LiahAHY
VICTORIA,
B.C
Local
Temperature
Tonight's
Dim-out
Maximum
52
(Half
an
hour
a
I
tor
sunset
to
Minimum
44
half
an
hour
before
sunrise.)
v.
O.
7:17
pjn.
to
8:33
ajn.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMMA'S
NEWSPAPER
f
VOL
XXXII,
No.
38
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY
15,
1943
PRICE-
FIVE
CENTS
ussians
s
core
Great
ictories
pirh
anrl
taly
Hit
Cologne
and
Milan
I'rinripal
Objectives
of
K.
A.
F.
and
R.
C.
A.
IV
LONDON
Feb.
15
O)
Powerful
apriai
squadrons
bombing
Oerman.v
ar.o
Italy
in
a
double
barrelled
as-aul'
attacked
the
Rhineland
city
:
C
Mesne
and
the
Italian
arsenal
cuv
of
Milan
last
night,
it
was
announced
today.
Equadrons
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Ai
Force
participated
in
the
attack
on
Cologne
where,
despite
clouds
j
great
weight
of
explosives
and
nnendlarles
was
dropped
In
less
.san
half
an
hour.
One
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force
and
ten
Royal
Air
Force
bombers
are
missing.
An
Italian
communique
said
the
Ml
an
attack
was
carried
out
by
:
-vera)
waves
of
pianos
which
caus-c
.
nnavy
damage.
Last
night's
raids
on
Germany
iz&
Italy
followed
the
two
heavi
er
attacks
yet
made
on
Lorient1
Saturday
night"
when
Royal
Air
F
irw
and
Royal
Canadian
Air
Forcn
bombers
unloaded
over
one
ausand
tons
of
bombs
on
the
important
U-boat
base
on
the
oc-apied
French
coast.
AMERICAN
REVERSE
d
e
r
ni
a
n
Armored
Units
Score
Ilreak-lhrough
In
Tunisia
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
north
AFRICA,
Feb.
15
Oi
Ger-armored
units,
believed
to
be
3i
uie
torces
oi
warsnar
&rwm
B
mmel.
have
smashed
against
Amerrcan
positions
west
of
Fald
Pi
for
a
twenty-mile
break-'
ugh.
endangering
the
United
.".it,
anchor
of
Oafsa,
it
was
dis-
overwhelmlnc
American
artillery
v
p
itrons,
German
tanks
branched
ii
to
the
northwest
and
south-f
i
of
the
Pass
yesterday.
Sources
litre
said
it
was
assumed
Gatsa
might
soon
be
evacuated.
Eddie
Smith
Is
Conceded
Dead
Further
Announcement
in
Regard
To
Local
Man
Missing
With
Air
Force
Overseas
A
casualty
list
just
Issued
by
!
"
Department
of
National
De-'
"
announces
that
Pilot
Off!-'
v":
Edward
Arthur
Smith
of
Prince
K'ipert,
previously
reported
miss-
is
now,
for
official
purposes,
umed
dead.
He
was
on
service
ra.
with
the
Roval
Canadian
A
Force
and
several
months
ago
reported
missing.
Eddie"
Smith
was
a
well
known
ifii
popular
local
boy
and
was
rllt
first
Prince
Rupert
man
to
His
commission
with
the
Royr.l
auadian
Air
Force.
He
was
the
of
Mrs.
J.
Arthur
Smith,
fefond
Avenue.
For
some
years
he
With
Canadian
National
Tpln.
'aphs
here
and
later
was
located
ui
the
Omlncca
mining
country
onh
of
Vanderhoof.
Attempt
On
Life
Of
Premier
Smuts
Hfport
from
Algiers
Radio
is
Picked
Up
in
New
York
NEW
YORK,
Feb.
15
A
report
Has.
been
picked
up
from
the
Al-5'
radio
of
an
attempt
at
the
life
General
Jan
C.
Smuts,
prime
mister
of
South
Africa.
SECOND
MAN
Third
Viclim
Listed
From
Slide
at
Kwinitsa
Camp
at
Week-end
An
additional
man,
supposedly
a
third
victim,
is
missing:
following:
the
sriowslidc
of
last
Friday
morning
which
wiped
out
the
Tomlinson
Construction
Co.'s
Skeena
River
Highway
camp
near
Kwinitsa.
