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Enabling Legislation For Huge Project 'l‘o Come Before On- tario Legislature.

TORONTO, DOC. 27 —tCP) —Re- hiiuc informants said today that. Ontario's agreement, with the dom- lliltill government for participnton hi the St. Isawrencc waterway‘ pro- _'l\l has been completed in all btit niinoi‘ iletalls.

l- was learned also that the Oii- t.il.'i i-iovcrnniciit at the next ses- .~u:u of legislature openinl’, Jflll. i0 \\i.t lllll‘O(l\1tJC,€IlftDllll'_; legislation lOl the project “lhlcll will open the (ii-rat Lakes to ocean vessels and dcunop huge power resources Ior c1i.~..nt.t and the United States.

t ..ncluslon oi aii agreement be- Lllttll the prcvnnci-Al a2‘ federal tltll't‘l'lllll?lllo means oitawli now s '.ll u position to negotiate with the Unmtl States. This consummation oi ilic gigantic deal becomes ctcpzn- dcui tipuii decision of Congress at

4 ‘hzieton. President Roosevmt h.i if: iavoreil the waterway. l’t'.\.0tI5l_\", the Ontriho govern- . opposed it. Premier . icll Hepbiun of Ontario had ‘ txtcd to the plan on the ground .l i; ivtiuld provide increased wat- er tciirpciitxin for the railways ilnd that ilu- province would be develop- ll clvcirical power resources for \\ll1'.'ll it. had no need.

The slllllllOil was aaltei-eik sharp- l_\ |l\' the lhitbrcnk of the war. Can- : industrial nctiviiv IIICIQZTSPC ill... ouiurio soon may be faced witn ii inner shortage.

While the Unlei States congress u.i~. considering repeal 0t’ llio urnis

l‘llll)lll!,O. ODCIIIIIQ AIIICHCPIII UNIX!- llali plants to the alt-cs. Mr. Hep- burn dsclosed that he had with-

.li'u\\ii his opposition to the water- nut.

.\lr. Hepburn offered his co-opcr- i\'l(ill Ill the )l‘0_l£’('.L to Pitiiie Minis- m‘ .\lacKcnzle King during a con- l-n cc on Cannon}; war cftcrt at ()!l."l\\‘£\. Mr. King cominuiucatcu \\l ii President Roosevelt and short- li ‘.lll(‘l'\\'t\l'd .t was announced that iweotialion‘. were in progress bc- iwecn Ottawa and Washington.

GODBOUT TO CUNl-‘ER

QUEBEC. Dec. 2'1 -lCP) —Pre- li"‘r Adelard Godbout said today he ‘ ls to confer soon “with sonic- ’ in connection with the Si. luwrence scnitay project. for which VZLllJlIIIQ iegrlation reportedly will M‘ llllmtlllfffl at the next Ontnro lcutslaiure session.

'1 Willi!‘ have no news yet in an- nounce on the scuivav nriitcr." he .~tllfl. “I expect. however, to comer gfllhll _\!\'llll somebody in connet-iicn

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Jll-IAL. Kent, Eiigfiand. Dec 28-1 i I‘Eiursdny)—The British Yer-sell K"ll'\\‘00fl. 2180 ton» “as beached li*.'l,l\' after living rammed hi‘ an: tznulentllied Polish ship.

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Will‘ Inr Notices In thls column W011i! rcli‘

_ 8 cents per word.

"We buy goose and duck fcntii- Pl’ t. not mutt-u. Henry MllCFlllfillllf? M Co. L-ZM-IZ-i-if “Boyiie Lsd,;c special meeting 'l'iiinstiii_v, Deccinb: r JBlll, ll p. m. initiation and Financin. Biisinsss.

' L-HZ-ls-sb-l.

"Bdigo angi Dance, Putin-at Gui‘- Me Hall F‘ri(lzi_v, Ueqcinbci" 2.1.11.

L-IIO-lil-Jtill-‘el “"N<>ra, Wake Upl" will be presented in Klnkora hnll Tucs- Wi‘ Jnn. 2nd. Specialties, tlancc alter. Gcod mus.c. L-lki-ill-Zts-Lii.

“Mr. Farmer: We are bllylng live mid ilrcssetl chickens, fowl dab, i>_~i.\'iiig highest market prices. suitt Canadian C0., Ltd. L-lw-l2-2ll-I0l.

"Buying live lines at Carleton Billing Thursday 28th until i030 l\_ M. Albnny all day Thursday. glint-raid Friday until noon. G. C.

"@911.

