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IN N0. AFRICA IS REPORTED WIDESPREAD

British 8th Army Ready For New Sptlrzt Ahead

. 3000 Steel Workers

In Sydney On Strike

Biggest Walkout In 18 Years; Protest Report Of

Royal Commission.

Hitler, Laval Reported in Political Deal

‘"22"’ 5"” iii-it'd? ins e e - - deal with Pierre Laval-

order, involves sendllal 400.000 more French workers to Germany and , l" strengthen Lav a with» among the eollaboratiolnist French leaderl. l .. French qiokesman said today. At the same time the long- gwsiterl agreement, which tum- ed down Hitler's reDiirted plan to conseript henchmen to fight the United Nations and put Laval In control of the French police in the ‘ occupied none, with fuller administrative

pnwgrg ‘y, coluained few- er concessions to the Germans than some ers su- ported.

_ As part of the agreement Level promised to turn over to Germany five French de-

‘settlenient wee postponed an the eeetiois of making Paris the sea of LewaPs government, thus leaving open a matter which has vessel Vichy-German relatiopl. Hitler. Iilw- the agreement. will lieeonse arbiter of further negotiations between France 9'"! "Ill. Presumably concem- . Ins the island of Corsica and ether French territory under Italian occupation, The agreement gives. Ger. many full control of French Industry. finance and agricnit. already Vlflflfi fli ‘;Vhitr:—" these fields. ° M

War-ZS Years Ago Today

(I! The Canadian Press)

'75-“ 13- 1918 --l"ormer French Premier Jose h Cailiaux arrested on "mYBQ 0f huh treason. German "Id attempted at Monchy under cover oi heavy artillery fire re ulsed by British forces. Canadian troops made successful raids near bans iderlcourt.

and

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"AI-ml". nngishs - rcr) —Air Vice Marshall A.C. Maund. C B . 0.3.8.. D,5.0.. ‘who in the First Great War was a private in the Canadian infantry but in 101d" transferred to th Royal Flvin

Gomingwivents

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‘we are b25311}! ilvvls and drau- eeens o . - t mad-those or fits

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" ‘Thursday. January it fiiiraninmde till 1PM.

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Workers 0.) voted almost unsnimo y at a niaea nice ht to call a strike at asp. 5.9.1. (8 LII- LD-T. Thursday in tli t of a I orporatlon here, effee an»

estimated 5.000 workers. QYDNIIY, 1028., Jan. ll —(CP) -All departments of the Dominion Steel and Coal Company here were idle tod for the first time in 18 .000 steel workers went on strike, protesting the report of e Royal Cosrimission which investig- ated wage conditions in the Can- adian steel industry. -

The latest development in the two-year-old dispute came two days after the coinrnision, heeded by Mr. Justice Lil. Barlow of the Ontario Supreme Court. recom- mended in s majority report that, except for certain categories of maintenance men, no increase should be made in the basic wases of steelworkers.

Some 2.600 workers on the day shift walked cut after the casting of steel from one blast furnace had been completed. ‘Ihe executive of the B dney local of the United Steel orkers of America (C. I. O.) issued a staiement a few hours

om- ws.) ssh. is-wri- tenant officials

a strike or sheet‘ ma! workers today. ‘

later supporting the strike and sn- noiiriclns that the pIailts here would join the walkout. Union officials said maln- tenance crews would remain on duty throughout the plant during the strike.

At Fever Heat

‘Itie Union statement the strike as "inevitable. resentment at fever heat in protest against what the men must consid- er sn unjust and unnecessary ‘MHIYIUII brought‘ about by the leg- sllsvc evasions of the majority re- port of the Barlow commission. .

George MacNelll, President of the U.B.W.A. local. said that the "backing" of some 8,000 steel work- ers in the company's plant at Tren- ton. N 8.. had- been assured by Alphonse Murray, Financial secre- tary of the Trenton local.

(At Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., pre- sident l. De the U.5. W.A. local there indicated that Union members employed in the Algoma steel Corporation plant would follow the Sydney workers in taking strike action. A mass meeting was sechdued for tonight at Sault Ste. Maris.)

Iitualsu lertsI 'I'he situation was described as “serious" by CM. Anson, general 'menager of the company here. "the men just walked out", he declared. “The compan received no notific-

ation whatsoever from the Union regarding the strike."

May Be Less Beef Available For Civilians

(Canadian Press Its-ff wnur)

OPIAWA, J . 12 — (C?) — All Canadian beefmitored at inspected abottoire

was held for the armed forces y and civilian Canada will obtain only whatJs left after requirements of fishtllla W11 M" oration officligee

described . JVlth

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hoftheernied ereeboutmfflflgg

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G Dominion, Di‘. Santos said.

