Sherbrooke daily record, 18 juin 1940, mardi 18 juin 1940

[" WEATHER Scattered thunder» showers.For detailed weather report see Page Two.Daily Imirii TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, 79; minimum, 40.Same day last year: Max,, 05; min,, 47.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1940.Forty-Fourth Year.BRITAIN PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE REICH ATTACK Future Of On Civilization Outcome 0f ~ Depends Fight, .Claims Britain Is Ready on Land, in Air and on the Sea for the Great \u201cBattle of Britain\u201d Which Is About to Commence\u2014Seven-Eighths of British Forces Sent to France Have Been Returned to England in Safety\u2014Difficulties of Transportation May Prevent Any Large-Scale Invasion of Great Britain by Land Armies, Prime Minister Believes.«- PARTNERS IN CONFERENCE (By J.F.SANDERSON, Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, June 18.\u2014 (C.P.Cable) \u2014Britain is ready on land, in air and on tiie sea for the \"Battle of Britain\u201d which is about to start and on the result of which depends the future of civilization the world over.Prime Minister Churchill declared in the House of Commons today.Like company director addressing a board meeting, Mr, Churchill drew on his great military experience to assess in a cold, factual way the dangers facing this country, its probabilities and eventual victory, and gave his studied judgment that Germany would be crushed in ihe end.\"Hitler knows,\u201d Mr.Churchill said, \"that he will have to break us on this island or lose the war.\u201cIf we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into a broad, sunlit upland.\"If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, and all we have known and cared for will sink into the abyss of a new dark®-\u2014\u2014- age made from sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of perverted science.\u201cLet us, therefore, so brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire lasts for one thousand years men will say: \u2018This was their finest hour.\u2019 \u201d The Battle for Frnace was lost by an \"unfortunate strategical opening'\u2019 by the French high command .Prime Minister Churchill told the House and the \u201cgreat question is, can we break Hitler\u2019s air weapon ?\u2019\u2019 \u201cThe French Government,\u2019\u2019 he declared, \"will be casting away their future if they do not continue the war in accordance with their treaty obligations, from vdiich we have not felt able to relieve them.\u201cIt is not yet certain that military resistance by France will come to end.\u201cThe Battle of France is over and the Battle of Britain is about to begin.\u201cIf we lose it, the whole world, including the United States of America, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age.\u2019\u2019 He predicted confidently that forces invading Britain likely would be \u201cdrowned in the sea or blown to pieces while trying to land.\u2019\u2019 In Britain now there ve more than 1,250,000 men unde- r .ms.Behind these stand h.# a million local defence volunteers, he said.We also have Dominions armies here,\u201d Mr.Churchill added.He said Canadians had been landed in France but had been safely withdrawn although disappointed.\u201cIn view of the troops now in this NO SIGN OF GREAT MEDITE R R AN EA N BATT LE London, June 18.\u2014 (PI \u2014 Authoritative circles insisted today they had no information concerning a report published by the Daily Mr.il that French and Italian warships had fought a major engagement with heavy Italian losses.Ihe Daily Mail\u2019s Bordeaux correspondent telegraphed that the French Mediterranean Fleet, under orders of Admiral Jean Darlan, French commander in chief and Navy Minister, had clashed with an Italian force.It was not indicated where or when the supposed battle occurred.French Near-Eastern Armies May Continue With Britain Reported that Genera! Commanding Forces in North Africa and Syria Would Establish Government in England and Continue in Battle with Air Force and Navy Operating from British Bases.-* - London, June 18.\u2014 ((Pi\u2014French CLAIMS FRENCH VESSELS UNDER BRITISH RAG New York, June 18.\u2014(CP) \u2014 The Journal of Commerce, New York financial newspaper which usually is well informed on commercial developments, said today it is \u201creported reliably\u201d that the French naval fleet was turned over to Britain last Friday.The report, unconfirmed in official Allied quarter\u2019s here, was contained country, invasion of this country | ip a lengthy review of the shipping would require hostile armies on a j situation as a result of develop-very large scale,\u201d he said, \u201cand we j ments in France, have a navy.