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CHARLOTTETO-WN. CANADA TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1941

Great Heroism

Saves Allies

Observers in Turkey believe odds heavy against brave men facing Gslnan “blitz’_’.

(By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press Staff Writer)

CllSME, Turkey, April ll-(Alfi-Ieats ol legendary heroism by ureelrs and Britons alike have saved allied forces on Meant Olympus mm being cut off by German tanks fanning out over the plain of Thmnly but the continued withdrawal to new positions leads to the belief here that the odds are almost completely against the brave men itauding up against Nazi "blitz" warfare.

Reports reaching here indicated that a British army. which reports h" put at anywhere from 50,000 to 80,000, ls fighting what amounts to ‘ ploy retreat to the southernmost etnbarkation point of Greece.

(A Grcck high command communique early Tuesday said the with-

tullr

raiders Bisguiscd as British ships?

JERSEY crrv. n. .1.. Aprll 21-

(AP)

l t ship Siboney said Aiddlii; ch21 ‘ishgordocked that three

shots

m; British warships April 12 in a liar/e 320 miles off Lisbon. The Bib-

OBEY

cspt, wenzel Habel said it was first thought the ships were Ger- man raiders. The bhfLfl shot; struck 50 feet in front of the Siboney's bow. Forty-four minutes after they

gulied

lboney to proceed.

However William Parker. corres- ndent of the New York Sun re- urning from Europe, said he was not sure that the sub-cliaaers ac-

tually

Some persons on board, he said. were "not convinced that the two

craft

not. German raiders disguised British patrol boats.

Parker said instructions to the llboncy were given in a. German accent.

War-ZS Years

APRIL 22, lino-Floods British ntlompts to advance on the

River

111 ll°l‘lll(‘l‘n France. British troops

made

Ewes near Tliiepval. French re- lhlnccurt in Verdun area.

successful."

- Passengers aboard the were fired near the ship by

carried 350 passenger"-

alongside they permitted the

were. British ships.

which did the shelling were as

strong

Ago Today

impeded Tigris toward Kut-ei-Amara. sllcciPsful raid against enemy

German

attacks near

dnwai movement "of our troops to new positions of resistance has been

(A Greek commentary heard by OBS in New York said "it is learn- ed from headquarters of British troops in Greece today that in spite of continuous bombings the ordered withdrawal of our forcee to new positions continues and is nearly completed."

(The same broadcast added: "Ilia enemy advances very cau- tiously owing to bad roads, but largely because of the rough handling he has received when- ever in contact with our men. Our casualties are light.")

There is a possibility. ob- servers on this ride of the fron- tier say, that a long rear d action may be fought in cen- tral Greece and the Pelopon- nesus. If it cannot be fought. observers - taking the most pessimistic view of the situation —sa.y that there would be small chance for the escape of the Australian and New Zealand divisions and detachments of Britons and Scots.

Two destroyers with steam up have been reported ordered to stand by since last. Thursday night: to carry King George II, the Greek Royal family and government of- ficials from Athens, which is 0 - poslte this ‘Turkish port on t e Aegean Sea.

The destro ers were said to have been ready take the King and his government either to ci-etc or Egypt. but George postponed his departure when Premier Alexan- dros Korlsis committed suicide.

Almost single-handed, the King carried on the government and the sailing of the destroyers is said to have been set back to Fri- day night.

A large amount of British mo-

' torized equipment, guns, munitions

and other stores must be consid- ered as lost, it: ls believed here.

A wounded British pilot report- ed Stuka bombers destroyed 1'7 British planes at a big air base in Larisa before the Germans cap- tured that. town. A fifth of the ground crew were killed

Other Btukas were said to have fired 4i Yugoslav planes refuged

on Greek fields_

President Roosevelt May Visit

Premier King says _friendly co - operation between U. S. and Dominion never stronger.

inc

Canada

my claims British

Transports are sunk

l

sources clalreigxdil

loaded 13.000 the

Wilt

e drift; it" British trailisgorts tglailillfl tons, sailing from Evvoia to le of Crete. were slink today German air force

ere was no immediate com-

from British sources on the

Gtrlnan claim),

“Ellie. alonl the Aeaeim Sea

ll m unis: sooo dlmag

an insular section of Nazis ethane-d two more shl

. ns were severe y edllsled while two others were

ll was also claimed here that a

lmrch t m an man or

3.000 tons was

out. of a convoy west of Crete. _____________

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OTTAWA. April 21 —(OP) Prime Minister Mackenzie K1118 551d today the note of friendly coop- eration between Canada and the United States was never stronflfl‘ than at present. and that it will be further strengthened by a_ visit u; Ottawg by President Roosevelt. probably before the middle of next

on .

