Weather
Forecast
Prince
Rupert
and
Queen
Charlotte
Wands
Fresh
to
strong
southeast
winds,
unsettled
and
mild
wlth
rain.
XXIX
No-
3
MANY
ARE
ARRESTED
IN
PRAGUE
Ihouandi
of
Czech
Are
Taken
Into
Cuilody
Oil
Espionage
Charges
pRAOUE.
Jan
3:
CP
Arrettt
'of
nearly
one
mousana
lormer
CzeclioS;
tvaK
army
omcors,
iwo
i?urna;,s(s
and
several
members
of
the
Slodi
munitions
works
central
fHce
are
disclosed.
Author!"
t:",
iX.i
hat
the
arrett
had
ii
-.
t....j
bee:
tri""
'
nuipiciwn
naving
jlrtn
P
laad
information
on
the
m'
ftr.r:;'
ci
oerman
troops
aur-ot
he
invasion
8koda
employee
ire
itrper'.cd
of
stealing
plans
(or
bul;'
:
manufacture
MORE
RAIN
IN
TURKEY
flood!
In
Earthquake
Zone
Be-
tome
Iten
Worse
With
1200
Frrson
Loiliig
IJvet
ITRTHER
QUAKES
ANRHAIU
A
new
earthquake
h
reported
to
hare
levelled
ten
Tillies
In
the
Yozgad
area,
idclni
U
Turkey's
earthquake
dimit
l
last
week
as
the
Hirer
F-iphnlet
broke
Its
banks,
tprriJiflf
terror
In
that
reiion
f
nibtta
Antaolla,
There
Is
pink
hi
the
Yoifad
area
owing
I
Ikt
shocks.
Ilundredt
of
kiiMiip
hare
collapsed.
The
dull
tail,
however,
Is
expected
it
U
illght.
The
Euphrates
floods
irt
espected
to
Increase
the
erilroated
dead
to
4S.200
in
the
combined
disasters.
ASKHARA,
Turkey.
Jan,
3:
'CP)
Tit
her
.rrentlal
rains
Monday
nuird
nf-
havoc
in
earthquake-
r
kin)
Tirkcy.
swelling
flood
j
a-.cn
are
believed
to
have
hiuied
t
laM
1203
deaths
in
ad-
P?
Mnn'.mf
latet
MtlmnLM
fmm
!,k.e
Anir'.l-j
rarlhmik.
ritulr
I
If
.if
werk
Mare
th
dead
at
43..
tes
hnr..'ss
at
500.000.
CANADIANS
DECORATED
imiincnWird
Fljlnr
Crosses
for
Fair
In
Recognition
of
Valor
In
War
Action
LONDON
Jan.
3:
(CP
The
Air
Winery
announces
that
the
Dls-
j'-r-SUiiicd
Hying
Cross
has
been
warded
U
iwo
Canadian
filers
I
rf-diUon
0f
vaoroUS
TCrTiccs
a
enal
warfare.
One
Is
Squad-
j
oa
uaaer
John
Griffiths
of
Wei-
i-wa.
Ontario,
and
the
other
Pilot
Wlcer
Selby
Henderson
0r
Win-Both
participated
in
daring
cton
acainst
the
enemy.
NAVAL
MEN
PROMOTED
jut.
Commander
II.
W.
S.
Souls-
At
Present
Here,
Itecomes
Commander
Ottawa
t-..
.
......
:
'"uninir
W
n
I
iri
,t
8
RestlBOUPhn
hn
im
J
10
the
rank
01
commander
m..i
brcn
P,ftecd
charge
of
-
instruction
at
the
Royal
J"nr
College
at
Kingston,
It
Is
Soul
.Commandcr
W.
S.
Pli
nt
Es(lmalt
and
at
V
'
l
Pr,nce
R"P?rt.
has
also
MWnd;,
ranic
ot
A
ft
SMALLER
U-BOATS
Imp..rtanl
Change
In
German
Naval
Policy
Is
Ileporicn
!
Relations
Strained
'
STOCKHOLM.
Jan.
3
:
(CP1
Diplomatic
strain
Soviet
Russia
and
Esthonla
reported
here.
Esthonla,
It
is
said,
Is
reluctant
to
be
drawn
Into
war
against
Finland,
her
neighbor
across
the
Daltlc
Sea.
NORWAY
HAS
LOST
MOST
Twenty-Four
Ships
Have
neen
Sunk
In
War
at
Sea
With
Loss
of
99
Lives
OSLO,
Jan,
3:
(CP
Norway
Is',
bellevcr,
to
be
the
heaviest
loser
of
I
the
neutral
nations
from
the
war
at
;rp,
Havas
sea.
She
has
lost
tweniy-iour
snips
iiHiiaN,
Jan.
.
