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CHARLUFTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3. 1943

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Enemy Is Pushed dBack On All Sectors

Germans Fight With Great Vigor But Unable To Stem Tide.

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ADQUARTRRB, 2-(AP)——

‘ALLIED l-lli . ..- AFRICA, Aug by the A ies. oro to the l . armies have aunchcd a Canadians on July 22 and Nissorla . .. offensive in cnlah the Axis on July 26. . rlts in Sicily, was dis- The all-out offensive raged in full today. furybyairandseaaawellasby Uglted states troops have the land. with Naples rocked by heavy l... north flank, se 86-h bombers and naval guns harnm - . , while the British ar- ing objectives on the foot of Italy . ro ed upon Catania and in Sicily. Battering down almost maniacal

. anadian lst division, fight-

cthe left flank of Gen. Sir German resistance. American troops captured BN1 Stefano. the prop of the Nazi right wing on the coastal road tn Messlna 65 mlle!

. ~ Montgomery's three B ~ divisions. was engaged in bitter fight . The Canadians

into undcntified towns and east

ffi i l rts eald. e the 3.11.5 232a in which the prisoners. mos v

an; were operating W" 110'- quarters announced. The Al S’ known, resuml ly it wll mtal bagoof prisoners lose to at» llerc to east of Astra. the least so. - .

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A azis Forced T0 Abandon Orel?

lanllors Among roops With Master tlloi For Book

ANEAST COABI‘ CANADIAN m. Aug- 1 - (c?) - n the eyed Phrflle that an army

IDNDON, Aug. S—('!'lleaday)_ (AP)-'I'he Berlin radio was heard “Munch: earl today that the big Russian offena ve against, the eastern front bastion of carried the Red army into the city itself, and although indications were that the broa cast, might be made in enor. It appeared that the Nazis were greparing to g e up Orel to the ovlet forces closing in from seven directions.

The German radio as heard by several Iaonéizlnt morning news- pa rs an u crs news agency n 5&2“? fmmuh "muigzif? sa d: “the centre of fighting was in m, u n“ "w" ""1 “a h“ (the Orel arta. The enemy attacked

l m" 3°“ with great violence, especially in

way. an“ womwut 10k“ “out ttgevmsouthwestem part of the lumiln-sicw mixers, it must have bus first ass chefs and one Illt at least will- vouch for one who now has arrived in Bri- lie ls sgt. Edgar Parker, a native I Parrsboro, N.B., and veteran N! oi five years’ experience inélne

Slip of Tongue!

There was no other confirmation and it seemed that the announcer may have made a slirpnof the ton- gue or read a fault glish trans- lation while intendng to say that fighting was especially heavy southwest of Oral.

Ncvertherless, while the Russians were announcing in another special communique that 70 more b09111“- cd places had been taken from the u Germans in advances of from four to six miles on the Orel front the German radio seemed to be PW-

rlng the German home front for ma: of the city.

The Berlin radio broadcast a dis- pateh from an eastern front re- porter saylng that the army hid

cted the r1

Tlillggler “mp1” “thing w! will ca: any es Prince Edward Islanders included in the grcu were VFW"?! H. MacDonald of geckos Station, Wffhltti. of Souris. and Ad. "Y. Charlottetown-

. prote I-llnte and and Rilwri 18 Noll t:;-.'z':°..z':: ‘3§lé'.‘.‘t2.°‘§.‘?l.‘l2i.““.ifi

stand up to all future Soviet ut- tacks. In the disengagement move-

"lvisions In Italy

mourn. Au-I-(AIU-A Ger- m umy est mated at ls div-

menta which have been car out. certain territory had to be iyfei’:

up, but nothingdffll into hands undamflge .' The Russian were bearing down

arrlsoned oints in north- mg "at, German pivotal base "My toda Eh t - m‘ tn t onh. u... s... ".2" slants" "set. u we m" s" .1122.-

y northeast, .

“who sufrendcred anything, he a l behind the city appeared still to be

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BULLETIN

WITH THE BRITISH I'll Artmr IN SICILY, Au . s. ' (AH-Canadian and grltlsh forces fought their way into a mountain stronghold In the Regalhuto area yesterday where heavy fighting was reported while another British force b1.tlcd its way into the streets of another town after a diffi- cult day and night assault up steep slopes.

In a third major action yes- terday another Britlsh force beat off a German counter-at- tack agplnst Hill 224. northwest of a bridgehead the British had established, with anti-tank guns knocking out three tanks, in- cluding one Mark V! Tiger from a force of 20 tanks which paced the eounte attack.

