Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press pages Sun rises 8.21 Sun sets 16.57. Moon rises 11.34 Moon sets .43. Winnipeg wednesday january 17, .1940 cold. I resumes War like talk contingent in blighty britishers realized that Canada was getting into the War in a big Way when the second contingent of the first division of the Canadian Active service Force arrived at an unnamed port in the British Isles recently. The canadians took Britain by storm singing and laughing Over their the staid englishman who opened his heart and his Home to entertain the new arrivals. This first to reach Winnipeg shows it. Hon. Anthony Eden dominions a minister Reading an address of to the troops. Dutch belgian push Only matter of time by Francis h. London Jan. 17. Special general opinion Here is will be a nazi invasion of the Low countries ultimately but that the move is unlikely in the near future. For the time being Germany is pondering the reaction of Holland and Well As the to the threat. The effect however has been to draw Holland and Belgium More closely together and the allies closer to Holland snowstorm eases tension of neutrals British take drastic to nip rail sabotage plot London Jan. 17. British government taking extraordinary precautions today against an alleged German Dot to sabotage railroads was understood to have information fid Cating that Adolf Hitler was considering a great air attack British ports and other transportation centres starting Jim time in the in March. Six Hundred thousand British Railroad men were put on the Alert today against the alleged German plot to sabotage communications. It was asserted that authorities had uncovered a plot by the Ger Man intelligence service aimed at Public works communications 1c Mcnamara leads Board Ottawa Jan. 17. Macnamara of Winnipeg will Rve As chairman of an enlarged a pendants allowances Board which ill handle allowances to depend its of members of the the naval Well As those of the military and air forces the department National defence announced to in. Until recently or. Macnamara Deputy minister of Public works and labor for Manitoba in Linch capacity he had Chare of be unemployment Relief system r that province. Col. S. H. Hill major j. G. Ray lond and Arthur Brown who ave been appointed to represent he Navy and the air Force. They Are paymaster commander j. J. R. O. Cossette of the Navy Jid flying officer Walter a. Ken in of the air Force. Bridges and railroads. Necessary counter measures were taken at once it was under stood and secret instructions were sent to Railroad officials to keep a Sharp watch for suspicious characters. The implication was that not Only Railroad workers but others had been enlisted in a Gigantic counter espionage organization. Re ports were however that main line railroads were the chief targets of the alleged plotters. News of the danger to communications came As the country pondered the grave warnings of prime minister Chamberlain and other key Cabinet men that the War might soon enter a More acute phase. Daring s toll 108 listed As missing in subs London Jan. 7. Admiralty announced today at 108 officers and men were listed As missing from the British submarines Seahorse starfish and Undine which Ilas announced yesterday had not returned to their bases and and been Given up As lost. The submarines believed victims of enemy action were is while engaged in hazardous operations off Heligoland ight. Germany s North sea naval base. Figures of the missing announced the admiralty today were sea five officers and 34 ratings starfish five officers and 34 ratings nine. Four officers and 26 ratings. The admiralty listed the Crews of in submarines As missing because la German wireless had announced at some members of the Crews of Undine and starfish had been and made prisoners. Their Lames were not yet available. British naval circles Learned that a daring of British submarines simulated the German defence sea losses continued on Page 5. Column 2 to continue temperature readings night Jan noon Jan. 17 . Jan. 17 Jan. 17. 1933 4 for full report of meteorological Sec Page fifteen. Is in for another 24 Manitoba to and decidedly cold r inc meteorological office wednesday As Western shivered in below Zero Temes which reached a Prairie Al Prince Albert sask l Winnipeg Low was Western front quiet Paris. Jan. 17 a extreme cold accompanied by a heavy Snow fall paralysed action today on the Western front military sources re ported. Soviet troops pushed Back on two fronts Helsin fors. Jan. 17. Nish troops fighting in sub Zero Veather were reported the russians Back in the Salla Region and advancing toward a new Vic Ory today. On the Central front the finnish ski troops have forced the soviet army from its Early december Posi ions nearly within Finland .0 a line five to 10 Miles inside Lussia. A communique said that yester Day finnish troops Northeast of Ake la Doga routed a russian de ashment about one company Strong 250 men and destroyed two tanks. The russians the communique said left 70 dead and about 100.rifles on the Field. It was bitterly cold on All finnish fighting fronts temperatures ranging from 33.to, 42 degrees be Low Zero. Severe