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and summer, the i‘ Lthousekeepers of _ out their Hashing signals over the dork waters to guide

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deep seo mariners and crews.

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Reports 0f British Losses

l__O\'DON. April 23 MtCPi --Dc- rlci nu, uxuizizi-rzited German reports, Loru f-iiinki-i‘. minister without port- foio anu member of the war cab- ilicl. told the House of Lords today that. since the start 0f Scandinavian operations fivc British naval craft. cl oi smiiliri" tyne, bud been sunk and lIi (inniaszetl. stirne vcrv slightly‘.

Mil. a rlcuiiled statement on x liilli (‘s in rculv to a oues-

total with Ger- war-

a. man t-l.i ms filflf‘ 42 British shins. iiiriutling five battleships and two battle cruisers, had been sunk

nr lfiliblY (lamzigctl in the same IX‘ .

itish and Norwegian forces. he said. ii-erc known to have sunk iiiliiiiiiuin of l6 (‘vcrman tirarshi ', including three biz craft. In ad i- iion ll number" of Naz. submarines l i n‘ ink m- (iillTlZlZCd but. these scsziziu not vet been announc-

ce the German invasion of and Dfilllllllfk, three des-

_ s. one submarine and one pd- tnnaltv traw or l ave been stink and it fourth dvszrnver, H. M. s, Hardt- \v.is ili‘lt'llt‘(i utter beinsz damaztxi. One cruiser rind two destroyers iiav lrcrrii ("iilliMfTi but returned safe] to their bases. H. M. S. Renown ta pnttlc cruiseri and }{_ M, 5_ Rocinev (a battleship) have both received hits. No serious damage was done in either case nor “Q15 the Ilflilililfl! efficiency 0f tire ships in any wav affvctcd.

“In addition. aslias been announ- ced in llic press. four other trovcrs have rcccived some damage not 0i‘ a serious nature. Three cruis-

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crs haw received trlfliniz damage from bomb soldiers.

"To contrast these losses wltli those the enemy claims’ to have _i -

ciicv has iicvei" becn a character t0 of eucmv iil'Ul)li-,'lll.llflfl. The‘ ciziinis are totzillctl bv no known. rule 0f arithmetic. "The latest claims are five battle- slilifi. two battle cruisers. one air- craft carrier, l2 cruisers. l1 destroy- (‘X's and ll submarines sunk or ser- louslv damaged during the period , in question. i "1 need onlv add that the state- ment is as untrue its the oft-repeat- ed announcement that German air- mcn have sunk H. .\1~ S. Ark Royal fan aircraft carrier,» "File German batve Scharnhorst has been damaged

cruiser ill

‘an engagement. with H. iliCWll. wl ilc our Norwegian allies irepprt. that another enemy bztltlc crgLser. the Gneisenau, has been sunk. In addition the Admiral Scheer (pocket battleship) ivas hit bv torpedoes from one of our sub- marines and we hove every reason to beievc that she has at least been vcrv seriously damaged. "The enemy themselves admit thc loss of two cruisers. while hits also - were obtained ori two cther cruisers {by aircraft of the Royal Air Forer- iand the fleet air arm. and there ls tevcrv probability t‘"at. thev were ‘sunk. Another cruiser was reported to have been sunk bv the Norweg- - iuns and at least eiizht enemy tics- trovcrs have been sunk and others t damaged I

lFierce Seas I lSweep iiighy’s twaterfront

prom‘. N. s. April 2340,?’- .$eas broke over Dlgbys businfl-Ki ‘ section during the night “Mend-he storm that, swept the Marltimes (lilflnq thr- last two days resulted

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Sees Grim; Determination In Budget

LONDON. April 24 -<Wc_dncsday) -—tCP Cable) —Thc_mornink Dress surveyed sir John Simon's fpav till it hurts -and than some’ budget

the grim determination of the Brit- ish people to pursue the costly war to the end.

Typical comment. was a uaijaizraph in the Manchester Dailv Dispatch winch said the budget shows how colossal is the wealth of this country and therefore how stronsz _"Ls the ec- cnomic weapon we can bring to bear mziilnst Hitler. The budget may com- pel wry faces in Brita n bu_i it will most certainly give Adolf Hitler a headache ‘

The Dallv Express said that the nub lc would praise the chancellor of the exclequer for his rcaiism and nav up with c. 200d heart. The Dailv Telegraph observed that the biidkct was certain to make g strum! 310F101“ to the public as an lfllilfllllilllVfl ef- fort. to grapple with a llflllfilldflib‘ problem

The Yorkshire Post said tho bud- aet was to be welcomed as a fierce instrument of war. its scale was Q0 - ossal. the ncivspapei" said. but ‘we are fighting a terrific war with no early victory in sight. We bonnet hope to succeed viith half measures.

