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Alnuul lubutiption Delivered, 1.00 B: llalli P. l. l- lLOli to othar Provinces ud U, I. A. 15.00

XlS LlNEAT n AGHEILA SMASHED

from: defence responsibility. Scat

u ‘hey are called by their fellow

Iivildmfl up n strong force mndc up chiefly of men

' The Administration and Training Staffs attached iocimauulc Reserve Anny are highly appreciated by these three leaders of the force on which there is a

Ill! in armourles and drill hols, the A. and T. men

the Active Anny. shown above are Colonel L. W. W. Slack of Ottawa, Officcr Commanding the 33rd Re- serve Brigade Group, Major-General B. W. Browne. Director-General of the Reserve Army, and Brigadier K. M Perry, Deputy Director-General of the Reserve Arniy at National Defence Headquarters (Canadian Anny Photo)

tered across Can-

military men. are

Ilw for viirlous reasons cannot ‘nimediatcly enlist in

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‘Oabixige ccntzilns from 10 to 15 Ends nf water for each psund of iiifliiffi‘.

timing Events

-0 "River-dale Christmas Concert. hi. ‘list. 12-14-21 "North Millon Christ-mas Con- iri. Dec. 22nd. 12-14-21-21

‘ffihristiiras Concert Vernon iiFfiday Dec 18th. 12-14-11

"Christmas COHCCTi-‘CFOSS Roads lihool Dec. 18th., at 7.30 ltifzl.

“Christmas School Concert

1116* Deal!“ In St. 1 Joi-in's__|'lo_ste| Fire

‘(By C. E A. Jeffrey, Canadian Press ‘Cflffflilfllillmti

ST. IOIINS, Nfld. Doc, I3—(CP Cflbici-Cries of "fire" punctuat- ing (he foot-stirring rhythms of an old-time barn dance‘ tune iln 7; bruadms; (mm 1,1,, K, of c, HostciSaturday night broug it the “:5 warning oi n disastrous fire thfli- willed "i" no n“! ‘m! 5cm’ 102 ° c" to hospital. burned and maimed-

The hostel was crowded with 500 servicemen and their Firm"! enjoylng (he regular weekly frolic. when the fire roared through the structure and burst from doors and windows 1n huge columns}?! Horne that towered into the sky. Scores were trapped illilde and "Yiished ° death in the mod scramble to reach the cxi s. t l u

Laic tonight, authorities had released no names of he vc ans. either civilians or servicemen. of whom there were u larse flllm Pl’-

in Kingston Hail Dec. 23rd. 12-14-2i

"iixscrrc ltfniiday. Dec. 28th for.» Ililte iii hiillview Hall. 12-14-11

Poo-ital School Cohcert, 'i."ues- i-Dec 22. 12-14-11

"Rescne Dcccmber ldfor Bon- I litiw School Concert. 12-14-31 -

_.__. | "Milt ‘id School Concert,‘ Ianday, Dccembci- 21st. 12-14-18

{Christmas Concert Searleiown '11-» Dcrvmber 1a. 12-14-11

"WM Rcvulty school Concert, "Why lllariit. December 21st. 12-14-19

‘Joilfibilllfl: Concert Wlieutlcy .116 Doc. l7, if not fine Dec. ""1- 12 -li

hrDiillhirlilllhgfi School Concert u iiiirsliiiuitl Hall, Friday, Dec. ‘h’ 12-14-11-21

"Reserve Thursday Dec. 17th. “it ai i3ciiton's New Warehouse 0510s Station 12-14-11

, a1 ~ ‘ and dance f‘ - c . Thursday. Doc. liiii, coco music. Hot Dogs.

. information is be

iinside the n-iirn doorway.

ing held up until it is imown that nexl-“Hiln h"! been iioiificd, it was ieariivd tonight,

Some eyewitnesses said the fire, “seemed to do its dreadful work in,

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have been futile even it hcip could imvc liven Iliiiiilfl iii tinie,_bclci'e (he entire structure was [iiiriiiil-

Many Trample-d to Death

The icirlfied dancers tried to force their way-out. iiirbuifh m9 four exits and: led Iron the L- snapcd building. As they fought to reach safety, men and women alike vierc knocked down slid Suffowi-eii beneath the weight. of bodies. searches forcing their way in when iilr firc was controlled, found a hoifiibiy tangled pile c! bvdi“

Canada's Minister of National De-r fence, Col J L Riiiston spent It quiet week-end at Summerside He ‘ arrived Saturday night with hisi private secretary, James Wel‘s, for-i mei'iy of Aibezton. Col Ramon represents Prince County in the House of Ccifmons.

