Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba I vol. Pages Sim rises 3.14 Sun sets 17 n Moon rises 17.25 its 31 f Winnipeg wednesday january 24, 1940 cold 1 i 1 is lire i appointed gun crop v by Grant Dexter. Oni. Jan. 1m. Morin hitherto Ink Board of Tio Vornor of the Csc. Has been Man. In succession odium huh Ergo to l. W. Rocki Nelon. By Bruce Hutchison. Ottawa Jan. 24. Special Canada is heading into a billion Dollar budget As it becomes in fact As Well As in oratory the Arsenal of the British Empire. Figures released today by Hon. A d. Howe minister of trans port at a press conference indicated not Only that the Cost of the War is piling up to huge England d Lii a Crom by Hon. C. D. Which i Kri Clud Noi to with n a cl5c Sui pc Over the c Lidblom Mur i i i the s h v. To i m r in a v Lur Bucu pm c or onto Oil run i Nunci the Virl no am to a stall a us Lull the Imiri us Liis the Board of s in Gnu a condemned major Murray to Tor Murray to a a Vil encourage i be Csc to consult the tin ail Mattoi xviii Unoji rus Ormula b nut by pro olt Aiva. 18 of John. X. The Howe. A today. A Board a for named n. A. Harrison of Saint Iii Bern appointed to Aon. C. D. In a h. C. I the 11 i l i to ii l 11 o Vav l i been Ura i Loti Mitiu i Mim tar Luin a a in Max r of the Board has figures but that Canada is i tying its entire armament pro gramme into the British pro gramme so Chat each country will produce the materials which it can turn out most efficiently. Armaments for the two countries Are coming out of a Pool of factories skills and materials. Roughly. Or. Howe released de tails of in expenditure of 000 for ships guns ammunition and other supplies. This will come out of the which Hon. J. L. Ralston minister of finance expects to spend the first year of the War. In addition to Ordinary expenditures of about but As or. Howe indicated that Ninny of the present contracts will extend into next year and Many new contracts Are planned it is Plain that costs then will be much higher than they Are now. Already Canada is committed to a total budget of Over in the next fiscal year. Canada has progressed in the manufacture of War materials t or itself and for Britain much further than thu Public has supposed according to or. Howe s figures. Ships cannons machine guns air these things Canada is making in Large quantities Lor it self and i m Britain. Highlights of or. Jowe s state ment Are Canada is going to build 000 Worth of naval ships Lor itself War Effort continued on Page 9. Column 3 construction of Worth of new buildings 1 or Winnipeg s Airport will be under men for the air a raining. School to to Mesiab Lishoei in this area under Ilu British Commonwealth aii1 training scheme. Major g. Swan. Outlaw a. Director of construction far the our Supply Board stated wednesday. To was stopping Over Here briefly on his Way to inspect depart ment of National defence projects at the Pacific . Can Iraq a fur the buildings v. I be Al the Jive major Swan added. Speaking the work no his i Parment. Major thai ii ban Iel v. Orch i by Public tender i-iiiec1 the Jim kill of ocl Nijer Hud Laken Nair s4.uoo.niki Wirth "1 Lii Ric Narlyn vol of Iona shia ilk will to a him irl ded r in or Tillery this smiling Canadian Soldier none other than Lance bomb Cirdier he Irwin of St. Vital Man., grins broadly As he least England and the English in their own National drink Lea. Lance Bombis Dier Irwin is among the Many can Adian soldiers firmly encamped overseas. Despite the Chilly dampness they Alj appear to be enjoying themselves both at work and at play this photograph with others was taken for the Winnipeg free press by Laurie Audraine the former Winnipeg photographer who was honoured recently by being commanded to Lake official photos of the King and Queen other pictures of Western Canadian troops in England Are on Pago 5. Ans Kene Mouin attache i and has be r. V m a Uricho in at Washinton o i a n f i Stirk i m his duties As National dcvleium1, . Lafleche Tjo 11 f d 1iiv to s London. Tan. British and French warships defied the crave risks of torpedo Tiack today to press a daring and in ens Ivr by a. T. Steele Tokyo Jan. 24. Special can radio anti British demonstrators hovered throughout the Clay around the Iron barred Entrance to i lie British embassy Here awaiting turns to present hotly worded resolutions of protest against the Asama Maru affair. Second protest against sunday s incident when a British Cruiser removed 21 service bound germans from the japanese liner off Japan was presented to the British last night this demanding that the Simn contract defence a works Finland Jan. 24.5 y w Russia i brew Swan. When tanks and air planes supported by a powerful artillery barrage. And a mass attack North of Lake j province Duga today in an attempt to Mensh i the finnish left and make die Mannerheim untenable. Finny reported thai the of the Silpack seemed to indicate thai i the russians wore using sum their Best groups and that a i Buhl Midlil be impending. A russian attacks were repulsed with heavy losses tin soviet troops the finns reported. Finnish authorities charged in thai Ibe russians in Huir air at tacks were conducting a deliberate terror Campaign and Tinl j minister Cham in told Yusu i Day four Liu spitals. Marked die of com r nuns Luday Hal with i cd were Bombi a. Great Britain was j jul Alten at 19 civilians were killed mostly women ind children. Aid by i Ltd kick til Lun Clun a Juii. It j1. Prime Ruid on in mid by Grant Dexter. Ottawa ont., Jan. 24. Spe Cial this morning Are