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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1942

Cap Threat In far East Seen Looming Large

Douglas Ainaron, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

loomed large tonight 1n British eyes as the Admiralty un- folded the story of what Admiral Sir William James, Portsmouth naval base commander. called one of the ‘bloodiest and fiercest sea. battles of history."

Sacrifice of the allied cruiser and destroyer forces in tlie Java Sea battle, which delayed but failed to prevent tlie invasion of Java, will bring repercussions in Parlia- jmt, political quarters forecast today.

Thirteen allied warships, fighting ‘to the last ma“ and the last gun, were lost in the three-day engagement against to overwhelming force of Japanese cruisers and destroy- n-e. The combined British. Australian, United States and Netherlands East Indies fleet sank or damaged at least ieven or cuzht enemy yeast-ls, "oliably more. l

. Details oi the engagements were ‘received with niixrd fsclings of ad- jlmtion and grief by sea-conscious 1 2 l. . ied Ships Lost To Probable I Eight Japanese

‘Britons to whom the losses repre- snted n5 izieat a shock as the news ‘tithe glllklllg in the Far East of the Prince of .Wnlcs and the Re-

vllstl their pride in the men who [ought to the last in accordnnric Itlh the iincst traditions of ilie oevy where joined the grief in the his of so ninny seamen and the knowledge that by destruction of All: considerable Allird force the

Jlpanese are in a better position itostrike south to Australia or west P)- Britain and the United States ' ' announced Saturday the sinking OI 12 Allied Wai-Jzips. with a 13th believed lost, some in the battle tn Kelli the Japanese out of Java and the others in boldlydxyirig to es- vfliie from a tightly closed enemy l-lflD in which they later found themselves.

Five British, two Australian, two United States and four Netherlands craft were casualties, These pun- ishing reverses were offset in part by the destrucllon of or severe da- inuge oi eight. Japanese warships.

Britain lost the gallant cruiser Exetcr, irero ship of the 1939 battle of the Plate 1n which the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was defeated and eventually destroyed.

Otllci- British losses were the destroyers Jupiter, Electra, Encoun- ter and Stronghold.

Australia lost the cruiser Perth and the sloop Yarra.

The United States, lost the crutc- er Houston-J-"resident Roosevelt's favorite cruise ship-and the d0;- troyer Pope.

The Netherlands. of its tiny fleet, lost the cruisers De Ruyter and Java, and the destroyers Koertenser and Evertsen. It. was the Ever-teen that was reported beached and pre- sumubly lost.

The battle divided itself into thm

arts.

First of all the allied fleet, whose total strength was not disclosed, en- gaged s superior enemy force on Feb. 1i, between Surabaya, the Ja- van naval base. and the island of Bawean. Two destroyers, the Koer- tenaer and the Electra were sunk. ire meter was badly hit.

The second phase came in the

to I11 a. due Admirnltyb announcement Cine too late for Sun-day paper emmnent and most. of them lct the lunmunique tell its own story sup-

ntlng it. only with introduc- ' paragraphs and pictures of ‘lie British strips and acccu. ts

4h}; previous actions “We Shall Avengo 111cm"

She Pictorial devoted an entire from page to the naval enangcmrnt Alltl in bold face type across me lottom said:-

“We shell avenge them." bi s brief front-page tribute to Eivai personnelitfnrnewspnoes "It ls a long and melancholy ‘llbibilt the deeds of the men whose minis are written there Rive us no misc for regret. ..Let us lciixmlaer with pride, though our hearts be bevy. their glorious courage and the omitable way may fought."

Lord Strubolgi, Labor rarer, was (mooted to inquire in Parliament lily British and United States viihmiirines were not employed a- Iillsi the Japanese fleet units, and sh! the weaker Allied surface iiiroes were pitted against an over- Jlielmlng enemy.

Navel critics in Commons also we reported eager to team why h wit. Allied forces were not in- flected to avoid daylight action in 2kg‘ are Jaiplariese wsrueo $181116”

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' Government defenders pointed lll. however, that it was appiarent ‘it Alled fleet had acquitted itself Ill and escaped with comparative- U minor damage in the daylight hllle but suffered one of its se-

lmt blows in the night action Wm two llndtes cruisers and a lfltleh clcstr er were caught in a “Pine-re su arlne p,

Political writers ictctl the llflemrnent: would forced to

Jllle l. further statement on the

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Admiral Jamu terized the Jsvs. attle I

fiercest. d b , ha“? on ‘loodtest ever

"this a the fiercest WUJ’ that . lll! been fought at sea. There ‘ml l Moe of news rushtnez in mill film-tiers of tile globe min

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Conflict.

