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sllazls Prepare n Defence Line

lonpou. July so - (c?) — slaw Benaczyk. Minister of Affairs of the Polish Govern. i. said today he had informat- thst the Gennans were re- defengoel lanes in mLu ‘it; ~ s n an . i-oug i» behind their present line in 1d his underground infor- ‘-- re orfed that all road. rail illlii one communication had ' libbended between Lubl ~ - and the rest of Poland that mass murders were bein tied by the Germans to ri area of its Polish population. l! estimated in the entire war liar l that 1.000.000 Polish Jews i 1400.000 other Poles were -~ by the Germans. ~ lu he event the fell of "lint breaks down the whole i" Slsicm. Poland mayuhave to

' "11 nrms very n. Ban- w told n press conference. "We Prepared."

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July !'l—('!‘uesday)—(CP CABLE) -— Dispatches in Lon-

headuulrters in North Africa to- uched 12 miles German resis-

By Boss Munro Canadian Press War Correspondent

ON THE CANADIAN FRONT IN CENTRAL SICILY, July 25 —(Dg_ layed) — (GP Cablei-The Can- adians are on the march again in the mountains here. attacking east- ward from a hard-won stronghold.

(Munro did not give the exact location from which he was writing but presumably it was somewhere northeast of Enria. where the Cun- adian forces have been operating for the last week.)

Scarcelv waiting to get their breath following a four~day battle. the Canadians are driving on hard against the Germans, with artillery sup rt and with tanks. After a rapd consolidation the Canadians on Saturday opened an attack in an easterly directionw towards Mount Etna. whose snow-capped peak looms ahead.

Zero Ilour

Zero hour was i1 pni. and right on the dot the artillery opened up. Infantry followed 1n the wake of the bursting shells and the allied air forces bombed targets and straf- ed roads behind the German lines.

road and through fields and orch- ards skirting the road. Within an hour they had reached their ub- jective in a fold in the hills.

They overcame several German positions on the way to this ob- jective and met stiffer opposition when they circled around a town and bumped into Nazi positions on a slight slope on its eastern side. During Saturday evening the in- fantry battled on and the guns fired with few letups.

Ever since rridav night the guns have been pounding away like this in darknes and daylight. it has been an artillery blitz on the 8th Army pattern of El Aiameln and Mareth. not on such a scale but applying the same principles of con- centrated. persistent shellings.

, It has been the Canadian sun- ners‘ dream and they have forgot- ten their three long and tedious years of training in England in the excitement of ese last two Weekfl since the invasion of Sicily began. The Canadians are the only 8th

in Army formation gaining yards at

the moment. Their endurance and ability i0 continue attacking even after the lengthy and exhausting advance from their beachhead at Pachlno Peninsula are one of the big features of the fighting heft‘-

I got an eagle-nest view of ves- terday's (Saturday's) fighting from atop towerlng..cliffs~where there are slit trenches on a commanding peak. . . .It has been practically my home those clays for this look- out provldes a view of the whole battlefield.

Booming artillery constituted the zero-hour signal and Canadian 811118 with some British artillery b28011 methodically to plow the field with high-explosive shells.

For the last week there have been a number of artillery bat-rages in the Canadian sector but this one topped them all in its intensity and duration. The objective was only two miles away and the first con- centrations crashed west of ihe town on sandy ground and kicked up clouds of brown dust. A couple of batteries banged sway at tar- gets farther on. The sunshine glar- ed‘ on the grey-white buildings and

(Continued on page '1 Col. i)

. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. July flb-(Tuesdayl-(APJ-Amler- ican and Australian air ., forces took the leading part in the war against Japan today with heavy intended to soften the ene- m ‘a defence on islands of the southwest Pacific-

The Monday communique of Al- llpd headquarters reported e heaviest aerial assault of the Pe- cifio war on Munda, New Georgia Island but save no new: on around f htin there or on New

ulnea. 'I In es

to the west.

More th I00 glance dropped 18d tons of be Japanese po- sitions at Munds, where American been cm ing through the jungle toward t e n. air base. Only one plane failed to return.

Gasmata airdrome on the south coast. of New Britain Island. 000 miles west of New Georgia. was bombed by the Australians in the

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The People's Pape CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA. TUESDAY. JULY 27, 1943

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Canadians In » liaill 0n Ruhr

Halifax and Wellington bombers the Ruhr last night through skies pierced b_ thousands of IiBhts but consideraby lighter anti-air- craft fire than experience had taught them to ex t over that much-battered in ustrial area of Germany.

