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gt THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1940 a {pace TWELVE OD NOT IN NAZI EUROPE FOR SIX MONTHS 4 ' U.S. Relief Group Con- "tent to Await Develop- ments Overseas =~ Washington, Dec. 13--(AP) -- United States state department in- tervention in behalf of food relief far Europe is unlikely for at least three months, a high official said today, because the department has information that there are enough, 'Slpplies abroad to last until late next spring. » A survey of food conditions, com- piled for the department by auth- oritative United States sources, shows that Europe faces no starva- tion for a minimum of five cor six months, the official reported. ~ This information, he said, coupled with Britain's recent refusal to pass ood shipments through her block- fade, has virtually decided the state department to defer any general action on the subject until the end of the winter. An exception may be made, in- formed sources said, in behalf of Red Cross efforts to send supplies to Spain, where the food situation { ds believed critical, and for ship- | 'ménts of condensed milk and con- 1 'centrated vitamin foods for infants \ And children in unoccupied France. & "Since our most authoritative re- { ports indicate that the food situa- tion in those countries which have been overrun by German invaders 'will not reach the critical stage for | "approximately six months," one of- | Ficial said "it is felt that, unless | Zhe situation changes suddenly, we | ean study the problem another two | sor three months before making a | Final decision." { >~-By spring there may be develop- | spgents in Europe, the official added, which would change the whole pic- fire and either obviate the neces- sity of food ships, or cause them to WEST BREAKS AWAY FROM C.R.U. RULE Calgary, Dec. 13--(CP)--In pro- test against the action of the Cana- dian Rugby Union regarding the East-West football final and the general attitude of football's gove erning body toward the western game, officials of the Western In- terprovincial Football Union noti- fied C.R.U. it is withdrawing its affiliation. It was also announced that John M. Bannerman, Calgary, president of the C.R.U,, has resigned. IROGUDIS INDIANS ANXIOUS TO MARK 146 YEARS PEACE Pact Signed in 1794 Never Violated -- Want to Show World By FRANK 1. WELLER Associated Press Staff Writer Washington, Dec. 13--(AP)--Two free governments--the United States Confederacy--will commemorate of- ficially tomorrow for the first time in 146 years the unbroken treaty of peace between their two great var chiefs of that day, George Washington and Onoyeahnee. Solemn ceremonies, climaxed by presentation of the Great White Father's annual tithe of bright- colored calico to the historic "Six Nations", will take place in the community. house on the Seneca Buffalo, N.Y. Patriarchs of the venerable con- federacy of Onondagas, Senecas Tonawanda - Senecas, Tuscaroras, Cayugas and Oneidas who doubted in 1794 whether the paleface men always warring with each other, would last long in a world then new to them, wanted this year's be rushed. Even in the latter event, it was said, the relief cargoes would | arrive in ample time to ward off extreme privation or actual starva- | tion. Herbert Hoover, the former presi- dent, and the National Committee on Food for the Five Small Democ- acles (Finland, Norway, The Neth- | erlands, Belgium, and Central Po- | land) have not emphasized the need for immediate shipments in their 'campaign for food to feed an esti- mated 37,000,000 facing eventual hunger in those countries. One of the questicns officials ere would like to see clarified in e. meantime is what, if any, action Germany will take in insuring food r the peoples in the nations Ger- : ban troo:'v; have occupied. Many "Officials here feel--as intimated by tate Secretary Cordell Hull--that rmany is primarily r the plight of these people, and should be the first to make sure they do not starve. "The British are now living like | one ranking official wild animals," said today, "spending many hours in damp cellars, eatitig short ra- tions, and suffering severely rather than give up their liberty to Hitler. It's hardly the time for the United | States government to bring pressure to bear on Brityvin to permit food- stuffs to reach German-occupied areas, especially since the food- stuffs there will last several months longer." 