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Sink 22 Jap Ships; U.S. Subs Get 15, Royal Navy 7 Lendonâ€"Royal Navy submarines operating in Far Eastern waters have sunk seven Japancse ships "Germany has lost the battle of the south. The Red Army offensive ‘s spreading like a spring flood. The Red army has crossed the last river barrier in the Sovict south._ The Dniester is behind us. There. is increasing anxiety among Hitler‘s vassals, especially the Rumimians " Drive on Carpathians To the northwest. Marshal Greâ€" gory Zhukov‘s first army of the Ukraine pushed toward the Carâ€" pathians and stepped up the pres sure on Marshal Fritz von Mann stein‘s salient. stretched taut beâ€" tween the Lwow approsches and Proskurov As the second army of the Ukâ€" raine poured across the Dniester on a froat more than 50 miles wide, the official Sovict army journa) Red Star proclaimed jubilantly Konev‘s â€" forces were ore ported | within six miles of the Baltic rail jJunction, 34 miles beyond the‘ Dniester. considered â€" the key to Jassy, headquarters of Nazi Marâ€" shal Fritz von Mannstein Since the Soviects regard Bessaâ€" rabia as part of Russia, the Izvestia report of a Nazi retreat "acress Rumania® apparently meant that the Germans are pulling back beâ€" yond the Prut river. the boundary between Rumania and Bessarabia Shattered Nazi Army Flees Across Rumania Moscow. â€" Marshal Ivan S. Koâ€" nev‘s Soviet spearheads cut through Bessarabia to within 35 miles of the Rumanian border proper today. The government organ. Tzvestia. said that "smashed German regiâ€" ments are retreating across Ruâ€" mania." (Diplomatic officials in Washingâ€" ton predict a similar fate awaits Rumania and Bulgaria. and that full German military occupation of the Balkans will end independâ€" ent civil government in the three countries. Along with this would go any hope that one or more of thke | satellite states would. make« peace before being overrun ) Though the Germans eut all Budapest‘s communications â€" with the outside world, roundabout reâ€" ports reaching London said some 150,000 German troups occupied all strategic points in Hungary in a weekâ€"end coup designed to foreâ€" stail a Hungarian peace move and prepare for a lastâ€"ditch stand beâ€" hind the Carpathians against the approaching Russian army. . Say All Vital Points Seized Hungarian quarters in Stockholm said Franz Basch, German minority leader in Hungary. formed a proâ€" Nazi government after former preâ€" mier Bela Imredy, leader of the Radical rejuvenation party. had reâ€" fused aâ€"German‘ request to appoint a cabinct. added completing the occupation « gary, have set up a Nuzi government | at 1Budupq St. have _ removed â€" Regent 2 Nicholas Horthy. Premier N Kallay and Foreign Miristc de Chyezy to Germiny. The WORLD‘S WEEK 10 Water St. N Limited quantity only TIRE PUMPS Brand new oversize Pumps â€" designed for Truck and PROUDFOOT MOT?RS Ltd. TONIGHT (Continued from Page think how satisfying a cup of Neilson‘s rich, novrishing Chocolate Cocoa would be. for Bicycles. KITCHENER ‘cupation of Hunâ€" %il Nauziâ€" puppet udapest. _ They Regent _ Admiral remier Nicholas Mirister Jenue mmuny. of) was Phone 8â€"8487 â€" Ideal 1) Allicd In five days the air armadas based in Britain and Italy, had dropped bombs at the rate of two tons 2 minute day and night. Mauarauder medium bombeis wer revenled to have blusted the rail way |gunetion of Cresl, 25 mle notth of Pans or one of the main supply â€" and | reanforeement: route: to the Pos de Clins invasion coast RA.F. medium bombers, Bostens and Mesquitoes: also humbed ob jectives in northerno Frunce this morning. The tea 300 planes 41790 uirer: In a _ heavy raid â€" Lancaster bombers of the RAF. last night attucked u_ munitions factory at Angouleme, 60 miles northeast of Bordeaux. At the same time swift Mosguto bombers agiun hammered targets in wostern Germiny. the air ministry: announced. No planes