Leclerc’: Aniiy Likely. To De In Dn Advance

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New _Air Blows Dealt A_Xls In NorthAf- rica.

IBWDON. Jan. 1c- ar) --'I‘.he Bill-iii 8H1 Army wnjghg w” pg- albout ready for a fresh Ililirt toward Tripoli and its Anglo- Amerlcan and French Allies in Tu. niala. while righting n-enm m the Fem“ W55?“ 0f lower Libya and their air forces dealt many and varied blows at the Axis 1n use Mediterranean theatre.

The Morocco Radio said slzong wQIILIOPCCITIQIITvI, including teinik film?!) have arrived in the last few hours to strengthen the forward elements or the srh Air-my before Wadi Zemzem. 1m airline miles southeast of Tripoli, indication that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's forces are getting ready to resume their aadvance after a lull suple- merited Berlin reports of Scour-day night that thousands of Allied veh- icles had been concentrated to the south or Marshal Erwin Rmnmels Dositlocis for an attack.

If an attack was imminent it ob- vloinly was in co-operatlon with the Pistol-trig French of the myster- ious Gen. Jacques Iieclerc who were reported wii-hln 300 miles of Trl ll after ouncing s, com. D16 conquest of Italy's Fezzan Empire of salt marsh, oases and desert in southern Libya.

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the Mediterranean were these:- Amerlcan Flying Berti-eases for politanis out of the west and bom- barded iiie Italian fortof ffrndemes, 17v) miles southwest of Tripoli near the Iiibyan-‘Ilimisleri-Algerian bor_

er. Putting the Axis under a two- way hammering from American four-motored bombers for the crust time in a 24-hour cycle, the Fort. resses‘ Liberator malls from the Cairo force slid over Nanleg on the Italian mainland by davllvht yes. ierday for their first bombing of that embarkation point and naval base in 1943.

m ‘Pimisla. 1118i. to the south 0f ‘he Gannon perimeter about Tun- is and Bizerte. British and Wrench nafrolsrwerirmnrc active than in days and fought. =everel success- ful actions. a. North Afflcari "cad- quarrers comm iique reported.

Fighters llit

all 3| , At ll ' ll 'l IDINDON. Jan. 12—(OP)—.A11led fighter planes swwt over the Low Countries today to disrupt Nazi water end rail transport afier heavy four-engined bombers smash- ed agaln last night at industrial targets in the Ruhr with 4,000- pound "block-buster" bombs.

"Many two-fan bombs were iir ig- ped" by the bombers raiding e Ruhr for the sixth time in nne days. "and the low or conslderaiole fires was seen,’ the Air Ministry news service said.

One big bomber in the force 0f undisclosed size was reported lost. The ‘Germans set up heavy anti- aircraft fire but thick clouds blunted their probing searchlights. Nazi night fighters rose to give battle but "no serious encounter developed." the news service said.

Meanwhile the M:.nistry of Home Security announcer; that 100 cl- villens were klliec or reported missing in German air raids dur-

inging the lotei

the war to th the Ministry added, #1360 Britons have been iritilg end 56.400 injured in I‘ -

Study New Trade Pact With Colombia

OTTAWA, Jan. l2 -~ (OFF-Plans for a new commercial amuement between Canada and Colombia are ‘ in Ottawa and Dom o senior. former Prie- rie Boiuth American Re-

in an interview here

toe, whose four-year terni as President of Colombia ended last Allmllt. arrived in Ottawa at noon and is a guest of the Govern- cr-Generel at Governmen House. “Canard? Wllmfltlllllllbll: rner ore e war an n from that countryhs’! Er o

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CAIRO, - (C?) - A rfeinlrel m is being used in he Mid

the ‘first time thundered into Tri- »

nitaly ended

drives to the Don and Volga and deep into the Caucasus, month-old Russian ffenslve has gone far

Hitler has it to do all over ageindwhether his principal purpose was to reach ltusslen oil sources in the Caucuses, to sever Russian oom- niunlcations via. the Volga at Stalingrad, or to eutflank Moscow from the south by a later sweep up the Volga. ‘

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(Ils Kirke L lknpson. Associated Press War Analyst) Whatever the theory of Neal strategic design that shaped thellidt

the two- ‘ its frustration.

The accelerating Axis retreat from the Caucasus fllient has defi- the German threat to the Grosny and Baku fields, per-

hupli. e oflsls

from the south.

of new advances in the Caucasus,

paid heavily to gain last summer.

Japs Begin

INTERNATIONAL AT A GLAllGE

. .. ' V), r (Caneflan Press) RUSSIA-Red Army- troops sap- ture 10 more villages and settle- ments in continuing Caucasus of-

fensive, but encounter heavy Nazi resistance in drive toward Ilostov.