Yesterday morning the Minister attended services at tiic Balms‘? church. Lotcr he was 13"?“ B" dinner at the officers‘ mess at the Summeislrlc airport.

Today he will inspect small plants doing war work in Sinimerside and the site of the dehydration plant now under construction. At noon he xvii‘. speak at the regular weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club in Charlottetown and‘ at 3 ocicck in the afternoon inspect the uimy camp at Bench Grog." v i

69 Identified

Of the dead, 69 had been identi- fied tonight, while the other 4i. many so terribly burned as to be uiii-ccrxzriizoble, had not yet helm claimed

Expresses Symltaliiy

At Ottawa tonight. Pifiiic Mln-

_ _ Ki ued a Tuesday the Minister will . ‘a l‘ l‘ tigigmlfigifi°ggiinm Ilfymlfirizny for an airport which isvbeing enlarged flllmmrrs wlshinfl to ship dress- the reative 1nd iicnds doimthsfir youths “surely: evgfifofufzsctfg- 1%,? _ , e1 e . e _- will “M” tlifivtrirlt “m” ““°“ °‘ “m” 13* t" “tum” " W" s’ M2:- “ -__ 1 ' d 1d lso iin- times. - "New Dominion Variety concert lnofisiggdMtxliiisiamthyalclog/‘iil Ciiniitllan i,“ taking a hand in rellev- _—-‘—‘__""‘

‘"1 Hull Thursday, Dec 17th. 12-14-16

‘vlchgshllo Concert in Vernon i‘ R11. Tuesday, December 22 12-11-18

“our tors.

., pplng Club

. lnilnhous at Albany every Tucs-

‘ Muck"!!! if road still open. (Kay. Secy. 12-12-31

Him “W! changed Mt. Albion mas Concert, Doc. 18 if

z Y millfdfly. 12-14-11 t -i_ ‘ultigfftlgliger ‘stigma ‘guano

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i" 15th. 12-12-41

“Wgfffl In Whcetlcy River hall. n <1 If not fine the follow- liihi m

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fmai Oonoei-t, ndruvuie

. Movrday. December in. If not “dey- 12-14-18-19

“might: live and dressed chick- : [on °Wl every Wednegiag. Pav- ..., éyfirket prices. . . Nov. _ "'17 OJB-B-M-ti. mkiltld Concert, December

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Valley, sunduy School - 24th, not fine satur- 12-14-11

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Navy was in; the distress by sendins n dwi- or and two nursing sisters w the

Destroyer

509119. Boston Offers Aid From Boston, scene two W311i! w’ M “tsizmrirl” ‘R1315 2111b “word --—- Cocomnn . ve - NDO _ __ ___ Tr °°me that M‘“,’,‘}',§.‘L§’}‘.‘,§}§§ 01:31.. Adlifiiralt Ntoitilqcht ‘linnofifrirped (h: “d “flfitfiflg: a, s, John-g loss of e destroyer Prnyla-ri. mil ac understood the Mayor oi- A brief Alimrnlty mm"“m1“-"° ldwfi rush supplies of blood described the Penyiau as c! i110 flirsma by lane in trust the bildly- Hunt, class of destroyers but did lure . Hg also offered the aer- not give details of her sink n! 0T vices of Dr. Charles 0. Lund, Bos- the number of casualties. _ ton City Hoapitll expert on burns (The filiilfififittlthQ Juno's F18"!- who mated victims of _@___!_l__i_811i tug ships dces not li:=t other (he

Penylan or the Hunt C1153, litdicat- lng that on entirely new 011ml 0i destroyers has berm pit inf-O Ml‘- vice by the Rbyli NQVYJ

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Says 4 Exits In Building

mo _TT (oei- Phil P11131110 Nationgie Dali-eater of the Knights of ooiumbiu army huh commentin on s fire in 0H0 0 their hoabe hilt S. Johns‘ Essa w“ h‘ “M” mum" "up," until her death

SAOKVILLI. NB.. Doc. 1! - (om-Mn. Silas June-i. who cele- bratod tier 100th blrthdw last September i7. died today at her home after u week's illness. She born st Upper Bsckvilie and

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"ii 111,131’: V" m‘ F" u m“ iivin graduate of the former Wes- fij“: “ti,” fiiymion of “uiZ-r- lo mi mo. many. inter the

"Thai-lg were four exits in the ount Allison Ladies College and “mam: md “n, n“ g ell now the Mount Allison school for over the place." said Mr. Phelsn, Girls. Anion sin-vivin relatives is who added he would have no fur- s daillhifif- H. Elli Bififlfl- W160" ther comment until he received ad- oi Rev. Ernest W. Biiines, residing ditionol information from 8t. in sydnev. N 8. u son, Joint-i, John's. - . 4 lives in Ottsws.

