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Defence 0f Marianas Costly To Jgps’

Canadian ‘Bombers Blast Robot Bases In France

Plane Piloted By Flt.-Lt. C. W. Higgins Of Charlottetown Runs Into Heavy Flak. ii‘ _ ii-

Expect lluiek Repairs To -Port 0f Bherliourg

B LEWIS HAWKINS

8UP UAR . Allied Expeditionary Force, June 2-5 — (AP) -- Cherbourgb multiple harbors and elaborate port in- stallations offer the Germans many chances for demolltions and obstructions, but it is doubtful that their best efforts can op the Allies from smashing in swi tly on this prize once it is securely in Allied hands.

Eyewitness reports have told of many fires and explosions 1n the

Coastal City Occupied By

REPORT COUP IN DENMARK

NEW YORK. June 25 -. (A?) - The Swedish Radio said yester. day 10 to 80 armed men destroyed D9101"?! only armament factory --the Copenhagen harbor plant of the Dank Rekyl syndlcate- in thei bisaest coup of patriots so far car. ried out in that German occupied country. I

COMING EVENTS

I Rshow-Morell Tuesday. . 0-24-21.

"Show; —Bt. Peters Wediéiezsélieéyg.

"Dance in Weatmoreland school June 28th. 6- -

"Dance at Mrs. Gordon Mur- phy's, Emerald, Wednesday night. 6-26-21

"Borden. Monday, Town Hall, N.l".B. Movies, 10.45 am. and 1.30 n-m. e-as-u

"Ice cream festival in Wheat- lay River Hall Tuesday, June 27th. omen’s Institute. 6-20-24-26-31

"Unloading car bulk wheat Sat- urday and Monday. McGuigan and Boyle. 6-24-21

"See Graham's Road ‘play. greadalbsne Hall, Tuesday, une

6 24-21

"Cape Traverse Monday, Na- tional Film Boar , Free movies. us p.m. 6-26-11

"Dance Johnston's River School. Monday, June 26th. Charlottetown] Orchestra. 6-20-11 -

"Hunter River Tuesday, June 71th. See film "If I Had My Wav." in aid of Library. Admis-

Proceeds sion 30c and 15c. 6-24-21.

"Reserve Wednesday. June 23th Congregational Tea at West Oovehesd Church. 6-16-21-26. "Lon: Creek l-lall Tuesday. June With. Refreshments. Good music.

"Ice cream and dance, S ring :1 lley Hall Thursday 30th. I not

l ine—on Friday night. 0-26-21

"Gout-is - Talkies “Above Sue- Dlcion" Benefit Rod Cross. Thurs- iisg. June Nth. Matinee 3.45 PM. l- r. M. o-as-ai.

"Come to Covehead Y.P.U‘. Con- cert in Hunter River Hall Thurs- hv. June ma. Proceeds IOI‘ Red Dress. 0-26-21

"800 “Aunt Bessie Bests the land" Dundee plgcfl. in lforsll Thursday th. Also hi» dancing and slinging. s-ai-ii

"The Ladies Aid of the New "lllsow Christian Church will hold an lcs cream social on the church grounds on Tuesday evan- ins. June r1. ' e-ae-

"Kenlirato Girl Guid - music 310w "If I Iladspolli‘?

in lnl’ l-Iall Wed- :asday

. Ch Area's show 7.00 pm. dmilslon ls cents. Adults 0.00 p.m. Admission is cents, 0-20-

“Coilec hogs Thursday of

his week. ulman and Bsgnall. limter River; lllmer Wigmore. i-readalbsne; Bummerside and wnlington, Roy Adams, Morris

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sin»; Boyle At Antigonish

ANTIGONIBH. N-B . June 25- lOlH-Returnlng to the Antigonish diocese for the first time since iaqnsecration ns Bishop of Char- . e Most Rev. James Eloyie celebrated pontifical benedic- ..on here today both

