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Sevastopol Has Fallen; Nazi Losses Hea

Chief Birtwistle

rTragic Accident Takes Life Of Wellington Boy

Justin Cameron Shot

Playmate; Inquest: Is v

ll.S. Troops In Battle of Egypt?

BERiNE. July 3—(AP)—Ak-is re- pors tonight declared that thousand excellently

ation from any official or other sources. The report. considerably round-

about, was 1n a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm quoting the Berlin

paper Allehanda, who cited Rome dispatches. ' (British authorities declined to comment.) In Berna, reliable informed sour-

ces said they thought the presence came after the chickens. The night

of American troops on the Egyptian front was "possible and logical."

Gaming Events

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Notloes In this I cents pol word

"Rollo Tea Wednesday July 22nd, i942 i-s-ai.

"Sh d D — B" dalbane e ow an anco ia 74:2‘.

-~ —Ml Wd ‘sd . Show apeque one pim-

"Auctlori Sale July 9th. Estate late Stetford Mullins. Tryon. 7-2-4. "Dancef Iiorne Valley Tuesday. July 7th. Webster's Orchestra.

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"Unloading oar wheat at Mt. Herbert. Choice quality. Russell Driscoil. ' 7-4-21-

"Ice Cream Festival and Dance

Presbyterian Church grounds, July 14th. 7-4-li.

"fcelCream Pws-tgal and Dance at Darllngtoii School. ‘Iucsdayhdiluiy 7th. - -

"Reserve Tuesday, Julv 14th for atriotic tea on the St. James Kirk Wm 7-‘1-11-

"Ice cream and- dance Hazel Grove School, Monday. July 6 l" aid of Rved Cros. 7-4-11.

"Crapaud Players present “One In a Million", ‘rrycn Hall. SEW!’- day, July f, under the auspices of Tryon United Y. P. U. 7-3-21.

"Milton ice cream festival, op- posite school, Tuesday July ‘I. Bingo and dancing. Good musicl.’

7-4- .

"Farmers: You can save val- uable time, gasand tires, by hav- ing our truckmen transport your hogs to market. Make use oi this economical service. Livestock Mar- keting Board, 7-4-ll.

"Adjourned annual meeting Central Shipping Club will be held 1n Brcadalbaiie Hall, Monday eve- ling, July 6th at a irclock. All pa- "On-s urged to attend. By order o! the President. 7-4-21.

"Lemuel Craswell loading hogs at Hunter River Tuesday forenocii July 7th and weekly thereafter. Trucking service provided for busy farmers each week, b appoint- ment, Livestock Markellirig Board.

7-4-1 .

"Livestock Marketing Board loading hogs. lambs and calves at usual loading points during week of July 6th. Trucking service pro- vided by contacting our local went. 7-4-11.

"A farmer told us yesterday we bald him nearly four dollars for one hog, more than he expected. We replied "That's fine, but not a new story". Hundreds of farmers are having similar. experiences. Livestock Marketing Board. 7 4 n

"The following are a few of our lsonts providing a "farm to ship- Dlng point." trucking service for busy farmers. Jack Annear, Mon- tague: Robert Breheut. Uigg; Ed- die Nelson, Millvlew; Charlie Ross. Melville; Roland Coady, Charlotte- towii; Elmer Clow, Wlltshlrc; James Somors, Breadalbane; Mouse Bros, Freetown; George McKay. Albany; Fred Peters, 8.0110 Bay; Linwood McNeil, Cardigan; Daniel Ferris, Milton; _-A. R. Mo- intyrs, Bcdford, etc, Make con- tacts for service when required. Uvostcok agar-hating Board. I" u

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By Gun in AI-Iands of Unnecessary.

A very

deiituiiy went

boys were playmates,

their ages. The two children nao been playing together the night ‘oc- ore.

Mr. Barlow kept a shot gun, which

was a l2 guage to kill the crows that

before he had brought out the gun and laid it on the couch. Allison had been looking at it. It was not loaded at the time. The next morn- ing Mr. Barlow saw some crows in the yard and loaded the gun and went out to shoot them. He came back and laid the gun on the couch but did not unload it. Allison was in bed at the time.