War Situation Lasi Night

(By Kirk! l. lhnpsfln. Associated Press war Analyst)

While the battle liner in Russia, Africa and the Pacific I-ren except New Guinea remained virtually static lust week, Allied success in min- terlng sir power in French Africa for the fight for control of the Sicil- iiin Straits assumes major importance. That Hitler- is taking risks in Russia. to regain nir contrni of the central Mediterranean discloses his own apprehensions.

A week ago all report! from Tunisia agreed (‘not Nazi air power, most of it rushcd from the Russiun theatre, was o. dominant factor in stalling the Auglo-Americv-n sdvauoe on Biserte and Tunis. Within seven days that handicap seems on the way to being overcome. The same sources tell oi clouds oi Allied planes including cioso based fighters pouring in.

- I O I l U

Events are quickly verifying the prediction oi Lin-Gen, Henry W. Arnold, chief of United States Army Air Forces, during the week that Axis air superiority in Tunisia could and would be promptly overcome despite serious logistics problems,

And a decisive Allied victory in the bittiie for air control of the Sicilian Channel, in Arnold's opinion and that oi British military au- thorities. could settle the question of superiority not only in that. theatre but over nil ED111118.

I O I I I

There is strong evidence that lack oi uir power withdrawn to Africa. is seriously hampering Nazi defence efforts in Russia. It is not only air fighters to shelter counter-attacking tanks and foot troops that are lacking there, but air transport to maintain winter contact with ad- vimce fortified roncs, dangerously exposed to Russian urclrclement.

O I U O U O

It is primarily on air transport, on huge multi-engiued troop and cargo craft that Hitler is relying now to hold the Tunisian forelnnd

against Gcii. Eisenhower's Anglo-American attack in the wfst and alsol to brace Rommel in Libya against a, clearly-impending renewal oi‘ British attack on the Agcila narrows, Day after day official Allied ac- counts teii of these troop and cargo planes shot down.

To meet that peril and the close threat of complete Allied air con- trol of the Sicilian Straits and all it implies with his “wasting asset," ss Prime Minister Churchill terrncd the Nazi German air force, Hitler is beingforccd to a grim decision. He must contract his front somewhere, somehow-and soon. He rnust choose retreat in Russia or from Africa.

One iieaii in iiialiiax Fire

News Briefs

liIOSCOW, Dec. ll — (Miln-

Eritish Subs In Daring Mediterranean Raids

African-Bound Axis Ships Arc Sent To Bottom

Daring Raids Made On Shipping Inside Enemy Harbors.

LONDON, Dec, 13-(01?) —- B11. fish submaflnes stalking Italy": coastal waters have sunk two more African bound oxis ships. including an armed merchant cruiser, scored three hits on others in a convoy only 30 miles from Naples, and sunk 9W9 991191’ Simply (vessels off Libya Whit"? dafilli; raids were made on shipping inside enemy harbors. The 511101111112 submarine cam- paign in the Mediterranean was Qllmlllllcfld bl‘ the admiralty follow- ing disclosure Saturday of the Slwllins of the Italian coast, the Wfpedveifls of four troop or supply Ships and destruction of a mer- ciiantnian and an anti-submarine Zilivpv by submersibles of the Royal orié of in r - _ monces ivafs ntijilngrljdiiimoiol? F2215. marine which surfaced at Beluaf. E1 B51111. about midway between Triiwil and El Aghcila and (mm 0 ' ' 3.21.2190“ A" o1- RM All. another Libyan m. ggialiifi- a submarine torpedo“ munmog légrbgnijgtf; laden with am. me“ Africa corps. a-rshai Rom. 320011 1111c Gulf of Sirte Has A11 i; mi . ~< ‘ .1 9hr; S‘ 0* Mo" and m- “ urthe u by His Mraiisiiifsigibmaiiirrerfpgrted ifltimg In ;° MediMTanea-n aiztaxlieilsb Are enFmYB supPly lines to North --’i%i‘e..".§€'i‘"“‘““-‘“e we flu! actions anzlllflillifiiffigiffzllitohiiuafiizi-l are“ commlillique of Saturday.