Some Complaints

There were some complaints.‘ ‘The Dally Mail railed tiebudizet ‘bad “dubious new pur- chase tax" while the Dziiv Hera d complained that all the new or 1n- creascd taxes were ind rect ones “and indirect taxes aiwavs full most iir-rivllv on those with the smallest resources."

The Manchester Guardian said the hrduct was less drastic than ex-

.iii u tide of 28 1-2 feet. j Abiit-mritis and brcastwurks wcrc

damaged _~ii_iil_\~ by the fort-e of the sens. One huge wave cata- pulted il small dnry \\lll(‘ll had

been tirittinq in thobasin against. a brcnstwrixk smashing the tiny craft to bilS.

Tim lzirigc scows lashed to lhc end of a spur pier broke loose and werc swept ashore on the beach ' near the Baptist Church. narrow- ,‘ l_v missing the business section of , the town. Heavy damage would i have resulted lf they had struck, i any oi the piling on tlic east sidei o! the Water Stivrct business dis- trlrt.

NEARLY CURED OI‘ TEA-DRINKING HABIT

LONDON. April M-Somebody threw the Dally Mall office into the nearest thing to utter confusion by , bringing in n packet of Ersatz ten "right off the boat" from Germany. It nearly cured the adventurers who tasted it of the tea-drinking habit.

The "tea" looked like green dust mixed with small pieces of straw, said the reporter who rounded up some opinions on the concoction. It was >1 a packet that. bore a picture of a benevolent Franciscan monk vrnlkiiig throunh a wood.

“Well. we tried it with milk and sugar. without milk and with sug- ar. without sugar and-oh well. we tried it every viray and we couldn't decide which was the least. un- plrasant," the reporter said.

A collcazue opined that it tasted "rather like hot water thrown over a handful of izrccn rubbish." The reporter took the stuff to a famous tea flim where s. professional taster said he had ncvr-r tasted nnvthlni: like it. He thought. the stuff Wits. mainly dried mint. leaves and herbs flavored with peppermint.

Caiiailais (iomrsilc exports tlui-‘niz l

March had a valur- of 582.720.1133 i compared with 8693269525 in the g same month n year ago. ‘ '

nectcd "and almost. certaiulv less drastic than the situation wiiri'1\nl5.' ill said Sir John assumed lhui. Brit- lain would spend duriniz thcwholi- of .thc fiscal vettr cnlv one quarter ~inoro than lii thc first seven months lot‘ tlic wiir. That estimate “brings lus for the whole of this. year to a ipolnt well below the rate iit which Gcrinarrvis now spending." it atldeti.

The Guardian said that this was nothing to be proud of and was a reflection of the imperfect mobili- zation of British resources.

The Morning Advertiser sold that many Britons alreatlv are feeling the pinch of privation.

"This new butlget." it said “mg! be for them a complete shipwreck of the lust hopes they had."

CANNED IN CANADA

The preliminary report on thc 1939 pan); of canned fruits and vegetables in Canada, shows that some of the principal fruit. packs were 28,462,168 pounds apples; 22.- 573531 pounds peaches; 19,278.06? pounds Keiffer pears; 8.525.856 Bartlett pears; 3.891.155 pounds cherries and 3.188.284 pounds plums. Among the canned vegetable packs were 81,952,435 urids tomatoes; 28,399,128 poun tomato juice; 25,238,559 pounds tomato pulp; 61,- 996,105 pounds beans; 33,471,371 P01111415 B5. Blld 78,016,611 pounds soups. he output of domestic canncm is not. included in these figures.

The Government grade mark of eggs ls the purchaser's guide to value. In the grading requirements. the colour of the shell does not. apply. Some breeds of poultry lny

While eggs and others, brown. The ,

value and the quality of the egg in finy grade remains the same rc- giirdless of the colour of the shell

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

iiilleges Ghange ;ln Conditions lite Prohibition

P r e m i e r Campbell

Discusses Plebiscite

I Issue In Speech On i The Budget.

