I
IN
m
Hlietins
torn
S
1NUIA
AITONOMV
IN
The
United,
r
-;rt-.fnt
of
State
I
I!
lUli
government
it
l
r:ii-y
of
aiturinr
kJ
government
after
err
Only
on
thH
n
I'U
be
expected
to
Iti
a
lull
war
effort
In
I
with
China
agahut
t
u
tr
icrrd
here.
)
REACHED
Official
here
an
that
Victory
-.
lions
at
the
cloe
'
'rteiday
totalled
3
tr
more
than
the
rdn
r.ark,
If-
O.N
CONSCRIPTION
The
question
of
Ptlcn
of
Canadians
for
scxTlce
will
be
derided
llm
the
need
arUes
and
-3t
le
necessary
at
all,
jMi.-.:,ter
William
Lyon
hint
states.
Volun-
J''ln.rnt
has
been
provld-
Jit
::l
men
so
far,
the
mi;-.:
iter
sat.
He
also
id
attfactlon
with
the
to
the
lovernmrnt's
N-
requirements.
IttP
LOSS
S
SERIOUS
P
"f
Allied
Vessels
In
At-
flic
Heroine
Alarmlnr
IllHIMi
Tanker
Is
Latest.
11
P1!
It'
'"
K
Frb.
26:
There
,1s
A
the
fact
that
Al-iosscs.
particularly
in
A'lantlc,
arc
becom-
'
d
the
need
of
soine-done
to
reduce
them
'
an
forty-four
ships
"!
ik
in
the
last
few
western
Atlantic
be
pc.foundland
on
the
north
Cukibbcan
Sea
on
the
'
VKUm
lias
been
a
P
Di
itwh
tanker
In
the
'Car
It(,V
itw
miles
smith
or
Ban
ru3
nico.
p.a:ei
upc:,
r
-;
Pa
c
oa.
t
Fishermen's
Reserve
now
that
war
U
T"W
Hie
.ars
tO
C-.na
!i
.
v.rvtjy
frnntlr
Mmi
nt
th
Rurv
xrvnri
n!,vrad
fiot:.
and
t-;
j
of
tlit
nr.
,:oast
At
left
U
shown
a
tvnieal
"re-
s:c;.d
Fleet
At
right,
one
of
the
small
vessels
U
shown
as
it
plough
through
Fish
ermcn
s
ow
Busy
On
Reserve
Is
Coast
Patrol;
Bigger
Game
Than
Halibut
West
Coast
of
Canada
Is
Being
Effectively
Patrolled
for
Enemy
Action
Bv
Men
Who
Know
Their
Job.
The
fishing
season
on
this
coast
won't
open
until
April
but
British
Columbia
fishermen
are
out
hunting
now
for
bigger.catches
than
salmon
or
halibut.
They're
after
submarines
and
mines.
All
up
and
down
Canada's
i
jorded
Pacific
shoresfishermen
members
of
the
Fishermen's
Reserve
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Navy
are
vol-
UntAlilv
natmlllnv
fu
the
imi
trr-
I
-
,
r
T
ct...
piv
-
.
w
v
a
tecUng
their
own
home
waters
Their
vessels
arent
cruUcrs
or
de-stroyera
or
even
corvettes.
The
ship
in
which
they
go
to
war
arc
the
same
ones
they
made
their
living
in
wooden
halibut
and
salmon
boats.
Today
these
boaU
sport
coats
of
a
ray
and
businesslike
wireless
m&stc
and
carry
machine
guns
and
paravanes
lnrtead
of
nets
and
hooks.
Organized
by
far-vtsioned
naval
authorities
in
1938,
the
Fishermen's
Reserve
Is
playing
.an
invaluable
role
In
the
defence
of
Canada.
The
hardy
British
Columbia
coast,
with
its
rocky
approaches,
is
the
west's
greatest
natural
safeguard.
But
It
must
be
watched
conslanUy
since
some
of
Its
inlets
could
serve
as
hideouts
if
submarines
slipped
through
Uie
protecting
ring
of
British.
