Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press pages. Sun rises. 4.36 Sun sets 2q.i3. Moton rises. 19.13 noon sets 4.15. Winnipeg monday May 20, 1940 warm. Nazis from Rethel sector push by h. S. Handler. Paris. May 120. Armies were reported by military spokesmen today to have checked the German Offen Sive toward Paris and to be fighting Back strongly against an intensified mechanized thrust through Northern France to Peronne and urn Aid the English Channel. Counter attacking under direction of Gen. Maxime Wey pand. New ail cd commander in chief the French officially reported they had driven the germans Back on the Aisne River front near Ruthei. And were strongly defending the important Railroad centres in the la Fere and St. Quentin sectors of the Oise and Somme Rivers. North of St. Quentin however the germans drove deeper into i France and were reported to have attacked Perome Only 60 Milts i from the English Channel. The Advance to the. Peronne St. Quentin line seriously threatened the main French communications centres in the North at Amiens Only 30 Miles from Peronne and created speculation that the germans would strike South toward Paris if they were Able to reach Amiens. The French said they still held Peronne and St. Quentin which is 80 Miles Northeast of Paris but the germans had sliced a path North of St. Quentin. And were smashing at this defence line with tanks armoured cars and motorcycle there was a distinct note of Confidence Here however that the German drive Gigantic As it was. Was just another Battle and that fighting continued on Page 11. Column 3 Canadian eagerly King Ottawa May 20. Minister Mackenzie King s expected to announce an intensification Canada s War Effort All along the line when he Speaks in the House of com Mons today and the formation of a third division in the Cana Dian Active service Force looms As a Strong possibility for the immediate future. In the naval military air and Supply spheres action to peed the application of Canada s manpower and resources j o the task of winning the War is afoot. Mons German bombers were coming so this belgian woman Sis trying to reach safety on the open Road before her Home town was bombed. But the germans continued past the open town and the picture shows the women is dead beside the Wagon in which she and others had thrown their belong Ings. Ottawa quandary Cabinet considers Winnipeg Grain Exchange general Maxime Weygand Paris. May 20. Up havas French Maxime Wey Gaud chief staff to marshal Foch in the last War. Last night was named commander in chief of Allied forces replacing general Marie Gustavc Gamelin. As Climax of a week end shake up of France s military political and diplomatic organization. There was no indication immediately As to what Post had been re served Lor general Gamelin. General Wygand hitherto in command of French forces in the. London May 20. Up the air ministry announced tonight that 30 German aircraft were destroyed during the Clay and that successful attacks were made on Oil refineries in North West Germany last night. A statement said that Royal air Force bombers made a direct hit on a railway Bridge at Roux South of Brussels. Two British aircraft failed to return from bombing raids. The Ai drome at Viernes of trondheim in Norway also was said to have been successfully attacked last night and seven fires started. The state by Grant Dexter. I Ottawa ont., May 20. Spe Cabinet sub com Mittee on wheat was in Confer ence with the wheat Board this morning discussing whether or not the Winnipeg Market is to be closed. Another Confer ence will be held tomorrow. Large delegations represent ing the Grain Exchange the elevator companies the pools and other parts of the Trade Are Here and unless the Cabinet decides to Deal with the matter As an acute emergency they vill be heard before the decision is reached probably to Morrow. Hitherto the Cabinet has declined to close the Market. It May be As Weygand continued on Page 11. Column 6 planes downed continued on Page 11, column 7 lighted skies fight to end be if bitter or forging up above the pegged Levels for gains of 2 a to 2vs cents. Winnipeg wheat prices rallied strongly on monday after momentarily touching minimum Levels earlier in the session. Hysteria and excite ment were conspicuously absent in All world markets and Broad gains of around seven cents at Chicago and Sharp advances in other markets were reflected locally. British bombs blast huge nazi Oil depots London May bombers struck again today at Germany s communications and the heart of Germany s mechanized Oil depots the air ministry said. It said thai selected military objectives in Western Germany were worked. Chiefly the vast Oil re serve supplies at Hamburg Bremen acid Hannover. British pilots re ported that the night skies above t a three cities were ablaze from pics consuming Germany s vital supplies already seriously depleted by the Advance of Melian sized troops into France and Bei Weium. British bombers for three nights have blasted at the German lines in Belgium and the Oil depots. Said that during the first 48 hours of successive raids Oil refineries had been attacked presumably cd Leuna in the Ruhr Headquarters German synthetic gasoline production. Leuna s 12 refineries with Stor age tanks and huge compressors Are near the French Frontier. All through the week end the British bombers and fighters roamed the skies from Hamburg in ii in Ana uie on Allt n minister Winston Churchill 1 continued on Page 10, column be House in angry mood by Grant Dexter Ottawa ont., May 20 special Are that Premier Mackenzie King will announce an Extension of Canada s air training programme in his speech this afternoon. The Extension will be achieved by using commercial pilots wherever available As instructors. Ii May. Be possible to obtain Large numbers of them in the United states in addition to those Avail Able in Canada. It is doubtful however if this Extension will take place in the air training plan proper. Apparently the British government does not want this plan changed and already it is ahead of schedule. But the government could launch an additional air train ing scheme of its own and this it is Learned is Likely to be announced this afternoon. Speech rouses britons by Frances Stevens London. May 20 special like a trumpet Call prime minister Winston Churchill s speech yester Day awakened the entire population to full realization of what it will be called upon to endure and Over the latest War developments emphasize the need for land forces As Well As air forces. The 1st Cana Dian division is ready Tor to France and a 3rd division would be raised to replace the 2nd when the latter is sent to England. The prime minister May announce this step today in addition to out lining Progress in air , in the development of a defensive naval Force and in the acquisition of Are any pm when a of munitions and supplies understand there is either As at present organized the Cana-1 death or Victory for great Britain Ian militia contains enough units they probably Are either nazi or six divisions. Two divisions minded followers of fascist sir d of have been mobilized along with Oswald Mosley. Or communists who sufficient ancillary and corps troops i Are confused by their leaders who to form an army corps which May Echo mouthing of Joseph Goebbels consist of from two to five Divi German minister of propaganda Sions. I the reality of the prime minis the Landing plan is that As one j broadcast brought to Many the division proceeds to the figh lir is True situation and it was Liko the area another should be in an rending of a veil which was of Van cd stage of training third should be mobilized. First great War Canada main j Daw nine de Lour divisions in France com-1 prising a Canadian army corps. Judging by lip inc j souring the View. While i sat listen 1 la s x e cl1 n i lounge club i really could Sec expressions Olia dawning comprehension on Many sued that hitherto the wheat Board Las advised them not to close it. What the decision now will be is Uncertain. But it is evident that influential persons both on the Board and in the Cabinet who have hither supported the open Market Are now either doubtful or in favor of closing it. There will still be a Strong group in favor of the oper Market with a pegged Price and they May convince the Cabinet to continue the Market. The argument for and against is Clear Cut. Those in closing the Market say that Hitler s Blitz Krieg has reduced our wheat buyers to a handful of countries. Thus from last August 1 to the end of february. Canada exported bushels of wheat and flour. In terms of wheat Holland took bushels Belgium Norway Denmark 2 218 000. Or 22.022.00c in All. On top of this Britain took but in addition Sweden and Fin land now virtually Cut off. Took and Switzerland whose future is most Uncertain both As a continued on Page 10, column 4 London May 20. Up minister Churchil warned the Empire last night As the Allied forces were place under a new supreme commander that Mastery can Only gained by a furious1 unrelenting assault on the nazis. Following a conference lasting an hour and a half with ministers and defence chiefs at no. 10 Downing Street or Siu chill broadcast his message to the nation and it was rebroadcast internationally. He expressed Confidence the stabilization of the Western front would be achieved. Calls for supreme Effort the prime minister in his first broadcast since he assumed office called on every Man and woman in the nation for a supreme Effort in this hour of danger and renewed his pledge of his All party government to wage War until Victory is won and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame whatever the Cost and the agony May France he declared will fight to the end be it bitter be it he had invincible Confidence in the French army Only a Small part of which has been heavily engaged. Text of address following is the text of the speech i speak to you for the first time As prime minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country and our Empire pm allies and above All. The cause of Freedom. A tremendous Battle is raging in France and Flanders. The germans by remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armoured on Page 10. Arm yourselves words of Judas Alacca beaus quoted in Churchill address London May 20 Ftp a pre reformation biblical quotation was used by prime minister Church ill yesterday in closing his broadcast address with an Appeal to yourselves and be in readiness for the Beau came Churchill used these words in giving the Fol. Arm yourselves and be Yemen of valor and be m readiness Foi the conflict for it is better for us to perish m Battle than to ook upon the outrage of our nation and our altars. As the will of god is in heaven even so let him Ottawa