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lerce Allies and Nazis 1 Pouring in Troops By Air 1 5. O'clock Edition-Service. SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS ALLIED EXPEDITION- AICV, FORCE, Jane 7. VP) Between 250 and 500 American lieaTyj bombers dropped bombs road intersections south of Cain' late today in an effort to tIock 'off German reinforce- inehtsL 1 They encountered nei ther 1 German fighters nor rojund Iflrei 4 SUPREME ADVANCE iOMMAND POST. Allied luxp eauionary rorce, june 7 -i- (Cp) I Allied troops hav; stpk inland in TTViti-'ol inii Vnsatrtr firrVifinrr repiitsi ng4ixAzicoumer- blowsf near Caen, som mile's from the coast, after cleaning 'the enemy from a 1 thep anding' beaches a id jlihlcing up some of the Reports from the' Cherbourg' I ti sula invasion friont shovijed "decided im-pfowment at, midday, and iAlhies kre 1 making "considerable progress, on the jhojje J'froht" despite bad weather! aiid stiffening re-sistancbf Headquarters said.

1 Pou in Troops. Bojjh sjdej dropped air-borne Irjopij jlrto flaming battle-frimtjjj. jv-jjth Allied parachutists ard glider tfoops pouring down earlyj! jtcyday rom a 50-mile-long re inferring iky train. bourj, peninsula, and southwest Le Havre. Thi Bntish 6th Air-borne Di- In in- ma il lis Huh Repi 1 1 i I' IT i Can vision captured bridges north of Cienjjj Headquarters said.

There wks" no official comment on a German reprt tfcat ah AlliJ, airborne! dilisiicjn had been landed orj the wsten coast of the peninf ula. jHeaditarUn said reports early I His jjfablnirig. indicated Allied force: hap accomplished less than chcduleA that later word situation a cause for i. 'I i jii 'neither ptessimism nor optimism, eau but "sobr FrOrit 'despatches re par ted shjorti after p.m. that two German armies personally commanded by Marshal Rommel were rating' tbiarfl the beachheads for a kejijpjunter-attack.

Indicatonsi that the Germans also were, rushing troops to Nor- manay of ir were seen in an announcement that Canadian 'planes shot down fire biff Junk- -eiiSJtrinsport 'planes. jlTioughtHfai. -initial beachheads Which the asserted extended over tnore thana 50-mile stretchi-frjave- been cleared and some Uipiped with those; neltrby, fewj irria still be under German anillry'' klr! the Allied air (forces in mammoth up-poirt of 1 the invasion thrust had flcjM-nnjnilre than 31,000 sorties between an 1 and last night. tThe huge rjumbers of air-borne Alkied Itrqopss seized key positions ana neipea trvrow DacK xsazi tank- I 14 TV, likewise; iushed in parachutists. oi ioir months the Germans harve been building an air-borne ariny -for just this purpose, led bjj LjtGn.

Student, ''who engineered the landings in Crete. Landing Near Calais? jrh' Gerrrans asserted they beat qff landing attempts near Calais, llSOmiles northeast of jcterbijurg; but later their re-pojrts ndjeated German coasta4 guns erly fired at Allied ships in ths area, and there were no inilici tlon? Supreme Headquarters wM irj ing to invade there. Allfed i invasion task forces hive keen sailing in feints past JCDU Mians ounterblows ear vacn 3 O'clock EdlUoa Service. LONDON, June 7. (CP) A Transocean broadcast from Berlin asserted German coastal batteries had beaten off an Allied landing attempt off Le Havre this afternoon.

