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Military Government Tightens Up In Italy

_ Seems To Be Holding Undecided Italians In

l v ed radio warni

that heavy bomb- arshal Pietro Bad-

of Italy would be reaum auae of Premier 3 poriring attitude waa re ted today to have driven hundred! tliouun s of unhappy ‘Italians nto the country in search of safety.

Reports received at

he Swiss-Italian frontier aaid about 3,000,000

had abandoned their city homes today in the quest for refuge

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"Ilia military government tight- ped its measures-including a I nu censorship fully as severe as its: under MUSSOIIIAYBt fgétEa-illiad

mtarily appefl" 0 0 ' mmundeclded Italians in check. ut there were numerous sins sf seething unrest. A Swiss tee- phic agency dis atch from the us: town of C lasso said the people, realizing the war continued uiii that the future was somber, we "profoundly troubled."

Gen. Henri Guisan, commander of the Swiss army, warned his plclieis in an order oi the day on this c52nd anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Confedera- tion that “the battle threatens to nileme close to our territory. Prom dry to day we may be compelled to increase measures severely.’

Although all political activity m forbidden by Badcglids gov-

ernmeiit. five anti-Fascist parties in northern Italy-including com- munists and socialists with princi- pal headquarters at Turin-have accused Badoglio and evrw the king of being "bound by I-‘Y/ "am."

The Italian Press-tightly muzz- led after the frst two days oi ba- ing permitted to howl joyouslv against Fasciam—henceforth will appear as single sheets four time: weekly.

A Rome diapawh said space was reduced for foreign news.

All references for liberty. Peace and freedom were chiseled cut of the pages—a notable example be- ing the editorial of La Stamps. of Turin on Friday entitled "on the highway." More than two-thirds of it was censored. Other articles were cut to incomprehenslbllity."

Berlin Fears

Allied Wrath

Dy John Colburn msociaied Press Stall Writer Biocmioiim. Alla. i -—tAP) - ABerlin dispatch from Stock- holmis pro Nazi newspaper Afton- biadei, reported today that “near yinic" prevailed in the German capitol as the peopl-s feared it night be uie neXl target in the ‘M031 saturation bombing war-

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Berliners were out early today in blilB, squares and yards digging trenches and family air raid shel~ leis, the dispatch said, and an offi~ tlai proclamation urged the opl-e to "mobilize your sp ritual tliengih".

It was observed that Berlin could be laid in ruins like Hamburg, Cologne and Essen, and the correspondent laid it no longer was possible to hide the frightfulncsa of bombing war as trainioada oi wounded and homclela reached Berlin and mothers pleaded direction t; safe places for their chil-

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Aerial warfare against the Ruhr Ind Hamburg was described as loise than ground battles, creat- 111! a’ “torture of frightful propor- llilll-f and the correspondent re- marked that "nobody knows how his 1110 population will be able to Inldure it.

‘Ilierrfcre the authorities are ‘llllmllllng everything in order to live ihe people spiritual strength“.

~ biggest task, he added, was m, Provide security for children, Wilerwisc there was “no guarantee what mothers will do." milamburg ~ -iounded bv Charle- diine - ~ lay today in smouldering Guest and rubble. news frcm north nrallniinv indicates that. for all _no~_*£~1‘1 Purposes. it has been ‘m. crl cut of the war by the mucus. repeated raids. military. eli- raid precaut-

CCMINC EVENTS

"Cndlrin Picnic Wednesday turns: on. 7-20-38-80-81-1-3-4

"Dance. Lorne Vllluy Hail, Aug-

7-3i-2i.

"Bum dance at Cecil C mabaeliL llonday. Angus: 2. i i-a-iii "Ice ci- Co“ Hanfxaumiiigngsnce. Orwell

"Dlnce in Btlmmeriield Hall. gmldlv nlsht August a. Auspi "wh i-ai-ai

flfinililgfflldsrdigan gigsitv argon ' . 11l- . a r's mhm-"l- iilii-li-

"a! Oream festival and dance Qann Toombs‘ field Kenaingfon "idly eveningpAug. 4

"he Cree can“ H 1m Social and Dance. oii. rmieiii vivfigiiiiiyiniiidiuoii

“Ice Cream nod 1"‘ church iivalikw t Sir-d- ‘ °d°.'°°k- Allbntceelif. P. i?” ' “com v-si-a-z-ai. M" Igwliii tgelcigdilvwedriged- “Y- ‘new dig . e-a-

