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j of the Western Mar- mu Islands in the central Pacific offensive launched Monday and w, invaded two additional juidl in the same Atoll.

Gaphllb of Roi. first piece of w"; Japanese Empire m m; new landings were an- rouaced today by Admiral Ches-

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ter W. Nimitz omm Mid-Pacific areg. rileigfitfitlcefi

were attended by "modest casusl- Both

ties." he said. and without lose of any i

ps. The new landin s were mark Tuesday on Kwaja ein Islet, st the southern end of the Atoll of the same name, and on Numur e. at the northern Namur Roi. initial

nriings Monday were on spots of land near Roi. and Kwajalein Islands.

OOUN. J. ‘I. McKIl Ward 3

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Conference Planned Soon

By James McCook

OTTAWA, Feb. 2 — (C P) - Prime Minister Mackenzie Kin! announced today in the 1101156 0t Corrunons that the EOl/eljnmmt hopes to have a General Wnlflence between the Dominion and Provin- ces “before long" — the first of its kind since the one on Dominion - Provincial relations in 1941.

"The government has been ready aver since the last conference with the provinces to have another con- ference, and we have reason to be- lieve that the provinces now are ready and willing -- some of them 1 “ndersmnd - to meet with the ral government in conference to deal with some of the social problems an a l questions that th have had to consider al- ong w-lt ourselves." Mr. Klhl mguestions ' the federal social security program, covering subjects such as health insurance. labor and other matters concern- ing provincial come under review at such a con- ference. it was understood.

Mr, King made his statement on the proposed conference as he an- swered questions asked by 00rd“! Graydon, Progressive conservative House leader. ahWt government plans for sessional business.

After the question perivd- Ho" R- ?’ "vim" im- Ytur

ormer op f on . ' ued the throne speech debate with

authority. would r

ANKS CAPTURiE AiRFlELll_ IN MARSHALLS

Action is ess ' at all Points. ghndmoomlrlxilzilnitlue and. marines and infantry putt. clllated in the new invasions. sup- ported by United States warships and planes and by artillery quick- ly aft up at the original invasion

po . a Carrier-based planes, oo-ordin- sting their bombing with artillery

and naval shelling. covered thei

lending parties.

striking at the Mar

OOUN. B. l. MACDONALD WARD I

DIGBY. N.S-. Feb ii-(CH- Sinking of a coal-laden lhlp bound from l-lalifnx to Saint John. N.B.. upperlrdd establish- ed today as the bodies of four men that have drifted ashore near here were identified l! those of members of the ship's

morew. . . WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—(AP)—- Casualties in the United States army air forces have been so far below expectations that the Unit- ed States now has n “superobiih- dance" of trained fliers, Senator Charles McOa-rmn iDem. - Nev.) said today.

ALGIERS. Feb. 2 -- (AP)- French troops which fought uri- der De Gaulllfs banner at El Aiamein and Bir lluchelm will be among the first i0 set 10W on France again. commissioner Andre latroquer pro d - day in a speech to their of- ficers during an inspection Ill

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IDNDON. Feb. 2—(CP-Reuters) -8h- Efhoonas Moore. Conservative. ed n the House of Commons ay hat after the war all buy!‘ mm the age of 17!. should serve for a period in the home guard so hat Britain would have a defence ieree of something like 0.000.000 or 7,000,000.

LONDON, Feb. 2- (CP) -Yug- oalav Plrtlsana announced to- day they had .. strated the two-weeks-old drlva hv 00m- bined Nazi nml Bulgarian forces In ‘Macedonia, but. that new and heavy battles were M-

rlticism of government P°ll°l¢5_°“ givil aviation which he said nad resulted in a fllvhoPflly be“ 84W“

to ZOVCTIlEIi-“lilt owned Trans - Canada a nes. Other speakers in the debate.

were Dr. Pierre Gauthier (BP — Portneuf) sndWalter-Kuhl (MD-

gpfl‘ __ Edso ).

“Mr, King soixd he believed the debate on the throne spwlh h!“ been too long in rust years. If v11"! were general agreement that the address might be voted uWn l" short order. other lfliflfllfltlm W" ready to be brought in immediat-

War measures would have first consideration, followed by thaw dealing with the period 01 ifflmi" pm gfter the war and then by measures of social reform mulled uHmQflQIGTCl-lfh bean fin- pcovament on the old one- we certainly hope and c!!!” will be.” ..‘.’.‘.°i°...°?'°‘°"t§’.§’.’.‘...‘f8.‘.“%.‘.i°.§§‘ q ween '

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Iloine lladio Says 14 iiune Killed

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lng fought. in Dalmatia against German units which have been reinforced with troops brought from Greece.

