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Covers Prince Edward island Like the Dew Cl-IARIDTTETOWN. cannon, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 194a

Raiders Drop Bombs Planes Shot Down.

Arctic Weather liits Prairies

WINNIPEG. Jan. 20 — (C?) -A cold wave. with temperat- ures rcschi the lowest of the winter, cont nued across west- sin Canada toda

came reports or Arctic weather. Prince Albert, in Northern Saskatchewan, held the low point for the Prairies-SB be- low during the night. It was 5t at Saskatoon, and l st Ed- monton, equalling the Alberta Capital's all-time low of Jan. l3 l9

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The Pss, I00 miles north 0f here, reported 50 below and in Winnipeg it was 41. In 1936. the mercury dropped to s record low of 58 in Wllmliiol-

Many other Prairie districts had temperatures far under the 80 below Iusrlr. with 42 st B"- gina. S8 at Moose Jaw. and 40 It Buttloford. Bash. and Min- nednsa, Mam, it was 8i below st Calgary.

00L lialstoni lniured in snail Aooilrnt

car-m Which He Was. Riding Was In Col- lision With S n 0 w Plow.

n; mam: mnnowry (Sauudian Press Staff Wflioi‘ OTTAWA, Jan. 20 ——(CPl- A" automobile accident on s r111"?- covered road today 101cm inlet‘ ruptlon, because of ‘111111195- 0f D9" Ignite Minister Raistons plans 101 en inspection tour of‘11111l'~'t"&'_ o5- tablishmonfs and u"l‘a in 101M011’ district N0. 2 (Toronto-l The Minister and his doPHbY- 9°l~ George Currie, suffered hurts rhlch are not bsbevrd se-“ovs but ‘ht ex-‘out. cf \v“‘c‘\ ha! 110$ Y"? ‘"9"’ gunv defermlnfll. r whiig on the way t0 Ut-‘VTKII Airport, to board a plane f"? T8" rcnto their car smirhed into t. e scar 0f s snowplow 111st 011°11'15"“ Ottewa city limits.

Both men rwre ci-t abtli‘! "10 face but co. Currie to a 113mb greater extent than the Minis- i¢r_ _A mo.» in Col. ltoisfirfls wrist wns hrok~n and 0Q]- Cuffln. ‘to bl~d rwfw“! from his incl-ii ‘n'll"|"I. h"! l bod ‘trtfseaom ire _ temrle and posshle b0 y I1 111' ¢l~ Their army driver. 58h 3- J»

Harrndipe of Oftdws, was bride-rd and sholrennm

. announced immediately how many

; At Least 13 Enemy

I! Ins Braohsus Alocintcd Press Staff Writer LONDON. Jan. 00—(AP)—Ger- raiders

man rooftop at least 80 school children and buried Siltoflmoreandthrsstnschsrs beyond hope of life under tons of debris in a swift but relatively smell-scale attack 0n London at noontime today. It was the worst blow suffered by London schools since the blitz attacks be an,

six raiders elud 1on- donis defences and the school, in the heart of a residential section, .ws.s smashed into rubble.

There wasn't a chance that the children and teachers buried in the ruins were alive. for they had been chattering geily at luncheon on the first i oor. But 200 rescue workers kept digging for them.

Only ll Escape

Only 11 children and one teach- er in the building emerged alive. Thirty bodies of children from our to 14 years of agle had been recov- ered early wnig t.

The known victims besides the children in the one building were 10 children and six women killed by a bomb which smashed three London houses. and six children and three women killed when s bomb passed through the t of a cafe and across e street in a row of houses. In southeastern lmglsnd. where the raiders also delivered destruc- tion, one. clderl man died of shock in s sout east coastal town when 40 to 60 planes appeared in two waves, but dropped no bombs. An alarm was sounded. after dark uburhsj but n0 p or gunfire ere heard’ and he s.ii clear was given a short time later. Probably 00 heavily escorted raiders were bound for London in in all. at least 13 Illocke-wuif 90s and Messerschmitt 109 fi wr- bombers were shot down by 3.1.11‘. and H..C.A.F. fighters. It was not

fell in the guns of the Canadian fliers participating in the cap- ital defence. Two Allied fighters were lost but the pilot of one s

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Worst of War

Civil defence authorities said tht‘ school disaster was the worst suf- London schools from a tacks in the war. The highest previous death toll bombed schools was 24. Twice the usual number of chil- dren had remained at the school cafeteria instead of going home. for immediately after the luncheon theatre

.. ilhile Breaks

i, idurity and long alter the

New Gains In Drive 0o ll0st0v

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Eighty - Nine‘ A xis Diviions Reported B a d I y Mauled In Two Months Fight- ing‘.