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o Canagfan fliers returned from todays daylight attack with souvenirs in the way of flak wounds. PO. ll MacKay. Toronto had a piece of metal crash through t . shattering the mouth- piece of his inner-com and scratch- ng his cheek. PO. Con Kelway, Victoria, had flak break through his turret and cut his nose m the way past. Kelway was the luckier. His plane. loted . Flt. Lt. G.W. Higgins, DP C . Charlottetown. hit a storm of flak as it was passing over the French coast. “To get away from ll- 531d Higgins. "We were dbli ed to dive to the deck. We were so ow the altimeter read_30_0 feet below

In Italy Allies

B! George Tucker

ROME, June 26 - (AP) -'rhe Allied 5th Army sto 1ng.,up Italy's west coast has thro n back Ger. man tank and artillery units all a. long the line, occupied the coastal city of Follonica and smashed to within 38 miles of the Nazi an- chor city of Pisa, headquarters an- pounced today.

In the air. more than 500 Unliod States hBlvy bombers attacked oil installations. railways. bridges and other targets in southern France. “Good results" were obtained at most of the objectives, a commun- ique said.

Field dispatches said there were indication; the Germans were pre- llarlng to abandon bomb devastat- ted Llvorno rLeghor-n) about six miles south of Pisa and second lar- ixzteslt port still in enemy hands in

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The new Allied ground gains. which units of the 8th Anny mat- ched on the Adriatic side with ge- neral new advances, were made in the face of German Tiger tank and artillery assaults and bitter infan- try resistance.

Disclosure that the stiffening German resistance was ordered to gain time apparently to rush work on the Pisa - Rimini line fortific- ations came from captured para- chute troops. Field dispatches said at least five new Nazi visions have been thrown into the battle since the liberation of Rome. ord- ered to hold at all costs "

The 5th Army has taken 36,000 German prisoners since the Salerno landings, the announceme said.

llome After Five Years In Army

Pte. I. J. Doucette, 40 Connolly street, city, after almost five years of service in the Army, returned home from overseas Saturday night. He enlisted in September, 1039. and was in England for sixteen months sewing 1n the 8rd He was recently hon- discharged because of ill health. Mr. Doucette is mar- ricd. has two children, a boy and

His wife

n girl. is the former Muriel Dunn of Vernon River. daughter of

the late James Dunn

and

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served as pastor for l6 years On behald of the Roman Catholic peo- ple of ‘Iracadl- --- prov-land ‘he riishop was presented with a purse of money.

Storm into Jap Base At Mogaung

RANDY, Ceylon, June 25—(AP) -British and Chinese troops have stormed into the Japanese north Burma base of Mogaung on three sides, seizing an important stretch of railway between the Mogaung station and the railway bridge over the river, “ ’ burp an- nounced tonight.

Elements of Gurkha and Bri- tish regiments broke into the town from the east and captured the bridge and rail stretch, while Mal-Gen. W. D. A. Lentaignes Chindits assailed the base from the south and Chinese troops pierced the outer defences both north and south of the city, the communique said.

the same time, American troops continued their slugging advance from the north toward

the heart of the beseiged north

Burma Japanese bastion of Myltk- yina, 35 miles east of Mogaung, still holding out against determin- ed Allied attacks on all sides. Of three important Japanese bases in North Burma, two, Myl- tkyina and Mogaung, now are under attack from the inside, while the third, Kamaing, 20 miles north of Mogaung. has fallen. In India. British troops thrust 20 to 30 miles north of Imphal and east of the Kohima Road in swift pursuit of the fleeing Ja- panese, recently routed from the Kohima-Imphal Road.

Four Great Allied Air Fleets Out

LONDON, June 25 — (APD Up to 3,000 Allied heavy bombers thundered out over France from lt- aly in four great fleets today, shat- tering German installations all the way from the rocket emplacements at Pas de Calais to the southern coast in one of the war's greatest daylight assaults.

Three of the great fleets swept out from Britain, two of them-one R. A. F. and one American- smashing Pas de Calais in one of the heaviest batterings of the cam- paign against Hitler's pilotless win- ged bomb installations, and the other thrusting to within 60 miles of the Spanish border, blasting a German fuel dump and nearby air- dromes.

The fourth heavy fleet-more than 500 United States heavy bombers. l-‘ortressee flying from bases 1n It- aly - attacked rail lines and brid- gas both north and west of the French port of Marsellle, and oil and other military installations in Southern France.

