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llnnoription Delivered, 80.00 loll. ss.oo- olhd- Provinces a u.s.a. some.

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l5. E. Island Victory Loan, Total Reaches $952,300’ Capture Key

Convoy Plans Are Revealed

British And Canadian Ships To Protect North Atlantic Route,- Air Umbrella Provided.

— By C. B. Blackburn, Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA» Lllril 30—(CP)-A streamlined,

o! the North Atlantic convoy route

nounccd todayrwith Canada and Great Britain sharing the responsibility.

A loint statement by Navy Min

Power outlined new convoy plans by which the Canadian and British Navies, with air eo-operation, p-oposed to protect "every mile of the you“ from North America to Europe."

BULLETlN

NEW YORK May 1 (Satur- day) tCPl-The United States coal industry, a vital support of the giant American war produc- tion niachine, was ‘ppled at midnight last night by a strike. More than 600,000 herd and soit eosl miner; wen out.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May l — iSaturdayJ-(CP) — The Jap- ancse have opened a submarine

atinck in force to the east oi - , _ $60.000,000 a ay. In 111' "vious

Australia, the hi h command uébgggag: alldkore“ Bum" "*1" l'a.ns. howevcg wide swings and

reported today n its noon comm, f "we fhurge 91 “we fluctuations marked daily receipts.

communique. T“ 5,5 thmm nmlwest Mlanflc The Quebec government announced Gm "will" lllacflrthl" p‘, ° ° “mt” Kmgdm- its subscription of 146.000.0110 late t’:-

ssid details of the submarine ,, t- T119 Umted Staffs retains dav

activity could not be released 5 1mm?“ Pe-lnonslbllitv‘ for the q-jm cumulative mm o; $43,407‘.

immediately. Within recent Ilwnths the rommuniques at times have re-

snile-by-mile protection to the United Kingdom was an-

lstcr Mncdonaid, and Air Minister

With this new attack upon the U-boat problem left entirely in the hands of the two empire forces the United States, while oJ-merntmg with ships and aircraft. will retain “strategic responsibility" for the western Atlantic, including escort

Support 0f Everyone ls Urgently Needed

The fourth victory loan total in this Province at the close of busi- mess yesterday was $952,300, it was announced last night by Provincial headquarters. ‘There wss a dmp in the total of bonds sold, $04,960 be- ing the figure for tho day compar- ed with $166,100 the previous day.

Every person who has 01¢ money was urged to buy bonds to the lim- it oi their ability, whether it be the smallest bond. S60, or many times that amount. 21c support of everyone is necessary if this Pro- vince is to reach its objective, s2,-

500.000.

By districts the total last night were: Charlottetown, $300,700; Queen's County outside Charlotte- town, $89,750: Siummerslde, $387.- 600; Prince County outside Sum- merside, $91,000; King's County, $80,250.

A boost in the total is expected shortly as more salesmen 01191814- irig in rural areas turn in more rc- ports.

operations for non-British convoys.

This was taken to mean that while the trade c-nvoy mute across the north Atlantic would be a. joint Cartesian-British responsibility, the United states would direct any stra- tegic otxrrations necessitated by en- emy naval thrusts 1n the western Atlantic and by local American con-

Wye.

Principal Features Outcome cf a recent conference in Washington between British, can. adian and American naval and air Bllulflfmts. the new anti-submarine plan includes the following features;

western Atlantic "including 9-4011 operations riot related in British 11521130318 and local Canadian trai-

, OTTAWA, April 3O (C'P)—Tl1Q lNational War Finance Committee

War Situation Last Night

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l! Glenn llabb, Associated Press War Analyst

The sorry procession of the satellites and qnisiings through Hitler's headquarters, symbolizing his mobilisation of all the resources within his grasp for the summe n defence of his fortress of Europe, must be near its end. The last few visitors have come from the lower levels. Quis- ling himself, the eroat puppet and now Pierre Laval. instrument of France's ensiavenient.

The communique in which Berlin announced last night that liitlsr had summoned the Frenchman was particularly revealing as to the pur- pose of these conferences. "In full objectivity,” it read, "it was examined what share France will have to bear in the efforts and sacrifices made by the Axis powers for the establishment of the new Europe and in the fight against Bolshevissn and against the Anglo-Saxon piutocracieg Ai- lied with Bolshevism, and what advantages will result from such part- icipation for France."

