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British cause heavy damage. in raid on Nazi naval base.

Beaverbrook llay take Shipping llllsi

LONDON. March 12 -— (UP mm - 'i‘lie parliamentary ’ Mby correspondent of tho . y,“ Association, discusln vernment changes “which are . g talked about in the smok- ' rooms of Westminster,” Hid tonight there is a. rumor ' um Lord Beaverbrook may hie over thc shipping rnlnist ,1 ‘In the near future." lie offered "for what It is worth" the report that Lord , Betverlrrookfis successor as min- ister- of aircraft production Jrorild be LL-Col. J. Moore- Bnbuon who would be replac- ' edls lilinlster of Transport by Col. J. J. Llcwellin. parliamen- tuy secretary to the minlst , ‘ol aircraft production. lie added: "Alternately some think Col. Llcwellin might take lull charge of aircraft produc- ‘tlon ii Lord Bcaverhrook left." Rumors of impending changes 1 nose primarily out of reports ‘ tint Ronald Crass. shinning ‘ minister. may be appointed f, high commissioner to Australia, in the same way that his col- league, hfztlcolm MacDonald. former minister of health. has _ been lppointcd high commis- rloner to Canada

Heavy B.A.F. llaids on Rhodes

OAIRD. Erzrpt. March 12-bit?) 419th’ R n1 Air Force raids on lire Italian-fortified island oi Rhodes iit the entrance to the ‘llftlftn Sea were declared official- iY today to have been carried out Kirghiz! sy and ‘Ihiesday

L"! night, it was stated. large llruwere set on the airports at itflritzo mid Cnlato and consider- ‘bii lllllllllsc done to enemy nir- RIB-it on ili ‘birnd. " Alarge quan- iiiloi ilrfllflv bombs" was dropped, ltornmrmique sold.

Similar rcsrrli-s were till‘ the Monday night m}

. ooivbrrroy SATISFACTORY

ifONCTON. N. 8., March l2- iilPl-Tlre condition of AC. L. J “Mil”. Quebec City. who suf- lmd heul injuries when struck . u“ ‘lllltl 0f a plane Saturday, m lrllortttl satisfactory tonight.

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“granary/r. March l2—(CP>—-'I‘ire w“ Elfllllltz Citizen said today llalllt 0f Hon. Dr. R. J. Mair- w- °rm(‘\‘_COll§Cl'Vflti\'0 leader. is .11 nreritroncd as a possibility m" Appointment of Canadian Oon-rnrlssioner to Eire.

Coming Events

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LONDON, March l8-—(Th|1|1- 5B!)—(Cl‘r— German bombers, flying so high they could scar- cely be heard. subjected Liver- pool to its longest raid of the W" Overnight and struck eirn- ultaneously at London, the midllllldfl. East Anglia and zlzouthwest and southeast Eng- and. ‘

LONDON. March l2-—(CP)—Tlre thunderous rumbie of an armlery barrage different from anything previously heard in London indi. cated some new development, in anti-aircraft defence tonight as German bombers attacked the cup- ittrl and many widely-separated districts.

The midlands. the Merseyslde. East Anglia, and southwest and sguthcnst England also were raid- e

Nature of the defensive fire was not disclosed. but its noise re- sembled tliat of heavy artillery rather than the familiar crack of conventional anti-aircraft guns. One raider was shot down on the Suriey-Strssex boundary.

On the offensive side, the Air Ministry announced that shipyards and docks at. the German naval base of Kiel and at ncarby Bremcr- havcn were bombed successfully Tuesday night by the Royal Alr Force.

The ministry said British pilots saw their bombs star-t zm extensive fire at Kiel and saw other bombs burst on shipbuilding yards and docks.

A communique reported also that a lone bomber had dropped ex- plosives on an oil storage plant at Rotterdam and a factory near

Utrecht, both in the Netherlands, v

" In Tuesday night's raids, six p6!“- SOIlS were killed in one midlands residential district. and in another 150 were driven from their homes by bombs which were believed to have buried others in wreckage. A Heinkel llli bomber was de- stroyed as it. attenuated to attack a. convoy off the cast coast of Scotland, tr l-Icinkcl 59 seaplane was shot down off the Danish coast, and another Nazi plane destroyed at an airport in northern France.

Roosevelt in Formal request

For 7 billions i‘

(By Richard L. Turner. Associated Press Staff Wrltcr) WASHINGTON. lvfarcli l2-(APi -Conu;ressionnl leaders prepared tonight to speed action on n re- quest from President Roosevelt for $7.000.000.0'J0 with which to "the tools of defence for fighting to pre-

nll drmocraclcs irgalnst aggres-

serve themselves slon."

