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38 Nazi Fighters Are Shot liovvn

LONDON. Jan. 5 - (Tees- day) — (CP)-— United States flying fortresses which raided St. N ' In German-held France Sunday shot down 38 Nazi fighters, the Dally Ex- press said today.

Seven United States heavy bombers were lost In that st- tzicli—-the biggest toll of the bombers yet taken over Eur-

ope.

United States air force heed- quitrters declined to comment on the Express report. which also said that the general corn. manflinr the fortremes flew in a leading bomber that was but- by anti-aircraft shell

The Dally Express eorrespon. dent said 70 expert American ivicts and airmen were lost in the raid. This would be on the 31:3: of 10 crewman to each

German fighters. he said. ad. vntrd a new manoeu o-“virt. ual suicide attaeks"—in which they flew in flair! and attacked "19 bit heavily-gunned bomb. hers head-on. Often they closed In within 100 yards. the Qtlflea-

ndent reported.

‘ a Subversive I I Activity 0n» increase BERNIE, Jun. 4 —- (A P) —— A ptiigo oi De uaulie and other op- PUcitIOU GlElIill-llls LILIOUBHOUL JIILIICG Wit-S IGPOILBQ t0ully iIl A Ell-Hi (i15-

plitCll, and priviiie sources said six lint COHCUDLELILIUH comps already

Boiler Explosion -Causes 2 Deaths

lhiii been opnieo in the Nuzi-iieid country.

A ritrls dispatch to the Geneva Tllullllt: said tiie directed agunist "no uaiiiiisis. coin- iiiuiiisni, and terrorism.‘ ii woman Gestapo unit was reported to be illtllltlfl-l in it ncw police force act- ing flgiinist saooteurs.

oiluvtflbivt: heir-it, uguiilst the Viciiy regime iiiiu occupation iortus has increased since utiiiiaii troops moved illtu vicny irrancr. and whereas oeiore the group lacked co-oroiiiateu direction tiiere was lluW ii general movement. for united "torrorisv activity, tne report saiu.

ihnge iiuiiiiiers oi ilfl\Stb were re- portei. in raris, but it. was said ngures probably lwouid not be ali- iiouiiotd except. as a final grand total. Private sources indicated tne wave oi arrests might continue lor six weeks more

one exunipie cited u probably “lurrorist' activity was u fire that. ithstroyed a garage at Avignon witii 1i cars, stores oi tires, wois, lLLLI gasoline. An Avignon dispatch said ii snort circuit might nave caused the blazc, but despite one presence oi a night waicniiiliii and Janitor Mliti tii. iiozii-iiess oi a lire depart- riiciit, tire fighters arrived too late.

‘lhe campaign against alhgvd EIIDQLGUTS begun on tiie eve of new Colman-French conversations look- ing toward a revised or "new" ar- mistice iaigJy concerned with Bd- iiiiiiislratioii of all 01 France witih increased usrman dircction.

The geilcrul secretary of the French roreign Ollice was reporied to have talked with Hitler over the new yeitr ptrlod iiiid a basic agree- ment presumably has been reached.

TUNISIAN TIIOGLODITES Desert cave dwellers, called tro-

glodites, make up a large part. 0f ihe Tunisian rural population.

Coming Events

"Thlkte: Moiitsduo Saturday. l 1-6-31. "Ploy — Mt. Stewart Thursday,

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"Dance Graham's Road Hail, Wednesday, Jan. o. Luncheon

caiitpiiign WES

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"Unloading car Barley Meal and Ground wheat at 5o ris. January 4-6. T. J. Kickhum. l-t-l

"Annual Meetln of the Wiltshirg Dairy"! C0.. Mon ay. January llth at. 2 P. . Roland Easter. BBICZTBSUFXBY‘.

"Oar of feed oats. arriving about January 16th. Booking orders now. Fulton Warren, North Rivaii. 5 7 m

"We are bllylflg live and dress- chickens and fowl daily. nav-

msrliet value. Phone or writs.- D m. Island Oold Btoralre. Ltd.

OITAWA. Jan. t—(OP)-"l‘wo men were killed and mother Iii- Jured when a boiler e lesion oe- curied a! .\.‘c.so0tt. On ., the steamsh Jose ti; ship or the

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Willlam M. Power, ac, whose next of kin is his mother. Mrs. Willi-am Power of M riive. N8.

