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Pflma Minister Gui-tin sounds call for

solidarity with

Ibb. a - (or) - ' ‘any. | devslopedd fir;

f her sir sea. an tgdoy and heard s new call from Prime lvlinister John Curtin for shoulder-w-snoulder solidarity with

B in. ustralisn strategy upper-anti! Wis plied on the belief thst although 5m spore. still s mighty actress. mfg t withstand. indefinre siege. it ¢ould no longer be regarded as im-

able. Drrifiiuugh details of defence meas- "IE5 decided upon at a week-end cabinet meeting were kept. secret. mm specific undertakings were m-

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The top age for service in the vol- unteer defence corps was raised to o5 years. liffilllllclllfiflli have been made to m) up me donunion’: aircraft out-

ul immediately snd produce s new ype of bomber. usar-Adzulral Percival McNeil. chief of naval engineering, has left for the Wes-t. Australian port of Perth. on the Indian Ocean, to carrv on work which took Mr. Cur- llh himself there last week.

The Prime Minister. announcing Admiral llicNeiYs departure. sold the work was of “outstanding vital 1rn- portancr" to the Australian navy.

1n a frcsh appeal for allied rnitv

0' fin declared in s. statement

lv oi Berlin and s". to trv Lo drive . "the Motherland

pp to be u. unrty p0 such In obuuu; dwfce."

Pays tribute to Viscount Bennett

ennui-x. Fob. 2 -(CP) -Warm tribute to a former l cal oppon- lrl the floure of C3111-

Thomas Reid (Lib. Xcwl cs» when he dc- 1 Emmett, former

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was speaking of Con- urtv Icmlcrs mid he said: anti most capable lender ll-lll 1n lute years, Rf. Hon. Viscount. Bums-cit, they forced to lenu- Cniirftltr.

"No one will deny that he was and still is s great Canadian. How- hc hcuts of that party 110W

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lbL1._\. llr. Reid also complimented Con- lervatire House lender Hanson.

NATIVE CHIEF HONORED

PRBTOlYIA -- iCPl A chief of rscuth Afrlcun native race, act-

gns ‘otter-bearer in the British c aign in Libya, has 58th rco ‘mmcnded for the liilitary Aicrlnl for "outstanding behaviour."

taming Events

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Britain.

Sccs only minor Setback in Libya

Idbya, will cause only delay for the British Middle East forces, Prime Minister Lllsmutsseidfnswer re- view in the Benele today.

"I think this setbadk is 00m- parstively unimportant and that our men will soon recover the ground lost 1n the past few weeks," he said.

Gen.‘ Bmuts expressed the opinion the general war situa- tion gives no reason for disast- isfacton.

Ncpburn charges licplorablc state 0f unpreparcdncss

Says Inventory Should Be Taken Of Whole War Situation.

ST. OATHARMIB. Ont... Feb. 2 -—(CP)—Premier Mitchell Hepburn said in an eddies tonight that "rvcre the deplorable state oi un- prcparcditess of Canada. and the United States fulgl known to the public there woul be no need for me or anyone else to try and arouse on this continent {the necessary rle- mand" for o. full-out war effort.

ln a broadcast ovcr a Si. Cath-

.arines station (CKTB), the Ontar-

io Liberal leader deplored the fed- eral wancffort and the coiling of a conscription plebiscite by the Dominions Ltberul government. Ho said Canadian citizens "are awak- ening and the great seanchlight of public opinion L: being turned on those charged with the responsi- bility of directing orIr war effort."

"Out of it all emerges a true conception of the absolute and ut- ter- fullacy of appeasement in war," he added, in charging that Can- ada's "whole war effort has been dictated bv thempolicy of sp- pcasemcnl. '

Mr. Hepburn spoke in support of J. Douglas Watt of Welland. Ont,

Urges building 0f wooden ships

OTTAWA, Feb 2 — (GP) —- A program of wooden shtp building to supplement the present steel ship program was urged upon the House of Commons todly by Thom- as Reid (Lib, New Westminster) speaking in the debate on the ad- dress in reply to the throne speech. "Great Britain is crying for ships and lumber." Mr. Reid said. Lack of shipping was definitely hampering Britain's we: effort. There were "hundreds of men" idle in British Columbia who were capable of building wooden ships, and there was plenty of lumber.

