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CHARLOBTTETOWMBCANADA, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1942

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MERE MAN

Teslhnonhls are to be weighed not counted

Annual Srlblcrlptlon Dcllvurod, ID.” B! Illll l’. I L. ‘Lily In otlur Provinces 1nd 0.5. ll.“

LEGIVES cniivt wn

gjlied Bombers Pursue Defeate

Jap Invading Force

along Burma Road.

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~ Br 5W1!“ “minted Press

, , Ma Ill-MP)- ~'°",,“,’,i§3fi“$.nn. grtlllety blast. F‘ 0mm“ troops slaughtered ‘M than 3.600 Japanese soldiers m“). night in a battle on the a mad and sent the remain- b’? tize main body of the Jap-

“ invading force reeling bud!

“a Bttrmii in a _ i-ou. tho w.“ ailnounced tcnlflflt-

Chinese In Pursuit

Liilnese soldiers were in hot of the Ja one>e who rush- ” .0 trltznlpilant y up the Burma

{d 1.1.1. week. Advancing to meet £1. fleeing Japanese, it was re- lied. was another Chinese force Eastern Bitrma and the 011111999 ltclarcd the invaders face certain g-tllllillfiiloll. m ~ gement, took place near _ , tniles frcm the Burma. ‘alter. a er the 1m and ram p; of the Japanese force had pen (‘l‘llcllf(l. p, Burma itself, suddenly active mimic soldiers laid down a heavy gsault on tile ruined city of Man- iuiy, ntrgt the Jamnme col)-

M . Md » spokesman plaid the

ii h. e cache e ou - fittest! itlitnidaliay from both the git and the west in 5P1“ 01 m" use Japanese bombing and shill-

additlon to Mandalay itself, be Cilincse in Burma have t;vv0 flit! objectives: recapture of 3m- rut. on the railway a 19W K1151" "uni of Mandalay, and the recan- mdof Myinmu, 30 miles west 0t! alav.

Pro-Arranged Plan

The Chinese in the fightil18 0n {Burma Road followed their

arranged plan of allow’ the ha... to sweep into the un- It: Province and lengthen their mmuziicat-ion lines, it was said. "than tile first-line troops struck Id struck hdrd. Prst, it was reported, 1.020 men Bethe Japanese laft. wing were

d in an engagrment northeast fChepang last week.

Next. the Japanese right wing of bimen was wiped out Saturday tliemoon.

lapan’s Largest lolcano Erupts

‘BERLIN (From German broad- Iltft. May i0 _ (AP) -Asama- “mi. Japan's largest active vol- llttt. 100 miles northwest of Tokyo

its greatest eruption in years "first night, according to Jap- mtfltll-ipticitches tolday. ‘Thtebgezr-

0 ama

“named. 8e as no ye n

‘lite German-controlled Brussels 0. heard in London, said a ti! ram or clnders covered an l!!! of many miles and described "ltmzon as a “catastrophe?

mlssnrna-Yama ls 8280 feet high ‘mllllfls a crater three-fourths of “ma; around. A severe eruption i, destroyed several villages but mfifelgzg its activity has been idles and stiiligefiy In ahovwrs ‘x

llar-—25 Years Ago Today

(B! The Cnnadlrn Press)

1. hill-Severe fighting the Arras-Vlmy sed-

c, hurling back German

as between Gavrelle and the

.... aerial. .”'“.':l‘ Wain?"- wit"! from logic so. n “y

inkinga in i-larbor to 1'75 shiltl.

last wet‘ two British, two Panamanian. Norwegian. one Dutch, one Nicaraguan. one Domin-

Jf-W-w 41 Enemy Planes Downed lit Malta

g Routed By Chinese

3,000 Nipponese Soldiers killed in battle

VALETTA, Mny 10 —(CI’l- Fourty-one enemy aircraft were destroyed or damaged in raids

on Malt-a Saturday night announced

it night.

Wl!

and te-

Thirty-three of the total were bombers. Eight were fighters.

Of the bombers l2 were des- troyed, 1D probablv destroyed and ll damn ed. One

was rlcstrnye .

two

fighter

probably

destroyed and flve were damag-

Ncw Nazi War Df Nerves Seen 0n Blitz Date

N DI HI —(cPl _ Tllleomrllla lmhrvyersary" 0f Ml!

1o, a. fateful any in the

Wll‘

calendar of Hitler, was ntlflwd today by what IPWSN“ l“ b’ 5 new Null war of nerves timed It Sweden or F1111“-

Espoolllly acute seemed t!!! problem of France, faced with insistent interest of the Unit- eg slates in the neutrality °| the island of Mai-Unit!" ""1

the question of

the

French

t hi h Hitler wants. neisogwvo cbe dismissed. b. wever.

