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pBANCIBOO. May l‘! -— (A?) -- Premier Ksntsi-o Suzuki g “blast into session today to decide upon , ngsimt sir raid disasters such as the devastating

i tin bomb his! lltllflv which. by Jsiunuc admission. {go's buiness and governmental district sud psi-c a: in,

hises aloe-

pwlcuts heard by the Iedersl Communications Commission, l.“ list t7 American lanai-forts inineii Jspluese waters before 5Q’, Lying the esplodves ll marine tnfflc areas from Ky“. i . math the southern end of the homeland archipelsgo to north. . I m hgyobrosdoastnlso laid IeeantAnies-losu air raidson Kobe . - Japan's great hdutrisl cities. had caused “considerable

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LL-lllol. Conrail Arrives ilonie From ilverseas

BRITAIN — Churchill inflmtes - , 11.. meeting with ‘Irurnsll, 8min my. (om-premier George Drew sit- oosne before _ ‘ election. , urdsy night took one by. one the '011flr8es made bv C. . F. Leader PACIFIC — Rain slows Okinawa Jollifie in saying Col. Drew 0p- action; Japanese troops msnoeuv- erated s polit col cease, answer- rlng south of Sliuri liquidated; Jop- ed in detsi described nw""l“l‘;"‘°' pita-iii?‘ tmpe of "the u a“ 1 0 0 f0 .

from Superfortress attacks. the vii-ll ill " e

. - grntlsfrio election behind "a screen CHINA - Chinese recapture he 00-"

' The remier said Mr. Joliiffe

to Sing- hsd io owed Hitler's advice that i! s lie "is big enough, it is likely to be believed." “A Royal Commission will be rited immediately to inquire into Mr. Jolliffe’: charges and to ascertain whether or not Osborne

‘AT A “Screen 0f Lies” '_" Cansdisn-Pl-‘grtelf Writer

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l By The Canadian Press I

Betbacks were forced on the Japanese on widely sep-' arated fronts Sunday-the most important in China, where Chinese troops punched a hole in Japan's vital land life- line to Singapore.

Superforiress airmen, meantime, awaited photograph evidence of Saturday’s devastating B-29 raid on Tokyo-l a raid which by enémy admission virtually burned the, Capital to the ground. l,

The Japanese suffered a serious blow in China as Chi-l Dm be m u I nese forces recaptured Yungiiing (Nanning). key point. Liglgpsh; g§cgfled° hf: maxi)“; on the Nipponese highway lifeline to Indo-China and Sing-‘i

l‘ BY SPENCER. MOOSA ,

Speculate On Leader Of l"; ‘Canada's Pacific Force

important victory iri months, have! King, Queen To Visit

Twlptuied the big treaty port of Yungning (Nanning) in China's Channel Islands IJONDON, May 27 - (C?) —

each

point in Japanese lifeline spore.

BUB-MA - llritili troops stop up undei monsoon conditions.

LEVANT -- handbags thrown about public buildings ln Damascus; Britain seeks solution of French- Syrian crisis.

GERMANY —- Albert Forster. former Nazi Danni; governor, taken into custody; cl Marshal von Greim suicide; In Sslzburg hospital after capture. ‘

A broadcast intercepted by the Associated Press listening p051; in limiter said‘ Suzuki told the is“ ed $1101?‘ e presently disuse: " e tuggrgde themremngtim ministries affected by riiiaseslgcuxl dertake restoration operations o,- iili .“i‘.§..“‘?-‘ié’§..§€§’.§‘.’.'i“‘°l»‘°“" "'

The Japanese Navy ogommenor- ltfi‘! Wily the 40th anniversary of 1h! victo - over the Russian fleet 1%.§.?.‘.‘§£".‘.Z...ii§“’i' “Emil? i“? ‘* u under nearly ns- °" ° H11-

iiilockipicr SEVGIBX week? ..m°';u*° mmhfllie" their current ,, l :1? stggukdbom ‘fgetheeslgg ggflbzife predecessors did . ‘ ° gmfmngpwitmm‘ An order of the ‘day issued by the , buildings lfld catching s‘ gipflffr ‘ilvremc naval comman- . oi snail craft offshore. n? the {um “misled 915i the _ ekgpglgfifla tflvy "Wdpy is forcing

