ERMAN It i. Ctr- rrr I a 71 ' 1 1' 1 4 K Sr' " J a. T' I. El TRAIITY PLANES ; ACTIVE! en Given For More Attacks on ntiih W Vessels In North ri": il - The German, an" I.- rtn Sea Area ordered tocontln-i ) British wanhlpsj N.rthSML Officials' !-r 'n of the moatj . u cmenta since the1 Oertnany claim- C 'it urn veeU doting i v but the Urtttah! ; any da mane had! 'he Ocrman raid-1 IS DOWNED u 1 f I.-. . - II .1 -Won-. Are Unseat hed I r 10 A Oerman was reported south-' in the North Sea' i ruruit by British tr. iking away In the 'nt v plane crashed t .hipn In the North 'he Oerman plane Onr injured went I IT I X A K 1 ANA .A I IN WAR BASIS ih ll lit L'rniiiiitiiLU fir it Month of Cam- PIn Is Reviewed bfr 11: CP A it ring th" struggle !v finds Canadian war f Of i 'inf. Cana- i m ii ica in wartime mined fortes of sea,' "rdlng up prepara- .it. aald an official atement yUrday. '""nth of Canadian ii the war brought, 1 !i between Canadian; but saw upwardr ud young Canadians "crultlng office Into 'i lining camps and ,prnmt'n roach out lU "" industry, aerlculture channels consid-I'.' pfhl to the general VOTE SOON Approval liv Kmntu I If Ail.' won run Now Indicated .ASHINOTON. D. C. October ion or -wm pian as a readied on tho revision, of United .man nrMlpfr Hint (horn ,7 ar least sixty-flvo votes In e 6fni . ... . . . -'vi- iii invnr nr iia nr mm.' . j . vilb I. V. 111.11 The bill will be now stands. Pitman 'stfrday ihe nronns.nl t Rmn War News FINNS EVACUATING IIELSINGFORS Extra trains and busses are brine run to transport thousands of evacu-ants from Helslngfors and other Finnish cities and special air raid precautions are being taken acalnst the possibility of an attack by Russia. HeUingfors had its first black-out last night. TERRIBLE DtlVTII RAY NEW YORK The possibility or ths use In war of a death-deal-Ins ray which would be capable of painlessly killing people from a distance of miles Is envisioned here. It might be used with terrible effect on civilian nitlTISII AIR .MISSION OTTAWA Lord Rlverdale is ' the head of atritlsh air mission I now on the way to Canada In connection with the plan to make Canada the air centre of 1 the Empire. Ihere will also be ; corresponding delegations from Australia and New Zealand and I all will meet here. Student fliers from Australia and New Zealand . will be trained In Western Cana- i da and those from Great Britain In the Fast. . INDIAN DELEGATES COMING t.e UTT,V-Th e oVern m en ff ' of India i sending represents- Uvea to London to confer with he British eovernment on prose- I cullon oi the war. HER SON KILLED VANCOUVER Mrs. Innes .M. Hopkins has been advised that her son, Robert Innes, has been killed at Cambridge, England, while training Force, HOOVER'S STAND NEW YORK Former President Herbert Hoover favors sale by United Slates to warring tratlons of defensive instruments of war . . . I, i . .1 Mii export of Instruments of attack such as submarine' bombing planes and poison gas. niSHOP WELLS NAMED OTTAWA Rt. Rev. George A. Wells, Anglican Bishop of Cariboo, has been appointed chaplain general of the Canadian forces. .MUSSOLINI IGNORES PEACE ROME Premier Mussolini addressing 5,000 nf his followers made no reference to Hitler's peace proposals. AIRMEN ON MOVE LONDON Many squadrons of the Royal Air Force are already In France and many others are going across very soon. PRESIDENT APPRECIATIVE PARIS Former President Dr. Bcnes of CiechoSlovakla has thanked France for allowing the Cicch army to erorganlxe there and said he expected an army would soon be fighting side by side with the French and British against the common enemy, BRITAIN BUYS COTTON LONDON The British government hss agreed to purchase from the Egyptian government a million and a half bales of cotton which ordinarily would have cone to Germany and other ' Chan, Tobcy of New Hamp-1 European nallons. rr:.uDmifthc adminlstra- uu Dliin i