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Dominion total tops 710 million _r_n_a_rk.

OTTAJVA. June 22—-(CP

ill-ll. passed the record of all victory loans of

)—Canada's Victory Loan, the First

Great War. at the close of operations Saturday, the grand total of subscriptions was $710,958,950, Finance Minister

Ilsley announced tonight.

To this total which includes all cash subscriptions Mr.

llsle ' $9.. 75,650. "Thus the grand total of

said there must be added conversions amounting to

cash and conversions at the

close of business Saturday was $806,834,600," said the Fin.

llliCe Minister. “The total

amount subscribed exceeded even 1918.

greatest of all the Victory Loans of th F' t G ’ when $707,000,000 was subscribed." e "s "at “at

Minimum objective in the June 2 and closed at midnigh

Mr. Ilsley said that counting cash and

campaign which opened last t last night was $600,000,000. conversions to-

gether, approximately one person i Ye 13 ' C d had subscribed to Victory Loan, lilliLe‘ ry m mm a

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Plot course In new conflict

Discreet Silence lilain- tained In Tokyo.

TOKYO. Juno 22-—-tAP)—An em- erzencv Joint meeting of the Jap- anese cabinet with army and navy commanders was ordered today to chart Japan's course in the war be- tween her Axis partner Germany and Russia. with whom she has a new friendship treaty,

The session was called after For- eign Minister Ycsuite Matsuoka con- ferred with Emperor Hirohito.

Japan was said to have been fully advised by Berlin of the nature of German-Russian relations and to

be prepared to meet developments Discreet Silence

Maintaining discreet silence. Japanese rnav stand ' e from new conflict and respect their obli- iza ions under both the impart-ire Pact with Germanv and Italy and the Non-aaresslon Pact with Russia. Observers said.

The most siznificant fact to this, empire. however. was that pressure seemingly had been removed from Britain and the United States. thus permutina the United States fleet.

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To Aid

(By Drew Middleton, Associated Press Staff Writer) LONDON, June ZZ-—(AP)—Prtme Minister Churchill, in a world- wldo radio broadcast tonight. pledged British aid to Russia in fighting the Nani German war machine that early this morning invaded Soviet

territory.

Mr. Churchill, in announei... the policy of the Government on the

suddenly-developed struggle between aerted there had been no more consistent opponent of Communism ,

Nazism and Communism, u-

than he but. above all, the Nazis must be "swept. away."

Britain‘: policy ll to destroy Hitler and every vcstige of liis reg- ‘

ime. Britain would never negotiate

"Russia's danger is our danger, and the danger

States," he sold.

“Any man or state who fight:- against Hitler will have our aid."

‘Those who fight with Hitier he . find action a

described Britain's enemies.

though he made no mention o!

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must of necessity ays. he went on. {and now "this bloodthirscy gutter- .sni,pe" has launched his legions

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. ai erinany, _ the Nazis ui- - vadecl Russia as an easier alterna-

Russia against _ ‘sources said toiuith‘.

li\‘€_ to aiieiupt to itivade Britain Hitier probablv hoped. it was Stl

Stairs aid to Bri. .

"The Germans hope to suggest tol at an appease- pre-

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Berlin radio reports Soviets in position to attack Reich; little news of actual conflict.

ntlay)—(.\l'\-liii>>i.in troops with heavy ln-scs _\'\‘\l(‘l‘tlil_\', in advancing: toward ("vrodtio

and Kristinopol, the Red Army high command said todfl." in the first communique of the new war.

his attack on Communist nits 1 NEW YORK, June ZZZ-i niialit be a. dcit ni to United ‘onight that due to “trench

Russian forces made in the

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man_v's back" Russia is in a position to launch attacks

upon the Reich's own territory.

Rut Germany. said the h is prepared to defend her soi posal.

