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Veteran Chinese fiuerilla Aids Ilong Kong

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llartLbitten Chinese guerrilla forces under Gen, Ma. Po are

har-

assing the Japanese force attacking l-long Kong, to relieve pressure

on the Canadian and Imperial

garrison. This picture shows Gor-

don Sinclair, Canadian ncwspaperlnan, and General Ma. Po out.-

slde the generaPs headquarters

in South China three years ago.

Shattered Axis Army In Libya In Fallfietreat

Enemy’s front

“has every-

where been broken” British communique says.

CAIRO, Dec. l8—(APl—-'Ille shat- tcrczl German nllci Italian armies in Eastern Cirenatca were announ- ced ton ht to be in full retreat. pin-sued y British tanks and blast- ed by Royal Air Force bombers.

Allied trcops \\‘01‘e pressing north- ward toward Dcrnn after reaching the east-west Tnliml-Mckiii rrarl some 100 miles inside Libya, a Brit- isil communique said.

"The enemy's front whore been broken,"

sa .

Tile R. A. l". rcpol‘ blows against Axis inl lld troop transports fleeing we twarri ironl Derlla itself on the long road t0 Bengasi in on apparent effort to escape encirclenlen .

A fierce five-day fight west. and southwest of Gawain proved the Nari rout, the t-ollllllulliquc s

Thus far ill tho nlolliil-rllrl o slrl- against tho armies oi‘ Li. n. Erwin Rclnmcl and his Italian ilciprrr the British forces were rc- mrtcd to have taken nilllnst 10.0110 prisoners. Axis casualties also were slid to be heavy.

Although the rout on tilt- Axis desert l(‘i"lDllS consort hopcs to soar that n filial knock-cut. blow was near at hand. an informed source slid frankly "we'll have to capture a hell oi a lot more prisoners be- icrc the first real sign oi colln-vslfl"

The Germans and Italians svere estimated to number bchvorn 60.000 and 100,000 when t.he British offen- live began. end this source said

has every- the buiietl

Sill ashlar:

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Coming Events

—o.- Ilh for Notices in this column ‘ I_esnts perJvord

"Show-Murray River Monday. L-BGB-lil-l -3i.

Concert Dec- L-647-l2-19-1i.

"Wanted w buy Chicken. Fowl. Island Cold Storage. L-2l9-7-9-tf. "Cherry Valle School Concert in

"wit. December rd. L-659-l2-l9-1i.

School Concert, Birch

Friday, December l9 11-611-12-18- .

cfyfdglrgle Rivérnficléool (goncorltje in Vel‘ I. Ul‘ ll , O- Imber 2on1. ' ‘i-svz-ylz-la-nl.

Dist. Mn: 001 fiber ma.‘ sch

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Christmas concert, “V010 Bchoo1_ Monday, 8a).

iorRcserve Monday, December 22nd ADDin Rood Xmas Concert. 11-355-12-10-19.

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Fcurth fire Victim dies

AMHERST N. s. Dec. la-(cp) ~Fourth victim of Tuesday morn-

n illg's university fire at Sackville, N.

If, Jalllcs C. MacDonald, l7, died today lll hospital of injuri uf- fcrcd in n To foot, (all.

The Sydney, N. S. had sulfercd a. broken back and leg fractures when he plunged from the fourth floor to the stone steps as fire svrept through the men's resi- dcnco at Mount Allison University.

Newsman tells 0f terrible Russian winter

Couple Of Nights In Open Give Idea Of What Germans Are Facing.

By Henry C. Cassidy Associated Press Staff Write!

WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE MOSCOW FRONT. Dec. ltl —(AP) -Spend a couple oi nights out on the Russian ste suffering wind, snow and cold and you have an iden what the Germans are up against on the eastern front.

I have Just. been through two such nights.

The elements at their wildest.

whining and moaning weirdly on ille broad plains. broken here and there by stark forest. strike cvdf? living thing exposed to them and make death by freezing an ever- reseni. danger. That is one of the mportant reasons why the Ger- mans are now falling back from advanced positions near Moscow and seeking winter quarters.

