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Yanks Join French in Mapping up at Corsica

‘ by Noland Norgaard jflscillofl Press War Corres- ‘ pendent

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8th Germans left more than 1,000 dead

emc to Bari. United States formations Join- rlerlcb iorces in molpgins up . Island of Corsica. e Ger- .. were evacuating Corsica af- lesvirlg 7,000 dead on the itieiield and several hundred

i I 11.. A Prench communique said en- . survivors of their original l2.- lnen were being coanpre the northeast corner of the ch island in retreat from the and Bonifacio - Porto Veoc- ~ region in South Corsica. ‘lbs German .. route d its

‘Allies Make

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»- tion of the enemy garrison

arundel Island in the Solomons. bhaf stroke, ldelg;

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l“ record. H .8.

puts forces of

. . Halsey within

I ry range of the large Japa-

garrison at Vila across he tt Strait on liolombangara.

.||. Ii. Timetable hanger Sop. 1st.

NCTON, N.B., 5e t. ann p will be

ounced there es in Canadian National Bestelrvlces effective Sunday, double service daily except "day to and from the mainland

be cancelled and service to the

iiiitwm "° ‘lylémii. "till? 'i own at . a . a '~ Saokvilie i am. leave a.m., arriv-

Moncton 1.10 pm. where con-

.- will be m e with the '- li Limited for Montreal and iii west. Itrvice from the mainland to the

d will be by train leavin ctcli ‘at 11.00 am, daily exsep ‘M-Llnstcad oi 10.40 a.rn., ar- --> cluulcttetcwn 6.55 p.m.

SUMMERSIDE

A train will leave Charlottetown Burnmerside at 12.01 P. mdaily lit Sunday, arriving Summer-

at 4.10 pm. ‘rrain leaving _ bgiéiwwll at eso m... will be

‘ , train n at 'l.00 mm.‘ dEii-y

~ gngiead of s30 am ar-

Colltinued on pale. 7 Col. o

. mo evens

u i- luik Wheat to arri . Book Jltflnisarl a Boyl: a-ls-lol.

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Hnerlld HIM I 0'5... may all ‘l? a Mrs. ohn 1% i l-M-il- _.__.

ssed see large fires in and near the city

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terminal ports oi Bastia in Cor- sica and Leghorn in Italy were bombed heavily by B. A. l". and Canadian Weliingicns and Ameri-

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regular French troops . r1331 Ciraud's commend said. ' on the battlefield. Several hund- reds of prisoners fell into our hands."

Sardinia, the big Italian island seven miles south of Corsica, app- arently was under control of Ame- rican and friendly Italian troops.

l‘ broadcasts repeated that Sardinia had been evacuated.)

the great metropolis of Naples. All- ied troops ~12 miles across the bay on the Sorrenio Peninsula could

of 020,000. The Germans ap cared to be ' , destroying an loot- ing‘ anything that would be valu- ab to the oncoming Allies.

New Gains

Appeals For in Saving it. B. Potatoes

HARTLAND. 11.8.. Sent- (°P)—W1tfi New Brunswick cotew growers facing heavy loss if un- able to harvest the largest 6WD l"!

atnslu. . ember "1 Victoria-Carleton,

rllasnent for b)?» aled ior assistance today"... e urged every possible eilort hy service orgsnizatiom school board-I and teachers to maize labor ayI-ll‘ able, including boys and sill-r-

ls 25 r cent 0!

m e frozen in

. "This would mean

t,“ ‘m’ 22021201‘.

our g - (Carleton-and Vio-

"mlllioris of used to Dill‘- l do not

an e of dollars lost these counties tor-la)!’

The crop means dollars that can be chase victory ‘bonds. and know of any greater fort 111:1? could beatings‘? thaen" to hell? i B anners -

Others associated with “the in- csued the situation alarm- ing," and pointed to a contrast in the nei hboring county of Arooi w“, s, when potato harvest- ers havebeen imported from as far away as the Southern Slates and

he Bahamas. _

Authorization has been ilon local school boards to close s0 ools d/mrin arvest time but little act-

Americasl czmmando unit is mltiod to

By William Smith White Associated Press Staff Writ"

lONDOMSeLfl-(A P) — Rudolf Hess, garmanyb forml’ deputy fuehrer, sitting now in de- iected obscurity in Britain as I prisoner of war, brought with him

i specific proposals for race 0B 51521161!!! flight to Scotia May l0

He proclaimed that Hitler wan- ted "tn stop fighting," but was pre- red tc smash Britain and put her

1 bondage unless she opportunity oi calling off

the war. inns" any. 3"‘ ..“..’..""'a‘ I sacs. 173$‘ “today after two years of oThe facts of the case indicated that high German leadership,‘ per- haps evon Hitler himself, ouch Hess disclailned that he was aotlnl wltil the mill-era kllowiedse. l1! lay 10. 1041. had “given uphope of

one of almost tactic and that he had tried three before to flytoSootiandkthe first time in December, 1040, but had been turned beck by weather or various other reasons."