Di-Wil-‘éllt-i what he described u tho “only unusual item" in the cs-

! timntea for administration of Jus- tice. Premier Campbell in his bud- get speech in the Legislature Tun- day night acid 08.000 was being ap- propriated to cover expenses of I. plebiscite at. which the people would be given "a full opportunity of ex- pressing their opinion once more

on the much-vexed question of Pro- I

i liibltlon." Concerning the enforcement of the Act, he said he could point to a. very important achievement dur-

l lug the past yean-"the complete ,

elimination of traffic in smuggled I liquor." i In 1927, he continued, the Stew- - art Government bod declared their

I "utter inability i0 enforce Prohibi-

tion" and in 1935, when he took over the enforcement, liquor was

, being imported and sold openly as

groceries. By 1938 he was able to re- port a "substantial reduction" in

smuggled liquor d . h ld ' an ‘low e w“ ' position 0!‘ indifference. 1 believe.

mp0" "Complete and absolute elim- l lnation" of this traffic. This was ‘i due. he said. to constant vigilance l the RCMP. by land, sea and

All‘. l Unfortunately this had resulted in two counteracting tendencies. namely. the manufacture of moon- shine, with which the police were now successfufly coping, and in. creased sales by government. ven- dors. The latter condition was more obvious to outside observers. and therefore loomed as even a greater evil than the sale and consumption of smuggled liquor. Possibly. how- ever, this evil was more apparent than real. "I do not think for a. moment that the amount of liquor sold legally in the vendors’ shops was as great or as harmful as the amount of smuggling and bootleg- girig ln previous years. he said.

“The Principal Eyciiorc"

Recommendations were "persis- tently coming in" to restrict the doctors in their capacity to pre- scribe alcohoic liquor. This was contrary to the spirit of the Act, which gave no right to impose nu- merical restriction in this regard. Power ls given to deal with doctors who specifically offend but even in this direcflon the physicians them- selves must largely be the judges between themselves and their pa- tients. Nevertheless, “vendors sales seem to be the principal eyesore to the advocates of temperance at tihe present time.”

The doctors. Premier Campbell said. were "not altogether to blame." The line of demarcation between the medicinal requirements of al- cohol imd its requirements for other purposes is vaizue, and can at best be vaguely drawn. Many doctors believe that light ales. stouis arid milder alcoholic liquor may be used as a tonic, as more or less regular appetizers for a certain class of people. He understood there were authorities who are of the opinion that a certain quantity of alcohol was required as the only known preventative of coronary thrombos- ls, and that a large number of the medical fraternity conscientiously believed that the soothing and mildly stimulating effect of what might be called the temperate use of alcohoiic beverages was benefi- cial not only to the social procli- vltlec but to the health of the in- dividual so indulging.

"So I hesitate to home iihc doc- tors too much for a situation of this kind that arises, because it must be very difficult for them to determine in any individual case whether the patient who applies to them will really be benefited me- diclnally by the use of alcohol or not. I am not advocating the use of alcoholic liquor even for‘ the purposes for which I have suggest- ed it irilght be recommended, be- cause I inn aware that bliere is a large body of medical opinion which holds that any alleged advantages are many times overborne by its harmful effects"

Altitude of Church Pcopla

Another problem the doctors were up against was ohuroh people, the Premier said One doctor whom he bod consul-ed for usln: n large number of scripts in the month of December argued that n. very important christian fea- tlval occurred in that. month, and n number of church people had come to him to obtain what they regarded as something indispens- able for the purpose of celebrating the festival fiaoperly. The doctor sold he did no ow where to draw the line. “Under those circumstan- ca; it is hardly fair to lay the blame on the government or even on the doctors," the Premier said.

There were, he suggested, two reo- aons for the increased sales of liquor through the vendors. First there was the demand to reduce the beverages which were formerly smuggled.

In the second place. the Premier

attitude in North America towards the use of liquor for beverage pur- poses. Prevlous to 1927 prohibition had been the law in United States and Canada. The States were still under Prohibition in that. year, and so was Nova Scotia. The other Cn-

ln public. was still frowned upon by all law-abiding citizens.

By 1940. he continued. the sliua. tlon has become different. Goverii- merit control has been in foroe in all Canadian provinces except Prince Edward Inland for several years. and n still more open form of liquor soles has been in vogue in the United Statics. Consequently alco- holic boverqu nova become o. rec-

the attitude of '

maintained, there was n changed~

nadiim provinces had Just discord- cd Prohibition. Drinking, at least

ognioed social amenity of the whole continent, especially among those who travel and visit.

Inlnndcrl ‘Impatient.’

