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Middle East Appears 1942 Second Front

u Agitation mounting in Britain; Some not

satisfied with Continental raids.

QNDQN, March fi-(Ail-‘O- T51. griddle East appears to be Brzluufs second from for 1942-

...". r111 be g continental in- "smn scmgtime in the future, but h. [he peat battles of this yea!" up nmiu stroll til oi’ the embat-

liir defences For Canada .

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Enemy captures Airfield in Tcungoo area

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CAN ADA, THUR

Critical Situation De- veloping As De- fenders Of Burma Are Forced Back.

NEW DELHI. March 5- Malch 25—(GP)—Ja an reached out for India by sea onlght, occu-

ylng ihc Andaman Islands in the

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SDAY, MARCH 2s. 1942

War Situation Last Night

(‘By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

Raids by thc United States navy on Wake and Marcus islands are officially disclosed to have found both inadequately manned by the Japanese.

That is perhaps the most significant aspect of those and similar previous raids in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands al- though they also represent a stats toward nullifying strategic and tactical advantages Japan guincd by her surprise attack in the Paci- fic last December. v

operations

O O O I

The point that most impresses this observer is that Japan is too definitely feeling thc strain of war on distant fronts to he able to muster in the deep Pacific air or sen power adequate to guard out- lWIis of high strategic importance. Hcr air, nsvnl and shipping losses arc beginning to count.

Aside from that, the raids on Wake and Marcus clcarly indicate

w; mulls L; 1i ely to be required ay of Bengal, barely 500 miles that both have been wiped out as useful to Japan, perhaps for the in ills lvlzddle EISC, Bulma and OTT off the United Nations’ Céylflll-ili- duration of the war. Her front in the Pacific has been pushed back. ' {hp Allies’ maritime OOm- P‘ AlyAilMflmh G35 “"1071 0111911119- 51117913’ T911115 The hi)‘ And those or other Pacific islands might be wrcstcd from her soon to mm Mons) _ f- ans or racrcfilste air‘ dc- anesealso struck by land toward become ‘Inca “Vance bu“ o‘ “tack . own. hazards and dlifcultles of cnce of Canua a ough mark- the riches of cenrtlral Burma in _ _ ' ‘. _ _ equwnpn,’ tmunmg and gupply ed increased in the number of heavy fighting w lch partly out- Y "I m. m.- Alllcd force descending combat squadrons 3111] QQngfl-ug. flanked the Brush-Chinese posi- 61 9 FY1111"! DIIPIWIB 0f those American task force raids must o“ u“. hgnvily-gllilfdfld shores of lion of new alrdromeg were cue. tioll at Toungoqt f di bc extending the protection area for American-Australian communi- (~*.-,,...,..1.<-1<l western Europe. lined in me 1pm” pf common; The vernmen c Ill a an- cation sea lanes to the southward, busy with the flow of troops and 11mi- ucnclillions‘ wegelestrlcgctliix gday‘ byflPl-ime Minister Mae- Yrglgwmmilgf fiirgtltlfliaciéflaixhe warTglrearJwelitwar-d‘ to Gen. MacArthur.

“'0 wee o enzc n . , - _ be n

' illiv of a continental in- u, “h; “f” "by f" u" ‘up lerrltory to go to the erlcmy, m u B opanese ave en dc nltely pushed buck in the north and

h j s spring.

TpfvllllIiiiCfl on which the 0on- flu_.:,,,.. am drawn wa<_ culled Mn: ("\\v.\'(‘l'.<.'lii0n5 with officers oi W, 1;,-_-,-.. fighting services, experts .7 uncwluilonal affairs and allied eiiliiaiiv observers

Azliotion Mounting

"on for a second front is Pillffic ccmmenl. indi- ~plo are more concern- ¢4 owl than any mrlllcry en- tcrnvfsc since the outbreak of the

public meeting to express s. d». ~ im‘ :1. sccond front vrill be

nadian factories and that

S3l5.000.000 compared with bout $115,000,000 spcui in currrnt year.

