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Germans

i Russians Say Lines I_-_I_0lding

Nazi Troops Cease Attacks In

Orel - Kursk Area.

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Fourth Crop lloport 0f Season

OTTAWA, July 13 --(CPl—

e Dominion Bureau of Stat- firs. In the fourth of eight gelegraphiu crop reports of the season today repor.ed that hot. weather fairly well across the Dominion induced rapid growth of crops during the past wrek but in tihe prairie provinces it led also to crop deterioration where the moisture supply was deficient.

"The area] ohiefly affected were western Saskatchewan and aoiitheastem Alberta," the Bur-

tsu said.

The situation in the Msri- time: was improved by recent rains but Nova Scotia appeared to have missed moat the heat wave and now was in need of winner weather.

The general situation in Ont- ario appeared to indicate im- provement but the crops were atlll very late. Quebec reported beneficial effects from warm weather of the past two weeks bat correspondents expressed fear it wuild not be possible to overcome the handicap of de- layed seeding and the yields of all crops would be reduced.

NEW WEAPON

BAN FRANCISCO, July II —(A i-Unitrd States Navy physicians ld in their hands a new weapon sweapon which they hope can mbat and overthrow any future tbreaks of influenza, which kill- 11121000000 throughout the world i the close of the first great war. is an antiserum inhaled directly

‘~- the lungs in the form oi a smlst.

UMINC EVENTS

"Talkies — Murray River Thu"- Y- 7-13-71.

"Talkies — Eldon hidayfi-laax‘

"TolkleswMurray River Thurs- - 7-13-21.

"Tolkien-Eldon Friday‘. 7 13 m

"Dance. Donagh School, Friday y 16th. Good Music. 7-14 16-21

"Dance in Brookvale School undiiy night, July 15th. 7-14-21.

"Horse Races at Riverside Track. Vernon, on July 21st. 1-2-61.

"Women's Institute District con- ntion at. Brookficld, July 14.7 13 2 - ~ 1

"Soc Rustlco Players in Hunter , 1'91" l-lsll. Thursday. Play starts 3°- Dlmce after. 7-13-31

"Dance Iona Hall Wednesday. “ll lit-h. Note change of date. 2i 713'

. “Tiny "Here Comes Charlie." by ~ Teresa's Dramatic Club, Emer- ‘m Hill. Wednesday, July 14th. 1-12-st "Ice Cream Social at the Tr on Elwin Church Hall on wesnyes- ,“ "Quins. July 14th. Proceeds °l church purposes. 7-9-13-14-31.

‘fish hand Blue Stone Arsenate h“ ime. Booking orders for Hyd- ‘pmeol Lime to arrive. Dillon

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LONDON, July 13 -<CP)- Ger- man troops ceased their "large- scnle attacks" in the sector today. and lost. 96 tanks in fighting in the Belgorod area t0 the south, Moscow announced to- night.

Fifty German tanks were knock- ed out and more than 400 enemy troops killed in the Orcl-Kursk area, said the midnight, communi- que recorded by the Soviet radio Monitor. But this was e distinct change over lost week's heavy lighting, and the Russians sold the enemy ceased his major attempts after previous failures to break the Red Army lines

In the Belgorod sector the Ger- .

mans still were attacking in major strength, but the bulletin said they were meeting stubborn resistance, and losing scores of tanks and hundreds of men. ln some areas the Red Army "pressed back the Hitlerltes who bad driven a wedge int: our defences." the communique so .

Craok Nazi Division is Turned Back

AN ALLIED COMMAND POST IN NORTH AFRICA, July 18—tAPi -T‘ne crack Nazi Herman Goering division along with large Italian forces was rushed to meet. the in- vading American 7th nrmy in the vicinity of Gela Sunday, military sources disclosed tcni ht. In U115 fightln . the principii clash of the day. 1 German mark W's-a re- latively old type of tank - were destroyed, and the Axis troops were bctiten back.

