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AP RETREAT FROM KISKA IS

only Has High Praise For Canadians With 8t

Col. lialston

erformed A Hard Job Well And Truly

A rcsncsrannms "anem- Wsr Corres- ndent) a ~ I" ' . no — - "‘Y' ‘PL Gen. su- lvmun; t will "éfiiiloriwoopr anli he told ire Sicilian campaian I left . b the “ilyilad failed." aid the lylocommander ol the British _ Amy, “we s o still be “n; ln this island. But you med yourselves according i0 best and highest stands of my this very short, model . SB-da)’

mRFFb-r- I. great be sa rhlgr til}: Canadians to be in m, Anny," Gen. Montgomery lmued, “but I say it Wld I .. honor for the 8th Army w re the Canadians. I we . more ‘if them. xgverything the Canadian troops ya done since they have been my army has been done magni-

ntiy.

A l der said he Elellththe nggnalllm Pivisicn glellyfs one of his veteran

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flen. Montgomery's brisk visit . him to the headquarters o! very branch oi the Clfllldiflfl 159 lylylon which fought in Sicily. [.1008 in the front seat oi

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Ipliii d open touring car ac- plpgpiaefie by Mai-Gen. Guy lmds. Commando of the Can-

Division. iie visited and chatted with of- . and men of Divisional Head- n. the Administration . Jieconnaissance and . g Units. Field Artillery Re- .. and Tank and Infantry

lverywhere men in tropical uni- v- surrounded the car and .. . him enthusiastically- At - stopping place he stood up to the salute from the senior isn officers of the unit. he called to the ranks and sit down around automobile. (kit Montgomery told the mer. remove their caps and smoke

he talked to them.

Ha said the Canadians might have felt some anxiety when they left. England to become part oi the distinguished 0th Army but that there was no cause for

W. "Everything you had to do at the start came easy to you." Gen.

Montggmery said.

"I ew this couldn't last," he said of the Sicilian campaign. "I've fought these people before and I knew there was some hard fighting ahead. I knew eventually we had to ct the enemy hemmed in the nor heast peninsula. On the wheeling movement oi the army to the left flank oi Mount Etna hinged the success of the whole campaign.

"I knew this would be s very difficult ob entailing bitter fight- ing! in iflicult country. l gave th Job to you Canadsns - you were in some oi the hardest light- ing on this island.

en. Montgomery declared he felt no anxiety about giving the Canadians the difficult assign- ment. despite their lack oi hard battle experience.

"WELL AND TRULY"

The 8th Army commander said he knew the Canadians would per- form their lob "well and truly" and they had done so.

I-Ie said 140,000 enemy troops were taken prisoner during the campaign in dition to large nuantities oi cannon, tanks and equipment — "very useful Ita- lian vehicles and very useless Ita-

lians. ' n "Not a bad performance. he aid

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He praised Canadian sappers for their "wonderful work." He said in European countries the work oi engineers would never be finished-

Gen. Montgomery said in the First Great War he had known many Canadian fighting men on the Western Front and "none were liner troops.“

"A great many oi them gave their lives for winning that war."

he said.

“What would they say to vol} today," the General asked. “Well clone. very well. done indeed. That's what they would say- W-f passed on our sword to you an: you have wielded it well 8X15! truly."

oney, Jams, Jellies,

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' AWA. Aug. 22 — (CPl-The '- Board announced tonight rationing of honey, juns, jell- uld msrmulzldes will go into lhursdrly September 2nd ‘ifdmd suspension from mid- t tonight until the o enlng oi "' sfilltembcr 2 of a1 sales or lilies of those commodities to ~ ers. > announcement said details oi ' Running plan will he announ- vithin a week. Tiususpcnsion order means that lfllriher sales of these commod- 01’ deliveries oi orders al- “7 “mill-Ed. may be made to Iileholders, hotels, mstaurants. biltutlons, industrial users. or who buy those commodities

