Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 25, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pages rises 4.30 Sun sets 2d.20, Moon rises 23.44 Moon sets 8.41. Winnipeg saturday May 25, 1940 rises 4.29 Sun sets 20.21. Moon rises. Moon sets 9.44. Warmer. Conscription a i. Air plane bombed a 245 he Cist coast of England today in what Many n t in pc tide an Early Blitzkrieg on the j ii and sea. I slight it was indicated and j n a deliberate few. The bombed area extended from the North Riding of York the Northern part of that Nch counts to Mouth of the thames. By Jinn drop r rail sirens they Yorkshire in of the i is and i by Grant Dexter Ottawa out., May 25 Britain s Lead the government is considering a measure to conscript wealth and labor Lor War purposes. The purpose is to give the government by statute rather than by order in Council under the War measures act Complete Power to mobilize Canada s financial Industrial and labor Power. Under such a statute All the peacetime limitations on government control of finance and Industry would be swept aside. There would be no military conscription however. The present government is pledged against such a course. No works hire bombs or r half an hoi ral explosions be it tages wore Dan Rural Anysia the air ministry Orne damage Hacie North Riding. At Essex dam i be reported slight and it id Thoro were no casualties. It Vas indicated that the German lanes have come Ruai new bases in Holland of Norfolk and Suffolk. An raid alarm was sounded i arly in he morning along the East i Oast. Knopic took shelter and i British ii Ancs went up to meet she j i vaders farther ouch. People at Eccl a fire which burned in the j Ohio inc Calif area and listened 5 the rumble of gun fire As British shelled the coastal Road tween Boulogne and Calais. British Royal air Force planes dirt cd across the Channel and Back continuous relays bombing the Jer ruins in the Artois Gap through they sent motorcyclists and forces to push their to Boulogne according to not Sci contingent of canadians bait reached Britain and the troops Are seen in Cable photo As they marched through the streets of an English port. New York gels nazi handbills cd York api Ger a registration office for the Home guard Volunteer Reserve will be opened at 231 Portage Avenue tuesday . H. J. Iri Lcy announced saturday. He emphasized that the Volunteer i Reserve is distinct from the veterans Home guard of the militia land its members will serve without pay of any kind. A provisional committee of 15 has been set up and also is distributing registration cards. The statement issued . Riley i follows the tact that the Dominion gov Victory handbills wort scatter eminent has authorised or is about mysteriously several subway authorize the mobilization in rending military District no. 10 a unit of 250 men to be put on pay and allowance and to be called Ai Vii for i veterans Home guard has Given Minny people the impression that this is the voluntary Home guard thai Lias been under discussion in the for the Chiva Jhc newspapers. While the general or of Ivr Sonal Friendship Wiebi purpose is the same that is the Eisner in Benin first letters for preservation of. Law and order there Chain letter earn a is no other connection Between the two proposed organizations. H is understood that the veterans Veteran guard Home guard be on full time duty and will be under military District no. 10. The voluntary organization which to distinguish it will volunteers continued on Page 15. Column 5 churches will observe solemn Day of prayer f the request of King George i sunday will be a Day of throughout the Empire. At this time of world stress blackest Clouds in history hang Over the Empire and her inc Kins asks that the spiritual assistance of his Peoples allies. Added to the material Aid they Are giving request has Boon uan seitan churches in the pm Call to prs by the archbishop Broadway Al Favit issued to pm Call to prayer and in St. Stephen s Ter Bury by greater emphasis Given the need of prayer at the time by t u fact that the Harold a. Frame giving his morning Sermon of. Call to prayer. Patriotic clubs Are giving their asked the premiers of the i co operation in making the Empire Dav prayer a living thing. At Grace Church the Winnipeg unit of request that All Denom enter into prayer this Sun that prayer will help in this dark hour will those who for Chr ivies will be Iven n Niani pulpits sunday. Of san pc gone to Freedom of their in few Days recruiting of about 250 Wax veterans for the Winnipeg company of the veterans Home guard Likely vill get under Way next week it was reported . Instructions have been sent from Ottawa to the officers commanding he various military districts author izing them to Complete the Neces sary arrangements for recruiting one company in each District. Until these arrangements arc completed. Applications for membership will not be dealt with it undoubtedly will take several Days to Geall the necessary forms printed and in the hands of the District officers announcement by Hon. Normal Mcl. Rogers minister of National defence that Home defence units 250 men Strong would be stationed in each military District was warmly greeted by Hon. W. J. Major attorney general saturday. While he had received no official notification from