CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945

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u... s. INTERNATIONAL AT s oulllcl:

(B The Canadian Plea WESTERN FRONT - Five? Al- lied armies met oi Rhine drive virtually e0 will tbro hunt-- C

Gel-men northern Holland;

PACIFIC - Ame

Zfiffinfi’ "‘ "‘ Negros no.3 Q l-rmt of magma lull held l."

Junior Chamber Of Commerce Conference

Mt. Stewart Hull

Kensio. Cardigan. "media i-iogs for Davis and Iruer Lt . CV65] further nolce. in More

Hogs for Davis s. , every iiondey until

Davis til further J. Lnrkin

Victory Day May» . jar QEF

h broken

enter

north; twe new drives toward Vien- erkulzt in iiunsary and

I Bremen, Hamburg and

rieen warships lance continued at.

A south straight ill

h so - (CF) - The national conference

Canadian Junior Chamber of Commerce will be

H ., so _ mced

e safest on repres- This . 100 yollns lrllsinessmerrs sroups and a membership of about gllixilizgnpersons tllroushout the Dc-

d ‘here

Coming Events —_-e. Easter Mon-

. 3-3-81. "Dance and "box ecclel Emerald

Bali Easter Monday night. 3-27-31

..;'*.s":i'=‘“..“s'* "so “iris l ‘ fill“ . l‘ Divine Reekee - ply.“

iuuntry shlgéraievtilgeay. March

G Comps . a-zatgl m... this... 23y": s- 8i.

April llth. play in by Mt. some:

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le Boclai and Dance, at. Pat- gffii School, Lot 22, Monday

3-39-31.

3-29- .

“Now in stock-‘bulk wheat and bulk oats. MoGulgan and Boga

" » 3- -0l.

hogs for D is rid

Fraser at Vcmollgl. Tuesday?’ a

April 3-31-21

‘Tuesday until swell and Ros- Z-i-sl‘

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train time. grail-lie?

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CHAR-LE

m GERMANY, March ters)-'I‘here is a firm belie

Qa-

dillonei surrender but that evic-

tory day declared by the Allies is

not for off.

V-dey could conoeivabl be lie- clared within n week en . almost certainly, some time within the next month. For almost a week now. the war has borne no re- '":"'::.::..r..'" ‘lfi’. "m

, ve ‘its to be fining? to ell intents and purposes when the Rhine was stormed se easily.

Armored spearheads are nolw do- ing the clearlgf ukp. Thousands of tanks iwarm trough Germany . to the north east and south, drop-

ping off hcldin units and Mill

Government of iclels as they wen . This will continue. until finally the whole of Germany has been ac-

counted for "

One week after crossind the toe Rhine the British spearhead soi- dier has two uestlons in his mind

as he speeds hrough Germany.

In order of their importance to

him they are: _ When do we get home? When will it end? In the lest war these questions were answered almost simultane- the pattern

usly. In this war 50W taking shape 'ls completely

diffe e t

Afnxfli headquarters the belief is at the Ge m

firm th r ans ere deter- mined never to put their names to a paper which in uture would show irrevocably that. Gerulan armies were whipped and surrend- ered unconditionally.

- To Continue Myth So far as the Germans are con-

d th i histo 531x11’. nothilhzgetii ‘break wirtli

for the next war.

The Allies may occupy every fec

square inch of Germany-An

they are w I on the way to so

dolnc-bllt s ll there will have been no unconditional

. t There is reason to believe that

the answer to the question when will it end is already fixed and the date already sot on which war will be declared over.

But it may be months before there is even a hint of an answer to the soldiers’ question when do we get home?"

Medal Awarded To Grandson 0f lloun. J. T. McKee

The swam oi the Bronze Btar medel has been made to a former Charlottetown man, First Lieut-

enant Robert J. McKee, of the

Apffl 0.5. Medical Administrative Corps. -

sloth Medical Battalion. As e youth Lt. McKee was active associated with Boy scouts, Y .C.A. end

chllrm activities hcrchhc is widely

known end esteemed. l-te is s son

of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. MJc- Kee. now of Boston. and a srand- son of City Coun. JJI‘. McKee oi Charlottetown. Following

i; the citation accompanying Lt. McKee!

awe d

r : "Robert J. McKee 00047742. First - Lieutenant. Medical Administrative

oking orders for Ashalt Shingles. Car to nrrlvrApr 1st. N. Aubrey Clltcliife.

