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TIDE TABLE FOR SEPT. LIGHTING-UP ME Date High Water Low Water Son. g-»». A.H P.M A.M P.M rta• mi 14 7.41 8.05 1.40 1.41 7.01 7_S 7.59 pjn. 13 8.25 8.44 2.24 2.26 7.02 1ZS 16 9.01 9.18 2.59 3.05 7.03 726 tittp JEmjal OJazptte and CoLanlal lat ^V. INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 24—NO. 217 HAMILTON. BERMUDA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1944 3D PER COPY—<40/- PER ANNUM STEAMSHIPS OPTIMISTIC U.S. FORCE AT OUTSKIRTS OF AACHEN WITHl^ Years Of Hell And TortureON OUR POSTWAR TRAVEL |For Wamw; Fwedom Now Near Bermuda Figures In Plans FALL OF FRONTIER VILLAGE INSIDE REICH: By MICHAEL RYERSON LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter!.—Warsaw's long agony may at last be end Contemplated For Future ing. For the first time, the commander to chief of the patriot army, General Bor, announced that the battle from within the city was being EXECUTIVES GIVE OPINIONS SOVIETS DRIVE TO CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER: directly influenced by the battle from without, where the Polish-born AS SEEN AT PRESENT TIME Marshal Rokossovsky is again on the march towards the suburb of Praga Starred, battered, diseased, but At least three big steamship com still lighting _____ the mounds of panies are definitely interested in rubble and grey dust that is now all Foreign Workers In Reich serving Bermuda after the war and HIGH STRATEGY NOW MAPPED OUT AT QUEBEC that remains of Warsaw, they are their plans, as far as it is possible hoping that the day they have for them to study the situation at awaited with unbreakable courage Told ToQuit Plants this time, were ascertained by a for over five years is now near at representative of The Royal Gazette CZECHOSLOVAK BORDER IS QUEBEC CONFEREES NEAR hand. LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter).— who interviewed their executives GERMANSBELIEVEDFALLINGBACK Warsaw was the first Allied capital The following message was Issued when he was recently to the United to feel the full fury of German by order of the Supreme Com States. REACHED BY RED ARMY FINAL HIGH STRATEGY wrath. It will be one of the last to mander of the AUied Expedition Regardless of what programme be freed. In between it has suffered ary Force today, addressed to their companies adopt, all of the TO RHINE; WEAK OPPOSITION MET as no city on earth has ever suf the foreign workers to North executives were personally greatly All-Out Attack Is Begun For Parleys May Wind Up Coming fered before. western, Western and Southern optimistic about the Colony's post Germany. By WILLIAM BOOT Once before its people thought de war prospects as a resort. Having liverance was near. That was on "You are in danger. But in the made it their business to give much Warsaw; Lomza Captured Weekend, It Is Indicated next few days you may have the SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sept. August 1, when the sound of the thought to the establishment of greatest opportunities for ac American Bases here, they were con 14 (Thursday) (-^.—American troops, rolling through surprisingly light Red Army's guns was heard to the NAZI REP0RTSAYS SOVIETS SHIPPING PREDOMINANT IN capital and General Bor gave the tion. In a desperate effort to vinced that this development would resistance on Wednesday, drove into the outskirts of the important Ger HAVE ALSO REACHED GREECE PLANS NOW BEING MAPPED word to begin rising. The secret eliminate Allied support among benefit the Islands. man border city of Aachen, one of the northern keystones of the Siegfried code sign "Tempest" was flashed the workers, Himmler plans to All were pleased that Bermuda was repeat to the west what he and line, and struck close to the core of the Nazis' vaunted West Wall on at through the city and at five o'clock getting down to business with its LONDON, Sept. 13 (JP).— The Red By DOUGLAS CORNELL the Gestapo have already done least three other sectors along a nine mile front. on that summer afternoon the civili internal transportation problems Army reached the Czechoslovak an army opened fire against their so thoroughly in the east. The and they expressed the hope that a The Americans captured the bord frontier below Krosno to a flaring QUEBEC, Sept. 13 (JP).