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S cret British if B mb ls New

A r Weapon

Pilpt tells of devastating effect of new bomb in braid on Emden.

_ LONDON» APri-l 1--(-\P)—A secret bomb oi devastating explosi

powers was disclosed tonight as s new British weapon in the air offen-

Ilvs against f‘ _y.

The bomb was described by one returning pilot as powu-rul enough ie make "houses take to the sir,” and was used in Monday's overnight

raids on Emden. German industrial centre and port.

An Air Ministry communique said in describing tne effects a the

bomb “the results appeared to be devastating."

Eiaborstlng on the new explosive, the Air Ministry news service said it is to the ordinary bomb as the Howitzer shell is to the field gunshell. One pilot said that bythe light of lncendlaries he was able to ob-

serve the "gigantic flash, blinding white."

"Immediately after the detonation." the service said, “the crew so. greet masses of debris flung high in the air. flylnr. they (normally) therefore they knew enormous damage must have been done."

German ncws Agency barred By Peru

yards of Bremen. and lesser and the Netherlands harbor oi R0 was the new bomb nwntioned. . Shipping Losses Down week ended March 23

of l'l British, allied and shléns totalling 59.141 90118-19 5 an

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LIMA, Peru, April 1PM?)- Peru to ht barred the ‘Ger- man news agency “Transoeean" from operations in this country on the ground that its dispatch- es are "s reading news that may disturb line good ' tel-national relations obhfru." \

The interior Ministry's decree added that the s ncy might also "hurt the no ionsl senti-

est losses reported in four weeks. the week ended March 16. were re vised upward from 25 ships oi 71.77 tons to 2'1 ships of 94.402 to

t th t l d sf- _ inll keel! the sea lanes around Brlt- ment to Cl rlotl town. T5? dull-‘dremivrcgttli: initiations. leftyitli; atltigglxy liglifitdil-Iiiilllg 3111 clear for merchant traffic. re- The Ifilfillll grafiuatcs were; Gco. Therefore it is resolved to can- day smaN lttheflmds) ‘Blanch turned to the Dominion today to be Keifer, Niall H Burnett. L. J. eel ‘he Wm“ “an Tum. (ngwloul; reports had “shed two sssl ed to ifew duties on this side Burke, R, T, MgcKlnl-lon, R, 1-1.

ocean to operate in notional

territory as a news H0110!" o“ h Haw.“ “ancfi as a result

the same offensive sweep.

I I Qommunlqule re rted single plane 1 f 1 l, . Prcbc fires In ........ on s». m1 m“ w“; lilélifliililflfghilh ll‘. dbl‘. llll‘li‘li°l‘.é.‘zlll.l°Hfldlfilll‘!. , ,, mm“- musk?“ some deaths an 91' silbmmnes and lifaflft- ly of the fine discipline and morale. Arm hmldmgs ‘mg °f3':“1aff'b°mbe,, we“, de. 0f their experiences. they had maintained throughout the six: y 3d m! little to“say. in the manner of the 1119mm’ training. and expressed the! 8"“ - navy. Jerry dldnt bother Ourfcl- l hope that they would bring still fur

OTTAWA. April 1 -(CP) - De- fence Minister Rnlstnn told the House of Commons tonight inves- llgalions had been made into fires m army buildings st Fredericton- fialgt John. N. 13.. and Yormouth, _

Bulgarian Students Hold demonstration

From the height they were would not be able to see ordinary fragments,

The Air Ministry also announced a heavy attack on the ship-bulldirf tacks on Bremerhaven, Oidenper .

terdam. but only in the llilnden raid

A lralt ced for the ‘The dm v ann%ppmg 105w‘

ai hlDS 35,261 tons below the DIEViOY-li week's revised figures and the low-

Last week's report of losses for

ns.

Since the war started. the average kl losses exclusive of those at 33min“. has been owed a» u»

ns. A German destroyer was hit and

German tankers ablaze and sinkiigg

Tonight's air and home minlstrire

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CHARLOTTETOVVN, CANADA

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Inner resources may slowly one imperceptibly be exhausted.

Annual tly lint

Subscription Delivered, [L00 i: l’ E. I., $4.00: Cunuliu and U. S. [LN

r Quick-built

7Q

long, capable of i0 to l1 knots.

