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EITIETS Room 12. ENEMY DIVISIONS ARE noun)

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Airmail 0n

Survive Terrible Ordeal

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a recent sinking in thc North Atlantic as a re-

sult of enemy action are back in Charlottetown reooverinl from 111°" unpleasant experience. They are, left to right: Bernard Gallant 22.year-

old son or Mrs. Carolina Gallant, and Henry The boys were floating

lir. and Mrs. Michael O'Neill.

ter alter the ship was torpedoed but were soo

O'Neill, 21-year-old son 0| around in the wn-

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ioats which were hurriedly launched. After several hours ln the crowd-

Il llfeboats each boy. unknown to trait. Several drys later they were

inowlng until then that the other was 8-year-old Jack Walter, who is not in thc photo, was he too was believed by the others to have perished. Howevc . boys are back home again and happy about the whole thing. Walker

the other, was taken nborrd rescue re.united in Charlottetown. 119ml" safe. A third Charlottetown boy. also rrscued and the two did

lot some back to Charlottetown yct,

(By Klrke L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst) Berlin's claim that the Nazis have taken dominating heights west of

Stalingrad is undenied from Moscow and has ominous implications. It indicates that Neal forces have driven to within live to seven miles of the centre of the otty and that no natural barriers block their road. gra hlcal maps of the Stalin rad area show three thin that distance due we: of the. river bank city. Those hills, and a trio of 600 foot peaks that dominate them, un- questionsbly were the key to Stalingradb defence system. They provid- ed the only flrmidable natural barriers to invaders ap roachin directly from the west. It was primarily to evade a costly fron al attac on that strongest segment of the Stalingrad defence line that Nazi commando s first sought to sell-e it by a pincer movement from the northwest and southwest ltmultaneo ‘i. I O I O I It follows that if the hill bastion west of the city has been lost, there is only a meagre chance that thc Russians can prevent a break-through into the city itself that might cut its defence forces in half in the centre. It also follows, however. that the foe probably has paid more heavily for an advance by frontal attack in that sector than he has at any other 23:21:21 tremendous as has been the blood cost to Hitler for every foot This blood cost bids fair to outweigh the strategic values Hitler can éaln immediately from the city's capture. His troops were alread nn the oiga both above and below the city, according to German cla ms. Ills "hi"?! WE"! lilflii-llilr at Russian transportation along the river from the Caspian and the Baku oil fields. Possession of Stalingrad could not do much more to interrupt‘ that‘ river traffic. '

The city is not a bridgehead for pushing the attack eastwa d. beyond thetxolga. Its fall would add little to the perils oi Astrakan at the mouth of e Volga. The Volga delta below Stalingrad on both sides still is a formidable barrier to s Nazi sweep southward down the river.

B kStalinigrnds fail could not greatly Increase the Nari threat to the

o u oillf eld. It is already virtually cut. dependent upon its own defence resources and the Caucasus range but with a newly-created British army n ran and Iraq ready to go to its aid. Wh then the German frontal Mild“. ffllflrfllefls of loafer. to finish off the olga River city quickly?

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It ha. bee id t dl B mo... a. .41.: arm: an. ‘iii.'“.f.i’.'.“'.'i.ié‘."liiife.‘£3f...“'.i$3..“5 hlallitufor the winter on that front. The implication is that he planned s ng his main attack forces swiftly to some other front,

It could be southward into the central Caucasus. where the Nazi nronv driven dawn the Rostov-Baku railway seems dangerously narrow for its lenzth. At this distance. however. it seems more logical that Bu- ler expected to reach the Don-Volga line weeks Biro and then throw his QUICK Sifllilth northward against Moscow or even Leningrad

If that is true. Stalingrad is proving a Russian Verdun in the time signse ‘l: n? other. It has already upset the Hitler schedule as blfiiv as the

one sand tVd, ii ’ Kaiser's conoueast s§§...'.'."1n'¢1l.°io':§ diff. ‘lgaiirench history’ “m” the

Allied Bombers" Acting Again

ManyAxis Radio Stations Go QffAir Indicating Widespread Raids.

