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10 THE OTTAWA JOURNAL, Tdiners rear For Arctic Stations With Supplies Lost More than a score of Arctic Circle stations are faced with a Winter of stern hardshfo and de privation as the result of the loss of the mission ship Francoise Marie Therese which foundered August 13, it was learned today. There were no casualties and survivors included Roman Catholic missionaries, the crew and eight Eskimos. Reports reaching members of the Oblate Order, sponsors of the ship and Arctic the vessel piled on a reef in fog and urub itc sguuicasi vi ouisuury Island at theHudson Bay end of Hudson Strait An Oblate father said only 10 percent, of the 200-ton cargo-of food and other supplies had been delivered on' the voyage which started in Montreal July 26.. She was scheduled to visit 33 missionaries scattered around the Hudson area. The supplies at the stations will be about exhausted and the fathers will suffer real hardship and deprivation this he said.

They will be able to keep alive, however, by hunting and fishing wit hthe Eskimos and living on a diet of walrus and seal meat. He added that the priests were not unfamiliar with these enforced harships, most of them at one time or another had endured them when pack ice forced supply ships to turn back. "The greatest is the loss of our goodrship', the father aaaea. sne nas aonc great worn during the last seven years and I don't know how we can carry on without a replacement." Among survivors of the sinking were bearded and stocky XJ 1311 Op iidtlUlA vstiana, and St Hyacinthe, present vicar apostolic of Hudson Bay; Rev, Emmanuel Duplin who; has been in the Arctic for 26 years; Rev. Rene Belaire, Rev.

Richard Ferron and. Cant Antoine Four- nier, veteran Quebec skipper. A transport department list said the priests' the exception of Father Belaire and a Mr. Cantley, agent of the Baffin Land Company, were all for Churchill. Father Belaire was bound fori1 Dorset; 4 ing from Labrador to their homes at Dorset, Sugluk and Chester field, and.

a Father Mascaret, noi otherwise identified and not on the Oblate list was bound for Ivu- givik. Additional details on the ship's company i were not im- mediately available. These survivors and lZcrew-men were picked up by the icebreaker B. McLean and were landed at nearby Nottingham Island where they are being cared for by the crew of the Transport Department's radio station. Iroquois Aids Continued from Page As we steamed away, contact was made with four more, enemy ships moving along the coast.

Dawn was just breaking and, still under fire from the shore, we closed on the enemy. The first salvos set two of them afire. The other two beached themselves. It was then decided to go in finish off those two one minesweeper and one flak ship. As we approached, I could see crews abandoning the ships, rowing ashore in small boats and running, up the beaches.

Lt Cmdr. C. R. (Tony) Cough-lin. D.S.C of Ottawa, yelled: "Be prepared for anything.

We are going in for the kill. Take your time and take it easy. Wc will sink the' enemy." We cautiously picked our way through shallow water, wonder? ing if we ourselves would go aground. The shore loomed ever Then the TIrsa opened up "jon the flak ship. A second later we joined in the bombardment Our first salvo was a direct hit amidships.

We fired again and again until the enemy ship quivered and belched fire'and smoke as it died. Then the second ship be- came we target ana in a mauer mm a I of seconds, it too was destroyed. Funeral on Saturday mm m. -mm mm For Ronald Lollins Funeral service for Ronald Col- an 1 a Mrs. Samuel Collins, of 272 St.

Joseph Boulevard, Hull, who was drowned in Catfish Bay, Hull, on Wednesday evening, will be held on Saturday morning at eight mm A 1 -o ciocK ai at josepns nurco, Wrightville. Hull police praised the work of a 15-year-old-boy, Gerard Beau-champ, of 5 Scott street, Hull, who located the body in about 15 feet of water yesterday afternoon. Gerard is a nephew of the late Louis Bcauchamp, a prominent swimmer in the Hull district some time ago. After locating the body, he dived in and" made his way to Collins body and fastened a grappling iron to the victinVs belt. The body was then brought to the surface by a rope.

