Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 4, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vol 32 50 pages rises Sun sets 17.2. Moon rises Moon sets Winnipeg saturday november 4, 1939 rises 7-23. Sun sets -17.0, Moon rises 0.15. Moon sets mild i n t another chapter added a Antic Oslo. Nov. Germany Seething with anger has pro tested vigorously against the liberation of the american freighter. City of Flint and the internment of her German prize Crew but Norway is standing firm the German Crew was interned last night when they took the captured american vessel into the norwegian port of Hauge Sund. The ship was turned Over to her Ameri can Crew. The German protest was received by the Oslo for eign office this morning but Well informed sources expressed the opinion that it will be rejected. The vessel was Back in the hands of her american Crew today after inc norwegian admiralty announced the ship in route from Murmansk Russia to Hamburg Germany had anchored at the norwegian port without valid reason London nov. 4, by Jpn the United states lines charterers of he american freighter City of Flint messaged its master capt. Joseph a. Gainard today that it was assumed he would bring his and that it was decided to intern ship to great Britain. The German Crew and that vessel should be Given the this meant one usually Well informed norwegian source said. That the City of Flint a prisoner of the germans and an object of diplomatic action since she was seized by the German pocket Battle ship deutschland on oct. 9, was free to sail away whenever she wished. The norwegian government s decision in treeing the vessel was based on chapter 13, article 21 of the Hague convention which says a prize Crew can be taken into a Neutral pen Only because she is in seaworthy or because weather or Lack of fuel or provisions. Article no. 22, Neutral government shall free the prize hip if conditions justifying in presence in the Neutral Harbor do not exist. The nazis were very angry Anc said the internment of the nazi n s Berlin protests Ergon Norway nov. American steamship City of Flint returned to its american Crew by the norwegian govern ment at Hau Gesund after an Ocean Odyssey arrived Here today and anchored in the roads. The German prize Crew had been interned in Hau Gesund. The City of Flint was flying its american Flag again and the american colors were newly re painted on its sides. A British United press correspondent talking to members of the Crew released from nazi Dominion found them joyous relaxing on the sunshiny deck. A Captain Joseph Gainard who talked with newspapermen on his Bridge said that the City of Flint s cargo described by Germany As contraband was intact. All members of the Crew Are Well he said. The skipper confirmed that a Sailor named Sellers who Mem Bers of the German prize Crew said was ill when they tried to and him at Hau Gesund yesterday was in Good health american newspapermen were allowed to wander Over the City of Flint for a few minutes before they encountered norwegian authorities w Iii get sen latest development in the startling history of the United states freighter City of Flint came at Norway where it was freed by the norwegian government and the German prize Crew which had seized it interned. Here is a View of the City of Flint with its master capt. J. A. Gainard. Rich tense continued on pasc 4, 6 v Oslo rowers get Copenhagen nov. 4. Up havas French Oslo group of Neutral Powers today was called to meet in monday. The Oslo conference Here next Powers Are Finland Norway Denmark. Sweden. Bel Gium the Netherlands and Luxem Bourg some observers believed that the conference of the nations Legal experts had been called to consider repercussions of the soviet demands on Finland. An announcement of the meeting however said Only that technical problems involving neutrality would be considered. The message was sent As soon As the agents for the United states lines had received news that the City of Flint had arrived at Bergen Norway from Hau Gesund where the norwegian government re leased it Early today interned its nazi prize Crew. In the line s message it was assumed that capt. Garnard would take his ship into the Mersey River which was its destination when it left new York october 3, to be taken a a prize by the nazi pocket battleship deutschland october 9, and continue on to Norway Russia and Back to Norway. Use of the word assumed in the message was. Advised it was Dis closed because the United states lines left it up to capt Gainard to use his own judgment in View of the possibility that the germans might again try to intercept his ship. It was reported that the City of Flint might join swedish ships which Are to go to Britain under escort by British it was believed Here that capt. Gainard might take his ship up the Mersey past Liverpool to Man Chester and unload his cargo. The usually Well informed press association reported however that the City of Flint was expected to Dock at Glasgow within four Days. Status in doubt there was a question in the minds of shipping experts about the City of Flint s status under the revised american neutrality Law. But pending clarification the United states