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{By Douglas Amaron, Cana- dian Press Staff Writer) LONDON, Aug. 7 —('l‘hurs- day) --(CP Cable) —- The Ger-

man-held ports of Calais and

Boiilognn on the French coan were attacked by the Royal Air

Force just before midnight Int

night and into the early morn-

ing today in continuation of

Britain's ‘round-the-elcclr of- fgnslvg ngainst Germany‘: war

machine in the west.

Watchers on the Kent coast laid German anti-aircraft bat levies put up s heavy defence but that they saw huge flashes which were thought to have been bombs dropped by the R- A. I‘.

LONDON, Aug. 6-——(CP Callie) — German shipping in the English Cilannel and the Frcucil coast was potindcd t0-'

day by the Royal Air Force following smashing night as- saults upon western Germany.

Tilc Nazis, instead of sending planes, countered with a. brisk cross-cilzlttncl shelling of the iolltilcast coast.

A few hostile planes were rcportcli over Fast Anglia bill lll(‘l‘C were no reports that

lJ(‘illl)S hall been (lroppcd.

An illi‘(li'OlilC near Cilcvbollrg, ilvo tankers off the French coast, a motor torpedo boat lillfl a coastal rallio station were anlollg tile (layligllt targets of the R. A. F.

Billl more British struck ut. the Nazi-held of the continent tonight.

The air ministry said 10 to 12 Messerscllnlitts. 0n an ulrdronle were attacked with machine-gun lilii cannon firs by the same

squadron which raided the same field Tuesday. One Nazi fighter,

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Canada ends direct Relations with Finland

UiTAWA. Aug. C —-(CP) —- Ter- mination of direct relations be- tween the Canadian and the Fin- tlisll governments was made known 11V the external affairs department iota today,

In e brief statement handed the PM! the department said:

‘The Canadian government has decided to close the consulate gen- lroi of Finland in Montreal and cl- w the honorary consulates and vice consulates of Finland throughout Canada...

"The decision of the Canadian iovcrnment is a consequence of the action of Finland in taking par’. in the war on the side of Germany"

A department spokesman said the 5WD could not. be described in a

“"1105; oi diplomatic relations"

cause a consul-general does not "110? dhllomatic status but it. did 111ml s termination of direct rela- mlzio between Canada and Pin-

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i2 Fliers from S’sii_le School Crash victims

MUQOIUN, N. 13., Aug. 6 -fl) —'1‘Wo men were killed instantly when their Royal Canadian Air Force Harvard training plane crash. ed near the Department of Trans- Dflrt emergency landing field gt Havclock, S0 miles from here this sftcrnoon. 'i'he men were members of the personnel of No. a Bervlcg 51134115 “P11111118 5011001 at Slimmer- olde. P. E. I.

Officials of the school at Bum. merside tonight identified the vlc. timl as 1'0. Iiknest E. Creed of NWT-tide. Ont. an instructor, and LAC. Kenneth Payne Blssett of Cllmbbellton, N.B., a student filer. F0. Crew's next of kin is his fath- er, F. H. Creed, and LAC. Bissettds next of kin is his mother, Mrs, Dora Ella Bissett.

No details of the crash were s- vallable at the school. Officials said they had no information as to ‘un- "81 B-Ffflllgements but expected the bodies would be sent to the homes of the two fliers. An R.C.A.F. um- bulsnce brought the bodies here

night.

_ Residents of Havelock reported ‘seeing the plane spin down from considerable height. apparently out of control and crash in thinly wooded country about. e quarter

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Stage real-life lie-enactment of Movie thriller

By Douxlas Arnaron Canadian Press Staff Writer

LONDON. Aug. tl-(CP Cable) - The men who played leads in a British documennary film ‘Target. for Tonight" staged a rent-life repetition of their mov- ie rald in an attack on Mann- heim inst night.

Three of the crew who, in the ministry of information 010-. ture, flew to their objective. "Frelnhausen." in what. they called an “F for Freddie" Wellington bomber were to- gether again, dropping real bombs across the Mannheim docks and raking objectives on the way home with machine- gun firs.

“I have never llnd l1 trip like it before," said the pilot. "You could see hedges, roads. even the smallest streams and rall- way lines. .

"At one time we counted At least 12 flares in the air and you could see other bombers were at work farther away.

“We luid our bombs across the docks and then, coming home, gave the two gunners s night out."

The Scottish navigator, who, with (he pilot and the gunner were the originals of tile "F for Freddie" crew, testifed to the fact the trip was anything but quiet. When they came out of the clouds at Mannheim, they saw three cones of scurchlkxhts with about 30 beams. ‘The bomber caught each of the cones with tire German ground Rims filling each cone with fl

re.

"I put the bombs right on the dot," the navigator said. "Then the searchllghts caught us, the guns opened up and we started dodging and diving.

"There was banging and rat- tling all around the aircraft. Shrapnel was hitting against the fuselage and in the rear there was a smell of cordlte from the exploding shells.

"We were held in the search- lights for four minlltfl. the“ the wirelem operator shook av- srybody by calling up ‘H9110. Captain. do you know the port engines are on fire?‘

“There was a sheet of flame s foot high which kept flicker- ing out on top of the cowiing. Th; pilot just carried on. nurs- ing the engine and not forcing it. After g time, one forgot all about it.