Edward De d George Booth 10, whose hm cf uh is his itth. gavid Walter Booth of Verdun.

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The third victim. whose condi- tion is "not. serious." was William L. C urc ill. 30. whose next of kin is his sister, Quiet-inc Churdi-

ill of I168-

Word of the accident was ro- ceived here by Arthur Bundles. director of merchant .

The young men were enrolled as trainees in the Englneoi-ln In- structional School at Prescc t, op- erated by the merchant seamen bro ch of the ‘transport Depart- me . The steam ferry J h Du- brulsi had been chartered PIO- vide practical training in the se- tuiil duties in the enslhe room of vessels of the merchant niivy.

‘transport Minister Miohaud wired his eondolenc to the next of kin and ordered an mediate

lIini Investigation as to the 2:1” onfbge dlssste . lhlperts have been sent Ottawa to -sceiie of the civplosion.

Canned Music Question Raised

WASHINGTON, om. 4 - (AP).- The ropect. of uh some! in P"- slden Roosevelt to force James C. "Nil? "’i“.‘.§ 1W8.“ 32%;“ f3‘

or s_o use ' 213m tiling...“ D. Worth Clark (Dem.- o . At the same time Clark announced Peti-illo, the President of the {Km- ericrm Federation of mil-FR mi agreed today t0 sum!" be ‘"9 b‘: senate interstate ‘commerce sum committee Jan. 12 for "a full ‘ quiry into his activities.

Slight increase in Living Costs

OTTAWA. Jan. 4 -—(CP)— An increase of 2-i0tlis of a palm Virgil’? official cost-of-living in 6X No“ g w Deg. 1 was announced to- day by the Dominion Bureau 0! Stihiiticaséo. 1 index was 118.8. com- pared with 118.6 at. Nov. 2. The war- nme ulcrepse to Dec. 1 was 17.9 P81‘ ceflllhe December increase resulted from small advances iOl‘ 1005-5- elothing and miscellaneous llslrflh- the Statistics Bureau said. 6 qood index changed from 132-4 1m‘ “November to 132.8 for December as .mgher prgqeg for lard, butter, c885. lamb and potatoes overbaianced declnes for oranges and lemons. d "The clothing index acvance_ fractionally from 139-1 i° 1292 ‘mg the miscellaneous index lnoreflfie also bv .l to 107.2. as newsllflPei‘ rates in several clt‘es were moved

upward.

"otheelr groups remained un- chang .

The cost-of-living index has not

yet felt the effect of revetment action announced last month ‘to reduce the price oi tea. coffee. mix and oranges b subsidy PRYIM" and tax refill-ES mm

The increase during November l“ the cost-of-living index hen B0 effect on cost-of-livifi! BMW"! m“ being paid to employees In most industries. These bomim ere Id- justed compulsorily ht the end 0f each three-month period. The next adjustment will be based on the Jan, 1 index. to be announced early

CHARLOTTETOWN,

Men llnmarrieii July l5, i940 Called Single

Completed By Feb- ruary 1.

Labor Department announced to- night that. forms for the special registration of unmarried men who have not yet received notice to report for medical examination un- der the military call-up will be dis- tributed across Canada "in the course of u very few days." The registration is to be com- pleted by Fob. 1. The do rtment- al statement. issued on half of Labor Minister lllitcheil said Select- ive Servlce offices have been ridd- ed to post officesahd registrars of mobilization boards as authorities to accept the registrations. Mr. ‘ Mitchell's statement drew attention of the public to two pro- clamations appearing in the Can- ada Gazette of Jan. 2 in regard to the call-up. The first proclamation requires single men, born in any year from 1902 to 1923. who have not previ- ously been served with s notice for medical examination under the Niiflonitl War Services regulations, to report before Feb. 1 to the near-

est postmaster or registrar of a mobilization board. (Selective Service offices have

now been ‘dd t ti 1 _ “on Domain. e o 1e reg stra FOI‘ this . a "sinsle" man l! 0X16 W110 either was unmarried 8nd without children at Julv 15, 1940. or since that date has be- ‘101118 1888i? separated. widowed or diilfiftcd. and is without children. The Minister said frequent changes of address had made it impossible to notify all men in the age classes affected at the t'me vt/heii the gen- ma] Van-ill) for the group was tanking place. The second proclamation author. lzes the mobilization boards m (1.11 11D mtlrfifid men born from i917 to 1923. In other words. Mr. lvm- ch91 551d. the boards inhv ncw direct these men to underzo medic. ul enimlmtion, preparatory to join- irlg the forces. "The Minister Pointed nut that the: proclamations are issued 0n tne nu horlfv of orders-ln-councll pass- ed, film"! December. which ‘to... Dudshed at the time," gum the statement. “Mr. Mitch ll 11.1 1 , the fact thate nbgifiloilzly “ihgnitiyollofi? orociamation- do not refer to those

