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irAmerican BombersStrike Heavy ‘At Hamm In Daylight; Non-Stop rAerial Offensive Continues.

ifo M tt $30,000 talth Grant

qfflWA, March ,4 - (CP) - til Minister Mackenzie tonight passage of an order-m- granting Halifax 030,000 a for health purposes and an tiousll amount this year to aid erection of s. tuberculosis hos- The federal treasury will eon- isanthe basisef $80,000 l for the duration of the war

l one ven- after. ti» for this Yell’ Brevieontributicn

l7 EDWARD D. BALL Associated Press Staff Writer

LONDON. March d —(AP)—Am- erlcan heavy bombers struck two powerful new pro-invasion blows in daylight today, heavily bombing Hamm. key of a vast German rail network over which Hitler would have to move troops to meet alied armies in western Europe, and Rotterdam, which might become a Inndins point for smiles striking the continent.

The American raid carried m; the Allied aerial offensive to west- ern Germany's most important wartime communication; centre fol- 1°W1l18 the eighth IUCCOSSW: night raid in which the 11A)‘. with R.C. A1‘. help subjected Hamburg to s.

ow devastating fire and explosive bath,

hos- _ $10,000 for shff. Next the contribution will be 015.000 - thereafter at the rote of

li|| EQQ‘ . enzie made a brief an- llotanunt without details wlgrl - by M , .01". ~ ,wllo was protesting edainst Ill-l condition; in the eastern port and urging recent to improve health administ-

there. It. Ocldwsii said fire conditions "lhlifax were more than the ~~~~ of the city corpor- ‘l and the province. They were Iqlorlsibility of the Dominion ill-In the emires of their ' helm-ride of Canadian a In beins sent to and - Halifax.

00!‘! OI‘ EXCUI-SIONS

UPMVIA. March t-fCPh-iibial of harvest excursions from

l!!! ouse of Oom- for PI. Wright (0.01. Mel-

‘lilo Dominion Government bore - whole cost and 5.86 men were tto the west, said the reply niy tn of the men received addi on- financial assistance return the west.

WIIIIEWEVOIRS

"Talkies-Montague leturdsy, 3-3-31.

"null" - louris Monday.

a-a-al. "Dance in Lot cs Bali post ed ‘ Manner. March all-l. mo.

"Dance lnvernon Hall by Vic- cinn. runny. March stn. Ad- u is cents. 3-3-81.

"Medina hogs mu week. Albany ,K1ly afternoon: Emerald Pri- I untll 11.30 A. M. u. O. Ureen " A. C. Green. ii-d-W-T-tf.

"in! hogs for Davis it . l’. Murray narbour and Belle "r literary. Maren utn. MUITHY

F lno roams. Wednesday. ll lutn. John J. Beck. . ‘ u

"livestock Marketing Board ' oss Iiast and Bough c: o

. Cardigan, Bouris Elmira Perm, Moi-ell, for . York, sit-Ivor, Melvil , Ulfl, Mill- - hsrlottetown. Highest mar-

assured, 8-5-11.

on '€_'F

‘$11M hogs western o-t of _ d next week as allows: f ‘l. Alberwn, outcry North- ' h side all

“firs can render an addi- ng "vice without cos to

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In daylight late today RAJ“. Mosquito ‘ s attacked rail- WW centres near Le Mans and va- lerlclennes iln northern France. One plane failed to return.

Late tonight the Park and Gor- man radios went off the sir, indi- eating that British bombers were over the continent for the ninth straight night.

Five planes were lost in the Hamm raid but they destroyed at 5,51% 14 0! I strong German fighter Over Hmlbiirf last night, the RAJ‘. lost nfne and the R.O.A.F.

bomb "a heavy attack".

targets in western

y also were bombed and

fighters made intruder patrols over

Kovsnd, destroying an enemy raider. .

‘Many 4.000-pounders and tens of thousands" of fire bombs were dropped at Hamburg bv fencasters. Hslifsxes, Btirling and Wellington squadrons, the Air Ministry News Service said. The anti-aircraft fire was termed "not as intense as usual but the sesrchlight; were numerous and active."

"Clouds of smoke hung over the target," yeturning pilots said.

At nightfall the Allied bomb lashing of Germany and Nazi-held territory had been going virtusly non-stop for 19¢ hours.