There

qwafzll; ' Square lifaroh 29. view during today’; short m- Fryk Ohm <- lor of Lord BQRV- line of the House. arllronki. l1‘.\' inn Standard. has But. he added, "it can b; said esimnlrd tin‘. thousands will ai- that this pension will involve

fond the drluoflsiratiou lo plead against the Ger-

; {cl-s rm- a sfccéndi front up- ycn v are n-ci ~a "s. ‘e W1 h C01)- incninl mlrls by the three ser- vices For to that on Btunevnl. (chow destroyed the radio sfaiion. "Iiloulrzp ihc

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. wélléuliigis t.licitm(gifer>flliiflfl= clmliterl ihllllc sucll rald=. in- vclunrr mr. 50a and land forces. are an idea! weapon to keen "l8 German. off ital-once frrm lh_e n-:~—~ .

oi‘ combat I'l

ing and fighter operations."

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Eight Canadians Cited for Bravery

Bv J. r. snlvbnusou (Canadian Press Stuff Writer)

(Continued on page 8. Col 0)

Japs reinforce

Slates, Henrik De Kuuffmann.

est proportion" of combat air- craft needed during the coming year will be provided from Ca- the air and ground crews required for the air dcfencc establish- ment will be “readily available." ills estimate of the cost of air defence in the coming year was g.

the

are obvious reasons why prpcisc details of the ex- pansion of air defences cannot be made public. the Prime Min- ister sald in his lengthy war rc-

marked increases In the number squadrons, for recon- anli-suhmarlnc, strik-

WASHINGTON. March 25—(CP) -blx members of the Royal Can- adian Mounted Police and two Can- adian naval officers were cited hers today for courage and bravely by the Danish Minister to the United

not. opposed Indian defence forces

settlement on the islands also were removed the communique said.

The position of the Andaman: had been defenseless since the Japanese occupied Malaya, Rari- gnon and the lower Burmese delta. Al: their nearest polnl. the 204 islands lie about 120 miles frcm ihe Burmese mainland, Cape Negrais.

Their real significance, however, Lies in the fact that they affolrl excellent anchorages-Port Blair and others-and All‘ bases for com- blrled sea and alr attacks on Cal- cutta. Ceylon and the vital ship lanes in between.

Actually it was part of s. giant sea-land plncers on India, at a time when Britain is endeavorlng to organize its military defence and to soothe lis troubled politics through the mission of $1” Stafford CYIpPS.

The invaders’ land arm of the scissors was closing slowly today on the eastern road to Mandalay.

A force cf l,000 Japanese, skirt- ing the Chinese outpost line de- fending Tcull-goc, scme 200 miles below Mandalay and even closer on c diagonal route from the Yen- allgyaung oil fields on the north- west. captured an all- field north of Tounlloo.

Officially it was acknowledged that the situation was serious. Chinese fclpes were sent out early this morning to dis ozge the en-

emy~ftom the air field, and a heavy ivwn Forces ....*‘.:.".:::r*;..z::i.:: ma: .__ Government ship Gerirud Rak. n‘ l

“MSHINGTON. March 25-45?) —-'Ihe Japanese were believed to- day to be min-forcing fheir forces on the Island ocf Luzon preliminary to another drive to wipe out the American-Filipino resistance on the Bataan Peninsula.

“Continued enemy ground activ- ity m Bataan indicates the arrival

Canadla to the men.

navy and E. A. Chute. edslle, W. A-. Schultz, T.

boyer of the Mounted Police-

wrecked off the coast of Nova scotia Fk-b. 7 in a gale. the minister left eight silver letter-openers at the n Legatlou to be forwarded

They were lob-Comm. D. G. Jef- frey and Lleut. W. J- G. ‘(lJariLofAthc f; iiougpg-I Elliott M. Little. blrcctcr

Ian MacArthur and Owen Seu- McArthur and Seaboyer are radio

(Continued on page a, Col i)

Regard Newspapers Essential Services

OTTAWA March 25 - (C P) - of Nut- ional Selective Service,sald today that he a reed with labor minister Mztchell lat newspapers and news

of Japanese reinforcements." a operators who maintained constant associations should be regarded as United States War Department communication with the ship with essmiifli 59114095 51111110111111! 5111111111 communique said. adding that morse lamps while the other pollcc- be @0110 i0 deprive lhflm 0i qllflliiied 1117199011 fliers were continuing men guarded the ihlp for several gggsllilgtio? emu" 111611‘ 911mm" ammerin bl f, d f _1- nights, before it bro e up. - lions g W‘ ' em“ p“ Lleut. Carr, a naval staff officer Mr- Mitchell. at a press confer- “ ghflbmme, N, s" gflgmpflgd g9 ence last night follcwlng ann- launcy. g naval ma; 9,9 mcue m9 ouncement of the national selective a crew my, me Se“ we“; m9 rough, service len by Prime Minister Mac- The Danish ship was on her way kenflie inB- slid newspapers should from New York lo Greenland when b9 100K811 011 11118011110913’ Bl Ill 698011- oaggh; 1n we gale, tlal service in Canada. _o— his for Notices in this column

I eonta pcr word

==—_--__E "Tcliclcs-Sour ‘Thursday.

