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AKE MANDALAY; RUSH 0N TCWARDS Ciii

(W. A. F. Ranggs Over _Nazi- Held Denmark

"Three Nazi Warships Acrial-tliivc

Are

Badly

Battered

Admiralty and Royal Air Force tell of damage to Battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and Cruiser Prinz Eugen.

By J. WES GALLAGHER, Associated Press Staff Writer) ~ ‘DON, May 3—(AP)--The elusive German battleships Gnefseusu Scbsrnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen are definitely rut gciiun and must undergo extensive repairs, British authorities an-

junced today.

tsneous world-wide attacks against

A heavy blow has thus been struck to Axis hopes tor

the fleets of the United

ans. , making the reserve they had shown since the three ships aha]. ‘ ed the Royal Navy by sailing through the English Channel in Feb.

Itlis Admiralty and the Royal Air Force said the Nazi warshipl d

' been grlevously hurt by torpedo and bombing attacks in the Chan-

:_ light, by mines laid‘ by British ioint announcement after , previous reserve was taken to ‘ ' ie that knowledge of the clam-

m absolutely certain and that hips would not see action for

. time. Mltllti oi the formidable armada powerful warships readydor jib at the British and Umteo. ilccls, Hitler now has, ac- .‘ to the best available re- ‘ only three warships at Trond- occitpled Norwegian port, for a fight. These are the p Tirpltz, 35,000 tons, the i battleship Admiral Scheer, to i and the Admiral Hip- ." ip of the Prinz Eugen. he announcement said tho i. nau ls at Gdynlo, former Po- port, the Scharnhorst in the > t Kiel

A. F. has po d the Prlizli

rts from Norwegian sources the Prinz Eugen had been w by the stern to keep her

brief. Britain gave this sc- ol what happened to the

Qcrvicc rocps serve i Africa

r By Edward Kennedy iilsoclnted Press Stat’? Writerl CAIRO. May 3 -- (AP) -—Ur.ited i‘ service troops in steaclly in; numbers are in posit-ion "Plotting the main ‘Bfitish deseit " Bud air forces ranged against 0t threatening t}: grliln mmv of shcl Erwinn Rkllliiflfi]. There lltno American combat trO-"ps

. Russel L, Maxwell,

led States commander of tile ih African iIIlSiIOII, pennltted losure cf their presence from

{at for the firs: time Saturday.

tough Allmrin-‘ln unifomws and

l! trucks bearing the "U S A-"

iers have been sein in growing

"Elli f"r several weeks,

Que officer cf the United States lission is lilnj. Elliot Rocsevt-lt, of the President.

v tn‘ Maxwell emphasized that " soldiers stationed in this torrid

w, barring the Axis from c'n-

'5‘ 0T Egypt and the Suez. Cnnnl, Vere entirely service personnel - lttllililics technical emerts sup- Nlrfiliiecinllsis and trainers.

d" 10b is to strpporr. British W5 glee French combat troops ‘m! on the desert frrnt, a0 miles

of Tobruk in Libya.

taming Events

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"P!!! and Dance at St T '

mini» May am. women's git:

"Mme Thursday m‘ ii I01‘ gikifilllon dance tn thue ‘Arnli; - -s- .

"W11 miss seeln ,. I York repeat 5°‘ BOX Social after. _ _ .._.._ chwwlce-Semf-annusl meeting

ti Vencrlgi-‘temwu Milk Producers and

madame-sectarian. L001‘. Hall.

May 5th, a p.m_ 5.4.2; In

Monthl Po y ma“!!! P. l. I. ufgigihlissoclation ‘Tuesday night, ‘item?! Wni-ths. Every mem- - Important. b-t-lt.

Ht Fredericton 9 a.m. st Brook-

Charlottetnwn Market s,

.2 ‘em. York Station; a sot-m. 7 v Tracadle: 5 Mount ,_,y_ ‘wed emon River: I Cherry ill‘ River" flew“. 10 am. Hun- R . ‘a New Glasgow; i2 8-01. North Wlitihlre‘ - i rs Summer- Comer. Pay- for ill al

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planes and by British submarine

international At A Glance

By The Canadian Press

BURMA- Japs strike toward In. i118. up Burma Road from liashio, i" illlierior numbers.

