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Commg Events "Minstrel Show, Cardigan, - lay, July 10th. 731N931. "Show — Murray ibarbor South. Iaturday. 7-12-21.

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uris until Mon . July 29. vestock Marketing srd. 43-21 "Buying live try t Frederic-

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"Ice Cream and Dence. Kinkora Hall. Julv 16th. Simmer-allele Orch- estra. 43-16-21.

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" . Smunerfleld Hall, Mon- day, July id. special music. Spon- sored by Mrs. Cirrley and Mrs. lawless. 7-10-10-21.

"On hand, As t Sh . RcoImQ, Plastic nalment. “fin. Wire. . T. Bowman. llupilaerritiver.

"Ice Cream and Dance, Fort Augustus Hall, Friday. July 19th. Grab box attraction. Webster's Corner W, I. 7-7-81.

"Reserve Iirida . July 20, for ice cream festival an dance at Rustico Cross School. Don Mesaers Orches- tra. 7-13-14-19-19-20

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ship- captured Tinpak, 170 miles south- nd wt said enemy forces at Dong Dang

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AFEILDOORN. nounma. July 12-(0? Cable) — Repatriation of Canadian soldiers from the con- tinent to Canada by drafts oi in- dividuals generally is coming to an and. it was learned officially at 1st ganadian Army Headquarters io-

sy.

The balance and bulk of the Army will be moved home almost entirely by units and sub-units remastered into glerritoriol groups as closely as

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Authorities consider the time has come when high point scores cannot longer bs an influencing factor in_ repatriation and move- ment home must be done now in selected sequence of units and

under present plans they will leave during August.

This new phase of the repatria- tion program is in accord with the policy originally announced to the troops shortly after V-E day. The goiicy was laid down that Far

est volunteers would be first home end units would follow.

Volunteers from this theatre for the Far East force are practically

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INTERNATIONAL

IT. A GLANCE I

~I!'Th'e"CaI|‘ndieuNPrv:s|' j.‘ PACIFIC —~ Super-forts strike ' Mr Jllllneee cities; 24-hour sai- I uration blows against Japan prom-l ilfll; Australian and Dutch troops

Illa east and north oi Ballkpapen. I

CHINA — Chinese gains in Kwengsi Province r"--i~1l- chin- eso lcce Tirapak, 107 miles south. west of Canton.

GIBMANY- Britain and United States take over control of .12 oi Berlin's 20 boroughs from Russians.

BRITAIN - Only 574 lost oi 75.000 merchant shim escorted across Atlantic hy British, Domin- ion aud European navles during European war; Empire war cas- ualtiea placed at 1,427,634 to June

EIBE - De Vslera‘s staioment "we sre a republic" surprises Irish: Government announces arrest of 14 IJLA. traders.

Franco To Quit. Spain?

IMTDON. July l2 — (Reuters) —Paris radio broadcast the uncon- firmed rcpcrt tonight that Gen. Franco, Spanish dictator. was be- lieved to have aflrced to hand over his authority to a military cab- inet and to have agreed also to| leave Spanish territory.

“In spit; of official denials, usually well-informed British and Spanish cricles are of the opinion‘ that important conversations on the political situation have taken place and are still continuing in the Basque region," the radio said.

Jane Turn To Extensive Ilse" 0f Booby Traps

l, SPENCER. MOOSA BRING, Jul Chinese troops pus Luichow-recovered Un bomber base which was a mammoth booby trap by the re- treating Japanese-an advancing towhrds Yungfu, 90 miles south- west oi Kweiin sifli oi another abandoned air field, the Chinese Command said today.’ The "most elaborate mining an booby trappingnof the whole eight years oi war China" was found at Liuchow's airfield. indicating that “the further the Japanese re-

hsttle position, the rougher ill! pursuit will become,’ an Associat- ed Press dispatch from Liuchcw

declared.

srte - hii T°fi$oh 3T1 ‘ihfilutfi China coast where the Japanese The Chi also

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inside the lndo-China border Chinese fron ibr positions 75 miles

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northeast of l-fsnoi, but asserted, these thrusts were repulsed-

IThey included 60.505 killed 7,736 children under

rained in hospital totalled 86.175. Of these 40,736 were men, 37,816

d it had been poisoned-while mor-

Less Than ilalf Total Suffered In Earlier War

LONDON. Jul l: - (Reuters) -- ‘natal casuallt as to all ranks of the British Commonwealth and Empire forces during the 5 3-4 years oi war to May 31 last were . . was announced to- nigh

Iixclusive oi civilian casualties and casualties to merchant sea- men end memhers of the home guard, the total was 1,233,796.

