r
lanuifun
mar
nave
ifccii
luiuir
lot
tur
iivininiiviiii
Bulgarian
train
which
in
tf
n
persons
being
killed
thirty
wounded.
APPROVES
BLOCKADE
khimjiuv
rresiueni
I),
Iloosvelt
approves
Iritish
blockade
of
France.
engineers
have
been
en-to
Investigate
the
possi-
Columbla
Includlnr
site
and
nnn
1
1
ftn
ii
r
mim
ivy
irif
Ast!itnf
and
W.
Lloyd
111
V
1
Tl.
-
....
1
.
l.
Da.
i
a
i
i
ii
cs
it
tint
ahnnrmal
rlprlnrr
C
G(
Tower,
minister
of
i
-v
i
a
vi
ii
i
ciikiii"
under
command
of
Major
1.
North,
well
known
Northern
vuiuiuuia
iiiiiuii
man
SHirS
FOK
BRITAIN
t
'""omnuiuft
No
decision
'
fl'spatch
of
naval
and
mcrch-
r
ntfMffi
1
i
.
.t
j..Miiuaj,
uiiiiuiiKU
inner
equipment
in
already
under
President
Franklin
I).
--.v..
oivt
iiitti
lucre
wus
iiiv
mpoH
i
ti
l
n
v
A....
i
.
...
.
'uinriciaii
vessels,
now
un-
seizure
in
this
.count
rv.
mav
rMloJ
At.
m
1
lor
me
use
01
urcai
OCIrlnH..
II
1
Lanvbly's
House
Ward
Building
-"s
io
be
on
Mm
o
Of
R
ln.,,1.1
..
....
.
HouseA
r
v
ui
m,.
negotlaitea
rni
u
"
;
dence
of
Hubert
Ward
WW.
Avenue.
Woatvlotir
Vins
r
ward
si
.
.
ue
rZ
r5sldence
011
Slxth
Av"
?ltet
occupied
by
C.
W.
1
11
"ls
Vln'
aue
from
the
East
nri.
"r
was
reported
thla
IV.
"
I
British
Forces
In
Greece
Hundred
Thousand!
perial
Soldiers
To!
id
Greek
Resistance
ation
in
Balkans
at
Standstill
New
Snag
in
Negoti
ations
Between
l
upoblavia
and
Germany-Turkey's
Reply
to
Hitler
BELGRADE,
March
15:
-(CP)
Nearly
one
hundred
sand
soldiers
Irom
Ureat
Britain
s
Imperial
forces
shiploads
ot
war
material,
enough
lor
five
divirj-ons,
landed
at
five
Greek
mainland
ports,
it
was
reliablv
rted
today.
These
troops
would
reinforce
the
Greeks
liild
they
be
called
upon
to
resist
a
German
invasion.
1
1
ft
tI
.1
.
.
.
!
that,
II
uermany
ana
naiy
the
war,
India
will
have
noinr
III
wicw
ui
m;
auua-
in
the
Balkans.
that
rtrlllsh
intelligence
xne
general
situation
In
the
Bal-
1.
.
..
I
..
-.1111
.
I
.
,
nana
la
sun,
apparently,
at
a
siana-B
still.
Negotiations
between
Ger-
Wn
II
X.
m,
m
many
and
YuB081avla
are
reported
l
iiii6iiris
to
have
u
a
new
51148
and
the
visit
mj
UUWIlll
of
the
Premier
and
foreign
mtnis-jj
ter
of
Yugoslavia
to
Germany
to
.comer
wun
aqoii
inner
nas
oeen
I
indefinitely
postponed.
President
Inonu
of
Turkey
has
.sent
a
personal
message
to
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
of
Germany
in
reply
to
Hitler's
overtures
for
Tur-Ikey
to
break
her
alliance
with
Great
Britain,
guarantee
of
Turkish
Integrity
and
a
slice
of
Syria
being
held
out
as
bait.
