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BRITISH TANKS AID

Enemy Units Are ,Wiped Oat After

Crossing Aisne

Allied Advanc-ca-(iuards With- draw All Along Somme —- Weygand’s Famous Support Points Blast (ielman Tanks.

LONDON, June 7—(CP)—British tanks were flung today Into the battle to meet the German advance south of the Somme

"live Witness," the official correspondent with the

British Ex-

peditionary Force in France, said tonight. British tanks, he said in a dispatch, gave much assistance to infantry. Several captured n detachment of German infantrymen,

iccording to one report.

Germans augmented their i

nfantry attack with motorized

machine gun units and the _P-ritish force “fighting magnificently tgainst heavy odds were obliged to withdraw their front slightly,"

he said.

The account added that German prisoners "told a story of

great hardship on their way to the front.”

The men said they

marched 30 miles a clay, arrived exliailstt-d on the Somme, and were flung itito battle the next day.

PARIS, June 7—(AP)—France's high command an-

nounced tonight that Allied

advance guards had with-

llrnwn all along‘ the Somme front, blit that German units which crossed the Aisne River easfof Soissons were “wip-

td out."

Without, counting their losses. the Germans thrust vast

masses at both ends and the

centre of the IZS-mile-long

front of the Somme and Aisne, on the third day of the

battle of France.

LINE HOLDS TIGHT

General Maxlme WeyganrPs line-commanded by him

to “hold tight to the soil of

FrunceW-yvas announced to.’

be doing just that. “with bravery."

(lcneral withdrawals of a ed. the high command said. o

their mission” of the maximum destruction

ninst charging German tanks them.

dvunce elements were order- nly iiftcr they had "fulfilled possible ag-

and infantry that follows

TANKS MEET SEARING FIRE

In the west toward the upper Bresle River. Nazi tank

ilnlls broke into the French l

ines but met a searing fire

from Wcygands famous “support points." These points, designed to snare and destroy tanks, were reported hold-

lng firm. The Nazi effort to cross

the Aisne east of Soissons-

lbout 60 milcs from Paris—appe_arcd to have brought the most violent of the day's great battles.

Escapes A

LONDON, June ’I—rCP)-Reu- ltrs Niws Agency reported tonight from Bucharest, that Sir Stafford Clllbis. new British Ambassador en roilic to Russia, escaped injury Wnlltit when a boit. of lightning struck the airplane in which he W“ fillnt: near Salouika.

Tl plzilic arrived litter a!

Bllclill l

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_ ti?! destroyed tho plane‘: lltrlal and it swung out. of cnntrnli 70F 1.000 yards, but landed safely. '

Coming Events

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h“ for. Notices in this columl it cents d,

mtNorth Pineite Institute Dance. d w‘ H811. Tuesday, June llth, in F" Rec Cross. L-370-6-8-1l.

"w° require n. usntity of Un- mod Wool. Pay I 35c per lb. c“ iefdvr Hops and vesl and grass h vet and Bo ognn Cattle. Write or

“"9 collect. 0 ver Campbell, iglllllflmn or H. MacEwen,

“lW- Iraso-o-a-zl.

‘ghoul Rock Pullets for sale. Mug: ‘oigppaly lower pETlCiIM on

n ns. P. . .00- tllersttve Chick Hatchery.

"Basilica Dramatic Guild pre- fillll-i "The Merr Minstrels" Car- kllm‘; "flit. ‘Piles iiy, June n, a:ao.

lelon as cents. L-387-0-B-2l.

“will. Gmzlglre Y.P.U. play. Picas-

enco "-i-—— ienrlnlidtetiii? :"§tit'il'°m°§l$i’§§iil3§“ 3i

‘l! Battle of the B Ii-508-5-25-g-yil-e-I5-22-2il-61.

Cake Sale B A. MDonaltrs ‘m’ Why 2.30 daylight heaving. L~380-6-B~ll.

enm social at Clinton. June 10th. If not tine L-Slb-d-B-II.

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Hall- Wwflfldfly. June stuns drove 14-335

The oldest.

An artillery bombardment ushered it in, but those Nazis who bridged the river did so only to die on the left blink.

NIGHT ATTACK The centre of the front

was no less ablaze. There. a Will‘ ministry spokesman un-

tnounced, the Germans were

ititnckinlz heavily tonight. with tanks and new waves of infanirymen.

The centre blow was sprung from the Oise Val- ley. north of Soissons, an old battleground.

