United States Seizes as Nazi.

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Charlottetown Guardian, I've Onto, Iornlng Gnnrtllnn, Pounded lllli

onmsllscon: BIG NAVAL VICTORY ovsh FAS

l5 or 170m s Ships Sunk In‘ Air, Sea- Scrap

Without Parallel British Admira-Iir-y reports no damage and no casualties suffered by Royal Navy-

(By w. -r. YARBROUGH)

(Associated Press Staff Writer)

LONDON, March 30 — (AP) — The Mediter- ranean fleet, finally getting an Italian force with- in range of-its big guns, sank five Fascist warships in its greatest naval triumph of the war, but came to blows anew with Britain's former ally, France, the Admiralty announced tonight.

Three of the Italian ships sunk were 10,000-

ton cruisers the sister ships Fiume, Pola and Zara -two were the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberto and Maestrale.

With its customary reserve, the Admiralty gave only the barest details of the great sea and air battle waged in the eastern Mediterranean from Friday until today-

‘But calling the sinking all that have been con- firmed “so far", it hinted that the total reckoning may climb still higher.

Fragmentary British air and naval bulletins Saturday had listed a battleship of Italy's big, new 35,000-ton Littorio

. class among the warships damaged in the battle.

Just where or how the Italian ships were sent to the bottom, a brief communique did not tell.

But according to its account, not one British sailor even was wounded.

“No casualties or damage were sustained by His Ma- jesty's ships throughout the recent operations,” the com- munique said. Britain’s only cost. was two planes “not yet

_ accounted for.”

Elated Admiralty officials said they were astonished at the low price Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham's forces had to pay for slicing three more first-line fighting ships from Italy’s already badly dented sea forces and could not recall when such a feat. ever had been accomp- lished before.

In a third, separate sea action today, the Air Ministry news service said one well-placed bomb from a British plane sank a German anti-submarine vessel off the Loire river estuary on the French coast.

British sources figured that the latest sea blow to Italy leaves her navy with only two or four undamaged battle- ships—depending on whether the two newest of the Lit- torio class have yet been commissioned.

All three Italian cruisers sunk by the Mediterranean fleet ill what appears so far to be the biggest naval battle

of the war yet fought were 10,000-ton sister ‘ships of Italy's Zaruciass. ‘

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA MCIGDAY, MARCH 31, 1941

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Canadian officials are at present in

This Martin 13.26 medium bomber, conceded by British and (LS. experts to be the fastest, rnost dead- ly aircraft o! its tyne. will probably be built by the hundred at Mnlton, om. 1t has a top speed of about 375 miles per hour. as fast as many fighters, carries two and a half tons of bombs, hBg self-sealing gas tanks and Jotective armor and two power-operated gun turrets. one on top of the fuselage and one in the tail. Glenn L. Martin builder of the machine has already inspected Production facilities at Malttn and Baltimore viewing production methods in Martin's Plllllt.

May Build ‘Flying Bullet” Bombers In Canada

T._li.ll. feeder Service begins April 15

In connection with the reported withdrawal of Canadian Airways from the Maritlmes and the sub- stitution oi a Trans Canada air line service, the following tele- gram was received on Saturday by the Charlottetown Board of Trade from Mr. Rand Mathesen, _ man- ager of the ‘Transportation Com- mission of the Maritime Board of Tr

ade;

"Effective April fifteenth T.C.A. will operate feeder service tween Moncton and Summerside- Charlottetown twice daily connect- ing with T.C.A. main line. Slight alterations scheduled for the Is- land service exipected but not fin-

expeched to leave Charlottetown at. three twenty-five instead of four fifteen to connect with T.C.A westbound plane at Moncton. Soon as schedules completed here will send copy. Double daily T. C. A. main line service will be estab- lished extending via. Moncton to

Halifax."

Rand H. Math-son. The following telegram was re- cflyed from Senator John E. Sin- c a r:

Ottawa. March 29, 1941. Wallace L. Higgins,

Charlottetown,

Present Air Mail Passenger Ser- vice Moucton-Charlottetown will continue with slight change in time t0 suit new Railway Time Table.

John E. Sinclair.

War-ZS Years

Except for the Gorizia, been wiped out.

Each of the ships carried a normal crew of 750 men and were vessel of an overall length of 599.5 feet. All were rated at 32 knots but had done better than

33 in eight-hour speed trials.

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Rite for Notices tn thin I cent: per word.

‘Qarkdalc Institute om Bale, laturdny. April 5th at, Homing?‘

“mi-den seeds. All the nun and beat in vege bles. Bend for free catalogue. Ar hur Vceesngté?

