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EDS SPLIT NAZI ARMIES IN POLAND

CHARWITETOWN. CANADA, TUESDAY, JULY 2s, 1944 '

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. 155' up shows the Allied forces In ‘ pointed like a spear ' Park. With the battlefield drying after heavy rains it appears obvious . m, effenslvc, to break the stalemate which developed when bad

halted a recent British-Canadian drive, will be uncorlsed soon. u my; me German DNB agency said that fresh reinforcements for

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a4“ pempseyb British 2nd army in Normandy were landed during

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‘Crash At Mt. Pleasant __Takes Life Of Airman

,Tli1’6€ Crew i Minor I

llttle Action

Iii Normandy

BLED SUPREME HEAD- vsnrnns. Jiilv 24 - iC-P) -! tars announced in com-' Ivmlquc No. 9R into tonight thutl there is nothing to report from‘

m‘ ground forces" in Nomiandy. id Allied light bombers early

- the day iittnckcd enemy troops did rail movements in n broad belt

d the cncniv positions.

Election Talk lt flttawa

lorriiws. Julv 24 - (or) ._ Hubris of Parliament, spurred by “nllllllllls 800d war news and three metal election campaigns, have

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There i: no indication when the fluent session will end, but it is "own that opposition membe s a vtllell as the government are i? ns for adjournment Aug. 5, mnwliether business can be meal 11D bv that date, of course. ma" 5 “Don how much argument m, Oil! on legislation still on the

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5gb. J. F. Burgess of Amherst- burg, Ontario, was fatally injured Sunday afternoon when a plane he was piloting crashed about a half-hills from the Royal Can- adian Air Force station at Mount Pleasant, 20 miles from Summer- sidc, officials at. the school said yesterday.

Three other members of the crew escaped with only minor in- juries. They are: LAC. P. A. En- right of Toronto; LAC, B. J. Ed- wards of Hamilton. Ontario; and LAC. P. Blagdcn o! Montreal. All three are in the hospital at the station.

The plane crashed when it was coming in for s landing after what was described as a routine flight. The cause of the accident ls unknown but is being investi-

gated.

The machine landed in a wood- ed area and the escape of three of the four-man crew with only minor injuries was "rather miracu- lous" it was said. The pilot died a short time after the crash.

All four men were stationed at No. 10 Bombing and Gunnery School at Mount Pleasant.

The body of the pilot was taken to Summerside yesterday and it will be put aboard a train today and taken to his home for burial. —-S.

Churchill Travelled On Cruiser Enterprise

WITH THE R. A. F. 2ND TAC- TICAL AIR FORCE, NORMANDY. July 24 — (OP-Router) — Prime Minister Churchill travelled to Normandy for his three-day visit ended Sunday l“ ills Royal Navy cruiser Enterprise which served B5 his headquarters throughout the visit, He flew from Normandy back to Britain in a transport plane.

LONDON -—(CP)Thsln‘ l3‘! four year and nine mon o 6 VII- Bflblflh Merchant Marine lifeboat! have rescued 5,661 seamen.

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From Britain To llo. Africa

NAPLES. July M —- (CM-King George of Britain, trim in the uni. form of a Field Marshal. landed last night in Italy on an inspee. tion tour which will carry him to forward battle fronts approaching Pisa. Florence and Rimlni.

The King's big lane with Beau-

fillhterbaniki) rel escort landed on a om - a ere air ort after flying from Britain. p‘. l The King, on his first visit to Italy since the outbreak of war, cllllcared fresh after the swift trl , broken by one three-hour ha t. Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Mediterranean theatre commander, first greeted him. Then Admiral Sir John Cunningham, Allied Naval commander in this theatre, and Harold McMillen, British Minister to the French Committee Algiers, and Air Vice-Marshal G. B. A. Baker greeted their mon- arch in that order.

The King stood under the wings of his plane for five minutes chat- ting with the four-man reception committee and members of his own small party. With him were his secretary, Sir Eric Mievllle, Col. Hon. sir Piers Legh, his equerry, Group Capt. E. H. Flelden. Captain of the King's Flight, a bodyguard and two valets.

Wing Cmdr. Henry Collins, the pilot, said good weather favored the uneventful trip. The King spent about 20 minutes in the cockpit before retiring last night. He was interested particularly in the automatic pilot.