This
man
is
George
Ilalderchak,
aged
41
Yugoslav
from
Egerton,
Alberta,
who
was
employed
as
kitchen
help
in
the
camp
and
had
been
there
only
a
few
days,
lie
had
his
effects
packed
and
was
out
of
the
ramp,
being
told
not
to
return.
That,
is,
evidently,
the
last
that
anyone
saw
o."
him.
lie
was
unmarried
and
had
been
in
the
country
since
1926.
Men
who
had
been
employed
in
the
Kwinitsa
camp
have
now
returned
there
and
are
digging
in
the
debris
for
the
bodies
of
Italderchak
and
Andrew
Kirkup
of
Walberg,
the
original
missing
man.
The
body
of
Reginald
McClcl-Ian,
who
died
of
injuries
sustained
in
the
slide,
leaves
tonight
for
Walberg,
Saskatchewan,
where
a
widow
and
family
reside
and
where
the
funeral
will
take
place.
The
eleven
injured
In
Prince
Rupert
and
Port
Edward
hospitals
continue
to
recover.
Death
Blow
For
Hitler
STOCKHOLM,
Feb.
15
Ac-
cording
to
reports
reaching
here
a
great
new
Russian
army
is
being
trained
deep
in
the
ln-
terior
of
the
Soviet
Republic,
its
object
being
to
deal
a
sum-
mer
death
blow
to
Hitler.
Timoshenko
Not
In
Washington
Report
Published
in
London
Is
Denied
in
Moscow
MOSCOW.
Feb.
15
It
Is
officially
denied
here
that
Marshal
Simeon
Timoshenko
with
other
Russian
generals
is
on
a
t.ip
to
Washing
ton
D.
C.
A
report
to
this
effect
had
been
published
In
the
London
Dispatch.
Gandhi
Keeping
Up
His
Hunger
Strike
Nausea
and
Weakness
rieveropmg
After
Six
Days
POONA,
India,
Feb.
15
Mahat-ma
Gandhi
has
completed
the
sixth
dav
of
his
hunger
strike
in
nmtest
at
detention.
He
is
taking
onlv
water
and
citrus
juice.
Nau
coo
onrt
wrakness
appear
to
be
the
only
Ill-effects.
Says
Chiang
Kai
Shek
Is
In
Washington
DERLIN,
Feb.
15-Thc
Axis
radio
says
that
Generalissimo
Chiang
Kal
Shek
Is
visiting
Washington,
D.C.
,
,
Madame
Chiang
Kal
Shek
is
In
Washington.
She
will
be
the
guest
of
president
and
Mrs.
Roosevelt
at
the
White
House
on
Wednesday
and
will
address
a
Joint
session
of
Congress
Thursday.
WAR
GREAT
RUSSIAN
VICTORIES
Russian
forces
are
closing
their
tiap
more
tightly
on
the
Nazis
In
the
Ukraine
and
Caucasus.
Rostov
and
Vorshilofgrad
have
been
beten
captured
and
a
point
seven
miles
southeast
of
Kharkov
has
been
reached
by
the
Red
Army.
The
peril
to
Kharkov
is
increasing
hourly
as
the
(ierman
defences
crumble.
Another
large
railway
town
has
fallen.
ADVANCING
IN
TUNISIA
Advancing
along
the
coastal
road,
the
BritUh
Eighth
Army
is
repcrted
to
have
made
contact
with
Marshal
Erwin
Rommel's
Nazi
rearguard
twenty
miles
within
Tunisia
to
the
north
and
sixty
miles
within,
in
the
south
while
on
the
central
front
there
has
been
oirly
partial
patrol
fightirrg,
Itoth
ground
and
air
fighting
has
increased
with
an
improvement
in
weather
conditions.
The
enemy
took
advantage
of
the
better-weather
to
make
an
attack
which
was
beaten
back.
LORIENT
BADLY
POUNDED
Th
Royl
Air
Force
made
two
bombing
attacks
Saturday
night
on
the
submarine
base
of
Lorient.
Heavy
damage
was
done
in
the
attack?
which
were
the
largest
so
far
in
the
war.
Last
night
there
were
raids
both
on
Germany
and
Italy.
LUFTWAFFE
HITS
PLYMOUTH
Enemy
planes
bombed
the
southwest
coast'
town
of
Plymouth
Saturday
night.
Shops
and
houses
were
hit
and
there
were
casualties
with
five
killed
and
several
injured.
