i
ARE
JAPS
USING
JOHORE
BAHRU
CAUSEWAY?
This
la
the
Jonore
Bahru
causeway,
famed
nas
:aBe
arms
t.h
Rtroit.
tw-"T....,-
.u.
BrUUh
stronghold
of
Singapore
with
the
Malay
mainland.
AfW
refugees
had
been
evacuated
from
the
main
and
British
army
engineers
dynamited
the
thoroughfare
but
the
Japs
are
said
to
have
i
;;
.many
names
:
Suggested
V
Up
to
noon
today
well
over
fifty
suggestions
had
been
re-
celved
at
The
Dally
News
of-
flee
for
a
name
for
the
new
industrial
residential
area
be
ing
established
across
Hays
Creek
by
Wartime
Housing
Limited,
There
is
a
wide
variety
of
suggestions,
igcsiiuns,
some
some
of
them
very
interesting
and
some
amusing,
.
Much
inter-
est
Is
being
shown
i-
in
the
i
con
-
test
Suggestions
will
be
re
ceived
until
the
end
of
this
week
There
will
be
a
$5
prize
for
that
considered
the
best
1
iUBS
SINK
MORE
SHIPS
lurrivori
of
'Two
Vesselv
Are
Landed
at
Eastern
Canadian
Port.
(AT
AN
EASTERN
CANADIAN
0RT
Feb.
11:
Forty-seven
sur-Rvori
of
a
Greek
ship
sunk
by
an
Rxls
submarine
in
the
western
Atlantic
have
been
landed.
Three
ftre
tost
The
vessel
was
heavily
helled
Twenty
members
of
a
pnker
s
crew
have
also
been
land-d
with
another
twenty
mlsslna
till
Appeals
On
Land
Values
Now
Out
(kcourse
to
Higher
Courts
No
Longer
Allowed,
It
Is
Announced.
According
to
a
ruling
received
fom
the
provincial
government
at
'ictoria,
there
can
be
no
appeals
"ring
1942
and
1943
from
a
court
f
revision
to
a
higher
court,
ae-prdlng
to
word
received
at
the
Ky
hall
here.
This
applies
to
nd
only.
I
Australia
Is
Manning
Coast
ilitlamen
Are
Beinc
Called
Up
for
Twenty-Four
Hour
Duty.
MELBOURNE,
Feb.
11:
The
Australian
government
has
called
IP
more
militiamen
for
twenty-
pur
hour
duty
in
manning
the
Basts
against
the
possibility
of
a
ppanese
Invasion.
Nministration
Of
Old
Age
Pensions
Being
Transferred
From
Work
men's
Compensation
Board
to
Provincial
Secretary's
Department.
Administration
of
old
age
pen
is
being
transferred
from
F
Workmen's
Compensation
Pard
to
the
Denartment
nf
Hip
pvinclal
Secretary,
according
to
P'd
"ceived
at
the
city
hall
here.
Germans
taking
worse
DHMDlwrc
"muuiujjjmn
ui
v
eh
Canadian
Pilot
Who
Knows
the
North
Country
Tells
of
War
Flights
Against
Europe's
Worst
Weather.
A
ROYAL
AIR
FORCE
STATION
SOMEWHERE
IN
ENGLAND,
Feb.
11:
(CP)-Sqd.
Ldr.
John
Fauquier
of
Ottawa,
flight
commander
with
a
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
bomber
squadron,
took
un
flvinir
"because
I
didn't
,.
.
.
.
.
c-
'
..,
llke
sticking
in
an
Office,
...
and
he
IS
doing
m
,
his
.
Share
.
of
bombing
over
Germany
which
he
says
is
having
to
take
i
mnrn
thnrt
fho
Mortc
rroiro
nrif.in
I
during
the
raids
of
1940
and
1941.
An
airman
since
1920
when
he
gave
up
his
Job
with
a
Montreal
brokerage
firm,
the
32-year-old
officer
took
up
bush
Hying
and
I
piloted
aircraft
'
Into
Noranda,
1
Chibaugamau
i
and
around
the
Oulf
of
St.
Lawrence.
"I'm
very
happy
with
this
kind
of
flying
but
111
be
happy
Too
when
I
never
see
an
other
plane,"
IOW5
V.
