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cmn Prisse Edward Island Like the Dew CHARUUFPETOWN. CANADA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 1944

CTACULAR AERIAL ATTLE F OUGHT

ALLllID TROOPS ‘ADvANcE THROUGH i CASSINO

___. *llown ‘IS llazis

lllsley To Take Nazis Still ,|" Dill Roll! llest Shortly llesist In By W-WTTERoHER “flaws. fire _- (or) —_.

LONDON, March 16 -— l. m m c --American fliers attack. d m“ ______ . “hind: Minister-e Ils B, Joan," Noam“ mg southern Germany "I mm" "M" i" °*' ' °" in great strength fought weeks. and Defence Minister Rsle- NAPLES‘ March I6_(AP)_M_ lied troops had occupied three- iourths of strategic uassino to-

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$100000"!

“Prohibition. Ad‘ Amendment Bill Gets First Reading

“ " Germany s

Says Strategic Fwing Bo,“ Goals In Italy " »

Are Accomplished

through trailing aerial

legislature In llonimittee 0n

llain Estimates

A radical change in the Prohib- ition Act is proposed in a bill in- troduced and given first readinB in-the legislature yesterday. lt would empower the Goya-unseat t‘: appoint olleuor morhe persoruuto "sighs i??? gndnueffecafi doc: WMHINGWN- Mam“ W —\5 tors’ prescriptions. to the number 1’) of two per month per individual

ton will be acting Finance Minis- (me of thg mggt spgc- "M" iilsafbfiiiciisr Ilsiev had re- tacular aerial battles o! turned on Sunday front eetin

At I30 this morning l mun was still in oommitee on the main estimates. to .- mete revenue and $1.100, ex- penditure for the next fiscal year “ding March 3!, 945. nrlicr the House passed sup- ylementlfy estimates oi . menus and 0813351 expenditure gq- the period ending March S11.

attbg time of ing to press it uncertain whom the House fluid prorogue. m estimates were moved into mmittee by Hon. William Hush- g, Provincial Treasurer. with Mr. ;.1l. Bernard. First District of , in the chair. 1i pleasant break in the pr ‘- lugs was the half hour recess at m. when. the members and adjourned to the Confed- fliim Chamber for light refresh- ts. The Premier and leader of opposition led the procesflon 5mg the corridor arm in arm. After lunch Hon. J.A. Campbell vs s rous Gaelic solo and led can enloya sin: sons.

st. ream: Remembered when the committee tuned the ‘chairman Wntinued .011 Page 0T€5Ydl— »h--—--——--

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had. y Mr. Bern- . p,

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MTAWA. March 16 - (OP) — llavy Minister Macdcnald said io- day in the Commons only nine osnadlsn Navy men arc Drls0ners_ d

53; are in the hands oi Ger- pn; and two are prisoners of Jepsntse.

_ ARCTIC BUT TR-OPIC

r Although only m) miles from the tic Circle, hirbimkl. A1851“.

.... has temperatures of 100

(agrees above zero in the shade.

oonmc EVENTS

"To arrive. Bulk Wheat. Book low. McC-uigan s: Boyle. S-li-‘li.

"Unload whole Barley at

m! pens, day, March 17th Feed Ascncy. 3-10-31. "loading

"l7 Tuesdl/YHWEAIQ“ Bide . K ll . 3-10-17-21.

Hunter A cos 3- d-‘li.

io

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in

"Debate and Concert liver mu. March 17th. 1r u.

"lines-aid is u st. n. Mile. MiirCh in at each

tricki-

h three

sot llrish Comedy Drama "T e Will e Wisp." a-ld-Sl

“will t be a t glans iolPDa/vis a

. March 34th at 3.80 P. M. l. N. Dawson. crapaud. s-ie-n.

"Will not be loadin h s for Davis and Fraser until: moiirsday. 33rd. at Albany and Friday

31th. iorenoon at Emerald. G. C. 9M1- a-ie-a.

“Owing tcwflcllrcimistanbtées beyond

‘v control not loading 08s at Colwill. this week, as prev- lflllly advertised, Icslie Mc- Wleli- 3-10-17-21.

