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By I055 MUNRO

WITH THE OANADIANB IN THE RNINE BRHDGAD, March 3Q._ (o? UIDIUI-UBIIIQIBII! toda pgrrow aim in heavy ftgh g. gainst t e elements of three r- pllll division; along the north- western and of the Rhine bridge- head. Enemy paratroopers and pan- rer grenadiers are putting up some o! the stro est resistance en- countered ear of the Rhine.

Some tanks, “Wasp" f‘ ‘hr-ow. us mounted on Bren gun ‘carriers. astrong artillery force and Typhoon rocket planes are supporting the

Canadians.

The North Shore (Now Brung. wick) Regiment of Newcastle, N.B., advanced 1% miles northeast from Bienen. four miles northwest of Bees, captured earlier by the North Nova Scotia Highlanders of ‘Truro

the Highland

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ported Millingen , The Stormont, Dundas and

Glengarry Highlander Cornwall, Ont. put in a new at ack in tho- enera area north of Bienen. fol- owlng up advances made in that NHL. after

the

Division Prime Miinster Mackenzie King told the House of Commons Monday was fighting with the British 2nd Army east of the Rh e.)

The Germans were fighting hard to prevent the Canadians breaking .. _ ‘.0119 bridgehead along the

m ch Highway but Bienen was the key to its defence and the zsituation appeared .to be loosening

p sl htly tonig t.

The Cameron Highlanders of Ot- tawa provided machine-gun support for the North Nova Bcotiab drive on Blenen. the second town to fail to Canadians in this operation.

Troops of the German 6th Div- ision have been identified on the Canadian sector. Previously the etli Parachute Division and the 15in Panzer G-enadiers were iden- tified. Whole divisions have not been committed but elements of these three formations have been providing plenty of opposition;

The enemy is defending farm houses. trench systems and villages with machine-guns. snipers and a few tanks and self-propelled guns.

Urges Super-Highway lo liar. Provinces

UITAWA. March M —— (CP) - Construction of a highway from i-lberbrooke. Qua, to the Maritime Provinces. cutting through north- ern Maine. was proposed tonlgili in the Commons by John R. Mac- Nic/hol, Progressive Conservative member for Toronto Davenport.

Mr. Macrliclnol, taking part in the debate on the Ban Francisco security con’. rsnce. said the Can- adian dele, ..n might well make the proposal f:r sudh a. highway the subject of discussion with the United States delegation.

"The Maritime Provinces are like ‘a forgotten part of Canada," he said. "They are out off by that great northern bend of our inter- national boundary around the state oi Maine.

"If we allow our American cous- his, as we should. to use the Alaska

lrwey they might help us to build a through highway from Sherbrooke straight met to Saint John. N.B.. a super-h way that would bring the Mari ime Prov- inces that mudh closer to our cen- tral novinces and provide quldrer transportation. We must have quicker and better transportation lo keep this counry going.

Coming Events

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mrlnadl hogs Thursday. March 1.30‘ “Al! ‘I? film; Wlimore. Bradalbane Friday u use a. u Borden been

al, Borne of Quebec has at various

These are some of the Prim: Edward Isl tn Canada Wednesday aboard the ehospital shipuyltlegmiizlllol-xlo m —L-Sgt. A. B. Stewart, Murray Head; Pte. J. MacCallum. Chlfloflg- gwn; CPL G- A- Ellsworth. Montague; Pte. J. P. Jackson. Peaks Road;

te. W. L. Kemp. Montague. and Pte. ll. L. Gallant. Acadia. (Canadian Army Photo) ~ -

(Associated Press

They do not yet approach the armies line accounts.

come. are nearly 50 miles east of the Rliin

retreat in the north all the

expanding Allied bridgelieads east of Army prong ls on the verge rain that leads directly to Hanna

While the width of the 3rd Army b there are Berlin lntlmatlons that tli

bridgehead is close (Crossing of the firmed.)

prompt crossing of the Rhine sealed the fate of the Saarland and front ’ '" ‘ the g ‘

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middle Rhine to combined 3rd and ‘it

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llew Premium Basis For Sccd Potatoes

OTTAWA. March 2d -- (OP)- A definite basis for payment of premiums on sccd potatoes and a schedule of retail and wholesale mark-alps in their handling were

unced tonight by the Prices Board.

A new order. now in effect. clarifies previous regulations and reduces the amount of detail re- qulred in invoicing and recording sales, E. J. Chambers, adminis- trator of fresh fruits and vege- ltables. explained in a press rc- e

are.

Growers’ prices for seed potatoes are stipulated by a schedule which provides premiums above the price of No. 1 table atook as, follows: For certified seed. one cent; for foundatio A. l 1-2 cents; for foundation. two cents.

