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THE VANCOUVER DAILY PROVINCE nxmv rrxTTo by carrier 50th YEAR-NO. 178 VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, PAGES fl flN fWTfEio) OCTOBER 25, 1944 26 BATTLE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Pot Mc Ocean LUZON ISibuyon rt POUUO ki Awn. I Fighting Hart Explains PREMIER GIVES HIS PROGRAM! Americans Lose Enemy Punished In East Prussia B.C.E. ISSUE PACIFIC too V.qan' MANILA, South China Seo MINOOROV, CAIAMIAN Vx PA1 AW AM AC IkMW WiftWH. jump rr- 1 A 1 i HP 1 ill okyo Admits 1 wo Lruisers ibunk, Norway Invaded; i muwu- Claims 1 1 Allied Warships OIWCIAL KOWCTAST: CUH DY ITH RAIN.

Blazes Berlin Reports rtt iuss utrensive In Poland (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 25. The I evacuation of Komjrsburgy of East prussia, was! ritnnrtoA in r.M R.vinfr fts both Ithe Russian and German high commands threw fresh armor, land infantry into the battle 'of East Prussia today. I Fighting blazed at white alheat alontr a front of more than than inn miles, extondinir I from the Baltic mouth of the 1 Niemen River to the south 1 ib; Niemen River to the south- j1 nnrm.nv announPOd officially a new- Russian often East Prussia going on tor seveiai cmjs. iiuo the central regions of ucr-many." I AMOI PAX.KRS.

Two famous enemy Tanzer formations -the Hermann Goer-; ing and 5.5. i.reater uemiany. defenders of Warsaw in August; were among four tank divi- sions committed to battle by the Germans in costly counter-! attacks against a Soviet salient New.ON PANAYVV4 Vw5Tc'obAii By CHARLES W. McMURTRY (Ansorlatrd I'rcsi War Correspondent)' PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 25.

Opposing naval forces fighting over nearly 1000 miles of the western Pacific, are battling in three interlocking air-sea engagements, now running in their third day, that have already cost the Japanese a dozen warships sunk or damaged and the Third U.S. fleet one light carrier destroyed. From The Times: Today In Europe Compiled from th, end editorial comment of the London Timet, and cabled from Th Van fouvtr Daily Province, London Unreau, Times Building, Printing Houtt Squar. (Copyright, 1944. by Southam Co.) LONDON, Oct.

23. Within few days a scries of Canadian nA TTnltnri Kincrinm attacks ill the Netherlands, says the Times special correspondent, have trans- iormedthehape and tactical sig niflcancc of the Rhine salient. cM Only lately tne western uaiiisixc of the Eindhoven salient was crinuclv threatened by larce NtCROS Seo AfiftjiinnA MINDANAO Preliminry results of the continuing engagements were announced today by Adm. Chester W. iNimitz while a strong formation of Super Forts 9 vmmo It n- month Carrier; Heavily Crush Feeble Attacks MacArthi iur Men Capture Third Airfield (B- Associated Press) PHILIPPINES, Oct.

23. Crushing feeble Japanese counter attacks, American forces liberated 14 more towns and villages and advanced to the outskirts of iTabontabon. eight miles northwest of Dulag. The advance to Tabontahon Is general along the entire line airdrome, seven miles west of Dulag, 11 rl ,1 was the on Leyte. The others are at Tacloban and units drove north ward toward Dagami.

important mad junction at the western edse of Leyte valley. Other elements, advanced to nine miles north of Catamon. enveloped ratamon Hi ii anri on ta CANADIANS Warmer Climate Rommel?" Of course I always A NORTH 4: BORNEO ilVA lashed at Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur men made their longest advance- on rain-swept Leyte Island in the Philippines and Tokyo radio claimed a victory in a naval-air battle eats of the Philippines. Nimitz announced Vice-Admiral Jlarc A.

Mitscher's carrier planes sank one large Japanese carrier and damaged two other big carriers, five or six battleships, a cruiser ACM1P(IAC0 alonj, tne -arew mver in be Warsaw and the 1 he yd.ncj southern boundary -of invaded J. publii Berlin Report LONDON, Oct. 23. (AP) The Norwegian port and town of Kirkenes on the Arctic has been evacuated "after destruction of all military installations" at the submarine and air base athwart the Murmansk convoy route, Berlin announced today. The broadcast implied a Russian invasion across the Norwegian border which was reached by Soviet troops on a broad front Sunday, Great Air Fleets GERMAN CITIES (Ry Associated Trcsst LONDON.