The Canadian casualty total was 101,008, made up oi 36,018 killed; 2,866 missing; 53,073 wounded and 9,051 prisoners of war. Those listed as killed do not include personnel who died from natural causes.

(Defence Headquarters in Ot- tawa announced June 27 that the Canadian Army. Navy and Air Force suffered 102,954 casualties up to May 31, including 37,964 dead and 2.866 missing. The death total included 1,946 who died from nat- ural causes.)

The total number killed for all the Empire was 386,772; missing 98,113; wounded 468,388, and pri- soners of war 330,523. .

Filllrea by Countries

By countries, the figures were as follows:

Britain (including men from 0- verseas serving in British armed forces, especially from Newfound- land and Southern Rhodesia: Killed 233,042; missing 57,472; gggunded 275.975; prisoners 183,-

Austraiia: Killed 21,415; missing

6,519; W‘Dli.Xld€Cl_ 37.477; prisoners

26,800 ,

New Zealnnd: Killed 9,844; i missing 2,201; wounded 19,253; ; prisoners 8,485. i

South Africa: Killed 6,417; miss-; ing 1,980; wounded 13,773; prisonw ers 14,595. i

India: Killed 23,295: missing 12,- 264; wounded 62,064; prisoners? iincluding 20,540 missing, presumedi prisoners oi war) 79,692. '

Colonies: Killed arm; missing! ‘ilgéilil; wounded 6,773; prisoners‘

The casualty totals by countries were: United Kingdom 750,338; Australia 92,211; New Zealand 39,- 783: South Africa 36,765; India 177,315; Colonies 38,376.

The figures for those missing. except ‘for Canada, Australia and India. included those who have rejoined their own forces, and‘ the figures for prisoners of war include those repatriated or liberated or who have escaped.

Merchant Scamen

Casualties to merchant seamen due to enemy action during the war period ended May 31 totalled 45,315 Deaths, including deaths presumed in missing ships and deaths whilte interned. totalled 30.- 867; missing 4,690; wounded 4,- 252: and internees. 5.506.

The figures excluded deaths of nationals of the United Kingdom serving on shins registered outside the United Kingdom. The figure for internees included those who have been repatriated or have es- coped.

Casualties tothe British Home Guard attributable to service be-_ tween May, i940. and December. 1944, totalled 1.763. and included killed or died 1,206; wounded 557

Civilian casualties from the out- break of the war uni-ll the end of fighting in Europe totalled 148,760. or missing believed killed This total; included 26.020 men. 25.392 women! 16 and 537

and de-

unidentified. Injured

women and 7.623 children During the First Great War Bri- tish Empire deaths totallcd 1.089.- 919 and wounded totalled 2.400.988. Oi these 812,917 dead and 1.849.- 494 wounded were from Great Bri-- tain and Ireland.

lnobriatcd Ohickcn Sent To The Morgue, phfiiiiifittih.“t‘l.ii mtfihi out the name of the farmer who

sent a "dead" chicken to the city morgue hero under the impression

gue ofiici is are not a little blessed because t ey revived the chicken after it laud lain in e sealed box for

wo wee s.

Morgue officials revived the hen by artificial feeding. and then they decided that the hen which the farmer thought was dead had actually been ebrlated. 7710i’ figured the hen must have been sampling mash from an illicit still to get so inebriated that it too- two weeks to "slew it oif.

Now provincial police are search- ing for the still The only trouble is the farmer who sent the dend i-en to the morgue omitted to 81W a return address. The box came from the Three Rivers District.

57fi4wShips Lost During

Battle, Of The Atlantic

Enemy Submarine Losses Totalled 645, British Admiralty Reveals In Summary.

ilanadzfs Part In Escorting Huge Gonvoys

OTTAWA, July l2 -— (OP) During the war Canadian warships escorted 25,343 merchant carrying 181,643,180 tons of cargo from North American ports to Great Britain, Navy Minister Ab- bott sald tonight in a statement.

In a similar statement, Air Min- ister Gibson said that when a com lete aerial umbrella was es- tabl shed over the North Atlantic in the spring of 1943 the R.C.A.F. assumed the task oi continuous convoy protection from Canadian shores to mid-Atlantic.

The two statements were issued in conjunction with a British Ad- miralty summn of the Battle of the Atlantic, re eased by the Brit- ish Information Services in New

York.

