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CHARLOTTTIITOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, JANUARYU, 1942

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Annual Subscription Delivered, 56.00 U; Alallt l’. It. L. $1.410; Cunmln llllll 1 s, $5.00

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Wree French ' Tanks and Armored A rgen n

Vehicles roll to lleinforce British

Move M ay l’ r e s a g e Drive ’l‘0 Clean. Up Dangerous AXIS Po- sition.

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(By John P. McKnight, Associated Pren staff Writer) RIO DE JANEJRO. Jan. l8-(A.P) 951100, Jan. l6 —(AP)—F‘rcuch —Colombla, Mexico and Venezuela men we“, pitlPd agaznst Germans today formally asked the Pan-Am- tonrgh; {or u i: first limfl on land erican nations to cut their @1910- time the ilFlllisilfft‘ of June, 1040. matic tics with the Axis to bolster E Frpe French columns of talks the United States’ war effort, and and armored cars rolled up_to re- there were indications that reluc- mrom the British 8th armys siege tam m, mo big and staunchly fortlfied line. German-Italian position in H-allaya Aside from Argentina's opposi- (Hellfire) Pass. tlon to any “pre-belilgerent" action. ‘Ilrgiv presi-ncc prefaced a real tile other two obstacles to complete 033,151“ to clean out the danger- accord lIl the foreign minister's W5 nil-mt to the main Linvan conference here appeared to have supply lincs 0T the Britrsh army. been removed. advanced T011108 01 which are 0D- _Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian for- n-lgng more rrnn 300 miles to eign minister and acting chairman, , m, “p51, illlliDllllCfld tonight that the Peruv- gmose there, are 7.009 _en'r‘y trail-Ecuadoran boundary dispute lrocps in the high and rocliy p s »vtis"'"aievci‘ so close to a solution as It llnllaya, near the EZYTIUAII 1101- now , and the central American der. British supplies have had tn and Caribbean nations agreed t0 make a 100-mile detour. fol-ego their demand for l unani- The British forward columns to- mous Pan-American declaration of mm were pushing slowly along war against Germany, Italy and the hcavily-miiied lowcr coast oi Japan. the Gulf cf Sfrte,1‘:ili_\vny b~twe=n ' Ecuador's foreign minister, Julio pillar-ii Pass and Tripoli. dcspize robm- Donoso. has refused to at- flfl QppOSTiLlOTT from reinforced tend the sessions unless the 100- yeeearlgplld boundary squabble is

Gannon dive-bomber and fighter s . Argentina's acting president, m-

By Edward Kenued! “Milka Plfll Staff Write!

Argentina may swing into

units and rear-guard stands by the main axis desert force.

Torn headquarters communl- mon Castillo, pTOECSMd to the con- iii" considerable ierence that there was a campaign (MTITY nir act ty which ins dc- to misrrpresent his country's for»-

Q1811 policy, and declared that Argentina is as "faithful and loyal" as any other American nation.

relayed against these forward troops. but it- said adequate British

Miter protection kept losses at o minimum.

(The German rcinmtmique said that Gcrtuan transport planes were being 11s"(l again in ferry pnson- nel nrrrtss the Meditcrraruan 10 North Africa. It claimed those planes wot down two British a‘.- Mk0!" r

Confirm second Tanker torpedoed

lietreaded Tires May Be liationed

WASHINGTON, Jim. l6 -—(AP)— Rfltlonmg of retrcaocd, as well as 113W. tires appeared priibabl? today with disclosure by o.ficlals of the office of production mnllfigmngnt, that only 300 tons of crude rubber had been mad aiailablc 1h s month

—~——- lo make r "n; material for ])"lSS.llf“€I' CR!‘ LYCS, NEW YORK. Jlll- lib-Mm" ‘Thisaamount, it was estimated

The tanklr Cnituhra has been de- liroycti, pzcsvlmablyr tcvpetlocd, by m cnenly 1 hie.- withln swing dis-

unofficnlly, could take care of a_ bout 20 per cent of the heavy de- mand by motorists resulting from

iiiirfccasottlnrknbsslnbiitliigltgushag me new m": raucmng program‘ told No.11 Atlariio tonight the ‘ ‘ '. whereabouts oi li-sr crcuuizarl was (/l (‘I F. COIIVeDfiOn uncertain,

