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By Max liarrelson Associated Press Staff Writer

elf artiilcrb the Britls t its “heaviest and most

tonight to have ‘shoved forces from strategic, fortified post- tiona on the central front.

Greek dispatches said the Ital-

oonnted in hundreds.

(In New York, Broadcasting System rcported hear- lng an official Greek radio an- nouncement that more than 7,000 Jtallan prisoners were captured since the offensive started.)

Iufantrymcn worked thzer wa up dominant heights, fo.t by foo, under fierce fire front Italian mor- tars, machine-guns and rifles. Mll- ltary circles snid the results were "of exceptional importance."

Call More SRescr-vlsts

(Reports leaching the Yugoslav border town of Bitoll tday from GTTCOC said the Athens government had called up additional reservists from several classes qn l2 hours notice.

(Air corps classes of 1033 1934

and 1935, electrical experts from classes of 1930 thiuugh I937 and other specinlfts from the classes of 1038 were said to have been call- ed to the colors, along with naval reservists and nursing personnel.

(Later advices reaching Bib- olj said that Greeks. after a bnynnct assault this afternoon. gained several vantage points west of the villrge of Malina in the northern sector 0f the front. Here, too, heavy artillery fire preceded the attack.

(These dispatches also said that Italian reinforremmts had arrived

.at Tc~pelcnl and in the coastal sec-

tor of tho frnnt where the Greeks are still fightmg t1 reach ValonaJ

Planes dotted thc Albanian sky g; trrdny" at the height of tho

offensive against Italian positions irrth of Klisure tad a- round Tapeleni,

On the preceding night, the R.A l". reported. British bombers lash- at Italy's air facilities at Tirana. the Albanian capital. and Duraazo, M1 Afifillfc p":'t. Four twin-mginad Italian fire at Tlrona.

Beililfilflmifl Speak on war Savings drive

OTTAWA, Feb. l4—(0P)—Rt. l-lon. Ernest Bevin. British Minis- ter of Labor and National service, will speak on behalf of the war savings campaign in a special broadcast to Canadians at 2 p. m AST Sunday, tiic Canadian pub- lishers win" finance publicity com- mittee announced tonight.

The speech will be heard over a national network of the Canadian Broadcastln- corporation. It will be rcbroa cast over a British Columbia iletwork at 4'15 p.m PST Sunday afternoon.

Lord Beaverbrook. Canadian- born Minister of Aircraft Produc- tion in Britain, will speak to Can-

both Mr. Bevin and Lord Beaver- brook with n 15-minute commen-

ter .

Lin". Bevin, who enmed ltlcl for the first time nine mont l I80 at the age of 65 is generally re- garded in Britain as Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill's "right- hand man a sibls succeuor if the qucstmn o succession drone‘ the war lnance pubiwiiv commi- tee s ld. Sunday's broadcast will be his frst all: addressed directly t0 Canada. "i

N. S. man remanded In murder hearing

NEW omsoow us. liieb. 14.- (OH-Clarence uni. an. of neaxb! mom. was remanded until Feb- m ‘linen: he ti’ 11:13: ‘Notifi- e oi ilfV Olin .

murderlna alter- Mose. 85- 0 New

nmybouv was found in u acute b" .'i"tr.".l":.'i.:&£:l'=.2. ‘ill: one: o w - ln which the coroner-gs iurv re urn-

rdl t in: “loul lay" had (fluff-thing touyllflll’ Mtg-

ATHENS. Rib. 16-—(AP)—A GWEK offensive ushered in by 6B hours preparation and what Riyal Air Force called successful bombing" in Albania was reported Italian

tan dead and wounded, at the end (f the firm. surge yesterday. were

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Turkey serves Notice ready To do battle

Declares Cannot be Disinterested To- wards Any German Invasion of Bulgaria

By ltobert St. John Associated Press Staff Writer

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Feb 14 -(AP)-—'I‘urkey served T101102 through her controlled press today that she stands ready to fight in the Balkan crisis because she can- n;t be disinterested toward azw Gunman lllVRSlOn of Bulgaria.

A British. military mission com- leted an inspection of Turkey's de- ences on the Bulgarian frontici- as

Hitler stepped up the preparations d!’ his Ba kan army of 600.000 men in Rumania.

Obviously inspired, the press dec- larations from Istanbul were inter- preted in Balkan capitals as 'I‘1:r- key's “N;" to Axis efforts to win a

ledge fro-m Ankara to keep still

n the event the Nazis make their expected thrust through Bulgaria to get to Greece and the Mediter- ranean,

Another sign of the mounting un- easiness in southeastern Europe was seen in a run on clothing stcrts— perhaps evidence if a fear of war btiafhitiom-in Sofia, Bulgarian ca-p-

Activity of German troops in Ru- manin-mony of th< m massed along the Danube opposite the Bulgarzan border-was given additional sig- nificance by the fact that the Danube nOW has opened t,» naviga- tion. Althougih- there still were fee floes. unseasonal warmth started traffic a month ahead of schedule.

In Bucharest, Romania's capital. long lines of German military con- voys rumbled through the blacked- cut streets overnight while Nazi and Rumanlan fighter planes pa- trolled the skies.

Supplementing its military pre- parations, the-Turkish government move to conserve the nation's wheat and other grain: by ordering that all surplus st-cks b' listed with local authorities wlthir. time next five days.

Two killed In crash of Training planes

FORT WILLIAM, Deb. l4 -(C- P)- A mid-air collision of two training planes of No. 2 elementary flying school here today resulted in the death of two Rural Cnmdian Air Force men and .erlous injury to ails-titer.

The light aircraft collided about i0 miles west of Fort William dur- ing training flights.

Sgt. F. M. Harris, about 27, of Winnipeg, and Lac. L. J. Griffin, 26, of London, Ont“ died in the crash while Lac. G. L. Brander Northpc-rt, N. 8., was iujurld. Harris was giving flying instruc- tions to Griffin when their mn- chine crashed into Branders plane. Following the collision, the aircraft in which Harri: and Griffin were flying plunged to earth on the farm of Louis Morassutti while the oth- er plane fell on the farm cm Mrs G. R. Green. Just across the road from Morassutths.

The collrission was revealed by Flt. Lt. H. C. Jnhmton. nfflccr coul- manding the all" training ciioal. Lac. Brander was talccn to hos- pital by ambulance nftrr rescuexs had extricatcd him from his ivreck- ed machine which had fnllen near .9. fence on the Green farm.

John ll. Berry Motor vehicle Controller

OTTAWA. 1041b. 14.-((OP)—John H. Berry. technical adviser of motor transport m the Department of Mu.

trailer. Munitions Minister Howe lm- nounced tonight. continue in his

. Berry will Dost as technical adviser to the department.

Mr, Howe said extension of gov- rnment control to the automotive ield i0 ' further step toward complete mobilization f Canadian resources for war nee .

He said the motor vehicle con- troller has "wide powers to control end regulate the enbtre automotive industry. lie could 1 cense any per-

deallna n motor vehl

lecturers and distributors of trell- ers. tires and other motor vehlcYo accessories and parts. and manu- facturers of materials entering into the making of motor vehicles.

Mr. Berry Ls a native of England and was educated at Wallasev. in Cheshire. Upon matriculation. he served his apprenticeship in Liver- pool u a dockyard engineer. Ho served in the Royal Naval AixBer- vice and the Royal Air Force dur- lng the first Great War.

l-Gardlner‘. Min

signs of move

(By Drew lifidlBetc-n, Associated Press Staff Writer)

IONDON. Feb. l4-—(AP)-A be- lief in the possibility of a world- wide conflagratlon involving an ut- ternpted German invasion of Bri- tniu timed with thrusts at Suez and Gibraltar and a Japanese thrust at Singapore increased among diplomatic and military authorities tonight.

Possible invasion of this island remains the no. l, consideration in discussions of a possible plan of grandiose proportions to seize at one swoop three of the world's must strategic posltlons—Gibra1tar, suez and Singapore-while the German army and tar force try to break Britain.

Despite continuous and growing alarms in the Balkans and tension in the Far East, Britons remember well that all surface signs pointed to s Nazi thrust toward southeast- ern Europe Just before Hitler launched his overpowering drive into Norway and through the low- lands and France last April and May.

Significant Signs

_'1‘he gradual tightening of Bri- tish censorship is viewed by foreign observers as me sign that Britons are not allowng the present clam.- m‘ in the Bakans to divert their attention from the rils of an in- vasion of the Britls Isles.

Not since Nazi bombers ham. mered Coventry and submarines ranged the North Atlantic last fall has it been so difficult to assess— for publication-the British Em- pire's position. ,

Other indications that Britain expects to face "trouble" are the army's renewed interest in lnvss-r ion "problems", the swift conver- sion of United States-bruit fighter planes from the packing case to the firing lmr. and repeated warnings from statesmen and soldiers.

The public has been told by Prime Minister‘ Churchill of the has threat. There is a general feel- ing flint the Germans will use gas, but perhaps only against military objectives such as uirdromes and coastal fortifications.

Nari-r Prepare for Offensive

There are manv responsible ob- servers who believe the Nazi air force's comparative inactivity re- cently is duc to preparations for a continuous air battle, which will make all previous ones lonk like play. They compare with the lull to that on the western front be- fore the big German drive last spring.