Hanson sccks Plcbiscitc plans

OTTAWA, Feb. 2 -— (C?) —De- tulle bf the proposed plebiscite on anti-conscription pledges of the government will be made public in due time, Prime Minister Macken- zie King mid the House of Com- mons today, in reply to a question from Conservative House leader Hanson.

Mr. Hanson based his question on s. report that i040 election lists would be used without revision and

or localities. He said the i940 list vrould have many thousand names of those now deceased, while other thousands who came of 18o since 1940 would not be on the ltst. 8s also condemned the ides of pooling the bsllots.

"If I were to begin to snswer all the questions raised in the newmmpers I would have time for nothing else." Mr. King said.

The plebiscite puns would be mode known in due course “sud I am sure the procedure to be ul- outed will commend itself to sll sides." he sold

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One to ninc ls result in Aerial battle

MacArthufls Men Turn Back Jap Shock Troops.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2 -(AP)— Japanese shock tropes shattered themselves against Gen. Douglas MmcArthurh indomitable defenders of Bstan, the United States war department reported today. while fer to the south four American bombers destroyed nine Japanese fighter planes in a remarkable aer- ial battle in the Neurerlands East Indies.

An account of the latter encount- er was given in the department’: late rley communique, which said:-

"Enemy fighter planes intercept- ed four of our bombers which were en route to attack Japanese ship- ping in the harbor of Balik Papan on the island of Borneo. In the ensuing fight, nine enemy planes were shot. down. One of our bomb- ers was lost."

This communique also told of continuing aerial stabs at the ene- my's communications and sir fields. It saith-

"Several sir raids on enemy ship- ping and air fields were carried out by small formations of heavy Am- erican army bombers of the flying fortress type.

“Our bombers raided the Japan- ese strfields of Kuala Lumpur and Kuantnn in Malaya. On account of poor visibility it was impossible to defefinine the results of these at- tacks. Our planes returned to their base undamaged."

Pi Japanese regiments and special shock troops made a double assault on MacArthurh men in the Philippines, the department report- ed. and one enemy wing was hurl- ed back to the sen with muny of its number drowning and the remaind- er being killed or captured.

"All enemy thrusts on the west coast have nrw been completely mustered." MfcArthnr advls . The communique made it clear Amt in fhr-e-c W€0ks the tic-Wanders have been obliged to yield possibly half the peninsula. It was indicated that lVfacArf-l-rurh force now retains an area of only some 300 square miles, about the size of greater New York

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Western B. 0. Protected area

OTTAWA. Feb. 2 —(CP) -—Brlt- in Columbia west of the Cascade Mountains and including the vil- lages of Terrace and Hope has been defined a. "protected area" tinder the Defence of Canada regulations.

The order defining the urea was published tonight in u special edi- tion of the Catiada Guzstte and went into effect Jan. 31.

Certain Mpancsc nationals now resident in the area are to be mov- ed out. Govcrncncnt offlcldLs now are giving consideration to where they will be taken and possible la- bor projects on which they may be employed.

Islam? r1515... Missing from Torpcdocd ship

Word ha; been received that Fred D. Younker. for several Ye"! one of the crew of the tofpedfied $_ .5, Lady Hawkins, is misslnl

m; parents, the late J. L. and Louise Younker, lived in Montague ‘ml-feyetffifour brothers. Lloyd, with the cenadlsn Army in England; Arthur in Rangoon. Burma; Harry in Toronto, and Atwood in Kin!-

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wood. Bunhury, and Mrs. Louis Howntt, Charlottetown. International At

A Glance

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Csnsdis ha!) -— Slene of fortress stsrts with srlillery, s r action-

MOSCOW — Red srm! °I"""' along entire front exec Crlmel when I-‘eodoslys fslls.

CAIRO — Gemini W! thes- ln Llbyun counter-v

“mp0s - News commentators n’ Flfilllk ss smtlnn I°'"'" men! fslls.

WASHINGTON - ll. S. alrcrsft blsst lap bsscs h Mala!!-

ss fu- ensive.

All our gifts are to bi‘ emplupu‘. .= Inembcrs of a ur_l-;.t_.r.-.nrily' ln y... » nlulc and cnrlln its life.

