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BANDONS LINE IN BELGIUM

Nazi Airmen Take Mighty Beating

Losfillz PLANES m one DAY

1A -- (C?) Allied planes plggured Germany's oil and comm ns resources to- lay and aeelrged the enemy line o! retreat in Belgium, knock- ing down at least 232 enemy lighters in sky battles that oost at losat l5 planes.

More than 1,750 United StBtBS heavy bombers and fighter escort dealt a tremendous blow at en- omy oil plants and depots under s special order of the day from Lt.- Gen. Cori Spaatz, commander of United States strategic air forces in Eiurope, who told them German reserves now were critical.

The ds ‘s score of enemy planes sulfides those of the biggest air battle of the battle‘ of Britain.

German fighter packs ransiufl up to 200 planes swarmed to (he defence of a series of lmlWrtP-P-t oil refineries and storage GODQIS within 120 miles of Berlin. b"! wore w; down by 850 American fighters covering the train of more than 900 heavy bomber

On Sept. i5. 1940. e1 the Battle of Britain. R- 5- F- fighters - somerCanadian-manned ._downed 189 German planes.

Ail- blows continued to 18nd 011 Germany after nightfall. R. A. F. hoovy bombers attacked the Ruhr raiihesd of Grevenbroich. WWI- west of Dusseldorf.

LONDON Ill- Nearly t-m

Woman Loses

Life In Fire

STE. AGATHE. Qua, Jon. 14- (CP) - The body of Ruth Bier- briel’. 20. of Montreal was recov- ered today from the ruins of the hing Hotel which was destroyed by fire yesterday causing injuries

seven other persons.

Mrs. Harry Horshenkoph, 33, of Montreal, suffered a fractured spine when she jumped from the second floor of the 2 i-Z-storey building to escape the flames. She was sent to hospital at Montreal where her condition was reporred "satisfactory."

The iire was believed to have started when a charwoman wns cleaning the floor of the lobby with steel wool and benzine.

Coming Events

s. at the height ‘s

Bracken Visits Banuck Airmen In England

C?) IN! hENgLAND, — 0 n racken, National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, stood 1n the control tower oi an R,C.A.F. bomb- er group airport in northern Eng- land Saturday night and watched Canadian l-Ialifaxes returning from an attack on Saarbrucken.

Afterwards Mr. Bracken, who motored here from London, m... tended the interrogation or me returning air crews-they desgflb- ed it as "one of the most success- ful raids in months"--and later talked to a number of the more

Accompanying him on the Visit to Canadian Bomber Group form- ations were Col. A. J. Brooks, Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Royal (NB), R. K. Finlayson of Winnipeg, an adviser to Mr. Bracken, and m; Party holder's secretary, Melville R. Jack.

Mr. Bracken and his party rc- turned to London Saturday after B nine-day visit to the northwest-

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Navy Awards

OTPAWA. Jan. i4 - (c?) _ Thirty-nine members of the crc i” $719 Nfltbflb. a. Canadian-manned Rflyfll NEW 511cm“ carrier, have been awarded decorations for 800d services in the invasion of Normandy". and in the Nltbob, Royal Canadian Naval Headquart- ers announced Saturday.

Nine of the awards were fcr good services in the invasion and the remainder for good services m the ship. No citations accom. banied the awards which included a mention in dispatches {or an. ing Capt. Horatio Nelson Lay cf Rbdwliffc. Ont. commander oi Nabob and nephew of Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King

Lieut. Dennis Thompson Fors- I

ter of Donovan Ranch. Ehrderby, B-C» Was made a member of the Order of thc British Empire (Mili- lflfy Division) for his services in the Nnibob,

No ctails of the rt played by the Nabob in the Iiznvasion or since have been released by the British admiralty.

