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The People's aper Covers Prince Edwardllsland Like the Dew

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943

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Self-reliance borne of lteedy faith in God and in, oneself ll the first of virtues and the flnelt.

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Alli ENEMY LINE IN SICILY CRACKED

OOOOOG

ermans Rush Reinforcements To Russian Front

..S'eek To Prevent Major Debacle At Orel Sector

Prisoners In iovial Mood

_.... '"‘ IABT CANADIAN PORT. u MACH-Whether the Al-

invasion had anvthins w do but it was o.

w; camp somewhere in Canada. of the 200 were youths who m captured behind the lines be- ige becoming acquainted with the flood and grime of battlefields. my didn't seem to mind cap- gpity, snd gave Churchill's “V" for mm-y sign and upped thdr thumbs so they passed through y communities. y welcomed the chance off their clothes and be bath- ed and have their clothes deloused. scorching heat oi‘ the summer may have accounted for that, " it didn't account for their al- posl hilarious mood. when their train stopped at a sesrhy railway Junction. the pris- gm: burst into song and kept it p long enough to draw u small sudience.

SUBMAMNE LOST IDNDON. Julv h? -(CP)— The lmiralty announced tonight that lie submarine P65 is overdue and

god lost.

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lo" Lynn lleinserlin Associated Press Staff

IDNDON. July N - Ger-mm units from as far as fiance and Germany rushed into the threaten- ed Oroi sector of the Russian front tonight as the formidable Red ar- tillery pounded the drenched coun- tryside and the Russian cavalry charged through the mud to batter the we German defenders, who were p back six miles and pried from i0 villages.

The Soviet Thursday midnight communique giving these new de- tails said the Germans were snat- ching reinforcements from every available front in their determina- tion to Orei, a eystone in the entire Ger- man defences.

The communique described them us "march battalions", s German

ion meaning troops hurried- organincd and sent to the front before completing their full train-

ing.

More than 3.300 Germans were killed in the Orel fi hting today as the battle raged fercely despite the rain and muck that sent troops flourldcring and splashing in et- aok and counter-attack.

One Red army cavalry unit smashed through weary German defenders at three strongly fortif- ied places north of Orel. The Ger- mans ran, leaving behind them 600 of their dead comrades and large quantities of arms, said the comm-

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unique recorded by ihe Soviet Monitor.

Allies Throw out

Choice Bait

News Briefs

LONDON. July 29 - (C P Csblel — The Evening News lid today the Canadians ad- nnced yesterday about 13 miles lli the Sicilian fighting but were encountering heavy de- molition and mining.

BEND, July 30 —(1"i'lduy)—(A Pl-Thousands of Italians carrying alums saving “we demand peace." Ind ‘we want our sons back" par- aded in Milan and Turin last night llpiie military warnings that. owns would fire on demonstrators. fiigitltl‘ dispatches said early to-

sroclulouif. July 29 —(AP) -A traveller just arrived Irons Ilrlln said today that German lrlny officers are predicting illst lialv will be out of the wsr within the next l0 days.

PBF-‘RNE- Julv so --(Fl'iday) _ (a i-The Swiss Telegraphic Agency ill s Rome dLspatch early today will! government, circles as say- liill ihe Churchill-Roosevelt speech- rhad not modified the Casablanca mule of unconditional surrender wnfiiwlifllll "could never accent m1‘ r-irourlcin" til.- 1mm, 91¢. "i=1 sense of dignity."

