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Predicts Election In June Br Earlier

EDMONTON. Jan. 32 — (CP) -— ltA. Bell of Ottawa. national dir- ector of the Progressive Conserv- ative llilfirv today predicted a gen-

eul electio, by next June and liiviilbly eagller Piwflssl rvatlves now

ve Qiise h": 10B candida-tee nominated for ill! W Federal seats and of those nomniited 43 per cent are war "Willis. he said.

LONDON. Jan. 22 —- (AP) — Scores of Britons were killed or illlllled and insured when Ger- iiian V-bombs smashed factories. oiflce buildings and homes rec- "liiy in southern England.

Coming Events

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losing dressed hogs Irida. “Quinn and Boyle. y

143-31. “Bradalbane Hall, Tuesday‘.

"lost of Mohicans". a p.i'n. 1-23-

"Kiuruiu Hall Wednesday "Last oi Mohicans". {and 8 pmfl 22 a‘

00B ‘i. w‘ gilfig 11$; and uressed bog-

ket i . - lnic Cold smraalgmiftd. miele-lfl-tf. n? ion Dance in lfldon

sold

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Ha Bl’. January 25th. Lunches l-23-2l.

"Come to the ism-in Co cert M“ ville? Hlii. January

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boss every Thursday mum . MOIIYII

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g .0, mum oxmYuglht. Feb; ‘i Prim of wile’. Collgghel-‘Ildll. l-IS-Li

canoe“, "F mm I Milton tonight. n’ ‘ziaiojfghltziiilffi: Gauss starts l-SI-li

Bole at Inward Kellyhi

by fire. wil January N n

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Island Flier Awarded D. EC.»

FLT. LIEUT. ll. B. HUNTER.‘ D. F. C.

Announced from Air Force head- quarters, Oetawa, yesterday was the award cl fifteen Distinguished ‘nying crosses to members o: the laurel". serving overseas. The list includcu Flt. Llcut. Heath R. Hunter of Strathcoiia, 11.1.11.

Fit. Lieut Hunter l5 a son of the late M1‘. Russel Hunter and Mrs. Hunter of stramcona, and p, neph- ew of Mr. Leslie Hunter, MLA. Bridgetown. His mother is at pres- en-t living in Vancouver. Another

reourned to Canada.

Limit. Hunter formerly taught school at Btrathcona. He enlisted in this Province and later attended EFJIXS. at Cape de Madelene, P.Q., and S RTE. at Uplands. He‘ saw lengthy service in the Middle East. flying Hurricanes which on several occasions he took back to

chine gun bullets

c-p.

Yesinrday's announcement from Ottawa contains no details of his present whereabouts, or of the ac- gon for which he was awarded the

F‘ C. Other recipients of the decora- th Marltimes were:

.B: Fit. Lt J.E. HON. It- mcuth N.S.: and F0 C.L. Bur- gers. Frderlcton. N.B.

The us. was awarded to Sqdn. idr. O C. Kallio of Iron-

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City lriick is Recovered From Harbor Bottom

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At 12.06 this morninl. the low which lat Saturday in Emile 918M feet of water oi'i Edward. was safely pulled back to the shore. It is now at the Im- perial Service Ntatlon where

been working on the engine Credit for the salvaging truck goes to Frank Quinn.

ran contractor. to Pr Gates

dite the trucks shore. and to the

oi the Victoria Driving Club other interested oitisens who

i-as-ii’.

mhllizfllriiied Stains 8rd Army, pressing ahead up to five miles, found the Luxem- bnurg half of the shattered Ardennes salient virtually deserted and resistance dis- organized, and the enemy stand crumpled before the United States 1st Army in Bel-

Piiots reported hardly any of the German columns fleeing from the Ardennee made good their escape; earlier accounts nad put the num- ber of enemy vehicles caught on the roads at about 3.000,

They reported 6B tanks and ar- mored vehicles. 1,693 trucks and 835 railroad oars destroyed, and B2 tanks and armored vehicles and 1.119 trucks damaged. I-lun- dreds of German troops were

Three hundred medium and 11% bombers set the stage for the ' by blowing up bridges iind blocking roads along the paths of retreat.

