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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944

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Nazi landmarks are wipedfout Iroyes. France.

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ihincse lleverses Proving Serious

KUNMING, China. Sept. 17 -—- llPJ ~ The United States 14th Ali- Force has destroyed and vir- illllly abandoned its air bases leer Kircilin. provincial capital in invaded Kw-lngsi province, it was disclosed today. in the face of a File Japanese threat not only to 10111.‘ but also to the whole Irllcturc of the American military siiort in China. . Chinese reverses in the Hunan- vanisi area in recent mqnths ' 1E blflllllilt among some ob- ‘lllllers here a critical rc-evalua- lion oi the Chinese war potential -lsverst-s which generally are put loan to iaeptness and confusion of command. lack integrated .Nlfllillln1CfliluIlS and many other icicnr-les. ~ . here has never been any ques- tion oi the valor of the Chinese rldier." "in guts ho can give us ‘$510115. said one American of-

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STOCKHDIM. Sept. l7 - (AP) -btate oi‘ war exists between Fill- lnnd and Germany and a. for d1 ‘3fii‘“.§2ti3“ ‘ti?’ §l”“°i.ii““°“ f”

c e nn press e- clawed tonight.

The Finnish cabinet was meeting ilmlifht while a stoma of anger siwept over Helsinki because the Gcinlans applied the torch to northern Finnishwillages and farm homes as thcv withdrew.

The Russians were reported de- manding the right to occupy the northern half of Finland where the Gerrrlan-set fires were blazing.

Finnish press commentaries on the incidents of the German attack on Suiursaari (l-Ioglandl Island ln the Gulf of Finland and the mining of Kotka harbor demonstrated tlio temper of the Finns. who said. these acts "can only be considered as ex- presslons of desperation by German supreme command.’

lllcliill Honors Churchill, F. ll. ll.

QUEBEC Sept. 17 — (OP) —Irl a precedent-shattering convoction ceremony, McGill University Satur- day conferred honorary degrees Q1 doctor of laws on President Roose- vlt and Prime Minister Churchill.

As the two war leaders could not go to the university. the university came to them on the spacious ter- race of the citadel here.

The Principal and Vice-Chancel- ior, Dr. F. Cyril James presented the two statesmen for the degrees while- the t resident's rsrmal flag flew overhead and n the background waved the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack and the (mnsdian Ens n.

Morris W. ilson. McGill Ohan- cellor, conferred the degrees. and the registrar, T H. Matthews. than slipped the hoods over the heads of the two recipients.

500 Arrive By Hospital Ship

HALIFAX, Sept. 17 — (OP) — After running through last week's Atlantic hurricane without damage, the Canadian Hospital Ship Lady Nelson brought home Saturday S00 veterans of tho land and air fight- ing in Europe, most of them sur- vivors of the battle of France.

Many of the invalided flghiiflll

men were veterans of the D-DBY landing; and tho bloody battling around coon that paved the way for the winning of the battle of Hence.- but there was also s s rinkling 0f R. A. r‘. titers who he been um- melting the Nazis before an ai- inr the invas'on. - On the way into Halifax. they lied been burfetted roughly in a 12 hour bout with the hurricane that did hggvy damage along the Atlantic seaboard. but the experience did little to dim their happiness at the sight of Canada.

BY IIIIIKE L SILICON

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QUEBEC, Sept. 1'1 - (AP) — This mid-September week-end goes lnlo history rod-lettered with significance. It saw the end of the war In lumps approaching swiftly and here at Quebec the end of the war in Asia completely mapped.

From here on the labors of the men who lead the United Nations fellowship will be no lels arduous. the problems that confront them no loco grave. But they have reached a poht In the struggle so far advanced on the road to military victory over Gonnany and Japan nllko that the rest can be left confidently to the fighting men while nat- ional leaders turn fa planning the ways and means, political. economic and social, to obtain and consolidate the final assured triumph-and out of if. to fashion ‘ ' _ peace for the world.

