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tDemand Details

w In Dropping Of ' Hare -_Belisha

Prime Minister Chamberlain Quot-

ed As Saying “Prejudice” Reason For War Secretary’s Removal.

l B)’ J. F. Sanderson Canadian Press Staff Writer

LONDON, Jan. 7-(CP CABLE! —A rising tide qf public indigna- tion over tho (llSllllS al of Leslie Iiore-Bcllslia from his cabinet post bcclmic apparent today. Prime Min- ister Chamberlain was quoted as tel-ling the former Secretary of State for War that prejudice against hiin made his resignation accessory.

The Pre=s Association gave the following account of the filial in- iervicw between Mr. Chamberlain and Mi'. Horc-Belshmfl

“The Premier pressed him to take the presidency of the Board of Trade and could not unde-ntand why he declined. Mr. Chamberlain refused to take ‘no’ for an answer. praised Mr. Horc-Belislio. and told him he would live in hlstory_

"The Premier also made it plain he could have no word of criticism against him but said ‘there is pre- ludlcef”

What the publ'c apparently wanted to know was the source nf the "prejudice” against Mr. Hore-Bclisha. who in the last two years has practically remod- clled the IN-ltish Army.

It. may bo another 10 days before the full story of Britain's biggest political sensation in years is to‘d. Mr. Horc-Bclisha will make a per- sonal statement on why he resigned whel the House of Commons re- ossemblcs Jan. i6. The Prime Minister ls almost certain to give his side of the story immediately afterward, althcuch he may pull brick the curtain to a l‘mi:cd ("tent in his Mansion House speech Tiles- day night.

Political Circles Buzz

Political circles buvzrd t-orrzht ‘with all sorts of rumors, iiiclud iig one of the possibility of a Fccrct session of Parliament to dlcuvs the shelving of Hrrc-Bcllsha. All'lllf‘l' was that he would rc-ciitcr the, government within n short time. l

The nmlnrlty of the Sunday [Vi-i pcrs screamed in big type tflrii‘ l) <‘ '

tests aguinst- the nustma of lll" War. Secretary‘ and demanded rictiiucd explanation from the Prime Mtflli-I tor, ft vras sugizrsfed on ritl slclcs, that the mm who instill"! ilflllfll“: racy into the army Y"? ll“ h“

time was victim of officers at the

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Rate for Notices In this column. 3 cents per word. _ '

"Crapaud District L. O. L. Hlvvifi at Argpc Snore oil iucstiziy‘ uiu 9th at 4.30 P. M.

"Kinkora Hall-Bingo and Dance Friday night, January tweii .

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"Dance in Cori-an Ban Hall. Tuesday. January 9m. If stormy, Wednesday. Orchestra. L-sfill-l-tl-A

"We buy feathers, not mixed. Fbrlane 6t Co, p-ZM-lfl-Y-tf,

"New Wiltshire District Lodge meets at Kingston Wednesday, Jan. 10th at 2.30. L-333-l-6-2i.

"Pownal rink Monday, Jun- uary 8. All hockey players for iii- termedlate team requested. L-374.

new goose and duck l-leruy Mac-

"Hoclcey at Milton Rink t0- night, Navy vs. Milton Hflrncts- Skate after. 11-378.

"Buyln live hogs at Albany, January 1 th. Friday 12th at Emer-

ald until noon. Signed "Btuyllig live hogs ‘Fhuradn .

January iiiii. Also buyink all kin gr 219mm myhiig iogoniarket b13008. . ve ises. m n ' L-a-ie-it-o-u. "Mr. Farmer: We are billlflll "V? and dressed chlckcnflt. filth‘! puvln ll'llf‘.t, mnrkc pr ccs. W (litllflfillllllbCflj Lid. L-l68-i2-2tl-l0l.