Boa every Thursday Ltd. Keith fig- Norrnan - l-lI-Frl-BIt-tf.

Comps. 313th Medical Battalion. For rnerito‘ service in combat frcn 1~l May i044 to '1 February

i946 in Italy. Lieutenant McKee as

rendered outstanding service in the perionnanoe of his duties as litter platoon count-lender. In the initial combat Phase from 14MB)’ to i8 May i044. Lieutenant McKee

courageous biased litter trail over

the mounts. us areas of S. erie ond 3118M. 1m

y. lreepl in con-

_ stent contact with the a?’ stations

and leonally supervie the

Qvecue c4 the wound over re ch at

miles in lengglh. At Cesul Rial’,

rom ember "Ammo heavy rain‘: w“

1 washed out e bridfl.

essential to evacuate oaeue ties ream

across the swollen molln

by cable beet. Dlttegerdlng the drenching rein and icy water 6r swirling around his knees, - ious to the Odie enemy lire. Iseutaient loam glgungerlly shuttling caeuelltlee to the rear.

e steady flow oi essential

m ice eubllliee movlnc

Subsequently, on is December 10M. at 5e

. Itlll’

K fifismuiltylllflllfll-lfi a dst of a concentrated

lntlliemi

mom ertili bar-raft. in i0- eponsi to e .3171..- eld from a gun

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lnplac e tbm “we” f‘ W ensures: ‘

‘;°““.'.'”.'.l‘°l.h.. refourcefulneas. intr id leaderth (l reflects the It th lied

Boston. Massachusetts

<-'-- "o'er-we"

t . his headquarters ‘ night that tile rmans will never accept uncon- ~

Winners of.the Governor-General’: Litcrarylright: Dorothy Duncan, Awards for the best works of fiction. poetry. cre- fiction); etive non-fiction and academic non-fiction publish- liner Mclnnis. Toronto. ed by Canadian writers during i944. as announced I‘ by the Canadian Authors‘ Association. From left to

. w...- “Situation Last Night l

a. nnwann ll. uroos. w... aural

llulccthmuintoccrmhoyeeeeericeeielllnglatoaraiim Underlying the whole etretegyy or course. is this prllaa ohiectlvlu destruction of the German Army in the weet. I-‘or the time bolus It least. geographical advances will be secondary to that lflll- The Germans east and north of the Rhine River apparently are concentrated in three areas-the Ruhr, Holland and in southwest Ger- ‘ , by Mannheim, Munich and the Swiss, French and " - A giant trap is being forged around some six to l0 German divisions In the Ruhr. The American 9th Army is. driving along the northern flank to a Junction with the let Army swinging up from the south and

has!!!“ Germs! reeietarlae.

will giyth» ,, .. l‘! a the ave never tgfiluyn delmld. may well be the cornerstone

o! the Gmnsn general staff‘: plan

behind the Ruhr. _ _,'l‘hle ellggeIl-I. all» Viylth otherrladloei be closed erouhetneo m‘ . The British-Canadian forces on the left of the 0th Army WWII‘ to be slanting to the northeast, an indication thatthey may be fashion- Iugu loop around the Germans in Iloilen north along the Ems or the Wesse- livers. in the eohth the United Staten ‘lth Army ie probing southwest. ell- ntly manoeuvring into position‘ to strike behind the Germans in

d. This euvelopment may swing

ev-

The Srd Army is rolling east between the lat and ‘ltil. seemingly ready to turn cit er north or south for one of its famous "end runs.” the Still to be heard roln is the recently flllfllflltll 1W1 Jilly. rellfllfll l! Gen. Eisenhower's ace in the hole.

The Alllse are begging “ but there is e significant note in the surrenders. As yet. there has been no mass canitulution of large unite. When whole divisions. corill lvnd “mice begin to give up. collapse of the German Army in the west will

Until that happens, it ruullt be assumed that the Germans are still struggling to follow a general plan and to fall back to some new line. Gen. Eisenhower end War Secretary Stimson both have suggested that may attempt another last futile stand west oi Berlin.

an Officer ‘Says

No Defence re Left _

Wings Par g A ilerel Tllllltlliyx

Tile presentation of win Thursday afternoon to gra uaics c: -No. i Air Navigation School was made before e lame gathering oi

3 ARMY IN GERMANY. March 29-(Deiayed) - (AP)-A high ranking German oi- flcer who was captured by let-Gen. Patton's 3rd Army troops said to- day that "there is not any organized ins oi defence between you and

lin

"There is not any organized sys- tem of government many," the officer declared. "When you reach Berlin the whole situation will quickly dissolve."

