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JWDAV. SEPTEMBER 4, 1939. THE CITIZEN, OTTAWA, ONT. TWENTY-TWO Along Germany's Siegfried Line Outlying Parts of Empire Rally to Mother Country Men, Mud, Mountains Poland's Hope In War Hungary's Nazi Parly Threatened With Split Associated Press BUDAPEST, Sept. 3.

Hungary's Nazi party, torn with dissension over differing war sympathies, threatened to split wide apart today. The Hungarians' traditional friendship for Po- land set the 50 Nazi members 0t the Lower House of Parlia- In Conflict With Germany Australia and Zealand Issue War Declarations. Country Has Live Rail Lines and Numerous Roads to Service Frontier as Compared to Sinple Railroad And One Highway in Slovakia. Central Poland Offers Invader Prairie Mud. Canada's Prime Minister Pledges Co-operation I ending Decision of Parliament on Course of Ac- tion.

Indian Potentates Promise Full Support asl In the Great War. Other Possessions Offer Aid. ment to quarreling bitterly among themselves. Most were said to openly sympathize with Poland against Germany. First WaT Night Finds London's Population Calm By GUY RHOADES Canadian press.

pace their services and resources! LONDON. Sept. 3. Outlying at the disposition of the Crown. parts of the British Empire ral- The Indian Nationalist leader.

lied to the side of the Mother 'Jawaharlal Behru. cut short Country today In the armed con-1 visit to China to speed home Inflict with Nazi Germany. morrow and summon the All-A Reuters news agency dispatch India Congress to decide its atti- from Melbourne reported Governor tude in the war. General Lord Gowrie signed an As Egypt's cabinet met at CairoJ Australian declaration of war to- a Reuters dispatch quoted in-night. formed sources as reporting the The New Zealand government I government was preparing advised London that the existence declaration of war against Ger- Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON.

Sept. 3. The first night of war found London's population calm, cheerful, busy, some perhaps drinking a little harder than usual, but self-possessed. Swarms of newspapermen from every country in the world except Germany moved their typewriters over to the bureau of information where official communiques will be issued and where the censors were at work. many.

From Other Points. I Poles, despite their limited population total, an estimated reser-I voir of 4,500,000 trained reserves and a total manpower of 6.000.000. Form Strategic Aid. The Polish network of highways and railroads converging upon its industrial heart are a great strategic aid to defence, and I her wide rivers and numerous waterways including many canals- can be shifted in many instances from defensive aids to obstacles in the face of an invader as he advances. The central location of Warsaw, on the other hand, makes the Polish capital especially vulnerable to short flights by planes with heavy bomb loads.

Against the pincer position of East Prussia and Germany against the Corridor. Poland had the confidence that remote Prussia would be difficult to service with supplies and men from the Reich, once sea transport became hazardous. As an ace in the hole, the Poles hoped to interpose against any successful East Prussian advance the 3.000 feet width of the Vistula river, which flows through Warsaw and has no bridges for 45 miles between Trzew and Grudziadz. Associated Press Men, mud and mountains are Poland's own hopes to stem the German tide. The Polish south has the Carpathian peaks rearing 7,500 feet into the sky to block a flanking invasion by way of Hungary.

Almost as high, the Tatras shunt Germany's Slovakian approach to a narrow northern portion of the Slovak-Polish border. The Germans a single railroad and a single highway in Slovakia there. Poland had five i all lines ar.d numerous roads to service her comparative frontier. Central Poland offers an invader prairie mud, to which is geared perfectly the Polish reliance on infantry and horse-mounted cavalry as the backbone of her some 500.000 regular army. Germany is reported to have regulars and reservists totalling about 4,000.000 Every Pole Army Man.

Every Pole is an army man continuously from the age of 21 to fcfl, on call during all of 29 years In some form of regular full-time er reserve unit. This system of universal con-fcription in peacetime gives the Newioundland, Palestine even of a state of war with Germany had been proclaimed in that dominion. A telegram to the Chamberlain government asked how "this dominion can best assist in the common cause." remote Tonga in the mid-Pacifif ana other British possessions These mighty slabs of steel and concrete have all the appearance of ruins left by some vanished prehistoric race. Actually they are tank barriers along Germany's Siegfried Line on the Western front. have either pledged loyalty anc Canada brings her co-operation I material assistance or have taken measures preparatory for war.