Registration To B e

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CANADA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5,

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(By Klrke L, Simpson, A ‘ ‘ Evidence that Hitler's hold-st-sn-eosts program for 1.1; lecorid war winter in Rlisslu is close to a breaking strain at crucial points contin-

Plefl War Analyst)

lies to mount daily deapite soothing Nazi assurances to Dwllie ihlt all goes well In the east.

Rosier. s critlesl pivot of Hitler's southern iiuili. la in fast-mount- hll’ 51118". "PM" ifolfl MWNWV I87- Aud far to the north at Velikle Luki the Russians dented the Nazi northern flank all the wsy to the 55ml‘ "it! lflliulrld I: they ca: exploit that break-through.

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Whether Russian succeues have forced upon the foe such desper- liflly dsnzerous manoeuvres as a winter retreat from the Caucasus salient is doubt! However. Soviet capture o: n, 1cm poem,“ “om. t’! i3" GT"!!! oil field in the Caucasus range foothills suggests s Ger- luari withdrawal from the extreme southern angle may be In progress.

The fall of Velilile Luki, however, means a Russian threat as oniin- ous to the northern flank of the invaders’ line as the Stalingrad entrap- "mm "l"! "I" "illvfllillg Red Army prongs reaching inward Rostov are to the Caucasus salient. It probably accounts for Berlin's refusal to admit the loss of Velikie Luki although lllloscoy any: m; llvln; (o; i-gmlln, the.‘

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lmilflrtunt as are claimed Russian ffenslve gains Ii-i the Dori. Caucasus . . there are new and glowing possibilities opening to Red commanders in the centre. Velikle Luiii junction forms m“; c". ner of a rail triangle south of the Kholrn Marshes. Novosokcinikl. 20 miles west along the main mail route from Russia. to Riga, l3 another, It l|50 ll Olllllllfl by (h; lluggllyl],

The third corner is Novel, about so miles south, Its selsui-s in the expanding Russian offensive would open a double route to cut the mulls central supply line for the Neel hedge-hog front west o! Mqgcow v13, Bitehsk and Smolensk. A faster entrapment of the foe than berm-e Stalingrad or in the Caucasus could result.

French Turn Back Heavy Axis Attack

U.S. Anti-Tank Weapons Help Turn Back30 To 40 German Tanks.

ALiLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH. AElRIOA. Jau- 4—(AP)- French forces using soififlmerl- can tank-destroying equipment. a- mong their weapons smashed back a heavy tank attack by Germans and Italians on FTentn sltions at; Fondouk, Allied He quarters announced today.

The Axis forces attacked With 30 or 4O German tanks after a heavy

A News Briefs

LONDON, Jan. 4 —- (CP) -

iianailian Air, Naval Personnel

Receive Awards

, OTTAWA. Jun. 4 - KCP’ —Tell- ing blows against tihe enemy's sea gower and courage and devotion w

11W 1n the face of blows bv the en- emy were citcd today its reasons for some of the decorations awarded to naval and air personnel in the New Year's honors list

Naval service headquarters made public the_citations for more than 60 "operational" awards in the New Years list and air force headquart- ers released citations for the award of the Distinguished Flying‘ Cross L0 Sqdn. Ldr Kenneth Boomer of Ottawa. Sqilii. Ldr. Norville E. ‘ Small of Dartmouth, N.S., and F0. Maurice Belunger of Vancouver

Sqdn Ldr. Small was credited

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BIG GERMAN AIR BASE CAPTURED BY RUSSlANS

To Register Unmarried Men Not Yet Called

lubserlptloa Delivered, 8.1.00 llaii. 04,00; other Province-a umi u.|i..i. slibo,

Latest Cains Push Jaws Of

Pincers Closer

Position OfRemnants OfZZDivIsions Trapped At Stalingrad Becomes More Serious.

