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ITtATF. ATTACKS 15-SHIP ENEMY

Killed Armies Prepare Final Assault Injunisii

6 iixis Ships 38 Planes Are Destroyed

Ground Forces Get Ini- to Position For All- Out Offensive.

By WES GALLAGHER (Associated Press Staff Writer)

A L L I E D H E A D - QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 18—(AP) -Six more Axis ships have been sunk or dam- aged and 38 planes des- troyed in the ceaseless war of attrition in the Mediterranean area, AI- lied headquarters an- nounced today. Aground, Gen. Sir. Harold Alex- ander's forces prepared for the assault on the mountain - rimmed de fences of Tunis and Biz- erte.

Although the Italian communique "

received here in broadcasts asserted that "intense and prolonged art- lllery duels" were staklnl film. with massed-- guns sweeping the heights and defiles, the Allier". com- mllllIqUe mentioned only "patrol activity along the HO-mlle front.

A French headquarters announce- ment said operations continued in the mountain region south of Pent Du Fans and ‘l0 prisoners were captured in local engagements.

The Royal Navy and United lilies heavy ‘ a ined in an

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Nazis Continue Bonferenees

LQNDON. April l8 - (GP) — Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, has concluded a two- lily vLsit to Hitler at thc Ger- man Dictators headquarters and British quarters tonight interpret- td the conference as a continued Nazi effort to build military and Political fences against a possible Mind invasion of the Balkans.

It iviis the fourth recent con- ference of its kind. First. King Boris oi Bulgaria was summoned More the Fuehrer. A four-day conference of Hitler and Musso- lini last week was followed by a lllltrimaae of the Rumanian dic- tator, Marshal Ion Antonescu, to G"","!t1.\' and Rome.

British circles said the obvious ligiillﬂsiilida aim of all the meet- 0&0 credits an impression “mm the Muir;- un y of purpose

French Guerillas Continue Active

HPSNDON. April lll mom- M ""8 French Headquarters said u av Prench guerliias and parti- mns killed more than 50 Germans.

"tilled hundreds and destroyed "Q1 Nﬂzf equipment as 144 rail-

rt coaches. seven locomotives and n“ ruclis and 4.225 itallons of nas- Pgglfugilflﬂi the first two weeks in

W. waived "Ports from France told m. Etensde attacks upon Ger- Dufggciillbled premises in that

Coming Events

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Pighon ‘Chcriclaorn

Ain Grascsio Amor el Kenoni

vance up the Tunisian coast. Meanwhile American, French forces thrusting EDWBTG BIZETIG Mid Tunis from POSIIIOHS in the interior of

Four Airmen Are Rescued

Drifted 30 Hours Off Coast Of Cape Breton After Plane Was Forced Down.

‘Forward to Tunis! Drive the Enemy into the bee!’

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This battle cry from Gen. Bernard Montgomery is spurring the British Eighth Army on in the ad-

roads and railways in the area wher the last battles for Tunisia

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British Highway Casualties Heavy

HLACKBVRN. England. April i8

- taken III I llﬂiiflllédiloody opemﬂpn,

War STfuation Last Night

By Carl C. Cranmer, Associated Press War Analyst

The battle Impendingion the Carthaginlan Peninsula for Tunis and Blzerto may well be a preview of other battles that must be fought on the European continent before Rome and Berlin are brought u; unconditional surrender.

The north African battleground which has served as a blootlv Ialy. oratory for development of Allied tcl-liilique in nliibilc tzink warfare and iii aerial co-opcration with troops may be the third phase-tho scientific at- tack on golfer; systems of fixed fortifications under conditions of siege. w emu‘ ‘:11: éitilllﬂni are that Hitler has ordered his forces In Tunlslu

a B h army at Stolinizrad. to dulllicate the sacrifices exacted of the attacking forccs at Odessa and Sevastopol and if possible to Qquql the performances of Allied forces in sucll areas as Leningrad and Tkiiiruk,

If the Allies are successful in blasting open and capturing this brist- ling bridgehead with comparatively small casualties the result will he fur 111MB dcclsive than appears on thc surface.

