CHARIDTTETOWN, CANADA,

i-si.

MONDAY,

PU a

FEIIRUARY 22, 194s

iussiagjrmies Advance (in Wide Front ,,90O Germans I fead In__Battle

,t...~... Within 34 Miles or

Dnieperpatrovslc

And Poltava.

i B)’ EDDY GILMORE

uosco. ltnicper River basin stormed" pctrovsk and Poltava today,

Associated P s W. no» i1-<Z'i'>i_l?§§.i'.v.."‘§.'.-nn. t. n.

to within 84 niIles of Dnieper- "lull"! on a wide front the

provinces of which those cities are capitals.

All along the BOO-mile front from

ticked Army__ reported Iiitll‘ it" 1,900 Germans The military press ggid

Orel to Krasnodar,

gains and victories overnight dead on tho field of battle.

Kharkov Province was thres-

iurihs cleared of the G u t i"wit;iznlfiisnPolklféhnlslfiivgilzzls h“

, Ill s dealer, of ,4’- dgtfugerggry and uttering a -- charges arose out of al ed

lllcni insurance transactliegns. A. other Cape Breton men, in- vlins Mayor DJ. MacIoan of» 1‘ . are facing chargesin con-

-. ‘with the some alleged ir.

’ liwndlng sentence,

‘llle other four accused are ex- - ~ to be tried at the current 1- of the court.

IATALLY INJURED

IYDNEY MINE. N8.» Fleb. 21- i-Btruck by a runaway coal l‘. William Barnes. M. was fatally lured Saturday while at work in ~- llomfil coliiery here.

taming Events

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Th! Ill-Mun of the ma or illnvl-lona. c! Pavioami anli xii-ml "Wad yesterday meant that Red troops had crossed from the Den "milled to the Dnleper basin a- loha which the Germans are u.

Maximum Prices For Potatoes In Itarload Lots

GITAWA, Feb. oi _-(ce>-. m. Prices Board tonisbt announced the estab

Montreal, will ho as ‘lb-pound bag: Up to and including March 1, $130; March s to Aprils, also; Anvil 5 lo May 2, suo; May a to Mar soggy; on and smi- June i

Bflltilsh Columbia have also been e

ma .

Maximum wholesale selling prices in smaller quantities remain as es- tablished last Dec. 1B. The Board's announcement said these iu-ices were established, it was expected that normal market negotiations bet-ween shippers -in

producing arose said wholesal-

s shippers cariosd prices and whole- salers‘ maximum selling prices

which would allow normal and

‘Pflibd t0 make a su rem

to stand. Both cities are (infill): utaries of the Dnieper and over their railways vsstqugntluq o; iron ore and coal have rolled in r1160“ . The capture of the unctions disrupted all direct use. man communications between Kharkov d the Donets basin re- _Bi0ns tn t e south.

The claaiain of the Donets region continued a e. 'I‘he noon oom- Wllllqlle said the Russians captur- Qd I llllmber of populated places Wait of Rostov s southyestbf

‘in the» ras- noarineisk region,

Beyond Krasnoarsd. 00 miles southwest of Kharkov. the Rois!- iam said they stormed more towns villinc ion Germans and capturing Important. booty.

(The Germans claimed they re- called attacks In the sires of Rvhev. strong German base l!" miles northwest of Moscow. and that Russian pressvue decreased at several niece: between Ore] and the fies of Amv because of e break in ‘ha, weather and heavv lee-an.)

‘I'M- Rus-Inns eel-bratad the ‘Nth anniversary or the Red Armv tnnev with speeches slid iihloultmm ate. vans exhibited nvav-vwhre. A hm. lcal ow- said' ‘Wall to the vlr-torv of the Auclo-‘Rovint-Avne-lnqn Alliance nvar tho boa»- ener-“c- of

“lfldain Dcyei. Headings. iii Prince. i-ia-ai.