The boy's father, Samuel Collins, and a city employe, were in the rowboat and brought the body ashore. had a deep gash on his UmnU 1-a1 lairAst (n Kirn' ViAAn caused by falling from a high; rock when he fell- down the embankment to the water. Employes of the Emond Funeral Home carried the body through bushes for more than half a mile to the Aylmer road where their ambulance was parked. Dr. Gerald Brlsson, Hull coroner, viewed the body and returner a verdict of accidental death.

No. inquestwill be held. The Library of Congress re-: ceives approximately a quarter, of a million books, pamphlets, reprints, and similar matter annually, not including manuscripts, nipt tad music It I A Tr- AUGUST 18, 1941. 1 HTNG CMDR. VINCENT COURTEMANCHE.

former pay master for the city of Ottawa, who has recently been promoted overseas. He enlisted in the R.CAJV in August, 1940, and went overseas in August, 1943. Since that time'he has been chief accountant officer at a bomber base in England. His wife resides at 189 Mountain road, Wrightville. Streamlined City News Nepean Township Council introduced a bylaw at its meeting last night sanctioning the closing of a township road adjacent to the Connaught Rifle Ranges.

John Rogers was awarded a tender for, the construction of sewer and water mains in three streets-in a subdivision of the Carleton Realty The balance of 1944 county rates were approved for payment. Meeting in the Chateau Laurier last evening, the Kinsmen Club elected committees to assist Ian Johnstone, manager in the staging of the Kinsmen Carnival to be held at the Auditorium from August 28 to September "2. Proceeds of the event will go towards the continuance of Kinsmen welfare undertakings. Len Condie presided. William Mclntyre," a member of the R.C.A.F., stationed in Ottawa, was remanded until Tuesday next by Judge Honore Achim in Hull Court this morning charged with having attempted to obtain merchandise valued at $28.25 by presenting four bogus cheque's at the W.

-Feller men's store, 95 Wellington street, Hull. He pleaded not guilty. M. Simoneau arrested the airman shortly after the Eric Edward Prestley, 17, of 143 Russell avenue, Ottawa, was given suspended sentence at the request of Russell appearing for National Selective Service, by Magistrate Strikethis morning on a charge, of terminating his employment at the Dominion Rubber Company, Kitchener, without giving seven days notice. The accused was placed on probation for six months: Pleading guilty to the theft of a $30 camera from an airman, Eric Llanos, Gerald Sabourln, 20, of 156 George street, Ottawa, was remanded to Monday for.

sentence by Magistrate Strike this morning. Detective Edgar Kedey said the theft occurred at the Y.M.C.A. and that the camera, since recovered, had been sold for $7. Bombers Smash Continued from Page A small force of American hea-y bomblrs, beginning 'the U.S. 8th Air Force's third, year of operations, continued a drive against the Germans' few "remaining front line air bases with an attack today on the field at Roye.

70 miles north" of Paris. Allied fighter-bombers, sweeping over the German jn mnto in France and Belgium, caught about 500 German foot soldiers in a field 15 miles southwest of Com- piegne and killed or wounded nearly half of them with ma chine gun fire. A nearby military-train of six cars also was strafed. Other fighter-bombers trapped three German column along the highways leading out ui Argenian yesterday and gave them a merciless strafing, it waj disclosed today. In other operations yesterday R-AJ.

Mosquitos plunged a profusion of bombs into Germans fleeing toward the Seine from the Falaise-Argentan gap. Allied 'planes destroyed or damaged more than 400 vehicles during the day despite poor weather. Attack Brest. R.A.F. heavy bombers attacked shipping at besieged Brest' yesterday, where elements of three trapped divisions might be attempting an escape.