You have no conception oi the violence oi this Russian winter as you drlve out of the towns end villages where the Soviet troops keep warm in well-equipped quart-

rs. it is only when vgg get into the open afiere the Germans have been forced to seek shelter in the for- ests or in shuttered settlements that you foe". the full effect.

Then you see that the greatest invader. whether he he s Napoleon or a Hitler, met in thin Weflthei’ 8

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OFFICERS URGE

laps Report Landing 0n

Admit British Defenders put tip stiff fight

Big Naval Base Has Been Under Siege More Than Week.

TOKYO, Dec. 19- (Friday) b AP

T0 DOPT

gKong Island

titles Take Risks To

Destroy Nazi Army In Retreat‘

Official army-Tagger Red fist-air advocates turning German tactics to Russian use; Russian advance continues.

Ho

I Banuck Corvette Brings Nazi Sub, Grew into port

Cmdr. J. P. Connolly Says “We’ll Have To Wake Up” To Win War.

War Situation Last Nightii

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(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

Nazi armies falling back in Russia are perilously close to being blown up by their owll blitzkrieg pctarrl, designed to conquer the world.

The war machine they iasilionel‘ and used effectively to shatter many continental arnnes in quick succession is obviously back-firing in reverse. Russian progress reports. unchallenged from Berlin, indicate that what started as a vast German withdrawal to winter lines is rap- idly turning into u rout in nrany sectorsflotng a LZOO-mile retreat front.

That may be an overdrawn picture, traceable in part to Russian enthusiasm. It is still too early to judge accurately either the planned scope oi’ the Nazi retreat or the real strategic motives of the tjerman high command‘.

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has been under siege and cannon- arde for more than a week.

British forces defending the big naval base at the head of the China Sea. put up s. fierce resistance to the Japanese. s. communique said, after halving twice rejected ulti- maturrls to surrender.

The Japanese nevertheless were claimed to be "rapidly carrying out further operations.”

The account said the Japanese capped their assault with an in- tcnsive pounding all yesterday and last night in which Japanese planes and the army's artillery bombed

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Club, fronting: (iPFflIililH as the lied army reported continuing (while Cmdr- Cmlmlnl’ Rave n" advances hurl broken off invasion slllient< on both flanks . .. . . . .

vulnerable even to cavalry. the all but forgotten arm that was once the corps (Polite of every army. _ _

Hitler has admitted that the Nazis Dflfllnflllv miscaleulatcd Russian preparedness for the struggle. His great retreat, following blatant claims to his people that Russia's power of prolonged resistance had been ut- terly shattered, now confesses an even graver misa rehenslon of Rul- sian morale and staying powers.

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And that retreat also discloses that blitzkrieg punzer warfare with its dim-bomber air auxiliary ls fully effectlveonly on the lit-tuck. 0n the retreat it loses its punch. The confusion and clogged transport lanes are now on the other side of the war ledger.

Often tanlu, undamaged tanks, become u_burden instead of an as- set for retreating troops. Buried to provide pill-box defence D051!» "W! have lost their greatest military asse , mobility. And on the retreat the.

details, it was learned the c rvett

his towed 1M0 an allied ma; L1,: of the great front of hfoscou;

S“ mflrinqcaptured on the Atlantic The offlclzll army nt:\\'t~1p:l|)01' Red Star called for several weeks ago by a British . _ , _ _

p§n.ll,_11..gd.,1a.w_q-1m ship MS m», tlilTilItL" the i_vplt-zlll_v~\azl tut-tics on the (lernrlus. telling’ “$},,‘,.§§ flannel“. mentioned we ronlnlnntlt-rs to disregard the orthodox slogzlgilll: oi frontal capLm-eionly mien‘, m his adchess‘ assault and send speed troops out ahead to encircle and saying t had not been announced ' v '

officially‘ but it had “gotten around" cut up the foe umt h) “ML . .

g9 551d ~one o; om. own People" had This nlethod already has been figured pyomlnenylv m 1,16 incident‘ used ilrliliantly‘ in the recapture of

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Take over Timur To forestall Japs

BATAVIA, N, E. I.. Dec. l8— fAP)—Nethcrfnnds and Australian troops tonight were in full occupa- tion of Timor, moving into the Portuguese half of the mountain- ous island and thus forestaliing Japanese seizure of a potential as. sauit base 450 miles from Darwin and at the tip of the Netherlands East Indies.