In other words Laval was told what the contribution of unhappy France, greatest of the conquered nations, must be in the coming bat- tle of Europe. Probably he was ordered to furnish further levies of labor, increased industrial output. food and what is left of French shipping.

Some new and ingenious way of using the million and a quarter French prisoners of war for Hitler's purposes may have been arranged. Frenchmen will be fortunate if Hitler does not find means to compel them to raise “volunteer legions" actually to bear arms against their for- mer Allies whcn these land on the continent.

The 1943 defence against so-caiied Bolshevism may already be un- der way. The Germans insist that since Tuesday the Red Army has been attacking with 10 divisions In the western Caucasus, where the Axis hold a. narrow bridgehead around Nnvorossisit as insurance against n Russian offensive against. the Crimea or it springboard for an offensive of its own.

ialllfliflCed tonight that total sub- ‘scriptlons to Canada's fourth victory‘ loan may approach the $310,000,000, mark when overnight sales reportsf are computed Saturday-but only if, medally rate which marlced the; first four days cf campaign")! 18 maintained.

The fourth vicicrv loans three weeks’ drive for a minimum objec- tive of $1,100.000.000 opened April 26. rind the committe; saic. sales since have been averafllli.’ .1115! 0V8!‘

750 announced earlier represented‘ 195.967 individual subscriptions. The cnrresnridlnz figures for the pre-

poned ‘Mama "nun" of - viou loan iii the some sl-"c were lilrlsetlliishvls slageleilrgllllwiillililrllf CaNmik-idmilrfiltnldlfl L'»w' Mumw‘ R‘ 1 “d” -“"°5“"b°'5 m’ ‘l ‘1"“’“' m“! ion that m: Jn anese mllht oos-{roi- tn n n" 4'1"" Aflmlilflor $l96.68‘>.600. Thursday's ilallv be sending out their subs In 194i. has bee; liigglilitgdecosvlimyirildg; 19ml W“ $66'9o5'300' comnared Iviiltih

n; “heme, Canadian nonhwes‘ Amm- .-r7.5‘)8.350 on the same dab of c

groups after the manner he Nazi “wolf packs."

11.8. Breaks

tic-abbreviated C-in-C. C. N. A.

4. Arr Vice Marshal George John- 50". l1!‘ Officer commanding in chief of eastern air rmmand. will direct li-Tllil-Silbfililrlile operations; of mm

‘Jill-Politic Canadian anc. American

thlrc‘: vicbry loan drive. objective of which was 37501100000.

May Day In

Relations With Martinique

WASHINGTON, sorii sir-Muir), -The United states has broken i; 1 relations with Martinique and t o i United States Navv is watching de- velopments in the Island territory onlv segment of the 011N455 French Colonial Em ire which l! not under the Axis eel and yet remains aloof from the war.

Navy Secretary Prank Kiwi}- splllflllil late today several hnuis after state Secretary Cordell Hull had announced the 111110110110" F1 informal agreements with Mar- tinique. declined to indicate W110i? the next American move would be. but observed:-

"Wc have representatives T181" there in Martinique.“

DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE

machines patrolling '0 mid-Atlantic I 5. British bOlTlhfift will take over n mid Atlantic. thus establishing an air "umbrella" over the entire

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Tell Dutch Soldiers To Dodge Nazis

LONDON, April 30 »- 1GP) - Four hundred thousand Nether- lands soldiers, ordered interned by German occupation authorities in Holland, were told bv the Nether- lands Government in London t0- day to resist the Nazi decree by making themselves "unfindable."

Swiss dispatches said that the

POINT nu crimp. n. 5.. April so rem-Firemen from Monctrn,‘ and Shedtac helped by 301) airmen-i 10118111 for 20 hours before 81111111111‘ final control mo afternoon =ver a life which destroyed more than 3.000 cords or nit: nrops store" here f‘r the British Ministry \" SUDDW- Damllse was estimated at 050.000»

Goming Events

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Oburch hoolrooni, Saturday, Many 1. 6 pm. -S0- .

