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By I. F. Sanderson, Canadian Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April lti-(CH-Tbe United States Government an- gounced today the “murder in cold blood” of some of the eight American fliers captured by the Japanese after the bombing of Tokyo a year ago end declared the Japanese officers responsible for the executions will be

held to account before a court of justice.

INTERNATIONAL AT A GLANGE

TUNISIA — British 8th Army laptures Axi, coastal point of En- lidaville and effects further gains in advance towards Tunis and blzerte.

IVESTERN FRONT — R. A. I‘. and R. C. A. F- bomb Berlin, Ros- tcrk and Stettin in heavy raids while Russians hit at Tilsit, East Prussian rail centre; British fighter bombers cont-inue heavy sweeps through Northern Europe.

P"I'I‘ATN -— Downing Street an- sounces it has reason to believe Germans are preparing lo use gas against Russians and warns Brit- lin will retaliate with same weap- en.

UNITED STATES — Roosevelt announces Japanese have e eeuted lome of tho eight American fliers captured after last yen of Tokyo; MackenzieK g - aws calls act "savage and in- human.”

PACIFIC - U. S. filers make l5 raids on Japanese air base on Kiska island in Aleutlaris: Allied bombers make light raids on i0 Japanese arses in island, north of Austra-

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Re Potatoes.

OTFAWA. April 2l‘-—(CP)—'_T1\B Prices Board is preparms, m) “def designed to improve diStllblltiOfl 0 polatucs in Canada so‘ us w "let" rhorrngcs of supply winch have oc- curred at some Willi-S. ii W05 lemn‘ Id tonight.

There ls reported to be large quantities of potatoes available n Prince Edward Island but one of the difficulties has been to Obi-Bi" transportation to move them t0 areas where there are SIIOPIDEe5-

Coming Events

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"Talklcs-Sourls Monday.‘ 20 3‘

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Play Muirav Rver ‘ligoah "Loading Hogs for Davie Fraser Friday, April 23rd until b2 oeluri; noon at Auburn Station. it. i‘. siren. Watervaie. 4-31-21

"iiillcies — MOKYBKUE Saturday. Charley's Aunt with Jack Banana-m

“Nallbilnl Film Board blovies —~ Kciislirguin, Monday; Freetown. Tuesday; Bracalbane, Wednesday; New Wlitshire, Thursday. i-lil-ii

"Unloading to-day car Pressed lifly- G. C. Green, Dnerald. 4-22-11. cgggill/mzugna Milk fhggaml-gg . rowen- W Store. “ “ e-za-Si. Sale. Sat- lmans. 4-22-21.

"Zion Church Pant "may. April 24th et o

A. O. Green. 3-4-W -T-t.f

orders for Tweddles extra profit Ohlcka. Write for price list. today. J- G. Richards, lineal Representative, l1 Brighton Ave. t-H-li

Tomorrow b e I n g Good Friday and a public holiday the next issue of The Guardian will be Sat- l Urday,AprlI24. OQQQ...‘

In a tale of barbarity and in- human treatment, the Government charged the Japanese not only with executing some of th¢ fliers but with treating those saved from death as common criminals, deny- ing them their rlghts as prisoners of wai- in open disregard of all the tenets of international covenants governing ‘captured soldiers.

The news of the executions-af- ter a trial in which the State De- partment suggested confessions may have been wrung from the men by torture-came less than 24 hours after the War Department published details of the Tokyo raid

OTTAWA. April 21 -(CP)— Prime Minister Mackenale King in s. statement tonight brand- ed as "savage and inhuman" the execution by the Japanese of some of the eight American fliers captured after the bombing of Tokyo in April, 1942.

Mr. King's statement said the Canadian people had learned of the execution "with distress and horror" and declared “this barbarous act will bring home to us all the rrrlm Ind bitter nature of the struggle in which

u we are engaged.” m‘.

for the first time. It had an lin. mediate sobering effect ori public jubilation but it took no sootlresay- er tonight w predict its ultimate effect-an intensification of the hatred and loathsomeness of the American people for anything and everything Japanese.

Tokyo W arncd

This‘ new horror by the enemy- was disclosed first by President Roosevelt. Hg made known, too, that the United States Government has solemnly warned Tokyo that for this and any future “acts of criminal bar-barity" just punish- ment will be visited on the respon- sible Japanese officials.

Despite Axis

Push Ahead Opposition

Very Heavy Fighting Raging; Heavy Al- lied Casualties.

By WES GALLAGHER (Associated Press Staff Writer)

A L L I E D H E A D - QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 21—(AP) —The British 8th Army has captured the Axis coastal pivot of En- fidaville, has swung five mile s northwest to storm the mountain cit- adel of Takrouna, and al- so has gained two miles in the Djebei Garci area farther inland a m i d “very severe fighting,”

it was reported tonight.

Striking along a ill-mile front after n tremendous artillery bar- rage, 8th Army infuiitrynren armed with knives for close-quarter" fight- liig sealer. the enemy's mountain positions at some points Oirly 45 milcs south of Tunis, while the British lst Army gained slightly in the McciJcz-El-Bnb sector 35 milcs west oi the Tunisian capital.

(The Morocco radio said tonight, in n brorilcast recorded by tire Associated Press, that Djebel. Gnrci, 10 miles inland from the coast, her. been captured after a final 90- minute assault.)

Allied headquarters announced the capture of Enfidavlllc. 50 inilcs below Tunis. and said "all initial ODJECUVCS" were cirprured yester- cay after fierce fighting which be- gan with Gen. sir Bernard Mont- gomcr_v's tremendous artillery bar- rage Monday night.

"Four enemy counter - attacks have been repulsed" said the coni- mrvrinue. "Fighting continues.‘

Field dispatches sold Enfidavlllc fell without opposition after a Bri- tish column raced around the city

"This recourse by our to frlghffulness is barbarous," Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement to

the American people. "The effort of the Japanese war lords to in- tlmldnie us will utterly fall. it will make the American people more determined than ever to blot out thr- shameless militarism of Japan."

The President's statement. issu- ed at the “mite House. was suopie- menicd by the State Department. Tbvcthcr. the statements disclosed h :.

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The United States Government initiated inquiries tirrorrzh the Swiss Government immediately Af- ter Tokyo's radio broadcast. last Oct. 19. that military trials were planned for the elaht Americans.

It was riot until Wb. l7. however, that the Jiibeflese Government re- “Fed. acknowledging that the Am- ericans had been tried. sentenced to death. and that. as the State

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By LOUIS V. HUNTER (Canadian Press Staff writer) LONDON, April 2l-(CP CABLE)

Bomb attacks extenaln from Franco Berlin and bey0n . 0N‘- rled out. by R..A.F. and Canadian airmen, were marked today over the German Baltic ports of Stetttn and Rostock by great smoke columns‘ visible I00 miles away, All day today the Allied sir offensive went 0n with violence against Europe-

Late in the afternoon the roar of Allied lanes ermine the Channel at ll was being heard. Buildin a well inland in En- gland k under the concus- sion o! distant explosions apreadlng out from the French Coast.

The air ministry news service identified one of the daylight tar- gets as railroad yards at Abbeville which were bombed by Ventures while escorting Spitfires fought 0f! Ibcke-Wulf mos and Mesuerechmitt 100s in sir battles which continued several miles out to see.

Two Spitfires and three Venturfll were reported missing. one Messer- schmitt was definitely downed and others damaged and possibly shot down.

Rostock and Stettln. respectively

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Meat Rationing About May 24

OTTAWA, April 21 -—(CP)- A Prices Board spokesman said t0- nlght that meat rationing in Can- ada probably will come into effect around May 23 or 24, but that the actual date has not yet been fixed by Hoard officials.

The spokesman said "meatless clays" in restaurants will come into effect considerably before meat rationing is established. Tuesday. a "meatless day" in United States resiauranis already, is likely to be

w Violent Air Offensive

Against Nazis Continues

Rostock And Stettin Are Targets For Heavy Raids; Russians Bomb Tilsit.

so designated in Canada.

i-ieinkel bombers and the port for Berlin but also essential points a- long tire German supply line to the Russian front, were hit in s nchro- ntzatlon with attacks on t e east Prussian railway centre of Tilsit which the Germans said had been delivered by bombers or the Russian

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CANADA, THURSDAY, APRII. zz, 1943

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' War Situation Last Night

By Glenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst

Iiitler obviously is using the weeks that Rommel and Von Arnim are buying for him in Tunisia to muster another tremendous army and the belief is growing that he will use the best part of it. for a third desperate

Europe. Diplomats in Switzerland with Balkan connections say he is seek- i"! I SiPiRiIIB force of 5,000,000 men with an offensive against the Red Army the first item on the agenda.

can hardly hope that a few weeks will suffice to dispose of the sot-int arrniea which defeated him so thoroughly 155g winger wiping m“ a" his i942 gains and some of those of I041. But he is confronted by desperate

l"! "l" "19 R"! Army» bfltliilli; Ill! the western end of the Mediterranean by n thrust through Spain or a successful invasion of Britain, to alter the trend of the war which is turning so inexorably against him Preparation for the summer's climactic battles explains the tawdry procession of the satellites through the Fuehrerk headquarters yvlrieir apparently is ncar an end. an] ‘that; lash “We be?" “dished this sorry company will be disclosed _ y s e attle unfolds. but experience and the logic of his situation must suggest strongly tn ilitler that for another offgnghve in will have to rely on the finwer of his own German Army peclally the Italians, Rumanians and Hungarians, terribly mauled in the Willi" flflmllaisn. obviously have little stomach for going tirrough the nittfjzfzruffalfi" Th:""r"'9 ‘hi?!’ may Drill/ids most of the armies for m“ "m" such {ifyrfesgru ‘Iiilbrlé roasts and suppressing revolt in the rear. at and Chane“ "u s e ritish and Americans leap the Mediterranean g9 l "1' l0 llfflfillce the best he has to oppose them.

Ills Allies, es-

lltfellarin: for another terrible ordeal. The western Allies are anticipating also. and to Russia m the form of weapons and sunlics will form a major part of their war effort even while they are Stflliliilig wflh eve“, n? spitlxrce iouprndur-e the only form of help that will really satisfy u.’ m“. i itor emscives. the second front in Europe. may he we already are witnessing the prelude to the great eastern front and the Ukraine to the western Fflucqgug The",

. ' - -. .- the tirmvs zinllcar t be drypig and the Gcrmansare battling desperately to hold their smali bridgehead around Novorossisk, while the Russians are trying to throw them back across tlrc Kerch Strait and blast a way for themselves into the Crimea. It will be recalled that the 1942 campaign was npcncd in all- proxirnateiy the same region ivhemtlre Germans n" pray 3 opened "m" offensive to clear the Crimea. That date is little more than n fortnight 0"; the spring hill in Russia probably is nearly nvcr.

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New Craft Went To Bottom After Night Collision With Steamer.

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AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, April 2i -—lCPJ-— The Lun- cnburg schooner Flora Alberta has been sunk in collision and l5 lrci‘ crew of 22 are missing, it was disclosed here tonight.

Cut in two by a merchant ship in darkness, the severed halves of the wooden craft apparently sank so quickly they carried dowrr most of the crew, who were in their bunks asleep.

The new schooner-she was only about two years old-was struck down not far" off the Nova Scotla coast. Time of me tragedy was not revealed.

The survivors included Capt. Guy Tanner of Luncnburg, master of the ship. who suffered a broken arm. H4; and other rescued crew- mcn were taken to this port after they had been picked up by the vessel that sank the Alberta. The steamshig put out three lifcboats after e accident, birt the bests could bring back only scvcrr survivors.

O'I'I‘A\VA, April 2l-(CP)—Air force headquarters [Wight M1- JIOUIIECC] award of the Distinguish- ‘ed Flying Medal to Sgt, Arthur A. Mcllin of Duncan, B C . servinZ overseas with the R.C.A.F,

Mcliin stuck to his frost although severely wounded during A mirro- lnying raid off the Frisian Islands.

Parson's Son is Air_ Ace

AN AIRFIELI) NORTH 0F GABES, Tunisia, April 20 -(CP

attempt to crush Russian resistance before the western Allies land tn l

If this is hi! plan. it means that the Fuehrer is taking the ‘gmlflg “m; ‘ there will be no major invasion of the continent until late summer lie ‘

choices. Only by bringing off some long cirance adventure, such as knock- ‘

can he liopo ‘

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battles of‘ i043. The weight of the lighting has shifted from the Smolensk i

The two ships sighted each oth- er just A few moments before the crash, it was reported here. The steamshtps engines immediately were thrown full astern and the fisherman nlfrered course, but it was too late to avoid the collision.

IN LEND-LEASE DEAL? PARAMARIBO, Surinnm (Dutch Guiana). April 2i —(CP)_ Anctn. Netherlands News Agency. said it was disclosed todnv in Cayenne that French Guiana, which broke away from Vichy inst month. would be included within the Imited States lend-lease system. (There has been no such announcement in Washington.)

Cable)—- rDelayed) - 58L Niici-“Pl Askcy of Winnipeg, a Dl\l'><lii.< 5°" whose peacetime e."..-; Jl-‘lll ‘Wm little beyond insurance statistics. shot down three enemy aircraft in today's, fierce air combats over Tunisia.

As the fighter irilotls score irreanre known. news was receiver‘. that two other Canadians wcrcvcr-crlrtcd with twf) enemy plane; i".(‘$i.l‘O_\'(‘ii and 0m‘ probably destroyed in earlier Mr battles.

Askey, is the son of Mal- Wmifim Askey, Canadian Army Chaplain.

Warrant Officer Fred Srhofrcld Montreal, and 1'0. Wiiliflm R P- Sewell of Sewelivllle, N B, were the other successful Canadians,“

air force.

Returning pilots reported that. the r wllmersdorf district of Berlin also. was left all ht with flies, although‘ the attack t ere was plainly not on 1 the great scale of those thrown s- r gainst Rnsloclt and Stettin.

150 Two-Ton Bombs

More than I50 two-tori bombs were thrown in 40 minutes on Stettln in addition to hundreds oi other explosives and thousands of mcendior es, and the main Heinlrel plant at Rostock was souarel hit.

Aside from all these er ets Btettln, Rostook, _Berlin and ii- sit-iighter-bombers in greet force attacked German communications in France. Holland, Belgium and northwestern Germany in what the air ministry termed one of the bis- gest of such sweeps since the war

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airs, Ma or Jirrncs Slmvzrrr Walker, ; '~ ~ o r nrrrr-rrlng in the iPrincc hairy id Island Iilkllliili lol- loivirig a. serious operation. lie was in his 76th year.

1-19 was g, native of Brzrsklcy lPoint. and a sun of tire late Mr. and Mrs. DIIYiKi tvrrlicvv.

The lzrir: Alrrjcr \ lker had a ;I‘lOt2ibi0 “or record, arifliirg first as -a. Private rn tlrr- Snrrrlr African war. and later as Quzirluinizrsier Cap- ltam with the first Canadian Con- itlirgent in the Grcat War. He was one of few Carrrrrirnns to reach iFrrinite in Nov. I914, riirrl issued ,il‘ilill his SlOlTS as Qiiziricrniasier‘ ‘tire first llrrus r0 be flown over a Canadian lllli! iii France. These flags, A Union Jack and a Geneva‘ cross, are now in the Confedera- tion Chamber. '1iie_v flew oycr N0. 2 stationary Hospital at LcTou-

urr. q l\irrjr>r walker recently larcsentcdi in the pruyiirrlrrl rrlrt-lrorilies anorl1-_ er illiCfffhilill souvenir", a Dutch‘ flilg captors-n in lire south Afrivflnr Wrrr". A cup; of the inscription on this flag has been sent to the Dutch coirsrrl at. tvaslirnflwn 10F ' ' firm and identification. lire outbreak of war in 1 Walker served many 3-9pm a5 Qurrrrennasier with the 26! Field Ambulance here.

During the iuItBI‘ P11" °1 me Great War, he served n: tire from r\\'i[i\ No, l Fir-id Ambulance, 1st‘ Canadian Division.

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l 1n 1939, st the outbreak 0f m! lprescrit struggle. he soiiililt 0m? l‘ ‘gain to serve his country, offering gm enlist in any Cflllflfiflv- Hi5 "59- ]-y(1\\'(\\'(\r_ pruVCd an insupcrablc d". ‘b. k.

If]; s charter member of the Canadian Ifliiiflll. fl-Yld moi‘ ‘the kccnesf interest in fill 1Y5 "Clivi 195»

Before and after the Great at‘.

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S RE USE OF POISON GAS

nis“ And Bizert

British Govt Makes Unusual

AIIIIOIIIICQIIT-éfil

I rEnemy Told Use OfPoison Gas il/ir’!

i Be Followed By Retaliation By Britain.

, LONDON, April 22—(Thursday)-(CP) -Tl=c British Government in an extraordinary 2ll'ri'rr'.‘k_illL3£i- merit said today that it has received reports that “Hitler is making preparations for using poison gzrs against the Russian front," and warned that such a development would find Britain retaliating with‘. a; same weapon "upon German munitions centres. seaports and other military objectives throughout the whole expanse of Germany-"

There was a sharp note of urgency both in the liming and method of the warning to Germzrrrv. iNewspaperrnen were summoned to the nrinistry of

The Russians have no illusions about the coming summer they are Oldest and best KllUWll war treter-i information after midnight where a statement is‘

‘sued from Prime Minister ChurchilVs residence at

10 Downing Street was read to them. The text 0f the s!atement:— "Reports have been received from

several sources that Hitler is mak-

ing preparations for using poison gas against the Russian front. “Accordingly, His Majesty's gov- rr-rnnrent lakes an early occasion to renew the yrarning which the Prime Minister gave, last year. lnamely that any use of poison gas larrainsf, our Russian allies by the

mirror. ,-$hipping Loss; Duflng 1942

‘Nfllic or their satellites will im- mediately be followed by the firliest WASHING ‘ Y. APP" 2i '- rrossilrle use of this process of war lAl’)— A bilvvllll third “l ll ‘l upon Gcrnmn munitions centres. swat-e Pilllllllili-l‘?lii‘l‘1\‘*t'\i \*"'~'.\ JSGHDOTTS, and other military ob- that allilFiiXim-llvll ll-"i -“"‘ Jectiyes throrrcirout the whole ex- time of allied shirrvmv W" panse of Gcmmny, sunk last year-more t~ir.rrr lire “British resource and scale of total tonnage built in ill-i: i‘? delivery have greatly increased Great Britain and the frrlieri

slncp inst vcar. Necessary precmrt- States combined.

ronnrv measures against German re- Calling the liwsvs "lrerii_\ rrrrt hflsflls have iilrendv been gnlqlngfl t disiistrotis", tire Serial» unit by competent flnfhnrlfleg ghfqugh. investigating war prrivliir-tiori out the United Kingdom." Pfobifimfl ffillflrifll "N"! “W”

aOdIICCIT in the latter rrrorrtlrs of the year. and said HrP-tillclrli? "the submarine mcirztrf‘ can and will be effectively nrrt."

The answer to the tirrr-Ai or the undersea raiders, is tire atepped- p production of rrr-w merchant and escort vessels and the combined use of rlesrrrlrr-ra and destroyer escorts. escort nir- plane carriers, lirml-irzrser’, '|lr-- planes equipped for zrrrti». . marine work and suiv clrn-erl.

"All 0f these lire being pro- vided." the committee srrirl. “I'll: only question is that nf iiivm."

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Victory Loan Salesman in Conference

The 39 salesmen who will be re- sponsi-‘Jle for the canvass of Queen's County in the forthcoming victory

loan campaign received their finsl 55mg 303x, N-IL. -\‘)"li 2r ~- instructions yesterday st a corifer- (CP)_. Objective of " .7‘ a once held at the Charlottetown 91W ""1 Cmmi-v i" F“

Victory Loan can nounced today as the nominal m 36.200000 Ol)1<‘<".i lrrce is SZQOOILPOH.

Hotel.

‘The business session started at 10.30 a.m. and continued into the‘ afternoon, after an adjournment for luiioh. l‘iie county chairman, Capt, N. W. Lowther, welcomed the