I! WWW Pfﬂly Well demolish Hitler's last dream-h successful fencggtélhe fat-tress of Europe and its iiystcnror forts within a fort.

x e o cr hand if they win all Tunisia hut at terrific cost, Axis hopes will sour and for flic Allies thc red flag of diingi-i- will be “tie-ed ITO": with thc banners of victory,

At. this time the chances are good that the Allies will win in Tun. isla their greatest victory of the war next. to Stalingrad and will m ti"; or otherwise eliminate close to 200,000 German and Italian troops p wheat. lalllgltzdvllcltolriy Is at high cost it will raise the question a; en of‘ slcges all th a. Ims manpower l’ “wal I“ m” “m” "f ‘ §"°"“»**i"" o‘ Hmérlando way rom the lieiu-hcs of Dieppc or lllarscilli; t.) the ma"

Except for the British 8th farm hi i. i lines of field fortifications at El AlriliaaEvln cimdmETeAglTrl-Ila aziititlclfteﬁlrfglhonx System of pro-war forts and defences at Muretll, the western Allies h1g5: had llfaﬂicﬂlly no experience against modern belts of prcpiirf-il (ii-fume, wealzlhezsgflcjlzlﬂsli. 81h "N! Othﬁl‘ hand. have learned the strengths and science ‘T-hc (‘a l edsltizlﬁms of licfcnce evolved by liiiroprzlii military mm" Eheyyha‘: lrllraed e secrets of thc Lzccho-bloviik iicfciiec system vantages and ‘mad ti" illlllilrulllil)’ to study illzflfsf. linnd the ail- lllaglnot line of ErrarI/lileil agrlcstho’ ‘he “hnnerhmm l-"Ie In FinhmL The ‘hem’ M! e ltlareth line of Tunisia are well known to

The)’ have learned much from the Russian s-l ‘h d . _ ~- “lb cut of ilefenrv, and ‘ zidlgezrsoaizylwgislelﬂzlctrlle heretofore unsuspected resistant qualities of

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LONDON. April 19 --tMon- day) — (F?) — Britain-based bombers of the R.A.I". funk the long routi- over the Alps for tlir xt-oniltl limo in less than .1

week to lililsf targets in nort-li- ern Italy, it was announced today.

ls Honored

It remains to lvc seen what "

. . plans the AIIICs have thought u 1 _ flu -. .t - . i’ ° " halts”; astound (OIINTPIE forts and bunkers, protictcrl by bolts hf mince,

. cut‘ ics, tank traps and other obstructions,

Soviets Rep: lsekeoleﬂn NClZl Coun ter-A ttack

LONDON, April l8 —tCPJ—Ri.ls- sian troops bent off seven German counter-attacks in the northwest- erii Caucasus today and killed 1,400

“BIinfI" Voyage

Lieutenant tNursing Sister) Mary Winnifrc-d hllic. u a native of Charlottetown, P. I., received the award of tlic ltoyial Red (‘ross from thc Governor General at an in- vestiturc at Government House, Ottawa, on Friday afternoon.

Second Front Is

of the enemy to boost the Nazi month toll to 6,200 in three days, Moscow announced tonight. _ Tilt“ British submarine H.M.S.

