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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942

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SPA

London .Be1ieves__l’etain Gov’t 0n Spot

Daladier Shouts Angry NBZlS renew

,Warnir'zg At

Riom Trial

Declares not always the same ones who get licked.

B MOI Mod - ,PIQII it!!! Wfltl‘

moo, Much ti -—(AP)

..a'%gi grander Edouard Dalad- , one of five leaders of the de- firs: French republic on trial for responsibility for France's defeat.

_ warnin today broaden... t. s... many In this war ‘i

t will not al- wskysd? the same onu who get c e . “Dcladlerh sensational statement came at the conclusion of tasti- morly by Gen. Joseph Keller, who had said France's tank force was outnumbered by_ Germany's b? W0 one.

“Never mind who i. licked." Da- fsdier said, addressgg himself to Gen. Keller, who commanded all tank units attached to infantry. “It will not always be the same ones who act licked."

The former Premier cited Gen. Charles De Gauile. now leader of Free lrrenui forces, among others as having developed the modern conception of tank strategy which was ad tcd by the German but Ignored Y French army chieftalns.

"Just as the conception of Btukas was a Bench conception, formulat- ed in 1934 and copied two years lat- er by the Germans," Daladier said. "so was the conception oi the inde- pendent armored division e. French one and, even before Gen. De Gaulle, was formulated by Gen. Joseph Doumenc who wrote a book called ‘achtung panaerl’ in which lie outlined a plan for associating light, heavy and medium tanks in independent divisions.

"The idea later was elaborated by De uile"

Gt . But army die-bards were opposed to all new ideas such as armored

divisions. . heathen...» ,. '- "“ - i‘ ‘.”hatred' of in- tellectual daring. hatred of mod- Qflilfld

gzngglleéra-paralyzed the ar-I

Battle Enemy Fighters high 0vcr Darwin-

DARWIN’. Australia, March S! - -fOPl - ‘Their wings flashing like

V mirrors in the bright sunlight, Au-

strallsn and United States planes fouaht with Japanese zero fighters

to 15.000 feet over Darwin this afternoon.

‘The dogfight followed allotlici‘ ab- ortive raid by revoii twin-engined Mitsuiblshl bombers mum like that of yesterdays. when seven bombers dropped ‘00 bombs.

Today the Japanese bombers mode

I a single run over their iaraci anil

dropped 20 bombs. most of vrlilch

‘ lsndedharmlessly in the bush. s There wet-ens casualties.

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aim Boris To Supply 200.000

BYJRNE. March 3 snarl circles claime tonight Rina Boris of Bulgeria has cromtsrd Hitler 200.000 Billmarian lfOflpg for the. Russian front.

Word to this effect has been cir- ou‘aied widclv slncethe El-lqarlan mover-h Mt-vvmM t; Sofia we: mcfinfrom talks with high Nos’: in

Bunting. Events

Into latices la ' llloilloporwa

lhla oolulll r8

Satur cg. I L-ISBI-B- l-Bi.

COL. ARTHUR L. BISHOP

of Toronto. who ha; been appointed {resident of Polymar Corporation

lmiicd, n Crown Compnnv set up by the Department of Munitions and Supply to produce synthetic rubber in Canada. Col» Bishop is president of the Consumers Gas Company of Toronto.

Likely to resume llallingfB’ men

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men uu er the national resour- ces mobilization act may be re- , a-umed, It is understood hero. For the past year only cate- ory "A" men have been called ' or compulsory military trlilu- . lng and subsequent homc scr-W vice buttprlor tpwthut amen in both category ’ an unte- Fory "g" were subject to call or a me. .

If the decision to resume the calling of "B" category izwi is taken rind suggestions idling, that. line have been considered -—scvcral thousand men who have been called up for mcili- cal ctxamluntabn'“'ilid¢’rgjecffid' as no mcasur ng up e " " standard may be recalled.

Chaplains will Proceed overseas

OTTAWA. March 31--(CP)_ Rt, Rev. G. A. Wells. principal Protes- tant chaplain to the Canadian arm- qd forces. andMost nev. c. L. Nel- liuan. principal Roman Catholic fllrmlnlll. will go overseas shortly, it was learned today.

Bishop Nelllgan. native of T11;- nisll. PEI. went to Britain in i9- 40 and returned after confcrrin for three months with chaplains

_(AP,_G,..._ and meil of ille forces. There now "1"" °f "'19 Cml-‘ietvtlllve Pa"

are 60 Roman Catholic 011811111115 Wlih the Canadians overseas.

