Sherbrooke daily record, 13 avril 1942, lundi 13 avril 1942

[" V #terbrnükp Satlg ÎUrnrè \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Established 1897.THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY.APRIL 1 i, 194.\u2019.WEATHER Unchanged.Forty-Sixth Year.POWERFUL JAP FLEET OPERATES IN RENGAL RAY Churchill Tells Of Composition Of «lap Flotilla Fleet Comprising at Least Three Battleships, Five Aircraft Carriers, Heavy and Light Cruisers and Several Flotillas of Destroyers Threatens Supply Lines to India, British House of Commons Told.®- Desolation At Bataan London, April 13.\u2014®\u2014Prime Minister Churchill disclosed today that the Japanese are operating in the Bay of Bengal with powerful naval forces headed by at least three battleships and five aircraft carriers and including heavy and light cruisers and several flotillas of destroyers.Reporting to the House of Commons on the loss of the Aircraft Carrier Hermes and the Cruisers CHINESE PRESS URGES UNITED STATES ACT IN INDIAN IMPASSE ChunRkinff, April 13.\u2014(JP)\u2014 The Chinese press urged today that China, the United States and other United Nations intervene for a settlement of the Indian question.The influential Ta Kung Pan suggested that all political issues in India should be settled by a joint agreement nmong India.Britain, China and the United States, with the last two guaranteeing any British pledges.Dorsetshire and Cornwall, whoso iiîff/N¥Y%T'.;ïvïN â TFTT'ïP'Il'f sinking by Japanese bombers in the ; mf||J n| I fjrl f | IlJ^ Bay of Bengal was announced last week, the Prime Minister said the Japanese battleships there included at least one of the modernized, 16-inch gun Aagato type of 32,720 tons.It was against this vastly superior force headed for Ceylon, he disclosed, that the Hermes, Dorsetshire and Cornwall were preparing to make their stand when they were sent to the bottom by Japanese bombs.The Prime Minister said that the commander of the interceptor force, Admiral Sir James Somerville, whose hastily gathered fleet of big and little ships rescued the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkerque and who helped stalk the German battleship Bismarck to her end in the Atlantic, had done nothing \u201cto weaken the confidence of the Admiralty in his judgment.\u201d Mr.Churchill said thunderstorms and low-hanging clouds which enveloped the Japanese aircraf NOW DIRECTOR OF COMMANDOS Prime Minister Churchill Reveals that Cousin of King George Is in Charge of Famous Force.London, April 13.\u2014 (CP-Cable) Mystery figure of the commandos for months, Lord Louis Mountbat-tan, announced by Prime Minister Churchill today as chief of Bidtain\u2019s combinée operations, was the man behind the raids on Vaagso, Lofoten, Bruneval and St.Nazaire.The appointment had been a service secret until now, but the operations forces, - which included Canadians, privately made no sec- ¦t ai» ¦ail NS^V- P WÊ 1 he.-e two exclusive photographs from Bataan show, top picture, an unidentified village on Bataan Peninsula after it had beer, destroyed by Japanese bombs and shells during the months ih\" greatly out-numoeied American and Filipino soldiers withstood all the invaders could -throw at them.U.S.Secretary of War St ini son announced in Washington that the defenders totalled 36,800 men.Below a U.S.Army captain is pictured giving water to a dying Japanese soldier.The invaders paid a high price before the defenders were envoloned.lieis and warships interfered with ret of their pride that \u201cMountbat- British counter-attacks by air.Nevertheless, he asserted, British bombers, torpedo planes and fighters pressed the attack until all available planes had been knocked out.The Prime Minister\u2019s comments were made in response to a series of questions.Mr.Churchill said lie could not make any statement concerning the disposition of the British fleet in this area, which is under command ten of the Illustrious\u201d and the King\u2019s cousin, was their boss, At one port Canadian naval officers referred to the chief as \u201cMy Lord Looey.\u201d Canadians look to the handsome, colorful forty-one-year-old Lord Louis with somewhat similar admiration and affection as Canadian troops look to Lt,-Gen.A.G.L.McNaugh-ton.After succeeding Admiral Sir MOSCOW PAPERS SERVE WARNING UPON JAPANESE of Admiral Sir James Somerville, R Keve« Lord* look went to tli\"1\u201ds\u201ds i\"toimali»n \u201c«jfafAr ÎL\tAki™\u2018,\u201e3 HfSclahd.Lwver.ttotBritirtf»^ f»\u2018'\t*1°»8 Europe's naval losses in the Bay of Bengal j' piJR',il r!g coast, ^\t_ had not weakened the Admiralty\u2019s v aags-o uas his particu.ar interest confidence in Admiral Somerville.for weeks.He fougnt opposition It is quite impossible, Mr, Church-\t''e ^t peiniuNvi-on to make the ill said, to afford continuous air pro-iraK'> a naval officer well informed tection by shore-based or carrier- 011 the background said.Lord Louis borne aircraft to all British ships took a leading part in planning the at sca.\t; minute detail.Other raids followed The ' Dorsetshire, Cornwall and j with equal success.Hermes were sunk by Japanese ; In his new command he holds the planes.\t'\t| acting rank of Vice-Admiral and \u201cMany scores\u2019\u2019of British ships are ihu honorary ranks of Lieutenant at sea every day without air protec- General and Air Marshal.JAPANESE COM MX IS AD- I VANCING TOWARD YEN-ANYAUNG OILFIELDS New Delhi, April 13.\u2014(f.A British headquarters communique on the Burma front fighting said today a Japanese column was reported to be advancing up the main road from Kin-fcaungwe, seventy miles North c.f Piome.Sinbanngwe is on the East bank of the Irrawaddy River about fifty-five miles South of | the vital Yenanyaung oilfields of Inner Burma.Japs Warned to Observe All Ramifications of Neutrality Pact Signed Between Two Countries Last Year.Kuibyshev, Russia, April 13.\u2014(/P) ACCIDENT VERDICT \u2014 Striking at what was called j IN SHIPSHAW DEATH j \u201cblabbering\u201d in Japanese \u201cmilitary\t_____ iand Fascist cliques\u201d about war in | Shinshaw, Que April J3\u2014-A*.\u2014.\\ ! I the North, Soviet Russia todayLoroi,cr's jUrj- returned a verdict of .observed the first anniversary of the accidental death in the case of Yvc \u2018 signing of the Japanesc-Russian : Neutrality Pact by warning Tokyo to live up to all ramifications of the | agreement.The pact was signed in Moscow j on Easter Sunday of last year.The vehicle of the warning today ! wa Talbot, twenty, of Montreal, who was electrocuted at the Foundation Com-; pan y construction yards here Satur-1 day.Talbot failed to bend down when the construction train on which he ung i riding passed under tion, he went on, adding that \u201cunless these risks are taken there is no means of carrying on the immense business of convoy and sea war Continued on Page 2, Col.4.Lord Louis, who survived the sinking of two destroyers in this war and has seen action in the Norwegian campaign, She Atlantic, the Continued 0n Page 2, Col 6.Retention Of Troops in Canada Demanded At Thetford Gathering WAR BULLE 'hetford Mines, April 13.\u2014 ((P) \u2014 ic Chaloult, Liberal Member of Quebec Legislative Assembly Lotbiniere, after telling an anti-scription gathering here yester-¦ to vote \u201cNo\u201d in the plebiscite i that the French Canadian forces uld be commanded and directed French-speaking officers.There is not an example in the dd,\u201d he said, \u201cof a people who let mselves be led to war in a langu-' which is not their own.It is ;t a question of establishing locracy at home before we are ed to make a total effort to iblish it (democracy) abroad.\u201d loth Prime Minister Churchill, in recent visit to Ottawa and Pre-t Godbout, in a speech to the rislative Assembly, said that Can-, was directly menaced, on the ¦ific Coast by the Japanese and the Eastern Coast by the Ger-ns, Mr.Chaloult said.If we are directly menaced,\u201d he tinned \u201cwe should keep all our liers at home and take alt means avoid conscription.If we are menaced, we should also keep men at home because we are not this war to serve as a footstool to other peoples.Neither England, nor France, nor the United States are our country; our only country is Canada.\u201d NO\u201d LEVIS MEMBER URGES VOTE St.Romuald de Levis, April 13.\u2014 (P\u2014Maurice Bourget, Liberal Member of Parliament for Levis, main speaker at an anti-conscription meeting here yesterday, urged a negative vote in the forthcoming plebiscite.Claiming that it was \u2018'imperialistic agitation\u201d which forced Prime Minister King to bring up the plebis-cte question, Mr.Bourget said.\u201cWe have been told that national unity is in danger.But if by national unity they mean national slavery, I will have none of it.\u201d Mr.Bourget, who said that Canada\u2019s war effort is formidable and worthy of respect and that the other provinces also are opposed to conscription, added that if the majority of the country gave an affirmative vote to the plebiscite he would bo obliged to vote in favor of conscription for Overseas service if such a bill was submitted to the House of Com mo ns.was an editorial in Pravda, organ .wires.Afy-r striking the* w of the Central Committee of the fell under the wheels of tk j Communist Party.\t| anfi was run over.Although not belligerent in tone, |\tp-\u2014~\u2014 | the editorial spoke in firm phrases, i St.Johns, Quo., April 13.- ' 111 (he Government would make a statement on I be course of the war but if would be confined to a secret session of the House.GERMAN PLANES FEELING DEPTH #F RED LINES !\t.I Accelerated Aircraft Activity i Accompanies Light Counter] Attacks by German Troops1 as Weather Brightens.K uiby.he v, R11 sin, A pril If/Pi I ho Grrina n a io foroe noceicraLed [ ils activity today in support; of light.counUM attack: with infantry and tanks ns, the Germans sought lo fool out the depth of the.Soviet front.Warm and slushy wcathei' -ably tile wn nue:-1 Unis far this -prevailed in the lighting an A dispatch from the front that the German aviation am wa : (l ong, bul, asserted that Soviet fliers were overtaking slower Nazi plnnes at any height i and boating them vviLh machine guns\u2019, cannon and jamming.Three German counter-attacks were rcpoj'ted on the Bryansk front South of Moscow, hut Soviet, ripons said they definitely were not a major operation, Rus inn suppoi , extracting all possible aid from nature, have changed the course of flootlwalers and washed the Germans out of a fortified village.Dispatches from the rain-drenched front said the cngineei's defied German guns and dug trenches through which the flood surged upon enemy : positions.Just as the waters swept over the G' sinat in the village, so is a wave of confidence in ultimate triumph ; sweeping over the Soviet, Union.Optimistic Russians give three) ren ions for their confidence: 1\tThey believe the expected Spring offensive will be their offen- i laimlon, \\pvil 1.3.\t® Bril- lin's fur-ranging Inin.lmrs jhiuihI-! ed al )\\is arsenals in Germany ami Italy earh today in a bombing offensive designed lo smash die equipment of many German divisions before il is able lo leave the faelories.The Royal Arsenal at Turin, where muuilions are product'll, vwis reporled lo have been one of Ihe main largels of Ihe raid against Berlin's A\\is parllier.H was llift firsl raid on Turin since Seplom-ber and Ihe eigbleenlb since Italy rtileml the war in ItMO.An aiithorilalive source said Iho allack on Ilaly was carried out wilhoul Ihe loss of a single bomber 1,bOO-mile round trip, at Essen, Gorille objectives in.i on that Ruhr it was reported, aid and subsidiary alls al Le Havre, Oeeu- 01) The Krupp work ninny, wore one of the forty-fifth rai manufacturing city The Ruhr tacks on ih pied France, and airdromes in France and the Low Countries, cost the R.A.K.[en bombers and one fighter.The thunder of bomb blasts rolling across the Channel could be heard on the English shore.The skies already were grey (his morning when residents on the Kent; Go:is| heard the fast crump of exploding bombs on five other side of pfob- year\tI lovei\tStrait,\tand\tthe sun w\tas well\t \tup ill\tth-fl sky\twive\tn the Iasi g\troup\toC as.\tplane\twingc\t1 ovcM\u2019lirad ho m evv:\t\t\trd ; aid\tbo u m\tfrom\t> i n c\tdistant mi\t'Sion\t s 1,511\tTin\tre is\t.'Vc r\ty indication that\t\t the\tBrita\tn is Lai\tintf\tm a >; i m u m\tad vi\tin- the-\t1 age\tof the\tspr\tnights\twh\tch 2 -They are convince! man army will be smash sian soil this year.Continued on Page 2, the d on Col, Ger- Kus- now provide about seven hours oE darkness- - to step up aerial opera-lions fas I developing info the United Nations\u2019 first real European offen-.ive of 1D12.The growing si rcriglh of the United Nations\u2019 air f-om s was emphasized yesterday by Labor Mini-Lei' Ernest Bevin, who declared in a speech at Roys ton that United States airplane production would be equal to the total output of Germany, Italy and Japan \u201cwithin five or six weeks.\u201d lie said British manufacture of planes already had reached parity with Germany.\u2019I\u2019Ik- fierce air fighting which marked the daylight phase of the growing offensive yesterday developed when planes made a bombing sweep over the Hazcbrouck yards in Northern France.The raiders wet;e met by swarms of German fighters and the opposing air forces swiftly tangled in a scries of swirling dogfights in which the raiders lost thirteen lighter planes and one bomber.A communique announcing the battle said four German planes were Continued on Pago 2, Col.6 tro-Nazi Groups Use increased Pressure On Retain Government tlv I Quebec Premier Greets French-Speaking Canadians Throughout Canada in Opening \u201cNationa! Pride Week.\u201d r Q \u201d\t% A I \u201cis such that to cut off the tia of our Pi our brothel's o West, and the bout said in a The v Ma; I Ici \u2014V -.I* rench- ¦ rational life our principle - at the fron-elween us and 1st, the Middle Premier God-biress read for Broadcasting address, read ad of the Pub-the Provincial the inaugural Week,\u201d spon- Conlinued on page 2 col.3 I/omlnn, April 13.- ¦(k -Advocates of collaboration between Vichy and Berlin exerted new pressure upon the P; in government during the week-end, with one Naz.proponent, Marcel Beat, going so far as to say that France\u2019, fate for many years, would be d etermined the next few hours.Deal, leaden of the French National Concentration Movement, chaiged that the United States Ambassador, Admiral William Leahy, \u201cacting through intermediaries,\u201d had, ruled Fr oice for eighteen months i and said that I ranee had to choose between co-operating with European policies