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orrsws, Jan. 22—(C7P)—By doubling the number oi elementary

ilytng training schools, the number

of air training establishments to be scattered over Canada under the British Commonwealth Air ‘Pram- ing Plan has been increased to '17. it was disclosed today by Defence Minister Rogers and Air Vice-Mar- shal O. M. Croil, chief of the air staff.

These 77 establishments will make the whole nation a trailing ground from which as many as 35.000 train- ed pilots. air gunners and air 0b- servers may be turned out in a single year to join the fghtmg forces of the British Commonwealth,

Mr. Rogers anounced the locaton of seven schools and 'I‘ransport Minister Howe said tender; already had been called for the erection of the necessary buildings.

These were an elementary flyng school and an air observer "c5001 at Malton. 0nt.. near Toronto: ele- mentary flying schools at Windiflr Mills. Que, Fort William-Port Ar- thur. Ont. and London, out; an sir observer school at Edmonton and a service tlylrg schcoi at Camp Borden Ont.

Announcement will be made shortly ot the creation oi‘ two wire- less stllocl-l. cue in Ontario and are in Quebec. An initial training school has already bren located at the Eglington Hunt Club, Toronto

These establishments represent the first stage in the program whrch will proceed step by step accrrdmg to a tire-arranged time-table unti the maximum contemplated tra nlng capacity is reachid tn three years.

Thus perhaps 1.000 student re- cruits Will enter the initial trailing school at the Eglinton Hunt Club when it is ready. When their four weeks’ initial training is completed those se""i'2d as p lots will proc'ed to one ot the elementary tlying schools at Malton, Windsor Mills, the head of the lakes or Landon.

Those chosen for training as air observers will start l2 weeks‘ spec-

Coming Events

-U_ Ratc for Notices in this column 3 cents per word.

Mm "Klhkora rlall—Blngo and Dance

Friday iugnt. L-lsa-l-zo-ei. "Bingo and Dance Iona. llail Wednesday night. L-bilu-l-za-ll.

“New Glasgow rink tonight, Rangers vs. Maple Leals. L-islo.

"iPownai Rink ruesduy. Jan, 23, Dairy Kings vs. P. A. A. L-Sld.

"Burifs Odlltflit. Tllihsoay. Jailuury zolli. l. bflﬂﬂy.

"East Royalty Rink tonight Dunstaifnage Bombers vs. york Rangers. Skate alter. L-lii

"Poultry — l-ouyJlg live anti dressed poultry all kinds. Paying mp market prices. island cold dturagc 00.. Ltd.

Hampton, . tolllly Ll-lbb-l-Ze-li.

"Come to Social and Dance in

Pleasant Grove i-iall. Wednesday ev- ‘

"1108. January 24th. uood mus -.

L-las-l-zlizl. I

"Buying live hogs at Albany. January ﬂath, Friday 26th at Elner- uld until noon. signed u. C. Green.

M. W. T. Lt

"Annual Meeting st. Andrew's lags Circle in the (Jo-operative Store. -. Stewart, January 25th at ‘L30. L. Warren Secretary. L-7B5-i-23-il.

"Hunter River Club will not load hogs till January 30th. Lcadm livery two weeks after. Please lls 11085. Ernest Houston. Secretary.

\ L-7i0-i-ill-3i.

"Burns Concert, Montague Jan- uary 25th. Pipes. Gaelic Songs. Scotch Dancing. Readings etc. Come and enjoy; reaiBcotch enter- tainment. L-803-1-2Li-2l

"A meetfng of the North Side E8 Circle will b8 held in MB-Yﬂeld H“ Thursday. January 25th, 2 P. M. lJl-srussi or organizing a srﬂdlll Sir-Von. Full nttentianm Hﬁllwsl" - Au..ll|i Laird. Secretary.

L-"itl-i-lza-ll.

“The Annual Meeting 0T 131m‘ thaw Aid Circle will be held in Argyle Hall on Thursdav 25th dav of January at 2 o'clock P. M. Busivess cl importance. Signed Neil A. Mac- Nevln. Secretary. L-731-1-33-3l-

Facilitieus Ready For Taming Out l 35,000 ._I_’_er Year

Scheme For Empire Air Training Not Expected To Reach Maximum Efficiency For Three Y£a_rs.

| ementary

L-all-iz-il-t. _

Announcement by the Admiralty in London that three submarines had failed to return to their bases or to report was accepted as equivalent to acknowledgment that they were lost. Two of the veuels. the Sea- horse anJ the Starfish, were of the

iallzcd training at either Edmonton or another school and those to be {trained as all‘ gunners who must also be wlieess operators will pro- ceed to one of the two wireless

Schools w be announced lBlIIlI! class as Itqhe Srordfash, whllch - o r .

Plevlmlelll the PM" called l“ tllilgol-vlztll: (llie-Ulil-Isl: “iswlhovlllrai

elementary 117mg school's but‘ w" In (No 2 picture) It was another day's an. noement called for 20. ‘. '

h u me s“ of those angina“), subma u... of the Swordfish class fanned A‘ these schools puma which torpedoed two Nazi cruisers

earn to fly, first dual and then solo. °' "l" 97mm" and 1MP"? “"5"

Smaller size of the schools will permit the use of smaller fields and reduce the amount of new construc- tion needed.

‘l1 Training Schools

in the North Sea. The change brings the number of schools actually required in the

a ' ' to 7i alnst §l.'.‘“£..“'%.%i‘i5.'.l‘“ol§.. u. .2“ .. schools for the training of instriic-i

tors. technicians and EY0lmd staff. required to keep the big training plan in operation. Britain Bears Brunt Of Losses While Maintaining Trade

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For administrative purposes the Royal Canadian Air Force has been divided into two sections. one of which might be called the training section and which incl the whole of the commonwealth train- ing plan. and the other the operat- ing section which includes home de- fence and overseas forces.

Both are unde vice-marshal Croil and headquarters at Ottawa. 0 n A l l 0 c e a n Two Commands Routes e For the trainin plan there are i two commands. o. 1. eastern Can- ada. and No. 2 western Canaca. LONDON. Jan. 22—tCP)-'I‘he

Each command is divided into two training groups and a maintenance

roup.

g No. 2 training group will operate in eastern Ontario. ubeec and the Mariﬁme Provinces. t will include an initial trainhg school seven el- tlying schools (one at Windsor Mills. Que); Four service living schods; two all‘ Oil-Serve!‘ Schouls- n wireless school: a bomb- ing and gitnnerv school: a school Pf aeronautical engineering and e ght recruitng depots.

world's merchant sh'pp'ng losses ‘since the start of the war were pushed abzve the LUOQCUU-ton mark by a heavy weekend tcll 1n mine and submarine-infested waters. Lloyd's list and shipping gazette re- ported today.

Lloyd's sad that 260 shps of '18 nations. aggregating 1,063,651 tons, had gone tn the bottom to date through war ilfltlfili, collrlon or zroiincfrg: attrbuted to war con- citt‘cns_ Neutrals have lost 101 ships

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Lloyd's listed the losses of Bri- t; .~ ' n‘ l! Pmnlrr commerce on all seas despite the naval warfare-as l3i mercnantmh totaling 493634 tens.

GIFT TO FINLAND

MONTEVIDEO. Jan. 22 — (C? - i-lavas) ‘Pine Uruguayan cdabigst . wnlgm ‘lmm “wusv a Pmve ' Germany, despite the fact that its ggsllunlijnrlséeéiallgﬁrlfao éggffeasospfg: shipping fled from the seas at the bout $315001 tn Finland. The gft _*=:;-- _1":- < r l - must be rattifed by Parliament. I (Continued on page 7_ C01 3)

‘NEWS BRIEFS

Air forge plane imd flown over southern Holland today, and said the plane could not have been from the Royal Air Force,

statement which charged the plane was Brltl-Ih-

NEW YORK. Jan. ZZ-(APV-Communists tonight filled Mudiwll Square Gardon-ivhich seats some 20.000-—-ln a demonstration com- l mnmnrglin; the 16th anniversary of the death of Lenln Ind Pflllﬁiul"! the passport fraud conviction today of Earl Browder, their national

' . leader.

NEW YORK. Jan. 23—(TuQsllly)—(CP)-—The New York Times eon- ceded today that the United States "cannot have it both ways ln in- : ternatlonal trade."

Dlscuasing editorially the effect upon United States tflde with - Great Britain n: a result of the wlr. the Times nld the Unit"! 5W"

l; ‘discovering with a vengeance that neutrality and isolation cannot ' protect us from the dislocation that wlr inevitably bflllll"

OXFORD, England. Jan. zz-(CPh-sh- Frederick Whyte. director of the American division of the Mink"? 91 lnhlrmimm- “m "mum that m, United States is "on the eve of l. chlnl! in her whole I1-

latlona to the non-American world." 5|.- Fg-gdgﬂgk “in ln g speech that the “leaning toward the

"provoke n recoil into isolation."

CEUTA. Spain. Jun. 22~lAP)—Glbraltar's artillery opened up at ll P. M. (7 P. M. A81“ tonight and fired several shots in the direction

of the Strait. Shortly after a do.» royer dulled in the wpot where the shells had

been falling. She began circling. while a seaplane flew overhead.

OTTAWA, Jan. Zrl-(GIU-B. J. Roberts has taken over the duties of supervising expenditures in connection with the British Common- wmnh M, Trunk,‘ Inn-n Dumas, Minister Rogers announced today. Tm lhrer-yuur, $600.|l0»l.000 project l: expel-led to entail expenditures of $90,000,001) by September.

BERNE. Switzerland. Jan. 23-11mm”) —lAI'l —0ulserw Mom- 69. five times President of Swltaerland and a member 0f t!!! Swll

LONDON, Jan. 22—(Cl’)—'l‘he Alr Ministry denied that a Rilylll ‘

The Air Ministry's denial was in reply to an official Netherlands l

Allies" adopted In u» United States at u... outbreak of war might l

Government since 191.‘, died It his homo MN It l A- M- -l

IN LATISST NAZI Mov

Tvltree Subs Given Up As Lost

Russian-occupied Poland. many to operate more than

The German troops will ports said.

will be n0 big concentration frontier.

ment also calls for German

Rumanian border.

Russia was reported to troops from the region.

OTTAWA. Jan. 22-—(CP)—A credit of $100,000 has been voted bv the Dominion Goveriuneilv.

to aid Finland t0 Obtain toodstuils in Canada Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King announced tonight. Authority t0 establish a credit ;of $100,000 to enable Finland to spurchase needel food supplies in Canada was conta ed in an order-in- council adopt/ed last ‘Thursday but not made Public until tonight. The Consul-General for Finland will confer with the departments oi agriculture and external - fairs to ascertain how best thl~ libaislﬂlicﬂ may be transmitted. It is Rb-Sllllttd the olfer wii be com- miuiicated to the Finnish Gov- ernment for instructions as to .W.luL is mcst needed. . Finland l5 hot represented dip- ‘ lomaticallv in Ottawa but the Con- sul Gilicial lor the Dominion. A. J Jalkanen. has his headquarters in Montreal.

The beleaguered Finnish people are said to need cheese and but-on but since these are readily available in the United States and other countries which are extcndinl! similar aid. it la probable some other Canadian commodities Will make up the shipment from the Dominion.

Earlv in Januarv Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the Government was considering how best to aid the Dlﬂplf! cl rvrlund it was then intimated there might be a contribution in goods. Dos- sibly through the international

‘section of the Red Cross Society. l The $100,000 voted todav must .be used for purchases of f0 stuffs within the Dominion.

liar — 2o .ears Ago loday

JAN. 23. lino-British forces oc- cupied La Bassee, souhwest 0t .Lille. Bitter lighting at Nleuprrt, Belgium, where Allies’ artillery stopped threatcntd German ad- vance. Heavy snowstorm in Car- pathian mountains held up opera-

Quality Gives Flavour

"SALAIIA"

Canada-la Credit Finland For Purchase Of Foodsqtizffs

peded.

gave rise to rumors here last rslon of Poland between the Qermﬂlly Occupying a section in which Polish oil wells are

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(Continued on page 7. Col 2)

w “ “”T reports were groundless and that the new agreement af-

fected only the railway and the technical supervision oi

‘ the 0ll fields.

l By Erma" Morin Th e German technical

Associated Prgsés sllgkfnwrijlgrn crews are being brought in. _ _- - ii - _ _ y. .

.l.1?v{l§§bli§“l$l~@l¢at. tonight pac- ‘l “I35 lellfllled. “Ill! l} Vie“:

music? Géreat gldlﬂllhleigifn aulserltzilslli lo lncrezisnng production oi

y - ' ' _, we - - . .

iPmllfvflCrl-chlf the JHglXlllPSl" 1h- "flr a m" malerlalfvhlch

er ssamaJMaru 35 miles off the east i-ermany needs t0 drive her ccas of alllllll- ‘ <- - - ' The Jalialnew goverlynexlcéiedcclisaéa V u .11 machine.

a w -~ l" RHHIH" ' ‘ _, . .

{Qklglifl-‘e’ lag‘ G0rmans Saturclliv. l MYalhnv Dam-ans

‘YLWEFYEI! the right to demand return CERN

m’ the prsoners and requested a AUTI. Romania. Jan.

l-mn‘ ‘valydvpxplallﬂfiﬁﬂ. _ 2Z—(CP _llavasl--llle mystery

The British ambassador. Sh‘ Rob- surroguéling the movement of A __‘ ___ arme icrmuu furl-es inn; 50v. ' ‘ " lt‘l~l7l‘L‘llpiL‘t| Poland deepened (Continued on page tonight as travellers reported ‘_'—" arge Call detachments moving eastward t0 the junction of the ‘Rlilrnaniliin. Ilungarlzln and Pol- Sl Hill (ITS. . From accounts reachinzhcre, tin- S[‘(]'ll(‘ll(‘t‘ O (‘VPlllS ADDPEFS l0 llHY‘ a ‘been its follows: ( B‘ c. I On Jan. l4 the Soviet radio an- ‘rcunceri Rcfchssvchr units were on l ____ the way and asked the population PRLNCE RUPERT’ B_ C“ JmL 2g .io rcnln calm. _

‘__(cp)_.‘ynluary uuuloriuc5 wqay Later in the (‘av lite first Ger-

dccllned to conl.rm reports current lllflll ticlacltmeut fll'l'l\’(‘(l at. Lwoiv.

-liere that military gllllICl; and Brl~ _$_°"l9 B" SL111 ill Yllf Gilllflﬂﬂ Cﬂll-

tlsh COllllTibla police fred on pl-owl- l n1. but others left by train a week

ers discovered in the Prince Rupert

drydock. 1

The reports, which were without .

any oillchil COﬂlLllllillUll, said that l

on two suscessive n gills prawlers '

were round by military guards at ‘su

the drydock .‘1'he prowlers refused 1

to hall. on the order of the Kiitifds, I

and led.

r Pursuit oi’ the men extended out- K side the drydlock property. Hy the

time, provtnc al police lid 1031100

in the chase. but dPSIiltQ shots fired

on each OCCiVlOII. the intruders es~_

coped, the reports said.

HAMILTON. Ont. Jan. 2‘2—(CP\ -Canada should not have to "wait until a general election to get rid of" Prime Minister" Mackenzie King. LlIIIL-COI. George A. Drew said tonight in an address at a meeting sponsored h_v the Macdon- aid Club

suggested that Canadian people follow what he said was the de- mand of the British neopie earlv in the first Great War. "Asquith must go " He proposed the slogan ior Canadians "King must rm " Col. Drew declared that lhe statement that Clmnda is being advised on its war effort by ﬂrcnl. Britain is "n coniemntilill- defence for incompetence." Hart this been t. - case. he charged. lhcro would have been no slacknexs in the Do- minionh present war effort.

[German Troops

March In Soviet Occupied Poland

l Purpose Of Large-scale Move- ments Not Clear Despite

Berlin - Moscow Explanation.

BUCHAREST, Jan. 22—(AP)—Armed ces stood guard tonight near the

Official information received from Berlin cow revealed that Soviet Russia had zigreed to allow Ger-

Rumanla with Germany, by way of territory that was Po- lish until Russian troops stepped into it lust September.

It was stated Rumania has been zissured

The same sources said that a Russian-German agree-

ation of oil fields in Russian-occupied Poland,

RUSSIA WlTI-IDRAWS TROOPS

The German police move was Illill0l‘Si.00tl decided on after Berlin complained that shipments 0f goods were tie- lliyed and sometimes lost, that the train crews were re- bellious and inefficient in handling the transit, the flow of Rumztnian wheat and oil t0 the Reich was im-

NEW DIVISION DENIED

Arrival of the military police and rail crews at Lwow

said these '

The Ontario Conservative bender l

'Pte. MacDonald 0f Cardigan Is Accidentally Shot

DARTMOUTH. N. 5.. Jun. 22 -—l(.‘l'l — Pruate urban Joseph lilac-Donald, 18. of Cardigan P. E. L. was shot to death ioiluy while uolng sentry tluly ill. an industrial plant ilear here. A coroners jury decided ii. uas an accidental death.

Corporal J. I’. MacAuiay' testi- fied at the inquest that limo- Donald had asked him if lie hud any live ammunition in his rillc. "l opened the breech to show lilm." MacAulay said "and as l closed it l slipped and fell."

The riile dsrharged and the bullet entered MacDonald‘, Ill‘(k illlll emerged from the buck of hi; head.

Private MacDonald was a son of Malcolm MacDonald oi‘ (ar- digan. W. E. Mosley, Dartmouth. was coroner at the inquest and W. C. Whltlock. Dartmouth. ults foreman. The jury was compos- ed of civilians.

(lcrman for- Riimnniziit frontier in and Mos"

200 miles of railways linking

‘THE BEST WAY 1'0 MAKE MONEY co FAR is 1'0 MAlL i1" ‘To Ct-HNA w“

act as railway‘ police, the re-

that there

of German troops near her

technicians to supervise oper- neat‘ the ‘ I

have withdrawn some of its

and that

Thermometer week 0f a new territorial div- ExFrernes Reich and the Soviet. with H1311 Low

up to the Rumzinian frontier located.

