Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page six free press tuesday january 9, 1940 London Jan. 9. Up ambulances of the Sam Type used by the British army Are being prepared for Shipmen to the finnish government As a gift of the Canadian hed Cros society. The total contribution of Canadian sympathizers to Relie work in Finland has now reached or. F. W. Routley of Toronto said. Of this amount will be devoted t finnish child refugees. Mrs. G. A. Gripenberg wife o the finnish minister in London told the Canadian press that Fin land struggling Lor existence Neve will forget the Noble help car ads has six of the ambulances will b manned by women of the first Ai nursing yeomanry under the com Mand of Mary Runciman on who staff will. Lillian Krans of Cal Gary formerly of St. Armand que the other four ambulances Wil be included in the friends ambulance unit organized by Paul cad Bury of the famous Quaker family the ambulances Are All of the latest design. It is understood. Tha the British authorities despite Thi demand for ambulances for the forces have allowed the order to be rushed through. The women Drivers Are All 25 and Are volunteers skilled in nursing and the treatment of Gai they will Wear heavy sweat ers and flying clothing designed by surgeon commander Levick for use by Grenfel workers in Labrador. Red Cross donates Toronto Jan. 9. Mittee of the Canadian red Cross society at. A meeting yesterday authorized a donation of for the lord mayor of London joint Appeal fund for the British Cross and the St. John ambulance corps. Three tons of supplies including clothing surgical dressings and Gen eral supplies will be sent to Lithuania for polish Relief. The committee also authorized that 000 be donated to provide an ambulance unit Lor the polish forces now France. This unit will be ready for action March 1. The committee approved a recommendation from the London advisory Board of establishing residential clubs for Canadian soldiers on leave in London. These vill provide overnight accommodation and meals at reasonable rates and will be established immediately. One such club already is filled to capacity. Glasgow. Holdup in bar Ley supplies is threatening to Stop scottish whisky production and to ruin Many communities dependent on the existence of distilleries of which there Are nearly 100 in Scot land. B-99 if you have rheumatic pains and misery Cut this out. 75c Box free to any sufferer. In Syracuse. New York there has been developed a Home treatment for Rheu Matic misery known As Delano a that hundreds of users say brings results. Tain and soreness often seem to vanish1. Many report that a Lew Days use brought blessed Relief after everything else had or. 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He described Germany s policy As a Threa and a menace to the moral Stan Dards on which Western civilization is sea Mastery remains or. Chamberlain declared tha Britain s Mastery of the seas a unimpaired and that Britain a ready to repel any invader from the air. Four months have gone by an the air raids have not. Said after mentioning blackouts a other precautions. He Drew laughter a moment late when he said some people Are disappointed perhaps. I do not consider that the risk of air raids is Over or he said and i am certain that i should make a capital mistake if we become lax in our policy or change it is Only on the the prime minister said that England can if we take a Survey we can look the trend of hostilities. Upon it. With satisfaction. The oceans of the world have been swept Clear of German the presence of Dominion soldiers in Europe is evidence or Chamberlain said of the unanimous approval of the cause for which the Empire went to War. We Are at War. Vast numbers of. Men armed with the most Power Ful weapons which science can de Vise Are watching one another from behind their defences. From time. To time veer hear the sound of guns. But there is no general engagement. We do no know How Long that will last. There Are individual conflicts which Bear ample witness to the daring and courage of the men who Are taking part. There Are daily reconnaissance far out Over the sea. Into the enemy s territory. And those expeditions Are a High test of courage and endurance. But in he air As on the land we know hat what is happening is merely the preliminary to the it was Only on the sea or. Chamberlain said that Britain could see the trend of hostilities. If we take a Survey we can look upon it with satisfaction. The oceans of the world have been swept Clear of German shipping to tied up German shipping is either bottled up or confined to Baltic ports he declared if we subtract from our losses y. Enemy action our