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, ZLNADMNS CAPTURE * PCRT 0F BRESKENS

By ALAN RANDAL V WITH THE CANADIANS BRFJSKENS, Oct. 22 — (CP Cable) -Eastern Ontario

ll. Z. Tankmen- Advance In Italy

ded hinge formidable second defence fin theltichellde pocket s}. noon to.

WW tecaureoth r of Breskens. p e pot

The fall of Breskcns came only after hard and bitter infantry fighting. Last night the streets of this shattered town echoed to the noise of smalLarms fire as patrols clashed in the streets.

From daybreak on a bloody c1ose_range battle raged, but by noon this port near the northern apex of the Schelde pocket tri. angle was cleared of the enemy and the Breskens operation was complete, brought to a conclusion by harrhbltten. allant Canadians who have been fghting night and day in the rain and cold for near. 1y two weeks.

Not one house in Breskens today is habitable. Acres and acres of what used to be Breskens is just a shambles-Just bricks and tim. ber in a conglomerate mass and over it all the stench of the dead intermingled with the stale smell of things that have burned.

This was not the work of the infantry who took the to\vn. This was thc work of the heavy bomb. bers and medium bombers and artillery of all calibres which plastered Breskens with every. thing they had and finally left it to the infantry to silence the great number of Germans guns that have provcd so bothersome all through the march along the r1 estuary to this Schelde pocket. The assault by Ontario infantry under the command of a Lieut- enanLColonel from Ottawa stands out as a gem of fighting in tho Schelde.

These troops closed in on Bros. kens dike by dike, cleared the outer defences and a flooded anti. tank ditch to enter the port pro. per.

But in the capture of Breskens they had only the shell of a town Not since Caen-and that is said on the authority of fighting men xvho saw’ that shattered bastion— has there been suotrdevastation las appears at Breskcns.

40MB, oct 32 - (AP) -Brlt- uh tanks manned by New Zealan- dus have speared seven miles into mere Valley north of Cesena in [nuwhlle other 8th Army troops up; boats and bicycles in pursuit We retreating Germans on thc mmpy Adriatic coast sector arc |ppf0iiChing Cei-vla. six miles north or captured Cesanatico, Allied Headquarters announced today. Th, Adriatic coastal town of Ce- "m;1¢o_ 1g miles southwest; of liiivenna. was taken Saturday byi Canadian troop!-

Britisli Troops Land 0n island 0f Lemnos

HOME. Oct 22 -— (A P) —Th9 British broom sweeping the Ger- mans on, of the Aegean has rea- ched tlie northern extremity with a landing on the strategic island of Lcmnos guarding the entrance to tli~ Do anellrs. A Royal Navy communique an- tho capture of the port cl Mini in the south w t of the lslaiid nitor a fierce 30 . battle. Four hundred prisoners were “m, m? communique said.

Tilt‘ ROVM NRVY communique rairi Br i§il forces landed nn Th0 vcs roast of Lcmncs at diwn on 0c! l6 and after street fighting in the town captured Mudros at 1 P. Ii. Oct 17.

Minesweeper Exceeds Quota

| OTTAWA, Oct. 22 _. 1c?) —' The mincsweeper Red Deer has become one of the first ships of the Newfoundland Command of the Royal Canadian Navy to ex. ceed its objective in the Seventh Victory Loamwversubscribiug the $3,000 quota within an hour, Naval Service Headquarters announced tonight.

Canadian Cruiser ls Commissioned

A UNITED STATES NAVY YARD, Oct. 22 - tOPl —Ciinada's fasngrowing navv received a potent xicw addition Saturday. the 8.000. toir cruiser Uganda. transferred by the Royal aavv after gallant war service. I First of two cruisers to b: added to Canada's naval strength. the

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infantrymen shattered the concrete gumstud. of Von Rundstclcilt": ne

volt and Prime Minister Churchill tish action with the current forces In the Pacific.

Two developments during the

tion with the Japanese Nov! WM

waters will have a salutary effect

plement this strategy.

War SilUéliZi0i1*i..6iSTl Night

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By ELTON C. FAY, Associated Press War Analyst

It now appears clear that the Quebec Conference of P elidant Boon.

included plans for synchronizing Bri

offensive: of American military and naval

weekend point this up.

In Britain. A. V. Alexander. First Lord of the Admiralty, said that n part of a vast British fleet capable In itself of fighting a general ac.

nu its way to the Pacific. (The la

panels radio reported that four aircraft carriers and 10 battleships of the British Eastern Fleet were on the move from the Indian Ocean.) M

In the Bay of Bengal, Eastern Fleet units struck the Nicobar In. r- lands groups where the Japanese took over soon after the conquest of Malaya. This was the latest in a series of forays made by British task forces in the east. Missions have been launched against the Japanese in Sumatra, Java. and in the Andamaus.