lines said that the Flint would continue to its original destination. Norway released the City of Flint immediately after the passage of the revised american neutrality Bill. A new York nov. 4. Trucks rumbling along the new York waterfront in an endless Stream signalled the lifting of the embargo on the shipment of War materials to Europe to Day As president Roosevelt prepared to sign the new neutrality Law. Simultaneously with pier Sheds already bulging maritime experts began to plan against a recurrence of the Nightmare of congestion which choked this port in the Early years of the last War. Who ordered them ashore. Ordered not to talk Captain Gainard and the Mem Bers of his Crew then were ordered not to talk and Gainard said that the order would have to be observed strictly. The City of Flint was far from a spic and Span ship. It was dirty and worn from its travels since it was City of Flint continued on Page 4, column 6 son Helsin fors Finland nov. Government waited tensely today for news from Moscow where a finnish Mission was negotiating on russian territorial demands1 in an Atmos phere inflamed by russian press charges that Finland was British shipping officials acknowledged that they already have a Good Deal More freight than ships but it was said in other quarters that the admiralty probably would step up the Tempo of the Convoy system to safeguard the transportation erf Allied War orders. Estimates have valued probable orders As High As within a few weeks. One official estimated the new neutrality Law forbidding Arneri War supplies continued on Page 4, column 7 Erar its ence an t. Cuthbert Anderson who was sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary on july 4, 1938, for theft in connection with the failure of Anderson Greene and company limited has been paroled it was revealed at police Headquarters today. He lost 26 pounds during his confinement at Stony Mountain and is endeavouring to enlist in the As a private. He served As a Captain in the last world War. Or. Anderson reported to chief Constable George Smith this morn ing the chief admitted. London nov. 4 cup t. A. Crerar head of the Canadian delegation Here for Empire talks today saw closely guarded secrets of Britain air defence when he visited Headquarters of the Royal air Force fighter command some where in England. He was taken by air chief mar Shal sir Hugh Dowding air officer commanding into the operations room from which the defence sys tem is controlled. Also in the party were sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan the representative of India at the talks Vincent Massey Canadian High commissioner in the United King Dom colonel Deneys Reitz South african of native affairs and air. Commodore l. A bread tier air adviser to or. Crerar. The visitors saw the Central con country football Page 2 oops together Rol which is in a room like a broadcasting studio. A huge map of Britain on which defence Meas ures Are plotted is on tables occupying practically All the floor space. Around the tables sit . Tele phone operators headphones clamped on their Heads. They were shown the system by which fighting planes Are ordered to take off from an Airfield when reports of raiders Are received. Pilots Are kept informed by radio of the Speed and number of the raiders. The visitors saw arrows marked to show the strength of raiders which Are moved about the map by a croupier s Rake to indicate Progress of the raid. A trying to provoke War. The finnish negotiators had a one hour session yesterday with the Premier foreign minister v. M. And v. P. Potemkin Secretary general of the foreign of fice but there was no announce ment Eitner in Moscow or Here of the results or if. And when there would be another meeting at Copenhagen Denmark the newspaper Ber Linske Tidence re ported that a Telephone Call from Josef Stalin s private work room in the Kremlin had been put through to the finnish embassy in Moscow night and that the Kremlin official had made inquiries about cer Tain Points in the finnish proposals indicating that they were being studied at a late hour. The newspaper also reported from Helsin fors that finnish for eign minister Eljas Erkko had been asked at a press conference whether Finland would consider leasing the port of Hango to Russia As Russia hid demanded and that Erkko had replied when one already has ceded two thirds of what has been asked there must come a Point where an Independent state must say Stop a correspondent asked and this is and Erkko replied yes Finland is pravda s attack was reminiscent of the press Campaign before Russia marched into Poland sept. 17. Cancelled Geneva nov. 4. Cup league of nations Assembly meet ing called for dec. 4 has been can celled the league secretariat announced today. The meeting was to have consid ered the league s budget for 1940, the election of judges to the Hague International court and the Interior re organization of the league machinery. The More pressing questions will be settled it was Learned without the inconvenience which would attend the calling together the league Assembly and Council. By Helen Kirkpatrick London nov. Cable to the Chicago daily news and Winnipeg free is impossible