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22. 1939

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‘Premier Campbell Makes‘ Belated Reply To Charge, Of Mr. W. F. Alan Stewart

‘Claims He N-e-v-er Estimated NationalParkSiteToCostWith- in $15,000 As Alleged By Party Supporter Seventeen Months Ago In Pa gift Newspaper

Fllllll TUNER BEBLARATIBN I i S ll ll ii ll T

Russia, France And Poland Approached - Smaller Nations. Sounded-Out.

By The Canadian Press) LONDON. Mar. itl-Great Brit- ain calcd for a combination of Soviet Russia, France, Poland and hcseli German aggression tonight while sentiment creased for some form oi’ compulsory nat- iotul service at home to lit the llailon for new Iiurbpean responsi- bilities. -

Viscount IlaIifayI-‘orclgn Minis- ter. asked the three countries to sign a declaration with Britail announcing a common policy oi ruirtnnce to aggression and bind- ing themselves to _"consuit aa to the action they would take" if Chancellor Hitler attempted non-

‘Germanio Qtllithlﬁitl. Definite ml tary commitments

Will Probe Accounts And Operations 0f Liquor iiontrol Board

IREDERIUION, March 21 - (OD-Without discussion and without a dissenting vote theNew Brunswick Legislature today passed a motion by Attorney-General Mc- Nair setting up’ a special coimnit- tee to inquire into the accounts and operations of the New Bruns- wick Liquor Oontroi Board.

This committee will get iowork

without delay and is expected to table a report before the close of the nt session, which will n. 1y end up the ThuAl/ay be- to Good Friday. If the oommltt decides it is in the public interest this re . ma include itemized accounts whoh have never before been made public.

were envisaged by the declaration on vhich Iillllallla. TnrkeyJlrecce. Yugoslavia and Bulgaria also were approached with a view to their pesiible adherence later.

NEED 10R ACTION

The British view was that the

. four big powers should act quickly

-posslbly before Sunday, when

Premier missolini is to speak and

pcrhapsdeilne the Italian attitude on current deveiopme ‘s.

was un a Moscow will!!! . Q. s...» aslhthlﬁdti‘. so-

viet silggestim for an immediate six-power coraference to their positions. .

Other events todev included:

l. President Albert Irebrun France-wit Mme. Irebrun and French Foregn Minister Georges Bonnet-arrived in tendon for a three-day state visit. Lord Hali- fax and Bonnet were expected tc have conversations oi importance because oi the tfkise international situation.

i. ollver Stanley. President of the Board of Trade, announced in the House oi Commons that Brit- ain would re-examine "in the light c! (‘vents lnths last week" a trade lsreemcnt made last week between the Federation oi British Indmst-_

ti? and the ppe Indus- e. a Gemmn manufacturing group.

s. sir John Qlmon. Ghancellcror tgeugxcgvlridlizerQtigtrodiaced apgvll e pom .

merits from certain mono-elevat- lln accounts angular-tags

tvonttcued on pale s, Ool s) COMING ‘EViENli 1mm

Rate for Notices in this _ column lgosny_

banking Lfglgiers of seourit

tdlﬁtﬁﬁrhiii .:.:e*::.~im meow-asses u w ‘a. m emii-ses-ia-ril-z-s-tr.

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_ “wmzﬁiisvr-s-as-u. on Four - storey Building in Halifax ‘Gutted By Fire

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and.‘ ii t ltﬂlopmﬁl ihshliﬂlfr- w‘ Mimi! hi? Press

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l. S. REFIISES T0 REBUBNIZE HITLER BllllP

Seizure A 0f Czecho-

Slovakia ’ Termed Act 0f “Wanton Lawlessness.”

WAB-HINGTON. March 21—(APl -—'I‘he United states Government formall communicated io Ger- , ts "condemnation" of Chan- cellor Hitler's seizure of Czecho- slovakia as an act of "wanton law- lessness." te to Germany. made public m.

fused _ basis exists" for Germany‘ torate over Bohemia an

la.

