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Police seize liestapc Agent In Havana

Giant Reflectors Were To Have Been E_r- ected On Mountain Commanding Wide Sweep Of Sea.

ANA, Dec. 1'l—(AP)—Poliee llilzflxllfwed tonight the discovery of g Nazi plot to install military 1'9- flecmrg capable of signalling planes ms ships at sea from a mountain ygpge commanding a broad view of the Atlantic Ocean off Cuba.

with models and drawings of the scheme. for which surveys already had been made. they Seized ‘me Reinhold Hahn, 61. whom theY identified as a German Gestapo agent and engineer who ofl-Ine V1 cnba on a tourist card issued in

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Belgolrilcc said the evidence uncover- (d lll the reflector plot was the most startling encountered so far in the vigorous campaign use-inst Allis spies and prollasandists since Cub! declared war in concert with me United Slates.

Accused with Hahn was a man mgr-d a5 victor Schmere Rubin. p, described as a Lithuanian who did the field survey work for the reflector plotters in Oriente Prov-

lnce.

Police said Hahn also had nude an extensive study of Cuban metal- lurgy and that Rubin had been in close touch Wiéi’! Nazi consult/es: and espionage can res. bfeanivhilc, urgency court handed out a 10-month sentence to a While Russian identified as Andres Golow- schenke milita instructor for the Notional Revo utionary Lesion. which recently was accused of 11m- llxigoacriiii/titghals lgcéiing to the arrest

' ea e s. “Othgs arrested today included a lurgeorl described. as a. former lieu- tenant of the Italian l

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SHEILBURNE. NS. Dec. 17- fcPl-Donald Firth. B. W! ti!" over and killed by a truck today- lie had lumped‘ off the bfick 01 one truck into the path of a sec-

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"Shnley Bridge Concert Decem- tn- lnfi, L-576-12-17-2l.

"School Concert at Brookfleld,

December 19th. L-539-12-l6-1B-

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"w, td to buy Chicken. Fowl. lslandqgold Storage. L-219-7-9-il-

"Freetown School Concert. Bird‘ (irovo Hall. Friday, December 19th. L-fil1-l2-l8~zi.

"Concert and Dance in Brad- llhane Hall, December 19th. If nit line December 22nd. L-01s-12-l0-1i.

"Nine Mile Creek Concert. Friday- lf not fine, Saturday. Admission 15c llld 10c. L-025-12-lB-1i.

"School Concert. Pleasant Grove day, December 22nd. L-6l0-l2-l8-1l.

"Resolve Thursday, December 18th. Mt. Herbert School Concert. L-30l-l2-8-l8.

“liartsville School Christmzs Witt in Hartsville Hall. Saturday. December 20th. L-597-l2-l8-20.

"Mount Melliclc School Concert, Pwnsl Hall, December a rd. L-sca-ia-ls-il

"Clyde River school Concert in Clyde River Hall, Saturday, Dec- embil‘ 20th. 10-572-12-18-31.

c“ Come to Graham's Road School ncert Friday, December 19th. L-212-12-5-l0. .

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Situation Last Night

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

A wide Nazi-retreat In Russia, grimly reminiscent of Napoleon's back-track from Moscow, now is admitted by Hitler's headquamns although its full scope and strategic significance can not yet be assessed.

Hitler reeks to explain this first smashing defeat for German armies in this war by laying that lIueo are being shortened for a stabilized winter front. But the explanation is Insufficient. Strategic ground conquered at an enormous cost in German blood is being yielded almost without a. struggle, There must be a deeper design behind the Nazi withdrawal. hurried by the exultant Russians.

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successes In Libya, where polelblll-

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Explanations For retreat

NEW YORK, Dee. 1'1—(AP)— A variety o: explanations of the German withdrawals on the Russian front comes over the German radio.

To one announcer Germany is fighting u. "positional war." An- other sayl the front is in u "state of paralysis." A third says

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Action affects men heading units caught napping by Japanese attack December 7.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-((_'l')-'l‘he army find navy

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flu of early and crushing victories over battered Axis force; loom, tho German retreat lu Russia underscores a. bitter winter prospect for Hitler and his satellites. unless it has other potentialities. No- where except in Japan's initial Pacific successes against Britain and the United States can they find relief from the dreary picture; and those first fruits of Japanese treachery are far from conclusive. I O I U

The fight in the major cockpit of the war, the Atlantic, still ls trending against the Axis aggressor-a as much as the battles In Nortn Africa or in Russia. It is utterly-illogical to believe that Nazi military master minds can accept n purely defensive role for the winter, leav- ing the offensive to their Japaneso ally while Axis forces are rallied and begroomed for o. new attack on Russia next year.