-
slncc
the
war
be8an
and
09
of
her
News
Age
ncy
r
eporU
hat
(
Dji,alJorS
hnve
becn
drowned
or
km.
I.
abandoning
nhnnHnnlntr
the
wc"
bUllalliK
Ol
7
"
,
....
iu.
s
V
lo.
of
the
Norwegian
Irelgh
er
submarine
i
and
Its
now
m
m
chrUtmas
a
fleet
of
small
U-boats
of
from
disclosed.
She
Is
be
ta
200
tons.
will
be
pa
have
m
mim
Qf
turn
the
small
undersea
craft
ou
A
ton
SwcdUh
,hlp
much
more
quickly
bu
also
iost
-during
the
last
few
have
the
disadvantage
ot
be
W
awe
to
stay
at
sea
no
longer
Hun
m.
days
nt
a
time.
PROVINCIAL
LIBRARY
VICTORIA,
B.C.
mmln
Only
a
few
of
the
victims
were
identified.
The
fire
appeared
to
break
out
in
.ill
hree
wings
of
the
apartment
simultaneously.
It
was
apparently
caused
by
a
boiler
room
explosion.
The
number
of
Injured
Is
tentatively
estimated
at
twenty-five.
SABOTAGE
AT
TRAIL
This
Was
Allegedly
Plan
of
Three
Enemy
Aliens
Now
Iteing
Held
At
Nelson
NELSON,
Jan.
3:
(CP)
Sergeant
C.
W.
A.
Rarwis
ot
the
provincial
police
said
last
night
that
three
enemy
aliens,
whose
identity
was
not
divulged,
were
being
held
by
the
authorities
following
seizure
of
correspondence
aimed
at
sabotage
of
the
Consolidated
Mining
&
Smelting
Co.
plant
at
nearby
Trail.
The
correspondence
was
seiied
some
time
ago.
The
sabotage
was
allegedly
set
for
Christmas
Day.
A
Canadian
soldiers'
leave
centre
to
be
known
as
the
Reaver
Club
Is
being
organized
In
London
by
a
special
committee
under
chairman
ship
of
Hon.
Vincent
Masscy,
Canadian
High
Commissioner.
A
read
ing
room
Is
being
provided
for
the
use
of
the
troops.
The
Dally
News
will
be
on
file
there
for
the
use
of
service
men
from
this
district
who
are
In
London.
NORTHERN
AND
CENTRAL
RRITJS
H
COLUMBIA'S
NEWSPAPER
'PRINCE
RUPERT,
B.C.,
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY
3,1939.
One
of
the
Ftsm.
f.;..:.g
roiunu
that
have
made
life
ai.ytXng
b
.
.
a.sant
Un
e&v.e:
m4uer
a
Nt.
.
,t
Fi..aua
-.ion.
right
tikjng
Ume
out
Ir
im
a
long
ski
trek
The
light
maculae
-gun
the
m
an
n
uie
foreground
carries
on
ha
back
is
adurd
equipment
with
the
white
-clad
patrols
that
swoop
down
in
surprise
attacks
on
the
It
.
ticopi
These
ski
troops
are
credited
w.Oj
the
rout
of
the
Red
forces
In
Northern
Finland
this
week..
White
-clad
nuchtne-gurr.er
uf
ibf
t-uunv
ru;;..
itt'.
art
shown
etatiug
an
isiU-aircraft
gun
in
the
Petsamo
region,
where
the
Finnish
troops
staged
an
jjaruu
come-back,
hurling
the
invading
Russians
back
oall
fronts.
Bulletins
PATTL'LLO
GOING
HAST
VICTORIA
Premier
T.
I).
Pat-tutlo
plans
to
leaTe
next
Monday
for
Ottawa.
He
will
discuss
land
settlement
with
federal
authorities
and
will
alo
be
In
the
Dominion
capital
at
the
time
of
a
meetlnc
en
January
H
of
both
Canadian
and
American
sections
of
the
Alaska
Highway
Commission.
BEAUTY
RETURNS
FOLKESTONE.
Eng.
Soldiers
are
today
guarding
the
return
of
Unity
Valkyrie
Freeman-Milford,
Lord
Itedesdale!
daughter,
whose
Nordic
beauty
Is
said
to
have
charmed
Hitler.
Unity
became
ill
in
Munich
before
the
outbreak
of
war.
The
London
Evening
News
asserted
she
Is
to
be
operated
on
Utt
a
gunshot
wouna
in
mc
throat.
Other
reports
say
Hitler
personally
arranged
tin'
return
of
the
girl.
-
UN-AMERICAN
REPORT
WASIIINGTON-TUe
Congressional
activities
un-American
committee
delivered
a
fifteen
hundred
word
report
on
its
two-year
Investigation
today.
The
report
declared
that
not
more
than
a
million
Americans
were
seriously
affected
by
subrersive
activities
which
were
now
declining
because
of
the
International
situation.