'35 the poaslhlllt

that

Hitler

was a victim of h; own nerve! as the result of Increasing talk or Allied invasion of the con-

tlnent.

The tension which has been

min; ll the spring advanced to the second anniversary western

Hitler's

of

bl lt-lkrleg

through France and the Low Countries became mull wit" when telephone commllnlvflmlfl! between Sweden and German! were suddenly cut without "l"

plnnation for several hours. A freiful Eurtll" It "l" 1"‘ called that the snapping o! com; S

munications often in

the la

three years has been the pre- lude to events or the new“

importance.

Although some military com- mentators In recent week: hlVO expressed the view tltll 5W‘ den is llltcly to be the next aur-

prlsc on Hitler's schedule,

Swedish

Dagbladet sold rlllrlll that France WI!

the

Svenslsl

certain

editorial

tobe

in the foreground of 00ml!!!

vents.

‘The paper unscented "t" Pierre Laval. Vichy cm“ d government, might- IN lbw‘

ready to make an unreserved stand by Hitler's side and ill!" the large French battleflect Ii

1s Allied Ships Sunk In Atlantic

By The Canadian PMII

Axis submarine! FY1111! ping in the Atlantic more United Nations vessels, it was officially reported last week. brill!-

5V6

‘Jmfla

the announced total of Allied

that area since

Poul

Seven of the vessels announced

loan and one Honduran. THE TABULATION:

toning Events

nag- u‘ ‘I Intlrn l] m“ ' "M! in word

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ma!“ Bflfllég. Georg.‘ g, .431.

comm“, m? ~- m, m“ r ver Starch Factory is n °* the spring bcsso Wznhaub t0 fifty cent; p" husngras

"Dance Goo Wll Hill. W G- it‘??? May tail. Webstsr‘s5O;:{\1- - .

“ckmt? hqzs as usual for the

A‘ c onths.

List. 0mm Gnifen. Alban

Enter d. 5-8-7-1 -w-'r-M'-t.i i:'.',°"'",,§;gv& 1",.‘ . will a. y olllflhl. M I'l-

M "*- y s-iiili.

from tat tr ining elude Margaret Louise Cairns do. P.I.I.. Norma ulllan navi- son. Kensi ton. EIEJ.

Marla I-I 0. filttngbtil, N

IIIOTSl

Off the 11.5.

ff Olfllda

In the Carib- bean In the of M

ll, Off South America ....

Gulf

Total

exico ..

Week ‘May Si 4-"10

O 8 I 1

18

Island Nurses To Graduate

Brazilian.

were United States ship!»

two one

nee Pearl Harbor 02

24

OAMPBUJJION. ‘N. 3.. but! 10-

the I

(OP) _Nurses who will Soldiers Mentor-is

QOhOOI hero TUOIGIY -

and

ldilllt Hos -

, Surn- Dita

d Jap” Armada

Toll Df Ships Sunk, Damaged Raised To 19

Expect Nipporiese Naval And Air Forces To Re- turn In Attempt To Wipe Out Disgrace Of Losses.

tWfla-r Situation Last Night List Names ______--___-_-=..l 0f 35 Officers (n; mum-z L. SIMPSON, Associated rm. w». Analyst) g

Dnunatlc wu- developments in the Indian Ocean and the Coral Sea. have tended to obscure u significant change in tone in Moscow and London comment as to the probabilities of the immediate future on the Ruskin alnd Libyan fronts. ...Tn§.‘iw.’t'..M" ‘Lltclilswz gov- e ans-range importance of the Coral Sea nav l battl t ' Qtlncsme" “t? °' yet be fully assessed. But there is no longer any dolrbt that? lzillrlillfll g§f,°¢‘§,§“§,h’,‘,“m°‘ 9,33 Gag; "Vlfllmy" offensive in Russia is badly off schedule. Weather conditions, prisoners or war stuffed: a "w even in the Leningrad area, are no longer an insurmountable obstacle The list was based on f. e-“iigre- to mechanized attack. The snow is disappearing even that far north caved 90m the Britsh 4.11108553- aml the road‘: are beginning to dry out, Yet there is no sign of the gfigeftkgliilllllifkingtIghglii. 131% H1115 i; ' 1| l ' e rom .-‘. i Wlgiwrigntti l ei-s promised annihilation drive anywhere along the Kuk0ng_ China’ ° e The announcement said that the

(By C. YATES McDANIEL) ' i ' ' It

(Aswvlflled PWSS 51B" Writ-er) Out of that Russian commentators are increasln l ad cables “L” "tenuoned abm" 54° A-IJIED HEAD U _ 5y “mdng "If other ranks b t , "a118, MW A-‘lillilgd Possibility that Hitler has been beaten to the punch by the Red annys The govcrnrtliengitavgtgtoeriigrrixtes ac-

winter offensive. One Moscow radio voice says that “spring is more like- ly to see a general offensive opened by the United Slates, Britain and the Soviet Union on all fronts than any particular German offensive."

