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. Press Staff Writer t o , Aug. 23 — (OP) —De- on "important inta of in the Paci ic" were .. . at s luncheon for four in dtsdei here today, Brendan m, British Minister of Infor- ,..., told a press conference this afternoon. ‘h years to come Quebec is .. u; be famous for the decis- reached here," lie said. follow up those decisions sill have to get yourselves ac- . as war correspondents." i was the most straight forward .. I declaration so far to issue ‘- the sixth Churchill-Roose- vir conference. ' =. luncheon was attended by ent Roosevelt, Prime Minis- Churchlll, Dr. T. V. Soong, ese Foreign resident in Wash- ... and Harry Hopkins. Chair- . of the Combined Munitions 1.. ent Board. . Bracken also revealed that churtfilll might make a broad- from Quebec later this week - a few days fishing.

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I errlng to the luncheon. Mr. said “it was not a social it was a military lunch- - meeting to decide important . of strategy in the Pacific." the conference in general Mr. 5B 1 ". _ . utmost importance ‘ have taken ln the citadel." t citadel vice - Regal resid- - is official heme in Quebec of Ptesident and the Prime Min- t and their immediate staffs, scene of all their conferences. ‘illrackcn was asked if the "t" on Pacific strategy were most important taken at the >- conference. lirenlied that they were "a very "Int D311" of the whole pic- of conference resulig. hit what new Pacific strategy enunciated. and what the e set of conference decisions ‘l mean to the fighting forces llghflllt the world, remains and '= ll’ will remain secret until it utcuted. ‘lllfllfllruliition assumes that the - include increasing supplies china. strengthening Chintrs rtsourccs, long range bombing ullenis vital to Japan's long .1 lglm. a cflresh efforttto re- . an ooen up tie Bur- Nld to Chungking.

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Mr. Bracken said he would go to Washington before he returns w England but when asked if Mr, Churchill also would ge he that it was p. security mutter upon which he could not speak.

The tall red - haired British In- formation Minister described liim- self as "a visiting fireman" an)‘. ious to help the correspondents in what he believed had proven “the most difficult task that has ever fallen to journalists."

It was essential that r‘ cisions cf such military importance as those considered and taken in the cit- adel tnust remain a secret. he said.

Mr. Bracken spoke of what he described as the "rumors that Mr. Churchill would go for a few days fishing ‘when President Roosevelt leaves tomorrow night for a flay in Ottgwa en route to the United

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"It seems that fish can be pulled out of Canadian lakes easier than in some other places and your country has inspired Mr. Church. gllictlo become an Isaak Walton", he a .

John tle llavilland Killed In Crash

-.- Lonbdu. sue: ds- store-arena De Havilland. one of three pilot sons of Geoffrey De Havilland. senior head of the De Huvillanfl Aircraft Company, was one of four men killed today in the coll- ision of two. Mosquito planes near St. Albans. Hertfordshire, 20 miles north of London.

Ari eyewitness said the machines were seen flying, and the next minute there was a crash. One parachute was seen to open. and immediately afterwards there was a column of smoke and one of the planes dropped like a stone. There were no survivors.

About 30 years old, John and his brother Geoffrey were the chief test pilots of their father's company. They were two of the team entrusted with tests of the first speedy wooden-built Mos- quito plane.

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QUEBEC, Aug. 23 - (OP) - Prime Minister Ohurchiil will make a world broadcast before he leaves Canada, possibly this wcck- end. it was reported here today on lilgh authority.

At the conclusion of the Quebec conference, Churchill will go fish- ing for a few days and his move- ments after that are uncertain.

It is not known whether he will go to Washington before returning to London.

AFTER 26 YEARS MELBOURNE- (CM-In Pran- ce in 191’! he scratched his initials on an Army waterbottle - - "J. P., U.S.A.A.E.F., France" In New Guinea recently he asked s friend for a drink and wan bonded In sag bottle.

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8’$itle Man ls Injured In Saw Mill

Mr. Thomas Perry met with a regrettable accident yesterday about noon while at work in his saw mill on Water Street West. He had the misfortune tn lose ailngut the first finger of his left The accident occurred while he was working on a shingle saw and in some way the piece of lumber he was cutting jammed in the saw and was thrown back. The sharp edge severed three fingers of the hnnd and pierced the palm as well, The circumstances of the accident are all the more regret- table when one considers that about thirty years ago whL. working in a factory in the U.S.A. he suffered the loss of his right hand. Although handicapped by the accident he has since carried on his chosen occupation and earned for himself an enviable reputation for skilled workman- shin.

He was resting as comfortably as could be expected last evening in the Prince County Hospital-S

Aged Man Faces Murder Charge

ST. STEPHEN, N.B., Aug. 23- tgPlcTAltfreld Perkins“ 81-year-old

n: an . qn~_e.mun s, ibogsa ui tYfe Maclilasiiah 1.005;‘ to await trial on a charge or‘ murder growing out of the death 0012- year-old Norman Leland, a freigh- bar's son. V

Perkins is said to have fired at the boy with a 2B calibre gun Sun- day when the latter allegedly tea- sed him the_ old man's back yard. The boy died instantly.

The 8l-)'f_3§ll:-0ld_fath8r of a large family appeared before Judge Lieighton at Woodland today. He is expected to appear nt the next sit- tigieg of the County Court in 00t- o r.

Report 0n Russia In Relation To No. American Agriculture

WINNIPEG, Aug. 23 —(CP) — Russia is not considered an ec- onomic threat to North American nuriculture in the post-war years, committees of the University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota said today in a loint report. on peace settlement pro- blems.

The report recommended post- war reorganization western European agriculture.

said agreements should be mnde with those European count- ries which produce wheat un- economically, to abandon that form of agriculture; purchasetheir requirements from western hem- lsphere producers, and to turn to other forms of more profitable agriculture.

Under the committees’ plans the agricultural-deficit areas in Eur- upe would purchase wheat from the Argentine, Australia, Canada and the United States.

The self-sufficiency pr Germans had cost mill ons dollars, the report said.

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Air Battle For Italy Continues With Fury

Enemy May Be Abandoning Toe Of Italy.

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A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, A .. 29-—lAPl -I-Iuge formations ‘b’ and night bombers flattened south of Naloles, yesterday and last. night in he methodical Allied mpalgn to smash Italian com- ca ions centres one by on . ct a German resistance whic air battle for Italy hi nllty. erlcan medium bombers with grifhterheacozt: fou ht‘ trails-o ro a a rm a manwand ltAliltiilht-Ita and shot dovmisinabl n__ at. u“ a

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QUEBEC, Aug. 23- The Quebec war council, destined to g0 down In worlt: history as a. aybmol of apxroachlng victory for the United Nations over the Nazi-I-‘ascist-Japanese xls had nearly finished its task tonight.

Out of its deliberations have come military decisions calculated to enforce finally the unconditional surrender terms laid IIOWn under the same Churchill-Roosevelt auspices at Casablanca less than one year ago. They will set in motion grim events In Europe and Asia. The full weight of British, Canadian an American war-making wars of ever lnCICag. lng scope is about to be bro ht to bear u» shor en the road to victory Last minute rlellb tlons of r. Churchill and Mr, Roosevelt and their highest-ranking mllitar advisers apparently had more to do with de-

ding what could be sa d of them now for public information than with the war plans themselves.

ll. ls no military secret. however, that here In Quebec the strategists found available for use upon the global ehessboard where they played out this greatest of war games the fighting men, planes, guns, tank; and all the vast lmpedimenta of’ modern warfare to strike anew, strike hard 8nd sink- now bptli gas‘ and west simultaneously. They found. too. ever llfflW- lng Sen and alt- "cargo fleets to carry it all to the fighting fronts in Europe, in the north, south and central Pacific, In Burma and even in

mu. The: great war maps at the staff headquarters of the conference in Chateau Frontena" showed new ant-l encouraging changes even today its reports from the fighting fronts were posted upon them. The fourth bat- tle of Kharkov in Russia had ended by Nazi official admission in ano- ther German retreat before advancing Russlon legions.

There is a point in the Berlin announcement of the city's evacuation that the retreat behind the Dnlt-per is in full swing to shorten the. line rnd conserve wenln, ‘Nazi manpower. If that is true not. only Kharkov but. Ilryanrik and Smolensk to the north and Taganrog and the whale Ilori-Ilouets Basin to the south must be enemy-abandoned. The charre for a smashing Russian blow to create for the enemy a greater disaster than Stalingrad, Tunisia or Sicily is there if the Russians can seize it befm-e September rains Intervene to halt major manoeuvres.

In Quebec. however. coniecturc turned largely to seeking an 01MB“- atlou of the invitation by r-esldent Roosevelt that. brought Chinese Foreign‘ Minister T. Soon: here for the last hours of the deliberations- It. set-ms certain he was summoned to hear nnd transmit tn Gen. Chianti Kai-Rhett word of what had been decided upon to expand the Allied WIT r-ffnri. m China, not so much to aid Chinese defence a-vilnaf. Japanese lnvailcra as to mount. in China a. direct and deadly offensive agal-ist Java-t and her China Ilfellrtes.

I-‘Xllftflflhfttd speclalirta in the India-China air silpnly route are l"- cludcd In the Quebec staff. The impression is strum that the time ha= conic and China is being so informed to muse powerful air units in 6B‘! central China. where they can strike effectively at- the two-way Japau-"e traffic It the China sea that sustains the whole Nlnnnnese conquest de- v-Ionnenl. and also serves to maln- use of the raw materials in seized

*g‘l%d‘tiiialll°hlfidifltilifi"fiiréiitfiiifddalllifiatt’. Hire aitrlnr-"fi bavnbW-u M‘ that traffic or"! of Japan itself’ from Itasc- In China. The hnui- for that unauestionably has now horn set In the Quobec decisions.‘

Montague Airman Takes Part In TLererkuseAn Raid

iiurchlllllatl Close Call In London Raid

guns-ac, Aug. 2s — (C?) Prime Minister Winston Chur- ehlll missed death by . inches when-a. Nazi bomb demolished the treasury building next d»! to 10 Downing Street, Idllin ‘i2 people, and smashed part 0 the Churchill aBSldCIIQC-

The story was never publish- ed in Britain but it was told here today by an official cloa- ely‘ connected with the Incid- en .

One evening in November, 1940, during the German blita on London Mr. Churchill, Brendon Bracken, British In- formation Minister, and Alr Secretary Sir Archibald Sin- clair were in the dining room at l0 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's home.

A bomb fell on the treasury building demolishing that. struc- ture. The explosion blasted out the kitchen wall in t-he Chur- chill home.

None of the British Cabinet. Ministers had lone to the bomb shelters. Two domestics In the establishment were or- dered to go but refused flatly because "Mr. Churchill needs Ms dinner," the Informant here

LONDON. Aug. 23 ——lCI')— American medium bombers blasted railway yards at. St. Omer in occupied France while Spitfires and Beau- fighters harassed enemy ship- lng today followint u the bombing of the Lever usen chemical worlu and other Rjilncland centres by the R. A. F. and R.C.A.F. Sunday night.

lt was the fifth time In two months the Americans had attacked St, Omar.

LONDON, Aug. 23 —(CP Cable) -Dense cloud obscured Lercrkus- en when RCA F‘. Squadrons, part of a largo R. A. FH-R. C. A. F. bombing force, reached their tar- get during last night's assault on western Germany.

The Canadians ran a gauntlet of night fighters while going in

on their target.

Cloud and night fighters did not stop the Halifax squadrons from reaching their objective when they dropped bombs andincendiar les among widely-scattered fires,

Sgt. John Lynk of Canning. N- S.. Air Gunner said two explos- ions "came tip like red plumes through cloud at 12,000 feet: it was the 51st trip for Sqdn. Ldr. Bill Suggltt, pilot of Toronto. Members of his crew included P0. Church Carter, Bomb Aimer of Lowisville, N B, Other Canadians participating included Sgt. Leo Bates of Sydney, N.S. Pit. Sgt. R. K. Clements of Montague, P. E. I., Pilot of a Lancaster. made two runs over his target with one mowr missing.

"We couldn't see the target the first time and it seemed stupid to go all that way and not. do it up brown." he said. "So we locat- ed the target under the far edge of the cloud and made a second run in the opposite direction."

d. And so the dinner continued. The cook served Welsh rarebit.

