Weather
Forecast
prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Char-lotte
Islands-Light
westerly
winds,
dear
and
mild,
becoming
part
cloudy
with
many
local
fog
patches.
SARDINIA
ATTACKED
LONDON
Admiralty
announced
today
that
British
naval
units
had
bombarded
ports
of
the
Italian
island
of
Sardinia
Friday,
scoring
hits
on
hangars
and
buildings.
Destroyers
carried
out
the
attack,
entering
the
roadstead
of
Alghero
and
the
harbor
of
Porto
Conte
early
in
the
morning
and
shelling
the
sea-plane
slipway
and
hangars.
.
NORWAY
SITUATION
STOCKHOLM
Stockholm
newspapers
report
that
a
state
of
ciiil
siege
already
is
being
put
into
effect
in
Norway
but
Berlin
denies
this,
announcing
instead
that
Reich's
Commissioner
Ter-boven
merely
has
been
authorized
to
decree
such
a
state
of
siege.
A
stale
of
civil
siege
is
declared'
to
be
more
effective
than
a
military
state
of
siege.
Berlin
said
the
move
was
precautionary
and
will
affect
virtually
all
occupied
countries.
It
was
said
to
be
a
legal
step
taken
because
recent
events
have
brought
the
whole
problem
to
a
"decisive
phase
In
Norway."
There
have
been
repeated
stories
out
of
Norway
telling
of
civilian
objection
and
sometimes
defiance
of
the
German
occupiers.
A
crowd
in
Ale-sund
reportedly
tangled
with
German
marines
who
were
called
on
to
guard
Norwegian
hostages.
The
hostages
were
taken
after
previous
disorders
had
developed
in
the
city
which
jeopardized
the
German
controL
HAD
WEATHER
HOLDS
R.A.F.
LONDON
Unfavorable
weather
held
the
Royal
Air
Force
inactive
overnight
after
a
week-end
of
smashing
blows
at
Germany
and
occupied
France
ending
Sunday
night
with
the
blast
ing
of
Hanover,
Frankfort
and
Calais.
The
heavy
offensive
of
1
1
-1
.
.
.1
Urn
n.ili
it-i
1
1.
ra
msci
1
M
1
rlf
tn
nrlin
Saturday
night.
Thoughout
Sunday
night
the
noise
'of
big
explosives
and
lights
from
fires
in
occupied
France
were
heard
and
seen
from
the
English
coast.
NEW
GERMAN
DRIVE
MOSCOW
A
new
sector
on
the
long
front
of
the
Russo-
Gtrman
war
has
been
opened
by
a
German
drive
between
Smol
ensk
and
Leningrad
but
the
Russians
are
still
holding
up
the
Germans
generally,
it
was
indicated
today.
Another,
mass
air
attack
by
the
Nazis
on
Moscow
last
night
was
driven
off.
There
la
no
specific
statement
from
Russian
authorities
as
to
the
situ-
tain
i-nif-ri3
v
mat
tiahl
hv
i.prmnn
arm
minrarian
irniim
in
111c
greatest
week-end
of
progress
claimed
by
the
Germans
on
the
eastern
front
h
hem
throurhthe
rlneninr
rrain
fields
of
the
southern
Ukraine
below
the
provincial
capital
of
Kiev,
the
German
crediting
their
armies
with
valuable
gains
all
along
the
line.
The
Russians
do
not
deny
the
possibility
of
the
loss
of
Kiev.
BRITISH
AT
TOIJRUK
CAIRO
Offensive
patrols
are
being
continued
by
the
out
of
Tobruk
in
Libya.
GERMAN
CLAIMS
BERLIN
German
sources
claim
that
1607
British
planes
were
brought
down
between
January
1
and
July
31.
Ilnrnair
I.Anainl
J
Police
Head
nmrtn
Mnnr
a
-
T
kkace.
August
5:
Terrace
by
two
distinguished
the
meetlns
on
Wednesday.