Hcadcijesbits liics Iilhime

day) - (AP) - Powerful and

repeated counter-attacks by H: HALIFAX, Dec 1S —-(CP)—One consider-r-bie force" of Axis body, us yet unidentified, W85 soldiers south oi’ Slaliflgfflfi found here today in the ruins of were hurled bark Blind-Iv. "'8 two staff houses of the Angiin Russians aimollflvwd early 10' Ncrcrcss Construction Company, My B!‘ the R90 5""? "m" Maritime Limited, destroyed by

foreword its twin offensive: which in 25 days have cost the Axis nearly 250.000 men kiilcil or captured.

A L L 1 E DQII-I-EADQIIARTFRS.

NORTH AFRICA. Dec, 13—tCP)- Enemy efforts to infiltrate north

fire Saturday night.

Police said they were checking nn the identity of the body, s0 badly burned recognition Wlls 1m- pomibc, as well as the cause of the fire that levelled the houses, sleeping quarters for the workers, and two adjacent buildings

::.;*..:2:";.s‘ Atr°éii"i1l}‘;§&% is: o- o- s-ed no a. or ces éonductcd pmrols in the {up workers were returning for their aheadquart, evening mcnl and raced rapidly

ward areas ycstcrciay, ers communique sad today.

MPILBOIYRNIC, AUSTRALIA, Dec. ifi—(CP)-—.Aiiled and Jap- uncse nlr forces were reported trading stiff blows in New Gui- neu today as heavy tropical downpours slowed land opcr- ntions of Australians and Arn- ericans hacking to pieces the remnants of the trapped and dwindling enemy at Buns.

LONDON. Dec. 13—(CP)-—A Fighting Phcnch BXIJKCSYHAn said tonight that, Hitler has ordered Pierre Laval to conscrlpt 400,000 French workers to go to Ger- many, promising h‘. return to free li-il unspecified number of French prisoners of war.

See Hitler WithiBad Case Of The Jitters

Discarding Experienced Generals For Yes-Men Who Will Follow His Hunches.

Editors: Innis P. Lochner, u vet- cross his path jars his ovcrstrung eran of 18 years cxeperleiice in nerves. Berlin where he was Associated Gen. Frans Holder, the dis- P2953 Correspondent until Germany placed chief of the Arrnv Genezal declared war a year ago, analyzes Staff, and Marshal Walther Von the change; in Hitler's hi h coin- Broiichitsch, dismissed-as the Aimy mend in the following art 1e.) Commander-in-ciiief u year ago, were unweicome b0 lfm because By Louis P Lochner

they dared warn the great airpor- Associated Press Staff Writer generalissimo. so he seems decid- HIBBING. Mlnn.. Dec. 13 -(A

ed once and for all to surround

himself with men uiio endorse his P)-- Hitler is having u bad case of nerves.

hunches and follow him blindly. Gen. Kurt Ze‘tz‘er hitherto has ‘that is the outstandlnii 1mm!- sion one gains from his Mlisfliiofl-

given no proof he can do better than his; predecessors, Gen. Ludwig ll shakeup of the German high common . He can stand only

Beck, who resigned before the war Around h'm. Anybody who

through the buildings, all of purely woden construction. Drmuce was csiinu-ied at between $65,000 and $75,000.

IS PROMOTED

MONTREAL. Dec l3 - (OP) -— Sqdn. Ldr. K It. Patrick, a na- tive of saint John, N B , has been promoted to Wing Commander, it was announced by R, C A F‘. offic- ials yesterday

At 27, lie becrnirs one of the icuiigest men in the R..C.A.F'. to attain the iuiik He is Ciiicf Tot-h- nical Officer at No. 1 wireless school hem.

even started because he felt Ger- many waa licked from the word

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ROME (From German Italian Bwadcastsi, Dem 13 ___(Ap)__very- Rev. Vladimir Ledochowski, m, Bcneral of the Society of Jesus (The Order of Jesuits) died shortly fjeiglyre '1 o-"l mnleht in Vatican

Ill for some time, Father Ledoch. 0W8“ recently was moved from u nursing home to his own residence in Rome adjacent to Vatican City. The last sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church was administered when it bccameappaient there was llttc hope of his recovery from an Olleration for an abdominal ab- scess.