Mr. and Mrs. Barlow then went out to milk. In the meantime the little fellow got up and came down stairs and was examining the gun. Justin Cameron. the victim of the accident happened to come over with a. cent that his little chum had lost-whlloibplaylng at ‘his house the night before. He went into the cow stable to tell. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow that he had found the cent and they told him Allison was in bed and to go in. As he came in to the kitcneii Allison had the gun in his hands and was trying to open it to see i! it was loaded. In some way he must have touched off the trigger and the shot entered Justin's head kill- ing him instantly.

Corporal Watson oi the Summer- side detachment of the R.C.M.P. was notified and Constable Trenouth and Constable Carter accompanied by Dr. K.B. Howatt, coroner. Wen‘- up to Wellington, After hearing the story the doctor decided an inquest was not necessary.

Mr. Cameron, the father of the

7. little boy who was killed, said the

two boys were the best of chums. Justin has several brothers and sis- ters. He is thehfourth child‘. tTho deepest s pa. y goes 0 e ain- ilies in therlr tragic bereavement, The funeral is being held this morning at 9 o'clock from the Roman Catholic Church, Welling- n. .

Canadian Joint Staff ls Formedj

OTTAWA. Julv 3—-(CP)-Forma- tion of a Canadian joint staff u. Washington. comprising three sen- ior officers representing each of the three Canadian Chiefs of Staff, was announced tonight by Defence Min- ist/cr Ralswn.

Mai-Gen. Maurice Pope will act as chairman and has been desig- nated representative in Washlfiton o! the Canadian Chiefs of B i’.

Rear-Admiral V.G. Brodeur. 50. formerl naval attache at the Can- ndian Ilegation in Washington, wili represent vice-admiral Percy W. Nellcs, chief of the naval staff. and Air Vice-Marshal George Victor Walsh, formerly Canadian air at- tache in Washington, will represent Air Marshal L.S. Breadner, chief e. the air staff.

Promotion of Rear-Admiral Bro- cicur and Air Vice-Marshal Walsh to their present rank was announ- ced thls week, butthere was no in- dication that the Canadian joint staff would be established.

War-ZS Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Press)

JULY‘ 4, IOU-Fourteen Cannon airplanes attached Hsrwich on English out coast, killing 21 sons and injuri

anes shot own. aunched big oifensives north o the Alimc and on the left bank of the Mouse.

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JULY l‘, ION-German destroyer iorpedced in the North Sea. Brllsll

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sad and tragic accident occurred about 8.30 yestcrday morn- ing at Upper Wellington when Jus- tin Cameron, nine years old, was instantly killed when a gun acci-, off while in the hands of his playmate. Allison Brooks. Allison, aLso nine years o: age, had come up the night before from his home near Hunter Rive: “several to stay with his grandparents, Mi. equipped and Mrs. George Barlow. The Cam- Amcrlcan troops took part in the c1011 Cl-llld W85 the 80h 0X Mr. fwd fighting at El Alamein" in the battle Mrs. Eusabius Cameron, Ilelilllwfl‘ of Egypt but there was no confirm- of the Barlow; and the 3110

e e Brooks boy having been brought up by his grandparents at Welling- ton when his fatner died. Both boys were born at upper Wellington there correspondent of the svwdlsh iicws- being just 12 hours difference in

On Assn. Executive

CHIEF A. BIRTWISTLE

QUEBEC, July 3—( P)-—Police Chief J. P. Downey of ttawa was todav electcd president of the Chief Constables’ Association of Canada as delegates, meeting here 1n annual conference, reached the end of a. four-da convention. He succeeds Chief Ju son J. Conrad of Halifax. Next meeting will Toron .