Acting urrdcr the, lease-lend bill. the Prcsidcirl a-kcti for this sum in a lcitcr" trr Speaker" Sum Ray- burn. Hearlngs are scheduled to begin tomorrow before a House of Representative appropriations com- mittcc. By Monday. or Tiresduy at the latest, Rayburn said, the ap- propriation bill. biggest in the history 0t‘ tire United Slates will he under debate in the House itself.

Administration have tire nppr-opriaiio

lender's expect t0 n bill through next week.

How quickly the bill could be got. flirntrgh the Senate. though, was another question. some (‘W041i it M arouse. if possible, in miniature. renewal of the debate on the bill itself which ended last week in a 60-to-31 V090-

British make Rapid advance In Ethiopia

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cnmo, March 12 —(AP) — A British column invadirrfl Bil-gift? Ethiopia after the collqlle-‘lt ° 12o alien Somalllond advanced m milcs in the ow We “Y'- w; Mjddlg East command announ

today.

This force colilllle Dflllll" it?" Ethiopian town some 400 gl 65 north of Mogodtsclo. Ileltell "ma; llilialld capital. Its vosltlllll W“? w“ 81W“ m; 9O miles south 0f J1- jigs with no important Fascia. big; ca; standing’ ill i118 W-“Y up

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Describes Lease-Lend Bill as Monument to Far-seeing States- manshp.

IONDON, ltiamh ll —(OP) ._ Prime Minister Churchill today told the United States the British 31d bill constitutes o. "new Magma, car- to. ...,a nrontunc-iil; of getter-op; llllllileftixrl-dseeucilg stiatcsmanship."

c. ce . monsz__ l 118 House of Com "The lease and lend bill. .be. came law yesterday“: am m" the House would wish me to ex- press, on their behalf and on berm“ of the nation. our deep and i155- Degtfultlapprcciatlon."

ior y ft M_ it was disglosizrd that? $5.311? ‘Ya-ill 11°F Drvpllsanda weapons 11in $330131 axis and Nazi-occupied res to tell the people or the 81d bills passage and “the decisive iilgtrificancc this must have in the a, .

"It is the kind of news that "i111 the most Gestapo-ridden ""1"?! cannot keep from p". “Mimi! ""‘°"Eh the mass of “ll flllilfns." the Press Associa- fiign; illbily HIITESIIDIIflBDt said, l6; aswiiilllils tgzttrlizr" mgale is as ' l" "My. the tidlnigls lilrtllflflarllrlfl: a shattering effect."

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liiaimeliussia To be arsenal For Germany

NEW YORK, March 12—(AP)— The Budapest. radio in a Hungar- ian language broadcast heard by the National Broadcasting Corpora- tion claimed tonight Soviet Rus- sia will become the “arsenal for totalitarianism’ and will play the same "arsenal" role for Germany that the United states is playing for Britain.

The radio said its information came from “authoritative sources". An agreement between Germany rand Russia. it added, provided for Germany to establish n number of large uurrrltinrr. factories inside Russia where they will be inacces- slbie to British il'lllb€l'S because 0i Russias neutrality.

The arriurgcrirurt also will place German factories, technicians and machines near the source o1 Rus- sias l‘ll'.\' irrnzerinls, tire radio claimed.

Warns against Over production In tuber crop

-produetion

Warning against over‘ I of potatoes irext season was sound- ed at the annual meetlntl of the Central Farmers‘ In trtute Yeiyiel" day by Hort. \V. H. Dennis. Minister

f A ‘i llit ‘C. o m c m the course of the Bl’-

Spemkintl iii terrroon session, Mr. Dennis urged possible. $11811‘

farmers to redirce. if tato acres e this year. “We had g on March 1st. this 30,000 tons of table ‘ml’ dmiwlfaofié seed. There are n arm 8- - tonsascompamed with 123.000 W“! year 880. or 20.000 tons more.

“It appears to me that. if our far- mere go on producing potatoes at the rate they are doing. MI- Defl- nls added. "accumulatlrrtl M180 Ill!"-

as they have. that. it will leoid w a great. extent to the urination of the Province. Potato growinll in this Province. for the 00st few veers nnywnyklarnsxlbfien a curse rather

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one thing likely to reduce potato acreage this veer. he said. in the mt that so manv farmer! Monet meet their fertiliser obligations oi lest year and will be unable tobllr- chase this year's requirements.

