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llown In 0old llood By Nazis

By DOUGLAS AMARON 0. P. War Correspondent

WITH THE CANADIANS 1N IT- ALY. cable) e

n. aim surrender of German in- lallitymen. was “murdered in cold tlood" by machine-gunners wait- m in ambush on the flank, Can- idlaa troops were

informed to- fa Attention of all Canadians on the Moro river front has been drawn to the incident by the Can- “lisp commander in e. message de- aigned to serve an a warning to troops to be on their guard when they take prisoners. The platoon was wiped out yes- arday (Friday) after fierce fight- lig north of Ban Leonardo. The flex-mans had ut up a stiff bat-

-A platoon of Canadian in-

nnin-ender. when the Canadians went for-

the prisoners with a witherinil

y were met lire from ambushlng machine-gun-

sm and every man was killed. It

Ill. u the Canadian commander fiyd it. "murder in

Irlier when engineers who built a

over the Moro German snip- off stretcher-bearers wounded men from the

Eicked eld, the engineer said. llli. R3. Fraser of Toronto

Iontnal, commander oi the

and en-

‘lllfifling company, saw it happen llid said there was no doubt. in his.

Ilnd that it was deliberate.

"Tile stretcher bearers were ly visible and wearing arm- ds with Red Crosg markings." said. "There was no question

alrmgsrmans knew what they were

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Using St. John Milk aim-r aouITa, Dec.

iinue using ilk up iied b_ Sai lohn dlihlcsinThos lrimy in us

tanned or powdered milk. A mec- ieai authority said the contaminat- llfs after past- baoly is caused

apparently i100 llirizatiou and pro lll untruuicd workers.

B0’ NG EVENTS

"Concert at York Point School

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‘Illarslitield School . i- emu at if Dan.

"Dunsaifniiige Christmas Con- ‘ ll

lift ULLJlKllDeY out ill-id-

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“Wail-en Grove School Co y ucc. ll at 8.30.

"Christmas Concert 3'". December 22nd.

Concert 12-13

"Christmas Concert and Dance,

9m“ Cove Hall, oeoomoei- 22nd.

12-13- , soc ‘mt Hill Tuesday. Dec. 2i.

h“- Tllursdav. Dec. 23rd

uz-ia-ii. Central Royalty School Con-

‘Pll Tuesday night. Dec. 2

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"n" fowl. Paying to

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Prid o. clfivofornoon ‘ll. Ell‘!

' "mitrdan Trucking service oar.

road conditions 4-3l.

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Canadians Shot’

Dec, l1 — (Delayed) — (CP walking forward to ac-

in but eveiitua ly raised their arms

cold A similar incident was reported

12- (0?) — Contamination oi milk in this city has resulted in illl order for all military personnel at Saint ltnn and Camp Utopia to 0.136011; n

Concert

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Pownall 12-14-18.

hrlStmflg Concert at Harts- iz-ia-iil NW Dominion Concert. Afton

Schooyl. ‘ i2 ia-iil I "Bottom Christmas Concert. Em“ follow- 2-13-11.

‘fmwmlqntg buy live and dressed prices. island Cold stores ' l-IU-ti ‘Willa: liv 1 p ' A a» hi" averv minim lijiltarnloblili at. d . c.

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Lina Bhl in: Cl t at Albany gory ‘ma:

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8th Army Continues Advance Along

Halifax Business Block

. l3 - (C?) — A throe- tted a. quarter o! a. city business lock and forced firm hundred servicemen and

t oompaaniooia to flee a second-storey res iii-ant dnlliht

man was overcome b smoke , and was taken to hospital but lat/er returned to his post. liiremen~forceiil to work in below freezing weather—iemained at the scene of the blaze untu eight o’- clock this morning, though they had had the fire imder control since 4 a.m. Ehiact cause of the fire was unknown tonight but it was be- lieved by police to have started from film stored in the rear of a picture studio, Meyers Studios. Maritlmes. Ltd.. one of the places of business destroyed by the blaze. Patrons were forced’ to flee the Bon Ton Cafe. large Chinese-oper- ated restaurant. The flre was first discovered immediately below the restaurant.

Coincident with the fire that tied up several city blocks. was a run- away street car accident that. sent eight people to hospital for treat- ment of minor injuries. Stalled- on the side of a steep hill after power company officials had shut off the power during the fire, the tram, whose brakes failed to i slid back down the hill and rammed iii- to another stopped tram. Passen- gers of both cars received a bad shaking up while some received bruises and cuts. The eight inlured were soldiers. police said.

Gutted by the all-nlzht blaze were a shoe repair store, ri sweet shop. a tailoring establishment-tho Bond Clothes Shoo-Meyers studios and the Bon Ton Cafe. Scene the fire was the corner of Barring- ton and Sackviile Streets.

Dense clouds oi.’ smoke, weather conditions. and the fear that. film in the picture studio might ex- plode impeded flremen in their eiwht-hour battle. .

'I‘he second-storey cafe was Iemotied of its occupants without ‘panic. No one was iiilured in the evacuation. Little of the furnish- ings and stock of the tho five bllS- liness establishments affected by Ithe fire was saved. so rapidly Cld the blaze spread _ .

City Police Officer Sir.‘ Clnrk col- lapsed on the pavement after em- erilimv from one of the biiriiiuiz es- tsiblishments which he had entered in an effort to save articles.

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To llama Ship After insulin Discoverer

TORONTO, Dec. l2-—iCP)—Dr. H. J. Cody. president of the Unl- versity oi Toronto. announced Sat- urday that a United States liberty nhip will be named after Sli Fred- erirk Banting, famed co-dlscover- er of insulin who was killed Feb. 20 i041. in a plane crash.

Dr. Cody said he had been ad- vised by Hon. Leighton McCarthy Canadian ambassador to the U5. that. the Sir Frederick will be launched Dec. 20 at Balti- more, Md. and will be christened by Lady Banting, now in the C.W.Cl.

Airmen llave Respect For 8th Army Men

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SOMEW 12—-(CPl-—Cauadia central Mediterranean wai- have a tremendous respect- 10X‘ the Eighth Army in emeral- v"- ticularly the "footaloilllefl-

Under a reciprocal arraniement between the novel Mr Force an? Gen. Sir Bernard lifontllulllelyi Empire force airmen nowadays are getting a chance to see 110W the army works and front line troops are going back to live with flies whose job is to support tho infan rv and help clear a sth through the German defence ines.

So liar‘. Sm,

0 O8 ~- $51.55 tor Kittybnwk p110 mah- wp, or work is closei d ed with the army- It ls vlelmt - homo,“ m extend the system shortly ‘to include epicure allow» The latest converts l0 if"! gellllg that the “bloke up the violin the dirtiest lo include. P°~ a (Tex) Gray of San Antonio. Tani‘ member of ‘tihgnls-IDAI‘. fy hi! “fol”; iloii- llulli the sandy 1'6""- an, “what those Eighth Army boys go through! we, I nappy to

_ little bed again, under a .e ropf, after that experience. D think sometimes that. we hay: n" tough job. but we are nott when same Clilitdo ‘tnieulafan ry ltéggiuAmeflflflh said ‘he bumped mm some "nice fellows." including cape, R. 0. Simma of Woodstock.

“Pg-hey amount looked ami- swell." he added. "but have (lo-ii- inb. brothel

rather stick to dlve-bcmblni

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of cast of Poscara, t eir next objec-

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Nazi Assaults Fail To llalt Allied Push

By Eduard Kennedy

51151335. Dec- 12 - (A P) — Troops of Gen- Bi: Bernard L. Montgomery's British 8th Army in Italy "continued to advance in the coastal sector,” where Canad- ian units spearhead the push, an Allied communique said today, ad- ding the advance was made under unfavorable weaither conditions. It reported only local activity on tile 5th Army front at the other end of the line. .

The advance. unspecified in the communique, was limited by 5l1\’_a8€ 139F016}! counter attacks which were smashed back at both ends of the line Saturday with British artillery taking a toil, especially of tank led assault troops along the Adriatic. Battlefront. advices said this fierce German recoil brought the 8th army advances toward Pescarn and Chietia to a virtual standstill but Montgome ‘s troops man ed to extend ther Moro River ridge- liead in the San Leonardo area. San Leonardo on the north hank of the Moro River and two miles inland from the Adriatic. is about l0 miles southeast of Pescara while Chieti is seven miles southwest of Pescara.

Canadians took Ban Leonardo in fighting as bitter as any of the Italian campaign. headquarters an- nounced Saturday. Continuing up the coastal highway they were re- ported fighting in "he outskirts of Ortona. about cl ht miles south-

l tive. Today's communique mode no mention of the Ortona fighilng. In one area. an 8th uimy bat- talion buriec. 200 enemy dead strewn over the ground from which the Germans had been dislodged, Detailing bitter fighting on the 8th army front, Saturday's com- munique said " a. second brid

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Tito Appeals To Mountain Fighters

LONDON. Dec. l2—iAP| -I\-lar- slial Josip Broz (Drug 'I‘it0) dram- atically appealed to llS mattered mountain fighters today to rise up

here and wB-Ze deep-irate

alnst a major German

frive to crush the Yugoslav guerll- as.

