o, A l 0T A ' MERE MAN MERE MAN Lei us take our sorrow with the 2%’ I I joy Ind be ‘hi olfpohzoplzizvrleznts-ent ts ever so fine as (lovers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

gunriottetnwu Guardian, Ieeo Cont;

lgrninl Guardian. Founded IJII

iwrrruui MANPOWER REGULATIDNS Auuguuucr

igers Smash 40* Jap

[lying T

t) Canadian Caepe Puts implvaele On letfle-Drili ~ .

There's nothing of the barracb-sqaue or

>,

parade grcaad h this type of drill — battle-drill!

CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942

llere are

Fuuzuiiun troops in Great Britain learning sctuel fighting methods and hardening themselves for the tough fighting that lies ahead of them.

.-\t the top Icft e vviiy Bren-gunner nukes um of cattle on the sky-line as career fer his stealthy advance {fin- “three musketeers" vvill lend running below the fence and drive their bayonets home in the target.

in front of them.

Lower lcit shows a bridging mutt patting he roadway in place on a ‘box-girder’ bridge wile, lewd’, Iight, shock-troops take sever during a hesse-te-liouee advance through an “enemy vlisge". ‘

Clothing Regulation Effective At Once

DIONTRIEAL, March 24—-(CP)—The Wartime

Prices and

Trude Iluurd today issued an amendment to its order of March 5 restricting the use of cloth in the manufacture of men's clothing which will result in restriction; going into effect at '

midnight tonight.

In its hiarrh 5 order the hoard I declared that certain re.- etnciions on rczuly-to-wcar clothing would go into effect on May I with restrictions of made-to-measure clothing being effectivq

Aug. l_

As a result of the amendment no manufacturer of ready-

to irenr 0r madc-to-meusurc (‘itithlflg can receive

any orders

otter midnight for old-time slllts, but he will be given until

lluy l tn cut out tho material

for the suits. Any outfits not

Pllllllllfifll by thgt date must be cut along the newly authorised

lines,

The authorized suit will consist of s single-breasted jacket. dllillflivrs without cuffs. and several other restrictions designed to mu- cloth. lt is understood that the amendment was prompted ti)’ l" 011.11")! spree on the part of the public since the original

order was issued.

Lord Beaver-brook Arrives In Miami

MIAMI. 1710.. Match 24--(AP)-- IA-ci Bc-uverbrock, British lcnd- lrnse co-ordlrator. arrived here 1'11"") Europe illdfiy a-bcard a naval

“re of an Alifc" Noton, 1 vice consul L. A. Oates "<1 Bcnvcrbrrc-k will go to ".11 "in a (luv or so." A t, - » \'.'l‘~"1i-'d hm awiv frrm nu lrmdlnq pl-rce and his iicnzeci- 111 c destination wrs not. disclosed.

(Mics and British ecnsul lwchne! A Rrbb met. 1h" v1=ltcr at the end of 11's Atlantic flight.

Gaming Events

i-Q-

fi _ Ioticee in llel “

I cents per word

“Talkies-South Thursday. . L-1lg9-3-24-8i.

"Talklek-Montague Saturda - L-llgu-3-li-3i.

"Elntertai - w- “mf” “ifiliiff-‘nflr

"Uni di Mflwnfg. Nut coal at

LI-ucs-s-M-a.

"Load! 11 h3g1] lltursdcylililarcnogicthfilohygijlseckt L-ildd-S-fli-ii.

"Social evening 1n New London tlii, rim . 51inch seriéfvenmaIs-Iillaéqii-ldvl-"lli.

m"L°B-d1!18 hogs Thursday, March Summerslde till 1 pm.; Ken- t-‘llilwn till 3 p.m.; Bulmen and 3mm“. Hunter River Pride till noon. Mclilwen and Campbelilfllml

"Wading hogs at Charlottetown

Further curtail Ilse of rubbcr

OTTAWA. Marci) 2t--(OP)__ Munitions Min1=ter Howe announ_ ccd tonight. s "ucecpixig new or. do)" curtailing use o1 rccluun rub-

I‘.

A1 midnlatn last night the man- ufacture oi tiundrecs of articles usLng reclaim rubber was 11511.04 and no more such rubber now mav be processed except by pemm, 0'1- for essential war supples the state- ment said.

