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Of Navy Week Here‘

Ilulrition Director To llisit Province

N . l9 —- (OP) - Lfiiri-‘lli,’ Diigctor of Nutrition p the Department of National Mmjnd Welfare, left tocia flolr

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l Wnar Situation

By ELTON C. FAY, Associated Press War Analyst lava the Allies launched the biggest offensive in history in the

midst of a supply shortage?

if taken at face value, two items of news might give that Impres- Six armies of thousands of men and tens of thousands of heavy » weapons are attacking the strongly-fortified western border of Germany. .- ' _ . l Military leaders'announoe they have been expending 35 days‘ supply ‘ - - '

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of ammunition In 10 days.

The answer apparently is something like this: Even though the recent and current rate of supply expenditure at the front is well in excess oi receipts, a

the European theatre oi operations fonsive.

The aim of most military planners is to have a margin of about

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20, 1944

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MAXINE or a

MERE MAN

The surest way to control both in a private family and a kingdom is for a huaban and a prince some- times to drop their prerogative.

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Y ALLIES

A"““"‘ °'“°"gilAdvancel Reported iAll Alongwfroni:

Nov. 19 -- (CP) —:Aliied armies fought eastward from Holland to

the Alps toduy us British nnd American fo rccs captured Geilenkirchcn, 12 miles north

l of Aachen, American troops invested one-third oi‘ Metz and the junction city of Bla-

mont ~10 miles west of Strasbourg was seized. The Swiss radio said ihc French lstArmy had fought into Belfort, Oil ihc south-

capture two other towns

East oi Aachen the

‘ern route of invasion into Germany, in a

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and had struck into the province of Alsace ‘.0 thrust N lélhmilcs east ofmBclfort.

Msritlmes. He will visit two months’ supplies in a theatre. Because German hold-out forces atill Sh, t 1 t A l“ gm m]. “rd o g o 2:, Charlottetown and drederic- 3:18 $1,150 mgivingb ‘to Charlottetown deny to the Allies the use oi some Atlantic ports while others are being foilres miles riliiy suxddcnly ‘fluid Ed up to confer with officials oi 0i on! the first 61W. restored only after prolonged repair efforts, the stockpiling program fighting 3mm Strong jndlcaglons,

Provincial Departments of Health glghlzfllflfagfi igutsieeotiggrsilafoléalzggillifil may have fallen behind schedule in recent months.

on new developments in nutrl- clues acres m t f "l" lottewwn ti. vlectcgrliiirlys. '8'?) ' , ed on in guick succession. Lieut.

llllied Aircraft v» ’“ “m” R‘ °' "

HOWGVGI’. ll! ""159 ' the bitter German stand west of} a m onths th re has been u comparative lull in large-scale combat. ' l the lthlllc was cracking at last. , ‘ l I ‘ h zvaitheamtv-iesnonfilng saving in sunnlies. d _ _ _ F1 ‘t L‘-l)}?€i_a&lilXi:LB1'li;lSll a The second factor in the reckoning of the Allied High Comman v ' _ I ' ' ‘F f _ h

is a vastly increased tempo oi p-oductlun. General Eisenhower and ‘ . Ziilsliil-ticllljclrf‘ “l Robert Patterson, United States Undersecretary oi War. make this ‘ > ‘ m0 road hub or ’Gemnkirch‘,h plain in their appeal to factory management and workers to turn out - f?“ m Eruish tanks and Ampricnn! more supplies, including thc critical item of ammunition. '

_ chamme ratings while Mam Portion Of Line Already (bmpleted: Will

Surgoon-Lleut. E. S Glddings 11nd Emu-sh

Quail, was in command of the lupport Offensive

LONDON. Nov. l9 — (OP) — Allied aircraft today EFl/e C1055 npml to the mighty Allied smash ‘long {he Western Front while polish-based heavy bombers were

unded due to bad weather fol- mlng i double-punch which 000 RAF. and R.C.A.F. L-nnca-stei‘! and l-lallfaxes threw at Minister and m: Ruhr Saturday-

Blzl, Allied tonubcr fleele frcm llaiy smashed at Germany's south- m, supply bases in rounding out a week-end which saw nearly 5.000 Allied plans; loose a tornado of destruction en enemy front positions and renr nrees _

An RAJ“. spokesman said “there has never been anything like" the dual Munster-Ruhr blow.