“These are highlights of the Prime Minister's comments on his Ullllbd States vlsit:-

i. President Roosevelt has ac- cepted an invitation to visit Ottawa and hopes to be in the capital m- eral days between May l0 and my

lo.

2. Canada will be called upon to provide for the United States pos- sibly $300,000,000 worth of defence essentials in addition to present ox- pcftg to that country.

8. Canadian industry and indus- trial Porters should prepare for

(Continued on page I. O01 I)

Expect Budget llato announced 0n Thursday

OTTAWA. April fl-JOP)" Finance Minister Ileiey expect! to announce on Thursday the date when he will brill: down the bull“. Prime Minister llaekonlie King said at a press n m»: " ld likely be

e won ht down early neat week. said, so that Par-

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liazis howl Over British

Move in Iraq

- Louis P. Loohner Au ted Press Staff Writer

Bmlim‘, April Il —-(AP) - The German rese, supported the German orelgn office, todav rais- ed q loud voice of protest at Brit- ain's lanolin of troops in Iraq, the oil-rich m ddle eastern country véhuich links ‘turkey and the Persian

The action. coming as it did when Ilnmz Von Papen, Germany's am- bassador to Turkey, appears to be extraordinaril busy was claimed to be a breac of in rnatlonal law l)’ a spokesman at the foreign of-

ce.

The Hamburger llremdenblatc, whose correspondent has close for- eign office connections, contended the step “reveals anew in all its dismal glory the British yearning for widening the combat area."

"Once again an independent state has been selected in an infamous meme-r as the new centre of bclll. oose machinations of the British Empire and its American friends," this paper said.

Whether the arrival 0r Brlflgh troops in Iraq will have any in- fluence on Von Papenu negotiat- IOM. which are beloved by for-

(P ntinued on page 3, Col s)

Nazis planning- llrive on Gibraltar?

VICKY, France. April 21 — (APi -It was reported in Vichy that German terms brought to occupied Paris by Otto Abetz. German Am- bassador at Paris included a de- mand for frea passage of German troops en route to Spain.

It is accepted almost universally in Vichy government and diplo- matic circ‘es that a movement in- fo Spain by the Nazis for operations iagaizist Gibraltar ls a matter of a few weeks at most and p0ss1bly only days.

450 cottages Destroyed in ll. S. forest firc

NEW YORK, A ril 21 -(AP) - Flames roaring rough the east- ern seaboarivs parchpd woodanils destroyed 450 shore-side cottages near Boston today as the devastat- ed acreage in nine sintcs rnoilnicd past the 100,000 mark

For s, while the naval git station at Lakenuzx-it and the borough of Lakehmst in central New Jersey were threat/rived. but were saved by 500 salkiis and marines and oth- er figlit/tvs A nightfall there were still 25 fire: raging in the state.

New York, hcw Hamosoirl. Ver- mont. Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and Connecticut as well were ravaged by fires which raced through brush and trees with lightning swlftness-the result of more than two weeks of hot weath- er. The Massachusetts executive council met in emergency session to close the state's forests and hold the newly organized state guard in readiness for any emergency. Roads were clogged with firc equipment and curious, the latter causing act.-

lng Governor Horace Cahill to broadcast an appeal for them to stay at home.

At the Lakehurst naval air sta- tion officials felt that danger no the buildings was past. The nearby village oi Whitings was ravaged by flames and several houses were burned in Lekehurst.

King Peter Reaches safety

tan-IO LONDON. A ril Il-(Om-‘rhe boy King ter of conquered Yugoslavia is safe and in ‘engo- clamation received here ht from "somewhere in the Middle

East" he address a vow to his ls to "hold high the banner

Yu avia." “M o ‘b,

I am obliged to andon no tonal soil in e face of superior one forces." he said in the roclamat on, “I do not mean to abandon the strug le for the of our flag. example of m! BN8! lnmwfl. shall until my verv 1m

d high the banner of Yugo- a a.’ (Vichy dispatches Monday re- ported King Peter had arrived in Jerusalem) m.

.