"Aibrto ‘ . iandlDix-kwmgfuuy Mu» con

"Just arriv d 3 1 w. i. 9' wfitif.“ o! a-g-IL

"Dance fin lid H d , luau iflnttumisbicgsu ‘filial: -l- a-ao-ii. ‘flhst. R0 alt R1 k i t, cilwiis vs. Rgyalg Bkaice organ‘

"Dill to arrive. bulk oats and k wheat. Book now. McGuigan l Baye- i-is-ioi

"Unloading Old Sydney Screened lllul st Milto Baturds d M n- lll- a. c. that... y‘ “$40221, “Concert in New London Hail

wiillltlday evening, lobruar 24th. 3-10- 3-33-31. tl'°"a=n seeds‘ the latest and lvarieties. Sen for free I043 Quill” Arthur Vesey York. ~ I- M-Itf. ‘hissday 23rd 3-22-11.

ur Three a earl?“ ill mlilolllof flour. mgr £01.] ~11. b. Dicklesoii. i-ii-ii “ i» arrive car eeda shin les “d”. book“. l. 1' I - lillnle: Itiver. i-iosif l I L i?‘ soei . mfiw“ 13%;‘; or. m ' ' 2- ‘I

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of

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will bl el. libra- ‘u fufiéiiflfi meshed: 40-41. l‘

humsnIIv-the German plugging "n slsvers.”

Allied Bombers Blast At Jana

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI- NEA. Feb. 21 -(AP)- Allied bombers flew tar from their home bases Saturday tn deliver destruc- tive attacks on J neon sirdromes and harbor ins etlons in the Buin-Kaisi area of the North Soi- omcns and on Gasmats, New Bri-

n.

‘Twenty-three tons of explosives and lncendiaries were poured by night on Kahlili and Buaiiaie air- dromes and on the Paisi seaplane base in the iaoe of intense anti- aircraft firs, csusinl a. number of great fires and destroying msrw grounded aircraft. observers said.

At Gasmata two enemy bombers were destroyed on the ground and shipping was attacked. . ,

Another Ileavy Blow liealt Wilholmshaven

ly IILARI suLLrvAit Associated Press list! Writes IDNDON m. ii-(Am The heavyweights of the R..A.I'.. ‘inns in the light of s full moon ates boaiber

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reasonable handling charges to the wholesaler. At the time the order was draft- ed, prevailing csrload lot prices were generally lb to l'I cents per bag below the maximum whole- salers‘ selling prices set by the or- der. Olimatic and other conditions recently have served to produce a strong sellers’ market, with ship- generally offering potatoes to wholesalers in carioad lots at pri- ces which are identical, or almost identical, with the wholesalers’ maximum selling price. ~'."rh‘ " c Acclaim i.

. ‘ I " and ls satisfied .that the potato wholesaler serves a useful function particularly in servicing the inde- pendent retailer and the smaller towns. The Board, however. is not prepared by order to force back prevailing prices to the shipper of

,4

l increase on osrload Iota to

grower. nor is it prepared to per- mit an increase in consumer prices.

“It proposes. however. to estab- lish a minimum and maximum snread between carload lots which the wholesaler buys and the small- a!‘ lots which the wholesaler sells uiiich will allow the wholesaler in recover at least his handling and unloading costs.

"This spread will be attained bv permitting the wholesalers’ maxi- mum seliing prices to follow the maximum prices of Order No. 210. which permits mi Increase of 1') cents per Iii-bound one every four weeks. and by rater-dine the pages

vs "Qfit! in each four-week period tin- til a mread oi 15 cents per bag is reached.

“Similarly. the orioe increases on mil-bound hnas In car lots will be retarded to six cents in cam Vom- week period until a spread of ll nonti oer bar is reached. ‘There- nfl-r the m-vimum car-load ivy-Ice W111 ppmolvi 15 rants tnr 'l=- imd hmv and lg rent: im- IOO-Muvid have lwlowv the maximum vlhflle- a-F"\Yl' willow nrlce. but in no Hi1‘- wmst-neea may s wholesaler sail mtators at n mark-u“ cxcetdm" is ot" cent ot his selling price."

Stalin Confident Victory ls Ilear

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LONDON. lob. icr Si-aliiieof Russia told the Brit- : . _

operations, ssh our common enemy‘! ‘ The Soviet leader's let r was We‘: '2.'.'.“'i‘ni.““‘.§§lt.%2i“.‘;‘°“& E; u-gsnisstioa of the Red arm

Allied Bombers Blast At Two Italian Ports

fighting in tbs Pacific only s year

‘umpire of the enemy.