A. H. Cadieux, chief of the De- partment of Investigation of the Canadian Pacific Railway zumpany at Montreal, succeeds Chief Downcy as first vice president while Char- les Watkins of Fort William was chosen second vice president. re- placing Mr. Cadieux. George A. Shea, director of investigation of the Canadian National Railways at Montreal, was re-elected secretary- treasurer,

Members of the executive board include: New Brunswick. H. E Mc- Leese, Saint John; Nova Scotia,Jo-hn Lawlor, Dartmouth; Prince Edward Island, A Birtwistle, Charloztotown;

Antigonish Forest Fires Under Control

AMHIERSTJLS. July 3—(CP)— Forest fires in the Port Phillip and Williamsdale areas of Cumberland County, N.S.. were brought under control late today. Efforts of 100 fire fighters under Chief Ranger Norman Tiuemnn and a change in weather conditions, checked the fires, the worst this season in the county.

Adjournment 0f Proceedings In Drew Base

TORONTO, July 3—(CP)-Case oi Lwfyol. ueoige A. Drew, Ontario Conservative leader, charged with violating Defence of Canada Relu- lations, will be proceeded with by way of indictment one week from today, July 10.

Col. Drew apgeared before Magis- trate J. D. Mc lsh today and urc- ceedings, at the request of Crown counsel D, L. McCarthy, KC, were adjourned. Mr. , said he was not prepared to proceed and that owing to circumstances beyond his control certain evidence was not. immediately available.

The charge is that Col. Drew con- travened a section of the regula- tions forbidding statements likeiv to prejudice recruiting or the dis- cipline of His Majesty's forces, It was laid after Col. Drew issued a statement in which he criticized. the report of the Royal Commission which investigated the Hang Kong ex itlon. He was a Commission counsel appointed on the nomin- ation of Conservative House leader

anson.

Today's adjournment was taken over the Protest of Col. Drew who obgectcd here was no ground for do ay. He also asked for particulars of the charge against him and said the summons was carelessl -drawn and mentioned no offence. e law _1,n_i;egard_to_indlctments__had_not

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Destroyer Shaw

Returns To Sea A U. S. WEST COAST PORT. July il-iAPl-The United States dos royer Hiaw has put out to bee.

500 tons of driving machinery and flghting power. No Flyln Dutch- man's phantom schooner s e, but s live ghost returned to lsgue the Japs who thoiqht mis kenly to have sealed her doom.

Doc. 7 found the Show in dry- dock at Pearl Harbor. 20 feet ebovo the water line. Jap bombs crash- ed through her forward deck. One of them d o her bridge. Flaming fuel tanks set fire to tho drydock. and the flames ignited her powder magazines.

some months later the Shaw limped into this port. a sort oi scarecrow man-of-war.

Now the machinists and the mid- crs have quit her decks and her in-

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FWar Situation Last Night

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Defence ls

(BY KlR-KE L- SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

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they lurched across the Llbyan-Egygtlan buraifer HZFOIISBCd ‘a. Selig? the backbone of the attack

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in London and Washington that broken. O

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If that proved true, the corridor between the become an Axis indication, however that the decisive moment reached. R0 too dangerous a foeman to justify any belle!

Quit-lira Dcprcssion could’ ct victory. There was no in the struggle had been

and now must run for i swift decisions and prompt

commander, now in personal by bitter experience.

G A hl l k h I '- . . . m‘ “c n" as ‘yew “M” w "51"" “mm”! “FPMW F?!‘ (fly Henry C. Cassldy) CAIRO, julv 3_— :\P)—~Bl‘lil5ll forces mm ht slflsllcd at fllevllilvn of surprise moves. The British (Associated Press Staff Writer) -~ . ~ - . . g direction at the front. has been schaolcd _ Pvcld llilfalliil lzruzn Ruminr-ls ri-luiliwrl forces on the northern , , . , _ (fithvbkijyskolsloli-l)’ izzésilgigurdflyi; and of (he lal .\l1llllclll line, 62 miles \\‘(‘Sl of .\lvxanilri:i, captur-

O Nevertheless, British success in halting and

on El Alamein ta rived; and that to However, if Rommel fcll back

only to reorganize, refuel and strike agai

skinmish of

compel even a slight withdrawal enwuroslns- It Probably means that British reinforcements have ar- some extent British tank losses in Libya of June 13 have now been rep

the battle of Alexandria terminated in British favor.