LONDON. Feb. 2 --(AP) — Secretary Anthony Eden is expected to make a statement in the House of‘ Commons when he receives a full report from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. Brltis bassadoi‘ to Russia, on political developments in Soviet Russia,

TORONTO, Fob. 2 —(Cl')— Meatless Tuesdays will not. he abolished or moat

.. used, 12.8.. Griadale, Deputy Ioori< Administrator of the Prices Board. said here today.

OTTAWA. Iieb. ii —(OP) - The Evening Journal said today in a newspage story that LL-Gen. A. G. L, McNaughton, retired com- mander of the Canadian overseas, has returned to Canada and is expected to reach Ottawa within a few days.

Ban Synthetic fiber For U. S. Eiiians

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rubber, exce

items. was

office of the r N e scheduled for

Erna civilian requirements early

New tactics were followed inl shells.

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eopvren dtoe sen-tents and elastic yarns. threads f must be diverted to pressing military requirements, the office . The s thetic rub- oaled for

m-‘ sufficient neoprene on ut o meet

“It is now apparent." said Ad- miral Nimitz today. “that the at- tack took the enemy completely by mrprlse."

These tactics. in contrast to the frontal assault in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands last November took advantage of the numerous reefs that flank the Atoll strong- polnts. 1113s enabled the assault forces to establish beachheads and let up artillery with which to blast major objectives on adjacent islands

Re-Elected Acclamation

OOUN. A. T. MACKINNON WARD 5

ldonty..$fgj‘yis.llill. Finish European gWar This Year

A SOUTHEAST ENGLAND TOWN. Feb. 2 -—iCP) --Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery told his troops today that they could fin- ish the war in Europe this year “and we will."

“I want you men to know." said the Commander of British ground forces in the invasion command. "that I never put an army into battle until I am quite certain it is going to be a good show. We won't have any question of fail- ure. If there is any question we won't start . , .

“Today we can see how this business is going to end. The only thug we cannot see is exactly when. But I would say we must make a great effort to finish it off this year. We can do so —-and wc will. You and I will see this thing through together."

Berlin Says Reds In New Offensive

LONDON, Feb. 2—(AP) -— The Russians have smashed across the Estonian border near the mouth of tic Narvn River, capturing more t approaches Moscow announced to-

han 40 tovrns on the to Narva, night. Berlin reports, meanwhile, told of e new soviet break-through in thu Dnleper bend and a new red army drive upon Rovno, 30 miles inside fire-war Poland. The German admission of a Sov- iet penetration in the Dnieper bend was contained in Berllns high Lurllill niquc. ‘Fire break into the German lines. in the usual Nazi terminology as a. “local penetration," was made southwest of Dnepropetrovsk. Ber- lin said. “aft/er grim fighting." The wording of the statement suggested that the Russians ma; have made a major breakthroug in thls area. where the Germans have reported Soviet activity for selvm-al weeks.

N0 VOICE. N0 SALE

WION. OKLA. Nb. 2-(A.P)— Mrs. ter ad said she'd sell her sedan for a song ‘if you have a voice like Sinatra's. she was at her telephone all day iistc but none 8

described : i‘

Tlmsaia of dlsaate are stalking at the moment is Fastest.

and ordered a four-day period of

Baltic flilnli.

wus rivetiorl about the leatheaet alen Le

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cape road aiill open in Nazis in the

Once the mouth of the Volkhov trapped within it could be left to be

Pskov gateway.

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Something New. in Air Battles

LONDON, 2 -—- CP .- Two R. A. F. S ( )

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utes. The crew had hailed out when three engines failed en

route to France and vibration threatened to tear the aircraft apart. The pilot left the hom. her trimmed for a level flight and set its nose toward the sea. As he parachnted. he saw the craft hank and turn toward llfld s0 he called R. A- F. fighters.

Invasion Boast Pounded Again

LONDON, Feb. 2(CP)~—FOUI-Bfl- gifted United States bombers today smashed at military installations the Nazis have built to hold their grlip on the invasion coast of north- ern France while medium bombers attacked an airfield in Normandy without loss.