South Africa's position was nol clearly defined. There has beetl to Great Britain in the struggle now starting voluntarily as a free nation of the British Commonwealth, Prime Minister Mackenzie King said in a broadcast address from Ottawa. Canada's Parlia much discussion there recently whether material assistance would Censors Work on Copy The man at the reception desk occasionally shouted the name of a newspaper or news service as copy came back from the censor's office cut or "okayed." Officials explained the censors would pass or reject copy only on the grounds that it might be harmful or unharmful. Thus a story, subsequently denied, that a British man-o'-war seized the Ger be given to Britain in the even! ment is to assemble Thursday to of war. Premier J.

B. M. Hertzo vote on tne course oi action. announced in Parliament yester Potentates Support. day that he shortly would mak Nearly 50 rich Indian potentates! a statement on his country's atti followed their action.

in the Great tude "in connection with its pos Win a nvnivi icnH full iimnni't iik HMm I Sir Sikander Hyat-Khan, pre-1 Premier Eamon De Valera man steamship Bremen, passed. mier of the Punjab, appealed to Eire said his country would striv 80 Phones Available The newsmen have temporary an mnamuuiis 0I me province miiooe neutral tables at the information ministry Exiled Kaiser Follows Net Calls for "Complete Unity" To Resist "March of Evil" No Matter What the Cost Battle Before Gigantic Mai treats, and to show towns boml and 80 telephones are available to relay news to their offices. The building where the bureau is housed contains a bar. a restaurant, and a deep air raid shelter. Nearby tonight soldiers were be-I ing mobilized and accompanied to their depots by women.

A pub around the corner was crammed with soldiers and women having their last drink together for a long time. Lovers sat in corners of the barded and objectives falling the German arms. DOORN, The Netherlands. Sept. 3.

The former German Kaiser vanquished and exiled by the last Great War. followed the new one tonight before a gigantic map of Poland hung in the great hall at When Great Britain declare war this morning the bent oil man, once the "all-highest" of thi German Empire, sat hunched btl Arrhdcacon Scott, Padre of Canadian Fortes in Fast War Makes Trenchant Appeal to Canadian People. Guardianship of Millions Is Inspiration to Men and Women to Rise in the Emergency. Declares That Italy Must Take Sides. bar cuddling but no tears were Dorn.

Methodicaly and with the preci fore a radio. He was one who coull listen to the momentous decisioi without fear of the decree forbidl sion of one long versed in warfare he placed little colored pins to in ding Germans to heed foreign stal machine shops, barracks and bought supplies for the Royal Air Force; The timber branch produced airplane spruce and fir, conducted logging operations and operated tugs for delivery of logs; The fuse branch loaded time fuses at Verdun, The engineering branch checked and rectified guages. The board employed a staff of 1,200 to 1,500 men and women. Canada's Exports. Some conception of Its work may be gathered from the fact that during the Great War Canada exported, among many other items, the following: Shells, 65.343,000; fuses.

fuse parts. 16.174,000; cartridge cases. 48.627,000; percussion primers, exploder containers, shell and other forgings, 6.412.-000; explosives and chemicals, 111,297.000 pounds weight airplane lumber 23.080,000 feet; other lumber, 30,236,000. Engaged in war contracts were between 250.000 and 300.000 people, exclusive of about 50,000 who handled the transportation of the stores. In all, the value of munitions and material exported from Canada from August.

1914. to the end of 1918 was $1,002,672,413. Six Houston Girls Possible Victims Associated Frew HOUSTON. Texas, Sept. 3 Six Houston girls were believed aboard the torpedoed steamship Athenia.

The girls fleeing homeward after vacations in Europe, were: Rowena Simpson, daughter of A. Bee Simpson, vice-president of the National Bank of Commerce. Helen Hannav. daughter of Judge Allan Hannay. Dorothy Pouts, daughter of El-wood Fouts.

attorney for the! Humble Oil and Refining Company. Betsy Brown, daughter of Walter F. Brown, attorney. Genevieve Morrow, daughter of -Wright Morrow, attorney ana president of the Houston Chamber seen. Leave Singing When the order came for the men to move off, they went sing- ing.

