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15 miles from Gazala.

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CAIRO, Dec. l6—(AP) - Larry Ami, 33-year-old Associated Press correspondent who has been aboard and described for AP ember in me United States and Canadian Press member newspapers in Can- ndo practically every major action of the BrlEsh fleet since the start oi the war in the Mediterranean, has been injured. The manner in which the injury occurred has not been ascertained.

CAIRO, Dec. 10—(AP)—-Tile main body of the imperial 8th army in Libya. has smashed the centre oi four ltubborn German and I divisions concentrated lo mile: southwest oi Garela, while another armored column hit at Axis reserves 15 miles beyond in a successful out- flanking manoeuvre.

There were three main battle areas, and the key battle, British headquarters said today, is develop- ing iii the Alem liabza area, l5 miles southwest of uazala where the plateau begins to break as it dips to the sea.

'I‘liere LL-Gcn. Erwin Rommel hurled all his remaining Gemian tank strength and a "maximum available force of dive bombers" in- to a desperate-and unsuccessful- attempt to stem the march of the Brltisn and Indian troops, a com-

Aiien is in a hos ital bed in mumque San-L Alexandria suffering rom painful Despite mo dewrmlngd Am but not critical flwe and body counter-thrusts tank units cracked

bruises. having been rescued after L5 minutes in the water.

I . Tells how ships Beat off 7-hour I I I Axis air ralll The third battle area wlu (zazala itself where strong enemy forces

(T10 following dispatch from still are entrenched along a narrow Larry Allen, Associated Press cor- coll-Biol Bl-Tlp 595M391! u" 5"- “d respondent with the British Medil- the escarpment» cent-mill“! u" rrriuleun fleet, was received in New coastal road to Derna. Brl-tisn for- Ycrk after receipt of information oes continued to close in on this big . that he had been lnillred Allllar- 1151i 01 All-i "00 . 08091111118 1mm- enlly he was injured during this erous guns and 1, 00 prisoners. lrlp. after fiyriltling this dispatch.)

the better parts of one German and three Italian divisions while Royal Air Force pilots beat off German dive bombersand fighter planes.

At the same time _u wide flanking movement was carried out which browht British forces to llalegh El Oiebaln, 30 miles west of Gazala in a second major engagement.

‘his was the onslaught against Axis reserves. and one of the first British successes was to destroy 300 tons of Axis ammunition at the en- emy base 150 miles inside Libya.

l y arry Allen) lug move was seen as an effort (Associated Press Staff Writer}: seze the major Axis airdromes in ABOARD A BRITISH CRUIS ‘R Western Libya before the Nazis can BATTLING DIVE-BOMBERS OFF bring in large-scale air reinforcz- LIBYA, Dec. 14—(Delayed)—(AP)— ments. Along these lines. there was i/ioslng one of the heaviest barrcges conjecture that Rommel might be of the Mediterranean war. a squad- throwing all his available tanks in- ion oi British cruisers and destrcy- to the main battle in a gamble on era bent off a seven-hour combined slowing the British advance until Nazi high-level, dive-bombing and air and sea-home help arrives. lorlxdo assault off the Libyan coast (Official circles in London could 1mm); not confirm a Vichy radio report Under almost incessant attack. that one British cantln ent. driving the l\'.\l' hips pumped hundicds oi westward alon the Gui of Slrte in- =-'.=-- lo extreme estem Libya, had reached lhe town of Sine, 2'17 miles from the major AXLs base of Tripoli. (London sources saw German re- ports of submarine attacks on the British eastern Mediterranean fleet as u possible signal of an Axis at- tempt to wipe out the sea power

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‘Coming Events

- —U— which has been sinking ships load- ‘hle hll’ Ninth-en In tllln column ed with troops and supplies bound ____8_1'Eln per word __ for North Africa. Berlin claimed to-

doed and sank a

r day a U-boat tor Alexandria.)

n5hOw_Munay River Monday“ Brliish cruiser of L-56B-i2-l‘l-31.

“Sl le Brld Concert Decem- nrlsifi. Y l" ._......-..-... |,I, S, plans "Elliotvale School Concert Dec-

Jlllber 19th. L-56B-12-17-l1,

i‘ “Wanted to buy Chicken. flbwl. {island Cold Storage, L-219-7-9-tf.

