'
weeks
I
went
to
p
of
these
Infantry
,
.its
-,g
is
making
the
cn-,k
offensively
of
op-the
North
Sea
or
f
lannel.
Tlvs
troop
,,i,d
planning
hrder
'.'
for
action
which
hed
anywhere
from
SpanUh
border
R
A.
F.
giving
con-.f-u
a
non
stop
ith
talk
of
a
ec-
rd
from
Wnltehall
pubs.
.,
for
u,
lmk
Troop
Training
i.
roon
tralnlitR
ha
:
!
They
were
the
an
army
unlti
to
Royal
Navy.
I
was
with
was
com-Ma'
Brian
MrCool
of
Risifint
of
Canada
Aalo
AKt
FARRIS
Vsntouvtr
Barrister
To
Head
I'ftmc
Court,
of
British
Columbia
Su-
deck.
5rrAWA,
May,7
Wendell
R.
'"J
K.C
prominent
Vancbuvcr
mirl
I.
.n
1
1.
..
n
i
T
"
fleQ.
Farrls
hn
Wn
nniwlni.
fv,c.hlef
Justice
of
the
Supreme
rt
of
i""v,a"
British
Columbia
'umuia
In
msuc-
sue-
r
R.C.A.F.
Crash
Kills
Eight
Find
Sea
ICtS
To
Learn
Invasion
Tactics;
Gruelling-Job
Is
Involved
By
ROSS
MUNRO
miMF.WHERE
IN
ENGLAND,
May
7:
Special
,
of
Canadian
infantry
have
been
training
at
sea
p
f",c
Roval
Navv
on
combined
operations
and
coastal
ic'j"
-:
-.s
the
Canadian
army
steps
up
assault
training
of
er
i
aM.alion
with
the
ultimate
objective
of
striking
n-
sro
in
Europe.
HALIFAX,
May
iCP
-
Eight
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
fliers
were
killed
list
4-
night
In
the
erash
of
a
Hud-
ton
bomber
at
the
Royal
f
Canadian
Air
Force
station
at
the
CanadUra
Twbsy.
anything
from
Eam
all-out
attack.
4-
Newfoundland,
the
Air
Command
tin-
today.
secretly
fo
months
from
Toronto
and
wm
compotedol
T
work
with
the
nary
handpkked
volunteers
from
a
ike
forces.
Raiding
number
of
Infantry
regiment.
bm
established
lol-
Only
Touch
Men
Last
.
drill
instruction
Teat
training
at
a
secret
cant)
aimv
Hundreds
of
preceded
the
workout
with
th
n
hate
bor.
jif.lrMj
navv
and
during
this
period
the
.-hiwiU
to
Instruct
"softer"
would-be
command
in
(uwauiv.
weeded
out.
Only
the
hardl-
make
every
in-
l
m6c
the
-grade.
British
mm-hard
and
as
skilled
mandos
helped
Uie
Canadians
in
-
-3rd
ko
thay
en
stag
-lelimhAarjr..UnU)s..
.
and
push
on
into
Finally
the
force
was
cut
down
try.
Map,
photo-
to
the
right
size
and
spirited
away
tlrf
models
of
the
to
a
port
where
we
boarded
a
i
urc
being
studied,
combined
operations
ship
and
put
t
is
kept
with
Lord
W
.
ten
s
combined
op-
After
cruising
around
for
a
con
.
lquarters
and
the
Werable
Umc
we
anchored
off
a
irhments
doing
ad-
ruaged
coast
somcwlme
In
the
iik
went
to
sea
British
Isles
and
training
really
i.-d
operations
ships
arrled
British
com-
i
i
i
Day
and
nlsht
the
Canadians!
....
made
raids
on
different
parts
of:
the
Isolated
coast,
staging
assault
landings,
storming
over
beaches
and
raiding
far
Inland
across.
'
heartbreaking
country-
'
!
I
Nobody
"Grouses"
i
The
troops
were
soaking
wetj
Imost
of
the
time
as
they
plunged
i
iout
of
the
landing
craft
to
the1
beaches.
There
was
scarcely
any(
.
xirrn
for
nnvnne
but
none
com
-,
PPiMIMP
I'M
i
plained.
The
ordinary
army
beef-i
VVJllHi
1
J
111
'OR
ws
noticeably
absent,
for
this
'
was
the
newest
and
most
advanced
t
'lc
',i:jn
l'a
Itrtlrr
Fur
Cilv
111
I'M
Than
In
Previous
Year,
Annual
llrport
Shows
f
V.
;
c
r
t
.
o
the
annual
report
,
of
Prince
Rupert,
just
made
Its
appcar-uon
of
taxes
on
land
vrmrnts
for
the
year
anted
to
885
percent
of
tt-s
compared
with
88
per-1040.
Local
improvement
amounted
to
pcr-iiuainst
32.5
percent.
ual
report
gives
fullpar-f
.hr
city's
financial
af
:
the
past
year.
.training
any
Canadian
troops
havei
done.
The
men
slept
in
hammock!
when
they
did
sleep
and
ate
whacking
bl?
meals,
including
but
Tlio
troons
learned
the
drill
of
getting
Into
landing
craft
from
the
combined'
operations
ships
In
darkness
and
daylight.
A
cheerful
crew
of
young
British
tars
taught
them
the
tricks
needed
for
these
raiding
boats
and
after
24
hours
the
Canadians
were
stepping
around
cei,lft
....
Mftd
md
for
"rson
who
died
recently.
Harry
w
ri
Colgart
f
A,
.....
of
'Jernle
Is
minted
a
County
Court
Judge.
Years
before
the
mast.
''We
Just
want
to
train
so
hard
(Continued
.to
Page.
Two)
ALASKA
i
RAILWAY
Project
For
Line
Across
Considered
Inquiries
Carding
P.
G.
E.
Canada
Re-
VICTOKIA,
May
7:
CI'
Government
circles
said
last
nltht
that
they
had
been
approached
by
several
United
States
interests
regarding
acquisition
of
the
Paciilc
Great
Eastern
Hallway
as
a
link
in
a
possible
railway
to
Alaska.
No
detail
are
available.
Such
a
railway
would
mean
crrutroetion
of
sixty
-two
miles
of
line
from
Quesnel
In
Prince
George
and
thence
to
Finlay
Forks
alone
the
Itockr
Mountain
Trench
through
the
Yukon
to
Alaska
The
statement
heie
coincided
with
a
dispatch
from
Washington
saying
that
plans
were
being
considered
for
the
eventual
construction
of
a
railway
across
Canada
to
connect
the
United
States
with
Alaska,
United
States
Army
engineers
to
be
M-nt
out
to
make
surveys.
Warns
Against
Eating
Clams
ftCTUHIA.
May
7
Dr.
O.
F.
Amyot.
provincial
health
officer.
warns
against
Use
eating
of
clams
and
mussels
cither
cooked
or
raw
on
the
Bruls;i
Columbia
coast
it
Lbls
time.
Thfe
have
brn
five
WtV-Uwo,-Ht',ITUAlbcrniW(Uid
hree
at
Port
Amteica.
Washington
attributable
to
the
eating
of
clams.
Stars
id?
Red
Cross
ANNA
N
EAGLE
Low
iv
Unlub
tilm
star,
plays
a
leading
role
1
in
"There
Too
Go
I",
the
dramatic
film
story
of
Canadian
Red
Cross
work
being
shown
during
the
national
appeal
for
$3,0QP.OOO.
which
starts
on
May
11.
YANKS
ARE
United
Men
States
Estimates
I.o
OT
In
Fall
of
Conegidor
At
!
jlU71
WASHINGTON
DC.
Miv
7:
.
The
UnltedlSt-ites
War
Depart
ment
announced
today
that
about
11,574
soldier,
allors,
marines
anducivttt2rt
ereAKUiBotar
captured
by
the
Japanese
on
Cor
regidor
and
other
Manila
Bay
forts
War
News
SINKINGS
OFF
U.
S.
COAST
WASHINGTON
Sinking
by
enemy
action
of
a
medium-sited
llrilUti
merchant
ship
and
a
small
United
States
vessel
off
the
Atlantic
Coast
of
the
United
States
was
announced
yesterday.
EXECUTING
DUTCILMEN
BERLIN
Eighty-nine
Netherlands
citizens
have
been
sentenced
to
death
on
charges
of
aiding
the
Allies,
espionage
and
illegal
pos-Kcsslon
of
arms.
FRENCHMEN
RELEASED
LISBON
It
is
reported
here
that
some
30,000
to
33,000
Flench
airmen
are
to
be
released
from
German
prison-
camps
on
the
condition
that
they
take
refresher
courses
and
join
planes
of
the
German
air
force.
"
IIEKMUDA
PREPARING
HAMILTON,
Hermuda
As
a
precaution
against
possible
isolation
tcr
a
scarce
commodity
In
civilian
'
0f
the
Island,
Bermuda
authorities
are
taking
steps
to
lay
in
food
life
and
steaming
plates
of
beans.