Binlpl styled and quick to construct, 200 of these ssnguing "l:

asseml ly line speed as s supplement to the U. s. merchant marine. The 7500mm ships will be 425 feet

sly

Total cost will be $350.000.000

duckling" vessels will be blllll .v;l

Fliers ’ Wings A

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Island Naval Rating home From overseas

AN EASTERN CANADIA April 1.-(CP)-—Men of the

3

of t e Atlantic.

work and other tasks at months

of Toronto.

was described by Je Ottawa. The aircraf

lncendiaries

N: roar. Royal Canadian Navy who have been help-

e group oi about 25 officers and ratings had been engaged in convoy sea for Some of them had been

lows much," said Jack Schumacher

One attack by a German plane Tremblay of dived low on a vessel on which some Canadians _were on duty, and showered down

Four of the bombs struck the ves- sel, but were snuffed out before they

Six P. E. Island

Receive

t Ottawa

First graduate

s from recruits-

enlisted at Charlottetown - recruiting center.

(Special to The Guardian) OTTAWA, Ont, April 1.

orsblc ceremony at Uplands til

man being George Keifcr, nephe Charlottetown.

Hunter. J. T, O'Donnell whom earned their wings.

in presenting

U181‘

honor and distlnctlon- to th corps.

of the graduates given 21 days’ leave.

(Flight Lieutenant H. A. C. Moly neux. in charge of the Charlotte town recruiting centre.

The largest class yet to graduate under the Air Training Scheme were pre- sented with thclr wings at a mem-

aflcrnoon. and. included six Prince Edward Islanders, one oi whom led the class, graduating with special distinction, the lmlllant young alr-

of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon finches. of This class included the first rc-

cruits registered by Recruiting Of- ficer Mclyneux after his appoint-

There were d5 in the‘ class. 48 of,

He was answering an earlier GU98’ tion from King Hnzen (Con. Saint John-Albert.)

The Minister said the cause of the fire at Ejrederlcion was not. Wt established but lncendlarlsm was suspected. ‘The saint John fire was caused by the carelessness of 0116 individual and the Yarmouth fire by the explosion of a stove while

ed by students belong clubs held patrfotc demonstrations today in the streets around royal palace. singing distributing leaflets.

neutral le ations here tonight r1- ceived dl cmatic messages rewri-

sonn, Bulgaria. April 1 4PM!- censor) -(AP> - BIIIKB-fil“ in to nationalist

the

songs and

BEIORADE. April 1—(AP) -—-TWO

could do any damage. dropped info the rzpill-box." where Canadians were manning an antl- alrcraft gun. "The pieces make fine souvenirs." observed Trembloy.

Other ratings Frank Snow, Halifax; Sextus Fee- han. Chsrlotteto thy. Saint John, N.l3.; Tug Wilson. 0n

One of them

arriving included

wn; Allan McCar-

night the six men who graduated a Ottawa were the first

Earlier Island fliers

Four do

to receive taken to st. wings from those recruit/ed at thlsewhere Pontifical High centre. received wings, but they enliste the nluinlnlld.

(L. J. Burke. Tignlsh. R. H. Hun- ter. Dullclns Centre. and J. T.0'Don-| ncll. Vernon River. nil enlisted. on August 22 last. _ _ T, MacKimlon, TigllLsh. jOllled 110,15 and on October l5 Niall H. Burnett

,vs later R.

the building was unoccupied.

He said standing instructions in the army required engineer officers to follow standard fire prevention rules and to encourage provincial and municipal fire marshals to in-

l that lice charfed s crowd of £§eral lllllalgdffid stu ents and made many arrests today in Boiifl. 3111- garin, to break up demonstrations in flront oi the royal palace in protest against German occupation of Bul- l “all; police seized pamphlets de- scribed ns “inflsmma 017-"

JIFFYJAMAS FOR. THAT MIDNIGHT SNACK

tho buildings where the fires occurred

had been carefully installed and mspected

Wflr—25 Years ..u=..r:ll=..srl..~cll..w...u

Ago Today

treal, and Alfred Cochlne. Ot- tawa.

Work stops in ll. S. coal mines.

NEW YORK, April 2.— AP)- A work stoppage tn the nlted States bituminous coal mines became fully eilectlve tonight after labor and management failed to reach o. contract agree- ment, but a federal conciliotor said he believed continued ne-

tllltions during the next . l8

ours would bring "a tempor-

ary an-augemsnt for resumption lil-

(By The Osnsdlan Press)

1 I, isle-British forces ex-

ed front in the Arres sector

hi. “as” “ “all”; Wm"?-

. r n n pa“ Scottish crest.

