ENCIRCLED;
EVACUATED
Japanese
Forces
Have
Effected
Landing
at
Hong
Hon
fien-cial
Wavell
Not
Discouraged
New
Philippine
Attack.
I
iNDON,
Dec.
19:
Tokyo
::ied
last
night
and.
later
i
was
confirmed
here,
that
Jap-;::r:s
forces
had
effected
a
land-m
hard-pressed
Hong
Kong
s
n
British
military
quarters
v
lready
admitted
can
hard-w
expected
to
hold
out
in
view
oi
ne
supply
situation.
Ms
unwhile
In
Malaya,
the
hold
of
Penang,
second
only
importance
to
Singapore
north
.
cnich
it
lies
three
hundred,
c
.
is
admitted
to
be
surround-.
n
r.he
Japanese
and
it
would
;y:ir
quite
likely
that
it
has
been
ta-
For
i50
ycbrs
Penang
has
dc
:
a
British
possession.
oi
:':ral
Sir
Archibald
Vavcll
is
I
.
-i
o
discouraged
about
the
sit-
i
ii
in
southeast
Asia.
The
i
i:
a:r-se
are
still
a
long
way
from
.
uunlng
Malaya,
he
declares,
measures
are
well
in
hand
to
vt
the
situation
there.
A
large
ot
Indian
troops
has
Just
...
-,z
!
to
protect
the
Burma
road.
New
Philippine
Attack
i
the
Philippines
the
Japanese
,-.
-lay
switched
their
air
at-k
from
Luzon
to
Panay
Island,
v
planes"
Dombing
IISAo.
an
c;oortant
Industrial
city.
No
ef-,
is
being
made
by
the
Japa-to
extend
their
land
cam-i:r
on
Luzon.
Today
there
was
,
:
avy
air
raid
on
Manila
Bay
i
.ivj;
base.
a
last
the
United
States
navy
M
ir,
tn
be
swlnelng
into
ac-
:.
report
being
last
night
that
u
-d
State
submarines,
had
:ik
a
Japanese
transport
and
dt
-rcyers.
It
is
believed
that
a
i.uvu;
blockade
of
Japan
will
be
aved
In
order
to
cut
off
sup-p.:i
.
of
raw
materials,
and
food
as
:n
u,
prevent
transport
of
troops.
Women
Officers
For
Lip
Reading
Federation
Appoints
Committee
to
Help
Afflicted
Service
Men.
WINNIPEG,
Dec.
19:
Oi
A
com-trsi'
with
the
Dominion
tee
to
co-operate
rehabilitation,
boatd.
in
a:
..-ainn
returned
members
of
the
armed
forces
whose
hearing
has
be!-,,
impaired,
was
appointed
by
iht-
Canadian
Federation
of
Llp-R'adlng,
at
ta
annual
meeting
hero,
when.
Mrs.
George
H.
Stew-an
was
elected
president,
Mrs.
U.
p
c-v.ni
r,rt
miss
E.
Ot.
Turnock,
c
rptary
and
treasurer.
All
three
om.-ers
arc
from
Winnipeg.
A
general
report
on
the
work
of
the
federation
was
given
by
Mrs.
M.
A
Mi-.Queen,
retiring
president,
ai.n
reports
were
submitted
by
the
issues
In
Victoria,
Vancouver,
sary.
Regina,
Winnipeg,
Toronto.
Windsor,
Ont.,
Ottaw.t
end
Montreal.
'
HOOF
FALLS
ON
AGED
INDIAN
NEW
HAZELTON,
Dec
19:
An
oid
Kisplox
Indian
was
sitting
In
recently
when
thf
roof
collapsed
under
weight
of
snow
and
fell
on
him.
HI
WP
anH
Knot-
uroro
tninred
and
he
lay
Mpless
for
several
hours
until
another
Indian
found
him.
He
Was
rpmnvnH
in
fhp
Hazelton
Hos
pital
where
he
will
be
a
patient
for
some
time.
CUPID
IN
LAND
ARMY
LONDON,
Dec.
19:
0
Lord
Olentoran.
minister
of
agriculture,
told
the
Northern
Ireland
House
oi
Commons
that
every
one
of
the
im
group
of
land
girls
signed
up
la
Ulster
had
married.