HUNTER
he
salPd
calling
an
anxious
flight
he
made
towards
the
end
of
last
year.
Gauges
at
Zero
Fauquier
spent
a
worried
50
minutes
over
the
North
Sea
with
the
gasoline
gauges
In
his
Wellington
registering
zero.
But
the
engines
kept
going
and
he
got
back
safely
to
base,
"although
I
figured
I
was
in
for
it
and
I
couldn't
have
had
much
more
than
a
splash
of
petrol
in
the
tanks
when
we
landed."
He
was
coming
back
from
Berlin
after
the
Nov.
7
raid
when
the
British
lost
37
machines.
Fauquier,
who
hasn't
missed
a
flight
since
he
was
made
a
flight
commander,
said
the
raid
was
a
"bad
one."
"The
weatrter
was
awful
and
the
wind
was
blowing
up
to
60
and
70
miles
an
hour.
The
weatherman
sure
was
against
us."
Fauquier,
whose
duties
include
the
organization
or
crews
to
go
on
operations
and
the
training
of
pilots,
is
in
charge
of
a
.group
of
eager
Canadian
youngsters
who
complain
bitterly
If
the
weather
"scrubs"
forces
suspension
of
operations.
"As
long
as
the
weather
is
good
we're
at
it,"
the
Ottawa
flier
said.
"During
the
heavy
raids
against
this
country
last
year
the
weather
favored
the
Germans,
but
this
year
it
hasn't
been
very
good
to
us
and
we
don't
get
out
as
often
as
our
crews
would
like
to."
Over
Enemy
Lands
Fauquier
has
made
more
than
10
raids
over
enemy
territory
since
he
became
a
flight
commander.
Besides
Berlin,
he
has
been
twice
to
Stettin,
German
Baltic
Sea
port,
Nuremberg,
Kiel,
Hamburg,
Emden
and
Essen
and
St.
Nazaire,
the
German
submarine
base
in
occupied
France.
His
squadron
is
.
commanded
oy
t
ini
Wing
Cmdr.
R.
M.
renwicK-wu-son,
AFC
of
Rock
Creek,
B.C.,
and
of
all
the
squadrons
ne
nas
been
with
this
one
Is
"tops."
"The
morale
is
the
best
I've
seen
and
the
boys
are
a
grand
gang
and
a
happy
bunch."
Herman
Engelke
returned
to'
the
-otnl'i
vpstprdav
af-
ternoon
from
a
brief
business
trip
to
Stewart.
TUAW
fiurw
BULLETINS
FIGHTING
IN
LIBYA
LONDON
There
appears
to
be
little
change
in
the
situation
in
Libya.
Fighting,
according
to
a
Rome
report,
is
proceeding
on
the
fifty-mile
front
near
Mikili.
R.A.F.
STAGE
RAIDS
LONDON
The'
'Royal'-Alr
Force
during
the
night
raided
northwest
Germany
and
Brest.
LONDON
PLANE
CRASH
LONDON
Ten
persons
were
killed
and
five
injuied
when
a
British
plane
crashed
on
a
London
building
last
night.
Tenders
Called
For
Altering
Of
Assay
Building
Tenders
are
now
being
called
by
the
provincial
government
for
alterations
to
the
warehouse
build
ing
at
the
corner
of
Third
Avenue
and
Market
Place
in
which
Is
to
be
established
the
assay
plant
of
the
Department
of
Mines.
It
will
be
a
couple
of
months,
It
is
expected,
before
the
plant
will
be
ready
for
operation.
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COALITION
SUSTAINED
Three
Divisions
in
Legislative
rattullo
Votes
Against
Government
in
One.
VICTORIA,
Feb.
11:
O)
The
oalition
government
was
sustained
on
three
divisions
last
night.
The
first
test
came
on
a
bill
giving
the
government
power
to
lease
oil
lands
to
private
companies
for
development
on
royalty
basis
not
"exceeding
fifteen
ner-
cent.
It
was
the
second
reading
of
an
amendment
to
the
Coal
and
Petroleum
Ac
.
The
division
was
called
for
by
T.
D.
Pattullo,
MX.
A.
for
Prince)
Rupert,
who
voted
with
the
Co-operative
Common-Tom
wealth
Federation
and
Uu-
ma.
i,aDor
memDer
lor
fertile.
!
against
the
amendment,
The
bill;
was
sustained
30
to
16.
The
two
other
divisions
were
on
CCF
-
measures
which,
on
beUiglln
their
put
t0
the
vote'
were
defeated,
the
can
Mr.
Mr.
Pattullq-
PattuIlY
votlns
voting
with
with
thn
the
pnv-
gov-
nirt
oiris'
c
ernmcnt
against
these.
I
!
Near
200,000
More
Men
Are
V
Needed
in
1942
T--
-
OTTAWA.
Feb.
11
Can-
ada's
war
program
for
1942
calls
for
.thVralslne,
of
Jje-
tween
172,000
and
192,000
ad-
ditional
men
for
army,
navy
and
air
force,
Hon.
J.
L.
Ral-
ston,
minister
of
national
de-
fence,
told
the
House
of
Com-
mons
yesterday.
The
addi-
tional
enlistments,
he
said,
would
bring
the
total
enlist-
ments
since
the
war
began
to
between
595,000
and
615,000
men.
Of
the
additional
men
to
be
enlisted
this
year
it
Is
estimated
80.000
will
be
re-
quired
for
the
Royal
Cana-
dian
Air
Force
and
13,000
for
the
navy
with
the
balance
for
the
army.
One
hundred
thou-
sand
men
will
be
needed
for
war
industries.
Col.
Ralston
believes
that
voluntary
en-
listments
may.
take
care
of
this
year's
military
require-
ments
if
the
volume
of
enlist-
ment
keeps
up
like
it
has
in
the
past
four
months.
Col.
Ralston
said
he
had
faith
in
the
success
of
the
voluntary
method
of
enlistment
and
would
do
all
In
his
power
to
retain
it.
However,
should
It
prove
a
failure
he
would
feel
It
his
duty
to
adopt
the
other
method.
Hon.
J.
G.
Gardiner,
minister
of
agriculture,
also
favored
continuation
of
the
system
of
voluntary
enlist-
ment
and
would
support
com-
pulsory
service
only
if
It
was
:
found
to
be
the
last
means
of
meeting
the
army's
needs
for
men.
He
would
be
op-
posed
to
compulsory
service
methods
until
it
was
abso
lutely
necessary.
-
LINE
FOR
SUPPLIES
Japan
Has
Lost
This
Phase
of
Pacific
War,
Declares'
Chris-xntlan
Science
Monitor.
BOSTON,
Feb.
11:
The
Christian
Science
Monitor
says
that
Japan
has
lost
the
battle
of
the
Pacific
supply
lines
to
the
Far
Pacific.
United
States
naval
forces
have
arrived
at
Wellington,
New
Zealand,
where
the
western
terminal
of
the
supply
route
Is
being
established
with
various
way
stations
across
the
ocean
enroute.
At
tin
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL.
XXXI
NO.
35.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY,
11,
1942.
price;
hve
"cents
Fate
of
Great
Fortress
Is
In
Balance
With
Prospects
Of
Holding
Out
Very
Scant
VISIT
BY
PRINCESS
Wife
of
Governor
General
Calls
at
Monteal
Telegraph
Offices
to
Inspect
Refugee
Clothing.
MONTREAL.
Feb.
11:
Her
Royal
Highness,
Princess
Alice,
naid
an
informal
visit.
T,,ri3
i
afternoon
mnn
t
to
tK
the
offices
ffi
of
.
.u
the
Ca
uauian
national
leiegrapns
nere
i
to
inspect
children's
outfits,
made
own
time,
by
members
of
Canadian
National
Teleeranh
Service
group.
These
out-
(fits,
for
infants
and
children
up
to
six
years
of
age,
are
going
for-;ward
through
the
Canadian
National
Railways
Employees
War
Services
Association
to
the
Royal
Sailors
Rest
at
Portsmouth,
Eng-
uui,
an
institution
which
provides
for
the
care
of
dependents
of
seafaring
men.
Large
consignments
of
similar
outfits,
the
work
of
this
group,
were
sent
during
the
past
year,
ihis
activity
having
come
to
the
.attention
of
Princess
Allrp
Hm
Royal
.Highness
expressed
a
desire
to
examine"
the
work
arid
to
re-
noive
tho
u.-nriror'
cnnnihi.
fr
the
undertaking.