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"Livestock Marketing Board loading week of March 31st. as fol- lows: Monday afternoon. Mum WWI‘. Melville. Baltic, souris. B. Peters. m. Stewart. Morel]. Well- Ullwn. ‘llgnlsh. Tuesday forenoon till train time, Kensllﬂtoh York Bedford. Hunter River, Broadcl- blne. Klnkora. Charlottetown. Afternoon l2 to 3. Albany. L-ell.

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noted positions around Malancourl and Vaux in the Verdun area. Forty-three killed in Zeppelin raid 0n eastern counties of England; Zeppelin L-io brought down and the crew taken prisoners.

French Batteries Fire On British.

= IAONDON. March So-(OPL-‘Ihe Admiralty announced today that French shore batteries in Algeria

opened fire on British warships a temptl to halt a French con- voy cu

terlal for Ge

"important war ma- rmany" through the Strait of Gibraltar. The warships returned the fire, communique said. and hits were observed on the shore batteries. The British ship to halt a convoy of merchant sh when the shore batteries fir , the Admiralty said. It. sold the french convoy was carrying “important war material for Germany" and had passed through Gibraltar in spanlsh ter- ritorial waters. The Admiralty said the British warships would “have been fully justified in firing on the French

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the class appeared to have

I05 casualties In sinking of British destroyer

108001. March SO-(OPl-The Admiralty nounoed today there were 105 casualties in the sinking of the destroyer Rxlnoor, loot in on attack by a Gelmcn torpedo boat. lat; the North Sea the night of Feb.

The Exmoor was engaged in con- voy duty at. tin, time. The convoy itself niifered no damage.

ally consummated. Evening plane ‘

German

Ports pRaked R.A.I7.~ Ifgmbers

Invasion

"closed today.

Defences of Singapore are Reinforced

SINGAPORE. March 30—-(AP)— crsck fighter pilots for the battle of Britain and veterans of the campaign in France have reached this British Far Eastern strong- hold to reinforce its already strengthened defences, it was dis-

Italians on Run towards Addis llhahzi

BY ERIC BIGIO zlsoYlﬂlllfﬂfl Prcsx Slaff lV/"fler

CAIRO, March 30.—(.r\i‘)‘- The Nliddlc East command :ln- llOliilCCfl today that the Italians have abandoned strategic Uireda- wu zmll are rclrczltiug westward i0 Addie Abubu, in Ethiopia, pursued by British forces.

The Rome high command com- munique announced withdrawal of Italian forces from Dircdawa without explanation, and 53h] the mcu xvcre taking up “new positions to the west”

Diredawa, with a population 0f 30,000, stands in a crook of lhc .'\(i<lis Abnbn-jibilti railway, some 35 miles north of the anci- ent Mohammedan city of Harar, WlllCll fcll to Iiritish forces last

iMove Follows

Revelation Of Sabotagi Action

Captain says orders came from Italian Naval Attache at Washington — Act-

ion still proceeding.

_ \\l\=‘Il1-\'G'f0N. lurch 3o.—_ one) —The [Jnited States guvcrulucut today Look over all Italian, German and immobilized Danish ships m American territorial waters — 66 vcsgcls in a11_. afu-r flu: .\.'l\‘.'ll Intelligence Service illlCIJ\'(‘l'(‘<l .1 systemgltig Plot m hilbul-‘lgc 21w :8 flying lllc lulliun flag. (Jlllclzlls said ‘:0 oi the llalizul ships had been quicily "put completely out o: business" bv their crews. The two German and 36 Dmuslrvcsscls were taken over along with the Italian ships to guzlrilhgzuusl similar acts by their crews.

S llhc llll-ilill iiCllUil \\":1_~; lulu-n against the Italian \'(‘.~'~('l: liliC on .'.li.llll(-l) night and curly luvilil)’. villi? Uzimsli ‘ships were being “hm f”?! wmillll_l_q m l\cw Xork harbor, eight m llzlltiluore three m Boston, two each in Philadelphia, Norfolk [aclceouvilld

, _ .

and Los Angclcs, and ouc czlcll at Portlziuil, Me, and (irzlfg Hay. bob, \\.l.~h.‘ .\o action “d: taken against several Danish ship: \\'lllL‘li arc 1n SUYVJCI! out oi American ports. boast gilarzlsmeu boarded the vessels, hauled dmvu their color; and l'lOl5lC(l the stars and stripes in some cases, and rclnovcd [lie regular crews after naval intelligence had uucovcrcri a systematic plan to sabotage their umcliiiiorv.

orders to (iestroy his engines had

udgct may come to him from the Italian naval

The Italian skipper of one of the ships, the tiJIS-ton freighter MOngi- onia at. Houston. Tex" disclosed that

work. The railway lat-he sole link be» tween the Ethiopian capital and the

sea.