Other awards included two Bri- tish Emplrc Medals (Military Division). one bar to the Distin- Bulshed Service Cross. two D.S.C.'s one posthumous mention in dis- patches and 32 mentions in dis- patch

ES. The recipients incl/ode:

"D. t I-‘ns- Services in the Nabob ' 1W0 M. Stewart Wed - lav. Jan. 17m. ' r-fiiil Bil-M- "Buyiruz live and dressed pool. Ball. James Ramsey, chief ship- try. .Wiht l3 Vitoi Rd. H - lsno oolliuamrIEEfiI mllcle-BIT-Iff. felt-g ' ( c H )' a“ "Lold h ' vi "an migéldayliliflomezt Mgacllkalllaane For Ber so?‘ 01:‘. its)’ Invasion of l-18-2i. uxixemmgwn Fume“ Awe“- Mention in Dispatches "~ B“ 011m Cfllnbbelfs mm: Meredith. Ralph. Lleut. (no

Idy. today's issue this us. er, l-l 45-20-2. .. 10141118 hogs at Albany every “Willy. i2 to 3 P. M. Contact me

for trucking service. J. Gc rg MMKay- rug-of:

"Institute dance and sole oi.’ lunches, Wiltshire Hall Tuesday, Ian. 16th. If not fine Wednesday.

l-l5~2i _- "Oar of Bulk Wheat cooling to

Vernon Station within a week or ten days. Book now. Edison Nelson.

"Garden seeds. gig best‘ lnsrieties. "t. ca a ogue.

All the latest Send for free Arthur Vescy,

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"We still have a quantity of Ho: Concentrate at reduced rices. o! your requirements whle it l . Swift Canadian Co.. Char- lottetown. i-u-al,

"Livestock Marketing Board ‘M41118 I103! at St. Teresa Tucs- (ily morning. January 16th until train time. Joe McCarthy in vhlrse. r-ls-n

"l-ivestoo- Marketing

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Pleasant St.) Dartmouth, NS. Hall. Kenneth William Newman,

ski er Lieut. (ill Inglis St.) I-Ialfax. McLeod. Francis Kelley, AB.

(I37 Metcalf St.) Saint John, N.B.

Anderson, Prank Philip. 1.5., Burgeo, Nfld.

Belliveau. Gerald. AB. (Lily Lake Road) Campbellton N.B.

Woman Author ls Dead At 87

BOSTON. Jan. l4 (AP) ._ Mrs, Margaret W. Deland, 8'1, au- thor and writer for more than half a century. died Saturday. She began writing at the age of l2. and her- first book of verse. “The Old Garden" was published in I885. The following year her first novel. "John ward, Preach- er". aroused a storm of protest in religious circles. but establish- ed her as a writer of distinction. Her latest book. "Golden Yester- day." published in 194i. was a ory of her life with her husband,

I , ' _ "m" gllnmgmeflflxA-Jflgllflfiflnlgfrl; {lorroflaltrirfe Lorin F. Deland. a Bus charge. 1-15-1! '

"Millvfew farmers and vicinity "m"!!! to have hogs trucked to Grarlottetown please tele hone Theodore Crane, and meet hm or moment. Livestock Marks-tint!

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4""!!! Doultrv daily IWIIIR M! mu!“ Drices. We ieqerire 1411118 quantities for Army orders. Ally ‘Wlmity. large or snail will be Ill/fin careful attention. 'We RIIO “if “Press charges. Bwift Can- ‘d "i 90-. Charlottetown.

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Kentville BuSrnQ Man Dies At 66

KENTVILLE, N.S., Jan. i4 - (CP) - Col. Thomas A. Lydiar no. Kentville business man and former town councillor. died Sat- urday after a short illness. f-le served in the First Great war with the 6th Mounted Rifles-

A daughter. Sgt. Stewart Pat- terson. wlfe of Capt. Henry

that irclps erase the gloom cast over man break-through In Belgium. Developments have left the net

dually being reduced by the Allies.

back In Belgium but to regain the

and Allied attacks or operations in to leave German lines in (h: west

let alone offensive purposes.

surprise, the American commander

racing down the roads to Manila sistnnce except from the north.

north of Manila.

l War ‘Situation Night I

By Klrke L. Simpson Associated Press War Analyst

i Events of the war on both sides of the world are moving at a paci-

vily wrighted in Allied favor against both Germany and Joplin although the full reckoning was yet to be made us concerned Gcrrnnny. Within that January week the German bulge into Belgium was gra-

casualtics and material losses was coming in from Allied official sources. At least one portion of the Belgian suck had been converted Into n trap although the bulk of Nazi forces appeared likely to escape over blizzard swept and snow clogged roads unless a break in the weather enabled Allied air power to go into full action. The reduction of the Belgian bulge was the high-light of the war in Europe except that the Russians hall launched their long awaited main winter offensive in Poland. [hr Germans also said the Russians are at- tacking on the east Prussian front. There was little doubt that now the Russians have swung their powcrfill White Russian armies of the centre into action. Allied leader- ship in tho west would strain every nerve not only to throw the foe

meeting the German counter-attack.