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reinforce nte for Canadian Ar- niy. R.C.A. ., and airmen grad- uates fr0m the combined training operation arrive in Britain.

NORTH AFRICA — Allied heed- quarters spokesman announced arrest of “further personages of Algiers" in connect! with Dar- lan slaying; Giraud and de Gaullc to meet »‘-‘soon;" forward elements of British 1st Army eliI-fiported to have received large n orcements.

WESTERN FRONT -..‘ Allied fighter planes sweep over Low in forays against trans- port facilltlcs after bornbe a hit guhr valley again with "block- IIB s

ITALY-U. l. Bombers smash at Naples in first raid on that Axis city since the new year.

BURMA-Allies

creasing Jap resistance in on Akyab

lio Downward Ghaiige In Age Glasses For Gall

encounter in- drive

By FRANK FLAHERTY (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

UITAWA Jan. 12 — (OP) —- Arthur Mactlamara, director of Nat. ional Selective Service. announced

that no early downward ex- tens on of the age classes liable for compulsory military service is con- templated by! his branch.

As the ca -up regulations now stand, all single men and widowed. divorced or legally-separated men without children between 1D and 40 are liable to cell as well as the smell class of married mm under

25. air Meanwhile the Selective Service Branch is at‘ to oompl to

_ e the call-u of all men who were single in uly i040, between the ages of 19 an 40 who have not yet been called. Under a. recent pro- emmeams-i scrim" repo s orms available at local offices of Selective vice and at. Poet Off

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BRITAIN - Thousands of new’

‘ in the Stalingrad pocket

represent no menace new to the Volga transportation artery, Collapse of the Neel Don front south of the Voronesh salient seems no IOI to have freed Moscow of any present er future dang of enveiopment

What must now conscras Moscow and Allied ieadorflilp is not what Hitler hoped in achieve by his 19a: advances; but where he intends to make his final stand for defence of that pivot of his atsnded and endangered eouthe u flank in Rania. ‘Ihet mast depend llpon the forces still available to him under two-front war conditions, even more than upon any geographical circumstance.

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And perhaps the most significant aspect of current Russian reports

to threaten the Armavlr-Mellrop

branch of the Roetoir-Bakn railway and also reach the headwaters of the Ruben River. is the intimation that the foe may be fall back behind the Knban, surrendering even the Mslkop oil field he

preparing to

Defence

Of Akyab

LONDON. Jan. ll —(CP)— ‘The Japanese suddenly have displayed strong resistance in the defence of Akyab against British troops who have advanced to within about 46 miles of that bay of Bengal port in Burma, and have landed several

,0“ wane, voo_1n._%i‘igi¢b’i{is ‘hi:

reported today. A British cornmiiniq New Japanese were "re-

ua from said" the

6'18“!!! ltr0n81y" against continued pressure of "Field Marshal Sir Archibald WaveiPs forces, and s. Reuters News Agency correspond. ant with the troops said British patrols penetrated as fer as lluul [Point at the tip of the Meyu p311.-

lflhlllxlqt peninsula on the west side i?! the MB?“ River appeared clear of the Japanese when the enemy appeared from hiding places in the iunsle. and hills and attacked lil U18 region 0f Dflllbalk whey; fighting is still going on, the corres- Dflfldonfi aréé- The tip of the penlrir sula is 15 miles 0r less from Akreb, Mesnwhte, Indian patrols were worlrin southward he“

a iiungon e e i. .

Ma" River‘ ‘ side of the

Air Minister Admits Mistakes

TORONTO, Jan. l2 — (OP) - Aikr- Minister was applauded today ‘ilvdéarn in the course of a luncheon he liiefiifemoihiwo by his department.

s Minister said the presence o; J45. Duncan, former Deputy Air

lei-er. Was “a reproach," because "had I followed his advice We would have had thousands more women in the elr force than We have at pre- sent. He foresaw before we did m; shortage 0f Irmnpower confronting us. and one of the first things he did was to urge we accept women

‘in the air force. But we didn't think

it was necessary."

l" PBEYQKHHA the inability of PO. George Bow-ling. 20-year-old Osh- adian hero cf Malta, to be present ‘because of influenza, Mr. Power said: "He h a. reproach to me. We in early days didn't think George would make o. pilot. but for- tunately he was able to show not only that he was a good pilot, but one of the best in the world.”

