‘Suicide m:

.. not‘ $4,. gakydi‘.

it“... said a rubber b attached to the exhaust iba coupe and mended n: through a window.

"Iiioming Events

r-saow-m Stewart Saturday. 7.9a F. M. 4-20-11. "Show - Murray River, Mon- rlsy. 4-30-21

"loo hogs every Th sd : Davis d: Fraser Ltd. ilillirly‘; a vine. Peakes. i-zfl-f-i

""1111: in crow. tonight ans lpecial “Baha'i broadcast. 4-01-11

"Grain Crushing at Mas’ Mills. Bridgetown. on Saturday only alter April kt. 4-20-31.

_"Dance, Orwell Hall, Monday, April 25rd. Mtliview Orchestra."-

"Wo-He-La Rimming Sal . HLCA, 4 P. M. today‘. 4-21-11 "Oaks Sale at l-iolnganb this aiterncn at 2.40 oy Victoria Group Baptist Church. 4-31-1 .

"Box Social and Dance in

Im- Giilid H l W901 an. a 1' m“ nllyoyi-Qgbil

"Box Social and Dance, Sum-

nerileld Hui}, Wednesday, April itth. 4-31-2441. "Norman Campbell's Auction

Bile. Stock and Machinery, Ca Traverse. April 25th.

"Loadin Bola every ‘Thursday for Davis Fraser Ltd. Keith Mc- Klnnon. Montague. Norman Mc- Kenzie. Cardigan. I-IZ-Fri-Sat-tf.

"in stock. bulk wheat. bulk oats. bulk bani . cu seed oats. 2.50 per cwt. Book now. McGuigsn dc Boyle. 417-101.

"Cherry Vail Y. P. U. esent "lair play “ of the " rih," Belfast Hall, Tuesday, April‘ iailtih

. ‘ma. Auxiliary Y. M. o. a We one. Mari moon-ac. Sa-

v may. arr-u out at a r. u. 4-12-21-21.

“Unloading ' shmkies toda

car of haevt. I- Bowman. ‘

and Monday? unter River. 4-31-11.

"Loading a x n u as "H" 1M. TuOJtiIYSIlIntiIalYurther native. Five Houses. J. J.

ogs ior Davis and

. every Tuesdagwuntil

Bari Jay. Mt. lyart. ,.

U!“ Fraser L , thin time.

"mono HTega-ior own and Fraser Lt every Tuesday until

11-. fWthsr notice Dinuwcll and Bon- M r l. 2.5.3

titer ogl "b11008 wagons up to the min- lltc. rubber tired or steel tired. "m traoes gave. New» . buggy a express w ee . Clinton Morrison, Fredericton.

ll ii ho $390.31.. ‘Elfin. Hinptgi t

egfition Matheaon.

service a lied. Lemuelh ras-

"Wm Dunsford trusklnfiwgs nghariottetown Thursday o each a

until further tic . Pho e at rvica. Liveaiga llarketm "d- e-ao-zl

ucki c...n'.‘f»§t?.i' 13S." 31*"

l!

to V s Bri MW.‘ mmdseuand lylioinitiea un. view

e-ao-ai

boss at. Charlottetown ,tha week except Sat- I-eta make it a worthy miltiiii.“ “$.23.

in! Board. ' _ mp4;

from Wiitlhilo.

bo

Comptlkg. d Mrs. 30 8 tlmOolidli

' tcrnent i

4-m- ._

lllijrguesday 24th until train Board

303i 10in our BACON O ON

' , _ esa- s u to 813i“? id m in. gin

BY IDMINIY WHEELER.

across B lin’ th corridor walrus; 1a” u 1:.“ egg: 5B miles oi American

W00! While the Germans said the Red Army had breached Berlin's inner defences ring and was only seven miles from the blazing Ger- man Capital.

‘The Russians were at the “very Iltioa oi Berlin, one Gennan re- port sliii. and a Wllhelmstrassc spokesman declared the yard-by- yard Russian advance ‘in a hell of fire, steel and blood" was deciding the war. Peace riots were reported in the Capital.

Moscow's communique said Rus- sian fumes, advancing on Berlin and Dresden on a 100-mllc front, had seized eight major gtrongholds while wave after wave of Russian armor

pped at a dozen other fortified towns and villages within Berlin's sifiattered defence ring east oi the c

Y.

