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Movement of German Troops Into Holland and Belgium is Reported: Invasion May Be .T Imminent.

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' IDNDON. Ml! 18 CPi-Jllll ioveniment has ealed for a lay of prayer next Sunday in thanksgiving for the Allied vie- ftery in North Africa.

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, _._. ._ CAIRO, May 1S —(AP)— A fall-dress conference of tihe Pow- Ifll allied middle east council rlllllliiill’! and civil "leaders "masconcluded today with an- souicement that agreement was reached "on the shape and also 1i the problems under discuss- ion and reoommendalons for

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in: ls Inpatient ler Coal Situation

WASHINGTON. Mav I3—(AP)— llha new soft coal crisis ap- ‘ 1H8 fuels administrator

~ id Icites today lndicatcd im- l liencc with the war labor ' Progress on tho wa e dis- ily saying it was up to t egov-

-~ ent to take some step. Jokes also bcgan a personal in- "ration oi prices in coirvpany- ed stores in mining commun- -- although the off ce oi price ministration previously had be-

‘ In inquiry, Wfltress onal leaders said there i- ared to be no chance that ie - lion restricting strikes woud enact/ed before expiration next _‘ dill’ midnight oi the 15-day under wh ch coal is currently ll mined.

. M... -~ COLORFUL CEREMONY

‘film JOHN, n. a. May 1a cc in a colorful ceremony cn the ‘ i- John waterfront this alter- ." Trade Minister MacKlnnon a bushel of golden Can- _ wlicai. into the hold oi a r‘ chip as "a token of tile H uance of the relief which v --il‘.t.'.‘.'i.“i’°° r "our" - e rspresen e Mth scnt- to Greece by the ‘ Government.

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Unrest Spreads

Berlin As

By JAMES LONG Aloolated Press Staff Writer IDNDON. May 13 — Al? — ing in Berlin among anxious re t- lves oi German soldiers killed. wounded or captured in the cluded Tunisian fifliitina an sp ‘ing violence in the Nether- mnds and ' against occupa- tion forces were roborteol today.

The attacks on military eat- abliahments in the low countries and the reported movement of German troops into Bellll-IIII and Holland were takenaeslgna that an Allied invasion oi i110 continent may be imminent.

The Netherlands News Agency Aneta reported that radio Orange. the Dutch station in London, had warned Hollands Population _ - night that the Germans are trying to provoke a premature revolt.

The broadcast charged that the Germans are distributing forged calls to rebellion to provoke ht Dutch people to vlo ence. The warning followed by a day the urging in; the Netherlands, govern- ment. in London to Hollands 400.000 former servicemen to defy German orders to register for reintemment. The broadcast Wedneseq warned the service men that the rmarll intended to make them "labor slaves."

The announcer tonight repeated that Dutch servicemen were entitled to “defend themselves" against the German orders but, he stressed- "these warnings are not a.’

a, general armed uprising.

The report of riots in Berlin was carried in a Reuters News Agency dispatch from Stockholm which Was based on an account publish“! l" the Ootcborg (Sweden) Handel- ltgngiagicelnthousands oi women and old men gathered outside the 1n- formation office of the German Army in Berlin yesterday ill B1101“ to lam“ thfitfiiste ofrptsheir men in the a n rca 00 -

The correspondent of the Gote- borg paper was quoted’ a5 Salli"! their mquests were turned away brusquelv with the advice that they would be given the information at

rt time. l ‘Igligile. rvEDu-Illlgt said the crowd began rioting and 3.8. Elite Gilli"! troops were called. Thev were Said tothave tblgkeiilnugo the riot with‘ ou resor 8 -

The Reuters dispatch said 51ml!‘ ar inciccnts were reported {Film s of Germany. mom the low countries to_thc Balkans risini Dali“?! bands ""9" r-eporwd concentrating and increas- ing attacks on vital rail artcries for Axis troops and 811091195 011 l‘ scale stronllly suggesting that the underground war now emergiili! l5 guided by central orders w v clear the wav from within for in-

vasion of Europe.

The newest attacks. forcing the Nazis (0 arm 3nd guard almost all trains, were reported sllfefldlilli i" Belgium from Holland. whorelotwot weeks oi martial law and at ~85 t3 executions have failed to YEW)" order.

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41.1.1511) HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. May l8 -—<A1;>—,v Ono Axis explanation of its do =8 in Airic is that it really was R - l'to . -

“rfiahbgoxaccisi: iiribm Rome olckiid up here said tho Axis, "with a. ccm- parativeiy small force" had tied W an enormous ai led army in Am" and inflicted terrific losm on it while buildlntg up the defer"! °l "m °°"..§‘§.le. said the muons. ggpgglglly had fought magnificently m the very end. oil/en Out-numb" ed 30 to 1.