Coming Events

._o_- Isle for Notices in this eelomn I cents per word.

Ask State,

..,, , wmmm m, Troopers to oust Wider. April 4th. Bale of candy. ‘ s 1

__ hWA§;~"-fj_-j;~ Slt-downers Th m“ . a§75¥rcii“§i§§'.§..'...§ Bliifvifi-Iiii-

i ounced receipt of e tele- 25".}? gum Mayor John l... Carly altdwiefoiPollceOsrlLBrooh oi marina-ban Deal-born seklfll i0!‘ the assistance of stAte troop"! l"

in», more slowl- ounvenv’! Mule plant. '

ar . {Ti °°ui"“°il '3‘ °ll"'.l°3a°'°<'i . “p???” 3"§l'"*-'.%"“'E""="§§:.ra°*m Hermon. RehBa n Home YFOII ~ Msfvyn Bulman allunter Rim . Parl-

"Runfmsge ssie Guide Associa- tion at Plymouth Show

189 Grafton BL, Friday, April 4th. _ I p. m. n-sss-s-z-zl.

"loading l-i s Thur day. April 3rd. Kensington ll S P. M’. Summer- Slde 10 A. M. till i P,

Haslam. Eeadaibane

Capitol OfEritrea

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CAIRO. A rll l—fA.P)-- British and Imperls forces today took Asmara, the capitol oi Italian Eritrea, eneral odquarters sn- pounced ere, and thus opened the way for a li-irust by rsii and mo- tor ronds to Mossaus, a Eort and the colony's arbor.

Charlottetown. also of Charlottetown. enlisted).

cu by Llroup Captain Frank McGlll ' officer ccnlnlnllnillg.

i The young men. parts of Cnliadn and ‘states. had ahead of its scheduled time. Among the ‘Creighton how

red with the R.C.A.F. team

during the eliminated

leasgie fina . T e Maritime Provinces had strong representation in the gradu- ating class. including Lowther. N.ii. Burnett, Charlottetown; R. H. Pau- ley, Port Elgin. N.B.; J. A. Watson. Fredericton; R. T. MocKinnon ‘Pig- llish. P.E.I.; J. A. S. Fbrguson. uth Port Morlen. N8; J. minlon No. ti. 10.8.: O. inMacdonald. N. R. Fowlow. Port _ J. Burke. 'I‘lgnish, ter. Dundss Cen- . J. Keifer. Char- English.

Ths Italians fought a delaying action in defense of the city since the fall March 20 of the heights of Cheren, the capital's natural teeters. and its loss put the - tlsh troops in position to strike a perhaps fatal blow at all Italian resistance in Eritrea.

In Ethiopia, a British columnwas driving on mwarm Addls Abeba. the capital, from the strategic base provldedby captured Dlredawa. From Diredsws came official new: that British forces entering the town had found its remaining Italian inhabitants "being injur-

ielo] adviser. from Lansing, the filly till noon. blcllwen fiacsmpbell. Stile Clliiill. i0 Dliwit i0 6°11- ai-l-Q- .4

fei- with on the "quest.

ed" by deserlers from the disor- goniaed liasclst colonial army. .

J

nnd George Kelfer.

from many the United finished their course

graduates were LAC i tier, of Amherst. N. 5.. uud LAC. B. G. Phllbin of Mcnt- real and vulleyfleld. Que. W11? star- n Ottawa City Senior Hockey League

whiter. Their team was 12y l-lull Volants in the

- . . Camp-l ‘ .B.; J. T. O'Donnell. Var-l

EXPULSIQN SOUGHT

is

W

to Germany. Mamcru ‘Sllikvmilel

Passing of

Group Conlmtlilléclcpmlggdngxggé%3 Fr.

Yesterday

The Rev. John Buote, 47, form-

There was a m“, attendance of Islands, passed away in the Char- mvlwd guests’ friends and 1.6mm,” lottetown Hospital yesterday. Death

who have been lflllngixegérggggl-lliariflssillililrieehllgrebtii)?r more is a further sharpening of the

1 situation."

