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Peace

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Japs Step-up Luzon Invasion

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_ above is a map oi Luzon Island in the Philippine group whore early touay United States army headquarter: announced a new Japanese laud- ing m heavy force. The location oi the new thrust la not marked on this map but it is slightly nearer Manila than Lope: and on the some stretch oi coast. The other place where fighting is raging fiercely is at Lingayen north oi Manila. Railways load to tho latter place from the scene oi bnih iootholds.

MANILA, Dec. 2A—(Wednesday)—(AP)—-Unitcd States army head- quarters announced today a new Japanese landing in heavy force near Atlmonan on the east coast oi Luzon.

Tho scene is in ‘fayabas Province across the narrow land arm which connects the main portion oi Luzon with the southern bulge.

"lleavy fighting continues in "the north,“ said the communique from

area where the Japanese major push on the beaches against United

“The enemy is exerting great pressure,’ an army spokesman said oi tho Lingayen battle. ‘Igheb enemy is particularly active serially at many points through- ou c ay.‘ One Japanese aerial blow oi late Tuesday was the heavy damaging oi the big steel bridge at Villasis. The bridge, longest in the Philippines, is a vital link in the highway from the Lingayen area. l rdli. S. army spokesman said the damage already was being rc- par ,

it was the first Japanese hit on any oi the innumer- they have sought to smash in these islands.

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"Taikics-Souris Thursday. TRUE“ N- s" m‘- 33-(‘3’) "

Rev. Donald McD. Clarke, M, rc- ______ grad United Clrugch tclergiymun, “Talk _ ‘ ied at his home ere onig t. l“ M°“‘“““°Ls.i§‘fi§?§3-3,, Ordained in 1890, he served ior ____ 20 years at his first saturate, Oh: - "Wanted to buy Chicken, pow; man, NB. Ha was a minister or island Cola Storage, L-219-7-9-ti. o time at Durulea, PEI. He was ‘ ——-- a native oi West River, NB. "Oi course you have sent in Surviving are his widow, three llour money ior uhristnras Seals. sons, including A. Ouyler Clarke L-l32-12-24-li. of Saint John, N. 3., and two

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Your money for artist-mac Seals. L-liifl-lfl-M-li.

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u -—-—- MOSCOW -Bvaolana recapture

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non!‘ to H"? m on lxiya, bloobkiiaaxis retreat to ‘hi. mos co mu;

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border ' _ _ _ grows Hitler plotting North Africa “"7 1’ 2° ‘L grab; Patoln reported“ resigned w p" roar Vichy regime.

m“ 1",}, ‘Wff, wssnrnorou- mum-m. 135 m, m; Roosevelt, meet press: Prime Min- a‘, _ isier says Hitler won't fell, mast Ia-IO-lfl-il-N-fl-ZL be crashed.

suffered heavy

(; ,1) | M A u, h ,1 g , r 1 g u; 1,1 G 11 Patrick Hennessy also of Ottawa, °“ ““““ “° ' “"r..°‘ir.i“ll.'.f'fw.f°wi§'."KHZ M2,. $252222 n“. w» known o» be we... on... n..- Stntes and Filipino troops es

who were cfcclarcd to be holding them iinnly. we 1'8

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and night.

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAXAWDECEMBER

24, 1941 ~15

Ellllnoiutt SEES TURNING P0lNT

Towards S

ikkeport Nazi Tro_o_ps lfiove

May presage German stab» At Gibraltar

Swiss Reports Claim

German: Equipment , Has Been Piling Up l On Spanish Fron- {l tier.

t 11y 11mm Brltio Associated Press Btaii Writer

BERNE, Dec. 23 —(AP) —-Fnesh German troops are moving down iiumrgh the west oi occupied France to the Spanish border, com- patent informants said tonight- The movement. so far not 111180. is, the first in this direction since the fall oi France. Considerable German military equipment has been up on the Spanish bor- der ikx- months.