for britishers to conceal their satisfaction at the embargo re peal which is the. Best news they have had since the turkish pact but great care is being taken by officials and by the press to emphasize that the step is a safeguard to american neutrality and restores to the United states its traditional position. Most of the newspapers report Germany s warning that unrestricted submarine warfare has not yet begun but express belief that the allies will be Able to bring goods across As troops were Able to be Washington nov. Dent Roosevelt signed the new neutrality act today completing repeal of the embargo and opening our markets to Cash and carry purchases by belligerents. He immediately signed to proclamations effecting positive provisions of the act. They were 1. A proclamation covering use of ports and territorial Waters of the United states by submarines prohibition their entry except under Force maj Curc. 2. Proclamation of existence of a state of War Between Germany on the one hand and France Poland the United kingdom Australia Canada new zealand the Union of South Africa and India on the other. He signed the Bill before a distinguished company including vice president John a Garner and congressional leaders of both parties a significant recognition that politics was adjourned in the six weeks of debate which culminated last night in approval of a new neutrality policy by con Gress. The special session of Congress adjourned immedi. Cly after Dis posing of neutrality despite a re publican last stand against going Home. The minority opposition voted scant Confidence in or. Roosevelt s ability to safeguard american peace and desired that Congress remain on the Job As n further safeguard. Another Likely proclamation is designation of Var zones from which american ships and transported in face of the German will be barred and probably a boat Campaign of the last War. It is an interesting commentary on British policy that orders for machine tools were held up until the embargo was lifted although tools were not included in the embargo. The interpretation Here Given to the Johnson act prohibiting Loans to foreign governments in default of debts is that while the British government is prohibited credits and Loans there is nothing to pre vent individual firms Here from obtaining personal Loans from individual american Bankers. Embargo continued on Page 4, column patrols still Active on West front German by Frank smothers Berlin nov. 4. Special radio despatch to the Chicago daily news and Winnipeg free press the the answer is this smiling member of the British women s territorial service and her particular duty of the moment this carcass of Mutton to the Kitchen. By sir Philip Gibbs with the British forces in France nov. Went to a part of our line today where some of our battalions Are in touch with French troops. There seems to me a much closer Liaison Between the French and British armies than there was in the last War and certainly in this part of the line they Are work ing in close touch with each other on a defensive front As i was told by one of our divisional generals who showed me his maps and the elaborate scheme of defense now being put into operation. By Day nothing much is apparent to the Eye. Our men Are mostly sleeping in their billets but night they get Busy Manning their Forward posts getting up their supplies and perfecting their state of readiness for any attack that May come later on. It is cold work for them at night and one Young observation officer n charge of a Small company occupying one of these posts told me that he was Frozen to the Bone in the Small hours of the morning from his observation Post to which i went with him he looked out Over a Plain of Flat soggy ground with lines of tall poplars pencilled against the sky and with the Fields Cut across by a Small River and a railway line. It was All very desolate and this Small group of men seem to be alone in this part of the line. Neighbors in Pill boxes but they had close neighbors in Pill boxes that have a Cross Field of fire. A French sergeant and Gibbs continued on pages column 6 f regiment revolts in Yugoslavia Lyub Lyana Yugoslavia nov. 4, Cap Jugoslav gendarmes were ordered today to move on deserters from a croatian infantry regiment entrenched behind machine guns at a Post outside Barlovac 30 Miles Southeast of Zagreb. The revolt developed three ago but news of it had been sup pressed rigidly. It was reported the regiment of men mostly peasants from newly autonomous Croatia had. Been told by agitators it was to go to the Western front to fight for France. Were rushed from Zagreb to put Down the uprising. Many of the were rounded up. Others fled into the Woods where they entrenched themselves with Light . The foreign minister said late last night following an hour s Confer ence among soviet and finnish negotiators in Moscow that there was no decision whether the rus sians would continue the Parley. He said the finnish delegation would remain in the soviet capital meanwhile for Furtner instructions. The foreign minister described As untrue a charge by the russian newspaper pravda that Finland had made warlike gestures and added that if this and other soviet attacks on Finland were of a tac tical nature they have failed our attitude is Finland s desire to remain Neutral must not serve As a Spring Board for soviet demands prime minister a. K. Cajander told the nation in a broadcast today. We cannot renounce the Liberty of our country which is a Neutral coun he said. Action of the . Congress in lifting the embargo has come with a decisiveness and Speed which adds to the discontent of the nazis Over the raising of the embargo itself. The nazis unofficially Call Amer Ca s lifting of the embargo an in Friendly act. Without making any predictions i can say that we cannot see How this is going to help America stay Neutral in the Long one official declared this morning. Changing the neutrality Law Dur ing the War was an act of taking 25 years ago nov. 4, George v and Queen Mary accompanied by lord Kitchener inspected the first can Adian contingent German Raic Jer Karlsruhe sunk in Atlantic by internal explosion. Germans re treated in the Yser Region of Belgium but repelled attacks South of Verdun. Russians invaded Armenia. Nov. -5, and formally declared War on Turkey Britain annexing Cyprus. Fell Back on galician front russians capturing Jaroslav. Germans re pulsed at Arras but gained ground in the Vosges and the Argonne. Hertzog Heads new opposition Smithfield South Africa nov. 4 j. B. M. Hertzog former prime minister who lost a bitter fight to prevent South Africa taking up at the Side of Britain announced today he would head a re consolidated afrika Anderdon movement with or d. Of Malan the Radical nationals Leader As his chief lieutenant. Attacking his successor. General Jan Smuts who led the fight to have South Africa declare War general Hertzog asserted South Africa must be governed As an Independent and free country or her participation in the British common wealth of nations would not be of Long general Hertzog withdrew yesterday from the executive commit tee of the United party after it had voted approval of prime minister Smuts policy. Further details on Page 14. Paris nov. 4 and German artillery and patrol activity was concentrated in the Forbach Saar Rueken and Stargu mines Triangle on the Western front today but both the French and German a Neutral and shabby is the High command communiques re headline of the vol Kischer Bobach led to developments of import Ter today Over a Washington despatch on the preliminary House vote the headline purporting to represent words of representative Bruce ton of new York. Representative Martin l. Sweeney of Ohio and his tirade on the King and Queen of England lord loth Ian British ambassador to the United states and the English in Gen eral Are played up in the despatch Ance. Patrols were especially no tic in testing opposing lines South of Saar Rueken and Northeast of for Bach As Well As in the area Between Forback and . The French said they had conducted a successful raid East of Forbach. German artillery continued to Shell French villages behind the and a German official today told Maginot line. Twenty shells which this correspondent that Sweeney s statement was very Good. Cell into Forbach Caus a Little dam age the French said. French Bat the press sought to give the in teries shelled the German rear m pression to German readers that retaliation and observers said that president Roosevelt was pushing the germans had increased the the new Law counter to the desires number of their guns Southeast of of the american Public. Saar Bruckn. Ragotte Mou Calgary Pilot Safe in Germany temperature readings Low during night 6.30 a.m., nov. 4 4-27 10.00 a.m., nov. 4 11.00 nov. London nov. 4. Air Force men one reported dead and the others missing tort their rela Tives yesterday they were Safe. Pilot officer r. M. Coste of Cal Gary reported missing in a Royal air Force casualty list oct. 13, is Safe in a German prison Camp according to a card received by his Mother who is staying at Wey Bridge Surrey. The glad news has been cabled to his father. Coste 22, wrote he was shot Down Over the North sea and spent six hours in the water. He described himself As fairly Well and asked for cigarettes., he came to England from Toronto in 1937. Or. And mrs. William Chapman of Blaydon on Tyne were informed monday that their son Stanley had been killed. Yesterday their mourning was turned to Joy when they received this official Telegram original message cancelled. Your son is it was stated later that there were two air craftsmen named Chapman in one . Unit. W. Chapman was. Killed but the unit reported that s. Chapman lost his life. Mrs. Vera Fripp of Southampton was married three Days after War was declared to sergeant a. G Fripp. A. Fortnight ago her husband was reported missing. Yesterday this postcard from a German prison Camp was forwarded to mrs. Fripp at her husband s Home in. Wimborne Dorset t am . Top. Don King visits factory in a camouflaged armament factory somewhere in the midlands the King saw some of the anti aircraft and other guns and ammunition being turned out by thousands of men and women who arc working Day and night to produce them. In this exclusive picture his majesty is interested in the work of a girl making bullets ;