Alan I-l. Williamson suppligg w“- broiler, has frozen all stocks c4 d- v1l'an more: not. in rccesa, gend- lug issuance of pexmte for 1 use for essential civilian goods.

£0,140. iicmc Defence Unit

About 350 men from every walk of life have already volunteered for the defence of Prince Edward Island. it was learned Inst night by LL-CCI. E. W. Johnstone. officer commanding the new 1111.0 which will be known as "The 17th. Re- serve Armoured Rcgmcur, PEI. Light. Horse." A coll for 600 meal

11. ‘ expected the Home Guurri un-

A eady 160 men, including born business 211d professional men. have signed up in Charlottetown and attended their first Dalade Mcnd-ay night. The quot-i for the city is 200. Training will be given two nights a week-Monday and Friday.

Every tc-wu and prucijcrvly every village 1n ti): provrncc ivill lure a. training centre rf 1's own wliu 0n officer or N.C.O. in chsrgi-a re- turned soldier if one is available. ‘Illsse men will be reouired to a1- tcnd parade one niszht each week when instruct-ions in fcot drill, rifle drill, Lewis gun. Bren gun. Vickers gun, mop rczdlcg. first aid and gas will be given.

In addition to the regular reg- iment, there will be s mconnaisance squadron consist‘ of 170 men under Major F. W. yndman. ‘These men may be sent anywhere 1n Can- ada for training.

The men will be outfitted with unlfcrnls and will attend camp for two weeks in August. Tactics.) ex- cl€§5€5 will be carried out over week-ends.

Eligible to join the new unit an) men between l7 and I9; those be- tween l9 and 85 in category C;

and those from 35 to 50 in any category. Them will be s. total of 32 ol-

ficers in the Berni Guard.

Japanese Pour Planes Into Australasia Area

Enemy making violent

effort to strike down

growing air strength of Allied Nations,

iiew Invasion Warning heard

LONDON. March 24 — (C P) - Britons received a new and urgent invasion we from meir 80v- tcr the Dover coast.

va air assaults upon these

islands since the major rains of 11941.

While Dover and two other cons towns cleaned up the wreckage

last night's attack. Sir John An-

2E

"Wk pm Friday March mu m1

. derscn, 1am Pxeetdent of the Coun- Ulm- We require two csrloade and c", w“ m; p» “w”. ma“. e- t)‘ Day extra price for these week- “we, m. . h “ma,” by mi- Bllo _ hose. Livestock Mei-retina ler w overrun the country this

M.- n-120:-a-as-a1_ spring. .

l _"Livest0ok Marketing Board puma hon n. m. Herbert Sta- "°{1 Pride! forenoon. March 2| “IP ll train time. Not ‘Thursday "steldmtgnwu wdvertanctlly Bléivelr-

- . . nor an n n “W'- n-iaoi.

new: rosrlss our commonsense (or)

MELBOURNE, March 2d — (O P) —Countcred. hammered and for the first time facing the possibilities of aerial defeat, thzu Ja ht

"iii. “ibfis s Bsctflc wer none - Australia -— 1n Q

violent effort to strike down the growing strength of the Australian- Amsrlcan air forces.

Two wave o! enemy bars. en- comaanied by a cloud of "sero" flgh rs. smashed for the second consecutive day in hes force at Part . st N:

alian

i 1 d.f tn nchor ofthe $1.111: ‘llliiiléggé! ‘of the north- eastern psrt of the continent. losses ere moun 118 ll i110 Ill war for control of New Guinea in- creases rocity. but with the owinl air sirens"! 0! "W 111194 grces and bhvéxadgption of Lt.- Gen.

e s

14.3.. aggressive pollc '- signal‘; out and fin the enefi

lnhgaper

Australian and Untied 5

35749199!‘ 0i N!!! 800th l d d li tl

01w hue iii-continue use of A‘! fiitiginesuiilmiilliii “ibi- evinin o“ e

teats blllsmzn eteeete and iiilh- enemy as yet to find en effective . answer

their emle 011m"? '

L

War Situation Last Night

(By KIRKE L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) Renewed Nazi bombing of England's channel coast, including the Dover bridgehead, has apparently achieved one result sought by Ber-

lin. It has revived apprehension. that little: vaeion.

To the extent that this resurrected luvseton spectre serves to lessen Anglo-American aid to Russia In the critical weeks ahead, it would be a distinct advantage to Hitler. For there seems good reason to believe that events to come in Russia will go fu- t» shape the pattern of the war as a whole for this year.