WASHINGTUN. DEC. 16 —(AP)-- “Wining Poultry daily. zBogvllflaiillzs Zgjfsoflmzu-‘glsmfilla; vgssiglvlgrnggiim m‘ ___L_'4°8" '1 ' 5' ' Islets?“ congress! firmlly lapproves "Hampton Christmas Concert, e3‘ a o“ 3TB" ‘l! “m? W! W8!‘ we L-fie- ltistisiz. sinus "K1 m h C L M _ who disclosed that Byron Price had hy.o?§§i..§ers§2ii§i 1.951055124791111.Sig?“figngéislecfijiogforab%gge A? --M,1,,,,,,,,_,'g,,,°,,, concert Dec_ soclated Press to become director Jlllbtl’ 22nd. L-537-12-16-2l. l” °°““°"1\1i>- l Mr. Roosevelt told a press con- “West Royalty School concert ference that it would be part vol- Plldls‘. Dec. 19. L-siz-iz-io-ei.

untury and part mandatory censor- .. shin and indicated that it would "Dllnstaflnage School Concert, apply not only to the press but also iiarshllcld Hall, December 22nd, to radio. cable. the mails and other L-510-l2-17dl. mediums of transmitting informa-

tion. Price is to take over his new pest wl Pin a week.

"Xmas Concert in Greenfield School Saturday, Deccmber 20th. L-569-l2-17-ii.

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Dlittmbcr 22nd. L480-12-l3-l7-22. n ——-—- (By The Canadian Preu) Johnston's River Christmas CAIRu — imperial 8th army

Wnoert December 23rd. amaanea centre uf four German

L-BOI-II-lo-ll. Axis division: in Lmya: outilanklng

,, m- movement IIIVIIIOQI s0 mile: went o! Come to Concert in French ‘ ‘ "‘ ‘ '

A a River Hall, December 2am. u not menu attacked in lay-pole move.

‘l l-he following night. —-—€- L-lflb-lfi-IT-li. MOSCOW — Russians It turn -——— Kaiinln, rout six divisions in elect

firlstmaa Concert and Dance, of German 9th army.

mull Cove Hall, 'I‘hursda _ Dec-

r 18th. L-487-1 45-11. LONDON — British uhllo pre- .. "—i pared for fall of flung on], expert

l, gometo the Christmas Concert says Jlpunele navel cuperiorlt in

“on owes Hall. Brackley Point. Far East put: Singapore in peril

“Y. December 22nd. 1-573-12-11-11- wnsuuvoron - Navy announ- uhw ~——-— cu Ja ships bombard Johmton and month "he live ho for winter Mml and. p “undies usual. Al any station with I ht dam ; Jap alronlt u. “l “llemwul- Emerald Frl- bomb u. nun - n m» n. Signed Lnqn n penrrltnlfell; l l. bomb- G. C. Green. en hit up transport nhip.

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Show - train. And Freight In collision

Key battle developing in Libya Crash 035mm, Near

Mont Joli, Quebec.

MONT 10L], Que, Dec. 16 — (CPP-At least nine men ware killed lute today when a Ca- nadian National Railways snow-twin collided with a freight train just east of the Mont Joli yards late today.

Shortly after railway divis- ional b ’, tn.» at M ‘ , N. 8., had announced that 51x had been killed, workers dig- ging feverishly into the wreck. age of the snow-train’: bunk house, recovered two more bod. ies, while one of 14 seriously injured died in hospital in Riniouskl.

MONCTON, N. 13., Dec. 16—(CP) —A statement issicd from head- quarters of llie Atlantic region of the Canadian National Railways tonight said six men were killed today in collision of a stint-train and a freight train near Mont Joli. Que. Fourteen were reported scr-

lously injured and six slightly in- _

lured.

(An earlier report, from Mont Joli. sold seven were killed.)

The dead so far identified were named ln the statement issued here as Honore Berube, l9, Mont Joli; J A. Mancoeur, 55, Mont Joli, and Gerard Gagnon, 22, Licevllle, Que.

