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By l-P.I II.M| Collin Ill I-I- ‘JO

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F INNS CUT OFF RED T RQOP

NEW BATTLE FLAG

IIARSHIP is llAMAiiEllBY

"Nil ZAI AUTBBAT

Ship Roaches Port Under Own Power W"'"h Four Missing And One Injured

LONDON. Dec. 29-—iCPl -—'I".ie British battleship which suffered "some damage" when tcrperioed by a German submarine, reached port under her own steam tonight, the Admiralty announced.

Casualties aboard were given as four men missing, believed killed. and one seaman seriously injured.

The extent of the battle-ship's damage was not reverted, and it was believed wouid rot be know/n until the ship had been carefully examined.

Earlier, an Admiralty communi- que had briefly announced that "a torpedo at-tirk has been made on a Britigi; battleship by a U-boat" and 1‘ at “some damage was caus- ed " .<“irst reorirt was that three had been kiled

The. announcement was made af- ter tile German Hiali Command is-. sued a cirim that a “ritish babie- s‘ ‘n of the Queen Eilcoboth class ll~d been tcroozivd "ivest of e.

\ . 0.. , "t... 'l"here was no disclosure as to the name of the vessel or the place or

in" of the attack. N

There are five »hlps in the Queen Emiabeth ‘filers, the Queen Eliza- beth. Warspite and Valiant, all of

30.600 tons, and the Borhnm and Mcwya, 3i,i00 tons. Th9 oldest battleships in the

RDYITI Nnvy, they were laid down brine ll" lost war and c"m'ilei'e'i in i915 or i918, but have been extens-

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Coming Events

p-U-n Bate for Notices in this column _ 3 ccnts pcr word. a

"Auction iuid Dante in Vernon Brill, wciilicsulli’. Jziiluiiifl; orii. n-ssl-lz-BO-Bi

"Dance, Leg-cu Hull Mt. Stcwol i, Januiily 1st. Ll-Joa-la-oU-li

“Vie buy goose and duck_lca.ti- 91D. not iilJ-Uil. Helily lViiicr -

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"Opening skate Milton Rink Monday night. skating B til. lo O'clock. L-243

"Mr. Former; t.e are buying ll\e and urcsieri chickens, iowl cal, puylng lilghcst, iiuirkct prl Saki

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Soviet 0il Refinery Seen

MOSCOW, Dec. 29—(OP- llAvASl-The newspaper Indus- trZa, organ of the Commissarlat for heavy indust ,. tonight ro- ported scrious difficulties In thfl immense Russian oil refinery at Ufa. near the western foothill: of the Ural Mountains

Designed to supplement Baku, ollne (or the Soviet Union, tho in Caucasia, as a source of gas-_ Ufa plant was so poorly con-' struoted that after l7 months it is beginning to fall to pieces. the article said. i

It claimcd millions of rubles

had been lost through deterior- ation since last May. The elec- tric plant cannot furnish tho

needed power. the cracking pl: nt ‘has to shut down every fiva or i0 hours so that impurities can be cleaned awry, and the qual- ‘ liy of oil nrnrluccd is going down- hill for "lack of system," Indus- tria said.

Bodies 0f Two {Recovered From Madawaska River

EDMUNSTON, N. 3., Dec. 29 - Tlie bodies of Lewis Magooii, 17, and his sistLr, Minnie, la, two oi tthree kazers who drowned in the }lVill(18\i/fl.5lili. River Tuesday night, ‘were located by grappiers today and brought to the surface.

The bcdy of the other victim, Geraldine Plourclc, 19, was still un- located although divers from Bor- den. P. E. I., went down four times. Diving will be resumed tomorrow.

War — 25 iears Ago Today

DEC. 30, l0i4—Flfteen persons killed when ilve German airmen bombed Dunkerque in Frilicc. AU.)- lriliiis abandoned attelnpl. to rc- lcve Przomysl in soulihcrii Poiulld izencli silblnariue torpedced, i iled to sink. AUStLltli dread- i light Viribils Uniias.

DEX), 3i, illl4—Princes.s Patriciafis Canadian Light Iililliiofy, first Canadian unit to reach the West- ern Front, given warm welcome at P‘rcn.'ii biiifi-é. rielicii and Biinsh WBfSnlpj bombarded Pola, Austrian naval base on Adriatic Sea.