NEW DELHI, Rb. B1 -(AP)— Mohandas K. Gandhi's cmidltinn grew increasingly grave today as

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hunger strike and the Government issued a bulletin say that “if the fast is not ended w thout de. [flaky It msiy be too late to save his

e."

Meanwhile another intimation that the United Statestis taking a hand in Indian affairs came today from William Phillips, Presiden Rioosevelvs personal envoy to -

a

(In We. iiigton esterday State Secretary rdell ull conferred

count Halifax. on affairs in India and expressed concern over the situation.

In an unexpected statement, Phillips said that "phases of the situation in India requiring dis- cussions are being handled by high officials of the governments of t s United States and Great Britain."

By I-‘rank Flaiierty Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA, Fob. lli -(CP)—- Al the financial implications of Can- ada's war program during the com- ing year assumed clearer perspect- ive at the week-end the government appeared to be confronted with a political problem arising out of the actions of its Quebec loliowin . Members of the House spec at ‘ on what will happen in the vote on Hon. P. J. A. Oardinw suo- endment to the addresl 1n reply the speech from the Throne. It calls for suspension of operations of the national resources mobilis- ation act pending a parliamentary inquiry Into the manpower sit- uation. ' Finance Minister its‘: Saturday gave notice of a reiolut on prelim- inary to introduction of the 1048- 14 war appropriation bill which will be for Q0.$0.000.0Il0--s new high in the nation's outlav on war. That Billl. together with $1.000.- 000.000 to be authorised in another bill for ald to other nations and perhaps ssonoooooo estimates will go budget of some 001500000900. Debate on the address has been postponed until ‘ruesdsv n a vote on the motion cf m. Oardin Lib- eral Member for Richelieu-veron-

with the British ambassador, Vis-t

Iy Klrke L. liuipoori, Associated Press War Analyst

News of the reverses suffered by the United states force; in Tunisia

has been flood Ivy Wadsington promptly and fully In a manner to

Inspire confidence that the same policy of frankness will govern an-

nouncements about the vastly more important operation; soon to begin. O O O I O O

u, This is of. high importance In the prosecution of the war for un- warranted public optimism can bo

damaging. Looking back to the sgo this mentor, the real ' ‘

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often got out sf focus. There was an wen-present tendency to over- ompiiaslsetlie skill with which the American force; were retreating in the Phiilipplnes and down the (Irina Sea. and to under-value the

In reporting on the retreat of American force; in Tunisia. the army had to choose between telling the unvarnished facts or delaying and sugar-costing them with eaiohwords and neatly phrased explanations. It chose to tell the unsweetened and to tell them without delay.

O O O O O O

The choice was dictated by two considerations authoritatively do- aeribed as fundamental now In the war department’; public relations policy: first, announce everything which can be definitely confirmed and does not furnfls the enemy with information he needs; second, announce it before the enemy does so that ho will be deprived of opport- unity ts distort the new: to propaganda purposes.

O O O O O

Obviously thero were reasonable explanations for the Tunisian rs- verml. The United States forces wI-o operating at the end of extended supply lines. These line; over the few available highways, eoald nos be expanded because the worst rsiniy season in 10 years has made tho Algerian sad northern and control Tunisian countryside unfit for travel except by road. The weather was not nearly so hurtful in enemy territory. Ila a malt only a can of the available American strength could be massed at tho front and the "

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had

Gandhik Conditions Growing Very Grave

§ays Finland IFSIIe ‘For twists‘

NEW YORK, Feb. i2 —-Mon-

dayl-(AIU- The New York

' Times’ Stockholm correspond-

l ent reported today that Fin- land has decided to sue for a separate peace at the first op- portunity, “arid through any channel by which Moscow can be approached."

The dispatch said that a. friend of Vsino A. Tanner, for- mer Foreign Minister "credited with engineering the re-elec- tion last week of President Risto Rytl," had told the cor- rcsnonden of Finland's deci- sion. The friend was said to have Just returned to Stock- holm from Helsinki, Finnish capital.

Gov’t Faced With Problem Following Cardin Action

INTERNATIONAL AT a cuuici:

By The Canadian Press TUNISIA -- Germans through American

Mareth Iiine.

RUSSIA — Red Army sweeps Into Dnleper Basin to within 3| miles of Dnleperopetrovsk and Pol- tsva, major Germans bases.

