Sherbrooke daily record, 23 mai 1941, vendredi 23 mai 1941

[" WEATHER Fair and cooL berbrookr latlu Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941 ATTEMPTS LAND TROOPS TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximum, $2; minimum, 58.Same day last year: Max., 81; min., 48.Forty-Fifth Year.Sea-Borne Nazi Units Destroyed y Crete Forces Severe Fighting Still in Progress Around Melemi Airport Near Suda Bay\u2014Situation Reported as Satisfactory\u2014 German Air Troops Attempting to Establish Bridgehead for Sea Troops.London, May 23.\u2014W- - A turn in Britain\u2019s favor in the furious battle to wipe out Nazi aerial invasion of Crete while British naval guns were shattering attempts to get seaborne reinforcements to the in-v a d e r s was indicated today in advices reaching London.A report from Cairo military sources said that severe fighting still was in progress today around the Melemi airport near Suda Bay, but that the trend at other invasion points on the Northwest part of the island definitely was to Britain\u2019s advantage.An authoritative source here said the situation today, the fourth since Nazi air transports, gliders and parachutes began pouring sky troops down on the Mediterranean island, was \u201ccertainly as satisfactory as it was twenty-four hours ago.\u201d So long as the British Navy can ward off a threatened invasion by-sea, this source said, there is every reason to believe that the air-borne attack must fail and, so far, it has prevented, any successful sea invasion.All attempts to land force.; on the island from the sea have failed, he declared flatly.The greatest battle between air and seanower ever fought is probably now taking place off Crete, this source added.He said that some losses to warships were \u201cinevitable,\u201d but declared German claims exaggerated \u201cas usual.\u201d (The Germans have claimed four cruisers, several destroyers and a submarine were sent to the bottom, and hits'scored on a battleship, two destroyers and a number of other vessels.) The 30-boat Axis convoy which Prime Minister Churchill yesterday told the House of Commons had been engaged by British naval forces was said to have suffered damages, and Italian ships were reported seen picking up survivors.The navy, however, was said to be facing a tough proposition because it must wage a ceaseless fight close to hostile shore bases in the face of constant air attacks.Furthermore, one source said, the Germans are using powerful formations of dive bombers and the combination of heavy air attacks and confined waters in which the battle is being fought has kept tne navy from chasing its foe back to its own shores.German dive-bombers attacking the fleet were said to have suffered heavily from anti-aircraft fire and it was reiterated that there doubtlessly has been heavy slaugh ter among Germans landed Crete from the air.London informants U.S.WATCHING VICHY ACTION IN NEAR EAST Canada\u2019s First Heavy Tank Rolls Off The Line United States to Maintain Close Watch on All Aspects of Vichy-Berlin \u201cCollaboration\u201d.By LLOYD LEHRBAS, (Associated Press Staff Writer) Washington, May 23.\u2014(Æ*) \u2014 The diplomatic spotlight on potential danger points in new and closer \u201ccollaboration\u201d between the Vichy Government and Germany today-shifted from the Western Hemisphere possessions in Africa and the Near East The United States has received specific and official assurances from Vichy and Martinique, it was learned, that French \u201cco-operation\u201d with the Nazi will not extend into the Western Hemisphere and that the status of Martinique and other colonies on this side of the Atlantic is unchanged.However, no declaration has been received from the Vichy Government, it was said, which would provide assurance that Vichy will confine its future \u201ccollaboration\u201d with Germany Continued on Page 2, Col.3 .- .¦ A y'.Aïv;; ( Heavier Taxation Than rov General Levy of Twenty-Five Per Cent on All Soft Drinks Announced by Finance Minister\u2014Tax on Motion Pictures to Be Extended to Include All Forms of Spectator Entertainment.CANADIANS IN ENGLAND ARE PARACHUTISTS The first heavy infantry tank Angus Shops of the C.P.R.in Notional Defe produced or this continent is shown here as it was given its trial before a distinguished gathering at the Montreal yesterday.Hon.C.D.Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply, Hon.J.L.Ralston, Minister of iso, are shown hers inspecting the chine along with Brig.General Stewart, of Ottawa.Men Are Being Trained to Carry Battle to Nazis Behind Their Own Lines\u2014 Corps Has Been Expanded.By ROSS MLPNRO (Canadian Press Correspondent) London.May 23.\u2014\t\u2014A group of Canadians are members of the new British parachute corps, which trains men to carry the Empire\u2019s battles behind enemy lines by sabotage and frontier fighting tactics.Raising the veil of secrecy around this newest unit in the Briti.