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THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941. VOL. CLXX. No.

50 HUSSARS OFFICER RECEIVES PRESENTATION City Is Congratulated On Snow-Removal Job U.S.S.R. and Rumania Sign Trade Agreement AIRCRAFT REACHES MUSGRAYE HARBOR BRITISH OFFICIAL I AT SOFIA VANISHES! GODBOUT ASSERTS QUEBEC PAYS 1AY Answers Arguments Put Forward by Opposition Leader in Assembly 2 i nut, If'- K- -iff- xii 5 it LT. JOHN ANDERSON" (left), who left Montreal for camp yesterday with the 1st Regiment, 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, receives a presentation from A. E. LOW (right), president of Canadian Colonial Airways, of which Lt.

Anderson has been Montreal manager for the past twoyears. Lt. Anderson was given an engraved cigarette lighter and case, a cheque for $200 and an illuminated testimonial ALFRED HUDSON, general sales manager of the airline, looks on. Russian-born Passport. Officer Was Taking Train to Turkey BULGARIA CHIEFS MEET i Cabinet Holds Emergency' Session, Again Denies Entry of German Troops from Rumania Sofia, February 27.

(Thursday) (JP) The disappearance of a British passport officer, Wodir. Grenovitch, White Russian and a naturalized British subject, was re- ported in diplomatic circles today tne ijritisn to ouigarii is said to have protested vigorously to the Foreign Office and demanded an immediate police inquiry. Grenovitch left Sofia by. train Monday with three British Institute teachers for Istanbul. He disappeared from his first class compartment before the train reached the border end border records show he never checked out of the country.

Cabinet Meeting Held Sofia, February 26. (JP) The chief of staff of the Bulgarian army. Gen. Nicola Petkoff. conferred late today with Premier Bogdan Philoff and Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff, and tonight the cabinet met in emergency session.

As the cabinet members assembled, the Government issued still another in its series of -denials that German troops poised at the Rumanian frontier had' entered Bulgaria. German Minister Richtofen was understood to have talked during the late afternoon with. Popoff. British citizens who had no imperative reason to remain were advised by their Government to leave Bulgaria tonight. Blackout restrictions and formidable-looking antiaircraft batteries created a war atmosphere and gave the impression of sharp imminent events.

Although rumors circulated that German troops already had crossed the Danube at several places. foreign military observers said these reports were not borne out by information from German bases in Rumania. Fourteen German divisions about 200,000 men were reported by these observers, however, to be in position on the banks of the river and ready to start the crossing into Bulgaria whenever they get the word. The Rumanian Government ordered a complete blackout throughout the country, while Sofiri was under a partial blackout, enforced since last night. Bulgarian troops set up more nnti-aircraft batteries on the heights overlooking the capital, to reinforce those already mounted on a few buildings in the city.

Hitler Salutes Ex-King Berlin. February 26 (JP) Hitler and Ribbentrop sent messages of congratulation to former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria on his 80th birthday anniversary today. He lives in Coburg. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Washington Sees Inevitability Of U.S. Convoys for War Cargoes First of Planes Sent to Bring Out Banting's Body Arrives at Scene WEATHER DELAYS FLIGHT Second R.C.A.F.

Machine With Investigators and Salvage Crew Expected to Land Today Newfoundland Airport, February 26. (CP. Cable.) A ski-equipped military plane with a physician aboard was set down at Musgrave Harbor tonight, officials were informed here by a brief radii message. If weather conditions are favorable tomorrow, a second military plane will leave here for the night to the isolated northern Newfoundland outpost to aid in bringing back the bodies of Sir Frederick Banting, Canadian army medical scientist, and two killed in a plane crash. They will aLso bring Captain Joseph Mackey, civilian pilot of the plane which was wrecked while cn its way across'the Atlantic.

Cap-tarn Mackey received minor injuries in the crash. Another plane is expected to leavs here carrying a formal investigating party aboard and a salvage crew to the scene of the crash in which Sir Frederick. Navigator "William Bird of Kidderminster, and William Snailham, Bed-Jord. N.S.. were killed.

