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CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, TU

ESDAY, MARCH 1o. 194s

Sisters Meet, first Time in 20 Years

. ItosTON, March l8 —(CI')- ‘two sisters. Mrs. John Bellw- i. p, oi California and Miss -. lisrlorie Power. Bl. st Moutrefi ; both natives oi Prince Idwe blend, were reuni ' thin week I ior the first. time In it!) years. Joining in the reunion wee their nether. Mrs. Msrroret Power oi Ripley street, Maiden. \ vlsn (Mrs. lelden) at ltihe

in PILL r ‘ ‘ grandparents. " liie is now a secretary for the

Canadian Pacific railroad in liouiroel.

It woo the war the! brought

the iornily together. _ Mrs. Seldens husband II an

_ omy fllfwral and hee been

. lo that community from Oallflfmln vino her daughter married.

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‘irks lie Tax 0n“ tn-ilp Dividends

.s'*us..r-.se."-s>P..>-.M..~ ' hquirea in the house's! Command Mo! whether the Ns/tonal Reve- Illt Department had decided on

itho Taxation oi patronage div. _ ldendo paid nami- Aiurii gisdiifiisvii"

tiilitiiion should be placed on the , Irdtr paper.

Mr. Douglas diverted his question Revenue Minister Gibson.

‘tiaim Empress rill Canada Sunk

“W YORK. March is -<cr>- at Canadian Pacific steamshlps‘ W; -Xton liner Empress oi Canada ; t "filmed by the Italian radio Anlytiuflflal/B W" sunk in th {Mollie laden with troops," but t, 6s oi the line remained cairn. , out that this is the fifth ‘c ' ° 0X15 has claimed to have Jlillk the ship. pa: mPWSB-A peacetime trans- hmdi-‘billxury lner. was requisit- M m Y the admiralty at the start “m; will‘ as a troop arrier and "S" Shib- She has euded sub- _, I?» dive bombers and surface mm 0" voyages to Murma sir, '3' EEyDl. Norway. Spltzbe n llld the For East. f. Tricgglinn claim was contained in raid‘: *" A ocae ress. . . J-ofiiclnls in Montreal noted that

meiflgqdorevlous claims that the

~ been sunk

- from h a ~ii°..“lrf.'...'iit‘ii‘i-"

liming Events

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‘Sends "Invitation r To Con. De Caulle

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(Associated Press Staff Writer) LGIIURS. March is-ulm-osn. licnrl Giraud cleared the way to- day for negotiations to end the diounit-y in North Africa by og- Wllilllg to Gen. Charles De Gaulle iilhtluf Hench leader. a formal invite on to loin all the French ther under one

tn ir tio , n.’ oifiiiiln “hi? “"r.iiZ"°“.r'i.’

to Gen. George Catroux. Illhtin! French delegate General to Syria. Who is ex ctcd in Algiers soon to serve as bison ogfint be- tweglieGiraud and De Ga e.

good w has come" read the message o! Gen. Giraud, French African High Commlgion-

to welcome De y lve this union con- "lio form.’ e said. adding that "I have already expressed to Gen. De

6111110 my" eslre to come tn an un- derstand . Yesterday I expressed the arlnoip es governing my conduct and there should now be no mis- understanding between us."

He referred to en address Siuidey in which he declared he planned tocleen out the last vestiges of Ylchy influence in North Africa. ‘both measures and men."

This terse warning was followed by the reported resignation today or Gen. Jean Marie Berger-ct. form- er Ylchy Air Force Chief. as Gir- auds deputy for diVililn affairs and ea amember oi the war c mmlttee. Giraud was said to have accented the resignation.

