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12,
1945
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Lives
MANIIjA,
Feb.
12
Two
nuns
one
a
Canadian
and
one
an
American-arc
among
12
prisoner.,
who
have
been
released
from
prison
where
they
had
been
incarcerated
by
the
Japanese
as
alleged
spies.
The
Canadian
sister,
Mary
Dclys
from
'Xaplervlllc.
Quebec,
told
of
abuse
and
hardships
to
which
the
and
the
others
had
been
subjected.
"Wc
would
sure
ly
have
died
if
God
had
not
cared
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McNaughton's
Explanation
Take
Kleve;
Yanks
Pruem
IWKIS,
Feb.
12
(CI1)
Klcvc,
northern
anchor
of
the
Siegfried
Line,
was
captured
today
by
the
First
Canadian
Army.
At
the
same
time
the
American
Third
Army,
100
miles
to
the
south,
won
the
major
traffic
centre
of
I'rucm
except
for
a
few
houses.
Canadian,
Hritish
and
Scottish
forces
are
now
advancing
beyond
Kleve.
for
US
"
she
.'aid
tiiuuiiiiunti.'a
aui'iiaing
J
Hie
Instant
death
on
Friday
I
night
l.xst
of
Sub-Lleutcnant
DODHMP
ATTAflClin
ma
"Urglnbotham,
KUDUnD
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VR
who
lost
nls
Ufc
in
ARE
INCREASED
LONDON.
Frb.
VI
There
were
January
as
In
December.
There
is
no
announcement
as
to
the
number
of
casualties.
ROOSEVELT
TO
VISIT
FRANCE
PARIS.
Feb.
12-
It
Ls
expected
President
Franklin.
D.
Roosevelt
will
visit
France
after
the
meeting
now
being
held
on
the
Black
Sea
with
Prime
Minister
Churchill
of
Great
Britain
and
Premier
Joseph
Stalin
of
Russia.
INQUEST
INTO
ACCIDENT
TO
NAVY
OFFICER
A
naval
board
of
Inquiry
was
being
held
today
and
a
civil
'"lucst
will
be
held
tonight
into
a
iau
irom
tne
government
wharf
to
the
deck
of
a
ship
below.
While
boarding
the
ship,
Higginbotham
Is
believed
to
have
slipped
and
fell.
He
broke
his
neck
in
the
fall
and
his
body
went
on
into
the
water
from
which
it
was
Immediately
recovered.
Higginbotham
was
born
September
10,1910,
and
served
in
the
Fishermen's
Reserve
before
Joining
the
Naval
Reserve
for
ac
tive
service
about
a
year
ago.
Ills
home
was
at
1054
Amphlon
Street,
Victoria,
where
his
widow
resides.
Mexico
has
an
estimated
popu
lation
of
more
than
19,500,000.
Two
Children
Are
Suffocated
Wiir
News
Highlights
Martial
Law
in
Berlin
LONDON
Berlin,
the
capital
of
(iermany,
is
reported
to
be
in
state
of
siege
and
under
martial
law.
Fifteen
craek
divisions
have
been
assigned
to
defend
(he
city
house
by
house.
Tito
Pockets
Germans
LONDON
Marshal
Tito's
Partisans,
have
pocketed
a
force
of
Ccrmans
sonic
75
miles
south
of
liberated
Belgrade
in
Yugoslavia,
(ierman
troops
arc
also
being
mopped
up
around
.Mastar
after
a
crushing
assault
by
Tito's
men.
Germans
Thrown
Back
KOMi:
Firth
Army
troops
in
Italy
have
thrown
back
at
least
five
enemy
counter-attacks
in
the
Serchio
Valley
area.
Elsewhere
along
the
rain-soaked
Italian
front,
Allied
patrols
have
stabbed
deep
Into
enemy-held
territory
despite
poor
visibility
which
continues
to
hamper
major
operations.
Canadian
Spitfires
Active
LONDON
During
the
week-end,
Canadian
Spitfires
shattered
a
half-dozen
Ccrman
locomotives
despite
almost
solid
cloud
foiniations
covering
their
patrol
area
beyond
the
British
Second
Army
front.
Canadian
airmen
say
airfields
lti
the
area
of
Miicnstcr
and
Oulersloh
appear
deserted.
No
aircraft
were
visible
over
the
enemy
airports
and
the
usual
anil-aircraft
fire
is
missing.
Mud
Chief
Resistance
LONDON
The
Canadian
l
irsl
Army
is
meeting
with
in
creased
resistance
in
Us
drive
into
the
nortnern
cnu
oi
me
Siegfried
Line.