LONDON. Jan. 20--(CP)-R4ue- sis/s rampant armies have Rained 1'7 more miles in the sweep toward Kharkov. big Ukraine steel city, and further compzessed huge Nazi armies in the northwestern Cau- casus in the drive on the German anchor base of Roswv. e. special Soviet communique said tonlllht.

British military observers sold the Russians in two months have bedlv mauled and partly destroyed 89 Axis divisions, 00 of them Ger- man. At full strength {his would represent the dcmorailzation of i.- 335.000 enem troops.

The specie. communique heard here by the Soviet Monitor added this page to the historic Russian winter offensive:

Whle the northern arm of the Rad Army driving toward Kharkov was gifting within '79 miles of that big city, the southern arm captured Byelokurakina, 115 miles souhehst of Kharkov. This represented s. i7- mile advance from Novo-Pskov and a. till-mile westward sweep from the Moscow-Rostov railway.

Another Soviet. column oPelal-lll! farther south took Byelovodsk. 30 miles west of the Moscow-Mow‘!

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The Russians were slowly tighten- ing an almost-completed 110016 around the Nazi armies in the Caucasus. forcing them to fall back on Rostov which is menaced from the north and east by Rus- sian. armiesoperating as close as ‘S00: '70 miles. .. ., _

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With Axis

sniriloéfifipzslp-is. a contribution to hemlspheligqugfigi indignation over Axis attacks 011 Chilean shipping had cooled, Chile today broke off diplomatic 16a lotions with Germany. Jaimn 2Q Italy and began W Wund u“ ‘s nations s.

President Juan Antonio Rios 1115b night obtained the supmrfiinii 1W6 proval of the Senate. by B» Ilgliblt vote, then signed the decree 01-15 the Axis Diplomats. W110 were w be handed their passport-s lots! 111 the day.

they were going on a party.

Residents said three planes flew low over the district and dropped bomibs.

Some of the errplosives wrecked an entire block of buildings nearby. Children on s nlay-uround escaped machine-mm fire from the planes

Td_—ontinh'ed cn"psis"s".'cci o

Ice Breaker

Nazis Pinning Hopes 0n ll-Boat Fleet

tonpou, Jan. 20 —<0P>—- I11 e1‘ attempt to keen the trmrildofls output of Alied war factories from

The front end or the automobile was badly dhmhired but the row- plow was not dimoved e111! "A {I'l- ver. Kenneth Boyd. was nct h~ rt.

‘The nlow was rroeeethnii 5'0"“ alone the ‘Bcwrsviile Brad "sushi u... lloh‘ snow lo whirl ‘n h1'"=‘\"s sheets across the road. It is b“- “rivgd trip (i-ivcr did not see the plow because of poor dwell"!-

‘Rte accident occurred in IP11!- 0i s row of houses and the two i11-

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Free bound llovics. Hunter nlver. Friday, 1-01-11.

T0 Garry Food T0 Magdalens

Qvanm Jan. a0 - (ca) - .1. seem." t“ pawn‘. °‘...r.s"“' m n or . Lgn isis, member of the Quebec legis etive assembly 101 the MW" blends. have been notified Minister Michlild lcs breaker Halifax shortly with govislons for the Island ‘Ill-I'-

pop . d m. nsfiom oovemmsrt aid for the people of the Islands who m" yam faced with famine due u» of boats with

visi ed. "h? ftmhrofkemhiclin mu leave

up; to the United

be msinteinlns 200 U-boats o his fleet of perhaps 500 It- m l" '1" time. A‘ iii; Qemians gave indications oi pinning their hopes more and more on an ever-‘ncreaslng fleet of submarines, which many allied leaders rate as the greatest memoo Nations. demands were heard in Britain for faster freighters to outrun the U-boats. An un ffloial British estimate u that dermsny is buildin! if“ 11 to 30 submarine. s month faster than naval observers hero believe the allies are sinlrin! ‘them. The Gennan radlo meanwhile boasts to the world the new U- boats are able to stav ionizer st he old ones and that

ses i in are getting torpedoes supvllo! an even new crew munbers from

l " the!‘ U-boats." agiicoiiiit Orenborne, Lord Privy

i id b giiitilgh niaivgl“ oiEseLi-glerr“ “a y 1°!’ 8mm“?