United
States
and
Canadian
warships.
Before
the
war
in
the
Pad
lie
the
reserve
was
occupied
chiefly
in
watching
Japanese
fishing
vessels.
Now,
with
the
Japanese
fleet
rounded
ud.
reservemen
arc
on
more
exciting
assignments
sweep
inn
the
sea-lanes
for
mines
de
posited
by
low-flying
planes
and
undersea
craft
looking
for
sub
marines
and
other
signs
of
enemy
activity.
They
are
aided
by
other
volun
teerswoodsmen,
fishermen
and
others
scattered
along
the
thlnly-
lnhabltcd
coast
who
by
telephone
and
personal
message
contact
na
val
authorities
or
Uie
reserve
wncn
they
sec
anything
suspicious.
Reserve
boats
are
equipped
to
land
shore
parties
to
investigate.
Are
Well
Trained
Thev
mav
be
natural-born
sail-
nrs
nnrt
tnrdv
and
healthy
but
even
fishermen
can't
be
In
the
navy
without
some
sort
of
official
training.
So
men
who
have
speni
most
of
their
lives
at
sea
must
go
to
naval
school
for
two
weeks
ai
ter
Oipv'vi
Hnnned
Il.C.N.
blue.
At
William
Head
School
on
Vancou
KNADA'S
second
victory
loan
COMING
EVENTS
rsday,
G:45
p.m.
Dr.
Joseph
T.
Mandy,
CFPR.
BUY
VICTORY
BONDS
MAW
i
JAl
SHIPS
GONE
Number
Definitely
Sunk
Seventy-Three,
Secretary
of
Navy
Says.
WASHINGTON,
Feb.
26:
Seventy-three
Japanese
warships
and
transport
vessels
have
been
sunk
since
December
19
not
Including
vessels
which
have
been
sent
down
by
United
States
Army
planes,
Secretary
of
Navy
Frank
Knox
said
last
night.
If
this
rate
Is
kept
up
during
the
next
year,
Japan
is
doomed,
Knox
said.
American
submarines
have
taken
the
offensive
In
the
Pacific
and
"have
torpedoed
two
transports,
an
auxiliary
vessel
and
a
freighter
besides,
probably,
a
warship.
HELLS
OF
EUSTON
LONDON.
Feb.
25:
O1
A
bell
used
at
Buston
100
years
ago
has
been
reclaimed
to
provide
500
pounds
of
metal
for
salvage.
vcr
Island
they
learn
a
few
fundamentalsdrill,
rifle
and
machine
gun
firing,
signalling,
some
thing
about
depth
charges
and
scientific
navigation.
Instructors
admit
that
discipline
is
tough
to
instil
and
It's
Impossible
to
make
finished
tars
of
fish
ermen
In
that
two-week
period.
The
salute,
for
Instance,
lsn
t
as
snappy
as
that
given
by
the
.r.an
whose
home
Is
on
a
destroyer.
But
what
reservemen
do
better
than
anyone
else
is
to
kc?p
their
tiny
craft
sweeping
in
and
out
of
the
treacherous
Inlets
that
stud
the
coast.
It's
a
100
percent
fisherman's
Job
even
to
the
boat.
The
halibut
and
salmon
boats
In
the
reserve,
valued
at
about
$25,000
each,
are
owned
mainly
by
their
fishermen.
skippers
who
rent
them
to
the
naw
for
an
average
of
58.00
a
day
This.
Plus
salary
of
$4.75
a
day,
Is
earned
with
the
rank
of
coxswain.
The
men
get
the
modest
wage
o:
an
able
seaman.
Their
sacrifice
Is
nothing
com
pared
with
the
satisfaction
they
get
from
accomplishing
this
vital
task
of
maintaining
a
sea
free
of
prowlers
off
Canada's
west
coast.
n
1
1
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F
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OoSKKVK
SCOUTS
RC.
COAST
vicif-
r
EHfe.
;
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in
till
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL.
XXXI.,
NO.
48.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
26,
194&
pjucel'fjve
cents
5
Were
Enemy
Planes
In
Southern
Pacific
BATTLE
OF
BURMA
IS
IN
CRISIS
Rangoon,
Set
Afire
"by
Defenders,
Is
City
of
Flames
India
Threatened
TIME
TO
ATTACK
BATAVIA,
Feb.
25:Wlth
Bur-ma
hard
pressed
and
Rangoon
seemingly
about
to'
fall
while
a
large
port
on
south
Sumatra
has
passed
into
Japanese
hands
to
further
threaten
the
position
of
Java,
the
lieutenant-governor
of
the
Netherlands
East
Indies
declared
today
that
the
time
for
withdrawal
and
self-destruction
was
over
and
the
time
for
holding
on
and
attack'
had
come.
.Java's
forty
million
people
stand
ready
to
meet
and,
with
the
aid
of
the
united
nations,
to
repel
the
expected
all-out
assault
of
the
enemy.
BATAVIA,
Feb.
26:
The
Battle
of
Burma
is
raging
with
the
forces
of
the
united
nations
withdrawing
to
new
positions.
Rangoon
WEATHER
IN
LIBYA
POOR
Has
Been
Holding
Up
Military
Operations
Royal
Air
Force
Busy.
CAIRO,
Feb.
26:
Heavy
Vain-storms
have
been
holding
up
military
land
operations
of
both
sides
In
the
Libyan
campaign.
The
Royal
Air
Force,
in
spite
of
the
adverse
weather,
has
been
rang
ing
far
to
the
west
of
Tripoli.
IS
NEARING
OBJECTIVE
Prlnre
Rupert
Has
Subscribed
$518,000
In
Victory
Loan
Portland
Canal
$43,000
Having
reached
112
percent
of
original
quota
and
now
well
on
the
way
to
objective
of
$600,000,
Victory
Loan,
subscriptions
In
Prince
Rupert
up
to
last
night
totalled
$548,000
$369,000
general
canvass
and
$171,000
special
names.
The
number
of
Individual
subscribers
so
far
was
1387.
Portland
Canal
has
subscribed
$43,000,
being
over
quota
by
$3,000.
SUMATRA'S
POPULATION
Sumatra
has
a
population
estimated
at
between
eight
and
nine
million,
of
which
20,000
are
Europeans
and
Eurasians.
Secretary
Of
War
Gives
His
Ideas
About
Aircraft
Which
Paid
Visit
To
Los
Angeles
Canadian
Loss
t
At
Hong
Kong
I
.
of
national
deience,
speaking
in
the
House
of
Commons
yesterday.
DEATH
FOR
1
SLOW-UPS
LONDON,
Feb.
26:
London
newspapers
are
proposing
that
the
,
OTTAWA
TVh
9-
rtTVi
Believed
to
Have
Been
Operated
By
Enemy
Agents
With
1
Object
of
Spreading
Alarm,
Disclosing
Gun
Loca
tions
and
Slow
Up
War
Production.
WASHINGTON.
Feb.
26:
(CP)
Secretary
of
War
i
I
Henry
L.
Stimson
said
today
that
unidentified
airplanes,
number
of
'
Canadian
soldiers
'
possibly
as
many
as
fifteen,
which
may
have
been
oper-
killed
or
missing
at
Hong
ated
by
enemy
agents,
were
over
Los
Angeles
early
ves-
Kong
was
placed
at
296
by
terday
and
were
fired
on
by
anti-aircraft
guns.
Since
Hon.
J.
L.
Ralston,
minister
i
u
a
,i
c?:r
:.j
h.
pianes
migni
nave
come
irom
commercial
sources
operated
by
enemy
agents
to
spread
alarm,
disclose
tne
location
or
gun
em
placements
and
slow
down
war
production.
The
secretary
of
war
did
not
explain
what
he
meant
by
commercial
sources.