Lord
jerby
at
Queen's
Fund
Canteen
Lord
De
a
Qi
a
.
Canac.an
F
A
;:te.-a
The
tea
car
was
handed
over
by
Lord
Derby
to
Lady
Brcnghton
(at
left
In
above
picture.
Commandant
of
the
North
Wert
Division
of
the
Mechanised
Transport
Corps.
The
Transport
Corps
will
operate
the
canteen
for
the
Lord
Mayors
Fund.
Cars
purchased
from
money
sent
over
by
the
Queen's
Canadian
Fund
arc
in
operation
throughout
the
United
Kingdom.
This
is
but
a
smfll
part
of
'.he
work
among
raid
victims
made
possible
by
H
e
Q
re's
Crist',
n
Fund.
War
News
IN
SOUTH
ASIA
LONDON
A
Biitish
military
commentator
today
confirmed
that
Japanese
forces
had
effected
a
landing
at
three
points
in
Hong
Kong.
Heavy
fighting
was
raging
and
the
position
of
Canadian,
British
and
Indian
defenders
was
described
as
serious.
Tokyo
boasted
that
almost
half
the
city
was
already
in
Japanese
hands
and
that
Jardine's
Hill,
mounting
to
an
elevation
of
1400
feet
in
the
centre
of
the
island,
had
been
captured
in
two
and
a
half
hours.
Following
the
surrounding
of
Penang
and
Wellesley
Province
by
the
Japanese
forces,
a
quiet
night
was
reported
on
the
Malayan
reninsula
as
the
enemy,
apparently,
slowed
down
to
rest
themselves
after
their
fierce
eleven-day
drive
which
cost
them
heavily
in
casualties.
The
United
States
naval
base
at
Manila
took
a
pounding
today
from
a
seiies
of
Japanese
air
raids
after
which
a
long
column
of
smoke
was
seen
rising
Dutch
planes
attacked
a
Japanese
force
which
had
landed
on
Sarawak,
North
Borneo,
setting
a
cruiser
afire
as
well.
RUSSIA
VS.
GERMANY
MOSCOW
From
the
Karelian
Isthmus
on
the
north
to
the
Black
Sea
on
the
south
the
Germans
are
on
the
run
before
the
"mountains
of
war
materials"
are
Red
Army.
"Piles
of
dead"
and
being
left
by
the
Nazis
in
their
headlong
retreat
over
frozen
fields.
Important
cities
have
fallen
back
into
Russian
hands.
West
cf
Moscow
138
villages
were
recaptured
by
the
Russians
yesteiday
alone
120
in
the
Tula
area,
200
miles
south
of
Moscow
and
eighteen
in
the
Kalinin
sector.
200
miles
northwest
of
the
Soviet
capital.
BATTLE
OF
LIBYA
'
destruction"
for
General
of
"surrender
or
CAIRO
It
is
a
case
Erich'
Rommeirs
Nazi
forces
in
Libya.
The
Axis
desert
army
is
,.
HEnpra(piv
to
cscane
towards
Derna
and
Tripoli-
sun
irusB""s
"''"
-
-
tania
but
the
British
advance
.
is
accelerating
and
is
now
19j
miles
beyond
the
Egyptian-Libyan
frontier.
An
Italian
air
base
it
Derna
is.
reported
to
have
been
captured.
Civic
Centre
Subscribers
Capitol
Theatre
SJOO.00
Ltd
100.00
Union
Steamships
Frank
Waterhouse
Co.
or
Canada
Ltd
Centennial
Rebekah
Lodge
10.00
NO
MOURNFUL
HYMNS'
LONDON,
Dec.
19:
-
When
,.,.i
TTnrierhlll.
a
writer
on
le-
.tieism.
died,
she
dl-
11E1UU3
Uljro"1-"'
-
-
,
reeled
In
her
will
that
"no
hymns
or
lugubrious
Kind'
of
a
mournful
be
sung
at
her
xunwm.
r
ironnpt.h
Dixon
of
Prince
Rupert
is
visiting
her
parents,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Lloyd.
Young,
1U9
Hilda
Street,
Victoria,
for
the;
Christmas
season.
.
Salvation
Army
Christmas
Fund
Previously
acknowledged
..
.
$30.00
Prince
Rupert
Rotary
Club..
25.00
Gilbert
Campbell
3.00
KNEW
HIS
EGYPT
OXFORD,
Dec.
19:
O)
N.
de
G.
I
Davles,
76,
prominent
Egyptologist
noted
for
his
copies
of
drawings
and
reliefs
on
Egyptian
tombs,
is
dead.
He
had
been
a
member
of
the
Egyptian
Exploration
Soci
ety
since
1897.
$8,900
IN
VS
LONDON,
Dec.
19:
W
A
cheque
for
2,000
(about
$8,900)
collected
by
Miss
Violet
Vanbrugh
and
Violet,
Lady
Melchett,
from
women
whose
names
begin
with
"V"
was
presented
to
the
minister
of
aircraft
production
towards
the
purchase
of
a
plane
for.
Rula.
Russo-German
Var
NAZIS
ARE
ON
RUN
ON
i
LONG
LINE
i
Everywhere
Along
1200-Mile
Front
Reds
Are
Advancing
With
Huns
Falling
Back.
MOSCOW.
Dec.
19:
The
great
Russian
counter-offensive
advance
continues
with
a
general
German
retreat
all
along
the
1200-mile
I
front
from
Finland
on
the
north
to
the
Sea
of
Azov
on
tne
south.
Nowhere
are
the
Russians
permit-
iting
the
enemy
to
slacken
their
(backward
pace.
The
Nazi
retreat
is
fastest
on
been
broken
as
the
siege
of
Len-
ingrad
has
been
lifted.
Along
the
Sea
of
Azov
the
wes-
;
tern
sweep
of
the
Red
Army
also
continues
and
eighty
settlements
have
been
regained.
Only
at
on
point
Is
theie
any
sign
of
German
offensive,
that
being
In
Crimea
where
a
desperate
assault
Is
being
made
upon
the
Important
Black
Sea
port
of
Se-
bastapol.
The
Russian
military
poucy
is
now
one
of
sending
out
ions
sal
ients
to
surround
and
anmhi.ate
the
enemy,
this
being
instead
of
frontal
attacks
which
are
held
to
be
not
as
effective.
ARMY
CHIEF
IS
PLEASED
Brigadier
Kenneth
Stuart
Well
Satisfied
With
Vancouver
Island
Defences.
VICTORIA.
Dec.
19:
Brigadier
Kenneth
Stuart,
chief
of
staff
of
the
Canadian
army,
has
completed
a
three-day
inspection
of
Vancouver
Island
coastal
defences
with
which
he
expresses
himself
as
being
well
satisfied.
First
Co-operative
Produce
Shipment
Is
Now
on
Its
Way
From
Telkwa
to
Prince
Rupert
Under
New
Arrangement.
The
first
co-operatlye
shipment
of
produce
from
the
.central
in
terior
Is
now
on
the
way
to
Trince
Rupert.
It
comes
from
the
Telkwa
district,
being
contributed
by
members
of
the
Farmers
Insti
tute
there
under
the
management
of
S.
T.
Westman,
secretary.
GIVE
US
THE
BOMBS
GLASGOW,
Dec.
19:
OK
J-"Dive
us
the
bombs
ana
we
win
arop
them"
two
bomber
'DilOtS
told
workers
at
a
shell
and
bomb
fill
ing
factory
In
northwest
England.
"We
are
always
standing
by
on
call
and
only
too
pleased
to
go."
DESTROYER
FOR
DUTCH
LONDON.
Dec.
19:
Q)
A
cheque
for
6.500.000
guilders
(about
$3,
847.500)
for
the
purchase
of
a
de
stroyer
was
handed
by
Prince
Bernhard
(Juliana's
husband)
to
Queen
Wjlhelmlna.
The
money
was
raised
in
the
Netherlands
East
Indies.
Hockey
Scores
Detroit,
3;
Brooklyn,
4.
Rangers,
5;
Chicago,
1.
KITWANGA
BOYS
SERVE
IN
ARMY
KITWANGA,
Dec.
19:
Roy
and
Kellv
Morean
were
to
hae
come
home
to
Kltwanga
for
the
Christ
mas
holiday
season
on
leave
from
their
military
duties
but
word
is
now
received
that
they
will
not
be
here-.
They
are
statlohda
et
North
Vancouvr.
Weather
Report
Tomorrow
sTidet
Wmm
High
...
2:43
ajn.
21.8
ft.
prince
Rupert
Cloudy
cool
and
14:29
pjn.
23.4
It.
calm.
Low
...
8:33
ajn.
6.2
ft.
21:09
pm.
OS
ft.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
V0L
XX,
NO.
296.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.CFRIDAY,
DECEMBER
19,
1041.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
m
mm
m
Battered
Armies
Reeling
In
South
Asia
PENANG
IS
German
Troops
Withdraw
From
Finland
in
Great
Hurry
as
Reds
Mop
Up;
Axis
Routed
In
Libya
AXIS
WAR
LORDS
IN
MEETING
Gathering
in
Berlin
to
Consider
Present
Situation.
the
Moscow
front
where
hundreds
BERLIN,
Dec.
19:
A
big
of
villages
have
been
recaptured,
,n
of
Axls
mintarv
leaders
is
be-
do
aiuic
i
ing
ueia
nere
10
consiuer
u:e
on
tne
norm
umnisn
unes
nave
enf
situation.
German,
Itclian
and
Japanese
war
chiefs
are
in
attendance.
BAD
BLOW
F0RJTALY
Five
Thousand
Fascist
Lost
As
We'l
As
Two
Cruisers,
Destroyer
and
Three
Transports.
TUNIS,
French
Tunisia,
Dec.
19:
It
was
reported
today,
that-
..some-
.thousand
Italians
had
been
rescued
aionjr
the
Tunisian
coast
from
a
convoy
which
had
been
attacked
by
the
British
Navy
in
which
two
Italian
cruisers,
a
destroyer
and
three
transports
were
sunk,
taking
a
toll
of
five
thousand
Italian
victims.
WOMEN
GIVE
WARBL00D
Fifty
Percent
of
Ottawa's
Givers
to
This
Service
Are
the
Gentler
Sex.
OTTAWA,
Dec.
19:
CO
Since
May,
1941,
more
than
6,400
Ottawa
residents
have
shared
In
Ottawa
s
contribution
directed
by
the
Red
Cross
Voluntary
Blood
Donors
Service
for
members
of
the
armed
forces
and
bombed
civilians
over
seas.
At
least
50
percent
ot
tne
donors
are
women.
Five
vears
aso
Ottawa
women
pioneered
In
donating
their
blood
for
sickness
and
emergency
uav-lner
their
donations
DrocesEed
at
laboratories
in
Toronto
for
shipment
overseas.
J.
R.
Potter,
a
Red
Cross
secre
tary
is
a
champion
of
women
blood
donors.
"Women
throughout
Canada
should
be
permitted
to
make
this
front
line
contribution,"
ne
said.
Mr.
Potter
was
one
of
the
orig
inators
of
the
first
Canadian
vol
untary
transfusion
service
established
by
a
group
of
Great
War
veterans
In
Montreal
in
1927.
"We
wanted
to
transmit
to
future
generations
in
civil
life
the
spirit
of
service
and
sacrifice
that
prevail
ed
among
the
troops
In
France
during
the
last
war,"
he
said.
Some
years
later
when
transferred
to
Ottawa,
Mr.
Potter
as
sisted
In
the
formation
of
a
service
here
which
in
1937
became
the
Red
Cross
Voluntary
Blood
Donors
Service.
Since
thas
time,
with
a
membership
of
250
men
and
women
on
call
at
any
hour
of
the
day
or
night,
the
service
has
given
530
transfusions
at
hospi
tals.
Contributions
from
three
don
ors
are
reaulred
to
make
enough
for
one
transfusion
of
250
cubic
centimetres
or
aDProxlmately
half
a-plnt.
From
the
6,406
donors
a
total
total
or
of
5.359
S.303
transfusions
transitions
have
aavu
SOUTHEAST
ASIA
IS
STILL
TOUGH
SPOT
FOR
BRITISH
WITH
JAPANESE
LANDING
AT
HONG
KONG
PENANG
IN
MALAYA
IS
SURROUNDED.
Hitler's
battered
invasion
armies,
reeling
in
Russia
and
North
Africa,
are
reported
to
have
abandoned
their
Finnish
allies
today
as
Soviet
dispatches
reported
huge
new
gains
in
the
seventcen-day-old
counter-offensive
on
the
central
front.
The
British
Broadcasting
Corporation
said:
"Reports
from
Helsinki
this
morning
say
that
all
German
troops
have
been
withdrawn
from
Finland
in
a
great
hurry."
The
broadcast
said
that
Finnish
lines
had
been
shattered
between
Lakes
Onega
and
Ladoga
by
the
Red
Army
drive
in
the
vicinity
of
the
Leningrad-Murmansk
Railway.
In
the
Libyan
Desert,
British
troops
captured
Derna
airport,
100
miles
southwest
of
Tobruk,
but
Derna
itself
was
said
to
be
still
in
Axis
hands.
British
forces
were
reported
advancing
in
all
directions
west
and
north
of
Mckili,
40
miles
below
Derna,
with
the
Germans
and
Italians
fleeing
in
two
bodies
one
toward
Derna
and
the
other
toward
Bengasi
on
the
Gulf
of
Sirte.
IN
FAR
EAST
Fighting
in
the
Far
East
centred
at
Hong
Kong
where
London
military
sources
said
the
Japanese.
-
landinrin
considerable
force,
had
effected"
landing
on
the
island.
It
was
added
that
"heavy
fighting
is
going
on
and
.the
position
is
serious."
Although
faced
by
considerable
Japanese
forces,
British
and
Canadian
troops
on
the
island
of
Hong
Kong
are
putting
up
a
grim
last-ditch
stand
against
the
invaders,
it
was
announced
here
today.
Reuters
announced
tonight
the
receipt
of
a
German
broadcast
of
a
Tokyo
dispatch
acknowledging
that
British
forces
still
hold
key
positions
on
the
island.
The
dispatch
was
received
shortly
after
9
a.m.
(PST)
or
1
a.m.
Saturday,
Hong
Kong
time.
A
British
Colonial
Office
spokesman
said
today
that
not
the
slightest
credence
should
be
attached
to
Berlin
rumors
that
Sir
Mark
Young,
governor
of
Hong
Kong,
had
left
there.
The
Japanese
advance
down
the
Malayan
reninsula
was
slowed
down
despite
isolation
of
Penang
Island
off
the
north
coast.
The
British
garrison
at
Penang
was
evacuated
safely.
Twice
today
Japanese
bombers
roared
over
Manila
and
bombed
the
naval
base
at
nearby
Cavitc.
The
Japanese
have
made
no
further
attempts
to
follow
up
a
land
campaign
on
the
Philippines.
The
fifth
column
danger,
which
had
been
considered
dangerous,
is
now
well
in
hand,
United
States
authorities
declared.
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HIT
AGAIN
German
Warships
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisnau
Reported
Under
Fire
Once
More.
LONDON,
Dec.
19:
Th
Royal
Air
Force
has
hit
those
famous
German
warshlpS
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisnau
once
again
in
a
bombing
attack
on
Brest
in
Nazi-occupied
France
yesterday
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the
course
of
air
attacKs
on
enemy
territory.
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Prlnz
Eugen
was
also
at
Brest.
Thers
was
a
day
light
fOllow-up
today.
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lone
German
bomber
attacs-
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an
East
Anglia
town
and
caused
some
casualties.
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SECOND
BAR
GUNNER
LONDON.
Dec.
19:
Top-
scorlng
sergeant
pilot
of
the
fight
er
command,
D.
E,
Klngaby
has
reclved
a
second
bar
to
his
Dis
tinguished
Flying
Medal.
He
has
shot
down
18
enemy
aircraft.
Olof
Hanson,
MP.
for
Ekeena,
arrived
in
the
city
m
last
night's
train
from
Smithers
and
sailed
on
the
Prince
George
for
Vancouver