The line-shortening retreat In Russia. has exposed the Germans for tho first time to all the confusion and morale- ' danger of backward military ' Rugglgn ' , i, [cgluen]

after months of campaigning that yielded them none but negative victories, are making the most of their opportunities,

Null generals could have enacted nothing less, once they ordered the great retirement. It seems In progres; from the Inulngrad slego perimeter in the north to the Sou of Azov coast In the south. Winter weather conditions make this Nazi retreat even more hazardous and certain to involve losses In men and fighting equipment than those "l6 Russians suffered time after time is “my were driven eastward earlier in the year,

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Line shortening to military minds moons conservation of forces. either to gather reserves for n. new major uttuok later, or becpugg n; exhaustion of manpower. Present contours of the German {rang m Russia indicate that a winter defence llne could be established from I-enlnsrfld l0 Mnflnllnl. lo shortened and boatloued by natural de. ‘"1"! ""1 "lifninfll by adequate communication lines that many divisions could be released for other service.

l MMV"! "m"! in nWf-Pll Tillie! over reported Nazi prepara- t ons to winter vast force: withdrawn from Ruslil in Bulgaria point] to uuothe possibility. The Turkish route to Russian or British oil fields can not be overlooked. It might be for that the Nazi line-shortening retreat in Russia is in progr-m, ,.

Whatever its true import, however, It can not mean Nazi aband- glffil? if "l0! 88841181". or oven u halt in the attack long enough m t the ‘airs n t ohy France, In the troubled Balkans nr in Japan

a c s has exhausted its hitting power In Europe. Hitler's pres- “lge and ""5 “milk "f hi! "ml! Ind his people forbid him a. defen- invflngll: gseeasleftaelllng back before Moscow, by every Indication’ only

Red Army Lengthens Stride In Offensive

Claims recapture of hundreds of towns and villages from Germans.

(By Henry C. Cassldy) (Associated Press Staff writer-i MOSCOW. Doc . l7-—(AP)-The

Red army lengthened the stride o.‘ its December offensive tcday in practically all sectors from far north of Leningrad to the Black Sea, re- claiming hundreds of towns and vil- lages from German occupation.

News Briefs

relieved the ranking officers of the Hawaiian area of their commands tonight because the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor caught United States defence forces by surprise.

weather conditions are hinder- ing the Germans. A fourth ex- plains that “it is sometimes nec- essary to withdraw soldiers if

NEW YORK, Dec. 17—(AP)—"A mayor earthquake is again re rteu from Eastern Turkey." sal the Paris radio in a dispatch heard to. day by NBC. "Considerable damage ls said to have been caused but de- tails are not as yet on band."

BUENOS AIRES. Dec. l7—(AP)— Germany has plotted to sabotage the export of Bolivian tin and le.d to the United States by wrecking railways over which the important war metals are shipped it was re- ported today. These rail lines run hrough Ch 1e as well as Bolivia. The Nazi plot has been thwarted. it was stated in information re- celved here from Bolivia, where the

vlunglng through the hole made in the German lines b the rout of six divisions from Kal nin. 95 mil s northwest of the capital, the {mt- movlng Red offensive was said by the government to have taken Vyso- koe 40 miles to the west. Other re- noris said another town five miles farther on had been captured.

Here, what was left of these six German divisions apparently was too disorganized to offer effective resistance. while in the Tula region. 100 miles south of the capital, scrre Germans were said to be so H's- plritad that they were taking to their; heels without putting up a

8 . (The BBC heard by CBS. said the Germans had been driven back

government has imposed a. atriot censorship. -

MANILA, Dec. l8-—('l‘hurlday)-— (AH-Ono hundred and sixty two persons, lncludlnfi several promin- ent Philippine po tlcol leaders, were reported minim today In tho olnk- ipg of the P p Inc inter-island steamship Corre dor, blown up

ester-day by u mine near Manila

ay. Two hundred and‘ twenty-lev- on ponons won known to have been saved, though many were injured.

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Stalemate in llew York's Fur Industry

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NEW YORK, Dec. 1'1 —(AP) - Tho New York fur industry has struck a temporary stalemate, in- formed sources said willy. Willi hundreds of thousands of its il-

up without buyers at pr oea

ed.

