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Morning Daily (Founded in 1887)

President: Lient. Col W Chester B. McLnro VIILJ-PIPSIdBIHZ J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: lJeut. Col l). A. MecKlnnoo. 0.5.0. Efior amt “winging Director: J. It. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Editors: l-‘rank Walker and [an A. Burnett

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_"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than tile Weakest Ink."

SATURDAY. MAY 3|, 1911.

The Battle Of Crete

Brjiic], ,-i_;,~_l,..,~Yi§.-< in; liiiigcr minimize the fact that tlic lititzit- ill tircte ls iii its last stages, with the ticrniaiis in possession of the island's two llllllllfllillf towns. its only good airport, and the harbour f " ' s iii’ Siiila llay. \\"ithdra\val of (iciicral hrilbci-QK- gallant forces may even nuw be iindci" way. lhi-y- have been fighting constantly since .\I.'i‘\' ll}, and their courage and endurance at least have had the effect of up- setting the Nazi schedule and causing the loss of some of the encinvs costliest equipment and most cxiii.‘i;si\'i'~l_\' Il'Zllll(‘(l manpower.

The loss of Crete will be a serious blow to our naval coitimaiitl of the Eastern Mediterran- ean. But i: is priiiitcil out that Britain's prob- lem vvill Ill‘ less iliffiriilt in ligvpt and Palestine. w here tho l\'..'\.l“. has liing- but-n established and where Wcll ilcfcnili-il ziirliclds are numerous.

Of the greatest importatice to both sides are the lessons to be learned from this unprecedent- ed air invasion (Iiiiditiiiiis, it is pointed out. were dissimilar in Crctc to those which would prevail for an TllVZl>lUIl of Britain. The body of water to be crossed was three times as wide at Crete. On the other hand, as Tiiiie magazine points out, the population at Crete was scatter- ed and tinorgatiizctl for dcfcuse, the military objectives wcre few and simple, and, most im- portant of all, the R. A. F. had no secondary fields to fall back on. There were, however, certain observable Cierutan tactics which would probably pot be varied niuch in an assault on either Britain or Ira-land: dcpcndcncc on night cover for the first shock attacks. and the use of gliders mainly for initial surprise. The prin- cipal lesson of the attack, in Time’: opinion, was the extent to which the invaders depended tipon air-borne assault aloiic, and the time it wias able to maintain itself unsiipiinrtcrl from the sea.

\\'hen all is said. the fact remains that the decisive battles of this war will he fought on the Atlantic. Prime :\IlIli\If'l’ Churchill said so months ago and Prcsidciit Roosevelt echoed his words iu his TPCUIII spccrh pledging fullest sup- port of the U. S. Xavy in ltcepiilg the Atlantic sealanes open. Front this statirlpnint. the loss of the Risiiiiirrk more than offsets all the Nazi gains in the llalltans. and furnishes the most convincing evidence of f~lritain's sea suprciuacy.

Masefieldk New Book

your, AT][\(_‘I.I('l(I, the Pot-t Laureate, has writ- icii a new" book. It is entitled "The Nine Days Wmiilvr" and it i5 lllc- story of the evacuation 0f lltlilkcriiuc. The story is lrilil, sfl_\'S a NC\\' York Tiimcs rcvilwvcr, "wiih tlic uinnjist straightfor- tvardncss and graphic sclcriir-n of clear first- hand (lctziil-tiilil so, without any heroics of phrasing or arrzuiqciiiciit. in a noble simplicity which Iris its licri-ic ilrvds tcll themselves." This

should lic .\l:isc .il at his bcsr ——tlie “asc-

field rif "tialliiiili" viliirh brow-ht us an for- I , s ,

gcttablc story of the last w-nrltl war, in prose

which ratig like lloiiicr. Prrsutnably his new book will shnrilv br available in Canada, and will be Tlllll with kccu appri-cialion.