The seriously injured, all of Mont Joli: remand st. Laurent, Jean Bile. Perrlaault, Romeo Langlols, Albert Ross, Molse Cote. Joseph fiancceur, Raymond Frailcceur, Fernand Thibault. Jean Maurice Roy, Joseph Levesque, August/e

, Gerard DumaLs. Alphonse Levesque and Joseph Gauthier.

Slightly injured: Pierre Imchance, Omer Garnache. Joseph St. Pierre. Leonard Levesque and Ernest Therlault, all of Mont Joli, and

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News Briefs

OTTAWA, Dec. 16 —(CP) -—Nav_v Minister Macdonlzld announced to- night ihe Royal Canadian Naval College at Hatley Park near Esqui- malt, B. C., will open in S-cpucm- ber, 1042.

LONDON, Dec. 16 - (CP) - Great Brilaii charged today that German submarines are sinking Vichy and Spanish merchant silips indiscriminately and ihrowiny, the blame on Britain to stir up now trouble and gain "relief from (he serious military situation" in Rus- sia and Libya."

SINGAPORE. 1.... l6 -(Cl"l _ For the first time since the out- break of far-eastern hostilities

llzere was no British communique here today nor was there any in- formation available regarding the progress oi fighting.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l6 —(AP)— President Rocsevall told Congress today that he fullv endorsed the WaLdepartrnent request that men aged 19 throurh 4i be made sub- lect to compulsory military service hut the House ol Reonsentatlvcs proceeded with plans to consider draft leglslnvon reininlilv. the pres- ent zl-year minimum age for ac- tive service.

Japanese Press Attacks fiercely

SINGAPORE. Dec. 16 —-(AP) - Tlie fate oi northwestern Malaya and its principal city, Penang. hung in the balance tonight as British Imperial troops fought against what official quarters described as "Japanese attempts to press home attacks with fanatical determina-

tion.”

The fighting was in the low country along the Muda River, vliich flows through the stale of Kedah and enters the Indlen Oc- ean along the northern boundary o!

' ' province 5 miles north- east of Penang.

Defence of the mainland ap- proaches oi Penang is orgamacd on the concentric uerimetre plan.

War-ZS Years Ago Today

(By The Clnrdlan Prell)

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L War Situation Last Night

l5)‘ Klrkc L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst)

Bracketed against Washington revelation of all major casualties M. Pearl Harbor, a broadcast to the Japanese peoplc by Premier Tojo that the ‘"bulk" or United States naval power had been destroyed sounds fantastic.

Japanese listener: relying on that assurance are due for a rude awakening. When and how it will come l: beyond calculation; but that it. will come can not be doubted.

An American fleet, manned by personnel burning to avenge the death of nearly 3,000 comrades ‘in ‘thrust surprise assault, is at sen.

Yet the price pllil] at Pearl- Harbor and by Britain in Malayan wat- ers has been heavy. The loss or injury of great American and British battle craft adversely altered sen power relallvltlea in the China Sea. at least for a time.

London commentator. admit the grave peril of Bong Kong. Even

Britain's great Far Eastern Gibraltar, Singapore, is said to be serious- " by Japanese thrusts down the ltialayan Peninsula. Loss of tne battleship Prince of Wales and the battlccruiscr Re- pulse to Japanese torpedo plane attackers is held responsible for this darkened outlook for defence of Singapore. Unquesllonably it was n grave:- lmmedlate reverse as it affects the whole China Sen battle cqua~ lion than American naval losses at Peai-l flarbor.

Just what heavy ships or submarines Britain can Pare from the Mediterranean, at least, turns on two factors presuina ly, One is tho speed with which Britain's Empire anuy in Libya can cleun up rc-en- circled Axis forces battling for life west of Tobruk. The other is Franco's buttered but still powerful Mediterranean fleet.

Brtuln can not risk great curtailment of capital ship strength in the Mediterranean while the battle of Libya is undecided, or the role of the French warships under Nazi pressure at Vichy in in any doubt. Either there or on Atlantic convoy routes, however, she must already have found means to rcllcve with lesser craft enough gowerlul naval units to restore the bulunce in Malayan waters once t ey reach the scene of action.