wheumption. Hotels, restaur- trtini laces and institutions normn iv serve these comm- to their customers may con- " i0 lic so, but may not buy or " delivery of supplies during _ “tension period. , "my sales now permitted . to wholesalers and re- .0r other persons who buy Ie-ule. In other words. sales to consuming public are halted, e normal llow of these com- iiu to the distributive trades it Dtrmitted. pending the an- "~ nt ol the new rationing hich will control all sales. . gggldotluwemefit ‘ thfilt. eers are 'specia y " that all sales o! honey to customers must cease “It period oi suspension, - that any orders they may Qiilli-rd for future delivery

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Allies Advance At Salamaua

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Southwest Pacific, Aug. 23 - (Monday) -- (AP) — Allied troop: commanding Salsmaua. N e u" Guinea. have captured ridge posi- tions commanding the airdromo there. a. headquarters communiqul announced today.

The Australian and Americar forces are pressing hard on‘ tn heels oi the retreating Japanese the communique said.

On the other end oi the South- west Pacific battlefront. in the Central Solomons Islands ‘I00 miles to the east, American troops seized the artillery with which the enemy has been shelling the Munda airfield. on New Georgia-

The seizure was made on Basnga Iglgnd, oil the west coast oi New Georgia.

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Dehydrated food now is belnd compressed to save additional slgppirlgipace.

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MERE MAN

Finds Canucks Well Equipped

BOMEWHEXRE IN ENGLAND, Aug. lib-(CPJ-Deferlce Minister Raiston discovered a. shortage of only one type oi equipment when he visited a. Canadian army di ision during his recent trip to Eng land and he promised the troops he would look into the matter as soon as he returned to Canada.

The shortage was in black over- alls for tank crews and Col. Rais- ton compared it with the position two years ago when these same troops were lighting mock battles at Camp Borden, Ont... with h0th- ing but obsolete tanks carriers.

"It's a far cry from that day to what I have seen before me this afternoon," the Minister said alter driving for hall an hour between rows cf big ram and Sherman

tan .

The Minister, accompanied by Lea-Gen Kenneth Stuart chief of general stuff, flew from ndon t0 the dusty farmland where the Canadians are stationed.

Some oi the men he met at head- quarters were Ptes. . MacRury, Glace Bay. N.S., and Cpl. J. Vic- kers, S dney Mines NS. Later the inspect on took the party to the artillery units. Col. Ralston stop- ped to inspect a Bolord gun mall- ned by‘ Sgt. Charles Pined, Kem- vlllc. .S.. Bdr. O.G. Rockwell, Ellers House. N.S , L.-Bdr. B. H. Adams. Shag Harbor. N.S., and Gnr. RM. Pierce, Digby County,

N S.

The Minister paid the troops this tribute: "If you can shoot as well as you look‘ there won't be any trouble as far as the gunners are concerned."

Hitler Seeking New Leader For- lta_ly_?

OTTAWA. Aug, 22 — (CP) — The Canadian Broadcasting Cor- 0rati0n's listening post today licked up a broadcast from Bran nville, North Africa. which quot- l Turkish sources as stating that lller has delivered an ultimatum l Premier Badogllo of Italy de- zlnding to know the Italian Gov- ‘nmentfs attitude toward the mtlnuance oi peace demonstra- ‘ons and the cause ior the Gov- :nnlent‘s helplessness in facing

1c riots.

The Turkish reports added that ‘itlcr was demanding the release “om jail of six prominent Fascists

ad that he is using the demon-

‘ations as a pretext for putting

crman troops in control of

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‘The plnn. the broadcast said. is 1 depose Badoglio and put in a ~cw government composed of the ricased Fascists.

iifldfChild ls Burned To Death

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. Aug. 22 — .0?) - Fouryear-old Graham

lltfiCk was burned to death and Llree other persons were injured last week in a fire that destroyed the Patrick home here.

