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PAGE TWO THE WINDSOR DAILY STAR, WINDSOR, ONTARIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 193 Jap Troops Pinned Down YOURE IN TIIE ARMY NOW By Capt. Here Ficklen i As We See By W. L. CLARK Battle. to Tame Nature Being Won in Sub-Arctic CHAIN OF AIRPORTS, HIGHWAY AM) PIPELINE ARE COMPLETED TO ALASKA Finschafen.

Defenders Are Faced With Encirclement Stuart Canadian Ptra staff writer, recently completed an eytended aerial tour of the Canadian Northwest, following Is the first of a series (fescnfcint deceloft-ments taking plare in the North country. Russians Getting Back to Frontier THE CAPTURE of Smolensk and other Russian successes are bringing the Russian troops back toward the old Russo-German frontier. The Nazis are losing territory they have held since the first weeks of the German assault on Russia. The Nazi withdrawal is no more voluntary than were the British withdrawals early in the war or the American withdrawal from the Philippines. Armies may fall back from an odd position voluntarily to straighten the line, but no gigantic retirements like that of the Germans in Russia are executed voluntarily.

The Germans are going back because they are being forced back. The Germans are also being forced back in Italy. From Naples the road goes up through Rome to Florence and Milan; then, on to Germany. The German army is being given serious setbacks, which means the German people will be losing conSdence in the ability of their army. That will bring the end in Germany Aunt Minnies knitting me Christmas! epic of the north.

Work crews met up 900 miles of line in 90 days, toiling in temperatures of 40 and 50 degree below aero and blasting 90 percent rf the pole holes. Another line is now being built along the pipeline front Norman Wells. Some the subsidiary projects is progress or completed may have as lasting an effect on northern develop, merit as the main phases of the program. These include the Haynes cutoff, a highway running from Haynes, Alaska, just north of the present entry port rf Skagway, to join the Alaska highway north of Whitehorse. It roughly parallels the Ekag way-Whitehorse rail, way and provides the Yukon Territory secondary means of entry.

Another significant project is pipeline which has bon laid down from Ekagwsy to Whitehorse, branching northwest from there to Fairbanks and northeast to Watson Leke, T. Aviation gasoline hauled to Ekagwsv by tanker is now flowing over u.i him and perhaps after the war the Norman wells crude, refined at Whitehorse, mill take the same route beep commercial air In Ids supplied. BOOM-TOWN EXPANSION Many of the most noticeable effera of the wartime program are transient for example the boom-town expansion of Dawmon Creek and Whitehorse. transformed from pleasant It', a communities to vast, sprawling junctions through which trucks of 1 3 shapes and size rattle night and dy beyond the counting. But the structure of permanent development is being laid across the ut expanse that never felt mans footstep.

And from the harrowing experiences in the battle with nature roads vanishing, aircraft tossed lr.ta mountain i alleys, men pinned beneath the wreckage of slithering trucks is being built a wealth cf experience that will guide event in the post-war jeata. Detroit Police Seize Liquor DETROIT. Sept. 27. In what polir described a the biggest seizure of contraband whisky since the liquor shortage struck Michigan, 379 raac bearing Illinois stamps were confiscated early Sunday in a storage garage at the rear cf 3419 Heidelberg.

Morris Feldman. 40 years old of 40CS Webb, one of the two men arrested in the raid, was quoted as saying, There's 140.000 worth of whisky gone to hell. Arrested with Feldman wa Anthony Eesase, 36. of Toledo. By STUART UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Writer WHITEHORSE.

Y.T.. Sept. 27 Invasion forces are on the move in the sub-Arctic regions of North America, pressing to tame the mighty natural forces of an area almost as large as Australia and utilize them in the fight against the axis. If not a shooting battle In the north, but sudden death is lurking there and men grow hard-faced sirring off the couner-attacks of landslides, washouts, muskeg, knife-like winds, congealing temperatures and spring and summer cloudbursts. I OUR OBJECTIVES The campaign of military and civilian engineers as revealed to date has four objectives: 1 A chain of airport from Edmonton to Fairbanks, Alaska.

2 A highway over the same route. 3 A pipeline from the oilfields at Norman Wells. W.T to Whitehorse. 4 Telephone lines over both highway and pipeline. After two year the chain of airports is complete, the highway open to traffic most of the year as far a Whitehorse, the pipe line Is being pushed through under tremendous difficulties In the hope it will be completed by the end of this year, and siightly more than half the telephone project has been finished.