gain by capture from the enemy or by new ships or by Transfer from foreign have lost tons less Han one per cent of our merchan.1 Fleet. Every Day every Day now there Are passing tons of British shipping Over the several oceans of he world. In this period we have lost two arge warships the Royal Oak and the courageous and several smaller or. Chamberlain said our com Mand of the sea is unimpaired and the defeat Graf Spee of the finest naval actions in. Al our history followed by her self destruction rather than face a re Newal of the fight has not Only cleared Atlantic of that Raider but it has inflicted irreparable damage upon German naval prestige in the world. Meanwhile inexorable pressure of sea Power upon the enemy has added to her difficulties to carry on the lauds finnish valour if the results Are not yet visible at Home the prime minister con inked the people should read the Christmas orations of the German readers to guess then state of mind. Germany used her. Brute Force upon unhappy Poland and today we can see How she is treating the poles and the czechs starving and shooting the people tearing my uprooting them from their Lomes forcing them to leave he lands where their families have been settled for generations. And today it is the turn of Fin and. He referred Here he said to the act Germany made with soviet Lussia. Finland is fighting against the orces of unscrupulous violence ust As we he spoke of finnish heroism and of Gallant fight the smaller country smokers Throat sri hos rasping voice to Stop this nuisance zubes1our Choice 10 cents at All druggists suck azure Canadian red Cross gives ten ambulances to Finla Dominion s contributions to Aid War torn country reach total of was putting up calling the finns a valiant people. There is another country to whom our sympathy goes of a new Turkey which is not at War but which in a few Days through floods Anc earthquakes has suffered More casualties than the belligerents have suffered in the War. Even today we do not know the extent of the then he spoke of the Relief work and declared the turks Are taking their tragedy with the stoicism that has always characterized them at a nation. Hints possible Union turning Back to., the West he went on i can t help thinking that our experience of this association with France will be so valuable that neither of us can give it up. It might even develop into something wider and deeper be cause there is nothing which would do More to precipitate the Start of peaceful reconstruction which would make permanent its results than such a Union.1. Such an Anglo French Union would Benefit the whole world or Chamberlain declared amid cheers. He spoke of the French Readi Ness to accept any hardship in the face of National danger. I am confident that we in this country will not lag behind the French in our Resolution in the inevitable hardships of switching his topic to the Home front or. Chamberlain spoke of the conscription of British citizens and declared that the total number of men registered since the introduction of compulsory service amounts to Between and added to the regulars he said the number is then speaking of Aerial defence he said Britain was ready to repel any invader from the a. He enumerated the various branches of the service spoke of the balloon defences anti aircraft guns the blackouts. Laughter evoked four months have gone by and the air raids have hot he said. A moment later he Drew laughter when he some people Are disappointed he could not agree with the View of some people he said that Britain has gone too far in her preparations i do not consider that thei risk of air raids is Over or diminished and i am certain that we should make a capital mistake if we be came lax in our policy or changed or. Chamberlain said he regretted that some of the evacuated Chil Dren have returned to no1 merely because their presence in the City might be perilous in times of air raids. These children he Bene fitted enormously in country rowing in height and weight and i expressed. The Hope that parents would consider that the sacrifices they were making were necessary. The prime minister said he was people were United in their determination to end the War and to end the spirit of German policy which he believed made War inevitable. Yet britons must understand the acts More thoroughly than they do e continued. Corrects viewpoint we must t think that because his War has t taken the form that it did in 1914 that we can carry on our lives As if we were at peace. We must do without Many things which we shall because of the necessity of producing arms or. Chamberlain said fewer men Are available to produce civilian goods. He spoke at length of the production of goods and their importation and of the difficulties of shipping from foreign ports. Since our supplies of Gold and foreign securities Are just keep reserves of these since his May be a Long Are Rivenback upon and n order our Job successfully the exports. And Essen the imports doing without the things we might do he was confident he said that p britons would not complain remembering As hard of the men.-, in sea and. Iri the air. Last photograph taken in Canada this the last photograph taken in Canada of major general a. G. L. Mcnaughton commandant of the Canadian forces now overseas was made in Halifax just before the first division embarked. General Mcnaughton is now with the boys somewhere in England. Seeing him off is Alistair Fraser k.c., traffic vice president of the Canadian a Lional railways. They talked of the new european War but they had More to say about the Oid one remembering experiences overseas when general Mcnaughton was in command of the Canadian corps heavy artillery and or. Fraser was serving with the 48th highlanders of Toronto and later As . To sir Arthur Currie commander of the Canadian corps. Explosion blinds youth for time struck temporarily Blind when Losion had been heard and assisted some chemicals with which he was the helpless youth experimenting exploded in his face in the Library at the time Wai about noon saturday in the chem Douglas Irvine who hearing the Cal Laboratory at United College explosion rushed to the Rescue Anc John Romaniuk 697 Flora Avenue made knowledge o was taken to Misericordia Hospital chemistry by preparing an1 antidote suffering first degree Burns to the which he applied. To the victim s face and eyes. Face. A third year science student Romaniuk was working alone in the Laboratory when the explosion occurred igniting a nearby bottle of phosphorus which also flamed up in his face. C. E. Pye Engineer at the College and Hobert Neill a caretaker rushed into the Laboratory after the were the result of both and flames Hospital author stated. At first there was con Erable danger that the youth m lose his sight the doctor who tred the patient reported. Now h Ever there is Little danger of impairment to the boy s vision suiting he added. V a m j i t e jul i i a. Officer taken Moke about Furgin from faze Jan. 9. The c Man news Agency today repo the capture of the first British finer on the Western front. The officer a seriously Woun artillerymen who later die Hospital was captured sunday German Advance guards the age said. Quality of the guns and mechanized vehicles. Let them realize the determination of the. Men. Wei have been promised totalitarian War. We have accepted the Challenge and we. Will bring struggle All the Force and Energy our financial reserves we have received with enthusiasm the news that France and Britain Are pooling their resources. K is not easy to measure the resources of. My country. Where in the whole world will you find anything to compare with the greatness wealth diversity and solidity of British resources the sphere of armaments British Industry has been transformed and is working Day and night at full blast in order to be equal to the Gigantic demands which the with Germany has imposed. We bring to the common cause an Industry will work with fill its strength to fulfil the programme put Forward by our commanders. My i have like you an unshakable Confidence in Victory. We Are fighting at your Side and. Whatever violence the enemy May let Loose shall be True to your and with you we repeat on be passe i about pay allowance continued from Page one j paid shall not result in raising combined income of the recipe above 150 per cent of such ass Ance from a Public authority. In. A word if a Mother is receipt of per month As Mother s allowance and her enlists she May not be. Eligible an allowance of month. The combined inc would then come to 150 per Cen Ier Mother s allowance. Re cases Are handled under the a regulation. The regulation has nothing to with assignment of pay. A Soldi allowance is a Grant by the St and. In granting it under ithe re lation referred toy the state asserted its right to. Treat differ Nen in a different Way according he amounts their dependents n be receiving from one or not Public authority. That the. Regulation will be Vised to eliminate Many of complaints now being received regarded As certain London. Douglas has. Died at cirrhosis of the liver otherwise Mcnown As Gin Drinker s liver. Douglas was the zoo s Chimpanzee and How he acquired a bib Ulous disease is a Ger i in a boy has re the air ministry Power widened by new order by William a Stoneman London Jan. 9 special cd Britain s air Force in France will be under a unified com Mand in future and this command in turn will be under the i medial orders of the air ministry in London thus the air ministry will remove direct control of the so called Ai component heter Ogeno us collection of army co operation Craft Ligh bombers and protective fighter which heretofore has been attache to the British expeditionary Force and has been under the direct com Mand of Viscount Gen. Girt com Mander in chief of the Brejt. The air component will for All practice purposes now be joined to the a Vance striking Mai British air Force in the placing of the entire Roya air Force in the com Mand of the air ministry will no please army people who have Bee begging on the contrary to have greatly increased air Force hande Over to Gen. Gort to be. Used As h might decide. The entire unified British air fore will co operate closely with Gen Gort an d the French commander in chief. Gen. Maurice Gustave game Lin and there will probably be Les of Gen. Gort and the main British air Force in franc than there has been in the past. Daily mail report London Jan. 9. Up Cable Thi diplomatic correspondent of the daily mail under a Banner Headlam Gort triumphs said today the air ministry had conceded supreme control of All. Royal Aii in France to the army High command. The authoritative press association in attempting to verify this report announced there is no confirmation in official circles o he report that Viscount Gort com Mander of British forces in the yield is assuming control of the . In first air school for canadians Ottawa Jan. 9. Firs Datch of Canadian recruits for the British Commonwealth air training plan will number approximately too. The first initial training school on the property of the former Eglinton Hunt club at Toronto will accommodate about that num preparations Are going for Ward for setting the plan in oper a Tion. The department of National ence is expected to announce fur ther details of the programme shortly including the time schedule or the Start of operations at the 67 different schools now being eloped. Institutions Hurt by Ottawa says Coal dealer increase in. The Price of Western Oal sold to institutions and other arge scale purchasers would follow he. Federal government s action in discontinuing the present rates of assistance on such Coal Alex. Rob Rison of the. Winnipeg Supply and fuel company declared tuesday in commenting on orders in Council recently passed at Ottawa under these orders the govern ment reduced its present rate of As Istance on Coal shipped from cer Ain areas in. British Columbia Uberta and Saskatchewan As a War conomy. Such assistance applied Only to arge scale purchasers and As such s discontinuance would have no effect whatsoever on the Price of Oal to the general Public or. Robertson added. Where railways would abandon lines More about Geisha continued front pare one troops to France quickly enough democratic reforms instituted by Here Belisha in the British army will remain it is understood. Seals surrendered London Jan. 9. Hon Leslie Hore Belisha who resigned As Secretary of state for War sur rendered his seals of office to the King at Buckingham Palace today. As the controversy Over Hore Belisha s dismissal raged unabated government spokesmen attempted to Stem criticism with assurances his democratic army reforms would endure. Reports were current that a new ministry of Imperial defence would be created with it. Hon. Winston Churchill first lord of the Admir Alty As coordinator of the army Navy and air Force. Meanwhile Anonymous expensive press. Advertisements demanding the return of or. Hore Belisha to the Cabinet intrigued londoners. Large scale pro Belisha advertisements were submitted to nation Al newspapers but were rejected because the advertising Agency re fused to name the sponsor. However a half Page advertise ment printed by the evening stand Ard was headed we must hav you cannot Reform and reinvigorate the entire tradition of an army without treading on some people s it added. Letter being studied War office officials examined an unsigned letter headed Call to Al Loyal it contained a violent attack on or. Hore Belisha and jews. It was written on War office note paper presumably and had seen widely circulated. The letter which alleges the army Navy and air Force Are under control of jews and aliens is said to have reached army officers. Or. Hore Belisha who said fare Well yesterday to the staff at the War office was said to be working on a personal statement to make to the House of commons Jan. 16 when parliament meets. There was Agi action for an earlier recall of Par lament but a special session was considered unlikely. Nor was prime minister Chamberlain expected to consent to a secret meet ing to discuss Friday s Cabinet shake up. If or. Hore Belisha s statement should explain Why he lost his Job or criticize government policy or. Chamberlain would reply Accord ing to tradition. Government supporters were hopeful that the former War Secretary would confine his remarks to Why not accept the presi Dency of the Board of Trade which was offered him by or. Chamber Ain and thus restrict discussion to this one Point. Sea bloodhound finds its Quarry borne Jan. 9. Thor ugly the British contraband con Rol pursues its game is shown in Lis Story reaching Rome from Gibraltar one of the Mediterranean control Points. A British officer who came Board an italian ship asked the attain if he had sacks of mail from the United states. Replied the Captain. Would like to have sack the inspector said. It con tarns a registered package of Dia monds consigned to sack 350 yielded the package of was confiscated As contraband. Roosevett advises Democrat Washington Jan. 9. Livering a philosophical Chat president Roosevelt the democratic party last it must retain the supp. Dependent voters to win tha states election this year. He spoke at the glittering i Day dinner when the Par ranking leaders paid for the privilege of eating Quet fare drinking courses and listening to the Dent and others. Henry Wallace agriculture rotary told an audience Moines la., he hoped nominee in. 1940 would be twi us i s Al marauders Hong Kong Jan. 8. Police forwarded of a raid by Ese bandits on near Hong Kong killed wounded several of the a in a one hour Gur Battle meanwhile some of chinese soldiers interned 3a Kong since the fall of october 1938, rioted in concentration Camp. Optometry Eyck examined Harry phone 22133 glasses fitted and 804 Toronto cd Nero to ukr mtg Eorge h. Graydon varied at Edmonton Edmonton Jan. 9. Services were held Here today for Eorge h. Graydon 82, Veteran Estern Canada pharmacist Hon Rary president of the Canadian pharmaceutical association presi ent of the Alberta retail drug its association and member of he Royal North. West mounted olice from 1886 to 1891. Before coming to Edmonton in 894 he was affiliated with a win Peg drug firm. Surviving Are his widow for Erly Rosetta Asprey of Winnieg a son and a sister. In pm Cluj Rich beef goo ones that a no Way treat constipation dosing with cathartic May temporary Relief but the real Way handle constipation is of get cause. Common constipation. Results from a i talc of bulk in diet. Bulk does Timcan them of food you cat iut a particular of food tint helps to form k mass in the bowels and Bowel movement. If you arc troubled this try eating Kellogg s i Wpm taken a Small of acct we is enough for most wifi must have it regularly Tad Loru plenty of water. All Brut is n a Toft tasty Cereal Wahidi fives you a things you need bulk intestinal Vitamin by. Plata enter life can be when you All Brut is a Wei Kelogg s in London Canada. Attu grocers. By Grant Dexter 1 Ottawa ont., Jan. 8. Applications for the abandonment of lines have been jailed with the transport Board by the railway companies. The applications involve 540 Miles of railway. Seven of these applications As shown in the above Are in Mani of line. One of 122 Miles is jointly in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Five Are in Alberta where 84 Miles of line Are involved. The other four Are in Ottario and Quebec the Manitoba applications Jire Canadian National Louise to Deloraine 56 a Hallboro to 75 Miles West Tower to Delta 14.53 Miles Muic to Gladstone 10.3 Miles Oakland to Cawdor 11.55 Miles Canadian to Miniota 19. 8 Macgregor to 54.41 Miles. The inter provincial line is the . From Heston to Wolseley 22-.Miles., the Are two Canadian National railway lines Nevis to Alex 9.5 Miles and treble Junction to Morinville 12.21 Miles two Canadian Pacific applications Irricana to be Seckar , and Langdon to Irricana 22.6 Miles one stretch of the North Ern Alberta railway 29.7 Miles from Carbondale to Egremont is included. The four Eastern applications cover Only 93 Miles and Are relatively unimportant of the applications the Louise to Deloraine Case will of first the transport Board will Deal with it at a Public hearing to be held in Winnipeg on Jan. 30. The other applications will be dealt with Over the next six months. Quick Relief for stiffness pains from bruises bumps aches strains and Chest colds no req uned just Pat it on Sloan i be lain Awak for flours Wito acting Muscles w sleep and ease of of wait of work that we arc nut to will often make musics bedtime. Alien Long hard jote Jar make Muscola overtired Rod Are often strained. 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