3rd Division Men Enjoy First Leave

By ROSS MUNRO GENT. Belgium, Nov. 19 — (CP Cable) --- Troops of the 3rd Canadian lll ntry Division had illeir first mil leave of tile west- ern front campaign in vhls Bel- lsn city oi canals. ancient build- gs and friendly people. Ailcr lflc ilfliilt! oi zhc Schelde was ended. illf.‘ 3rd Division - whlcll has fought acres France ind llu- low countries since D- DB‘ ml‘ lo Gcllt on lcnve on T ration of the Burgonlastcl". one cliy was thrown 0pc)! to these rllldtlillllS and thousands of ihcln hula-fled private homes. bums gfllfff; lived comfortably in ‘bl lugs put at their disposal by .e_clvlc authorities. “$0110! _=\ week rhc division h _lt easy 111 Gent, enjoying the “Pllflllly of the citizens and llillls ln all the speclrf enter- sulment arranged {or 11,

nce in Normandy ision has been

‘he movc all the time, with or trfxcfiption of a few any: out m o ne ut the and of July to gage for the big Canadian army A 0 Sllllill 0f Caeu launched "It. 3——illf.‘ attack which helped [all squid destroy part of the Gel‘-

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MACARTHUR/S HEADQUART- gls. Philippines, Nov. 2o _.M°,,. d) -— (AP: - Japanese casual- “ °l1 l-wyte Island have passed h . headquarters reported to-

l. and sharp fighting continued a, "4 l-lmon. at the northern end

Ormoc corridor. ' rolhrgrican casualties total 5,691 ma“ c cam elgn-1,133 killed. ll‘ up"! an 4.402 wounded, to-

“H communique said.

,4 .1,‘ "W! disparity." it add- ldy" due to our long-range artil-

Coming Events

lffhow — Mt. Stewart Tuesday. ‘ 11-10-21.

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"Sh" “Well. Wednesday. 11-30-31 "a

"Ylns live and dressed ul- ‘hllrls too market. m m; . El"! 001d Storage ma. lcle-siv-tal.

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h“ ah lhl cars today, flour,

m‘ ‘ill-I. and barley meal. N. . "l Cutcllife. 11.19.11 ‘I

ital l); In; om nee. Oddfellowl m“. Bill. Wednesda , N - ' 39nd. Webster's Orclhestrz.

.mcnt would have to comc from the

charge of the Sea Cadets. Church Parade

The Church-Parade by the Sea Cadets on Sunday morning was an- other evelii; in keeping with the cele. bratlon of Navy Week. Cadet Ma]- or Elmer Blanchard was in charge. Sub-Lieut Gordon Gallant com- manded the Catholic section which a“ ded Mass at the Basilica and the Protestant party, which atten- ded divine service at St, Paul's An- slican Church. was commanded by Lieut. J. O. Diamond. There was mucll favorable comment 0n the smartappearance of the cadets.

Navy Week. sponsored by the Navy League of Canada. has tvlo ob- jects in view 1n its appeals to the lmbllc for financial support which appeal will open on Thursday. The‘ first object ls to strive to inculcate: in the mind of the average citizen a feeling of pride in a Navy which. only possessing 1'1 ships and 1700 men n 1939. now has more than 700 ships in active service and a navy personnel of 80.000 men. The second object is to express in a tan- gible way the deep. sincere appre- ciation which every Canadian has for the heroic work done by the men of Canada's merchant marine

in keeping intact the lifeline to the c

mother country.

lelcphoncflStdke Affects 24 Cities

COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. lo __ (A P) - A strike of telephone operat- ors winch llacl affected 24. Ohlo cit- les spread to the steel-making cen- tre of Youngstown today, with maintenance men Joining the walk-

u1.

The regional war labor board in Cleveland. which submitted the case to the national board for “ap- propriate action," said any develop-

parcnt body in Washington.

