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British Town

Believe, Plym-(it-z-lh is again target of German planes

lezis shell

British coast‘ ieven hours

. ‘B, Russell Londstrom. Assoc-

‘igmi Press Staff Writer)

tosooN. Avril 29-(“5- miller-y which the Germans m; assembled on the French invasion coast re-entered the tattle of the English Channel today with a seven-hour shell- h; bi the British coast-trio heaviest nnd most protracted of the war.

The hig guns. placed between Crisis, (‘up (iris Ne: and Bou- mm; spirlu- with only ll one- hour interruption from n little past 8 rum. until almost 4 1km. but even as they _ were fired the lloyal Air Force was drop- ping heavy bombs at them.

The R. A. F. also made a determined stab at the chan- nel ports and shipping gener- illv along the Nazi-occupied title oi the channel, but had in cope with strong German ti; formations.

The (lcrirtnn shells for a time rerc bursting every minute en the British coast but, after It was all over. tho Press As- peiailon snid that the dam- qe, for the most part, was unlined to shoreline cottages. Three men were reported

.'l'i\e night before, planes of the R. A. F. acuin pounded at Brest, where tire German sur- iue raiders (inciseneu and Stbmihirr-t are berthcd, and presumably nri- damaged. Sim- ultaneously the (lcrnrm air ferri- dumped thousands of in- rendiarles nnd nil bombs on the ihtttereil seaport of Ply- month.

I wounded slightly.

llome turns

Eyes on little Switzerland

' RQME, April 29 -(AP) -Little =lyltzrr1nn<i was rcivred tonight lith anli-avis l‘ a d of British jftitiennci- by the Fa rist, journalist hiol/laria Grrv, who raised the tiiesilen whether that neutral gwiiiiiri" should he allowed to exist rrnren-hl form in axis-domin- ‘lfd Europe.

Ilrcgtrinr centre of British es- Elise which is scarcely masked" uzbeen estnblhhed near the It- ‘Hil bfilficr in Switzerland, the

iitr chnrszeri, . -eir!d m» F0155 ntiiitrde continue, figflsnid, the "nhsubllity or ad-

“ if of her further collabora- ,_wii5€';\iliic.=< in the Europe oi to-

'°w ‘W110 i)“ "Dinced on tho

lmdi ' mmqeniltfndcvimlte continental re-

‘iiar-25ml_elirs r iigo Today

Elfin. m. l9lti—More than ooo ‘mush? surrendered to British ‘pmréd elves lil Dublin. French "mm Eiirmy trenches near Le qumuffnliid nnd cumieres in the b“ area. simple-French expedi-

ii Srilorrka rcsrmcd hostilities.

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cliholic Wqmpn- Le oak. ‘ii-Holmium. Baturlliay Brill; 10th. _ L-2l7-t-30-li-3.

iy-Flves. aid of fliy Name Hall.

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Refreshments. 1 L-l97-4-30-5-2. ‘i, “filing hog-r

- oi Alban eve

afternoon. rridlt ii i-Ii 11:30 a.m. O G C. Green, Emer-

liifivs Thursday, May 1, 3 li-m-i Summer- ilil p.m. Mervyn ‘u m Ffiizvogiriaagnsli, f-iun- t ind caniigbetfill noon.

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A ‘IUWN IJN lOUTi-IWET BNO IAND, Aipril Stl-twetinesdayl- (CPJ-Mnssed fomiatlons o! Gor- man warplanes struck again at this boom-ravaged and virtually de- oivomight, showering high mplosivos in an intense four- hour assault.

Casualties were believed to be lillili; because thousands had been evacuated before the raid.

(This would indicate that. the fawn ma be Plymouth, much. bombed ritish naval base, a large ‘Dirt oif which was declared an evac- uation area last night. Steps were taken almost immediately to remove 10.000 school children.)

One hospital in which children were reported to be patients was wrecked by s direct hit and a num- ber of casualties were feared.

e who“; area was shaken m“ ed on motor buses

the thunder of bombs and a terrif- lC hfltl-fllltftlft barrage ggnt up in reply.

