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Canadians Cut Cfi iiazi Groups in Italy

IOII, ..Iau. ‘l — (CI-loa- tsuu-LL-Gen. Charles Ioni- kes‘ Canadian Corps troops In a swift dash have driven rl ht to the Adriatic. ontt n; German forces holdi ‘ north of They resohed the moat nine miles north of the elty, at the point where the

line narrows to an Isthmus a couple of miles wide. between the inland lagoon Comacchio,

sea.

n; this splt o! land, the foot of which the Can- adlaus hold. disorganized Ger- main‘ suits were retreating io-

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(An Associated Press dispatch said two companies of Ger- aiaus were out off in the marshu sear the lagoon and added most if the trapped Germans were captured or killed.)

Despite demolitions. mines and flooded areas. Canadian tanks and infantry cut the lines of re- treat of several German de- tachments In the marshes south of village of Mandriole. three miles gent pf Easel Bor- setti onJlEAl Idafld 9 1-2 miles nort of avenna.

This new thrust on the Bri-

tish 0th army's right flank marked another step tn the thrust toward the Po and Adlge livers.

“Foo-Fighters” Phcnonema ls Discussed

NEW YORK, Jun. '1 — (AP) Germany's new “foo-fighters.“ th mysterious, glowing bails mat BID-f pear alongside Allied planes over‘ Germany. and ny the fllsr5' for long distances, hwve a counter-| port in recently discovered actionl of ic particles of rubber ietex and other small objects. "The "foo-fighters" appear in three formations. a fireball near 1L2 tip of a wing, a. chain of bails riding along Just in from, of the plane and a group of a. dozen at

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phenomenon cmilns this diver- sity. But all se patterns are drown In the new microscopic work They are described 1n in- dustrial and engineeri chemistry. in an article ivy Harris . nucas. oi the Bell {Telephone es, 1011-. New York City.

‘I particles sippear in pairs, .s and groups.

‘llhey are in rapid motion. due apparenti to liquid in which they are photo-

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Imteg one or more clee. Both tattraotifin are presen; spun y Pflftielee. attracted so strongly t0 a larger one that they are bound within a close distance, never touch ifle\bl8 mrticie. These little ‘foo-perilclés" do not . mew possess electrical urges. which concevably under Nlnfifihh “NW1? if???“ 683i‘. ow .1 e n o tiwcribed for the "foo-fighters " If the Gemiara have found s way in produce electrical forces over a lords area, commanding to ‘hose , ioh exist. naturally In the latex thlgwgeir “ifé-tifinifie mmlmfi ' " are an balloons. a In Ilwh a field. the static elec- tfldto on a moving balloon and on ajnovinl blane. mirzht account both for the bright oiow and the mieer attraction. which hrirwg the "foo- fltlbbcrs" close t0 a plane. without. .80 for as reported, ever touching it.

Comino Events

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By W. W. llEltCllEIt IANDON, Jan.-'i - (AP) -—Mos. cow sainounoed ‘ ‘ ht that vici- ous German counter-attacks north- west of Budapest had forced the Red Army to evacuate Eszwrgom, on the Danube 20 miles from the devastated capital, but reported e5- tablishment of a. Russian bridge- head 12 1-2 miles deep on the west bank of the Hroh (Garoin) River ferter north.

The soviet communique broad- cast from Moscow said that Ger- man tanks and Infantry ordered to the relief of the trapped Buda- pest garrison had driven into me ancient Cathedral toxin of Esztor- gom in bitter fighting and that when Soviet troops withdrew they left piles of Gcnnan dead and wrecked tanks.

The Russians also reported that their drive to annihilate the sur- rounded Axls forces in Budapest had captured another 116 blocks of buildings, giving them control of more than 1,800 of the capital's 4,500 blocks.

llsztergom was named by the Germans Saturday as the northern anchor of the line they have reached northwest of Budapest. It had been captured by the Rus- sians Dec. 2 '

German broadcasts also report- ed signs of an impending Russian offensive along the Vistuia River in southern Poland, but Moscow was silent regarding that sector

of the eastern front.

ilrges Sharp Lookout For Enemy Agents

HALIFAX, Jun. '7 - (CP) --De- glaring that “Nova Scotla might well be the logical point seicctcii by the enemy for the landing of spies." Assistant Commissioner A. N. Eames of the RCMP. today called for vigilance on the part of all residents of the Province.

The assistant commissioner. in charge oi the force in this province, asked residents to report prompt- ly on any suspicious characters oi" occurrences. “A more serious ob- ligation for vigilance rests on the authorities and public of Nova Bcotia than in other parts of Canada," he said.