__ ion crews and firemen remai d among the fire-blackened, borrib~ shattered ruins of the city which served as a submarine assembly centre in addition to being the principal port handling the Roma's coaslwlse shipments and traffic with Norway.

llrges Canada T Make Herself Felt

LONDON. AilS- l-(CP Cable)- W.J. Haley, editor of the Man- chester Evening News called oii Ca- Illldil "to be heard and known in its own r ht apart from being an interpreter‘ for Britain and the Uliltcd States. Mr. Holey ioke iroin London over the natlono network of the CBC,-

"No on; will underestimate the importance of complete Ango- American understanding." he said. “It is one sure foundation stone oi peace. 1' don't believe anyone will underestimate it.

"Canada with its peculiar lid- vantages of tradition and environ- mcnt can nlav that. grand design.

"But Canada. must also be heard and known in its own riizht unart from bciiiu the interpreter. After n‘l. when the great conventions of historv arc done with, who remem- bers the interpreter: Canada may have that. role, but it will onlv be incidental, It has many others 0'1"" morn vital."

Mr. I-Inlev is a rlircntor of Pent- ors Norw- AKOWCV. tho British Press Assnctntion and he Manchester Guardiovt.

v DeC-‘aulle. Gil-mid Unify French Forces

De Gaullc when it handles civil or evtfy 11 1 political problems. When Giraud Wm f)“ ‘my

Iii in the field with his troops Do 31:11-

out childre

Giraud with the power to deal with gmiggnJ W13‘)

the allied staff on military opera- uont children , The new defence committee, how human), m”

ALGIERS, Aug. i-(APJ-Geii- crals Charles De Gauile and Henri

Giraud achieved unification of all

the French fighting forces under a single command rcsgionsible to a central government. aturday in

a forceful bid for recognition by the

United Nations aa an equal partner in the Allied war effort-

Decrecs Eamon Giraud" lain‘;

mander ‘ ' oi all the French land, sen and air forces in the world and gave De Gaullg presid- ency of a new committee oi na- tional defence.

The new French organization

was immediately followed with a

demand b the French commission- er of in ormatlon, Henri Bonnet, that Britain and American recog- nition of the De Gaulle-Giraud

setup as a provisional government

was “absolutely nece .'

"our countrymen in ance ro- fard recognition as a sign we are d ranks." he

ully accepted in allie mid "When lPi-enoh troops land on

the uhores oi Prance tomorrow. they must go there as the fighting

forces oi a recognised Allied gov- mment"

o . ' Previouelyébg Gauile and Giraud ined ac arate armed orccs, Under the ol agreement as

sad main

olnt presidents of_ theHtPi-si-ich

cr tho" nnslded alternately. Now Gir- utti weflde when the commit-

1i.

2f go deals with miltars affairs and

\\l. The People's Paper Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

CI-IARLOTTET OWN. CANADA. MONDAY. AUGUST 2. 1943

27¢’

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‘lied: Capture 100 Communities

LONDON. Aug. 1-—(CP)~A . @1118 five to 71-2 miles siiiiit hAYd-flshting Germans. powerful Russian forces of tanks and mm

of the offesive captured more than scored b or y blasting bombs t th t fig)‘: agfileigurggifltgfl the Orcl area to Marshall Badogollds ‘i: e o 1'8 an 4.600 Nazi oi- Italian people are consu to That the decision u

ficers and men in fierce encounters

“W18 the long. winding front from in there south to Voroshilovgrad. th t

Moscow announced tonight. The failure of Germany's third

fvnsivc promoted the Soviet Army

ever more imminent."

' from a military viewpoint extremely News BTIGf-S Romania '

Two hundred four-engined plan boiiibcd the Pioeati was a. "thunderbolt" bolts oii hcr prime oil sup

On the other side of biowsldat th: Jupafneac. u)

h o ra son ereoore un ac t a Mir-mum “spun hue reaching from the North Pac

talned this afternoon when i3 —-—————

NEWCASTLE, N, 3., A“; 1 —(CPi—TWelvo orsons are in

suffering from injuries sus-

cara oi the second section of the cast-bound Canadian NM-

ional Railways, Ocean Limited left the rails. More than 50 other MINI“.

passengers on the crowded rain were badly shaken up.

thousands, making up one of the largest contigncrits frcm Canada since the war started. have landed safely in Britain and scattered to camps.

