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w, my 4 -(AP) — F0? “m; time in recent weeks, the m; announced wnizht ma‘ " ’ "waged offensive bat- ,_ veral sectors of the front” .. .- the div. lngéilité? fiépfl .. might 0V9 , Germans and launched their , gpflllg drive.

m, midnight Soviet communique _ me day's thrusts lIIIPIOVOd 50- yposltlons along the front.

liiis was the first positive official tgillelll. of Soviet gains since the uncemenis lapsed Info brie! .- rtlons of "no substantial ‘m5 at the front."

' frank Lowe, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

AX, lVlay 4~—(CP)— All!!!‘ pg 22 days on a life raft. ptett William I-liloken. 17-year- iilinitcil states navy sailor, sat phii hospiialbed here today and Jlllfd as ire read that two me- raui ill-asses had been suns 101' mill Fiirview. N. J» WhQPE his fimlly gave. him up as dead after umerchzint ship was Wfpediled {the western Atlantic.

‘I'm not dead, not by a 1on5 it," he said, "and the Germans " dariwl soon filiri that Out’.- iligozng back to sea again. bu‘? ' time mi a (l(?$il'0_\'(‘l‘ where I a haw a chance to hit back

the —" locking fit and wcll after his y in who hospital, the youthful

.'--.er told reporters the days he ' raft

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liming Events

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hi. for column

"Play-Mt. Stewart Legion Hall Pnda 5-5-31.

"Bean Supper and Dance, Iona. Bali, l‘hiirs<i.i_i, May 1th. 5-5-21.

_“_Dancc—At St, Andrew's School. rues-say, lilay 6th. 5-5-11.

"Dance. Lower Montague Hall, my till. Webster's Orchestras 5 u

' concert by New Glas- _ ll. ln Brcokflcld Hall, Plidu. May s. 5-5-21.

"To Arrive-Car of Bulk Seed "heat. Priced right, off car. Bccir "W. DlllOll dz Slrillett. 5-5-6-41.

"Pcuniii cemetery plot. holders "Wt at Pownal Church Wednes- lir night at a o'clock. 5-5-11.

alkies —- Montague Saturday, ‘Aflili llurdy's Private Secretary’ tii lilickcy Rooney. 5-5-3i.

‘Cont Broodel" Stoves-Small azllilly arriving late this week. now. Dlll0Il 6t Splllett 5-6-41.

ll“DD_ont forgot the Sale tomorrow lvlllltlcll Gallant, Oyster Bed Phiiqms Mower, Rake, Binder and "l- s-ii-ii.

Prmqleylius boss for Davis 8: Kc?‘ "Pry Tuesday and Friday.

h lvlacKlnnon, Montague, 5 l 5- -1 .

u i-i hucglxlllgll lager £0001: I will be

we Charlottetown mrglnefiglagée. Georse Di l1.

B 5- v1 . "Notice-Semi-mnual meetl cilgglottetown Milk Producers $3 e53“ Association. 1.0.0111. Hall, “Y. May 5th. a p.111, 0-i-2i_

"Kinkoi-a Hall Friday everiins ii"~i1=diii°t-r‘ roe: "sci lpeclaltles, ' hm“

“Attention farm; ArnIboc . king ",0," hi9: vpr lived Wheat. Arrive Lowest rmiith. Choice qusllt. m‘ Bergen- cash. Russell Diilfgcal. at Fredericton "5139",, Tuefidfly 0 mm. at Brook- " ~. €i‘."‘°%:ir'". to":

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l" m P-m. Clifton Corner. Psy-

zi vaundgmwiliililiiru forh pigs 25:1-

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‘ steps to salvage and

Drive

Underway I

For the last several days the Rus- man press has predicted that when a. spring offensive starts it will be by the Red army and not by Hit- ler. The Fuehrens plans for such a drive-already far behind h-ls sched- ule on other European fronts here- tolore-have been described here and at Kuibyshev as converted into myth.

A communique supplement listed 264 German pliines destroyed from April s6 to May 2, with Soviet losses given as ‘l1 craft.