As tar back u last January ro- porta circulated here that thou- sands oi Nazi troom were station- ed on the edge oi unoccupied fiance in mo Pyrenees region, but these may have been moved in the

interval.

significantly, the movement southward was noted lust after Hit- ler, placing himself in commando!

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Fear Canadian Casualties heavy At liong Kong

OTTAWA, Dec. 33-(OP)-1=lear was felt tonight that Canadian trcops fighting to stem the Ja. use assault on Kong Kong casualties, among them 55-year-old Brig. John Kel- burn Lawson of Ottawa. Officer ccrrlmazrding the Canadians in Hong Kong.

His Senior Staii Officer. Col.

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were not known, official infor- aticn being only that indications the force at Hing Kong

ualiies."

Defence authcrities could give no indication when a general casualty list or further information might be expected. They stressed the dif- iiculty oi getting news cut of be- leaguered Bong Kong where the Canadians and other Empire troops of the garrison are fighting day

What information there was came from Defence Minister Ral- ston in a brief statement after its receipt from the British Admu-alty.

This news was in the iorm of a situation report up to 6 p.m. yes- terday. It told of fresh irrces at- tacking the hard-pressed Canad- ism continuously; oi two Canad- ian counter-attacks which failed to make progress; oi a stubllnm stand

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Six more Axis Ships are sunk

DONDON. Dec. 23, -(AP) —Tha uimiraity announced today that

sqgnko" mm Bmiumd 9mm British submarines had destroyed Tuesday rught, December 30th. six more Axis transports or supply

Orchestra. L-liii-lfl-ild-fl. A ships in ll.1e Mediterranean. _-_.. GIICG One of the ships was a large "Dlgetirqawlviavmgitrlrllkllrlllgiirglltg. u. 1y ship which bad had firs‘?

1 0 ~ _____ n llama-led a Irliwbooes. L-llll-li-M-li. no“; xoNG__ 0mm“. new magnum a catamaran the ed- —-——— up . "Buying live and dressed ooult if,“ dfiiljffu "°3"',,,,.",,,°."'n “m” "rm ship had been beached and gm Tuesdo and Priday- 9' ‘ mlllflfl‘ “WWI llllad mo ":1; axis sailors were trying to carry o”: Co" “ill-teal izanireivco Bat a ehler oi can announced killed °“"‘,1‘{‘"u°°°§*“°" "m" ‘T; ‘ ‘ ' ' ' - ' was a; n y a torpedo

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IDNOON-(OP) — Oapt. J h Stenhoule, who eolnmandod i1- lirnast Shooklawub ship Aurora fill ."1:.'“‘"°‘.‘:.:....M"r.s

' - If‘. while menial the Royal Navy.

Soviet armies |-| A K lie-establish mg ong Communications-

Direct Routes Between

daw-(AP) — Red army troops. swiftly res-establishing direct com- munications with the Dcnets basin and Leningrad in their big winter offensive today announced the re- capture south oi here, and withdrawal oi the Nazis across the Volkhov river in the northwest.

retakin iunt ru lwny junction midway be- tween Tuln. and Orel on tne Mos- cow-Kharkov railway

Odoev, farther to the west.

War Situation Last Night

(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) Feats oi Netherlands planes, roving the southern China Sea to rikc damaging blows at Japanese aggressor-s in both Malayan and Philippine waters, furnish a timely example oi the objective at lwhich Roosevelt-Churchill war co-ordination conferences are aimed.

The Netherlands bombing oi s. Nipponose tanker in Davao harbor might prove as heipiul to American deieneo oi Luzon as previous Netherlands air attack; on Japanese transports oii Malaya were to Bm-lsh defence 0i Slllfllllorc. it is at least an encouraging beginning oi cmordinatcd action by ioeg oi the 5X15,

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Davao probably figures in Japanese strategy as an advance base ior control oi the southern route around the Philippines to the Chins, Sea, That is the route irom the Pacific to Singapore via the (Jelebes and Sulu Seas. From Davao, on the southern end oi the island oi Mindanao, Nlpponese planes also could overlook the narrow Mindanao Sen passage from the Pacific to the China Sea north oi’ the island.