ont., May 20. Special fresh from the constituencies and. In any event pursued by bags of mail declaring the anxiety and irritation of the Public with the govern ment s War programme members of parliament this afternoon were expecting Premier King to announce much greater participation in the War. There is no doubt that the English speaking provinces of can Ada Are Seething with dissatisfaction t this is strongly reflected among the members of the Liberal party As Well As of other parties. It would be silly to suggest that this feeling of anxiety and irritation has reached a Point where the ministry is in any danger. But it is not impossible that if the Battle Northeast of Paris goes against the allies there will be a political crisis at Ottawa notwithstanding the size of the government s majority. For various reasons the members Are geared up to a pitch of anxiety with respect to the War. Without Prece ident Here. Or. King will have this in mind when he Speaks this afternoon. He commons continued on Page 11, column 7 non partisan stand taken by Hanson Ottawa May 20. R. B Hanson conservative Leader re sum ing debate in the commons to Day on the address in reply to Thi speech from the throne assured the government his remarks would be strictly non partisan because the situation in which Canada find herself at the moment. If there was Ever a righteous War in the history of Mankind this one or. Hanson said. It was essentially a War of High spiritual because of the importance of the issues he would utter no partisan observations but maintain a National attitude. With the British Commonwealth air training plan requiring larger and larger classes recruits each month As it expands and with i enforcements being raised for the 1st division and other units Over seas recruiting in Canada will be More Active next few weeks. There is virtually no recruit in now except for the Royal Canadian air orce. Recruiting officers have been appointed in some military and others will be appointed soon faces 01 men and women in All walks of life it May be said that the broadcast was like a summons to climb the Hills of spirit where the stimulating icy but pure and come on up Winston called up Dublin. May 20. Eire government said today that it had called certain classes of reservists to he colors Over the week end be cause in the present circumstances he government decided that 1his action was necessary to strengthen the defence Churchill seemed to be saying the Altitude May leave you Short breathed and cold at first until you set accustomed to the View is magnificent. Today Many Are climbing these same stairs of the spirit up which their ancestors toiled in bygone generations and which each one has to climb for himself to Realise thu dignity of the individual soul. Probably the response was most valiant among the women who proudly know that they May have to share the same perils that their sons Are facing at the front. But with All this. The atmosphere of Stevens continued on Page 11. Column 2 trial adjourned temperature readings Edmonton. May 20. Trials Low florins Ngi lil of sol of nine tobacco manufacturers. G.30 . May 20 wholesalers and jobbers on Combine 12-00 noon May 2fl -j-64 charges were adjourned today by 2.00 p.m., May 20 -r6j or. Justice w. C. Ives in Albert High May ,19, sum erne court until the september for full report of meteorological i office see Page fifteen prisoners iff London carnage in a Convent refugee belgian nun s sons serve Hitler f t ,.i-j or Pirl into a common attack and c above map. Copyright 1040. Star newspaper service by Gregory Clark with the British expeditionary Force May 20 special Cable the tragedy of War is not the great things that happen but Small things. While i stood aghast on a Hilltop outside an antique and Dusty old belgian town watching it being blown to Flinders i could not know that under the hell from the sky in a quiet Convent there Knelt continue on the Western front shown tragic Albert of the belgians aunt of the King of the belgians and widow of a German Prince with three sons on the German Side in this War. In that Convent she Knelt As Mother Superior of a great sister Hood of nuns for after the death of her German husband the Princess took holy orders and at 67 is a figure of bowed and tender gentleness i shall never forget. For in the town in which i write this knowing less than you do of the tide of War lost Clad Sisters Are led into a common hotel by their Princess Superior she bowed with years and tragedy and never raising Here eyes except to accept such Heartfelt salutes As mine. Mother of the Convent Mother of j sons serving on the Side which sent these snarling monsters in Power dives to Loose great torpedoes As big As pigs and crates full of m carnage i continued on Page 10, column 1 amidst the vast tides of Power i have stood within handclaps Dis Tance of Josephine of Belgium who escaped that awful bombardment in which 30 giant bombers unlatched nearly 200 bombs the cruellest of which hit the Convent of Benedic tines where the Princess and her daughters in holy orders Knelt. Three of them were instantly killed and 20 others wounded. And now in this new town their looking Haggard and broken in spin i. These German pcs of Eis Are pictured arriving at Charing Cross St Stinn. London where icy await Transfer to a prison Camp. They were captured m Belgum. Note the British Soldier on by band ;