Only one bridge is believed left standing over the Seine at, Conflans Ste. Honorine, 15 miles rirth of Paris. The big stone bridge at Nantes-Gasslcourt now is shattered. Since Wednesday evening, 22 bridges across the which west and pari allel to the Seine before their confluence, have, been bombed. fuel dump near La Mallleraye sur-Sefne was bombed; rail lines from Belgium 'to France 'were patrolled systematically; transport targets southeast of Paris and In Normandy were attacked.

East of the Seine, 1,000 locomotives and railroad cars were destroyed or damaged, complicating the German defences. MORE FOOD FOR FRENCH. ROME. Aug. 18 (BUP) Civilian residents of liberated France are receiving additional food and supplies designed to provide them with 2,000 calories per daya sizeable increase over their previous Nazi-controlled diet, military authorities an nounced today.

LI E. P. Finn Dies Of Wounds in France it. Eromett Patrick Finn, well-known young Ottawa ath lete, reported dangerously wounded in France August 11, died of wounds the following day, it was learned this morning. He was the only son of Mrs.

Patrick Finn, 26 Ossington avenue, and the late Patrick Finn. He was 26 years of age. A graduate of St. Patrick's College, he was a winner of the Doran Trophy, awarded annually to the student who best combines athletitc and academic activities. He was prominent in district athletic circles as a member of the Morrisb.urg Sailors, Junior City League baseball champions, and an outstanding player for the Morrisburg Sailors' city basket ball team.

He was a member of St. Margaret Mary's parish, where he was actively interested in church organizations. Prior to the outbreak of war Lt Finn was with The Governor General's Foot Guards. He mobilized with them in June. 1940, and went overseas in October, 1942.

rln addition to his mother he leaves a sister, Mrs. Victor D. Hossack, of Ottawa. American Patrols Continued from Page One. Giving instructions to patriots within the city, a SupremeAllied Command spokesman said over the American broadcasting station in Europe that "the day is not far off when you will have to rise and chase out the enemy and his "You can already hear the guns and soon you will hear the 'rumble of the the spokesman added.

While three American3 columns crossed the last natural barriers before the French metropolis, moving on a broad arc, the British 2nd and the Canadian 1st Armies, together with other American troops, were on the march in the north, cutting to shreds the last enemy units remaining in the Normandy pocket and plunging through the enemy lines east and northeast of that now-sprung trap. (The 1st Canadian Army troops were thrusting along the Normandy coast towards Le Havre, The Canadian Press reported. (Crerars Canadian and United Kingdom forces drove east of Mezidon and crossed the river Vie. They also seized St Julien le Faucon and Ecots, west of the important traffic hub of Lisieux, among scores of villages.) Tens of thousands of panicky Nazis fled before the new British and Canadian push In the north and British United Press War Correspondent Richard D. McMillan reported that the beaten Germans were being "hunted like McMillan said fighting in Western France has become a vast battle of annihilation.

Two Great Pockets. Allied forces have created two great pockets; the Germans escape from one only to find themselves in another. Prisoners are pouring in from both the inner and outer pockets admitting complete defeat' 'Those still fighting are Is a typical prisoner state-merit. Another says: have not the slightest hope and they know it is futile to fight any British officers said that, although a considerable number of Panzers had escaped from the inner trap, they faced annihilation on their way to Seine. Hundreds of enemy troops were slaughtered by Allied tank gunners and motorized Infantrymen who raced into the ranks of the stampeding Nazis to cut across their line of retreat eastward to the Seine.

To. Wipe Out Army. "It looks as if the entire German 7th Army Is going to be wiped out either before or on the McMillan quoted an Al lied headquarters spokesman as saying. "Some of our men have been fighting- almost without a break for the past five days. 'They manage to carry on because they realize they are In on the greatest victory of ltd arms in the west and the greatest defeat the Germans ever suffered in Western Europe." McMillan said the chief resistance came from isolated bands of suicide troops who fought to the death in pockets far behind the British and Canadian spear-leads.

