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Drives Appears

i (By Eddy Gilmore. Associated Preee lteff Writer)

MOSCOW, Dec. lli-lTaeedayh-(Aifl-The lied Anny was reported threatening Koteinlllovil, t0 miles southwest oi Stalingrad, from three

sides, and wea only 45 mllee ahort of

a union with lte middle Doll iorcee

to throw a eeoond steel ring around 800.000 Nazis poclreted before

Staiing ’.

A special Soviet communique-latest of a eeriee on the new offen-

eive-eaid the Bed Army was only

12 miles short of Kotelnikovski in

a frontal assault, and had soiled points on both eidee of that North- Caucasian railway centre, in an ouela in that has cost the Germans

17,000 dead since Dec. 12.

Fonner Wood Island Resident ilies In Montreal

MONTREAL, Dec. 28 — (GP) — Daniel James Munn died here yesterday in hospital lie was B0. Bonl at Wood island, Prince Edward island he was also prominent in western af- fairs as a plone in the canning industry and ae President oi Kaslo and Siooan Railway till its dissolution in i008. ile was also Prellflent Alex MOAPGIID Co. lgtyd, - - . lie l; eurvlvefla hie daught- er, Mary liliaabe Mann, the famous blind pianist and two sons Wilfrid L. and ltev. Daniel James Mulln. hineral service will be held tomorrow.

Manville To Wed: Again?

NEW YORK, Dec. as —- (AP) — The Cit-married and divorc Tom- my Manville and zo-year-ol Bev- erly Whltne , Toronto scngitress,

said today ey plan to marry in the next month or so. The sixth Mrs. Manville, the

former Billy Bose now ie in Reno where Manvlile said he expects her to obtain a divorce "in three weeks. maybe a little more."

Previous re rte that Manville ind Miss Whiney plan marria e were denied vigorous y in Toron By Mrs. G .Geoil Moore, mother oi the singer She termed the rte ‘all rry sill " and asserted the her dgslghtictl-"Wlouwt know enythiiit t u .

Goming Events

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Verkhne-Kurmoyarsiraya, on the Don River loop about miles above Kotelrlikovski, was seized, as were Krllov encl- Nilrolski, 28 and 38 miles to the southeast in a. wide flanking movement.

The Red Army's middle Don forces operating down the Moscow- Rostov railway were reported lees than 100 miles north of Rioetov, where the Gelmans were “eclsred to be increasingly Jittery. since seizure of that point would trap evu-l larger Nazi forces inside the Caucasus.

(German radio reports mpha- sized for the second straight day that Nazi tr were forced to

. fight ln the "col est winter weath-

er of the eastern front"-l8 degrees below eero.)

In four daye the Russians eeid their troops had advanced from i1 to 53 miles lira. tglégiltdlllrllkllvf‘! re- gm“ “l” ' l. Il-G U operate Neel counter-attacks sim- ed at liberating the Nazi divisions trapped in the Doil-Voiga pocket.

Equipment captured

Since Dee. 12. the Russian; said, they captured so tanks. its guns. 105 trucks. and two smmun tion dumps find destroyed 2'10 planes. 42'! tanks, 221 guns. B5 mortars. 537 machine-guns, 077 truclre, and l5 eu 1y durnpe.

At east 3.500 Germans surrend- ered during yesterday's operations alone, the communiq sa d.

ll this was in addition to the 120.000 or more Germans killed ol- cantured in the huge middle Doll offensive far to the northwest. One errn of this drive siresdymis 20 mics or more inside the rains.

The German; pinned ‘ ‘ the Don and Volga rivers are entrench- ed in iortiiicsflons that reach in-

side Stalingrad itself. end there are

signs the are exhausting their arms an i - stores amassed for, the unsuccess l attempt to take that Russian city. One of these indication; is the increasing use of big transport planes to ferry men and supplies. iii oi which were élaedtroyed yesterday, the Russians

Inside the city itself the oom- munique said Red Army shock troops destroyed 33 bloclthouses and duaouts and killed lli0_ Ger- mans yesterday. while northwest of the c y nine German tanks were deetrcved. a Nazi companv wiped out. and i0 enemy planes destroyed or damaged.

Five Killed In Freight Wreck

DTOBTH BAY, ONT, Dec. $- (lJPl-Five persons, believed to be crew members, were killed late to- dsiy when two Canadian Natiotiaal Railways freight trakll collided on the North Bey-Ottawa line a few rnilee east of nearby Nlpleeing. First reports from the oraeh eoene identified the dead as:—

lalmer ilayee. oaoreoi, nleineer on eastbound train;

Nelson Sweet, Oapreol. mglneer

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0.11 aiohcrieii, Capreol, Fireman on westbound train:

11!. McKenzie, Ospreol, Fireman oil eastbound train.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1942

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Jap Cruiser Believed qgSunk By Big

Enemy Ships Shell Allies In Buna Area

By C. Yates McDaniel Associated Press Staff Writer

Japanese Attempts to Break out of Trap Repulsed.