D” it yt remendous bloodshed." K b P e he heavy damage done n0 é and (“leaks by American sir

ee . the citizens of both cities are rising from the ruins and show

ming Events T955611“!!! activities of recoveryfi’,

, » ~81. PeoersWedn s‘. BESS-y Tokyo claimed. the

~ 2i. Recovery efforts i cl ded Mon- reclamation of “bum? lflifithlfi" tol 5494i 3° "I04 sou-in in war industries: "it "Bins oi vegetables in cleared areas. and formation of "factoryl gpeucisl attack corps units" in m. i. Players present "My ‘I'd plmulillorgdiilstclties‘ i I ., v r “Ff- “wmlt- lgjwal; "smlsr pert" of mfyfi tails-dung}? ___ ~ gipgliit lgvgxllfinghttlllgfllfly sttgck, fib- H‘ pee po c wifbmmimy” t s the effects of super’: Ivilda , 39th , , .. a l’ m” ‘l ‘Qafifft H-Tokyo adio accounts 801d the . front building" in the Imperial Elisha-cc grounds was destroyed, and P; Wm! outlying Imperial ssiicffiathrrirsrizeiiiitpreaiiilnnimast Oil buudlilll were in ruins. The United States, Russian m4 garnish embassy buildings and the wedish and Afghanistan legstiong all were burned down. said the broadcast heard by the Federal Communications Commission,

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Key 2'1 - (Reuters) — limb Pacific fleet swung ‘slim in the group iii Thursday, taking over American warships and car- vh the series which kept the

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recently appointed Natlghglegéhgrtgli-i. man Sea Cadet Committee of the Navy Ififlsue of Canada. succeeds

Lt-Col. RB. Conrad

Japs Sent Plans For iiazi Rockets

WITH U.8. Sill) ARMY IN Tl-IE BAVARIAN ALPS, May ill-flteuters) - Turbine on- glnes and plans oi’ Germany's latest Jet-propelled aircraft, which are faster than sound, were sent to Japan by sub- marine last January, according to Lieut. Wenger, let and rocket technical expert of Berlin, now on Allied prisoner

0n Jan. 8, Lieut. Wenger said, three submarines left for Inp- cn carrying _,t ed jet-planes, 12 turbine engines for rocket planes, 2! engineers from a Meesersohmit factory, aid three from a Junkers fac-

ry.

Demand For Nurse Draft Law Dropped ‘any fil-(AP)

WASHINGTON, —(A.P)—-The United States Will‘ Department has dropped its de-

Lieut-Colonel RB. Conrad. MM.- E.D., arrived home Snturdfly ‘Wm overseas after almost live years 0!

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By I088 MUNIO

WITH THE l9!‘ CANADIAN ARMY, May 37-(6? Cable) - l-‘our generals are mentioned here in s eculation over the command- oi the Canadian Par East Force. expected to be named soon.

They are:

Mat-Gen. Harry W. Foster of Winnipeg, and Picton Ont.,com- rounder of the 1st Canadian Div-

on.

Mat-Gen. Dari Spry. Winnipeg. who commanded the 3rd Division to the Rhine crossing and then re- turned to England to command s reinforcement _de ct.

Mal-Gen. BM. cffineister, Van- couver, commander of the 6th Ar- mored Division.

Lm-Gen. Guy Simonds, K‘ ‘ , Ont, commander of the 2nd Can- adian Corps.

It would sunrise many officers in Holland and Germany 1f Gen. Simonds gets tbs appointment, for it is felt there is something else on the ‘books for him. It was pointed out that it would be un- usual. for a lieutenant-general to command a. force of 30,000-the mam; (m- a m“, draft m“ m“ size cf the For East Force but not Punk,‘ n,“ “m, rapidly chm? exceptional for s major-general n; Qlpcrumgflgncgg o; m, x to lead such a force.

last si weeks” -—-—~—i- Food Conditions In

have eliminated the need for it. urns RELAXES RULES Hdlfllld Improving —itol- May 2'1 -- (AP)-

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8p!‘ 5 K1 B y e The ood situation in western Hol- United States, the lliire Govem- land was reported to be improving merit on Wednesday will suspend rapidly through a speedup in .115. reflillflilpm prohibiting the wear- trlbution. However, authorities are ing of foreign uniforms on Eire faced with a. new problem-secul- territory 1p tilde!‘ W pemiit Am- ing fuel for cooking. Two pounds eilciin soldiers to visit relatives of wood-sufficient to cook one b91011? "Wimp! to the United mesh-costs five guilders (about

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the

went overseps in July.

months later. on complplwn 0! m” senior officer's course. hi9 W58 PW‘ moted lit-Col. In Auizilst. 19-43. he was posted to the command of the 5m Reinforcement Battalion and while en route to Italy was Officer Commanding the troops ‘m ",3, the 11.5. transport “Santa Elena when it was torpedoed and sunk l}? the Mediterranean on Nov. 6. No

ves were 0s .