"I felt that this nratter was of e0 mugh importance." said the Minis- ter. “that I took it up with the de- partments in New Brunswick and Nova Sootlo. mm the ‘iileanggrigge-

w ether c? WW l1 - m“ h to curtail the acre- certain

in the Province your,” he said, stock Dotatocs.

to provide a proportion to the num- acree on eoc t Ptheit tf we” could tern 0v noes base izcfgtlsltriltioriztirslong that. line. wewbuld be in a position to curtail thi’; sur- nlu! production and 21W Ollr fill‘- mers something for the work the‘! have to do: But I find that while the other provinces realize the need. and tell me that they know some- thing must be done. thev never-

age planted. percentallr! in ber of cultivated farm. I though

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h a. wide area.

Farmers Wartime

Italians bomb Hospital ship

ATHENS, Greece. March I2.- (APJ-The Ministry of Marine asserted tonight that an Italian bomber had attacked a loaded hospital ship which "already had been announced to the lt- allan government as such. and was bearing the regular Red Cross sign."

British aid

_,Bill causes

Stir in Germany

BERLIN. March l2 —(AP) Germany's semi-official reflector of foreign office opinion. the Diplo- mutische Politische Korrespondenz, tonight denounced the new Brit- ish aid law approved by the Unit- ed Statcs Congress as "the most flagrant North American meddling" in an affair which ls none of its business.

"The time is past when unau- thorized powers can concern them- selves ln regions foreign to them,” it said. "Attempts in this direction have strengthened fitting counter measures because it la no accident that. the Japanflfi foreign. minister now is coming to Europe to consult with his allies on measures to pro- teci; the interests oi the three porv- ers iir their living spaces."

The organ said the contention that the law was defensive was dis- proved by the fact that it contem- plates “sacrificing? United States army supplies.

Profound Impression

Enactment oi’ the hill is making a profound impression in all strata of German life and continued to be the subject of most serious thought.

Available comment, inspired bv the government, takes the line that nnytrrtirg the United States may do to help Britain cannot change the “forward surge" of German political and military forces.

The general conclu ion. as 8X- pressed here. is that “it won't change things in the end."

(The German radio, recorded _in New York bv National Broadcasting Company, weirt so iar as to say that “the United States will appear to help England all she can, but in reality. she will endeavor to induce Germanv to agree to o negotiated peace.”

(“Alter the signing of such a negotiated pence the U._S.A. then hopes to take over the inheritance

of mire." tire’ radio added. “However . . . Germany never will acquiesce to any negotiation propo alsf‘) p

Germans claimed the signatories of the Bcrllir-Rome-Tokvo pact. are effecting counter-measures. Thus. it was sold, the forthcoming visit to Berlin and Rome of Japanese For- eign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of "more significance" than enact- ment of the British Aid Bill,

‘Ihe Dleiist aus Dcutschlaudmom- menlarv service. aid “we feel our-

selves to be prepared against ell possible developments." " ' ‘ " "It is recalled." Dlenst continued.

"that the Fuehrer (on Feb. 24) surcd his hearers that every would be torpedocd which within vision 0f German tubes."

A Nazi spokesman made an un- finished comment:—

Roosevelt is an unvlledict- able man. Let him send one con- voy and . . "

Two killed In air collision

C?)- G. rrett. of oronto. m W. L. Bborlw of Belize. British Hondu- rne. were killed instantly today when two Royal Canadian Air Force lanes of No. 4 servlnce f1 int: train- Yng school collided. in d-air over the citiv. Eye-witnesses r0100 of whom miles away. said the machines av- neared to meet head-on. But was not confirmed. were believed to have been VH6“!- tn formation flying,

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MELBOURNE —(GPl -'f‘ho Ar- gun says that Bouth African troops fighting in North Alrica have created a new record for heel

of 135 degrees tn the a1

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Problem

Annual meeting-Bi Central Farm- ers Institute-Mr. Wylie Gibson re - elected President.

The ltnngthening and improve- ment 0i’ farm organizations "so that in agriculture we may play our proper part in this greatest crisis that the world has ever known" was urged by Mr. Wylie Gibson. Merahfleld, President oi the Cen- tral Farmers’ Institute, in his ad- dress at yesterday's annual meeting of the Institute. _

‘xre was a large attendance at the ittternoon and a rrlrig sessions, which were held ii! "lie old Board oi’ TTade rooms. Market- Building.

All officers were re-elected. Mr Wylie Gibson of Marshfleld is President; Mr. Lincoln Dewar of

New Perth. vice-president; W. D. Ross. Kinross. secretary; auditor. Mr. R. C. McLeod of Lyndalc. The following compose the board of directors: Prince County: Messrs. Hudson Lowther, Herman Myers, Allison Profitt, Queens 00.: Wylie Gibson. R. C. McLeod. W. D.

well, Lincoln Dewar. J. W. McLean. Resolutions

The following resolutions passed:

RESOLVED that this meeting fe- vor the establishment of a forest tree nursery for P.E.I. (Moved by Mr. R. E. Connolly; seconded by Mr. J. Walter Jones.)