IVhere and how that will develop ls yet to be rcycnlrd as ls the imqucstlonably heavy price the Germans have paid in men nnrl equip- ment (o buy a brief let-up 1n Allied pressure on the ltoer or elsewhere in the west. Tile strain on Nazi reserves to mcet simultaneous Russian

prospect that gaps in the ranks can be filled adequately for defensive

Across the Pacific the startling fact of tho week was that Gen. Mac- I Arthur's troops had made the leap to Luzon under a vast air umbrella and backed by a display of naval strength in virtually home waters of Japan. The laudines in Linlzuiuan Gulf caught tlrc cncmy

equipped army had poured nvcr Llngayen beaches and its patrols were The real battle of Luzon was yet to be joined but it was clear even

from distorted Japanese radio accounts that (he enemy had been caught badly off balance with the buiu oi‘ his Luzon garrison rallied south not

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the Allies at Christmas by the Ger-

result of the year-end period hea-

A rising toll of German prisoners.

offensive stride temporarily lost in

Italy can be imagined. It bids fair ' ‘y thinned down with little

completely by

reported. Within 48 hours a fully

lllcciillg relatively insignificant re-

lniternational At A Glance

By The Canadian Press

WESTERN FRONT — German forces retreat from Ardennes sali- ent. heavily pounded by Allied planes; IIouffulizc-St. Vlth rolui out and 24 Belgian towns ilrlrrrl as British 2nd. us. 1st and Ilrzl Armies gain up to 4 1-2 miles on flanks of shrinking bulge.

RUSSIAN-—. Soviet. forces. cut Krakow-Kielce railway in mighty winter offensive In southern Po- land; Berlin. reports new drives aimed at cutting off Warsaw; Russians cross Nrlla River. last main barrier cast of German frontier.

AERIAL — Allied planes des- troy 242 German aircraft as heavy bombers smash at kcy enemy nil plants in Berlin urea; RJLF. heav- les strike rail town near Dussel- dorf.

ITALIAN -— Germans pour re- inforcements into Italy, Allied survey shows; gain bridgehead on east side of Senio ncllr Fuslgnzlllo in Canadian-held sector.

BURMA — British commandos capfiure Myebon after landing at Hunters Bay. east of Akyab; Wet- let, rail town 30 miles from Man- dalay falls to 14th Army forces. n

LUZO U S. forces widen Lingayen Gulf beachlhead to 45 miles. cross Agno River, mill"

obstacle on road south- ward to Manila.

Jews Demand Stolen Property Be Restored

TORONTO. Jan. l4 —- (CP) - A demand that the "stolen pro- perty" of Europe's oppressed and massacred Jews bc rcstorcd to Jewish ownership come tonlgnt from Dr, Nshsum Goldman, Pre- sident of the World Jewish Con-

tress.

Dr. Goldman spoke at the sixth pnenory session oi the Canadian Jewish Congress. attended by about, 250 delegates. He stressed that reconstruction of post-war European Jewry was not a speci- fic Jewlsh problem but must be solved in co-operatlon with the United Nations.

The Congress heard Samuel Bronfman. president. say 9.6 oer cent of (he Canadian-Jewish pop- ulation is in (he finned forces- more than 16.000 yflllthfl-

Anti-Scmitisnl, he declared. was still prevalent in Cnnadn. while A. 3_ Ben-mgr, Toronto. Congress pre- sident for Ovlillrlu and Rabbi, Abraham Fl-inuurc. Toronto, both emphasized (ha! on: problem “he'd of Jew; “w: hn“ they (‘Quid

g , _ ffl from ,,',',f‘,.°,“,,",‘,l‘.“.. hi." C.W.A.O. ... rringston, Ont.

