Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba I vol. Pages somewhere in France Jan. 27. Special was with the i i ish troops in the front line today after an absence of nearly 23 years and the visit was an Odd contrast to Farewell to arms. Then Arr cd shoulder High on a Stretcher by four German prisoners. Today i journeyed to the front in an Auto Mobile there was no sound of roaring guns no machine and no shells to Greet me but the entire scene was strangely familiar. The British mommies look like the same old Breed. The new Battle dress appears a bit Odd but Row after Row of Barb wire takes one rapidly to the Olden Days. Trenches can be seen but not in style the canadians were used to in the last War. Bis guns cleverly concealed stand ready to bark Defiance when the big moment comes. In 1917, the last View saw me views clash on King action Winnipeg saturday january 27, 1940 final edition Milder. Just like Home the weather Hovel series starts monday a suitcase in one hand and a typewriter in the other capt. A e. Coo. . News editor of the Winnipeg free press walked Down the Gangway of a troop ship somewhere in Britain a few weeks and prepared to do the first division or the Benefit of Manitoba. Since then he has been literally moving around in the dark what with the dismal British Winter and the endless nocturnal blackouts. Feeling his Way through darkened London streets about the Camp at Aldershot and through the Countryside capt. Coo has found 1040 Britain a strange and interesting place. Out of his experiences overseas has come a series of articles packed full of humor and Little titbits about canadians across the water. Monday afternoon will see this new series Start so Witch for the free press and the adventures of capt. Coo. Hurr Vine away from the War. This time found me looking for it and probably very pleased i did not catch up with it. British troops right now would. I think relish a bit of scrap. All the men Are working hard preparing for what May come. They cannot figure out this strangest of All wars and Are wondering How and when it will engulf them. The journey from the seaport to British Headquarters closely resembled an Auto journey through a Manitoba town i with the cold weather providing a Homelike feeling. The reception at Headquarters had me feeling like a new officer coming up to join the battalion and wondering what it was All about but they soon made me feel at Home with the evident desire of the British to show you All the True picture of the Way the army is carrying on. The regular War correspondents looked very bored at this Point and somewhat askance at the visiting firemen. The French villages Are of the same pattern As those we i visited in the last War. We had one rum toddy for lunch and it tasted just As Good As Ever. The food is probably a Shade belter and cheaper with the franc a lot Jower than the 19 cents the paymaster charged during the last War. I the journey across the Channel was smooth but i think almost everybody thought of the Prospect of stray mines i troops in France Are scattered widely and our first glimpse of the French army saw it doing Road work and keeping traffic moving freely. I expect to see All aspects of British army life in France before my return and should have a Good picture of modern warfare. Arctic Retreat in restive troops Lem and Fine non permanent units Hail third division news of impending mobilization of the third division of the Canadian Active service Force was hailed saturday by several non permanent units in Winnipeg which have already i begun training. J waiting for the Call arc the Royal rifles the Winnipeg Bald Light infantry the 17th Field Battery. . And the St. I Boniface Battery the 38th . Military circles expected that these units would be included in the third division and in some of them training of recruits has been going on for Many weeks in preparation for mobilization. But the third division will open up hundreds of enlistments in Winnipeg i and full swing recruiting is expected to follow the definite announce i ment mobilization. I third division reported Sluwa Jan. 27. Tion of a third division of the can Dian Active service Force is sex to follow despatch of the i second division overseas. Prime minister Mackenzie Kin a told the House of commons that the Accord division abroad As soon would be As May be sen pos but indicated this would not happen until after the general elec Uon a hich Likely will be March 26 at the same time it is the in Len i Ion to train the second division i to a greater extent than the Cense with the first division in England. Additional equip Merit for training is being obtained and it. Is proposed to concentrate division in sections for training v Praise and censure wide divergence of opinion noted in All Canada Survey standing on guard in front of two Snow covered tents somewhere on the Western front Are these two . Members. Similar scenes Are greeting capt. A. E. H. Co today on his visit to the front lines with no sign of a let up in the cold. Finn troops crush soviets seeking escape from trap Helsin fors Jan 27. A crushing russian defeat