Two of the heavy bombers failed

to return. The daylight operations followed an attack RA F. M uitoes last night on nnouldering erlin anidotwtargstsln estennGer- many.

Meantime there was indication of a possible R.A.l~‘. raid on Germany tonight. The Frankfurt radio twice brcdacast thi message: “Enemy aircraft have been r rted cross-

northwest Eifel (t e mountains

n the Moselle River and the

Ruhr) in the direction of our warn- “m3.

Danger or 115mg Trained Farm Men

TORONTO. Feb. 2-40?) -— The risk of losin highly trained Can- ndlrm agrlcu ural experts to hiigh- er salarled positions in the Uh ted States is "far too great.’ Dr. E-S Archibald. director of the Central Ex rimeritai Farm in Ottawa, told

orortto club (Ofptintlst) today. "Canada will require agricultural engineers by the hundreds and soil specialists b the dozens for P0“; war agricutural developments. he sa -

TASKS TOUGIIEH FOB ARMY GIRLS

LONDON. Fe“ 2 -tCP)- Girls of the Auxiliary Territorial Ser- vice hrftish -quiv-.\!-.-nt of‘ the C.W. A.C_. are assuming more and more responsibility as war goes on. Re- cently three subalierns qualified for secret radio duties 1t Army Radio Bchool. Margaret Pike has qualified as st sneclsl radio main- tenance officer and is touring gun sites to assist with delicate sck-ack instruments.

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Plan Orderly icy-Off And Transfer Of Workers

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Germany in Italy and her Jap-

anese partner in the Central Pacific. But it is in Russia that Nazi peril A year ago. on Feb. l. Berlin admitted a crushing defeat in Russia

‘ - ti-rouaheut the Reich for

"the army of the dead" lost at Stalingrad. Twelve months later Nazi forces have been driven off Russian soil at the extreme north end of the

Indicated Iusslan crossing of the Estonian-Russian border on the Narva Isthmus to invest Narva itself means the northern escape route has been definitely sealed off, Yet there are Nazi troops still deep in the shrinking Volkhov bulge 100 miles east of Nana. The converging jaws of a Eurasian trap are swiftly clampiraguabut on them as a similar steel ring

of Nerve. fseal point on the seoflanlr. a prong of the lua- anny has been driven to the vicinity of Lake Sunny. 0n- ly s. Ail-mile gap, threaded by the Leulngrad-Pakov railway-me "n, es.

Volkhov bulge-separate, u," m“.

slan force ‘from a junction with the Russian Volkhov army converging on Lugs. from the southeast. Once those rdd forces meet, the m; ,1 a 5,". man army once estimated at 250,000 men would be sealed.

bulge sack ia closed, the Nazi forces Imlibed up by other forces while the

main Leningrad and Volkhov armies joined to move down against the

It is a safe conclusion that Russian strategy is more concerned with dealing the knock-out blow to fhosehNlsl armies than with immediate

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OTTAWA. Feb. 2 —<or> - A program for _the orderly lay-off or W" Wvrkcrs and their transfer to military service or high-priority emfllilyment was tabled today in the Commons by " ‘ ‘ Mm. 18¢)?‘ Hogs. l

ere. ref , th I wkenF y are e steps to be

iggetllliglgyhillitgrylresaltiilsot" ‘forw- dustriai skill. m m

s. The list r‘ " ts be dischargedo §ii'i“i.§xp°°.§.qi§.'i by labor department officials in relation to military and industrial needs.

3. Labor officers will be at the plant on la -off day to tell the workers th r destination; whe- ther it be military service or a

new b.

4. The plant experiencing a curtailment of orders and cont- racts, necessitating a lay-off, will reduce working hours to i8 hours fl Week. “or to the normal working hour; for the industry."

Want Men For Army

A labor department statement tabled by Mr. Howe said:-

“It is not our intention that the least desirable or least efficient workers will be those to he laid

off. but rather, first, those per- sons available for the army, and second, other persons who can be moved to the advantage of or with the least disturbance to the gen- eral labor situation.

“The demands of the army are continuing demands and must have a definite priority. unless the persons available have exception- al skillt. which are eatly in de- mand by high-prior ty industry

A labor department directive said that “generally women would not be laid off as long as they can replace men."