Enclosed wit-bk the note was the ubilc ate omen issued last Friday y Bummer Walla. acting secretary

or state, denouncing‘ l‘ v or gacgtaﬁraptoéglry ext guishmen oi

By referring to Welles‘ statement

OTBV-

ited states vernmen put the statemen into the diplomat c or rclat one between the two

countries. The diplomatic mlesivc was brief. After ac nowledging receiPt of the March l . inform-

t said:-

"The Government o1 the United States has observed that tho pro- vinces referred to are now under the do fscto administration oi the German authorities. The Govem- ment otgthtg United States does not

rm at ag legal basis jiﬁis (Continued on pass 9. Col 3)

Minesweepers At Yarmouth <<>itfﬁsi.‘"it.“c.tlfl‘.i.'°“oiii sweepers and our» arrived hem tOI-‘llitht from Bhclburne, N. B.‘ and wgl sail tomorrow for Bain

' ionst the e two latest adidigm Han!“

y cruise. c Fundy is in command of Lieutenant see-ates. “has. ‘has milliliter n. Levy. e chive m

-or ‘itpfﬁaﬁ-si “it's s.’ t~~ nouns w

d WWII Itﬂdliin 0J5“

$15,000."

in! word I used.

sal

oi peace."

President clued that psrie and irien

men nts who; piglets!

gather.”

trlotwas

Declaring that he the cost of purchaain more than $15,000,” Premier belated contradiction of party supporters in the Patriot newspaper on Oct.

0n that date a letter appeared Ill the Patriot signed by Mr. W. F. Alan Stewart, Liberal representative for the First District of Queens, criticising the Government}!-

in the Park area and asserting: Premier that the cost-of the land to be ‘negligibleﬂ NOT

propriation procedure “We were told by our this province would

No con

course of his speech on th bell declared he had never that Hon. Dr. MacMillan, i recent Conservative convention, _ a man of straw and endeavor-lug to knock ium downutr The Premier made no direct reference to Mr. Stew _ ‘ Q, m‘ letter, nor did Mr. Stewart eyﬂlll!

- interrupt l]? Dill?-

“I never gave the Premier said. sion of 1086 a for the establishment tlonal Park and for of the neccallfy time the idea. oi and oi the mo was that the incc could be caliacd area of five hundred acres. If I remember correctly, in answer which was asked in at that time I did ticipﬂrilid that the the necessary trifling. I think that WEB

Subsequ ntly,"

Anglo-French Friendship is Stressed

peec freed lilinjtusdtiggeeglaiirquet in Buckinalllm

mshoeerrench 1451131 ar“'ved here will? 0n g was. visit repaylnc m Pa last summer gm ‘Queen. The usual significance. hWWW u or the current rowan "l" The Kind. drinlrln! w ti" of resident and

liﬁ“.%“..¢3§..l’“{..s will render a amt can”

‘Lcbrun the hanncny In

' battled the t m ‘mstaamm

the

that assurance." "During the ses- blll was introduced oi the Na- thc scourlns

lan . At that the government r a of this House Park in this Prov- oonstructed on a lo- perhaps four or

to g, question the Legislature say that I an- cost of provid- land would be that

he continued.

March 2i —(C P)—-

IONDON. ,. G90 V1 and PreeidentAi- KIDS urge n‘ “nswd

president and Mad- - that mode by the Kind mp assumed im-

invlew néutn Madame Irebnm.

nl:fh1nly believe that the cog;

tWO

in men "symbolizes

dsirie of two will?" We" territories are Iltlﬂhbti" N‘

of the world

inmtian blend io-

101" um-

had never on any g the National

tradictioiuof this se was made in the Legislature until yesterday, when, in the, e Draft Address Premier Camp-

occasion estimated Park area to be “not Campbell yesterday issued a assertion of one of his own. 17, 1937.

MORE THAN

edupan Reservists

take other measures t

given such an estimate, and‘ n arguing on that point at a “was merely putting up

who aatgrimly W.’ _. ....,..._._--.~ \ "two members of the Dominion Parks Bureau came to the Prov- incc and made a complete and dc- talled survey of some twenty-three different sites which were pro- posed as “ locations for the National Park. As a result of their survey they went back and made p, report, whbh was fin-wily sub- mitted to Uhe Government of this Province; and it immediately be- came clear to us that the Domin- ion Governments conception the magnitude of s National Park was entirely different from what om‘ conception had been up t0 that time.