1t rovealsd also for the first time why Hess sought out the Duke of Hamilton, a young and thoroughly patriotic RAJ’. ing Conanand- er but a man oi no political im-

rtance in Britain. Hess fold the Elke that his friend, Dr. Karl Haushofcr, German hical theorist who is believed to have reatly influenced Hitler's ideas, lid told him (Hess) that the Duke as an

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Island Like the Dew

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943

lament

ARTVIY ONLY 18 MILES

llor Canadians Arrive Overseas

A BRITISH PORT. Sept. 23 — (Thursdayi-(CP Cable)- one oi the largest oontingents of reinfor- cements for the Canadian armed services in recent "r has ar- in Britain.

it was per-

disclcsed today.

More than 1,000 R.C.A. .

sonnel were included in the move-

lérelent, among them 10 nursing sk- rs.

Included in the gro

lp oi nurs- "a MacDon-

Island and Jean Livingston and Ruth Molli- gan, both of Nova Boo-la.

Start Harvesting Sugar best lslu|l

wmmrno. sent. fl-(OP) — Manitoba sugar beet fields, where harvesting started this week, are expected to produce 00,000,000 pounds of sugar, it was estimated today b officials oi the Ma-ilitoba

S pany. ggduction also will include be- tween 6,000 and 7.000 tons oi mo- lasees and the nulls quantit o! dried beet pulp, rovlded harvest- ing weather cont nues favorable. to

growers have 14.000 acres in sugar beets this r, with reduction stimat- ed a from 120. to 125. WM. about the same as a year ago.

LEHBRIIDGE, Alta" Sept. 22—- (CP) — Work on the fnll beet run began at the. Raymond Sugar Fac- tory tcday with ‘r150 to 300 workers at their posts, 45 oi them women. First sugar is expected to be "down" in about 14 hours from the time the mill started.

The factory slices 1350 tons cf beets daily and it is expect-zd 170.-

tons will be processed during the present run.

Beets ircm farms are belrg brought in steadily. Yesterday 125 loads were delivered.

The crop is expected to total about 350,000 tens. approximately 8,000 tons more than last year's re- cord production.

French Committee Holds Sessions

QUEBEC. Sept. 22-(0?) — The seventh annual convention of the Pennanent Co ttee For French Survival in America opczlcd _ Laval University here today with more than 25 delegates from IPrench speaking, centres in Can- ada and the nited States at- tending.

Tomorrow, members 0f tlie com~ mittee will deliver addreses over the French Network of tlie Can- adian broadcasting Corporation. The addresses. to be broadens; at 1:45 .m., E.D.T., will include one by Hgnri Blanchard of Charlotte- tcwn,__P_.E.I.

The Duke oi Hamilton since has been commended officially for his

ritain.

"word of honor" that Hitler had never entertained any designs against the British ilknplre, that he would "sincerel collapse, and that he id not as- pire w world domination. Hem proposed these six peace points:- iflermany should have a free hand in Europe.

2. England should have a free hand in the British llmpire~ ior- rner German colonies should be re.

urnsd to Germany-

l. Russia should be included in Asia, but Germany had "certain demands" to make of her which would have to be settled either negotiation or war. It was not true that Hitler planned an early attack on Russia. (H; attached Russia. the following month.)

4. Britain should evacuate frag.

s. The peace ent contain provision or reciprocal in- demnification of British and Ger- man nationals whose roperty had Ken ezproprlated as s result of

a wli‘.

s. The pro could be consid- slod only if t welo negotiated l7 a different British Government from the present one, u” 20hr“. chill, who had planned the war

inc i030 his eolleagu

s e and es who had lent themselves to his war p9]. icy were not persons with whlan the Puehrer would negotiate."

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NEWCASTLE .N.B (C?) — Dfif. J. J.

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by drawn up without delay."

must '

Possibilities of

way l.o Iilev and Gomel leaves o , . ' ,, of t a ln lcai danger.

t seems obvious that something

arms of the Desna triangle, however.

The Nazi situation to the south Smolensk and already th-estening

tables turned by the massive could now become a bloody trap for Red troops are not only within

possibility of an ultimate major Dnlener River line from

to that end.