\u201d\t; The Journal also said that French In the final Battle for France, now , merchant vessels \u201cflying the British lost, Mr.Churchill asserted there ' flag will continue to carry United Continued on page 2, col.6.\tContinuée, on page 2, col.5, sources ;n London said today they considered it \u201cprobable\u201d that General Albert Nogues, commanding France\u2019s North African Army, and General Eugene Mittelhauser, commanding the French Army in the Near East, had decided to continue fighting.These sources said they had no _____\tj direct communieaitun with the Bor- Authoritative New York Com- were unable to confirm or deny remerciai Paper Says Navy !poi't\u2018\"that Frcnch leaders had de=id- and Merchant Ships Turned j SvSnnS^atfeh^E^iiîd land the air force and navy operating j from British bases.(Mittelhauser\u2019s command, based in Syria, has been estimated at more than 200,000 men.No estimates have been available on Nogues\u2019 command.) Over Friday.Fifty Thousand Maginot Fortress Reserves Stage Dramatic Escape SPANISH DEMANDS REVIEWED Madrid, June 18.\u2014LP) \u2014 Reports that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had been invited to act as intermediary in France\u2019s suit for peace with Germany were circulated here today as the press speculated on early fulfillment of Spanish territorial aspirations \u2018\u2018in a world about to be readjusted.\u201d Although there was no official comment on the possibility of Franco\u2019s assuming the role of mediator, success close to the Foreign Office said Germany had invited Spain to participate in any peace discussions with France.Newspapers pointed to this as an indication that Spain\u2019s \u201cnational personality\u201d is being recognized in Europe, but they said France\u2019s appeal for \u201can honorable peace\u201d would not divert Spanish attention from oft-reiterated objectives.To these objectives, which include Basel, Switzerland, June 18.\u2014(/P) Marne and sent an armored divi-\u2014Fifty thousand French fortress sion to close the door behind troops escaped from Germany\u2019s Alsace-Lorraine and the Maginot Alsace-Lorraine trap to reassem- zone.On Sunday they cut the Chas-ble with the French army of the South early this morning.\t_\t_ ___ _____________ These troops were mainly from! mans and the Jura n\u2018ur,tains.\tj Inform aciones added Andorra, the the Nancy garrison and had fought! Nevertheless, despite their small | H^-mile square principality situât-around Metz and in the Vosges sec- force and their weariness from sev-j ed *n the mountainous region be-tor.\t; eral days\u2019 fighting, they stood for tw^en Spain and France.seurs force in two.Less than a j control of Gibraltar and sections of j division was left between the Ge.- 1 Northwestern Africa, the newspaper ¦ ~ 3 t__________\t.\t\u2022 .\tTrvfYvr'm or-î r.noc\tAn,\u2019\t« U/-, Eastern Townships Should Be Given Its Chance IS an Eastern Townships battalion not Ireing \"Why-organized?\u201d \"Why is this district not being given the same opportumly for service as it was during the last war?\u201d These are questions which are repeatedly being asked.They merit an answer, but the answer must come from Ottawa.In the world War of 1914-18, the blood of Eastern Townships' men mingled with that of other khaki-clad heroes from every part of tiie Dominion.When on August 4th, 1911, the news flashed around the world that the British Empire had accepted the challenge of German militarism, the overseas Dominions sprang to arms.The first call for 30,000 men found a quick response, and Eastern Townships lads were foremost.In the Spring of 191b came the organization of the bth Canadian Mounted Rifles, the first distinctive Eastern Townships corps.This was followed by the 117th Eastern Townships Battalion, the 3oth Battery and the 178th French-Canadian Battalion.The part played by the Eastern Townships in the last war will stand for all time as a tribute to Ihe valor of the district; to the bravery of the men who served and as an example of the loyalty of the district as a whole to the Empire, and of its determination to serve in time of crisis.Again the time for service has arrived.Again the district is ready and eager to do its part.The people realize the urgency of the hour.They want to act.They WILL act.Already a creditable number of men from the Townships have enlisted.Some have gone overseas, others are still in training on Canadian soil.Others have offered their services and are waiting to he called.But none of these men have been able to enlist in distinctly Eastern Townships units.Apart from the number of men who have enlisted, twenty-one officers of the Sherbrooke Regiment are on active service, eighteen of these being actually in England.The Easern Townships lacks nothing in the way of manpower.We have qualified officers.We have in this district many military men who have had years of service.These men are eager to do their part.They are ready to organize, to train men, and to turn out an Eastern Townships Battalion which will be a credit to the district, to Canada, and will be proof that we have not broken failli with those sturdy lads who gladly went forth from Eastern Townships\u2019 homes in the last war, some of whom are ready to serve again, others who have, from falling hands, thrown the torch to us to hold high.Montreal and other important centers have been given an opportunity to play their part.Officers from outside districts have invaded the Townships in the hope of securing the right type of men to fill up their units.There is no reason why our men should go outside their own district to enlist.It is time the voice of the Townships, should be heard.If the authorities at Ottawa and the military powers of the Dominion do not ini end to act of their own free will, pressure should be brought to bear.The Eastern Townships should have its own military units.Men from the Townships should he able to enlist in their own districts.We should not be forced to go afield to play our part, at a time such as this.In asking for the right to do our part, we are not seeking favors or special privileges.We have right here in our midst, the leaders, the men, the readiness and the determination.We ask Ottawa to judge our military men on their individual records.We ask them to judge our district on what it has done.The past speaks for itself.The Record asks for an expression of opinion on this important question.Make your views known.Results can come only from united action.Let every organization in the district register its approval.Let every man and woman in every part of the Townships make it known that we are united and determined when we demand \u201cA DISTINCTIVE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BATTALION FOR THE TOWNSHIPS.\u201d They headed South twelve hours thirty-six hours against the Ger-after the Lower Maginot Line army mans, using several batteries of of 300,00 0 had escaped.\t75\u2019s and 101\u2019s which they found at The 50,000 were unopposed except the position they took on little for skirmishes with small German Presse Mountain about thirty miles motorized units encountered in the from the Swiss frontier.\"\t.\t\u2022\t.flight dowm the Saone Valley.\tBehind them the Maginot army ! P.artlclpa.)® 'P, ari'r Peace negotia- These troops, it was believed of 300,000 men moved out of the iFrance sa d neopies here, might wage a last ditch fight trap in overloaded trucks.\t.U\t£nevances and demand- to pre- if necessary to win a peace with Finally, last night after 1 the | ^nt dnjustlc®s .*?e r';p,airef\u2018 honor.The first 300,000 are fort- last of General Bessom's forces had ! f°0?I\" jÎ?.e0 The paper said the Andorra should be placed under sole jurisdiction of Spain because Fiance had abandoned all claims to co-sovereignty.Inforinaciones, commenting upon Germany\u2019s invitation to Spain to in a world about to be readjusted.\u201d Reports that Franco had been invited to act as intermediary caused observers to recall that he has had friendly relations with French Premier Petain as well as with ress troops of the Lower Alsace passed through the gap, the Chas-Maginot Line, most of them tinder I seurs broke.command\tof General Bessom, | Almost 1,000 of them stumbled snatched from the jaws of the Nazi ; toward the Swiss frontier, battle-trap as it closed shut behind tl e ; weary, but only a few came into big fortifications.\t| Switzerland to be disarmed.The This is how it happened:\t|remainder turned South to take up Sometimes between the fall of new positions for more fighting.Paris and the fall of Verdun the The flow of French wounded Maginot defenders were ordered to across the Swiss frontier continued send out all available reserves, and to-day.at the same time two divisions of, French refugees reaching Les Alpine Chasseurs were rushed from 1 Verriers said Premier Petain may the Italian front to re-enforce the have had to ask for peace terms Verdun sector.\tj because of the situation behind the Before the Chasseurs reached lines.They said that roads used the Verdun region, however, the; by the rear guard were lined with to Germans bjoLe through on the1 Continued on page 2.col.4.\t4,290,250,000 and 3,722,181,000.CANADA AWAITS PRESENTATION OF NEW BUDGET Terms Of Armistice For France Being Reviewed Conference Drastic Increase in Existing! Taxes and Imposing of New!- Levies Expected in Dorn- France Must Accept or Reject Terms Before They Are Made inion Budget Thursday.\tPublic.German Sources Declare as Hitler and Mussolini Al( , \u2014\u2014\t,\t, .Meet at Munich\u2014French Prepared to Resist Rather than tS«.8c7\u201cteS™?,Y.Sibmit to \u201cDishonorable\u201d Demands.ly in terms of men, ships, airplanes, shells and guns, will be portrayed in dollars and cents this week when Finance Minister Ralston presents his budget.Indications are Thursday will be Budget Day.Then the Canadian public will learn not only the general picture of war finance in terms of hundreds of millions .of dollars but just how extra monies are to be extracted from the pockets of individual taxpayers.All signs point to Mr.Ralston presenting the biggest budget in Canadian history so far, a budget which will call for new taxes and increases in old taxes.The War Appropriation Bill, already passed by Parliament, runs to $70'0.0(K),(KIO and estimates of expon-Continued on page 2, col.5.United States Acts To Halt Transfer Of French Colony Munich, Germany, June 18.(A\u2019) Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Piano, of llaly, arrived at Munich at 3 p.m.(9 a.ni., E.D.T.) today for their conference with Adolf Hiller on the French request for peace tenus.An hour later they sat down al a conference table with Hitler, who had arrived shortly after noon.Hundreds of chnrch hells rang as the Fuehrer reached this Bavarian city, where National Socialism was born in a beer cellar.Authorized German sources said today that France must eilhe» accept or reject the peace terms of llic Axis powers before they are made known to the world.Nothing will he published \u201cprematurely\u201d concerning the peace price asked of France, it was said.These circles said they were convinced Premier Pelain\u2019s final word ________________________________on the proposals must be known be- ™fore anything is mad« public here.Thus a brief communique merely stating the fact of the meeting between Hitler and Mussolini, and nothing more, is all that may be expected today, these informed quart-!ers said.j The communique may be expected sometime tonight, it was said.House Expected to Give Final Approval by Tonight to Measure Authorizing Direct Action if Colonies in Western Hemisphere Are Transferred from One Non-American Power to Another.- & _____________________________________________ Washington, June 18.\u2014(A\u2019) \u2014 The United States Government stepped uj) its efforts to reinforce the political, economic and military defences of the Western Hemisphere today as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini considered the peace terms to be offered France.Leaders predicted Ihe House of Representatives would pass legislation before nightfall charting a course of action in case any attempt is made to transfer French possessions in the New World to Germany.The resolution, approved by the Senate yesterday, seventy-six to nothing, does not refer specifically to the war but serves notice that the United States would not \u201cacquiesce\u201d in the transfer of Western Hemisphere colonies from one non-American nation to another.DOMINION MAY DEFER RULING ON PASSPORTS Possibility that Dominion DEMANDS HONORABLE TERMS Bordeaux, France, June 18.\u2014(ZP) \u2014France, declaring her navy and her air force \u201cintact\u201d insisted today that her peace terms with Germany and Italy be \u2018 honorable.\" While Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were debating Premier Henri Philippe Petain\u2019» request for peace, Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin tolj the French people and the world by radio last night that \u201cif we are given the choice between resistance and honor, the riench army and the whole French people will know what to do.\" As he ;,iO\u201cL3 the Germans wee moving still aecpc\u201d into Franco on virtually all fronLs but the French Might Not Take \u201cRecip- army still resisted, especially at Or-rOCal\u201d Artinn Anainet II R\tseventy miles South of Paris, Hinted rocal\u201d Action Against U.S.