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lrltain To Braft More Men For Army

A IDNDONMDQC. 22 — (C?) - lritain will draft 250,000 more lea for the army in the “corn- ia; months" than was previ- ‘lllly planned. Prime Minister _fllllaiilul'l office announced to-

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iiliristmas Spirit iitvived By Bom. vlroons in Britain

- - ly FEED BACKHOUSE Y-DNDON‘. Dec. 22-(0?) Cable)- .'l'here isnt mimh to remind one of the Yuletide Season at home ‘but dian servicemen and women in London have raised the spirit 0f Old 5t. Nick ircm one end of W! Island to the o as’. For some this wilflie their sixth e C 0 erseas b

as v ut.

_ s their own loneliness. nldezsiuigévsmand Rirla in iiniiorm ' S 5635011 Cl’! remem- rrlnz the kids of Britain. Manv o1 lie children have spent their en- ‘rsullefe imder bombs or the threat

The Canadians own Christmas

leer is being looked after bv mam"

welfare orizanizat.

tish citizens working v.1 matcria

tendons oldest. Canadian acn- vous. the Beaver Club. launched In imnresslve program of food and Iauail for hundreds of the fine services who are stationed he or taklnr Christmas leave in its capital.

To Rebroadcast _ essage From Pope

NEW YORK. Dec. 22 — (AP)- H~ Christmas message of Pope l l XII will be rebroadcast in lish by the Vatican radio at P. M., A.D.T. Christmas 1W0. hours after he delivers tho

Weque Rink opens chi-lstmas 12-22-21

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DARTMOUTH, N’. 8., Dec. 22- (CP) - Fire burst out aboard the Halifax-Dartmouth ferr steam- ship Ciovemor Cornwalls as she nosed into her berth here with 400 passengers late today, all aboard were disembarked safely before the flames roared through the ship and reduced her to a charred shell.

While crewmen fought the flames below deck, the passengers were kept in ignorance of the outbreak until all had been landed ashore. Shortly afterward, the fire burs-t through the deck of the new ves- sel and she was towed to mid-

about an our, and at the end of that time little remained but the lower section of her hull and nc-r engines and other metalwork. She was beached at Dartmouth Cove when the fire died down.

The outbreak was discovered in the engine room of the ISO-foot» vessel. which cost $400,000 three

ars ago. She was just complet- ng her run across Halifax harbor about 15 minutes after leaving the Halifax terminus loaded with a Christmas crowd of shoppers.

Fred Horobin. an oiler, first saw the ‘fire, believed to have oricmni- ad in packing material usecl to deaden the v bration oi the ship's Diesel-electric propulsion equin- ment. The flames raced stviftlr through the wooden vessel. bu‘. tlie crew got the big crowd ashore quickly without a trace of panic

The Ciovemor Cornwallis wws built here for the Dartmouth Ferry Commission, which operated the Halifax-Dartmouth service. She was launched in 1041 and made her maiden run almost ex.- actly two years ago-on Dec. .15

1st Canadian Division ilas New Leader

(By 'll‘hc Canadian Press)

ROME. Dec. ZZZ-German re- olstanee northeast of Fun“ on the Adriatic end of the Ii‘ alian front has broken under [lei-co pressure by Canadian troops who smashed forward to n“. scnio River on a broad front and captured the town o! " nacavallo, Allied Head- quarters announced toil?-

The announcement was fol- lgyed g few hours later b7 l disclosure that the veteran M Canadian Division, now in the front liner h!“ l "l" mm‘ mind" __ Mat. Gen. Harri’ Wlckshire Foster of Winnipeg and Pinion, one. who review! the iigi-ls-nittins Mli- 6"» c). i o es.