Intensity of the new British attack in Libya, where the last of Gor- Inim panzer siren ih is cut off In the Gazala pocket with its back to the sea, sufficient y indicates the 1m ortance o! the North African sec- tor as it affects the battle of the Ch ua Sea. A quick and’ decisive Brit- ish victory there could immediately shift the naval relutlvities in the Far East in Anglo-American favor.

"London Reports Hang Kong May Be Lost

Lack of naval superiority said bringing serious threat to Singapore.

Ilse of_lin

OTTAWA, Dec. llb-(CPJ-ltfunl- lions Minister Howe announced tonight that all stocks of pig tin have been frozen "as a temporary measure designed to conserve ex latlng stocks, pending the issuance of an order which will curtull the use o! tin in many products."

LONDON, Dec. l8—(C-P)—A powerful Japanese drive in North- ern Malaya and Britain's lack of naval superiority there have creat- ed a serious threat to Sing-spore, on informed source sold tonight, and ccmmeniators simultaneously warned the public to be prepared for the fall of besieged Hong Kong.

British and Indian troops fought to stop a Japanese mechanized penetration into the lower part 0i Kedah Stole in Northwestern Mfllflya. where the Japanese gain- ed 40 cr 50 miles. On the eastern side of the peninsula the Japan-

ese almarently we“ being h 1d "The forthcoming order .will 5mm f); Km, Bham e curtail the use of tin in solders Although Singapore still is Acme and in bearing metals and will

prohibit its use in Britannia metal m, M1,‘ he d’ - t and in block tin pipef’ said a 505556 sgfidii a an mm med munitions and supply department

"British lack of navnl superior- smtcmem’

400 miles from the nearest Jap-

ggg he; eggs? the any“ slus- wiifiiimmfl’ l?‘ £55.52 222013.525 Tl f1 l‘. . . e Brlttlih ‘land (logger Nféiyiianfil? G-“Acli lffijfmfag," ‘Qflffdb m on e as _ ,A s r essors _____ is M “val superimuy’ have been advised by telegram ' = that without the permission of (Continued on page 3, col 5) the metals controller the use of ———~i—--———- pig tin except for direct war pur- poses is prohibited," the statement ' said. an e “Sufficient tln will be allotted to the manufacturers of vans for I CSTCIIHRI foodstuff; and for tyDe metal for the production of news- papers." Mr. Bnteman was quoted as saying, “but we shall endeavour to reduce u.- tin content wher- ever possible." . Britannia metal contains more i- ihan 90 pcr cent tin. It is used in ' the manufacture of coffee 0t , Scores lsrtlcles ‘Aye tea pols, sugar bowls and ii ‘he; Banned From Clvfl, "f other silver-plated nrtlrles. ian Use For Dur- H - - allfax ation. populace M I! crrrAwA. Dec. l8—-(CPl—Sup- Get Mackout piles controller Nan H. Wlllilim- son today banned for the duration of the wm‘ production of a wide HALIFAX, Dec. l8 — (CP) - variely of metal products ranging Halifaxs first air raid precautions from children's toys to electrical tiress rehearsal for personnel 3o. equipment, furniture and coffins. .i.ghl. threw o, jolt lnlo a pOpulnma

"From and nfier March 31. keyed for any emergency when an i042, nobody wlll be a1 owed to unscheduled b.ackoul descended ur. sell the articles. exhibit them for the city. sale, or even take orders for fu. Warmngs ‘had been issued re_ ture delivery," a munitions and ‘11011813’ to the public that ‘re supply department statement said. would be no blackout. An alert sig-

"The object oi’ the order is to Jul called the workers to their conserve mega]; named in the posts. and two hours later an n11- manléfactuie of munitions." it agllfsafillflllillled the end 01' the HI- adde . - -

Th, may,“ product; affgqmd by But someone at the switches mis- the controller's ruling. were lfok lthe all-clear for the blaikout brought under his jureidictlon last 68m. find Elma-l were Philli- week. His order issued today was 9d ""0 dflfknefi I! the sl-lwt

approved by n. o. Berkinshow. llehts went out Many houseucl-fls chairman o: the wartime indus- emulsifiers rims doused lislf-ts. tiles control board. and police, firemen and newspaper

got many calls before the situation was clarified and the lights went beck on.