driving Home the nails in the wooden Palisades which to Morrow will separate the elite the great from the common Folk. Ministers and members Are making a last intense Survey of the Field. Tomorrow they will plunge headlong into the in an tin Finland yes Lortin. The casual lius at caused when a soviet air bumb l scored r direct hit on a air raid Shell or. Other persons were wounded in subsequent machine gunning of the population. Snow my poor Visi new soviet offensives London Jan 24, Allied dispute with Rumania i of Lake in Dou and on the in the problem of quirk Aid to t in vent of to Thi Zih Nfn Hiljus with soul j Russia it Qunti most Carol us con Gri Al and a i bound by treaties and Nihi. To j4o to tin ionic Mitiu of if Ilia i country Are is i1 Alla a in another raid on he ind strut crisis have studied u. Lut Juji Ofa lion la .100 mile s North of u Pitzl was reported bomb but in arc was no irn Mediak report of any Mieir i i Jwj Jowh Over Oil shipments to Germany overshadowed action on the Battle fonts today. At Bucharest a High rumanian official asserting thai Rumania was trying to fulfil Trade obligations to both go r first real War session of Par-1 Many and the allies indicated government would insist lament. Thai Allied Oij companies in Rumania provide their share of Oil for Germany. The session will be bitter Brief and Stormy. Almost certainly it will be followed by a Swift general election. In a real sense n War time election Campaign will begin tomorrow with the Reading of the speech from the throne. There will be mass attacks on the government. It will be charged that the government heart is not in this War. Prime minister Mac Kenzie King s Grandfather will Rise like the ghost in Hamlet will walk the Chilly windswept terraces parliament Hill the Little rebel of cold and Snow temperature readings 1 during night a.m., Jan. 24. N k i n c British refrain from stopping Sev Lane incl clays. Premier Mitch Hep offensive is he admiralty announced Era japanese vessels at present launched this apparition into n c i to destroyer Exmouth. Apparently with the o n v nil Lindst close to 200 men ii Iio a boat British ind French it Ith on my Rev Oak d. The British attacks the last urn n a , Unk in the came on f Ine 2olh t Linin Crary of the famous Baulo of tourer Bank in the first two a. The London. Jan. 24. F. the sex Vuth had a Normal complement of 175 men. But i comp menu usually arc m bout 10 per cent in there Are in bpm cd n vessel a sea of the explosions it sea were heard by persons on the islands after three German planes flew High Over head and one Haci dived on the port. The bombs were dropped in sparsely populated areas in the Middle of the islands where there military objectives. No was reported and it was believed the germans were merely lightening their loads. British fighting was n damage teased i Ime. Went up St them. The air raid warning lasted is minutes. Ii was the first in v i North sea grave the sinking the another British 1.4i .5-ton Gran Villa. J a Loti Chi Lender wont Down Day the loss of Fil men. The sindhi of the Exmouth with i hands the greatest loss of i in a single in Sci blow since the battleship Deutsch Sank the British Armod March Kanji Pindi with nov. -j5 off the Ceisl coast of renewal in recent cuts of Aerial activity in the Shetland or Orkney Island sen plan and naval bases. Edge no Costi Dies. Toronto. Jan. 24. 31 discoverer of natural s in Ontario and Alberta died is Homo Here yesterday. Shia London. Jan. 24 Hon l. S. Amery conservative member of parliament and former Dominion Secretary believes Hal economic warfare is not enough and that Germany perhaps can Only be de cd Nice by forcing her to fight. Or. Amery. Who served in 1917-18 As assistant Secretary to the Imperial War Cabinet declared in the course of a speech last night raids on. Germany would shake the Confidence of the people of Germany in Adolf Hitler and would disorganized their National life and be Worth Many victories in the Field. Blockade alone will never bring about Germany s defeat and it would be an illusion on our part to. Believe or think we can starve Ger Many into rain irate at 3inch 2 could canadians on Parade chill weather fails to prevent King s inspection of his troops of the sumo for Viville. Completed in of 51.320.956. Of the he carried five All Arshot smaller guns his Canadian eight Turp Odo lubes. Throughout this chilling Winter .fi.75 knots. About the am shot command and left a fifth British destroy a walk past thousands o canadians j before moving to France was lost. England Jan. 24. King today inspected drove for More than 50 Miles car frequently to review or Are finishing their training hours during the bi3ges1 casualties to Date naval 14. And the courageous after lunching Chat with officers. -4 with major general a. G. L. Force and senior officers of Ottawa. Jan. 24. The face of persistent reports that Large quantities of Canadian wheat were about to be shipped 4 to Russia the government took Power last night to control by License the Export of any article to Neutral countries contiguous to territories under enemy occupation or two orders in Council were passed one under authority of the War measures act and the other under the customs act. The former armed the govern ment to act at once to prevent Export of any article to a Neutral coun try adjacent to the enemy. It is effective As from yesterday. The second order adds a Long list of commodities to those which can be exported Only after a permit has been issued by or on behalf of the