"The German race through France In .1940 is nothing compared with a commander in forward positions told McMillan. 'They have lost all cohesion." Allied Headquarters refused to pin-point the most advanced spearheads, but German accounts told of savage tank fighting last night around St Arnoult, barely 22 miles southwest of the city gates on the main Chartres-Paris highway. Allied air reports said only one bridge was in operation over the Seine west of the capifal. The Germans were reported massing 500 barges and ferries in the stream to remove their forces, but Allied airmen kept a close watch to break up such attempts. (London printed German frontier reports saying Hitler's highest military advisers had urged him to withdraw German troops from all of France in the next four weeks or risk, destruction of most of his forces.) While it was apparent that Gen.

Eisenhower could not overlook chance to capture, Paris quickly, it also was apparent that the Allies are not going, to commit the same error as Hitler when he concentrated on the French capital instead of sticking strictly to the military opportunity of turning west on Chanrier.ports for a quick invasion of England. Vendome, midway between Tours and captured Orleans, fell to the Americans, completing the isolation of Southwestern France ifrom the Paris' area, and other III AVTTHIN SIGHT OF EIFFEL TOVER Patrols of the United States Army are now within sight of the famed" Eiffel Tower, landmark of Paris. Germans report that the.U. troops are; 12 miles from Paris. I li 1 fl 5 1 -v 4 'ill N- COL.

FRANK X. JENNINGS, Canadian Army Director of Public Relations, who has been promoted to. his present rank. 1 (See Also Page 3.) units mopped, up scattered German resistance on the Orleans-Paris road just beyond; Orleans. An unconfirmed report' broadcast by Radio Morocco said Pope Pius XII was negotiating with the.

belligerents to save Paris from, destruction, as he was said to have done for Jtome. Headquarters spokesmen emphasized, however, that the. complete annihilation of the German armies in' Northern France was the primary ob active of the Allied High Command, rather than the capture of Paris. Admit Normandy Battle Lost (The Germans acknowledged they had lost the battle of Normandy. A broadcast said the fleeing forces were trylng to escape another large Allied trap.

"The Normandy, front has" been liquidated by the said Dr. Max Krull, military correspondent of D.N.B.) Germans Continued from Page One. A Canadian force ordered to htrike for Tnin from the Falaise. area yejsierday first tried to get across tfi Ante River at Dam blainville, but the leading elements were met by artillery fire when they; got to the. other side.

Rather than become embroiled in a sticky fight which would slow them down the Canadians pulled back, swung around to northeast, and jumped. the river at Morteau Couliboux where the Ante flows into the Dives between Falaise and St Pierre. A group of tanks and infantry rushed' southeast from there to Trun and linked up with Polish forces who had come from the north. The two groups then went through Trun and established themselves on high ground around Trun. A Polish column went arthersoutHeast towards Chambois.

The close proximity of Canadian troops moving. South and Americans moving north has hampered Allied air attacks, it was explained. The bomb line iTso precise that there was great danger of bombing All led troops. This aided the Germans, in getting "their stuff out I Traffic Court -For" driving through a red light; Harry 308 Flora street: Violet 167 St Joseph Blvo Hull, $4 and costs; For failing to produce an operator's license, the. latter was also fined $4 and costs.

For 'parking offences, Ralph E. Sneyd, Britannia Bay; Fred Bronson; 725 Acacia avenue; Lloyd Riley, 118 Flora street; Jean Fitzgerald, 557 McLeod street; Alex. Hill, 41 Cooper street; Joseph -Kearney, 4 Ply-moutha venue; Hartld P. Barber, 248 Bay street, and Reginald La-pierre, 144 Byron street, $2 and 1 I XM Invasion Casualties Less Than 300 ROME, Ang. 18.iBUP) Allied casualties for, the first two' and a half days of the Southern France Invasion were revealed to have been fewer than 300 killed, wounded or missing out of the tens" of thousands of men put ashore.

