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Destroys two Jap Warships In Far East

Loss Of Philippines ls S e e n “Distinctly Possible” By Wash- ington Observers.

féives Eyewitness Account Of Jap AttackslnManila

Ill-uniformed, untrained boys 15 to 18 comprise bulk of Invaders in Philippines.

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Nazi resistance Stiffens along Russian front

Henry C. Cassldy Associated Press Staff Wrlifl‘ MOSCOW, Dec. 2s -—(APJ —St.lf- feniirg German resistance i0 the Russian counter-offensive on the Moscow. Leningrad and Ukraine fronts was osed in front line lllspiliclids tonight. while 1n the for southern Crimean theatre a fierce battle raged as the Germans sought to batter their way through tze last defences of besieged Sevasto-

, (B Richard L. Turner) ‘Assoc ted Press Staff Writer; WAQHINGTON, Dec. 25—(AP — An enemy submarine sunk off Cali- €0Xn1fLdth€ dgSglllllblitilll of Jat least (By Clark L”) “w: an pro a. y our apanese wit» n»- o-o was, lsfipfitiblintmilféilioaihbhtttlfif NORTHTHE “N95 3'39 T es" on the Philippine front, bright- P Th OF MANU-IA- Dec- 35-(5 erred a war-gloomy Christmas today >71 e Japanese army rushing w- in the United States capital.

w“ Mmu" 5mm l-he UPBPYE" These cheering accomplishments, Gulf area is an ill-Uniformed. llll- however, were set against a fore- trained mass oi young boys l boding background, Bad news, even “twee l 15 "N! 13 lliglled W l-h the eventua loss of the Philippine mall-calibre guns an riven for- ward by dies rate determination to advance or .

Hundreds oi them already have died under the fire of American and Ffllipino artlllergi machine-Buns and M198. but they eep coming. and up until tonight have been only partly checke’.

The United States armed forces in the Far East. holdinl the Lin- gayen area, have rallied and are putting up a determined defence in many sections.

Young Filipino troops. after their ba tism oi fire, are bein welded in o an army of tough fig ten.

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Archipelago was regarded as dia- tinctlv possible. The defending for- ces were badly outnumbered and the Japs were striking at Manila from several directions at once.

At the White House-except for an interval given over to church at- tendance-tire da was devoted to

war planning, an a continuation of

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I I ll. S. position Zi":..::ea*.ni“itii..saie; mzuetinaeifiiii In Philippines Becomes grave

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, n Kannm and southwest. I have s nt four days in an xfswlrroans nconmued m advance, around t e fighting front, includ- mupvm" a number of vmagesy ing a two-day hike over mountain

Byhugslan count at 1e35, 205,00 trails alter the Japanese out the senmms_or lbout- ha“ the N“, main road southward, forcing me to

‘owes on mo Bevastopol ‘Wonk abandon and burn cbile

my autom . w“ killed m a furious sbbday bu,” The Lingayen battle started last o. which the Russians said foiled

Monday at 2 . m. with an artillery I0 crack their stubborn resistance

duel between apanese warships and

American shore before the big Black Sea naval base. The Russian mucous; alsinae

guns. At the game time a force estimat- tlia Germans on the central front

ed ‘at J's nese advancln

southward from continued, and the soviet inforrna- car units at son lion bureau announced that in the

American armored Fernando in La Union Province. five-day period of Dec. 21.26 a _‘“‘ wtai of 10,220 German officers and men were annihilated.

Red troops were declared to have routed the headquarters of the 13th German army corps and of the 268th infantry division, and to have captured great quantities of German material. The midnight communique told in addition of the destruction of the headquarters of the 261th German infantry regi- merit.

In desperate attempts to rein- force the depleted German ranks. Soviet dispatches sold, the Ger- man 170th infantry division was nislierl to the front but in eight successive assaults this crack unit

MANILA. Dec. 25—(AP)-Jap- anesc tan-k units striking 35 miles inland from the Gulf of Crayen were reaper-ted tonight near the Phili ine slimmer capital cf Bos- uio, w ile a second spear-head ad- vancing 26 miles from‘ the reached Binaloan, 110 miles from

Manila.

A field dispatch said" the out- numbered Unit-cd States and Fill- plno troops fo ht desperately a- gainst the inva ers, but acknowl- edged that the Japanese may al read hwe seized Baguio in the prov rice of that name.

The Japanese had landed in the Damortls-Sanito Tomas area 0n the gulf last Monday where they were immediately engaged bv Un- ited States artillery and tanks.

