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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24. 1944

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_._.. LONDON, , _. _ I French plm°':“f°rgs basis!) m Total disaster ls stalking German heels in France at the very non- r the “He” have “berated Pam ent that crushing new Russian blows are caving in the m“ sue m,“ . {he “y he"; o; Rance and his: from the Baltic to the Black Sea. On all sides in the toppling Neal fort- Eers ‘Pa s H, ggrigflsymiaql’ 9g greedom. bringing fissefguzp; evelnts are xii-roving at adsuxt They leave no dolbt that en our e e raw near ea an un . months of Nazi ogfisiit, .3211 w‘: Overnight Pangia fell badforepghe reslstless upsurge of Irenoh patriots ‘ gililal-llil headquarters announced‘ S‘!!! czofltga‘ Alllled lifllllllltlll! limping; ti: Seine lltger abovieniand below t‘: - y u nveop . lselllre y sownc scnsls ugdupltoa F NEW ‘mun Au!’ as __ (A?) arynvogeld ltrggaipfiigggs ‘Slim/tilted gerywlzleire throughout southern and southwestern France to doom un- - CBS correspondent Charles sault arc almost half we around "m “In” a’ r garflsm mm?!’ Collingwood reported tonight the capital, 50.000 arms French killing up French Alpine Valleys from Mediterranean beaohheada. ‘ha; “l, Wench gm] Armor“ {amour aided by “van hundred American forces have stormed into Grenoble less than 66 miles from Division had entered Paris. housand citizens who wmged m,“ Lyon It the head of the Rhone Volley. Their pace rlvalied that of the lur- Entry. of the division, hgnflgg! arms thgy could “M. gnu,“ u" ping American 3rd army elements that wheeled through the Avranehss by Gen. Jacques LeClere, fol. Nazi occupation forces in s. four» lip in Normandy to overrun Brittany and swing up the Lem pgvin; the Low? llllaleration‘ of the" capital dayhbattle ending last night. wly for the liberation of Paris. ' y reno rm ro s opera ng un- e atriots occu i _ sei- orders of Gen. de Gaulle, bulldinéjs‘ and arregeetfli gll 11/112“; sm§t|§v1§i§:'.m§.d1l.° w‘ it] hi?" 3i: ‘t? lune gtagdbetwmn ‘he t" Collingwood reported in a dis- government representatives who dd ' on“ w "e u o mm- "Mad "dam! arch dated at the front near not flee said a formal announc - “mm” hum “p” m!" valley “bu” 0'18“! l‘ 5"" “ mun", "en" Far]; mm; 511mm by L,__Gen_ Keene ' A Junction of the two would seal off all France sonth of the Seine and

Collingwood reported that the chief of the French forces of the ‘ ' had concluded an arm- istice with the Germans yester- day, after which the Germans withdrew. _

This was the first report of regular armed forces entering the capital, around the southern half of which powerful American armored forces have been rang- ed for more than a week.

British, Canuck Ships Sink 8 Enemy Craft

UONDON, August ZIi-JCPJ-Roval

Navy ships in two running battles

destroyed eight enemy craft in Aud- lernc Boy, between Brest and Lor- lent, before daylight today. the Ad- miralty announced.

The Canadian destroyer Iron-uni:

v and the British destroyer Ursa, s1_

onz ivith British cruiscr Mauritius.

took pnrt in the action in which tv." l

mlneswecpers. three supply

ships, and three esco

rt vessels, including

two heavily -_ armed escorts, WETC knocked out. of action. The British - Canadian force

came through without casualty or damage. despite the fnct Gannon shnrc hntteric: also opcncd up. Tho Iroquois was under Cmdr. C Hibbard. ivhn won (he D S aboard H. M c. s, 53mm, licr in the war. "

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Tea, Coffee Ration Coupons To Expire

OTTAWA. Aug. 23 — (Cl?) ~'I‘he Price Board announced lost night that tea or coffee rotlcm coupons numbered l4 to 29 and El to E6 in ration book No. 3 will cxplre on Aug. 31 and that only those in ration

N0. 4 iluuibering T-BO lillwards, will be valid beginning Sept.

It was learned the action was sim- at making ration bunklnn easier for the trade and at elimin- iflnz any old coupons which may bc thc hand%f consumers. Most consumer; are using the coupons in Book No. 4 but some hove accumul- sied the older coupons.

Canned Grapefruit Gff Rational! List

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IlAIA, mp) The Prices Board announced to-

commander of the of the interior military governor Gen. de Gaulle.

French force

Celebrations

Around the New York, Buenos Ali-es, |and scores of other

ed in ceremonies featuring

public. Church bel London and man England.

So far there was entry into the y troops. Gen. de Gaulle already had

might hold their there soon.

g Bush Fires Still Burning

A shower of rain yesterday af- ternoon helped to subdue bush fires in this Province to some extent but blazes at Wood Islands and Hope- iielcl were still burnin

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and broke into valuable timber yes- terday and 20 soldiers were sent from the Beach Grove Military Camp at Charlottetown to help in the fight Additional pumps and hose were also sent to the scene. 1 R C M P. are in charge of the fire fighting efforts.

