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RAlllSNll A R F EllEN PREVIOUS AVABE STABS

German Defences go into Frantic Action, ln Effort to Stop Destruction.

Sept. 2'l—(l"rl- fl1‘\|¢nt(‘.P) -—l3ritlsh bombers rel. off a lllll-mile string of [Jill]; fires along the contin- Qildl coast. all the way from y luilgzt‘. Belgium, to Cap r‘ t ,\‘cz, France. early today in a raid which dwarfed even flu-ii‘ previous savage assaults. starting at Dunkerque, the plaai »\lr Force set the first int-s to blazing, then struck ll|'\l to tho south at Calais,

Bullllltflll‘ and (lap Gris Ncz.

pent-st Nazi-lucid French port

lo lieitain, and completed the

lllll- of flames with attacks on

ilu‘ llslflltl area to the north.

li-rmau scarchlights franti- fallr stlllllitYl the skies in an cllorl to locate the British bombers for thei: ground bat- tcrics, but the beams were lost in the bomb flashes and fires rt-tlvvtctl brilliantly in the night sliics.

'1' nightly attack on Hitler's yw-"Lal invasion bases followed 1t t v oi raids that spread fire 1a . ~li'lli‘il0ll from Berlin to the l coast, and an angry re.- om German shore batteries - shrlled Dover.

lite Royal Air Force coun- ternlii‘! e ranged far and in. innsl} -inl:inrl upon key tw-nvin military cities and alum; the bruised roast of llvlldllll, Belgium and France --.\utl an authoritative journal- lsilt‘ voice warned that hence- lurlli lir-riin is to feel regularly v a slstrmiltll‘. attack. l

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.-\ headline in the Evening property oi

Production-said It‘ over Berlin every niulitf‘. - capital oi Hitler's ltcieh l _ the darkness of l‘l‘i .n early today such a raid ‘ wr before had bccn launched it a five-hour attack ile- . by the British Air llllllll\—‘ lo have covered with explos- ‘hc great. Iimtoliti-lzilrurat, vllhvrf! power station and \'l‘.fl'. objectives. . l ~- \‘§ but one phase of a mighty

n" g vtirougli the night. and partl o‘ "c day on almost evcrv sort: of . tor‘ concentration needed, l‘ - Nazis li they evcr are to ' l‘ the invasion which they threatened.

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Australian Airmen Arrive For Training

A. ‘-‘-'F.S'l‘ COAST CANADIAN riot. Still. 2s —(CPl ~ Hull- , ~ll sons of Australia came to . -.-‘-.‘.\ today to win their wings < British Commonwealth Aid m; Plan and hclp (lrlvc lac, enemies from the skies. l cciriugent to ariave frljlll. s-uth Pacific Dominion. till‘ ' ‘inns have learned the fllflh‘

- in the ~ unis jointly established in Can- .l

v will train along with Can- and other trainees YTOm .»us parts oi the Empire.

GETS HIS TAILOR-MADE

LONDON ~fCPl "Among the Y'l'!'lli5 in the Dutch Milli)" '1" Wiles is W. J. Vnndcnberil- 1‘ 51X‘ rim-four cattle rancher from South Africa who drilled in a socrlc 5"" urxll the tailor could make hllll ll rut-to-measure battle drcss.

Coming Fvenis -Q-

Rats for Notices in tii|~ columl I cents per worll.

"Talkies-Jvlt. Stewart, Saturday- L-tcu-u-zc-zi.

"Talkies-French River, Monday- L-469-9-26-zi. "Bingo and Dance in Kelly‘:

CW» hall Friday, September 27th L-533-9-26-2l.

"Auxiliary Legion Meeting Fri-

wll. 7.140, Legion Home. Initiation.

L-546-9~2'l-fl.

Hall, Friday, Good music.

L-5M-B-2I-It.

“Come u, me Bingo and Dance

‘Dance, Afton 5i ntcmbei‘ 27th.