Some 1,000 United State; heavles escorted by 500 fighters thundered out towti-ri Spain min a torn, blasting the fuel depot and air- dromes near Toulouse and other enemy plane nests in Central France including those at Bourges. 125 miles south of Psi-is. and Av-

fJap Troops Threaten, Important Chinese City

By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING. June 25 — (AP) —Japanese troops Dluflillll down the Canton-Hankow r - lerced the outer de. engyang, most impor city yet attacked by the enemy since

2i the fall of Canton and f-Iankow in

mo, the Chinese High Command announced .

Chinese military men were taking a loomy view of the develogllng belt he’ for téhemclita’. flail ofww “c” m upse e pans

hlna as s base of attack on Ja-

pan.

Less than 200 miles of the rall- wsy remained 1n Chinese hands southward from i-lengyang to north of Canton, alon wth a few small gaps north o I-ianlrow.

"f"; .s. Mcliwen. e-ir-zi

The Chinese charged 1n a later

h have taken more

“terry” lztt..~'"’"rtt s": o sngyang ay ng use poison gas against the defenders iragfiint may catsglties, Jan s e c rg on une 16 and l1 poison as also was used at Nin sian and at Changsha before he all of the latter city. The communique said American liaison officers had taken photo- graphs of the casualties. since early spring“ the ‘ggpsnge an m es of the overland 1,000 mils route from Peiping to Canton. If fin- i“"¢.°€il“°““lf.'“ ill 11515315.” an rou wou s s in two slid would free t e enemy of worry over southward sea au - ply lanes now gravely menaced y

his ned by British and Canadians has d

factors.

Seine and Paris. It is there ihe Allies‘ left flunk e

tacking point for the opposition. Bow ‘ the Nazis "

manner in which they have

Ome. Caen and Tllly-Sur-Seullcs.

Such ierriflcally fought contests

beachhead in process of devcintlmthl-

fcnsive.

tronghold

To Evacuate" iiazi Capital?

LISBON. June 25—-(AP)—~ Twenty Hungarian passengers wo arrived here tonight uh a German airliner said Allll authorities had ordered inc evacuation of Beri .

Hitler's Rcirhschzinccihry was mmong "many important buildings’ smashed or damaged "during the inost ricvusfazmg dayllgnt air attack nurlin has ever mad, made lust educsiiuy by American Libel-i ors and buttresses," me BBC reported Sunday in a broadcast recorded in New York by CBS.

"Pictures taken during the ut- tark show more than ill! con- centrations of bombs in the heart of Berlin." the BBC said. "They damaged more than 35 separate industrial plants, four railway stations, live mar-shall- lng yams, and many important government buildings. These in- cluded the Reich Chancello y, the Gestapo headquarters, ihe war office and propaganda head-quarters."

First Canadian Senior ilffieer Killed In France

By boss MUNRO ,

WITH THE CANADIANS IN FRANCE, June 25—\CP Cable)- Lt-Coi. J-R..W.T. Bessonetlo of Halifax, commander oi the army service corps in the Canadian 3rd division. Ls the first Canadian sen- ior officer to be killed in action 1n France.

On June l7 Col. Bessonnotte was hit by an Bil-MM. shell while run- ning to the assistance of a fellow officer who was fatally wounded by a shell which had crashed into their camp a. minute before.

Col. Beasonette evidentlv heard the shell which hit him. ior as he ran he fell flat. The shell landed right on .

The two officers were buried in a little graveyard by u Norman irrch, its spire shattered bv aun- fi-re. MaLGen. Keller, commander of the 0rd division. attended the front-line funeral service with guns

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. a away and fl htor planes droning overhead. ssonetle. a big rawboned per-- manent force soldier with a huge moustache, became commander of the divisional army service corps in J1me 1002. He built it u and here 1n Francs 1t 1s function ef- ftciently.

the American Pacific campaign which has reached lo Bsipan.

HOWLYOIsiELQrESiiIEOSIr ‘p.512?

this area is iniulned their grin on the city of Caen. They hope that by holding there they can keep shut the door to the Seine estuary and the coast betuson the Orne and the Seine Itivrrs-and to the rail and highway lines that lead to Paris.