"Although we had been given the necessary authority to proceed under the legislation o! that 16H‘. ‘we did not feel justified in pro- ceeding with the enlarged pro- g-ra me which was required by the cmlnion Government with- out calling in a full caucus of the members of the House and plac- ing the whole situation frankly before them,

"I believe on two different oc- cesio the caucus met and fully discussed the matter before any final decision was reached, I may‘ say that neither at that time nor at any time did I make an esti- mate of 815.000 as the cost. of the Park."

Mir. Angus MacPhea: "It may have been 350.000!’

Premier Campbell: “that would be nearer to what I did say."

"I third! possibly I mould d. press my appreciation of the atti- tude which has been taken by the Opposition press in connec- tion with this National Park sub-

,” the Premier said, in introducing the matter. "Ilhey no doubt believed that.

the establishment and mainten- anceofalhsrlsofthisnettneiu the Province would be of great benefit, and therefore I have not found in either The Guardian or '*- Journal any art- icles derogatory of the main prin- ciple. They have criticised certs details in connection with the pol- icy cfionemr tire other covera- ments concerned. They have - tlcularly criticized the m of procuring the land which was ne- cessary for the Park sttc. me na- turally those are contentious lub- into won whim a cabin . amount or difference or opinion ' was bound t0 still.

5'

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tbeywillbeabietoitendinoan- sdaand rrwiaseia car-

SENnsl-lieach Agreement For RESERVISTS Til

MAGINUT LINE

Undisclosed Number Sent To Border Posts —— L a b o r Week Lengthened.

Manila l1 -—(AP)-'l‘he Government tonight call- undiscloscd number of

assume ta in the t line defence aone near the German frontier. ,

e call was made shortly after

to call up Reservists and c {then the national defence and speed French armament became law.

‘ruse.

Blenders were set up in the Paris hat Station 4 _ the All Reser-

lllﬂlﬁ, “This Way For

.The ltmervlate called, many o! whom were from th

clause to complete their military service, had their military sum- monses checked at a station gate before boarding trains which took them to the northeast.

The Government acted under

Iwwrlw rowers with whi h r venteen-montha-old charge Iiaanent invqted us". m: weir:

en lengthens ' labor Week

even more than 60 hours Goverzmen/o considers it nec ‘Ihey will get less e pay.

Govemmen the decrees were " dent sign them returns Friday

London where he is visit. French

Almough foreign

0h oh British lgfforts

cl office oblivious to the Htlcrb increased strength his axis

oi friendship. Reports

c Laval might

plannlnl to send Laval

90101‘ ﬂbeclal envoy to Home.

Windsor micro pro

Q tug-ha time o!’ JIIUGW!

hhu

newt; t the co irom glint". t

aisosa I109

_

called on to stay on their jobs the

ssery. than previous

esmcnmwaafd PWP" TY" and promised more when Presi-. Albert Lebrun, who must from on a state capitalists and mid- o! die-class small investors feared the next decrees would hit them.

minister

Georges Boruiet. socom the gripﬁieonwtanatobuisfdogrﬁ the iortisalgnf q ge ng repor o . w: w of Fmnclb self. The Legaeion refused to corn

man expansion. Nor was the for- ism. might W0"? partner and lead Premier Mussolini to lend an in- wrest/ed ear to any French offer in chamber of deputies said former Premier Pierre B0 to Home in an at- temgt tnbrin; aboutbettcr French- I understanding. but the

iiremler gave no indication he was or any

Withdraws Play From Dominion Drama Festival

. March 2l—-(CP)—H. ll-Dturcan, author and dir- Orchard"

tcrio mgion- - l“ a

nu.’- of: h

emulation} as at ' wag ine ilcient

iﬂibh Wrrsmmiei 1 case novm

inefficiency .Q'IO the bot .

lionstruction 0i ileil

(BE The Canadian Pleas)

. N. B. March It-An agreunm between the ‘Iowa of Amherst. the Maritime winter-nu Qxnmisslon. and the Maritime Stock s’ Association was signed today rm- the construction of a. new arena in connection with the Winter Fair.

provided thatthe to cover i/hecmt town

Grants received provincial governments and federal government for the retirement of the bonds will be paid over to the town b Maritime Stock Breeders’ Association.

‘The agreement stipulates the As- soclation will hold the Winter Fair here for the next 20 years and will ‘ keep the building in repairs. The

new building will be insured for not less than $50,000.