Colonel Conrad remained in Italy till February, 1045. when he w" flown to England to act is preflr idsnt-of the senior N 0.0. Sel- ection and Apimilifil Bvflfd»

Colonel Conrad is c. veteran of up first Great War. iisviris cull-elf“ a; a, private, and won his comm s-l sion as lieutenant and the MM. for gallantry in action.

second in command of the 5th Reinforcement Battalion in Italy was another Charlottel/Own man. Major LAP‘. McDonald.

WANT BRITISH ‘SETTLERS

as. rssr- liiiiPi £5

"deep south" and cut Japan's vital overland highway lifeline to Indo- J Chino. and Singapore, the High Command announced tonight. J . It di ted th ' _.

King George and Queen Elizabeth‘ cgxrllxlxgficatlomiiliiip the sgprijfilelgf‘; oveir t1?,000. POllolES designed in will visit the liberated Channel. retreat corridor gm- yapanes, amles £15328 {l ‘till? present total oi 9;; Islands Juno (l. it was announced in Burma, Thailand, Malaya and .01., l‘ u “strength Mm “ “w” Saturday night at Buckingham Indo-Chins. | tre oiuiiltlierresxiugiidvalgfitrkiisctiorfek ' in

wire nails have been removed the the second treaty port to be freed LONDON (OPT ' " ‘ ~ " — l -- Queensland ‘zggigiltlpliglklieigfigxglfif; m! “ttéeomgwaen Sago-Beg P?!“ will welcome and prefer settler . ' Y5 g ' e5 * a (“RSI from Britain after the war, sell were put into effect Oct. 1. i942, to i-etcok the East Coast port of Foc- flunk Cooper Queamland p.“ conserve smel‘ chow mier who is liere on govemmsln:

g The reoccupation Saturday of the former American 14th Air Force Lloyd T spaldmg under who ‘ SB Palace ' , the ycuu f Canad . OTTAWA. May n _ (GP) Second Port to be Freed [be annoullcgli ‘l ‘m’ ‘mm m . _' . ‘ . He said all Australia roa- h N . g W, lized the need for greater populro Anot er azi Bzg- 1g I I I nds Life With Poison

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Qivv. A MAN cuoucii Ron: AND “PU. smr ‘f0 Stu. if

fighter base 4'10 miles south of Chungking Wes a serious blow to the fififggieghfirofne“mgjdgfansngwelhg Standardization restrictions on the The city of 68,110 persons. for- manufacture and distribution of mer Kwngsi Province Capital, was tion

BY CYNTHIA LOWRY

PARIS, May 2'7 —— (AP) — Field. Marshal Robert Rlttcr Von Greim, last chief of the German Air Force“ committed suicide in s Salzbuzug} hO-ipltal Thursday, Supreme Head- quarters announced today, I

V011 Grelm. 53. swallowed the same- kilid 0i poison (potassium cysnidew that his High Command colleagues; Heinrich Himmler and Gen. Admirali Hans-George von Friedeburg, uscdi to end their lives. All three were in Allied hands when they died.

Von (Jreim succeeded Hermann Goermg April 26 es commander of the broken air force. Found May B in a Luftwaffe hospital at Klitz- buehel, in the Austrian Tyrol, he told his American captors:

"I am the head of the Luftwaffe but I have no Luftwaffe."

The Americans found him with a minor flak wound which he said he suffered lll the final stages of the battle of Berlin. He managed to amps thedocmed city and fly

sou . Moved to the Sz-lmurg hospital, he appeared to be oo-operntive.

Unlike Himmler, who killed him-

-- Cornwall play it"... held liiiuion Hail is postponed un- further notice. ‘ 5-28-11

-' of Mixed Foal and Grain l lo Wstervale soon. Andrew i - 5-26-21. ~ Mk. seed cats 02.50 per oGuigan and Boyle. 11-26-101.

. 9M1! players present ind specialties at Long Creek, I. Lunches. il-N-liq

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May Be Big Three toniereiice Before

3544"“ Limit n" ,British Elections

Trucks Removed

orrsws. May 2'1 — (C?) t- Tlie 35-mile limit on the 0P9" a ion of trucks has been removed an“ s number of restrictions on re a and wholesale truck deliveries have been lifted, it was announced to- night-m a Joint statement‘ by Munitions Minister Howe and Firi- once Minister lisley.

Mr, Howe emphasized however that gasoline rationing for trucks will be continued.