A ‘BRITISH PORT, Aug. b-(CP

CABLE) — Canadian irocps in i l 4

vice-commlssar ior foreign ai-

LONDON. Au 2-(Mondayl— iAPi-British Crotone, important c duction centre in s<111t110111 early Sunday, a Reuters news M1811-

Tcn persons. including St. ‘(cnmving u occupant in the folio manufacturing: _ 1

I nuts Mayor William Dee

fucker. and two army officers m“ “n95 o! ti-rrc killed today in the candy‘ “mfg crash oi a glider at St.- Larn- nm-Ql-lng bert - St. Louis field. .the state "estciitiul" oiLs‘. crash highway patrol rellimed" and clgaret holdc --———— ca s.

up alstciy iii

ti)‘ public b

No Veal From ;1,§§dg;y1,,eg""

rubber flooi

lamp shades; g tombstones; products; _______ signs and l ‘ I orrrnwa. Aug 1 —(CPl —The §§§§§ir;,,°‘§f.‘,,§, Prices Board. stating it had receiv- ganws’ toys ed complaints that veal unfit for mechanmq human consumption was being artist; mammals; sold in certain markets today instrument cases; made public an order prohibiting lain and bccr the sale of any carcass of veal nb- mcllt; taired from calf less than three other weeks old. lioils:hoid and “The sale of any vealthat has the machines; store mac vices ;bcauty and 11.11191‘ B human consumption in accordance and vacum cleaners. 121 Aiiy occupation nlsn r-crihlieii" in» Board said in 1n: nvflvlflflsl a swfement wthmit aivimr details. mltseums- - - . - H ._— tography‘. COSUIIIIB wigs, LOUDNBS. ICI fur 4111155111 SI

nnrcnrancc of Ming unfit for

with specifications rreswlbcrl is

Gaulle will preside alone. The decrees specifically provided

ever, retained thcright to decide the "general conditions and the distribution oi French forces in tho. various theatres of operations."

The new defence commissioner was not named but e Gaullirs loyal follower, Gcn. Paul Le Gentiihom- me, 48. who commanded the fight- ing French troops in the i041 Byr- iiin campaign. was appointed as- sistant commissioner of national defence.

Members of the new defence committee include De Gaulle, pre- sident, Giraud. Le Gentilhornme. and the chiefs of oral staffs of the army. navy an air force.

The new decree apparently irranted ‘firaud the essentials of his military ambulons but Dc Gaulie more than ever emerged as the strong man of the French

group.

It. was noted that the French committ of notional liberation expressly retains’! for itself the power to "direct. the general con- rluci. of the. war and dispose of all land. 94ml and air forces."

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By Hamilton W. Faron. Associated Press w" Anal";

e of the Italian boot, l: no choice at all of the wishes of the

Itimately will be to surrender last night despite reports from neutra thousands oi Italians, apparently co g from their homes in ind

ople are understood t _ lr country's industrle (‘UVB of any devastating bombing raid _ The decision of Marshal Badogllifs neuspapcr Red Star to commentz- of the peoplc for peace

The Prospects of an utter defeat Molly's "Hm of the German army is becoming fer ii‘ offers

uropean countries nvlnced peace is not yet at hand, are flocin

anost of the Italian summer ciimilflllln, and the steady their homes, and also t e ruccess of the Russian counter-of objc

want surrender to save s which would be initial

overnment to accede to demands y the annihilating raids oii Ger- burg-an example o what Italian industrial areas will sur- tu surrender are not quickly Even as the ultimatum which mean from Allied headquarters. bombers roar Italian Peninsula shattering railroad fa terrific bombings in store. Moreover. the Axis icit the hot

a “surrender or else" went out over areas near the base of the ciilties in further example of the

blast of bombs iii still another and. vital area. The Ploeati oil fields in

BULLETIN

NEW YORK, Aug. I—(AP) —G=1'nwn I" Hill Minister Goebbels has ordered the im- mediate evacuation of all citi- zens ln Berlin. David Anderson, NIIC reporter in Stockholm, said tonight in

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lubaerlptlon Delivered, 0-5-00 I1". M-OO- ethos Provinces I IIJJ, IBM).