Bomb, Eirafe Jap Base 0n. Cizo Island

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Action May Mark Start of Drive to Push Enemy FrOm Northern Area.

B J h M. Hightower, Assoc- ( y late: Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON. Sept. .9~(AI=- United states air forces, turning once more m the offensive 1n the selomon Islands m and

Sta-sled Japanese shore installa- gjons on Gizo Island. 215 miles northwest of the U. s. base on

Guadalcanal, the navy defiflfimeni’ announced tonight.

The operation was carried out last Sunday without any resistance from the enemy and apparently marked the start of’ a new bile-w of offensive activity in the con-

“esl, or the Solomons. Ever since t e solomons invasion started Aug. '1, it. has been expected that con- solidation oi American positions in the southeastern section of the is- lands would be followed by attacks on elap positions t0 the north- wes .

Mop Up Enemy The na communique disclos- ing the ser a1 assault on Gtzo said the process of mooning up 61141113’

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Drastic Cut In

ilse of Copper I

WA Sept. 9 - (OP) - curtailment of use of ccp. pea- or other Eton-ferrous metals for the extensttn of public utiilt ser- vices was announced toms WW Munitions Minister Howe. Obycct of the curt-ailment L; to conserve row materials needed for munit- ions. The bodied in c. new metals controller George In general, the order that, no public utility. furnishing elwn-nm, tpleptlone, telegram. electric milwey. street car. water, wwwm gag’ or gleam scrvzce shall put into use any IIOIX-YCTPOIIs metal without a perm“- frrm metals °°“-

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conservation move was em- orcier, issued by Baieman. provides

ford Square, Charlottetown, I‘. E. who received his officer's certificate at Brockville Officers’ Training Centre.

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Travel Rationing For Canadians ls Certainty

CHICAGO Sept. 9—(CP)—-— Travel rationing for Canadians is a certainty, George S. Gray, Canadian transit controller, said today In an address to the American transit association.

“The travel honeymoon is over," Mr. Gra_v said “Travel rationing is as sure as tea- ra- tioning and will hurt like the rubber shortage."

Mr. Gray outlined a wartime Industrial transit plan which will soon be applied to all workers in essential industry, determining the number private cars to be permitted to be used for the transportation of workers not served by pub- lic facilities. '

Further restrictions on taxi- cobs were alfio predicted by Mr. Gray.

“There is much still to be done but I have no fears that we will not be ready when the slung gets touch." the con- troller said in speaking of Can- ada's transportation problems as a whole.

"We now are working on the assumption that the facilities which we n0w have must see us through for the duration. if no more street cars or buses Brc_i_.o be built,l our transit utllltles will mflkg the p95}, of what they have.”

Clcssification of every city and

Offensive Again In Solggongikeds IYéE-eat

Again Before Stalingrad

MOSCOW, Sept. 10—(Thursday)—(AP)— A special Russian announcement said today that 73 enemy divisions were routed by the Soviet army in fighting on the Russian front from May 1 to Aug. 31.

The Soviet bureau of information statement said that during the same period 42 Soviet rifle divisions and 25 brigades, of which 24 were tank units, suffered consider- able losses.

The announcement said that 70 per cent of the fight- ing cffeciives of the routed divisions had been annihilat-

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NAZIS DRIVE AHEAD

tanks of

MOSCOW, Sept. l0—iThursday)—(AP)—Massed German and infantry smashing in a frontal assault toward the western gates Stalingrad forced the Red army to give up two more populated place! in the third Russian retreat in as many days, the Russians aflnollflflffl early today.

German troops also "broke into the northwestern outskirts" o! Novorosslsk, Soviet Black Sea naval base in the Caucasus which the Germans claimed capturing Sunday, despite “tremendous losses in mon and material," the communique acknowledged.