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King George In lihristmas Broadcast

WNDON. Dec. as —(CP) -—The King. delivering his third wartime Christmas broadcast to the Empire and the world, told the British

Zlliill flanailians With defenders

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Elsewhere, the Russians said that People today t-h would win the ‘h, remaung qenmm h“ m- war through the spirit of sacri- coiled with counter-attacks which. f!“ f" the wmmvn avod- t

A the same time His Maiesty urged the young to train themselves to p‘er- form the tasks oi the post-war

though strong, failed to halt the Soviet advances and incurred only new, heav-y losses, particularly on

the north and south flanks oi the WP" °i Peace-t The King dwelt st length ti. H K umww damn“ ‘n’ absence oi friends and riiiiitivi:

In a mosh fig of serial wer- (Oontlnucd on page d. Col I)

King and three

from celebrations of this Christ- an, necessitated by the war, and

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"It may well be that it (the war) will call for even greater sacrifices. If this ls to be. let us face them

May Be Some Time Before Casualty Lists Become Avail-

numbers taken prisoner.

Jie brunt oi the struggle "I would Defence authorities said it mllht

l‘ 0h hil i id tRoose- it'll‘ um ‘and Plus en to tho coming generation of

. 55V 1n the party also were Munitions boys and girls of today-the mm b, gums time before any accurate Minister Howe, Dr. W. C. Clark. and women of icmorrmn- new, 0g gggualties was received and

that accurate word might P0881111? spirit, so as to be ready for what- not be forthcoming until the Red ever part you ma he "1104 “We Cross Association was notified to play and for e taakz which through international chsnncla of will await you u citizens of the those takenprisoner. Empire when the war is over." But the brief information which The King urged his hearers t0 had been forthcoming through the "go forward in this coining year past few days left no doubt that tine with good heart." fighting was such Wat ‘casualties "Lift up your hearts with thailk- were bound to be heavy among the fulness for deliverance from dan- Canadian forces which incl post," he said. "Lift up winnipeg Grenadiere and the Q“!- in confident hope that b” nqygl Rlflg. strength will be given us to over- At the some time the defence department made public the nom-

come whatever mrils may llo s- inal roll of the Canadians engag- "€'—-

heaul until victory is won. (Continued on rare 6. Co! ll ___________.

Deputy Minister oi Finance: Narm- "Train yourselves, body, mind and In Robertson. Under-secretary of

State for External Affairs; and two

Rmtsries, t Minis Power who open Uhristrnsa at is Quebec home wrs floected to join the arty in Wasn- lhcfon tomorrow or aturday,

it was expected that war strategy on the Atlantic and the Pacific and general defence of the North Am- erican coast line would occugy the conference of the Canadian, ritlsh Ind United States representatives.

Mr. King and his colleagues will, with representatives of other domin- lilns and allied powers, 10in the con- ferences which have been (going on between Mr. Churchill an Presi- dent Roosevelt since last Monday Waning,

"If skies before us are still dark and threatening, there are stars to guide us on our way. Never did heroism shine more brightly than it does now. nor fortitude, nor sac- rifice, nor sympathy, nor neighborly

Manila lleinp kiiigiiiisswitn them the brishifs‘ °Y . e s" Supplies frozen

all stars is our faith in 0d. Th stars we will follow with his help until light shall elrlnc and darkness shall collapse."

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NDON -(CP)— A Canadian

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OVITA . of Manila hemp were

supplies

frorcn in

today by Munitions Minister Howe. The order went lnlc effect at

midnight, Dec. 24. It

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>‘%/ The Peoples (lovers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

he left for Washington to attend

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‘kw... Situation Last Night

HUNG KONG

(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

An uneven exchange by allied and Axis forces of strategic bases half the world apart. marked this blood-stained and havoc-laden Christmas Day.

Hon‘ Kong. inavltably doomed, has succumbed. Japan's lining Sun flag‘ has ,‘ ’ ‘ ‘n proud “ of ,‘ above that war-ravaged outpost in the China lea. All the blood and sweat of its gallant defenders, all the (can and prayers of their countrymen, could not save it.

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But half the world away the British ensign flies again over thrice ravaged Bengali. It signal: the passing of a once powerful and vic- torious " Italian army h Libya, And Bangui is more vitally essential in the strategy of the Mediterranean war theatre, and po- tentially in the over-all concept of this giobe-glrdllng war, than Bong Kong.

With its possession goes domination of the whole Libyan hump, thrusting boldly northward from the African shore into the MedL terranean eastward of the Sicilian straits. With ii, too, goes almost certain British occupation of the whole Libyan shore lino from Egypt to French Tunisia. That means powerful new deployment bases for British air and naval forces to keep open the dangerously narrow Mediterranean waistline, the primary Axis bridgehead to Africa.

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Lose of Bong Kong, however, .i| a bitter blow to Britain, al- though certalnly discounted once the pattern of the Japanese on- slaught to master the whole China Sea. and its pproaches became clear, And its fall adds imponderably to the danger that Luzon in the Philippines cannot indefinitely survive under multiple Japanese in- vaslon stabs feeling for weak spots in its defences.