Its grin‘. Yllillf‘. zici-irdiiig to lll(‘ Tinlcs rc- \‘l€\\'f‘I' above qiioti-il. is that “it brings us not merely a tribute to zilmost unbelievable courage and tcuacitv and cniiipvtciicc. but a clcar chronicle

of fact. flllllff‘. situation, iiiciilcnt. The volume Clllllilllh $\‘\'f‘l';lI ll"('lll\ of lionizigc. scvcral photo- graphs of rctriiii: II\ cli-zii" narrative is like poetry in action itsclf. \\'c s11‘ titanic human greatness in an iuiloiiiitiililr succession of rlrtails, and fol- Imv iiist w it llilllltPllFll through those days of

heroic salvntiiiii ‘off llunkcrque beaches in the Iittlevshipsf"

Russian Reactions

The l\‘ii~~i.'iii<. Ill-spite thi-ir worries about the war ariiuiirl tlii-iu tiiiil tlic czircs of their lifc it home, still find lllll(' to tcll ioltcs. These oftcn are synlpnlllctic tn Iillglillltl. 'III(‘I'C l5, fOf (‘X- amplr. tlic one zibiiul lliilci", Klussolitli and Churchill going III ask a I(Jl'lllllt‘-l('IIl‘l' who would win ihc “tap 11w cimllio-iyci- priidiicctl two fish-

bowls, one fiill of watcr mid fish, the othcr ('ll1ftl_\‘, and sitid: _ D “The one who capturcs tlic fish first \\'lII win

illf‘ wtar."

lIitIcr illlllifilliilfl)‘ lilliIlQfVI lliln tlic full bowl. splashing watt-r arouuil flllll grabbing for tlic fish, btit got nothing. .\Ili$.'\r|lilll dancctl around tlic cdgc afriiiil In gct his lirinils wct. but hnpiilg in vain for llitli-r to tliriiw- IIK‘ fish his wav.| Churchill prodiiccil a I<‘.'l<prn')ll, patiently dipped the water from iIll‘ fiill bowl into tlic empty our, pit-km] lhp “<11 riiit of Illr‘ Iiotloiii and was pro-

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There is the very brief one about the “British communique z"

“Ten thousand Italians and two thousands mules have been tirade prisoners in East Africa. The mules offered fierce resistance." '

Then there is the one about a telephone con- versation between Hitler and Mussolini:

Hitler: “Benito, you don't seem to be doing vcry well.”

' blussolini: "Where are you speaking from, Adolf?”

Hitler: “From Berlin."

Iiiussolini: “Ob, I though you were supposed to be in London by now."

-. EDIIURIAL NOTES -

The annual "Sheep Storm" anticipated June by a few days.

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The. blind wanr Io tag us today, and, 0f coitrsc, there IS none so blind as they who do not want to see the taggers.

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Tomorrow: the Governor and the Mayor SPOIlSOr a ripping good musical progratnme at the Prince Edward in aid of the R, A, F, Benevolent Fund. Nothing less than e. quarter will be recognized as a silver collection

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Micmac Indians on the reservation at Resti- gfillClll‘. Qlltfi, Iiavc votcd $2,000 to the Govern- ment of Canada for war work. They asked the Government to withdraw this amount from their trust fund hclrl by the Department of Indian Af- fairs.

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Hon. Mr. Ralston told a questioner in the House of Commons that it was not practical to grant leave 0f absence to trainees between their attendance at PFCIlll-‘Ill-‘lftfl’ camps and their trans- fer to advanced training camps.

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It is good to have a knowledge of history es- PCCEHYICLIFIITK a war. For instance we recall that during a famine in Greece betwtecn the years 331 and s13 11C» the City of ClreflC, Libya, ex- ported some 29,000 tons of cereals for the relief of starving Greek cities,

4i 4i vi is Dr. Thomas Chalmers, preacher and phi]. anlhmlllsf- died this date 1847,- professor of moral philosophy at Sf. Andrews, and Q1’ divin. "y at Edinburgh. Chief promoter and first mod- erator of the Free Church of Scotland; devoted much of his time to philanthropic work, Hi5 “”m"§5~_ {Otanfng 2S volumes appeared in uni- form edition in i836; “The public! “my the P11111155 HOIhing better than a great baby."