"The moment nas come when all our strength must be devoted to the battle." he commanded in a special order of the day broadcast from his army of liberation head-

es, fighters and com- he appealed. "It should in that the Yufl" mles are invin-

ame as his red- starred forces battled the sixth and strongest Nazi drive to ‘vlpe out embattled Yugoslav 806N111!!- Cairo authorities have estimated

manders."

be shown once ace

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IIIHI RUBBER

B! Elton C. Fay. Associated Press War Analyst

Th" Iflllgiuess which Gen. Arnold predicts will overcome the homb- ihatfered German should begin to show strongly in the second phase of invasion o! the European continent. Luinrtunaicly he may be on his feet and swinging; hard in the first round. when the initial assault wave of Allied forces it the beaches.

Arnold, chief of the United States arm air forces, in n, recent, "s; conference in Italy. suggested that if the ermana are not knock out of tiie war by tire time of a new Allied landing in Europe “they are going to be too gngfiv from air attacks to Put much of a. fight,

Among itary men, there in a d spos ion to interpret Aniold’; p". dlcllon as referring to the over-all invasion program rather than in mean that the aetuui landings on the western shores of Europe will megt with little or no opposition.

It is to no presumed that the German "Atlantic wall" is well manned and exists in pleat depth. There woul‘d seem to be strong reason in ox- pnct. iierce resllifilflc.‘ to the initial landings.

The-Allies have some experlen at establishing beachhcnds, Some n! it was gained at Dieppe and at scattered points along the French North African coast. More recently, lessons have been learned in the American seizure of flit. Japanese-field Gilbert Islands. Despite 2,900 ions of hnmhil and shells liurler‘ Into a mile-square area, befom landings were aticlniited, the defenders in piiibnxes and dugout: were alive to put up fierce resist-

ance.

The groggiiiess resulting from prolonged air attack should show "lien a breach appears in the At antic wall and the invasion tide begins tn roll through. Counter-attack is the defensive weapon used in that phusc, an effort in roll the opposition into the seas. A counter-attack, however, sails for huge unu quickly obtained supplies of reserves and supplies. There is the kcy to what Arnold means.

Russia And Czechs In Friendship Pact 1

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Montreal Police, Firemen Threaten Strike Tuesday

LONDON, Dec l2-—(CP)—Rl.lssla and the Czecho-Slovak government took the first great stride toda, toward erecting a solid barrier’ against future German aggression in eastern Europe by binding them- selves together "in a treaty zfriendehip. mutual assistance and post-war collaboration.

The far-reaching agreement. which opened the way for Poland also to Join iii wiping oui once and for all any German dream cf a diive to the east. was signed at the Kremlin in a ceremony zitt-Lzded by Premier Stalin mid Cz -h

‘MONTREAL, Dec. l2—-((‘Pl Mcmbers of Montreal's police. fire and public works depart- ments voféd at a meeting l0-

‘ shut down abrupt

Stations Go

Silent Again

Nazis Lose 138 Planes in

Big Raid By Yanks

On Emden.

LONDON. Dec. l2--(AP)—Can- adaiari Mosquito plane; made

sweep over the Bourges-Avord alr- field in France today after the ner- ial offensive against Germany was carried forward with an R, A. F. MOSQulto attack on unspecified western German targets Saturday night and a Saturday day smash at. Eniden by United States heavy bombers. '

The Canadians destroyed a Hein- kel III and severely damaged an. other of these twin-engined bombers that were used by the Germans in the 1940 night raids on Britain. PO. J.R.S. Johnson destroyed the Heinkel while the other ivais damaged by Flt. Lt. Bob Kipp. None of the Canadian planes was lost. during the sweep.

This was the only announced air activity today but. Vichy radio said Allied planes had scattered leaf- lets over Paris urging workers to revolt

The United States Ernden raid- ers downed 138 German fighters while 17 American bombers and three fighters were lost.

(Continental radio stations shut down Sundav night. suggesting new attacks. Tho federal communica- tions commission in New York said the Bremen. Frlesland and Luxem- bourg stations had gone off the -air. Th8 BBC said tlw-staition at Hilversuin in the Netherlands also

V-QCGIIITIIUVCCT on

Brazil To ‘Send

President Eduard Bcncs, the Mos- cow radio announced. The way mny have been paved by the con- ference of Pfitllu Minister Church- ill, President Roosevelt and Pic- niie- Stalin at ‘feherau.

The brlet announcement said de- Lilli; of the agreement would not be published until Tuesday. but the protocol, the contents of which were learned in London before Eenes left for the Moscow signing provided that any nolgliLol-s oi Russia and Czecho-Slovakio. which are not aligned with the Germans could come in later.

This was considered here as _a flat invitation to Poland to join for she is the only country defin- itelv coming ivlthln this category and some Poles hefe are under- stood to be favorably inclined.

