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Slow Gains In West As Enemy lioves Mon East

PARIS, Jan. 24 — (AP)— The British 2nd Army made advances of up to 2,000 yards today and pulled within three miles oi the Roer River at three points inside Germany while the United States 1st 4nd 3rd Armies methodically continued ironing out the en- ¢iriy’s flattened Ardennes sali- ent against stiffening resist-

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.111; French lat Army's attack at u» southern end of the long front m progressed teedi-ly. aecur p umminll of the Ill River. but fn northern Alsace the Ger- mans sharply increased their pies- nlted States 7th Army

losed the Am- announced Tussday, had amounted to an aver- age of seven to eight miles.

The new positions of the 'ith Ar- Ily were indicated r0 hly as on ward from

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disclosing t.liat it troops under Maj

lifted assault. involved “Allied” r0013, Jean De Lattrs de Tassingny and that the drive was headed generally vard against the Rhinelarid cor- ridor north of Coponar mths than against the German pocket in the Copmar area itself.

(Douglas n, Oanad Press war correspondent, in a front dispatch reported a brisk skirmish in the 1st Canadian Army sector along the Mans Blv- er north of Boxrneer, which is 14 miles south of Nilmegen. The dis- patch said a German force of 40 to 50 men who crossed to the riv- er's west bank was wiped out by. Canadian nna nee troops ind tanks.)

Despite wretched weather. which ln general slowed the Allied aerial assaults on the retreating Ger- inons after two days of powerful attack, R. A. F. Spitfires, Temp- est: and Typhoons bombed and "101 l1 many scores of trains zmegsém n: northeastward from the

Presumably loaded with a large Bsrt of the panzer forcu which

re the brunt of the German December offensive in the Arden- Mc. the enemy continued to move ln broad daylight despite whrfe- iale carnage and wreckage inflict- ed by the Allied planes.

The obvious explanation was that the Germans were rushin reinforcements to inset the Rus- lian offensive in the out.

The United States lst and 3rd m‘

Armies were hammering less than five miles from the German front- ier alter" beating off German- rear- yuards who struck back weakly in the narrow remaining strip of the Ardennea bulge. Snow help- ed protect the retreating enemy from air attack and increased the German resistance.

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Front Sec Movies

OTTAWA. Jan. M —~ (CP) —Col. D. M. lidacmtyre. general managea- 0f the Ualwaiun Legion War Ser- viccs, returned from a three-mouth battlefront tour and reported. movies and other amenities were being served out to Canadian flqhl/mg men in advanced positions "There have been occasions when oiu- movie units set up r‘ ‘ arrangement. in one end of a town while our troops were kicking out at the other end," he

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He said the cigarct situation seancdwbemoresatisfactory “an previously and responsibility r

inn this Wis the Government cigsrot

bank policy by which 900 cigarets are Provided eacih man a month from a central pool on receipt of a postal order.

Most of the men, however and es- peclallyt ir. Italy would appreciate an increase in the beer ration which usuailxy amounts to a bobtle a month O. m - .

Meeting 0 Board 0f Trade

Mr. GM. Gass was elected president of the Charlottetown Board of Trade at a dinner held in the Charlottetown last night. Other officers elected were Messrs RW. Hyndman, vice-president; W.L. Higgins, secretary-treasurer. The new council, also unanimously elected. ccmprises Messrs V.A. H.C. Bohaker, J I-I. Cerry, Col. GE. Pull, GR. Keefe.

. Cot K5. Rogers. Morton Dew, (Edi-lug president). and AB. Cut-i c e

Dr. J.A. Clark, superintendent!

Eroperlmental Farm. an- nounced he had received ii request from the local branch of the Can- adian Lcg'on asking him to bi-in-z the matter of hospitalization for Island returned men before the Board. The Legion. Dr. Clark said, was of the opinion that the Prov- inog should have its own hospital- ization facilities. The nutter was referred to the future consideration of the new executive. Mr. V.A. Afnsworth, Major TE. MoNutt. and Col. K.S. Rogers each gave five-minute addresses on civic improvement and were heart- ily applauded.