The attack was directed against the already battered remains oif this town in a blitz bombing starting soon after dusk and continuing through the night without o. let-up.

Unconfirmed" reports said two hostile planes were downed by anti-aircraft batteries,

British aided‘ By sandstorm

CAIRO. April til-p-(APF-British aided by a fur- ious sandstorm which has been raging in the western desert since Saturday, have halted the eastward advance of three Italian-German columns attempting to follow up the recent capture oif Saturn, 1h. formed sources said today.

All three columns were brought to a standstill witfiin five‘ miles o1 Salum, just inside the border of

The RAJ’. was outnumbered by Italian and German lanes in this area, but still dcrnina ed the desert skies yesterday, successfully hmnp- cring the Axis service of supplies, officers said.

Heav casualties were inflicted on such ar-borne Axis scldiers at the Libyan ai art of Benlna yesterday, the Midi e East command au- nounced

Most new Taxes already In effect

(By The Canadian Press)

Canadians today found most of the new and increased taxes in the huge Dominion budget: brought down at. Ottawa yesterday already in effect.

The new three-cents-a-gallon tax goes into effect today and so does the increase from 20 to 25 DB1‘ will in the tax on new. unused Dflssen- im- automobiles valued by manu- factgers at unger 89mm m

A n opera on are e creas- ed toxes on mines. distance

' telephone calls. ctr-moot lighters and

besland ontlfioysles. railway. i108 d e . mGollelrxfntfirtlrlit officials tXlDlalnlI that since the tax collections are made upon the menufacturem the prices mg articles aafifectedugyumtl ge may n r0 llxftziiers‘ present stocks are exhaust- ed. However, in some cases price boggiswtnbgche customers] alvévélrllelzlet .21; se o - - l-n m ents mlwetweerlic retailer Ind

uoer. Increased income tax levies. ef- fective for the current your l-lw so into force today- 8o do all the ex- cise act amendments. Changes made in 22 items on the tariff schedule will be effective tn- day and so will the removal of the

speech sales tax exemotignmfrpm iflliid-illlfggeltgimzlllrllfébfeswd m

“it”? 3311mm defence tel: litmu- cs are effective July 1, willie ywlwvkcafgcessiifin duties will not co m1 nient. molding them law has been asse . " with,“ of new buildllll of u- tensims for industrial use. l-lld mil’ chlncrv Installations wu mldanii: fective the moment Finance ‘ Iéslcy made the announoemen a . mm; time excise tall i001?!" from one to two cents a pound hi" been in operation for some weeks.

Ill) T00 MUCH lUGAIt

APPLIZBY mam. Enolmd — (on - AwFfillfT-iziiififaig-e klffiluife‘ iigtgmt°tfifiil 21mg was “dethronecP

and ' sentencelfto monbirsui:

llow Mr. average Man is affected: By new taxes

OTTAWA; April 29 —(CP) -'I‘he average Canadians relaxation and recreation is going to cost htm more under proposed amendments to the special war revenue act an- nounced by Flnance Minister Ils- Iey in his budget speech today.

The tax increases recommended affect such widely-varied every-day purchases as line, beer, wines. and soft drin , cigar-er tutbes and lighters, movi picture theatre tickets and play g cords. They will boost too, the price of low cost au- tomobiles and railway, steamship, motor bus and air lane fares.

Gasoline for the weekend pleas- ure trip with the family will go up three oenis s, gallon -_ the o. mount. of Dominion tux added lo ltlhet provincial taxes already in ef-

ec .

The aim is to reduce consumption, wihtch has been increasing rapidly, since "imports of crude oil make I- hQB-Vy drain on our supplies of foreign exchange,"

And the new cor to make the trip-if it has a manufacturers value less than $900_wi]1 cos; mom because of the increase from 20 to 25 per cent in the tpx on sutomo. bites. Additional taxes also are p133.

