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The People's Paper

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

it is better to b enubly rem :1.- h-rcd than nobly born.

MAXIMS

OI‘ A

MERE MAN

l- llmill Guardian. lauded town

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Guardian. Two Cont;

Tiiese pictures of Calcnr. in Gcrlmily, captllrcill ly tile Fire: Canadian Army, shows result of bitter fighting that enveloped the totvn before it fluailv tell. ivliat was cnce n thriving little town on the dthilie is now a pile cf rubbish. Blitish troops of 111':

i‘ last Canadian Army were first. to

y. lndhere. (top? a fighting patrol just rounds :1 corner 1" lato what is isft of the main street of Calcor. Tile 'nea are still under the from a Gerri‘ n c

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‘illsquitos Bomb . ilrman Capital

' ‘ wnnolv, March 1i - (AP) ' - Speedy RAJ» lilasqultccs hit y. .I:rli.l tonight for tn: 2.11.11. culi- ‘; lttlhillc night in the round-tuc- tiocl: battering of Ute Run-ll. damping 1,0011 pound block- gps‘ into the all-cad ravaged

Press Vdiflreiess Station _ Moves To Gcrnany

j YORK, March ll —- (AP) t) Wireless, Inc, established t wireless communication with * ny yesterday and Wes Gal- er of the Associated Press for-

_ staff filed the first dispatch. ‘ is Wireless moved its station W. rum Holland across the German to provide service for press ‘m’, 1°95. news and radio

S. "thnémits radiophotos

and volcc

f Coming Events

"Unloading car col Monday U! Tuesday. P. J. Noy, l 3-12-21

"coma m Pleasant Voile Con- fl 111 Fredericton Hall, esday. d1 is. 3-12-

hggs evfig Thuirsdal’ . h: ‘ITII Peakesraser l-gti-ii’ ‘M50111’: h2g1: for Davis -. or ‘ruscda I t-inle. larlifay. Mt. "Rmlvlns Hogs t o it'd ‘for. m! dz Fraser's gverymzguesday

11-00 o'clock whil road is "m9- R. N. Dawsan. 3-10-11-

" ..._._ Boll: Thursday. March »f'ir‘.°‘i=°&'.'.1.. ?>¢‘;‘i‘li§:'“§;tli§ c , -

I till 11.90 A. 'M. Borden gesgnall

illiter- m _ w». treats" “mast. “than w Dlrli to Women's

I , Q O . 11nd Cross. oca-o-iz-zl

tlm Mods. All the latest Bend f free

alumni‘

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and until wort.

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enter the town

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i‘ News Briefs I

LOPJDON, March ll — (CF)- Eari Lloyd ("icorge remains very weak at his homc in Wales.

OTTAWA. ii-farcil 1i - (C?) — Defence Headquarters tonight an- zloullced the appointment. of Brig. A. C. Spencer of London, Ont., as m1 nlnnlzricr of Camp Bordon, Ont,

h acting ranl: of Majol'~G:ncrn1, .. Jlillflililp,‘ l/faj Gen. l". l“. Vlortl1~ lilgioli, who 11.5 bcenaic general ciiiccr conunanaing, Pacific Com- mand.

c LCUTTA,~March n-(crl- ‘ Indian 10th iliclr

fialay, the Southeast Asia Com- mand announced today. At the same time headquarters disclosed thg British 30th Division have captured ltlongmit, 92 miles north- east of lilandalayw, threatening Ja- panese cscape routes to the east.

orraws. Mafirch 1-1 - (cm -- Muntlons Minister Howe toni ht issued an urgent o peal ask ng

li Canadians not: to vist Halifax or

Dartmouth. N.S., and their en- virons. "The situation in these places today is acute," he said. "Accommodation can only be sup- plied in the Halifax area to those who must trnvel on war business

or for essential purposes."

M March l2 — (Monday) _.G'},\'|‘*l '._ Most of the rugged northeast end of Iwa Jlma was captured by United States marines yesterday, and the remaining Japanese defenders were fighting viciously to hold the northern tip of the strategic island only ‘I50 miles from Tokyo. Resistance in "w 1,000- ard deep triangle at the north cn was described al heavy p‘ a communique 1M1!!-

pnsaclvlalv KILLED

ADAM. NB- March ii - .0? _ Ronald Howard Burgess. ;3 Canadian Pacific Railway lwskeman from Baint John. was we ‘“"'t?.'"...l‘i'.%...s€lt“'i3.l

h e “ma: lioxencar n Saint John-

.00" i“! varieties. or j‘ "W180i. Arthln- yesaety}.

iT BINDING

ggcAdarn freight train.

on the far ball‘. of the Rhine. When lnfantl’! 61¢"- cd Colour, nrnlourcd vehicles and supplies poured into Life town to back up the attack. shows the ciffivulty First Canadian Army vehicles had in negotiating the rubble-filled streets. first pictures of the toll of Czilear were taken by Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit comeramen- (Canadian Army Photo).