The blaze at Hopefield was ra- ging in the morning but the show- er took the edge off that fire as well. Firc Marshal Charles A. Beer said last night The difficulty at Hopefield is th the fire is a long distance from u stream and is getting farther away all the time. It may become necessary to cut a swath in front of the blaze, an op- cmtion which would require a large number of men, before it can be stopped.

the fire at Morel! Rear and it is pre- sumed that it is out.

R. A. F. llses New Incendiary Bomb

LONDON, Aug. 23 — (C P) — The R A F i5 using a new and. more powerful incendiary bomb which usually doesn't spare even the walls of a buildln

and newly-named of Paris under

world-in London, Algiers cities - the release of the "City of Light" from the darkness of Nazi rule was hail- the playing of "The Marseilloise". his- toric anthem of liberty, and the raising of the trl-color of the re- ls were rung in y other cities of

no word of any city b Allied

conferred with the Allied Supreme Commander. Gen. Eisenhower, on possible immediate resumption of French civil administration. Liber- atlon of the capital was coupled with rumors that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt next meeting

8- . The Woods Islands fire flared up kn

Nothing more has been heard of "

west of the Rhone against escape way at once for s Joint llrive east to tho upper Rhine in Germany.

One 3rd nrmy column already is heading that way from the Arn- eriran bridgehead west of Sens over the Yonne tributary of the upper Seine. Front line reports say it is plunging eastward up the Vanna Valley

on the road that leads direct to Nancy in the Meta-Strasbourg gap via Troyes and Toul.

With Ports in l-‘renc oIt like wheel spokes no

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of German garrisons, perhaps open the ward through the Mots-Strasbourg gap

h hands all roads leading into it and spanning rth and east will be available to the Allied forces.

Truck Driver Killed In Crash Yesterday

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Michael Peters, 85. of Augustine Cove was instantly killed yesterday afternoon about one o'clock when s six - ton truck loaded with gravel that he was driving crashed into the side of a west bound freight at Richmond Station. The truck was travelling east and the driver ap- porently in an effort to avoid hit- ting the train at the last minute

French Commandos With Invaders At Bordeaux

B the Wig Wag sign post and hit th mm‘. gpgxflgu: 51f’ (Ap)_i second car of the train sideways. , French military authorities atl wThte nuckljsatgtalgrecijandlgody “and!” “id “might 800 Frenchi cgsssafgxtgeguizn its: 113E113: will‘: cmmmmd“ “m “mm? A1116“, move 1t. The truck belonged to J. forces landed south of Arcochon. F M cwm; . T, A

last night and that operations ur-E ' - a m“ o yon’ not‘ ound Bordeaux "are proceeding .15] on“ sljiyryvavasBemgaggltlgd €ys$' P“““°d-" lonneirside "rue ' o 0 ‘ _ . y viewed the body and hoaiefiwégsffigcggetiheixf“Elgiglggl; the scene of the accident and then 319130115 11s cOmDOEed of Americans. ndlllgggged m1 {our ' thmy this M‘ The exact size of the force was notf The 519mb“! O1 the Jury "c; J; P. Goudet, Linus McDonald. James A McNeil, Leo McNally, and Les- ter McDougall, all of Richmond and Ruben Enman end Kenneth En- mnu of Springfield

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Canadian War Goods Marked

OTTAWA. Alli. 23 - (GP) — There will be no doubt as to where shipments from Canada to the Pacific war theatre originate.

A Munitions Department spokes- man said tonight the government is carrying out a policy already used for shipments to Brita . Russia and the lilediterranean. All pack- ages are stencillcd with the word “Canada; on a large maple leaf.

be printed in Chinese for goods destined for that ally

"But the maple leaf itself is a sufficient designation, even for those peoples who can‘t read,” he added.

Mrs Fidele Peters of Cove and is surviv and three children.

Four brothers also survive, Amos in Borden, Wilfred, Augustine Covc. Peter. Carleton and John in Charlottct0wn—S.

Augustine ed by his wife‘

Forest Fires i Under Control

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MONCTON. NB. Aug. 23—(CP) —Remalning under control tonight. the situation in a forest fire 8N8 west of Monoton was reported the most favorable since the week-old blazes sprung u-p. Tutor/cs and civ- liiiaus, cipher fighting smnll fires or

Seek Haven For ‘pllllblllllg the uisdlct, kept their ‘villagers cmsstd m hopes that ab-i

Pierre Laval -sc or ivind would continue. I '1

Nmw yogic Aug, 23 __ (hp) _‘ It. o-ts from "Walkle-Tolkic" The German ambassador to 5wit-[r_urilu_|_.'1'c\Vs described the main fire zerland was reported by the secret’1311121141132ugggglulgugrlia—lélélgl ‘S:

Gannon - language station Radio , Atlantic tonight n. have askctl the; lgécffrfé 1§_§\‘§:1r1rv11fi1§]1§1n§& 5W

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g. No details of the bomb were given imjpjllflt __s__u;nn' 111168 A,

SW15‘ government‘ for as mm for’ In the Prince of Wol-os and ‘Sha- hnmulfioiitival‘ NBC rewrdved m dcw Lake district northwest

swerved to the right. sheared off,

still was holding out tonight. French troops had fought way within a few hundred yards of the docks and the city’s fall was expected any hour.

ooy by Munitions Munster Howe in disclosing °f tlon in shipments of welsh coal and

Sgt. F. E. Pineau Killed In Action

Word has been received by his mother, Mrs. Sophia E. Pineou. 31 Euston Street, Charlottetown, that her son, Sergeant Francis Edmund Pineau, was officially reported kil-

led in action, Aug. l4. sgt. Pineau had previously been wounded on July 25.

