Government
Decides
To
in
y
T1
I
For
families
Of
Men
Anil
Air
Force
,
Nov.
15:
P
Before
of
Parliament
yes-H
::
J
L.
IWey.
minister
.
;
nnounced
that
allow-tamllles
of
men
serving
.
itiv
and
air
lone
would
.tsed
to
embraoe
a
third
,.
c
a
monin
ana
a
iounn
i
$B
together
wth
increase
c"r
$;
tor
single
men
and
$10
to
Ec;-:'ind
men
in
First
Great
H'i,
v
:
:-::
allowances
In
ccr-
PATTULLO'S
STATEMENT
Dtclares
That
No
Party
Had
Man
"
date
for
Coalition
and
He
Has
Right
to
Carry
On.
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.....
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15:
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ONLY
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in
HovpI.
i
South
Africa,
however,
0111UVQ
IIU'V
"
UVVtl
vMb
and
the
Middle
rlca
en,ing
Plan
and
the
exploits
of
their
in
the
last
flock-
iorefathers
war,
known
killed
and
60
,
ed
to
Join
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
;
wV,i.h'more
inan
bu.uuu
ty
that
she
had
to
be
Gibraltar.
This
claim
cations
in
less
than
a
monins.
In
Forefront
antlcl-
Weather
Forecast
Tomorrow
sT
ides
p.
.it:D
Rupert
and
Queen.
Char-i;;lands
She
Light
south
winds,
High
-.11:04
ajn.
21.7
ft.
cloudy
and
mild
with
wide-C
ca,
23:44
pjn.
20.1
ft.
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apered
showers.
Low
...
4:45
am.
6.1
ft.
17:31
p.m.
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ft.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
NO
267.
vox
4.
so
S
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER
15,
1941.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
WE?
Are
Stopping
Germans
ALLOWANCES
INCREASED
Domini""
Do
Beurr
BRITISH
ARMY'S
MEDICAL
CORPS
IN
ACTION
A
-casualty"
is
ahown
being
floated
across
a
river
on
an
unu
....
-
.
..
Medical
Corps
during
manoeuvres
in
the
southeastern
command
area
recently,
stretcher
is
lashed.
DOMINIONS
SWELL
EMPIRE
FINAL
IN
;5;
O'Neill,
16.
.l.o
u..
cuiuu.,auaun
-..i;tu
,
tfu-
Royai
Army
Buuydacy
is
given
by
empty
oii
cans
to
which
the
FORCES;
SEA,
LAND,
SKIES
ELECTION
in
a
statement
to-
that
not
one
of
the
British
LlOIl's
Whelps
Have
Added
More
Than
1,210,090
Kcnney,
Liberal,
Had
Majority
of
tLt?
par.ics
in
the
legislature
Mi
a
mandate
from
the
people
....
and
added
that
"the
;::;:!
:cd
us
as
we
are
and
1
c.
:
f
x,)ect
us
to
carry
or.
period,
r.'-'f.ed
with
the
largest
ui-'.mucd
.rnk
I
have
e
Men
to
Fighting
Services
Canada
Has
490,000
Men
Under
Arms.
By
FOSTER
BARCLAY
Canadian
Press
Staff
Writer
rw
nnfTinv
,
1rni
n
v
r
n
"
i
'
-
.
r.srr
in
the
house
under
Clu-Cltu
nu
tui,
n
n
uj
cokiinakcu
una
uiuiu
nun
j
conditions."
1
1,240,000
men
haa
been
placed
in
uniform
by
Canaoa,
uson
for
changes
in
Australia,
New
Zealand
and
South
,
-
:ment
in
the
legislature
Africa.
Since
then
the
ranks
have
Pacific,
while
more
than
2,000
air-;r
it
officious
and
pow-
been
swelled
by
volunteer
enlist-
men
are
serving
with
the
R.A.F.
i'v
interests
wish
to
rnent
and
compulsory
service.
Both
Pacific
Dominions
are
par-
'ir
own
purposes.'