Tomorrow's
Tides
Today's
War
Summary
(By
Canadian
Press)
Chinese
Aid
Burma
German
Warships
Badly
Damaged
(Standard
Time)
High
10:21
ajn.
Is
a
city
of
flames,
kindled
by
Its
death
penalty
be
Imposed
on
per-'
23:20
pjn.
defenders
as
a
part
of
evacuation
sons
who
In
any
way
endeavour
to
Low
4:00
am
measures.
United
States
air
fore
hamper
the
war
eUort.
17:05
pm.
headquarters
have
been
removed
to
a
new
point
from
which
to
continue
operations.
Twenty-one
enemy
aircraft
were
brought
down
over
Rangoon
today
following,
yesterday's
bug
oL
thirty.
With
India
now
directly
threat-
i
ened,
Sir
Stafford
Cripps,
Lord
j
lrrrrr,,,,,,,r,rr,r,.r.
1
Privy
Seal,
sent
from
London
a
pledge
of
all
out
British
aid.
'
prn
Hniir
Tfr
lava
Java,
last
stronghold
of
the
AI-
-cl
u
UU
1U
Java,
lies
in
the
Dutch
East
Indies,
now
surrounded,
reports
no
new
dev
elopments
of
importance
during
the
past
twenty-four
hours
although
the
Japanese
were
said
to
have
come
Into
poroession
of
a
lrge
south
Sumatra
port
which
brought
attack
closer
to
Java.
Australia,
expecting
lurther
enemy
attacks
on
Its
mainland,
has
delivered
aerial
counter
blows
to
the
Island
of
New
Britain
which
has
been
occupied
by
the
Japanese.
The
Philippines
are
quiet
except
for
small
new
local
attacks
by
the
Japanese
on
General
Douglas
Mc-Arthur's
defending
forces
on
Bat-aan
Peninsula.
17.3
ft.
165
ft
103
ft.
6.1
ft.
Despite
fieice
counter-blows
by
Allied
warcraft
in
the
Indies,
official
dispatches
today
indicate
that
the
zero
hour
is
near
in
the
Battle
for
Java.
American
submarines,
smashing
at
Japan's
seaborne
invasion
armies,
are
officially
reported
today
to
have
torpedoed
two
enemy
transports,
an
auxiliary
ship
and
a
freighter.
A
bulletin
from
Netherlands
East
Indies
headquarters
announced
the
attacks
had
occurred
within
the
past
forty-eight
hours.
In
addition,
a
Japanese
warship
was
listed
as
presumed
hit
by
an
attacking
United
States
submarine
which
was
forced
to
dive
before
it
could
observe
the
effect
of
the
torpedo.
In
the
Battle
of
Burma
a
Reuters
dispatch
said
that
fresh
Chinese
troops
were
streaming-southward
into
the
beleaguered
country
ready
to
combat
any
Japanese
thrust
toward
Mandalay,
375
miles
above
Rangoon.
While
British
and
Indian
troops
fought
desperately
to
save
the
latter
city,
demolition
squads
destroyed
vital
installations.
A
Royal
Air
Force
communique
said
that
twenty-one
Japanese
planes
were
brought
down
this
morning
in
air
battles
over
Rangoon.
At
Washington,
Secretary
of
War
Henry
L.
Stimson
said
that
the
united
nations
were
making
a
magnicifent
defence
of
the
Netherlands
Indies
and
had
inflicted
heavy
losses
on
the
enemy
which
the
Japanese
have
not
disclosed.
In
London
two
great
German
battleships,
Gneisenau
and
Scharnhorst,
and
the
heavy
cruiser
Prinx
Eugen,
which
dashed
out
of
Brest
two
weeks
ago,
were
all
severely
damaged,
it
has
become
known.
They
have
apparently
been
knocked
out
of
the
"war
for
some
time
to
come
according
to
a
naval
review
in
the
House
of
Commons
today
by
First
Lord
of
Admiralty
W.
Alexander.
A
submarine,
H-M.S.
Trident,
damaged
a
heavy
cruiser
of
the
Prinz
Eugen
class
off
the
coast
of
Norway.