Iver since France collapsed refu- geee have been finding their We! to Britain, bringing stories d! PR5‘ ant-day opinion in their homeland. Here, a journalist who lived sud worked in Paris for many ears. presents s composite view ss DOW-l‘- ed by the many refugees he has interviewed. His identity remains anonymous for obvious reasons.

column

Written for The Canadian Press By An Escaped Parisian Iournslle!

N, March 1S — (OP) - thc real feeling in Franco?

an dlo" and to Vichy ss "the Vichy

WASHINGTON, March 15 —(A-.

Nazi om} or Annihilation ls Postponed

Bimini, March i6 -(Pmm der- man broadcasts) -(AP) _ Hitler- amed the German people today

(By d... “har t ...i?l."9.i;.l.iilz“...ii.rtfli..filllsi n firs: st-ld..~ltlu.l~.lf.fii.léi “lll-l Russia had been postplbllied "W...

spring w summer.

“One thing we know today," Hit- ler told an audience of politlcans "l4 filmy Generals, interspersed with scores of German war widows and wounded, "the Bolsheviks who could not defeat the German troops and their allies in one winter will be snnihllatlngly defeated by us in tihe coming summer."

(Until today, Hitler and other speakers of the German propaganda office had spoken of a drive in the spring, but in todays address he shunned reference to the approach- ing spring season of thaws and paralyzing mud. In his message to the German army on Dec. 21 ivhen he said he had “followed his intui- tion" and assumed command from the deposed Field Marshal Gen. Walther Von Bcauchif-sch, Hitler had said:-

(“Preparations for immediate re- sumption or offensive operations in the spring until the enemy 1n the east is finally destroyed must be taken at once." Since then, Ger- man communiques have spoken al- most exclusively of "defensiye” war- fare.)

Speaking today at the Zeughaus -the old German arsenal used as a military museum_and all of fame——the Nazi commander in chief

cried:-

"Only today do we realize the full extent of the preparation of our enemies. Whatever fate may have in store for us it can only be less onerous than that which lrs. be- hind us."

After reviewing the relatively easy conquests oi France, the Low Coun- tries, Norway and the Balkan countries. Hitler said:-

"Whatever German armies achiev- ed in these campaigns pales in com- psrisou with the task whirl: face imposed on our armed forces and those of our allies last year.

"Joined with our brave’ allies. the German army has attacked and an- nihilated again and again the ever- renewed Russian forces only to meet further masses oi msn. In tour months endless roads were traveregd in our offensive which in

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llazi Losses 10 British Nil

i

War Situation Last Night

SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) designs in the now separated Pacific and Indian Ocean theatres unfold fully, it is clesr that the sllics and

(By KIRKE L. Even before Japanese wai- All] silks are bracing for even more critical developments in the Atlantic ss spring approaches.

Further United Nation retreats before Japan In event. of success- ful Invasions of Australia or India would be grave setbacks. But they would not end the war. It still is in the Atlantic that the vital com- munication lines of sllled victory hopes lie. It is there the ultimate test wlll come.

The Axis could be Insshcd in Russia. While the Anglo-American fellowship holds the Atlantic ship-bridge to Britain and to Russia Axis victories elsewhere remain but, inconclusive incidents o! the strugglg

O s o g

And the dominant fact in the Atlantic as of today is that those communication lines are secure. Neither Japan's intervention in the Pacific nor Axis submarine raiding in North American waters has diverted Anglo-American attention from its man task in the Atlantic,

The sea corridors to Britain and to Russia are open. Heavy oonvoys~ of war goods and of Canadian and American troops have reached the British isles through them not only unscathed, but “n. attacked. War essentials for Russia are flowing unchecked through the Arctic and White Sea.

l O O O

These are ominous portcnts for Hitler. Diversion of his U-boats from the open Atlantic to harry coastal shipping in American and Latin American waters was itself a confession of their inability to cut allied llft!‘ lines. The indicated concentration oi heavy Nazi surface war-craft in Nonwcgian waters further demonstrates that failure.

The Mlly known element o! the Nazi surface fleet powerful enough to cope with Anglo-American yiaval forces disposed to safeguard es. sential traffic to Britain and Russia is the battleship Von Tii-pitz. But. she has been spotted and attacked in Norwegian waters. But she escaped the fute of hcr mighty sister ship, the Bismarck. Hail she been sunk or crippled the most dangerous threat to allied Atlantic war traffic would have been ended.

Are Going To Carry

Arr War To Japanese

not or 11.1.»; F. In India Stays British And

American Planes Are Arriving In Increas- ing Numbers.