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Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

CYIAANDOTTETOWN, CANADA, rain/w, SEPTEMBER 21. i940

First Snow ls Reported From N. B.

i _ irat snow of the season n New Brunswick was re rted to have fallen last night gloyai Roiul_ district, is mile] rom h-edcricinn. The fall rang- "l lm to an Inch.

lltvcords show this month has lift-n thc iveitest September since l-HZ. Rainfall here m 113mm]. month has measured 7.91 inches.

Flying Orrin Agents Alarm Nazis Greatly

AMSTERDAM, (Via Bcrlln)— Sept. 26—(AP|--A German hunt for flying "British agents" who are reported to be landing by night in llflllillltl i0 meet sympathetic Netherlantlcrs l'i‘.\llll(‘(l today lnthe arrest of five men in the coastal provinces of south Holland.

(The urgency which the German authorities seem to have attached to thcsc incidents apparently in- dicates that they have been un- able. to ivcetl out the network of secret tigcuts who honcycontbed the Netherlands before the Ger- mzin invasion of last May i0.

(The then neutral Netherlands was an ideal listening post for agents because of its proximity to tln- west wall and important Ger- man industrial areas.)

Believe Foul Play In Death 0f l}. B. Man

S\'i7.‘~il-‘.\'. N. H‘, Sept. .'!6-~<Cl’t 1m illl.l)l>,'~f.' report that Angus iilacisnac had diccl from n rc-vol\‘ci' shot through the lnack of tlw licad iaciiflcrl tonight tn foul play iu the dtath of the t='>-\t~ii~-nl<l farmer. found (lead to- llll' in his hona- lli ncailrv Bin l-‘anu.

The aulopsv performed hcrc by Dr. Arthur i.. Sutherland disclos- ed Maclsaiic. a bachelor who liv- ed flllllll? oi\ his farm l5 from here. had been shot with a

.38 calibre revolver. ‘The bullet was _

found in his brain.

Police found another bullet of the same kind embedded in the rear door of his home. The re- volvcr was not found.

lifziclstiar-‘s quarters showed in- dications oi a struggle. A window luid been smashed. cupboards torn down and wallpaper stripped away. liloorlstains were found on the victims car in his garage.

An itiqucst convened here to- night but adjourned until next Vvcrlncsxlav after thrce witnesses had been heard.

A llllllYt’ of; the Ben Eoin dis-

lriet. Mliclsrtnr‘ lind mined gold ln|

the Klondvkc region for years and then returned to (‘ape Breton in i926. later. He llvcd some years in Detroit.

Moral Prestige

for De iiaulle And

Men ls Intact

LONDON, Sept. 26.—fCP) —G€n. Charles dc (iaulles Free French headquarters (icclnrcd tonight the abandonment ot the Dakar ex edi- tion proved the wish of his folow- ers to save their arm for the fight against Germany.

"The moral prestige of Generslde Gdolle and his troops remains ln- loct." the statement said. "The mag- nlfleenl. effort of Free French forc- cs will not be relaxed merely be- (‘flll.\¢ of the failure of Dakar."

ll. charged authorities of the West African capital acted under Ger- innii pressure when they fired on Gen de Gaullcls einlssarles.

It went on to say that British naval authorities withdrew at dc

Gaullrvs request so as not. to force-

Frcnch troops to fight other French-

il‘l(‘l'i.

British officials announced that PrTnic Minister Churchill receivcda message from the French Camer- 0011s declaring the Dakar episode has failed to deter "their determin- ation to continue the struflflc tigalnst. C-ermnnv side-by-side wth un- British government.’

MAKES FAST TRIP

Monrnrzairseiiifzti- rcpt —A Cdllilillllll Airways plane lairdedhcrc tonight. alter a trip of two twig and 50 minutes from Mnncton. . .