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To ' _ t l . . - . . ~ ~ . . tionarlflflii‘ sggfigiwegr$dugafi_ olfefignbgfieftgg wgxmsennanyx Finland and Romania whose arm- lagainst "new fields of slaughter." v ‘en London and Moscow. ' h’ lxssugiliiul-edlllgllggs (S-tlilfdylrilrr) m‘ ‘hm _,_ “H lymph d“: business Came in “an oven,‘ gecluamm of w“ could mean ‘babies are joined with the Nazis in He must steal from them <the >_ ‘Que _sxir>fi'>hfs_ilif\_li_ 5E9} “Qegerd {XOSCOW J .,., AP,_U _. {Associated Pro,“ stall “uteri Whelmins patriotic rush, exceeding Hitler Was lbflndoyglng the we, M, the attack On _Russia. iRussinnsl theirnaiiy bread." i unis \t.;;‘l:;l-ekirl-:n_g “A911 sfxér __- W. _ k L“,‘{‘e_:_-j-—b‘ . <17 BLfi.L.ll\ n: a ' LLAj-‘r-qhilllfill - a“ expeculuonsh 8am. conclusion o; m; w“ against "We shall give whatever help , The Russian invasion ivas only _“'~’°,\"__§ e E-‘m '~ ‘fin? a? iinofiu‘. WfJfiv“ C ‘l “m” ‘ a - " til, diiylitne said My, I1515y;_ Britain, which (mum no; be m m9 we C811 to Russia and the Russian ‘a stepping stone to plunge others. ideflcb" f“ °“_‘. ‘m, i. “d; 1P‘ t-j , , _ , n s "No fewer than 91.885 individuals llkiflii 0f the Japanese with met people." the Prime Minister said. indudzng India. into the war. " . ‘*5 m“ m‘ '2‘ “g It“: a“) d ‘tfiwrfimem ‘X subscribers completed orders on ntied States getting several‘ Technical and economic assist- There are timcs when all pray Evy,“ N“, m immfi ‘Q ~"“ ‘»"' Saturday for siaasaoao. ‘lhe ciiin- months‘ leeway to prepare. ‘anoe will be offered to Russia and iior the safety of their loved ones. fd- .,.“',un“‘0, in“. we“ mi,“ Q‘ ,1 uiutive total of subscribers at the Japan was reliably reported to‘ Germany will be bombed by day iMl‘. Churchill said. and he re- In,“ méfpfd 10.5.5 ‘Hugh, rem, i ..,_', . have tried unsuccessfully to inter- and night while the fight con- marked that this was such a time ‘mm; 53-,“ was sun-red "undgf m,»

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Province Reaches To- tal Of $2,059,100; City Total One Mil- lion.

The 194i Victory Loan ended in a blai-c cf izlorv for Prince Edward island. All Provincial objectives were reached and some exceeded so

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izieativ their quotas. as to dcuble them. \\' ' loan workers and canvsssers

l as their office help were a liiiil (All. elated RPCUD at midnight sziiirlav when the loan closed and tliev started to add the Ilimrfis.

A ft-iv days ago a prediction of $2.‘- otormo; remainder of Q1131!!! lion for Charlottetown as the fmail zeal “as made. And now—.ves. you IRCFSCG it-both marks were reach-l ed. Tctlav Charlottetown will prodd- 1y flv four pennants with 31.000000 subscribed. which is 181 DEI cent Ol the obiective-possiblv the QTBMES! percentage or any citv in Canada. t but it has carrie

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To make tour 0f Maritime:

OTTAWA, June 22_(Cl>‘)-—'I‘he Sari nf Athlone and Princess Alice i111 leave Ottawa tomorrow on u short tour of the Maritime Pro- vinces an aide said tonight. Th?!’ are evnocied to be in Moncton. N. B. Tuesday.

Coming Events

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"French River play presented lo Cavendish hall. June 24. 11-685-0-21-21.

"Reserve July i2 for annual omlse Celebration. Kensingtgn5

"Hunter River layers present "civil service" Chilton. June 28

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News Briefs

LONDON. June 23—tMon- dBH-(Cl-U-An air raid alarm sounded in London early ted: y. It was the first since Juno 1|. No gunfire was heard immed- iately. German aircraft were reported to have attacked ship- ping off the northeast coast Sunday night and one coastal town reported the sight and sound of explolions and [un- flre at sea. No bombs were dropped on land in that area. however.

WASHINGTON. June 22-—(AP)- ‘Ilie Finnish Legation reported re- cetpt of word frsm Helsinki today

i that Russian pianes had bombed the

Finnish fort of Alskar and had at- tempted to bomb two Finnish war- sh pa.

BERLIN. June zti-ililonday) -—lAP)—D. N. B., German new: agency, cltimed today that. the Nazi air force had bombed mil- itary facilities ln the Russian Black Sea port of Savoltopol. Sevuoopol was occupied by German troops May 1, I918.

PIIISINKI. June lit-Monday) -(APi-A Berlin dispatch. to the newspaper; Uusu Su mi said today German successes against Soviet Russia on the first day “can be compared’ to the biggest. victories in the course of this war." .

Romrts indicated unanimously. the dispatch claimed. that the Ruzsians "had no idea of the force of the German striking power."

ANKARA. June 22-(AP)-- Unconfirmed report: were re- ceived here today that. the Ger- man air force had attacked Odessa. Russia's chief port on the Black Sea. with a raid as destructive no those in which large parts of Rotterdam and Belgrade were laid wute.

MOSCOW. June 22—(AP)—Rus-

iiia proclaimed martial law tonight in border areas from the Arctic to the Black Sea. including the newly sovletized Baltic States and the Leningrad area. BERLIN. June ZZl-illlondoy) -—iAP)—D. . 8-. German new: and p- ’ agency. claimed early today 40 Soviet Russian planes were shot down during two Rod llr force ot- tulis on German territory Sunday.

VICi-IY. June 22-(AP)—Infor- niatlon received here tonight by military circ'es indicated that the principal German thrust against Russia is directed against Kharkov. in the centre of the wheat fields of the Ukraine. Militar observers here sold the geograp v of that

region. and the present season. gave operations there the greatest c‘ for success.

HELSINKI. June 22—lAl')- War-worn Finland. thrust bark Into conflict by llliler’! pro- clamation that she In Germanfl ally in war against i-lovlet Rus- llo. moraliulled all her resour- coa today. but gave no all! that Finns u yet had ex- changed blows with the Bod army

subscribers on

doubled the ign. All or post- marked before midnight Saturday.

vene in the German-Russian crisis, and the United States was said u>| have been informed of the Japanese: efforts. i

Domei news agency said the feel- inlzLurTokyo was that the new lICStlIlIlCS miizht well turn the war into an actual vrorld-wide conflict. The first concrete development. it said. might be the welding of Brit- 8111. into a solid front. I

The Japanese-Russian friendship, treaty. signed April l3. provides that “should one of the contractirg parties become the object of hastily ities on the part of one or several third powers. the other contracting=

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British make Wide gains In Syria

Damascus Occupied By Free French For-i ces.

LONDON. June n—(CP)—Tl'ie

Middle East command today an- nounced gains over wide areas in Syria. cast in a new importance by the outbreak of German-Russian war

Operations apparently centred chiefly around Damascus. from which the Vichy French forces had withdrawn. The Syrian capital was heavily izsrrisoned and British ob servers believe its capltuiation may prove the turning point in the two- ueek-old campaign.

The Middle Exist command said Damascus was occupied Saturday by Free French forces and summarized. other fiizhtinz with the statement that action is continuina on fronts "with local gains everywhere; - to our ." -_

The Vichy ‘French explained their. withdrawal from Damascus as th result of insufficient strength to de- fend the ancient. citv effeetlvol and said its defenders had been fted to new lines in the mountains alonlt the road to Beirut the capital one chief port of Lebanon.

VlClllVi communique claimed a setback to the British forces in the desert on the Syrian-Iraq frontier. French forces. it asserted. retool abou Kemal. near the oil bloating

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The German invasion of Russia was seen in some British military quarters in the Middle East as the explanation for a recent of Nni initiative thtouithou‘ the Middl East. ..

iienaila to build Two Destroyers

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UITAWA. June fl-JCPJ-Can- ads’; venture into heavier naval unit construction. forecast some months ago by Munitions Minister Howe. will be initiated at. Halifax where reels are being laid for two destroyers of the Royal Navy "Tribal" class.

In a general discussion of muni- tions productlon Saturday Mr. Howe also told The Canadian Press the two PHD-ton cargo boats Wfllld be built at Saint John. and that. machine shop fa- cfltles at both Halifax ‘hd Saint “John were being calm-zed.

tinues.

In hi: 20-minute speech. as- serting that German troops had violated the Russian fron- tier. Mr. Churchill declared "we have reached one of the cllmacterlcs" of the present

Wfll‘. ' The "usual formalities" were

the United slams and Russ“; followed in the German attack on i win;

Russia. He said German troops violated

the Russian frontier. bombed cities ' aid given by the

and began the invasion even be-

fore the Nazi Foreign

"Ali this was n0 surprise to me," . he said. i Mr. Churchill said he had given i warnings to Joseph Stalin before; and he expressed hope that theyi had not fallen on deaf ears. . "Hitler is a monster of wicked- l, ness. insatiable in his lust for]

Wood and plunder." the Prime Minister continued. i machine l

The terrible military

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Minister . announced that war had begun. f

ior ilie "l0.000 villages of Russia."

