Sherbrooke daily record, 14 août 1944, lundi 14 août 1944

[" V g\u2019iîprbrnokp 0atlu Swnrb \u2022 \u2022 » THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Thunderstorms.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944.CITY EDITION MOMENTOUS WEEK IN HISTORY OF WAR PREDICTED - \u2014 - w\t\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\t\u2014\u2014\t- \u2014 .\u2014-\u2014 Allies Seeking To Cut Off Escape Supreme Commander Gails For Special \u201c\t\" In Falaise-Argentan Area And Trap Germans Fleeing To Paris AMIENS 70 MILES ROUEN 68 MILES REIMS 80 MILES c \" //w Invalides //jCïft Montparnasse ^ ¦EIFFEL TOWER m Sto.^ Orleans Sto.Important Industrial Areas Miles Effort By All Men On Fighting Front Allied capture of Paris; in addition to its psychological value, is militarily important because all French railroadd terminate in the French capital.As none run through, they are linked with a belt line, seen encircling the city in the map above.Taking of Paris immediately cuts all the French main railroad systems.CHURCHILL AND SLAV LEADERS AIR PROBLEMS Premier Churchill, Marshal Tito and Slav Premier Su-basic Hold Talks in Italy Concerning Post-War Fate of Yugoslavia.London, Aug.14.\u2014®\u2014Prime Minister Churchill, Yugoslav Partisan Leader Marshal Tito and Premier Ivan Subasic of the Yugoslav Government in Cairo met in Italy Saturday and Sunday, it was announced here today, for talks which may do much toward shaping the post-war fate of Yugoslavia.A brief announcement from the Prime Minister\u2019s residence of 10 Downing Street said: \u201cOn August 12 and 13 the Prime Minister had meetings in Italy with the Yugoslav Prime Minister and Marshal Tito at which political and military questions were discussed in a spirit of entire frankness.Marshal Tito and the Yugoslav Prime Minister propose to continue these discussions, which are animated by the desire of each side to make the largest contributions to the com- \\ mon welfare of Yugoslavia.\u2019\u2019 The conferences culminated a series of political manoeuvres from which Marshal Tito apparently has emerged as a dominant figure in Yugoslav affairs.It was generally Continued on page 2, col.6.150 INJURED IN N.J.AMUSEMENT PARK DISASTER Damages Estimated at $1,500,000 Caused to Palisades Amusement Park by Fire Which Sent Crowd of 25,000 Stampeding.Fort Lee, X.J., Aug.14.\u2014(IP)\u2014 Most of Palisades Amusement Park was a smoldering ruin today after a fire in which 150 or more persons were injured or affected by smoke and a Sunday afternoon crowd estimated at 25,000 was sent stampeding.Several spectacular rescues were effected as flames swept the popular resort atop the palisades across the Hudson River from Upper Manhattan.Scores of those injured or overcome were treated at three hospitals, and others were cared for by rescue and first aid squads and volunteers.Irving Rosenthal, the proprietor, estimated damage to the park at $1,500,000 and said it would be closed for the remainder of the season.Firemen from 14 municipalities fought the blaze which destroyed about 85 per cent of the property in 2!'2 hours yesterday afternoon.Meanwhile, three men were listed as missing in the pier and ship ex- Continued on page 2, col.4.1 Duplessis Cabinet Is Expected To Depart From Traditional Make-Up Quebec, Aug.14.\u2014If\u2014As premier-elect Duplessis and his chief lieutenants continued today the selection of a Cabinet which will take office at the ond of the month, observers looked for three departures from Quebec political tradition in its make-up.By present indications at least, Quebec City will have no native son among the Ministers, the post of Provincial Treasurer will go to a French \u2022 Canadian instead of an English-speaking member of the Legislative Assembly and there will be no Irish Catholic In the Cabinet.The four Quebec City ridings voted solidly Liberal in last Tuesday's provincial general elections, in which Mr.Duplessis\u2019 Union Nationale won an over-all majority of four seats in the 91-seat Assembly.Usually at least one representative of Quebec city receives a Cabinet appointment.Jonathan Robinson of Brome was the only English-speaking candidate returned by the Union Nationale and, while Mr.Robinson is believed slated for some Cabinet post, it is expected the Provincial Treasurer vifl be Paul Beaulieu of St.Johns.Mr.Beaulieu k a chartered accountant and since he was first returned to the House in a 1941 by-election jhe has acted as his party\u2019s chief | financial critic of the Liberal ad-! ministration.Tradition also calls for an Irish I Catholic in the Cabinet, but there is ; hone among successful Union Xa-' tionaie candidates, i Five members of the 1936-39 Union Nationale Cabinet, in ad-dition to Mr.Duplessis, were elected Tuesday.They are John Bourque, former Public Works Minister; Dr.Aibiny Paquette, former Provincial Secretary and Health Minister; , Bona Dussault, former Agriculture ! Minister; Onesime Gagnon, former Mi nes Minister and Antonio Elie, ! former Minister without Portfolio.The Government leader in the ! 