‘management meeting. The last 0f I

tilry and other commentators whose American listening posts. U

behind the Nazi lines. O I O

hang on to the bitter end.

With Hon.

By JACK WiLLiAhlS (Canadian n-css Stall write.) OiTAvi/n, ' ecu. ‘.'.0—kU.t')—-A. B. Mwdvl‘. rrcslucnc 0t the Uli-ihlululi Uwsh-xs oi nsuor. and two reme- seiltatives of P111111) Muir-ray. Ulllcud §L~UAWUXK€L$ 0i enhance. fircsluent. wmerxeo late uus a; rnoon with Lao0r-'_ll7iin1ster‘Mi " “arm- aQay in which negotiations 1n an effort to euu strmes ill three iiiiijul‘ Oun- aulan steel plants Svflillui at. a standstill.

‘lite conference lest/ed more than two hours sun at its conclusion there was no comment from any of

the men p. esent.

The liltitlbllig tool: place only a few hours alter 0.11. Millard fiat- ioriai ulrector oi the blip-w-

llAMll/ISON, Jan. sir—(UP)-—- Members 0K local i005 0i the United SELUIWUFKCIS of America iUJ-O.) voted 05 per cent t0- nignt in iavur of strike action ii‘ the management of the steel Company 0'. Lanada refuses to _grun|. recognition. ,__

nounced he was writing Prime Min. ister Mackenzie King informing him s. seven-point. strike settlement plan proposed by the government. yestculoy was "completely unsat- lsractory" to workers in the steel plants.

ltrikers ltcieet Terms

Delegates fiom the USWA. locals at. sault. Ste. Marie, Ont... Sydney. NB, and Trenton, N5, said they had been iniormtd the strikers would not go back to Work 11110161 the terms suggested by the govern- ment. in Do-rticuiar. the men said they wanted a. minimum basic rate of 55 cents an hour plus cast-oi’- livlug bonus. The governments proposal wins to establish a mm- imum late of 55 cents inciudinil tho bonus. , N0 arrangements had. been modo government-union-

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Traffic Tie-llp y Faces Calgary

oamsmr. Jil-il. ao-(cm- The worst baffle tlo-“D 111 T11R01’! feces Calgary today as the 1061111 of the cold wave. with 01-19% 0B1‘ officials reporting the system crippled. Th rteen street cars hove

burned out their motors, and it ll not known how ion trams can in 0091'! °I l 79‘ duced scale.

Many schooh on dosed sud practically all meetings have been cancelled.

War Situation Last Night

(By Kirke L Simpson, Associated Prels War Analyst. With the Russian forces reported almost a! close to Kharkov in the upper Don region as they are to liostov on the lower Don approaches, apprehension is rising in Berlin. This anxiety is reflected by Nari mili-

words are recorded by British and

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However mlslunding German war bulletins from Russia continue to be. it cannot be doubted an attempt is being made on the home front to prepare the German public for worse news than it heardlast winter. Russian armies which Hitler boostfuliy told his people had been smash- ed beyond recovery now srs described to German listeners us bigger, better armed, better led and more aggressive than ever.

Just what this conflict between Nail military and civil authority menus to the stale of German morale is unfathomable at this distance. It marks so sharp nn about-face in German propaganda technique. however, tht it might be an important, clue to what l5 actually going on

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The theme of the broadcast from Berlin and other Germemcltlel is that Germans must again tighten their belts, increase their war ef- fort, metch the courage and suffering or the armies in Russlp, 5nd

llorc and there hints creep in that greater Axis retreats in Russia than marked the dark hours of inst winter may be yiccegsm ,, Th", ig little effort either by these home-front propagandists or by German prisoner: interviewed in Russia to conceal another costly Hitler under_ estimate of Russian morale and fighting resources,

Labor Leaders Confer

Mr. Mitchell

Negotiations To End Three Steel Strikes Near Standstill Yesterday.