n.. . efnt7t w,u conunuico was tcd ns to 20 and this Is taken ht iBaUllB VOt lQ (aVOr 0f oii-r '?w cau,t beat steam Sen.,!,,- LTnK. "u, y ls 11 cousin of W. l Trlncc Uupert. I EVACUATION CONTINUES BERLIN German cltliens arc arriving In Germany by thousands from Baltic States as part of the plan of repatriation being carried out. .Most of the men nld Ihelr belongings In Latvia before leaving. The first to be Swedish Vessel Scandinavian U-Boat MAN-MADE MISERY With her husband and children killed In an air raid A short time before this photograph wa taken by an American photographer a Po.ish peasant woman s ands amidst the shambles of h r bomb-wrecked home and prays COMBAT ON IDOLIZING ! Continued Engagements Between Talked of as Possible Successor n.lll.U Ci..f... rnil inrl Rerman Planes Reported i VICTIM OF SUBMARINE 'Latest victim of the Oerman sub marine campaign, a Swedish steamer was sunk yesterday off the Scan-' dlnavlan coast. removed are young men of military ! age. TURKKl WARNED nt'RLIN Berlin, throuch its press, today warned Turkey to decide whether It would Join the encircling nations against Germany or change its foreign BLACK OUT CANAL PANAMA Panama Canal will be blacked out at regular Intervals, it was announced. The blackouts will be solely for training purposes against the eventualities of air attacks. BERLIN Broadcast In which Chancellor Hitler a message yesterday he said Germany was ready to accent any reasonable peace, it was also ready to carr yon the war In fulmilment of rightful demands. Germany would never be brought to Its knees again, declared Chamberlain as'Premier i NORTH SEA CHURCHILL! to i I LONDON. Oct. U: CPRt. Hon. i I nvnnm rv. 11 VlHfttVi vor. Wlntnn fhiirhIM CTrst t nrA nt .ships and Oerman fighUnR planes the Admiralty In the British war in the Royal Air iep again n wmoii uci mc uic, a vumis an crn mure North Sea yesterday. . In Berlin It dominating personality In the af-( was claimed that there had been fairs of the nation The possibility fix hits by the Oerman planes but of his succeeding Rt. Hon. Neville an official British announcement Chamberlain as Prime Minister In stated that there had been no losses the event of the retirement of the i and no casualties. It was not lm- latter Is foreseen. mediately known what the extent First. Mr. Church! of the Oerman casualties might credit for breaking the the war autocracy and aggression The dogged eider statesman Is right in the cen IS MADE Russia and Britain Agree to change of Goods it is Announced Today Ex- LONDON, Oct. U.-The British supply minister and the Soviet trade delegation in London have concluded an agreement for the exchange of Russian timber for rubber and tin. The barter agreement is called a "commercial arrangement" but the British press association declares It is expect ed to have I ' -T- I Weather Forecast Prince Rupert 'and Queen Charlotte 0:38 I , Si&ft. Islands Fresh to strong 10:08 p Tr 5" I southeast winds, mostly cloudy and misty with showers. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER . :'37. efo, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939. PRICE: S CENTS ar Activity Of Great Britain Bulletins FISHERIES PROSECUTIONS Several local halibut boats, charted with violation of International Fisheries Commission regulations, were before Stipendiary .Magistrate Andrew Thompson in provincial police court today, adjournment being taken until next Tuesday CANNOT EXTORT CIIU.MS OTTAWA Export from Canada ol British Columbia chum talnion In the fre.h ststj has cen prohibit! d for thi remainder o.' the calendar yiar under authority of the War Measures Act, the Fi'hetl s I) jurlm nt said today. The aim is to conserve salmon supply for use within the Empire and (he pro-hi' Hun is impos d at the provincial government's request. ARBITRATION INVOKED VHTORIA the provincial arbitration act has been invoked by