Bishop Wells sum ho was lzclng overseas in connection uliih nrcjmt- cd reorganization cf the chaplain service there.

Prof. Jjlnchl Named Pres. of Mt. A. Alumni

Prof. Jonn- Inch was elected president cf the Mount Allison Al- um

Pressure on Vichy Regime.

Time May _Be Approach- ing When French Will Be Forced To Get Off The Fence.

IDNDON, March 81 —(CP Cable) -Informed circles in London to- night expressed the view that me Vlch government has been put "on spot" by internal differen- cu and external press u.

From the fog cf axis-inspired re- ports clouding the true purpose of discussions believed in progress in Vichy, observers say they believe they have sifted these rtalntles:

1. Pierre Laval, co laboratlonist former member of the Petaln 11d- mlnlstration, has met with the aged Marshal; '

2. 'fl"e Germans _are their pressure on Vichy.

3. The time may come soon when Vichy will be forced to get off the fence and declare for all-out col- laboration or a definite rupture with Germany.

Axis sources have been predicting sweeping changes within he Vichy

overnment if not the actual re- urn of Laval to power. Informed 311N511 quarters take s serious but cautious view of these reports which they qonsider may be part of the German scheme to impose pressure on Petnirrs government.

Howeventhey believe the Ger- mans have been finding Vichy mtg

renewing

independent for their liking. and- that they would be pleased to have-

in a high position a. scheming and, astute adventurer whose Nazi leanings are well known. These sources cite among exam- gles of Vichy independence “Huh ave angered the Germans the fall-

nce and the failure of Pctain to give the nation a. satisfactory ex- planation of the bombliirz of the PflTlS suburban plant of rile Ren- ault Columns’ by the n. A. F‘. ‘

Of less importance, because pro- mises call b.- broken, Pet/sun's as- surances to the United states that he would net surrender the French fleet or (he island of Madagascar u; the axis still is believed to have annoyed the Nazis.

Amour: the methods the Nazi< arc using lll their efforts to bi~'ii<! Vichy to hoel are promises io rc- lease moi-o French uar prison-u: which French sources here say tli ~ alilf‘...llcvcmdoJazcalgse of i-hc pa» teliiial divisor their frcezlcnl ivculcl brinfx---.illd to mike adlusimcnls in the drruilrcalion lln-c between oc- c1l"'.".'l and unoccupied France.

'1! '- l‘!‘"'.‘.'l renewal of liallan cur-w m Frcilch ncsscasions also is lil*"l".l‘f'l to be part of the axis scheme of pressure.

Says Party. g

Must adopt Modern methods

TORONTO, March 31 -(CP) - Gordon Grsydon. national chaira an member of Pnrli ment

Peel, today told the ‘Ilorcntn conservative Burincssme is Club that "the Conservative P1110’ musl- adopt modern policies to meet mod- em conditions and the whole new movement must take on a complex- ion cf a great crusade."

In 111s particular crusade the needs of agriculture and the prob- lems of the working man and his $211112; must be considered, he con-

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Conservative for

‘More especially the party must_

take into consideration men on ac- tive service. their problems and their dependents." he said.

Plan Restoration

Of Beef Production

..

liwar Situation Last Night-j ' ..l

(‘By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) ‘ Swsollal winds bred In the Indian Ocean are beginning to inter-

pow as serious weather obstacles to the Jlpancsg

conquest march

as a Russian winter did to Iliilers still immobilized “crusade?

‘Coupled with at least temporary Anzac-American air mastery over the New Guinea bridgehead for invasion of Australia, the first wet breath cf the monsoon is blowing ill portenta for the foe. Torren- tial deiuges in eastern New Guinea have already drowned out an attempted Japanese land advance against Port Morcsby.

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Those heavy r8111! III New Guinea are a sure harbinger of the “wet monsoon” that blows southwesterly from the Indian Ocean to the Himalaya; from April to October. That natural phenomenon bids fair to dominate the Japanese war pattern for the nxet several weeks,

compelling all-out concentration lines in Burma.