All day long the German columns withdrawing too late from the Ari- dcnncs. were ripped in a. hurricane of bombs, rockets and bullets by swarming planes snarling dawn through the mists on the trans- ports, massed so denselv on icy roads that nllots said they could not miss

Front dispatches quoted fighter- bomber pilots as saying the scene of havoc. stretching from northern Iruzoem um into Gennrrny east of the Sieafrlcld Line. was worse than at Fulaise last August, where Allied aerial execution was so ter- rible the enemv could not rally for a stand on the Seine.

The German High Command. cp- parentlv fearful that the next Al- i blow may come through west-

_ v north of wdn- ‘ aaains Dempsevs British 2nd Army but still the Tommie; pressed on.

Pioughing five miles into West- ern Germany. the British forces fought. into the villages of Selsten. Honten. and Laffeld. 2 1-2 miles West and southwest of the highway centre of Heinsberg. and within three miles of the Wiuim River. a tributary of the Reel‘.

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brother who served overseas has;

his base riddled with flak and ma-_

In the above picture Lieut. Hun-Q ter 1.. shown sitting in an American‘

new had Fort

number of expert mechanics have

of the vete- of Royalty who sawed and removed inniunereble blocks of ice to expe-

to the many members and lab- ored lnceuantly for the machine's

oovery.

At i0 o'clock the Willing workers

At Naval Yard

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 - (AP) A story of large-scale loafing and "appalling wrists" of material the Norfolk Navy Yard was laid before the Senate today by mem- bers of its War Investigating Com- inittee.

Talk of "prosecution" was

heard in the Capitol after Sen- ators James M. Mead (Dem-NFL) and Homer Ferguson (Rep-Mich) told of hundreds idle. of others engaged in making such things ns hand-carved furniture, an-orn- rite checkerboard. n dog house. a special oyster-shucklng table and jewelry for their bosses or them- selves. Sen. Mead. committee chairman. told of n. "Paul Revere" who. upon the approach of investigators. would go tearing through one shop warning the men to look busy.

‘Inspects Canada M. T. B. Flotilla

LONDON. Jan. 22-—-(CP Cllbi- Navy MinisLr Maodonald, accom-

‘panlcd byVlcc-Admii-al G.C. Jones, C

hlef of the Canadian naval stall. and J. J. Connelly. the Minister's executive assistant. to ay flew‘ to a Belgian port to insp ct Canada's famous flotilla oi motor torpedo- boats which has been operating against German shillllill! ofl tho Bel ian coast.

e Minister met. several M3128. commanders, including Lt-Cmdr. Tony Law of Quebec City. C. A. Burk of Toronto and others who had dtstingulshed themselves in. the flotlllivs earlier actions in ‘he Channel and cfl the French coast.

11¢ ins cted their boats and chatted w th s group of more than 1C0 rstln s.

Mr. Mgacdonald and his Party returned to London late today. i-le now 1, preparing to visit. Canadian naval slioie establishments in Soot- limd grid Northern Ireland.

‘ Check Employees Under

Mobilization Regulations

orrr A. Jun. 22-Thc Labor n......$‘§’... announced today tii-“iii 8.8M men of 44.356 reported by employers to mobilization regis- mm u“ u. Di-c.1l0.1944. were found go be my in iznnd sisndlnR under mobilization rrsliiflimlii- "d “m” m. had been n. were being dealt with under miiiillll’ film“?-

Tha Dennrtinrnt said that. iii the end o! Dwsmhfl- only B58 0i the mm of 44.7430 cases were still be-

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of key titanic Red Army winter offensive.

lecture. Utterly confused and off

its supply lines were extended.

corridor. movement.

Berlin lines.

Inowroclaw southwest of Torun.

