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NAZI BATTLESHIP CHARNHORST

Fierce Battle Continues In Ortona McNaughton Ill, To

‘$100,000 Fire ill Halifax

Dec. 26 — (OP) — through two build- north end today,

BALJFAX, C5 1180a “min i-lelifeirs annoying a lumber store end a filmitlire more with dsgw es- umted tuiofficially at l .000. The lumber store of Hallidey

Fight Passes

Relinquish Command Post Seventh flay

B! ROSS MUNBO

handing bt-Cien- A

ieen forced b

SOMEWHERE 1N ENGLAND. P” “if? °<>““....a’a“%:l..°"“lll

s Britain for mom than 0.1.. McNaughton has ill health w take

10".!‘ V8811,

f r i

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l

i

i i

Germans Resist Street

By House.

By JOSEPH E. Dvnan

By Street And House

en Limited. and Club“ m; rest which will virevent him

furniture swre Were Vlihed out. A rom leading the Canadians in the ALGIERS De ;5_¢A1>)_whue warehouse adieu-nine the lumber ‘liVl-Siofi of Western . ' Canadian troop: fought fiercely rn was levelled, but some of Until s su essor an lnted yo, m, seventh dgy m, gm 1,“; m.

lg contents were saved. .-Cien. Kenneth Stuart 4 chief m“; come,- o; me w“ o; Q;- A family of him persons living igmghe Canadian General staff in tona, 8th army troops captured the ‘y; §,,§°°'P°,§§§" "gufhfnw alga: ma-hcvlltgi: anld willutma agytyr ‘gerb- m? rgiiilemltitlilathgggtlt time asst: E , ‘ i 5 l‘ ' S I

11m; u “my, and who" guttgd Mi!" e EBPOH-sibllities. Gen. and seized a ridge dominating the my; my“, but mm w“ bu". gmngailpfilatflgflll: Miilviaflrltx villa e oft Ciiccéitio. about six miles

' SOU. W95 0 l‘ ODE. wane“ ‘ought ‘n “term” w cirildiln Both Arlella and Creccnio are

the Casino theatre, adjoining Kailiday building, and they managed to keep the structure from catching. A wall of the lum- ber building caved in against the theatre, however.

uvo the

fyphus Fever 0n Increase In Naples

NAPLIE, Dec. 26—(AP)—A l0. fold increase of typhus fever- in Naples since October when the Al- lies occupied the city brought an order today from Lt-"GQD. Marl: W- Clerk closing the city to all 5th Anny troops except unit. based‘

here

At the same time army medical’ authorities and allied military government health officers laun-, 909d B clmbllkn to check the disease, instituting es de- dirmed to bring preventive assist- ance u: the city‘: million or more inhabits ts

, n .

. The chief urizeon for the Allied 5th Army sad not one British or American aoldier- so far coh_ tracied the fever. But 260 cases have been registered so far among Italian civilians.

Hi said the disease was "epi- dem c" rather than endemic. that il habitually prevailing in this particular oca-lity, and declared “existing conditions in the city are idcal for the development oi a lsggggicale epidemic of this serious

The ‘mortality has been approx- imately i per cent among re- ported cases. staff officers said.

15 Persons Still Missing At llull

. HULL, QUE, Dec. 26 —- (CW-

Anxiety was expressed tonight. over l the safety of l persons still un- , accounted for after the fire w ch

IJOTIGOH,

while Montague continues General in charge of administra-

tionatCMl-I

During

ectin . build rig up forces and

th

military headquarters in P. J. Major-

Mat-Gen. as

‘the his ‘four years, Gen McNaughton. who is 56. should “iiltl in

r es tralhine. equi ping e Canndiauhs oversea; it has been a tremend-

ous strain on him. Health Not Robust

For the lest two years h has not been excebtlnneil and several times he suffered sev- ere colds. Recently he was ill again and confined to h's

‘King George Work, Fighting Lie Ahead

Brotherhood Arising Out Of Strife. ‘ ‘ ' ’ “‘

ed many y under Gods providence‘ to muse us thankful for his hicrcics

Christmas

hope, and

days that warned

early Thursdo destroyed the 2,8- rcom Central otel here. Thirty- vue persons are known to have es- caped from the building. but. lab- hlhg the ruins yesterday found no bodies.