(Censorship did not permit dis- closure oi the officer's identity and words at the start 0d the dis- patch were censored.)

The captured officer that only hastily organised erees of defence 1110b as tielg oinemhe set up-and w ch prov u pro lnalned before the on rushing Am

ericsns.

"Lines oi defences had been plen- ned." he said. "but you advanced so fest they could not be fulfilled."

His re rks to staff officers and en were translated by

who presented the wines to e. l! class oi graduates. hut also t_

oi pinning the imianto on e breast of his yc

will oioee for several wcekl.

iillnlors Hitler llas Disappeared

By BOSS MUNBO

WITH THE CANADIANS AT EMMERICII. Germany. March 30- (CP Cable) - A rumor is spread. ing among German troo on the Allied northern flank t at Adolf llitler has disappeared end they ex- pect he will commit suicide before

the final collapse of the Reich.

Prisoners token by the Canadians from n. half-dozen different units

scattered along the front said

was current talk in their lines that Hitler-no longer was in charge and

Heinrich finder was trying ‘rope with . Wset- - I16

By BOMNIIY WHEELER

IDNDON. March SiZF-(AP) - ’ troops ‘ -‘ -‘ Austriato- n ht as two new Soviet offensive dr ves toward Vienna and Italy erupted in Hungary and southern Slovakia and Red Army troops far to the Jlorth captured the big Bal- ‘

forlner city.

Mosoovfs nightly communique

-' tat l Feodor I. Tolbufrhink 3rd Ukraine Army had entered Austria-seven years after that country was annexed to Adold Hitler's Greater Reich - after crossing the frontier north oi captured Kosksg. 52 miles south of

Vien pounced that the 2nd and

sives.

More than 10,000 German

troops were captured and 39.-

000 killed in the collapse of German resistance in Densig City, where the first shots of this war were fired. Forty-five German U-bonte and ldl other ships were taken in the great nevai base. internationalized

-, by the League of Nations. Derlzig was the first German prise of the present war. The raising of the Polish flag in- dloated Russia's intention of giv- ing the European’ tlnderbox to Poland.

N. B. FINISHES THIRD

MONCTON. NB" March 30 — (°P)—-\AIllb0\lli06Ii‘l.QIbt that New Brunswick finished third in the recent food and allied industries - war savings stamps campaign was mode I101?! by Gordon Pucklcw.

r.

red Maul of Milwaukee. ma“; h b. m m.

21st Anniversary 0f ll. ILA. F. Sunday

March 80-(0?) -—

ts members.

The iLOAI. was born i. lint and was s brench oft er- my for i4 years. In 10H it became

o

lied m l (humans e

cw- M“ m " rm" m" “1.'l'.'.“'.&‘ .‘.i.‘.§.“’“l.‘..”°‘n......... from e mere 4,0004n the first l0 veers of its existence u dll ' hes more than 4o squadrons eer-

the war to

l iiince EdwerdlIslend was first end

Ontario second.

New Speed Record ilfld. To Scotland

LONDON, March 30 -- (OP —Cable) - A Canadian-built MiIlllllll-B. ililotell by s. Scottish flight lieutenant. with a Can- adian navigator plotting course, left Newfoundland ni- ter breakfast tllls morning and arrived in Scotland in time for e late lunch this afternoon.

Th6 "ell. Plywood plane cov- ered the 2,184 statute miles In five hours and 38 minutes. A breakdown of the amuzin time with its possibilities for post- war travel showed an average speed of 387.6 Inlles an hour_ approximately 6% mile; mi ute

Mmllfoll. (creative non- Gwethslyn Graham. Montreal. (fiction); (academic non-fiction);

by Livesay. New West/minister. B. C.. (poetry).

n . The navigator was F0. 51c, ei e g

Ont. vvh id: “r1. I entirely ‘lviltlsout lncelazlh:

llllow ih ii t “kin u" llllil ‘s?! an 63kg.’ Trans! Port Command delivery flight,

Americlln Soldiers Capture Three U-Boats

wrrl-l ma: h}? on: ARMY, Mal-oh 30 - (AP) - Three Ger- man submarines were captured in the dock area o! Duisburg today by American troops, The 5m, and to condition of the U-boats were not

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Dallzig mllalls; fidedis Cross Into Hangar

Islanders Cited For liallantry In llespatches

tic ort Danzig. hoisting the flag oi e ‘Polish State" over the

Five Islanders are among those recently mentioned in dispatches according to an from the Department of National Defense" Ottawa. The men are:

Meissec, Donald Howard. Ser-

al

trical and Mechanical Engineers. Wife. Mary Maude Mclsaac, 134 Dorchester Street,

Sq ac went overseas in Holland. where he was wounded and is now presumed

be Germany. He has a eon. Flying Officer Eisner Mclsesc. si- sc overseas and another son. John. living in Belcarris. Sask. A daugh- ter. Anne. is serving in the Con-

nu. Earl-fer, Marshal Stalin had en--

8rd Uk- rainian Armim. on the north and south banks o! the Danube, had opened two powerful new offen-

Crockett. William Thomas 135M. Royal Canadian Wife. Mrs. Frances G. Crockett. 104 Water Street. Charlottetown.

Sgt. Crockett enlisted in 1089 and

fought in France. Belgium, - Holland and is now in Germany.

Also a brother. Donald. Canadian Army in Hal-

ifax. M gl. Crockett. live at

Riech. Elsie 1e Verne. Major (P/Metron . Royal Canadian Ar- my Medical Corps. its-sided Montreal prior to the Canadian Army. Next of kin

eakiaa. Frederic Stewart. -

erbere Lillian Jen- kins, Exeter House. Sedgley Wolverhampton. staffs. England Lena M. Jenkins,

Menu. Eldon Baker. Lieutenant. 89. Canadian Infant thenldMrs. Beatrice

Easter Finds Victory Mood Ill Britain I! IIZEI-‘LOWE IONDON. March 30-40!’ Cable)

is neuter Week-end might be Britain's rehearsal for V-dny.

MAXIMS or A

MERE MAN

fe and the rnllet sacred f lnen who write.

14 PAGES blell. 00-00: other ProrlucuGHIl-LA. 0s,‘

Subscription Delivered. 88.00.

CES CONTINUE

Growing Signs OF

errggn Collapse

By ROS_S MUNRO . WITH THE CANADIANS AT EMMERICH M h 30-—(CP Cable) — In a new attack, Canadian lniarlytryaarlld tanks today swept forward northeast of Emmerich and. thrusting ahead foul" miles, crossed the Netherlands fron- tier lnio northern Holland 20 miles south of Arnhem. The Queen’s own Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg and Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal of Montreal led the new advance. while other western infantry cleared Emmerich and advanced several hundred yards beyond that ferry crossing town. The Canadians crossed into the Netherlands between Emmerich and Anlloli, eight miles to the east. _'l‘he ‘advance into northern Holland" was not meeting particularly stiff opposition and tonight tank columns and infantry unlis were shoving ahead rapidly over flat. open farm land. Several small llzlmleis have been liberated and several towns in the path of the advance are being at- tacked. .

Judah! nllrlcm what prisoners} ea , _ hayve nos idea. rlllntheenllltlalgnigllzltgieg; glhelnétillreg‘ adtvancest east‘ o‘; the. c

. 6y aven’ l-ece ve anvi . i ml I ' t a... 5.2..°°i‘$...‘.‘.il§l’;§f€$..“1§.“tlf a“ cllmlll" coming chaotic.

In mlny respects the Germans HAMILTON. Out., March so _4 a: lélflllflfli; blindly. They have (OP) - J. W, Sanger. Winnipeg. n old to slBY put and the 346th $01183’ was elected national chair- Dlvision is staging the best 113m man of the Navy Le ue of Can. on this basis. Cmadion staff offic- ma. Sea Cadet Comm m. n m; ers still are 53ek|ng a reason m, annual convention here. lie sug-

this rough Qppg 1.1 q, an,“ 1h ceeds Lloyd T. S rldi i i! i end now feel flflitofirllgagnflnyeggcs. n. who resigned) n‘ o ‘m rlbly is ‘rlthdrawing completely E- frem northern Holland and the

rgslsgnme 1s covering for New Brunswick. was elected

lhll the withdrawal. "we-chairman- Local Soiliier Mentioned '**””°“°°°m="'

March 29. Doullfle Aularon. Can-

adian Press wa d t ' ' - dcribcd the rilglctllngémvlhla G°““°““' w°yb“"‘- “mm”

drove the Germans from -

of (‘aenlotietowufas one oi’ the mkm d beer-v-

ution post ‘L! t-he IZriVilF-Flel: Rcg- 32?“?! the N“, lment, ‘Royal Canadian Artillery, '

§|',‘_'°" W“ '“‘“"“ "' u“ °'°"“' solrrn unison. us. larch go Tfl<u€EIrm.-u.d.lohh o.

um . . . eon Ilr. d

n, non campus. a l, l“ h?“ big‘? WITH names! Anlmon EAST h,“ m. °' Wm‘ 0F HALTERN. Gennsny, March M’ 116°“ l manual“ M, may-ml":

30-(Reliters)—Gel-man worn

and children are tramplng ti’; my of New Bmnbmck‘ alstobahns and cart tracks locking “M for refuse. They see the writing

th 11-" , . Erziéergngrzgueitéglpzlfie 035.1%; “‘l.l*° B Il . I I drove gin agjeeny 94 miles 1° Momlwrs: cm’:

through a dozen east Rhincland~ K“)

inhabited debris plies without hear_

lnrgnna German shot or fin-ding a ‘RHBBINQ W“ “QR “Hgilléllydfirlmtyvg; t?! irtlany flags lrliitlt lllF-YNE

. o . the flags were of unconditional. surrender while -- tablecloths.

sheets. pillowcases, napkins. .

PARIS. March 30, _ (A?) __. United States 1st and 3rd Armyi tanks drove 20 to ill miles toward‘ Berlin today, crossing the Eder‘ River only la2 miles southwest of the capital as racing American col-l umns to the north tightened a! steel noose around 40.000 crnckl German troops in the falling Ruhni

Reports Trail Evente ‘

rev-a-

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Br Navy Lessor Roy crawlin- ' (In a delayed dispatch ems a‘; ‘ffffifi mflbtmtgulhgefiiug; in common of l-IMCJ Sioux, tetowrl. Thoriock end Dunve; as well as fell. u. mentioned Arthilr Kelly flife°‘§f°llifi‘fifll{f“a“'o"ifl“ij Victoria at the annual‘ confer- Leegne lee

awn’;

Five Allied armies were slashing‘ so swiftly through collapsed res- sistance that reports trailed fari

behind events and the cloak of a METEORQLQGICAL C

news blackout shrouded possibly Toronto. March so -- (or) -lMi1 nil‘. even more stunning blows. mum "m! mlxllmlm l-Qmiléfeturcsl The U.S. 1st Arlnv scored one .v““.°°u"'e' 43. 47: Edmonton 88, Al;

of in lfggwst l 1| | v1 “fl Flisma :93. 4s; Wm’ of arleothler eensmoncni hi, i? lTol-onto shes oil-he's‘?

: 0i. cart-inn; the met I-Jder m... lfigifrl‘ ff. f}; hlgggmnigéhé; ultimo

ea ii furt. It m. 3...’... ffflv,‘ m. m; M113 fax 44. s.‘ Charlottetown r1. is. m on demolitions that would “"9 5T5= have flooded the route to Berlin. “w” B"

sent its northbound tank colums 'emperalu"'

slashlnfl through Paderborn, el- “m?” Show: “Men” "m" most at the edge of the north Ger- Pfllittlfe‘ciguggcmglhjcflg%z'gluw l

mun plain. 4S mile art f th _ eastern limits of (h: Hfuhr. o e mggy '35.?” caahuhu Th8 Uflllfid shill! 9th A1111)’ WIS in - In“ m

racing across the northern frin s mum“ M ‘t’

cf the Ruhr toward a junction w th "m, m, "|m°"$“-'“=fi:h=a6

the north-bound armored columns h. wanna." °

of the 1st army. and they last were

lemrle“ “M” ‘*5 "m" "W"- Hlsh tide this umhooh at u; o.

Three armored divisions of the British 2nd army. kaininu i0 miles mgultiogc m ‘c n overnight far beyond the Rhine. rises tuner-row mos-rill: e u.

were reported unofficially to be Inst quarter mconmsgifyal], 3,1‘

striking for tile north German P, M, port; of Harnburlr. Bremen and Wiillclmshoven. all oi which were DAILY All IIIVICI