P0. 3911111118 was rejected by the ROAJ". when he first tried to en- list at Verdun, Que, ricer the be-

g of the fo

BIG BOOTS SAILOR ID

NDON — (C P) — The Air Ministry and the War Office soy iii can fit airmen or soldiers with boo no matter what else. but the Admiralty was stuck bv a recruit who wore size l8 and he was sent

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Gilli Enlarges Supervisory. Administration

MI. W. U. AIPLITOI

MQWI? 009-. Jan. lz-The EDWIN-Went of W. U. Appleton as Vice-President of the Atlantic re- gion of the Canadian National Railways is announced by N. B. Walton, Eirecutive Vice-President of the system. Hitherto Mr. Ap- pleton has been Vice-s- esid

crease of traffic in the Maritime

ice 4 ass saved by the Na- mliaiggvayls ‘Ilflltgfldfi it ne- oeessary en args supervisory admlnistre“

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Mr. Appleton will hater make known the appointment of a. Gen- eral Manager who will thus relieve him of much of the direct work cociceming the extensive operation

within the Atlantic region terri- tory which begins east of Riviera Du 1011p, including a, section of Quebec and the Maritime Provin- ces. Mir‘. Appleton will maintain his headquarters m, Moncton.

A native 0f Moncfoin, 11.3., lib‘. Appleton began his railway career by joining the llriicroolonial Rail. way as a junior clerk on October

general master mechanic. becom- ing re, 1916 supt. of motive weir. with the amalgamation the Canadian Government railways into the Canadian National system. Mr. Appleton was appointed gener- nl sirpe-flnterident of rolling stock. In March 1923 he was made gener- al sum. of the Atlantic region and in April 1924 was appointed gener- al manager or the region, In ‘Rib. ruarv 1935 he was named vice- presldent and general manager.

Dvercrovvded Gonditions At Infirmary

Capable management at the Pro- vincial Ditirmai-y is “greatly hand- icapped by overcrowded condi- tions," reported the Grand Jury yesterday after the cimtocnary ln_ spectlon iolloiving the Opening o! the January term of the Supreme Court. The 1B7 patients were re- ported m be well cased for.

The Grand J-ury also recommen- ded erection of a modern barn at lllaloonwood tal, fire-escape provisions in the east female base- ment dormitory and west end of the auditorium. and government inspection of all meats consumed

' in both institutions.

The Court opened at 1i amarith

Mr. Justice A. I. Arseuault preeid-

10E. Two eiacise appeal cases were heard before Mr. Justice A. C.

Saunders before the Court joumed at 5 o'clock, to meet this morning at 10.30.

The Grand Jury found a true bill against Frank Ksiockwood, charged with manslaughter. It was expected he would be arraigned today and that his trial would begin Monday.

Mr. D. J. Bouinell, West " “ , was named. foreman of the Grand Jury, which was duly sworn in.

In charging the Grand Jury Mr.

Justice Arsenaiuit said he expected the Chief Justice would open the Court, but he was kidispoeed and unable to do so.

There was. he said. only one criminal indictment. that of an In- dian named charged

with manslaughter. In the last Court there were no indictment! Court there are no civ- “It is a matter of are so ""2-

(Contlnusd Q ‘l. Odkl

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of freight and passenger services bu,“

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h d d heAllled lending lest machinist apprentice, machinist m, fi- , chief clerk, asdistant to sirperiri- “m,” “m” m Unlhd tendent of mmlve power. a/nd as 3mm ma”, m,“ _

In Near Future; Agreement.

Henri Giraud, the AdmirsPs A number of those arr-es have been released, however,

At the same time another by the spokesman, who aeid

future hi an effort to reeeh two French forces.

. The official ‘ " ed dressed e press conference after the ell/y of Algiers had soothed for two days with risnors of the arrest

men nt persona lin Dar an murder, stressed hout that the investigation be made y the m itary authorities prov “without consideration of the

f rsona involved, gzmthetr péiirgli‘

llefs." murder of Derlen was litical, but the in igetion and rial will he conducted merely as eeéliiat of a criminal liar a1 grime n islmaeri ," sa . Th: 81mm have been arrested will be tried by é inilitar‘! isl- flVO ilifllls

Ielmede Easier-ruin an Eew per arrested were h - tion to the 12 whom Giraud an- nounced on New Year's eve had been seized in. plot to kill hkn-

flpberl Miuphy, Pree- ldent Roosevelt's persona minis- ter in North Africa. Gen.

The Qckeenian said' m cases the questionil! of ills led to new arrests.

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Universities Will Gooperate Fully Says Rev. Dr. Murphy

Canada's universities wil oo- operaie with the govemsnsnt to the utmost, Right Rev. J.A. Murphy. D D., Rector of St. Dunstanfs University stated last night on his return from a Canadian University Conference which opened at the National Research Council building at Ottawa on Saturday.