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Newly Commissioned Destroyer

ll. I. C. Q. Cliaudfere. newly-commissioned liver- claas destroyer of the Royal Canlldign Navy,

former Fleet Class destroyer B. M.

been refitted from stem to stern and specially equip- warfare in the

ped for anti-sebum

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Navy. and now other harbinger

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lantic before being transferred to the Royal Canadian

comes to the North Atlantic as an- of Victory for the United Nations

in the long battle against the U-bolis.

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QUEBEC, Jan. ll — (UP)- Officlala of IIVII University announced here tonight that the honora y degree of doctor of letters will be conferred on Rev. Raymond .V. Mae- Kenrie. Rector of St. Houston's University. Charlottetown-

No date for the ceremony was made public.

G0 T0 WAR WORK LONDON ---~'CP)— Because of

the national manpower shortage. the ministry oi supply is reducing its stall by l0 on. easing at

lest several i-iioussnel csrks, in- spectors and other such. workers for essential war work.

coliiilgsvrilrs

"Reserve Tuesday. February 8th Rtd Cross Recital. 1-13-20-2l-3i.

"Buying good second hand bags

daily. Highest prices. Dillon s; imz

Billion. 1-11-41.

‘fllast Royalty Rink tonigl t. Chicks, vs. Dunstaffnccfl. Le ‘e B31110. 1- -ll

"Reserve Thursday.

Feb will. Z1031 Glllld VlPlfi/Y U0 - 30-22-24 I "ED016118 orders for oar of Pur-'

ills Milk Chow to arrive soon. W. l. Bowman. 140-311

“L ‘fin “i ‘fuesdlixy agidhogiritaigy iludsiililiy._ it. N. Dawson. Ctopulld. 1-9-21.‘

"Horse racing New Glasgow River Thursday afternoon. Jan. 1° ~ i-oo-li

“Loading hogs for Davis and Fraser at Colville, Friday. Jan 2i W 1 DJn. Leslie MacDowell. a

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"Annual raga-iii} P. n. l’. Jersey Club. Wednesday. January 26th. l P. M. at Dept. of Agrictiltgeés

"Caught. one slivcr fox, mark- ed. li not claimed in six days will be sold. Leland Campbell. Sea.

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"Booking orders for ca;- of re- etesncd oat; to arrive early in February. Also buying used bags ilsiiv. W._!. Bowman. 1-11-01.

"Wanted to buy live and dressed diickcns and fowl. Paying to; "Wk" prices. island Co. Ltd.

wW-‘nioading ca: No. l Feed Oats_ mllilirwaifimaodih a ' ti” - b. o ioti at Bpillett. rhino-ll. “Annual Meeti of Cr ud District. seal-let on“ ter at - “simian 30th. and in- "41 ion o officers. 1-19-2. “N- ""%" -~,...l°“°'~. m" marinas’. d-itffldly 20th tin l dclock. Fri- u" "at at K n unul 2 PM. - 0. Green. 2m 1-20-41

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Lucky Hits Caused Huge Destruction In Bari Raid

Censorship Passes First Eyewitness Story Of One_ Of Greatest Marine Disasters Since Halifax Explosion.

moron." Senior Padre Of Last War

QUEBEC. Jan. 19—tCP)—Arch- deacon Frederick George Scott. grand old Padre-soldier of The First Great War. died in hospital toda after three weeks of grim but opcless battle against a lmig congestion. He would have been 83 next April

Archdeacon Scott-Jletter known and loved by thousands of members of the Canadian Corps as n Scott. for his work in the field dur-

iota-is - entered hospital Christmas Eve with an lick of influenza. Several days later the lung congestion developed. _

More than ll week ugo it was known tit-at his tight; against the condition was hopeless. but it uias never part cf the creed of Canon Scott to give up and he fought

_ back as best no oould until the end. h his

He died as he llBKl llved—wit_ main concern the future oi Can- ada, of the British commonwealth of nations, and of the world. Lat)-

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sing i to unconsciousness two trial-his ago. he rallied yesterday" sufficienty to recognize those fl-

round 111m and to enquire as to the ‘wetness of the war.

Military Funeral

His funeral services will bc con- ducted as he would wish them to

The Quebec st-rviccs will from St. Mathews Anglican Church where {i9 two serigedegéselgii-lfgac all‘?

mar. - - rm“ °' ' it". 1914-18. until his rctiremeiit in 1933.