Among the Prices Board orders rescinded were restrictions on wholesale and retail deliveries. pick-ups and. deliveries by laun- muonm idries and dry clelaners and this‘ use‘

The mum on passage w“ a9 to of vehicles by tieatres or a vor- iea iii m. numui mode the tariff. m" llmpgsj" ‘mg’, Qfllfilfi} bill the first direct we h .d§§§"" ° w‘, dmmme ‘Qnonm, congressional following on s inst-ii 5 w“ mm e 011N510! LHEIE-idlm- i “w”

LONDON, May 2'1--(CP)-- Prime Minister Churchill indi- cated Saturday he might meet President Truomsn and Premier Stalin before the British general election, expected July 5.

In s tour of his Woodford con- stituency just outside London, Mr. Churchill told several meetings he might be called away from his campaign to particl te in a

ost-Euro can war con crevice of ree".

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Truman Given Tariff Authority

WASHINGTON, May 2'1 _ (AP) -R°$%°fldlfl8 to sn emphatic ap- peal y President Truman, House of Representatives Democrats rode rough - shod over Republicans Saturday to vote the president broad new outhorlt to cut tariffs trad 8 with other

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Britain Seeks Solution" F ranch-Syrian Crisis zfzsl“l.l““s.slzr.m.z.zs.ll.:ssi

that the election must not‘ be ifil- i .‘.'°.‘.'§“.".S.€“Z iileilinfultil. iii window; and doorways in all prin- heads of 'the governments", he m“. “hue under examination von 2193i geullimlfitagghxd mount“ “ml Baiiiziiiite “llgltjdighjll-Nhlll toured his. Gflm had “me l° wnlmpm“ h“ " lconetituency, i/wo other ICMllIIBI ac ' d t I Flock Co ti -Lod Be verbrook,_ Supfeme He»: qusr ers sad s T“ h" gggexgrivyyegeal. add L. ‘S. Arnery,| rliiillpllmgmpty 31s] wvfisthfoilélfdegfilda LOWE. ST. LAWRENCE —Fresh syrians were flocking m the India Secretory - fired oneninsl 5 - We t" ° i“ icuierly to southerly winds: partly colors. Streams of e15 were campaign shots, and Sir William‘ cancerous- . cloudy and uurm with scs tered being issued uniforms in the mush- Beverldge, s lending Llbeaug. also Sig? gvisimw:Sczglglgtlizggllfgagfi| showers 0l' thunderstorms. rooming national guard, and flhe made a Saturday speech. e s- -- . ~ GU streets of Damascus were filled with recruits still unarmed

bor party, whose Blackpool con- officer; of the German Ali- Force. Syria. and Lebanon used the ar-I Syrian police kept isolated incid-

' 11' l-l had bee in command of 5553i? sfigtlegriyoglfvitsmclifgstandiri; fighfer plcriesmnnd anti-aircraft rival of Sen eie troops in the ents from lodi into mo mandated ter tories as an occasion es ‘ 63p n‘ off hill

MEYEOROIMJCAL OFTIICE. Toronto, May 2'7 — (OP) -—- Mui- imum and maximum itmperaturesi Vancouver 50, '12: Edmonton 34, '11;

inn 33, 86; Winnipeg 30, 392 Toronto 5'1, ‘ii; Ottawa 58, 58; Mon- treal 57. ‘ll; Quebec 46, 722 M0116‘ ton 40. 68: Halifax 4-4. 72: Uhar- lotnetown 43, 59.

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Tuesday

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LONDON. Mali Tl — (AP) — sandbags were hastiw thrown up about public buildings in Damascus today while Britain, as guarantor of the independence of Lebanon and Syria. strove for a solution to the crisis gripping French relations in the Levant.

issued an official statement that it "regrets" the governments of.

(Iemeans Were Preparing New Weapon» For Sea

Powerful One-Man U-Boats Were Probably

m p a Secret Weapon Ifor Use Against Convoys. “mt,” t “M” “l,” o’ mm pert concern is s—-— United states wire inking-recs for. Bey, secretary l of the m)

' “Mp8 top msrkd prie- B Charles Chamberlain month by Otto Schickert and 8- 801113011 01th . In of- league, said Senegalese “méilémlllnné ship- m, GemisnLMay Company at Bad Lsuterberg in ficinl statement, the Government cut communications between large i 1141118 11-441») - Powerful one - man the Hui-z mountains 3o miles from uppeolcd to all parties to remain towns while Prenoti planes flew low

Moderate southeast winds; partly cloudy and warm; scattered stiowers at night or on Tuesday. NORTH SHORE — Moderate variable winds; generslw fair; not ngein tempers ure. MARITIME WEST —- Moderate variable winds; fair and moderately

warm.