A11 the American bombers re- turned from Rotterdam. ft was the third United States blow at the Dutch ciiv and the 85th allied stiadr. Pilots described the cp- position ss weak. Only negligible damage was reported m returned aircraft.

The Berlin radio, however

broadcast a D.N.B. claim the‘ seven big American bombers were destroyed over western Germany during the morning. The Oslo radio said there had been "some civilian usualtles from the sttscks. The Germans countered with two weak passes at Ixmrlon but ni~ht and before dawn today with a few pines compared to the huge Allied armada; striking st the Reich.

Australians

Extent Of Victory

IIOLDSWORTII Press Correspondent SYDNEY‘. March 4 -<or= Cable) - Australia today had ill KNEW" 13y xmcthe start of the war in h“! wit; reioicing everywhefl at - “ll-A w" ovcinst the 3:95;”: 1:05:01 the Bismarck - ea. Observers said me exifl" °! m‘ viqmry couldnotbe over-estimated. ‘file words of Gen. Douglas Mac- “qwr. Alliflrl U""iY""'idGT-ifl— qua}, 1y will live 1o after e Hi

. He - "The battle now

has been ¢ec_,_,.¢_ we ha..- nJlleved s. vio- of sum ccmptletcrle: =8 3.1;; “Wm m‘ , A merciful

this

Never Before

Commentators inied out never before hsdtthere been a in‘! ioopercentsuccess inen ra- tack on s convoy. Aircraft relent- lessl hunted any scattered "c. ca“: M" '

g ex .- mTzlrel-e was a tense silence in thl

that

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More German» Garrison: Are liouted ,

Red Army has regained control of the Moscow-Vehicle Luki railway in the drive toward the Latvian iron-tier. has ranted two more Ger- rnarl garrisons south of Lake li-

. .. nlllll to cut. (HG main Nazi rail artery llnki B11!- grlsk and Kiev in the sou . W0 Soviet communiques disclosed today.

A special communique announc- ed the capture of Olenino, 86 mile! we.» O1 l..licll itzrlev oll the froz- en central front, giving the Russ- ians full control of the Zffi-mile stretch of railway between Mos- cow and Velikie Luki and acceler- uting the drive toward the Latvian frontier only 80 miles away»

A 25-min. gain in the Dmltriev- Lgov sector on the northern edfle of the Ukraine foluld the Russians occupying sevsk, only 20 mile-s irvm the vital Bryansfr-Klev railway. and the regular Thursday nridniflhl bulletin said several more unident- ified localities were seized in this push toward the junction city of Konotop. one of the Nazi bases protecting the a protwhes i0 ‘he Dnieper river de once lino.

Both communiques were recorded here by the Soviet Monitor.

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LONDON, March 4 -(OP)- The‘

Stepsiionsidered

OTTAWA. March 4 -—- (CP) —_A studv has been made cf the pos- slbilities of “more drastic steps in curtailment or elimination of pro-

the unprecedented vitriol’? 59°F"

ducts and services" to meet man- power or material shortages, bug such s“ 5 have to be consldere ht. of conditions as they time to tirneWI-tcm 'H.A: Con. Toronto Park-

Bruce (Frog, the

dale) was informed today 1n House of Commons.

Dr". Bruce asked whether a film had been prepared by the Pr cos Board "for the release of man- power from non-essential indus- tries."

Blaims 30 Ships, liot 20c Sunk

fvillrcll fl -—- (OP) - Qgegiglasmbagnon (Uh. Malane) told members of the Quebec“ 1-6815- lative Assembly today that "f" 2g but upwards or so sill?! ‘We 5W‘, in the St. Lawrence l‘ on in the Gulf of st. Lawrence last n r3. spit-r? gm rmdy to take the" 1'0‘ mlbility of that statement, Mr. agncn said while speaking on an opposition motion which called for production of all corroobfiflden“ erochanged between the Federal and the Quebec Governments ln con- nection wlth the protection of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence and Counties along the river.

(In an address in Quebec Wed- nesliav Navy Minister Macdonald told the Canadian‘ Club that 20 ships were sunk in the St. Lawrence area last year and added that “this year we will have stronger defences along our shores. {hi9 _’m_s_:lre ships for escort work. .