BRITAIN-Air ministry, fldllflf- flit)’. ' a n n o u n c e Scharnhorst, Gnciscnau, Prinz Eugen imlllllbilig. aullgmAhghceralds Copenhagen,

RUSSIA-Millions 0f Reds Bath to defeat Hitler this year.

MEDITERRANEAN - R, A. p, blasts Axis submarine base on It- alian island near Turkey.

FRANCE-Vichy denies reports it surrender-ed Giraud to Germans.

take

“ Raid Axis Sub

Base and ’Dromes

CAIRO. M83’ 3 ——(CP) "' '11.. Im- goxunnt axis submarine base at

rto Laki Bay on Lem Island near Turkey and nirdromes on nearby F! cs and in occupied Greece w- _. hit hard bv the R. A. F. m- day night, British authorities an- nounced today.

The airdrrmes at Menfdi, near Athens and Piraeus, and at Marit- za on Rhodes were attacked, a communique said. Both Lcro and Rhodes are in the Italian Dodec- rinese group where l)“; 5x13 l; m. ported to have nrsonrcd air fields and concentrated air craft for pos- slble Mediterranean blows

New invasion Threat looms In Australia

UNITED NATIONS HEAD- QUARTERS, Australia, May 3- (APl-The entire region of Tpwnsvllle, far north on Aus- tralia's east coast, was put. on guard against a surprise invasion or air assault Saturday as the re- sult. of the first appearance of mysterious scouting planes over that area and numerous signs that the Japanese are preparing new blows in the Australian theatre.

The flight of the two suspect planes over Townsvilie at 30,000 feet altitude ln good observation weather Friday was reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthurs head- quarters.

This first appearance of pre- sumably hostile planes the Townevllle area followed a warn- ing Friday b Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, Aus alien chief of al- lied land forces in Australia, that "increased enem activity ineail he has some urther plan." reports that s considerable Japa- nese force L; concentrated around Jaluit tn the Marshall islands northeast of New Guinea.

Member Of British Parliament Dies

LONDON, May 3—(CP) --Patl'ick MIIIIPO. 5B. the last member o7 Parliament to speak ln the Oom- mons chamber before it was wreck- ed by German bombs a year no tiled today while participating ‘ti? Zlllrd exerci in Westmin-

Munro. one f u-i test b ma: plsyen who .31, sseiaiqnutbe 1:33;! urda

was a Conservative and represent-

ed Llendsff and Barry, Glaznorgan.

AXIS PLANE DOWNIID VALIITA, May 3 - (OPl- Axis lane was were eyed dam today two li ht raids which caused a

118ml‘ vies and slight civilian dam- The raiders concentrated on

5R9. lilfirilllel,

inc.

on; acce ted bv dealers WM doomed Ind two cf

Kept up with lieavy attacks

indications B r i i." i s h Planes Raid Italy; Swiss Report Foreign Planes.

_LON'DON, May 3—CP>-—Brltlsh aircraft ranging over Copenhagen, capital of Nazl-occu led Denmark, dropped bombs on hat cltv and caused anti-aircraft batteries Denmark to fire for 45 minutes Saturday night, it was reported to-

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y. Meanwhile. the B. A. F‘. kept up its aerial offensive ayklnst North- ern France with morning and after- noon forays. It was authoritatively stated that three Cernan fightsr planes were destroyed over North- ern France.

Today's daylight target; included Pas De Calais, docks at Duirkerque and an airdrome at Aribevilk, where bomb hits were scored 0n buildings and P151185 on the ground machine- gunned, In these attacks the RAP. 0st three fighters.

The Germain; raided one sfuth- east coast. town in England just before dark, 08115111,; casualtles and damage.

The Copenhagen report was con- tained in a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm quoting Svenska. Dag- bladet. Thc dispatch said the ex- plosions of anti-aircraft fire were

card 18 miles away in Sweden.

The Vichy radio reported that British planes swept. across Dan- mark during the nizht arri drew sharp anti-aircraft fire. It said air raid alarms were set off in Copen- hagen but there were no reports of bombs on Danish terrizory.

