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‘SNKEMY OPPOSITION STIF F EN S IN SlCiLY

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Russian Armies Advance Z8 Miles In Three Days

Powerful Drive Smashes Ten Nazi D1v1s10ns

Wheeling Movement Threatens German Base At Orel.

Italian Editor Demands iiew‘ leaders In Sicily

1 By FRANK BRUTTO (Associated Press Staff Writer)

BERNE, July l5 — (A ) — Roberto R. Farinacci in ll ltcgime Fascists tonight do- manded a change of 11111111"? leaders in Sicily and assign- ment of Italy's best forces t0 defend tho island.

in a violently phrased front- page editorial, the former sec- cretary of the Fascist party in Italy attacked useless elements inthe Fascist hierarchy and demanded a "hierarchy of viiucs, a hierarchy that knows how to give the people a little sunshine after so muny fiascos and so much bitterness."

Most outspoken of the Fas- cist editors. Farlnncci declared that Italy was living in ex- cepiional moments and it "is absurd and extremely don- gerous to measure tho choices o! men and decisions with the military annual as a yard-

ilail. Parcels- For Sicily

OTTAWA. July l5 ——(CP)-P0st- mister General Mulock today told a questioner tn the House of Com- mons that efforts will be made to luvs mail and parcels delivered as Icon is possible to Canadian troops 111 Blcllv but. that there might be limo delay due to pressure on ship- Pihi faculties which must be made available for the tr nsfer of muni- lions and food. $

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MIDDLETON, us, July 15-(0?) —Prancis Vldito, ‘l- ear-old son of Fill. and Mrs. C nrence Vldito. drowned toda in nearby Morton Brook. while playing with two young tompanions. His bodv was 1'8- oovered shortly after the accident.

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v"llorse Races at Riverside Track. °m°u. on July 21st. 7-2-61.

"Dance. Pleasant Grove Mon- div. July 19th. 1-16-11.

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MCECOW. July 15 -(AP) -'fwvo Riussian armies have begun a power- lul counler offensive in the Orel sector against s stalled German military machine smashing or rout- ing l0 German divisions in three days, recapturing 110 towns and ad- vancing as mucn as 28 miles, a special communique announced to‘ night.

A viast wheeling movement north and east of Orel threatened to pinch cff that German bastion which me Nazis used as a base in their own futile offensive begun J ulv 5.

More than 12,000 Geumans have been killed and 2.000 captured as "cur troops north and east of Orel, after fierce counter-attacks, passed onto the ofensive." the communique said.

This booszed the toll of Nazi cas- ualties f0 more than 54,000 killed

Cen. Giraud in Ottawa

UITAWA. July 15 —(CP)—-Gen. I-Ienri Giraud. commander-ln-chlef of the French Army in North and West Africa, and joint chairman of the French Committee for National Liberation, arrived at nearby Rvock- cllffe airport early tonight by air- plane from Washington for a three- dav stay in Canada, including visits to Montreal and Sorel. Que.

Gen. Giraud was met, at Rod:- cllffe airport by Pierre B11911)’ 01 the Department of External Af- fairs, who introduced to the French General, Defence Minister Ralston, Air Minister Power. War Services Minister LaFleche. Admiral Percvl Nelles, Chief of the naval staff, Air Marshall L. S. Brendner, Chief of the hir staff. and Mal-Gen. H. P. G. Ixsison. Adjutant General of the Canadian Army.

Many Shocked At ileath Cf Editor And Assistant

MONCTON, July i5 —(CP)-—R€-

War Situation Last Night

By Klrke L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst The dazzling speed that marked earlier phases of the Allied invasion

of Sicily was less evident a.s tho first week of the operation neared its end; but the whole IOU-mile Allied front from Naro in the west to north of Augusta in the east still was in forward motion.

The steel-tipped jaws of the Anglo-Canadian andUnited States forces formed a huge vise set to bite down ori the southern "efences of the Catania plain. Canadian, British and American troops, meantime, main- tained unrelenting pressure against the centre of the plain.

Axis commanders. apparently now aware of the tactical pattern of the attack. are uttlng up an increasingly stiff fight-particulari . ac- gtifillélg‘ to offic al reports, against the far-ranging jaws of the casing

e rap.