— The high workers there have been sent to strategy of the second Quebec wax would-be conquerors. workable solution would be found er village of Rotgen, ten miles south new offensive in Southern Poland The odds were terrific against the man tlie fortifications. before the resumption of the Co and conquered the stubborn for conference is almost complete — the "Thousands of others workers east ef Aachen, the first German ESCAPE ROUTES ALL BUT result of "splendid progress" by Poles. The Germans flung to all lony's main trade. community to be reported taken tress of Lomza, in Northern Poland, they had against them—bombers, — including potential leaders, in a powerhouse drive that carried President Roosevelt and Prime and women — have been herded MOTOR CAR QUESTION in the all-out assault on Hitler's CUT NEAR BELFORT GAP Minister Churchill on the formula artillery, armoured trains, flame within 15 miles of the East Prussian throwers, monster Tiger tanks and into concentration camps as On the question of motors, the Reich, and stood 325 airline miles border on the south. for final victory over the reeling but hostages. The workers in the from Berlin in the march on tbe 24-inch mortars. newspaperman brought his inquiries still formidable Axis. Ruhr and Rhineland are at this further afield and spoke to people Nazi capital. Tough Rearguard Resistance Simultaneously a ferocious on The discussions will continue for The citizens of Warsaw repUed moment tinder threat of tbe slaught opened on Warsaw, with three or four more days in the with automatic pistols, rifles, a few to quarters which are close to tour As American armoured columns Soviet troops and the Russian- same danger. ism. There was a consensus that guarded bastions of Quebec's Cita heavy machine guns and such arms "Here are your instructions for encountered only minor opposition Along The Southerly Route sponsored First Polish Army fight as their ingenuity could devise and unlimited use of motor cars would in the Siegfried Line outposts, the del. But it became apparent that meeting this danger — for saving ing bitter engagements with the the talks will be devoted largely to those dropped by Allied aircraft. impair a type of advertising which indications were that the Germans Germans in the suburban area of your own lives and for aiding the Bermuda had been able to make AMERICANSCLOSING IN ON filling in the gaps in the war plans They made hand grenades from old Allied armies. Leave all German were falling back toward the Rhine. Praga on the right bank of the Vis already drafted in broad outline gas piping. They fitted fuses to much use of in the past, but the ad tula river. factories at once; go under vent of broadened motorization was 40 miles to the east in this sector. LURE; NORTH OF VESOUL Major decisions which confronted abandoned German artillery shells ground. Go into hiding — either The drive to reconquer Hungarian- and threw them by hand. A fourteen not viewed with alarm. The Yanks won positions in tbe Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill on in the towns or alt the land. From all there came the opinion town and forest of Aachen and to held Transylvania for Rumania their second war-time excursion to year old girl set two German tanks By DAVID BROWN made progress, Russian and Rumani on fire by throwing bottles of petrol "You must act immediately, that Bermuda would have to pro the outskirts overlooking the city, this provincial capital have now so leave the factories now. The vide better and more rapid trans ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, MEDI an troops seizing over 50 settlements been made Probably the delibera on them. safest place it oa the land. Ger a rail and highway hub of more TERRANEAN, Sept. 13 (Reuter). - deep in that mountainous area, They died by their tens of thou portation for the visitors at lower than 160,000 population, historically tions of the President; aad the Prime man farmers axe in need of rates than have prevailed in the American troops of the U.S. Seventh principally the city and railway sta Minister wOl adjourn this week-end sands. One hundred and fifty thou labour. Many will give you food a strong fortress position and in Aimy, advancing against lessening tion of Odorhen, the Soviet com sand men, women and children were past with horses and carriages, and with a joint pronouncement discuss and shelter. The Nazis have not that duplication of services should modern times a strategic citadel in German resistance, today reached munique tonight announced in de ing those decisions in the most gen driven off by the Germans to a con the men to spare to search for the Siegfried Line. Flagy, six miles north of Vesoul, and tailing a series of successes in a big centration camp, where they were be avoided to every particular so as Dampvaley-les-Oolonibes, four miles eral terms. That has not been final you or to control your move to keep at a minimum the number day all along the eastern front. ly decided, but it has been the pat left entirely without food. ments. By WILLIAM BON I northeast of Vesoul and about 30 Lomza was the last major strong Tbe Germans, unable to defeat of motor vehicles being operated on miles west of Belfort.