^V».u Ch.,t\u201e Ottawa, June 18.-1®\u2014Possibility was seen today in the statement of ,\t, .Finance Minister Ralston that It provtdes that, if any attempt to | Can(|;i mij,ht llot u,k(, «reciprocal\u201d effect such a transfci- appears like-j actjon jn connection with the United \u2022\t,\u2022 ljn,ted State's will consult States regulation requiring Cana- immediately with the other Amer-I dians travelling in the United States to have passports after July J.Loire, a full 120 miles southeast of the Capital.At both of these places, which are on the Loire river, fighting was \u201cviolent,\u201d according to is.night\u2019s communique of the French High Command.\u201cAt.all points of contact,\u201d so.d the communique, \u201cour iroops still are fighting with the same bravery for the honor of the flag.\u201d Baudoin said \u201cWc are ready to lay down arms if wo can get an hon- ican Republics on steps \u201cto safe guard their common interests.\u201d This , The Minjstt.r speakillig.in a radio consultation, the declaration says, I a(k]ress ].tlim,hinfc a tourist drive wdl be in addition to other mea- ] £,ponsored by the Young Men\u2019s Sec- , suies.\t.\tI tion of the Winnipeg Board of | nrable peace, but we are never ready In diplomatic circles it was pro-1 jrafjCj invited American tourists to to accept, shameful conditions which oictcd freely however, that the j Continued on page 2 col.4.I Continued on page 2, col.5.question of sending troops to trench j possessions in this part of the world would not arise, at least for considerable time, These possessions include Guadeloupe and Martiniqu> in the Caribbean, French Guiana on the North Coast of South America, and St.Pierre and Miquelon Islands near Newfoundland.In the first place, it was pointed, these lands have no great wealth like the oil of the Dutch West In- | dies, to which the Allies sent troops \u2018 as a precaution after Germany overran The Netherlands.Canadian Trip To France Failed To Bring CSash With Reich Horde Quebec Assembly Makes Progress In Clearing Legislative Agenda Quebec, June 18.\u2014(®\u2014The Legis- Opposition Union Nationale party amendment to the motion to give the measure second reading.The amendment approved the agricultural credit principal but criticized the bill because it raised the interest lative Assembly was expected today to continue debate on bills in which the Government seeks authorization to establish a Public Service Board, to amend the Lands and Forests\u2019 Act and to limit certain of the Province\u2019s statutary expenditures for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1940.At two sittings yesterday, the Adolf Hitler and Premier Mu.-;-lini.'House voted more than $2,895,000 - !on budgetary estimates and adopted Imeasure, Premier Adelard Godbout to™\t7- orl driision Government bills to give accused Hon.Maurice Duplessis\u2019 Ottawa, 'Tune 8.\u2014 Cr \u2014 Canadian Quebec farmers an additional Union Nationale Government, which production of crude petroleum and $6,000,000 in agricultural credit jwas defeated last fall by the Lib-natural gasoline amounted to 570.- and to amend the Municipal Code.jerals, of having had Communistic During afternoon debate on res lutior.s pertaining to the.credit 131 barrels during March, compared The estimates were voted for the iagents \u201con its payroll.\u201d with 65.1,586 in February and 385,- Departments of the Provincial Sec- j The Premier claimed the Union 273 in March, 1939, the Dominion rotary, Education, Agriculture and jNationale administration had distri-Bureau of Statistics reported today.Civil Service.\tjbuted copies of the banned Com- Natura! gas production amounted The Farm Credit Bill was adopted'munist newspaper La Clarté, seizing 9,862,351,000 cubic feet, against by a vote of thirty-seven to nine, them afterwards to \u201cfool\u201d the Defeated by a similar vote was an Continued on page 2, col, 1.Somewhere in England, June 18.guard had moved on toward* it* «one \u2014 (ffl \u2014 Canada\u2019s Active Service of concentration in France, and had Force, after months of preparation reached Sable, near Tours.They and training, finally got to France hadn\u2019t the faintest idea of how tight I last week primed for front line ac-lthe- German ring was being drawn.Sneculation nersisted here ovpr 'tion, but it wns disclosed, had to turn j Their train glided quietly into the the fate of the French fleet the see :!iroun