Amid ll. weitci- cf confusing and 0118118 at SYdIIGY contradict reports concerning i-

thlecir, more stood out Just one

lici-' tiztvgfis amzziuucemciii l11 SYDNEY. N. S.. Jan. l6 —(CPl-

W :11 that "rm unknown Angus Mclimls. C.C.l-“. mcmirci‘ of r0 'ti Slil'\l'l\'L;l'S has been plck- Pnrxllntn ‘ll’. for Vnnccuvri‘ lEIu-t. 1c- ldtui." clarctl here today’ his party stood The attack on the SJTGii-ton ready for full-scale conscription of

Canada's manpower as soon as in- tlusiijv, finance and other resour- ces were sinlarlv rcutrntcci. Hr 1 ' "cl o'er 10’) (lolrilai s at no iirg srsson oi the s. ll’l Fliza in couvcutirti u.’ 1hr C. C. F.

flew the flag of an was continued by the lriicut in \Vi1.\hlilgt0il 2i huttrs utter the i mate it kuou n.

(‘ziihtilime-l-at‘; llies at Yarmouth

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MJ. Caldwell. acting lrarlvr of ‘l1: Canadian C. C. F‘. party, pra- :l the next provincial electron in Satkatchcxvan urruki lee a C‘ C.

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Li- Mar. Drsrc Cumcau, Rumor. cfl-tlolic domestic prelate, died At 1161121011111 Htspitill today in hLs gfiblcnr. lie was pastor oi Eel Bout. N. S. Lsh for 30 vrnrs. “FY11 n4‘ Sllultifl-itillc. Dlgby Cauti- ‘$51. "c studfctl at St. Joseph's “L986. Memramccck, N. B., and all“? Heart Seminary in i-iuli-

cd 100 our cent efficient. A new social order. based on "economic ice" would have to be built. he

Name

Gen.

LONDON, Jon. l8 --(OP) -Gen. air Alan Fleming Hartley, chief of the northern command in India. W618 named commander in chief in India tonight, succeeding Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, recently appoint- ed allied commander in the south- west Pacific.

Lt. Gen. Edwin logic Morris was appointed chief or the general stat! in India.

Sir Alon is 59, Morris is 52.

The India office said both selec- tions were "war-tune appointments.

Coming Events

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“Reserve January 2s 33rd , party. J°5°l>1ls Sodaiity l-lall. L-oia.

"madin! Hogs cvcr y Monday (ll _ ‘m it Souris. George Dingwell. L-aoi-ia-si-i-a-‘rhtr-rrt-tf ‘ u

the duration of which will depend on the military situation."

Gen. Hartley, son of a physician. now is fighting his third war end

s seen action on three contin- ents. He attended a British mil!- tary college and went into the army and there fought in the Transvaal and Natal. In the first neat war he fought in France. Belgium. Macedonia. Serbia, Bulgaria, Tur- key and Iraq.

Most of his lost 10 years have been spent in India and he l.'l a relatively unknown in Ilandoli.

Morris was made director of snail duties at the war office at the

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year later was given cunmand of a division.

Successor

Wavell In India

outbreak of the present war and n h

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Swing Into Line

Two obstacles-t-c-i-co-mplete

- American

Conference appear removed.

Five Jap ships Sent down by Ii. S. Navy

Invaders In Luzon 1n- tensify Attacks On MacArthufs Army.

By Richard I... Turner Associated Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON. Jan. l8-—(AP)- Flvc more Japanue ships-three transports and tam cargo vessels- lay at the bottom of the Pacific tonight as the result of blows by the Unit-ed States Navy.

They were sunk, a communique announced. by units of the Asiatic

t. r ing to at least 24 the numiber of enemy craft destroyed by the navy and marines in less than six weeks of fighting.

In addition to the action by the two sea services. war department oommunlques from Washington and from the army in the For East have announced the sinking of eight Japanese craft, including a battleship,

The Ja-panese invaders on Luzon meanwhile intensified their attack upon Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's de- fending army. strung acrcss the Batan Peninsula.

