.-ft
Is
Contltiulni,
It
Offrrnire
'Villi
I
Rmulln.
-h
T4T"
-
The
nppd
a
'
great
xpiotfves
on
the
'r
Cologne
hurt
.it
ion
of
the
new
offensive,
the
Air
.
id
today.
Many
:t
burning.
Four
v.ng
n
and
last
nltthi
i
French
Invasion
(led
Bight
Nazi
s
were
brought
British
lost
mx
British
bombers
d
a
four
-hour
:
n
8
to
12
o'clock!
!n
did
not
ton-1
a
heavy
Royal
Air
'
M
TO
.
HIGHWAY
m.t
(
unsiderine
Plans
to
Join
t
P
hi
ill
,
h
Columbia
With
j
New
Alaska
Itoad,
M..icii
H:
plana
irlrrpfl
hr
wlirro-
P-
!:
C.'iilumbla
Iiiahwnv
'd
up
with
tlie
new
a..v
through
Alberta
I'
River
Dlock.
ould
ba
from
Prince
rwson
Creek
by
way
Another
would'
be
George
to
Fort
St.
ORST
TO
COME
YET
?frali5simo
Chianr
Kai-Shek
jariu
Pro,,!,,
,lf
-hi.,,
a.i
United
Nations
ll'IGKINQ
MnrcVi
11-1imi.
Chiang
Kai-shek
watn-I'c
Pl
of
china
yesterday
"
liard.shlps
Uicy
had
suf-3
n
more
than
four
''I
V,
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U'llll
Tnnnn
nnl..
..-w..
(JttH
will;
Will
'0
What
Wfrn
fjs
rnmn
J
P
opic
of
the
United
Na-VniaiiR
declared,
had
a
long
.'e
ahrnrl
u,Viiv.
.....u
il"nr
capacltv
VilUUtUttVVl
NEW
PLANT
ROUNDING
UPJAPS
Will
Be
Shipped
to
Vancouver
Special
Train
From
Here.
VANCOUVER.
Mar.
11:
(CP)
The
British
Columbia
Security
Commission
announced
today
that
all
Japanese
in
the
coastal
area
outside
of
Vancouver
district
will
be
rounded
up
lcginning
Monday
and
brought
here.
More
than
two
thou-
-sand
will
lc-
picltcd
up
by
nine
steamers
frotn
coastal
points
while
mx'
hundred
from
northern
communities
will
gather
at
Prince
Rupert
and
brought
by
train
leaving
there
next
OPENED
AT
MONTREAL
Official
Inspection
'lX
Three
Cabinet
Ministers
of
(ircal
Munitions
Factory
MONTREAL,
Marcli
14:-
An
ac
tive
munitions
plant,
hitherto
un
known
to
Uie
public,
today
received
its
first
offlclai
Inspection
on
the
part
of
the
minister
dir
ectly
concerned
with
its
operatons
and
other
ministers
of
the
federal
government
who
are
also
actively
interested
in
the
establishment
and
Its
production.
The
plant
Is
that
of
the
National
Railways
MunlUons
Limited
a
subsidiary
of
the
Canadian
Na-
'
Hart
sees
no
rea-,tlonal
Railways,
one
of
the
func-uic.se
should
not
be
tions
of
which
Is
the
making
of
u'h
roads
as
these.!
naval
guns,
producing
Uie
finished
guns
complete
with
breech
diock.
This
Plant
is
also
beginning
the
manufacture
of
heavy
gun
mounts
for
field
artillery.
The
official
inspection,
which
took
place
this
afternoon,
was
carried
out
by
Hon.
C.
D.
Howe.
(minister
of
munitions
and
supply,
whoso
department
was
responsible
for
the
establishment
of
the
plant.
Mr.
Howe
was
njccompanlcd
by
Hon.
J.
L.
Ralston.
K.
"C,
minister
of
National
Defence,
and
Hon-
J.
L.
ILslcy,
K.
C,
minister
of
fin
ance.
NAT10NAL
PARK
RLCOltD
Tourist
travel
to
Riding
Moun
tain
National
Park
In
Manitoba
establLshprt
n
'npur
record
In
the
1041
season.
Curtin
said,
was
the
last
bastion
between
the
Japanese
........
,u-!
American
west
coast.
If
you
bq-
lleve
anything
to
the
contrary
you
delude
yourselves."
Premier
Curtin
was
addressing
a
,
speetai
oroaocaii
message
to
Am-:
erica.
The
war
today
was
going
badly
both
for
America
and
Australia.
He
had
the
greates;
confidence,
however,
said
Uie
Australian
prime
minister,
that
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
un
derstood
the
critical
situation
and
that
the
United
States
was
going
out
to
meet
it.
