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PANTELLERIA . . C.

LAMWO"; LALFIZDUSA

able. It ls a larger and more important oh- capture would put top-flight British ‘and United States troops ivithin a stone s

throw of

south have been enacted in as many days. The thrcc the Italian mainland where flat beaches. long coast-

Iilsnds which have surrendered to the United Nations illne, br are marked wlnle nearer inc Italian mainland ls the i are an the next stop on the

ilfler Sicily, which ap ars to be

Chinese Dapturc Port 0f Sungtze

‘cnuiroicino, June l3—-(APl-—

Eyewitness Lampedusa

odd river valleys and good rail communications invitation to invasion.

Tells If or

Surrender

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By Paul Kern Lee

Mix-gigs’: sift-it'd” Jffplaiiltflsl; Associa‘..d Priss Staff Writer ccrpsos iriday to capture 1h: 1 IaA-AIPEIJIJSA, June 12 - 1Deliy- Yingtse p0" o’ sunmm d; new _ (AP) _ A handful oi l2

River from the advanced cnrny his: at lchang. the Chime: his" Command said tonight in a coin- inunzque.

sllllﬂtze lies between Ichang and Shasl. Before 1t fell, otaer JnD- “ese Doinis were captured.

“Jur forces also seized big quan- .

0f supphes," the communique

The Chinese re rted further luccesses in their pohydrd-hcadcd "We against the Japanese north- WtSt ci l-lankow and north 0f “Wise River.

DDMING EVENT$

"show-St. Peters Wednmday. 6-lZ-2I

"Show - Morell Tuesday.

ti-l2-2i. "Greenvale F-‘e-s-twiil, Thursday, ﬁlly 1st. e- - .

“Pines. 1.0m Vile Hall, J1me - Webster's CrcIfestIa. 6-12-21.

‘otllo arrive oats and bulk wheat. l now. McGulgan and Boyle.

. "Dance and s le of lunches mm H a . sunuorlfliiiJun° 15m‘ "'°“§‘.‘,‘,f§i_

"Gilligan? the-igance in Bea Vie?‘ ﬂy 1-. ht, June l4. A" fine T066651. s-12~

Bu!“ in Alberr

r1 in H 11. gitmwsy. June lth. “itfuiviilw hﬂtrs- ti-lt-i .

"ﬂies Wiltshire Play in North

. -_._ Wtliehiro players resent

W5 I!" - ‘*0: wit.“ ‘W???’ ‘oi-git.

g1 week for a total of 3.360 Planes

mph Lg taking ore" ‘his island from 'Ii'.'iii1lll military‘ .\:1l and ninrliie p iinel flilllllltllll} from 4,toJ to i3 who surrendered a hail-hour‘ go. , i ’lney ale filing out lrem thciri ‘share-side pillcoxes and guns. , Ii only tcck two llllllilils - - n51 quickly as the tcrnw could be un-i 1<:£‘l‘FtCf;d - - for the Italian garrison; lo agree to uneondlllcnal Siifielldelli Licnl. l-Iu-gli A. Cﬂiilﬂl- 0i 11161 Royal Navy ancl l leaped ashore! from the deswoyers lo:kc11t's lahnrhi and after the rapid barley thei Lieutenant signalled lo the sen. lle then trent out and escorted 1n a,

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company of the famous Colds1r;am1 Giliiitvi-lll lsndingcroit that had; hov lei offshore all day.

Hardly’ F.2d the total success of Panirllcrlak; capture being clinched than navnl forces sped to Lnmncd- usa and inflicted a night shellln ,,;--——“_,_Z‘____~‘ ”“_T.:T:T_*_T__‘

ition dumps, a special Soviet com- niunlque sold today. The reillllﬂf Sunday midnight bulletin reported 548 German planes destroyﬂl 1"‘

in the last six weeks.

The bombers struck Saturday night at the rail junctions of Gomcl. 20o miles southwest o! Orr-l, and Bryansk. 75 miles West 0f the sirong- oint city. and nt iii‘; station of nrachev, mid-way be- tween Orel and Bfi/Rnsk» “We than 100 fires were started by the attacks and heavy Bifpitlsitiiis lol- lowed, the s lal communique

said. Two of t e Russian pin-Ml

Russians Keep Heavy Air Attacks

t between aerial bombings. Twice til-ll‘- 1mg the night and again at [the stiips hurled explosives ashore.