United Church Minister liies

OTTAWA, July 13 -tCP1 -Bcv. Frank Leslie Jobb. ‘l6, retired Uni-

ted Church Minister. dicd here Mondny. He had held pastorates in Ott-

awa and district as wcll as in Nova Scotin, New Brunswick and Quebec

Survivors include his wldnwx the former Margaret. Russell McCurdy of Halifax and four sister. includ- ing Mrs. Frederic Longille ct Truro

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Read by Everybody Covers Prinoe Edward . Island Like the Dew

CllARl-QTTETOWN. CANADA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 194s

ARMY RUSHES AHEAD IN SlC

Are Attacking Heavily In Belgorod

BULLETIN

LONDON, Jolly li-(Wed. llelldal’) — (C ) - Bernard vllfify. Reuters correspondent iri Stockholm, cabled to Lon. don today a report put out by the German underground radio station "Atlantic" that Field Marshal Rommel, while en route to Sicily to take over command of the Axia forces "loft. was shot down by Allied fighters Tuesday.

Rommel was said to have been travelling in a transport pinne under a strong fighter es. cort.

lie was accompanied. the re- port said. by Gen. Siegfried Woslfais. LL-Coi. Kiehl and three Italian staff officers,

Civilian Supplies

AN ALLIED COMMAND rosr IN NORTH AFRICA, Jilly l3 —(Al’l—— Supplies have been unloaded by the allies for flhe civilian population of southeastern Sicily, it was an. nounccd tonight.

Martinique Joins Allies

WASHINGTON, July 13 - (AP) —Mort_111lque. ion suspect as a weak luik in tiie lied defence arc of the Caribbean because of Vichy- French domination. joined the anti-Axis lineup today with an- nouncement that the French nat- ionnl committee of liberation has taken control.

The stutt- clcparttnent. announced that l-lenri l-loppenot of the French military mission in Washington 1111s been appointed by the committee. headed jointly by Gen. l-lenri Giraud and Gen. Churlcs De Gnulle, to succeed Admiral Georges Robert as French high commissioner for the Antilles.

Hc is expected to arrive in the Island cnpltal of Fort De France tomorrow, Bastille Day. and make the French national holiday the oc- cnsion of his assumption of autho-

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Robert. who radioed an offer to negotiate a change of authority twn weeks ago. had "expressed a desire to relinquish his authority," the state department announced.

Million ll-ollar Road ln Nflll.

OTTAWA, July l3 —(CPi -—T1l€ Canadian Government is building

N-S- and Mrs- Philip vmcent M‘ a milltrirv rcntl 111 Newfoundland

Axis Claim Big Battle ls Coming

at nn estimtitctl cost of $l,47l3.000, the Air Ministry‘ said in :1 House of Commons return tabled today for Angus Mnclnuis 10.0.1". Vancouv- er Eusti.

The rand runs between Gander and Bishop Falls and from Lcwis~ porto to Notre Dame Junction on :1 rigl1t-cf-v1'ay' supplied by the New fcundlanrl Government. It is being built by Atlas Construction Co. of

LONDON. JULV 13 —-(APi- Th6‘ Monuenp

Berlin radio said today 1118i "ille second phase" of the battle for Sfcily has begun and the Axis is out to rinnihlatr- the invaders.

The radio called this phase "much rrore dangerous for the attackers and added "it remains to be seen how far their strong Hill/oi 00"‘ oentrations will be able to relieve the strain during the next few davs of heavy fillliilnll"

Both Berlin and Rome 88743911 that. the main battle is cominil and predicted the fillies would "lee"- olansst °Pl>il5l°.l‘.l.{l-_._--—-

Battle May Be Fought On Plains Of Catania

Bit Louis Hunter Canadian eaa War Correalwlllkl"

ALLIED JIEADQUARTERB IN NORTH AFRICA. July ll —(CP Cabin-hie first major battle on Sicily, 1o ab ared toniaht. may be (ought on te plains of Catauia where the Axis defenders would have every opportunity to use the strength Mussolini has boasted

iil possesses- scdoyn, Sir Bemard Montgomery's combined British-Canadian force

has nished up the east coast from

l its landing brldgsheads on Pachino

Peninsula through Syracuse and lnm Augusto, threatening the City Mrli-iiiiiiiiii: report-I hive llldlllll" the next move for that PM‘! 0i Montgomery's army is a fanning out onto the Csta-nlan Plain which extends sew into lieu! 1M1 ill!‘ coast.

