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(The following dispatch w“ written by G M. Brown, former Toronto ilcwspaperman and now director 0f public relations for the R.C.A F., who is overseas on Q1. ilcial business. lie visited a cup. tured installation obviously inton. (led for release for the muchyaun. ted Gemlarl V2 bomb).

FRANCE. Sept. 1 - (c?) _ A rocket base from which the ca; mans intended to shower their-l still untested weapon V2 on Lon- don now is in Allied hands.

Gouxed _deep in the rock of Nor- mandy midway between Caen and malaise huge tunnels leading from 1111 0111 r0011 quarry have been iden- tified as Dart of a system from WhlCh the Nazis planned to launch missiles many times the size or the flying bombs which have fallen on

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Fierce Duel Across Channel Early Today

EOLKETONE. Sept. 2 - (CP) _. (53wrday)- British and German wutai guns early today exchanged ulvos in one of the fiercest duels o; the ivar. rocking the land and morning the sea with fierce ex-

plosions.

n was considered possible that the Germans, with their communic- ations shuttered and their posit- ions on the French coast threatened from the roar. might be trying to M1034 their ammunition on Eng- llnd before dBritish and Canadian

(IHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1944

Churchill, |=. n. n. may Meet In. Due.

LONDON. Sept i —- (AP) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will meet soon to Dian the shift of American and British might from Europe. where m"? MW Blflht victory in the near future to the Pacific for a Joint effort to crush Japan.

The meeting probably will be held this month at Quebec, it was dis- closed today. and may be followed ter Germany's

rape

. Roosevelt and Mr. Church- ill met in Quebec in August of last year to approve the master plan gig} thxehdilnvaslon of! the lcogtinfent.

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portly carried 0st s a we“

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in men and materials did

forces arlivc _ the two leader pr ad th t (A sunilsi heavy bocnbard- émihgeefisbknown racket before the Rugsizneleadetuem (m ment took place early Friday morn- base m be captured 1H5 a Imp“ This time it is different. In the my) . o‘ ma w“ m. mmflwure I “m, far eastern war it will be the Am- ,,..,.,Sg;",§,;.;.—..c,., _. come will» Towed- <>1 ma» tltihfihfliihb tiilffil 5112f.“ - must have labored months to blast m‘ m, the enemy_ m "

yal Airforce plane, believed tot m a) returning from operational 12:11:‘ Ha$§‘se.§_"§f,1‘,‘§§§§1;"m‘,‘,§§ crashed 11110 the grounds of Wind-l along one end and part way down

m 615110- both sides or a auaxrv 10 acres in -——"""— area. The floor of the quarry is thrcoxled by narrow image ranls

ll . running from the inner faces of the

W tunnels to rock and mud dumps

outside.

The tunnels are 90 feet blah and "Show-Morell Tuesday llect in bu: loops tar back beyond foot cliffs near

burrows beneath the highway and emerges below a wheatfied in.

feet across. Tues- The pit was to be the central air 9-2-11. shaft for the tunnels. Inside the tunnels V2 rockets were to be as- sembled and stored. Prom the tun- hcls the rockets were to be wheeled on the miniature railways a

to mr..."°&“cs.:t “ha-

. 9-2-21.

"Show-St. Peters. Wednesday.

. 9-2-21.

"Dance - Cordlxzan Hall, liv, September c111.

"St. Teresa's Play at Rollo Bay,- Tilesday, September 5th. 9-2-21.

"Chicken Supper at St. Teresa's.‘ lfonday. September 25th. 9-2-11.

m. E 9y 118115 b "Dance - 1.0m Vail , A t

. n-z-zi, embers forced the Gems-m from

——— the rocket base site before they held

"Show - Mt. Stewart Saturday. completed their tunnels or 1711111

Show B and l0 P. M. 8-31-31 the ramp. Ear-ports have studied and are still sirpdying the laymlii-

Dehydration "Plant To Dpen 0n Sept. 19

It L1 intended to open the dehy- dration plant at Summersld for the new season on Beptembq‘ nhl - I tcenth. Mr. Austin A Scales y’ President of Island Foods Inc. said z_ lost. night. The opening of the plant ‘, depend; onmtge avaiitialtiiilltgaézfhgg; "Ice Cream on Dance, Vernon: fumes u‘ exp“ e yer Harp weddnesduy event“; | will be plenty of them at that date.