Several squadrons from the R. C. A F. bomber group took part in

. the heavy raid on Essen 11nd him-

dreds of other Canadians made the trip in R..A.F. crews.

Sgt. Dave Ferguson of Invemess. NB. saw three explosions -- "the biggest I've ever seen"—in the mid- dle of the concentrated 0W5 l!)

n. t. J.J. Roach. of Toronto ma e his 13th raid on Essen and said: “I can see a future in this business now." Others on the raid included sgt. Ernie hogan of Boiestown, NB.

Says Ila Marigny llad “Wild Look”

NASSAU. BAHAMAS. July 26—— A olice official testified toda that Al red De Marigny. de oiiair yachfsman. appeared excited and had a. "wild look” in his eyes about the time the bludgeoiied and burned body of his niulti-mlllion- alrc father-ln-lnw, Sir Harry

The infantry rushed ahead along a tat

Oakcs, wns found July 8 in_ a bed- room of Sir Harry's rambling‘ es-

c.

Constable Wendall Parker test- ified at a preliminary hcarml for De Marigny. who is charged with murder of Sir Harry, shortly be- fore the prosecution won a third postponment over the objoollous of defence counsel Godfrey Higgs. The hearing will be resumed Aug

The tall. bearded former Count came to the Central Police Station about 7.30 a.m. July a and in- quired about the conversion of an automobile into a truck, Parker re- listed.

"He appeared excited,‘ they officer lsdded. “His eyes looked wild and his lips d_1_d not have l natural all" pearance.

It was abount 7.30 a.m. on the same morning that Harold G. Christie. close friend and blISIHBSS associate of Sir Harry's and an overnight guest at the estate. found aha body on a partly-burned twin

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Nancy Oakes De Marigny. Sir Harr ‘s eldest child and wife of the efendant. smiled encouraging- ly at her husband as the prosecut- ion begsn to unfold some of the evidence which led to De Marig- ny‘s arrest.

I London llas Alert

LONDON, July 2'I—('I‘uesda )- (CP)~London had an alert of i1 Out an hour early todav during which a. small number of lanes ap- proached the Thames tuar and one or two came in the direct on of London.

Gunfire was heard and search- lights were active during the warning. which was the first since July l5.

RECRUITING srfiabs m-

MONTREAL. July 20 - (GP)- Recruitiniz officers here said today hat enlistments in the army since nvasion of Sicily have been the -1i hest since i940. Manv recruits s d they had planned to Join the navy or the air force but chah ed their minds once the Canad an

m ou far the first time since t ey open- e .

Allies Step Up Air Activity In Pacific

The radio station and grounded airplanes were destroyed.

(An unconfirmed Tokyo dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio Monda reported s raid by eight allied mbers on Japanese-held Wake Island in the central Pacif- ic. The enemy claimed two planes were brought down at a cost of two Japanese figh planes.)

n the nor rn Solomons a U. S. bomber sighted eight Japanese vessels moving southeast towards

ponese bases and attacked the

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the 1.000 anspo - Fighter planes drove off 80 en- emy bombers and abou the same number of Zeros whic were in- tercepted in an attack on Ameri- can forces on Hnndova Inland in the Central Solomons l few miles

south of Munds. liightd Japanese?‘

fighters were destroys an allied loss of four planes.

of the four pilots were resou

War Situation Last Night

came ir. awi t answer to the an "honorable"

phases of any rtrmlsticc mus by Italian troops would be

Russia's rolling summer of enslve. The Balkans offer the shortest,

lockers at best. would ex

move across the eastern Medlter through Sicily. And there are ever- natilun: in the Balkans are as ripe as s

ready high and growing with every

member of the anti-Axis league.

Martial

Reds Drive Ahead At Orel

LONDON. July 26 -<AP) -—Red armies personally directed by Mar- shal Joseph Stalin captured '70 villages. gained six niiles and kill- ed 5,000 enemy troops today in their steer!‘ semi-encirclement of 11c big G-siman base at Orel whore thousands of Axis troops risk entrapment. it was announced tonight in liloscow.

With Russian troops attacking Orel within eight miles of the city's IICYIAWIISIGITI . 3nd casts-m Rules. a special communique paid that other units had swept across the Okn River dircctlv norifi of the base in a ‘wide ivhceling mottsnril. threatening to cut the last supply line into Orel - - the railway run. nlng northeast to Bryansk.