Trapped on the second iloor ol the house P0. Leo Charbcnneau cf the Canadian Navy. his wiie and two children escaped through will- dcws. but Mrs, Chllrbonneau broke o. leg in Jumping to the ground. Charbonneau is from Sudbury,

Ont.

Mrs. Cluney Patrick. mother oi the child who lost his life, was burned about the hands. PO. Allan Barclay suffered facial burns.

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China ’s Foreign Secretary At Quebec Conference

C. B. BLACKBURN (Canadian Press Staff Writer) 22 -- (CDT-The War Secretary. Henry Stimson. and Dr. T. - Soong, China's Foreign Minister with l in Washington. Qrrived-

Tbe official intimation thzatwere coming here was given ye do by Stephen Early. Pro- idsnt veit's Preu Secretary. Mr. Stimson arrived at mid-day and no newspaper-men were at the a rt. when he landed. Dr. Socng

ved at 3.15 1am.

The Chinese inister was eet- Minister Mac mile

King and Norman Robertson. Canadian Undersecretary of State for External Affairs

. 14ml Wednesday in , e ‘h "fir-i.

porters’

"Nothing n all ‘new. viii-iii" HOWE NPUSG b I'd

questions as he hurried of! to Mr. King's car for the drive to Chateau Frontenac. conference ‘ ‘ “t crs. He was followed by two sec-

retsries.

chief topic of conversation dur- ing the weekend in the Claren- don i-iotel, press headquarters for the conference, was the replace- ment of Maxims Litvinoff as Rus- sian Ambassador to the United States by Andrei A. Gromykc, now Counsellor at the Washington Le-

gaticn.

S culstion on the significance ol he move varied widely. There was no immediate official state- ment in Quebec where Cordell Hull. United States Secretary oi state in charge of American Ibr- eign Relations. and lbreign Min ister Anthony Eden, his British counterpart. are in attendance at

...i.he Churchill-Roosevelt war meet-

War Situation Last Night

By Glenn Babb. Associated Press Foreign News Editor

(Glenn Babb was chlel of the Tokyo Bureau or the Aggnclgtgfl Press for eight years. from i928 to 1936.)

The fog-shrouded flight of the Japanese from Kiska. an astounding departure from their cusioma y last- tch, cornered-rat tactics, may be tho tip off on one of the great decisions, one oi the climactic turning points of the war. .

In the Aleutian: at least the enemy has abandoned the strategic plan under which he fought to the death on Guadalcanal and Aitu, in Plnua and at Munda. Strategic retreat is something new in the Jap- anese manner oi’ fighting. It is not art of the Samurai code. It must have been something terribly compelling that led the high command in Tokvn to order the abandonment of the last foothold on North American territory, which the Japanese people had been ioid was a prlle beyond

price

What does the flight from Kiska mean’! is it the first step in a new siralegi’. plan oi hemispheric proportions. a withdrawal from the ill‘ outposts io some inner, more defensible fortress? or is it s Pffllmlnfll‘! in a new offensive movc. n desperate lashing out at some supposedly vul- nerable Joint in the Alllcd armor. perhaps at the behest of and to save Japan's sorely beset partners in Europe?

Ir ml ht be the latter. Therc is no doubt that Hitler's representatives in Tokyo ave been using all the persuasive powers at their command i0 convince T010 and company that the only hope o! the Axis liartscrs to avert. destruction is common. concerted action, some devastating blow now. hcfore it is too late. The one thing that would. for the moment at least. most improve the outlook for Germany would be a Japanese attack on Soviet Siberia. which might weaken the xorsble pressure that the Red Army is exerting on the Wehrmacht.

Such an attack is certainly a possibility. The flower of the Japanese army. some 30-odd divisions. 500.000 men or more. that make up the Kwangtung army. is in Manchuris, arrayed along the Siberian bmder. Perhaps another 1,000,000 men now in north China or the Japanese win: Islands, would he available for a thrust into Russia's Maritime

ov nee.

