. r i tain irst Stage of Scientific Plan to Shatter Industry Of Reich Complete Success LONDON, Oct. 7. The Ministry of Informa- A r m m mi m nml f ..1 it lion ycsicruay annuunvvu outttssiui completion of he first stage oi a master plan of the Koyal Air Tnree to shatter German war industries and rrinnlo he Nazi war machine by scientific bombing. There aVC DCCn aiuo c mail uu largcis. The attack has been concentrated so far on oil lants, arms factories and railway lines. Every in-ustrial town in the Ruhr has been bombed and the rcat ports oi iiammirg ana uremen are in ruins. In the past three weeks not a single pound of ar supplies has moved from Denmark into Gcr- Thc campaign has lccn directed at the machin- ry behind Hitler's "blitzkrieg." In addition, the Koyal Air Force has been cf-fctivcly active against Channel invasion bases and irDorts m dcrman occupied t rancc. Oil rcJincncs ana aepois, representing forty -i ..r 4i.. i:t. :i i.. l i cr CCnu ui my ivinii un auppiy, nave Deen estroyed. Naval and air 4 bases of the enemy have also re tired attention. , With the first stage of the plan completed, at-ntion will now be turned to the more remote and afe" industrial sections of centre and eastern Gcr-any where arc located, among other things, rc- ncrics supplying fifty per cent, of German oil. The announcement gives details of the number f systematic raids on the various German industrial ; ti K!..-i5 r-i; i Mires as wen us iniiuury uujecuvra. iicrnn nas ad 15 raids and llamm sixty. An Air Ministry statement disclosed that renins: Koyal Air Force raids on the Continent fit- d into the "master plan" for sweeping air offensive om the Baltic to Germany s Swiss frontier and (ward past Berlin. Brigadier General Lord Croft, Under-Secretary War, predicted Sunday that Great Britain's raiciiwill counter-attack and drive the Nazis back toGermany after the Royal Air Force has wiped ulhclsazi Air Force and levelled German war mm.. - BIDED ON AST COAST Thousind Tersons; Include ml ind Military Men and Children AN EASTERN CANADIAN ,0c' 7 i;CP) TwoHhoU '"iwd Enulnmin Tn Iln Usui Bj. 1 . . I piianr'iru arriving on Satur-i pm England Included naval t't and mm among whom was pan commander Earl Beat- fa of the famous British ad-, if the First Great War. Also ' I P TO iff Iaavb nnrl Wta ft 1 wt Canadian Division com pete Instruct the Third Dlv- ISome Drltlsh children also ar- 'find homes for the duration Tanks From N States B'W lnslnirlln.nl V..mm 1 R BORDEN, Ont., Oct. 7. aunarcd and fifty old tanks e United RhltM tn he u:rd Instructional purposes .arrived oaiuraay, anadian fSZ? CROSS fee,cashandslrf5 I 'HI U1H.II oil . TODAY'S STOCKS (OourtMy 8 D Jobnatoo Oo.) 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San Antonio, 2.35. Sherrltt! Gordon, .72. Uchl, .40. Bouscadillac, .04 (ask). Mosher, .08. Oklend,, .06&. Smelters Oold, .00',i. Dominion Bridge, 29.00. Veather Forecast Prlnre Runert-Fresh to strong southeast winds, shifting to south unsettled and mild with rata. She Vol. XXIX., No. 238. STATEMENT I ON BURMA Prime Minister Churchill Expected to Say Something Soon LONDON, Oc,t. 7: (CP) Well Informed circles said today that Prima, Minister Winston Churchill may make a statement soon on the question of' reopening the Burma Road for transportation of supplies to China, Crew of Graf Spec Is Again In Custody Now VALPARAISO, Chill, Oct. 7. Some 200 members of the crew of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee who had escaped from intern ment In Argentina were taken into custody by the. Chilean authorities as they endeavoured to board a steamer tor Japan. DICTATORS' Great BIG TALK nritain Is All Ready Knock-out Blow BERLINOct.7t -CP)-Muthor- ized Oerman sources claim that Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini, during their ! conferences last week in Brenner Pass, planned striking at Oreat or scare us. They will not iull us Into a sense of false security. We are ready to meet an attempted invasion this month,, next month or next spring. We are ready for anything." Hitler and Mussolini, in their conference, were said to have charted "not only the course 6f the war but the .complete plans for a new Europe." The Balkans, the future of Spain and the campaign In Africa were said to have been NEW AGENT IN RUPERT W. L. Armstrong Of Prince George Succeeds Late Daniel Crerar W. L. Armstrong of Prince George, agent of the Canadian National Railways ait Prince George for the past eighteen years, arrived in the city on Saturday night's train to assume the post of local freight agent for the Canadian National Railways here In succession to the late Donald Crerar. His wife and family will be arriving later. Mr. Armstrong is well known throughout the central Interior. Before going to Prince George he was for four years agent at Telk-wa. He is a past president of. the Associated Boards of Trade of Central, British Columbia and has taken a prominent interest in civic affairs at Prince George as alderman, school board trustee and In other capacities. Y. W, C. A. HOSTELS LONDON, Oct. 7: (CP)-Spcclal clubs are being established by the y. w. C, A. for girls engaged in munitions work and at one such hostel all residents are under 25. M.mv were engaged In "luxury before the war. jtrades" PROVINCIAL LIBRARY VICTORIA, B.C. Assuming Offensive mmln for BALKANS TROUBLE More Trouble Between Hungary and Rumania; Atro-cltfes Are -Alleged BERLIN, Oct. 7: (CP) Nail sources say that Germany has sent armed contingents into Rumania as a "precautionary " measure in accordance with a "guarantee" given Rumania at the conclusion of the Vienna agreement of August 3 returning part of Transylvania to Hungary. The size of the contingents is not disclosed. Meanwhile Budapest is pro-te'Hng at alleged atrocities by Rumanian authorities upon members of the Hungarian minority In that portion of Transylvania not already taken by H mgary. Thirty-cl-ht Hungarians are alleged to have been massacred in an internment camp when they complained about the food Two men were publicly hanged and three nuns murdered and their bodies mutilated, according to reports. Rogers Crash Was Accident Result' Of Inquiry Into P'ane Mihap Which Cost Life Of Minister Is Announced Britain In a "particularly vulner-: OTTAWA, Oct. 7: (CP) The) able spot." German commentators airplane crash which cau??d the NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1940. ARE TRYING TWO GUARDS Court-Martial for Those Responsible for Escape of Germans was shot dead and Rauschenbach was recaptured Friday. Manganese From Nova Scotia Is Going to Britain HALIFAX, Oct. 7: (CP) Arrangements are being made to ship manganese from Nova Scntla to England for the war Industries. Great Britain formerly obtained much of Us manganese from Dakar In French West Africa. TANKER IS TORPEDOED Victim of Submarine Far Out in Atlantic NEW YORK, Oct. 7: (CP) Mac ;kay Radio last night reported in- WORLD SERIES GOES INTO SEVENTH GAME AS BUCKY WALTERS WINS FOR REDS Poling Out Homer in Addition to Pitching brilliantly CINCINNATI, Oct. 7: (CP) Bucky yalters put on a one-man show today, pitching and batting the Cincinnati Reds back on to even terms with Detroit Tigers' in the World Series. The tall moundsman shut out the ! TomorroW sT ides Dover. A convent and a convalescent home In Kent were bombed. I It was on the third alarm today in London that the enemy swept over the capital to drop some bombs. The first alarm today about dawn was a brief one, caused when some twenty bombers passed over Kent, none, however, getting past the i northwest outskirts of London, in the dav'a second alarm the central cenirai area area of, oi, London lionaon was was abj-1 aow-1 vented bv anti-aircraft , fire anti-aircraft fire and Roya'l Air I Force pursuit operations from1 getting past the outskirts. I Sunday night was the first in 'thirty-one that no bombs were dropped on London proper. Shortly, '"cepung an . B.u.a. me.n.u. after dark and Just before 9 p.m. a centred their attention on Africa death of Hon. Norman Rers. and the Mediterranean. Officials minister of national defence, last the British tanker British General, lngle bomber approached and talked of a "knockout blow" but June was a "straight flying accl- stating that the 7000 ton vessel had dropped a few missiles on the out-kept their