This
may
have
been
the
Prinz
Eugen
herself.
The
Trident
sent
a
torpedo
into
the
big
cruiser
and
nay
also
have
hit
an
escorting
destroyer.
The
Trident
has
been
dogging
Germany's
Norwegian'
sealanes
and
it
was
there
she
nailed
the
cruiser.
Russians
Push
On
To
New
Successes
Flushed
by
the
smashing
of
three
divisions
southwest
of
Leningrad,
the
Red
Army
is
pressing
on
to
new
successes
In
the
campaign
to
rid
Russia
of
the
Nazi
Invaders.
The
immediate
objective
now
is
the
wiping
out
of
another
12,000
Nazi
troops
which
have
become
trapped.
The
Russians
declared
today
that
they
had
defeated
reserves
of
Germans
being
hurled
into
the
flaming
battle
of
Staraya,
the
Russian
area
where
the
Soviet
ring
of
destruction
closed
tighter
upon
the
survivors
of
the
smashed
Sixteenth
Army.
Dispatches
said
that
Russian
fliers
and
anti-aircraft
guns
were
breaking
up
German
attempts
to
bring
In
supplies
by
transport
plane.
R.A.F.
Raids
Over
Germany
Resumed
The
Royal
Air
Force
raided
Kiel
and
other
points
In
the
north
west
Reich
last
night
with
its
bombers.
Two
planes
were
lost.
The
raids
were
admitted
by
the
German
command
at
Berlin.
POWER
OF
EXCLUSION
Any
Person,
Regardless
of
Citizen
ship,
May
Now
Be
Removed
From
Protected
Areas
Of
Canada
OTTAWA,
Feb.
26:
Removal
of
350
male
Jap
nationals
out
of
British
Columbia
protected
areas
will
be
the
first
phase
of
government
plan
dealing
with
the
Japanese
problem
on
the
Tacific
Coast,
Hon.
Humphrey
Mitchell,
minister
of
labor,
announced
last
night.
The
ultl-
'
mate
aim
is
to
remove
all
Japanese
from
the
coastal
area,
naturalized
or
aliens
including
men,
women
and
children,
but
that
would
take
time,
Mr.
.Mitchell
said.
OTTAWA,
Feb.
26:
0
Prime
Minister
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King
announced
yesterday
that
Justice
Minister
St.
Laurent
had
been
given
power
to
exclude
any
or
all
persons,
regardless
of
citizenship,
from
protected
areas
defined
under
Defence
of
Canada
regulations.
Later
came
the
statement
in
informed
sources
that
complete
Japanese
population
would
be
removed
from
coastal
areas
of
British
Columbia
and
that
Japanese
will
not
be
allowed
to
settle
as
agriculturalists
without
permit
from
the
Department
of
Justice
although
it
Is
believed
permit
settlement
will
be
arranged
because
It
is
unlikely
all
the
Japanese
coud
be
used
on
road
and
other
construction
projects.
DEATHS
IN
RAID
ALARM
Four
Deaths
Attributed
More
Or
Less
Indirectly
To
Los
Angeles
Incident
LOS
ANGELES.
Feb.
26:
Four
deaths
are
attributed
more
or
less
Indirectly
to
the
air
raid
alarm
and
blackout
here
early
yesterday
morning.
One
man
died
of
heart
failure
while
driving
a
truck.
Three
others
were
killed
In
auto
mobile
accidents.
Japs
Must
Stay
Home
At
Nights
:
OTTAWA,
Feb.
2G:0
Jap-
anese
living
within
British
Columbia
protected
areas
must
remain
In
thtlr
homes
between
sunset
and
sunrise
under
a
curfew
order
approv-
ed
by
the
Dominion
govern-
4-
ment,
It
was
learned
late
to-
day.
The
order
Is
not
com-
plete
but
Is
expected
to
be
ef-
fective
almost
Immediately
and
applies
to
all
persons
of
Japanese
race
In
the
area.