"tESiIHiTTQFEi-‘Fi

War- 25 Years Ago Today

(By The Canadian Prcll)

JUNE 8. lino-French held 8111M ni. Nouvllle St Vaash and sd- vanced in "the Labyrinth." Ital-

l i M fl .e. Wzlllam 1144-54061 Jana occuped cn acor

Bryan resigned as United States secretary of State in dis- agreement wlth President. W.lson's policy towards Germany.

JUNE. 9 lilltl-It-alans launched successful attack nit Gonzo. Rus- encmy forces back acmss the Dnoistcr River. British roportcd sinking of German sub- mnrzne and capture of crew.

PUFFING BlLLII-IR

HEXHAM, Australia -~(CPi — working locomotive

iii Ailstralia- which startled

career in 1856 —is now a tank en-

gine here. The Commonwealth's oldest. engine brought here in l8-

55, is in s Sydney museum.

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“WE'LL WIN m THE AIR

Air Marshal W. A. “Bllly" Bishop Inspected and addressed more than 300 embryo pilots, alr gunners and air observers. members of the sec- ondclass trztinlngat No..l Initial Training School at. Toronto. "Wc‘l| win the war." he told them, "and we'll win lt In tho air."

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_O'I‘TAWA, June 7.—\CP)~'I‘rudi- tioi.ally' British in military aircraft, Canada will now be thrown by ti war emergency il;to the orbit United States military aviation, it was reported authoritatively here tonight.

Britain needs every aircraft and every eiignc its busy factories can turn out to throw flgnlllsi, the Ger- man superiority of numbers ln the air over the war front. The result. ls that. Canada has not only liad to

‘divert. overseas all nlachiliesdt can the necessity of.

spare. but faces 4 for the planes Brllnm was to supply for the Brit- ish commonwealth air training p‘an

and for Canadian sci-vice squan- IONS. The government has informed

parliament of hastened delivery of planes and personnel to the British authorities. and has assured mom- bers that nir policy is being rapidly re-shaped i0 meet the emergency thus arising domestically.

Ministers have intimated that Canadian air fighters may do into action with swift United Slams Jlahllliiz vilalics and bomber; istsnd of British service

in-

two American types, the

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Women's llome =Guard Formed In Montreal

MONTREAL. June 7--(UPi—-l!‘.s- tnbllshment of a women's auxiliary force home guard. with uniforms, officers. rifle practice and all the trlmniinizs, was announced today by the Westmount. Women's Club. of neighboring Wcstniouut.

Club officins said the plan had been approved bv Prime Minister Mackenzie Kind and military auth- orities hcre and that stops already have been tnken to enlist. the sup- port. and cooperation of all wo- men's orgaiiimtlons lil Moiiliwil.

‘Fhev said they had been iiiform- ed by military officials that the clubs would be permitted to form platoons and companies, wool‘ lini- tonne with nlllilnrv buttons and badges and appoint. officers.

Esin-blislmlenf, of U"! with“. patterned after the system in op- oration in Britain anti Franco. We: undertaken bv the Will‘ works coili- mittee of the club. Earlier this week, the club sent, to Prime Min- lgter King n. resolution nskllu! that. the Govcrinuent nvail itself of the services of "liuntln-th: of healthy. Bllllt‘ilt' \\(-lll-'ll Iii hllllllkiil" l" purposes of home tltlt-ncc.

In return. tliev Yvttlvtd "m" the Prime ltflilistci- a letter in which he py-pTCSSfll approval of their suggestions.

For Planes to Train.

typos. , lTruliiiili; DlllPCS are also liccrlcd ant" Ilnivaitll

1 W88 Nlllfnfid ll, Ill inquest. today.

New Friends For Allies If New

Enemies Oppose

Premier King Speaks To Nation -- Says ‘Canadai Ready For Responsibilities.

OTTAWA, June 7—(CP)—New friends will support, the Allied cause if new enemies oppose it, Prime Minister Mackenzie Kin; said tonight in an address broadcast over the national network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"From the harbor of Dunkerque and from the Mtadel of Calais," he said, "the bravest men in the world battled their way_ home to fight once egaln for liberty and goodness and mercy.

"To the making of Canada. have come the same chivalry of France Ind tho same gallantry of Brlteln which fashioned the glory of that triumph of heroism.

"I speak the heart and mind of our country when I say that every fort. in Canada will be another Calais and every harbor another Dun- kerquo before the men and women of our land allow the light. and the llfo of their Christian faith to be exflnlulshod by the powers of evil or yield their liberties to the tyranny of Nazi brutallt "

Replying to Winston Churchill's challenge Lo the new world w carry on the tight. should Britain and France sutlm‘ reverses Mr King said the notion would oept lTs new responsibility.