CanadamTJPI-aive- Sufficient Tobaccq

OTTAWA. July 20-(CP)-The m‘?! 340.000 pounds of flue-cured M! can tobacco allocated to Ca-

Qnli" i110 year ending next June nmpger a new nited States-Ca- ‘M nited Kin agreement, h "ounce-d today in Washington,

"W. an official of the Price lflrdmtobacco administration sgid

“Pall-d- is Quito self-sufficl t in halt-tor of fluecured tobeeiieco." m.“ 4- Iddina that the relative m! quantity allocated to the Do- tmggl was an indication of w: in that field u. recent

WIIIIG EVENTS

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Wednesday ‘l-il-I-SO-Sl-I-Ii-d mil Boll Friday . Clifford's Orch-

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To Italy

By E. C. DANIEL Associated Press Staff Writer LONDON, July 29—-(AP)-Prcm-

ier Marshal Pietro Badoglio dissol- ved the Fascist packed Italian legis- lature today and sought by force of arms to still domestic tumult preparatory to climatic battles or a suit for peace-

Both German and Italian troops were dispatched to Flume and Tri- este to combat separatist demon- strations among the 600,000 Croats and Slovenes of Istria. Swiss dis- patches said.

The Allies throw out what was pres iv their choicest bait to entice taly out of the war-a

e by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower to trade prisoners on a basis that would favor Italy heavily with immediatg peace "under honor- able conditions which the govern- ments havu already offered you."

Italian-language broadcasts to Italy from North Africa carried the message of Gen. Eisenhower. the allied commander who hlui been entrusted with full authority to deal with any pew; offers.

"Provided all British and Allied prisoners now in your hands nre restored safely to us and not taken away to Germany." he said “the hundreds of thousands of Italian prisoners captured by us in Tunisia and Sicily will return to the count- less Italian homes who long for

them.

The Allies captured 248,000 or more Axis soldiers in Tunisia and have seized 75,000 thus far in the Sicilian campaign. the bulk of thcm Italians in each case.

Formation oi new political nar-

tles and the tggrlllg of arlLpoiiti- '

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Increase Shown In island Fishery Returns For June

HALIFAX. July 29 -_(OP)~Total fish landings in the Maritime Pro- vinces last month showed increases of 5,010,200 pounds and $1,019,512. as compared with June of last year, the eastern fisheries division re- ported today.

The total quantity of all fish landed was 74,646,700 pounds, with a landed value 0f 53.094352. Iti- cllcascs occurred in the catches and value of lobsters. mackerel. lind- 006k. Salmon. herring and pollock. Catches of sardines. hake and cod declpeased but the value of cod was

er.

Nova Sootia had increases of 6.095.300 pounds and $560,264. In New Brunswick the total catch de- creased by 198,900 pounds but the landed value increased by $264,810. Decreases of more than 1.000.000 pounds occurred in the catches of sardines and herring. although the landed value of sardines decreased by only $1.673.

Nnvn Scotins total volume was 50,755,100 hounds. and New Bruns- wick's 18.832200

Total figures for Prince Edward Island were 5.059.400 pounds and $438.606-increa£cs of 116.800 pounds and $85,438. .

Musso Has Quiet 60th Birthday

BERNE. Switzerland. July 20 - (AP)— Benito Mussolini. the man who always wanted to 11w! danger- ously, marked his 60th birthday to- day apparently a prisoner of the Sovereign he dominated for years.

There was no celebration of the event. in Italy.

Mussolinvs whereabouts is still a mystery. He has variously been re- ported a fugitive in Spain. a prison- er somewhere in northern Italy. in a Iyilla near Home or in Rome it- se .

ILS. Relies 0n Eisenhower.

WASHINGTON. July 29—(AP) —-Statc Secretary Cordell Hull in- dicated today that the United States relies on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. commander of the Ai- lled forces, to obtain Italy's uncon- ditional surrender.

Asked at his press conference if the Italians had made any ap- proaches, Hull said there was none to his knowledge.

He tacitly endorsed Eisenhower's declaration to the Italians today. with an assertion of his confidence in the Allied commanders sound Judgment in dealing with military affairs at the front. Eisenhower told the Italian people in a broad- cast today that the presence of German troops in Italy is the only obstacle to all honorable peace.