Mr. Abbott said the R.C.N. from the beginning of the war accepted increasing responsibilities to the point that from April September. 1944, which included the critical invasion period, all trade convoys between North Am- erica and Britain were escorted by Canadian warships. For a con- siderable period in >1943p§pdw1944 more than B0 per cenfbf convoy es- gzrtNwas the responsibility oi the

.C. .

He said that the largest con- voy ever to cross the Atlantic- 167 ships-was escorted entirely by Canadian warships without t2}: loss oi a single merchant s p.

Col. Gibson said that in two days in the summer of 1943 a single R.C.A.F_. squadron of Lib- crators operating from Gander, Nfld.. launched six attacks against German U-boats.

In addition, the R.C.A.F. pro- vided an anti-submarine squadron m operate out of Iceland United Kingdom and it was not unusual for an RCAF. aircraft operating from Newfoundland to take over at mid-Atlantic the task of shepherding a convoy from an- other R.C.AI‘. aircraft operating from a. Northern Ireland base.

Air Headquarters On Okinawa Now

MANILA. Julv l3 — (Friday)- (AP) _ Far Eastern Air Forces Headquarters under Gen. George‘ C. Kenna is now established on Okinawa. N. was announced today.

Gen Kenney, an officer in the United States Air Forces, is a native of Yarmouth, N.S.

Kicklcss Gannon New Allied Weapon

WASHINGTON, July l2 —- (A?) — The army dlucloeed today per- formance detail-a on its new

than a .22 calibre rifle.

The two guno. n. 57 and 75 mil- limetre, were battle-tested in Eur- opa and new are being turned against the Japanese "with much success." the army .

The 67 millimetre rifle, which can be fired from the shoulder or from e small triood. weigh! 0H1! 45 pounds. yet can toss a rellllll‘ shell weighing about three pounds fdr two miles. '

The 76 millimetre rifle. wellh- gn; m) mung, (g rrfllllf field artillery piece welsh! 91°" thuh one to-n throw" - ii-vouml shell more than four miles.

Women ' Pipers To Go 0vsrseas

OTTAWA, July 12 — (CP) - The Canadian Women's Arm? Corps pipe band will go overseas this month to entertain Canadian troops in Britain and on the con- tinent, Defence ‘ Headquarters an- nounced today.

With two cross-countryiours of the Dominion and several United States engagements to their credit the band members. led by W0- Lillien Grant of Victoria, have al- reay established an enviable re-

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NEW YORK. July 12 -— (GP) — British, Dominion and European navics, operating under

years and eight months of the Eu- ropean wnr, with only 574 ships lost-the equivalent of one every 131 which sailed-the British Irltfgigmatlon Services reported to- 11B

Quoting the Admiralty for what it termed the first complete sum- mary of the battle of the Atlantic, the 13.1.5 said the movement in- volved some 2,200 convoys, the lar- -gest made up of 167 ships, and ipraised the escort work of RAF. land R..C.A.F. planes. It said 460 U- boats and 65 Italian submarines air forces.

In addition, according to preli- minary information obtained from German records and captured of- ficers, some 120 more appear

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not finally assessed, the 3.1.5. said. 700 Freighter! at Sea

There were days in the battle when as many as 700 cargo ships were at sea in the Atlantic with 100 warships protecting them, more than 200,000,000 miles were sailed by merchant ships in convoy in the Atlantic, and naval escort ves-

cort voyages to fulfil duties.

An important, part in the Atlan- tic battle was played by the RAF. and the R.C.A.F. Of the 2,200 con-

their v;-

than 1,250 were also covered by shore-based aircraft.

From 1941 on increasing use was made by the Royal Navy of mer-

chant ships fitted with catapault aircraft, first of R.A.l=‘. Fighter Command, then the Naval Air

Arm. to protect the convoys agains: German long-range aircraft. Planes from aircraft carriers and extre- mely long-range shore-based air- craft supplemented this work of mid-Atlantic protection. In addition to direct escort work,, buih um Navy and the R.A.F. and RCAF. had valuable supplementary func- tions to perform.

The home fleet. for instance, aci-

in meled as a shield against attacks by:

i German surface vessels. sinking jtwo major units-the Bismarck in .May, 1941, and the Scharnhcrst, in

iDccember. i943. Bomber Command‘

planes joined in this job, too, claim_ I ing the ‘Iirpitz as its victim as well as attacking harbors. U-boat bases, factories and such targ-sts Aircraft Helped

R..A.F'., Coastal Command and the R.C.A.F. in offensive patrols. seeking out U-boats in the transit area, flew altogether 100,000,000 miles involving 76.500 sortics and 950,000 flying hours.