were lost on thest forays. which followed up attucks n daylight yesterday in which beâ€" tween 1800 and 2100 RAF. und US. plunes crossed the channel. Sweeping across the English channel â€" shortly _ after â€" British night _ raiders returned from smashing an important German munitions plant in France and other targets in western Gerâ€" many, the US. warplanes hit "military objectives" in the Pas de Calais area. The Swiss racdic teduay quoted a Bulgarian official communique sayâ€" ing Allicé bembers raided locatities in Bulgaria last night adi Invasion Coast of France Getting Daylight Blaslin):/ London.â€"U.S. heavy bombers, ; continuing the Allied roundâ€"theâ€" | clock battering of important enâ€" emy â€" installations ~ in â€" Europe, blasted military objectives in | invasion _ threatened _ northern France today. Nicebar fslands, in the Straits of| _ Saturday night: More than 1.000| Mulacea, off | theâ€" east coast, “IfR’A'F' and RC.A.F. bombers ra;ded} Sumatra. anrd off Subang on the|Frankfurt and other «targets in northern tip of Sumatra. the COm-‘Fr;mmu T\\\n!,\-!“u bembers VA'(’"'! munique said: |lost f Ure of the submarines fought a| | Sunrday: RAF. Mosquitoes and brisk gun action with a large nver|US. medium ard heavy bombers; steam:hip. scoring more than 20 |plister the Calais invasion cuast. | hits ant leaving it in flames and| From Italy daylight U.S. bombers | sinking. the bulletin declared. Ubit aurperts and war plants near| A smaller vessel burst into flames|Gray. 60 miles from Vienna, und,‘ after being driven ushore under @ other US. heavies blasted railway hail of gunfire. ‘targets in Yugoslavia | and damaged three, an adnuruhyf * Weekâ€"End Targets communique wnnourced today. This was the weeksend score Two of the ships sunk were '-’Hagain:l Hitler‘s battered fortress: medium size and two of small s1z€.| Saturday~ US. heayy bombers the communique sad. The damâ€" it aircraft factoriqs in southern uged vessels include a largeâ€"sizedd Germany by daylight. destroying supply ship. 5204 cenemy planes in the air and The uctions took place off the on the ground. Nicebur Fslands, in the Straits Of| â€" Saturday night: More than 1.000 Mulaceaâ€"off ~the â€"cast _coast, OAIRAF and RC AF bhombers raided THURS. â€" FRL â€" SAT. €5ol t ta t T¢ L* _ m . ‘ Germans let an extimated | nes over the weekâ€"end and| reraft | during the owr 1-k.i nt>es fotalled 195, MONDAY 19c sittd in es HD S7 s ootttimines " Snd t s9 2 3 ‘;._.,‘.;i‘.;; â€"The Niazi communique also adâ€" K mitted that Russisn: pressure was fn;ad:w ‘mounting before the middle Bug v. had and the Dnicster of two Entire Salient Threatened ht. The fall of Vinnitsa, city of is were 931000, was expocted to collapse the heâ€"riglâ€" contive Germanâ€" sahent jutting up 5 mules behind captured Zhmerinka and fe main supperting the flank of the Gerâ€" routes pmans in preâ€"war Polund to the voust. |] west. who wore under altack by Bostons| the right wing of the First army red obâ€" of the Ukrnine. ve this The Russtans employed their now fumous squeeze play to force the timated |Germans out of Vinnitsa without a nd :mllim»fl) frontal assault, it appeared. woeek."They had bypassed the city to the south to take Zhmerinka and had Bagerly Awaited Film GREER ARSON ) WALTER PIDGEON after the destruction of all military instullations. the Berlin communiâ€" que suid. f <quad. A brief communique said he "died couragcously." His body was turned ever to his brother. a resident of Algiers A special military court, two days ago, turned down the condemned mun‘s appeal from the death senâ€" tence, imposed un him as an exâ€" penent of collaboration with the Germars. A firing squad of 12 men carried out â€"the execution. Ouly 11 had loaded anfles. He stood proudly crect, without bandage on his eyes and with his hands untied while he faced the 12 selected riflemen shortly before 6 aim. at Hussein Dey rific range on the outskirts of Algiers. Pucheu‘s last request was that he be given the privilege of issuing the final commands to the firing "with great dignity" today. (He gave the final ebmmand to a Fro‘\ch firing squad which executed him as a traitor to France. Sunday night>~RAF. Mosquitoes raid targets in western Germany: while Italyâ€"based planes attacked a German shipyard near Trieste. Pucheu Signals Squad To Fire; Dies as Traitor Algiers.