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A LONDON._ Julv 5 _tc1=>_ The lAlglcrs radio in it broadcast re. lcordcd by Routers News Ant-nay- lsaid tonight. that "iicavv fiiflliinll’ ltock place between Anglo-American‘ lforces and strong German units: after the capture of Floridia, which Alf‘. -AE“LF"?§L"LSYEPSFL§?-

It is noted that the coastal edllo of this plr.ln runs for about l5 miles south of Catanla.

Not only the combined force that took Syracuse and Augusta. but. also troops thiit were landed from the sou on that coast. would be available to the British Gent-rel should he turn westward and drive over the plain.

l-"u-raorts from the "central front’ _the sector in the southeastcm comer of the island-said today Canadians and Americans made a Junction at Ragusa. the Americans arriving in the outskirts of the town just ahead of the first Casi- adlans.

wdriyh reports from tho front menn the invading forces are link- ed alonlr. the entire 150 miles or 500i briitnfrort, with the Can-

adians holding the centre but also the east

By Kirk L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst A startling suggestion of Axis confusion in Sicily-not to say of im-

pending mllitary colla e-marked today's news from the fast-paced Briiish-(‘anadian-Airier can invasion of that Island threshold of con- tinental Italy.

Overnight Allied forces firmly consolidated their expanding grip on

the southeast corner of the Island. Canadian and American troops made

a junction at Ragusa to com lcte an Allied line from west of Licata iri the south to north of the Br tish-captured port of A usta. in the cast. Coupled with ca ture of Palazzolo Junction, 12 mles northeast of Ragusa, s. virtual y straight Allied line some 50 miles long across tho base of the Sicilian soul eastern bulge has been completed with strong indications that its right flank may rest at Catania, ripped by new British bcar-iihcurls on both sides. A double sweep into t e (Jatania plains may have started.

The mass oi Axia mobile defenoo forces, German and Italian, had been reported in the Catania plains cutting through the centre of the big island from the town of that name on the east coast to the vlcinit of Porto Empedocle on the south coast, just west of the American le t flank beach-head at Licata. Those flat lands linked by road and rail with all parts of Sicily, have appeared the key to probable Axis defence deployment.

Any expectation that Gen. Montgomery's joint British and Canadian force, surging northward up the east coast beyond fallcn Au usta, will push on the Mossins. to cut off the enern escape route to t e Italian mainland appears premature. That looks e too costly a. move.

A look at any detailed map of the coast of Sicily raises doubts of any such Allied objective.

Allied bombers from captured air fields anywhere south of Catnnia. on the other hand, could maintain a shuttle bombing attack on the Mes- sins route to prevent either escape or heavy reinforcement. They are al- ready doing thnt from niore distant bases.

It appears probable, therefore, that the British and Canadian advance up the east coast, like the American northward thrusts from Licata and Gela and the Canadian advance in the centre, are aimed at coming to grips with the main Axis armies in the Catania plains. Once Catanla it- self falls-and it may have been taken already, it could make a. close-up rlelidrkatlon point for a British flanking drive westward through the Catania plains as the American bridge-heads at Geia. and Licatia could be uised to turn western approaches to that interior valley from the soul i.

One thing is clear: the third da of the invasion, usually rated the first crucial test of amphibian assault, showed only new and critically important advances for the Allies- They were farther beyond the beaches than had seemed possible.

The explanation is still to come. It may mean the foe is massing for a decisive fight in the Catanla. fiatlands. It could mean that he already has written Sicily oif as lost and is making only a delaying defence, re- lying upon his mainland fortifications for his real stand to protect the shaken fortress of Europe.

i Munro Describes Voyage Into Battle Of Sicily

With Canadian Division

Ross Munro, Canadian Press War Correspondent who gave the world the first eyewitness account of lhcl invasion oi Sicily, in the following‘ delay-ml dispatch tells oi the voy- age into battle of the Canadian force from the time it left Britain up to the beginning of the invasion.