MINNEAPOLIS
APARTMENT
HOUSE
FIRE
FATAL
FOR
EIGHTEEN
EARLY
TODAY
Holoca?
vA
in
Prairie
.Metropolis
This
Morninjr
Caused
i
Hy
Roller
Explosion
Flames
Appeared
Simultan-
j
cously
in
Three
Places
MINNEAPOLIS,
January
3:
(CP)
At
least
eighteen
persons
were
killed
when
an
early
morning
fire
ravaged
the
Marlborough
Apartment
Hotel
here
today.
Morgue-keeper
John
Anderson
said
that
four
hours
after
the
fire
seventeen
bodies
were
in
his
morgue
and
there
was
at
least
..
.
I
one
more
In
hospital.
War
News
U-BOAT
ATTACKS
SWEDES
NEW
YORK
Mackay
radio
has
picked
up
an
"S.O.S."
mesMige
from
the
Swedish
steamship
Klr-una
saying
thst
she
had
"been
fired
upon
by
a
U-boat,
sinking
slowly
and
require
assistance."
She
gave
her
position
as
about
five
hundred
miles
north
of
the
Azores.
Meantime
another
Swedish
ship.
Svarton,
215
tons,
is
reported
torpedoed
by
a
submarine
off
the
northeast
coast
of
Scotland
with
twenty
of
the
crew
missing.
ITALY
WATCHING
KOMI
Italy
is
watching
carefully
any
move
on
the
part
of
either
Russia
or
Germany
to
more
in-
.'
to
the
Kalkans.
Such
a
movement
would
possibly
bring
Italy
into
the
conflict.
NAZIS
DRIVEN
OFF
PARIS
There
was
anti-aircraft
fire
in
Pails
last
night
as
Nazis
planes
were
reported
attempting
to
reach
the
French
capital.
However,
they
were
driven
off.
TACOMA
TAKEN
OVEP.
MONTEVIDEO
The
German
freighter
Tacoma,
which
sailed
a
few
miles
down
the
River
Flate
from
here
on
New
Year's
Day
after
having
been
given
an
ultimatum
to
leave
or
submit
to
internment,
has
had
her
Nazi
battle
flag
taken
down
and
a
Uruguayan
guard
crew
has
taken
charge
ot
the
vessel.
She
must
remain
here
for
the
duration
of
the
war.
ACHILLES
AT
RUENOS
AIRES
MONTEVIDEO
The
British
cruiser
Ajax,
flagship
of
Rear
Admiral
Sir
Henry
Harwood,
entered
Montevideo
today
under
special
permission
from
Uruguay
for
a
48-hour
visit.
The
Achilles
has
entered
Buenos
Aires
for
a
similar
LAKE
K1AXTI,
Jan.
3:
(CP)
Army
lumberjacks
on
skis
are
pursuing
hungry
and
freezing
remnants
of
a
scattered
Soviet
dlriskm
into
a
wilderness,
of.
forest
'and
snow
near
the
central
Finnish-Russian
border
following
the
battle
near
Lake
Kianti
which
the
Finns
won.
Thousands
of
Russians
were
left
dead
fol-
ON.R.
TRAINS
For
the
East
,,
Mondays,
Wednesdays
and
Fridays
6.pja.
From
the
East-Tuesdays,
Thursdays
and
Saturdays
11
p.m.
PRfCEf
S
CENTO
'innish
War
Now
Looms
DARING
FINNISH
SKI
PATROLS
SMASH
R
ED
INVADERS
Germany
Is
Talking
Of
Jumping
In
Actively.
On
The
Side
of
Russia
jSugjjests
That
Action
of
France
and
Great
Ikitain
May
;
Spread
Conflict
Norway
and
Sweden
May
Also
!
Pile
In
BERLIN,
January
3:
(CP)
The
Russo-Finnish
yar
;
?ive&
evidence
of
spreading
to
other
nations.
Authorita
tive
Nazis
said
today
that
uerjnany
would
be
forced
to
take
an
active
part
in
the
war
if
France
sends
Alpine
troops
to
Finland's
aid.
They
declared
that
this
was
a
military
matter
but
did
not
say
what
form
the
assistance
-
.
would
take.
Landing
of
French
or
jT'IKUVTC1
T'fT
T
British
troops,
it
is
argued
here,
r
I
Vi
Vi
S
ft
1
1
I
oW
mean
that
the
Allies
are
es-
a
aav
a,
ivy
am
ill
MORE
REDS
Another
Russian
Division
is
Threatened
With
Destruction
Huge
Red
Losses
Red
Efforts
To
Cross
Waistline
Definitely
Halted
tablkhlng
a
foothold
In
Flnlaud,
"thus
spreading
the
war."