As the political house cleaning oi Vichy-trained public figures con- tinued at a swift pace, Jean Ri- bsrud,, a political adviser and an o ent oi collaboration “lth the fig ting French oi Gen. Charles DeGaulle, also was reported to have resixhed but this was not con- firmed. ‘the removal oi these two would leave only Gen. Auguste Nogues. Governor-General oi French Mor- oooo. and Marcel Peyrouton, Gover- nor-General of Algeria. as the re- maining top figures among those who have been most heavily crit- icized by allied sympathlsers on the grounds of Axis and Vichy idlin- lngs. The fighting French have been outspoken against Bsrflei". Ncgues and Peyrotitori.

i‘! urn ready Gaulle to

Says Air Force Missing In Battles

OTTAWA March l5 -—(CP) J.S, Roy (Ind. Gaspe) said in the House oi Commong tonight that residents of the ossoe coast had witnessed many battles between ships and submarines but in none of them had the airforce played any part. He declared that there was some- thing wrong with the St. Lawrence River and Gull‘ defences and sug- gested that a royal commission should be set up to investigate this situation. Navy Minister MacDonald inter- rupted at one stage to ask th member if he thought he was he] lng St. Lawrence navigation by tellng these things in the House. "He is showing that the Minister l; incompetent," shouted Jean Francois Poullot (Lib. Temiscou-

n

Mr. Roy, who spoke in the bud- get debate. declared that he had been kept sl'ent by similar statements in the past but now he was going to tell all he could without aiding the enemy. of the thlngnwhlch the government would "hide' from the Canadian people.

lleavy Fighting liages In Burma

NEW DELHI, March 16 —(OP)- lighting in the Burma wsr theatre reached new heights over the weak- end. the allied cmnmend announc- "today. with RAJ. and British nbombers blasting enemy rail lino! end British more repvblns JIP- eneee forces which attacked their left flank.

' The fleroo eeeoulte ‘in a a oi the Maya Denim R- ii" ur i “iii f°iii“"i“.i”‘il’ i2.‘il‘é’é‘“.°r Me l sis and inflicted heavy

Japanese made a series or

losses on the enem

Commons iiears Discussion 0n Low-income Group

B; JAMES McCOOK éCaua ien Press Staff Write

AWA. March i6 —— (CP) — Particular problems or western farmers, dominion civil servants and low-income groups generally were reviewed by three House of Commons members speaking in the budget debate today.

E. . Pcrley (Prog. Con. Qu'-Ap-

Pelle) advocated establishment oi a Permanent debt review board Millet farm debt payments each year in accordance with crop con- ditions and other factors. George Mcllralth tLib. Ottawa West) said the civil service was coin g more and more under con- trol o the treas board with no appeu. from its ecislons. There should be one Minister with full authority over the clvll service.

Rober Fair iN.D. Battle River) said low-income groups were seri- ousl affected by regulations such es so perm ing restaurants to charge an additional five cents for tea, coffee or milk when sold as bevera ea. Upward adjust-

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lvely little interference.

- War Situation Last Night

From Saumlakkl, in the Tanlmbnrg, Kupang, on Tlmor, is about the some distance from Cape Talbot. Given e couple oi heavily overcast days and a. favorable weather front, e con- siderable Japanese force might hope to make the dash with rampant.

By Glenn Babh, Associated Press War Analyst

_ For the second time this month Gen. Douglas MacArthur’: com- munlque cells attention to l growing concentrltl sea power In the Islands above Australia. Evidently this tenacious toe intends to keep coming on in the unbroken series of disasters he ~has suffered on land and sea and in the air in the Southwest Pacific theatre in the last six months. The new concentration is some 1,500 miles westvoi the Bismarck Sea. area. Yesterday's communique mentioned especially ‘ ships In the Arnboinn-Dobo area, 500 to C00 miles above Darwin, the chief port of Northern Australia. The set-up suggests strongly that, a Jlllanese descent on Australia's sparsely-populated northwest coast, out of range oi the bases from which the battle oi the Bismarck Sea was w won, ls in tho making. Allied airmen have been keeping close watch on this rnengcg for weeks, but recently the evidence has become clearer vionce oi Japanese strength southward through the Islands west o! New Guinea. The couamuniqueo have reported almost daily bombings of ships and harbors throughout the area. In addition to Arnbolna, ‘ l, the second largest naval base of the Dutch East Indies, and Dobo. in the Aroe group, Allied airmen have attacked Kupang and Dill on Timor and several Islands around the Bands Sea, including the Kai and Tanlnibar

oi ' penese slr and

spite o!

on and cargo

oi a. steady ad-

to Darwin, is only 300 miles.