SOUTHERN
ITALY
BOMBED
There
were
further
bombing
attacks
by
Allied
planes
on
Italy
Naples
and
Cretonl.
j
IN
SOUTHWEST
PACIFIC
Irr
the
southwest
Pacific
ground
fighting
onj
New
Guinea
has
resulted
irr
a
further
falling
back
by
the
Japanese
towards
Salamaua.
The
greatest
bombing
attack
by
Allied
planes
on
Rabaul,
New
Britain,
was
made.
American
planes
have
subjected
the
Japanese
base
of
Munda
on
the
Solomons
to
another
attack,
Fresh
attacks
by
the
Royal
Air
Force
on
Japanese
irj,
Burma
iare
reported.
BIG
FIRE
IN
PEACE
Five
Dead,
Six
Missing,
150
Injured,
$150,000
Damage
at
Dawson
Creek
DAWSON
CREEK,
Feb.
13
Five
persons
are
known
dead
and
150
are
injured
as
a
result
of
a
serious
explosion
and
fire
irr
this
Peace
River
town
booming
Northern
Alberta
railway
terminus,
supply
base
and
Alaska
highway
jumping
off
place
Saturday
night.
There
was
a
great
explosion
irr
a
warehouse
containing
dynamite
and
then
cries
of
"Fire"
were
heard
among
the
excitement-seeking
Saturday
night
crowds.
Many
spectators
were
among
the
injured
durirrg
the
ensuing
fire
whV.'h
raged
almost
uncontrolled
for
three
hours.
An
entire
block
of
buildings
was
destroyed.
The
blast
broke
half
the
windows
in
town
and
shook
Poucc
Coupe,
a
few
miles
distant.
lire
damage
is
estimated
at
$350,000.
Cause
of
the
blaze
has
rrot
been
established.
The
Dawsorr
Hotel,
principal
stopping
place
of
the
town,
was
evacuated.
All
but
otrc
buildirrg
in
the
town's
nrain
block
was
destroyed
before
the
blaze
was
brought
under
control.
Nine
of
the
most
seriously
injured
were
flown
to
Edmonton
by
a
United
States
transport
plarrc.
Urrlted
States
Army
doctors
three
of
them
came
from
Edmonton
to
minister
to
the
In
jured.
At
least
twoarc
missing.
Dozens
arc
homeless.
The
dead
include
Amerrcan
soldiers.
ADVISES
NEWFOUNDLAND
LONDON,
Feb.
15
tf)
Assistant
Fire
Force
Commissioner
II.
A.
C.
Smith,
a
key
man
in
the
London
blitz,
has
been
seconded
to
the
Colonial
Office
as
adviser
to
the
Newfoundland
government
on
fire
service
organization.
NEWS
AIR
SHARKS
Looking
like
a
school
of
deadly
sharks,
this
formation
of
P-40's
zoom
off
to
Intercept
a
Jap
air
squadron
somewhere
over
China.
AnotherForce
Of
Canadians
Three
Services
Represented
in
Contingent
Which
Has
Landed
LONDON,
Feb.
15
Another
large
convoy
of
Canadian
forces,
representing
all
three
services,,
has
arrived
in
Great
Britain.
GREATER
LOVE
HALESWORTII,
Eng.,
Feb.
15
0)
To
the
residents
of
this
Suffolk
village
George
Rogers
was
Just
a
farmers'
lad
when
he
Joined
the
army
at
16.
Today
they
mourn
him
as
a
21-year-old
commando
who
died
behind
the
German
lines
In
Tunisia,
holding
off
the
enemy
so
that
his
comrades
could
get
to
safety.
HELSINKI
HAS
ALERT
Soviet
Bombers
May
Have
Passed
On
Way
to
Some
Target
BERLIN,
Feb.
15
Helsinki,
the
capital
city
of
Finland,
had
a
half
hour
air
raid
alert
yesterday,
according
to
a
statement
today.
However,
no
bombs
were
dropped.
It
is
believed
Soviet
planes
may
have
passed
on
their
way
to
some
other
target.
There
is
a
general
election
in
Finland
today.
Rabaul
Gets
t
Biggest
Raid
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
AUSTRALIA,
Feb.
15
0i
More
than
thirty
Allied
heavy
bomb-
ers
dropped
over
fifty
tons
of
high
explosives
and
3,500
in-
cendiary
bombs
Sunday
on
Rabaul,
New
Britain,
strong
Japanese
base,
in
the
greatest
mass
bombing
raid
In
this
theatre.