Rejoice

After Big Victory

Over Jap Convoy Can

Not Be Over-Estimated.

born, when Prime Minister John Ourtin announced the victory. Then dleers broke out as he added he was sure the Hwse would hi0 to express to Con. MacArthur- and his forces the pride and admiration! felt over this latest It lib“!!- i-le added that never ore. on l0 many fronts. has there been Ilrdl lustiflcation of confidence in the final result. .

Arthur hidden, opposition lead- e1‘, said this was pleasing news not only m the people of Alustralia but m the whole of the United Nations.

lpltfire Squadrons

In addition to the news of the mat convoy victory Australians were buoyed further todB-Y "m! "“° “‘“°“'l‘l"l'l'“°'li.l.‘l.‘.‘ 1 ' m- British 917 N P"!!! are operating in Australian battle areas. c

Curtin said Bbitflre squadrons. manned bv British and Australian pilots. had been here for some time but tam presence was rcpt MM to exploit the su elflnmt- This was achieved 0W1‘ DOW!" Tuesday when Spitfire; lnlmmted a flieht cf Japanese Zeros and trot down six out of 16.

‘the Prime Minister said the spitflre squadrons came to Au!- tralig as complete units with their own ground t_'\"mnel and coulo- nient tn response io an nipped] to Prime Minister Glurvthill.

f Vital Railway

By llirka l. Simpson, Associated Press War Analyst , .

The battle of the Bismarck Sea, at one stroke, set invasion appre- hensions in Australirndcfinitely ut rest. To what extent the Japunese of- lensive-defensive perimeter in the soutllsvcstcrn Pacific, already denied at Guadalcanal and Buna, was further buckled and rendered vulnerable g1 ‘ " available of JIPIXIQIC purposes in risking the disaster was to reinforce beleaguered lulll critically import- ant outposts in northeast New Guinea. Gen. Douglas MacArthur ls stead- ily clunin in on .Sl|llll!1flll and Lac, southwestwurd protective redouble for the w ole Fischhafen Peninsula; .

It is assumed that Japanese strategy in hoping to run the Australian- American air gauntlet to New Guinea relied both on weather and 011 l protective sir umbrella. The expedition moved down the coast u! New Britain to enter Vltiaz Strait so close inshore until it was scattered by the Allied air attack that short-ranged Japanese 1918"" W!“ h’! "i" Britain should have been available to cover it,

The American air attack that led to that enemy disaster was two- fold. Enemy air bases at Lac and Salamarru were effectively nfllllffllllifl hy MncAr-thrlr-‘s bombers while the sell-air sctlun was in progress. While a break in the bad weather front appears to have helped materially, then.- is evidence that the foe sailed into 1:. carefully prepared Allied trap.

a e a

llt took weeks of preparation at Rabuul and elsewhere to the north for the enemy to prepare that reinforcement expedition. MacArthitrfsl bombers were hooking at it day and night at long range. To ille f na losses must be added those previously wrought at Rnbuul and at sea by incessant Allied llombcr raids.

If the Japanese hold on the vitally Important Finschlhelen Perlnisllla is to be strengthened, obviously a much great effort wr 1 be requ rec. k

Without that major effort -- which To o "my WE" "01 d3" r“ r as it dltnxri‘ not villi a frlli writ!“ offori to rz" lpture Guadalcanal — the loss of New Britain footholds is folesharluwctl.

’Chute Opens, iii/Bumps With It Under Arm .

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Kills 178, I

lluures 60

four members of an RCA)‘. plane who were forced to bail out of the machine after it ran into difficl.'lt_ ies near Charlottetown last week, saw 15 aircraft pass over them on

LONDON, March 4 — (CP) ~ A

worlrnll carrying a baby tripped near

the bottom of l1 subway stnlrvrny

during the Gcrnlnn a1;- mm on

London lust night, and within s

Saturday last but were unable

make thsmselves seen. minute the 19 steps became a well of (loath where 178 persons i101‘-

e ruelr. Squadron fender KC. “W1 n. West Perth. 0nt., Flying isllcrl in a pile-up and 60 were in- Jurcd,

Officer A.J. Barrottc, Ottawa, Pilot Officer William A. Richardson. Churchill. Tenn., U.S.A., are con- The woman was rescued alive but hi1‘ baby was killed. There was “no slim of panic be-

valescing. While preparing to bail out Richardson had an accident with his parachute and it oucncd ill thr‘ fore llle accident,“ and no bonlbs fell near the subway station which served as an air raid‘ shelter, a ministry of home securltv statement

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machine. Nor. knowing 11.1w to rc- pack it. he iurllncd with the ‘chute under his arm, but it opened cor- rectly and he landed safely.

'l‘?*“il' s" .""".= “'-'*ll ml Worl- nesday, Feb. 24. While four air‘- craft all from the some squadron, worr- nlri c“ ~rr."‘ll~ IYHITJLIT snarl became obvious that. bad weather wa= about in close in and all [our aircraft were immediately crdurcd ‘o “r-ium to base,

Two of the bombers were able to vouch Charlottetown and land safe- ly. while the third crashed sirr nliles from the Dartmouth, NS. Station. killing all on hour-d. The chmbor Biloted by Squadron fender ivllsorr,

owever. had greater distance m fly and by the time it had reached the Dartmouth air station visibility was so l-~~‘ ‘a ilnpossible to at- tempt a landing. ,_

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Sentenced For $3,655 liolrl-Up

MONTREAL, March 4-(CPl— Judge Arnlnnd Clcuricl" todnv scn tenced Laurent flalioclre, 22. to year's ill the penitentiary for a $3.-, 055 hold-up at Mount Royal Avenue ‘, Bank of Montreal brunch Jun. l0.

The youth. wounded in a nrullllllz gunfight WhlCh followed the hold- up, will appear for preliminary hearing March 9 0a two charges of attempted murder filnll after La- Roche wounded Police Lieutenant Aime Bl-cuillet, 48. and Loo Des- RDChES, 31. n bunk employee.

sni .

But after the Woman-with a bundle irl_ one nrm and a. baby in lhe otller—lnissed her fooling and fell on the landing. both the platform and stnirtvzry became a trap a matter of seconds with hundreds fnlilrlc in a writhing 111855 which crushed to death or‘ suffocated 178 persons

Explain Accident

The ministry statement explained the accident this way:-

“Thcre were neurlv 2.000 in the shelter", including several hundred who arrived after the alert. when a_ middle-aged woman burdened with n bundle and lr baby tripped near tile foot cf a flight of 1B steps which, lends down from the street.

"This flight terminates on a land ing. The womlm fell down the last

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0.8. Seeks More Canadian Newsprint

MONTREAL, Mlrrch 4 -(CP) - The Canadian newsprint industry is being ‘asked 1c provlde Unlted Sultccs wllll 107.0%) tolls of pul in Lilf‘ next few mouths in addition t0 1.170% tolls already promtsed for 1943.

This statement was made woay in s Joint announcement from n.1,. Weldon, Canadian Newsprint Ad. mllllnirfli-Ol‘. and A. G. Wakcmsrl, WYWWP Ohblllp and paper division 0f "l" Ulllbcd States war product- ion Board. The two newsprint chiefs with Ali. Williamson, can. sdinn ‘timber Controller, have been mecfillg here during the 19,51, f" d-‘Ws in furtherance of the object- ive that the industrial resources cf Canada and the United States be by. "Milled i0 the best interest of the The plan will go into effwt MK! "l" 9108mm in both countries." May 1 and its details will be sn- The announcement stated: "The nounced later. Under the scheme suppy of p mm, Harlan], householders will be able to take from this season's cut and now in dsliv of coal without paying slaht at Canadian mills makes it cash. rrtushls m‘ rzossibletto provide additions] pulp ransvmens w o msc the urgent ne r thebankl. rllterlfltntes. w‘ or h’

Arrange For Early Buying 0f Goal

UITAWA, Munch 4—-(OP)—A1'- l-arlgements have been made for renews] this summer of the early- buying credit plan for fuel purchas-

wh ch was put irlto effect by the vernsnent last year, it was learned

ll All repose noun

. Watch out.

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lievvsman Sees Big Change In British Attitude

Press Staff, is bald: after a brief visit to Britain. Here he tell; in one of a. series of articles of the change llr Britain's attltude to the war since he left England at ths end of 1941.

By 0111.18 PURCELL Canadian Press Staff Writer

TORONTO, March 4—-(CP)-John Bull in 1043 shows a good bi’. of a change since a year ago. He's gaunter but not so tired, iolller but more determined, tougher and less inclined to talk about it.