The plane ran as nn extra to the wmnm- 11mm or Trans-Canada Al? Lines. l: carried {our inembcis o the Department. of ‘transport-

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Taking advantage of every opportunity to practice, the King has become adept in the use of the Bren gun. 0n nearly every inspection tour he shows kccn interest in the weapon. and frequently marksmanship by firing a few rounds. This picture w:s taken during a visit in a llfi-lt-h (illurtls (liput.

on anti-aircraft. mounting, and th

lng the demonstration of divcbtimbing.

Nightly Attack

By Louis v. HUNTER l Canadian Press Staff Writer l LONDON. Sept. 27.--\F‘i'lday*i -, tCl’ Calder-German raiders making their 20th consecutive attack on lLoudou, (ll‘(‘l)])f‘(l lilfflldlzlli.‘ llGlllliS ‘and high explosiics in various sec- ‘ilOllS cf the city eiir._v today. but as milzllt l):l.\<0(i there was not a slnge .l fire lo be seen on the city's hoi . , The centre of the metropolis i. s shaken. l10\\'\‘\'i‘l‘, bv one especially. heavy explosion. . The southeast coastal area had been under heavy attack last nightu‘ and at least six raiding planes were. reported brought down in that sec- tion in .1 series of (log tislits. - i The Air hfiuistw llillll)llll(‘i‘(l that 3i C-crinan plants had been shot ‘down before midnight, more than.’ one-third of them costly bombers} Eight British planes were lcst. 'I‘hrec British pilots were safe.‘ _ Aside from this it “Ylsdlillllilcltll-i iv but authoritatively said that at. least. nine other raiders had been‘ dcstrovcd. l The 3i officially announced bagged were understood to haie been shot down in a furious 3t- minule battfe orer the isle cf, Wight; at least l1lll(\_ ollicrs in en-. gngrmeuts over the industrial I\‘ll(I-‘ lands anzl the southeast and llOl‘l.ll-. least coasts. 4 l During the afternoon UPON? llll one southcasktowu watched 84i~fivll-‘ tary plane flying unltsilallv lo_\\ over‘ the town. They thonghtit “co British. but sudocnlv the whistle vi bombs was iirartl.‘ and it was svlzll l0 be a twm-cuuiiied Nazi raider‘. Four bombs were drollbrd bflflllf aull-aircraffit and niachinttlpun no‘ drglfilclltreli on the way tobrchoolv inl‘ one northeast coast town. its?‘ machine‘ tllllilltltYl by l1 "ml"- ll t v - o iur. l “(iIl'l‘1i.‘R1l‘i\i(lt‘l' had previously drama‘ ped bombs on 1W0 Olhlfl °°*‘$*‘1‘_: towns in that area. cousins casualties and apparcntlxu as “chine bound when it started l5 m‘ I “lgl-fiénliiavughr German assaults‘. were many and detcrmincil. Th0. ‘l jp- thrusts at. London were lllrll- $1“ biick but: llicrc was a consider". abiehst of civilian dead anxdh lured ln a northeast townwh c \ ,

heavilv hit.

In three towns on the Volga-Shire; coast bombs icll thickly. wit"; “gng. line of stores and homes ltlii.“ 0 . point. and leavinl! 3° Milli‘ ti“, which bu * ‘ "

Italian Shipping ls Hard Nit

Li.

CAIRO. Sept. 26—-(APl—Slup- ping in Bengasi, important Italian Libyan port. suffered heavily in a bombing raid by Royal Air Force planes on Sept. 18, British head- quarters disclosed today, showing photographs or the raid effects.

One. photograph showed clouds, of smoke pouring from a large} ship while the outlines of a sunken craft-probably a barge-could bel dlstinguishctl nearby. ‘

Across the harbor what appear- ed to be a destroyer could be seen

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‘T371 iliiCiositl divas.’ Planes Downed , Uver Britain

Raiders Make 20th ‘Consecutive

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a ,School Teacher ls Heroine In Sea Rescue

LONDON, Sept. 2G — (CP C1101!) — A 21-year-old Lou- don school teacher. who in the face of death told a serial story to six young boys in an ripen limit at sea and devised ever-

‘VEN-‘S I'm’ them in iiirir crainpcil quarters, was the heroine tu- ntqht of the dramatic sea res» cue of All survivors of the tur- peducd (‘ity of Benaros.