ALLIED HEADQUART- ERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 29-(Tucsday)-(AP)—-Aliierl bombers are believed to have destroyed a Japanese cruiser off Rabaul, New Britain, a headquarters communique said today.

Japanese warships yesterday appeared off the east coast of New Guinea and poured shells inio Allied-held Build village. the communique said.

Efforts of the Japanese gar- rleon at Buna airfield to break

out were repulsed.

Iiaivai, on the island of Timer, (was raided i the second succes- sive day by Alied medium bomb- ers. The aircraft also pounded Fuiloro. Tlmor. and shot down one oi.’ the Japanese fighters that rose to intercept them.

The harbor area of Mersuke. Netherlands New Guinea, the com- munique said, was raided by an enemy float lane. Damage was slight. (Merau e is on the west ocaet of Netherlands New Gui-

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direct hits were mode on ills Ja ansse cruiser in the hnr- bor-"ior baulzz-‘Inle attack was car- ried out by Allied heavy units just before dawn. The cruiser was "enveloped in flames and proh- oblty destroyed." the communique sai . Hazy weather revented ac- curate observstion o

38E.

Oi the fighting in the Buns area the communique stick-

‘The onem_ attempted to break out shortly fore midnight but was hloodily repulsed. Our counter- attack drove s wedge deep into his defensive none."

No dnmafit; resulted from the enemy shei g from warships oil shore. the communique said. added the enemy naval craft probably were submarines.

The shelling. which took place during the right, continued for five hours.

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Stranded Japs In Tough Spot

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2B -(AP)— Tile desperate plight oi Japanese forces iitranded in the northern jungles oi Guadalcanal Island was- ctnphssised anew today when the United States Navy department disclosed that enemy planes had dropped by parachute supplies which American aircraft quickly spotted and shot up.

The supplies were dumped on the Japanese-held beach at Tassaisr- onga Saturday night or early Sun- day moming (Solomon Islands time). American axial observers, spotted them there at the dawn and armv airacobra fighters, carry- ing bombs es well as their usual guns, bombed and strafed them where they lay.

The communique also reported the destruction in the Summon Islands of another Japanese ship oi unidentified type, a new dive- bom attack on the battered enemy airfield at Munda. a bomb- ing and strafing assault on a Jap Bivouac area on Guadalcanal and a strafing raid against the enemy base st Kiska in the Aleut- ian Islands.

Three Awards I-‘or Gallantry

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LONDON. Dec. 20-(0? Gable)- Three awards, a Geo e Medal and ilwoflritish Iimrpire M ale, to Om. adian aiisnen for gallantry in comrades in arms from cradled aircraft were announced tonight by the Air Ministry.

The awards:-

(ieorge Medal-JO, it. l". Jen- nmiotmrnpir u d l-Qgt olr

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. 8t. Georlv. 8.3.: LAO. ll. h. Garter, Keifield, Seek.

VICTORY IY CONVOY

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se , not . s.r work, but every ting; you bring s. convoy in without loss you have won a

scene

other ~daln--

told this writer he saw only that country.

ehali starve. Germans ehali oak that a. tremendous military defeat

ing the Axle alone.

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and see who tires out first." “Worse situations (than in the not come," he added.

000 Axis troops in the

"if. the escape gap narrowing. O U I

Aiexand is, in Egypt.

Its striking power is gone. Tunisia.

Ever-increasing British” American and Fighting French force; new strip in western and northern Tunisia and in extreme western Trlpolitanla to which the once vest Axis holdings in There seems Vno reason to doubt that even

surround the narrow coastal

Africa have been shriveled. that tiny enemy foothold south or

less except for its domination oi the Sicilian Straits, on" be wregted

from the foe.

