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rho lost iliS l1fo yesterday cland._

a Guardian. T!" Willa

ills Rn, n] ‘Highness the Duke of Kent, in the crash

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youngest broth Ki of a Sundcrlanderflying sir“:

Francis Akbar is victim of accident; Inquest to

Be held today.

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ar-y-l-ZS Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Presl)

'26, loft-British forces rl lcst positions n a:

ivnnccd hall a mile, - prints; also re- fills’ German attack on Pr‘ (‘on rord. French lrofps iilllilltil svcrnl positions in an Lack (111 {he Mouse,

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Aug. 25—(CP>—!‘-‘s- 1 64, a diver, was while taking part in cciy was recovered a .I‘.

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"Tnlkies-lililmtague Pride , rday_ l

WI for

5i“ anti-iii‘. "Tolkien-Scum; Monday. B-Zii-Si.

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mnml" Goorvctown Hall. Thurs- uf,‘ ‘Mimi 37th. Webster's Orch- * 3-25-21.

."Colir.~cti11g hogs every IPriday. m“ 1t with‘ Leslie McDowell, eilcton, 5-1D-20-twtf.

in Summcriieicl Hail,

Ausplces C, W. L. 8-16-21.

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mer months List ‘m’ A C Green. Alban and o. . 5-6-1-1 -w-'r-u-u

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m, m F, joints. o.d time and Mb“,- "dos. August 2s. n. A. 1r. , ~ Y". Proceeds in aid of Red it

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D1""°i"1l 9 to l. Admission “5- 8-26-21.

Locctl Man Killed“ Off Governofs Island’

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lap Battle Fleet 0p,

War Situ-ation L-dsi Nightly“

Allies Blast

(By EDWARD E. BOMAR, Aslooiaicd Press War Analyst) The first impression from the United States Niivy'a announcement

Enemy Convoy I 0ft New iiumea of the now air and sea battle in the Solomons la that the Japanese may have blundered by taking rill: outwolgblng possible gains.

N ipponese Lose Heav- o... i.§“'.'.l§'..“'l1§’i’1i.iiii”1'in1' fill-fills"??? iTniLlIiRiLTb? iiieifilnllii ily In Sea-Air Bat-

navy and army sea and air forces, the Japanese sent a vulnerable arm- tle At Solomons.

ado. which counter-attacked without benefit of surprise.

First reports tell of the bombing of two enemy carriers and a battleship, along with a number of other wa and accompanying vessels, and the downing of 21 enemy planes in a. single engagement. The hopeful suspicion is encouraged thereby that the Japanese were so intent on revenge and gaining "face" that they disregarded the battle of Midway's lesson of the perils of a sea attack on an objective defend- ed by land-based aircraft.

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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. Zii-iwednesday) - (AH-Allied planeg destroy- ed a Japanese gunboat and atrafed two Japanese transport: in a convoy off the southeast coast of New Guinea yesterday,

was announced today.

(It was not immediately dis- closed whether the convoy was en route to reinforce thc Japan- ese counterattack in the Solo- mons Islands, but this is possible since the attack occurred south of’ that general area.)

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The whole fight for the Solomons is still so enshrouded in secrecy however, that ordinary caution advises that judgment be suspended un- til more returns come in. The onslaught obviously was made with ter- rific force. Information is lacking on our own strength. Official warn- ings were given at the outset to expect heavy losses,

The Japanese would not. have attacked had a promising chance to accomplish at least one of three things-to retake the eastern Solomons, inflict a. ippling defeat, cr divert Ameri- can naval strength to this relatively remote area while attacking again