"Scotti Mills crushing market ' ' 5-1-21.

110v only.

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roundup oi the disarmed forces al- ready had started and that. 18,500 had been arrested and sent to l4 concentration camps near German border.

Over Radio Orange, the official ‘ radio tonight broadcast a decree Prince of Wales College. Charlotte-

Netherlands Station. the govern- ment advised the men to hide if possible. __

Intensity

i, flung against recent-LY étgtiliyredlfillfed positions s-l-l slvfll

the front. m4,- fignttng rose to the blood- iest [itch since the British. Ameri-

esn and French forces beam the" lllbgflmlli drive to throw the enemy

RI.

Before the strongest o1 I11 M" eounier-sttseks-aealrwt the Bl!- bel Boo Aouksii everlooiiinl 111° open gain leadi down to 11ml! -i.‘he itish 1st my was beating out; strongly from seMrI-llr ml")- tained tions. ,

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Fighting Mounts In

German Attacks Reach Proportions Of

Counter-Offensive. Ane an orce, f song- Tmqg ic f ightinl l

3o _(_qg 231cc m; ‘Trench. within three miles - Axis defensive’ “‘ reached oi Lake Ac i and within so air- y)“, rtludu oi s cotuiter-oiien- line miles sou west of Bisem it- gfv; we” an enemy tanks and in- sillflkyThts was the Bediensnc

Germany, Russia

By The Canadian Press German warworkers were given

Russia, celebrating May Day. the festival of labor, faces the issue with confidence but without illusions. She knows she has st least, one more terrible summer, third of this war, ahead.

"Not many days separate us from great events," says Isvestla, and the army paper declares that "the enemy will soon Team how our peoples’ reserves have grown."

The emphasis is on reserves. There is good reason to believe that while Hitler has been scouring Europe Stalin has been concentrating tremendous resources.

The bulk oi the Red Army has had two or three months to rest, re- fit and regroup since the titanic exertions of the winter.

The new waraplanis oi the Urals andnastem-siberla, replacing those of the lost Ukraine. are just coming into full production. The flow of aid from the United States and Britain, American correspondents have found. has reached such proportions as to tax Russian facilities for re- ceiving it.

u... Cyrus MacMillan Appointed Assistant To The Air Minister Nazis Report

OTTAWA. April 30—<CP)— l Prime Minister Mackenzie King | tonight announced the selection of ‘

f.?“2§l‘i°..2i%.f“5€“l§ff f5 is: . Great Activity I At Gibraltar

a “clay of rest" today‘ irrobserv- nncc of May Day, but ussians will go to their jobs as usual on this traditional Soviet holiday and 00-.- cupied France will delay its cele- l bratloit until Sunday.

Mixing propiigatida with benev- olence, the Belgian radio said last night in a broadcast recorded by the Asociated Press that “foreign workmen will thus see for them- selves how national socialist Ger- many celebrates this festival of working people."

No May ilay In Holland

NDON. A ~ii ao-rcio-cnei u) l Netherlands

‘ German-centre led

Prohibiting observance of May Day . n Holland “because of special cir- cumstances."

In Tunisia

Another French force. forward upon Birerte alo Mediterranean coast, gdvanced I 1-2 miles to the Diebei to a point about 22 miles west of Hi- zerte. ‘In the south French troops operating below Point Du Pubs cop- tuied the Lila-foot Dlebel Derhsf-

ls.

while the weather again some- what restricted Allied sir activiti- m, sir arm and light naval forces sank three Axis ships and damas- ed s delien other. Al“ observation indicated that enemv vessels were loaded outbound in well u in-

beating I18 the

nor c d mode slight gstnghalthoush force

‘l zml- $13.00 ovsr 16 l-bl.

“Sill.

so 1mm. ofi pers nt enemy Wm‘ ter- lust-s. Dispatches

from the field W‘

m nd, end it was assumed some ‘ Axls personnel was bsilil

and chalran oi the royal commis- \..__..__ __-______

he received statutory provision LONDON, April 30 (CW-Tho

last week to ap oint as parlia-

mentary assistan s to key minist- German radio tonight quoted a dispatch from Lalinea, Spain. ris

ers. , The four assistants whose ap- pointments were announced to- saying “about 150 British landing boats protected by destroyers and an aircraft carrier, passed

night, effective as from April 1, through the straits (of Gibral-

WGNI _ ,‘ For Pixiaiice Minister Ilsley In nn easterly direction.

