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Notzias to fonn New Greek Gov’t

ATHENS, A ril lil-(Satur- dayl—-tAP)— ing George of Greece nnmed Kostas Kotalas, former military governor of Athens, to form a new govern- lnont to ca on the war ag- ainst the Axs after the sud- den death oi Premier Alex- andros lfcrlzis, the Athens news agency said today.

Kotzias, who served as gov- ernor of Thrace from early in March until the Germans overrun that eastern strip, was u: ected to present a new

‘ "u nerlist this" 'mor1lihg,'~it“' was reported by the agency.

Kotzias addressed a radio message to the Greek nation to and firm as an exam lo of

s fercellent Greek who have covered themselves with honor and glory for six

oaths and who continue with he same heroism undzr the most difficult conditions to fight an unprecedented bottle."

lie also paid tribute to the

tish Imperial troops "fight-

on our soil at the side of our troops."

Korisis died late yesterday, and the overnment did not immediate disclose the cause oi his dea h. Funeral services were scheduled for 1 p_m. to.

, an announcement said.

Col. llalston it Halifax

IIAIATFAX, April ld-iCl-‘l-Anv “tension oi the four-month 00m- Wlwry training plan will depend on future developments in tho war, and the need for man power, De- fence Minister Ralston sold on his lrrivsl here tonight.

The Minister, on a tour of in- lW-lbn oi training centres, in the - iiaritimes, told newunen the camps are being used to capacity with the arrival of the second draft of the g-vyesr-old clefis at their camps tn-

lie said the new plan cf train- llll the reserve army recruits side b? sidc with men of the regular ‘my is working out very success- illily. The entire scheme is fulfill- mli all expectations, he said, and l" Wvrklns smoothly.

Dumlfi the morning Col. Rslston h-‘liiectcd defences in the Halifax lrea and inspected the training ‘mil-TB at Yarmouth in the after- aoon. He left tonight for Kentville, Mg. to visit the Alder-shot Camp

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Greek Premier

, Christos Cavr-dkb-s assumes leadership flges calm.

ATHENS, April 19—(AP)—The sudden death of Alexan- gm Corizis, for less than three months Premier of Greece, was mnouuced late tonight in broadcasts from the Athens radio.

A short time later a proclamation by Christos Cavrakos said he had assumed the duties of supreme military governor, on ord-

He urged calm and discipline among lilo people and added:-—

“Assembly of groupd is absolutely forbidden. Anyone in. (ringing on this order will be court martialled."

(NBC heard the Athens radio say that Korizis died suddenly u 4 pm. Greek time-lo a.m. A.

“Thus, in three months," the announcer said Ministers have fallen while performing their duty after having gollsecraied their whole strength to the service of their country."

Korizis, 55, a. banker, succeeded his intimate friend, Premier George hiciaxas immediately upon the death of the latter on Jan.

S.T.—Friday.) “two Prime

Metaxss himself designated Korizis. who was governor of the Bank of Greece. as his successor.

Kin George II was reported to be ca ling a. meeting of the cab- inet to designate a new Premier, the announcer said.

Alexandros corizis was not a mili- tary man but on taking over the Greek premiership Jan. 29 he pledg- ed himself to carry on the policies of his military predecessor, Gen. John Metaxas.

Corlzis, o. scholar, and s. banker, assumed Meiaxsll’ other portfolios of ,war, aviation, foreign affairs. navy and education. He took office at a. time when the only foe oi Greece was Italy and the Albanian campaign was definitely in favor oi the Hellcnes.

With the death of ifetaxas, whose long military career began with German training, Korizis was cred-

"reagents. l... om" m. 001' o ll. A. F. Pilots

To fly huge Bombers overseas

TACOMA. April l8 -(AP) -—Be- tween as and 40 Rae's! Air For“! pilots. most of whom have Seen action over the English Channel and Germany, are in Tacoma pre~ paring to fly l9 four-motored, long range bombers ic service overseas.

The men. all young, are 30mg W learn the intricacies of flying the nearby McChord Field daily to huge Boeln bombers, released to Great Brita under the lease-lend

bill.

Within three weeks the 1D bomb- er; all armored and marked with R. A. F. insignia and representing a total value oi $4,750,000 are ex- pected to fake off, probably en route to Britain.

Danube bridges Are dynamiteli

BUDAPBT. April 18- (AP)- Dynarniting of two bridges at Novisad by Yugoslav troops has blocked traffic on the Danube. it was disclosed here tonight. The steel superstructures fell into the chlllIl ,

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‘Axh-ships Are blasted

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A ‘MOD-ton u n l! IMP was left barni s rail”; ll "l" stern and another .000-i0fl vessel of the some t was is" sinking rapidly emlllllll blink smcke after l raid b! Blenheim bombers of the ceas-

tsi command off the Norwel- isn coast today, the Air Minia- anno .