She is Miss Mary (‘ornisln one of ilic escorts of ihc lilll t-vaculcrl children who nerr- cu route to (‘anatlzi when the liner was tlll‘|ll!ll0(‘il (300 miles out in the Atlantic Sept. 17.

‘Sole woman in the boat, with six youngsters and 3.‘) men, Miss (‘tirnish was credited uiih sav- ing the ii s nf tlic boys.

"llv till‘ iiciu- night came we bad completely lost contact with other lifelcoats and the waves were so high that even if they luul l|l‘t'n only a slight distance away we could not have seen ilioiu.

“l\'ith some canvas the sea- men rigged up a shelter in the bnus and we lay there protect- cd in some measure from the

trise his

e King is sighting through it dur-

Qn Levee!-

autumn ARMitASE

ALEXANDRIA. Egypt, Sept. 26.»! <AP|—A third and point-blank! shelling of Iialys iiivaisiun bases ln| Egypt by the liieciiierrancan fleet, leit. towering flames and caused resounding explosions in the centre of Marshal (‘rrazianils (lPeCYt army, the British Naval Command an- nounced today. |

The warships steamed at dawn Wednesday lnlo the coastal waters nll Sidi Barrani, where the Italians} c ‘c |ii't])'.ll‘lll<_{ tilCii‘ main base afterf the lEIgqvptian border, and, ‘eel at will, the authorities dis- c cscd. It was the third British attackl

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iriltl seas. but we had only one blanket for three boy's. Our main trouble was to keep our circulation at least partially going."

lint Miss (‘ornlsh did not tell the whole story. Other survivors ilisclnscd that during the long days anti nights Miss Cornish crouched in the pitifully confin- ed spam- In iht- bow of the boat. Shi- massaged the limbs of the children and invented exercises for iliein to counteract their

crampcrl condition and the bit- ter enltl. She

said tlit- children were 'l'he\ "passed the in: and telling star ’ 'l‘lic_v were “qui '- . and to help them a- long "we bad a se-rial —my own I t l l

version of Bulking Drummnnd. Never at any time did the boys ccmyilain.“

ulttlzug; Praises R.O.A.F.

Mr. J. l. Lelghiizer. elected pm». sident 0f the ('li;i|‘lottel<|““ [mun-h of the

(‘anadiiiii Ltliglt)" u U“. annual meeting last night. ' ____ _ __ I l SUM "Vl/illiitlf. 1N ENGLANDq Lo l L ‘Sept. ll\|~—\(_‘l" "Your squadron is‘ ca ‘(lung a no gob oi work. Con- gralulalitwi " l Willi the c words the King t0- ‘dag. ]ll.li* liu- trailer.squadron

.ol llu- l-.i Cazmtllziii Air Force‘ when ill‘ paid an llilOfllIkll visit to

New Slate

its sliiziuii and talked to the Cana- i . nlio luive been shooting Nilll , raitvrs out of the sky or crippling

‘*- |tlisin at a rate of more than one

The annual mo: .iii;: o.‘ the Char- l(h\1].\‘. l°tt‘?t"wn B"m“'“ “I ill“ (“ll-“llllll. inert: uas an air raid alarm as Legion was held last eve-mung Illlll y 311.} -.-;,lnl,nnmd by sqdn