Hitherto, he said ail-tentlon was centred on Germany as the sole enomyn The coming phase of bhe war would witness ciperaitilons in entirely new theatres and be mark- ed by conflict. between bottom WllZClI had so far avoided hostili- U05.

Warns Against Repeating Nazi Propaganda

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Significance Realized OTTAWA’ June 7_ __ ‘m,’ __

Every time a Liiinzull-"tu repeats gossip from German radio broad- casts ho is marching with Hit.- ler's fifth column against. hi!

These dangers should not unduly alarm as the perlLs of the present had brought a new Ite-allzititron of lilo Il-fllllfle ofqthe conflict to all mm country‘ no man“. how Imp ICttWIXWI) k 2e dads when dc- 1y he may “my u, the omen n; 1121b; “Y M‘ “ “NS-g” t “M the Director of Public Inform- " _, ' n t‘ i; - t1 tiduy. l ii now ciicni es oppose us, he a llilllhglxzfg; mile you quote “w.

said. "we may be sure that old and Gonna“ mm“ s‘, m,“ g1". Nun now ll‘l(‘vi‘lf‘s" \\'!ll arise to help us‘. Se“ up to (hi: Royul Cunuiliuii uolluwde significance of the Managed fnucc__younrea4 m“,

I The 't‘ | b is being ITZIIXZGG ln e/very ¢o|umni5gy a snncmmg “up

Such gossip plays right into the hands of lropugniltln. Min- lstcr Goebbels, it continued. ""l‘hai.’s his job-to make you believe what he says so ou will worry yourself and I Y"!!! friend: about it. IIe knows that you want to be able to rogalc all and sundry with a. war secret. He. hopes you will repeat had news. he confidently trusts that you will grow lmptirtuualc."

lie-telling of what. comes over the German rndln illstoris and adds in the GoebbePs falsflhiml! until the embellishments would glnddcn the heart of any Ger- man propagaitdlsi, it was point- ed out. Machines mike down on wax cylinders every word that crosses the Atlantic from the German radio stations vct wild rumors have circulated through- out (‘anndm crediting the Ger- man radio with things that were nevi-r said.

A report that the German broadcast mtnounecd torpedo- lug of .1 lroopship oi‘ the Firs-i Division nl‘ thi- Canadian Active Service Force was carefully irlirkctl down. but nobody coilltl

You know how earnestly and vig- .oi"oilsl_v the Presldem. of the Unl- l crl States has spoken in the name ‘cf human-toy. There hiss been mob- ‘lllZfll in the cause of freedom, the ‘conscience of the civilized world land tyranny will long remember ‘the power of that conscience and i llie final off-rot of the vircrldls con- tloimiatlon upon lilo forces of evil."

Greatest of all Battles

The greatest of all bat-tics was now bomig ivnged ivlohln 70 miles ot Parts art-d on its outcome might ,tlci:tiitl the future of Frnilce. This was the latest of a series of crises’ anti perils hooped

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ilirabic Paper Says Italy Made

, ho found who actually hcnrd the Gcrnmn announcer maki- such a clnlm. Somt-body- ul- ivlrvs "lrvird ll. from n chap who -__-_; heard If."

ALEXANDRIA Egypy,’ June 7_ __ Other rumors hati ll ihfli iht- fOPl~Tlie Arabic newspaper Al Gfrma" Pflfll" "Rlllmly "h- Bussli‘ Sllld today Italy ins pi-o- "omit"! deimillre of trnonshins mist-d Egypt. that. her frontiers "m" (‘IIIi-‘idfl- The cylinder rc-

t-nrrllnrrs do not bom- out

lh t llnlsehood. a

would be respected if Italy joins Germany avaiiist the Allies. Pre- mier Mussolni has given Egy tlan Premier Aly Muller Pasha rcsh assurances, the newspaper said, that Italy would not. attack Etlvpt. Commenting editorially. Al Bassll’ observed that Egypt's preparations have been ])\ll‘t‘.v defensive, and

Germans 0n zi.".'.."°..".l.'ls.-il“°l;;c;.2cl“‘.r it; l-Eflll NEWS

Egyptian parliament. _ Beverley Baxter

Named To Post

LONDON. June 7 -(CP) -Lord Beaverbrook, minister of Aircraft production. today announced that. Bcvcrley Baxter. M. P., has been appointed to control factory co- operation at. works engaged on the manufacture of aircraft. air en- gines and their component parts.