Time is of the essence in Japanese strategy. Somewhere Anglo British sea and air power ic challenge T, ‘a boasted domination of the China Sea is being rallied for the offensive. And the fall oi Bengasl to British arms brings closer the moment when an allied

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Annual liubaoription Delivered, $6.00 k lalli I. LL. “.00; Canada and

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Resistance Is p, Discontinued British Forces

Military and Civilian casualties are heavy ~— Loss of Colony expected for days.

LONDON, Dec. 25—i(.'l’)—'l‘iro defence of lloiig Kong has brokgq under relentless assault by land‘. sea and air and the Crown color‘ which for a century has been I. British bastion off the southeast 0th; coast has fallen to the Japanese.

“So ends a great fight against overwhelming odds," the Colonial Office rlcclzrrcil tonight, announcing the surrender.

No further- resistance, it said. was possible,

Without cstimatin" the figures the Foreign Office asid that "ml,- ltary and civilian casualties were hsovym."

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Governor of Kong Kong who early Christmas day decided further defence of the Crown Colony was impossible. llis action camc after tire ivater supply was exhausted nnil his hard-fight- ing troops outnumbered by Japanese invaders, backed up by air and sea support. Tokyo reports szilil the Governor was meeting with Nippon- ese leaders to arrange terms.

llr Mark Young,

The announcement said lack of ivatcr “"815 one of the great handi- caps 0i‘ the British tonimics, the Canadians and the Indian who fought step b step back across the mainland sec on of the colony and. then held out desperately and with little hope in the fortified XllUlllllllill faslncsscg of the island.

(Clllllltiiflll dt-icircicrs included the Royal Cairadiari Rifles of Quebec and the Winnipeg Granadiers. Osa- ualties were not estimated in Cans- dian announcements.)

As the Japanese wrested away one alter another of the Hong Kong

Vote form Free French

ST. PIERRE, Dec. %—-<AP)— Frec French official; here an- nounced tonight that in a. pleb- iaciic the citizens of It. Pier-n and Mlquelon voted overwhelm- ingly for the Free French, with

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counter offensive in the China Ses area can be driven home relentlessly.

Firmly based agiiln in Bengasi, Britain's expanding air power can take over increasingly from the Mediterranean fleet the lob of keep- ing that sea open for British use. And it is that powerful segment of the Royal Navy that seems nearest at hand to help reverse the odds in allied favor in the China Sea.

French Seize

Free _St,- Pierre, Miquelon

U. S. Authorities make Protest; British, Canadian Spokesmen say move was “complete surprise".

By J. F. Sanderson Canadian Press Staff Wrltcr

WASHINGTON. Dec. 25 —(CP) —'I‘he United States declared today the seizure of St. Pierre and Mlque- ion by the Free Frenrli was car- ried out without the prior know- ledge of Washington and branded the move as "arbitrary" and "con- lrflry to the agreement oi all par- ties concemed."

In Ottawa and London qualified spokesmen declared that the seiz- ure came to them as a "complete surprise."

The spokesman for ilre state de- partment here said inquiries have been made oi the Canadian gov- ernment “as to what steps it is prepared to take to restore thr status quo," a clear indication that the United States, at least, is read;

llong Kong defenders Gained valuable Time elsewhere

MONTREAL, Dec. 25 -(CP) - The defence of Hong Kong “may prove to have had far-reaching consequences for the ultolo far eastern canrpaigir," Prime Minister MacKenzie Kin-g said tonight as

conferences between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill.

"How valiantly Hongz Kori was defended is apparent from e fact to return the two islands in tin that its capture occupied a for- Gulf of St. Lawrence to the nom- 01 inal control of Vichy.

midable Japanese force for all two weeks," the Prime Mirrlsrer said in a statement. "its resistance has spared the defenders of the Philippines and Malaya, even stronger assaults in those theatres of action at a moment when to all-important

Prime Minister Mackenzie King. who left Ottawa today to confer here with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt on war strategy, probably will dis- cuss the seizure of the islands with secretary of state Cordell Hull and