“Poultry — Buy rig llve and d"‘“-"~“l liouliry all kinds. Puymg .op nfurkwt prices. Island Cold Storage Lu. Ltd. L'34l‘l2"l3'l4l-

"loading llve hogs Kensliialon. Tluirsnlnv. Dec. 2N. till 3 p. M rvvn Bulmun niizl Rav Hall: Iluntcr River Ffllllly noon. lSlgncd) MrEwrn anal elm L-IOB-LZ-TI-Il.

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IBritish Air [Victories Are Reported

LONDON. Dec. 21-461‘) — Air circles reported tonight that a lone British plane today at- tacked twn German destroyers and ll patrol ships, disabling one of the patrol ships with a direct hlt.

The Alr Ministry announced that coastal aircraft put three enemy bombers out of action In a series of North Sea encount-

ers. -

The attack on the patrol ves- sels occurred near the German coast, where the lone coastal (It-fence plane first dropped bombs on four patrol craft and the destroyers. and later on seven patrol ships near their base.

Despite heavy fire from the ships, the British plane dived tn the attack, and made "at least one direct hit.’ the all’ ministry said. The plflne return- ed undamaged.

At another point, British all‘- craft were engaged by tlvlfefi German bombers which “lleW in a tight circle to bring the cross flre of their flzont and rear guns to bear” on their oppon-

ents.

"This manoeuvre was brfllwn by the steadiness and accuracy of our gunners," declared the statement. adding that, the three

Dornicrs hail been “damaged and silenced." ln another fight between a

Briti h plane and a German Doriiier, the British pilot drop- ped bombs as he dived at the enemy plane and "llsrrouily missed his objective," the min- istry said.

New‘ Brunswickers Claim Rarest Fur Collection

SAINT JOHN. N. 13.. Dec. 27 Ail zissorlnieii, ol his pelts that iur cxpart. ieinictl “the rarest ever gathered tcgetncr" went on display U011) LCLZIIX.

They iupresent New Brunswick}; bid for first place In the luxury ttr nun-k ‘s of the world. ‘the skins o lroin ivrc to New York to be sod to iur salons patronized by fashion- able and WClllllly customers.

Sonic ol the f'ui's ore oi types never before offered for sale. One ])(‘.ll'l platinum. a huge heavy-lur- red pelt with the biggest p-il in the slioiv, was crud to be worth any- ivhere lrcni $1.000 to 510.000.

’l‘he {M110 estimate held for s. pliiliiiiiin ol paler color. tor line r-iig-nccked crosses showing platin-

um blood. for white-faced crosses and nthcr unique types developed tn New Ilriiiisivicl; and shown for the first time.

In the show. which ls sponsored by the New Bruiisivick Fur Farm- ers’ Assoc iiticii, the agricultural iCIIIIYlillCl‘ of the S: int John board oi irnde and a department store, ihcie are 1.23 pelts. many of them

YIZP-lklllllfll‘ and the others of ex- 11bit on s! ifaitl. The cream of tiic provinces iur crop was skimmed to make the cotlrction.

kllstcning

the pelts lire . silvers. From here they Montreal iur IIIC-

Moxt m tandurd will g0 to th; lions. limited. But the hlghl ght 1| s. 0t Dlrilllillmf. ivhlte-faces, 1 s and rare types of crosses utilise of their value, would

J10! b1‘ lilwl.i' to find purchasers this

side of New York.

iSwiss Mission Returns From iTrade Talks

BERNE, svwltzerfand, Dec. 27- A Swiss mission sent to Parts Nov. l4 to negotiate an economic net-cement with the Allies returned tn HTTP!‘ tcdiiv to report. that they were "far from agreement" with llw llllllslt and French Govern- ments and to lei new instructions

Swls< sources said the Berne Gov prnuicut had refused to accept tht Allied interpretation of blockade prncefitirf‘. 'I'liev added that the Swiss (internment was determined to inaliituiii economic independence B1 p11 lusts. although it was bati- Illll! uli trad.» between belligerent states across Swiss territory and nll arms llllll mulillloiis trade with

negotiators miiy re- in January to con-

T ‘c turn to

tlnue the conversations.

‘N S" T ll ll UFFIBERSAT MIlSllNllI lllllGE

Ceremonies Follow Annual Dinner At Canadian Natl0n3ll Hotel.

The regular annual meeting of St. John's and Victoria lodges A. F. and A..M. took place in the Mason- ic Temple lost night.

Victoria Lodge wasiconvened at 7.30 pm. for installation ofthe offi-

By J. F. Sanderson

Canadian Press Staff Writer IDNDON, Dec_ 27-—(CP CABLE) -Tnousands of Moslem troops from India. have lzmdcd at a French port to join the BrTiTTi forces on the western front, authorized drpatch- es from France announced tonight. (Havas News Agency in a dis- patch from the British-held sec- tion of the Maginot Line said it had been authorized to disclose that the contingents of Indian troops had taken up fighting positions side by side with troops from the United Kingdom.)

cers and St. John's Lodge at 8 pm. , Following the usual business, Past

Grand Master, Most worshiptuil Brother T. Gordon Ives, Installed the officers of both lodges for the coming year.

The officers are as follows:-

ST. JOHN'S LODGE N0. 1

W. M.—B. C. Keeping, S. W.—-D. T. Wave,

J. W.—J. P. Hillion, Treasr-P. B. Morcside elected,

Sec.——R.. E. Kemp P. M. re-elccted, Chap-N. D. MacLesn P. M. re- elected,

s. D.—A. E. MacMillan,

J. D.—E_ S. Giddings,

D. of C.-—F. A. Vanlderstlne, S. S.—R. J. Rupert,

J. S.—G. D Murhtson,

i. G.—L. W. Roper,

Tyler-S. B_ French, 'I‘rustee—L. Winchester P. M. elected.

P_ M. re-

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VICTORIA LODGE NO. 2

w. M.-—E. v. Bell,

S. W.—A. Foster.

J. W.—J. C. Montgomery’, 'I‘reas-W. J. Drake, Scc_~G. E. Procter P. M. rc-clectecl, Chap-W. N. Wilson P, M,

S. D.-A_ J. Haslam,

J. D.—G. E. MPCKIHIIOII,

D. of C.—T. E. Palmer P. M.

(Continued on bake 3. C01 5)

International

At A Glance l

MOSCOW-Soviet Russla calls ‘more men tn arms, rushes reinforce- ments to Finnish frontier: arrival of’ Bulgarian trade commission stirs speculation Russia may seek Beet-k Sea. naval base.

HELSINGFORS — Finns say fresh Russian assrult on Karellan Isthmus repulsed: Russian plancs bomb munitions basc.

COPENBAGTEN’ _ Battalion of Finnish skl troops reported driving deep Into Russia,

WASHINGTON — Presld ent Roosevelt consults with Jewish and Protestant leaders In plan to pro- Illfllg peace.

WlTIl THE B. E. F.——Moslern troops frnrn India trkc up front- llne positions. '

PARIS-Marked patrol activity reported on western front; two Nazi submarines sunk by French In three weeks.

LONDON—-AIr Ministry says Ger- man patrol ship disabled by Royal Alr Force off Nazi coast: three Ger- I man Dornler bomber puLout of ae- tlon In fight over North Sea.

STOCKIIOLM - Reported Finn- lsh troops cross Into Russia at sec-l rind point In region erst of Salln.

‘ ATTACKED BY 22 DOGS

STILLWATER. Mlnn., Dec. 26 —. (AP) —Atta.cked as he slept by ‘l2, dogs his employee kc t In the housrp because they had klled some live-‘ stock. Hemian Nystrom. 59-yecr-tiltl‘ farmhaiid. was ui hospital hereto- drv being treated for more tluiii 3000 wounds.

Dr. Hcnrv Van Meier snlfl he bc- lleved Nystrom would recover, bu‘. that he was very weak from loss of

(By The (‘nnadlan Press)

The Indian troops. regular soldiers of the Brltl-li Army in India, brought with them their own relig- ious leaders and special food, 1n- cludlng rice. turmeric and ginger. Some of their officers are Moslem and the others British.

Announcement of their coming was made a day after the arrival was announced of the first conting- ent of Australian airmen at s Uni-

(By Bernard Lacosle) i llavas Staff Writer)

l wrru rm: BRITISH

| FORCES AT THE FRONT,

I Dec. 27—(CP-flavas)- The High Command authorized this correspondent to dis-

_close tonight that several days ago the first conting- ents of native troops from lndla. took up positions at the front beside the British Expeditionary Force.

They were the first sub- ‘ects of the Empire except those directly from the Unit- ‘d Kingdom to go linto ser- vice In linlt formations with .he land forces on the west- ‘rn front.

They arrive in Europe al- "cady eampaign- hardened iv the recurrent mountain fighting In which they have participated at home. This experience makes them nar- tlcularly skilled in ambush action aind patrol ralds, which have almost mono-

- nnlized action on the west- ! ern front.

ted Kingdom port, and a little more' than a week alter the first Canad- ian contingent reached Britain and went into camp at Aldershot.

The debarkatlon of the Indian

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By Witt Hancock _ Asociated Press Staff Writer

MOSCOW. Dec. 2'7 ——lAP) -—Sov- .el. Russia culled more men to arms tonight, poured large _ reinforce- mcnts Into the Finnish flflhllllfl an“ revived her active interest Ln the neutral Balkans.

Presumably the men. newly mbb- lircd, were intended for the Fin- nish campaign There was no es- tmute of their numbers, but. they will be added to at least 0.500.000 men already on duty on various frontiers.

(Finnish general headquarters said last night that 300.000 picked Red army soldiers had been ru lied up to turn the tde of recent rever-

es. in whlth the Finns said at least 4,000 Russians had been slain in hrce days.)

Arrival In Moscow of s Bul- garian trade delegation: stirred speculation In foreign quarters as to whether the Soviet Unlon might be demanding a Black Sea naval base from Bulgaria. The U. S. S. R. has been con- cerned about its position In the Black Sea. where Its navy ls known to be weak, since Tur- key slgnrd mutual assistance agreements with Great Britain and France.

The Bulgarians want Soviet oil "roni Baku, especially since Ger- man began diversion of both Ru- uian an and Soviet nil from Balkan rade channels.

If the Sovct Union wants ex- plicit trade advantages from Bu- garlil. they have not been disclosed.

Minute conununlques printed in Soviet newspapers remained the only news available to the Russian

ople of the Finnish war. Izvestla,

government , nowcv

Russians Revive Balkan Interest,

e Section

English Newspaper Readers Receive Two Big Shocks

LEEDS, Dec. Tl-lCP)~Newspa- per readers in the North of England received t/wo shocks in a roiv as the old year was drawing tc a close. They learned one morning that the venerable Yorkshire Post and the Leeds Mercury had been merged and shortly afterwards the merged Journal pppeared with a front page devoted to news instead of adver-

lluakes Strike In Wide Area

(By The Canadian Press)

Earthquakes struck Wednesday tn four widely separated areas of the world.-

ANKARA—Vlolent shocks 1n Western Turkey reported to have killed hundreds and destroyed whole villages: available informs.

non-necessarily incomplete be- cause of the destruction of com- munication-Andlcated g great ca.

tastrophe.

TANGIER _- "Considerable" num- bcr klIled: a store, a bank and 0th. er buildings destroyed.

nos ANGELES, Calif-Buildings shaken in city and nearby south. ern California communities. but no damage reported.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador- City shaken but no damage locally;

tlsements.

The modernization left only two major English newspaiper~The Times and The Manchester Guard- ing-cllnging to the old form 0d classified advertisements on the page that is the major newspaper interest of many a Canadian.

The Yorkshire Post. and Leeds Mercury, as it is now called. an- nounced that in many letters from readers following the merger "the main request has been for news on the front page.”

Etnglish newspapers still have w acquire the North American tech- nique of headlines mat sell. ‘There was no eight-column line across the Post-Mercury front page. A bwo- column, two-line heading on the main story read, "Brutal Russian Air Ralds." A single-column, two- line heading told of “Skipper Who Beats U—-Boatls."

The new paper sell-s for a penny, price of the Leeds Mercury and one half that of the Post. They merged because of wartime paper restric- tions and the limitation of gasoline supplies.

A_ H. Mann, editor of the York- shire Post, has retired and W, L.

Andrews, editor of the Leeds Mer- ‘

cury, edits the new paper. Mann of- ten was called the spokesman for Anthony Eden but. frequently has been his own bold and tenacious mouthiplcce. For instance there was that deciding weekend of 1936 when he took notice of a sermon by Bish- 0p Blunt of Bradford and made it an event of world importance.

That sermon brought to English ‘ public notice the situation climax- i ed by the abdication of King Ed- ward V'III.

Troops

ran n special article entitled “White, Finland on the eve of its end. The article especially assailed Elltls Erkko. former Finrhsh minister l0 Moscow, calling him a “British hire- ling."

RIGA, Latvia, Dec. 27 —l_U- P -llavas) — t5 reaching here tonight from Finland sold that Finnish troops today took 5.000 Russians prisoner in a ma- jor battle In the Arctic war zone.

The reports claimed that. forest areas in the bitterly contested northern sector “were covered with dead and dying Russians alter the battle.

fimallml 1n Pmvinces not known.

Trio Drown In Northern tN. B. River

EDMUNSTON, N. B., Dec. 27_. ‘cpl-Icy waters of the Madawaska Rlwrr held mt tonight to the bodiesl 0f “"99 Y°11Tl8 Eldmunston skaters: who drowned last. evening.