PERMANENT GAINS As far as permanent gains are concerned. it Is obvious that the string of airport is there to stay. Huge 11-weather landing strips have been laid down by Canadian contractors and are now being expanded and developed by United States concerns. Other intermediate fields are in process of construction. The civilian future of the highway, built as a defence measure, is one the most debated topics in the north Optimists see it as a thriving postwar thoroughfare, pessimist envision it being abandoned because of terrific maintenance costs.

It is sull incomplete between Whitehorse and Fairbanks due to ice conditions. Also subject to speculation are the commercial possibilities of the pipeline, which is being laid across the wilderness to replace tanker traffic up the west coast to Alaska. TELEPHONE LINE A telephone line now runs from Dawson Creek, BC, to Whitehorse and Brig. -Gen. James A.

O'Connor, general officer commanding, northwest service command. United States army, regards it construction a one of the Adding to Nominal Roll A COUPLE OF READERS want to know why we did it not mention E. C. Awrey, K.C., as a possible Crown Attorney, when that post is filled. All right, all right, add Mr.

Awrey to the nominal roll. Better put his name near the top, too. 1 1 Mr. Hull Wins Long Battle RESIGNATION of Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State in the United States brings to a climax the long land bitter battle between Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, jand his assistant. A hard-bitten man from Tennessee, Mr.

Hull has been at odds with the suave, reactionary Mr. Welles for years. At times they were on nodding terms, but not on cordial terms. i Mr. Welles has been noted as a reactionary.

He has led 'one faction in the Department of State, while Mr. Hull has another. This situation did not make for efficiency, but has continued for years. Mr. Welles has been tagged as a fascist, whether or not he deserves the term, Appointment of Edward R.

Stettinius to succeed Mr. Welles brings an advocate of co-operation with Russia to the State Department. That does not mean that Mr. is a Communist, but it does mean that he believes in helping the Russians kill a lot of Germans to hasten the end of the war. The Welles resignation ends the rumors that President 1 Roosevelt has taken such bitter pains to try to deny were true.

There have been differences, bitter differences, between Mr. Hull and Mr. Welles. There were times when it was doubtful which one would end up by resign-I ing. In this contest, Mr.

Hull has won. 1 Now, Its a Six-Leaf Clover HIMMLER IN RIGA LONDON. Eng. Sept, 27. A DNB broadcast from Berlin today said that Heinrich Hmamler.

Gestapo chieftain and Adolf Hitler's trouble shooter when unrest breaks out. Pad arrived at Riga. Baltic capital of Latvia. WHEN WE WROTE about those five-leaf clovers being found in Memorial Park, we started something. Now we learn that the Derbyshire family of Mersea Township thas been finding six-leaf clovers.

Who will find the lucky seven Zhdanov and Beria Join in Russia Mom said in her letter that a sweater for nouncement has put Fifth Army forces closer than 22 miles.) Goumt in Corsica Meanwhile, out across the Tyrrhenian Sea in Corsica, the French high command announced yesterday that it has thrown the fierce Moroccan Goums, who terrorized axis troops in Tunisia, against the trapped Qerman garrison. The French announced the capture of Oletta, less than seven miles southwest of Bastia. enemy stronghold in the northeast sector of the island from which the Germans were trying frantically to get out by sea and air in the face of a tight Allied blockade. (The United Nations radio at Algiers, in a broadcast recorded last night by Associated Press, said that Bastia already had been occupied by French forces.) Raids By Fortresses While other air force squadrons continued to hammer enemy troop concentrations, depots and supply lines in the immediate battle area, American Flying Fortresses made a round trip Saturday to bomb rail Installations at Bolzano, just 30 miles south of the Brenner Pass. The Fortresses also made their first attack on Verona.

100 miles south of the northern Italian frontier, and delivered their heaviest blow on the rail yards at Bologna, focal point for traffic from Germany as well as from Yugoslavia and Hungary. Plan Autopsy On Baby Helen Doctor- Seeks Information to Save Down Infants FALL RIVER, Sept. 27. A doctor planned today to perform an autopsy on 15-day-old Beverly Helen Primus, Des Moines, Iowa, "upside-down stomach baby who died yesterday at Truesdale Hospital after a dramatic flight from the middle west. Dr.