But there is nothcr offensive enterprise to which Japan's form- idable reserves may be turned, one front on which the Japanese lief- iuiirly are not on the defensive and from which they are not retreating is Burma. The latest dispatches from that area tell of recent movement by the enemy close to Indllrs borders. ~

Rn ‘he horns pulled in at Kiska. may become manifest soon on India's eastern border. 0r the Japanese may try again to deliver that knockout hlmv in (Ihlrmz Kai-Shows Government. an achievement that could urn- innz the Pacific war for years perhaps as d victory. ihcse are possibilities but to this writer they seem little more. The more tenable explanation of the retreat irnrn‘the Aleutlans seemiobe the imperative need for short- ening the perimeter of the vast area Japan has overrun and thus far has tried to hold. While they held Klska this arcs. measured 4.000 miles from north to south. s like distance from elsst to west, to man all the rlmplri! rfializd for n. t. ’ fleet of ‘ ‘ And the have no such

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SitizllillwwwDispléiise-d? Russian Move Stiri Up Bears ____

“Y “w” '“"""“ - No Connection .(Assoclated Press Staff WINE?)- . Wlth Conference

LONDON. Aug. 22—(AP) —- The recall oi Maxim Litvinolf frbm Washington. coming on the heels or Ivan Molskys withdrawal from London. stirred fears today thflt Hi5 the worst a breach may develop between Soviet Russia and her British and American Allies.

At the best, the removal oi Lit- vinoff as Soviet ambassador" t0 the United States was interpreted here as indicating that Marshal Joseph Stalin is impatient with the p609 0f British-American iililltary 0P9!- atlons and is using changes in his_ diplomatic representation to i111" dcrscore impatience at the delay in lthc invasion oi rhe European main- an

d.

ecause technically the removal of Litvlncff concerns only the United Slates and Russia, Oiiibifll British sources declined to 60m-

merit.

Although the first reaction o!

some people here to the withdfflw-

nn outstanding R-ilsiifln friend of the democracies was that it could foreshadow n 591101019 Russian-German peace. there 598m- ed lo he sctlnt gcrleluu llcccl-llfliice of the idea that suclrn new? “Ci- ually was in the making.

The role that Litvinpfi is t0 b6 given in Moscow was anxiously n- waited as a gauge to the STEVE] oi the move.

If he remains an important V0108 in the Soviet foreign office. 6°11" cern here will be lessened, but i! he is sent. into a. com letc eclipse as lie was during the viet 80V" emmenvs 1939- 0 rapprochement with Germany. it would deb 9n 111° fears oi a major schism etween the western democracies and Ihfi

lens.

The attitude oi the Russians can vastly affect the course oi the War in the far east, 111th?! might. ol Soviet forces is nerstone cl al 10f B» Vic- torious peace in Europe by or be- fore next spring. t- -

iscow dispatches said the re- call oi Litvinoii and his replace- ment by Apdrei A: Gromylro w:

.. n n i.

the Moscow press. and that Lit- vlnoff retained the title oi Vice Cornmlssar for Ibreign Ailslrs as

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QUEBEC, Aug ZA-(CH- The recall of Maxim MWIIW" as Russian ambassador to "'9 United States has no din"- conncctlon with the Quebec conference, it was learned here tonight from sources closelY connected with it.

The American government was informed of liioscows III- tcntion to switch diplomatic re-

resentatives in Washington ong before the conception 0! the military conference 110W proceeding in Quebec.

With this knowledge, news- papermen attending the con- ference seemed to agree toms!"- that Moscow was not refill"!!! utvinofi as a protest against decisions being reached here or as a. protest against "l? iallIlN oi the western democracies to open a second front in hill"??- To them, it became s. simple switch in plomatio "PIE- ' , involving Wash- ington. London and Ottawa, ' for reasons known only i°

Moscow.