Douglas Charles Abbott. 4-). Moti- trea, a barrister and veteran of the First Great. War. member 101' Montreal St. Antoine-Westmount since 1940

' tar) Lhfgg, ‘gfjgvlilgi?’ ,“,“"‘g§‘;.;,,,§}?"°,,- Unusually lively air activity and new sc- ?l‘"2."‘“5 é1§£f.'.°..."“‘..."°”.'2..“.‘.'.i mon; since 1935. d" l For Defence Minister Ralston 0Y5-

(The German broadcast heard in New York said a convoy of 23 transports and tankers, pro- tected by several destroyers and patrol boats, left Gibralirlr Thursday.

(Soon after, It siild, the Bri- tish battleships Rodney, Malaya and Renown, the aircraft car- rier; Furious. illustrious and Ar- gus, four cruisers and a flotilla of eight destroyers were scen leaving Gibraltar.)

There was no confirmation of these reports from Allied sour- ces and it was considered pos- sible the broadcast was another German "fishing expedition."

RECOMMEND SALARY

SAINT JOHN, N B., April 30- Recommendation that a minimum annual salary of $800 be establish- ed for school teachers Was made today at the Biennial Convention of the New Brunswick Teachers’ Association.

William Chisholm Macdonaid. 53. Hflllliilhp? barrister and veteran of the rsi. Great War. member for Halifax since 1940.

For Air Minister PORT-W‘. H011- C rus MacMlllan, 61, Montreal and C arlottetown, a University pro- fessor (McGill) and veteran 01 the First Great War, member for Queens. P.E.I.. since i940.

Dr. MacMillaii was educated at

town, and n1. McGlll and Harvard Universities. He holds the degrees of Bachelor :1’ Arts and Master of Arts from McGlll. and Master of Arie and Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard. He. is chainnan i-f the de- partment oi’ English, and dean of faculty of nris and science oi Mc- Gill University. He was a mcmher of the royal commission mi Mar- itime claims, which sat in 102B. the royal crmmission on Atlantic fish- eries, which sat in 102'! and 1928.

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Back the Attack

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Harry Nixon Elected To Head Ontario Liberals

‘TORONTO. April 30-61?)- Harry Nixon, a farmer and 28

years a member oi ilie Ontario Legislature, today was chosen lead- er of the Liberal Party in this Province. Th; 02- ear-old Brant County farmer, firs elected to the legislature as a youns man of 28, won the top spot in Ontario po- litical circles on the first ballot at the Party's provincial convention.

When Mitchell Hepburn resign- ed as Premier last Oct. 21 after eight years cfwirtual dictatorshl in the provincial political flel , Gordon Conant of Oshawa suc- ceeded him._ But Mr. Conant was not a candidate todnv for party leadership. He had been stricken down by sudden illness on the eve of balloting.

Mr. Nixon was the choice of the convention. the first in 12 years, as leader of the Liberal Party in the Province. Party men regarded his eventual appo ntmcnt as Premier as certnin.

The Nixon victory. achieved b a man who entered iitics u s United Fnrmer cand date and not as a Liberal, was regarded flJhflng- ing to a close the split in 1.110 party in Ontario which resulted from Premier Hepbiirifs Ohllflfililflll m tlic Federal Liberal government in Ottawa

6 Sentenced In Theft 0f Gas Goupons Gase

TMONZYRILAL, April ao-icr-_ 1'1“! men and a, 10-year-old boy were sentenced today to jail fer-rm of six months and s. year on charges arising from b13131; m“. ket operation; which Dance 531d had icsuitcd ui the illegal distrlbut. ion oi more than 700,00.) gallons of gasoluie iii QllCbCC P1'O\'.\il(.’e since Stfgifilllbfil‘.