Northeast of Lake Ladoga with he capture of huge quantities f tanks and other War a Arial by the finns was reported today by unofficial finnish sources. These reports said the rus ians desperately trying ,.tg escape from an icy trap frito hich Field marshal Baron purposes. J the whole assembled at now training Headquarters division not be one but units at local regimental in various centres be brought together in sufficiently formation to permit of seme Field manoeuvres. Water South Africa votes Down Hertzog move Cape town Jaan. 27. Up Reut is the House of Assembly to Day rejected general b. M. Hert zog s Resolution calling for a sep Arate peace Between South afric and Germany. The vote was 8 to 59. Vole on the former Premier s Resolution came when the House re assembled following an All night debate. A labor party speaker declared Hertzog s proposal was intended As propaganda to suggest disintegration of the British Commonwealth and that Oswald Pirow who was Hertzog s defence minister inherited every German characters us except the ability to organize an Hertzog who opposed joining the War against Germany and was succeeded by general Jan Smuts sept. 6, proposed last tuesday a Resolution that this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of War against Germany to be ended and peace be the vote of the House showed there had been a weakening of the minority which supported Hert zog last sept. 5 in opposing a declaration of War. The House at that time voted 80 66 against Hertzog s anti War Churchill sounds optimistic note Mannerheim s generals had led hem had abandoned hundreds of tanks armoured cars motor Zed anti aircraft guns and other artillery. More bed army material was said to have been destroyed. Reuters news Agency reported that finnish forces had captured 100 soviet russian tanks in fighting on the Lake Ladoga front. A finnish communique told the grim Story of the destruction of russian cavalry columns. It Drew a terse picture of the carcasses of More than 400 horses sprawled in the Snow. It is in this area that the russians have tried All week to Cut behind the Mannerheim line. One Large Force of attackers was Cut off Sev eral Days ago near Kite la and apparently has obtained no. Relief. Up just above the narrow finnish Waistline North of the Arctic Circle despatches from the Field described sudden hush in russian artillery re combined with unusual activity the Highway East of Marka Jarvi was to this town that rus ans retreated after abandoning rive to Cut Finland in two. Paul associated press correspondent with the finnish on the Lapland front said the Finland continued on Page 13, column 3 Manchester England Jan. 27. Hon. Winston first lord of the admiralty today the " Odds Are 500 to 1 against the germans sinking any British conveyed merchant ship. Or. Churchill made a typically aggressive speech in the packed free Trade Hall where two years ago he. Propose1 d that the league of nations be made All powerful so As to control any aggression. The first lord of the admiralty predicted Victory for the allies and a peace of truer Progress and broader half of Germany s a boats had been destroyed and new building had fallen far Short of what we originally the menace of mines was being controlled and German imports but Only eleven enjoyed cigars Stockholm. Ninish radio Jan. 27. A the last night broadcast i information please programme. In ii 40 russian prisoners from the 44th soviet division ins in a the experts. Cigars were passed to those who i hair questions correctly u Only 11 won smokes. All were slumped by these questions who War. Rasputin arc the olympic games ? Jesus i one said the scandinavian coun pics were Sweden Finland and another thought Stalin was president of Russia. He d next heard of the soviet presiden Kalinin. 1 another missed a Cigar by a when he said Berlin was the France. Land and the next Day he resign to be succeeded As prime my Ster by general Jan Christian muts whose government declared peace proposals by Hertzog would Brin economic ruin to the Union of South Africa c. F. Stallard min Ster of mines said. The minister said that if Thi Union negotiated a separate peace Vith Germany it could no Longe obtain the foreign currency Neces sary for the development of it natural resources. N. C. Havenga finance minister n the departed Hertzog Cabinet challenging or. Stallard s argument concerning foreign currency Sai that at present All nations wer primarily attending to their of interests. The claim that the unit should remain True to its a declaration As it did during the first great War on grounds Lii a Honor and duty did. Not take it account the constitutional change which had occurred in the intervening period he maintained. City of Flint Home Baltimore my. Jan. 27. Bup the Doughty Little freighter Cit of Flint dropped Anchor today Home after a 113-Day adventure crammed voyage in the Eurc Pean War zone. 891 red soldiers receive honors Moscow Jan. 27, medals ave been conferred upon 891 com Anders and members of the Rani and file of the red army who Espe rally distinguished themselves in attle against finnish Whit Tass Sti Viet