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land in Britain,
Britain Arrests Japs
London — The arrest of a number
of Japanese subjects in the British
Empire was confirmed in authoritative
, quarters. These quarters stated that
the arrests were made under the de
fence of the realm regulations and in
no sense were “reprisals” for the
rest of British subjects in Japan.
ar-
Detroit Probes Alien-Smuggling
Detroit — Immigration officers
ceived orders to find out whether an
“underground railway” has been oper
ating across the Detroit River for al
iens fleeing to the United States from
the European war zone.
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Rumania Starts Talks
Bucharest — Rumania will open
territorial concession talks with Bul
garia Wednesday when Ivan Popoff
and Dobri Bojiloff, Bulgarian foreign
and finance ministers, arrive here, in
formed diplomatic sources said. Con
versations with Hungary on her de
manded return of the Province of
Transylvania are expected to follow,
Beaverbrook in War Cabinet
London—Prime Minister Churchill
has invited Lord Beaverbrook,'Canad
ian-born (publisher and dynamic min
ister of aircraft production, to join the
War Cabinet. The elevtion of the
publisher was in appreciation of his
amazing work in stepping up Britain’s
output of planes since he was appoint
ed to the aircraft ministry May 14tli.
During the last- war Lord Beaver
brook, who was born at Maple, Ont.,
61 years ago, served as minister of
Information in 1918. In 1916 he re
presented the Dominion Government
at the front and in 1917 was officer in
charge of Canadian war records.
Windsor Will Not Visit U.S.
Washington — Diplomatic circles
heard that the Duke of Windsor, en
route to this hemisphere aboard the
American liner Excalibur, definitely
would not come to the United States
but would disembark at Bermuda.
This was learned shortly after the
maritime commission said it had
granted permission to the Excalibru
■to stop at Bermuda on its voyage
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as
from Lisbon, Portugal. The duk'e
en route to take over his duties
governor of the Bahama Islands,
Britain Buys Canadian Wheat
Ottawa — Trade (Minister MacKin
non confirmed London reports of the
sale of 100,000,000 gushels of Canad
ian wheat to the British food ministry.
The minister said the price was “con
siderably above the market level.”
Second Division In England-
A Northern British Port — A fur
ther contingent of the Canadian Act
ive Service ’Force—the largest yet to
cross the Atlantic — sun-tanned, ex
uberant and eager for action, was safe
in Britain after ran uneventful voyage
under escort of the Royal Navy. They
came from every province in the Do
minion and represented every branch
of ground combat duty. This is the
Sth contingent of Canadian soldiers to
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Britain Strengthens Herself
Lwdon —* Great Britain has so
strengthened herself against invasion
that she was preparing elaborately for
an "offensive defence.” This entailed
removal of barriers once counted on
to slow an enemy but now cast out as
handicaps to her own troops’ mobil
ity. An order by the new commander
in chief, General Sir Alan Brook?, to
remove many of the steel and .con
crete traps and road blocks studding
roadways throughout England an
nounced this shift of strategy,
Windsor Has Curfew
Windsor — A nine o’clock curfew
for children on the streets of Wind
sor was put into effect and got off to
a successful start,- Sgt. Bert. Hawk
worth reported he had to tell some
children to go home because of the
curfew and the youngsters went after
a little argument, saying “The bell
hasn’t rung yet.”
London District to Train 3,000
at a Time
30,000 men will be trained in Mill-
tary District No. 1 with headquarters
in London, during 10 periods of 30
days each being planned under the
compulsory military training scheme.
This district will have three training
centres which,, will handle a total of
3,000 men during each 30-day train
ing period. This will require a staff
of 546 for administration and instruc
tion. The London district will have
12 companies organized when the
compulsory training goes into force.
Ottawa announced that 30 training
centres would be established in Can
ada which will drill 29.750 Canadians
every 30-day period.
House Passes Unemployment
Insurance
Ottawa — The House of Commons
without division concurred in amend
ments made by the Senate to the un
employment insurance bill. The mea
sure is now ready to receive royal as
sent and thus become law. Organiza
tion of the machinery to be set up un
der the act may then be proceeded
with but the act provides that no con
tributions to be paid iby employers and
workers shall be. made until due notice
has been published in The Canada Ga-
‘zette.
Japan Reaches ’Beyond Indies
Tokyo — The ’‘Greater East Asia”
seen by the Kunoye Government as
Japan’s sphere cifdomination “definite
ly includes other places in the south
seas in addition to the East Indies,”
Yakichiro* Burna, th e foreign office
spdkesmansaid. "Suma declined ’ to
specify whether the term included the
Philippine Idlands.
Give British Time Tor Repairs
Rio De Janeiro — The 22,209-ton
British armed -merchant cruiser Al-
cantaraput in at "Vianna Island naval
shipyard to-repair damage suffered in
a short battle ’in which she forced a
Nazi raider to 'flee. Her chief officer
said the engagement was fought out
side the so-caTled American neutrality
belt—and not inside -as previously re
ported. He said 'the raider fled rather
than close in for 'combat.
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Germans Drop 1/eaflets
London — Striking at Britain for
the first time with .leaflets instead of
bombs, Nazi air ,r,aiders showered a
southeastern port with thousands of
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Bad Train Wreck at Akron
Akron, Ohio — A head-on collision
on the Pennsylvania Railroad carried
41 persons to flaming death. A gaso
line-propelled motor coach, shuttling
from Hudson, Ohio, to Akron, crash
ed into a double-engined freight train
of 73 cars. The motor coach, pushed
back 200 yards along the track, burst
into flames. Every passenger on the
coach died.
To Call Single Men 21 to 35
Ottawa — It is not expected
tied men will be called up for
tary training under tthe National Re
sources Mobilization Act before the
end of next year, according to infor
mation here. Speaking in the House
of Commons this week War Services
Minister Gardiher said single men be
tween the age of 21 and 35 would pro
bably meet the requirements of the
department of national defence in the
first year.
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Fascist sources ift Switzerland claim
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Minister of National War Services
concentrating .along 800 miles of .the
continental coast, but still the most
authoritative word heard was that ‘ihe
German atempt to cross the 'Channel
against Britain would not be attempt
ed at once.
Britain Extends Blockade
Land'OiJi — Britain ordered a block
ade extending from the Arctic to
North Africa, an order-in-cattncil giv
ing effect to the policy .'announced in
the House of Commons by Hugh Dal
ton, mim-ster -of economic warfare.
COLONIES GIVE
FREELY TO HELP
BRITAIN WIN
“As the first stick (ie.e. weapon)
from Basutoland is now being sent, I,
Seiso Griffith, Paramount Chief of
Basutoland, on behalf of the chiefs,
sub-chiefs and Basuto nation desire to
reiterate our expression of unswerv
ing loyalty to His Majesty the King
and his Government, and to express
the hope that our small contribution,
Which is made with sincerity and is
entirely voluntary, may be of assist
ance in this great struggle in which
the British Empire is engaged against
Germany. His Majesty’s Government
is justly fighting
will be with us.”
And with this
the Basuto chief
proximately $25,000 from his native
community.
The gift was typical of the spirit of
encouragement and assistance that
courses through the great colonial
empire, Cash sums exceeding in all
three millions sterling have been sent
to Great Britain. But the Story does
not end there. Gifts have been made
in war material, foodstuffs, even cat
tle.
So far, nine motor ambulances, cost
ing over £500 apiece, have been giv
en to the British Red Cross by peo
ple in the Colonics. Two of them were
given by the Chinese community tn
Trinidad, two by Toe H in Bermuda,
two more by the Gold Coast and
three, specially for the R.A.F., by
Hindus in Salisbury, S. Rhodesia,
* The people of Mattritus have, in ad-
£14,000, imposed a special duty oh
ditioh to their cash contribution of
their sugar exports to provide the
funds for a warplane for Britain.
Children of Jamaica saved up thein
pocket-money and sent £100, all in
pennies, as a birthday present to Frin-
this war and God
inspiring message,
sent a .gift of ap-
! -cess Elizabeth for her favoruite war
; .charity.
The island of Grenada made a gift
of 80,000 lbs. of cocoa for the fighting
forces, and Trinidad is sending grape
fruiut for the same purpose. In Ja
maica they are planning gifts of rum,
preserves, cigars and citrus fruits for
the Allied Armies.
Bermuda will be <■ sending all her
surplus potato crop free to the Moth
er Country. Recently Bermudians sent
one of the strangest, though by no
means least acceptable, war gifts —
1,500 tons of scrap metal collected in
the Colony.
In the shipyards of Hong Kong
work has already commenced on the
two minesweepers and four harbour,
defence craft for the Navy, and the
two ferry tenders for the Army, which
are to be an extra gift from all class
es in the Colony.
Among war gifts from the Gold
Coast and Nigeria have been 40 head
loads of foodstuffs for the serving
forces and contributions of money
down to as little as 3d. a month.
’In East Africa native chiefs have
given rice, maize, beans and potatoes,
specially grown on a communal basis
as a war contribution from their
tribes.
One chief contributed 94 head of
cattle and another 100 bulls. This was
in accordance with the age-old Afric
an custom of supplying the fighting
men with meat. But, in this war mon
ey is more needed that meat, so, with
the Chiefs’ approval, the cattle were
sold. The 100 bulls realised £300.
In South Rhodesia, one old African,
a cousin of the late King Lobengula,
drove up his whole herd of 60 cattle
to the District Commissioner’s office
and stated they were to be sent to
“George” meaning King George, to
help pay for the war,
difficulty persuaded to
modest sacrifice.
Others sent gifts of
leading East African sent £2. He had
just been reading in “Mein Kampf”
that it was ..a crime to educate Afri
cans.
suiuicide. Her skin is very sensitive.
She has mental disturbances and a
change in personality. Her acquaint
ances and friends agree that “she is
not the woman she was.”
Tuberculosis, neurasthenia and vari
ous other affections had been sus
pected. A skin test -gave no positive
results. Finally a recent blood test
was positive for undulanit fever.
Undulant fever .is commonly acquir
ed from drinking the raw milk of cows
affected with contagious abortion.
This disorder is fairly common among
Canadian herds. In some cases work
ers in laboratories become infected
and in most cases recovery is slow.
In Malta the disease is one of goats
and is called Malta fever.
In cases of continued low fever for
which no satisfactory cause can be
found, the physician should think of
chronic undulant fever. The modern
treatment for this disorder is the use
of Brucella vaccines, and. the produc
tion of artificial fever by means of in-i
jections of typhoid-paratyphoid vac
cine or preferably by physical means.
There is little evidence that the use
of sulfanilamide produces any lasting
effect.
Under
physician
measures
patients recover in the course of a
few weeks or months.
In the case referred to above, im
provement under careful treatment for
six months is showing effect, after a
proper diagnosis was made.
The only reliable preventive is the
use of pasteurized milk.
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CHRONIC UNDU
LANT FEVER
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age, has for 3 years complained of
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“ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN
’ w his duty for his country, hero, is a 15-year-old lad named
Fiske who takes great pride in showing King George his handiwork
during the visit by ihe King to a royal ordnance factory, The youth
is one of the youngest workers in the factory, and very likely one of
the youngest factory workers in all 6i England. He works in the bullet*
making shop,