In 1939's blackout the buslnan looked at the searchlight-sliced sky and muttered: "Let ‘im come- \ve’.1 take care of 'im." He didn't know-and probably Hitler didn't- there weren't a half dozen ack-ack guns in the whole Thames Etstuary.

The busman has vanished in the calllrp to help build up the Army wrecked at Dunkcl-que, rebuilt for twin successes- in Africa. His jun- as-tllatty daughter-substitute swings through a bus crowded with Britons reading of the Russian roller and the Tunisian squeeze but saying almost nothing of the "second, front" they crzed for in 1941 and liMfr-and silently await in 1943.

For the first time John Bull is entit ed to boast a little about his strength-Aunt instead he argues post-war planning over his "mild and bitter" (ale).

In London's swank ypots the military brass is brighter than s, ycslr ago and the gnicty higher by a note or two—even though vanish- ing wlnes_f1ow hesitantiy at scand- aious tariffs. But mayfair 1s not Britain. In the towns of Southern

where Allied devastating attack “our heavy units. sank lifeborlts off shore endeavor- ing to make land." the communi- que mid.

searches by our reconnaissance sir-

Eflfllnnd the people who helped Ihe

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craft (in the l-fuon Gulf)

.111“. win the Battle of Britnirl ln §§§t1°f§§ morning “fled to

1910 M’ m“ as ‘WW1!’ "lid “lenemy convoy in the entire area beyond floating wreckage and oc-

lu-enptlcu Delivered, soloo Inn. “.00: cum Prnvlnrel nml v.n.A sum

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Not One Surviving Ship From 22-‘ Ship Jap Convoy.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 5—(Friday)—(CP)—The remnants of the Japanese convoy of 22 ships -- 10 warships and 12 transports — have been wiped out, the Allied High Command announced today.

This complete destruction of the convoy in the Bismarck Sea, which involved the loss of some 15,- 000 Jap troops bound for Lae, New Guinea, in- volved i_n its closing phases the sinking of two re- maining destroyers afloat.

Twenty - seven Japanese planes were shot down in the latest operations, bringing to 82 the

ion

Off HHJChhQIIHIiMIGI P M!‘

on Tuesday. Jtrafed and

"Intensive and w l d s s p r s a d early

re- remaining trace of the

None the less they have neededwulongrly 1395M“ “d bug" w“-

—and heeded-an occasional

minder that the job 15 fflf 1mm

finished‘ A“ English “W” Wh° had lasted during the (Wednuday) bullet! night were attacked, hit and sunk.

eard Nazi machine-gun rattle on the road of a London {suburb a month ago said: "It; fiwllflfls a bit cold-blooded but I'm- ,_r:lad the 'l‘.'1'(]$. are on ngaln_ lPQODIB muzhf have come to think our worries nrc all over."

1n the ilrrlws and mp pubg of!

Southern England war is not the topic of COI1f.£‘l'VflilOl1—tl10l1P'il it is lllrfllned in the minds of a people who_now have calmht their second wind. The talk is of food rationed in readiness for the "on: hush", of clothes purchased sparinplv on coupons. of shortened nub-opening hours because or drvlnrlllnu slip. Dies- Not a word of it is. moaning because of toulzherling times. No (at; ever complains about s new

Britain's armed forces are the strongest in history. Her industry i; humming as never before. But cur. features of Hitler and Gearing are i}? along" Dlastered on everv wall, Eh. nose-thumbinrz period L. ‘we;

ermsn and Adolf hm beet”

0ne Strike Ends, Another Begins

NEW WATERFORD u. . 4 -—-(CPP—— As employee: bit/lap: "mm" Coal Comnnnr-‘s No. la mine here ended a one-day walk. Wi- "Xifly- o. new strike broke w; i" the Company's ficlfihboring No 1° "Qlilory over a similar dispute ' Callu- of the tie-ups in both cases was the llninn claim that men YPPPYIUY szrarlicd working places in the main dorms mould be Withdrawn bv the cnnrtrlny until recommendations for their place- mm‘ m" b" moon by the United Mine Workers 0f An1¢;-1¢g_ The 400 men of No. 18 kept that. tied up Nostenclny and last night. returning m work thls momma bending negotiations. The 30) No. 16 emplcvees struck this mmmw- The‘? were expected to