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13 Locomotives Damaged By Fire

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“$1.1” ‘I3 locomotives, six of them at a transcontinental WW- W9" buried under debris as the roof of m; roundhouse. one wall and the main smoke ‘ ‘ wel-o demolished in a two-hour blaze. It was estim- ated some time would elapse before the locomotives will be available for service.

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from four earthquakes last and this morning were said to

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no accumts check could yet made. i

(A " Chile, quoted advices from Argentina as saying that 5.000 persons were either dead or injured. This dis- patch added that Chilean Presi- dent Juan Antonio Rios had off- ered Chilean co-operation in the rescue work.)

Victims of the disaster were be- ing taken by rail, road and plane to Mendoza, b miles from San Juan, where municipal and impro- vised array hospitals and an cm- ergency city of 5,000 army tents, hrown up overnight, received the

‘ lnhabitan of the almost destroyed city of 30.000.

Emergency appeals were issued for immediate shipments of drugs and othq medical supplies, and word was received here that a group of Chilean doctors was pre- paring to fly from Santiago, about 170 miles from San Juan.

After three quakes during the night - the first at 8:30 p. m- and the next two at 2:24 and 2:26 a. nL-a fourth tremor was said to have rocked the city at. approxi- mately a a .m.. destroying more buildings and hampering rescue

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WASHINGTON, Jan. l6-—(AP) A "far-reaching" reorganization oi the United States State depart- ment. designed to prepare it for the responsibilities ahead in win- ning the war and making a secure peace, was romulgated Saturday night in a artmental order by Stare Secretary Cordell Hull.

Top officers oi the department are to be relieved of administrative duties to some extent in order to concentrate on vital world affairs. "18 dellartment announced, while new division. are crested to deal with new problems of internation- al nature which arise from this Wlifllrya weightles- world role.

The Work of high departmental officers is to be co-ordinated more. closely through two new commit- tees on which Hull will serve as

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By JOSEPH E- DYNAN

ALGLERS. Jan. l6 - (AP) — Prime Minister Churchill, healthy, robust and active in Allied war council; again; has reached agree- ment with Gan. Charles De Gaullc on British-French national com- mittee co-operatlon toward a com- mon victory in a conference at Msrrltkech, French Morocco, it was announced today.

The two lender; were said to have conferred in a "most cordial atmosphere" on such questions as the arming of Dc Gsullcs under- ground follcwers in Wang/and the government of terrltcl s ul- tlmatelv to bc liberated by Allied armies in ill-once.

A French announcement said w- clay that Mr. Churchill had re- viewed the entire question oi French co-operation with the French leader 111F108 I 1011s’ con- ierencs last Wednesday in French Morocco. -

It was the first announcement of Mr. Churchill's whereabouts slnca the disclosur exactly a month ago that he had been strick- en with pneumonia somewhere in the Middle East. a

Thn official French announce- ment of the meeting said the two leaders reviewed “the prlllclliiil questions interesting to Franco- Brltlsl-l relations as well as the dif- ferent ayects oi’ co-cperatlon for a common victory."

Pending matter, which the two men had an opportunity to dim!" were plans for the continental in- vsslon. tn. leadership and particl- pation of french troops. establish- ment oi a provisional French government after the invasion. and the pending treason trials of some former French leader, on whol: behalf the British and U11” States governments are knownnto have mode "informal inquiries.

Gen. l) Gaulls is IQDOYW! have discussed the uraoncy vi sending munitions to French Dill" riots to be used in easlns "i0 1"- vaslol-l through the sabotas“ 0f Na“ ‘gommuaiggglglflb and M080!!! qnMI-‘Ieolllbl-‘Iclllll u rcmrted w hi" replied that he would investigate tho matter but made no definihl assurances or ‘commitments.