The
resistance,
however,
Is
said
by
one
cor-respondent
to
be
more
from
weather
than
the
enemy.
The
country
is
a
sea
of
mud
which
makes
operations
very
difficult.
Floods
on
the
Koer
Hivcr
caused
by
the
'Germans
bursting
dams
arc
receding
without,
apparently,
having
caused
much
loss
to
the
Allies.
Winning
Norway
Back
LONDON
Norwegian
troops
are
slated
to
have
made
an
overland
advance
of
sixty
miles
In
the
extreme
north
of
Norway
ii
ml
recaptured
a
considerable
area
from
the
Germans.
On
Eastern
Front
MOSCOW
The-
Russian
forces
arc
driving,
ahead
on
the
northern
and
southern
ends
of
the
eastern
front
In
their
great
offensive
on
(iermany.
Operations
in
the
centre
of
the
front
arc
shrouded
in
censorship.
Suicide
Tactics
at
Manila
MANILA
The
Japanese
suicide
defenders
of
Manila
are
resorting
to
every
type
of
fanatical
resistance
and
arc
in-creasing
their
destruction
as
Hie
overwhelming
American
forces
squeeze
them
into
a
smaller
area
in
the
southern
part
of
the
city
across
the
Paslg
Klvcr.
There
is
no
chance
of
the
Japanese
escaping
destruction
here.
Superforts
Hit
Rangoon
NEW
DELHI
United
Slates
superfortresses,
operating
from
India,
have
struck
a
heavy
blow
at
Rangoon,
Burma.
Peace
For
Greece
Now
Protocol
Iletwccn
Government
and
Leftists
Has
Now
Been
Signed
ATHENS,
Feb.
12
(CD
Negotiations
have
been
successfully
concluded
between
the
(Jreek
government
and
leaders
of
the
National
Liberation
Front.
A
brief
announcement
ays
the
fererees
have
signed
an
accord
which
is
expected
to
bring
Vace
to
the
strife-lorn
land.
Terms
of
the
agreement
have,
not
been
announced
although
it
is
understood
to
provide
for
laying
down
of
arms
by
the
leftists
by
.March
15.
A
trurc
had
been
in
effect
between
militia
of
the
Liberation
Front
and
Rritish-sup-iwrled
(Jreek
government
forces
since
January
15.
"GREAT
COUNTRY"
Alaska
is
a
native
Eskimo
word
mean
"great
country."
Double
Tragedy
In
Fraser
Street
Home
Four-Year-Old
Boy
and
Two-Year-Old
Girl
Victims
of
Smoke
From
Fire
in
Bed
Ronald,
four-year-old
son,
and
Lorraine,
two-year-old
daughter
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Mclvin
Hanburg,
died
of
asphyxiation
from
the
smoke
of
a
small
fire
in
a
Fraser
Street
home
here
late
Saturday
night.
Coroner
M.
M.
Stephens
and
city
police
are
engaged
in
an
investigation
of
the
circumstances
attending
the
tragedy.
The
children
were,
:
alone
in
the
bouse
at
the
time.
the
father
out
shark
fishing
aboard
the
boat
Johanna
and
t
l
t
JUHU,
A
VlfJUita
tilUi,
VJCii-
the
mother
visiting
with
ncl-jcral
Charles
DeGaulle
has
been
bors.
Tlie
question
is
what
I
Invited
to
the
Big
Three
cenfer-causcd
the
fire.
Dr.
J.
J.
Gibson,
I
ence
are
officially
denied
in
of-local
physician,
estimated
that
j
flcial
sources
here,
nor
is
there
confirmation
In
London,
the
children
mi5ht
have
bcenany
dead
for
about
an
hour
before
j
"
they
were
carried
out
of
the
Dutch
Children
smoke-filled
sleeping
room
of
.
r
the
four-room
cottage.
iUme
to
Britain
It
was
Just
at
midnight
that
LONDON.
Feb.
12
Five
hund-tlic
call
came
to
the
police
from
j
red
children,
from
Hbcratcd
Hol-749
Fraser
Street,
the
scene
of
land
have
been
moved
to
Coven-tlic
tragedy.
Request
was
made
try
to
make
their
home
until
for
an
lnhalator
as
two
child-
j
such
time
as
their
homeland
is
rcn
had
been
overcome
by
restored.
Seventy
teachers
ac-smokc.
On
arrival
of
the
po-
companlcd
the
children.
It
Is
cx-
Hce,
Dr.
