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13
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Gunfire
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heard
plainly
in
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Swiss
border
city
today
4
from
thp
Frpneh
Ainlne
re-
gion
of
Haute.
Savoie,
where
the
Vichy
government
sent
80C
mobile
guards
with
armored
cars
and
machine
guns
In
an
effort
to
dislodge
guerrillas
opposing
German
occupation.
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Word
was
received
yesterday
by
"
fhomas
Elliott
of
the
death
of
n'S
mother
In
IlcMtor.
Entrland
Mrs
Elliott
had
resided
there
since
leaving
prinCe
Rupert
in
1935
fol-J"lnr
the
death
of
her.
1usband,
"enry
Elliott.
News
of
her
death,
which
occurred
on
March
5,
comes
as
a
shock
10
her
many
friends.
Surviving
members
of
the
family
ife
Wrs.
Qrtmwood,
Victoria,
'nomas
Elliott
of
this
city,
Reuben
r'"ott
of
Vernon
and
Elizabeth,
wary
and
Ernest
Elliott
of
Lelces-lPr
England.
general
view
and
complaint
of
most.
Of
your
native
citizen's
opinion
I
environment!
And
as
for
rain,
you
know
naught.
Before
I
arrived
I
re-1
admittedly
have
a
large
share.
We
celved
from
those
claiming
knowi-
find
it
merely
makes
the
sunlit
edge
dire
and
dark
descriptions
of
days
the
sweeter.
But
It
Is
a
corol-your
town.
The
first
Inklings
1
1
lary
that
you
will
find
what
you
dispelled
as
rumors,
presaging
as
they
did
only
discomfort
in
my
future
station.
But
on
arrival
I
was
appalled
to
find
the
identical
sentiments
prevailing
and
admit
I
had
a
certain
apprehenslveness
as
j
to
my
beginning
sojourn
with
you.
It
is
all
false.
After
four
months
I
venture
to
say
flatly
that
'o
those
not
willingly
blind
there
is
neither
depression
nor
lack
of
ally
the
mind
slavishly
accepts.
oert.
The
eyes
will
see
what
usu-
xllyy
the
mind
slavishly
accepts
My
wife
and
I
live
in
a
dual-
roomed
shanty
with
virtually
ut
ile
else
but
a
stove,
a
table
and
a
bed.
This
alone
is
an
adventure
ut
of
the
stuffy,
hum-drum
cornet
of
easy
chairs
and
carpets,
We
belong
to
your
excellent
Pub
lic
Library,
the
fictional
depart
ment
of
which
Is
far
superior
to
,hat
of
Victoria
a
department
fa
ored
with
any
library's
greatest
popular
attraction.
We
bought
boots
with
twelve-inch
tops
and
hob-nails,
and
upon
every
excuse
riunge
Into
your
nearest
mountains
and
woods.
Everything
here
Is
different.
The
forests
are
not
)ur
fir-forests
of
further
south-have
not
the
same
smell
nor
feci;
yet
the
dark,
ragged
beauty
of
your
hemlock,
pine
and
cedar
have
a
wild
personality
of
their
own.
First
the
Mountain
Our
first
mountain
has
been
the
A.
l
1
hill
behind
your
town,
u
h-uk.
merely
a
few
days
or
so
to
find
Its
trail.
We
inspected
your
swi-cablns'up
there;
revelled
in
wonder
at
the
stag-horn
moss
and
blueberries
growing
at
lower
elevations
than
we
had
ever
sren.
The
contact
with
muskeg-swamp
Is
new
to
us
though
tne
wora
muskeg"
is
vitalized
with
decas
mid
history
wun
narasiuji
friiimnh.
From
the
nui-crcsi
islands.
Kina-
saw
your
outlying
hnn.
Dundas,
Tsimpsean
names
nmnnff
whose
sound
wended
the
ghost-canocs
of
fierce
naaas
from
the
Charlottes
-
or
ui
mc
nincets
like
smoke
wmith
nf
imagery.