Huge
fires
were
start-
ed
and
the
flames
were
visible
for
110
miles.
WAR
HERO
IS
AGAIN
Gnr.
John
French
Finds
14
Mill
tary
Awards
for
Gallantry
in
1911-18
"Embarrassing"
By
WILLIAM
STEWART
,
Canadian
Press
Staff
Writer
SOMEWHERE
IN
ENGLAND,
Feb'.
15
i
"It's
all
very
embarr
assing,"
says
Gnr.
John
French
when
you
ask
him
how
he
came
to
acquire
14
military
decorations;,
11
of
which
appear
above
the
left
brast-pocket'
of
his
battledress.
French
whose
army
age
Is
47
won
all
14
In
the
First
Great
War.
Wherever
he
goes
he
promptly
be-
comes
surrounded
by
people
who
want
to
know
all
about
his
string
of
ribbons.
That's
why
he
finds
it
so
embarrassing
and
why
he
tells
questioners
that
he
won
his
honors
for
'
bringing
up
the
rations."
For
the
more
curious,
he
reserves
the
reply
.that
he
owes
the
display
on
his
uniform
to
"cowardice
in
face
of
the
enemy."
And
on
special
occasions,
French
declares
sternly
that
he
hates
"all
this
damned
attention."
French
was
born
In
Grand
Bank,
Nfld.,
and
went
to
Canada
shortly
before
the
First
Great
War.
When
war
came
he
was
studying
to
be
n
piano-tuner.
He
had
forgotten
about
piano-tuning
when
the
war
was
over
and
when
the
present
war
broke
out,
he
was
doorman
at
the
Whitney
Block,
Queen's
Park,
Toronto
"I
was
in
line
for
the
Job
of
con
fidential
messenger
for
the
Premier
of
Ontario,"
he
says.
That
was
in
July,
1940,
when
he
enlisted
and
less
than
two
months
later
found
himself
overseas.
He's
been
in
Britain
ever
since
and
during
his
stay
took
the
opportunity
to
marry
tlie
English
girl
to
whom
he
had
become
engaged
when
he
was
overseas
during
the
First
Great
War.
French,
though
a
King's
sergeant
and
C.S.M.
at
the
end
of
the
First
Great
War,
is
perfectly
happy
with
his
present
rank
of
gunner.
In
the
first
place
he
never
did
want
promotion
in
the
first
war.
He
wanted
just
to
be
"with
the
boys,"
he
says.
When
his
fame
as
"the
man
they
couldn't
kill"
had
started
to
spread",
they
made
him
take
"stripes"
and
offered
him
the
(Continued
on
h'uye
Three)
RICHELIEU
SAFEOVER
Great
French
Warships
and
Other
Vessels
Reach
New
York
From
Dakar
NEW
YORK,
Feb.
15
CF
The
French
battleship
Richelieu,
crippled
but
still'
far
from
impotent,
slid
into
New
York
harbor
last
Thursday
after
dodging
a
pack
of
submarines
in
mid-Atlantic
and
riding
out
the
toughest
gale
many
of
the
crew
had
ever
experienced.
The
French
cruiser
Montcalm
which,
like
the
Richelieu,
had
been
based
at
Dakar,
made
the
Atlantic
crossing
along
with
several
French
destroyers.
The
transfer
ended
fears
that
the
powerful
French
vessel
might
have
fallen
into
Axis
hands.
LOOK
INTO
POISONING
Police
and
Medical
Health
Officer
At
Port
Edward
Today
Constable
C.
F.
Oland,
pro
vincial
llitiai
police,
JJUUbLt
and
fcWIU
Dr.
t
k
.
R.
J.ti.
V
J.
.
Mac
Donald,
provincial
health
officer,
left
this
morning
for
Port
Edward
where
a
number
of
men
are
re
pcisuning
in
a
construction
camp
There
are
no
fatalities.
Commission
To
Visit
Rupert
Mr.
Justice
Richards,
Looking
Into
Shipyard
Conditions,
Coming
Soon
The
commission
of
Mr.
Justice
Richards
on
working
conditions
in
west
coast
shipyards
Is
expected
to
pay
a
visit
to
Prince
Rupert
shortly,
according
to
word
that
has
just
been
received
here.
PEOPLE
OF
NORTH
SAVE
Offiriallv
recorded
sales
of
War
Savings
Certificates
In
Northern
British
Columbia
are
as
follows:
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
42
42
42
Prlmce
Ruoeft
4164
4824
4464
Prlne-3
Rupert
District
1316
252
1455
Burns
Lake
$
556
$
212
$
308
Fort
St.