Tho German Rcdio Comments. 101‘. Cfllll- Ludivii! Sertorius. with an unusual display of restraint snid that the German defenders at Orel lmd been “keot extremely bu=\"' during the dav.

I-Ie_ also commented on a massive Russmn drlvc b-rlo Irningrad and fiirifier smith in t e Lake Ladoga region saving thatit wasstill too carlv to fell whether this was only n “temporary phenomenon“ on the sari of the Soviet war machinc ivlilch is striking wi I1 nmmjng "ov-‘er in its first successful sum- ""'r offensive.

llanucks Learn Precision Flving

OTTAWA, July R.O.A.F. press release that Canadian fliers an R. A. F.

26—(CP)—The

are learning with squadron in Britain the art of precision flying iii the dark so

that pilots tan drop glider and parachute "troops" right on the '"button".when the time comes.

T0 drop paratroops at night. the greatest precision is needed in timing 411d map reading. and l0 nights a month the R.C.A.F. of- fices are engaged in a highly-spe- ciaiised form of night map ‘read- ing exercises, Navigators must be abe to recognize in the dark landmarks such as woods. ponds and buildings.

BLACKSIIIRTS REPLACED

BERNE. July 20—(AP)—Advices from the Italian frontier reported toda that Blackshirt militia whic heretofore had been guard- ing the frontier had been eplaced by Carablnieri. i

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reaction to the Fascist crash is still to be qoziféavléaited lrnoment when Turkey follows her known lnclinail . n a no cy o prudence. and steps into the struggle p; a “now

By Kirlre L. Simpson, Associated Prgg war Analyst

‘ With the fall of Benito Mussolini, the. Nari-Fascist Axis has started oiviyegglaiinflllbrtat the seams. changing the whole military perspective

Summary removal of Il Duce by decree foreshadows early peace feel- ol‘! frtfiln Rome, in the Judgment of’ United Nations authorities. There is no 0t er loflcal explanation for the military-political upheaval which

Churchill-Roosevelt warnings to Italy to seek peace or take the grim consequences.

By every Indication London and Washington are busy behind the svcenIeds ‘preparing in advance the s eclflc terms under which an flrnflgllgg “T: c glranted if Italy sought t. Nor can it be questioned that those ....“..‘..‘"E‘é.‘i...'.‘.'.‘;"2i.'- £31211’ tiisiiif. ‘lfimii.’ "‘° “m” "f.°““°"'“""“ southern facade of Elmer's fortress of expefled m up“ of ‘he

Whatever the political aspects of an Italian surrender, t)“; m1]

be harsh. Bases in southern Italy I on ihc Greek Peninsula andestgleigtgafilrlgs Atlfntge Aegiean noiw garrlsoned . g, e use our ores... an,- t strike snifllyr and effectively at Germany and bring Increased aid i:

surest road tn victory. The

such key positions a

II. mltchlng the Allied rowing symptoms that Nazi satellit

or revolt asainst the crumbling Axis

y. The news from Italy must necessarily step-up Russian morale, al- Turkish assesed. It might gllnal the

new victory around Orel.

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"Italy Under

Law

LONDON. July as Marshal Pietro Badoglio

.w-n-

—- (AP) and

a new cabinet, manoeuvring w curb ruled turbulent a martial law decree aim at both the Lib- erals who want to make peace with the Fascists left

incipient revolt.

Italy tonight th ugh

the Allies and leadcriess by the exit of Benito Mussolini

tiiii”.

Greek Pmlnwsula ‘and the Island-studded Aegean are routes for coming to grips w‘ I i ZIZIiIiIIIGI" defence llnes on the continent. Evacuation of Italian gar. r sons out s dc Italy. or orders from Rome which made them passive on- se German troops in Crete to isolation and sw ft annihilation. Powerful British armies are already poised in Egypt and Syrlg to sweep

iincercmonious and his

8 Americans Are Accused 0f Treason

WASHINGTON, July 26—1AP)- Eight Americans accused of turn- ing their backs oii their homeland and joining forces with Axis radio propagandlsts were indicted today or treason-a charge that may carry the death penalty.

Attorney General Francis Biddle. describing the district of Columbia grand jury's action as a warning that the United States “will not tolerate traitors at liome OI‘ u- broad." llromiseci that the eight will be brought to trial as soon as they are apprehended.

Seven are alleged to have broad- cast regularly from Germany while the eighth-Ezra Pound, 57-year-old modernist poet who won some at- tention in international literary circles-has broadcast from Rome.