WO
pondered
ip
ht
utllp
settlement
of
Metla-
kniia
u
the
old,
old
one
of
about
plahteen
seventy-five
where
the
Hcv.
Duncan
settled
nis
ismic'.
Indians
from
Port
Simpson.
Mhlncr
to
do?
Notning
10
beer
Whv
Prince
Rupert
is
in
the
most
of
Its
short
i
i
innrpst.ini!
era
Lu.tr.rv
mpw
alive
to
swelling
events
which
swirl
about
teglc
position.
The
green
clad,
hills
of
Its
back-door
have
been
furrowed
even
now
by
ft
new
highway
of
vital
significance.
Fresh
blood
is
swelling
this
little
artery
of
the
Northwest
like
a
clarion
Canada
Is
North-con-
challenge.
.
nrA
mm
nrr
scious
these
aay
north
In
droves.
Here
in
a
are
being
of
destruction-things
constructed.
rnr
rrom
Dull
Dull?
How
could
a
man
be
dull
here?
What
is
this
slothlike
crying
theatre,
and
dance-Lt
for
liquor,
o
wearying
excise
to
mental
effort
I"
av
d
he
wnme
aware
of
your
necessary
w
seek.
And
If
you
seek
-to
ratify
only
your
belief
in
Tince
Rupert
as
"a
noie,
'
men
tne
rain
win
lena
you
a
ready
hand
I
don't
doubt.
We
like
your
harbor.
The
big
tides.
The
picturesque
frame
of
mountains
from
whose
draws
comes
occasionally
a
fleeting
scent
of
yellow
cedar.
Your
colorful
fishing
fleets
of
trollers.
glllnetlers.
halibut
boats
incessantly
moving
with
other
shipping
upon
the
In
let;
or
drowsily
nodding
nose
to
flank
by
their
floats
and
wharves
In
dim,
rainy,
evenings.
There
is
romance
as
subtle
as
the
salty
tinge
In
a'
sca''b"reeze,
about
your
harbor
and
little,
rugged
ships.
It
brings
vividly
the
very
essence
of
the
aura
of
vigor
and
movement
which
breathes
through
the
town.
No,
I
am
no
lubberly
sentimentalist
painting
In
gaudy
colors
something
of
which
I
know
nothing.
I
have
been
a
fisherman
and
a
small-ship
owner
on
the
big
banks.
And
I
sympathize
with
those
men
whose
only
color
for
their
own
or
other
professions
and
livelihoods
is
the
one
dull,
drab
tone
or
common
grey.
"n'
'
BlMVb
A
Beautiful
Sunday
One
Sunday
the
sun
gave
one
of
your
clear,
clean
wintry
days.
I
ventured
out
of
Prince
Rupert
in
a
small
power
boat,
went
down
past
Coast.
Island
Into
Porpoise
Channel
and
visited
Port
Edwaid.
Here,
too,
In
its
peculiar
sense
of
newness,
the
same
vibration
of
motion
and
activity
prevailed.
Land
was
being
cleared
of
timber.
That
first'
operation
of
pioneering
progress.
Men
in
high,
caulked
boots
were
visible
even
on
Sunday
swinging
on
crosscut
saws
and
LOCAL
BOY
WAS
HERO
Art
Mellin,
Former
Ranker,
Helped
Bring
Home
Giant
British
Bomber
4-IBRARY
Local
Tem
Tonight's
Dim-out
(Half
an
hour
aftw
sunset
to
Maximum
half
an
hour
before
sunrise.)
Minimum
8:09
pjn.
to
7:31
am.
:
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NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BR1T1SU
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
VOL.
XXXII,
NO.