-h army, tne War Office told war correspondents the inside story of the new \u201cparatroops\u201d and showed thrilling movies of these men on manoeuvres in England, dropping from troopcarrying planes at less than 500 feet.Described as the \"finest fighting men we have in the country,\u201d the paratroops staged\u2019 a \"secret démonstration last fall on Salisbury Plains and since then the corps has expanded enormously.Commanders of the new unit say there is nothing the Germans have done with parachutes that the British sky troops can\u2019t do.Continued on page 2, col.2.Forty-Three Canadians Are Held En Europe And Africa Iraq Rebels Open Counter-Attack Against British-Held Fallujah ranch Munitions Supplied Nazis For Battle in Iraq SHIFT IN WIND PREVENTED LOSS OF MUCH TIMBER Only Heavy Rains Can Help Fire-Fighters in Nipigon Region\u2014Soldiers Continue to Fight St.Donat Blaze.that the navy would hold nothing back to prevent sea-borne reinforcements, guns, tanks and ammunition reaching the Germans who are described as needing them.One factor favoring the British forces, it was pointed out, are the difficulties of disembarkation on the A shift in the wind saved the lumbering centre of Nipigon, seventy o\u2018n \u2019 miles East of Port Arthur, Ont., from destruction hut flames from .emphasized I the forest fire which menaced the i\taffer she left Freetown in the Ottawa, May 23.-((P)\u2014The piecing together of partial information from many sources indicated today that forty-three Canadian seamen are internees in Europe and Africa, following loss by enemy action of their Canadian ships off the West African coast.Government officials here had set international machinery in motion in an effort to learn more details of the capture by the Nazis of thirty-five men from the tanker Canadolite whose next of kin live in Canada and internment in French Guinea of eight others from the freighter Portadoc.They also sought to learn If possible, the fate of four more Canadians from the Canadolite, including Captain Thomas V.Ferns, of Dartmouth, N.S., about whom no word has yet been received.Just what happened to the Cana- Continued on Page 2, Col.4 town still licked at its outskirts to- British colony of Sierra Leone for day.\t.\tVenezuela is not known.London re- Like the fire-fighters who have por^e(j yesterday she was feared battled other blazing areas in Quebec and Ontario for four days, volunteers and rangers in the Nipigon region believed that only heavy rains could help them stem the ad- Continued on Page 2, Col.5 \u201cFinis\u201d Written To East African Campaign With Italian Surrender London, May 23.\u2014«B\u2014A War Office statement issued today wrote \u201cfinis\u201d to the East African campaign and said that the few pockets of Italian resistance remaining at Gondat in Ethiopia and elsewhere \u201crepresent more of a nuisance than a danger.\u201d Taking the surrender of the Duke of Aosta and his beleaguered forces at Amba Alagi in Ethiopia as marking the end, the War Office statement described the campaign as \u201ca model of concerted action by mobile columns which covered vast distances at almost incredible speeds in the face of strong enemy resistance and great physical difficulties.\u201d And then it told how British Imperial armies and Ethiopian patriot; in about four months conquered three countries and reconquered a fourth, righting the Fascist wrong to advance 1,150 miles from Chi-simaiu to Addis Ababa against well-equipped enemy forces where, it took Marshal Badoglio \u201cseven months to advance 425 miles from Adigrat to Addis Ababa in 1936, although opposed solely by primitively-equipped Abyssinians and with the help of mustard gas.\u201d The statement paid tribute to Italian resistance which, it said, must not be under-rated.\u201cTheir failure was not because they had not fought but because they had been out-fought,\u201d the statement said, adding that British generalship was \u201ctoo good for their defence and it was backed by the superior tactical performance and the fighting qualities of the British troops.\u201d The East African campaign, the statement said, has both moral and material significance as a contribu- that removed Haile Selassie from jtion to rhe final Allied victory, his Ethiopian throne.\tLoss of East African colonies is It remarked ironically that it took t - Gen.William Platt only fifty days! Continued on Page 2.Col.5 sunk off Africa.At any rate, the International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, advised Externa! Affairs Department here a few days ago that Germany had announced forty members of her 44-man crew had been interned at Een-wick, an unknown camp or village.Then, last night, Imperial Oil Shipping Company in Toronto issued an official, corrected list of the Gana-dolite\u2019s crew, There were discrepancies between this list and the one from Geneva.Imperial Oil listed four men who do not appear in the Geneva list, and many of the names differed in varying degree.But a comparison of the lists made it certain that thirty-five of the Canadians aboard were interned along with two fellow seamen, from England and one each from Scotland, Ireland and Newfoundland.The four Canadolite crewmen unreported from.Geneva are Captain Ferns; C.I'.Fraser, first mate from Greenwich, Kings County, N.S.; J.W.Veevers, Montreal: and A.E.Reimann, chief engineer from Welland, Ont.The sinking of the 1,200-ton Portadoc, formerly in the Great Lakes service out cf Fort William, presented a dearer picture.London said yesterday she had been torpedoed off West Afiica April 7 and that her entire crew of twenty-two were saved.Seven, all over military age and including three Canadians, were released.The other fifteen, eight London, May 23.