Tile seven German countcr-at-IUT-“ilﬂ has fcacllcd her home port

LONDON. Aiirii iii -(CP Cable)

-(CP)_ Britain suffered more IlI"Il'-.\'"\' CHWWIIICS Ill iii-i", iI1f“‘l she dad a ring the armed forces during I'll‘ first ' i ' Iilf‘ isnr, Leslie Horc-Erlislvi told an ac- ciciiiilt prcvciliiuii meeting here to- nirziit

Horc-Boiislln fcrillr-r Air Minister and a onc-tii-iie minister of trans- port who ilnri ciirrge of IllTIlWfl"S. said the I1I"Ill\"\' F‘l.'-"”.I~~~% iii i942

SYDNEY, N.S., April ltl-CH-Aftcr aicurly 30 liours adrift in a rub- ber dlnghy and on a crumbling ice-cake in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, two Canadian and two Britons of thc crew of an aircraft from an Eastern , Canada. ILAJP. station were rescued by a government vessel Saturday l morning about l5 miles off the west coast of’ Cape Breton Island.

The aircraft was reported missing about 4:30 mm. Friday. while on a "routine flight." It was first sighted just b fore dusk that evening, but the rcacuc vessel was unable to reach it before morning. ,

Air Force officials gave no III-i '"“_“~“"

dication whether or not the planet was searching for another air- For Kamloops

craft from the station that has been‘ missing since April 8 with fourl Briton; aboard.

MEMBERS OF CREW

The members of the crew. lll whom suffered no lll effects from their night in the o n, are

Pilot, Sgt. J. A. eer, ILA-l. Northampton, England;

First Navigator, P0. G. N. Kllgour, R.C.A.F., Shawville. Que.

Second Navigator, P0. 0. ll. Mannie, B. C. A. It, aimmliia.

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Wireless Operator, LAC. E. A. Nash, It. A. t}, ueumtentoot, South Wales. Forced down b

TORONTO. April l8 — (CP) - John Bracken. National Pmgrcssive Conservative Leader. loft pale by train tonight for Kamloopﬁ. “here he is scheduled to arrive Tuesday midnight for a two-week tour of British Columbia.

Mr. Bracken. who had just ended a week's round of west- ern Ontiiirlo afici- having been to New Brunswick and Quebec

"Wine Imublei Province, will follow a Brl-

the lane anon ed on the Se“ tisii cciiimnla li-ln by visiting Just n sigh of land and sank in prﬂrt, eentru, “m, N,“ aomlnuteii. The titers loaded the" Scotla and Prince Edward Isl- rubber dinghy with rations and ‘m;

supplies and launched it tile plane disappeared.

PADDLE T0 ICE FLOE

They addled to a nearby ice fioe, hauled the dinghy up on the ice. A searching aircraft pass- ed in the distance but failed to see the Very light they fired. The Wireless Operator bruised about the head in the landing. but outside of that the!

escaped injury.

Their were soaked. they removed their shoes stockings, tore their into strips and wrapped about their legs and necks to provide warmth.

'l‘hey decided to try to reach the Cape Breton coast, so launched

before

i In an interview here before de- parture. he said that "1 am more proud to be a Canadian the more 1 move around this country."

The more-people came to realise , this was Canada's war, he added, “the more rsadilv they accept the sacrifices we have to make in order to win."

SINK 2i AXIS SHIPS

IDNDON. April l8 -(OPl—Brlt- lsh submarines have destroyed 21 enemy ships in the Mediterranean. exclusive oi a number of small en- emy craft, from the time oi the prt-pnrntioii of the MllreLh Line of- fensive. the Admiralty said in ii statement. tonilht- .

Five were large supply vessels and Mime were tankers.

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totalled 147,544. WIIIIO the iiriiiod SPTVICG‘ SllffoWJd T4501? risiialtirs rliiriiig tho first two years of the ivnr.

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BERNE, April is '—(AP)—A dispatch from Gibraltar to the Tribune lie Geneva tofliiy re- ported military activity lat the fortress which it said was be- lieved to be in preparation for an attack against Crete after the eventual success in Tunisia.

lt reported heavy movement of troops. materials. and war- ships, and arrival at- Gibraltar of a large number of planes. More than 25,000 troops have left Gibraltar for an unspecified destination. it added. with daily

departures both toward the Mediterranean and the At- frantic.