Netherlands observation oi the eiiects oi the bombing oi a big Japanese tanker in Davao Harbor indicated she was loaded with gasoline. That st; that the first purpose oi the Davao incursion was to set up an air base. Loss cf that ship load oi plane fuel, n. placeuble only from Formosa, 1,500 miles away, or irom Japan, Marl? twice as far north, could put a. serious crimp in Japan's war strategy, in which time is the vital element.

O I O O

There i; small doubt that Japanese seizure oi the gulf and port oi Davao represents an eiiort to guard against unified Anglo- gmerican naval and air efforts to reverse the sea odds in the China

ea.

The northern entrances to that sea, between Luzon and Formosa are the greatest threat to the Japanese supply lines ior the attack; on Hang Kong, Singapore or Luzon. It scans probable that the main Japanese fleet is deployed to guard that vital flank against American or combined Angle American ileet thrusts.

The southern route into the Chins. Sea cannot be ignored by the enemy, however, nor the several passages in the interior waters oi the Philippines through which fleets could slip to raid the China Sea communication lines and turn northward to ioroo action on the main Japanese fleet.

That must be the nub oi Anglo-American strategy, destruction or rippling or the Japanese iieet. Once it lg put out oi action or rendered incapable oi ranging far irom its home bases, the end oi the war in the Paoiile would be certain. i-Ier fleet is Japan's only claim to rank as a. first-class power although there is some evidence already that her available air strength has been generally under-rated.

Holds out

LONDON, Dec. 23 -—-(CP) -Des- peraic bands oi Canadian, British and Indian troops battled the Ja- ganesc to a. stlandstilit atntMount ° ameron near t a ccn re Hung Moscow, Leningrad y,“ 3,21,“, ,1,“ Pa“: hem p0,,

ions on ic ora to t west», And Donets Baslm an official Hong Kong dispatch

Are Reopened As saggfiggrgrellét-

continues along last

Russians R0“ WESt- nlshifs line with undiminiahfid m- , tensity," the communi ue said. Wards "There has been a lght enemy

penetration in the central sector in the direction of Mount Cameron, but this penetration has been con- tained by our troops since early this morning.

“Briefly the situation is substan- tially unchanged."

Other official dispatches said the lest-ditch stand of the imperial soi- diers was costing the ananese heavily in their fourth iul day of fighting.

But the hopelessly outnumbered defenders also were IOelng heavily, and their situation was acknow- ledged to be critical.

Japanese land 0n Wake Island

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 ——(AP) -A.n one/domed United States navy reporb—"an enemy force effected a landing on Wake the momlfl! ‘X

he "-put a question mark tig-

e

(By licnry C. Cassldy, Associated Press Staii Writer) MOSCOW, Dec. 2~i—-(Wednes-

of Gorbachevo. 150 miles

A soviet communique told oi the of Gorbnchevo, an impor-

Other nearby points incluclinfl aiso

were reoccupled. In the northwest. dispatches said. the German troops who had been trying since October to throttle

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War—25 Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Press)

t night over a sand-speck in Pacific.

On the face oi it. that line in the navyb 16th communique oi a io-day-old war, seemed to bode ill ior a handful oi United States marina. Navy sources have irccl admitted that were could not be hem against any full dress naval

assaul .

The navy did not concede that Wake was lost. so the hull’- 1'0‘ mained that the marines were still flghtmghon tho few hundred acres oi brus -c1ad u land on the three isles which loge her rnakc up Wake island, and that they stnl rod a fighting chance to drive the in- vaders back into the em.