‘RE r fill sun TROOPS IN ASSAULT

Fruitless A t t e m p t Made T0 Crack Fin- land’s lllamierheim Line.

(By Wattle \\l‘l'Il0I', Associated

Press stuff Writer) l HELSiNC-Fuitéi. Jan. 22——tA.P) l-Russlars Red Armv was rewri- ‘Od in milltarv (ilalXllCliBS today to have l(l.\l~ iiuu troops in a fruitless attempt to cruel; ll‘inland‘s Mill“- licrhclnl Line.

Heavy ilullllllg was reports-ti Yesterday's highest and lows-sf llOrlllCtlrl. oi Lake Ltulcaa in the thermometer rcztlinzs are indl~ direction oi KiLlidll Auilantlok. caled above, and llomantsi with the Russian.-

Qeavinq more than U00 dead on the blittlelloxis. The Rxxi Armv aDDear- ed relldv [or a new effort after

TORONTO. Jan. 2—-(CP)—"MiIil~ mum and maximum temperatures:

concentrating new supplies and lpawson 17B 15B ‘ munitions. ‘ _ l Vancouver l, 40 1 Another Soviet ntiadt at Taipale Edmonwn 13B 3B on the Kttrelian Isthmus was Rggum 21B 7 [mulled in its infancy" it tvas re- wvmnmeg 7 n ;i)Ol‘l0L_l in toilichts communique Toronto 12 2. .c0\'9l‘lllii Sunday's activities on all ‘Ottawa a fronts. _ > v L_ i F3 6 ‘Aiwr yesterdays fighting (at “on “:3 ll Tnqlalol lahout 120 cnemv dead 9mm“ ~43 b iaverc counted in our ioremost R4111" J°hn 5 Z3 positions," the conununique said. ham“ l9_ 29 ‘and on the glound in the front Charlottetown o :0 - - .__ __ FORECAST

Maritime Provinces: Fresh or

(Continued on page '1. C01 4)

Two (‘iandidates

strong west and northwest winds;

partly lfsldllldyﬂllltll cold with light

SHOW I 0|‘ lllT El.

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Ill. vlctorld (Oullty Synopsis: The weather has been _____ cold in Northern and Eastern dis-

ANDQVER‘ N_ B” Jan 2g _(Qp) ‘LUCY-S 0i Ontario and light snow -Nominutlnn dﬂy in-occcdulgs to- .095 OCCIITTP" 111 the 1»<>\\'l‘l" flak" Ff!- dny tor the Vlt-ttlrlli County provin- B1011 While ill m6 Pmlrle Pfmillrﬂ-‘l (llll byclccilnu hex: Motttiay ended ti. has been moderately cold Willi with two vanhitllitl‘. s experts-d. lll light. snoivtalls or illll‘l'l(‘S in M lili- tlio runiililg ior iltt‘. . M. resigned by lung, and sllCKRlCllOWiili.

John W. Niles. Libel-ill

All"l'llI-‘Y-ll"ll<‘1'=\l J li- Mfwdlr-l High tide this morning at 9.45 defeated in York liiihc provinclnlcl- 1mm “mm-n, M, 93);,

(‘Pﬁtllﬁllﬁli lflljbl. ‘NglJveinbl-r. lfkcpposcd in ii '

mm“ Y 0mg" w“ erlcmmer‘ Sun sets this aitcrnoon 'lt 4'43 valive Mr. Niles ave u his seat in . ‘ ‘ ‘ i...’ favor at Mr. MCNgitif. p and rises tomorow morning at 7..J.

The old custom of joint debate l on nomination day “ink “m (allow.

Full moon Jan 24. 7-24 pm.

f‘(l. LllviTilla’ lllJltl u illv-e-liilp bnl l v there inns llu ilillllli‘ vlaiw-llattvl- elllllllwrﬂilc UP? l" llllllillbi 19'" gathering: here today swollen at lllhll Pllﬂllkllwwlllb

the Liberal lllﬂvlllll’ nll-iillil-vl Mr. TllF. fAll H-Inltt‘ .~\ll.l\(.s'

Mt-Nnir. IIOll. l" . Pirie. minlstt-r

of lands and illll".~‘_ Hun. (taspurti

Boucher, president of the executive Leaves Tormvntine 11.00 v 3.05 P. M.

council. and Mr. Niles.

heart's Border. 9.45 A.M.. 100 PM. a. M.,