FIRE DESTROYS MILL

CANTERBURY. N.B.. July 20- (CPl-Firc of un unknown origin which broke out shortly nficr three o'clock this morning c0m~ pletely razed the saw mill of Dur- ling Brothers and for a time threa- flencd the cnllre village.

Damage was estimated at. ap- proximately $10,000 with no insur- ance.

Pictures Show What

"lids" Canada hss been W“

Air Power Can Do

Scott v Canadml Press 8W writer

of some hag yal Air Force officials that air r alonebould end the war is contained in an exhibition of aerial ‘privately to members of abinet. Air Ministry officials and newspaper- men in London. The photographs are processed e fully in first by looking st them ufls a sim le apparatus-they amine iluoe imensionsl quality. stand out with all the true propor- tions, lights and shadow! that a man could see from on aircraft a few thousand feet sbovethe ground The den-station shown in this

ll . ie fur worse than the flattened area lNilIid B13. Plill’! Cathedral in Inndon. A iihst London left wit next in

ere was nothing. thepertofltestock one of th special Photographs show was left with no hing.

centre logne is almost ea bed, but while in Rostoo“ the

t huglldings apparently were battered

rig t into the ground end the foun- dations and basements later filled

in.- iogneseemedeehsve

blcdts and blocks of roofless walls - - buildings certainly unus- able. but still partially standing. This quite probaiay is because there

h has not, been time for demolition

of dangerous structures since the heavy bombing this spring which did much of the damage.

A large part of the Barmen sec- tion of Wupperta-i is shown a picture taken after ihe May 39 raid to be ruined. Pictures taken after the June l1 raid on Dussel- dorf show a railway station" post office and several factories severely damaged. The centre of the oity was hard hit. too, and eight or nine fires were still burning the next day, when the pictures were ‘w’ d age to a eonstructio

ere am n Dortmund of

- engineerhil blunt at -

ter the May l3 raid is shown. Kassel is seen partially inundated from the blasting of the Eder dam on June 1B. The Mohne dam, wafer rushmg thrown a clear breach. is shown the day after the famous

e dam rai

Two capsized submsrina in e subme ed floatin dock an most interest ng paints a ‘ lure tak- cn following a United tales for- tress attack on’ Rial Mnlyl lbdngxith large pa s o e s p u

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yards and testing sheds d!

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War Situation Last Night

B)’ Klrlse L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst Foundering, floundering Italy is on nltstlee (ma?! Gen, Eiggnhqygr, A].

Me terranea war theatre.

to yettison the Nazis along with Fascism-arr go down in utter ruin.

lhere is no middle course. Rome now has heard teruls from the three men who hold Italy's fate in their hands, Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt and (icn. Eisenhower. lt has

the t-apituiation

heard also from Eisenhower that once the German army in Italy is

bitions of Mussolini.

“You can have peace."

army in Sicily, the whole right win was crumbling. while his brother right flank tied

forces on the Cataniu front and his weaker north coast poslti

process of being cracked in

tip of the “esslna Peninsula just as on Cape Bon. Their escape under the

steal], once the Etna. barrier finally American-Canadian-Briilsh pursuit cision. 1t, would take a hold mun the Churchill-“ooseveli. f‘

By noss MUNRO

Canadian Press War Correspondent

WITH THE CANADIANS IN CENTRAL SICILY. July 24-—(De- lnyedl-ACP Cable)--The Canadi- ans are within sight of towering Mount Etna. around which are strung the last strong defensive positions of the enemy on Sicily.

The mountain strongholds of Le- onforte anrl Assoro. neighbflfiflg towns 15 miles northeast of Enna. were captured by the Canadian 1st Division Thursday (July 2Z1.

(This dispatch was apparently held up by the military field cen- sorship until yesterday (Thursday) for the announcement by Allied headquarters in North Africa of the capture of Leonforte.)

For the last four days heavy fighting has raged around these towns.

The Canadians finally stormed into Lconforte. and the Princess Patrlcizfs Crnvldlrm Light Infantry ousted the last Germans from the town aftcl" a brittle that was in the balance for hours.