cheerfully together." gain time was an . I "I think of you, my people,” be mm," other high officials of the Ameri- Ml t said. “as one great family. Ibr able. Eve effort. is being made ‘o can government and decide what that is how we are leamlng to live. ___- get iul and accurate reports as should be done. We all belong w each other. We oirrnwa, Dec. 2s —(CP) —Ca- quickly as possible, he added, but ' all need each other. It is in serv- ngdians reamed tonight that ilicir “it may be some time before ac- Episode Ill-Timed o n ing each other and in sacrificing troop; on the island outpost of curate news of the fate oi our men for our common good that we are Ho“ Kong had been forced to will be available....the govern- The whole episode was regarded finding our true spirits. cease resistance toJapa-nese assault merit shares the anxiety of the in official circles here es ardly on“ "—"‘§_(°P)__P“m. "In that spirit we shall win the "w; as, s of day-ami-niight fight- families of our soldiers, and no o - the sort cf move to be made by mnmerwbiadgfz], m, “mm war. And in that some spirit we m, in t island outpost of the portunlty of relieving it speed y form fighting warmer nsuoni Dani“ by Damn“ Munsw’, Ramon shall win for the world sim- tile Kgnpim, will be overlooked. and ‘fears we're expressed for the and M Mmme Macdonald M, war true. lasting peace.’ It was feared that casualties The fate of Hong Kong had de- reactacn it mill Produce 1h Vl-‘hy. Ottcwaviiite todar for Washlfwgr His Majesty declared that; while mil, nqws as to loss of life ordtulife pended tuponththe Rainfxfnizgce o‘: v3: crggligldedni}; 1:’- .. the present neration mus fir‘ , hre wasno - naval SN“ n e ac c. an . i! 0 B ' - toconfer with Prme Minister 8° were heavy But t e _ "m, ‘or ‘hi: time being‘ w“ Con” w’ the United 5mm had cum“

an agreement with French authori- ties at Martinique in the Caribbean Sea to maintain the status quo in that area.

A spokesman for the Vichy cm- bassy here called the seizure a bed blunder and "worse than Deh- air," l. reference to tho unsu llroe French attempt to seize that Bengal sea port on the west coast of rica after the French capito-

pletely changed by the losses con- sequent upon the treacherous Jap- anese attack on Pearl Harbor and ire Philippines and bv the loss oi the Prince of wales and tlhe Re- pulse."

lilalnis St. Pierre, Miquelon people An Free French

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LONDON, Dec. 26—(CP)—The Pres Ilrench government announced

today its naval forces occupied 8t.

Pierre and Mi uelon at the request i- cf the popluls on of the izi- ‘IRKIRD, ll. 3., Doc. 5 -(OP)— and: in t e Chili oi B I-Awnnee- Phillip Guilin. three-year-old non

A plebiscite wu ordered for w- of ma. Neil Gullin, died here yes- day to prove the populations M- terday shortly after he was struck ence for the forces of Gen. harlee by . “gm m,“ whgch Budd“ ._ 9° 9"“ W" *1" W" "W" °i cross the sidewalk near tile Gulliu ma“ fuffirfil?“ ‘pm m", home. His mot-ber, who was aln’: official manifestation of "ccm- elm 1m I sled. llilpod in- "m" “d “m” “m” Witnesses said the driver. wri-

lele su n lion's and Ottawa's view of the u llam A. MacKily cf 1mm appar- m m " “mo” ently swerved his machine to a-

as t l - con r to pr or reemenmgen void ‘mung m

tui to ‘ 1e w iiigeiiienconna ' om two ed abruptly in hi5 net-h. The The French headquarters sn- tru id across the icy Pavement, ' and co ‘s

.- mounted the sidewalk to the wishes oi _ll_l_e coroner ill

“In answer with a tree. A m met gm M. on page l, Ooi 4i found iileadqi.

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DUBLLN, Dcc. 25 — (CP) — Eamon De Valera, Prime Min- later of Eire. told Americana in a Christmas broadcast today

presscd garrison dwindled until, the announcement said, "two days I80 there remained but one day's sup- that his country must hew to its X"

f?‘ {‘°“.‘".“‘iY,,“?,f§Zfi,f,‘-5 i.ii.‘°ali“fi~‘éfia“llat‘iti Elf. £9.32? um y- “n e55 “e ‘u a ' sea defence had criunblcd.

Java, Dec. ZS-(AP) —

Nlanila declared

I ' I BATAVIA. “m, A t .9) Jfineisex dlestroyer t2! tlégegdéllilé Wm“ u s d" n y n ag r c ass was _ i_ huh um‘ x b W“ 1”‘ “m” b‘ “ °“""1°“°' taimniiimoi’ chroma» twilight i.

submarine which escaped depth chargesof another destroyer to re-

rt its success, Anetii, Netherlands gist Indies new agency, arrirounccd

MANILA, Dec. rs-(rriosyl- This coipital of Luzon Island in the Philippine groin was doclaixcl an

taught‘ . ' city’ tcd v a ine Unirod orrawa. n . rc-(Orl- "m? "m" hQN- M- Tlie lylariirii ue wradlo, _hroiid- Mon Wu taken to lave the oiq casting tonig it on the seizure of ‘m Furihifl‘ 451311931011 173' J59-

the islands of Si. Picrrc and itliquelon liy the iorccs of the Free French. declared tli;ii._tlrc Vich ambassador in Vtkrslrirrg- ton d protested to the Amtr- fcan government.

Take Bengasi; Drive continues