Ono vessel was attacked from a height of only 50 feet. the staternen said, addlnl that four hes bombs hit the

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA SATURDAY. APRIL 19, 1941

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Strand Theatre ls proposed

A City Council Discusses

Plan at a Special Meeting.

Prospects of having in operation a tilinl motion picture theatre in Ohar-ottetown. equipped along mod- em lines, were dismissed at a special meetng of the City Council last

ni ht. pro came from the F. G.

next monthly nleetinn. The Spencer Company proposes to remodel and decorate the present entrance and stairwav leading the Strand Theatre: modernize. re- novaie and decorate the theatre proper, reseating the interior to a capacity oi six or seven hundred. installing new lighting. modem projecting and sound equipment. etc. agagalo estimated aggregate cost 0f It is proposed that the City agree moi-ling the whole entrance and ‘gtgjywgy to the theatre solely avail- able to the C

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Dne ll.C.A.F. man Killed, two missing

OTTAWA. April 18 -—(CP) One member of the Royal Canad- ian Air Force was reported killed. two missing after operation flights.

' one dangerously 421111185 and -au-..

other seriously injured overseas, official advices received at Air Force meadquarters today.

Lac. James Ernest Owen. 2i. son of Thomas Owen of Montreal. was killed by a bomb 0x91051071 during an enemy air raid Monday on a Royal Air Ivor-a: station. Acl J. F. Tllzhe, 28. of Ottawa, was dangerously injured in the some

raid.

Sgt. Herbert Robinson liiaston, 25. son of John Easton. ‘Winnipeg. was reported missing after an operat- ional flight overseas on April 8.

Sgt. Robert Edward Venning An- deouorm, 25, of Outremont. Que-- a graduate of McGill Universitv and u. former North country cold miner,’ also was reported missing-

Sgt. l-lenrv James Forster Kerr. 2i, son oi Samuel James Ker of Russell, Ont. suffered scrloll: head injuries in a flying accident over- seas on April 10, and was admitted to hospital.

Yugoslavia is Enemy territory

IDNDON, April l8 - (AP) Britain tonight officially pronounc- ed Yugoslavia. “enemy-occupied ter- ritory."

The board of trade and ministry of economic warfare declared it was now "a punishable offence" to have dealings with anyone in Yugoslav territory and the of Yugo- slav origin or ownership are liable to seizure.

The Germans have announced capitulation of the Yugoslav fight-

ing forces.

Fighting Still Under Way In North Africa

Heavy toll tfik-C-l-l-By British planes and warships.

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URTENEI} BRITISH - GR Bil-cloning of " Berlin Pounded ' By R. Planes

Churchill Warns Rome will be bombed if Athens or

Cairo _t(_>_l_lched.

(By Noland Norgasrd, Associated Press Staff Writer) LONDON, April 18--(AP)—'l'he wal-‘s heaviest raid on Berlin, press- ed home with more and bigger bombs and bombers than ever before, left the German capital checkered with flames early today, the Air Ministry

announced tonight.

molests either Athens or Cairo.

convenient to the end of the war.”

Athens and Cairo, which the Bri- tish Government thus seeks to save from air-borne devastation, are, respective] , the repository oi ‘the ancient cu ture of Greece and a, shrine-filled city sacred to the Mcslem faith.

The Downing Street statement denied that the Berlin raid was in revenge for London's hurts.

London sources said however, “it will remind the Germans that the fins‘. still ls able to reach Ber-

n"

The Air Ministry left no doubt that the city was "reached", say- ing “very substantial damage" was inflicted.

The ministry news service. re- calling that the Germans admitted severe damage from the lust big raid. April 9, said this one was bigger.

Nazis admit Many British Planes in raid

BERLIN, April 18—(CPl-Thc German irgh command acknow- ledged tonight that the strongest forre cf British almlcll slice the war began “attempted" to 78/0 the capital lost night and early today but claimed only single omit “we trated the anti-aircraft ring a- rollllci tile city.

(Lcndon sources described the raid n5 the heaviest to date and it was disclosed that. the new power-- ful British bomb was used.)

The Nazis said that four public buildings, among them the Prussia-l Stnle, Library, previously bombed. were hit, and claimed about l0 u- pzlrinlelit holl es damaged.