Wholesale and retail margins in handling seed potatoes are on the same basis as on tabla stock.

llrgos BilIrFor Free Zones liml Free Ports

QTPAWA. March 38 — (GP) - L. Philippe Plcard (l... — Belle- chasse) has tabled a resolution on (ihe Commons order paper today pr ng introduction "at the ear lest ible opportunity" of a bill prov ding for the establishment of free zones and free ports in

Canada. It was recalled that Mayor Lucien

time: advocated

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‘i War Situation LastnNight

By KIRKE L. SIMPSON

More significant than the depth to which Allied armies have lunged beyond the Rhine are the reports drifting back from all sectors of con- fusion and uncertainty in German ranks.

that la broadly hinted at in some front-

There ls no evidence up to now, however. that the foe has any cou- certed plan covering the whole western front or reelected and pre- pared defence llne cast of the river into which to withdraw. He seems utterly off balance everywhere although the real test of that is still to

Ominous for the Germans as is the rapid eucirclement of the Ruhr developing from British, Canadian and southward on the front of the American 3rd Army that the most critical situation is taking shape. Third Army tanks by conservative estimate

over the main river southeast of by-passed fiankfurt seized intact, there seems little chance that LL-Gen. George Patton can be barred out of the western edge of the great central plain ‘of Germany itself except ‘b? a sweeping re-deploymcnt that would amount to a general way from the Main to the North Sea coast. There is nowhere else the foe could find men needed for the type of open warfare being forced upon him in the south.

The enemy's chance io contain and smother the multiple and fast

of a breakout into ideal tank warfare ter-

flanlr is already moving across the Rhine in the Karlaruhe area. while to the north a 3rd Army junction with the let Army's explosive Remager if not already effected.

Rhine by the American ‘lth has since been con-

It seems clear now that the foe was caught napping by Gen. Patton's following his Moselle breakthrough that

in the north on Field Marshal Montgomery's front. quate even lo to hold the lower Rhine at any point Marshal Montgomery crossing. and the concentration there fatally rxposcd the

a quick end of German hopes of making a last stand against the, Bavar-

Dlffefélill’ Interpretation Placed By Crerar Gn

Prime Minister’s Speech

War Analyst)

point of morale disintegration in

’ an break-throughs. it is

e. With the Aschaffenburg bridge

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the Rhino is lost. That grilling 3rd

, Regensbcrg and even Munich. reakthrough is not entirely clear, e American ‘lth Army on its south

aalatinate. Every report from the ‘ of -‘ enemy troops was It proved inade-

h Army operations that could make

(Special To The Guardian)

OTTAWA. March 30 - The dc- bate on the motion in support of the San Francisco conference con- tinued into its second week yes- terday with more expressions of opinion against the proposals coir-l tained in the Prime Ministers speech of a week ago today.

The speech that was most sig- nificant was made by Hon. T. A. Crerar. (Churchill, Man.) Minister of Mines and Resources. Unless everyone in the House of Com- mons has been misinterpretlng the remarks of the Prime Minister. he held out a. plan last week where- by Canada's commitments at San Francisco would be limited to planning. leov the. details of the place Cans a would play in the world security organization to be determined on an individual basis. working with the security council. »Canada'e contribution would be limited in any dispute to whatever promises of assistance she had made in regard to that particular area and those pre- determined circumstances.

As memiber after member has pointed out. there is little differ- ence between such a plan of lateral. specific agreements with the security council and bilateral agreements between two individual nations. In neither cue are they Likely to be operative until it is too late to do anything but fight such an "inevitable" war as te present; in neither case would it be possible to halt aggression in time.

Mr. Crerlr’: Interpretation

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Mr. Crerar. ncwever. interpreted the speech in an entirely different manner. To him. alone of members, it meant that Canada was going to make sufficiently strong conimltm immediately that she would be in a position to

Yesterday A

Great War, died peacefully tonight in his modest, mo-year-old welsh fairer home. He was B? last Jan.

The King created him an earl in the last New Year's honors list but this fierce champion of the oom- mon rnan never sat in the House of Lords.

Irene whom he mar- ried Oct. ac, 1943. was at his bed- side when he died. She was his secretary for 30 years and the "glamour girl" of the Versailles peace conference. She was 25 years his Junior.

His first wife, Dame Margaret Lloyd George. whom he married in 18M when he was an unknown sol- icitor of 25. died in 1941.

Earl Lloyd George, a snail but robust man. had shaken off serious illnesses many times before, but he suffered an attack of influenza in January from vikiidh he never rai- lied. Since Jan. 20 he had been in graye condition and under the care of a heart specialist.

One left 0f "Blg Four"

His death leaves Vittorio Orlando of Italy as the only survivor of the famous "Big Pour" of Wood- row Wilson, Georges Clemenceau. Lloyd George and Orlando at the Versailles conference where the peace treaty was written after Germany's defeat in 191B.