Through July. August and Sep- tember. the finished fur business underwent a. tremendous boom. with everybody from trapper and fur farmer to manufacturer and retailer of the finished garment to the future, time

d. Then, silddcnly and unexpected ly, on Oct. 1. when tho new f

Place obstructions In ll. Y. harbor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1'I—(AP)—— Obstructions between Hoffman Isi- and and Norton Point in New York harbor have been com feted and the onlv entrance to the arbor now is * “""°‘i..;‘».s“i.‘l'€. tétiifl-ltflflli an one t°.i“°..°.“;ii.'“é'llll.fi"fi.iht‘.s“tt’ filféfiliiiél“ “élfii” "féi-‘lfé’

v ro - m", - if‘ d arbor lvivalnnfmmbeglw m. "ff essels enuring Portion l! . f o I 60min- Mq“ were d for ex- cation, with the war declarations amlnatlon and positive dontifico- further muddling the situation. tion by the harbor entrance patrol "mm are nmidiecs of thou-

sands of furs available in the mur- glfm‘ Ina" w.“ lret hen and elsewhere." udd the a “d 0mm my“ Nu“ editor of a fur trade journal. "but ragahsett Bay, R. I unless there

the asking prices must be adjusted was a spfilc licence from the cs9-

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THE LATE MR. HENRY SMITH

Charlottetown lost one of its most outstanding citizens early this morning by the death of Mr. Henry Smith, retired Clerk of the Queen's County (lourt. He passed away at 3 am. at the home of his

ssn-in-law. Lt.-Co1. K. S. Rogers. after an illness of about three weeks

The deceased was born at Char- lottetown Nov. 25. 1851 and resid- ed here all his life. He received his education in the City schools and earl in life was appointed Clerk of t e County Court a posit-ion he fulfilled faithfully and well for ov- er 40 Years. Since his retirement from that office. he devoted an increasing amount of time to

the betterment. of the, city,’ serving ,

for a time as chairman of the (Jharlottetown school Board. sec- retary of the Prohibition Commis- sion, as well as carrying on various church activities.

The late Mr. smith was .'o*.ive in the preparation of the present Prohibition Act.

During his lifetime he was ac- tively connected with The First Methodist Church. later Trinity United Church.

He was officially connected with the above Church for over fifty years, in various capacities. and until his death was a member of the Sfisicn and Official Bond be- lnlz also a member of the ‘Trustee Board.

For many years he taught the Mons‘ Bible Class in the Sunday .8rh"ol

-' thirty-five years he was Re- cc r"_ Stsivarci’ of the First Mcl‘icdl=t Church retiring in 1925 at the time o-f Church Union.

F31‘ mflnil Years he was an ol- ficlcl deleélate to the Maritime Conference of the former Melhfidist Church. an-d later to tho Confer- ence of the United Church. He had

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Tc conserve oil

WASHINGTON. Dec. 17-—(AP)— Harold Ickes. United States defence Detro cum co-ordinator. sonny up- proved a far-reaching oil conser- vation program for California which he said was designed to as- silre an adequate fuel supply for United States and allied forces flshtins Japan in the Pacific.

"llold on” is Words to troops At Hong Kong

LONDON, Dec. 17—(GP)-—“H0id

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onlnrd Mo ne. Colonial secretary. disclosed nl m that he has cabled Hong ong this message after the Crown Colony rejected a second Japanese overtime for its ’“ll'it‘l‘.’°‘"o. w t lh e message en e commendation of the British-gov- emment to the colony's governor, sir Mark Young, for his turning down fiatl all Japanese overtures. Sir Mark Pyliuntlyotogltilextt-léllp- anese n ref) n8 er u a- tum that he “is 110$ DNDlNd i0 receive any further communication from them on the sublect" of oo- pnfil:golkouioes reported a. first Japanese ultimatum to Hong Kong last Saturtdhy. ‘Iihelynsagdntleieislapé

anese sen a. m sso son utrxlélephatwhilte fllatg in the emerging a w en return a -

31-day afternoon before expiration 0f the deadline it was told that

Hong Kong would not ca-pitulate.)

PARISH PRIEST PASSES

NEW GLASGOW. NS. Dec. l'l-- (CH-Rev. John J. McKlnnon, 82, Roman Catholic Parish Priest here for l! years. died tonight at 8t. Join my Baptist Gide 3,80.

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desert, troops hammering

Erwin Von Rommel amid

advancing.

at Alem l-Zamza, 30 miles southwest

they have advanced too far."

And there are others. A_ Ber- lin broadcast to India and the Fa: East said: “It la merely a question of facilitating commun- icatlons with the rear, and of control of the already-occupied territory."

A survey of German broad- casts on various wavelengths re- corded hero by CBS and NBC shows that tho Germans are not

lking about tho Russian front very much, ‘but when they do they spend most of the time in explanations, and they repeated- lv pay tribute to the stubborn fighting qualities of the Soviet oc.

Whereas Russian front news occupies most of the broadcasts when the Germans are march- ing Victoriously, the broadcasts now are devoted mostly to the Pacific war.