:e
were
Attorney
General
Qor-
wismer
and
Police
Commls-'
er
T
W
F.
Parsons,
who
ad-
5SCd
the
Lr-elnn
'ng
Che
dcslrnhlllt.v
nf
nrirnn-
'5
a
Civilian
Protection
Commlt-
fhe
Drlnclnnl
hnctnixo
nf
Vo
r
f-
HMwamiud
V
VilV
of
building
an
armv
hut
in
Ifracp
"
After
a
good
deal
of
consldcra-
r.
.ummissloncr
Kirkaldy
sub-pd
a
motion
to
appoint
a
com-3lpe
to
g0
into
the
subject.
This
W
agreed
to.
A
committee
of
five
V
named
h
n.n.u..i
g
win
report
to
the
next
meet
resolution
was
forwarded
to
Provincial
rw.,
IQ
in
V9nn....
.
.
.
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.tugUOl,
I,
UC"
ndlrlg
COmnUU
uiii
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iiiuiixrrir
ttUU
manpower.
B,
1
the
conclusion
of
Ui
h,i.
J
vi
w'"icnta
were
serv-
viitors
joined
In..
DRY
DOCK
She
IS
WINNER
Beats
Steel
Workers
In
Softball
Grotto
Defeats
Stones
Italian
I
I
That
High
Command
Claims
British
Undersea
Craft
Was
Broken
In
Two
ROME,
August
5:
U
The
Italian
Hieh
Command
claimed
vasterdav
that
a
British
submarine,
rammed
continue
.
.
.
vi
-
II
a
ay
an
Italian
torpedo
boat
in
the
Mediterranean,
had
broken
in
two
and
ninety-one
passengers
were
picked
up
and
made
prisoner.
Singapore
Reinforced
t
8INOAPORE,
Aug.
5:
Q
Large
numbers
of
.British
and
Indian
troops,
Including
Royal
Air
Force
personnel,
have
reached
Singapore,
it
was
of-
4;
ficlally
announced
today.
VISIT
TO
BRISBANE!
Two
United
States
Heavy
Cruisers
Are
at
Present
in
Australian
Port
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Aug.
5:
0
The
DeDarment
of
the
Navy
an-
nounced
today
that
two
United
.States
heavy
,uUepBNorthamp-jton
and
Salt
Lake
City
have
(.arrived
in
Brisbane,
Australia,
on
,what
was
described
In
the
formal
announcement
as
being
a
training
cruise.
KEEPING
UP
TIGHT
RACE
Brooklyn
Dodgers
are
Now
But
One
Game
Behind
St.
Louis
Cardinals
In
National
League
BROOKLYN,
Aug.
5:
O)
Brooklyn
defeated
New
York
Giants
by
a
score
of
11
to
6
here
yesterday
and
moved
up
to
within
one
game
of
the
idle
St.
Louis
Cardinals
In
a
hectic
late
season
pennant
dash
which
Walte
Hoyt
said
yesterday
would
continue
to
be
a
fight
to
the
very
finish
between
the
two
clubs.
In
the
second
National
League
game
vrstrrdav
Pittsbure
Pirates
and
Cincinnati
Reds,
who
are
battling
:
neck
and
neck
for
third
place,
play
ed
to
a
four
to
one
score
In
favor
of
Pittsburg
which
Is
now
one
game
ahead.
In
the
American
League
the
New
;
York
Yankees,
wno
are
cuasuiig
'hnm
with
t.h
nennant
and
are
softbaU
now
merely
practising
for
the
World
In
the
City
League
games
last
night
Dry
Dock
defeated
Steel
Workers
6
to
5
while,
in
tho
secona
fixture,
Grotto
beat
Stone's
Cloth-
Iprs
7
fn
2.
The
winners
of
the
latter
game
outhlt
the
losers
8
to
2.
The
score
stood
tie
2
to
2
until
the
beginning
of
the
fifth
Inning
when
the
tobacconists
got
a
couple
more
to
hrenW
the
deadlock.
They
also
came
back
In
the
seventh
to
net
three
more
while
they
held
their
opponents
scoreless
from
the
fourth
in
ning
on.
naileries
ior
uiy
in.
Johnstone
and
Warner,
lor
faicei
Workers
Fitch
and
Brooks.
For
stnnps
Schroder
and
BrooRs
was
the
battery
and
Grotto
Kellet
and
Murray.
Umnlres
for
the
evening
were
Howe
and
Wlndle
In
the
first
game
and
Astoria
and
Wilmont
in
the
second
game.
COAL
SHORTAGE
DUBLIN,
August
5:
Reductions
in
are
tiasseneer
train
ser
vices
have
been
made
owing
to
ft
shortage
of
coal.
Series,
downed
the
cellar-dwelling
Washington
Senators
7
to
5.
In
the
second
American
League
game
of
the
day
Boston
squeezed
out
a
7
to
6
victory
over
Philadelphia.
The
league
standings
to
date:
ADRIFT
51
DAYS
IJ.ANDYMIL.
Wales.
August
5:
O)
Seamen
Evan
Owen
Griffiths
of
this
town
and
three
companions
hnv
returned
to
Great
Britain
al
ter
surviving
51
days
at
sea
In
an
boat.
Onlv
a
lew
biscuits
and
rain
water
were
avaiiaDie
u
Keep
the
men
alive
after
their
ship
sank.
Mr.
nn'ri
tars.
Robert
S.
Grelg
and
family
are
expected
to
arrive
In
the
city
on
the
Prince
George
tomorrow
morning
from
Vancouver.
Mr.
Grelg
is
to
be
the
new
city
passen-
crer
ncent
here
for
Canadian
Na
tional
Railways
In
succession
to
Wllllarh
Cruickshank
who,
is
going
to
Reglna
as
travelling
passenger
agent;
leaving,
it
is
expected,
next
Mondayi
Bulletins
THAILAND
WARNED
TOKYO
There
Is
no
official
announcement
as
yet
that
Japan
has
made
demands
upon
Thailand
for
bases
but
newspapers
to
hint
broadly
that
Thailand
should
come
to
terms
with
Japan
along
lines
similar
to
the
agreement
with
French
Indo-Chinal
Meantime,
it
is
authoritatively
reported
that
Japanese
forces
are
continuing
to
pour
into
Saigon,
the
capital
of
French
Indo-China
despite
Japanese
statements
that
the!
occupation
has
been
successfully
completed
and
that
no
new
troops
are
being
landed.
WAGE
DEMAND
REJECTED
CHICAGO
Demands
of
United
States
railroad
unions
for
wage
increases
were
rejected
today
by
representatives
of
rail
VANCOUVER
PASSED
UP
SEATTLE
iN.Y.K.
today
can-celled
a
scheduled
Vancouver
call
for
the
motorship
Heian
Maru,
indicating
a
quick
dash
home
to
Japan
after
seven
longshore
crews
have
discharged
cargo
including
a
million
dollars
worth
of
silk,
B.
C.
consignments
also
are
being
unloaded
here.
U.S.
SILK
INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON
The
nation's
silk
hosiery
mills
have
closed
doors
on
thelri$259,,006lndus-.
try
In
obedience
to
the
tovern-ment
order
that
they
cease
production
at
midnight.
Some
175,-000
or
njore
silk
workers
meanwhile
look
to
the
federal
government
to
provide
them
the
means
of
support.
It
is
possible
most
of
them
will
be
diverted
to
work
in
defence
industry
manufacture
of
existing
silk
stocks
Into
parachutes
or
other
defence
items,
thus
the
effect
of
economic
warfare
in
the
Pacific
was
brought
to
Americans
with
stunning
force
and
suddenness.
