fz.
i
rr
.r
j
ncn
woum
aeep
cr-
f
;-bmartne
on
the
run.
ttrx
'
doea
not
believe
it
t
Inside
Pasage
"
by
a
r
"
rvii
a)
lit
r"
nftVttl
rarvlAt
lt?r
1
1
.
ail
into
the
nary
T-a-i'rj
ot
Into
war.
be-
i
Oc-many
would
not
'tr
'd
State
neulraUty.
Ur
fr.
i
aw
It,.t
.H.t.MU.
-
kiCltTK
LilAh
MJ1T
IIUO
i-'
r
'
a
Orimin
submarine
l
riit
'
to
the
war.
i
American
halibut
X
,
.-
aw....a.
ff-vl
1
tnto
rrince
Ruoert
"I
,as
few
day.
None
t
nibmarine
and
they
a?r
ai
r.bout
one
being
there.
I
.
imin
i
a
w
A
1
I
1
u
Lnrnrpn
-mwi
DrDlfnlDCr
o.avrs
uoasicuaru
"
...
-va
;
.
ivp
lotmn
nil
irare
oi
Y
infillin
Im
-
MVS
v
111
louver
Now
VANCOUVER
Seotember
23
4001
hsj
been
BDDolnted
of
'
la
chare
r
wxiiiin.
v..r
i-
'
wmuumi
nil
rvitci
V
inr:;Un"K(l
hv
Air
rwmnra
;?
Har;r
brought
hU
thlp
Cranna
Uland
todar
u
n
Opwillnf
Off
Here.
It
,
In
fact.
I
am
sure
!
ti
r
-
.ere
certainly,
there
.
.
H.4.1.
I
l
I
n
i
;
i
.a
ru-
Would
lUrr
to
Hate
Organized
Local
authorities
lltten
with
interest
to
reports
of
the
ponJbIllty
of
an
alien
submarine
being
off
Printe
It
u
pert
but
tbey
are
absolutely
silent
at
to
what
steps
may
be
taken
In
regard
to
it.
Of
course,
no
statement
could
be
expected
from
military
or
naval
quarters
errn
If
anything
being
done.
month
of
the
Oreat
War.
Convoys.
Earlier
the
owners
of
the
1507-ton
w
IrlWtH.
iiM
n-r
The
question
arises
at
to
thro&th
a
vtett
here
three
years
whether
there
would
be
a
sub-
no
when
he
addressed
a
number
marine
base
somewhere
off
the
I
of
meetings.
Many
who
met
him
Itrlthh
Columbia
or
Ataka
coast.
I
at
that
time
will
regret
to
learn
If
such
base
there
It.
it
would
j
of
hU
death)."
probably
be
Plotting
and
port-
.
able.
A
bae
vld
be
essential
If
j
submarine
urlhiiy
was
to
be
car-
f
ried
on
off
IhN
coast
and
It
1
would
have
ben
organlred
be
fore
the'
war
;
nrltaln
Reports
Success
In
Kid.
ding
High
Seas
of
IMtoaU
Losses
Less
Than
Last
War
Ur,t
'
imnish
ohip
tions.
tjiccuuuii
Tomorrow
s
Tidet
Weather
Forecast
11:04
Kin.
17.9
(t.
23:04
pra,
18.1
(t.
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Charlotte
Low
4:43
am.
0,6
It.
Islands
Fresh
northwest
17:05
pjn.
81
ft
winds,
mostly
cloudy
and
cool
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
BRITISH
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
with
showers.
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER
23,
1939.
PRICE:
S
CENTS
X
at
Activity
On
Western
Front
kipper
Of
Alaska
Steamer,
Calling
Here,
bcouts
Idea
Of
Submarine
Being
Nearby
CaDf
Eldrcd
Hansen,
master
of
the
Alaska
Trans-
rtatn
c
o.
s
sicamer
lanu,
wnicn
caned
at
I'nnce
liu-a
rridav
afternoon
southbound
from
Ketchikan
tn
Si-
u
sru'
-
the
Idea
of
a
foreign
submarine
lurking
any-
t
r
I
1-1
1
T
t
!
,
.
iCIl
-
(""
-
-
-w------....
u
,
V.
d
f
J
about
the
presence
of
a
submarine
anywhere
j
rtsiem
Aiasaa
out,
n
the
neighborhood.
ttTT
a
nrt
nAnn
rJ4
be
'-'Owr
.
1
SUB
MEAN?
