banks
LONDON.
May
22
CP
Prime
Minuter
Winston
Churchill
and
Oeneral
Sir
Edmund
Ironsides
vis
ited
King
Oeorgc
at
Buckingham
Palace
yesterday.
Wheat
Price
Peg
To
Be
Continued
Will
Remain
Pending
Further
Developments,
Minister
Of
Trade
Announces
OTTAWA,
May
22:
(CP)
Togs
will
remain
in
Winnipeg
wheat
futures
pending
further
develop
ments,
Hon.
J.
A.
McKlnnon.
mln
Ister
of
trade
and
commerce,
announced
yesterday.
Prices
dropped
2c
to
l8c
on
the
Winnipeg
market
yesterday
but
showed
Improvement
today
Rome
Cut
Off
i
From
Paris
And
London
Today
HOME.
May
22
-
-
Telephone
communications
between
Home
t
and
Paris
were
Interrupted
this
afternoon.
Previously
thoso
be-
tween
Rome
and
London
were
broken
but
no
explanation
of
this
action
was
given.
Celling
Ready
To
was
moving
Into
n
while
wn,le
,lal
Italy
l
i
ni
f
rremier
And
Lhiet
juia
Of
Staff
Call
On
King
At
Palace
Should
Germany
And
Italy
Attempt
Squeeze
I'lay
In
Southeastern
Europe
BUCHAREST,
Itoumania,
May
2t
.(Crj
A
general
military
stair
order
today
called
1M.M9
ItnumaitUn
retert
lstd
the.l-
ors
within
the
nest
twenty-four
hours.
The
order
make
t.OM,-000
men
In
active
service
In
all
branches.
All
army
leaves
are
also
cancelled.
Some
diplomats
linked
the
move
with
Roumanian
fears
that
the
Sovtet
may
soon
march
Into
Bessarabia.
Meanwhile
the
Dally
Mirror
in
London
n
ported
that
thirty
Itunlan
divisions
were
pouring
toward
the
Hunsarlan-German
frontier
where
thousands
of
other
troops
would
spring
Into
action
should
Germany
allow
I
Hungary
to
move
Into
Slovakia
All
JuroSUvs
in
Roumania
have
been
ordered
to
rush
home
In
response
to
what
amounts
to
general
mobilization
In
SITUATION
PARIS.
May
22:
CP-Summar
.u.
.iiiotin
l.nt
nlflht
fol
I
IN
FRANCE;
estuary
of
the
Somme
River,
twelve
,
miles
from
the
English
cnannei
and
about
twenty-nve
mues
wifc
i
Arras
and
Amiens
which
Premier
Paul
Reynaud
said
were
In
German
hands.
The
French
were
continuing
to
repulse
Nazi
attacks
at
Cambral
and
Rcthel
despite
their
withering
mechanized
fury.
LONDON
SILVER
Minister
Elaborates
On
Intensification
Of
War
Effort
Two
New
Destroyers
Being
Built
,
OTTAWA
May
22:
CP
Im-
Lightning
Legislation
Gives
Authority
to
Conscript
.
Per
portent
announcements
in
connec-
SOrtS,
Services
and
Property
of
All
People
to
Meet
tton
with
Canadian
defence
meas-
German
Challenge
ur"
,n
4tne,
EmPlrc
crls
were
.
made
yesterday
by
Hon.
Norman
LONDON
May
22:
(CP)
The
British
Parliament
Jj
"tr?
tonight
invested
the
government
With
powers
0
conscript
House
of
Commons
yesterday
fol-
labor
and
wealth
to
strengthen
the
shield
against
German
lowing
his
trip
to
England,
invasion.
Within
three
hours
the
Houses
of
Commons
a
further
conttiwent
or
troop
and
Lords
had
passed
and
the
King
had
approved
a
bill
n,0nta
the
nrst
cana-giving
the
government
sweeping
emergency
powers
de-
m,
S-
manara
n
new
w
wc
&ic
.
u
which
the
nation
stands."
O
A
I
17"
1
O
Rt
Hon.
Clement
AU.
Lord
KAI,lAiNn
privy
Seal,
Introduced
the
bill
con-
lLliU
Xl
JlJ
I
erring
upon
the
government
com-,
LI
L"
!