WABKLNGTQN, Aug, 35_(Ap)._ toward Penri Harbor, the North Pacific or elsewhere. United States army and navy for- In at least one particular the Japanese possess an advantage which 139$ ha" 1011195 Dame WW1 8 M186 naval men deem important. Their fleet is operating several hundred 359M555 “ma-dill “iwmptiiig i” miles nearer a major base than Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley’s. grriieasgolgangnalggggntgfiisvgenm This attack, like the frustrated Coral Sea advance, seems to have nounced today’ and’ so m, have stemmed from the Island of Truk in the Caroline group less than 1,000 inflicted heavy damage on the milles tnlthe nortth, wliiere the Japanese can obtain fuel, ammunition Qngmy, an a u: orccmen s an ma e repa rs. First reports made public from Pearl Harbor, American headquarters for the Pacific naval war, is $5 H8515?! 1106:] ‘gs! 51,1011’, 11161501199 more than 2,500 miles away. The lesser bases of Page Page, Samoa, e ex en ° a 95 °55e5 Sydney and Auckland are all farther from the scone than Truk. hm’ showed that’ m0” ma“ a hall" This naval advantage is offset, perhaps decisively, by the foothold dozen enemy ships had been effec- the marines have won in three of the Solomon Islands since the first tively bombed o; torpedoed with these resu|ts;_ surprise attack of Aug. 8-9. One large carrier, otherwise not ' tdengitafied, hit four times by army om rs. One smaller carrier, the zeverclyidamzzged by navy ased a rcrai’ . One battleship hit by based planes.

i I O I I The‘ navy's communique implies strongly that the defenders of the Tulngl harbor area and nearby Guadalcanal Island were aided hy land- Rl/llll/Q- based fighters, these being credited with Sunday's score of 21 planes. ""19" Other American aircraft were identified as carrier based, or as army " b Scvenii cruisers hit by f OKIIId-z secm lo b; tho: ltlae hard-lighting eiirmyilhcfnvyhibnmhcrs (‘alpine aged pflneg, mm ow ruinco. cw ‘a e ona or e Fij s, a o w ch are wit n One other cruiser and one enemy but near the limit of their range. transport hit by U. S. aircraft If it turns out the Japanese miscalculated, it was their second K516i‘??? ‘I! lflhifli- IIPPaBFS i0 ha" blunder in quick succession. Under-estimating the marines soon after baetitlle silinsnlaellie afgt ogugg‘: the start of the invasion. they lost an entire ‘foil-man force dispatched mg ‘lately. p _ from the northern Solomons in fast motor croft. In that attack the Japanese violated one of their military prin- violent Fighting ciplcs. Admiral Ernest J. King, American commnndcr-in-chiei‘, had Th 1 said that "m"! never send a boy to do a man's ivork." e Soomons campaign turns

into violent fighting after a per- i0 of desultory activity marked on Aug. 23 by on enemy air attack on Guadalcanal island in which 21 Jap planes were shot down while American forces suffered only minor damage. 0n the same night enemy destroyers bombarded ma- rine shore positions.

Naval forces under Vice-Admiral

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Nazis Close‘ h; On Stalingrad

CHARLUTTETOWN, CANADAQWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,

unless they believed they 1O

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s‘ Union of the Mnritimes, presided It

Lee Ghormiey. commander in the New Zcalnnd area, and army air forces of Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur 1n Australia had been prc- pared for strong Japanese coun- ter-attaclrs, and presumably were

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Nanci: Mahar of Charlottetown was krllzd yesterday in a dynamite explosion a snort distance off Gov- ernor's Island in Hiilsboro Bay, eight miles from here. He was Wflfkifli; with a scismogra h survey crew probing for oil possi iiitics in

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Canada Saddened

By Ilenry L‘. Cassidy ‘ Associated Press Staff writer

the area ' MOSCOW Aug. 26-—(WednesdaY) Mghg arilcideiitfoccurred i1; the early B , __,A,,,__Tné Russian mg“ com- - 0° ' n Ormnuon indicated y ll G S nrand said today that the Rad Mahar was placing charlzcs of ex- Army mm made “you counm-at. plosives undcrrvawr, usmg a small we“ M mm pom, no,_n,,,.€5L of

row boat for the purpose. do placed the charge then rowed more than 100 vards away beiure exploding it by electricity. The wires were un- rolicd from the boat as the man rowed. ,

But. the Inst time the explosion look place very close to the boat. smashing 1110 craft to mntchwocd. It was belicvcd the charge became entangled with the boat. and was towed instead of sinking to the bottom.