President
Inonu's
personal
envoy
carryl.is
I
the
answer
to
Hitler
Is
said
to
be
n
Sofia,
Bulgaria.
speakTto
I
LABORITES
Government's
Labor
Policies
Essential
War
Effort,
Says
Premier
King
j
OTTAWA.
March
15:
(CP
Prlm
Minteter-Wdlliam
Lvon
Mac-kenzle
Kirfg
told
a
delegation
of
'
!?
Trades
and
Labor
"Congress
of
.Canada
yesterday
that
any
persons.
Including
ministers
of
the
crown,
who
failed
to
do
ths
utmost
itorensure
carrying
.rat
of
the
government's
labor
policies
are
"not
helping
the
government
in
its
war
cffbrW1'
TODAY'S
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(Court;
S.
D.
Johnston
Co.)
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.04.
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2.35.
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.70.
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J21.
.
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.02.
Mosher,
.04.
,;
,
Oklend.
.03.
Smelters
Gold,
.01.
Dominion
Undgt
25.00.
I
Vol.
XXX.,
No.
63.
.iniri
nhovfi
the
crowd,
be
Wuiln
Canadian
Press
News
Man
,
Describes
Convoy
Attack-Six
Out
Of
100
Ships
Sunk
ny
SAM
ROnCRTSON,
Canadian
Press
Staff
Vriter
OTTAWA,
March
15:
(CP)
German
submarines
waylaid
a
great
convoy
with
which
li
recently
crossed
the
North
Atlantic
and
sank
at
least
four
ships
and,
possibly,
six.
It
was
impossible
to
learn
how
many
seamen
were
survivors
as
other
ships,
numbering
one
hundred,
renuired
to
hurry
on
lest
they
too
fall
victim.
Two
attacks
were
made
one
at
midnight,
the
other
at
5
o'clock
in
the
morning.
'
The
passengers
took
the
ordeal
calmly
although
required
to
stand
at
emergency
stations
'through
iong
dark
hours.
"Jusl
Plain
Communist
Was
Tom
Mann;
Revolutionary
Fighter
For
Sixty
Years
AT..nn
4in
fliprl
this
wppk
was
the
veteran
lead-
Airdrome
800
tans
of
equipment
and
'b'
materials
ffW
mTVOtTUCtlOn
OI
mimiti.
demonstrators,
his
arms
.
.
lc,
-troviirnr
frmn
Ed-..
...
.
1
U.iU
MUablf
vw"
-
flag
of
revolution
billowing
behind
"I
am
a
communist,"
h?
would
boast.
"I
am
not
a
socialist
or
a
syndicalist.
None-
of
tho?e
fancy
'names
for
me.
Just
a
plain
communist
that's
me!"
Mann
was
also
fond
of
saying:
'"Revolution
is
the
only
way."
Yet
'with
his
snow-white
hair,
his
rosy
I
cheeks,
twinkling
eyes
and
heavy
.physique,
he
looked
more
like
a
'klnd-hoarted
counltry
physiciap
ithan
a
relentless
enemy
of
the
established
order.
Born
April
15,
1856,
ne
Dcgan
work
at
the
age
of
nine
as
a
farmer's
boy
near
his
birthplace,
Foleshlll
in
Warwickshire.
At
eleven
he
went
down
into
the
mines
and'
later
carted
slag
on
the
pit
bank
for
three
years.
Seven
years
as
an
engineer
ini
Birmingham
followed,
and
in
1877
he
went
to
London
and
began
an
association
with
',
the
trades
union
movement.
Later
he
was
barred
from
that
movement
'and
on
September
4,
1028,
was
forcibly
ejected
from
a
Traaes
Union
congress
nit
Swansea,
Wales.
He
stood
as
parliamentary
can
Uie
rCQ
.
.
t
to
Vnnnvnror
Vancouver
QTlH
and
tl
didate
four
times
but
never
suo-
world-wide
travels,
which
included
several
visits
to
the
United
States,
enabled
him
to
reach
a
far
wider
public.
