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German

Russians Launch

BlowsAlongFront

Make determined effort to relieve pressure on Red Armies in South.

Sept. 24—(Wednesday)-(AP)—The Russians.

counter-at acked against Nazi forces over front today in a determined effort to relieve pressure on

Baltic, Red forces were on'the_ offensive with

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V l! threat to the vital Donets Bash? len- hundreds

where s

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wounded and captured.

The early morning‘ communique announced that in t e west, above Smolensk two regiments of a Gel‘- man division were defeated and their remnants thrown back acrors the Dvina River.

ln the Murmansk area oi the far northern front, front line dispatch- es said the third German mountain infantry division was in disordered -etreat. This was believed to have mused somewhat the developing Nazi lhreat to Russia's big Arctic port.

But It was a dark picture in thescuth. where Marshal Sem- eon Budcnny was making an heroic effort to extricate the bulk of his anny from the area behind fallen Kiev in order to deaend the vital city of Khar- kov, the Black Sea portal Ros- tov and the Donets Basin.

Kharkov is the centre of the teeming Donets industrial re on andk Rostov ls the impol- ant par on the Sea of Azov. at the mouth of the River Don.

The Soviet press s kesman, s. A. l/szovsky, vice-comm at oi Foreign Affairs, frankly admitted that the loss of these cities plus the Donets Basin not onlv would gravely im- Eglr Russian industrial capacity but

attack on the Caucasian oil fields and the Iran- isn link between the Soviet Union and the-British Empire.

The claimed toll of 50-000 casual- pon the Germans in

ti feted igllingradl area represented by

fw- the most heartening news for oscow.

beleaguered Odessa. ‘at. the ex- treme southern end of the front. va- dioed news of the repulse of assaults by unite of nine German and Ru-

‘. manian divisions. ,

Nazi execution Squads shoot 3 In» Lille _ District

VTOHY, Sept. 23 --(AP) — Ger- man execution squads shot three Frenchmen today in the Lille dis- trict, near the Belgian border, thus disclosing acts of sabotage in still another sector of occupied France. The men were described by the Germans as "Communist terrorists" and were accused of bombings and incendlarlsm.

In Paris, scene of 35 recent execu- tions oi hostages and others, six Persons were convicted by s spec- ill anti-Communist court of Iflreading party propaganda. These latter were sentenced to prison ierms running as high as 12 years.

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Reports Motorship ‘Ahlaze off coast

FLAGLER BEACH, Flal. $6M. 23 — (AP) - Coast guard divisional headquarters said tonight that a lBO-loot motorship was ablaze about 28 miles off the coast near Euagler Beach and coast guard boats were speeding to the rescue of l3 persons adrift in s. life-boat after they abandoned the ship.

The identity of the ship, describ- ed b chief boatswainb mate Aub-

. Harris as a W00den' vessel more than 150 feet 1on8. was not learned immediately. Harris said the ship was British but gave no further details.

Full fury of Tropical storm Strikes Texas

HOUSTON. Tex. Sent. 23 -(A- r>- The full fury of a tropic-II hurricane struck the Texas coast late today, centrlng its 90-mile-an— hour winds at the small town 0f Matagorda.

There were no reports of the loss of oer- sons fled to inland safety before the rising wind and tides earlier

today. ~ Efforts to check conditions u: Matagorda, which is 65 miles south-

lsland- Pilot Killed Overseas

Sgt. Pilot John A. Mac- Eachernl, Mt. Stew- art, Received Wings

At Summerside.

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Word was received by cable es- terday that Sgt. Pilot John A. ll ac- Eachern. M-l‘

age.

Sgt. Pilot MacEachern was well known in Charlottetown having at- tended business college in this city after his early schooling at Mt Stewart. He was emplvyfid 501‘ B- tilne with H. H. Marshall Ltd., and later worked with the company 99-’- 111g the st. Peters Road. He J0 ned up about a year and a half n80 and after initial training in Toronto was sent to the Slunmerslde Training School where he received his wings this spring. About June he was Sent overseas and was given oiperatlozlll training. The nature of h s the time of his death could not be

arned. He leaves to mourn in addition to his mother and father, three broth-

. star. which the President

Arming Is

(By Richard L. Turner, Associated Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON. Sept. 23—(AP) —-Presldent Roosevelt said today that the United states probably is heading toward the arming of its merchant ships to protect them from the attacks of Axis warships.

At the same time, he disclosed that some American-owned ships Danish vessels which have been transferred to Panam- anian reglstry-—have already been equipped with guns.