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Lampedusas shore guns. ill c011-

9 trast with those of Puntellcrla, 11e-

pllod spirltedly and with accuracy. lsurning oil fires ashore. star snclls from ships and the splash of Italian projectiles into the sea made a theatrical spectacle with booming guns and snuaniing shells as an ov- crture.

The aerial attack continued all day today and in the evening the vsarsliirs bombarded a fourlti time. The last bombers reported what nppcared to be a white cross being formod at the Lampedusa airfield and said it was believed there were white flags but could not be certain.

The naval squadrons flagship came closer alongside the destroyer where I was passenger and mega- phcned instructions to our ship to send a bout into the harbour under a white flag.

The officer directed_that_Va__3fe_-_

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___i- LONDON. Juno lk-Mondayl- failed to return to base. (Ow-Russian bombers pounded at. In the weekly summary of Ger- 51 key pﬂinm in the bulging Qrel scc- man plane losses, the midnight tor of the German line during the communirn: recorded by The sov- week-end, attacking big enemy let Mont r, said 15.! Russian train concentrations and ammun- planes were lost to 548 German.

This brought the German planes so far destroyed in June to an even 1.300, according oo official Russian figures.

Military observers, meanwhile, in. terpretecl the heavy raids by the Russians as evidence that the Bov- iets were joining the Churchill- Roosevelt. plan to try knocking out Germany and Italy bv air.

The Red Air Force was rated at. having reached a new height of Bower. delivering harder attacks

an ever before and exacting a more serious toll of the German air raiders.

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War Situation Last Night

By Carl C. Cl , Associated Press War Analyst.

without the intervention of a single lnfantryman, have sights to bigger objectives farther north.

The world seems about to witness an atteui t. to what was accomplished on a smaller sol-lo at Pan

It may succeed, and if it does the effect on All! d volutio y. But even if it doesirt quite come least wil have a good idea of what air power can d

Sicily would seem to be a more likely than Sardinia. Sicily is only about 90 mi es Tunisia, whereas Sardinia is

Sicily can be hammered by a converging attack. The new target. is not to be compared with Tauteller‘ of population.

separated from the mainland only by the narrow ZA-mile Strait, 25¢ miles wide at the north, l2 miles wide at the south.

supplies. at least by Yet it may not be British naval forces are able to lend an aiding hand around a consider

night.

and timetable allow for an even heavier and snore prolonged bombard merit than was directed at. Pantelleria.

Giving overwhelming air superiority it may be possible for might even be made uncertain as a. supply route The key ports on elthe raids. of the defenders‘ morale, how determined they were to

b lieved to be largely Italian divisions-

Allied airmen. who took the scalp: of Pantelleria and Lampedusa raised their

repeat in Sicily elleria and Lampedusa. e plans may be re- off, All ed strategists at

objective of pure air siege from the nearest point in about 120. Malta and Pantelleiia. are only about 60 miles from Sicily, while Tripoli is 280. From all these platforms

in area, size strength of garrison or natural and prepared defences. It is not dependent on outside sources for any of its drinking water. It ls

- ong Mcssina Across this channel it would seem the garrison could receive reinforcements and

impossible to knock out Sicily from the air provided able part of the Island's circumference and provided Allied ah- strength forces to operate to the north of the Island. The narrow Messina gig-gait side of this strait already have been made the targets of devastating If these things are done it then would seem to be sim ly a question

_ _ old on until . , the coining of the invasion parties for a finish fight. The defenders are l

Pope tiippeals for Discipline Among Workers

NEW YORK, Julie l3 --<AP1— Pope Pius XII appealed today for discipline and faith among the world's workmen, and at the same

supplies money for its continuance, the-o the Pope does nothing for peace."

"Never perhaps was there launch- ed a calumny more monstrous or absurd than this,“ the Pope as- scrtsd, saving no One else so 1nsls~ tently oppored the outbreak, ad- vance and spread oi‘ the trar. or pleaded more for peace.