O'B kn and 17mm 0i “"11 W-Uborsrttvg will address s gwgirmouagle-O raga-gunned’; flue. m. ‘ ‘ "s-ie-n.

"Y. P. U. Concert. Covchesd

an mo. 11% CI

‘rhursd .....M.....'i~;€.:.=-..»:E* . _ n . _, Cardigan. a-ai-aa-ae-ae a. " "Humor Mhristing Board “at all mual stations week

m purposes. Anoth

would prohibit a liquor vendor from honourirg, any prescription days after the date of issue.

moved and seconded b Liberal mesn from

District of King's, Messrs. '1‘. Kickham and H.

blfibllowing is the full text of the

enant - Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Prince

amended by addinir to Section the following

thing contained in this sec Lieutenant Governor - in - Coun- cil may appzint one or more r- sons who may issue nresori on! to persons of the at“. of twenty- one years or upwards and such pnscrirrtions when so issued shall- have the same ior-cs and effect as’

duly. [qualified - under

this section.

invalid a da

t prescription one person in any and any person having more than ‘tam such prescriptions issued guitlty oi an offence against this

C

in sub-section. t ‘ f) The amount to be charged

for such prescriptions and the re- muneration to be paid to persons appointed to issue hull be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor - in . Council.

section is hereby amended by ad- the twenty fifth llne thereof the fcllowi

oin- the some tan days after date of the issue thereo .

Election This Fall 0r Early llext Year

an address to Hamilton

this f

o Imtutdllty.

Montreal. was sentenced toda two Years in Dorchester

breaking in Iteslln! 89f fill WIDOIII.

ten

The bill was not introduced es Government measure, but was the two J. B. Francis.

Text of Bill

"m: rr mam-nu by the Lieut-

ward Island as follows. “l. The Prohibition Act, being l 90729 v1. Chapter 2'1. is hereby

as sub-section- (0): Nhtwiths

“(6) (a) HW- the

prescription issued

.. ‘BY l

"(b) Such prescriptions shall be . printed forms Pflen _. '“ .. ptions shall be iter ten days from the of the issue thereof. "((1) No more than two such s shall be issued to any one month

"((1) Such p.

t0 in any Olin month shall be "in The Lieutenant Governor -

- Council may make regulat. ns for the carrying out of this

such

"2 Sub - section (l) of the said

n: after the word "vendor" in

nil!

“All such prescriptions shall be

valid and no vendor shell h2g- O

f»

barium-mu 1 —ltevenue uln¥l§°"oi$.i.“il West Liberal Association, said tonight “it is general known that an (iedaal) elec on will be held early ‘rlllegft year. ii not use.

ll d Ills Idl rrs ....'i....‘.'l.°.‘s£l.‘.."i2 ni and for I

sum _-ro PRISON

samr rorm. n. 3.. (on _ Gordon n. cm m

after- he pleaded t w I

bile e eiaimio std‘: ient-

supplied by the" my"..- . I .

pill . in an optimistic report. of the fighting on other rronts.

M Lu 0881111710 of effects ci 1t- sllan weather. Stimson said Wed- nesmyk saturation bombing of Cassino has bee books

only

n on the i?’ "i? "$.12 “iii i...” ra , sno m n sve “iitlimm s. a... “Z done these things they set out to do Italy:-

Knocked the Italians out of the war as an Axis weapon. opened the Meditefl’ to uhh

41 M"

out of s "“““'...“‘°”

to the I in cted substegitliinliy heavier

enemy tomes than their own. < ‘mrning to other fronts, the war .- told reporters the eu- sttacks on f‘ "are leaving aims of weeripess among the Ger- man airfares. ' y . l

0f llew Ferry ls Underway

C on of the 000 fem? (‘or the New ward

new $4.000.- Brunswick- Prince ‘Ed

IBIIIQ 1

enable hu- rill-e w t o! t,hi& lbs by quick auoshiho.