“If every resident of Nova Sco- tia and the adjacent coastline will remain strictly on the alert. and be prepared to report any suspici- ous person or occurrence to the authorities, the chances of a spy making a successful landing will b5 reduced to s minimum." 11¢ a

Death gciitence Commuted To Life

MONCTON, N. B., Jan. 7 —(CP\

The Justice Department has commuted the dcnth sentence of Arthur Alexander Leger, , of Moricton, to life imprisonment, Wcstmoriand County Sheriff Hugh McCrea. announced tonight.

Leger was sentenced to hang next Wednesday for the murder of his wife, Norma Leger, at her home in suburban lcwisville on Sept. 15.

N0 NYLONS rtiTfiim TIMI;

NEW YORK. Jan. '1 — (AP) - It will take 4 1-2 months from re- lease for civilian use to sale of nylon hose over store counters in the United States, the post-war planning committee of the National Annotation of Hosiery Manufac- turers estimates.

At that, Nylon probably will not be released from military service

Japs Claim ilugc Force Concentrated

SAN FRANCISCO, Jim. ‘l — (AP) -- Tokyo radio today re- ported American warships "are shelling the " Luzon Island, Philippines. at Lin- gayen Gulf, concentmtin fire on the Sen Fabian area and "appar- ently planning a landing there."

The broadcasts. based on front- llne correspondent reports and headquarters communiques, were without American confirmation.

The reports heard by the Fed- eral Communications Commission said the naval task force penetra- ted Lingayen Gulf Saturday (Fri- day. North American Time) arid that “a total of 32 enemy war ves- sels. including six carriers and l!- transports" had been sunk or dam- aged by Japanese fire.

Three other "enemy convoys" were operating in Philippine waters the radio said, all apparently bound from Leyte Island to Lin- gayen Gulf.

To Build Transport Ferries At Montreal

MONTREAL, Juli. 7 —- (C?) -- Shipvards here will from now on devote their entire prckrams to turning out transport ferries for amphibious Pacliio duties. it was learned yesterday.

Four of the ferries, the largest iiuvabship ever tiuiitli; Canada, are expected to move of the ways shortly after the St. Lawrence is freed of ice. They are being com- plated at United Shipyards An un- estimatcd number will also be launched by Canadian Vickcrs Lim- ited, it was added.

It was recalled that since 1941, when Mrs. I-lowe, wife of Recon- struction Minister Howe, then Min- istcr oi Munitions and Supplies, sent the first 10,000 tonner, Fort Ville Marie, down the ways here. ivioutreai shipbuiiders had built many cargo ships. Shipyards 0f- ficiuls were quoted us 58.17198 mdfly ma; me cargo program had been completed until after the war. ex- cept for a few small-er ships bcink built for the Brazilian Government

Appeals For More Workers

OTTAWA. Jan. 7——(CP)—AI’UILII‘ MacNamara, director of Selective Service. Saturday appealed to workers in essential industry to aim at maximum production and to other Canadian workers to transfer to short staffed essential industries.

Speaking on the Metropolitan opera broadcast Mr. MacNamura pointed out that men and women workers are needed :

1. The rubber Industry. which has agreed to produce this year 200,000 more heavy duty rubber tires for overseas use:

2. Metal mines in British Colum- bia and Quebec;

3. The Quebec leather industry;

4. The textile industries in 0n- tario and uebec. where the need Is chiefly or women workers to produce service and civilian cloth-

ins.

“No statement regarding man- power in this war should be msaic without ayin- tribute to Canada and all ts citizens." he added. “Make no mistakw-Canada had done well in this wsr...but pro- duction must continue as long as the firing lasts. until the enemy has laid down his last weapon."

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By JOIIN A. MOBOSO

NEW YORK. Jan. '1 -- (AP) -- Britainb mightiest motor liner, the sleek TIJBC-ton Georgie. has come back from a bomb-blasted hulk to sail again in war service. The Belfast-born veteran, once ne of the most luxurious ships afloat with sound insulation and an ebony dining room, was in New York when the war started. What has happened to her since. especially on e July day at 50M in 194i. has been submerged in rumors. German propaganda and military sec

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Bomb-Blasted Liner Lives To Sail Again

She slipped out o! New York for “an undisclosed port" 5e t. B 1939. She came back Oct. 2, in

wartime gray and W110 W0 guns on her stern. Passengers said she had zig-znggcd across the sub-Infested Atlantic with speed her chief weapon. -

She left New York again six days later and on Nov. i4 the Gdlgglhlll alclasflflfefi shiaf}; ‘ "rs er an pra of her two guns. They said she wquld be gunk without Wlflilflfl. Thrice more the 09°11!” ‘"99"’-

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By ELTON C. FAY (Associated Press War Analyst)

From where dld the ultra modern armor and other ordnance used in the f‘ offensive come?

Probably rnnch of it from faotorlea too deep In the earth for bombs to reach or too remote in the German hinterland for cameras of recon- nuisance planes to discover.