Meanwhile. Magistrate Hollett anJ Chief Constable Humber came hern today to conduct an inquest when the bodies arrive. In a statement issued late in the day officials detailed efforts to locate the wreckage and the bodies. It said "nothing was heard" from Mackey's ship after he asked radio bearings half an hour 3fter taking eff Thursday. The bearings were gjven three times.

The official statement said "a representative of the wrecked machine got to the crash scene for a -preliminary investigation." TWO BODIES IN PLANE- Bodies of Bird and Snailham were found in the plane. The body cf Sir Frederick was about 25 feet away but whether it was thrown there when the plane crashed or was carried by the pilot was not known. Unformed sources in Montreal said they believed Sir Frederick had jumped by parachute but from Too low an altitude. The belief was based on reports reaching Montreal tnat his parachute had been found open. Until the aircraft and its apparatus ca.i be fully examined and the pilot questioned there "cannot be any definite statement as to the d.fficulties encountered" by the plane in which Sir Frederick Banting and two others lost their lives, according to an official statement issued at Montreal).

Mackey had left for Musgrave Harbor when the investigating party arrived. The statement said Mackey had "apparently attempted a forced landing as the undercarriage gear was in a downward position. The engines of the machine were torn out. one wing was damaged, as well as the plane's nose smashed in." Banting Doing Air Work London. February 28.

(CP. Cib. The Daily Kxprc, paying homage today to Sir Frederick Banting, threw possible I ht on the work he has been dotes- jic the outbreak of the war. had an important part in the Empire Air Plan." the Express faid. "Other men gave us faster ir.i faster fighter planes.

It needed the skill of such men as Sir Frederick Banting to adapt the human machine to live in them." The paper concluded that Sir Frederick, who gave his greatest tilvi very to the peacetime world "has given us fresh discoveries and now his life for our war effort" SlcNanghton Says Loss Felt Ottawa. February 26. A. G. L.

McNaughton. commander of the Canadian corps in England, said in a cabled message loday the corps already has felt of the benefit of work done by the late Sir Frederick Banting, and that his endeavors would "continue t- bring comfort to us and confusion to our enemies." Frederick was killed last week in an airplane crash in Newfoundland during a transatlantic flight to Britain. In a tribute to the 49-year-e'd Toronto scientist. Gen. McNaughton said regret over his death would be even deeper "in all ranks" when full significance of his army work became known.

Gen McNaughton disclosed thnt it was at his request that Sir FreJ-erick gave up his desire for active service overseas and undertook the organization of 'research of far-reaching importance to us and which he alone could do." WANTS. POLICY SOUND Decries Demagogy and Explains Object in Selling Methods Pursued in Recent Loan By CAMPBELL CARROLL (Gazette Staff Correspondent.) Quebec," February 26 The present Government is meeting its obligations and its responsibilities in a business-like way which is aimed at again placing the province of Quebec at the head of Confederation; and if in four years the electorate is not satisfied it may choose itself another administration, Premier Adelard Godbout told the Legislature in a fighting speech tonight. Premier Godbout took up the arguments put forth earljer in the day by Opposition Leader Maurice Duplessis and pledged himself to a policy of sound administration completely divorced from any idea of vote-getting. "We are not here to make ourselves popular through demagogy," he stated. "We are here to try by the best means possible to put the province back on its feet so that it will be in good position when the war is over." That was why, he continued, the Government was following a policy of pay-as-you-go, and that is why, also, it had the couraga to impose He said that $10,000,000 of the $15,000,000 loan floated only 20 days ago was already subscribed, and that it would have been entirely bought out if the Government had so wished it.

"But," he emphasized, "we want the small people to profit by the investment available to them. If we had wanted to sell only to banks and brokers we could have completed the loan long ago." Premier Godbout thought Mr. Duplessis was trying to defend nis administration and criticize the present Government too soon after the elections of 1939. The people had long memories, he said, and no one in the province could soon forget the "orgy" of wild spending that went on during the National Union regime. "That Government," he insisted, "increased the provincial debt by $210,000,000 more than twice the debt incurred by successive governments in 72 years." MONTREAL'S POSITION" Montreal, the Premier continued, had not bought from the Govern ment one cent worth of provincial bonds.