U I U O

There is meagre dete-tl as to the actual battle contours in Russia. Official reports from Moscow and Berlin do little to clarify either the tactical or strategic element; involved. Unofficial advices indicate, however, that the Russians have driven deep thrusts above and below the wide centre battle perimetre und are threatening both flanks of the Nazi line.

may attempt an in-

a e e e

Rumor credits Russia with massing new armies in both areas, northeast of Smolensk and southwest of Kharkov, for simultaneous attempts to lop off the right and left arms of a German attack. Lon- don reports of German armies strongly on the move again lend color to speculation that these Russian stabs may have forced Hitler into premature offensive action. It will be weeks before weather condi- tions free his massive mechanized forces for the swift action for which they are designed. '

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS STABLED IN HOUSE

‘me Public Accounts for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1041 were

tabled yesterday in the Legislature by Hon. Mr. McIntyre.

They show total expenditure of $2,565,551.89, an increase in liabilities

of $30,170.67 and surplus on ordinary account of $0,348.25. ORDINARY REVENUE For the fiscal year ending December 31, 194i

schedule Source DOMINION GOVERNMENT (A) Subsidies - - - - ~ - -- - s 372,131,311 (B) Old Ase Pensions- — - - -- _ 201,124.51 (C) Blind Pensions - — — — - - 14,079.04 (D) Direct Relief _ _ - - - - 7,994.26 (E) Flshermerfs Relief — —- —- — — 1,200.50 (F) Relief to Enemy Aliens —— — — — 170.00 t 596,150.28

DOMINION-PROVINCIAL TAX AGREEMENT

Gmnt due from Dominion $691,811.46 Less Suspended Tux Reserve 209,572.06 $ 482,238.80

Gasoline Tax Guaranteed by Dominion -

25,204.10 507,502.99 TAXES (A) Land Tax - - - - - - - -_ e 55.21365:

(B) Road Tax _ _ - _ - - _- - 34,042.32

(C) Gasoline Tax — — — — — — -- 355,036.86

(D) Amusement Tox _ _ _ _ _ ._. 19324005

(E) succession Duties - _ _ _ __ _. 42,601.37

(F) Public Health Tax - _ - - - - 27,696.75 563,9s4_75 SUSPENDED TAX RESERVE

(A) Income Tax — - ~ - _ _ _ 3 3450333 (B) Personal Property - - - _ - _- - 4056,34 (C) Canadian National Rallways~ —- 40,000.00 (D) Corporation Taxes (1) Dcrniciled Companies s 48,998.32 (2) Accident dz Guarantee

C“ — — — — — - - $ 125.00 (4) Banks - ~ — — —- t 12.00461 (5) 01min Stores _ -_ _ 9,051.90 (B) Electric Companies - 193.60 (7) Acceptance Comoro-

tions — - - _ _- - 503,35 (B) Telegraph Company -_- 400.00 (9) Telephone Company 2.99410 (10) Trust & Loan Com-

panies — - » —- — —- 3,315.15 (11) Security Trust Corpus 1,650.00 80,196.94 200,572.66

LICENSES, PERMITS. AND F325 (A) Motor vehicle Llcenses - -- _ Q 155,331};

(B) Pedlors Licenses- - - - - .._ 11450 (C) Prothonotary Fees — - - _ _. 1490,15 (D) County Court Fees - - __ -_ __ 75135 (E) Lzmd Titles and Registry 0g.

flee Fees — — — — — - - — - 5,425.45 (r) letters Patent _ _ _ _ _ _ m“, (G) Prince of Wales College rees- - 333150 (H) Brokers and salesmen —- - -- - 115,90 (I) Insurance Registrations, etc. - _ 3774» (J) Marriage Licenses - - _- _. ... 135335 (K) Vital Statistics - - - - _. _ 1,031 33 (L) Documents under the Great seal 15:00 (M) Private Bills- - _ _ _ ._ _. 1mm (N)Ferry Fees- ~ - ~ _ _. __ ._. 1313,05

(0) Falconwood Hospital Fe _ __ (P) Wholesale ou and 0:- na- i 103831”

IIHIIIIDIS- — — - — _ _ _ _ __ _ 1.03596 (Q) Fish and Game Licensee - - - 317150 (R) Electrical Inspection Fece- - — 1,060.30 . ((8) Corporation Licensee (1) Domlciled Companies a 2,925.00 (2) Accident 8a Guarantee Cos_----1___. 500m (9) Life Insurance Companies (t) rm meursnoe convpmlee 111,520.60 (‘LULM mm“

(Ueflitinucd on pm o. Col s)

“AKING 140R‘

Biotin

w“

ls CANADA M

IHIE All PURPOSE FlOUR

Dawn attack ls surprise T0 itipponcsc

Chinese Troops In Burma Violently Engaged Only Seven: Miles From Toungoo.

