Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final Winnipeg free pages Sun vises 4.34 Sun sets 2q.lfi. Moon rises Moon sets 5.4.6. Wednesday May 22, 1940 and warm. Ops Evill London May 22. Up British gov today to conscript All life wealth and property to beat Back the German menace on the crier Side of flip English Channel. Within three hours the House of commons and the House of lords passed and the King approved a Bill c Ivins the sweeping emergency Pevers demanded in View of the grave peril in which he nation stands today Clement an Lee. Lord privy Seal acting for prime minister Winston Churchill introduced a Bill Confer a Rixis on the government Complete control of persons and property and at the same time announced for mation of a committee under Ernest Bevin minister of labor to push munitions production. Legislation would require Al persons to place them selves their services and their property at the disposal of his majesty for securing the Public safety the defence the realm the maintenance of Public order the efficient prosecution of the War and for maintaining supplies or services essential to the life of the Community Ich an order in Council gave imme Diate effect to the Law. It set up controls under the mini sters covering chiefly labor Bank ing agriculture transport mining War industries and Export Trade industries. The War material and Export in j destries will be Given War no bed of roses is the Job of Man Ning a huge 90-Lon French monster such As this one battering its Way through a Brick Wall. Lower Pic Ture is a rear View of the tank after it has demonstrated its tremendous battering Power and come crashing through the rubble. Ottawa May 22. Do minion government has Given consideration to measures that May be necessary in the present Emer gency. Prime minister Mackenzie King told the House of common today. He was replying to a Csc Shioi. From conservative Leader r. B. Hanson based upon news of the sweeping Power Given the British government today by the British parliament to conscript wealth and labor i or. Hanson asked if the Cana j disc government was giving consideration 10 taking similar Steps or. King replied that the govern rent has giver consideration to measures that May be necessary. C a sweeping j beyond int he could not say Kylling. Approve decision Ottawa May 22. Chi party leaders Here approved the Deci of the British parliament to to give the British Power to conscript labor and wealth for the vice of the country. No comment was available from rime minister Mackenzie King. Put h. S. Hanson conservative said if the circumstances Maian ded such action he was All it quite possible such a Ion would eventually prove a Pessary in Canada he said. Absolute labor will be drafted to the More essential As required industries. Arthur Greenwood minister without portfolio and head of the War map. Big map of War area Page 6. London May 22. Up Bri Tain s new War time emergency Laws Grant the government authority to up production councils to control the manufacture of munitions ships and aircraft and regulate mining and farm ing. A 100 per cent excess profits tax to prevent War time profiteering. Over munitions fac tories. Other business and Industry and consolidating where necessary to a voice duplication and conserve labor. The wages and hours of labor. Banks. Paris May French Shock troops thrown into the wild Battle of the Soi Nuie have stormed and retaken Arras and. Fortifying the South Bank of the River have Cut communications of the germans in the Abbeville area on the English Chan Nel and chased the nazis out of the town of Abbeville itself the French High command announced today. General Maxime Weygand new Allied commander in chief sent his men into the ruined smouldering City after a dramatic air plane flight Over the German lines yesterday and a Quick dash to Paris. As he gave i Battle order British troops turn aug their drive with the attack on Arras smashed into the German flank near car brai in the sector to the Southeast of Arras. Premier Paul Reynaud addressing the French nation on a National radio cast said i have just seen general temperature readings Low during night g.30 a.m., May 22 12.00 noon May 22 2.00 p.m., May 22 High May 22, 1939 for full report of meteorological office see tags seventeen. Productions Council summoned the munitions Board immediately. Supply minister Herbert Morri son ordered All ordnance factories to work full time seven Days a week until further notice. Most fac tories now Are working two 12-hour shifts. Quickly the powerful Amalga mated engineers Union agreed to temporary relaxation of its rules to conscription continued on Page 14, column 2 political tension grows at Ottawa by Grant Dexter. Ottawa May 22. Political crisis is impending. Whether or no it develops depends not so much on events at Ottawa As on what happens on the Battle front. From the outset of parliament last thursday debates have proceeded in an atmosphere of tension suspense and excitement com parable to the parliamentary crisis of 1926 Over the customs scandal. This is True notwithstanding the fact that this government has a majority of 120 and the opposition is negligible. A tempest is gathering and unless the fortunes of War change it will break Over the capital compelling a drastic re organization of the government probably along non party lines. What is happening it is Clear that Public opinion is changing As swiftly As the course of the War. What might be thought adequate on thursday has become inadequate by monday and desperately so by wednesday. People Are aroused. There it every evidence of anxiety frustration despair and hot anger. Everyone seems suddenly to have begun to Are we doing can we do More Weygand told me seen the Generalissimo i am full of con Paris May 22. War ministry spokesman told the press tonight there has been hardly any change along the front in the last 48 hours and that general Maxime Weygand. Allied commander in chief. Is really satisfied with the situation. His Tidence if everyone does duty with fierce the civil population must not allow itself to be frightened by German motorized raids. They Are paying heavily for their audacity. If we hold one we shall hold for the time shall have travelled three fourths of the Road to a new wave of optimism which swept Over France was increased by a heavy rainfall. The perfect weather which favored hitlers polish Campaign and the Blitzkrieg fighting continued on Page 14, column 3 the drastic changes in the governments of Britain Kcf Sis and France continued on Page 6, column 3 barricaded Home mounted policeman and Farmer die in Alberta shooting fray in Manitoba britons cheered As nazi drive Riley to head Home defences the Manitoba government swung into action against pos sible subversive elements in