The strike began Friday when operators in Dayton quit work ln protest agalns’ a policy of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company of 1m- porting out of town operators on a salary-plus-expenses basis. said Miss Jeanette Reedy. president of the southwestern division of (he Ohio Federation of Telephone wor- kers. Sistcr operators in other cx- clmllgcs followed them in a sym- patlly strike.

The company has contended that

"lt is only fair" to compensate op- erators from out of the city fOY Ml". dgd_el_fpenses._y__

Canadians For Oversabscribing Seventh Victory Loan

OTTAWA, Nov. l9 — (CP) - Prime Minister Mackenzie Khig. Finance Minister Ilsley and Graham Towers, General Chairman of the War Finance Committee, night broadcast their thanks to the peo- ple of Canada for subscribing more than 31.500.000.000 to the Seventh Victory Loan.

In speeches prepared for dc- livery durin a 15-minute broad- cast over te national networks oi the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration, the speakers said th during the Seventh loan's three- week campaign for t1,300,000.000 Canadians had subscribed possibly as much as 01.510.000.000. The campaign closed a week ago and on the basis of preliminary stat- istics subscriptions now otalled Il,500,0Y0,000.

"t ls particularly significant that. in the sixth year of war, the people of this country did not slscken their efforts," said Mr. King. "They increased them. For the Seventh Victory Loan, the Canadian people were presented with the largest objective they have ever had. This objective was

at war record as written

It is not to be denied, however, and the Low Countries still is less port of Cherbourg is in full swing,

Le liavre. some of the smaller harbors are working and tons of sup- plies pour in by over-thc-beach method. But Antwerp, the great port

nearest to the battle areas on the

picture until dredges and mine-sweepers can clear the long channel

in from the North Sea.

A Big Winter

Red Army Predicted

Senate Leader

And Caldwell Reach Ottawa

UITAWA, Nov. 19- (CP) —}i0n. J. H, King. government leader in the Senate and M. J. Coldwell. C . F. leader in the Commons arrived in Ottawa today to prepare for the reassembling of Parliament on Wed- nesdfllfi

Senator King said he expected the senate, which has been called for 2 P. M. Wednesday. would adlourn in time for the senators to listen to the proceedings in the Commons which cpcns at 3 P M. The HD1191‘ chamber would likcly meet again on Thursday when the mEmbF-PS would have an opportunity to dis-

the supply-port situation in France than satisfactory. The deep-water good results are being attained at

Mr. Thomas Ambrose Rodd, Mil- ton, received word Saturday that his son, Lleut. George Parker RoddJ previously reported missing in flv-l tion, has now for official purposes‘ western front, femalns out of the. been presumed dead, The telc ‘ gram stated that Lieut. Rodd _ls presumed to have met his death ml —-— action. Feb. 1,

9 the Prince Edward Island Bigh-' y lenders before the outbreak of in September. 1939, and rcccivoil his commission as Lieutenant ill 1940, and went overseas shortly thereafter.

the army. Two other brothersl

. , N . l ‘- ( P — LONDON 0v 9 A ) John and Wallace, are at home.

Russian troops, in a six-mile push beyond the severed Buda- in M ,_ _ pcsl-Miskolc railway, today cap- Llel-‘i- ,R°dd,5 motile‘. y I tured the important communlca- ‘WE-- l943~ H15 father ‘.5 "feicm" tlons centre of Gyonkyos, 40 miles Q5 the 54mm Afllcm‘ Wm‘ northeast of the Hungarian cap- ital luld only 23 milessnuth of. the 01d Czechoslovak border. Mos- cow announced tonight. ‘

Seven other localities W818; captured on n front extending‘ from the approaches to Miskolc, 85 miles northeast of Budapest. down to the area of Hatven, key rail Junction 26 miles from the capital, the bulletin said.

Berlin said the battle east of Budapest had entered a new as- sault phase with the Russians now massing 35 infantry divisions and seven motorized corps, possi- bly 400,000 men, around the Eun- gnrian capital.

