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mypo , Feb. 2S -(C'P) — ‘I110 ,,, QILYNRIlIIOUDCGd today filial; n 1mm,“ supply ships nave .. l blasted to the bottom of the sditerrancati in recent submarine aliens and disclosed indirectly u Britain has sent some of her tmodel undersea craft into the . siege of the Fascist emPllfe- ‘This announcement came .n the y. o: the admiraltys proclamat- ,, gawrduy‘ of s. vust danger zone the hfcdiicrranean in which na- circles said “anylf-lll! M13111’-

. n." -. glliteatevcr effect the British "dan- mne" in the Mediterranean gm have on Hitlers drive into l. Balkans it will be another ob- cle the ltuliatts must hurdle to t supplies to Marshal Rodolfo uianl and his FascLst legions nlSDlRlEd in Tripoli by the Brit-

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‘lire admiraltyks announcement .1 British submarines are cott- ‘uing to sink Italian supply ships ' ted two submarines-the Upfiflld- l and the Ulnto.t-— which are not and in hi8 latest naval reference ..- , thus indicating they are a- ong Briiolns newest submerslbles. u has been announced that oth- l new Blush war craft are op- ting in the Mediterranean, where l. navy is likely to play as big a. l). in any major offensive in that on it is expected to do in the dhreatened invasion of Brit-

flale admiralty reported these at mgsz-

The Upholdcr—two supply ships. The Rover —an oil tanker.

The Recruit —A supply ship.

The ‘Iruant — the largest ship

a Fla cist convoy.

The Trito —two supply ships. The Uuu ‘

lllch wa ‘ ccn to be ln a sinking ndltlon‘ but the admiralty did not I her as being sunk.

Freflirenoh join British in drive lo North Eritrea

By i: Associated Press Stuff Writer

CAIRO. Feb. 23_ -—-(AP) -Brlt. H‘ Imperial soldiers and travel- ‘ id Free French Senegalese mill who rushed at least 1,500 lilies by truck to join the British " pushing into northern Erit- "i. mode. "satisfactory progress" mirth the allied drive on the key "If town oi Chcren, a military quarters communique announc- lonlght.

A British communique gave the {at official information that a Mtfiffliese battalion had joined the M lsh troops in the-northern wing m" him‘ pincer movement fen nurl southern Eritrea. hlnghbnttillton went from the Free u! c“ cqitainrinl African province mere-did iv n Sudanese port and miruiifli lztkcti by Sill to the m? waft. It was be loved the h to fse were the first allied sold- “ and on the Eritrean shore. H‘ alnglihonncccncnt also said Brit- “murfil? iopirtn native soldiers “m; town of Shoghni, cn mung“ {c in Ethiopia, and that “hum! ‘h Italian Somallland ore hciphr to our advantage" after hmuutlge of Jumbo- a town near mum" of the Juba river. Ital- hn 1km Pd killed in the Ethlop. Mina numbered 150 as naainst to... “b eilffewi by the British

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MONTREAL, Feb. 23—(OP)-—S1r Frederick Banting, one of Canada's outstanding mediclal scientists, to- night was reported missmg aboard an airplane t had not been

noe Friday morning.

An official ‘tnnouncement here described the aircraft only as "a, military airplane being delivered by a civilian orangizatiin." It added that three other persons were

of major in the Canadian army, is chairman of the Associate Com- mittee on Aviation Medicine, an or- ganlzatlfu which he was instru- mental in founding shortly before the war started and to which he has been devoting a large part of his time for almost two years.

Best-known throughout the world as the co-dlscwerer of the insulin treatment of diabetes, Sir Freder- ick is also chairman oi’ the Assoc- iate Committee on Medical Rn- search and a member of "he Na- tional Research Council. as well as head of the Banting Institute.

Just where the plane on which Sir Frederick was a passenger had taken off, or where it was gilnil was not announced. but it was in- dicated that it may have ccmc down somewhere in the sea along Can- ada's eusetrn coast, or in scme re- mote section of the Maritime Pro- vinces or Newfoundland.

Those aboard the plor '2, in addi- tion to its one passenger were Cap- tain Joseph Creightsn Mackie of Kansas City, Navigator William Bird. whose address was given only as England, and William Snallham of Bedford, N.S.

The announcement said that the ,plan@ was flying in favorable weath- er conditions when last heard from. It, has not ylet arrived at its destin- ation, nor a. as any radio moi-sage been received from, it since Friday morning.

American - made British bomber Flies to Canada

NEW YORK. Feb. 23 -(AP) - An American crew flew to Canada today a 20-ton. B-24 Consolidated bomber, which arrived here ‘last week following a non-stop flight from San Diego, Calif.

