Sherbrooke daily record, 2 décembre 1940, lundi 2 décembre 1940

[" r WEATHER Decidedly Cold.krbrnnkp Daily Durnrii TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum 21; minimum, 5.Same day last, year, Max., 4Ü; min., UU.Established 1 897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 19-40.Forty-Fourth Year.THOUSANDS ITALIANS TAKEN BY GREEK ARMY Italian Legions In Full Retreat On Centre Front Surrender of 5,000 Italians Reported Signal for General Retreat in Which Freshly Arrived Troops Took Part\u2014 Greek High Command Confirms Capture of Strategic City of Pogradetz\u2014Position Is Consolidated.FIVE VESSELS SEEKING HELP AFTER ATTACK «- Great Britain Acts To Increase Economic Blockade Against Axis By GUY RHOADES (Canadian Press Staff Writer) \u2014\u2014\u2014-\t| Two signs today emphasized Bri- Reported in Distress as Result Main\u2019s determination to tighten the nl Qnhmarinp ft tt a r k blockad® stranglehold about the LT o U U 111 ci I I ! I c M 11 d u ft o , \\xis\u2019 throat and bring the war to the Three to Five Hundred speediest possible end.Miles Off Ireland.\tlas,t \"i?h\\u'onl : Hugh Dalton, Britain\u2019s Minister ot New Y.rk, Dec.2.\u2014(>P)-Mac-jEconomic Warfare, who broadcast ,\t,.\t.\t,\t,\t\u2022 , Inn appeal to- the United States to kay Radio reported today the mter-.tjffhten jts export controi «s0 as lo ; ception of distress calls from five j cnsUre that no vital materials get Athens, Dec.2.\u2014 W \u2014 Capture of o,000 Italians, the largest mass! of prisoners yet taken by the Greek j army, was announced today from ; the Northern front .Their surrender, dispatches said, i was the signal for a general re- ! treat of of other Italian forces in j the area, leaving a huge gap in the! Fascist centre.Fresh Italian troops sent up to holster sagging defence lines earlier had been reported being smashed back with the regiments they came to reinforce and the Greeks claimed \u201cimportant\u2019\u2019 new advances all along the Albanian battlefront.Mention of the exact place where the front was reported smashed was forbidden by military authorities.They permitted mention merely that it was in the North.One frontline report said \u201cThe victory, without exaggeration, is of -exceptional importance, for the enemy line in this sector has been destroyed and all danger eliminated* for us.\u201d Dispatches from the front and statements by a Greek spokesman pictured the fighting line at the start of the sixth week of war as swinging like a barn door toward the Adriatic from a hinge on the Albanian coast, just North of the Greek frontier, to Lake Orchrida.on the Yugoslav frontier.Stiffest Italian resistance was re- FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ARE PLACED ON ITALIAN FOOD Rome, Dec.2.\u2014ÇP)\u2014Spaghetti, fiour and rice were added to Italy\u2019s list of rationed food products, effective today.Consumers will be permitted to buy a total of two kilograms (about 11 - pounds) of these products monthly.Restaurants were forbidden to serve spaghetti or rice Tuesdays and Saturdays.Other days these dishes may be served only at one meal.ensure vessels indicating they had been j through to the enemy.\u201d torpedoed 400 to 000 miles of the1 Mr.Dalon expressed appreciation West coast of Ireland.\t!° At least three of the vessels in distress were British.Quebec, Dec.2.\u2014((P)-\u2014Royal Canadian Air Force Members at the Manning Depot here were told yesterday by Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve that \u201cYour country has confidence in you and is counting on you.\u201d \u201cThe aviation corps occupies a prominent place in the Canadian and British armies,\u201d said the Quebec Archbishop who celebrated mass in the depot chapel.To French-speaking air force men posted here, the Cardinal .said ; \u201cCanada is proud of you and you are affirming to- your English- speaking compatriots that you are.working for Canadian unity.\u201d The first call came at 11:15 (E.D, T.) last night, when the Portishead radio station said the 5,497-ton British steamship Lady Glanely had been torpedoed at 55 North and 20 West.At 12:53 a.m.today the Valencia radio station said a British ship giving the call letters G-K-I-F was being attacked at 55:03 North and 18:40 West.The ship could not be identified otherwise.At 1:45 a.m.the 5.448-ton British freighter Goodlcigh radioed she had been torpedoed at 55:02 North and 18:45 West.The air lanes were quiet until 3:55 a.m.when Mackay intercepted another call from a vessel apparently giving her name as \u201cS.S.Victoria\u201d and reporting she had been torpedoed at 50:04 North, 10:30 West.Mackay said it was not certain that the name given was \u201cS.S.Victoria.\u201d j Lloyd\u2019s register lists eight Vic- ! toriasi with the- following registry:, British, Italian, Greek (two ships),-United States (two ships), and Ger-ji man (two ships),\t| At 4:20 a.m., there came another : call from a unknown ship which re-] ported she had been torpedoed at ; 54:36 North and 19:25 West, and! j \u201crequires immediate assistance.\u201d i f the things the United States has done already, but suggested: \u201cYou could refuse financial facilities to our enemies (German and Italian bank and security assets in the United States already have bec-n \u201cfrozen\u201d), you could immobilize all enemy ships in your ports, you could decline to trade with firms in neutral countries whom we have blacklisted as friends of the enemy.\u201d The Minister said Germany, hav- ! ing exhausted all the supplies she | seized from the countries she had j overrun, now is in just as bad or | worse condition than six months ago, while Italy\u2019s position is worse than Germany\u2019s.The second bit of evidence came today from Buenos Aires where it was said British authorities were watching closely purchases of Argentine produce for shipment to Spain, Russia, Sweden, Finland and France, all countries through which they oculd be trans-shipped by land to Germany.Business sources in the Argentine capital said British authorities already had frustrated a plan to sell 100,000 ions of Argentine cotton to .Spain.Argentine business men said they : had been warned not to invest large j sums in export ventures for fear it : might become necessary to refuse issue of navicerts without which it isYseless to ship certain products.I Other evidence that the blockade is pinching harder and harder haveS come to light in the recent past.The j miserable showing of Italian soldier-against the Greeks, the famished] condition of Italian prisoners and the indication that they are doing; badly partly because they have no heart in their job constitute good ; indications that scarcity is being fell in Italy.The evidence is not quite so apparent in the.ease of Germany unless it is indicated by the increased | enterprise of the German air force I and the growing activity of German ! naval craft which, normally, show little inclination to fight from the! surface.Again there has been the depar-j turc of German ships tied up in | TampicMexico, all fully loaded.These ships made two attempts to get away, ending the first with a run for cover when they mistook American warships for British ships.One ship was scuttled in the confusion.All these straws in the wind indicate that the Axis partners are beginning to feel anxiety for the future.GERMANY SENDS EXTRA TROOPS INTO RUMANIA Four Fresh German Divisions; Moving Through Hungary as Rumanian Internal Situation Is Aggravated.On the Hungarian-Kumnnian Frontier, Doe.2.\u2014'Ah- Four fresh German divisions were moving through Hungary on route to Rumania today as reports trickling across the border told of increasing anarchy throughout that country.Unconfirmed reports from Bu ,'har-ost said these additional German troops would attempt to restore order there and in other large Rumanian cities where Iron Guard evtrrm-ists have taken revenge on officials of the ousted regime of former King Carol.The German divisions, moving by rail through Slovakia and Hungary, will bolster Nazi detachments already controlling Rumania's oil fields and pipelines.(Four divisions mean approxhn-| rifely 60,000 men.German siren ! in Rumania previously has been ! timated as high as 500,000.) Opposition Appears To Proposed Financial Aid Ts Chinese Government Colorado Senator Declares that Stabilization Fund Is Not Proper Source to Provide Additional $50.000,000 Credit to China\u2014Initial $50,000,000 Already Advanced by Export-Import Bank, -5* DEMONSTRATION AT U.S.EMBASSY GATE mis Was I evidence Congt\u2019essiona! lilsl Dec.2.