"Pantry Snle at Holman‘; Sat. Sept. 2nd by Kingston W. I 8-30.! 2.31

"Chit-ken supper and dance at It. Georges, Wcdncsglay, Sept 6th, 8-26-29-2-5

School. GO 9-2-11.

"Mwiing of Sumerflcld Credit Union is postponed ilntll Tuesday 5tl1lemb0r fifth. Bv order o President. 9-2-11. "My shw will be closed from

Utlllembar htlv-Septembcr 20ml Fulton Roberts. Hunter River. Q-

"Dance. Glenflnnan Monday. September 4th. music. _

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from l0 to 20 feet wide and con- horde“ But because the potential stake '

the European war the Rod army had this job , Furthermore, because Russia may need time to czather strength after her tremendous and 1on1 strung in the west, it is likely that Stalin will bide his tune be- fore lolnini; the Alli eastern eapec llv since Japan of her best troops union's eastern

in the east is so h1g1 and because he ho s to have an important voice that area of the world, it is equally probable that Marshal Stalin at the opportune t will scnd his forces against. Japan. These factors. and the iucstion of when to try ‘.0 convince him thta the opportune moment has. ar- rived. will be considered by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill along with suck. problems as where concentrate the attack. the propor- tionate number American and

blems.

Labor Day Messages y y

OTTAWA. Sept. l—(OP)-I:9fo_- 0r Minister Mitchell, in ii message marking the awn celebration Labor Day m Canada, tonight palm tribute to the part played 11v 01'" gtmlzed. labor in progressive social and labor legislation and called for the cLLODBrBLl-Orl ol labor lil the

t- ears. wsitvisupigtlculzirly fitting that the people of Canada 111w K111111113 it‘? this time to thewvorirers lil our factories‘. sifl-Dy8.l‘f1s._tlunes_ and the many other industries ivnich have provided the sinews of war which our young men oi the armed 101166 Me using so Victoriously wherever

be a , _ _ '1'h plant will start of! with one em r m Ausfplces o “il-EJ-zilshlefrt employing about severity ,pcople but it is hoped to operates Bingo,‘ two shiftg later on. Only We 81111111 iwas {ttpernttcdtllwtst yéfl!’ due W i119‘ y o po a oes. 56%? Scales said new machinery will be installed which will give planter assurance of 01151111’ cveni azaar or. South Rustler: A1321‘: {§‘"“§“g1°.§'.f;,§'§ “§it1i.‘§5h@s5a§%“u“§i§§1 ‘ “ . - " to c “wed {mm 4 °°1°°k m 19n- excellent. It is understood that {he 11-31-944 output for last Yell‘ eroded about ninety eight percent fancy quality. Inst season over three hundred r m“ "‘ “Sh”??? “éiilifu X“? turned ou, Wic re '3 m, “as | one hundred cal-loads of P01111095- ‘ ->_;1'] It is expected that this year the ____ “ ', amount of production will be mat- "Buylng Bags _.. we Wm buyl erially increased-w? g9 10 two thousand good second-l ‘M mils during next ten days}

livestock Feed Agency. 0-2-11’ I ' ' i rv ‘Wouu-h s Jnstitutfi Dislrilti Peace Founded on

Oflllllcnilnn will be held in Ccntrnll ‘I110 H1111. Tuesday, Sepreinbsr 'I‘wo sessions. afternoon

"Annual Bean Supper. Dance. Emerald Hall, Monday‘. Sep- tember 4th. Supper 6 o'clock.

8-26-110-9-2-31.

"Reserve 12th and 13th Sep- laember for Chicken Supper

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th 3 0'1 y, - - . ' ' ' Dfiftuffititgrgsggmgqroga hgggtgi christian Principles mrtctor of Education. Admission "1111- 0-2-11. t ____ Elllfllsi-rlct W. I. Convention, of VATICAN CITY. 5° _ 1 _ (A?) - West and central Royalty. _P°pe PM, xn m”, ed in . wen-id

glifioork. Parkdale. South Mll- bmdw, ma, m, , mo, MM.