Yet the very nature of the defence they attempted testified to the success of the Allied strategic design. The initiative still lay with the Allied iuvadcrs- They had obviously forced the enemy to sca tcr his re- serves on mnny fronts and denied him opportunity to mass and mount o. concentrated counter bluw anywhere as this was written.

The Axis in Sicily thus far has been out-guessed 11s well as out- fought. And unless the crunching jaws of the Allied vise can be soon s10]!- pcd short of deployment simultaneously into the Catania plain from ‘castdand west, that strategic key to control of all Sicily must fall to the lIlVfl BIS.

The hubs of Sicily's road and rail networks are in that rolling valley south of gigantic Mount Etna. The main Axis air fields. munitions and fuel stocks and supply reserves are there by every indication. Yet to a- voiil that trnp without dangerously weakening the wide centre sector now under Allied pressure along every road and rail route leading in from the soutli and cast coasts poses a major problem for the defenders.

The Axis is being forced to fight dispersed preliminary actions in a dozen tiieatcncd sectors at the same time. Allicd litivancc prongs and lighter troops range perilously close along its whole length to the sec- ondary oust-west road and rail system so vital to successful deployment of troops and nrmor to man the hill bastions guarding the centre of the Catnnia, plain.

sidents in many sections of New Brunswick wcic shocked to learn of, the sudden death licre oi Alfred Roy. for 24 years edltor-in-chicf ofl L/ylivnngeliiie and his assistant J.‘ Thcrnus LcBlanc.

Wfdelv known throughout the province as a Journalist, Mr. Royl

or captured in ll days of attrition. German material losses ln the some period amounted to 3.068 1811115 destroyed or captured and 1.636 planes shot down.

Allied successes in Sicily. and for the first time the Russians senil- officially acknowledged that. a two- front war had arrived ln Eurolllc M- Vlktorov, n Moscow radio commen- tator, in a broadcast recorded in London by the Soviet Monitor. de- clined that “Hitler's latest gamble has brcn foiled. His failure is all the more conspicuous as his main forces nr-r- on the Soviet German front. Hitler has now been forced to fight on two fronts")

S.il.il. Professor in ll.S.A. Capitol

Rev. rem. ouianley. Ph- D» 0,1 the teaching staff of ht. Dunfiiimfi University. is at present ‘d0mB_5P°°‘ ial work ln Classics at ‘lhe $3113: llc University of America.‘ s 110., Recently he M15 lil- chve. 32.1.2.2:

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pointed Men in {or graduate

students.

Father oridniey Writ w Y“? mm)“ m ‘mnej Md expects ljotfer mm w the ls and in the e k-“S part of September ‘to resum work at. St. Dunstan s.

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SYDNEY. N- s- Ploriters on _ d in the British Fiji gmilf) 819 1'0"“ ‘ mg up (‘he islands 2,000 Wild Cfitblti for fo0d_Ii1P911°5

By GORDON TAIT

Associated Press Staff Willi!‘

LONDON. Julv l5 —(AP>—I“1‘¢&1\ German reserves were declared bl’ the Berlin Radio tonil , counternttacked the Allies invad- ing Sicily in thc reeion south o! Catanla, and both the Italian and Nazi communlques said violent British fLfld American drives had

n checked.

befpigmmg in southern Sicily 15 continuing with unotminished viol- ence", the German communique said. “At several 901MB enemy 3"‘ tacks, launched withnthc support of tanks. were Nfiifllfli

Hours after the communiqfle- 111° Berlin military commentator. Capt. Ludwig sertorius, told of the count- er-attack south of Catanfa. which the British ath Army which - elude; the Canadian lst division. is approaching.

“In Sicily, enemy pressure is bc- ing contained by Axis troops V119 repulsed stubborn enemy attack! launched with the support of nub- stantial 8mm." the Italian bulletin

"131 Mic Axis accounts were "wid- ed from broadcasts controlled by their propaganda ministries.

The communique: were at var-

mdie" River players. Adm ion 2c farms with allied wports or inn-ins

d as cents. 7-15-21 guy-rendering in the thousands. “Th “i- In marked contrast to the more Club e m" 51131151115 DTP-mm” confident tone was the Vichy fldifi ‘t sowm Present their 3 act play account [flying the Axis position in My 111151100 all Monday’. Sicily ls "extremely serious" and ' °°°d “Pwflmw- 7'1"‘ ‘- that "further infiltration attemDt!