' "When the truth of the facts and our work have been revealed." ' he said, "they will be confounded who maliciously try to throw on the Papney the responsibility for all the blood that has flowed in

r the battles on land. in the sir and

Italian workers, one of the largest taudienees in Vatican tiistory. They‘

‘Bremen, Kiel Are Bleiésted

By Lewis Hawkins, Associated Press Staff Writﬂ‘

fensive against Hitler's war plants mounted in intensity. The American bombers smashed down many greatest air battle ever waged by the 8th United States air forcc.

man bases for the

LONDON, June l3—(APl—The R..A.F. smashed at the Ruhr Vﬂliey Saturday night and United States four-motored bombers raided the naval bases of Bremen and Kiel today as the newest Allied aerial of-

German fighters in the

The bombers flew uncscorted to the heavily-defended north Ger- double-barrelled daylight attack. The cost was Z6

went to the Vatican on a pilgrim- age as a tiomase of labor, Ln one of the concluding manifestations of the Pope's iubilce ytcar. The ad- dress was delivered in Bclvcdere courtyard.

Pope Pius asked that workers not "nszqravato the burden of extra- ordinary difficulties under which the DEOPIQI- are groaning‘ by repre- senting their claims in this hour of universal and imperious needs in a nolsr manner and through in- considerate action."

“Workln: men and women con- scious ‘of their great; responsibility for the common good continue their work and persevere in it with

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Sicily Appears To Be Next On Allied Schedule

t‘ d " r cl r . . , , 5,13?ggii§gff§§goip§iigjl 811i; Allied Airmen Co After Airfields

In Opening Phases.

By DANIEL DE LUCE (Associated Press Staff Writer) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. iN NORTH AF-

RICA, June 13—(AP)--|taly lost her third Island outpost in the Central Mediterranean in three days when a British destroyer accepted the bloodless surrender of Linosa today, and fleets of Allied

111th» sea. and in the ruins of bombers and fighters began switching their knock- ei ies." - - The Pepe spoke to some 20.000 out Punch to 5'0")‘-

Without a shell being fired or a bomb dropped,

the panicky garrison of 140 Italian soldiers and sailors raised white flags on the little speck of

land 105 miles south of Sicily and from the bridge

capituiation.

of his speedy gray warship, the destroyer Nubian, Commander, J.R.T. Tyrwitt accepted the enemy

The garrison, grateful for having been spared the ordeal of bombs and shells such as produced the surrender of Pantelleria Friday and the light-

ning fall of Lampedusa about 30 hours later, was

immediately taken off a prison camps.

The tiny island. only about two miles across in either direction. had

nd transported to Allied

si_n_gle day's operations.

Lampeiiusa surrendered To ll.A.F. Pilot

AN ADVANCED ALLIED AIR BASE IN NORTH AFRICA. June 13 fAPl-The Italian for- tress island of Lampedusa sur- rendered yesterday to a ser- geant. pilot of’ the Royal Air Force who landed his plane at the airport during the Allied bombardment after being forced down on a flight from Malta.

The Italians came running out, waving white flags and cry-

n- .

"Can you stop it?“

Instead of trying to stop it. the sergeant. named Cohen, was forced to join the Italians in a foxhole shelter where he was kept two hours by the con- tinuous heavy bombing.

“The bombardment was tor- rlfic." he reported. "The Island shook from end to end.“

During a lull in the afternoon he found that the vibration of the explosions apparently had iarred his plane's engine back nto ﬂying order.

He then took ofb-undeterred hy the lonesome Italians-and lﬁnlged safely at a Tunisian

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FOOD RESEARCH

FREDERICTON, June l3 (GP)- Announcement has been made by Professor C. W. Ar ue. head of the Department. of Bio ogy at the Unl- vcrsity of New Brunswick that the National Research Council have made a. grant of $2,000 to the Unt- versity. the money to be used to institute research on the nutrition- al values of certain native New Brunswick foods. Special laborator facilities are being set. up 11nd wor on the problem will commence some time in_A_ugus_t.

bombers, the most severe loss ever suffered by the 8th air force in a

Bracken Begins Nova Scotia Tour

"The attack occasioned the greatest air battle l.n which 8th Air Force heavy bombers have yet participated and against. the lust-st concentration of enemy fighters." Said tne United States communique,

Bremen and lsiel "were bombed efiectivcly and many enemy light- ers were destroyed," the bulletin

said. The largest loss ever suffered be- fore by American heavy bombers in

By John LcBlanc Canadian Press Staff Writer TRURO. N.S., Starting an

June l3 -—(CP)- information-seeking tour of Nova Scbtia, John Bracken, National lender of the Progressive

no harbors capable of sheltering anything larger than a. motor tor-

To Distribute pedo boat’ and was believed to be _ without B)!‘ fields or

military installations, population of about 500 is mostly engaged in raising cattle.