<1 Hawlncton. will in atom l-iall, East. Roynlgiznwhgrs- "y. September 7th Afternoon and "ling at 2.30 and a o‘clcok.9 a

lodged that the use t b” “°°?§r‘.“‘&h'”¢‘$i§§§’¥¢mtiaw°h“§§ O '1"- gfldprfvate "property. “mileage; 1.,',;,m"‘~’“°“‘ Mflrkeiln B“!!! fill“... imlilhifed rifixft-ogver pm- 118 h . II umber ithog: gfllliliilvgfibzgndg! gag}. we" amp-q address‘ underlined mm" 515- P6166. Morell K/iontn- the immlnenoeof the endofthewar 81" 0515113111. Murray ‘Harbour, n . Charlottetown: Tuesday fore- oon. Charlottetown, North Wilt-

i Europe. "The hands on the

ctfook of history now are boimfi t. Hunter River, Kinkora. Ken- mnivn and Albany usual hours.

d %8.“l'u“.‘.’.‘;' "‘l.‘ti‘.~“if."liil‘. e County. All usul olnts a? Mme hours. Phone time‘: ag- "vlsd Weekly b10118 with

1°’ imvklns service. sowaotgrze; "If. TC Enter Federation

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Q15; “tormstishitsk also;

Monday. Sept. 4 being palm!‘ Day and a public lmndlll’ the next issue of

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wouvvrum. N. 5.. so - 1 — (up) _ The United Blot-wt w!!- vention of the Merit!!!” Pmvmm

l 111M 5 Bl ' 1

1'" Gi-imll-n wit" be l&t°‘l.i€;‘.°i...‘°.f“ctlh. list, "Cflilay, $9M, 5_ Baptist Union of Weelom Clflldm wfiwwooooooooo-oooo-oo and u" omml“ ‘M “ab” p

tist convention.

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Itho war 1J3“... 0d on Christian princifliogfigcgiozwi 1

the battle of freedoms is being waged‘, Ml‘. lviitcheil Sllld. "Canadian labor has _D]8,Vi!d a great role in this sign-iii: strulzglc. and the end which cannot now be 10m delayed will follow lfl very mil measure on the strenuous efforts they have put forward since 1939‘. Mr. lvLttchell recalled that it was

as a result of efforts of the trade 111

t that parliament m ‘lubgznfllrlsgvgsfifiiblished Labor Day.

Labor Leaders

orrawa, sopt. 1 — 10F‘ .- Leaders of organized labor in lau- m. d,“ me55age5 (Ollltlllb called oh Canadian workers to strive first for victory and then for :1. more abun-

dant me‘ gengough president cf

Percy R. _ w» rm.....=..ad.sr* carafe l giffficiile SEXIWeILCBZ S"On this 1:744

Labor Day our objective must. be-

. w 1 .- 10 penetrating wonmds in the lower aerator cars up to September 30,1

V1209?“ and mrwmd a ‘Sin: legs. lnsilelagdoi) August 11111 as previously‘. 51R, Megher president o c, requr y e ra ways was}

‘ Labor, said: 1 ed l r. lht from lvir. Rand

9 who“? h: Canada is n F c 7 l-efmMethgionx,‘ Enanager of thei 1 forward to the winning of , , , s ‘Transportation Commission of the the war and the building of a bet.- Maritime Board of Trade, Moncton.

magi-sing constructive activiLv which has blB." leaders mentioned the in- Canada's eoity during wartime.

500 Tons 0f Rum Sanctioned For Britain

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LONDON. Sfit. l-(W Router) rifnns mouths watered today with the new: that the importation of i100 tons of rum had been sanction- ed by the ministry 0f food.

‘Rial-um tetra iaahsoclrgtign we: ven pemllllwl! e equivalent of about 1.%.0Dg°bottles to replenish Britain's sadly deplet- ed atoolm of rum-and of all liquor. ror that matter.

"l do not think we have more than about elaht nor cont of our pave-war stooh now." a. ministry of 00d official mid today

mu is oh first ‘ mines-tea m» 1m. ° “m

British forces and vest slowly mo: ‘v

u; shank nevertheless made a secon

productive cap. th

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War Situation Last Night

By Kirke L. Simpson, Allociaied Preoo War Annlyst

Ripped lllfl torn by ' ' Allied ' of s Gennan armies In France are In conf flight eastward between ihe channel coast and the Swiss frontier at a pace that virtually forbids a new defensive stand anywhere shorv. of the Reich Itself.

The Berlin-admitted "detachment" maneuver has lost all semblance of an urderly military movement. If. h obviously leaving behind great segments of once powerful armies new shredded by the Allies to military impotence.

There was every reason to believe that the Belgian border had been crossed by American troops near Sedan, and that soon German frontiers leading to the upper Rhine would be reached and passed to test out the actual strength of the Nazi “west wall" before fleeing enemy forces in Franco can even reach it for refuge or to help hold It against the brewing

“l American power thrust info the Burbrnolren gap.

