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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944

BIG AIRBATTLE FOUGHT OVER REICH

"COMMODORE BROCK A WELCOME VISITOR DURING NA v.41. WEEK

Lommanding Officer Of Naval Divisions Has

Warm Praise For Navv Learzue, town Sea Cadets And Naval Re

londoners Arc ' signed To arllostriotions

invasion Of Continent

Made Little Difference _In Life In British

Capital.

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DON. Nov. 22 -—- "J P) - Lafiilqncrs have become resigned t0 lllg fact tllat. until the 611d 0f the m only can expect little relief ,,.,.'. m. restricti0ns that mode life uncomfortable and irritating since

I940.

l i ti ll thought the tllhdlsllliy Sggltfinflfs tllae $l0.01)0 wartime restrictions would 001N058 Wm) "l9 Invasion. But now that France and Belgium have been liberated and [ipllting on German soil is in PTO-i i‘... and still no relief has come. {he pgpplg or London are convinced lite war is to bc fl. personal thing un-

lll tll very enli-

Befgre June o neonle-thousht that when tile Allies were installed firm- ly (m lilo continent Britain would relllrn w I "ahonev-war’ varied =1- mflgr i0 m; pre-Dunkernue fill “ma fighting. vms a far off thinli git hm ffected I": -

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Will Form new liucbec llllits

QUEBEC, Nov. 21 — (OP) — Erigadlcl- Edmond Blais, Officer Canllnalldillg ivlllltary District No. - (Quebec) tonight said in a. prcss conference that he had ordered the musterlng up of twb r881- llients destined to reinforce over- as the Royal 22nd Regiment and Le Regilnellt de la Cllaudierc. Brig. Blllis added that. Ma]. Paul Trlquet, first French-Canadian to awarded the Victoria Cross ln this war, will command the new cyal 22nd unit. He said he had bled overseas to ask for the im- edillte return to Canada. of the ero of Cass. Berardt. He will b g lnoted to rank of Lieutenant-

lonel. If . Hugues Lapolnte. son of ate Justice Minister Ernest ~ polnte, Liberal member of Par- i fault for Lotbinlere, will hood l. new la Chaudiere unit. Ma]. pointe, who vrlll also be pro- otod to Lieutenant-Colonel. now in Canada and will attend the Dtning of the special session of rlianlent tomorrow at Ottawa.

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Friday, -22-24-2i.

evening, Victoia Hall . Goon musicfli-zfl-ii.

kory stop 11-22-11. Albion Hall. 28th. Good 1142-25-27. "u" Plltl’. Seven Milo Bay

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"Wilmer River farmc will b gut‘! dressed hogs "Dec. l‘

11-21-1011 0M —“_' '1 fiftieth-Edit‘? Mniiii-liiily still" . 11-21-21. II

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11-21-21.

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Warm comrnen of the Nav a Glaardian

B. B. Commanding Offic val Divisions,

O'R.e1lly, discharge off ions.

Last night. OZRellly and Chas. MucKen inspected the Cadet Corps. naval division at . , Queen Charlotte under Lleut. mander Maclienzie today.

"We ar Provincial people of Pr their offer town to build a new Commodore Brock

during wartlrn cannot say, but we c

made

(Last October Commodore Brock save ills approval of a. proposal lo erect a new barracks present quarters of H . Queen Charlotte. He had previously announced tllat it was planned to erect a total of twenty naval bar- racks _In principal Canadian cities to tram llavlil personnel after the war, as one of the best means of providing insurance against future wars. A.s stated in the press at. tnat time. the

Speaking of the Navy Commodore Broc

BOSTON, Wires were do er was cut oft 1n Clowns tonight a; 3 lashed the Massacll a steady wind of intgirlslifled bv fiO-lnllc

K by State Pollc %lsaglouvfflsl and Vinoy

POWER‘

Honu oversees relnforcenlen McNaughton toni ht draftoe strength and. counties. shortly will start to conversion rs rts distribution fgures. The reports would show the progress of his voluntary recruiting

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Also Charlotte- cruiting Efforts.