Women kissed them. There were dicate the positions of the oppos-! tions under pain of imprisonmenl Many Inquiries At N.Y. to Join Canadian Forces Canadian Press. NEW YORK. Sept.

5. Natives of almost every nation, including Germany, are flooding the office of the Canadian government trade commissioner with requests for information on how they can join the Canadian expeditionary force, if one is raised in the current European crisis. An official of the trade office said that in the last 10 days or from the date the Russo-German non-aggression pact was signed more than 150 inquiries have been made. All the potential fighters, and nurses, are being asked to communicate with the Canadian Department cf National Defence, at Ottawa. Two strapping German youths who identified themselves as crew-members of a German liner then in port, visited the office this week and said they had deserted ship "to join Canada's army and fight the Nazis." Drafted Father at 54.

The trade official said "the younger of the pair, who was probably about 22. told me his 54-year-old father had been conscripted by the German army and despite his age would see front line duty." He further quoted the German sailor: "We are anxious to fight against any country, even our Fatherland, that would treat an old man like that." One recent enquirer, an American commercial aviator, returned to the trade office several days later to say the National Defence Department had accepted his offer to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. Another caller, a man In his late 40's who fought In the Great War with the American expeditionary, forces, said he represented "36 of my buddies in France" in seeking information as to how the Canadian army might be joined. A large percentage of those seeking information are Europeans, many of them German ing armies, their advances and rc-' or possible death. Canada Will Draw On Its Experience During Great War Canada's experience in the Great War is likely to be drawn upon in the near future, with a view to avoiding many of the costly errors which developed early in that conflict.

This year a Defence Purchasing Board was created in Canada and it has just begun to function, under the chairmanship of R. C. Vaughan, vice-president in charge of the purchasing and stores department of the Canadian National Railways. It is not unlikely that an organization along the lines of the Imperial Munitions Board may be set up. Created in 1915.

This board was created in 1915. It succeeded the shell committee which the late Sir Sam Hughes, then minister of militia, had organized with a view to supplying shrapnel shell to the Imperial government. The first shipments of shell from Canada to England had been made in December, 1914. By the end of the following May about 400 establishments in this country were engaged in the manufacture of shells or component parts. The Imperial Munitions Board took over from the shell committee.

Its general policy was to eliminate the middleman and deal direct with the manufacturer. Raw materials were purchased by the board and passed on from one contractor to another, each being paid successively for his labor. This plan had the advantage of saving the contractor large capital Investments necessary to produce the completed missile, and it enabled a proper distribution of raw material to ensure maximum production. The board consisted of a chairman and four members. Business men were asked to take charge of varloui departments, of which there were about 20.

The directors carried on their duties in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and i Victoria. Important Departments. The more important depart-merits were the purchasing and steel branch which bought all the handshakes and smiles. fm.J,i, Churches Crowdet One woman expressed the feel-1 1 ings of the rest when she said: for Japan Advised "Well, I suppose we will be seeing i TOKYO, Sept. 4 The Japanese you from time to time." cabinet met again in extraordinary As Canada LearnJ Attacks German session today as the declarations of war in Europe renewed Japan's I vigil on her frontiers with Soviet Russia.

The press counselled complete War Is Declare Canadian Press. Within a day of Britain's declarJ isolation. Observers expressed belief Japan ation of war against Germany, thl way of Canadian life has beetl altered. The country was calm Sunday hearts of right thinking men and i women the power and joy of the i life founded in the freedom of I democracy. That lesson.

I would like to prophecy, will unite more and more the peoples of this continent whether technically at war or not, in their determination to pre-I serve the ideals which come from Christ and alone make national existence tolerable. Must Have Unity. "In Canada, now at war, we must have complete unity. There must be no setting race against race or one religion against another. All these things are of the past.

"The house of life is ablaze, and each of us must do his part to save it from being the wreck of the world. With clear heads and aim resolution, with courage that never falters under whatever blows that may fall, we must press on. and if there is a God in heaven who loves his little children and the brotherhood of men we shall win, no matter how long the war may last. "We must make it plain to Italy i that the ruse of her neutrality. doubt part of the strategy of Hitler to guard the Brenner Pass from the Allies, must not be allowed Italy must be either on our side, which she likely would WELL AND.

