Thursday,
Canadian Labour Has Exchange At Support of Government
OTTAWA, July 2 (Reuter),--Nearly 3,000,000 workers in Canada should be paid a cost of living bonus-this statement of the Canadian Government's policy was made by the Labour Minister, Mr McLarty, after the Labour Mediation Board dealing with a dispute between railway companies and their employees had recommended a cost of living bonus in some but not all wage levels,
Mr McLarty said that the Board's Andleg was rejected because all the workers
before represented
un
ihe
the
Boord should be treated alike.
Wille not mandatory employers, Mr McLarty expressed confidence that the Government re- commendation would be followed,
The bonus amounts to 23 cents a week for each rise of one per cent. in the cost of living above August, 1030, level.
The present level shows a rise of 7.7 per cent.
No Increases in the busie wages above the rates of 1928 to 1040 hre intended.
No Far East Alliance
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
RAINS SLOW
TRAFFIC ON BURMA RD
2 (Reuter).- RANGOON, July Lashio truffle along the Burma Road has been interrupted by floods and landslides
the bridge near and Chefang has been washed
HWAY, The transport control oficer has
proceed
10
to
forbidden lorries China in order to avoid congestion.
One Chinese lorry erashed into stream after slipping off the road, the driver miraculously escaping. A transport company rushed geney rations to feed the marvoned driven..
emer-
the
Latest Information is that deeds are subsiding and the brige will be replaced in four days.
BATAVIA, July 2 (Damel).Mr J. I. Ritman, spokesman of the
The highway within the Burınd Netherlands East Indies Government, described as "groundless" the reports frontier is also affected,
Railway Extension that fitury agreement has been concluded aniong the Netherlands RANGOON, July 2 (Heuter)—The East Indies, British Malaya, and staff in charge of the Kuniong, bor- der extension have arrived al of a No such Press message has been Lashio for the reconstruction
along the rathway sent abroad by any Dutch newspaper-telephone ne mais or foreign Correspondents now project.
Australia.
in the Dutch East Indies, Mr Ritman Other engineers from England and
tleclared, adding, "The report is not America are expected. only groundless but just a pure fabrication." Mr Ritman maid
that
he believed that the report original- ed in Manila,
Nazis Clamp Down
Russians And Rumours
Lesson From Paris On N. Norway
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter).---Mos- LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)-Alcow Radio, broadensting this evening. state of emergency has been declared gave an urgent warning to the Soviet by the German milltary authorities people against the spreading of rum- throughout the whole of Northern ours likely to undermine the nation's Norway and martial law is been in-morale.
the
troduced in some districts, according The announcer recalled the cir- to Swedish newspapers quoted by cumstances of the fall of Paris and
Norwegian telegraph agency.
said, "Fantastic rumours of imagin- There have also been extensive ory German victories were spread round-ups of persons suspected of and decisively contributed to the sympathy with Russia and two new French collapse."
The reaping of the harvest is pro- | concentration camps, established le isolated districts, already contain ceeding very well in Czernovitz and several hundred Norwegians, mostly Bukovina, It was stated on the radio members of the Labour movement.
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July 3, 1941.
5
Knox Reaffirms
Reaffirms View That U.S. Must Fight
WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuter).
the
President Roosevelt's
his hope that America can stay out of the war, expressed at press conference on Tuesday, supplied
background of Colonel Frank Knox's press conference to-day in the light of his recent urgent appeal for action. tries from the present harness to
At the press
cónference to. Mars," the "Post" concludes. day, Colonel Knox stated em- phatically that no United States vessels on Atlantic patrols had been used for convoy purposes nor had become involved in com- bat and that there had been no loss of life, crews or loss of equipment.
Questioned about Congress criticism of his demand that America should sweep the Nozi mennen from the Atlantic, Colonel Knox refused to add anything further but admitted that he certainly held to what he had
The mora
responsible editorial writers are worried and say So frankly and without hesitation.......
sold.
"Times" Sees Feelers
Reds Warmed
By American Sympathy
MOSCOW, July 2 (Reuter).-M. Lozovaky, of the Soviet Foreign Omice, announced at a press confer ence to-day that the Soviet had expressed satisfaction and thanks to the United States for President floosevelt's, Mr Sumner Welles' and Colonel Frank Knox's pronounce. ments on the fight against German domination.
Soviet newspapers publish extracts from sympathetic articles in the Bel- Arthur Krock, the veteran
tish
press. Washington correspondent of the
Not Alone "New York Times," saya that on the surface n
The Soviet worker now feels that member of President Roosevelt's Cabinet is publicly advo- he is not alone and that there is no cating a policy contrary to his general assault on his country but Chlet's, calling for a war which the that the Finnish and Rumanian at- President hopes to avert-thin is tacks are merely extensions of the criticism to the point of insubordina- | German nggression. tion.
dre-fighting and anti- observed in Moscow.