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Battle Reports Are Denied

LONDON, Dec. 29-101“ Cable) —R.oports circulated wnght that. gunning and aircialt actiiity had been noted off o. southeastern coast town but. an Air Ministry spokesman denied that any action had been taken in one zone in question.

The reports, which reached Lon- don fi-om an unspecified south- eastern point said that many pso- ple hiid heard firing which had llasted for some t..me

These reports said also that Royal Air~ Force IILLCIIUICS were seen fying seaward in the dircc- tion of the firing which was thought to be a considerable dis- tance from the coast. mid t-Iia‘. the air activity continued throughout most 0f the afternoon.

The Air Ministry spoke=man said that the R.A I“. had invest‘- gatcd the reports but "lititlicr cil- countelod nor ‘identified any on- eniv aii-"rwft."

At least one of four German sea-

pianes attacked over the North Sea ‘Wednesday by British coast defrn e seaplanes was sfint down, the Air Ministry said tonight in an official communique. ‘ Three of the four Gemian aviators forming the crew were picked up by a Swedish ship. the mini-itry said, and put ashore at Rorervik, Nor- way.

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WAILIA LAKE, Australia --(OP) i-—-.i(..dil'1g from here to Bniillfllb, a in‘ stance of 000 miles cii horsebacl; Mo compete in an agricultural show

lvas the BJICOIIIILISIIIIIBIIL of Rhonda Gonne. The journey took her a 1

uaiiaiiiriii Co. fi-iild- lizielci. "I Lieat.

"Poultry - Buyilg live and dresecu poultry all kinds. Paying .op iilarket. prices. lslanu Cold Storage .10. Ltd. 4l-l2-ili-Li.

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"Notice - Crushlm; 7 cents per hundred. Weeks Mill5_ Mill your), inn Elllcts. L-‘JlU-IZ-UO-Zi,

"Reserve Jilly 1st Allliilill Donni- i0" Day Horse Rare, at Alhrrlon

L-zoa-lz-so-il. "B live hogs at Albully. January 4 . Friday 5th iii. Emei-iild

until noon. Sgned G. C. Green. M. W. T. if

“Nora. Wake UPI" will be | presented in Kinkora hall Tues- - “BY Jan. 2nd. Specialties, dance i arm. Good music. L-1T5-i2-2B-3i. |

"Borden rink today regular | afternoon and night skate. New YQlrs day, afternoon skating 2:30 to 4:30 Leap Year skate at night.

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“New Glasgow senior hockey lelsuu meeting, New Glasgow hall Tuesday. January 2, a P M.

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\'NOW thilt turkeys, geese and fLlCii-S IIB finished u wg nggd i; use quantity of ChlcEen and Fowl. gillcgsradeg iéifiléldin oocsnnjirs. Top

. . . . rs ve l-nd Poultry Assoclatioir En Ii-DO-U-Ti-Zil-SO.

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MONDAY Being NEW YEAR'S DAY The Next Issue of Tllll GUARDIAN Will be Tuesday

The year 1039 has been an event- ful your in the lrsioly of Canada niizl especially frii- our Province The nova] Visit. of Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth was ll. most notable event, being the first visit of a reigning sovereign to Canada and U S. A, 'l‘l'le people of Oannda have shown their appreciation of this visit by the very warm welcome extended to Thclr Majesties.

The American people on this oc- casion gave Their Maiesiies an ex- trr-meiy cordial welcome ard I fer-l that this visit will be s great factor in brinving about still closer ties of friendship irliween the Brit- Lsh Empire and U.S.A

Another n"table event was the celebration of the seventy-fifth an- nwersary of the Conference of the Fathers of confederation, which was hcid in Charlottetown in the vl-nv- i864. From the deliberations which took place at this confer- ence and later conferences was cmsummated the union of the Provinces making a United Oun- wda. Manv dlstlncuished persons of the Provincial and Federal Gov- ernments of Canada were present and tcok nart at this celebration.