Capture of the towns threat- ens the inland flank of the Ger- man lines extending in a north- westerly direction from a point south of Catanls.

Peace lllaroh Talk, Heard From Italy

MADRID, Aug. 2 —-(AP) —Talk of an impending “peace march" on Home was current in Italian quar- ters of Madrid toniqrht.

If Premier Marshal Pietro Bad- ogllo stalls much longer on the All- ied demands for surrender, said one source who cannot be identi- fied by name, Italian leftists may take a leaf from Museolinrs hook BM! organize a people's manch on the capital. Milan and other cen- tres from all points in Italy.

New Record For Air Speed

LONDON, Aug. American test pllot in England EYBVi-‘lllhil faster than sound, or more than 780 miles an hour, has made a vertical dive of almost five miles. believed to be the longest in aviation history. it wns announced tonight. The fllcr, Lt-Col. Cass S. I-lough. of Plymouth, Mich‘. tech- nical director of the 8th Fighter Command. has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for special attainment in "independ- ent flight research."

He made two record divas. one in September, 1942 then he took a PA~3B Lightning up to 43.000 feet and hosed it into n power-dive for 25.000 feet-almost five miles-me- fore levelling off at about 16.0fm feet, In February, 1943, he went up to 30.000 feet in a P47 Thunderbolt and dived tn 18.000 feet.

The United States Army Head- quarters for the European theatre cf operations in its announcement of Houghu feat said that "although speeds attained in both cases are military secrets. it can be said that. he travelled faster than the speed of sound-or more than 7B0 miles

Hough is Vice President of the Daisy Air Rifle Manufacturing Company. He is married and has twn children.

Both of his dives. made in Enu- land, were undertwken vnlllntarllv in quest of scientific information

Lord Clifford, 84. of Ohudlelgflt. England. a radiology authority who made the colors of the infra- red and ultra violet rays visible, la

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In this first attach. the b Lib- erator roared down to catc the U-boat full surfaced and almost motionless l. was taken complete-

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‘Ylhf south of the Po River l about 40 miles apart affording by “m m iiMMii-Wl“-"LZ€; _. ."‘_".‘_; m m dyllshhtala“ hem wtmektlgg ’ _(_Culllinued on Fags 6. Col l) dead. low-shall lng by the Badcgllo mmmfll. advices to Madrid re- I I d I e 8 an 81' ll All‘

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depth charges. They straddled the submarine tossing it about like a

chip.

The aircraft returned to the at- tack again and again and each time the U-boat was enveloped in the tremendous swirls thrown up by the explosions’. Then the aub-

‘ disappeared ‘ _ only a short trail of air bubbles. Bits bf debris, planks and a large cylin- drical object which the crew could not identify floated to the surface. Some minutes later a patch of oil appeared.

N0 Doubt of Fats

There is doubt about the fate’ of the U-boat and the official assess- ment_hae not yet been made. The crew. true to their ultra-conserve tlve tradition, have not claimed s "kill" but they are satisfied the Jerrles got at least a moral-shat- tering Jolting and there are reason- able grounds for supposing that the submarine may have been sunk,

Other members the crew, whose ages average 24 years, in- cluded Co-Pllot F . Bert M. Palm- er of Ottawa, 28, W02. J-P. Perry (the lads call him JP.) of George- tewn, I’. It’. I.

nervc-ltumanian o has

And they’ of the collapse of

from. in the norlzh. It hands at both ends. cu tin

S. Pattoni tmoga had taken 1 .000 way on the hlg way between San 5

Stefano, aided b and highway is Orlando to form a new

warships in range of

An early American-Canadian Randunc and Adreno seems

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Protest To Turks

LONDON, Aug. _2—-(CP) —- The Algiers l-udlo. rluollua a dlgPégf from Istanbul. said today m9 n man ambassador Franz Von Pb-W _ protested to the Turklspaafifegvgxr ment that Hitler was dlsD 9 Edna“ the latitude allowed Axiimh n? ents in making! ftlillgi-BA-‘i es P‘$,¥-,‘§,‘I“,§..1‘Qe§;§§%&ggalrll;v:n Lirefeyrred part cu u!‘ Y cent visit to Ankara ofhmifiimllef; Von Kailay. 80h 0i ~ ° Premier.