In the next few days household-

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6 organizations iMake joint financial drive

UITAWA. Feb. 14—(CP1~Auth- loritv has been granted to ab! er- npinlzzations to make a iolnt anneal ‘stat-tint: March 24 f0!‘ fllniifi W ‘curry on their auxiliary services to ‘the Canadian armed forces and normal homo services. Hon. J. G

ter National Wnl" services annuonced tonight.

Mr. Gardiner said he had ap- piui/"l budgets iotallinll $5,178.16?’ for five of the organizations. In addition he was approving inclus- ion ill he campaign of the Im-

erisi Order Daughters of the

which wanted to raise $100,000. A f0l"ml\l i-Q-D-E- cam‘ aign budget would be approved

l clue course.

The budgets approved so far are: Qgngdlgn Legion 3961.100; Klllllhi-S o: Columbus t’! 5.00: Salvation Army. $1.426.l00: Y.YV[.C.A.. $1.741.- 000 Y.W.C. .. 0280.965.

ANOTHER WAR 0N

SUNDERLAND, ‘Enlinnd-(OPL- Twenty-one years ego the Dilfhflm Coimty hamlet of Btanl 0'0“ raised the equivalent of 6 000 t:- words a memorial for its 1"?“ Great War deed. Never used for that purpose. it hes now been Wm- 9d over to a "Spitfire" fund.

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Drives On Rock, Far East, Suez With Invasion?

British consider invasion may be in offing despite surface

in Balkans.

Rome has Jitters over Paraehutists

The British Claim no Knowledge of Any Aerial Troops Being

ROME, Feb. l4 -(AP) -Capture of a group of heavily-owned British parschutists said to have floated down through the moonlight on southern Italy with the intention of dynamlting the regional unfer- works and communicatlont svsta-m was claimed today by the Italian high command.

(In London British military cir-

cles sald they had no knowledge of such a landing) They were claimed to have laud- ed Monday night and early Tues- da morning 1n the provinces of Ca abrla and Lucania — where ".10 Apullam aqueduct. the bigzsest in the world, runs to supply 2.677.000 it- allims with drinking water - but all were captured "before they could cause the seriou" damage which ThPY intended." tho high command claimed.

Haw many of these alleged para- wutists were taken into cuslnrij." W118 not announced _ the , munique merely chiming they were a "nuclei of pllfflclllltisls armed with machine-nuns, hrmd grenades and explosives" - but it \\".s cop.

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Report six sh Of convoy sunk

FUNCHAL. Madeira. Feb. l4.- (CPi-Inforlnulion ‘received here said today that six Sllllls m ,1 British convov steaming north between Mn- deira and the Azores are believed to have been sunk by a German Pflilier. Dcrliabs a pocket battleship.

(There has been no confirmaticn in London cl this report or of a

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Rumania “Under enemy Occupation”

LONDON, Feb. IL-(Cl-‘U-Britaln announced tonight that beginning tomorrow Gelman-dominatcd Ru- manic. would be regarded as "xer- r.t:1‘_v under enemy c-tctlpatcn" and warned tiuders that all gooch of Rtillltllhilll origin or ownership would be liable to sezzure.

A Ministry ti! Economic Warfare statement said the Balkan kingdom, with which Britain severed diplo- matic relationg last Monday, would be regarded as “enemy destination for contraband purposes."

This action followed by a few hours a board if trade ban on tradng with Humania. It was made a punishable. offence "to have com- mercial, finunsial or other inter- c ilrsc or dealings wit-Z: or for the hour-ft of any pcrion in that ter- rltury."

Six members 4.! the Rumamon Legarlon staff here started heme today. leaving brhind Charge (VAflfiiWs Radu Fiorcscu and Press Attache Ion lifagiu- " their governments oz-d 1 turn.

, Rumanfan Mnlstcr Vi"g.l

Millet"! in go home when he was ‘ordcrcd t0 d. Florecu said considered his ‘German control and German dcta- tisn he felt the same way about

so last summer. that since Britain,

Australia Will face Orisis calmly

SYDNEY Australia. Feb14. than Government an-

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liy ROBERT ST. JOHN Associated Press Stuff Writer

BELGRADE. Feb. l4.— AP) -—A source close to Premier Dragisa Cvetkovlc said tonight that Yugo- slavia ivculd accede to Hitler's W181i- es after the rculrn tomorrow of’ her statesmen from a conference with the Fuehrer.

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tivelv favorableterms in order keen out of active wnrfarc. Tueee 1 terms, wine not yet known, are ex- pected to cull for active participa- uun by Yuaosliuin in the Axis new , order“ fol" Europe.

Iniorined sources Yugosiuvs‘ tourney to Germany us‘ lneaniinr that the government 0i Yugoslavia had been driven into a corner us a result of Bulzuriafl bowing to German wishes and Rus- sia's nun-intervention: policy m the Balkans. _

An informant said that the Re- ncilcv Council ill a iew days Wfilld uisctiss the terms urouuht down from Licrlnanv" and then formulate X'11§'o'-l.\\'1n s 2ins\\'cl'._

kcv suncd notice Lnrouan her

cu press ‘today that sire;

rcuuv to flair". 1n tiic Bfllkflll or . ccuusc she cannot be disin- lcrcsicd in anv German mwlswu 0f Bulgaria.

pounced Ldfrlv after a grave Wpf council meeting that the Common- wealth and her people "can and wll face any crl s calmly and with <15- lb. 1L0 purl "

W ._ Aust 2m chiefs of staff and All" Chic!‘ Broekc-Pcphuru. Britain's custom commandcr-in-chicf. war cabinet consiilcrccl a PllClitfll situation. wh . enlv yesterday‘. the’ uovernnicnt ribed as 0f the "ut- l most gravity. 1

ACtilitz Prime Ministvr- A. W. Fad-I don said the war cnhnict rcvielvcdi the Australian cietcncc prcgiaiu 111 till‘ litlilt oi the latest ll1l0l‘l1flli01l.2]‘

a He said the w: ning of yew;

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ull are il.‘~f'tl adv Will‘ i(|i'i. John Curtin. leader of the Labor‘ itiun. expressed agreement witl the government's course. I All the ministers appeared more cheerful when they left the meet- ing. Informed sources said latest advices showed. at least. the 1 situation was no worse. j

over. took it upon himself to issue a statement saying he could see noth- lm.! to lustifv "the alarming news."

Nazi claim earlier This wcck that six

ships were wrecked last Sunday in] a convov off the Portuguese coast.‘ (In an attack on another convoy‘, in mid-Atlantic. the Nazis claimed] Thursday that l4 shins were de-l str0.\'etl. but this also has not been

confirmed in London). . More than 100 survivors have, been landed on Madeira. . Tliev said the raider poured shcls

into the convoy for half an hour.

and then sued sway. The vessels

returned the fire.

After the ruid. undamaged ves-

sels which dispersed picked up the

survivors from ships which went

flown. One of the sunken ships has said to be Greek.

Oharged member 0f group seeking ll. S. overthrow

SAN FRANCISCO. Fieb. L-(AP) ridges was arrested today ce department warru. him with having been a mam an or anizatlon advocat- ing violent overt row of the United States Wvernment.

The est Coast Longsboremcnh leader. an Australian. was cited to appear March 31 for his second dc- pcrtatlon hearing.

Bridges. cleared of Communist connections ln a Labor Department lug-firing! m. if‘)?! was served in the o u o a omey.

He was released 0n $3.000 bond. posted by Louis Pucclnelii.

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Find death of itiiss Rose Smith “Accidental”

(‘oronefs Jury Exon- erates Driver of the Horse-drawn Sleigh From all Blame

A verdict or accidental death wan brought in by a iurv at the inquest into the death smith, held yesterday afternoon at the N. D. MacLean Funeral Home. The hearinu was conducted by Cor- oner Dr. I J

Miss Sn pltal ‘Thursday afternoon as a result of lnlurics received when she was struck by a horse-outwit vehicle on Queen Street about one hour before. Mr. Maurice l-lcnnessey. of Chur- iottetown, was driving the horse There \\‘(‘l‘€ i800 pounds of coal tn the slcich. ,

The evidence of four witnesses was licurd. These wcm: Dr. ‘J. S Lcdwell. Raymond Steele. William Connolly and. Maurice llennesscyz

The text of the verdict is as lol- ilows: “We. the undersigned iurv. find that the death of Misc 110M!

bcinu run over bv a sleigh driven by Maurice ilcnneslscv on Queen Street. February 13. i941. We cx- onerate the driver from all blame in the accident." Bblnedl BYTGII Brown liurcnrun) M. W. Rleardon. William Rlx. llenrv Hardy. ($001119 Berri m. James Brown and Rewin-

Jikins.

Dr. J. S. Ledwell. Charlottetown. the first witness. testified that he had attended Rose Smith at .1110 hospital and nad examined hcr. brie was unconscious nt the time.

Describing ticr tnlurics. he said

.» that she had a transverse abrasion ;

0n the upper part of the abdomen. which extended to the eighth or

ninth rib. It was four inches wide. i

There were also other abrasions on

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