- more than l0 years.

said lasttlie chapel of the Sacred Iienrt

t Home until today. Then IL will be Dunstalfs Muss

lvarl. Bishop of taken to Father Buofcts parish at Tlgnlsh for burial,

le Mr. and Mrs. Francis Buote » of St. Felix, small community about two miles from Tignish, He attended the public school there

(ypfAwg April 1__(Qp)_ The and later St. Dunsialfs University. largest class of airmen to graduate Chfl1‘l0f-t@i0\vn- FIE il-om No. 2 service buying ‘Iraullngqtheoicgicnl studies at Laval Semin- scnocls. operated under tile Brltlshlnry. uonllnouwenllh Air ‘Proining Plan at Tlgnls suburban Uplands. received theiiymony was performed by the wings today m a ceremony conduct-

complelcd his uebcc. and was ordained at on June '1. 1925. The ccre- late jBishup Louis oLcary of Charlotte- town. Ordained at Tlgllish the slime dny was Bishop L00 Neiligan. now head of the Roman Catholic Chaplains with the Canadian For- ces.

Shortly after his elevation to the - Holy Priesthood Father Buoie was appointed parish prlcst at Grand Entry in the Magdalen group. He

lbecame ill with a heart ailment.

had lived at the sacred Heart. Home, Charlottetown.

A brother, Joseph Buote resides at Boston, Mass, while Mrs. Jos- ept J. Gaudet, near Tlgnish Vil- liage is a. sister.

Funeral services at Tignish will . llshment of a great commercial ship-

uilding industry that would ne- iltore Lisa: gxloryhcil thedgust century t3 _ _ _ _ is ova one, s pyar was J‘ Goyle’ Do The Rev J A MmDonald p“ h upon the government by Opposition Leader Hansmi Commons tonight.

be held Friday morning from the Church of st. slmon and st. Jude.

priest will officlate.

SHIFT SOILS mu CROPS 8i‘ LOUIS -(C'P) —More than lands in

‘$000000 acres of crop Missouri have been shifted from

soil depict rcps to soil b ildlng crops sixtcemlllilg. u

l i

lllulcillcsi but Bailing Broad l

Father Buoteks body is resting ate- "mm

led o. wcck ago by o Yugoslav gov-‘

ERCIIANTMEN BURNEOITG

‘Ugly Ducklings’ For Merchant Marineistrikflfs and

Licuiz-Cmdr. R. T. H Fletcher

| parliamentary prlvatp secretary i“, the first lord of the ndml ally, blt- ‘ ierly criticized. ln a 5990111 11w 00"" ' Linued presence in Bdtaln of the Japanese ambassador. He ponted out that the envoy and’ hs staff were able to report Brllzsll sccrets

l

(ABOVE). the Japanese ambasuldor Iliezé, assumed his post in October- 938.

Basilio? o hadlitequiem will be said by His Ex

'- the arrival in Belg d Ollrcellency, Most Rev. J.

A. O‘Sulli-' Charlottetown. f JLRWI‘ ill U10 dill’ the 110113’ Will be‘ firmalion that Ml: Eden had gone

native i to Yugoslavia, adding that reports to

‘set

Police battle‘ At Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, April 1 —(AP) — Union strikers. using bricks and 100KB. and law enforcement offic- ers, armed with tear gas and fire 111056. engaged in a 2 1-2 -l10ur I battle that sent 21 men lo hospi- tals and emergency wards a‘. the lstrlkc-lzound Allis Chalmers plum’. l at suburban West Allis late today. i AL least seven men were lnjurcd ‘seriously and taken to the Milwau- kee general hospital. Others were

fbcvent

Latin Americ follow U. S.

treated at the plant hospital.

‘ Hundreds of windows of the company's main office and labora- tory were broken, automobiles, in- cluding that of Governor Julius P. Hell, were smashed and damaged; an eight-foot fence was tom down and the Governor as he tried to le in which he had taken refuge.

The fight started at 3.30 p. m. C. S. T. (5130 p. m. A. S. T.) and at 6 p. m. still was raging. Depu- ties and police officers fired round after round of tear gas into the crowds of United Automobile Work- ers Union (Congress of Inciusfrigl Organizations) members nncl sym- pathizers who milled on the street Hear the main structure.

The strikers surged back wiiltl each tear gas discharge and the“ came forward again when 1g had tied to hurl rocks. stones and bricks through the windows.