The occupation was made over the "objection" of the Portuguese, who had on'y a. small force on the island. It was announced in a communique from the Netherlands government:-

"In view of the Japanese sub- marine activity off Portuguese Timoq it has become an unavoid- able necessity to take steps in order to safeguard this territory against Japanese aggression and to forestall its being used as a base from which attacks could be made On allied territory and com- municatiorls.

"Accordingly a force o1 allied troops has been landed in Portu- gufiise 'I‘lmor," the communique as . '

Shortly before the war, Portugal permitted the Japanese to establish a. station on the Portuguese. or northern side. for an airline from the island of Palau in the Japa- nese mandated Carolines Both Britain and the United States ob- jected.

U. S. reassures French Islands

FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique,

. 18»—(AP)-Admirol Georges Robert, High Commissioner of the French Antilles, announced today that United States Rear Admiral Home (possibly Frederick J. Home) had flown to Martinique "to deliver President Roosevelt's personal as- surances that these lands need fear no "attack or change of sov-

er gn .

In u. communique, Admiral Robert said Home arrived at l p. m. Wed- nesday from Puerto Rico in a Unit- ed to. plane and left et- it a. r ton after hav informed Robert that "the

ni tain cordial rela th France dur- ing these difficult moments."

P.E.l. Soldiers to be lleard in broadcast

GITAWA, Dec. Ia-(Cm-Names 0d men in Canada's armed forces overseas who will broadcast in Canada aundny on the "Greetings from the Beaver club" program. were issued today by National De- fence headquarters

The rogram will be heard over the na. tonal it of the Oca- adim Broadcasting 0o ration

from 12:30 to l JnIAS. .

The names inc ude:

Prince Edward Island-L. Cpl.

Ci. l’... Bell_ Stanley Bridge; Gnr. A. E. Gallant. Charlottetown; Onr. Alberton. (YITAWA, Dec. lti-(CH-Ns- t-ional Defence Headquarters to- night made public the names of Ii officers and rnen of the Canadian army overseas who will be heard Saturday on the national network of the Canadian Broadcasting cor. poration from 12:15 t0 12:80 p.111. A531‘.

The names include:-

Prince lidwlrd Island-MAI. P. B. Conrad. Charlottetown.

must finally be abandoned or destroyed. apparently refemn to omeone Slwkj-l.) 1rd 41,4...“ 1 , .1 T 1 It is still inconceivable that well provcn Nazi_ staff skill will not _ H l.‘ _ _ e s . ‘y ‘ .‘ . i ‘ .° , l‘ a ‘~‘ a. new stabilization of front in Russiil. Hitler’: c2153 wliluld} lie agfia °1 "me 0mm Nov“ iiiflrtlillixlllrltffix til l‘ ‘M31232 desperate indeed if it could not for his great crusade wo c“ ° ' He painted a dark picture of todntg Red star cailtrl f0" i‘: ex_

the

war situation in general, declaring "we're not winning this war."

“Pretty soon we'll have to wake

low the pattern oi lullpoieon’; sorry retreat irom nlosemv. In any case. it is reasonably certain that surging ltgsslan 13inch: all along the huge front are whittling down German e ances e

veflifjlilssnridlnttrinviiiiagngiiiltzilzi otlilliitnhliiiiliniiiigi} invincibility ls a myth ' he “id. “kiwi”! the Present

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tension in a campaign that is still mobile despite the terrible winter weather,

On the norihtlvrsf front, around Kalizlill, tho collllnllllitlllo also m- ported steady pro , _,_._ g4 more villarcs occlu u. m... My Mid new destructive (‘P-vs to Ger-

Air Graduate

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mnn equipment and manpower, south