24-seat LegislaMve Council, an 'appointive body whose members are | named for life, becomes a Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet.There has been no announcement I regarding Mr.Dupleecis\u2019 intentions ; in this regard, but it is believed the ! post will go to Hon, Louis Arthur Giroux.Wellington Division, who entered the Upper House Feb.23, 11937.It also was generally believed at the Legislature that Hon.Alphonse Raymond.Delonnier Division, would Continued on nage 2.coL 1.Allied Troops Have Advanced All Around Nazis\u2019 Crumbling Salient East of Orne River\u2014Nazis Reported Retreating Down Every Open Road.Allied Supreme Headquarters, Aug.14.\u2014 (-Æ9 \u2014 Allied troops, strmng to capitalize on what Gen.Eisenhower described as a \u201cdefinite opportunity for a major Allied victory,\" sought today to pinch off an 18-mile escape corridor in the Falaise-Argentan area and trap a dozen under-strength German divisions retreating toward Paris.From an advanced command post in Normandy the Supreme Allied Commander called yesterday for a special effort by all the soldiers, sailors and airmen under his command.He said; \u201cIn the past I have, in a moment of unusual significance, made special appeals to Allied forces it has been my honor to command.Without exception the response has been unstinted and the result beyond my expectations.\u201cBecause the victory we can now achieve is infinitely greater than any it has so far been possible to accomplish in thC West and because this opportunity may be grasped only through the utmost in zeal and determination and speedy action, I make my present appeal to you more urgent than ever before.\u201d His order of the day came as the German 7th Army sent its lacerated columns running- through the shell-swept escape corridor in an attempt to escape entrapment in a 30-mile-deep corner of Normandy.Headquarters announced Allied troops had advanced all around the Germans\u2019 crumbling salient East of -the Orne River.Ground was gained Southeast of Vire in heavy fighting while in the Mortain area Allied formations encountered mines and ; long-range artillery fire as they fol-; lowed up the German withdrawal.Headquarters said the Germans were continuing strong resistance 1 on the Northern flank of their salient today in a desperate effort to ! hold open the escape gap.American armor pushing Northward from Alencon was meeting stronger resistance but still was making progress.This column, which cut in behind the Germans\u2019 Normandy front positions, is attacking North of Argentan, a town 25 miles North of Alencon and 18 miles from the position of British and Canadian units which have pushed South to within ; five miles of Falaise, field advices said.A front dispatch said the Nazis were retreating down every open 1 road, using everything from military | transport to farm vehicles \u2014 and ! even bicycles.It was not known how much of - this army of possibly 200,000 men had run the gauntlet in the Falaise-Argentan area.A front dispatch from the Canadian sector last night estimated fully twelve understrength divisions (possibly between 100,000 to 120,000 men) still were in the bag.Tnousands of Allied bombers and fighters ripped with frightful toll ! yesterday at the congested columns of tanks, trucks and troops falling back all along the way to Paris.Despite this terrific aerial pounding, the withdrawal of Field Marshal Gen.Guenther von Kluge\u2019s Norman-|dy army\u2014once 30 divisions strong and including the finest S.S.armor-i ed divisions in France\u2014was a retreat and not a rout, The Germans were putting up stubborn resistance along the covering crust behind which every man possible was being pulled out.There was no indication whether Von Kluge hoped to rally for a major stand on the Seine River on even Paris.American armor in its reported Northward push to the vicinity of Argentan has driven 55 miles from La Mans during the last five days, Argentan is only 13 miles Southeast of Falaise.flontlrmad on navm f.no! 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