As the British eidzr statesman gr-adually grew weaker. thecount- ess remained with him as much as possible. So did his daughters. Lady Olwen Carey Evans and Lady M an Lloyd Geoffl. and his son Ma . Grwilym Lloyd George, minis- ter of fuel and war in the Churchill cabinet. .secoili‘1

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Resources Minister Says (inc Voice For Empire Impossible

Debate (Eo-ntinues In Commons On World Security Problem.

OTTAWA. March 36 — (C?) _. Resources Minister Crerflr said to- day in the Commons that any at- tempt to have the British Com- monwealth speak with one voice at the forthcoming San Francisco security conference or at any other conference would give rise to fric- ~tion and difficulties which would break the Commonwealth to ieces.

Speaking during continue de- bate on world security, Mr. Crerar criticized the statements of Pro- gressive Conservative rty mem- bers who suggested the the British Commonwealth rather than the United Kingdom should seek representatives as permanent members of the security council in‘

(ContlMTd on Page a c0174)“

May Extend Income Tax Payment Date

OTTAWA, March 96 — (CP) — Official quarter's said today there was a "reasonable prospect" that the deadline for m-vrri-nt of ner- sonai income tar: for 1M4 will be extended bevond Are-ll 30 fad year the deadlln- was extpnded to Aug. 8-1 to facilitate tlhe purchase of victory bonds in the spring campaign.

Churchill Back In (treat Britain

IDNDON, March I — (OP) — Primc Minister Churchill was back in B ltain tonight after seeing British and American forces begin the "one big heave" he previously said would win the war. Heisexpectedtogivethellcuae of Commons an eyewitness account of the drive across the Rhine - fore its adiournment a ursday or

Earl Lloyd George Died t His Home

EARL LLOYD GEORGE

INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANCE

By The Canadian Press

WESTERN FRONT - United States 1th Army crosses Rhino lo join other‘ Allied armies driving deeper inf» Germany; American 1st Army plunged 36 milel east of Rhine; British 2nd and American 9th Armies strike in Bulls-Ii ‘Allied child!!!“ threatenovto no}! . Q91.- ‘Tllan rout.’ '

EASTERN FRONT - Russians dash across Hungary to within 31 Jnlles of Austria; Moscow discloses tlirec-pronged push toward Austria. now‘ under way.

AERIAL-RAJ‘. Mosqultos hit Berlin Monday night for 35th con- secutive night; German industrial targets ahead of Russian offensire hit by Allied heavy bombers.

PACIFIC - American naval guns and carrier planes attzcir ityllky" Islands; further liquidation of Japanese in Philippines announced.

BURMA - British and India ar- mored units capture lllylttha, rail and road junction-

llanson Inquires lie Canadians In Italy

OTTAWA. March N — (C?) — Hon. R B. Hanson (PC-York Sun- bury) in the Commons today ask- ed if the Department of National Defence was prepared to make a statement on the f‘ adian forces

Iitaly.

Mr. Hanson said relatives of men in the Carleton and York Regi- ment frorm New Brunswick had written him asking for infome- tlon about the position of the Can- adians in Italy.

Douglas Abbott. parliamentary assistant to Defence Minister Mc- Naughton. said an announcement on the Canadian forces would be made as soon os suoh was pos- s e.

3,000 More Dwellings Are Needed In Halifax

HALIFAX. March 20-(0?) -- At least 3,000 more dwellings are needed to accommod ‘ Halifax‘s present population. George T. Bates, executive secretary of the Civic Planning Commission, today told a service (Kiwanis) Club.

He said that the city's civilian population was slightly more than

HALIFAX March 26—(CP)- Lenders in the C. C. F. movement from all parts of the Marltimes, members of parliament and party officials from Ottawa and candl- dates for the federal election. will arrive in Halifax Thursday: and

he C1".

Iklday to atten

"leadership school" wh ch opens its two-day session here "riday after- noon.

the Easter holiday. =___\

of a free port at that St. Iawrenoe City.

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PSE WITHIN

OTTAWA nlifns nnuons igngsglor FAR our

kenZ?eT"kli\“"A. lllflrch 26_— (CPl - Prime Minister Mae- c _ rags s aiemeni ll'i the (commons that Allied suc- essesf" "many gave reason to Ilflpe-lllfll. final disin. tegraiion of_ the German army may “n1 be long delayed k111i emllgllilsis tonight to reports current in capital circles uiing i c peek-end that the collapse was a possibility,

ll-azis or... To

' Admitting War

llas Been Lost

BY RICHARD KASISCHKE LQNDON, March 26 _ (Ag; Nazi Ptopaganclists pleaded with the Gcflrwn people tonight to fight on "iiiiough the situation may ap- llear hopelefl." and military ccm- mentatorg warned that the Ger. man Western frmt was in danger of being split at Frankfurt-Ann.