The
Allied
Nations
had
made
mistakes,
it
was
admitted,
they
had
been
too
slow
but
now
their
eyes
were
open.
Loss
of
the
Pacific
would
be
disastrous.
Australia
looked
to
America
as
the
paramount
factor
on
democracy's
side
in
tht
Pacific.
nm(
llrltaln
winnirur
Lhp
Bat-
supplied.
Premier
Curun
gave
his
word
that
Australia
would
not
fall
but
It
looked
to
America
for
?reat
aid.
The
Australian
prime
minister
announced
that
the
minister
of
foreign
affairs
would
be
sent
to
the
United
States
to
confer
in
regard
to
the
BatUe
of
the
Pacific.
Speaking
of
the
total
war
in
which
Australia
was
now
engaged.
Premier
Curtin
declared
that
there
was
no
Fifth
Column
In
that
Commonwealth
all
of
whose
people
were
English-speaking.
Materials
and
machines
were
needed
by
Australia.
Telling
or
the
valorous
part
that
Australians
had
played
hi
various
snheres
of
the
war
so
far,
the
Aus'
.
....
,
trallans.
he
acciarca,
wouia
oo
even
better
when
It
came
to
fight
ing
on
their
home
soil.
The
extent
of
the
attack
against
tho
enemy
would
bo
limited
only
by
the
amount
of
weapons
In
the
hands
or
Australians,
it
was
a
rnsn
of
attack
now
rather
than
defence.
Mr.
Curtin
believed.
It
was
a
case
of
-work
pr
fight
for
every
person
in
Australia
now,
Everyone
had
to
be
cither
In
the
fighting
forces,
the
labor
forces
or
t
Mutinies
By
Nazi
Troops
-
t
LONDON,
March
14:
O
-
Free
French
headquurters
said
that
word
had
been
re-
celved
of
mutinies
by
German
occupational
troops
stationed
in
some
parts
of
France.
.
in;
Experience.
'
SHIP
WAS
TORPEDOED
tic
of
the
AUantlc.
had
its
obliga-
r'umb
a
"
d
I
rost-niHen
Seamen
l-iccl
at
last
Coast
Can.u
.i
i
M.
nunlo
was
kint
I
ui.iii
i
on
iiicr
iianuw-
AT
AN
EAST
COAST
CANA
DIAN
PORT.
March
14:
Tossed
Tor
eighty
hours
In
frail
llfe-boats
on
the
wintry
north
Atlan
tic,
twenty-nine
numbed
and
frost-bltlen
seamen
from
a
torpedoed
Allied
merchantman
have
been
landed
here.
the
essential
Industries.
"Wo
have
to
fight
for
what
we
have,
and
what
we
havo
lso'ur
all."
declared
Mr.
Curtin.
Australia
and
her
Allies
were
fighting
for
free
institutions
and
In
a
common
cause.
"Australia
is
the
last
bastion
between
Japan
and
the
west
coast
of
America,"
declared
Curtin.
"If
Australia
goes
you
will
be
wide
open.
Save
Australia
and
jou
save
the
American
west
coast.
If
you
believe
anything
to
the
contrary
you
delude
yourselves."
There
would
always
bo
an
Aus
trallan
government,
There;
would
always
be
an
Australian
people.
The
address
of
Premier
Curtin
gave
tha
He
to
tho
circulation
ot
a
Japanese
report
that
Australia
was
suing
for
peace.
Local
Temperature
Tomorrow
sT
ides
(Standard
Time)
High
0:23
am.
20.9
rcct
:
;
HU)
40
12:26
pjn.
21.3
feet
I;,
Ml.
.juin
2J)
Low
6:29
a.m.
5.1
feet
18:52
p.m.
2
J)
feet
KL
XXXI
NO-
02
.4Qfe
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
MARCH
14,
1942.
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dlan
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rtuj
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rev::4
ships
get
ngici
lr;.,iiii.K
(ivoi
tin
O'.nui.'auv
wy
piiou
iney
arc
Kivm
instruction
m
l
rig
the
air
defence
route
to
Alaska.
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Kv...-
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.;
rade's
in
-these
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dc;
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Canadian
Air-
naviiiUon.
r;f!,i
rontart.
observatior,
and
aerial
nhntrc-
raphy
In
addition
to
piloting.
Training
i.s
alao
designed
to
prepare
oilots
for
actual
sprvir
natmi.
If
Australia
Goes,
West
Coast
Of
America
Is
Wide
Open
For
,
AltackSay5-Eremier.urtin
BRAZIL
IS
!