Like 885011118, beer consumption. has increased sharply. Mr. IlsievT Drllliiosed that the tax on molt used to make beer be increased by 20 per cent from 10 cents a pound to 12 cents.

Canadian holidayers, whether they g0 0n a short, railway journey or a pleasure cruise will feel the IO-per cent tax on fares, officials said tonight. but the tax does not apply on one-way fares cOStlng 50 cents or less.

The tax on cigaret tubes is in- creased from five to 1o cnnfg a hundred, Mr. Ilslcy sold. “for the Purpose of protecting the revenue.

“It appears that: the tube in con- trast to the paper gives rise to some illicit commercial manufact- ure." he added.

Fbr the first time the Dominion

Federal i

Dominion asks

(By C. R. Blackburn) (Canadian Press btaff Writer) OTTAWA, April 29 — (GP

Fitnance Minister Ilsley today boost- ed personal and corporation ixrcome tax rates to what he considered ti maximum that could be paid on the current. year's operations, and asked the provinces to abandon tlus field of taxation for the wars duration.

The appeal was made in Mr. ll- sley’s budget. address in the House of Commons and he promised prov- inces which co-operatxa they “Tiliid be compensated to the extent of the revenue they would‘ lose, based on the last. year's receipts.

The minister estimated that per- sonal and corporation income tax increases announced today would not $90,000,000 new revenue after providing compensation for the DW- JDCES.

The increases. making the start- ing rate on personal incomes 15 per cent; and increasing the cmcess 0P0- iits tux flat rate to 22 per cent; and thus bringing the minimum corpor- ntion tax to i0 per ocnt. were im- posed in anticipation that the prov- inces would co-operalc as requested-

Tlie income tux increase t0 a starting rateof 15 Del‘ 00m W“ from six 91- eight per ceni- The PX- pess rfiofits text flat. rate rise was [Um per C911 .

But, the new rates will remflill oven if the provinces or any 0f them fail to abandon the income and cor-

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is taxin motl 1 t ch r tlcktets, étting (tile ‘itftsrfu 20 gape? cen .

‘A blanket increase in taxation of cigaret lighters is prupn5gd_ The Proposed amendment provides char. e rite or 25 Der cent shall be paid whether or not: the lighter-s m-e combined With P9110118. cigaret; cases or other cases. In the post, the individual lighter carried 1| my of 20 DB1‘ 0611i. and when attached to a case, 10 per cent.

Reports Soviets Warned against

Military attack

the'9 b6 an act. of mrlio- d

NEW YORK. April 29 —— (CP) -‘ The BBC relayed a Moscow broad. cast tonight wamins the people oi thenSoviet Union to be prepared against a military attack.

The broacust, heard here bv CBS, said that Prime lvlinistcr Church- iils Sunday speech was published in| Moscow newspapers in a prominent‘ position. but that all references to Hitler's designs on Russia were cl. iminated.

The Moscow statement was quot. ed as follows-

"Thc Soviet people will remember Stalins warning not to slop at the

ni which has been reached. It is necessary to be in a state of rend. tpess. even to a state of mobiliza-

ton.

"The whole notion muse be in a state of readiness in the face of the danger of military attack. so that neither chance nor tricks by our external enemies should take us by stir-prise.

"Every day. international devol- opments show with convincing evi- dence irvto v/hat a difficult position a state gets which is militarily m. DWPii-TBIIL"

Ontario motor League opposes Gasoline tax

‘FORDNPO. April 29 - (OP) --

kept

Prime Minister Churchill wid cheering house of commons todayl that debate would be held next week on the Greek campaign and l the conduct. of the war. and said I i‘: voltje of confidence will be asked or i:

Movies and

liorse racing -

To aid war

Qirp.e,wA_ April 29_—(CP)-From movies and liorse-racing the D0< milllOn 'I‘reasury will COAlGCt more money. r

Finance Minister Iislcy czmment- cd in his buzgct speech today that large cxpcndhures on m;v.ng p.0- ture entertainment were being made by Canadians. Ho said paid aAiLmi$iOll5 of more than $34,000,000 were reported in 1030 and they. were hglicr currently.