Collins flew in over the volcano Vesuvius and carefully circled the field three times before landing.

Runways on the airport were smooth but most buildi shattered or flattened by bombs while the Germans held it.

Collins said: “We left on Sat- urday evening. arriving in North Africa the next day and continued to Naples after s. three-hour rest."

The flight was made in an R. A. F. transport command aircraft with a crew of five.

Before leaving Britain, the King signed a warrant under the great seal appointing five counsellors of state to act for him during his absence from the realm. They ere Queen Elizabeth. Princess Eliza- beth, the Duke of Gloucester, the Princess Royal (the King's sister), and Princess Arthur oi Connaught.

Princess Elizabeth, who was l8 inst April, acts as a counsellor for the first time, in accordance with the amended provisions of the Regents’ Act of 1937, which was altered by Parliament at the King's request last year.

Pte. 0. E. [tennis llios 0f Wounds

Mrs. Cyril Eric Dennis. King City, received official in- formation yesterday that her hus- bimd, wounded in action in France on Jul 9th, died oi his wounds the fol owing day.

The late Pte. Cyril Eric Dennis was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Dennis formerly of OLeary. He enlisted in Septem- ber, i019, at the early age of l6 He spent about a. ear and on duty in New oundland went. overseas in June, i943. has a brother, Vernon, serving overseas.

In addition to his brother, the late Pte. Dennis is survived by his wife, whom he married in 1040, and one son three years old who is nndergoln medical treatment in the P. It Is and Hospital.

To his wife, brother, and other members of the family the deep- lest sympathy is expressed in their o“ .

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Allies Preparing 7:0 Assault Gothic Line

llew Polish Group Ignores London Rov’t

MOSCOW. July DL-(API-IUIOT- lnl the Polish government in Lon- don. the Soviet: - sponsored Polish

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norm. July 24 — (OP) -_ The end of the first year of italys re- volt against Fascism found Allied “nope .firmly established tonight along the southern bank of the Arno River between Florence and Pisa and reparing to assault the “Gothic Liner uardlns the one- thlrd of Italy stlll in enem hands.

American forces alrea had fought their way throlllh all the historic city of Pisa which liea south of the Arno and were swift- 1y annihilgtins, Abe few enemy

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‘ust of the city-

e in the upper Arno Valley south of Florence. British 8th Army troops sweplt through San ‘Gio- vanni in t e face of fierce Ger- man rearguard resistance. and fighting now is in progress on the lower slopes of the 3. 700 foot Prato Magno, some 2o miles from Flor- ence. and commending the Arno Valley.

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War Situation Last Night

By Kirke L. Simeon. Associated Press Waa Analyst

Till llllllfll- "Mill-l!!! of Russian Illlll that mean freedom is already sounding in the ears ol the N -‘ d population or wsmy ‘hen the east wind blows.

l" whim"! l" that time to the northeast. and east and the south- east. and there are Berlin as well as Moscow lntimatlons of e. German flight to the Willa. (Vistula) from their shattered Bug River defence front in central Poland of which only Brest Lltovak and Lwow, north and south anchorages. remain in Nazi hanila.

If they follow their own well-established strategy, however. Bed for- cee will lay-D"! wlmw- M! waste lives in frontal assaults. Most of the city lies west of the Wisla. It would be more difficult tn take by storm than Stalingrad. highwater mark of the Nazi war on Russia but never Russian-yielded.

“ expectation of Illusion by-passlng drives on both aides of Warsaw is indicated in evacuation of Sledlce, last important town on the Warsaw-Moscow direct railroad east of Warsaw. At thnt point a Russian advance group is now less than 50 miles from the heart of the pro-war Polish capital.

southward at Lublin, the Russians have posed a graver threat by a wide-fronted break-through across the Bug to within 25 miles or less of the Whla. It is there by every sign. at the town of Putaiwy where the

llefence line east of Germany's own frontiers is apt to be decided.

A Russian break-through at that point driven to any depth would outflank the Warsaw defences. Farther south Ukrainian armies 60 miles west of ivy-passed Lwow are already in a position to turn the Wisla front

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Report Purge Caught Only Few Rebels

Hitler Sets Out To Naz- ify Army Completely.

IDNDON. July 24-(AP> -— The Nazis still ruled Germany tonight under the iron hand of the Ges- tapo, but advices from the Reich's frontier declared the purge had wiped out only a iew of the lead- ers among the armv conspirators determined to liquidate Adolf Hit- ler and all his regime.