Dressing operations today failed to locate the bodies. Divers will as. sist the search tomorrow.

l _'nl9 m0. Louis Magoon, 1'7, hi5 siter, Minnie, H, and Geraldine‘ ‘Plmlfde 19. bTOKc through thin ice While skating. There were n0 wit. messes of the tragedy. A search was started after the three failed w re..- ‘ turn home. l Discovery under the ice of a, cap‘ {and mitten worn by Magoo“ was. ‘the "rel definite sign that the trio {had met death.

The weather here 1351; mght ‘nd “today was below zero,

1 A public subscription will b; launched tomorrow tn pay the

I responses of B. Ceretti, a dive;- rom Borden, P, E, 1,, who is due to arrive tomorrow morn. l"! to lake part in the search for the bodies.

Two German ll-Boats Are Destroyed

By Axel De Holstein [lavas Staff Writer

PARIS. Dec, 27~lCP-HAVAS)— The Allied high command tonight announsed there had been renewed activity In patrols along the Allied- German front and at the same time disclosed the destruction of two ad- ditlonal German submarines through teamwork by French warships and naval planes.

Parisian; read with keen interest of a disclosure from the front that troops fromBrltish India had tak- en up positions sicle by side with British and French units which man the Maglnot Line.

During recent days Finnish for- ces were reported to have driven back the Russians who were Strik- ing down the corridor from U16 Arctic port of Pei-tame.

New snowstorm were said w be ra lng in the Arctic, addins l0 "1 d‘ flculttes of the Russians. Finn- ish depatches received here said that at least 4,000 Russian soldiers have been killed during the last few days in the far north.

In an unsuccessful attack across the frozen StRlKthtEs of Lake Suvan- m. on the Kmellau Isthmus. the Russians were reported to have suf- fered ‘700 killed yesterday.

Attempts Fall

WINGFORS, Dec. 2'7 ——Unsuc- cessfui Red army attempt-s to storm Karellim Isthmus defences were sn- nouncecl towgnt by the lflnnish

army, while Rirssinn bombers ham- mered agaln at key Finnish cities. Supported by heavy artillery bar- i-ages, the Russian troops attacked repeatedly in the isthmus sector

(Continued on pus ‘I.

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Argentina

j Rejects Protest

By Germans

BUENOS AIIRES. Dec. 2’I—(AP) _'I‘he Argentine Government an- nounced tonight rejection of a German rotesl. against Int/rm- ment of e crew of the scuttled gfizi pocket battleship, the Admiral

a! .

. Internment of the crew, totalling approximately 1,080 officers and men, was ordered by President Ro- bert M. Ortiz Dec. l9, two days after the damaged sea raider was blown up in the River Plate fol- Eoivlng a battle with British cruis- ers

Members of the crew are now ciAuarteg-Jed inditiie ‘Alrrizltinéllisielgluzval

sen ,pe'n n re tr ion In interlu- Provinces

OLL IS IHIG

6,000 Believed

Dead In Shocks In Turki_.s_h Area

Many Other Countries Feel‘ Varying Earth Tremors. Nazis Shift Scene Of Catastrophe.

ANKARA. ’l‘urkey, Dec. 28-(Thursday)-(CP)—l'n- official estimates today placed the number of dead in Wed- nesday’s North Anatolia earthquake at 6,000. Entire towns and villages were wiped out. Ilragmentary reports from outlying districts indicated that the ‘quake had rcachcd catastrophic proportions.

(An Associated Press dispatch said that some esti- mates placed the number of dead as high as 8,000.)

Thousands of fearful Anatolians camped in open fields, under icy winds. Turkish army patrols and fire

l BERNIE, Dec. 27—(CP Havzis)—The German News Agency tonight movctl the Turkish earthquake 2.000 miles iicslivzirtl. - A llzivzis ilispzitcli (lcscrlbing the 'qtial\'c \\'lilCl1 shook Anatolia this morning was reprinted hv the German agency with a Tllllglfil‘, hlorncco, tlzitelinc. Throughout the story Lasalilziiica, french Morocco, was suhstittiterl for Turkish localities. "The (jovcriiiiicut llllllb lilllllllll . homes and itiosriics g _ I _ wcre destroyed at Casablanca,” the Gcririan version said. "Inhabitants 0t the. (lestmveti llOlhCS are camping in the npcn despite the intense cold." \\'liv the Reich agency rlcsirctl its‘ renders t0 believe , French Alnvncco ll{l(l l)('(‘lI visitctl by an czirtliqiizike was i not imtiictliatcly apparent.