Sherbrooke daily record, 26 avril 1944, mercredi 26 avril 1944

[" SUBSCRIBE TO CANADA\u2019S 6th VICTORY LOAN V ^hrrbrnnkp latltj Sprnrb THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Established 1 897.\tSHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944.\t\t\tCITY EDITION.Red Army Plai\tis To Strike Right Into Heart\tOf Gen\tman:\ty Itself GIGANTIC PRE-INVASION OFFENSIVE IN 12TH DAY y.S.Plans Numbering lire Than 1,000 Hit Targets in Brunswick Swarms of Daylight Raiders Soared Out After RAF.Mosquito Squadrons Pounded Cologne and Other R.A.F.Planes Sowed Mines\u2014American Force Reported to Have Tangled with Nazi Fighters in Fierce Battles.By AUSTIN BEALMEAR, Associated Press Staff Writer.London, April 26.\u2014(Æ3)\u2014American heavy bombers smashed at targets in the area of Brunswick, German aircraft production centre today, carrying the pre-invasion aerial offensive\u2014heaviest the world has ever seen\u2014through the twelfth consecutive day.The bomber fleet which thundered into Germany for the third time in as many days was described in an American announcement as of \u2018'medium\u201d strength, escorted by up to 750 fighters.This indicated the total force was similar to that of more than 1,000 planes from Britain which hit three Nazi airfields in France and industrial targets in Germany yesterday, but smaller than the 2,000-plane armadas sent out in daylight five times since the gigantic offensive began.\tA- The German radio claimed the! American force invading; the air over the Reich tangled with Nazi fighters in fierce battles as the air drive, which has scourged enemy targets in a 750-mile arc across Europe, rolled forward.Berlin claimed the Americans \u201ctried to raid\u201d Osnabrück and Brunswick.Swarms of daylight raiders soared out after R.A.F.Mosquito squadrons last night pounded Cologne \u2014 bit Scene Of Destruction Where Liberator Bomber Crashed In Montreal With Loss Of 16 Lives lew Oaiiadlati I Sislrcyers Ail Sinking | London, April 26.\u2014 (CP Gable) \u2014 three times before in this current j ^ Royal Navy offensive force, in-campaign\u2014and other R.A.F.planes cludi feree Canadian Tribal class .A ¦ s >.¦< \u2022 ^ ^ ^ A m Russian Army Launches Attack On Broad Front FERRARA AND PARMA HIT BY i ALLIED PLANES Dense clouds of smoke render visibility almost nil near the Shannon Street wreckage caused yesterday morning when a big Liberator transport plane crashed into a block of tenements to take a toll of sixteen lives.The picture gives an idea of the extent of the damage caused when the big aircraft struck and exploded.-*- I sowed mines, all without loss.The U.S.bombers penetrated into Central Germany and flew back over Northwest Germany, the Nazi Radio reported at 11 a.m.(5 a.m.E.D.T.).\u201cDespite unfavorable weather conditions the American bombers were met by strong forces of German air defence throughout the course of their flight and were involved in intense battles,\u201d it said.: destroyers, sank a German destroy-! er in an early morning action today ! against three or four enemy ships I in t he vicinity of Isle de Bas off the Northwest Coast of France, the Admiralty announced.The Canadian ships, operating in a force led by the British cruiser I Black Prince, intercepted the enemy PROCEDURE OF OTTAWA HOUSE IS DISCUSSED Heath Toil In Plane Crash Is Raised To At Least 18 COL.PIUZE SAYS MONTREAL VICE HAS PROTECTION New Drive Extends from Carpathians to Black Sea \u2014Germans Claim \u201cComplete\tDefensive Victory After Heavy Battles.\u201d London, April 26.\u2014 ® \u2014 The Red Army has launched an attack Thirteen Heavy Bombers on a broad front in Southern and Three Other Craft List-i Russia from the Carpathians to ed as Missing from More the Black Sea, German and Ro-Than 1,400 Sorties, While manian reports claimed today, 14 Enemy Aircraft Do-: A German communique claimed Stroyed.\t\\ the Nazis had scored \"a complete ,,,,\t|\tdefensive\tvictory after heavy troops \u201ccontinued\tto\timprove\u201d\ttheir \u2022;\tbattles\u201d when the Red Army at- 'positions\ton\tthe\tAnzio beachhead !\t(ackcd in\tthe Lower Dnestr yester- \u2022vesterdnv and heavy bombers blast-1 ,\t.,\t, ctl an aircraft factory at Turin,' day with strong artillery and air headquarters announced today.\\ strength.The Nazis claimed they Other heavy bombers attacked a ! .\t,\t, , bridge at Parma in North Central j had sealed oft Soviet bicak- Italy and ruilyards at Ferrara, the | throughs.bullHin raid.\t; gj\u201eee jttst Saturday the Russian.Thirteen Allied heavy bomber,-, and | communiques have omitted mention, three other pi nes were listed as j Qf any large-scale land lighting, missing from more than 1.400 sortie-, I Thft G>65.250 Montreal.$87.600; and EC Æ.C.Kingston, $50.350.The R.C.A.F.total is in excess of 1 !4,000,000, including cabled word of; mrchases totalling $1,000,000 ba i >verseas units.Large subscriptions announced in-duded Canada Life Assurance Co., j 12.000.000; Consolidated Mining and | smelting of Canada Ltd., $7.850.000; ; Hassey-Harris Co.Ltd.$4.000,000:; verr-Addison Gold Mines, Ltd.$1.->00.000; F.W.Wooiworth Co.Ltd.! >1.000.000.\t.\t.i Toronto re orted that Ontario s vawa, W' .B.military camps continued yesterday to set a \u201cfast clip\u201d in the sale of Sixth Victory Loan bonds.With 240 per cent of their objective obtained, Niagara area headquarters held first place.Northern area headquarters at North Bay reported Monday they had obtained 220 per cent of quota, and the District Dental Corps at Toronto reported 200 per cent of quota.The National War Finance Committee said no over-all total was announced by the Royal Canadian Navy yesterday because many ships are at sea and reports cannot be prepared regularly.Partial returns show, however, that all naval units reporting are buying Sixth Victory Loan bonds \u201ceven more enthusiastically\u201d than they bought the Continued on page 2, col.4.WATERFRONT LABOR TO BE STABILIZED Vancouver, April 26.\u2014 T\u2014Selective Service officials here yesterday announced a new regulation, effective immediately, which requires all waterfront workers to obtain special permits.The -rder is aimed at stab-ii:ziwaierfranL tabor.Those in the tenement had warning of what was coming, butoiin most cases it was not the actual hundreds of Montrealers had a fore-1 operator of such a house who was arrested but a \u201cfront\u201d man or woman.suggested\tventure Station caused\texperienced : effort\tto reach the St.Lawrence\t.Mr.\tJustice\tLucien\tCannon,\tthe When tne House rose\tat\til\tPnl->\tr.a.F.personnel to remark that the\tRiver\tbefore his failing aircraft took\tCommissioner,\tsaid\tthat\tthe\tCorn- one proposed amendment had been : c|amaSç was about what might have jits final plunge, discussed.It\twould make\tit\tcom-\tiieen expected had a\tland mine\tThe\tplane came roaring over the pulsory for a\tmember\tin\this\tfallen on the spot.\tslopes\tof Mount Royal, obviously when a division occurred to cast his.Four of the known dead were! trying to gain altitude but failing, vote for or against.\tI women whose homes collapsed like It swung off the regular Northeast A.W.Neill (Ind., Comox-Alber- card-houses around them when the course then, and turned directly ni), who expressed criticism of sug-|piane struck and exploded, sending ; South in a bee-line for the river, gestions in the report several times flames seventy-five feet into the That sent it weaving down busy during the discussion, moved an:ajr.A fifth was a three-year-old j -\u2014 amendment to the amendment which ; boy whose mother was also killed.! Continued on page 2, col.4.would provide that no member be compelled to cast his vote in the quoted as saying\t.\t.\u2018tics have been heavy and thçir wat-1 ea-pRiilaUon in er and food have been deteriorating Wl111\tA\u201dK\u201c\u2018> in the past several weeks.North of Cassh.o shelling and mor- j t-iring was on an increased scale, but'.Axi,' u