Canada,
it
is
estimated
here,
has
wcipawag
in
uie
air
naming
pmu
490,000
men
under
arms,
undergo-
and
a
steady
flow
of
partly-training
training,
in
its
home
defence
ed
men
have
crossed
the
Pacillc
forces
or
filling
other
essential
for
advanced
training
in
Canada
roles.
Australia
has
400,000,
New
before
journeying
to
Britain.
In
Zealand
200,000
and
South
Africa
addition
Australia
has
contracted
isnnnn
to
train
Although
the
majority
have
been
'by
March,
1942,
and
10,000
a
year
337
Over
O'Neill,
Conserva
tive,
in
Skeena.
SMITHERS,
Nov.
15:
(Special
to
Dally
News)
The
official
count
LONDON,
Nov.
15:
(CP)-The
British
dominions.
"LJZJr1?
the
premier,1
Starting
almost
from
scratch,
have
enrolled
a
formidable
jcenney,
Liberal,
877
votes
and
v.
the
right
to
force
of
warriors
to
bolster
Britain's
armed
mifrht
and!
J.
O'Neill,
conservatove.
540.
"...
"WraUon
of
the
two
u
d
th
:
shores
from
attack.
When
the
war
I
?
soldiers'
vaUfews
Kennefc.
The
absentee
vote
was:
Kenney,
59:
O'Neill,
22.
Rejected
ballots
totalled
62.
The
majority
for
Kennedy
is
337.
Parliament
Adjourned
OTTAWA,
Nov.
15:
W
The
House
of
Commons
adjourned
last
night
after
a
two-week
.J.
:
f
thJDatinir
that
the
Union
sooner
on
sitting
to
January
21
when
.r,..ii
Dominions,
..v,...v,
...ttv.
with
the
Royal
later
later
would
would
require
require
all
all
her
her
flying
flying.
it
it
will
will
be
be
with
a
v
which,
prorogued
a
i
m
r,
Ihi.
Mii.
n.r
Dersonnel
in
Africa
did
not
be-!
new
session
opening
the
next
Nov.
15:
-The
Ad-
'
northern
France
come
a
partner
of
the
plan,
but
day.
over
..unccd
tonight
that,
.ZLiy
L
boae-
Thel
My
one
death
among
SA.A.T.,
which
comprised
one
vaunted
air
force
m
meets
.
v
1000
men
aboard.
,h.e
urrier
Ark
Royal,
tor-
"
h",;war
started,
numbers
22,000,many
Canadians,
spurred
by
the
sunk
in
the
Medtter-
-five
miles
east
first
it
had
been
Eager
17,,
a
.called
up
for
compulsory
service,
British
Commonwealth
Air
Train-
Z
East.
Z
f
'ncrmanervt
troops,
garrisoned
bat-
Armies
and
Navies
Ia.
I.
F.
In
training
or
awaiting
Enlistment
in
the
Dominions
aispat:n
overseas.
J
Bp--
::,
it
was
stated
today
Force
which
skyrocketed
from
a
armie6
and
navlos
has
progressed!
:'
lhi
Ark
Royal
was
sunk
by
'strength
of
about
4,000
in
1939
to
b
Jea
and
bounds
as
armored.'
01
au
tiiao"-
anj
italions,
the
Home
Guard
and
the
Southern
Forces
mechanized
divisions
werel
New
Zealand,
like
Australia,
has
!
formed:
Infantry
divisions
en-
a
strong
expeditionary
force,
in-:
ilarged
and
new
ships
were
added
'eluding
a
battalion
of
natives.
Thousands
of
airmen
graduates
'tn
f0rc.
fichtlnc
alongside
Britain
in
the
by
the
German
High
'of
the
training
plan,
have
reach-1!
Canada,
where
enlistment
for
Middle
East.
This
force,
which
ex-!
ed
Britain
in
increasing
numuus
.overseas
service
is
on
a
voiumary
.ceeds
35,uou
men,
is
Doisiereo.
oy
since
the
first
batch
sailed
irom
Canada
last
November.
Now
attached
to
operational
R.C.A.F.
or
R.A.F.
squadrons
they
are
in
the
forefront
of
daring
daylight
and
night
raids
over
enemy
territory
fiCis.
or
flying
fast
fighters
In
sweeps
across
the
channel.