â€"Picrre Pucheu, former Vichy minister of Interior, died The Year‘s Most gerly Awaited Film! COMING MONDAY TWME WATERLOO (Continued from Page 1) omongst the mature cows in Dennis Morgan Irene Manning ‘Desert Song‘ Naples.â€"The Germans have sucâ€" ceeded in reinforcing their remainâ€" ing strong points in Cassino and thave regained a hill to the west of | the 5th army troops in heavy fightâ€" ing, Allied headquarters announced !toda). Reoccupation of the hill gives the Nazis a perfect observaâ€" tory post from which to direct arâ€" tillery and mortar fire down on New Zealand infantry fighting in ithe town. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Strebel and doughter Carol of Kitchener were recent visitors at the home of Mrs. Louisa Strebel. The Nith Valley Walther League attended a Walther League skatâ€" ing party at Stratford, recently. The Germans apparently have developed a maze of tunnels, using existing ancient caves and tunnels m Cassino and on Monastery Hill, These enabled them "to send troops | to certain points in the hills behind ‘ the town in perfect security." i On the town‘s southwestern fringe, Allicd infantry and armor continued to attack enemy forces hilledâ€"up in ruins in and around the Continental hotel. Fifth army troops kept a firm hold on the railâ€" way station, a mile south of the town, althouch the Germans shellâ€" ed it heavily with mortars and arâ€" tilléry. _ Cassino Nazis Reinforced: l\fred more than 40 towns and villages on the southwest bank. Koncyv moved to within 40 miles of the Prut river. border of Ruâ€" manka proper Russian Sweep Into Reich Seen At Invasion Time Washington.â€"An official Britâ€" ish summary of the victorious Soviet advance in southern 3‘-:; sia predicts that the crum of the German defence along the Ukrainian front "will revolutionâ€" ize the situation â€"not only as regards the Danubian countries, but also as regards the defence of Poland and the Baitic states." Expressing the belief that "one of the decisive struggles of the war" is now developing in the southern Ukraine, the summary, which was cabled to the British embassy here, foresaw the possiâ€" bility that Germany will be faced "by victorious and rapidly advancing Russian armies at the time for the western invasion." WATE RL O O sians were pourin%;wmu the Dniester river into ssarabia on a 3lâ€"mile front today and were wedging into the outer defences of Lwow in the Carpathian foothills, driving disorganized German forces before them. In an operation described as ‘fantastye for its speed and ruthâ€" lessness," Marshal r:an S. Konev‘s 2nd Ukrainian army forced the Dmeflcr river yesterday and capâ€" left the German garrison only a narrow corrider to'riac;rn Moscow dispatches said t Commenting on the fact that the pace of the Russian advance has quickened in almost every sector within recent days and that "ugly situations have deâ€" veloped for the Germans." Waterloo Holsteins Moscow dispatches said the Rusâ€" PETERSBURG (In Technicolor) By Miss Rosetta Knipfel {Chronicle Correspondent} Coming MONDAY TWO _ OUTSTANDING â€" ATTRACTIONS Now Playing â€" All Week THE 0 (Ontafte) CHRONICLBEB ADDED ATTRACTION â€" in the Dane Cla Cary Grant yearly division and is the largest ever made in Canada by a cow twelve years old or over. She gave 810 lbs. butterfat from 20,127 lbs. milk as a fourteenâ€"yearâ€"old. In the yearly division Colantha Rowsdale Posch, the property of the Estate of Joseph Snyder, Waterloo, was fifth for butterfat in the senior fourâ€"yearâ€"old class with 