Oct. 23. Upwards of 1700 American planes, 1200 of them heavy bombers, attacked objectives In the Hamburg and Hamm sectors of Germany today. R.A.K. bombers struck at Hannover and other objectives in western Germany without loss last night.

A strong force of Allied planes flew over Sweden last night, possibly striking at Ger. man shipping or lending a supporting hand to the Russian offensive in east Prussia. A Stockholm communique said UNDER ATTACK Japanese naval units striking ih a three-pronged attack today battled units of the U.S. 3rd Fleet, supporting the invasion at Leyte. First clashes took place in the Sibuyan and Sulu seas.

The third Jap unit, as yet not engaged in the battle, is steaming down from Formosa. CAPTURE 'S HERTOG EN BOSCH BRITISH ROUT ENEMY ALONG 1 5-MILE FRONT enemy ioicc sald Russian divisions ANT TO SELL. towards the sea, but with Cana from thpir Hc rented the B.C. Electric dians now advancing steadily, It at genock and Rozan behind a does not wish to sell the power Is now the Nazis themselves who drumfire artillery barrage and development part of their threatened They may soon heavy aerial attacks. ations without disposing of their are mm The Soviet infantry and tank transportation systems and other be cut off between the estuaiicsfoiws "checked undertakings, of the Scheldc and Maas.

in hoavy fighting in the forests" To find a way out of the situ- Jand subjected to counter-attacks ation he states that he is pre- Removes KlVCt I in which numerous Russian tanks pared to meet the mayors of tv, rantiire of Hertogcns- were declared destroyed. Vancouver and Victoria at an The capture 01 t. East prug. bosch 11 remove the main met uts rPDort sla 0UI Slu, To mahy, the letter returns to their communications to the (ha, lhc of main thp siUlation t0 the stae of last north. The narrow Eindhoven city of East Prussia has been whPn tnp Prpmior statcd Not Anxious to Take Over System Within Municipalities A formal statement of his Policy on pubte acquisition the 8eJ the British Columbia.

Electric Railway: Company was made by Pre-! m'pr Jorn rt toda'- troernmeni. snoulcln takeover tne trans-: portation or other undcr- things of the B.C. Electric within municmal boundaries, i Qn (hp othe; ft iM that "I believe it Is in the best interests of the development Of ng jf thp municipalities wished to take over the system, the gov- ernment would be willing to help thorn to finance their aim. The Premier's statement is as follows: "In 1913 House that announced in the the government would appoint a committee to enquire into the feasibility of electrification of rural areas. "A preliminary report from tnat committee was presented to a final i-eport could be submit- ted at the forthcoming session.

(Continued on Page 2.) See B. C. ELECTK1C. B.C. 'Yukon Record LOAN ALMOST I 1 i By WILLIAM FRYE.

octaiMi Pitm stit Writer.) LONDON. Oct. 25. British troops, turning flame- throwers against German ba.ooka nests, struck through the big Netherlands road junction salient has already become a broad, continuous front, running from the Canadian gains on the Rcveland causeway across Holland to Breda and Tilburg. The main purpose of these operations Is, of course, to free Antwerp harbor for Allied use.

most Important battle of thp whole western front at the moment, according to the Times on the snot. Is that operations today, and the Germans fell back in retreat on a 15-mile front north and south of that key city. 'S Hertogenbosch was captured except for isolated enemv pock- pN ets. Supply road leading north Oedi LOgS Ol 1 0Q3y and south were sniped. pj Even as the British 2nd Army i Um UOVVn KUITI pivssed in the eastern end of the German box salient in south- i hrr SoflA lOD eastern Holland the 1st Canadian i 4 wut vlJ where the Canadians are fight-'some 13 miles from 'Insterburg tne House at the.

last session, ine in the neighborhood of Wocn- and 70 miles from Konigsberg. This report showed the neces-clrerht outh of Bergen op Zoom. 1 The sky over Insterburg was slly that power development pu'iimny hk luugi-nt inouc VSrua "-Arthurs men rince the in-, i Leyte waters. i vasion started. Advances were purit UMLI, Willi aiuunv i la- a iiu, lie ing from fires' set by repeated committee was requested to con-Soviet air raids.

tlmie its InvestiRations so that The Nazis defending Bergen 'ni Zoom Include one "of the toughest parachute regiments in the German Army. Russ Speed Up The Red Army is Increasing Us 53 miles south of Goeborc and .,,,.,) nnt-ih The night operations followed up a daylight attack on Holland, when rocket-firing R.A.F. Ty phoons carried out a special raid Vl Wllfll 1 1 IU ail Jliuwaiiy scribed only as "an important military target at Dordrecht." For an hour the planes blasted wun wuiius 01 if Allied nlanes nresumab British Zmc in fc Cr'eoei "Sm of 'S Hertogenbosch in mop-up Rum rations, a century-oltl naval tradition, is not as popular with present-day naval heroes as it was in the time of Lord Nelson. Many of our men prefer "pop." J. M.

Gillison, R. C.N.V. veteran corvette commander, told the Scottish Society gathering In Hotel Georgia Monday "it is surprising how few men take advantage of the traditional "issue." Cmdr. Gillison described convoy work, formation of the fleet, the difficulty of many nationalities, co-ordination for safety and discomforts of fog and ice. FIELD MARSHAL'S MONTY, IN By DICK SANBURN.

(Sneelal Staff Correspondent of The Vancouver Dally Province and Associated Southam Newspapers. i ON THE BANK OF THE I LEOPOLD CANAw Oct. Field Marshal Montgomery, urt- communicative but in laughing good humor, paid a surprise vim to the Canadian force whlc i fought its way the Leo- pold Canal and is now making steady progress clearing Holland of grimly-resisting Geimans. I Correspondents were not vised of the visit, and only a few of us, paying a routine call at I headquarters, Mrere on hand. He came over to chat wiih us under a tree on sodden wil.

And I asked him If he would like to make. any comment on the way speed In the Invasion of East additional German towns, and Prussia Troops and armor! disclosed a new thrust toward shram through shattered Ger- the southeast. Peace Prize and several smaller warships. An imperial communique claimed is u.s. ships were sunk damaged including four car- jriers, two cruisers, a destroyer and four transports sunk.

It two carriers, a battleship land two cruisers were severely damaged. Unofficial Tokyo- broadcasts asserted these were the results of a action east of the Philippines where Japanese reports said variously the Ameri can fleet was "surrounded" or in flight. CONVERGE ON" LEYTE. The three Japanese task forces I apparently were converging on i Leyte, to join ith land based planes in the "smashing defeat" that Tokyo propagandists have long promisei the Japanese. 1 Some 600 Allied ships, includ- nf thA fljvt anH tit si Ana.

About 130 land-hased aJpanese nlanes were shot down, but not be- fore they had mortally wounded 'the converted carrier Princeton. jThc Princetons' magazines ex- ploded and the ship the sixth v.g. vaiiiri iwai IMI1LI" I I ai I nrti- jbor was sunk by accompanying American warships. icASl'ALTlES LIGHT. "Casualties amoni? her person- far from where Winnipeg Rifles, Regina Rifles and Canadian Scot-; ish from Victoria crossed the canal.

Even Monty's beflagged Rolls-Royce with four silver! stars had to bounce through i soupy mud to reach headquar-j tcrs. He took the interview out of our hands, asking especially how things were In the Canadian sector. Were the people happy? Were they- getting along well? We told him they were as far as we knew. MENTIONS ROMMEL. Somebody asked Monty if he had any comment on.

the death of Marshal Rommel, the old desert fox against whom Monty fought many vital battles. i i-'escrioing inc cuiiumuu ui Army bit deeper into the western edge and made progress in two drives to clear the water approaches to Antwerp. DKIVE ON ROOSENpAAl, One Canadian prong hit toward Roosendaal and Bergen Op Zoom, 22 and 20 miles north of Antwerp, against strong resistance. The enemy was reported making local withdrawals south of Breda and Tilburg, middle strongholds of his line across southwestern Holland from the coast to 'S Hertogenbosch. Another Canadian column, riking westward, advanced slightly farther Into the tip of south Bevcland Island.

German guns there and on adjacent Walcheren Island command the Schelde estuary lane to Antwerp. FALL IMMINENT. Other Canadians advanced In the diminishing Breskens pocket on the south shore of the estuary -vid, a small town on tne anuapa w'Vr, reduced to ruins, Red; $2,000,000 UP: "01 wwe At the approaches of fabontabon. ninpsp Krcanturp 1 own least 1360 were rescued. There IMXdpiure luwu sl IVSTANTIAL GAINS.

rntTKI'G Oct 2i (AP) mfly nave becn as man' as 2j0 i. uci. (At i Substantial gains west of ram Chinese troops have recaptured others aboard her. and Pro mgrte by Sinning, an important point in The three Japanese carriers unjts pushing ahead from a line the enemy's right flank, 90 miles were caught by surprise and hit 0f hills seized from the Japanese north of Kewilin, the Chines-e 'southeast of Formosa as they which dominate the coast be-high command announced today, 'sped toward the Philippines. tween Palo and Tacloban.