TIII-t was the evident preoccupation cf President Roosevelt Ind Prime Minister Churchill as they closed out their personal share 1n the military deliberations that brought them again to Quebec. They had stamped their necessary approval upon the brcndlstrategic design for victory over Japan almost within hours cf their arrival here less than is week ago. They had also exchanged ideas informally on the next necessary steps to ho taken fn , nd particularly in Germany-when Russian and. Allied armies hlave trampled out between them the last vertigo of German armed re- s stnnoc.

Speculation was rife in Quebec when the conference assembled here as 1 to whether part of its duty would he to name an over-all commander for the war against Japan nr for the Pacific sector of that war. No such purpose, It developed. was on the Qucliec agenda The Pacific command question had been settled long‘ in advance

Nor can there be any rloulvt that Gen MacArthur is_ fully satisfied with the share now assigned him The recapture of the Philippines. That will he made clear ln due course when the division of duties WWW" 5111911 theatre commanders in Asia from the Pacific lo the Indian Ocean and to China can be revealed.

Huydney Restaurant Is . Wrecked In Minor Rio?‘

Churchill. |=. n. n. Emi Conference

By C. ll. BLACKBURN

U151: ‘, Sept. 17- lCPl -— Prllne Minister Churchill and Pre- sident Roosevelt Saturday unduly their 11th war meetlnii~cneli: sec- ond. in Quebec-and told u Dress conference they hllll planned w

SYDNEY, N-Sq Sept. l7 - (OP) __Angel'ed naval ratings wrecked the Cozy Restaurant of 53111119315 main street. today after a British merchant seamen had complained to police he was beaten up in the cafe. .

-While city and service police fought for order and a crowd of between 200 and 300 looked on. the rcsta-uranifs windows were smashed. its interior reduced to a shambles and its cash register and some merchandise carted away.

The minor riot developed after the merchant seaman, Rolf

bring all the forces of "this grand alliance" to bcar_ upon Japan with the utmost rapidity.

But President ltoosevelt stressed that definite Dlailnllil: would cc dc- layed since a specific (flit-C has not been placed on the next major op-

Newman, was taken to hospital for treatment of head lacerations after reporting ‘to police he had been assaulted in the restaurant.

Wllllc police were investigating. a crowd of sailors gathered about the place. suddenly, a large plate glass window crashed down in

crati ii. That could not be done when iF-QI slivers and more windows in the gm of unconditional surtrexixildcrbglt front followeld. dProm then on Bnnfllkv W85 $0 1111691“ - con uslon re gne . 11181935115! 11g? goo; iliivgflllg/SS 2123313110, Two city pollcerlnep who werélén 111 B5 51w 5 ' 11 the cafe made tier way ou e Went-h _, . amid a barrage of stones bottles .u}i‘§na°t'r--"‘lf. i-‘Jéftt. “.‘.‘.°°3‘§i§‘.‘.‘i.‘ti}1 “g f?" mm?"- ,, d ,

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,,§‘_1,"“““E1("Upt§un Mimslpe emu,‘ the restaurant's cash register dis- t; ‘ggmhned ' i appleared with 1tSIfiOIACBIlCBd. gens ' . _ . O C0 (T911171 V3118 G Rn C 3r‘ D1332 fiestgiawaifftildpiéfié; illgmmfififi‘ ettes and fruit were scattered (mu-m drive on Japan ‘Wm it mil about the sidewalks. for the great 1ircfalelns of space andi T110‘ 03111011511661 dcflfih l 1981:? 1 1 - - was oun o ay song e mfvfiunculty at 81183111“: he en waterfront. Near it; a. resident Both Mr. Roosevelt and Ml‘-

,found_ $1.39 in cash. ChUIClUia stressed that Canada Will} Police headquarters indicated to. fight in the Pacific and continue toi night no arrests had been made fight to the end '61? Mr. chm-cola _