The Allied high command P01- icy, following the advice oi GIGA- Henri Giraud. nder- n- chief of French forces. l!" b": to sand arms to trained Franc soldiers rather than to the under-

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ZAZI CITY 0F BRUNSWICK “QEASES T0 EXIST’

2.000 Tons 0f Bombs Wreck Airplane Plants

LONDON, Jan. 10—(AP)—Tha German airplane manufacturing oi Brunswick has “ceased to oxis " after the R. A. F.- R. C. A. F‘. 2.000-tcn bombinl Friday night, a st.-. .. AL!“ d-_ Neutral reporters estimated that 12.000 person, were killed and 50.- 000 bombed out.

The R. A. F. at the same time an- nounced that nearly 30 per cent cf Lcipizgi moat donscly built-up areas had been dev fated in the surprise assault o! . 3.

Air activity today from Britain was restricted to offensive patrols by R. A. F. Spitfires and Typhoonll. Typhoon fighter-bombers attacked supply buildings in Britanny near Morlsix. dropping their bombs

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squarely on the targets tom heights of 150 feet. All the planes returned.

Planes were heard last heading toward France but thero was no immediate announcement oi the targets they had attacked German raiders dropped bombs last night at scattered points in Eng- _lnnd and caused an alert in Lon- ldon. One raider was destroyed.

ILL-Col. D. c. spFy Promoted To Brig.

OTTAWA. Jan. l6-(CP)—De- fence headquarters ‘ an- nounced promotion to rank oi brig- adler of LIL-Col. Daniel Charles

. 3W1. one o o youngest off cers of that rank in the Canadian Army, was born ill Winnipeg. member of n family long connected with Can- ada's armed forces.

He ls a son oi tho late Mal-Gen. D. W. B. Spry. and began his mil- itary career in i932, when he was commissioned in the Princess Lou- ise Fusiliers, Halifax. immediately after leaving Dalhousie Univers- ity. Two years later he transferred to thsRoynl Canadian Regiment, with which he has been actively identified throughout the present Will‘.

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War Situation Last

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Crush! in a ' srlp of a t“ , victory

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How long German morale can bear up under the tide of defeat that has dogged the Nlll war machine ashore, afloat and in the nir- for more than I2 months no man knows. There is no authentic hint yet of an 2m- Wlldllll ‘ ' crack-up to predictions of "‘ man surrender gnflalrllid, but there is every evidence that the supreme test will come this

Tile laws oi the Russian-Allied death trap devised at Teheran are beginning to crunch, swiftly to the cad. slowly in the south. The oi;- at- tacks upon Germany are remorseless.

_ Russian victories since Teheran that have torn a gaping halo in the critical centre of the Nazi east front and threaten 1,000,000 or more Gor- man troops in thl- south with enrlrclemcni and annihilation, are due in part i0 lllled battle than , ’

What actuallly has happened to the Nazi front in Russia grimly re- fill" W") Berlin: attempt to picture an orderly falling back to conserve finpower and wear out Russian offensive capacity by a flexible, yielding

once.

The fact is that the alread over-extended German front in Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea. has been extended further by Russian successes west of the Dnleper. _

Laid out on the battle-line contours, the defeat-haunted Nazi armyI in the cast. svcu ignoring its trapped elements in "lg Crimea, ls at- tempting to hold a from nearly 2,000 miles long as compared to the short golnt hoped for in a retreat to the Leningrad-Dnleper line from the

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German armies are still intact, it is true. The Russians hive not yet closed an_ major trap like that at Stalingrad upon any considerable number of Nazi troops in the Dnlepcl- bend or elsewhere except in the Crimea. Yet they have useid their over-whelmlng preponderance in man- power effectively in stretch the German front dangerollflly thin along the whole llns from the BnIlIc to the Black Sea.

Simultaneously. the Allied cross-channel air attack on Germany. the invasion coast and its hinterland has depleted greatly the Nani air power in ills east at the moment it is most vitally ‘ ’ against the Russian juggernaut.

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AN R. C. A. F. EAST COAST

I ALGIERS. Jan. l6—-(AP)—Unit- Icd states troops oi the Allied 5th Army in a sloshing frontal attack today captured Mount Trocchio. last mountain fortress blocking thr. way to Cussino. and now overlook that bastlcn only two airline mllco away. a special headquarters com- munlque announced tonight.