James
232
352
15n
Frase:
Lake
196
288
92
Hazelton
.
112
152
252
McBride
216
4G0
552
Premier
and
Stewart
600
396
424
Prince
George
1636
2608
1403
Prince
George
District
828
1592
1180
Queen
Charlottes
224
260
120
Quesnel
440
392
212
Smlthers
848
1103
1300
Terrace
260
424
792
Vanderhoof
334
280
430
Wells
604
268
823
Williams
Lake
316
292
320
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Lake
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District
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128
,
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FIRST
RUSS
NEWSPAPER
The
fire
lsue
of
the
first
Russian
newspaper
Vedomostl,
published
under
the
supervision
of
Peter
the
Great,
appeared
on
Jan.
13,
17C3.
CELESTITE
DEPOSIT
California
has
one
of
the
nation's
largwt
deposits
of
ceiestite,
the
mineral
used
to
illuminate
tracer
bullets.
TWO
GREAT
CITIES
IN
RED
HANDS
Rostov
and
Voroshilovgrad
Fall-Kharkov
Next
LONDON,
Feb.
15
'jp
Rostov
fell
before
Red
Army
Infantry
and
swarming
Cossacks
in
a
bloody
struggle
Sunday.
Many
of
its
build
ings
were
ablaze
and
hundreds
of
corpses
of
Crerman
defenders
littered
the
streets
and
alleys.
The
British
Broadcasting
Co.
said
that
Taganrog,
forty
miles
to
the
west,
flready
was
under
Russian
artillery
fire
and
the
bulk
of
the
Germans
trying
to
flee
from,
the
Donets
Basin
had
been
trapped.
Soviet
armies
of
the
southern'
front
also
took
Voroshllotgrad
and
Krasny
Sulin,
about"?
llfty-two
miles
north
of
Rostov,
and
dispatches
told
of
a
Soviet
column
moving
within
seven
miles
of
Kharkov.
Their
capture
of
Rostov
gave
the
Russians
back
the
south
ernmost
anchor
of
the
German
defence
line
and
of
Voroshilovgrad,
the
most
important
centre
of
the
Don
Basin.
The
German
radio
acknowledged
the
fall
of
both
cities.
The
whole
German
line
in
southern
Russia
is
crumbling
rapidly
while
the
Russian
troops
menace
i
Kharkov,
'
'
the
huge
-
Nazi
bastion
-,
Ho
the
north,
fall
of
which
would
constitute
even
a
greater
victory
for
the
Red
Army.
Indeed,
a
Reuters
dispatch
frorrt'Moscow
says
that
the
Germans
appear
to
be
already
evacuating
Kharkov.
Five
Russian
columns
are
closing
on
Kharkov
which
is
surrounded
on
three
sides.
The
Germans
were
apparently
preparing
today
to
evacuate
tho
Black
Sea
port
of
Novoroslssk,
their
last
remaining
stronghold
in
the
Caucasus
region.
Sixty-five
miles
north
of
the
Black
Sea
coast,
the
Reds
are
re
ported
today
to
have
reached
Stllno.
13155
Tagenrog
is
reported
under
fire.
GOV'T
OF
THAILAND
Cabinet
Quits
and
Japanese
Pup
pet
Administration
Expected
To
Be
Set
Up
BANGKOK,
Feb.
15
The
Premier
of
Thailand
has
resigned
and
with
him
his
cabinet.
A
new
puppet
government
under
Japanese
control
is
expected
to
be
set
up.
Allied
activity
In
Burma,
neighboring
Slam,
is
believed
to
be
back
of
the
new
political
move
in
former
Siam.
Hockey
Scores
Saturday
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Toronto,
3;
Chicago,.
2.
Montreal,
3;
Detroit,
2.
Sunday
Toronto,
4;
.New
York,
4.
Montreal,
1;
Detroit,
2.
Boston,
2;
Chisago,
3,
.
Aleutians
Activity
.
WASHINGTON,
D.C
Feb.
15
'The
United
States
Department
of
the
Navy
announced
'today
that
fifteen
Japanese
planes
have
been
destroyed
and
a
cargo
ship
sunk
in
a
series
of
raids
on
the
Aleutians
and
In
vtho
Solomons.
Two
American
.
bombers
and
six
fighters
were
lost.
,