It is revretteble that the your has brouwi-t about another war in which our Hritish Empire ls lnvo'v- ed. This ls a war caused bv the oppression arr! iwzresslon of Ger- vmmv arairist Poland and other European states. notwithstandiril '~‘l u... i-vmrls nlli forth bv the Briiish Empire and lih-anclc to pre-

serve the lih-rti-s of tho people

and bring about peace. Canadidns have taken iiheir

"land side Iiv side with other

branches of the Fmnire and will out forth every efiort to furnish man-power and equipment to bring this conflict to s victorious end.

January 2. i910.

The year first. rlosiliw has brought .. _. ....

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HON. B. W, LEPAGE

Lieutenant

le but on the whole this I-rov- noe has been greatly biessed. We have enjoyed a bountiful harvest from the land and sea. We have been spared the calamities that have be-fsllon manv of the peo- ples of the earth. For these bless- ings we should be profoundly thankful to Afmlghty God.

Let us look forward to the New Year with hope and confidence. willing i0 do our share iii hrlifliz to shape the destinies of our Pro- vince and the world at large.

To my fellow-citizens I extend my best wishes for o Happy and Pmvrvrnns Nniv Vrwr.

Governor

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This is the flag authorized to be flown by the Canadian Active Service Force. It is based on tho

Royal Proclamation of King George V, dated November 21, 1921. background with the Union Jack in the upper corner next to the staff. The circ a containing three golden

In the main portion are three red

2,000 Italian- Fliers Ready For Finland

COPENHAGEN. Dec. 30- glllifdilyl —(AP)— The news- paper Poiitlken reported. to- doy that Italian journalists had arrived at llelsingfors to cover the activities of Italian vol- unteers hoping to come during the next few weeks to fight iriih tlic Finns against the Russians.

A writcr for Premier Mus- so'ini’s Ii PopOIn D'Italia, who flew to Ilelsingfors. was report- cd is saying 2.000 Italians were ready to start but arranere- merits for the Journey were in- complete. It was uncertain whe- ther Germany would permit lt- a'liins in cross the Reich en route to Finland.

rflriiish reports from Hel-

SiI""f.'lI‘S rcnoricd previously that 2.000 Italian volunteers had iirrivrd. ifong with Italian clams, at Tornio, Finnish port, In the lluli‘ of Bothnia.)

No offioi-il o o m m c n t was avni"iii'e on ri-norts that a number o’ Italian aviators

wor» rendv for notion on the north and central Finnish fronts.

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High Sea ls Story 0f Ship

LONDON. Dec. 28 -(CP) - Twelve weeks overdue and long given up for lost. the 090-ton Dan- Vi} steamship Energi, carryinfl lumber, limped into an English port today to tell of high seas ad- venture.

Soon aftrr leaving a Canadian port just before the ollbbrcok 0f war the ship lost. her propeller. She had no wireless, and her distress signals were ignored by D551"! ships through fear she might be a decoy for submarines.

The crew labored for ll days improvising spars and sails, but

‘when completed these gave the shl

little more than drifting speed an she was unable tn recover her original course.

Evemt-ually a. Finnish steamship fell in with her and hm‘ f0!‘ some days before handing her over to another neutral saivaBB 5ND. which took her into a Portuguese port for repairs. She was then en- abled to complete her voyage.

"Aftcr we had lost the pmpellor we drifted helplessly about in mid- Atlantic for 28 clays ooverlnz about six miles every 24 hours.” the Cap- tain said. "We worked for 1i days fixing up spare sails with what ma- teria we had on hand. but with these it was found very difficult to steer the vessel.”

Bennett Returning

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OTTAWA, i-Ion. R. B. Bennett arrived here from Montreal tonight and told

newsman: "1 am returning to Great Britain as soon as possible."

The former Prime Minister was met at the station Ibiy his brother- in-law, Hon. W. D. erridge leader of the new demucrac movement, and they left for the erri e home where Ml‘. Bennett will v it his ilflflhtitw, Billy Herridge

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. airpecicd Mr. Bennett will leave Oitawa this weekend to sail tnr Ftnizlaiid.

maple leaves with green stems.

The fia is of white or "argent"

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Province ilas Increase In Fish Values

OTTAWA. Dec. 29 —iOP) “Bish- erles nunister Mlchaud umounced today Canada's fisheries export. trade increased by EDPIOXiIHB-Wii‘ sl,o.iu,0ou in the ilrst ii monnhs of this year. EXpOILS were valued at $26,792,786 compared with $5.176.- ‘AH in tnc coricsponcilng period o1 i938. 4

‘me 83,111 was in the trade with the United states and the United kingdom. Exports to the Untied states about $l2.576.400 an increase of nearly s96 900, represented nearly -i’l per cent of the total ex- port. IJUSlHESS ior the ll mOIiLIIS- iney consisted mainly of iron and frozen fish.

anipnieiiis l0 the Uniififii K108- dom during the 1i months were vai- ueu at slightly less than $7.~i2gi.900. an increase oi more than 3911.900- Principai commodities entering liito tile British business were cann- ed salmon irom isrltlsh Qoiumbin, frozen salmon and halibut, and canned lobster.

S0 far as fisheries production in .he fiizt 1i months ot 1030 is con- cerned, Mr. Michaud said prelimm- ary unreviseu reports indicated that .lie catch oi sea. lisn and sheillish iiad been almost 9,125,800 hundred- weigiit, or 210,000 hundred-weight nigger than in the same period of 19d

Uli the other hand, the value of line catch to the iishernlen as land- ed was approximately $1o,862,000, a decrease oi more than $850,000. The iiiajor factor contributing to the landed value reduction was a drop .n British Columbia's salmon catch. lvew Brunswick, Quebec and Prince lldivard Island showed increases in alue return but Nova Scotia re- corded a. decrease as wcli as British Columbia.

Finn Makes ‘Long Trip To Join Comrades

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MONTREAL, Dec. 39—(OP) - Bound for Finland to help his na- ilion meet Russia's invasion, 42- year-old Herman Nykanen, arrived here today after a trip by dog- sled. airplane and railroad from Canada's north west territories.

Nyloanen was at Great Bear lake whens he worked in a mine wihen word arrived of the invasion of Finland.

"I wranltcd to get there right a.-

," said the ‘board-shouldered. floo-Ipound Finn who sewed as a Lieutenant under Baron Manner- helm in Finland's war of Inde- penitence.

"I love Canada, but Finland iii- ways will be dear to me," Nykanen told reporters here today. "I fougfhit for my country once before. I will fight again."

fire-husky miner once an oiyrn- pic wrestler came to Canada in 191i as a profemional "grimt-and groaner." In the wrestling rim he called himself the "Black but drew no satisfaction from the business. Nykanen said.

He gave up wrestling, drifted a- bout and finally took up work in a mine as a. laborer. He liked that he said. and particularly his em- ployment at Grunt ‘Bear lake.

‘rho trip to Montreal meant 10o miles bv doc-sled. and 1.400 by air- olamio to Edmonton. Prom here Nvkanen wi‘l go to New York.

Tn Finland he said he hoped to W“ a brother who is a Contain with the forces in the Manner-helm line and locate his rriothcr ‘last heard from when she evacuated her hmm- in Vtinnrf.

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MANY FABE DEATH IN illlAKEZilNE

Starvation, Cold and Disease Take Add- ed Toll In Turkish Province.

ANKARA. Dec. 20 -(AP‘ -Hun- dxeds of thousand; of Turks tonight faced the possibility of death from starvation, cold and lsease in quake- shaken Anatolla as blizzarcis and wrecked o!‘ snow-blocked oom- munlcation lilies combined to hm- der rescuers.

death $011 mounted hourly, aéigogfficials said it might reach

The number of persons injured or suffering from exposure was be- iieved t0 be at least 30,000.

Adding further to the tears of the populace was the prediction of au- thorltiies that more sh might come during the next 10 days. Dir- ector Fotin of the Istanbul obser- vatory said that this week's geolog- ical disturbance apparently occurred i6 miles below the surface of the

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eath and covered I. wide area. FLU‘- Lher movements might be expected se tied,

Even if there should be no further shocks. it was felt oer. taln that additional thousands °f wellmlsdly‘! survivors would die before food and medical lupplios could reach them.