Marshal Von Rundsiedt has thrown perhaps the greatest weight of his armor and infantry on the Normandy front into the

The time when military mcn zvlll area“ however. should be hastened bv capture cf Fhcrllnllfl. _ _ the landing of still more soldiers and munitions, anil by the British of-

an‘

By Elton C. Fay. Associated Press War Analyst Savage fighting at the southeast corner of the Normandy front man-

eveloped essentially, from two basic

That area represents the point of ‘farthest advance into France and can become the springboard for a major offensive directed toward the

lists and flanks are the flavored ut-

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region of the

Until the last 48 hours. there has been little evidence that either side | had succeeded in building up effective sumrlflruy. Rut lvv curl" NPF-“P-"IBY ' (Sunday) morning General Montgomery's staff apparcntlv believed they were ready and a drive was opened which carried past TilLv-Sur-Scullor, west of Caen, and set off fierce fighting to the noriilcasi-

[m- poflflnn emplurilze the fact ihe

Allied foothold on the European west coast. still must be viewed as a

speak of ii as rt true “invasion nvnarliiivvl:

rcle Nazi

At Vitebsk

By RUSSEL LANDSTROM . LONDON, June ‘Lai-LAEH-Th: Rilssians have encircled L110 “lllllfi Russian stronghold 01 Viteusk an; are flgntlng 111 one streets with the t garrison of perhaps 45.000 men, Moscow announced today. as lighting ilameci along a ‘flu-mile iront and the ‘Red dirny Smwfliifl the vaunted "fatnerianu line‘ bum. he guard the shortest, road to Ber-

n.

raven as a. communique recorded this triumph and Premier Stalin was announcing SVJGBDULQ Russian drives on the uastlons o! Molzllev and i-Jopruisk to me south the Ger- mans said the Red army had (-0211- ed yet another push 1n the Ostrov

area. some 165 miles northwest of‘

Vitebsk. _

‘ihe sweep westward, ranging up to 25 miles and timed as the allies rained more blows from France and Italy, over-ran more than H40 poiéulateq places, the communique s 1

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‘ihe trap snapped on luiebsk, last major German fortress in Russia. when troops pushing up from ihe south met those who had come around from the nort-li and then kniled south to out the last avenues o1 escape westward

In two successive orders of ihe day Stalin announced a 50-mi1e break-through that, carried the Rcd rirmv to within 16 miles of the Dnopr River fortress of Mogilev, and. said his troops had launched an encircling drive from north and south on Bohiuisk, at the southern

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A Cardinal Villeneuve

Refers To. Speech

ST. I-IYACINTHE Que, June 25 -—\CPJ—Cardiual Vilieneuve, au- purcpily refer-rial: to last Wednes- days Senate speech oi Senator '1‘. D. BOLlCllflI‘f1—-lu whom he only referred to by the words "a public igurc I need not name"--. said here Saturday "in my name and in the nanne of the countrys Catholic hierarchy in the llanle of the peo- ple we love and we guide. I deny the truth of such unqualified de- lations."

Cardinal Villenueuve, who was lstic Congress in this town about 30 mils south of Montreal of which Senator Bouchard has been Mayor ior more than 25 years. added “I Sillemnly sly that none of those who live according to ihe church's ieflohlnits and are loyal to the true French-Custodian traditions, is a menace for Canada of national disunity

Another C. C. F. Man Elected In Alberta

REGINA, June 26—(CP)—Elec- tion of a C 0,1". candidate appear- ed certain today in the far-north- ern Saskatchewan constituency oi °1@1°€rlP-nd-_....__

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141 Planes Destroyed, 30 Ships Sunk

PEAR-L HARBOR. June 25-(AP) Japan's defence of the Marianas ilIUJ borliris has cost tile Japanese ‘I41 planes destroyed 30 shlDs sunk. 5i damaged and LWO P109801)’ 5113K and 13 barges destroyed, 1t was an- nounced torutmt _

A communique irom Pacific Fleet headquarters revised losses inflicted Oil U18 BIIEIIIV m KIIE LWD WEEKS June l0 to .