To the northwest British troops in Eritrea marked up similar successes as they pursued the Italians from

LONDON, Ilfarch 30.—lCP)—G"m3n lmlaillm D0115 Rlunﬁ “W Elli!’ Cheren to Asmara. the capital, in a

tonkht. They struck at l-he 110115 81°11!

coastline. l Shore watchers described this in

scale."

The bombers struck shortlv after‘ dar-k. Calais was severely hit and the raid there continued with un-i broken intensity despite heavy anti- aircruft fire from German batteries.

The Germans raided the British channel area. durlnll Saturday X1181"- but Sunday was comparatively quiet.

Province

l Wire Services

Ice Storm In

ilsh Channel were heavily attacked by British bombers shortly after dark

a. line from Calais to Buuingnc in a

raid so intense that. bomb explosions and glare of fires Ill- l-he Bfillﬁhi

test in a series of British raids on

possible German concent iuiun points as being on a “compilrﬂtlvcly large

she Bristol suffered some; 8.211889- A German Junkers B8 bomber W85 shot; down by fighter planes near Mlddlesborough, East Yorkshire.

A district in northern Scotland was attacked but no castle-IRS We“? reported.

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Disrupts

drive to the Red Sea, where they would. complete the enclrclemeni; cf zhe Italians m Ethiopia.

‘_‘So for we have captured 3.775 prisoners, including 68 officers. to- gether with u number of guns," the Communique said of the chase to Asmara.

British Sub Torpedocs Italian ships

. By lorry Allen Associated Press Staff Writer

ABOARD THE BRITISH SUB- I MARINE PARTHIAN WITH THE BRITISH MEZIJITERRANEAWl FLEEI‘, March 30—(AP) 41in: Brl- l tlsh submarine Parthian has tcr- pedsed two heavily laden Italian] supply sill/PS 1n cerrylnz out a d-ey- l lighr, attack on an enemy convoy: near the edge of Italy's toe.

The Parthlan plunged toward the bottom to escape depth charges dropped by the oonvcyh escort

‘Italian and German enlbassies.

south Yifé‘.’“§lii2i.l§“‘i.é“‘ii%g BB presented re- . =Th|s week

OTTAWA. March Presentation of the

iuscd to comment.

A number of Danish ships, re- garded by Britain as of "enemy character," are tied up in several United Stalcs ports and it W115 1941-42 bug- lffffjzinlhi", ole-pier ﬂvtiornﬁnv 1 set fv-me inns this week was kXlkﬁd H-of-ﬁcialfli-(lylrzla rmlfho‘ them ,up0.i today as a p0 Sllilllil)’ but;

5 ‘I "l0 _=\ P" ' there was no official confirmation. ""3" bu"! l Parliament. has only eight sitting qiéiys befotre l-lglenlong Easier ud-

S )1 ’ 1 , urnmen an IS understood Fi- n ‘lli§’ii§~.i‘i?l“§?.d“‘€.iii‘§§"ihiii “m” “mm” "my “e1 “v w now in American territorial watersQ llmve the budget ready m. bnng but. in the case of Danish Ships am“ ( Mm- before me members ‘immisc- action to be taken would come it‘ Adjoummgnt’ wubbe ‘akin Wed‘

‘ 1103M)’. April 9. until Monday April

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up here number 41 as of Jan. 1. but‘ ed before April 9. members some have since been restored to have the recess m which i0 We’ Serum pore for debate.

Coast lzunrdsmen encountered "some resistance" in boarding the 6.4584011 Italian vessel Conflricnzn an Jacksonville, Fia., headquarters here disclosed. but no details were given. When coast guardsmen later went to board the German frclghtcr Aruuca at Port Everglades. Finn a machine-gun was taken along.

'l'hcre was no official comment from the treasury on the possibility that. some of the ships might be declared forfeited to the United states.

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is any danger of stbotugeil.