BERLIN. June 7-(APb-Ger- mans at homo were kept, on a

the battle line.

The hlgl-i command, claiming only "progress on schedule", ac- knowledged it. was meeting “stiff resistance" from heavier a.rms than had been expected.

The populace waited at. radio: for bulletins that, mlzht loll the speed of the march l(l\\f\l‘fl Paris. But. no detnllcd bulletins were is~

Mr. Baxter. a native of Toronto sited. sits in Parliament as a Conserva- Accuslont- to lirapiilc, drltilcd tive. representing Wood Green, commurtqn tiuriiu; til» sweep

Mlddlcsex. He served with the Can- adian Engineers in the inst war and was later Managing Editor of lord Benverbrookh pally Express. DIED ACCIDENTALLY

EDMUNDBTON, N.B., Jlilie '1.- (0P)—-A verdict that. six int-u dit-tl accidentally as a result of d wood conveyor collapsing Monday at the Fraser companies pulp mill here,

had to content themselves with a few terse announcements which made no claims of towns taken.

High army sources disclosed that Franco's- swlflly-tlevia-tl tit-fenci- systeili made the ifullwj hitrtl nut! cave the Reich's blitzkrieg unit-litm- d "real problem."

The French were not

caught

IOUPCCI

cliisiiiuciioii l Nazi 0F 300 TANKS,’

Order Placed With In- structions to “Pro- ceed Immediately.”

UITAWA, June ‘I —fC'P) -—Con-

Lends Weight

NFlW YORK, June 7 —(AP\ -—_ {idly ordered her merchant. fleet. of almos‘ lsoo tliill‘ h" the 5PM today » and films not only indicat- t ed her proximity to war but dealt. another blow to the already war- shocked world trade. ,

The immediate effect of the slid- dcn order, disclosed here by the ‘Italian line. was the disruption oi’

Oaiiada tomorrow, the director of pubic information announced to-‘ niuht- on behalf of Munitions l\iln~

"The acceptance of an offer by ‘the Canadian llovernment. to build

tanks of a tvpt~ now 1n use was I n l trxlav and an ordcr for 300 of these l a y s Ilhi was plncotl."

Instructions to proceed immedHBl T T d 151913‘ With the work were issuedl 0 e l Afunltinris and Supply and the as-

‘s malv of the material and equip- men. boolns lomorrow." l yilfllfllPClllPlli. at the conclusion of a l lYIIPPllIlH at which tho whole tank islfiirttion in Canada was discussed, lfleers or the Department of Mun- litlons and Siipnly, the British Slip- piv Ron l. rind representatives of

struction of 300 tanks will start in I ls'cr flown. chilled by the British covernmenti lbv Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister or .\ll'. Howe dulliorivctl llli‘ an. i Present at the mcetlniz were 0L .Clit'irli.'iti _ I ‘ is who attended lUiiiietl States trade with the Ital- ,

"'I'he lthis mo“ r-ssed their con- lan cliipire. Italy had placed large

vlction iliu‘ c. .e manv riifficul- orders for American Q0063 BT14 tics lnvoiveil tanks. of even the Zships in manv United States ports l lmos‘ mi‘>(l“l‘ll tcoe, could l» pm- lit-ere being: loaded hurriedly in an i ,tltiord in Canada," said the state- ‘effort, to not them away before mciit. indlv took any war action.

“At-rorrilnelv a cable was (Hg-l Limiting ‘was llill't"(l. Ivfoiloiaolio. patched to G. S. Ihlssell of the Cziiititlirln Pacific Rnllwayr. who had cv, notified calmer companies M“?! Whi- io ‘Finvlaiiti some months lsilspentl fill‘l.l"r‘l’ shipments ilrltil alto to smilre information on and further notice. A recent $5000.00!) nfaiis of the llfzirk [II Valentine purchase of American scrap metal m" " no: left. llflflfilllk’. Cotton shipments

_ were stopfifitl.

| M; Asked by the Associated Press if the order meant war, Italo Ver- l rando. New York manager of the; Italian line. replied:-

"I don‘ know, but it looks like i...