L-IIIB-B-Ii-Bi.

"Talkies-Montague. Scturdc - -1lg9-8- i-l.

“Enteriainment Mt Stewart Pri- "W- 11-1168-3-24-31.

00c ‘m, $111 B: Mdanocnch Tlhrcadslbanc

L-1230-8-I7-3i.

"Lllfldins Boss eve M da (all livnsourls. us" d“ "n L-BOI-lfl-Blgl-‘g- xiiiviril-‘u.

Wilts 1.2:‘ ma“ s": M . .

"Mo. Emerald. L-m 4-20-21. "Willa hm at Coivillc until i mo. Fnloy March ma le lie iilobowell. _ L-lRl-l-Msil.

“Tflklns hos: at

hid liaslllllpmomm" Much

By PRESTON cuovun

Associated Press Staff Writer

MEXANDR-LA, March-Bd-f-A!) --Wc feintcd and bluffcd. ‘W180i! in and out of smoke screens, find our mills-although it was some- times like shooting peas at l bl-fll -took time out for tea. in til! midst of bottle. and 8°! 0111' W11‘ voy safely to Malta after a naval nlcnt in which vslor tri-

ovcr might u it saloon in tbs most rommi-w Brldllbi-HQ of fiction. 21, Arthur After it was all over the captain

L-liiil- of ihc cruiser which I was Ibo

added this statement to the bric

rt rm Adliiiflli- "ligcroscnilrsl has roushi m d ibc mos: brilliant actions aslimi grcs superior for? cvcr lilt- 0Q

brwsh - And so it was. As the battle b0- ssn 1 never thought I would I" out olive to tell cf it. of Brit-

uN H "'_‘_" gig; oiiioii-‘weckfvltiliirsldixg. m" l’. Emlerald. A. O. and O. , 11- L-lfll-C-fld-fli.

"Loadl

‘Wk 11B hogs at Charlottetown 1 ‘ W1 Friday. March 21m till “p.111. We require two csrloads and pny extra price for these week-

"Oss. Livestock Marketing on] h‘ "um- ugm c , 5°11“ L-1203-8-25-2i_ l“ ° é" a l l. '-———- sailed hood-on inkan ovar- mfiiii"! Pills at Charlottetown yhqbplngly crful Italian h‘ "i square Friday; fiedcrlc- [lace in the tral Mediter- ‘ér Mmldfly: Brcadnlbanc Tues- r-ancan three lilacs drove it ‘m. I-lunoer River Wednesday l0 away mu the convoy and cl- iIl1il|N°w 9118mm 11 a.m.: North tlmacc dclivcrclcur swim no“; ‘in 9 P-m. I900 per pair for ihc cred if“: Id ‘éuerrllver 18 pounds. Knud Jor- "--

. L-XIBC. (Continued on page l, col l)

Light British Ships Rout Italian Fleet

Newsman tells of dramatic sea battle when convoy attacked.

_ Hitler, King Boris

ccnunullique which said the blow was struck two days ago, and was The small Anglo- hsd been withdrawn "some days previously."

Much of the population and some of the convicts in the penal

—-(CP Cable) _. mu today that mZed a riot Tuesday to cover the escape attempt» of eight number who were captured in the 17118011 mounds after being missing l2 hours.

Bernard Sluuenwhite

was sentenced today to four years u bl d i - 111 Penitentiary after conviction 0n maxilla genial: iii“ m w" m 011K189 0f stealing tires and Yesterday relatives st Morel]

premises .wss convicted in Supreme cool-i.

whirl! Pwific by progressive steps. Not only has the threat of Nip- pon’s closest bases to Hawaii been greatly relieved; but a pattern has been set. for a continuing stop-by-stcp, isiand-by-island advance west- ward to wvitiiin close air and submarine Qlrldng rangg o; m, yum, ncse coast and the bottleneck of Japan's China Sea, Wfll‘ cmmc Thai. is the schilles heel of her whole conquest concept.