suffering was re ported among troops and refugees. In addition to penetrating soviet territory the finns have established outposts on russian soil. Trees have been felled in a criss Cross Jig saw fashion and barbed wire Strung helter shelter in the Woods. The tree trunks farm a Barrier to soviet tanks. Such Are the main fortifications on the finn ish Side of this Snow covered Frozen landscape. They have been constructed in the last month to guard against a invasion of nov. 30. Which caught the finns in the North by Surprise. Few finn ish troops were on hand then the commanding colonel Here said since there had been an. Agreement on a demilitarized zone 30 Miles on either Side of . Loan to Finland Washington Jan. 17. A president Roosevelt put the ques Tion of a loan to Finland up to the United states Congress yester and Belgium. Similar development is observed with regards to the threat to Sweden and Norway these two countries being drawn together and the allies closer to them. Both threats Are regarded Here As very real even though they May not be carried out immediately. The British United press correspondent in London says there be. A growing idea that German attacks might Start at the end of february or the beginning of March when according to Esti mates the material strength of the allies especially in the air might Impell Adolf Hitler to choose from among three possibilities 1. A land sea and air offensive against Britain. 2. A. Diversion elsewhere for instance in Scandinavia or the Balkans. 3. To remain quiet in Hope that the War spirit would die in. Bri Tain and France or that the allies would divert their energies into a War against Russia. Allied sources concede that Ger Many is now Superior in air planes and perhaps in some other arms of warfare. But they say that the rela Tive strength of the allies is grow ing the. Allied production of. Other weapons plus the purchases of planes in the Stevens continued on Page. It column 3. By sir Philip Gibbs. With the British forces in France Jan. 7. By sudden flurry of apprehension arising in Neutral countries Over newspaper reports of a possible German attack probably Hasi been eased by a change in weather. At least in our part of. The. Landscape Snow fell steadily All Day yesterday after a night of Sirjo flakes spreading a what Mantle eve Fields and Are perhaps. More powerful agent than gun against the Chance of a big attack air planes would have no visibility and tanks and armoured cars would be lost and immobilized in. Thi blizzard i Germany and her near neighbor in addition to Northern France. t a Good. Surely of Zero hours anywhere on the West Ern front even if that has been in sir Philip Gibbs continued Bri Page 5, column 5 buying burst War loan swamped by eager purchasers Ottawa Jan. 17. On the Nome front Gav answer to the government s Appeal to support the War loan and in two Days oversubscribed the nearly in a final burst of investors swamped War bom late last night the Barik of behalf o finance minister Ralston announced that the loan was Over the top with Cash subscriptions to the close ,.pf., business _ to a o o n a c c n no Date set Day with a. Suggestion that it be done by increasing the funds of the Export import Bank and a declaration that such action would not drag the United states into mute evidence one German Soldier killed by British troops in France by William h. Stoneman. London. Jan. 17. Special can British expeditionary Force in France has now killed one German. The unfortunate Soldier who qualified As the first victim of the British army was killed monday night during the course of a British patrol in front of Inot line. Proof of his death was furnished by his body which for one reason or another was carried Back to the British lines. It is not known How Many British soldiers have been killed since the took Over an Active sector in mid december. Absolutely no casualty lists have been issued by the British army and while stray obituary notices in the newspapers have indicated that several men were killed in action or died of wounds some of these men seem to have been killed in accidents. One Man however Doe s appear to have died of wounds received when a British night patrol ran. Into a land mine about. 15 and the germans have reported. The death of an officer who was found badly in. No Man s land. In. Any have been practically no serious casualties during the British army s first four months in France. During the first four months of the great War British forces on the Western front had. Casualties. German casualties on the Western front Dur ing the same included 750 dead missing or prison ers and wounded. The exact Date when books of the first Canadian War loan will be closed is receiving the careful consideration of the National commit tee in charge. A Well informed source in the West believed wednesday that registrations for the loan would be kept open probably until next monday to give Resi dents of outlying areas adequate time to reach financial centres with their applications. For instance in Western Canada there Are districts that by mails but once a week and it is expected that the National commit tee will give every Opportunity to these possible subscribers to reach Selling agencies. Subscriptions continued to pour into Winnipeg Bank and brokerage offices wednesday and it is Esti mated that the total subscription of Manitoba residents climbed 000. To during the. Day. The average loan made was for so approximately residents of no Date set continued on Page 5, column 5 Ralston pleased by loan flood Ottawa Jan 17. Up Hon j l Ralston minister 6t Tadaj expressed his gratitude to the Cana Dian prompt invest ment in the of the second great War enabled him to. Announce a heavy Over subscription for the loan two Days after the books opened i did not expect to be Able to Send the Good news to our allies and the bad news to our enemies two Days after the books opened notwithstanding the Large Over subscription we Are leaving the books open in order to give a further Opportunity particularly to the smaller subscribers in the More Dis Tant com Muri ties. I Hope to see a flood of these smaller subscriptions Otal Ling financial experts said that the looks probably will. Be close thursday night As it was suggest earlier that three Days were heres siry for All citizens wishing participate to their order registered. When the loan a originally announced it was state hat the b Oaks were to be open maximum of f weeks but Coul be closed at any time at the discretion of the finance minister. Official s of the Bank expressed extreme satisfaction at the response said that the per cent interest Loaa will open in order that Small subscribers Par More parts of Canada May have an Opportunity to enter their Applina subject to. Allotment All such further subscriptions however must be subject to allot Wab loan column 7 fizz fizz phut by capt. A. E. Coo . London Jan. 17 special Cable did you Ever get ready for a fireworks display on the 24th of May and then have it rain All Day that is How., i Felt As i left the British House of commons tuesday night after listening to the crisis of the year fizzle out. Someone failed to Light. A match and it was not even a Dud fire Cracker that Jur need around a couple of times before dying. As i thought of the build up for it. Hon. Leslie Hore Belisha in the popular press after his resignation i could not but re member some of the Battles of the Century with regards to hockey and Amateur athletic Union meetings. The More Stormy the Advance notices the duller the meeting. Hore Belisha did not even have a stiff Jab to the jaw to deliver As he told his Story while prime minister Neville Chamberlain was like a sch ool 1 teacher lecturing his class. The unruly boys in the Back Row the labor benches hammered at him but he took no notice. The teacher s pets on the government Back benches sat stolid and Dull like dummies with not even a Trace of a Charlie Mccarthy Grin. Once in a while someone pulled a string and their hear hear sir was like a flock of. Turkeys in flight. The Best Point brought out by Hore Belisha was that it had not occurred to him that we were making the army too democratic to fight for democracy. He was also reluctant to believe that the generals had gone Over his. Head. Tongues in Cheek the prime minister was naive in his reply. He built up his Case with a vague reference to difficulties and then came to the taking such action. Everyone waited but or Chamberlain blandly said that if a Premier told Why he made changes he would never make changes. The. Liberals and la Bor. Speakers spanked the pre Mier the. Press and Hore Belisha and let it go at that. Everyone professed to believe or. Chamberlain s statement that the brass hats were not in on the but i think they All had their tongues in their Cheeks when they said so. Or. Chamberlain in telling How difficult it. Was said that even a sometimes had to go when the House had lost Confidence in him. Looking Over the House Lead ers and front benches it is hard to see where they would turn if. Such a situation arose Here. It. Hon. Winston Churchill half asleep in his seat his feet sprawled put on the clerk s desk might be the Man. It Hon. Anthony Eden who was pushed almost off the govern ment Bench by the big attend Ance looked amiable. Lady Astor was the most aggressive of the conservative Back Bench ers but is hardly a future prime minister. Oliver Stanley new Secretary of state for War will have to show a lot of stuff in his new Job to last it out. Unless some new figure emerges or. Chamberlain looks to be solid for some time to come. 25 years ago any moment High fascist warns army action looms Rome Jan. 17. Muti Secretary of the fascist party warned italians today they might be compelled at any moment to fight in the War. His warning was published after a conference with party leaders from 26 provinces. The communique advised the italian people not to be too really impressed by the recent demonstrations of inter Rumania digs defence Dykes on Frontier by Frederick Kuh London Jan. 17. Responsible rumanian spokesman said today that under personal direction of King Carol Rumania has constructed hundreds of Miles of de Fence systems along her Frontier known As the King s Dyke. The work of fortifications understood to have been started after the dismemberment of Czecho Slovakia is now almost completed and according to rumanian sources is intended to defend the country against aggression from either the West or rus the plans for the defences were said to have been prepared by the King. The Dyke runs parallel to the hungarian Frontier from the River Muriesh into Bucovina and thence along the Dniester to the Black sea it was understood. The system of adopted because of Lack of time or Money for anything resembling Rumania continued on Page 5, column 4 Jan. 17, army annihilated turkish corps near Kara Urgan. German Advance in Soissons checked. Allies began offensive to relieve pressure on the Aisne. Rus sians regained polish territory near go mine previously lost to Ger Man troops. Defences was National while Italy s greatest concern recently has been against the great of a spread of bolshevism nto the Balkans Paramount inter est has centred on whether fascism could remain Neutral in the Allied Erman War and whether she could i desert her nazi ally of the Rome Berlin Axis. There is no need to Lull one s self with the illusion that Italy s present situation with regard 1o War May last Muti declared. Fascist Italy May face the necessity and duty at any moment of picking up arms. It must therefore be prepared in its resources and above All in its spirit. It is Well to add that it is absurd and dangerous to de rive too much satisfaction from too recent demonstrations of International sympathy which Are with out justification or foundation and not even in Harmony with the True sentiment of the italian people which has Learned not to forget the history which it has lived dramatically especially in these re cent Muti s announcement said relaxation of fascism s anti democratic anti bolshevism and anti Bourgeois policies would be pernicious particularly at the present Muti instructed his assistants to keep themselves fully informed of the state of Public opinion in their districts both with regard to internal Italy continued on Page 5. Column 5 Turk reply defences boosted As attack rumoured Ankara Jan. Rumours spread throughout the country today of a possible russian German push on the near East the turkish government boosted defence estimates by about in addition to asking the National Assembly for special Powers to Deal with National defence and Economy. The government s Bill for Spe Cial Powers will place the country in a state of readiness for any emergency on a moment s notice. Competent sources said measures amounting to gradual army mobilization already had been under taken. Turkish forces on the rus Manion asserts thousands suffer Ottawa Jan. 17. Tive Leader r. J. Manion in a state ment issued today charged that thousands of mothers whose sons enlisted four months ago Are in dire need and Are not receiving assist Ance in the form of dependent allowances. Or. Manion said he was mention ing this matter now rather than waiting until parliament meets be cause these mothers should not be left in their extremity a Day longer than if the authorities do not act at once or. Manion said i assure the government that it will be completely threshed out on the floor of the House of commons at the first Opportunity. War wings ready for action Sian Frontier were reported to num Ber twice the nor Mal number. The minister of National defence said the was Nee Deti to supplement about s48. Already granted As an extra budget. Britain and France with whom Turkey has Mutual assistance agreements Are lending her about to buy armaments. This is one provision of financial and economic accords signed in Paris Jan. 8 and announced by prime minister Cliant Berlin in London yesterday. Aid from the allies by Richard Mowrer Istanbul Jan. 17. Special can allies have won one of the greatest Battles of the bal Kan economic front by reaching an agreement with the turks to buy up All the Chrome production that used to go to Germany it is revealed Here. Before the current War. In 1938. Of a yearly output of tons tons were absorbed by Germany and tons by the United states. This is part of the Anglo French turkish economic Accord. The turks Are receiving from the for armaments a loan for the turkish government and As a com Mercial loan. Leaves restored Here Are two twin engined sleek lined Light american bombers the first of a consignment of 18i for the Dominion As they wait on the. Border at Emerson Man., to be dragged across the line into Canadian territory the Graceful ships purchased in the United states came to Earth on a special Landing i end about half a mile West of Emerson a waiting team of horses pulled them into can Ada where expert aviators boarded them and flew them to. Their Canadian destination. With the British forces in France Jan. 17 up army j leaves cancelled Over the week end were restored today. Leaves for the . Had been cancelled sunday and those for the k.a.f., monday. Both were taken As precaution against a rumoured German offensive through the Low countries fear which apparently has now some what abated. Scores nectar Auto Stockholm Sweden Jan. 17. Bup parliament was thrown into an uproar today when former foreign minister Richard j. Sand Ier strongly denounced the government s present policy of neutrality ;