It Bflded 109 planes shot down. three ships damaged-a light car- rier, s hcavy cruiser and a light cruiser-and transferred a. tanker previoimly reported sunk to the damaged list.

At mo same llnle headquarters, StiICl AIIIEHCAII Dllillfi lOSSCS rrcm a‘ carrier force which sank or uanl-i aged nearly a score o1 Japanese ships June l9 was increased to 9b but only 22 pilots and 27 air crew- men were lost - _

On Saipan Island tfoops advan- ced 500 1o B00 yards ycsterciav on the western flank and 1n an at- tack on entrenched Japanese c-n Mount Topotchau, the communique said

Strong enemy opposition conti- nues The bulk of the original 20.- 000 or more enemy defenders re- main in the sector beginning around| Mt. Tapotohau and extending northward.

Retired Banker Dies in Toronto

TORONTO June 25—(CP)~C W. ‘Rowley. former assistant general manager of the Canadian Bank of ‘Commerce at Toronto died Satur- da-v av, the a-ge of T4 after an illness of several months.

A native of Yairnouth. N.S.. he‘ entered service of the Bank at St Catharines Ont., in 1587 and later served at the Chat-ham. Lcttfon a-nd Colllngweod branches. In 1020 he was appointed s erintendent of illc Manitoba and ._ itatchcwan bran- ches i He came to Toronto in 1925 as as- isistflnt general manager and re-

tired in 1929.

L-llpl. ll. J. Walsh

i liome From 0’seas

After almost four years con- tinuous military service in Eng-l land. L-Cpl. U. J. Walsh. ‘l8 Long- worth street, city. returned homes Saturday night. L-Cpl. Walsh en- listed in June. 1940. and zwo months later found himself in England. Serving with u Provost Corps, he was very seriously in- jured in a motor-cycle accident in . 1043, and not having fully recovered from its effects was recently sent to Canada.

L-Cpl Walsh has the distinc- tion of having been the special bodyguard of General H. D. G. Crerar, Commanding Officer of Canadian forces in England. and would still have this important position had it not been for his regrettable accident. A point of interest to Island readers is that the medical officer who treated L-Cpl. Walsh's injuries was Cup- tsin hfnstnrd. formerly M.O. at Beach Grove Inn.

L-Cpl. Walsh married while in England and has one child. n bov His wife (formerly Miss Kathleen Shepherd, Epson, England) and the child will shortly rejoin L-Cpl Walsh here.

L-Cpl. Walsh is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Walsh, 40 Long- worth street, City.

JERUSALEM. June 25-fOP\- Lights shone tonight. for ihe first time in four years in the land of Christianitys birth.. For the first time since 1940. th been lifte

e blackout has d partially in olvl Provinces of Haifa, Galilee| and Samaria.

l l 8r. JOHN'S NPLD, June as - iCP Cablel-Fire raged at the Im- perlal Oil waterfront warehouse here for l0 hours Saturday.

{John's tire flgthina brigade and BL! 5011'

‘ The flames broke out shortly af-

llflflt l o'clock when l4 workers had oft for dinner. The three men rc- mfllnihfl on duiv heard an explo- sion and barely had time to escape before a muss of flames rushed skvvrnrd. The central buikling-a 1100 by 50 feet one-storey structure ‘ —was enveloped in fire.

It. housed apparatus

=I0-I.Iour Fire As Oil Burns At Saint John ’s

iior the lunch-hour-a few minutes Alo

ERBOURG TAKEN BY ALLIED ARMY

Battered

Being Mapped-Up

By JAMES

M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI- TIONARY FORCE, June 25 — (AP) - United States as- sault troops battcred into smoke-shrouded Cherbourg late

today from three sides, clamp

ing a firm grasp on ihe city.

And Supreme Headquarters announced at midnight that France's third largest port. ciiy was ifalmost in our pos-

session.”

An Associated Press dispatch from Cherbourg said

veteran troops broke into the invasion under a shell-shocki bombardment that crumpled sisiance.

ciiy on the 20th day of the ng artillery, sea and aerial Nazi fight-to-the death re-