Main

‘Pransoceaifs Guentlaer We-bcr declared: “To (he German; it 15 immaterial whether we hold a mile 05 ground more oi- less. but it is vital for us to maintain a wntin. uous front from the Swiss frontier to Holland." .

Alihou h they are hard pressed also on t c east front the Germans Elifid ihe west more apprehenslvely. An official Berlin military spokes- man declared that "the (kcisive fighting of the whole war now is unequivocally in the west."

Propagandlst Dr. Rudolf Somm- ler declared: "We mos/t not lose our courage. strength or self-con- fidence. We've kept our heads over other situations which appeared to be hopeless so why should we act otherwise now."

A German underground report said Field Marshal Walilier von Model. commander of (lie German northern armies, had been wounied March 16 by a bomb, necessitating the summons Field Marshal Albert Kesselring from Italy to take charge of the Western Front after field Marshal von Rundstedt was removed.

Another report said two generals and an air force marshal had been removed as the result of sharp differences between various air force chiefs and the high command. Tiiiose reported removed were Field Marshal Baron Wolfram von Richthofen, cousin of the famous First Great War ace, who had been in charge of the G-ennan air force armament; Mai-Gen. Deichmann. air force chief in Italy. and Lt.- Gen. Flegig. air force chief in the Bali-inns and Hungary.

Rumors that Goerlng. ciilsf of the air force. had been arrested also were heard in foreign capitals.

Probe Meat Shortage in i The u. s. A. i

Canada Discussed As U. S. Senate Subcom- mittee Begins Work.

WASHINGTON. March 26--(CPi

-A Senate subcommittee tackled

meat today as tlic first problem of

what chairman Elmer Thomas de-

clared will be “a nation-wide in-

vestigatlon of what is causing food

shortages in the United States." i Mention of Canada and what it is‘ doing to aid Britain's food pro-

blems entered the discussio l im- mediotely with Senator Burton Wheeler (Dem-Mona) waxing cri- tical of lend-lease disposition of meat. He said he understood Can- ada has plenty of meat and won- dered why more is not being sent to Britain by the Dominion.

Senator Wheeler also asked inves- tigation of what he said were ob- stacles in the way of Canadian meat entering the United States

meat could not be used to su pl re ulrements of the United Nat ons Re.ief and rehabilitation Adminis- tration. He suggested the needs of those countries now being supplied by the United States through lend- lease could be met by Canada. Senator Henrick Sliipstead (Rep.- Miiin.) suggested that Britpln is not getting more food from Can- ada because she has “to pay for it." Britain does not ‘pay, he said, for lend-lease food rorn the United States. Senator Shipstead added that butter is unratinned in Can- ada. (The current butter ration in Canada is six ounces a person a week. to He increased to seven ounces weekl April l.)

lit-Col. R. . Olmslcad. director of supply for the Commodity Cre- dit Corporation. told the subcom- mittee "we have made efforts to Eli lllfie uantities" of meat from anada bu the Canadian Govern- ment would not permit exports.

(OTTAWA. March 26--(Cl')- An Agriculture Department spokesman aald today that Britain takes from Canada as much meat as lin- Dominion can provide and any quantity for which she cannot pay with Canadian dollars i; covered by Canada through mutual aid.)

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,whll9 pointing to reports that tne German collapse may come in a week. incse same circles made: it clear that u “linrd core" of or-i ganlzed Nazi resistance, pentereill ut Berchtesgaderi, will hold out for| months after the military defeat. |

Reports have been prevalent here that even now representatives of the German general staff abali. limllilg hfllle after the crossing of tlic Rhine in iorcc_ have started to find ways to seek peace

PARIS, March N — (AP) — The United States ‘mi Army Ilurdled the Rhine today as elements of six other Allied cirmies — paced by a 35-mlle plunge cast of the Rhine by the United States 1st Army — swept toward Berlin through crumbling German lines.

(German advices to Madrid said tine big push was the great- est in size and intensity ever mounted by the Allies in Europe and declared the British and American armies were using new arms and tactics.)

Seventh army veterans struck without artillery or air preparation in a surprise assault at an undis- closed point. Earlier the Germans had said the Americans were ham- meriris at the sates of the big tmffic centre of Karlsruhe, on the south part of the front.

‘Ilnc United States lst Army has driven 35 miles east of the Rhine to Hcckholzliausen, ii: was an- nounced late tonight after the 1st Army tanis teams raced unchecked into the city of Llmburg 21 miles east oi‘ the river. Armored forces smashed eastward. trying to crush ihe Germans before they could es- cape a pinccrs being formed by ilhe 1st and United States 9th Armies.