Father Lx-dochowski wag germ-n of the Jesuits during both the First glinat War and the present con.

Allied Secret Weapons Will Startlejxis

RANDOLPH FIELD, Tom, Dec. l3-—(Al')——Lt.Gcn. Henri H. Arnold, chivf of United States Army Air Forces, said today "we have a sccrvt W081!- on or two up our ueriul sleeves that will deal paralyzing blows to our enemies."

Moreover, “entirely new ‘het- tie-wugons’ are on the way." - he reported, and recalled that he aircady had said the pres-

grit-day big ornhers of the B-l’! and B- type (the Flying fortresses an Liberator!)

“were perhaps the inst of the ‘small’ bombers"

Addressing graduating class- es of four army flying schoill! -R:inilolph, Kelly, Brooks and Hondo Fields-Arnold cpltomlr- ed his disclosures with this statement:

"We'll soon put on u special demonstration for Hitler und Iilrohitn. We lifllft think "W? are going (o like, it either."

Iie i"d not amplify his ro- irrence to secret weapons but it was made in connection with his discussion nf new bombers and of present fighters and bombers "stcridiiy increasing in range. speed, firepower and bomb loads "

stunda rd .5ii-CII|I)CI'

runs of the lrmy planes no “terrific weapon: oi aerial dcstriiriimi" and one of the outstanding yuccesscu of tiii- war, Arnold said. biit they will "seem like porishnotcis oom- ‘psrrd with thi- firepower that we are putting into our newest

big shins."

New developments in cnmerll and photographic technique. he said have resulted in increm- ingiy-efircilve photographic re- connaissance on the rmqhut ironis-"our pursuit plums can tniu- szunii picture: at 800 miirii

an I‘("ll‘, from 30.000 feet, If‘- ciiv-t ' enough to show up iml "iwti railroad "Qt.

8th y In New Drive _ Westward

First Time British Have Pushed Beyond El Agheila.

(By Stephen Barber, Associated Press Staff Writer) CAIRO, Dec. l4—_-(Monday)—(AP)—'i‘he British 8th Army has resumed its big western offensive and driven iiiiarshahhrwin Rommeifrom hisstrongiy-heid bastion at El Agheila, and the Axis forces in Libya are in flight (o the west, it was announced today. _ ADVANCE ON NEW GROUND _ _ The British forces, smashing toward “Tripoli and Tiin- isia io meet Allied forces driving eastward from Algeria, th_us for the first time in the fluctuating campaigns in Libya have pushed beyond El Agheila. The Axis twice bu- fore has halted its headlong flight there, rested, and thrown back the British. An announcement said:- _ “Rommel has been driven out from his strong posi- tions at El Aglieila and is in retreat to the west.” NAZIS REPORT DRIVE The announcement was the first British confirmation oi German broadcasts Saturday that the British 8th Army had begun its expected offensive against Rommel at El Agheiia. Later the Berlin radio reported that the British forces had penettfted positions “far to the south” in the El Agheiia line. '

Rommel thus was fleeing once more from the stand he had taken last month after being pushed hack 700 miles

from his deepest thrust into Egypt at El Alzimein. .r§.“°r§"h wit??? °‘ “fir?” :_”‘=m

0 E1 VG W Q8311 in ' 0t...- and cracked the Aimmein pgs- Report 100 Nazis itions came from the Germans, as did the first intimation of the new

British move against m Aghelia.

The 8th army struck against Fflmmel while the British 1st. army and its American Allies were rc- 1111151118 German bank and infantry attacks Saturday in Northern Tun.

lsia 400 Miles From Tripoli

The Agheilu. battlefront. from the coast of the Gulf of Sirte to Lin. passable salt marshes, b less than 400 miles from Rommel’; main base at Tripoli.

The passable und in the Agheila aica.__furuie di. ND to_u A0;

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Br Joi-m M. HIGHTOWER (Associated Press Stair wrilgr) wasnfivuruiv, mo, 13 ._. (AP) t American dive-bombers and WEI-l $111178 sank one Jtapaneso destroyer, l‘ dlln-‘lked at least. four others, and‘ Presumably killed hundreds of} "my W098. the navy department_ repoiwed today, ivhen me Japanese , undertook last ivecli another des- Dcratc sally to strengthen their forces on Guadalcanal island. Ono United States torpedo hon. was loot. Whether reinforcement: sot-