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CAPTAIN ERIC SYDNEY BRAND
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Department of National
Defence
Quints To Live With Parents
Toronto, — Premier Hepburn made
public a letter he had sent Oliva
•’ Dionne in which he said the Ontario
Govermhent has “accepted in princ-
Nazis Sink Another U. S. Vessel
Washington, — The United States
State' Department announced that the
. American-owned steamship Montana,
flying the Panamanian flag, had been
•torpedoecj and sunk while ' enroute1 iple” the suggestions the father of the
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Government to Tighten Control
Ottawa—Canada’s entire food .and
clothing trades —- all dealers, manu
facturers, processors, wholesale and
retail distributors of food products,
clothipg and foot-wear, including all
restaurants and eating' places—are to
be placed under license before the
end of the year, the War Time Prices
and Trade Board announced. “This
plan will provide the machinery for
policing prices, for. securing informa
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the event of shortages arising from dis
located shipping and other war con
ditions or the necessity of curtailing
domestic consumption to meet emergl
eiicy demands from Great Britain o
the Allies,” -the board said in a state
ment.
Berlin Claims 22 Ships Sunk
Hitler's, military headquarters, of
fering with radio trumpet fanfare what
some quarters called an answer to
President Roosevelt, claimed 'One of
the heaviest submarine attacks on
British shipping in the history of sea
warfare, the high command claimed
that in a great sea action still under
way, 22 ships, aggregating 134,000
tons had been sunk from a British
. convoy of 40 somewhere in the North
1 Atlantic.
from United States to Iceland. All
26 members of the crew are believed
to have been saved. None was Amer
ican.
The sinking was reported to have
taken place the day of President
Roosevelt’s fateful speech when he
announced that the United States
Navy had been given orders to shoot
first at any Axis ships encountered
in any areas deemed defensive waters
of the United States.
Deat Pro-Axis Supporter Dies
New York, — The death of Marcel
Deat, pro-Axis French newspaper ed
itor, who was wounded by the same
man who shot Fierre Laval, was re
ported by the Berlin radio in a broad
cast heard here by NBC. Deat was
struck by two bullets fired by Paul
Collette, 29-year-old French assassin
posing as a volunteer in the French
legion recruited to fight Russia. Four
bullets hit Laval.
Mosher Again Heads Labor
Hamilton,. — A'. R. Mosher, of Ot
tawa, was re-elected president of Can
adian Congress of Labor at its annual
convention here?defeating Nigel Mor
gan, of Vancouver by 283 votes tol75.
They-’were the only candidates nomin
ated. , .
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
quintuplets made in a letter to Mr.
Hepburn on August 7, and which
reunite the five girls with the family
under one roof, A new home to house
all the Dionnes would be built as near
as possible to the present nursery and
"ways and means” be employed at once
to start building the home.
Mass ’Arrests to
Forestall Norway Riots
Stockholm, Sweden,’— The Germ
ans are resorting to- mass arrests in
an attempt to halt the spirit of revolt
racing across Norway and forestall a
threatened gigantic conflict within the
next few days, border ■'advices said.
Angered by repressive measurers to
block a general strike and the execu
tion of two labor leaders on Wednes
day, Norway’s 350,000 trade union
'members were said to be fanning op
position to the Quisling puppet regime.
“Everyone seems decided not to
submit to the Quisling mastery and
everything indicates a gigantic con
flict.
Canada Can Muster 1,000,000
Ottawa, — Canada can muster 1,000-
000 men for the armed forces and still
attain the necessary production in
farm and factory, Agriculture Minis
ter Gardiner said in a Reconsecration
Week speech on the national network
of the Canadian Broadcasting corpor
ation.
Japs Move To Policy Change
New^York, — The Japanese Goven-
ment, faced with the necessity of
making decisions that may fix the em
pire’s course for a generation, appar
ently 'moved energetically to place the
army under control and prevent mili
tary or other terroristic violence that
might deflect it from its chosen path.