Gibson
was
found
to
pected
that
some
20,000
Dutch
be
In
attendance.
He
pro-
children
will
be
brought
to
Denounced
that
both
children
itain
to
make
their
temporary
were
dead.
There
was
by
that
'homes.
,
time
no
need
for
the
lnhalator
which
had
been
supplied
by
the
Navy
Fire
Department.
According
to
Information
received
by
the
police,
tlie
mother,
Mrs.
Slgna
Hanburg,
visiting
at
the
house
of
Mrs.
Vcma
Ratch-ford
next
door,
had
asked
Frank
Montcsaim
to
step
over
and
sec
It
everything
was
well
at
the
Hanburg
home.
Oh
entering
the
Hanburg
house.,
Montesano
found
smoke
coming
out
of
the
bedroom.
In
the
bedroom
Itself
there
wns
dense
and
choking
smoke.
He
carried
the
two
children
out
of
the
room.
There
was
still
warmth
in
till-
body
of
the
little
girl
but
the
little
boy
nppcared
cold
and
rigid.
Montesano
tried
artificial
respiration
but
with
no
success.
It
was
at
the
time
that
appllca-
(Contlnued
on
Page
4)
SLIDE
CAUSES
iTRAIN
HOLD-UP
Boulders
As
Big
As
Box
Cars
Come
Down
Over
Track
A
huge
rock
slide
which
poured
down
boulders
"as
big
as
box
cars"
on
the
C.N.R.
railway
line
81
miles
east
of
Prince
Ru()crt
at
9
a.m.
Sunday
has
hampered
but
not
.stopped
train
service
in
and
out
of
the
city.
Today
as
wrecking
crews
from
Prince
'Rupert
and
Pacific
strive
to
clean
the
track
of
the
portion
of
mountainside
which
cover
it,
pa.sscngers
of
the
westbound
passenger
train
which
was
due
to
arrive
here
at
10:45
Sunday
night
arc
being
transferred
to
another
train
sent
from
Prince
Rupert.
Pas
sengers,
baggage,
express
and
mail
will
arrive
in
the
city
to
night,
the
Dally
News
was
told.
It
is
expected
that
the
track
will
be
cleared
by
Tuesday
night.
Tnc
passenger
train
due
to
leave
Prince
Rupert
tonight
at
8
o
clock
will
leave
on
time,
railway
officials
say,
and
castbound
passengers
will
be
transferred
to
a
train
on
the
eastern
side
of
the
slide.
The
slide
occurred
at
mile
38.4
west
of
Pacific,
four
miles
west
of
Amcsbury
station.
There
Is
no
regular
train
Scheduled
to
arrive
in
Prince
(Rupert
today
and
it
is
thought
mat
tnc
track
will
be
cleared
In
time
to
allow
Tuesday
night's
train
to
come
through
as
scheduled.
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STOCKS
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8.
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5.25
Premier
Border
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Premier
Gold
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1.C8
Privateer
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McDonald
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Reno
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Salmon
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Bridge
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Whitewater
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Vj
AIR
LINES
FOR
PACIFIC
OCEAN
Vancouver
to
Be
Terminal
I
For
Service
to
Australia
and
New
Zealand
VANCOUVER,
Feb.
12
Q
Vancouver
may
be
the
terminal
for
two
transpacific
air
lines
to
Australia
and
New
Zealand,
it
is
indicated
in
a
letter
from
Hon.
C.
D.
Howe,
minister
of
muni
tions
and
supply,
to
the
Vancouver
Board
of
Trade.
The
letter
said
the
Montreal
air
conference
had
agreed.
that
Canada
would
operate
one
route
from
Vancouver
via
either
San
Francisco
or
Honolulu
and
the
United
Kingdom,
New
Zealand
and
Australia
would
operate
a
parallel
route
to
San
Francisco
and
thence
to
Vancouver.
Repulse
German
Counter-Attacks
ROME,
Feb.
12
tJi
German
counter-attacks
have
been
repulsed
in
the
Herchlo
Valley
and
the
Italian
west
coast
area
where
the
Fifth
Army
made
limited
advances
in
the
last
few
days,
Allied
headquarters
an
nounced.
Bulletins
COKItECIDOIt
HEAVILY
HIT
GENERAL
MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS
American
bombers
today
subjected
the
Manila
Harbor
island
fortress
of
Corregidor
to
the
heaviest
saturation
attack
so
far
in
the
Pacific
war.
Other
American
bombers
attacked
Tokyo
and
Yokohama
in
Japan
proper.
