f .i p,:e Channel. 'r ""h troops In the Channel r according to a military iran arc fighting off the advance guards and have Vi the Nazi advance on the t region Tm peronne-uapaume Breach r'i? was thirty to thrrty-ftte nr-le but the French In the a "ar ty (our hours have cut 'L'zrc to twenty miles. iTi . Kesman said that fight- i:ir ,t ana Boulogne. He said At front u without w.t ;juth of Sedan where i progressing favorably i rid section, the French t vered all ground lost ':! Or mans. v.. 2 Viie main body of the t f the south drove north a 'V Sommc to cut the Oer- u bc'Ueneck." Allied iroops Btlgiam hammered at the Nail tt r.a:ik m the vicinity of Cam- u. SWr London nor Paris con- td Oerman High Command rtcn that Vlmy Ridge, the scene Ca: ada s greatest victory In the f war and the site of Canada's u r.rmonal, was lu the posses- i f the enemy although It u.4 appear probable that It Is. Report from Basel. Swltserland. d 'hat French Army engineers i ttnwn up scores of locks on ; e Rhine-nhone CanaU flooding--.drcds 'if square miles of ter- ory on the French side of the hlae is; wa. believed that thu; rengthened the Maglnot Lino In 1 e sector frrplnu thousands of! MIm for duty In the north. 1 Heavy artillery exchanges be-. ttn the Maglnot and Siegfried the eastern extremity were re- jrted today. (Driving Upon Fifth Column "luminous Information In Hands Of United States Attorney General WASHINGTON. D. C May 25: h United 8tates government is tiding up Its drive against "w column" activities In this wintry, in his press conference yesterday. President Franklin D Roosevelt Raid that Atlnmev Ocn- . E"l Jacksnn )ati vnliimlnnns In wmatlon in regard to subvcrslse wes, much of this having u" brought to light by the in u -American activities. 1 UBBARY . iTfc "T Milk A A k. 1 , -T-. , 1 Weather. Forecast 4:10 am. 10.1 ft. ri-mre Rupert and Queen Char- 17:24 pjn. 18.0. It. -m island Moderate to fresh 10:50 a.m. 4.0 ft. litu'hwfst winds, part cloudy and 23:14 p.m. S3 it Cl with showers. i i NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUInilAS NEWSPAPER i... i , . .. . . i i-j. ....a-a-. - ' PRICE: I CENT XXIX No. 123. PRINCE RUPERTB.C, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1940. i Bulletins KING SPEAKS LONDON In an Empire Day radio broadcast King George warned the United States and the rest of the world that Germany was seeking complete and final overthrow ot the British Empirt and world domination for itself. The King declared that the Usue was one "of life and dcalh for us all." He said that defeat would mean destruction of our world "as we know It" and descent of darkness upon its ruins. It would be enlarged If necessary. EARTHQUAKE IN I'UKU LIMA Two slight earth tremors brought new panic to this section of Peru early today but added little destruction and apparently no new casualties to 219 dead and more than 3000 Injured In yesterday's quake. KILLED IN AIR CRASH TRENTON, Ont. Flight Lieu-tenant II. K. McBurney, 23, Saskatoon, was killed and Al Chccsman of Port Arthur, Miffrrrrf minor injuries last night i - r-,i,tl in Air Force aSe ii 1 1 v 1 1 a plane, In which they were landing, nosc-dlved into the ground. McBurney was at the controls. Chccsman was' a member of Sir Hubert Wilkin's 1938 Arctic search for six missing Russian aviators including Slglsmund Lc- vanctfsky. A IT EASING ITALY NEW YORK It was reported ln New York last night that Prime Minister Winston Churchill had exchanged messages with Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy with a view to clarifying his posMon In regard lo the war ami his Intentions In regard to same. Diplomatic quarters suggest that France and Great Britain have opened negotiations with Komc for relaxation of the Allied blockade In the Mediterranean. jainst Tarachute Fifth Columnists Perfected More Arrests Reported That Parachutists Have Already Been Landing in Dublin LONDON, May 25: (CP The War Office today called for eighteen - year - old volunteers to strengthen home defence forces j against the possibility of invasion 'by Germany. They will be placed iln permanent battalions, distinct from part-time "parashooters." Meantime the widespread drive : against "fifth columnists" con tin - ues. A spokesman said today that the manace of the enemy within (was so serious that it was almost I as dangerous as the German across , the Channel. On Oreat Britain's home -front- captain franz von Kinieien. noieo be a triumph for dishonor and ; for nlj oerman espionage activities brule fqree over honesty and Jus tice. T,he King's voice wa touched with emotion at wrae points as he spoke. He urged Britons everywhere to keep their resolve unshaken. during the last war and In recent years a resident of England because of supposed objections to the Nazis. ,was detained by authorities guarding against the fifth columnists. 