Prior to his enlistment in the Signals Corps he had attended St. Dunstan! University, and had also worked for some time at Reddin Bros.

lie is survived by his mother and one brother. Edward. in Orleans, to whom The Guardian extends sincere sympathy.

iiarseille Captured By French llnits

RDME. A118. h? — (AP) — Mer- seille, France's second city and greatest sea rt, fell to the swift onslaught o French infantry and armor today as American forces swept 140 miles inland from the Mediterranean and captured Gren- oble to within less than 240 miles of a Junction with Allied legions south of liberated Paris.

Only eight days after the land- ings in southern France the Poilus battered their way into the heart of Marseille against slight enemy resistance and tonight were clean- ing out pockets of last-ditch de-

s.

Tilt‘. deceased is a son of Mr. and tends

l‘ The unexpectedly easy capture of the great port insures the Al- lied 7th Army an adequate flow of supplies and reinforcements for speedy continuation of the thrust toward northern France. Prior to the city's fall, other French troops had out the lost escape route for the German garrison along the; coast to, the west.

The encircled and doomed Ger- man force in Toulon, big naval base 2'7 miles east of Marseille,’

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Issues Warning Re. Coal Situation

OTTAWA. A08. 23 -— (OP) —- A‘

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LONDON, Aug. 2B — ing from the Axis to the A

iers on the eastern front.

the Red Army, and the Germans Report Clashes

ed as saying that the

LONDON. Aug. 23 —- fAPi-s- 7 The two-fisted Soviet offensivel that knocked Romania out of the war roared through its fourth day today, capturing Vas- lui. 140 miles northeast of the Ploesti oil centre. and cupping the two big Bessarobian bas- tions of Tighina and Cetatea- Alba. on the west bank of the Dnestr. and more than 400 oth- er towns,

were firing on the Romanians and blocking their withdrawal.

“A large number of Romanian officers and men have thus been killed," said the communique, “in armed clashes between the retreat- ing Romanian detachments and German frontier detachments in several places."

A proclamation by young Mich- ael, read over the Bucharest radio, said all hostilities against the Red Army as well as Romania's state of war with Britain and the Unltedl-States would cease “from

Russian armies were stabbing into Romania to within 16'! miles of Bucharest and threatening the Ploestl oil fields as the announce- ment went on the air.

Romania, the King said, will fight “at the side ohtlhe Allied

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~ ‘this moment."

army and with their First Crack In Balkans

There was no immediate official confirmation of the royal proclam- ation by any of the three Allied countries, but London showed no inclination to doubt the broadcast —-the first crack in Hitlers Balkan structure.

Prime Minister Churchill has been in Italy for more than a week and presumably had a hand in the events leading up to Romania's de-

. on. Interpretation in London was that Romania would not bc ac- cepted us an ally, but as a co-bel- ligcrent in the category of Italy.

inquest lnto lleath Cf Borden lian Adjourned

The ingest lnto the cause of the death of anicl Ross of Borden who was killed on Tuesday afternoon when a trolley on which he was riding jumped the; rails was ad- journed last evening ull next Fri- rloy after some evidence had been

heard. Dr. H W. Mov,“ b! B-edcquc gavc the medical cvulcuce Raymond

McTavish and Walter Dorsey. who; that the trollcv stopped; ddcn icrk and threw them;

When they DlCkOCl themselves; the trolley was in the dlilih.‘ y said that they did not see:

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ROMANIA SWITCHES T0 ALLIED

Paris Liberated B! Paiijpis

reported that shooting had broken out between retrestin

Acceptance of armistice terms offe the United States was announced in a pro ' l-——~- >~- _

The Russian communique. re- corded by the Soviet Monitor from a Moscow broadcast, told of

clashes on Romanian soil between the Romanians, ordered by King Michael to cease hostilities against

Romanian prisoners were quot- Germans

been

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Romania announced in the war and a su I

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French Governor To Go To Paris

LONDON. AUZ- 23 — (A P1 -' Lt -Gen. Joseph Pierre Ls Kigofllfl. mgmary governor of Par . EX" pected w g0 to the French capital

staff and may loin Gm 13° Gm“ there. _

At headquarters of KoeniB. W110 also heads the French forces of the Interior. l!» W“ 931d that 11° attempt would be made to lmovo the {n11 civilian governments or- ganization into the callltfll . the Germans are 1319 from foo whole Parisian area and the clan‘; ger of a German return in force passed.

Gcn. De Gaulle is expwffitd W bring the French committee o na- tional liberation from Ame“ 19° Paris as soon as military End 80°11‘