This Is the considered opinion of military men who have perused dispatches from the hattie fronts.

But, they add, this does not show that strategic bombing of the cncmfls war economy is a failure. Instead. It reveals that the job ‘is longer, the target more difficult. the enemy even more resourceful than earlier estimates . n

Tha‘. the strategic air war is producing valuable results is appar- ent. With many fighter plane assembly plants bombed out. the Luft- waffe is able to muster air opposition only sporadically or not at ail.

Long- ' ’ attacks on the enemy's oil industry have forced upon both the German air and ground forces the most drastic forms of rationing.

ltui through it all the enemy husbanded and hid stockpiles of p91. rolcum. raw metals and critical minerals for the manufacture of we“. ports for the final decisive bottles on the ground. When Allied air attacks smashed ' cities, he took these highest priority items into underground plants or to alternate plants deep in eastern Germany or Poland.

lt is believed that large amounts of the original supply of German

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nrmor and artillery were chewed up in the Russian offenslves of I942 and I943. These were replaced and into those replacements were in- corporated new designs.

The assumption ls that tanks and other ordnance being used by the Germans In their Ardennes operation, and elsewlier on the west- ern front as well ns against the Russians at Budapest. are being fell to the forward areas from strategic reserves. These reserves. in turn. arc supplied from the hidden factories.

Tire strategic pools of armor apparently are located behind the individual fronts and the orders of the German high comma ‘ are that. az-nior from one pool must not be sent to another front unless the reason is of transcendent Imziortance.

Therefore, it is believed that the taks being used by German arm- nrctl divisions on the western front still are coining from strategic re- serves located in that urea. with pools for the eastern front still uiitrip- i pod except for what is being used in the Budapest operation. .

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International At A Glance

By The (ianadian Press

WESTERN FRONT — British 2nd Army gains up to 1.500 yards in thrce-prosrged attack in Bcl- gium; U.S. 1st Army cuts vital German road in Belgian salient;

LONDON, Jail. '1 —- (CF) Two great fleets of R A. F. bombers, totalling probably more than 1,000 planes, bombed Munich twice tonight within two hours, it was announced.

The night raids on the Nazi schrinc city followed up tremen- dous daylight blows against Ger- many bv 2,100 United States hea- vy bombers and fighters which poured 3,000 tons of explosives on assorted transport targets.

The first wave of R A F raid- ers over Munich poured iiiceri-i diaries and explosives into the im-l

German bridgehczids across Rhine north and souili of Strasbourg "a- lnforced: enemy drives bridgehead across Mans Itlvcr north of Venlo. RUSSIAN - Soviet troops yield Esatergom. 1.0 miles northwest Budapest. in face of furious Ger- man counter-attacks but establish bridgehead on west bunk of llroll River farther north. AERlAL-ILAJX, R.C.A.F‘. heavles hit Munich twice Sunday night after widespread daylight Allied aerial blows behind German front In west. . ITALIAN - Canadian forces thrust to Adriatic, out off two Ger- man companies south of Lake

Comacchio, after capturing Ssnt’ Alberto.

PHILIPPINES -- Tokyo reports battle between U. S. warships,

planes and sfiiore batteries and Ja- panese planes oII west, coast of Llllon Island; U.S. troops capture Paluan in Mindoro island. BURMA- British troops meet strong Japanese resistance around Ye-U, northwest of Mandalay: Chinese seize Manwlng near Namk- ham in drive to clear Burma ‘Road.

Bracken Spends Saturday With Gen. ii. D. C. Crerar

HEADQUARTERS 1ST CANA- DIAN ARMY Jan. 7 - (CP Cable) -John Brno en, National Moder of tho Progressive Conservative Party. who now is visiting Cana- dian forces overseas, spent Satur- day with Gen. Crerar, 1st cana- dian Army Commander. No an-

nouncement was made as to the nature_ol_thelr__ ‘ t

POYiIIXIi. industrial city of south-j

west Germany at 8:30 p.m.. and the i

second wave struck shortly befoi-r 30 pm. The Air Ministry des-

l0: “y cribed both attacks as “henvyfi

R..A.1". and R.C A.F. hBhVY- weights also struck a dual blow at German targets Saturday night.

Fire Destroys iliunicipal Home At Norton, ii. B.

NORTON. N.B.. Jan. '1 M (C?) -Flre destroyed the Kings County Municipal Home iieie early Satur- day night, causing loss estimated at $0,000. All 27 inmates esHtDPd injury. They were given temporary shei- tei- in A school Tonight. l0 wcrc taken to the Saint John Municipal Home. a Woman and UB1‘ six child- ren received ..ccommodation in ii private home at Bloomfield and the other inmate was under carc oi a family at Hampton.

