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CHARLOTTETOWN, cannon MONDAYTJULY s1, 1944

Eapicl Progress In ' Car Ferry Repairs C. N. R. Head

Reports lilies Try iievv “Secret Weapon"

By Clinton Green (Distributed by the (‘anadian Press)

ABOARD EXPEDITIONARY FLAGSIIIP OFF TINIAN, MAR.- IANAS ISLANDS, July 30 — One of the most fearful ins- truments of death from the Allied arsenal of serret weapons has been proved. It ls truly fearful and it is doubtful whe- ther any human being vvlthin I00 feet of its action would be Ihle to live.

First use of the weapon rune several days ago. but because of’ security reasons it-ls impossible even to hint at it; construction or its manner of use.

Nazi Diplomats leave Turkey

LONDON, July 30 -- (AP) —A. flight cf German diplomats from Turkey Wag reported in Ankara! dispatches received tonight and the Gerilian Ascncy D, N. B.‘ taid tile Turkish National Assem- lily would b.- informed Wednes-‘ .0“! of the aovernmentfs decision! to brcak diplomatic and» economic‘ relations with Germany.

N. B which went to the unusual length of sayinz it hadl obtained its inforlllntion from "S".- viet Russian soul-cos" in. Sofia, Billgliria. adrird that Turkey would the_n_ be asked to grant the Allies iilCllltlDS for air and naval b r" I llld that ’I‘lirkc_v‘s active par: etion in the war as a belligurcnt wcuid come as a matter of col ' '-.

lstaniiili dispatches dated day sliitl lllC,‘ vltv oli the Bowel-oils had been struck with a Wave of litters and the people were saying ‘bombs will soon start falling‘

U. S. 'l‘rnnsp0rt Plane Mi ~-rilig

ss oi a United states arlliv 11.115- Pvri puni- \.ltll 20 persons aboard- includlliu l8 natirilts. while (‘ill route irolil Scotland to Mitchel‘ Field. New York. was a lolinccd Yfiiiidlll‘ bv the l\'.il' talent

The plane. a C-dl transport. D10- lliitluiilv went (loxvn Wednesday momma between Iceland and Neu- ioundlzlnd, thc dcoartnlcnt said. It was last. heard lrom about. 1:01) a. in. Wednesday ilflll "would have ex- hfllifitcd its uusoline that inorniitc." the anilounccnlcnt declared. An intensive search is still under way.

couiiic ElllEilTS

"Plmlv. Cardigan Wednesday, Altlrust 9th. ' 746.51

"Dance. lame Vang“ August hi. Webster's Orchestra. 7-29-21.

"Sllovv-Bradalbaile Tuesday. ,.

"i" W—-Mali>eoue Wednesday. i 7-31-21.

"WK Lot til Wednesday. M9515. Dance afterward. 7-31-11

"Reserve Wednesday Aug. all i" United Church Tco.'at York. , 1-29-11 "ice e

OTB-m Festival. Bingo. m0 5h James Church. George- - Mmduy. July 31st. 'i-2'I-4i.

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"T0 anive-Csr 1 H a _nvernecs and “Mammy Coal. Peters-z W35 Duéivgdensiaa some; mat. . e o , 4~ special music. y 1.35:1,

inch Wrtnaer A. Home a 7-26-3

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"Pflniry Sale m, I QOTI Hardware, "film afternoon. August l2. "Y L-QB-A. Kiniston. i-ol-ll-al

_ __ ‘Qt-m scum Hall. Tuesday:

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I MONCTON. N.B-. Jilly 29—When interviewed this morning follow-log his return to his headquarters here from which he has been absent on trip in connection with the re- turn toserelce at. the earliest pos- sible date of the car ferry Prince

wand Island now _ Mr. J If. Johnston. vice president and a of ui At-

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e _ Canadian National Railways. said: "I am both surprised and pleased at the rapid- ity with which the work is under- way. Mr. W Percival who is cle- Duty controller of shllp repairs and salvuze for the department of mun- itions and suopiv is riizht on the 10b looklntrafter the speeding up of the work and Mr. D. M Ford. vice Drcsident in charge of pur- chasing and stores tor the railway. is looking after ntatters.

“Mr. Ford intends to visit the dry- dock from time to time until the shin has been releaszd to see that no undue delav occurs."

Mr. Johnston liraisccl the work beinu done bv Messrs Bruce stew- urt and Co. Ltd. bharloctelowil This firm. he said. already has converted two of the six boilers to he use of oil and clue to their vcrv excellent ctr-operation ft has been made possible t-o convert the tour additional boilers from wail to oil ivhllc the still) is in dryd ck

This. Mr. Johnson stated. will re- sult_iu marked imurovclnent in cp- eration under ice conditions.

Ml‘. Johnson did not reveal the location of the drvtlock where the‘ work on the car ferry Prince Edd ward Island is being done nor the; alt-proximate clotc of release. This illfonilatlon hc inierrrd cannot, bol released for i3C11fll2V reasons. but 113 stated that everyone will reoi-lblv surmised when the returns to service and that

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Quebec Parish Eiiurch Burned

VALLEYWIELD, Que , Jilly 30‘ —tCP1 -_- The parish church o.’ St. Stanislas dc Koska here was destroyed by fire lost nizilt after lightning struck the Sacristy, Da-_ maize is estimated at $100000 !

Vflllfyficld firemrn fought the blaze for several hours but could llot prevent. the church from be- ing completely levelled Tile roof‘ and the 160 foot high belfry crumb- irci fcur hours after the fire was‘ discovered

The Parish church of St Stali- islas, a replica of the Vall-Zl/flcld Conhtsdral ti. iyed by fire in 103T. was bllllt '71 years ago its destruction occurred on the eve of the retirement of parish priest L N

to his narlshoners at this morning's

in dnrdock. 300

i From Florence

Germans Still Unable To , Check Russians

LONDON. July 80 - (AP) -- Geri. Ivan Cherniakhovsky. 3'1 year old Jewish tank expert. sent his 3rd White Russian Anny crashing 1i. miles into East Prussia today in a powerful offensive which oven-an towns and villages in l5 m gains on s oil-mile front.

The town of Ciiby. 11 miles inside the Suwalkl triangle which Ger- many annexed to East Prussia in i939 after the conquest of Poland. was amonz the many localities 011D- tured by the troops pounding west- ward under Cherniakhovsky. one 3f Russia's youngest military lea-

ers.

His northern wing seized shly- anova. only five miles east of Kau- nas, former Lithuanian capital, and Bobikly. less than five miles south- east of Kaunas

The crossintz into East Prussia was announced only casually in the daily Soviet communique.

North oi’ this thunderous offen- slve another huge Russian DUSh was underway in Latvia. and Sov- iet troons nlunizing to within 25 miles of the Gulf of R159- W3" believed to have an excellent chance of clash" a eigantic trfl!‘ ‘ilmfii- equalling that achieved at Film“- grad early in i043. when YWKQOQ (Jrermans were kliisd or captured

Allies T Miles’

ROME. July BO-(AP) — The Cannons threw five battered cilv- isicns todav into the battle of Fic- rciice. great 'I‘u:c'ln art centre. the storied towers of which were in sizht ‘of the British Hm army; fighting uu tllfOllitil the lnountainsl

Once attain. as so often in th ; drive up the Italian Peninsula. the Allies were faced with the possible necessity firill: oil n storehouse of Art and Cilliurc. for the clicmy WAS scttinz up u. llcavv ului irat- tery in the southern outskirts of the city made famous bv Dante. litlchclangelo, Petrach. Boccaccio. Savunarola and the Metilcis

Titzhtenina its ring about the city of uMtC-‘JD. the 8th almv was sev- en miles alvev at Sari hfichcle on the southwest and 10 miles away on the south at the battlefield of Mount Scalar-i, hltzhest bqint in the area and from which lllorence is plainly visible.

MUSSOLINI 6i

NEW YORK. July 30 - (AP) urday and the Berlin Radio. broad-

»It was being shoutckl. too, from tho housetops in Germany itself by a tri-

fle at ills faltering‘ fighting fronts to Goering, Himmler and Goebbels.

i War

Situation Last Night

By Kirke L. Simpson, A ‘ ‘ ‘ Press War Analyst The plain evidence of critical Nazi shortage of manpower was written nerou the war maps this bitterest week-end of the struggle for Germany.

umviratc of fanatical party follower: desperately boot-strapped to sup- reme powen to meet a multiple crisis.

There were intimations that. shaken by his own narrow escape from death at German hands, Hitler had virtually divested himself of all the symbolism of his leadership, turned over the actual authority at home and

In the east the Nazi front from the Baltic to the Carpathian passes that lead down into the Hungarian plain was buckling under an all but continent-wide torrent of Russian attack. Berlin openly admitted flight in process along the whole line to some shorter front to conserve man- power. and the dispatch of jealously boarded home reserves to meet the lied Avalanche.

The ' have entered east Prussia and Stanislaw. Lwow. Brest. Litovslr, Blaiystoc, Kaunas and Narva all were left behind. Slaulial, half-l way across Lithuania to the Baltic coast, fell to the Russians. That cut- the only remaining land escape route southward for up to twa score] Nazi divisions in the upper Baltic states.

For to the south Berlin admitted "withdrawal" into the Carpathian foothills between the upper Dnestr and the Sari. Przemysl seemed doomed to spilt tho German east front apart and expose Cracow and German Silesia. In the centre collapse of the Brest Litovsk eastern outguard ex-‘ posed Warsaw to frontal assault.

Nor could the Nazis command look westward or southward ivitlinut added concern. At the very moment when all reserves were needed in the ‘ east“ an American armored break-through of growing scope, speed and power hit them in Normandy. followed by n new British drive which ap- peared to be making steady headway In the Caurnont sector.

In Italy Allied forces closed ln steadily on Florence. Ami the retreat nf the foe on the It'll-latte flank indicated final retirement ‘into the Gothic line (lefence from somewhere above Pisa to Rirnihi on the cast coast.

Pressure on Bulcaria to get out of the war and hints of lnnenrllng Turkish entry into full \'.‘T‘.l" partnership asainst Germany all pointed to early developments to add to German strains.

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him; (sour-ill.- v1 of Blutaili, lat.- Goil. hlurk Cults. Jill allny coliiinur. r, Archo loo l-railcls .1. EDMONTON, July 30 -— (CPl —: sueiilnaun of Neill York and G il- The hclnc stretch in the Aug 8. erai Aicxanocl, ‘lbllliléllle f-Cnl- Alberta general election was tulned mandcl in lnlilaly lvcleat lunch. n it‘. didatestocfimffi E 5 ‘i’ » .. __ , .. ..' _ 1510"" 3.’. ‘iii Ztfiiléi “this” ‘aunt-KT? flit. ! M‘ .010“ 1°; HOKPQHfiOIéZF-sgl v iiouca the mines was i ' i da,t' soco ere. an: .1 .. , , _ . - [gay B551 11nd a candidate sirtien ilil. Alli.’ hau iusi. cuinciciea an

inspection of an lnrurcsslvc dis- f°f EV"? Sea‘ The mdependem‘ olav o1 litii army strenavh wilen

Citizens‘ Association of Alberta.’ the explosion occurred. nominfltfid 36- 81K mm“? ma" ma» A fiitli al-mv spokesman asserted

Labor - Profiles-fives F9“? “mgr-SI the SOlCUSA‘ nad waikca liito en of varied political affiliation arc 31233 mjtfjggq "must-e" ‘v95; u; in the ilcld Clailds headquarters. I-Ie slciwua

on all anti-personnel inlnc which

was attached to an anti-tank mine.

Tho luncheon continued without inici-iuotlon. out Gen. Clark im- lncclateiy sent ain aide to deter- lllilie the source of the exblcslon.