Tll~ fall of loonforte consolidat- ed our positions and gave the Ca- nadians gloat wdvantcges for ‘fur- ther operations. This new posmlon dominates the roads lending to the east towards Mount Etna and Co-

tanin

Thus this victory at Leonforie was one of the most important nchir-ved so far by the forces of hint-Gen. Guy Simonds.

The Germans are being coopcd up in tho Mount Etna lrca slmvly but dcterminedly hy the American and Canadian advances in Control Sicily and by the pressure of Brit- ish 8th Army forces to the south-

east.

I believe there is _the cliliivulfilii- of 21-9. Gcmlon (livlslnns opposing the 8th Armv and the Americans on strong defensive lines

Quite possibly the Germans may counter-attack anywhere along this sprawling, fluid front in lit- tempts to delnv the final Allied of- ic . , But it would take strong

__ Lafitte": Colfol“ Japs Told More i Ships Are Essential

NEW YORK. July 39 —(AP) — The Tokyo radio told the Japanese people today that it was "absolute- ly essential" that Japan concent- rate on shipbuilding if she hoped to capitalize on the rich resources of conquered areas, the United States office of war information ro-

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I-Mk of shinning "determined the feteuof Germany in the first world war. the broadcast, warned, point. inlz out that lack of transport fac- ilities prevents the shipping of products from Java. Borneo, Burma

classic example of modern military tactics .It bids left of ihe Axis garrison in Sicily penned up on

avalanche of cross the narrow Messlna Strait to the mainland would be u terribly costly business. The Tunisian example

Rome must reckon with thoscustgg‘ no" m“ tomorrow or m“ day

might not see the final Italian collaPR. and unillmsllilflin: accelliim" 0f . L u

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driven yput with at least passive Italian help, an honorable and "ben- eficent peace will come to the hapless nation wrecked by the mud am-

sald the Eisenhower dinned endlessly into Italian ears from African and other broadcasting stations. “You can have peace. immediately. and peace under honorable conditions which our governments have already offered you."

It was by acts more than words. however, that drove home ills ultimatum. Under intensifying pressure nf his mighty

surrender summons

Gen. Eisenhower

of Nazi-Fascist resistance from the

northern sca coast to the central p vot West of the Mount Etna. bastion

Eisenhower developed his forces to hit his hardest blow in the centre down major enemy armor and mobile

left put pressure relentlessly on the

ons. The pattern followed avoided a costly British frontal assault on 1h!’-

terribly iermidable east coast Etna shelf. The whole the centre and turned from the north in a

Etna position is in

fair to leave What l5 the meagre, rnountanous Axis forces in Tunisza were (HD1105

bombs awaiting an effort to

suggests their mass surrender iii-

ives away todpcrmit a con er ing es

rem three sl slmultane_ y. military facts in making its de-

s rrender terms.

’ Canadian Troops Are

Within Sight Of Mt. Etna

llenry Ford 80 Today

DETROIT. July 29—(AP)—IIen- ry Ford. who will observe ills 80th birthday anniversary tomorrow in excellent health and as optimistic as ever. said today that business and industry “must build the phys- ical basis of the good society."

"There must be more and more industry." Ford said. “It is essen- tlnl to political and economic free- dom. and anything that hinders lllédillStfy is harmful to the American

en "

Ford comes to his 80th birthday with heavier responsibilities than lie has had in nearly 25 yours. f-ie has taken over again the presidency and general mnnngership of the Ford Company following the death several weeks ago of his son, Ed- sel B. Ford.

Ford. who developed an initial investment of $28,000 four decades ago into an industrial empire that today has assets worth more than 3800000000 stressed that his com- pany has been nble to do “many things that needed to be done" be- cause it has been “free from nll stockholders and financial control."

"We never made money our main object." he said. “We regarded it as nne of the tools, one of the by- products of business. and as n rc- sult we allvays found that. we had ETlOll l.

