Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday january 17, 1940 Page five second division May get advanced War training in Canada says Ashton if the second Canadian division does not go overseas too soon it will receive its advanced training in Canada. Major general e. C. Ashton. , inspector general of the Canadian forces said in Winnipeg. Wednesday. None of us know when the Divi Sion will he added. In the Spring the Canadian troops would be moved into Camps training would be greatly seeded us he announced. Training Cen tres were already be Iii established. More training in mechanized War fare would Uwin in Canada As time progressed but at present the umber of vehicles available for this Dominion was Noi purpose in the Large he said. The Canadian troops would prove specially adaptable to mechanized warfare because so Many of them knew How to drive and repair motor cars he predicted. Inspects units officers and men of the 12th Field company Hoyal Canadian engineers were complimented on their efficiency and turnout. Wednesday when lie inspected the unit in Minto armoires. You ought in be proud of your unit which. I am sure will make a name for general Ashton told the company in a Brief informal address following the inspection and March past. I wish you All Good wednesday afternoon general Ashton paid a return visit a modes for the inspection 5 corps general Hospital Canadian army medical corps. Accompanying the inspector Gen eral were brigadier b. W. Browne officer commanding . Col. G. R. Morton ., it col. C. R. Grant . And . A. H. Hunt m.c., Major j. N. Dickenson District officer capt. A. B. Officer i.g., and capt. B. Sucharov acting officer in command unit. General Aston also visited the 12th Field company Headquarters in the immigration Hall Higgins Avenue and Maple Street. The guest of Brig. Browne and staff at luncheon. On a one Day visit to general Ashton planned for Ottawa wednesday night. Orces into energetic counter Meas ures. Submarine operations in Sheligo and bight Navy men said always re most dangerous but there never Las been any Lack of volunteers for he work because the Chance of a successful shot in the bight has been regarded As better than in any other Vaters. There always is a reason Able Chance of encountering a Ger Man warship off Heligoland Al Hough those of any size always Are protected by destroyers and other Small Craft. These with air planes overhead have made submarine at Acks most difficult. Berlin says six sunk come West now. Enjoy the mild climate and Pii whine of your own Pacific coast. Flowers Are Blooming in Victoria. Golf on courses that Are always playable. Fish for Salmon and Steelhead. Come and enjoy your Winter holidays in the warm atmosphere of of Canada s Evergreen playground. Victoria Canada treatment at night. Relief in the morning. That s the world wide reputation of went Holtum in relieving head colds and canal Catarrh. Get n 30c Jar or tube today. Mentho Latum helps fight colds. It quickly penetrates infected it isl head and Noee and promotes free healthy breathing again. Buy teed to by left Relief or Money Back. More about sea losses continued from Page one under the Eagle Eye of Canada s inspector general Safeway we Reserve the right to limit quantities to family requirements. 15c sausages luxury or breaded. In. A real treat at any meal Back Bacon . Peame aled piece or sliced round Steak j minced ibs. Cut from Boneless hips. White fish Lake Winnipeg fresh caught ibs. Only 12c scaled rib or shoulder tender Juicy major general e. C. Ashton wednesday inspected the 12th Field company of the Royal Canadian engineers at Minto armoires during his one Day visit to the City. Left Gen. Ashton is shown questioning one of the men while behind him stands brigadier b. W. Browne officer commanding . 10. Right a general View of the company during the inspection showing general Ashton making the rounds accompanied by staff officers from . 10. Berlin quarters Jan. 17. Claimed yesterday that Britain s submarine losses since the Start of the War total six with the three admitted lost by the British admiralty yesterday. The German figures include the submarine Oxley which the British admiralty announced on nov. 14, was destroyed by an accidental explosion with a loss of 53 lives the germans said that an unidentified British submarine was sunk on sept. 29 and that another sub Marine badly damaged on oct. 16, should be regarded As. Lost. Oil Tanker Breaks up London Jan. 37. Unidentified Oil Tanker of from to tons caught fire and broke in half off the southwestern eng Lish coast yesterday shortly after a Craft resembling a submarine was seen in its Vicinity a Lifeboat Crew from a nearby voice of experience Lloyd George May play War role Point was reported to have rescued the Crew. Three a boats believed sunk Paris Jan. 17 has Surik a German submarine in the general area of the finisterre pen insula on. The West and a British submarine has sunk another official sources said today. It was said that a third German a boat was believed to have been sunk by a destroyer As it was about to attack merchant vessels. Belgian ship lost London Jan. Members of the Crew of the belgian freight steamship Josephine Charlotte tons were lost when the ship struck a mine off the Southeast coast it was made known today. The remainder of the Crew was landed by a British steamship. An italian freighter the Ernani tons collided with a lightship and another the pre Muda tons ran aground off the Kent coast Southeast England during a Bliz Zard last night. No lives were lost. The lightship the Brake was badly damaged. By Homer Jenks London Jan. 17. Hon. David Lloyd George who has had a political role in two of Britain s wars May be Given a voice in the conduct of a third War it was reported today on his 77th birthday. Should prime minister Neville Chamberlain quit it was said Lloyd George might be sought out for the unofficial role of elder states Man and adviser whose inspiring record in the world War could help animate the country s War Effort again. This would be expected to be the Case especially if. Lloyd George s old world War crony it. Hon Winston Churchill became prime minister. The fiery Little welshman with the flowing White mane already has seen the allies profit in this War by the victories he won Over politicians generals and admirals in conducting the world War Dur which he was prime minister. Today was Lloyd George s birth Day. He was out looking Over his farm at court making the cabbages and pigs sure were that All right they Are his contribution to the nation s food Supply. He said this War was going to be a Long business probably longer than the world War. He has been 50 years in Parlia ment and is still considered one of its finest orators. Britain calling Canadian broadcasting Corpora Tion officials announced wednes Day that it. Hon. Winston Churchill first lord of the admiralty would 3.15 Jan. P.m., Central 20, Over the or. Churchill s and be heard at Standard time. Csc network. Dress will be rebroadcast at 6.15 . The same Day. While full information is not yet available it is understood that lord Halifax British foreign Secretary May also speak though the address May not be carried. Which yesterday increased the be Lief of diplomatic observers that a German move at this moment is unlikely but which by no Means reduces forebodings Eor the future. The verbal Reserve of the nazis by no Means destroys the belief among Many neutrals that the special measures of Holland and Belgium resulted from sufficient indications of imminent demand unusual precaution. Invasion believed unlikely the Hague Jan. 17. Bup the week end intensification of dutch defence measures was attributed yesterday to nervousness in Bel Gium Over reports that instructions had been found on German fliers forced Down in Belgium of a threat ening character. The belief Here was that a Ger Man invasion of Holland was Only a Remote possibility and that if any threatening documents had been found on German fliers they prob ably planted there for the psychological effect. Paris holds serious View Paris Jan. 16. Kept her armed forces on the Alert yester Day against any likelihood of a German invasion through Belgium or the Netherlands. Moke about sir Philip Gibbs continued from Page one yesterday s acknowledgement More about Stevens continued from Paffe one United. States is turning the bal Ance against Germany. On that basis some britons be Lieve Hitler s military experts May advise him to act Early in the Spring before Allied supremacy is assured and that he will decide on ruthless air plane and submarine warfare against Britain. Reports have reached London from Neutral sources that Germany is preparing for warfare particularly for violent air plane attacks on British ports coordinated with sub Marine and mine laying campaigns. Massed on Border Winters Ink the Netherlands Jan. 17 up havas French Agency than German troops Are massed at the Borders of the Netherlands and Belgium with everything apparently in readiness for offensives through the lowlands travellers arriving at this dutch Border Point from Westphalia re ported last night. According to one of Man who served in the austrian army during the first great that such a nazi Campaign was considered imminent tended to give the crisis a More serious turn. The allies by Means of extensive reconnaissance flights Over German territory adjacent to Holland and Belgium Are in n position to gauge the significance of troop movements on their Borders. The foreign office said that at some Points it is certain of German Roop. Concentrations on of the Lowland countries. The statement said that German notarized units have arrived at cer Ain Points of Eastern Poland not occupied by the russians. This it s claimed indicates possible action not Only against the Low countries 3ut also against Sweden and the Balkan nations. The French state ment said there was increasing in the mind of the German High com Mand. Am i writing too about a Little Snow does it mean As As that Chance of a Battle i hardly think so because the Odd thing is in modern War that its mechani7 nation. Is less Mobile in slush and Snow than the old fashioned methods of War with nothing mov faster than the Pace of marching men. Any attempt at a German Blitzkrieg would be slowed Down and stopped by such conditions. I May be wrong but i have a Strong belief that the German High com Mand won t Hazard any beginning of hostilities on a big scale or even thought they would take that Gambler s risk against the French and. British armies until the skies Are Clear and the roads passable. One thing May be said without military secrets the British army is ready for any move that May be there is no Chance of a Surprise and sudden break through. Copyright 1940, by the Mcnaught Soldier being held in taxi theft Case City police wednesday were contacting military authorities re Garding the future of a Soldier who was arrested shortly before 11 . Tuesday in the West end in connection with the theft of a taxi. The cab was stolen from in front of the . Station and shortly after it was sighted by Cruiser car constables Dave Lyttle and Tom Kingdon proceeding on Argent Avenue. In City police court wednesday morning the Soldier was remanded to thursday without a charge against him. Dictations of German action developing in Winter finds a child s weak spots Winter puts a dangerous Strain on children s vitality. Colds and chills attack the weak spots. Resistance to More serious epidemics like measles and influenza is gradually undermined. Put your child on the great building up give him new vitality to help him through Winter. Give him a Virol Constitution. Fortify with Virol now Brussels Jan. 17. Belgian foreign minister Paul Henri Spaak last night received the German French and ambassadors. There was no immediate official explanation of the diplomatic activity. Nazis have 70 divisions concentrated against the belgian Border and 18 facing the Netherlands. The travellers reported that everything appeared ready for thrusts by two main German columns one of which would head Northwest to turn the dutch de fences while the other would thrust southwestward. They added that engineering units were particularly numerous oppo site the dutch province of Limburg facing Belgium. On own information Amsterdam Jahl 17. Netherlands government repudiating Berlin assertions that British French tips prompted week end military declared yester Day its views on the International situation . Formed Only on in formation from sources controlled by itself. Havas French news Agency re ported yesterday that dutch official circles disclosed that a Netherlands military Mission is now in Italy studying fascist munitions Indus tries and preparing to negotiate Purchase of italian for. The dutch army. Havas said Italo dutch relations were continually forebodings remain by Frank smothers Berlin Jan. 17. Special can the face of the. Dutch and belgian defence measures Ber Lin maintains a guarded Reserve tonal and Domestic events. He old them they were to explain to he Public whenever necessary the reasons for such measures As food rationing and requisitioning of materials. This was necessary and russian both sectors. Mori about continued from Paffe one he French Maginot line or the Ger Man fortifications. Hungarian German pact Budapest Jan. And Germany last night reached an economic agreement and noted in an official communique that Mer Chandise exchanges Between the to nations Are developing in a most satisfying the agreement which was petted to increase materially the shipment of needed food stuffs to Germany was regarded Bere As a Tance for because Trade negotiations. Between France and Hungary Are expected to Start in Paris within the next said to prevent incomprehension or useless italian newspapers displayed prominently today prime minister Seville Chamberlain s War report of the House of. Commons yester Day but they avoided direct com ment stress was Laid. In the London despatches on the prime minister s Hope that the peace maintained in he Mediterranean would Long Ion Niue. Close attention was Given his affirmation that the allies would avoid damaging in any Way he interests i of non belligerent Powers. Finally or. Chamberlain s refer ence to the. Considerable Aid be Given to Finland were prominently reported. Victory of some import. Reich particularly two weeks. The next new agreement three months. Is for the its exact nature has not been made known but it understood that the Trade turn Oyer Between Hungary and Germany would be increased. It was emphasized that the agreement was welcomed Here and that bad been no suggestion of pressure by Germany. There was one hitch in the Bright Prospect for increased Trade with Harbor asserted that about. 1200 German and rumanian and. River barges were immobilized at various Danu Uliari harbours awaiting the thaw of. The some time in March. Italy and Hungary regard them selves As the guardians of Chris Premier Paul Teleki told a. Govern meat party meeting today in discussing the recent Venice conference Between foreign ministers of the two countries. The Premier did not mention Russia but the press published accounts of hungarian assurances Given the soviet in Moscow thai the Venice falks were riot directed against Russia. Finnish Relief London Jan. King and Queen have made contributions to i grids fsr. Finnish Relief it was announced last night. More about Italy continued from Page one he More about no Date set continued from parc one the province have participated thus far in the loan. From and Saskatchewan the total private subscriptions to Date amount to about from about residents. Institutions apply Manitoba institutions have registered thus far in the Campaign for about in Bonds the total climbing about wednesday. Institutions in Alberta and Saskatchewan have asked for approximately in Bonds. From these two latter provinces the subscriptions totalled about wednesday. All orders from private individuals up to. Will probably be accepted and request for More than in Bonds May be subjected to pro rationing. How far the pro rating will be carried out depend upon How heavily oversubscribed the Bonds Are when the National committee closes the registration books. Ottawa ont., Jan 17. Additional War loan subscriptions from Manitoba include Manitoba Hospital service association win Winnipeg free press University of Manitoba Home investment and. Say association Winnipeg Community. Trust Mani Toba two die in fire Arden ont., Jan. 17. Up mrs. George Barr 53, and her grand daughter Erma 9, were burned to death today when fire destroyed the farm Home one mile North of tha Village of Mountain Grove in Frontena c county. Boiling beef sirloin Steak leg veal Steak loin pork chops in 230 Chuck roast see fib made from Pink fruit Tex Sun 2o-oz. 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