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, Feb. s-(cri-m- ,6 Hepburn of Ontario m“ ‘ " that Hon. Robert

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Lberal Premier lumoun . firmed-u he would support 1W1‘- Meighgn, Canadian Conservative

l-ty Leader.

w, l-lepbum did not release I. gm qt Mr. Laurier’: letter of r6:- lwption, but said: “In his N518- lution Mr. Laurier makes it very clear that there is no personal M1- tmosity toward me."

He slllfii the resignation was m“ u... cabinet, but. not from Mr. partner's mat as Liberal member of the Ontario Legislature for Ot- tm. East. and added that he would deal with the resignation “hm ho rclllmcd to hi! M1108 next ivcri: at conclusion of the ifork South luv-elections.

ixis spearheads ire within 50 lilies of Tohruk

CAIRO, Frl), 5 -(AP) -Spcar- heads of the axis African army to- night. lvcrc bciicvcd to stand with- in E0 mile.» of Tcbrllk ill the con- lirluzng counter-offensive which has llrcp: rho ' ‘sh forces back some lid milcs .~ lcc it» (icl'lll:\n» and Italian troops occupied Bcngasl. While the British army command leportcd only patrol activity and uptrcltioos of mobile columns "a- long the vilole of our front." the infest hizllnntcr mark of the axis lfVlltillTi push was indicated in an it. A. F‘. crmmulliqu." which an- nuunccrl Bxtlsh bombers had been lctive cast and lvcst of Tmlmi. Slllllllfd at the eastcrn base of the Cirenaican Hump. llic town it- self is 60 milcs west of Tobruk and lbcut 14o miloc. airline from the libyan-Ezyptinn bolder.

RETIRED S. A. OFFICER DIES

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 -(CP) -—Col. Joseph Pluzmlrc. 7'1. retired officer vi the Salvation Army, died in Lon- don today, it, was teamed here.

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_ Minister of Mines opposes Ontario Premier's

support of Rt. Hon. Arthur Meigheu.

Howe tells 0f increase in War production

(B G Kitch n) (ClnndInn Staff eWrlter)

MONTREAL, Feb. 5—(OP)— Munitions Minister Ilcwe today told members of the En lneer- ing Institute of Canada. n au- nual convention here, that Cun- odab output of merchant ship- p thin year ls expected to

otal almost as much a tint of the shipyards of Great Brit-

aln.

Submarl slnklngs in the At- lantic have forced Canada to switch her shipbuilding facllltlel from naval to merchant vessels. Mr. Howe said ln an uddren in which he also revealed that the Dominion is sending ZO-ton Valentine infantry tanks to Snvict Russia at a rate of three

d . . lsylfllflulfil‘ disclosure. he cold that Canadian air craft plant:

that Camdlfs 1942 production i would he "about 2 1-2 time!‘ i that of lfllll-with still more plants to be built. "Well really get going. We will have l}, man- slzed '“ industry.

Painted SCS; Wins British Empire Medal

LONDON. Feb. 5 -(Cl='l --Thom- as Mllggett. a steward aboard tho German-captured llllilfi-ton tanker. San Casilnlco, tonight was award- ed tllc Britrll Empire medal for m5 font. a ycar ago in 8lll‘l‘9})l'.itl()ll:l; ly painting a. thrce-foot-hllih ‘SQS deck sign which enabled British patrols to recapture the shlP-

The San caslmico was taken by tho (‘remuln battleship 6116189111111 inst Nlarch in the western Allan- tic lvllcn n prize crew unwr 1116M- Ot-to Grcnz was not aboard her.

“You'll never gen through our pa- trols." British seamen told the U811- tenant who stowed them below deck.

A5 the tanker neared Etrlzland en route to a German-held 901'?" I plane from the aircraft calmer Ark Royal flew over.

British crelvmen tried to ‘Wolf! table clothes from the tankers portholes, but the Nazi crew. armed with machine-guns. put o. atoll W

that.

Then Muggett got his idea. Mix- ing a pastc of flour and water he evaded the prize crewmen. found 8 bit o! uninhabited deck, and paint- ed his bifl kiln-

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ub o . scliut l. British piano ma spotted the sign. and in e ch01‘! Um! i110 battle cruiser Renown cowl-Y“ °“ me horizon and recaptured the ship despite ma alumni: to “um her.

B. C. Soldiers to Train c_l_l_ skis

DER/I‘ CAMP. NS. Feb. I - (GP) - ‘mo entire British Colum- bia. regiment. will have to learn to ski at this big military camp. and a "ski-school" has been established wlln Capt. L. J‘. Hope u chief in- structor,

,Other instruction are Ueut. George C. B. Kellett, Lleut. A Lun - icy and Licut. L D. Stevens. wt Cpl. J. Tonelll. Rim. R. A. Cleve- land and Rfm. J. B. Richardson as assistant instructors.