MEDITERRANEAN l. planes bomb Naples and Crotone heavily, starting big fires and dam- aging three ship.

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commemorating Red

peseosswcllsosfwar.

(Otitiifiidéifiiaiefi, ‘ooi ' 1F

smash defences of Kasserino Pass, i0 miles from Ai- gerisn border, while British lth Army advances olgvht miles against

BRITAIN - ldon tells audience

Army's 25th blrthd y that Britain and Russia have screed on brood principles ef

SOUTH PACIFIC — Japanese ladle bomb Buns. allied ocoiioled rthoasteru asset of New _ Guinea: Allied bombers hit town of

Missing Plane Located; Grew, Passengers Safe

WASHINGTON, Feb. II_ (APl-A United States Army transom plane with 2o persons aboard, missing since Fell a has been located in “s Canadi- an wilderness ares" with all passengers and crew members alive and well, the War De. Partment reported Saturday.

The Department said the il- et made s forced landing Ire- aause of bad weather. The only

llllllfe was ens of tho Planes wing-tips.

Since location of the mfg. lng ship from the air food and equipment Including Qt lam]. in; gear have been droaied to the crew which plans dra a runway and fly the ship o under its own power.

The names of the i5 passen- gers and five civilian crew members were not disclosed.

Ilhurchilfs Condition Said

Improving

LONDON. Rb. ll-fOPl-A Iiird

physician was called in today for

on Prime Minister

Churchill, ill of acute catarrh, but

an official bulletin said his condi- tion was improved.

The third ‘iloctor was a bacteri- ologist, Ool, Lionel El. Whitby, an exper on the "M and B605" drug that reduces fever. - Medical authorities said ttio osli “in no wt indicated anxiety" and that Wlii s tests probably estab- llQlOd that there had been no ex- tension of the inflammation of- one of the Prime Minister's lungs.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. AUSTRALIA, Feb. lib-thinn- dayl-(CIW-Japanese. ,.‘ Sunday bombed Buna, allied-oo- clllfltd town on the northeast- ern coast of New Guinea, tho High Command reported today. LONDON Feb. I1—(0P)—'I'he Red army hammered at Nazi dol- ences 34 miles from the Dnei er

e regular midnight communique gained 45 miles in the drive south of Vorostiiloxgrad, fallen Donets Basin capital.

BRISTOL, England. Ieb. II —Allied forces in the Mediter- ranean sank or damaged 2A8 Axis ships totalling 826.000 tong between Sept. 1, i942 and Jan. 3i, 1941i, A.V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty- said in an address Saturday,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, lob. 2l—(AP)—-Gen. Jean Marie Bergeret. deputy French civil and military commander-in- chief, announced Saturday night that 5,000 political prisoners still interned in North Africa will be re- leased or repatriated within two months.

Found Guilty

QUEBEC, Feb. ll -(CP)— gum, 0g nine army medical of- ficers and men who recent] faced a. general court martial here following alleged irregu- larities in medical cxamlnl tions of army recruits have been found guilty It. was an- nounced tonight by Brig. E. A.

ltrolig convictions precede g: actions.

MAXIMS

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MERE hlAN

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[u], “.00: other Prov-lures unii Ihm-l -‘ l»

Rommel

Breafl‘:

Through Yan."12

Lines In Force

Situation Is Regarded As G

-~r~,1n'r) ~- i/exsem. .. .

Whole Allied Position; 8th Artny

May Save Day.

By DANIEL DE LUCE Associated Press Staff Writer ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 21—(AP)—Gerrnan armored columns have C'.'|)ili"/"l

Kasserine Pass in central Tunisia, smashing throuvl-i ,

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American troops, and have plunged lilrlllliih will 1H1)‘ H way into the battered Allied front along the 1\lg€:fl2\il bur-

dor, It was announced today.

This new setback carno swiftly after Field Rommel had flung his veteran Nazi infantry up mountains early Saturday to ele

ed forces.

hlcixshiil the ar the route for his armor-

The Americans had turned back an armored thrust

on tlso heights. IA

. “fling limIlt-llti no: KIisssrlno Gap. 85 niilfls 1mm the Aided bass at Tsbaala. 5g», gum; asp to the north-east “m, gown; armored forges both on ‘Thursday and again Saturday‘, Rommel was to conceal will of the two was his main billed?!"- ‘flw... m... ti. “tit ‘mm’? sou we -

into atfion sispvport- ing the lard-hit. America armor-

ed division. > -' had stew

hours to select mountain toe for their artillery and to eamvuilall their weapons bdora the initial Noni assaults began. Their lack of siuperience may have been s crucial factor In determining tA-ie offset- iveness of these preparations.