(There was no Allied confirmation. i NEW YORK. June 7 (M A broadcast by the anti-Natl Atlantic underground station In Germany heard by the NBC said today Natl forces had given up the. town of Bayeuxsix miles inland on the Cherbourg. Peninsula and 16 miles northwest of Caen, after a night battle with tha' Al lies.

i 1 LONDON. June, 7-(BUP) -DNB, Germart-News Agency, saidodayOOO- Allied Unka were attacking near tha impor ant city' of Caen. I- LONDON, June 7. (BUP) An airman reported today that "there were fires everywhere over the Cherbourg indicating the Germans may have begun demolitions possibly preparatory to Concluded on Page Col. 5.

many points, keeping the Germans in doubt where the next landings would come. Air-borne troops have seized bridges and rdads, and joined sea-landed troops at some points, front despatches said, and some towns have been captured. The. German High Command said "superior forces" had established beachheads more than 40 miles apart, at the mouth of the Orne River and north of Caren-tan. D.N.B.

asserted the Allied bridgehead at the Orne River was about 21 miles wide and. six miles deep at points, but declared a thrust to seize the town of Caen had been repulsed. There were consistent reports of heavy fighting at Caen. Various unconfirmed reports said penetrations had been made as deep as 112 miles at some places, but the fighting was so confused it-was if any regular lines were established. "Satisfactory progress" is being made in the historic Invasion continuing under1 thundering blows by great sea and sky fleets, headquarters said in its first bulletin early today, and cautious officers described the tricky airborne operations as "a complete Great bomber fleets droned out to blast Nazi defences and troops today, possibly in strength equalling or surpassing the stupendous total of 13,000, sorties yesterday.

Pilots reported a great ring of fires at Llsieux, south of Le Havre, and a sinister glow over Caen, where Prime Minister Churchill had reported! fighting in the streets. Caen is jsome 10 miles inland; and southwest of Le Havre. Berlin despatches to Stockholm asserted six Allied air-borne divisions, totalling Z5.000 men. had been landed since Tuesday morning. Headquarters still did not identify initial objectives of the British, American and Canadian infantrymen ajnd air-borne Battle Inside Caen.

reinforced Allied troops battled inside the old Gothic port city of Caen and fought their I U'av inland alnncr 1ftft.mil I front in. Normandy. The Ger- mans reported fierce counter-attacks against the invaders east of Cherbourg, major Allied peninsular objective. Concluded on Page 12, Col. 2.

Mail Delivered LONDON, June 7. (BUP) Mail already has beenr delivered io invasion xorces on me con tinent, Britis) vealed today. tinent. British postal officials re- til km Invasion Troops Have reach West i'Hofler First Assault Troops Mowed Down By Crossfire By JAMES C. McGLlNCr.

LONDON, June 7. (BUP) Some of the first assault troops who stormed the French beachhead were mowed down by German crossfire, but succeed ing waves climbed over their bodies until a foothold was established," an eyewitness who returned from the beachhead reported today, i I Brandt, 28, an Acme News photographer, spent a half hour on the beach yesterday, and several hours more 'cruising within gunshot of the landing scene. Hotter Thau Hell. "It was hotter than, hell, over Brandt said. I was at Anzio but Anzio was nothing like this." said the Germans laid down intensive firenjthe beaches with well-emplaced machine-guns.

On one beach, Brandt reported, the German machine-gunners waited until the landing craft lowered their ramps and then poured deadly into the barges; The opposition met by the first wave delayed the landing of demolition parties scheduled- to follow with heavy equipment. The German defences finally crumbled under the weight of attack and by the time Brandt left the beachhead at 3 p.m. yesterday the Allied troops were Lfirmly ashore in. that sector and beginning to. advance inland.

An official spokesman disclosed that early reports of light resistance, to the invasion actually were confined to the period immediately preceding the landings. As soon as the Allied spearheads of Commandos, Rangers and shock troops and engineers hit the beaches, however, they met stiff opposition. Not until mid-day yesterday were the beachheads finally clear of the direct fire of the enemy, he said. He decried a tendency in "many quarters" toward over-optimism. Berlin claimed that German reserves had massed around the Allied lines during the night and now were attacking with "terrific The first troop casualties already were streaming back across the Channel to Britain.

A Red Cross train, six coaches long, carried the first wounded through East Anglla to base hospitals during the night First Prisoners. The 'first German prisoners, including coastal defence troops and survivors of the enemy trawlers sunk, arrived at an English port late yesterday. Nazis Set tip Camps For Invasion Prisoners LONDON, June 7 (CP) The German Agency in a broadcast heard in London said the first prisoner of war camps for invasion troops had been The German report mentioned Rouen as a collection point mostly for British and Cana dian prisoners, DEATHS. HILT-M AN On Tuesday. Jun 1844, In hospital Albert Francis Hill-man, age 75 years, husband of the late Mary Jane Fitzsimmons by first marriage and husband of Marie Laure LeDuc by second marriage.