Even if the intention is not an immediate. actual union of British and American naval strength in the Pacific» theatre the movement of the British fleet toward the Pacific and its activity in Indian Ocean

on thc Japanese.

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... ..'.'..:“.=..’.r'r.:':::. rrsznsii. .'::.:;.:¢: a b. to lid their naval forces in tho Phllippiuesjormosa area it is to hoi presumed the British action will discourage them.

Gen. MacArthur, upon his arrival at Laytc. said that the ultimate strategic objective of the Philippines campaign was to cut off all Ja. Pflfltlfl forccs to the south. The British activity certainly should im.

U. S. Troops

Crtish Feature Canuck Army News

. TORONTO, Oct. 22 - (CP) — Canadian operations in Belgium and Holland are being promin. ently reported in British news- papers, Gillis Purcell. asistant general manager of The Canadian Press. said today on his return from a twonvcek visit to Britain and the Canadian front. Although Canadian troops com. prised only about one.ha1f the 1st Canadian Army, whose task was to open up the valuable port of Antwerp and to liberate south. ern Holland, the British press was

giving the Dominion almost full credit for the Job.

Aside from the Canadians’ eroically dogged fight

for the Schelde Estuary. Jvli". Purcell cit- ed three reasons for the neivspbyu First was excellent facilities from Canadian headquarters to London The oth. ers were the number of British and American war correspond. euts covering the Canadians and the fact that dispatches of the Canadian Press wir correspond. ents in the area were distributed in Britain by both Reuters and‘

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another milestone in the growth

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"Chicken Supper, St. Mar. lflrelfs Hall, Monday, October 33rd. lil-ILIBJIJS

ings and suplJort/Ld the landing at Salerno. Italy. where she was dam. aged bv enemy aircraft.

A ship of the Mauritius class. she is i340 feet long, mounts 12 six.lnch ,guns. eight founinch autLalrcraft Runs. 16 smaller guns and has three aircraft with 011e, catapult.

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H.R.'I‘. Grant. R.C.N., presenting naval

service head.

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‘$911019?! 51100“! fl-nd DQMQ- Admiral glues James. U.S com. "m" River 51111- WCdIWSdW-V- mandant of the sixth naval district. °°l°bsr 25th. Supper served at ‘6 B61051! ithe commissioning cere. P M- 10-23-31- monv Mr. McCarthy presented , i- these awards: D.S M. stoker mt- ‘High Tea. Bazaar. Elmo. tv officer A.W Powell. Halifax: Dance. St James Church. Town mm, nnplfe 01mm, c; o, w, hnlmeoraetown. Wedflt-‘sday. Oct. , Morrow. Hsifax: mention 1n 3m‘- “ 1 - - - dispatches; leading s nnlman. B. n i . Roll sworta, treal. petty Alexandra Women's Institute officer D. Moflre. St. H ac the.

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the Associated Press.

Churchill ls 5m

LONDON. Oct. 22 — (CP) —‘ Prime Minister Churchill return. ed to London today by air from his conferences in Moscow with Marshal Stalin.

Mr. Churchill was met at the airfield by Mrs. Churchill, Lorri Swinton. Marshal of the . Air Chief Marshal Sir Charlrs Portal. Chief of Air Staff and Air Vice Marshal Collier. Deputy Air Officer in Chief. The Prime Min. ister wore the uniform of an air commodore and looked fit and

Mr. Churchill's conversations with Marshal Stalin lasted from Oct. 9 to 18. He left Moscow bv air Oct. 1

9.

The Prime Minister is expected to make a statement to the House of Commons this week on his Moscow talks.

Army's wealthiest Man Is Killed

LONDON, Oct.

22 -—— (OP) —-

Major lord Davis Davies, 39. re- h

putedly the wealthiest man In the British Army, has been killed in ac- tion with the Royal Welsh Fusil- lers, i; was announced today. Lord Davies previously had been re- ported missing in action when he wag taken prisoner Aug. 16. but he persuaded his German ca tor, to surrender instead. His fat r. the late Baron of Llandinam. contrib- uted $8,000,000 to charit’es.

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CANADA, MONDAY, ooro

Will oiiiiiriii Giant Air Base For 99 Years

By FRANK FLAIIERTY

UITAWA. Oct 22 — (CP) - Canada has obtained a 99..vear lease for defence purposes of the site of - the giant $25,000,000 Goose Bay

air base in Labrador. Prime Min. ister King announced tonight King madc public thc.- tex of an agncment betwccn C ..i and Newfoundland which for- malizes an understanding rccicnecl in 1941 at the time the air base was built to permit the transport of air. craft manufactured in North Am. erlca to the fighting areas ovcr. seas.

