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ommons today by NW3’ M11115" f MHCIIOIIBIG. his estimates of

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pfjeigtinisier said officers of the ya] Naval services would come canaria shortly i0 119111 018E11- | women's branch of the Can- ,,, niivy, "several thousand’

.5 MacDonald was applaud! p ' in the chamber when soncludeci a naval progress re- in wiilch he paid high tri- ' to the work of Canadian and closed with stirring .. oi praise for the British

vy.

sis speech was a preliminary examination of naval affairs the House in committee of the

ole on the war appropriation i resolution. spokesmen for the opposition

,.. complimented the minister his report and pleas for in- used naval pay and allowances re made by M. J. Coldwcil, use leader of the 0.0.13‘. and lm Blnckmore, leader of the 1 Democracy.

Pay and Allowances

, , ivlacDonald said he hoped announce tomorrow that _gements had been completed place naval pay and allowan- on a parity with those in the ~-~ and air force, lion. Groto Stirling (Con. Yale), in spoke briefly for the Con- Mve group, recalled the diffi- f with which Parliament was to retain a slight nucleus of Canadian navy during the per- i- between the First Great War <- the present conflict. Before the House went into _itiee Prime Minister Mac- ‘e King announced that Irre Dupuy. Canadian Charge llilires accredited to the Vichy Wmment. had arrived in Can- 1- lie has promised to make a lenient on the Vichy legatiorl Ottawa alter consulting with . Dupuy. lit. King also announced that tseriand had replaced the ltntine as the protecting power Canada in Japan. Mr. Mscdonald said his esti- 1¢ Elven the House in Novem-

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CHARLOTTETUWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942

Drive seeks

To lift siege 0f Leningralli Nazis Use Many Aircraft

in Attempt To Turn Tide; Activity Mounts.

War Situation Last Night

Report

(By KIRK! L SIMPSON. Associated Press War Analyst)

British seizure of the French naval base on Madhgascar means that. the United Nations are preparing to call a halt on Japanese aggression in the Indian Ocean and are paving the way for an ultimate two-front eounic attack, there 1nd in the Pacific.

Prlmo Minister Churchill made that quite clear in announcing that the French had surrendered and that a powerful British fleet was al- ready moving into Diego Suarez Bay. Its pivotal value in the revised Allied strategy forced by the unexpectedly early fall of Singapore and subsequent disasters In the Netherlands Indies, Burma and the Philip- nlnes. is strongly - ' ' by Mr. c‘ lll’s t - ‘ that prepar- ation for the Madagascar move begun three months ago.

o o o o c a ‘

Singapore surrendered Fob. Ill but Its hie had been forshsdowcd an British forces back-tracked down the Malay hminsula under Japanese hammering. It seems clear that the reshuffllng of British and probably American sea power to provide the force now concentrated in northern Madagascar waters begall even before the actuakfall of Singapore island.

Coupled with Churchill's letter to a favored parliamentary candid- ale-slgnlflcantly enough a naval officer-the Impression that the Mad- agascar operation implements a heartening new phase of the‘ struggle for the Allies gains strength. The Prime Minister told Lieuf. Johnson- Hloks that "the time approaches when our accumulated strength will be matched against our enemies in every theatre of war." From a condit- fon of “relative defencelessness." he added, the country had been mould- ed "Into a mighty instrument of offence."

It. now ls revealed that the British attack on Madagascar was or- ganized lrl such overwhelming force as to insure not only the capture and secure holdmg of the key base. but its use offensively in due coursr.

The size and composition of the fleet now based in Diego Suarez Bay could not be revealed lf It were known. That it includes battleships and

I I Diane carriers. perhaps American as well u British, is conjecturable.

next March. Present

By Henry C. Cslsldy Associate’ Bluff Writer

MOSCOW, May ‘l-(AP) -- The Red army, making what appeared to be the strongest attack in many weeks to break me long si e of

ningrad, was reported tonic t to have driven a wedge between two German armies, encircled one Nazi detachment in an important sector and wiped out several cent-es of re- sistance b1 the bogs west of Rus- sia's second city.

Thus. said Soviet dispat-ins. the Germans not only were folcstalled 1n their attempts to get 51111118 111- tacks under way 111th fresh reserves but had been forced to retreat from a number of winter vantage points.

A road which had united the northern and southern sections of the besieging force was cut, the Russians said. by mo capture of a junction point which the Germm"

had held all winter. (It appeared

Viscount fiort

To command At Malta

LONDON. May s—(FrIfl=vl— (CH-Viscount Gorl. C0111" mander-ln-Chief of Gibraltar, h“ pm, named Gnvemor and Commander-in-Chief of i119 bomb-battered island of Malta, it was ahnounacd today. ‘

He succeeds Sir William George Sheddon Dobblc who resi ed.

T er Gort, 55-year-old form- cr chief of uio Imperial Sta"-

(Japf. J. Cary Jones, above has

been named chief of staff by Admiral Herbert F. Leary, corn- mandcr under General MacArthur, of United Nations naval forces in the southwest Pacific.

commanded u.» small axoedl- , g».,»..,,-~;,.,p p; dii.’“.ifiti.”.i.‘féffiffiifid°“k' 2" a s a a “I "n 5 ° m“ - 1m Nazi were usi man air- NIDQN M 'l—(OP)--'Ihs 2935318111‘ Glbmud” 1”“ “m. crafts in ans effort to ltgurn 011% tide p e sexism Gonna? manufactunng o- -- 8i.“'.t’..‘;“.‘3..‘é“‘;i‘d“.'éfb‘f"’l‘.t'ii.‘t Attagks 0,, C]; ine 1; fiié'.t‘ii,~‘“iiii‘isl"iif..§°“8..“§°....?l 871m“ he Wm P“ 31:0 6.11MB: heavy losses. One Red ali- force unit suoozsslve. night, in a continuini! "m fmflkxfa u? ‘h. reported the destruction of seven oflfensive against the important $35‘ m, monk M, “m, Germ!!! planes in s. slnslo day. -.—- aviation and electrical industries

Activity was mounting generally

' on the northwestern front. where

snow has disappeared’ from the

forests and the sun is beginning to _.dry the roads.

a On To Berlin This Time Benes Urges

DONDON.

centred there.

Doc-ks and airports in Geiman- occupied territory also were at- tacked during the night. and raids were made acrms the Channel by daylight toda . Seven flames wefl lost in the nllgllt atlac .

An All" Ministry summary show- ed tonight that the R.A.F'. fighter ccmm-alid carried out three times as many major daylight raids over enemy territory in Aipril as during the entire first three months of the year.

British fighters and anti-aircraft fire accounted fcr 107 enemy sir-

heroism uudor continued Axil bombings.

Slr William. 62. has been It Malta since 1940, first. u ttlllll- oraiy Lieutensnt-Govsmor but ulnoc May, I941, as Governor and Commander-ln-Chlef.

Sources here said sir William would return to England for a rest after wentllsrlnz more than 2,000 Axis slr attacks.

Vichy admits"

May be attempting to knock Free China out-

of war; Drive at great speed along Burma Road. —

toward Ohungking with a new oi- fcnsive from the d Japanese- Chklese fronts in shansi. Honnn and Hupeh Provinces, northeast arid east of diiangs capital.

(A Japanese penetlaticzi of east- ern. llrlclia was claimed in a Berlin radio brcadcast which gave as its source a Tokyo report. Tllk saJd a Japanese column had crossed tile

By Spenser Moosa. Associated Press Staff Writer

CHUNGKING. China, May 7- fAPi-TL-le Japanese oimic; which have raced into China rcpzr on the Burma Road brcugh up artil- lery today in a savage attempt to break the Chinese defence lines. amid ominous indicatons 0,1‘ a en-

May ‘l-(Cfu-Ed- uard Bones, former president of Creche-Slovakia, declared ‘in s speech tonight that "this time it

g h med _ Indian bordri‘ ivsst, oi Pai-"tiva. (t on the western front. duiing

zoom mnmfiy wogeleufioaand eral offensive against the tee Burma, and was within 62 miles of Kiri], the Air Ministry said. The

urged u" United Name“ go "_ chlnavof Chlang Kai-stick. Chittangong, India. German radio was hoard tosiiy also pa" the“, ‘rmisuce com“ om Driving so hard and so fast that (Such a thrust would bralcglcal that, 10tl German planes were lost

. now the defenders were unable to czn- corollary of an all-cut campaign in fights against the RAF. 1n

duct planned demolitions along the supply road. the Japanese out of Burma were known to have forged ahead at least as for as Chefang. 25 miles inside the fall- en border town of Wanting. Heavily supported by their mo- bile artillery as well as from the air, they were attacking time afiel- time and. altlisugli the high mm- mand said the Chinese were hold- ing their lines fcr the time being and inflicting heavy casualties, it was indicated that the defenders’ chirf hcrpe iri this Yunnan Prov-

to knock Chine rrcm the war, be- cause it could sever the supply net- work of rail lines which lead from Calcutta and the rest. of southeast India. noriheastivard to the Chin- ese-Indian border. Chitthngon 1s the southeastern terminus of ese lines.