Nazis Move Troops

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n a y closed, but the armored spear-

heads, followed by infantry. ap-

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Aumais, who was to bid good - by] -‘ Benito Mussclinl was Bl Sat- l

hilzli mass. casting a dispatch from his Ital- Tllc new parish priest of St. I ian headquarters. said he celebrated Stanislas dc Koska is Rev. Lucien with an flatly 0101111112 bicytrle ride Poirier, former parish priest of through the park of his mansion b C u__ Landing _ and subsctiliqfltvllflplflyegLfoennia.

mPiinzzzvleciBritons Ask Questions Re Normandy

Overall-Situation In France Good Despite Some Disruption Of Allied Plans‘

ProgJioniLProsideiit In Quebec Quits

By DouciuAnunu

LONDON. July 30 - tCP Cable) — Puzzled Britons turned to their newspapers this Dust week for guidance in seeking an explanat- ion for the apparent collapse of Gen. Delnpeeys British - Canad- ian offensive south of Caen.

The continued 51160655 cf the Ain- erican drive on the western flank cf the Normandy battlefield dis- pelled fears that Gen. Montgom- ery's whole campaign had bogged down, but the doughboys’ victories did not answer all the questions people were asking.

Official spokesmen. senior staff officers, military commentators ancl war correspondents in the field un- dertook to throw as much light up- on the situation as security allowed and as the week ended there was general agreement that although

QUEBEC, July 30 - (CP) - Bona Arsenault announced yester- day that he had resigned as Pre- sident of the Progressive Conserva- tive Association of uebec Province and that L’Opin on Publlque.

Progressive Conservative organ Quebec would no l er be lished. Mr. Arsenaut has editor of the paper.

Mr. Arsenault/s announcement came one week after Progressive Conservative Leader John Bracken released the text of a telcilram he had sent. to Mr. Araenault disas- societlng " elf and the Federal Progressive Conservative organiza- tion from an article in L'0pinion Publique attacking Senator T. D. Bouchard. The article referred to Senator Bouchard as o. "Qulslim for his speech in the Senate at- tacking the order of Jacques Cer- tlcr, a secret organisation which senator u claimed was working tn undermine Canadian

unit .

Mil’. Arsenault had been Preli- dent of the Progressive Conserva- tive Association of Quebec since January, 1M2. and had been editor of L’Opinlon Publlque for several months. His announcement yes- terday said merely that he was re-

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there is no cause tor worry. Nothing’ Radically Wrong

Alan Moorehesd, able veteran of the wor correspondents’ fraternity. wrote in Saturdays Daily Express: "There is nothing radically wrong in tho military situation in Nor- mandy."

"The plan bu not gone exactly according to plan because no plan ever does." he sold. "But in gen- eral the overall situation is silent- ly better than we planned it to ." MOONIIGBII‘! view of the situation was that Rommel has chosen to contain the Allies in the bridge- head-to take the all-out risk of

' From Yugoslavia

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BARI, Italy. July 30 — (AP) —; Germany has withdrawn nearly all first-line troops from Yugoslavial and is rsshuifline the remainder to mask new northward movements. a reliable report here said today-

Seventeen German divisions Wsre in the country July l. but only i0. remain now. all but one of them second-rate units-and the forve now opposing Marshal Titos Yum?- slav Portisans by the most Liberal egfllniitg is less than 350.000 man. the i-ePOrt sold-

Ierigin Tomb is Ilynaiiiiteti

NELSON. B.C'., July 30—(CP)— The tomb and sarcophagus holding the caskets of Peter varietal I and Peter verlzin II Doukho r lead- ers, were destroyed by o. dynamite blast yesterday.

Three men overpowered the guards and set off the blast which blew away the protective art of the bomb. revealing the cas ets in ch51;- rcgtlng place. Numerous un- successful attempts have been made m blow up the tomb since l9-

The usual guard. Jim P090"- wac. not on duty at the time.

In his place were-two Doukho- bor men. They were brutally bea- ten by the attackers. who escaped without being identified.

