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Creeks Ilammeri At Koritza; Big

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Crews Of 130 F-asicist Tanks Make Desperate Efforts To Escape Into Yugoslavia.

ATHENS Nov. 17.—(AP —'l‘he "ry gates oi Koritza, larges uerell Albania, and occu Evasion of’ Greece ls be loved lmmi pounced tonight.

In the van of the Italian retret f dde Albania, were 130 Italian tanks, upe lnto neighboring Yugoslavia.

Some reports said tlle fleeing tank columns already had crossed into Yugoslavia, but the Government spokesman said there was no confinna-

tion of . The tanks were re rted cut off 0t them were said to ave fallen in

llthmllfillnual Fox Show Dpens Today

mxmcn gather here today as the eleventh annual llve fox show opens 'l‘1le opening day will be oc- cupied with receiving and classl- fylng nimals, with judging slated p; n early Tuesday. The final pillC g oi champions is expected to t» cnmplcted Friday.

Foxnlr-n last night were hoping for 000301‘ weather. For the past \iil1\l(‘tl rnin and warm ' has tcndcri to put foxes spirits for showing. The

t: Jllllfill‘ llt thcir best on ) tlr-ilr tlrlys

In addition to regular clltsscs of silvers, mnfzine from dnrk to al- most w-lrc. there ore p..l\"ldcrl this mu" Ill!‘ tllc first, timc at the Pro-

" l Sllmv hcrc, scctions for a and frock foxcs

A {nature of the wcck will be lhc tovlncilts banquet ul. thc Chur- loitctlwvn Hotel, Wednesday nihili-

ll. s. Warships Frighten Nazis Into Scutting?

AIEXICO CITY, Nov. l’! --(AP)-— Iiliflflllfii sourcrs sltld tonight. they biii('\t".i tlltcc fllilrd Stars Wl-T" tlups off the Port oi Thtmllict» vii-re the "cllclny" ships Wilitill, caused one (ll-rmult merchant. capluil. to sclrilc his ship and three otllcr res- ulls to scalnpcr back into the refuge oi Tzllnpl-o where they have bevn nlarooucd since the war began.

The three United States wu hips wczt- silthlcd rcccllttv by the M cut slulllrtlnt Qllcrvltlvn a few n oif Tiunplco, these sources said.

Unconfirmed reports from Tami)‘- co stud that units of the United Blows ncutrulily pzV-"ol Friday nltllit

1 nltcmptcd

the ' Brltlsil freighter - which had been loading lend Illlti was about. to be escorted from lhlllplco through the ncutrnl- ill’ Zone by the Anlcrlcrln vessels. ' rlcllnlity of the warships which ‘I ltellcsl tho German captains illwr has bet-ll (lciillltclv establish- Hl but fhc Gcrmall captains srlid 9191' bcllcved them to be British. Tilmlllco reports indicated the Germans, who ml‘ they wcre siz- llllllcd bv the walullins to surrclld- gr.‘ crroncollsly llli"l‘]ll‘(‘f9'i the sig- ll.=_

Cominglfvents

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"Tlinll-l’ ‘Ilczliihursday this week. — 556-lI-lb-4i

"Women's Institutq Bamar and Dulce 1h Wlltshire Hull, Nov. 1

"Chicken Supper Victoria, Cross, “MAS. Nov. 1D. Dance lficli.‘ 56°

"Chicken supper in Demley h u, wanefiegdniyitgtgv, 19th. m aid of

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on ‘i Dame, C . thy. Nov. a aririlitwcdnes 458-11-18-11

“Donne. Grand View Hall Wed- mflev. November, 2o. n hot fine. Mus‘: "i fllflht. Lunches.

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mrclflgnwall Hall, Mamie; Ntilwiiim- 1h. if not fine Tues av. Sup-

l‘ lerved from 5 till 10. Bale m"! Oookinl- L-tll-ll-ID-glhi

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and most im ortant clty in lta atlon of this lump ng-off place for the Fascist.

_ lhc run uzlvlcl" n lllPl'f‘lIf'<5 ]’lOllt‘l(i-' told instructor

B“, H W,“ Mound Kn,.ip,fl_ whpn, l lllulilll‘) training camp ill

eld City

Greek army 1| hammerlnF he the lflll-Ctlll-

uent, a government spokesman an-

rom this vital centre, ten miles in- reported seeking desperately to es-

gllgrgilkitlfiiulliléldililn forces, and many

"You will realize how difficult the occupation of Mount Morzlvu, three milcs from Koritza, wlos v95. terdnyflsnld the Greek spgkgg_ mun. "Since then we may say that; We 8Y1? fighting the enemy rear- Bunrcl before the gates of Koritza.