The plane is scheduled to be flown to England. Before its (te- parture at dawn, there were re- ports at La Guardla Field that it would be taken to Canada to be fitted with gun ‘.

George J. Newman, Consolidated aircraft test pilot who was in com- mand, returned by transport in mid- afternoon from Montreal and re- ported he had delivered the plane at an undisclosed town in Canada A crow of four other Anlerlcms made the trip.

The bomber is a four-ealginvc, high-winged mouop-tzie. one of 26

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pllazi Army“ Major llurls bottle at ll. S. Minister

BOFIA, Feb. 28 —(AP) —Unlted States Minister George I. Earle said tonight that o. German army major "threw a. champagne bottle which just mised my head" in a cafe skirmish Saturday night when the Nazi officer objected to the or- chestra striking up his rsqusgged mun _..T1 my

"The trouble began," Iarlo raid Bl I Dress conference. while exhib- iting ann injuries suffered in the rcuffle,“‘when the German corner- ed me 1n a. washroom and demand- ed to know why I had given tno orchestra. l0 bucks to play Tipper-

“I told him that was my lmslncsl, and that Bulgaria was a. neittral country. He then followed rue out- side and threw l. champagne bottle which Just. mlssei my head."

The incident occurred ln a ros- taurant just around the corner from the United States legstiou

Eight ilan-alhtns 0n R. A. F. list 0f casualties

LONDON, Feb. 23 —(OP Cable) —Elght Canadians were listed in the Royal Air Force's 00th casualty list, issued tonight. The list. cou- talned 335 names, including that of a. member of the Warren's Auxiliary Air Force who died on active ser-

v ce. Following are the Canadians and next of kin:—

Killed in action:-

Towgood, R. A., Flight lieutenant. A. S. Towgood (fatl -1), Oyarua. B C. v

Missing, presumed killed in act-

Butler, M. A., Pilot Officer. Mrs. F. tA. Butler (mother) Newcastle. On .

Dyer, J. P. Flying Officer. John Dyer (father), Minnesota, Man. .

Graafstra, J. W., Flying Officer. Mrs. T. Graafstra (mother), Sourls. Man.

Walker, J. 3.. Flying Officer. ll‘. R. Walker (father) Onoway, Alta.

Missing:-

Fishwick, J. F‘.. Micht Lieutenant. Graildmother in Shrewsbury‘, Eng- land.

Lewis, Raymond Grant, Flying Officer. Mr‘. C. M. Lewis (mother) Vancouver.

Killed on active service:-

Flewelling, R, L., Pilot Officer. Mrs. Margaret Ffletvelling (mother) Hamilton, Ont.

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B. (i. oysters In Montreal

MONTREAL, Feb. 2i —(CP) - British Columbia oysters were of- fered on Mcntreal markets for the first time today H» a result of an order which prevented imlmfiluii" of United States oysters MW 1""

Wednesday Dec i

Montreal dealers said OYSWFI l" shell were uvalltble from the Marl- tlme Provinces in sufficient (in-ant.- ties for the local market bu. the eastern producers did not offer their product in bulk.

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LONDON, Feb. 23 -~(CPl ~10!!! Beaver-brook, Minister of Aircraft production told Canadians .n a Tran-Atlantic broadcast tOdfl- i-hli Nazi warplanes have lost ther wr- ror.

Factory damage has been repair- ed. the Canadian-born Minister de- clared. and "now it may be said ihli industrial Innis are no longer in the same anger "

llo urged the Dominion‘: workers to ocrul food and weap- onl and‘ exhorted thorn to “out the world our for ships."

“Gather together every kind or transport which will enable us to continue defence of this Island," he told them.

lard Beaverbrook was speaking on behalf of the Canaidiun Febru- '“~‘- "’é“..f‘i“.‘” °"'."£“éiii' in mm and confidence," he said. . "lot us cry out to all the listen- ing world that when (Prime Minis- izt’. °"“"*‘".‘.;= =°"."""*;"t:.tr:

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Feb. 28- Hatfield. 6B. widow of Senator Paul Hatfield of Nova Scotla, who died six years ordered ny the rmtish government.- ago, died at her home today.

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Turks clal. Interest in Foreign moves

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ANKARA, Feb. 23—(AP)—'1‘urk- lsh Foreign ltiitnster Sukru Sarac- ouglu declared tonight “Turkey will be unable to remain indiffer- ent t0 Lreign 3CllVitl93 which mght 00cm" in hcr security zone." His statement, apparently referred to the German army's expected oc- cupation of Bulgaria,

Diplcrtistic quartcrs expressed the belief that the statzmem was prcmptcd by the fact that Bulgaria has been ititerpreting the six-day- old Turkish-Bulgarian _ non-ag- gression acccrti a‘ meaning that Turkey was indifferent to a Naz: march int. Bulgaria so long as Téiulkeys frontiers were not, violat- e .