In clashes on the unincrmi from. it said, 1,100 Germans were killed and a number of Nazi Bum, "id ammunition dumps destroyed.

Rescued After 22 Days On Tossing Life Raft

ll-year-old Sailor is going back to sea again ..- but on a Destroyer “so I can hit back".

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00st of living Index unchanged Last month

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OTTAWA May f —(Cl’l — The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics reported today lls official index of living costs was un- changed April 1 from the March 2 figure of 115.9.

"EH6 standing at Feb. 2 was

The bureau's index ls the of- ficial lmometer of Canada's cost-of-llvlng and the basis of cnsl-of-llvlng bonuses which may be paid under the govern- meat’; wage stabilization pro- gram.

The wartime Int-ream between August, I039. and April, I942, nnw stands at 15 per cent.

“All group Indexes with the exception of home furnishings and services were unchanged between March 2 and Aprll I," the bureau reported.

Scattered email Increases were

rc| xirtcd for a considerable num- ber of foodstuffs, including but- ter, beef, tea, bananas and oranges. But the bureau said these were offset by "substan- tial declines" for eggs and ml- nor decreases for veal and pota- toes‘; leaving the fond Index at I23. . Rentals remained at 111.2. fuel and light at 112.9, and cloth- ing at 119.8. An increase ln borne furnishings and services from 118.0 to 118.1 was attribut- ed to a small Increase in clean- ing supplies. The miscellaneous items index remained at 101.1.

Canada to supply 45,000,000 dozen Eggs to Britain

OTTAWA, May -i—-(CP)—Can- ada plans io supply the United Kingdom with 45,000.00 dozen eggs in the present year under contracts now in existence, it was shown in a return brought down in the House of Czmmnns today H. E. Brunelle (Lb. Chun- plain).

The return, tabled by Agriculture Minister Gardiner, said mire hid been no effort to divide the ex- port contracts almong different provinces, as they were sufficient- ly large to take all the available eggs from all provinces.

Quantities delivered or contract- gld froiai each province to the sud

by zen were:

Br tieh Column-bin. 715,140; Al- berta, 3,228,210; ohewsn, B.- M3,320' Manitoba, ilbidfl); Oll- tario, 0,318,080; Quebec, 001,890; New Brunswick, 18.00); Nova Sco- giadd 0%! and Prince Edward Island,

To Reclaim Used Lubricating Oil

UITAWA, May 4 — (C P) — Government departments have token recllim oil, nld a return tabled

of Commons today

liibrlcn. th Peterbor-

well eotir of mechanical maln- iencnoe of the national defence ordnance branch.

All used lubricating nli from Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal on; is sold by tender who r

Air some tteti to private comnlhies it m- further on.

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CHARIDTTETOWN, CANADA, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942

Gen. Dhiang Kai-Shek in New appeal g

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People Asked For Strict Economy A n d Th e Placing Of All Resour- ces At Nation's Dis- posal.

OHUNGKING. May 4-—(AP)— With China's Burma Road choked off and a Japanese column with- in 25 mila of China's frontier,

. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shel: tolzl his

ople tonight: "We must prepare c-r a prolongation of the w r and {or greater difficulties in the fu-

use.

China's national mobilization act comes into effect tomorrow and the General asked the Chinese peeople to restrict consumptlcn. lu-

nsify production and plow B11 their resources of labor, skill and knowledge at the disposal of the nation.

Chianz broadcast his 01-19981 W the people as thrze powerful Jop- dncse columns pushing trlIOllEh Burma threatened to invade bo;h India and China. Tze Javanese were within 150 miles of Ind c.

The enemy had advanced 60 miles up the Burma Road from Lasiiio to smash st Chiriee posi- tions nsar Kutkai, but the wantzly- equipped forces commando by LL- Gen. Joseph W. stlllwell fcuzht them fiercely through the night, the ccmmun que said.