The peaceful rellnquimment of Linosa. 2B miles northeast of Lam- OTTAWA.- June 13 (Cpl-Tn M‘! pcdusm completed the qsland a effort to gain equitable distribution day» conquest or “an”, swppmg of the restricted supplies of banan- Swnas Dawn“ ‘he Medmrmmealn as. regulations published Saturday narrows in Canadian war orders and regu-

‘ lotions require permits to be h- (A fourth island. Larnpoine, eight tamed ‘mm the revenue °

a single raid was me 1s downed Conservative Party. arrived here miles west of Lampeduso, was not “W”? during the last previous attack on tonight and left later for Cape meht-ionul in this disP°wh' n is m‘¥‘,,‘,’%',§§,“’,§‘,'.§§,‘,}ﬁ§f, orgsftf

Bremen, April 1'1,

niel is aoout 100 miles north of Bremen, and to get to it the huge Squadrons had to fly round trip of approximately 500 miles.

Breton, where his swing the province officially opens morrow.

practically every section of

Incnm” Momcnmm province and looking into its econ

throuzh tO~

The new party chief will spend 10 days in Nova Sootia, visiting the

one of the Pelagic group, to which Linoszi and Lamrpedusa belonged. it is even smaller than the other two, however, and may not even be inhabited now.)

. Turn to Sicily

the prices board is arranging for importation of "limited quantities" of bananas by rail.

WELL-KNOWN HOTEL BVRNS

PORT iraicwrgiTunth us, Jung

The twmway assault mmcmed omie, industrial and other aspects. V _ l3 -1CP1- The 401""1r olrl Far- m, momenwm or the new“, n is his first trip to Nova Scotla FM? “W16 M1161 bombs" W“! qnhar House, one of e Breton‘! “r181 Qgfemwe 385mm Hitler-s since he took over the Progressive ("OPP "F! their (‘XNQSIWS 1“ d9’ finest hotels. wr~ vwnijsletcly- do- Wl-ll‘ PlBlli-i. following by only 1t few O°“5°T"'Ml"° MAdCPShiP- strum"? 935ml“ ""5 mm?” stroyed today l‘ fire ballot-ed caus-

hOtIIS a heavy night attack by R. AF. heavyweights on Bochum and other key points in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley. The ingot raid cost the R.A.F. 24 bombers but the Germans themselves con- ceded that it caused heavy damage.

New blows also were rained on other enemy targets throughout France and the low countries by daylight today. British and Amer- ican lighters and British Medium Bombers shuttled over the Channel in a seemingly endless stream to hammer enemy installations in these operations which went on practically all day.

The German Air Force rcliaicd 11-

lsland Native Drowned In N.S.

HALIFAX, June 13 _1CP1_.JQ_= eph Benjamin Trcmblay. 45, lo; shorcman of suburban was drowned i11 the harbor

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gsinst England during the night, 'H°m@ WWII Sicilr. where they hit real} ianns raiding a southwest. coast town in lmihnilnblcl. port. moonlight and dPOpplng a ye“- Survivors include his mother. Not a Sillili!‘ allied airrrai‘ was

bombs on London's outskirts, tile Mrs. A. Tremblay.

Air Ministry announced. At least Joseph °f Prince Edward Island. assaults or in the blows that 10111‘ ﬂiiders were reported des- -——————i_ - bymgqht the guri-(mdgv or gm“; "'0? - Some senior British police officers 1 5,15,,

lwo persons were killed ‘ind are to be trained 3s town majors for p Us (,5 .1“. .,,r,._.,,__.;_,_. n, mm Z

others seriously injured by bombs which fell in thickly built-up hon- don suburb. Two Nazi fliers who bailed out of a plane shot down durin the raid were captured al- immedlately b home guards- men. The bodies o three others were found in the wreckage of mother raider, sliimdly llidhl-‘a bin-st at. Bochum and other Runr tar eta marked the second straight nig t that the R.

