Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press vol pages. Sun rises. 4.32 Sun sets. 20.17. Moon rises 22.22 Moon sets fi.40. Winnipeg thursday May 23, 1940 and warm. Raging at Logne Shock troops Advance situation serious Churchill London May the in tin1 arrest of Ini Iii hrs of the iric a Ainsil t la. J it l h col Jitianu. Among those arrested was Oswald Mosley. Leader of British Union and capt. J Archibald Henry manic ram Jay. Conservative member of i the House of commons. The Are rests were made under the defence regulations empower ing the detention of members of organization subject to for eign influence. The Home office in announcing Ramsay ? arrest described him As president of the right club. Another arrested was to Jeri Beckett former labor member of parliament and later a Follower of Mosley. He is now Secretary of the British people s party and is Knoin As an organizer of no More War demonstrations. The men were arrested police raided Headquarters of mos Ley s British Union of fascists a Short distance from the houses parliament other officers remained outside and watched doors of adjoining offices of the organization. A number of persons it it he British Union Headquarters accompanied by police. As soon As the House of com Mons met. Speaker e. A Fitzroy Lead a letter from sir John anger Jon. Home Secretary and minister Lor Home Security announcing that Captain Ramsay had been interned. When will Thorn. Labor asked in the Home Secretary would give round up continued on Page 4, column 2 usual time due to he Gravity of the 63t situation the Winnipeg tree has decided. Friday not to adhere to its customary policy of issuing Only an Early Holiday edition and will publish i a regular edition in the after won. Saturday s paper will also be issued lightly later than usual in Ordor that the latest possible news May reach our readers. Home defence conference . H. J. Riley chairman of Manitoba s Home defence Force committee thursday called into conference representatives of Var ious City organizations for a preliminary meeting. While no reply has yet been re chive cd from Ottawa to the province ? j request for authority to proceed with the organization of the Force. Col. Riley is going ahead on expectation such permission will be granted. In a statement issued before the meeting scheduled for 4 . In the National Trust building. Riley intimated that the appoint ment of a number of sub commit tees might be necessary. All would function directly under a 15-member Central committee of which he is chairman. Purpose of the defence Force will be to com Bat possible subversive activities in the province. Approval for the formation of the Force must it is pointed out in provincial circles come from the Federal authorities. Meanwhile throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan meetings were being held at which resolutions urging immediate action in the establishment of Home defence bodies were passed. Veterans at Melville. Sask., met wednesday under auspices of the Canadian legion and 40 signed up As a Home corps pending action on Home defence continued on Page 4, column 2 sir Oswald Mosley temperature readings Low during night 6.30 a.m., May 12.00 noon May z. 2.00 ., May 23 High May 23. 1939 for -1-61 full report of meteorological office Sec Page 13. Dark Cloud Ottawa defends Canada s actions by Grant Dexter. Ottawa ont., May 23. Political tension eased overnight in keeping with More optimistic War news further reverses in France Are bringing renewed pressure from the country for a reorganization of the government. Meantime. Prime minister King is doing everything Pas sible to explain the nature and scope of Canada s War pro famine. Leading ministers arc giving information hitherto As secret and the reactions to some of this information 8l e notable. From disclosures made so far est Points emerge the j Ilc King gov. Fitment has modelled its pro on advice of the Brit what Britain has joke it us to do. Have done. Were is much evidence that the radian government did not agree Sorn of this advice and do cd greatly 0 extend Canada s programme. But there is no Evi government Felt Case and in. Canada watches aliens Ottawa. May 23. Government has taken All possible pre cautions against fifth column activities in Canada. Hon. Ernes Lapointe minister of Justice assured parliament today in a detailed statement on measures agains1 espionage and sabotage. Wartime regulations for Thi preservation of the safety of the slate have been carefully drawn up. The Royal Canadian mounted police Are in control of the situation known enemy aliens and naturalized enemies of the stat have been interned and a close watch is kept on All suspicion persons or. Lapointe said. A committee of parliament Wil be established to review the government s Steps to guard again fifth column activities and recommend any changes or further Steps there were aliens Regis Tercel and reporting regularly to police and exemptions had been made in 4.322 cases Many of then czechs and citizens of other nazi dominated states. In addition to enemy National interned a close watch was Bein. Kept on foreign born Naturalize canadians suspected of enemy propaganda work or possible sabotage intentions. There were 406 in turned and 145 released leaving 261 persons considered enemy aliens still in the internment Camps or. Lapointe said. Miners strike London May 23. A strike for higher wages at three collieries in the Manchester District of Lancashire kept miners Idle today. London May 23. Minister win Ston Churchill announced today that the germans Lold the Channel port of Abbeville Churchill made the announcement to the House of commons. He declared that heavy fighting is going on in and around Boulogne. Boulogne is one of the two principal French Chan Nel ports closest to great Britain. The other is Calais. Churchill declared that the German armoured forces which Cut the corridor across France have now penetrated to the rear of the Allied armies in Belgium and now arc attempting to interrupt their communications. It is too Early to say what the result of this coastal fighting May he said but it evidently Arries with it implications of a serious said Churchill. " general Maxime Weygand is in supreme command and is conducting operations involving All the Allied annies with a View of restoring and reconstituting their combined front Church Hill spoke Only two minutes. Boulogne is Only about 30 Miles from the British coast and is but 18 Miles from Calais the nearest French Channel port to 22 Miles from Dover. It was said Here that loss of Boulogne