Rudolf Osgood, resident physician, said he would conduct the operation to secure accurate Information as to the cause of death in the hope that the facts revealed might some day save the life of another child similarly afflicted. Hospital authorities said that the infant's lungs collapsed and that she died at 4:45 a.m. yesterday. She had been placed on her right side to ease the intake of oxygen after the stomach condition forced complete collapse of the right lung and partially affected the other, doctors explained. The tiny girl arrived here Friday after a plane trip from Des Moines.

Dr. Philomen E. Truesdale, noted Fall River surgeon, was to have performed the operation after an unspecified period of observation. 5 Utilize Stocks Of Used Tires WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.

The Office of Price Administration today authorized automobile dealers to utilize their stocks of grade three (used or recapped) tires to equip used cars they hold for sale. The OPA requires that the tires must be used on a car which does not now have the allowable number of tires, that the replaced tire or tube which cannot be repaired or recapped, and that the replacement is approved by the OPA tire inspector. The order is aimed at moving large stocks of grade three tires now in dealers hands into useful service, OPA said, and to alleviate the shortage of automobiles to some extent. Withdrawing At Naples Continued From Page One sustained offensive, a headquarters spokesman said, blit three or four miles of tough mountain going remained before the British troops there could break through to the open Naples plain. From their mountain crests, however, the British overlooked the plain.

Front line reports said the fighting there was more ferocious than anything seen in the Middle East, North Africa or Sicily since the British breakthrough at El Alamein in Egypt nearly a year ago. In their new advance, Gen. Clark's Americans left the Salerno plain far behind and took mountain heights dominating an elaborate network of highways, some of which lead to Avel-lina, the centre of resistance for the whole area inland from Naples. The slackening of German artillery fire was the-first signal that the Germans were withdrawing, and the Americans at once began pressing the retreating enemy closely. Messages from the front said the Americans now were consolidating their lines and straightening out their avenues for supplies, preparatory to the next big push, which might take them to an east-west road leading to Avellino only two miles north of their present position.

Demolition Carried Out The enemy rearguards have demolished practically every bridge and road, however, and considerable repair work was necessary to open the flow of supplies. Discussing the fighting north and northwest of Salerno, the headquarters spokesman said, "enemy resistance Is stubborn and the outcome is being decided in man-to-man encounters. This fighting resembles some of the historic battles of the First world war when strong-points in some sectors had to be taken by hard frontal assault. (A Reuters correspondent with the Fifth Army said British warships were hurling, shells from the sea in an effort to blast open the passes.) The Germans were so well entrenched in the mountains as to prevent small flanking or encirclement movements by tanks or motorized equipment, and it was necessary for Clarks men to slug them out of each machine-gun nest and mortar post. No Stand Made Although two more river lines remained oetween Montgomery's men and Foggia, the enemy had given no indication yet of making a stand in force along the Adriatic.

Allied warplanes sweeping ahead found only enemy transports north of Foggia, whose 13 airfields are within 500 miles of Munich. The Allied line now runs from Mar-gherita di Eavoia. just below the Monte Gargano "spur of the boot, southwest to Cerignola, almost due I south across the Ofanto River to Montemilone, southwest to a point north of Ate 11a and Muro, due west to Calabritto, northwest to Cassano, sharply southwest to Mercato-Rovella, west to San Cipriano and on out through the mountains of the Sorrento Peninsula. At the centre of the line across the peninsula, Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery's Eighth Army troops were announced as still in contact with the enemy just north of Atella, capture of which was disclosed yesterday. Weather Is Bad For the first time in many weeks bad weather almost completely stilled the great Allied air offensive against the German enemy in Italy. A few American Mitchells bombed some German troop concentrations through the clouds near Sarno, at the southeastern foot of Vesuvius, an air commuinque said, and R.R.F. fighter-bombers attacked some trucks beside the road. Other fighter bombers scored hits among aircraft parked on a land strip at Pomigliano DArco near Naples, and attacked road junctions in the Benevento and Colle areas, both northeast of Naples.

In support of the advancing Eighth Army, fighter-bombers spanned the peninsula to the East Coast and hit enemy motor transport north of Foggia. Headquarters announced yesterday that the German air force already has fled from the major airbase and 12 satellite fields there. In Middle East From the Middle East, British Liberators and Halifaxes kept up the Allied hammering at the Balkans by attacking the Kalamakl airdrome near Athens Friday night, a Cairo announcement said. Beauflghters also left a merchant vessel smoking in an attack in Syros harbor in the Aegean Sea yesterday. In sweeping to within 22 miles from Foggia, the British Eighth Army has now deployed on the southern stretches of the sea-level plain that stretches 30 miles beyond Foggia.