Hon. George Pearson, minister of. mines, in connection with the miners' strike at Pionrer mlns In (he Bridge River district which started this week. ill is receiving PF A I F IS Oerman U- -'rV-J-t U .. although some of the boat campaign against British ship- enemy aireraiv wirm ivitcu uu it m h" uivuhuij, iiictcticas cum-neutral territory and some came palgn being waged against him in down at sea. , ' i Nat! Nazi learVrs leaders single clnolA .him hlm out ..f as - a I I leader of the war moneers. is hv- lng the effect of even more greatly popularizing him at homo as the KII I.En IN INTERIOR PRINCF. GEORGE Edward , Marsdrn, a feller in a Long-i rrlh logsing cimp near here, t was killed " yesterday by a falling tree. qi'FSNEf. BURGLARY qUESyEITh- afe of Ihe corernment fiijunr store here was blown and $700 in cash taken. The stock is being checked to see if any liquor was taken. SV.INFBOAT BURNED VANCOUVER The seineboat Iruml was destrovd by fire In the Gulf of Georgia north of Parksyille, Vancouver Island, after the engine backfired. The crew of five got away in the dinghy and were rescued. UNLIKELY nrnt tit A.S .W.. t . t rT t "not be bright" Neville I'CMUC Chamberlain ylllllUCllUlll supports tuuuuiu the HIC up Hitler's peace proposals NEGOTIATE ' IN MOSCOW Soviet Bargaining With Both Ger- many And Britain General Synopsis- -The pressure commercial negotiations are pro-remains high from Vancouver Is- ceedhie between Great Britain and land southwestwards A disturbance the Soviet. I off the Queen Charlotte Islands has It is still unexnlalned how Soviet West Coast of Vancouver Island- Moderate to fresh south winds, part cloudy with probablo showers to night duce enormous quantities of man Hore-Belisha Tells , House of Movements To Back Up French So Far 158,000 Men and 25,000 Vehicles Have Been Trans-ported to Fighting Arena and Organization Is Being Perfected LONDON, October 11: (CP) Great Britain has tras-ported to France 158,000 men and 25,000 vehicles in .the first five weeks of the war, Secretary of State for War Hore-Belisha told the House of Commons today. During the same period "we have created base and lines of communication organization so as to assure a regular flow of :. ... L1 supplies and ammunition of every Many Priests 4 4 Liquidated By Russians MOSCOW, Oct. 11. The Moscow newspaper Bezbizhnlk, organ of the antl-rellglous movement, indicated that a large number of Roman Cath- ollc and Greek: Orthbdox wnerc ''riest had teen "liquidated- v when the Soviet troops march- western Ukraine In partitioned Poland'. NAZIS ARE BEING HELD kind and to .'jeceire further contingents if and when we may decide to send them." Included in the twenty - fire thousand vehicle; are many tanks,r "some of enormous dimensions,' weighing fifteen or more tons apiece. Hore-Belisha said that British troops in France were "now busily engaged In fortifying their positions In the line." In addition to sending troops to France, British garrisons In . the middle east have been strongly re inforced as weU as garrisons else- SOME ARE- EXEMPTED Canadian Industry Not to be Stripped of Key Men For Military' Service - OTTAWA, Oct 11. Amplifying a statement of Hon. Norman Rogers, minister of national defence, that Repeated German Assaults On recruiting of Canada's active fore-Western Front Are Turned es will not be permitted to strip in-Back Allies Ready For dustry of needed skilled or key men, Anything Department of Defence officials , have begun compilation of an ex- PARIS. October 11: (CP tensive list of civilian posts frbin French troops repeatedly turned which men should not be recruited, back numerous German assaults The Intention is to insure that en-south of strategic Saarbruerken llstments will not disturb Industry" yesterday with hand grenades and whether engaged In war work or re-rlfle fire. The Nazi thrusts. It was oulrcd for the comfort and welfare juermany. where Hitler and other E v . . Indicated, were apparently aimed of the Canadian people. l,Tfn Beginning To . . which . -..,.,' 1. Admit That Hitler's Peace Terms Not Satisfactory at breaklnj the French lines The list includes agriculture, rail- are tightening on three sides of ways and firms engaged In the pro--Saarbruecken. ductlon of essentials to meet every Oerman raiding parties also day needs of the civil DODulatlon personification of the BritUh spirit t "m2T fprn o.vTnT to take prisoners H to obtain formed Oerman quarters acknow- . In in mir,in pursuing th the against .. ..... ,, ledge that peace prospects will u"" " ,1 w"w. IW UL AllV if Prime Minister Z"""?1?, i" . 'u' . . "UJ"- lkJ lLily 1 lives failed, the French said. I,. f ,U . A .1 . Sunk Yesterday Off POcal stage these days reJectlon of Premler uouzrd Dal-Coast By German J ers. of, ae- adier of FrVnce of Chancellor !a n,y to., uiUllMlIl5 junior Adolf H1Uer.s -conditional peace STOCKHOLM. Sweden, Oct. 11.' TT"117 l ll W T P A I II SVT' t 'proposals. IIoPe of neutral nations taking J. 1JUI T T A iT.l v 1 troops have been trying recapture lost positions' between the MoseUe and the Saar. Fighting, which of late has been concentrated to a large extent j around Saarbruecken, Is beginning to become more extensive. Artillery practically vanished. Presldent Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Unl- and machine gunning, particularly TO RESIGN If Duplessis Wins "Sabotage Election," Lapointe and Other Federal Ministers Will Quit - OTTAWA, October' ll: (CP) Rt. east 0 Saar Rlver 15 bomln& ted States said last night that he t,ne non. Emest Lapofate, minister of had not received any proposals of peace or mediation. H.uiv .lCiioC. .fustlce Waves of Germans have been ' . caught in French machine gun fire, paying dearly for their unsuccessful thrusts. ' 1 The French report that they have consolidated commanding positions overlooking Saarbruecken. An official statement, issued in T I ,W4 T" -V- J Yt in a radio address over Quebec stations, said that a Dup lessis government victory In the forthcoming provincial election would be a cue td himself and three other Quebec members of the federal cabinet to resign. H said that the election was an "act of national sabotage and already i..uu. v ter methods were In use.' tlsh armies, after five weeks of, victory on the western front, are' mncrvwr rvinhor ii Ni.enHa- Germany wherever It may come.t Important political Hmv. nr nmeeedlns between the British and French have Joined 01 D .J as well as trade Impacts," inoirh unH the Soviet for enmmer- forces to resist r.hy assault, OKCClld lvUdtl Ilf .1 r " ! clal exchanges at a rapid pace on wparnpr rnrprnct i large scale. M the tlme importanf i New Government For Lithuania TALLINN. Esthonla, October Hi Mannex Company Is Starting Work On Highway Cast of Usk The Mannex Company of Vancouver has been awarded a con tract for work on the Skecna River that, while caused rain on the northern British' Russia js going to be able to ob-j(CPi Premier Eenpalus' cabinet .highway cast of Usk. concentrating Columbia coast The weather has, tain large quantities of natural has resigned to permit reorganlza- 0n a heavy piece of rock work. A I been fair In southern British Col- products for export or how Oer- tlon of the government on a working crew consisting of dUtrlct lumbla (many is going to be able to pro- broader basis following the non- men has been organized and a. ' . 1 f . ... -.J I . , . . .1.1 . . - i 1 1 111. . , !.!!.' 1. , . 1. I . uygrcssiun ireaiy wn nussia wnicn .consiaeraDie amount oi macninery ufactured goods lor export to' gives the Soviet a greatly In- has been unloaded at Usk. The Russia over and above her own In- creased bcale of Influence In the' work will be carried through to J tensive demands for war materials, country. completion as rapidly as possible.