Believed to have started in n chimney near the attic, the firc destroyed tile large. three-storey wooden structure in less than twn hours. The building. one oi the finest rural municipal homes in the Province. was erected in i899. A new heating system. inltfllltd last summer, was recently renovat-

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Firemen from Norton. Hflmbtvn. and Sussex. assisted by volunteer. saved much of the furnishings and some personal beiongin of the superintendent. Mrs. S. . Walker. Furnishings and equipment 0f l small hospital formerly used bl’ the l-lomclerejqst-

centiy appointed w command the British Ligiitii Army iii Italy. (Canadian Army Overseas Photo

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But {or tile clear thinking of ills sevexi-year-oid daughter, the resi- dence of Pctcr J. Martin, protiucc dealer oi Hunt River.‘ would have been burned to the ground curly yesterday morning.

The little girl. in bcd at the lime, noticed smoke coining through her bedroom floor and gave the alarm. Mr. Marlin had no one on wiioni to depend for aid as his sons were at the warehouse looking after the heating system there but iic speedily got ta work \vitli brace and bit. sznv, and chisel. Opening a hole between the floors, Mr. Martin succeeded in throwing the water where it would clo the most good and finally extinguish- ed the blaze before it had a chance to spread through tlie house by means of the double walls.

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But Germans Lash ,. 9H1: |n New Attacks

By AUSTIN BEAL AR

PAR“: Jan- 7 '— (AP) _-— The United States 1st army dealt the Germans a crippling blow today by seizing on... irol of one of their two main supply lines into Belgium but ilie enemy lashed out with five new attacks on the West. orii Frruit and pushed armor across the Rhine inio France iilmid reports that Strasbourg was being" evacuated of civ- l izimr.

_ As the British - American drive against the northern 51d“ of the Belgian bulge expanded to a front of 30 miles and pilshed south as much as three miles, the German comeback campaign across the Rhine abruptly took a gm. Vial’ turn.

Exfzind Study 0i Fisheries

Tire German bridgehead eigiil miles north of Strasbourg was re- iniurced ovcrnlgiit by: at least 1' a tanks. it now is six miles ‘with! and tiircc miles iiccp. and encmv‘ forces- holding Gzimbsheini and Offenciorf inside it are attacking 100111111191‘. Only six miles from

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uliicii tiic Americans captured a few weeks ago. the Rhine valley town of Drusenheim also was un- der assault.

Nlllflétn miles south of Stras- bourg. the Germans brought 15 tanks across the Rhine and rr- ciipiurcri Ncunkircli. A corres- llondcnt back from the front said French civilians were clearing 3515 of Strasbourg. a city of 200.-

The Germans threw in ZhiLQ new attacks north of SLYBSDOUIR, the strongest of which was by at least a battalion supported by nins tanks cast of l-lunspacii, five miivi south of the French frontier clay 0f Wissembourg.

OTTAWA. Jan. ‘i -— (C?) -Tiie Federal Fisheries Research Board Qdllilted plans for’ widened scien- tific study of the fisheries resources 0f Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., and some OHIO)‘ areas iii northwestern 99.110011 and for a general survey 0f the salmon resources of British. Cvlllmbia at its annual meeting, which closed here Saturday,

Dr. A. T. Cameron of Winnipeg, board chairman, was rte-elected chairman ill. inc closiiig session. Other officers are D. H. Sutherland, ASSWJBIN: DQDUU‘ Minister of Fish- eries. and F. 0. Weeks, both of Ottawa. who were rc-eiscleci Horn 0TB?!’ Secretary and Honorary Treasurer. respectively.

Dr. . Rawson of flit! Unl-' Vefilli’ 0f Saskatchewan told .110 board that his 1944 investigations had indicated that Qrreat Slave Lake could sustain an annual production of at least 3.000.000 pounds nf fish, mainly lake trout and Whitefish. without threat of reducing the stocks.

In thc British Columbia salmon; SIITYPY the 1945 work will consist‘ mainly of an intensification of‘ the Skeena River investigation 0051110115 l0 the flvflh 310m; the which the board began last yenry W031 Riv" 1111119. Nilmgemsaii- nnobiis extension to include other " ' ' ' F‘ "' 7 ' spccics of salmon as uieil as Sock- eye.

A 5W4)’ will be made cf inc Chum salmon stocks of Vancouver Island areas. particularly the ls- iandis cast coast waters. It was stated that n sharp drop in rc- ccnt Chum production Clllpillioll"

Nazis Cross Maas River

Far to the north in Easter-ii Holland the Germans crossed i=1 Mans iii company strcngiii our; established a bridgehead Will“ was under British counter-stung

The German communique iocai? the bridgehead at Wanssum, 3 miles east of ih." Allied base w: EHICPIOVEXI and l2 miles north u en o.