LIGHTING-UP TIME TIDE TABLE FOR JANUARY Date High Water Low Water Sun- Sun- A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. rise set 5.58 p.m. 6 2.10 2.14 8.06 851 722 528 7 3.05 3.09 9.08 920 722 529 ©lp ?Rnpl Ofazgtte aitft Colomat iatUt VOL. 25-NO. 6 HAMILTON, BERMUDA,SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945 3D PER COPY—-40A* PER ANNUM EXPLANATION TO HOUSE REPORT BLUEPRINTS WAY I MR. J. L P. VESEY HEADS New Hun Offensive Drives Into CALLED "SICKENING" TO TRAIN LOCAL YOUTH NEW FINANCE COMMITTEE Delay Explained In Making Greater Scope From School I Mr. J. W. Cox, Other Member, France On U.S. 7th Army Front; Salt Kettle Landing Usable At Dockyard Is Envisioned I Asks Speaker To Reconsider DIVERS & EQUIPMENT WERE AGRICULTURAL & DOMESTIC CHAIRMAN WARNS ECONOMY Push Threatening Saverne Gap UNAVAILABLE, COUNCIL TOLD SCIENCE TRAINING URGED TO KEYNOTE HIS POUCY The main reason why the obstruc­ With a blueprint of a course for After explaining that at no time tion in the water off the Salt Ket­ about 300 children of 13 and 14 years since he was chosen as Speaker had REDS SMASH NAZI MOVES MOSCOW RECOGNISES THE tle landing has not been removed so of age who are leaving Bermuda's he been confronted with a more British 2nd Army Join that the ferry boats of the Bermuda schools each year, the House of As­ difficult task, at yesterday's sitting TO RELIEVE BUDAPEST LUBLIN GOVERNMENT Transportation Company could call sembly yesterday afternoon receiv­ of the House of Assembly Sir Re­ there is because the required divers ed a report from the Select Commit­ ginald Conyers appointed Mr. J. E and equipment have been engaged tee on over-population and emigra­ P. Vesey as chairman of the new U.S. 1st, 3rd Armies In on very important work which had tion which provides a number of Finance Committee and the Hon. Tito's Forces Cross Border Policy Of "Fait Accompli" the highest priority. original recommendations. The re­ John W. Cox as a member. port itself which was presented by Belgian Bulge Battles Into Austria In Styria b Adopted By Russians This statement was made at yes­ Mr. Hereward Watlington, leads up 'T have endeavoured," Sir Reginald terday's Legislative Council sitting to its suggestions with pointed and said, "to analyse all the angles aris­ by the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. brief analyses of the present situa­ ing out of this problem, and to By MARSHAL YARROW LONDON, Jan. 5 (IP)— The Rus­ By JOHN PARRAN £ William L Murphy .after the Presi­ tion. satisfy my conscience that what I sians, in savage fighting, smashed dent, the Hon. Sir Brooke Francis, LONDON, Jan. 5 (AP).—Russia an­ am about to do is correct. I have S.H A.E.F., PARIS, Jan. S (Reuter).— German forces attacking the TJ.S. German counterattacks northwest had described as "sickening" the ex­ As far as the Committee could taken time to do that. Whether the Seventh Army front east of Bitche have cut the Sarreguemines-Hagenau of Budapest seeking to break nounced recognition of the Polish planation for the delay which was Provisional Government of Lublin, learn, there is little desire on the course that I am about to take is road around Wingen. through to relieve the doomed capi­ given recently to the House of As­ part of either the parents or the the right or wrong one, time can This represented a threat to the Saverne Gap and possibly imperils tal's garrison while to the south­ making clear tbe break with the Pol­ sembly by the Hon. Capt. Bayard children for these adolescents to be west the Soviets' Yugoslav allies an­ ish Government to exile in London only tell. Whether those that I am Strasbourg. Emphasizing the threat to Strasbourg, the Germans sent a Dill. Capt. Dill had stated that the apprenticed or to learn a tirade; but, about to appoint to the Finance battalion across the Rhine in barges 11 miles north of the city. These nounced they were fighting on the which is still recognized by the Unit­ work was held up pending the pur­ due to economic considerations! soil of Austria after crossing the ed States and Britain. Committee will be acceptable to the troops landed near Gambsheim and entered Offendorf, two miles to the chase of some land adjoining the these children "are required to find House, time can only tell." north, where they are still holding out according to the latest frontline Styrian frontier. Bringing to a head one Of the landing. some gainful employment to relieve reports. Inside flaming Budapest Russian thorniest questions facing the im­ Mr. Murphy said a letter had been the strain on the family budget, or In view of the "extraordinary cir­ storm troops seized another 233 pending Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin .-.....