11S. TANK CORPS GETS RECREATION WHILE ON MARCH k (Continued from Page 1) football practice at lunch stops. *On a long drive, it cuts down the strain when drivers and passengers | get out and stretch with a little game." ~ For comfort, too, the division sees to it that men are quickly fed when a halt comes. Chefs prepare meals in rolling kitchens. ' Ten thousand men camp on hill- -gides far from restaurants are serv- ed hot breakfast and dinner--hot | beef, two vegetables, fruit and de- gert. For lunch, the men carry three sandwiches and an apple. | Coffee is served during rest halts. Brig.-Gen. George A. Patton, Jr. commanding cfficer who rode a tank turret out of Fort Benning to et the expedition under way, in- pected every company of the more than 5,000 men camped here. The gecond column, moving through Southern Georgia under radio and airplane messenger control, dupli- cates the set-up of the Alabama column, i / ick relief from itching of eczema, bien, rashes or Iet's foot, scales, sea shes and ot #aused skin troubles, use fast-actin STOPPED na Ji or Money ack plea. sth- externally responsible to keep the peace made official. They told United States Indian | office officials, also eager for this ceremony, that it would emphasize | to the world that on this continent peoples of racial, political and eco- | nomic differences could keep for a | century and a half the spirit and | letter of their pledged word while compacts of good faith between | men were broken elsewhere almost the next day. | Tomorrow, government represen- | tatives will present to the chiefs of | the Six Nations individual gifts of | one bolt of calico each in token of | the United States promise of an | annual subsidy of $4,500 worth of | "clothing, domestic animals, imple- | other | | ments of husbandry and | utensils suited to their circum- | stances." Later they will distribute | among the New York reservations 29.436 yards of calico, or six yards | for each of the 4,906 Indians. | Tribal pageants, dances, songs, | and spesches will contribute to the program. Buffalo, N.Y, was a mud puddle when the Iroquois warriors and the soldiers of the new American re- public buried the hatchet at Konon- | daiqua on Nov. 11, 1794. Neither held any great hopes for the other in that vast wilderness, but they nursed no particular grudges. First and foremost, the Iroquois wanted peace, and they sent their sachems and war chiefs to meet Timothy Pickering, a man whose judgment Washington trusted, to effect a lasting peace between the two independent nations of white men and red men. They agreed that the six tribes never thereafter would claim any more territory than they then held in widely-separated areas of North- ern New York State. |. Pickering agreed that the United States never would try to take any of this land. Both pledged peace | and unmolested passage of their | respective peoples between nations, | common use of rivers and harbors and wagon roads. Pickering signed first, for Presi- dent Washington and the Contin- ental Congress. Onoyeahnee, big chief of the ruling Onondagas, signed his (X) mark next. After him 57 tribal rulers made their marks. One of those tribal rulers was a chieftain named Cornplanter. To- morrow one of that bygone treaty signers' progeny will take part in the ceremony. Jesse Cornplanter, a direct descendant, will perform a tribal dance he has practised for the occasion. DOCTOR KEEPS PROMISE Bethany, Mo, Dec. 13--(AP)-- Raymond King, informed his wife had given birth to a girl, was dis- appointed. He had hoped for a son. "I'll go back and get you one," ex- claimed the doctor. An hour later King was the father of twine, a boy and girl. FOURTH ATTEMPT WINS Chicago, Dec. 13.--(AP)--Glen Cady has his divorce at last. After three previous suits were dismissed on technical grounds, he was suce cessful yesterday in winning a de- cree. He testified: "One night we had an argument about her rela- tives, She left me." king of Christmas -- SEE -- Photos ? Davio Goroon Stupio 22 SIMCOE SOUTH 126 for Appointment STUDIO CAMERA EQUIPMENT HOLLYWOOD LIGHTING of America and the Iroquois | ATATURK BUILT TURKEY VIGOROUS YOUNG REPUBLIC Copied Best Features From Many Nations-- Youth Ready to Defend Land 1 ------ By C. A. FARNSWORTH Associated Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 13 (AP)--Turkey was a loser in the first Great War --and