The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-03-27, Page 3Thursday, March 27 th, 1941
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in Berlin. Official emphasis was plac
ed on the “good will” character of the
fleet visits to Sydney and Auckland
but the unusual presence of 13 Ameri
can warships in the South Pacific co
incided significantly with the journey
of Osuke Mateuoka, Japanese foreign
minister, to Germany.
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Capture Mussolini’s Cousin
Athens — Capture of a cousin of
Mussolini and rep-ulse of two strong
Italian attacks supported by tanks
were announced by the Greek Govern
ment spokesman, Among the many
Italian officers captured during the re
cent operations was a cousin of Prem
ier Mussolini, Lt.-Col. Tuveri Ciglio,
commanding officer of the 53rd Batt
alion of the 26th-Legion of Blackshirts
the spokesman said.
Ask $35,000,000 for Wheat Plan
Ottawa —.A supplementary estim
ate to provide $35,000,000 for pay
ments on reductions in wheat acreage
under the Government’s 1941-42 wheat
policy, and for administration and tem
porary appointments required under
the policy^ was introduced in the
House of Commons,
Raids -Prepare for Attack
Berlin — German propaganda was
hard at work. While Nazi commenta
tors described the present heavy air
raids on Britain as a preparatory phase
of Nazi military action, a big news
paper banner-line told Germans of an
Italian-reported rumor that the first
shipload of United States armaments
to start for Britain since the passage
of the Lend-Lease Bill had been sunk.
The Bray Chick does the trick.
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your order here. No writing. No
bother* Call or phone,
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patrol boat reinforcements for Britain,
and at the same time studying an Ad
miralty request for the use of United
States yards to keep the present fleet
in fighting trim. The patrol ships —
mosquito boats, submarine chasers,
trawlers and converted yachts—would
represent the first instalment of naval
lease-lend assistance.
engine. Only Ford, at this price, is
powered with an eight. Eight cylin
ders for smoothness as in
America’s highest priced
cars. Gasoline economy, that
has outstripped all, compe
tition in its class, in one
official contest after another.
Long life and reliability that
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Ford prices are still lowest. Get
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and see what an attractive
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Yugoslavia Joins Aixis
Belgrade — The Yugoslav Crown
Council approved an agreement with
Germany, reported to provide sweep
ing co-operation with ..the Nazis but
exempting Pugoslarvia from the mili
tary clauses of the tri-partite agree
ment. Violent objections by Cabinet
members who predicted serious inter
nal disorders were reliably reported to
have arisen' from the Crown Counil’s
approval of a program described as a
passive but effective alliance with the
German Axis.
Agree on St. Lawrence Waterway
Plan
Ottawa—An immediate start on the
vast Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River
basin .pb'wer and navigation project
was agreed upon by Canada and the
United States as a joint wartime in
dustrial step. Official estimate of the
main power and navigation works to
be located in the International Rapids
section of the St. Lawrence was plac
ed . at $266,170,0001, but additional
works to be carried out and expendi
tures already made, including Canada’s
$132,000,000 for the Welland Canal,
are expected to bring total cost of the
whole project to approximately $500,-
000,000, shared.by the two countries.
U.S. War BiU Adopted
Washington — By a vote of 336 to
55, the House of Representatives ap
proved the $7,000,000,000 appropria
tion for help to Britain and sent it on
to the Senate where the leadership has
hopefully arranged for its quick pass
age.
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Mussolini’s Aide Killed in Albania
Belgrade, Yugoslavia' — Roberto
Farinacci, one of the 11 Cabinet mem
bers and close associates Mussolini
sent to the front to set an example of
Fascist valor for bis soldiers, has been
killed in hand-to-hand icombat in Al
bania, it was reported at the border.
He had been mentioned as a likely suc
cessor to Mussolini.
Took No Action
Toronto — The Toronto Board, of
Education considered charges made by
I. E. Davey, a Toronto school teach
er, that he had seen teachers of On
tario schools drinking at night, .and
decided to take no action. Davey
made his assertion in an address to
the Ontario Temperance Federation in
London, Ontario.
British Capture Oasis Giarabub
Cairo — Giarabub, hold-out oasis in
the desert of Eastern Libya,, has .been
captured from the Italians, British
general headquarters announced. The
garrison commander and 800 soldiers
were taken prisoners, it was announc
ed.
CUN DRILL ON ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER
Always on the alert for a possible encounter with enemy craft,
sailors of the Canadian Navy on duty at sea hold frequent gun drills.
Here Canadian tars aboard an armed merchant cruiser are shown dur
ing Lewis cun .Instruction*
Germans Deny Responsibility
For Starvation
London — The BBC quoted an of
ficial German spokesman in Berlin as
saying Germany does not feel herself
bound by any international law to pro
tect the conquered peoples of Europe
against want and starvation.
