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OFFENSIVE
L
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thousand
Allied
heavy
bombers
and
fighters
limm
In
thr
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alley
on
Saturday
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British
bomber
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with
United
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widespread
attack
from
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nainit
a
loss
of
seventeen
Allied
machines.
AN
OMINOUS
CALM
lfSmlft
bombers
found
tarcets
Saturday
on
shale
Lflanti
In
fUlonla.
In
the
land
fighting
there
was
an
remindful
or
the
prelude
to
the
last
treat
Rus
Iibi
J.
PEACH
NEGOTIATIONS
OFF
If
It
It
officially
announced
here
that
Finland,
Iwnlhi
of
nftotUtlon,
has
broken
off
peate
nego-
hi
Rsuia
on
April
19
by
finally
rejecting
Soviet
ar-
mt
s
brlni
Incompatible
with
Finland's
indrpend-
BEHICTS
GERMAN
COLLAPSE
Wmldrnt
Rdouard
limes
of
CrechoSloTakla
pre-U
Germany
would
collapse
within
three
months
wruful
Allied
Invasion
of
western
Europe,
RMANY
"CALM
AND
PREPARED"
lUThe
(ierman
propaganda
minister
said
today
that
if
HolUnd
Is
realy
for
coming
events.
Germany
Is
i
sffpired."
HEAVY
FIGHTING
AT
ANZIO
of
the
heaviest
fighting
In
weeks
is
report-
.laito
beachhead.
Americans
attacked
the
enemy
lam
m
!
by
Noon
on
:tJf
Victory
Loan
y
rtcord
al-
I'l
established
na-
M.
Chatham
Up
on
the
first
'5ilh
Victory
Loan
W.
having
subscribed
noon
todav
on
P
f
111,000.
The
V
o
this
effect
I11'
B,,d
on
behalf
pnder
(harles
M.
M
r
ln
charge
Prt
ire
Med
,
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,
remanded
by
'
w
D.
Var.c
In
Ml
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AlfrM
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rl
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the
theft
of
-
pf'.on
of
Alex
tts
York
HntM
'r
f.jht
days
or
t!f
wi-
taken,
--rscd
with
drlv-anion
danger,
was
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Tuesday,
'ears
For
of
Wife
res-
(
was
scn-
the
u2hter
In
con-
Q
V
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Wins"
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Cup
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coCrromflvc
NEW
SHIP
LAUNCHED
Iry
Dock
Thrown
Open
to
Tub
lie
for
first
Time
In
Years
for
Victory
Loan
Inauguration
Event
For
the
first
Ume
In
years,
the
gates
of
the
Prince
Rupert
Dry
Dock
were
thrown
open
to
the
public
this
afternoon
for
the
oc-
j
casion
at
3:30
of
the
launching)
of
the
new
tcn-lnousand
ton
,
freighter
Fort
As
pin
as
an
event
'
marking
the
inauguration
of
the
Sixth
Victory
Loan
Campaign.
Weather
being
auspicious
and
other
conditions
favorable,
there
was
a
large
general
turn-out
to
Join
with
shipyard
workers
themselves
to
witness
at
close
range
the
sliding
down
the
ways
of
a
fine
new
flag-bcdeckcd
ship
'
Into
her
natural
element.
Official
guests
were
on
the"
launching
stand
for
the
ere
I
monies
which'
were
ln
charge
of
i
Bernard
Allen,
manager
of
the
,
yard.
nev.
O.
L.
Douglas,
naval
j
padre,
blessed
the
ship
which
was
formally
given
Its
name
by
i
Mrs.
Nell
MacDonald,
wife
of
one
of
the
riggers,
who,
ln
the
tra-
ditional
custom,
smashed
a
bottle
of
nrltlsh
Columbia
wlnt
against
the
bow
as
the
hull
started
Its
Journey
down
the
ways.
The
Dry
Dock
Male
Choir
at
this
point
started
the
singing
of
the
naval
hymn.
The
pro-
Kram
also
Included
selections
by
H.M.CB.
Chatham
band.
Mayor
II.
M.
Daggett
was
on
hand
to
Introduce
Lieut.
Col.
J.
H.
Brtck-cr,
officer
commanding
a
local
rrirlminl.
tihn
has
seen
overseas
service
ln
this
war.
and
Harold
1
Ponder,
veteran
of
the
last
war
j
and
officer
ln
the
Prince
Rupert
Machine
Gun
Regiment,
who
made
brief
addresses
appro-'
prlatc
to
the
occasion.
Further
Incidents
In
connection
with
the
launching
Included
the
making
of
presentations
to
the
sponsor.
Mrs.
MacDonald-a
Aspln
was
picked
up
by
tugs
and
moved
into
the
finishing
cerm
BACK
TO
VANCOUVER
Jack
Sargent
left
last
week
for
Vancouver
where,
after
being
on
Invalid
for
a
number
of
years
nt
Hazclton,
he
propavs
to
resume
his
law
practice.
NEW
RUSS
OFFENSIVE
SuUetiM
-CORVETTE
225-
OVER
TOP
OTTAWA
The
Canadian
Sixth
Victory
Loan
campaign
aimed
at
St
,200,000,000
opened
today.
The
Royal
Canadian
Navy
had
the
honor
of
reporting
the
first
units
to
go
over
the
top.
-Corvette
225,H
featured
In
the
motion
picture
of
the
same
name,
put
to
sea
with
a
total
of
$8,100
worth
of
bonds
purchased
on
an
objective
ot
$3,500.
NO
STRIKE
AT
YARROWS
VICTORIA
Harry
Culhane,
president
ot
the
Boilermakers'
and
Iron
Shipbuilders'
Union,
announced
there
would
be
no
sltdown
at
Yarrows
following
a
union
meeting.
Union
and
management
morrow.
will
meet
to-
CONSERVATIVE
CHAIRMAN
OTTAWA
Hon.
C.
P.
Mc-Taxue
of
Toronto
has
been
appointed
national
chairman
for
the
Progressive
Conservative
party
and
Henry
Borden,
K.C.,
has
been
named
general
adviser.
Both
Moscow
and
Berlin
See
Tortent
In
Present
Lull
on
Eastern
Front.
MOSCOW,
April
24
Ol
As
rcl-n,
i.nim
nrpvnlled
alonn
the
stiver
serving
dish
from
the
dry
Russlan
front
for
the
sec-dock
management
and
a
wrist
on(1
strnlgnt
day,
front
dls-watch
from
the-riggers'
union,
.
natches
Indicated
today
that
Following
the
launch,
the
tort
j
he
Russians
are
massing
for
a
new
campaign.
In
Berlin
the
Germans
felt
that
the
lull
meant
that
the
Russians
were
preparing
for
a
new
attack
to
coincide
with
Invasion
from
the
west.
The
word
gospel
formerly
meant
good
story
or
filad
PUT
VICTORY
FIRST
r
Country
-
-
For
Yourself
She
,
rr
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111
"
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
1
mmmm
m
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mm
m
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mm
mm
tmmm
mm
mmm
mmm
mm
mmm--
CARDINAL
OCONNELL
DIES
BOSTON
Cardinal
O'Con-nell,
ar.rd
81,
dean
of
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
hierarchy
In
the
United
States,'
died
in
Boston
Saturday
night.
BANDIT
IS
SLAIN
WINNIPEG
.Martin
Silver
of
Montrral
was
shot
and
killed
by
city
police
after
he
had
wounded
the
caretaker
of
a
downtown
apartment
block
while
shooting
his
way
from
an
apartment
building
where
lie
was
cornered
robbing
an
apartment.
HALIBUT
TIE-UP
SIIATTLE
Officials
of
the
Office
of
Price
Administration
have
arrived
In
Seattle
to
confer
with
United
States
and
Canadian
boat
owners
and
fishermen.
At
the
same
time
the
boat
owners
and
fisherman
have
sent
delegates
to
Washington
to
discuss
the
ceiling
price
dispute.
The
entire
coast
fleet
Is
still
tied
up
In
port
today.
Was
Policeman
In
Early
Days
S.
C.
Hamblln,
making
his
first
trip
out
of
Prince
Rupert
In
sixteen
years,
left
Saturday
night
for
Winnipeg
to
attend
the
funeral
of
his
brother,
Harry
Hamblln,
a
pioneer
of
Prince
Rupert,
who
passed
away
suddenly
In
the
Manitoba
city
Saturday
morning.
Nearly
thirty
years
ago,
the
late
Harry
Hamblln
was
a
police
officer
in
Trince
Rupert
no
had
lived
for
the
past
twenty-eight
years
or
so
ln
Winnipeg.
His
wife
died
two
or
three
years
ago.
Deceased
of
late
had
been
a
guard
at
a
Winnipeg
munitions
factory.
x
ruiwrcp
in
!
BAD
PLIGHT
Highly
Trained
Japanese
Soldiers
In
Large
Numbers
Entering
Chengsieng
CHUNGKING,
April
24-Slxty
thousand
crack
Manchurian-t
alned
Japanese
troops
have
entered
the
outskirts
of
the
Important
North
Honan
railway
Junction
city
of
Chengsieng.
The
Chinese
defenders
ln
this
area
are
suffering
from
lack
of
air
support,
the
Japanese
being
unopposed
ln
the
skies.
'MANY
WIRES
IARE
SENT
TO
RAILWAYMEN
,
MONTREAL,
April
24--A
tcle-i
cram
to
94.000
Individuals
was
sent
this
morning
over
the
wires.
.signed
by
R.
C.
Vaughan,
chairman
and
president
of
the
Canadian
National
Railways,
who,
on
the
official
opening
day
of
the
Sixth
Victory
Loan
campaign,
nrffprt
nil
fmnlnvw!
t.hrniiehnut
record
subscriptions.
The
message
read:
"In
the
last
Victory
Loan
campaign
em
ployees
of
the
Canadian
National
system
subscribed
a
larger
amount
of
money
than
the
employees
of
any
other
company
In
the
country
and
we
broke
all
our
own
previous
records
for
bond
purchases.
This
time
we
must
do
even
better.
The
las'
great
battle
of
the
European
w
UBRABY
Local
Tides
Tuesday,
April
25
1ft
High
2:40
22.4
feet
15:25
20.1
feet
Low
9:15
1.1
feet
21:20
6.0
feet
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.
MONDAY,
APRIL
24,
1914
PRICE
FIVE
CENTS
Liberty
Ship
Sinks
Of
f
Alaska
Sixty
Members
Of
Crew
Of
Cargo
Vessel
Believed
Perished;
Blast
Rents
Ship
In
Two
I
Brought
Down
By
Canadian
LONDON,
April
24
Q
A
Canadian
night
fighter
shot
down
an
enemy
plane
over
i
England
Sunday
night.
There
were
light
raids
over
eastern
England
Saturday
night,
an
enemy
plane
be-
ing
also
show
down
at
that
time.
Air
War
Kept
Up
British,
Canadian
and
American
Bombers
Continue
Pounding
Of
Europe
ASSAULT
CONTINUES
LONDON,
April
24
(CP)
Waves
ofAUied
bombers
thun-"dereifacross
the"
Channel
to"
day
to
carry
the
greatest
aerial
offensive
of
all
time
into
its
eighth
consecutive
day.
American
planes
based
6n
Britain
hit
Friedrichshafen
and
.Munich
today
while
planes
based
on
Italy
struck
Bucharest,
Belgrade
and
Ploesti.
Six
planes,
one
of
them
Canadian,
were
missing
after
overnight
operations
by
more
than
one
thousand
Royal
Canadian
Air
Rorce
and
Royal
Air
Force
planes
which
hit
Duesseldorf,
Brunswick,
Mannheim
and
Loan
in
Germany
while
Italy-based
American
planes
hit
aircraft
producing
towns
near
Vienna.
LONDON,
April
24
The
great
aerial
assault
upon
Nazi-held
western
Europe
was
kept
up
without
respite
yesterday
by
daylight
when
2000
British,
Canadian
and
American
planes
struck
at
Belgium
and
northern
Fiance,
the
most
Important
target
being
the
railway
centre
of
Namur.
Saturday
night
1000
Royal
Air
Force
planes.
Including
six
Canadian
squadrons,
heavily
attacked
Brunswick
and
Dussel-dorf,
42
bombers,
9
Canadian,
being
lost.
ANNETTE
BUYS
INITIAL
BOND
Canada
to
better
their
previous
Was
An
Penln,
r""hajs"
as
urive
iirre
ucis
uiiurr
Way.
By
being
the
first
city
purchaser
of
Victory
Bonds
at
the
commencement
of
the
Sixth
Victory
Loan
drive
which
opened
this
morning,
Mrs.
Annette
Wood,
well
known
local
business
woman,
proprietor
of
Annette's
Ladles'
Wear
Company,
repeated
a
war
Is
about
to
begin.
We
must;
inf
act
of
patriotism
and
ffpt
into
It
with
nil
nnr
Hpfprmln.
!
sounn
juogmenv.
atlon
and
all
our
resources.
We
must
back
our
fighting
men
with
everything
we
have.
I
ask
all
members
of
the
Canadian
National
family
to
put
victory
above
all
other
considerations
and
to
support
the
new
loan
to
the
absolute
limit
of
their
financial
ability."
The
climbing
perch
'from
Asia
is
a
fish
that
can
walk
on
dry
land
and
climb
trees.
Mrs.
Wood
was
also
the
first
purchaser
of
bonds
In
the
Fifth
Victory
Loan
drive
last
October.
VALUABLE
SIGNATURES
CAPE
TOWN,
Cr
An
autograph
book
containing
the
signatures
of
every
delegate
to
the
first
meeting
of
the
League
of
Nations
has
been
presented
to
a
Cape
Town
war
fund.
The
book
has
been
flown
to
New
York
to
be
auctioned.
Marine
Disaster
Occurred
off
Unimak
Pass
Fifteen
Survivors
Taken
to
Hospital
at
Cold
Bay
SEATTLE,
April
24
(CP)
The
Liberty
ship
John
Straud,
with
explosives
from
Alaska
war
theatre,
broke
its
back
and
sank
with
a
presumed
loss
of
sixty-five
of
eighty
men
aboard,
the
superintendent
of
the
Alaska
Steamship
Co.
announces.
The
wreck
occurred
off
Sanak
Island
south
of
the
pas3
between
Unimak
Island
and
the.
Alaska
Peninsula.
There
were
two
explosions
after
which
the
ship
broke
in
two,
one
part
going
down
Immediately
and
the
other
in
about
fourteen
hours.
The
fifteen
survivors,
after
being
picked
up,
were
taken
to
hospital
at
Cold
Day,
Alaska.
A
search
for
other
possible
sury
vivors
proved
Ineffectual
al
though
there
is
still
believed
-iil
be
a
possibility
that
a
Soviet
ship
In
the
vicinity
may
have
picked
some
up.
RESCUE
IS
DRAMATIC-
How
British
Submarine
Saved"
American
Airman
Shot
Down
I
Off
'
Sumatra,
ABOARD
AN
AMERICAN
I
CARRIER
OFF
SABANG.
SUMATRA,
April
24
O)
Under
smoking
guns
of
Japanese
coastal
batteries,
a
British
submarine
made
oa
of
the
most
dramatic
rescues
of
the
war,
picking
up
an
American
pilot,
Lieut.
Dale
Klahn,
who
had
been
shot
down
ln
the
Allied
task
force
blow
against
Sebang
and
Lhonga.
British
and
American
forces
and
Dutch
naval
units
co-operated
ln
the
Allied
raid
on
April
19
against
Sumatra.
aescnoea
tne
operation
as
one
i
of
the
largest
sea,
land
and
air
actions
of
the
Pacific
war.
Beachheads
have
been
successfully
established
and
the
Invaders,
following
the
landing
Saturday,
were
moving
Inland
on
Jungle
trails
towards
one
large
air
field
and
two
smaller
ones,
about
twenty
miles
In
from
the'shbe.
The
Japanes
were
caught
by
surprise
and
the
extent
of
resistance
has
not
yet
been
made
known
although
It
is
expected
thete
will
be
fierce
counter-attacks.
"The
Japanese
will
be
surrounded
and
their
ultimate
fate
Is
certain,"
declared
Oeneral
MacArthur.
"This
reverses
Ba-taan,"
he
said.
In
making
the
landing
the
Allies
by-passed
Wewak,
New
Guinea.
It
gives
the
Allies
con-trofof
five
hundred
more
miles
of
coastline.
Strong
naval
and
air
support
was
given
the
landing
forces.
Carrier-based
planes
were
used.
Ninety-five
miles
above
Wewak
another
Allied
landing
U
reported
to
have
been
made.
Wewak
itself
has
been
gWen
another
heavy
aerial
pounding.
"Play
Man's
Part-Join"
--uPrkes
Makes
Tlea
For
4
Prostituting
VERNOX
wjlril
24
W
Major
General
Ouy
R.
Pearkes,
Pacific
Command
officer
commanding',
in
an
address
here,
said:
-Cease
wavering,
play
a
man's
part
and
Join
the
active
army"?
The
mayor
ot
Vernon
and
pre-sMent
icUiha
.
CanadiansLegioD.-
-brascidf
scribed
as
"prostitution!
Jf
the
Victoria
Cross"
a
recent
recruiting
trip
made
by
Major
Paul
Triquet
V.
C.
Disunity
Is
All
That
Can
Defeat
Allies-Stinson
WASHINGTON,
D.C..
April
24
The
only
thing
that
can
beat
the
Allies
ln
this
war
would
be
disunity
between
the
armed
forces
and
the
civilians,
said
Secretary
of
War
Henry
L.
Stlm-son
on
Saturday.
Important
Landing
Made
By
Allied
Forces;
Have
Made
Beach
in
Hollandia
ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
IN
SOUTH
PACIFIC,
April
24
In
another
important
move
against
the
Japanese
in
the
insular
war
of
the
South
Pacific,
Allied
invasion
forces
have
gone
ashore
on
Hollandia
on
the
north
of
New
Guinea
just
inside
the
Dutch
portion
of
the
island.
"General
Douglas
MacArthur
OLD
CANNON
BARK
OPENS
LOAN
DRIVE
The
Sixth
Victory
Loan
camr
palgn
(Army)
was
officially
opened
in
Prince
Rupert
today
by
the
firing
of
the
little
cannon
ln
front
of
the
sign
on
the
lawn
of
the
Federal
Building.
This
cannon
is
one
of
several
of
Its
kind
tHat
was
used
by
the
army
of
General
James
Wojfp
whei
the
French
Army
under
General
Montcalm
was
defeated
on
the
Plains
of
Abraham
at
Quebec
City.
A
comparison
between
this
relic
and
the
huge
guns
used
today
is
another
of
several
reasons
why
wars
of
today
require
so
much
money.
On
the
sign
there
will
be
kept
a
dally
record
of
the
standing
ot
each
army
unit
ln
the
Prince
Rupert
area
and
the
cannon
wlj'
be
fired
again
when
the
army
has
reached
its
quota
of
$94,000.
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