Although only reconnaissance activities were reported Ger- man East Prussia and across Po- land, Moscow dispatches said tclbllslled services which now go as i111" Red Army mllliiall’ men 851d far east as Ceylon and as far west! flatly that the lull along most of as Sydney. When the R.A.F.'l‘.C.‘

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(By the Ottawa Staff of The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA, Nov. 2O -- (CI-‘l —‘ The Royal Air Force ‘Transport, Command _is laying clown new routes of Zlll‘ communications to 111C far east with but. AlllLD0l‘\’1ll—ll_fll' Montreal-was the hub. And it has. been intimated that Canada inherit some of these already cs-l

cuss the government's stand on the reinforcement question.

“Some thought it was not 11cc; essury for the Senate to meet . Senator King said, “but I felt We; should be on hand. l ullnk there‘ will bc a large attcnclancl‘.

M1‘. Caldwell said he had can- celled his British Columbia speak-l 1m; dates to be here a few days be-} fore the House opened. He main-i tained his position of clcclllling to comment on the governments stand for continuance of the voluntary gygtem to provide reinforcements; until he had obtained all the facts.‘

aumvcn T0 DEATH

s1". JOHN'S. NFLD. Nov. 19 —. (c?) - An aged widow, Mrs. R. Leonard. lost her lifc Saturday- when she was tF-IDDECI in a fire that broke out in hcr home at Woods Island.

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"l cannot too warmly express Lllc Government's appreciation of this solenoid achievement of Can- adians at home and abroad."

Mr. Ilsley said that "the turn- ing cf the tide-victories where once we knew defeats-has not lessclled the determination of Canadians to put their finest ef- forts into the war."

"Each new anticipation of early victory has only served as a SD11!” to our efforts. such has been the victory loan subscriptions. No finer r-x- ample can be found than in that portion of the Seventh Loan com- posed of the urchase of individ- unis, Here t e minimum objec- tive was $000.000,000-a vastly larger sum than ever before ask- gd-gnd yet you bought more than 50,000,000.

"Yodqwanted to invest in vic- tory, and to do it you began to pract’ new self-denials so that you could buy at least one more bond than before. Such ‘the spirit of the Canadian people’

Mr. Towers had a Il-‘Mlii W011i of thanks for the 100,000 canvas-

tlle eastern frollt~would be broken pull out of Dorval an official said shortly by another great winter there is nothing to stop Canada offensive, perhaps the last for the from exploiting the routes. Russians. The R.A.F.T.C. flights now click

smoothly to their far zllvay dos-i tinations 11c matter w :11 the W011- ther condidions. Unlike the early clays of the ferry bomber scr_vlcr_.".. alternative routes now are available and meteorological services arc nearly perfect. So. for when a. fleet of bombers tnkcs offl for Karachi and the wsntllcl" is bod ; in one spot the flight is plotted by= way of another route and the bOllliJ- l crs arrive on time.

An interesting fact in the supply of bombers to the far cosh-and thcy . are reaching there in great 1111m- bers-is that many of lllrm 11y 1°. their bases of operations with the‘

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Oldest Member 0f Senate Dies

BATHURST. N 8.. 0V. 19 —- (CP) — A funeral service for Hon. Oncsiphore Turguo 96. oldest

‘.- of the Canadian Senate, who died of pneumonia at his home hero Saturdav will be held tomor- row morning ct Sacred Heart Cathedral with BLsllo Camille L1;- Blnc of Bathurst celc rntinlz Pon- tifical Mass of Rcauicm. Burial will be made here.

One son. J. Grav 'I‘urtzecn. mem- bcr f Parliament for Caribou. B C. cnroute to Bnthurst from the Paclflc Coast but. will be unable to nrrive in time for the funeral. Ano- ther. l-lcn. W.F.A Tulieon. new- lv appointed Canadian Anmbassa- dor fo Belgium and Minister to Luxembourg. is recuperating from illness in British Colzunbln and al- so will be unable ro attend the fun- vral. A nephew. Frank C. Isfahan, has arrived from Ottawa.