Available
figures
from
Australia,
Nfr
Zealand
and
BOUUl
urica
sitlons
in
the
Pacific
ana
soum-ern
'
Atlantic.
Thp
R.A.A.F.,
which
numbered
5,400
men
In
peace
time,
now
totals
nearly
16,000,
including
reservists.
Since
war
started
the
force
has
grown
from
21
to
102
units
in
Australia
while
a
number
of
squadrons
have
been
dispatched
overseas,
roost
of
them
to
the
Middle
East,
hosts,
strength
of
the
active
force
more
than
100,000
men
manning
has
bounded
up
from
4,500
men
the
Island's
defences
or
under-
to
about
220,000
and
the
navy
going
training.
from
3,600
men
and
thirteen
ships
i
Personnel
of
New
Zealand
navy
to
23,000
men
with
about
250
ves-!has
almost
trebled
since
war
was1
More
than
30,000
applications
.men
In
the
Australian
Imperial
,
force
composed
composed
of
of
volunteers
volunteers
for
for
the
the
s
u
u-
monivPrt
monivprt
received
for
for
ior
ciub
enlistment
enlistment
,
Force,
Force,
,
'
,
declared
while
Australia
s
total
is!
More
than
100,000
soldiers,
in-
almost
four
times
higher.
More
eluding
a
tank
brigade
and
a
for-
Jihan
4,000
are
serving
In
the
R.
N.
:
estry
corps,
have
been
stationed.
z.
N.
which
includes
two
cruisers,
in
vital
positions
in
Britain,
n
other
vessels
as
well
as
a
large
portrays
similar
expansion.
Their
ready
to
repel
invasion
or
form
.number
of
motor
boats.
In
Aus-
airmen
have
fought
triumphantly
the
spearhead
of
a
continental
of-
jtralla
at
least
20,000
sailors
are
against
overwhelming
odds
in
thejfensive.
Others
have
been
dis-
manning
six
cruisers,
five
destroy-Mlddlc
East
and
East
Africa
oripatched
to
Gibraltar,
West
Indies
ers
and
smaller
craft.
.
v,nvo
Koon
stntiotied
in
vital
po-.and
Newfoundland.
I
South
Africa's
army
comprised
itu
v
hsvv,
-"
-
The
Armv
Reserve,
liable
lor
barelv
a
handful
oi
men
before
service
at
home,
totals
more
than
the
war.
The
army
has
been
built.
170,000
volunteers.
In
addition
the'iup
from
a
nucleus
of
fewer
than'
government
has
been
calling
up
120,000
men,
including
a
small
per-
men
at
the
rate
of
10,000
a
month
Imanent
force
attested
for
honuv
for
four
months
compulsory
mill-
defence.
Within
12
months
the
I
tary
training,
after
which
'
Ihey
Union
has
raised
an
army
of
100,-wlll
be
retained
on
the
strength
000
volunteers
and
despatched
field
!
of
the
army
reserve
for
service
in
forces
to
East
and
North
Africa.
Canada.
Soon
after
war
started,
the
At
least
90,000
of
the
200,000
1
Union
created
a
seaward
defence
which
has
been
protecting
sea
route
ana
pons
oi
boutn
u
have
been
mviripd
aht.
1
onn
in
the
R.N.Z.A.F.,
than
before
the
war.
ntimps
creaiti
,
fiitu
vi-w
.
.
...
.....Vm
f
-
Fnllv
train-1
UDya,
ureeee,
ureic
ana
oyrui.
memoers
w.
uie
ouuui
nuusui
ui-
unAN
ennfr.
"
I
.
.
.
.
r
1
!
1
r
.1
T1
XT
7
D
t
A
ir,
Mn-
Tne
name
aeience
iorce.
namuer-
.vision
ui
me
i.
oci-
ed
units
the
mc
228,000.
consists
of
militia,
vice
with
the
Royal
Navy.
laya,
straicnic
-
;
Bulletins
NAZIS
OVER
ENGLAND
LONUON
There
was
light
aerial
raiuing
activity
by
the
enemy
over
southwest
England
during
the
night.
A
few
bomhs
uce
dropped,
causing
superficial
damage.
No
one
was
hurt.
IIOrES
FOR
PEACE
SAN
FRANCISCO
"Japan
holds
hope
for
peace
in
the
Pacific
Otherwise
I
would
hot
be
here,"
declared
Siburu
Kurusu,
special
envoy
from
Tokyo,
on
his
arrival
here
yesterday
by
clipper
plane
enroute
to
Washing-Ion
to
hold
conference
with
President
Tranklin
I).
Roosevelt
in
regard
to
United
States-Japanese
relations.
SAFE
AT
BAKU
LONDON
It
was
officially
announced
in
London
last
night
that
the
plane
carrying
Maxim
Litvinoff,
Lawrence
Steinhardt
and
Sir
Walter
Monkton,
which
had
been
missing
on
a
flight
from
Kuibyshev,
Russia,
to
Teheran,
Iran,
was
safe
at
the
port
of
Baku
on
the
Caspian
Sea.
MILLION
DOLLAR
DAMAGE
LOS
ANGELES
Damage
as
a
result
of
the
earthquake
which
shook
the
suburbs
of
Los
Angeles
yesterday
is
placed
at
$1,-000,000.
It
was
the
most
severe
'quake
which
had
been
experienced
in
eight
yeais.
KILLED
IN
WRECK
VANCOUVER
Engineer
and
fireman
were
killed
when
a
Kettle
Talley
train
hit
a
rockslide
near
Romeo
in
the
Coquihalla
Pass
yesterday.
The
engine
left
the
track
and
plunged
200
feet
down
an
embankment.
CANADIANS
IN
RUSSIA
LONDON
Canadian
troops
paid
their
first
visit
to
Russia,
it
has
been
disclosed,
when
they
accompanied
a
party
of
Russian
repatriates
from
Spitzbergcn
to
Archangel.
CAPTURE
ETHIOPIAN
HILL
LONDON
British
forces
have
captured
a
hill
in
Ethiopia,
thirteen
miles
from
Gondor,
from
Italian
defenders.
WITHDRAWAL
OF
MARINES
WASHINGTON
Officers
and
men
numbering
907
are
affected
by
the
withdrawal
of
United
States
marines
from
Shanghai,
Tientsin
and
Tciping.
Weather
Forecast
Nazis
Nulii
Offensive
Being
ied
Everywhere
Excepting
In
Crimea
Enemy
Bogging
Down
as
Soviet
Counter-Attacks
Cain
Steadily
in
Force
Story
Is
Same
Along
Entire
Front.
KUIBYSHEV,
Nov.
15:
(CP)-The
Red
Army
lias
nullmed
tne
German
offensive
everywhere
on
the
vast
battlefront
save
Crimea,
a
Russian
spokesman
declared
today.
Only
on
that
side
door
approach
to
the
Caucasus
is
the
Red
Army's
position
regarded
as
serious.
Else-where
in
sector
after
sector
along
the
whole
front
the
CANADIANS
TO
ORIENT
In
September
this
year
there
had
been
121
admissions
to
the
hospital,
seventeen
babies
had
been
born,
147
patients
had
been
,
discharged
and
there
were
six
deaths.
Hospital
days
for
September
numbered
1810.
HOSPITAL
FINANCES
Hospital
expenditures
for
the
month
of
October
totalled
$6,391,28
.with
capital
expenditure
of
$23.81,
it
was
reported
at
the
regular
General
synopsis
A
disturbance
monthly
mej'ting
of
the
hospital!
off
the
Oregon
coast
is
approach-
board
last
night
by
Arnold
Flaten.
'
tacks
were
gaining
steadily
In
force
with
the
Nazi
assault
either
blunted
or
bogged
down.
Thousands
of
Germans
and
Italians
have
been
slain
in
the
Donets
basin.
The
Soviet
also
claims
vic-
May
Be
Dispatcncd
Across
Pacific
tories
over
the
German
and
Fin-
to
Defend
Hong
Kong
and
Other
Bases.
LONDON,
Nov.