Continued from Page, One. Fall of La Napoule, coastal village four miles southwest of Cannes, gave the troops a full view of the resort city across the Guff of Napoule. A. naval bulletin disclosed that aircraft carriers were being used with British and American 'planes operating from them, not only to give cover to warships but to bomb and strafe enemy positions. Use of the carriers permitted far more effective fighter, support than otherwise would have been possible at the time of the landings, since the nearest land fighter bases were in Corsica, almost 150 miles away.

A stream of reinforcements and supplies continued to pour into the beachhead from the sea without interference, naval officials said. The warships that bombarded the shore in the invasion operations fired almost 16,000 shells of five-inch calibre and above, and of these 12.500 were 12lnch or larger. Results were reported as "most effective in neutralising enemy Front despatches. said, last night that infantrymen had broken through German anti-invasion defences before Toulon, which had been swung against them at right angles to the shore-land. Surging inland in a great arc behind the 50-mlle-long the invading French, British and American troops yesterday seized" five strategic road centres, cutting two main highways Jinking the Germans in the eastern Riviera sector with those in Toulon and Marseille.

Canadians In Action. 1 Canadian assault troops, believed to be part of the Canadian-American special service force" which fought on the Anzio beachhead earlier this year, also took part in the landings and two Canadian warships carried some of the invasion forces. The' Canadian warships were the Prince-David and the Prince Henry, former luxury coastal liners which have been converted into auxiliary cruisers. Both took part in the Normandy landings as well. Dragulgnan, 18 miles Inland In a northwesterly direction from captured St.

Raphael on the coast, was the largest town engulfed yesterday. The others were Vi-dauban, Le Luc, Besse and Cuers all on a trunk railway leading southwestward to Toulon. Cuers is only 11 miles from Toulon. Genj Eisenhower Allied Supreme Commander in the west told Gen. Wilson, Supreme.

Mediterranean Commander, in a 'best of luck" message yesterday that "every step of your progress will bring wishful dismay from the Wilson replied he was gratified by the advances. Brazilian Counsellor Recalled by Government J. B. de Berenguer-Cesar, Minister Counsellor of the Brazilian Embassy in Ottawa, has been recalled tg Brazil by his Government He Will leave in a lew days to take up his new duties in the Foreign Office at Rio de Janeiro. Mr.

de 'Bercngucr-Ccsar came to Ottawa three 'years and four months ago with embassy. He and his wife have been residing at 319 Laurier avenue east. As yet no one has been appointed to succeed' him here. Soufhern France Pilot of Ottawa I Landed With Bomb Load Mayor Lewis received a letter from FO. F.

Osborne, adjutant of the Beaver Squadron; the City of Ottawa ha? adopted. The letter reviews the squadron's activities France up 'to Aug. 5. It "For a number of days after I A a A Wi sm last wroiev ine weaver aquaaron due to rain and- inclement weather. After almost a week of idleness the squadron resumed operations and on one day flew almosts many sorties arid dropped jiearly" the same tonnage of bombs as on lhe-18th of July, when- all -previous; records were shattered.

"The type of operations remained very much the same as before- The targets were in most instances in direct support of the advancing army. A number of oir aircraft were hit by flak, which Is always to be expected in this type pf "Oh July 26, after taking off, Sqdn. Ldr. Bill Pentland experienced engine trouble and before he could make a forced landing It cut out completely. Rather than jettison his bombs on our troops below and land, or bale out of his aircraft, he decided to 'make a forced landing with bombs on, and save the aircraft He was gliding at such a high rate of speed that the wheels could not come down before he On landing on an airdrome, quite recently vacated by the Germans, one bomb dropped off and blew the tail end of his aircraft completely off; the- other Belgians and Dutch With Crerars Army "LONDON, Aug.