enri Dubuc. s1. l-lenrf MBIS. 43. _and Armand lsmouetto, 39——aJl printers of the Federated Brass. Limited, holders of s, gov- ernment contract for printing g“. oline ration coupons-Avert: sen. tensed to a year in Jail each and ixied $3.000 apiece on charges of theft as servants of 1,300 guqnne coupons and illegal possession of

3011130115. The 06.111.60.063 flm gon- currently.

AC_2 Paul finite Provost, 22, Laurier Richard, 21, and the 16. Year-old bOY were sentenced to six

and fuies of $1,000

months each 911 chillies 0f conspiracy to flleg- ration cou-

lv possess gasoline time. officials oi tho

lio the Royal csnsdim Police

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puns. At the same

Federated Press issued s state. Jncm revealing that the theft of 1B1"? 0011130115 from their plant hnd been uncovered bv the company's <111°°k1n€ System and was reported Moimted

"To insure conviction of the izullty parties." the statement ilCl- dcd. "we allowed coitsidernble numbers of coupons to be mken 110m 0111‘ Plant will: full knowledge cf their removal, knowing that. they goiilldpbe recovered later by the R;

SUSSEX. N B , April 30_(Cp)_ ‘War, is being closed on May l4, ii A TROUBLE Levi H. McLean, 20. a taxi driver Was announced tonight, MAKER ALWAY; died today of injuries suffered Ole 1f the largcg, hotels in the M I E 5 when his car crashed into a mov- city, the Halifax was host to the AKEsASNCC S ing freight trnin here yesterday. late King George v and the Duke 0151115 JOB"

9:}, Ulquest will be held next Thurs-

fiddle..." Soft Goal In Transit Here

in transit to Canada from the Unit- ed States and ptit intz- effect reg-

siockpiles to larger Ontario and Quebec. The orcer was male public by the

lMunltions Department. 1t became

effective st 6 pm. E.D.’r. t7 D-rn. A.D.T.) Only "soft" or bituminous en] ts

cite-and Canadian householders are not affected in any way.

The Munitions Depart-ment sold the order was made

distribution of

loot-

eosi supplies."

Enemy Points In Caucasus

Germans Report 150,000 Soviet? Troops Attacking In K uban Area.

LONDON April 30—(CP) — Russian troops, once more on the move in the northwestern Cau- casus, were reported by Moscow tonight to hzrvo captured “several key enemy positions" in a plane- supported drive which the Germans said was an- ,other big Red Army offensive in which 150,000 men were attacking.

“Soviet aircraft supported the operation of land units and inflicted heavy losses on the en- emy," said the midnight communique recorded by the Soviet Monitor. “Our assault (Stormovik) planes destroyed several dozen guns and over a battalion of German infantry."

Two days ago the Germans reported that n. large-scale Russian drive was under way in an ef- fort to eject Axis troops from their last major foothold in the area around the Black Sea port of Novorossisk and the Kuban River Valley in the kmanlfhininsula to the north.

The Moscow radio announced early flafiu-m iocay that Sivlei, airmen fighting over the Cziuxnsus had shot down M‘ I Riley Reported I I Missing

116 German planes ln two days, and the latest bulliiin al. told of the Mlrs. Malcolm I. 8.1M’. Belle Ml er, P E. I. has received vi-crc thin

s?“ ‘ by '1: v ed avy of s Ger-

man LTKKlSIK-‘ip-rn the Black Sea, lier son Flying Officcr Jiru. .\i R'- ley is missing foil wing illl‘ oped‘-

The nnval action apparently -e- iitions overseas.

curred off the German-held port of Novorossisk which the Russians need for future operations aimed st the Crimes oppolite the Cau- casus.

Russian troops by German ad- mission last were reported en- trenched in the hills overlooking Novfrossisk. The Russians also had‘ fought their way along the Tamsn

35 miles from German-held Tam- ryuk on the Sea of Aeov.

l was pinned to their

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Stalin SeeismA ir Foreshadowing Invasion

Praises Allied Air Blows Against Germany.

qn-Awg 5pm 30 (CP)__CQEI! foreshadowed the openinil of second Controller .1. McG. Stewart tonight‘. from in Europe. and he i-ieicuieai froze all supplies of bituminous coal any 1111101‘ D8866 talk.