(Mr. Duplessis had said that the Government had sold bonds to the city and had then profited by its poor financial standing to place it in tutelage.) If, he added, the city had bought bonds it had done so elsewhere and he was not aware of it. "The National Union oVed Montreal millions of dollars," he argued, "and that's what impaired the city's credit. That is why, also, we had the courage to place the city under the municipal commission something else, again, that wasn't popular, perhaps; but we saw it as our duty so that Montreal might remain the metropolis of Canada in fact as well as in name." To another Duplessis assertion thnt the former Government hiul reduced unemployment. Premier Godbout said that statistics were there to show that only Quebec between 1936-39 (when Duplessis was In powen) had increased relief expenditures without, at the same time, reducing its general debt.

He claimed that 1936-39 were prosperous years as compared with those of 1930-36, and that despite the general improvement throughout the rest of the country Quebec had lagged behind in matters, of relief. As to old age pensions, pensions to mothers, and subsidies to the blind, Premier Godbout denied that Mr. Duplessis had a monopoly of kind-heartedness. But, he said charity had to be tempered with com-monsense when somebody's else motw-y was being spent on it, and that he had always felt ihat charitable institutions were better able to handle underprivileged cases than any government in the world. A survey had been made of all grants made under those different headings, he said, and it was found that a certain amount of racketeering was going on.

The lists had been purged, he boasted, and now only the truly needy received money which was taken from the people in the form of taxes in the first place. Salaries of rural female teachers came up next. Premier Godbout said ne was the first to bring up the question way back in 1929. when he became acquainted with the needs of this class of educators. Finally, he recalled, a minimum of $300 was set by the Fair Wage Board, and when the National Union party came to power it rescinded the order only to re-establish it later.

"If there were increases under the former Government" he stated, "they came in the usual way by making the municipalities pay them." He said Duplessis had forced municipalities to increase salar- Civic- leaders were complimented yesterday by the City Improvement League on the manner in which th streets have been kept clear during the current, winter. Over the signature of T. Taggart Smyth, president the following letter was sent to Honore Parent, director of services, and to J. A. Asse-lin.

chairman of the executive committee: "The City Improvement League notes with gratification that thu winter, for the first time in the last quarter of a century, the highways of Montreal have been maintained in a manner befitting the dignity of the Canadian metropolis, and it respectfully tenders its sincere congratulations to the city executive, city council and the director of services, on the success of their efforts in this respect. That according to press reports, this result, was obtained In spite of a greater snowfall than last n-ter. End at a cost much below that of former years, is a tribute to the efficiency of the present civic administration, which the league is glad to note." CYCLISTS PREPARE MEETING PROGRAM Two-Day Convention of Bicycle Men to Open Tomorrow at Mount Royal Hotel Program for the two-day convention of the Cyclists' Corporation to be held at the Mount Royal Hotel tomorrow and Saturday was announced by the committee yesterday. Registration will take place at eight o'clock tomorrow night with, the cpening lecture on the Canadian Wheelsmen's Association immediately following. A lecture and discussion will follow on the Cyclists' Corporation with appointment of a nomination committee completing the agenda.

Saturday's meeting will ooen at 10 o'clock with a lecture on bicycle theft. Lectures on safety, cycle touring and youth hostels and the organization of cycling in the province will be given during the day. Elections will be held at five o'clock followed by the banquet at which Mayor Adhemar Raynault will preside. Newly-elected officers will also address the dinner. A bicycle exhibition will Wso be held in conjunction with the convention.

The honorary committee: L. B. Bennett, P. E. Ouellet.

S. Mace, H. Gachon. A. Giroux, G.

Nolet. A. Legcndre, L. Quilicot, E. Pelletier, S.

Richardson, Ii. P. Lemav, G. Lemieux, P. Rainville.

A. Gagne. Active committee: Chairman. A. Salette; vice-chairman, M.

Therien; secretary. J. M. Parent; legal ad-visoi. Bernard Nantel; medical advisor.

Dr. Roland Guy. Members: F. Dieumegarde. R.

Girardeau. Romeo Morin. Roland Morin, F. Brodeur. C.

Robillard. C. Svlvestre. F. Lapalme, M.

Commoy. P. Picard. remarked that "King Ferdinand, who is a Prussian field marshal general, always showed himself friend to Germany." (Ferdinand, father of King Boris of Bulgaria, abdicated in 1918 and went to Germany when Bulgaria, an ally of the central powers in the Great War. bowed to the allies.) i-- 1 I If ft- ij Moscow, February 26.

(A?) Russia today signed a treaty of commerce and navigation with Rumania. Two other documents signed provide for the regulation of payments under the accord and list materials to be exchanged. It is understood that Rumania will export to Russia high-test gasoline, mineral oil and industrial products in exchange for Soviet cotton, manganese and other raw materials. The pact was the second concluded this week in Moscow. One was signed with Switzerland Monday.

The Rumanian pact was signed at the Commisariat of Foreign Trade, with A. I. Mikoyan. head of the Commissariat, and Rumanian Minister Grigore Gafencu heading the signers. The treaty Is to run two years and be automatically renewed unless denounced.

The Rumanian delegation has been here since Nov. 29. ies by promising grants out of all proportion, and then met these grants only to one-third of their extent. Colonization: In the last year. Premier Godbout remarked, his Government had spent 50 per cent-less than in the three years of the Duplessis regime, yet it had placed 600 settlers whereas the Duplessis party had not succeeded in placing one.

In his three years of power Mr. Duplessis had missed a glorious opportunity to place Quebec in the vanguard of Confederation, the Premier declared. Yet, one of the net results of his tenure of office was that other provinces looked upon Quebec as something apart, suspect even, and she nearly lost her renown. Premier Godbout observed that Mr. Duplessis complained of the lack of freedom of speech under the supposed "dictatorial attitude" of the present Government.

Formerly Duplessis saw Communists everywhere, now members of the Government were dictators that made Hitler pale into, insignificance. Wf.ll Tip concluded, "we are not dictators, but if we were I wonder i ij if the opposition leaaer wouiu oc allowed to speak as long as he fnot flushed to the ex treme of demagogy brings nations where so many unfortunate European countries are today: democracy with licence is no better. But sane democracy, as we understand it. with the respect of the rights of the people always uppermost we are for it." Mr. Duplessis had answered only a few words when 11 o'clock came and the House adjourned till tomorrow.

"ADVOCATES CUT IN DEBT. Despite added revenue of between $15,000,000 and a year the Godbout Government has not yet reduced the provincial debt and its latest loan of $15,000,000 was not vet fully subscribed. Opposition Leader Maurice Duplessio declared in the Quebec Legislature today. The House drifted away from the topic actually before it and swung into debate respecting the handling of provincial finances as between the former National Union regime and the present Government. Up for debate was an act to amend the Seigniorial Rent Abolition Act.

Its sponsor. Hon. T. D. Bouchard.

Minister of Roads and Public Works, happened to say how much better provincial finances were now than about one and one-half years ago. He added, too, that financing was more difficult at present than prior to the war, when the Duplessis party was in power. He recalled that ex-Premier Duplessis had bor rowed $30,000,000 in the united States, being unable to raise a braos farthing here in Canada, and that commissions of the loan amounted to $75,000. Moreover he insisted, this loan contracted in March, was ihort of subscription by as late as June of tne same year. Mr.

Duplessis spoke for about an hour, until six o'clock when the House rose. He upbraided the Government for imposing so-many taxes and showing no betterment in the debt situation, and said that if the Government had accomplished the marvels it claimed, it should pay off the grants it owed to McGill Uni versity and the University of Montreal. "The Government used Montreal's sinking fund to finance itself," he charged, "and then placed the metropolis under the tutelage of the Quebec Municipal Commission." He defended his own financial administration and said that apart from everything else it had given justice to all underprivileged classes, and to settlers. "Now," he said, "the Government treats settlers shabbily. I received a letter from cne of them the other day saying they were too poor to die because they didn't have the money for a decent burial." Folk Dance Festival Set A folk dance festival will be held in the gymnasium of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1124 Dorchester street west, at 8.15 o'clock tonight.