Already
Russia
Is
reported
to
have
appealed
to
Germany
for
assistance
in
setting
its
industrial
and
economic
house
in
order.
Collapse
of
the
Russian
military
campaign
In
Finland
l.
rapidly
bringing
affairs
of
the
Soviet
to
a
head.
Norway
and
Sweden
have
already
intimated
that
entry
of
Germany
Finland's
into
the
war
against
Finland
would
result
in
their
even
more
active,
co
operation
with
Finland.
SUBMARINE
WAS
SEEN
But
No
Attack
Was
Made
on
First
Canadian
Division
Transport
"f
'
LONDON.
Jan.
3:
(CP)-
During
deadlock
there.
Irked
by
the
backs,
Russia
is
continuous
set-now
reported
to
uie
transport
oi
me
secona
conim-
CCPENHAOEN.
Jan.
3:
CP
jgent
of
the
First
Canadian
Division
Finnish
ski
patrols
in
the
central
'of
troops
for
overseas
service
from
Salla
sector
were
reported
yester-
Canada
to
England,
a
submarine
day
to
be
threatening
another
Rus-
was
sighted,
it
was
disclosed
yester-slan
division
with
encirclement.
It
day.
but
there
was
no
attack.
A
was
believed
that
another
major
destroyer
In
the
convoy,
on
sighting
engagement
was
shaping
up,
siml-
the
submarine,
dropped
a
depth
lar
to
the
virtual
destruction
of
the
charge
but
there
was
no
indication
lG3rd.
Red
Division
in
an
engage-
whether
or
not
it
took
effect
en
the
ment
near
Suomusalml
on
Sunday.,
U-boat.
A
Russian
division
approximates
18.000
men.
Seven
red
divisions
have
been
concentrated
on
Karelian
Isthmus
In
an
endeavour
to
break
a.
CABINET
SHUFFLE
have
massed
about
five
hundred
Changes
Expected
In
French
Wat
thqusand
men
as
the
spearhead,
Administration-Daladier
.Meets
'
for
a
major
offensive
against
the
Gamelin
-Flnijlsh
Mannerheim
Line
of
the
'
rs.areuan
isuunus.
rresn
iroops
PARIS.
Jpn.
3!
(CP)
PrertiWr
are
said
by
the
Finns
to
be
ready
rARilATd
DaiadIer
of
rs.anee
rofl.
for
,
a
tremendous
push
against
ferred
yesterday
wlth
General
Mau-the
Finnish
fortifications
which
0ameUn
commander-in-chief
.have
been
described
by
the
Rm-'of
the
Allied
forces.
In
French
po-slans
as
comparable
to
the
Oer-iUUeal
clrcles
the
possibility
of
a
man
Siegfried
Line.
'cabinet
shuffle
Is
being
discussed.
There
only
remains
In
Finland
J
A
maJor
debate
in
the
Cnambei.
ot
today
the
trapped
l6th
Division.
De
utles
next
week
ls
expected.
17,000
men
at
full
strength,
and
about
2,000
stragglers
who
fled
after
the
battle
of
December
29
and
30.
VW
Russian
prisoners
said
the
offi-
(
cers
machine-gunned
the
troops
to
;
force
them
Into
battle.
The
battle
definitely
halted
the
Red
efforts.
to
cut
across
Finland's
waistline.
;
Active
Steps
Against
I.ILA.
Expected
Russians
Repulsed
j
to
Follow
Special
Session
of
I
UELSINGFORS.
Jan.
3:
The
Dail
Today
Finnish
high
command
announced;
today
that
a
Russian
infantry
attack
on
the
Karelian
Isthmus
was
repulsed
"with
heavy
losses."
Western
Front
Is
More
Active
EIRE
HAS
ROUND
UP
DUBLIN.
Jen.
3:
(CP)
A
mass
round-up
of
the
outlawed
Irish
Republican
Army
Is
expected
to
follow
a
special
session
of
the
Dail
which
opened
today
for
the
express
pur
pose
of
considering
the
taking
or
measures
to
repress
the
organiza
tion
whose
activities
In
the
way
of
demonstrations
were
taken
to
guard
against
disorders
during
the
session
of
the
Dail.
Seven
alleged
members
of
the
Irish
Republican
Army
were
arrested
yesterday
in
connection
with
the
PARIS,
Jan.
3:
(CP)
There
was.theft
of
munitions
from
a
maga-renewed
artillery
activity
by
both-zlne
In
Phoenix
Park
Just
before
t
sides
on
the
Western
Front
today.
OhrLstmas.
A
considerable?
nuantltv
stay
for
refuelling
and
provision.
;JThere
ajso
patrol
and
aerial
of
the
stolen
arms
and
ammunition
ing.
Artillery,
Pati'ols
"Were
Busy
activity.
and
Aircraft
Today
has
by
now
been
recovered.
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