The 118 thanked the can Croats and the Slovene: for stand- ing by their Kingdom in its grave

enlislligenlrlbclamation stated the

d th fiivernnrent left gigging; soil :0 at it could not be said the lawful re icsentativu gins people oepltula d to the

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Canadian Airways lionored on eve 0f departure

“A very great: portion _of the credit for the development of the au- service and air training in this province must go direczly to Can- adian Airways and their personell", Premier Thane A. Campbell said last night speaking at a banquet given in honour of Canadian Air- ways which discontfnues its ser- vice in the Maritlmes. The banquet was jointly sponsored by the Pro- vincial Government. the Citv Coun- cfl and the Charlottetown Board of ‘Prado and was held at the Hotel Charlottetown.

The Canadian Airways officials. who pfoneeied the air service in the Maritime Provinces. were hig/h- ly complimented on the excellent organization they built up during their 13 vears in this part of Can- ada. The development of a safe. convenient and courteous service by this organization, was praised by the various speakers and genuine regret at its departure was ex- pressed.

The service built up by Canadian Airways is now replaced bv Trans- Canada Lines and the various speakersalso wished this new l-r- ganlzatfon every success in the continuance of the present service Many of the pilots of. Canadian

ways wil commence soon to train pilots for war service in other parts of Canada. it was announced by the chairman. fit-Col. K. S. Rogers. President of the Charlotte- town Board of Trade.

During the cow's.» of the ban- quet, Mr. W. S. Grunt former chafnnan of the Air Commmittei- of the Board of Trade. introduced the personell of the Canadian Alr-

the present and the Royal Air

llbrce, tin. service cf the future. Speakers. included:

Campbel. Hon. Dr. W. J. P. Mac-

Kee. G'oup Captain W. Blake for the Royal A‘r Force Mr. Syme.

(Continued on page 3. Col t)

e Raid

Royal Air FEE. hits back; Starts large fires in Cologne.

r A T COASTAL

SOUTHWBS TOWN. England. April 2z-(Tues- day)-(CP)—!-Ieavy casualties were feared here early) today after this town had been littered by Nazi air attack for several hours_

The bombing began when waves of German bombers arrived soon after dusk. Flares dropped by the first wave showed tho way for others following with hundreds of lnccndiaries, oil_ bombs and high explosives.

Defenders of the town struggled under the rain of fire and death to save lives and property but it was believed that casualties would prove heavy.-

There was a. brief lull just be- fore midnight. then the attack started up again with greater fer-

oc ty.

Again the roar of the raiders eased but, for a third time. bomb- ers swooped in from the sea. with their load of explosives before the all-clear finally sounded.

(A repeated target recently for heavy Nazi raids 0n Britain's south- west coast has been the English Channel port of Plymouth which may have been singled out by the Nazis for its town-a-night attacks.)

LONDON. April 2l—iCP)--Ger- man high explosives fell on two towns in southwestern England to- night but. a night alarm in Lon- don was brief and no raiders were re rted elsewhere over the Bri- tis Isles.

On the offensive, thqair minis- try said British bombers started large fires in Cologne in overnight raids Sunday, bombed the Ger- man industrial cit of Duesseldorf, the docks at Bres, on the Nazi- occupied French coast, oil stores at. Rotterdam and the docks at Dunkerque and Ostend

ways. which he rcferrcd to as the Defence Minister air service of the past. the Trans- completed an inspection of training Canada Air Lines. the service 0f centres in the Maritime Province

ileavcs for Ottawa

SUSSEX. N.B., April zL-(CP) — ' Ralston today

s with a. visit to Camp Sussex. He left on his return trip to Ottawa

P r e m l e r this afternoon.

It was Col. Ralstonb second visit

Millan. Deputy Mayor J. T. Mc- to the military camp here sincdfhe

war broke out. He was. met by Brigadier G. G. Anglirr. officer com- manding Military District No. 7. and Brigadier J. P. Archambauli. officer commanding the camp.

~ to outflank

(By Edward Kennedy, Associated

Press Staff Writer) ' WITH BRITISH FORCE IN GR-EEXJE. Aipril 2l—-(AP)—A ‘pow- erful, mechanized German rive. aided by terrific air power. is for- cing the British-Greek troops back to new positions.

The withdrawal. however. is be- ing effected with comparatively low losses in the face of Germans who poured into the Thessal Rlain from three directions, too

o-risa and pushed southward with- out beln able to outflank and trap the rltish troops.

After they had been held in the steep gasses for almost i/wo weeks, the erman divisions descended the mountains at dawn Friday, first through Grevena pass where they overpowered the Greek de- fenders.

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lWiill/tclrtdmdl In Greece Effectecl WithSmallLosses

Enemy push south unable

British troops.

or trap

l’ English Coastal "Great manhunt Town Battered

Continues for Nazi prisoners

(By Scott Young, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

PENINSULA. Ont, April 21- <CP)—The great. manhunt for the remaining six German war pris- oners al; large moved eastward to- night along the desolate, rocky shores of Lake Supreior with in- dications they may have effected a tflmliflmry escape from the trap set. around a bridge over the swol- len waters of the Pic River.