In addition, to Pound, who has 5 spent most of the last 30 years a- broad. the defendants were ident- ified by the Justice Department as follows: Robert H. Best, 47. for- e mcrly of Sumter. S.C., and soii of a clergyman; Frederick W. Kalten- bach, 48. native of Dubuque. Iowa, and the Nazi's American counter- part of "Lord Haw I-Iawfl’ Jane Anderson, 50. native of Atlanta.

‘"- Gn.. who was introduced on Reich

radios as a famous “orator? Doug- native who was bi Revere," Constance Drexei, 48. naturalized German alien and one-time free- lance writer who is known 0n the Axis radio as s. "famous American ioumalistf‘ Edward Leo Dalaney, a native of Olncy. Ill.. and onetime bit player on American stages who broadcast under the name of "E

. Ward"; and Max Otto Kois- chwltz. a German native and for- mer instructor at Hunter College in New York \vli0 adopted the radio Alias of "O. K."

Old Editor ReturiTs To ll Giornale D'ltalia

LONDON. Julv 26 —-(CP)— The CGILOISIIID of Ii Giornale D‘Italla. for years semi-official organ of Mussolini and his Fascist govern»

mmi-"EYS- ment. illbfls been taken over by sen- Dlspatches from both Stock- gfg.oAsne.f.wmafggifnm‘ the Bern“ 71°11“ "'5 MIN! - - "mum" Berdaminl founded the paper in mu! In rvlwria dim! from 1on1 mid directed 1t until 1924 when Rim"! ' ' 53m “lu-“wnm w“ it was taken over by Virgiiilo Gayda. "m!" 31'7"‘- Blfled i" "In" The Berlin announcement was 0d)’ l! he 5'1"!!!" '0 "ti? l" heard by the Associated Plvss. Germany from the country he ._______.____ ruled as a dictator for 21 OBSERVE 5T, aiupiyyg DAY years. STE. ANNE DE BEAUPRE, Que,

The 71-year-old Badoizlio, 11am

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announcement

the official implie

Mussolini had resignrd.

ious offices in bomb-scarred Rom because of ill health.

Dusk - To - Dawn Curfew

curfew througfiou-t Italy nll public gatherings 11nd made th point in a special order of the iia that the Fascist militia - - som 250,000 men hitherto Mussoiinfs own private troops -

cos "and with them, as

the Fatherland.“

the Rome Radio. made no distinc tion between the Fascists and th Ipopulation generally, that the Fascist party and all

stood for was to go out with Muss

revealed tonight in a 01ml

But despite the invoking of mil ltary rule - - and troops ilvcrc em mending dcmonstrntions peninsula.

long sessions with the War John G. Winant and Charge D'Affaires at the Fbreign Office, discussed Italian developments. Demonstrations In Italy

within Italy were varie .

to Pose Pius XII was held in St

broadcast g the Berlin Radio.

Smoofiisaiiinq For MI your Bdkinq When you use

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ed by King Victor Emmanuel to succeed Mussolini as premier last nght. established martial law in of his pronouncements. -Axis Radio broadcasts in elaborating or: the

that he stepped out of his luxur-

Badoglio invoked a dusk to-dawn banned

considered

' Allied Terms To Italy Are Unchanged

was part of the King's armed for- always. co-operates in the common work and intentions for the defence of

The broad decrces, broadcast by

suggesting it

powered to fire on violators - - reports from the continent told of

among the war-weighted people of 1110i

Prime Minister Churchill éaclllrl

a - inet here. Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden saw U. B. Ambassador the Soviet Imidon and presumbaly

The accounts of dernionstrations A 80-minute gesture of homage

Peter's square of Vatican City last midnight. said a German dispatch

July 26—fCP)—S0me 15.000 Dil- grims from Canada and the Unit- cd States celebrated Ste. Anne's feast today at the fnmniis shrine raised in her honor here.

Most Rev. Francis P. Keough. Bislio of Providence. R.I._ sang a Ponti ical I-Iigh Mass. nIGEiGGG at 5 , Cardi Villeneuve, .Arch- bishop of bccIn the sanctuary e were Most. Rev. Francis Bcckmnii.

Archibishop of Dunkerque, who headed a large pilgrimage from the United States niiciwcst. and very Rev. Cyriile Gagnon. rector of Quebec's Laval University.

Last riihgt. the annual torchlight . procession was hold on the hills de ‘ficf the shrine. About 12,000 took 3c poi-t.

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