18-CP) Belgian and Dutch troops are -fighting with the 1st Canadian Army in France, it was officially revealed here today. These two groups' bring the number of non-Canadian units with Gen. Crerar's army up four. When the 1st Canadian Army, was revealed to be in the field it was announced ithat certain' troops formerly with the British 2nd Army had been transferred to fight with the Canadians, and a little-later it was made known that a Polish armored division also had joined the Canadians. Belgian headquarters said a number of the Belgians fighting with the Canadian, Army had been trained at St Hyacinthe, Que.

It was unknown immediately if any of the Netfyerlanders had trained at Stratford, Ont, former sceneT of Netherlands Army training in Canada. 600 Wounded Continued from Page One. Pte. Picard, a member of the Stormont and Dundas Highlanders, was with a unit trying to take an airfield near Carpiquet when he was hit. One of the bomb fragments went clean through his rifle butt His brother, Edward, who was In France with; the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, was Pte; PicardV biggest oxthe moment.

VHope he's 0.K:,' he observed. Sgt Bill Grant of Vancouver, a member of the Canadian ilm and Photo unit, had come back with a shattered foot after a jeep in which he was riding with four other men crashed into a tree. He was injured outside Bayeux, eight days after D-Day. "I was lucky" to get ashore," Sgt. Grant said, recalling how he had seen landing craft destroyed on all sides of the vessel that took him in.

"The mines were knocking them off like firecrackers. One mine blew-up a landing craft 15 feet from the British Columbian, and- he was deluged with a great wave of water. His 13th day in France was unlucky for L. Joe MacGregor of Toronto, who stopped a bullet in. the leg while helping to hold a position after hi? outfit had battled its way IT miles inland.

wBy that he said, "there were only nine of us left out of the original 34 who landed in our group in the first wave -of assault troops. He was with the Queen's Own Rifles. Nothing the Germans-threw at him took, effect on L. Jim Carson, of North Battlef ord, but 16 days after landing in France he developed stomach ulcers arid was sent out He went in the morning of D-Day Vand we lost plenty of men getting ashore, he recalled and had gone up- as far as the Caen area when his stomach gave out. Lifckiest man of the whole shipload, by his own figuring, was L.

Cpl, Mike (Curly) 'Golem-blaski, of Winnipeg, whose skull stopped a machine gun bullet but who was able to walk under his own power to the landing craft that evacuated him from France. I guess there just wasn't much up there between the ears to get laughed big Curly as to the scar in the back of his head where the slug had gone -in, and the spot on the right side where it came buC Apparently," the bullet had run around the outside of his; scalp and skull. 1- "We were trying to take) some town in Normandy if I can pronounce it when was I said. Curly, a member of the Canadian Scottish. "It was a Jerry using a machine gun for sniping that picked me off.

I was punch drunk for a couple of days, but the old noggin's. o.k. now except for the odd headache." Nincteen-ycar-old Pte. John McPhee, of Toronto, was hobbling about on a crutch, one leg broken. Just before the invasion, while on guard duty in England one night, he had been wounded when a iSten gun was dropped and went Sduadron bomb fell off as- lie came, to a stop, but fortunately did not explode.

Sqdn. Ldr. Pentland immediately got out. of his and ran a safe distance, but nothing happened, so he returned to his aircraft and took stock of the damage. One Urge bomb splinter weighing approximately five pounds had torn through cockpit very close tb Sqdn.

Ldr. Pentland. It was a narrow escape' and a 'commendable piece of work on his part. "The targets attacked consisted mostly of enemy troop formations, tank 'and motor transport concentrations, motorized columns of troops moving to the mortar and gun positions and a Gestapo headquarters, All targets were successfully attacked and a high percentage of bombs landed in target In most instances Ithe detailed results could not be pbserved owing to haze and poor visibility. "The squadron personnel are extremely pleased with the change in diet.

Fresh rations are provided every other day. Larger supplies of white bread, are. being received and also "an increased quantity of fresh milk. 'It is expected that very soon compo rations will be discontinued. "Films remain the centre of attraction in the evenings and are well attended.