‘Phat the P. E. I. Government be urged to investigate the possibility oi supplying mussel mud to the farmers. Moved by Mr. J. W. Jones: seconded by Mr. J. L. Dewar.

That this meeting urge upon the Department of Agriculture the de- sirability of fostering o Mgl-itlmg "Livestock Show in Charlottetown this sunrmcr. (Moved by Alexander Haniiltonpseomded.» by Wylie Gib- sun.

That the Department of Agliclil- ture be urged to take steps to cur- tail the acreage of potatoes on PE I. by educational or other means. (Moved by J. L. Dewar; seconded by Alex Hamilton.)

That the Government be asked

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Snow storm 10n Mainland

HALIFAX, March l2 —(CP) — Another snow storm. driven by a SS-nrlle-an-hour wind. s\vept over Nova Scotia and Southern New

the storm had abated tonight in New Brunswick and most of Nova Scotla. ~

Snow removal squads were busy here as the high wind blew eight inches of powdery snow into rlri is. Saint John had a fnll nf scvcii inches, Liverpool, N. S., four, and Yarmouth. three.

Temperatures hovered between i0 and 15 degrees above freezing.

Ice from a weekend sleet storrn in

'stlll clung to wires and trccs parts of Prince Edward Island.

.1 Election date

Set in Manitoba

WINNIPEG. March l2 —(CPJ -- Maiiitobals 20th legislature was [dissolved early tonight by Iileuten- ant-Governor R. F‘. Mcwllilama. a few hours after Premier John Bracken announced that a provin- cial election will be held Tuesday. April 22.

Mr. Brackenls announcement oi’ a provincial election date followed several weeks of rumor and specula- tion which started when the fifth session of the 20th legtslature was prorogued lust Dec. 17. Nominations close April l2.

The election date was fixed at a two-hour cabinet session today. The present 55-member legislat- ure was elected July 27. 1936, There are 21 Liberal-Progressives, l5 Con- servatives, stx Co-opcratlve Com- monwealth Federation, five Social Ciedtters, four Independents and four eeote vacant.

Premier Bracken formed a coali- geon government early last Novem-

r.

Except for three members, the entire legislature supported the coalition.

War-ZS Years Ago Today

MA t8. MIG-Sty German planes brought down tn Western Front air battles. British gunners successfully bombarded flgrmhn positions nee: Manetz on Lille- Annentieres railway. Moshl, East Africa. occupied by British ilsrocs.

Ross; Kings County: J. E. Ding-l

Brunswick today. Moving northeast, '

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Yugoslavia

Agrees to

Axrs pact

Wants Time t0 Modify Pro-British Senti-

ment Before Deal is Complete.

(BY “"59" 51- Jllilll. Associated Press Staff Writer)

BELGRADE, March i2--(AP)\ Yugoslavia. has agreed "in pfin. Cllllc t0 sign up with the Ger- man - Italian - Japanese alliance, ‘government circles said tonight, but, wants more time before the pen is lput irrevocably to the paper, After hours of conference, Reg- ent Prince Paul and his advisers were understood to have decided i0 K1"? 1Y1. but made these coun- tor-proposals to the German de- mnncisz- 1. That Yugoslavia sign immed- latcly only a declaration of friend. 5111i) with Germany and thus be allowed a transition period, to try tonuotlify pro-British sentiment in this country in an effort i0 avoid possible internal trouble. 2. That the German and Yugo- slav Governments have a further discussion of Nazi demands for the

army, for a guarantee that the Yugoslavs will make "no military moves,” and for the right to pass troops tirrough southeastern Yugo- slavia from Bulgaria into Greece. This form of capitulatlon, it was trnderstood, was made upon rep- JCSEIILHUOIIS by military leaders to ‘Prince Paul that military resist- nncc was impossible since the country is all but surrounded by Axis areas.

Premier Drngisa Cvetkovic and Foreign Minister Alksander Cin- car-Mnrkovic will go to Berlin

demobilization of the Yugoslavlani

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Ottawa announces Western wheat Economy plan

By Frank FIaher-ty Canadian Press Staff Writer

VITA . March 12—(CP)—A double-barreled program to reduce Canada's wheat production was an- nounced by Trade Minister Mao- Kinnon and Agriculture Minister Gardiner in the House of Com- mons tday.

On the one hand they served not- ice on farmers that lose wheat could be sold than last year and on the other they offered farmers com- pensation for reducing acreage in a way which will maintain western ermwiny and improve przductvg Camcrty for the future.

Salient points in the program:

A limit; of 230,000,000 bushels on wheat deliveries in the crop yes: starting Augl next, whether to

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