A scene of hitter confusion among German elements bent on nothing hut escape from the Allied Avalanche was drown by pres! oYO-WNIICSQEI- There is no comparable German, Allied or Russian spectacle of total mil- itary disaster in all the records of this war or of the battles of a quarter ni’ a century ago over the sarne ground across which Allied forces now are sweeping.

The pace will so mt that it defied Iocuroi-e machine of 1M "0111- So for as it was possible to trace Allied movements. .. . if was 019i!‘ that while Field Marshal lllontgomeryk Brlfishilanadlan wing on the left was busy trapping and mopping up the coastal area from 11¢ "fly!" fo the Somme mouth and nutflnnklng the robot bomb coast to Culals and beyond, Bradley's American army groun was knlflng into B0121“?! through the Ai-‘dennee and storming toward the Saarhruckcn gagmaili Germany from newly won strong polnn like Sedan. Verdun. 51- l‘ om] Commcrcy.

They were hreatenlng such potential Nazi strongllfllfli! ti?!“ 313"‘: (‘thnrlerol and even Brussels through the Sambre by 11:55 i: liner!!!)mm western Anlcnnes that 1101!"! "10 W" in!" "19 1mm“ “ "n m g 1 '

To the south Patch‘: Enrico-American seventh arrnv was fast com ng up the Rhone valley. virtually in eight of lie Lyon Mellflfwll“ 0!‘ 1!! ‘- . . position to wheel northeastward and 50in P8114!“ S "l1!!! flflfly T!!!’ 17!" as sanlt on the Saarbrncken-Belfort KID. That seemed mu the maim- Allied finish in

Ship Commissioned

the fut moving ncilon.

Another Canadian

SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND. Sept. l _- (or) —The Royal Cap- adian Navy's newest frigate. toe Loch Achanalt, was commissioned recently at a simple and brief cere- mo among the rugged hills 0f Scot and, the navy announced ro- night in a. press release.

The frigate, second of the Loch- Class in the Canadian Navy. W115 taken over by 1181' wmmfllldlnfl officer, Lieut. Richard Hart Bellevllle and Brantford, Ont., at the ceremony. attended by V109- edmiral Percy W. Nelles,‘ head of the Canadian Naval Mission over- seas, and othir Canadian and Brit- ish naval officers.

Loch Achanalt is 111E111- Hart's second command. He prev- nously had command of a Canadian corvette serving in the North At-

e c. l xAmong other officers in the new ship are Lieuts. Donald Anderson and Robert MacDonald. both of Hali- fax and Sydney, N. 5-. and James Baker, Halifax.

1,126 Yank Airmen Prisoners Liberated

‘U. S. 15th AIRFORCE HEAD- QUARTERS. Italy, Sept. l — (A P) - 0f the more than 3.000 Am- crican airmen shot down over the Ploesti ollflelds and interned in Romania during the last year, i,- 126 have been liberated and safely evacuated t0 Italian soil.

_They were brought form Buchar- est to an air base in Southern Italy in a fleet of 3B Flying Fortressigs, which were hounded by enemy fighters going and coming.

Aberdeen Pilot

Awarded ll. C.’

A" Mam“ _ Bishop To Retire

Crulckshank, of Aberdeen, u. 301mg R.A.F. pilot who trained at Tor- onto. has been awarded the Vic- toria Cross ior pressing home an attack on an cnenly Sllllfllflflnf; af_ ter he had been wounded 1n '12 places, his tiavigazur and bomb uimcr had been killed, and the sec- ond pilot and two other crew mem- bers lnjurcd

Pilot and captain of a Catalina flying boat. Ciuickshank released

e d‘ h charges on to tlic sub-

OTIAWA, Sept. l -- (CP) —Air Minister Power announce tonight that Air Marshal . 13111171 Bishop, V. 0-, Canadian air ace of the First Great War. will retire "later in the autumn" from active service as Director of Recruiting for the R. C. A. F.

Can Ship Turnips In Roofers lip To September 3D

‘rurnips may be shipped in refri-

aircralt c-lluld be landed safely at a

ham: base Tnc aircraft was hi1. when he made 111i‘ lirst run over the target, and the depth charges refused to release Knowing he no longer had the advantage of surprise. Cruiok- d

run. straddled the sub and 55w it, sink. Among his wounds were- two

serious inturics to the lungs and

The refrigerator cars are used now to keep the turnips cool during shipment. In warm weather tur- nips deteriorate rB-Didly 111111118 "1"!"