With both north and danger-points thus neutral‘ the Gernlnzls sari-i ‘clrq ln ortltw io save their m‘: p" ,<_ the Red Iilflly was zlhlc to ihyovy n"? Dower into its counielpoiicn- sive against the Nazis directly west of Moscow. '

had been a. ‘Gods but was no 3W4 Whistle from No. 5 Service cause to sit back and take things Flsins Training school here. The easy. @355 receiving wings today also m- Cmdr. Connolly predicted the day Ciliflvci one lllGlllllCl‘ of the Royal was not far off when Canada would NPW Zfllllillfii Ail‘ F0111‘. T. lvicrri- hllve to find 1,000,000 men and the lees of Wellington, N.Z,

United States 11,000,000, if the Canadian graduates included; struggle is to be brought to a vic- Pflnog Ekiward 151mm; R_ y; clb

Forced downslt sea-byefire aftsern-aid over

Berlin; Paddle 57 hours in Dinghy.

By Douglas Arnarcn (Janlxclian Press Staff Writer

LONDON, Dee. l8-(CPi—_lIero- ism of the crew of a Wellington bomber set on fire in a raid Over Berlin and finally forceddown in-

News Briefs

torious conclusion.

Declaring the danger of com- placcncy was great, he said the im- possible had happened too often in th our to consider a Japanese in- of the west coast of Canada impossible.

He questioned the value of black- outs in modern war, contending their effectiveness as a handicap to tile enemy might be nullified by their effect on civilian nloraic. Ai- ter his experience with blackouts in tile first great war. he believed a reduction in lighting Just as ef- fective.

said modem navigation in-

merits, Montague. Nova Scotla: G. C. McKay. Yor- nwlltll; G. B. Robinson. Kcntville.

Scharnhor-st, Gneiseneau are Heavily bombed

M11171"? ("snatches said that. the 1117113’ of Gen. Govorov, (owl-sting Ln the ltoart of the liiogpnn-W- \\t_ had YQF-"lbtllrotl 200 settlelllozl" ills vanguard trans apprcv about 60 miles west o.’ F.

Thus the offensive ‘vvw-imr 111113915, nl along the whole M-.-_-.,“."mnt_ 0n the flanks. umst of K-wlinfn iri tho north and Top. m, q... scum

mt.‘ RM -"-l'f'il\' vrns continuing Hg Pursuit of the Germans. A fierce drive was pressed ‘-

guinsf. the Finns and German: m

the northwest. tho Russians rtrik. l"?! 1T1 the Nfivqorod wctor south of Iflllillfllflfi after roiilns: thr- Gor-

. He ATéEwTgoRig cDe°-1£9'L"D:1F"‘d“¥’|’—t struments reduced the benefits of a t 1- 0 8a fly 1B biacko t. v leports from Helsinki this m0m~ In tile case of Halifax. the fact PNDQ“; P“. 18"(CP"'“‘° lng say that “all German troops the city is practically all island with R4“ A" P019‘? ‘OMY 59m a hem/Y have been withdrawn from Finland a, water outline would make it a Wave 0f bombers against the two in o. great. hurry." The broadcast good target. Gem.“ battleship; sghgfnhgjjt

was heard here by OBS. mo Gneiseneau and the Air Min- II I Llnyan drlve

to i-he sea on the return flight was revealed in the story told by the men utlen they leached land after 5'1 hours in their dinghy.

The Wellington was one oi the 37 lanes lost ircm the waves of bum rs which attacked the Ger- man capital and other Nazi cities Nov. ‘l.

An English pilot officer making his 26th bclnb-ing raid was captain

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istly reported hits were believed to have been scored‘. Havy bomb bursts were seen on

WASHINGTON. Dec. 18 —(A'Pl

——A.lllCl‘lClil'l and Vichy authorities

The under heavy fighter tppOSitiOn and in- tmnsc anLi-ailrratt. fire. Five Bri- tish ilolllhrrs and one fiullicl- were

of the Wellington and the rest of i“ Murmmme have “inched an s the drydocks at Brest France his crew we, sergeantshn New accord. it was learned authorita- _ ,_ 1 ; i‘ ,I _~ '1 '

Zeflliifld 560011?‘ 0110i. a Scottish lively tonight. tinder which U" u e me l’ Hg’ the ups obsm-ven an English “r9155 up“- neutral status of French posses- ~amack was made

sions and naval vessels the wcstern hemisphere will remain un- chanmd.

ator and two English gunners. Wellington llit.