' British-Chinese defence

Within a few wecka the Irrawaddy delta battle ground in Burma will be a. quagmire. successions of tremendous thunderstorms will awccp the country from soulll to north, making major military action

impossible for two or three months at least. Moreover

the air odds

against the Allies must cease to be a factor. Planes on both sides will

he largely grounded. O O

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Ii follows, then, that such predictable weather conditions ure a. prime military clement in he rccknucil with nut alone ill Bivlnxi. but also in New Guinea and Australia and even In the Phillppillcq Al- though not directly in the Indian Occun mousse;- lIPll, i-i-utr-ul Luzon. New Guinea and northern Australia are greatly affected by that an-

nual shift of the, winds.

Mcighcn urges ‘Yes’ in Plchiscitc

TORONTO. March 3i —-(CP) — Rt. Hon. Arthur Meigllen, national Conservative party leader, urged

Canadians to vote ‘yes" in the fort-hcomim plebiscite in a- state- ment lssued todiiv.

"Certr-jiillf I shall vote ‘yes’ on the plecfscltnmflstated Mr. Meigh- ell. ‘(Isald 1'"l0ng._ago. and I urge

dilatcry and un-British.

It adlsizraceful thing that we

should be fussing with a plebiscite this time...."

Ca ‘dlaogi’ w to. vote ‘y 1 few,

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Thomas McAvinn Elected new _ B. I. S. President

jfliolnas McAvllin was elected Dffisjldilii- of the Benevolent Il":l: Socszfy at. the 117th annual meeting held last illgllt in the B. I. S. Hall. His,- succceds Ml‘. Eugene Kelly who rctircrl after serving two years in thi- cllliii‘.

Mr. illriwnrd Smith was re-clccted Patron of the Society for the com- lllz your.

ilthcr officers elected were: 1st. ‘P llcllt. Mr. i... 0. Kelly; 2nd.

Vice Pl

Vlcc Pr id-ent. Ml‘ W.W. McCar- 1011; 'I‘lcas.. Mr. John Callaghan irc-clcctedl: Secretary, Mr. Alex

Iiuffcriy (re-elected): Chief M“. shall. Mr. Joseph Costello; Ser-

Rezilit-ai-Arlns. Mr. Cornelius Cor--

rlgan: Doorkeeper. Mr. James ‘Illls- tie; Auditors. Messrs. 'I‘llr>mas Mc- Avinn, and Patrick Doyle.

Mr. Arthur McQuald was re-cl- charitable

Raiiring President Eugene Kelly resting and comprehensive review c! the years work. empha- slrcd the splendid work done bv the

ectcd chairman of the committee.

in an lute

(Continued on page '1. Col 6)

Internaticilbl At A Glance

By The Canadian Pres;

INDIA-Native leaders appear un- willing to accept Crippa plan for

Dominion status. BURMA-Isaak of air

dangers Brltifii-Chineao a ies; Chi. t

0W2! Oll-

balillcliuns as Rubber source Not feasible

orTAulA, March ‘iI—i(Jl')—- Defiant dilaldclions will dance unduunicd on Canadian lnivns this summer, secure in the knowledge that they arc ioo instead uf foo manly. to b6

Nation Itcscnrch scientists said today the)’ 113d rend sucgcsiions that plants of - the dandelion family, high in latex, might b;- uscd for mun- uftciiirc of rubber. They a- greed that chemical processes‘ might taka from oven the or- dinary (lhiltlldllflll some sub- stances which could be de- veloped inio a form of rubber substitute. _

"But when you think of the small content of each of the plnllls and the countless mili- ions which would be 119111-11?“ for cvcil a small rrnuuut of rubber substitute. along with the cost of colli-ctlon ovcr a wide area, ii, is evident- other rubber gubstitutesuvhlch v1"! b0 obtained more efficiently are to he favored." one official cold.

Indians likely To reject British plan

(By n. IL summit. Associated " Press Staff Writcrl ‘

NEW DELHI, liidin. Match 31-- (AP)--Strong inferential evidence arose today that Britain's final offer of full India after the war was about to be rejected because of the un- willingness of Lh»? more lmporiant Indian political lBaders to‘ accept the condition that India's defence must. meantime remain ‘in British hands.

This was suggested by those sev- eral facts:-

l. The working coliimiti/ec of tlic dominant Indian group, the All- India Congress, had reached the stages of drafting its conclusions- a draft which it was felt would hardly be required unless those conclusions were unfavorable-arid was said to be oi single mind.