Funeral from his late residence 63 Laurier East, Apt. 1. on Friday 9th Instant, at 7.4S to Sacred Heart Church for requiem mass at 8 o'clock. Burial Notre Dune cemetery. WHYIE On June 7.

Ifl44at her residence. Ramsayville, Ont Isabel Sims, widow of the' late John Whyte, in her 78th year. Funeral service at the residence of her son, Stuart Whyte. on Friday. th Instant, at 2 JO pjrt.

Interment Hawthorne cemetery. McILQUHAM On Tuesday evening. June 6. 1944. Carleton Place.

Walter Ross McUquham, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William McUquham fiTWH in his 33th year. Funeral will take thorn on Friday afternoon. 9th 'XU' 'Vi? toJ5J! On Beaches cmttry.

dndSport OTTAWA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1944. iVOL.lLIX; No. 151. PRICE THREE CENTS. ON PAGE 4 1 qLP een Cleared t.y a.

,1 ALLIED INVASION FLEET from England, is a portion of. Britain to the French coast yesterday. Wall I it. 'SAILS Shown above, in an official British photo sent by radio SAY CHURCHILL TRIED TO ACCOMPANY FLEET ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 7.1 (BUP) Prime Minister Churchill was dissuaded (only with the greatest difficulty from accompanying the invasion force to the French coastan Australian correspondent attached to the H.M.S. Hilary reported i today.

incident was disclosed by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay when he visited the ilary after-nocai, the correspondent said. Churchill agreed not to go the correspondent added, after it was poineout that 'the. extra; Work-involved in safeguarding him wtiuld be "very Massed 'Planes Blast and Burn LONDON, June 7. Massed formations! of Allied war-planes battled through low-hanging, storm clouds to blast and burn the German fortifications and supply lines behind the French coast today, in the face of feeble but increasing opposition from the Luftwaffe. Never before had the world seen, such a mighty demonstration of air power.

i Destroy 53 Nails. The measure of the almost incredibly opposition from the German Air, Force was reflected in the loss of 13 R.A.F. and Canadian heavy bombers, one American heavy bomber and 17 Allied fighters. Yesterday S3 enemy 'planes were destroyed. The.

Allies maintained constant fighter patrbl over a 60-mile square of France, with Le, Havre approximately at its northeast corner. At least ZOO fighters ng it every minute 'planes which at-penetrate it were were jjrojt ecl and enemy tempted to virtually condemned to death. Concluded, on Page 12, Col. 7. RETURN 5 FROM MOSCOW.

CHICAGO, June 7. P) Prof. Oscar Lange, University of "Chicago economist, arrived today from Moscow, Russia, where on May 21 he conferred with Mar shal Stalin, presumably on Polish-Soviet relations. Ottawa Man on the "bridge of ships" which carried Invasion Sky-Train 200 Miles Long py The Canadian Tress. Some'-figures on the invasion of France: 1 Thirteen thousand individual flight's were made by- Allied 'planes in the first) day of inr vasion.

Prime Minister Churchill said 'planes were available. On the seas were 4.000 ships and, many more, lighter craft. More than 900 C-47 troop transports' and were used pn the opening blow. The nine 'planes wide, was 200 piles lonfr as it went1 across the English Channel 300 feet above water. Today, another 50 jmiles long, poured In reinforcements.

Landings in Greece? Fleet Off Genoa? LONDON, June 7. (CP): Wholly unconfirmed I reports, of. an Allied landing in Greece came last night from Ankara. Direct Turkish advices located the reported landing In the Peloponnesus part of Greece south of the! Isthmus Corinth--and the United Nations radio at Algiers $sid Berlin had broadcast an Ankara report placing it-more specifically at Patras on the northwest coast. Fleet Off Genoa? ZURICH, Switzerland, June 7.

