Maritime automobile deal- ers attending the convention of the Federation of Automoo bile Dealers Associations of

Canada at the Banff Springs Hotel recently included the four here, Perley Roy, New- castle, N.B., W. R. Jenkins,

Controversy Revived 0n Prisoner Killing

LONDON (CW—Controversy about whether Canadian troops killed enemy prisoners durin the Second World War is re. rived in the correspondence col-

5 of The Daily Telegraph here.

H. D. Ziman former Daily Telegraph war correspondent with the First Canadian Army. In a long letter complains the author of a recent book on part of the Normandy campaign mis- interpreted statements about Canadian troops slaying Ger- mans who were trying to sur-

ender.

Alexander McKee's book, Caen: Anvil of Victory. cites in- cidents which the author says involved atrocities perpetrated by Canadian soldiers.

A book review by David Woodward in The Daily. Tele- graph prompte'd Mela in ' a letter which appeared Sept.

ll. McKee said it was hard to tr

find evidence of the Germans shooting British and Canadian prisoners “b e c a u s e the wit~ nesses even now would be risk- ing a war crimes ' ’

"The British and Canadians Were not so reticent." SCENE DESCRIBED ‘ "I myself was a witness. later in the c ‘n. to a typical example where there was uncertai whether a group of SS (German elite guard) men coming out of a louse were surrendering or not: they were in any case shot down. It was not customary l in the Canadian army at any rate) to give anyone the benefit of the doubt."

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“The words he q u o te 5 ac- tually come from an article I was invited to contribute to the Canadian forces‘ newspaper. the Maple Leaf, and my remark men who had ‘fought like wild dervishes’ were found by the captu to be ‘really quiet, civilized. calm and well- disciplined' after the battle in no way supports his allegations.

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Castro May Yank Materigls In The Bahamas

NASSAU (AP) — Bahamian Government sources are spec-l ulating that Cuban mier, Fidel Castro might 'tave openedl an air route between Cuba andI Nassau in the hope that he. could bring home badly-needed American materials from the} Bahamas. ‘

“We have told him that we will detain and deport any pas- sengers coming. in from Cuba on his planes.” one high gov- ernment source said. “Tha - would make it rather pointless for him to operate a passenger servi

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ce. ‘ e had overlooked the pos- sibility that he might try to buyl American spare parts. machin-l, cry and other goods and fly_ them to uba. . “He can buy these goods in“. Nassau just as well as he could; in Miami (Florida)." l Government officials were re-i ported in: the ama's customs laws, trying to find one that could be used to block such aerial shipments out of the islands. i COULD DRAFT LAW If none is found, one source. said, the government of thel British colony could call the‘ cabinet into session to ‘ regulations which would cover the situation. i The government - operated Cubana Airlines flew a Rus- sian - built Ilyushin plane to Nassau Monday and announced it would fly a weekly schedule between here and Havana. The

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mark. Cascade Mountain. Af- ter the convention Mr. Jenkins went to Vancouver. He ex- pects to return here early next. week.

some men in some units wouldi not give the enemy the chancel to surrender. If so, it was notl known to me, and Mr. M.cKeel admits that many of those he questioned said that they had

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be—is quite different from kill- ing unarmed captives. Mr. Mc- Kee does give an account of one frenzied soldier emptying his ten gun into a row of prison- ers captured by another unit. He also tells of men from a

ing around and slitting the throats of enemy wounded till they were brought to reason by their offiers’ revolvers.

“These horrible incidents (if they really occurred) were iso- a t e d atrocities incompatible with either discipline or human- ity. And even 20 years after- wards I am perfectly certain that I never heard of such ac- tion during the whole campaign or alluded to it ‘in a back- handed way.‘ "

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CCLF Member Gets Sask. Seat

REGINA tCPl—R. A. Walker, former CCF attorney-general, will be declared officially the member of the Saskatchewan legislature for Henley constitu- ency. leaving Liberal Industry Minister Herb Pinder without a seat in the assembly.

The 48 hours allowed Mr Finder in which to appeal a dis- trict court decision awarding the seat to Mr. Walker elapsed Monday. Mr Pinder said Tues- day he had launched no appeal

The minister said he would make no further statement on his position or his plans until Mr. Walker’s election to the Hanley seat has been declared officially in a forthcoming issue of the Saskatchewan Gazette.

When Mr. Walker is declared elected. the CCF will have 26 seats in the Sit-seat assembly. the Liberals 32 and the Progres- sive Conservatives one.

In official counting of ballots in the April 22 provincial elec- tion, the Liberals won 33 seats,

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LONDON ‘AP'—Que€" Eliza} of the Royal 22nd Regiment

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FOR during inspection of loo-man

guard of honor on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday

beth will sign a proclamation' Friday diSsolving Parliament, as _ necessary prelude to the British her “sue at Emal‘ 5”” ‘ national election Oct. 15. e land, where she has been vaca-

on the staff of The Daily Tele- graph.

Queen will travel by train from tioning, to place her signaturei

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on the document at a meeting. of her Privy Council at BuckL ingham Palace. ‘

marking the regiment's 50th anniversary. Guard Comman- der (right) is Maj. Jean-Marc Fournier of Montreal. Goat- keeper is Pte. Jean Cavineau of Quebec City. (C? Wirephoto

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