Before the Capital's eastern ap- proaches. the German defenders of the bombed city still were lighting after 1B0 hours without sleep.

Germans said mosses of Risssian tanks, infantry and blg guns still were pouring into the battle. possibly the greatest in his- tory. claimed bha-t 1.300 Rcd Army tanks had been destroyed and dis- closed that the Red Armv was 29 miles west of the Oder River alter five days of fighting. famine ldecsionio; the weir isnbelnil

ughi- n an nerno o unice- oearohlights and the most ‘hellish nolgg ever heard," said o state- in the Wilhelm:- trasse. Ahead oi the attackintl Russians 600 American heavy bombers pounded key junctions in the Berlin area.

Ernie Pyle- Buried iiloso Behind Front

1E ISLAND, April 20 —(AP) — Machine-guns sounded a shar nttoo and mortars barked at. . ront only a short distance ahead ioday ls little Ernie Pyle. the sol- dier's rter. was laid to rest with tar-y honors. Battle-grimed infantrymen‘ stood at attention as services were said for the columnist who was struck down by Japanese machine-gun fire Wednesday.

When the service was concluded. they clogged on up io the front.

P . e

COMMANDER HONORED

LONDON. April 20-40?) —MBJ. Gen. victor lvlorven Fortune. freed from a an prison camp ut Linrburg bv American troops last month, has been made o. Knight Commander of the Bath" in recog- nit-ion of invaluable services to Bri- tlsh P11

~ 13.300 tons of rails and

- Canadian artillery units are be-

1040 cleared the

The if

CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945

Princess Elisabeth's Birthday Today

LONDON, April 30 - (W) .. Princeu lliiisabeth. heir p. , tive to the throne. will celebrate her 19th birthday tomorrow in the country with her father, mother and sister. Meuages of congratu- into Buckingham from the British

and the United

Renew Lend-lease Pact With iiussia

OTTAWA, A ril 20 -— (CP) — The United Kngdom, the United States and Canada have renewed lend-lease ag ts with Rus- sia, it was ounced by ghf Departmental External Af- are.

The announcement said the fourth of a. series of lend-lease agreements. and the second to

whicnconada has been a signatory. was signed here April 1'1 by repre- sentatives of Britain, the United States, Canada and- Russia to cover the period ” ‘ July 1. 194-4. and June 30. 1945. Much of the war goods promised in the agreement have already been de- iivered.

Canada's Contribution

“Canada's contribution ~can be measured by the fact that be- tween Aprii 30. i944. and the end of the year Canada sent the Soviet Union 450.000 tons of munitions. strategic materials and food to a total value ‘of $187,600,000." said the Department.

"Shipments included 1.188 tanks. B42 armored cars. 2.568 trucks. 871.000 shells. 34,800,000 cartridges. 5.000 tons of gunpowder, 30.300 tons oi aluminum. 9.100 tons oi lead. 23.500 tons of copper. 6.700 tons oi zinc. 1,324 ions of nickel. 208.000 tons oi wheat and flour."

Britain's iiivilian ilasualiies listed

IDNDOI, April 20 -- (OP) —Brd- tain's civilian casiaalties for the war are 00.585 dead or missing and 85,175 injured so severely as to re- quire hospital treatment, Home (Secretary Morrison announced to-

ay. These figures may be virtually final. since Britons have not heard or seen u Gennon bomb in three weeks. -

cnuucrrs Ar nfiriilzqup coupon, April zo - (or Cable)

lleved to form part. oi the Allied forces encompassing the French North Sea port oi Dunkerque, where a German garrison has held out since the 1st Canadian Anny French Channel and North Sea coast last September, it was learned today.

The troops investing Dunkerquc. which was hit yesterday by RAJ‘.

and I'll go out with them-at. their head eet first." ,,_._ _, -._.

Last Po

"loading

hogs eve Tuesday for Davis a Fraser Ld. Phone collect for trucking service. R. N. Dawson. Crapaud. '

a-il-lait-Mon-tf.