Boveriiige To Visit Canada

18 -— (C?) m n0 l'l economist who r Md tho . urlgiplan wb h bears his name. ‘in... isms- "'°"".i"fisli" ve all: letters from bdoGIil” Universlt. .

vocation of llcGili University

s". County Contest

i: definite order for

County Loan Standing

QUEEN'S

QUOTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,25 00o

Percentage of quota . . . . . . . . . 893,800

QUOTA . . . . . . . . ,. .‘ 900.000

Percentage of quota

KING’ _ QUOTA . . . . . . . . .. . Percentage oi‘ quota .

Reaches Climax In iiiotory Loan

Progress has been made all along the line .in the county contest which is the major feature oi the fourth victory loan. The situation has de- veloped into a. race to determine which oi the counties will have the highest percentage over the origin- al objcctivc. which has been frankly thrown into the discard by the committeemen and bond sale

all over the Province.

The splendid lead which Prince County enjoyed. through the mag- nificent leadersiii given “in "the town of Summers de, is bein slow- ly but surely cut down by ueens. with King's striving heroically to take up the slack and finish up front as they did on a previous oc- casion.

In any event. there is a real con- tcst on from North Cape to East Point and the ultimate victor will go to the teams who pars st in their efforts until the last dime and dollar has been wrested from its place of repose and put in line with the millions collected from coast to coast, to bring all the necessities of wm- to the hands of our fighting forces. This is no time to “think it over" -Frida_v and Saturday are days for "action". D0 your part today. be loyal, be vigorous and above all be proud of your representatives on the bottle lines cf the world. Buv victory bonds~Support our heroic men.

$77,950 ls Added To island Total

Another $77,950 were added to the fourth victory loan drive in this Province yesterday to bring the grand total to 02.585.550-

At the same time the Prince County area, outside Summerslde, exceeded its minimum objective of $450,000 by more than $10,000.

In Queen's County. the area out- side Charlottetown was still short of it; (‘quota as was the King's Coun- t s r c .

yThc drive continues in full swln! however, with the ODJCCUVG of put- ting the Prlioylncc as far as possible

t its mnmum quota. ‘may districts the totals tonight

were: , Charlottetown. $922,600: Q1198"! Count outside Charlottetown I379: - ummcrs“ $583 450'. Prince County. outside Sum erside $400,- 350; and King's Colmty $290,150.

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Order Re Mixed Cars Table Stock, Seed Potatoes

Prince Edward dealers are no longer permitted to include seed potatoes the same car with table stock or other mixed cars, accordin to a wire received yesterday by . H. Barbour, ccs and supply representative o the Wartime Prices and ‘Prado or . However. ii there is a definite order for seed from the buyer there is e. lbility the ban will be lifted on this’? particular shipment rovi - ed permission is received ugh Mr. Barbour from the Foods Admin- istration in Montreal.

The tele am read as follows: "Effective mediately shippers no longer permitted to include seed potatoes in sama car with table stock or other mixed cars unless received from buyer in which,caee rrnis- sion must first be received t h you from this office. Advise sh p- rs immed telv" It was signed

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of the Tunisian surrender.

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By Glenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst

l Rome and Berlin are trying ‘ antically to salvage some propaganda value from the debacle of North Africa in the obvious hope of stiffening popular morale for the anticipated Allied assault of the continent. Just as Goebbels launched a. propaganda, wave of gloom after Stalingrad, to put a little more iron in the German soul’ for that drastic zncbiiisstbn measures of the winter, so the Axis radios now are trying to make capital

The Italians seem to have saved a few more letters of pride than their Allies. Their high command boasts that it was the Italian lst army which had “the honor of the last Axis resistance on Tunisian soil.”

exchanged by German and Italian leaders this seems a rather pointed reference to the fact that the Italians continued fighting alter Von Arnim and the flower of Hitler’; Africa corps had quit. Italians apparently are expected to take a, sombre pride in the fact that their soldiers fought the final rcarguard action in Tun- isia. just as they had on so many lost battlefields across the extent of Af-

Otherwise Rome followed the German Stalingrad pattern even to the ‘ion of General Messe to Field Marshal's rank, just as Von Paulus was elevated when he and his command yielded to the Red

Naturally I1 Duce's regime is worried about the state oi Italian morale and must be expected to resort to every possible vent its collapse. If ever a nation laced a dark and foreboding prospect it is Fascist Italy. Her plight now is far worse than that of Britain after Dunkerque, and she has no Winston Churchill to turn the acceptance of disaster into steely resolve to fight to the end. Although the British forces

to pre-

Bullion

LONDON, May l4- (Friday) —R. A. F. Bombers were over Germany last night for the sec- ond successive night, it was an- nounced today.