Manors bcdy was not recovered until several hours aitcr the acci- dent. Then it was token ‘.0 Char- lottetown. Coroner Dr. I. J. Yeo ordered an inquest. A Jury was im- melted tonight and viewed the

y. No evidence was taken. The locating will be resumed this morn- n

hmbers of the iury include:

btuungrati, ‘your 1t t lrinclllllligélaliil 11211;?)- . _ r e . ial Canada and the mnn-on-tne- gnigfriiiilfinlquyee, Indicating that the street were saddened nnignt by 1,000,000 Gtrmans smashing at the news of the death in on air crash C11y‘5 outer defences had made of the Duke of Kent. younrzcsr scmeprogress. brother 0f the King. who viisiteri The communique. irowcver. did the Dominion a year ago. not mention any ktussum withdraw- It was last summer that the als. either northwest or southwest popular Duke came to Connda, of Stollllgffld Where ti"? ‘Fmmnf Davina an official visit to Ottuwn. were threatening the cny wighuggltls and touring establishments of the d<=1‘°“§'"“5°‘°?”“‘§“5°“’§°,§,,d,¢5§ Empire Corrmonwenith Air Train- “mimme mmowyclsbs an m! Plan’ m-ihm-tiicilgntiigreniiu1ng enemy The 39-year-old Duke was the m ‘a and lumen“, huge losses," first member of the British Royal “'- ° “n, w, um Family to fly the Atlantic Ocenri ‘“.°1.,f§“&‘,?,m§m were‘ 105s than 4o in a bomber. He was flown from miles from the my on both side!- to Canada 1n s. Liberator perhgpg considerably closer in At the end of his six weeks visit 3' T” on age 5. C01 3) to the Dominion, in which he was (Conn! ‘mi-iii

OTTAWA. Allll. 25—(CP)--Offlc-

John lxightizer,’ foreman, Frank flown from ca“, m ma“ vlsmng , ' . - dfaz-Mrghifigiéfn5infvtwgfiafl°gfi training establishments and meet- Diplomat“: Liner

ing men from man parts of the Commonwealth tm ning for one task of dealing with the Axis in one skies. the Duke of Kent flew k across the Atlantic to Brit-

Donaid Fraser. The hearing w1ll be UIIiIOBdS Passengers held at. Frank Henncssey‘! Funeral Home and will open at 9 a.m.

mam CITY. N. J. Aus- 15- The accident victim was a son oi (C'T1_.,)__The diplomatic finer Grip-

Pius Mahar of Charlottetown. Ho bl‘! _ 1 1 “loaded or its W“ about’ 25 Yams Um‘ “is Wm‘ and aim Qtigg/ rmgersigtiataytdltiay with Pros- a four-yeer-old son surv.ve. "’”‘T""_"__' pacts that 69 Canadians from

Warns Oil Shorta-re Japan and Japanese - occupied

are“ in me Far East woud reach Canadian soil tomorrow.

It, was expected the Canadian! wAsf-IINGTON. g. 26 - would take a night train for (AP) -- United states war pm- Montreal, arriving tcmorrow morn- duction chief Donald Nelson laid mg, They were still aboard the today the oil shortage cn tbeAmar- Gylpgholm, however, at 6190 P-nb icon Atlantic coast will become 3pm t°n|ghg_ . more acute end warned east coast =.-_—_—_= residents to mike provisionn to meet it.

He told a conference of New England reeentativee and war agency offic ola called to consider m; problem that the government's first task is to win the war and that nothing will be permitted to inerfere with that effort.

res-r amcxoiir mmmx. 1111c. 2s - war» -

To Be More Acute

Baptists Meet In Convention

WOLFVILLE. N5. Au . ZS-JCP) -Mrs. C. ‘T. Clark of nint John. N.B., immediate pest ercsincnt o1 the United Baptist Missionary

When

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tonight's o ning session of the Union's as annual convention. Throughout the day dole-mm were arriving for the opening io- mcrmw of the Umtfd Baptlgt In- . ._ .. .ve'1'. griiiiintilttgef And-exit iv??? mid t:- A Province-wide test. blackout was d“ lmqudhm three gawk-m, M the held throughout Nova Foot‘; to. 50%"! or Chrmmn mumflom Wm, night. Liglita were o'f from 9.15 to

, , DT. I l-Iflllfl, AR. . fizhcrilat uvy o! oharlotwmwn in xillati-kgrtr iltld pregtice CIZGXIUl-EGLP

Smooth Saiiinq For All your Bokinq

Less than 40 miles from Industrial ‘ = City; Russians fight fiercely.