Relief officials said that they had been ‘forced to abandon all hope of bringing relief to some districts and titan they could only hope to i-eacii the maior points of disaster. Ilndwailnu the oiriicillties of rile relief task, a rescue train was able t0 roach Erzeruxn only alter mow ail-rm bytIDMOO soldiers ove u thr _ tainous drifts bf gnaw. Dug“ mom

Later a second train got "Trill-Kb and workers tonight were cirtricating victim. [mm the demolished towns but facing what they termed almost impoh slble conditions, being forced m work in blinding snow and in. tense cold. lcmporar hospitals were set up immedia. ely.

The trains reached Erzerum o er Twkeyb Important new militlXi-y railroad from sivus disclosing the line is still intact even thougn it lies across the heart. of the sm-gck. an airca.

The continuing cold-as 10w 5,5 22 below zero Fahrenheit-seemed to be the Sreaiest threat to the iivc-s of the quake survivors. Reports iii- dlcated that thousands still were huddled in the runs o; their home, or outside still burning village; anfl i-Owns with little or no protection.

JAIL BREAKERS RECAPTURED

HALIFAX, Dec. 29—-(CP)-—Two men who escaped from a cell at Hill-TEX Pfllioe headquarters early today were recaptured a. few hours later, one in the city and the sec. 0nd in Dartmouth, across Halifax Harbor. ~

The two, Thoma-s Bonvle, Halifax, ,

and Rudolph LaBrariche, Quebec i0ity, will be charged with escaping from custody, police said.

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were having coffee in a tent when an and said a Russian patrol

mander.

Furious fighting among the Rus- sian invaders ~with Red artillery and rplancs shelling and their own men --was reported Finland tonight as the

. Red Army opposing Finland, said, ‘i tonight: “The report is so ridic-

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‘i rumors abroad of Soviet

Plan To-sIzrroundi I 0, 000 Soviets On FinlalclBorder

Russian Troops Said Bombing And Shelling Own Troops In Unexplained Fighting.

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 30—(Saturday)—(AP)-Fin- nish ski scouts have cut off 10,000 Russian troops from communication with their base on the central Finland border near Salla, reports from Kemijaervi indicated to- day.

The reports indicated the Finns under General Kurt Martti Wailenius, commander of the central front army, were gathering a strong force to surround this group of invaders effectively and force them into a decisive action northeast of Kemikaervi.

(Russia has made repeated attempts to out n path through Finland’s narrow “waist” and General Wslienius is opposing the latest attempt.)

The Finnish northern commander was quoted in dio- patches as saying that his men faced a severe trial but that they were optimistic.

General Wallenius was especially pleased with ilin calmness of the citizens and the soldiers in the area.

The dispatches from central Finland told of an cident illustrating the composure of the soldiers.

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A dozen Finnish officers ' W. m m

ANKARA. Turkey —iOP) —h: Turkey enters the present was, enemies may be confronted by wom< en fighting side side with m Absolute equality wmnou in t iandofAta/hurkoxtlendotioflnosm) and air tome.

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ndjutant entered was in the vicinity.

“Take care of it, lieuten- ant,” said the battalion com-

The lieutenant departed.

Siioriiv efv-‘Ywerd- were was e roam, Australia. -(ci>i —Bo- volley of shots-then he returned ca.“ Qtudents n“ b, 1km“; y‘ to his coffee with the remark the“ way-mules, ti‘; gens,“ q m; "the order has been executed." Untversity of Western Austlllllo. h“

HELSINGFORS, Dec. 29 —(AP)-— i“

bombing in

vast. but

i MOSCOW. Dec. 29—-(AP)—, Authoritatlve Soviet quarflerl asked for comment on Scandi- navian rcports of revolt in the

uious that there is no need for us to deny it."

The same sources also denied troop ‘concentrations on the Afghan‘ border or in the Caucasus. I

_ _. thnius and that Finnish soldiers had captured quantities of war ma- tcriais.

Confusion and deadly mis- takes in Russian ranks in the Sail-u sector of central Fin- land were eliiimcd by tilc Fin- nish neivs agency.

First, iieiv Russian guns oroilghi, into action in what

WCTQ WES

Maritime fresh winds; fair and moderately cold; probably followed by some lsnow on Sunday.