yet a winner. Out of that conflict emerged a glowing nationalism, under the leadership of the late Gazi Must- apha Kamal Pasha, who changed his name and Turkey at the same time. He died as Kamal Ataturk (Father of the Turks) on Nov. 10, 1938, at 58. Ataturk left to the guidance of his successor in the presidency, Ismet Inonu a nation changed from ori- ental to occidental. Ataturk's rule was dictatorial under an exceeding- ly democratic constitution. His reforms pulled Turkey up out | of the past. Ataturk's goal and the vision of his followers were that Turkey should become a self-suffi- cient, industrialized state. The reforms almost destroved | the basic fabric of Turkey's oriental | culture as Turkey borrowed whole- | | sale from the west. | In Ankara, where in ages past Crusaders, Persians, Mongols and Reservation, 26 miles northeast of | observance of their ancient pledge | £ | capital after a mist developed mia- Tartars had marched in a proces- sion of wars and conquest, Turkey | built a modern capital. | A Latinized alphabet was substit- | uted for Arabic, Felt hats took the | | place of the fez. Family names were | | changed, The harem vanished. Wo- | men dropped the veil and some went to Congress. Factory chimneys rivalled the minarets. From Switzerland, the Turkish | republic borrowed its civil code ta supplant religious laws of Islam. | Frecm France. Turkey borrowed | her-second language". French plays dominated the Turkish stage. Three French newspapers were establish- ed in Istanbul. From Germany, Turkey got the model for her army. Fram Britain, she learned how to build her small navy. From the United States and Others, she took planes and tips on how to fly them. From every industrial country, she | borrowed ideas on how to industri- alize Turkey. | The strides toward industrializa- tion, of course, have been great but not complete. Turkey remains es- sentially an agricultural country. Even so Turkey, once "the sick man of Europe", has become a vig- | orous young republic which has | turned strongly to national defence. | Every man and woman between 16 | | and 60 is subject to military call! and a standing army was establish- ed. One thousand planes became | Turkey's goal in the air. The army is of good fighting material. In the present war the Tommies and the Anzacs, perhaps sons of the men who perished on the hills of the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915, are | the allies of the Turks. Turkish leaders say that Turkish youth is prepared to die to keep alive 'the principles of Ataturk, With one foot in Europe and the other in Asia Minor, Turkey strad- dles the Straits of the Dardanelles which, with the Sea of Marmora | and the Bosphorus, link the Black | Sea to the Mediterranean--Russia's | only outlet to the Mediterranean, by the way. Control of the Dardanelles has | been a strategists' headache for | centuries. Britain wanted to get | through in the last war to streng- | then Imperial Russia. Now the Germans want to cross to get oil. | German and Russian rivalry over Turkey's Dardanelles is deep-seated. So much are the two powers con- cerned that Turkey has blandly | played one against the other for | preservation of her own hold. Neither Germany nor Russia wants the Dardanelles to be con- trolled by the other. Russia would be cut off from the warm seas with the Dardanelles in the hands of a hostile power. Germany's vision of Berlin-to-Baghdad might be shat- tered if Russia held them. There is no telling, of course, what sort of a deal, if any, Russia and Germany might negotiate. Traditionally Soviet Russia fis Turkey's big friend. The Red re- volutionists who toppled Imperial Russia when she was defeated by Germany in the last war would have nothing. to do with allied | plans for carving up Turkey and thus won the Turks' friendship. SHEFFIELD BEARS BRUNT OF GERMAN BOMBING ATTACKS (Continued from Page 1) 000 population, has been famed for its cutlery for six centuries, It is 140 miles north of London. (Often it is called the birthplace of the modern steel industry, since Sir Henry Bessemer pioneered there 75 years ago in the steel manufac- turing process named for him). Other parts of the Midlands were hit and Lendon had an alert which lasted most of the night, but there was little air activity in the way in the night. There were no reports of damage in London but a church and a fur~ niture factory were