Farm Workers Too

Where persons in addition to those on military deferment are to be laid off. they will be dis- charged on the following prior- lty basis, subject to seniority right-a and collective bargaining agreements:-

i. Workers with previous agri- cultural experience, particularly on dairy farms and in stock rais- ing. These orsons will be direct- Jedl,’ if possib e, to year-round farm o s

3. Workers who are required by outside essential industries. 4. Younger workers without family obligations. since workers in this group are most easily moved . Married women. if their hus- bands are supporting them.

d. Older men and women. if the foregoing classes have hausted.

Predicts lluge Globe Girdling Planes

TORONTO. Rb. 2 — (C P) — 8 sof700mil0s anhour aid s be girdling planu with l6 to 24 engines were predicted here today by D. 1i‘. Maclntyre of r-restwick, Scotland. a director of Scottish Av- iatilan Com ‘y,

. Mac nyra, s. group ca tain in the Royal Air Force Auxlliary lYfli/Bd here lam night from Wash- ington after a survey of I United States aviation plants.

Luxury and tourist, travel in post war tram ~ Atlantic flying were Predicted by Mr, Maclntyre in an interview. The former would cost abfmi- 8N0 and would include pri- Wfb ole compartments. he believed, with

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1. Employers will file a report A

2.'Worker who are needed in other essential industries in . the . same vicinity

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Aoolamations For Mayor Andi Five Bounoiliors i

MAYOR. BLANCHARD

Dr. J. E. Blanchard was yester- day elected Mayoi" of Charlotte- town in succession to retiring Mayor B. Roy Holman. The elec- tion was by acclamation, as was Mayor Holman! two years ago to the same office. Dr Blanchard has been a member of the City Coun- cil fci" twelve years, nnd has ser- ved on most of the working com-

mlttees. Five Councillors were also eiect-.

ed by acclamation yesterday. They were: Dr. 1". C Dougan, Ward Two; James T. McKee,

Ward Three; B. Earle MacDonald, . T MacKinnon and Percy G. Gay, Ward Five. Mr. Gay was elected for the first time. the oth- ers being re-elected.

One. where Joseph A. Mclsaac and T. Andrew Butler are running and in Ward Four, where Lt -Col. H. C. Chandler. Mr. W. Raoul LePage and Major T. B Rogers are contesting the two seats Messrs. Butler and Chandler are

There will be contests in Ward m

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Enemy "Faced With Imminent Loss 0f (tassino

Germans Believed Pro paring Attempt To Throw Allies Into Sea.

B)‘ RICHARD G. MASSOCK

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, 1N ITALY. Feb. l~iAi‘)—French and United States forces, battling their way up to the high, rugged fable- land near the Rapido River, drew tighter n ring around the Null stronghold ui Cassius today after having smashed through the mule thickness of the chrmlfls blur-riv- defeiided Gustav 30 miles southeast of Home

[laboring through tank, mililcry, mortar and machine-gull fire, Unif- led States troops reached the actual

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outskirts of Casainumllic ‘work Oil the corridor to R0 : ter once getting lU _\\iilllll 300 of the toivh last night and oping forced to withdraw. the troops bui- tered. their wnj; iorumrcl Jtgalll, this time successfully, Associated Press Correspondent Hal Boyle dis- ‘0 a dispatch from the front

Despite the immlnenf lflss B! Cassius, principal bastion of their southern defences, the G continued to ilraiv crack troops both from that front and from northern Italy t as they assembled .'e_ powerful I

force around the Allied heath-

head on the west coast, one l whose tentacles was Within l6 miles of Rome.

Information received here indic- ated thet a strong counter-offen- sive might lac flung ngltinst the bridgehead at any hour. A fitlcl dispatch reported that Hitler. tie.- perate for a "yresii c idctoixv. had ordered the Allies tirown back intn

e sea "at all costs"

Allies Cautious

The initial success of flu», Allirzi landing south of Rome has iiur l\u'ecl the Allied command into at- tempting any iucautious lightning

former Councillors, the others be- ing new contestants for nivic hon- ours.

For Water Commissioners there are four candidates for the three seats, namely, the present Com- missioners J. A. Webster, G. D. Wright and w. n. Giliis, and Mr. David L. MacKfnncn.

Hanson Hopes For “Freedom 0f Air” In Canada