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DONDON, Dec. 1a -<cr>>-. Th0 WHAT YOU WANT

_ ";—"'_ Am d f- _‘ 1 1,. (1.. . l lost ill ill‘ action. Emit. enlmy . __ On the way in Berlin the Wcll- ‘LONDON. DH‘. 13-013?) —- Al- trlbeuteo ‘ffgxzivea "Ggggfin pianos \\'t3l"€ Li0\\'l'i(.‘(i, ‘HAT Couflfb ington encountered broken clouds lied military 11nd 001M051 expert’! Omar, hem-d “the axiswontral-md The Air and Home Securities "'3 WHAT YOU

were authoritatively reported to- night ho be conferring on establish- ment of a supreme war council to direct strategy. pool resources. and checkerboard their manpower n- round the globe in the fight u- uninst the axis. “Announcements of great importance ‘are expected soon," one source said.

as it crossed the sea and this thick- ened into impenetrable masses as it got into Crolmany. About 00 mile: from Berlin the anti-aircraft batteries Ol)"llt‘ll up anti the Well- inzion was hit.

The bCtZlliTCl‘ was not affected, however. and flew on to the mn- ltal where the high explosive bombs were dropped. The target was ob-

Ministries reported a single enemy

"(no and quoted wmghb by the aircraft. dropped bombs this morn-

Brltish Broadcasting Corporation:

“Never before have we experienc- ed such fierce fighting. They come at us fronl all sides and apparent- ly from nowhere with a sudrlellllrss that surprises us.

“Sometimes they iaunul as many as six or seven attacks ill the some

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 —(CPl ‘“W- —Prol1rt'ss of the conference of foreign ministers of American re- publics, called by the Pan-Ameri- can union to meet in Rio De Jan- eiro Jan. 15 will be watched close- ly by the Canadian minister to Brazil, Jean Desy, it was reported

sll Bliillkkflhlillfl‘ (torpvor- bod lilo raid ill its night llolvs Silllllllllfl’ as “one oi the big- gest lloulilvl‘ alui fil‘iltl~l' attacks of the mo.“

Ono Spitfire pilot was quoted as saying" on lllf; return:-

"It nus tllillOri illlpossihle t0 sec nllytlllllu but bin-sting shells, but the ‘bomber boys‘ sailed into ll as though they likctl it,

“I saw the bombs drop and than were some pretty‘ hefty clrplosiolts."

Tile BBC said a "terrific dog-

lieports rescue 0f survivors

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Saint John plans

(Canadian Presto

Sand for fire bombs

flAINT JOE-IN: N.B.. Dec. 18- (QFU-The City Council today de- cided to pass a try-law slon mak- ing it. compulsory for all business establishments and householders to have sand on their prcnliscs for the urpose 0f extinguishing tn- gll‘: My bfimbs 1n event of an air

Pleas have been made for the civic department of works to dis- tribute the sand.

‘The Council will consider w“- srtucting a trestle bridge to std gny necessary evacuation of residents from the city. Use of various sec- gdfll’! roads also will be consider-

litepresenlatlons will be made u. Obtain military protection for city Services. 8s well as a fire-boat and

bmtect harbor wharves

today.

orrawn. Dec. lll-ICP) _ AW.

Peterson, chief of the livestock pro- duction service of the dominion de- partment of agriculture, has been appointed livestock and meats ad-

PHEIADELPHIA, Dec. l8——(AP)--

mlnistratm‘. the wartime prices and The rescue at Se“ o; 7g survivors

trade board announced tonight.

war-ashore

A Ago Toby

(By The Canadian Press) 19, IMO-British govern-

DEC. ment took over control rmd shipping and decided

an Imperial

conference; Chamberlain

of the torpcdoed British light cruis_ er Dunedin and a graphic story or hardship and heroism was (lisclosvd here today the chief engineer of the United tates freighter Ntsh- msha,