LONDON. Sept. 82 -—(CP) -- Japall is set-tins ready to eWWBW Tokyo and other importance cities “in view oi the decisive phase upon which the war will enter in the coming months," the Toyk° Rad“) said today. Giocmily forecasting new aerial blows against the Japanese home- land, the broadcast said Premier l-Ildeki Toio announced that the Japanese Government had decided w prepare “for the moving aof government deparzments industr-al establishments and the civilian population" from Japans mail)!‘ cities “in the interest of improvln! their defence.’ Toio warned the Japanese l1¢°l11° that a "time of emergency was at hand and declared that far reach- ing measineg were required to strengthen the empires home front “in view of the serious war situat- ion." Aside from the evacuation of Jap. anese cities, the program appro by the Toio cabinet in an all-day session yesterday called for 1. Total mobilization of the civ- ilian population. ll. Abolishment of age limits to make all personsliablcfornational service. Mobilization of students will no longs: be deferred and the "employment oi woman labor will be extended." 8. Strengthening oi government control over all industry. 4. "Strict sell sufficiency of Japan and Manehiiko as regards food amt under all CliiCUlfiStBilCas be assured." (This apparently was a reference to Japan's shortage of shipping.)

ii.“ centralization of all traffic on Land and water." . The nation's entire strength mlist be concentrated on the arm- aments indugry especially on the strengthening 0i the Japanese air force.‘ '1. “Plans for a consolidation of de Japanese motherland

th rough going (gnces of ti‘:

must (This seemed to indicate fears of an ao- tual invasion of Japan itself.) 0. Cancellation of all holidays. I. Simplification of all government machinery and industry and can- cellation of all administrative sc- tivity "deemed unnecessary for

the conduct of the war."

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high commands plans for a deliberate, orderly Dnileiper for a winter stand. The eastward bulge of the Deana River from its se southeast of Smolensk, through fallen Bryan: ward l.o its Kiev confluence with the Dnieper apparently was heavily rellcd upon to safeguard the great retirement.

Jlussian forces have broken across both the northern and Southern

bastion by current Moscow reports. They have miles or less north ofVitebsk for a week or more. North of that a Russiifll spearhead has been poised in the Va It is on this sector, north of the Orshn bend of the Dnlellfl‘. that Russian offensive to turn N the north has always seemed Russian surge to Veilkie Luki months ago looked like a. prci mlnarv "WW

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cans Drive Forward on

By Klrks b Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst

disaster hang ve th Genus t east r the upper Duieper. The Russian bISBK-tgllifilflheto the Eng: gloy 9.1:- n to the Nazis no more than loll!

river. And two of those are already

has gone radically wrong with Nazi withdrawal behind the

k, then southswst-

The appear to be converging from

the south and east on Goinei, only ‘l0 lrl ies north of Chernlgov. its loll would leave open for Nazi retreat from the Deana bulge only the hlcgilev crossing below the Orsha bend of the Dnciper, ' itself,

, with Russian forces closing in on

the Vltebsk gateway we twarli. f8

hardly less dangerous. If they are to withdraw by the olii Napilrnnio route to Moscow, the Moscow-Minsk railway and the off-shoot via Vitebsk to Poiotsk. heavy detachments must pass across the front of Russian columns everywhere pushing into the Desna. b Moscow advices indicate that the Russians emphasis of their attack to the Smolensk-Vitebsk sector. The gateway was the scene oi the Nazi initial break-through above the defence line on the Dnieper to drivelperilously close to Moscow. With the

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have already shifted "W Vltcbsk Stalin

summer offensive, that Beltway the invaders. easy gun range of the 5100191153‘ been hrlfllng Vellzh 40

for months.

lilrle Lulli-level triangle the ‘azi

reatest. The

"laps Prepare to” Evacuate Tqkwyo

Nip Radio takes gloomy view of Prospects in Aerial War.

News Briefs

LONDON, Sept. 22 — (C l’ Cable) - Commander Redvers Priors, Conservative Member oi Parliament for Aston and a veteran of Dunkerque and two Allied raids on German occup- ied Europe, stirred the House of Commons today when he said the Nazi fortifications in France are “very strong" but could be “assaulted and brea- ched by a determined assault, well asfglllllld."

WASHINGTON. Sept. 22 — (A P) - A personal acknowledge- ment from Premier Joseph Stain cf the aid the Red Armies are re- ceiving in munitions and supply

from “our American friends" ad-

ded new testimony to accumulat- mm ved ing evidence of warmer Moscow

Washington relations LONDON. Sept. 22 - (CP) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said today thut within the next few months Britain. the United States and Russia will have an opportunity to reach a lasting understanding of such a nature that “even the horrors of this wnr will not have been In vain." WASHINGTON. Strpt. Z2 - (A P) - Battle equipment, especially arms for invasion, rolled out of American war plants inst month at a rate representing the bigzeat gain since April. the War PN- duction Board reported today, but the output of war lanes still lag. ged behind schedu e.

TUNIB. Sept. 22 — (C P) - Air travel is the best means of trans- portation in mountainous Algeria and ‘Tunisia, but it is air travel stripped of all comforts known to t cormnercial ailr

. n this part of the world is more than an experience, it's a chapter in a man's life.

Air transport in Africa is in the hands of Americans and it is or- ganized along t ically ciflcien A J lines. ere is no guar- antee, though, when you start from Algiers to Tunis that you'll get there the same da . Someone with a hgher priority t an yours may ‘bounce’ off and you just have to sit an wait and sweat.

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Chinese Minister" To Canada is In Ch’town

DT- 5 3- Llu. Minister of Chills to Canada arrived in the city yeg. fcday and was welcomed by mem- bers c-f the Rotary Club and a lflfiie number of his fellow coun- trylnen oi the city who met him at the depot, and conveyed him ti; the Charlottetown Hotel.

Ur. lulu is the urst. Minister of China to Canada, as previously to the 95009115111111! 0f the office last year. the country was represented by a Consulate General.

He arrived iii Ottawa in Feb_ wiry. 1943. from Cllungkiilg, war» time capital of China, where he had beeii for four years, tc under- take the duties of Hi5 office. For more than ten years previous he was in charge of European nlid American Fflelim affairs in China. ‘He was also a member of the lreaty Commission.

Dr. Liu was born in Central China. began lllS education in Chinese Colleges and compl in the United. States. He attended the Universities of Johns Hopkins Hllrvflfd. Mlchiilfln and received his Ph. D., from Columbia. University. Dr. Liu states that he has en- joyed life in Ottawa. and is pleased to see the relations between China and Canada growing more iilil- lrlate. He elmressed a. feel of sratefulness to Canadian peop e for whet they had done and are doing (-0 hell) China. and to the people of the iylarltime Provinces for their interest in the Chinese Relief Fund

Canada. he believes. is one of tile greatest nations today as is shown in her conduct and progress in Hproduction during this war _ls visit here is to become quulnted with rile province, Tomorrow he will meet Lt. Gov. Bvw- I-BPIIBB. Premier Waltl-r Jones, Mayor B. Roy Holman and in the evening will address the Rotalry Club at the Charlottetown Hate . -

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linothcr liint Federal Election ls Pending

By U, R. BLACKBURN (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

~ OITFAWA. Sent. 22—(CPl-—-'I‘h0s€ who believe there will be a Dom inloli election this year-and there are many who cio-ha.d their con- victions strengthened today uy the comment oi Prime Minister Church- ill ui the British House oi Com-

mons. ivlr. Churchill, announcing his hopes of having a long-sought ton- ierence of Empire Prime Ministers next year said each of the Dom- ns "had had or is going to have an election." This comment, coming on the eve oi’ a special parliamentary caucus of the Liberal Party opening here Friday, to be followed next week by a meeting of rile National Lib- eral federation advisory council- the first since the war—had pol- itical circles here buzzing tllls af- temoon.

111 a statement today, 0.1 Mr. Churchill's expressed hopes fol" a conference of Premiers gcrly next year,

ing said he . this with the British leader in Que- bec last month and promised to attend alt any time the meeting could be conveniently arranged.

Egmont Bay Exhibition which was held yesterday was one of the most successful in the history of the fair. The da_ was fine and an cx- tratordinary Yarge crowd was pres-

en . The exhibition was opened by

His Honor Lieutenant Governor B.

W. Lepage. The Honorary Presid-

ent, the Rev. Namlre Polrier, also spoke. Present ori the platicrm was Mr. Justice A. E. Arsenault. Some of the exhibits were down in quantity due to the late harvest, many of the farmers being busy taking in grain. ‘rhelo was a good display of roots and vegetables but very little aln: the cooking and handicraft ivision was up to its usual excellent standard. The lhWlng of hogs was good but down uantlty. The quality cf the. catte was good but. those were al=o smaller in quantity. The showing 0f Blimp was about the same as last year.

There was a good showing of horses both draft and light. Em- manuel Gallant of Abrams vilklge

""1 WW1" Dflfby 0f Elmont Bay III Iva-n arias winners.

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Successful Fair at Egmont Bay Yesterday

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By JAMES stormed down a railroad

towers of Kiev. high on t

after a 48-hour fight.

The Germans launched 12 count-

er attacks in their desperate at- tempt to hold Demidov, said the, Moscow midnight communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor but they could not hold out against the Soviet attack and one Nazi di- vision was routed. More than 8,000 Germans fell in the figllt, 300 prisoners were taken and large quantities of war» material were seized by the Rus-i slnns, it was declared.

Other Soviet spearheads were last reported 18 miles from Smol- ensk, once Hitler's headquarters in the east, where the Germans ap- peared to be fighting as desperatelv as anywhere in Russia.