Interment will in; in Mount Roy- al Comets . Overlooking the c-iy of Monti-ea. following a short ser- vicc in Clirisit Church Cathedral in Montr s1 arranged at his own -

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Erranco Warned Concerning Spanish Troops In Russia

By ROGER. GREENE

LONDON. Jan. l9 -— (AP) —1n blunt terms, Foreign Secretary Eden warned Generalisslmo Franco today of "the most serious effect which the presence of Spanish troops fighting alongside the Ger- mans on the Russian front ‘must have on Anglo-Spanish relations now and in the future."

The warning. voiced in the House of Commons in the pres- ence of Prime Minister Churchill. was couched in such strong tenm as to sug est that Eden. While elde-stepp g an o n ruPillfri y“ leaving no dou that B" lain’.- patience Wis "will"! 0i" over ‘the thinly-difllillml 59mm‘ aid to Oermanv _

Another issue which may P"- aant difficulties for Madrid and london was laid before the Rouge when lliden disclosed that t t Government had renewed stronl recommendations subwfilnl a“ Italian Government, request or Lelease of All Italian snipe in BM“-

h ports y Up Warning Landon afternoon newspapers ‘a’; psgq-romelItraei-‘ygsdmillitihyivstlgliyil. mi: ' warning. The Star said

Allan Nicklcson, who was the Cattadian Press representative on an All‘ Ministry tom" of the Mod- lierraueatt war theatre tells in the

following story of the night at Bari

when the German air force struck

chipping in that, east coast Italian harbour with devastating effect on the night of Dec. 2.

Incidentally Nickleson, who was instrumental in swaying British censorship authorities in releasing the story which had been kept un- til now to o. cut and dried official

statement. walked through the bomb and flare lighted night to view the dockyard. .

By Allan Nicki

LONDON, Jan. l9 -- tCP Cable) —One of the greatest tnarino dis- asters since the Halifax explos-

ion in l9i7-—the sinking of 1'7 Ail- ied ships in the Adriatic port of Bari - came about through a

couple of “iucky hits" by German aircraft. who until a subsequent Allied announcement had no idea of the damage they had caused.‘ The enemy originally claimed only three Allied ships as sunk.

This Ls an eye witness account of that. so minute raid on the night of Dec. 2 when two ammunition ships struck by Nazi bombs explo- ded in gigantic sheets, of ilalne and resulted in the sinking of 17 ships | in the harbour on the east coast of I Italy, About 30 enemy planes took

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i There were more than 1.000 cas-

ualties as a result of the raid, | many oi them fatal. Windows and i doors were blown out for miles ar- l ound and many small buildings in the immediatg vicinity were wreck-

ed. ' Mast of the ships, with cargoes

destined for this British Bth Anny.

were destroyed by two separate

blasts that followed tllie Zting of s

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| editorially:-

. At last we are beginning to get to grips with the Dictator PIIHOO. Jrhs crisis in Anglo-Spanish af- I fairs arises out of the farce of the so-cslled ‘withdrawal’ of the Span- iish Bllue ‘Division ‘from the Ruiz-i san ron . 1 oscowk prsc o- informa ‘ of Spanish troops still l fighting on the Leningrad front [effectively exposed Franco's du- i plicity o‘ . "This barefaced breech oi nau- trailty has to stop. llther Franco asserts his authority . . or else the British and American Gov- ernments mint take really effec-

tive steps against him."

This was the aeeond incident of Anglo-Spanish tension brought into the open within five days. On Jan. 14 London asked the Mad- rid Government to investigate the placing of time-bombs in cargoes of’ oranges shipped from Spa to

Britain.

The Foreign Secretary made his statement in reply to a question by John Loves-seed, Common Wealth Part-v member, aa to what Wis being dons about this strain on Anglo-Spanish relations. which. he said. have been increased by the explosion oi time bombs in orange cargoes.

Reds Fish Ahead In Two Drives

LONDON. Jan. 18--(APi —-In an all out offensive to free rad’ completely from 2% years oi e, the red army smashed 1Q miles for-

eqiualhi s perusal-lent. efestoes ling-trig the tys suburbs

A second drive, closely co-or- dinatod with the first, ripped mil tegic

raili- woivs in men area T5 to 100 leningrad in :1 broad ouitfian movement.

Reporting that the Leningrad thrust had captured the fortresses of Krasnoye Selo and R/opsha and in five days had killed 20.000 Ger- mans, the let communique dwelt at length on the German fortifications. ~

News Briefs

NEIAVI.VLIE(PUII\I{I;I‘ADQ:J.AR'I§JRS. ‘ '~‘ , .an. — gfuesday) 7M2‘) - ‘fillies! flag; nese merc- ran mcn ave e iunklat Rabuui, blew‘! Britain, illlfifl Drncs. tn quit: t aEmollnced toilny. a Two other mcrclrantmsn were left sinking and three were damaged ln the attack.