(BUP) Unconfirmed reports from German-occupied Milan said today that a'large Allied fleet has been Righted off Genoa and a landing on the Ligurian coast of Northwestern Italy is expected hourly. Landing Graft were charged with bringing Ca nadian assault troops on to the beaches when Western Europe was invaded this morning. Sea Was Rough. Let Able Seaman James Morgan, 23, of Ottawa, tell the story in his own words: "Our only trouble came from he said. 'There was hardly any mortaror.

machine-gun fire when we left the David and joined with the rest of the flotilla. The sea was a little rough, but that was all. We saw only about six German 'planes and the.M didn't come near us. I Blown Up by Small fine By GERALD CLARK. Representee Combined Jrei of Canada.

ABOARD H.M.C.S. PRINCE DAVID, June 6. (Delayed) (BUP) They look like beer bottles these mines, and they are colored black. They hang on tripods stuck1 in the shallow approaches' to the beaches and you see them if you approach at low tide. They ido not hurt fair-size ships but if you are in a small assault landing craft you have a tough go of it.

But if at all possible, you carry out your assignment: to deliver troops and that was the assign-, ment of Canadian seamen who Coaeludtd on Page 12. Col. t. After chdc Stormy Landing the Allied invasion forces from Landing Craft By Heavy Seas Canadian Ships Sailed Past Many Obstacles To Invasion Beaches By ALLAN NICKLESON. -ABOARD THE H.M.C.S: PRINCE HENRY OFF THE FRENCH COAST, June 6.

(Delayed) (CP) Men who helped take Canadian troops ashorefrom this ship today returned to report that, the Canadians "swept across the French beachesrrkbroad day light in the face of consider able opposition. Hundreds of the Canadian lan ing force were taken ashore in Canadian-manned assault craft from this parent ship, and men who ferried them reported well-directed mortar fire was the main German weapdh on the beach- Ur.ar4 'anrl it urn i i rnrt sin ff 1 strongdespite, a fierce bombardment of the area. Beach Had Been Won. Crews of the assault landing craft geturned to report the beach already had been won when the Canadians- they carried waded ashore just 45. minutes after their H-Hour.

Many soldiers became seasick. as. the small craft bounched in the heavy seas. The enemy mortar fire from concealed positions beyond the beach and in the shelter or. a cliff caused many.

casualties and knocked out several tanks before their, carrying craft landed, these crews reported. 1 Concluded on Page 12, Col. 6. French Bridges Take a Beating LONDON, June 7., (BUP) Only one railroad bridge and five highway bridges were left standing over the Seine river between Paris and Le Havre by. D-Day after Allied air forces had destroyed 25 railroad and nine highway bridges, Allied Headquarters announced today.

Reconnaissance aphs showed today A that all railroad bridges between Rouen and Paris were'down, while only one highway bridge- was left standing. During recent days 16,000 sorties were flown against 85 railroad centres; SIIAEF SHAEF get. accustomed ito this word. It is. a space-saver you will see a lot of in the next few months.

It means Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. SHAEF will issue bulletins, a man I at-SHAEF may make statements, rumors will denied at SHAEF, Swamped i unro Dramatic Pinned Down 1 By Fierce Fire By LEW HAWKINS. I ABOARD FLAGSHIP OFF FRANCE, June 7. (BUP) Detachments of Canadian troops ran into bad luck slicing through Jhe beach area between Le Havre and Cherbourg at the start of the Allied landing but fought their way out. 1 They were pinned down by.

fierce machine-gun fire poured at them 'from behind a ridge about 800 yards behind high water. For several hours the men were forced to hold on in foxholes. The unit also suffered from mines which knocked out several waterproofed tanks which managed to get on or close to the shore. Temporarily stranded, the Canadians were helped by the, battleship Arkansas and the French cruisers, M6ntcalm and Georges Leyguci, which moved in to very short range. Finally the Canadians fought their way out and a destroyer reported, they moved several hundred yards inland.

in On Four I ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, June 7. (BUP) Al- ied tanks and Infantrymen are driving the Germans in disorderly retreatalong a broad front north of Rome and are closing in on Civitavecchia40 miles northwest of t'he it Was" announced today. Official sources said 5th Army forces were racing far beyond the capital along the four main highways. radiating out of Rome to "the north, riding roughhoi ovef scattered German rear guards left behind by the fleeing 14th Army. Principal Seaport.