Blew out are being vigorously |
is
Krock says, however, that Colonel Knox enjoys both the confidence and
Except for boys and girls being LONDON, July 2 (Router) trust of the President and says that
the only answer to why Colonel evacuated to the country, the only Defying the Nazi attempts
to Knox continues to point out that the queues in the city are those await- blockade Britain, the largest President's hesitation is at the perling newspapers or handing in radio contingent yet of Canadian of national security is that President sets, troops has just arrived safely in Roosevelt himself has sanctioned this
Britain.
action of Knox in the hope that the discussion which is bound to arise STOCK EXCHANGE It includes many thousands of will put the nation, which, is at men-black-berated tank men, e-present divided, behind the eventual Some Profit-Taking gineers, busky lumberjacks of the decision. Canadian Foresly Corps, infuntry reinforcements, nurses, army doctors
aboard.
that
Delivery of Goods
again
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter).-The Stock Exchange to-day was quiet. and representatives of almost every In other words, says Krock, this is There was a fairly general but slight
Influenced down-drift,
by pront- other branch of the Canadian Army. a series of scouting expeditions into
There was a reverse irend Hundreds of airmen were also the public mind and points out in-taking.
cidentally that the President has done towards the close when prices were
'stendler. It was also announced to-night nothing to implement his promise
Gift-edged holdings remain about Belgian troops have arrived in that goods must and will be deliver-
unchanged but Indian stocks were unesan
were "Give
lower. Home-rails the facts, ere trained. They will join Britain from Canada where they ed to Britain,
the slightly says
easier; Industrials were ♫ shade "Galtimore Sun," adding thai mem- Free Belgian forces.
The Belgian Minister of Nationalbers of the Cabinet should either say lower on balance; olls were dull; and tin and rubber stocita were firmer. Defence, M. Cuti, has sent them a less or more than Colonel Knox had safe crossing welcome and congratulations on their done.
The "Sun" continues with a plen Japanese bonds met profit-taking to go ahead firmly and vigorously In
the cryptic Tokyo statement, the execution of a policy on which causing coulion. America acts openly.
Drug Market In Egypt & Syria
the
19
People Must Be Told An overwhelming majority have decided on full effectual aid for Britain ntwi
be production must CAIRO, July 2 (Reuter) followed by delivery, and if delivery creasingly large quatilies of hashish is not being made, then the people and opium are entering Egypt as the must be told so and told the neces- result of the war, according to the sary remedies. annual report of Russel Pasha (Sir
on
Kaffirs followed the general trend, Wall Street was subdued.
Painters Get More
Labour
Pope Quoted MOSCOW, July 2 (Reuter) Answering a Whole scrles of assertions made over the German radio and in the German press such
Let the American people know Twenty Per Cent Increase as that the Government had left for the Ural Mountains, that the Ger- Thorang Wentworth Russel), Director what they need to know for their It 1 announced by the mans were on Moscow's door-steps of the Egyptian Central Narcoties protection and let them have leader- and that the population of Moscow Intelligence Bureau.
ship in any steps needed for their office that an agreement was signed protection.
last Saturday in the presence of the greeted with joy their Germar, libera. Russel Pasha declared that condi-
The "Washington Pist" hopes that Labour Officer, between the Chol Chi tore, M. Lozodsky, Foreign
Lions Syria threaten 3 reversióni apokesman, pointed out that the Pope of that country to its former role Colonel Knox's speech is the har- Tong Painters Guild and the prin- in his broadenst on Sunday did not of being the principal hashish-pro-inger of action and says that it cipal painting contractors, by which
Tiftler succeeda Ja Europe.
the an increase of 20 per cent. will be fend Germany
and Italy for thefducing country in the east and the American continent will begin to granted ali painters employed by with principal contractors ongression against the Soviet Union high-road of the opium trac break up. America's volee In the these bul merely sold that the peoples were | Egypt.
world would then become a whisper, effect trom Sunday, June 29, being led towards misery and poverty
but there is still time to fall lilier's This increase in divided between and did not declare a Holy Crusade
object to achieve an empire with an increase in basle wage rates and against the Soviet Union.
which to terrorise the rest of the an increase in food allowance. world.
The Hon. Mr J. P. Pennefather-
HARVEST BEING
COLLECTED
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter).-The harvest is proceeding very success- fully in the Ukraine and Bukovina, according to an munouncement on the Moscow radio.
All possible efforts arc being directed to gathering the crops as quickly as possible to prevent loss,
The announcer added that women are working successfully on the trac- tors,
United States' Great Spending Programme
to
The report shows that traffe in heroin, which is seaborne, has been practically stopped while hoshish and oplum, which come from and through Syrin, have increased.
Vichy-Persuasion Of Turks Fails
ANKARA, July 2 (Reuter).—Ad- miral Darlan's Secretary of State, M. Benoit Mechin, has failed to obtain permission to send arins to Syria vin Turkey, it is strongly rumoured here. It is believed that he is now trying to obtain permission for the evacua tion of the French from Syria via Turkey.
Nurses Rescued
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HYDE, PARK, July 2 (Reuter),—— President Roosevelt on Tuesday
WASHINGTON, July 2 (UP).- signed ave appropriation bills totall The American Red Cross to-day an- ing $3,500,000,000 bringing the total nounced that seventeen nurses aboard cash outlays and contract authorisa- an unnamed ship which was recently tions approved by Congress since torpedoed in the Atlantic had been January to about $3,000,000,000 in rescued. the history of the United States.
The five bills include $910,000,000 for relief, $1,100,000,000 for the Labour Department and the Federal Security Agency, and $1,340,000,000 for the Agricultural Department and the Farmers' Aid Programme.
"The desperate gamble Jtler is
making in Russia calls imperatively Evans. Commissioner of Police, bas tor Britain and America to strike a left the Colony on a short visit to
blow which would deliver both coun- Chungking.
Casey Urges America To
See Writing On The Wall
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 2 (Reuter),-"The stakes
at issue are the greatest of all time," declared Mr R. G. Casey, the Australian Minister to the United States, in a speech to the Institute of Public Affairs to-day,
"They are no less than the future of the world. The war will not end in 1941 but the issue will be silently and fatefully decided in 1941.
necessary for us to be invaded for
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