Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Be four Winnipeg free press thursday May 23, 1940 n Solem Ness and sincerity the British Empire s most Earnest Day of prayer and intercession in history been asked for sunday. May 26. It is customary for the archbishop of Canterbury to order Empire Days of prayer but in View of the tremendous significance of the hour the Day of prayer sunday has been asked by King George i himself. Of the Empire commom Venth and they to the Church he acis within tin dominions. Archbishop Denvy. T. Ourn. Primate Liny sent Mil Iho uni 10 prayer nil anglican rib Sec m s ii million. Emphasis c from Pic fad the from one inc reason i or the to Rosl. The i or the arrest. Not at this sir John later said that those arrested were not detained Ocause reason tins do a speaker said ised careful consideration would be Given both the Home defence Force suggestions and the Canadian legion offer of service made through l. D. M. Baxter. The interview bet Den the pre Mier and or. Rogers j took place thursday. He assured stated or. Bracken that the legion s offer and our suggestion would receive careful consideration in the plans now being worked More about continued from i nge one also transmitted his request in in Ecol their opinions or top Amanda premiers of the Impi or. And prime activities. But because of. Inc Tian min Isle a Kinu ask i us actions prejudicial to the de churches of Aii Security of the to join in the Day of prayer. Fi7 ordered expelled locally he Winnipeg ministerial in addition i inc arrests of the association has issued a special Pica fascist suspects it was revealed not Only to the Darcy men of jul that 167 Irish Republican army denominations to co operate to Kheiri members had been ordered sex utmost ability hut also in All Cnn-1 Pel cd from the country probation to fill their respective the action coincided Wilh efforts churches and of join by he Home office under sir John earnestness in the general petition i Anderson to guard against any for divine assistance in the em-1 Trojan horse activities that might weaken the Home front in the face Pire s hour of need. In some churches special prayer forms Are being distributed As a Suic. In practically All churches the sermons to be preached sunday both at. The morning and evening services Are built about the Day of prayer theme. At the Catholic shrine of our lady of Lourdes in St. Boniface Pope pins injunction to prayer will be observed with special fervency. Patriotic clubs Are giving their co operation too. One of these the Empire club of Canada has arranged for its Winnipeg unit to attend a special Sermon preached of threatened German invasion but no reason was announced for the arrest of in May. Nine or 10 per sons were reported arrested at the fascist Headquarters but Mosley was not present during the raid. The raid was designed to trap Mosley himself but he had left the the place police few minutes before arrived it was said. By Rev. W. G. Martin at Grace Church sunday Ai 11 . Great bulwark of Christian civilization is the impressive motto on the club s card us Holifi Calion to its members. I was the glaring rays of Light downward. J later he was arrested at his Flat. The government s new treachery Bill providing the death sentence in some instances for sabotage or other traitorous acts was passed by the House of lords this after noon after being rushed through commons and was sent to King George for Royal assent which makes it Law. Ramsay a world War Veteran laced in Erixton prison the j speaker the House of commons announced. Ramsay previously had tabled a motion in commons charging that the British press favored the internationalists and the clean top in France despatches from Paris said thai 40 former communists had been arrested at Avignon. Charged with Trojan horse activities in France Anderson speaking in disclosed the expulsion of the . Members soon after a private meet of conservative party members that he got his first taste of flying with a Friend who was a Pilot there his father always said Curran liked Speed first a car then a motor Cycle and then the observed mrs. Robinson. Thursday Mornin Pilot officer Robinson attended St John s United Church and Sun Day school and was a member of a taxis boys group there. He was also an enthusiastic Badminton player a member of the Winnipeg Badminton club. While at school he played hockey and football on inter school teams. He commenced training in his four year course with the in october 1938. At Brize Norton training school in Oxford county. Since then he has been at mansion Brough and Lal Lerly at the Kingsley air base. His parents last heard from him by on May 11. A brother Arthur lives in Ottawa. Homer Robinson of Winnipeg his Uncle was a Pilot with the . In Egypt during