Inland near the centre of the Peninsula other British forces swept through Spinazzola and Atella, and Fifth Army troops, smashing out east -ward from Salerno, captured the twin villages of Senerchia and Valva, 28 miles from the west coast. Field despatches last night said that American tank and infantry forces, routing German resistance nest by nest from mountain strongholds, also had advanced 30 miles northeast of Salerno in six days of the fiercest fighting. Line of Battle Thus, the line of battle stretched across the peninsula in a generally straight route from a few miles northwest of Salerno to a point on the Adriatic north of the Ofanto River, with both British and American forces in position to sweep westward in a flanking move against Naples. The American Fifth Army frontal assault on this second largest of Italys ports was said in yesterdays headquarters bulletin to have engulfed Cava.di Terreni. a village seven miles northwest of Salerno overlooking the valley that dips to Mount Vesuvius straight ahead.

(A Berlin broadcast last night placed the scene of battle only seven miles south of Naples, but no Allied an Death Takes Dr. Gullen Canada's First Woman Graduate in Medicine, Long Prominent TORONTO, Sept. 27. From Victoria University, which graduated her 60 years ago. Dr.

Augusta Stowe Gullen, wife of Dr. J. B. Gullen, and Canadas first woman medical graduate, will be burled this afternoon. She died Saturday at 461 Spadina avenue, her home for the last half century.

Very Rev. Peter Bryce of Metropolitan Church, where the Doctors Gullen were married 60 years ago last May, will officiate at the services In Emmamiel College chapel. Dr. Louis F. Barber of Victoria will represent Chancellor W.

T. Brown and the university, and a large number of women doctors will be present. Pallbearers will be nephews George Edgar Gullen and Lloyd S. Gullen. Detroit; Magistrate Fred C.

Gullen, Hudson J. Stowe, James N. Wilson and Edgar S. Burton. LEADER IN MOVEMENTS Dr.

Augusta Gullen, up to the time of her retirement from public life recently, was one of the best-known women In Canada because of her activity in so many womens movements, particularly the long campaign for women's suffrage, which was introduced Into Ontario by her mother. Dr. Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (first womn to practice medicine In Canada) i the National Council of Women, of which she was a founder, and the temperance movement. Dr. Gullen was one of the original staff members of the Toronto Western Hospital and organized its women's board, of which she was president until 1926.

She served on the Toronto School Board from 1892 to 1896; was vice-president of the Ontario Social Service Council, honorary president of the Canadian Suffrage Association, member of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons and represented the medical protession on the senate of the University of Toronto. She was a member of the University Women's Club, the Women's Canadian Club and the Lyceum and Women's Art Association. BORN IN NORWICH Dr. Cullen was born in Norwich, Oxford County, daughter of the late John Stowe and Dr. Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, and took her course at the Toronto School of Medicine, graduating from Victoria (then in Cobcurg), later getting her degree from Trinity.

At the opening of the Ontario Women's Medical College, she was appointed demonstrator of anatomy, later lecturer in child diseases, and subsequently professor of pediatrics, which position she held until the Ontario Women's Medical College amalgamated with the University cf Toronto. In recognition of her services to the profession, the medical alumnae of the University of Toronto presented an oil painting of Dr. Gullen to the Ackdemy of Medicine in 1929. She received the King's Medal In 1935. Dr.

Augusta Gullen and Dr. J. B. Gullen (Trinity) were married immediately upon their graduation on May 23, 1883, the first wedding of medical doctors in Canada. HEALTH OFFICER DIES PORT OF SPAIN.

Trinidad. Sept. 27. Dr. AJudhya Persaud, 33, medical health officer for the St.

Ann's-Diego Martin district, died at his home Thursday. By OLEN W. CLEMENTS Associated Press Staff Writer ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 27. Japanese defenders of Finschhafen, their hands already more than full in ccping with Australian troops at their very doorstep, today stood the imminent and additional risk of being swept up from all sides.

Hardly more than 20 miles to the rear of their position on the northeastern tip of New Guinea was another Allied force pushing steadily eastward along the shore of the Huon Gulf from captured Lae. On their land flank, ten miles or less distant, was still a third Allied ground element, a section of the Australian jungle troops who debarked on the coast six miles north of Finschhafen five days ago. TIGHTEN PINCERS Today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur'a headquarter placed the force from Lae at Haniscb Harbor, nearly two-thirds of the way to Finschhafen from its starting point. The Inland arm of the pincers from the north was said to have touched Sattelberg, northwest of Finschhafen and six miles from the coast, as long ago as September 24.