INTERNATICNAI. AT A GLANCE

(Canadian Press)

RUSSIA-Germans reported less than 40 miles from Stalingrad, Rus- sinm counte attacking but c1ty in grave peril.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC - Jap- anese battle fleet opens counter- attack on. Solomons,. engaged. by Amencan air iorc "z Allml Pill“! blast Jap convoy off New Guilloti-

BRITAIN — Churchill confers with war cabinet. second-front dc- cisicng ‘ed; death of Duke of Kent in plane crash announced.

UNITED §TATES — Prime lVIin- lstcr Fraser of New Zcaland arrrv-"e in Washington; President Roosevelt discloses Prime Ministers of Aus- tralia and South Africa invited lo visit him.

EUROPEAN AIR FRONT - Rue- aians raid Helsinki, RAJ-I rinnloura- ces heavy attack 9n Rh I!" o" - Germans fire-bomb Last Ana lo-

l-‘OREST FIRE

dno . A c. Mo?) _ 1€RIservlce ‘dbservers in northern New Brunswick tidal’ spotted an apparently large irresi- p-e 1n mg Inrfcn Brock distnct of Quebec, north of the Patapedin River.

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Applications To Transport Commissioners

Two applications dealing with railway matters were heard in the Court House here yesterday be. forethc Board 0i Transport Com- missioners consisting of colonel J, A- CYOSS. K-(l. Chief Commis- sioner, and Commissioners George A. Stone and F‘. M. MacPherson. Th6 Board sot. with brief inter- vals, from 10 am. until 6.40 last evening, and reserved judgment in both cases. The Commissioners leave this morning for Halifax,

The first application was for an order allowing additional free time under the inclement weather rule of the Canada. Car Demurroge Bureau for the loading of potatoes yvherc the prevailing fgmperature is under 20 degrees above zero and Flfilfli: made impracticable 0n that account. It was presented b IVI-r. J. W. Boulter on behalf of the Potato Growers Association, Can- ada Packers. Associated shippers, Inc. and simmons and MncFar-

11c, potato Silipp-EFS.

The second application, present- ed b_y Mr. MCIVIII J. McQuoid, 5011715. for the Eastern Kings Board of 'I‘rade. was for further improvement in train service over

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ll.A.F. Makes Strong Raids C11 liazi Cities

..._____. coupon, Aug. 25-—(CP)—A 4o- plane itussizizi attack on Helsinki and the pirssnge of h1gl1-ccll1ng Lolnbfrs c101" nyon 1n unoccupied Iquucc Lu the accompaiuement of o. iiLlli hours anti-aircrew fire were reported today along with the RA. F. announcement of a. strong force attack last night on the Rliinelwyd,

London lllifl c daylight all‘ alarm, apparently as r1 result of 1t siigie plane ilymi; over the northern en- VIIQDS.

The RAF. objectives were Prank- fur‘. and Wiesbadcn in the Rhine- iunrl, where industrial and chemical plants were bombed. and German " d concentrations in the Low its which were attnckcd a-

gzur.

’i_'l1c (Jtrmnn air forces were de- SCIlbCLl 11.; virtually nroundod in 1110 face oi 1m- 111w zwrcks am; m. formed Brnzsh so ccs said the Germans snll v.c * miferiiig from losses 21ml '11. motion as s. re-

s Dlcppc 111.5’. ‘.1 = erations agnmst N Although 111;-.111t eriority over

"i subsidiary cp- 1 aerial power. m: aerial sub- 11 Europe, the for the assault . tIYCfl, losius: 16 bomber out of what. was officially d-zscribcd as “strong forces." It wns the heaviest loss in a Zllltllt-DOHIDCI‘ operation since A112. ll.

Vichy reported a great rumber of planes passcd over Lyon at a nvxght of six miles last night. taking 90 minutcs to do by. 11nd that Ficnch grrnlnri defences sent. up c barrage for" half an hour.

Thvrc was no vorificafion of the French suspicion that ‘in: planes might 11.1w been United Slut-cs Edy- ing Forircsscs such 11s those which

picd Franco 11nd there zvns no con- firmntion from 12.11110 of rho smc- ulntion that. they mirrhi. be‘ "11 route to nbicctivcs in Northern Itnlv. Planes also wwe hcari ovcr "'

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cries Minister ceri the government would DILV l subsidy of $165 a construction of travviers on the At- lantlc coast as a. ste great-er _ in the fishing industry.

effect for construction 11nd version of vessels ors"

Annual Bubaertptlon

DUIIIIPOGI. .5.“

B! llalh P. l. l. 84.001 to other Province! and ll. l. Ifl-OII

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ens Counter-Attack Was firewo-

To Iceland On

Active Service Entire Crew of Plane died with Duke)‘

Visited Canada A

LONDON, Aug. 25—-(CP) —The Duke of Kent, young- est brother of the King, was killed today in the crash of a Sunderland flying boat in northern Scotland while en route to Iceland on active service.