'The police arrested five more mem- ' bers of Mosley's British Union while VETERAN'S HOME GUARD jtne Home office forbade a Com-OTTAWA Hon. Norman Rog- ,'munlst party meeUng. One of the ers. Minister ot National De- 'men arrested outside or the British fence, announced that a force I Union headquarters had a parcel, of ex-service men to be known containing a British Army uniform.; as the "Veterans Home Guard" Another had subversive documents. for protection 0f military prop- A United States embassy official Is erty and "any other purpose 'also reported being held, that may be found necessary" sixty-seven members of the out-would be established Immediate- lawed Irish Republican Army have ly. They will be uniformed and ibeen arrested in Northern Ireland. armed as a military force under j in Eire a nation-wide drive' command of officers who were against "fifth columnists" had been veterans of the last war. The started. It Is reported that at least force will consht of twelve com- 0ne German parachutist group panics of 250 each located In landed recently In Eire. . earn oi ine raiumj msum, m Halibut Sales Summary American 219,500 pounds, and 7.5c to 93c and 7.5c. Canadian 118,900 pounds, and 7c and 9.1c and 7c. age. 9c 9c American McKlnley, 40,000, 9c and 7.5c, Royal. , Eagle, 40,000, 9c and 7.5c, Storage. , Kanaga, 40,000, 9c and 7.5c, Stor- age. Arthur H., 40,000, 9.3c and 7.5c, 'Booth. Doric, 40,000, 9c and 7.5c, Stor- Mary. R., 7,500, 9.3c and 7.5c, Pa clfic. Eureka, 12,000, 9.3c and 7.5c, Pacific. Canadian Lois N., 10,000, 9c and 7c, Booth. AnnabeUc, 6,000, 9.1c and 7c, Atlln. Tramp, 17,500, 0.1c and 7c, Ingrld H., 11,000, 9.1c and 7c, 'Atlln. Sellta, 9,000, 9c and 7c, Storage. Charmlne C, 19,500, 9c and 7c, Edmunds & Walker. Southend, 17,500, 9.2c and 7c, Atlln. Toodle, 11,500, 9.1c and 7c, Stor E. T., 2,100, 9c and 7c, Storage. Blue Boy, 7,000, 9c and 7c, Ed munds to Walker. Cynic, G.000, 9c and 7c, Storage. T. M. I., 1,800, 9c and 7c, Atlln. FIFTEEN GENERALS -FIRED" PARIS Fifteen French generals were relieved of their commands co-lncldentally with the appointment of General Maxlme Weygand a commander-in-chief, it was disclosed tonight by Premier Reynaud's office. Names of the dismissed generals were not revealed. German forces have not yet reached Calais, a military spokesman said tonight, adding that "The Battle of Flanders" had only just begun. The situation at Boulogne was described as "uncertain" with heavy fighting proceeding. ' HEAVY NAZI L6SSES PARIS A Paris statement last night estimated that, since the Germans invaded Holland and Belgium, the enemy have suffer--A lod.OOO to n,09 killed, 300.-000 to 400,030 wounded with 1500 planes and 1500 tanks lost. BOMBARDED NARVIK NARVIK With German alr-era't and British naval forces both being reinforced, there has been Increased aetlvltv around Narvik with further bombardment of the port. CHURCHILL GLOOMY LONDON Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a letter to the Trades Union executive council meeting todar, said the "gravity "oi"fhe situation rfeepens hour by hour." He said: "The country's needs are imperative, Inescapable and Imperious and we shall pay dearly if we fall lo meet them." ITALIAN SAILINGS DEFERRED GENOA Some significance was attached today to the announcement from headquarters of Italian steamship lines that the scheduled sailing of the liner Rex for New York had been postponed from May 29 to June IS. Other sailings of Italian liners are also reported to have been postponed including that of the Augustus for New York and the Neptunia for South America. No reasons were given but there were widespread reports tnat the new-dates had little connection with Italy's relation to the war. ESTIMATES CUT DOWN Government Are Reduced This Year Owing To War OTTAWA, May 25: J. L. Ralston, minister of finance, table ordinary estimates for the coming year ln Parliament late Saturday. They total $448,000,000 or $77,000,000 less than last year and are ln addition to the $700,- 000,000 war esUmates. Col. Ralston said that little new I ! in the way of public works would be undertaken this year and there would be closing down of some projects now under way. The mln war exigencies. Old Country Soccer English War Cup, Fourth Round Fulham 5, Evcrton 2, Blackburn 2, West Bromwlch Al bion 1. Blackpool 