-\u2014 (® \u2014 Iraq rebel forces launched a counterattack against British-held Fallujah, forty miles West of Baghdad, Wednesday night and penetrated the town but the British forces later attacked and re-occupied their original _ positions, an authoritative I source said today.Iraq infantry and light tanks attacked the British forces, driving them first from an outpost at Fallujah, this informant asserted.Then the Imperial forces, he added, counter-attacked after the Royal Air Force heavily bombed the Iraqis, regaining the post and capturing some tanks.Latest reports said British troops were mopping up inside the town while the R.A.F.was pounding the retreating Iraqis.Floods between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers are hampering movements of troops beyond, it was reported.Naz: planes, it was said, made seme attacks on British-held Hab- baniyah airdrome and caused slight damage.The situation at Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf, was described as continuing quiet with some British civilian employees returning- to their jobs.FIRE DESTROYS BARRACKS\u2019 HOSI\u2019ITA L Montreal, May 23.-®\u2014Fire last mght destroyed a portion of a new hospital wing of the, Jacques Cartier Training Centre Barracks at Lon-gueuil, Que., across the St.Lawrence River from here.The blaze, of unknown origin, was quelled by soldiers and firemen from Longueuil.*- Montreal, May 23.\u2014®\u2014Claude Jean Bourcier, 12-year-old refugee from France, died last night in a 10-foot fall from the roof of suburban Mount Royal garage, where he was playing with friends.The j youth, staying with relatives here, I left his parents in France a month ago.Continued on Page 2, Col, 5 WAR BULLETINS London Bad 'weather for the second successive night kept the Royal Air Force and the Germans grounded last night.The regular morning communique said only \u2018 there is nothing to report.\u201d * * * Batavia, Netherlands East Indies \u2014 Informed quarters said today that a new Japanese press attack, bristling with threats and warnings, will not force the Netherlands East Indies from their firm stand in commercial negotiations with Japan.* * * Berne, Switzerland \u2014 French news dispatches from Baghdad said today the Iraq rebel Foreign Minister, Mousa Shabandar, and Finance Minister Maji Soueidi had departed for Teheran to discuss \u201cimportant economic questions\u201d with the Government of Iran (Persia).¥ * * Shanghai \u2014 Col.Kunio Akiyama, official spokesman for Japanese forces in China, acknowledged today that Chinese troops had recaptured Chuki, strategic railhead in Northern Chekiang Province, after a \u201cvoluntary\u201d withdrawal by the Japanese* Jerusalem, May 22.\u2014 (Delayed)\u2014 (/P)\u2014A French colonel who crossed into Palestine frem Syria to join Britain\u2019s forces in anger over the \u201ctreachery and lying\u201d of French mandate authorities disclosed today ;he authorities had supplied French munitions to the Nàzis for use in Iraq.The officer, Col.Philibert Collet, brought an undisclosed number of French officers and men to the British side and besought his fellow-soldiers still in Syria to follow him under the flag which, he said, \u201cwill save us and preserve our country from the slavery tnat is planned for it.\u201d Col.Collet, the French military commander who created the famed Circassian squadron, addressed this message to hi/compatriots in Syria: \u201cFrench officers and soldiers of the Levant: \u201cWe all determined the day after the armistice to defend the Levant.Our chief proclaimed it many times.\u201cGen.Dentz was charged himself with its defence on his arrival and convinced us of his decision.\u201cNow, on May 12, although they long tried to conceal it, German air-! craft landed on our airdromes for fuel and to take on fresh munitions.\u201cOn subsequent days French trains transported toward Tel Kotcheq arms from our stores wni'h the Germans gave the Baghdad Government in the struggle against Britain.\u201cHonor bids us do nothing agains; ,;ur former allies, as Petain said on May 7.\u201cI had not cared to be fooled any longer by those who cultivais treachery, lying to you, and too will ,-efuse to allowthat this country which is entrusted to your keeping, to be handed over to the real enemy, one who in France is soiling our homes and trying to crush our vitality.