MARITIME EAST — Moderate northeast and north winds; partly cloudy with light scattered showers: not much change in temperature.

id. . d f n es the Exstcrn Front. He

.. reek .. -.. ... t... =,.-,-,,,_-,° pa,” "‘°“ ‘“° “critic o eme one

m“ w," urflu1?_ of '2, 2° who: lb d 1 Air ‘Ponce last month.

lilo Ofiee announced rivsl in the-Invent states precip-

tiwt luuebt con- itsitgd the crisis .

Germans Bompleteil Super-Rocket Plans

BR-ANNIENBERG. BAVARIA. May,

: Wb Mush theelllldsmuiggig

Pravda Britical 0i Allieil Press Y,

. ck , ‘ ‘mm i" llliwilflolilv ‘gif- Gennan Iifihlllilits which could ei-i. calm untiia solution could be ‘"1 "I rmans called t e new. one-man submarines ‘weosels!’ They were powered by two sets of batteries and had a top speed three knots. Their range was about 100 miles and they were sup- posed to return to the mother ship

dLof farm

a ‘homing ciestioyer

COIIVOYI Oil l! llll bei

the war en ed. T visited yesterday a with assembly lines these

of lliell-m

fi ou the new mod

heed. Th we" lniature sub. 1h

fill.

caring" devices built the iorpledoes gets, fo owine lhlps’ engines like a bl

' '"‘ " You;- - Mend t g‘ . w“? Wlldlpyui P. algal-h "4- 9 Mt. Stewart 4 Water: ~ ' Vii-gun River. '0 rownsl. . 1.. mil” lllvi-i-I ii°"=.‘2itii.r ll New Haven. 2 It i‘ 07°". 4 ‘ ‘asp M o Ulllltlll. P . “Jill? pin chi‘

eessary to aim than.

Driven by New he! ‘in-lgholenefil aoiiislfigel

T“ , l-felmuth flei-insii chssnllgtm undo I

4 k ti, was belht ed st tiirgcrgte of 1.100

HTHMBINDING

geared to firs ethal mi o: gdwiaek. The fsciiorywsffmrioncsa.

an nconsp cuous ng - um my; "W! lags of sureriaoi-i. is miles north “nu”, 30$

guided them to the sound waves

oodholnid

on the scent. Thus it was not ne-

be launched on the high sessdfrgm The Ge . .. l. a . the secret naval weapon t e Nu i boasted would hit our Atlsnt precsdented sca built near here when

the University of Goettin

fsctoryiwhich could haul 20 or more on

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it were several plants cl acous-

torpedo with a loo-pound wer-

sse beneath tr else-l inside tar-

drivcn by ed by s Watb-

Th

fluent, the same as was used

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' sl Marines. who is in

- the decks to convo routes.

I Capt. Geoffrey ke of the Roy- cherge of over the factory said: thing the war ended when it did before man production of these diabolical subs-the V-I snd V-fl of the sea."

The submarines were 80 feet ‘ long with s cockpit for the pilot en-

osed in glass like that used in

dernestb.

ed before the Germans h

end to lend it against Allied shi

of ‘ vsntine city,

The tor o was almost as long as the nu marine. which acted u nothing more than the trigger. In ~ trials the submarine was said to have proved successful but thetyvar

.iie

some, the countryside, frightening reached. _ - French force, were reported to have shelled Aleppo, important 1A- biut this could not be

confirmed because Aleppo was out off from communications with Dain- tops and armored ascus. 1t was loomed. however, that the French evacuated the citadel in the centre of Aleppo. t“ "'3 “arises areas con o

in melee

their _ lane piled sandblll around

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both liited laboratory in

fii-ilteuters) - A group of G€l"l .msn scientis‘ -working in an iso-l the South! Bavarian Mountains. completed labs for s super rocket known as

-l.

The net let-propelled rocket. which was to,be used against Lon- don, was controlled by rsldio. and similar in appearance to the fly-

ing bomb. f it had passed beyond the ex- perimental stage it would have been possible to launch it from aircraft. The scientists who worked on these plans were one of several groups scattered about the moun- tains. each group being unaware of what the other was doing. The scientists disclosed that tho German High Command was par- ticularly interested in shock or blast waves for the destruction of personnel by atmosphere disturban- e

MOSCOW, Msy 2'7 -— (AP) — larevdn. today ‘ticised British and