The ininntrymen speedily con- solidated positions atoll the iono- idnblo mountain south oi the town alter srcrming it in a two-sided

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Mal-Gen. iickcs I I Heads Division I

ALGIERS, Jan. l6-(CP)_H_- Gen. Chris Vokos, 39. of Winnipeg and Ottawa, Canada's youngest 801191111» l8 in c-mmand oi s Ca- nadian division in Italy. it was of- a flclally announced today. l

VORBS. a huBE. raw-boiled man more than six feet tall. command- ed the 2nd infantry brigade or the Canadian 1st Division in Sicily where he won the D. S. 0. no had under him in that brigade the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. th e selllllll-h Hiishlanclers of Canada. s. Vancouver unit and the Princess Patricias Canadian light infantry a permanent force unit,

Vokcs took ovor the divisional command after the invasion of the mainland had begun.

His promotion from brigazlier m acting miller-general and the nom- mand oi an infantry division was announced Nov. 5 and it was tell. B" 101' granted then ho would com- mand the 1st Division, replacing MEL-Gen. Guy Slmonds of King. stun, Ont. who was appointed at me “me time to command an or. motel! division.

Vokes is admired by his men be. "use he ls a rcush. Outspoken sol-

hs can be as tough as they come.

Until he went to Sicily. his ca- l-eer was like that of a score oi oth_ er vounc officers. It was steady but few thought ho had reached the status of possible divisional com. mand timber.

After a couple oi minor field ap- pointments. he was taken into Ca- nadian military headquarters Wheffl I-hvy tried to make a staff officer out of him. But Vokcs didn't want a staff job.

N. B. Pilot Brings Home Damaged Plane

‘ aoanas’1='wofl‘1‘lrlit"il‘an-_1s-_" (CPM — Wounded while he was attacking three Japanese fighters returning to their advanced Bur- ma base after escorting bombers in an attack on Calcutta. Flt. Sgt. T. Carter of (116 Spas-cove Rd l Saint John successfully shook cif the attacks oi four more Japanese and brought llLs. damaged aircraft] back to base.

Cannon and machine gun bursts enveloped his aircraft during the fight and one shell exploded in his cockpit Hi5 control cables were cut and his siarbcard landing- wheel was damaged .

"When I finally landed and saw the damage my aircrrf: Ind with- stood. l wondered how it surviv- ed." hc said. "I had a pretty hard

BAaE, Jan. lo-(Cl-l-An MC A. F. bomber piloted by eFlt. Lt. R.W. Aldwinklc or Verna, Ont, has been credited with the probable sinking of one of the two Gennan sun- marlnes spouted recently during a routine north Atlantic patrol, was announced tonight. Aldwinkle nnd hi5 crow did not whenthey

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Beyond Cassino the mountains open into a wide vallev leading toward Rome 70 miles be- yond.

French troops swinging Ill upon Casslno from the northeast at the some time have seized two morn

assault launched nt 6.30 pm. Sat- I 1m, g0 shake them org)’ I T088961 ‘ shell splinter which struck him be-

clalm a probable sinking ed th ir base — they

return to e thought they nnd failed-but pic- tures taken curing Um fzght showed the U-bcot probably was sent to the bottom by the last of their depth charges.

It was after the supply of charges

KENTVILLE, N. 3., Jan. 16 - (CPJ —- Several employees of a hotel here became richer by a to- tal of $236 last night and today the obvious answer was that Harry

F. McLean, the millionaire oon- ran out than. the crew spotted a tractor from Merrickvllle, Ont, second sub but, nil they could do was in town. rake it with ‘line-gun fire Most fortunate employee was pend it into a crash dive. Ruby Costello. zilyearoldbellhop TM crew l-lwilded FQ- E. J- from Charlottetown, who got s20 Brady. Vancouver. co-oflet. P0. R- gm- ¢afrylng yvlcmnm tmvemng ha; Y. Bedmish, Toronto, from gull»-

ner. F0. P.G. Hughes, Courtney, ., navigator, Flt. Sgt. John G. ffs, Vancouver, wireless nir aun- homllfiili, Sgt. Imn, dJliaflcson, qglronltlo,

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to his room and then cumo in for a series of lips that ran the totallgfl i‘. to $96.

Dorothy Btronach, the llousekcpper, was greeted by Lean in a corridor with the re-_ mark: "Every tim¢ 1 meet you. a Qwcnty is yours." She got $20 then, and another when McLean ran across her later.

Two nzaids were making up McLean's rccrn when he appear- ed and handed them s00 apiece.

An R. _A. F. officer who cams up to the hotel desk while Mc- lean was checking out had thrust upOn him. l-le tried to re- fuse but McLean walked off.

men had been uut for hours before they spotted the U-boat. “It was about five miles mva -a fully surfaced soc-ton German artno, painter; n ‘ iu-own." he continued. “We couldn‘ believe our was. We'd done a lot oi trols without “ one o

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nAl IIILIN GUIQIING B GM‘, 22.116 —h(A.P)- Jlinls osep Goeb- bels has all ueclla csling about a shadow and s’ on mark. Poa- torg appeared overaldht on the ruins of bombed billldinga on walls, pill- ars, and on newsplper front pag- es showing the shadow of a man in n slouch hat, with a bis question mark. Aftonbladetb Berlin corros-

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villages and additional heights. pounding within five miles of the powerfully - fortified German stronghold.

Vigorous patrolling continued on the 8th Army Front to the cast‘ where Canadian Ist Division troops are on the ‘Bth Army's right flank.

Headquarters disclosed that Maj.- Gen. Christopher Vokes, D. S. 0.. of Winnipeg and Ottawa was com- mending a Canadian division in ‘ital showed plenty of zig-zag action down below. Another clump of depth bombs wont over, but the German got out oi the way in time. The Carladlum were down to their last two charges and thulgs weren't looking bright. They swocrped low, and turned thcm

use. Ono c e fell BWBIY ahead of the subm e. and somewhat to port. The splash. as it entered tho water, seemed to be foo far away to do any harm. But the pictures

ken dur the action showed that the U- at conunander must h on a “zig" when he should have taken s. "nag." He zi - gcd himself right into s.

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“ e couldn't sec any DOEIIIL; or anything like that so we flew a- round far a while." acid Aklwinkle. “And I'll be darned If we didn't 890i: another sub. ’I'llis was a dif- ferent on?“ different in size nnd

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GRASS FIRES IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE, Australia. l6 (AP) - Week end fires burned off thousands of acres cf grazing land in the livestock producing re- gions of Victoria, destroyed herds of sheep and cattle and killed at least l8 persons. .

FORMER. ACTOR AWARDED MEDAL

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WASHINGTON, Jun. 16 — (AP) ~Ths Silver Star Medal has been awarded LL-Cmdr Douglas banks, Jl‘., former movie actor. for “outstanding service during action at Salerno" whore the 5th Army cs- tsbllshed its first beachhead in the invasion of Italy the United States Natl announce

By RUSSELL LANIIBTROM i

LONDON. Jan. 16—-<APP)--Gen., Dwlght D. Eisenhower, former com- I mander of tho triumphant Allied; forces in North Africa and the Me- l dlterraneon ha, arrived in Britain‘, to direct the Allies’ greatest effort. of all-the western attack on llit-' ler's pristling European fortress.

The brief announcement of his arrival was made by the "supreme headquancra of the Allied expedi- tionary force." ncwcat and most

eiy centres The First Bulletin

The bulletin, the first from the headquarters, said:-

"lt now can be announced that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has assumed the duties in the United

‘ " assigned him by the com- bined chiefs of staff.

“On hi; joumoy from the Medl- terranean to the United Kingdom he had conferences with the pres- ident and the prime minister. "

The United States Way» Depart- ment disclosed immediately that en route from the Mediterranean to Britain Gen. Eisenhower had silent "a fow days" in Washington wherehe conferred with President Roosev t and Golf. George C. Marsha . Chief of Staff.

Meantime it was disclosed that

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