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CHARDOTTETQ . WN. ‘CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 194s snmpmn 0mm“ M

Wt OFF NSIVE

Advanceﬁ Miles In (Jpening Stages

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

PARIS, Feb. 9,—(Friday)-Briiish and Canadian divisions of the 1st Can- adian Army launched s grand-scale offensive yesterday with tremendous artillery and aerial support on the northern end of the Western Front in what may he the final round of the battle for Germany. _ .

Field Marshal Montgomery's troops attacked on a front of more than five miles somewhere southeast of Nijmegen, Holland, and in the first hours scored gains up to two miles.

They fought into the outer defences of the Siegfried Line at the western edge of Germany’s Reich Forest, capturing several hundred prisoners in what was described officially as good progress.

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Farmers "I-‘dl-d To Give Up All Food Grain Even if Cattle Starve.

IDNDON Feb. 8 — (AP) — The Nssi Government commsudcciec all German grain stocks for brcac today as the food crisis increase:- wlthin Germany ind l-ielnrich Himmler -wcs reported to have téaken over the death-stand defence

A drastic dccrce broadcast by the Ministry of turc

peasants to surrender im- mediately all wheat, barley and

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By KIltlKE L. SIMPSON. Amacisted Press War Analyst _

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, llacLeodb official cits- pcds ‘as follows:

M0 hours on lst November mot. Earls Grady ldscllsod h command of an" w“ o; tlcop ssssulttu

in North Bevel

d . wn vlss known to bc hold

' dqierste encrny force, which when ordered to fight to the nan. “This ciflcer, by his bold-deter- tion and daring leadership, ﬂared his small foica and so fdiliscd sll his fire power that the any was completely overwhel- pi and the defencc broken. pinsblng forward with utmost; 1 - sod minstlon, tho mly overran the position fciccd the enemy to surrender. commandant ci the German ‘ .- his staif and l9! other were taken. ' out. MacLeod personally led unult and throughout th isplsyed courage

d - - oi the hhhest order

‘Y of the fumes oi Waicherin." t ut. MacLeod is twenty-three -ci sge and a native of Char- ~ was educated at Hales

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nwcmom Idgliliri and Holland.

A er. Corp. Donald ’Mac- 140d. is serving with the R..C.A.F. I Canada.

(‘M nllantry award to L-ieut. Jllileodwrs one of a group sn_ _.suinccd by Ottawa list night, in- [MGM three lo officer; and seven to men for ucrion m northeast lliwt and in the Mediterranean. an": lied-cod was the only Marl.

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LIEUT. EARLE GRADY MHcLEOD

of Charlottetown who has been awarded the Military Cross. 'mis Picture was taken while he was a csdetﬁht the Royal Military Col. legs. Kingston.

Local Man 0n Executive 10f Surveying Group

OTPAWA, Feb. 8—Mu_i.-Gen. E. I... M. (Tommy) Burns. former commander of the 1st Canadian Corps in Italy and last reported general officer commanding Cana- dian lines of ‘ "on in northwest Europe, today was elect- ed an honorary member oi’ the Canadian Institute of surveying at the closing session of its 38th an- nual mseting. l-lc is a Terrill?!‘ Dre- sldent oi tho Institute. Other officers included: Presi- dent, R. D. Davidson, Cttawaﬂlrst vice-president. C.C. Lindsay, Mont- real: second vice-president. A. O. Ottawa; secretary-tress- er, W. L. Mcllquham, Ottawa; ovlnclal representatives, J. l-l. Ramsay. Fredericton; R..J. Mligate, Halifax; l-IE. Miller. Charlotte-

~ Marcel Ste. MarieJ-lulLQue. WJ. Fulton oi the Ontario Highways Department said the Province now had 72,000 miles of roads, 103500 miles of which were King's Highways. Only highways "door-to-door" facilities. Mr. Fulton said. and it had been predicted that after the war the average family would choose a csr over a light aircraft. AK. Hay oi the Suburban Roads Commission, Ottawa, said the uve- rage Ontario municipality had hundreds of miles of roads not really needed, and that “great sunu of public money" could be saved in future if uhriecescafl’ mileage were curtailed. The flow of traffic, either ent or potential. was the only real reason for hi hwoy improvements H. E. Beres ord of Wlnnlpeﬂ. re- tiring president, said curve ors must broaden their field of en es- vor. They can no longer siford Ti: attract men to the profession it was necessary to offer them s full time career.