Control levers on the bridge and stern 0i the streamlined vessel will ve ‘her gillzstcirndiroct central“ oi or our se n es rudders. ‘The uwillfilieve 30

world. she will be able to 10 rail- road cars and 00 automo iles. s- Ieinst iiiraiirosdca-reenddoautos 8.8. Prince Edward Northumberlsnd

A complete new innovation will be the pr ice breakers abil- ity to rock herself and squirm out o an ice gri . To do this the ship will be sup

and very powerful

0d with I

bumps will dly an nd w the tanks onrwher side of flames- sel. causing it to rock.

a "wt. a ur o . i will bexlgluclgplel‘ a M‘ "m e o h In l th f 372 I’ t and width of 6i few. a

onoconan m; [fig

20th, same days, some

as if nothing had

ed. king your hogs; We "It. We solicit you; Fiat‘;

"Ola-guns! choral-ls. - e. sr - "‘§'.'...;'.’" Mild? . v .

"i "w. Giarlottetcwn, Al- Nflltblm. Olleary, ‘lhiesday forenoon: Mount

- Wlltshirek. ..°"t'.‘°”“£"“' -"‘“"‘"":....- L.".l'§§“' magi‘ l ‘ _ n‘. jlfriog will load until a p. m. Bring u 0B. we protect your airitleri-l

Klimt ll

k .____. in isolated gratuities of Central America as late sl 18D.

Americans Invade Man us

Is. In Admiralty Group

atEiJMQ-so west c day) — (as) -' United troolie landed Wednesday on Menus. biggest of the inn Admiralty Islands. and within four hours and S minutss had pushed to within halt s nails oi the Japanese airfield at Lorengsu. Buliliorted V! destroyers. bomb- ers and artillery, dismounted eav- titht“ Jfilitfit. ‘.52.’. he..." e leb. 20 suffered only minor oas- ualties. At last reports they were advancing although meeting sir gphosliion from prepared he artillery fired from upied near Los Negros

U March‘

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llll (rrf in A “u. "l9 b

n. mesdsy min one in wile of explosives C

Menus baa been Allied oal

ill-Ky Ifldds iromIthe

beginning. 1t is the main base of

fdtsifl‘... .6‘? "fish it...“

y

Truk to New Gll%l. . Headquarters so r-qpeg-teq a

continuation

ti ewsk ednssdsy for lttlllht tlm r Army N?! "W060 140 tolls cl ex- llfiiwliil llitiss. ' ° f!“ Mthahaizrqznd the town.

s..~i.......ai.t e

to the Ukraine. Russian

large tanks °"

‘ an tional lberatlon.

oi hes raids - mm Gltlnes. and

a r t light at bomb's tell en- Jig pilot the launching plane to follow and control winged bomlfs dishi-

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l fepoflg, Show radlo-cmtrolied slider

I voys. The bomb terms the "fuse- ’ . lags" of the glider. Behind it in the

. war Siluatio

These sketches, irons WNHNR?

bomb; which Germans use slim!‘ Allied warships and merchant wh-

tau, i, radio-rcceivllll seer WWI“ which bu». in vim I'M- vhbh l‘ a blanched, controls in rusht- It ll, prwemdy,’ "cue, seen. beneath bomb. a bright light in bomb-e tall (gum. at. left). enables 0"" i" follow bank's illsb

-__- —-‘~~—' . "Jl n Last Night

By Klrke L. Simpson, Associated Press War Anal!"

New and grave portenis of Nazi disaster

to turn the German retreat to the

with every war bnlletln irosn Moscow to

slon from the war scene in Ital! There is g ‘ _ evidence that

- h l N ll -~ ‘hi? one. in... . ,. B...

retirement badly out of gear. A dll-ntlle-wlde glib in the but line powerful Nazi defences.

n, ha; again cut the (ideas-W

in southern Russia calculated Dnlggfigf into an utter- rout came ill ‘divert Anglo-American "W!"

the wide Russian break-through a- retreat

degpltg adverse weather condition; and

s... railroad and threatens a new

and waster entrapment of German armies before the lesser Russian H00"

ll the lnguiets triangle far to the southeast is Dmitri tight to

‘hrottle

Naal elements in ‘division strength hopelessly caught in its Brill.

The central Bug break out incident to slate ior the

3o bulge are less than 20 m the‘ usslan- unlanlan bounds-i)’-

Generals have been outsllld-

_ i ted f hlcscuw is the I11‘ “gzgrgllfieghls finarrrhhse 0f the battle Ill

ds driving southwestward from the "m" u” [mm the Dnlcster River. once

. l I The ease wills which the Russlanrsngegi tlnléllilkggdlu“! 5"“ n confusion and dismay in Nazi ranks. c‘ s‘ m gum outnumbered and outiouflhi- "n “"7 bu‘ e‘ ° . e

o not only been stallngrnd. his

' (h S‘ l- Thcrc is obviously peril of I 51w“? Nil“ mmwy 'us"s"" a" a

lngrsd taking shape now to warralnt whole central senior of the enemy M

t

Mgggnfl press relWfl-s that "I0 in the south ls "in is stale 0f 00l-

Prime Min

ister King

Reveals Mutual Aid . Agreement Details

OTTAWA. March 10-40?)- ‘Ilerms under which Canada sup- ies hundreds oi millions of dol- ars worth of war supplies to oth- United Nations were disclosed to Parliament by Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

He tabled mutual aid agreements with the United Kingdom. the So- viet Union and Australia and an- nounced similar agreements with other countries, including Chins

French Committee of Na-

‘llhe a merits with the Unit- cd King om and the Soviet Union were signed in Ottawa on lileb. i1 sfld that with Australia on March 0 but they cover all deliveries of supplies made up to now under the 000,000,000 mutual aid bill of hast year as well ss all future de-

The sags ‘ ‘ ' no uro- vision for repayment and only lim- ited provisions for return to Can- ada oi some of the oods delivered under special condi ions. In a statement to the Home Mr. said "the mutual aid pact based on a realisation that provision of materials to the com- mon csuee was no less vital and

was the

"samba" thasshsm__

SAINT JOHN. King —-(OP) - The Red Cross Csm

oi fighting men.”

Ali three agreements are Similar in substance and based on 1L0 ~~..'.:.' preamble which declares it is de- sirable that war supplies be dis- tribuicd among United Notion! l" accordancg with strategic needs of your, that conditions of provid- in: supplies should not be such as to burden post-war commerce. lead to the imposition 0f trade rc- strlctions or otherwise nrelildlce a just and enduring peace.

Her, is what Canada agrees to d

o:_ Make available such supplies as the government may outhorize._

Herc is what the other parties agree to do:-—'

Contribute to the defence of ca- nsda and provide "such articles, services, facilities 'or information’ as they may be able to and may be ISNOG "P011-

RBAOII OBJECTIVE N. 8., March l0 _ reign objective 0f 884100 in Balm, John City and country was today With returns still flew“ the total‘ tonight. stood

l

incom- at

Srnooil1$<illIn ForllH VOLiYBClklil q l q ‘Nllen you use

1.9550

FANAUA

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reached 5

lleport Mr. L. W. Shaw To Take Position llere

M!» UOYd Shaw. who is - ded ls one of the educationlsts w ,. has. produced in recent years, will reportedly be brought back to P. E. Island, and will be assigned to in connection with the ed- al development here

shew is serving st present as an executive assistant at Car- leton College, Ottawa, and prev- iously served vrlth the Newfound- land government in an educati al capacity- He went there as Bec- retsry of Education and Wls later promoted to the Position oi Gen- eral superintendent. Prior to that l‘ hgdltftbulii i

Ona .A scnvnversihspos; which he took after tcschlng t Prince of Wales College where he

s 90st ucstion Mr.

"Elm . ..

‘innermost’???

. see s‘ New Perth. P. l. 1'.

Budapest Has Black Market In Cat Meat

LISBON. March lO-(Aill-Jnls

eu ac n, a N estc M mug: reporting

fantastic block market in cat meat west. said today that "cat- napers" had stolen more than 100.- 000 household Dets in reolnt months. The black market opera - ors bribe children to deliver ears. sell the meat to butchers and dis pose oi the hides through fur deal-

outstanding wre this '

was in charge of the elassq in w!“ teacher ““"‘Mi'

night after 5th Army sappers blew a path thr h the demolished town, field dispatches said, and were mopping up pockets of Ger- mans.