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revealed , -— had been “pr the Presidcnti for some weeks for_this lll€3tlllR.1 Their combined affairs were so "in-= termingled" that such meetings must f

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Ho said that nothing of planning could be revealed t ii would be revealed to due course as hmzvhich rcsillted in E§§°~éis§i°<5§vefft1 inviisiun ~ of iiur- he Earl of Athlone and Princess one and the liberation of Franco Alice left Quebec today for a. tour

The final act of the second Quc-, of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, beo conferelue W“ m“ lmifl‘ "OH-lit was announced at the governor ferenco. held 1n mid-affernoois sun-l generals headquarters at the cita- llght on the warm. spacious ‘terrace. dey of the citadel ramparts. flank-m: $110‘

' whlicclh is thogiice-zrg-l gal aumnai res enc: Fm 11-11- was use-ti bv the lW) leaders and their immocrate staff 01mg the coin. porldents were dismissed. the ivhca-eaibmlts. actions bnd movements of the two leaders became secret until they return w ‘hill; 1111121511555 were Dcnnbttcd but Mr. Churchill and Mr. ‘Roosevelt each spoke about 15 minuues at the request of Prime Minister Macken- zie K . their Canadian host.

A blrcf Joint statement was is- sued later. It merely stated that all

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Little Change In London Blackout

LONDON. Sept. 17 — (CP) -- While Landon graped onthmugha blackout that was only slightly modified tonight. sirens sounded in indication that tho Luftwaffe was be d_ out: ifafmlilitflybl‘ the much-adverti- ggpgcfg the war had en ls- se " ou. gugggd and quick decisions reached Lacking master switches for quickl "m1 all points both with regard to control of its widespread lighting the completion of the war in system. London was unable to an- fqpe now smxroaching its final joy the relative brightness of the s es. and the destruct smaller cities such as Mancheste . B arians of the Pacific Some windows glowed through

e statement stressed that the lighter curtains but even these had moot serious difficult/v mail-mating to be doused as the alarm howled. mg gonfgreruig "has been to find The_aiprt was only brief room and airport/unity for marsh- -— ‘““"“‘“‘* ailing alnst Japan the massive forces w ioh each and all the nat- ions ooncemed are ardent to emfllle against the enemy."

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SYDNEY. Mlstralis. — (C?) - A Dutch Women's Auxlllarv Corps is being formed in Australia. consist- ing of women and girls who have escaped from the Netherlands, East Indies and Holland. 'I‘hev will goon be lned by groups frcmi England and Amerivfl. ‘

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Three soldiers returned in the Province from overseas yesterday- They were met at Wood Islands by Mr, E, 1vi_ Bagnall, president of the Charlottetown branch oi the Cflfladlllfl mimic Mrs- Arthur Henry“ president of the Ladies Aux- iliary. Charlottetown branch Can- adian Legion; and Mr. J. T. Rnbison Veterans Welfcr Divis- ion. The men were driven to the canadian Iggion headquarter where gupper was awaiting them an where provision was made for their ac- comodatlun until this afternoon when they leave for their homes. The men are: Gnr. Joseph M. Lewis. Pte. Ivan Loiugheran. and Pte. Leo Bulgcr.

G211’. Joseph M._Lewis, son of Mrs. Greeley Lewis and the late Mr. Lewis, enlisted on September 2. 1939. He left for overseas wth the R C. A on the second day n. February. 1940mm served in Eng- land with a heavy ack-ack battery unt-il this spring when he was ta- ken ill and had the misfortune" es he put i‘, nf :PP1"" his outfit. go in France without him. His ‘physical condition not allowing him to re- join his battery. he was inwillded home and arrived in Halifax on the Lady Nelson Saturday morning.