•.ui^iij ocaau a. ICLLCI xiau UB_U _aa*, ov.taiii uu LIW .asxisiy uuugCL, UJ cumstances'** which had arisen, the By reaching the vicinity of Win­ received that morning by the De-1 frequently remain idle and unoccu gen, the Germans have advanced 12 square blocks from the fanatical parley, the Moscow announcement partment of Works from the owner pied at home without proper super­ Speaker explained, he would' give miles since the start of their Bitche Nazi defenders, to boost total in their came within four days of a joint an­ of the land, but he did not explain vision from the parents, both of Messrs. Vesey and Cox until the end offensive. Montgomery Takes possession to over 1,530, and cap­ nouncement that the United States its import. It is understood by The whom, in many cases, are dally work­ of February to inform him whether tured another 2,400 German and and Great Britain are still standing Royal Gazette that expropriation at ers." they were prepared to resign from The cutting of the Sarreguemines- by the exiled London Polish Govern­ Hagenau road could force the with­ Charge Of Armies Hungarian defenders. this point seems probable. the Boards of Trade and Education ment. IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING which they respectively head. drawal of the Allied triangle point­ MOSCOW, Jan. 5 (JP)—.Russian ing at Karlsruhe. Both Britain and the United States WILL BE MORE CONTENT "The importance of having pro­ North Of Ardennes forces today were reported holding followed up the Russian statement per training and supervision of these WOULD ACCEPT POST German armoured attacks support­ with a re-iteration of their announce­ . Sir Brooke, who spoke at consider­ By AUSTIN BEALMEAR children," the report adds, "not only By MARSHALL YARROW ed by hundreds of planes in the So­ ments four days ago: they are still able length, had this to say after On the motion for adjournment Mr. Murphy had given the principal to afford them better advantages in PARIS. Jan. 5 (IP).— A second viet-held corridor once 30 miles deep standing by the exiled Polish Govern­ a competitive labour market but also later to the afternoon (the speak­ S.H.A.E.F., PARIS, Jan. 5 (Renter) northwest of beleaguered Budapest. ment. reason for the delay: "I am quite er's announcement came at the powerful German offensive was un­ certain that the constituents of the to forestall waywardness and vagran­ masked in Northeast France even as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Mont­ The German armoured thrust Leaders of the Polish Peasant Party cy, cannot be over-emphasised, and ope tie sitting), Mr. Vesey gomery, Commander in Chief of the down the Danube west Of the big in London—sensing the possibility four hon. members representing accepted the chairmanship of the the British Second Army joined the British and Canadian Forces on the Paget Parish in another place' will your Committee has sought advice United States First and Third Danube bend entered Its third day. of Moscow announcing recognition and information from many sources (Finance Committee and said he Western Front, has been given full It appeared to be designed to liber­ of thm Lublin group before the "Big be more content with having the would resign as chairman of the Armies in a mounting battle to un­ command ef all Allied troops north kind of reply they received today and endeavoured to develop and co­ do the havoc wrought by the ene­ ate the remains of nine Nazi, divi­ Three" meeting—charged that if ordinate existing facilities as a •Board of Trade. He asked the of the Ardennes bulge, tt was an­ sions trapped in the Hungarian capi­ Russia acted now it would be to at­ than that which was expressed to Speaker, however, to relieve him of my's first surprise drive into Bel­ nounced here today. them not so very long ago." means to this end." gium and Luxembourg. This second tal. tempt to present the other two powers the chairmanship of the Civil Ser­ offensive in less than a month came This move—hy mutual consent— The Soviet communique said that with "a fait accompli." The debate took place during con­ Referring to consultations with vice Standing Committee. brings American troops of General inside Budapest Russian storm sideration of The Public Works Re- Mr. Arthur Tucker, superintendent as S.H.A.E.F. announced that Gen­ Courtney Hodges's Erst Army and The Polish Government in exile of the Nonsuch Training School, who Mr. Cox, on the other hand, sur­ eral Dwight Eisenhower had reor­ forces for the eighth day gamed officially expressed "regret from the vote Resolve, 1945 which includes a prised by then a very slim House General William Simpson's Ninth more ground and have now occupied revote of £1,000 to put the Salt Ket­ stressed that the chief problem in ganized his command, placing Mar­ Army under the British Marshal's point of view of United Nations the training of the youths there was when, a few minutes later in a shal Montgomery over all four 1,400 city blocks since the initial at­ unity" over the Russian recognition tle landing In use.