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fzencrcil Pejarkes, V. C. ‘Tfired By McyNauglifczn

Leads to Divorce

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m Sarah 'Wiliemuon, 37, says her soldier-hominid was kiddinz" when he sent a bic-

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wrlDON — (C?) — Iondon . whidi evacuated staffs earlier .

(hewerarsbeirtz atedbythc _:ument to postpone N- ; _ until next mater.

I (Iommg Events “ "Pressed im- Iillliely. Phlbkfisb g-Zfamedllnud , Fredericton. 2-2-tf.

‘I"1""3\lying live and (zreaaed poul- - inii too market Wicca. Is- __ Cold Storage Ltd. li-i7-tf 'u:2==.~*...."~

"Union g1 aetmd; M uonfinifn fare. first fine in Court and Son. Bedfg-vilé m

"Dillon and Spillot‘: Chicks

VD Mllto Horn the link“ n e“ at Mute!) should go active.

ionic . Game . late after. 2-16-11

‘ "Geo MIT“ n and‘: my... §i%'.‘...'.‘.“'"‘-‘ no“ IN hiesduy until train time. New

Ho! offered. m uira of agent nun 1.- i - ma... "smarts.

Wain: Hogs for Davis s. m!" 1M. every Monday until r notice. Sour-is. George t i-aa-zc-u.

I'm" Campbell loadin ho at m“ fluids ‘Tuesday, Febrgary rh.

a) 11m. and at Kensington un- n.

P-Ifl- 1f day stormy will load ‘f.’ P ill

- "he day. niquixe about E1085 now being paid at all got minis. Livestock Market- srd. 3- . ."Notice: '1? "1 ‘hyon Flfmcl?! b35621“: ‘fluinnfiyon Hall on Saturday. 17th at no pin. n Y. llnndav the ma. z-is-ai

"Bhivment uonei a Gsrburat- m d heater in s

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plying new and

("I expected _ _ mm in next few days. o?

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ANCOUVIIR. Rb. i5 - t »._ 3m. GR. Pcarkas, V.C?l?‘)s. ., liwsmfleéieral Officer Oom-

mandnm ‘his! of ma, Pacific

IIIBBIBIB - ficeiu and said, "b - der from Natiomubefence defi-

I cease to ba Genet 1 Commanding, Pacific I090 .

n in charge ih Bri-

tish .

"On my arrival in British Q0]- umbia from overseas this Province ..".“...‘.'2.'.?“...““"..»"£E‘..'fl° -1’.".‘.'.'."""i the likelihood of a ' n y the enemy has diminished owing t0 the general improvement in the strategic position in the Pacific has m: altogether; lpttissed JWJHy." easaa sa o 1 t r." ‘irpczfizsesff ffiw“):

gfnoe he becamifGenerni officer Otggllll-Iidinl. h said i Idlers

I."

y associa I have loved so

he 001i lillbd, "Bllb I hODE

bu," Mk an opportunity will arise in which

I can still render some service to

m you, to the men returning from the

services overseas and to the coun-

hh’ trv as a whole."

Gen. Pearkes said he received a telegram from National Defence Headquarters this morning advising him that Brig. D.R. Sergeant would temporarily take command. “I have no statemen to make" concernin tho telegram. he said in an inter ew. "Any statement will have to come from mtaws."

oil-awn _ statement Iiebl. l5 - (c?) - C8

at his own request. MCI! announced tonight. Gen. Pearkes is 56. four years un- der the usual retirement age for home tabilshment commanders. The headquarters statement gave no reason for Gen. Pearkes’ request. Vancouver dispatches said the 1e- slgnatlon was not voluntary, that there apparently had been some differences of opinion regarding command duties. Gen. I-‘earkes took over Pacific Command in August, 1042, at the height of the threat of a Japanese invasion of Canada's Pacific Coast. being recalled from the United Kingdom where he had command- ed a Canadian infantry division. He was closely linked with the draftee question and made no at- tempt tc hide the fact he thought so

draftee (liens in his area

Told McNaughton

Gen. Pearkes came to Ottawa and told his old Chief, Defence Minister McNaughton, that he thought the voiunta _ method of recruiting had been "ixlked dry" but he was wil- ling to give i one more chance. It was after the that the government said the voluntary method ha failed and conscription for overseas was ado .