Ten Allied Ships Suniilleoentlydfi Atlantic Boast

(Canadian Press»

NEW DELHI. India, hiarch 15- tCIPI-Air lviarshal Sir Richard _Pe1i'se, chief oi tne Royal All" Force in India, declared today that "we are going to carry the war into the enemy's country, into Japan," and disclosed that United States officers have established an air headquarters in India.

Air Marshal Pelrse. telling a press conference that latest-type British and American aircraft are arriving in India in increasing numbers. em- phasized: “We are not going to be content to out up an umbrella and slf. underneath for the enemy to come and attack its."

if to point. up the Marshals words. relays 01 allied planes smashed trooii-lndtn Japanese ca- noes in the rivers and bombed and inachine-giiiiiicd columns of trcop trucks, tanks and wagons moving

ac‘

Allezibc coast datng back to Considerable loss

during the p.riod last. Wednesday. of life ivas fear:d.

N.C. naval au-

IJONDO . Terrific air battles man plane Cologne, mu

miinlcatlons Rhineland.

N March 15

hub of

Former Paris Newsman Gives French Picture

i Says French Sure Their Country Will Be Great Again; Are Confident Of An Allied Victory And Cheered By U. S. Entry into

(GP)-

ragerl over the Saturday

and

British nshlet scratched to its base.

The dogfignts foLowed by _fl few hours a heavy night bombing of

nltions centre and com- the German

Many Pay Final Tribute To Senator

MONTREAL, Representatives of all

Mlmh

lib-Ki?)- walks of

Qiinadiiln life paid l. final firibiifb

t0

Government Senate leader,

Bit. Hon.

state funeral service in

Prime Minis

Raoul Diindurand,

its ass-lb!

Mackenzie King

visited the body as it lay in state

at the home oi doGaspe Beaubten,

Senator Dendursnifs son-ln-law. no led a 1on3 queue of

ers but the body- l‘! W

were representatives of

erupt-General, Governor church, civic zovemmente. vices. the various

the o1 federal,

diplomatic

finer-s of the Senator

(Continued on we i, 001 l) silently wt W W"-

the Province. provincial and the armed ser-

C0

business and

cups, Tenants and fcllozl-‘o

mourn-

rps and cultural parish-

filed

In Wilmlngtcn,

ilies announced Sunday that t‘- it-ed states tanks: hail bzen Thursday night. and the of the crew had been and exhausted. at and Charleston.

tlinr big U21 torpedoed 2B members land-rd. burned Souithiport, NC. N

.0,

The Navy Department announc- ed in Washington that a £11181 United States merriirntman was lost; Wednesday and that seven of the crew of 2a had been saved-

Ai. an East coast Cana ian Port 29 exhausted and frost-bitten m6?! were landed after an Allied mer- clianiman had bern sunk tn the Atlantic. ‘Itiey had been adrift foi 80 hours before bemi! lolllld-

Suiyivorsof o;._e American mid one Norwegian ship ieazhed Peurto moan, Haitian, and Cuban ports after their ships were sunk in tne Caribbean. Thirty-four of 41 Nor- weglan crewman were saved, as were 67 aboard the American vessel.

Authorities in the Bahamas an- nounced the landing c! 30 crewmen or an unidentified vessel smk loot Wednesday.

Fourteen men were lost. and 12 saved when the Norwegian fret ht- was sunk off Mex en's The survivors were

Havana reported the United gtgtes sugar transport Colabee was to doed and that u! were saved. The takenly abandoned sht lief! the vessel would snk. Actually (gum ,only nmile and Q, hfl ‘m... "r- "r chimes. . me n ssss e ee mo an unidentified do; remained aboard were rescue . The others took to bCfll-B 01' 1181115651

(cerium: on we s. coi o»

lif imported whlsldes are Frank said Mr. Fulton.

northward to attack the British and Chinese armies strung across Cen-

i; tral Burma 60 to 80 miles north of

the evacuated Burma capital of Rangoon. Bombs and machine-gun fire un- set. and. sank canoes filled with sol- diers neai" Tuukkyann. 20 milts north of Rangoon, a communique said and other forces were attacked on the road between Mlnizaladon and Hmwabi, l0 and 15 miles. re- spectively. north oi the capital. _._.___.______

Says ll. B. Already Rationing Liquor

micron. March ll- tCPl-“The New Brunswick limit- ations are already much more drastic," R. G. Fulton. chairman o! the New Brunswick blqlwl‘ C011‘ trol Board. sold Saturday in com- menting m an announcement 0d liquor rationing in British Colum- bi

a. For the past few months no per-

son has been able to purchase leg- po

allv more than one quart of hard liquor or l2 quarts of beers on the same day in ‘New Brunswick.