By Ross Munro Canadian Press War Correspondent

Montgomery’s Message To His Troops

IDNDON, July 14-(Wednesday) —(CP)—Gen. Sir Bemnrd Mont- gomery told his British 8th army troops before they invaded Sicily “the time has come to carry i-ho war into Italv rind into the con- tinent of urope. . .they lthe Italians) asked for it and now they will get it."

Iii the message released bodily bl’ the ministry of information Gen. Montgomery declared: "the Italian overseas empire has been exter- mlnated.

“We will now deal with the home country. To the 8th army hns boflu given the grant honor of repre- senting the British Empire in the Allied force which is now to carry

AT SEA WITH THE FIRST CANADIAN DIVISION OF‘ THE C E N TR AL MEDITERRANEAN. July 9 - (Delayed) —<C1> Cable» —~Tiiis convoy of assault craft, landing ships and special cargo craft cnrryirlll lhc first Cfllllltlifin Division of assriult lrcnps complet- ed the more t-lmn LOGO-mile VOYM-E from Britain to the simmerln ccn- tral Mcdltcrrancnn ocean wthout tlic loss of n ship or man.

A11 armada of more than 2,000 ships is being employ-ed in this. the most. gigantic combined operation evr-r nttcmptcd, and 110w the larger portion of rill 1111s shipping, which includes everything down to tank

- Munda Base

Push Nearer

All-TED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWET PACIFIC. July 14 - (Wednesday) - (A P) - Against stiffening Japanese opposition, American jungle fighters have ad- vrnccd on the Munclo. airbase, zhe allied command announced todnrl.

The communique also confirmed fragmentary reports of yesterday that the United States Navy was victorious 1n the second battle of the Kulzt Gulf Monday night rind Tuesday morning. Yesterdays ccm- munique had reported a Japanese cruiser and three destroyers suck.

Forest Fire In Nfld.

ST. JOHN'S, NFLD, July 18 — (GP) Cable —Fifty children were evacuated today from an area of the eastern Newfoundland main- land to ail island five miles off- shore as a serious forest fire raged in the district.

The fire, eating through timber in Bonavlsta north country, was threatening the Trinity settlement. By tonight, two houses had been burned down and 8,000 cords of pulpwood were endangered.

,Seek To Avoid ‘ Clothing Rationing

WASHINGTON, July l3—(AP)— A production and sales policy pro- gram dtjsuzned to make rationing 0f clothing 1n the United St-utes "unnecessary for the duration of the war" was announced today by chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war oduction board.

“ e need not have clothes rat- ioning in the United States," Nel- son said in a statement accom- gnnying his six-point plan. “There

1m adequate supply of textiles and textile products to meet all military and essential civilian needs. Tlie major problem is to see that the proper distribution and use is made."

A salient feature of the broad pro- gram will be an attempt by W P B. to accelerate output of muss- produced, low-priced clothing, re- versing a trend in the industry which officials said has brought a- bout a. pronounced increase in em- phasis on expensive fabrics.

llaid 0n England

LONDON, July l4 -(Wednesdayi —(CP> -Germnn planes attacked n town 011 the English coast todny, making tllc second successive night assault after n long lull.

Turin Given Heavy Pounding

landing craft, are gathering togeth- “Add? otlfiikfeyt Wm be our Ame,“

or in one- tremendous fleet xvlthin mm Ames Togemer_ we Wm s,“ —-'"

slriklos ("Slums of tile Slclllllll about the Italians in their own. ,

Mrllvi country 1n no tmccrtnin wdv Tin-vi LONDOX Jill" 13 —(APA— A l Canpdlqn xnldlofg are crgwding came into m“ “m. m wit" 1mm‘ strung fort-l- ot lLA F‘ 131111105 fit-u-

the decks of‘ 1111i‘ ships witncssini’. solves and they must take the csii- U""““*]‘ m“ “fwd”? "“""‘$‘ m“

the grcntics" nidrltlmo spectacle cvcr sequcnces. Thcv asked for it alld i all‘ h“ F53" Pclmmb A1,}? ‘lmrlh a Q‘ _ . ' ' - ‘ ' -- 11 zllrlisiriu ‘ity oi urn in