Escaped Prisoners Captured
, Ottawa — Internment officials .an
nounced that two German prisoners of
war who escaped from the prison
camp at Fort Henry, near Kingston,
Ont., had been apprehended by United
States authorities. The officials said
the prisoners—two German navy off
icers — had been caught before they
reached the American shore of the ice-
covered St. Lawrence River.
Only Three Ships Lost
An East Coast Canadian Port —- An
officer on a ship in a 38-vessel convoy
recently attacked by submarines on the
Atlantic Said he was "quite sure” only
three of the merchantmen had been
lost, instead of five as reported by a
Netherlands vessel captain in New
York.
300,000 British In Greece I
Heartened by President Roosevelt’s
pledge of aid to Britain "until total
victory has been won,” the directors
of Britain’s Balkan policy worked in
the Slst week of the war to build an
effective barrier to further. German ad
vances in Southeastern Europe. A Bri
tish army of 300,000 was reported re
liably to be in the course of debarka
tion at Gfeek ports.
U.S* Warships in South. Pacific
Washington —- United States naval
movements in Australian and New
Zealand waters appeared to be design
ed as a catitidn signal to Japan in con
nection with forthcoming Axis talks
Northland Logical Point for Invasion
Edmonton —- Leonard E. Drum
mond, secretary-manager of the Al
berta and North West Chamber of
Mines, said in a service club address
here that Canada’s northland would
be the “logical point” for Germany,
Russia or Japan to attack in any at
tempted invasion of this cowntry.
Expect Provincial Election in June
With both Liberals and Conserva
tives drawing battle limes for an early
provincial election, it was declared re
liably that word has been quietly pass-
around among some district ’leaders of
the Liberal party that voting will take
place in June. Premier Hepburn has
stated that there will be no immediate
election.
Italian Convoy Attacked
London — Three British submar
ines attacking Italian convoys sank
two heavily-laden supply vessels, “al
most certainly” destroyed another, and
scored hits on two crowded troop
transports, one of which "it is consid
ered certain was completely destroy
ed,” the Admiralty announced.
U.S. Patrol Boats for Britain
Washington —• The United States
navy was assembling a large flotilla of
Mrs. E. A. Vanstone
AGENT — WINGHAM
Britain and Turkey Have Like Views
Cairo — Britain and Turkey main
tain “complete identity of views,” it
was announced after a new conference
between Anthony Eden, foreign secre
tary of Great Britain, and Turkey’s
foreign minister, Sukru Saracoglu.
The two had conferred only recently
in Ankara.
May Let Food Ships Pass
British authorities have made no
final decision on the question of lift
ing the blockade to permit the entry
of United States wheat and other food
products into unoccupied France al
though Washington reports have indi
cated a willingness to ship the goods
if London agrees.
Opposition to Women on Juries
Toronto — Liberal back-benchers
in the Legislature turned their guns
on a Government measure to place
women on juries with such fury that
it is beginning to look as if Hon. Gor
don Conant, attorney-general, sponsor
of the. measure, may have to withdraw
this clause of his proposed amendment
to the Jurors Act
PERSONALITY PARADE
Colonel J. L. Ralston, Minister of
Defence, is a native of Nova Scotia,
and has a soft spot for those .who
come from his own province. There
is a good story of his recent visit ov
erseas, going the rounds in England.
When inspecting Canadian units sta
tioned in England, he invariably in
quired for any Nova Scotians. At one
Canadian military hospital he made
this inquiry, but there were none
there. Word was passed to another
hospital where Col. Ralston was going
to make a visit.
There, the C.O. who also had no
Nova Scotians, decided to “borrow” a
couple. They had hardly been installed
in one of the wards when the Minist
er arrived.
He was delighted. Going up to one
of them he said, "And how long have
you been here?” “About ten minutes?”
was the truthful but rather disconcert
ing reply.
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STRANGEST JOB IN THE
WORLD. There is a man in Britain’s
capital who has one of the queerest
jobs in the world. He supplies dinners
for goldfish!
He has a large number of custom
ers, among whom arc the Princesses
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. It took
him many years of study and hat’d
work to become an expert.
And what do you think Ins goldfish ■
“food” consists of? A special type of
flea, carried in a container of special
solution. Truly, it takes all kinds of
people to make a world!
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, IS “SEA DEVIL” PROWLING
AGAIN? Is tile ’’Sea. Devil”, as Count
Felix von Luckner was called, again
prowling the seas, preying on our
Shipping? Stories from the Pacific
seem to bear out this belief,
Count von Huebner first gained
fame in 19X6. Given the command Qi
an ex-American-owned clipper, he
made his crew learn Norwegian, had
bis 16-year-oid cabin boy disguised as
his wife.” Then the ship, now a "Nor
wegian,” set sail.