BOMBED, ITALIAN S WARNED

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rom Cities As Allied Storm Gatherss

Hope To Bring Italy To Terms

o. to the National Broadcasting Company.

The message gave m; further details except to say that Goeb- bels acted in his capacity a! gaulelter of the Berlin area.

Earlier reports iroin Stock- holm. NBC Pointed out find said tiiere ivns a consi arable exodus from the German cap- ital in fear of “suiurdtion" bombing raids like those 0Y1 Hamburg during the last. few days.

es of the United States 0th air forc n army headqua ieis sa d h l -and Germany can not stand many stir

n points to new body‘, tcd to take the form, flung Japanaae llrics

y. the world every indlcatlo

hed bastions in the far- ific south of the equator.

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____ OTTAWA. Au. 1—(CP)--Labor 0TTAWA.__Aug. i _ (CPI —- §“},‘§'”,{,e ul)‘:f""h'?“,o ‘lcigmfilgnt d‘; pusory employment trails ' iffmh"; ‘l:“p°v"|°l‘ "Mimi 33515120: (it? (those designed as con rrna on n orww o 11- ‘

rts that I-‘edoi-‘Guscv. 50V"; §,§5",‘,‘,‘e'“‘,h“,§‘,§‘,,§0 ..‘.".:"'..'..ti..2!“has”sass. liq-syn n in» n

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galfinus ambassador to Gfvfll 01.15%‘? réisergrigecessols‘

r am" marital classes liizailon regulations

g. warshipls bombarded , lag”

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issuance of a fifih com-

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ExpertSays

By RI-iLMAN MORIN

Associated Press Staff iVritcr ALLIED IIEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA-Aug. l-(AP) -ital_v. for all practical poses, is already out. of the war. a political expert said today.

Only the continued presence oi German armed forccs is dc- e formal cessation oi

d

. ‘ouths aged i6. 1'7 and “m”. ‘Psi’; ' 111g) in llicse industries. It " Cfllfzgiwi! Aug. 0 XIIIIIOUIICCITICU

cy correspondent ivith the Mvd- he r 1 iterrancan fleet said early ioday- 9 camgor e5 m’ eclivc

al- aiiicinpfiyinczit l s ~ oi, a sr. LOUIS. Aug I -(APl— M; 9, °,‘,‘§§g§g“° “

“Monty” Has Narrow Escape

AT U5. 7th ARMY HEAD- QUARTLRS 1N SICILY, July 2'1- tD:luycd)—(AP)— Barely avoiding a CIIICKIII) when the flying fort- ress iii which h: was riding gound- looped on a. short runway, Gen-

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery called

(ill Lt.-L;L.i. CCOfRi‘. S. Patton tC-

day,’ to discuss the future course of

the Sicilian campaign.

The dapper 8th army command- er who cnnsed Rommel across Af- rica praised American troops as "first class soldiers“ and declared

emphatically "there's no doubt

that bcttvecii us we'll clean up the this Island."

Gen. Montgomery's Fortress, prcscnted to him by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. landed at a nearby airport at noon and only the skill of Captain RE. Evans of Knox- villc. Tcnn., prevented the big ship

from ovcrrusliliig the field and cracking up

The ficldlles in a basin ringed‘

bv high mountains and prevailing, iiorthwcsterly’ winds make land-l

President 0f China is liead

CHUNGKING, Aug. Z-Jh/fondav) —(AP>-The aged President Lin Sen of China died last evening af- ter a long illness, and Geri. (Thiang KiIi-SIIPR "" formally cndc ~t'd as acting prcsi nt,

Neutrals Warned

LONDON, Aug. l—(CP)—Tllfi British Government tonight called ‘on neutral nations to refuse asv- lum to Benito Mussolini, promin- ciit Fascists "and other war crim- inals.’

Th4- Cvovernment in a statement sold that. after consultation with

the United States and Soviet Rlis-j sian govcriiment it ilad been de-g

cided to issue a warning to certain neutral countries against provid- ing shelter or protection to such persons who “might try to seek asy- lum in neutral territory."

l The warning was delivered to‘

Turkey, Argentine. Portugal. Spain Sweden and the Vatican, the state- ment said.

