Mtr i ln-rMlTi and 'K Kit :;g $100.-i xf jr the t. v.- bcng bor- 1 r 1 iri r . t ... I r ?V: seem a ji? tuan when L r. ' float- 1 . w d had r lj 9 Hon. "" of finance, -' he hoped to t-dctt shortly t May )th Loan Record $000,150 QUOTA $750,000 Opening Day $58,350 large numbers event, to spare to witness the OFI ICER VETERAN OF TWO CAMPAIGNS "People In Uiese peaceful Canadian surroundings naraiy rrallz there Is a war on." as- serted Col Bricker. "Here there are no bombings, no real shortage of food. We have the enjoyment of our homes and friends everything we had before the war. AU we are asked to do is to pay taxes, to buy bonds." t Then Col. Bricker went on to describe In an epic manner some of hU impressions of wartime Britain London where everywhere one went was to sec I bombing damage, debris and I rubble all around stately St. rt.ni'a raihrdrnl. comDlctc de vastation, people bombed out of , i the openinlg day were as fol lows nouung in me , .,,,,.. l-aril U'.ar innftA buying of Victory Bond, so ujp., Ca&h nd Carry lJm abroad whose lot It had bcenjnpano Lee or would be to face enemy. ,A. -.u. m orcw which ...... i he had personally :MUj IVlHlltCll t UUi UU1I d 11?.!.. And.lC.aiJuhn Bulger Ltd. a' boy who has lost his lite In SUnley Parker Miss Florence Parker George Hill John Judge William E. Denning Miss Bernlce Bates Ignatius Cv DenU- -'- -" " TT r4rm T7 iit-jkrl Tallw Vavs M 55ri "W1! C McSmlth without regard to Interest or earnings for their money but ,with the thought only of their capacity to assist in financing the equipment, the food, the ships needed to support the fighting men abroad. -How can we even mint oi complaining of beer and (liquor, the rationing of food, when we consider me narosnips and sacrifices which others are makln? Let nothing stand In the way of our purchasing bonds to the limit," urged Mr. Ponder. 100 100 2.000 .w- .u -w. "-""z Thomas Stewart 50; u" W,Q ur,u I Mr- ud Mrs. Michael Strove 200 .... ...mv .u w.c pat Thorjnssoj, people of Prince Rupert and awklni0n Ltd. to lend their money "'muu , ,. ..II. little to remind them, as far as ea&e of living was concerned, that there was a war on. Harold Ponder, veteran of the First. Oreat War and father of KOHIMA IS RELIEVED PUT VICTOJRY FinST or Country - aaaaaaaaTtfa-gitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaB - For Yourself al Temperature Local Tides Wednesday, April 26 High 3:19 21.3 feet 91 16:11 18.9 feet 38 Low 9:59 2.1 feet 22:00 7.3 feet NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS lane V ishes . In Downtown , : Montreal ' n r. . - - " A". LOAN DHIVE OPENS- tAMIlil IT 111 II . - . . m 7ifir T Atn 1 r.TJl I U f avivrm T UVTIAU Fine 'New Victory Ship out fill-appearing Lieut Col. R. E. Rricker, im !(ivp snrvipp in MriLun minnr? thp ilavK .... tllJt. itiVinrt li r f rt n ! vi.no lUn f .n : niiii. niiuii iiiw iiiuiuvi mini nua nit iiuiib a. took part in the occupation of Kiska Aidtians and who is now in command of a f 'he quiet of Prince Rupert, spoke from Uso drive Fight Due m U Kuntvnrt lrlnrv . T a Vlc- j address, ir .?.e King i. at there ' disparate i! va.xm Of i j not yet i s nu one t . . ' Uut the , ' j r fc i in. a i r Total Of $58,350 On First Day Victory Loan subscription on the opining day of the sixth In Prince Rupert totalled nn an nhWIIvn t t?U1 - .the Uunchlne putform of thei nmpved tm V. i rT'ti w TV ,to opening day of the sixth "7 ' Victory Loan campaign, afternoon and exhorted Prince j 6ome of whscripUon, n Japanese Invasion of India lias Been Fought to Standstill. KANfiY. Ceylon, April 25 C Allied troops have completed the relief of Kohlma garrison by clearing the road from Kohlma to Dlmapur, headquarters here announced today. Allied troops have been flown behind the Japanese lines lh Burma as reinforcements for others already operating in the enemy's rear. The Japanese thrust Into In dia has now been fought to standstill by British and Indian troops, Allied headquarters an nounced. Pleaded Guilty w io Liquor oale 150 2.000 200 2,000 5,000 300 300 500 200 100 Walter Jurkat appeared before Magistrate W. D. Vance in city police court Friday afternoon and pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping liquor for sale. ! Jurkat was arrested Monday ' ntjht at 11:30 on Second Avenue by Constables Sam Ferguson and Robert Moore Police say that they found three bottles of liquor 100 on his person and a fourth at bis '100 residence. - 500 Sentence was reserved by the 50 magistrate xxr.u: April 28. WAR NEWS GREATEST AIR ASSAULT CONTINUES LONDON Hundreds of Allied planes hammered at the Nazis today for the eleventh day of the massive skyway offensive, reaching in force Into southern Germany after Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force night bombers, propably one thousand strong, had blasted Industrial Munich, Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf. Thirty British planes were lost Monday night when main blows were aimed at factoties in Karlsruhe and Munich. Allied planes, numbering more than three thousand bombers and fighters, shot down more than one hundred Nazi planes and raked war Industries of the Reich again yesterday with attacks from British and Italian bases. Fiiedrichshafen. Munich, Bucharest, Ploesti and Belgrade were the main targets in this greatest concentrated daylight operation of the war. NAPLES IS BOMBED NAPLES Thirty to forty Nail bombers struck at Naples on Monday night but the attack was not particularly damaging. One raider was shot down. ItUSSIANS STOP GKK.MAXS MOSCOW The Russians have stopped a German attack northeast of Lwow which had succeeded in driving the Russians out of two localities, a Soviet communique said today. FISH FLEET STILL TIED their homes and living in crown- ; SEATTLE, April 25 B - The ed subways, pltllul sights In the halibut fleet tie-up continued arduous existence of young ana last nigni witn indications tnal old. shortage of all Kinas oi mere was mue iiKciinooa oi me tA. n.r hnwpver. to oe office or I'roaucuon Aaminis- Jap Losses WASHINGTON, April 25 -Prime Minister John Curtln of Australia in Washington on his way to a conference of Empire Prime Ministers in London, said yesterday that he estimates that .innimese losses in the Pacific since the start of the war have men. 140 to 170 5,000 and (1,000 planes. Airborne Troops Harry Japanese KANDY. April 25 0-Brltlsh airborne reinforcements landed more than 200 miles Inside Burma, and the American air com- Hollandia Invasion Proceeds Japanese Suffered Heavy Plane Losses Advancing Inland. WASHINGTON, D.C, April 25 (CP) The United States Navy announces that its air forte destroyed 101 Japanese planes in the air or on the ground and damaged seventeen more in the invasion of Hollandia on northern New Guinea. rrogiess of the Invasion is even better than was expected and the American, Dutch and Britbh landing forces have advanced inland to a distance of fire miles from the main air field, having raptured the town of Hollandia and two othrr villages. General Douglas MacArtbur visited the scene of the landing soon after it took place. PREMIERS' MEETINGS LONDON. April 25 O Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons said he was in favor of fre quent meetings of Empire prime ministers and assured Parlla- ( ment that Empire preference j would not be hampered by the ! Atlantic Charter or the lease-; lend agreement with the United States. Mr. Churchill told the House that the British-American mutual assistance pact was reached In 1942 with assurance from President D. Roosevelt of the United States that "we are no more committed to the abolition of Imperial preference than the American government is i committed to abolition bf pro-i tectlve tariff." lArmy Reaches IFifty Per Cent Twin-Engined Bomber Comes Down 5 In City's Commercial District; Nine Killed; Building Is Wrecked n if. du enns BRITISH BUDGET IS IN LONDON Introducing a budget which called for expenditure of $26,691,500,000 with no new taxation. Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons today that personal incomes In Great Britain last year Increased by twenty-seven hundred million pounds and, despite government expenditures of one hundred and ninety million pounds last year on stabilization, the cost of living had increased until now it was twenty-nine per cent above prewar and was still rising. Of the 1913 income, more than half was paid out in addition al taxes. FIRST VICTORY LOAN DAY OTTAWA Canadians sub scribed j online i flrstiulr the Sixth victory Loan campaign Monday a total of $71,-276,150. This was $6,000,000 in excess of the same day in the fifth campaign, it was been divided Into twelve groups for competitive purposes. Lead- f fgntS Are nig gruup uus morning, uuu first to go over the top was the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals with 124 per cent The Ordnance Corps followed with 76 I per cent of their quota, then came the Engineers with 75 per heard a word of complaint but tratlon raising the celling price mando force Joined thousands i cent and the Military Hospital i all resolved In wonderful spiru at Seattle. of .other commandos In tearing b" wl oo per crau rw...i,. the war effort In 1 Fishermen and vessel owners n, ,. ., .m' Army headquarters reports confident surety of ultimate conferred with O.P.A. rcpresen-1 a victory A Christmas party tatives yesterday ana were tow , " - I .Tu..u,. Zim for evac- itui rauine of the nrlce would1 A British army spokesman In .lUlltL'U IJ V IliA Hht'vv - - - - uated British children was an oe a reversal of basic interesting Incident described whlch would leave the hv r.n llrlrkir who SPOKC OI me 0neri u melius uu vvciy wonderful hospitality and gen- kind ot fish, eroslty of the DrlHsii peopm to the Canadian forces. Pol nrirkcr went on to tea of his homeward trip to Canada with 1,000 German prisoners. All branches of the services represented, "they were a tough bunch, let me tell you-ready to fight In order to rule the world, knowing nothing about democracy. Imbued with a standard of living which it " absolutely necessary for us to beat" The officer veteran then made (Continued on Pape Three) that their salesmen are Intense ly biuy selling bonds. policy , Ceylon said today that since the KJ-aLl iaxiT door 'beginning of the Impahl push llOlIIlllg llcW the Japs have lost at least 10,-000 crack troops, arid that their northern offensive arc around Impahl had been broken. Jap Pincer Narrowing CHUNOKINO, April 25 O) Japanese shock troops narrowed to less than 15 miles the gap On Election OTTAWA, April 25 If) An nouncing that he would be leaving soon to attend the London conference of British Commonwealth premiers and that Hon. J. L. Ralston, minister of national defence would act as premier during his absence. Prime Minister William Lvon Macken zie King told parllmcnt at th week-end that he had nothing .t .. irui firm nnrf 115 nnfl ,htu-pn Hm tu-n inut of ihplr to add tn nrevlous statements in VICTORIA ARENA BURNS VICTORIA Fire destroyed the sports centre and ice arena at Willows Park. The Arena was burned to the ground with stables slightly damaged. The loss is estimated at $120,000. The arena was partly covered by Insurance. Mutineers Surrender CAIRO, April 25 0s The mutiny of a brigade of Greek troops which for three weeks refused to obey Its commander- in-chiefs orders because of a rin,rfhn Am, nii. in hi subversive political element area subscribed, one third of their quota in the Sixth Victory Loan on the first day of the drive. on Monday. By this morning they had bought 50 per cent of the figure set for them. Army units In the area have ci.ucu iuajr wticu tiic uuun laid down their arms and vacated their camp, an official announcement said. COCHRANE. Ont.. April 25 CP Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glllls each were sentenced to three years In the penitentiary yesterday following conviction on manslaughter charges in connection with the deaths of their four children when their home was destroyed by fire. Trying To End Strike OTTAWA, April 25 W The Wartime Labor Relations Board yesterday invited the Ford Motor Co. and union officials to appear before the board today In an effort to end the strike of more than fourteen thousand Dcen ocvwccii .i,ww - . . --" 4 - 7r. In th. PnrH Windsor wAn m, nnn n nM, mnvamanr nrnnnrf inp rpirnrn Tn inp nn.uui iv ill u nvmiiii - - . . strategic city of Chcnghslcn. ' general election, I plant. MONTREAL. April 25 (CP) A twin-engined bomber crashed and exploded in Montreal's down- own commercial district today with toll oi at least nine dead and one man in hospital with rescuers searching debris of wrecked buildings for possible other victims. More than a dozen building3 were wrecked, some of them partially I destroyed by fire. Some eye witnesses thought one wing of the plane broke off before It struck. The plane came in silently, its motor ap parently either stalled or cut off. Two victims were Identified as Edgar Forget, killed In a building wrecked In the crash, nad Philippe Lemleux, a constable patrolling his beat at the time of the crash and hit by the falling fuselage. It was a four-motored Libera tor bomber whlct. plunged Into a number of old brick buildings on Shannon Street Houses went down like cards and tires quickly broke cut. .The blowtng up of a gas tank added to the rcUtehor-Tat The bomber was operated by 'the Royal Air Force Transport Command and had Just taken off for the United Kingdom. The entire crew of five, the only persons on board, were among the killed. CONTROL AIR OVER CRIMEA LONDON, Appril 25 O-Soviet aircraft of the Black Sea fleet sank 12 more enemy ships trying to evacuate the Germans from Sevastopol in the Crimea and are continuing to devastate Nazi shipping attempting to ap proach the peninsula. There have been no essential changes in the eastern land front. A Communist party spokesman in Moscow said today that since last July 500,000 Germans had been killed in fighting on the eastern front. He added that recent Soviet victories had done much to pave the way for the approaching second front in the west. THIRTEEN LOAN CANVASSERS OUT Convicted of Manslaughter Every House In Trince Rupert to be Visited by Victory Bond Saiesfolk. With the' intention of selling a Victory Bond to everyone In the city, thirteen Victory Loan canvassers packed up their brief cases yesterday and fared out to visit homps and offices. Ten of the company aro women, three are men. All are voluntary workers, citizens whose patriotism has led them to take an active part in putting the Victory Loan over the top. Every household In the city will be vlted by one of them and Victory Loan headquarters expresses the hope that they will be met courteously and cooperatively In each one. The canvassers are: Mrs. D. P. Miller, Mrs. D. C. Stuart, Mrs. S. A. Kellbach, Mrs. M. McLean, Mrs. R. R Strachan, Mrs E. T. Applewhalte, Mrs. F. F. Struve, Mrs. L. McKeown, Mrs. T. J. Boulter, -Mrs. Stanley Saville, Benny Lee, E. T. Applewhalte and Oscar Haveroy. Benny Lee will be In charge of the canvass of the Chinese population. Woman Fugitive From Norway to Speak in Rupert Miss Else Margrete Rod, ;a Norwegian newspaper woman who escaped from the Nazis, be cause they wanted her for un derground activities, will speak ELSE MARGRETE ROED Hi Norwegian refugee ns-wspaper woman who will visit Priacs Rupert soon. to Prince Rupert audiences in, the middle of May. Miss Roed, born in Halden, Norway, studied literature and philosophy at Oslo University, She spent four and one half years doing post-graduate work in Germany, France and Eng. land, where she studied enotn-. omlcs and political science, ifc-turnlng to Norway she became editor of the leading woman's magazine of that country aad held this position until she wa3 forced to flee the country. Informed that Gestapo wanted her for her underground activities, she swapped sugar, sar-dines, potatoes, carrots tor a second-hand pair ot loveeled shoes, walked for foup days over Norway mountains, sometimes wading streams waist high, until she finally reached Sweden and safety. Miss Roed describes Nazi occupation ot Norway, Its blight on liberalism and its outrages against the people. She tells how women resist Hitler and how her countrymen fight the ccupa? tlori forces. Miss Roed now comes from a speakir? tour covering the Pacific Coast and Alaska. She has given more than 20 lectures to overcrowded audiences and also given several broadcasts on coasc to coast hook-up. FIVE CITIES ARE HIT BY BOMBS Five continental cities wers targets yesterday for tyie Alller1 aerial offensive which was In lb eighth continuous day. Three thousand planes, operating frorr England and Italy, dropped t huge tonnage of bombs on Munich, Fredrelchshaven, Bucharest Ploesti, and Belgrade. The of fe slve Is continuing.