The boat sneaked through the first
line of British blockage warships in a <
great storm. Just when the captain
thought he was safely through the
whole blockade, a cruiser appeared,
and he had to stop,
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APOLOGISES TO "WIFE.” As
the search party was going aboard, a
gramophone on deck blared out, "It’s
a long way to Tipperary,” And when
the officer entered von Buckner’s cab
in to inspect the ship’s* faked papers,
and saw the captain’s “wife”, he ap
ologised for intruding and quickly gave
the ship its clearance.
Fourteen Allied vessels were sunk
by the marauding "Seeadler” before
she herself foundered in a tidal wave,
and after dodging about small Pacific
islands to evade capture by British
searchers, the captain was laid by the
heels and interned for the rest of the
war,
$
ONCE IN SALVATION ARMY.
The "Sea Devil,” who boasted that not
one of the victims of his sinking lost
his life, ran away to sea when he was
13, and for some years earned a pre
carious living as beachcomber, dish
washer, wrestler, prizefighter, light
house keeper and kangaroo-hunter.
His father had wanted him to join
the Army, but the nearest von Luck
ner ever got to army life was when he
joined the Salvation Army in Austral
ia! Finally, in 1912, he joined 'the Ger
man Navy, where the Kaiser soon took
an interest in him,
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SIDELIGHTS ON
____THE WAR
Twenty-one years ago the town of
Stanley, in Durham county, England,
collected $1400 for a memorial of the
1914-18 war — but couldn’t decide
what .type of memorial to erect. They
have just voted unanimously to turn
over the money to the Spitfire Fund,
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Apparently German anti-aircraft
marksmanship is not regarded highly
by the Dutch. It is said that an Eng
lish barrage-balloon floating majestic
ally over Holland was shot at by Ger
man anti-aircraft guns, but not hit.
Then a squadron of German fighters
took off to shoot it down. They fail
ed. "And what happened to the bal
loon?” a Dutchman was asked. He re
plied, “It burst from laughing.”
Typical of the times is this adver
tisement which appeared recently in a
Bedfordshire, Eng. paper: “For sale,
2,000 long-handled shovels suitable for
dealing with incendiary bombs, or
would make very effective weapons of
self-defence in event of invasion.”
* * * *
A German officer at Flushing asked
a boy whose was the statue near the
mole of the harbor. The boy, a stutt
erer, replied, "It is m-m-meant for Ad
miral De Ruyter, who d-d-defeated the
English.” The German officer, sus
pecting a joke on him, mimicked the
boy sarcastically, “S-s-so, is that Ad-
m-m-mital d-d-de Ruyter?” Where
upon the boy i eplied, "You’d b-b-bet-
ter imitate him and n-n-not me!”
* * * *
A Dutch correspondent has just
smuggled some stories to an English
paper, showing how the people of oc
cupied Holland think of the Germans.
BRAIN-TEASERS
1. Why is the Bren gun so called?
2. Have the Swiss a language of
their own?
3. Where is Britain’s oldest ship
building yard? — (a) Clydebank; (b)
Greenock; (c) Newcastle-on-Tyne;
(d) London; (e) Belfast.
4. With what countries were these
natorius outlaws associated? — (a)
Dick Turpin; (b) Jesse James; (c)
Ned Kelly; (d) Rob Roy; (e) Robin
Hood; (f) Claude Duval?
5. Which of the following is the
largest dog in the world? — A Red
Setter, a Dachshund, a Sheepdog, an.
Irish Wolfhound, a Schnauzer, a Great
Dane?
6. 'If you cry easily at sad scenes on
the movies, you are said to be'— jo
cose, Bibulous, Bellicose, Lachrymose
or Facetious?
Try and answer these questions be
fore turning to correct answers on
Page Six.
ftnjy't well and honestly done, is a
contribution io victory.”
( Thu Prime Minister of Canada.
"EVERYWHERE I GO...'
We know a man who travels across
Canada several times a year. He meets
and talks with literally hundreds of
people of all classes.
« / ,nore Pcople I meet,” says he,
the clearer it becomes to me that folks
in the main want to be kind and help,
riu. They re a pretty decent lot.
1 for TnnfaiI1'ng courtesy and
helpfulness I would pick the incn
and women in tlio telephone service.
Ivo yet to find one I wouldn’t turn to
with perfect confidence in an cmcr.
gency. They seem to put courtesy first
every time. That ‘voiccwith-the-smile*
phrase is a matter of actual practice—
not just a phrase.”
A”/5 10 ^lcar nnyone talk
like that. It makes us try all the harder
to deserve such
praise, especial*
ly when tele
phone service
is so vital to tho
nation at war*