L. Cpl. L. Hevi . not! quarter- mlutcr. has 60 p of a and g- bout 50 pairs of snowshoes and equllzlnent for the men of the regi- men .

Brig. W. W. Foster Takes Over Command

HALIFAX. Blob. S -(O'l') -- Bril. W. W. Foster, D.S.O.. VJ). recently appointed to command military dil- trict No. d. Halifax. arrived here tut at ht. He succeed: Brig. C. l. Comic . D.B.0., who in retiring

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CHARIEJTTETOWN, CANADA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942

Items shown in Display of all Frontline goods

Detachable Stretcher Carrier Invented By Three Soldiers ls Best Device.

B! Ron Munro Canadian Press War Correspondent

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Feb. 5 --(CP)-— Equipment invent- ed by members of the Canadian army for use by medical Units was shown in the largest medical dis. Plly of the overseas army when all front-line equipment and personnel 0f the Royal Canadian Array Medl- cal Corps with a division was in» spected.

Many of the units had equip- ment the soldiers thelnselves had designed and made. A Royal Can. adian Artillery Field ‘Regiment Medical unit topped the competi- tion for medical gadgets with a detachable stretcher carrier invent- ed by B61‘. Waiter Marshall of Trail, B. C. Capt. T. Benaton of Winnipeg commanded the unit and another member was Gnr. A. A. Milton of Moncton, N.B.

Drawn up nelir divisional head- quarters were the light; sections of the division's field ambulance tvhich move into battle with the regi- ments. the trucks and field equip- ment of the regimental medical of- flcers.

A field ambulance from the Inke- head was Judged the best in the llkht section competition. ‘These light sections consist of a, truck fixed up as an ambulance. p, 51mm hospital on wheels. and several oth- er vehicles. They support the wqfk of regimental medical officers a. long the front. away ahead of the field ambulances themselves, the casualty clearing stations and the base hospitals.

The army service corps medical officer. Capt. G. o. McGarry of Niagara Falls, Ont.. topped the list in the competition for unit offic- ers, with the Saskatoon light. in- fantry second and llle west Nova Scotla. regiment third.

Churchill to Clarify new post

T-DNDQN. Fob. 6 -lI-‘riday) — (CPi_ The London Dally Mail in a special interview quoted sir stag. ford Cripps. former British am. basaador to Moscow. as saying he h" 59011111!" to become minister of supply because (lie pQgt did not, carry war cabinet rank and that he preferred to return to the House of Commons "with an open mind."

Sir Stafford had been mention. ed prominently as a pogsiblg suc- 06-5801’ t0 101d Beavorbrook who has become minister of war pro- duction. Prlme Minister Churchill told the Commons today he would clarify Lord Beaverbrooivs duties in a statement at the next meeting of the legislative body.

Plight of Greece ls growing worse

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 —(AP\ _. Greece is suffering a terrible fam- ine. reports reaching Washington through various channels indicate, and the situation ln that axis-oc- cupied country is growing more desperate daily.

At a. press conference today Sum- ner Welles, under-secretary or stilt. described the plight of the Greeks as utterly appalling. l-Ie mid the stdbl! department had boen receiving famine reports from there for some time. from Amer!- Clfl! returning from Greece or neighboring countries and from the Greek government through the Greek iegatlon hm.

Welles said the department's in-

formation indicated that the Ger- mans had ruthlessly stripped the Greek people of their food reserves and left them to starve. He added that the rapidly increasing (tenth rate among infants was pnr iculerly mocking. . Asked if he thought o recently reported British decision to send food relief into Greece through the Turkish Crescent (‘Purklsh Red Cross) might ulleviltc the situation, Welles replied he certainly hoped it would.

Reports from Greek end ncutrsl di lomlltlc sources recently have tod of the hunger weakened peo- ple dying by the hundreds in Athens alone. with similar distress in other Greek cities. Bread is unobtainnble at any price in some districts. H114 (m. gupply of fish from the waters around Greece ls so for from ede- ququ, cocci-ding to these reooflf. mgr, mm the heads and entrain n; fish-formerly used for feltill-

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FWar Situation Last NightlI-l ____..__._..._...__J

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

The opening trial by fire on Britain's lesser Gibraltar, the Sing- apore island keystone of her arch of Empire, holds the spotlight in the war news. its fate must deeply influence the course 0f the wnr, not in the Pacific alone but on all fronts.