The statistics presented to the Government last week by the tun- pcrmco delegation prove conclus- ively that drinking hu everywhere ‘increased enormously under gov-

ernment. control. Many Island peo- ple who travel abroad have bc- come impatient to have, at home, the freedom which they can enjoy abroad. Many of tho hospitable peo- plo of the Province feel that it II n y to entertain their guests in the some aooioblo manner no pre- , valla in other Provinces and States. t He had seen a man. on the train,

when they got to Tormentlne, pull

n bottle out of his pocket with the . runulr, "We on in Ocnodo now." i The Premier acid he wu not ot- t tempting tvofljustify" this attitude. ! but merely stating the situation as

it exists. Much less he was suggest-

ing that. we should shape our lem- - pernnce laws to suit the touilst trade. He merely wished to empha- size the additional difficulties oi’ enforcement which confront our efforts "to live on n moml sphere superior to that. of the rest of the world."

"We no faced," he added, "by tfhc problem of legislatfng. not only for our own Sumo-odd people, but for a mum hrger number, probably 150.000. who visit our Province im- nually."

"It. is quite impossible to super- lmpose n legislated abstinence upon n social and moral attitude of op-

therefore. that it is highly desirable that the electors of the Province should once more express their opinion on this important subject"

Hula Question

The basic question of the plebis- cite will be between two alterna- tives, namely:

1. Retention of the present Act which prohibits the sale of all nico- hollc liquors except for medicinal use. 2. Sale of beer and light wine un- der permits for beverage purposes, while retaining the necessity of mo- dlcal prescriptions for stronger n1- coholic liquors.

The issue. t-he Premier said, was "clear-out and definite: whether on one hand, beer and wine would merely prove to be the ililn edge o! a wedge. and would result in great- er fntcmperance than can be sec- urcd under the present law; or whether. on the other hand, the relaxation of restrictions on beer and wine would greatly improve

conditions by eliminating the bev- ei-sge use of strong liquors, both vendors‘ and moonshine.

The Premier instanccd the

French people who are habitual drinkers of wines but who are rc- garded as the most temperate na- tion in the world. That, he admit- ted. may be due to conditions which do not apply here, and per- haps could not be taken as an in- dex.

. Statistics ‘Irrelevant!’

Statistics had recently been cited to the Government to show that increased facilities for the oon- suznptlon of beer orid urine invari- ably lead to increased consumption of all liquors. “Unfortunotelyfl the Premier said, “these statistics do riot help us at all: in fact. they are entirely irrelevant, because in United States and in all other Cn- nadlan Provinces, easier facilities for beer and wine were invariably accompanied by easier facilities for rum, whiskey and gin. Their exper- iences therefore afford no clue as to the possible success of a plan for

and wine. while at the same time

restrictions on the sale of spirits.

"Without expressing any opinion on the merits of ouch m experi- ment," he said. "I believe the im- portant thing is for every citizen to be sincere ln his desire for true tempera-rice and strict law obser- vance. This can be achieved only if each elector‘: vote is tho expres- sion of a pledge to observe stric-tly whatever low is approved by the zuajoi-lty. 5o long as people vote for a law which ilicy do not. lntcnc to keep, there will be enforcement difficulties."

Replying to the suggestion that conditions would be better under enfoicemmt by a Prohibition Cum- mlsslon, the Premier said that he, as Attorney General, "did not want any Commission lo hide behind. The Government's dealings with liquor firms and agents was "an open book." The lust Commission. he said, had employed n purchasing agent ‘from Souris, of all places. He did not. know whether the then Government was hiding from the Commission, or the Commission from the Government.

Id had been suggested that. the tbecr and wine bill introduced by ‘Mr. Mustard had been sponsored

loosening the restrictions on beer,

maintaining, or even increasing, the I

by the liquor interests. The parties '

making bhat irresponsible charge

were unfair both to Mr. Mustard land to the legislature u a whole, Ithe Premier said. He had given warning to all liquor dealers with whom the Government did business in any form that they must not h1- terfere or attempt to lnfiuence the voting. He had already received ‘niuncrom letters from these firms, giving their assurance in this rc- lard.

"Even if the amendment docs come into effect as n. result of the fplebiocite." the Premier said, " I do not think revenues should be put into current. account until the new system has been thoroughly tried and proved. Even then the counting of increased liquor income u: current revenue is a. doubtful practice, an the Treasury thereby acquires n vested interest which it becomes unwilling to relinquish. m: these reasons the estimate of revenue from Prohibition enforce- ment during the present year rop- rcscnta n decrease rather than an increase over lost. year.

The BT06! V8100 QTDTOGIICHOH in the artificial and real sllir industry in Canada during 1938 amounted i0 333371.992. __

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