Kutkai is within 25 miles of_ an appendage of Yunnan Province wh‘ch juis into Burma. but ‘ gbcilt. ~10 miles frrm China via the Burma road. A Ja-"arfie coluiuu -wfiich attempted to flank the Chinese positions was reported re- pulsed in the bitter 611335537197“-

A secornd Japsnrsc oily-mil W85 pushing other dfr-"se s‘owly north along the lrrawaudy Rivcf bcvcnd ruined Mindally Drlfl-‘BPIY driving toward Elia-m". 110 miles

» away. Bhamo is an aiwnate term-

inus of the Burma Road and tho corlkerrmcst. navigation point on the river.

The British imny of Gen. Sir- I-hrold Alexander wa= fsllmil boo-l! slowly on the right flank t?» pre- pared positions, the communique lid-fled.

1,100 tons of Potatoes are Dehydrated

orrrawa. May 4 — <5 P) ~ Aglcuture Minister Gardiner said in a return tabled in the House of Commons today for l-lnI-I. Hul- fleld (Cori Victoria-Carlet n1 that 1.100 tons of potatoes have been handled under a vegetable d9- hydration ivrozram in 0811M"-

‘Yhg price paid for the potatoes

been dehydrated and the price paid for t em was $15 a ton: 6M‘- rots. 300 tcns a‘ $25 a ton; 00d cabbage, 205 tons 0t $20 i1 Wu The dehydration c-st could 110i; be given at the moment because the vegetables were processed under terms of e. target contract. with a ceiling price, and the actual eist will not be known nutil completion Q1 a government audit being con- ducted in accordance uith alree- mv-vits with processors, the return

Elli’ market for the dehydrated vegetables was found amen the armed forces in Canada an ab- road, The per-piund Pfiiies "l m9 dehydrated vesetablzs. F- 0- B- faotory, were: potatoes 31 cents; turnips, 45 cents; carrots, 4'1 cents and cabbage, ‘l3 cents.

Mr Gardiner said the violent for dehydration of vegetables as authorized by government order- in-ccuncli had been comlllflfifid- Dehydration plants at Aylcsf-ffl. N’, ., Berwick. N- 5-. Be 191mm» Ont Oakville, Ont, and Vernon, 3, dim-l received some special eX- tra equipment in order to WWW the vegetables accozding l ificatlons prescribed by the A81‘- culture Depart-uteru-

Expenditures for c0111 when! W

re totalled 01.109 and f" :35“ materials and lifflcwlul. soc s.

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War Situation Last Night

l (By KIRK! L. SIMPSON. Assocla‘ ’ Press War Analyst)

Until Japan discloses her plans for capitalizing on the Allied dis- aster in Burma, the full significance of that United Nation defeat ls

beyond conjecture.

There can be llltle ‘uestlcn. h .. r lamentary debate in London this week. Its lo

lly in the scheduled pa rearms Prime Minister Churchill's

, that Burma will figure heav- es critics. It make: his silence in the

recent war-accounting symposium that included Hitler, Stalin and President Roosevelt all.the IEIOIB.IIOKC.WOIUIY.

What salvage values can be found m Burma for Allied leadership necessarily depend on what happens in Russia. That road to India and pcstern gate to China was obviously left exposed to what now has hap- pened in order that Britain's growing air power might be concentrated to ald Russia by diversion attacks from the west.

There ls another element in

the situation, however. Monsoon

weather on the Burma approaches to India and Chino is still to be reckoned with. The rains are too close at hand to warrant the con- clusion that Tokyo even hopes to exploit the Burma victory by march-

ing in either direction.

What seems developing l; a Jlipanlese elforfto trap and leslrcy the British-Chinese forces west of the Iashlo break-through. The Japanese have already driven northward along the Burma road perilously close to Wan ting Junction on the Yunnan-Burmese border.

Its all would break the last road contact between Burma and

China. A Japanese sweep westward

to Bhamo in the Irrawaddy Valley

from Wangling could place the enemy in the rear of General Still- well‘: Chinese troops and also on the main British supply lines from

India up the Irrawaddy.

R.A.F'. Batters Naval Bases

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Attacks aimed at blasting U - Boats in home nests; Raids made on 900-mile front.