The french high command late tacky gold Rommelh thrusts against the trench saturday near Bilbo had been "completely checked" after several hours‘ fighting in

vehicle; were destroyed.

‘This attack was apparently a feint, coupled with infantry attacks at Kasserine Gap Saturday, to set the stage for the armored break- through against Arnerieaa , “" today.

Meanwhile to the soiili, the British 8th Allnv occupied Medan- ine and drove eight miles north- westward toward the Mareth line. the village of Marsth and Gabcs. cairn reports said

Drastic Gut

WASHINGTON. Ibb. Ii-(AD- '1lhe United States government an- nounced tonight how much pio- cessed food the new ration books will buy. a drastic scale of point. values limiting consumption to less than half of normal.

The 48 ration points allotted to each man, woman and child for March will buy two cans of sliced pineapple, or three cans of peM. 0r 4s ca-ns of baby food.

The 4a points may be spent, of course, on a variet of different foods, Here is who some of them will "cost." in the most popular can slnes:--

Peas l6 points, corn l4, tomatoes 14, pears 21,

1c, reen beans a lt juice 23. tn-

peaches 21, grnpefru mam juice 32. sou 6. baby food 1. Prunes and ra sins "cost 20

Blals, Officer Cornmandinl Military District No. l.

IDNDON. roe. li-(AH-Brit- sin and Russia are agreed on the broad principles of collaboration for peace as well as on the utter destruction of the Axis, foreign secretary Anthony men said t0- day in s speech commemorating the 8th anniversary of the found- of the Red army. iispokeatoneofaasriesof meetings thio hout Britain manl- restiiig aoiideriy of the two na-

In-ttie patted audience at Albert Isii were many government

officials and . n Churchill. ‘the Prime Minister is confined re his bed with catarrh. A letter from Premier Stalin ex-

cnslve rations" to Axis wou d soon be tween the armed forces of the two countries was read. Stalin's use of the phrsse-"joint offensive operations" was inter- preted in some quarters as a re- minder of Moscow's desire for the western powers to get going with the Invasion of mirope.

Iefoio s meeting st

smash the ible

similar

Britain, Russia Agreed On War And Peace Aims

pressing confidence that "joint of- _

points g, pound; frozen foods most- y 13 points a pound.

there Thursday, loading military that the “tide had turned,” but ‘ A day's action was only an exploration of American strength

which four tanks and l2 armored

authorities to helices it is now clear that 'l‘l:ur~e-

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an Another Magnificent

refit-n “with.

Red Gross Ilcn 2i

."'“"Yr

HI- GIORGE M. President ltloore J; it Another splendid

for the inception or like Year campaign of ".~ ' Red Cross. 'l'liis Lin. Misti-sing and pro},

Newcastle. uctimi minister Capt. Oliver ttleton said that Britain and the United States have already sent Russia enough tanks to equip 32 armored divisions and planes for 400 squadrons.

Eden declared that "where Hit- ler's goneralshi has failed, the wiles of Goebbe (Neat ands minister Joseph Goebbe s) are now in (play: every effort has been mace an will be made to foster suspic- ion and encourage dissension be- tween the Allies."

"Ali the old paraphernalia is out again," Eden said.

"A part in this PllPDet show lg played by the bogey of Bolshevism.

But, he added, "we do not find it hard to recognise this highly colored figure. He is an old friend- a. survival from the earliest days of the Nazi regime."

“We are asked to contemplate Hitler as the survivor of European civilization: this figure lacks some- thing in i943," Eden said. The population or the occupied comi- trles will find this prescription ton hard to swallow, and neutrals foo.

lishrnent of Moore

89 . one ofCharloltutcvzn citilens, is honorary’ the city OPQHIIIZRLILII of lhl ~- Oross campaign. 'l'ni.s year l; -~ have raised the amount by n f" twenty-five percent and ' cheque for tl25il0o has ceived at Red Clix-S he: unsold: THE nut