..Onr of the first actions ex- pected after Tlllllsha la an at- tack "to neutralise the power of the German fortress estab- lished on the Isle of Crete," the

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tacks were launched in an effort to' "n" a "Wage iiviiicii included six rcgnln an important height seized days °f "blind" travel in the Medi- by the Russians several days ago IQTTMWRH tlftcr an enemi’ dtfstfoyﬁl‘

illfllCll they renewed their attetiipt 8119mm ft\\'fl_\‘ her pei-iscope, the to oust the Germans from thi=ii-'A‘ImIT"1ii’ dlﬂfitiFﬁ-d iﬂﬂitillt. The UFFIIIII. one (if a c135; n;

lIOOIIIOId at Novorcssisk and on liic 'I‘ailian Peninsula opposite the, Cikiénea, the midnight commuillquci sa .

Increased aerial activity was gen- eral along the Russian iiont. and ‘the Russians declared their nir

SlllﬂII submarines, had its port. scope and much rif it= bridge car- TIPII 8W8)‘ by a charging destroyer soon after she reached t-llc Modi- fcrrniiean nri patrol. the Admiralty said. biit 5hr managed tn limp

‘force had the upper hum, both m homo, dvpciiciing entirely oniiisiru- ccmbat and m the renewed 10m? llllglll ford direction ivllcn she was I Siillllffflf’ .

railge raids on East Prussian ports and German air fields.

In the week ending Saturday the Russians said their iﬁrinen destroy-

izeiariveIoTsdidicrs Victims Of Hoax

HALIFAX, April i8---iCP>--re- Ii\Il\i‘S lll l-liilifiix 0f some Cull- Afiiiiii Army mail have been houxed iiito believciiig they have been killed in action, headquarters oi dromes- also dcstrovcd m‘ damaged iiiiliilirir District No 6 disclosed to- 30 more enemy planes, the roru- night. muniriue said Wiinlcii with husbands or sons on

active service have bccii VICIIIIlS of

thc lioiix. Thcv have boon telepho- Send Wheat, Flour To North Africa

uni by a person Dllflwilitltl t0 1'9- prcscilt cable or telephone com- uniiios, who tell them thc relative lifts been reported killed. "Investigation in evcrv instance has shown the message to be false," - tlio arnlv added, _ i- AllIIiOrliIPS coullgl tcsvtibo H110 AWIERS‘ Am" 15 ___(Ap1__ T)“. motive for thc vtric , 7151f?“ rom ie Antes have landed amwnxtmnwyv hiiiiﬁfltilntlit. WitS"TX‘TDCLl.IIL‘(I for 1.100.000 bushels of wheat and ilnur 5"‘ 5 I‘ T‘ "s" 9' in North Africa to meet thc food crisis caused by last year's poor crops, it was announced todnv. More shipments are on the ivny, the announcement said, adding that "while the Allies have been land- ing grain and flour for civil pon- ulation since their arrival. Axis- occupied Tunisia is being denuded of its grain stocks."

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to 103 Soviet aircraft lost, and during tocnvls operations dealt-ov- ed 25 in the Caucasus and oisziit on the approaches to Leningrad in the north

Russian smashes at German nir-

Lahor Peer Urges Early Invasion

LONDON, April l8 -(CPt- Lord Strnbolgi, labor pmr, said ttXini/t In a speech at Croydou tiiiit he oe- lievcd rt "good and lnstiiii PM“ settlement in Europe" will not be possible "unless we invade the con- tinent now, before tho people in occupied countries iinvo been riiiil- ed economically and spiritually."

"It is the tZPPZIiPSI mistake to be- lieve lllnt time RllIﬂlllIlIIPﬂIIV i5 nn our side." the Lnlirir Poor declared. "it would bc a DOIIP)’ of excessive caution. oven timiditv. tn wait iiiilil the inst building or blockhousc in lllzerto lins boon occupied before launching an nll-oiil British and American attack on western Eur- ope."