Last
night
the
OP
M
issued
a
stop
order
against,
silk
pan
which
provides
raw
silk
for
this
country
will
cease.
PROTECTION
OF
BRAZIL
'
WASHINGTON
The
United
States
government
is
reported
to
have
asked
Brazil
to
assume
responsibility
for
protection
of
the
Azores
in
the
event
of
any
threat
of
their
falling
to
Axis
hands.
AMERICANS
STRANDED
SAN
FRANCISCO
United
States
liners,
now
in
the
naval
service,
may
be
sent
to
Japan
to
bring
back
American
citizens
who
are
stranded
there
following
the
cancellation
of
Japanese
ship
sailings
to
America.
Hundreds
of
Americans
are
so
stranded.
The
only
service
between
the
countries
now
Is
by
United
States
clipper
planes.
PLAN
NOVEL
HOMES
CANBERRA.
August
5:
O)
Hex
agonal
houses,
with
concrete
dome
roofs,
designed
as
a
combined
home
and
bomb-proof
shelter;
are
i
being'
considered
here.
THE
OTHER
MAN
LONDON,
August
5:
05
Heard
in
Tottenham
Police
Court:
"The
only
other
man
In
the
house
was
my
trousered
daughter."
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPEE
i
LINE
UP
IS
I.
if
COMPLETED
Romt,
Berlin
And
Tokyo
On
On
I
Side
And
London.
Washington
And
Moscow
On
Other,
Says
t
Mussolini
I
ROME.
August
5;
Oi
Premier
Benito
Mussolini,
in
a
speech
made
public
yesterday,
told
Itallantroops
'leaving
for
the
Russian
ffont
last
'week
that
"the
line-up
Is.
now
complete
with
Rome,
Berlin
and
Tokyo
on
one
side
and
London,
,
Washington
and
Moscow
on
the
other
for
a
clash
between
two
worlds.''
German
Sub
Is
Captured
LONDON,
Aug
5:
Cfc
Sur-
render
nf
a
Oerman
submarine
contest
In
connection
event
to
be
staged
here
two
weeks
hence.
The
candidates
are
as
Gyro
Club
May
Skinner,
'
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce
Phllomena
Murray.
Women's
Service
Corps
Lillian
I
Jones.
,
Naval
Women's
Auxiliary
Nancy
Bremner.
PAYING
GUEST
!
LONDON,
August
5:
CP)
Albert
Smith,
workman
at
Woolwich
Ar-
con
a
i
ufae
sentence1
to
spend
a
month
(n
orison
here
recently,
.Convicted
on
a
charge
of
begging,
he
was
told
by
the
Judge
that
he
must
bear
the
cost
of
his
appre
henslon.
conveyance
and
malnten
ance
In
prison.
OUT
OF
THE
PAST
SOUTHAMPTOI,
Eng.,
August
5:
A
postcard
sent
from
Russia
March
17.
1902.
has
lust
been
de
livered
at
Manor
Farm,
Herrlard,
hire.
It
bore
stamps
of
the
T
.
.
.
I
Czarlst
regime
and
the
postmartc
Is
St.
Petersburg.
The
body
of
5am
Buzza,
who
succumbed
to
a
heart
attack;
at
hhe
end
of
the
week
aboard
the
fisheries
patrol
vessel
Kltimaat
of
which
he
was
cook,
was
taken
yes
terday
afternoon
on
the
Prince
Rupert
for
Victoria
for
Interment.
The
widow
lives
in
Victoria.
7.
The
Vancouver
tenderers
are
Marwell
Construction
Co.,
Bennett
&
White,
Northern
Construction
Co.
and
J.
W.
Stewart.
E.
J.
Ryan
Contracting
Co.,
Smith
Bros
and
Wilson.
Mitchell
&
Currle
Ltd
are
the
Prince
Rupert
tenderers.
The
work
will
Include
buildings,
roads,
J
walks,
sewers,
waterworks,
etc.