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War Situation Last Night a!

x11 _ (By KIRKE L, SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst)

American sea-air battering at Japanese Island

outposts in the

Pacific, midway between l-lawell and Australia. struck an encourag- lng note for the defenders of Singapore sud Java, grove ss their sit- uation ls against the hydra-headed Nipponeso attack.

Uflhflmlttred enemy use or air end subma the bases in the Mar- shall and Gilbert Islands would be a deadly menace to the route for reinforcement of the United Nation defence bastion: in the south- western war zone. The first big blow struck by the United States Pacific fleet since the Pearl Harbor disaster tends to confirm the lm.

Dresslon that its Immediate mission ls to keep

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those reinforcements

of men and war gear flowing westward at all cost. i s

The size snd composition of the naval forces engaged in the raid; is ugdisclosed except that it included plane carriers sud ships of sll com at categories. Thst means battleships es well as heavy and light cruisers, destroyers, submarines and the like. which sufficiently l“.

dicates the importance of the operation In 1h;-

high command. The crisis for British forces at

eyes of the American

Singapore is at hand. Besieged on

Singapore Island itself. however, they have one advantage denied to

Gen. MacArthur-M American-Filipino

Luzon. Rifle-wide Johore strait is

troops on Baton peninsula in a formidable moat the Japanese

311"" Mfr l! Singapore is n» fall. n is ll better defensive poslllon "m. e Jun: es and '"°"““"“5 °“ BM“, of which MacArthur is making

effective use, I O

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1mm "M"! W1 lll be Bill-red from other essential

far-flung attack front, there seems of the Island,

British And May Have

Singapore of massed Japanese sir - rations on the little possibility of quick ndugflgn

King Farouk Showdown

British press says Egyptian King's loyalty “not above suspicion".

Trainees arc still Permitted transfer

(YITAWA, Feb. LL-(CPJ-De- fl-nce Minister Rnlston told the "PW/B DY Cflmmlms today he knew no order which prevented men called. up under the National Re. sources Mobilization Act, {mm Joining the navy or the air force during the first two months of their army training.

He was answering a, question from Conservative House leader Hanson who said he heard trans- fers to the other services had been stopped.

col. Ralston said enlistments in me navy and the air force were not permitted when the men got to the more advanced stage of their basic army training.

Has praise for Pilots at ‘Burma

RANGOON, Burma, Feb, 2— (CB-The achievements of R. A. F. plluls and American volunteers in defame of Burma were praised

as "m ':.fccut" yesterday in a message from Prime Minister Churchill. who declared--

"Thc victories they have won in the uir over the paddy fields of Burma may well prove comparable in character if not in scale with thosewon over the orchards and hop f.elds of Kent in the battle of Britain."

“To these brave men the thanks of all the United Nations are due, the Prime Minister said in his 111955588 YO MAJ-Gen. Sir Reginald Dormen-Smith, Governor of Bur- ma.

Nazis make poor Showing in cold

MOSCOW, Feb. 2 —(AP) - In warfare on the snow-bound Russian front, with its emphasis on re. sourcefulness end initiative. the Red army solder has proved e far superior fighter w his German counterpart, to whom the abnormal winter conditions are strange and almost frightening.

Far more strongly thsn from the eommunlques reporting continued Soviet advances, I got thnt iinpres- sion from first-hand talks with Germsn and Russian soldiers who, separsted from their units, were forced to shift for themselves in the frozen woods.

Ihst is sn inevitable result of the present strstcgy. which cslls for wide, elastic fronts and constant attempts to outfiank the enemy.

Under these (renditions. soldiers of both srmies often operate on their own resources. ‘They cut off enemy detachments snd scette them through the forests. Frequent- ly, in pursuing such tactics. they in turn lose their own outfits.

‘Itren the soldier definitely is on his own. and lt. is here that the Red srmy men - who know the country and to whom snow and bit- ter cold are no novelty-show their super

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LONDON, Feb. 3—('I‘uesday)_ (CP)—Intime.tions of a possible breech between the British Gov- ernment end King Farouk of t with the suggestion that his "oy- alty to the alliance is by no mean; above suspicion,‘ appeared m the British press today as a result of the resignation of Prime Munster Hussein Sirry Pashsls cabinet 1n Cairo.