Some groups of Germans appar- ently had re-entered the wreckage after the shattering 0i this town, which lies on the road to Rome, byulyesterdayk moo-ton bomb as- so

Devastation wrought by the al: and accompanying artillery bomb- aroment handicapped the advance oi Allied infantry and tank units which were forced to poke their way loot-by-foot through the

ckage.

L4;

Allied poured

of high explosive and smoke shells into the battered Benedictine ab- bey, the smoke shells being aimed to cut otf German observation oi Allied activities in the valley be- fore town.

Though shaken by the deluge of steel from planes and guns. Ger- man psrachute troops who surviv- ed the blasting clung desperately to the ghost town. seeking to de- lay as long as possible their retreat northwmtward along the Vie. Cs.- silins d Rome- From the sur-' rounding hills German multi-bsr- relied mortars poured a fire into the ruins of casslnc. Writing from the outskirts of

t til yesterday a good- siasd ltslian town. Lynn Heinze said

Clll n: IOU, Q remains of Cassino today "didn't know whether they were standing on s. former street, a former dwell- ing. a ark filled with rubble or the town ire station."

Heinserling saw Allied grating their way up Monastery

ll toward the ruins of the old Benedictine abbey which was knocked apart by aircraft and ar-l tillery a month ego. He said smoke shells thrown to conceal the Allied} troops indicated they were only ai few hump-ed feet from the summit and said it "seemed that the Ger- mans were aboutnto lose their lofty

troops

ers, the nrwspapci‘ said.

LONDON, March l6-—(AP)—The Red Army has divided and hurled

fending the Rumanian border ap- proaches by capturing Vapnyarka rail iunction on the Odessa-Zhu- imka trunk line in the lower Ukraine. Moscow announced to- w to the southeast Bo- vlet tankmen rolled their huge ms- chines over the last battling Ger- man remnants of three enemy di- visions trapped near Nikoleev.

The big Black Sea base of Niko- lltv. now sealed ofi on three sides. gas iEXPBtCDBH to 1:11 shortly. and

use an roops a were reported officially to be less than two miles from the enemy stronghold of Vin- nitsa in the western Ukraine after wiping out two German battalions lust outside the city.

Hundreds of Germans. "realiz- ing the hopelessness oi their situ- ation. laid down their arms and surrendered" in the pocket north- east of Nllrolaev, said a midnight Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet radio monitor.

Stress Importance .0f ll. ll. Forests

0'10". March 16-(0?) UBO!’

conference. that ever blessed any land

. therefore, looser keep open the tes to this public treasure for tat handful of fire-makers hdwhom treasure means nothing an t u dmmr, he b biio be

Thfile responsible for forest fires numbered no more than 5.000 in the whole Dominion. "We could put the whole 8,000 on an island and gens-ion them for life and still be andsorn sad on the deal." Lilian. a fifilrie. Minister

sn s es. said New Brune- wick forests included 7.000.000 acres of Crown lands and yielded rev- clwe 0i 864000.000 last year. “That is about I140 or 8150 for each man woman and child in New Bruns-

mRed Army Tankmen Ahead In L0

into retreat German troops -de-.

tense of New Bruuswickb forest wealth was stressed today at a provincial forest fire prevention

"The forests oi New Brunswick are one of the richest endowments

observation post.

iggwU/z raine gllanada llames I Ambassador

To Mexico

I i

OTTAWA, March i6—\CP)—licn. WF-A. Turgeon. whose appoint- ment as First Canadian Ambass- ador to Mexico ivas announced to- day in the Commons by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. is ex- pected to leave for Mexico cmost immediately to open the new cm- bassy and present his credentials.

Mr. Turgeon, a native of Batu- urst, N.B., and a former Chlei Jus- tice of Saskatchewan. goes to his second diplomatic post in Latin America. He was first 01190101“! minister to both Argentine and Chile. later. a minister was ap- pointed to Chile and Mr. Turgeon continued to represent Canada in Buenns Aires-

Recently, Mr. Turgeon was re- called to Canada preparatory to taking his new post.

in announcing the appointment. Mr. King said that Mexico and Ca-