0. Newcastle 2. West Ham 4, Birmingham 2. Glasgow Charity Cup. Semi Final Queens Park 2, Clyde 2. Gunner F. X. Parle tt of the 102nd Battery left on last evening's train for a trip to Toronto on leave. itua'ion By No Means Hopeless 3-ordinateo't?ort Can Still rs v s A II. Ketneve roskon KJt fies In Great Battle Waging In France I uttle-Ncck Has Keen Narrowed From Thirty-Fivc .TIPUTrW TTD ' Twenty Miles As Main French Army Drives to 1 lVJll 1 Lll Ul Liberate Entrapped Forces in Handera fjrwri CnAVJX t OMDON. Mav 25: (CP) Military sources declared' llUlYlL k jYUli 1 i., thai ;i "rn-rmliiui tod Allied effort still can retrieve ,..., , e situation" of the French, British and Belgium armies TrooM and , Vranre and Belirium which the Nazis claim to have, Rein hoped. It should be remembered inai me iorm oi war-re employed by the Germans has weaknesses as well as rr.r'.s There U no J -ontidcnce." reason for 111... vAMMnHl Vnm rrcnen nun mmiuh a special request that no r.i ::r oi place where action Is ;r:ress t French fought today to fur-r arrow the twenty mile gap Allied line north of the ? but Oerman motorised : are reported to be still mov- :nugh the Frenh breach to- I War News FRENCH STILL DRIVING COUNTER OFFENSIVE TO I SEVER NAZI SPEARHEAD Capture of Boulogne and Calais Claimed By Germans But Questioned by Paris Progress of Fighting During Past Tw o Years BRITISH COAST RAIDED The general v.ar picture appeared not a great deal changed today. The French claimed that Boulogne and Calais, important channel ports, were sti'l in French hands although the Germans claimed they had taken Boulogne and had encircled Calais. British naval and aerial forces have been active in connection with the defence of the Channel ports. In north central France the counter-offensive with a view to breaking the German bottle-neck to the Channel is being continued with further fierce fighting. The British Royal Air Force claimn to have brought down thirty-one German planes yesterday with less than one-third of that number of losses itself. In an air raid on coast town of North Riding Yorkshire eight persons were injured. There were also air raids on East Anglia and Essex coast but no civilians were injured. Little, if any damage, was done in the raids. PARIS, May 25: (CP) A military spokesman last j night said that the Allied armies had caught German col-j umns in an artillery crossfire yesterday in a new effort to nut thP RpiVh ai mv's corridor to the sea and turn the tide me ueicutc nuu 6 . ..j v... ,u in ujnaun it was aiaicu uj liic- deadly effect on the enemy forces in France and Belgium. Bombs had been dropped on German columns Ordinary Expenditures Of Federal ways and trains and munitions dumpstoth in 0erman-occupedlo parts of France and Germany prop er. In an air battle over the Hon. llsh Channel eleven British planes had brought down eleven enemy machines. The British Air Min-, istry announced that Royal Air Force fighters Thursday shot down 31 German planes and disabled nine. In three days the Royal Air Force has dropped 120 Nazi planes. The British lost eight planes yesterday. The ministry announced that Germany had lost more than 1500 aircraft In the last two weeks. world that Germany was seeking complete and final overthrow of the British Empire and world domlna- i tlon for Itself. The King declared that the issue was one ot life and said. German sources Air Ministry Uiat the Royal Acnnei vanguard had passed Bou Force had carried out fresh fierce and devastlng bombing attacks with logne heading for Calais to northeast. ot Sedan and in the Somme. REDEMPTION OF CORSICA Rome Issues Manifesto to People ot That French Insular Departmer partment 25: 25: (CP) (CP) I ROME, May Petra Gi- ovacchlni, chief of Corsica's Ir-rendtlsts, issued a manifesto today to "Corslcan brothers living under oppression" in that French insular department saying that the '"mo- I ment of redemption Is near." of battle for the English Channel Massed infantry also "T" 'corded V,0 Herman calionf ciitk f ' els Amoth of Prince ...:U A n nn nroccmn m V Clliiltv uunn uii viiv vivmim, tvdcmg ovum iuiii Rnnert " k . j ,..IJ . .k rnVirnt - glon and rnorth from. -Xiit Somoe . , .Mver in a pincers movement de- Jlf j raiUlIlg' signed to break off the spearhead JTled west 10 H Schools ror Official French quarters today claimed that the channel ports of Boulogne and Calais were stiU in French hands, admltUng only that there had been fighting on their United States WASHINGTON. D.C.. May IS ENVOY T0SPAIN Sir Samuel Hoare Is Being Sent To Madrid On "Special Mission" LONDON, May 25: (CP) Sir Samuel Hoare has been appointed 'British ambassador to Madrid on a "special mission." This "special mission" will, it Is believed by ob-'servers, have especially to do with (Spain's possible relation to the European war. BURIED AT ESQUIMAU!" ' Fulf naval honors-were accorded' the late Nils Amoth of Prince Rupert whose funeral took place at Esquimau where he passed away suddenly recenUy while on naval duty. Rev. Arthur Bischlager R.C N naval chaplain, officiated and officers and men of the Fishermen's Naval Reserve, of which deceased 25: was. a member, were the principal outskirts and that stiff resistance i Air training schools for college mourners. was being put up. Massed Allied i students from 18 to 25 years of The casket was covered with a infantry, said Paris, was slashing age will be opened in United wnite ensign and was tatfen from both north and south against, the states in connection with the the funeral chapel to naval ceme- German bottleneck in the Chan- plan to provide the personnel of tery at Esquimalt on a gun carriage nel drive. "We have begun our ad-j the government's plan to provide drawn by young naval men. At the vance" was the French claim. Ex-'an air force of 50,000 planes for end of the service a firing party fir- tremely heavy fighting was report- this country. ed three volleys and Buglar Able ed continuing in the vicinity nft Seaman Short sounded The Last Cambral and Valenciennes. ! ... ,f Post" as the remains were lowered said their to the flnal restinK P1"- failed to confirm a report that Ca situation at Amiens, where the Al- death for civilization "as we know communique covering Thursday's It." Defeat of the Allies would mean actlon. said there had been many a world of darkness, a triumph forlcombats ,n Northern France. "We dishonor and brute force over hon-have advanced ln the Cambral sec- csiy aim jiwwce. ine nuiSs to- and new enemv ftilnrlr was touched with emotion at some point? as he spoke. Earlier yesterday ln London It was reported by authoritative sources the Germans captured the strategic French Channel port of Boulogne, The British forces which had been assisting the French In 223 the Aisne has failed," munlque then said. the on corn- Frank Morris sailed Thursday night on the Prince George for a trip, to Vancouver Mrs. Morris is already ln the south. Pallbearers, all frora H-M-C5. Na- j t t ruuu t Bn. P. a . Late yesterday Berlin There were floral offerings, "Si : M:: :;Ht ; among others, from the Deep Sea in the vicinity of Arras and Bou-l-'S",ti;meil,B Unlon' iIr' and logne and there had been contoa-, ed attacks on military obpectlves ' counter.of f ensive ln Cam. 5V"k r"'; such as communication lines, ran- h and Amlens sector aealnst what Paris described as increased Mrs. Edwin Landeth, Miss Anna Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Hvedlng, dlild vvuiaiijr ns.w ne . 1 1 - 1 i Officers of Pacific Coast HAI.CJ3. lies have been driving with a ysa'S. to liberating rlnged-ln forces in , Nayal d. northeastern France and Belgium,' r, n numbering . 23 divisions or 500,000 men including the British Expeditionary Force, and also bottling up the German advance to the coast, was somewhat in doubt. Thursday night it had been reported that the main French forces, in their slashing thrust north ward, hart rpdiirprf tho rtlfnn an. LONDON In radio broadcast. a apaMntr ,f ,u , Ister hoped that the people would yesterday King George warned the tn (hmr.Wf), accept this situation in view of; united States and the rest of the.Pw mnt,,aA .... have been pressing. General Lord viuancia omiii iti.i. i,ui, vvui- manding Officers, Officers and ratings of auxiliary vessels, Henry and Auslag. Mr. Amoth's death, was very sudden. He had complained of pains ln the chest and was moved to the dockyard sick bay. He expired in the presence of sick berth attendants before a doctor could be summoned. Cause of death was a pancreatic condition. The late Mr. Amoth, who is sur- ?n L rSh C0nlmand-incJh, Prince Rupert, would have been 55 &i2Lfl:5 2$ ?J?5?!Zi years of age had he lived until Sep- Belgium are still in the field with the northern armies. A French tember 19. In the First Oreat War he enlisted from Digby. Nova Scotia, and served in France with the Eighty-Fifth Battalion (Highlanders Canadian Expeditionary Force, being discharged as medically unfit for further service. He had attained the rank of corporal and was a machine gunner. Sergeant C. C. Jacklln, chief of city police, sailed Thursday night on the Prince George for & trip to Vancouver and Victoria. i t: m