- (fR) The appeared today of pro- SOUTH AMERICA FIDS EXPORT British Plaies Continue To Blast Submarine Factories that hinge, around ported near Argirocastro.In the Central sector the Greek high command announced the capture of \u201cpoints of special importance for the development of operations\u201d around Premet, eighteen miles North of the Greek frontier.Near Lake Ochrida Italians were said to be retreating through ice and snow toward Eibasani, forty miles Northwest of fallen Pogradetz on the road to the Albanian capital Tirana.The high command said last night ] Reved the Greeks made \u201cimportant advances on the entire front\u2019\u2019 and captured 150 more prisoners.A spokesman added that the Italian retreat was general from Lake Orchrida to the sea, and that Greek bayonet charges had won new fortified heights.\u201cThe booty we have captured (around Pogradetz) is very important and exceeds figures given in the official communique,\u201d he said.\u201cMore to the South, the fresh, select Italian troops which had been rushed to reinforce the enemy have contributed nothing.On the contrary, they suffered the effect of the contagions.\u201d The Greek newspaper Progref answered what it said was an Italian radio assertion that Greek bayonet fighting was \u201ca barbarous form of warfare\u201d by commenting: \u201cBayonet fighting certainly is less barbarous than using Italian bombing planes against non-combatants.Extensive Damage Believed to Have Resulted from Royal Air Force Attacks on Wilhelmshaven Naval Base\u2014Coastal Bases from Southern France to Norway Subjected to Heavy Pounding.\t-\u2014-\u2014 Continued on Page 2, Col.2.London, Dec.2.\u2014 (® \u2014 British bombers raided the German Navy\u2019s shipbuilding yards at the naval base of Wilhelmshaven last night, the Ministry announced today.Germany\u2019s shipyards, especially those in which submarines are bc-to be under construction, have been the targets for several British raids recently.The Ministry\u2019s announcement said: \u201cLast night our bombers made attacks on the naval shipbuilding yards at Wilhelmshaven, all our air-1 craft returned safely.\u2019\u2019 The submarine base and naval i docks at Lorient and the power sta- ; tion, jetty and drydocks at Brest were attacked, as well as a military camp at Kristiansand, Norway, where bombs fell among the barracks buildings and warehouses on the quayside.\u201cAnother aircraft of the coastal command made a successful atlack on the gas works at Asbjerg, in Denmark,\u201d a communique said.\u201cAn explosion followed the bombing and flames covered the whole area.\u201d The raids in the South began early last night, with many Nazi planes crossing the coast.First they dropped flares to light their targets anil followed with incendiary and high STORMY OCEAN I Britain Quietly Tightening Restrictions on Exports to Prevent Goods Reaching Germany.! Buenos Aires, Dec.2.\u2014UP)-\u2014A ; survey of Argentine commercial and agricultural sources indicated to-jday that Britain quietly is tightening' her restrictions on ocean trade in jan effort to keep vital supplies fr m 1 reaching her Axis foes through na-' lions not in the war.; Well-informed sources said Brit-: ish economic experts were watching ! closely shipments of cotton, meats, SURVIVORS OF SUNKEN SHIP REACH HARBOR Seventeen Men Rescued from Steamer Lisieux Declare that Ten Companions Have Perished.YUGOSLAVIA MAY JOIN PACT Budapest, Hungary, Dec.2.- '-'H Diplomatic sources here reported no-day that a week-end conference between Hitler and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Alksander Cinear-Markovic in Berlin had prepared the way for Yugoslavia to join the Axi ; military treaty.The meetng was said to have ironed out details for Yugoslavia to follow Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia, who already rave been added to the German-It-'.lian-Japanese t n-yeav military and economic accord.(There was no confirmation of tile report from other sources.Previous indications were that Yu- ¦! .via hr,a been vesistimr German pressure to join the pact.) Tokyo, Dec.2.\t