“'85 breech‘ illlimlffl- P, (‘f-ll l La . l‘:i'Ii\.\'t‘NI(.'Nfll) of Regina, was Nmmml vl- IDWli-‘r “Ylllmiil "L" shouu through the station l Chair. '

lhiring; the alarm the Klllg went

there in l0 days. Dllmlg m‘? mlwlllll-fli “'-'\-‘ 51M“ l0 the llilifi mess with (‘roim Onc militarv objective fired by a~ecl that the 540.000. \\lll('l\ l.\ loan- (mp5 (;_ R “my. “m; nth...’- OIL

shell burned for al least UYOrll ‘fled by the Rcd Crass S l\ l » the 1 llrvis i

Naval officers tJXl)l'(‘.\S(‘(l con idenccl Canadian L/cuion War Scr crs lllsll “f ~. . l». . . ., .. -

this ill.‘\\'f3.‘.l action had disrupted Il-l January, had been rel... itul I'l l nmsnlk, 333x“

alien plans for a Yvncvlval 0f ltlv-‘lfl lull to ill(‘ Red Cross Society. I: .' .. . . .' " - . ' '

llllllllllll llfl<‘ll-‘il\l‘- was also mated that cturmeniir‘ ‘xx/Lutéy‘ ruxf‘ ‘i101 lif-‘lflolgl Did-a“ lAu Italian hiuh command com- c . . t». .- .. t ‘I . i ‘W "w ~ ""““‘~ ‘Q an“ “m

lillllllflllt“ in in‘ nowlctlgiug the f3;{li,.°.‘mf"§.‘i,‘.f,§° "mm lxf‘, p;lots and raukt-rs were in off-

she lliLSlllfl ilia‘ l lll\li platics had “ m" ‘Vi... v47‘, ',.,, \ (llll.\' llll11lll'l1l.

bombed the twitch-hit Ila an port‘.or‘SHAH,'c'fl'n,glfni.cy \H..(,',..-,.5(..1_‘ l‘ “f” flllllll! mi“ lllldlvcllilll

of ’I'ohruk. 0h the Libyan t r st. Th ‘ ' ' l“ ‘ ' that im- hill}; addressed his words

a. ltnlinns also said an Italian iOrlW-i do-bont had been stink in the Ioni- an Sea bv a British Slillliltlflllfll. l

A Royal Air Force communique ls-

lsucd at Cairo tonight said "sc\'crc"l

. l coinage was done in air raids on: Tchruk yesterday‘. Bombs _h1t‘ wharrcs. brvrracks and ofhcr obioe-

[ivpg m“! lnionsll‘? fircs were start- ed, it was slated.

U. S. Legion Shouts Condemnation 0f Aggressor Nations

BOSTON, Sept. zit-taro ._ The American Legion today shouted a condemnation of "ili-ISYPFSOI‘ nations" and voted against a policy of strict iliiitcd States neutrality before clos- lug its 22nd convention with the election of Milo J. Warnci‘ of Tole- do. Ohio. as its new lldii0il8l coni- iuander. ,

At. tbc end of a four~day session, marked by harmony‘, the Iregion- nnircs broke into noisy‘ disagree- mcnt. over a resolution which wou d have reaffirmed the organization's ltl-ywar-olrl position in favor of a "hands ofl" policy toward foreign wars.

Proponents shouted that. the Unit; ed States “ls not ready‘ for involve- ment. and we should not abandon

"the lflr a‘. l C n1 m n ‘oi praise lo $q(lll. Lfll‘. McNab. and

rcre tini.“ ‘. l . . “ml th(,(h,€;1‘(€(\\,? chatted wilii each pilot. individual-

the Ladies Aux

‘ t. h ' C ‘ L -'., . . Yigggsfnnwiid‘: O(l~u;'.-i‘£l._Y_1“nll\‘:,l Ihe King spent lo minutes with H“. “has or CU‘. 51.1%,)‘ “h” Sum the (niiadiaiis bcttire going to mplm._s_ ' \o.hcr pain‘. of Llic stallion. Besides

I, ‘ms (m, 1m m mm H“. "myths it.C.A.l-.. His fvlajcstv saw the mm} nlflnnl.“ __,,,.\H.(.§ n. p‘, (r lPulinli squziclrtui 0i the Royal Air cemeteries next Suiidi aftcrnltoii..1"°"C‘\' 5mm "c" Pirwcl‘ “mm”