In addition the consumer has bteri rationed indirectly where concerned, Last year the board's quota was so per cent. of the 1940 purchases, and this year the quota has been reduced to 7S per cent. of the average annual in the preceding three

p111 L years, he explained. _

Lillie

CANADA

Mls

THE All PURPOSE FLOUR

Soviets Ready , For Jap Assault

LONDON. March 1S — (GP) - Rusmia. has issued "battle orders which can be put. into instant oper- ation" st Vladivostok and at the new naval base of Nikolaevsk. the Dally Mall reported today in a dis- patch from Stockholm.

The report of Russian prepara- tions for s possible Japanese as- sault coincided with a series of ev- ents which s. Reuters dispatch from Chungking said indicated an early Japanese move against the Soviet Union.

These events are the recall by Japan o1 Lia-Gen. Yoshlisllgll TRY!!- kawa as ambassador to Moscow and his replacement by Naotuke, gov- ernor general of Korea, and the visit to Japan of Chang Ching Hut. head of the Japanese-controlled Manchukuo government.

The Daily Mail dispatch quoted informed reports iii the Swedish press to the effect lliat the Japan- ue army in Manchukuo has been increased to more than 1.000.000 men and sold details of the Russian D1‘?- parations are "being allowed to leak out here by Soviet circles."

Invasion Signs Seen In Sweden

BERNE, Switzerland. March l5— (APP-Sweden stepped up her de-

fence preparations to the hkgliifib "

degree tonight as signs of invasion by the still powerful Ciermim army increased. the tension in the war- encircled Scandinavian kingdom, Considerable numbers of Swedish troop YEIIIIOIKZIIIGIIIS were called at the end of February, the Swckholm correspondent. oi the loitUaflllilt-l‘ Gazette wrote, coincident Wlbii re- ports that more German iozces were arriving in the Stavanger

area.

A Swedish army conununique in- dicated mobikzation would continue "for some time yet." Sivccish man- oeuvres in the northern province Jamtland were the most. comprehen- sive ever held Wlbll ski troops, IIIOL- orized units and tanks tic-operating with civil guards

Three things the Swcdesz- _ _ y

1. The much discussed possibility of an allied offensive through n01"- lliern Norway to create a new front and knock PliLlBIld out 01' the Will‘;

2. The sharp criticism of tire Swedish position by the German

press; _

3. The reports in the Swedish .n"ess oi increased German trcop concentrations iii Noi"_\yuy_ ueniiiark

‘currently troubled

Vllsifllifi, and a small but h ,lily eifi- t-ient. navy. These are solely factors .ii her favor. So ls her economic wealth. which Germany has tapped fer iron ore. wood uulD Mid H161“ chant ships.

Air Vice-Marshal S. M. Broil 0n llisit To Prov.

Air Vice-Marshal G.M. Ci'oii. RC. A.F.. Inspector Lieiieral. Ottawa, ar- rived in Charlottetown late Stiturduy

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Reds Say Reeapture 0f Kharkov Hear

liitler Admits Hard Struggle Lies Ahead FuriOuE-Fattles

l Flame In Donets BasiriL Ukraine

Russians ‘Charge Wholesale Ger- man Atrocities In Great Steel Producing City.

_

MOSCOW. March I6—-(Monday) (AP)-Sovict forces have smashed through German fortifications on the Khar- kov-Kursk-Orcl front south of Moscow, recaptured num- erous villages and are at the approaches of Kharkov it- self, the heavy industries centre of the Ukraine, the Rus- S1811?‘ reported early today.

Ourwadyance is continuing against stubborn resisting GQPIIIHIIS. the announcement said. _ Indications ‘that the recapture of Kharkov might be lmllvllncnt was given last night in frontline dispatches de- claring the big industrial cify’s “hour of liberation is near.”

Furious battles flamed in the § Uklfllfle and the Donets basin where numerous German captives s enator Edgar Nelson Rhodes Gated By Death

were taken and hundreds of others OTIIAWA. Much lb-(CIM-gen- Riiod io

were , As Marshal Semeon Timoehenkofis fliOl‘ Edgar Nelson e5 .. Federal Finance Mllllbbtfl" in m]

forces drove on toward me 5 marshes of the Sea of Azov and the major German base at. the ruined PUWQT dam at Dnieperopetrovsk. Russian tanks were rhroym inm the battle and the infantry, fntyp_ 9111s up. made many crmures. Bennett Government. uiiu a 1m p1" Pfllllel‘ 0f NOVa Scone. died here ocay. A native of Azniierst. N.S., he was He died in hQspital two we -l¢ caller returning w 0pm.,“ C.‘ Honda where he had zone It! f

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Among the prisoners were troops "m" n" 514th regiment and trcm the 524th regiment or m? 294th di- vi: on. Many junior officers were d l0 have surrendered.