A U.S. 15TH AIR. FORCE SUJATLON 1N ITALY. Jan. 19- iQ-(AEU-Unlted. States bombers have out all the railways carrying“ the bulk of supplies into Rome from tine north, illl‘ fcrcc experts said today after cxalnininz re-

ccnnoissamce pnowgruphs of the area. orraws, Lian. 1o - (or)

—Navy Minister lllacdonald an- nounced timlght the corn- rnlsslonmg ui’ H.i\i.C.§.

at Portsmouth. Eng, and sflld the ship would golntomservice

with Canada's river class Grey- hounds n Atlantic convoy routes. x

Donates $10,000

For Nurses’ Home

DIGBY. N.S., Jan. i9 -— tCP)— The latest philanthropy of Harry F. McLean-Mobil!) for the construc- tion of o. nurses home in Dill)?- came to light here today. ,

The millionaire contractor from Merrickvilie. Ont. who has a orc- pensity for giving away cash spec- tacularly. nindc this gift quietly. apparently on s visit here last weekend. The construction firm he heads has done much of the work on the huge naval training base at nearby Deep Brook

The residence to be built with his gift will be for the nurse; of

l9 the war

' wamlng the Finns recently that their time is short for seeking escape

Ivinciai president for sortie time.

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B-‘l Klrke L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst I

A MW Russian ohmi- t-hmtenior to encircle all Nnl troop. in tile v°"‘3“" luv" 5'11" 591°" lfilllllllld to Lake ilmen is developing rapidly, oupled with the co-ordinated ltusainn fensiva already at a point

west of Novossokolniki on the Lovat front, 200 miles southward, the new gusfian attack in the north is obviously rocking the whole German Bol- wtlarltilhlt could force an immediate Nazi retreat, abandoning n" norm, 0f major significance la the Buaalan capture of K snoye Selo p, key a“ “d "u Jmwu"! Mint in the Leningrad communication network. oscow said it was taken in five days despite the fact the German; held it slncc they drew their selge ring about Leningrad in the up], d," n;

The Moscow report that the red army captured heavy German guns, TmW-"ly "801! l0 bombard L ’, lndlcltes the Ila-titre of the fortific- ations through which the Krasnoye Selo break through w‘; achieved

Just where the southern breakthrough mane and how fnr it had been driven is still undisclosed. The Russians appear to be already west of the Kercst tributary of the Volkhov, approximately paralleling the larger river l0 miles to the west. lf that ls the extent of the Russian penetra- tion, it. offers a deadly threat to one link of the Leningrad-Odessa rail- way, and cven to the Pskov-Leningrad railroivd beyond.

As far as the battle on the Baltic flank in Russia has yet developed it appears to be a full-scale major Russian offensive long planned and timed to offset the obstacles that go with the unseasonsbls rainy weather in the north and central Ukraine which is helping delay completion of the Russian effort there-

Thc first swift successes of the Russian onslaught tend to confirm the impression that Ned reserves on all fronts in Russia, 11mg he,“ chm. ned out to meet the succeeding crises in the centre and south, in Italy and in the Balkans.

Among other immediate results of the opening of the Baltic flank campaign must be its effect on Finland. The Moscow press has been

from their dubious war pa. net-ship with Hitler,

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In Fin g EConcert

Eormer" Oh’town Man Passes

A magnificent rendition of the complete vocal score of Gilbert and Suliivanb light opera ‘The Gondoliers", given by the RAF. Male Chorus and tho Charlotte- town Girls, was heard with great appreciation by an audience which fillQ Prince of Wales College hail Patrick Constantine Hughes, as,‘ to capacity last night. wn sydnoy musician and The occasion marked the fare- native cf Charlottetown, died well appearance of the talented his home here last night. after ii R.A.F. Male Chorus in this Pro- 1°"B 11111955. vince. a fact which was noted with

lvir. Hughes oame to Sydney in regret by Mayo;- 3_ my Hommm $700. Helwas a ntemiber oi the Ike?‘- who spoke in commendation of me (m-‘Iggmh whireagf, h o_ all con " in the production;

° e ° mu“ v W A warm tribute to the cast was also paid by Group. Capt. H. N. Hampton, D.l='.C., officer command- ing the R.A.F', Station. by whose kind permission the Air Force personnel appeared l-Ie express- ed the hope that this would be tho forerunner of many other fine concerts in Charlottetown.

Given of necessity without the aid of secenery, costumes or full orchestras. the M/rformance wall a triumph in sustained and bril- iiant interpretation of the liltinl