61
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,,
SATURDAY
MARCH
13,
1913
PRICE:
FIVE
CENTS
Pressure
On
Germany
Increasing
WILL
WIPE
OUT
ENEMY
General
Dwight
Eisenhower
.Makes
Assurance
in
General
Order
of
Day
Suusse
and
Tunis
Masted
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH
AFRICA,
March
13
(CD
Allied
bombers
blasted
military
objectives
of
Soussc
and
Tunis
with
fire-setting;
raids
yesterday
and
attacked
both
land
and
sea
transport
of
the
Axis
as
ground
fighting:
on
the
Tunisian
front
dwindled
again
to
patrolling.
The
ilritish
Eighth
Army
position
in
the
Mareth
Line
sector,
having
thrown
off
probing
thrusts
by
Marshal
Rommel
with
violence
that
cost
him
heavy
casualties,
Communiques
said.
.General
Dwight
Eisenhower;
in
a
general
order
of
the
day
on
March
9,
declared
that
Allied
forces
under
his
command
had
beaten
off
the
enemy's
attempt
to
break
out
of
encirclement
and
would
"push
him
back
to
the
sea
and
to
destruction."
Newcomer
Explodes
Old
Theory
of
Prince
Rupert's
Dullness;
There
Is
Plenty
to
see
and
Do
City
is
Now
in
Most
Keenly
Interesting
Era
of
its
His;
tory
Liquor,
Theatre
and
Dance
Crying
Just
Lack
of
Imagination
'
(By
P.
G.
McMinn)
As
a
stranger
I
have
found
in
your
crowded
little
town
an
over-hanging,
pall
of
murky
pessimism
and
depression
among
its
new
population.
Ask
at
random
a
conception
of
Rupert
"What
a
hole!
Rain!
Rain!
Nowhere
to
go
nothing
to
do!"
will
be
a
typical
response.
Being
in
one
of
our
services
myself
I
know
this
is
the
falling
axes.
I
skirted
Zannrdl
rapids
foaming
under
the
trestle
to
encircle
Prince
Rupert's
Ka'.en
Island,
and
Inspected
the
sawmill.
A
small
tidal
waterway
winds
from
Porpoise
Inlet
into
the
woodland
forests
with
Pauline
Johnson-like
tranquility,
to
the
delta
of
the
Skeena.
I
did
not
go
further
than
Inverness
because
the
tide
was
making.
I
recalled
that
cannery's
beginning
when
in
eighteen
seventy-five
called
Woodcock's
Landing
It
had
been
purchased
bv
the
Hudson's
Bay
Co.
Ins
n
site
for
their
cannery.
All
the
return
Journey
I
surmised
where
the
old
Tsimpsean
village
Kshawatlins
had
stood
and
If
It
still
existed.
And
I
could
almost
see
the
old
frigates
of
war,
H.M.S.
Virago
and
H.M.S.
Satellite
stand
ing
Into
the
bay
ahead
of
me,
their
cannon
watchfully
on
the
shore-line
for
hostile
war
canoes
and
painted
faces.
In
those
lonely
moments
ol
sun
set
when
the
Isles
beyond
your
harbor
seem
haunted
with
their
legendary
pastthe
wild
husli
IS
pregnant
with
shapes
and
voices.
A
wedge
of
geese
clamoring
Into
silence.
What
are
those
'.'shaman"
shadows?
.
Are
they
the
spirits
ot
warriors
paddling
their
eerie
spirit-canoes?
From
whence
tomes
that
faint-weird
rythm
caught
by
the
wind.
Is
it
the
chanting
of
the
war
songs
from
those
savage
Dispatches
describe
at
length
the
heroism
of
Arthur
Mellin,
formerly
of
the
Bank
of
Montreal
staff
h&e,
in
helping
to
bring
back
acjoss
the
North
Sea
a
crippled
shot-riddled
Halifax
bomber
which
had
been
attacked.
by
Nazi
fighter
craft
during
a
mine-laying
operatio
i.
Two
ijiembers
of
the
crew
were
killed
and
Sergeant
Mellin
assisted
Sergfant
Pilot
J.
Mcintosh
of
I,'?dicin?
Hat
In
returning
to
England
with
the
damaged
bomber.
Mellin
himself
had
been
severely
wounded
in
the
leg
but
he
stunk
valiantly
to
his
post,
losing
consciousness
as
the
big
machine
was
about
toi
land
in
East
Anglia.
DIES
IN
HOSPITAL
Ted
Hai'dcastle
Succumbs
After
Having
Been
111
For
Several
Months
Richard
E.
Hardcastle,
who
fol
lowed
the
entertainment
business
j
and
had
been
a
resident
of
thej
pity
for
the
past
few
years,
re-1
ccntly
operating
a
shooting
gallery
on
Sixth
Street,
died
this
morning
in
the
Prince
Rupert
General
Hospital.
He
had
been
in
111
health
for
several
months.
Mr.
Hardcastle,
about
fifty
years
of
age,
came
here
from
Vancouver
where
his
mother
resides.
J.
P.
MORGAN
DKAl)
NEW
YOKK
John
Pierpont
Morgan,
noted
American
capitalist,
is
dead
of
heart
trouble
at
his
island
home
off
the
west
coast
of
Florida.
DRUNKENNESS
DECLINES
LONDONi
March
13
(U)
Fewer
than
9,000
persons
were
arrested
for
drunkenness
in
London
during
1942,
compared
with
12,000
last
year
and
20,00
a
year
before
the
war.
days?
And
maybe
the
sunsets'
red
is
the
tale
of
Nlshkas
from
the
Nass,
Tongas
and
Tlingets
out
of
the
North
Haldas
and
Tslmp
seans
whose
warrior
.
blood,
Le
fore
we
came,
His
'
soaked
this
land
of
yours
In
breathless
legend,
Tnere
are
but
tne
totems
now
whose
sightless
eyes
seem
ever
to!
itare
back
Into
Jthe
ebbing
traces
of
their
echoelng
past.
RESISTANCE
IN
FRANCE
Outbreaks
Against
Gestapo
Rule
in
France
are
Mounting
LONDON,
March
13
'(f)
A
fighting
French
spokesman
declares
that
resistance
and
outbreaks
against
Nazi
Gestapo
rule
arc
mounting
dally
In
France.
He'a'ddi.
however,
that
there
are
absolutely
no
signs
of
full
scale
revolution.
Canadian
Halifax
Squadrons
Taking
Part
in
Bombing
IONDON,
March
13
W
Halifax
squadrons
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Al-
Forcn
hav
ben
forming
an
important
part
of
strong
raiding
forces
which
have
bnen
attacking
Germany
by
air
of
late.
'
'
Anthony
Eden
Is
Visiting
United
States
-Purpose
Of
His
Trip
Duly
Disclosed
WASHINGTON,
B.C.,
March
13
(CP)
The
uri
ti
1
i
.i
l
r
t..:j.
wnite
nouse
announceu
touay
uiai
a
visit
ui
uric-
i
ish
Poreicn-Secretarv
Anthony
Eden
to
this
coun-
try
"is
to
undertake
a
general
exchange
of
views
and
to
discuss
the
most
effective
method
of
preparing
for
meetings
between
the
governments
of
all
United
Nations
with
the
United
States
government
on
all
aspects
of
the
war
and
to
consider
questions
arising
out
of
the
war.
Capt.
Eden
came
on
the
invitation
of
the
United
States
and,
in
addition
to
important
dinlomatic
conferences
including
meeting
with
Madame
Chiang
Kai-Shek
and
Russian
Ambassador
Maxim
Litvin-off,
will
"see
at
first
hand
something
of
the-
great
war
effort
of
the
United
States."
It
is
learned
officially
that
Capt.
Eden
will
also
visit
Ottawa
be'fore
returning
to
London
but
the
date
of
his
arrival
in
Ottawa
is
not
known
officially.
