Gleaner, The (Newspaper) - June 5, 1942, Kingston, Kingston UIV CLEANER WANTS WORK WONDERS READ FOR PROFIT USE FOR RESULTS per Insertion of 30 Words RE Vol No 127 PENNY ESTABLISHED 1834 JUNE 1942 EIGHT PAGES AKE RU M FRED L MYERS SON LTD Founded 1879 Sugar Kingston BRITAIN'S BLACK FACER COMMANDOS SIR IKE A GAIN BREMEN BATTERED AS F STRIKES A GAIN June British struck a two-fold blow at Europe last as British carrying out their now regular heavy scale attacks on German industrial raided another town by the light of while the do troops another assault on the French Coast Target of the British bombers this time was Capture Strong German Post In Libya Free French Forces Laugh At Surrender Offer June the Libyan six miles west of Knightsbridge is a hillock known as Bir Tamar Until the Axis offensive began the thia point but the Germans and it was a strong point of the utmost helping as to push plies through the gap in the British positions A great rolled across the hill and no sooner had it lifted than British and South African troops sprung inta action and took It Richard McMillan in a dispatch how taken He said the ported by batteries of 88 guns All day long the gun crews blasted in the direction of the hoping to cut the road and enlarge the northern end of the the German pock et in the British positions Then came the signal and the British tanks ripped into them and British artillery put up a ing barrage Fourteen of the enemy battered into useless I one of his guns cap- The defenders gave up the idea of expanding to the north and turned south to join their main columns Bir Tamar was taken To the what dents call a general battle going on with special pressure important Allied position at Bir Defending Bir is General and Free French supported by British and Indian troops They have thrown back attack after at- tack launched by German tanks and Italian and dive en have them but they art still there Three times an Italian emissary with a white flag presented himself to the Freg French inviting them to surrender He told that German troops had already taken Bardia They smiled and told him to go away Sharp fighting in the air is going on between the and German second most important of Germany Bombs were dropped on shipbuilding and submarine rail oil refinery installations and other military objectives Huge fires were left blazing It was the raid of the for importance only to Hamburg as the chief man shipping and followed in the tempo of the New British aerial offensive against Germany seen in the raids against Cologne and Essen Compared with these last night's attack was on a moderate scale An Air Ministry communique said that bombers the British Jpst lighters ten which ana two suggests that a force than the one thousand bomber form ations of the previous nights made American sources placed the number of raiding planes 300 OTHER DEADLY BLOWS with the attack on at struck June kept up its of- fensive against targets In to-day From ing Until evening carrying Hurricanes and Boston bombers relentlessly pressed home their attacks on airdromes wtf the docks at Boulogne fights raided docks Channel but not a enemy at airdromes at machine was allowed to get near re- large fires blazing at all points They met no opposition from either enemy fight er on anti-aircraft defences a report from holm tells of the damage done at Essen and the Ruhr Valley in Mon day night's raid This report says that it was comparable with that done at witness described and it one as the wildest Several first aid trains have left Berlin for Cologne and the and a strong to the r 6T looting which is sweeping over the bombed areas Announcing that only a force of bombers made the Bremen the Bomber Command said that its goal was to send bombers over Germany each and as many -as planes on a single night SCOPE OF DAY SWEEPS The Air Ministry announced that British planes made more than 700 day sweeps over occupied France in one recent month In the first five months this an of fifteen full German fighter squadrons were destroyed by the Fighter Command over land exclusive of German aircraft destroyed in the protection of coastal and night ses British losses no com- parison to the enormous casualties the Luftwaffe suffered in the tle of and Cable Dawn To Dusk Raids On French Targets safely One enemy craft was destroyed and others severely damaged ENEMY OVER ENGLAND German reprisal raids con- last night as ed by authoritative London were A small force came over England and dropped bombs on a south coast causing minor damage and few rerl glow in casualties Six German planes were In tbe night's one over England and four outers to ttw Channel tat were attacked by British fighters and had to turn back The commander of the Elan Long Range Bomber Section has congratulated Great Britain's Bomber Command on the success of the air offensive against Germany Air Marshal Bomber will not cease our efforts until Hitler's Germany cries less and Cable Smash And Grab Raid On French OFF THE FRENCH June British commando clad only in stockings and soft woollen threw German de- fences into complete confusion when they carried out a on the French coast early to-day The commandos stormed at the stretch between Boulogne and Le just before 3 They had established themselves on the beach before the opened fire Then wild and inaccurate bursts of machine gun Are came many The defenders were so badly rattled that at times they tred at one another r Wading waist deep from their assault craft and cutting their way through barbed wire some of the raiders reached points distance inland One pillbox at the edge of the dunes put up stiff re- sistance until the gun and gun fire upon it in a matter of minutes it Was completely silenced and never fired again throughout the raid It was not until the commandos on the foreshore that German de- fences opened fire on the very light and illumined beach and threw spotlight on the British troops The defences tried to set up a cross fire but tracer bullets from one German post could be seen streaking across the sands at point blank at a fellow VOYAGE ACROSS STRAITS The voyage to French coast on Wednesday night was unevent- ful Weather conditions were the setting sun flooding a calm sea The commandos sat quietly in the assault boats talking in pers Around their waists they had wound their six long ment used in hauling themselves and each other up over difficult ground As they neared the French coast German searchlights were switched on and swung low over the sea The men held their breaths as it seemed certain they must be picked up But after a few anxious moments the lights went out when the commandos were two searchlights were flashed on by the defenders man posts then obviously with the aim of preventing re-embarkation the British troops But by this the commandos had wire carried out iir reconnaissance and gathered i information they were there to WITHDRAWAL ORDERED The army commander who led assault up the beach ordered the cm over the stutter of and rifle fire When the commandos were a mile one boat back for a final out to make sure that no one had left behind Finding no one on the the mar der of this craft gave the defences long bursts of fire frOn Bren guns and every other armament on beard This boat had only just put off again when in brilliant moonlight the commandos low over the coast A series of heavy explosions followed as they ped their bombs all along the 2 in and around defences after dawn com- fires low over the water wards them and for rest of the voyage they continually circled over the convoy The re-embarkation was also covered by ships of the Royal Navy FRENCH PUT IN A BLOW While the commandos were ing at French patriots at Just a few miles to the also harassed tbe Nazis by a blow of their own They blew up an airdrome and started fires in ed their fire against an assault craft military M.P TO ASK QUESTIONS June the next series of sittings of Ellis is to ask the Secretary for Air if be can make a statement on the plans for Anglo-American operational operation within Great Britain and Europe and whether he can make a statement on the United Nations air training COUNCIL ADOPT REPORT ON MARKETS Victoria as Recommended by U.S To Be Developed And Jubilee Scrapped By a majority vote the Council of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation yesterday afternoon adopted the report of the Markets Mr Discussion prior to adoption of the report centred around the or of the Victoria and it was decided that this historic market should be Jubilee Market and improvements carried out at the tion Market Worship the Mayor presided to what work should be undertaken and there were present the Deputy Alderman Hon E E A Chairman of the Markets Councillors Sydney Dr G E Rev E E Mary T Hon Sir Noel Livingston and Hon G Seymour Seymour The Town Mr H L the City En- Mr F and the Assistant Town Mr sell were attendance The Deputy immediately the subject was thrown open for moved that the Council adopt the recommendations of Mr Goodwin and forward his re- ports to the Markets Committee for that Committee to do the de- tailed planning for implementing the including suggestions as m the near and in what and how the woiks are to be Councillor Duval agreed with the Deputy Mayor tnat the whole re- port should go to the Markets but he urged that they should not accept the report as a whole before sending it to the kets Committee GUSTOS VIEWS Sir Noel Livingston ed Mr Duval's and rd out that If they adopted the report before sending It to the they would be ing the door to any discussion on the principles and of the and confining the Markets tee merely to a consideration of financing the various on pace Three Large Jap Supply Ships Sunk By Subs June speed-up of the tempo of undersea warfare off the coast of Australia was reported to-day by General MacArthur's Headquarters in in a special communique which told of considerable activity by submarines in the waters in the area Allied underwater ing to the sank a anese armoured transport of tons and in the words of the loss of Two other large supply ships of and tons were also claimed and the report added that Allied submarines damaged a fourth Japanese vessel of tons NO TIME The communique did not specify the time of the but said that it was carried out in the eral campaign of attacks on ese At the same General Arthur reported the loss of an lied merchant but that two other described as which were part of a con- escaped damage ed the number of Japanese et submarines which attempted attack Sydney Harbour to he made the statement in a report to Parliament on the attempt Another attack was made by lied planes on the Japanese base at New Britain Airdromes and other military installations and large fires LOWEST JOBLESS June total number of wholly unemployed men and women in Great cording to the Ministry of Labour is down to less than lowest figure since the record has been less U.S WAR DECLARATION June The Senate has passed a resolution de- claring war on Rumania and Hungary which already passed the House Wireless of Menaced By Rising River Practically the whole parish of St Thomas is now flood bound and special steps have had to be taken to remove dents from some threatened areas of the where the river has created a new menace So far the damage to public roads is fairly heavy in that and many important centres are cut off from all road com- In as in most of the Service Co Ltd had not many in- and the was rest of tbe the rains con- but caused very little dis- location The volume of rain in St Thomas and 11 inches were recorded in some sections for just over 12 hours rainfall According to Public Works re- ports damage has been done to the Olivier Bridge on the main trunk road to Morant and traffic is only being allowed to proceed over it at reduced weight and speed and without passengers Damage has also been done to the over the on the road to Aeolus Valley DISTRICTS MAROONED -A number of have been cut off from road communication by high flood among them being Golden Grove Amity Hall and Holland Bay In St Catherine the flat was at some periods of the day passable but the flow increased with the rain and if no more rain comes it should be passable this morning The same applies to the Barry by-pass road In St Andrew all roads are open except the New Castle road which is between the and 17th mile posts If the rains hold off it should be opened by this afternoon Bog Walk Power Plant Closed As River Rains continued all Wednesday night and yesterday forenoon at Bog Walk where for the protection of the machinery in the Power House it was necessary to suspend operation of the plunt all day as the Rio Cobre rose tn greater height All was maintained in that district und elsewhere by the Gold Street steum The well maintained There were defects on street cars due to and some had to be taken in for minor DAMAGE AT 4 telegraph oar Heavy continue nearly 10 from rains inches being registered since last night The river over- flowed flooding the road so that residents within that area had to be evacuated Fields of coconuts were washed roads scoured and impassable at several points The river is also in spate blocking the approaches to the roae via Thousands of ana trees on the United Fruit Com- are down The Department is working hard to effect relief The driver of a truck owned by one Oliver narrowly escaped drown ing when the vehicle got stuck in water on Aeolus Valley road The road to Aeolus Valley has but been rut in and a shop and a house are under water About 3 o'clock this afternoon the rain abated BRIDGE DAMAGED MOORE June 4 tele- graph from pur The foundation of the Red Hills end of the swinging bridge across the Rio Grande at Jupiter was last night washed when the river swollen after eight day of heavy broke all bounds Its condition can be compared only to what it was at the time of the disaster In 1937 The district is once more from the upper region of the Rio Grande- Valley Cultivators have been washed away and bananas but happily there has been tlon system 61 the Jamaica Public no report of lives lost here are of boys who did it Marshal Lord Louis Chief of Combined with some of the Commando boys who helped to work ciut one of the daring enterprises he has planned The men here were to leave for the storming of in Express Nazis Seen Shap ing New Drive On Kalinin Front Russians Firmly Astride Bridgeheads June Kalinin front in to be livening up There are reports of sparring in the sector where the Germans seem shaping to a new drive This tallies with a report from Sweden that the German Army is ready to launch a big offensive at any time now A later report speaks of in the Kalinin the Nazis are said to have lost 200 aro Hangman Heydrich Is Dead June death of Reinhard deputy Gestapo known the countries Europe as was announced by official Berlin quarters this Morning who became known as he hangman for his ruthless mass murder of thousands in the succumbed to wounds which he suffered when ie was shot by Czech patriots in Prague Bloodiest of the bloody Nazi the old Heydrich achieved world infamy when Hitler sent him to Prague put down an uprising among he Czechs Ruthlessly ordering the tilling of several hundred ie restored order with an iron land News of Heydrich's death the report that the Germans have executed 46 more persons in as a reprisal for tha bringing the total of re- prisal victims to 202 A remarkable broadcast from Prague this evening praised the former Gestapo chief as an ex- ample of but added minds are filled with mournings and to have improved their position in Leningrad the Germans losing 500 soldiers The Germans are making big forts to relieve the town of lying west of MOSCOW arid is almost completely surrounded by the sians Agency messages said that General Zhukov's troops have thrown back fierce new enemy thrusts there and the enemy is re- ported to have suffered thousands of casualties Moscow Radio said to-day that the Germans have lost heavily in local actions on the Donets River front Moscow also that troops are firmly astride bridgeheads over the Donets RED AIR ACTIVITY Reports tell of aerial activity Red planes are said to have sunk two Axis torpedo and also to have damaged two transports and some other patrol ships In an official que on air raid statistics reports that Moscow ground defences have destroyed all planes which have attempted to raid the Soviet capital No attempt had been made since April the communique JAP POISON GAS ATTACK ON CHINESE June made an poison gas at- tack on Chinese troops holding de- fences in hills southeast of Chekiang according to Chinese reports anese columns north and south of the city pushing west in an at- tempt to encircle it Further Chinese successes in the Japanese rear are Chinese troops have recaptured strategic points south and westward of the Chekiang capital captured a few days now has been completely cleared of Japanese Central news agency said earlier that Chinese forces had cut a tri- angular chunk from the flank af Japanese lines in Chekiang with the recapture of and heavy rains bogged down the invasion of- fensive Floods washed away a number of bridges and damaged roads to impede movement of heavy and Cable Methodist Minister Dies June Rev W A Methodist died here on British J Occupy Town In Madagascar June is announced here that British forces in gascar have occupied the town of twenty five miles south of Diego Suarez It said troop movements have resumed in gascar but no fighting was Little Damage Done Casualties Light June United States Navy revealed day that the Alaskan outpost at Dutch Harbour had suffered little damage when two waves of Jap planes swept over the base on During the first appearance of enemy planes over Dutch harbour in the Aleutian islands at six both light explosive bombs and incendiaries were ed down Little damage was done to defence works Casualties were light Fires started in this attack were quickly put out Six hours later the second enemy air formation in toward the Alaskan naval base No were dropped by the second group which merely made a Naval officials in Washington be- lieve the second formation of planes was taking pictures to determine the extent of damage caused in the raid The attack was an fort to feel out the strength of de- fences Navy communique said that the planes were believed to have coma from a Jap plane though their source has not been definitely determined The bulletin described the situation at Dutch harbour to-day as quiet Tokyo Radio said to-night no re- ports Were available in Japan on the Dutch Harbour raid except the issued by the United States and Cable NAZI PANIC TALK June to Berlin reports of unimaginable panic alter the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbour an American spokesman said that Berlin must really be referring to the panic on the June from the French island off the east coast of which the British invaded falling into Japanese said this British have two Japanese Generals These enemy officers were rounded up by a British trol in a village northwest of Diego chief port of Madagascar Their presence was revealed to the British by the cruel of the village and they were shot when they fired on the Wireless NEW GOVERNOR OF NYASALAND June 4 Colonial Office announces the appointment of Sir Edmund Resident as Governor and Chief In succession to Sir Donald whose appointment as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Mauritius was recently an- 5 IS Hours in Water When Gale Capsizes Reach Shore BLACK June 4 tele- i pots When about 10 miles out m graph from our struggle life ten miles at a heavy and 15 hours In sea and nln were the experiences of five fishermen who braved the darkness of the this morning to draw their pots The men were Wilfred Henry Aston ton Ebanks and Clifford Clarke At three o'clocK In the morning set sail to sea to draw the police van strong rale sprang np Seven times they were but the last time they lost paddles and fishing gears They to get hold of a piece of sail and Its riggings and this helped them along Two steamers passed them no response was auric to calls After 15 hours in thr Arrangements Closed j For Sale Of Cocoa To Canadian Govt The Food Controller yesterday announced formally that ments have been made for the sale of Jamaica cocoa direct to the Canadian and that negotiations are proceeding in to of our coffee un- der similar arrangements Just back from an official visit to the United States and Mr F E Smith told the yesterday that the tion is that in future the Canadian Government will not allow adian importers to import produce which requires to be subsidised in order to maintain the retail price level in Canada except the produce is imported through the Canadian Government's organisation known as the Commodity Prices tion Board Ths Government sub- the distributive ness in certain import items in order that the retail price should not increase beyond certain levels This is part of the programme by which the cost of living of the Canadian public is kept down Mr Smith says he will be ing a full statement on this matter and also on the question of food supplies generally There are also to bs a good deal of changes in imports which are still under discussion NEED SEEN FOR TRADE REPRESENTATIVE FOR JAMAICA IN U.S Other West Indian Islands are now considering the advisability of having a permanent representative in the United States of America to look after purchases for the cular colony as as sales of duce from the colony This Is an indication that the West Indies ex- to do a great deal of trading with the United States and to get a great volume of supplies from that source Bermuda has actually appointed her representative in America and he has taken up office Jamaica has not yet done so and the Com- petent V is still obliged to make trips abroad It is felt that the appointment of a trade representative in the United States to represent Jamaica iu iiir i water they reached Black River at will result in a saving of money fi p m und liad to home in and the valuable tune of Mr f JV Smith