"Poultry -- Buying live and dressed poultry all kinds. Valli"! "JP

,isli government has a scheme under

L-il Ii-i-li-ii. ‘

top, most of whom he lifted over lthe heads of older men in an cf- .fci‘. to pormote efficiency and in-

' du-itry. Disagrees With Army

The Press Association suggested that Sir Samuel Hoare. Lord Privy lSeal, who rrceiitly visited the Bri- |tish Expeditionary Farce in France, “may have reported differences of opinion and a lack of harmony be- tween Mr, l-lore-Belisha and the war chiefs in the field...it is cer- tainly clear there has been disagree- ment between Mr. Hore-Bellsha and military officers. S*me of these rc- siztcd his plans for acoelerfllilfln 0|’ military effort, and in addition to this there was ‘a whispering 68m- palfzn,’ which began in 506181. I109 political placesj’

Two points were emphasized to- night in sources close to the gov- ernment. The first was that Mr. Hox-(ngensngis dismissal reflected no differences within the cabinet over the policies affecting the DIV‘- pcutlgn of the Will‘. The 581301111 W35 that Mr. l-lore-Belishas arinv re- forms. including his democratization and the necessity lb 1min?‘ m“ nfficiers shallgrlse from the rank-i. would be continued at the war Of- fice in his absence. b"

Emanuel Shinwell, labor mem of the House of Commons, (teenager: in a speech to his constituents - B" nooarentlv “Rrliwfrnlc lnfluenoes were at work and charzflli

“If generals in the British army or war office are to have their own “m, nu.“ “n nnk of democracy 15 slrrilv humbuf-K" '

Newspapers fouled the ""1"" l” an ewrlv cvnlimution of the reasons for Hore-Eeltshws retremenl-

Press Statements ‘Tfvolcal 0f Sunday P1955

mcnts o'er-c: The Sunday Plctortal-“thorc W89

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Contraband

‘Gontrol Station

For Canada?

Ilv J F. Sanderson Canadian Press Stall‘ Writer

LONDON, Jan. ‘l —(CP Cable) - A ciiiitrabiiiid control station on the American iiiie of the Atlantic. pi'o- bab y lll Canadian \Vl'll(’l'S, was 511E- urs ~ ton ':lit as a nos ible regllyelto United Slates profess over _ '- sioii of Aiiicrlriiii ships into Bntlsh pitrts for examination.

It lavas understood that the Brit-

coiisldcruiion to meet American protests, but whether it would g0 s0 inr as to include a contraband sta- tioii on the other side of the Al- laiitc could not be learned doti- iiiicly.

OTTAWA, Jan. ‘l-(CP) —Th= suggestion from London that British naval authorities might establish a Contraband Control Station on this aide of the At- lantic to examine the our!!!" of neutral ahippln for con- traband of war ln created Can- adian Government and naval quarters here lonlzht. It WIS pointed out, however. "H" I"?

such proposal had Yfl 5"" made by the British. It it goes that rar. we "a"!

station would have to be in Canad- ian waters in order to observe n6"-

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Tho United States l has protested against the divers all: of American slnprs to Bflllsh W" which brings them within F- W! zone prohibited by American neu- trality lc lslatlon. Tho diversion has been app led particularly to ship“ sailing to neutral Norway-

The United States liner Manhat- tan, detained by the British contra- band control at Gibraltar Saturday, was re today.

The liner was said to have Men

rinittecl lo NSUHIO her voyage t0 gums. after its owners, the United States Lines. arrived that if the BritLsh authorities found any 60H- trivba-nd in tlieslillYs manifest t‘ would be placed at the difluflsfll l" British authorities in l-hfll 9°"-

The manifest was lcft with l"-

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kfimprloes Island Cold-gtlgafi I

tlioritieu it Gibraltar f0!‘ lol-

Hun. Vincent Massey, Canadian ll squadron which has been made.

squadron.

Mighllies

From British “

lsh squadrons in France. Mr, Massey. in civilian dress ,

i8“ Cflmmlisioflfl‘ to London. recently visited th Roylll Al Force I111 0f Canadian pilots and will soon be taking its place beside Brit- l! 1181'! been chatting with officers of the

t Air

Fleet“ ls Planned A

Thousands Ol-f-Planes Roll

Shadow” Fact-

ories To Swell Aerial Power.

(By Guy Rhoades, Canadian Press Staff Writer)

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Jan. 7—-Throuzliout the night lll this district residents can hear the splutteriiig- and roarinl! 0f air- craft engines. They do not know it, but the noise comes from haif

a dozen giant Whitey bombers lmdefflolll‘; tests on the tarmac bcfflrc the doors of a “sliadow"

factory. .

At numerous plants tliiouchout the country-how many only the highly placed kn0\v—-bombcrs roll out daily t-o surcll the strength of the Royal Air Force. bringing it swiftly lOWXUTl the point where, authorities hope, it will be the world's most powerful.

Behind the newly-achieved spurt In production lies a long story of industrial organiz- ation and Plant conversion that goes bark lo May, 1935.

It was then the British Govern- men realized that an arms ruce which it had hoped might be avoided was inevitable.

The i935 expansion program W85 scheduled for completion by March 1937. but before then develop- ments in Germany revealed that still more expansion was necessary and a larger program u-as an- nounced in Februaiy, i936, loi

completion by March 1939.

Absence of clarity in the inter- ‘ntltlmlfll situation simultaneously tblvllllllt authorities to realize they [must prepare industrial resources of Great Britain for sudden and lviiyorous expansion if danger thieritencd.

The situation in i938 brought about an even gicatm degree of (‘,\'])"ill$l(lll and the output. of air- craft was more than doubled. Be- fore the out-break 0f war it was four times greater than during the preceding year.

Steps In Expansion

Steps in this mounting expan- sion are tlicse: companies special- izing lll aircraft increased their productive capacity, bearing most of the expense themselves as ord- ers increased; other engineering firms, earmarked previously by tliecomiulttee of imperial defence, were called to help, particularly in manufacture of acre-engines; the Government decided to build

lnumeinus new “shadow.” factories to be operated by firms already familiar with the work required

‘of them; air-frame building was

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Ruman ia

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Kept In Port As “Red”

Navy Holds

Manoeuvres

galnst possible Russian designs on

CONBTANTA, Romania. Jan. 7-

-(A.P)—-Rumania‘s navy today or- dered the Ruma-nian liner Bessar- ut to port ln Istanbul “be- Russian fleet manoeuvre’ in the Black Sea.

The liner had been headed‘ for Constanta, Rumanias prlncipa. port Ail merchant snip ing was ordered to remain in Cons ta. thoucih the extent of Russian mauoeuvru was not leamed.

Romanian naval authorities said it was unuaull for the Soviet fleet to manoeuvre ln the area close to the e from the Black Son t rung tho Turkish -controlled uurdulellou to the Mediterranean.

(The most recent Prim"!

of Russian sea manoeuvres was

l8 when the navy newt-impel" Red ‘Fleet said war games had been con- eluded in the lack Sea. shortly drier Turkey and Russia failed m reach an agreement and Turkey glgned g pact with Britain France.)

and

Russians Warned

Only ‘asterday K1118 °l B!" m mph“ mining to gull Q-

Bessarabia. by declaring that Ru- manians “are ready to die together to defend their borders." The K1118 spoke at Chianau, (Klahlnev) MP1- tal of Bes arable. the province Ru- mania gained from Russia in tho ‘first great war. The Soviet Union never has 311111311135 sovcrelgnt over Bessambla.

Di loma. expressed belief that the ing's speech meant Rumanla had taken heart from Finland‘! successful resistance of the Soviet invasion and felt she could Mid lgtlsarabla. against any Russ-m ll-

flungary Offer: Aid?

‘There wen: imorts that Hungary had oflered Rumanla assists-nee a- gainst Russia in return for ceasloin of about '10 per cent of Transylvan- ia, the province Romania got in tho t"°““'“‘l i" ‘-‘”“°p..."l.“'l.%";§' an emp re. e ngs o . - ever, indicated such an offer would be rejected. _

Hungarys foreign minister, Count Csaky, who has been conferrinll with Italian foreign minister Coimt Galcazm Clano in Venice, WB-‘i Pe- portcd to have been advised to seek peaceful satisfaction of Hunouyl claim o: ‘mountain-l

ll P R ll l lll N BllllllS FUR llSE

Butter, Ham, Bacon and Sugar Included On List.

lily Harold Fair Canadian Press Staff Writer

LONDON, Jan. '1—(CP CABLE) —Britons tonight dug up paper- covered ration books from nooks where they put them away last fall in readiness for the start of ration- ing tomorrow,

The book; ‘with their miilti- col- ored coupons will be needed for the purchase of butter, bacon, ham and sugar, starting in the morning.

There will be a liberal allotment of these commodities, The date when other meals will be rationed 1s to l beimnounced Jan. 15, when the gov- ’ crnment through the Ministry of Fbod takes control of all slaughter- ing in the United Kingdom, In the meantime the average Briton is consoled that there is no interfer-

ence so far with his beer and his ‘breakfast kippcr.