Red Ski Troops Reported

In Staraya Russia

Apparently just a raiding party; Savage Nazi counter-attack reported repulsed.

News Briefs

B! Eddy Gilmore Associated Press Staff Writer

MOSCOW, March 25 -(AP) - Rflqi army ski troops were reports 101118111 to have penetrated the out. zkifttf cgfebtaraya Russo, the anchor

(yn-AWAI M h 25 __ __ e seged Nazi 16th army, and Viscount Benneiiicfomler Cilggiilan Sh‘; stimdegs announced m“ ‘l ‘av’ Prime Mini-Elsi‘ now in London, said tagck wo- ai, 661mm‘ coumer‘at‘ in a cable received here that seven thauppor ed by Dimes “d tank‘ argue kitchens’ gm or the women mpulgegame general area. had been

h Corlse ti . ' 241i. gill be ggdyilefogali-irieséliltfilgn Ngillvllei, dispatches l-ecapitulated April 1. . dead fisincngorélihgn mum m _“_"_'-"—_ The ski unit Whll’! b k NEW DELI". _ _ c r0 e

(cry _ 5;. syfffifi." gfilpm Eli-Esta apparently was

bearing proposals for greater m“ t g par y‘ n made a rapid

independence of India, confer. 11min rekkgcross the i“ 0i Lake red separately today with the eral lldllfljillifidor tge cm’ w ‘we sev-

Dresldent of uls mam. Nation- from , CM... 1 tum“ . 91mm“

Ii CMIIF/s Party and the lead- Tom ht.“ * n he cnys envlmns-

er of the Moslcm League. two Bald “i, G56 regular cmmunique

mnlor comical factions in on; culred on txlllnahkcifllilllter attack oc- lsrld of many diversities. e a i“ "mm 111B LONDON. March

“E1119 Elven the area normwegg of bfiffifiillt‘.“i.é’é“i.;i.‘..féle'lfh°°“"" * losses to the enemy." w great t

28 -—('I‘hursday) The Daily Herald German prisoners

of il-lelr

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M E L B 0 U l! N I2, Australia. “"611 35-15?) —- The Jup- snese bombed Port. Mnrosby wcahlv and wsrlly from the rc. spectful altitude of 25.000 feel May. while Prime Minister Cur- tln told the Australian lions; cl Representatives that the turning Mint of the war might well be the general allied mcognltlon 0f Ailllrlllil’! high lmpofllnce,

-—-_.___ "HALIFAX. March 25 - c?» __ of Halifax

Seriously ill

Ac. Joseph Calroll Murphy. RC A.11‘..'son of Mr. and Mrs. F. .1. Murphy, Morcll, ls roporied as be- ing dangerously lll in the official casualty list. issued frcm Ottawa. yesterday. It was learned he had entered the hospital Tuesday and

breakimz and entering the

received word that. ills condition of rubber companies. no

was reported lo b.- lmprovln; fol- lowing the operation.

Ac. Murphy, who is 22 years cf age, j0ined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Se iember. 1940. He is a clerk socoun n-t. and has been siotlorrd in Ontario since join- lng up. Before going to the Air Force, he stbendcd Si. Dunsislfs University for i/wo years and was well known m sporting circles

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OTTAWA. March H —iOP)_ lierulations applied in gcnml elections to prevent eastern rc- turns being made known in the wast before voting has finished will be applied in the Irslnpnw. N‘ plebiscite vote April 21. Jules Casionguay, chlcf electoral af-

Secretary of night that the summer would make it plain that "the Nazi rulers of Gennuny have lost the war and have decreed their own ruin."

In an address before a Greek in- deipcndcnce day dinner here, Berle a .

selves know that ihcre one end. The German people know, as we know, been made by the Nazi government for the year 1943.

they need to produce the war are no longer repaired. They know that the skilled workmen and

Lord Addiso? Seeks probe of

Annual Subscription Delivered, [L00

Representation Pacific Council

Malayan events Prime Minist-eT-Mackenzie

IDNDON, March four hours before

culpy iile three days "for "name," the House of Lords w told today.

The information was Ln a leotei- from an oelaeved dead. which was read the House by Lord Addison support of his demand for a Roy Commission to investigate the d fence o1 Singapore.