Gnr. Lewis met. several Island- ers while in England. among them being Freddie McCabe, Jack Coughlan. and Alex LeClalr, ell of Charlottetown. He reports also that he served in the some gun crew wth Keith Lewis, son of Mr, J. C. Lewis of the Guardian staff

Pte Ivan Lougheran. scn of Mr. and Mrs. James Lougheran of Bed- ford. enlisted in the Army in 1943 and went overseas with the Princess Louise Fusiliers in 1943 He lan- ded in Italy in November oi that .v_ear and saw continuous action im- t'l he was invalldcd out recently.

PW L90 31111191‘ is the son cf Nirs. Margaret Buleer and the latr- Mr Bulger of Portage. He enlisted in July. 194?- and‘ went nversea- in January 1943. serving with a moron cycle sound. he was injured i11 a mortar-cycle crack-up and was in Vnllded home. He starred la-i- night with his brothers Mr Michael 13111191". 219 Fhzrov Street xhd leaves fcr home today. '

TWO other veterans from aver- seas are ounectei-l ta ari-‘v- in the Pfflvince this warning. Th=v are g. ‘A. Campbell. Belle Rive" i". .011 er, oema and. J’. Perry Tignish. n‘

Train- Derailed? llo 0ne Injured

THREE RIVER/S. Que , Sept. 1'1 -- (GP) — Some 70 United States and Canadan newspaper corres- pondents who had been covering the Roosevelt - Churchill conference in Quebec, narrowly escaped becom- ing the subjects of a grim story themselves today when the Que- bec-Montreal pool train. o erated by the Canadian Pacific Ralway, was derailed east of here.

The accident happened about 3:30 P. M. at Red Mill, some 10 miles from Three Rivers when a switch point broke, sending the slowly- moving heavy train off the tracks.

The locomotive and two cars bumped along the ties. but the couplings broke at the third car 1nd if. and two others. all loaded with newsoapermeri. went rolling off the roadbed and into a soft earth pas- iure. No one was injured.

Reach Safety At Mount Carmel

SACKVILLE. N.B.. Sept. 17 — (OP) — After drifting helplessly Thursday night and Friday morn- ing. two lobster fishermen of Oui- ton's Corner reached shore safely at Mount Carmel. PEI. just when Friday's storm reached its height in the district. it was learned here

tonight The engine of their small craft went dead Thursday night after Russell Oulton and Charles Simp- son set out from Little Shemogue to attend their lobster traps. Help- Northumberland steadily became rougher. fishermen finally Island. Merl in three vessels frmn Little shemcizuc bottled a heavy sea in a fruitless search for the missing boat before word of the two men's safety was_ recei .

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Line ends at Kleve.

Simultaneously. the British 2nd‘ Army broke across the Nether- lands frontier south of the land-l ings in a great offensive time t perfectly Willi this first entirely airborne operation in military his- tory.

The Germans said part of Lt.- Gen. Lewis H. Breretonls airborne army came down at Tilburg and Eindhoven. eight to 10 miles in- side Holland and close to where lit-Gen. Dcmpsey's 2nd Army is fighting up from the south.

Inside Holland

A field dispatch said the Bri- tish forces were two miles inside Holland and driving toward these towns. '

I But the most important stroke appeared to have fallen at Nijme- . xvhlch is on the Rhine and only six miles from the German Here Berlin is 315 miles

Some German accounts declar- ed the airborne army had landed on both the north and south banks

of the Rhine at Nllmegen.

I From Klcvc northward the IGermans are believed to have collated on the North Sea instead of a strcl and concrete wall to balk invasion.

While it was believed only a matter of time until the com- bined weight of these airborne divisions and the British 2nd Army wheel on or Seigfried Line. the United States 1st Army was hammering away through a hole in the fortifica- tions 26 niilcs from the Rhine- land city of Cologne.

