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WASHINGTON. Jan. I — (A p; _ Enraged es never before. the United matey tonight voted mercil- g vengeance on every one of the yqyanesc who tortured and mur- dered the men zho defended Bat-

or.

ylvm State secretary oorceulnohber

[pilwumovedtouaeatrch wards || "demons" and fiendishnesa" as h guvg ihQ M11615! up Japanese would be broudlt to

um. ‘Eagles of "hang the Mikado" and we Japan out of existence" roar. ad out of O

' ere was at least one dcnand tedav for immediate punitive ac- ticn on the Pacific war front, said dlairlnsn f

lanes of Representative; military

committee. ,

.'We ousht i0 quit fooling around with the islands and outposts and steam straight into Tokyo and ticv it to hades."

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Iago: And iabor iieports Tabled

IUITAWA. Jan. fio-iOPi-Tha iorit nd prim?! gnrportsd m m‘ y a Iide investiga y on ‘ labor relations in Ml the House of Commons,

collective bargaining and Ilbitnt.

revision of e-

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It was the first maior armed holdup In Halifax in years, and the b gest since armed men clean several thousand dol- lars out of s Royal Bank of Canada branch about 13 years

ll th robber led his ow ’ arnu rifle Int; the hllnllllll'funl not known, but he llllldcnlv ap- at the office door Ind ad the fun before the lo employee n the office. her to “k quiet." he o and her to o- pen the ufe. Then he scooped out the nsoney and ran out vlllishing through a door leading to a fire esca

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Corps In Italy

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Post-War Planning Committee Reports Tabled In Commons

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HALIFA Jln. 28- (CU-e

OTTAWA. Jan. 20—<CP)—(Ad- vancc)-—11t.-Gen. H. D. G. a former chief of tho Canadian General staff. now is commanding a Canadian Corps sewing in Italy a; art of the 8th Army. fence headquarters said to- day that Gen. Grant's appoint- ment as commando of s. Canadian Corps in the Mediterranean the- atre of war was announced Dec. 3'7 last by defence minister Balaton upon his return from overseas. today was it offic- ially disclosed that a Canadian formation of Corps status was in th- line as part of the 8th Arm . i. commanded now by Lt-Gen. S Oliver Loose, successor to Montgomery. Gen. Crerar. for the past two years commanding s Corps in tho lst Canadian Army Overseas. went to the Mediterranean area last autumn. Since then he has been organising and grouping his troops and prepgring them for the day on I which they would fight. Hitherto, the Canadian lst Di- vision hal llofll thc chief Canad- _ Ian formation in action. It's only

rival is s Canadian armored form- ation which has fought in every rector, including Canadian tanks {rqm fir; Three Rivers regiment tum the tide of bat- tle for antrymen of the ‘lath (gnperial) division at Terrnoli. lt- a .

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The Peop e's Paper

House Hears Japs Neglect Canadian War Prisoners

Prime Minister King Says Tokyo Guilt Will

Forgotten.

BY JAMES MCCOOK

oners of war as an mind da's chief conc

nese ‘brutality to nited at...” "Billing men who were made pris- glsgblin :25; Phillpginfifinwera “so a overw e be ncllnostirinrzregible." g u m 9W E 0i’ Bd been d b

the Canadian governmentm 20.01 taln information about tbe Cana- dians who fell into Japanese hands at Hone Kong on Christmas Day, 104i. The Japanese hadl t diffl. culties in the wsv of obta ning this information. had disregarded pro- tests through the protectin pow- er. brwigzerlsng. and had fa led to see a. sup fr ca to the crlscngrse.‘ om "M" m

About 1,000 Canadia. prisoners had been transferred from Home Koo" to Japan. leavins 50o to coo behind. said Mr. King.

lnffsr Irons Neglect

"It would scorn that the (Cana- dianlufrrisoner, at Hong Kong era, not s feriug nearly so much from ill-treatment and abuse as from neglect. They suffered from Japanese failure to provide adcquato cloth-l ins. food and medical care. It was believed the Canadians sent to Ja- pan were better off than those left at Hot" Kong. Responsibility for inhuman treat- =of prisosserswaoete- witlrthe government at Tokyo. Mr. King said. and he added tcrselyz~ "This guilt will not be forgotten." Two House members In uniform —Lieut. L. D. ‘ITQIXIDIRY (L-Dor- chester) and Capt. Walter ‘Pucker (L-Roatherm-movcd and second-

Speech from the Throne. Both praised social security legislation which the speech forecast for this session.