Widespread Raids"

(‘There were indications from ..ontlnental sources that British bombers flew wide over the cori- tnent Saturday night, from the Baltic to Italy but the British Air Ministry made no immediate an- nouncement of such widespread

raiding.

(In Stockholm. it was sold that the anti-aircraft fire was much more intense than two weeks ago when the guns blazed away at Erit-

.:—‘ (Continued on page '7. Col 5)

Tells control C Board what Women thuk

(By Margaret l-Zeker. Canadian Press Staff Writer] OTTAWA. May 3-(CP>-Mrs. B? =:\v£fe came to Ottawa last we . she walked right into the office of Canada's price boss and told him what she-and other vriiinzn-tliink the price

coiling,

She came rght out and said liouszwlves would welcome com- pulsory rationing, in place of voluntary rationing. Mrs. House- wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, an energetic Seotswomsn who of- ficially represents more than 1,- 000 Toronto housewives, members of the Housewives’ Consumer As- sociatlon.

Unolficlally she represents per- naps most, of the women of Can- adu. What she had to say to ex- ecutives of the Wartime Prices and Trades Board is probably what housewives from Halifax, Victoria, Churchill, Man., Pi-mce Rupert, B. 0., Flln Flori. Mano or Edmonton would say if they had the chance.

That's why the consumer branch of the prices board brought Mrs. Brown to Ottawa: To find out what Canada's housewives are saying over the buck fence or to the neighborhood grocer. so Mrs Brown, alias Mrs. Housewife, spent the late days of’ last week talk- ing w Donald Gordon, chairman of the board. to his assistant Wal- ler Zeiler, to Byrne Hops Sand- ers, head oi the consumer branch, and other executives.

Mrs. Brown had lots of 1°06

to say about the board. She criticisms and several

about

su esttons.

Iggere are sOme of the things Mrs. Brown told Canada's price bosses:-

The disappearance of ch r grades of food from the mar et has been a real hardship to Mrs. Brown and her organization, for

' 'T__ c2511)’: nurs BANANAS m uamrax

HALIFAX May 8 — <0 Hundreds of Halizfilllllflfi thonselvrs to i’

at the waterfront

as curs from an unload ter were discarded It

the fruit. much of ripe to IQ rpsuled 0:‘: d ‘imped hold an with mm“

freig dock.

Many tons of it unspoiled though too

e shl "g

ation Last Night

F War Siiu

(By EDWARD E. BOMAR, Associated Press War Analyst)

Jflllllfs sweep through Burma arouses concern that the invaders may push on toward Chungking in a supreme drive to knock China out of the war.

Such a. scheme cannot be ruled out as a. possibility, but preponder- n.nt military opinion is that the Japanese objective in the Burma cam- PM!!! is limited for the time being to locking the back door to China.

To the victory-flushed conquerois of Malays, Java, the Philippines, and now of Burma, the urge must be strong to try to wind up the "China incident" forthwith.

In three months they have fought some 400 miles through steam- ill! Burma and have advanced beyond Lashlo, the western terminus of the Burma road, almost in the China frontier.

U I O It l l

Ahead 600 miles or less is the vital south China terminal city oi‘ Kunming which could be attacked almost effectively from Indra-China. On-ce in Kunming, the invaders would threaten thr- Chincse capital of Chungking from the south ns well as from north China.

The (iifiicultlies of executing such a grandiose undcrtakiiv; strength- en the belief that the Japanese instead will finish the jab of conquer- ing Burma, and then direct their main war effort to other fronts.

Burma itself is an uninviting invasion gateway to China, as evi- denced by the monumental tusk of building and maintaining the peril- ous Burma road. The Chinese are confident this twisting route, border- ing deep gorges and rlring at points to nearly 10,000 feet could easily be made impassable. Another discouragement is the imminent advent of

the rainy monsoon season. i

Fully as important as local geography and climate are the new measures reported taken by the Chinese to head off any advance on Kunming viu the French-built rziitvay from lndo-China. Reinforce- ments have been massed on the border.