Canadian infantry formations meanwhile launched an all-out

around the

By HOWARD COWAN

irborne Irmy rapped In Holland

LONDON, Sept. 17 — (AP) — Gen. Eisenhower unleashed the powerful Allied lat airborne army today, sending more than 1,000 air transport and glider 1oads_ into the Netherlands at the northern tip of the Siegfried Line in a bold attempt to skirt it

That clearly was the assignment of the sky soldiers-already reported in field dispatches to have driven the enemy from several Netherlands towns near the Ger-

While Supreme Headquarters did not say where the thousands of British, Am- erican and Polish sky troopers landed, the Germans said they hit Netherlands soilhn force at Nijemgen, 12 miles west and slightly north of where the breached Siegfried

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Wounded Cardigan Officer Returns 0n Hospital Ship

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i MajorJ A MacDonald of Halifax I and Cardigan, P E. I., who retur- ned to Canada aboard the hospital ship Lady Nelson Saturday said that he had experienced several narrow escapes before being wounded shor- tly after the Canadians sprang out of Caen. He. had been blown off a motorcycle and snlped at continually until one sniper got him in the arm.

Mai. MacDonald. who led. e corn. panv of the North Nova. Scotia High- landers. szfd he was walking down a Caen street while pockets of Nazi resistance were still being cleaned

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"I turned to my intelligence pri- vate and handed him my maps." he said. "A few seconds later, a burst, of machine gun fire killed him. The Germans apparently had mistaken hm for an officer "

drifted ashore on Prince Eduiard.

attack on the enemy garrison of some 4.000 men the French Channel port of Boulogne. The assault was launched at 10 run. after a. tremendous four-hour bombardment by R.A.F. planes which dropped more than 3.500 tons of explosives on enemy strnngpolnts around the town and tonight the Canadians had I driven through some outer de- , fences and still were advancing. the Belgian-Netherlands border. other Canadian forces deepened their newly-established brideghead across the formidable ‘Leopold Canal, capturing Eecloo and fanning out-three miles to Botherhaek northwest and Lem- ,beke" northeast of their" canal icrossini; point. Eecloo is 15 miles east of Brllfigc (Bruges).

The bridgehead established by LL-Gen. Crerar's Canadian forces across the Leopold Canal — the toughest water obstacle encount- jered by the Canadians since D- -Day—replaccd a previous bridge- | head lost ‘Thursday.

Meanwhile Polish formations of ; the 1st Canadian Army became the first units under Gen. Crerar‘s icolnnland to enter Holland. Polish ipatrols Saturday penetrated the .Nctherlands near Hulst, 15 miles 1 wcst of Antwerp.

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Looking Ahead In Ottawa

By the 0ltaw—;—Staff hr The Canadian Press

OTTAWA. Sept. l8 - (CP) — Canada's three defence Ministers -.Defence Minister Ralston, Navy Minister Macdonald and Air Min. lster Power-may have gut the answer to two big questions when they attended the Quebec confer- once-nature and size of Can- ada's contribution to the war in the southwest Pacific and what, plan to adopt in eventual demob- ization

Demobllizers in Ottawa couldn't start framing a definite muster- ing out program until they know the eXuct exten. of the Domin- ion's iaarticlpatiun in the War a-, Eainst Julian Both the army and‘ air force have sent missions to the Pacific to study war conditions there and the navy medical staff now is studying tropical diseases.

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loot of Dftparing for the dnv when larger Canadian formations would be engaged in that theatre.

It is known that Mr. Maedqnald and Major Power made explicit offers at Quebec and that Col. Ralston made a general committ- ment. However they all probably

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Storm Causes Death 0f Pictou Resident

PIOTDU, N. S, Sept. 1'1 — (OP) -'1‘ho hurricane that hit the At- 1 lontic coast claimed its only fatality in the Maritimcs here. Mc- Comutck. 4'1. was cleciocuted when he came in contact with a high vol- taze wire that had been nooked down by a, falling tree. Mistaking the “are tor a telephone line, he picked i-t up to throw it clear of a sidewalk.