Gov't Takes Over Mine

Munitions Minister How's an- nounced all propertles or‘ Ildoradn Mining and Refining ‘Ad. which has developed radium-bearing pitchlblendo properties at Great BM!‘ Like. N. W. T.. have been ltaken over by the government as "a necessary means for more ef- fective grosecutlon of the war."

The rJldol-ado firm will be oper- ated as a Crown company. with shares being delivered to the gov- ernment by the present holders st $1.85 each. For reasons of security he could not give further informa- tion on the government's action

(ContITIuEdKEagTIIfCoI. )

Says Canada Is At Vital Cross-Roads

WINNIPDG. Jan. Cit-ICPI-Ca- nada is at the cross-roads. with one road leading to progressive dem- ocracy and the other to regimenta- tion and dictatorship. declared George A. Debbie of Gait. Ont., president of the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce in a speech pre- pared for delivery tonight to the Winnipeg Board-of Trade.

"rhiq most vital decision has to be made not by our businessmen nor bv our workers nor by groups.

try." he s d.

The solution offered for contin- uous production by those "oppos- InR our democra c system" was etate economic planning by politi- cal officials with. power to regiment and coerce. l

merit assistance or casing of spe- cial situations." he ' ued. ‘It is but a national

‘ncentives to prove . broaden markets and lower rioes. Business can ntribu

the cnminfl years. he must be allowed to act." ROOKIT TARGET! NOW

CAMP DAVE. N. 0.. Jan. U- (AP)—'I'I-ls United States army dis- closed today that it was using a rocket-propelled t at. which travels with the ape of a fast airplane. in the training of anti- aircraft gunners at this camp. The target. about five feet long. is launched from a special tower. It has an initial speed of 460 miles

aoo yards. giependirlg upon the angle of . The gunners use oil-calibre machine-gun, and an and 40 millhnetre cannon in firing L at the tarseta

orrraw Jan. ae-(oel-m‘ Hollie ofACommons today settled down to the business of the i944 WHICH. with a statement by Prime

ates‘ Mackenzie on the Japanese neglect of Canadian pris. immcdiate re.

erthatthgarstillisfiena- m- Kinlreaidr risofJaps-

but by all the people in this coun- ceived have been evasive. cynical or

y run by be possible "to request the Russian

themselves instead of by experlcn- government. who are not engaged

ced Individuals. who possess the in hostilities with Japan. to make ‘ ‘ direct ropresentations."

te Iu n- including this suggestion. Eden re-

v tially to the solvina‘ of those prob- plied. "We have tried uverything .lems which will face Canada in and will continue in try cvcrytlzgll: Bond “M” mo“ ment relrulatio

loony;

concluded, we can think of to remedy "The profit motive. in other words. B3591 0§,3!£l!1_l‘§-_»-"

BULLETIN

LONDON. Jan. iI-(Batnr- U!) — (AP - A powerful fleet of Bri bombers thund- ered toward Europe again last night, following up the R. A. E-R. C. A. l‘ attack against shattered B e r I i n Thursday night and daylight aerial off- ensive yesterday over Northern Trance.

Mystery Targets In llo.Francc Bombed Again

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ANDED TWIN DEFEAT NEAR ROME

r Situeti is:

llladc Sacrifice ‘Land rgau" ‘For Bcttcr World ifafls; ghased ' ‘From Air Also

fol Enemy PIXEL Fail To i Halt Landing of Supplies For Allied Forces.

By EDWARD KENNEDY

B! liiflre L. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst

Possibilities of s Nani military debacle that could strike a shattering‘ blow at German war morale are Increasing hourly on the Baltic “my in hussia. ‘wmlqm b l‘

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The triumphant Russian capture of Lyuban erasclviriusrlyuihei last German claim on the Ioningrad-Moscow rnil line. And the capture _ of Vc-Ioesovo on the Leningrad-Nana railroad to the west slammed shut | ' ‘ the northern escape hatch to Estonia im- the left wing of Nazi srmles . ' ' tottering baclr from tho Volkhov bulge. - '

Narvo. too, is in immediate danger of falling lnto Russian hands to ‘ seal the Annor Isthmus between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Finland. I

Moscow reports placed the Russian front astrlde the railroad and 20 mllca In breadth from north to south, converging on Yamllurg, h“ im. portant station east of Nerve. and only 10 miles from that frontier town.