Sept. 3 Archdeacon Frederick George Scott, beloved padre of the Canadian forces in the 1914-18 conflict, today called for "complete unity" in Canada, and said We cannot stand aside and allow the marrh of evil to advance." Archdeacon Scott was here for unveiling of the Welland-Crowland war memorial. "At last the blow has fallen." he continued. "It has fallen as cruel destruction has oommenced upon an innocent people who cry to tis for help. It Is almost with relief that we feel the suspense of the it few weeks is now over and the time for action has come.

"The British Empire, which has been built up by the labors and courage of our forefathers, nas now been called by God for the defence of human liberty and justice. The guardianship of millions of possible victims of the remorseless ferocity latent In the hearts of a group of men, no matter what it may cost us as individuals or as a nation, is an inspiration to all full-blooded men and women to rise in the emergency. Cannot Stand Aside. "When we remember the brutal treatment of the Jews and of the Catholics and Protestants alike, and when we recall the brutal treatment of all who in the great fUiiwatJ IMlAtam "....4 WftM It was Labor Day week-end, thil last long holiday week-end Bombers Alone WARSAW. Sept.

3 Lieutenant Palusinski of the Polish air force was hailed in Warsaw today as an early hero of the war. Taking off in a combat plane. Palusinski attacked a squadron of 12 German bombers at 8:30 a.m. yesterday. He shot down one of the attacking planes after a ing dogfight witnessed by thousands of residents of Warsaw.

Several bullets fired by the other German planes struck Palusinski's plane, damaging its wings and wounding the Polish flier. Despite his wounds and the dangerous summer, Dut Canadians had nfl appetite for carefree holidayini Churches were crowded. Mil' lions sat beside radios from earli morning until late night. The; heard Mr. Chamberlain, the Kingl Premier Daladier, Mr.

Mackenzi I i King and his ministers explain thi i position of the Empire and Can intends to preserve neutrality, perhaps without a formal declaration, unless Russian activity forces further fighting. U.S. Envoy's Home In Poland Bombed Bv Nazi Raiders Associated Trent. WARSAW, Sept. 3.

The villa of United States Ambassador Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle. was bombed by German planes today during a raid which Polish officials said resulted in three 'fofffe-' Not Home at Time. Biddle nod members of his iiuusciliiiu w'ere noi "home during the raid. He reported the incident to President Roosevelt and informed him At vBiutiiei had been at a health resort far removed from military objectives. ada.

There was scant visible excitz-j ment perhaps only in those citie Jews. I where extra editions of newspaper, published and at recruitini sought to enlist. The lineups most recruitlns points were itetr inm. 1 arranged for the forging of steel against Hitler's actions, and also and take the consequences. Russia, Conventions Cancelled to the machining components plants; condition of his plane he made a successful landing from an altitude of about 2.500 feet.

Believe Exchange To Open As Usual Canadian Press. TORONTO, Sept. 3. Officials of the Toronto Stock Exchange i would make no forecast toaight regarding the bearing the British declaration would have on stock exchange operation. It was inti- mated, however, that the exchange would open as usual Tuesday morning.

There will, of course, be no session of the exchange tomorrow. Labor Day. Only in the event of a heavy selling rush at rapidly falling A Canadian Press survey indi cated scheduled Labor Oav snort programs generally would carried out. Several convention booked for the immediate futur were called off. The annual fall exhibition a of Commerce.

Miss Anne Baker. Gen. Weygand Commands French in DAMASCUS, Syria. Sept. 4.

Gci'S MuAiilic ItYygHMo was named commander-in-chief of the French forces in the eastern Mediterranean today as the territory was declared in a state of siege. Police handed over all their authority to the military forces. Egypt Severs Diplomatic Relations With Germany Canadian Press Cable via Havas. CAIRO, Sept. 4.

