rianlth
Victories
All
Alone
Dentine
fronts
Are
Claimed
...-
munmns
n
i
rt
i
lcii
av.rn
making
a
total
of
14
In
24
Orer
thirty
bombs
were
dropped
oV
ng
ihe
day
m
the
Hrlstncfors
bttiU.
area.
The
Russian
planes
barbed
a
hospital
dormitory
and
hm.:v
damaged
a
school
for
the
.r;d.
Then
struck
mm
of
ten
p-m-
Sotpilal
building
Two
not-p.-'
ps'ient
were
smong
the
i:
f.ret'
and
oroe
death
are
roport-ti-
be
Hky
T"
H'lungfots
raid
loitowcl
eat-xt
other
teams
twentf-five
c
"
around
the
capital.
Wnst
nomr
ot
Noted
Composer.j
Author
and
Runner
NEW
VORK,
DfC.
22:
(CP)
-ffl"ng
other
things,
war
-
torn
and
is
probably
best
known
la
the
Vest
of
the
world
for
the
k
of
three
men.
Jean
Julius
Christian
Sibelius
Is
perhaps
the
treatest
living
mmnoser.
He
has
rk
Frans
Emll
Slllanpaa.
author
of
books,
has
Just
been
awarded
tof
1939
Nobel
Prize
for
literature.
pavo
Nurml,
no'
In
business.
Is
one
of
the
greatl-st
distance
run-ns
of
all
time.
Canadian
Czechs
May
Be
Recruited
Th'
Is
Expected
Following
Recognition
of
National
Council
Ry
Great
Ilritaln
OTTAWA.
Dec.
22:
(CP-1'
owing
the
recognition
of
the
cch
national
council
by
the
British
government,
Czech
recruits
,("
Uie
Allied
forces
will
be
sought
"l
Canada.
PARIS.
Dec
22
-CP-A
French
government
paper.
issued
officially.
Utti
of
events
which
led
up
to
the
war.
The
French
government
knew
eight
months
in
advance
tb
paper
say
of
the
netjotiatioii
of
the
Rumo-German
agreement.
Desperate
efforu
of
Cont
Ctaiio.
Italian
a,
fliers,
in
-terrifying
raids.
fWf
minuter
tombed
Helsingfora
and
over
a
ner
bu'
iitp
no
detail
Th
Kirov
,"
ua:
A
bcr.br
Famous
Finns
In
War
Zones
to
clave
off
war
arc
described.
Chancellor
Adolf
Hitler
instated
on
carrying
out
his
;r.:r
ior
Dan
and
the
poi-
af
h:ie
gunning
two
trams.
At
'sh
corridor
althoh
a
Mured
x
Mm
id
moe,y"d
war
AIR
RAF)
ON
FIRTH
Made
Their
Grlawav
from
FHh
Of
Forth
When
British
Pursuit
Ships
Went
Aloft
LONDON.
Dec
22
Oermar.
oianes
apoeared
over
the
Firth
of
Forth
today
but
reaped
when
Ufi
.time
from
Ktrkene?.
Norway.
British
pursuit
plnes
went
aloft
it.?
sports
thai
Russian
troops
arKj
coned
them
making
battle
bad
been
seen
moving
northward
in
cne
German
aUoe
d'aapneared
In
a
f
A
Prttamo
wtx.
giving
aive
The
Firth,
ot
which
Edtn-rporU
that
thetr
southward
(ninih
and
Rwyth
narsl
bas
are
ft
r
the
Finnish
corridor
I
if-
ttated.
had
bean
the
objective
of
t-4
the
Arctlf
Ocean
had
been
roidert
acver&l
tiny
previously.
Mom
t
to
reverie
Euller
today
unidentified
&r
urUcks
on
all
IronU
were
tlnr
waa.
fired
-
km
by
anti-alr-
Vusc
repuUed.
lt-wa
reported
I'ranTrtUVronJW
tfot'stoaitmifV
'WV
Mf
!
