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Believed Fearful Of Large Scale Allied Attack’

French Improve Positions Near Saarbruecken In Advance

- ~- Pilots

Performing

Feats 9f_ Valor.

'(By Roy Porter, Associated Press Staff Writer)

PARIS, Oct. 1-—(AP>—French military circles studied reports tonight that the number of German troops on the western front had been doubled in the four weeks since

the war began.

German front-line strength in the westwas now esti- mated by observers in Paris at 50 divisions, or well over

1,000,000 men, at least.

These reports were given scrutiny as military dis-

patches described how the positions in the salient west

French had improved their of the German city of Saare-

louis (Saarlautern)—which is the western jaw of the pin- cers the French General Staff hopes to clamp onto Saar-

bruecken.

The attack in the sector, dotte

of which are 1,200 feet high, positions with

War,-25 Years Ago Today

attacks against Raye, northwest of Noyon, ins

Alsne. British

1014 — Germans de-

start- ird week of Battle of the Admlialty announc- Qd iaying of defensive mine fields in North Sea. to counter German PW-

d by rugged hills some was said to have gained new

out great difficulty.

In addition to

‘ ‘more Germans in the front lines,

military circles said, there were large numbers of reserves oped in concentration centres 30

to 50 miles behind the lines.

Prevailing opinion of French military commentators was that the heavy reinforcements of Germany's Siegfried line were more in fear of a possible large-scale attack than in re- paration for a German d vc.

The Nazi command, these re- ports Sflld. was moving men into Siegfried line positions in increas- ingly largo numbers every nigh‘!

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‘ine irrencn attack west of Saar- louis was described by the French general staff morning communique as a local operation which “im- proved our positions."

The night communique added tcrsely however that except for artillery fire it was a “calm day."

Apparently this meant the French succeeded in the operation of widening their Saarelouis sa- lient without provoking a serious German reaction.

A study of the map shows that the present French positions slog-g the almost mile-long shelf wh drops abruptly to the Saar river in this sector would be difficult to attack if the last German strong- hold on it has been cleaned out.

French Strengthen Positions

The French first opened up the salient Sept l6, with a drive down the ‘Nied river valley. Throughout the last two weeks they held a narrow point in the angle where the Nied flovrs into the Saar river, strengthening their positions mean-

while.

Saturday night's attack report- edly drove the Germans out oi‘ their pillboxes and widened the

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Russia Resumes Negotiations With Turkey, lias Hopes

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9 (By WITT HANCOCK) (Associated Press Staff Writer) MOSCOW. Oct l —(AP))—Rus-

sia, considering her international

position greatly invproved. resumed

itiregotiatfézns vrilth Téllflfay tonight it: e spec y dlpoma c eve

here which have start the

world.

Russia believed she held the bal- ance of power in Europe.

l-Iaviirg effected close relations with Germany in a pact which notified the western powers oi the settled fate of Poland. and so- qulrcl a dominant position in the North Baltic through a trade Duct with Estonia which allows Russian air and naval bases there, U. S. S. R. diplomats turned their at- tention to the Balkans and the Black Bea in the south.

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iBritish Move River Patrol In Far East

SHANGHAI, Oct. 2 -(Mon- dayi-The Brffih Navy today announced withdraw] of five of its 10 gunboats from the Yangtse River Patrol in "view of urgent military requirements elsewhere."

Destination of the five war- ships wal not announced, but reliable informants believed they would be taken to Great Brit-

ain's far eastern "Gibraltar" at Singapore. to be used u patrol boats amd mincsweepers.

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Well-informed foreigners said Singapore and indicated British preoccupation with a possible Japanese naval drive southward against the Dutch East Indies and British possessions in that section of the far east.

RAF. Pilot In ilrama0fSkies In Germany

Fought Fifteen En- emy Craft Single- handed And Re- turned Safely.

LONDON, ‘Oct. l-A drama. of the skies in which a British squad- ron leader single-handed fought l5 enemy planes after they sent down four of his reconnaissance patrol deep over German territory was told tonight by the Ministry of Information.

The lone British alone. deter- mined to complete e scouting mission on which it was sent. brought down two of the German craft, and, although riddled with 89 bullet holes, succeeded in re- turning to the British lines. the information ministry's communi- que said.

Three oi the original patrol of five planes were sent down and the fourth made a forced landing.

an R. A. F. patrol to reconnoitre a particular position behind the German line in the most strong- iy defended part of the Sear," the _communique said.

“Anti-aircraft batteries pllt up a fierce barrage. but our aircraft went through it successfully. When well over the frontier at a height oi over 20.000 feet the squadron

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‘Polls 0F Sub Sunk By Plane

WINDSOR. Oct. 1 —(CP) -Two Nova Scotia. seamen who were a.- board the British ircighier Kafiris- tan when she was iorpeoed and sunk by a German submarine Sept. 17 arrived here Saturday from New

York.

Redmond MacDonald of sydnev and Frank Bonnet of Harbor Bou- cher said the sub commander had told a lifeboat crew after the sink- ing: "sorry. but we had to do it. War is war you know." They said

the submar ne had been destroyed shortly after by a British bombing plane.

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NEWS BRIEFS-

YARMOUTH, N. 8., 0ct_ 1— Weldon Young. one of two men aboard the auxiliary sloop Tfilllflllh claimed yesterday he had seen a submarine as the shill W" Sh‘ mug, o“ the entrance to Yar- mouth harbor.

ROME. Jot. l-Beliei that Pre- mier Mussolini would transmit a "final offer" for peace from Fuehrer Hitler to Great Britain and France increased today as iItal" awaited the outcome of U" > visit of its Foreign Minister Count Ciano. t0 Berlin.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1--'I‘he Bri- tish e "are solidly behind the Chamberl " Government" in its war effort, Lord Beaverbrook said when he arrived here ln the liner ‘anhattnn yesterday. The Eng- llsh newspaper publisher. who Ir n native of Newcastle, N. 3.. n d his trip was “purely personal.

1—Alfred E the United solidly his amend the United States because “he is so I

effort lo neutrality act clearly right."

"An order had been given for '

N, Oct. 1—Winston Churchill, First. Lord of the Ad- miralty. tonight told the Empire that "it was for Hitler to say when the war would begin. but ‘it is not for him or his successors to say when it will end."

Mr. Churchill. in a broadcast. said that Great Britain is deter- mined to press the war against Germany “until decisive victory is gained."

How soon the war ends. he said. depends upon “how long Herr Hitler and his group of wicked men whose hands are stained with blood and sticky with corruption can keep their grip upon the do- cile. unhamly German people."

His voice ringing wit-h confid- ence the First Lord of the Admir- alty said no British ship had been attacked by U-boats during the past week because of the navy's guard and he added:

“We have the oceans, We have the freely-given ardent support of the 20,000,000 of British citizens in the self-governing Dominions of Canada. Australia. New Zeala-nd and South Africa. We have the heart of moral convictions of 1n- dia on our side.

“We believe we are entitled to the respect and 0d will of the

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world and part cularly of the United Sta-ties." Mr. Churchill reicrred to the

ftremendous resources 0i Canada.” in describing Britain's strength in facing a. long war.

"We mils: always remember." he said. "that the command of the seas will enable us to bring the immense resources o! Canada and the new world into play as a de- cisive and ultimate air factor. be- yond the reach of what we have to give and take over here.”

He rimmed his listeners that “we have not vet come at all to the severity of the fighting which is

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R.C.M. Police Provost Company For Overseas

OITAWA. Oct. l -(CP)--Ani nouncemcnt that a Provost Com- pany of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will form part of Canada's first overseas division in the second Great War marks the allocation of a new duty to the red-coated force. but one for which it is well fitted by training and ex- pericnce.

'I‘lis Provost Company will be as- signed to traffic duty in the div- ision. ‘Iiafiic cops in an army may be something new, but modem armies move on wheels, and the first Canadian division will have many hundmds of motor vehicles,

trucks. armored cars. passenger cars. tractors. possibly buses. not to spcak of the tank!

Appzoximatcly 100 men from the R. C, M. P. will form the Provost Company. but they will take no horses. An-y riding they may do will be on motorcycles on in auto- mobiles, In the first Great War two squadrons of the Royal Canadian Mounted Poilce‘ went to France as csmbataiitsfThey did not fight as a unit. but were broken up over- seas and assigned to various units. of the Canadian Corps. Individu- nliy. however. they acquitted them- selves on the battlefield with credit in the force to which they iormerlv belonged

Traffic duly in Canada is now a common assignment for Mounties. but this is a comparatively recent development. Within the last 10 years the R. C. M. P. has as- sumed the Provincial Police work in a number of Western and Mari- time Provinces under agreements with the Provincial Governments.

Since then all highway police work in those Provinces has been performed by the Federal force. which in all oses enlisted many members of th former Provincial Police forces.

_________. Retire Today MONCTON. N. B» 589i. 30-

Twelve employees oi the Atlantic Region of the Canadian National

New Polish Premier Hopes For Large Army

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Assoclah Presso Staff riier

PARIS. Oct. 1 —-(AP) - General Wladislaw Sikorskl. new premier cf

the Polish government in exile, de- clared today he hoped to r an

army of .000 Poles in the United Germany

“There are 5.000.000 Polish citi- sens in Canada and the United States," General Sikorski said in an informal interview. "These Poles are our last card and we are going to pla it.

" e hope to raise from eight to ten divisions of from 15.000 to i0,- 000 men each in Canada and he United States."

General Sikorskl. noted rm a mil- itary tactician, was named premier yesterday after Wlyladyslaw Racz- klewicz was given e oath of office of gresiclent of Poland in succession to . Ignace Mosclcki. He also commander-in-chiei of Polish for- ces in France.

Churchill Ignores llazi Speakefle “Questionnaire”

LONDON. Oct. 1—(GP)——Winston Churchill, in his address tonight ignored questions asked a Ger- man speaking voice w ich in- terrupted a. British, Broadcasting Corporation program with requests Britain's First Lord of the Ad- miralty reply in his speech. Later the German announcer. who gave his name as Hans Fritsohe. broke into another B. B. C. program and castigated Mr. Churchill for his failure to reply.

The voice, speaking in German. asked Mr. Churchill to meet the questions in his broadcast speech

would be made at l1 P. .

Mr. Churchill was asked to an- swer these questions:

“Where is the British aircraft carrier hit by a German bomb in the North Sea?

"What caused the sinking of the Athenia?

"Why did Churchill say a U-bcat commander who had sent an S. O. S. to him had been captured when the commander iii question had re- turned to Germany?"

A B. B, C, spokesman said the wave length of astaticn at Colongue. Germany, was very near that of the B. B. C. and frequently in- terfered some receivers.

Soviet Military Men Swann In llazi Capital

(By LOUIS P. UOCHNERl (Associated Press Staff Writer) BERLIN. Oct. 1 —(AP)-—The

German capital is swarming these day's with Russian military men.

The presence of these officers marks outwardly the change which is coming about in German-Soviet relations. It seems in mark the beginning of cooperation between the two natlons--milltarily. econ- omically. industrially, and possibly. even socially.

0.19 high officer of the German army who at the some time has a h gh rank in the Nazi party put_ it thus:-

"It is far easier for Nazi Ger- many and Communist Russia to get together and find a commonL basis then for the Nazis or the Communists to align themselves with democracy."

When he was reminded that foreign correspondents writing in this vein a year or more s80 We"!

Railways retire from active service today. They i-nclude Henry; . Redmond. blacksmlthb elper, Charlottetown. P. E. 1.. his birth- place. l-ie joined the railwa

y ser vice in that city in April 1016.

denounced by German government spokesmen. he said blandly: "The alliance with Russia was forced on us by events but now we are dis- {coverlng you correspondents were right."

and promised that a Genrlnim reply i

Germany Protests A To Rumania

BUCHAREST. Oct. 1—(AP) Diplomatic sources y re ported Germany had protested to the Romanian Government for permitting Ignace Moscicki to resign the Presidency of Po- land and name s successor while n refugee on Romanian soil.

The German protest was said to have charged that the notion violated umanisn ‘ ll since it enabled u legal Polish Paris.

Moscickl resigned Saturday Government to be set up in and named Wiadislaw Baez- klewicz as his successor. The former president had been kept in’ "llmited” domicile after fleeing to Romania before Ger- many’: advancing armies, but following his resignation Mcscirki departed for Paris late yesterday.

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In Conference

Talks May Have Im- portant Bearing On

Course Of War, some Quarters Claim.

' By Edward Shanke Associated Press Staff Writer BERLIN. Oct. 1 -(A.P) —Flleh-

rer Hitler and the Reich foreign

minister, Joachim Ribberitrop, met tonight. with Italy's foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. in a confer- ence which may have an important bearing on the course of the war.

Even secretaries were dismissed as the doors of Hitler's work room in the chancellery closed behind Clano and no official hint emerged as to what they were discussing.

Speculation ranged rom the ibillty that Premier Muno-

inl mi ht be asked to Initiate inediat on in the war to reports

Hitler was consulting his axis

partner explain policies

which the Fuchrer expected resent to the Rcichstag later his week.

The Italian foreign minister has- tened to the foreign office where he conversed with Von Rlbbentrop for g1 {minutes before going to meet

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r. In official quarters the only posi- tive statement forthcoming was

that all angles of the German-Sow.

iet accord of last week were being discussed. including partition of Po- land and the changed European sit- uation resulting from German mill- tary and diplomatic moves.

"PEACE FRONT"

The phrase “peace front" based on German-Soviet collaboration was

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tLatvia-Russia To Clarify Relations

RIGA. Oct. 1 —(AP) —l..atvia's foreign minister. William Munters. is leaving for Moscow for clarifica- tion of Latvian-Soviet relations it was learned today.

Foreign minister Munters will seek to ad ust new relations result- ing from t e Russian-Estonian pact of last Thursday which gave Russia air and naval bases at Baltlski and on the islands if Snare Maa and Hi- iuma. dominating the Gulf of Fin- land and the Gulf of Rllla.

The decision to send Munters to Moscow was believed reached after the Latvian cabinet heard him re- port on the newly concluded Eston- an-Soviet and German et

pacts.

Reliable Latvian sources at Hel- singiors. Finland reported the Sov- iet- Latvian negotiations were ax- pected to result in a greatly increas- ed Telxchnnge oi goods

e trading Ventspiis ena. (Libaul. it was reported. were likely to be among the principle topics of negotiation.

Windau is a port near the Gulf of Plea. new dominated by Russia's air and naval bases at Saare Mas. Llbau is a Latvian commercial con- tre nn the coast near the Lithuan- ian border.

Y" lb.- Fstnnion-Soviei. pact. Es- tonia gave Russia important transli- privileizes to her ports. _

Obwrver- have speculated wheth- ev- Sovlci Russia might not seek slmllnr nrivilcrve- in I-afvia. if she wished h» eiztend her influence in the Bolll» now that rm imnnrfmt zéivimcc has been made through E -

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‘KioRE BR1ToNs T0 COLORS

Churchill Sounds Optimistic Note In» ‘Empire Talk

War Will En?" When 'Hitler’s Blood Stained Hands No Longer Have Control Of German People.

Nation ‘Ii-dds To

Armecl Forces; i 1

View Unchanged i; s

Diplomatic Tug-of-war

Hostilities W-ill-End When Hitler Has Had “Enough” Churchill Tells Nation. Anglo- Turkish Agreement Ready.

LONDON, Oct. 1—(CP)—A proclamation issued by the King tonight called all Britons between the ages of 20 and 22 years to the colors for armed service. It was esti- mated that 250,000 men were thus added to the armed for- ces of Great Britain. '