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GERMAN
WARSHIP
RUNS TO SHELTER
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ham respectively, the Achilles is from New Zealand,
The question as to whether the Admiral Graf Spee will be allowed
to stay in die neutral port depends upon her seaworthiness.
If she is founil to be seaworthy she, must leave within 24 hours, if ant, she may stay, but must not re- plenish her armament or increase her supply of war materials.
The German radio admits that the pocket battleship was damaged, but talks of hits and damage to the "heavy British cruiser" Exeter.
The ofrial German News Agency says that a successful battle was fought, but rays that an exact picture cannot be given as only British re- port. are at present available. Reuter Bulletin,
New York Account
New York, Dec. 11. The New York Times states that contact British cruisers established with the German pocket battleship rix times during the morning.
The German skip attacked the Ajax while the latter was convoyingį the French liner Formose near the mouth of the River Pinte. The Exeter and Achilles responded to a call from the Ajax. They came ul| full speed and opened fire on the German vessel, which was repeatedly hit, especially by shells from the Exeter.
The four ships fought an intense gun battle from 6 am. to 10 a.m. The German ship directed her main efforts on the Exeter as all fourį chips ran southward.
After passing Punla de Leste the British ships turned westward to get the advantage of the sun which Blaced the German ship silhouette.
This caused the German to change disastrously to the south-
course
cast. The British ships continued firing until well after dusic.
LOVEM AND LJAVEM "-ere, look! Elephant Boy.""
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Britain Orders 1,000 Planes-For A Start
AIR ARMADA FROM CANADA IN JANUARY
OTTAWA.
TIRST deliveries of Hamp-
PIR
den bombers, built in Canada and flown over the Atlantic to England, are expected in three months.
Other batches will follow at regular intervals.
Britain has already placed in Canada war contracts that mean
a thousand planes of various types-bombers, fighters and trainere.
The trainers will stay in Canada and be used as part of the scheme for training Empire airmen.
Canada is putting everything into the war against "Hitlerism. And Canada now is vastly more powerful| than in 1914, .
HIS SWISS EXILE
Moscicki of Poland and his wife to enter Switzerland.
THE Swiss Government has given permission to ex-President
M. and Mme. Moscicki are at present ja Rumania, and are expected to live in the university town of Fribourg.
The ex-President has been a Swiss citizen since 1908, when he acquired citizenship in the Canton of Fribourg,
THESE POLES WANT
TO FISH FOR US
BREAD-BULLETS
Compared with the last war Canada can send :———— THREE times as much wheat
for food.
FOUR times as much, nickol
for bullots." TEN times as much copper,
lead and zinc.
Danes Warned By Leaflets Umbrella With Dagger
COPENHAGEN. ·
Germany started big pro paganda leaflet · campaign in. Denmark this morning.
Coineldent with the announcement of new taxes, citizens all over the: country received a sealed envelope containing versions of Hitler's and leaf- Geering's recent speechies and
lot.
This leaflet shows on one sida a pleture of a folded umbrella, and on
FIFTY-FIVE Polish seamen, denied the chance of fighting the other the same umbrella without
for their country, want to catch fish for Britain.
The number of airfields is being increased to 100. All airports of the trans-Canadian air lines are to be commandeered, Every year
from!
· 25,000 men Britain, Australia, New Zealand and
observers.
Its cover and revealing a dogger,
The leaßet, printed in. Danlah,
They are the crews of alx trawlers, departure of the vessels to the fish-stated: "If your cars remain in gar- which were fishing of Gdynia when] Ing grounds. Germany marched on Poland,
Ordered by radio to race to British
ages, if you have no petrol, if you are sold and have no cont, if you- queue up for zations, you have only. Britain to thank."
"It is hoped that the trawlers will get away soon."
Mr. Parkes said the vessels would
"This umbrella is supposed to bo put to sea with British officers.
used against rain, but it is, really a The former captains, mates and weapon of war. chief engineers were Dutch, and had
Canada will be trained and sent over ports, Ave reached Fleetwood and one to the front as pilots, gunners and went to Aberdeen.
"All the men were eager to go A British air mission, headed by home to fight," said Mr. B. A. Parkes, landed in Holland, on the way to out. It is better
"Wo think it is better to do with- to get water Lord Riverdale, has been conferring general manager of the Boston Deep
Britain.
(down one's neck than a dagger in with the Canadian Government on Sea Fishing Company, which has an the training scheme, and also the interest in the vessels.
Among the crews is a 27-year-old one's back. But we know how to Vienna, deal with both foul weather and Polish Jew, educated in production of bombers which will be
"But that was out of the question where he gained the degree of daggers. "Negotiations are in progress with Bachelor of Philosophy.
The bombs on Denmark, pilots the Polish authorities in London tol enable the men to produce fish for Spanish and Dutch.
He speaks German, French, Italian, fights over Holland and Belgium, blockade and the despotic British He was finishing his studies when which puts the thumbscrews on the; everything possible to facultate the turned to Poland and went to sea. this country.
"The British authorities have done he was turned out of Vienna, so re-trade of neutrals, have shown the
true use of the umbrella."
Admiral "SHIP" SUNK ON own across the Atlantic.
DRY LAND
This source said that according to German Information the Under cover of darkness the battle- Grat Spec had 30
and 00 chip again changed course and final-wounded. ly teached Mentevideo-Renter.
Ran Out Of Fuel
to
dead
The vessel had aboard six Captains
of British ships, which presumably NAZIS WILDEST CLAIM
the Admiral Graf Spee had sunk.
According to present information.
London, Dec. 14. According
from the Admiral Graf Spee attacked the reports Montevideo, the Commander of the Exeter, which called the Ajax and Graf Spec has announced that the Achilles into the fight.
of a lack of fuel-Reuter.
damaged:
By A Naval Correspondent
AN enemy brondenst has
Lord Riverdale has said that he estimates the training programme will cost £140,000,000 a year, of 10,000 men is training for over
The first Canadian army division
seas
40,000 service. Another under arms.
The number of
volunteers,
are
warship put into port only because Armed that the Exeter was badly claimed that H.M.S. Kestrel has greater than the country's training
been sunk. This is the biggest capacity at the moment.
"A-national-committee-is-working All four ships are at present lying joke of the war, since the Kes-under the leadership of Dominion Why Exeter Dropped Out in the harbour of Montevideo, from trel is actually the official name effort and make huge quantities of officials to co-ordinate agricultural London.. Dec. 14.
which they must depart within 24 of the Fleet Air Arm training foodstuffs-butter, cheese and eggs According to reports from hours--United Press, Montevideo, the Exeter sustained
establishment at Worthy Down, and wheat-available to the Allies. seven hits. Two holes were blown
Hampshire.
in her control tower, while five hits were registered on her hull above the water line.--Reuter,
Exeter With A List
Montevideo, Dec. 14. It is reported here that H.M.S. Exeter, which dropped out of the battle, has a slight list.-Reuter.
Gorman Claims Grow
Berlin, Dec, 14, The German News Agency states that it is unconfirmedly alleged that the Athilles was sunk.
It further says that the British suffered several hundred dead and wounded-United Press.
In several provinces plans to ex- tend agricultural production are be-i
undertaken. Canada's
estimated at the outbreak of war at War expenditure was £200,000 a day.
Now it is said lof have reached £500,000.
A War Supply. Beard has been set up, headed by Mr. Wallace Campbell, general manager of Ford Motors in
This should encourage the Ger- ing mans to carry on with the verbal destruction of u few more ships of similar character, such as the Bos- cawen, which is the shore base ut British Denial Issued Portland; the Buzzard, otherwise the London, Dec. 14. RN. Air Station at Lympae; the The Admiralty states
Canada, that the Daedalus, R.N. Air Station at Lee- GERMAN VERSION
allegation made by
the German on-Solent; or the Merlin, RN. Air for the Canadian forces, and wi Admiral Graf Spce Said To casualties on the pocket battleship Station at Denibristle.
Embassy at Montevideo that the Have Attacked Exeter! were mostly caused by British Berlin, Dre. 14. mustard gas is entirely without An authorised source confirmed foundation.—Reuter, that the Admiral Grat Spee engaged
ERITISII COMMANDER the cruisers' Exeter, Ajax and
London, Dec. 14.
was under
Achilles off Montevideo and all are The British squadron
at present lying in the harbour of the command of Cominodore H. H. Montovideo.
HARANA
GLARY OF 50
Harward.-British Wireless.
An
especially tempting eholee would be H.M.S. Impregnable, whose nome could hardly fall to attract the imagination of the German broad- catters. This happens to be a boys' training establishment on dry land at St. Budeaux, near Devonport..
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But Canada is paying no fancy salaries to directors of these various war organisations.
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Mr. Wallace Campbell is taking exactly four shillings a year for his services. Other business lives are getting the same. Higher pay goes to the soldlers, Privates get 5a. 4d. a day now, com- pared with 45. n day in the inși war. A British Purchasing Commission, under Sir Jamas: Rae and Colonel J. H. Greenly; mre" now completing a survey of Canadian plants.
Reports are current that they will place contracts for £20,000,000 worth of equipment and supplies within the next month.
Little dificulty is foreseen in the mass production of tanks, armoured cars, Army transport, and Bren, guns, and deliveries are expected monthly. The work la underway, guided by experia from the Schneider and Creuset works.
Twenty-five pounder ahcil casings are already being produced. EX- plosives plants are going up.
Ali research facilities both of private enterprise and the univer sliles -have been mobilised under the National Research Council
And here are the natural resources which this grent war organisation- will mobilises-
Four hundred -milion bushels at}" wheat for export.
The largest supplies of nabestos, nickel, radium, and platinum in the world.
-Zine, silver, gold, copper, lead; molybdenum, tungsten and man- ganese (for leal)..
Lumberjacks are swarming into the forests to send Ümber over to Britain.
Every unit in manufacture and production is being mobilised under the War Industries Hoard
And If any would-be profiteer tries to hold up supplies, there is a War Prices Board with power to seize the food fuel, or other necessities and sell them to help the war.
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