:th
tieavy
RUsslartcaiusI-
ttj
i
well
at
toe
of
many
tanas.
tfc
guns
and
other
mechanic-id
equipment,
as
wt
ll
as
arms
and
Uon.
being
either
destroyed
er
jred
Wanhlp
Sunk?
!
coastal
batteries
were
r
Ruaaian
warships
tn
wtth-driw
vhout
doing
damag
The
Ev-
war
Kirov,
ahich
was
nror'H
aunk
of
badly
damaged
'
;r.
the
war.
la
again
reported
FirX
b
the
Finns
In
the
Baltic
Sea
ert
.
.
.
-riiir
Rsthonla.
Z7m
rhKM
lured
in
a
mysterious
blast
In
a
tmMT.
twIHIkftn
made
the
re-
Planl
BOMBINGS
;
REPEATED,
One
Tenon
Killed
ny
Mysterious
IUt
In
Rrilith
Steel
riant-Incidents
In
London,
Rir-
mlnghatn,
Wolverhampton
I
LONDON.
Dec.
22::
iCPl
One
person
was
killed
and
nine
In-
of
the
English
Steel
Cor
rVr'flew
over
"le
r
hut
drOIMXd
no
ouojru
,
.Blrmlngrtm
post
oince.
Ten
were
hurt
in
London
when
tneondlary
bombs
of
a
type
used
i
by
the
Irish
Repbllesan
Army
ex-1
ptoded
in
central
Laddlngton
Post;
i
Office.
I
There
was
also
a
bombing
In
a
'
(North
London
post
office
yester
day
as
well
as
in
Wolverhampton.
GOOD
1MAS
THIS
YEAR
Spots
the
best
since
the
depression
brightest
spots
of
all.
HaAi-AMt
flfl
This
seasons
survey
yic...
even
brighter
picture.
Of
a
score
of
cities
and
towns
queried
only
Kamloops
showed
de
creased
business.
rnr
nuDert
Is
among
Hockey
Scores
Pacific
Coast
Leasue
Vancouver,
1;
Poitland",
3.
the
Provincial
LIBRARY
1
VICTORIA.
BX.
In
un-woi
to
the
Nazi
submarine
menace
Engl:
id
is
speeding
up
her
depth-bomb
production
and
has
covered
the
waters
around
the
English
coast
with
torpedo
boats,
aprowl
for
the
submersible
Here
Is
a
series
of
pictures
made
recenUy
during
patrol
duty
At
Uv?
lop
is
a
deck-scene
as
a
sa.lor
stands
by
a
depth-bomb,
ready
for
use
upon
slghUng
a
U-boat
In
Centre
another
bomb
is
loaded
ready
for
use.
while
the
result
ol
an
explosion
of
one
of
the
dejith-bombs
Is
seen.
Bottom.
I
BLOCKADE
COMMUNISTS
Reported
Ships
UTTDTIWr.
AKEi
KAlUfcU;
..
i
i
."t-
rt
1
vinrh
Inch
I
Forty-Eight
Members
or
Germany
Bo
feel
mth
Copper,
Zinc
and
Cottons
LONDON.
Dec.
22:
CP)
Government
experts
emphasizing
the
serious
effect
of
the
Allied
blockade
on
Germany
figure
that
the
Navy
has
conflscuted
thousands
of
gallons
of
gasoline
destined
to
Germany
or
enough
to
proviae
rrlnce
Rupert
One
of
Brightest
poWer
for
fifty
war
planes
to
raid
In
IlrltUh
Columbia
inis
'areat
Britain
dally
ior
a
year
ana
Yule
tide
a
half.
town
on
patriotic
themes
and
The
Nazis
are
also
running
Finish
legend
for
much
of
his,
VANCOUVER.
Dec.
22:
tCPt
short
of
fats,
copper,
zinc
and
cot-
Brltlsh
Columbia
merchants,
iook-
ton
flUC
io
me
mocKaae.
ing
at
rapidly
emptying
counters
and
shelves,
predict
that
Christmas
nurrnr.T
JO
business
thU
year
l
Pb
SWEDEN
IS
.,t
to
have
been
slightly
high-
O
ff
LiUUM
IU
,rJ
-.