Halibut
Sales
American
Portloek,
37,000,
Booth,
12.7c
and
11.6c.
Blanco,
22.000,
Storage,
14.2c
and
11.5c.
Spray,
25,000,
Atlin,
12.2c
and
11.8c.
Edgecumbe,
14,500,
Storage,
13.1c
and
11.9c.
Nova
Laughs
At
Doubters
Says
His
Cosmic
Funch
may
Mean
Something
Against
Louis
HOLEB.
Me..
August
:
0
Drlll-
lne
on
an
island
In
Holeb
Lake
for
his
SeDtember
fight
with
Joe
Louis,
Lou
Nova
says
he
is
Just
periecung
his
cosmic
punch
with
which
ne
(hopes
to
dethrone
the
Brown
Bomber.
"People
may
think
there
s
no
sense
in
my
cosmic
punching,"
he
says,'
"but
there
certainly
is.
I
hit
Max
Baer
with
it
and
his
stiffen
ing
was
proof
enough
for
me
that
I
have
something.
"Mv
cosmic
nunchinz
calls
for
an
exclusive
timing.
I
haven't
perfect
ed
It
to
the
extent
of
throwing
it
without
first
thinking
out
the
tim
ing.
That's
why
In
my
last
fight
I
had
to
slow
down
my
target
so
that
I
could
figure
the
thing
out."
MORE
STATE
BEER
CARLISLE.
Eng..
August
5:
PO
The
government
took
over
a
brew
ery
and
public
houses
In
this
area
in
the
First
Great
War
because
oi
excessive
drink.
The
brewery
and
licensed
trade
are
still
state-
owned
and
now
supplies
are
to
be
increased
to
provide
sufficient
drink
for
evacuees.
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SHANGHAI
A
minor
clash
of
Japanese
and
Soviet
border
troops
occurred
two
weeks
ago
near
Manchull,
Lieut.
Col.
Kunio
Akikama,
spokesman
for
Japanese
forces
in
China,
said
today.
Manchuli
is
Just
inside
extreme
western
Manchoukuo
on
the
railway
to
Siberia.
Oklyama's
disclosure
came
as
Japan
was
reporting
moving
forces
northward
to
reinforce
troops
alone
the
Siberian
frontier.
SUBMARINE
DESTROYED
m
Germans
Endeavouring
To
Encircle
Kiev
and
Take
Ukraine's
Heart
Red
Arrtiv
Farine
Renewed
Offensive
With
Continued
Tenacity
Nazis
Claim
to
Have
Broken
Through
STALIN
CONFIDENT
LONDON,
August
5.
Back
from
a
visit
to
Moscow,
Harry
Hopkins,
director
of
the
United
States
"lease-lend"
scheme,
is
said
to
have
made
a
favorable
report
to
Prime
Minister
Winston
Churchill
on
the
Russian
Military
situation.
.He
reports
that
Premier
Joseph
Stalin
is
confident
of
Russia's
abolity
to
repulse
the
third
German
offensive.
LONDON,
August
5;
(CP)
Fierce
Russian
has
forced
the
German
army
to
abandon
temporary
ttnpks
in
the
Smolensk
sector
of
the
eastern
SSSSl.nt,
authoritative
quarters
said
today.
Slackening
of
the
united
states
destroyer
activity
in
this
sector,
however,
it
was
said
had
been
ac-Hunt,
one
of
the
fifty
Ameri-
companied
by
a
renewal
of
fighting
in
the
Leningrad
can
destroyers
transierrea
io
i
secvor
ana
on
me
piains
01
wie
uit-
Brltain
last
'
Septemberi
was
disclosed
today
with
the
an
nouncement
that
decorations
had
been
awarded
to
officers
and
members
of
the
crew.
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SUEZ
H
AS
BIG
RAID
processing
to
conserve
the
supply
of
raw
silk
for
the
armed
forces.