“The number of injured was small." the communique said,

Propaganda Minister Gcebbels told the people of Germany to dis- play the swastika Sunday in honor

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Minimum Butter Price not fixed yet

OTTAWA April 18 — (OP) —

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'I'he riairv products board has not

{disclosed when it will sot a minl-

lnum butler price of what the will be. but today n spokes- man for the dairy and creamery interests forecast it would come in- to effect May 1. or possibly earlier. With the whoesais price of but- ter a fraction under 30 ce1ts in Montreal. this spokesman said. there was an urgent demand to fix the price which he thought would be close to 30 cents. However. he ex ctcd the mini- mum pfloetobef dsoolnregard- less of the market so that produc- ers could map out their operations 8Y-

fggartlers it is being - srd that the mini- rnurn price be advanced half a month." this source said. "It costs three-eighths of a cent s. month to stone butter and if. beginning June 1, the minimum price were advanced half a cent a ononbh the holder of butler could sell in any month without lose."

Prime Minister Churchill warned the world that captured British bombs are to be dropped on Vatican City by masque ding Italian air- men the first time the ILAJ’. raids Rmne.

This warning of what was called a "characteristic trick" was coll- tained ln a statement issued at No. official residence—that Rome will be attacked systematically if the Axis

British alnne'n will take“ the greatest care" not to bomb Vatican

City, centre of the Roman Catholic world, said the announcement, but once the hombardmen‘ of adjoining Rome is begun “it will continue as

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Eskinlos are Brought out After “battle”

UITAWA. April l8 — (CP)—_-A Royal Canadian Mounted Police airplane flew out of the north to- day with three Eskimo prisoners sboard and a story of an outburst -of violence on lonely Belcher Is- lands which indicated nine men. women and children died.

Two men and one woman were re» rted flown to Moosonee in N rthern Ontario ,in the plane‘ which carried investigators to the Hudson Bay islands from Ottawa followin a. radio re ort from the north t at three Es imos died by violence last Februaryé

Abbreviated repor to police headquarters here traced the pic- ture of a savage scene in which clubs and rifles were used in caus- ing the deaths of at least three persons. while others were chased from shelter into the bitter cold and died.

Ottawa headquarters said their reports from investigators so far said the total of known dead was believed to be nine.

A dispute over interpretation of religious matters has been report- ed as the cause of the Bclcher Islands violence.

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LONDON April l8 (Cl? Cable) - The unendi mess of men, arms and planes t e Germans are able to throw recklessly against the stubbornly resisting allied line in Greece is causing increasing con- cern over the outcome of the cam- union.

'I‘l1.ls tremendous pressure maln- tained by steady reinforcements, is forcing the allies to withdraw to a shorter line. Faced with su- perior forces, they are battling savagely and gallantiy, but the sheer weight of the enemy i. over- powering.

When the sllies moat the Nazis

on equal terms they generally tri- umph, but then the Germans throw more power into the drive oblivious to cost-and this has been heavy, accordin to today's middle east commun que. The most worrying factor is the continual dive bombing due to Nazi air superiority. The great air force pcrrniis the Germans to maintain a virtual 24-hour attack.

Incidentally, informed bources speculating on the Allies’ ability to withstand the enemy masses sug. gested the imperials may seek to prevent further losses by concen- trating on the more important Lib- va cunlpuigrl, the price of which is Suez, lifeline to the east.

Britain is fighting in Greece be_ cause she was morally bound to aid a gallant ally. but it is suggest- ed that in the empire’s main strug- gle her intcrcst lies in assuring the safety of Suez. As long 5,5 Ger- man nlcchanired forces are on me Egyptian border and bombers are on Libyan nirfields, the Suez Canal is Jbopardized

Nazi Consulate Denies waiter Was agent ‘

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By J. Wes Gallagher Associated Press Staff Writer

ATHENS, April l9 -(Saturday)— (AP) — A shortened, solid British- Greek line across Macedonia is holding firm against assaults of a1- most incredible fury by masses of German shock troops, the Greek command announced early today.

From Mount Olympus on the east. i-hrouuh the central valley of the Aliaknlon river, and on westward around Grevena, the new defences repelled “all enemy pressure," the Greek command said.

"On the Albanian front our move- menis on Albanian soil were car- ried out calmly." it was stated.

It was in the west that the British Imperial forces and the Greeks successfully made e, forced withdravral to bunch up their de- fences.

The roads which struggle down the mountains of northern Greece were thick with the traffic of the Allied armies as they rectified their lines for further resistance. This rectification. described in ci- ficlnl British SlfltEIliCTiis ns a grad.- ual wiihciraavnl to a silorfer iilr of defence, was. by military 16f» essiiy. unexplained.