18 Injured In Train Wreck

WAYCROSS. Ca. Nov. 19 — lAPl—b‘ifcccn c of (he luntic Coast lim to-Tampa west coast left the rails in swulnp near Hortense. 6a., Saturday, 111-. luring at least 18 persons, none seriously. _

Only the tllrec-lllllt qlcscl cu- gine and three roar cars of 11113 ill-conch train remained on the

Yanks Land 0n

Asia Islands tracks. Some of the concllcs ovcr- trned, sprawling t0 the wllicr-

~ -——- u MACARTHUR/S HEADQUART-lbound edge of the desolnlc right- ERS. Philippines, Nov. 20-(Mo11- -wav. . day) 4 (AP) -- American forces Difficulty in reaching tllol have landed in the Asia Islands. scenc because of the iOlTJlll llzlzll-l 130 miles north of Sorong, New pcrcd removal of thc inlilrcd but, Guinea, headquarters reported to- Dllyslolflng who furnished firstl

day.

The Asia landing was madc Sunday. while moppi -up og- erations in the occupst on of t e Mapla group were completed, a C0n1llll1_i_i_lqll9 announced.

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IAbouL Lwo months ago British Army putruls were reported to have entered German territory cast of Nljlnegen but this vrns the l st lliliC LL-Gcn. forces lluvc driven into Germany in force.»

Tllcro was still no indication of

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landsclw Diep-Maas river front across Holland. a

rcncllcd by the 1st Canadian Army

H9 enlisted f“ active smflu’. mltl bv British 2nd Army forma-

tions llC2ll'l_V tvro weeks ago.

Hcrc vans the situation tonight on the sectors extending some 400 zllilos south from southeast Hol-

5 bwiher» Harilld- i5 “l” milnnfi to the French-Swiss border:

British Clllilllll!

2nd Army fofces, in- American infantry. struck heart of the Siegfried

died miLillz‘ positions by capturing Glcl-

Unlls reached 1-2 miles northeast 0f

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5 To the northwest, Gen. Demp- 'se;.“:. I01‘ continued their rlrlve Holland. reaching to

115.111: 11ml‘ Ilcldcll, '7 1-2 miles soutlllvl-sl of Vcnlo, a main gato- ‘.\'Ilj.' inln (iCflllillly from Holland,

' (A ltuulcr war correspondent in n field dispatch from Field linrsiml Montgomery's fiend- quarters said: "The great new llllietl drive on German soil is going wn-ll" and a. spokesman for tllc Field .\Llrshni said “it has been .1 day of slow, steady pro- gross")

The American 9th and 1st Armies. were attacking in close (‘fl ullction with the Briiish 211d lllc _l:.int drive tllrcutenccl both J‘. ‘ll and Durcn, northeast and m‘. of Aucllcll.

"Tllcrc are strong indications lllc oncnly is reaching the break- in: point in one area under the l l-iblc weight of the 1st Army's i\l‘.'l(‘l\' Dml Whitehead, Associat- ccl Pl wnr cozrespozldcnt, rc- porlcci tonicllt from the from. 'l‘llf‘l‘f‘ are signs, llc said, that "the torch crust 0f Nazi resistance pro- tecting thc outer fringes of the ltllluclnlld llnr. been smashed in spots." but "there is no break-

insffyncgm fhrcluzll by the 1st Army" as vet.’

“More Ammunition” Is Appeal From

. lien. Eisenhower

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SUPREME PARIS, Nov. i9 —- reduction

fortress city of Ancllcll M191“ . . l 3-0:; b‘. a shortage of am_ cllzlurc malaria. irregular i D. Elsenhowcn ‘l-"smlir?"

‘Gm. Ei-lnhc-u-cr declared

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Mean Much To War Effort In Chino.

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lly FRANK L. MARTIN NEW DELHI, India, Nov. l9 -— (AP; - A turn-year blanket of

Sea. Ballets Hold secrecy was lifted today with dis-

. closure by American Army Head-' quarters llerc that the main por-i tion of a fuel pipeline which ulti- mately will reach from Calcutta to China across Burma had been completed.

Already the longest military op- erational pipeline ill the world. its construction was one of the wars most remarkable engineering feats.

When completed it will at

least have double the capacity

of the Ledo road, which it was built to supplement. So for it has crossed three rivers and when finished it will cross several more. Allied forces in North