I
'
f
t7
C
C
plete
control
of
all
persons
and
IVEilJ
1
LClUU
property
and
announced
the
forma-
j
tlcn
of
a
committee
to
push
muni-
Uuwja
tions
production.
The
legislation
rculd
require
all
persons
to
place
themselves,
their
services
and
property
at
the
disposal
of
Ills
Majesty
AUcr
said
the
government
was
tot
seeking
these
powers
In
panic
iat
in
full
realisation
of
the
seri-
sness
of
the
mHtfarjr
aHmttorr
ttl
In
determination
to
mobilise
tfcral
resources
to
meet'
the
Oer-m
challenge.
der
the
measure,
the
govern
-crct
is
authorteed
to
set
up
pro-d-.,':on
nnnclls
controlling
the
sr.'
.jfarfuf
of
munitions,
ships
vi
aircraft
and
regulate
mining
farming,
to
impose
100
per
ex';'
profit
tax
to
prevent
r
me
profiteering,
take
over
r:
iUon
factories
regulate
other
t-
:
and
Industry,
wages
and
of
labor
and
control
the
though
ls
said
that
the
Second
Division
was
not
being
dispatched
overseas
immediately,
he
told
of
arrangements
for
recruiting
reinforcements
for
tt
and
fir
the
Third
Division.
A
message
of
thanks
from
Lcn-
Mott
don
for
Canada's
Intimation
of
sieedln
ur
th
war
effort
had
been
received,
Mr.
Rogers
said,
j
The
minister
of
national
defence
.re-s'r.d
hit
two
Canadian
bat-tellons
-Prince
Patricia's
Light
Infantry
and
the
Edmonton
Regiment
had
been
on
the
way
to
-
Norwar
reently
when
-it
was-decided
t
withdraw
from
there.
Mr.
Rogers
announced
that
orders
had
been
olaced
In
England
for
two
new
destroyers
of
the
Tribal
clss
for
the
Royal
Cana
dian
Naw
Scores
of
smaller
vessels,
ineiurtln"
s'ib
rh
aM
WOULD
mine
sweepers
were
under
con
structlon
In
Canadian
shipyards.
AIR
FORCE
VERY
BUSY!
I
Aachen,
across
from
Alx-la-Chap-pelle,
many
Messerschmldts
had
Swing
:
Oerman
advance
of
the
destroyed
on
the
ground
day.
a
French
war
ministry
official
,
said
that
Oerman
xorces
oi
ouuu
u
40to
men
had
pierced
the
Allied
lines
to
take
Amiens
and
Arras
but
the
front
was
"completely
confused"
with
French
forces
still
holding
Cambral
behind
Oerman
advance
positions.
;
The
spokesman
said
that
he
dldi
not
think
Abbeville
ltseu
nao
occn
taken
but
he
could
not
connrm
uus
ill)
Bulletins
nounred
clined
to
negotiate
further
with
Great
Britain
on
a
trade
agreement.
Russia
refuses
the
British
.
..nrJi
ion
to
restrict
its
trade
with
Germany.
A
mission
is
expected
here
from
London
and
it
is
said
that
Former
Premier
David
Lloyd-George
may
be
one
of
its
number.
FA'TMOSION
AT
AKSENAL
LONDON
One
man
was
reported
Injured
In
a
slight
explosion
at
Woolwich
arsenaL
SWVT
SELLING
BANNED
TORONTO
Short
selling
on
Toronto,
Montreal
and
Vancouver
tork
exthntes
was
banned
today
until
further
notice.
CONSTABLE
SLAIN
PARKLAND;
Alta
Constable
F.
G.
F.
Counsel;
of
the
Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police
was
shot
in
th
head
and
killed
when
he
and
others
raided
the
birr'eaded
home
of
,ChrlM
Unen.
wantd
.for
wounding
-.
r-,ji.rt
nht
Itan-
fir4
(mm
tKe-
:Ui-wbMt
Hllr
hrV
In
f?r
hnrlint
Th
-
p-l1-
if-thriw
(o
lto
tt
nw
ltirlc
!"
t1r
found
Hansen
had
killed
j
:
C0lwlj(Ute
intervention
by
the
British
Fliers
Keep
on
llara&sinc!
United
States.
There
Is.
of
'
German
Communications
an
I
course,
nothinr
to
prevent
the
Troop
Concentrations
LONDON.
May
22:
(CP)
The
British
Air
Ministry
announced
last
night
that
British
bombers
had
,been
"continuously
engaged"
over
i
Belgian-French
fronts
throughout
the
day.
Forays
had
been
made
es
pecially
on
Oerman
armored
col-ums
and
troop
concentrations.
Five
bombers
had
failed
to
return.
Communication
lines
had
also
been
What
Paris
Spokesman
Had
to
Say
heavily
bombed.
A
raid
on
oil
tanks
Last
Night
,
in
Rotterdam.
Holland,
had
been
In
addition
to
other
activities
and
at
sale
of
Allies.
ordered
planes
to
the
Communists
In
Demonstration
Reds
Are
Opposed
To
United
States
Becoming
Involved
In
European
War
NEW
YORK,
May
22:
Fifteen
hundred
Communists
demonstrat-
ST
ftrSTt
.uw
May
Signalize
Commencement
of
Anticipated
Gi
thit
oerman
motorcycle
troops
had
'
Countcr-Of
f
ensive
General
Wcygand
Completes
penetrated
the
outskirts
of
the
Ab-
bcvilla
region.
Aboevwe
is
on
"-
Tour
of
Front
Great
PARIS,
May
22:
(CP)
Recapture
by
the
Allies,
after
hard
fighting,
of
Arras,
important
key
city
on
the
way
to
Calais,
gave
new
heart
to
the
hardpressed
British,
French
and
Belgian
fighting
forces
and
was
regarded
as
a
defin
ite
set-back
m
the
Nazi
drive
toward
the
coast,
possibly
NEW
YORK
COPPER
NEW
YORK,
May
22:
Copper
was
,25
to
.27
lower
on
the
New
York
metal
market
yesterday
with
LONUUN,
tnMnnn
m.iv
way
22:
silver
wm
-
-
nnmiir
rnniwr
was
un
ending
on
the
London
mar
-
at
228
pence.
-
-
Jycstcrday
pered
with
caution
and
the
reallza
tion
that
many
hard
tasks
He
ahead,
swept
Paris
as
the
news
reached
the
French
capital
of
the
recapture
of
Arras.
The
tendency
toward
hopelessness,
which
was
felt
since
the
week-end
when
there
was
reallza-(Continucd
on
Page
Four)
Weather
Forecast
Tomorrow's
Tides
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Charlotte
High
2:02
am
22.8
tt.
Islands
Fresh
southeast
14:58
pjn.
20.1
ft.
winds
shifting
to
south
Tarty
cloudy
Low
8:44
ajn.
0.4
ft.
and
cooler
with
showers.
5-
X
20:51
pjn.
55
tt.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
HRITIS
H
.COLUMBIA'S.
NEWSPAPER
XXIX.
No.
121.
V
PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
MAY
22,
1910.
PRICE:
t
CENTS
Allies
Are
Winning
Again
Today
Nationalization
For
England
Return
Of
Arras
To
French
British
Government
Takes
Over
Control
Labor
and
Wealth
SPEED
ON
DEFENCES
Hands
hollowed
By
Lhasms
Nazi
Guards
From
Abbeville
.MOSCOW
BACKS
OUT
lg
A
kTJV
'VC
ass.
jsl
e
rKANLfc
1U
that
Moscow
has
de
GET
PEACE?
Bucharest
And
Belgrade
Seethe
With
Rumors
That
Germany
Will
Make
Offer
'
BUDAPEST,
May
22:
Budapest
and
Belgrade
seetned
with
rumors
yesterday
that
Oermany
is
about
to
offer
a
separate
peace
to
France,
continuing
the
war
tigalnst
Great
Britain.
"
'
i
American
Number
Red
Cress
Estimate
At
Five
Million
In
Dire
Straits
NEW
YORK.
May
22:
CP
The
American
Red
Cross
Society
esU
I
'
RFFIJGF.S
i
FROM
WAR
s
"
inmi
ui
utignun
ana
'
Fnnce
before
the
Nazi
Invasion
This
k
announced
bv.Normap.H.
Davis,
president'
of
the
American
R'rf
'"rots
Tr'e
eorie
are
home-l-'s
--d
wi'ho'tt
f-
d.
Many
are.
sick
Some
are
injured.
No
Undue
Profits
VIOL.TE
NEUTRALITY
w
e
itr
l
wAsiuNGTON-By
a
vote
of
in
ueience
Work
IZ
to
1
the
Senate
foreign
re
lations
committee
today
shelved
I
a
proposal
that
the
United
t
States
sell
the
Allies
army
and
navy
planes.
Chairman
Key
Pitt-
man
said
the
general
opinion
.as
that
such
legislation
would
iolate
international
law
and
WASHINGTON.
D.
C.
May
22:
Neither
capital
or
labor
will
profit
excessively
from
the
execution
of
th-
bUllon
dollar
United
States
defence
program.
President
Franklin
D.
Roosvel
gave
assurance
hst
nlsht.
The
President
also
expressed
confidence
that,
in
view
of
the
prlsls
there
would
be
no
labor
difficulties.
FINANCING
WAR
COST
First
Taxation
And
Then
Borrowing,
Says
Ralston
Conservatives
Would
Vote
Any
Amount
OTTAWA,
May
22:
(CP)
Hon.
J
I.
Rnlstnn
minister
of
finance.
ed
In
Times
Square
yesterday
to,d
parllamcnt
yesterday
that
against
United
States
becoming
Canada.s
war
effort
would
be
llm-
Involved
In
war
in
Europe
RECAPTURE
OF
ARRAS
GIVES
ALLIES
HEART
IN
COMBATTING
NAZIS
lted
only
by
Its
capacity
to
provide
it.
Col.
Ralston
denied
re-.'
ports
that
the
Intention
was
to
finance
the
war
effort
by
f
inane-.
Ing.
Taxation
would
be
the
first!
method
of
financing,
the
minis-:
ter
of
finance
said.
Then
borrow-'
ing
would
be
resorted
to.
I
Dr.
H.
A.
Bruce.
Toronto
Conservative
member,
said
his
party,
would
vote
any
amount
for
the
war
effort
so
long
as
factories
got
to
work
without
delay
in
turning
out
war
requirements.
It
had
needed
a
rude
awakening
like
that
of
the
past
few
days
to
bring
Canada
to
realization
that
there
really
was
a
war
on.
I
Aircraft
Plants
signalizing
the
commencement
of
a
mass
Allied
counter-
q
Work
1
WentV
.
.
.
.offensive.
offensive.
A
A
surce
surge
of
of
relief,
relief,
tern-
tern
J
Four
Hours
Day
General
Weygand,
After
Visit
to
Front,
Says
He
is
Full
of
Confidence
Looks
Like
Enemy
Will
He
Stopped
On
North
Bank
of
Sommc
I
LONDON,
May
22:
(CP)
Swift
Allied
counter
blows
on
land
and
in
the
air
against
the
German
mechanized
forces
in
the
Abbeville
region
have
averted
for
the
present
completion
of
the
threatened
Nazi
line
to
the
English
Channel,
which
would
pen
in
the
British
army,
a
spokesman
declared
tonight.
At
Paris
a
War
Ministry
spokesman
told
the
press
there
had
been
hardly
any
change
along
the
front
in
the
last
48
hours
and
General
Wcygand
is
"really
satisfied"
with
the
situation.
A
British
spokesman
said
the
Allied
military
position
shows
a
slight
improvement
for
the
first
time
after
five
days.
The
Royal
Air
Force
is
still
making
large
scale
bombing
attacks.
LONDON,
May
22:
(CP)
Great
Britain's
hopes
of
stemming
the
German
march
to
the
sea
rose
with
reports
today
of
new
Royal
Air
Force
successes
and
the
slowing
down
of
the
German
drive.
Cheering
developments
were
the
French
recapture
of
Arras
which
the
enemy
had
taken
mates
i:v
minion
peo-ie
to
be
yesterday
and
widespread
attack
on
targets
in
the
in-
War
News
I
:
I
BOMBS
ON
ENGLAND
LONDON
For
the
second
time
sine;
the
war
began
German
bombs
were
last
night
dropped
on
the
Bri
hh
Isles.
Last
night
Nazi
warplanes
loosed
some
forty
projectiles
incendiary
and
explosive
in
Kent.
Some
fell
on
land,
some
into
the
sea.
Antiaircraft
guns
went
into
action
and
drove
the
enemy
away.
There
were
no
casualties
and
no
damage
was
reported.
SUCCESSES
AT
SEA
LONDON
An
authoritative
naval
scurce
said
that
five
German
transport
and
supply
ships
had
been
successfully
attacked
in
the
last
ten
days
and
a
German
attempt
to
cut
British
sea
communications
had
been
LOOKED
LIKE
CHAOS
LONDON
The
air
ministry
here
today
said
the
vanguard
of
the
German
advance
at
times
presented
a
picture
of
"utter
chaos"
from
the
air.
CHURCHILL
IN
FRANCE
LONDON
Prime
Minister
Churchill
and
his
naval,
military
and
air
advisers
paid
a
short
visit
to
France
today
to
confer
with
Premier
Raynaud
and
General
Weygand.
STILL
A
UNIT
LONDON
As
proof
that
the
German
drive
In
northern
France
had
not
cut
the
communications
between
the
army
In
Belgium,
General
Weygand
said
today
"I
have
conferred
with
the
army
chiefs
of
France
and
the
Belgian
armies
in
the
north."
DAK
GOLD
price
of
bar
gold
on
the
London
market
was
unchanged
today
at
$37.54
per
fine
ounce.
LONDON,
May
22:
Lord
Beav-erbrook,
minister
for
aircraft
pro-
Mr.
and
Mrs.
O.
W.
Johnstone
reduction,
has
placed
the
airplane
turned
home
on
the
Prince
Rupert
Industry
of
the
United
Kingdom
this
morning
from
a
trip
to
Vancou-on
a
twenty-four
hour
basis.
ver,
Calgary
and
other
points.
rimtrlal
HhlnManrt
nrpa
hv
Ttoval
Air
Vnw
hrtmhprt
wrMVi
amn
at
tacked"
Overman
communication
lines.
At
Paris
Premier
Paul
Reynaud
said
"if
we
can
hold
out
for
a
month
we
shall
be
three-quarters
on
the
(
way
to
victory."
The
recapture
of
!
Arras,
he
suggested,
was
but
one
(small
phase
of
the
Allied
counter-
offensive
against
the
Nazi
advance.
General
Maxime
Weygand,
the
j
new
Allied
commander-in-chief,
af-jter
a
lightning
visit
to
the
front,
j
said
he
was
full
of
confidence
providing
everyone
did
his
duty.
!
At
Parts
a
military
spokesman
!
disclosed
that
the
French
had
des
troyed
all
bridges
across
the
Somme
River
and
the
Germans
would
have
to
bring
up
heavier
forces
to
attempt
a
crossing.
This
spokesman
I
also
declared
that
Oerman
advance
guards
had
been
chased
out
of
Abbeville
which
they
had
eptered
INTERNING
OF
ENEMY
Prince
George
Veterans
Would
Confine
Aliens
All
Over
Country
PRINCE
OEOROE,
May
22:
(CP)
The
Prince
George
unit
of
the
Army
and
Navy
veterans
of
Canada
is
asking
the
Dominion,
government
to
immediately
Intern
enemy
aliens
In
all
parts
of
Would
Combat
Fifth
Column
Manibtoa
Government
Urges
For-
French
and
Allied
!
mation
Of
Home
Defence
Force
In
Canada
WINNIPEO,
May
22:
(CPIIon.
W.
J.
Major,
Attorney
General
of
Manitoba,
announces
that
the
provincial
government
of.
.Manitoba
Is
urging
the
Dominlrfrf
government
to
establish
a
Home
Defence
tod
fifth
col
fSalnst
LONDON,
(CP)-The
Montreal
umn
activities.
A
speeding
up
of
the
Canadian
war
effort
is
also
urged.
NEW
YORK
WHEAT
NEW
YORK,
May
22:
Wheat
prices
were
Uic
to
2
Vic
lower
yesterday
with
September
closing
at
82
Vic.
Prices
were
Upward
today.