KUNMING, chins‘ March 24- tAPh-"Flytni; Tiger pilots of the American vo unteer group smashed 40 Japanese planes at the Thai- land airport at. Chiengmai today in s. dawn attack which caught the Japanese by surprise, it. was announced here.

Dropping clown from the any at 7 am. the United States airmen caught the Japanese pilots as BT19)’ were running to the cockpits 0f their planes and pumped 3,500 rounds of ammunlton into both grounded planes and personnel.

Seven Japanese planes were seen bursting into flames, and the remainder of the planes were riddled with machine-gun bursts. dispatches said.

Most. of the Japanese pilots were reported hit. LONDON. March 24 — (AP)-

Chinese troops holding the allied left in Burma were violently en- gaged tonight by the Japanese in an area only seven miles below the important position of Toungoo. toward which the enemy had ad- vanced 40 miles up the Slttang River 1n e week's Operations.

A communique from Chinese general headquarters announced this sharp forward movement up- on the barrier to the approaches to Mandalay and the left: anchor cf an allied line setretchtng west- ward to Prome, on the Irrawaddy south of the central Burmese oil fields.

It was also revealed that the de- fenders were without local sir support and that Toungoo itself had been raided six time; in a day's operations.

It was made clear, however. that this had occurred 1n earlier operations; not in the past two days lmd the Japanese made any progress.

li.B. House asks Removal potato Price _cciling

PREDEIRICTON. March 24— (CP)—-A resolution petitioning the Dominion Government, to have the present price ceiling on pota- toes removed for the balance of the 1941 crop was passed unani- mously by the New Brunswick lkulslature tonight.

'I'l1e resolution, moved by Agri- culture Minlster Taylor and en- dorsed by member on both sides of the House, provided for appoint- ment of two legislature members. with others outside the Legislature to support the petition before fed- eral officials.

Mr. Taylor sold he had from the start protested a celbng on pota- toes because of their perishable nature and because the ceiling set March 10 was out of line with re- turns received bv growers of other commodities

Action similar to New Bruns- Rick's had been taken by the Prince Edrvard Island legislature last week, he noted. although the Island was urging p, floor price. Personally he was against a floor price for the present crop because he reared 1t would cause a ben- dency towards greatly increased acreage next year and this would defeat the growers‘ objective.

Mr. Taylor and G. W, Perry (Con. Carleton) were appointed as the two members of the Legisla- ture to support the petition at Ottawa.

Canadian Tanker Captured by Nazis

NEW YORK" March, 24—(A.P)— The mystery of the missing Cana- dian motorship tanker Canadolite was partly cleared up today with e. report. from German-occupied Cop- euhagen that the 11.809-ton vessel had been captured. by a. German glarship and taken into Bordeaux.

once.

The report said. a prim court in Hambure condemned the Canada- ltte last Jan. 10, making. her. the "pro rty“ of the Nazis. Court pro- ceed n s revealed that a prize crew was p cod aboard her. March. 25. 1041, after her seizure 1n mid Atlan-

lbst May I landon announced that. the ship was overdue and pre- sumed lost. n the Soul-h Atlantic. The London report at that time said it was feared there were a. number of Canadian casualties. The Danish re rt. did not mention casualties. . e vessel was owned by Imperial 011 Bhlnolns Company. subs diary of the standard. Oil. Company. of New Jersey. She was built in Ger- many in 1 20.

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Annual Subscription Delivered. $0.00 BI llaiii I. I" l. $0.0M to other Provtnuee and U-l- ‘~01 ,

Plaggg AGov ’t Launches

Huge Selective Service Scheme‘

Increased to 3O years age limit for compulsory service in Canada; Aimed also at

conserving Farm labor.

(By C. R. Blackburn, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

OTTAWA, March 24-(CP)—The Government today launched an extended national selective service plan de- signed to obtain from every Canadian the utmost contri- bution to the war effort through application of “the nega- tive cumpulsion of restriction.”