Passes
Away
lb
1
L'
JNDOf
F.r
-r.bcr
23
CPk
CJir,mus:orifr
Johr
MrMUUin,
fhief
of
the
Sa
ra-on
Army
for
Great
Britain
t.nce
.
JMO,
.died
yesterday
He
was
formerly
lo
cated
in
the
United
States.
Australia
and
Canada,
having
come
over
here
from
the
com-mlaaionerahtp
In
Canada.
Corn-
was
j
misMoner
McMillan
wtll
be
remembered
tn
Prince
Rupert
Is
Torpedoed
Is
is
officially
officially
announces
7
,.
t,"
ouards
acmscu
w.k
u.ct
u
,e
stAtid
the
French
naval
authorities
claimed
re
JjK?g
yesterday
that
not
a
single
French
?
wer
ship
had
yet
been
lost
through
Z
t
.Vl,
for
a
dav
alonK-
'PURGE
ON
IN
ITALY
II
Dure
Says
Announcement
Of
Historic
Importance
Is
About
f
'
To
Be
Made
j
'
ROME,
September
23:
Premier
Mussolini
has
ordered
a
general
clean-up
of
all
antl
fascist
subversive
elements
In
he
country.
He
announced
this
n
ornlng
that,
as
a
result
of
the
ire
of
emotionalism
brought
at
riut
by
the
war.
anti-fa:lsm
hat
been
lurk-
in;
in
dark
corners
ofj
the
Empire.
inineation
inis
wouia
no
longer
oe
auowea
The
government
was
determined
to
clean
up
these
dark
bomers
and
ellmuiate
all
subvert
e
elements.
II
Duce
also
stated
hat
an
announcement
of
historic
importance
would
soon
be
made.
DIVISION
OF
POLAND
Ruvsia
Gets
Three-Fifths
and
Germany
Two-Fifths
Warsaw
Still
Holding
Oat
Foreigners
Evacuated
eastern
portion
lion
Poles
under
Germany
ln
the
west.
Russia
controls
the
most
of
LONDON.
lAiauun.
Sept.
oepi.
23:
a:
'Uf
CP-
tne
.
counU7
fcin
'
on
,
last
night
after
another
day
of
pounding
by
German
warplanes.
Three
German
Attacks
Intended
To
Regain
Lost
Ground
In
Saar
Resulted
In
Defeat
By
French
PREPARING
FOR
FIGHT
Claimrtl
Ky
French
That
(iermany
Ha
Lt
More
Than
Gained
PARIS,
September
23:
There
are
indications
still
of
a
major
of-
Germany's
casualties
in
Poland
are
placed
at
150,000
dead
and
wounded.
It
Is
estimated
that
the
Re.'ch
Ke;cn
lost
lost
some
some
three
three
or
or
four
four
It
was
said
that
-a
battle
near
Tomaszow.
160
miles
southeast
of
los
ANGELES.
Sentnb?r
23
1
Cr:.l
Anr
I
a
rP
111
1
are
being
effectively
operated
nowj
mmTmr
Attempt
10
lYreCK
off
and
success
ln
driving
iw
Ms
i
.
,
,
...
.
i
.
i
r
:
bmarlne
In
waters
of
"K
-
.
Pnwnrrrt
arnviriB
on
nnin
siaes.
"7.
1
W"CrC
-f
.h.
M.ntl,
M
v.-itn.
ac,
"
'
-.c
signica
an
unucr-
.
,
,,
,
,.
i
-
inmnnnnn
ni
uic
.
.
.
.
.
unlc
by
conT03r
'
In'1"
i
7
r!
'he
u-boat
being
Train
Is
Foiled
BUCHAREST.
September
23:
j
(CP-
Roumanlas
new
military
stottabn
23:
(CP)-
General
Baron
Warnon
von
Fritsch,
One
of
Reich
Army's
Most
Import
Leaders
And
Strategists,
Slain
In
Battle
of
Warsaw
LONDON,
September
23:
(CP)
"Great
activity"
on
4
1
.
.
r
a
t
i
t-
s
sun
seen
of
.Maior
me
wesiern
irunt
was
renonea
in
a
rrencn
communiaue
offensive
shortly
on
Western
today
as
Swiss
observers
at
Basel
said
they
saw
indica-
Front
tions
of
newly
reinforced
German
forces
seeking
to
take
the
offensive.
Three
German
attacks
were
reported
f
i.
11
r
ni
rirSl
War
l
hase
thrown
back
by
the
French.
These
separate
attacks
were
-
evidenUy
In
an
effort
to
regain
riTTTTnri
nynn
uerman
territory
near
Saar-
.NWLSS
!
Kh
bruecken.
The
French
said
that
ON
GERMANS
Principal
Business
of
Supreme
i
War
Council
Yesterday
LONDON.
'
Sept.
K
23:
CPi
Munl-
r
T
TFt
11T
1
Tm
'
-
,,
SI
W
AK
m"
and
"""ftf11
,rontifra-
tions
and
were
the
prmd
K
FlnnUh
ship
Marttl-Rag-
hundred
planes
with
700
or
more
OUD
YT
HIV
nar.
a
2262-ton
veel
loaded
and
pilots.
pal
pal
subject
subject
of
of
discussion
discussion
at
at
a
a
meet
meeting
'a
A
tr4th
j
miln
fnr
Wft!arf
i
j
a
A
i
reported
yesterday
to
be
hunting
in
vpsterdav
yesterday
in
In
England
England
nf
of
thi
the
sn
Su
m
reported
to
have
been
sunk
by
dondJrrnf"hand
kUb
a
submarine
off
Norway.
Mem-
f5e
chaf5d
v?h
exl
classes
before
the
In-
!
bers
of
the
crew
were
rescued.
UVln.
LONDON,
Sept.
23.-Brttlh
naval
(
authoriUe
intimate
that
the
cam-
riATTRYATvTIA
vmrhitird
vlth
maxkrd
suceww.
So'
nin
loaitcuard
uwli
rail
far
In
thit
war
Io&ss
from
lorpeao.
C
ft-
a.
a
ILIJ
U.
IN
ORDER
frvn
I
nail
me
tonnage
ana
onc-iuuu
uic
.Warsaw
number
o
ships
;
in
the
peai
M,on
of
Premler
ntinf
yawn.
Warsaw
was
still
holding
out
DEAD
ARE
MOUNTING
preme
War
Council
of
France
and
England.
Agreement
was
reached
on
the
general
policy
to
be
followed.
Prime
Minister
Neville
Chamberlain
and
Premier
Edouard
Daladler
headed
the
two
groups
of
war
lead-
ers.
military
chiefs
also
being
In
attendance.
Premier
Chamberlain
Warsaw,
had
been
"victoriously
dead
m
cahfomia-s
eight-day
retary
Lord
Halifax
and
Minister
concluded"
by
the
Oermans.
hcat
waTC
m0Unted
to
seventy-
for
Co-Ordinatlon
of
Defence
Lord
me
uerman
Army
nign
com
ihrpe
vestprdav
with
nrottratiorvs
(7haflplrt
jmand
reports
that
1300
foreigners
mnnuig
into
the
thousands.
cnn
nave
Deen
saieiy
removeo
irom
damage
estimated
at
a
million
dol-
TV
1
OI
lars
or
more
and
a
general
slowing
DrlllMl
uiilpS
up
ln
business.
There
Is
no
prom-
.
i
11
Ise
of
any
notable
relief
befors
In
I
nllllOTI
x"
vuiiioiuii
Sunday.
Some
stores
were
closed
yesterday.
An
Ice
shortase
Is
de-
veloplnc.
Two
hundred
mall
car-
United
States
Coastguard
Vessels
tiers
ln
Los
Angeles
were
overcome
Proceed
To
Assistance
Which
by
the
heat.
!
Later
Found
Unnecessary
Ia.
Avii!ac
Act
o
rrl
T
Xf
rc.-vrriA1
they
had
been
successfully
repulsed.
German
artillery
paved
the
way
for
the
attacks
with
artillery
bombardment
described
as
"more.
Pront
but
whether
the
Allies
or
Anti-Aircraft
Guns
Yesterday
Get
to
JL
JC
"?
f"e'
the
Germans
VJ1
start
It
appears
Into
Action
To
Head
Off
Acts
1116
tJS!
J?
fa"trf
uneera.n
Heavy
guns
are
still
be-
Of
XeulraUty
VioUtion
,
TVL
were
rePrted
to
an
oXfldal
French
moved
ng
up
behind
either
lines
and
larjre
massing
of
troops
con-
ZURICH.
September
23:-
Swiss
communi(lue-
tlnues.
South
and
east
of
Saar-
anti-aircraft
mint
vtrrf9v
f!rH
On
Eastern
Front
brupckcn
activity
to
be
011
Eastem
front
Ger-
Berlin
RMitnhor
23-
ini
appears
n
O-rman
war
planes
Hying
over
UUUJ"'
OCpiemoer
.
((.TI
-
,
...
..
.
mini
mnnim
tti
1nn
In
S.ll.
A
German-Russian
agreement
U
"IL
"
,
,
,
,
.
ltteriana
m
coniravenuon
announced
under
whh
Oermanv
.!!n?.
'"?olJUe?
decUred.
hls
country
s
y-
wttthdrawlns
its
armies
in
Pol-
"
'
had
'T
'
'"L
'
0IJ"ie
rtriv.
I"
War
ended-Ofrrr.an-.
ana
to
wesv
oi
a
une
.formed
by
,
.
.
.
i
the
Pissa.
Nerew.
Vistula
and
San
?nd
upa;
-n
of
corslderable
p,
'
a
portion
of
-....
Oermanv.
It
was
claimed
that
m
r
GftTrlLinv
nan
Lrvt
mrvr
amnrml
DISCUSSED
SUPPLIES
of
their
former
army
commander-in-chief.
Colonel
General
Baron
I
Warnon
von
Fritsch.
HlUer
head-'
quarters
gave
the
announcement
of
his
death
In
action
yesterday
at
Warsaw.
Von
Fritsch
fell
out
of
about
thire-fUth
....
of
Ihr-conqufr-
ZLrTZ-
.
JU1
1
JUILilJ
WW.-tatn
,
.
17
;
'
t"!'"'
dirr'rnltSS
'
J
"
v'
returned
Lto
grace:
d....
i
m
111
"n
She.
bad
ob-,
rer
has
ordered
a
sUte
funeral
for
,rtin
and
fifteen
iff,
mil
taIned
ln
conquest
of
Poland.
.
,
the
soldier
who
had
been
ranked
as
one
of
Germany's
leading
strate
gists.
The
German
high'
command
claimed
the
fall
of
LIcw
to
a
division
of
German
mountaineers
"as
they
were
being
relleved.by
Ruselan
troops.
The
German
army
command,
ln
a
communique,
declared
the
"campaign
in
Poland
Is
ended"
and
"the
Polish
army
of
millions
of
men
has
been
defeated,
captured
or
routed."
No
single
Polish
active
or
reserve
division
and
none
of
their
inde-
twnHonf
HHfraHAc
ocrarurl
thl
faf.'
was
accompanied
by
Foreign
Sec-
ded.
he
communlque
The
communique,
however,
admitted
that
Warsaw
still
held
out
J
against
the
German
siege
but
des
cribed
the
Polish
capital
as
one
of
three
""hopeless
positions,"
the
oth
ers
being
Modlln
and
Hela
it
.1
r
tlMnntlra
I
rtxxxr
Members
Are
government
cwiunues
to
aci;
.
,
.
.
iscira
jciy
,cvoiuru
lni
.
...
..
hae
d
to
sVeedHy
and
vigorously
alnstl
SXcZine''n'
SEATTLE.
September
23:
(CP)-,
GettUl
2
Well
Nazi
r..
nnn
l-ciM
oiuu
infintvM
uiiiuraicvo
fnl-
.
.
.
.
.
.
Dleco.
99:
San
Bernardino.
101:
rvcfmaH
w
icvrncu
4...
,
tL..
i
i
u-i
iM
e..i.-u-.
froth
the
United
rB'.?H"
ouu."
'".c."""
.v,
..ruination
of
Pre-
"
'"T
Loncbeach.
101V.
and
Santa
Monl-
hA
Rtrt
of
Tan
h
v,,
v.
Gun
Practise
prariis
M.ui
k.
.
i.j
!Urr
Barrett
Roclt
bets
e
houra
of
3
P-m.
and
W
m
Tuesday.
September
26.
RachJl1
Wwwn
North
yard.-
8CS
UP
10
2.00
SUUK
uic
UlULMi
iiriKiikci
nKnr
-
-
hj
waus
uctth
uwivintu
ujr
hujji
...
.
I
KITrCHIKAN
Sent
23
Baden
mler
Armand
CaUncscu
.alleged
ca.
103
erday
on
reports
that
two
.
BruW
....
eCpm(3
J
side
ten
mile-
off
the
Norwegian
bj
s
coast.
Tne
crew
of
twenty-six
wa,
member,
or
tne
ou
had
been
tampered
with.
jireigniers-Locnmonarana
paciiic
-
-
men
who
were
Dlac-
rescued
by
a
Norwegian
warship,
""r'r:..
,
rf
an.,
"
-
-
I
tn
K
ed
ln
hospital
here
following
an
German
submarine
attack.
Attorney
General
Is
Staying
Home
Is
Held
At
Washington
Ry
President
To
Assist
In
Framing
New
NeulraUty
legislation
htm
while
new
neutrality
law
legislation
Is
being
framed,
Attorney
General
Frank
Murphy
has
broken
an
important
speaking
engagement
for
which
he
had
been
dated
in
Los
Angeles
on
Monday.
side
them
being
posters
with
the
rtm
statement:
"This
will
be
the
fate
of
assassins
and
traitors,"
A
the
eovemment
moves
effect
ively
to.
stamp
out
the
revolt,
all
RoumanU
mourns
the
death
of
of
calmescu.
Ills
body
was
removed
.yesteiday
to
Uie
Athenlum
where
it
Is
resting
n
state
In
an
open
.coffin.
There
will
be
a
state
funer-ial
tomorrow.
,
1
Roumarila
is
situated
nervously
'on
the
fringe
of
quick
moving
WASHINGTON,
D.
C.
September
conquests
In
Poland
by
German
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who
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and
of
Soviet
itussia
which
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in
wisninsui
i
mnmnprs
riuunitttuu
Russian
territory
in
Bessarabia.
There
was
some
reassurance
late
-tcrday
with
the
formal
assurance
by
the
Union
of
Soviet
Socialist
Republics
that
Roumanian
neutrality
would
be
respected.
New
Highway
To
Boundary
Nears
Completion
Now
NEW
WESTMINSTER,
September
23:
(CP)
The
new
straight
line
highway
from
here
to
the
United
States
boundary
Is
expected
to
be
ready
lor
opening
in
auout
six
weeks'
time.
Nazis
Claim
It
"Wishful
Thinking"
PRAGUE.
September
23:
Nazi
authorities
here
assert
that
reports
of
widespread
revolts
ln
Bohemia
and
Moravia
this
week
were
largely
British
"wishful
thinking."
Foreign
correspondents
were
asked
to
survey
the
situation.
A
United
War
Notajg
,
Tim
JL1VTTO
j
1
CANADA'S
HELP
CONFIRMED
explosion
on
the
Canadian
Pacific
was
proceeding
'ghter
Nootka
is
Improving
It
On
arrival
at
Victoria
It
was
as-
certalned
that
the
Pacific
Grove,
a
was.
"Ported
yesterday.
The
oth-
motorshlp.
had
sufferer
$50,000
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fr
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Th.
,hms
in
fw
lia
wilaon
and
John
Sandberg-
while
travelling
slowly,
their
wlre-j"5
making
good
recovery.
Despatches
from
England
re-
!iesa
toe
alarms
belnir
silent
ouinir
peat
the
announcements
at
the
to
reports
of
submarines
along
the
1f
i
OTTnTiaVT
first
of
the
week
that
Canadian
I
coast
Nil
Af
I
3J
IN
shlnvards
are
to
commence
con-
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t.i,.i,
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i
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,
IT
T
Press
correspondent
is
reported
to'
though
damaged,
was
able
to
rc-
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siruciion
oi
mine
swrrptrs
ihu
j
damaged,
anti-submarine
craft,
that
Cana-
were
no
mjurleSi
da
Is
also
sending
overseas
as
,
soon
'as
possible
a
large
number
of
trained
avlnrtors
t
serve
with
TnprflJiCO
In
the
Roval
Air
Force
and
that
LiCtl
HC
lllLICdbc
111
Canadian
naval
craft
will
co
operate
with
the
British
on
the
Atlantic
coast.
This
line
of
oc-operation
had
been
decided
upon
after
consultation
with
the
British
authorities.
SHIP
HITS
MINE
LONDON
live
lives
were
lost
when
the
British
patrol
ship
Kltttwake
struck
a
mine
In.
the
English
Channel.
The
ship,
al-
Marriage
Licences
I
September
In
Winnipeg
Will
Be
By
Far
The
Largest
Month
On
Record
WINNIPEG,
September
23:
(CP)
There
has
been
a
large
Increase
ln
marriages
in
Winnipeg.
THIS
WEEK
Special
Session
of
Congress
Delays
Dealing
With
Neutrality
Lawj
WASHINGTON.
D,
,C,
September
23:
There
will
so
no
action
bi-
'
fore
next
week
the
special
session
of
Conc.ess
oil
President
Franklin
D,
Roosevelt's
request
for
revision
at
the
neutrality
laws.
The
Senate
orelgn
relations
ctm-
So
far
ln
September
488
licences
jmlttee
has
postponed
Its
meeting
have
been
granted.
The
highest
j
until
Mon'iay,
it
Is
announced
by
month
previously
was
June
1914.
Senator
Xey
Plttman,
,
the.
chalr-wtth
372,
man.
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"
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