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Possible U. S. lMass Production 30f Warplanes

Italy's major liners - the Rex. , Ctmto Di Fnvnin. Rollin, Aucustus. l Saturnin and Viflcania --wcrt- safe at homo when totlayfls order went-j out, TPO (Tonto Biancamino was held at. Balboa ln the canal "zone and other prtssencer ships were in South American ports. All those away from borne were directed

FRENCH

an Italian mclal purchasing ageiz- . O l

,burst.s Ofgun

Warpldnes Raid For Third‘

Slllllls llllllllSuccessive Night

Damage Believe-id Slight — One Plane 'Crashes———R. A. F.

To French

Resistance On Somme Front.

LONDON, June S-(Sat- "Fdflfi-(CP) ~German air raiders, in the third succes~ sive night of attacks on Ellgland, roared over eight counties late last night, one circling low to machine-gun the houses of a southeast. l")?! town and another crashing in east Suffolk.

The ministry of home sic- i-‘llfll!’ announced: “'I‘\vo of the bombers crew were kill. ed and one injured. One house was badly damaged, and slight damaire was mud. ed to other buildings. No civilian casualties have been

reported.”

Th‘? milflllfie- E ii n n i ‘ii if ‘plane which struck at the iunidentlfled was! 1n ‘y n

ldrfihpetl no bombs. but cir-

cled

repeatedly close to

earth. Residents escaped in. J5

11117 by huddling for

minutes In shelters.

The alarms were in Cillllbflt Norfolk. minor. Suffolk, Kent, n.»- umberlarid. Durham and Y

In one southeast wast m roar of planes overhead,

Buélorlllgzi bomber. crashed in E35! TTPL-Plefl?‘ Mil-slit’ “he soviet-

lcan diet. of war news tonight, from I P" ‘ i

across the, Low Countries, Germans ;

napping by the drive south. Nari tiled.

l WASHINGTON. J1me 7—(AP)— President. Roosevelt today ep- pluuded a. newspaper editorial do- inaiulliig compulsory p draining for the United States. whip. 1J5 itltles joined with l-Ierlry l Ford 111 d, preliminary move to- ivlirtl ilossible mass production of‘ warplanes on a gigantic scale. In addition, Mr. Roosevelt lak- led Congress for specific authority to turn old United states army gulls back to manufsctiuen, a pro- cedure expected to place tile-m quickly. if indirectly, in the hands or tlit- J\lll(‘S. Fifty nev-y planes are dlrezltlv following such l. route b0

the Allies.

, lllgziilv placed persons Bid 1.0- nigh‘. that the ndnllniatretion lplilllq‘ to iclcase. till told. more than i500 ariuv and nay-v planes. These llvOllltl include army attack bomb- lcrs, vllritwus other models, and the 550 navy planes already disposed of.

§Say Situation Good

LONDON. June 'i~fOP)—-'I\le gt-zioral llllllllllT situation in the billiiilf“ oi FFHIIOO ls good. but too great opt-truism ls ulivxairrantod be- cause n. is not yet. certain chat t-hc (“mrililiiii have launched their lllilill nit-ark, an authorized British

s1‘ R‘ main mid tonight. . l7'l\'(\ retisolis wlly the Fmnco- , .lil‘l'.lsll forces not’ hi‘? llllliltlililt

}w.th l)("-l(‘l‘ hope of succes overt-I

ilisted i~._ ihc siiokcsiunn as:— , 1 l. Li-si i":t.l Weytraildis hastily- lIliflXlllgPtl, silpple di-tmcc line is ‘illliilllciv KiPPPOI‘ than nriyt-liiiil:

.llll‘.ll1 iictl hciclolorc."

2. ‘this Linc l-hc- Allied Army's

lmoveniciits arc not hampered oTi levory hand, as they wereiilthc "nit-rs battle by floods of re- ('5. i . in this bit-title the German dunks \\'lllt'll iilnilliuc to pt'iif"i‘utc to fltl\'.lllt‘f'(l fioiiils liiitl no stocks of ifilsflilllt" and oil with which to incl their lllil"lllll<‘S as they (‘llCl ill tlimr Flanrtirs advance.

4. llr-tli lTlc Pl'i‘ll(‘ll and the Bri-

,tv.\li have loullti tho (lcvnlali nil- mcn arc l. - iaiuu to lose flier inorvc. 'l'li.". rt» many indent-ions illia! Illlli N m tart-its. sue-h as ill\l‘ l» llll)‘.l ._ btuliiiliip! to (‘lull tho (‘wrmau .lllllll‘l. Thr- pros- pcct of indefinitely oontintiiiig hat lielWe-slialitrriilg kind 0i

Jvnriuvt‘ is lizivlniz its grey-etiological (‘ll ‘ ‘ .