Prime Minister Mackenzie King outlined in the House of Commons new regulations restricting employment in non-essential civilian occupations, increasing to 30 years the age limit for compulsory service in Canada, and eon- serving the available farm labor.

Fruit of months of planning under direction of the cabinet war committee, a series of orders-in-councll was tabled by the Prime Minister, giving effect at once to the new regulations.

Among main points of the nevv program are:-

1_ lietablishhmem of a leader- ete ed nattonel selective under Labor Minister the director to be B. M. present director of bureau of technical personnel, who will be assisted by an alab- orais organisation of appeal boards and volun advisory commit-

. tees. “R"““"“l °l ‘m “m” °‘ m‘ 2. Obligation on the put of n-

Phllipplnes was reported tod.y _ by the Ummd 5m,“ war Deparl ployers to Nleesl for essential war service and riainstata afterward

t, 11th h I l’! ‘Hen w I eJapaneae Bum m8 professional technicians who con-

an air assault against rregldor and Bataan and the ~ ericn- W" Y» Interim: service allocated

News Briefs

WASHI NGTON, March 24-- (AP)

Filipino troops springmg s success- ful attack on an enemy motor col- umn at Zamboanga on the southern island of Mindanao.

OTTAWA. March 24--(Ol’)-- The Defence Departmen sn- nounccrl tonight n‘ ' ‘ ‘ of Brig. R. A. Wymon of Ed- monton as officer command. ing an runny tank brigade over- seas. succeeding Mat-Gen. I‘. F. Worthington who recently was named to command a Can- adian armored division.

MONUPON. li.B.. March 94- (CPM-Incotnotlve shops of the Canadian National Railways st Monctcn and Rivlerc Du Loup. Que. Will work a 48-hour week starting next saturdsy, regional headquarters of the 0N3. en- nounoed today. The shops have been working 44 hours weekly.

WASHINGTON. March 24- (AlH-The Novy reported to- night that the United States destroyers Pillsbury and Edsali have been missing since early March in waters around Java and must be presumed lost.

BIG ALASKA PARK

Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska embraces 3.300 square miles.

to them by the Government.

I. Prohibition of enrplwmont. except under certain conditions, of male applicants for work in e. long list of non-war occupations, unless the applicant. has a release from s national selective service officer.

4. Exemption from ____,_ ‘___,

(Continued on page ‘I. Ooi l)

600,000 ltazi: Reserves hurlcil Into battle

WBCOW, March Ik-(AM-v ‘Ihe Germans have hurled 600.000 reserves into s massive but futile effort to wrest the initiative from the Red Army, the Rusians re- ported wnight, and s Siecial In- nounoement said 16000 of the au- emy had been killed on (he lento.- grad front. done.

More than 38 newly-arrived Ne!

divisions were declared to be tak- -

1mg part In fighting raging from one end of the front. to the other with battles in acme areas as inv- ege we any witnessed 1n this war.

Italian Battleship Is Torpecloecl Off Malta

Mussolinfs Naval Units turn tail after two unsuccessful attempts on British Convoy.

LONDON. March 24-(CP)—'I'he first Italian battleship to be en- gaged 1n the Mediterranean since Musscllnfs navy suffered its crushing defeat in the battle of Iifstapan has been torpedoed in e running battle off Malta, the Ad- mirslty announced tonight,

The Admiralty announced that

Axis planes sank one British ship of s. Malta-bound convoy in the combined sea and air fitlllt. But the Italian naval units turned tail and fled after two frustrated at.- tacks 1n which they apparently failed to get in a single blow. _ Giving the lie to an Italian claim that. a British cruiser. an- other naval unit and two mer- chant ships wcre sunk and l5 oriier vessels hit 1n the battle, the Admiralty said tersely:

"Full details are still spotted but 1t is known that enemy claims to have sunk British warships are without foundation.”

The newest costly blow b0 the Italian imvv vial; delivered in s battle which started off Malta Sunday when a force of Italian cruisers uvemhicd to intercept the British convoy.

"It is known that the enemy was driven off without. damage to our ships," the Admiralty said of this first attack.

"Later the some alinn naval forces

afternoon It- made further

attempts 1c break through our covering forces and destroy the convoy." it continued. "This time

the Italian forces included at least one battleship.

(continued cfinvyif c‘... s)