Sfkll. Tl1_ro me British, Canadian, now tileLwllLgteAtilt. __ l“ "hvnw and CUnCL_“‘I_JJC(X__ attack.

and Amcricnli convoys, jzilnulctll with troops. supplies guns Zilld vr-h- '

isles all around us. with the Royall ' Navy guarding it I111 with a trcm-‘l ii.ii.ii. crlcrlzius 10f)?‘ of warships. m d1 r 1e mlg ly armada was ga- ere from North Africa. Britain and the United States. Evcry detail of plan- ning and preparation has been ntt- MoNTREAL Jmv 13 (CP)_ Montreal's new central siiilimi of Canadian National Railways, will be officially opened tomorrow at-

cnded to on our ships.

The weapons and ammunition are

ready. the men fit and set to storm tcrrioon by Transport. Minisici" Micha-ud, nlrnost l6 years since the project wns first suggested liv the

the coast. Through every inch of the long, late Sir Henry Thorntmi. The new terminal cos-ling approx-

tedicus Journey from the United

Kingdom we 11nd a strong escort of

gallant little Royal Navy ships - -

dgstrgycrs, eogvcies, frigate-S and llnatcly $29,000,000 with its elec- trified overhead ap])1'0:1c1105. “ill o itito actual operation the ful- owing morning when n11 (LN R.

slootos. Several times destroyers let [0 patterns of depth charges as sus-

tllllcd with incessant blows against Sicily rind tlic southcm end of the, Pcnlnsuln, ,' The Ali" Minlstrv said the nssnzlltl by R. A. F. Lancaster bombers was the heaviest. yet. ninde on any ob-l lectlve in Italy bv lilnncs operating,’ from bases in Britain and that itl "intervened in the Sicilian cam-l paigtl." l The RAF. lost l3 bombers iu the: Turin nssnult the nir tniiilstly an-. luiunccd today. Bud WPHUICI‘ 0n: boili legs of 1111- 2_000~mlle, cir- i cultnus round trip appeared tn linve 1 been more perilous than the Axis ‘defences. A Borne, Switzerland» rdlspntch snld two bombcrs crnshcdl l in the Svriss Alps.

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New Landing Made To Speed Adi‘ vance; Big Battle Still To Come.

By RELMAN MORIN (Associated Press Staff Writer) .

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH Al)- RICA. July 13-(AP)—British troops landed with- in slght of Mount Etna near Catania today tq threaten that port city half-way up the eastern Sicilian coast toward Messina, while 30 miles to; the south Augusta fell to the swift Allied invasiori armies despite stiffening Axis resistance.

To the southwest American armored unite‘ swept inland 20 miles to meet Canadian and Bri- tish armies at Ragusa. .

The Anglo-Canadian force toppled Floridle and Palazzolo in their rapid push inland, apparently from captured Syracuse, to meet the Americans.

Altogether the Allies captured five more towns today for a total of 15 in their swift invasion; be. hind them supply troops were bringing food for, Sicilians.

Canadians

More than 6000 laflsou ‘yo! been taken, including roirnsohg. ant colcnels who walked mm q ied lines to surrender. Con. Ac ' les Davet. commander of the 206s‘ Italian coastal division, also w; Cfliltured - - the first ranking enq emy officer bugged since the ind vasion began Saturday.

Thu would Iadioato '1 Italian morale, but late 1 reconnaissance reported an ‘ important flow of Axis rein- r forcements, |Il bly Ger- - mans among them, from 1h; interior. They were rushing fog the American positions on the Allied left flank. These troop] _ already had ‘ ocked out one ' serious enemy counter - attack but not before the enemy peel- etrated clear to the beaches.

The new British land no” Catsnia was a significant evalopc merit. Seizure of thnt port city 3

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By Ross Munro Canadian Press Wrir Correspondent