, i (By DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press Staff Writer) LONDON, May 4-(AP)—The Royal Air Force's aerial artillery hur- led bombs upon three strongholds of German naval might today in a

sudden and sharp offensive against the Nazi U-boat fleet massing at.

its bases for the summer campaign on North Atlantic sea-lanes. Swinging out. over a 900-mlle front in pro-dawn attacks, the R, A. F. blasted at Hamburg, great ‘German port; St. Nazaire, in occupied France from which big German submarines are sent out to harry the United States eastern coast, and at Kristlansand, from which submar-

ines sally forth to raid the northern supply

In swift, daylight follow-up of these powerful attacks, Boston bombers protected by fighters made an intense raid on Le l-Iavre, in Occupied France. another base for German naval operations against the Allies.

The R. A. F‘. fisliters shot down five German lighters which at- tempted to intercvpt the British bombers. They also shot down a stray German bomber in the day- light sweep. ‘Three R. A. F. planes were lost.

Three Chief Targets

The three chief targets of Kris- tiansand. Hamburg and St. Nazaine were still afire from BritLsh bombs which Admiral Harold R. Stark, commanding ilre United States na- val forces in European waters. stressed United Nations concern with undersea attacks in a talk to the press in London.

Despite bad weather over Ger- many, Hemburlz was bombed in what one source called "consider- able weight." Pilots said they saw large fir-es in docks and shipyards as they left.

Fires Visible 50 Miles

Bomber crews participating in the Kristiansand attack watched bombs cxnlcdlniz in barracks. shins and d

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Price Dfficials Answer queries By Housewives

(By MARGARET ECKERJ (Canadian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA, May 4 —- (CP) — The

Wartime Prices and Trades Board today answered the questions of “Mrs- Housewife"—Mrs. Elizabeth Brown of Toronto who told board officials Saturday yvhat 1.000 wom- en of the Housewives’ Consumers Association think about the price

m ape“ eellin

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"Mrs. Brown is the best." new: we've had for a long time, com- mented one executive of the ices board. "We are certainly glad mt her reactions-to hear what e housewives are thinldn and so inc. ‘b0 m“ agate cscme i118

ut e pro ems.

“Keeping down prices is our lob. ‘tlhhe housewivelsaacan help us more

an anyone e .

“But in if; 3:)‘ theflogilolusegilve:

ere won’ ra

while, the official added. Rclllonins was one of the chief th Mrs. Brown requested. She sold st she and the women she represented feel that voluntary rationing means i“f““°ii'. it" "h? "m"? 1'02’. hi‘ any: ave c pav o - fishness cf unpstrictfcally minded women.

Wartime Prices Board officials geld they differed on this "As far as we an concerned, voluntary ro- tlon is " said one. "Women have eently on su sr rat oning. Of course therefore a ow offenders-but very

ew

. Brown also asked that ma- terlels be labelled acccildjpgmtoguil: (Continued on Dice ‘l, Ool l)

route to Russia.

News Briefs

LONDON. May 5——(Tuesday) —-iCP) —- The Germans made short but sharp air attacks on two south coast areas early to- day, causing considerable dam- age. A number of casualties was feared.

Watchers said at least three raiders were shot down.

OfITAWA. May 4 - (CP) Strength of the reserve army at Fich- l was more than 135.000, - eluding more than 60,000 national resoiuces mobilization act 30-day recruits carried on or superhum- erary to establishment, said a re- turn tabled in the House of Com- mons today for G. S. White iCon. Hastings-Peterborough).

WASHINGTON. May 4—(AP) —A sweeping order of the war production board tonlght for- bade the use of iron and steel in almost all articles of civilian use not. covered’ by previous de- crees-mure than 400 kinds of articles in all.

WASHINGTON, May 4—(AP)— Thirteen air raids with both light and heavy bombers and a continu- ous artillery shelling for five hours was the punishment razned upon Ccrregldor today by the Japanese.

Air r ds, which have been launched at the lIl-a-day rate for the last three days, sank the Unit- ed States gunboat Mindanao near the island citadel.