The only Canadian General Of- ficer on active service in .his war to wear the Victoria Cross. Gen. Pearkes wears five wound strives as evidence of his actions during The First Great War.

D-

PIIISONIII-S RECAPTUBED

LLTI-IBBIDGE. ALTA. Feb. i5- (CPD-Royal Canadian Mounted Police said here today that Johann Wolthe and Otto Schmidt. 1W0

rman prlsoncrs-of-wai" who es- e pad from a priscner-of-war camp

- The borrower Ia slave to the lender, the elldoruor to both.

ll

MAXIMS

OIL

MERE MAN

Glaius “ Federal Baby Bonus Act llicoasiltutlonsl‘

.j_.

Quiiispc, Feb. is-(cr) - The Province of Quebec cannot some. tfon the "unoonstitutlonulity" of uifgflgugfiy “Aiiéowunca. Alf.‘ the ehee ma’

(A late rc from Vancouver the“; ‘ltgmig Qtlelzbgt’: raver. ssh: F com- w-

Paarkas) iuuy enter federal politigs ifl§"‘lmi‘eifi'e'fie"f.vei7fi°"‘$,°,hmgf;

‘i, mum‘ m on Government orthore-

for men- s in the 2 13% “‘='.‘.".‘.’£‘°" “fiml “ufmxrw;

eges an? ma! teed

cs the British North ggigimerxiba Mg said the Union Nationals leader. "It is an inheritance that nrust

b0 hilt . . . if Ottawa continues its encroa ts on provincial rights, we shall lose our autonomy

The Federal law (Family Allow- zzfstisnlnziificlahstcp further toward position Leader Adelard God- bout said family allowances were for the whole of Canada and not for Quebec alone. The province would ay 30 per cent and receive about l per cent. He said a provincial system of family allowances was an im- possibility and would coat ggvince between 016,000,000 and 000.000 annually.

_Swiss Gov’t Offers Loan to French

Bonus. Feb. l5—(Rcuters)-'I‘he Swiss Government has oflered France a loan of 260,000,000 Swiss francs (about ($88,750,000). w as- sist in reconstruction. authoritat- ive aouéceis said tottlayil d e wss su a h f this be I898 t

aci ., similar eoritraoteat the convenience of the French Gov- eminent.

Fox Pelt Sale Opens lit Montreal

MONTREAL, Feb. l5 - (Spec- ial to the Guardian) — The Feb- ruary fox pelt sale of the Can- adian Fur Auction Co. Ltd, op- ened this. morning at l0 o'clock. The following prices were realized during the day: 1,470 special skins. consisting of white marked, pla- tinums and platinum silvers were sold at an average of $70.; 1,002 cne- three-quarter silvers were 64 per cent sold at an aver- age of 827.77. The first and sec- ond sections of the regular full sli- vers were 74 per cent sold at an a- verage of $32.50. Inferiors were 55 ggr cent sold at an average of J31.-

'I‘omorrow's offerings will con- sist of 1,007 white marked, 1,005 selected fulls and a quantity of re- gular fulis and lnferiors.

(The above information was sup- plied by Mr. George A. Callback, manager of the fur marketing de- partment of the Canadian National Fox Breeders Association. Sum- merside.)

French Ambassador Arrives In Ottawa

k (By The Canadian Press)

OTTAWA. Fob. lb-Ooiint Jean Marie Francois de I-Ioufeclocque. liberated France's first ambassador to Canada, arrived here today with his family and told newspspermen that-he felt it a great honor to come to a country such as Canada as a diplomatic esentutive.

The ambassador was accompan- ied by his wife and six of their

cdi lri H t. Alton last T1108- Sfiyyweft QTOGBBPHIIOG lust nlilht goat cf Walsh Alta.

Dominion or in other emergencies. been . it. was dis-

ade in the d’?! (Evil Defence

seven daughters. I

Canada ’s Civil Defence

areas dared vnlneea 1e were asked to continue their vigil- an

German inner defences. It bids fair to ‘ the of the war lu Europe. .

both Berlin and Moscow cums

comrades wont of the 06c,

- ‘Canuclts,

Aimee;

News ‘Briefs IDFéDON, FQII- 15—-(RCIl&)-—

wlth a new device. the un- onuft, had been known to stay under water for more than 10 weeks without once surfacing.

