Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ree vol. Pages. Winnipeg monday May 27, 1940 the March to Victory is drawing near general Wygand. Commander in chief of the Allied declared in a message broadcast from Paris last after hinting that something big was coming. We Gand fold of the Slaughter of thousands of in an on the Maginot line. After hours of attack the germans sent a party with a White Flag i Sjef hiring for 24 hours so they could Bury their i Allied military situation is improving faster and Iff than Anyo in. Could have imagined earlier in the in a month. France will he on the March to 1-vf Genera message read Over a Paris radio and Beard by the National broadcasting company r the message said 5 Olith France will he on the March to Victory. It feel that this one month might Well he Cut j. N -0 3 fortnight. Vet in any Case the military situation faster and better than anyone could have in the week. Germans going through a period of holding Cost readjusting their troops and ones in situation forced by the great German Gigantic work has been done in this and ii French All of hem. With their com chief. Convinced that they and their allies not wait Long for their Chance to come. There inc tiling in he air in Paris is something big. The Maginot line the German command tried a n through the Maginot forts feeling out the actual be after several hours of artillery fire German sentries swarmed out of the Siegfried line track. Wave wave came Over. It was not a it massacre. Eve witnesses estimated that the number and wounded outside the Maginot line was at least x.030." by London Vur i Day Nimori Iii he ci1 a ran Cis special Cable fierce enemy air he English coastal defences on Chi ast coast of regular infantry in in. Department. This will leave two vacant porn transport and Pott office. It is thought prime minister Mac Kenzie King will seek to strengthen Bis Cabinet by bringing in two out siders outstanding men of conservative Back ground. By Richard d. Mcmillan. At air Force Headquarters ii France May 27. Air Force pilots today that huge fires the air minister also that Are burning All along the German communications route and those called up for service could that great numbers of German dead have been observed on not expert to receive immediately of the Gorman i was building a he Jade Erin predicted that an bombers when they were discovered before they could Complete the operation. For two nights we watched the visible evidence of terrific Battles waging in France. Flare gun fire Stevens Hoover to speak new York May 27. Bup former president Herbert Hoover will speak Over a National radio Hookup Abc at 7.30 ., . Tonight on National defence. Or. Hoover s office said he would speak on the better organization required if we Are to have real Haining gets Post preparation for he Cotins up ing Range at Boulogne Calais. Dunkirk Ostend and other Channel is have Long been underway the Fri or said. These guns with ranges up to 14f will Lay Down tar bombardments the South prisoner of War Saskatoon May 27. Acting flight Lieut. G. D. Clancy of sask. Reported missing air operations a few Days Power Given Post London. Hay 27. Captain scans following ago is a prisoner of War in Ger chief of staff of the Fleet a in in and appointed to Board. The Many according to a message received by his Mother mrs. . Clancy of Semens from the Brit ish air ministry. The information came through the International red society at Geneva. London May 27 up Lieut. General r. H. Haining 57, was appointed vice chief of the Imperial general staff today under general sir John Dill in the reorganization of the High command. Major general b. C. T. Paget was appointed chief of the general staff of the Home forces with the temporary rank of lieutenant general. General pact. Who led the British forces in Norway South of trondheim will be under general sir Edmund Ironside new com Mander of Home defence. General sir Henry Jackson was Ned to succeed general Haming in the Western command. 1 London May 21, infantry aided by French tank counter attacked go mum troops in violent fighting on both flanks of the Northern Franco belgian sector British general Headquarters reported today. The High command asserted that the British front remains intact. The British counter attack followed a bitter assault by German troops which was directed particularly at the French and belgian troops which hold the Eastern sector of the Allied Northern position. The High command said that the British counter attack was successful. It Dirl not however reveal the specific Points at which the fighting occurred. The communique said today the enemy violently attacked Franco belgian forces the flanks of the British Force. British infantry i , .11_. I Munn t i pm h a vp1tcli the emoluments that the regulations provided for their Trade and suggested that they be patient on the Assurance Chat they would be As signed to regular air Force duty and proper pay As rapidly As possible. Expansion of the air Force to include the new recruits had been i decided upon rather than have thousands of our Young men ing their heels in idleness. Special badges the new recruits skilled in cer Tain trades but unemployed to Gether classes. Counter attacked successfully in co operation tanks be sir John Dill replaces Ironside As Imperial general staff chief London "7 up Britain in a major shake up of her High command appointed sir John Dill. 58. To be chief of the Imperial general staff replacing Gen 1 sir Edmund Ironside and took further Steps to consolidate the Home front against the 6 general Iroles de was placed in command of All Home forces with the formidable task of Oun Tiv the threat of invasion by land sea and air. 0 other Home defence moves included a government announce rent declaring at least 14 additional towns along the English Southeast coast to be evacuation preparations were made to move children to safer places. Announcement of the command shake up came exactly a week after general Maxim Weygand superseded general Marie Gustav Gamelin As Allied commander in chief in All theatres of War and 24 hours after the announcement of dismissal of 15 French generals. Viscount Gort remains commander of the i Tish expeditionary Force but will c. Under the Man who a few months ago was one of his corps commanders. General Ironside 60. A 250-Pound giant of a Man. Who years ago served in the German As a British s ordered by the Dominion govern ment to Rush re surfacing of the three runways at Stevenson Airport As a War measure the Tomlinson construction company limited has placed the work on a seven Day Weck basis and will work All pos sible hours to Complete the runway by july 1, e. L. Keyes in charge of the Job stated monday. When 1hc work of laying Asphalt on the runways starts wednesday double shifts will be inaugurated and approximately 70 additional men will be employed temporarily he added. The company has established an Asphalt depot at Bird s Hill and loading will commence tuesday he added. Additions to the administrative offices and Metal shops of trans Canada airlines at the Airport will be undertaken shortly it is under stood but no official confirmation of this could be obtained. 109 planes lost 3 Aris May French driving to Cut off the German Corri Dor English Channel reported they occupied several villages and other Points on the Somme South of the German salient today. The. Germans in their drive in Belgium however have succeeded in crossing the River Lys at several Points a ministry of information spokesman said. The Lys on which lie Ghent and Courtrair already claimed by the germans is the last important mediately. Skilled tradesmen in essential Industry would be re Quested to remain at their jobs for the time being but would be issued special badges showing they had offered their services and would be called up As needed. Recruiting of new Rifle battalions said the defence minister would be in addition to recruiting for the third division of the . The expansion he said would include All the Rifle battalions of a fourth division. Conservative Leader r. B. Hanson congratulated the government and said the whole country would be be Hind the government. It was necessary to consider All possible eventualities the prime minister said. The proposed expansion would need the co opera Tion of All the people notably labor fourth division continued on Page 8, column Paris May official state ment today said that French and British fliers shot Down 66 German planes in five hours of fighting Over Boulogne yesterday. In addition it was said the French and British had destroyed 43 German planes Over Calais yesterday when the German air Force made a mass raid on the port. Alert swedes Gen sir Edmund Ironside shake ii continued on Page 4, column 2 Stockholm May 27. Nti air Craft guns opened fire at several Points today As foreign warplanes flew Low Over Northern Sweden. The planes fled toward Norway. Sweden must be prepared to resist any attempt to violate her Liberty the defence minister p. E. Skold said saturday night Weygand air trip Paris May 27 a Gen eral Maxime Weygand com Mauder in chief of the Allied land forces flew Over the Allied troops in the North yesterday and it was reported that they were being Well supplied through the strip of coast South of Zeebrugge and North of German held Boulogne. The German salient North of the Somme bars them from supplies from the South. River Barrier Between the nazi and the ports of Ostend and Zee Brugge. A military source said tonight that Calais is probably still in French hands but that it is not possible to deny formally the Ger Man claim that the port has been occupied. The military spokesman said that reports received at 6 11 . . Indicated that the vital with would certain unskilled be summoned by Grant Dexter Ottawa. Out., May 27 special j storms of criticism continue to a cat Down on the government. I and the battlefields. The Pilot said that their bombs had started fires All along the Ger Man corridor into France anti fur ther Back where the German troops and supplies Are being brought Down from Germany. They asserted that in flying Over the Fields of Battle Mounds of Ger Man dead could be observed irom the air. The fliers asserted that if they could obtain a few Hundred More fighting planes they were certain thai control of the air could be wrested from the germans. British pilots carried out repeal i cd dive bombing raids on a Why did t Canada put our in scale All Day saturday through Ial machinery to work on tanks j of saturday night and All Day yes ther mechanized equipment j Why did t Canada raise equip More troops in the past nine months dust i and othe Why Haven t Canadian factories j pilots reported 1hal they is suited been turning out More air planes Marjy fires inside Germany and that the government s answer Hasi they Nad started Many More in Ger been that the British government j Many helium and Luxemburg. They reported great confusion did not want Canada to raise More troops being unable to equip go Mai troops whom they own dive bombed and then machine Canadian industries have net been used to produce tanks and other mechanized equipment because British would not Supply Canada with the plans and specifications without which production was impossible. This is also True of air planes according to the government. Sunned from altitudes of barely 200 British planes which attacked German and Railroad junctions met with Little fighter plane resistance hut were fired on heavily by anti aircraft guns the pilots reported. Most of the critics however do it was estimated unofficially at Headquarters that the germans had critics lost from 1.500 to 2.000 planes since continued on Page 8. Column 1 their Blitzkrieg was started May 10. Stamps Victory brisk Sale shown in Winnipeg for War savings certificates fighting continued on Page 8. Column 2 temperature readings Low during night 6.30 ., May 2" 12 noon. May 27 2 ., May 27 High May 27. 1939 Sun rises. 4.23 Sun sets. 20.22. Moon risen. 0.16 Moon sets i. For full report of meteorological office see Page 15. Winni Eggers subscribed thous ands of dollars today in the open ing Day of the Campaign for win the War savings certificates. Quite unobtrusively Post offices and Banks commenced Selling to the Public at 10 . First to Purchase in the Winnipeg general Post office were members of the War savings com Mitt tee. Peter Lowe vice chair Man Mas one of the first Purchas ers. Or. Lowe like Many another Winnipeg Ger who realizes the responsibility which rests upon each individual was not buying for himself alone. He purchased War savings certificates not Only for himself but also for his wife and daughter. Don Ferguson organizer for the Prairie provinces also on hand bought for him self his life and a son and Daugh Ter. All members of the Provin Cial committee were on hand mrs. W. H. Collum h. W. Manning d. C. Mckenzie and j. W Speirs the Only Absentee being the chairman e. J. Tarr k.c., who was unavoidably out of the City. All of the committee made purchases and con scribed in the Purchase of baby Bonds and War savings Stamps. Cumulative nature this it was emphasized by Mem Bers of the committee is but the commencement. It was pointed out that one of the great advantages of the certificates and of the Stamps was the cumulative nature each. Those of instance who out of each salary can afford to buy a War savings certificate which arc in denominations of from s5 to s100, May Purchase i desc in. Face value up to s500 in each year. The Purchase Price is s4 for a certificate. With a redemption value of s3 for a redemption value of the Purchase Price is s3. Victory Stamps continued on Page 5, column 4 Ottawa May 27 c. G. Power air minister announced to Day the location of three additional elementary flying schools two ser vice flying schools two air observer schools and one bombing and gunnery school under the British Commonwealth air training plan. The elementary flying schools will be established Al ont., Hamilton ont. And Chatham. Air elected oped at Gananoque and Sandhurst. Similar Aird Romes for the service flying school at Moncton will be at Scoudouc an Salisbury and the ones for the Carberry school at petrel and Oberon. Tribute a sizeable amount of . And the service flying schools j Money to the Canadian War Chest at Carberry. Man., and moncton.1 taking an Active interest and one of the first purchasers also was j. W. T. Dickson District director of postal services. In the majority of Banks through out greater Winnipeg similar scenes were enacted and. Many thousands of dollars were sub . The air observer schools will be at Winnipeg and Hamilton and the bombing and gunnery school at Fingal ont. In Elgin county. Or. Power also said Relief air i domes for the service flying school j at Kingston ont., would be devel-1 ;