Woman Sm

CHARLOTTET OWN, CANADA_

Lower photo

THOSE

uggleci‘

By MONTAGUE TAYLOR. (Reuters Staff Writer) PAillz, March ll — (Reuters)- Ulzdcr lin- very noses of the Ger-l malls while they were still li\l France, a small, raven-haired French woman smuggled to Bri- tain the first plan of the V-l flying bomb. thus putting at l-he (imposition of Allied scientists vit- al information about the latest German inven-ilon, it was reveal-

ed here tod-ay.

For security reasons her name cannot be diselosed. Thousands of Frenchmen know the woman \vl1o hoists a law degree. as M1

Souris". The Mouse. The name u-asl

given her because of her secret slgnuL-u delicate scratch-ins Q11 a window pane or door.

To y she sits in a room in H famo s Paris legal building-tile sainewvhere she worked the suc-

ful coup to obtain the V-l 111211»; and smuggle them to Britain-

hl cl iut on their way iietilauio Eliirizgiiixrlld ht least 2o Allierl airmen who baled out over Franc: and were brought to her for safe-

ty.

Here, too, she originated a grand schcmc for Drocurlnd dutviiclie” of Vichy police stamps and iden- tification papers. But thisfluifii lit-tie woman in her early 30s w not have you talk of such thilids-

As we chatted in this room of memories she told me:

“There were three of us-an ci- derly wom-an seoretflfl’ "mm w’ called ‘chicken’. and an 51181151“ woman from Mauritius whom we

. ‘Maurleette’ ".

nEFW? made friends with a skilled French technician and he got. us the plans. I was lucky because I was five minutes late for my ren- dezvous lo hand over the plans m» their possess to mislead and I saw the messenger being led of! by the Gestapo. But soon there was another courier."

Bee1a lliée“ Is Virtually Destroyed

BONN. Germany. March 11 - (CP) _ The birthplace of the com- poser Ludwig van Beethoven, the o ning notes of whose fifth sym- n ony have been used the A1-

RIAL new

Hero also she sshctmed and plot--

iiamedl- Protestant Naval Chaplain

lne-endiaries llscll To Start Fires in 5--Mi|e Area

By ROBBIN coolvs

GUAM. March lz-tMonday) - (APl-St.rlklng while Tokyo still nursed burning wounds of a hea- vy Buperfort attack only 4d hours before. a massive force of approx- imately 300 B-Ns loosed 1.000 tons of incendiary bombs on Nagoya- Japans third largest city and most. important aircraft centre-in the early morning darkness today.

The weather was clear just as on the Tokyo raid. returning crews reported. Immense destruction ap- peared certain although returning fliers said the fires did not seem as large as those set in Tokyo.

The incendiaries fell over a con- gested five-squsre mile area in the centre of the city as the mammo planes bombed from the low s1- titude of 5,000 feet.

"Eltllluarterl revealed today that the Saturday Tokyo strike. which employed 3,300 tons of bombs and left 15 square milel of the city in flames. was the first time the lllPQrl ta had bombed It the 5,000 level. The planes are de- llllled for high altitude work.

THE REV. J T. IBBOTT

pastor of St. Paul's Angliwn Church, Charlottetown. who has been appalled Flrctcstanl. naval lcdltitl/plain of l-LMCB. “Queen 011M‘- o _..

Prior to coming to Charlottetown last Oebolber, Mr. Ibbott had been pastor of Trinity Anglican Church n Halifax for five years.

Tho a-pvpointlnent of Mr. Ibbott has been mode to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Rev. A LeDrew Gardner. former pastor of St. Paul's, who left Charlottetown last October to as- sume the pastorate of an Anglican church in Saint John.

The daring of the venture may have contributed to the baffling of the enemy's defences.

(Continue? on page '1. Col. l)

than 12112111

By KIRK]; L. SIMP50N. Associated Press War Analyst

Crossing the Rhino in strength by American troops to pose an Al- lied invasion threat to central Germany held the news spot light this week end but there were developments elsewhere gloom-filled for Japan.

That the Rhine puncture could speed up by the moment when the final weight of Allied power can be turned against Japan was only one phase of the changed war scene. In bomb-burned Tokyo, at least. the mobilization in Washington of highest level American naval commanders in the Pacific and with them the top-ranking American army and diplomatic figures from China could only be construed as ominous.