Major T.B. Rogers also gave a short address in explanation of the proposed comfort station and in

extended a. Welcome to Board to attend any public meeting of the City Council.

Mr. B. Graham Rogers in s brief statement said tourists would welcome more street signs on street comers and that traffc 118ml should be erected on Hillsboro Bridge.

Assoonaathe ‘ ‘lnecessary to carry on the construction of this new car ferry is received, the work will continue. Mr. H H. Germain stated in a latter which was read inst night by the Board's secretary, Mr. Higgins. The delivery of the car fe may be “somewhat dis- appointing." Mr. Germain wrote, as the material situation WR; bad on account the war but all con- nected with amp were doing on! best they could.

the building of Much Cargo

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mostly iriann salvaged about cargo from a oundsd nosr gas outside Halifax harbor last . and offlclsll were ho fui to ht the value of the sa cage wo rise to 3.000.000 before t e "P. The vessel itself, regarded as a total loas. was valued at 81,500.09". and the cargo was estimat ‘ at

Amonfth iread remov- ed from thefligsfgosrid holiis of the half-submerged ship are two ‘lb-

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EASTERN FRONT-Soviet for- cog capture Oppeln. capital of U11- por Silesia, rcnch point 4% M1185 from Breslau. reported across Oder River; close gigantic trap on Ger- man foroes In East Prussia; launch new drive In Czecho-Slovakiu.

WESTERN FRONT-British 2nd Army l Ileinsberg. advances within three mllei-i of Roer River; U. S. 7th Arm, pulls back seven or eight miles In Hllflfll" “"37 French lst Army gains near Rhine south of Strusbougr.

AERIAL-RAJ‘. planes continue to hammer German trsnllw" 9"“- h.‘ out or Ardennes salient.

BURMA-British amphibious for- ces land southwest of Kangaw on Burma west coast In new threat to Japanese forces in Kaladan area: advance within 32 miles of Man- dalay in Central Burma.

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llon Papen 0n Peace Mission?

LONDON. Jan. 24 — fCPlw-The Ankara radio reported from a “reliable source" today that Franz von Paipen. German ambassador to Turkey. had arrived at Madrid at the head of a Gemian peace m's- sion.

Tin- Ankara report said von Papen had the “confidence of the German army" and that he W88 going to "sound the possibilities for the best possible peace tenns for Germany."

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24 - (AP) _0ary Cooper has been ordered ' of an k in

\ War gtuation

By KIRKE L. SIMPSON

(Associated Press War Analyst)

military flight from west to east across north- ern Germany, reported by Allied alr scouts, eclipsed in interest last. night report that the Russians had broken across the Oder River defence lluc at one point north of close-invested Breslau In

There could be no other explanation of any such enemy stripping of his west-front reserves to brace his shattered eastern lines than that Berlin itself is In mortal danger of Russian capture ln German high

Only an ultimate emergency in the east could justify a thinning of enemy defence ranks in the west in the face of every indication that a massive Allied offensive is in preparation between the Rcer and the

men leaves little doubt that a master crisis is at hand for the enemy. Nor does the scene of his desperate effort to rush tired and tattered . west-front divisions into the eastern breach leave much question as to where the supreme danger lies there.

The desperation with which the Germans rushed relief forces from wsat to esaf. by every available route even in brood daylight and against the blistering attack of British and American nlr power uIIIIIOIGIIIIY demonstrates the gravity of the situation in the east. plies also that in German staff Judgment the most crucial battle of the war may be taking shape on the broad and rolling Silesian plains snit-

les swept across Poland have so well proved themselves. .

14 Nazi Prison Camps In Path qigoviet Forces

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(By The Canadian Press)

Fourteen German ‘prison camps likely to contain Canadian and other United Nations military personnel lie in the patlrof the present Russian offensive through Poland, Silesia and East Prussia, but it appeared unlikely today (Tlllll‘Sdfl_l‘l that Marshal Stalin's troops will be able to liberate their occupants.

Indications pointed to the Ger- mans removing their prisoners fnrther within the borders of Ger- many as the Rod Army drew near.

In Washington yesterday Basil O'Connor. chairman of the Ain- erican Rcd Cross, cited three camps WlllCh were situated bo- tween Poznan and Torun in Pol- and. in territory already either overrun or possibly overrun by the Russians.

"Official word of the move- ment of one of these. Stalag 357. was sent to Geneva in December." lie reported. "It is taken for granted that the two others, Sta- lag 20-A and Oflag 64, also have been moved."

The three camps to which he referred are believed to contain British and United States prison- ers. Canadians held in that portl of Germany-an estimated 600 in number-are believed to have been located for the most part at Stain: R-B at. Tcschen, southeast of Krakow in Poland; at Stalag 2-D at Standard in Pomerania: and at Stalag 344 at Lansdorf southest of Breslati in Silesia.

No news was available of the fate of the occupants of any of these camps, sites of some of which may already be in the hands of the onrushing Rus- sinns.

Nor was any report forthcoming regarding what was happening to Canadians held at the notorious Stnlag Luft III ne-ar Dresden, where 50 airmen — including six members of the R.C.A.F.-were shot last summer.

Officials advised relatives of men known to be held in these camps to continue to use present addresses in writing to them, pend- ing later advice.

In Canberra. Australia, Army Minister Forde suid yesterday the Australian Government had no official advice of Australian pris- oners being abandoned by the Germans as they fell back on the

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Defense C Berlin

LONDON. Jim. B! — (AP) —The Germans dug new trenches to guard Berlin today and Gestapo Chief Hirrimleids whipman ordered every ablo- German male glgown into the “red inferno of the

While the Moscow radio broad- cast front-iine report; that the Germans were evacuating all civil- ians from Silesia, Pomerania and Wartheguu. (Poznan Province) the German Transocean Service re- Dfllied "new lines are under con- struction inside _ihe Reich.‘

The Paris radio added that Ber- liners were digging trenches around the Capital.

_A Moscow brodacrist tonight said Himmler had set up a new eastern front defence council with “un- lnnited powers" and with himself personally presiding.

A Gcianan prisoner captured to-

day in St. Vlth said the Reichstag had been in session a week, pre- sumably to consider the urgency of the Russian front situation. A Moscow broadcast reported clashes between Volkssturmers and the Gcstapo as inen resisted sep- aration from their families. Rus- sian broadcasts called upon the German fleet and Volkssturn to mutiny and thus show they were not members of that "criminal Nazi gang."

Without confirmation, a Brunseis radio broadcast quoted a Sto - holm dispatch ns saying that "a mass evacuation of Berlin has started.”

Registration 0f Bhildren To BeginllereFeli.l'

OTTAWA, Jan. 24 -— (CPP-Tlhe Health Department announced to- day that. registration of children under the Family Allowances Act will begin in Prince Edward Island Feb. i, when the department will mail registration forms to all par- ents in that Province.

Under the act. passed last year. parents of children up to l6 veers cf age will rccoive a monthly sum van-yiug from s5. a mon-(li for a child up to five years of age to $8. for a child from 13 to l6 years o! 339. In families of more than four children the act calls for a deduc- tion from the total allowance of $1 for the flPt-h child. $2 each for the sixth and seventh children and $3 for each additional" child.

Prnce Edward Islanders will an-. swer se-ven questions about their. families on registration form. giv- ing the name. birthdate, birthplace. and relationship of the applicant for allowances to the child: whether the father or mot-her or any of the cbllclrer, listed has been n member of the armed forces of Canada since September, 1939; whether tihe children listed are zegullorly at- tending school: lf those lsted are living with the applicant and if they have been living continuously in Canada during the three-year pcricri preceding the date of ap- plica-tlon.

Family allowance cheques will begin going out in July. when reg- istration has beer. made in the otiher eight Provinces. National NgISKTRIIOII will get under way in March.

The announcement‘. lfld Prince Edward Island was chosen by the Department as provir. ground for its system of reglstra on and ver- ification because ‘t is the smallest representative Canadian Province

"Any gaps or flaws this test re- vcnls in the Department's system will be ironed out before registra- tion begins ir_ lino other Provinces," the statement. said.

Ilealth Minister Claxton urged parent; who have neglected to register the birth 0f their children with Provincial vital statistics authorities to do so immediately, in. a child of unregistered birth is

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Says Atlantic Alive With Subs

(I! The Canadian P13)

SEAL-LOW LAKE, one, Jan za -—Defenoe Minister McNaughwn said tonight that “today the North Atlantic is. as it hasn't been for months passed. alive with German submarines."

"We giro having ships sunk day by day. said Gen. McNaughton in telling a political rally here why h! hlld not. been able to campaiim last week as Government candi- date in the North Grey by-election of Feb. B

He had remained at his desk in Ottawa last week because a large i e Army was on the high seas. l-Ie was unable to tell the electors of Nflrth GNy why he had remained until the troops had arrived safely overseas.

"The North Atlantic is a mightv cold place and we don't want the submarines to get at our troop ships." he said. It was essential to keep out of the press any in- formation about troon movements. It was essential to keep this infor- mation out of the press "despite the wild and careless demands of certain newspapers."

Bracken Arrives Back In Britain

LONDON. Jan. 24 - (C? Cable) - John Bracken, national leader of Canada's Progressive Conserva- tive part , delayed on his flight from Itay back to the United Kingdom. today missed a recep- tion given in his name in a Lon- don hotel. His plane landed at a Scottish airfield.

The plane in which Mr. Brack- en flew from Italy was forced by

weather to make an unscheduled m

stop somewhere on the continent Tuesday.

It is expected that the Pr res- slve‘ Conservative leader an R. K. Finiayson of Winnlp , an ad- viser to Mr. Bracken. wil be back 1n Canada in time for a scheduled political meeting Jan. 2'7 at Owen Sound, Ont.

The reception was attended by many Canadian servicemen at- tached to London headquarters of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, and Canadian civilians. Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey. Canadian High Commissioner in London. was among the guests.

Col. Alfred Brooks. Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons for Royal (NB) and Melville R. Jack. Mr. Brackssrs secretary. also will return to Can- ada shortly by air.

(Before Mr. Bracken left Italy he talked with n number of Can- adian troops during a visit to the front line. Included in the group was Grir. J. H. Doyle of Prince Edward island. Gnr. Doyle's home town was not learned.)

Fox Pelt Prices Decline 29-42 p. o. From Last January

(Special to the Guardian)

MONTREAL, Jun. 2A — Today, the third of the Canadian Fur Auction Company's sale dates of silver fox and mutations. witness- ed another large attendance of buyers with goods moving freely.

Following is the report:

On Tuesday selected full silvers were 92 per cent sold at on aver- age .46: inferior types were Z12 per cent sold at on average of

1.35.

Today's regular full silvers were '10 per cent sold at an average of $31.72; WCSWTD Canada new type platinums. platinum silvers and pearl platinums. were 73 per cent sold nt an average cf $85.87. N. 8.. show belts which included a

Def RLTII 01 marked skins. were B5 per cent sold at an average of $65.50.

The declines in prices as com ed with January. 1944. range rcm 29 to 42 per cent. Our Association's collection of show pelts only show- ed a 31 per cent decline. while western Canada new types and New Brunswick show pelts decli- ned 40 POX‘ cent.

Tomorrow. Thursday, the suction will go on with s number of muta- tions and a large number of silver

ts offeri

ng.

(The above lnfomiation was sug- nlied by Mr. George A. Cal . manager of the fur marketing de- partment of the Canadian Fox Breeders’ Assoeiat , F rnmcrrtde)

Manv cniiarZrTvvorir In Vancouver Area

VANCOUVER, Jan. M — (UP? — Results of a child labor survey released today by the Welfare Council of Greater Vancouver showed that 1.064 public school children in Vancouver are work- "ll in I) occupations from one to 89 hours a week. some eight-year-