the last. World War. Flying officer Allan Angus 22, was killed in action in France on May 10. High school to join the ., he went Over seas in 1937, and was attached to the 85th Squadron. He is the son of or. And mrs. B. Angus of Mccreary and is survived by his wife and one child at present living in England. More about u headache. Backaches Rheu. Matic pains. Four stomach. Easy to take in Ruhr nine Coffee ten or Slass of water. Krauchen is British highest Liua Lity toe and 75c. Famous dance play nightly threw if Condi i i one it 600 bold now i sub a garage. Null r. Messick millions swear by it. It Helpa j Ireland to get a base for a Back door remove the. Usual cause of attack on the British Isles. Anderson said thai others besides j Ramsay had been ordered detained j and that their names would be announced As soon As they were arrested. Ramsay was an Active member of the Anglo German Fellowship organization which once included lord Londonderry and lord stamp. He was founder and chairman of the United Christian front dedicated to proving that in the Spanish civil War Gen. Francisco Franco was battling for Christian at the time of the Munich crisis Ramsay lord Londonderry and Baron Molliston in a latter to 1he London times defended the Munich appeasement settlement. Anderson explaining the detentions said this action taken because of the danger that organizations in which the persons concerned Are leading members might be used for execution of acts prejudicial to the Security of the state and not on account of opinions held or expressed by them or on account of their propagandist activities. Further action must and will be Laken As Circuns lances Ramsay was elected to Parlia ment from the Midlothian and Peebles division. He is the son of the Laic . Henry Ramsay and is 4c years old. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst military College and was married to Hon. Ismay Lucre a Mary Preston daughter of the Mph Viscount Gormanson. In House nine years Ramsay had Long been regarded As a fascist particularly on the score of anti semitism. He has been a conservative member of the House for the last nine years. Pie is a great Nephew of the 12th Earl of Dalhousie and a grandson of general sir Henry Ramsay. He served with the cold Stream guards in the first great War and was severely wounded in 1916. Pie was invalided from the army in 1919 after service at the War office and Wilh a British War mis Sion in Paris. He has four sons. The family residence is at Kellic Castle Arbroath Angus Scotland. Continued from Pace one declared that his men had in no Way been impeded. Explanation of the Workings of the defence of Canada regulations in regard to enemy aliens was Given the Veteran representatives and it was pointed out to them that responsibility for application of the act rested entirely with the Dominion authorities and not with the province or provincial officials or ministers. Following the meeting a joint statement was to have been pre pared by the attorney general s department and Aid. Thompson regarding the outcome but after making an appointment to meet at 2.30 . It was it is Learned cancelled by phone instead the attorney general s department will alone prepare a a statement of events at the meet ing. More about to measure Hiram Walker s London dry teaspoonful sugar. Juice of i Lemon shake in Ico Strain into Glass add two ice cubes and fill with soda. The secret a Tom Collins is no Batter than the Gin you mix it with. Hiram Walker s London dry oin has harmonized flavor that combines Oil other ingredients into a perfectly balanced cock Toni or tall More about continued from Page one the part of government officials. Resolutions urging formation of such a body under government supervision and warning against subversive elements were passed. The same Day. At Hartney Man., the South Western Manitoba Agri cultural societies embracing Kil Larivey. Boissevain Deloraine was Kada. Melita. Souris and Hartney upon motion of j. R. Hutchinson Boissevain and a. L. Mason Kil Flarnoy passed the following Resolution that the Dominion government at once take Active Steps to mobilize All available resources Neces sary for the promotion of the present conflict overseas and also that a definite plan of org nation for Home defence be established at once and that proper safeguards be taken immediately against fifth column activities j consideration promised i meanwhile. Premier John Bracken informed Hon. W. J. Major at i Lorincy go neral by wire that the province s proposals had been Laid before the department of National defence in a personal interview with Hon. Norman Mcl. Rogers. The minister had he said prom continued from i he pc one Region. The germans attacked in an attempt to make tighter and smaller the sack in which they