Cale C. ens- At. Montreal

(Special to The Guardian) MONTREAL. Jan. 22-—The Can- adian Fur Auction Company's sale opened at 10 o'clock this morning with n large number of buyers present. The first; offering was l5~i2 special skins comprising platiuunw, platinum silvers, pearl piatlnums. and white marked silvers. mostly ringnecks. These were '19 per cent sold at an average price of $71M. Following this, 1403 white mark-

at ed slivers were B5 percent sold at

an average price of Two thousand. seven hundred Ind sev- cnty-elglit regular full silver pelts

lwere largely sold at a slight ad-

vance above December sale Prices- Tomorrow morning the sale op- ens with the special collection of 1036 new tyne Show belts llilm Ontario and P. E. Lslanclpflercd by the Canadian Fur Breeders’ As- sociation.

(The above was supplied by Mr- George A. Callback, Mgr. Pur Mar- keting Department, C.'N.F.B.A.. Summerslde.)

4B2 B. C. Alisentees Considered ileserters

VANCOUVER. Jon. a2 -- (CP) — Officials at Pacific Command an- nounced tonight the 482 British Columbia members of the active and homo defence armies listed as abaentees since Christmas now are considered dcserters from the Can- adian Armv and accordingly are subject to court martial and liable to penal servitude or other punish-

mcnts.

Of the number. 250 are members of the Home Defence Army. Army officials said that. While the men until toduv have been listed as absentaes actually they have been considered deserlers from the time they oveistayed their leaves. It was announced previously that the 482 were considered .I.. but officials said that because the men had been aiven six days can- barkation leave plus travelling time and had not reported to their units at the end of their leave they were considered desertsrs.

Pacific Command hesduuartw- reiterated their previous warning that anyone harboring any of the lll§il__W_OI_._il_d_bp_l_|__B_.BlB to prosecutions

WIrwSituatiQn iLastflNié-ht l

Within a week's time the remote possibility of an man evacuation of East Prussia had been converted into a virtual real- ity. The fall of such mighty defensive bastion: in northern East Prus- sia as Tllsit and Insterburg strongly suggests that Berlin has thurnbed the whole German army westsva .- in a desperate attempt at escape be- fore the Russians cut the last land transport route across the Danzlg

Deutsch Eylau-Torun-Berlin and the Koenigsbe Russian seilure of Allenstein and close investment if not capture of Deutsch Eylau and Torun has certainly rendered the first useless. In the Deutsch Eylau ares, Red advance forces are within easy striking distance of M ienburg, critical hub of the other. to complete the isolation of East Prussia, from the vest of Germany except by sea. Even more ominous Russian advances south of the Vistula and tho Danzlg corridor are officially recorded by Moscow. With capture of Red forces have driven a broad- fronted thrust deep into the eastern entrance of the Bydgossca Gap. They are also poislng there the upper arm of a pincer threat to Poznam g1 to match the companion drive through the Warts River Gap farther south. The Poanan road and rail hub is of vital importance to any German hope of stalling the Russian rnulti-fronted drive in the centre.

More Than 500 Wounded u

Soldiers Recum Home

B! KIIKE 1.. snurson (Associated Press War Analyst) A biiffllmol new victory announcements from Moscow officially

tlon ‘ in Silesia, Pol-

xlld andlEast Prussia guarding every eastern gateway to Berlin between a silo and the unim- Oder Valley opened the second week of the

They came ismblirsg on each others heels so fast as to snake any detailed mapping of the volt BM-rnile eastern front a matter of con-

balance u the whole German de-

fence deployment from the northern flunk of the Carpathians to the north end of the old Dausig corridor appeared to be. there still was no Russian clzslm of a total enemy rout although the retreat into Germany itself seemed fast verging that way.

The most astonishing aspect of the Russian was that it appeared to be gaining instead of losing speed the lei-tim-

tldal wave

Ger-

Only two main rail routes are available for such a mass troop One of those has been slashed. They are the Insterburg-

-M ' ‘ —Stettln-

. By JOHN LeBLANC

Canadian Prose Staff Writer

imnnrAXl Jun. m--Ba/ct from the mud and blood of the Europ- ean battlefields. more than s00 Canadian servicemen arrived home in the Dominion today aboard the Canadian hospital ship Lady Nel-

son.