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order
will
result
in
the
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o
mills
and
warehouses
1T
PAIUTrCT
preparatory
to
a
possible
requl-
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Sltioning
Dy
ine
army
aim
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-
which
thereby
would
gain
a
two-
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randldaieS
are
now
entered
year
supply
of
sii
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in(the
civic
Centre
Carnival
Queen
oowder.bacs
and
other
defence
I
!
,
.
.,
with
.V
the
y.
big
necessities.
The
order
doubtless
was
taken
In
preparation
for
the
possibility
that
all
trade
with
Ja-
N'lnetv
Persons
Killed
and
108
In-
j
jured,
According
to
Cairo
Communique
I
CAIRO.
Aug.
51
Ninety
per
sons
were
killed
and
106
injured
in
kan
Axis
air
raid
on
the.
Suez
canai
irea
last
night,
an
official
Egyptian
communique-
said
today,
The
Germans
cjaim
that
two
Brl-.Uch
merchant
vessels
yers
sunk"
and
badly
damaged
In
raids
on
.Suea.
tiSIX
FIRMS
TENDERING
ralne
where
the
Germans
are
trying
to
envelop
Kiev.
The
Red
Army,
battling
with
continued
tenacity,
faced
a
renewed.
offensive
nn
both
sides
of
Kiev
to-
Iday.
A
Soviet
communique
said
the
Five
Vancouver
Contracting
Firms
Germans
again
attacked
through
and
One
in
Prince
Rupert
Would
I"
nigm
in
uie
vu
iwiu,
Build
Houses
jeighty
miles
northwest
of
Kiev,
and
Belsterkov,
barely
fifty
miles
to'
1
Five
Vancouver
and
one
Prince
I
the
squtQ,
.
.
,-y
.-..itt-
i,rj"ftmir.
At
Berlin
the
German
high
com--
KUpert
connatmig
iuuu
ci.v
(.
-
...
.
.
j
u.o-i.
lne
on
the
Wartime
Housing
Limit-
"1U
through
In
the
Russian
lines
In
a
'den
on
which
will
close
on
August'
surprise
thrust
sixty
miles
south-
east
of
Smolensk
and
annihilation
of
the
allegedly
encircled
Red
Army
forces
In
the
Ukraine
for
the
defence
of
Kiev.
DIRECT
AID
F0RRUSSIA
This
Is
What
British
Air
Attacks
on
Klrkenes
and
Petsamo
Meant
LONDON,
August
5.
British
planes,
In
heavily
attacking
Fin
land's
northern
port
of
Petsamo
and
the
Arctic
Norwegian
port
of
Klrkenes,
carried
out
the
first
Bri
tish
military
operation
In
direct
support
of
Russia's
fight
against
Germany,
Reliable
sources
regard
ed
the
attack
as
directed
chiefly
neainst
German
use
of
the
Finnish
port
to
supply
operations
against
the
Russian
port
of
Murmansk
Mercury
Property
Shipping
Steadily
Traffic
Through-
Vanderhoof
in
Connection
With
Pinchl
Lake
Mine
VANDERHOOF,
Aug.
5.
The
Consolidated
Mining
&
Smelting
Co.
has:
received
two
carloads
of
machinery
during
the
past
week
for
delivery
from
Vanderhoof
to
the
Pinchl
Lake
mercury
property
near
Fort
St.
James.
Another
carload
of
mercury
was
shipped
East
during
tho
week.
WAR-WINNER
AT
85
CAPE
TOWN,
August
5:
O)
William
Scott.
85,
of
Mafetong,
Basutoland,
who
was
awarded
the
O.
V.
E.
In
a
recent
honors
list
for
charitable
and
patriotic
services
has
donated
another
1,000
for
aircraft.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Thomas
Mavo.
after
a
brief
visit
to
tho
city,
sailed
by
the
Prince
George
Saturday
evening
for
Vancouver,
Mr.
Mayo
had
been
here
oh
business
for
Bennett
St
White
contracting;
firm.