Enemy dive b_0m1b€l's attacked in- cessantly, the war department an-

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Plans to answer “liooliganism” Charges in liouse

LQNDC-N, Jllll. 16--<CP Cable)- ChQygp-g mode lit-t weak in an an- onymous letter to the Sn iiiuly News r; urdiug "llbOillllll ' oi Canadian soldiers stationed in firi- tnin will be answered in the House sf commons next work by tall. spare Earl of \Viutcrtcn, a veteran or the First Grlai War 11d 10111;- Llllli‘ umubsi- of the B: ish Pa:- liameut.

The letter, signed only with the initials "J. A, T." said that "unless the officers in charge of these hruics can control them it wou.d bc 1t gocti thiuq for the authorities to apply for their removal." Lord Wintcrtori tamed the letter “_u monstrous thing," in a communi- cation to the same paper. In this communication he said he would raise the matter in Commons next

, week.

Lord Wiutcrton told The Chili» ditm Press that he had received considerable mail fol‘o\ving_ pub- lication oi‘ his letter and said the “mil was "remarkable evidence of the popularity of the Canadians"

in BJt-ain.

Convicted o

Manslaughter

gum, Que. Jan. 16-40?)- neading Aircraftman Edmond Pl- quette or Ottawa tonight was con- victed of manslaughter by a l-llllg superior Court jur at the 01056 0 his week-long trio on s. chaise 01 murdering Charles O. Walton IBM

d. Mnfile jury retired just before 6 P» m., reurned at a o'clock for 1111'" the-r information from Mr. Jllfltifi A, Duranleau, and brought in it! verdict about an hour later. t

pllqiiette, 2s. was arrested l" June several weeks oft/er the body or Walton, 55-year-old Ottawa businessman who disalmf-‘Bred M“ 5, was recovered from the Ottawa River.

N"; Monday Leading Aircraft; man Germain Doucet of Monteu’. charged jointlv with Paquettcuol murdering Walton. Wm 8° °" r Q

ere. Paquette will be sentenced at the end of the current ssslzes.

u: War Situation Last Nightz]

(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) llard-bittm Australians, sons of the Anzacs who displayed such valur at Galllpnli in the First Great War, and brothers of men who haxvc gullantly renewed that tradition in Llhya and Greece, have join- ed batilc with the Japanese in Malaya.

Their apprarance on that hard-pressed British front sent a surge "Y llolle through the United Nations. It may mean early revision of the retreat-clouded war picture in the Far East.

The real battle oi‘ Singapore may be only beginning. it seems certain that the singing Aussies were signalled into action on the nar- rowctl Malayan front, little more than 100 miles north of Singapore, by Gen. Wavcll, allied commander in chief in the China Sea region.

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These troom reached c months ago but only new have been brought into the fight. Accllmated and specially trained to the Wild‘ "l hflml. they west in at a moment closely synchronizing with Wavclfs arrival at his own command post in Java.

Wavell‘: naval colleague, Admiral llart, American commander of allied sea forces in the southwestern Pacific, also ls somewhere in Netherlands waters. How his ships are disposed l: undisclosed but they are blasting telllngly at Japanese communications.

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Admiral Layton. commanding British naval forces In the concert- ctl Far East operations, left Singapore recently to organize his ele- ments of ihe unified anti-Axis front, What ships he now ha, avg". “MC l! "X1557"!!! b!" Enough time has elapsed since the loss of the British battleship Prince of Wale! and the battlecrulser Repulse for their replacement with British craft nf equal or greater power.

Pieced together. this seems io spell out lntn a significant change, marked by the advent of the Australians on the Singapore fighting front. It looks like a move in allied grand strategy to end the retreat phase of the battle in the Far East. _

Probably it cannot mean that a major offensive in the China 5e; zone ls yet possible. lt does indicate, nevertheless, that wnvo“ hem. ed the time ripe for a British stand before Singapore to mngoh Mac. Arthur's stand on Baton peninsula.

intent n; lint '1 To antagonisms Curing wartime

16—(CP-)—De-

News Briefs

A TOWN 0N THE ENGLISH SOUTHEAST COAST. Jan. 10 —iCP)-—lleavy bomb bursts In the Calais area tonight indicat-

TORONTO, Jan.