Japan has given indications of a will
ingness to review drastically the whole
question of war or peace in .the Pacific.
Sweeping changes of policy may be
necessary.
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Strike Leader Warns Hepburn
Hamilton, — A statement that
Premier Mitchell Hepburn, of Ontario,
"better be careful where he goes —•. if
Mr. Hepburn wants to fight we know
how to give it to him’,” was heard
by many delegates to the Canadian
Congress of Labor, who “’remained at
their convention hall after the regular
session of the convention had adjourn
ed to hear striking employees of the'
Campbell Soup Company plant at New
Toronto speak„on the situation.
On the invitation of Premier Hep
burn, Southwestern Ontario tomato
growers went to Toronto to the Camp
bell Soup plant to process their own
tomatoes. A strike existed .at the
plant
Nazi Raider in Pacific
New York, — A German raider op
erating in the PPacific Ocean,, .about
1,000 miles west of the Panama Canal
has sunk the 7,322-ton Netherlands
motorship Kota Nopan and threatened
other vessels, shipping sources haid.
President Says Shoot First.t
Washington, — President Roose
velt announced .that lie has .given ord
ers to the navy to shoot' first when
Axis' submarines', surface raiders or
aircraft are encountered in those .a'reas
of the Atlantic Ocean which the Unit
ed Stafes deems necessary to its de
fence. "We have not sought a shooting
war with Hitler,”
in a
"But
much
it by
naval
are on legitimate business.”
The president did not define the de
fensive areas in which his sink-on-sight
orders would., apply but it was taken
for granted the protected waters would
extend as far as Iceland where Amer
ican troops are based, and take in a
wide sweep pivoting from Newfound
land, site of another United States
base, and include Greenland which is
under the protection of the United
States.
the president said
world-wide broadcast address,
neither do we want peace so
that we-are Willing to pay for
permitting him to attack o.ur
and merchant ships while they
Nazis Shoot Into Crowds
London, •— Riots have occurred in
Jlerlin, Cologne and Aix-la-Chapclle,
according to the Free Belgian news
agency, Inibel, which said that in Col
ogne troops opened fire on ripting
crowds. The agency gave no details of
the reported riots, but said it had
learned that they had taken place.
May Fbrm Woman Farm Units
Toronto, — An acute farm labor
shortage exists, in Ontario, Premier
Mitchell Hepburn said. To combat the
situation which, he said, is resulting
in farmers being forced to liquilate
their stocks, the Government may con
sider organizing women farm Units,
subsidizing of farm labor or greater
subsidies to farm produce.
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Captain
to come Ottawa. It’s )the only post
he has ever asked for. He is Director
Naval Intelligence and Trade in the
Department of National Defence, a
post usually filled by an officer of the
Royal Navy “lent” to the Canadian
Navy in the same way that R.C.N.
officers are often loaned to the R. N.
In peacetime, it’s one of the purpier
,plums of the service, but hardly had
Captain Brand settled down in his
CAPTAIN E. S. BRAND, R.N.
Director of .Naval Intelligence,
Department' of National Defence for
Naval Affairs.
—Photo by Karsh-, Ottawa
Ottawa office in July 1939 when war
broke out and it became a number
one hornet’s nest.
September' 1915 saw Brand a sub
lieutenant at 19 aboard a battleship
in the Horae .Fleet, patrolling the
North Sea. Early the next year he,
was sent up to Glasgow to “stand by”
during its completion and on it’s com-,
missioning to join the “Valiant”. In
the “Valiant” he was at Jutland on
May 31st, 1916, in'the first and only
battle of it’s kind in history. With .the
enormous number of ships engaged in
this unique action, only one airplane
was involved — a British recomiais-
■ sanee plane. As recognition of services
at Jutland' that fall, three years after
he went to sea as a midshipman, Brand
was promoted to lieutenant, went to
the Flagship of the Grand Fiee„t with
Admiral Jellicoe as Commander in
Chief.