D1110, 24, laid-Enemy iorcca in Romania oovi Tm”! m‘! attacked Mschln on the River Danube; Dobrucija. except the corner. in German hands. attacked enemy lines River Vardsr and Lake Macedonia.

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liear Petain Resigns under Nazi pressure

LONDON, Dec. 24 —(Wednes~ day)-—<CP)— The long-expect- ed German push into French North Africa Over the protest.- ing but prostrate figure oi old Marshal Pctain is imminent or already in progress, a variety (‘i reports fmm Europe indicate-s. strongly today.

A Reuters news agency dis- patch irom "somewhere in Eur- ope." said Petain had resigned in angrv but futile protest a- gainst German measure.

His pro-Nazi “l1cir," Admiral

Jean Darlon. was reported to have taken over the rule oi the enieebled and internally torn remains 0i’ France. The Reuters dispatch said specifically that the Germans were demanding immediate e!- iectivenese for the agreement Petain was said to have made st a meeting with No. 2 Nazi Goering on Dec. i.

It was reported at the time that Petain had. agreed to lel the Germans have all the bnscs they wanted in French Africa provided they could get to them without using the interned rem- nants oi the French fleet.

The Stockholm paper Svenska

Annual liy llaiil

press;

Ill Woolly;

pain Discusses Situation Correspondents

British Premier-captivates Press Representatives; Key t0 situation is determination. of American aniléritish people,

(By J. F. Sanderson, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON. Dec. 23--(CP)—For the first lime in history, :1 British Prime Minister and :1 United Statics sat together for a joint press conference io-

day-tangible evidence in the erican solidarity. Prime Minister Churchill,

tide of world-wide conflict.

Dagblxuiet said the German oi- fensives might be ttvins —- through Turkey toward Suez and into French Africa simul- taneously.

He even stood up on a choir- so that. tile rear rows of the big crowd could catch a glimpse oi him —a gesture that prompted a. roar

News Briefs

OTTAWA. Dec. 23 —(Cl‘)—

The New Year's resolution ior Canadian industry should be "no lockouts; no strikes; no slowdowns," Humphrey Mitch- all, newly-appointed labor Minister, said tonight in a Christmas message. LONDON. Doc. Z3 - (AP) —— Bombs dropped on southeastern England districts by low-nylns German raiders caused several cae- ualties and slight damage tonight while the R. A. F. was attacking the French coastal regions of Ca1- ais and Boulogne in bright moon- light.

BATAVIA. Java. Dec. 2S (AP) - Three big Japanese transports and a tanker have been sunk west oi Borneo b?’ "- Netherlands sribmarine, the commander oi ihc Netherlands navy was informed tonight.

RANGOON, Burma, Dec. 2S — (CE-Royal Air Force defenders oi Burma destroyed at least l0 Ja- panese aircraft, nine bombcrs 11nd one fighter, during a short mass assault on this cm’, @0511)’-

Three British fighter were lost.

KINGSTON, Ont. Dec. 23- (CP) --Lt.-Gcn. Sir flrlvhihcvlri Cameron Mucdonell vctcrnn oi’ the South African War and the first Great War and command- ant oi Royal Military Cnllcfzc in Kingston from 1919 to 1925, died tonight at his home here.

pl ones

NEW Your; Dec. 2a —IAP\ - The Home radio said tonight Mar- shal Pctain will broadcast. a SW90?! a; 9 pm. tomorrow French limo (4 p. m» A31‘)

Two Islanders With defenders 0i liong Kong

Imperial and lndion troops, heroically deietnding lion! lion at resen . This are’: Capt. Frank (Huck) O'Neil, su isor oi the Knight; or (Jolnvnbus Canadian Army Hut oi Charlottetown- and Pie. ‘John Leo Doiron. Hope River. The latter is a son oi Mr. and Mrs. Angus Doll-on oi liopo River and is a member of a Quebec unit. He enlisted In Charlottetown over s. year ago 1nd we; stationed at Aldershot, 91.8., ior a time before joining the Quebec regiment. O'Neill. who is well-known in the city, was a member oi the Signals here before going to the British Crown Colony in the Pnclilc. Families o both men had messages irom them but have received no word since the Jap- aneoe invasion was launched.