London assessment of the strategic effect of British occupation of Madagascar Island is that it removes the possifbility of an Axis often. sive of major consequence in Libya in the near future.

I Q Ii If U it

bombers relentlessl pursued the remnants of a. de eated Japanese armada fleeing from the Coral Sea, damaging another seaplane tender and tarrer and raising to 19 Lb; number of enemy shins sunk or fiflppled, according to an announce- ment todav from Gen. MacArthur’: headquarters.

companying the list of names said

til cables would seem to be based 0n tile same unofficial sources of information. The information in the embassy telegram was apparent- ly secured through Col. Ride and is assumed to be based on the per- sonal recollection of himself and others."

It added: “The omission of names therefore should not be con- strued as unfavorable."

‘The statement said “the infor. matron ln_ these two cables has not been con-firmed either by the inter- national Red Cross or the Japan- ese government. through the pro- ‘testing power. At the same time, it ls also noted that the Information relates only to 35_0fficers and about, 640 other ranks in the one named camp at North Point

“The Japanese government re- porting about Feb. 24 stated that there were 1,689 Canadian prisoners of war in Hong Kong. It is assum- ed therefore that others are in some other location."

An informed British observer is quoted as saying Britain's position In Libya ltad been “secured for the summer" b_v the itfariagoscar coup Axis failure to snuff out Malta in more than 2.000 bombing raids, and’ the steady toll being taken in the Mediterranean of Libra-bound Axis troop and supply ships. Gen. Sir Claude Auchlnleck, he added, ls strong enough now on the ground and in the air "to halt anything Rommel (the German general in North Africa) can throw at him."

LIFT VEIL 0N TOKYO

Expect Japs Back

Ten more Japanese planes also were destroyed or damaged by air attack wnile victorious warships rested after their six-day battle and braced themselves for an e- cted return of a strongly reinforce Jap- anese fleet. intent upon avenging Japan's worst naval defeat-

Pcwerful enemy warships and air strength are known to be concen- trated in the general area northeast of Australia.

The battered Japanese broke off the engagement a ter severe pun- ishmem was inflicted by the ship- pltme teams of the Allies Saturday and todays communique said:--

“No combat on the naval front."

Saturday's casuaJtles were millet-

‘ News Briefs

ALLIED UARTERS. Aus- tralia, May 1i—iMon<layl-(CP)— Two Japanese submarines have been sunk or damaged by Allied planes

From Winnipeg G-enadiers

d m 1 i t off northeastern Australia, General The list of names, issued from ioufixhdeeiggfigéziéhstgflthélast t‘; gggczgéigpra headquarters announ- thedPfliflE MIIlLSY/EYS office. was New Guinea toward the Solomon ' a; ‘érggnggefslféjfeg? $6 ifilfadvgglgfi‘ Islands‘ whether the Japanese had LONDON. MW l0—iCP)— ers staff, with one exception The We" mm“ “P” ‘everm! M5‘ Brlttish aircraft awnrmcd over exception was Major John n Price

tralia‘s lifeline to the United States or‘ invading the island continent still was not clear.

the English Channel today and ' returned from the direction of Boulogne and Calais in forma-

of the Roylai Rifles of Canada. The list: Winnipeg Grenadlers: Mej- Hem-v

WASHIWGTWI- M" ltb-‘APJ- lions which stretched 2o miicl William Hook Ma '

_, , _ ~ _ __ _ , J. John Albert

Official Score The United Stats _ ar Depart up and down ‘he Enghsh Cont“ 38mg M“ Kenneth George Balm’

mem BmY-HnWd “may that the line May Ernest Hodkinson Ca t John

But the official score attested by April 1a air attack on Tzkyo and ' N Norris’ ca,” Edwara Bpwalkel.

wreckage in the exotic and island- studded Coral Sea, stood at 11 en- emy ships sunk and eight damaged. ‘Those on the bottom were an air- craft carrlcr, a. heavv cruiser, a light cruiser, two destroyersu four gunboats and two supply ships or

ether Japanese cities was made in daylight by American Army bomb- ers. It said large fires were started which burned in some instances for two davs or more. V quiet today bogged down by snow From low eltztuoes, military. nflv- and ice at the centre and north and a1 and illdltitiibl DHHES were the Russian communique reported bombed in the vicinity of Tokyo. “no substantial change." Yokohama, Nagoya and other lo- —-—-- MOSCOW. May 10-—(AP)—1A

caPtres, a, communique said. ‘

“Selected targets were lmmla- two-hour fight between border takcatbie and were accurately at- Illflffli 01' Rltmllllfl and Hilfi- taoked with demolition and incen- "Y. Balkan iillfillllefi 0i Hillel"! diary bCIIIIIbSQEtiIt “Itfl-cd- f; [a] i] firggivllyizgyogfib,lylissilaegsfniagtliayt-

Put‘ t ‘ trv . fc ve - of Larges? nbecu? the s-psc- l Wlenlm ‘lllmllllcal-lfl" helm"! tacular attack, dtlhe ccmgriunigue “l” “is “stem “Pm- qrctrd enrmy ra o reuo s a i‘ _ three Japanese interceptor planes AlégNfiioN-ronti- éuagonljmtcge hcd b:en 10st and between 3.000 u m” e5 em‘ e .. g y

4000 warn/e mfvcted bu, still were without a fair lcacbto “l? l dk“, ; fim wimt “ha,” work on" in the kidnapping of six- m- ed t‘) "c “e r‘ ' ' month-old Barbara Ann Wood, who

MOSCOW May 10-(AP)-'I'he Russian front where Tax, Soviet news agency, has reported the Gor-

mans used poison gas, appeared

Capt. Donald George Philip, Capt. Nyall Oielgur Bardall, Capt, Alex- ander Vl/illiam Prendergnst, Capt. David Aaron Golden, Lieut. IPred- erlck Victor Dennis, Ueut. Harry Leslie White, Lieut. John Edward Dundcrtlnic, Lieut. Richard W. Queen-Hughes, Lieut. John E- Park. Lieut James D. McCurthy. Lieut. Richard Maze, Lieut. Ieonard B. Corrigan, Lieut. George B. Harper, Lieut. Hugh Edward Alexander S. Black, Lieut. William F_ Nugent,

(Continued on page 7, Col 4)

Raids Bring War, Dloscr To India.

Tilolnas A. Blackwood, George Porteous, nitxiliary’ services tat.- tached to Winnipeg Grenadiers). Royal Canadian Anny Medical Corps: Maj. John N. Capt. Stanlev M. Banftll, Capt. John A. G. Reid, Capt, Edward L. Terry. Capt. G. C. Gray. RAoynl Rifles of Canada: Maj.

By Preston Grover the Amflfictln PYRYYTS Oiieffiled o!‘ t k f h 1, p“. J1 E p1 _ Asaociaicd Press Staff lVrlfcr whether any vtlcre icst, ‘avg; ‘$1.332 hlégmzgsféagiigfdagrgother oégadquargrcs (“ca For“). Capt 0119 Mmb?“ 13nd“ an“ the shopped in a downtown grocery Uriah Latte-

- raid in a Russian maritime r0- vlnce and its crew was intern: by Bowel, atiilzoritlcs.

Officials noted cs significant that the original Javanese radio reports of hettvy/ casualties and dam-cgng fires wece news broadcasts in the

Canadian Dental Corps: Capt. James C. M. Spence, Capt. Winston R. Cunningham.

Believe Schooner

NEW DELHI. India. May l0 (AP) —- Japanese bombers prospect- ing for new fields of conquest raid- ed Chittagong, eastern entryway into the industrial province of Bengal. Saturday for the second time in 24

store.

LONDON. May iii-AC?)- The Paris radio said today that fivc hostages had been executed and’ 50 others condemned to

In connection

hours, bringing relatively close to death l" Film the we“ port o; Calcutta {he w“ Japanese language for domestic with attacks on Germans. ma; India m, dreaded m long. consumption. -—————-ii The raids were me mm; and Subsequent contentions that only

hospitals and schools were btmlced obvzcusly were made for pom:- gazlda punposes atbrcad.

While the communique shed no bgirt on the bores frrm witch the planes operated or the number of raiders, the Japanese have guess- ed publlclv they came either from unoccupied Ch‘nn. srme 1,200 miles distant lit the newest po‘nt, ol- from naval carriers. and have

fourth attacks of the war on the Inrllim mainland.