"The Italians have been resist- ing on Mount Ivan, even closer to Koritzzl, but this resistance has been crushed . . ,

"Occupation of the entire region is expected by the action which will develop more to the south.

"Grcck troops, by brilliant action, succccdcd in rcnchinl: the gates of Korllza and are threatening the city. the most import-ant in Albania "

In the Pindus sector, southwest 0f Koritza, "the Greeks were said officinllv to be fighting deeper and dccpcr into Albania.

"Our guns (lominutc the Konitzzt- Ersckc road ill this area and ollr troops are mopping up tlle Konilza I'["..'l0ll up t-w and beyond the fron- tlcr," the spokcsnlan said. “Wc also cnpturcd Italian booth on the road from Konltza In kfclissopntva.“

In thc Knlanlas Rlvcr, ilcnr the Ionian son coast (‘vrcck officials said succinctly’: "We arc mopping up tho Terrain "

Aitcr pulllnc: out of Knnitza, Growl: town ncnr the border which tllc Italians had llclrl since cilrlv ill the ‘Jl-ddv-old invasion, the

Local Man Dies In Hospital After Fall

Stanley Johnston, 28. of chm»- lottetolvn died in the P. m, I. HO-‘Pilfll Yesterday evening, two hours nfter he was picked up nn. conscious m a building on Great GEOrgc Street

Coroner Dr. I. J. Yeo decided an inquest would not be necessary. City Police said they were told Johnston was seen entering the Tweel Building alone, about 3 u. clock in the afternoon. A few minutes later persons ln the building said they heard a noise and investigated. They found the man at the bottom of a staiyway. His feet were up on the steps and his head on the floor. I-Ie was un- conscious,

Police officers sllid they believ- ed Johnston was going to club rooms ill the building when he lost his balance on the stairs and fell backwards.

Medical authorities said death was caused by e facture of the skull,

Johnston is survived by a wife and three small children. His fa- ther, Willlam Johnston, and sev- ernl brothers also survive. He was e native of Charlottetown,

British Built 84 Merchant Ships This Year

NEW YORK, Nov. 17 —tCP) - Dcspitc air attacks on her seaports, Britain completed at least 84 new merchant. ships, most of them fast ilvsltllltt-rs, (hiring the first nine months of 15140, an unofficial sur- vey of British shipbuilding showed today.

By the way of contrast, during the same period thc United States launched llpproxinuttcly‘ 33 vessels. New" Brhisll ships aggrcgnrcd at

426,500 tons.

At the line time, naval sources said. British shipyards completed many of the 100 dcstroycrs and light c ‘s and 20 escort and y vc .ols she vras known to

Grllks szll<l Farris"! ilil'l!l'll rc- ltlrilorl and lvilhllfli an orphanage and <ll-<tl"o‘.'rli half of tltc olhcr btlilllilllrs tllcrc, l

l-‘lsont tllc top of tho IOO-milel front to tltc IOfllliflh sctlconst the trvcks snltl tllc Italians wcrc on,

inc hr land; sca and air.

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(Coiltinutld on page l0, Col 4)

Damage;

h.vc ml on the trays when the '.'.':lr bclzrul.

MILITARY INSTRUCTOR KILLED

NEUVILLE. Qtltxj, Ncv. 17 —-—lC- Pl ~Sgl. Francois Aucinir, 21-year- nt ill-c compulsory llt‘(lli!_\'

ltluxun was killed in all utltolnolailc accident Saturday" fl. few hours nf- who

tcr he wed Wll? llljlll"

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Building At US. Chemical Plant

Two Men Injured In Unexplain- ed Explosion, InOne Week

I l'l'l"l15BURGll, Nov. 17 —-lAP) -- All ullrxlllatlltu tihpllb-Oll, tluru ill u. luck lit u plullt u. .110 America (jjllliaulllu tutu UlmllllULil Corpora- tlull, tmtzlj.‘ Ullllldllhllttl flail o. 0118 mllt“ out-lung ftl. Lllc Lufpalthluilk iuuluy- Lillilgstnlt.‘ WOlR-SALWU men were uljurext, llelthcl serlousty.