PARIS, Feb. 15 — (AP — Pres- ident Roosevelt is having an in- vestigutio made of the reptwed failure of American relief for fiance's civilians io be chsfributsd duriris the current winter as re- ported promised w Government, reliable persons said today.

LONDON. Feb. I5 —— (AP) '- That the Nazis are suffering ex- treme misery and death was re- ported olflclnlly hnlihl by Ill! Germans who said but "seven! rnllliom" ulceu from the cast were swarming into the cen- tral Reich us the Red Army pushed toward Berlin. The total

umbu- of fleeing nu is n; hourly with many o! the travelers perlshlng in the wintry winds, the German DNB News Agency said.

QUEBKJ. Rb. l5 - (CF) Glenn Bannerman, president of the Canadian Association of Broad- casters, told n service club (Ki- wanis) here today "It will take several years before television be- comes an integral part of our life."

some, Feb. i5 - (AP) -- The Ge tolled desperately today to get their buttered Bal- kan Army out of Yugoslavia for use against the Russians

ALLIED SUPREME QUARIITIRS, PARIS, Fdi. l5 _ (AP)-'I‘he lols of refineries to Allied advances from the east and west. combined with air blows, has cut German motor fuel production by B0 Der cent to iifl.000 tons a ntonth-hardly enough to keep an average size air fonds in operation

was announced officially te-

day.

Youth 15. To Be In Prison Until He's 84

out): would be eli ibie to parole b1 O yedars-when e would be 04 years o .

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Th5 "m!!! . coined tonilhi-"Wlrlt. . n-hend -

iihe French in

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1945

blight 1

IIIIIKILQiIOILLIiOIIPIUIIIIAIIIYI

Bpeedad by affective Allied ulr support. u lad Anny tidal wuva of power-the Germans admit-has ripped u ‘ll-nlla-wlde gup through

uudiuuut "

5...;

Official Russian confirmation was baking immediately but from broadcast!

indicating Muruhul louafa

1st Ukraine Anny had star-used flu way uvvlfily through relatively faabls resistance to within 50 Inllaa or Ieu of British. Canadian and American- m bombed Dresden on the loft of’ lino.

The Buuulauu also enveloped the Nuke llvar buullou of Fulul ll moonlit. vvhllc on the right they autubliuhcd coutuot with White lua-

In effect the latest Ruudau advance gave Soviet armies a virtually straight front more than I60 miles long reaching fraua Gorlilu, road and rail centre, 45 miles east of Dresden, to the head of the ‘“ ‘“ where the Oder flows into the Baltic.

It lu not yet clear whether Munhul Kouavu forward swoop between the north flunk of flu Sudetan iuouutulul and the Odor baud is aimed at Berlin or the beginning of u lvvcep luio the osltrul fluin of Ger- may. His moat recent pressure has boon northward to iron out u bulge ulong the Oder on the flunk of Whlta Buuulun urmleu that have stood for duya within 30 miles or less of Berlin.

With that threat removed and sufficient time to bring up men and supplies, it seems cefluln that Marshal Zhukov’: White Russian forces are about ready to raauuta their froutal attack from the out. Than re- muin no vulnerable Iluuuluu uulluuts of any more than local conseuuenca uloug the whole Russian main uttuok front _uo fur as if. can be traced.

estuary

BIITISII

2 M GS A I AUSTIN “ALBA!

P . sea. l5—(AP)-3ritish and Canadian forces pushed near- ly two miles deeper into the Maus- Rhlne corridor today in a drive aimed straight at the heart of the enemy's munition m, seiz-

ing two villages at the up ouchaa to the strategic strong old of

fans slo thro h the desolate Rhine flood ands, ove into Hur- endeich, a villllo Just across the Rhine from the textile centre of Emmerich. ".'e miles northeast of Kleve. Tho advance t control of the left bank for 20 miles east. of Njrnegan.

(The Canadians wiped out the last force of German paratrocpers barring their way to a ferry cross- g facing mierlch. Douglas Ama- ron, Canadian Press War Corres- pondent, reported.)

Although the German lines guardi the northern approaches to the uhr and Rhineland were sagging d: erously. a front dis- patch said enemy was not vet rying to dig new defences.

It attributed this surprising lack of preparation to the paralyzing effect of Field Marshal Montgom- ery's incessant artillery fire, which crushed six strong counter-blows yesterday and left the enemy in a precarious situation. .

m- the time beinl, Gen. Crerar‘s 1st Crnadian Army, strongly re- inforced by British troops, was carryi the attack to the enemy along t Western Front.