Something more than discussion of who's going to be who among the American commanders when the time comes for the next forward step against Japan must have caused that muster of trans-Pacific brass hats. Whatever it was. it bodcd Japan no good.

It has been generally assumed by most military observers that the next phase of the attack on Japan, whether it comes as a direct in- vasion of the Japanese islands themselves or via China. was not to be expected for some months. Admiral Nimitz during his Washington visit more or less confirmed that. llc said a wider “Ims-c" of approach would be needed than his been gained. The implication is that lwo Jima is only one of several Pacific or East China Sea Islands destined to he ripped from enemy control.

Naval task forces have already been lashing at islands of the llyuku Chain which forms a stepping stone bridge from Japan to For- mosa. That line also forms an outer barrier guarding the raw material supply line upon which Japan's home war industries now must depend since her communications with the South China Sea have been rendered precarious.

Admiral Nimitz added that the blockade of Japan to throttle her war industries would not be complete until her communications with the Asiatic mainland also were out. That may be an indication of where l the next. naval advances are to be expected. l

The Ryuku Chain is an outpost protection for Japan-bound cargol craft from northern China. It could become a deadly menace to that‘ supply line if any of the islands that form the chain were to fall lntc' American hands for advance air and submarine base purposes.

MONDAY, MARCH 12, i945

Yanks in New Landing In Philippines

MANILA, March 12 - (Monday! - (AP) _ American troop."- have landed near Zamlloanrza on the aoutllwesternmost tin of ltlinvlclrvlo island, most southerly ol‘ the Phllillpines, after heavy warship bombardment and aerial pound-

MacArthur announced

y. The landing forces quickly cap-

tured four villages and were ad-

vancing on Zambonnga city.

The lamline. made zlgalnst only "sat apposition. was in u.» vic- inity of \Volfe airdrumc-cnly 200 miles northeast of British North Borneo.

Gen. MacArthur said most of thc enemy garrison on this sec- ond largcst island of the Philip- pines was “caught off guard and has fled to the hills in disorder."

Bridgehead Across Rhine ls Expanded

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, March il - (AP) — United States lst Armly troops and tanks _e_xpanded ther Remagen bridgehead more than n mile south today. and the Germans said the Americans had seized 11 miles of the Rhine's east bank after span- ning the river with numerous pon~ toon bridges.

American artillery was blazing 11011)’ 011 the for side in close sup- port of the infantry as the push began gathering momentum after overruning eight cast bank towns.

Germany's Rhine lillc was im- perllied on a lSO-nlilc front, as the 1st Canadian and United States 9th Armies crushed the last enemy pocket at Wesel. Powerful pre- parations for a new crossing were in progress behind a dense smoke screen extcndinl! 40 lnilcs west.‘- wnrd from Wcscl.

The Germans were being beaten back from artillery range of the bridgeheadts lifeline, lllc Laden- dorff bridge. Don Whitehead, on Associated PYCSQ war correspond- cnt, reported from the front that enemy fire, intense Saturday and last night. lrld begun to sluckcn.

In the first estimate of the size of the bridgehead, Whitehead put it at three miles deep and nine miles wide. with the towns of Errol, Linz. Rheinbrcit-bach. Unkel. Bruchhatlseil. Ohlcnbera and Dal- tsnberg in American hailds p

The Germans snlrl t-‘ce bridge- head was four miles deep and ll and declared the Am- (Continu on page 7 Col. 2i

Germans Put ilp Desperate Fight

0n Eastern Front l

laps Warhead-litter “Situation Serious

112s and on Iwo Jlma and said American air raids. by Supcrfort- rcsscs and carrier-based ulnnes, on the Japanese homeland, had reached "serious ‘r0‘,)2l‘iiOllS." But. he added. his G xwnment would gpqgdllv adopt ‘i;ol:l gzcnsurles" to meet the sitllii

New oriiéTrBl-N. B. Certified Seed Potatoes

t

HARTLAND. N.B., March ll — (CPL-Quoted Friday night. as say- ing New Brunswick potato ship- pers had rccclvcd a new order from the French Government. for 15,060 tons of certified seed potatoes, H

SAN FRANCISCO. March 11 —— (AP) - Gen. Kuniekl Koiso, ad- dlessing the Imperial Diet today. warned the people of Nip on that they must prepare for t e time when their "sacred motherland" will become a battleground.

Tine remarks were reported by the Japanese agency Dome! in a l-"tdlo broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commis-

on.