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datlon of the work l’ l-leflglle “ins voiced to representat ve last night ommodore E. R. Brock, c. no u kmer of Na- W m" I l. brief With him ls Lieut. M.

chief recruiting and icer for Naval Divis-

here.

Lieut. nrial- zle. Commodore Brock Charlottetown Sea He will inspect the II M

accompanied by Lieut -Co »

C S. -Com- New Nsvnl B

e very grateful to the

Government and me ince ISQWBId Island for of a site in Charlotte- nuval barracks," said. “Whether it d expedient to build e is something I ertainly app- , the gesture that has been

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to replace the . M. C S

present naval training

will be temporarily suspended

c; November, but a maintenance charge officers, will continue to operate.)

The proposed new barracks. Com- modore

‘including recruiting and dis-

Brock said last night, will

accommodation for 250 naval

ratings and twenty-five Others. It

also include provision for the

training of Sea. Cadets.

Commenda Navy Leagug

League, k referred with ap-

ation to the ditty bags which

being provided not only l'or

the merchant service but the Navy itself, also the _many thousands of knitted 8006s sent to both services, as well as the hostels the Navy Lea-

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Storm Lashes Boast

Massachusetts

Nov. 2i - (AP) — wn and electric now- three Cape Cod northeast storm usetts coast with 35 miles all hour “H515.

1 tmlsion e to down between ard Haven and

was reported cut. off in of lCxlnak kBIulifs, west T15-

Ill‘ . l th 1s- off Martha's Vliileygliid. E 1

Gives Details 0f Home Defense Army

OTTAWA. Nov. 21 — (CP) — Defence Minister McNaughton to- night issued a statement showing that of 50,000 home defence troops on strength Oct. from while

ll, 39,658 cnme Canadian cities and towns 19,346 were from counties

rural areas.

The statement followed an an- nouncement last week tllat more than 7,000 rlraftees "went active" between June 6 —-

3

D-Day - and At the same time it was

disclosed that 0,200 of the 81,500 men cailledllp in 104i still were in the Home Defence Arm

tarting s

Y. ign t create campain reocruitislg

titi comps on m ‘or the

Defence

to It is understood he

d vs. t figures disclosed that rltish [Qu lstod

s - a nlaority were In the

the cities and towns.

other seven provinces with big rural populations

msjori

the ty from counties. r details conge)rning_ P. I. 1.

wires were reported v b6

The last f‘ Imprisoned In besieged Allied armies.

Outflanked by the French bre

raiue triangle between the borders

momentum. Behind the fighting fronts, Ge usually pessimistic analyses by Nazi

mile active front has still to reach i

personal survey of the battle lines. for ever Increa ‘

Nazi broadcasters t‘ Allied deadline for finishing They pleaded for a stand- lnto Germany; but clearly visualize defence front.

That indicates expectation in B In the north. First word of cvacua Aachen sector on the road to Colo

other step toward abandonment of

War Situation La

By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press War Analyst) invaders of French soil except those hopelessly- west coast ports are being swiftly driven out by

Belfort Gap, the position of all enemy forces still in the Alsace-Lor-

fast becoming critical. Thain retreat to the Rhine could become s dis- astrous rout is three Allied armies drive ahead with ever increasing

ed to be preparing the German home front for further bad news from the west, pointing out that the Allied six-

Gen. Eisenhower confirmed that vi

,, pressure until the enemy breaks.

“s set Christmas as the contemplated of! all us anrzed resistance In the west. and-die fight to

lion of the Esehweiler salient In the gm» came from the foe. It marks isn-

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air-through to the Rhine via thl of Luxembourg and vvitzorlnud Is

rlnan air waves bummed with Im- milltary commentators. They seem-

arlny attack along the 400- tide.

ew upon his return from s Ills directives to his Generals called

ts full

prevent a major break-through

d the Rhine itself as the last ditch

erlln of a retreat behind the Rhine

the whole west Rhine triangle.

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1.100 Tlieil Fighters lierd Big Bombers

LONDON, Nov. 21 — (AP) — Seventy-four German _ planes were destroyed in the air and six more on the ground today as the largest aerial escort in his- tory, more than i,100 United States fighters, of savage sky battles to prote

of 1,250 American heavy bombers which hit tllree vital German oil refineries ‘with 4.090 tom of bombs.

Forty United States heavy bomber: and l7 fighters were missing from the attack, although s communique said some of them may have landed In friendly territory.

In all nearly 3.500 allied plant! ranged over German territory today.

Meanwhile about. 200 RAF. Lan- casters blasted a synthetic oil re- finery at Homberg in tlre Ruhr and 3, squadron of Australian pll0tS‘ flying spltflretas dive-bombed a V-2.

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ALLIED SUPREME Army troops

tains and the river.

(A Swiss radio report heard in London placed French forces in sight of Strasbourg and tilt‘ Paris l‘ ‘io sziid United States troop: were oil tile outskirts of Stras- bourg, 60 miles north of Alulhouse-i ‘Fllcse reports were not confirm-l cd by otllcr sources.)

United SZfllCS Ttll Army troops! some 75 IllllCl; north of Mlllllousej drove (llle vast through tile » captured Surrebourgll and . .l six miles farther and took Mirlel-l

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Progressive Dollsarvatives Decide Stand

OTTAWA. Nov. 21 -- (C?) — Gordon Graydoll, Progressive Conservative House Leaner ~

today in ll. stoma-lent that ll‘ ‘

caucus this morning ilan "quiz:- ly decided that TEIIHUFCUIHLI n for tile troops overseas lllusz lie rlbipalcnell at once anal that the Home Defence army should be [Bldg available for that purpose without risking a single day's de-

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Mr. Grllydon said that at the “completely unanimous caucus of the party memilers the stand of John Bracken lNuiional Louder) was fully endorsed."

“The caucus came out strongly against any ,_esl'.lun of is sec- ret session as the facts sufficient for parliament to form its Jutla- mcnt are fully known now.

“When the House convenes on Wednesday the issue must be faced promptly and Sflllflltlf- The Hausa must waste no time In preliminaries. The hour has struck. There must he no further procrastination."

Mr. (irayrloll said the Progres- sive Conservative members went on rcconl in favor ul’ parliament slifinl; morning, afternoon and night "until reinforcements are on their way."

Visit 0f Famed Band A Feature 0i Navy Week

Germans Given Sam lore

Reverses

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LONDON, Nov. 21 -—- (CPL-The German people got from their milltarv reporters tcday a. soznlsre account oi’ German armies yield- ing ground before an Allied offen- sive "which has not yet reached its peak."

Abandonment. of their Flschwcller salient in the Aachen sector, trapping of s. German garrison in Mezz, ltle_ American 7th Army's

lvc to Sarrebourg. the spectac- ular French break-through to the Rhine-all were broadcast Ber- lin, sometimes in pessimistic terms.

emphasized tllo danger 1o Germany rcllrescilfed by the Belfort break- through. The situation along the Rhine was usually described cau- tiously £25 still “tco fluid" for ‘con- clusions on its ultimate importance, but Martin I-Iallcnslcbell, German D.N.B. agency correspondent. said flatly it "might well place the Ger- mans in a precarious situation." Hallcnslcben said the Aachen and

M-lvlolit- of the German accounts l0

in ‘ enemy-ioccupiedl‘ fifilraxgfierfiluz; ‘an’ lflicf r3}, w; Saverlle Grip that. leads through‘. mckemmunchlng 5mm Sh,” l, was the forested mountains to the