Since then it may have approached much closer to the Japanese base. But the main body of the seaborne Australians presented the enemy with his most pressing problem. These seasoned jungle fighters were reported to be scarcely three-quarters of a mile from the heart of Finschhafen itself and to have come up against the core of enemy defences on the north sturdy earthworks and elaborate trenches. There, in the face of stiffened resistance. the pace of their advance slowed, but a headquarters spokesman gave the Japanese no cause to believe their positions were secure.

The drive was slackened, he explained. only so reinforcements could be brought up and the final attack made with full assurance of success. PLANES HARASS FOE There was little respite, either, for enemy forces holding mountain positions in the interior of northeastern New Guinea or seeking to withdraw to less Immediately vulnerable bases along the north coast of the island. Allied Airacobra attack bombers and big four-engined planes made two sweeps September 24 and 25 along the upper Ramu River Valley and supply trails linking It with Madang. Bridges were blasted, roads destroyed and troop centres set afire by 75 tons of bombs.

Transport columns and bivouacs were ripped by scores of thousands of machine gun bullets. Allied airpower also engaged In bombing and strafing missions over the whole island war zone from Selaru. southwest of New Guinea, eastward to Kolombangarm. in the central Solomons, but the only actual air combat to be reported took place at oft-raided Kahili, Japan's big plane base on Bougainville, northwest of Kolomban-farsu There the enemy sent up 60 Inter- ceptors to challenge a force of Amen- can torpedo and dive bombers intent I on reducing the bases gun positions. American Corsair fighters shot down nine of the Japanese Zeros, and lost two of their own number.

The bomb- 1 ers carried through with their attack By WILLIAM IIIPPLE Associated Press Staff Writer I U. S. HEADQUARTERS IN THE I SOUTH PACIFIC, Sept. 27. More than 100 American fighters and bomb- ers piloted by army, navy and marine fliers bored through stiff Japanese ground and air defences to blast Kahili airdrome on Boungainville and besieged Kolombankara in the northern Solomon Islands, it was announced today.

Nine Zeros were shot down over Kahili and more than 700 light fell on Vila airbase at Kolombangara Thursday in what a spokesman at South Pacific headquarters described as a perfectly co-ordinated mission. Returning the next day 50 Mitchell medium bombers, accompanied by dive and torpedo bombers and fighters, dumped more than 20 tons of high ex- plosives on enemy gun positions at Kape Harbor and Ring! Cove near Vila. The raids, announced today by Allied headquarters in Uie southwest Pacific, were the first In several day? due to bad weather. HOT RUNNING BATTLE In the strike at Kahili Corsair the Lightning fighter pilots shot down seven out of 60 intercepting Zeros in a hot and furious running battle that lasted 15 minutes. Airacobra light bombers, meantime struck below cloud cover to devastate numerous ground installations, bomb gun positions and start a half dozen fires.

The Japanese responded with heavy anti-aircraft fire. Liberator heavy bombers, unable to carry out high altitude bombing because of poor visibility, turned back to the south to drop about 700 light antipersonnel and fragmentation bombs at Vila on Kolombangara. A mile and a half across Blackett Strait from Kolombangara, U. S. marines and army units have taken a heavy toll of Japanese In occupying Arundel Island.

The navy spokesman estimated casualties will run to 500 Japanese killed when the count is completed. All pocket of resistance on Arundel were cleaned out although a substantial number of enemy troops were believed to have escaped across Blackett Strait to Kolombangara. Off Fansi, marine Corsair pjilots pounced on a 70-foot steam launch. strafed it and saw it explode. ZHDANOV AND BERIA are names to the fore in Soviet Russia.

Zhdanov may be the successor to Stalin, if anything should happen to that leader. Beria controls the secret police and ranks as a general in the army. Associated with these two men are Stomonyakov, Vish- inski and Dekanossov. The group stands on one side of politics in the Kremlin, while Kaganovitsh heads another group, which is more in accord with Litvinov. I Zhdanov is intensely nationalistic.

He is for Russia all the time and his group thinks it should take a strong stand in European and other matters. They feel Russia has won ithe right to a loud voice in the concert of nations. They were the men who urged the recall of Maisky and Litvinov 'from London and Washington. Vishinski is the Number One Russian in the Foreign Office at Moscow. His voice added to those of Zhdanov and Beria makes the trio an influential triumvirate.