destroyed in a Midlands town. The southeast coasy and other areas also reported | the hill on one foot. raiders 'overhead, ; OSHAWA AND VICINITY G.M. APPOINTMENT E. B. Vesey has been appointed Chief Purchasing Agent of General Motor of Canada, Limited, succeed- ing the late R. J. MacFarlane, Mr. Vesey was formerly Assistant Pur- chasing Agent, WAR VETERAN ILL The many friends of 'Mr. Hugh Swan, veteran of the last war, will be sorry to learn that he is seriously ill and had to be taken to the Osh- awa General Hospital. It is hoped that he may have a speedy recovery. FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH Here it is again, Friday the 13th, the proverbial unlucky day, when you are not supposed to walk under ladders, break a mirror and all the other things believed in by the sup- erstitious. It will be pay day for a lot of people--and that is perhaps lucky for them. TRAIN BLOCKS VIEW David Snider, 147 Oshawa boule- vard, reported that while driving west on Alice street at the corner of Ritson road yesterday 'at 1.00 pam. a car driven by him was in collision with one driven by Merrill Ross, R.R. 1, Myrtle, who was trav. elling south on Ritson road st the time of the accident. Snider stated that a line of railway cars on a sid- ing near the corner obstructed the view. Total damage to the two cars was estimated at about $40.00. DENTISTS HEAR LECTURE The Durham-Ontario Dental Association held its regular fall meeting in the Genosha Hotel Wed- nesday under their new officers. Dr. Harry Cooke is President and the office of Secretary-Treasurer is held by Dr. W. H. Gifford, both well- known Oshawa dentists. Dr. Mc- Gregor of the University of Toronto Dental Department spoke during the afternoon on the subject of "Psychology of Handling the Child Patient" and in the evening on "Dental Operations of the Chila Patient." HIGHWAY ICY Early morning travellers on the highway between Oshawa and To- ronto found it very slippery follow- ing last night's freeze-up. It was re- | ported to The Times that trucks were conspicuous by sand cial of the Department of Highways, Toronto, who sald that the trucks should be in operation sanding the road promptly whenever they be- came cy, day or night, regardless of the hour, and he promised to check un on the complaints which The Times reported to him. AVALANCHE MISSES PEOPLE 'Several Oshawa citizens had a narrow escape from possible injury yesterday afternoon at 3.45 when a minor avalanche of melting snow and ice fell from the roof of the Bassett Block onto the sidewalk on Simcoe. Street. Fortunately the crowd of Christmas shoppers heard the snow begin to slide off the roof and hurriedly left that portion of the sidewalk. There are' several people in Oshawa wondering what the result would have been had the incident occurred today, Friday, De- cember 13, SLIDES AND TUMBLES A group of children took advan- tage of the fresh snow Thursday morning to slide down the steep bank near the C.P.R. subway on Simcoe street and George 'Ber- ard Shaw (observe the name) cleverest of the sliders, negotiated Others were not successful. One little girl, June, did it in a series of somersaults, much to the amusement of onlook- | ers. Other children used bits of cardboard, paner, etc. while one boy took the declivity on the seat of his pants. for fear there might be a paddle awaiting the youngsters when their find out what made the rents and tears in their clothing. GREEKS ADVANCE NEAR TEPELENI (Continued from Page 1) since the battle began last Monday. (The Royal Air Force shot down more than 20 Italian planes on one day alone and 37 since Dec. 9 with the loss of only four planes.) On the Albanian front action was sald to have been limited to small, localized attacks by the Greeks, which the Italians claimed they had repulsed. The communique gave no details concerning the battle on the Egyp- tian front except to say that Italian forces were "fighting with great gal- lantry" against "enemy armored col- umns." The action was said to be centred in the 65-mile coastal area between 8idl Barrani and Salum, just across the Egyptian border from Libya, and to be spreading into the desery to the south. CHRISTMAS MUSIC The choir of St. Andrew's United Church are arranging a splendid program of music for the service jon Sunday evening, when in addition to solos, choruses and quartet, an orchestra under the direction of George 'Hood, gold medal cornetist. will give a recital from 645 to, 7 o'clock and will also accompany the choir in the Hallelujah Chorus (Handel). The following Sunday evening the "White" Christmas ser- vice is to be held, E their | absence. The Times called an offi- | We will not mention names | FIRST DIVISION NOT LETTING DOWN INITS TRAINING "Prize Packet of Canadian Army" Plans Busy Winter By ROSS MUNRO Canadian Press War Correspondent Somewhere in England, Dec. 13 (CP).