llusbcc Plans 0wn Family Allowances

QUEIU, Fob. l — (OP) — A bill entitled “Family Allowance

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iutcrnationalf At l A Glance

(By The Canadian Press) WESTERN PHONE-lat Classl- Ian Army hunches grand-coals offensive southeast of Nlimcgen, Ii “ ' gains two miles In first troops batter Blesﬂrled wall

honrlt‘ American three breaches in inside Germany.

EASTERN FRONT r- itussians drive new spearhead within 38 miles of Stettin: Germans report other Russians expand six bridge- hesds across Oder 30 fo 48 miles from Berlin.

‘AERIAL-Allies maintain wide- spread attacks on Germans wl series oi strikes into Dcnmsrls Holland. ,Austris and Germany.

lTALY-Three-dl! attacks by Americans oi’ 5th Army halted by ‘ ‘ soutih oi Bologna.

PACIFIC-Americans in Manila cross Pasig River in smphlhiorsl vehicles to root out Japanese who

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......... ..:..::...;' ::':..::':.":.::."s"::::'.' w m‘ in the west and Russian to -flight commanders in the cast know he ""3 "M" 1° “P”! ﬂI-Wcrstivc action. The site and sin of pllzno: offensive by dither slds are important; but joint timing is su on; mo" vital clement of concerted inulti-frcnt bsttlc planning.

l Th" W" ﬂlllhllllﬂll l! the "Bil Three" announcement st the con- caslon of the Tehran conicrcncn. Military decisions taken then have to her present desperate pups, ‘final victory blows is no less Important,

Plans Under Way For Erection Of "City Hospital Wing

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interchange oi military informs.

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The timing oi the

Incident to the current agitation for incrc_aso_d and more adequate

the Co... City Hospital. with s record or good service to this provincg for over sixty-five years, announced s. few months ago the purchase of the Ines Dropcﬁtgl, formerly the n

rye for bread production, even if t eir livestock should starve as a result.

"A transportaticg;

grave food and crisis has forced the Minister Mire to issue this

Food and decree." ‘the special announ- ap-

coment on the German radio.

The bin-scrziplng measure patently was forced by loss of vast eastern agricultural territories and

demands for cedln hundreds

arm . that Gestapo Cbiof taken command in the Moscow radio acknowledged that were pouring across ‘and fighting in o! the Capital's de-

ian The report as the the o

“violently shaking oi that point.

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Navy League bu s. to be used for» g .ﬂu;;”i.4§°m.____.... . ......--~»---

This will provide fairly adequate accommodation for the grestnum- be!’ o! student nurses now train- IHB- 'I‘he hospital accommodation 1'" Patients. especially private and mill-Private rooms. is quite inade- quate to meet the ever increasing demand. '

The board oi management of the Cit-y Hospital announces that plans "e underway for the erection of s wing or addition to the present

ﬂowing need. At a recent meet- lns oi the board. Plans were con- the intention of the board to build just as soon ss riorltles can be arranged. it is ioped that this expansion will re- lieve the present congestion and be of great service to the people oi this province.

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i Brazil's first school oi chemical

had wrecked bridges and kindled fires.

(By n. Associated rim)

PARIS, Fob. d-French Foreign Office quarters expressed astonish- ment and disappointment today iiiut the Big Three were deliberating Germany's fate without consulting France.

A spokesman from the Qual D'- Orsay declared that France de- manded "a predominant role" ln the occupation oi Germany. Oﬂiclais said they were "aston- ished" by yesterday's communique from the Black Sea. conference of .- esidcm Roosevelt. Prime Minis- ter Churchill and Premier Stalin.

the communiques disclosurg that discussions on settling the Ger- nun question had opened without French representation. The For- el Office did not cvcn receive a vance notice that the conference wsla taking plccc. the spokesman

sa . m termed hypothetical s ques- tion ss to whether France would send s delegation ii she received s last-minute invitation. The official said the Foreign hsd no iuiormstlon on s repo projected meeting of Bri- tlsinAmei-icsn, Russian and Ircnch Foreign Ministers and ssid: “w. should have time to stud the decisions taken by m: chi s of m. three governments.

French Astonislhed Not Invited To Conference

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Attacked Through “Valley 0f lisll"

LONDON, Feb. 0—ll‘rlday — Troops of the lat Csnsd n Army piuhed of! in their big oﬂensivs yesterday ﬂirc h s "valley c! hell" in which sus- Is. German vs clcs and svsn tress were sflsms [r3 boars or srtillcry bombardmsnt. an Bye-witness dispatch from a British correspondent gig h.

slay. "l counted $00 firas and than gave up." ssld the writQ. "If

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Russians l3 llllcs Frosi iiccnlgsiisrg

LONDON, Ibb. l - (OP) -ROd carious ham clotund the

hospital sufficient to meet this|

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northeast wind, s driv ng snowstorm hit New Eng- land today creatln the worst con- ditions of the win er.

‘rrsfflc in southern New England. just approaching normal after a rough session with heavy snow and freezing weather, bore the brunt of the storm. ,

B. 0. Offering Veterans Frec limits 0f Land

VICTORIA, Feb. 8 — (GP) - Britlsh Columbia veterans will able to set land grants alter one war free of all debt with a grant oi $2,320 to develop them under a plan worked out by l-ion. ET. Ken, ney, inisier of Lands. on his re- cent visit to Ottawa in connection with veterans‘ land grams.

This will be an optional plan in the general scheme by which vet ersns must put up l0 per cent of the cost of lands and buildings and then like 10m up to 86,000 fo

method, at the end of 10 yea-rs. u? to H.320 of the indebtedness will be virritten off by Ottawa if sslisfad ton’ work hrs been done

By the British Columbia plan. a veteran can gee his 82,320 interest- frec to work on st hho start imd the Government ls offering hfm~hls land as an m-rright gift - up to 160 acres. The mcnev must be spent under supervision of the Federal Government's Land Boards.

Paint Factory Firs in Montreal

IONTRJIAL. Feb. 8 — (OP) —— Plinsnen werg 0n lhe scene for close to five hours tonight before Olﬂnﬂilldhillg a fire which broke out in a ohm-sway mint factory on DelomicrYAvenue in the csst_ and cf the city. Cause of the blcae was not immediafew known rxkmtknsted of damage was

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ched its offensive yesterday

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By THOMAS HAWKINS

BERN, Feb. 8 - (AP) — One Nazi leader among them all has kept his head through the crisis oi the Russian offensive and re- mains the major factor and ins- piration that keeps Germany's strength from founderlng. lie is Paul Joseph Goebbels. limplilng, genius cf propaganda. l-fig y educated, a shrewd judge of facts as such, while at the same time a most adept painter of iacts as they arc not, Goebbels has kept his heed slthougii ha ro- alisticaily expects to lose it phy- sically in the not too dist-mt future l-le is, he told friends, doing everything hi his power to see Ber- lin defended and to keep up the propaganda for fighting as long as he can. He soy-s he will not try to escape. People who know him believe that, and say further that he is the only Nazi whose acts and words can still arouse the fighting spirit among the Ger-

ans. Hitler, so it is told, does not even now accept the possibility of de- fest. l-le was reported clinging to his Berchtecgaden tower where he expects to stay while loyal Nazi troopers surround him in reduit notional-e reduit (an isolated deience int) that to the fana- tical Hit er is only a preliminary “ era of “slog hell"

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SCENE OF NEW OFFENSIVE

‘Ihh is a map oi tho Western Front where the Canadian 1st Army laun-

. Nijmegen can be seen just in-

iiazi Ball-Bearing Plant Capt... .d

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U-Boats Also Fall To Red Army.

plcte parts for 25 U-bosts. Other plants, apparently locate

Red SE01‘ said.

Warm Weather Brings Ficoii Threats To U. S.

be side the Netherlands border and it was southeast of that centre that the drive was launched. Note Kleve. German centre which was bombed heavily yesterday prior to the infantry jump-off. Goch, another centre also bombed is not marked on this map.

Credit Goebbels With

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MOSCOW, Feb. a - (cs1 - sl dispatch to the arnw newspaper Red Star from liberated Poland said today that the Red Army had captured a plant making hall bear- ings for German submarines based at Bremen and had seized com-

in Poznan and Lodz, were produc- ing ball bearing-s for Tiger tanks,

' been light.

The offensive broke at an hour when tlie Germans were filling the air with broadcasts of an im- pending blg blow from the wesi.

It was synchronized by hsaw blows from the us. 1st and Iiitl Armies, which were attacking along n ‘iii-mile front to mu south inside Germany and had battered three breaches in tlie Westwall.

'."lie Reichivald or Reich Forcsl screens on the west the enemy for- tress oi Kleve, which ls the norm- crn terminal of the Westwall just south of the Rhine.

Began Thursday morning

(CBS Correspondent Richard C. Hotteiet. broadcasting from Paris, said the attack elarted Thursday morning after an 11-hour artil- ler_, barrage and was supported by alnavst 2,000 medium and iigii- ter bombers.

(Hottelets report, distributed bv CBS in New York said enemy rc- acticn durln the early hours had. ut that German rc- inforcements had been seen mov- ing toward the front. ‘He said the attack was made over muddy ground.)

Jhupderous. artillery bar-

‘ "Tin." last ng 11 hours preceded

and supported the new assault and more than 1.500 Allied planes ripped into German po- sitions, some oi them within 1.000 yards of the attacking troops. throughout tlie day. Resistance in the ﬁrst stages u! the attack was described as small that the enemy wuss

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i METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE, ' Toronto, Feb. b-(CP) -—i\iinimum and maximum temperatures:

Montreal l1. l-i; Quebec 4, 1i; Saint. John 4, -; Moncton 4b. 17; Halifax ll, 26; Charlottetown 6,19.

FORECASTS

Lower Si. Lawrence: n‘ winds, cloudy and cold. light or moderate and probably some drift- ing south of the Si. Iawrencc.

Lake John-Partly cloudy with moderating temperature.

Gulf and Bay Chaleur-Stronl winds, cloudv and cold. followed by some snow.

North Shore-Fair and cold fol- lowed by light snow at night or on Saturday. _

Maritime Provinoes-Strongwinils and gales with snow.

High tide this morning at 0.3 and tonl ht at 8.13.

Bun se this evening at 6.18 and rises tomorrow moming at 8.14.

New moon February 12th, 1.38

P. . Summer-side tide eighteen minu- tes later than Charlottetown.

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hesrted Himmler is something . rted to have been at Berctesgaden recentl for talks with Hitler, .but prlmarly to oversee the rest new "preparations '.- m he Bava an A an effective fortress. He is the rains and extsiutivc force behind _these

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CHICAGO, Feb. ll-Thawing weather moving across the north- ern hali of the United States from the west toward the snow buried east increased the possibility of eastern floods tonight, particularly in Pennsylvania.

Chicago forecasters said the warmth was unlikely to reach Pennsylvania and other northeast- ern states before Saturday.

Pen lvania and Federal auth- orities. owever. lisd virtually that entire state alerted against the menace of the combination of ice he used to love to lay. jams. rising temperatures, deep

Rumors say that ‘he is seeking snow and prospect of rain. l Ill-W

himself of ation which receded the disast-

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Charlottetown - Summerside- Moncton , . Leaves C:II'IO“CIOIII 7.45 A.M., A -. .

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SUNDAY SERVICE

Lesvs Charlottetown 1.10. 4 EM. Arrive Charlottetown 5J0 8.15 EM

CIIABLOTTETOWN- NEW GLASGOW (Daily Except Sunday)

Leave Charlottetown 1H5. 5.45 Arrivs l“ lotietown 23L 5.20

Allicd Plancs m; licsih Harbor At ilcpciihsgcn

oering. as who have seen is the unha est of the lot. his New car's eve dinner with about il0 guests, but even be- fore the Russian offensive he lack- sd the cheenful mien of the

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