Among national groups represented will be Dutch, Finnish, Czechoslovakian, Greek and Norwegian while Indians from Caughnawaga will also appear. Lady Elizabeth Dawnay Dies Lady Elizabeth Katherine Daw-nay, wife of Capt. Ronald Dawnay, of the Coldstream Guards, died here suddenly yesterday. The funeral will be held privately from Christ Church Cathedral today. Tapscctt survived the odyssey in the small lifeboat.

One of the seven died of machine-gun wounds. Four went mad from lack of food and water in the burning sun and committed suicide. For 53 days after their last com-pankn had gone, Widdicombe and Tapscntt drifted on and on more than 3,000 miles. Once they feasted on two flying fteh that fell into their boat. Burned black from the sun.

their tongues so swollen from lack, of water that they could scarcely speak, the pair finally were cast up on Eleuthera Island, 40 miles south of Nassau, Bahamas. Widdicombe arrived in New York January 30. but Tapscott remained in a Nassau hospital. As the only passenger, Widdicombe sailed with the Siamsse Prince from New York, beund for En rnd to enter the P.oyal Air torce wnicn. he said he was be commissioned.

i The Gazette.) in 'wolf packs. his submarines aided by his airplanes can and will prevent the delivery to Britain of a sufficient quantity from the American arsenal to turn the tide of war. "The realists in Washington those who always conceded this prospect for the spring and those who did not concede it but saw it can find only three ways to meet this challenge, this powerful effort to nullify our settled policy of all-out aid, which has been adopted by the administration, seems to be supported by the large popular majority, and is about to be ratified by Congress. These three ways are: to supply the British with shipping; to bring armament production to a peak, and to make sure that the production gets to its destination." Several ways of accomplishing the latter without sending the American flag into combat zones have been discussed by administration strategists. Mr.

Krock says, disclosing suggestions that "for every British destroyer sent here for repairs, we supply the British crew with a new one that we exchange for two or three heavy British battleships, suitable for our naval problem in the Pacific, a generous equivalent in smaller craft, appropriate, to the British problem in the Atlantic. "But the navy continues to object to the sale, gift or transfer of any existing. war craft. And official opinion grows in opposition to both schemes on the ground that they are subterfuges and the time for realism has arrived. This has evoked the official disposition to look at the cause squarely, forget the hopes, promises end political deceptions of the past, and provide, direct means to meet whatever situation may arise.

To most of those so disposed, convoying supply ships by the navy is being faced as more than a possibility of the spring." EXCURSIONS VIA C.N.R. Wide Range Available for Coming Week-end Coach excursions" from Montreal to a number of points north, south and cast are being operated by tne Canadian National Railways during the week-end, according to E. C. Elliott, general passenger agent. Some of these specal rates are available as from tomorrow night and others are good during Saturday and Sunday.

A roach excursion to all stations between Hervey and Chicoutimi and those between Chambord and Dolbeau will be conducted on Friday and Saturday by regular trains operating from the St. Catherine street east station. For this excursion an extra train is scheduled to leave St. Catherine street east tomorrow night at 6.30 p.m., E.S.T. Coach excursion rates will be available to Quebec and Levis ai this week-end beginning tomorrow night.

In addition to the direct Quebec trains tickets will be good on the Maritime Erpress and the Ocean Limited, via Levis. Another excursion beginning tomorrow will cover stations to Sher-brooke, including those from St. Bruno to Dixville and from Richmond to Lyster. On Saturday excursion fares over Canu'irn National Lines will be available from Montreal to Ottawa and will be acceptable on regular trains going to the Capital during Saturday and the morning trains on Sunday. Other week-end excursions beginning tomorrow will operate froru Montreal to all stations from Bros-seau to Cantic and from St.

Johns to Waterloo. McCallum to Hang March 5 London. February 26. (CP. Cable.) The execution of Corporal C.

Forbes McCallum of Verdun. Que, convicted of the murder of Morris Schclman, bartender, was fixed today to take place at Pen-tonville Prison March 5. In convicting tne Canadian soldier February 13 the jury added a strong recommendation for mercy and a petition to the Home Secretary for a reprieve has been contemplated. Aussics to Be Guests A party of Australian air force men, at present in training in Montreal, will be the guests of the Men's Association of the Church of St. John the Divine, Moffat avenue, Verdun, tonight.