His
first
experience
of
America
was
in
1883
when
he
reached
New
York
in
time
to
witness
the
opening
of
the
Brooklyn
Bridge..
He
iivpri
fnr
a
time
In
a
Delanccy
Street
clubhouse1,
working
nearby
'as
a
machinist,
but
soon
returned
t
...
11...
to
England
and
worKea
ior
wu?
Iwestinghouse
Brake
Company
at
I
King's
Cross,
London.
His
next
visit
to
America,
was
in
(1913,
On
this
trip
he
addressed
an
1
1.
W,
W.
meeting
in
New
York,
attended
an
ironworkers',
convention
in
Pittsburgh
and
lectured
in
Boston,
Los
Angeles,
Son
Diego,
Salt
monton
to
Alaska,
the
Air
Ministry
dls-
closed
today.
One
new
air-
dpr'-ne
is
to
be
at
Smithers
within
operating
range
of
Prince
George
and
coast
points.
San
Diego
Feels
Earthquake
But
No
Damage
Done
iLake
City
and
a
number
of
other'
cities.
Admitted
By
Terkins
He
was
barred
from
the
United
States
in
1919
when
America
was
Goldman.
Alex-
ortT.
TivM-trm-iri
jind
other
I.
W.
W.
British
U.lUrW
leaders
who
had
obstructed
the
(world
war
or
ait
laws,
ivmm
iumm.
iori
n
mlnln-cf
an
nportunifcy
.
,,
..
,
frf
In
19331
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITffiH
COLUMbJ
A'B
NEW8PAPEB
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
MARCH
15,
1941.
-4
x
nT
i
iTniiTr
IN
AFRICA
British
Still
Moving:
On
Addis
Ababa
Tripoli
Heavily
Bombed
CAIRO,
March
15:
The
British'
are
still
making
rapid
progress
in
!
their
march
upon
Addis
Ababa,
thc
.
capital
of
Ethiopia.
j
The
Royal
Air
Force
yesterday
bembed
Tripoli
hmvlly.
Large
f
lre3
were
started
In
enzxty
warehouses
and
supply
docks.
i
JAPAN
HAS
!
ONEPARTY
Nippon
To
Be
Put
On
Totalitarian
Basis
Under
Prince
Konoye
TOKYO,
March
i5:
A
new
poll-'
Ileal
parly,
to
be
the
only
legal
one
in
the
country,
is
being
formed
n
Jar
an.
It
w'll
bz
similar
to
the
Fascists,
of
Italy
and
the
Nazis
of
Derm
any
and
is
intended
to
put
the
country
on
a
totalitarian
basis
canv
o
Ihe
mandates
of
Premier
Prince
Konoye.
er
of
the
Communist
movement
in
Great
Britain.
He
was
tjITr1
a
revolutionary
fighter
since
the
early
80s.
In
his
tern-
ntTliANlZCi
,
.
u
.n
rinnnvtod
frntn
flprmnnv.
France,
viivifiiiiiiu
nesiUOUS
career
nv
wao
uvjiuhw
-tf
T
-
-
,
Belgium
and
Ireland
and
barred
from
the
United
States.
.
p
jujp
A
rM
He
was
jailed
in
Australia
and
Germany
in
his
younger
Vim!
AlulX
yeaw
and.
at
the
age
m
m
most
leaders
are
content
to
muse
on
social
and
political
strife,
he
n
n
T.ririnmlall.
.
WCIIV
I"
nw.
,
.
-
welcome
guest
on
several
He
was
a
trips
to
the
Soviet
Union
and
in
1927
visited
China
to
advise
and
encourage
communists
of
the
Far
,
.
.
.
fVlo
the
,.f
last
M,nn
Mann
remahied
remained
Right
g
to
i
J
S"
tator.
.
Almost
every
May
Day
saw
1
v,im
in
Tendon
addressing
com
Smithers
Enthusiasm
"Marks
4
tir
c
:
-
uveal
Livc
rur
innr
services
w
-
4
An
enthusiastic
and
overflowing
.meeting
of
approximately
sixty
,
.