.1 Hailed As Major Factor

Egypt. momentarily e since of hope had been

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Mediterranean and the death trap instead of a fltld mmel is too well proven a warrior,

"l" 11° 5B5 Blicnt his force Plans"

outflanking the attack by the foe is highly

‘Med. in that tragic battle

under the British flanking threat ll. if» means only that the first

as a. major lac-tor ui holding up Lil

icrs killed and wounded.

Says Final Battle To Be Fought In France

— be 1n “Let Every Frenchman Prepare” General De

Gaulle Urges; Nazis Practice Invasion Alarms

(By The Canadian Press)

Ullcbéy and hungry isurope was told by the Irree rreiich leader ueii. Charles De Gauile, last night that the decisive battle 0i. the war would. be rougnt in France, and as lie spoke the ucrman niasnersoi the continent were hastily reinforcing their coasts against invasion.

The French General declared the Aids. despite its initial successes, ls farther from victory than ever and that the AllNKLIOIOB-S t ng l-llgljr are five times greater an t .v

w to

were a year ago.

"It is a Brcat thing in, ar have won the iirst battle,’ he said. "but it is the last one which wili decide everything. It will take place ln Francennllet. every Frenchman prepare."

Stockholm reports said the Ger- mans had greatly reinforced their occupation gaxrlsons in Norway and Denmark and were enforcing black- outs. Danes were barred from the beaches and new “invasion alarm.’ we:e being practised in Belgium

Dr Robert Ley. ncacl of the Ger- man labor front. reached Paris to recruit- French workers for German factories after a tour o. work on invasion defences along me Brit- annv and Norman roasts of occu- pied France. There he iold labor- ersz-

"Across the waber is the enemy. English mercenaries of the United States. You stand facing iuie en- emy eye to eye. You know him. We have every chance of winning i111! struggle if you want to."

Identify Woman Who Fell From Hotel Roof

WINNIPEG, July 3—(CP)—Po- lice said today the woman who fell to her death from the roof o_i a Winnipeg hotel Wednesday night has been identified as Mrs. Ralph M. Jones, formerly oi Toronto and Moncton, N. B. Police added that had been usin her maiden name, Violet Isabe Mc- Quarric, while rcsidlnl hero Since October last.

Will Supply Arms To Rangers

OiITAWA. July a - tCPl-De- fence Minister Ralston said ln the House of Commons today that arms will be issued in quantity and as soon as possible to the Pacific coast Rangers.

Conservative House leader Han- son had said he received an in- quiry whether arms were to be ls- sued to the Rangers, a. guei-illa or- ganization oi hunters and trapper: on the Pacific coast. Col. Ralston. in reply, said the issue would b0 made in quantity and as soon M possible.

At Victoria yesterday Dr. '1‘. A. Briggs chairman of the Courtenay distrlc council on Va. uver Is- land, complained to Col. Balaton of the lack of equipment and told him unless action were taken at onoe the Ranger units would col- lapse.

Island Man Is Graduate

GUIILPH, Ont. July 3-40?)- Graduates from every province in the Dominion, Newfoundland and the Unitcd Btotcs received sparks insignia todn st No. 4 Royal Can- adian Air we Wireless School hon. Included III! the -

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missing.

losses, getting nothing bu the special communique added.

its capture.

communique declared after tcrial. "it pinned d

Mars Makes Maiden Flight

BALTIMORE, July 3.45pm. The United States Navy's "fly- In: battleship." the 7il-lon Mars.

troops, frustrated and the man .

Bruiser, Five

and work by the Glenn L. Mar-

tin Company the silver and LONDON Jul ' , y 3-401’) —- The ‘L? 5E5‘ "a ‘t?’ if” H?“ British light cruiser Hermione. n 5° e W“ a“ four British destroyers and one

of Chess k n , 1.1. l the iii-reptile; 3y " r me h“ only 16 men were aboard for

Polish destroyer were lost in the recent effort to reinforce Malta and British forces in Libya. before

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chem}; rays", foihisolfigf “hi: they were pushed back into Egypt, more. There is room, too, for; the Admiralty announced today. enough gasoline to carry he, (Australian Navy Minister N. J.