The most likely immediate prospect for Burma. seems to be that the Japanese will make their hold secure. improve the Lashio air base and try by bombs to hamper the herculenn task of putting through the new Assam road from India to China, some 400 miles north oi’ the Burma road.

I O O O O I

Retaining the initiative, Japan can still keep the United Nations guessing where the next blow will he struck. Just now a thrust by sen and’ air to try to cut the Ignited States-Australia supply llifcllne appears tbrPatPnBd. Sums are lacking of any immediate attempt to invade In- dra, although it is obviously too early to assume that the Japanese tide has reached its flood in southeast Asia.

Altogether, it seems logical ‘to expect under the circumstances that while large enemy land forces will be tied up indefinitely in conquered areas of Asia and the south seas, the main Japanese armies will be re- tained in the north-inflicting new wounds on long-suffering China if!!! limiting t-lluisiijjlal for n strunte, -. 1-‘ »

Red _Forces Swear To. Make ’42 Victory Year

Indications Russians are planning own Spring offensive.

Cassid

By Henry C. y Staff Writer

Associated Piess

MCSCOW. May 3—(AP)-Rod Army forces all along the 2,000- mile frcnt took oaths today to carry out Josoyh Stalin's to make 1942 the ycnr cl final de- fear. for the Gezmans amid indi- cat-ions that the Russians are

larming their own sin-ins M- enslve.

"Special conditions of spring tn which floods chzcktd the advance of the Red Army undoubtedly ‘will change sec-n.” said the official Communist. nswpapsr Pravda. "Even more active military oper- ations will begin.‘

Ceiling German spring offensive "a Jcsicrfls the news-paper sci —

"The Red Army w ll carry on the offensive in the gpziisg."

Premier" Stnlins M"y Day order was read at meetings of troops, after which the men pledged them- selves io fulfill its terms.

Southwestern from troops. guard- ing the approaches to he vital Cau- casian oil riches. we e reported to have “drciared -~~an'n1cu.=lv that t e ‘s ~ i leading slar

News Briefs

LONDON, May t-(Monday) -—(CP)—-A Reuters report from Cliungklng tuuny said the Jap- anese launched a fierce asauit on Chinese positions 65 miles north of Lashio, southwestern terminus of the Burma Road.

The Chinese were said to be

uttlng up stiff resistance with oth sides losing heavily.

CHICAGO. May 3—(CPl-A drive to persuade buyers to “take part- of-your-changcdn-war-stamps" was mapped today by a group of Unit- ed States and Canadian business executives and treasury representa- tires.

LONDON, May 4—(Monda) —(CP)-—|;erm:n raiders bomb- ed ints on the southwest cons and a town in the west of England early today.

_ UNITED NATIONS HEAD-

QUARTERS, Australia, May 3—(C P)-Unlted States and Australian bombers struck hard at the main Jn anesc base at Rabnul i“ New Br tain. hitting a trnilspcrl (rcctly, damagfn another and ca sllilill! a tender w lle ‘in scattered a l‘ battles the Allies accounted for l5 enemy planes. Gen. MacArtlrurs head- quarters announced today.

24 Dead, Hundreds

threats of a tale,"

(Continued; on page '7. Col 5)

Claim N0 Truth In Rumors re Giraud

VICHY, May a - (AP) - Ge“- I-ientf Honore Giraud. who escnvt-‘d from a German prison and return- ed to unoccupied France through Switzerland was still in the unoc- cupied zone this morning, official sources said today,

These sources declared:--

‘Sensational rumors circulated yesterday evening conceznlng the fate of Gen. Giraud, who escalied from Germany and rct-urned to ‘Freéice after passing by Switzer- .am .

"As a result Of erroneous indicat- irns, rumors circulated with insis- fence that he had been handed over to German military sixth- orfties at Moulin.

PAWI-IUSKA, Okla" MR3’ 3- rAPl _ storm-battered northeast Oklahoma counted 20 persons dead or missing. upwards of 100 injured and tremendous property damage today in the wake of fierce spring tornadoes.