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Pnjlsmav n0_t be true, but in view of the atrlots alarming exposure of the condition of our streets, and roadsidcs with empty bottles, there wouid appear tohe good ground for it, A farmerhcame to the city for a bag of oats and surreptitiously acquired a bottle of wliiskv, A5 a precaution he put it in the oats. “llien he rcachcrl home thc bottle was empty and the oats smelt strongly of alcohol. The cattle rcfltsctl to cat the gram, and so it was decided to feed it to ‘he PQUIITY- Restilt..hcfore very long the cocks and hens were fighting like blazes and stagger- ing all over the yard. w 4 4i 4- traIiIniZPPOzti-s 4,129 recruits reported to Iiasic g centres May 2o and 21, the third c1355 to be called for the four months training pro- grain under the National Resources hfobiliza- tionAct. Of this number 412 were rejected on medical grounds. An atlditional 16 reported May 23 at Grand Prairie, Alta. The first class of re- cruits sent to basic training centres has com- pleted its initial training and has been moved on to advanced centres. Every month from now on a. class will pass on to advanced centres to be re- placed at the basic centres by a new one, To dale 13.597 recruits have been accepted to undergo the four months’ training and a further class will be called in June. . 4t >r 4= 4= As supplies of feeding stuffs and importer] meat are likely to be shorter in the United King- dom in the months ahead owing to the demands on shipping for the Middle East campaign, the British Government has asked farmers to pro- vide more cattle for slaughter during the next few months. To induce thcin to do so the fixed prices for certain grades of cattle and cows sold for slaughter were increased on April 2!. Up to date tlic cattle population of the United Kitig- doni has been maintained, states a report from tlic office of the Canadian Animal Products Trade Commissioner in London to the Department of 'l‘radc and Commerce setting forth the new priccs. The time has now collie when it is nc- ccssary to (Il'il\\’ on rcscrvcs. FZITIIICTS are asked, therefore, to bring forward more animals in thc early part of the summer, in order to relieve the situation during the coming winter when smaller supplies or: likely to be available. 4- e a

An esteemed correspondent sends the follow- ing reply to the Scottish ditty, quoted by Princess Alice:

“IIis dear old English fricnrl, out of whom the Scot was taking tlic risc, replied in tlic same vcin. Ilc wrotc:

'l'hcrc’ll EIIIVHYS be a Scotland

While English brains can guide TIN‘. brawn and muscle of the clans

And workers of tlic Clyde.

TIICSE Scots, such tniglity warriors,

Poets and scholars too,

Arc prone to think that linglatid

Without them would lic through. Truth is that these two peoples

Now standing side by side,

If rlisunitctl could not hold

Against the Nazi tide.

Sn let's forget Cullorlcn .'\|l(I niillllfiCkllllrll as wcII, And pitlling all togctlici- blast

All llitlcr's Iltuis In IIclI.

And when tbe Blitzkrieg’: Iicatcn

We'll sail across tho s03.

And Scots and English side by side

rlaiiiiril cvcutunl wiiuu-i- of III!‘ war.

"But ilidifl it take him a long time?" comes the targ-linc.

"Sure," Is the answer, “but Churchill is in no hurry.” _

The jokes often take the Italians as their butt.

We'll smash through (icrninnv. Then, when we've occupier] Berlin And Ifillcr is no more. We'll null t-acli others’ legs again About who won the war,"

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUA_R_

NOTES BY Tl'lE WAY

""5 1"" PM sweeten um- an- other". a. citizen complained the other day. "when are we going to come to an end of these money. raising campaigns?" Never pm. tlier. until victory ls won, '51,” all, the Canadian public as a whole liasnt got down to teal financial sacrifice yet on betialf of crushing Hitler. If old Nasty should win, noumg would be worth anything. But he isn't. going to win if Can- Bdfls utmost; thxovm ‘in the pile 15 zoing to stop him. And he will be SWDPW» In the meantime the folks at. home should count, l; a privilege to give, give, give. - St, Marys Journal-Anzus,

A Nsvllltlon protesting against the Mnivloymeiii of chlldTell ln agriculture was passed at the con- ference of the National Union of women Teachers at York. The reso- lution suggested that since the full education of the children was vltallv ImPOrbant to me future of’ the country, m.» Board of Educin IIOn should exert its lnflllgngg u, secure that. school life should be continued as normally as fusible, and should not. be interrupted or shortened to meet the needs of agri- culture. - Leeds Yorkshire Post.

Accomplishment rnust not lag behind desire. There are not en. ough skilled workers, or even enough factories. Bottlenecks in engines and Perhaps raw materials may have be mastered. Yet cer- tfllnll’ we can be diligent now, in Washington and everywhere.

lean lalanes and Canadian and other;

Dominion flyers, have nmngyjga] superiority over the Nazi Luft- I waffe. Knowledge or the cruel puzilshment the British have suf- fered during long months of in- ability to make the German people realize what modem war is like should implement the effort. — Providence Journal.

A good many people continue to look for their favorite light reading to Vfrginlo Gaycla. Even when Mussollnis No. I editor is threatening time Undecl States with the most. dire consequences he has such an original way of doing ft. Every little while Signor Gaydo. will remind the American pseovple of what. the Japanese fleet

going to do to us, or what the German tanks will do to Attierfca, or to look out, for a fatal stroke by Soviet Russia, or for a coup dctat by Turkey, Signor Gayda reminds one of the Chancellor ‘in "Iolamthe" and his pretty wards m chancery. This perfectly awful bluw to Amer- ica ls-coining from him, blow from he, and this from thou, and that. from ye, but never. oh, never a real hard smash from me. Signor Gaydits Italy. - New York tmes.

State Representative Gladys Stewart has suggest/ed that Mis- souri adopt a navel Connecticut revenue-raising plan. In the Nut- meg State, she reports, citizens of substance and vanity can, for an extra fee, get auto license plates with their names stamped on them. The tag issued to Lily Pons the ooera star. for exnuiaple. reads “PONS", instead of 283796 or some equally impersonal string of mun- bcrs. Mrs. Stewart thinks a lol. of Missourians would be glad to pay anything up to $20 for r-tus in- triguing brand of outdoor advertis lng. Once motorists get. in the habit of feeding their vanity, the pos- sibilities are limitless. Next; there, will be monogrammed t-lres. and musical horns could oe replaced by claxon that. roar out "Bill" 0r "Joe" fit recalcitrant traffic. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Sir: — A letter to the Times has brought. to my mind inc way in which the Times was shared in Ruhleben (a German orlson camp) during the last war, even if the sharing process Was some- thing in the nature at a business in which etiterprise earned its re- ward. Our importer obtained his copy by devious methods from the some source as the German {len- eral Staff, but. nt a. greatly en- hanced price, and. l believe. a record one for a, single copy of any newspaper. If my memory Ls not at fault the top price ex- ceeded i2 and approached i3, or the then equivalent in marks. SIX of our wealthier follow-prisoners who shared a loose blIX would pay as much as 5s for the first. nour in camp-hot from the sentryls trouser leg, as it. were. The subsequent hours were charged on B._CL)llI.lIi- ually diminishing scale until about 1s Gd an hour was reached at. the end ol the second day, by which time all expenses were covered and profits began to accrue to out en terprislng newsagent. It was finally bought out-right by a sailors read- ing club, whose tnembels studied football, racing. and attic" form In its pages, which were by now some- what, dilapidated, desmte the care with which — as a point of honor -t.hey were handled". - Letter to lnrtdon Titties. _

In an Ontario industrial centre n man in his seventy-eighth year. drawing an old-age pension. has heard the call of patriotism _He ilotiflr-s Hon. N, O. l-Iipel. Provin- ulal Minister of Labn" and Wel- fare, that. he ls working REA-ll H? will be off thc penstnn roll as long as he can stand up to a lame. A company working on war orders could not secure enrvsgti skilled mechanics. and this veteran de- termined to try his hand again: "I told them I would trv nno help them as much as l was able", He stands at the lathe ten nours a day, and is “about all in" when quitting time comes. "Too long".

speed the day when time R. A. F., shall. with more and more Amer-t

I ; PUBLIC FORUM

This column In open tor the elieonulon by oorreopondento |l_ qolotlono 0| Interest. The Ohnrlottotovrn Gnnrillnn dun not noeenurlly endorse the opinion or oorrenhnndeutn-

WOODCOCK

Sky-In o. recent issue of your pa-l

_ per appeared a letter headed: Hwoodcock Conservation" and sign- ied “Interested? In view of the en- i couraglng report submitted by three iUnited States Biologists who tour- ed this province for a week during the middle of May securing data on the Woodcock, the letter written by "IHIEFESWII" SOLLIIGS unduly pessim- |lstlc. In fact one would be led t0 be- lieve that, the writer knew very little about the subject of Woodcock. I

The Woodcock has always been a bird of mystery. and still is, even to those who for years have made a study of its habits. food, migration, etc. The Woodcock feeds in the late dusk and at night, resting during the day in dense thickets of second growth maple. and sometimes in a mixture of alder, swamp birch, juni- per, etc., so it. is no wonder that so few people have seen the bird ex-, cept: those who hunt the elusive little fellow during the short. open season.

How little residents of thlseprov- fnce know about the Woodco , its habits, numbers, etc, even on their own svoodlots. is well illustrated by, the following incident related by the. visiting Americans lifter their re-l tum from a, trip to the western por-i tron of the province. Coming to a section where the type of cover present was particularly favourable to Woodcock’ they inquired of a na- tive of the district: “Are there many Woodcock in this section?" The na-' tive looked puzzled. “Woodcock”? he queried. “Never heard bell of] them; we have none hereabouts". Questioned whether he had not heard a bird zlvmi: vent to twitter- mg notes high in alr ln the late

face brightened. "0 1,

hear them people say Murphy's birds‘ are back again." “IntcresIed"

years ago. Four years ago

that. the Woodcock were on the verge of extinction, ln spite of the fact. that eighty tltotisand Woodcock were lelzallv killed in the State of Maine alone,

100 years was experienced. s Snow covered the greater portion of this State for a week or 10 days. The birds became Panic stricken and forsook the dense inland swamps where shelter of a sort, was to be had, for a comparatively narrow strip of coast lino. 'l‘hey appeared as lf from tiowllcro in countless thousands. One official observe-r counted over eleven hundred Wood- cock one afternoon in the coitrse of a two hour walk. The birds were s0 weak they made no effort to fly and alllmrctitlv had lost all fear of tnan. For a time poachers and vag- abonds. both white and black, had a series of field days and the emaci- ated bodies were imdtlled and siild at. 25c a dozen. Federal Officers stepped into the picture and, in the State of Louisiana alone, over three thousand arrests were made in a single month. The limit. in penalties was imposed and this distressing zmtzle of the situation was effect-i ively squelched. ’ ‘Ihat n species of blrd. which the year before was alleged bv a oer- taln class of conservationists to be on the verge of extinction could eb- sorb El. beating like that. and make a. comeback, shows plalner than words liow far out some of those al- armlsts are on their ivfld surmlses. The facts re Woodcock mortality in Louisiana can easily be verified at. Washington. D. C. The investigators from south 0f the border stntcd be- fore they left. for New Brunswick. that in their opinion the Woodcock population on the Island was nor- mal, albeit they were at a loss to account for the favourable condlt-l ions here ln comparison with areas, checked in Pennsylvania. and Maine i We have n few well meaning con- servationists in this province. hthcrs who are not so well mooning, but. itjstlielurtn chalrlcqtasgrjmtlonlst

the Big Four cll companies is being strengthened. ton ground is being cut from lllltlfl‘ the feet of the in- dependents who. alone. stand be- tween tlte consumers and a combine who°e predatory lns'iticts have been revealed time and again in public investigation. - Winnipeg

...Iry In carry In tlielr heads the siim total of their possessions I

snld his doctor, "who gave me

the time for every mun to do his bit

to hel win this war 1 am going to stlc lt. out to the end and I believe we are 20mg to wln"

with a touch of just” thls man says: "l kh 1k l am tho oldest man working on a lathe around these parts" And in his seventy-rvrrhtli your ne is setting an example to all Canadians, Fills is the spirit that will win the war. -- Frsm the Toronto Globe and Mall