Llkening the German soldiers to “swarming locusts." lie recalled the Russian soldiers allies in the First Great War

_c'ared. Britain will be in a strong ‘posltlfln to asert herself in the

If Hitler believed his action flgflinft Russia would slacken the United States. he would be mistaken.

Hitler. he continued. wishes to destroy Russia because he hopes that with this campaign coiicltid- ed he will be tree to hurl his army against the British Isles "ivhicn he must do."

The Nazi chieftain hope; in de.

stroy his enemies one by one "in vlflsfiie style." Mr. Ciiurchil‘ said. even to the subjugation of the

vrestern hemisphere.

“Let us redouble our eifoi-z and . strike with united strength while-

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(By Foster Barclay, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

LONDON. June 22—(CP)-—Thirty German planes were .

destroyed over the English Channel and northern France

today, it was stated officially This victory was scored

tonight. at the cost of only two Bri-

tish fighiers, the Air Ministry revealed, and the pilot of

one of these is safe.

A Canadian sergeant pi counted for one Nazi fighter. on his tail, he swung around

lot-—his name withheld-ac- Finding three Messerschmitts at one of them and after a

short. burst of machine-gun fire it blew to pieces in the

air.

Revised reports from the Royal Air Force headquar- ters said 29 German planes were shot down by fighters and one by a Blenheim bomber after it was damaged by

fighters. The air ministry news

service said today's score

brought the fighter command’s daylight bag for the liist

seven days to 98 German alrc

raft against a loss of 19 Bri-

tlsh pilots. It added that of 58 planes downed in the last two days many were of the new Me-109 type.

Moat of the fighter M pilots who took part in today's operations spoke on their return of the lack of spirit shown by German pilots. the service said.

Squadrons which acted u es- cort: to bomber on the way in targets and beck saw 50 Meuer- rchmitts as they were returning to the coast. Although they out- numbered the British fliers they attempted no concerted attack. one squadron leader said.

Moot of the German aircraft shot clown were over enemy-oc- c led territory. the service said.

o R. A. P. squadrons each ac- counted for six enemy aircraft one of them was a famous Polish squadron which distinguished lt- solf over the battle of Britain. m squadron leader. llot content with shooting down a fighter B0 miles inside France. dived as he crossed the coast on the return flight and ibrieoohjine-gunned a gunpost on the

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Premier King To visit West

GITAWA. June QZ-lCPM-Prime Minister Mackenzie King announ- ced toni i. he intends to leave Ottawa. esday on the start of a trip to the Pacific coast.

‘The purpose of the present trip is to enable the Prime Minister to inspect military. naval and air establishments in Western Can- ada." a statement from the Prime

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Examining the strategical iiu- plirtititiiis of the opening of an - eastern front, however. authorita- live souru-s cninli i1 d ilie grow- ing puiicr of British air raids on

Germany and German-occupied . expi ssec. c. territorv in the last two weeks as heroic icrces oi evdeiire of British determination 5b. Cl a crus-

to "fight (lennziny until we are , plow" er in a short- dcad or victorious." l lived iion-anuression pact.

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. one simkesntsn‘ ire \ be no C0!l‘.-‘ Adolf Hitler. This war in s was the ftitiiitv of auv pact tli Hiilcr. Pacts to Germans are siren before the OD-

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R.G.A.F. Planetorced‘ Down off Nfld. A

l | HALIFAX. June 22 _ (cm - A" Roval Canadian Air Force plane was forced clown off the coast of New- illiliitzhiiid toclav R. C. A. F. offcw is announced here. The crew of was rescued. by a fisiiintl .er and taken to Newfouiidq

were: Fit. Lt. R. A.‘ . . . O. Home. ActlnR W. Stewart. LiAC. L. W. J. and ntc. r. s. o. MacKiei homo towns were not learn-' mediatelizi _ _

No details rclznrdina ilie accident was known lierc. and R. C. A. F.‘ (‘llilClJlS awaited word from New- foundland reirardiniz the cause of the forced landinlt.