But one thing was known: The Allied front lines are unbroken on the Allied right flank, where the Germans are flinging massed and formidnbiy armed forces against the front bulwarked by Mt. Olympus and the Pindlls Mountains.

Yet if Greece Ls saved by this valiant stnnd it will be a modem Thermopylne, for the defenders are greatly outnlunbercd,

aircraft’ are being thrown at the allied right nnd r-cnicl‘. ‘They are meeting the most qubborn or hand. io-llnnd resistance. especially in the

RIVERHEAD. N. Y» April l8 - (AP) - A statement attributed to Bruno Johannes Valerlski. 31, a Central Islip waiter arrested on a robbery cilzvcgc. that he was a Nazi spy in the United States brought blank denials today from the Ger- man consul general in New York City,

Sheriff Jacob S. Dreyer, of Suf- folk County, said that in a i2-pnge statement Vnlenski detailed tile "Nazi espionage and sagotagc set- up in the United States." Dr. Hans Borchers, German consul general. (ieclarcd he had never heard of the min, but later said a file had been found in the consulate seek- ing aid as an unemployed sea- man.

_ George Foster, chief of the sher- ltis bureau of investigation, quot- ed Valcllski as saying he had been sent by German officials to the Panama Cunnl in trike pictures of fortifications but that he gm; "cold

-In fast drive

SHANGHAI. April 19 —-(Sat- urdlty) —(\AP) —.lapnnese for- ces. supportcd by warships and airplanes, captured Ningpo, im- portant trndc and political ren- tre Z00 miles south of hero, ill a lightning ninr-hnur drive, it was reported today. ‘

Tile capture cf the treaty port was made known by neutral military authorities, but has not yet been announced by the Japanese. -

Nlllgpo, one of the first ports opened under the lll-i’! irrnty of Nrtnking, is tile capital of‘ Cheklang Province.

Probe Death

TORONTO, April l8 — (C?) - Every resourq, of the attorney- generalfls department was promised today to investigators in the in- quest izlio the death of Basil A. Twiss, Tomato insurance man. Twiss died last week following an

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Honorable Mention for Island Poet

TORONTO, April l8—iCP>—l\lil'-~1. Sara Culxslcy, Culgurll was all-i Il0llll(‘(‘(l txiny us the first-prize winner m the liiornry competition of the wolllclrs Canorlinll Club of‘

|Tor0llio. First prize of $50 was a- nvnrdod‘ Mrs. CLlYSlCY for ilcr poem ' .3“. goumht‘;

“Little Bolts 0f Britnul," tile story of Dunkirk. 1

Two $25 second prizes went to‘ Mrs. J. K. Laurie of Montreal for her "Sonnet On Words By Church. ill," and Robert H. Blackburn of Level. Alia. for his poem "Moraine Lake,"

Honorable mention was given Dorothy l-Iutchesorl Duchemln o; Charlottetown for her poem, "Eve;- He Lfved The Ways Of Birds."

injection of vitrmin B solution which an auwrsy showed later to halve been coniuninated by sta- phy-loooocus gelms.

A conference of medical and po- lice authorities was held at Queens Park during the morning. Aft/er the meeting, it was ssld that it had not yet been disclosed how the so- lution became contaminated.

Nine other persons have suffer- ed illness followingprljectlons but are said to be recovering.

CAIRO. A ril 18 —(AP) -1"ierce but apparently still ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘. hand- to-hsnd bayonet and mechanized fighthlg raged on along the North African front today among axis mechanized units an 1mperial forces, su ported by 811M of the British M lterranean fleet me planes of the Rloyal Air Force.

Middle Bast headquarters here announced a heavy toll was in- flicted on men and machines of the axis force at ‘Ipbrllk. Libyan rt a0 miles from the Egyptian r- der. and at the hotly contested bor- der post of ssium. usi- inside Earpi-

Sevellty seven pr oncrs -includ- ing five officers - were reported captured by the British and march-

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NEW YORK, April 18 — (CP) — Gen. Jan Smuts. Prime Minister of South Africa. said tonight in o 'broadcast from Cape Town that l “victory is assured, perhaps in sn- ;other year or l8 months" 1'11» DPOIICICEISY. was reported by the BBC l and henrd here by CBS. l Gen. Smuts said that a greet . lob had been done in South Ai- , rica in record time. and he believed , the section of the South African ‘people that had laggmi behind Ln Ab?‘ war effort he "ill it in i-he i en f‘ "The effort" Gen. Smuls said. "is not ior the war alone. but for the venrs and generations in lo‘- low. It will be one of the chapters