2. Davadas Gandhi son of the Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi declared in the Ifldllsliiln Times that the Congress was "bewilder- ed that one so sensible. so hon-

», . mk gong,“ n, lxglflagvthtgtsélltllliillgpilt eggidnxgigliliigq (clgouglprafllga a)? mi-ehMzin- “m "'1'." 5 J" ‘Md’ est 811g so broad-minded as mu ~ » .1 . as - - e re rns or en w“ — "m ' st n cl lmlld liav lul azutlruiii-c-i» Ms.::*c..r.ic-...... .... w... ilr..ir"ir“zi.".i..."ss"zr.i“zi -=~'-‘-Ys-»ii“i'~i-’i'1‘-="1ii‘~"'~"== “ti: “my . f m G "

" jv. r. s. Drcsenis President. Miss Adele Machcan; the Maritime Livestock Breeders §§§J§§§Z¥ ‘“"‘ d“"°'°" """"° grolcolmlgdiggedcydlicgob; the $-

r g veer Priday even- Sec-Tress" Prof. f-fazen Wigmore: Association. said ~ .,_l."_, Bailey. tish Government shculw prove ‘o. m: 4"» °'°‘°°'1- " Mdlwh M11 0- B- Blevb- Fredericton- vreflbkfl i’! the A!‘ GERMANY-London reporh ml- oeptable to Indian opinion." I _. - ; wlfili-l-l-‘Zt Tlll directors named for the sociation, in an address to t at m. "mu" l“ u" sly-mom, s, s. sir staiicra himself, the Bri-

a' “ ma. " . n_ {"211 "'1' 111°11111°¢= Mfllfl- G- a banquet fvllcwlns an M= B- 11- Russian front. tieh more Priv seal who is under-

- , - Duung‘ m“ . "1" - WA- Mnpme- 51mm Mc‘ 111663118 WdBY- taking one o the most complex Q‘ » - '1'“? ‘flxafidflflil Ffll- 1111-1! A1111"! 011111 I116 Mn Other speakers were J- W- PHILIPPINES-Manila Bay de- and difficult missions of all his-

. , _ ‘ mgr" hn-‘wn- ' " ‘Graham. Mmwm"? Mfl- A1111! Mi!“ fence; under Jsp fire but little tcr . appeared to have been af- ‘ if , p‘ Mt ' $017‘ “Plum . P“ l" n Bulllrd. jlmwwfli N H- demase done. ~ fee d by the atmosphere of de- ~:. -: ‘i I l ,1 ‘ n "_1"°""'Y y” m’ Illufler. Mono : Keith 3°!‘ presslon that was growing here. . "... . A‘? ' m, ,I1F"'FP"1"V~1°P W . - fie well Victoria. 2111.: w. A. Baird. . __ o ' s; ' §°“",1"W"""I "1! Nappan, u. s.. and Judae A. A v h.‘ . ‘ ‘ ‘F3111. Rfigfvztflgg: a?“ z: Dystartu Buctouche, N. B. * W3',"'M‘°"“ j): m‘ “MK-PW” or a til‘; Car Stolen As Own-c U S S ‘Murray. 81mm ‘My l£",1,,,°°'i “mfigmnfi Gets Gas Ration Book. ., ‘ .___'__ went mi 0 tho - .-_--

» ' ~ w: were‘ m N.B..M liu- ANA A s... . mgrca, was ....:.... .. I ' us. ...........-:.i ... C .

ve . AEII 4 at‘! so k. db ‘I'm hatch new t and mei- who had to mus in a Iona’

_ tpmlchsse of a Torr ed In, an the various line-up to get his m2 license and .* L-iala-s- - i, private sc-operatcd by ration book: he got the licence only

_ ,---+- _ .1. vidinL ' le virl qu rs to find he had no car. Someone

§_'$£'i' "i‘.i."‘tllé%. iii. ‘aim a iii it“? ‘t..t"l“' the? ‘$.11’. ‘tiff. l‘. tilt, .‘.‘it...'°.’.‘.'ii£ E X c E L S | N f H E K| T c" E N ~ . l" mtihlnugeand‘ g ‘line the inetltuti . the sneaker motor vehicle office to re-asoertain

waive: rusty till noon u» number of his mi licence. in . __ _A"__

_aadoauipbeli. L-lm. (OonupuddhiDlflLOoll) oraertonpnrttbetllsfttonolbv- - - -

. qovcmmerit, that C0l1

Dominion status‘ to ~ ~

_ h Margiv

Protest tax 0n Liquor,

GES

Cerinan

Annnll Huhacriptlon Delivered, $6.00 B! llulli P. P‘ I- ltfis to other Provinces and UJ. flJQ

100 nlvlslolls T0 Jllssu

Losses

Said 45,000 llfen

At Sevastopol

P. E. I. Temperance .~;.l- London hears Enemy pouring fresh men into Russia for Spring offensive.

eration Asks} That ax Be Abolished; Tourists Scripts Also Discr "" l.