The following \\‘(‘I‘v t cd of- ifcwlii“ “lllildrolls “f the RAF

liiieludin-g onc which has not yel D ‘seen ar"u\ii, and lhc station's anti- .;iit dclciicc

ficcrs for the (‘Olllllltl yea . Honorary Proidcut, Dr. ii. Johnson. - Honorary Chaplain, Legato. President, J. J. Lmightlzcr. lst Vice President, Jaincs Robl-

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lMurder Ring

Lcglnd Vice President, P. J. Rossi- When Sentenced

Rcv. D1‘

Members of Executive Committee James Walker. James irfarrzs. J. J Purcell. N. W. Lonther. A. (l. Bruce. T. E. MacNutt, Leo Bradley. The meeting closed with the National} Anthem. The following is rctiruiuF President, N. W. LO\\'lll-I‘l"S annual‘

report. l NEW YORK, Sept. ‘.16 AAI‘; —

"- »"*— ‘f ’ "-1 ;Mtll"lll lliucusy‘: Colds’ .ii — who

(Cmlllllllidl 0Y1 lid?!“ l Col ti‘ -l‘.\"(‘\ siruck terror in his ueluiis‘ luazls as executioner for ilroo

l.\‘ll.s bloody inui‘dci‘-loi-pi‘ofil_sin- llll‘-—SCl'('Bl‘llf‘(l today as a indec- electric

War-ivdlfears l

our historic policy 0i keeping our iXl\\'(lt'l' dry and our lllDllllls shut. A smkcsman for the oppcsitioii. Depar incur. Comnimulei‘ Alfred Kcll_v. oi Oregon. WDllNlZ “The people of’ America want courage from the American Legion. nci all-

sinklng. her superstructure awash. Another ship wu burning’.

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‘ . . . Appeasement will . end its to war.” l

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they ll< null ilu- trial t-i ll l- t1‘. .-\ rzulio lilP-élllC fllr l boar and swim? time l‘

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ed as 2'1; int-billing F," now totals .'\-Q. The surviving children:- Williani Cunningham Short, 9. Suuderltind. Paul Shearing. l2, Bournemouth. Harry Frederick steel, 1i, south-

aliiploii.

Howard Francis Clayton. ll, Mitidlesex.

Derek Alfred Capri, l2. Middle- lSCX.

Kenneth John sparks, l3, wqm-

blvy. l Peter Short. fivc-yrar-old bio- ; tlicr of William, drowned wiicn the ship ivanl duwii. Paul Shearing “'35 brought ashore suffering from trench feet.

Compa .ons in the children's drainaiit: and painful advi-iilurc in- clutied seamen. all oi whom wtrc taken to hospital. the Polish ship- ping magnate. Boliclan Nauorski of London, who only 24 hours ago had been given up as dead, Father O‘Sullivaii. a Roman Catholic Dl‘il‘.\| and Bliss Nlary Cornish.

Father OSullivau and .\“ Cornish had been acting as 1 childrcns (‘mCC/Yi-S.

The Air .\llii ‘y aiiiiuimccnieiit dcscribi d some ot the survi .r.‘. ‘.25 seeming to be “in rather‘ A bull way."

Actually two Sllll(lt‘l'l‘il(l ll)lili.' lunil.» slialiltl lii the lit-flit‘. lilo‘ ll

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them belonged lo lhc finial .»\".i.~- l.l'i'l.lRli Air Foicc

'l‘hc Aust d.l£\ll ma‘. had Justbccn relieved from convoy tin?) when il sighted ltic lift-boa. ' ic captain tlcw llls Sundcrl‘ to iiic canny and a d llu 1.1.. in of the itovnl Air i-‘aiit- ilyiiiu boat uiurli had Itlk over it) sce int - cue.