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De. Gaulles Visit To__Horth Africa ls Postponed Novorossisk Push Cffltinues

Soviets Make New Gains; Block

Fresh Enemy Attempts To Cross

Donets River.

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n hand-to-hlnd fighting In lhe Canteens. and lh Donete Valley have tamed beck new enenay lttemptg to are” the river,

Moscow announced tonight.

The midnight. communique. recorded here by the Soviet Radio Monitor, said also that the Russians consolidated their positions In the ring around Smolensk, and one unit broke through the enemy lines south of aelr Ind wines out the occupants of several blockhouece with

grenades.

Rell Gross Prov. Total llow $98,000

Detailed Statement of Receipts Soon Rea- dy; Queen’s County Doubles Objective.

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today it is up five thousand dollars above last year's amount, topping by a wide margin the greatest charitable campaign for war service ever con- ducted in this Province.

Some individuals not fully satis- fied with their original contribu- tion heve been sending in addi- tional amounts to Charlottetown headquarters and the final returns from outlying rural areas have been coming in to the county chair- men.

Queens County. outside oi Char- lottetown. has now followed the Prince County lead and has more than doubled its objective.

Results from the rural districts ere now practically all in and the detailed statement giving lull par- ticulars of all receipts will probab- lv be ready for presentation to the public in about another week.

By that time it is possible. oer- haos even probable, that the Pro- vincial total will be uo to one hun- dred thousand dollars and the Provincial obiective of $50,000 set by National Headquarters at the oroolne of the campaign mav be fuillv doubled. ff m .

to their Red Cross giving for i943. there is yet time to send along lh- presentation direct to RedOross House in Charlottetown.

Prince Edward

Reinforcements Arrive Overseas

A BRITISH PORT, Alpril 5 — (OP Cable)- A new draft oi rein- ioroem nts for the Canadian Army. the naclisn Women's Anny Corps and the R.O.A.F. has a:- rived in Britain after an unevent- ful Atlantic crossing, it was per- mitted to disclose today.

Army reinforcements included personnel for infantry, artillery, engineers, armored corps and other services while the women included lilnals Ind mechanical

The arrivals reported themselves iit and happy to reach Britain. News of their lendi was sup- pressed temporarily or security reasons

Last revioue arrivals were an- 'i"““° e.“"“‘c.‘ ‘is’: “ “its”; cosed at e con en oi the R.O.A.I'.. including ground and air crews, ever to reach Brit- ain d bQIl dispersed to camps throug tut the colmtry.

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The Germans during the week- end mldg what apparently was a malcr attempt to raid Russia's second city of Leningrad, but, the communique said. only isolated planes managed to penetrate the city and drop bombs alter air bat. ties in which 42 German bombers were destroyed. The Russians re- ported loss of seven oi their planes.

The bulletin said that during the morning hours Gennan tanks and infantry operated in two directions in attempts to outflank Russian units south of Izyilm. where the Gcrfnalu have been trying for sev- eral daysto push across the Donets, apparently in a drive aimed at the imofrtant centre of Voroshllov-

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The Soviet forces. however, were resorted. uneven-em d both at. tackendlsebiing four ts ‘endan. figgyting about a v pshy of hi-

In one seem of the nan-owing German bridgehead in the north Caucasus. a Russian unit broke into 8 fortified Nazi mono in a swampy district end captured two lines of trenches.

A German infantry regiment

counter-attacked but. was 7917111354 with heavv losses. Moscow said, in- cluding hundreds of dead and wounded left on the battlefield and four trims. 23 machine mos and other vlr material captured. On the western front Soviet. fil- ers were reported to have raided l. railway station in the enemy rear, mlttinlz the station out of con-mis- sion and demolishing the tracks.

Stephan Loses Bill For Life

WASHINGTON, April ll .- (AP) -Mux Stephan, Detroit restaur- ant owner sentenced to hang for treason, lost today his bid for e review by the United States Bu- preme Court oi his conviction oi shielding a German who fled a Canadian war prisoners‘ camp.

Without comment, the court turned down his appeal, apparent- ly closing Stephans last avenue of escape from the scaffold.

Stephen's attorneys contended that he was prompted by personal motives in harboring Peter Krug. German aviator who escaped from the Bowmanvilie, Ont. camp, and that he should not. have been con- victed of treason because he had no intention of aiding Germany. The Justice Department, on the other hand, argued tha Btsphan, a German-bum natur ized citi- zen, received a lair trial end that the death penalty should be car- ried out as "aderiur warning to all other potentia traitors." Stephan was accused oi feeding and providing clot-hing for Krug

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Eisenhower lfialle Request, Report Says

Talks AF Part or Master Plan Linked With European In-

vasion.

By JAMES McLONO

Aleoeintcd Preee Staff Writer

LONDON, April 5 —(AP)— The long-awaited North African meet- ing of Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud for the fusion of all henchmen into fighting un- ity was post/polled indefinitely to- day at the paw-est of Gen. Dwight G. Eisenhower in what some diplo- matic observers interpreted as a master plan for the agreement closely timed to come between the Tunisian cleanup and th, Allied invasion oi Europe.

The American commander's rea- sons for asking Gen. De Gaulle to delay his proposed im- minent trip to North Africa were regarded here as presumably mill-

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Foreign diplomatic sources said lhg cautious course apparently stemmed from fears that talks be- tween De Gaulle and Giraud. which undoubtedly would end in a workable agreement,

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OTTAWA, April 5_—(CP) - The first Canadian arm casualties suf- fered in North A rica were an- nounced in a Canadian (active) army overseas casualty list issued tonight. Two men were listed as killed in action in North Africa in the 115i. the army's 287th overseas list of the war. One man was listed as missing in action, three as wounded in act- ion and one as wounded and miss- ing in action. One of those killed in action- Capt. David Arthur May of Sydney. N.S.—and one oi those wounded in action-Capt. George Richard Corkett of Ottawa-were described as attached to the British first army in Africa. ‘There was no indlcfltllln with whom the other North African personnel were serving. Defence headquarters said one of the men listed as missing in action -Capt.. George Burbidge of West- mount. Que-took paart in a . com- bined operations at ck. They said they had no further details.

The casualty iiel. includes: Wounded 1n Action:

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Dali For Mbre Poultry Meats

OTTAWA, April 5-(OP)—'I‘he Agriculture Department today call- ed for increased production of ultry to meet the "substantially creased" demand which is ex- pected to occur when meat ration- ng goes into effect early in May. oultry and fish will not be rat.- on u r eana n ogra, iedndethC diaPr m

after his escape from the cam] and there are only limited sup- in 1042. ‘The aviator later Wll plies oi poultry in cold storage, oaght in ‘liege-s. he Department said.

OTTAWA. April l -(CP)— Canada is heading into the most critical period oi ts rubber short- see. rioiitzerooutroiier A. H. Will- iamson said today in en interview. At the moment there is a des- . ete reoe to have synthetic rub-

r eble stockpile of crude is exhaust-

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Rubber Situation Is In Critical Period

. Production oi synthetic in 1940 was - estimated at 241.000 tons, outsider-

. ing the year are exlpec

qulpment for processes entirely new to the North Anlsrice-n industrial field remain to be oompletsd. liven when this plant is in full production, Munitions Department officials have repeatedly warned. the rubber show for civilians will not be ended. e entim out- plutwiilber uiredtomeetwar

EIIPOSCB and o most essential duetrlal needs.

Canada's rubber eu ies and re- quirements are poo with those of the United States and in e re- Unitsd States rib- ber director. W. M. Jeffers, gave ' figures which. said officials here, illustrate the seriousness of the lit- uation faced b! the two countries.

Mr. Jeffeleset the mot slott- pile at Jan. l, i043. as .000 tons.

ably less than the original i943 ductlon estimate of 304.000 ns. Importation: of crude dur- ted to e- ions.

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By Glenn Babb, Asso

The roaring procession oi British and American heavy bombers lwlmi-‘e acroee the English Channel over the week-end must have caused the °d 5' Germans to wonder if that time predicted last summer by Air Marshal U! ‘he FPO-Al'- °v°"5‘3“5- "Soon we shall be coming over

Harrie were not already here. night and everyday, rain, blow or tainly for three days Here is the schedule:-

Friday night the ILAJ". and lor-lent and Si. Nazalre; Brest and Abbeville; “heavy and concentrated Sunday 138 American planes

United States bombers attacked G

Europe. The time has come when tlnent can be considered immune Fleets of American four-motored cross the English Channel are now

suffered blows of such dcstructiven

ports or bases for a possible “Dunk The bombing campaign is one

boat parts and to the shipyards th lalrs on the Atlantic coast. At u“,

We have tho word of the best ‘ ‘ of what ls to come. meant considerable crippling dozen of Germany's greatest Havoc has been done to transportati

truction to make itself felt in the a fronts. and the Reich has been un rllda for nearly p, yen-now, {MU-plane raid _'on Cologne.

Antwerp.

By LOUIS V. HUNTER (Canadian Press Staff Wrlterl LONDON, April 5 -- lCP Cable) --A great force of American heavy bombers. escortod by R.C.A.F. and other fighters, smashed today at. the Bria Airplane Re air Works near Antwerp, folio ng up a heavy R.A.F.-R.C.A.F. assault on the German naval base oi Kiel

last night.

Today's high-level precision bombing was said to have been carried out with “good results". The German News and Propa- ganda A ency said the raiders scored drect hits on "blocks of houses, which caused fires and destruction and severe losses among the civilian population" of Antwerp. As usual the Germans made no mention of military damage. The R.C.A.F. said no Canadian aircraft was lost. from the escort s uadrons.

Radio rations in Munich, Stuttgart, Koenigsburg, Lux- embourg, Lausanne and Burgo- munster, Swiiserland, went off the air late tonight, indicating Allied bombers were over the continent again.

The Air Ministry announc- ed tonight that during the af- ternoon British Venturas of the Bomber Command, escort- ed by fighters. attacked docks end ehl ing at Brest. One enemy fghier was knocked down. but three British bomb- ers and one fighter were re-

rted missing.

e Americans first attack in the area. of Belgium's second larg- at city was carried out by what observers on the Ernglish coast at. Dblkeswrle described as the gloat- est single iorce they had ever seen crossing the Channel in daytime. The big four-motored lanes were escorted all.the way the tar- get and back to the coast of Enli- and by an array of Spitfire light-

ers. Fig ter opposition was described as “heavvf Four bombers and

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one escorting fighter were ally;

shores, as Naples and Cagliarl have learned in recent days.

the United Nations’ program, the others and preparation for the coming invasion or invasions of the continent. The bilmbefs "t? Phil"! t!!! important role in the submarine campaign, carrying the battle of the Atlantic clear to the factories that produce U-

llminary work of the invasion program, southern Europe for the blows to come. still might I

elated Press War Analyst

enow. We and the Americans."

n.c.a.1r. attacked the U-boat lalrs at 55ml‘!!! the B-A-F. and ILC-AJ‘. were over Saturday night the

bombed the Re-

erman industrial targets at Antwerp

in daylight with “good bombing results."

This was the score against only the western hastions of Hitler's hardly any part of the new dark con- to the scourgllig of the Allied bombers.

bombers able to those which in position to blast the southern Both have

oss as to decrease greatly their vaiurt

in Axis preparations for the coming finale in Tunisia, either as supply

erque fleet." of three closely interlinked pllasrs of being the war on the U-boats

at assemble them as well as to their same time they are doing the pre- softenlng up both western and

Allied authorities that this is only n

And yet the results already must have of Hitler's war machine. Great areas of n. industrial cities have been laid in ruins.

on. one of the weak links in the Ger-

man war effort. Experts say it takes eight or nine months for such des-

ctual arrival oi war materials 0n the der heavy although still intermittent

It is [more than l0 months since that first

Smash Enemy Repair Plant

Very Heavy Daylight Assault By American Planes on Works at

INTERNATIONAL u A outlet:

WESTERN FRONT - Allies raid Antwerp plane repair plant. follow- gtglassaulis on Naples, Kiel and

ar s.

NORTH AFRICA - American 2nd Army Corps drivel forward in Tunisia toward junction with Bvrlt- ish 8th Army; meeting between De Gaulle and Giraud postponed in- definitely at Eisenho .'s l _, cst.

..RUSSIA — Germans persist In futile effort to bridge Unnrts Riv- er south of Izyum. losing heavily; Russians advance towards Novo- rossisk in Caucasus.

PACIFIC - Allied aircraft lmmb l0 Japanese,- strongholds in New Guinea area, lncludin, three-hour harassing raid on Island of Buka in Solomons. l

Big Timber Deal Reported In ll.B. ‘i

SAINT JOHN, NB, April 6 - (CPJ- The Telegraph-Journal on a news page stolby in today's issue fiflys the Fraser ompanies, Limit- ed, 0f Bdmunston, N.B., have pur- chased between 600,000 and 700.000 acres of timber land ‘on the To- bique River from the New Bruns- wick Railway Company.

The area involved is about 40 per cent of the total holdings of the railway company's lands, the mher portions of their property be- ing located on other watorheads at the sources of the Rsetigouche,

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EThree Airmen Awarded D.F.D.

OTTAWA, 1E1 5 -—(CP)- Air d11- d award oi the Distinguish- lying Cross to three members

Force headquarters tonight.

The award winners: PO. Peter M. Anderson of Union Point, Man; PO. Richard W. Taylor of Victoria and P0. Charles R. Blumnauer of Elmderby, B.C.

Along with the citations covering the awards the air iorcs issued

R-A-F- and R-C-A-F- made a the citations covering award of e raid on Essen. home of the Krupp Works; "heavily and accurately" neuit plant near Paris; Sunday night the RAF. and R.C.A.F. attacked "I “neat strength" the U-boat base and shipyards at Kiel; Monday

bar t0 the D.F.C. held by Flt. Lt. Harry Malkin of Vercl-u-n. Que.. and of the Distinguished Flying Medal to Flt. Sgt. J. A J Bursa- lou of Montreal—awards an- nounced previously in London.

181,178 Men Accepted From Total Dalled

QTTAWA, April 5—lCP)— As‘ a mgult; of 1,028,753 notices for medic- a1 examination, 11113126118901‘! 9° compulsory military service, lsent out to Jan. 31, 1943, 181,178 men have been accepted at training centres, said a reply lob-ed in the House of Commons locay for J. G- Djeftgrnyaker (Prog. Con. Lake Cen e .

._ The reply said there were 1,054,823 men between the ages of 19 and 45, 089,739 of them single men and childless widowers and 065,084_ mar- ried men or wldowers with children.

Undelivered medical examination notices numbered 122.001 Ind» in addition 13.889 notices to report for military training were undelivered of the 341,954 sent out.

The tables given in showed 327,159 men ‘ finer medical examinations 178.759 granted posl-ponemenls. The number who reported at training centres was 212,797.

Prosecutions for violations of the gall-up regulations numbered 1.216 to Jlm. 31, and there were 834 con- victlons. The number of transfers rczgistemd by district registrars was 89. 91.

the reply

The figures for P.E.I. indicate that 7.968 medical examination

notices were sent out. and that 370 ci that. number were not delivered. 2.270 men were~found unfit after examination and 2.235 postpone- ments were granted. A total of 2,994 notices for tnilitary training were sent out and 39 were not de- llvercd. A total of 2.134 men from this Province reviorted for military training and 1.632 were accepted. There were no prosecutions for failing to report in this province. the 0n’v one so listed in the dom- inion. ‘lrrre were 24 prosecutions in NB. but no convictions Each of the other provinces had convictions.

More Details 0f Meat Rationing

UITAWA, April b-(CPr-Thc Prices Board announced Officially today that the meat ration in Can- aria will be the same for Children

as for adults and that the amount »

of meat available under the ration systcnt will vary with the individ- ual cut.

Lost week Fi-Dance Minister Ilslcy announced in the House that a ration oi about two pounds per p(\l'S0ll per week would go into effect shortly; probably early in

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Today the Board said in a press relcasc that the two-pound ration is “ttvo pounds by weight as the meat comes from the carcass-that is, including bone.

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Harbor

Port Is Left Flaming After 100 U.S.

littered with 24 crippled

Heavy Bombers Stage Daylight Raid.

By Daniel Do Luce, Associated Press Staff Writer

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. RICA. April 5--(AP)--Nearly 100 American hea- vy bombers loosed 200 tons of bombs on the south- ern ltalian port of Naples Sunday, setting fires from which billowing smoke blacked out the com- bustion of nearby Vesuvius and leaving the harbor

NORTH AF-

vessels and the luain nir-

port in a rubble of wrecked planes.

The Allied Headquarters communique today told of this greatest destruction yet heaped on Naples, the Tunisian supply key. The assault

'overshadowed all the land fighting in Tunisia

where American troops manding hills near the pressed on to the east

won a number of com- Qabes-Gafsa Road and for an eventual jLiYlCtlOn

with the strengthening British 8th Army.

“Buzz" Beurling Posted To Monoton

MONTREAL. April 5—(CP)—-The The Star said today that H). George "Buzz" Beurling, 13310., D. R0,, D.F.M. and bar, had been

sted to an RAF. station at Moncton, N B. as the first stop to- ward fulfilling his ambition of "getting another crack at. the jerries and eyeties."

The paper said that whether Beurling, who has shot. dowwn 20 planes, will get a chance to add to his record “is in the lap of the gods, depending largely on decisions to made by the British air ministry.

Axis Reports 8th Army llas Renewed Drive

LONDON, April B -—(Tuesday) —lCP)- Axlg radio reports in- dlcated early today that artill- ery units of the British 8th Army had renewed the attack on Marshal Erwin Rommel‘: forces in Tunisia.