A all of 10 inches on the flooded

orfthe‘ north runkxtiie Canal-

shelled and bombed islands

strafing raiders in the first

lleds Smash Gentral Gdcr Defence Line

LONDON, Feb. l5 - (AP) — The Russian Army has mashed the Germans’ Central Oder Riv- er defences with a powerful 30- mile break-through which toppled three of the enemy's largest strong- holds scutheast of Berlin, Premier ltfarrnhal Malin announced to- 11K

steadily outflanking the Nazi Fuerstenberg - Frankfurt - Kues- trin line due east of the imperilled Reich Capital, Marshal Ivan B. Konevk 1st Ukraine Army cap- tured Sommerfeld, only d7 miles southeast of greater Berlin, Sorau. l3 miles to the southeast, and Gruncberg, 35 miles northeast of‘ Stilréimerfeld. an order of the day se . " Front dcspawhes said KOIIGV’! lower wing also had slashed to wi 45 miiu of Dresden. Carp- ital o Saxony, after reaching the

lltl, 74 miles northeast of Prague, Caacholovak Capital.

The fall of the three "important junctions of communications and mighty strongpoints of German defences" southeast of Berlin was aided by a United States heavy bomber attack on Coot-bus, strategic rail junction only 27 miles west of captured feld

Girl Loses Life In St. John’s Blaze

ST. JOHN'S. Nfld., Feb. 15 — (CP CABLE) — One girl perish- ed and another was injured while jumping from a third story win- dow when fire broke out here to-

da .

gtarting in the residence of Mrs. H. Thomas, it spread to adjoining houses but it was controlled be- fore causing serious damage. Ncllle Bailey, 25, a worker at the Red Triangle Hostel. was asphyxi- ated in bed by smoke from the blaze. Iris Beck, an employee of the Newfoundland Hotel, was in- jured. Cause of the fire was not known.

War’s Greatest Aerial Blows Are Continued

LONDON, Fob. l5 — (AP) — More than l,l00 American heavy bombers escorted by 450 fighters. ca the greatest non-Mop air attack of tho war into its second day, threw their main weight of destruction today against clogged rail yards at Cotbbus, only 12 miles in Af-rcnt of the onsweeping Russian rmy.

Burning Dresden also was hit

in. "° .. w m o‘ t a hursduyk assault.

urea on the $0M W -

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tt I Disbanded i" ‘v M“ m" M P“ "m "" ""'

8 DIXON. 111-. Fob. iI-lforman a .

urton, is. was sentenced w am weamsey aiaht two ems of

years in prison by Jud" mom RAJ‘. and R.C.A.1". heaviou ruin-

"'—-" - O.Dixcn today on his plea of guilty ed 730,000 incamiariau and hun-

OITAW Feb. 15 - (OP) — Civil defence organisations in go murder-in m; gyhnueoyq m,“ o; gqelcaivea bombs on Canada's vil Defence Committee. Ontario and 0! Q1191!” W0" niece, Sara aha Tyne, with u Chulilfl. I m!!! lifllthflfl d me yam m m» in allowed w W"! mag“ 1 hummer and a knife not Dec. so Drasden, in a fobow- to a dov-

case oi enemy air stuck: upon the veer m. but "We "1 in her perenw home. blow by 4w For- Omfl‘ w“ Under the sentence. the trends. Other oil were Ber-

ll Bu‘! Y‘: 025cm undnunoil pint south of “will

ce. In hlu announcement, Brig. said thu

'. 0e I ' "my m“ "°“d‘" ffiffffli pubugled tmfilivh it)’: min on ca w» o . u! . ysm; m“ 2%.’ fence. It ied an oaginoiliirzcenhent may and it an found that tba " ' ' ' ' var the - lot “ "Livsstoqp "“ ° direotor of civil defence. so - "n. will be noted 1 v! Iv- hwfl: hogs “u?” ,0 $152 i that the vernugzilgh on ‘Sig: d uilsmnowtl com letoly'fiugcaiudiagg i gs?“ “*3” ‘ vitdgeed “to ntilisbaryd acinvg rdbfciace h?» so loagtles $81 dllbflfm m ‘ ||y| ' - - ut a the organ on - ievitmhrgfinfmvitiv. oiu otte- m“ _ tuned. ‘lb a certatin yglrthm Time. 1mm.’ 1 ‘mum 5th Tho Bulletin also carried u mea- ura right. but. 0g” t w b‘ of train “m, __ T“ d, fl sale from Veterans Minister Msc- we must remap we“ “m” lottetown, w" es e. ‘Edg- glllvlel‘; keuaio thunkiaguthla cllvllvoiiififcm an: gem f‘ m“: dam“ "e 9 n t ' dram," g Ho: :17 the Dorviin- . u uh axegelaesrvmtléeamflei; m - ‘Civil defence officials declined to 7§Z“‘§¢'.“£“.r’ gonstunt y", m“. u“ ‘ Monday. ma. comment on em h t m- ‘Lllimizrfllirlgmignfi? u, 0,5,; rant au atationlfmr a "l! ifl"nl‘."?.°i'.in'l3a”w ‘lfinplwe- t“ ~ Wllitv- pff-gi tinfl poet as a saekatchewan iudao. (Continued on pole 7 0°- l) 1

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Superfort Crashes ‘ In. Flushing Bay

NEW YORK, Feb. l5 - (AP) —A B-N Superfortress crashed in

Flushing Bay today and explod- cd. Five persons were rescued by

Neisae River in the area of Goer- pl

to the south.

ions. hurling the Navy's might for the first time at Tokyo and posing a challenge to the Japanese Fleet, strongly suggests major develop- merits.

(There was no word from head- quarters on the purpose of the large scale attack but a move of such extent suggests the possibility of new amphibious landings within the inner defence ring of Japan's island outguards.)

A communique today reported carrier planes were fighting Japa- nese planes. cratering alrflelds and smashing other military targets "in and around Tokyo." The targets of the bombarding warships 1n- cluded Iwo Jima.

Tokyo confirmed the assault, saying it was being met by the Ja- panese air force.

Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitsclier. v.ctor over the Japanese Fleet off the Marianas in June i044, in the battle of the Philippines Sea. com- manded the operation which "ful- fills the deeply cherished desire of every oflicer and man of the Pac- ific Fleet". Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced. -

Admiral Nimitz. who only recent- ly moved his base of operations to Guam. ‘Within 1.500 miles of Tokyo; said the operation "has long been

anned."

It was regarded as a blunt chal- lenge to the Japanese Fleet. out of act on since last October in the

The huge and audacious operat- W. R.

Illi- SIJI: other Provinces l U.S.A. $5.00. lubuorlpllou Delivered. 05.00.

ATERS

Task For; Planes Blast Tokyo Area

U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 16 - (Friday) — (AP) --A powerful battleship and aircraft carrier force poured more than 1,200 Hellcats, IIolldlveru and Avenger planes today at Tokyo while warships and army planes

More carriers than the United States ever before assembled in a single sea op- eration are sending raiders in continuous waves against Tokyo's airfields and mili- tary defences, tangllng in sky battles with the enemy air force.

The carriers, protected literally by thousands of anti-aircraft guns mounted on battleships, cruisers and destroyers, disgorged swarms of bombing, iorpedoing and such naval smash of the war at Japan's capital.

- ~>—- - i

to Advisory Board

UTTINVA. Feb. ifs-Walter R. Shaw Charlottetown, Deputy Minister ui‘ Agriculture for Prince Edward Island, has been appointed a member of the regional Selective Service Advisory Board for the Marl- _ time employment region, rep- resenting agriculture. it was announced today.

Bracken 0n Visit To Western Canada

(By The Canadian Press)

WINNIPEG. Feb. l5—.lciin Brac- ken. national leader of the Prou- ressivc Conservative party. said in an terview here today he would not discuss political or any ethn- issues during ‘his present visit i0 Western Canada.

He said he was primarily in 11a west to visit the federal constitu- Vency of Necpawn where he has been nominated for the next fed- eral election by his party.

Mr. Bracken refused to comment; on a statement made earlier today 111 OKMWR by Defence MlnisterMc-

battle of Leyte Gulf, to come out and fight.

Tokyo was first attacked April i8, 1942 by Army bombers of the then lit-Col. (now LL-Gen.) Jim- my Doolittle. flying from the air- craft carrler Hornet, but today's job was the first full-scale Navy operation aaafnst the Japanese capital or homeland.