plans a deep secret. dent." James, S. Duncan, deputy been torpedoed in the Atlantic skirts before being forced to re-A British SDokesman in London minister of air. said In announcins Osean six hundred miles west oi treat, causing little damage and no said '.'The dictators cannot fool us the result of an investigation. ! Land's End. casualties. Weather Unfavorable Weather conditions last night ' were very unfavorable for aircraft ' operations and it is possible that this may have been the cause of suspension of the usual night la spite of the quiet, however, High 7:09 ain. 17.1 ft. 18:53 p.m. 17.8 ft. Low 0:19 a xa. 5.8 ft. 12:40 pm. 9.6 ft. PRICE: CENTS London Has Its First Quiet Night in Month; Week-end of Raiding on England Reviewed t nxmnM Oft 7? iTPI After the first nuiet nieht Ottawa, Oct. 7: (CP-Hon. J.' London has had in twenty-nine days since the intensive l. Ralston, minister of national de-j serial blitzkrieg attack commenced a month ago, the fence, announces that two guards Germans started coming over again with their warplanes 3' today and a series of terrific air battles at altitude of as doiph Rauschenbach from a north- high as 20,000 feet took place. Up to early, afternoon western Ontario Internment camp twenty-seven Nazi planes had been would be court-martlalled. Neuller brought down ana at leasi c nilMK I L IJ others were believed to have been Mff ff J 1 U destroyed, up to mis aiiemoon there were five air raid alarms In London, the fifth this afternoon being the 178th of the war. There was no bomb dropping on , London ltelf In the fourth raid to-! tJay but In an earlier attack twefvo bombs were dropped In one of the city's residential districts and three persons were known killed with a number Injured. Small waves of enemy planes this morning also raided southwest and outheast towns. Two barrage bal IN LONDON Canadian Minister Of Agriculture, In England To Arrange For Sending Food Supplies OTTAWA, Oct. 7: (CP) Safe arrival overseas of Hon. James O. Gardiner, minister of agriculture, land party of officials is an- I nounced. The of the visit at Purpose and loons were set afire dropped is to confer with the British gov ernment with a view to lining up future British food requirements. Marshal Bishop Back in Canada Says Britons Full ot Conftdnee and RJV.F. Sweeping Skies . . . ... r vf"ti5 r --Ttri- -'itrtcry quiet, "the enemy-belflg pfeTV ""BOUCHER VILLE, 'GniMrT: Briti Irtish Tanker British General Is . and ,, . (CP) Air AaP5t,i Marshal W W. A. A Bishop nich re . turned' td Canada "Saturday aboard the flying boat Clyde from England. British leaders are full ot confidence and the Rpyal Air Force is sweeping the, .skies, declared Bishop! During Saturday twenty-three German planes were brought down in the course of air fights over London and other parts of England. At least eight German bombers were destroyed over Kent after two squadrons, totalling some seventy planes', crossed the Channel. Early Saturday enemy planes that got as far as London were met with heavy anti-aircraft fire and effective attack by Royal Air Force fighter squadrons. Before they were driven off, after an hour of fight- thousands of Londoners chose to jlng, the Nazis dumped their bombs ' spend the night in air raid shelters.! on south London. Many expected that the attack! Attacks between dusk and dawn Bit KlRht-hander for Cincinnati Was Whole show loday, might be resumed with renewed. Friday night were on somewhat re Tigers 4 to 0, allowed only five hits and batted in two. morning and another In the after- towns and villages in the southeast tV.o loff fioW -nl1 Tim win rlpnrl.. noon which caused a five-hour region were rather severely hit. i i. ',i .l . 4. i u ...nu alert. ' Twenty-eighth Night iuckl-u uie series, cu tnxcc wtiunca eawii wnu uic mwi M Jeast two enmy pjanes wer0, During pnininir iin tomorrow. i.u. off ff fv, the south nntv, coast. maet.i. i- o i . Backed up by three double plays r . i n and some fielding gems, Walters United utat6S was seldom In trouble as he pulled the Reds back Into Wie series. Only; OUHStS DraWll 33 batters faced the big right! hander as he hung up his second victory of the classic. In eighteen innings he has held the hard hitting Tigers to eight hits. School Boy Rowe, who has won sixteen games and lost three for Detroit this year, failed to last beyond the first inning today as the Reds put the game on ice with a four-hit, two run blast in the opening frame, handing Rowe his second loss of the series. Young John Corsica relieved Rowe, es captng Injury until the sixth when the Reds tacked together two hits, a walk and a couple of fielders' choices for a run. Freddie Hutchin son took over the Detroit mound chore In the eighth and Walters greeted htm with a homer over the left field barrier after Myers had fanned. Walters had hit only one homer during the entire National League campaign, Valuable Business for Canada Wartime at Jasper Tark in WINNIPEG, Man., October 7.-4-"We made useful contribution to Canada's tourist industry in our 1940 advertising campaign through' out the United States and we found that It paid good dividends," says Robt. Sommervllle, manager of Jas per Park Lodge, who Is here. "Those guests from the States lived in Canada much cheaper because of the exchange rates and I believe this will be an even greater factor in our tourist Industry next year, American dollars are necessary to this country. On the other hand Canada gives the visiting tourists full value for their money and this is specially true of Jasper, now accessible from the south by a new motor road through the Columbia ice field, scenically as magnificent as any road on the continent," declared Mr. Sommervllle. ferocity tpnight. Jstrlcted scale although there was There was a seemingly endless jsome damage to property and some relay of intermittent hit and run .casualties including fatalities, bombing attacks by the German j Although the attack was, as raiders singly and In small forma- usual, concentrated upon London, tlons on England Sunday. British, the enemy also dropped bombs on targets were bombed and machine-, southeast and southwest England, eunned. There was one alarm In the I the Midlands and Wales. Borne the twenty-eighth night shot down, one "of bombing of London, the chief Sunday raids were against widely .damage was done to northwest and scattered points in southeast and southwest areas. More buildings east England ana tne Miaiana. and houses were demolished as tne Folkstone was among the points missiles dropped at random.. Some bombed. people were buried. There were in- Saturday night attacks by the. dlcatlons that either Waterloo or enemy were mainiy againsi com-. viciona siauon naa Deen nw. mercial and industrial premises. Saturday London had its 169th More1 homes were damaged and air raid alarm of the war. Durin; trjere were casualties. However, re- this raid a number ot persons were lnfor6ed anti-aircraft gunfire held killed and injured lri the east end the raiders to large extent from not far from where Rt. Hon. Her-gettlng through although some bert Morrison, the new Home Sec-were able to penetrate the do- retary, was inspecting air raid fences. The anti-aircraft fire which ' shelters. started thundering, shortly after! Friday's attacks, of which there dark Saturday night was heavier! were two during the day and two than any previously heard In Lon-' during the night, were somewhat don. The bombers droned over the heavier than usual. They spread out capital earlier than usual. j to the Midlands and Wales, After a savage day of Nazi raid- Big guns from Cape GrU Nes lng and air fighting, London Sat urday night had Its thirtieth con secutive night of air raiding. were also brought Into play again J on the Dover area. One of Friday's alarms lasted for On Saturday there were three air six hours. With visibility poor, the raids on London. The enemy made J sneak bombers struck blindly with a vicious attack on the southeast clusters of high explosive bombs; coast. In historic Hastings manyiThere was intensive anti-aircraft houses were shattered. Medway fire. At least six German planei was also hit. Over Ashford, Kent,1 are believed to tvjve bfffill brought three enemy planes were brought, down Friday and Several badly down within five minutes. damaged, d g 1 J J3