The Blmians at Voloaovs had snapped the only rail routs upon which Nazis still far to the east In the u. bling Volkhov bllige could

,_ AIhiERs. Jan. flll-UKPH-Allied - [land and till’ forces have dealt ills ;NHZIS a twin defeat in the battle ; for Rome. turning back an cncmv assault on the Anglo-American _briclgehead at a point 21 mile]

LONDON. J . United States heavy bomber , sup- ported by fighters and lighter R.

gets in the Pas-dc-Calais area of France without loss of a. single Am- erican plane today followlng Thurs. day night's heavy R. A, F. - R. C. A. F. bombing attack on Berlin.

london tonight experienced its 700th alert of the war and the seventh this year but it was brief.

Berlin still simmered among hundreds of fires from the R. A. I". - R. C. A. l". attack in which 1,500 tons of bombs were dropped

The R. A. F. heavy bombers also rocked Heligoland, the "Ger- man Gibraltar" in the North Sea, with a diversionary assault Thurs- dav night.

Other regions in Northern France were attacked ns well as the‘ Pas-de- Calals area, which has been given the popular name of "rocket lzun coast." Six aircraft, including iwo Canadian, failed to return.

Control Cvcr Potato Shipments Iicsullled

OTTAWA. Jan. 2.8—(CP)-—The Prices Board tonight announced the Wartime Food Corporation has rte-established central con-troi over shipments of putatocs from pro-

duction areas in Eastern Canada. $15 by‘? Russ; I18 RG58

The control will be similar to :33; carried out in the spring of

Victims Ci Jap Savagery

DONDQN. Jan. 28—(APl-Tllcus- ands of Britons have died in pris- on camps in Asia. the victims of "unspeakable savugary" inflicted

by their Japanese captors. and re- mm“ “mm” peated British representations have grifcuotflglaglactéhdaiiut Nfjsgfgger m brought only evasive, bynical or. the delivery o1 Mm have been sup from Tokyo, foreign secretary Eden Denwncdegdbleréngfi ‘Our western pm-

otherwise unsatisfactory‘ replies

A. F. forces. raided mystery tar-j They would cut the distance to a junction with the loningrad army and complete the great trap behind the foe In the bulge to 00 miles or Icsr. 3 At the pace at which illc Russians have been driving ahead 0n botlri

have expressed n

United tes offer to mediate the

Polishhquestion has been turn ere.

' down coupon. ELI-es ._ (CPI-

posalbly reach Narva arlrl the shelter of the Peipus Lake chain,

An estimated quarter million German troops virtually are out off v

now in the swampy lands between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen. Thu jaws of a Russian trap designed to annihilate Nazi troops south of lxningrsd, north of Lake Ilmen and east of the Luga Rives- currently

are lillfl.‘ ‘l0 miles apart.

At " teeskya. the Russians would be within a dozen miles of Lugs.

fronts the crisis could be reached in a day or two.

Newsman Sees Signs Desperate Nazi Defence

ALLIED IIEADQUARTEI. NEW GUINE Jan. 29— (Satllfd3¥)——iCY) —- Dcstrllc- tion of between 22 and 80 " “stilt? ll‘ “ad-ii” s. ew l1- nfidny and the fourth successive/attack on the Ad- miralty Islands nrlrthweat of ltabaul were rr rtcd today by Allied headquar ere.

MOSCOW, Jan. ZJPAAPJ-For- n Iomats in Moscow. con- ans are not going with the present Government in London. o surprise that, a

The German-controlled Paris radio Iss a broadcast record- ed by the Minlstr of Infor- mation tonight sa d: “German military quarters are expecting another Allied iundin in Italy shcrtl . Increased All ed naval activi y been observed. Be- sides the 5th and ilth armies another army ls to participate in the battle for Italy."

OTTAWA Jen. 38—(OP)—-Mun- II ced

OWE announ

gravely told the House of Commons “greatly mduced» me dmand f

today.