Kolso declared "the Dresent war situation ls very serious." He called upon the Japanese people to rc- nsv: their confidence in "sure vie- tory" and to prepare to fight in "defence of the national structure and the sacred motherlcrci. what- aver hardships may be t: s\ore for

em’

The Premier spoke of "reckless enemy advances‘ in the Philip-

repcrted figure was erroneous and should have been 1,500 tons.

b! lea as a symbol for victory. was virtual! destroyed in til lfifl II this oi universiq otq

‘ Tn;- vast eastern front. from Dan-

H. Hatfield. M.P.. said tonisht» the.

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BY ROMNEY WHEELER \ LONDON, March 11 - (AP) -—‘

. 119! eastward tn Stetlln and south- u. ill lo Hungary. flared loliigl h desperate German rcsLstaiicc as Wehrmacht. 8.8. rlilitc GllJlTlt‘ and Volkssturnl troops sought to check ilhe Russian atlva "o. 3 The Germans prcci med tic-l lcrlninatloil to nlnke a dcuih stand in every important c=lv Conlrst- ing every yard of soil, they fell back to Donzig. Gdyniu and into Stettin. defending’ each suburb and outlying strong-point behind hast- llv-built barricades nlzrl gun pos-l

ns

Heinrich l-limlnlcr‘! defoncc strategv apparently doomed thcsc cities to bEOOITIillYY rubble and ashes like Warsaw and Bildrpesi.

$25,000 Fire In Army Building

t

0'I'I‘AWA, Mnrflii A two-alarm fire rally today des trvyvd a lar e wing of the Ottaw Coliseum bong ll5'(‘fi its an anny scrgeantb mess with damage es- timated at about 825.000. No one was injured.

One of the atijacrnl wings oc- wlliifi bv filo C;lll.l"lun Post-ll

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FINISH JOB WEST 0F R

4E

Electrical Development; Programme For Province

411110110660 By Mar. Co.

1-1 cl Electric lined

A alum unripe,

Total 0f 21,000 iris/alters Taken During Drive

lly ROSS RIIJNRO Willi THIS 1ST CAN- .\it.\i\' UN 'i‘l-IE March ll- (CR

lCZli)i0)—Cf-lnfltii8ll and Bri-

lt lnutcllal has use“ "Fidilgfill for, to per , Cflilllllhfl "4 liruzrceti l.l1i.. 5

with its plans fur LOlL fliftiiil"

electrical power extension u

Cilurlottctown

ohalv," Mr.

extension,

lll‘0\'lfl’.‘ 1i iii l “c of l

])O\l'l.‘l' from 1.1:.- ilflnllf.

plant ill (Jllzll']ottclnv.'ll. lu l3.

‘Bryon, Aibllll)’, anti utiicl‘

0111 l

rt~| tisli troops ul‘ the 1st Can.

iaclian Arnrv an‘ their job west of the Rhine. All crrgzinized resistance at Liilfl last German bridgehead betwceil in; Netherlands border collap- fsed opposite Weasel at. l0 p.

have finished

(‘oblenz and the

110W beinl; rscrvfld by a sluail pOWvl‘ nl. Saturday‘ night.

plant at North Tryun, which 15 ovcrdoaded. Powtr from the next" source will result in rtnuccd ratcz. to consumers ill the territories men- “011911. 111111 will llltll-Zt‘ iii llzlbl“ ll _ :~tIil!'("' uf electrical uxlprni- iu falnlcl- and other residents alonr the South Sliorc. This linc iviiil also serve as u. main feeder to pro-t vlde power to farmers along imp l 59951110 POMS us. a further dcvelop-' lnent. 1 "The Company has many othcrl rural extensions already planned,‘ which will be constructed as DOT-i mits have been granted and ma» tcrials become available.

New Equipment ! “A large new hate 1- A _

Babcock and ‘Wilcox been ordered for installation at tllc Company's steam generating sta- tion in Charlottetown, and permits for this construction arc now be- ing arranged. . Much research u-ork l1 gone into tile design of this

nueri Von’ pascal,“ 001.7771)’ v

S ’side

British and Canadian

‘ troops then closed up to tho

river on the bend west and

‘south of Wesel, which is on l the Rhincfs east bank at. the

ilortinvesi of

Ruhr.

corner the

l-‘ivc to six hundred prison- ers wcrl- taken Saturday in the final burst of fighting, bringing the total for the 1st Canadian Army in the north- ern Rhine offensive to about 21.000. Nearly 10,000 ol these prisoners were paratroopers- the best the cnerny has in the west. ‘they are even considered bci er than the crack S. S. which Canadians fought at. Caen and l-‘alaisc in Normandy.

During Iii days of battle from the time the offensive began east (Centinuedwlanpalzic lfcolfl)" i‘

Air School. To

Be Used In New Plan

OTTAWA. March 11 _ lCPl ._ Air Minister Gibson announced to_ night the. lll -

l inn and

‘ Klllltcionl _Govcrnnlcnt;. ‘Viieleby addillurlal flilTJfCW will be trained for the ILAJ". on 11 limited contract basis following completion of the British Conlmontvcaitli Air Training Plan March Ill and the satisfying of all aircrew llccds for three of the 1- "t ipating nations.

Thcrc will also be a Cnlln - "shadow" scllclnc to look after no -

mal replacements and keep in b“ ing an establlslinleilt u-hich will be useful after the war.

.l‘hc illlllDllllCUiilClli - between tile two llorcl n , not yet been‘ settled, training will begin immediately at eight. school, 501711911)’ Operated under the air training plan,

The schools arc: ‘q. 10 BIL-mm- ti"! "X1111; nlng School, I_endlcton,_ 0nt.;_.\'o. 23 E.I“.'i's., Xarktcn. _b:_1sk.; ho. :1 Service Fly- ing Training school, Calgary,

5 .Glmll, Mann,

I Lu Main, N} 1 Central Navigation School, | Rivers, Mam; No l Recon. nalssance and Navigation . School. Summers" . l’.l~.‘.l. ‘ ’l‘l1e new agreement will uuto~.

nlaticaliy CXlllYc March ;-*_v_ 1941;, but 11111)‘ be ll-rnliilated carilor ulil two llllllllll>' notice by either oi i110 Dflliicl gotcrnlnents.

Prime ltlinister Jling, Roosevelt Hold Conference

BY (KR. BL:\('Kl§l'li.\'

WASHINGTON, hiarcll ll-ICP. Reactions of the Causal.“ cmment to the Dunlbarton Oaks SECtlTiiy agreement tvhich will ht- tllc iltlSis the San Francisco (:(lllf€l‘£‘i'lC€‘ nn world organization for peace were discussed by Prilnc Nllillstcl" MocK/rnzic King and President. Roosevelt at a week-end conference

The Prime Minister. who main- lalns his customary refusal to dis- cuss riclalls of his mission when in Vlasllllrztoll. pl‘ bl.\' will lnakc n lcpclt to lllc Ganglion Parliament when ii mcclt- lVl-zrrll 19

He wtllt alone llcl:sc_ szmll Ottawa Fri ._ nlaincd iiilll] ftlturdzly nlrht customary daily r-ilcndar 0i the lirsidcnts callers for Saturday

s blank and it wm: assumed he

cl his Hurst llnd lrl-cilty of oppor- tunity" for .n_z t1 s.

TlYsa wcl-c believed t1 centre about ttlr- llllilod Nations canfrr- rlzeo omllilvt ill Slll F: ls Apri‘ 2‘: onrl ill" protlosrl 0x

otlicrs of ili(‘

Cvrps wag evacuated but urns not

damaged.

“Military authorities said a mil- a

court of inquiry would be‘

w voile“ clla ' tit“ a .

1 rowers for | lrartcn Oaks

(Continued on page ’l. Col. ‘it

Gov j

lcng,|

to illf‘ Whllci liter his arrival fram,

afternoon and r1»! Tllcl

lcli tn b“ nw-cllild by Csllfirnlirl

rive‘ Leave Charlottetown l-I h Arrivc Charlottetown 118', SM PM.

NB. SUBSCRIPTIONS

SAIIVI‘ JOHN N.B. Vi ch 11 a. ‘C91 1- Nrvr llyullstvlcl; lions in tie Rod 01-053 cam uh lo xizlon Friday wcrc S4- Thc Provincial objective is $200,!)

T. (A

lT’S ALMOST AS

WINDY AS l-\

POLlTiCiAN TODAY

and Upper Sr. Laalcllcr: ‘ and .\l)lll(‘\\'lli'ii'. nnldcr

Lower S_ Lotvrcnce and Lake St. John: l 1r and somewhat milder, follotvcrl lilzizl fillllw at night.

(iulf. North Shore. Bay Cl“- icur and ltlariiimr- West: Moder- ate wimls; fair with not much change in temperature.

Maritime East; Moderate to fresh winds; fair and moderate- ly cold.

High tide this morning at. 10.0 and tonight at 10.10. Sun sets this evening at 7.01 and rlscs tomorrow morning .18. 13th. ll.5l

New moon March P. M. Sunimerside tide '“‘ en minu- tes later than Charlottetown. DAILY AIR SERVICE

Charlottetown — Summenldc- Moncton Leaves Charlottetown 7.45 A.M-. 11.30 A.hl