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Build Up Foreign Creditsllor Goods

Chamberlain Turns Down Labor Proposal For Economic Minister WituVide Powers.

(By J. F. Sanderson) (Canadian Press Staff Writer)

LONDON, Feb. 1 —(OP) An export drive to build up Britain's overseas trade in wartime and 5}i(*(’d up accumulations of forei-zn currency, particularly dollars. was announced by Prime Minister Chamberlain today in the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister turned down the Labor party's sugzestion that he u >polnt a. Cabinet, Minister with “id irend rowers over the ec- o. n c side 0f the nation's war ef- iwrl. The House supported his de- ClSiOlT. rejecting the Labor motion calling for such an appointment by n rate oi I85 t0 90.

Mr. Chamberlain predicted "vr-ry ca tderablc" resuits would de- vilcp in export trade as a result o.’ the appointment (f an export council uu"ei' the nresdeht of the Bard of Trade, Sir Andrew Rae ‘Juican

Day's Developments Otlicr develspr. ents oi the day rd‘

r"‘i .

' e list. of casualties of the at. sea was swelled bv the ad- of the 460401 Nnrvvcqlaii c‘. Fingal, 1 whiei trout. down o’! Scitland after an explosion; tic ~l~l'i0-ton British steamship Biuicrcst, mi-pedced and sunk last

Saturday: and the 1.524-ton Swed- ‘ish freighter Sylvia, bombed and sunk last Saturday.

2. The war office announced that "certain irerseas defence bat- talions." composed Of men from 35 to 50 years of age, "Will shortly be proceeckng overseas" to guard bases and ammunition dumps and per- fcrm other duties.

3, A financial agreement be- izceh the Government and the Railway-s is expected to be com- pleted soon after which the terms will be outlined in a white paper.

Mr Chamberlain pointed to de- lays. disagreements and other dang- ers that might result ii a super- mlnistcr had rovinv control over their ministers in charge of vari- ous departments, even over ‘the treasury,

“It scenis to me the existence of ‘a minister who would be the dicta- tor over all (economic) departments , . . would change the position of the Prime Minister." Mr. Cham- b "lain said, “and I do not see what the Prime Minister would have lcft to do by the time this grnllelnali had elven his orders to all departments."

More Harm Titan Good He believed introduction of _“t.his

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=PSlé§ChEI~ge New

Nazi Persecution

IlOMF. l“cb_ 1-(AP)-‘l‘he Polish (‘Irvin's to the Vatican and to ltuly added a new chapter on alleged persecution of Poles by German. to- llziy. charging the Nilzls with kid- illlpplllg Polish women i'or forced laiioi" on larmi in the Reach.

lii ll. second pamphlet, ampuiymg a lirst which alleged persecutions at pmsts and Catholics, the Polish goieriiment charged 15,000 Polish loaders had been executed in Ger- iuiii-aiuiexed Poland in a mass "ex- loxiuitniilon aimed at, i-llc entire pap- lihtiillll and that 50.11100 had bccri urporlcu,

Detailing many stories ot ails-zed cruelty and starvation, the pam- phlet Hard “the most frequent prlic- tic is to kidnap Poles and scnd liclm to forced labor 0n farm. in ‘Klinllr '. ivur this purpose raids on -‘-l . cots are organized, and all will cannot show vrorkiug permits 81f arrested. Pmﬁflllwllnles the trucks

stop 1n 0i the queues outside stores.

°""i"*“‘“ "IQ-fly of women. Those?

“l "Hf ime arc lcrccd to get into ill‘; l!ll('l(\ and are taken to work ill the ilelds."

ltlgélilllillvs taken by the Germans. dawn ciimcd. were in continual “HM g0 execution on the least ., Vi}; ﬁsh as the tearing’ down oi ‘> “ ' "l; by 501m? mrson uu-

cgaiigieveai.

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'_‘S2ilvati0n Army Rummage salc Frill-ﬂy. FPbPUBrv zha. 1.30 P. M. L-i7-2-i-2i.

"Pcultry Wanted. We need large quniitlu- Fowl and Chickens. Prices “c 30W!- (The Royal Paclchg Co.)

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"Borden Rink tonight. Tip Too ‘"10"’. Mlddetcn vs. Cape Trav- ta L-60

(‘we Three 5 m YJTEMt Roviiiiv Rink wniiait. ‘k Rﬂnirers vs. Dunstaiinaae

Rf“ Wines. Lmuzue game.

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known to the hostages

'l‘he dmument said one man was imprisoned fir five years at Poznan ' 1e he ovmed a movie theatre e a, film. "Confessions Of A N 1.1 spy" was shown ia=t June- b-eizirc the German occupation.