It was not clear here iii-ii “h”

was the nature of the couthllm -——-i-—-i-'-""_i

Portable Pipeline Aids In Invasion

new YORK. Aug 2 —<AP> —~‘- portable steel ‘padurnd Alan condoms pgnbgl quttfl“ was a. major contribution to ills’- success of the Allied £01195 1n the Tunlsinn campaign and now is be- ing used in Sicily with the same effectiveness, it was disclosed l0- day with the apmcval of the Unl- tcd States War Department.

Details of the light wieght pipe- line were disclosed in a press con- ference by Alexander Fraser. Pres- ident of the Shell Oil Company.

It was put into use by the Uni- ted States Army after two years of experimental work by the oil com- panys engineers. Several thousand miles of the new flexible line were used in North Afrlcn to carry gaso- line and water ill separate pipes. sald Fraser. Mar-c than 50 per cent of the total volunla of Allied supp- lirs. excluding ammunition, were pumped b_v this means. he contin- ued. The lines varied from '15 to 300 miles in length, keeping pace with the advancing troops.

With the automatic cut - offs on the pipelines, which have been bumping stations at 0 - mile intervals. liquids can start flowing lmmedla‘ ‘v after a section ls laid, Ifrarer said. l-fe said damage from enemy bombing becomes relatively ineffective since pumping stations can be replaced within a few hours

e four-inch diameter pipeline has a 25.200-gallon capacity a day.

YanEAdvanoe At Munda

A L L I ll D HEADQUARTERS. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 3- (Tuesdayll —(AP)—American for- ces have made a general advance around the Japancso airbase at Munda. New Georgia.

A communique from Allied head- quarters said tho soldiers and ma- rbles moved forward from 500 to 1,200 yards. This would bring them to within 700 to 1,400 yards of the strategic Central Solomons air base.

0n the western side of the 700- mile southwest Pacific battlefront. allied bombers set fire to a Ja a- nese destroyer off the coast of ew Brit n, s

Fighters shot down ll Zeros over New Guinea, alld Allied artillery shelled the Salamnua alrdrolne, destroying grounded planes.

An enemy transport was set afire by bombers and a hlt was scored on

a tanker in the Ruin-Fail! also of

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uts the San off escape of German or Italian forces de- plo cd through the mount: us between.

. Evidence of that came prougltly with announcement that Gen. Goo!‘ 0

lt ls obvious that Patton's men are already surging the Tyrrhenlan sea. The coastal railroad their guns and the Axis retreat to Cape Dc front linked by road with the Etna bastion via Ranllazvo blda fair to be costly. It could become a rout.

An immediate effect of the fail of San Stefano and Mletrettahhow- ever, must be to open the inshore flank of the 0""!- That in tum must expose the flank

adlons advancing in the centre onhllcglrubthmhxh m ‘he "m" mwnd

possible. It would unquestionably clpliltte an Axis retreall. ‘launder converging Allied pressure from the w (Ill ., XAI n .

d lac Allied troops only a two-ml j 0e 5f the Italian mainland bootinAlnd w th Allied bomb-

t. Apu trl fll ht f th Bumanlan oilfield centre P p g o Neuzl war effort would be sealed.

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By Kirke I. Simpson, Anooiated Press War Analyst

The first body-blow at a moat critical and new vulnerable Axis war been struck. It fell at long range Ploestl ell centre to foerehadow what certanly la in German war resource once Italian mainland bases are available to Allied bombers, cutting the distance to the target soon will be available. War the Axis right flank with the fall of San Stefano and Mlstrotta to American anus. They told also that at the opposite ind of the Etna line la In motion forward again ' ea ture of San Stefano

Isa-l store for the vital

in half. bulletins from Sicily fold Monday the British 8th army

definite urns the ails an» Stefarlo- lcoslu highway in Allied

uera at Mistretta, virtually mi - fans and Nicosia. eastward beyond

Axis line based on of the Axis forces facing the Can- lbuto

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e ultimate wholesale surrehders as hallllflwi‘ i" Tmusia-

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Strange Story Of _ _ Escape In Slflly

By Don WHITEHEAD (Associated Press War 0"?"- l1

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NICOSIA, SICILY, July 3i-—iD6- layed)—tAP)—Pte. Carllsle Kloos- ter of La I-"ortc. lnd., was sitting at the wheel of hlS jeep on a. Sweet 11} Nicosia when a voice demanded. "whos in command here soldier?

Klooster saw a Nay-Cheek?! young fellow ln a gray cBP. d i!’

l"; srrvei- reserve“ an ue ve v .

Staff Sgt. Arthur P. Bohr 0i Iewlsvllle, Outs had ended 0H8 0

the strangest advent/tires yet W" Cgffifid during the invasion 0f Sc y.