"Export lazuli-About six

are processed into SIDE! and ex rted to England sverw week. Lvestock Msrrezigxagl

groducsrs to BRITAIN MEAT . If it is your first ailment with ua you will receive

rty reception and a cordial invitation to ‘some again." Live- stock Marketing Board, 4-20-21

"Buying pigs Monday st Fred- ericton; Tuesday l pan. Yorkp B Mt. stfcwert; 5 Wgwle ‘ifaroads open or trucks. a per f ver 90 unds fir. 0W alsomgu; smaller-Manes. Rnud Jorgenaen. 4-21-11 "lmormation gained through dilclleion in the Provincial Leg- isietura, ingiilcatss that ednotlslaerrl hon are en . ess or - sort to the ilniim market. sac- Wl‘ those sold throu h the Livestock Marketing Boar 14° a

" hogs Monday after- noon, A lid at Murray Har- bour. Me ville. Uigg, Elmira. Bourll. St Peter's. Moreil. Monte u‘:

in

"We invite all ho

e County. alp swell our volume u " r

pa mama an

Q n a" “we “Jillian?- “g, P" . ma: . rm- IflI-tina Board. e-ao-ai ‘u ""-' “Macaw.” '~ v" 21ml‘); ma, W IUD we» “Um ‘_»

about wbtffif-‘JLPE ° be "m

iGHT BINDING

Boa d. m‘ “in

pombers. are mostly Czechoslovak- _ an.

German Nady Loses cleft Ship

knockout blows, has lost ‘m; 1 g pocket battleship, the Lugigow, {fie

ty nd th i - sl. per cent of all hogs shl pad by us n a“ mm v8 town's m" m Vyfl-TSHIRE

and the l0,000-ton

muende on the Baltic

do

the Prints , number oi submarines and at ac other fleet units had just reach- ed ggvenhscen. and that this port

IONDON. A ll 20-40? _ German Navyygeeling unde)r AIR:

Ministry announced bflllighrt,

foegéeil of other crippling mm Ti e‘ “kl "any"

were] 71:51:59.3“... hnvemsiigd mg

26,000-l0n battleship‘ Gncigemu

ruis

seytt-isuwhiisoc Stliloncigilnitiifig c wing”

por , w

said that what was Iaft 01%’: cag-

1:011 Navy fled to refuge st 00pm. agen.

The an Miinis said the Lust. zow is out of act on, lying on m; bottom iu shallow water at Swine- oqast her under- ts la buckled R.A.I"?lbo:ni?. u“ ‘m

As remnants of her ouoe siaaabie

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-----..___._. SAINT JOIN BOY DIOWNID

SAINT JOHN, it. 3., April 30- (Cl-‘l-Jiight-ysar-oid Paul McDon- ough, son oi Mr. and Mrs. Harry McDono h. was drowned in the Saint Jo n Harbor when he tripped water while a ing with two othe boys. The M was later neov-

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"fictional... Last Night

By J. N. ROBERTS, m. (Associated tress Wu- Analyst) liitlel-‘a war of fang and claw now has been formally proclaimed. Goebbels tells the German people to throw away the rules of war.

Hitler lays “we are now starting a battle as fanatical as that which

sneaking thuggery. American troops lug 21.000 poison gas sheila.

without evacuation.

making cal.

policy of complete annihilation in involved. Whether they will use poison

may be east aside.

matter.

than they dial for non-combatant

INTERNATIUIIAL AT ii GLANCE

WESTERN FRONT vCaundllns an Kustenmgaual 111:. Brit- ! ll Arm l. BIHIIII suburbs; ~-t rec American armieg race as much as 2B miles south toward Hitler's hold-out area in Bavaria.

EASTERN FRONT — illusions burst 38 miles across Berlin's southern escape dor; Germans disclose Russian Army only seven miles from Berlin city 11m ts.

AERIAL - RAF. bomben strike Berlin Friday night after daylight raid, on Berlin defence ,. “meter and soothe ll Germany.

ITALY-Fifth army troops thr=¢ miles southwest of Bologna; Brit- ish 8th Army 10 miles from Far- Ilffl-

PACIFIC U.S. fleet heml- qusrters announce, loss of l5 nlvli craft between March 1B and April 1B in Okinawa battle; at least 100 Japansse sihips and 2.569 lane! destroyed; conquest of eutral Philippines completed.