A similar warning tu neutral countries was sounded by President Roosevelt at Washington on Friday.

Tell 0f Battle

‘iiififi‘i.i°f“i.é‘iii.“2i%§g ii“; with Sub pack

perfect three-point liindi but

threw it into a ground loop when itll neared the end. of the ruriwaYl

shaking up the DBSWJUEBTS incluf ding members of Gen- Montgflmefy a

staff.

"The General was shakenwllgfvblli he took it like a good 5P0". , ‘m5 said. "Hr knew I had to do it 115 he was .‘ ting beside me m the co- pilofs scat."

hosilitles in the view of source, who cannot be identified

o. Italian people were tir- ed, scared, hungry and ready ior an immediate armistice. Whether or not an armistice ls concluded, it is believed that the Germans can count only on such oii-operation from Ital- ians. both at the front lines and on the mainland, as they can obtain through the threat of force. It is known that Italian troops in Sicily are fighting only;

lBi tobacco, pipes.

blinds; wall pill)";

them, pointing guns a The failure to repair any of

refusal or at least rllslnciiiiation on the port of Italian workmen to continue to support the war

ffort.

I-Iowevcr, the government of Marshal Pietro Iiadoglio arderi as being squeezed be- the Allies and the Ger

mane.

Th)? Germans‘ are physically . . unn e to gnrr son ids and s““ches' and still continue to fight ei- o mobilization re-

gulations ilICIlldBZ-GJ-as bum m any

1924 and who hlls d

ministrative machinery and the

year renc ther married

pede the German p ltal as a fortified

facts home to the Italian hroughout the tvcek. derniood on good au-

liington and Lon-

phas

discussed by the Allied High Command and Italian repre- d to be of German

__..._._._____. few hours iuter on the border. The eacaPflc

coffee in one year tire world for l4 months.

of Home Bakers who -

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Greater Emphasis 0n Sea Warfare

a WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 -(AP) 00000

-A strategy born $000.0 . W" ducdon in army estimates - . most of it to permit greater emphasis

oii sea warfare ~ - was Hnflollmed Saturday night by President. Roosevelt, alticugh official sour-

mnnpower requirements nor the over-all pattern for waging global war.

United Slates for the fiscal year that started July 1 remains un- changed from January estimates of $l00,008,0l)0.000. He cautioned.

line on DFIMS and wages would sciid if higher. and he volcod new

AN EAST CANADIAN PORI‘, Aug. 1—(qP1—Headcd overseas to supplement Caiiadas fighting army thousands of Canadian troo s who sailed from this port rccenty have arrived safely in Britain, it was announced over the week-end.

Re resenting probably the larg- est aiiuck supporting force ever to leave this side of the Atlantic at one time, the anny groups iii- ciudcvi field hospital mun. Livo general hospitals, a dtlital corps. rccdnnaisance, ordnance and aer- vicc corps. two seIf-prop_c_l_lcd artil-

i Thousands of American troopa Britain at the same time as the

several t “ more United States troops Wffg reported to have landed. ‘

lery units, a group of pa troopers and also the Dominica's first rail- way operational unit. formed only thrce months ago from experienced railway men.

Sailing with the troops was a small contingent of tlic Canadian Women's Army Corps, and a num- ber of Canadian airmen.

Making his first trip overseas in this war was Molt-Grit. 3.0. Alex-

Ll I3

ces insisted the cut will not effect,

rhmands for a “irulv stiff program. of additional taxes, savings, orii

were reported to have arrived in n

Canadiaru and some hours later.

ander, D.S.O.. inspector general of thc Canadian. army, Ho was on a tour of gr-ncrol inspcction. Maj.

orwawn. AUJT_I—— <0?) - An

Bil-ton Royal Canadian Navy sub- chasing moior launch rescued '78 ed survivors from three torpedoed merchant ships while other naval craft sank or damaged "more than one submarine." in a German U- boat pack which had sunk three merchantmen in a flash attack. ,

The story of the rescue was told by Lieut. William Grand of Tor- onto, commanding officer of the ,motor launch, in a. navy press press release issued tonight under