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iiiu
I'liirupin-u
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army
near
taraya-Russa.
Dispatches
said
that
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gun-
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unit
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hvan
Axis
Patrol
V
mm
mm
mm
mm
m
VW
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mmW
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mm
W
S
Strong
Axis
patrols
were
shelled
and
dispersed
Ik
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A
f
?!
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1
iw
ilibii
iui
i
in
iii
taniLi
11
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jia
fiaiiiudii
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FOR
NAZIS
.
i
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n
r
pr
una
in
iwrnn
10
run
Action
Atlnt
llaUa.
to
'i
Feb.
2:
An
Impor-'S
y
conference
will
be
S
urxt
week,
it
is
said,
plans
for
a
new
Nazi
'.
the
east
probibly
.
.
.
it
t
iM
n
U
v
ally
heavy
troop
Nazis
through
Rumania
reported
recenUy.
They
Vrrnnn-ICrlnii'n
unit
la
in
nir-
"
.
V.Wi
U4I.V
4
WM
.W.
Jit
of
quota.
Loan
Is
Over
Half
Billion
:
OTTAWA.
Feb.
28:
Ol
.Vie-
torv
"Il
Canada
tnLallix.
RnA272.-
1V1
r
Ik.
.1
i
I
J-
11
uig
I'JUSC
Ol
DUSlUCKt
T
last
nlcht
j.
.
Japanese
Being
Moved
at
Once
From
Utilities
VANCOUVER,
Feb.
2:
residents
are
to
be
mored
lm-
-mediately.
from
proximity
Vf
tho
Captlano
pipe
line
and
the
RuOcln
power
plant.
."rJ
tar
1
rathe
Is
ij-i
inci
ill
wub,
w
ae
arrived
In
Rome
Berlin
for
the
confer
Vancouver
Street
!
Greatly
Increased
;rj
to
be
destined
ior
lnan
,n
same
month
In
1840.
I
the
company
announced
yester-
i
'..uf!
the
Russian
counter-
v
ive
against
uic
un-
.nue.
relentlessly.
Mew
xj3
that
96,000
Gennan
c
Uapped
southwest
of
.
J
fare
extermination,
"c:
li
Ocrman
army
is
betted
to
pieces
bit
by
bit.
.j'i.s
asserting
that
six
division
are
facing
URUN
lb
OVER
TOP
iviimi
.uiiHr.
iiriiu
in
la.
tory
Ian
Campaign.
i
Ainv.uuviJt.
ten.
2H:
yukoii-
"
-a
iroiumwa
-
Yukon
district
ever
the
top
In
the
Second
-ry
koan
campaign,
ii
naa
ar:.t
102
tiercent
of
duota.
:
o
has
turned
In
189
percent,
percent
Northern
British
Co-
Young
Mans
War
Says
McNaughton
Favors
liven
Further
Reduction
In
Officers'
Ages
Too
Much
For
Old
Men
OTTAWA,
Feb.
28:
Speaking
vestcrdav.
Lieut.
Ocncral
A.
G.
L.
McNaughton.
commander-in-chief
of
the
Canadian
Corps
In
Great
Britain,
said
this
Is
a
"young
man's
war."
He
said
that
he
favored
an
even
further
reduction
In
the
ages
of
brigadiers,
colonels
and
other
officers.
Week
after
week
strain
of
modern
warfare,
he
declared,
was
too
much
for
the
older
men
to
withstand.
Hollick-Kenyon
For
Whitehorse
Noted
Canadian
Commercial
Filer
to
Take
Charge
of
New
Airport
There.
VANCOUVER.
Feb.
28:
Herbert
Hollick-Kenyon.
noted
commercial
nllot.
ha
been
annotated
supcrln
trnripnt
nf
thn
new
airpors
ai
Itchorse.
Mr.
nnrf
Mrs.
Hcnrv
Smith,
well
known
nlonecrs
of
the
city,
re
turned
home
on
the
Princess
Adc
lalde
yesterday
afternoon
from
Vancouver
where
they
have
been
for
the
past
seven
weeks.
Mr.
Smith
underwent
an
operation
as
a
result
of
which
his
health
is
now
much
Improved.
SEQUEL
TO
JAP
SNEAK
General
Short
and
Admiral
Kim-mell
to
lie
Tiied
for
Dereliction
of
Duty
at
I'earl
Harbor.
WASHINGTON,
Feb.
28:
tf
Secretary
of
War
Henry
L.
Stim-kon
announced
today
that
court-martial
trial
had
been
directed
for
Major
General
Walter
C.
Short,
commander
of
the
United
States
Army
defences
at
the
time
of
the
Tear!
Harbor
attack.
At
the
same
time
Secretary
of
the
Nary
Frank
Knox
announc
ed
that
charces
for
the
court-martial
of
Rear
Admiral
Husband
11
Kimmell,
former
Pacific
fleet
commander,
were
auo
ie-liil
prepared.
LOAN
TOTAL
FOR
RUPERT
Has
Heachrd
grcxate
of
edges
that
tHnn
$500
From
As-1151
Subscribers
The
Victory
Loan
subscription
total
for
Priiuo
Rupert
up
to
las:
?ventni
stood
at
$560,350
from
an
aggregate
of
1451
subscribers.
HOW
BURMA
FIGHT
GOES
BritUn
Defenders
Stilt
Holding
Oft
fl(JvAxtT
Version
Is
Different
f
iflANOALAY.
Feb.
28:
The
Bri
tish
defenders
are
still
holding
the
Japanese
along
the
Sittang
River
although
the
enemy
are
endeav
ouring
to
make
a
move
to
out
flank
them.
Movement
of
large
force
of
Japanese
up
the
east
side
of
the
SiUang
River,
last
natural
'barrier
bsfore
Rangoon,
suggests
this.
In
the
Battle
of
Burma.
Japa-
VANCOUVER.
Feb.
28:
Van-,neC
infantry
have
suffered
two
couver
street
cars
carried
1550,000
j
thousand
casualties
In
a
series
of
mnri.
nassencers
this
January
rushes
to
capture
a
British-held
bridgehead
on
biiiang
the
British
command
the
River
but
acknowl-
situation
Is
very
Salaon.
French
Irido
-
China,'
claims
that
communications
Be
tween
Rangoon
and
Mandalay
have
been
cut.
There
are
communications
between
the
two
cities
by
railway,
highway
and
the
Irrlwady
River.
Axis
reports
are
that
the
Japanese
are
already
at
the
gates
of
Rangoon
and
have
penetrated
its
outer
defences.
WILY
JAPS
ARE
SPIES
Have
Been
1'aving
Way
For
ears
For
Pacific
Coast
Invasion,
Says
.
Dies
Commission
Report
WASHINGTON.
D.C..
Feb.
28:
Another
report
from
the
Martin
Dies
commission
on
unAmerican
activities
says
that
the
people
Hvwst
still
be
awakened
to
a
real
danger
which
threatens
ino
pacific
Coast
and
the
Panama
Canal
zone
which
are
"in
gravest
peril
from
espionage
and
attack.
The
report
says
that
ior
years
the
Japanese
have
ocen
paving
the
way
tor
an
Invasion.
Tney
have
detailed
maps
of
west
const
cities
and
their
fortlflcatlons,.Jap-nnese
fishing
boats
had
for
some
time
a
system
of
espionage.
,
Further
information
In
regard
to
Japanese
invasion
plans
Is
raw;
In
the
hands
of
united
states
Army
intelligence
officers
and
will
be
made
public.
Local
Temperature
Maximum
Minimum
In
East
Indies
TODAY'S
(
Court
y
S.
D.
V
Tomorrow
sT
ides
loday'rMar
Summary
(Standard
Time)
High
-
0:35
a.m.
18.9
ft.
12:31
p.m.
20.7
ft.
Low
6:34
ajn,
7.0
ft.
19:61
pjn.
3.1
ft.
Hied
WarshipsX
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
inning
oea
Dame
IJATAVIA
Allied
wai.
4s
were
officially
dp.
clarcd
today
to
have
wontlicir
third
great
victory
over
a
Japanese
fleet,
hurling
back
an
invasion
armada
of
"several
tens
of
fchips"
in
a
thunderous
bat-tic
off
Java.
A
bulletin
from
Kast
Indies
headquarters
said
that
a
big
Japanese
convoy,
powerfully
guarum
ij
aiauiji,
niiiuiiu
iu
inc
Murin.
iaic
this
afternoon
the
battle
was
reported
still
raninjc
with
the
enemy
in
full
flight
but,
as
night
fell,
dispatches
from
Handling
said
it
was
believed
the
enemy
armada
was
reorganizing
for
a
second
assault.
.
,
...
I!
i
l
I
Al
A
ll
A
Kcutcrs
uispaicii
saiti
mat
me
Java
name
was
the
biggest
naval
engagement
of
the
Pacific
war.
losses
are
reporieu
on
oom
sines
uui
me
cxient
is
still
nssians
ahoot
uown
azi
iransporinanes
At
Moscow
the
Russians
reported
today
that
they
were
snooung
uown
mg
transport
planes
jam-
VOL.
XXXI
NO.
50.
PKINCB
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY
28,
1942.
IMPORTANT
SEA
FIGHT
NEAR
JAVA
Results
of
Engagement
Between
Japanese
and
United
Nations
Vessels
Jfot
Immediately
Made
known
1
BATAVIA;
Feb.
28:
Naval
vessels
of
Japa
i
and
the
united
nations
were
1i
contact
In
an
engagement
in
(the
Java
Sea
between
Java
and
Borneo
since
last
night
Results
of
the
ccmbat
were
not
Immediately
known.
Early
Indications
were
that
It
was
the
first
all-out
naval
engagement
of
the
'
Pacific
war
In
which
may
hang
the
fate
of
the
Netherlands
East
Indies.
The
united
nations'
warships,
evidently,
attacked
Japanese
vessels
in
convoy
which
were
endeavouring
to
bring
up
reinforcements
,
'
to
south
Sumatra
in
preparation
for
the
assault
upon
Java,
herald-
;ng
the
all
-out
invasion
attempt
on
the
principal
East
Indies
Island.
Java
had
a
quiet
day
yesterday
with
only
one
air
raid,
this
bilnt
an
attempt
bn
the
naval
base
of
Surebaja
which
was
broken
up
before
the
.lormatlon
of
ennv
nlanes
was
able
to
reach
Its
obje:-ttve
,
The
Japanese
are
said
to
be
in
full
control
of
southern
Sumatra
but
are
not
so
well
established
on
Ball.
American
Raid
On
Wake
Island
STOCKS
Johnston
Oo.)
TOKYO,
Feb.
28:
O
Im-
perlal
Tokyo
headquarters
admit
casualties
and
damage
inflicted
when
a
naval
squad-
ron,
presumably
American,
attacked
Japanese
-
h
e
1
d
Wake
Island.
Vancouver
Grandvlew
14,
Bralome
7.35
Cariboo
Quartz
1.35
Hedley
Mascot
.26
Pend
Oreille
1.40
Pioneer
-
1.65
Premier
-
.
10
Privateer
M
Reno
.17
Sheep
Creek
.
.
.75
Oils
Calmont
.15
C.
Si
E.
1.01
Home
,
2.45
Royal
Canadian
.04
Toronto
Beattle
.
.80
Central
Patricia
-
-
1.15
Consolidated
Smelters
38.00
Hardrock
.47
Kerr
Addison
3.65
Little
Long
Lac
1.15
McLcod
Cockshutt
1.45
Madsen
Red
Lake
.33
McKenzle
Red
Lake
.80
Moneta
-
.23
Pickle
Crow
2.07
Preston
East
Dome
2.56
San
Antonio
-
1.65
Shcrrltt
Gordon
.77
Forty-Hour
Work
.
Week
Sustained
Blll
toi
Suspend
-It
Is
Rejected
226
to-62
In
United
States
House.
WASHINGTON,
Feb.
28:
The
House
of
Representatives,
by
vote
of
226
to
62,
yesterday
rejected
a
bill
whereby
the
forty-hour
work-
40
lng
week
would
have
been
sus-35
pended,
IRON
MILL
FOR
ANYOX
Plans
of
Ventures
Limited
for
Old
Camp
Are
Iletealed.
The
plan
of
Ventures
Limited,
Toronto
mining-
company,
which
has
taken
an
option
on
the
old
Anyox
smelting
and
mining
property
of
the
Graoby
Co.,
fiom
Consolidated
Mining
Si
Smelting
Co.
is
to
establish
there
during
the
coming
spring
the
first
pig
iron
plant
in
British
Columbia.
Earlier
this
week
news
was
received
here
from
Anyox
of
the
taking
over
of
the
property.
Under
the
plan
for
Anyox
being
considered
by
Ventures,
the
plant
would
be
used
to
produce
certain
iron
and
steel
products
fiom
scrap
as
well
as
from
native
ores
from
Vancouver
Island
mines.
Blast
furnaces
would
have
to
be
installed
if
ores
are
to
be
smelted
and
there
'would
also
be
a
cupola
foi
the
production
of
foundry
iron.
There
would
be
a
capacity
of
three
to
five
hundred
tons
daily..
Negotiations
have
been
carried
out
with
a
view
to
obtaining
adequate
supplies
of
coke.
CREW
MEN
HARD
HIT
Very
Few
Survive
After
Attacks
Are
Made
By
Enemy
Torpedoes
NEW
YORK.
Feb.
2?.
-The
Am-
'fri&H'ftfri!ters
R.
-p;inssV"ano
W.
D.
Anderson
are
the
latfat
vie-
j
Urns
of
Axis
submarine
attacks
:
off
the
coast
of
the
east
United
States.
The
Ressor,
a
7500
ton
ves-
1
sel.
was
set
afire
and
sunk
off
the
j
coast
of
New
Zealand,
only
two
members
of
the
crew
being
saved.
All
but
one
member
of
the
crew
of
the
W.
D.
Anderson
were
lost.
Another
tanker
has
been
lost
In
collision
but
most
of
the
crew
was
landed
safely.
DEATH
OF
PENSIONER
Waller
Raymond,
Who
Has
Been
III
in
Cabin
Along
Railway
Track,
Expiies.
Norman
A.
Watt.
France
Gives
Information
Request
of
United
States
To
Vichy
Is
Believed
To
Have
Been
Met
VICHY,
Feb.
28:
Information
sought
by
the
United
States
from
France
is
believed
to
have
been
given
at
a
conference
yesterday
between
United
States
Ambassador
William
D.
Leahy
and
Vice-Premier
Admiral
Jean
Darlan.
In
formation
had
been
sought
by
the
United
States
in
regard
to
French
naval
matters
and
other
things.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harold
Dennlson,
after
a
three
weeks'
visit
here,
will
sail
by
the
Princess
Norah
on
their
return
to
Whitehorse.
Mrs.
Dennlson
is
the
former
Miss
Nellie
Gurvlch.
POLICY
OF
AUSTRALIA
Will
Be
to
Go
Out
and
Hit
Enemy
Declares
Melbourne
Ileiald.
ian
cabinet
to
consider
the
crm
Walter
Raymond,
veteran
ofthelcai
situation
in
the
southern
Pa-
Spanish-American
and
First
World
Wars,
who
had
been
reported
ill
in
his
cabin
along
the
railway
track
about
three
miles
from
the
city,
was
found
dead
there
about
9
o'clock
last
night
by
neighbors.
James
Seeley
and
Jack
Sharp,
who.
at
the
request
of
the
police,
had
been
looking
after
him.
Constable
William
Currie
was
dispatched
to
the
scene
and
brought
the
body
in.
Death
was
undoubtedly
due
to
natural
causes.
An
Inquiry
is
being
made
by
Coroner
clflc
as
It
now
affects
or
may
soon
affect
the
commonwealth.
The
Australian
war
council
has
been
conferring
with
military
representatives
of
the
united
nations.
Plane
Plunged
Into
Puget
Sd.
This
Is
Believed
in
.Connection
With
Disappearance
of
Navy
Machine.
SEATTLE,
Feb.
28:
A
United
States
Navy
observation
plane,
which
disappeared
on
Monday,
Is
now
believed
by
naval
officials
to
have
plunged
Into
Puget
Sound.
Two
fliers
were
lost
with
the
plane.
Freighter
Safe
Across
Pacific
Vessel
Which
Was
in
Orient
Since
War
With
Japan.
Ar.rlves
at
West
Coast
Port.
VANCOUVER.
Feb.
28:
A
Ca
nadlan
freighter,
having
made
Us
way
across
from
the
Orient
since
the
outbreak
of
war
with
Japan,
has
landed
at
a
west
coast
Cana
dlan
port.
It
was
at
Singapore
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
Officers
Court-Martialled
Daring
Commando
Raid
Made
By
British
On
North
Of
France
Parachutists
and
Sea-Horne
Infantry
Make
Destructive
and
Weil-Timed
Attack
on
Radio
and
Detector
Post.
LONDON,
Feb.
28:
(CP)
Daring
British
parachutists
and
sea-borne
infantry
combined
today
in
a
destructive
attack
on
a
German
radio
and
detector
post
in
the
first
sizeable
incursion
of
the
northern
French
coast
since
the
fall
of
France.
Under
cover
of
Royal
Air
Force
fighters
and
with
navy
assistance,
the
raiders
then
with-
Plebiscite
1
lCUldlUC
Early
May
I
OTTAWA,
Feb.
28:
a
Poj-
sibllity
was
seen
today
that
the
proposed
manpower
pleb-
Iscite
would
be
or
11
following
special
committee
of
the
House
of
Commons
which
completed
study
oi
the
bill
and
recommended
its
adop-
tion.
The
committee,
having
,
completed
review
of
the
bill,
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if
tn
thi
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,
third
reading
Monday.
achutists
dropped
from
the
clouds
to
form
an
assault
group
against
'the
German
garrison
as
Infantry.
T?
1
Hfl
on
the
beach.
The
loinine
forces.
a
military
spokesman
said,
could
not
be
assumed
to
be
"small."
Two
detachments
dealt
a
one
-two
punch
at
the
Nazi
force
while
demolition
squads
wrecked
the
ra-
taken
May
4;dlo
stations.
Then
they
depart-
action
of
a
1
ed
as
quickly
as
they
came,
leav
ing
the
location
post
ruined
and
the
force
of
German
guards
iTHROWING
OFF
JAPS
General
McArthur's
Counter
-Offensive
Continues
Against
-"Overwhelming
Numbers-of
Japs.
WASHINGTON,
Feb.
28:
Although
outnumbered
ten
to
one
by
the
Japanese,
General
Douglas
McArthur's
forces
are
plunging
Htrht
nhMrt
with
their
counter-
MELBOURNE,
Feb.
28:
-
The
offensive
on
Bataan
Peninsula
in
Melbourne
Herald
gave
a
hint
of
the
Philippines,
according
to
re-Australian
military
policy
In
the
to
the
War
Department.
The
defence
of
the
Commonwealth
.
Japanese
are
believed
to
be
await-
agauisi
waat
apycaia
w
u...,
reinforcements.
enemy
uiuttR..
This
policy,
the
newspaper
said,
would
be
one
of
"go
out
and
hit"
the
enemy
wherever
he
could
be
found.
"Aid
Is
already
with
us
and
more
Is
coming,"
declared
the
newspaper
which
took
assurance
from
the
speech
of
President
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
earlier
In
the
week.
I
There
was
a
special
two-and-a-I
half
hour
session
of
the
Austral
MANY
JAPS
C0MEJ30WN
United
States
Planes
Take
Bag
OI
15
Nipponese
Ships
in
Two
Days
CHUNGKING,
Feb.
28:
United
States
Army
filers
in
the
Far
East
campaign
have
shot
down
245
Japanese
planes
to
48
of
their
own,
it
is
stated
here.
In
addition
to
this
it
is
reported
that
the
American
volunteers
the
Flying
Tigers
have
accounted
for
165
Japanese
planes
45
in
two
days.
The
American
margin
Is
live
to
one
over
the
enemy.
American
fliers
are
also
said
to
have
ac
counted
for
at
least
seventy-two
Japanese
ships.
Just
before
Christmas
while
an
air
dio3
and
firearms,
raid
was
in
progress
at
the
since-
fallen
stronghold.
BOARD
OF
EVACUATION
Commission
to
Supervise
Their
Evacuation
Curfew
and
Blackout
r-vrvT.Axir
a
rViV.
oft.
Xi-ir,.
Tlrl
tlsh
Columbia
men
will
lorm
a
security
commission
to
supervise,
the
evacuation
of
the
Japanese
population
from
the
defence
zones
of
the
coast.
Austin
C.
Taylor
of
Vancouver
will
be
the
chairman
and,
in
consultation
with
the
provincial
government,
will
choose
his
two
associates
on
the
commission.
Meanwhile,
until
the
evacuation
takes
place,
Japanese
will
have
to
adhere
strictly
to
the
new
curfew
law
as
well
as
the
order
forbidding
them
to
have
or
operate
motorvehlclea
or
use
cameras,
ra-
All
nocturnal
activities
for
tho
Japanese
will
be
suspended.