the minister or. Major declared that the Force would be of great help to police in con trolling possible subversive activities. The question of their duties and allocation would be a matter for future consideration he added. More control the Empire club will attend the morning Sermon Given by Rev. W g. Martin theme is Bein Westminster United Idamc Avenue 1 u v f m Howse choosing for he world As his morn the allies secret weapon the Power of prayer. A British Israel Public service of repentance and prayer will be held sunday at 3 . In the apostolic Temple. Hargrave Street and notre at Trinity Baptist Norman e. Todd in Sermon choosing the full Page map of great Britain will be found on Page 16. Old country football London May 25. Up Cable soccer games played in the United kingdom today resulted As follows English War round Fulham 5, Everton 2. Blackburn 2, w. Bromwich 1. Blackpool 0, Newcastle 2. West Ham 4, Birmingham 2. Softli a Millwall i Crystal Palace 2. South a Norwich 3, Queen s Park 1. Southend 3. Clapton 0. Watford 7, Bournemouth 1. Midland Leicester 3, Wolverhampton 1. Walsall 2, Coventry 1, East Midland Sheffield u. 3, Dor Caster 0. Notts f. 6, Notts c. 2. Western Liverpool 3, Manchester c. 2. Stockport 1, Chester 3. Stoke 3, Manchester u. 2. Northeast Bradford 2, York 3. Halifax 3, Leeds 2, Hartlepool 1, Middle Bro 2. Hull 3, Bradford c. 0. Huddersfield 8, Darlington 2. Northwest Rochdale 3, Oldham 1. Southport 1, Burnley 1. Southwest Newport 4, Cardiff 1. Swindon 4, Swansea 0. South c Tottenham 3, Chelsea 2. Scottish West Kilmarnock 1, Airdrie 5. Motherwell 2, Morton 1. Partick 1, rangers 3. Scottish East Dundee u. 3, Kast Fife 2. Hearts 2, Dunfermline 0. Glasgow Charity Queen s Park 2, Clyde 2. Exhibition Aldershot 6, Guildford 1. Brentford 4, Brighton 1. Northampton 2, Sheffield w. 7. Paris May 2o. Armies were re ported in French press today to have Cut 13 Miles into the 25-mile wide German France and to be fighting fiercely to break the nazi trap around perhaps a. Million British French and belgian troops in. The North. The German wedge into Northern France is narrowest Between the French town of Bapa inc and the town of Peronne which is on the Somme River. The trapped Allied forces Are fighting to hold their lines or Advance southward from Bapa Umo. While the main French armies on the Somme Are seeking to drive northward through the German wedge to Baraume. Yesterday the Gap Between which he German dashed to the English 25 Miles wide. Today the newspaper Intran Sigmant said it had been reduced to 12 Miles. 11 the French can Cut through this wedge they not Only would be in a position to save the trapped armies from destruction but would isolate the German forces that rushed on to the coast and could prepare the Way for a stabilized front. Unconfirmed reports circulated in London that the allies had deeply dented or Cut through the Ger Man wedge but the German High command said that the French blows were feeble and had been repulsed. The germans claimed the Allied troops were locked in a nazi steel Triangle and the Battle of Flanders would be Over in a month the newspaper Paris soil re ported that the French had reoccupied the most important Section of the City of Amiens on the South by Francis Stevens London May 25 George i s Call to his Peoples in All the nations of. The British Commonwealth on the Ssue of life or death which now confronts them seemed to listeners Here like the United voice of this nation speaking. Evidence of How deeply the moment touches All minds is seen in airmen Here for course critical Sydney Australia May 25. Up to intensify control of the fifth column in Australia were taken yesterday by the government. Most communist publications were banned. Regulations were put into Force empowering All Trade unions to prevent communists from holding office while press and pub Lic demanded arrest of the communist leaders and the internment of More aliens and even refugees. Sydney Australia May 25. Up Cable recruiting for the ail Force is going ahead and the Roya australian air Force is keeping abreast of the schedule for the British Commonwealth air training plan. Newspapers Are criticizing the slowness of the Empire air scheme however. They have advocate modifications to permit thousand of recruits to go to Canada am great Britain As quickly As pos sible for training. The newspaper argue that the scheme must be seeded up in the same degree As the War. Four hour sitting Ottawa May 25. A committee of the Canadian Cabins sat for four hours last night it a announced today. No statement a issued concerning the deliberation of the committee. Marking the Speed up in the Commonwealth air training scheme 42 airmen members of the first squad Ron to Complete initial training at the Toronto school arrived in Winnipeg saturday in route to com Nence their elementary training As pilots in flying clubs throughout he West. A group of six came to the win Peg flying club the first to be trained at the club under the plan while similar groups passed through the City bound for flying clubs at Brandon Regina Calgary Moose jaw Edmonton and Vancouver. The Winnipeg club expects to receive a new group for training every four weeks from now on. The Rotty which arrived Here Satur Day to be met at the , station by