would be a terrific blow to the allies and probably would quickly make Calais untenable thus endangering any attempt to evacuate the Allied in Northern France. If the germans can hold Boulogne it was noted Here they can utilize Long Range artillery for the bombardment of British Channel ports such As Dover Folkestone and Deal. Boulogne is the second nearest of the French Channel ports. It would also germans a potential air base Only a few minutes bomber flying time from Britain. Churchill s remarks to commons confirmed the earlier warnings of British military spokesmen who described the position of the Allied in Flanders and North of France As very grave in View of the. Thrust of the German armoured column to the Channel and with the ports and roads leading to them under incessant German air bombardment. Communications to Bri Tain it was noted were in peril. The germans estimate that British French and Belgium forces North of the corridor number More than men the German High command said a motorized column was driving Channel ports continued on Page 4, column 6 criticisms discussed at meeting outcome of statements made by Aid. Fred g. Thompson and Lieut. Col. A. W. Morley before a general meeting of the Winnipeg unit of the and Navy veterans a conference was held thursday in the office of Hon. W. J. Major attorney general. Attending the meeting called at the request of or. Major were Aid. Thompson and Lieut col. Morley accompanied by Stuart Scott c. V Combe and . H. J. Riley col r. L. Cadiz assistant commissioner and inspector m. E. An Thony of the ., and representatives of the military. Denial of charges made by Aid. Thompson that the . Were shackled in Manitoba was again made by col. Cadiz it is under stood. The Commissioner conference continued on Page 4, column 3 blast nazi . London May 23. The air ministry tonight announced the bombing by the Royal air Force of Ger Man armoured Headquarters. Tanks armoured vehicles and troop concentrations forming the Vanguard of the enemy s Advance to Ward French Channel ports were bombed for More than six hours wednesday by Blenheim aircraft with damage and confusion Over a wide area resulting the announcement said. Seven Days leave French claim big win Paris May Mili j with their few personal belongings piled on a hand Carl these French nuns Are fleeing with other refugees the onrushing German military machine. Paris May trim . Reinforced by Shock troops under direction of general Maxiine Weygand slashed at the flanks of the German Offen Sive Flanders today regained a foothold Iii the town of Cambrai and battled to break off the nazi mechanized spearhead at the English Channel ports. The French armies effecting that military experts called a Miracle of reorganization fought with new fury to reunite their Northern and Central armies tary sources said tonight that the Allied troops had thrown Back German forces in a great Battle that began yesterday in the Cambrai Valenciennes Sec Tor and which still was rasing today but the final result is in doubt in the Wattigny sector on the River the German late today launched a new at tack. Kremlin talks and chop off the Long Sharp spearhead which the Ger mans have driven through Northern. France to the sea. The greatest King to broadcast Twenty members of the 112th City of Winnipeg Squadron r. C. A. F., arrived Here from the East on seven Days leave thursday. The parly included a f. Whitlock William Buchan. Reginald Kuhn f. Searls Harold Hule Hinson. Alex Cameron. Harry Fordham Percy Mcmaster and Adolf menu. Cromwell resigns Washington May 23. Dent Roosevelt accepted today the resignation of James h. R. Crom Well As minister to Canada and wished him the Best of Success in the Large Field of activity upon which you Are the High command s communique said in the North the Battle continued with violence. It is confirmed that we have driven to the outskirts of Cambrai. Artillery combat has become violent at various Points of the front particularly in the regions of d Wattigny. Long Yon Aisne and to the North of the Nied river.1 the operations in the Cambrai Region a military spokesman emphasized resulted from the withdrawal yesterday by French troops from the Northwestern outskirts after German attacks. Later in the Day however French units counter attacked and won Back even More than we had the spokesman said. There were reports that the bulk of he German troops were concentrated in the neighbourhood of Cambrai. Liis was taken a. An indication that the French might be isolating the detachment of nazi motorcycle and Parachute troops which had at tempted to penetrate to the coast while at the same time engaging and attempting to hold the mass of German infantry. French authorities declared the total German Man Power in the Region North of nazi occupied Amiens and West of the Cambrai line at not More than Thi North am French using tanks planes motorized units and artillery engaged the germans in a bitter see saw Battle Between Cambrai and Valenciennes 25 Miles apart. Here at the base of their Long Southern Salie it which extends Northwest to the Abbeville coastal fighting continued on Page 4, column London. May 23 George will broadcast an Empire Day message at s . 2 ., . On Friday it was announced today at bucking Ham Palace. The speech will be broadcast to All of the Empire. The last Lime the King broadcast such a message was from Sandringham on Christmas Day. London May 23. Up discus Sions now Are going on Between Lon Don and Moscow on the possible Des Patch of a British emissary to the Kremlin to Exchange not Only on commercial questions but on All other problems in the relations of the two countries in was Learned in diplomatic circles Here today. The circles consider it. Possible that sir Stafford Cripps prominent labor Leader will be the emissary if the Kremlin approves. Sad cables two Manitoba fliers listed As casualties the names of two More Manitoba fliers appeared on the Royal air Force casualty lists issued this week. Word was i received tha Pilot officer Curran Smiley Robinson aged 24, of Winnipeg has been missing in . Activities since Satur Day and flying officer Allan Angus aged 22. Of Mccreary Man., was reported killed in action in France on May 10. Both men were educated and lived nazis make Laws for decree shows International domination Rrt .1__ i a. I nor la Lac to will t hence that the to Mso keenly As to take its t we Public of this country Britain. Is Plain that Britain did not Canadian division. British were proceeding to their men and saw w advantage in adding to the of unequipped divisions in Ottawa ;