The BBC, noting the detailed and varying German explan- atlans of the Russian advances. sa :-

“No one is likely to be deceiv- ed by these explanations. Even a Vichy radio station. at Al- glers, had tho audacity to re- mark: ‘As we do not know where the Germans mean to ascend thelvvinteruét is difficult

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"retreat," which the Russians apply to the German forces. nnfl “strategic retreat," which the Germans use.’ "

Light Bruiser Dunedin sunk

‘ LONDON. Dec. 1'1 —(CP) - The light cruiser Dunedin has been sunk in the Atlantic, the admiralty announced tonight.

The 4.850-ton ship, launched in November. 1918. carried a normal complement of 450 men and mount- ed six six-inch guns.

A German submarine torpedocd the slip in the Atlantic, a. oom- munlque said. Whether any of the aew was rescued was not announc.

PRIME MINISTER, KING UITAWA- Defi- 17—iCPI—-Fl‘0ll’l

Great Britain, the United States and from every province lll the Dominion. messages of ccngrsztna- Ell‘? stain?" “S” P“.f.‘2f “’“'"

9 1Z1 —hi 87th birthday, g “y 5

But the Pl‘l_ll'le_ Minister, immers- 8d in a multiplicity of tasks. had little tune to read them at the mllment. since the anniversary brought no let-up irl _the heavy routine of his TASDOD-Slbllitles.

M13 Km; W88 busy; at his Laurier House office fhroug out the mom- i118 find‘ presided at a long session of the cabinet war committee this afternoon, -

The Prime Minister's cabinet "1 .. marked the birthday of their leader with a giant bouquet of 6'7 Premier roses and he receiv- ed a variety of ifls.

He was born . 1'7, 1874, Berlin (not. Kitchener). Ont., and l-i 6 blwlielol‘ wit-h few interests Quieide the dfmflnds of public life in which he has played a leading Dart in Canada since 1900, with one break of a few years.

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Portugal Cabinet Meets; Grave Events reported

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LISBON. Doc. 17 --(AP) -- The govcrnlncnt announced late tonight that ‘the cabinet had held a special meeting "i0 deal with grave ev- ents which may have occurred in the colony of Timer."

It did not say what these events were, but said clarification is being awaited before informing the country fully,

Timor 1s an island, half Portu. Kllese and half Netherlands. ly- l-n! in the East In-dies between Ja- yo. and Australia.

Desert drive Continues in Sandstcrms

CAIRO. Dec. 1'1 —(AP) -British at the waning tank strength of Lia-Gen. raging sandstorms were more than 150 miles inside Libya tonight and still

Pmilizuese Tlnlor i5 only 450 miles from Darwin, Australia. with come neighboring isles, it has on area of 7,330 square miles and a Population of about 465.000,

Its principal value is in its ex- ports of such items as coffee. 30pm and sflndahvood to the morhcl- country. _

It has a small military tome 0i about 300 natives and ahondful of white men.

The entire island is mountainous.

Rich oil state invaded by JapaneseTroops

Find All Oil Field Equipment Utterly Destroyed.

The main battle areas still were

of Gazala, and at l-lalegh El Ole- bam. about the same. distance west of Gazala. At the latter point the British forces rapidly outflankcxl axis reserves and supply bases in a battle of annihilation with which they hope to open up the road to Dcrna.

Gazcla itself was a third battle scene because some axis units were clustered along the seaooast there. but the British command appar- ently regards this area as little more than a mop-up job.

En route to Gaznla from Tobruk. a communique said. 40 more aban- doned German and Italian guns and several anti-tum guns were picked up.

Royal Air Pioroe planes operating under heavy weather dwiculties beat off axis aircraft endcavorhn!’ to hold up tho British troops and successfully attacked axis transport columns moving to the rear. in! communique said.

Blame 4-year-old For setting firc

SINGAPORE, Dec. A Japanese expeditionary force has lnvadedfltc rich Mlri oil country of Sarawak, Brltlsh-protmtcd king- dom of the white rajahs on the northwest coast of Borneo, but has found the refinery and all oil field equipment utterly destroy- ed by withdrawing British forces, it was announced today.

A Ja anesc destroyer was hit di- rectly y a bomb from n Nether- lands plane while sunpt-rtlng tho landing, the Netherlands East 1n- dies command disclosed.

This latest Japanese move round- ed out a. vast invasion reitnngle in the South China Sea. m corners touching the crown colony of Hong Kong, the Philippine island Luzon. northern Malaya and Sara-

YARMOUTH. N -. . 1'f- (CP)—A coroner's jury decid to- day that four-year-old Wallace Amirault started the fire that claimed the life of h three- months-old brother Rufus in their home last Pride .

The younger c ild was suffocat- ed by 8m0lfe from o small blaze that started in his bedroom while the youngsters’ mother was out of the house. The older brother. ac- cording to inquest evidence, addicted to playing with Ind once previously had started a m h l» homo.

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wok. the last a country of 50.000 ‘was square miles which has been ruled