An invasion of Northwestern Australia ‘would not necessarily mean

Enlistments In Active Army

UITAWA, March l5 -— (CP) _- Enlistments in the Canadian active army at Jan.~31, 1043, totalled 431.- 200, the defence department said in a return tab d the Commons to- day for G.K. Fraser (Pi-cg. Con. Peterborough West.)

Men called up and enrolled for training under the National re- sources moblllzatlon act at that date numbered 114,641 and 31,440 called up ior compulsory service had volunteered for active service with the army navy or air force. The return said more than 149.- 000 men attested for service’ an - where now were serving in Cane a as at Jan. 2, 1943 and there were more than 106,000 men serving in the reserve army at Dec. 31, 1042.

Opposes llnited Nations Police

WASHINGTON. March lit-(AP) -Vlcc President Henry Wallace ap- plauded today a pro ed resolut- ion to bind the nitcd Nations closer in war and peace. but Sen- ator Burton Wheeler declared his "unalterable opposition" to a sec- tlon advocating the creation of I United Nations Police Force. Wallace, at press Cflllffifflme- called the reso ut on by four Sen- ators as “vary constructive. Pro- sident Roosevelt ehrlier W88 W" ported to have approved the broad objectives oi the pro als for the formation of the Polca Force i0 guard any“; fuflhel‘ aggression. creation oi machinery to settle in- ternationai dtsplli" and strength- enln of co-operatlon in the bro- secu on oi the war and iolnt 80l- iori in administering and rehabil- itating conquered areas.

li.S. Liquor Sales Still Increasing

HALIFAX, March 15-—(OP)—Dls- closing liquor sales have Cflfliilllled to rise in. Nova Sootln desPiW Illi- loni , Attorney-General J. H. Mac uarrle announced in the Le- islature tonight that further CW5 n the. ration would be 1190M"? ahortl if the Provinceb 1043 stocks

t . “X9- m “u Sh... wine and beer all will ave to he out. the Attorney-General said. The im- sent ration is one pint of spirit-s 01‘ mg quart of wine or s doun 0'11"“ or beer r week. beer and wine rat on recently was reduced from double the present allotments.

“Buzz” Deurling e Lands At lloncion

MONCIDN. N3. £911.‘; a r night?!’ lll‘ , Io

alta. now attached % R.C.A.!'. arrived at No. I 8.!!!‘ . here early this evening on e tour o R.C.A.II'. training and opera- tional flying stations across Cen- ade, this was the iiret stop in the

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. dill-ll- wn n ltllh niinana ocknow- Maritlmel.

“coma to """"‘ lodaeii ltfiillljllgotlilcflt" of its lines. ‘Iunlrht Ilylne Mfg" 80w M‘t“""*"iil"°°'i i“ rm“ racer-r. u: .2: as. masts.- “do-t- - . p_ " apenesea enreno - '

“Milena? stantieliy in the re onlnortgflgi xillmferml 3am 8"" “mm as con 3.1 Rathsdoune. about negilels n" o’ 0mm“ Q fluujL “m”, . vhham" -....... mu‘ was“! the Bay oi’ l! 1J0 Ngermmaiageat atgdenta an: =7|,',‘"§':rltyl. Hun ‘lhuro- o British communist-IQ f“ ‘is eta and wilraddaeos , M“ u” Whom", mug“ n“ fighting woe continuing and i "f mroe groan meetings before fly- . vies. Netlo “h pa“; had been aha emountora bl lng to Dartmouth sli- station -, p134, tween patrols both aides. when the tour will ecntlotio.

Allied sources with formation from inside Euro pressed doubt tonight tha German assault upon

The drive has two purposes,

Alr Force beyond bombln

The second is

ed ragm have wl hcirawn as active maiider of German forces in

dispute between the German Command and the Generals d about German grand stra lied invasion of Europe.

