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WITH WHICH JJ IWCOCWItATfO XANA1HO DAILY BXRALD NUMBEP SEVENTIETH YEAR. NANAIMO, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1943. THE WAR TODAY Rhineland, Rhiir And North Sea Coast Are Allied Aerial Targets Pre dally fM. twa iwiiArtt0 Ik mt on giomi em xcUn vptloaM of tounMutoMl mw rem 4CtTprM aU. Lampediisa Isle Besieged By Air WATER POWER REASON CANADA DIG PRODUCER Munitions Minister Tells House Canada Fourth Place In -Arms Output By DEW1TT MACKENZIE AMociated Press War Analyst Coincident with the admission in Hitler's newspaper Voelkischer Boebachter that the Allied bombing of German cities is "a damned serious thing" there comes fsom Largest Force of Heavy Bombers of the War Visits Industrial Centres of Germany, Dussel-dorf Receiving Hardest BJov, Followincfr-luge Davliaht Attacks Yesterday bv American Has Ca pitulated Wilhelmshaven a treat increase in bomber Attack Upon Tiny Mediterranean Fortress, of Italians Commences Immediately Upon Sur HIGH TOTAL OF PLANES CANADIAN TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY OPEN COAST TO COAST TORONTO W.

Ontario HigV ways Minister Hon. T. Mc-" Questen today- announced the Trans-Canada Highway now is open to traffic from coast to coast Traffic has started moving over the last etrentch to be completed, 153 miles between Geraldton and Hearst in Northwestern Ontario. This stretch was completed in November but no attempt was made to keep this link open through the past winter. A.

A. Smith, chief engineer of the Department of Highways, inspected the Herst-Geraldton link last week anc pronounced it open for traffic, which followed shortly The department! warrjod that there are as yet no service stations along this link and that motorists entering either end of the stretch should check their gasoline supply. SOME STRIKING FACTS By FRANK FLAHERTY Canadian raiss staff warria By EDWARD D. BALL Associated Press Staff Writer render Pantelleria Yesterday and.Full Force of Allied North African Aerial Power Showers Deluge of Bombs. Following Ultimatum ITALIAN COMMAND ADMITS LOSSES LONDON (AP).

The R. A. F. resuming, its deadly offensive against the armament centers of the Reich, sent the greatest force of heavy bombers of the war to attack several targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland fast night, concentrating its greatest deluge of bombs on Duesseldorf, it was announced today. A "high representation" of Canadian bombers took part in these raids, it was authoritatively reported, and it was understood that nearly all R.C.A.F.

squadrons in the -Canadian bomber group participated, as well as Dominion air crews flying with the R.A.F.- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA Lampedusa Island has been occupied, a special communique from Allied Headquarters announced tonight. The communique said: (. "After 24 hours intermittent, naval and air bombardment, the island of Lampedusa today' surrendered and is being occupied our forces." The little Italian desert island lies 80 miles south' of which fell only yesterday. 11 No details of the occupation were immediately given. OTTAWA O).

Munitions Minister Howe told the House of Commons yesterday that addition of nearly 2,000,000 horsepower to Canada's hydro-electric power capacity gives assurance of sufficient power to maintain the war production program. His statement opened discussion on Munitions Department estimates in the War Approriation bill. The Munitions Minister, tpld the House, "Canada is the greatest base metal exporting country in the world. In this year the ouput will be the largest in our history. He said new developments, such as magnesium, reviving of old mines, expansion of present properties and encouragement to -marginal and sub-marginal mines had enabled Canada to take her place as the leading base metal Mr.

Howe said Canada's power resources were one of the basic Bulletins CHINESE MAKE FURTHER GAINS strength which Is playing its part In the devastating day and night bombing of the Nazis. -The commander, Ma, -Gen. Ira C. Eaker, states that the American air fleet, in Britain increases from 15 to 30 per cent' monthly. He says it has doubled since March, and will be doubled again between now and October.

Those figures are highly significant In view of the all-round Allied offensive in Europe. They fascinate me because last October I was told by well-informed quar-. ten that if the British and United States bomber forces in Britain could be trebled in number, by the first of this year, it would be possible to reduce Hitler's strength enough by spring so that an army could be landed in France off the channel.twlthout excessive losses. Now it would appear that the two fleets may be approaching the magic figure. That wouldn't tepresent an excessive numbec at all, but enough to rub the frosting off Herr Hitler's ginger-bread.

Gen. Eaker decorated his disclosure with a touch of finality, by remarking that American fighter and mgdium bomber forces in Britain, also are growing rapidly and will be ready to pull their weight in an invasion of Europe Absolute supremacy of the air will be necessary for that great undertaking, and these lighter warplanes will do yeoman's service. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Tldnfngen reports that informed Nazi military circles admit they can- no longer hide the fact that the effect of daily round-the-clock bombing is "awful on the health and nerves of the people," if bombs don't fall in their Immediate neighborhood. Two companion islands of Lino- so and Limpione He near Lampe SOCKEYE SALMON Later an R.C.A.F. Headquarters communique said that "many Halifax and Wellington squadrons of the Canadian group" were among the raiding force.

It announced that of the 43 planes lost during the night, 10 were Canadian, Munster was the biggest target among the secondary objectives, the Air Ministry said. The assault followed by only a few hours a heavy daylight raid by 200 American four-engined planes against (Continued on Page Two) See RHINELAND, RUHR SEASON OPENING reasons why Canada held fourth 1 place among the United Nations dusa, but they are barren wastes, important only for their strategic position near the Mediterranean narrows. No mention was made of the fate of the companion islands, but it is belieVed that they too must topple swiftly, if indeed they have not already done, so. -Lampedusa had previously disregarded an Allied ultimatum, to surrender and the' pattern of attack apparently was the same as the longer battering which pounded Pantelleria into submission. Commenced Yesterday Allied air forces which made history yesterday by fordrii ihe capitulation of Pantelleria with-(Continued on page Tow) Boy i Drowned KB.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police today were dragging the North Saskatchewan River -just east of here for the body of Arne Finstad, 11-year-old son of Pte. and Mrs. Carl Finstad of Edmonton who was drowned when the boat he was riding in overturned. Riots -in Belgrade LONDON Wi A number of Germans were killed recently in pitched street battles in Belgrade Reuters News Agency reported today in a dispatch from- Istanbul. The dispatch said the clashes followed the arrival of Croat troops to assist German occupation authorities in the Yugoslav capital-American Shoe nation WASHINGTON The Office oi Price Administration announced tdday that ihe new shoe ration stamp which becomes valid next must.

through Oct. 3 LJThe first of -the shoe ration stamps expires Tuesday night. 1 Oil Fire At San Francisco (iP). Fire at the Oleum Refinery of the Union Oil Comnanv today halted CHUNGKING m. Chinese troops attacking the Yangtse port of Sungtze, between lchang and Shasi, have recaptured several points south of the city after inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese, a Chinese communique announced today.

Enemy troops in the Chientsusu sector of Southern Hupeh province are showing signs of collapse after suffering heavy the High Command declared. Earlier it was reported in Chinese front-line dispatches that Chinese troops have gained the upper hand in, fierce fighting near Yang-loushu, about 40 miles north west of the important Japanese-held base of Youchow in Northern Hunan Land-Or-Water Vehicle Is Created as a war producer. Arrangement With U.S In addition to enlarging power capacity, inter-connections established between power systems since the start of the war had been made more elastic and of greater capacity. Power hadd been both loaned to and borrowed from the United States. "In times of breakdown power has been transmitted the United States at Niagara and taken -from the United States at Beauharnois (Que.) or vice-versa depending on the heeds of the moment," he.

said. Mr. Howe said his estimates are, down from $698,090,000 last year (Continued on Page Five)' See WATER POWER Fishing season) in the neighboring waters is reported to be reasonably good. It is reported that while catches of blueb'acks have fallen off due, it is said to weather conditions, in some areas there hasf been large catches of small springy salmon in areas frequented by the bluebacks. The catch of salmon on the West Coast has been up to normal, and high prices have prevailed.

Some 15 gill netters have been engaged after sockeye in the Niti-nat area, the operators taking aver-r age catches. 1 Sockeye run in some areas is reported to have macje an early start, Mr. J. F. Tait supervisor -of fisher-.

iei reports, although the main sockeye season not yli opened. See LAMPEDUSA ISLE De Gaulle's Brother Held NEW YORK A BBC broadcast recorded by CBS today quoted the London Times as saying brother of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, had been arrested in Paris, his and "deported to Germany as a mainlaine raif traffic to the San WASHINGTON, Development: of a two and one-half ton amphibian truck "capable of performing as reliably on water as on the Unitr ed States War Department today. Nicknamed the "Duck" by soldiers assigned its driver-pilots, the new vehicle is. known officially as "truck, amphibian 2 ton, six by six, Dukw-353." Engineers, developed the truck under direction of the Ordnance Department said it is capable of moving troops, and supplies over land and across water obstacles.

A propeller slips into gear when the truck hifs the water. The "Duck" can carry approximately 35 men on land and 50 over water. It is a six-Wheel vehicle with driving power on all wheels has an overall length of about 31 feet and a width or beam of eight feet. province. Chinese troops have destroyed several sections of the Canton-Hankow, railway between Hankow and Yochow in their drive to sever communication, and supply lines and isolate the city, the dispatches said.

Chinese troops have twice raided Yochow itself and have inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese there, according to these reports. Fierce fighting was continuing northeast of lchang and northwest of Hankow, in which -ihe Chinese yesterday reportecfnew successes. Market Shows Betterment In Revenue That's understandable because even trained soldiers break under bombardments which rob them of any chance to sleep, to' say nothing of the shock of the great explosions. In this connection Emil Ludwig, the German biographer, has expressed the belief before the House Foreign Affairs committee in Washington that German nerves will crack under the continued aerial assault and that invasion won't be necessary. That's interesting testimony, coming from a German.

However, while such a collapse certainly is possible, it will be a mistake for us to bank on it. If ii comes, well and good, but it would take a. terrific pounding to bring it about. RED DEER, Alta. (W.

Rev. B. H. Playwright Arrested STOCKHOLM W. r- Finnish authorities have arrested Hella Vuolijoyi, the playwright and peace messenger between Finland and Soviet Russia after their 1939-40 winter war, the newspaper Dagns Nyheter reported todays The dispatch hinted that she was charged with failing to report a Russian parachutist who stayed at her home.

Prisoner List Swells LONDON, W-rThe Algiers radio said today that the surrendered Italian garrison at. Pantelleria was about 12,000 strong. 'The broadcast was recorded by Reuters News Agency. It is considered that the low period has been reached in connection with the Farmers' Market, and while the demand never slackened for farm produce, the supply was lowest in February. Since that time it has been gradually improving, and the revenue from stallholders is increasing, each subsequent month's returns show.

The situation prevails in spite of the fact that meat been, absent ranclsco Bay area for four hours. More than 600,000 gallons of petroleum burned with a mighty explosion. Navy fire boats helped control the fire. Swedish. Sabotage STOCKHOLM! Sabotage by unidentified persons was blamed in a government communique today for the sinking of three Swedish destroyers 'at Haarsfjaerden near Stockholm, iSept.

17, 1941. Thirty-three" men were lost when the ammunition chamber of one of the warships exploded and blasts spread to the others. Air Officials in Africa" i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA m-Sit James Grigg, British Secretarr of State for War, and Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair arrived in 1 North Africa today. ATTITUDE OF CHINESE TO WHITE RACES WILL MODIFY AFTER VAR Can't Stand Coupons KALAMAZOO, (IP)' Life with rationing was too compllcat-. ed for George L.

he's back in the United States; army. Honorably discharged because, be" Was over '38, Lampher said he found civilian life "just one coupon after another." He didn't like it, re-enlisted. POLICE RESCUE LOCAL YOUTHS FROM HARBOR Spence of noted prohbM Jrom the market, largely, uonist, nas tcen appointed secretary of the Associated Temperance forces of Alberta, it was announced Rev. Duncan McRoberts Looks To Changed Viewpoint 4JVI BVMlJ BELIEVE DATE FOR ONTARIO ELECTION SET it sayt to the new siaugntenng regulations, but it is understood one or two stallholders handling meat are returning to that class of trade in the immediate future. -There was a good market today, and the produce was promptly purchased, -small quantity remaining within two hours of GREATEST-RUSSIAN AERIAL BLOW DeGaulle Threat ing Purge OF VAR THURSDAY SPREADS HAVOC By JOSEPH MORTON Associated Press Staff Writer ALfJIERS (JPf Tho French Pnm.

mittee for National Liberation was Seeks Preservation Scenic Beauty Of Nanaimo Lake! Area TORONTO (W. The Telegram said yesterday that Queen's Park politcal authorites, predict that a provincial election will be held in Ontario Tuesday, July 27, The Teleteram added that it is expectedJhat the proxies for Ontario 'members of the Armed Forces overseas will be" distributed by June 19 and that Premier Nixort would announce June 26 that the election would be held July 26. CROWN COUNSEL GIVEN JAIL FOR DRUNK. DRIVING reliably reported; today to have reached an agreement to discharge high army officers'with anti-Allied, Two local youths, were saved from drowing in Nanaimo harbor this morning shortly before noon, when Provincial police reached the overturned sailing craft t6 wltich they were clinging in time to drag them from the vater to safety. The boys, Victor Palmer, age 15 years, of 40 Pine street, and Robert years, 119 Craig street, set out in a small, sail boat whiqhv at about 11:30 o'clock upset, throw'-them the water." Bothboys swam back to their' craft, while watchers on the shore sent in call to the police.

Racing to the' shore, Constables Stewart and Tannick of the provincial police, were taken to the scene in the "Skookurh Chief," skippered by Henry- Jones, Nanafmo, and aulied the youths into their boat. The "lads were little the worse for the ducking, and both were able to proceed hortje. New Growers' Head MEDICINE HAT Alta. Thomai Usher, of Alta. was unanimously elected president of the-Western Stock Growers' As sociation'at the closing 'session O' the Association's annual con-, ventibn He succeed; ascist or- Petanist backgrounds bowing to a demand made by Gen Charles De Gaulle! under threat WINDSOR, Crown Attorney James S.

Allarj, "K.C., today was sentenced to serve The only business before the -neeting of the Nanaimo Fish and lame Association held on Thursday evening was a petition to the Department of Lands asking that certain -tracts of timber not be re- resigning. I IMMIGRATION RULES. There will, be a new orientation of the Chinese to the white races after the war, Rev. Duncan McRoberts, well known missionary said to The Free Press this morning, when asked how the developments since 1940 in which the' Japanese' have overrun a large part of the1 Asiatic and insular possessions of Britain, U.S., and Netherlands, will affect the post-war world in the Orient. 1 He thinks that there will con- tinue to be a demand for Occidental technical men and for special advisers but that the dominant relation existing for the past century-will change.

And with it will come a demand for re-consideration of the immigration laws of Canada and the United States in their re-v. lation to Chinese. Mr. McRoberts, who has been speaking extensively on China, (Continued on Page Two) See ATTITUDE OF seven days in Esex Gounty jail ine source said the committee was expected to take action to Unoved in the vicinity of the-First night on the controversial army; reorganizetion question. Gen.

Dt Gaulle and six otner members oi and Second Nanaimo Lakes to afford cover for game. Members also will draw their at the committee- we(e said to be ii Bombers Kiska WASHINGTON, The United States Navy reported today that in continued fighting in the Western Aleutians American bombers raid-Mi Japanese installations on Kiska sland four times Thursday, and hat 66 Japanese stragglers have been killed by army patrols on Attu. tention to the threat to the sceni' accord, and this was interpreted to mean that the whole erouo wouu when he pleaded guilty in police court to a charge of- drunk resentence was passed by Mag-' istrate D. B. Menz.ies, of Londpft after Mr.

Allan had changed his plea to one of guilty. The-Essex Crown attorney had pleaded not guilty when, the case was. first called a Week Mr. Allan, who has been crown attorney of Essex County for 17 years, was charged by Windsor' police following an accident on AprilTS. accept the Fightingl French leader's Tremendous Damage Done Nazi Air Power On Ground and In Sky DESTROY 150 PLANES By WILLIAM McGAFFIN AsaoctATEO rsa TArr wm LONDON 0 The German 'radio said tonight that several waves, of Russian Infantry attacking e.n road front northeast of Orel "the, main German line In some places" before they were thrown back, in counter-attacks.

The Orel front Is about midway between' Moscow and Khar-k- and almost due south of" the The German account, recorded by the Associated Tresa. said the Russians attacked -after heavy artillery and aerial "preparation. MOSCOW tV The 700-plane raid hurled against -German air ficds along the stirring Russian. front Thursday night was the greatest Soviet aerial drive of the war andt destroyed 150 Nazi aircraft and spread havoc on runways, -hangar, fuel dumps and ammu-. nitfon depot.

Russian dispatches said today. beauty being lost due to lumbering operations carried on in this area Mr. Reg. Goodman presided at the meeting. view.

Gen! de Gaulle has insisted unnt an army purge without delay The issue is expected to occupy most of the Committee' time for the JAPANESE LABOR PERMITTED FOR B. WOOD AND TIMBER CUTTING next few-iiays. group did not Mack Higdon of Comrey, Alta. meet this morning. The discussions are expected to single out each general for discussion of his background, personality and qualities.

I BY-ELECTION DATES ANNOUNCED FOR VACANT FEDERAL RIDINGS ake wood-fuel cutting and-other imber operations "to Supply the -teeds of the interior Japanese housing settlement in British Columbia and to supply quantities authorized or required by the vood-fuel controller. Wage rates may "be' established oa a piece-work or. time sis. Provision is also made for the employment of machine foremen and assistants necessary in carrying out the projects. These men will receive the regular ccal scale of -wages.

Arrangements will be made THE BRIGHTER SIDE Brenner's Echo Hitler, I learn, has been having trouble with echoes. He was trying out one o'f his recent speeches while waiting for Mussolini's train in the Brenner Pass. He paced up and down, declaiming. When he' came to the passage, "Wer Regiert die grosse, weltt?" the echo answered Much annoyed. Hitler nevertheless continued: "Wer dikUert'den Frieden? This time the echo came He gave up at this point and re- -entered the waiting room.

The two phrases mean respectively, "Who rules the great world?" and "Who will dictate the whose flection annulled by the-Supreme Court pt Canada, for 'illegal and corjrupt practices" fby Davidson1 agents. Selkirk; fn Manitoba, 'was vacated by- the.appoinun.ent last autumn to the presidency the Eichequer Court of. Canada "of "Hon. 3: OTTAWA Authority for thf use of Japanese labor in wood-fue-cutting and timber operations hai been provided by the government in an order-in-council made public today In Canadian War Ordres end Regulations. i The plan is to relieve the shortage wood fuel in British C61urribia arfd the Prairie Provinces and at the same time utilize Japanese labor.

G. C. commissioner of Japanese placement for the Labor -Department, will have charge of the program for which a fund of $500,000 has been established. The i commissioner may under- The previous Russian record was mounted with SCO planes THRIFT DRIVE DATES SET FOR JUNE 28, JULY 31 1 Another drive for Savings Stamps js reported for the peribd opening. June 28 and continuing to July 31.

The effort will be known as "Stamp Put A quota Of been set for Unit 4 this district), it is announced Finance committee officials. tTTTA A. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced ri cit b-" ially today that by-election's -W'iti be held Aujt. 9 in the stituencies of Montreal-Cirjlet, Stanstead, Selkirk and Humboldt. The by-election in the Montreal constituency i.was necessitated by the death last December of Peter-Bercovitch.

Liberal member 'since 1838. The other Quebec by-eleof tion, in Stanstead. is to elect a sue-' cessor to, R. G- Liberal, LThorson Minister of War against Orel a few days ago. Tass, the Russian News Agency, said that a -considerable fighter force to intercept the Kussian planes, but while Russian CCottnu mm rv Two) See RUSSIAN AEUAL Humboldt irt was left vacant by the death last year of ft.

Fleming. Liberal member who was ir, elected in 1935. through the wood-fuel controler for the -sale of wood cut in the projects..