Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 03, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. Pages Sun rises 4.24 Sun sets s0.39 mom rises 3.9r Moon sets Winnipeg wednesday july 3, 1940 germans torpedo and1 warmer ship Canadian troops boosted As key London july Bri Tain steadily strengthens de fences against an attempt of Hitler s nazis to invade Britain an attack which foreign diplomats Here predict will lord Mottistone suggested in the House of lords today that Canadian troops should be chosen to engage the enemy if he lands in Britain because of their More novel Conception of warfare. Lord Mottistone As Jack Seely commanded the Canadian cavalry in the first great War. Reflecting belief that the Ger mans were preparing a Blitzkrieg lord Croft under Secretary for War. Said the germans would attempt to invade England regardless of loss. He said that they aimed to destroy the British people and that it is our intention and Hope to defeat in Vasion by sea or even before the Erie my embarks but if not then we will defeat Tern in the process of he said. Meanwhile key foreign diplomats in London expressed belief that after an unsuccessful attack on Britain Hitler will launch a peace offensive. Diplomats have been re porting to their governments that Britain shows no inclination of wanting peace now and that they Are convinced that. Germany will mail to conquer Britain. Mottistone explains lord Mottistone recommended the Canadian soldiers not because he served with them in the last War or 3b years and so know their value but because amongst these in lords defence Britain braced continued on Page 5. Column 4 Manitoba Rains help to crop Ottawa. July 3. Wet weather across Eastern Canada Dur ing the past two weeks has retarded crop Progress but rainfall during the past week has been satisfactory Over most of Manitoba and in Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta the Dominion Bureau of statistics reported today in the third of a series of telegraphic crop reports. About 30 per cent of the wheat is headed in Manitoba and heading is Well started in Saskatchewan. Some premature heading has occurred in the Regina Weyburn and Central districts of Saskatchewan. Early wheat in Alberta has commenced to head. Grasshoppers dam has been heavy in local areas to southwestern Saskatchewan. Hail was reported in Western Saskatchewan but Little damage occurred. Nazis perish when British liner sunk London july 3. Up British liner Grandora Star carrying germans and italians who were to be interned in Canada has Een torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. British soldiers were aboard As guards. It was reported that Many Ger Man and italian prisoners went Down with the ship. Safe arrival of the first detachment of German prisoners to be sent to Canada for internment was announced from Quebec last week end the German High command communique today announced that a Ger Man submarine had torpedoed the Grandora Star West of North Channel the Strait Between Ireland and Scotland. I about scantily Clad survivors were landed by another British ship at a scottish port today. Grim Holiday lady Astor hands a Mouth Organ to a Canadian Soldier As the first Canadian division left Britain recently to join the . In France. The soldiers were recalled to Britain soon after their departure. Fury rides the skies British inflict devastating toll London july bombing planes continued today to pile up a devastating toll against German military objectives. The air ministry announced today that the Royal air objectives in Denmark Bel Force last night raided military Gium the Ruhr and Westphalia. The ministry said Iffat Texel in the frisian islands , in Northern Holland were bombed to Day and the belgian port of Zee Brugge last night. One . Plane was reported missing. Yesterday s raids included bomb ing of the Battle Cruiser Scharnhorst As she Lay in dry Dock Kiel undergoing repairs for damage suffered in two fights with British naval forces. Other bombers hit the Homburg Oil refinery a viaduct at Hamm. An important target at Duisberg and a blast Furnace at Heiderich All in the Vicinity of Kiel. The Royal air Force also bombed an aircraft factory at Deich Shwufen near Bremen hit the Airport and damaged the works. Other airports at Wesel Cologne and Venlo also were subject to attack while Fleet raids on Germany continued on Page 5, column 4 n. Ireland volunteers called out Belfast july 3. Emergency mobilization of Northern Ireland s defence volunteers was carried out Early today. Every Volunteer in the sea Girt counties of an trim and Down was called out. They remained on duty from 2 . To Daybreak. There was no official explanation. Desert War British Camel corps clashes with italians Cairo july British Somaliland Camel corps rated the King s african rifles As the finest troops on this con intent. Has gone into action against italian Frontier forces for first time since the Campaign to crush the mad Mullah in despatches disclosed today. A. Middle East general head quarters communique said a Camel corps detachment engaged a Force e italian Cosantino. A Frontier on the British Somaliland ii Pian Border. Casualties were inflicted on the and one somali of the 2tnel corps was killed. The Middle Eastern command last night that fighting was a tinting in the desert front near Egypto libyan Frontier Between advanced troops and re italian forces. Ing was in the Vicinity of Capuzzo reoccupied by the Camel corps on Page 5, column sighted Washington july 3. Quarters said today an army plane had sighted an entitled foreign submarine off Pacific Entrance of the Panama last week. T116 submarine was described As i Jorge one that apparently would capable of cruising Long Dis 6o planes Are lost by Italy Cairo july 3. A the Royal air Force shot Down 60 italian planes in the near East in june and probably 25 others an authoritative source declared today British losses were not disclosed but they were said to be exceedingly Small. Rhodesian fliers from the South Are attacking ethiopian bases frequently causing considerable damage this source said scores of gasoline and bomb dumps have been fired. Temperature readings Low during night 6.30 ajn., july 3 12 noon july 3 2.00 ., july 3 j High july 3, 1939 for full report of Meteorol pc office see Page thirteen. To Issue statement London july 3. R. Attlee. Leader of the labor party and lord privy Seal in great Britain s War Cabinet announced in the House of commons today that prime minister Winston Churchill will Issue a statement tomorrow on the War situation. Are intensified London july planes launched the second Day Light raid of the Day on England this afternoon intensifying apparent aviation preparations for bombers were reported most Active Southeast coast. The attacking planes which crossed the coast came on the third straight Day of Daylight raids. The Sharp increase in air activity was met by Royal air Force fighters arid ground fire. Increasing fury shattered Homes and shattered bodies testified to the steadily in creasing fury of the German raids. In today s All Day attacks the germans killed two persons and injured 22, bringing the casualties for the last 24 hours to 15 dead and approximately 144 wounded. The raiders dropped bombs on the Southeast coast in the North East of England in Scotland and on the Eastern English Shore. Five German bombers were shot Down in today s raids one of a fierce fight off the Southeast coast. Thirteen persons were killed and 123 wounded including women and children in one Northeast England town last evening where six houses were destroyed others damaged and most windows shattered. A Ware House was burned and some damage was done in other Northeast raids on Britain continued on Page 5, column 3 Blitzkrieg. German Many places on the King indicates Early mobilization or it at a Che Ottawa july 3. Cd calling up 11 jct jul Al Al Btl Al of men under the mobilization a will not await National registration provided in the same measure prime minister Mackenzie King Tok the House of commons today. He was replying to questions from g. S. White con., Hastings Peter or. King said the government procedure under the act a matter of policy which would to announced in due course. It a not necessary to wait upon registry lion before calling men under the act and the prime minister said Thi government would not wait. Violinist sentenced London july 3. 42-year-old violinist was sentenced today to seven years imprisonment for posting in. A Tele phone Booth a Label giving the wave length of a German broadcasting station masquerading As British. Two soldiers who survived said the ship was struck with out warning. We cursed the a boat but not so much As did the Ger mans and said one Soldier. They were almost ferocious in their denunciation of this Type of warfare. Such was the scramble that we had no Opportunity of getting into another British Soldier said the germans were big hulking brutes who tried to sweep aside the italians in a Rush for life boats and had to be forcibly re strained. He added that the bitter hostility Between Ger mans and italians was apparent on both the Grandora Star and the Rescue ship. Train derailed Vancouver july. 3. Cars of Canadian National railways w e s 6 u n d transcontinental limited were derailed in the Fraser Valley East of Here Early today. Officials Here said no one was injured seriously. Hanged at Dublin. Dublin july 3. Maccurtain 22, son of a former lord mayor of Cork was hanged today in Mountjoy prison for the fatal shooting of Roche on Jan. 4. Detective John 18-year-old swimmer drowns in red River Winnipeg s first drowning fatality a of the school vacation occurred late tuesday afternoon when Solomon Kreger 18, of 128 Robinson Street last his life in the red Pritchard Avenue. Police dragged for the body Unte 10 Tuesday without finding it. Operations were resumed wednesday. Meyer Gilfix 14, of 327 Flora Avenue made an heroic attempt to save his Friend from drowning but was forced to release him when Kreger grabbed him by the Throat according to police Gilfix and Abraham Maltz 15, of 638 Pritchard Avenue were rowing a boat with Kreger swimming near the Stern. About 75 feet from the East Bank of the River Kreger believed to have been seized with cramps Sank from View. As the victim Rose to the surface he shouted for help and Gilfix made his Brave but unavailing Effort to save him. Kreger Sank in a few seconds and the other two boys hurried to the nearest Bank of the River to summon police. Slayer hanged Toronto july 3. Up Joseph Dlugos convicted Slayer of mrs. Annie Mysia in her suburban York township Home last february was hanged today. Solomon Kreger Berlin s worries mount As Balkan chaos grows Bucharest july conditions throughout the Balkans precipitated by the russian thrust into Rumania clearly were causing Germany grave concern today. Hunger now threatens to stalk up through the Balkans and attack her next Winter. In addition she faces an immediate curtailment of badly needed Oil supplies from meanwhile King Carol kept in close touch with the fort gored to death que App lie sask., july 3. Sej Bjerg 37, Dairy Man of this District was gored to death by a Holstein Bull tuesday morning. A widow and five Chil Dren survive. Where nazi bombers passed Powers which were said in diplomatic quarters to be Mak ing every Effort to Avert actual War in the Southeast. Carol was reported reliably to have sent a message to pre Mier Mussolini the nature of which was unknown and to have received a reply yester Day. He also received the Ger Man minister Johann Fabricius in a Long audience after the latter returned from a flying trip to Germany. These developments came after foreign minister Constantino arge Trianu threw out a hint that re mania expects German Aid in. Re gaining the provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina she yielded to Russia. I there were increasing indications of internal political controversy Jin Rumania arising from the russian occupation of thei provinces and involving reports that the hungarian and would be med proposals for 1 tiers and exch demands on Rumania ated on the basis of adjustment of fron nge of populations. 300 Decad in riots including anti semitic clashes which have occurred sporadically since the russian occupation Balkans continued on Page 5, column 8 Norwood notes Parachute Puzzle a Poser to police pilots people wartime jitters troubled Norwood residents wednesday when they saw what they believed. Were two parachutists dropped by a mysterious plane flying High Over the District the residents stated that the plane flying at an Altitude of Sev eral thousand feet nosed into a Steep climb after releasing each parachutist in order to give the falling person plenty of room to Clear the plane. The alleged plane must have been a stranger because there Are no privately owned planes in Winni Peg capable of carrying two Pas sengers Herb Taylor instructor of the Winnipeg flying club stated. Royal Canadian air Force authorities treated the matter As a joke stating definitely that it could not have been a service plane. The customs office at Stevenson Airport which must be notified in Advance of the arrival of any United states plane said that no such plane had been reported. Officials of trans Canada airlines and other commercial aviation companies said that none of their planes had per formed such a feat a possible explanation of the mystery was1 Given by the. Meteorological office which stated that the supposed Parachute junipers might have been weather bal loons. One Parachute balloon was sent up Early wednesday morning and a second balloon was released from Stevenson Airport about ajn., a weather official explained. With the prevailing winds the bal loons might have drifted toward Norwood he added. The Royal Canadian mounted police Are investigating. Coast town june 19 ;