The men. hired by poilce chief J. A Robert fire and city

émineel- Theo Llticiu...

vere hampered in their search by tens of ice which filled the cellar oi the hotel.

NEAR TRAGEDY

SAINT JOHN, N. 5., Dec. 26 - lCPi-- (ihristmss Day was one of near. tragedy for Donald Mac- hirlahd, hi; wife and two young children. ‘Pfieii car, crossing tho ircsen Kennebecasis raver, broke through the ice but the four occ-

I window before the out Ittled in l5 feet of water.

CCMING EVENTS

"Concert in Riverdale postpon-

BINDI i

"Pints were able to 8808p: through

"I hope l

Christmas

NDON

nluet country home for oadcast in ‘lie Eur,» called on his lweoplc Saturday take comfort from our faith out of desolation shall

Speaking l the King declared that have bright visions we have h

Foresees New

hi‘

out

By E. B. SULLIVAN

Dec. 26—(AP)— The m tn hi5. his sixth

of strife

born a new brotherhood.’ n fir-in measured ionts. "while we of the future o easy dreams u

lie close at hand."

and hard fighting and c

ever you may be today in the year. your thoughts will be in distant p

chm mm“ 5°“? I wish to all you

"that much hard worki-JK erlinps

cred dii ~

is heiilf h y robust

home near

that I150 new shall be

of all (lays

ire, "tn

the and

=4; _

Canadian army headquarters. Now on medical advice lie as PCiiXiqlliEll- ing command and will no: take ille

Warns Hard

United states of America: the trc- mehdous deeds of Russia; durance oi China under

ordeal; France reborn; manhood

our forivard march-all tli _ I ' ' "l t‘: l- .

{Jrlgyed their part in the r.i_,i i ‘med by "e osmium‘

in the sir

sharing of hardships. and dtrles‘ men and women cf the X Nations "have laid the fuuhuaq

that "fro-m this ancient loved festival we are keeping to-

ing

Still‘

OH

Lt.- Gen McNaughton

‘(Cohtihiied on page 576st 3)-

1st

tho

things have happe nod

trai

“The generous strength oi the he oii-l

her long 5 5W1

fighting wirit oi

and the flower of‘ W and womanhood of uiuhy shurc the burdens tf_ "e hurt r

the

of our fortunes oii scar, on llull,

The King said that UWOUKJ till‘ ‘it!

i5

Ziiid LC‘-

Operaltiohs along front were hampered by

The bitter coii

tallons from Rmhe and. iii elements of the 26th

strengthen their ~ heavy fightlmcwus urdhy around Villa

miles southwest of Ortona, and a little northwest of the O d. Troops in the c3n~~ consolid- previous

Orsovrlu roa

ated gains made in the 24 hours.

Troops of tlic Allied 5th ariry Nazi hilltop strongholds slain leading. captured li-lunt the fortified

oii the fringes of the

\ Sarnuclio dominating Inge oi San Vlttore, seven miles‘. south of Cc:=sino.l

cast and slightly I been heavily fort-

Saii Vittorr: has

rescue plane flew ‘ his wife and a Hudsons

Ortona and lOrsogha, rain my weather

with Canadian 1st

the town where the

0f the the course of

week-long battle. _ v The Culllifllim 1st division used ils" filled with with a nodes and every rind of they could lay their blast the enemy out strong points in the tcwu. The Nazis have

cccktu

“Molotov gasoline

reinforced division w.th H.178 fltLK 00th grcnadier divisions resistance.

parachute

sector of the front

led two

Rome niid

out thc

hands or. of basement

rtrma-

northwest of the Lateral road loin- the 8th army

and

test for Ortona went ‘ division troops still striving lo dislodge stubborn Nazi defenders tram one corner of only tanks were em The Ger-mans have

CD-

bedded ‘ll nuns. been ordered to at all costs. Nazi troops were dying rather than retreating.