Over and above these Atlantic commitments, nearly 1.500 merchant ships were escorted by ships and aircraft carriers of the Home Flee‘. to and from northern Russia; and 173,000 merchant ships were es- corted in some 7.700 British coastal convoys. Further errtcnwive con-

igwediterranean and the Indian 0-] can. ,

Eighty-one midget U-boais were captured or sunk in the North Sea.‘ These are dlnainct from U-boats.’ surrendered after last May 9. -‘

Nesrly 200,000 British mines‘ have been laid in all theatres of the war by naval minelayers and aircraft of Bomber Command. A ltrge port/ion oi these were laid around the U-bcat bases in Ger- many and occupied Europe and as carrier minefields to protect coast- al and ocean sea lanes

Air Liner, Army Plane In Brash

COE-UTAIBIA, 3.0., July 12 -(AP) —A Boston-Miami Eastern Airlines liner and an army plane collided 3,000 feet in the air today, killing

two army fliers and a two-year-oid I101’. one 0f 17 nge s aboard the linor

Clllhin 0.1). Davis of Miami. Pilot. and Capt. NHL. Mertlndaie. co-piM. said the collision occurred ss the transport was losing altitude

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The child's mother. listed as Mrs. Al. Williams of Miami, 17s.. was in a critical condition at a Flor- ence. SC. hospital, 20 miles from the t scene. Th child died en route to the hospitaf.

Names of the dead" airmen and one who gerachuted to safety were withheld y the army.

‘Ilhe airliner, with both engines knocked out. made an emergency lending in s, cornfield. its loft wing was partially torn off and

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REVEAL EMPIRE CASUALTIES T0 END OF MAY

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Raid In

By LIEF ERICKSON , O 1a _ (Friday)-(AP) - From 50o u. 550, R c ‘Superfortresses raked four Japanese cities and an oil! '

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centre in Tokyo Bay with 3,000 tons of fire bombs and high ‘explosives before dawn today in the sixth B-29 strike ai the island empire in 13 days. 1 Along a 4S0_mile strip from the southern islands of Shi-

neariy 18-000 tons the weight on Japan since July 1.

Tokyo Buy, previously hit in of demolition bombs.

The four industrial cities, all raided for the first time, _ Iwere showered wth incendiary bombs.

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SAN FRANCISCO, July i2 —- (AP) I Prom‘, - Kantaro Suzuki - con-l fronted with n tightening air block- ade and :1 rising clamor of home-l front criticism -_ convened his cabinet and a phalanx of “elder lstatesmen" today to consider the -hOlllC islands’ “ivorsening food sit-

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.u::uki first called on Emperor

Hlrchiic. thcn went into confer- ‘encc with his cabinet and former ;]‘.l‘l’i'lllBl‘S Gen. Hidcki T010 and .P."ince Fumlmaro Konoye.

They listened to an explanation of the food situation - which has iprolnpted recent cuis in rations — ifrcm M0001 Kukawa. agriculture and ccmmrrce vice-minister, said u lTc-kyo home front broadcast pick- .cd up by the Federal Communica- tions Commission.

Suzuki inter announced a wholesale shukcup of 27 lesser cabinet positions. He also called a conference for Monday of 21L‘ ' regional administrators, recently empowered to act independently in event of an invasion.

The so-called dean of the Japan-

“coincided with new

British! koku northward to an industrial ciiy 60 miles north of Tokyo, the Superforts dumped their cargoes, bringing to

of bombs they have unloaded

The big Kawasaki oil centre on a reclaimed island in

an April raid, W115 the target

They were:

Utsonomiya, indurtrial city of 80,- 032) population 6!) miles north of Tokyo.

Ichinomlya, west of Tokyo and nine miles northwest of the often- bombed munitions city of Nagoya.

Tsuruga. 55 miles northwest of Nagoya on the coast of the main home island of Honshu.

Uwuglma, on the “lest-central coast of the southern home island of Shikoku.

Air Blockade

The blows on the home islands successes by United States air biockaders in the Yellow Sea and came close to the heels of heavy strokes at the em- pire climaxed by a 1,000 carrier planeuaid on Tokyo area air fields.

Two heavily-gunned enemy con- voys trying to run Japanese troops from China to invasicn-menaccd Japan were driven back into port by the air blockade that is steadily throttling the island empire.

(Late enemy broadcasts heard in San Francisco by the Federal Com- munications Commission said 180 fighters and bombers from Okin- awa raided air fields on the south- ern home island of Kyushu Thurs- day and 18 Superfortresses flew over the main Island of Honshu.)

The aerial blockade of the Yel-