'I‘l~.c Germans were rcpurlcd to be treiitnng the Poles as an interior people, making them take oii their hats to German officials in the street. to wait in the stores until Llcriuans have been served, and to stay oil sidewalks reserved for Germans.

Concerning alleged execution oi 15.000 Polish leaders and citing other acts of terror. the document

Will-

‘lhese executions are continuing now throirrhout the territory oi Western Poland and have the char- acter of an extermination particu- liirly brutal. aiming at the entire ‘population!’

A Vatican source said tonight that

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British Airmen Plan Reception For Nazi Planes

LONDON, Feb. 1 —-(OP) —'I'he men who direct Briksinks air de- fence have rushed ]J'i‘B])t1i‘8i,i0l'iS to

‘mcct any German attack they be-

lieve may develop with improving weather and longer days of spring.

Discusshig British aerial pro- gross, an informed aviation source said today the new Defiant lighter could fly alongside a formation cf enemy bombers and "rake them with gunfire from nose to tall."

“There is evidence the Germans are pressing construction of fast. londg-range bombers," this source sai .

"A new medium-sized high-speed bomber now being produced in Germany is likely to be used in considerable numbers in any full scale air attacks the Nazis may Bt- tempt."

The new German plane is do- scribed as the Jii 8B. a twin-mo- tored junkers built primarily for speedy performance at high alti- tudes. It carries a crew of three or four and three guns-one in the nose and one above and one be- low the fuselage.

‘rhls craft, however. has no gun in the tail, which Britons regard as a vital "stinger" in their Wei!- lllilmns, which have twice the 1.- SCO-mlle range on the Ju B8 but. possibly less speed than its maxi- mum 01315 M_ P. H . which Brit- ish authorities concede is "good for

a bomber

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Teamwork In The Arctic

to camps on the northern front.

Japan Makes lteaily For “lted" Trouble

TOKYO, FBI], i-(AP) — A seven-year arms program cost- lug $611,000,000 “as nrcscniﬂl by Japanﬂs military leaders today to a Parliament stirred by the warning that the army is main- ‘alninz a close watch on soviet ‘Russia's borders because of‘ “scores nt’ illegal acts" enm- witttcd by the Russians.

The ivarniug was sounded hi’ ' War Minister General Siillnrﬂlill llata amid growing tT"i'iiiIi'\(I\' for rem-Tatiana to alleviate fur-i and food shortages and step "it Japan's war time orlZ-"lililml" l behind the guns. u ‘ iinta, said the “tlir-rral acts ‘ ﬂown-p.‘ m, brvwﬂpfﬂ‘ other than between

we (llsnuieil frontier . gmm-honliuo and outer Mon- ! gnlia, where five month! 0f I qnorpﬂk‘ hut, Mir-r fightirg was ended Sent. 16 by a. trilee be- tween Moscoiv and TORY" ‘iilanehnukuﬂ. .Y"I1"\"~‘ lifllvifmr‘ ‘ ate. has a border of more tilt!" 1,000 miles with Soviet. Slbﬂflﬂ-

iENTII-liiiiiilll;

MEETING 0F

Enjoyable Program Under Auspices Of W0meu’s National Conservative As- sociation.

More than 400 people attended ll social evening in the Oddfeliovrs mill last night, under the auspices of the Women's National Con- servative Assoclatlon. And in ad- dition to this many more Were unable to gnin attendance when space iii the hal was at a 13W- mium. An interest-lug program was presented including addresses FJY Mr. J. C). Hyntznian, candidate for Queens, and Hon. Dr. W. J. P. facMlllan. Provincial Party Leader. Regrets were expressed that Mr, W. Chester S. MeLure was unavoidably absent. A splen- dld program was presented.

Mrs. J A Maodonaid. Presi- dent of the Women's National Con- servative Association, welcomed the visitors wit-h a few well chos- en remarks. She said that this

ssociation to OPEN l! POWUCB] :g|npn,‘Rn—F€fi8l‘l\l or Provincial. and she hoped that it would be a

men.

8031,30 J. O. Hyndmnn, Federal candidate for Queens. told the audience mm. he had nevi-r bad any political ambitions but as the ppunle had nominated him, lie would do all lie could lo help this Province. He referred to the es- tablishment oi the ear ferry b)’

CGitSERTATiiIES l

was the first time for the Women's -

Ski-shod Finns produce the pulling power for this boat-like supply sledge sailing across the snows

Exclusive picture showing unique method o! transport was taken

fWidow, liaiighter iFoumi Slain a

MONTREAL. Fdb. l-(DPF-A 56-year-old widow and her daugh- ter, their heads battered Ln. ap- parently bv an axe. were found slain tonight in the basement 0f their suburban Points St. Charles home.

The victims. Mrs. Marv Fahev and her Zti-yera-old daughter. Lorette. were found Rt the foot Of the cellar stairs bv another daugh- ter, Winnlfied. when she returned home from work. Police believe the uromcn had been httacked during the afternoon and that their bod- ies then were thiowii down the

by Eric Calcraft, NEA staff photographer traveling with the Finnish armies.

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Positaia

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Is Slugged

GLACE BAY ,N, 8., Feb. 1 —(CPl —<An unlnown assailant wdav slug- ged tmastcr Angus MacLeod of near _ Dunkiri and robbed the vil- lage postoffice 0f about $400. Beaten into unscioiisncss McLeod was found on the floor of the building by a. man calling for mail.

McLeod said he was bludgeoned as lie went to the front of the

(ling to remove the shutters from the windows this morning. Ap- parently his attacker had entered through a back window.

The postmaster ivas not seriously injured. ..

NE WT;

an otherwise static western front. evening: "The day was calm on the

WASHINGTON, Feb.

Norway, Denmark and Finland.

ed as when he was imprisoned on

United States. BELG RADE, Feb,

involved in the conflict. First session t1 p. m. AST) tomorrow.

complete tests.

PARTS, Feb. 1—(CP Havms)-—Heavy [ling blazed away across the Rhine today as French and German artillery sought weak spots in each other‘; steel and concrete defences.

casemates oi both sides of the Rhine."

l--(AP)—-Prollminary North Atlantic airmail route from the opened at the State Department today with representatives of Sweden,

AUBURN, N. Y., Feb. I—-iAP)—CBp&ln Ivan Poderjay, blgamous husband of a bride who vanished on her honeymoon seven years ago. awaited with ill-concealed annoyance tonight. his deportation to Yugo- slavia. Emerging from Auburn prison almost as (Tapper and well-groom-

promptly detained at. Cayuga county jail pending his removal from the l

l-(APJ-Rumania, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece, their Balkan cntcnte strained by the war, prepared tonight M discuss a plan for "economic neutrality" to save them from becoming

WASIil-FNGTON, Fob. l-(Jiiﬁ-Tha United States Army took the wraps oii one oi its newest air weapons today, a cannon-carrying pur-i suit plane designed to make 100 miles an hour, but delayed giving it

LONDON, Feb. 1—(CI')—CrcwI of two vessels, one tolling the story of a "nightmare voyage" in open life boats in which l3 froze to death, and another describing the sinking of a German submarine were landed at Eire and west coast pork tonight.

BRIEFS

The artillery duel brought to life The French communique said this whole. There was artillery fire from

,, “ tlons for u United States to Scandinavia

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The attack was made at

aerial bombardment.

Viborg.

Ostermann, there had been reduced to a

to Lake Ladoga.

REPULSED

The communique told of the repulse of Russian at.- tacks in the Arctic Petsamo area, on an island off the northeastern in which the Red Army suffered

The Russian land attacks were creased bombing attacks on Hziugoe Abo (Turkii) in southern Finland,

north.

Helsingfors’ first midnight, air raid alarm chased the citizens out of bed into their bombproofs at 12:05 a. m. today. No planes were sight- ed. however, and the alarm was ended after 20 minutes.

Buildings Fired

Several buildings were set afire by incendiary bombs at Rovaniemi. but curly re- ports indicated few persons were killed.

President Kyosii Kaliids appeal to end this “bar- baric, senseless attack" was firmly qualified by the as- sertion Finland would not cringe before “imperialistic aims.”

The President used the final. solemn session of the war diet as a sounding board fo- his pica, but it was addressed iealiv t0 the Soviet Government which docs not recognize his government, and which does not even admit it is "wallinir a war against Finland." Russia invaded Finland two months M20.

The oiilv roolv was an author- ized Moscow statement which said the Soviet-proclaimed “people's government" was the only one Moscow recognized in Finland and that Russiafs relations with this so-called regime were “peaceful and friendly." Soviet statements usually refer to the Kalllo Gov- ernment and its annles as “Fin- nish white miards."

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Yesterday Was Exciting For Canadian Troops

(By Edwin Johnson. Canadian Press Staff Writer) Aiinnasriorr. Eng-and. Wb- 1- Four developments made this rliv an exciting one for the Canadian here

oops encamvod »

F359“ a heavy shipment oi mail arrived from home: Y-hen it ‘Val Day day: weekend leaves were re- stored after ternborarv su-“Wlleloﬂ due to the severity oi the iveather. and finally a generous HUI. iiru- vidcd the cam/p with radio cnzer- talriment.

Qarﬂeld Weston, Canadian manufacturer who now is a. mom- ber of the Lnodon House of Coul- mons, made a special visit to 1,16 divisional headquarters to DPQh-PHE 500 radios to officers, non-cum- niissloned officers and men.

In presenting the first set to Malor-General A G. L. iticNautrh- w“. general grime; ctJilllli-Elllﬂllll

Summa, 20 miles inland from i

the coastal fortress of Koivisto, which has withstood nine weeks of hammering from land and naval

artillery and

ATTACK CONTINUING

_ Advices from observers with the Finns’ Kareilan army said ‘the attack was continuing, with the entrenched Finns holding doggedly to their positions 20 miles south of

The Russians began digging in on the Karelian Istli- . _mus front last month. and on Wednesday General Hugo Finnish Commander-in-Ciiief, said the war

“war of position.”

The Karelian attack coincided with a Finnish com- munique which indicated the Russians were attempting to resume the offensive all along the line, from the Arctic

IN ARCTIC

0n the Saila front, and short of Lake Ladoga, “heavy losses."

strengthened by in- (Hanko), Kotka and and Rovaniemi in the

Councﬂ Seeks Increased Aid

J. W. Boulter Elected Chairman 0f Potato Committee Of Can- adian Horticultural Council.

O'I'I‘AWA, Feb, l --(CP) —Siib- l stantially increased aid in 1940 tort 01111114185 $50,000,000 annual industry-in "desperate" because o1 the reduction of exports since the war-was urged today by the Canadian Horticultural Council at its annual meeting,

More assistance for the industry this year was recommended because of the ahliopatcd disappearance of the export market in i940. Ap- proximately half the nation‘; apple Rréocluctloh is exported orcilnaril .

st fall exports ivere cut in haf became of the war and it is ex- pected they may disappear entirely this year.

(‘rcorge H. Mitchell of Thornbury, Oht._ was elected nrcsident of the Canadian l-Iorticultural COllflcil for 1940 todav at the conclusion of the lcouncllls annual meeting.

Other ollicers are: H. A. Slipp, Kcswick. N. 8., first vice-preslden - A. K. Llyod. Kelowna. B. C.; second vice-president; F. A. Lewis, Vernon, Honorary president; M. V, McGuire. Vernon, past president: L. F‘. Bur- row; Ottawa. secretary.

Directors: E. B. Luke, Montreal. chairman; C. .1. sanders, North Bay, Oiit., George H. Wil on. Palmouti, N. 5.. and R. E. Gotibout. Montreal.

Committee chairmen: publicity and marketing, W. J. Tawsc, Mont- real; plant rcgustratlon- M. B. Davis.

Ottawa; transportation, M. V. Mc- Guire, Vernon; GCOITDXTIIQE, W. H. Robertson. Victoria; research Dr.

Arthur Gibson Ottawa; legislation.

(OPy-Todny was the half-cen- tui-v mark for Nova Scotias lye- Blanc triplets. thousrh they didn't wt torzether for the occasion. Now mattered from their lnrth- place in Church Point Villmze, the three are Dr. Emile LcBlanc West Pubnioo. near here:

"l | ‘Mrs.

ii. L. Craise, st. Catherines, Ont‘ finance and membership. A. , l.tb,\'<l. Kelownn; potato, J. W. Boili- l tar.’ (llllifililiitllQiVll.

Iiibrnli-c zrEon oi Yarmouth and Mm ltiiuh-leihe Leblanc oi Bos-

ton.

the Canadian Active SOITICC Force, wesmn a former 'l'ill‘t)llbl.iil.lii, exprggged hype the gift, ivoiild bring chem- to “this splendid body o! men". He announced that rid- ditional sets would be forthcomi- ing with the arrival oi further

u came to life with an onslaught aimed at Viborg Olin-Adm“ “m” m‘ ‘his ‘Mei (Viipuri), Finland’s second largest city.

General McNaughton thanked him im- the gvfit, The sets were distributed among the unzts and until “lights out" sounded. music issued from almost every billet.

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New moon Feb. B. 1.43 n. m.

Summerside title ill in uiw». litr-r than Charlottetown.

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H OFFENSIVE

iUse Ne; Tactics In Unexpected

Attack 9n Finns

Swarming Warplanes Back Armored Sledges In Fierce Offensive

Against Mannerheim Line.

(By Wade Werner, Associated Press Staff Writer)

_ HELSINGFORS, Feb. 2-(Friday)-(AP)-The Rus- sian army struck unexpectedly at the Mannerheim Line today employing a new offensive technique with armored sledgcs supported by a swarm of 130 airplanes. The attack began last night as Finland's President was issuing an ap- peal for an “honorable peace.”

_ The Red Army, which has been inactive on the Kare- lian isthmus since mid-January while fierce battles were waged along the Arctic Circle and north of Lake Ladoga,

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