“We ate our rations and made up our minds that if mythifl! worse was going to happen 1t would have happened already-

“The flames went cut. only when the engine was cllt eff. There were S’! 8111110001 11°10! altogether."

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LONDON. Aug. 6—(CP)— Britain has formally warned Japan that intervention in Thailand would raise “the mnst serious situation" in British- Japanese relations, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the llouse of Commons today.

On his own account he dc. clared that n Japanese move into Thailand similar to that alread accomplished in French lndo- hinu would be "threat- ening the security of Singa- pore."

Sir Robert Cralgle, the Bri- tish Ambassador to Japan, he added. llutl told Tokyo that “someone in authority" appear- ed to bc trying to “manufac- ture a case for Japanese in- terventinn."

This silarpening of the British attitude in the Far East crisis paralleled n declaration by Cordell Hull, tho United States Secretary or state, that Japan's intentions toward ‘Thailand were of lncreas. lng concern to the United Stillm- Unanswered, however, went. the question asked by the British pub- lie:-

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Colp cont to Supreme Court

LIVERPOOL. u. s. MS- I — (CP)- Willard Oolp, 3i, of nonr- by Western Head. vras committed for trial today on s charge of mur- der at the conclusion of a lireilrn- inary izearing before iifnrlLstrate S. s. Hendry here. coip was arrested following the finding of the body of Ronald Cooien, S3. also of West- ern Head, near the gale lo C0101‘ property Jilly 20.

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BERLIN, Aug. 6 —(AP) — In a series of announcements introduced with trumpet fanfare, the German high command today blaimcd gi- gantic victories over the Russians on each of the three mllin sectors 0f the eastern front.

The high command said that a total of 805.000 prisoners had been taken and that. the Russians’ bloody losses" were "many times the number of prroncrs."

The German new; and propa- gfliida agency, D.N.B.. estimated tile Russian dead at. 3,000,000 mak- ing the total estimated losses, not including wounded, close to 4,050.- 000.

The high command claimed the Germans had broken through the stalin line at three "decisive" points: South of the Pinsk marshes in the direction 0f Kiev. in the di- rection of Smolensk on the Moscow front, and south of Lake Peipus toward Leningrad; hnd engaged in bloody but, victorious battles with the Russians and now are “ready to continue with J new phase of operations."

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Clement R. Attlee speaks in British Commons in absence of Prime Minister.

LONDON, A118. ti --(CP) -—C1em- ent R. Attlee, Lord Privy Berri 1nd Deputy Leader in the House of Commons, tn a. comprehensive war review, today advised Britain to "be cheerful but. don't. relax" and warned that Germany's invasion of Britain has been "postponed but not abandoned."

He spoke to the House in the absence of Prime Mnistcr Church- ill, whose whereabouts at the mo- ment has not; been divulged, and treated at length Britain's activity in all the theatres of war.

Mr. Attlee told Commons that in northern waters British and Rus- sian fleets have been in close con- tact.

"Activities of our fleet at Kir- kenes (Norway) and elsewhere in the North show how close ls our physical contact with the Russian forces," he said,

Mr. Attlee said it would be "fool- ish for anyone to attempt to fore-

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Interpreting The War News

(By Kirlle L. Simpson, Assoc- iated Press Stuff Writer) If the German victory claims

trumpeted from Hitler's head-

quarters are correct the war in Russia should be all but. over; yet. the Nazi leader tells his people that the greatest battles are still to be fought. Recently the Germans esti-

mated that. 9,000,000 troops were engaged in the titanic struggle and now they re ori; that Russian losses to ate have aggregated almost half of that. number-from 3,000,000 to 4.- 000.000. Russian war gear, planes, tanks, and guns, by the tens of thousands have been taken or destroyed, Hitler as. serfs. Yet. as the upshot of all this, he can only tell his peo- ple that his armies stand “at the gates of Kiev" and are still 100 miles from Leningrad and twice tilat far from Mos- cow.

O U I What. is still holding the Germans at bay 0n all three fronts if the flower of the Red army i5 already destroyed, Russian leadership paralyzed

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Speculation still Rife Churchill, Roosevelt meet

WABi-IINGWN. AllK- 6~(AP)— Amid widespread but entirely un- substantiated rumors of a meet. ing between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill came s. message from the presiden- tial vacation yacht today which might-or might not-dispel them. dependin upon whst was reed between he lines.

The wireless message. sent by the skipper of the yacht Potomac and made public by the United states Navy Department. here, rad

"Oldies ship proceeding slowly ai coast with party fishing.

Wes her fair. sea smooth. Poto- mso river sailors responding to New mglsnd sir after Witching- ton summer."

Apparently the "Potomac river sailors" were the President and his companions.

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British Party Lands on French shore?l

LONDON, Aug. ‘l-(Thurs- dayl-(CP Csblel-The Daily Mall laid today that a British landing party may have cross- ed the channel recently and that this might explain a great saucer-shaped crater which Dover observers say has up. peared on the French-occupied coast.