All Banned B... Under Oontroi

OTTAWA, April 20 -- (C?) - ‘Ihc Fisheries Department today announced that by a recent order- in-councll all canned fish produced in Canada. has been brought under allocation control so the Dominion may meet. her obligations respect- ing allocations of canned fish sup- plied by the combined food board. After May 1, no person may op- erate as a calmer, assembler or ex- porter of calmed fish unless he is reg d as such with the Fish- eries Minister. he Department said, Registrations may be made at the Department's divisional of- ilces at Halifax and Vancouver. Under the order-in-council the Fisheries Minister may direct what kinds and quantities of canned fish. including canned shellfish may be marketed for consumption within Canada. and the kinds and quan- tities which may be exported. No such exports may be made viii-h- out |\ pennib and alter May l these permits will be issued to registered exporters only.

‘ma Departmental _.nnouncement said that a canned fish advisory committee will be set “l! by ti“ Minister on each coast to advise

we had to fight for our ascent to, power."

' Tconun

him on matters relating to the al- location control plan.

In other words. a war oi

an ammunition dump at Lelpaig contain-

The Canadians. fired upon by snipers. evacuate a village's popula- tion and burn it as a. lesson. The next village doesn't learn. is destroyed

Hitler once promised that. ii be went down, all Europe would go with him. He wasn't quite able to do the Job outside Germany, although the swaths he out has been terrible enough, but within the Reich he is

Although some rural areas near the Bhina escape the worst rav- ages of war, the Germans are more and more forcing the Allies to a

a guerilla war. with whole armies

gas In their final throes seems to

depend on practicality rather than morality. And even llfwilvlllty

Allied experts feel sum that the Germans would have used gas al- ready ii they had one which would penetrate Allied masks: that the! would do anything commensurate with the risk of Nillllflflli-

Now, with proclamation of suicidal “defence zones", with suicide taking the place of surrender alter last-ditch stands, that risk doesnt Gas or anything else can be expcotod. n The desperate Nazis care no more for the null-dumb!!!”

Londoner in 1940. Now there is

only s beaten Nnzidom thrashing about senselessly like a beheaded l "r ,, nor caring where the b10011 SPIN-H’!-

Describes Horrors Of

‘Concentration Camp

BY WILLIAM FRY!

ZBELSEN, Germany, April I) — (AP; - The dead were Betting a burial today at this fearsome con- oevnitration camp-each mama-ices dead getting a ghastly burial.

No coffins or flowers at this fun- eral. No tears or well-bred symp- athy. No music.

These naked corpses were hauled in trucks and dlim/ped into e. t. Their pallbearers were 8.5. i lite 'Ciua.rd) men and women, now Al- lied prisoners

Their litany was the hoarse shouts oi British soldiers, sick with disgust and fury, ordering those marked members of Hitler's chosen legions about their hor- rible task.

I saw Belsen—its piles oi lifeless dead and its aimless swarms oi living dead, ‘rhelr great eyes were just animal lights in skin-covered skulls of famine.

Some were dying of typhus, some of typhoid, some of tuberculosis. but. most were just d ing of starvation. Starvation-the f ssh on their bod- ies had fed on itself until there was -no flesh left, just skin cover- ing bones and the end of all hope, and nothing left to feed on.

Hopeless Hope

Tragically, there is till hope in- side these still-breath ng cadavers As long as eyes can stare from the bodies scattered everywhere on the floors and on the ground there is hope. They ore living but they cannot live. No food, no care can save them Ahead oi them is noth- ing-nothing but that pit with the bulldozer waiting to cover them with earth.

Nothing-well. there is one thins. the knowledge that aftAr months oi

Bride Finds Wrong Husband Waiting

TORONTO, April 30 - (C?) -- Eiyt. Edward Graves oi Toronto stared aghast at Mrs. Ma Graves oi EEinburgh, Scotland, wien they met today in the Rod Cross war brides’ reception centre at Union Station here.

"That's not my wile," cried the startled sergeant.

"That's not my husband," re- joined the disa pointed bride.

The case of i e tangled wedding knot arose when two Canaian sol- diers overse t. Edward Graves and Pte. Otnie raves-each mar- ried Scottish girls called Mary.

