line east of the Rhine.

The H.L.I. was the first Can- adian regiment to cross the Rhine in Saturday's epic assault as the 21st Army Group offensive Ln the heart of Germany got under way. The Highlanders crossed the riv- er at Rees. where a bridgehead has begin‘ lwoéi gyAscottish troops of the B (Si ll rmy.

rWlth the 3.1.1. in the brldee-

are the Stormont. Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders o. Cornwall. Ont.. the North NOV-i Scotia Highlanders of Amherst and Truro and the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. Newcastle. NB

‘(As of February. these three re- giments were 3rd Divbion format-

ions).

The North Nova Scotia Highlan- ders pushed another two miles up the Rees-Emmerich road and in late afternoon today were attack- ing Blenen. The Stomiont. Dilli- dae and Glengairy Hlohlanflefl were operating between Btnen and where the Rhine bends west o! Rees, The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. suppo this advance northwest of Rees o‘; the northwestern and of the bridge- head now held by Canadian troops.

Three 1L8. Children ililleil lil Landslide

PARRBBORO. N.S., March $- (OP) — Three children were killed and two injured today when o 35- foot embankment. caved in find buried them benelth tons of earth and rock on the shores of Mind! Basin near here. The children warp climbing the embankment, when it collapsed and hurled them to the beach below.

Bodies of Pauline Harvey, 1B, 1pm McCully. l4, and Charles N8- ter, l0. were recovered about on hour later as rescue worker clawed their way through tho rubbie, mov- lng aside a huge boulder weighing more than a ton. Murray idcCully. n brother of 1.01s. and Charlotte flurvey. Pauline; sister. Were only pm-tly covered by the landslide. and were able to pull themselves free.

,Rhine for hours without. sign of

Debate 0n. World Security

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Better iiat Than iieaii Churchill Says

IDNDON. Match fi — (CP) _. Prime Minister Churchill, in uniform of l1 colonel of the Royal Sussex Regiment, forgot to duck when he can a. surprise visit w headquarters of the Brithh 3rd Infantry Division today and 5 e13. ggldwire whipped hi; up or; m;

8 “Belt r y l1 t bha '1 he qulfiipeélll I n my held,

OTTAWA. March 25-(0?) The Governor-General and Prin- cess Alice arrived back at Govern- ment House at noon today, ending 3 murdfll’ "in to Washington where they were guests of’ President and evelt at the White House.

we troversial discussion be

S llil To The Guardian

OTIWWA. March zs-ir the [first week of Parliament has done noth. m! else it has em harizecl the 11g. finite ceavege wh ch lies between various grou s in the House Commons. n spite of the Prime lvfinisters suggestion that con- avoided, there has been a good deal of Just Chit 01h! on, but it has been cause less by attempts to make P°““°'l "can out of the debate im the Government's action in re- ation to the San Francisco con- fereniie. thin, by real differences l?! °l>1nicn on the right course to be followed.

The most fin ortant difference o! opinion. as ar as the country tr concerned, has been between the Government and the official Pro- Rrosslve Conservative op osftlon, The Prime Minister's speech. open. ing the debate, suggested that

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Airborne Tactics Caught

Germans By

PARIS, March 95 - (AP) Brig-Gen. Floyd i... Parks chief 0f staff of 1o.» Allied lst Airborne Anny. said Saturday that the Germans apparently were caught by sumrlse by the Allied airborne lflfldtnzs east of the Rlhine.

The airborne troops linked up with ground assault forces after l-"lndlng three to five miles east of the Rhine, just north of Wecel.

‘They had expected an airborne attadr. but the air dro ueuelly precedes the ground stack, and when the Allies poured across the

an airborne army. t-he enemy pre- sunnbly figured they had no port in the show.

men 1f they ltiil were wary. they probably expected landings 15 to 30 miles or naore behind the Rhine, firalrteérborno troops usually strike - a

Arnhem Voteruna

The airborne nttack was mode by the British 6th Aime division —with Arnahem on it: recon! and the U’ S. 17th Alrbome, which saw action for the ffnt time when thrown in west of Butogne to he cheat the Clef-man onrash thro the Ardennee.

(Ross Munro, Canadian ' PM: war corre ndent, acid : Olnod- ian porac utc battalion, which fought in Normandy on D-illl’ Ill among the

Surprise

came down in the some general area. Hardly had they landed wipb their supplies. some of them rel- flilvely heavy weapons. than heavy bombers were dropping supplies to lien) the operation sustained.

Gen. Parks said a preliminary check showed that casualties were "lltlvely light tho h they might run slightly higher nan when the 41°95 were made in the race across the Netherlands.

Huge Sky-Train

Not e single plane of the 500- mlle-lo idly train was lcct t0 enemy f liter attack.