Among the latter was the Pink

sunk by a. submarine las Friday night, at a position 275 miles‘ northeast oi Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of Greenland. The State Department received word from the American consul in Reykjavik. Iceland, tonight that 23 of the 34 men in the Pink Star's crew had arrived there in good

.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 28 -(A- Pl-The United States navy was understood tonight to have taken long steps already toward the arming of merhant vessels carrying supplies on Britain's Atlantic lifeline.

The navy ha; “on the shelf" some of the light guns necessary Jor the protection of merchant- lmlan, has been producing a. quantity of live-inch dual-pur- pose weapons suitablc for use s- galnst aircraft and surface raid- ers, and has navy gun crews s- vailable to establish the familiar

ers, two of whom, Ernest and Al- exander are on active service; and Morley. One sister Mrs. MacCallum is in western Canada.

A few minutes before the cable iving the sad news another bad

n received advising that Ernest had been rescue after his ship bud been torpe oed.

Three Newfoundland

east oi here, were unsvalllng.

Heavy seas and high tides batter- ed resort cities, inflicting damage to waterfront property and fhmfli‘ ening crops in ricc-Bfbwintf ""5

Tblephonlc communication with Matagorda failed during the day after high tides were reported to_ have spread over the town. 1,250 residents were believed to have heeded warnings to seek shelter. The weather bureau said an 90- mile-an-hour wind hit the town before noon.

Asks Afghanistan To expel Nazis

NEW YORK. Sept. 23-(AP) - The BBC, as heard by CB5. said tonight it was reported that the British government had formally requested Afghanistan to eXlfil "German trouble-makers."

The name sort of demand preced- ed the recent occupation of Iran.

Testify on new

Fishermen lost

ST. JOHNS. Nfld, Sept, 23-(0?

t , Cablel- Three Newfoundland ilsh- , I s vermen were lost in a storm that

whipped the waters of Bonavlsta Bay, it was reported here today. All of Green's Pond. Benjamin Stanford. l9, James Pond, 60. 8nd Maxwell Osmond, 18, were drowned in the storm-swept bay last Fri- day. Part of the engine housing ul

their tiny vessel was all that was recovered. fleeing before the storm, boats

of the fleet ran 20 miles from the fishing grounds to shelter at Pen- guin Island.

-

Interpreting The War News;

l l

(By Kirke L. Simpson, Assoc- iated Press Stall Writer) Berlin's statement

that the “battle of annihila-

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war days on cargo carriers.

condition. The report gave no de- tails of their rescue and did not identify them.

The Pink Star was in company with a Canadian-escorted convoy and was en route to Iceland.

The state Department announced that the captain of the Pink Star was a Canadian, John MacKen- zle, 55, of Halifax, and that seven oi his crew of 34. were Canadians. The Canadians, in addition to Capt. MacKenzie. with their next of kin, were:-

Andrew McKay, first assistant engineer. 39. Montreal; James Cas-

(Contlnued on page 7, Col 2)

All occupants 0f crashed plane llcportcd dead

VICTORIA. Sept. Z3—(OP)—Pl'0- vincial police headquarters announ- ced late toda that all three occu-

ants oi a o al Canadian Air

oroe lane whch crashed sundav cn setter Mountain near Yale, B. (3.. were dead.

Word of the tra dy was reoclved from Sgt. W T. olnpscn of the grovlncal police, who messaged

eadquarters direct from the scene of the crash, 65 miles northeast of Vancouver, with a portable radio

transm fer. IO L. W. Brooks 0i Saanichton, B. 0., and Sgt. L. P. Britland and AC. D. B. Wortley. both of Vancouver. The crash oc- n as. n._ ._I--<» belt Ylmhnv-

Merchant Ships Considered

President ICVEIIS Pink Star was with Canadian-escort- ed convoy when sunk.

aid was _

"armed guard" of first great ‘

OfU.S.

‘Charges Cttawa With Apathy

Strikes _A nd Bottle- Ill e c k s Hampering War Effort, Says Hepburn.

NEW YORK. Se t, _ Premier Mitchell Heipcuriikégcpéin- $8110 bDld New York repm-pers w,‘ day that "bottlenecks and strikes" 5-" 11517119911118“ Canada's war effort ‘and 111m an apathetic" Dominion overnment has provcn itself ln- capable or unwilling to deal with me strike‘ prgbfiem.

‘ e r e _ led and sthe fiuiitelixgiohlibtelint snidlfi- eral Government," he said in an in- terview. “The Canadian maple are outraged by the strikes. ‘They dglffl like to see the defence program held up‘ by an apathetic government w lie their sons are serving over. Bell-S. many of them defying death in bombers over Germany."

