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Holland Intended For Absorption. EARL BROWDERS Into Reich

WIFE TO BE DEPORTED

The U.S. Depart- ment of Justice yes- terday ordered the de- portation to Russia of Mrs. Raissa Berkman Browder, wife of Earl Browder, the com- munist leader, on the ground she entered the United States ille- gally.

The Browders were married in Moscow in 1926. Reuter.

CANADIAN 'PLANES FOR BRITAIN

Canada will be able to ship complete agroplanes to Great Britain within a few months.

Hitherto Canadian. companies

have only built aircraft frames,

engines bring installed in British plants. Now, engines will be

· built in the Dominion so that, tha Canadian defence forces will not be so dependent on supplies irvin 'Britain and the United States.

HOLLAND HAS BEEN converted into a Fascist totalitarian State on true Nazi lines, stated the Dutch newspaper "Vrij Nederland” (“Free Hol- land"), published in London, yesterday.

Describing the system introduced by the Ger- mans the newspaper says: "The country's national

A feature of a Fete arranged by Air Cadets at Bedfant, was a baby show. Photo shows one of the young lads in blue with two of the competitors. (Copyright, Fox).

administration has been centralised by the German PURCHASE

Governor, Seyss-Inquart, and placed in the hands of

four Germans, each administering several Minister- OF SHIPS IN

ial departments and accountable only to Seyss- Inquart himself.

"Replacement of burgomasters by Germans is proceeding metho- dically and Seyss-Inquart has re- organised the conditions under which State officials are appoint- ed in furtherance of the efforts to consolidate the German occupa- \ion.

"He also has power to appoint and dismiss all Government, Civil Servants, rallway,' bank- ing and judicial authorities and mayors.

"The distribution of news to the Dutch people is also cut to totali-

tarian pattern."

Never Jam To-day

AMERICA

FIRMER TREND ON STOCK MARKET

TISH GOVERNMENT HAS DR-ment issues. CANADIAN

WAR CONTRACTS

Business on the London Stock Exchange yesterday was. sinall and mainly confined to invest- THE FACT THAT THE BRI-

Nevertheless the

·RGE ***MBER OF trend generally was firmer. Gilt- FREIGHTERS FROM THE edged and some railways appre UNITED STATES WAS DIS ciaed. Kafflrs improved on local CLOSED IN WASHINGTON BY

Qlls support..

were better atter MR. HENRY MORGENTHAU, early hesitancy, Movements of industrials were few but gen- erally in holders' favour. Wall Street was firm. Reuter.

SECRETARY OF TREASURY.

Mr. Morgenthau said he did not know whether the orders involved the construction, of a new ship- yard in, the United States for ex- clusive British use and declined

New contracts for war supplies totalling 2,280 to give details beyond saying the and representing an aver- British had ordered a large num

ber. of one standard type freight age of one contract every ship. Reuter. 70 seconds during each Mr. Purvis, hend of the British Purchasing Mission, explained in adds: "Dutch working day, were placed Washington yesterday he was annoyance is growing and has in the first week of Octo-trying especially to buy 10,000-ton bcen increased by the fact that the Germans have not succeeded, ing jam to-morrow into being. despite their promises, in bring

The newspaper

"On the contrary, the .standard of living in the Netherlands is rapidly getting lower, rationing of food, clothes, petrol and other im- portant supplies being extreme- ly severe."Reuter.

CAPTURE OF GREEK SHIP, CLAIMED

The Greek

steamer Attica

(1,400 tons) has been captured by the Italians, stated the German Negotiations are now under radio yesterday. The steamer was "way with a British firm to ob- en route from America to Greece tain patents and plans. British with a mixed cargo of oil, copper, craftsmen will be sent to Canada:types and glyçerine. Reuter. to supervise the construction of plant.

Whlie 'normally it would re- quire two years before the first units could be produced

· on <a `maso\/production /ban's, IL) -in estimated that, with the help

of skilled Biskich craftsmen ; Canadian production wlit begin within a few months,

About 11,000 persons are now employed in the Canadian air- cralt industry-an increase roughly 40 per cent during the last three months.-Reuter.