., . Rhine Plain. $5235: m” were Lang fired m“); Action cll the 7th Army front

l a lair-basal 251i‘. i: éélii..L“‘2£.i€°‘é3..i铧駓§§ ggzggfiggw poundedirlefillcci from moment. to moment. while rlghwrs from the United] Far to tile north there were Stan! 8th and 9m Ah. Fnrceslindications that the Germans were bfltned m what may mm. go mve, about to lose another important be one o’ m“ wmuse greflest town — bitterly coniested Esch- dog‘! ms when me wmvletcjlox wciler - where ‘tlltLUllltEd States s"or sis com-piled American helm-i 1S1 Army was flshtmg a_ savage bamger turned ‘on farmer!“ flltllousc-to-housc battle inside ‘he Hambu‘ nearby Harbutg and city even while other units clos- Mertevg‘ mm a flaming (PASS ed in toward the stronghold from “ g ' ' 'botll tlle ilortll 311d soutlrv n The Brtisil lld and n ed m‘ F“! man's ‘State. 9th and 1st‘ Armlcs forged] ., L r stcadzllt- dcqrel" lllO Germany Mgggburéhstgtrsmprgiiiqggrga flail around Aachen and. south oSMetLi o,’ 126000 “ms of hm monthly my’ ‘The United States 3rd Anny Jolnedl Gama}, w" machines _ Qnqugh‘ ill the LTCSSYUIQ on Lin. Germans’ keg], “w, amlorcd dlvlslcns m‘ crumbling eouiilern front. the field for five months Ol‘ lirovicle o“ lioliflfln 53,3591‘. Whelfa,‘ prop-silent power for tens of lhcu- 11"! (35- ‘"3 m‘ the”? sanas of V‘_2 rocke“ Iolvil so . backs to tlici The enemy rirl(cd m5 fjghteyIHDCl‘ and lllfl . " rivers. the} fo,.ces again todév and Amaritfln one: ' lls hurling ill arrliol‘ and airmen riddled the Luftwaffe as '4 i“ d “Q5933!” “Ho” u’ we“ as snfinqng hug". 1M1“ 1n lb» SlCLll the Allied advances. 9mm,“ pbmng o“ 51,011,,’ (ion. Dc (inulle llllllsclf made the The méord_vgmga|_qhir‘(v 0cm... “.3. (lllllximllflliiillii tllat tlip French lst made m) of 990 Bqtalrhl)“ (l Arllly, strlizlln; llortlllvarrl frolll its fighters (‘,1- flgé w‘, and [flhp-p gym,‘ fco"1ol:i till l|‘0 Rhine, had rlrlvcn

bronn, near the entrance to the

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Mctz fronts llazl developed into “mammoth battles of material." and added "there can b; no doubt that til-a German defence will find difficult. to make a stand against this onrush cf packed power."

More cautious, Transccealfs cor-y respondent. Ludwig Sertorius, saidi the Belfort break-through could not yet “actually be termed critical." but admitted that it offered an opportunity to the Allies to destroy the entire Vcsrcs line of the Ger- mans l1"; rolling up its rccr with an advance northward along the west bani: of the Rhino.

Alex Sclunalfvss. a German war correspondent. broadcast:

'1‘ ' sheer weiirlht c! material and relentless ferocity the battle east cf Aachen is the greatest of the whole war. In this Phase of the war, where really moat regions are at stake and lone range weapons play an important role. breaches in our positions do not mean much."

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ii l A feature of Navy Week which is being eagerly looked IOYWHTG 1o is the visit of famous naval band from IIM.C.$. t).)l‘.l\\'f\lll5. ‘ fine sixty-eight piece bzlliu. one ul' the b.st on the continent, \V_lll 11l- rivc here tllis evening: and \v1il PJVC a special two-hour concert at the AFIDOUILS this evening from B to, 10. Tile public is cordially invited. In addition. if the weather Drovcsl fine. there will be a bill uarndel thrauxh the city. headed by Ihc bsnd '

It is also expected tllat Capt. J.| C. Edwards, ll.C.N., commandlrlgl officer of HMCS. Cornwallis, will arrive by plane this evening. f

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BM Cldels Visit S’SIdo

The Charlottetown Sea Cadets, who are taki a prominent part in» lthe Navv eek demonstrations, |vislted Summerside 011 Monday ac- lcompanicd bv their ofilcers. and lparaded tllrolmh the streets o! tile lPrince County capital. Many fav- lorable comments were llcard rc- lzardlng the smartrlcss of the boys on parade, and their efficiency was ahcrcdit no the officers who trained

em.

The obectivo of Navy week for this Prov ncs ls $10000. It is worth noting that with the exception of S500 which rroes to e Domini Council of the Navy Leanne of Can- ada, every cent of this nlonev will be spent in Prince Edward Island.