The officer wrote that. he and the from were ordered to prepare a. plan for the occupation of slngora, 40 miles in- SW16 the Thailand-Malaya border, limi- when Japanese transports were the

other officers at

reported streaming loward town and still a day's voyage awa “permission had to be

“Of course Wellington

time for the Japanese to land division uninterrupted and their advance "

He described the entire Malayan

situation as a “disgraceful show,

and said irainlng was handicapped respect for Mulzlyaiz rubber estates. One General rcp- rlnlanded him because two of hi5

by excessive

trucks hit rubber trees.

Says Germans. Know they. Face defeat

NEW YORK. March 25 — (AP)— A. A. Berle. assistant United Slates predicted to- oi 1942

State.

s .

“We now have information from 1115i’ sources inside of Germany making 30- it clear

that the Gcrnlnns thcnl- can be but

that no provision has

l.

that the machines tools of

ey know

he young engineers who must do he production of tomorrow have

been and are being sent, half train- ed. to the slaughter on the fightin fronts in Russia.

i119 battalions which

shattered wrecks.

They know tlla no out do not clue back-save as a collection c!

‘They know, indeed. that the men

ls Ema have zone to the Russian front

re frequently not allowed to come

ack to Gennany, lest the German

people learn what has befallen."

Berle traced the predicted col-

lapse of the German war effort to the resistance of Greece in 1941 which, he said, “made possible the reinforcement of the iierranenn" and “delayed man attack on Soviet Russia for several weeks."

eastern Med- the Ger-

Enemy llaiders Cver Britain Third night

DONDON, March 25-(0? Cable) - German raiders io- nlght attacked the southeast-

ern English coast. for the third straight night. and also bomb-

Iiold Conference ' "w- e" "=1"- Zfléi: ézkd.i‘.i’°lil.loilil db °"...‘..l°.‘.’.‘.“.", "tliicfitiiltll ...=.'e.~l~..v-s."..-.;.a:..:a: revs-ease“: s..a:.*:zz~.::.; mtvular“ a" “"1 =‘='~‘='-'-"'=-=‘°"-'--‘1i~° ‘=11 ‘i’! “was mp.» w hove m s mm Middle last, is l prisoncr of a. his m; brothers and three °';'},“,1"§',,.‘,{,‘,',';,"‘}f§,',°";h,,,,,h 1918x513 “mun” m u: m "r m mac‘ ‘when a terrific anti-aircraft harragc.

lcr asfln 1m Phyllis his partners lnstcadloihcr ignite; effort to will more srmcd

support for his spring campllfl l!

Russia.

What Hitler sshcd of Boris nat- urally Wis not lcvcalcd. but the Berlin correspondent of the Zurich

wpplpef‘ Die ‘Iht slit l dil- gdtch entitled “Ge my. l. m furkey," dicating that the

conversational pivot.

The only lc hint ofIOer-man intentions s ven in Die Tats analy- sis of the Hitler-Boris conversa- tlorls was that "Berlin circles" said ‘Turkey was beifll IMMWG W Ril-

lnore than a ycsr, drone of plsnca continued for a long time indicating that the Germans were in considerable strength.

Coastal observers said tho ground firs was the fiercest in and the

Home bombs were dropped in

thc cousin! ares, hilt no casual- tica or damage was reported.

Earlier, the ll. A. l‘. announ-

ced, Briiish bombers and fight- ers attacked shipyards at Lc

Trait on the Seine in northern

fiance.

hhniihcaslofieliavre

near the mouth of the Seine.

Two enemy fighters were de-

atroyad in the attacks and dur- ing other sweeps over the Pas do Cllsis ' France, an sir ministry com- muniquc said. One B. flghtcr was loai_

arcs of northern A. I‘.

Iii-Twenty- tbe Japanese landing at Singers in Thailand set off the invasion of Malaya, British forces were ready to oc- iown but had to wait permission from

contained officer now

obtained from home" to cross the frontier. or Marl- borough would have gone in." the officer wrote. "But for three days we awaited instructions-gust nice a lie also said that in the light of all circumstances, in consultation

b68111 with British authorities, it had been decided that. Canada at this timo

come more intensive...

King says no token force

Will be sent to Australia. ()'l"l‘.~\\\'1\, Illzlrch 2s')—(CP)—Cl‘eatiun 0i

two tiS

t0

al view in the House of Commons. e.

free nations. ' Basic coastal defences are “either completed process of completion,” the Prime Minister

of attack." In ills speech, Mr. King also revealed that Canada

was “not pressing" the request at the moment.

should not attempt to pend an expeditionary force to Anitraiia.