All sections '

stallations at Ortonu have been

the

troop bo

s ttles

and fuel oil lighted wick-attached-kie- ‘ weapon

f0

the l. - sent and

r0

reported" Eat- Grandl. mice

RS-

l r... n‘ R. C. M. P. Constable

Y§§§°§£§’L§§¢‘§,§PL§“§§§§§ of new fricndships between us‘: as (may vlctnrv. and have strengthened old The Kins: said that some Wliqii‘. ones formed iOllR“1\g0. ‘ hear him in aircraft. on s sour-d u As a _i suit, hc Clllihlllilril. or waiting for battle. 0t! . might the"! is b uuilll"; “l1 1n CV"); --—-— be "Spank"! from hgsuitgli country fresh liolrc that out. 0 OTTAWA‘ Dem 26__(Cp)__con_ “To many W“ mv words wgll comradeship in sacrifice shall some stable 01131-195 L‘ 1391,1519 o; the come. as you sit ind the q\'.‘-et 0f Pfigarnw Tcsimc ‘md WW" m bud Royal Canadian Mounted Poiicle. your homes." he pal . "But wherc- a ~ n l it, bell d t Fort Ross in t c I“ mmcmsm" me Km" staked i?» Norxilli when a United States

post

B! Kirke L. Simpson, Associated Preps War Analyst

The bltterest year end of the war for German and Japan comet with ominous intimation; from President Roosevel. that campaign; to ‘istcicAxis fellowship are close at hand hot only in Europe but across

There is ho slacking up in what the President's Christmas eve broad- cust ieurc the stern offensives" by Russian armies in the east, A ro- hlrnnged Allied command pattern announced for the European gm] Mod- iterrahean theatres forehodes early completion oi the steel-shod nlicie about Germany from the west as well as the south and elst-Wlih uh let-u‘! in pre-ihvusion ah- poundihg of cruc ul Nui targets.

idr. from the rcassl nmcht of Gen. Eisenhower to command tho attack from the west, er ops Mr. Roosevelfs most striking disclosure was that Gen. Marshvl ‘s conferences with Gen. MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz prtsuged "bad news" for Japan in the not. too distant fullne- Tliut may serve ultimately to explain the lescinding of the Allied der- ision made at Quebec to send Marshall to the European command.

There has beer. so complete a change ltn the whole war picture ln the last four month’! that it is robable many of the Quebec ltfltlll": dec- isions were outdated before hey could be brought to execution,

Allied wai- leadership could not have oreseen at Quebec that Rue- slu would he able to hush the Red Army offensive right through the vrur into amtlier winter 'lhc Teherah conference which has opened the wit? for ihetiliree-wuy Russian-Allied attack on Germany could not then be

orecas

The Quebec tin-inn schedule for the west-front attack necessarily

wvas contingent upon whet happendd in the Atlimtlc. Since then the

| U-bca‘ inc-hue has receded and the Portuguese rant of base facilities

l‘? trAe Azores has helped clinch Allied control of t e sea supply lines for le wee.

Thai has in turn tended to hermit heavier American naval concen- trations in the Pacific, and earlier British fleet mobilization; in the ln- tliai. Ocean theatre than could have been foreseen at Qll9blll~

It may be hecausc of the revision in timing of grand strategy and particularly to facilitate the ro-vl instioh and execution of Russian Mid Allied lt-int military plans laid at Teherun that ltlsenhnwer Instead "I Marshal‘. was named to the Anglo-American supreme comm-an‘ in

.urope.

to the mcr-al Allied ihgton in press lo u conclusion the preparations on this side of the {t- lantic for the cr-mlng rhmpalghs in Europe and the stepping-up of the

Pacific campaign against Japan.