World's Oldest Mason Is 991d

LANCASTER. N. H . July 30- (AP) — Joseph D. Howe. 1M. world's oldest Mason. died yester- day at Lancaster Hospital after a brief illness. He was o ember o the New Hampshire Consistory, 32nd

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Secs Military Display

The King earlier was alsbectator‘ at the most strikim lililitary GlS-' Dilly-am: has seen cturinz his six; clays in Italv outside of actual bat-i

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He was driven from the airnortl to amiv headquarters. through the. ranks A Ir‘. men linine bcltil sides OI the mad. Then the close- knlt roauislqe screen was taken c- ver by American combat troops. ,

Then. on a nearby airflcl-al, the King was driven to the for end cl a line of American troops. iillrsls and W.AC 5.. and all tylws cl eollrs-nlcnt. lnciueiniz long lbolvln. riiles DDIIlLECl skywurd. tanks. car- riers and armored cars. ‘

The Kins walked _ one end of a rill. ullrht line wl the other. muslin! frequently w talk to the men and women

Before the luncheon . _ait treeq sllellcljcd nth army headquarters.‘ the Kim shod: hands with all camel's. from Generals tio prlvutesl In simple c es he presented Gen. Clark with the medal of a. Knight of the British Empire.)

of honorary companion cf‘ the bath went to VMaLGen. Allied M. Grueuther. chief of staff. until Mel Gen. Geoffrey Keyes. com» mander oi iihe 2nd corps.

Open-Air Luncheon

Clark. as host. served as elabor- ate a lunch as a: v rat-ions and the countryside could proalace. In an o n-air seiltinll the aucsts had col roast. beef, fresh ham. potatoes. on tuna fish salads. mils. cheese. intricately- built. lellvfoll oake. watermelon and American bottled n t

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plane and flew over in Gen. Alex- ander's comfortable converted - 47 transport. which had been flown by on Amerkion crew 1w more inan nine months.

C. P. l. EARNINGS

MONTREAL. July N -—- (OP) - Net earnings of the Canadian Pac- ific Railway Company for June and the first half 0f i944 establish- ed The’! hlghlgdeoorda for any corres- oon n: per .

Net earnings for June at $4,538.- 46’! were $117,020 hiizhcr than the like month in 1943 willie fl-

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liRlTlSH ZND ARMY LAUNCHES

Red Army Enters East Prussia

lull. ll-Wi other Invlnecc.l IT-IA. HIM buhoeflpllnn hollowed, IQJQ

PUSH

Nalis Aplpgr To Be Caught OH Guard

By JAMES M. LONG

A ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, July 30 - (AP) — The British 2nd rmy exploded a new offensive along a seven-mile front in the centre of the Normandy

line today, rolling along

at a furious pace, while American armor, in a bid to break out

‘if u"! Cherbollrk Peninsula, beat southward along a solid ZO-mile front, taking Brehal,

Gavray and Percy.

th GB-illi-leftront dispatches said LL-Gen. Miles C. Dcmpsey’s new assault broke through e elman oiwald line and battered into secondary defences in its first few hours

and still rolled along tonight in the

Roger Greene. Associated Press war correspondent, said British tanks and infantry, in the light. ning thrust that caught thi- Gor- mzins with the hulk of tilrii" urlnor poised lniies aivzly ill the Car-ll sector, sliiusllccl fiirlvarti more than 4 1-2 miles into defences south of Ciulniont and that a battle was flaming in ilie densely-E ivooticd Normandy llilllitrvsitlc Another Associated Press will: cor-l respondent. William smith White. said the British forces were aci- vanclng at the rate of a mile an hour in some sectors.

William Stewart. Canadian Press war correspondent. reported that the first enemy troops countered were nut of the liiull calibre of the SS. formations that stopped last week's push east 0i the Ornc riv- er. He said no enemy tanks were in evidence in the first few hours of the attack. indicating how seriously the Germans were caught off balance.

One British force took St. Jeon-Brecu Des Essariiers and pushed on beyond. Another, to the west, rolled along at an equal pace, taking Les Lodges.