Volley ball and horseshoes have also drawn a lot of interest recently and challenge matches are being played between squadrons when the work slackens off. Intrust this will be, of some- interest to the people of Ottawa." He Repairs Streets Not Teeth- i ii Argument'for a new city hall -devoted-' exclusively to the affairs of civic management: Works Commissioner. Ask-. with was sitting in his office on the seventh floor of the Building other day deeply engrossed in civic plans when a lady burst into his office without knocking, holding her swollen jaw with her hand. "Ooooh my she moaned.

Are you the dentist? Can you help me?" Startled, Mr. "Askwith, who knows all about snow blowers and such, confessed he had never wielded the dentist's drill and suggested the third floor of the -building- was the one she wanted. "With "Oooh amy tooth!" the stricken lady fush-ed out and left Mr. Askwith to' his plans. Pte.

McPhee is a member of the Ordnance Corps. Veteran of months of fighting in Sicily and Italy was Pte. HailT of Winnipeg, member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, who was sent back for what he described as a He landed in STcily July 10, 1943, and went-through the fighting up as far as Ortona" before illness put him out of action; He has a brother, PO. Fergus G. Hall, in the Royal Canadian Navy.

here. Sgt. Lloyd Roy croft, of Toronto, who-lost an eye and an arm at Cassino, received an enthusiastic family reception when the hospital ship docked. He was almost knocked over with surprise when his sister, Wren Bernlce Roycrof of the Navy, and hif brotherr" Cpl. W.

R. Roycrof of came aboard the ship. On the crowded deck of the Lady Nelson, the three sat down on a bench and staged a haDDv reunion. The brother and sister are stationed in the Halifax area. Two returning army officers who were palling together on shipboard were Lieut: H.

M. Knight, of Toronto, with' the Stormont and Dundas Highlanders, and Lieut. R. L. Harvey, of Aylmer, Ont, attached to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada.

Stumbles Into Nail Nest, Lieut. Harvey wa? oh a night reconnaissance patrol when he and several other Canadians stumbled into a German machine gun nest in the darkness. He was peppered with several machine gun bullets in the right leg, but he was navigating, without difficulty again by the time he reached Canada. A piece of shrapnel had struck Lieut Knight in the hand near Caen, and he had the hand in a cast' One of the. small group of Canadians-who went into France in 1940 shortly before that country, fell to the Nazis was Cpl.

H. Parker, of and Lancaster, Pa.V and he recalled how the Canadians had to commandeer trains at gun point from the disorganized, Frenchmen to get back to the coast. One of the earliest volunteers In this Parker bears the low regimental number, A-125. "Just a victim of the -wear and tear of training, you can list he commented ruefully. "That grind In England is plenty rugged.

I'd like to have stayed oyer, though, foh a second look ati that French country. We went up as far as Le Mans! in 1940, and I see. where our fellows are around there again Lieut W. G. Burke.

Kingston, Ont, tvas among the Italian veterans on the trim white former luxury liner. He told of the trans-Italy duel of a fighting Canadian field reglrhent; and the. "crack Nazi corps known as "Goering's From the battle-pocked mountains around Cassino the final cracking of the steelclad Gustav line the Canadians and the Germans matched blow for blow. "Goering's Own was one of the few cleai-fighting "German regi-mcntst and we proud -to have faced them and beaten said Lieut, Burke. He spoke of seeing many Nazi prisoners from various sectors of the Italian I front who were not ow 15 years old.

v. District Points Get Some Benefit From Light Rainfall Ottawa was greeted last night and early this morning with cool weather and a smell of Fall- in the air. While the eity enjoyed" a quarter of an inch of rain last night other districts in Carle-ton County were not so favored. Rainfall at Carleton Place, Renfrew, Kemptville and Perth was described as "steady but very and Rockland received only a light -There was sufficient rain, however, at most points, to do some good to-the. dry pasture ground.