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must be checked in order to avoid endangering Axis defences in the Cntanla plain." The Germans con- trol the Vich! India M,‘ ,

(rut Russian drive coincided with ’

the island of Teveunl.

Enemy Reports_On Fighting In Sicily

ht to have i.

l was taken ill at his home last nlghtl lnfler writing an editorial tribute to, lfliS assistant who had Passed aways at 6.30 p.111. Tuesday. ‘.

Mr. Roy became seriously fll early today and died this afternoon. At-l tending physicians of both deceas- ed said deaths were due to heart attacks.

47 years ago Mr. Roy was boriil at Petit Rocher. Gloucester Countini At the one of l2 he went to Corn- qiiet College where he attained hi5 B.A degree. Later he tnuizht at St. Anns University’, Church Point, N. 5.. and enlisted in the 145th Batta- lion in Nova Scotin at the outbreak of the First Great War. He was lstcr trasfci-red to the 165th Batta- lion and served overseas. .

In i931. Mr. Roy with sevicrnl other French Acadian lenders or-‘ ganized a pilgrimage of Fkcnchl Acadlaris to Louisiana. A few years lnter he was decorated by the French Acaclians of Paris for his service to Acadlen settlers in his,

area.

Besides his widow he ls survived by three daughters, Evangeline. Jennc-Mnncc. and Marguerite at. home; Four sons. Iguis FPIHWOJS. Overseas: Joseph of the Rofvfll CR“- adlan Navv in Nova Scotia; Clement and Clarence at home.

J. Thomas IfiBiflik‘. for ("£1111 veers assistant editor of Itfcvnng-l cllne dlcd last evening at his home. 4T7 Main Street. alter an illness cf less than one day. I-lc was 43. ‘Veil known in New Brusvvlck. He was a graduate of St. Joseph's UTilW‘ - sity.

GOLD COAST RUBBER _

ALGIERS, -_ tCPl A promising nrsa cf rubber bearing trees. so far untapped, fins been discovered in undeveloped country in the Gold Coast

Submit Brief 0n Grain Prices

UITAWA. July l4 — tC-P) tension of the governments policy of granting a drawback for wheat used for feeding 1o cover nil iii- gmnges in the price of wheat was recommended today by membtlls of the eastern agricultural con- ference ln a memorandum suib- mitcd lo Trade Minister Mac- Klnnon.

Mr. MacKlnnon assured mem- hers of the delegation that their recommendations would be brought to the attention of his colleagues of

The Axis line runs from threatened Agfigenkr and Cancatil in the west through Caltagircnc in the centre. menaced by both Canadian and American thrusts. to a iunction with the Sicilian cast roast trunk high- vvav yusi north oi’ Leniini. reported in British hands. Canadians push- ing northward toward Vlzzlni north of Ragusa are within n few miles of v its main tvvo-ivay traffic. stem. Just west o! thcm near Nicemi, an Arn- I crican column from the C-ela beach-head is within six miles of Cal- 1 tztgirnne. i

_ Enciilfmcni of that east-west communications lateral would lac f1iS1f'.i‘(t\l§ for tlii- Avis. It would mean the battle of Caianin plain must rlcvclnn on n TCfI-mile front north of the hill hastlons and in terrain svitivhlr- for '11s heavy armor now unquestionably being set. ashore every- wlicri- hv Alileri forces and rushed forward to support and power all ad- vance elements.

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_Munr0 Writes Viviclly Of The Canadian Front In Southwest Sicily

By ROSS DIUXRO I

Canadian Press War CuITCSPOIIdCIIi.‘

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Italians Slll‘l'('ll(.8l'illi§ in droves and towns cnpitulatiiig with scarce- lv any fight. these firs; three days of the amazing Sicilian campaign ‘lzgsgfnsbify“igyéilgoggr me can‘ ing of Britainis harvest, vitnl in

I finally Cflii"i"il. up with the fqgtlhfiitguealanfa-llsige. explf-“ed xgdpm} moving frontline troops ycsferdayi‘ 1091100900 ifll\lsg‘y-i?ezilal~lelélg “me “.13.. ilzv."::1".;::. mrslzi; i%‘r‘.‘.‘l.'v.“.".“‘.é“l.f.‘“ o‘

'I'1icy1ire sifting on 10p of the‘ Spurred on by an cxhortation

l/ONDQN. July l5(CP)—Gather-

world. Even the commanders arelfrom agriculture minister R. S.‘ surprised at the meagre defence ihe Hudson that. “each grealcr effort make will shorten tlicl

Italians are making of their hcine- you . land, ivvar." formers. izirls of the women's l The Canadians have taken everyflfillfl “my and ‘Pfllfi-i-inw 131591" advantage of the weak stand of tliu‘1°1l°d m‘? .11°‘"5 “"1911 by enemy nncl American and Britishllcngthlv permds o‘ daylight m“. troops nrc having equal successes. “Mk9 double summe" “me M “s1 It has been a victory march so‘ ‘ . l far through vineyards, olive groves.‘ Tram N“? 311mm élelpégom g‘? plantaunns and over ‘he chm‘ dust services inc u 11g ‘nna ns u mostly on a small scale,

‘roads of ihzs part of Sicily. But maybe Chair's trouble ahead. Thirty Mile Push iu_s_ Plans

With a few battalion actions and} _ ~ _ numcrous skirmishes. tho Canadians‘ I have pushed inland more thnn 30 ‘ miles flilfi 110w llicy arc getting ai i brcnthri‘ before the next phase of. ' ' the nllicd operation. 1

Yesterday. the Canadians jolnnd} un Witlh liic Amoricnns on the left- and ticy have briui kvcpiilg iinco with a farilous British division-no small achievement. considering the battle cxivr-rlr-iivo of those Tommlcs.

Every fmvii iii the Canadians‘ until has fallen without major flghilng. Pozzallo on the south coast. about Dlics of coffee will be ample 1o pro- 15 miles wcgt of the M3311 whgm vidc rill the brow that Americans‘ we landed. was occupied by two can drink. _ ‘ 1 companies. Coffee ‘supplies appear tn Jll-Silli‘ V1591“ {kw ghfiwhpe n“ Rshwe cnnccllntioii of nll l‘CSil'l(‘llDll.=.

they siiid, and oiilv some fvtullu"

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the Cnrribbcan—could block drop- ping of rationing.

The vrdict. it was understood, wns reached at n special meeting beturecn representatives of the O PA and the agriculture depart- mcnt.

President Roosevelt said recently;

WASHINGTON. Julv is-mn- Office of price ndinlnistmtion of- ficials‘ predicted today that coffee rationing in the United siatcs ufll.‘ end on or before Aug. ll, and s1ip-'

Gen. Ross Succeed: Late ilr. ldanion As

the Cabinet and be Elven lull con- sideriitlon.

The brief said a breakdown in the livestock program "is probable before the end of the year and al- most ccrtsln during the winter of 19H" unless “bold action" was tak- en immediately to control the dist- ribution of the nation's feed grain supplies.

Members of the delegation meet- ing Mr. MacKinnon included Pre- mier J. Walter Jones of Prince Ed- ward Lslnnd. who also is P. E. I. Agriculture Minister: Agriculture Minister McDonald of Nova Scctia Agriculture Minister Taylor of New Brunswick. Dr. Adrien Morin of Quebec. of the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture: and H. l-l. llannam of Ottawa. President of the Canadian Plederstlon rf Agriculture and Sec- retsry-Trzasiirer of the eastern ag-

ricultural conference.

I that im rovement in the battle a- A.,R,P, gainst {ghosts gave promise of re- moving consumer restrictions on colffeee and ‘sugrg. f u "i owever, l1 t c case o 8 8R1‘.

OTTAWA. July 15 -——tCPl-13i'1li- O.P.A fools the President Was n Gen. Alcx Rcss of Yorkton, S.1sk.,‘1it1le premature, has been appointed National A R. P. Director. Pensions Minister Mac- kenzie announced today fn the House of Commons.

He succeeds i-lori. R. J. Manirm. who died here recently.

Con, Ross is a former Dominion President of the Canndlau Legion and is District Court judge at York- ton.

Mr. Mackenzie

STRIKE CONTINUES

FIORENCE ,N.S.. July i5——fCPl —Floroncc local of the United Mine Workers oi America tonight‘ nsked the Federal Labor Deport- ment to intervene in the sirikc that‘ hos lied up tho Nova Scotla stool

the “'1' and coal coinpnliyls mine here for

made

“Probe Continues ‘into Child's Death

Well-Known Lawyer Dies

LAKE MANITYJU, Que, July 15 —}(CP)—Lt.-C0l. William Cedric Nicholson. p.s.o , Mo, 14.0., so, Partner in the Montreal law firm of Mngce, Nicholson and O'Don- nell und vice-president of the Can- ndinn legion, dlccl suddenly today at his home in this summer resort 45 miles north of Montreal.