The High Command was

0n the grounds that even were successful, the last ounce of German bower

and ma.

to advocate retiring within

iinent to repel invasion. These sources said the Ge

il-zt Rus=ian armies

od the abandonment oi the tltwii Prussian strategv of

tack

""~~ WW! -- attack. ln the mation of iese comrlotent -' l l“ London, tidisnnd as '1 military "test for t-he contentions of the man Field Commanders, as

Force.

comma had bee

up the 1935 and 1036 classes

"gt/smut these a ted o r

marked to take oiorrcgitora

7. Sources hero fully credit. Ii-lidhii Nmrts that Premier Anioincscu had ordered the

reached s

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LONDON, March 15 — (AP) - nellable in-

ex- the

Kharkov slgnallzes the beginning of a new spring offensive against Russia.

they

said. The first is to keep the Russian

PR-Ilge

of the great, Ploesti oil fie ds and refineries in Bumanla. one of Ger- many's main sources oi supply. to settle a. seri- ous controversy between German Generals which has been report- slrioe Hitler was sad to

com- Rus-

a, These sources said information has been accumulating about a

Hi h lrec-

lng troops on the Russian front

f0!‘

1048 in the llgh-t of a orobab e Al-

preaenied as opposed to a third summer offensive against. Russia

if it

it would expend

IIIBII-

terlal strength. ‘Phase military leaders were said

tihc

“European Fortress" and dispers- ing forces throughout the con-

flllflll

Generals cn the Russian front in-

could

bc smashed and bitterly protest.- tradi-

at-

esti- for- Wit.‘ case" Ger- well

as to liold back the Russian Air It was reported that a military rorrouiidroo dlnl imlgnid w

new vsons o - proximately 1.200.000 men in

lned by calling

811d

GI!‘- HOW

being abandoned by the Rumanisn snn 1

eon- Ion n

l’ bu bi

v '0‘ 1Q t0 phi] CANADA

is a roams: r100

, would be to

merits rhoud be made in the o1d- ll! , I "- The , " _. age pension, and in allowances to create a diversion ulndor cover of which the Japanese would attempt to ficfimmed on Pa“ 7’ Co] 4) “age tootmir m‘. n m! ‘i: nigger-ens. where the outlook currently is

MacArthur to divert major forces

inqtilxilzllzgt 5:13:12?‘ filncethtlllllxehislofftrtritslve fsotlliiedulleljgialt of gear.

o . re axa on A

Japanese in Northeastern New Guinea, atoLeeaand 5flll)lill‘ilsz:re on ‘h’ ‘"15 wflllii- Tho Position of those garrison: must be getting ’ , "My needed the supplies and reinforcements that 22-shlp convey was "frying. Now the Japanese command is trying to get help on a smaller scale in by a round-about approach from the northwest to Wewak.

Doubt Drive Is Spring Qffensive

Madung

See dispute in German ranks as to grand Strategy for 1943.

Election Omens Seen At ilttavva

OTTAWA. March 15 - (up) _A member oi Parliament, saw genera] election omens in the House of CWwnons sky today.

slloaking in tgie Blgget debate,

. ... isehey s mg. (m, Qu-Ap. Bgliaienatedfiiskstchewan member,

“ en th l ' _ tlflige ‘Hon. ihMGfnstGeiirdtiiieiyflgixti- wegfimfil‘ giON boards to operate in

n anada, with m- m-lgv on gasoline. tires and so on. it looks to mgi like an election year, m5 We n We know what we will be Sliding out there this summer" The maids w Which he refer- {Igeslggx their I13; slzldhwoiild be istration of sulasidiegu ° “am”

Some Canadians Are Still Shackled

OTTAWA, M __ ___ Indications areal-Cirillo‘? somgclgsn- glib’? held prisoners of war in

(my are still shacklegL 551d 5 aaplvfgabiedan the Commons w-

Y l" . - ll 00h. Lake Cfilliagi ennui" 02mg‘ mvEiXwl flsures of the numbers pregciiiiddtigrrt‘: nitiriveivnélélblc‘ m‘ ' thwush the Swiss c" mm“ if" or Dmtectln t

o Wxilxllidntbel he n

All‘ the GCIgBkIIIZG iiirstfiuiiriiu! slit; l-“lwliing oi Canadian and Bri. t risoners oi war, but, fivlpgflégmg" Germans in Canada "d "fly in December. A