Doctor Dies At Early Ago

VICTORIA. Nov. 2i - (OP) - Dr. Gordon Alexnnd-s" McCurdv. 3'1, pathologist nf Royal Jubilee Hos- pital for s IQ‘ vcars. died llerc to- day. Born n! Sydney. N 5.. lle was

in; lure from Halifax.

'til¢ current navigation season on

I’ Glsmow. Scotland, before ccm- p

To lfeep Lakes Seaman At llome

OTTAWA. Nov. 21 -—(CP)— The‘ Labor Department announced today tllat labor exit permits to work outside of Canada during the win- ter months will not be granted to Canadian seamen after the end of

the Great Lakes.

A statement said it was anticl- pated thene would be no difficulty in providing other essential work for the seamen during the winter.

To Name Trade Envoy To Belgium arrows. Nov. 2i - (or) - a

Conadlan trade commissioner will be appointed to Belgium a, soon

as possible and alwpointnlents to M other liberated areas also will be L;

~ ~ . l ' lsl. Mulllollse. big industrial 323009813; Ikiteimglliiirggilglels liriilnhzialichr- c ' 17 mil” “mm of Basel‘ SW1" ' zcl

Yanks In Strasbourg‘?

tllrouyll Belfort cap and a ll frolli the front said the " lfart itscif was cxjrectled ml ugi soon despite fierce . l’ llll raging in tlze south- scctcr of tYe ancient fortress.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 21 — Tl lscrn radio reported tonight t “It has just been alilloilllccll t the Americans arc in tllrl rill.‘- urbs of Strasbourg." There was no confirmation of lllc Swiss rc- pn . The broadcast was rc- corded llere by NBC.

icilllitlill Dllallges lln Great Britain

LONDON, Nov. 21 (CP) —l Pr . lVIinistl-r Churchill tonight; plzlccd responsibility for IEllOllSllig‘ Brltzzlrfs bombed-out population,

. =1 - ~ of llis son-in-i

Membership In Labor Unions lip

appointment he . ard Griff as Bri-y tisll lllinister-Rcsidcllt ill tile Mid-' silccccd the late

assassinated in

also announced} y of Economic, by Lord Sclborllc ill be tiirsolrcd because, the .l:l-l said, the blockade of, now is maintained al- .' . ly by tlle drilled forces of tllo Allin. on ilcr frontiers. These were llll: lllolst inlportall} of tile set" s of nllliistcrial ap- pulillnlenis issued from l0 Dual‘.- illl: Street. , Capt. Harold Balfour. Under- Alr and

secretary of State for well known in Ottawa whore lle attended various conferences

OTTAWA, Nov. 21 -— (Cl?) —- Membersllip in labor unions in Canada increased by nlore thanl 85 per cent. from tile start of they war to Dec. 31. i943. tlle Labor Deg partment reported tonight.

Releasing figures which are to} appear in the depilrtnlnvnfs 1943i report on labor prgalllzatiolzs in: Canada, which will be distributed in about l0 days, the dcpartlncn- tal statement placed till» total lm- ion membership as at Dec 3i. 1043, at 664,533, compared with 358.967 for I939.

0f tilts number 249.750 in 3.041 locals were affiliated with the tr-ldfs and labor congress and 245.012 Wore in 710 locals affiliated with the Canadian Congress of Labor.

LONDON, Nov. 21-101» Cabin) - Award of the bill‘ t0 m? 915ml" guished Flying Cross to three ml m- bers of the It C.A F‘. serving over- seas was announced tolllzllt. Re- cipients were Flt-Lt. Don Lrlublllall

acting Bdrm. Ldr. of Regina and Flt. rile William Johnson of

llalilczl Sir LI

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has of lllc Commonwealth Air Train- ing Plan. was nrllllcri blilllster Resident in West Africa. Ill this post lle succeeds Viscount Slvizl- ton, who recently became Minis- ter of Civil Aviation.

Cmdr. R. A. Brnbllcr. Conserva- tive mclnbol‘ oi tile House of Coin-

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