POLISH-CZECH COOPERATION URGED

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ber by the Ministry of Munitions.

BELGIAN ENVOY TOLD TO DEPART

to

Ambassador The Belgian Spain left that country yesterday cargo vessels.

at the request of the Spanish The number to be purchased Government. would depend largely on the number available. "Some might This was the largest number of be purchased in Canada but the contracts placed in since the war began.

any week bulk of the business is expected

to go to American shipyards.

Canadian

These facts were given by the Reuter.

Minister of Munitions LIGHTEENTELI and Supply in Ottawa yesterday,

He further stated that three timies as many contracts had been placed in six months.aince the Ministry took over the work of the War Supply Board, compared with the previous nine months.

Orders for Canadian account total 86 and £750,000 plus nearly `£30,000,000 for British account.

Reuter.

His "personal attitude before and during the war" is given as the reason for the Spanish 'Gov- ernment's request. Reuter.

McEwan's RED LABEL

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COAL WILL SOLVE OUR OIL PROBLEM POTIC

While R.A.F. bombers are smashing up Ger- many's synthetic oil plants, Britain is getting down to the job of increasing the yield of home-produced fuel from coal.

cars

Recommendations made by the each vehicle saves nearly 2,000 Ridley Committee are now in the gallons of petrol a year. hands of the Secretary for Mines, More than a thousand Mr. D. R. Grenfell, himself an carry their own gas-bags for fuel, untiring advocate of plans for and they will become a more com- extracting oil from coal,

mon sight in the near future.

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Report Soon

As an immediate,war measure, In addition to the Ridley Com- he has addressed an appeal to the mittee, five other. committees are gas and coke industry to increase at work studying various technical ils recovery of benzole from coke methods by which home-produced by making existing recovery fuels can be made to take the equipment more efficient; by ex-place of imported oils. pedlung the installation of equip ment already on order; and by CLOSE COOPERATION BE-putting in such equipment where TWEEEN THE POLISH AND none now exists. CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLES "WHO ARE IN THE SAME ARENA FIGHTING FOR GOD AGAINST THE DEVIL," WAS URGED BY M. JAN MASARYK, CZECHOSLOVÁK MINISTER IN LONDON, IN A SPEECH TO THE NEW-EUROPE CIRCLE IN LONDON YESTERDAY,

They are to report soon to an Gas warka and, coke ovens advisory board set up by the are already expected to recover Mines Department since the war 15,000,000 gallona more crude, and consisting of representatives benzole In 1840, as compared of industry, finance and science.;

An authoritative survey 'shows -with- 1938, and by voluntary. effort alone Mr. Grenfell be that the home production of tar,

•Haven-that-this-quantity can be creosote and pitch, all coal.by- Increased again by another products from which motor spirit. und oil can be extracted, can take 12,000,000ṛgállono,"

the place of imported fuel oll and Tuolene, used for high explo- bitumen to the extent of 300,000 doing any sabotage for the sim-sives such as TNT, is another by" tons in the current year. ple reason that we would be product of coal, made by process-

M. Masaryk sald: "We are not

It has been estimated by experts massacred but the wheels of ing coke, whose production will that British coal could be made to yield 98,000,000 gallons per an- Skoda do not revolve quite as be increased. quickly as they did two years ago Plans are in hand, too, for in-num if planned use were made of and things do not come out us crensing the number of vehicles the processes already known to beautifully finished as they did." using : producer-gas and gas-bags.technical science.

Gas Trailers

Germany and Italy have a large number of synthetic- oll plants. Even Russlu, which is the second

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Sole Agents DODWELL & CO., LTD. fighting Laval just as much as

TEL. 20636 - 28021. Hitler and it was a terrible idea At the moment between 500 oil producer in the world, thinks QUEEN'S BUILDING that the soul of France was going 1,000 heavy vehicles, including it necessary to augment her na

to be chained to Hitler's apple- buses, are equipped with "pro-tural flow by extracting oll from

cart:

Reuter,

ducer-gag trailers. On an average coal."