Caring the “vital necessity 110w“ is ,

to agree on and get done the gguggfngRoyaéeggl-anrorci; Y“ “things of immediate and mortal his“ “on ‘he hunch "f; m: consequences," Conservative Leader shew’ I "' “s

Mcighcn appealed tonight fora

nalt to “reckless and baseless as- persions on onus pditlcal foes" and the “lamenting toil antagon- isms between class find class." Making his second broadcast spccch over a Toronto station in the campaign for election to the ' in the Feb. 9 tion. in which hi! " .- l by J W. Nose- wu zlrv or the CO-Cllfllfllifil‘ Coni- msuut-rdih Iikrtlrratlou. lvlr. Mcigh- on said the subject of an “all-out unu- eifori" should absorb every- bw-‘s mind but "other matters are the 0.01"." and “you are my pnsilloti." 4<J ‘n 0i‘ lulth" he gave

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irternraients under Defence regulations

O'I"i‘.-\\'i/A. Jan, l6»-1CP1—0\11. of a lutitl oi lfililiiiiuiiii tsinCana- da untLr m: UJltEIIiJ‘ U\vlx--|u4~ rcgulaiioils slim: the um" sitlrtcu 4H3 persons have been icluluscu. Justice lvlmisiei‘ Si. Laurent revealed at a press conic rice today.

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Of all ti iul-eiii-erl 442 “(TE ucm, .1l rim were airrlslcci lul- dcr nulm ' U: sccllun 2o cl 1m:

All. wiulc L1H were aippipntntlcd tinder scctiun 21 and tnay have in- cluded some enemy “hem 11111018 others placed in internment bccaule of their potential danger to the se- curity of the st . Among the ‘i’ releases thori- were 408 irvhu were interned under szecticn 21 and 85 who were interned be- cause they were enemy aliens. Section 21 oi the Act empowers the minister and his officials to - tern those bellcvcd to constitute a threat. to the safety of the slat." if permitted their freedom, and section 25 and other relative sections, cin- power the mixiister to intern enemy

' aliens when such action is consider-

ed necessary to national security, Mr. St. Laurent said there was no change in the attitude of the ovcrnment toward those interned ausc of their communlstic activ- ities in Canada.

Sir Stafford Cripps Quits Russian Post

LONDON. Jan. 16 - (CP)—'I'he Foreign Office announced tonight that Sir Stafford cripps. Britisn A bassad to Russia, is relin- quishing his post at his own re- quest and that sir Archibald Clark Kerr, now envoy to Chungking, has been designated to succeed him.

sir Horace Seymour, assistant under-secretary of stale in the For- eign Office, has been named as the new ambassador to China.

Sir Btafford. it was said auth- oritatively, will return to England in the near future.

d-osnv rauunr:

IDNIXIN-(CP) —-Charles Len- rnrd. convicted of failin! t0 0"" $112,387 in rccurivc; frr sale to the treasury, was fined $118,000.

WASHINGTON. Jan. l6 -(AP)— A plan to place business under a licensing system as a means of en- forcing przce controls in lite Unit. ed States was reported today to have been agreed upon by Senate and Howe of Representatives con- forces trying to reconcile differing versions of the price control bill.

WASHINGTON. Jan. l6 — lAlfl-Thc appointment of “'1!- linm S. Knudsen as Ilircctnr of nrotluctian for the United States war department was an-

nounced Talc today by Presi-

dent Roost-volt.

TOKYO. Jan l6 _. Japanese broadcast recorded by AP) — A

Domcl warfront dispatch claimed zonlght that all Japanese forces ad- vanvinq through ltialuya have p“llt‘.— imtcri Jchcre. routlrrnmost stoic f the prnnsufa. and "are 'no\v ._ _ positions t0 annihilate ilic British army."

ilcaih ends long Career of Duke Cf Connaught

LONDON, Jan. l6 —(CP Cable) —‘.1.e Duke of Connaught died ..~_..\y at Bagshot Park, ending a Long career as a soldier and diplo- mat which took him to must parts o." the world and placed h.m ior five years lll the past of governor general of Canada. He was 91, the last surviving son of Queen Vic- toria.