King Alfonso Rallies slightly

ROME. Fleb. 23 -(A.P) —Forluer King Alfonso XIII of Spain, whose strength ebbed so low last night that his. family despalred for his life. rallied today enough to take solid food.

His phy. iclans said that the for- mer monarch. who has been gravely ill of heart trouble. vras slightly im- proved this afternoon after he had eaten chicken and other light food for the first time in several days during which his. nourishment had been chiefly milk.

A bulletin slgnc by his phylo- ians and issued at 8.30 p. m. (2.80 p. m. AST) said:-

"Whiie the seriousness of condit- ions remained throughout the day there was some lesenlng of the most alarming symptom."

Althougrwhls condition still was grave. apparently he was believed

be in no immediate danger, for his Queen. Victoria Eugenia nnd his daughter. Beatrice, who have been with him most of the time. left the hotel for a short time in tro early lflernoon.

DIES 0F INJURIES

WINDSOR. N. 5.. Feb. ill-Mrs. Annie Dlmock, a Hunts County school teacher for 40 yous. died in

capital today from the effects of a fall last night she was B1.

A w‘. Al ‘i Dimock. liven in New Wectminister, B. O.

Strong Forces Of Nazi Warplanes

Stab AL Britain

Force thrown into air battle over week - end similar to opening of offensive last summer.

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Bulletin

LONDON. Feb. 2»i—llVlunday) —(CP)—After a day of Inrc- tivlty, German lonz-rnnge guns 0n the coast of France began firing across the Strait of Dover curly today,

The Strait was calm and the

. weather clear.

LONDON, Feb. Z4—(M'onciny)— -(OP)—Strong squadrons of Gcr- nran fighters and bombers roared across Dover Strait Saturday and Sunda in what the Press Associa- tion vowed as the start of the Nazi

More than one Million to buy War certificates

SMITH FALLS, Ont, Rb. I- lCPl-Fuunoe ddiinister Ilsley au- nounoed tonight at a War Savings rally that more than 1,000,000 Cau- adlans now have pledg."d them- selves t; regular purchase cl War Savings Certificates for th: dur- atlon.

During the weekend rflglonal oommittaes whose quotas represent 5_2 per cent, of the national objec- t.ve of 2,000,000 regular war savers roported that 155.4% individuals signed pla/dgcs in the first three WKits of the Februar oalnpazgtt.

"From one end of anada, t9 the other. Canadians have accepted War Savings Certificates as an ex- bressrn c-f their will to victor-yr," Ml‘. Iisley said.

"Our campaign for 2.000000 reg- ular ivaz- savers ls enlisting can- adians behind this movement [Cf duration of the war This ls not a casual display. nor is it cmflueq to a February effort.

"If we are to keep faith with our armed fnrccs, we must not only bnv certificates regularly, but buy {'0 tilt‘ lmit cf our real ability."

spring air offensive.

Most of the Germans were tum. 8d back by S itflre fighters and anti-aircraft fre but the raiders persisted last nlaht and early this morning. They fanned out over Britain for widespread raids and carried out a light attack against London.

The Press Association snid the appearance of the German ilhmes

heralded the OpEnlllg of’ the enemys spring air offensive fore- shadowed by Satirrdayis patrol ac- tivities and small-scale daylight raids on southeast England."

Raiders crossed the northeast coast Sunday. dropping high ex- plosives and incendlarles and caus- ing some casualties and dams e.

It was believed the Royal Air

- SOMEWHERE ON" THE" NORTHEAST c0451 0F Evin-AND. Feb. 23—(CP)-—A spectacular three-hour battle between raiding planes and anti-aircraft batteries was fought litre today. The raiders Kfl-ve the place its heaviest nt- tack of the war.

TW" Persons were reported killed and others were missing. A working class district was

Force also was busy with raids on the "invasion coast". Fog restricted visibility but watchers on the Southeast coast reported anti-nir- craft fire in the Bottiogne and Cal- nls districts. i,

Air sirens sounded twice in Low, don after nightfall. The second‘ alert was just before tnidnight. The second nil-clear sounded less than an hour after the alarm. The Air Ministry dcscrllictl Sun- day's daylight uctlviiv u. "..i ‘ and said it centred rhicfly in the regions of the east and southeast coasts."

A 81'0"!) 0i’ 20 Messcrschmltts flying in the usual four-ubrenst raldm formation roared cvcr the mist-s rouded English Channel and

the clouds. They wheeled to the right as they nvgroached the Bri- tish shore and continued north.