Japs Fall In

Amy Officer Changking Raid

Killed At Halifax

HALIFAX, Aug. 38-40?) —0ne army officer is dead and another in serious condition in hospital to- night ae the result of a motor- cycle crash today at t o Falrview undo ass on the outs rte 0| the

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Cause of the accident ll un- y court of in- qulry will be held

OHUNGKING, Aug. Kl — (AP) -—l"or the first time in two years Japanese bombers approached the capital of free Ohina today, but apparently failed to break through t e city's defences.

Air warfare reached the highest pltdi in months with American

lanes destroying or damaging 54

ipponeso alrcra t. on a raid on I-Iankow.

Two waves of Japanese planes totallin more than 60 approached Chung ng and also bombed Wan- hslen, Yangtsa River trading cen- tre 146 miles north of chungking. ARMY OFFICER ..

The Japanese planes which could be seen from the capital were engaged by Chinese fighters while China's highly efficient. nir raid warning system gave ample time for everyone to go the shelters. The shelters are capable of holdlnsoall of the city's more than I70. ifiiabltautl.

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The five things most wanted as gifts by Canadian ‘*‘ over- seas. according to an oiicer returned, are: Cigarettes’ toilet soap (rationed in England), shav-

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Preparing To Greet Roosevelt

IUITTAWA. AUB- 23—(CP)—Can- B6B! capital city today be an rc- Pfltrations to welcome resl ent Roosevelt of the United States on Wednesday with dLsplays of the stars and stripes, the Union Jack and the Canadian Flag hung to- gether the first and most common decorations of stores and other buildings.

On Parliament Hill, where the

President will address an en- air meetln at ncon. the wide awn in front o the Peace Tower was being closely mowed, Parliament buildings officials re- ported‘ an unilsudllv large number of visitors to the massive stone structures during the day. some of them from the United States. Anticipating that the crowd gathere to hear the Presldent_it g expected to reach 20.000—wtuld make photographs difficult dur- ing the Presidential visit, many tourists vrere taking pictures of the Peace Tower. Public works department officials are preparing for the decoration cf lite Parliament Buildings and the placing of chairs lii the road- way in front of the Pence TOW?!‘ for members of the House of Com- mons and Senate and other not- ables who will be present.

New Left Wing Labor Party Called “Phoney” By C.C.F.

TORONTO, Aug, 24~tCP)—Tlm Buck, former leader of the now- disbanded Communist Pary o!

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elected national leader of the Labor- I-‘FOgFEESIVC Party, new left-wing labor party formed here nt a coli- vention here during the uieek-end.

Delegates from Communist and la-bor groups throughout Canada were present during the sessions nt which a national committee of '15

ube of Montreal as chairman. The convention passed a reso- lution declaring the readiness bf. the party "to affiliate with the C. C.F.," and that as an affiliate 0f C.C.F., it prom ed “to Rd- here loyally to its decisions and constitution." Another resolution called for the Hon. Humphrey Mit- cneil, Minister of labor. Saturday Mr. Buck announced I. 14-point oat-war would be ollowed by the party- included: legislation to provide full emiployment; social security 1°81!- lat on; re-establishment of service men and women; curbing of mono- ly practices; tax reforms; a nat- onal minimum wage and the guaranteeing of full rights of olt- censhl to all Canadians. . The G-member national com- mittee has the following repre- sentation by orovincu: Onta 0. 36. ueoec, . Alberta, five British Columbia. lve, Saskatchewan three, Manitoba three, Nova Bcotia two, and New Brunswick one.

"A Complete Piano!" Aug. 23-(01-0-31-3-

‘IDRJONTO. Jolliffe, Ontario C.C.F. leader said today that his party "will have

leader of the now disbanded 00m- munist party, as national leader. "A complete phoney," Mr. J01- liffe called the new party. “It's lust the Communis‘ pa-rtv under a new name and we want and will have no part of them. It's Just a bluff

Joseph Stalin but said the city had been "evacuated" in an orderly retreat.

River south of Izyum, iaris said their forces had smash- ed through from l9 to 22 miles ‘in three days of savage fighting

eluding the Dorlestsko-Amvrosidevka. only rail connection with German-

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IDNDON, Aug. 33-(0?) — The German propaganda machine which used to gloat over bombing when Bntaln was taking it and now de- plores the weapon as murderous and so on has selected a villain for presentation to the German

pelolple.

a is sir Arthur 'I‘l'l.Vers Harris, chief of the bomber command, the big man behind the aerial smashes at. Germs and Italy,