He arrived here Tuesday and complained of feeling ill while Working in his garden today. He died tn n few hours.

Born ln Vveslmouiit, he vvns the son of the late John Alexander Nicholson, for many years registrar st McGlll University. His grand- father was James Nicholson, a. mem- ber of the Prince Edward Island Le- glslatuie.

He ups educated at. Westmount Academy and McGill Univcrsltv, gaining his Arts Degree in 1913. I-le served with the 5th Canadian machine nun regiment, the Yukon motor machine gun battery and border motor machine gun battery in the First Great War.

Besides his legal interest he was a director of Zcllcrs. Ltd, Climax Rock Drills. Ltd. and N. Chibouiz- amiui Mines Ltd. Surviving are his wife and four sons. two of whom are serving with the Canadian Army.

ST. GEORGE, N. 13., July l5 — (CP)— The probe llIIC circumstan- ces surrounding the death of four- year-old Barbara Sceley, whose battered and cut body was found a. short distance from the home other )i.ll‘"3ll'.$. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Sccley lost Sunday afternoon. is continu- 1ng,R.C.M.P.,offlccrs stated to» night bu. ndcicd that there were no new (levels-parents.

From unofficial circles it was loomed 11ml a coroiiers inquest sclirduled to have commenced to- morrmv will not get under way until probably Tuesday or Wednesday morning of next week.

Forest Fires Cut 0f Control In Newfoundland

ST. JOHNS, NflcL, July l5 ——(C: P Cnblcl- A dozen or more forest} fires were raging unchecked tonight over a ldmile from in Newfound- lnncPs Boiinvistri North district after virtually wiping out one small coni-

nlty. l

The flames. leaping along dry.- wocdlnnds, today destroyed at least 25 buildings 111 Trinity settlement‘ and forced evacuation of the pop-l ulation of 250, who were removed by‘. motorbonvs williuiit loss of life. ’l‘l1e' destroyed biiilciinus". included 20, homes, fvvc mills and other illmb6f". inc: property, a shop, a lodge and a school. l

Volunteer YlTCfIfJhYQTS managed! to save the villngzci: church, thoughi it was badlv scorched.

Fmm lllf‘, llfififll)‘ settlement of Warelinm. l1‘])fl‘.'i(‘Li threatened by lllf‘ iirc icdiiv, thorn ivns no furlli- or svoril tomztht. At last reports. sever. hruiscs find born wiped out in \Vnvcl1nni, whore I00 ircoplo live.

Racing for several dnvs. the flamrs were m

tonight. and "ills srvd it viould c: :1 l1 -l‘ ‘ to f v lo chock t ".1 .1. ffifilf‘. Thcv were 1'7 1111': vlfcnls on suvizip

builmiirs l1. the oath of the fires.

An nir force officer from Gander mndc- :1 lfffiflllfllf-lilllCf‘ flight ova-r the srcnr frxlnv. and hr- reported seeing at lfnsi n dozen outbreaks in ihc IS-mlle strctrh bcfvvcon 'l‘rinity‘ s€‘ill‘.‘7l‘l"llf nnd Indian Bay. Tile area, about half wav up Now fouitdlnndli. cast coast, encloses one of the country's most valuable tim- ber stands.

Kiska

WASHINGTON. July l5 --(A’.’l- Tlic fourth naval bombardment. of Japanese positions on Kiskn Island in on eight-day" lWYlOd was rcpnrtcd‘ by the United Slates navy todnv.‘ The ailuvk Arousal slzrclilnlion [lint preliminary ill‘f“fllll‘.'iliflllS for crzcnii (‘oiiqiii-sl of the ciicmvls lost imsilion in ill" Aleutian islands might b1: uiitivr v3.11:

A navy ciuiiiviiiiliruio mill ii liigltl.

nounccmoiit nftcr Gordon C-ruvdnn. H“. h.“ u,“ dawt Progressive Conservative House‘, The Como“; Pnnrqvhm M)..." leader, suggested appointment of n’ 709 nyefL has been lme mm. ,1"