OTTAWA, May 4 — (C?) — Defence Minister Ralston as- sured the llouse of Commons tonight that “ample” reinforce- ments now were rltain to meet the scale of possible wast- age in the Canadian army ov- erscas u estimated by the War Orifice.

BRIDGETOWN. Barbados, May A —<CP Cablel-Clixsc to 200 sailors

as sung

authorities sought w locate boats of

the fleet scattered by a series cf

squalls on the flying fish banks last

Wednesday.

WASHINGTON. May f-(AP)

m back on sale in e

Stntesmltcmohra? m, ‘h h sru on o one w regmer and obtain ration book: can buy it from now on.

Expects Armed Services Vote

UITAWA. my 4 —- (3 P) Jules Castnnaiay, chief plebiscite officer, said ght he anticilietcd being able to announce tomorrow figures for the armed services vote in the manpower plebiscite, fol- lowing reports from special return- ing officers in Canada. and 1n the United Kingdom, Newfoundland end Jamaica.

Nearly 500,000 Canldians are in the services and it was estimated

bv Ottawa. officials that the vols in slows of 900,000.

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Commons discusses Defence of realm Regulations

OTTAWA. May 4-(0?) - De- mand for a Government explan- ation of the release from intern- ment of James Francheschini, Italian-born industrialist of Tor- onto. Was made in the House of Commons today by John Dlefen- baker (Con. Lake Centre).

‘He raised this question during discusson of a resolution moved by Justice Minister St. Laurent. setting up a 15-member select committee to review the Defence of Canada Regulations.

Many questions of this nature were directed at the minister in the afternoon's debate on the resolution and Mr. St. Laurent had just started hi; reply when the House arose for the dinner recess.

OTTAWA, May 4 —(CP)— Justice Minister St. Laurent tonight told the House of Com- mons that James Franohes- chlnl. wealthy Italian-born in- dustrialist of Toronto, was re- leased from internment because ill-health rendered him unlikely to prove a danger to the state.

The minister said Frances- cliini's original internment was justified but his release, ordered last fall by the late Justice Min- ister Lapointc, was also lusti- fled.

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“Was James Francheschlni guiltiess?" Mr. Diefenbaker asked. "Was a grave mistake made in his internment and his being de- tained for nearly a year?"

No satisfactory statement had been made by the government, Mr, Dlefenbaker said. It was merely announced that clemency was extended because of Fran- cheschinrs ill-health.

"Since when did health become a justification for releasing a man if lie was not guiltless, who was interned i.o prevent lilm carrying on wrongful actions against the state?" he asked.

The impression should not be allowed to grow up in Canada that wealth or position counted in the minds of those administer- ing the regulations.

"If James Francheschini was innocent the fact should be ad- mitted," said Mr. Dlefenbaker, "If he was guilty, where was there justification for ieleasing such a ma. v inwtlme V wwarmonvgrounds

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Lone Gunman Holds Up Montreal Bank

MONTREAL, May 4 -— (C?) — Police ivere searching tonight for a lone gunman who made off with between $8.000 and $10,000 in cash today after holding u a branch of the Provincial Bank o Canada here on Notre Dame Street West.

Two bank employees-Raymond Gauthier and Pierre Boivln- were forced into the bank's vault by the gunman. They telephoned for pol- ice irom a one in the vault but although p0 ce were on the scene within three minutes the hold-up man had fled.

Britain calls Shots now in Aerial war

By Alan Randal Olllldlln Press Staff WrltI

LONDON, May 4—(CPl—Britaln. not Germany, calls the diets new in this aerial war on the western iron .

‘The daring raid 800 miles into Germany on Aprti i7 when RAF. bombers battered the Augsburg motor works is om-ple evidence the slowl but surely Britains ex- pandng air mi t, bolstered frmn Canada, is cast an sver-lezigth- ening shadow over the continent.

Tc date the scope of the alim- and-day offensive on Germany eclipsed anything Germany 6W! attempted. It is the ‘development of a plan for crippling Germany from the sides, as indicated by Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair, when he said: