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mTAWA. Feb. i2-fGP-De- fence headquarters said today March 20 has been c’h sen as the “earlitst fcanble date" for opening of 111,. ft h cccnpulsory military raining p d under the Natural Eesotlfcfs lvfcbilization Act, period tr four months‘ drust-ion.

Previously, Prime Minister Mao- kenzlg King ‘said March 15 wou.d be the opening date, but dctpart- mem cffi als euuplrasmed that the t-bgg jgl)" preparing fcr the revised training program schedule prevent- ed an earlier" oprnitrg.

A spfk smart at National Defence Headquarter"; said a PlTclamPllm aniioi cm; c mpleto details of the iritg training period will be

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CALGARY, Feb. 12 -(CP)-— Ot- to Grueuttlil curl Waldermar Brag- gertiiatizi. two Gcrnrans w o e cap- eil fi-cm a prairie lnterum t catnp. were l'i‘l'itlt.lll‘ i by Royal Canad- ian fffouulctl Police anti military posses sou-invest of Calgary this tin-moon.

The euly information available at R. C. M. P. ltcaclquarters here was that the urn hart been captured. The men will be brought to Cul- c. l hell in RCMP. barracks lb 1g an investigation.

The two prisoners of war dis- lllirarezi tram a working party near the crmp late yesterday: A ecret lllfln of upcrlliiofi to intercept cs- "bfd TllCYS was instituted at once . officials were confident tram 1h.‘ illlwi they would recap-titre tlze mtu quiz-

Fctii" d». s escaped prev’ iriiu tl.t- t p but all wcrc r p iu" am are serving penitentiary of two years each.

yd 20 and weighing ltaijrnar" Gcrhand Arthur llilll \ s described as five s in height. weigh- . ngc not known. ._n \\.s formcrfy a sailor. liilc English, khllc Grun- - s a farm iubzue . speaking

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CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 12.—(AP)-- British reinforcements were movink down the northern coastal plain of the Italian East African colony of ikbrlta-ea. today for an assault on the

esleized rail centre of Cheren.

Forces advancing southward from the Ankh-Egyptian Sudan now are well past the captured Red Sea. port of Mcrsa Taclai and are within 130 miles of Mossauc. chief Eritrean seaport. The Middle East command announced these captured f-‘Ytzctta. inland town 25 miles southwest of Mersa Taoltri and 30 miles south of the Sudan boarder.

Operations of Scottish and. Indian forces already beslcffirle Cheren. 42 miles northwest ul Asmara. the carr- itol. are developing well. today's war bulletin said. whllc a second column below Chercn "penetrated still far- ther" into hostile territory.”

This may mean the ‘otter forces. which have taken 80 Italian guns. are closer: to Asmara than those in thr- Cheren sector.

The British air weapon in the Middle East delivered its heaviest smash at the German dive bomber nests on Sicily-at Cntanla and Cr.- rniso. For five hours bombers arriv- ed over" their targets at air-arvuls of 20 minutes rtulpaditrg fire and ‘mch exp nsive bombs.

Fires were sccn 60 miles away,

At least four planes were destroy- ed on the around at Gatania and a hangar blasted to bits at Coruiso, 111a British aircraft returned safely.

The RAF. previously had an-

troops yesterday

nounced British land forces had found 86 uvscrvlceabe Italian and

Friday.

Hanson returns To Ottawa

OTTAWA, Feb. 12 —(CP) ——Pi'c- pare-d to leirrl a vzgurous campaign when Parliflnrcnt (gens Monday to kecp ordinary nail . expenurturcs

o the minimum. tr rvativc lead- cr" liauisuti was hark in his office on Parliament Hill today.

“The e l-llllflifir. \\‘iii ilkviy be down Monday." he said. "and I under- stand all (leparrmcnls not. engaged in war work lime been firrcocl to cut their estimates 10 pct" ccrrt. WE shall see how fur the government has gone in this direction but our opinion is that any expenditures not. connected with the war" should be cut rirhlcssly."

Asked whether ihi ntennt he would urge postponement of taking the cctreus he replied he did not wish to Cfrntnlt, himself on that un- fil he spoke in Parliament.

War—25 Years Ago Today

(By The (‘unrdlan Press)

FEB. l3. 10l6~Frctrcir repulsed G-zrnran attacks frim Ncuvrlle to La Folio. Bulgtiranl captwcd Elbasanl. Albania. Russians in the Caurasus took town of Khcpy in drive on Ermmiu. .

HGTIOUBT

Britain calls 19-year olds

LONDON. Feb ll-(CPI-Britain announced todav youths i9 veers old

wi‘! cnllerl for military service almost lmmedla tclv. In the House of Lords. lord

Moyne. aovernmcnt leader and col- onial secretary, disclosed the immin- ent call-up for lll-vaar-olds. Old; sters of 37 to 40 will he summon \l soon afterward. he said. to swell the 4.000.000 mcn ‘Britain already has under arms for the defensive-and offensive-combatants to come.

‘Phase. along with lb-vear-olds. were registered Jan; 29. but it was indicated cm- votmtzcst class would be the last. called up.

Men mm 20 to so who are flt fer military service and whose skills ore not mere useful in other war work. have been enrolled in successive stares for military trnlntnc. Dcvetelled wit-h the call upon manpower were plans. nearly com- plete. for the mzlstratlon of women to be drafted into munitions factor- ies and other services to replace men

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crraatofrrairowiv, CANADA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1941

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Driving a lorry laden with gaso- iina through a London air raid was the act of heroism fnr which Miss Gillian Tanner, ABOVE, was awarded the George Medal for bravery.

Ontario body Seeks compulsory Tuber inspection

TORONTO, Feb. 12 —(CP> —Tl1e Ontario Crop Irrrprovemcirt As oclu- tion today trrgoei the Ontario gov- ernment to licence all Ontario po- tato dealers and establish courpul- sory inspection of all table-stock polatocs moving "from certain pro- ducing areas into largo consuming centres" a; designated by the Min- isior of Agriculture.

A resolution to this effect, pass- ed at the organizations annual meeting here said that market's in large consuming ccnirs: or the pm. vince had refused to n,.'::\pl Omar. lo potatoes and hud turned to po- tatoes from the Maritimes so that GPQWBI‘ with good stock could not. find a sale for their" produce.

This situation had been created. the resolution said, by large (lcliypf- 195 0f l100l'l.\'~¢'t'a(ied anrl inferior stock being thrown on the market "CRUSH-Kr serious loss " and inu-cir dissati faction to (listributors and cortsumcrs." PRWJUL lfgislaiinn has not prov- en a satisfactory lilCtilO’i of stop_ ping the sale of poorl trrrlo potatoes, it ‘. time irciwtcv wh“ the Otrfinrin 111,, wore shippvci under lion.

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"t The resolution mid tinder pfpq- cntrcrgitlitilfrns imports front fiv- Unrtccl Slates are restricted only from Jttre i5 lo Julv 3i ea"h "roar, ‘"1113’ I1 illlil‘ of 371-2 certts r. ‘nun- drvdivcight. is lmrtiscd n";i Cilllflfi- iarr exports to the (lulled Strves. It said a ouota of 1.5011 0P0 pounds is set. on ‘he Canadian evuoris and if

thi is o." Ted in any one vent‘ the clutv ral<crl lo GO cunts a hurfreutrcirtlrt frcm Dec. 1 Merch Ill.

O'I"I‘4‘.\VA Feb. Ln-(CP) — Im- Dortatirn of bananas from COUIHYltS outside tlrc sterling area. ercrut im- dcr special ncrnril. was prohibited tonight under an 0l‘(.'(‘l'~lll—f‘flllllf‘il

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Second Night

LONDON. Feb. l2.—(CP) —Han- over, in northwest Germany. for the second consecutive night bore the brunt of Britain's air offensive on Tuesday night. ‘ __'_

Despite bad weather. the Air Min- istry said. "fuel was addedtoflanrs kindled on the previous night." at Hanover: fires were caused at Bre- men. Germany; oll installations were blown up at Rotterdam. the Netherlands; shipping was attacked at Kristiansand. Norway: and seaplane base was raided at This- ted. Denmark. on the Jutland Den- lnsula.

A daylight sweep over France in which but few German uu- nenie were encountered preceded these nlizht forays. the Air Ministry said.

The Germans lobbed four shells across the 22-mile English Channel into the Dover area today. wrecking two houses and shatterlnsz windows with steel harrments.

Iioirdon had two air raid alarms.

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no daylight bombing was reported. A German bomber crashed into a wood in east Scotland. klllinl its crew of five and scattering its iuad o! bombs. which failed to explode. ‘Ihe Air Ministry disclosed that two enemy bombers were shot down

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BANANA IMPORTS RESTRICTED that

‘soo,ooo llazi Troops ready in Rumania

Reports Heard Force

Of Bulgaria.

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Feb. 12 -(APJ—German were re- ported by military observers to stand nearly 600,000 strong in Ru- manla tonight-and the ice which formed the last natural obstacle to a Nazi crossing into Bulgaria was fast vanishing from the Dan- ube under premature spring warmth.

This enormous increase in accepted estimate of German strength in Rumania was based upon new information that, sup- plcnrenting the 200.000 men sent into the country by the end of De- cember, the German command re- cently has dispatched 25 divisions, requiring movement of an average of 40 trains a day through Hun- gary.

From Ruse. the Bulgarian port on the Danube facing Romania, it was reported that the river" ls ice free, and German bridge pontoon! are being placed along the Ruman-

ian bank.

These were among the incidents reported here, in diplomatic or othcr advices:-

Groups of German transport Planes. presumably those which

flew over Hungary yesterday, land- ed at Bulgarian airports, the offi- cial Sofia explanation being that they merely formed art of a. con- signment which Bu garia bought and paid for.

The United States legation in Bircharest, which is looking after relations with Rumania, posted tsrgns on British buildings, in Eng- lhslt. Rurrrunian, German, Russian anclnulgarian, which read:-

“lhis property is protected by ‘the United States Government."

Disgittcircs from Sofia. published ‘in various pro-Axis cities in the -B_a'.=.:urs, announced that Bulgaria lflears England‘ is about to violate ‘her neutrality, thus drgaglng Bul- garia. into tl Concern was

"rc war." expressed that Royal Air ‘Force planes might fly over Bul aria to ‘not at the Romanian oll felds.

y British quarters in Belgrade ‘learned that Bulgaria's army is massed almost in its entirety on the Turkish frontier and that the pulsars plan to prevent Britain's ._lliil95. the Turks. from intervening if thc_ Germans march through ‘Bulgaria to assault the Greeks,

.,_lWillltie ha; ‘liiigh praise

‘lFor Churchill

NEW YORK. Feb. 12—-(AP)-— Wcutlell L. Willkie tonight called

‘Winston Churchill. Britain's Prime g1

‘aflnister. the "greatest public fig- ‘frrc in the world."

He said in his first address since returning from his fact-finding ‘tour cf England and Eire that he had “the pleasure of spending a week-end" with Churchill.

Willkie. 1940 Republican presi- dential candidate, addressed a ‘gai-heritig or 2.200 persons celebrat- ing Lincoln's birthday at the Wal- clorf-Astorla Hotel under the aus- piccs of the National Republican

Club.

Willkle said in an exbemporan- eous, nationally broadcast speech ‘ Mm Churchill had explained lto him the British method of re- taining in ubllc office the de- feated cand dates.

Willkie added. with a laughJhat he had told Mr. Churchill that in the United States there was a con- vcltient. tneihod of etting rid of lsuch persons and sa d further that '.he wasnt certain but that. was best. Referring to the birth of the Re- publican party. he declared that "we ‘were founded to preserve free- d

om. "And if we will but r that, we cannot fall. But if we be- come like the Whig Party-mere- the party of trcgatlon, merely the pary of opposition, merely those who find fault and who. in criscs of history, find nothing nob- ler to do than compromise. this great party will pass from the scene.

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On Sicily blasts 4 planes, hangar

CAIRO. bay t, Ibb. ii —(AP) - A five-hour ra d on alrflelds on the Italian island of Sicily was an- nounced today in a Royal Alr Force comm Que reporting last night's actions. Four grounded planes were destroyed and s hangar directly

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of supply across the Atlantic from the chances of losses from German

region of Iceland, whence it may

More active help from America ls urgently trcedcd by Britain, The

few weeks. One of the molt important tasks is to keep open the route

Brest and Bordeaux, the British route [or convoys may he 511mm mflro northerly past Newfoundland until it nears the Greenland, beyond which it may run almost due eastward to the

west coast oi‘ Scotland to Liverpool. The ticked iinc on the map Shows roughly the convoy route that may be used across the Atlantic and the reason for taking it. The curved lines show the distance of 500, 1.000 and 1,500 miles from Bordeaux. nice cruising drstunce for enemy submarines.

well as the United States. ‘lms nerve to give the maximum help on land and sen during the next

Amrrloa to Britain. To cut dflwn and Italian submarines based on

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Concessions Offered in Lease-lend Bill

Would Give Congress Firmer Financial Control.

(By Richard L. Turner, Associat- ed Press Staff Writer)

WASHINGTON. Feb. l2—(AP) “Seeking more yotcs for the lease- lend bill. administration leaders m the United states Senate today offered opponents a surprise con- cession which. they 501d. WW1“

give Congress firmer" financial control over the flld-f-O-Bfltflll program.

In essence their Proposal. ap- proved late in the day by a Sen- ate Foreign Relations subcommit- tee. would require that the Presi- clcrii- obtain both “authorlautioud and "‘approp1"ialions' from‘ Con- ‘ ‘ass. Senator Alben Barkley of lKentucky. Democratic leader. ex- lplained that first the President ‘could ask for authority to enter .irrto contracts for the manufacture of supplies and their delivery to iBritaln. Later he would have to ask special appropriations. listing the number and kinds of equip-

miriiié modification, its backers said, would remove any basis for charges that the lease-lend bill rt.- -.self was u "blank cheque" to the Tresldent to spend unlimited ‘amounts in supplying war material ‘to countries whose defence he ides-ms vital to defence of the Uni- es. teclgofiiiiicnvir. meanwhile, the" was a sharp repcrcuwion from Wendell L. Willkiels proposal that "five or l0 destroyers be transferred to Britain ouch month. Col. Frank 'Knox. Secretary" of the Unitcdl ‘Slates travy. told reporters the} lnavy could "spare no more tic-i stroycrs" and still maintain a "bal- lanced flee-t." He said his position was "against depleting our navy “further.”

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Women, Ohildren To be sent home

MANILA. Feb. l2 —(AP) — Be- tween 300 and 400 wives and chi‘.- dren of United States army officers will leave soon on army transports for the United States.

Reliable quarters said the evacu- ation plan came as a surprise but senior army men said unofficially" the decision was made merely m

order to make use of available transportation. Many army officers will be leav-

ing the Fhtllippines July l. on requ- lar replacement orders. Use of two transports available now will avoid overcrowding the transport salihr’! July. it was explained. Wives and children of officers transferred to the Philippines will arrive on Incom- ing transports.

WASHINGTON. Fob. l2—-rAP\-— The United States navy said day that two American submarines were holding trials in Cape Cod Bay off Provlncetown. Mess. The submarines will operate submerg- zlwfgdsfixt ‘four ‘gays. The navy

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MADRID. Feb. lil-tThursday) -—(APl-—Mu5s0lln1 of Italy and Franco of Spain arrived at a “com- plete identity’ of views" upon Eur- opean triatters in two meetings \V(‘£iilf:Sdil_\‘ at Borcliglrcra, on the Italian Riviera, a Spanish com- munique announced early today.

Nothing more smcific was said

of their extraordinary conference nor was there any mention of Ger- man participation. (The communique, which was characteristically uninformatlve, served principally to confirm. that immrtant discussions had been he d and to disclose for the first time the exact Mussolini-Franco meeting place. a few miles from the French border.

(The fact, however, that the

communique limited the discussion to Europe appeared-on the face of ii—-tO rule out Africa. _tThere httd been some specula- tion that the Axis might have been seeking; African bases for use against. Britain.

MONTREAL. Feb, l2 —(CPI Canada has not been able to use all those who have volunteered for military service since the bcginnrn of the wot" “because we haven't. h. the equipment." Hon. J. G. Gflldlllr er, Mini ter of National War Ser- vices, said today. '

Mr. Gardiner made the statement in an address to the electrical club of Montreal declaring "we'll be marching to victory" when the Em- pire reaches its peak of fighting strength. Prime Minister" Churchill has said that point will be reach- ed in the spring of 1042.

Describing the English Channel as "a. moat to the citadel of freed- om." and the Royal Navy as "the bulwark of democracy." Mr". Gard- iner -said the war now is "just a little past the centre of the first period. a period of preparation."

"When the equipment of war is young mcri of the empire. clung mcn of the world, will __ th c instruments." he said. A B sh victory, he continued. will 6.. nbllsh a sytem of “free in- tercourse among nations" that wiill "give the lie" tn the Hitler belief that “some nation ls-bettcr than any other" and entitled ‘to grab an)‘ part of the \'»'()l'i(i it “bill-f-

“When we win the war, we shall establish rondltionsfltat will make that sort of thing impossible." he

aid.

Mr. Gardiner said that the Brit- ish peoples are fighting to main- tain religion and the democratic institutions which the Union Jack represents. "The crficricttccs they are having in Britain today are ex- perienccs which will be indelibly written in thc hishrv of a people who have defended democracy on