15:
(P
The
possibility
of
Canadian
forces
being
sent
to
the
Orient
was
raised
today
by
the
Daily
Telegraph
which
said
it
was
understood
the
Dominion
was
"planning
to
play
a
part
in
defending
Hong
Kong
and
other
bases."
There
was
no
comment
in
official
quarters,
however.
A
policy
of
sending
troops
direct
from
Canada
rather
than
from
the
camps
in
England
will,
it
is
expected,
be
followed.
There
would
be
advantage
to
he
gained
in
decentralizing
the
strong
forces
of
the
Dominion
already
well
organized
for
duty
in
or
from
Britain.
HOSPITAL-
ISBUSY
New
Records
Set
For
Number
Of
Admissions
And
Births
As
Well
As
Hospital
Days
The
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital
has
been
breaking
records
for
numbers
of
patients
treated,
babies
born
and
hospital
days,
according
to
a
report
presented
to
the
board
at
its
regular
monthly
meeting
last
evening
by
the
lady
superintendent,
Miss
Margaret
Jamieson
R.
N.
Miss
Jamieson
reported
average
admissions
per
month
over
a
number
of
years
as
follows:
1941135.7.
1940110.
1939
98.
1938
95.
1937
90.
1936
84.5.
nish
forces
in
the
Leningrad
area
while
the
German
offensive
towards
Moscow
has
been
definitely
stemmed.
Fifteen
consecutive
waves
of
Nazi
tanks
were
smashed
back
in
the
battle
around
Tula,
where
the
Germans
were
turned
back
everywhere,
leaving
the
ground
covered
with
corpses.
Twenty
villages
around
Kalinin
are
claimed
to
have
been
recaptured
by
the
Reds.
Trie
Soviet
army
Is
pushing
right
through
the
main
besieging
forces
of
the
enemy
west
of
Leningrad.
Four
German
transports
are
reported
to
have
been
sunk
by
Russian
naval
forces
in
as
many
days
in
the
Baltic
Sea.
All
that
Berlin
claims
is
further
advances
in
gaining
ground
towards
Kerch
and
Sebastapol
in
the
Crimea.
There
have
also
been
air
attacks
on
Moscow
and
Complaint
Made
By
Local
Union
Dry
Dock
Management
Is,
Charged
With
Refusing
to
Deal
With
Labor
Council.
The
Prince
Rupert
Labor
Council
issued
a
statement
yesterday
asserting
that
the
management
of
the
local
dry
dock
had
refused
to
deal
with
the
business
agent
or
duly
elected
Union
committees
as
required
by
federal
order-ln-coun-cil.
As
a
consequence
of
this
attitude,
the
minister
of
labor
at
Ottawa
is
being
communicated
with
in
regard
to
the
matter.
Tel-
Thls
October
admtoslons
totalled
ams
have
already
changed
nas
ocpen
tne
union
ana
me
babies
born-the
127
and
24
were
latter
being
the
greatest
number
mMster.
of
births
for
any
single
month
in
the
history
of
the
hospital.
Hospital
days
in
October,
totalling
1879,
constituted
a
record.
On
one
day
In
October
there
had
been
seventy-five
patients
in
the
hospital,
every
bed
being
filled.
i
Up
to
October
23
this
year
there
had
been
more
patients
admitted
BOYS
ARE
SHOT
NOW
to
the
hospital
than
in
all
of
1940.
Germans
Continuing
Their
Re-
prisal
Executions
In
Serbia
Another
Battle
With
Snipers
LONDON,
Nov.
15:
The
Yugoslav
government
In
London
declared
today
that
In
the
past
two
weeks
2300
Yugoslav
civilians,
including
school
boys,
had
been
shot
by
German
forces
of
occupa
tion
ait
Kragujevac
in
reprisal
for
the
killing
of
twenty-six
German
soldiers.
One
hundred
and
three
Serbian
snipers
have
been,
killed
and
two
lng
southern
Vancouver
Island,
chairman
of
the
finance
commit-
.hundred
taken
prisoner
In
another
Cloudiness
has
been
variable
and
tee.
There
were
1879
hospital
days
j
battle
with
German
occupational
moderate
showers
have
occurred,
at
a
cot
per
hospital
day
of
$3.40.
(forces.
,
t