NEW RIIMANIA TRUUPS CALLED

ulfgﬁii° mﬁig 3;: G e r m a n, Divisions °“’°' W“ m" W“ Mass In Moravia —-

Shooting Incident Heightens Tension.

t VIN. 8 . . .' has" Pore again

BUCHAREST. Mamh l-(AP)— Romania today called additional re- serves to army service as a rvslllt of concern over- reported cohcentnu. lions oi B n and Hungarian troops on her borders and the naass- lng of Gonna divisions in Morav-

ta.

The shooting oi one German b a Rumanian Jew and the unexpla - ed death by shoot

., ‘ secretary ere hei htened a feelirﬁ‘ oi uneasiness wh ch the Prime l

of a German

nistefs oiilce endeavored

to dislw .

' Police investigated the death o! Geor Schmidt, the German latlon Secretary. although German ua-rterg insisted he had shot him-

inent.

Earlier at Brasov, a 100 miles northwest oi Bucharest, Dr. Hial- mar . a German citiaen, was shot and wounded by a. Jew and {as said to be in a serious condit- on.

Shooting Fracas

The shooting was said to have cc- curred in an doorman when the German visited a Jewish community house.

Home sources feared the incidents might ke an international turn in view of King Carol's determin- ed stan against German trade 0r political domination or Rumania.

A War Department order for ad- ditional troops of the second Arm

uaLHrsnD

(Continued on 0841c 9. Col 3) Miners Injured In Inverness

N S. March 21-

(CFU-Two coal miners were hospital here tonlﬂhli and one was repo d to be

serious conditlo , after

riding rake in number one mind >llided with a fallen roof boom.

Both men were in a. box-car, a number or which constitute a rid- in rake, when the accident occur-

Archie Mulse lost his risht arm crushed under the

Til THE Bililllli n

argument with s V

LITHU

To Thir

d Reicli

mm" Fair Am“ Lithuanian Cabinet In Extras.

ordinary Session Is Reported To Have Acceded To Demand

\ n

KAUNAS, night that Germany

matum demanding cesalon of the territory

Lithuania, March ius, Lithuanian Governor of the Memel territory, an had given Lithuania a virtual ulti-

‘J V21—(AP)—Victor out u to-

to the Reich.

Gaillua said Lithuania had been told that if disturb

German troops would march The statement was made

the former German territory

Mcmel, Gailius said certain moved, but. that orders were

Deny Evacuation

East Ilreaty of Versailles and later plac- ed under Ilitriruanlan rule.

Informed sources said arrange- ments had been made between Lithuania and Germany for Lithuania. tomceivce. guarantee of the Gannon-Lithuanian frontier and certan faculties for the use of the Memel , which is Lithuan- ia's only ou let to the sea, in re- tum for surrender of the territory.

An exodus of Jews from Medici Masgbjilrvlrenaeuat-lkhiseaian officials were reliably reported to be moving their families out of Memel.

‘Ilhe Memel Railway Station was besieged by crowds. Telephone counmunication was so heavy that it was almost impossible to get a call through from Kaunas to Mernel.

It was reported here. without confirmation, that an entimGer- man Army corps had been moved (tic East Prussia in the last

ays.

Special Meeting

The special cabinet meeting fol- lowed an u-urrl cement by Dr. Ernst Neumann, Nazi Leader in Memel, that he expected "Lithuan- ia to surrender the Memel territory in the near future."

Widespread reports said Satur- day was the time limit for the re- tum of the former German ter- ritory. but the reports could not be confirmed

Informed soimccs said the Ger- man Fbrelgn Minister, Joachim on Rlbbertrop. in a. ores-ice with the Irit-huanlan Foreign Min- ister, Jousas Urbys, in Berlin 1m Monday had asked that arrange- ments for transfer cf the territory within five days be made.

Saturday is the date set for the

first meeting of the Memcl since the Nazis won an over- whelming majority of the diet seats last December. It has been reliably reported for some days that the diet at least would vote Dr. Neumann Plenary Powers and adjourn sine die, leav- ing hlrn in the position oi virtual dictator.

Dr. Neumann said today that continued association oi’ Lithuania and Memel is "economically and culturally impossible."