Alter a hearty meal, Bohr W‘! his sto

W?“ "We left North Africa. to b01111) B Sicilian town. Th

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stuck so l Jumped i1 , it. to get it open. hats tho

1 remember until I woke b91233 the sun shining in my‘, 9515- chme don‘t know how 1 so v

Mount Etna and I could seetoihl: ldiers

en. "I was near mlle away plane bllmifl8- I started “f; but. wgcfi I got near I saw DIOUH .

- sllPfPd away and be!“ Wm" in was.

91 walked all day and it walswggit when 1 reached the foot of ems? Etna. I didnt have mull i" gency rations-

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llazidAirman Escapes From Prison Damp

GRAVENI-IURST, Ont... Aug. 2.- (CIU-Lleut. Peter Krllll. German airman who has escaped several times from Canadian prison camps, was re rted missing tonight from an off cers’ camp in the Graven" hurst district. _

Krug, who testified asehut hi! benefactor. Max Steph in the later! treason trial at year, was swimming with 0th" prisoners and did not r ort at iho roll-call afterward. 1f e escaped from the camp. it is believed he did so in swimminu shorts.

30,542 Basualties In Bomhed Hamburg

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BTOCKHOLM. Mm 2 —iA.P) — The Afwntldningcn in a dis aloh from Zurich today uuotad am- burg police as saying 30,542 per- sons were killed, wounded or miss- ing in the bomb-shattered north German port.

Not a single building was spared some damage, the report added.

Casualties were listed as totalling 8,34’! killed, 18,681 wounded and 3.- 514 missing. They said 259 indus- trial plants and 2.968 residences other wens namely

nut the‘

hungry and thirsty. I‘

Completes Tour

ARCHBISHOP SPELLMAN

NEWl YORK. AUS- 2—\’.AP)-— bishop Francis J. Spellnllln of New York is back home afte r a slx~ months tour covering Africa, the Mediterranean and British Isles and including a visit to the Vatican His arrival was announced last night at his residence. The Arch- bishop, who is Catholic military vicar of the armed forces of the United States, left this country last February and during his tour con- fetredwith Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Pope Pius XII.

Local Airman ls Missing

Sgt. Timothy Leo lVIacAskill of Charlottetown is missing on active service after air operations nver- seas, it was announced at Ottawa in a casualty list issued by the Roy- a1 Canadian Air Form. His next-of- kin ls his mother, Mrs. Anthony MscAskill of Charlottetown. His father is a well-known barber in the city.

St. Peter’s Soldier ls Seriously Ill

L. Cpl. Joseph Daryll Wilson of St. Peters, P.E.I., is listed as ser- iously ill with the Canadian Army Overseas, His name appeared yes- terday on the army's 335th casualty list. He is a member of the Nova. Scotla and Prince Edward Island Regiment»

l-lls ncxt-ofkln is his mother, Mrs. Nellie Wilson of St. Peters

It was leamell that he la suffer- ing from suffocation from a smoke bomb.

He has been in the army since Julv, 1941.

His father, James Wilson, is a vetcrnn of the firsL great war when he served throughout tllc conflict. He ls n member of the Veterans Guard of Canada and is under- stood to be stationed in Toronto.

The soldier has four brothers and two sisters, one being Mrs. Jerome Louis, St. Peter's.

50 YEARS IN ARMY

CHATHAM. England. —lCP) — May-Gen. Sir Philip Grant, K. O. 3.. former Commandant the School of Military Engineering. died aged '73 at his Ham ire home. He had been in t-he army 50 years.

lly C-R. BLACKBURN Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA, Aug. 2—-(CP)——P0s- slbility of "complete political and social collapse" in Italy was en- visioned tonight by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in a broadcast re- view of the war.

S king ovcgflle National net- wor of the Cannzlian Brollrlcasting Corporation, Mr. King said "it is perfectly clear that the complete military conquest mid occupation of Sicily is only a matter oi a com- paratively short time."

Appalllng Alternative! He said the Italians v are faced

with "appalling alternatives." If they surrender unconditionally, "the Nazis will turn and rend

them, destroy their armies wher- ever they are. slcnl their industrial equipment and all supplies they cnn carry uwrlv. and occupy what- ever prlrt ui’ illu country they are able to l-lnlzl."

"If, on the other llmld. Italy does not surrender unconditionally. the

war will be carried by the Allied nowurrslentlesalr 2mm stall! in!-

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Prime Minister King Reviews War Situation

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