Tho agreement leaves the aucstion of the postwar use of the base for civilian or commercial traffic to be

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Canada, Newfoundland and the United Kingdom within 12 months after the end of hostilities.

0f PosLWar Importance

By reason of its location and fac. iiities. the base 1s considered likely to be a pivotal point in internation. al air transport after thc war and also 1n any chain of air services set up to link the parts of thp Brl tlsh common-wealth. thepossibilitie of which will be txoiored at thc commonwealth air talks opening in Montreal tomorrow

The agretment was signed _ _____ air Wiiltiridtulylgioodls. Nconrmlssioner . v‘ l‘ ‘D C , j BY MURMN SPEPCm ahdp Jo.“ lviafigorilaldew ~ GEN- MeCARTHURS HEAD- hlgh commissioner in Nowfourid- QUARTERS, Philippines, Oct. lam-L i ~1M0H<1flY> — (AP) - United In explanation of the agreement. States troops were enlarging their M1" K1,“; issued a stagsmm; 5am hold on Leyte Island's eastern mg, in pin-cg...

coastal region in the

small towns.

ericans beat off panese countenattacks and seiz ed Dulog town, an

drome. ,\vard San Pablo, seven miles west D

lot EEIICRXIS took Tacloban, the

Quebec Potato Crop Leads Canada

transmission ’

; QUEBEC. Oct. 22 _ (OP) - Quebec this vear will supply 303 170i‘ cent cf the uzareuato. potato crop in Canada and will lead all o. the!‘ DTOVIIICCS. it was announced tonight bv officials of the provincial department Di’ agriculture.

The provincial crop ls estimatr d this vcor at 23.928000 bushels or an increase of 5.200.030 bushels over 19-13, The 19-14 yield oer arzrc is 142 ...s compared to 112 bushels mar.

Better weather conditions and an

c“ i-ho cultivated arra were

l1 lals as reasons for thc

Allied invaders Were Near Disaster

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUAR- TERS. PARIS. Oct. 22 — (AP) - Gen. Elseuhovvefls historic decis- ion to go ahead with the invasion of Normandy on June 6 dcspiie risky weather may have saved the \vhole Allied assault from a disaster as stark as that which wrecked the Spanish Armada in 1588 in the some treacherous Channel, it was dis- closed officlally today.

the operation had been delayed

beyond June 6 to take advantagzslpoil from frost damage

of proper tide conditions, ii, probab- 1y would have been launched in calm water on the night of June 17-18, and m'ght have been swam- ped by a 700 to 1 chance gale which broke over the Channel at dawn June 18.

As it was. high Allied officers who directed and carried out the stu ndous task of building two art fic'.al ports in England and transporting them to Normandy’! beaches told correspondents hero the; the gale created widespread

Central Philippines today after their oc. cupation of two airfields, the pro. vincial capital and a number of

I- On the southern front the Am- two strong Ja.

important road Junction, and its nearby air- They pressed inland to.

H. On the northern front the Am. is.

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No Ban n Table

BER 23, 1944

‘150000 workers set out to obtain

mini. $4.00; ma» Provinces s u.s.A. ssco. Subscription Delivered. 85.00.

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NEWGAINS 1N WEST

Canucic, riiish, U- . Forces OrLTi-ie Move

LONDON, Oct. 22 — (Ci?) -- Powerful 1st Canadian Army forces drove for-

ward in the inky darkness before dawn today to seize a German bastion of Esschen, 16 miles north of Antwerp, and put a giant squeeze on southwestern Holland in con- cert with a surprise offensive by British 2nd Army troops which carried to within less than four miles of the Germans’ key Dutch city of ‘S-l-iertogenboscli.

Other Canadian forces captured the stronghold of Breskeus in the pocket south of the Schelde, thus racking up a double triumph for Lt.-Gen. Crerar’s men in thc fight to open Ant\verp’s port as a fioodgate for Allied supplies.

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U.S. 3rd Army meanwhile broke forward in c. push cost of Nancy. in France, advancing two

‘ miles in the sector south of enemy

‘defences inundated by the bursu

Seven th Vict - m, - tin’ _of a dam by air assault. W421i! Set New Records ..§%.i:“‘%l:rt..‘?°“i‘i..°‘ Al;

fsouth of Roosendaal on the Ant. werp road. after a night attack. This victory. csppung a brilliant 11.miie advance. bolstered the Al. lied grip on the narrow cause. way to the west loading to Schelde Estuar islands, where German guns ony Allied ships a sea lane to Antwerp.