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An Ocean Front

BRISTOL, April l8 -(CP Cable) i-— Sir Stafford Cripps told an au- dience wdny in n ixai" review that “the second front is an ocean front" and that, while the subma- rine remains a great danger, ‘in the last six months the tonnage a- vailable to the United Nations has shown a very considerable expan- sion and the sinkings of U-bonts have sliowii a healthy increase."

The Lord Privy Seal cautioned that the lleFWy blows me AIIIPS have dealt. the Axis have not seri- r ouslv sapried the ciierniﬂs sirciicill.. broken his tron-gs‘ morale or de-I prived him of aiiv large monsurei of industrial strength.

INTERNATIONAL AT It GLANCE

By The Canadian Press

WESTERN FRONT -_ R. A. r. planed attack enemy convoy 0f l5 ships off Netherlands, hitting sev- eral. bomb docks at Dlcppe; Axis stages two nuisance raids on Lon- don which are turned back without damage, to thc capital.

TUNISI!\— Allied aircraft and arrt forces disable slx Axis vessels. shunt. down 38 planes in unconslug assaults on enemy cmnmuni -i rations, while 8th Army prepares fnri assault on mountain chain barrlngi way I41 Tunis and Bin-rte.

RUSSIA -- Red troops brat off srvcn counter-attacks ln iinrthtwst- ern Caucasus, killing 1.400 of enemy and bringing three-day total of Axis, dead to 6.200.

.l0IlTIIWES'I‘ PACIFIC - Aulrr- i lean heavy bormher on rrr-nnmaIs-i, iiancc hit, IfHTOﬂ-Iltn Japanese sltlﬂt ln Kavlong Ilarbor. New Ire-innit. {while other aircraft bomb alr- idrome at Kupang. Capital of Neth- i ‘.\‘I"IHI1|'IS Timer. I

To ivihFrTv-ixnshi

mast, iaving hits on sever . \ PYIQ lonvznu the lnrﬂost nix riii . and lisiiii:

fighter; raked the ships fire Then a frcsh wave piiiiiczod ir.

ship , n

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Qn Several Axis Ycsscls

Night Raid On Italy Indicated;

ee Alerts.

LONDON, April 19 —(.\lmi. davl — tCI’l— R.A.F. tiliiiica pounding at (il-rlziziii sliipgiiiig Iashcll at ziri viii-iii; f'|lll\li\' of’ l5 ships tiff ilii~ \'i-liii-ii.ii-.i~ coast and raldi-ii tlii- unit... .~f Dleppe Sunday, iihih- air iziiii warnings early today in ivosturn Switzerland lndiczitril t~liiif i . y British Bombers 'if;;iiii |iii_ it be cu route to li. v.

London, iiirziiiirlillr, IlJfI thris- alerts within l’! Itiiun. i-iii- it false alarm, and “It! ofiiii-i ii.o set off by nuisance ralili-is. tine German plane appronrlleil the city last IlI/{Ill and a small fiiri s penetrated to tlio city's nut-- skirts early txidiiy Ilﬂftlfl‘ IlUlllQ chased back. .\'o hiinilii. “tire dropped. but IJIINTIIILR llrfrnrtw‘ set up a terrific fire. Beaufighters of the ("is

While thc Spitfires i encmv aircraft, the lea til Elli’.-

with torpedoes

The Air ltiinisiry anir‘ the l titcriiiiril- vessel. \"ilS S! rt Returning pilots “certainly” weir. ir

Dispatches frriii air raid Ihnrnii . xcririiid lair . that niiivri hi. route to north:

Vr-niiira bani. -. l'b\t'il"i(I ii-n fighters attacker. “ie ri/viks in Dicppe yesterday nfwri (in. crlrty- irif.’ on the non-slop n f in which R_, P‘ lI€ITI€l‘-I)tllllI)t"T.'~ and power shi

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