Death Toll In Tragirr, Wreck g Reaches i5

‘Injured Number I

War Situation Last Night

also seemed an utterly remote event when he spoke. Britain was

(By Klrke l. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst)

Many months ago, on his return from more than 20 years on the diplomatic front in Germany. a veteran of the American foreign service. two possibilities oi an internal collapse in

Given food shortages ae dire as they were In Germany in I918, re- volt against the Naai regime could prospect of that happening then. There is even less now. Hitler has a conquer ‘ continent to loot under his declared policy that whoever else

result, he thought. lie saw small

The other possibility this observer of the German scene saw was

could shatter German nerves. They fight-

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At this moment, howewr, pol-tents oi military disaster stalk lllticr in Russia and Airlca. The "very simple winter war program. he. an- nounced to his people last October is being put to a double and cruelsl test. it was "to hold what must be

held...hoid adamantly and welt winter of 1941-42) cannot and will

By his own words Stalingrad was _a place that "must" be held. It was not even taken. it is not Stalingrad. but an estimated force of 300,- Staiing-rad salient that is now endanger ‘ Rus- sian attackers are across every rail communication line for ln their

Another Hitler "must" unquestionably was that Rommel‘: victor- lous Africa. Corps should keep threatening the vital British sea. base, _ A meagre 75 miles separated the Axis army at El Alameln from that goal then. In two months or less it has fled more than 1.000 miles westward before the avenging British Army.

All signs point toward a retreat into

the Mediterranean, militarily value-

Bombers

Pathetic Pile 0f Articles At Wreck Scene

By JAMES MoCOOK (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

ALMONTE, Ont, Dec. 28 — (CP) -A pathetic pile of children's mit- tens, women‘); overshoes, a few Christmas bundles and a book oi music tonight was the monument to the greatest tragedy in the history of this Ontario town.

dreary possessions of 35 dead and about 200 injured, weary Almonte residents went home tonight after working without cessation for 24 hours aiding the victims of Can- ada's worst train wreck since i910.

Huge wrecking cranes carried s- way the crumbled steel frameworks of three wooden passenger cars smashed Sunday night when s troop train smashed into a Pembroke- Ottawa iocal. Bonflres consumed the other remnants of the cars and men with spades and forks swiftly clear- ed the ciebrls from the tracks. As they worked, they stopped from time to time to pick up some little personal article stained with tra- gedy. and add it to the sombre pile. T e little pile stood beside the tracks within a. few feet of where

I7; One Of Worst

Canadian Railway Tragedies.

By FRANK FLAHERTY Canadian Press Staff Writer

ALMONTB, Ont., Dec. 2B -—(CP) —’I‘he 30th death. from 105i; night’!

Canadian Pacific Railway wreck at Aimonte station occurred in hos- tal at Ottawa tonight as this shocked Lanark County community eettfed down to the calm which comes with wearlness after shut- tering events.

Undertaking establisilmente were filled with bodice in this centre whose residents had a closeup view of one of the worst Canadian rall- way tragedies to be reported in their span of life when a heavy troop-train crashed into a packed passenger train and spewed mangl- ed. bleeding bodies over Almonteii main street.

This morning the death toll was thought to be 31 but other deaths through the day had raised the count lo 35 by tonight. The injur- ed were counted officially by the 0.!’ R. at 1l'1. and it was believed here that counting minor hurts the number might be larger. Most of the vctims were carefree holida travellers. returning in their homes ‘eilrrliélg the Pembroke-Ottawa rail

ldtlllliv Victims

‘Throughout the day relatives arrived from many towns through- out the Ottawa valley ares. to

had spent pleasant hours.

Soap and water had obliterated blooclstains from the walls and floors of hundred; of room in oubfic buildings and private homes

Ind mvraues. I'll-es started beside

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Italians Sto Letters To wise

Didi-NI. Gwlteerlend. Dec. it - (Arl-Postai traffic between swit- eerhna and the United States as well as between awiteerland and name. lain arid Portugal nae

ded by Italian occup- trance.

ities in l addressed to the

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lid the there was no route by which i: could be sent.

At the same time. all mail reach- ing the owls; border from Spain

which served as dressing stations u;

international At A Glance

B! THE CANADIAN PRESS NORTH AFRICA-Vichy Radio says British and Fighting French troops enter French Solriallland; patrol activity in Libya increases: retreating Rommel forces reported entering Tripoli.

RUSSIA-died Army reported threatening Kotelnlkovsiil, 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad; only 46 mllee short oi joining Middle Don forces to encircle 300,000 Nazis.

FRANCE-De Gaulle. addressing Frenchmen from london, praises Giraud, new leader oi French North Airilca.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC-Allied bombers believed to have destroyed e lap cruiser oil Babaul, New Bri- tain; Japs on Guadalcanal rcsort to aerial supply route with para.

y chutes in wake of sea-convoy fail-

Ill”. Rail Strike Looms In Great Britain

LONDON’. Dec. 28-(OP)——A mil strike early in 194d was threatened

linntiiv victim and claim the bode. drivers and n men i bodies of those with whom they Bringing: war-strained rllfiwgy J5. Christmas tern instructed delegates on the

stand they are to take at a vital conference in London nextwedmes-

Under a complicated rates eye- bem. the irlcresse for drivers end firemen actually worked out at a- bout n con-ts weekly.