Egyptian Premier Ali Maher Pasha announced today that in conformity with the Anglo-Egyptian treaty, Egypt has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany. pendent thought, and the breaking of treaties the sardonic satisfaction with which might is trampling upon right, the strong crushing the weak, we cannot stand aside and allow the marrh of evil to advance. Our duty is now plain. "The recent visit of the King and Queen throughout Canada and In fart throughout the North American continent revealed to the opportunity to sweep over a damaged Europe and spread her god-1 less rule, must know that the Christian nations, whether in the war or not. are determined that the cause of lcligion and the Kingdom of God evoke a power In the i conscience of men which as in the past will break any advancing satanic force pledged to the over-1 throw of Christ." Ex-Service Men To Meet has very recently returned from at an important general meeting of all ex-service men whether members of the Legion or not at Trafalgar House tomorrow at 8 o'clock.

Matters of importance and any necessary instructions in connection with the present crisis will be given at this meeting. Hnmhinp Ships for France SAN PEDRO. Sept. 3. Loaded with 23 bombing planes destined for the French air ministry, the freighter Wyoming of the French Lines sailed today for Le Havre, France.

The shipbuilding branch bought and supervised the building of engines and boilers for ships, purchased timber and supplies for hulls and had an operating section that installed the equipment; The explosives branch operated three plants in Canada; The forging branch operated a plant at Toronto, in which steel turnings were melted in electric furnaces and the steel converted subsequently into forgings; The aviation branch produced airplanes, built airdromes. The Warsaw radio station broadcast an air raid warning and said the German planes dropped "something looking like candy" over Wilna. but added that it actually was poisonous Saint John, N.B., scheduled tm open Labor Day, was cancelled! Big opening ceremonies had beetl planned. Ten thousand persons were have attended the Internationa Hospital Congress in Toronto prices will prices be pegged, it is understood, in view of the gen- Germans Arc Lsing Gas starting Sept. 19.

This In Raid, Pole Charges has becn cancelled but the Canaf dian Hospital Congress and othe When a Feller Needs a Friend By Miss Clare Briggs eral resistance to selling pressure shown by the market following the invasion of Poland by Germany, brokers forecast the same display of confidence will follow the war declarations of today. Denounces Germany for Romhinu Polish Shrine Canadian via Havas. PARIS, Sept. 3 In a denunciation of Germany for the air bombing of Czestorhowa, religious shrine known as the "Lourdes of Poland." Jean Cardinal Verdier, archbishop of Paris, tonight predicted victory for France and her Allies over Germany Christ loves the Franks." the Archbishop declared, adding that Germany's "odious in bombing the shrine inflicted a grievous wound on Poland. hospital associations booked tr meet at the same time will proceec, as scheduled.

Annual convention of the Cana dian Good Roads Association a Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 3. The Polish ambessador to London tonight declared new German air attacks in all parts of Poland disclosed the civilian population was suffering, with the Germans using gas In their raids. Sicns Australia's War Declaration Quebec Sept. 12-14 was cancelled Highways Minister A.

S. Mar Mlllan of Nova Scotia announcer cancellation of the tnternationa tuna angling matches Sept. 6-9 of I Vacancies in R.C.A.F. The Department of National wiPeport. Defence announced over the week- A triP by 3" members of thi end that vacancies exist in the I Quebec Union of Municipalities t.t Royal Canadian Air Force forlHalifax and New York to start non-flying officers to be commis- next Friday has been called off.

sioned as signal officers. A unlver-! Annual meeting of the board: sity degree in engineering is a 01 General Synod of the Churcl necessary qualification. Applica-: 01 England in Canada, schedulec tion forms may be obtained from 10 he held in Vancouver this week the secretary, Department of Na- has been cancelled, tional Defence, Ottawa. Canadian via Reirtere MELBOURNE. Sept.

3. Governor-General Lord Gowrie signed Australia's declaration of war against Germany tonight. Earlier Prime Minister Robert Menzie announced that "Australia is at war." "Where Britain stands, stand the people of the Empire and of the British world." he added. Solemn Crowds In Downing Street Canadian LONDON. Sept.

3 Solemn rowds stood In Downing street today during the hours preceding Prime Minister Chamberlains an-Douncement of war. Soon after it became known that Oreat Britain had given an ultimatum tn Oermany with a time limit, the filled with persons gathered to see the roming and going ol ministers. Arthur Grernwood. acting leader of the opposition, talked wth Mr Dramatic Receipt By Canadian Press OnWarDeclaration TORONTO. Sept.

3 The greatest tory of this generation a new war In Europe unfolded swiftly, dramatically, and yet almost quietly at dawn today in the head office newsroom of The Canadian Press. Outside, the streets of downtown Toronto were gray and empty. In the brilliantly-lighted CP. headquarters it was an un-unsual Sunday morning a full stall of editors, alert for weeks for the momentous words from abroad, were waiting. waiting.

At o'clock. E.D.T.. the weary watchful overnight staff was joined by fresh men. Teletype circuits were set up rapidly to carry the morning's news Into every daily newspaper office In Canada. In nearly 90 newsrooms across the country were waiting editorial staffs, hunched over CP.

teletype machines. It was peaceful enough as the routine Job of preparation went on. then a jolt a bulletin timed at 6.15. Britain's ultimatum to Germany was unanswered at the 6 o'clock deadline. Men waited more tensciy.

Then it Came. Then it came at 618. Flash. LONDON Havas reports Chamberlain declaring Britain and Germany now at war. The Havas News Agency had pushed Its flash through tnr censorship first.

Then sursln -at 6.19: flash. LONDON Blitam declare i' war on Oermany The wires clocked out the nrw. Kross the country war! Denounces Injustice Of German Chance lor REGULAR MEALS In the early days 6t the North-West, farmers and homesteaders had a hard time. Said a homesteader to a storekeeper one day. "Gimme a slab of Nazi Seaman Held At Fort Kent, Me! FORT KENT.

Sept. 3 Im' Canadian Tresn via Havas. LILLE. France. Sept.

3 Achille Cardinal Licnart. Archbishop of Lille, today addressed a pastoral I bacon." XS0 EVXl TED -THIS 11 ELEANORS VERY FIRST GROwn-uP DATE li'll I Irttei to the faithful of the arch "Biggest slab you've got. I've eaten so many cottontails and jackrabbits that every time I hear a dog bark I run under the porch." migration officials reported tod a1 the arrest of a German seamai who, they said, told them he sertcd the German steamship Hn mann Sauber at Chatham, N.BW 1 last month because he dlsagrcef with the Hitler regime. 1 chocese. denouncing "the injustice for which the present leader of Germany makes himself responsible France, he said, would enter the war "strong in the righteousness of her cause and resolved to reduce to impotence the unjust aggressor." The man, who gave his name ft I Johannes S.

Kinder. 24, was picked up at Upper Frenchville, ot the Maine-New Brunswick border Officials quoted him as saying hi had escaped from an Edmundston N.H.. Jail. He was to be taken to Bangor Expect Caribou To Land At Boucherville Today Canadian Preas. Chamberlain tor nearly 30 minutes Shortly after his arrival the Libert opposition leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, went to No.

II Downing street, residence of Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon. Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hours went first with Captain David Margesson. chief government whip, to the latters offlce, and then to the Foreign Offlce. Pierce Vistula Dikes BERLIN, Sept. 3 -The Oerman official news agency, DNB.

announced tonight that the Poles had pirrred Vistula river dikes tn the region of Tzrew near the Dan- Land in Parachutes Behind Polish Lines Canadian Presa. WARSAW. Sept. 3. German parachute contingents have landed from warplanes behind the Polish lines in Silesia in an attempt to shatter telephone and telegraph lines and harry the Polish rear, the Polish radio announced tonight.

It was the first time such tactics have been used in actual warfare. Two other members of the ship'! crew, who also left the vessel a Chatham, were captured. Chick MONTREAL. Sept. 3.

Imperial Airways flying boat Caribou took I off from her base at Foynes. Ireland, at 1.35 p.m. E.D.T., today and started on her regular weekly Bight to Canada. The ship la expected to arrive at Boucher-ville. Que early tomorrow after- noon.

A 24-hour delay was made in the srheduled takeoff yesterday Immigration Inspector Roy imt Kent said, by Canadian MountcfV Police on the New Brunswick sid'JJ of the border as they attemotein" Ms border, flooding the lower lands ol the Vistula Valley to swim the 8t. John river to ente Maine..