He said on excise tax of 20 per‘, cent would be placed cn receipts of movie theatres, and frcm tins taxi he expected to cerivc at. icast 58,--

000.000 in a full your and $7,300,000 l

in the present fiscal year-

“Bmrilish To De ba

Plan

For Relations With Provinces

control

of entire income tax field; Will compensateHProvinces.

Gov’t directs llperations all Hamilton plant

rmnnrxrou. Anrii fltPiwfli-

nesday) -—(CI') — A two-flay strike of National Steel (or Corporation employees i191!

ended o. few minutes after mid- night today.

The decision to end the strike was reached upon receipt of a message from the Federal fle- purtrnent of Labor that E. J. Brllnnlng had been app-iintcd controller of the plant to help settle differences between em- ployees nnd the manazemcvlt- The strike was culled in pro- test of what strikers said was failure on the part of the Cor- poration to accept recommenda- tions of a. conciliation board which reported recently.

OTTAWA. April 20—(Cl’l— Thc government today instill- ed E. J. B-unning as “control- lcr" in the plant of the Nation- a1 Steel Car corporation at Hamilton “to direct the 011"“ ations of the plant, in the int"- csts of maximum .war produc- tion,” Munitions Minister Howe announced tonlxht.

This action was taken. Ml‘- Howe said in a llrellifeli 511"?" , ment, because the plant owners refused to carry out interim findings of a conciliation hoard appointed to reconcle difficul- ties with the workers and a strike resulierl.

Mr. Brunning is associate di- rector of munitions and supplies

NO DISCORD

IVIELBOURNE, April 29 - (CPI —'I'he Sydney Sunsaid editorially today that "neither in any newspa V er nor public utterance by lvplibilc man has there been the slightest suggestion that Australia is not in the war with the British Empire to the end. to sink or swim with the lmipire, indissolubiy one,"

The Melbourne Age stud that “ir-

responsible, reckless comments lmve'

been twisted into the ullliefiililiiii? of discord between British countries."

House te War

Suggestion of small supreme, war cabinet draws flat “no, sir” from Churchill;

By W. 'l‘. Yarhrough Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON. April 29 —(AP) ——, u i

government. Suggestions for creation of a small

supreme war cabinet and for de- bate on war and peace aims drew p, flat "No, Sir."

The debate will be held on the

The three-cents-a-gallon titX oin foiiowinsr motion:-

gasoiine announced Miniswr J. L. Ilsle “undoubtedly and unfortun- 1

by Finance

trying rican tourists out of Canada. W. bertson. neral manager of Mo League. said to- by. "Tlhe higher it goes, naturally the mo“; "sneeze n w as - "bee. your “W m" ’° “wine u: ieilldoubtedly will have the effect of ratstrltl the mt hishway tra . affectin basic and war ndustries adding to the cost of farm products to the consuma- beeouse these mostlv are transported by med. Thus will mean s higher cost. of livi with- out a.“ increase in the neurn to the mtago 1mm re esen - llllgrlgrto Prime hitlnisteer lgtckenzie i c crease a wee . fifiififiafi all: ‘dormer to tourist

Amie . R0 the Ontario

“That this House BDDPDVBS the

y in his budget policy of the government in send- ng help to Greece and declares its its lvwllliflfllldfl confidence that our operations

in MED the Middle East. and all other the - tres oi war will be pursued by t e government with the utmost vig-

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CANADA

‘Sirois _re_port

Hanson regrets Decision on

UITAWA. April 29—(OP)—Re- gret at the decision announced by Finance Mixiister Ilsley not to re- open the question of the 511118 R8- port. until after the war was ex-

ressed by Conservative leader glanson in a brief commentary on the budget speech in the House of Commons today.

Mr. Hanson, who adjourned the debate and apparently intends to act as dref opposition financial critic, said the Canadian people knew what it was worth to be free men in a free land ant would not complain at. the new taxes.