It is exoected that Mayor Edward Wilson will attend to welcome the visitors. Fluorspar is tised Sn processing steel and enamel manufacture. Mercury is efsential in manufacture of explosives. Package fur Package Swcei Cays are your best cigarette buy! MRS. T.

JUELSBERG DIES IN DENMARK Former Wife of Prince Erik Was Lois Booth of Ottawa Ottawa, February 26 KB Word of the death of Mrs. Thorkil Juels-berg, former wife of Prince Erik of Denmark, at her country estate near Copenhagen was received here todJiy by her brother, Col. J. R. Booth.

Mrs. Juelsberg, formerly Lois Booth of Ottawa, was married to Prince Erik in 1924 at All Saints" Church here. Later the marriage was annulled by King Christian of Denmark in compliance with a petition the couple made mutually. News of Mrs. Juelsberg's death was relayed to her mother.

Mrs. J. Fred Booth of Los Angeles, from Swedish sources. Mrs. Booth had learned last November that her daughter was seriously ill.

Mrs. Juelsberg's first husband. Prince Erik, renounced rights of succession to the Danish throne at the time of his marriage in Ottawa. He had lived in Canada and the United States from 1922 until the marriage. Following their marriage they went to London'where they were entertained by the late Queen Alexandra and received by King George and Queen Mary.

They lived in California for a time be fore going to Denmark. Following the annullment, Mrs. Juelsberg married for a second time and had resided in Denmark ever since. Five years ago she returned to Ottawa for a visit. Mrs.

Jucl.sberg is survived by her husband find two children by her first marriage. Prince Christian and Princess Alexandra. JUNIOR PLAYOFFS OPEN St. Lambert Wins 7-4 as Clearpoint-Longueuil Tie High-scoring St. Lambert was the only team to gain an advantage in opening games of the semi-finals in the Mount Royal Junior Hockey League last night at Lachine, by defeating Rosemount, 7-4.

In the other fixture Longueuil and Clear-point tied. 6-6. The final two games in the, total-goal series are scheduled for tomorrow night at Lachine. With Tommy Hale dropping in three goals and Broderick, Mc-Grath and Cleary one apiece, the St. Lambert crew swept to a 6-0 lead in the first period, more than enough to last through a Rose-mount rally in the third.

Both sides scored once in the second, Lorimer for Rosemount and Hunter for St. Lambert, while Kirby Com-mingford and Harris all beat Chandler in the third to revive Rosemount's total-goal hopes. Bourdon gave Longueuil a 1-0 in the first frame of the second game but Clearpoint drew even in the second and from there on sides fought it out neck and neck to the final whistle. Bourdon, Richardson and Roe sniped two for Longueuil and Roberts two for Clearpoint. The other Clearpoint tallies went to Lofthouse, Lach-more.

Symons and Harrison. Hitler, Sir Howard said, believes and acts on the principle that "terror is the most powerful factor in waging a war." "The Germans," he added, "wait until their enemies are thoroughly demoralized from within before they finally strike the blow which they hope will destroy them. The present war is far more a psychological war than a material war, it is primarily a question of psychological attack and defence." Sir Howard expressed the hope that "the French colonies will soon be able to help us in the war and to aid in the restoration of liberty and freedom in France in particular and in the war in general." Referring again to the American continent. Sir Howard said, that the Royal Javy and the British Isles arc the only reason why Hitler has not been able to attack the United States. "If they did not exist, the Germans would overrun the Atlantic, and the Americans, very probably kept bi'sy in the Pacific by Japan, would be unable to prevent the North American continent from be-in it ticked in turn." (Special to New York, Thursday, February 27.

At the end of many months of official unrealism the administration is squarely facing the prospect of war, writes Arthur Krock, chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times, in his column "In The Nation" printed in Tne Times this morning. "It is conceding, almost openly, that the United States cannot give to Great Britain the degree of assistance required to defeat the Axis and deny, as during the campaign, that war can. be a consequence," he says, adding that thu is a factual report of a definite new attitude in Washington which emerges in any conversation with officials. "With this calm though reluctant acceptance of the prospect Has come a tendency to admit almost in the open, too that, since the purpose of the all-out aid policy is to assure the defeat of the Axis, it must be carried out to the limit," Mr. Krock writes.