Forty miles to the east. the British offensive sliced 2 1.2 miles

150.000 \Vor1.'ers Begin Huge Effort Today; Mr. Graham F. Towers Sounds Challenge.

CYITAWA, OCt. 22 - VOPJ-Thd

‘£33225.”t§‘€ii€..§°"i°“¥li. National Film“ Board O

Victory Loan — will be thioivn in toward ‘Sllertogcnbosch, main high gciir tomorrow as a force of escape route for iill" Gifffrrllh‘ fighting desperatcly to hold the

Victory Bond applications for l minimum of $300,000,000.

Greater by $100,000 000 than in the sixth Victory Loan, the over. all minimum objective has been set at $500,000,000 for individuals including scrvh-r personnel in Can.

southwestern Dutch coast. It was a doublmheaded push springing -from the west flank of the deep British salient into Holland near Nijmegen. -

The German "blockade" pocket south of the Scheldc Estuary was

FREDERICTON, Oct 22 —- (OP) -Phlllp John Kerwin 21, of 0t. tawa, was killed instantly Satur. day night when a. small truck

. . .7 ,000,000 for “s ec. left the road between Geary and fast dwindling. The Canadians- ikrillaiiglilixiiisfil"! category is chm. Petersville and turned over in Eastern Ontario's men - shatter. posed of business and industrial the ditch. Ernest Reid. Ottawa- ed the concrete. fllill-Slliddflfi de. organizations, insurance com. and Pte. Wilfrid J._ McGraw. suf- fences in the ferry port of Bles- panies. prnsion funds, unions, rail. ferlnil S1131". injuries and shock. kens in fierce C1O5.‘.QUL!l'tC1‘4 i.-.- . way and other brotherhcods, pro. were taken to hospital. where ing and swept on a illili-llilir fa

vincial anti municipal governments and w iithy individuals §0T1lb1fi mnlgm- 6mm -

me m; lczin c: ed with more Kerwin. a son of Mr. Justice Fighting of growing intensity than 31171000 milvini-ni appllcanlPatrick Kerwin, Ottawa, was pro. ‘raged along the Belgian . Nether- 1...“ m, gl_ii_g1_r)r)'_iv(lgg_ This bygughi; duction assistant of a National lands tron-t from above Antwerp Canada-s f, '11 Term-d in two Film Board unit engaged in Vic- near SJ-lertogenbosch, The .3.“ k, - "lyiorv 1mm to tory Loan work. Reid is a dlrec. British westward push was dos.

the!‘ into the old fort Frederik: In a

their condition was reported fav.

a..' \ " from

‘Stock Exports To ll. S. From Here

Mr E W. Nicholson. head nf the!

Wartime Prices and Trade Board‘ -Char1ottetown. stated last rusty‘ that he knrw nothing of 3it'1'.’.'£l'.‘;,‘ reported restrictions on Nnw BflilLl swick’; shipplnc table strck to the U S Mr. Nicholson said he could inot understand the rcrorted ha; |and had received no . with reference to . shipments of potatoes On thi- co"; i trary. Mr Nicholson said. ho had reasons for believing that in 1i near future export permits w.. be lsranted from Charlottetown thi. lrcmovlng the dcisv which Island potato shippers had expert-nerd ii‘ the past by being forced to zir‘,:l~ at Ottawa foi- export prrmits.

. Explains Situation

lie Export Permits i For il.B. Table Tuliers

1 f P) —- C Sullivan, New Bruus-_ wick prices and supply represen- tative for thc Prices HDlilTi, s r1 tonight that permits for c of table potatoes from New Bru . to the United States would on granted in cases where evidence ‘ogda serious storage shortage exis-

t i

, Bieferring to reports that refusal itlif suol; pertmits threatened 2 heavy '1 08s o p0 aces by frost annge,

Mr. Sullivan said New Brunswicki had been treated fairly in the illfiifiti ter and Price Board offic' 1 a ‘ Ottawa had iriven assurances that‘ ‘potatoes would no: be allowed fol lack of export permits throughi 1M???“ AjCA rayllor,‘ Provincial!

n r c 8r cu ure, express

oPinion that "with the representa- ions made by myself, my densit- i“..°.“‘,',.;t2"°§.“,.,§.“,°l ‘.’.‘.’.‘§§...‘é‘.“’t‘.’ii'i‘ be taken to look after the situat- ion that has developed.” Mr. Taylor - had just returned from Ottawa. |