While a sound truck blared cheerful Jive at the quayslde. the lnvallded fvhting men walked or were carried on stretchers from the ship to waiting hospital trains, which sped them toward their

homes.

Practically all the returned men were the khaki of the Army, sur- vivors of the battles of Sicily. Ila-ill or the Western Front. A number (ind been wounded in training in England, or had been invalided home after illness. A sprinklint! ill the R.C.A.F. personnel was in the movement.

Wounded by a sniper. Qbi- M“ Magdcr oi ‘Ibrontc managed t0 point out the location of the Ger- man gunner to his comrades. but he didn't learn uiitil long after- wards that an officer of his unit had killed the attacker.

‘R19 Toronto man. with the Roy- al Hamilton Light Infantry» W" leading a detachment up a road alone me Seine under heavy mach- ine gun firs. when he was hit iii t, a L '-' Pointing to where the bullet, had come from. he sent his men to shelter and started back for treatment. A machine-

"It wasn't, until I goi- bilfik l" hospital that I heard what had happened." he said. The calling o1 s, company in our outfit arriv. in the sanie hospital. He had seen

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Ceniians Announce li-Boat Successes

IONDON. Jun. 22 - (OP) —'1"he German Hiah ‘Commands clskn that U-boats sank six merchant ships and three corvettes in a stro ly - sported Atlantic convoy au led support today to Prime Mnister Churchill's warni that a still strong and rosourcefu enemy has at least three weapons the Al- lies are wstchina warily-

In his summation cf the military rigour; um thy, political outlook n the House of Commons last. Thirrsdsy, lvlr. Churchill injected into a generally optimistic war re-

: "I will lust add that we must eep our eye on iet- ropelleo fighter aircraft. on the -rockets and above all on the renewed U- boat menace"

Nazi 1.3.121}. Summon All Germans To Defend Reich

(B The Annotated Prom)

LDN N. Jan. 22-min leaders, ssllinc today on every German who could shoot to join in the qe- fence of’ the fatherlancl, demanded self-sacrfice and fanaticism - Rig}: a miracle" and stop the of Berlin.

Germany's economic up, w“ iiehtcned as fuel rations and pub- lic services were cut. 1mi- uw first time German home broadcasts conceded that Berlin itself is threatened by the Red Armydrlve.

(A wireless dispatch to German troop newspapers said "the Sovi- l

to price B81 lids 110W within 166 miles i

ets have broken through". T

dilboloii. as reported in New Yard‘)? by the Federal Communications Commission. appealed to German soldiers to "stand firm at any until reserves which are "Salli?! ill! intervene in the fight-

D.N.B. said women and children had been removed from menaccd areas.

A Berlin dispatch to the Stock- holm Aftonbladet pa5sgd by Ger- man censorship said: "If the Bus- sians capture Poznan (in western Poland) then the threat to Berlin enters the acute stage."

New Ledo Road Open To Allied War Traffic

(By The Associated Press)

MYITKYINA. Burma, Jan. 22- The new Ledo Road to China was officially declared open to military traffic tonight and the first convoy of trucks to carry supplies across Burma in 2 1-2 years was ready to leave here on the flnal leg of its winding journey of more than 1.000 miles through mountains and jun- s to Kunming. Lh-Gen. Daniel I. Sultan. com- mander of the India-Burma thea- tre. announced officially that the road had been cleared of Japanese troops and was ready to handle convoys. The fall of the Chinese border town of Wanting two days ago eliminated the last remaining enemy obstacle to passage of Al- lied trucks. _

Drivers tonight were making fin- al preparations for the last liip of their historic trip. They arrived in Myltkylna last week after covering the 262-mile stretch from the wes- tern toasters-Ii was».

Bracken Leaves Rome To Visit Men 0n Italian Front

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ROME. Jim. 22 —- (OP Cable) — John Bracken, national leader of the Canadian ve Conserv- ative party, left here today to visit postlons held by men of Im-Oen. Ibiulks’ 1st Canadian Corps along the Adriatic front.