756 lbs. butterfat from 18,561 lbs. milk; Sciling Royal Jeanette, owned by Amos Wilkinson, Wallenstein, was fifth for buiterfat in <the senior threeâ€"yearâ€"old class with 696 lbs. buterfat from 17,855 lbs. milk; and Lyndenbrook â€" Laura Manâ€"Oâ€"War, from the herd of Edward G. Snyâ€" der, Preston, was fifth for milk amongst the senior twoâ€"yearâ€"olds with 16,867 lbs. milk containing 531 Ibs. butterfat. _ Edwin S. Eby, Kitchener, took third place for butterfat and fifth for milk on the 305 day senior twoâ€"yearâ€"old proâ€" duction of 540 lbs. butterfat from' 14418 ibs, milk made by his heiâ€"| "DESTINATION TOKIO" The suit is definitely the leading fashion for spring. Ideal outfit for these pracâ€" tical times. Adaptable to all occasions. Wearable year after year . . . and nearly all the year ‘round . . . as street enâ€" semble or underâ€"coat costume . . . as separate jacket and skirt interâ€"mixed John Garfield Robert Hutton CHARLES STARRETT JANE FRAZEE VERA VAGUE TEX RITTER THE MILLS BROTHERS THE TAILOR MAIDS JIMMY WAKELY And His SADDLE PALS ROY ACUFF And His Smoky Juo-nhln Boys and Girls When the doors open for the M.C.C. to enter Greece, the speaker said 20,000,000 garments will be needed. Practically the entire poâ€" pulation is in rags, according to reâ€" liable reports, and over 2,000,000 have starved. Approximately 100,â€" 000 Greeks have fied to Bulgaria where a representative of the M.C.C. is in charge of a refugee camp. "The greatest need in all these places is the gospel and that is the main objective of the M.C.C." said the speaker. Rev. Mr. Short pointed out that of the 450,000,000 people in China, over 50,000,000 are refugees and over 2,000,000 are orphans. On top of this there is famine and inflation to contend with. Will Need Garments (Continued from Page 1) cient channel through which work for the alleviation of physical need and distress can be undéertaken. To gain a place on the Honor List an animal must have completâ€" ed a Record of Performance test during 1943 that rated among the top five made in any part of the Dominion in its class for either milk or butterfat fer, Topsy Alcartra Bethany. All these records were made on twiceâ€" a-d_ay m§lking. â€" s THE GRANDEST GANG of Funsters ever to appear on CAPITOL "COWBOY CANTEEN" JANE FRAZEE JOHN HUBBARD BOB HAYMES "Beautiful But Broke" Says Mennonite Now, Showing 15 Hit Tunes JOAN DAVIS one program. ALSO with with with othgr skirts and topâ€"pieces. Wise to make your choice as carly as you can before Easter. Good investment value at Goudies, Kitchener‘s coutâ€" standing Department Sterc. ut $25. $29.75, $35, $39.75. In: gROOKLYK CODGERS In closing Rev. Mr. Short sajd the M.C.C. needs Christian young people to help in the alleviation of human suffering and, most importâ€" ant of all to give positive testimony of Christian love. The speaker was introduced by Rev. Andrew Shelâ€" ley. ' Clothing from all parts of Canâ€" ada will be sent to the local depot where it will be sorted and packed for shipment overseas. It was pointed out that to date not one shipment of clothing sent overseas has been lost. During the past few months, Rev. and Mrs. Short have been in Kitchâ€" ener establishing a Canadian headâ€" quarters of the organization. The office and clothing depot here will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Rempel. One ‘of the purposes beâ€" hind the establishment of a Canaâ€" dian headquarters is to train young Canadians for relief work in forâ€" cign. countries, and to establish a reserve of clothing. 0 To insure our ttuss customers of comfort and security we fit the Non skid spot pad truss. These light appliances hold securely. The Non Skid Pads are washable â€"sanitaryâ€"will not slip. J. H. Schmidt & Ca., _ Prescription Druggists, 42 King St. E., Kitchâ€" ener, Telephone 2â€"2014. MON. â€" TUES. â€" WED. â€" ADDED FEATURE â€" TRUSSES Friday, March 24, 1944 Daily From 1 P.M. Continuous