0. Makln announced last Monday the loss of the Australian destroy- er Nestor, presumably in this same action. The 1,695-ton craft was one of a flotilla of destroyers turned over by Britain to the Common- wealth and manned by Australian crews.)

The loss of the ships was an- nounced in Commons June 23 by Dominions Secretary Clement . Atilee, but he did not then iden- tify them.

Besides the 5,450-ton Hermione, the destroyers were the British Bedouin, Hasty, Grove, Airedale and the Polish Kujawiak. All were comparatively new and

l0 Europe and back.

time there was none of the trouble which spoiled her at- tempted dcbut sever"! morithg like. Then a propeller broke loose and wrcnclied _ong of the ZAlUIl-horsepowrr engines out of lits naceilc, starting a fire,

t I Enlistments In No. 6 Show I several were completed since the war began.

_____ The Hermione, completed in

“WAX. u] 3_ _ m- 1939, was one of nine cruisers of lisgrients in iliiilary laclgtlict No. the 910° Class and will“ ten 5-25- o (N. s. and P. E. I.) for the week lmh 811115- eiided July 2 showed an average The desllvYer 355W» 134° ‘"15- mm-ease o; 15 a day We, the mm was finished in i939 and the Grove ceding wcck. Figures released to- and Alredfle- wmmlle “lldlscmsedi day showed total applications we“ conlpleled l“ 194°- were 36o, of which 24a, or a daily (Jane's Flfihlllls $111115 6W5 Ml

list the Bedouin, which presum- filfvrféi? o! u’ were accepted ‘or ably was recently completed, and in the

Enustmems 1 Canadian gives no details of the Polish de- an increase, with 14 oral? 3mg? 53mm the“ 1°55“ an “w” their mcdicals, eight-inch cruiser, two destroyers

baltleshlwone of the few Musso- vis: “.‘§..1°°§.“‘§.3"l.'.llimli.°.'§: “up... We. from 150 applicants. In Halifax, fuwghtloglfiglfiplgrfi: 5:319 tiller. plicarits. -

lihilistment figures, with re- biinches follow: I t '

Kentville 30 (i); Truro 15 (6): n

, P. E I. (7)' New Glasgow 1o (a). ' A . . Nazi Sub Sinks (Canadian Press)

SAN JOSE, Costa. Rica, July s- tage after repulsirig Germans in (AID-Afloat, :3 men were “sperm, initial engagement of battle for United Staten freighter by a Oer- and seizing prisoners. man lllbm-lflnv which sneaked inti.

RUSSIA — Russians announce three torpedoes at the vessel.

Officials at the Cost-a Rlcan port. shy Germans lost 150.000 casualties

In last 25 days including 60.000 kill- Caiial said that the 23 men were known to have been in the hold of sly defence held up Nut spring offensive. which was ing when she was attacked.

Most of those aboard the shin fled men for fourth time In n week:

get out. _..___ _ IS FRANCE - De Gnnllc tells -—-— 1 Fro .

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Gllhlfl Rlfillh-NIOII 0! Brooklyn. N. 6081A 31c‘ __ Enemy nb_ He was we you-s old int loptlm- man ln Pncrfo Llnion, zzo miles

womenk “my corps stroyer Kuajwink.) The Sydney depot led the dis, and a submarine were sunk and a inclu rig nine for the C. W. A. C. “"5 bwlmconvol’ 104 were accepted from 121 ap- 3° jectlons in brackets, for the other Yarmouth 13 i3)" Ship In Harbor EGYPT-British press advan- tonight lost in the wrpedning of a Emt. vllvflclnx enemy batteries the Puerto Llmon harbor and fired evacuation of ruined Sovastopol. M) miles northwest of the Panama ed, against 11,385 Russians killed, the vessel, the 3,305-ton San Pablo. unload __i. BRITAIN-R. A. I‘. blasts Bre- sshore but the 28 were unable to about 300 planes used, French by radio war will be settled 5-» d!“ "mm" l‘ m8 ma" m" marine blows up U. S. merchant- ‘ " fmn Panama Canal. ll men lost-

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