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‘In, Moncton Fire

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MONOTON. N. B., Jan, 14 — (CPI -~ Thirty persons were lei: homeless curly tonight when firs fsuttcd (he Allannch Building crl main street-flu three-storey wooden structure. The] grollnri

tic

Beach Grove Army Training Centre Closing

Beach Grove military training centre. officially known as No. 6?. CIAABiT-(l. is to be closed at the end of this month, it was learned from authoritative sources last night.

The training centre, which is sitlnlcd near Charlottetown. is the only one ill Prince Fidward Island. It was established about four nlld one-half years ago under the oom- mand of Licut. Col. F. I. Andrew, l\f.M,, who is now in command at‘ No. 6 Military‘ Depot, Halifax. l

Th: present commanding of-, fiver, Afajor A. S. Robertson, wllsl so 311d in command under Col. Andrew and took over the com- mand when his superior was transferred lo Halifax two years llgn.

Beach Grove enjoyed :1 class reputation as a ivzlinirlg c fro. It has broil unofficially esti- mated that more than 4,000 mel: received their basic training here Since its establishment. including many young men from other pro- vinces.

ilanadian Retailers Meeting At Toronto

TORONTO. Jan, l4 —- (CPI To plan their contribution to the development‘ of an expanding 9801101111! of r the war. about 1.- 03.’) retails- anrl operators of scrvl:c busi esses from all par-rs of Canada are gnthcring hcre to-

_ giving way

Fleeing TF3».

Under Air Attack

Pants, Jan. 14 a-(cv -—"Ilt.‘ oewfinilns “ll-é abwndoning ition today and fleeing for the Siegfried Line in a storm

their entire Belgian pos- of fire from thousands of

Allied planes scourging the line of flight with a fury unparalleled since (he enemy

debacle in Normandy.

AII available German rear-guards were hurled at the lfnited iering only seven miles from vital Si. Vitb. through which

streaming toward the Germa

Houfiallac, enemy base in what once wag the centre of the ominous Belgian bulge, was beleaguered by British and American armies fight- ing three to five miles from the city on three sides

The main road out of l-lcllifulize to St Vith was severed

Hundreds of enemy vehicles were riddled, some caught bum- per to bumper by clouds of fighter - bombers as transport

milled around trying to find a

way out through Ilouffalize-

All German posifons in the f-Iouifalize-Bastognc sector, along the Ourih River and northeast toward Vielsrllnl appeared to be More than 20 towns were onsuifcd ns the British 2nd and Amcrican 1st and 3rd armies advancel as much as 4 l-Z miles.

For the first time it became ap- parent that Field Marshal Von Runstedt means to r/ull all the way back to the Sieufrird Line instead of makng n stand short of the border around St Vith

German convoys running the rraurltlsl cf Allied air nowev never caused at St. Vith but headed right on through. Dilots reported.

McNaughton Speaks Aiilwen Sound Meeting

right for a three-tiny third nu-

nrull conference of the Canadian

Retail Federation. Walter P, j Zcllsr, Montreal businessman, (villi sp on principles of postwar

Willi, 5

. at the opening luncheon loln0l'l'u\v. ;

Greeks Parade

ATHENS, Jllll. l4 ~ (CP-Nfllw

floor (vars »‘.CiIljl€CI b_v Silli- beaul Bakery Limited, (he Pansy Shoppe and Listcrs Shoo Start‘ while the second and third floors were used as a rooming house.

No ons- Wus injured, The oc—, cuplllrts lost almost uIl of (hm! belongings.

The fire rzrgcti lnurc than ll (fours before brine- brought unllrr control. Somr fire and wnicr dlllnage occurred nt the Plrlucc, Grill ill illl adjoining building. ‘

ONE DEADQI

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AS BLAST LEV

BRANTTORD, ONT,, Jun. i4 -— lCPl - One man lost his life and other persons were burned ‘ircn all explosion, though". been caused by escaping :1 lms, vvreckrd a Brock

t home blast (IPIIIOIISIICC. the house and loft nu l\\'D bricks standing atop one another and caused darn- age to several other dwellings. It was the house of Mrs. Blanch:- Horio, one of the four persons ijurcd who were taken to hos-

l? II.

FirLumrl W111i!!!‘ Kelly died on the \vay' (o hospital of a heart attack, said to be the result of over-ex- ertion while trying to open a iirc hiydrant shortly after the explo- son.