It is a thrilling proposition then,
when you are officer of tlid watch,
leading the whole fleet'at sea With
the Admiral of the Fleet along., you
have virtually Headquarters of the
Navy aboard, which adds interest, even
though only captain's mess in the
Admiral’s cabin. It was a great anti
climax when in 1917 the Iron Duke
ceased to be fleet flagship and retreat
ed to the end of the line.
In November 1918, Brand was sent
to take a gunnery course at Ports
mouth, and the following February to
teach gunnery on the training
“Cumberland.” His next assignment
was gunnery lieutenant in the "Castor”
on a cleanup job in the Baltic follow
ing the war, calling at Danzig, Latvia
and Esthonia.
About this time Brand, deciding his
real interest lay in navigating and
handling ships, applied to qualify as
a navigating officer and was given
his opportunity. He qualified, went to
the Mediterranean as navigator of the
old aircraft carrier “Fegarus.” During
this commission the ship spent some
time in Turkish waters, taking part
in the "Chanak Crisis” of 1922-23. In
1927 he was first lieutenant on the
cruiser “Delhi” when it went at high
Speed to reinforce the China Station
while trouble was brewing. Later he
navigated the battle cruiser “RenoWn”
and .the battleship “Barham”, flagship
of Admiral Drax.
In 1929 Brand became a Younger
Brother of Trinity House, London,
and was promoted to Commander,
which in’those days only happened to
one out of every three and a half
lieutenants, Followed a series of re
sponsible pasts, instructor at the
Tactical .School and then at Naval
Staff College, He took a “weekend”
trip” to China as executive officer of
the “Vindictive” carrying out and
bringing home reliefs from the China
Station, then joined the “Nelson” as
Staff Officer (Operations) to the C.
M.C. of the Hom’e Fleet, first Sir
John Kelly and later Earl of Cork and
Orrery, He served as Executive Offic
er of the aircraft carrier “Courageous”
with a ship’s company of 1,400, in
cluding Air Force, Navy and all, with
48 planes aboard and a thousand
troubles a day.
In 1935 came the Abyssinian crisis,
and Brand sat off Alexandria while
Messrs. Eden and Baldwin dealt with
the situation. Continually since the
last upheaval, the Royal Navy has
gone through the motions of entering
a war that never came off, which per
haps accounts for its amazing per
formance when war actually came.
'Brand was “attached officer” at the
Royal Air Force Staff College, and
later commanded the instructional ex
perimental sloop “Saltiburn”. Then
cartie the critical years of 1937 and
1938 when he went to Rosyth as Chief
Staff Officer to the C.O. Coast of
Scotland, concerned with the problem
of Scottish Coast Defence. As Director
of Naval -Intelligence and Trade in
Ottawa today, Captain Brand has an
important post in a department that
has expanded manyfold” with ever in
creasing wartime activity.
PAGE THREE
short pamphlets and quite longish pub
lications, one of which deals with the
post-war reconstruction of Europe.
All these publications entail print
ing presses — probably concealed in
the woods of Poland — well over a
hundred editors and contrigutors, and
hundreds of thousands of readers. Ev
ery person involved risks his life, for
death is the penalty not only for work
ing on an illegal paper, but even for
reading it.
TIMELY HINTS ABOUT
GARDEN PERENNIALS
At this season of the year, if the
garden seems dull and uninteresting,
notes should be taken on any plants
that are blooming in the district so
that supplies of interesting varieties
can be obtained to plant in the border
next Spring, states Miss Isabella Pres
ton, Division qf Horticulture, Central
Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Some of
the most useful are Helenium or
Sneezeweed, a tall growing plant with
daisy-like flowers in large clusters.
