Local Temperature 48 sra 40.5 y- XXXI No 271 Tomorrow sT Ides (Standard Time) High 0:57 aJa. 19.9 feet 13:56 pjn. 21.7 feet Low 8:03 ajn. 7.5 feet 20:39 p.m. 8.9 feet Allies Are Streaming Into Tunisia REDS HAVE LARGE WIN Soviet force- Preying Hard Alter llceing Germans Deep in Caucasus NEW Kt.lt STRENGTH MOSCOW. Not. 21 (CP) Sucre ifuily storming heights at f".:::rad and in Hie Caucasus, tht Ku' slant mere reported showing 4- frr h strength today In the 't.Tf and lake" battle with the Gcrrr.an Invaders. During the nishl a ited Army unit dModted the enemy from a strongly fortified he cht southeast of Nalchik, Oaf hundred NaiU were killed la a email scale attack such as the Itavviani have been launch-tit It increasing numbers during recent day. j: W Nv. 21 0 Red Army :y turned to Uve offen- war against the Oer-r A -ts. are preMlnc hard L :.eeing NaiU. loUoving : victory that eaaed the r ,.t on the great Oroany .. at the Caspian Sea mililmr mad leadlns I ;. rich tranaCaucaau. s.t Une reporU bear ( ...fx Impression that a I ,-t ioree, possibly four : 45 000 men. vu routed ut several days on the o ordsbonlktdae. ' ,. rommunique brought the triumph, report-uand of the enemy i . . : i umat that many x " and V rattrtary booty i bddrd details confirm or a .iid aU figure. L iMuiigrad the Russians J another major victory. : uiand Oermana being CALL-UP EXTENDED Mfa in Lower Categories Are Now To He Dratted '.VVA, Nov: 31 O-The De-r National Defence has extend call-up elegl-C I anadlans by accepUng r i:-dical categories Bl and .:r immediately. It was ti rday. Up to now only 1 in "A" category after examination have been t home defence duties. CRITICAL OF ADOLF Ciplurrd German General Has Sotnc Interesting Things to Say About Inner Germany I ".y -M. Nov. 21 9 Oeneral T v m Thnmn Nai AfrlM. K i nlander under Oeneral E i I'mol. ls In London, the iivr Axis general to bJ 1 here- He was flown to E: by Flight Lieutenant Wcn-( V ! m tttnoKtnn Ontario. G: al von Thonrn, who Is a c: : of the school of profes-vildicraof Germany, had - interesting things to say 'Jt tho situation within Ger-r ' lie declared that Adolf Hlt- I -t ;ad ruined the Oerman army '.hat there was bitter feeling II ncr clccles over his Interfere ! Tie Dally Mall quotes von T n covin hnt MUff'S flS- '"-rro'on of supreme command fc- spelt disaster for Uie war n- ie of Oermany. His political i was aiso cnucizca. PUGNACIOUS MASCOT A BnmSH PORT, Nov. 21 '1MB Howk hnn a mnscot. DUK j-- ii- Phoenix Judy." a pedigree i::," wltJi a kennel club record. He? ship's butcher. 4. Guadalcanal I Now Secure t WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 The United States hold on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands Is now very secure partly as a result of the great naval victory of laat week. said Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox in announcing 4 definitely that twenty-eight enemy ships had been sunk and ten damaged. NORTHERN RAILROAD Leading United States Military Officer Would Build From Prince George to Whitehorse KLUANL' LAKE, l'ukon Territory. Nor. 21 (CP) Construction of a standard guage railroad from Prince George to White-horse was urged in a letter from General J. L. DeWHt, officer commanding, western defence command of the United States, which was read at the ceremony of the formal opening of the Alaska Highway yesterday. He said, however, that It could not be used to advantage "until a distribution network westward has been completed and Ls in operation." Military supplies are moving overland to Alaska from the interior of North America for the first time immediately following formal opening ceremonies of the 1600-mile Alaska Highway held at nearby Soldiers Summit and attended by representatives of Canadian and American armies and the governments of both countries. Soon after a red, white and blue ribbon across the road was cut, a convoy of trucks proceeded to Fairbanks headed by a battered truck which was the first vehicle to travel from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse. Bulletins NEW GUINEA FIGHTING MELBOURNE Heavy fighting W now proceeding before Ituna and Guna on New Guinea Isand as the Japanese engage in a last ditch struggle to avoid annihilation at the hands of the Americans and Australians. The within a Allied forces arc now mile of Ituna. CONSERVATIVE LEADEIt OTTAWA There is considerable discussion as to who will be the nest Dominion Conserva Uve leader. Should Senator Arthur Mclghcn decline, there Is consid-erable support 'Itt John Hracken of Manitoba. S.dney Smith, p.esident of the UnUer-sity of Manitoba, is also promin-ently mentioned. NEW DF.PUTV MINISTER titl-,en OTTAWA - The Ottawa mentions the names of Dr. and Dr. F George F. Davidson A. Corbett as possible new deputy minister of war services. India Secretary Talks With King lit. Hon. I C. M. S. Amery Received In Conference y His Majesty LONDON. Nov. 21 - The King received IU. Hon. L. C. M. Amery. Secretary of State for India. In conference yesterday The Internal situation in India wa discussed. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, WANTED ADEQUATE LIVING ACCOMMODATION T:.; . .. r c NaSi-iavdgt-d Eur t V a Canadsa!: futcily looking for a placx 1 1 T: r avc f..jcd cne ra tot se ' nr, is m r and five children make the beat oi it woue toe miu who u a war wik x : t . t :u- a house. But there in't an empty house to be found. There may be, howwer. space ta occupied homes that could be transformed Into comfortable upper flats of, there may be single people or couples who are now living in houses who would be satisfied with a comfortable room, If they could get one, and would make their houses available to families like this. To discover what living space resources are available and to aeetire living accommodation for men and women In war work, Canada Is now setting up central registries In congested centres and U urging all householders to register their spare rooms. j, . , STEEL BELL, NOT BRASS Shortage of Base Metals Makes-Substitution Necessary MONTREAL. Nov 21 Locomotive bells aren't what they used to be.. Shortage of base metals, due to the war. has made substitutions necessary in the manufacture of locomotive accessories and the latest to be changed on the Canadian National system ls the bell, according to E. It. Battley. chief of motive power and car equipment The locomotive assigned to run of "The Continental Limited" be tween Montreal and Armstrong, Ont.. was selected for the experi ment, a three-piece welded steel plate bell. Inches thick, instead of the usual cast bronze type. It was made in the company's Point St. Charles shops, shaped by a die. Teste have proven the bell satisfactory for railway ser vice. It has several advantages the hief being the conserving of val uable material, the saving of ap proximately thirty pounds In . . . . j ut uiH. : veigni ana- a oiTsiucrwnc in manufacturing cost. The clap per is of steel as used in the bronze bells. As additional engine bells are required by the Canadian National Railways during the war period. they will be made of steel piaie. Mr. Battley said. Mr. BatUey also spoKc oi anotner wartime contribution. To conserve rubber, the railways car shop ai London. Ont.. Is reclaiming air hose gaskets. For a recent three- month period more tnan u,w caskets were returned to the shop and of this number 64 percent were made available for lurmer service. The method employed for this work was the removal of the rough edge on the outsiae up, thereby doubling the life of this tvnn of casket, an Important fea ture at a time when there is a rubber shortage. MINESWEEPERS' SEAL A BRITISH POUT, Nov. 21 0 rv,t nt 11 minesweeper flotilla which makes this its home port is a seal and when me snips re turn he swims rrorn one 10 another barking for scraps. B.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1942 Warning Against Worthless Money ! Had .Mexican Peso Notes Result in Case in City Police Court Sergeant Hall of the British Columbia Police lamed a warning tods to all local merchants to examine carefully any paper cur rency before accepUng it. Sam Joseph Mllo, an American recently arrived In Prince Rupert, hpfore the court charged with obtaining the sum of twenty dol lars from George Ladicos, pro-nriPtnr of the Victory Cafe, In ex change for a worthless Mexican twenty peso banknote. Restitution has been made to Ladicos by Mllo. NEWS FOR NEWLY WEDS i.rNrON. Nov. 21 Oi Good new for Britain's newly weds: Linoleum will soon , be available for those people starting new homes. Stocks held lu warehouses are being released to retail shops. iLAVAL NOW REAL NAZI Expects Axis Victory and Says Entente With Germany Is Only Guarantee of Europe's Peace VICHY. Nov. 21 Pierre Laval, in i broadcast last night, expressed the belief that an entente with G?rmany was the only guarantee of 'he peace of Europe. He reiterated his confidence in an even tual Axis victory in the war. Laval accused President Franklin D. Roosevelt of undermining the defences of North Africa and declared that the United Nations had decided to grab chunks of Africa on account of their losses in the south Pacific. The time would coma when the French flag would again fly over the French empire. He did not wish Bofctievtam Imposed upon Europe under United States and British guns. RUSS0-GEKMAN FRONT INDUSTRIAL AREAS -rW -gifpf Jijr JENINCrUD il UJ TOMSK, TV cL PERMUHNI-TAGIL NOVOSIBIRSK f "STAUNSK.' - ' m0SC0W -.'Jm A ; (CHEIYADI NSK ; MvoNfSSe n ::HAGNIT0C0RSKv '.Kharkov - . ! " y 7- XhfifoBXSri : " f INDIA -M.R33 UJZ5. RUSSIAN INDUSTZtAl ARIAS IN 7HE URALS (to 1 -a. I Wave of Unrest t Sweeps Europe I ANKARA, Nov. 21 A new wave of unrest Is sweeping Europe and one hundred more anti-Axis executions are re- ported In Yugoslavia, Czecho- Slovakia, Green, Belgium and even Dresden and Cologne Germany. HERTZ0G , .lis nF.An Former Prime Minister of South Africa Passes Opposed War CAPE TOWN. Nov. 21 General J B. M. Hertzoe. aged 76, who lost the post as Prime Minister of South Africa after the outbreak of war n 1939 when Parliament voted down his proposal for strict neutrality, died today. TURIN IN ATTACKED Heaviest Combing Yet On Italy Made During Last Night LONDON, Nov. 21 (CP) The Arsenal City of Turin was attacked last night by Royal Air Force bombers in a raid which an authoritative source termed -the heaviest yet made on Italy." Two squadrons of the Royal Air Force participated as well as numerous Canadians in the Royal Canadian Air Force and returned with enthusiastic reports of the night's work. They described a pall of smoke hanging over the target as stretching up to five thousand feet after the raid had been in progress for some time. Of scores of heavy bombers assigned to the mission three are missing. All Royal Canadian Air Force planes returned safely to their bases. Medical Officers Going on Trial QUEBEC. Nov. 21 Five army medical officers have gone on trial on charges of irregularities In connection with examination of rcrults. toprwr) PRICE- FIVE CENTS ALLIED WIN REGISTERED Fleeing- Axis Forces Are Being rursuea into rocket In Tunisia LAST AXIS STAND LONDON, Nov. 21 (CP) Allied armored forces streaming into Tunisia closed with the German forces today in the opening phases of a fall scale assault on a Tobruk-like arc of defences within which the Axis has been herded with its back to the sea around Bizerte and Tunis. Allied troops were reported by North African radio stations to hold all of Tunisia except those two bridgeheads which the Axis, with airborne reinforcements, is defending behind barricades hastily flung out for about thirty miles in a semi-circle about each port. An Allied spokesman predicted that the struggle would grow in ferocity shortly and that Axis reports indicated that the enemy was throwing all air and submarine resources at its command into an effort to block the closing of the Allied steel and choke off its supplies. LONDON. Nov. 21 Oi Heavy fighting is going on in Tunisia with the first round going to the armed might of the British and American combat teams driving forward to close In on Bizerte and Tunis from several directions. Hammering at the defences, the Axis forces are within 30 miles of Bizerte and 25 miles from TunU. One spokesman at Allied head quarters In North Africa said that a third of one Nazi panzer column had been destroyed and two other columns hurled back in Libya, the Germans giving up Bengazl, Mar shal Rommel's last escape port short of Tripoli. 400 miles away. After raising the British flag at abandoned Bengazi, the Eighth . Army commenced pushing on through Agedabla towards the marshes around El Aghella where the German remnants may make a stand. Allied mechanized forces, driving through the coastal spur on the Atlas Mountains from Algeria and reported within thirty miles of Bizerte. General Alexander gave the Germans their first major drubbing of the Tunisian campaign after pushing at least half way to Bizerte from the Algerian Doraer. Allied losses are described as slight In addition to Bizerte, the Allies are also driving on Tunis and the Axis forces are pinned In the northeast of Tunisia while AUieo warships retain control of the Mediterranean including the narrow Sicilian Straits through which has moved the principal Axis sup-nlv Une. The Oermans have In cluded Gabat In their sphere. British, United Spates ana French forces are moving in on all Tunisia. Four times the Oermans attacked the American southeast of Tunisia and four times were pushed back. ASSURANCE i FOR SPAIN Country Will Not Be Occupied By Great Britain, General Franco Is Assured LONDON. Nov. 21 Oreat Britain has .assured Spain and Portugal that their territory will not De entered. The assurance has been eratefully acknowledged by Oen eral Francisco Franco who yester day made a statement to the ef fect that. If either side In me war moved In on Spain, he would Immediately accept assistance from the other. Meantime, It ls reported that sixty British1 airmen who landed In Spanish Morocco were arrested and have now been Interned In Spain.