~The 1st Canadian Division is going full steam ahead on its exacting training program, probab- ly the most strenuous any Cana- dian formation has ever experience ed. There will be no let-up even during the colder weather, "I feel this is no time to have any let-up in training activity," Maj.-Gen, G. R. Pearkes, divisional commander, told The Canadian Press. "Although we have reached a high standard of efficiency, there is much we have yet to do to per- fect our organization and. our bat- tle werthiness. "The more highly trained each soldier is in the use of his num- erous weapons and equipment the less will be the loss we suffer in battle, And the greater the stan dard of our discipline and power of co-operation, the greater will be | our ability to speed our way to | victory, | "Therefore, we are going to de- | | vote. every hour we can this win- | ter--daylizht and dark--to raising our standard of weapon-training | and increasing the mental and phy- sical fitness of the men. In addi- | tion, there will be many rehearsals of cur various operational roles." The first anniversary of the di- vision's landing in England is next Tuesday. In the year the divisiona: | units have taken almost every kind of military instruction. They are acknowledged to be one of the crack divisions in England and Bri- | tish officers in the composite | | Canadian-British corps commendea | by Lt.-Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton pay unusually high compliments to the manner in which Gen. Pearkes' men have been carrying out then tactical manoeuvres in cc-opera- tion with British formations, The division will participate on a broadscale in the educational | program being launched for Cana- | dian troops in England and the di- visional commander is a strong | supporter of the plan, believing it will meet a number of problems that might crep up during the winter. Extensive sport programs | are under way to keep the men oc- cupied in their off-duty hours. | An important aspect of the men's | training is the move certain units are making to the coastal defence posts, to give them a change and experience in frent-line positions. Even in the maze of military or- ganization and expansion the 1st division--* the prize packet of the Canadian army" as some officers | have dubbed it--stands out as the | criterion of efficiency and Cana- | | dian achievement in the army | branch of the war effort, TRAFFIC GASES INLOGAL COURT | Two Drivers Fined for Minor Offences, One Case Dismissed Earl J. Stokes, Queen's Hotel, ! | Oshawa, appeared in court this. i morning charged with passing two | cars on No. 2 highway about a mile | east of Whitby when the road! { ahead was not sufficiently clear of | oncoming traffic. It is alleged the | offence occurred at 300 pm. on November 24, while Stokes was driving westward and constable Runciman was approaching from the opposite direction. Runciman testified that he had been forced to the shoulder of the road by the accused's attempt to cut back into line. The first of the two cars being passed was forced to the north shoulder of the road, it was alleged. Stokes claimed that the | cars he was passing had speeded | up while he was in the act of pass- ing and that for this reason it took longer to pass than he had esti- mated. He maintained that there was plenty of room to pass when he pulled out of the traffic. He was found guilty and was fined $5.00 and costs with the option of five days. Wm. F. Thompson, Toronto, fail- ed to produce an operator's permit when requested by Constable Run- ciman on November 20, and was ordered to pay the court $3.00 and | costs, A charge of reckless driving against Bruce Elliott was dismissed by His Worship Magistrate Ebbs. | Tha charge arose out of an accident at the bottom of Hart's Hill at Har- - | mony at 3.30 p.m. on November 23. | CANADIAN WOMAN WANTS E. Waddell, driver of a garage tow , Work by the day. Urgent. Phone | truck stated that at the time he | 2043J. was driving down Hart's hill and | were not serious enough to require SPECIAL -- OIL PERMANENTS from Two Machineless, Three Dollars. anteed. Richmond East. PEGGY MOUNTENAY'S BEAUTY | Parlour. also $2.75. 