UARY 3, 1940

Adults and children over six arc entitled each week to four ounces of butter, i2 ounce. of sugar. Child- ren under six get half those a- ‘mounts. Everyone has a ration book. distributed after th~ national reg-i ,istry was taken of the population] and it will hl‘ nwesz-ivv to surien-i dcr n coupon wlicri puirliusiiig, i Vifhcn the li’\'l.‘I(‘\\'ll"‘ shop-s tfi-, imnrrou" shr- \\'lll liovc as an addi-l tional encumbrance to her gas mask the family iriYnii lwoks, She i5 al- ready icgiziered with her merchant

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iiiziiiiiihat siiiiicin BY riiiiiciijuiis

PAR-IS, Jen. ’l——(AP)—- A heflVY artillery duel northeast of Sancgue- mines in which French batteries silenced a. Gennenilmrroio W” R- pm-tsd today by m ry sources.

’f'l"ic duel, lasting an hour, dur- ing the night, was opined by the Germans, these r sold. The French replied tli concentrated giro and the enemy artillery ceas-

fifhero was no infantry activity dun the engagement, but. the Frenc reported successful patrol operations at several other points French rcoiitinc part-ins, accord- ing to these reports. reached enemy lines and returned with prisoners in three sectors: East. of the Mosello River, east and west of theiSaano-ndintbclfomosaloun- i.

No nun o'er was truly glorious, who Wu not continuously laborious.

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Bogs Down As .lVinter_Rules

Russian Ski Detachment De- feated In Northern Sector — Finns Shoot Down 20 Planes.

(By Lynn lieinzerling, Associated Press Staff Writer)

HELSINGFORS, Jan. uary weather in years. with

7-—(AP)--The liiltcrest

Jan-

temperatures ranging from

l5 to it‘ degrees hlcwo zero, stalled ltussian offcnsives on all fronts today as the Finnish hiih command announced

that a Soviet ski detachment had

been routed at Salla

and more than 300 of the invaders killed.

The weather has proved

an unexpected ally t0 the

Finns, who ordinarily look for the coldest temperatures in

February and March. In it was 15 below,

Hclsingfors, in southern Finland,

ICE CRIPPLES FLEET

Ice, forming in the Gulf of crippled the Red fleet. The Soviet air operate despite the cold, but not on the 350 planes were reported over Finland

Increased resistance of

anti-aircraft batteries has added to the two days the Fin shooting down 20 Soviet planes-IZ olt‘ the

the Soviet air force. In

A Finnish communique

Finnish aircraft carried out

targets were not mentioned.

Finland, has severely force continues to earlier scale, when in one day. Finnish fighting planes and zgrds facing have reported . on Saturday. reported significantly that “bombing flights”. but the

SPEED CHAMP KILLED

An official announcement disclosed that Birger Vas-

enius, Finnish speed skating action while leading his Lake Ladoga.

champion. had been killed lrl

platoon on the front north of

The Salla sector, in which the Soviet ski detachmenf

was Circle.

_ The Russians were seek- ing to outflank the defence lines_when they were meg by“ Finnish fire.

Bodies of more than 300 enemy dead remained on the field. together with 14 machine-guns and other ma- teflfll. the high command said in a communique.

he communique also an. nounced in its review of Saturdays hostilities:-

l. On the Iiarelian front, the Russian _force, after vainly attempting to an]; Finland's Mannerheim line. .. . . . has begun dlilglng lll and selling up barbed wire en- tanglements before its posi- lions t0 strengthen them.”

2. At sea, lee has 1mm“; me Ruslank acidity "to attempts u. prevent merchant shipping from "lllcflflk or leaving our poi-LS and

to guarding their own sen (om. Illtllilffltlfllls " 3. '1‘\vcl\-c Russian \\'gll‘l)lgu1g;;

Wfre shot down yesterday by Fm. Dish fliers and anti-alici-aft fire. Finnish bombers raided Russian positions, Slight damage, the death of one person and injury of several others were the only re. suits of the Rttssinn attacks

e army announced the repulse of mnall land attack. in various sec» tors from thc Karclian Isthmus on to the far north in the Petsamo re- gion.

The communique pointed m a Blowing up of Russian pressure on Finland and to Finnish offensivc thrusts by air.

Finnish fliers in increasing mun- bers are making sorties over the sow-covered battle lines to territory held by the invaders.