_ oi applause irom what is generally regarded as the moat hard-boiled newspaper crowd in the world,

Along with the President, the Prime Minister expressed his com- plete confidence in. an allied Vie. tor-y over the and spoke of the resolute manner in which all allied Oplel were throwing them- selves nto the struggle,

His cherubic face grew serious and taut when he paid tribute to the fighting quaiities oi the Rus- sian armies. simply and quietly ha reminded one newsrpaperman that to anyone who stood through the dark and lonely months oi 1940 the victories or the Rll$lflfig an the entry of the United States into the war ans a matter for which God should be thanked.

Germany, the Prime Minia-

ter drclared, had suffered a serious rchuii on the eastern iront but he believed Hitler's resources oi equipment were umliminishcd and, trhile there might be evidences oi internal disruption in the Reich, he personally believed that only an external knockout blow would count in the end.

As for as reports of an immin- ont German push somewhere in the Mediterranean area were con- cerned, the Prime Minister smil- ingly solicited any information the crow oi correspondents might have 1n their possession and snid he would be extremely grateful to rcccivc it.

This was lire Clruzclrill formula

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Singapore lliust be held

CANBERRA, Dec. 2-1 —-(Wednea- dyal _4Al>) _-Tl1g federal war council has dociclcrl that for suc- ccstrul defence of allied inwrcsis in 1110 Pacific, the powerful, stra- tcg:c:1l.y-situz1te<i base 0f Sings.- porc 1111151. be hold n1 all (‘C515, i1 was mmlo known onrlv fork .

'1l1e council mct yvsim _ discius the Pacific situniron amid an ainroslwlrere of deep concern ovcr developments in Malaya.

The government is pressing for imlncrlixrfe and major reinforce- monts of British air power a‘. smuaporo and in alto custom ar- chlpclago.

Small boy dies Tragic death

OTTAWA, Dec. 23 -- (C?) -—- Bright tinsel and cellophane wrap- plnszs 011 Christmas parcels hired six-yw-nr-clzl Bobby FLLcr of Oi- lawa in his death today.

Groping 111 a darkened cupboard with Vghlcrl matches, the boy was burned to dcnlh when the cupboard 41cm" closed and (l1:- gnllcd (lcvorni- (J pills 0111111111. fire.

Bob "s own mrscnt lay in nlliwnmz cuplmnrrl -'\ hookry" . and puck. my $111.1 1s, tanks trucks.

His fnlhor. Flt. Sgt. Arthur (Bud) Fisher of 111v Royal Canadian Air Force, (livci 1n a Momrcol hospital in July, 1940.

It’ was impossible to describe his feelintrs, he speaking sl0\vly,_i0 find Russia victorious and Great Bri- tain andihe [lulled States standing side by side.

_Puff1ng a long, thick cigar, his quick darting eyes sur- veying the whole scene, Mr. Churchill captivated with his charm and robust personality the 200 newspapermen and women who jammed the President's oval study.

Uililbcrlflllmi Delivered, $5.00

1*. a. 1.. $1.00; (lanolin and 11.11. u.»

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President of fhc White House of Anglo-Am~~

seated at the side of Presi-

dent Iioosevcli. fold correspondents that recent cvcnfs- the German defeat in Russia 21nd the entry oi States into the war-had produced a turning point in the

the United

said,

DOVER, Elnglnzrd-Ailer British btmbers raid/eel lo Hana do.“ and did not kill a civilian, German planes bombed tile L0\\‘Il nnq lulled 14W l1, ~ 11s, sanl a Brian 804G101‘ Just rctuinoti from occupied Franco

(Oanadian Press)

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