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IaONDON, Jan. -l-—(Cl’)—'l‘he MOMWHV riidio announ- ced in a special communique tonight the capture of the big German air base of Cht3l‘lliis‘lll\0\'s'kil_\ll and the roil- way station of Chernishkuv, zin action which apparently drove closer together" the jaws of a atffllllil pincers (‘losing about the remnants of 22 trapped (lcrmiin division,- at Stalingrad.

with five attacks on submarines, three of them successful. within the last few riionths. He showed courage iii ‘attacking surfaced submarines winch carried armament superior to that of his aircraft, the citation said. He was credited with assisting in more than one rescue of lur- vlvors of sunken or damaged vessels.

F0. Belanger was reported to have “carried. out, three attacks against U-bouts, inflicting damage on one, probably sinking a second, and possibly sinking a third." Sqdn. Ldr. Boomer was described as the first R.C.A F. pilot to make contact with the enemy in the A1- askan area. He commands a fight- er squadron whose “consistently high standard of efficiency under difficult and trying conditions" ls attributed to his “unflitgging zeal and devotion to duty."

The broadcast was heard by the Soviet Monitor. (By Henry C. Cassldy, Associated Press Stuff Writer)

MOSCOW, Jan. 4—(AP)—The Russian Caucasus oifi-nsivc giiihori-fi momentum across foothills drenched by torrential rains tuiliiy as tlm Red Army pursued the Germans west and northwest cf recaptured Mozdok, 60 miles from the oli centre of Grozny.

This latest drive was reported retaking territory rivailing in im- portance that seized In the earlier pushes on the stzillngrad front, ‘in the Vellkie Luiii area and on the middle Don.

Russian oiiensives continued at a slower pace 0n Other nilijor son- iors, where the Reds are within ‘i0 miles of Latvia and 10o mill-s of mild"- Ill-"il! l0 "19 "Mic Caucasus and its oil mineral treasures. Mozrlok and Velikis Luiil are 1,100 miles apart.

The Russians said German lines were crumbling in the most im- lmrilnl "on": illhmlgh the enemy was striving desperately to stlffi-ri his stand. '

(The Germans reported repeated '

The navy's citations were general in terms and seldom gave details of spcclflc acts o! valor. They merit- ioned riormnnces of individuals in suc important naval incidents as to the torpedoing of the Can- adian destroyer Saguenay and its limping voyage to port, the capture of the-German merchant ship Wcser. the destruction of the Ger- mnn merchantmcn Hermonthis and Muiivhen, the sinking of the New- foundlrind-Novii Scolia fcrrv Curi- bnu, tho euicuiition of France, and ‘ the prolonged fight waged by the destroyer Skecna and other Can- adian WZlFSlIlIlS against a submarine

slim troops who captured Mozdok on the Terek River liberated sever- , al more villages,

said to have captured positions," repulsiiig count- cr-attacks. One guard unit on the Middle Don captured three Vlllllgt s, forcing remnants of one German garrison to flee in confusion. the re rt added.

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Ilinen. They made no further men-l (By The Canadian Press)

tion of Vellkle Lukl. but claimed; inflicting heavy R -_ _ ~ __ . . __ losses. Centrul front troops were I lureusffiljixgx imfffff.’ ilxll-ullxeuCllaiai-t

only that Nazi shock troops carried .

out several successful actions on the "consolidated newl-l" ' nishuvsknya and rziiluiiy station ilf i liuriiishiioi. npplirt-nlly iigllloililig

central front.) l

The noon communique said Rus- l jaws of second pint-erg uliiiiit ri-i... nants of 22 trap cd Nazi (liviallrlig

Qbcfore Stalingra . TUNISIA - French forces using

miles west of the railroad-highway JlillCLlUli. of Kalrouaii in central Tunisia.

Al'l€l‘l fighters and li ht bomb- ers rozired overhead malt ng ‘heavy and effective attacks" on the en- emv armored forces, the commun- ique said.