‘ltlhoulh neodaveflm- “l: no; 55y go, It WI! 130118156" Gen. Vokea had taken com- mpnfl of s division In Western Eudznelns blazing battlefront. whore Lt.~Gon. l-‘oulkes’ CM"- dhn Cprpg has been slullilll’ the Germans since retllffli"! to action Dlv- 2- u" “any was broken north of Bagnaca- "up, which ls eight miles north of Faenu. llld "I? 3"‘ man Command was battling bprnly to extricate trawl» “uh “A "n; from a hill‘? pinned on the ‘mt N“ °' dim Lanione li-lvcr. In Milki- tion to the Canadian Inca‘; through on the north of ill lml . other eta Arm! all" mamtalned heavy nrwflrv °" the southern fll l-

Montreai Finn Gets Ammunition Order

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P. E. I. Man ' Killed When Struck By Train

I Dec. 21 — (C?) — Peter Charles McMahon, Dart- mouth, a former Halifax taxi- dr.ver, met almost instant death today when struck by the north bound No. i Maritime Express train alt Elmsdalexioroner Alfred Reid of Milford said death was due w an accident and that no inquest will be necessary.

McMahon had been bound for Prince Edward Island to vlsi-t a sister when the cai- crashed into a ditch at the Elmsdale bridge around noon. Witnesses said that the man then wandered around seeking a way to get; back to the city and had walked onto the railway tracks about a mile from tlie scene of the crash into the oncoming express.

His mutilated body. accordiig to reports. was found sometime later by a number of youths who had been cutting Christmas trees in that. district. ‘

McMahon came héfa from Prince Edvxrrd Island about four vears azo end i1"d been in the ammo" of the Garden Taxi Company. Halifax.

international At A Glance

(By The Canadian Press) WESaEEiN EBUiTI-(jerman of naive urives 40 miles across Bel- slllm. cuts through Luxcunbourz nears Arlon 40 rniics east of Sedan. initial force of thrust b-lieveu spent; Germans report 1L5. 3rd Ar- my attack ii-olm south slowed ad- vancc.

RUSSIAN-Berlin re arts fill-salve Russian offensive an nst Germans pocketed in Latvia: Russian force near key rail centre of Losono In Creche-Slovakia.

ITALIA

N —- Canadians capture

Senlo River in sector northeast of r'acnza.

AERIAL-RAJ‘. heavica hit. Cub-

Bagnacavallo, push Germans across -

MAW... Situation Last Night

By KIN-XE L. SIMPSON i (Associated Irons War Analyst) | The clouds both physical and ctaphorlcal that have hovered over the American 1st Army right wing in Belgium and Luxembourg for nearly a. week seems lifting despite further German penetration wcsi- ward on the north flank. The essential element of that latter two-day old development was that tlic foe could make progress only westward. not northward toward

along the Boer River.

Aside from that indication that reinforced American lines in Bel- gium hail rallied sufficiently to stem the German counter-attack or groove it to advances nnlv in least menacing directions. the brigrhiencil

patch reported that the figh _Arl0n, only l0 miles from t (Late

order of the day to all troops under his command urging them tn offens- ivc. not purely defensive action. The other was an intimation that a weather break in Allied favor was in prospect.

Inin the Eisenhower message can be read a clean-cut indicutinn that Allied coun r-moasurcs on a. major scale are impending. Tu mp that a break in the weather that has substantially carthbounrl Aliiril close support air power throughout the German attack enuld ivhnllj." change the forseeable battle trends in Allied favor. It could turn the . enemy gamble into his worst defeat. ‘ It is n fair u mniption that battle circumstances not yet officially ‘ ' ' 1|: Gen. W’ ‘ cfls arid its confident tone. It well could signal the opening of n major Allied counter-offemivr- both in flic German attack zone and possibly elsewhere along the ruin sudden front.