WAS MAORI CHIEFTAIIWESS

AUCKLAND. March Zl-(CP- ileuters)—By the death oi thc cen- urymolél Maori chleftainesa, liihi- Ki- ngi-Matawha, Msoris alon he west coast oi ‘the north islan of New Zealand have lost the last direct link connecting them with the colorful days of the noted war-

ls rior Ohio! Te Rawparaha. she had

lived at Kakariki Pa for more than ‘l0 years.

ltOlilllli, ‘March I1 --(Wednesd.ay) —(AP)-!I‘be Fascist Grand coun- dl stood firmixe ‘today behind Relchfuclarer Hi rs newest g:- tition oi territory in central - and wamed the demccraciu 3:1. a retells united front a- states would

of r. ,

1i cm not. however. give hint oi the me w Italy take to win ccrreliiiltidins . ages by pressing its colonial on France.

A brief attainment mid the Oouncil declared its "full adher-

NW might advant- claims

. to the lic of» the Rome- min Axisfptinx said‘ the action

was taken "in the face of the

threatened formation

Fascist ‘ Grand Council Backs Hitler’s Conquest

rob es - f t 0f the d ocrsocxl a “assocl and with Bcleirgvilsrn’ directed s- states."

It d bed front which is oi’ peace, but of war."

The council's action ended speculation over Italy's position mlldiilﬂ Germany's absorption of

a and Moravia on old Creche-Slovakia.

in foreign circles it had been noted that there was no publish- ed congratulatory message from iPremler Mussolini to Chancellor Hitler. as there was when Ger- absorbed Austria s. year ago.

As for Italian colonial claims a- gainst lmriee. Fascists now ex- Il Duce will tell them his plans in this direction in a. speech next Sunday celebrating the 20th anniversary of thc founding of the Fllbilt itldlfﬁmtﬂt.

many

ances occurred before transfer

meeting in extraordinary session, decided to yield to Germany in her

few the

of the Memei territory, in to restore order.

after the Lithuanian cabinet, was reported to have agitation for return o!

and its 150,000 inhabitants.

Questioned regarding the Lithuanian garrison in

equipment already had been being awaited from Kaunas

before evacuation of troops took place. He said Lithunaizfs answer to the virtual ultimatum would be delivered to Berlin tomorrow.

iietaiiatory Action Against The lII

BERLIN. Mllngh 21 — . German Econo cs Miniatrz studied the 26 a cent extr d which the Uni States has

posed on most German goods pans‘ taktrig can

sumably with a view to taliator- Mttilm. simititancousiy the a“ s...» - a i“ Britain, accus ' t/O bottle Dlmpe thro form a "sic . ' tcA "iiiéio biatt xetii” ddlnst s s s a Anibrican action. was made Boersenzelt . one o1 organs, but

research experts said the believed such action might be cirilcui Germany's most would be to curtail United States.

however. consist largely of

wheat and oopvper, all 1m

the German import so c terials.

German officials withheld so!» ment on a United states note do‘ blaring absorption of Bohemia an Moravia was 1110981. .

Face Trial On Arson Charge

( T, g, March ma- -Percv_ n o lids-lama

N. 5.. was as to stand t by Stlpendla‘

commi in supreme Court _ Magistrﬂte MacKensie today on 1 charge of counselling to arson. The - charge followed a fire

troyed the Burnham and [lobster lent at Saddle Island, o ; Mala , last Sept. i5. tu-“v ___.._?_.-_.

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MEIIJOItOLKIf 1C AL BUREAU,

Toronto. Maire 2i —-(OP)-—rlll.inb- mum and maximum temperatures: Dawson 30 below, 6 below montcn 28 —.~ 33 l‘.

Winnipeg Tbronbo 11 N ta/wa 4 2t Montreal 16 I8 uebec i8 30 saint John 28 84 aiifex 28 3t Charlottetown 12 It Maritime east: Frrh to strong winds, shifting to tgreyrly and b0- ooming colder wl light snow-

ialls or flurries.

High tide this morning at 11.41

and tonight at l2. a Sun sets this evening at tit

and rises tomorrow morning at 5.-

ts First quarter moon March 28,

8.15 am. Somme Bids. tide iii minutes Iat-

e-r than Charlottetown.

rns can asnav sansucs, Leave Borden 9-45 a. m. 1 p ll Tormenttne n a. n. ass a u.’ ~

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