A reliable reroort to The sociatcd Press said the only mem- ber o1 a. “high committee op- position" who had been caught was the executed Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck who had been‘ warned of ar- rest and was taken bv accident. Heinrich Himmler the Geetazpou head executioner "doesn't even know who the member of the coonmittee are." this account said. althou h the committee, embracing Catholc and Evangelical wore- sentatives as well as the military, was said to have existed for more than half a year.

Hitler set out to nazifv his anny completely us the Berlin radio an- nounced that Thursday's bomb which reportedly singed, him had taken the lives of two high-ranking

The victims were Col-Gen. Guenther lforten. cnief of the German air force general staff, and Moor Gen l-leinze Brand-t, first offcer in the army general staff's Operative section. Previously the Nazis had nouncecl the death or Hitler's "double," Heinrich Bcrgner, whose name first was given as Berger. '

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for all German armed for- ces, which hitherto usually have executed the more military gesture of the hand to the head-gear ‘This was accompanied by con- tinued iunldnx of P

more in street brawls than in tac- tical manoeuvres.

IDNDON —(CP)— One of Brit- ain's fastest s. yhounds, Merry Two Star, is alleged to have been painted black and substituted for another dog in a $0.000 race last. January. It wonl its owner; are to August

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before the dcmornllzed foe reaches it for a stand.

In the light. of that situation the German stands at Lwow and Brest eaningless. The arrisons of both are in danger of im- nlhilatlon. Flight westward down a. narrowing corridor formed by the shallow valley of the Bug River west of its bend at Brest Liiovsk seems the only hope of its German defenders. At Lwow on even greater Rus- sian trap is fast forming which may be Intended to split off nil enemy forces in the Jaroslnv-Lwow-Stnnislaw triangle.

The size nf that triangle suggests it may contain the largest Nazi

”‘*Revolt”Has N0 Effect On Normandy Fighting

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By WILLIAM STEWART

WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN FRANCE, July 24 —(CP Cable) — The so-called “revolt” in Germ- any has had no perceptible effect on the fighting in Normandy. Troops from the second-rate en- einy divisions give up under de- tcrmlned attack but the men of the Nazi storm troops formation still fight fanatically to the last.

1 overheard a discussion be- tween a 28-year-old German Lieu- tenant and a Canadian Lieutenant

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Russians Take Lublin

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pontoon. July z-i-As the a". 3g: to hurl more of the including tn alipsgjumem England‘ the S n ‘m “ml “d” Eii.‘l‘i.Lf““‘.ll“" the ratrel“ of emglrelgillialhrorleocdillesé; day. The production speed-up was in preparation for what the news- prai ncalled the “second phase" o!

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Kiel Suffers Heaviest Air Raid 0f War

LDNDON, July ZA-(AIU-Up to 500 American heavy bombers streaking from Italian bases today pounded German airiielos, nar- oors and OIJICI‘ targets "in France. Yugoslavia and northern ltaly. striking at tuners southern oas- tions alter the lt.A.F. and RC. Al‘. had delivered the heaviest and most concentrated attack of the war on the n rthcrn German

naval base of Kiel.

Kiel, headquarters of the Ger- lnfm navy, where Gennan sailors mutlnied in 191d, was saturated with nearly 3.000 tons of hixll explosive and incendiary bombs in what probably was a bid to block the Kiel canal and reduce to complete impotence the mains of the German fleet

The devastating attack on Kiel paced a heavy all-R C AF. assault against an oil storage depot at Donges near St. Nazalre in France. Hundreds Canadian-manned heavy bombers took part in both operations. including the famed goose, ghost. and thundeibird squad- rons, and all the 11.0 A.F. crews returned safely.

The air war rolled forward by daylight today from two directions.

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and uibst this one German said. may indicate what they are think-l lng on the other side of thel front.

The German who spoke French had a couple of days’ growth of. beard and thick mud on his jack boots and greenish uniform, with a‘ ribbon for service in Russia. Hel had been in heavy fighting and» hao been under fierce shelling byl our great artillery concentration] and said he hadn't been aware that anything unusual was hap- pening in Germany until taken prisoner. He thought that even if Hitler did have all his generals shot it would have no effect on the course of the war.