A report from London that Field Marshal Montgomery. command- ing the British-Canadian wing of Gen. Eisenhower's Allied forces in the extreme north, had conferred with the supreme common’ r cool"! be significant in that respect. Thcrc is little doubt that to muster the strength for liis surprise counter-attack on the dormant sector of the American 1st Army front. the German commander must have thinned out his lincs elsewhere or replaced v ‘ with secondary units in

Nazis Report Pod flifensive in Latvia

LCNDON. Dec. 2:2 — (AP; -_Th,,_ n: rcfu cd iorliiv that a Riff.- O

crusliiiiz lie Ger- L‘! real llLllill-Si. the _.. id also 5.1161 il illfllid iircl Arinv winter ULQflBiVL‘ was im- minent on tlic sx:ov.'-sv1cpt Eastern

, ' i. 5198714911 Lil" ‘llrfimlii-"lntl- “The northern strike was launched There has been no recent field report as to terrain conditions In "f1 Mi ~ a. ‘ . 53,-“ time ma;

‘ll Fvuzi ~ l ‘Fclsukhins 3rd .nc Amiv iii Wes-fern I-iunzan’ a new arivc southwest of ~t izi a doll“

the Nijmegen-Arnhem corner in Holland on Field Marshal Montgom- ery's front. flooded by tho Germans many days n10 to hamper rm Allied advance ngaiurt the Ncrliler Rhine gniczvay to northern Germany. There has been lit! resent reported action, also on filontgonierys right flunk along the llcuse norlli cf the American Ninth Army sector. It seems obvious iii: an effective Allied thrust beyond the Alonso in the Vcnlob or jlnei-mnnrl nrczis would offset very largely the rim. retreat of the Germ penetration of American First Army illiih‘. and. would have ziii imm 2c strong diversionary effect on the l\l‘f‘lf‘f‘l"31l First Army tight flank. 5.

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ill troops llffiitdY have stab- v ‘ ilcs of Szekes-

lens, Bingcn rail centres Friday night.

BURMA-British 74th Anmy for- ces seize Kawlln. 120 miles north of Mandalay; gains recorded on Ara- kan and Chindwin fronts as Jav- anese an arentlv falling back to dorm“ n, around Mandalay.

PHILIPPINES — U.S. forces on Leyte Island shelling Japanese el- ca port of Palomnon after three- mi; advance.

JACIFIC AERIAL - superiori- roses again bomb Nagoya. Japan- ese aircraft manufnctu I cent-I'm

Message To 1st iianaiiian Army

'I‘HE 1ST CANADIAN AR- MW“ - etc-cries: Cabin-Gen. Crerar. s aria a Amiv Commander, in s. Christmas message to his troops slid Will!- "“ “mil. w“ d‘.‘2'iii‘ii‘5"'f.€§.§?‘€§.i §° m met? their selfish interests to collective R0041 —- i“ m which has been so effectively d3;

A Rocket Shell?

LONDON Dec. n - (c?) -'rhc Germans‘ new secret geapém will; use on the Western on v 3 described here today as not - 0l' v-s but v-i 1-2. a_ '1; apparently is a barrage we, pen and takes the form of a so. - repelled shell, it was said. It has een descrlbedzin fotnt dispatches ll V- roc e.

“qffifing it as V-l i-i mllht indicate that it has some features of both V-l. the flying bomb. lfla v-a, the long-range rocket.

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German broadcasts said for outlook rested upon two circumstances. One was Gen. Eisenhower's lhi: Sllllih by lite United $111103 311i Army Friday and that the brunt of the fighting haul shift ed 1.. .~ _»;,—_e-,;;<< _'7'.I.‘_'l‘ , Edward n. Ball. an Associated",

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Bewfiassing res|1 . Smash

‘ PARK-bf. DQC- 22 — (AP) — Supreme Headquarters disclosed tonight the critical Meuse crossings loading to the Allied bulge into Germany > (Icfmilll Vvllliill‘ Offéilsl“: burst through I

that the a field dis-

ting had spread far south through Belgium to the area of he French bnrc er and ‘i0 miles due east of historic Sedan.

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that (‘he Belgian road Bflslvxiie had been bY-pflsscfl am! flint fighting was raging near Ar- lon. 22 miles farther south. Arllm- Belsien city on the vital lateral road leading from Antwerp southward through Liege and Bus. togne. is 13_ miles almost due west of the capital of Luxembourg. Main roads loading north. south und east from Bastogne were cut and one force stabbed l0 miles northwest to La Roche. on the

_ Ourthe River.