(The Japanese already have an- nounced the occupation of Akyab, West Burma coastal town 80 miles south of Paletwa.

(Earlier the Japanese illsmsclves hinted at the use of the Burma Road and the eastern approaches

April. but the German figure cov- ered the Mediterranean area as well as northern Europe.

British fighter plane lrsscs to- talled 99, the Air Ministry said. with the pilots of six ‘of the craft landing safely in Britain.

RAF. fighters destroyed 60 air- craft during the da light attacks UJ the continent an shot down four more around the Buglsh coasts. Night fighters and anti-nir- craft defences accounted for 34 German bomber; eight of them over bases in France and the Low

The end of the war. he said. 81111,!» "speedy and perhaps sud- en.’

"We must not come too late

1cm! Ma 1 -(AP) -- Vizliy. aclgnowle ingythe ca itulation to 3mm‘ ‘are’: oxotlhemggomaglfgg with our schemes and our post. c” rggvass ::n°unced wmgm m‘ war plans," he said. “Otherwise Illftzed-tioil to defend "every thfl‘ w; ‘h3g1 be thrgmliinmefgngleg? point" on the island. ° w‘ Y °v°m 5

m: govemtmgeneral o; Mada- a revolutionary character."

§§§§§§§o Atlexltlliflgdoptillleetfallarisf Igiiegg J aps Invade, India

sin-res after three days of fight-in! thud tile rest of the island "will be defended with the same resolution-

in flanking attacks to India as t/win items in their countries.

In reply the Vichy government sent 111°‘? a!" 1W6 _' _, c v _

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P"““°- _ formed sources lie-v said fonisht ans military Intfiriiioils it apneui- Burma cfimlmisn hail bren atian- Llkfily TO RatlOH _ Itlhere wins n0bfl0léiifllgltlgb ‘of C? in? invaders may W521i be D‘an- ed with ihle entry éntb (Bruno's Yun- P T 1

ckyo calms rod cas y 1 t: nng o vnchrcnize a ‘rive ncrth- nan Prov nce an cesium-on of N’ S’ German radio, that Juliane-W eastwardsthrough Yunnan Province L)

Aliyah on the west Burma coas

Substitute For rubber?

PORT ARTHUR. Mav ‘7 —(CPi-_ James Pearson. former Keniuckian who Joined the Lake Superior regi- ment here in 1930 and a few months gggececeivcv shis honoxrable ‘Bus; Govommenb

ls B 6186110 . 0 s i1. Robert Patterson. experiments he is conductlerlg will of wim mid ‘ press conference

provide a rubber substitute. - A romior industrial chemist. Pear- fi§,§},°,?,‘;i,.;“““ “it “mg

folces from Burma had crossed the Indian border west of Palotws and penetrated to within 62 miles of Chittagong.

The same sources said, however. that it was expected that Japanese patrols would "attempt b. move oi this nature." ‘Ills Japanese claim to have occupied Agivab, west Bur- ma rt south of lttagong earl- ier t is week.

WASHINGTON. May 'l—-(A.'P)— Rat-ioning of passenger travel on railroads nnd buses vvas"dcscribed officially todlly as "definitely in prospect" for the United States while the Government sent every city of more than 10,000 popula- tion a blue-print for efficient use oif public and private transporta- ton.

In addition, it plans an appeal to motorists having more than five tires to sell the extras to the

From Skull Injury

News Briefs

omen: BAY. as. May "l —<¢P> -—l..a.u'l'en<‘o Gouthro. 32. o! nearby Dominion, died in hospital Into l0- day of a fractured skull suffered last Sunday. Since Monda . 18111111115 Maclntyre oi Dominion ad held without bail on a (llarle 01 assault occasioning actual Modil!’ harm to Gouthfo. W101” 15th" lodged the charge.

Gouthro had been unconscious since he was taken to hos its] Sun- da . Dominion police said e appar- cn y had received a blow 0W1‘ i»!!!

n I

LONDON. May 8—iFrlday)— (CP)-~An air raid alarm was sounded in one area in the outskirts of London after mid- night but no planes were heard inunediat ‘, and there was no gunfire.

RIO on JAN-ERE- May ‘l-(AP)

llequsts Quebec liov’t to oppose Bcnscripticn

An ierlquest was ordered for to-

for "Sunday morn‘. ‘t Dommmm _ The Government announced to- fighflggfid 2x09111061"; 111g; driving, visits cousin Joe and T __ (cp)__m ggkggategitigajgry and Brwi ha" Ms synthetic rubblglgg tgilgllgz; petting Parties because their

tiiliiifif9fiboi. will be ask- ‘ m“

______ ion Government testing laboratories ‘m. “glam” be ‘aved m! possible 04 119"" i1" m“ .9‘ "1" m“: WASHINGTON, Mly ‘l-(AP) 1W1 to I lure rubber company for ‘ 005M011 W 939"“ u“ -To the surprise of Congress, “lu-

d l Government will ro- tgien litesexluntary enlistment lys- tem and will not impose ooflwrill-

Trcasu Secretary Henry Morgen hau proposed today a drastic lowering of iflhlfiual

ls live issue T" 131' “'13

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---_ . _ Ill ilemcni. came as the up on. aoldm.‘ “W; just that ever rumination to conlnus to ull - (OP) — The Wo- dnw more sum}? Gem“ ‘t a l“ discussing naval

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suoe Pearl Harbor up hlvo felt we m; other provinces until f i1 men's Land Army totals moire than of tmiilglegld‘ lieasfoneg ‘madame affgilrea $115.. the war appro- should be fighting with leuow viqtory ni the war @1111" m"? 10.000 persons, it was announced in Liberia off iolsuom with Million hill w... before the Yanks. And t is swell to find we ‘moo the outltgxreak ooliufitaigilf‘; House oi commons. Germany. commltteo of the whole. 0111-, '1 C m

Making possible trwl!" mdwgtfevlluntary enistment m- frolu the Canadian to 1mm“ tom as established since the start

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suits which oven recently have has“ praised by both the political and military leaders of the coun

states fighting forces was an moat some wselu I80

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in; numbers of the Cansdisn-A- Wm“ Gun,“ pmduction;

morioan armed service board on a "W

“Th1, 3mm re-iterntes the will - rt tho cf all its members sgobiaellll?" c”

AX. May 'l—(CP)—Dal-

BALI!" three-week tour of Canada to fa- home Univemw wnoumxd w-

cilitato transfers back to the Uhlbd

_ title following students are sum was rim toda. nu mm but w" "W" P° u, M ,, _ I _ “m” n, d... de- ‘l. “"1111 me-cti- f (y; w" .1 who’ mmflflfi ma} wdt ltlgtafltifl i§s volilrn- ti} _ '1 mat 3.’: Arffiywegorfvocllatrion: ’. Pmllllub will o m“! 60mph“ m owe" ‘all! nlistmsnt policy and will_ L.) \ Science: Doris slrrunonds char-

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AMERICAN. FLEET malls HEAVY BLOW

roviets Drive Wedge Into German Lines Sin

undersecre- 1

rc Downs

off the Solomon Island

s, the blow to the J

Annull Subscription Delivered. 86.00 B! hlllll P. F L, H.001 to other Provinces and 0.8. QJI

ks? Ships A

Damages Four; A 1

U. S. losses ofii? three planes; _ Battle was fought off the»

Solomon Islands. 1 '

(By J. F. Sanderson. Canadian Press Staff Writer) . WASHINGTON, May 7-(CP)—In a major sea battle l’ ~ 1 i“ -j

nilzlncse navy, sinking eight ships, damaging 1 ‘ four more and destroying six planes, it was announced ‘ ‘

JA|5§

6 Planes‘

American fleet dealt a heavy

today by the navy department.

American losscs in the battle, and authoritatively regarded here in which strictly American forces have

inn general naval encounie Meanwhile,

the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Although details of the sch battle were not disclosed. it was regarded here as the first major test of lin- val strength to determine whether Us" Japanese can cut. the long, ten- uous supply line running from North America to Australia.

Very Excellent New!

In a iersely worded communique which started "very excellent news has been received." the navy d9- partment listed the Japanese losses in the sea battle u follows: