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insurgents Stage Surprise Offensive

iirrvivivr‘. Fmncc. Oct. 24- 4", -;11 F‘ ‘alien's Insurgent ‘fluids a surgirise offensive mi the "l front today and

. . . 1. chimed to have pushed back gov- ernment lines in the Cienipozucl- 93390101‘.

(‘|()\'F.'|‘.l1li‘l’ii' ditpatches said tho innit-tents 1Illlll('1l't1 a "very vio- lent rittaek" fl9f\1“.~i their posit- ions i8 mll"s south of Vudi-id on lie risrht bank ei‘ the Jarama

1 between Ciempoizuclos and

COMING {VENII

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. (‘GU15 evcrv T111 srluy. Hours 12 to L-lilli-lLI-hI-Z-fii-ti. ‘lillllli

1 1.1 1111- ' 7

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v.11 £11111 (inn Iona Hall.

' 11.3.11, U31. . L- JT-IO-l-l-Bi.

"CW" to theficlaifce i11 Irish- "..; 11 not line Wednes- L-752.

-11r.1 liull-sDantye Friday tobcr 28.11. sunnncrside ~ .'1i. L-Vlltf-IO-ZZS-ZT.

“11-1» rvt- I\(‘\'L‘ Al‘ 11th f0!‘ Tho. Uuucd Church Snjpcr and Bazllur. L~‘T‘.Z‘l-10-25—1i.

"Dance in Poivnai Garage Hall ev-"r 1111111111513’. 0. K. Piesby at P1111111. L-Y32-10-26-2t.

"=3.- :11 Mile Buy clt Ll sturptr, bazaar, bingo and tiani 1-. L-754.

"United Church CiLCkPfI Supper" blld li.~ nun‘, ilirell (112.11- JIL 1'1. 1<TE€- 101111, \\'1di11-is.ii.y.1Octnoir 20.11.

L-Gtitl-ltl-Zl-Zl. live geese at Frederic- Oetcbei‘ ‘.35 i1. $1.00 buying of season. Cllinton

L-ti90-10-24-2i.

llior: i111 111.

“.-\" .111 the ivlnst and (lance in 1.111, i-fliirvatir, 111 11 cficlock -', Oct. 26:11. (leod music.

- 11-706-10-24-21.

"Benn Supper at W. E. Smith's. 1-‘011- ‘ Nnveittber lst. Aid of Insti- lllic. sltpir-r six to nine,

L-7-lO-10-25-29.

“Bingo Party. Raffle and Dance TFMMUU Hall. WOGIIPSGZLV, Oct. 26th not Friday as previously ad- vertised. L-735-10-25-2i.

'fDr. LaCmuslr-rc. Dentist, will be in hiurrny River October 26th, 2111i. 211111 8.1111 20111.

L-738-l0-25-li.

"Come to Halloween party at 11111-11111 1111;111:1113 in Hazclgrove Winn)". October 31st.

L—'l~l41-10-25-3l.

"Srven Mile Bay card party the

Thursday inght. Oct. ‘.27 at home of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Crckeu. 14-754.

frozen beef

‘ ,"F‘0x Ment~F1csl1 ‘1- horse ment.

W‘ 4'11": also stock

F 111 1111-211, fresh frozen herrinlz.

in. 111mb 11nd hog plucks. Island

901d s-tiinge Co, 1.111. L-393-l0-14-t1.

‘ftlliiekr-n Supper 11nd Bazaar in BS-illel 111111. Wednesday evening. Octtwlici- 116th. Auspicss Belfast Lfltilts Aid. If not fine, the follow- l-u evening. L-uor-io-zi-zi-a.

"QM-ecu. Mt. Herbert Orphan- fie. hiesilny. October 25th. ll P. M. 15s ilornby Orchestra and other

talent. Admission 25 cents. L-Gill-IO-Z-i-Qi.

“Don't miss the Masquerade Dallvc in Graham's Road Hall. “Wt-tr. Oct. 31s‘. Prizes for best.

tosttuncs. If not fine, Tuesday. L-T36-10-25-38. "Dance. spring Park School

"t"? Tuesday and Friday 8:30- 12130, auspices of Women's Insti- tute Ladies 15c. gents 25c. ae- Wshments. Good music. 11-718-10-14-21.

"l-larelbrock will hold their ah- filial chicken supper at the Par- "nesr. Wednesday. Oct. 26th. sun- Ptr served 5 to 9 o'clock.

11-‘117-10-24-21.

“rmlylng live hogs every week. “rt-days at Albany: Fridays at ierald. List your hogs by a pest “"1 0r collect telephone call and u Will truck them from their m"- Quick dellvery. less shrink- gl; MEI-est prices. G. C. Green. Yuld- L-47l-l0-mtw-tf.

"A lecture will be delivered in 39°11 l-l-ali on Wodnesda evenin .

1°50!‘ 3th at 7.80 by e Rev. . Ajhtilphoison. York. on the subject ‘Mar Other Island" educational “aim will be shown by repres-

h ive Adult. Educational League. k i wit. Adminion 18c

tonight. ‘

unnisnln uss SEVERE

Deadline Set For Ac- ceptance Of New Offer.

(A. I’. by Guardian's special wire)

BUDAPEST. Oct. Z-f-Promler Bela. lmrcdi tonight declared that should “our really conciliatory pro- posalybe rejected" -by Czecho- slovakia the Hungarian Governi- ment has decided "to enforce its JIISU-‘B by all means available to the 111111011."

The declaration was made in a

press bniillPlllfillf, shortly after l Government. communique announ- ced. a new compromise proposal had been submitted to Prague by which llungary shaved her de- mands for territorial ccssions by about 30 per cent. The compromise suggestion was offered alter Hungary had stood fast. for weeks in her demands for rriurn of large areas inhabited by ildagpuirs in Czechoslovakia, de- mands which f hoslovakia has inslsteil were exc slve, Premier 111111-111 stressed that. llunirziigifl hoped for 11 peaceful settlement, an attitude that earlier had been emphasized by a Gov- crnmcul communique.

Array Prepared

This follovrctl-piuaparations of an army of almost 500,000 men along the Czechoslovak frontier for any emergency and repzrts it would march on Wednesday if Czecho- slovakia 11nd not by then acceded to previous Hungarian demands.

Hunzurvls new stand was under- stood in diplomatic circles to have been taken after Germany, Italy and Poland strongly advised her not to continue pushing demands which would be uaaoiieptableJc any Czechoslovakia Government and which wouldend-anger peace._

(Continued on page '1. G01 3)

Yarmouth Family ls Stricken Following Meal 0f Deer Meat

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wire)

YARhAOUTl-l. N. 3.. Oct. 2-11-- One i11ti11ber oi a Yurmouth fum- lly is tic-lid 11nd his lather and several brothers and sisters In recovering from the effects of be- 111g poisoned by a meal 0i meat 111st Saturday. Alonzo Goodwin of Lowe-r Argyle. near here. and his family were taken violently ill soon after the meal, and his son, Herman, was rushed to hospital. His condition was too serious to permit an oper- ation and stimulants were admin.- stered but he weakened rapidly- and died Sunday. It is believed that not all of Goodwin's seven other children ate the dccr meat. Attending doctors said Herman had an "acute abdomen." magm- inz violent poisoning even more serious than ptomaine. An autopsy was performed. ecafinnlxig the orirzinal diagnosis. When it was learned the deer meat u-aa unfit for consumption. the remainder of the meat was destroyed.

Labor Minister And Aberhart Confer

(C. P. by Guardian's Special Wk!) EDMONTON. Oct. 24——H0n Nor- man Rog-en's. Federal Minister of Labor. today conferred with Prem- ier Aberliart and the Alberta Cab- inet on general matters of Fed- eral-Provincial interest.

Mr. Rogers arrived in Edmonton today from Vancouver and will speak here Wednesday night at l Jasper-Edson federal constituency Liberal convention after returnlnlt from Wainwright. Alta.. where he will address s {liberal convention

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The People's Paper

a ‘CHARLOTTETOWN. CANADA, A‘ TUESDAY, ocroiisiz 15.119380

Read by Everybody Covers Prince Edward ‘ Island Like the Dew

Free From “barking flare"

1 l 1

him is Police Inspector Mc-Beath.

Pledges

EDINBURGH. Scotland. Oct. 24 “(GIN-Viscount Halifax. For- eign Secretary. tonight advocated a European peace cased upon personal contacts made at the Munich Four-Power Conference and especially on an Anglo-Ger- man understanding.

"Our own course is clear." Lord Halifax said in outlining Britain's

foreign policy. We must lose no opportunity of helping forward the results of personal contacts established between Germany. Italy. France and ourselves at Munich."

By following this course he said "we shall not. abandon old friends in the search for new."

He indicated the key to any- four-pnwc-i- agreement would bean understanding between London and Berlin.

“I do not hesitate to say that K the German and British nations could really succeed in reaching an understanding lt would be the strongest. guarantee that could be devised against the dangers to which the world has been brought 9o close.” Lord Halifax declared.

‘I hope indeed that rectification of’ frontiers according to the racial distribution of population

Tuesday night. __ D

Nazi Spy

NEW YORK. Oct. 24—TestimonY that Nazi Germany allegedly fin- anced spy plos in the nlted Ell-ates wiltiht mlone from German w n er re e ' un late today in the Federal court trial of Johanna (Jenni) Hofmenn. 26. and 013111110 co-defendanto on espion-

ar es. “The vygitnesa. Guenther Gustav Itumrich. 32. Untied States army deserter and confessed SPY. 881d

leizcd "contact. man.

Rumrich said he never he was in touch with German agents during his all

doilrtcd

bu‘ ‘hat he oorlwtrliflfl Schlueter things which were rathernunusual for a German t0 ment-NH-

‘ --bbrn1wi '- mdl m cited the truest” om “rag.

of winter relief fim

created a stir

the information came to hlmjlbm Karl schlueter, thenspy rlllll ll-

authorized 110d career as 11 sm’ T01‘ m9 7111mm

"because he told me

Plots Financed By Winter Relief Fund, Claim

things "a German would not men-

tion.

Dip nlz ever deeper into his ap- pm-cii ly inexhaustible supply of spy-plot tales, Rnmrich described a fantastic "20 years after" schemi- to avenge Germany against the United states for allied bombings during the Great War,

I11 his sixth day as key wltne<s 1'0;- the government. Rumridi testi- fied B11111 Glaser. 28. former U. S. ism-iv private. one of the three de- fendants on trial. was motivated by bo hood terror in joining the con- sp racy.

"He told rne he had lived at Ba- den, near the French border. dur- ing the. waif and had ex rienced severe lmmbzngs. He said t is would be a fine chance to 1m even with America for those bombings and because America rang the death knell for us (in Germany) after yearn of Hal-tins.” the witness said.

Matters of slate pushed temporarily Premier, Ilt. llon. W. L. hlaekcnzic King is shown shortly after his ar- rival in Bermuda for a holiday. Hr. King is seen about. to board a, launch for Cambridge Benches where he will spend his vacatlon_ With

To Peaie Policy

i

into the background, Canada‘!

Britain

which is now takin place in central southeastern rope may contribute to stability and peace."

He stressed that the people of Britain "want war no more than the people of Germany or any other country want war."

But he was quick to add that i110 four powers at Munich only laid "the foundation on which we may build better things; no one could pretend that any declar- atinn between statesmen of itself can bring a remedy to all our ills."

The foreign minister spake of three possibilities for the future:

“The first is war. The second is armed peace. The third is a peace of understanding."

rPair Feared Dead In Labrador Storm

ST. JOHN'S. Niki. Oct. M-Jfhe sudden fuiy of a Labrador storm today was thought to have taken two lives after a two-day search failed to reveal traces of Gralnini Udell. carbons-at". Nfld.. and Abram Taverner. lit-art's Content. Nfld. or the boat in which they were shooting ivhen the storm broke.

GYRQ DISTRICT MEETING

MONCTON. N. 13.. Oct. 24 — (C PJ-Represegitatlves of five clubs in Gyro district 6 attended a meeting here tonight. B eakers

included Carl Bethune. allfax district governor. Ross Fraser. Halifax and James Monaghnn. Cgrlgttetown.

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Claims Development 0f Potato Seed. Immune To Blight

KINGSTON. It. I.. Oct. 24- 1APJ—-Dr. . Theodore E. Odland. hcad of the Department of Plant Industry at Rhode Island State College. today announced develop- ment of a potato seed ivhlch will produce a potato immune to blight.

Dr. Odiand said he would have to limit the information about the seed because it would be im- possible to meet anticipated de- mand for it. -

The seed, he said. will be dis- tributed in limited amounts to growers by the State College and the United ‘States Department of Agriculture Station in Maine, It “'11s the United Suites Agriculture Department. he said. that devel- oped the seed.

Dr. CX-lland predicted that the new ‘xitatn will revolutionize tit-ta- 10 Emlviltg and estimated it will take four or five rears for the reed to become common enough

film-v 1n a wholesale scale.

tnninifrusrs Til BE Flllill

Chamberlain Returns T0 Downing Street T0 Confer 0n Press- ing Problems.

(C-P- By Guardian‘; S . ' l “"- LONDON’. Oct. mffiiifbri-iniifii

1111111 PLANT n1 urn nnuni

Bulky Documents Re- lative T0 Financial Set-up Of Company Examined.

1C1‘. By Guardian's Special Wire)

OTTAWA. Oct. 24--itl:1._l0r J. E. 11111111, preside-n. of John IngLs (fomptuiv Limited oi Toronto. and 111s associates obtained ownership originally of the Inglis plcirn in T11- ronlo for $250,000, it was l'8\'t't\1t‘d today before the Davis Commis-

sion investigating: 1119 Bren gun contract _

Through i1 series of f1llt1ll1"l‘1l1(l|l— eratlons ihe tisse goodw " 111111

unduriukinz ivcrr- sll1)Sl‘([1l('1l . . for $1,400.03o to the Bl‘1(l511 C1111- adiati Eilgiiu-erini: Company which later laecami- John lnqlis Company Limited,

The purchase-of the British Can- adian E11g"111c1*1'1l1=,; Company was made on J1me 1. 10:17. 11nd llie Si.- 4000110 ivzis payable as follows: $1111 in cash. 51.140972 by common shares at $6 each. $150000 by issue of six per cent first itiortgdgc bonds. $100028 111 rash by Fi-l) s. 191111

Details oi the cninpiieufed trun- sactiotis covering 1111' reorguu lion of the Inglis plant were in bulky reports nfPrfillfi-(l lit-lore the COITIIII1S>1OI1 today by a chari- ercd accountant of the hionireal firm 0f P. S. Ross and Sons.

Brought On Probe

The Illuiis Ccnipiiiri-‘s 11.1 with 1hr: National Deicncq l): ment for 7.0011 l3ren 11:11 meanne- guns was criticised last September

501111995 F-liii K111113111 that two new ministers ivouid lie-named o i-he

bv Col Goo! e A. Drrw '1‘ rranto a ' ~ riicle p111" 111-1 lll I\'I11(' M '.

H. D11

wkiilzitésdiglgfore its weekly session

Other informed persons predict. ed tlie cabinet would decide the Anglo-Italian Easter Friendship Agreement would be pug into effect 111V Nor. 15. Parliament meets Nov.

The cabinet appointments would fill vacancies let by the resilgna. tion of Alfred Duff Cooper, 11st Lord of the Admiralty, the death of Lord Stanley, Dominlons Secretary.

Neuz-rpapers have speculated wide- lv that Prime Minister Chamberlain 111111‘ have decided to create other cabinet posts. possibly a ministry of sinmlv. but he has kept his own counsel.

Returnq To No. 10

Mr. Chainbeidain returned to No. 10 Downing Street during the day from Chequers. his official country resi- dence. and presided at a cabinet whllnititee where the ministerial nomineéeg were believed to have been a

pprov .

With him were Sir Samuel Hoax-o. Home Secretary: Sir Thomas In- sido. Minister for Defence Coordin- ation; Malcolm MacDonald. Colon- ial Secretary. Walter Elliott. Mirn-

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(Continued 0n page ‘l, Col S)

Training Ship In Toronto Harbor

TORONTO. Oct, 24-40?) - A smart. 36-foot. schooner manned by four youthful members of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve slipiud iii-to Toronto Har- bor last 11111111 after r1 2.000 mile cruise from Halli-ax.

A miniature of the famed may ing schooner Bluenosc. the craft. formerly a sword fisherman. will be used as a training unit by the R.C.N.V.R. Lie-at. Gordon Cum- ming was in change during the li-ip. assisted by Seaman Dam- borough. Ward-ell and Jamieson.

Joint lllinisteidzil Parley At Sackville

SACKVILLE. N. 13.. Oct. 24-—-A minlstorial conference represent- ing five Protestant denominations in Westmoreland. Kent and Albert Counties of New Brunswick and Cumberland County in Nova Scotia opened here today with 30 minis- ters in attendance.

Rev. Dr. George O. Pidgeon. Nmnto. addressed the conference on “facing the crisis together" and led a rounL table discussion.__

s . p. Canada vas 1111120111 ed 11 commission to exmnim- 1111- contract and the hearing is 110w Cll1"i"ll! i s fifth week.

‘Iliis afternoon Guy Houll. mem- ber of the P S. Russ firm. ivas put on the stand to give 1111- result of an invcstimition of the firru 111.1011- at ‘he request of Hon. J. 1.. ital- stmi, commission counsel. Ho ivas questioned very little but tendered bulky dooimlents which Col llalston read in port, conducting‘ the corn- misslon throueh such a maze of figures and transactions that even Mr. Justice Davis declared lie had difficulty in following it. _ Earlier in the day Defence Illin- istcr Mackenzie completed his evi- dence with a great part. of the morning occupied by efforts of I. F. Hellmuth. counsel for Macleaifs. to get a direct. answer to his question urging the Ilfinistmi‘ t0 “DOillt i0 fl sir-Ade. t wide that

(Continued on page ‘l, Gel It

Libel Suit Served By Inglis Company

OTTAWA, Oct. M--(CP)-—1lim'— ma] notice under the Libel Aot was served today upon Llama-Col. George Drew. Toronto, Macleans magazine and Napier IVIOOYB. i“ edit/or. by the John Inglis Company in connection with Col. Drew's ar- ticle in Macloarrs on the Inglis Company Bren Gun contract with the Defence Department. The ar- ticle led to the Royal Commission inquiry into the contract now go- ing on here.

The Financial Post. whim re- printed the article, was served with notice in Toronto. it. was learned

here.

The legal firm of Blake. Lush. Cassi-ls and Anglia, Toronto. bet.- ocl for the Inglis Company in ser- ving the notices.

The Act. requires that formal notice must be served within three weeks of the oocurenoe of the alleged libel and thereafter formal coiut action must be begun with- in thri-e months. Court action need not neetcsarily follow the formal

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HllAfvtil-IAI. Oct. 2.'1_('1‘u.-§.|;._. )___\_ lr_)__A Japanesa armored c111" unit fl'0m.H\VllIll{]l0l, 20 miles north of Han. kinvium-zicllit-d the Peiping-Hzinkmv l‘1l11\\'Zl}' ‘today 11nd, m]- l-lfltlfll.’ l()\ll‘l the .l'lll1\l'1'l_V. ‘reached a position 1111i)‘ four miles from the (hlncse military woiiis.

-\\_0rd of the advance was relzrved from the front by Ilomei. Japanese news agency.

iflpokesmcn fur the Japanese forces said they expected the 1:111 of the former provisional capital ilt 21111 moment, dispatches crumbling and that the city was being" hugr .~('ll1€. “

Japanese fliers reported Chinese troops in filo-hi was; 11f 111111111111’. Three Chinese warships an a Junk.» and 200 motorhozlts, all packed with (fhincse soldiers “"1" lll'"¢‘l‘9(11lll~' Presumably toward 101111114.

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Bl'l1_»(llll had prutr-sw-d to 'l‘ok_vo ilgfllflfil ‘he 110111111111. of 1111- gun- lraai $111111 1111-. i); .la1).'1111-.--1- ivzir- "I'll 1111 in ' f nizslia. 200 mih-s $111.11.). i\.1s in l11< of litinlzoii. not. seen ‘lluitr ilFCS uhich razed over 11100115- mueh of Cn11t011 in the wake of But. 111st 311-111". 11111111 mg" Japanese occupation apparently surrounded by 111:1 b18111 ward d Were 1‘.v'.11.'.: tlovvn Mondav 1112111. af- S. S. men. received 11L~ I nlsten tier riauuiued estimated ai- muny ln-lnw and 111-1111 u‘ at. ‘unit-h mrlions 111' dollars.) Tr, m“. of m...‘ M0,... k,,h,,'.‘,' Prior to rvctnuiaation of HW-Wllglwl I\Tl‘~‘. Hitler 111-1 ‘=1»“1"11.1i{-.‘.§1'§

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WASHINGTON. Oct, 24t—lAP\-—1an's desire to sw-p thr- unification

Some officials here express 1110 belief that Japan's inteurznns te- ward 01111111 may be summed i1p_i11 the old Roman slogan of “divide and rule."

They think Japan will sol up a puppet Government r1’ (‘av-inn which she occupied Friday.

She will then have three pith- govermncnts in C1111lll»—'il1' sO-callcd provisional l!.17\'f""l‘li-.i

at. Pelplne for 11111-111 China. the

“refomii-d"g-nv1-1-11111e1-i at >311 K1111:

for (ientral China. and the Urin-

ton Governmen" hr F-izfu t‘. 1 .1 ‘ Japan's |)l'O".iIl1. :1 1t 1'1-