Eden. citing only a few of many authenticated cases of torture. drew a grim picture “of the barbarous nature of our Japanese enemies." A shocked House heard that Allied soldiers with their hands tied were systematically bayonetted from behind.” and how a. British officer captured in Burma was clubbed across the face with a sword and then tied to a stake with s strang- ling rope around his neck.

Tim Japanese "have violated not pnlv ti!» »~ c1 Internation- al Law but all canons of decent ci- vilized conduct." Eden said. "The British government repeatedly have rnadp the strongest possible representations to the Japanese government through the Swiss gov- emrnent.

"Such replies as have been re-

otherwise unsatisfactory.

"Let the Japanese government gfglugg

reflect in the time to come that the record of their military atroci- ties"irl this war will not be forgot--

Dden answered in the affirma- tive when il5k€d whether it would

cool for household use. a

LONDON Jun. QB-ICPI- Yugoslav ilartlsans. hammer- in at the Germans on four

espread "unis. rsooris-rl l-il- ale that they had pierced six hoes in a ma cross-country rnllwav from Brllrlfin to

LONDON, Jan 29 — (Sat- urday) ~— (C?) - The British Press today interpreted the suspension of United States shipments cf oll to Spain us o final showdown and the y Express headlined the story "Allies give Franco s month to decide!’

OTTAWA, Jan. 28 - (C ‘Pl - War Services Minister announce! ionirfit a campaign Lor 310000100 for Zed Clog will be la\ln-

T.h I a m M Ont. Liquor Stores a or n secre ry sa oon- -

"What these planner really dition, in ong Kong appear to Q1059 Untll Feb‘ 1 mean by ‘planning’ is not govern- be growing worse."

"We will consider everythhing.‘ day. Fe

closing

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By Foster Barclay WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES C P) —

lIN ITALY. Jan. 28 -— ( .An.id hills and valleys and on {plains scattered across Italy is

tell tale evident» of the fiercencss of the struggle since Germany decided to defend every hill, house, river and bridge.

Practically no village remains unscarred behind the 5th and 8th Ar-miy; lines.

I eve just completed s. visit to both fronts and came away con- vinced that the Germans are fighting with one prime objective- to make the United Nations pay dearly for every Inch gained.

En route to the Canadian forces on the Adriatic I talked to military experts in Algiers, fighting men behind the lines and servicemen cramped in slit trenches facing the Gennans. They agreed that the Nazis were endeavorlng to make the Italian campaign as expensive

eq as possible for the Allies in men

and materials and haps force the high command think twice before launchin a second front in trance.

A popular awry alond the Can- adian front ccncems a newspaper- man who asked thc commander of s. Canadian division: “What's hold- , Ing up the 8th Army?" .

The commander. without batting on eyelash. retortod: "The Gerrn- ans‘

The army commanders know that the Germans are fighting a desperate delaying action with troops ranging from fanatical par- troops to soldiers who held non- cmibattant duties behind the lin- es until s few months ago. Their equipment is the best Germany can produce and in some cases tter than that supplied Allied fighting

men. lhtablishcd in cellars. houses,

|river banks and hillsides. the Ger- "mans are battling over curain well

suited for defence. The Allies have to ferret them out at almost bay- onet point.

Ortona and the towering hills yVii

around Cassino are classic example, of Germany's determination to retreat only when confronted with beyonets. The Canadians clear Ortona house by house while the hills around Cassino were alive with Nazis until British, French. Americans» and special "shock" troops pried them from ceves and

I duaouts.

The countryside has been rav-

lished. Virtually every town. village

and city bears the marks of bomb. bullet and shell. Fertile fields have been churned and plowed by tanks and heavy trucks. Every bridge has

,been destroyed. ‘thousands of p.11-

de of railway tracks have been rip- ped up. Even the trees are bowed and heavy with their load of shrapnel and bullets.

But most outstanding are the little plots by the wayside which contain the bodies of two or thra‘ soldlers-Jillied or German. and bigger ones where 100 or more are buried.

LIEUT. GORDON R. DeBLOIS

The following inspiring message was written on Dec l9, i943. eight days before his death in action in Italy. by Lleut. Gordon R. Do- Blois. It is an extract from a let- ter to hi; parents, I-Ion. George D. DeBioia and Mrs. DeBlois, Char- lottetown, and will be read with deep interest and appreciation: