Sherbrooke daily record, 1 mai 1943, samedi 1 mai 1943

[" V i>bprbrnoIu' iatlg mrrnrù \u2022 \u2022 t THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy aud cool.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, SATURDAY.MAY 1, 1943.Forty-Seventh Year.GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACKS HALT ALLIED DRIVE Local Success Registered By Enemy At Tunis German and Italian Forces Suffer Heavy Losses in Making Temporary Gains at Tunis-Bizerte\u2014Allies Intensify Efforts to Drive Enemy into Sea or to Ultimate Disaster.DENIES PRICE CEILING HALTS ! WOOD TRAFFIC Canada And Great Britain Share Responsibility For Modernized North Atlantic Air Sea Convoys Quebec Prices anti Trade Board Director Says Labor Shortage and Hard Winter Causing Famine.By C.R.BLACKBURN, Canadian Press Staff Writer.Ottawa, May 1.\u20140)\u2014A streamlined, mile-by-milf protection of the North Atlantic convoy route to the United Kingdom was announced yesterday, with Canada aiui Great Britain sharing the responsibility.A joint statement by Navy Min that cxeiviaed by Rear Admirai Murray, will be operated by the Royal Navy, with air co-operation, covering the Western approaches to Europe, Canadian naval units, which have already carried a large share of the Atlantic escort burden, will have little change in their duties but the Allied Headquarters, North Afri- * ca.May 1.\u2014 (A*)\u2014Germans and Italians held their positions in a slowly shrinking arc around the Tunis-Bizerte area in North Africa today by dint of violent counterattacks which stalled off British and United States pressure along a 140-mile front.Local successes fell to the enemy and to the Allied forces, but the QUEBEC CHEESE RESTRICTIONS j Qu'bec, May 1,\u2014(CP)\u2014Louis Philip- .\t.\t\u201e .\u201e .jpe Plamondon, Regional Director of Macdonald, and Air Minister|intention is, the Ministers said, that | the Wartime Prices\tand Trade\tPower outlined new convoy plans by j\ttheir\tefforts\twill\tbe\tmore\tefficiently | Board, protested in a\tstatement\twhich the Canadian and British I\tapplied\tand\tthere\tare\tmore\tof\tthem iissued here yesterday against navies, with air co-operation, pro- available now for this work I assertions that the current price pose to protect \u201cevery mile of the ! ceiling on firewood was responsible route from North America to 'for the shortage of fuel in Quebec Europe.\u201d j City.\t! With this new attack upon the I \u201cFor the past two\tmonths we\tU-boat problem left entirely in the have tried to have fuel\twood trans-\thands of the two Empire forces the ported to Quebec at any price,\u201d he\tUnited States, while co-operating United States escort vessels will continue to share in the task, under direction of Rear Admiral Murray, and United States air units stationed in Newfoundland will continue to Carry on their anto-submarine tasks under direction of Air Vice-Marshal Johnson.\t.\t.\t___, Dusk attacks by powerful, stalk- On and | portation difficulties were the main Western Atlantic, including escort dug U-boats have been most danger-reasons for a shortage.\toperations for non-British convoys, ous to convoys.The Ministers ex He assured the public that _ all This was taken to mean that while\t\"\t' | said, adding that a labor shortage w ith ships and aircra ft, will retain jplus a rigourous winter and trans- \u201cstrategic responsibility\u201d for the Axis armies paid heavily for their! an gains.The Axis command threw tanks and infantry into the struggle at recently gained British, American Ottawa, May 1.\u2014(O\u2019) after May 10 all cheddar cheese manufactured in Ontario and Quebec :necessary\tpleasures would be taken\t(lie trade convoy route across\tthe must be white and\tunwaxed, not less |to avoid\ta similar shortage next\tNorth ¦ Atlantic would be a joint than 14ü inches\tin diameter and\tT .-,\tCanadian-British responsibility,\tthe Meanwhile, Mayor Lucien Borne\tUnited States would direct\tany SeVe\"tIfiVenfP°rpdS\t^pldïrts told the City Council that accord- r Y61'\t^\tL \u2022 ,T \u2018 ing to .report prepared bv Munici- Board announced by the Agriculture , aast said the zone \u201cwill not be used Thomson, 22.\treported land skirmish in _ many ^ authorized' to speak for the Polish for quartering of fighting forces ot Charles Cox, M.P.P.for Port weeks on the once embattled island, people.But an Embassy spokesman W hat the Japanese patrol was simultaneously warned against the Axis\u201d or for purposes of irans-1 port.Continued on Page 2 Gol.2.United States Finally Concludes All RelaLionships With Martinique installations and defence positions.___________\u2014- 1 The air raids reported in the offi- Bv KIRKE L.SIMPSON, representative in the Antilles who cial bulletin covered activities of ,\t, p ^ cfaff VYiitpr 'remains subservient or maintains Thursday which began with an at- Associatect rie.s scan v> nier.contact wjth the Vichy regime\u201d in tack by Flying Fortresses on the Washington, May 1.\u2014(/Pi \u2014 ine prancei ^hich he denounced as \u201cnow Japanese air base at Kahili in the {Tnited States has broken off rela- an jn(-egral part of the Nazi sys- Shortland Island area of the North- ____________ly __________ doing on Guadalcanal was not dis- speculation that a substitute Rus-closed.It might have been a group Tjan-recognized regime would soon of stragglers left hidden in the mountains after organized enemy re- ;- -.\u2014~ sistance ceased February 9, or iti might have been a fresh fighting ; unit put ashore from a submarine or ; small boat to reconnoitre American HEAVY DEMAND UNDERWAY FOR WHEAT Canadian Farmers Expect to Have Little Durum Wheat Available as Result of Restrictions Removal.Ottawa, May 1.\u2014 ((!>) \u2014Prairie farmers with 800,000,000 bushels of wheat, oats and barley held on their farms are expected to wrapt their bins clear of one grain Durum wheat lief re the end of the eur-,\t, ,\t, rent crop year next July 31, Agri- Ttie texts, however, left no doubt) cu!um, .iul,h,cities said, that Moscow would not recognize, Durum wheat wa placed in a dif any regime it.regarded as .r,';u\u2018* j ferrnt category from other types of tionary \u2019 and representing he inter-1 wh\u201el| j th(> K(\u201e,,;\u201eV(.nlrn, \u201e ests ot magnates and landowners.\u201d Mj(nh w,, wh,.n Tn.de Mini le, The case against toe Sikorski Gov emment is stated at some length in ! an article- originally published by j Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet! Government, and given additional ; emphasis, by official republication, here.The article expressed confidence i that the Soviet Government will: make it possible for Poles in Russia: Moscow, May 1.-nmc ope.- alors were resolved.The hard coal dispute had been certified to the W.L.1).la f night.Immediately nft.er- is Continued on page 2, column fi.WAR BULLETINS Üons with Martinique and the tem.: western Solomons.Poor visibility United States navy _is watching de- Knox said no reply had been re- prevented observation of results, velopnients in the island terntoi y cejved t0 jjuipg note.He said the Subsequently, Avenger torpedo \u2014 only segnient of the once-vast prencp) warships the island \u2014the bombers and Dauntless dive bombers French co.onial empire which is no.Aircraft Carrier Bearn and the with Lightning and Corsair fighters under the Axis heel and yet remains Q-ujse,.jrmiie Bertin and also the hit enemy installations at Gatere aloof from the war.\tTraining Cruiser Jeanne d\u2019Arc at on the Southwestern coast of Ko- Nayy Secretary\tFrank Knox,\t(jua(jei0upe\u2014had\tbeen immobilized lombangara\tisland in the\tcentral, speaking late yesterday several and (jermHtarized in accordance with Solomons.An anti-aircraft position \\ hours aiter .tate Secretary Cordell agreements made by Robert a year \u2018 and a pier were destroyed.Hull had announced the abrogation ag0< The demilitarization was car- In the afternoon torpedo and dive of informal agreements with Mar- rjed ouj.ut](jer supervision of the bombers with fighter protection tinique.declined to\tindicate what\tAmerican navy.\t~\t- .\t.the next American move would be, \u2018 j[orec,ver, Knox but observed: \u201cWe have representatives right there in Martinique.\u201d Knox explained that the navy has \u201calways had observation\u201d at the island.He told a press conference there is no special patrol of Ameri- j can warships around the island, but explained that Martinique lies amid America\u2019s Caribbean defences where ships and planes constantly operate.I Hull, in a blistering note to the j French High Commissioner, Admira! ' Georges Robert, said the United ! States will not continue to \"recognize or negotiate with any FrencUj started a fire at Pelpeli, two miles, asserted, there Northwest of Gatere, and a similar j now is little if any oil there which air striking group with Wildcat! would be available for operating fighter protection hit directly at those ships, the only oil which reach- Munda, blasting the enemy's run-ed there in recent months having way, the revetment area and an been a small supply to enable mer- anti-aircraft position, chant ships to carry in supplies.All American planes returned The merchant ships there, he said, safely from these missions.The are six tankers and \u201ca couple of communique made no report of -operations against Kiska Island in Continued on Page 11, Col.6 i the North Pacific.Algiers \u2014 Algeria is to have a May Day observance Sunday with factions of Gen.Henri Giraud and Gen.Charles de Gaulle holding separate meetings.Sunday was selected for both so as not to impede the war effort by taking workers from their jobs on a work day.\u2022\t\u2022 t * t New Delhi, India \u2014 R.A.F.bomber and fighter planes continued to harass Japanese ground positions in the Mayu Peninsula area of Burma yesterday, a British headquarters communique said today.There was patrol action on the Arakan front but th - general situation was reported unchanged.\u2022\t\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 * London \u2014 The Berlin radio broadcast a D.N.B.news and propaganda agency dispatch from Stockholm today, asserting that the Swedish railway ferryboat Malmo struck a British mine in Danish waters yesterday.The ship was beached and the passengers taken off safely.MacKinnon announcod that n trie tionx on its marketing had been removed.Durum is used in the making of macaroni and allied product, which are in demand for both military ami civilian use, especially ax a meat substitute.\u201cThe removal of marketing restrictions and the higher price being paid for Durum wheat relative to other rpring wheats is expected to bring out the maximum amount of Durum wheat available on farms this season,\u2019\u2019 the Dominion Bureau I of Statistics wid in a review of the I wheat situation.The price of Durum wheat gained j sharply on the Northern spring! grades during March and the aver- j age price of No.1 amber Durum was $1,15 1-4 compared with an av-L erage of 97 1-8 cents a bu-bel for ¦ r