Men were being rushed to the region where the Pic empties into the lake just below Heron Bay after the finding of a raft on the east shore of the rlver_ It was be- lieved possible that the six. know- lngJ-hat three others had been captured at the bridge early in the morning. made a daring crossing 0n a. raft built hastily from the pwpufood floating down the river

Police. soldiers and guards from the internment; camp where 2B Germans tunnellcri to freedom

OTTAWA. April ZL-(CPI - Brim-Gcncral J. F. L. Embury. Judge of the Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench, will pre- side over a court of inquiry into

ers of war from a camp in northwestern Ontario, National Dcfcncc headquarters announc- ed tonight.

Friday night spread their drag- net through the bush on the east. side of the fiver and Major C. B Lindsey, guard commander and acting commandant at the camp. expressed confidcnce all would be recaptured.

In an interview with newspaper- men at. the camp this afternoon. lvlalor Linrlscv made known for the first time the definite num- ber captured by noon codav-ZZ. of whom 11 were caught Satur- day, eight Sunday and three this morning.

Two had paid for their brief period of freedom with their lives. wounded fatally when they charg- ed two soldiers Will) found thcm and three others in an abandoned construction workers’ camp near this railway point between schref- ber and While River. Two others of the five who resisted were wounded.

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MERE MAN

these times. and for that reason

elwcken our pace.

further

tact, despite violent German

Bitter-end delaying nctio tisli troops retiring from the Thessaly were announced in said “rough handling” had cautious-

On the lizrliun front, the movements were carried out prisoners were taken ivhen t

' tempted.

Rccountinyr widespread Nazi air raids behind the fight- ing fronts. the spokesman said the regions of Athens and its port, Piraeus, were attacked “many times" yesterday.

capital's streets to any perso cxccpt by special permit,

Among the bombed areas Kalrimala, Thcvzii (Thebes),

Yalirzi and Zzichaios. He said not severe. however.

east to conform.

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lCermaniMacle Cautious By Rough Handling

Bitter delaying actions fought as British-Greeks retire

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south.

(By J. Wes Gallagher, Associated Press Staff Writer) ATHENS, April 2l-—(Al’)-Grcck forces have ceeded in falling back on new positions with their lines in-

SLIC-

ill!‘ attacks, a Greek Govern-

mcn spokesman declared late tonight.

ns by both Greeks and Bri- northcrn mountain walls of a British communique, which made the Nazi “blitzmen”

Greek spokesman said. troop “in perfect order”, and some wo Italian attacks were at-

A curfew was imposed on Athens tonight, barring the

n between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m-

listed by the spokesman were

Preveza, Mcsolongion, Agrinion, Atalanta, Tangara, Corfu,

ltlcgara and the ports of damage and casualties were

The Greeks declared they had almost completed establishment of their army on the west in solid new defences, whose location was not given, while the British announced they were carrying out movements to the

The British command said l4 Nazi planes were shot duivn in a

Sunday air battle over Athens, and

two others were brought down else-

Bpwd was rushed to the camp where. Seven of their own planes were lost.

hospital from Winnipeg for trans- fusions in an attempt to save their

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Elechorilaéy In Manitoba

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_..,l.. rlrruv to a clcs: lziiiglit .15 e. p.€pLl-l'€d to cast ts t anon-ow for 94 candidates contest- Lng the leg'slal.u.re's 55 seats. Already. Premier John Bracken and 15 of his COBIlLlOIl government. supporters have been accorded ac- clainatlons. ‘Those given acclarna- iions when official HOIIUXIXHAQHS closed April l2 were, in adult/on to Ml‘. Bracken. nine Liberal-Pro-

grcssiv. flVC Conservatives and one Sit-rail Qrediter. The closing of official nomin-

ations also assured the re-elcctlon of Prunicr Brnckcivs Union ad- nimisirntiori as only‘ l8 oDDO-vii-Ofl candidates filed papers for the 39 sums still unfilled.

1n contrast to the small number of opposition contestants thcrcl are ‘f3 conlitmi supporters in lhci field. The r-wuain rig llirco Cilllilld-l ates are sponsored b_v_ sound money CCOllOlll-CS» a new u-“lllrlval 2111111) l", Manltoln which has CXl)l’€&§i‘Cl' neither- opposilion nor favor for‘ conliVon. i