STOCKIIOLM, May 14 (Fri- da_v_ (CM-Telephone commun- ication with Berlin was cut off at l0 o'clock last night and still was suspended early tliis morning indicating a possible Allied air raid on the German capital.

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A 'i'o Confer iiere Re New Ferry For Province

MONCTON. 10.13., May 13 _ (CP)—- I-l. I-l. Germain. Naval Architect, Montreal, arrived‘ in Moncton tonight enrouie to Charlottetown for conferences on the proposed construction of

left the machines of their new mechanized army in France they brought most of the men homo. Mussolini has lost both the men and the machines.

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INTERNATICNAL AT A GLANCE

By The Canadian Press TUNISIA -- Number of Axis prisoners rises to 170.000; Gcn. Alexander describes victory as "one of the most complete and decisive in history,“ l7 generals in allied prisoners bag.

AERIAL — R. A. F., R. C. A. I’. and Americans follow up destruct- ive raid on Duisburg with daylight sweeps ovcr France; R. C. A. F. destroys. seven .Gchman lighters during day; Moscow announces Russian raid on Warsaw.

RUSSIA - Intensive Rod‘ Army artillery barrage opens path into Germans‘ secondary defences at Novorossisk, final push to win Black Sea port indicated.

EUROPE- Rioiing in Berlin re- ported; violence aguifl-sl Gflfmililfi said to be increasing in Netherlands. Belgium and Norway.

PACIFIC -- Military observers foresee intensification of war against Japunesc after liiacArthur-llai- aey conferences.

RCMMELF carrot?

NEW YORK. May l3 (AP)-—A BBC French-language broadcast was quoted today by CBS as say- ing Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. former Axis Commander-in-Chiof of North Africa. had arrived in Balonlka, Greece. BBC did not. give tlic source of its report. Saionika is a port in the Aegean Bea and a possible objective of any Allied invasion oi the Balkans.

Closet In A Qn Novorossisk

By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Staff Wriirr Moscow. Mnv 13 (APJ-Tilc

Red Armv. attacking under n. ire~ rncndous barrage of hundreds of llli! IZUHS. has smashed its way into secondary Germ-nu defences north- east 0i Novnrosslsk in the Caucasus, dispatches said today.

A Pravda dispatch reported that hundreds of guns had paved the way for an infantry and tnnl: wedge in the new German defence line near Novorossisk after the Red Army had smashed its way through the first enemy line.

The mass shelling of the German positions was on such a scale as to prcsagc a final big push aimed zit tin-owing the enemy into the Block

ea.

Toss News Agency also reported tonight that long-range Russian bombers touched off fires and ex- plosions amid German ammunition dumps. stores and railway installa- tions at the Polish capital of Wm"- saw in a series of raids reaching far behind the lines to disrupt Ger- man offensive plans. Brynnsk and Orel also have been attacked re» peatcdly in this strategic pattern.

Island Nurse To Graduate

ANTIGONISH. N. S.. Mnv l3 ‘C Pl-Eiizhtecil student nursos will graduate from St. hlartlixrs Hospit- a1 here next work-end. it unis rin- nounced todnv. Thcv incluuo I-‘ran- ces J. Glliis, Newcastle, N. B.. and Marv A. Campbell. Primrose, P. E. Island.

LOSE THREE ARMORED DIVISIONS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. NO. AFRICA, May l3 (APl-Threc of Hitler's elite armored divisions no longer exist as a result of the over- whelming Allied victor ln Tunisia. They are the 10th. leti and 21st.

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Charlottetown. lost off the Nova‘ i Scotia coast in 1941 while mak-

, to Saint John, ‘N.B.. for over- hauling.

Awflmilallyilll.’ Mr. Germain were S. W. Fnlrweather. Chicf o! the Bureau of Research and De- velopment, Canadian National Railways. Montreal. and Fred Wiltshirc, chairman of Sicum- ship Inspection Services of the Department oi‘ Transport, Ott- awn.

The ilififlizllg declined com- ment. excepting that conference; would in» hold at Charlottetown with government and‘ civic bodies.

The Federal Government has set asidr- an appropriation of $3,000.00!) placed in the estimates oi’ the Department of fianspori. for tlio construction of a. new ferry win-n conditions warrant building it in a Canadian ship- yard.

Revise Canada's ‘Munitions Program

OTTAWA. May 13 (CP)—Muni- tions MlillStPI‘ l-lowe told the House of Commons today that, the Can- adian munitions production pio- granl is being revised with recog- nition that initial requirements for certain vquipmcut has been met and that tho irccd for certain defensive ivciipnns is not as great.

The ltlimstcrs statement. made in reply in ull inquiry by J. S. Nose- worthy lCCI", York South) about n proposed lay-off of men at the John Inglis plant in Toronto stayed in tho mind of tiic House during inter discussion of the $000,000,000

labserlption Delivered, 85.00 Illl. "-093 other Provinces I U-LA. $5.00.

1,000 Guns, 250 Tanks In Loot Taken!

One 0f Most Complete And Decisive Victories in History.

By EDWARD KENNEDY (Associated Press Staff Writer)

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, May 13-(AP)—The captive toll of Germans and Italians today neared 175,000, including 17 be- medaiied Generals in a Tunisian triumph which

a car ferry to fclllilflt the s.s.\, put Allied airmen only a few minutes’ unchallenged

flight from Italian Siciiy’s already devastated ports

i»: a on» m-m Borden. r- r- 1-. land military installations.

The victory, which in one week had cleared the Axis from this springboard to Europe, was termed by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, deputy com mander-in-chief in North Africa, “one of the most complete and decisive in history."

A military spokesman said the total of pri. soners would approach 175,000, and Gen- Alex- ander saidthat 1,000 guns, 250 tanks, and a mass of tr-ucks and equipment of ail sorts were captured. He said the booty was so enormous it “probably will take days if not weeks," to count it.

London Area iias Brief Raid

LONDON, May 14 (Friday) (GP) -Tha largest force of German raiders to appear near London for weeks caused an hour-long alert early today, but first reports in- dioated no damage.

A heavy barrage met the enemy aircraft. They penetrated only to the outskirts of the city, dropping flares.

A heavier attack hit eastern Eng- land. raided for the seventh coh- secutive day. High explosives were dropped there.

The alert sounded with this morn- ing's London raid was the first in the oaipitai since a brief early morn- ing aarm May ll. The last night alarm was April 2

The ail-clear was sounded nearly an hour after the first warning

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By l-"OSIIIR BARCLAY (Canadian Press Staff Writer) i LONDON, Mnv l3—lCPl—l-1uii- i

drcds oi British and Canadian bombers marked the return of "bombing weather" over I-litlers quivering Europe last night by lcv- ! oiling Duisburg, German sllpilll’ , and transport centre, in what the Air Ministry described as the hca- ; vlcst raid of the war.

The "excellent results" reported b the istry were borne out by the comments of Canadian pilots

whose stories of giant fires and i shattering explosions now have be- ' come the regular sequel to the tale

of devastation being spread bv the bomber command. Halifax and wellington squad- rons of the R. C.A.F‘ took part in ‘ the blow to the Nazi centre which feeds supplies into the revolt-torn lowlands of Holland. Canadian losses were nine of the 34 craft that did not return.

The Allied aerial action over western Europe continued in day'- iight today with R.A.‘F‘ and R.C. A F. fighters blasting German in- siniiulions and transport. Can- ndizms rmi inin 20 GPYYIIRW‘ 131ml" in on nitric‘: on the Abboville- m, Omcr area, shnt down four and darnngrd YVIIH" zvivrr.

The air ufui i (inscription 0f tho Diiifllllll"! raid as tho heaviest lever delivered by the bomber

Duisburg Levelled In Heaviest Raid Of War

— More Than 1.500 Tons of Bombs Dropped 0n Important German Supply Center.

‘= eight days, and

this morning.

command meant that the Ruhr centre gut a load of more than l.- 000 tons oi bombs and that the tonnage was greater than was loosed On Cologne lll the historic raid nearly a year ago which en- l gagcd more than 1,000 RAJ‘. planes. i

Marshal Giovanni Messe. Italian 1st Army Commander. was among the last to surrender. He gave up to the BrltLsh 8th Army in (he mountains below Cap Eon. In the Ste. Marie Du Zit. sector farther north the Prussian Col-Gen. Jur- gen Von Arnlm. Axis supreme com- mander, also had given up yester- day along with thousands of Hits ler's finest fighting men-veterans oi the Balkan. French. Polish and Russian campaigns.

Mussolini elevated

mand said the captive

army has‘ "the honor of the last

Axis resistance on African soil --

quitting only on Mussolinls order. One unconfirmed report said that;

a son in law of Kim-i Victor Emfirlr

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High tide this rnorhizzy and tonight at 6:47. Sun sols this evvning a‘. R110 and

Last night's attack was favored by a m“ wmorrow momm; m 5;3;1_

the first "bombing ilveatilef‘ in . those who know regard the weather as the only pos- siblc preventive to the cascading of

hundreds of tons oi bombs daily '

proving,

The loss of 34 planes out of an undisclosed total which certainly was in several hundreds was not |regarded as excessive in the R A lFfs economy. This is clear view of the loss of ii planes in the l.000-plhno-plus raid on Cologne in which the l.500-1on figure was first reached in bombing weights.