The twlsters struck late Sat- urday about. the time other cor- nadoes lashed three other states to the northeast. Three persons

"Iiifonnstion front official sources were killed and scores injured ln formally denies this hows and eastern Kansas: one woman was states that Gen, Giraud ta still in killed in central Missouri and l1 unoccupied trance.” rsons in ured in central Illinois.

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Conscription Debate seen In prospect

By C. R. Blackburn Canadian Press Staff Writer

OTTAWA. May 3 -(CP) -Pirlfa- ment seems headed for a debate on all-out. conscription of manpow- er and. coupled utith that. eon- scrlution of wealth and industry.

WFhethci‘ it is to come ‘ e course of current discussion of the war appropriation bill or on a spec- ific measure remains to be seen.

Debate on the war appropriation bill, whirl opens the way for dis- cus=i0n of every aspect of the war effort trill be continued tomorrow.

By agreement the order of pro- cedure on this measure was to dis- cuss army affairs first. then the navy and air force. with munitions and supply ancl national war ser- vices following. Col. Ralston was the chief target for questions and

srilfzszestions on army matters most of last: week and the House had not. finished with him when ad- ivzirnment. for the weekend was taken Friday nloht.

It is known that the Conserva- ‘lvc partv will demand action bv We government toward full and "limited conscription when the Vine seems ripe to do so.

Harvard Green (Con. Vancouver Southi anticipated this move by his part-v Friday when he suggest- ed that. on the basis of’ the total Canadian vote in the plebiscite

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- r Tc urge India s Masses gnct to u s '5 t1" ~ ' Fight invasion ALLAHABAD, India. May 3 (CPl— The All-India Congress par-

ty's working committee decided Sat- urday to urge the masses of India

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Another Force

Heads

Towards‘

Indian Border

Fierce fighting

is in progress

with heavy losses 0n both sides; British and Chinese De- fenders weary 6f outnumbered.

LONDON, May 3—(CP)—The ashes of devastated Mandalay were held by the Japanese tonight as their mechanized spearheads pushed north toward China and west toward India in a great encircling move

against the weary, outnumbered British and Chinese

Burma_

defenders of

The Japanese thrust northward from Lashio carried them within 30 miles of China's Yunnan Province, a Chungking communique said.

Fierce fighting with heavy losses on both sides

Kweichleh, 58 miles from Lashio. The Flying Tigers of the Ameri- can volunteer group struck back heavily at Lashio, bombing giound- ed planes, seLLLhg fire to barracks at the alrdrome. and blowing up u large fuci dump. Several A. "J C. pluiies swept low over the airdrome, strafing personnel. All the attack- ing planes returned unscathed to their mics. ~————————-———— P)—-Bornbers flown by Chinese CHUNGKING, May 3 —(A- airmen and fighter planes the American volunteer group smashed with heavy and unex- pected fcree today at Lashio, advance base for the Japanese East Burma armies which now have struck within 30 miles of the border of Free China.

The Chinese hi h command sold the enemy push on to Mnnulalay after investigating the railway ‘uown of.’ Kyaukse, 35 miles south, on April 3o. . »

lavage Fighting

A qiungking communique from the forces commanded by lit-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, U. S. A, said the Japanese entered Mandalay Fri- day and that savage fighting and great confusion raged in the rubble of the former capital of Burmese

not. to fight. if their country is ln- icing

vaded by Japan.

With Japanese armies in Burma ready to turn toward India or Chl- na, the Congress leaders threw their influence with the people of India on the side of resistance only by “non-violent non-co-opcration."

The Congress thus returned to the ideas of M. K. Ghnndl despite the ‘views of Jawaherlal Nehru and other party leaders who of late have declared India must fight. Gandhi in recent utterances has advanced hi5 policy of non-violence to the point of opposing the scorched- ggrtn policy in case India is invad-

The committee's resolution, s- dopted after days of debate on a new policy followfnv failure of Sir Stafford Crfpps‘ mission, asserted its course was dictated by the at- titude of the British government.

“In case invasion takes place it: must be resisted.” the resolution said. "Such resistance can only take the fonn of non-violent non- co-onsratfon. as the British govern- ment prevented organization of na- tional defences by the people in any other way."