(Ball's dispatches-filed at 2.30 11 m. E D31‘. Friday-referred to much the same territory as that covered in the Supreme Headquay- ters announcement, and it was not

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May Be Months Before Red Push Affects West

WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 — (AP. It mav be weeks or months before the promised Russian zrand oi- fensive produces any effect m, the ggstem Front. militarv men 5am

av.

In their opinion. the G . High Ccmmand liis "budgeted its men and materials for each of its fronts,—the Western. It ion-and would not shift troops until a "critical starze has been reached._"

Assummz that the projected Rus-

succeeds in breakine tlirouzh the Germans‘ line. this “critical stuize" miRht be reached when ilie Rus- sian forces roll up to the border nf Gemianv proper.

Speculation on the area of tlic Soviet offensive centres 13112011.‘ on tho Vistuln front. where the brand Polish plains oiffer favorable orcund

sfan offensive on the Eastern Front ' '

the first time that a "fierce" attack from

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_i_>.-irczs. _Dec. 22—\API --(iailj liiziiir: nines have nnwearcd ‘i

mam Paris offices. :~ res on

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See This Britain’s Bleakest Christmas l

(By The Associated Press) NDON. Drr. 22-Clii'is:m:s clie r? Not hero.

This sixth Yuletide of the v.'.\.r will in many ways be Britain's bleskest; quietly reserved dence in ultimate victory is :lie people's only consolation ioi- grim tidings from the front.

Not too many months ago her tried and troubled men and wo- men thought they could Cclebrulr the season with nil the " ‘silty of old. believing flint the wars end would be near. if not a fact.

That hope is gone now.

Long queues outside the news stands reflect the publicis hopes and fears over the turn nf the war.

In musty old pubs-now hum with mistletoe-discussions centre on the German push. That is equally true in many a British home.

The general gloom is as grey as London's fog.

It is true that many old cust- oms will be kept olive: that i:

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METEOROLOGICAL. OFFICE. Toronto. Dim‘. 22-Minlmum and maximum ism eraiures: Vancou- \i_~r 30. 46: Edmonton l4. 19; Re- gina 1b. 9; Winnipeg 5b. zero; _ Ottawa 21b. 4; Montreal 6b. 4; Quebec -—. 3b;

Saint John 4b, —; Moncton 10b. 5-46 Halifax 7. 12; Charlottetown

FORECAHTN

LOWER ST. LAWRENCE VAL- LEYS: fresh uiiids: nartlv cloudv and cold: followed bv snowflurriee Wtilil slieliilv- moderatlniz temper- a ure.

LAKE ST. JOHN: Cloudv and cokl. Followed iiv iiizhi snow

. NORTH SHORE AND

BAY GHALEUR: Moderate to fresh

WlHflSI m-ncrziliv fair and cold!

snowllurrics at night in western

.t i l," lvllAtltlTlME WEST: Moderate to fro-sh ivinds; fair and mid: scatter-

ed snnwflurrics at nieht. DIARITIAIE EAST: Moderate to fresh winds: fair and cold.

Hiifil tido this mominiz at. 5.06

Britain's way.

Something has been planned for the children so that tliev, wt least. Imw escape for a day the sorrow- sufferinqs and separation wlfnh will. be the lot of the adult world. l

Christmas dinners will be a bill better this year. There is a little; more meat. a few oranges. a hand“ f-ul of nuts

There will be few turkeis. Thcv have been gobbled up in the blackj market. ‘

What cheer there is will be as scarce as it is syntheiir". The- bottled varieiv i5 anywhere up to $25. a‘ quart ‘t

Christtnas enroll-r; trcop through. tho blacked-cut streets. nnst hrmos. broken bv ivar. ‘

But the words tho-i come Ul"0ll0li m‘. djfkvrfs; _ "Peace on enrtlmf irood vfll towards men" - are; freightcd with ironic unrcality. I

and tonight nt 6.05.

Sun sets this afternoon at 5.33 and rises tomorrow mominiz at .36. a Full moon December 29th. 11.98 A. M.

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