The Allied communique said the Fi-ciicli ground forces used_ er- lCllll tank-destroyer equipment “Inch had been turned over to

will) are already s w]

armed forces. nor elciclgsq lzlirh cllimntion in reward 1n syn“? nqenl "quire anv re-reglstrnlfon hv those. already medic-sly examined." l

Bombings At Marseilles

IDNDON, Jim. 4 -(CP)- The German High Command Head. quarters and another cstabli-ih- ment frequented by Nazi soldiers were bombed inst night at Mar-. 5611i”. the German - controlled; Vichy Radio said tonight. l Several persons were reported’ hit. The German; were said to have imposed a curfew ht 8 PM. and trolley service was stopped at v.15 PM. ; The wife of a German consular employee was said to have been wounded gravely and n French waiter was reported to have died; of injuries.

"Ebllowing these events. severe measures have been taken." the Vichy broadcast said: Nluli HD0115 were reported to have received 0i‘- ders tn use their weapons when re-

next month.

a; rim CANADIAN Puss I ‘Iritvel and communications sys- heme In eastern Ontario and west- ern Quebec were still lisky today, several day; after old man winter handed s. solar plexus blow which

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Ontario, Quebec Have Bad Ice Storm

slxtonce was offered.

last night. For a time the town, with a population of nearly 14.000 persons. was without. power but smother this service has been re- stored yet cannot be learned.

One Dead In Toronto

them. although an earlier French communique reported the counter-

utthck was supported by “Amer- iczili anti-tank units." When the French commander

reported in his communique that United States anti-tank units had supported the French, this was interpreted here as meaning that American ground forces were ln uctloii for the first time in this sector. r _

Later the wording of the Allied forces communique indicated the French bulletin had been uninten- tionally misleading.

Two of the attacking German c tanks were SIIlBSllOCl. four others iurned out. and many more dam- igeol, the French reported. An t, Allied s kesman said the tanks presuma ly had been unloaded at the port of Sousse, east. of Keir- ouan.

The enemy's heavy ground at- tack in the Fondouk area was liiicwn in against positions held by FTenoh infantry, motorized cavalry. some artillery and some anti-tank units. The Axis was hurled back and both German and Italian prisoners were seized.

iThe day brought no official HCWS from the Libyan end of the North African battle line, but there were some indications that i. pert of Field Marshal Erwin Rommelb fleeing army is digging in near Wadi Zem-Zem. about 160 miles south of Tripoli, to attempt a delaying action against the pur- suln British 8th Army. 1S gns of increasing American participation in the scattered Tun- lsinn fighting were accompanied tare unconflnned ts 110mg};

rman propagan agency . . B. that a complete new United States armored division had arriv- ed in Tunisia.

(The German high command! communiqu claimed Axis troops in southern Tunisia forces

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few days and occupied some more ground?)

Minister James Gardiner and United Statics Secretary of Agricul-

Nazis Nalt News From Russia

Vichy Radio left the all‘ at 7.37 fo- the Russian war front.

Radio returned to the iiir but gave O.

affair

ten was a sign of Allied air activ- ity over the clrciunstariccs this time indicated the Germans had halted tire dis. mmlon of embarrassing Russian

liestroyer Fire iirake ls Sunk

IONDON Admiralty lose of the destroyer Fire Make 1.36;) tons. 1t had s complement

bombardment. but were beaten Tho destruction of the l,260-ton bRLk after gaining some initial Italian submarine Emo off the successes. Fbndoult is about 20 North African Coast by the

little, lightly - gunned British naval trawler Lord Nuffield was announced tonight by the Ad- mlralty.

LONDON, Jan 4 — (C?) — The

Morocco radio sail tonight. that the ,5 Germans have dropped natives parachute behind British Tunisia and that all been ccurt-martialed.

lines in caught have

LONDON, Jan. I — (CP) — Advil-cs from France i0 fighting French Ilcailquarters here said today that liitlci- has created a cioscd military zone three to five miles wiile along the entire French Mediterranean Coast, from Menton to the Pyrenees. Preparations are being rushed

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‘limp-F T0 (‘onfer On French Problems

Jan. 4 — (C P) -

uth and southwest of Stalin- grad, the Russians were penetrating German defences and capturing towns. ’I‘win columns in tihat spar“- srly-settled region were driving on the importiiiit railway junction of

LONDO". Sulsk from two directions. One was

, _ , ._ thrusting down the Stalingrad- giufislg 83$“??? north Caucasus railwav 117 miles l‘ ' ‘ ‘ m beyond the Volga City, and the