minister of notional Revenue. Includes Winnipeg Sale a statement issued from the office of prime minister Mackenzie King said it would now be possible to pre vent shipment of wheat to Russia or any other country adjacent to Germany or territory under its control including wheat sold recently on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange to certain exporters and intended for Crea War officers Page 9, column 4 i inspection inn the Canadian Active at the hour and a half completing his club the Tnp spent another Ottava orders in Rouneil in connection with the control of exports to Neutral countries adjacent to the enemy Are being studied in the Grain Trade and exporters await clarification of Points involved in the shipment of Grain. No official comment was available from officials of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange except that the govern ment would receive the fullest co operation in carrying out the regu lations. Exporters however were puzzled Aslo the application of the new orders in regard to future shipments to such Friendly neutrals As Norway. Sweden. Denmark. Belgium. Holland and other countries bordering Ger Many with which has a substantial wheat Trade. Regulations queried it. Was pointed out that the regulations were not Clear in regard to the position of exporters who a local comment according to William h. Stone Man London correspondent of the Chicago daily news there1 now appears to be definite danger from the Allied viewpoint that Germany by applying plentiful doses of heal to both rus Iii and Rumania May be Able to obtain enough Oil from abroad to Supply Hor military requirements for an indefinite period. Loneman comments fur ther the allies succeed in countering the germans in some effective Way. It is furthermore. Possible that the German Oil prob Lem progressively diminish in severity As the War proceeds. Since in turn Oil is one of those Basic products which the Allied blockade was designed to prevent from reaching Germany the whole effect of great Britain s economic warfare upon the Reich May be seriously other new developments today marked Germany s intensive drive for supplies from the Balkans and the allies efforts to enforce the blockade. Turkey has concluded a temporary Trade agreement with Germany providing for an Exchange of goods Over an unlimited period to a total value of turkish Oil dispute continued on Page 13. Column 5 isthmus where lie finns on their ability and a Peri a Nee in fighting under dil ficut Ter conditions. Pm Tsamos Fri c in question j r Linns by Wilh sir Arr re e constr Yah live asked hol lilt Roux s j major Kirl Tenes Norway Jan. 2-4, revival of Miji irn y activity in the tic and Niue null lit in not Liki la that Sutnik my to Pei sumo of Finland in to i Cirod yes Lerdy by the sound of m a cry fire Al Pilka Jarvi. If t did inti prmx1 minister that Miles South of the Arctic Niekro Luhe not in n position t town of Salmi Jarvi. Developments of the Nickel company of Canada Are located. Univ a in for pubertal Ion of promised Aper l ave pc Les Washinton. Jan. 24. Fbui3 att Nojin off dutch Ecsi sucs cd be preparing to defend the is drawn into the european win Ini the Navy main if hol v credentials m and of United i minister to a tiny i l 11 i i Bis governor a a Errek lord Ducin in n House. Or. at b a f m it 1h than him Mutual us hands m shipment to soviet it was reported from Winnipeg a week ago that some bushels of wheat for Export to Russia had Export Clamp continued on 13, column 6 25 years ago Manv it i nations j o b s i i veil s the j Hul l i nature i Ifor r mini j n orce not Mically Jon or there Are 25 volunteers Tor every of 3uu a but air Force Job that has opened up recruits for Young men in met Nioba in was j from ooh Fern Learned wednesday. Thousands of in Uso Learned in Manitoba applicants have offered Quiric a will Likely he Olfier in Cana their services to the Royal Dian air Force but Only four per cent have been taken on strength. At i i m non r. Share or Nir possibly he to the whole i Raisina will question of Fillitin a Fiir share1 of 1 r l j r january naval raid Oil English East coast frustrated by Antish patrol Squadron More than 500 lost in sinking of one applicant who got in touch with the free press tuesday said he had enlisted last september. He was still waiting to be called. Inquiries at the air Force recruit the method of to cruising ing depot in the Lindsay building through quotas which local revealed that the commanding Cruit Jig arc asked officer flight lieutenant a l. Hug to Supply. Applina Gard had no information on the j Lions arc received every ii Empire air training scheme for j the recruiting and inter which reportedly. 40tooo men views Are conducted Mas get the b ration swapping measure braved i i a up f Iii it this colder g German Cruiser Blucher and two continued on Page 13, column 4 i towed into port for to Ronen be needed to Man training schools i applicant Cru unskilled ant is eth inquiries in other official circles ing can be done disclosed that practically no in formation was available regarding to schools arc of n recruiting officials share of the air train to no plicanic to Sut that Corn the ing scheme. A recent report Locum Gnu arc furnished with de Ottawa said that recruiting of applications. Birth Cociu Vito or h Vrr a pro Battle cruisers seriously damaged British Cruiser lion disabled and ground staff for the air training cat Iona and in ours of Ai scheme was proceeding at the rate reference Are required. Pen Riley of for ;