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munitions bdl. Baking Biwud

RASTIB TAX INBREASES ANNOUNCE

llilassed Raid On A Bomb-ravaged

0. S. 13th naval‘ District reserves Called to report

2s-(AP)—Of- ficiais of the 13th United State! naval tiisttrict said tonight all sn- lisrcci reserve personnel had been ordered to report for duty May l4

The order, officials said, ex- emptui members of the merchant marine and men given deferment because of marital status or em- ployment in essential industry. Reservists already in service were also exempted.

Officials vouchsaied no explan- ation of the order. The 13th dis- trict includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Preparatory to o. possible call to extended active duty, the com- mandant of the 12th naval district northern California, also directed all members of classes V 3 and V 6, United states naval reserve, to inform district headquarters immediately of their correct. od- dresses.

It; was learned oh accurate, but unofficial, authority that this step might be fniloued up shortflv‘ with a general call to duty for all reservists of these classes who are not illffiild)’ in service.

The notification was sent out by the naval district; commander Admiral John Wills Greenslade.

1 There wm n0 estimate available of the number of men who might; be called, but it was learned un- cficiailv that. if these classes are callccl nationally, it. would be tantamount. to almost inumiiiiue" mobilization of the naval reserve.

tiueen’s fund Reaches $106,772

MONTREAL. April 29——(C1Pt- Tot-ai contrbutions to the Queen's Canadian Fund for Air Raid Vic. tims have reached $106372, it. was announced trday. This, is an in_

9111859 0f $12.55! over the pre-: viously-annotmced total vcstezduy 0f $9'i.22l_ .

Officials announced receipt; oft

$5,673 from the Canadian Teachers’ -F'<-‘ii91‘flii'~'ll Relief Fund. which al- ljcndy hnd dpxiated $2.750 rbrcuph its own relief fund to asssr 5hr- fevers in the bombed areas of Bri. tan.

Ban transport 0f war goods Through 0.8.8.8.

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lpporvnorv. April 29 _, (CP) - A’ wlllcis news trgency‘ dispatch from Mmviveeid wnicht that the 50-. |v1ct Uihori has banned pussa c of] lmsaitclieiai m transit throng they

tGPYlvwui is reported to have re- cc-ivccl cons1dei'ahle war maLm-jgl from Japan via the trans-Siberiaui Tiliiihlifl 85 Well as raw materials front the western hemisphere.)

h - (10115, aircraft ports and ac-l

C65. machine tools for making.

m cxixoslves and poisons.

cc. clcr the decree, signed b_v|

II‘; 1x1 ie Commisur Anautasj . l l

(l other goods will be 81-,’

~11! only with special out)».

n 1:1‘ under a specific trade, l

» l ralzseiyers here expressed? n11 that ltllssials liilll 0111 irim-sixu'tntroii of material! _ . habit" more window dress-r mp than airvlhing else" a The)‘ iniiicitteci. liowcvcr, that “1t’ lilllllti be lttissrnls answer to Germ-l any for occupation of Balkan coun- tries," since Russia's major QXpQrLg‘ of war materials in the past have been goinc to Germany and this move might cut off supplies needed. by the Reich. l Most observers did not think first,‘ the move would have any tendency to stop shipments of supplies from Japan to Germany. since "Russia's transportation svstcm is so bad" it seldom is used lie Jnilanesc.

Nazis claim.“ British retreat ls cut _o_fi‘

BERLIN. April 20 -- (AP) Gcnnnnys troops were claimed w- uight to be at the extreme south- ern end of Peloponnesus. cutting oif the inst escape harbors for the British expeditionary force, and m this final phase of the Balkan cam-

gn German interest turned sharply to the battles of t-he Medit- erranean and Atlantic.

(Sydney. Australia dispatches sold evacuation of troops was profit-SS- lng satisfactorily.)

Berlin sources claimed that 1500.- 000 tons of British or allied ship- ping had been sunk and 400,000 tons damaged off Greece, and pre- dicted that these losses would Le keenly felt in the battle of the At- iantic.