I
supplies
sufficient
for
eight
weeks.
The
most
of
the
food
is
coming.
Big
slugs
of
rum
were
handed
out.
jrom
Canada.
They
worked
like
demons.
The
Canadians,
who
called
themselves
-The
Vikings,"
were
outfitted
superbly
like
the
IJrl-uh
rnmininilns.
They
wore
rope-soled
shoes
for
silent
movement
and
carried
gleaming
fighting
knives
for
close
combat,
tommy
guns,
pistols,
rifles,
plenty
of
Uren
guns
and
heaping
boxes
of
ammunition,
hand
grenades
and
explosives.
Thcv
were
the
wildest
and
keen
est
force
I
have
ever
been
with
In
f
..
..
rrn.
a
.
.
foirl
rjinnii
nn
nrmv.
luu
Unmni.,
eMHflri
thnmselvcs
aooarQ
NEW
innPE
ship
which
had
carried
com.
llLlYY
JUUvlLlmandos
to
St.
Nazalre
on
the
French
Channel
coast
DCiorc
m.jr
were
firing
their
wcajwns
off
the
II0NG
KONG
CONDITIONS
OITAWA
According
to
a
statement
by
the
Drpartmenl
of
External
Affairs
substantial
rice
supply
is
being
given
to
Canadian
prisoners
of
the
Japanese
at
Hong
Kong
and
Kowloon
with
bread
and
vegetables
daily
and
a
small
quantity
of
meat.
There
is
no
disease
except
for
dysentry
in
one
camp.
This
information
came
through
the
British
ministry
at
Chungking.
VANCOUVER
MILK
SHORTAGE
VANCOUVER
Vancouver
is
faring
the
possibility
of
a
milk
shortage
as
Eraser
Valley
farmers
demand
a
belter
return
for
their
product.
INVESTIGATE
ESCAPES
OTTAWA
Hon.
J.
L.
Ralston,
minister
of
national
defence,
announces
that
a
board
of
inquiry
will
Investigate
the
escape
of
two
more
German
prisoners
of
war
from
internment
camp
near
STATEMENT
ON
PLEBISCITE
OTTAWA
Prime
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King
said
last
night
that
he
would
make
a
statement
in
a
few
days
in
regard
to
NEW
TORY
LEADER
OTTAWA
Senator
C.
C,
Ballantyne
of
Montreal
has
been
appointed
Conservative
leader
In
the
Senate
succeeding
Rt.
lion.
Arthur
.Mclghen
who
resigned
recently
to
contest
a
bj
-election.
QUAL1CUM
INCORPORATED
VICTORIA
(luallcum
on
Vancouver
Island
has
been
incorporated
as
a
municipality
under
the
Village
Act.
"successfully
attacked"
by
Al-
lied
bombers
yesterday
but
no
details
were
given.
capturedl:.::::::.:
.iMrLuilNG
RESTRICTED
Particulars
Received
Here
of
New
JAP
MOVING
The
Japanese
the
recent
plebiscite.
Meantime-circumstances
will
bc
metiasnhey
along
tne
Burma
road
has
become
.
.
.
,
ii
r
1
I
mt
atlsc
so
serious
that
Generalissimo
Chi
;ang
Kai-Shek
has
gone
to
the
j
Yunnan
front
to
take
personal
command
of
his
armies
which
1
.
.
have
been
pusnea
up
tne
soiwin
River
for
a
distance
of
fifty
miles
towards
Chungking.
The
British
forces
are
also
in
retreat
and
some
have
been
evacuated
Into
India.
:
BRITISH
CRUISER
IS
LOST
ply
lane
to
Soviet
Russia
vas
an-'
nounced
todav
hv
t.h
Hminii
Federal
Order-ln-Council
ahirh
hi
.
Papua
.
Japs
are
trading
bomtw
and
Under
the
order
no
male
person
machine
gun
slugs
over
these
shall
enter
into
employment
in
Islands,
the
Australian
govern-
nnv
rnstrirtwl
fvcunnttnn
anrl
nn
ment
Is
u-nrfclnw
nut
'nnHis.i
R.A.F.
Smashes
Nazi
Industries
LONDON.
May
7
(Canadian
Press)
Royal
Air
Force
break-through
.
bombers
conUruicd
sma-shliig
attacRs
Qn
.inqustrierepqing
the.
German
war,
machlna,
nv
hammering
Stuttgart
for
the1
third
successive
night
and
roaring
into
France
again
to-
day
by
daylight.
Seven
of
the
night
raiders
are
missing,
the
Air
Ministry
said.
Docks
at
Nantes
were
also
bombed
dur-
Ing
the
night.
PROVINCIAL
LIBRARY
Local
Temperature
des
IBllhdard
Tune)
High
7:45
ajn.
17.2
feet
I.L.r.
,num
60
20:58
pjn.
18.0
feet
f.!lr-.:.um
43
Low
1:34
ajn.
8.6
feet
14:05
pjn.
55
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
I
-
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
MAY
7,
1942.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
r
rmsm
Is
Captured
By
British
JL
V
Tt
-
British
Fleet
Entering
Suarez
Harbor
Today;
French
Resistance
Was
Brief
Bloodshed
in
Battle
ir4
Prime
Minister
Tells
Parliament
of
Operations
Resulting
I
j
-j
;
In
Securing-Vital
Outpost
on
Indian
Ocean
M
C
'
,
LONDON,
May
7:
(CP)-Strong
British
land,
naval
iflOVe
OOUtn
l
an(l
air
forces
have
captured
Diego
Suarez,
naval
base,
anrl
surrounding
territory
on
the
north
tip
of
the
French
united
nations
head-
island
of
Madagascar
and
the
British
fleet
is
expected
-to
QUARTERS,
Li
AUSTRALIA,
enter
Suarez
Harhor
tnAav.
Primp
MinJcfo
Uli,.
May
7
(Canadian
Preso-In-
rhrh;il
Churchill
fM
told
tV,Q
the
u.,"
House
of
nl'"'Z".r:
.
creased
Japanese
naval
acti-
j
vity
in
waters
around
New
,
Britain,
presaging
perhaps
a
-Northern
Sea
Haiti
1
southward
thrust
azalnst
the
!
life-lines
of
this
invasion
threatened
continent,
was
an
nounced
here
today.
Japan-
ese
warships
are
reported
near
Bougainville
In
the
Solomon
Islands.
These
vessels
were
Commons.
The
operation
securing
me
vital
outpost
on
the
;
Indian
Ocean
from
Axis
encroach-'
ment
was
completed
at
the
cost
of
perhaps
more
than
a
thousand
men
in
overcoming
resistance
of
Vichy's
colonial
troops
and
seamen,
the
Prime
Minister
said.
French
naval
and
military
commanders
have
surrendered.
"We
.grieve
that
bloodshed
has
occur
red
between
troops
of
our
two
.
countries
wnose
peoples
at
neart
T
four
Mrrh?nl
V.l-
c.
i-1
...
.
.
..
v.....
,
,v.,
ttav
ounK
are
uniiea
against
tne
common
I
in
Kunning
Fight
On
Arctic
I
Convoy
Route
ILM.S.
I
Jaguar
Gone
I
foe."
Mr.
Churchill
told
the
House.
'disclosing
that
preparations
for
!
occupation
of
the
island
had
been
under
way
for
three
months.
London.
May
7:
oLoss
of
a
(Continued
on
Page
Four)
ten
thousand
ton
cruiser
launched
in
1939
and
four
convoyed
merch-
tsai
TTTaO
P
antmen
In
a
running
sea
fight
Kl
II
I
I
II
V
alonjr
the
storm-tossed
Arctic
mn.'
JlaL
X
JLVskJ
ARE
OUT
J
cent
of
the
convoy
got
through
Movement
Away
From
Party
In
ParttcuUys
.hva..beeii.
.received-
iafel
iff
spite
p!aHarsh&
Tnitcd-Klngdom
by
local
mjlltary
authorities
of
a
and
u-boat
attacks.
The
cost
of
.ecently
paised
order-in-council
the
attacks
to
the
Germans
was
LONDON.
May
7:-A
movement
vhlch
definitely
forbids
the
em-
one
destroyer
sunk,
another
dam-
away
from
party
has
become
not-;loyment
in
any
restricted
occu-
aged
severely,
at
least
two
dive
lceable
in
United
Kingdom
politics
nation
of
any
male
between
the
bombers
destroyed
and
others
per-
lately.
No
longer
are
Jeaders
of
the
ges
of
seventeen
and
forty-five
haps
crippled,
the
Admiralty
said.
Conservatives,
Liberal
or
Labor
who
has
cither
been
dischar-
not
The
Admiralty
also
announces
parties
in
par&sem
aetptog
to
ed
from
the
armed
forces
or
has
the
loss
of
the
1600-ton
submarine
form
opinion
a.
oatstendtag
is-leen
rejected
for
active
service.
Jaguart
n
details
to
fhe
mt
sues
in
tins
war.
Rattwr
do
they
Vu
j
.
.
r.
rTu
or
I0SS
or
dat
"S
8lT-
flnd
toeir
tmportaace
to
the
na-
f
the
order,
it
is
explained,
is
be
cause
of
the
growing
scarcity
of
nen
available
for
service
in
the
irmy
forces
and
for
employment
n
the
war
Industries.
This
means
Is
being
taken
to
restrict
the
entry
of
men
who
are
of
military
age
and
physically
fit
for
service
with
the
armed
forces
into
certain
oc
cupations
which
are
relatively
un
essential
or
can
be
satisfactorily
filled
by
women
,or
men
who
Ure
beyond
military
age
or
are
physically
unfit
for
service
with
the
armed
forces.
JOIN
UP
ISLANDS
Australia
Plans
To
Merge
And
New
Guinea
jtion
dependent
oa
what
they
are
doing
as
members
of
the
non-!
party
Churchill
cabinet.
unurcniu
rmnseu
does
not
owe
his
leadership
of
the
nation
to
any
support
from
the
Conservatives
of
whom
he
is
the
official
leader.
Sir
Stafford
Cripps
has
no
party
following
at
alL
Oliver
Lyt-
jUeton,
nominally
a
Conservative,
AN
ADVANCED
ALLIED
BASE
,
has
taken
no
rrt
to
politics.
The
IN
THE
SOUTH
PACIFIC,
May
7:
2f
Z
,
f
V
Even
while
the
Allies
and
ana
the'""
"
w"
Cl
i
All
k.
xa
cuaujr
oil
uuiaiuv
.
In
short,
the
war
cabinet
which
began
as
a
carefully
balanced
structure
expressing
the
strength
person
shall
take
any
male
person
and
geographical
merger
which
of
e,fira,1
K"0
J
Parliament,
into
employment
Into
any
restric-
will
combine
Papua
with
north.,
now
relies
fw
ite
main
support
on
nxmanunn
nn!
aueh
malp
pm
npt
r.iiino,
is-
.men
whose
allegiance
to
party
IS
.VI.
.'f..
-
-
v
H...VU
u
Hi;
dUi'
I
nprsnn
has
obtained
written
Der-
roundlncr
Islanris
nnw
nmi
Kt,
.
0
"
mission
from
the
national
selec-
Jans
for
thplr
Kncps
'e1(,ht
isngnt.
tivc
service
officer.
'
The
fact
that
the
Japs
are
In
Lae
and
Salamaua
In
northern
New
Guinea
and
Rabaul
in
New:
'either
non-existent
or
at
most
Caused
Angry
Protest
True,
Churchill
stirred
up
a
somewhat
angry
protest
wh"n,
at
I
Britain,
makes
no
difference
ln,the
Pnual
mtl?g
f.
tUc.
Con
I
the
Australian
plans
and
Rabaul
servatlve
party
(which
at
one
!nas
designated
the
derided
hU
f01""13
j
H""
llirr,.
mm
t
as
future
INTO
THIN
A
caPltal
of
the
ncw
terrl-llers
5f?U
111
1
KJ
llllllii
ho
lory.
The
officer
commanding
the,Lur
1!ader
NipiHincsc
Break-Through
Along
Burma
Continues
Reaches
Chcfang
CHUNGKINO.
May
7
A
Japan-1
1
esc
mechanized
spearhead
with
I
warplane
support
has
swept
twen-!
ty-five
miles
along
the
Burma'
road
into
Chinese
territory
and
i
reached
the
town
of
Chelang
j
j
where
very
heavy
fighting
is
in,
man
said
today.
Allied
forces
here
is
also
at
the
moment
filling
the
functions
of
governor
of
the
whole
shooilng
,
match.
the
whole
story
has
been
told,
it
will
be
said
or
the
Conservative
party
in
parliament
and
throughout
the
land
that
they
strove
fot
peace
too
long
but
when
war
came
they
proved
themselves
the
main
,
'
pal
Ml
bAlC
U.l
Wl.ll.ll
lllv.
Q
vation
or
Britain
was
louncen
ana
the
freedom
of
mankind
regain."
RED
ARMY
ATTACKING
MOSCOW,
May
7:
-The
Red
Army,
attacking
across
'bogs
on
the
Leningrad
front,
Was
reported
today
to
have
driven
a
wedgo
between
two
German
forces
and
encircled
one
Nazi
detachment
in
an
important
sector
wesS
of
the
long-besieged
city.
It
was
also
reported
that
the
Red
Navy
ships
had
sunk
a
5,000-ton
Axis-transport
In
Barents
Sea.