‘Reds Kdvance l In Kiev Bulge

LONDON, Dec. 26 -— (A P) — Russia's 1st Ukraine Army has rol- led back Gelman troop: 25 miles on a 50 milc front in the Kiev

. Christmas in Battlefield

- WITH THE CANADIAN-S IN o5 o‘ “ml-nun; disclose w- brjraav, ‘Dec. 2s- iDciuyedl - iCP xghct. v q“ d ltiablgéaitfiifif légaziag9lo“pc§fifinf‘ga To the north thc Soviet 1st Bah ‘more “"5 chmmus “u ‘we 2i‘ti“i‘il.§°2i“°\§ia‘i..l?°i%5.§"‘§‘iil was a. cclcuriitiuti of iestive spirit lg b ‘ h ked H e N z, that no ucnnan shells or mortars ‘*1 1m- ° ° ° e" rgvi {he could destroy. supp-Y m’ 95"‘?! mum 5° n3

Amid the din of crashing _cx~ CRY. the bllllelifl Sflifl plosives, the staccato oi much More than 3.60) Germans fell. gun flrc and x-hc roar r~i i ‘on the ice battlefields rimming throwers. the Canadians cslmrau, Vrlebsk, booosting enemy casual-q ted Christmas Fm“ some it W85 ties hi Russia to more than 20,000l their fifth overseas since they left in three days, , Canada; for all it was the most More ma“ 15g vlllggg; and memorable of their lives. hamlets were mun in me push an cogcLcill-izzie “dampened "ml" toward zhitcthlr and so were tak-

iihg u ie sp ‘l o tic troops ; - ‘ .

Tllcic hiaiii coursg was tllrxcy, ggidol‘ the ‘mebsk mom’ Mosccw D01‘ , potatoes iii : ' ' ' made from Italian tomato shupn The 501111841 ‘lliigh Coginrandlin-v The dessert was fig pudding withl dlmcmy “°k“.°“ edged l e m“ w‘ rice sauce and spiced with rum.‘ 5°31 Zh-‘Wmll’ “"5 vmibsk 55 the Added delicacies were mime pics, W0 b!!! RUE-firm Wilibfil‘ Offfli-Slvei apples, oranges, nuts, candles and Killed TQICHUQ-‘NY IOYWBId-

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‘lands beyond the reel happiness." His Mslestv words to all "who family of the wealth and

the peopl

children here and

In sending

Empire"

in seas, a

CW

said he sent those dwell within the British Cmrmon- hul. re knew, they would wish him also to midl

the 0f

a message of hope to the Allies.

Christmas zrceiiiiz to

Nations

e of the United in behalf of the British people the King declared: ' __"In_th_e_y_ear__tl_iat,is almost

Polish Premier To llump Problems

end-

itary medal for gallantry _____,_____

‘ Message From ' Mcllaughton i,

cd

to make a dog-team patrol iron; o

Fort Ross, 1.000 miles north

lan Army Overseas:-

to Tomorrow with the deepest smiles

most heartfelt regret l leave the

nd so I have every eon-

l

Churchill, Man. hear uorth-ivcst entrance tcl Hudson Bey.

C. N. R. Revenues At

to Rcpulse the

uch $440,000,000. compared 75.000300 lost year. The filial figures "will show that both ‘he rmcr-

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WINNIPEG‘ Dom 26 __ (Cpl __ weekend. one other is critically’ ill and l0 moi-c are FBCOl/Erilig iruln

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Toronto crashed into tho l'fl.ll' nfih‘ ll ‘ ' e‘ ' ' a ’

a freight train iicnr Ignace, OiiL, lap/flied. l$aqffliVliiilllOll’ is critically