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By The Canadian Press RUSSIA—- Reds gain 17 miles in sweep toward Kharkov, Ukraine

Nazi armies in northwestern Couc- asus as they drive for Rostov,

NORTH AFRICA — British 8th Army advances to Tnrhuna, 40 miles" from — Tripoihmhinzis launch- tunk attack in Central Tunisia, ap- Dflronlly as would-he diversionary measure to cover Rommel’; retreat.

NEW GUINEA - Allies further compress Jap pockets around San- ananda, New Guinea, as 10p dc- fence shows definite signs of crumbling.

WESTERN FRONT- Nani! send bombers over Tmndon by day and 11111111. losing heavily in retributive raids for damage dime Berlin, but killing between 3i) and 63 school children and teachers.

llppose Peyr0uton's New Appointment

LONDON. Jan. 20 —(AP)— Ob- viously stirred by Marcel Peyrout- en's appointment as Governor-Gen. erai of Aigeria, the French nation- al committee met in a special ses- sion today, and Fighting French headquarters declared the appoint. ment would shock the French people a; much or more than old the agreement with the late Admir- al Jean Darlan.

Fighting French circles scoffed at what they termed an Aigicrs nronssahds Campaign seeking to build 1m the Peyroutcn appoint- mont as a step toward an agree- ment between Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen. Charles De Ciaulle. _ The appointment has further pushed into the bacleirmund the

ssibllity of a meeting soon of the wo Prendi leaders. one reliable source seid.

iiaek T0 Work iloveent Starts

WERE-BARREL Pa, Jan. I0 —

steel centre, and further compress 194

Soviet Armies March i7’ Miles Toward Kharkov

London Schools Suffer Worst Blow Of War

Many Children Dead After Nazi Rooftop

Potato Shortage Threatens Toronto

‘IORONTO. Jan. 20 —(OP)— A spokesman for u. Toronto whole- sale potato firm said today this difltflot 1e facing a possible potato sh . He charged that discon- tent the trade over existing Governmental regulations controll. 1118 Drlces was u. factor, along with reduced facilities for shipment.

1r. the past, he statez‘, dealers prepared for the winter deficiency by building up reserve stocks but this winter the successive potato 0MP" 0f the Prices Board had had the effect of haltilfig me usual g3- cwnulation of stocks.

Royal Navy Promotions Announced

LONDON. Jan. 20-40? CABLE) -—Promotl0ns of Admiral Sir An- derw Cunningham, to the rank c: Admizai pf the fleet and. three other high officers to the rank of Ad.- mlrai were announced today. Ad- mlral of the fleet is the Royal Navy's hi hest rank.

S n rew directed hhe Allied Navies in the invasion of North Africa. to the command of which he was DfJSlwCl from his position 1n Washington as naval representative on llv: combined chiefs-of-staff committee.

The following Vice-Achnirals were promoted:-

Sir Guy Charles Cecil Rnyle. who since 194i has been on loan to the Australian government as a mem- ger 15f the Commonwealth's Naval

oar .

Sir John nin Tovey, 00m- mandor-in ~ot_.iihs.homs fleet slnoe 194i.

Sir G. Frederick B. Edwards- Collins. Vloe Admiral commanding the North Atlantic and Admiral superintendent at Gibraltar since

Rear Admiral Arthur Lumiey st. Gemge Lyster, who commanded the aircraft carriers which covered the North African landings and Rear Admiral Sh" Harold Martin Bur- 1011211.. who commanded, one of the three main naval forces in three landings, were pzomotcd to the rank of Vice Admiral.

New System For Selecting Officers

OTTAWA. Jan. 20—(CP)-The defence department announced t0- nlght a new system for selection and. development of Potential of- ficers for the Canadian lrml‘ based on close and expert. study oi each candidate.

To carry out. the plan. officers’ selection centres will be set up in eastern and western Canada. The announcement said thmt Brig. W. w. Foster, Officer in Command of Mllltlirv District N0. 6 at. Halifax. will be chairman of one o1 tho eastern selection boards.

Chairman of the western board has not. yet been apointed.

Defence headquarters said any soldier who thinks he has officer qualities can only to his superior Qffiger for permission to be sent to one of these centres. Even thoush the commanding officer mav 11o‘? himself favor the 000110101011- the oppllwnt will be entitled to have it sent forward to the selection board for consideration.

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Be who h contented with his own possesses the greatest and most cer- tain riches.

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Blow Timed To Support Drive

Against Tripoli“

FightingFrenc/i Under Gen. Le Clerc Make Contact With 8th Army Pursuing Rommel.

(By Alfred I. Wall, Associated Press Dtsff Writes‘)

LONDON, Jan. 20—(AP)—The Fighting French 100% ing northward from Equatorial Africa have joined forces with the British 8th Army closing on Tripoli, it was an- nounced tonight, whlle the British Admiralty reported sinking l4 Axis vessels in the Mediterranean ls the first three days of- this week. These French troops swept up from the Lake Chad ares over deserts and mountains, conquering the Italian Fezzan, and now “are continuing their advance northward and have established contact with the British 8th Army" a communique from Brig-Gen. Jacques Lo Clerc’s head- quarters announced.

‘These forces are brilliantly taking part with their British Allies in the advance on Tripoli. They are attack- ing on the left of the Eighth Army moving northward,‘ said the war bulletin brosdoslt by the Fighting Frenel

radio at Brazzaville.

The fuucturswsssunonesddierflyslterihs hol ported sinking 14 Axis ships in the central Meditera in the three days of this week, and nu twin British columns pounding toward Tripoli were reported within i0 and 00 miles of the bomb-battered cop- itsi of Mussoiinfs vsnlshhsg Libyan empire,

The new threat‘ from thh French tier-t her-aloud be that Field Marshal Irwin loulnoi woid fight ouiy a at Tripoli, instead of making a final stand there.

The French column had moved essaaszzaiziuoerirnc": . ' Knockwooti Nequitted 0f Manslaughter

advance was announced by t s

authoritative ilirenoh radio station Jury Return _"N0l Guilty” Verdict

at Brazzaville, and not" the "radio Alfter One Hour’s

Brazzaville" used 06 h cloak by an Axis broadcasting station.

A communique by the Admir- alty tonight disclosed that l pack of destroyers, ix British end. one Greek. sank these vessels on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights without damage or loss: A 3.000-ton supply ship, apparently carrying em- munltionnwhioh blew , on sooth

ofTSardlrils. d o"

10.351 "' Deliberation. A 0t HInQ, b0 "TI!- —-—-—-'

Isis.“ o! Q o m m. pupa-ems Court yosterdst! A small naval vessel ean-y- aftemoon Frank Knockwood. N

in; gasoline to the Island Lampedusa.

Further, a British su‘ new chased on enemy supply ship for five hours and sent her

s! i of Lennon Island. ti“; zgrleguiltltgdahof manslaughter in connection with me death on s. of ArnOe Gallant. Oyster l Bridge tamer. which occurred fo-

down off the Tunisian cont. icwimz s fracas in the Vi!“ d u“ This some submersible also Richmond- House. drove ashore two small supply The jury, after recelvlnz tho shins. both burning. Judge's chemo. retired at 2.45 M!!! The destruction of these fghlrflQfl with their verdict aclfllll“ Ihlos swept Mussollnrr “more ting on. prisoner‘ a s40. nnsiruvn" virtually clean from n1 shat-gin: the Jury. Mr. J11 » tin- Tunisian coast to Sardinia. A 3. Arsenault emnhasiood i The Royal Navy has announced {Oiigwirig mints of law: the destruction of 23 surface crsft 1': you find that the prisoner wol in the (rent-rel Mediterranean since attacked by the deceased and lu the first of the year. dgfgndinz himself used no mom The lboence of opposition at, sen force than was necessary to his

eras taken to indicate there was little probability of the Axle st- tempt-lnrz to evacuate it; forcm from Trliwllthnia and Tunisia. Thus these would be squeezed be- tween the advancing 8th Army and

l5 Seamen Lost Off BC. Coast

VANCOUVER. Jan, £70 —(CPi_ Fifteen British Columbia seamen perished when the mcsmi frchht- er Northolm was sunk i» e wild Pacific storm lat» Saturday. foun- dcrlniz so quickly that nine oftnem went down with the ship.

defence and in so doth! M" d" ceased met his death you are lust- iru-ri in find-lug the prisoner not guilty. _

Bill‘. thls statement must be quai- fled. The evidence of the medical men shows th . th so of death (Ctintln 1

‘i/NE TREES look SCNOLARLY New