The interview was given in the Canadian Club of New York quapp

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, waolvssbXvfsEvraMBER 24, 1941

MOVES T0 FCRESTALL Pulsicll

ers in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel shortly before Mr. He burn made at broadcast. He is sche uled to make; a second broadcast Thursday after- noon and to attend several social‘ iuuggions. k1 d e are ma n _, with our Commonvfieafitljfair plan.” he said at the outset. “We are‘ not doing so well with other things} We have lots of strikes and lots of bottlenecks."

Blames Racketeers

He blamed the strikes on "labor racketeers" whom he described as "men who live off the dues paid in by workers." In reply to a question,

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on page ‘l, Col 2)

News Bridfs

(Continued

LONDON. Sept. 24—(Wednes- dayr-(Clfi-Brltaln has warn- ed Finland she will be regarded as an open enemy if the Finns

ritory beyond the old i039 fron- tier, icl able informants said today.

— ( rman planes caused slight bomb damage in a three-flour rs d on Moscow last night. the first night in which blackou were relaxed.

LONDON. Sept. 23 -- (CP Cable) — Iran hulks large in Britain's plans to aid Russia but official silence today greet- ed speculation that such help | might include an expeditionary , force to fight alongsld the Rus- sians in defence of the Caucasus oil fields.

MONTREAL. Sept. 23-10?»- Canadian Pacific Steamships offic- ials said today the 9,05’7-ton lreizh- ter Beaverdale. reported in York to have been torpedced was sunk last April. The crew was ssv. c‘.

SOI-‘IA, Bulgaria. Sept. Zt-TA P) — A midnight curfew for night clubs. cs e.- snd public

I . l. Under lease-lend

WASHINGTON. 50PM 23 -(AP) _-0ppositlon in any restriction ihli would prohibit United Std!!! 16nd- lease assistance to Russia was re- ported to have been exnwwd b!- fore a House Rcvlflflflilil"!

sub-committee today by Ddwlrd R- Stettinius, lend-lease administra-

tor.

Before the same noun. Arrive!- t“fe gut-story Claude Wickmi testified that s minimum of $1.000.- oon would be needed to keen Brit- ain supplied with food over the next five months.

30p. span in behalf of the new “$35,000,000 appropriation request- ed by Pxesidr-nt Rctecvelt for the lend-lease pmBfI-m-

Wloksrd testified that Great grmln l; "dependent upon North America for hum lllllnmm i’, 1°“! stuff; . . . "unless Britain is to lose p; Pitler he said, "the deficit h" w be mode up from thll coun- try and Canada." Moreover. he said that British dflflendnnce 09°11 this continent for food millit be aredter "in the months just shad than in those or the "

leted against nearly 750,000 ussian troops trapped east oi Kiev must be accepted with caution. Russian, British and even German battle bulletins indicate there is still a wide

t gap through which much oi the

retreating Red force could es- cape eastward to fight again.

Russians have been making counter attacks on both flats of a Nazi effort to ex- pend the Kiev pocket east- ward toward Kharkov. While the Germans sa the attacks have been repulsed. London appears more optimistic over Russian chances of reducing the scope of the Red army dis- aster in the Kiev area. and of halting the Nazi push toward Kharkov. . .

London notes a Russian counter attack on that north- ern Nazi column st Glukova (Glushkoval. Cou led with the lied counter at ck in the Poltava region, this indicates that the 10o miles slum be- tween Pcltnva and Glukova is open still for Russian retire- ment irom the pocket to form a new front for defence of Kharkov.

The importance of that ll

doubled b the fact that vir- tually mi -way __ of the _ Pol. It. . -- ________i___---_-§

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ley, n."6'."'cii'“s "flight from Mac- Leod, Alta, to Vancouver. ___€._._

Western Premiers Swell numbers Meeting llslay

nieces in Solis was ordered ef-

OTTAWA, Bept. 23—(CP)—-Rcsl- dents of Quebec and the Marltlmo, Provinces were advised lo augment» their winter's cu purchase of loca wood in s statement issued today by ; J. McG. Stewart, coal administrator under the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. "Increasing demand for cost bv the munition industries. cou led ch the reduced output re- sult ng from the Ca down. have ma ally decreased coal cu lies ‘in Eastern Canada."

OTTAWA, Sept. 28-—(OP)—Prem~ 0f Manitobd and Pit- tchewm arrived in Ottawa late today to swell the ls- semblyhof provincial premiers and oificia here to discuss with Fin- oe Minister the proposal retire from personal and tion inomle m field for the wsl-‘s duration I‘

The Albe ts delegation of from. Solon lnw. ovincis treasurer. 1nd Hon. ll. ggnnlnbghuirovlncinl sec- retary v yes or. They were in conference with the minister and treasury officials much of the day.

Each province that

proposal will make a copulate agree- ment with the Federal Government and the present conferences, ox- to run info next week, are work out buses for agreement

Ilsley said the discussions ocefd ‘gasfsctorlly but _no an o sn sgmc- ts d be oomph immc

explain Mr. Stewart. "Wherever there is suitable firewood available, it would be wise to use it to supple- ment cosl purchases as a precaut- ion sgalnst actual shortages of c»! in the months ahead."

War-ZS Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Prue)

SEPT. M. Nit-British took Jenlnita and attacked Kara Drkovbals on the Strunn front in Macedonia; Allied patrols active near Doinn. Canadians drove off Vlerman counter-attach 0n Cour- , calms on Icnme front.

Breton slow,-

persist in invading Russian tcr- I

regulations ‘ l‘

lintcnsc drive iduclion of pout.

HERO 0F TWO WARS

Chief Petty Officer Engineer Al- lan MacLean, Royal Canadian Na- vy, wcars a Military Medal of the great war for gallantry and two scar wounds from this war ihfli may rate him another decoration.

Canadians 0n ll.A.F. 81st casualty list

LONDON. Sept. 23 —fCP Cablill -l=‘lying Oificcl‘ Peter J. VflifllfhCs D.I<". of Brantford, Ont, was listed as a prisoner of war in the Royal Air Force's 81st casually list issued tonight in which two other Can- adians-s British Columbian and a M0lltTC£i1€l‘—- were included. The list contained 480 names.

Following is the lisl of Canad- ians and their next-of-klnz-

Law, H., Pilot Officer, from Brit- ish Columbia.

Missing, believed killed in action:

Powell, G. K., Sergeant. born in Montreal.

Previously reported missing, nOW i known to be a pfiscner of war:- Valachcs, P. J., Flying Offiwr. i from Branlford, Ont.

Neutral Eire Tightens helt

(By lllichael Rooney, Associated Press Staff Writer) DUBLIN, Sept. 23—(AP)-Neu_ tral Eire is tightening her belt for a hard winter. Prime Minister Dc warned his country

Valera has that because

of its geographical situation it‘

must suffer the effects of a vir- tual blockade.

"We are not going to g0 hungry." says Agricultural" Minister James Ryan. "but there are a lot of things we may have to do with- out."

Most serious shortage may be of British coal. Stocks are very low. Some merchants are unable l0 supply their customers

lwilh the meagre ration o‘? a quar-

'_“'_" ‘ler ton a month, The ra. ways arc

M(A%C)Ow'é'§pt' ziqwednesday) : feeling the pinch and services have _ ibceu curtailed.

Something approaching dismay as been created by the declar- ation of fhc president of the Bri_ tish Board of‘ ‘Trade _that “not a sinale ion of coal which could be used at home would be r-xporled unless unrlcr overwhelming na- tional considerations.”

In this difficult situation the Eire Government is directing an for increased pro- nrrscnl in the Irish bogs in millions of ions.

Petrol i; still bring imported m small quantities. Private motorists receive an average of about four

suffi-

Npw~ gallons a month.

Experts say there will be

icient wheat to last throughout the E wmlesalhellshwihvrc._ mRY_hPE

(Continued on page ‘l. Col 5) _

ETrouhIe flares I I gy,,,;>,'..;“@:,.v,,=.*.=s@ Ill MCXICO filly;

19 casualties

MEXICO CITY. Sept._23 -—(APl -~Three or more persons, includlnxz a Union leader. were killed and in wounded today when Mexican troops iimd upon munitions work- era who marched on the suburban

Luis Bobadllla plants director. Unofficial reports said the

wounded.

These same reports said

policies.

them.

s Paces

Plotting Overth ro

urgent meeting

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. and were reported moving fast

ators.

iun plotting." Ramon Damonte Tnborda,

in the country f

home of President Avila Camacho to demand the removal of Gen. Carnberos, war

cas- ualties were eight dead and dozens

1.000 laborers were in the throng which ascended Chapultepec Heights to a demand a personal hearing from the President. who is s prime col- laborator in hemisphere defence

Warned away by the guards, cf- flclals said. the "group of workers‘ insisted m entering the Presidents home and the guards then fired on

Tabordu made the swcepin

l Argentina's highest military of-l

flciais ‘ncld an urgent meeting i here. l

Upon emerging from the con.‘ ference Col. Francisco Suarez, ,

chief secretary of the war office,‘ was asked whether there was any

truth in rumors of subversive ac-

tivities in the interior and he re- . pliedz- i "1 am not authorized to SDBBX,‘ therefore I can not confirm ori deny any report."