Jflpnnele failure to take the Slnnporu citadel by storm within n reasonable time or to better it into submission with shells and bombs could mark that name In the history of this war as Verdun was red- lettered in the annals of the First Great. War. That was the first disastrous German failure of that war. It was the beginning of the 9nd 511111111811 more than two years were to elapse, year: of blood, lwcut and tears, before that end come.

Verdun cost the Kaiser losses from which his armies never fully recovered. Singapore, water protected from mechanized land attack. could cost the Japanese relatively greater casualties. Given nir equal- "Y. its garrison P1051151! could withstand siege for months or years.

TM" 1"" 11111116 518x15 that the first wave of great Anglo-American relnfoflcements promised Singapore's defenders by Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell will be an air wove. A: Japanese siege line; were manned along the mainland shore of Johcre Strait and the preliminary duel

of the guns begun, the first word- that United States

army fighter

pilots had clashed with the foe over Java stimulated hope of the be-

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Washington said only n. few American fighter ships were engaged:

but that they traded two-for-one losses with the

Japanese. While

there is nothing to show that these particular planes represent fresh reinforcements shipped across the Pacific since the war began, it ls reasonable to expect the allies will build up land-based air power in Java to mcet an intensified Japanese air attack on that central bul-

wark of allied defence lines.

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Crash

Two Canadians and one American lose lives

when plane cravsheséukgnpe

SYDNEY, N. S., Feb. 5 —<CP)—~ Two fliers from western Canada anti one from the United States were killed‘ and a fourth man from Oll- tario was injured in the crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force plane on a night flight over Cape Breton, R. C. A, F. officials announced to- nigh-t.

Crumpling against. snolv-covpred Skye Mountain. the machine cal-- rled to death last. night:

t PO. I. V. MacDonald, Edmon- on;

Silt. Observer Robert Frederick Varov, 20, Elston’, Sask.

Sgt, Ol7$0i‘\'(‘i‘ \Villianl Rccs Dike- man- 27. Seattle. Wash.

'I'he fourth mall in the machine. Lac, Ball llnitials unavailable) of Brcckvillc. Ont. escaped with little more than a. severe shaking-up.

The accident, Cape Brown's worst air crash since the outbreak of war, happened at 7.15 pm. AST last night. Air Force officials disclosed it. today, releasing the names of the victims tonight after their relatives had been notified.

Cause of the crack-up. in the sparsely-settled alva ncar Whyilbft)‘ mngh, about 58 airline milcs south- West; of hcrc. was not made public. It was known. however. that the three victims had been killed in- stantly and that the plane had burst into flames shortly after hit- Llflq the mountainside,

Farmers of the Wllypcomaglt dis- trict, who saw the lil'C, organized search parties llndcr Royal Canad- ian Mounted Police and l-cachcd the scene after trudging up the mountain in foot-deep snow. They brought down the bodies and the survivor, and they were brought to Sydney around noon today.

The bodies will be sent home for burial, it W88 announced.

Candidate Withdraws From By-Electlon

QUEBEC, Bob. 9 —(CP) --Ern— est Godbout. chief returning of- ficer unnounced tonight that Paul Lutouche, "Liberal anti-conscript- ionist" candidate in the Quebec cast Dominion try-election Fab. 9, had stoned a declaration saying that he has withdrawn from the field.

Latcucheis withdrawal leaves two candidates. Justice Minister 5t. Laurent. official Libcrnl candidate and Paul Bouchard. Canadian party candidate.

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Sydney. N S, Fc . -— —— struck by it Canadian National Railways freight train. Ronald Mc- sween, 48, was fatally injured late today near Bolsdale, 30 mi1Ps 110m here. He died on way to hospital.

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Hero of sinking Goes shopping For new suit

Fellow Survivors Say Owe Lives To Lady Hawkins’ First Officer.

By Jack Sullivan

NEW YORK. F‘€b. 5 -(CPr Percy A. Kelly of Halifax. N. 5., hero of the Lady Hawkins sinking. arrived in New York todav and set out on a shopping toul'—for a still.

Then the SB-yrcar-old chlcf officor of the torpcdocd Canadian nal. n- a1 cruise ship was ready to talk a- bout the five days he and 71 sur- vivors of Ute Jan. l9 torpcdoing spsut aboard a lifeboat. Five per- sons rllcd during thr- five davs.

Survivors of’ the liner. sunk in thc Atlantic with loss of 251 lives. said at Puerto Rico that those rescued would not have lived had it not been for Kelly and his Canadian creiwnen. Eddie Brown. 25-year-old passenger from Revere, Mass- echoed other survivors’ stories hcrc today when he said "everybody owcs his life to Kelly and l1: crew.“

But the ruddy-faced chief officer dismissed the acclaim with n shrill: of the shoulders, "It was the help of God that got us through." he said. "I novel" tried lo raise lilo morale of 11:0 passengers-they all kept their spirits up and any cheer- inrz up I could do wasn't necessary."