Harley l-Iolvic. son of Mrs. Blan- rlre Howie, hcr daughtcr-in-lzlu‘ rnd her grandson Lyle, are the others injured.

Half Brantford City was shaken by the blast which shattered near- L~v homcs. The rooi of the llolvic home was tlnrolvrl over (he house next door and the front door filing across the street.

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The glowuonn and the firefly have a srcrot man has been trying to copy for years — the producing bright light heat, _ V _ _ ___

Secret without

Inrntro of Athens

of the passengers maybe classified

iursl --- ‘fllollszlntls lll€‘l) zlllfi children flags of Britain. the and Lircrco paraded

of men, \vu-~ waving (he; Ulnlccl Stores through the today celebrat- ing the 0nd cf six \\‘(‘(‘I(S of civl‘ wnr.

As the crowd plls=rd (ho her-d- qrlarlcrs of LL-Gcn. Ronald Sco- bic, comlnnnrlinc British forces 1n Grcccv, there were spontaneous shouts of “Zilu Scobie" (long live Scobicl.

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J Air Force Awards

O'I‘TA\VA. Jan. l4 (CPI Air F - Headquarters announced ycstcrzilly- (he lluurcl of a bar i0 me Distinguished Flying Cross and l0 D.F.C.'s to members of (he R.C.A,F. serving overseas.

The awards iucénde:

D. v F0. D. Boll, (Box (l7 Baker Sr.) Yurmoutll, NS. (Missing).

HALF-MILLIO PASSENGERS

MONTREAL. Jan. The Ocean

l4—(CPi — Limited. fastest of three trnins operating between Montreal and Halifax. carried more than half o. million passeng- ers during i944, it was announced by Canadian National Railways Saturday.

J. T. Wlritcford. manager of the Passenger Service Bureau. estimat- ed that about, 55 per cent of those rising the train were members of tho armed forces "and a 1.11116 percentage of the remainder of

business directly ss- thc_war__effor "

as being (3.1 a 'tl

now and March 3i when thabig (Jlommonwealth Air Training Plan coscs.

OWEN SOUND, Olit.. Jrlrl, i4- (CPI — Defence Minister A. G. L. McNaughton in an address to the electors of Owen Sound Saturday aid it was his

intention to run

n border four miles be,» 0nd.

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LQNDON. Jan. l4 -— (AP; Russian troops shattered the

Pll"

emys Warsaw-Krakow defence line in nPolaurl today. forced the Nlda Rlvcr on a Zi7-rnllr- fronl.

and drove lo within 32 lnilrs of Krakow. gateway to German Si- lesia, on the third day of the Red Army's greatest winter offensiv-

Gaining up to l5 miles the ll... sians captured points within G4 miles of industrial Silesia, second only to the Ruhr as a German arsenal. The communiour- sn- nounccd the seizure of 200 more gcalities for a thrce-day total of

5

Inside wrecked Budapest‘ the Russians tore another 200 blocks from the ellcmys weakening (grasp in the centre of the city. sslzsrl the Keir-ii, or cast rall station. In Pest. took the suburban station of Cesmer and the town pas works.

Although Moscow's commnninue did not mention East Prussia. the Germans said the Russians also were attacking thcro with l5 in- fantry divisions and several rank units supPOrted by hundreds of biz guns,

Berlin located the flRllllllll_ on o nine-mile from between Russian-

held Ebcnrindo and Schlossbcrg. the laticr l3 miles inside Ger- many.

general election, but that he uld- better carry on his duty to (‘he Canadian Armv if he had a scat in Parliament during the com-l (ml session. due to gct underway". Jan, Iii, I

Gen. McNaughton. n native of, Moosomin. Sask. is seeking .1 scatl in (he Grey North riding in the: Flederal by-electlon Feb. 5. in‘ which he is opposed by the Pro- gressive Conservative candidatc. former Mayor Gnrfirld Crlsc ofl Owen Sound, and ihc C.C.F. no- minee. retired RCAJ‘. Air Vice- Marshnl Earl Godfrey.

"I have put my hand to the glow; I have a duty to the Cana- dian Army and I intend to do it.“ lire Minister said. Hc was there (o see that the Army laud all the strength it required, llncl the troops must be given every as- surance of support until victory is assured.