The new agreement. which is for 20 yearg duration and is butter- ned Rftef the Anglo-Russian pact of May 26, 1042, includes a Soviet disclaimer of any intention of Bu‘- shevlzlng the smaller European countries, it is understood

BESTdBs Stalin and Benes. the Kremlin signing ceremony ‘W8 M‘ tended by Soviet president Michael Kalinin and Marshal Kiementi E. Voroshilov.

The broadcast said that foreiiul commissar Vyacheslav Molow signed the document. for the Sov-

night to go on strike Tuesday morning unless ilie city agreed to demands set forth at tliu

meeting. Chief demand of the munici- Bal employees was recognllion y the cliy of the Cadadian eon- gress of labor as the bargaining agent for the workers.

This War Equals Last ln Length 0n 0120.16

LONDON, Dec. l‘.t—(AP)—'l'lii:- ivur. ivhich long ago eclipsed the First Great War in suffering and material destruction will exceed it in length Dec. l6. and although an Allied victory is certain, the war .niust go on until it builds a still ‘more terrible monument. to human misery.

Starting July 28. 1914, when Aus- tria attacked Serbia, the First Great War ran 1.508 days through Nov, 11, i918, killing from 10,000.- 000 to 13.000000 persons in brittle} and disease, costing more than- $275,000,000 and planting the seeds for its successor—thla truly world- Wide war.

The new war flared Sept. 1, 1939,

~with supplies for the mos ‘seized from the Germans

ions. The Cairo sources estimate that pinning down as n Rommers being wracked

t, part, It

i l in} indication of al on of his armies

Italy. This possible worsening positl came. too. illit- fll Tim W“ r d ally

ltllatloois.

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Japs Retreat Before Victorious lihinoso

CHUNGKING. Dec. 12- (AP)- ‘A retreating Japanese army clog- ged the a escape , l - east from Chanlteh today, bombed and sltragfed ‘byuilginasmlanes in the c0 g p app?"- ed w be one of China's Ilreateet victories.

As this threat to one of China's

ul day's nouncement that a had driven to within S0 the great enemy base of Hankow. the heart of the Japanese dmiinat- ed ares.

Today's communla did not mention the ooliann w h was re- ported to have struck out in Han-

0w's direction last. week and it was not clear here whether the drive was part of a divarsionafiy

‘ or had special sign -

There was some s culatlon the chinesa may ettem to Rake the

lto Moscow, for his uovernm _____-7--

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, w_o9d._hei_‘_e.

let. Union and Col. Zdcnek Fier- linger, Czecho-Siovak ambasstndoi‘ en .

when the German army smashed into Poland. and will pass its l,560th clay Dec. i6. Its ghastly debit sheet is still open. but the entries certainly include more than 8.000.000 dead in battle alone pins civilian massacre, slavery. starvation and property ruin not even approached in the preceding conflict.

Was With Marconi

Gold Wave 0n ll. S. Atlantic Boast .

Expeditionary

lgForoe Overseas

ALGIERS, DeC- 12 -— (A P) -—- Gen. Mascnrenhas de Morals of the Brazilian general staff ami- ounced today that Brazil i5 send- ing ground forces and air force units to serve with Allied troops in Europe or Africa.

Gen Mascarenhas heads a par- ty of 13 Brazilian officers who conferred at Allied force head- quarters preliminary to the dis- patch of the first expeditionary force ever sent. overseas from a Lalin America republic-

The ultimate destination. date of departure or arrival and the size and composition of the Braz- ilian force were not disclosed.

Mascai-enhas is going to Brazil soon to take command, and return with a large unit of the expedit- ionary force.

He said that where the Brazil- ians went into action would dep- end upon the Allied commander in chief under whose orders they are to be placed

Mascarenihas said were eager to do their share ward defeat of the Axis.

"Brazil in view of her arrange- ments has turned toward war spontaneously and 50 has amiy." he said.

GRAIN-LADEN SHIP LOST

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ATLANTA. 8a.. Dec. 12-—(AP)—, P, H. Collins. 62-year-old insurance l

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mm deaths resulted from ex- ona from fire and the others were biouilllt Elm"- b-l/ °l"°“m' stances ‘areal!

tempera

high winds.

VETERAN ARTIST DIES m, KENT. England OP)— George Samuel Elgood.

-i . o2 prominent artist and Borden ' tect, died at nu home. Knock- ‘or

when the first transatlantic wire- less message was mpleted. died Friday. Collins was a newspaper reporter in his birthplace, St. John's, Nfid., the Limo the famous message t-throilgh, and when he died ihe still had in his a lclece of the tape on which the message was received. He was bc- lieved the lost. person alive wno wltnessod the memorable event. He was playing golf at the time hi; death, which was attributed n heart. attach. _

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RALLY IN ITITGHTY TANK BATTLE

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iToviiards

LONDON, Dec. 13 — (Monday) — (A P) — Russian forces rallying in one of the mightiest, continuing tank battles of the war, have lashed out against attacking