The PEI. Temperance Federa- tion ioiced their protest against lrs iaccnt imposition of a tax on alcoholic liquors to go towards liealili purposes and went on rec- ord as requesting “that the tax c01- lectui from alcohol sales and zlos- lgnattd as a Health tax be abinish- ed and tllatztliis money lirfdtx-oilry for health purposes be collected from other sources." at a gczlcral meeting held yesterday in file Y.M. C.A, Other matters discuss-d were: tourist scripts. cliznlt vrlTl dilrlllg a discussion 0n liquor sales and abuse of ilic szlpt- system; -.Iu canteen at ihc local airports, and law en-

forrclli-cllt.

A small crowd attended boih nlorllillq and aftcppoon sessions of ihc meeting. The president, Mr. J. H. AIcFlii-lane, Bedeque, was in the chair‘.

In connection with the protost n- gziiilst. the Health tax on alcoholic liquors. the following resolution, in- troduced by Secretary Rev H. E. Show. was adopted unanimously: “Whereas the Prohibition Act per- mits of the use of alozlni.» liquors for medicinal purposes only. and does not contemplate 1c sale of liquor for revenue pr ,_._ pl '- poscs: and whereas the DullCy of deriving PQVCTIUCS from liquor sales inevitably leads to the encourage- ment oi‘ ever increasing liquor rcn- sumption. as in the case of other provinces of Canada. despite lie war: therefore be it resolved: l. That. the P. E. I. Temperance Fed- eration challenges the apparent presuppositiom of our Provincial _ liquor may. demo‘ a“ revenue producii"! commodity rather than a danger- ous narcotic drug: 2. that we as- mrt our conviction that the deriv- ing of revenue bv any government from liquor sales is a tllorouglilv vicious principle, WlllCli cannot flifl to fasten the liquor business firm-

liilicil position In Burma is Growing serious

NEW DELHI. Iildlu. March 31- (APv-Lacking scouting pianos nnd fighting in country teeming with hidden enemies, British arulies guarding the direct route to the cciitral Burma oil fields were coun- tcr-at-tacklng tonfght in a desper- a'c effort to sinczll Japanese road blockadcs which l" ve isolated Brit- lSlll mobile units n the Irrawaddy

a. .

IF}.

The position of the Bfltish for- ces iri the Prome sector became rapidly more ominous even as the Chinese at Toungoo. on the left will of the allied line. joined wit-ll rein crccments coming frcm north anti east and re-esiablished their positions after a week of bitter combat.

-Up lo Sunday. a Chinese com- munique said, ‘J's bodies of 5.000 dead Japanese were countcd on-the battlefield around Toungoo. Hard ficliilnv continues, despite the Chi- new successes.

Charged with Spanking girl

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. March 31 -(AP) -_ A 17-year-old Harvard freshman from Chicago, accused of luring a 10-year-old girl to his room and spanking hcr so that he could study her psychological reactions, was held in $2,500 bail in district court today

The youth, who was booked as Eugene Oolub, pleaded not Sllllty to s charge of indecent assault and batte and was hold in $2,500 bond for tral.

Police sergeant Charles War- nock said that the youth told him he wanted to determine the psy- chological effects of a spanking on a child and that he had used a time-set camera for making pic- tures. Wsrnock quoted Golub as saying that the pictures were mailed to a student of psychology at tho University of Chicago.

War-ZS Years Agoélbday

APRJI. i ION-Britt!) west of 8t. Quentin occupied Bavy and Savy Wood and advanced narill of and Peisiere. rd Leon 0n the Armed

Altregny front.

MOSCOW. April mans have sacrificed 45,000

capture Sevustopol in the Crimea, and now

L-(Wednesday )-(AP)—Thc

Ger- men in repeated efforts to the Russians

have launched their own counter-offensive there, Tass said today in a Scvasfopol dispatch.

The agency said the Germans had “hurled into action the units reserved for their much advertised spring offen- sive, but ihesc also have been ground into ilic dust. by the