155 PAID SALARIES

UPTAWA, Mtlfch l5 -- (OP) _ 3401151111! salaries ere paid to 45s Pei!!!“ by the NationaTWar Fin.

ance Committee for the sale o; w

filfggrfly gganrgpe. Certificate; 3:5 Md s said a reply mndg Hagar? gireeenollse oi Ciemmona (or ma“, sou ) . on. Van-

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Misccuche Airman ls Missing

OTTAWA, March l5 ~—tC7PJ-The R.C.A.F. 1n its 523rd casualty 115i of the war tonight listcct l0 men 8.5 missing on active service after air operations overseas. one prev- iously missing on active service overseas who now is reported a prisoner of war, and one prev- iously reported missing on active service overseas who now is offic- ially presumed dead.

The overseas section of the list also reported one man seriously ill as a result of injuries received ou active service and one man dang- erously ill.

Onc man was listed as danger- ously ili as a result of injuries rc- cazved on active service 1n Canada.

The latest. list of casualties in- eludes;

OVERSEAS

Missing on active service after oir operations; Polrier, John Augustin Albert, Flt. Sgt, 1012730, Mrs. A. J. Polrler (mother) Misccuche, P.

EJ.

Black, Harry Gordon, Sgt, RASQZO Harry Black (father) 230 Berthler St., Anylda, Que.

Flt. Sgt. John Augustine Albert Polrier is 26 years old arid s. native of Miscouche. He is a son 0f Mr. and Mrs. Arsene J. Polrler and wee educated at. the Miscouche school and later at St. Joseph's College. Memramcook, NB.

Before enlisting he travelled with a dry goods line. assisting his father tomers in both P.E.I. and New Brunswick.

He received his wings at a Man- itoba training school in November, 1941 and the next month went overseas where he received his operational training,

For four months he was an in- structor and then was transferred to operational flights. continuing in that line of service until he was reported missing several weeks ago.

He has another brother. Sgt. Pilot Paul Nazalre Polrlar serving in the Air Force and two other brothers. Gerard Poirier and Jules Polrier at home. In addition there are flve sisters Mrs. Jules Gagne. Jr.. at Edmunston, N.B _ Mrs. Tllman F. DesRoches, Miscouche; Miss Lucille Polrier, nurse-ln-trainlng at a. Mcnctcn Hospital and Miss Louise and Miss Juliette at home.

Attack Jap Transports At Aroe Islands

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 16 - (Tues- day) — tCP)-- Allied plane; bomb- ed and strafed three enemy trans- ports in the Aroe Islands 500 miles northwest oi Australia Monday, filled Headquarters announced to-

ay.

The‘ attack was announced by the allied command in its noon com- munique, which also reported an attack of 40 Japanese planes on the northern Australian city of Darwin.

Two Japanese bomber; and l2 fighters were shot out of action in this attack, and four allied spit- fire fighters were lost.

The three transports were at- tacked by allied airmen in an area which Allied Headquarters dis- closed only yesterday was being reinforced by the enemy, bcili with ground forces and by building oi air establishments. Strong enemy concent ntions both at Dobo, in the Aroe Isjmds, and at Amboina, to the west, were reported.

$3.000 SALARY

OTTAWA. March 15 — (CP) - Gordon Murchison, director oi sol. dlor settlement and of the veterans’ land act, receives an annual salary oi’ $8,000, said a reply made in the House of Commons today for L.E. Cardiff (PFOQiEOII; Iiiron North).

IONDON. March 15 —iCP) British and German plane; traded aerial blows across the English Channel tonight, the RAF. strik- ing first at an Axis air ilcld in France and the Nazis retaliating with raids on the northeast coast of ein.

Shortly before dusk, R. A. l" be raided the air field at 5t. Brleuc on the Channel coast of France An air ministry communi- que said the attack was carried out by Vunturas with nu escort of Spitfires and that one of the bombers failed to return.