Are trying to hold the Allied forces of Flanders estimated at Between and men. South of the salient moving from their stabilized line along the Laon River other French forces were in route North fighting their Way from the St. Quentin neighbourhood to Ward the Cambrai Battlefield. A halt in withdrawals of the French British and belgian troops from their lines in Belgium North and West from this main Battle ground was implied in military re ports according to the authoritative newspaper be Temps. The extreme left Wing of inc Allied armies which into Belgium on the Day of German invasion has taken up positions in the rear of the Scheldt and Scarpe Rivers and the troops face South and Southeast against the Ger Man forces which Are swinging on the Channel. The Bailie of Flanders was de scribed in military despatches As wild and violent conflict in which lines on both sides were broken by plunging Lank and armoured car assaults but with the French strategy apparently aimed at break ing through the extended German lines before they can be fully consolidated. On the basis of messages received in Paris the German corridor through Flanders still was Only 30 to 35 Miles wide where the Allied forces appeared to be attempting to Pinch through it in the Cambra sector but. Nearer the Channel coast the nazi mechanized units and bombing planes continued to fan out in interlocking and irregular stabs at important communications centres. The German tactics were designed to continue the Battle along a Dis organized and chaotic front in an Effort to crush the Allied forces in the North and gain control of the Channel coast. Against those manoeuvres Weygand was making every Effort to stabilize the fighting fronts presumably in preparation for a counter offensive. It was reported that As the Battle started the Allied French belgian and treating from Belgium was less than 35 Miles from the main French army on the Somme with Only Light German mechanized forces in its pain. French vessels lost As military informants described the opening of the Battle of flan Ders the Navy ministry in a com Munique announced the loss of the French submarine Doris 548 tons probably with All its Crew of about 40 men the destroyer l adroit tons and the Oiler be niger flying officer. Angus Pilot officer Robinson tons. Crews of the destroyer and the Oiler perhaps 142 and 76 respectively were saved. The ships were lost in operations off the dutch coast. In announcing their loss the Navy minister cited the Navy air Force for Sublime bravery shown May 19 on the land front when they pulverized at Closi Range assigned objectives at this Cost of half their Premier Paul Reynaud and his War Cabinet met at 10 . Thirty five minutes earlier anti aircraft guns in the Paris area had blazed into action and it was assured that German raiders had been seen near the City. Position essentially unchanged positions in the Battle of Flanders had remained essentially unchanged since the Start yesterday a High military informant said. He added that the Battle was developing satisfactorily from the French viewpoint. On the outcome of this fight de Pend the plans strategic and Tacti Cal of the High commands of the Allied and German armies. German air planes Are joining heavily in the Cambrai Valenciennes Battle the army informant said. The German planes Are diving desperately into the Allied fighting and communication lines including the Stuka dive bombers. Allied planes in turn Are bombing the German lines and their Supply roads far to the rear. Local engagements were fought in the Region Between Arras and Amiens the informant said with the French continuing to hold Arras. There were local engagements also along the Somme line and. It Vas admitted that Small unimportant German elements had Man Ager to infiltrate across the Somme South of Amiens. German artillery action the informant said that there was till no real front Between Arras and Amiens so that Small German motorized and motorcycle detach Tienus could make fast raids some Imes lasting several hours into the Trench lines and then race Back to heir own. German artillery it was said started extremely violent fighting n the Long Yon Wattigny and Nied sectors. It was not yet known whether the German fire was a i e Ude to an attack in Force possibly i diversion Al one to draw Allied at cation from the reportedly dangerously thin German wedge to Varcol the English Channel coast. Discussing air plane operations he uni Hilary informant said that it Vas estimated Germany has lost ibo planes on the French front alone since May 10. There had been Plain indications hat a Gigantic Battle was about to pen with perhaps men involved. In the Somme Valley. Supply columns moved steadily Oward the on both sides in Ler n Hail if bombs and machine