russian new gency announced last night. The presidium of the supreme Oviet of the . Awarded the order of the red Banner to the 81s Mountain infantry i regiment of exemplary execution of Batty and for and courage displayed by its. Personnel in fight no the finnish White seven soldiers and commander decorated simultaneously wit he order of Lenin arid the Meda if the Gold Star. A boats lick their wounds by William h., Stoneman London Jan. 27. Special . A series of Short ived but important successes at a at terrific Cost to themselves Germany s a boats now appear to be lingering in port Licking their sounds and perhaps preparing for a new and different Type of attack upon British and Neutral shipping if As now reported from Ger Many the a boat Fleet is now reduced to 60 units this new Campaign cannot be particularly devas rating but it still can be serious and the admiralty is working at High steam to prepare for it. Germany s score to Date is no particularly impressive when it is compared to the bumper harvests gathered by Germany s a boat during the world War. During Thi first 21 weeks of the present War Erman mines torpedoes an cruisers have completely destroy 258 ships of tons. If ship which were badly damaged Are in eluded the tonnage put out of com Mission May. Be increased by a total of about 920, 000 tons for both allies am neutrals. This is More than was lost Dur ing any similar period before september 1916, or after Midsummer of 1918, when a boats were finally brought under control but it is far less lost in any 21 weeks Between those two dates. During the last four months of Over., the protecting British shipping we shall have to pay an unrelenting toll for the maintenance of the Mastery of the he said decisively curtailed and exports virtually Cut off. On the other and Britain s exports and in Orts were increasing steadily. There have been losses Churchill Aid and losses will continue since o Many War vessels Are scattered Jan. Up a couple of hecklers broke into it. Hon. Winston Churchill s speech at free Trade Hall today shouting we want re Ferring to sir Oswald Mosley Leader of a group of fascists in England before the War. Or. Churchill paused until silence was restored turning to ask what does he at one Point. Then he continued without comment. Or. Churchill speaking on the Progress of the War said that Hen the War started in septem or everybody expected air bomb reasoned criticism and quiet commendation fulsome Praise and bitter denunciation appeared on newspaper editorial pages All across can Ada Friday As editors presented their reactions to prime min ister Mackenzie kind s sudden dissolution of parliament and announcement of an Early Geh eral election. Opinion was roughly divided into four categories the government was Wise in calling an election at this time since it was important that efficient prosecution of the War demanded a fresh and unmistakable mandate from the people and that or. King was tight in Dis solving parliament immediately the need for a fresh Man Date was imperative out that the government by its method of Dis solution had Laid itself open to charges of being afraid to have its War record examined on the floor of the House. The government s War record is woefully inadequate that the snap dissolution was a cheap political trick and the govern ment should be turned out of office. Government did every Ting right. That s its record is wonderful and that it would be returned with a thumping majority. Montreal Star it is not difficult to understand or. King s for we must credit him with sincerity in what he says. He clearly his conviction on this Point must have have been strength ened materially by the animosity apparent in the speeches of or Manion and or. It -would1 be a sheer waste of time to follow the customary procedure of tortuous debate on the address in reply to the speech trom the throne and that however drastic the action and whatever unpleasant results i might have so far As the member were concerned it was the Best was out of a situation that threatened t develop into political conflict. An election was inevitable and this being the Case it was the Best thing to Cut out the address the debate that. Would have followed and All other parliamentary bus-1 iness in order to put the issues squarely before the Canadian people and let them decide within the least possible delay Montreal Gazette if the hone and temper of the protests uttered by conservative leaders in the Senate and House of commons in the course of thursday s sensationally Brief parliamentary drama Are to be the Lone and temper of the Campaign which will be waged against the government Between now and elec Tion Day. Canada is in for precisely the kind of political disturbance which the people As a whole have been most anxious to avoid. Public opinion the sum of what is being thought by citizens of All comment continued on Page 5, column 3 Federal groups endorse leaders Ottawa Jan. 27. A general election almost definitely fixed for March 26, political parties sprang into action yesterday while parliamentary supporters of prime minister Mackenzie King and