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Three lose Lives in fire At Saekville

stroys Men’s Resi- dence At Mount Al- lison University — Nine Seriously In- jured.

SACKVILLE, N.B., Dec. l6- lCPl-Two bzdies found ill ru.ns cf the Mount. Allison University's men's residence, destroyed by file early today. were identified tenta- llvly this afternoon as those of Joseph Fraser, a sophcmoie from Piciou, N.S., and Frederick Farrel‘, soplicmore’ from Saint Jchn. NB.

Dr. G. J. Truemon, University President, said llie identifications were not absolutely positive owing to condition of the bodies.

Search continued for the body Melvin Green, freshman from Sydney, N.S.. and the onlY Em" student reported missing,

The (lentil toll threatened to rise to at least four when James C. MacDonald. Sydney, was reported in extremely serious condition in hospital at Amherst, NB. Late today it was believed he could not live for many mre hours.

Kenneth Ccltas. Three Rivers, Que, also was in serious condition. Both he and MacDonald suffered spinal fractures.

Seven others in hospital at Am- herst were John Davldge. Camp- bellton. N.B.; Goodman Cohen. Re- serve Mines. N.S.: Nathan Cohen. Sydney; Jrmes F. MacDonald. Lcuisburg. N54 L. G. DesBrtay. Bnihurst. N.B.: Leo Galpay. Glace Buy, NS“ and Allison Stirling, Morcicn. NB.

Loss of the stone. four-story res- con- f-r-nts was estimoterl- roughly‘ bv Dr. Trnemerv at $200000. Insurance of 5150.000 was carried.

Unlversll-v officials mei this af- lr-mcon and tcnlght (n discuss “lien-s for continuing activities after

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Name Board to Probe events at Pearl Harbor

U. S. Navy Announces Japanese Shell Isl- ands In Hawaiian Group: Cause Little Damage.

(By Richard L. Turner, As- sociated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Dcc. 16- (.i\l’)—To determine why Un- ited Slates (lHHCLi forces were not on the alcrl when the jupa ncse attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt tonight ap- poinlcll a fivc-nlilll liuzlrll. heml- (‘d by associate justice Owen f. Roberts of the Supreme Court. He amloum Eli his action soon after a navy (lisclosure flint cncmv \\'.'l1'§i1l|1S htul struck 1i the liillviliian zlrcli ilgzlin by shclllilg Johnston and Maui is- lands dilring the last 24 hours. The valiant little marine gar- rison at \\'akc Island. said the ilav_v, drove off two more cncmy zlir nllncks, zmll con-

lmuerl to hold out.

In addition to Roberts- Mr. Roose- velt named the following to the board of inquiry:-

dMaj.-Gcn. Frank R. McCoy, retir- C .

Brig-Gen. Joseph P. McNarney of the Air Corps.

Rear Admiral William H. sland-

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Blackout too Much for her

SAINT JOHN, N. B., Dec. 18 — (GPJ-Changlng‘ ones mind is sup- posed to be a feminine privilege, so-

A women arrived from an upper . had official permission lo join her hus-

band in Enrhnd. soon after her align-l a realistic test blackout WM

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London hears Russian dirive is Destructive Blaze Dc- developing into major offensive from Moscow north into Karelia.

MOSCOW. Dec.

troops have routed six German divisions of and recaptured strategic Kalinin, 90 miles

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here. Russia announced today. This most sensational single victory so fur in (he gTClif.

Soviet counter-offensive now

in |)l'0;!?"‘.~>‘ fl'.Ql' 1h" snow-

drifted plains of Russia followed by 2i hours the Rllfiiiilil

army's recapture of Klin, 50 the massacre of 13,000 Nazis.

miles i0 the HOl'ih\'{l_’,'~‘i. and

“The fleeing enemy is being" jiulzsllcd and unnihiluled by our troops," the communique zuluccl.

At Kallnin. the Russians in a special announcement said they dealt a heavy blow to the German 9th army under Col-Gen. Strauss. putting to flight the 86th, 310th, 129th. 1Glst_ 162ml, and 251st in- fantry divisions.