"In responsible quarters is now heard tne candid opinion, which could not be obtained a few weeks ago, "that if American convoys are needed, to deliver the products of the 'arsenal of democracy' to the British war machine, they should be furnished. And the sama officials are beginning to say that, in this event, they will be furnished. Mr. Krock recalls the President's presa conference on January 20 when he was asked about the use of convoys and replied that he had never considered using them. "But since that time Hitler and Mussolini have announced that the Axis navies will do their best to sink all supply ships for the British," he continues.

"While Berlin and London continue to differ over the tonnage that has been destroyed in the active period at sea which followed the President's statement, British losses have been heavy. Hitler has declared that, hunting ONTARIO'S MAYORS ASK CENSUS DELAY Association Points to Saving to the Country by Postponement of Task Toronto, February 26. (CR The Ontario Mayors' Association today passed a resolution asking the Dominion Government to postpone the taking of a census this yea? and save the country the $2,000,000 which it was estimated will be expended on the task. The motion was made by Mayor P. J.

Ryan of Brantford. If the Government insisted a census be taken, the mayors agreed to place the municipal machinery at its disposal at no charge. Proposed in N.B. House Fredericton, February 26. Postponement of the decennial census by the federal Government until after the war is requested in a motion of which Opposition Leader Hugh Mackay gave notice today in the New Brunswick Legislature.

It will be debated next Tuesday. Trie motion, seconded by R. Mclnerney Saint John City), reads: "That in the opinion of this House the taking of the decennial census should be postponed until after the war. and that in accordance with such opinion this Legislature now assembled unanimously requests the Dominion Government to enact such legislation to postpone the taking of the decennial census until after the war. and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded by Honorable Mr.

Speaker forthwith to the Prime Minister of Canada." Reservists May Get Pension Ottawa, February 26. V) Pension benefits of the Canadian (Active) Army apply to Canadian (Reserve) Army members and their dependents if disability'or death is suffered by the reservist while on duty, it was stated today in a return tabled in the Commons for Alan Cockeram York South). Japan, Soviet Buy in Mexico Mexico City, February 26. (T" Heavy Russian and Japanese purchases of henequen, mercury and fluorspar in Mexico were reported today. Henequen is a fibre used in making cordage, rope, bagginfi and 1 r' 5 Canada's Help to Hasten Victory Sir Howard D'Egville Asserts Survivor of 70-day Drift at Sea OnShipNowLostbyEnemyAction Just a moment, please! You smoke for pleasure, don't you? Well then the cigarettes that give you the greatest pleasure must give you the greatest value.

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Ve need a speedy production of rrmaments to keep war away from Amer.ca." Sir Howard, who addressed the private bills committee of Quetec's Legislative Assembly. Unfortunately for the freedom-hvjc people of the democracies, who love peace, we are net the best er.canizf'd to face dictatorship their rapidity of decision." If it were not the co-operation be-tcn the British navy and the nav et of the colonies, he raid, "we would not have been able to organize soon enough to face the common enemy. "The Royal Navy not only keeps epen the sea lanes, but also keeps the rnemy away from North America's shores. True, shipping losses re considerable-, but even at the ferer.t rats c-f sinkings it would like yars, rather than months to the British Isles to New York. February 26 JP) The British freighter Siamese Prince on which Roy Widdicombe, central figure of one of the weirdest sea stories of the war, sailed for home has been "lost by enemy action," her agents said today.

Details of her sinking and the fate of the crew and of Widdicombe, who survived a 70-day voyage drifting in an open boat atir another vessel was lost under him, were not known by Furness. Withy and Company, agents for the ship. Maritime circles have heard that the Siamese Prince was torpedoed in the Atlantic February 22. The 426-foot ship, ordinarily in trad-3 between the east coast of the United States and the Far East, left here February 3. Widdicombe was one of seven men who escapecl alive from the Britisn freighter Anglo-Saxon whsn shi.

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