The entire crew on the wartime mission died with him.

The Duke was 39. In i934 he married Princess lllarina of Greece. They have three children, two sons and a daughter.

He had been closely as- sociated with thc R. A. F. since the war started and was deeply interested in flying. He visited Canada and the United States a year ago, and in the Dominion mode a tour of inspection of‘ air-training schools built under the Commonwealth Air Training plan.

He held the rank of Air Com- modore and was attached to the staff of the Inspector-General of the R.A.F.

The Duke was probably the most air-minded member of the Royal Family and was its first. member to fly L11»: Atlantic. This was on his secret flight to Canada in July, 1941, to inspect the air training schools.

He had flown thousands of miles under wnr conditions in planes equipped for battle with enemy air- craft, For 501110 time he had been fllilliliii! extensive but little-publi-

civzsdfiir trips us a means of speedy transit.

Learned Flying in 1980

'I'l‘1e Duke leamcd t0 Dllflii ,5 piano in 1930 and lost none of hi5 enthusiasm for flying when he was invclvvd in a plane m1shap at Drac- Airriorme in Aberdeen three years ago.

The Duke was named Govemor- Gencrul of Australia in 1938 to be- come effective the following Yea!‘-

Thc war caused the cancellation of *1 c511 11.1.4.1‘ i»? B; Q1“? e51 A51: To Aid In lluilding

0f Canadian Trawlers

OTTAWA, Aug. 25—-(OP)--F‘ish- Michaud announ-

gross ton on new

make reduced man power

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use of

In the cnsc of fishing schooner:

converted to the use of trnwlcrs the government will bay UVO-Pllird-‘i 0f mo cost of conversion. Maximum subsiciv for any one ship W111 be recently have raided Gcrmnn-occu- $12000

élmiinr subsidies are RlWBdV m con- 55 “DQOKQYS-SCIII- nrcciirctive power umbia coast. ___

i0 mnintnin B_rit

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Primc Minister New Zcaizmd arrived in the Umtc States today to confer with Presi- dent Roost-wit 011

undiscldscd rcu here 1n t1mc for ‘the usual Wednes- day meeting of the Pacific War Council, made up of nation; ao- tively engaged in the conflict in the Pacific. They include Canada. Aus- trniia, Britain and China.

tens arrival in this country, White House was wary with detaila

on how long he would remain CI the exact purpose of his trip.

iieavy Losses. In Convoys

year ago.

ETILETIN

PORT 0F SPAIN, TRINI- DAD, Aug. 25 -(CP CABLE) —- Ten passenger-a and three members of the crew of a Nethcrlandg plane were ki%l Sunday when the big machine crashed during an electrical storm in Trinidad, it W115 dia- ciosed tonight,

The plnnc, owned by KLM, the Dutch airline, crashed two miles from the airfield at Piarco after off for Curacao, about 00 miles away in the Netherlands West Indies.

Premier Fraser Arrives In 0.8.

WASHINGTON, Alli?- 25—(AP) ' Peter Eraser a

I-Ie 1‘i‘iiL'l1(.’Ci the west coast by an to Jlld was expected

In announcing the Prrme Mitzi)?» O

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DES MOIITFS, 111., A118.

(AH-Losses in cont/Oi’! i0 R

5121's Arctic ports have run as high a5 50 per cent of the supplies in some instances. lpvette, director of public tions for the United States nevi: said tod

Capt, Leland P. relic ay.

"The Russian front is highly 1m" pcrtnnt, to 11s," he told 800 per- sons at luncheon. "It is difficult w get guns. ammunition and food supplies to them. In some convNi. by way of Murmansk and Arch- angel, there has been a 10a! of 50 per cent of the supplies. but w! still feel that it's Worth 1t if WI Bet the rest through.

"Russia is doing a lob for 115-1 a 10b um we might have had N do ourselves."