The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 11

11 THE EVENING CITIZEN. Ottawa. Wednesday. May 1943. tory and after that we must begin Victory" Rioters in Halifax Cause the task of rebuilding our health and homes, doing our utmost to make this country a land in which all have a duty and there we must turn ourselves to fulfil our duty to our own countrymen and to our gallant Allies of the United States (cheers) who were so foully and we will not be the ones who will fail.

"God bless you alL" treacherously attacked by Japan. "We will go hand in hand with them. Even if it is a hard struggle Over Million Dollars Damage in City we all have a chance and in which Proud Wartime Record Of Eastern Port Marred By Orgies On Victory Day and carting away liquor and beer HALIFAX, May 8. (CP 4 tea. it is HALIFAX, May 8 (CP) This has been the biggest, loudest and most expensive party Halifax has ever seen in fact, few citiet have ever seen its equal.

"Victory celebrations" that began last Monday night and burst into full flame today have left the downtown business section virtually ruined smashed and looted by hundreds of drunken servicemen and civilians. They ransacked the liquor stores, smashed into a brewery, and then started out on the biggest collective drunk his city ever has seen. Men and women by the scores reeled through the streets," carrying cases of beer, cases of whiskey or rum, or else walked with hands full of bottles. The parks were turned into virtual beer gardens today, as couples and groups sprawled on the grass with a case of whiskey an entire year's ration beside them. Liquor was dime-a-dozen around the town.

Drunken sailors reeled up to you with arms full of bottles, offering to sell it for $1 or $2 a quart, or else giying it away outright with a sudden generous impulse. At the ransacked liquor stores and brewery, men and women fought madly to get in. Even children were in on it, two or three of them seizing a case of beer and rushing off with it. MM Wrhen it is finished, Father, and tee set The war-stained huchJer and the bright blade by. he was speaking had been turned off shortly before his appearance, and the bombs came down (loud i .1 T.

1 hat bloody sweat, tSid us remember her men boos) but every man, woman and child in this country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London 1 can take it." (Cheers). What tk xorns, wnat agony "So we came back after long months from the Jaws of death, out "Your Victory" Says Churchill To British Nation LONDON, May 8. (Reuters) Victory over Germany was not one of party, class or section but of the entire British nation, Prime Minister Churchill declared tonight. Standing in the balcony of the ministry of health the prime minis of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered.

"When shall the reputation and Purchased our wreaths of harvest and ripe ears, Whose empty hands, whose empty hearts, whose teart faith of this generation of English men and women fail? by the case. Order was not restored until several hours after Mayor Alan M. Butler issued the curfew proclamation, declaring the situation urgent and ordering everyone off the street after 8 o'clock (ADT) under penalty of the "full extent of the law." Rear Admiral L. W. Murray, officer commanding Canadian Northwest Atlantic, toured the streets in a sound truck, reading the curfew order and ordering naval personnel back to their barracks.

Service police were strengthened by scores of volunteers, and all available trucks were pressed into service to transport the men back to their barracks. There were many spirited struggles up and down the city's streets as fractious rioters were led away to the police station already bulging with battered and drunken inmates. Dozens of people were cut by flying glass, while a score or more sailors were treated for gashes in their arms and legs from smashing through plate glass windows. The victory celebrations started last night, when a streetcar and a police patrol wagon were burned and three liquor stores rifled. Things quieted clown about three or four o'clock in the morning, then broke out again with a vengeance early this afternoon.

A mob of some 500 sailors, other servicemen and civilians roamed down Granville street smashing every window, then turned to Water street and the brewery. They stormed in through a cordon of service police and began carting out beer by the case. Some loaded it on trucks they had commandeered somewhere. Unequalled Scene. Then began a scene of drunkenness and destruction that is rarely equalled in a city outside a war zone.

Bands of looters roamed up and down Barrington and Hollis streets, kicking in windows or smashing them with clubs of boards they tore off buildings. It wasn't long before the looting started, first in a shoe store, and then spreading to other stores including the jewelry store which was later fired. The streets soon were littered with shoes, coats, groceries and articles of a dozen kinds thrown carelessly around. No streetcars were running, and few automobiles ventured out on the glass-strewn streets. Late this afternoon, the mayor called a conference between heads of city and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, officials of the three services, civil defence authorities and the attorney-general's department, at which the curfew plan was drawn up.

and Special) Comparative peace settled on Halifax late tonight, and its shocked citizens began counting up the damage caused in today's "victory riots" in which two buildings were set afire anQ gutted, the entire business section was smashed and looted, and dozens of people were slashed and injured by flying glass. Curfew Clamped On. A curfew was clamped on the city at 7 pjn, EDT, and five hours later civilian and service police had quelled the worst of the rioting. Only "sporadic outbreaks" were reported. There was no official estimate ot the damage loss, but it's safe to say it will run $1,000,000 or more.

Scarcely one window stands intact in the town's miles of business section, thousands of dollars' worth of goods and enough liquor and beer to keep several thousand people drunk for hours were looted from the shattered stores. Believed Incendiary. Damage in the two fires, believed of incendiary origin, will run to $100,000 or more. The People's Credit Jewellery store. D'Allaird's women's wear store and the building they were housed in on Barrington street, as well as Fader's pharmacy on Hollis street were gutted.

Deputy Fire Chief Joseph Harber said there was no doubt that both fires, as well as several smaller ones throughout the city during the evening, were of incendiary origin. Detained by Police. Two sailors, believed the ringleaders of the gang that looted the jewelry store and then reportedly set a fire in the basement, were detained by police tonight. No arrests have been made, and no charges have been laid as yet. Several other looters, civilian and sen-ice alike, have been detained for questioning.

Residents said destruction on the main streets was the greatest since the Halifax explosion In 1917 in which thousands of windows were smashed in the same part of the city. However, in that explosion most of north end Halifax buildings were completely WTecked. Who Will Pay? Merchants and others affected by the rioting and looting were wondering who would pay for the damage. Much of the smashing was done by sailors who led the raids on the liquor stores and it wliiM Die Unconquered. "I say that in the long years to come not only the people of this island, but of the world, wherever ansomed the days to he ter told a great crowd in Whitehall: the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts they will look back to what we have done and they will say do T-l.

1 not deipair. Do not yield to violence hat days they gave Hid us remember and tyranny: march straight for ward and die if need be uncon quered. All that mankind may give "We have now emerged from one deadly struggle a terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits Tha I we may our judgment and our mercy. "But there is another foe who Mrjori. PlcWiaS occupies large portions of the British Empire, a foe stained with cruelty and greed the Japanese (More boos.) "They would give us nvuch worse than that," commented Mr.

Church ill. "I rejoice that we can take a night off today and another day tomorrow. "Tomorrow our great Russian Bid us remember tiien wliat lliey gave time buy still more Victory Bond! Allies will also be celebrating vie Pmwi 111 mkf ONE MINUTE NEWS ABOUT JOHNS -MANVILLE "Lest We Forget" Today is a great, historic day. "My friends, this is your victory." Cheers greeted the declaration and he added: "This is not the victory of a party or of any class or large section of the country. It is a victory of the British nation as a whole.

"We were the first in this ancient island to draw the sword against tyranny (cheers): After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. "There we stood alone. Did anybody want to give in?" The crowd- roared back a terrific "No!" "Were we downhearted?" asked the premier. "No!" came back the answer. Mr.

Churchill continued: "The lights went out." There was a great burst of laughter at this because the floodlighting of the balcony from which o'clock last night. It started when hundreds of flags and yards of bunting were ripped from the fronts of hotels, office buildings and homes. Smash Windows. Then people found they could smash windows and get away with it, too. Thousands milled around Barrington street and Spring Garden road, well-known 'Halifax streets corner.

Servicemen and civilians stopped a string of trams, jerked their trolleys from the wirs and clouted sticks and poles through all their windows. Then they finally set one ablaze. A big police patrol wagon came to quell the disturbance, but the mob, mounting by the minute, promptly turned it over and put a match to it, also. Nobody seemed to get hurt seriously, at any rate. Then the offensive swung to the Sackville street liquor store, last open on Friday.

Flagpoles battered in the windows and mobsters ran from the shop with bulging pockets. But there were other objectives. There are three other liquor houses in the city, and with traditional determination two of them were attacked and ransacked. The merchant navy was in the first offensive wave. After uncounted Naval snore patrols and army ContriiuUJ to itt EigUiti Vichiry Loan THI provost were being reinforced by volunteers who were coming in From Tht Complala Poems of Marjorio Pickiliall hy permission of McClelland StavArt, Limited.

steadily to offer their services to quell the riots. All available officers have been ordered out on the streets, and trucks are touring the city to round up service personnel and return them to barracks. A number of looters have been picked up and detained, and military police officials say they "are doing everything humanly possible" to bring order out of the chaos and wreckage in Halifax tonight. Like Wrecked City. Halifax is like a wrecked city.

Within 24 hours of Germany's fall Halifax was blitzed this famed sprawling port that probably contributed more to Canadian victory than any other city yet never actually was attacked till last night. It was an inside, "fifth-column" A day of Thanksgiving for Victory in Europe. A day in Independence for millions of enslaved people. A day of Remembrance in which we honor the memory of those who died that we might live. A day of Resolution of determination to work unceasingly for final Peace.

Tomorrow, there's another job to be done another foe to be conquered. Tomorrow, we have a duty to guard the interests of the boys who come marching home the boys to whom we owe so much. "Lest we forget." Iter" breweries, but civilians joined in the looting with equal enthusiasm. "Vengeance" Demonstration. Tonight they weie too shocked and too busy boarding up their windows against further depredations to worry about that.

Cause of the rioting still puzzled most people, although some sailors asserted it was a "vengeance" or demonstration for the way the city had treated them. (From Page One) They said they and their families had been charged high rents for inadequate accommodations in this crowded city accommodating 120.000 people with space and facilities sufficient for only 70,000 and had paid high prices for all services. Vast majority of the servicemen, predominately sailors, were from all parts of Canada. And as any families or friends of servicemen know, living in Halifax or being stationed here has always been one of their chief gripes. This city during the war has accommodated thousands of sailors ajid other servicemen, and there were thousands on the loose last night and today, with nothing to do but celebrate.

Before V-E Day civic authorities had asked the services to provide protection against any possible demonstrations, but as far as could be learned tonight, service police patrols had been increased but there no other upcclal form of protection, llopelfiuiiy Outnumbered. Both ervke and civilian police were hopelessly outnumbered by thi thousands in the mobs that surged through the streets, mobbing the Uquor stores and breweries 1 job. The. city's thousands who helped win the war, loaded the merchantmen, spent nights dodging torpedoes in the January Atlantic or step in the mud of Italy let MIUI0HS 0FFE0Pir III LIBERATED EUROPE thousands of dollars of liquor and beer had vanished, they began hurriedly to board up the glassless store fronts. The mob, still in the thousands, early this morning righted the police car and sent it hurtling down the city's inclines into store facades and posts.

Firemen tried to disperse tNs crowds with water, but the hosc-llncs were cut and hydrants turned off as quickly as they were con everything go. Right now there isn't a block in the uptown area that hasn't at least one broken window dozens are smashed in some blocks, hundreds more are boarded up against a renewed battle tonight. A section of Hollis street, one of the city's main thoroughfares is strewn with torn brer cartons rifled from the big Nova Scotia Liquor Control Commission mailorder office and retail store. They won't know for long how much was stolen the vandals took the illes and their loose pages have been blowing around the streets. Halifax went mad about 11 nected and turned on.

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