Mien ms Otnie Graves arrived in Canada, the Red Cross inioflflfli the wrong husband of her arrival. Pte. Otnie is still fighti in Ger- many, Sgt, Edward's W10 il Ill“ in Scotland. The Graves are not

iI. 0. Winner Back From Prison Ramp

BBLLEVHLE, Ont... April zu_ (CPF-LL-Col. Cecil ltierrltt. Can- ada's first Victoria Cross winner of war, has arrived at Prest- wick, Scotland, after‘ being released from a. German prisoner of war camp. his Wife said here today. Mrs. Merritt was having her

dressed when a telephone message from the International Red Cross office at Montreal

brought news oi her husband's release.

. The message left her "so excited I couldn't even think."

Her telephone informant told her not to worry if she didn't hear from her husband for a week or more, Mrs. Merritt said, adding: “I'm so happy I don't care if I don't hear anything more for two weeks now that I know Cecil is safe."

She said Col. Merritt was freed from Oflag 4C, a prison camp over-run by United States forces. An R. C. A. F. officer named Jerry Wood from Vancouver and an of- ficer named Rolfe from Toronto arrived nt Prestwick with Col. Merritt, she continued. The Col-

onel and Wood are long-time lends. (In Toronto, Mrs. Gordon Mc-

Donald Rolfe said the officer nam- ed Rolfe was probably her hus- band, a 34-year-old major taken prisoner at Dieppe in August, 194-2. He had been a prisoner with Col. Merritt at Ofiag QC. She said she had’ received no news that her husband was free. however.)

Col. Merritt. who comes from Vancouver. was taken prisoner at Dieppa where ire won the V. C. for his heroism. He led the South Saskatchewan Regiment into the attack on the French coast town and remained behind. a wounded prisoner of war.

While Col. Merritt was in prison camp he was nominated as Pro- gressive Conservative candidate in the Federal riding oi Vancouver- Bgrrsrd.

Hitlefs L

f Part 0f Bordeaux

ast

Reported Cleared

PARIS. April 20 —- (AP) — A special French communique an- nounced tonight that Pclnte de Grave -had been finally cleared except for isolated pockets and that the great French port of Bordeaux now is open.

The tricolor was hoisted at l P M. today on a lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula jutting into the Gironde Estuary.

CIIAPLIN PLANS APPEAL

LOS ANGELES, April 20—-(APi -Charlie Chaplin's lawyers intend to ask for a. new trial of Joan Berry's paternity suit, in which the comedian was named as the father of her IB-months-old daugh- ter, Carol Ann. and if denied, will appeal to have the jury's verdict sst aside. it was announced today.

Canadians Took 235,005 ‘f Prisoners Since April Z

ROSS MUNRO

Preaa War Corre- apoudeut) WITH ‘THE 1ST CANADIAN ARMY. April 20 - (CP Cable) — The lst. Canadian Army has tak- en 26.000 prisoners since April l when it. became operational east of the Rhine. it was announced tonight as Canadian and Polish troops made new advancm in the Kenton Canal line screening the German North Sea ports of Em- den and Wilhelmshaven. Can-ad- ians in Holland advanced into the Crabbe Line.

This prisoner total — ulvalent to a daily average of l, 0 cup- tives - was ons of the biggest hauls made by Gen. Crersrb troops since the wreck of the Ger- man ‘ith Army last August in the Trun gap in Normandy.

1n northwest Gennany, mean- whila,.eneniy resistance slsckened a little toni ht. With the Kustsn Cami line roken in two places. Canadian and Polish troops mad:- some new advances.

On the Oldenburg sector. Can- adian infantry ushed north from

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The Stale and the famly are for ever at war.

MAXlMC OI A

MERE MAN

hand.

The Luxembourg radio said that by Swedish reports "Berlin is burn- ing with unrest. Civil war is rife. On all buildings in the workers district red flags have appearcd."

Gennan radio stations, so herd pressed to keep out of the path of Allied armies and bombers that there were ire uent lapses in their p r o g r a m s, elivered stereotyped eulogies that were as lunereal as obituaries.

Eloquent testimony that I-lit- ler no longer counts as the head of the German state was the lack of congratulatory tole- grams from neutral countries. which even last year felt that protocol required some kind of a greeting or other.

His ally, Japan, congratulated Hitler in u left-handed manner. Tokyo radio quoted a Japanese General by the name of Sabnda as extending greetings to Hitler, but apparently the Emperor and Pre- mier Suzuki did not bother.

With the Russians attacking at the eastern gates of Berlin and a {unction of American and Russian

roops expected in a few days. the Luxembourg radio continued: