Canada Three Years at War THIS DOMINION MAY BE Can '::c OTTAWA, Sent. 11". Before France fell. Canada ijliv had troops on the m Her ships had assisted in the ,i,,, hwx m niormn had been LEOPOLD take pride in the leadership & given t W,. A m.,m FfasT which had been lost off Hordraux and the Reatigouehc uu:eh had effected a dating re- Canada, next to Orcat Britain, f " one whole year had actually ':rr, the strongest power fighting N..7i Oermany. Prime Minuter Winston Churchill bod admitted J September, 10-11. imi. witnoui Canada war effort, the resistance ' Great Britain could not have i maintained. r.mada's troops In 1940 had !;rn dispatched to the West In- and leeland. there to assist Navy in maintaining the bridge the Atlantic until the United atrs had come in In the sum-1 r of 1941 to lend her aid. Can- , had bee the first nation of N'-w World to take part in the , in the Mediterranean ana Middle Bast and at Hong Kong. ' . and Ovlon had been the ' in Asia Five-sixths of . IS FIRM Imprisoned Monarch of Belgium Refutes to Form Pro-Nazi Government BRU88ELS. 8cpt. 11 King Lo-r 1 of Belgium ha been asked , t r iiancellor Adolf Hitter to es- ' ib;-h a pro-Nazi government In npird Belgium but has refused, i reported, even though a prom-. : ims been given that he would be restored his freedom. Leopold te 1 tT.v a prisoner of war. Soviet Forays Are Made Into North Norway J R Qlb-son arrived In the city i other na- tions of the new world in thi - of war," declared Prime Minister William Lyon Kenzic King in a radio nddresw last night Canada was the first nation in the new BIG LOSS FOR JAPS Enemy Got Decidedly the Worst of llrcent Air Battle In Solomons WASHINGTON. Sept. 11 It was announced today on a single day, August " 24, ninety-six Japanese battle off the Solomon Islands convoy off the Netherlands coast. Last night the British Royal Air Force was out again in force, the principal objective being Duesseldorf which had its fifteenth raid. The Nazis themselves admitted heavy damage. Thirty-one British bombers failed to return, Indicating that hundreds of planes were used In a mass raid. WAVELIS MONOCLE LONDON. Sept. 11: OV-The only way to know when Oen. Wavell U "rattled" is when he takes hte monocle from his eye, polishes it land puts It back--ln the wrong eye. MaJ.-Gen. R. J. Collins disclosed as a "secroT in a STOCKHOLM. Sept. 11 O Soviet 1 fir t.s have been cany lng out for- j j M cave ay - across the narrow northern jj rjeua. pari of Finland into Nazi-occupiea Norway. SOUVENIRS COSTLY nnmmnitAM vm snt 11: t "r I'ubllo h6uscs here arc serving C: Inks In Jam Jars, ot all things, because too many glasses are be- 4 lng stolen and can't be replaced. A man was fined $13.50 for steal- 1 . . 1 nig puo glasses. 1 4. leaves tonight for House Beer Deliveries Are Banned t There will be no more house to house beer Prince Rupert. nounccd " at . . r . .... i fnl Local Temperature Maximum Minimum 50 54 ure of conserving gasoline and , tires. . mm v -0j 1' Be Only One Ten tcjusion Peace After nnriir i rn Complete DcHtrut 'oliolicol Enemy jKLVlVAL Ur i we can and should RESISTANCE -BY SOVIETS v orld to seethe real issues and to decide to fight, said Mr. "ramatic Battle of staiingrad stiu Kmt' who told how to the early d n of the war Canada had sent cv vthiiifc she possessed of mill-',!'-'. value to help defend Britain frnm invasion, leaving her own 'is perilously exposed to Naval veeis had been dan sent. I nrv arm and ammunition. -o, had been dispatched. Hie training scheme had been Keeps Going With Bad Weather Giving Some Help BERLIN MAKES TIMIEAT , LONDON, Kept. 11 According ( lo the Berlin radio there will be mans executions of the people of Staiinmd if and when that important Russian city Is cap- 1 tured. All the people will be re- ' sarcled as snipers whieh, under International law as interpreted by the Nails, calls for execution. MOSCOW. Sept. 11 0 Cold rains swept the Stalingrad battlefields yesterday and Red Army de- .which cost the United States only fence stiffened again to exact a eight pilot Direct hits were scored deadly toll after repeated German on a Japanese cruiser and a large enemy battleship BY SOVIET Berlin Hit Mnyal Air Force Out Again With Heavy Attack on Duesseldorf lwmnw Rent 11 f The Tina- unfavorable weather in the west. power drives had overrun three more villages west of the city. A similar dramatic revival of Soviet resistance was reported from Nov-oratsttk. front where the Invaders have wedged dangerously Into defence positions Frontline developments were coupled with rains ending a heat wave which had attended the Bombing Offensive Main- ingrad battle, presaging the by Red While Weather proach of wintry conditions which Bad in West . ,may hamper the Nazis' huge mech- Untied forces. However, the Germans are obviously manoeuverlng for a knockout blow. The most gigantic battle of the Russo-Oerman war Ik now proceeding west of Stalingrad. That the Nazis have made fprther advances to the defence, of the city is he an air force has kept the Allied serial offensive in Europe rolling . , w homhln. oomtolng the the cttv city of f Tlerlln Berlin and and e,,5' inR made an the de- ..' rn.rfi.n .irmM had " fendera hTe withdrawn from three the Hungarian capital - of Budapest ulaytnv a large ana increas- more populated places during a lull In Royal Air oiace in th, bomblng of Europe. Germans have entered r.mada now had half a mimon - in leers in the three service ... atmv and air force. To if-r population , id nave n mutran ".- 1 ,. arms In three year, of war : . fanadians had served In this naii th total number in the c nr thr last war. The Cana-rxpedltlonary force In Great un was a full army aonstsUng. ' complete corps. I Tiii lrlme MlnLsUr referred U) Continued on I'AOC FOUR vorosstsk and there is The Soviet attacks were reported thLlre?U Utllted BWlies ....... forees Hcrlln avs nuisance rams ana minimizea vneir Twelve fires and four eiplo-sions were caused by Russian bombing attacks on Berlin dur I ing Wednesday night. Similarly thirty-eight fires and nine ex- , plosions were caused in Buda: pest. Dulsburg Mas also raided 1 by the Russians who lost only -j two planes. j Axis radio stations broadcast! dispatches attributing the raids' n nurliruMt In Fjlffltth nlanM hut 1 FIRE IN No- flghtlng in of 8tallngrad "by" "tferman BAKERY Serious Conflagration Averted By Effective Woik of Depart- , ment Early This Morning j i What had the earmarks for a; of being a dangerous sltua 1 he only Wednesday activity of the Royal Air Force was on a German tlon was successfully cobed with by the city fire department at 1:15' this morning when fire broke out In the Rupert Bakery premises on Third Avenue. As It was. considerable damage was done to building, ' plant and baking materials. Fortunately, no other property was Involved, the flames being confln-1 cd to jojfl building to the "rear of ;thc fronT store and dwelling struc-l ture. There was Insurance. I The fire originated as a result I of a fault in the main baking oven. This resulted In debris on the top of the oven catching fire, and Igniting the roof. A hole was burned through the roof. ! Bread production will be held 1 IL up lor a lew nays as a result 01 the fire. CROP IS BIGGEST Canada's Wheat Yield For 1912 Placed at C15.000.000 Bushels Which Is New Record Is OTTAWA, Sept. 11 Canada's wheat crop this year will be the largest In the history of the Dominion, says a statement of the Bureau of Statistics. It will deliveries in amount 10 uio.uuu.vuu ousueis, m-it was an- Imost twice as much as last year . . 1 e AAA IWk V.,cVia1 mnrn the government ana some jj,wv, i..iv f tnan ivta, me picuu v vie " T Tor r, tlmt'ord year. The increase is in spite I lowing ntvipu - - r 1 ...ch service Is to he nence- in,ih riiernntlnued as a mcas of a smaller man average acreage. 1 The entire grain crop for the ; three prairie provinces this year, including other varieties than wheat, Is estimated at 1,500,000 bushels. tin Tomorrow sT ides (Standard Time) High 2:05 ajn. 2U feet 14:24 pjn. 21.2 feet PROUD OF LEADERSHIP, Low 8:23 ajn. Z2 feet NOKTIIERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER 20:09 pm. 3.7 feet Trn mnT irmn ASSER VOL. XXXI, No. 211 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1942 PRICE- FIVE CENTS Today's War Summary (By Canadian Press) Progress of European War ... Great Britain sent a mighty armada of perhaps 750 to 1,000 bombers, Including two Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons, against Germany before dawn today, blasting war foundries in the city of Duesseldorf, while, on the Soviet front, Bed armies yielded four more villages in the grim battle of Stalingrad. Duesseldorf Heavily Bombed . . . British trriific weight authorities said that hundreds of planes dropped a of bombs on Duesseldorf. The loss of thirty-one planer was admitted. On the basis of average losses of from three to five percent, this would indicate that the attacking forces reach el high into three figures. The German high command admitted that the raiders inflicted widespread destruction. Stalingrad at Any Cost . . . On the Russian front dispatches to Red Star, Soviet Army newspaper, said that captured documents disclosed that Chancellor Adolf Miller had demanded the immediate capture of Stalingrad at any cost. The newspaper declared that the number of troops, machines and planes locked in bitter struggle was greater than in any previous battle of the war. With a full week now passed since the German high command -boasted that Nazi 'troops had entered the outskirts of the stronghold the -Red Army announced that "the city continues inaccessible to the enemy." Nevertheless, the situation remained extremely critical as Red Army headquarters said that Nazi power drives had overrun three more villages west of Stalingrad and had driven the Russians from another settlement southwest of the city. Madagascar Occuoation Proceeds . . . In the war's latest development the new British occupation of .Madagascar the British forces, encountering little resistance and suffering small losses, have captured three ports on the west roast of the French island against which operations started yesterday Prime Minister Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons to this effect today. It was an all-Empire undertaking without participation of the fighting French, a British military commentator said. This informant placed the strength of the Vichy garriron at no more than ten thousand troops, mostly natives. He said thattlapanese reconnaissance planes had recently been sighted over the 'island and surmised that they came from an aircraft rarrier. & Foreign Office source said that, although negotiations between Great Britain and the Island government had been going on for some time, "it was apparent there could be no jeal basis, for TiegotialionVso long as Axis pressure on'Vfchy continued.'' On Egyptian Battlefront . . . Sandstorms have limited fighting on the Egyptian front to artillery exchanges. Imperial guns, liowever, drove off some enemy tanks. United States planes have bombed Tobruk. BULLETINS GIFT TO GREECE OTTAWA As an outright gift to the starving people of Greece, Canada is prepared to ship 15,000 tons of wheat monthly to that country and considerable quantities already have gone forward, Hon. J. A. McKinnon, minister of trade and commerce, said today. INVASION OF SIBERIA? CHUNGKING Seventy -five enemy divisions of Japanese are massed in Inner .Mongolia, Manchuria and North China poised for an invasion of Siberia if and when Stalingrad falls, it is said here. MORE SHU'S SUNK NEW YORK Two more Allied ships have been sunk in the western Atlantic by enemy action one a British vessel and the other a Norwegian. JAP TRANSPORTS SUNK WASHINGTON Two Japanese .transports, each carrying 2,-000 troops, have been sunk by United States submarines off the coast of Japan, it is reported.. WILLK1E IN SYRIA BEYRUT Wendell Wlllkle lias reached Syria. He says that Turkey will remain neutral, heavy German pressure NAZI OVER ICELAND REIKAVIK A single Nazi plane bombed Iceland yesterday. It attacked a store, house and two trawlers but did no damage to military objectives and caused no casualties. Flow Of British Tanks To Soviet Are Beinj Delivered to Russia Rate of Fifty Per Week 2.000 Up to July 1 National at 'LONDON. Sept 11 Great Britain is delivering tanks to Soviet Russia at the rate of fifty per week, it Is reported. Up to July 1, two thousand has been delivered. Baseball Scores Chicago 10. Brooklyn 2. St. Louis 5, New York 1. Philadelphia 2, Pittsburg 1. Cincinnati 6-0, Boston 2-0 (second game scoreless draw). American St. Louis 9. New York 0. Detroit 5, Boston 4. Washington 1-5, Chicago 7-4. HE'S SEEN SOMETHING LONDON. Sept. 11: 0 Edwin Fisher, 54, who had a front seat view of the pageantry of corona tions, royal weddings and the par- ' CANALS IN WARTLME MOSCOW- Sept. 11: CR Second section of the Samarkand Irriga tion canal in r'V. :!FIGHT for Jap Drive, m m ria icit Awn new Japanese land drive on New Ouinea which yesterday took the enemy across the Owen Stanley Mountain Range has been stopped by the Australians 44 miles from Port Moresby. Brutal bayonet fighting is now going on and '. Allied planes are concentrating bombing attack upon the en- emy ground forces. CANADIANS IN ACTION and defensive patrols. Canadians Are Asked To Use Less Pork Now FUEHRER IS ; AFTER NAVY Further Overtures Being Made retain For Fleet, It Is Reported VICHY. Sept. 11 As a measure of protection against the probable' AIIIaH cfwnn H frnn f Invncinn nf western Europe. Chancellor Adolf Hitler is reported to be again de- 'British Offensive Marks Renewal MELBOURNE, Sept. 11 The of Madagascar Campaign Quiet Since May Easy Success Little Resistance Encountered Three Harbors Captured Object of Campaign LONDON. Sent. 11 O) The new I eminent symnathetic to the Allies. I The present campaign has the full approval of the United States and Free French'. The campaign was started by j three squadrons of British naval vessels steaming through Mozambique Channel, shelling the re quired harbors with planes lng Vichy troop concentrations. J Latest reports are that "operations are continuing A Japanese, report says that a British transport was sunk by a in Mozam bique Channel. Berlin claimed that a warship had been sunk. Both mandlng that the Frehch navy be lk confiatioa Fuehrer has made the demand personally upon Marshal Henri Phll-llppe Petaln, it Is said, and has suggested that he Is prepared to meet the aged French chief of state. 1 in return for the French Navy. 'illtler' is' said to "have promised that further French prisoners of Freedom of India Will Come After war would be returned and the, War, Says Churchill To Keep port of Bordeaux would be return- Gandhi Locked Up ed to Vichy France. i CLOGS FOR GUM BOOTS POLICY IS UNCHANGED I British offensive which has been1" , launcnea on Madagascar island marks renewal of hostilities which ' have been light since the capture of the naval base of Diego Suarez at the northern tip of the island - ' on M.1V R Ma Itinera harHrw tha J a.w.MW. V. , V principal point of attack, Is 320 miles southwest of Diego Suarez. I The new British drive for con-Air Minister's Communique Tells trol of Madagascar Is rolling What Our Airmen 'Are Doing j ahead with easy success, it was I announced today. The three har- OTTAWA, Sept. 11 The first ofi of Ananalaya, Majunga and weekly communiques which willj Morondava on the west coast, henceforth be issued in regard to .guarding the Important Allied Royal Canadian Air Force opera- suppiy rpUte through Mozambique tlons In Europe has been made 'channel, have been captured, public by Hon. C. G. Power, min-. Prime Minister Winston Church-lster of national defence for air. jh toid Parliament today that the It says that the R.CAJV took part campaign was proceeding accord-in raids on Bremen. Dulsburg, tng to plan with both resistance Frankfurt and elsewhere In Ger- and British casualties light, many, that Canadian fighters es-' The object of the campaign Is corted United States flying fort- to bring the remainder of Mada-resses in attacks on enemy-held gascar under Allied control, ellm-territory and engaged in offensive inating the use of the Island as a supply base for the enemy. ' 1 The Vichy government It has been disclosed, refused to co-oper-jate with the British following the occupation of Diego Suarez but f j instead permitted Japanese planes 10 reconnoitre me lsiana, submarines to use bases and agents to rendezvous. It wa because of this ' that the British nave found it OTTAWA, Sept. 11 Hon. J. a. necessary to take the remainder th uland der control, Gardiner, minister of agriculture, 11 made that Britain to Canadians has again appealed h no territorial demands and to use. Us pork. so that supply, un- dertakings to Great Britain may at uth Wantf shaU remain be fulfilled. irieut.ii. me uuty uuject is a guv- LONDON. Sept. 11 Prime Minister Winston Churchill, In bis Trwnrw jw. 11 nTn save speech to Parliament yesterday on the question of India, reiterated de- rubber the. War Office has ' ihit frannnm nf rrnvornmonr frit" elded to Issue members or tne "-" India after the still the Auxiliary Territorial Service work- war was settled of the British with policy gov lng in maintenance garages clogs instead of rubber gumboots. eminent. Telling of the Improvement of COUNTER PROPAGANDA the situation in India even In the 'threat of a Japanese invasion, the STOCKHOLM. Sept. 11: W To Prime Minister said, inai large re- lloment openings for 34 years, has stir up confusion on the Norwegian inforcements of British troops had roMrwi He was Klnc's Postillion home front, the Nazis are Issuing reached the country, making the J under four monarclX an underground newspaper 01 sirengtn greater tnan at any I their own. "The Fight for Free- time since the British Association. dom" to excuse certain of Quls- The government would keep Maying's activities. hatma Gandhi and other All-India Capt. Edward W. Congress leaders locked up Gray, former after all danger of trouble Soviet Central Asia chief officer of the steamer Prince passed. has been completed. In one month Rupert, has taken over commana iflno collective farmers excavated of the steamer Prince George in SAME OLD CLEARANCE until had 70000 cubic yards of earth for 30 succession to the late Capt. Ed- miles of canal. ward Babbs who dropped dead I The clearance between the wheels aboard the ship last week. Capt. of ancient Roman chariots, 4 feet Jack Joy Jr.. who has been on Ernest Caldwell moves up from 8& Inches, is the standard width a holiday trip to Vancouver; re- second officer to chief officer of ;of railroad track, turned home this morning. the Prince Rupert. Douglas W. Gra-1 ham continues as chief officer or u. w. uripps, provincial McLeod returned to the the Prince George with Roy Mc- sor, Is leaving tonight on a this momlne from a business Lees as second officer and J. W.jness trip to Butedale, Namu and trlp'to Varicouver. Ryan as third officer. (Rivers Inlet. iV I OIL1 '5