JusT BECAUSE

A (URL Snows

A LOTTA BACK- BONE‘. Doesn't MEAN sue HAS A l-OTTA NERVE

A high official said informally that. the legal situation oppi-nrczl to be this:-

Thc United States has clear

right to take title to any of the vessels which it con prove were

Brookfield-Kensington section hardest hit; Expect service

lly in sections of Prince Edward Is- land over the weekend caused dis- ruption in wire services. Hardest hit. was the area between Brookflold and Keuslngton, a distance of ap- proximately l5 miles. Officials of the Island Telephone Company said they did not expect. to have full service restored until Monday even- ing. In the meantime, however, wire communication wos maintained with the mainland on a greatly reduced volume. The Canadian National Tele- gra he were not greatly affected. ectric lines across Hllliboro Bridge went, down under the load of ice latte Saturday afternoon. They were restored only‘ to go down a- gain about. mldnlg l. The lines car- ry current to Montague and Mur

restored late today.

An ice storm which struck hvnv- ‘l-break was Hillel?“ bl’ Qlwtﬂc Wm‘

panv llnesmen but the M19930" service to the eastern smtion of the gown“, was only partially restor- The storm began early Saturdat‘ with a three-inch snow fall. Lam i in the day lt turned to sleet and then Saturday night back l0 SHOW again.

A lb-rnile-per-hour wind helped bring down wires.

In Charlottetown. however. there was practically no trouble although some ice clung to the wires all day yesterday. i

‘The weekend ice storm was the second to hit this province this month. The earlier storm was most severe in Charlottetown and vicin-

ray Harbor. The Hlllsbom bridge

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sloop and anti-submarine motor- boats.

The skipper, Cmdr, M. G, Rem- ington, D.S.O., said the Italians chased his craft, six hours before giving up. Somedepth charges came -» "too close fcr comfort."

‘Axis Nationals“ Quit Yugoslavia

Tense situation

and spieifeid. (There was no immediate confirmation of this report

from Belgrade.)

(By Robert 8t. John. Associated Press Staff Writer.

BELGRADE, March 80 --(APl— Axis nationals began the evacuat- ion of all Yugoslavia today, leaving by special train, river him. and au- tomobile. as (lemon press dis- patches claimed Yugoslavia had hinted that she mnv occupy Alb1n- in lf Germany starts a march into Greece.

Germans and Italians began leav-

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lug not. only Serbia but also the

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in Balkan state.

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BERLIN. M r n 3l—(\lon- l ~ "ll ""1 mush Hu- som 1 dnyl-tCPJ-Tbecﬁerman ‘radio .:|‘;:':ll'|::‘““'°‘ "“"""“""'“ l" "P" ‘ said today Yuigoslavia had f-L closed the ent re German- ‘ynops =7 The weather ha. been Yugoslav frontier except for m" with Cllllﬁldﬁfﬂbll‘ boiov: nor- one crossing between Maribor m“! lomlleratures over the greater

{wilfully damaged“ by the Italians. Furthermore, if it could be shmvu that. all the Iuillnn shlpmaslcrs lmd been instructed to sabotage their vessels. a right, probably could be established to take iltlc lto all the ships.

(Canadian Press. TORONTO, Mnrrh 30> llnumu - and maximum tcmpcrnlu‘ -: D nvson Zorn Victoria Edmonton Winnipeg Torwto Ottawa Mmurrnl Saint John Halifax Charlottetown

prevails

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FORECAST

Maritime Provinces; Fresh wlﬂﬂg

llﬂfl 0f Ontario. It. has been fair in the Prairie Provinces; mlid 1n Allrrta with a little lower tem- perature in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Hiiih iid¢ this afternoon at 12.50 and tomorrow morning M, 1,40

Sun set; this evening at 6.26 and rises tomorrow morning or 5.42.

OTTAWA, Mnrcll 30 -—(CPl —~- Dcilnlte indication tho present. ex- c150 tnx of one com a pound on sugar \\‘lli be increased to lwo cents lu the 1941-42 bungel. was soon to- day ‘m announcement. thaL ille price of sugar at mfinorics will be m- crcased one cont a pound, effective tomorrow:

"This action has born taken at. the rcqusl. 0f the Minister of Fi- nance ‘Hon. J. L. lleloyr as illi- rtsult oi n lﬁllllPllQV toward llt‘l\'_\' lmying in anticipation of a yxxwbie increase in the excise tax 0n sugar in the forthcoming budget." the wartime prices and trade board said ‘Lin announcing the price increase.

First. quarter m» n Aplil 4, 8.1‘ pm. Summer-side tide 1R minutes isle- er than Charlcttwvuvu.

S-HLINGS

[leaves Borden 9:35 Alli. 1.00 RM’. Leaves Tormentinc 11.00 Al“. 3 5 PM, dnliy except Sunday.

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