Hon. R. J. Manion conservative eader met in caucus and gave enthusiastic end oration to their respective leaders. A late afternoon Cabinet meeting ended without any formal announcement and at the prime minister s office a spokesman Aid there was no official information on the election Date. Manion says party line in Cabinet plan Ottawa Jan. 27. R. Manion Federal conservative eader indicated today that he does not place party limitations on he truly National government he plans to form if his party win the election. What i said was that the very jest brains obtainable among our people would have to be drafted of serve in the he said in a press set ferment. Naturally it would be ridiculous for me to Sug Gest that All the Best brains in Canada belong to one party and 1 certainly do not mean to place party limitations on what i called a truly National government " japanese ire flares anew meanwhile members of Parlia ment looked up outgoing train schedules and sought to get rid of apartments and lodgings they had reserved weeks ago in anticipation of being three months or longer in the capital. At the Liberal caucus there was not a discordant note in the chorus of Confidence voiced in the Leader and its approval of his decision which brought dissolution of the 18th parliament within Lour hours after opening of the sixth session yesterday. But in the conservative caucus a Resolution was unanimously adopted condemning in bitter terms the Ladio anti British Ings immediately. A United there never was people such War Jaru Holdup last sunday British Cruiser stopped the Nese liner near the japanese Coas o remove certain germans the contents of the note handed by British ambassador sir Robert l Craigie to foreign m i n i s t e i Sachiro Arita this afternoon had not been made Public up to thime this was written. From Tokyo the anti British that seemed so Likely to carry its terrors into every he said and there never was a War when the people were so the government be went on has not failed to Rise to the fight against aggression oppression and from which there can be no turning . We cannot Tell into what regions the struggle will carry or How Long it will last Churchill but we 1916 the germans claimed tons of world shipping in the first four months of 1917 they bagged tons and during the next three months they got tons. War lord of yesterday sex Kaiser Marks birthday in quiet loneliness of doom doom Holland Jan. 27. Today is the former Kaiser s 81st birthday. It was a lonely occasion for him. No member of his family was Al Lowed to leave Germany to visit him because of the War. He followed his usual routine arise at 8 . Breakfast stroll in the Park correspondence puttering in Rose Garden a trip to Castle Amerongen by automobile to do a Little Wood cutting and evening in his room before an open fire in com Pany with members of his court friends and visitors while his wife Hermine knits and listens. The serenity of doom during the 21 years of Wilhelm s exile Here has been disturbed lately by sounds and sights once familiar to the White haired White bearded beaten War lord. Holland has begun to fear the spread of. War and prepare for it almost every Day army lorries and motor bikes Dart past the Castle grounds and soldiers March along the country lanes. Continued on Page 13, column 6 Swift skid saves plane Vancouver Jan. 27. Trans Canada air lines officials today credited the skillful piloting of Captain. . Leigh for saying six passengers from possible death or serious injury when he skidded to a Stop at the Here without Anding gear. Captain Leigh was forced to re turn to the Airport last night soon after he took off for Lethbridge alta., because he ran into Adverse conditions. He reported before 1-Ndirig that one of his retractable wheels had not dropped into. Posi Tion. Fire fighting apparatus stood by As. Captain Leigh brought the big ship Down avoiding the paved run ways for a strip of grass. The plane skidded to a Stop of one wheel and the fuselage. No one was Hurt Only damage to the plane was to the Landing gear. 4-to-l shot wins race leopards own Jan. 27 l. Yeijan s Jack Chaucer third among the favourites today won the red Cross steeplechase run under the auspices of the Irish Hospital sweepstakes. Sir Alexander Maguire s Sterling Duke was _ Sec Ond and miss and spleen ran horses ran. B. Kearns Knock third. Twenty two outcome of the race determined the distribution of millions of Dol Las in Sweepstake prizes most o which were sold in Western Europe since there was not time to get tickets to Canada and other Over seas countries. A c. Collins Russ and j. E Davis Dalmatian were Jack Chaucer Ridden by jame.1 Brogan finished two lengths ahead of Sterling Duke which crosses the wire eight lengths in front of know Karoleen. paid 4 to 1. Rock sinks liner . Arms Export Washington Jan. 27. Licenses for the Export of United states manufactured arms ammunition and implements of War in 1939 totalled or 2vj times the total for 1938. Announcing this yesterday the state depart ment said actual exports amounted to Kagoshima Japan Jan. 27. Bup the former american mail line president