The Drivers and Hremonb Un. ion mid the terms were "degrading and insulting" and that the "aris- tocraoy" of the railway workers had been sidetracked in favor oi lower paid grades.

N.S. Airman Dies In Crash

IIIILEVJIAI Ont. Dec. 23- ron-riioi Officer 1‘. Marshall of 14.8. was killed end a eminent plot labored severely late

their Harvard reinln plane crashed in a field four m les east of here.

The name of the injired sir-

‘liltnlon

d Port ‘l; "Ill has been seized and

ma . from til nee. _ CAXIP’. Siatloeaewee% a

anguishd searchers found the bodies of two little children.

All Helped

The people of Almonte went home with sorrow and sympathy. but with quiet guide in their town.

As . J.K. Kelly, who has practised‘ 48 years in this, his home

a .

town s .—

“They all turned out to help - and they all helped."

"Now we know what they had to do and what they had to ex- . rience in the bombed cities oi

ngiandm said one weary worker as he trudged away.

Even the little boys and girls oi Almolltc did their part — the kept out of the way — wide-eye . horrified spectators as grim things were brou ht from the debris in the flicke ng light of the bonfires. The rtouched nothing and they mo e no comment.

Tonight. Almonte was a town oi red-eyed Jp_eople,_ men who had war}:

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ile Gaulle Pays Tribute To Giraud

LONDON, Dec. 28—(A.P)—-Gell. Charles De Gaulle will probably visit Washington soon to lay the blueprint oi a new French govern- ment before President Roosevelt then proceed to North Africa to see Gem. Henri Giraud, successor to Admiral Jean Darlnl. well-in- fomlcd quarters said today.

The creation or g new French government, centred probably at Algiers. based on the repudiation of the armistice with Ger-many and Vichys dissolution of the French mpublic, was said to be among the aims oi the Fighting French loader.

Local Airman Is Commissioned

IJONDON. Dec. 28—(CP)—R0Y81 Oa-tindian Air Fbrce Overseas Headquarters announce tne com- missioning of the following airmen: Prince Edward Island-J. R. Harrison, Charlottetown.

Nnvn Booths-H. MacDonald and A. E. McMullifl. Sydnflyi L. C, 31D- ley. River nnilln: A. M. Skinner- stellnrton: H. C, Timber-fit. 1Y0"!- New Brimewiclw-G. P. Rulckble. Be/thurst

Newfoundland - D- R- "Mimi Bay Roberta,

For Post

By J. l‘. SANDIIIISON (Canadian Prose lttil Writer)

WBBI-IIINUION Dee. A world council lo

lems onal machinery to kes ht b’! enry A. aliace

In a broadcast the birthday or Woodrow guiding prlncl organisation a ter the war: maximum of home rule that can be maintained along with the minimum oi’ centralized alqthorlty that must enoe

come into exi give the necessary protection."

Speech Believed Illllrrtalit

Great significance was attached here to Wallace! s ech because he conferred for an our with Pre- sident Rcoseveit before its delivery and. also. because he is regarded as

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MY ENTERTSOMKLILANE

Only Port Of Jibati Loyal To Vichy Gov?

British Commander In Ethiopia Pale] Recent Visit To French Governor.-

LONDON. Dec. 26—(OP)—'I‘ile Vichy radio said tonight that Figl ing French troops had entered llrenoh Somaiiland in Eastern Ame?

“On Dec. 06 an Anglo-ole Gaullist plane flew over the town of J buti and scattered leaflets announcing dissident troops had entered t-ha colony," the Vichy radio said. ‘In the course or the morning. aerial rev connaissanoe continued. In the evening at six o'clock, Anglo-dc Gaullisd forces reached points three kilometres (1.8 miles) west oi the main clove

fence line."

British arms long have had effective control of French Somal- iland ecccept for the port of Ji- but], which although besieged. 1'9- mained the only ccntle ostensibly loyal to the authority of the Vichy

ovemment.

g Only today delayed dispatches from Nairobi, Kenya Colony. 1'8- ported that Mai-Gen. Chris her Fowkes, commander of Br tlsh troops in Ethiopia, had disclosed a recent visit to Jibuti in which he said he had “a long friendly tall.

with me Hench Governor in the hope that the city mi ht soon be addled to the list of Al led We! in “£3321 r-owires said in effect that he was (well received.

lie Gaulle May Visit Washington

WNDON’ Dec, as ...(CP)- Gen. Charles De Gaulle. 199d" l’! m“ Fighting French, paid high tribute