There may be differences of op- lnion among the Germans, he said, but then again there were differences of opinion among all people. That was the way he ac- cepted news of the "revolt,"

The prisoner flushed slightly at any suggestion that Germany is losing the war. He said Germany could not lose because "she will not be a small nation.”

He offered to explain how the morale of the German troops in Normandy wus good and when ask- ed to account. for the ragged, shak- en appcorance of prisoners, he said that any troops would appear the same after enduring the ter- rific bon-ibiirdment, without food or slceplfor three days.

The prisoner was ready to ad- mit Allied superiority in the air but still claimed that the Germans would soon “catch up". The Ger- man retreat: he said were due to the necessity of having to "spread out."

One thing he did admit. was that it took crews "with courage" to operate trains through France in daytime.

Alberta Needs 2,000 Harvesters From East

EDMONTON, July 24 -—- (CF)- Two thousand harvesters from eastern Canada will be needed this year to aid in Alberta's harvest. it was announced today at a meet- ing of e Dominion-Provincial Farm Labor _mmittee___herj_e_.__|

=robot bomb installations in France

Besides the triple blows by the Mediterranean-based bombers. R. A F. heavy Lancaster's blasted

for the third time in 24 hours. and other planes Supported trot/De fighting in Rance.

Thick clouds over the Normandy battlefront. restricted tactical air operations for a time. But as the weather improved during the late afternoon. fighter bombers winged toward the French coast to strike blows in support oi the invasion troops U. S. fighters struck in daylight at airflelds iri southwestern Germany. shot up enemy aircraft on the ground. and mrofed trans- lnort and communications facilit- es.

iiov’t To Study international Cartels, Patents

OTTAWA. July 24 -_ lCP) _ With a view to obtaining informa- tion on which to base policy and legislation the government has ordered a study made of interna- tional cartels and patent arrange- ments and their possible effect on employment, domestic and fore trade, Labor Minister Mitchell so d today in the Commons.

The study is being made under the direction of Fred W. McGregor, Commissioner under the Combines Investigation Act, with the assist- ance of two government officials. a lllvvyer and an economist.

The overnment. officials are W. A. Mac intosh of the Finance De-

ear-cw Says King Should Look For llew Seat

OTTAWA, Jul C?) — Premier T. C. ouglas o Sask- atchewan soid today in an inter- view that if Prime Ministar Mac- kenzie King hopes to be re-elect- ed in the next Federal ‘ ' ‘ he had better find himself another seat and not attempt to hold the Saskatchewan constituency of Prince Albert.

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_ 110N901‘. Jilly 34 - (AP) — Russian troops in a ser- ies of gigantic strokes today split the battered German armies m Poland by capturing the rail city of Lublin, lililllled Lllkow. only 60 miles southeast of Warsaw, and crossed like San River ill the south in a. direct drive on German Silesia, less than 150 miles away.

LIST GERMAN LOSSES

A special Moscow communique also announced that the Germans had lost more than 539,000 troops killed and cap- tured since thé huge Soviet summer offensive began June 23. These casualties were inflicted only by four Russian armies — and at least seven now are hurling back the Ger- mans on an 800-mile front from the Baltic to the Carpath- ian Mountains, Moscow said.

MILE-AN-HOUR ADVANCE

Gerrnany’s peril increased hourly as the Russians mov- ed westward at a better than a mile-an-liour elip, slashing German resistance centres frontally and by-passing num- erous strongholds in wide flanking movements on Warsaw. The Russians were within 25 miles of the Wilsa River —last Axis natural defence line before Germany.

SPLIT GERMAN ARMIES

By capturing Lublin, in the geographic centre of pre- war Poland, the Russians split the German armiesof the north and south on the east side of the Wilsa and San Riv- ers. By toppling Luckow, the shock troops of Marshal Kon- stantin K. Rokoesovsky's 1st White Russian Army severed the German escape railway from Brest Liiovsk, where Ber- lin said other Soviet units had broken into the city. _

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With the crossing of the San River the Russians were from 160 to 140 miles from German Silesia striking straight westward toward Krakow on the road to Germany.

The San was reached on a b0- mlii: front. from Jaroslaw north- ward, and Berlin said Jaroslaw has been abandoned

The German garrison at Lwow. 60 miles east of Jaroslaw. ' n its last legs apparently o5 Berlin said the Russians had broken into that. stronghold.