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dusu‘; defences and a circle cited b‘. mom_ British destroyers and cruisers waslﬂ (m1 p11}. nourinz in a deadly fire at. inter ' lug. Loss rals. bomber and fighter planes M bmwpm. ‘ocean their assault on Sicily vest erday.

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vouunisiiozi in lri-

As in the opening: attacks on Pantelleria. they turned their at- A tention first to the enemy's air

fields. and allied headquarters said ‘ “large numbers" of tho nearlr ‘.30 niuies on the ground at .\l:‘.o. Castclvetrnno and Boeco Di Falco ' vrere riddled bv fragmentation combs exploded in their midst. Mrltros fightcr-bcwvbrrs also raid- cd Mnrnzmimi in southeastern

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2 Destruction of 25 Japanese Zcro straicd barges found nlmlg thc fighters in a sharp air engagement txachcs. 445w"!!! 395mb“! ‘zlst.*‘.i.ii"i‘..slrzl°t,"xtce villas .,.i.‘:':z...“.:l;""s‘. .1*1"“*;1".":":1 m " '- 1 1 ' . l ' C l‘ C l si-MQS HBVY i-Od-l’. undersea tunic .- tho; has taken DAILY F-XYFPT it 5""? In addition. iheynnvy communique heavy toll of flipilllO-bl: war and . . re ortcd the destruction 0f one merchant ships, were posted on the Fm“ Bmmm.“ I'm” 9"“ " m‘ M tsubishibombcr in an engagement, nn\y's missing ship list Saturday. 1 n‘ m" “Id 4'5". “' m", with United States arniv bombers A communique said ‘the hinted have ‘M’ 1'.‘,r"""“|"""H M“ 20 miles west of Buka 1511\nd. Jim. Suites Stiblllllfillbg Amborpack and u” n‘ m‘ “Pd M0 " m, . . north of Hour umvlllc, Grainphus have failed to return "Mu, “R . 9"‘ t‘ E Another Mits ishl bomber trss zrom postal operations and must er- m?“ EFT ~“ -\" “‘ ded to the total of four 11111101". l ~ 11.11.11 to be lost." Each craft Charlottetown - Sllfllmt'f'\l'i(' - as shot down over ' rd about 60 men. Mnncion in n communique Fm g, .; 1h vessels were new. the An1b— Leave Cliurloneioiui 7.511 11. n1. The navy also rcmrird five ai- 1.,.-1\k launched in Mint-h, 1942,1130 n- m- 4-3" n- "1~ tacks o11 the .l-.1.::1= .1 111 lxiskti in .111d the C-ramphus coininissiiiiit-ii Arri" (‘|1="'|"i"‘i°“'I\ i-lil n» In the Al-qutinns. li . \\'t‘i\‘ scored in 111 1514i. Their disa rpcarancv brings 5-45 il- rn- 71'?» II- I11- ihiA "till" Cilllllt . q ‘ i the 1:11:11‘ oi Amer can submarines l’, E. |.--.\'. S. FERRY \‘|-".if'- if l‘. a . navy 01111111‘ 11v -n Ill‘l 11v i11>t 11 t 1o wa- ' < 1iiilisii l. . ‘ .‘.‘ ‘ .lilll\' Sl"3l)\\ s‘ FIEVOIII’ IS IhQ IHCHBIIPC 0f BBIISIIICI-IOII with T68 said that. on '1' ‘till? nfteriio: i1 tin-so losses or; liaxasligiﬁfclililliiksink- ‘Lilalv: Island? -- ‘H70 l\ in q; - . . . medium and he» . ‘.1 inhsrs wrh in , robable lnki ma e to ' ' ' and Coffee. Salado” gives the maximum yield in ‘fighter crorl 11w 1 .~ all 1-1<.t- 243i riiapmleses sﬁiils°rigvn uiiltea “ﬂftsf, “'C',",',,,,,,,_.9 M, ,,_ ,,,_ ,,,,,; on inslallaaltnr. .1 l-'. .;~., scoring states undersea fl htcrs. , ﬁllﬂ ﬂﬂVﬂllla bomb hit; on the IuIIW-l)‘ and on i 8 ‘so v‘ m

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