Allied losses were due to anti- elrcraft fire. Germany has one ct its moot. concentrated flak nests in the Ruhr and north of the Ruhr

acne. ‘Ric o eration constituted the

of the Holland operation. than 3.000 aircraft carrying

More

equipment participated, fighter plane luord.

cw first time to curry parachute troops

faster because of the Ju on either side.

__chutl.sts and glider trgq! all

ingest li t of airborne troops ever accomplished being at least four time: greater than the biggest lift

para- chute and glider troops and their and this figure did not. include the Allied

iii-id's were used for the These plane: curry twice ls many

men u the Dakota; and drop them mp doors

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commander of the 9th, out of artillery range,- Mr. Montgomery, 21st Sir Alan Brooke. chief of th tish Imperial Staff; Gen.

commander of

and Gen. Omar N. Bradley. com

Gen. John Anderson.

bank of the Rhine.

1e Mr. Churchill was in th bridgehead sniper fire could heard stream.

The Prime Minister made erosiings in an American landin cra

ling on the west bank and mused: “The time I was on

last war. stream in a British gunbont. "I wo across."

with the party shook his head.

began urging again talked the 0th go.

Expect Churchill To Give Blow By tBlcw Description

LONDON, March new war report by Churchill giving n blow by bio description of the

25-43?» h

sidered likely by quarters.

Mr. Churchill. who watched Br the House of Conlmons before i adjournment Tlnlrsdny for

he would miss the opportunity

end the war.______

LONDON. The Russian Army second mighty nrnn"

has thrown

shal Stalin announced lonlg

and villager.

Russia's unchecki-rl lunac-

of powerful new Soviet soiltheaet of the l-nclnv collim- Apglo-Annrimm

west. the Soviet l-iuii remain hurled Marshal R.i\1.1:\ Y. M11 cveky‘; 2nd Ukrainian army

Sllnpson, insisted that the Prime Minister retire back

Churchill, Field Marshal h Army Group; Field Marshal

bower. Allied supreme commander,

mander of the 12th Army Group, 0g met at. the headquarters of Moi.- commondtk‘ of the American 16th Corps. Gen. Eisenhower was called away before the party crossed over to the east

be B. few hundred yards down- the

Shortly after a noon lunch ofl fried chicken, Mr. Churchill look- ed out of thewindcw of a build-

the hine was at Cologne during the We cruised- 50 miles 1ip-,

Gen. Eisenhower who still was

Shortly after the supreme coni- miinder had gone, Mr. Churchill ' and finally ere into letting him

Prime Minister Rhine .

crossing as he witnessed it is con- parliamentary

tish troops cross the Rhine yester- day, almost certainly will appear in brief Easter holiday. Few believed

describe tile start of what lie cali- ed “the big heave" which would

pm. 25-iAP)—

_l',l‘llllp into its Vienna-bound UliCllSlVP. Mar-

These Russian forces have slashed miles across wcslrrn Hitngarpwbnnk of the Danube River. Joined and swept up more than 200 towns

fronts in a general assault on a 35- mile front that ground nine miles cast in a massive attack on the road to Berlin and was roaring on e unchecked.

The 3rd Army sprang at least two new crossings of‘ thc Rhino south of Coblcnz and was nearing a junction with the First Army forces beyond the river. They last were reported only ll miles apart. Frankfurt was only l0 miles in front of the 5th Infantry Division, which made the _3rd Army's ori- gilial Rhine crossing, and thc lil- dustrial city was evacuated tonight cf its population,

reported being i 546.649 l e

Nazi official had announced over

fans in the Ruhr bCtWCCll Dues- scldorf and Dortmund would have to be evacuated immediately. That might include Essen. since the Duesseldorf-Durtmund sector em- braces most of the Ruhr industrial Valley.

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AT A GLANCE v

By The Canadian Press

. WESTERN FRONT-Four Al» i llcd armies advance from firm holdings alonil i011 miles of Rhine's east bank from Rees to “o American 3rd Army pos- .1 miles from Berlin; Bri- . >4 ll Army cleans out Ger- man slrongpoint at Rees.

EASTERN FRONT - Russian spearheads n-itliin 36 miles of Austria an 77 miles southeast cl‘ Vienna; second Soviet army joins Vienna-bound offensive on 90-milc front.

AERIAL - R.A.F. lllosquitou strike lleriln Sunday night for Il-ilil consecutive night after tilorsanrls of British, American and Canadian planes piilvrrlze German sirongpolnts and rein- forcement centres in front of Field Marshal Montgomery's drive north of Ruhr.

BURMA - British 14th Army armor occupies Kume on main Mandalay trunk road.