run Bullet is. There were completely uncork firmed reports that the French had retaken not Only Arras but Amiens and Sedan. The authorities deter mined thai no false Hopes should be aroused by premature claims deprecated the reports and preferred to await some big develop ment that might show a Genera trend in the fighting. German grip weak it did seem Clear now however that so far whatever grip the Ger mans had obtained on the Channel coast at the Mouth of the Somme was a weak one a grip exerted by a handful of motorcycle specialists who spent much of their time Dart ing about from place to place most of the time Back and Forth Between the Abbeville and Amiens regions. Further it was apparent that the main body of the French army had ceased All important withdrawals. It was firmly entrenched along the South Banks of the Somme and Aisne Rivers All the Way from Amiens 65 Miles North of Paris to Mon thecly on the magi not line. It was insisted on the Allied Side that Allied losses even those of the army withdrawing from Belgium were surprisingly Light and that the German losses were most severe. The official French wire less last night broadcasting to Lon Don put the total of German casualties in the Meuse Somme thrust at deaths and funerals Seegot. S. Mcintyre funeral service for sergeant Samuel Mclntyre 1st cavalry Divi Ion r.c.a.s.c., of 595 Spence Street who died suddenly May 16, was held monday afternoon at Mordue Bros funeral Home. Born in Ireland he came to Mani Toba 26 years ago. He was formerly employed with Richmond s phar Nacy Sargent Avenue and Spence Street. He served during the world War. His Mother is among sur ivors in Ireland. Pallbearers were w. Jowett . G. Bennington . J. Douglas . J. A. Mcmillan . C. Green . And staff sergeant a. Halpenny. S Fraser of valour Road Branch. Canadian legion sounded the last Post. Burial was in Brookside cemetery. Edward a. Lang Edward Alexander Lang 72. A resident of Winnipeg for the past 30 years died at the Winnipeg general sunday. He lived at the Imperial hotel. Or. Lang came from Glasgow Scotland in 1910, and had been employed at several Winnipeg hotels As bookkeeper. Funeral service will be held Friday at 10 . At the Western funeral Chapel Vith burial in Brookside cemetery. Mrs. M. Skerritt funeral service for mrs. Margaret Merritt wife of Charles Joseph Skerritt of 1189 Alexander Avenue will be held saturday at . At Cirr s Chapel with burial in Brookside cemetery. More about continued from pair one Tor Calais and that Harbor instal lations at Dunkirk on the French Side and Dover on the British had been bombed open at night the Channel which the huge Allied Force must be evacuated ii it is unable to break out of the German admitted Here to be open to use Only at certain hours presumably at night when darkness affords some Protection against German bombers. It was denied Here that Dover had bombed but spokesmen said of the French Channel ports Only that they had Root been bombed so severely As to be untenable. I spokesmen Here warned thai i a would take More than inc British counter attacks in the. Arras Douai sector to relieve the situation and emphasized that there were no re ports of any Large scale Allied counter offensive. This remark might be subject to the interpretation that Allied attacks on the Northern flank of the German corridor across France Are rear guard holding operations to protect the main Northern Allied army while in the process of evacuation. There has been no official Allied state ment however that evacuation of the Northern army is under Way North to Channel the addition to the farce which reached a German armoured column apparently of considerable Force and including mechanized troop ele ments which is driving toward the Channel ports was first revealed by the British High command. The High command said this column had driven through Between Arras Virth toward the Channel a distance of about 50 Miles. The British air ministry com Munique today was devoted almost entirely to description of operations close to the Channel ports along the line of an Allied withdrawal. Battles with German bombing planes Over St. Omer and Hazer our 10 to 20 Miles from Calais were reported. The High command also reported air activity in Northern France. As nearly As could be reconstructed from reports Here today inc Northern Allied line now runs from the Vicinity of Ghent in Belgium Southwest along the River Scheldt to a Denarde where the germans have crossed the River. From a Denarde South the line was believed and Baraume and then swun.? to be fluid to the Region of i Ennis where heavy going on. Valenciennes is inc ire of a Small sack shaped held by Strong Iren ii. Force line then twists Back Douai and Arras. 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