....
-,
SUFFERING
Canadian
Press
sur-l
UU1
1
IjIAIH
V
xi
vear
a
vey
showed
that
Christmas
business
To
Have
Lost
Three
As
Result
or
War
At
Sea
Yesterday
AMSTERDAM,
Dec.
22:
(CP)
Survivors
of
the
1000-ton
sweensn
steamship
Verga
arrived
here
alter
their
ship
had
been
sunk
by
mines.
This
was
one
of
three
Swedish
vessels
reported
to
have
been
sunk
yesterday.
At
Oslo
sinking
of
the
British
trawfcr
River
Annan
by
German
I
war
planes
Is
disclosed.
sive
Activities
Party
Subver
PARIS.
Dec.
22:
CP
Forty-eight
arrests
were
made
in
new
raids
on
the
Communist
party
in
France.
Those
arrested
will
be
charged
In
military
court
with
subversive
activities.
War
News
GElttLlN
FLEET
OUT
PARIS
It
is
reported
authoritatively
here
that
the
German
war
fleet
left
Hamburg,
part
ot
it
heading
for
th
North
Sea
and
another
section
for
the
Baltic.
CASUALTIES
LOWER
PARIS
Premier
Edouard
Dal-adler
told
the
Chamber
of
Deputies
today
that
up
to
November
30
th
rost
of
French
lives
in
the
Weather
Forecast
Tomorrows
Tides
mm
High
10:55
ajn.
205
It.
rrlnce
Rupert
and
Queen
Chsr-jotte
23;50
pjn.
17.8
It.
Island
Fresh
to
strong
Low
4:31
ajn.
9.1
It.
,outheast
winds,
Increasing
cloudiness
17:40
pjn.
'4.9
ft
with
no
change
in
temperature.
O
1
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
S
CENTS
PRICE:
v
j
XXVIII
No.
298
T'RINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER
22,
19
39.
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MB
C
r
O
A
re
In
General
Retreat
HELSINKI
SHOW
UP
i
IS
STRAFED
GERMANY
littiant
Continue
Ttrrlfyinc
French
OfflcUl
Taper
Shows
How
jkerisl
Bombardment
At
titration
In
North
Falls
Into
llerrrse
Reds
Repulsed
Hitler
IntUted
Upon
War
ENGLAND
ANSWERS
SUBMARINE,.MENACE
'O
ONLY
FIGHT
WAS
ALOFT
UnofficUl
Armistice
Until
After
Christmas
Appears
To
Have
Been
Reached
On
Western
Front
PARIS,
Dec.
22:
A
long
aerial
battle
between
French
reeonnals
jo
nee
and
German
pursuit
planes
wjs
the
only
lighting
activity
on
the
western
IroniPtoday
as
both
sides
.-.ep.-ned
u,
have
tacitly
acre-d
that
ttifer?
should
be
no
ftghttru;
until
after
Christmas.
Weather
was
improved
and
Oer-m?"
ii
uit
took
to
the
air
to
dr'.ve
off
the
French
scout-
SiGNED
UP
Nbliations
lletwccn
Germany
and,
tloumanu,
Troviding
Reich
With
Oil
Supply,
Concluded
aewttadefreemsfit
between
tsitai.'sfld
Roumatfta
Sraf
change
rat
CAPTAIN
Promotion
and
Decoration
For
Submarine
Commander
Who
Scttrcd
Naval
Victory
LONDON.
Dec.
22:
CP
The
Admiralty
announces
that
Lieut.
Commander
E.
O.
Blckford
of
the
submarine
Salmon,
which
sank
a
German
u-boat
ai:d
torpedoed
two
i
enemy
cruisers
after
letting
thc-
llner
Bremen
pass
because
he
could
not
warn
her
before
a
tor-
mc
rant
oi
commanaer
ana1,
awarded
the
Distinguished
Service;
Order.
LOST
PARTY
DISCOVERED
Pilot
Jack
Jefford
Drops
Food
For
Use
ot
Woman
and
Baby
Son
I
In
Alaska
!
ANCHORAGE,
Dec.
22:
Radio
reports
said
that
Pilot
Jack
Ef-
ford
found
the
missing
Nome
to
Fairbanks
plane
last
night
and
dropped
food
and
other
emergency
Reds
Meeting
With
Catastrophic
Rout
In
War
Against
Finland
Hardy
Arctic
Fighters
Pursued
Soviet
Troops
While
Snowfilled
Skies
Curtain
Nation
From
Bombs
Of
Invaders
HELSINGFORS,
December
22:
(CP)
Hardy
Arctic
f
jhters
pursued
retreating
Russians
in
Finland's
nar
J
BUCHAREST.
Dec.
22:
iCPv-Tlie
Oer
si'
last
flight
:
!f
'
provides
for
Ocr-j
many
to
acHvt
sSQfiOO
tons
of
all
manthly
trom
Roamauis.
Instead
of
80DOO
ten?
at
present.
New
ex
row
corridor
in
the
Par
-North
today
while
snow-tilled
skieS
curtained
"the
nation
from'
enemy
bombs.
The
Russian's
are
reported
in
general
retreat
in
the
Arctic
Petsamo
ing
ships.
Ftghttnt;
ensued
and
the'
-
8n0n
with
the
Finns
bounding
back
from
defence
lines
f'-ma-t.
claimed
that
one
Freneh;
.
to
whjch
they
had
withdrawn
hut
piane
was
Dreuini
aown
in
uer-i
mm
t'-rritory.
The
French
failed';
4ri.
fjji
amestloning
If
any
'lane
hid
been
brought
down
but,!
if
so.
it
mlsht
have
been
in,
F-
-h
teTftrv
Reconnaissance
pl-ne
of
both
sides
were
active
over
oorvtsin
Tritory.
There
w"--
pflt-t
iJv?y
on
the
ground
but
no
fieh'tn.
1
s-.r
'f
TT
i
i
Bulletins
IVEST
COAST
WRECK
ZEBALLOS
Hcnh
Skinner,
a
Vancouver
fisherman:
related
today
that
he
walked
five
days
in
bare
feet
over
the
rocky
shore
of
Quat&ino
Sound
after
the
fish
p.tcker
Great
Northern
V.
was
wrecked
off
Vantonver
Island
weft
coast
Ted
Bernard,
engin-t
of
the
fish
packer,
was
wash-e
J
ovarboard
when
the
vessel
hit
rocks
while
Captain
George
Skinner.
Hugh's
father,
is
still
numbered
anionic
the
lost
A
search
is
being
made.
-
ouoek3'FO;b.&
"
VANCOUVER
G.
G.
McGeer.
Liberal
member
of
the
House
of
Commons
for
Vanconver-Birr-rard
and
former
mayor
of
Tan-
are
also
set
whereby;
couvcr.
said
British
Colombia
had
Germany
wlil
b-
able
to
purchase!
Roumanian
goods
more
cheaply.
received
about
$50,000,000
in
war
others
before
and
since
the
outbreak
of
war.
He
added:
-Vancouver
has
no
justification
for
feeling
iiself
discriminated
against.
At
the
same
time
he
denied
Mayor
TtJford's
charges
that
the
port
or
Vancouver
was
discriminated
against
in
the
matter
of
grain
shipments.
ABLAZE
IN
CARIBBEAN
NEW
YORK
Officials
of
the
Shephard
Steamship
Co.
announce
that
the
freighter-pas
.enter
steamship
Wind
Rush
is
ablaze
in
the
Caribbean
Se
ir.
circumstance
indicating
that
la-or
troubles
had
resulted
in
sabotage.
The
fire
Is
under
controL
GERMAN
TRAIN
WRECK
BERLIN
Two
pasenger
trains
collided
in
a
station
at
Genthin,
killing
seventy
and
injuring
100.
German
authorities
mtimate.i.
supplies
to
aid
his
sister-in-law,
yj
,
Mrs.
William
Jefford
and
tiny
,
cUllS
baby
son
and
two
men
in
the'
stranded
party.
Report
Of
German
J
Ship
Being
Sunk
war
had
been
1136
soldiers,
260
Tc
fivAn
DpTiinl
sailnr
and
12
airmail,
nr
a
total
I
lO
VJIVCU
LCIUCU
of
1138.
Daladler
also
disclosed
that
northern
fortifications
extending
the
Maglnot
Line
and
those
along
Jura
Mountains
on
the
Swiss
frontier
had
been
week.
Norwegian
boroer
reports
said
that
the
Russian
retreat
had
approached
tatattrtphic
proportions."
On
the
eastern
aad
Karelian
fronts
the
Finns
assert
they
have
withstood
heavy
Russian
attacks
without
yielding
an
Inrii.
SURROUND
JAPANESE
Chinese
Predict
Major
Defeat
for
Invaders
in
Xannlng
Area
CHUXGKXKO.'Dec.
22:
(CP)
A
Chinese
army
spokesman
declares
that
Japanese
holding
Nanntng.
strategic
South
China
centre,
have
tWttSrH
TO'CiRH
oSmajhr
defeat
in
that
area.
In
another
area
four
thousand
Chinese
have
been
killed,
according
to
a
Japaiie.se
GERMANY
Claims
British
Infraction
of
Pan-American
Saftey
Zone
In
Spite
of
Presidential
Statement
BERLIN.
Dec.
22
Berlin
officials
itx-Jart
today
that
a
British
crula-?r
h
rued
shots
aecon
the
bow
of
the
German
Uner
Columbas
within
the
American
safety
zone
and
It
was
for
this
reason
that
the
sommander
of
the
vessel
decided
to
scuttle
her.
This
was
new
pratf,
the
Germans
claimed,
of
British
disregard
of
the
Pan-American
safety
zone.
The
German
statement
is
in
spite
of
as
official
dedafatkHi
bv
5ie-
This
is
the
eighth
train
wreck
of
fphen
Early,
secretary
President
serious
proportions
in
Germany
(Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
of
fhe
United
since
the
war
began,
lifting
the
I
States,
that
British
warships
did
casualties
to
158
injured.
193
dead
and
over
MICKEY
ROON'EY
POPULAR
HOLLYWOOD
Mickey
Rooney
has
been
adjudged
the
best
box
office
screen
actor
of
the
year
with
Tyrone
Power
second.
Spencer
Tracy
third,
Clark
Gable
fourth
and
Shirley
Temple
fifth.
German
Admiral
.
Raedtr
To
To
Quit
Submits
His
Resignation
Hitler
But
It
Is
Not
Accepted
COPENHAGEN.
Dec.
22:
Owing
jto
the
Incident
of
the
scutUlng
of
the
pocket
battleship
Admiral
I
Graf
Spee.
Admiral
Erich
Raeder
BERLIN,
Dec.
22:
(CP)
The
oHhas
submitted
his
resignation
to
flclal
German
news
agency
denied
.Chancellor
.
.Adolf
Hitler.
It
has
reports
abroad
that
the
German
not.
however,
been
accepted,
steamship
Gneisenau
had
been
There
Is
no
German
confirmation
sunk
in
the
Baltic.
of
the
report.
not
engage
the
Columbus
in
naval
I
acUon.
Former
Chief
Justice
Born
In
Huron
County
VICTORIA.
Dee.
22:
CP)
The
late
Hon.
James
Alexander
Mac-Donald,
former
chief
justice
of
the
British
Columbia
Court
of
Appeal,
who
is
dead
here,
was
a
native
of
Huron
County,
Ontario,
where
he
was
born
May
29,
1858.
He
was
educated
at
the
public
schools,
the
College
Institute
at
Stratford,
University
of
Toronto
and
Ospoode
HalL
He
practised
law
In
Toronto
for
six
years
before
coming
west
to
Rossland
in
1898.
He
we
elected
to
the
provincial
legislature
In
1003
for
Rossland
and
re-elected
In
1907.
Since
1909,
when
he
was
appointed
chief
justice
of
the
British
Columbia
Court
of
Appeal,
he
had
rtmifS
In
Victoria.