INDIGNANT
antl-Asis
demonstrations
in
Rio
de
Janeiro
in
indignation
over
the
sinking
of
unarmed
Brazilian
merchant
ships.
Crowds
gathered
outside
of
German
and
Japanese
business
and
industrial
premises,
special
precautions
for
the
protection
of
wtych
had.
to
be
taken
by
Ihe
authorities.
Some
German
Industrial
and
financial
concerns
have
been
taken
over
by
the
Bra
zilian
government.
CAPE
TOWN
OS
ALEUT
A
scheme
for
evacuation
of
people
from
the
city
to
the
mountainside
in
the
event
of
air
raids
or
other
attack
on
Cape
Town
is
being
considered.
CANBERRA,
March
14:
Australia
has
suffered
another
serious
naval
loss.
Prime
Minister
John
Curtin
announced
last
night.
The
j
cruiser
Perth
and
the
slopp
Yar-ra
are
unreported
and
are
pre-
i
sumtd.
kTy4attcaioblaetl
i
i
it
...4i.
t
icrcw
of
833.
some
of
whom.
It
Is
'
CANBERRA,
March
11:
(CP)-(W
co-opera-'
"gy..
Ji
TuSSl
tion
between
Australia
and
the
United
States
in
the
war1
'
!
Pertn
,eft
Java
or
Australia
i
was
urged
by
Prime
Minister
John
Curtin
in
a
broadcast
.
,
'
!
n
iteL?l"flT?
i
last
night
with
the
declaration
that,
if
Australia
falls
to
i
Rio
de
Janeiro.
March
h.-
"panie
had
SSd
the
Uie
Japanese,
"tne
Americas
are
wide
open.
Australia,
inre
oeen
angry
0,
crulser
Loss
of
the
Perth
leaves
Aus-
WAR
NEWS
NAZIS
BEING
SLAUGHTERED
MOSCOW
The
Red
Army
continues
to
subject
the
Nazis
to
wholesale
slaughter
all
along:
the
great
Russo-German
battlefront.
Far
to
the
north
an
entire
German,
division
has
been
destroyed
in
the
.Murmansk
area.
West
of
Leningrad
and
Moscow
as
well
as
in
the
Donets
Basin
and
the
Crimea
the
Russians
arc
driving
into
the
enemy
with
much
effectiveness.
The
neck
ot
the
sack
the
Russians
are
drawing
around
the
Germans
in
the
Rxhcv-Vyazma
area
on
the
central
front
between
Moscow
and
Smolensk
is
growing
steadily
narrower,
a
military
commentator
said
today.
Unofficial
reports
from
Stockholm
declare
that
the
German
area
way
of
reinforcement
or
retreat
is
cut
to
twenty
miles.
BALKANS
NON
CO-OPERATIVE
LONDON
Rumania,
having
already
lost
200,000
men,
is
reported
to
be
refusing
to
send
more
men
to
reinforce
the
German
army,
Ilulgarla
is
likewise
refusing.
Hungary,
however,
has
pledged
herself
to
supply
the
Reich
with
another
250,000
men.
AMERICANS
IN
AUSTRALIA
CUICAGO
The
Chicago
Sun
says
that
thousands
of
American
troops
landed
in
Australia
three
weeks
ago
after
weathering
a
Japanese
attack
enroutc.
Not
an
American
was
lost,
however,
from
the
large
convoy.
The
paper
says
that
thousands
more
American
soldiers
may
be
sent
to
Australia
before
the
"War
is
over.
JAPANESE
INVASION
FORCE
LONDON
The
Dally
Express
says
that
a
force
ot
183,000
Japanese
is
massed
for
an
Invasion
of
Australia
but
there
will
have
to
be
a
vastly
larger
force
than
that
before
Japan
can
have
any
reasonable
hope
of
success
insuch
an
invasion.
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
Big
If
wal
Losses
In
Battle
of
Java
ITCH
STILL
FIGHTING
ON
AGAINST
JAPANESE
INVADERS
IN
INDIES
Eiislance
Bein
J)irected
From
Melbourne-a
w
r
t
m
Are
urivinj;
up
isurma
Towards
Mandalay.
Nipponese
'.II
IHOI
RNE,
March
14:
(CP)
Netherlands
,r
ere
authoritatively
declared
today
to
be
fighting
i
Mic
Japanese
in
Java
as
well
as
on
the
islands
r;-
and
Sumatra.
Ljeutenant
Governor
General
f
the
Netherlands
Elast
Indies
announced
c
'ance
at
Melbourne,
saying
his
staff
was
still
.
t
with
pumaira
abiuh
additional
with
Java."'
'
.
irallan
Air
Force
:
r
effecUvp
raid
ipird
OaamaUi
on
t
nas
alto
engaged
f
flight,
A
for-
e
bombers
over
broken
up.
Unlt-
i
,
are
eo-operat-K
stralUiia
In
the
have
driven
one
.;.
liurma
beyond
j
:
Mandalay
RFOLOGNE
ATTACKED
NO
PLACE
FOR
AfFORCEI)
LANDING
Biggest
Engagement
of
War
Ends
In
Score
of
12
to
8
For
E
nemy
Details
of
Ships
WThich
Were
Liquidated
United
Nations
Were
Heavily
Outpowered
in
Great
Fight.
ivASH
v
ruiser
iionc
INGTON,
March
14:
(CP)
The
United
States
Navy
disclosed
today
that
the
United
Nations
lost
twelve
warships
in
the
furious
sea
battle
for
Java
last
month
against
superior
enemy
sea
forces
but
they
took
a
iolj
of
eight
Japanese
warships.
The
losses
were
British,
Netherlands,
Australian
and
United
States
cruisers
A
-
that
attempted
on
February
27
to
AUSTRALIAN
NAVAL
LOSS
I
IS
SERIOUS
ii.
M.
A.
S.
Perth
.Missing
Presumed
Lost,
Premier
Announces
And
block
the
landing
of
Japanese
troops
In
convoys.
A
thirteenth
United
Nations
warship
was
listed
as
presumed,
last
and
reported
beached.
The
Allied
losses
were
made
public
In
a
joint
British
Admiralty
and
United
States
Navy
communique
which
listed
the
losses
as
follows:
Cruisers
Houson,
United
States;
Exeter,
British;
Perth,
Australian;
Java,
Dutch;
DeRuyter,
Dutch.
Destroyers
Pope,
United
States;
Kortenaer,
Dutch;
Electra,
Jupiter.
Encounter
and
Stronghold,
all
British.
Others
were
the
Yarra,
Australian
sloop,
and
the
Evertsen,
Brit
ish
destroyer,
listed
as
beached
and
presumed
lost.
The
Japanese
losses,
according
to
early
reports,
were
one
cruiser
a
cruiser
damaged,
a
destroyer
sunk,
a
cruiser
of
the
Mo?ani
class
afire
and
possibly
sinking.
This,
the
greatest
naval
engagement
of
the
war,
was
fou&ht
in
a
screen
of
smoke
put
up
by
both
Japanese
and
Allied
warships.
The
Japanese
force
consisted
of
at
least
nine
cruisers,
of
which
tralia
with
only
four
of
the
six'
two
were
10,000-ton
ships
armed
cruisers
with
which
she
started
the
war.
The
cruiser
Sydney
was
lost
earlier.
New
York
Has
Scare
Of
Air
Raid
Friday
NEW
YORK.
March
14:
There
was
an
air
raid
scare
in
New
York
yesterday
afternoon
when
an
anti-aircraft
gun
got
out
of
control
Many
people
believed
that
an
actual
air
raid
was
on.
with
eight-inch
guns,
accompan
ied
by
two
flotillas
of
destroyers.
The
Exeter
was
hit
in
the
boiler-room
by
an
eight-Inch
shell
in
the
early
stages
of
the
battle
and
was
forced
to
drop
out
of
the
line.
INDIA
NOW
NEAR
WAR
Loss
ot
Rangoon
Is
Serious,
Declares
Sir
Archibald
WavelL
CALCUTTA,
March
14:
General
Sir
Archibald
Wavell
declares
that
the
loss
of
Rangoon
is
in
some
ways
more
serious
than
that
of
Singapore.
It
has
brought
the.
war
much
closer
to
India
which
is,
however,
prepared
to
combat
any
invasion
attempt.
General
waveu,
nowever,
sees
danger
for
Japan
in
spreading
out.
Japan
must
always
consider
her
danger
from
Manchuria.
Canadian
Priests
Interned
In
Japan
Seventy
two
Names
Ry
Department
of
Affairs
Are
Listed
External
OTTAWA.
March
14:
The
De
partment
of
External
Affairs
lists
the'
names
of
seventy-two
Canadians
who
are
Interned
in
Japan.
Most
of
them
are
Roman
Catholic
priests.
SAVE
THE
PLASTER
If
you
heat
a
nail
before
trying
to
drive
it
Into
plaster
this
will
help
keep
the
plaster
from
crack
ing.
NOTHLNG-A-YEAIt
3IAN
E.
J.
Kennedy
ot
Chicago,
retired
businessman,
has
an
official
but
unpaid
honorary
recruiting
Job
for
the
VS.
Navy.
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