Oscar Luft, plant manager said 100 to 150 WOHUIIBH were m the wulpaliyls works at Briugevlllopifi of them ni the slxlmcrcu bulldlfll when the blast let go at 11:40 a. m. ASL‘. _

'l‘lle concussion ripped through plut of the mam GOO-by -100-fcot building of the Div-acre chemical works causing damage officially re ported at $350,000. The 131W" mm‘ ugcr sold the Corporation did not have government contracts.

Luff identified the injured as Jolln Pinto, 45, and Culvlil Huron, ~10.

The manager described the plant as one employing the catalytic oxi- dation of naphthalene process l0 manufacture phthulic anhydridge, a raw material used in chemicals, ea- pcclally for synthetic resins.

A week ago today an explosion in the Cnlco chemical division of the Corporation at Bound Brook, N. J,, killed u plant superintendent and injured three workmen.

Last Tuesday an explosion of l,- 000 potmds of dynamite in the cor- poration's plant ncor New Castle. 50 miles northwest of Pitts-

fifth, klled three workmen in e small dynamite wrapping Workl-

On the same day ~~-N0v. l3 -—N1l\£' persmls were killcd or fatally ill- jurcd in an explosion at the Unit-- 0d Railway Slllllfll COmPB-DY. Wood- brlcge, N. J., end three were kill- ed ln u blast at the Trojan Powd- er plunt near Allentown, Pa. only

ll.D.A.F. Lists Dne Death Dn Casualty List

OPTAWA. Nov, II-(CP) —'I‘he Royal Canadian All‘ Force ln its 21st casualty llst Saturday report- ed the death of Lac. James Arnold Belse, R-82211, and four other casualties, bringing the total of missing reported since the war started to 82.

Following ls the latest list of casualties, with regimental num- bers and next-of-kinz-

fered in automobile accident: mo. James Arnold Belse. R-62211. Mrl.

Vera Beise (mother) ’f11 Avenue E. North Saskatoon, Sack, Seriously injured in fall from

motor transport: A. C. William Alexander Clarke, R-4166A, W. J. clarke (father) 635 Garwood Ave., Winnipeg.

,,Serlolul1y ill:

Gordon Felix Loyer (No rank listed), 12-85568, Mrs. Mergarette L. Loyer lmother) 1946 Woodbine Ave., East York, Ont.

Slightly injured in flying ao- ddent:

. David Montgomery Jenkin- son, 11-09005. Mrs. W. J. Jenkin- son (molherl 330 Weetmoreland

‘L Ave. Toronto.

Slightly injured 1n shooting ac-

cident: Cpl. Lawrence William Reid, 9788. Mr. and Mrs. George M.

Redl (parents) clo Maj. Hancock,

the, Trojan Company was working on p. government order.

R. B. 2 Aylmer It, Quebec.

Scheduled For

LONDON, Nov. l7 -tCP) -— The Air Ministry‘ tonight announced far- reaciling changes in the Royal Air Force. They include the detaching of the present chief of the fighter command for special duty in the United States, and the formation of e. new air command WIIICH will work closely with the army.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dovvdiniz, 51f, who has lzrcen mainly responsible for the defence of Brit- ain against German air attacks, will be sent to the United States at the special request of Llcrcl Beaver- brook, Minister of Aircraft produc- tion, the annsuntrelrlcnt said.

Succeeding him in the key -. : oi air OiiiCEl‘ contmdxlrler in tlnel of the fighter command will b’: Air Vice Marshal W. S. Douglas, 4'7, who was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal.

Air Vicc-Aiarshal A. T. Harris, 48. was nilmcd to replace Douglas as deputy chief of sir staff un ler the chief of air stuff, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal.

Air ViCf‘—.‘/If1l'>ilfl.1 O. T. Boyd, 51, W115 promoted to Ail" Marshal azld mntlc all" officer commzvlltlin; the Middle East ccrlnrnancl.

Air Marshal E. L. Gossagc, 49, was made commander of the bal- loon barrage in place of Vice Mar- shal Boyd and Air Vice Marshal P. Bnblnotozl, 46,, was promoted to Air Mar ..l. All Marshal Sir Arthur Silerldan Brlrrdtt. 49, who commanded the

(Continued on page 10, Col 4)