Bush fires at Winchester and a fire, in "Blueberry Mahh-at Navan were put out by the rainfall. Na van -enjoyed a heavier rainfall than" the other sections of the A' correspondent there reported- that the ground before the rain was so dry that the grass and "even the weeds" were all dead. The highest temperature yes- terday was 79 degrees and the lowest during the night was S3 degrees. The weather forecast for tomorrow promises fair, cool weather. Woman Is Convicted In Theft of Chinavare So "intrigued" by articles in a china store that she couldn't leave them alone, Elizabeth Painter, 69, of 126 Somerset street west, Ottawa, pleaded guilty in Magistrate's Court 'this morning to stealing $304.30 worth of china-ware, glassware and statuettes from Mcintosh and Watts, 247 Bank street during the past year.

She was remanded to Wednesday for sentence. Constable Burford Wigmore told the court an employe sa her placing a piece of chinaware in a handbag, and, as a result of other articles were found in her home. 'accused's only explanation was that she "couldn't resist" taking some article that interested her when in the store. Prussian Towns Continued from Page Oaa. The Germans also announced they had lost Vilkaviskis In Lithuania, 12 miles from East Prussia, in a heavy tank battle in which large air formation participated, i Massed At River.

MOSCOW, Aug. Cherniakhovsky 3rd White Rus- siah Army, poised on the very frontier of East Prussia, was reported 'massing today for a cross- -ing of the Szeszuppe River, which; would carry Soviet forces on to German soil for the first time in thi3 war. The forces of the "37-year-old tank expert, after battling for two weeks against fresh 'Nazi infantry and armor in Western Lithuania, succeeded in smashing German resistance and advancing to the East Prussian border yesterday, a Soviet communique announced. The Germans launched a futile assault against the extreme end of Cherniakhovsky's right wing, attacking west and southwest of Siauliai, in Lithuania. Soviet front reports said enemy losses were heavy as the Nazis threw in waves of tanks, and infantry in ah unsuccessful effort to' break through Into the area of the 3rd White i Russian Army.

Gen. Bagramian's 1st Baltic Army joined Cherniakhovsky's flank guards In the stubborn battle. East Prussia, where decisive battles of the First Great War -were fought was threatened by three powerful Russian armies along a front nearly 200 miles long, extending from Northern Poland at a point south of the So walk! triangle northward beyond the NIemen River in North- era Lithuania. V- The 3rd White Russian. Army was reported 40 miles east of the rail city of Insterburg and 25 miles from the East Prussian capital city of Konigsberg, both astride its- direct western routc It captured 30 settlements in the last 24 hours.

On Warsaw Front A terrific tank battle continued -east of Warsaw and to the north and south of the Polish capital. Any break-through in the bulge area across the Vistula, 110 miles south of Warsaw, would imperil a large part of the German army. In the region northeast of Warsaw, where the Russians also were threatening the "southern boundaries of East Prussia, a deep penetration would menace other thousands of Nazis. West of the Vistula the Germans introduced a new "KirigXTiger which Pravda said was a cross between the Tiger and Panther, but no super-weapon. The Russians waited, expectantly for.

news of a. crossing' on to German soil, but despatches from the East Prussian frontier said resistance was furl-ous and that the Red Army was opposed by a profusion of infantry and self-propelled guns. "Enemy resistance has stiffened but he is unable ticonsoli-date by taking advantage of fav- orable defence positions, Lt-CoL Prokofiev reported from the frontier. REMANDED ON CHARGE. Florence Ferris, 25, of 152 Lyca street, Ottawa, was remanded to Wednesday without plea cn a charge of uttering a forged cheque for $70.77 to the order- of Kv M.

E. Mulvina, in Magistrate's Court this morning. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY lostTand FOUND, PURSE AND WALLET tot on 'Tlgtn to Clarence eonUlnlnr procat documtnU. call 37302. Rtward..