He had arrived Stilldflglild nt tihenightaeagueetof fil- 0-- H. Roaf of Vancouver, B.C., and other Canadian officers.

Mr. Bracken was uccunpanled by LL-Col. G.W. Gilchrist 0f Saint John, N.B., his public relations aide.

Mr. Bracken said there was no political sgaiiflcaoioe to his visit to Italy. which was something he had planned for more than a year.

He added that he wanted to see the conditions under which the Canadian war effort might be im- proved.

l-lc sold be had been discussing rehabilitation and post-war recon- struction problems with British leaders likely to be concerned w.th them after the ivar, anticipating the clay “when good government comes to Canada" and the liaison thus established would be useful.

This was the only political ref- erence in a brief press conference he granted w“ spondents last night. Otherwise Mr. Bracken confined himself to relating incid- ents in his tr‘p - which has taken him to the Canadian front in the Netherlands. to Paris and Brussels and to Great Britain.

l-le said his visit to London had been highlighted by interviews with Pflmn Minister Churchill and Lord Crsnborne. Domhilons Secretary.

Mr. Bracken hopes to be back in Canada by the week-end

140 Schools llow Cn Correspondence Courses List

Correepoiidqioa courses. u-

corod by the Department of il-

cation. are going out t? several vo c

schools in inc um. far. lemon; have only been pre- for those in grades

from l tn '7. but it is eicpectied as well w hive courses of correspon- dence instruction iflWfifed for pupils from grades B to 10. inclu- si Mr. Edward MoPhsil. inspec- tor of schools. t. supervising the molest.

‘Phecourses arebeing sentto so schools whtdi ‘have "permit" tea- cher; 1n order to assist those un- iTMIIQd in their work. ‘They are also veins to M) schools whose toa- ohom were at. one time accredited but. on account of long absence "(In the teaching profession have.

to receive permit-s to leach are also going i0

5° F. c. Dougan. city En

iiitler Taking Charge In East?

NEW YORK. Jan. 22 — A Ger- man broadcast quoted by BBC said today that Hitler hail gone to the Eastern Front to take personlall command of the Ger- man against the Rus- sians. The BBC broadcast was heard by NBC.

lnternatio-nal At A glance

(B! The Canadian Press) EASTERN FRONT — Russian steamroller drive carries to 165 miles east of Berlin; German broadcasts concede Berlin threat- ened; four atrongpolnte toppled in East Prussia as gigantic encircle- ment threat to enemy forces there develops.

WESTERN I-‘RONT—-U. S. 1st and 3rd Armies advance towards German border as Allied planes smash some 3.000 German vehicles in devastating blow at withdraw- ing enemy uipment in '

W EDS 165 MILES FROM GERMAN CAPITAL

aBpafilefQl Belgium Bulge Ends In Rout

PARIS, Jan. 22 — (AP) -_ The Belgian bulge collapsed in a German rout to- d Allied planes knocked out nearly 3,000 enemy vehicles and tanks-enough to lissoet an entire enemy paiizer ariny—ln an aerial slaughter without equal in

Enemy Position in East Becomes Very Critical

(B! The Canadian P

LONDON. cu... zit-all?) Army in a SB-rnile dash across western Poland swept ti; within 165 miles of Berlin today u; 3.1- other powerful soviet force sliced to within 37 miles of the Baltic Port of Elbins in East Prussia, fiiifslng one cf the greatest poten- tial encirolements in military m5-

tOrY. The Russian communique tonight; announced that more than 60.000 Germans have been killed and 21.- 000 captured in the offensive w Marshal Ivan s. Korievs forces, no“ BdVY-"Tilliil east of Brcslau. l The German radio appealed for help against "this bestial, Whellllilli! mass onslaught." ‘Berlin reported that the two boviet ‘armies attacking on three sides of East Prussia alone totalled more than 1,. 000.000 men. and it was estim- ated that 3C or more German divlsionswvere caught lri the fast; closing Russian plncers ringing through shell-torn for- es .