.ons
l3ai..nijh;,
undw
the
lead-
tiKbip
of
Coionsl
J.
W.
Nkrholls.
offhiers
and
an
executive
.
-i-'-tOted
rvrriWA
Maroli
,e
IS-
(CP)
s.
.
.....
w
j
haniia
lh3
I
or
incoming
anve
t
tft
ns
moving
tato
and
a
l-
f
Canadian
War
Services
n
speaser
ana
with
fiery
open-air
Canadian
Northwest
-PllriJs
The
officers
tiected
were
as
fol
ows:
.
President,
Col
J.
W.
Nlcholls.
.
Vice-President,
H.
A.
Breen.
.
Secretary,
Allan
M.
Da
vies.
Treasurer.
Fred
Conrad.
Executive
Mrs.
W.
Rothwell
Need
Of
Water
Spurred
Fight
Troops
Had
To
Win
Sldi
Barrard
In
Five
Days,
Com
mentator
Says
.
,..
..1
VoW
tViat!
.
,
...
I
nraalre
T.fYNTXYN
MajCh
15l
(CP)
ito
air
nis
ixery
vio
wtc
""-"iwnen
ne
pinnneu
v.
.
'
,
.
.
,.,,.
i
...
r,..!
.
..
,rn.j
p.4,
nri
no-whpn
frpnpral
Archibald
WavellS
Mtiftlnnnt
ji'ssemblv.
But
his
ttour
01
uie
uiuuL-u
ok
"-7
.
,
..,,.
in
Tnndnri
refused
ito
visa
his
pass-1
Dnuianii
oxivt?
wiruumi
port,
but
representations
to
Fron-'into
Libya,
it
was
Imperative
that
kes
Perkins,
uiutea
ataLes
secret.oiui
xuiuiu
-
arv
of
labor,
resulted
in
the
grant
of
a
15-day
permit.
On
his
return
to
laigiana,
Mann
said
said
that
that
the
the
American
American
Federation
ieaerauon
!days
because
the
.troops
had
only
enough
water
to
last
that
long.
This
was
disclosed
in
a
war
com
ii
.
v.
rinn
TJ
T
fVilllns
.mejivr
uy
-
of
Labor
was
"hopelessly
reaction-
wno
saia
uie
wiiuj
I
.
1
x
,
i.
19
v.r'
lrrt
nun
nrvi
inave
oeen.
un
n
anuia
v..;
...
.
,
V.w
mrt
He
.first
became
a
member
of
the
r
oeen
requireu
w
"'c
i-
-
itt-t
4.,
mfli?
T
n
W
"W
thout
water
no
man
wuiu
iiuvr
Tomorrow's
Tides
High
3:06
am.
22.8
ft.
15:35
p.m.
20.9
ft.
Low
9:31
am.
2.1
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p.m.
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ft.
PRICE:
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a
a
War
5
a
tHWWKKHKHKHiaiWlMtJI
HEAD
OFF
INVASION
LONDON
British
sources
disclosed
today
that
the
latest
attacks
on
Germany
are
defence
tactics
based
partly
on
suspicions
that
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler's
Balkan
movements
may
mask
an
intended
attempt
at
invasion
of
Britain,
MORE
NAZI
PLANES
DOWN
LONDON
The
German
Luftwaffe
made
new
attacks
on
the
British
Isles
today.
London
had
its
520th
air
raid
alarm
of
the
war
at
2
o'clock
this
afternoon.
This
morning
the
city
had
had
a
half-hour
alarm.
During
the
night
Glasgow,
over
which
hundreds
of
enemy
planes
again
came,
Leeds,
Plymouth,
Sheffield,
Southampton
and
the
Tilbury
Docks
of
London
were
subjected
to
bombing
attack.
The
German
raiders
last
night
in
small
groups,
apparently
in
the
came
over
at
first
singly
or
effort
lo
avoid
the
increased
effectiveness
ot
the
British
night
defensive
measures
including
the
new
Bow
plane
fighters,
heavy
anti-aircraft
barrage
and
the
new
secret
devices.
Later
the
tempo
and
scale
increased.
New
defensive
measures
minimized
the
damaging
efects
of
the
bombers
again
last
night
and
at
least
five
of
the
enemy
planes
were
brought
down,
making
a
total
of
thirty-seven
for
the
past
four
nights.
The
Nails
covered
of
th
British
Isles.
sections
a
widespread
area
over
many
GREEKS
STILL
WINNING
ATHENS
The
Greeks
are
not
only
beating
off
the
violent
Italian
assault,
backed
up
by
heavy
artillery
and
aerial
action,
on
the
Albanian
front
but
have
made
important
local
gains.
In
repulsing
the
Fascist
attacks,
the
Greeks
have
inflicted
heavy
losses
on
the
enemy.
Eight
Italian
planes
were
shot
down
today
and
other
damaged
over
Klisura
with
loss
of
two
Rdyal
Air
Force
machines.
NORWEGIAN
SHIP
SUNK
VANCOUVER
The
Norwegian
freighter
Benjamin
Franklin,
well
known
at
Pacific
Coast
ports,
is
reported,
to
have
been
torpedoed
and
sunk
off
the
English
coast.
.
.The
vessel
had
a
xargo..ofjomljers,
.and,
foodstuffs
lor
Great
Britain.
COMMANDS
BATTLE
OF
ATLANTIC
LONDON
Admiral
Sir
Percy
Noble
has
been
appointed
commander-in-chief
of
the
battle
fleet
in
the
western
approaches
to
Great
Britain.
As
such
he
will
direct
the
"Battle
of
the
Atlantic."
Before
the
war
Admiral
Noble
was
in
command
oi
China
Station.
COMMITTEES
'GERMANY
ARE
NAMED,
ATTACKED
(Canadian
Lrgion
Women's
Auxi-
.
,
,
,
liary),
Mrs.
J
A.
Teng
(Imperial
Hospital
Board
In
Monthly
Session
Very
Successful
Raids
Carried
Order
Daughters
of
-the
Empire),
New
Members
Welcomed
.
Out
Over
Wide
Area
By
British
of
Colum-
General
Business
Air
Force
C.
P.
Balagno
(Knights
:
bus),
Capt.
Ivan
Halsey
(Salvation
j
Jrmy)
and
N.
F.
McEwen
(Youns
8tandmg
committees
for
the'
LONDON,
March
15:
(CP)
In
Men's
Christian
Association).
of
piince
Rupert
General'
spite
of
less
favorable
weather,
Ways
and
means
of
raising
the
Hnsnltal
w6re
announced
last
night
1
industrial
centres
of
Gelsenkir-
.
quota
allotted
to
Prince
Rupert
fnlinws
bv
President
Frank
Dibb
chen
chen
and
and
Duesseldorf
Duesseldorf
in
in
wester
western
were
discussed
and
many
promis-
t
regular
monthly
meeting
of
,'ng
suggestions
will
be
dealt
with
,..
h
M.
in
due
course
by
the
publicity
,
FlnanceArnoid
naten,
chair-
manager.
ftt,
n
a.
Borland
and
N.
A
There
will
be
a
dinner
on
Mon-
-w
..
.
Watt,
,
day
at
the
Commodore
Cafe
on
a.
,c
A
a
stent
SAN
DIEGO,
March
15:
rnl
nf
Van-
1.1.
.
l-
nV.nrtl'
nrae
rrrripn
....
...
learwiquane
011
couver,
who
is
in
charge
01
uie
I
here
at
9:39
last
nitfht.
There
was
mrjn,
Brltlsh
Columbia.,
will
no
damage.
speak,
House
Dr.
R.
G.
Large,
chairman,
R
E.
Benson,
J.
S.
Irvine
and
Mrs.
S.
A.
Kielback.
Executive
O.
P.
Tinker,
chalr-
and
D.
G.
Borland
Grounds
D.
G.
Borland,
chair
man,
R
E.
Benson
and
W.
O.
Ful-1
ton.
New
.members
of
the
board
in
the
persons
of
J.
S.
Irvine
and
Mrs.
Kielback
were
welcomed
at
last
night's
meeting.
Mr.
Irvine;
was
elected
to
the
board
at
the
re-
mit
annual
general
meeting.
Mrs.
Kielback
is
.the
newly
appointed
representative
ot
the
Women's
Auxiliary
on
the
board.
Present
at
last
night's
meeting
were
Frank
Ditio,
cnairman.
Ar
nold
Flaten,
D;
G.
Borland,
J.
S.
Irvine.
Dr.
R.
G.
Large
and
Mrs.
S.
A.
Kielback,
directors;
Miss
Margaret
Jamleson
R.N..
lady
sup
erintendent,
and
H.
W.
Birch,
man
aging
secretary.
The
financial
report
for
showed
disbursements
of
r
$5297.76
with
hospital
days
total
was
first
secretary
i
doui
we
vmiim
-
-
uhb
ling
1588.
moo.
m
jvwj
London
Reform
Union
and
the
Na-'"Jn
fact,
witnout
me
em
w
"iments
amounted
to
$5190.10
l,
,
rn,d
ti.it
Mow
who
manaEredi
somehow
to
I
.
.
iiouui
ucjiiutniut
"cbuc,
,
-
-
.
.
there
were
loiv
nospnai
nays
th
nrrantetinnss
were
not
suf-
land
scores
ana
wiouiua
m
flciently
"advanced"
for
him.
In,
Ions
of
water
at
Saloum,
I
dont
his
late
years
he
was
honorary
I
think
it
could
have
been
done,
chairman
of
th
National
Minority
Other
than
what
(the
British
Movement,
which
JS
the
British
iwere
amo
u
cuuio
.v
bureau
of
the
"Red
International
(advance
.uier
wua
uo
w.v.
of
Labor
Unlons"-an
organization
between
Mersa
Matruh
and
Bardia,
The
house
committee
was
em
powered
to
act
respecting
add!
and
replace
"
-
rtlonal
x-ray
qulpment
mpnts.
Donation
of
six
new
air
mattresses
by
the
Women's
Auxlll
ary
was
ordered
acknowledged.
Germany
were
main
targets
of
British
raids
last
night,
it
was
announced
today.
A
very
effective
attack
was
also
made
on
Rotterdam
oil
tanks
while
shipping,
airdromes
and
docks
were
attacked
over
a
wide
area.
The
whole
invasion
coast
from
man,
W,
O.
Fulton,
Arnold
Flaten
j
Norway
to
Brest
was
also
at
tacked
with
good
results.
Only
two
British
planes
were
lost.
In
a
dusk-to-dawn
assault
raiders
poured
bombs
on
the
Clydeside
district
of
Glasgow
and
also
attacked
other
points.
At
least
five
German
planes
were
brought
down.
.
Hockey
Scores
Pacific
Coast
League
Spokane
7,
Seattle
3.
WeatKer
Forecasi
General
Synopsis
Light
showers
have
occurred
on
the
north
coast
while
elsewhere
tho
weather
has
been
part
cloudy
and
mild.
West
Coast
of
Vancouver
Island.
Light
variable
winds,
cloudy
and
,
mild
becoming
part
cloudy,
In
February
disburse-.
wLia&tnd
Hnnrp
htiniprr.
TLiin
will
Queen
f'lL
i
.11.1
and
TiinA
T.ltrnf.
vnrlabl
winds.
part
cloudy
and
mild.
YOUNG
CHILD
DIES
Mercy
Innes.
one
year
and
nine
month
old
dauehter
of
Mr.
and
IVlQ.
WMW
IUUU
UVV
jvwt.tMwj
afternoon!.
She!
was
bom
W
Klt-wanga,
.
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v