BIG
STORM
IN
VANCOUVER
1
VANCOUVER
No
less
than
150
trees
were
blown
down
over
the
roads
hi
Slandley
Park
yesterday
by
a
heavy
windstorm.
Four
lumber-laden
scows
were
upset
in
the
harbor
and
the
lumber
spilled
into
the
water.
FAKE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LONDON
It
is
believed
that
fake
announcements
are
being
sent
out
from
Berlin
of
the
deaths
of
high
ranking
azis,
who
would
be
accused
as
war
criminals,
so
they
may
escape
punishment
after
the
war.
In
some
cases
it
is
even
believed
that
fake
funerals
have
been
held.
CHURCHMEN
KILLED
LONDON
When
a
v-bomb
came
down
in
front
of
a
Presbyterian
Church
Hall
in
England,
five
leading
church
officials
were
killed.
PREMIER
HART
SPEAKS
VICTORIA
Premier
John
Hart
delivered
ills
policy
speech
in
the
Legislature
this
afternoon,
elucidating
on
the
government's
program
as
indicated
in
the
Throne
Speech.
POSSIBLE
ELECTION
DATE
OTTAWA
Saturday's
cabinet
meeting
broke
Up
without
any
announcement
of
a
derision
on
the
political
questions
left
hanging
in
the
air
by
the
Ontario
Grey
North
by-clectiou.
Political
observers
in
Ottawa
say
Prime
Minister
King
docs
not,
seem
inclined
to
speed
decisions
on
political
matters.
Since
sixty
days
must
elapse
between
the
calling
a
federal
general
election
and
voting
day,
the
earliest
possible
date
for
a
general
election
now
is
April
12.
FREED
FROM
TRISON
LONDON
A
Polish
broadcast
says
some
Allied
soldiers
freed
from
German
prison
camps
in
Silesia
arc
in
Lublin,
Poland,
awaiting
transportation
home.
The
Lublin
radio
says
groups
of
British,
American
and
French
soldiers
.and
airmen
have
been
in
Lublin
several
weeks
since
the
Red
Army
freed
them.
The
broadcast
adds
that
Lublin
residents
greeted
the
liberated
prisoners
enthusiastically.
Captain
William
Mouncc
and
Captain
John
Parks
of
the
B.C.
coast
pilotage
service
left
Sat
urday
night
to
return
to
Vancouver
after
piloting
a
Russian
vessel
to
Prince
Rupert
for
re
pairs
at
the
local
dry
dock.
Canadian
Army
Now
Has
Enough
Reinforcements
To
Last
Several
Months
Denies
Censorship
of
News
Necessity
For
Continued
Care
in
Regard
to
Movement
of
Troops
OTTAWA,
Feb.
12
(CP)
The
Canadian
Army
now
has
sufficient
reinforcements
overseas
to
meet
:ontinuing
operations
for
several
months,
Defence
Minister
A.
G.
L.
MeNaughton
said
today
in
a
prepared
statement.
General
MeNaughton
said
"the
defence
department
has
received
word
of
the
safe
arrival
overseas
of
further
rein-
forcement
contingents
and
I
can
now
state
that
we
have
behind
3ur
army
in
northwestern
Europe
adequate
reinforcements
In
the
United
Kingdom
to
meet
con
tinuing
operations
over
the
next
several
months.
These
will
be
augmented
by
continuing
dispatch
of
further
members
now
In
training
centres
in
Canada."
Defence
,
headquarters
said
they
were
unable
to
elaborate
on
the
reference
to
the
latest
arrivals
overseas.
They
said
the
troops
were
classified
as
general
reinforcements
and
they
could
not
say
whether
the
troops
were
all
general
service
or
whether
any
were
drawn
from
the
Home
Defence
army.
The
minister
referred
to
"ac
cusations
made
by
a
section
of
the
press
that
I
have
used
the
power
of
censorship
to
suppress
news
they
would
have
liked
to
publish"
and
said
that
the
recent
announcements
of
sinkings
otr
tne
Nova
Scotia
coast
was
evidence
of
the
necessity
for
observing
security
regulations.
He
referred'
also"
to
'careless-
statements
made
in
this
country
by
men
who
ought
to
know
better
than
bring
despondency
to
Canadian
homes
and
comfort
to
the
enemy
by
irresponsible
asser
tions"
and
said
that
on
many
occasions
he
had
refrained
from
giving
information
because
such
action
would
have
endangered
troops.
BIG
WIND
ON
LOWER
COAST
VICTORIA.
Feb.