Deputies played streams of watcl- on the strikers as they flflempbcrj to rush the entrance. They were re. inforced by about 50 workers. arm- ed Wlih ll‘Oll bars. When strikers tried to smash their way through this opening and over the fences the workers batted their hands. '

himself stoned ave the shop office

S

’ Yugoslavia

mans prepared the public for what- ever action Hitler may plan. l l One of the latest atrocity stories- “e r and it was mental-y Dienst aus Deutschiand — was a claim that a Yugoslav citizen of German birth lmd been branded on the face with o. fiery Swastika.

treatment of Germans were splash-

Germnn controlled press Just before attacks on other eastern European eierly parish priest at the Magdalen muntnes- Damicularly 9mm“)-

thc foreign office. observed:

liaziprcss hot In abuse of

a. b o

1 P

rir

(in

the stem of the fl fl

(By The

Nine Axis merchlintmen totalling burned or scuttled by their crews in Lati

Tuesday while l5 others,

taken in protective custody to forestall snbofag The iii-hour toll thus WZIS brought t ed and iii seized as Latin American G

suit on the lead 0f the Un Danish ships last week-end

As Mexican naval detachments closed in Axis ships harbored at Tampicn and Vern 71,687 tons, the captain of the 2,005-f0n Iialin had his crew open the seacock and the v sinking in the Pancoc River at Tampico.

Three Italian tankers and a German ship were burned in Puerto Czlhello, Ven Government took over three und one small German passenger s sailors. Two G after a Peruvian cruiser prevented their es other German vessel w

erman ships

ZlS Si!

Flames burst from the tcanlsliil) Ccrigo in the

Y- A Swastika flag h 1.l20-ton

SOUTTlE

[15 Additional Ships Seized To"

German Guayas ‘er at Guayaquil. Ecaudor, 'I‘lles- ung from vessel as

Sabotage

an Governments lead 111 dealing;

With Nazi - Fascist shipping.

(‘zlnadiun Prue's‘)

iLilih‘ tons were n American portd aggregating 88.1.12 ions. werd

0.

lied Slates

were burned at cape, and an- uttied in Pails. Peru.

Reveals no plan

- lli b t ‘ h d, T c k llaiiizfilislill.“iivrymiiiii i»: "m0"? flllllt s Two others which fled from ______

Allao Monday night were locatedl‘ Peruvian navy ova-re

10 miles at sea by

lanes. Peruvian warships

reported speeding to the scene.

BERLIN, April 1.—(AP) -— Ger- many olficiullv pursued a wailingl policy today on developments in Yu- goslavia, but front page charges m. 7 the press of abuses against Gcr-‘i

repented pv the com-

(Slinilar charges of alleged mis-

ovei- the front pages of the

The commentary. which is close to "The inlpresslon in Berllnis that

Dlenst said that Yugoslnvilrsl

bersllip on the Axis pact (sign-l

crl the hangar, L!‘ iriille, Lufthansa. at a Li ‘ ort, and operation of the line in [Peru

Two Axis vessels were burned by d0)’ in Punta

Peruvian troops meanwhile selz

ansport; planes of the

was reported forbidden.

crews Monday

(Contlnucd on page 9,

talians told

To prepare to |iluit U. S.?

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NLH’ YORK, April l—-l.-\l'l—-

The New York Post says in a

Col B)

I crinncllt that was lat-cl" elected from o I m

‘ lizptlon of the Yugoslav army und rude of Anthony Eden. the British Foreign Secretary.

(London said there was no coll-

efiect were “feclers" to sound

that Father Buoie was a son of the out British intentions).

fflce) did not square with the mo»

copyright nrtlcic that Italian fllilSlllflr officials and other government ngcnts have been instructed in prepare to quit the United States on short no- lice.

(Officials at tile Italian Em- ilrlssy in Washington said they know of no such ordcrsJ

l

flémllllltid there until i929 when heM

He was forced to retire and since.

monstrated in the last war that they could build steel ships of very large capacity," Mr. Hanson said.

the ministers to review the whole plgsltlon in the lnterst of Nova 8co- us get back to something of the p0- ‘sition we once occupied in this icountry in relation to the sea.”

.Nav_v Minister Macdcnaid told _H0u.se there were Ample yards lCsnads to handle all the ‘cargo and naval shipbuilding pro-‘ gram and that was trained personnel