The ray-florets are yellow or broivn
according .to the variety. Some variet
ies of Sunflower (Helianthus) also
bloom late b.ut those which spread
badly are not suitable for small bord
ers. The other yellow flowering plant
that is useful for Fall Flowers is the
Rudbeckia, Coneflowers, The Black
Eyed Susan of the fields is quite at
tractive and others are R. Newman!
and R. hirta. Another plant sometimes
called Rudbeckia and generally known
as Furpie Coneflower starts to bloom
in July but will continue flowering un
til September if the heads are remov
ed as soon as they fade.
For a position in front of the bord
er, Sedum spectabile, Showy Stone
crop is very useful. The light bluish-
green foliage is attractive all Summer
and the heads of pink flowers open in
late August.
False Dragon Head (Physostegia)
iias long spikes of pink flowers. The
variety “Vivid” has deeper flowers and,
a dwarfish habit of growth.
A plant, sometimes called Mallow-
Marvels (Hibiscus), which grows into^
a bushy plant about four feet tall with,
dark green foliage and hollyhock-like,
flowers, blooms late. It is not reliably
hardy at Ottawa and is grown as a.
biennial.
Most of the phlox bloom in July and!
August but two late flowering variet
ies are “Henderson’s Lake White” and!
“Viking” (pink).
Further information on perennials or
any other flower or vegetables will be-
given on application to the nearest Do
minion Experimental Farm.
The best way to get rid of your dut
ies is to discharge them.
Excursion tickets good in Tourist,
Parlor and Standard sleeping cars also
available oh payment' of slightly high
er passage fares, plus price of. parlor
'or sleeping cat accommodation.
ROUTES—Tickets good going via
Port Arthur, Ont, Chicago, Jit, or
Satilt Ste. Marie, returning via same
route and line only. Generous op
tional routings.’
STOPOVERS—will be allowed at any
point in Canada on the going or re
turn trip, or both, within final limit
of ticket, on application to Conduc
tor; also at Chicago, Ilk, Saulte Ste,
Marie, Mich., and west, in accord
ance with tariffs of United States
lines.
POLAND’SSECRET
PRESSES
By Czeslaw Poznaski
■ One of the first things the Nazis
suppressed in Poland was the Press.
i Pre-war Poland had 2,200 periodical
publications, among them 190 daily pa
pers. To-day, in German-occupied
Poland, there .are only sixteen publica
tions in the Polish language and they
are all published by the Nazis. But
alongside this Nazi controlled Press
there is a network of illegal publica
tions, a network amazing in its rich
ness.
The full .number of these illegal
publications is not known, but it is
probably not. less than twenty-eight,
and their range is exremely wide.
First of all there are the daily pap
ers; roneo-typed sheets which give the
foreign news on the basis of the BBC
broadcasts—one must remember that
the Poles had to surrender all their
wireless' sets — and inside informa
tion from Poland. ♦
Then come the weeklies, normally
printed. They contain precious inside
information from Poland, foreign news
and editorials. The standard of these
editorials is uusUally high. They deal
not only with the analysis of the pres
ent situation, but also with he con
struction of the future. A regular feat-
[ ttre of these weeklies is the analysis of
important articles in the British Press,
i Some of these papers are illustrated,
so that one may find in one of them,
say, a photograph of Winston Church
ill and General Sikorski inspecting the
Polish Army.
There exist also monthly and quart
erly reviews which contain synthetic
analyses of the war situation. These
reviews carry as many as tlurty-two
pages.
Special papers are produced for the
peasants, for the youth, for the child
ren. There is even a humorous paper,
With auti-Germatt cartoons and jokes.
And in the Warsaw ghetto there is a
Yiddish paper.
Scores of thousands of copies are
thus issued, and it can be asserted that
this illegal press reaches practically
the entire population. Proof of this
statement is provided by the fact that
the whole population obeyed the ord
er, conveyed by the papers on Sep
tember 1, 1940, to stay indoors during
the afternoon. It was also by means
of the papers that the Polish petty of
ficials were insructed, in order to av
oid repression, to take the oath de
manded by the German authorities.
Apart from these tegular publica
tions there are also occasional leaflets,
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