The Duke, associated with Can- ada at various times since 1870 when he served under Garnet W0‘.- scley in defeating the northwest rebellion, continued his interest in the Dominion almost to ‘he time of his death, visitin Canadian troops at Aldershot once mak- ing an automobile inspection of one of the Canadian regiments o! which he was colonel in chief.

This regiment, the Royal Canad- ian regiment, and the Royal Win- nipeg Rifles 0i’ which he was also oolonci in chief will be represent.-

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Jack Miner's Condition better ,

DETROIT, Jan. 16-(0?) — Slow but progressive improvement is re- portcd in the condition of Jack Min- er 76- ear-old naturalist of Kim’;- ville, ht.. who underwent a major operation at the Henry Ford hospi- tal here two weeks ago. Mr. Miner has rece telegrams and letters of . Canadian and American public men and among his callers was Henry mm, the motcr mannin-

City Council ‘ Gives approval To zoning law

Measure Gi v e n T w 0 Reading s At Mon- thly Mee tin g 0f Council.

The need oi’ additional equipment "Id Personnel for the Charlotte- town Fire Department, was stress- ed Coun. B, Earle MacDonald. chairman of the Fire Committee, at lite postponed regular mfctlng of the City Council last tight. Dep- uty Mayor J, T. MacKce prc-szdcd in the absence cf Mayor B. Roy Holman who was ill with a heavy cold.

A bye-law to establish a restrict- ed buildcng zcne was given two Yiifldlligi 11nd Dfllzfess reported. It Will be read‘ again at the next Council meeting. The zone includes '11“ that Portion of the said City of Charlottetown bounded and cir- Cllfllscribed by a line commencing at the intersection cf (in; nor-tn. cm side of Etrston street wiih ‘l|‘.C eastern side of Upper Ilillsboro Street, and running thence north- wsrdly along said Eastern side of Upper Hlllsboro Street and north- ward projection thereof to a point distant one hundred feet north- wardly from the northern side of GeralclStreet, thence Eiistwardly by a line ‘or lines paralleling the northern sides of Gerald Street and Ilapthorn Avenue and preserving o. uniform distance o: 100 feet more. from to the northwest side of Lough wotnli Avenue, thence Southwest. warzlly along the same to the north. em side of Euston Street, thence westwardly along said northern side of Burton Street to the place of commencement."

The bye-law ls intended to make this portion of the city a rcsiden.

tial district. Buildings at present being 115911 I01‘ commercial pur- poses, however, are not tiffectzd.

The bye-law was amended to ex- clude a provision which would pre- vent a building changing from one commercial Glll-Efpflsc to another, As it originally stood. a drug store trvllld not. be chaug . into a budd- ing dealing 1n a flan businiss, neither could it change to commer- 018.1 purposes of greater extent, 'I‘he zoning system provides that "No person shall henceforth erect.

or commence the erection oi, any

singlc-iatnilv iriencc uxthm thl said zone w l shall b!‘ of a completed cost than $2.000, or any residence containing more than

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Names of four Lost at sea .

J: AN EASTLIQXN CANADIAN PORT. ;.

J.1l1.lu~tL.P;—Nanlt~s ut the iour whites lost in the torpcdoiiig oi h freighter 160 miles oil the coast of Nova Scotia this week were released by naval authorities here today Some 9U Chinese crmvntcn were lost most. oi bhtll‘

Qiléllilhll, UP Irishman and a ‘H1801! 5111K" Czsciiuslovalsia, were: _

Licrtioi) M-lwDavid, Liverpool, Eng

Peter Paul Dymal. Czechoslovakia

N.".\.il gunner Linirir-f; li"ci';',us lio- bu. Blfust. Lrcluiui.

‘rliomas Maclsciizic, Liverpool.

ltoico was ilunyvn 0\(‘iL)(|.1Y§i uiiui the first. torpedo struck and tliu second torpedo hit him hci-irc it hit the ship, survivors her-c rcpurtcd.

llktails conccrniitrr the titan-ii oi the ‘

other three were not knouu

Jap

BATAVIA. N. E. 1.. Jan. l8—-(A— P) --Japancse air raiders pressed their assault on Netherlands East Indies bases today on ll ZODO-mile line.