The newspaper said the crater is approximately on the site of a German lung-range gun emplacement.

The crater, ln a low-lying section of the coast. east oi Cap Gris Nez, near the village of Strouann, “almost certainly was caused since last week-end" the Mail said.

"it is being linked with a big explosion heard early Monday morning when the channel was lit ornenturily by a. flash from. the direction of France. There were none of the usual signs oi’ a Royal Air Force attack at the time on that stretch of coast.

"Speculation about the cause of the explosion has produced three theories. The first credits the job to saboteurs and the second to the shelling of gun emplacements from the sea.

“The third theory is that a landing party may have cross- ed the channel."

AP starts rumor Deflating service

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 --(CP) —- The Associated Press today inaug- urated a new service intended to explode wild rumors, of the type not carried by The Associated Press or Tile Canadian Press, which flood the world almost daily.

The AP mid that from time to time, as these reports are deflat- ed, it plans b0 carry over its bxten- sive network of telegraph wires brief items headed “Today's rumor deflator." Today's "deflator," the first, read:-

"On July 20 reports published and broadcast throughout the world said that Premier Mussolini of It- aly had been shot twice while re- viewing troops about to leave for the Russian front. Nine days later Mussolini did review troops leaving for the eastern front, and made u

No knowledge 0i‘ Churchill Conference

Nazi Radio interested

OTTAWA, Aug. 6 -rCP) - Prime Minister Mackenzie King told newspapcrmen today he had no knowledge of any meeting belWcCll Pfmc Minister Winston Church“- and President Roosevelt.

Mr. King met newspapermen at his office where they gathered to sce him receive from A Kieenran. chairman of the credit for Canada committee of New York. We 151"“ sample pledge cards being distribu- ted in the United States 0h Wflifh Americans may plfldile they ‘W131 spend part of their holidays in

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Japs prepare To exploit lndo - China

sluoooi. 1060-0111"?- Aug. 6—(AP)—J'ef>afl'5 °¢°n°m° penetration of French India-China was said reliably today to be keefl- lng full nbreust of her military occupat on. .

Business men said the Japanese intend to urchase large tracts of sgricuitursiiland and apparently were interested chielilY ln valuable

mperiles on which it is possible a) engage in large scale production of cotton. cereals and rice.

some experts said Japan may bg able i0 grow enough cotton to reduce her dependence on the Un- ited. States.

Rubber is snot-her commodity in which the Japanese are showing great interest, these sources said. Imports are reported surveying plantations, listing trees, indexing machinery and collecting nil neces- sary information.

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communique said.

Kallsalmi is a Lake Lado which the Russians gainedgfil 1939-40 war with Finland.

With this new ricveloplllent on a front hitherto comparatively quiescent. official accounts por- trayed the Red army as counter- attacklng in sustained fashion on the central and southern approach. es_t.o Moscow rind Kiev in a deep- ening battle of lll()\‘t“lii(‘iil on a 350- milc front.

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The Soviet forces met the new German offensive ill tile Ukraine with the same sort oi counter- punch which has lolockod tho mm to Moscow from Slrlolcrlsk. Russians said. ‘The first communl qlte today told of battles raging on. day and night. in the mobile fighting of the southern and cen- tral quarters, in the wide, fiercely-

Bei Tserkov, south of Kiev. More- over, it was implied that well.

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north were turning bllCk 51119355. sive Gefman assault waves at Kholm, mid-wily between smo- lensk and Leningrad, and in Es- ionia.

(London military experts Germany‘ illld been stopped in front of Smolensk and was pre- paring a dril'e toward the Black Sen port of Odessa. to capture the

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Big bombers Carry payloads 0f explosives

LONDON. our. 6—tCP)— American imnrbr-rs spanning the Atlantic from Newfoundland to “somewhere in 1202107111" 11"‘ carrying big payloads-mi high explosivr-s-arl-orrling in one United States paSsvIllWr-

"l came over in a (‘nnsolldnt- ed Liberator." he related. '-'""1 we had 2 1-2 tons of the suff aboard.

“i don't know anything about it, because pen lo don't go a- round builonhol ng you with WIN‘ secrets those (10.\'.‘=-

"But my impression was thrre vrils no need in hand no smoking‘ signs arflilfli1- A! l matter oi‘ fart. flu-y didn't bother. One hint was ennui!" for me.

"We talked about the stuff a llttle on (he way "V". and _i got a very good liiPfl that iii terribly. horribly effective."

The American, who is ii filer hlmgrlf, gave n gfiilihii‘ descrip- tlnn of what it is like in be flying across (he ocoan~csilcc- ially with n load of explosives under you Ilr was one of three "deadllcmls" (passengers) on 1.1K‘ irln.

The young flier. who came ov- er (o loin the Air T-wmsncrt Auxiliary. said he hardly Iiopt o. wink atop their load of super cxninsivr-q

“Ton damn much in look at." he said rirrliesslluulliv. "Sin", cloudfl. stnru and trying to foi- Inw our cnursr- kept mo‘ nwrlzc. Besides. lulu-never one of‘ the ell-pilots canto back fur toffee. they would lei. me go forward."

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