Madison making her firs run As the philippine liner presi Dent Manuel Quezon Sank off the South coast of Japan today. The liner remained afloat almost eight hours after strik ing a submerged Rock and her 114 Crew members and 12 passenger were transferred safely to Rescue vessels. Beck Sre quest Bucharest it mania Jan 27 Josef forme foreign minister of Poland has come Here from his Carpathian Citadel at Brasov seeking Permis Sion to go to France. Is stay ing at a hotel Here guarded b three rumanian secret Servic agents. By a. T. Steele Tokyo Jan. 27. Special can agitation a denied in scope today coincides Vith the presentation of great Britain s formal reply to two Jap Nese protests against the Asama a Jap Campaign has spread to Distan parts of the country and Mas meetings Are scheduled for Thi week end in More than a dozen cities. The foreign office continue o come in for nation wide panning or its alleged weakness in Dealin. Ith British insolence. The Japan party takes the Palm of he most extremist platform be submitted to the government. Thi demands that Japan with draw its ambassador from London occupy the British concessions in China and help India obtain its Independence. Japs protest reply Tokyo Jan. 27 a the Jap anese foreign office tonight indicated that it did not consider great Britain s reply to Japan s protest against seizure of 21 germans from the liner Asama Maru satisfactory. A communique issued after a two hour conference Between foreign minister Hachiro Arita and the British ambassador sir Robert Craigie in which the reply was do Vered said Arita demanded re consideration of legalistic expositions contained in the reply. Blockade tightened tientsin China Jan. 27 bup japanese army authorities suddenly tightened their blockade of the British and French concessions to Day Market Booths in the conces Sions were emptied of food quickly 3y anxious householders and prices More than doubled. Japanese authorities informed the British consulate that they intended to electrify barbed wire barricades surrounding the concessions Start ing tomorrow. Endorse leaders continued on Page 13, column 3 British eyes Are focused on election by Feancis Stevens London Jan. 27 special keen interest Here in the coming Canadian Federal election and whenever londoners meet canadians they ply them with questions. These queries Are being answered y at least two of the leading English papers the Manchester guardian and the London times showing an intimate knowledge of the political background in Canada. All press comment Points out that according to Law an election had to be held by next autumn anyway. The Manchester guardian states that an election this year could Only be evaded by securing a suspension of the relevant clause of the Constitution and adds this method of delaying an election is not one that any democracy cares to follow unless grave circumstances compel it. There is no such excuse for delay in Canada at this time and or. King does Well to let his ministry s record in shaping Canada s War Effort which will be the main Issue of the election be Laid before the the Manchester guardian added that Premier Hepburn s vote of censure might be taken More seriously were it not a culmination of a Long feud with prime minister Mackenzie King Over Domestic issues which has resulted in the Ontario Premier disowning the fed eral Premier s leadership. The London times stated that at the outbreak of the War All parties Stevens continued on Page 13. Column 2 japs reaffirm Faith in pact Budapest Jan. 27. Japan Ese diplomats now in conference Here will recommend re affirmation of Japan s participation in the anti comintern pact despite Ger Many s close co operation with soviet Russia it was stated reliable authority today. Japan s loyalty to the pact Origi Nally made Between Japan am Germany in november 1936, Anc Bachelor vow Gold diggers Haven t Chance Okanagan Falls b.c., Jan. 27. Hugh n. Fraser Interior British Columbia rancher and heir to nearly would rather remain single than marry in order to collect the Money. He said his ital bar John Burns Fraser a former president the Bank of Nova Scotia who died at Ottawa nov. 2, left half his estate valued at nearly to major Fraser in Trust in Al he marries. If he Dies a Bachelor his share goes to his brother. Licul. Col. John d. Fraser. The other beneficiary under the will. Major Fraser widely known us the Squire of Okanagan Falls said he has no intention of leaving Here and will try and not marry. He said he will receive the income from his share of the estate. Temperature readings Low during night. 4-4 to later adhered to by Italy Hungary and other nations had been Shaker by the German russian Accord of last August. However it was said that recommendations for strengthening Jap an s ties with the other signatories would be made. 6.30 Tan. 27 10.00 ajn., Jan. 27 Iloff . Jan. 27 a souls is for full report of Meteorol Osu so office see Page Nineteen. Death toll London. Jan. 27. Bup the admiralty announced today thai 188 men including 15 officers lost with the destroyer sex Mouth. Whose loss by n mine explosion was announced wednesday ;