72 Church St,, Phone 371J. | Obituaries MRS. JACK 8S. NORRIS Mrs. Jack S. Norris, 640. Christie street, passed away quite unexpect- edly this morning at the Oshawa General Hospital, and besides the bereaved husband leaves an infant daughter and a son, Jackie, two years old. Also her father and step- mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley J. Hammond, and a half-brother, Billy at Alma, Ont, a brother, Gilbert Hammond, Fergus, and a sister, Miss Blanche Hammond, of Toron. to. The' late Mrs. Norris, formerly Breanice Lynore Hammond, was born near Grand Valley, Ont, on September 16, 1914, and was mar- ried to Jack Norris in 1936. She re- sided in Oshawa for the past seven years, and previous to her marriage lived with an aunt, Mrs. Hinds Mrs. Norris attended St. George's Angli- can Church and was a member of the local Rebekah Lodge. The funeral ic to be held from the family residence, 640 Christie street, on Monday, December 16, with a service at St. George's Anglican Church at 2:00 o'clock to be con- ducted by Rev. D. M. Rose. Inter- ment in the Union Cemetery. PLEADS GUILTY ON THREE CHARGES, FINED $125 TODAY | saulted Officer, Had Liquor Without a Permit Frank Kobernick, 329 Ritson road | south, appeared before His Worship | Magistrate Ebbs this morning on three charges arising out of inci- | dents on November 23. The charges were having liquor without a per- | mit, obstructing an officer in the performance of his duty, and as- saulting an officer of the law. Ac- | cused through his counsel, A, W. S. | Greer, pleaded guilty to all three charges. Police Constable A, W, Alexander testified that in the company of two other constables he visited the ac- cused"s home about 5:00 p.m. on No- | vember 23. He entered the back door kitchen. While the liquor was being dumped down the sink, the con- stable said, Kobernick seized him by the throat ani held him. He added that while he was in the house he saw two men sitting at a table with liquor glasses before them and on further search he found several cases of beer in an upstairs room. When cross-examined by counsel for the defence Constable Alexander said that the injuries to his throat medical attention. "This is the second time that this court has met this new type of blitz- krieg," said A. F. Annis, corwn at- torney, in summing up the case, adding that there was no doubt what ever but that assault had been committed. Mr. Greer, for the de- fence, submitted that accused had not appeared before the court on a liquor charge for the past four and one-half years and felt that a $100 fine would meet the ends of justice, especially as the fine would be a hardship "especially at Christ- mas time." Magistrate Eobs decided that Kobernick should make a Christmas gift of $100 to the au- thorities on the charge of having liquor illegally. He was assessed a further $25 and costs on the charge of obstructing an officer and was placed on suspended sentence for two years for assaulting an officer. HALDANE'S LATEST Cambridge, England -- (CP) -- Prof. J. B. 8. Haldane, critic of the government's air raid shelter po- licy, has designed a shelter which, he claims, is capable of withstand- ing a direct hit from a 500-pound bomb. SPONGE RUBBER PROTECTORS Birmingham--(C P)--Chest pro- tectors of sponge rubber may be is- sued to protect soldiers and civil- fans from lung damage by homb | blasts, following research at Birm- ingham University, for at least 600 feet and that he had travelled about 150 feet before he was struck on the. road, con- | British offensive | momentum today, | official announcement placing the | number of Italian prisoners at 20.- | | ately. and saw a quantity of liquor in the | | mander of Britain's forces in the | a flying visit to advance head- BRITISH CAPTURE FIVE GENERALS (Continued from Page 1} units of British troops are mopping up Italian detachments over a 500 square mile area in the Western Egyptian desert today, British mili- tary circles said. Maj.-Gen. Richard O'Conner has been in immediate command of op- erations, they said. He won the Ital. ian silver medal for valor during the first Great War, There are strong indications in these circles that the offensive launched Monday now would slack- en because of great stress on troops and difficulty of maintaining armor- ed fighting vehicles at combat pitch cesses might have on Italian x6- sistance in Ethiopia. A military correspondent for Reuters News Agency wrote: -- "For months Italian morale in East Africa has been bolstered by empty assurances that Mussolini's" army was ready to march to the Nile at any moment and open up the Suez (the most direct route by which supplies and reinforcements could be sent into Ethiopia). "But if the British offensive cone linues as satisfactorily as at pres ent, it is suggested that the Italian army in Ethiopia may have to throw up the sponge because of pressure being exerted by British forces already hammering at the frontier." 1] ITALIAN CENSOR CENSORS Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13--(AP)-- Louis Belios received a letter mail- ed from Greece Oct. 27, the cay before the Italian invasion began, for more than a week without over- haul. Military circles said the capture of a twelfth of Italy's force in Libya raised a major problem of how to guard and feed the prisoners. At the same time "bits" of hot fighting are reported in the Sidi Barrani quadrilateral. Italian mor- ale was termed "shaky" but some units are said to be fighting fiercely in this area. Military circles said they possessed information that rebel action in Italian East Africa, including Eth- iopia, is on the increase. Five sep- | arate rebel forces were harassing | MARKS KING AT CELINA NOW PLAYING "YOUNG BUFFALO BILL" with ROY ROGERS GEORGE "GABBY" HAYES ~-- ALSO -- "THE ALL STAR CAST Italian outposts and blockhouses throughout Ethiopia a month ago they said Rolling Toward Frontier | Cairo, Egypt, Dec, 13. (AP)--The | in the western desert was reported rolling toward the Libyan frontier with increasing leaving in its wake an ever-growing number of | captured Italian prisoners and war | equipment. | Operations were said to be going | forward with such speed that com- | muniques could not keep abreast of developments, but Cairo and | Marshal Graziani's Italian armies | Alexandria buzzed with reports that BILTMORE | NOW PLAYING "Brother Orchid" -- STARRING -- EDWARD G. ROBINSON -- ADDED -- "NAVY BLUE AND GOLD" -- STARRING -- JAMES STEWART were in headlong retreat. Military spokesmen said that an 000 was likely to prove an under- estimate, but declared the large area covered by the action prevent- ed a more accurate count immedi- (London sources estimated yester- might reach 40,000). day the total number of prisoners | No estimate of the number of tanks, trucks, guns and other equip- ment seized was available, but offi- cial sources indicated the total was impressive, Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, com- NOW PLAYING! Wallace Beery --- i -- "WYOMING" Revival Tonight at 11:00 "BROADWAY MELODY "OF 1%0" Middle East, announced today after quarters in the desert that he was "deeply impressed by the enthusi- asm and morale" of the men in the field, Sir Archibald, who was accom- panied by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, commander of all British air forces in the Medit- terranean, had a long conference with Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, commander-in-chief of the British army in Egypt and Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw. Clockwork Co-ordination British authorities emphasized that much of the success so far attained in the west was attribut- able to clockwork co-ordination be- Oshawa Arena SKATING TO-NIGHT and SATURDAY "U----------o tween the army, navy and the Royal Air Force. The two latter arms were sald to be keeping the Italians under a steady bombardment as they re- treated westward along the coastal road. Three Italian generals who were seized when British troops swarmed into Sidi Barrani, main Egyptian outpost of the Fascist forces 70 miles from the Libyan frontier, were brought to Cairo by airplane today. Amid great enthusiahm in Cairo there was considerable speculation See our display of Table and Floor Lamps priced from $2.95 up. Don Christian Electric 38-40 Simcoe St. N. Phones 84- 744 on the effect which the British suc- tending that this proved he had not turned suddenly onto the high- way. Too Late to Classify Nestle Guar- Clarke's Hairdressing, 296 | Phone 2399J (21Dec.c) Dollars up. 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