Hitler's forces appeared to have steadied befoit the powerful Russian offensive through East Prussia, hut Moscow an- pounced capture of at least 14 Wont Be Awarded This Year LONDON, Oct. A Transocean Agency despatch from Stockholm, broadcast by the German radio, said yesterday the Nobel committee had Announced that no Nobel Prize would be awarded this year. Japanese Claim British Carrier Sunk LONDON, Oct. 23. (AP) Tokyo radio claimed that a Brit ish aircraft carrier of the In-! domitable class was sunk after the raid on Nicobar Island In the Bay of Bengal last week hen a LAUGH IS ELOQUENT GOOD HUMOR, VISITS Says He May Yet Meet Herr Rommel, "In a Much the Canadians have fought in r's war correspondent says a like fate awaits every German' town barring the Soviet Army's i advance.

The Red Army, accord-! ing to the Times Moscow cone- spondent, Is on the way to Kocnlsbcrg and the Lutzen Luck railway. 'The next obstacle to be encountered is the creat Insterburg fortress, which the Nazis are determined to hold. Russian air and artillery attacks everywhere are of unexampled violence. The German press describes the battle for East Prussia as the most fateful every undertaken, says the Times Stockholm correspondent. Berlin admits the Red Army is farther Inside East Prussia than Moscow claims.

Nal spokesmen agree that the main Soviet forces are still In reserve and that far greater battles are likely to develop soon on the widest front. Austrian Uetenses A drive by the Red Army Into northern Norway is new prob able, for the main road for Ger- man retreat has been cut. Cap-tilre of the port of Kirkenes would give great assistance to the Allies and make sea transit to northern Russia much safer. Continuing the whirlwind par? which marked the start of the Seventh Victory Loan, B.C.- B.C.Yukon armed forces and public Invested a record $7,432,400 in 28,353 individual orders to noon, Tuesday. It was the biggest day ever recorded in any Victory Loan aiive in the area.

spsuS period totalled $5,582,800 from 22,330 individuals. Armed forces arc showing the way among 10 divisions with 52 Vancouver Division Is third with 13 per cent. REACHES 69 PER CENT. Ladysmith, with 69 per cent, of a $150,000 quota continues to set the pace among 43 units comprising the B.C-Yukon territory. Next are Albcrnl-Dlstrict-West Coast with 29 per cent, and Ocean Falls-Rivera Inlet with 27 per cent.

The lightning opening drive has netted 13.56 per cent of the armed forces and public quota of $54,800,000. fighter plane crash-dlved on it. nV'iT i Lieut. Nobuyukl Abe, son of Division former Jnnai1P. nrlmU minister I With 17 per while former Japanese prime minister, per com.

of their $3,000,000 quota of captured Breskens port was Imminent. Berlin reported that the Canadians captured Fort Frederik-Hendrik. "The battle for the harbor entrance to Antwerp is not ended yet. It has not even entered a new phase, because Field Marshal Model has strengthened his forces on Beveland and Walcheren." The same Nazi report conceded, however, that the Canadians had advanced on the isthmus leading to Beveland Island and elsewhere In this western Netherlands area. South of Breskens the Canadians reached the edge of Oost-burg and cut the Oostburg-Schoondijke road.

this impossible country. For some reason this struck faimod Monty as funny, and ht! roared with laughter as the officer commanding the force joined In the merriment. "What do I think of Cana-flians?" said Monty. And hc laughed aloud again. I assume that Monty's opinion of Canadians and their ability needs no repetition, for hc said no HCNDS OKP QUESTIONS.

He neatly fended off routine questions of when the war is going to end by asking us that very question, before we had time to open our mouths. There was no use him after that. Monty's visit took place not, hoped I would meet him some day. But now and he shrugged. He gazed at the wet ground for a moment, then looked at us and grinned.

"Maybe we will meet some day Pt In a warmer climate than "this." Then Monty clambered back Into tha Rolls'Royce, pulled the blue blanket over his corduroy-clad knees and drove off with an Impish grin at the Canadian provosts on guard. Before he left he dug into the car and pulled out a handful of London Sunday papers and gav them to the Canadian commander. That is a big gift over here. Recent reading of any kind is at a premium. f.

piloted the plane, the radio said. British reports of the raid on the Nicobars made no mention of any naval losses, iHuns Quit Norse Port loxdon, Oct. 23. (AP) The Norwegian port and town of Kirkenes on the Arctic, has been evacuated "after destruc tion of all military installations" at the submarine and air base athwart the Murmansk convoy route, the Berlin radio caid today..