Accordingly,
arrangements
were
made
to
display
these
articles,
numbering
747
in
all,
with
the
exception
of
shoes
for
tots,
every
article
exhibited
was
made
by
a
worker
employed
in
the
telegraph
service.
After
examining
the
work
on
display,
Her
Royal
Highness
personally
greeted
the
members
of
the
group
and
commended
them
for
their
thoughtfulness
in
aiding
such
an
admirable
work.
TERMS
OF
LOAN
OUT
Announcement
Made
Yesterday
By
Finance
Minister
Ilsley
OTTAWA,
Feb.
11:
Terms
of
the
Victory
Bond
issue
which
will
be
offered
to
the
Canadian
public
next
Monday
were
announced
yesterday
by
Hon.
J.
L.
Ilsley,
minister
of
finance.
There
will
be
two-and-a-half
year
bonds
at
1V2
percent
Interest,
6
years
at
2
'A
and
twelve
year
at
three
percent.
NAZIS
IN
RETREAT
Resistance
in
Russia
Is,
However,
Reported
Stiffening.
MOSCOW,
Feb.
11:
O)
Nazi
invasion
armies
have
been
thrown
back
nearly
two
hundred
miles
in
some
sectors
of
the
long
Russo-German
front.
There
was
a
stiffening
of
the
enemy
resistance
in
Russia
today
as
the
paralyzing
grip
of
winter
abated
and
fighting
Increased
in
violence.
Military
quarters
said
that
the
Germans
were
now
making
a
determined
stand
although
Soviet
dispatches
declared
that
the
Red
Armies
were
continuing
to
advance
with
a
number
of
villages
and
Germari
fortifications
captured
on
the
Ukraine
...front.
LOCAL
TEMPERATURE
Maximum
44
Minimum
.
.....
37
ingapore
Japanese
Claim
to
Have
Already
Entered
City
Sudden
Change
Made
in
Command
of
Allied
Naval
Forces
Dutchman
Takes
Over.
LONDON,
Feb.
11:
(CP)
Tokyo
headquarters
claimed
today
that
Japanese
troops
had
entered
"the
city
area
of
Singapore"
at
8
a.m.
local
time
but,
with
a
population
of
pore
than
750,000,
"the
city
area
extends
four
or
five
miles
from
the
centre
of
Singapore."
Meanwhile
a
change
was
announced
in
the
Allied
High
Command
in
the
southwest
Pacific
with
Admlr-1
al
.
Thomas
Hart,
United
States
ouiies
"c
commanaer,
relieved
01
nis
ipost
as
commander-in-chief
of
Allied
naval
forces
in
the
area
because
of
ill-health.
He
is
succeeded
by
Vlce-Admiral
Helfrlch
of
the
Royal
Netherlands
Navy.
The
Singapore
radio
heard
in
London
shortly
after
5
p.m.
(9
a.m.
PST)
said
the
situation
on
the
island
was
very
serious
but
"had
not
deteriorated
in
any
way."
British
forces
defending
Singapore
have
slashed
back
at
the
Japanese
invaders
in
two
violent
counter-attacks,
defying
an
over
whelming
number
of
enemy
guns
and
planes
in
a
desperate
effort
to
save
the
island,
it
was
announced
earlier
in
the
day.
The
counter-attacks,
were
said
to
have
cre"s,Te
mea?uFe
of
success"
,a"dtuBl?t
wMtotow
declare
I
that
the
situation
w
a
s
"cer-
talnly
no
worse
and
indications
are
in
some
ways
better."
An
authoritative
source
said
there
was
no
information
in
London
indicating
that
the
Japanese
had
entered
any
part
of
the
city
of
Singapore.
U;ntil
news
of
the
counter-attacks
reached
London
this
morning,
the
fall
of
Singapore
and
the
gallant
.garrison
was
believed
only
a
matter
of
days
and,
perhaps,
hours
distant.
British
commentators
said
all
they
could
hope.
for
was
to
postpone
inevitable
fall
of
the
fortress
unless
reinforcements,
chiefly
in
the
air,
arrived
in
time.
There
j
was
no
tendency
to
regard
the
counter-attacks
as
more
thanj
checking
the
situation
for
a
few
hours
and
commentators
were
silent
on
the
matter
of
reinforcements.
The
Japanese
are
now
at
a
point
where
they
are
threatening
Singapore's
reservoirs,
food
supplies
and
vital
services.
Japanese
planes
have
dropped
leaflets,
demanding
surrender
of
the
city
with
the
threat
that,
falling
capitulation,
it
will
be
"reduced
to
ashes."
With'
superiority
in
the
air
over
the
fortress,
the
enemy
are
able
to
carry
out
unrestricted
dive
bombing
and
machine-gunning
of
British
troops.
They
have
also
been
able
to
land
tanks,
It
is
stated,
penlal
has
been
made
of
reports
that
the
Japanese
had
re
paired
the
causeway
across
Johore
Straits
and
brought
across
troops
and
equipment
that
way.
All
the
invasion
forces
have
so
far
been
water-borne
mostly
by
barges,
it
is
claimed.
The
enemy
claimed
to
have
penetrated
western
sections
of
the
city
but
'this
was
not
confirmed
by
the
British.
'
The
situation
is
extremely
crltl-.
cal
and
the
next
twenty-four
hours,
it
is
said
by
some
;
may
te:
the
tale.
'
lU
Governor
Stf
Shenton
Thomas
'
issued
a
statement
sayingf:
"We
are
all
In
the
hands
of
God."
Japanese
divisions
totalling
125,-
000
men
are
believed
to
be
at
tempting
a
lightning
victory.
The
Battle
Elsewhere
Collapse
of
the
Singapore
de
fences
would
release
Japanese
air
forces
for
more
intensive
attacks
on
the
Philippines.
Burma,
the
PACIFIC
STRATEGY
President
Roosevelt
Tells
of
Procedure
In
Connection
With
Battle
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
Feb.
11:
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt,
at
a
press
conference
yesterday,
did
not
mention
Singapore
especially
but
said
that
strategy
of
the
united
nations
in
connection
with
the
Battle
of
the
Pacific
was
to
keep
the
enemy
in
check
and
cause
as
much
destruction
of
his
forces
as
possible
while
superior
strength
is
being
built
up.
PLANS
FOR
PLEBISCITE
Enabling
Legislation
to
Be
Pre-
sented
Tomorrow.
OTTAWA,
Feb.
11:
-Secretary
of
State
Norman
McLarty
gave
notice
that
he
will
Introduce
In
the
House
of
Commons
tomorrow
a
resolution
calling
for
legislation
to
be
brought
In
authorizing
the
taking
of
a
plebiscite
proposed
by
the
government
seeking
release
from
antl-conscrlption
pledges.
SURVIVORS
PICKED
UP
United
States
Ship
Makes
Rescue
Of
Passengers
And
Crew
From
Torpedoed,
Vessel
BATAVIA,
Feb.
12:
A
United
States
ship
has
rescued
120
passengers
and
crew
of
a
steamer
which
was
sunk
In
Dutch
East
Indies
waters.
The
survivors,
includ-
.ng
women
and
children,
spent
six
hours
in
a
lifeboat
before
beins
picked
up.
Their
ship
had
been
torpedoed
and
sunk
by
a
Japanese
submarine.
East
Indies
and
possibly
further
afield.
The
Allied
situation
in
Burma
has
become
more
serious
with
the
report
that
the
enemy
have
crossed
the
Solween
River
to
capture
Martaban
in
their
advance
towards
Rangoon.
General
McArthur's
forces
on
the
PhiliDDlnes
havs
stavprf
nff
ariotheV
reinforced
Japanese
at
tack
but
.Washington
Is
not
very
The
drive
toward
Java,
most
important
Island
of
the
Netherlands"
East
Indies,
is
Intensifying.
Japan
Is
reported
to
be
making
overtures
to
Batavla
for
a
separate
.peace.
The
Netherlands
East
Indies
would
retain
their
Independence
In
return
for
Japan
being
given
the
entire
0U
output.
The
Japanese
have
effected
another
landing
on.
the
Australian
island
of
New
Britain,
this
time
on
the
south
side
at
Gasmata.