Twenty-four other survivors. in- cluding eight of the l3 Canadians who were landed at Pucrto Rico. arrived here aboard a rescue ship.

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Canada, Russia To exchange Consuls

OTTAWA, Feb. b -_(CP) - Prime Minister Mackenzie King announc- ed amid applause in lI-c House of Commons today the signing in Lon- don cf an agreement between Can- ada. and Rlmia for the exchange of consular representatives.

The Prime Minister said this I.l’- rangemcnt would greatly facilitate relations between Canada and thc U. S. S. R.

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Proposes new I Slogan for Canadians

Liberal Speaker Attacks Methods Of Ontario “Committee For Total War".

OTTAWA. Feb. f —(CP) —- A new slogan for Canadians—“Do not sell Canada. short"-—wa5 propoged tcday in the l-follse of Commons by W. A. Fraser tL-ib. NOTlhllmbi‘I'- llmdi and it was partlcuizlrly~ di- lwlfd to the Ontario "committee for total war."

Mr. Fraser pleaded that the peo- ple cf Canada. cf all parties. get behind Prime Minister Mackenzie King in the same manner that President Roosevelt rlow was being supported by ills former political opponents.

Speaking in the debate on the address in rcplv to the speech from the throne. Mr. Fraser said "the methods uscrl by tile Toronto total war committee cuibotllrlcl subtcr. fllzc. deception and lly])O(.‘l‘lS§'."

M1. King was Prime Minister and loader of constitutional government in Canada "in obedience to the wlllacs of the people."

Those who were criticizing him and demanding his resignation were "selling Canada silort" and were “damning and sabotauing" their own country." Mr, Fraser said.

Therl-Iouse this afternoon cheer- ed Mr. King's announcement that all arrangement was signed in Lon- don today for exchange of consu- lar representatives bctlvccn Can- ada and the Soviet Union.

During the question period Mr. King refused to enter into u discus- sion when COIlF£YVELIVQ 1.101155 lend- cr Hanson asked him if Justice Minister Si. Laurent spoke vl government. authority lvilcn, lt was reported, he said ill a radio speech lilo; conscription would harm the war effort.

"I do not intend to be drawn into controversy by the leader of the opposition,” Mr. King said. He. was cllucuvorlllg to avoid politic. 0n- lrovcrsy arising fl-onl the current bY-cicction canlpnllzus willie devot- lllg his thought to the war effort.

Angus Maclnnis lC. C. F. Van- couver Eastl accused the (govern- ment of lglloflllg labor and helping 2o place big busmcus in control of Canada. Class conflict, was increas- lllg instead of decreasing. he said.

Norman Lockliart lCnn. Lincoln) condemned the conscription plebis- cite proposal and demanded immed- iate action to make available for service anywhere all Canada's uran- polvcl" and nlnt-erial FErDUTCCS. Com- pulsory selective service should be npjélied at once without limit, he snl .

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Fam us

Is Lost

LONDON, Feb. 5 —(CPi - The admiralty today lifted the curtain mcnlentarik for a brief glimpse of submarine lvarfarc in bolll the Mediterranean and the (.'iantlc. disclosing a bitter give and takc with the axis which cos‘. ltzliy’ scv- oral of her undersea-s craft but took from Britain one of her most famous submarine raiders, the 'I‘rl- umph.

‘The ‘Priumpll- a Lotto-patrol type submarine calugvinsz a normal crew of 53 men. Wfis lost after gloriously sinking foul" axis uaval units, in- eluding a il-boat, and nine axis supply ships in a “succession of successful patrols" in the Mediter-

ranean. The vessel also was credit- ed officially with having "probab- ly" “mk m‘ “nncd “amen a onus" but with his war policy 1 am in

cr. a supply ship and a tanker.

‘in announcing thc Italian losses the. 861111111118 51116 .1111 $11959 59V- to hold hcr place fllllOllR tllc democ- cral craft had "paid the llll-lmflfé raclcs. All we llecd is lcudcrship penalty" after havlnlz been sent to and facts. One thing cssenlialwlllch hclp the German submarine cam-

paign in llzc Atlantic. One of the Italian victims. admiralty said. was the

"cvcntful but unsucccsstul"

tory which ended soon after an at- tack by a Octcllna flylrla boat had "H1686 industrious vnllnsz rum or damnsed 1101'. One of four Italian Ottawa filrhtinp: ti... Wflfnlfi the last

submarines which escaped Massaua. Eritrea. in Italian

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