Terms 0f ‘New Bacon Agreement Are Announced

Died as result of injuries sub‘

OTTAWA, NOV. 16 —-(CP) — The new bacon agreement between Can- llLiCl. and the United Kingdom pro- viucs that t..".e British food minis- try to pay .1 .l.l'. rate of $15.82 per 100 puuntis lcl" all grade A Wiitsllirc sides and $15.06 for all grade B Wlltshire sides delivered at Canad- ian seaboard, the Canadian bacon IX); '(l lli'.'.‘.ljllllt'\ (i illtlilvV. lo lncct t-llrsc nc. rules the ba- l-sll Iiurti llllzlollltcl :1 il will pay $16.10 pol" 10.’) pounds for grade A. l s .t'.'tt).t' \.\'.L..~hirc sinus (ie- > at Canadian scrlbcard on all export products put into cure be-

lzilruiu; tomorrow. Relative prices have been tx-tnblishetl for other grades, lt-rlghts and selections of

Wiilsllire sides and export cuts. Tilt‘ new bacon uurcculent neg- otiated by Agriculture Minister Gardiner during his recent visit to Britain provides for heavier nur- chnscs of Canadian bacon and hunls by the British food ministry. at prirts lowci" than the first agree- mcnt f‘lli(‘l“.i into a _vcllr ago To- tal value of tllipnlents under the new ngnezllcilt will be $69,300,000. The prlcc for grade A Wll :hi.rc sides ill tllc Inst aorcemcvl. was $18.01 pcr 100 pounds, compared with $1.3 H2 ill the new nurccnlcnt. Tlu- pricc of grade B Wlltshlre sides was $17.25 lmder the first ngrec-' hlcllt and $15.06 under the new one. While the British ministry will pny rt flat price for all grade A Wiltshirc sides, the bacon board will pay $10.10 for grade A, no. 1, a lesser price for No. 2 and so on. ‘These other prices are not announc- ed. A bacon board official sold to- day the average price for all serie- tles of grade A will be approxi- mately the food ministry's price of’

$l:l.82.

The British prices for export cuts. including hams, gammona, fores. middlcs and backs correspond f0 the prices for Wfltshlre sides. The u- grecnlcnl provides, however, that '15 per ccnt of the 8,176,000 pounds of cured pork products Canada has

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undertaken to deliver weekly for export ntttst be Wlltshlre sides.

BERLIN, Nov. 1'! -—(AP) —Cler- many! fruit shortage resulted to- day in a government order that ‘m- plcs must be lrscrvcd for consump-

Important ates.

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Five IR.D.A.F. Men Missing; Abandon Plane

OTTAWA. Nov. 17 —((.‘l') - Five Royal Canadian Air Force men. who abandoned their At- lantic patrokplane by para. chute some time lust night still are missing m the rough coun- try around East Lake, Que" It, C. A. F. headquarters announ- ced tonight.

Unable‘ to land at their own base or any other base in the Maritimes because of fog and had weather after a fouling patrol over the ocean yester-

day, the twin-engined Rldby bombers was ortlcrcli to set down at Montreal. Ill-fore

reaching till.‘ airport there the Diane was abandoned.

011B 0f the six men aboard- Fo. U. J. ll. LeBlanc—ls known to be safe.

The missin_ men are:_

Flt. Lt. 6.1-‘. Clay, New west. minster, B. C.

Fo. J. (i. Richardson, Sask- atoon, Sask.

Lac. ll. E. Howard, Aylcsford, N. S.

Lac. E. .1. Benoit, Ottawa.

A. C. Elmer Johnson, Winni- peg.

An intensive search is under Wfty by air and ground crews, the It. C. A. F. said.

For many hours after the plane was ordered to proceed to Montrcal, no word was re- ceived at headquarters hcrc. Then, at 2:15 I‘. M. today, F0. LeBlanc wired to say he and the other mmcbers of the crew bailed out during thc night.

lle reported he made a safe

landing by parachute near East Luke. on the Canadian National Railway transcon-

tinental llne about 150 miles southeast of Quebec (lily. There was no word from the other five.

The R. C. A. F. statement, issued about 10 I‘ M ART. to- night, did not say why the big patrol ship was abandoned. It was presumed. however, that she probably ran out of fuel lsftcr her long Atlantic patrol and the extra flight toward Montreal.

Black Bear Goes Dn Rampage

NAPPAN, N. B, Nov. 17 —-(CP‘ —A big black bear broke loose from its cage here today ftllti chased u boy, attacked a pony. killed a hon cub and clawed its crlrctnkcr before he subdued the rminlnl with a pitch- fork.

The bellr, mete of on aninnl shot last week when it escaped from a circus winter quarters here, seized caretaker Charles Gould when he tried to rescue the lion cub by inb- bing it with a pitchfork. The bear smashed the pltchfork.