There was no immediate indi- cation as to how far the Allied spearheads were from; Civitavecchia, the main seaport for Rome, but the announcement said they were "approaching" the city suggesting the Allies were with in striking distance; Add to Score By LOV1S V. Ht'KTKR. 1 AT" AN R.CA.F. STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. June 7.

(CP) Canadian pilots brought their score of enemy 'planes destroyed to 16 during the last 24 hours after late af iternoon. patrols, over the invasion area. 'The wing led by Wing Cmdr. George Keefer. Charlottetpwn, downed two JU88s over the Le Havre area late in the day.

Earlier the score stood at 14. Keefer destroyed one. in the afternoon bringing his bag for the day to two. The other was downed; by. FO.

William Toronto. Keefer's wing downed the enemy' 'planes which were Hying away from "a dive-bombing at-, tack on the Allied beachhead. Fit. Lt, Derrick England, Saskatoon, and FO, Jack' Gould, To ronto, the City of Oshawa squadron pilots, during the afternoon destroyed -five enemy transport trucks. trucks "went up in the pilots said.

Concluded on Page 12, Col. 2. Allies Chase Nazis Italy Roads Canadian Piots I 1 Tells ning Attack Stiff Opposition To Canadians in Certain Sectors Bjr KOSS MINRO. WITH CANADIAN ORCES LANDING IN RANCE, June 7. CP --Canadian assault forces bounced through the stormy sea in landing craft yesterday and in broad daylight tor med the rench beaches and battled their way inland, There was some' stiff opposition 'on certain sections of this particular beach, but 1 1-2 hours after the landing reports" of success came in rapidly io this headquarters ship.

j. I Advance Through West ValL I One Canadian regiment after another flashed back messages' that it was advancing through the coastal defence strip, part of th Germans' so-called West Wall. Hard fighting was expected inland, however, but the Canadian forces looked for that. A number of enemy strong-points on the beach zone resisted and they were being fired on by naval craft. The big surprise in the second frorit attack was that it' went in during daylight.

(Another despatch from Munro reported that, in two hours and 45 fighting the diahs won their beachhead and shoved on inland. Some stiff fighting was met in the little coastal added.) The heavy sea running off the French coast was not what" authorities wanted but the attack went in anyway and the small assault craft plunged headlong through six-foot-hlgb waves reach the and land -oops. Concluded on Page 2, CtL U.S. General Demoted For Indicating D-Day LONDON, June ,7. (BUP)-A Major-General in the U.S.

Army Air. Force has been demoted to the rank i of Lieutenant-Colonel and sent to the United States for revealing I the approximate date of. the Western European inva- -sion to a group of guests at a cocktail pattly two months ago. it was disclosed today. The General, whose name was withheld, is said to have remarked In the presence of several people: "On my honor, the Invasion will, take place before June J3." A woman who heard the re-mark reported' the incident to: security Dolic and Gen.

Eisen-' bower Immediately ordered him! reduced in rank and sent nome. fThe story was held up by censorship authorities because of the possibility that enemy agents, realizing the significance of a high-ranking officer being de moted, might.try to learn exacuy what he said. Air Force Officer. WASHINGTON. June 7-ff I The American major general who was reduced to his permanent grade of lieutenant colonel and sent home for indicating in ad vance the time of D-Day was identified today by the War Department as Henry J.

F. Miller, of Salem, NX, an Air Force officer. (The. War Department in a memorandum referred to Miller's action as a violation of security. WEATHER FORECAST.

1 Ottawa and Upper St. Lawrence Valleys; Fresh winds, cloudy and. cool with scattered Thursday moderate im fresh wthds, partly cloudy and eooL Temperatures. Arthur 37, 60; Parry Sound 42, 57; London 44. 6: Toronto.

43, 69; Ktogston 50, 70; Ottawa 52, 79; Montreal 55, 78. i The Journal thermometer at noon registered 0 degrees. SUn rose IS a m. Sun aa it m. iDsyhght Saving.