Two air alarms were sounded to- day at Abe (Turku) in southwestern

Finland, but there were no reports ‘

0f attacks.

Estimates mode at the end of 3a ‘

days of wartime indicated that Rus- sia's attempted blitzkrieg against a country of 8.800.000 inhabitants has netted her about 5,000 square miles or about a 48th of the 240,000 square

miles she apparently set out to cap- ~ tun.

BACK T0 THE LAND

LONDON~(CPl-—Up to the vnrl of November more than 2,000 wo- meifs land army volunteers had been placed in employment since tlu outbreak of war.

reported defeated, is located just above the Arctic

Murry Harbor Schooner ls Reported Safe

In Ballantvnes Cove, a sheltered nook on the south side of Cape George, N. S . the schoonersenora, commanded by Captain Milt/on Chapman of 'urrat' Harbor, was reported safe yesterday after being unheard from for over a week.

The 125-ton auxiliary schooner left Sydney. N S. some time ago cnroiite to licr llOITlf‘ port of Mur- ray Harbor with a. ‘iii-ton cargo of coal. On board, besides the Cap- tain. was his brother Capt. Alfred Chapman Illlfl Fred White, both of Murray Harbor. On the war home the vcssc’ called at Port. Hastings in Cape Breton. After soilinq from that. port. shortly before the snow storm of Dcccmbcr 30th. no word ivns hoard from thc craft. and telephone col‘: to the nrlnlcrzri by,’

ichilrcs n! horn! iziilcrl to dis- close tlw \\'llf‘l‘t"_’ll)(‘ili of the shin rind hcr pww-tccr." l-‘i"nl!jt' Rovnll (‘niindiitn hloiiiiicd Police uacre,‘

asked to im-csiizritc and ivord was received yestevrlnv throiich the lo-

cal moi-inc nf’ic» tho‘ the craft was safe lll the Nora Scotla shelter.

ft nopciir thn’ ‘lll"" l"flVlllL' Port

‘Bastions. fl‘ tho l-cnrl or the Gut o! ifianm, the nu" ‘i'l"_V cn"ilir‘ 1n 9h? lschooncr cut n it of crdli- and du~ ;to bad wcrithcr the Cautnin did not think it advisable to try for the

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,Sydney’s Soldier]

;Gartoonist Dies

SYDNEY, N. S., Jan. ‘f-Lance Sergeant Norman J_ Ross, 53. whose cartoons under the heading inf “Barrack banter" appeared fre- quently in the Sydney Post-Re- tcord since the outbreak of war. died inst night.

A veteran of the First Great lWar, he was one of the first to enlist with the Royal Caradlan

Artillery here when the present conflict striii-vd liis cartoons dealt with llillllfifflllS phases of nrmy life.

A llllllVl‘ of l‘vl|‘l'.\' Brook. N. S., he had lived l'l"I‘P 40 years Mrs. W. H, Wilcox of Calgary is a sta- It

BITTER COLD StTALfiEDlARMY

i Soviet O-i-"flensivelh

Recruiting Offices To lie-open Today

OTTAWA. Jan. ’i'—tCPl—-Door5 i-l‘ rccrutlng offices swing open "twin tomorrow and the lrsi ol’ " IVFZIIICIS of young (‘lfldllflflS v.7": will don the King‘s uniforms ‘n i940 will be enrolled.

Over the weekend the Nations llrfcnce Department unnnunc d recruiting of reinforcements for units ln the (‘anailliin Ac: Vi’ Service Force would start Mnn~ ilay and that the first of "l?!" initial training schools under l the British Commonwealth air training plan lobelng prepared for occupancy at Toronto.

This means that wthin the next few weeks hundreds of "IP11 will enter the service and don either the khaki of the army or the blue of the air force.

MANY A ‘mu-E- WORD HA5 BEEN . gpomim ‘fi-ifioucu

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Etllllfilllllll _ Regina 3 <, Winnipeg 51'. i i Montreal 5}; 4, Quebec u; .A Siiini John z 1.1 Halifax g H Charlottetown Zero 13

High tide this mornliic at lO.ll and tonight at 9.38.

Sim sets this afternoon iii 4 gnarl rises tomorrow morning

New moon Jan, 9, 9 g» A. M Summerside tide cicliiccn min- utes later than Charlottetown.