Gould caught the bear by an elu- and twisted it until the animal re- leatrd its hold on him. Then he grasped another pitchfork and man- aged to prod the bear into its cage.

The owner of both Animals is Capt. William Schultz. a German who was interned several months ago.

MANY N-B. TRAINEES ENLIST

SAINT JOHN, N.B., Nov. 1'!- (CPJ-At the end of the first train- ing period '12 per cent of the young men in military training comps in New Brunswick volunteered for ac- tive servlrre in the army, navy find Ill‘ 10PM. an officer of Mllltarv District No. '1 said here Saturday. At one came the percentage was

llcm by children and mothers.

expectant

Explosions Light Up Edge Df London

LONDON, Nov. I7 —-(CP) — The outskirts of London were lighted up tonight by some of the biggest ex- plosions ever heard in the capital as NflZl plant attacked the cit)‘ af- ter an ullsu slut day oi raids which cost t. em 13 planes.

There were tremendous flushes o! white light, liowed by rumbling, tearing crashes.

Fhom the ceiltre of the city Molo- toff breadbzlskets -huge packages which brsnk olxxn as they near iilt‘ earth, rt-l lllg clusters of slllnil incendiary bonlbs —dropped through the murky skies, but observers could see no fires.

Barrage guns roared steadily as the high flying Nazis droned across the city.

The Air Minis

,\' and Ministry of Home Security id that five Brit- ish fighting pl.. . ‘s ‘were sllot down in air fights today but that four of the pilots were safe.

Bombs vrere chopped in u town in southern England and thc gov- ernment announced that. a "con- siderable lllllllbt"? of llotlses" were damllgcd badly‘ and that there were a number of casualties.

During the morning a formation of German planes crossed the coast‘ ‘of Kent but British fighters drove them off.

Another formation flew into the Thames estuary", but, ilgillll British fighters scazilrcd tllcnl. A small number of bombs \\':, dropped at two places on tfC Klnt coast and at thrcc places in Stisscx and at somc plilccs in East Anglia, but lit- tle dunlagc and only a few casual- ties were reported.

blockade the cilcmy is attempting to establish off the coast of I'm- lnrltl."

Tllc wrilcr noted the sinking of tho Pllnprcss of Britain. and suggest- erl tllcsc nlr 1‘:l1ti5 on slllpplluz con- stitute “tllc 11105’ vllnl and urns-lit problem of the war at prcscclt.“

Swiss Hear Axis May Lay Final Plans

BERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 1'1 — tAP) —- Germany and Italy were ileported tonight to have called an lmportarlt llulliOfCllCe o; yfznna which some (llpIOlllflilC sources selmt lllight lay the filial plans for u (loubltv-hcadctl nxis move -— one agrtlnst Gibraltar" and the other to- ward Greece and Turkey.

There was no word as to when the nlwllilg would be held.

However, it was said the confer- ces would include foreign mfilister ltlbbcntrop, 0t Germany, foreign minister Cinno, of Italy, and foreign minister Serrano Suner of Spain. as well as Gen. Wilhelm Keltel, chief of the German high com- mand, and Marshal Pietro Endog- lio, chicf of the Italian army gen- eral staff.

The two Marshals already have been conferring at Innsbruck, Ger- many, in what, axis sources de- scribed as a "tilorough revlclv" of the possibility of Cverlnsn army co-opcration with the Italians iil the Balkans.

The Vicmln nlccttllg. lt wars said. would enable the axis diplomats to tell the axis generals how much help they could expect from ‘friend- l_v" countries in any move r-nvard Gibraltar on the wcst or the Arg- can Sca and tllc Dardnncllcs on the east.

Pbrelgn diplomatic sources consid- ered lt significant that the confer- ence eame shortly" after the Ber- lin talks betlvcen the Nazis and Russlafs Premier, Vyachcsluff Molt)- toff.

Serrano Stiller was reported ln German dispatches to have talked in Paris today with Francois vice premier, Pierre Laval.

One Swiss correspondent in Ber- lin said that Spain's foreign min- ister nlready has left Paris for Vienna via Munich. accompanied by en expert on Spanish Moroccan. affairs.

IProm Berlin. it was reported Rib- bentrop is "out of IOWII." Diplomatic sources said he probably would meet Serrano Suncr at Munich and pro- cccd to Vienna.

Fiarlicr reports from Vienna to- day had said that a soutll-cas'crn conference included Hungary, Ru- manlu and Slovakia would be lleid in that city "within the next icw days"