A high level bombing and ma- chino gun attack upon Chittagong Friday afternoon caused slight da- mage and some casualties, the Brit.- ish reported.

The Japanese apparently were testing the defences, of Chittagong, which doubtless is among the early objectlvcs of any advance into In-

Will Attend . A. R. P. Course

Councillor B. Earle lVIaoDonaE, Controller of Flrc Services f0!‘ t e Charlottetown sub-committee. A-Rt

LUNENBURG, N. 3.. May 10- tCPh-Shlpping circles said to- night a vessel shelled to destruc- tcn by an Axis U-bont on the At- lantic recently was believed to be the James E Ncwsoln, one of the last of the four-mnsted schooners which was owned hero until re- ccntly.

Loss of the 23-year-old Newsom

_ , ~_ . . ly a few s mrday for Am- dl propel. There was no confirmo- fd the” wrm on P. will leave next a would make he, m n t h tiritn, however. of vague axis re- fwd-Ts iierst College, Amllfiffitt M-wsachu‘ to be sunk by a sugmaxrlnescori]

Since the attack the Japanese

. l to si e traininfl have heavily brmted Ctlfnese all‘ ‘atm’ to mke an n q v

mum or twp weeks covcrlnt; W? technical phases of handling incen- diary and high explosive bomb!-

‘Ilhis was dccidcd at- a Joint meet-

fielda in divas nearest Japan. . . See Plpehne only of the Provincial A. R. P. Com- mittee and the Charlottetown sub-

Solution For East m“

committee. Hon. H. H. Cox presid-

side of the Atlantic in ch15 war. Several were sunk of! the North American coast in the First Great

War. is believed to

ports that enemy natrole already have penetrated India.

While tire Japanese jebbed at In- dia's defences from the air, British forces eluded a Japanme trap in Burma and took up positions in the mountains near the Indian tfron- tier. ,

WASHINGTON, MRY l0 —fAP)— The proposal for an $80,000,000 i,- I iluits Post

alto-mile ipc‘ine from ‘Iexas to the New Yor -Philadelphia area was again brought forward today with B C. R. Blackburn Canadian Press Staff Writer UITAWA, May l0 4cm -ctov-

the contention it offers the n- clpal hope for lifting motoc- in S a t. tion to alter the Wm" emmen nrilimry per-vice law in pro-

the eastern United res from ex- ml hedry for this week-possibly w-

tremely short rations of gasoline

and for assuring adequate oil hi‘ errow- and indications will? .1‘... that it nuirht be "W" "lg

heating homes. ' Government oil officials said pet- fclzec by resignation of a 811101‘ cabinet minister.

The fouresticker be the vessel from which eight Canadians and one West Indian, who were brought to Bermuda last Week. escaped during a gunfire H-tttwk by a submarine. Bennuda dispatches said most of the Cana- dluns were "believed" m be 1mm Luncnburg.

Waste No Sympathy On Motorists Who Use Up All Coupons

ed, ~

tion was taken following thweaarifng of a letter from Geoirlle S. Mooney. executive secretary of the Canadian Federation of Mayflfi and Municipalities, Montreal. in which Mr. Mooney conveyed an in- vitation from the Chemical War- fare Service of the United States war Department to Canadian mu- nicipalities to send representatives to take part. in this training, which also includes dealinfl with 8M. d0- contamination, etc, i-esultlna from air riflda.

l"t°“'.i‘. ifimflit”? ‘limit... p... n en su o e

ductlon board this week a third an- A 15'“ "mbef ggfgaflfllesczfif plicatlon for priorities on the met- towns from cons kod to send t“ al needed to build the line. He has ads. have been‘ as“ d the school‘ been turned down twice. manbers each o a en =-

-Ma.v I0- (c?) _ Dlftmeflt of Munitions and Supply is wasting no sympttthv on motorlstg who become strand- ed Without gasoline afrai- "ping up their ration coupong,

Pr!“ Wilt-Em‘ “““‘““' "r: a motorist n has given notice of a bill t0 9m "4 “"1 m“ °l "c "“i‘i’i3‘;.“f.‘°ii8“ii8l’.‘l“i2i°.i QAKING l-AUQ .35. "’““.‘.iil.w‘é’i“‘°.‘.‘é xtmog observers m om“ u m“ t gasoline whatever and must get

his car removed from the road-

ie will remove the banter to 00m-

ne because of the situation in $11G! he was placed when the 53;? majority of Quebec electors not. to release the government from muitetixgiidin ierened mature" W Prime Minister Mackenzie runs and