OTTAWA. 86b1,. l—(CP)—Air

Everybody

of Gen Paul Hausser was wounded

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Allied Units I To Siegfried

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 1 —

Arras. Canadian units without striking a blow seized Dlep pounded at or across the Belgian border.

can man it for a last-ditch defence of Germany itself. Behind these columns, operating now at double the

breached Maginot Line.

(With Allied forces at or near the Belgian border. the Nazis admitted In a startling broad- cast from Brussels that the Bel- gian capital might fall soon, but threatened: “One day we shall come backl’)

At Arras swift-thrusting British -

armgrnvfias only 53 miles southeast ~_ d...;:..::."i".i..:r:s2;..:.l;.§*:::; 14 Murdered t I By lictreatmg I Nazi Forces

in 1940. British columns sped 33 miles in 24 hours to take the town.

It was estimated that eh route they had rolled up from one-third to one-half of all robot bomb sites from which the Gerlhan; have been plastering London and Southern England.

The sweepin nature of the Canadian, Brit sh and Ameri- can Army advances along the _200-mile northern front indie. Med the Germans were incap- able of further resistance France and were leaving it fas- ter than they entered

By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE

PLOMIXO. FRANCE. f\ EAR THE BELGIAN NTIER, Sept. 1—(AI’)-—lh a llfile school house or, this viuhge l4 French male civilians murilnrcd by the Gemmns lie tonight in a single terrible line.

I have just seen those bullied 811d "my have been r. tesouei, \ mutilated. From each the arm: t

The British forces were rolling up the robot bomb coast at the rate of one mile an hour, and some- where along the British-Canadian from, the ilnal. ignominioug blow was dealt the once - proud German. 7th Army. | Relatives of those slaln-Jhe

Gen. Heinrich Hans BerbachJ 5222a; fflCl-llabi] écstenlaty afiter-

. 1' Ore 1c ermun garr sun M“ t°°k W" W’ m‘ “he” Cm‘ of 200 fled mm (his town east- ward into Belglum—stan'rl before the school and weep. The town is half in ashes- burned by i-he Germans.

Nazi. 7th Army Loader Captured

and legs have been severed and each head bears axe wounds.

was caught at breakfast and cap- tured along with seven of is staff.

Streaming across the River on a 12-mile front around. Amiens British forces drove 22. miles northeast to Hebutemc, zmdl sent an armored vanguard l2 miles: north to capture Arras. 1.

One force of LL-Gen Dempl sey’s British 2nd Army wheeled; northwest from Amiens and pushed; to Lonepre, l0 miles inland from} Abbevllle, virtually sealing off 80 miles of rocket bmob coast south-

Somme

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Dieppe Is Captured M l/Vithout Upposition

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EAOF FRANCE NEARING CLOSE

n Race Line

(CP) — The battle for France

thundered toward a close tonight as British forces swept through the railway town of

pe and- Arnerican formation!

0n this fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, American columns were the Siegfried Line before the routed enemy racing the Germans in an attempt. to reach

speed of the German blitz

of France in 1940, lay the fallen fortresses of Verdun, Sedan and St. Mihiel and the

By Charla! Lynch (Router War Correspondent)

WITH THE 1ST CANADIAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. l - (CP Reuter) —- The Canadians returned to Dieppg today. capturing without o position the English Channel cty where the 2nd division suf- fered 3,384 casualties in the gallant ninehour “reconnaissance in force" a. little more than two yea-rs ago.

Three of the Dieppe Regiments which suffered so heavily in the "invasion rehearsal" of l9, 1941. that cost 710 men ed. B08 wounded and 2,066 missing 01‘ ta- ken prisoner rode into the city without firing o. shot.

They were the Essex Scottish of Windsor, Ont, the Royal Hamil- ton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) and the Royal Regiment of Canada, Toronto.

Following them were two other DiepPe formations-the South Sos- katchewan Regiment, Weyburn, SaslL, and the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). Montreal- and the Toronto Scottish.

(Other regiments in the Dieppe raid were the Queen's Own Camer- on Highlanders. Winnipeg. 1a Fu- siliers MontRoyal. Montreal, and the 14th Canadian Army tank bat- talion from Calgary. the first tank ,unlt to participate in a combined operations raid and the first unit of the Canadian Armored Corps to go into action.)

As the people of Dieppe roared a welcome the Canadians drove through the flower - strewn streets where on that August day two