12
CRi
A
42-
milc-an-hour
gale
swept
Victoria
yesterday,
breaking
twelve
lines
on
the
stern
of
the
10-000-ton
freighter
Lakeside
Park
being
outfitted
at
Victoria
Machinery
Depot.
Salvage
vessels
are
now
alongside
the
vessel
which
caught
her
stern
on
the
launch
ing
ways
of
a
nearby
dock
and
was
held
fant.
There
is
danger
she
may
break
her
back.
The
gale
toppled
trees
in
the
vicinity
and
also
affected
tht
Lower
Mainland
but
did
not
cause
serious
damage.
NEW
GOV'T
IN
BELGIUM
Socialist
Leader
Has
I'ormed
New
Administration
BRUSSELS,
Feb.
12
The
Bel
glan
socialist
lcaderAchllle
Van
Acker
has
announced
the
suc
cessful
formation
of
a
new
government
In
Brussels.
The
National
Unity
Government,
as
it
is
!
called,
will
consist
of
socialists,
Catholics,
liberals,
communists
and
one
independent.
Van
Acker
was
in
Belgium
dur
ing
the
German
occupation
and
Is
described
as
having
played
a
big
part
in
the
underground
movement.
Eastern
Front
Reports
On
Two
Fronts
Konets
Soviet
Army
is
Moving
Into
Saxony-Zhukon
20
Miles
From
Stettin
LEIGNITZ
IS
TAKEN
MOSCOW,
Feb.
12
(CP)
The
most
spectacular
weekend
gains
were
made
by
the
Russians.
In
a
fresh
drive
across
the
Oder,
Marshal
Koven's
First
Ukraine
Army
toppled
the
big
industrial
city
of
Leignitz
and
virtually
encircled
Breslau,
the
capital
of
Iower
Silesia.
Konev's
spearheads
now
are
probing
towards
the
German
province
of
Saxony
in
a
move
which
threatens
to
outflank
Berlin
from
th
south.
'
Red
Army
troops
hare
smashed
Breslau's
last
communication
lines
with
Berlin
and
Dresden,
the
capital
of
Saxony.
Only
two
secondary
rail
lines,
running
south
of
the
city
still
are
open
but
these
are
under
Soviet
artillery
fire.
In
Pomerania,
other
Russian
forces
have
taken
the
Nazi
citadel
of
Dcutsch-Kranc
in
a
sweep
towards
the
Baltic
and
Stettin.
This
important
I2-way
junction
city
is
fifty-eight
miles
east
of
already
threatened
Stargard
the
outer
bastion
of
Stettin
at
the
mouth
of
the
Oder
River.
MOSCOW,
Feb.
12
Marshal
Joseph
Stalin
issued
two
orders-
of-the-day
on
Sunday
disclosing
new
progress
-on
two
sections
of
the
eastern
front
hi
the
north
and
In
the
south.
In
the
south
Marshal
Koncts'
army,
passing
through
Silesia,
advanced
37
miles
In
four,
days
on
a
100-mile
front
and
Is
near-ing
Saxony
after
curling
around
Brcslau
and
leaving
the
Germans
there
only
a
15-mile
escape
ap.
To
the
north
Zhukov's
army
captured
two
more
Important
points
yesterday
from
the
enemy
and
was
only-20
miles
from
StcU
tht
,thc
Baltic
port
for
Berlin.
There
was
no
statement
yesterday
as
to
the
progress
of
the
fighting
toward
Berlin
direct
from
the
nearest
point
on
the
Oder
river.
SOLDIERS
ARE
AMBASSADORS
TORONTO,
Feb.
12
Paul
Martin,
Liberal
Member
of
Parliament
for
East
Essex,
ls
home
from
England
after
attending
the
International
Labor
Conference.
He
paid
tribute
to
Canada's
fighting
men
overseas
whom
lie
had
visited.
They
were
this
Dominion's
best
ambassadors
of
GOEBBELS
FEELS
SAFER
OUT
OF
HIS
UNIFORM
SO
DRESSES
AS
A
CIVILIAN
LONDON,
Feb.
12
The
man
who
spent
a
good
part
of
his
life
glorifying
the
Nazi
Party
uniform
doesn't
wear
one
any
more.
German
Propaganda
Minister
Paul
Joseph
Ooebbcls
has
effected
a
change
as
Russian
visitors
approach
from
the
east.
The
BBC
says
Goebbels
is
content
to
be
dressed
simply
in
an
inconspicuous
gray
overcoat
and
gray
hat.
The
propaganda
minister
evidently
feels
that
drab
attire
fits
the
situation
and
may
be
healthier
in
an
emergency.