200 miles has‘. of hem. ill. ’l‘iiosc recovering are Jean Lus- s

. l

N w Peak In Histor

———-— e ______ y C. P. R. officials here said no sier, of l-lull, ue., s. . [OMEWHERE IN IGAID. one was seriously injured. qlrcflilessett. oi Suburban Eastvicw- Dec. 26-(0? Cablei-Following MONTREAL“ gm g6_ 1391-41 ‘troop train was bringing sokllcrg Mrs Margaret Case. ~ ; sequel-i is the text of a statement to Cnh- c vmmhfl,,_ Chmrnmn and we- wcgi, ‘fr-cm “helm-n 03mm rm- Cnsc. l7; George Lctis. of t-luour-r ndian troops from Lt.-Crcii. A.G.1.. side“; o; Cimadku, National flaw‘ Clmsmms leave, one auydi...‘ ban Highland Park; iris with and Mflrvilflhmn» Wh" has bee“ m" ways said in a year-end revlz-y 10-. Sigmn. H. H. Raine oi wihnipcg,lda““m'°"' M“ W" Lei-is- "-5 ced by ill health to take a lfililitda. that indications were the C suffered a minor head wound,‘thgfiixfra"d°h"d"en- 9mm’?! “m! rest from commanr. of the Conad ,R..s gross revenues for 1943 woltd when struck by a light brnrlicii. l The fatamles are hem”: m

Two freight ca“ we" i ‘Ll have occurred when coal vas . . .,, ., .. ' ep- crew oi the iinin cscapcdig: mrough a Duplex M 99 Nufihan

Chaplain to the Canadian armed batch broadcast by the forces, was "resting well" his admission to Pembroke gen- era‘. hospital last night with s. “very down after expending bad siege" of influenza-

llazis Report British-French ‘Commando Raid

Bulge, killing 15,000 of them and ohflsunas

ns . - ,._ fishers w hold the remember W gfifiiililileimriderefifiiif5ihiili {Si}... thc road to Poland, 1| Dwlam D_ Elsemowe,

SUN K

i EnemyflAfidmits 26.000-Ton lCraft Lost

LONDON, Dec. 26_. (CF) — T h e German battleship Scharnhorsi was sunk on the lylur, mansk route through the Barents Sea. off North‘ Cape 1011a! by Brltisli home fleet units pros“. ting a Russian con/oy‘ the admiralty announ. ced tonight.

It was a fighting end for a vessel often report- ed damaged since she, h e r sister ship t h q Gneisenau and the cruis‘ or Prinz Eugen ran Br... tish channel defences to; Heligoland in February,

ln Hospital

BISHOP NELLIGAN

‘lhe fundamental change ih ihe war picture as developed in Rus- |1 sizth-Alltifid councilsbat Tchgan sllglzfiste?‘ disilncttgossihilitirg olf slpeedi PEMBROKE om Dec 26 (CI fFOm bomb-ray. ' > a ' ‘ e r 0H! 0i" - -- - — -. mi‘. u“ e w r m “m” a“ c“ u us“ m v Y P)—- Hospital llttClidani5 said w-z aged berths at Brest, Taken to ether, these developments tended to bu: Marshall’ emit nlghf, ma; 11ml, Brig, c, l. Neill-l field command in Europe. I-le is needed In Ieh- gas-i, principal Roman Catholic, A

_ B “l after} Radio adrrritted the loss of eih Scharnhorst, graying Sh, we all he ammunition in "a heroic battle with other Nazi naval forces age “"55 superior Brush fonnatio guarding the Murmansk - bmln

German news agency m3

ask

convoy.

{The encasement lasted a cone sldqruble tllne." the Nazi repoi-i ‘said. ‘Considerable damage w inflicted on the convoy and on th British escort units.”

The home fleet includes air a| well as sea forces.

There was no indicating: w specific units of the home flee £09k Part in the action, but Adv miral Sir Bruce Fraser was i command and this led to a belle!‘ d 1118i heavy ships were engaged.

av ‘ Yen's of Planning ‘

LONDON, DOC. 26 — iAPv - A Eve British-French

one may strike with the mlghriest in- vasion iorcc in history, was 0131111- ed repelled by the German high command today at lite same tiirlc that Nazis nervously predicted the 0w is soon to fall.