the province the appointment of . H. J. Riley special Home defence Force committee. Wednesday with As chairman of a announcement that the govern ment had requested col. Riley to head the committee and that the latter had accepted was made Dur ing the morning by Hon. W. J. Major attorney general. The move made in the expectation that Ottawa will Grant the province s request for the for mation of a defence unit to guard against fifth columnists in Mani Toba. Col. Riley will name his own committee which will in turn be free to arrange organization of Volunteer units to assist in the maintenance of Law and order slated or. Major. The attorney general s action Fol Lowed a series of conferences tues Day afternoon Between ., the military and others. A further conference at which the Canadian legion was represented was Helt wednesday replies to critics at the same time or. Major struck out at critics who at a meet ing of the and Navy veterans had charged no action would be taken against enemy aliens in the Home defence continued on Page 9, column this French Mother and child sit. Weeping in the ruins of their Home which is in the environs of Paris this Home was the target of German air bombs. London May 22. Hopes of stemming the German March to the sea and the vital Channel ports Rose to Day with reports of new air Force successes and the slowing Down of the intensive. German mechanized drive. The nation was cheered by these developments the French recapture of Arras f and Abbeville. A widespread attack on targets in the Industrial Rhineland area by Royal air Force bombers. The lessening Force of the Ger Man thrust Over soggy Fields in Northern France. The arrival of a new contingent of canadians in England. The High morale of the . Was indicated in an air ministry announcement that one 20 British German Pilot had attacked bombers damaged two escaped. British View continued on Page 9, column by Homer Jenks. Soudou May 22. Bup diplomatic sources said today that confidential advices indicated Germany May strike it England within 10 Days or two weeks and possibly even sooner. They believed the German blow will come quickly to hit Britain if possible before the nation has time to Complete preparations against invasion and before recovery from the smashing German successes in Northern France. But with the spectre of invasion. Closer than at any time since Napoleon massed his forces it Boulogne in 1805. Britain was rally ing As never before. The plan of the German attack was expected of follow the general lines of the assault on the Low countries and Norway. Fleets of bombers would be tent Over preparations 4 i continued on Page i. Column 1 and on Home front britons unite behind new Bill to fight for Allied Freedom Parkland. Alia. May 22. Royal Canadian mounted policeman and a 63-year-old prominent Farmer of Parkland District 60 Miles South of Calgary died in a gun Suel which broke out at the Farmer s Home in the Early hours of this morning. Constable Gordon counsel was wot through the head and killed. Al Hen the shooting ended the farm a Charles Hansen. Was found dead a Bullet wound in his head. Be Farmer had barricaded i self in his House when officers arrived to arrest him for the Young and serious wounding of son George. Hansen refused to Rendor and the Battle developed Jeorge shot in the stomach a in Hospital in serious non the farm to so with tear Hansen fled be attic and was followed by tv0 a was poked an opening in the attic Constable counsel dropped. Vhf p05se retired and reopened i evm1? baulk a Bullet was be stood at an a moments later w Cut Rcd the farm Aftel 1p-s a shot from within. They found the Farmer s body and that Constable Hansen wealthy and respected throughout the District turned his Home into a fort after he had rushed to George s farm nearby and shot his son As he stood be fore his Home. Two other sons who witnessed this shooting were stunned by their father s sudden attack. A Youthful officer served in the Royal Canadian air Force at Camp Border before join ing the The slain Constable was married recently to the daughter of sex Warden Blake of the Lethbridge provincial jail. K Hansen in the attic colonials to stay London May 22 troops in British protectorates and colonies for the present will serve in those territories and will not be sent to France Anthony Eden Secretary for War. Indicated in the House of commons yesterday. Swiftly summing up the situation confronting the Allied forces after a dramatic air plane flight Over the German lines general Maxime Weygand new commander a chief has sent the British and French troops into a great counter attack which reports show has resulted in gains. Today the Allied troops had Recap tured the City of Arras and chased nazi motorcycle units out of. The town of Abbeville. 12 Miles from the English Channel. General Weygand who is thoroughly conversant with All types of modern War equipment is shown above left inspecting a tank and at right wearing a Parachute ready to make an air plane night. By Francis Stevens. London May 22. Special the government of great Britain Complete control Over every person and All property a Bill passed through Al stages in the House of com Mons today. Britons United by love of country will gladly use the last reserves of Energy and grit if necessary to save Freedom not Only for this nation but other lands As Well knowing they Are fighting for although it is agreed that the Channel ports Are vital general opinion Here considers if even More important that the North and South wings of the Allied forces be re United. The spirit of great Brit air. Is expressed in this quotation from the Manchester guardian which said by every Means in our Power we must give the utmost possible support to our Brave which is so much in our affectionate thoughts. This is not the time to Freedom everywhere. Energy. For us in this country also the danger grows visibly or but our first duly is to sustain the men who Are fighting Lor us overseas and to omit nothing in individual Effort that will help them in their ordeal. To take Only one instance Al though it is the chief one of nil every air plane that is completed sooner than it ordinarily would have been is a blow struck for the safety of our and country. As for the possibility of air so tack on us at Home we must pre it ourselves by into pare All this within our Power and Trange and disturbing Ruvela await the outcome with res dilution. Distract the strange and disturbing tons which Premier Paul remembering that we also Are of France made yesterday the Field this time Sec to also have a worthy part to with Calm and Energy but it is for the two Peoples meet the unprecedented danger which they now to in j anal zing the latest development United nation stand Wirf Calm continued on Page 9, column 8 ;