Russia has ambitious aims in Eastern Europe and Zhdanov means to make sure most of these ambitions are given a 'chance. He calls for a strong foreign policy which will make Russia a respected partner in any grouping after the war. 1 The names of these men are not often publicized. But, they are working in the Kremlin and they have great influence with Stalin, who as Marshal of Russia still is the boss of all the Russians. Plenty of Large Trout TROUT FISHERMEN are expected to flock to Prince Edward Island after the war, when tourist travel begins to move freely again.

They have some fine trout streams down there, well stocked and large fish. They make splendid eating. Arthur H. Mould, manager of the Canadian National Railways Charlottetown Hotel, knows just where the trout are. He can catch them himself, and often gives some of the hotel guests a special treat by serving them I freshly caught trout for dinner.

I 'Sahara in Ontario Your Savings Create New Wealth Which You Share fOUR surplus funds In bank deposits; however small, contribute to the working capital that Is constantly enriching yens life. Business uses these savings to give Canadians a standard of lining enviably high among the nations of the world. Through business enterprises, this capital provides costly research laboratories to search out, test and perfect new products and Improvements. These dispel the drudgery of many chores; they add ease, comfort and entertainment to the conditions under which you live. It is this capital that builds new factories.

Installs improved machinery and hires mere people to turn out better goods at less cost to you. Volume production, made possible by capital, lowers prices even while Increasing wages. Without capital, these things could net be. The new goods produced by business are the real wealth of the nation wealth in which you share as you enjoy the products that working capital puts within your reach; lervo BMMOR0IITO Incorporate! IS55 Windsor Branch W. H.

Hnrack. Manager WalkrrvUle Branch L. N. Hkks, Manager Boche Command Hides Truth in Circumlocutions ALONG THE GRAPEVINE comes word that the liquor stores in Ontario may be closed for a part of October, due to lack of spirits to sell. Premier Drew is seeking some means of -distribution and is trying to work out an adequate and' controlled supply.

Perhaps, they can find some way to avoid shut-! ting the stores. Better wait and see. One; Place to Get Warm IF YOU GET COLD this autumn or winter, there is always one place you can get nice and warm. The. buses are cosy when the driver turns on the heat.

mm Speakers Are Paid BEING SPEAKER of the Senate or House of Commons is than an honor. It is a position to which a substantial salary is attached. The Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Commons each get their sessional indemnity of $4,000, plus salary and motor car allowance of $7,000, plus $3,000 as an allowance in lieu of an official residence. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons gets $4,000 sessional indemnity, plus salary of $4,000, plus an allowance of $1,500 in lieu of an official apartment. 2 These salaries and allowances are compensation for the duties involved.

i I NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Not only have the Nazis developed into a line art the military manoeuvre of advancing to the rear they have built up a veritable arsenal of circumlocutions with which to explain to the world this process of going forward backwards. The United States Office of Wartime Information dredged up for the public some of the twists and alibis used in German high command communiques since the first of this year to cover admissions of Nazi retreats from specified military localities. The last reflected the development of a German lexicon of retreat which has tried to make a virtue of military necessity, dismiss the Importance of lost territory and twist defeat into a propaganda pattern seeking to give the Impression of planned withdrawal and Nazi qualitative superiority over Allied "quantitatively superior troops.

German retreat propaganda, as contained in official communiques, now includes fuch cliches as "defensive successes, 'successful disengagement, elastice defence, "mobile defence," fluid defence, retrocessive manoeuvre. accnrding to plan. shortening of the front and (this is a honey) withdrawal to the enemy's surprise. However, all those failed the other day when describing the situation in the Bryansk sector of the Russian front, so DNB. the German news agency, broadcast the report that the "bulk of the German troops reached a new line without fighting.

But it seems that there is a bit of professional Jealousy between the master-minds of retreat in the axis countries, and recently Germany and Japan clashed over which country was the more adept at getting away fust-est with the os test. The Nazis said their evacuation of Sicily was an achievement without precedent in military history. And just about that time their toothy friends on the other side of the globe were acknowledging the loss of Kiska. modestly saying the withdrawal of their troops from the Aleutian island was without parallel in world military history. MANUFACTURER DIES TORONTO.

Sept. 27. Charles N. Saba, 65. one-time Toronto shoe merchant and latterly a cosmetic manufacturer, died Saturday at his home here following a heart attack..