CLAIM STALINGRAD lZT-ACI-IED

Courageous Red army men st Stalingrad were reporkd flghtifll against tanks with only rifles, and the tremendous German armored columns attacking frnntaily were creeping closer daily to the irnperilled Volga river city. (The Berlin radio quoted a trnnsocean news agency dispatch us saying that some German troops had reached the city it-

self.) Nail seizure of Stalingrad would imperii the whole Red army mili-

tary structure, since it dominates the Volga rive.- supply line to the Middle East and is the link between Russia's central and southern

armies.

The Russian southern or Caucus- ian army already was in gmat dif- ficulties both at Nuvorossisk and at Mozdok on the road to the Grozny oil fields.

fighting now inside the city of Novorossisk itself. the Russians said their troops were temporarily hold- ing by savage counter-attacks and swudy Red Arnrv artillery bananas. Two battalions 0f enemy miflfitfy were dispersed and portly annihil- ated in the last l2 hours but the Germans still were gaining.

The Soviet Black Sea fleet is be- lieved to ‘have fled to Batum 119B!‘ the Turkish coast. ions are. bu)» some units apparently SW1 “"1? aiding the struggle ashore. Soviet

' Ear] Haig Is iOgiDON, gcpt. 9- (AP) ~ u en ra o shutdowns

Lumber shurtage War Prisoner tonight in Berlin, Paris, LONDON. Sept. o _ (cm:- Budapest and old Czecho-

"9" Canada Faces ggxflmlgtigéfffiohjfilfef"ghemfrglfgi slovakia indicated that al-

htcs for Notices in this column three cents per word.

"Ialldes-Bouris Monday. l 8-10-21. "Talkies-Montague Frida and Sttludsy. . 93:10-21. "Dance, Eliiotvale School, Friday, Sept. liih. Good music. 943.21.

"Chicken Suppe-r. Bin o and

Dance in Kelly's Cross l-Ia Tues- iu. September 15th. -9- .

"Chicken Supper and‘ Dance at Vernon River I-ia 1, mber 16th. Wtbsters orchestra. 0-10-1445.

“Brno Hall. Chicken Supper and time. Tuesday, September 15o.

9-16-14. "Social and dance at A. O. Green.»- Albany, tonight, Thurs- io. Scot. 1o. 9-10-11.

"Trucking his? usual for the ‘WINK-human; but your“ Guess Green. Emerald t-e-w-mT-ri-u niififififitihiflnfid?“ Add btr lith, 8.30, Graham's and Hal

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99mm?!‘ 9th Ind 10th. 9-8-31.

"supper. bingo dance Emerald‘ “mm- 19th. Supper and bingo

owing five o'clock. Dancing P-"I- o-e-io.

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Great War. is a. prisoner of war in Italy, it was announced today. He had been reported missing in the

lied bombers were ranging over great areas of German-

v-o- more» i£2-‘.$2‘.‘§‘.ii‘.'.‘..‘i_i".'...°"f.f.'..‘$1322 genes. so. i322 ..:&:n:"n..t.';i Premier King E?%‘:.}.‘.‘§§.°"““‘ ‘° “m” W" ifiljiliiszggjll‘

j “ operators are being care- ‘TC (ti on page '7. 0 T0 Speak TOIlIglIt fully siudicii because we know on n

now tllut there is not going to be enough rubber to manufac- ture the llfCS to keep buses roll- ulg l1ke_ they are now." Mr. Gray said.

QrrrAwA, Sept. ib-(CPI-Prlne Minister MacKenzie King Will SDOEK over a National Network of the Qanadian Broadcasting Corporation

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a vessel had s normal crew

OTTAWA. Sept. 9-(‘71’) —‘1 Munitions Minister Howe said‘

tonigillt that Canada faces "the gravest timber shortage in her ‘ ' ‘ " and announced an eight ,, in‘ government program to amist operators in stimulating output. and to curtail civilian use of forest products.

In the statement, released through the Munitions and! Sunnlv Department. Mr. HOWE: sa'd the shortage was caused by; “enormous war demands from, m; United States" and by a drop; in nroductlnn this year. x

The Munitions Mlvvsier none-P, ed to every man in the industry from the most obscure iogrer ml millhand to the most wldoi" impwn operator. to "roll up h"

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Cogoli Heroism In Transport Fire

WASHINGTON. Sept. 9—-(AP) - Tales of cool heroism and daring rescue were told today by surviv- o;s of the United States navy trans-

ort Wakefield-once the ti .000.000 iner Manhattan-gutted last ‘rhurs- day night by s fire which swept throu h that great vessel as it ha been "a barn full of hay.‘

First word of the fire. which oe- curred somewhere on the Atlantic while the transport was traveiiin in convoy to an enst coast Unit States port, was given out by the Navznbepartment here. It said a pref lnary check-up indicated that all the crew and pusengers, totall- about 1,000 had been saved. 8i- “d” “Vang-rm “ti: ifiiijirredf‘ n1 s,

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and presume 1y sailors, while‘ tile; o to ‘I00 men. abs was skippered oy (mdr. Harold Gardner Bndbury of Port Angeles, Washn. After escort- ing warships in the convoy nsd ta en all i e passenger. and per- sonnel off. and the intensity o! the fize had decreased somewhat. Cmdr. Bradbury led s fire-fighting part lack sboald the stricken ve.

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occupied Europe from both British and Russian air- dfillflts. after Tuesday night's heavy R. A. F.-R. C.

REF-LIN (From German Brmmfllsx? Sfilli- 10- (Thurs- y — ( l

d!) —ltussian bombers rorded Budapest, capital of’ Ilun- IBYY. durln! the night, a, D.N.B. olsbowh reported early today.

The dispatch, broadcast by the rllll radio. said several othc places Hungary also were

in raided but claimed “only sligh dunno“ was caused.

IT. attack on Frankfurt.

The evidence of air raids was most positive in Buda- pest where. the announcer in his last words before going off the air told of an alert. Next heard from the Buda- pest transmitter were air- raid precautions orders in code.

The German - controlled Czech stations which closed down are s1. Prague and Bratislava.

The Berlin sender cut off in the midst of broadcasts for German home consump-

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Middle East last mcnlh Lord f-laig became s second Lieutenant has the Scots Greys in August, 1 .

Employees Strike

OITAWA. Sept. 9 -— (CP)—The Dominion Labor Department an- nounced tonight that instructions hsve been issued by the National Selective Service branch-weapon- sible for allocation of manpower- thst permits for chaniie of jobs are to be refused persons - valved in a strike at the Montreal plant of Imperial Tobacco Co. Lid.

It was the first time that these new powers of the selective ser- vice authorit have been impos- ed in connec ion with a strike.

llear Rommel 0n Sick List

ANKARA. Be t. V-(Delayod) .-. <AP)—- A mom

Wliikia’ par islrtio! g?!“ k4‘; s v r asked not wtlae idenrfified $53.... said iodsy that German officers art's‘: "é...“i'..“n“ii‘ i)?“ m e arsh 1 lib-win Rommel is sufferirig from gomieumczlllilldv laid may be riJeved The nature of th . ca?‘ wuolimiostated.“ mp0s“! m. ese m“ 1 _ cent tank beta: which l3,.~l§i1en:1e'g forces suffered serious losses. “were qiwied B8 flying the Field Marshal either bhflgkbflfllhmturngd >4, q“, mm)!’ Y . 0i‘ it :3 '. sorlrareltotriller ‘commailztdrfn: n‘ b’ r s o cer told . Wlllk'e's ‘party iii snpi“?$.’>"£‘~..?§ man prisoners now appear dejoc-iezl, wai-wreory and not nearly so c n- fident as they were‘a few mon h: B80-

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from 1o to 10:30 nm- All? i0- morrow night on the subject ‘three years of war," his office announced today.