c. W. Nicholl president of the club and Herb Taylor who will be their instructor comprised g. F. Ryan j. W. Mclntosh and John r. Martin All of Winnipeg j. H. C. Bishop fort Garry Harold free Man St. James and Douglas Orr Elm Creek. A seventh member of the group r. Mullen Kenora will arrive sunday. King s address called stirring new York May 25. Up the new York Sun commenting editorially upon last night s broadcast address by King George said today that no Man can suppose that i did not stir to the uttermost Depths of their beings every Loyal Man and woman who heard recalling that his majesty called upon his Peoples to turn in prayer to god the Sun concluded Al history proves that a True briton is never so Resolute As when of marches to Battle with a sword ii i his hand and a prayer in his heart an interview in the Manchester guardian with George Bernard Shaw the dramatist who for the first time dropped his laughing Mark to show How greatly he really loves this country. We re in a very tight Corner but what can we do we can Eil Hei practically surrender or we can die in tiie last ditch. I think we should die in the last he said. Asked if he had a message for the United states Shaw said what s the use of sending a Mes Sage they can come in on one Side or the other and if they choose the German Side i cannot conceive what kind of people they As britons listened to the King s broadcast in their Homes through out these islands from the coast of Kent to the Northwestern tip of the hebrides a great wave of Stevens continued on Page 15. Column 4 Boulogne French claim Bank of the destroyed Somme after having German Bridgehead there. This it was said aided the French in establishing a solid front along the Somme to protect their counter thrusts from Peronne. The British were said by Intran Sig cant to hold positions from a fighting continued on Page 15. Column 7 registration hits Mark London. May 25. Ftp Cable Britain s Man called 1.0 Register under the National service act was among the thousands who signed on today with the 1912 group at labor exchanges throughout the country. Those enrolled already number with the total today expected to bring in another most of those registered today Are aged 27. But Many others had attained the age of 28 since the Royal proclamation at the beginning of the year. A Large proportion were married men. By Axel do ii Olstein Paris May 25 cup havas French Agency with Boulogne still in French hands despite the raking attacks of nazi mechanized elements along the coast the allies appeared last night to have regained Freedom of action in the Battle of Flanders. No longer in the opinion of Mili experts Here arc the British French and belgian troops battling for Mastery of the Channel coast forced to base their movements on those the German . The Battle has settled Down to two Dis Tinct on the Franco belgian front and inc other on the Seaboard. Commenting on the infiltration of nazi mechanized units to the Chan Nel ports general Duval military analyst of be journal said it seems that the role of these mechanized formations is finished " Duval placed greater significance on the operations along the Scheldt where he said that masses of Ger Man infantry were attacking. That in where the Battle will be decided and not at he asserted. Since the occupation of Abbeville by nazi motorized elements whose primary function was 1o Dis Organ network Jam weakness seen i n nazi strategy London May 25. Sources a scared today that a coordinated Allied Effort still can re Rieve the situation of the French British and belgian armies in France and Belgium. It should be remembered that the orm of warfare employed by the ermans has its weaknesses As Well is its these circles said. I there is no reason for loss of con ii Denpei the French High command has made a special request that no men Tion be made of troop movements or of places where action is in Progress. A spokesman said the absence of details of the actions in Progress is Likely to continue for some time. The general situation was described As very grave and very ize the Allied rear and to form Boulogne continued on Page 15, column 2 defence Council Roosevelt s wish Washington May 25. A president Roosevelt it was Learned reliably today has decided to re Vive the Council of National defence London May 25. Up a i the first great War a Board of tabloid daily sketch splashed its six Cabinet officers and seven civil entire front Page today with Anijan co ordinate and editorial demanding that Britain Speed up Jam the nazi radio thereby throw 011.352 de ing Germany wireless lie factory into a state of Complete if the British wireless is jammed in return the paper said the people still will be Able to listen by Tele phone. The United states defence . Or. Roosevelt an informed authority said already has com piled a list of names from which the Council members May be chosen. But the identity of the men on the list is secret. Temperature readings Low during night 6.30 a.m., May 25 10 a.m., May 25 11 a.m., May 25 for full report of meteorological office see Page 20, the allies Are thrusting Down the Arras a Paulc Road re map shows and closing the Gap Between the French and British forces in an attempt to isolate the nazi forces which reached the coast after suffering terrific losses ;