Several smaller formations ar- rlved at intervals. crossing paths with earlier. home-bound raiders. Spitfire patrols were active over Dover Strait throntzhotlt Sunday, morning and British bombers also‘ were seen flying out to sea. The Air i Ministry announced that a smalli R. A. F‘. force raided the naval base l in the Nazi-occupied French port‘ of Brest overnight.

On Saturday the Germans camc over in mass formation. after! smaller units of fightlntz croft had? flown in to test the defences. anril their principal thrust was turned back in a flve-mile-hlgh b the channel coast.

Beaches safety

LIMA. Peril. ran. 23-—(AP)——A Condn- airliner stranded last week in the Sechura Decor; arrived here today from Chlclayo with its orig- inal i5 occupants, thrice of whom muda a fill-mile trek across time dc- sort in search of aid.

The three were John Lear, Assoc- iated Press writer, Pilot. Hugh Wells of Bhrewsbury, Mass, and a Per- uvian engineer, Hermann Baumann.

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LONDON. Fib. 23—(GP CABLE) —A 5\1EEEsti0n that Prune Minister Churchill fly to the United States to confer with President Roose- velt was put forward t day by the Sunday Dispatch,

No comment was forthcoming from authoritative circles on this suggestion, other than a state- ment from one source that: "It sperms safe to assume that the Prime Minister read the article."

It was written by the New York Correspondent of the Dispatch who claimed that United States political leaders cn whom he tried out the proposal said: "If it could be done it would be tremendous."

Greek artillery Shells Fascists

ATHENS. Feb. Zik-(APJ-Greek arliliery planted on ovtrlocktng the Italian Central Albania shelled the Fascist positions heavily today while the Italians attempted to reorganize their lines, Greek sources announc- ed tonight.

C ntinucd rains flooded streams on the front and generally restrict- ccl activity.

It wins reported that in recent operations the Greeks destroyed or captured sevcn Italian tanks.

On the northern and coastal sec- tors the Greeks said to have

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In German appeared.

Reports from Hungary said Ger- man troops still were continuing the movement begun last Dec. 27 across that country into Rumnnia, ust across the Danube River from ulgaria. These reports said 45 German pursuit planes were based: on Hungarian airports near the railway lines, presumably to pro-

ed to have maintained an average 1 of about 40 military trains a day. I The Istanbul newspaper Ikdam,‘ with close official connections, said Britain "seems to favor a plan of attacking in the Mediterranean. even before Germany does" and that it is possible. therefore, for a‘

"S strong British army “soon to go to

salonika. or attempt an invasion of Sicily."

Seven top leaders of the Farmers Peasant party. including Stanchol Trlfanoff, former assistant pollccl chief of sofla, were arrested in the

rouml-up of Bulgarians issuing leaflets against Germany and coll- . ing on the peasants to resist any‘ Nazi occupation. ' The capital was ordered to be

improved their pc Anon slightly.

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Defends Handling

Campaign

Has unique explanation for Italian defeat in Africa.

ROME. Feb. 23 -(AP) -—Musso- llnl, in an trnheralded broadcast to the Italian people, defended today the Fascist regime's handling of the Libyan campaign. announced the arrival of German air and armored detachment". in Sicllv and Libya. and boasted that "Italy, whatever happens will march with Germany to the end."

He premised a new Italian offen- sive against the Greeks, scoffed at United States fears of an axis in-

LONDON, Feb. lib-w?)- London political sources culled Mussolini’; speech today g con- fession of weakness and unful- filled bouts.

The diplomatic correspon- dent of the Prou Allooiation pointed to ll [June's compar- isons of Britain and Germany contrasted with hl| earlier ut- terances in which “Italy was supposed 0n regard herself not merely as an equal n! Great Britain but as master over British forces In the entire Mediterranean."

vsslon of America and assailed what he called the tmall minority of lt- allan "ivcepers- grumblers and snakes" left over from the Masonic lodges "whom we will lmash when and as we wish."

Italian morale. he contended, :a.n- not he broken.

Mussolini gave figures on the m-m and mpipllea sent to Libya for what the Ital ans had expected would be

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SAINT JOI-lN. N. 13.. Feb. 23 —- (CP) —‘ Miss Margaret Armstrong. 54, home missionary here for the United Church of Canada, died Sat- urday nlght soon after she _\vas~ struck by two automobiles on Prince Street, West. Saint John. An movies: will be held tomorrow night.

A few seconds after a car driven by Percy McCoy knockcd her down another cnr driven by Gecrpe ‘THY- lor. Royal Canadian Mounted Ponce