Ground Activity At Standstill

“It is not zojnz to be an easy lob to determine what services are to continue but it has to be

done. Obviously, city services i and’ those special services to war industry are ntlal and

will increase, which makes it all the more imperative to limit the performance of those lines whore there is an alternative way to travel.”

ro-cur rowan use: (YITAWA. Sept. 9—(CP)—Cur-

tailmcnt of the use of electricity

CAIRO. Sept. activity in the western mained at a standstill

9—(AP)-Ground in (Xliario and Quebec homes is desert. re- anticipated tOdHY. but as the next move in

in informed quarters

the govern-

Allleci air forces slur-Shed flilflin Bi meui/s plan to make more power AX“ SUPP)? lilies with hem/y raids available for essential war indus- last night on the Salum-Matmh ¢r1¢5__

road and on the port of Tobruk. which already had been bounded yin 3.000 tons of bombs since June

Both medium were included ll f which sttadsed Tobruk, leaving huts fires raginn in the dock ares. and near fuel installations, it was learned tonight.

Expect Beef Situation

To Improve Shortly UITAWA, 88M. i) - (OP) - Wiih 0t’ f dlortages

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still being received. Wartime Prices and Trade Board Officials said to- ehy they anticipate an impwvo- meat in cattle m- ‘stings in about a week. as a result of a new plan to sales w was sn- aouneed last

Friday.

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oguSouris Exhibition Success fl _o

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Well filled classes

Tile increasing demand for farm products brought 0n by war con- ditions resulted i11 a large;- atten- dance than usual at the Sourts exhibition yesterday. Numerous fine exhibits on display in almost cvery class reflected the greater interest being token by farmers in the production of better-grade horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry.

The Fair got underuky at 11,30 in the morning when it was of- ficially opcnedtbg Hon. H. I-i. Cox,

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who represen the Provincial Government. Other speakers at the opening ceremony were: Messrs. Ernest Underhay. Presl-

dcnt of the Exhibition Association, Bay Fortune; L. W. Roper, Pro- duction Services, Dominion De- nrtlnmt of Agriculture, Char- oiivtolvu 11nd L. K. Iockerby, King's Couniy Fk-ldmml with the Provim-i-al Department of Agricul- ture, Montague,

A fine showing of flowers and

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JOHN MATTHEW. of Souris_ P.

E. I.‘ who accellyed his officer's certi. -——-— m. t 0c'll0ff'r"l‘i- ALLIED DQUARTERS‘ In! aalllu-el‘ Vi C I06 S Ii Ii AUSTRALIA. sert- 1 — (Thursday) — (C P) — Jer-

ancse forces, in stroul lilac)" have pushed through the Owen Stanley Mountains of west- ern New Guinea to Efogi, uni!

44 miles from the Allied base at Port Moresby, a head- quarters communique sn- nounccd today.

The enemy advance was helped by infiltrating tact/lea. whm. sgrved to outflank Al- lied positions at Myola and in the vicinity of Efogi,

Fighting now centres to the southward along a narrow trail _leading__to_ Port jlioresby-a‘

of quality farm

Products; Large attendance.

New Moderator For United Church

BELLEVIILE, 011'... Sept. 9——(CP) -—Rev. J. R. P. Sclatcr of Tiorontn tonight was elected Moderator cf the United Church of Canada at the l0th General Council. He. auc- ceeds Rt. Rev. Aubrey S. ‘Iuttle.

Dr. Bciater is pastor of old St. Andrew's United Church in Toronto.

Dr. later was elected on the third ballot over four other nomin- ees-Dr. Willard E. Brewing, St. George's Church, Toronto; Rev. Les- lie Pidgeorl, Erskine American Un- ited Church, Montreal: Rev. W. D. Sedgcwick. Wcstnuusfer Central Church, 'I‘nl‘(u1i(1. and lie-v. C. J. L. BtiiAXSZ, funnel‘ liflllfillill of‘ flu- J1m- uncse College. ‘Tokyo. and now of Ottawa.

Itev. J. C. Cochraue. Secrefarv for Home Missions. North Bay. with- drew his name before voting started.

Sons PEoPuE Niven Car err ‘THE. Frees