Gets Scant Notice In Press

By IIENIIY C. CASSIDY (Associated Press Staff Writer) MOSCOW. Aug. 22 — (AP) -

The retirement oi Maxim Litvinoff as Soviet Ambassador to the Un- iterl States and the appointment of Andrei A. Gromykn as his suc- ccssor was announced here today in a briei notice published on the back pages of the newspapers.

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Capt. W. Kenneth MacDonald ls Killed In Action

Captain William Kenneth Mao- DCHSid 0i ChBrlOttet/own, g medical doctor attached to a western com Edi feklment. was killed in actlon l?" Allllust 5. it was learned in an official message last night. was believed that. he was serving l" 5M1)’ as he was known to have filtgelhemmlligsr [krlnagérlsgelr sriislltlhl larédintgsniln Sicily, a

Sp. acDonald was a son of P. J. MacDonald, well-known gm- cer in this city. Hi5 mothgr 1s dead.

He was with the army for two years and was overseas since July, i942. At first he was attached to an armoured unit but later was transferred to an infantry outfit.

He was a aduate of Queen's Unlvefsltl’. _K fission. and earlier attended Prince of Wales College at Charlottetown and Mount Alli- son University, Sackville. Follow- ing his graduation in medicine he was lntem at the Prince Edward Island Hospital in Charlottetown and later took post-graduate work at a hospital at Saint John, N.B., White Plains. New York and 9,1, the Civic Hospital. Ottawa. He the latter institution to enlist,

He was born at Covehead on February 29. i914.

l-le was not married. Surviving are his father, five brother; and one sister.

The brothers are: B. Earle Mac- Donald. Charlottetown: Dr. Wen- dell MacDonald. Montreal: Sterl- ing MacDonald and Elmer Mac- Donald. both in Charlottetown: and Allison MacDonald, at the Beach Grove Military ‘Training Centre.

The sister is Mrs, Mason. Bunbury.

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News Brief:

LONDON. Alli’. 22 -— (APP- The Germans have lost 1.00".- 000 men killed and wounded l the third summer of fighting in Russia. a special Soviet. bul~ letin announced Saturday nillll- This is a ihlrd of their ol- timatcd effectives along the l.- 500-rniie Rllsdiin front,

EC. Aug. 22-(0?) -- Mrs. Churchill. wiie 0f the Minister.’

ie o a "llsg days," "the

building up our armies and ar- modes.’

LONDON. All’. Axis losses of I 0. Sicily brought. ca‘ oi enemy troops illed, ed and captured in the dean-Mediterranean campli from Ethiopia to Mesolna. \o 1,135,000 s recapituiatio 0f British war office figures I ow- ed Saturday.

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Island Retaken

By Allies With N0 Opposition

Specially Trained Canadians At Kiska

WASHINGTON, Aug

. 22 -- (AP) — Canadian

and United States forces, their enemy fled with- out offering final battle, stood undisputed masters

of Kiska. tonight and the

once ambitious Japanese

invasion of North America lay a bombed and bom-

barded failure.

"N0 Japanese were found." With those words the United States Navy Department told Saturday

oi.’ seizure Aug. 15 of the

once- strong enemy air

and submarine base in the Aleutian Islands. Two weeks of the heaviest bombings yet car- ried out against the Japanese preceded the land-

ings, the Navy disclosed

in lifting the silence that

has cloaked North Pacific actions for three weeks. It explained this silence was prompted by a belief the Japanese radio equipment had been smashed

and the Navy wished to news.

(Simultaneous with in Washington Saturday, in Quebec by Prime Mini

supply Tokyo with no

the Navy announcement a joint statement issued ster Mackenzie King and

President Roosevelt said: “The present occupa- tion of Kiska frees the last vestige of North Am‘

erican territory of Japan

ese forces."

(The operation marked the first time that: Canadian and American soldiers have combined to