""Money is just a part of a prac- tical lifwsaves time in exchang- ing goods-nudism good for any~ thing else, People who desire to live off money, thinking that money is wealth, easily become parasites. ,. We never believed that we could be prosperous alone, Real prosperity is prosperity for all."

16 U. S. Planes Raid Hong Kong

NEW YORK. July 29 -—(AP) _

U. B. planes "med H0118 Kong today. dropping 10 bombs which caused "slight damage". ‘

The report was recorded by me U5 imcisn broadcast intelligence service.

There was no allied confirmation 0i the raid. us. planes also raid- ed Hons Kong two day's ago. a raid first reported bv the Japanese.

1o TATETEFFsuNK uuvl“ti°’.illlll°§‘ili' M" “M”? s navy announce i008)’ that American submarines

have sunk 10 Japanese merchant vege“ 5nd damaged four in re-

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in» Additional Coffee In Ganada

OFITAWA, July 29 —(IOP)_ '1‘ Mohan. Prices Board Adrninisgator 0i 16B. coffee and spicfls. issued t0- night a statement replying w m“ oulries from across Canada as m whether the Canadian coffee ration could be lifted ‘or increased ‘in view of President Roosevelt's an- “; ed states’ K n t e United f’ Mohanvexplained that in the -I- place snlpmentslof coffee into Canada arc on n definite shipping-

alld come overland, these allotments have not been increased and the 9""? of Canada's supply has not been hastened. At present, Canada h“: flbflui =1 four-months supply of colce. an lllSllfflffl-Eflf stock pile on which to base an lncreagnd ration. '

5900MB‘. tea and coffee are ra- tioned in Canada on the some Cmilwns- Bfiflillse of the low tea ration and the relatively high cor. fee ration allowed on the 113515 of coupon value. coffee consumntt ion has risen more than 15 per cent flier the ore-war normal, ivhile tea (‘On-iummion has declined almost 50 per cent.

Inquest Today Into Death of N.B. Child

ST. anoreca, N.B.. July s9_ (GEN-The coroner's inquest into the mysterious death of little Bar- bara Sceley. four-year-old daugh- ter of Mrs. Neil Secley. St. George and Pie. Neil Secley 0f the R.C.A. 5.0., stationed at the Pennfield air station. will open here tomorrow morning with Dr. 1=\v_ Maxwcm presiding,

The inquest has been postponed on seyral occasions sinlr the find- lng o. the battered and cut. body of the girl on Sunday afternoon. July 11. a few hours after it had been discovered she was missing.

Price 0f Fruits,- llegetallles Proving Tough Problem

OTTAWA, July 29—(CP)—Con- trolling the prices of fresh fruits and vegetables is proving one of the toughest. problems the Prices Board has faced.

While no method of applying a ceiling has yet been devised, of- ficials of the Board and authorities on agricultural produce have not abandoned hope it was learned to- day and are continuing a study that has been going on for some time in an effort to bring relief to housewives who have been com- plaining of unprecedented prices.

otll in stores and on their local markets, - *1.

Kenneth W. Ta lor, Foods Cn- Ordillator for the oard. gave ub- lic recognition to the pro lem earlier this week when in announ- cing the freezing of wholesale sup- plies of canned goods. he said the Board was “well aware of and ser- iously concerned with" the "ab- normally high prices on fresh fruits and vegetables this spring."

Speaking of the Board's efforts lo apply some control he added: "It has thoroughly canvassed the possibility of n cclliluz arrangement for those fresh products. but with- tne best possible advice available has been unable to evolve any prac- tical plan toward this end."

It was said today however that the Board has not abandoned its efforts to devise some scheme for bringing these prices under con- trol. Both the meilmd of market- ing fresh fruits and vegetables and the variations in size and quality

space allotment and u-hilc thev 211-‘ We mvsill‘ at United States nuns‘