BULLETINS
MURDERED
BV
NAZIS
LONDON
The
Moscow
radio
says
that
the
Germans
shot
or
poisoned
fifteen
to
eighteen
thousand
men,
women
and
children
during
the
occupation
of
Rostov.
No
details
were
given.
EDEN
IN
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON
British
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
Eden
arrived
in
Washinston
Friday
night
for
momentous
conversations
aimed
at
cementing
the
United
Nations
in
fuller
understanding
on
mutual
problems
of
war
and
of
peace
settlements.
Captain
Eden
crossed
the
Atlantic
in
a
bomber
plane
and
will
visit
Ottawa
before
returning
to
Britain.
JAP
SHIPPING
HIT
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
AUSTRALIA
Allied
airmen
scored
a
direct
hit
on
a
seven
thousand
ton
Japanese
merchant
ship,
damaged
two
smaller
vessels
and
shot
out
of
action
Fix
enemy
fighters
without
loss
of
a
plane,
an
Allied
communique
said.
POSITION
OF
KHARKOV
MOSCOW
The
position
of
Kharkov,
capital
of
the
Ukraine,
under
heavy
assault
by
the
Nazis,
continues
critical
with
conflicting
reports
as
to
which
side
Is
actually
In
control
of
the
city.
ESSEN
RAIDED
AGAIN
LONDON
The
Royal
Air
Force
staged
a
heavy
raid
on
Essen
greatest
munitions
making
city
of
the
Reich,
last
night.
Greatest
Raid
Yet
On
Essen
Made
Last
Night
In
Shattering
Attack
Ground
Defences
of
Enemy
are
Strengthened
Twenty-three
Planes
failed
to
Return,
Three
Being
Canadian
An
Instructive
and
Inspiring
address
by
Miss
Mabel
Faust
R.
N.,
lady
superintendent
of
the
Prince
Kupert
outstanding
at
a
banqu
SocLty
of
St.
Paul's
Lutheran
I
Church.
About
seventy-five
per-
sons,
a
large
proportion
of
which
I
I
were
young
men
of
the
forces,
were
j
present
at
the
affair.
I
i.:ss
h
&ui
related
In
a
highly
interesting
manner
some
of
her
ex-I
peilences
during
five
years
of
mis
sionary
work
in
West
Africa.
She
told
of
the
.great
changes
and
advancements
that
had
been
made
among
'the
natives
there
as
a
re
sult
of
the
Christian
missionary
activities.
Besides
leaching
,the
worship
of
God,
the
missionaries
had
greatly
helped
these
natives
In
Improving
their
living
conditions.
Among
the
descriptions
of
aboriginal
life
was
the
example
of
the
motheis
who
would
formerly
crawl
out
of
their
rude,
htfis
with
their
babies
fastened
on
their
backs
to
hoe
the
corn.
On
the
way
home,
they
would
gather
wood
and
then
would
be
prepared
corn
broth
or
porridge,
the
first
meal
of
the
day.
Meanwhile
the
father
might
spend
the
day
exchanging.
stories
of
ex
periences
In
hunting
which
was
his
main
pursuit.
This
resulted
In
the
provision
of
crudely
sun
-
dried
meat.
With
the
coming
of
the
missionaries,
the
natives
had
been
taught
to
eat
fruit
and
ve
and
the
husband,
incidentally
In
the
missionary
were
established
the
mothers
were
taught
the
care
of
their
babies.
Another
feature
of
Uie
evening
was
community
singing
led
by
Private
Harold
Normann
who
also
sang
solos.
With
Rev.
Magnus
B.
Anderson
as
toastmaster,
their
were
toasts
to
the
navy,
army
and
air
force,
with
members
of
those
forces
responding.
Miss
Mlmmle
Johnson,
president
of
the
Young
People's
Society,
gave
an
address
of
welcome.
'
and
YANKS
STRAFE
BOULOGNE
LONDON,
March
13
(CP)
Heaping
new
destruction
on
German
targets,
a
great
fleet
of
United
States
bombers
thundered
over
the
English
Channel
to
the
Boulogne
area
this
afternoon.
LONDON,
March
13
(CP)
The
ever-mounting
pressure
of
Gjermany
reached
a
new
peak
of
destructiveness
last
night
when
a
cloud
of
four-engined
planes,
many
of
them
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Air
Force,
poured
an
attack
on
Essen,
exceeding
that
which
burned
and
shattered
450
acres
of
that
city
March
5.
The
Air
Ministry
had
de-
scribed
last
week's
raid
as
prob-
ably
the
heaviest
blow
of
the
aerial
war,
more
'than
1,000
tons'
of
bombs
ruining
dozens
of
Krupp
war
plant
buildings
and
leaving
30,000
homeless,
but
it
said
last
night's
raid
was
heavier
still.
Pilots
over
the
city
last
night
said
smoke
from
fires
set
by
block-buster
b"mbs
and
incendarles
reached
a
height
of
15,000
feet.
Ground
defences
were
strength
ened
so
much
since
last
week's
raid.
one.
.pUafefa.Jtoeg-
rnans
"seemed
quite
determined
we
should
not
get
through"
and
wenty-three
bombers
failed
to
re
tun.
Three
of
the
missing
planes
.ore
Canadian.
MISSFAUST
IS
SPEAKER
Tells
Meeting
cf
Lutheran
Young
People
of
Her
Experiences
in
West
Africa
SUB
FIGHT
IS
CLASSIC
How
Canadian
Corvette
Regina
Disposed
of
U-Boat
in
Mediterranean
I.ONUON,
March
13
(CP)
In
what
is
described
by
naval
men
as
a
"classic
'example
of
submarine'
f
Ighrmi.the'Canadlan
corvette
.
Kcffina,
commanded
by
Lieut.
Commander
Harry
Free-land
of
Sydney,
Nova
ffrotia,
has
bagged
a
third
enemy
submarine,
sunk
in
the
Mediterranean
by
the
Royal
.Canadian
Navy.
Depth
charges
forced
an
Italian
Mihmaiinc
to
(he
surface.
Then
the,
corvette
brought
her
guns,
into
play,
scoring
direct
hits
with
the
main
gun.
These
doomed
the-undersea
craft
while
the
lighter
guns
prevented
the
enemy
crew
from
manning
their
heavy
sun.
Marshal
Petain
General
neral
Hospital,
Hospital,
was
was
the
me
t
)
i
leature
of
the
program
.
hj
fj()W
LlVlM!:
tt
of
the
Young
People's
&
ALGIERS,
March
13
CB
Un-
derground
reports
reaching
French
North
Africa
today
said
that
Marshal
Henri
Phil-
lippe
Petain,
chief
of
state
of
Vichy
France,
suffered
a
stroke
several
days
ago
and
is
tin
a
critical
condition
prob-
ably
dying
in
a
hospital
near
Vichy.
Local
Girls
Successful
In
Music
Tests
Results
of
Toronto
.Conservatory
of
Music
examinations
include
the
following:
Giade
I
Theory
Eunice
Campbell,
pupil
of
Miss
M.
A.
Way,
first
class
honors
(96
percent).
Grade
III
History
Nancy
Owens,
first
class
honors;
Dorothy
Kergln,
second
class
honors,
puplh
of
St.
Joseph's
Academy.
Nearly
Half
started
to
hoe
the
corn.
AIM1
P
hospitals
that
minion
ror
Red
Cross
Up
VANCOUVER,
March
13
The
Red
Cross
campaign
total
for
British
Columbia
up
to
last
night
had
reached
a
total
of
$245,000
of
which
$231,000
had
come
from
Vancouver
and
$78,000
from
Victoria
DIE
OF
HEART
DISEASE
More
physicians
die
of
heart
dl
ease
than
of
any
other
cause.