\u201cBe sure that the way I have chosen under the Free French fiag will -ave us and enable us to save this BRITISH TAKE MORE ITALIANS IN ETHIOPIA Drive in Region South of Addis Ababa Nets 800 More Italian Prisoners.According to London Announcement.London, May 23.\u2014(CP)\u2014British troops have taken Gelute, 25 miles Northwest of Sciasciamanna in the Ethiopian lakes region South of Addis Ababa, and captured more | than 800 Italian prisoners, an! authoritative source in London said ] today.An Italian counter-attack, sup-i ported by tanks and directed at I Gelute, was said to have been re-: pulsed.Farther West, British forces esta-Continued on Page 2, Col.6.j By C.R.BLACKBURN, (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Oltawa, May 23.\u2014 i(P>\u2014Canadians of all classes and all ages are to be taxed even more heavily than contemplated in the war budget Finance Minister Ilsley presented last April 29th.A general tax of twenly-five per cent on all soft drinks was announced by the Minister last night, effective\u2019 today- and at the same time Mr.Ilsley fare notice that the twenty per cent tax on motion picture entertainment would be extended to cover all forms of spectator entertainment, with certain reservations.After nearly two weeks, end of discussion of the taxation changes in Committee of the Whole House was in sight today with only one major clause\u2014that which puts building materials on the sales tax list\u2014 remaining to be disposed of.There may still be considerable debate when the bills based upon the budget resolutions are taken up next week.Many members, representing all parties, for three days tried to have the new Federal tax of three cents a gallon on gasoline made inapplicable to farmers and fishermen.That effort ended yesterday afternoon when the original budget resolution was adopted without vote, but there was a full vision of the House earlier on a ruling of Chairman Vien that an amendment proposed by T.C.Douglas (C.C.F., Weyburn) was out of order.The amendment, fourth of its kind to fall before the rules of procedure, sought to provide exemption for farmers and fishermen, the loss^ in revenue to be made up by increasing the tax rate on other users of gasoline.The chairman\u2019s ruling was appealed by A.W.Neill (Independent, Co-mox-Alberni) and the House divided 112 to 48 to support the ruling.It was a straight party vote, all the Liberals voting against the combined opposition groups.Mr.Ilsley said there had been complaint that the tax of twenty per cent on motion picture entertainment was discriminatory and it had been decided to place it upon all spectator entertainment for which admission is charged.But the Minister of National Revenue will have power to grant exemptions for entertainment which, are not regular and do not follow a pre-arranged schedule, those which, are not conducted to profit the promoters, and those from which the proceeds go entirely to charitable, religious or patriotic purposes.Night club entertainments which do not charge admission will not be taxed.There was quite general approval of the proposed extension, which, will become effective in about three weeks, but a number of Conservative members urged the Minister to make the tax ten per cent instead of twenty, with the argument that the moving pictures were the entertain- Continucd on Page 2, Col.3 Blacklisting Of Jap Tankers By Britain Seen As Reprisal Move country planned from the for it.\u201d slavery that is WILL REOPEN PECK MILLS PLANT Montreal, May 23.\u2014® \u2014 Officials of the Steel Workers\u2019 Organizing Committee, who called a strike at the Pock Rolling Mills Limited here : April 23, announced last night that an emergency conference would be held here Saturday to devise some 1 plan whereby the plant could be re-epened for the exclusive manufacture of war materials.Les Angeles, May 23.\u2014((P)\u2014The British Consulate, through an advertisement in a shipping newspaper, warned today \u201cthe British Govern-m nt will impose all disabilities\u2019 on eleven large Japanese tankers and 81 smaller craft operating in the Pacific.Vice-Consul L.G.Holliday confirmed the warning but said he had no comment.Kenju Nakauchi, Japanese Consul, said: \u201cI cannot understand such an action.Why any Japanese ship should be blacklisted by Great Britain, and particularly these eleven ships listed, which are whalers and tankers, is not easily explain d.\u201d Shipping men interpret! \u201call disabilities\u201d to include possible seizure of the vessels.They speculated the action was in reprisal against reported refueling of Nazi raiders in mid-Pacific by Japanese oil tanker's.They pointed out that the tankers and whalers all are equipped with powerful short wave radio apparatus which could be used to inform Tokyo of British ship movements.One cf the blacklisted vessels, the 19.310-ton Tonan No.3, was scheduled to arrive today.Another, the Kyoyuko Maru, sailed yesterday for Tokyo with 150,000 barrels of oil.On April 30 the British Admiralty-issued a similar warning to several Spanish and Argentinian vessel;, two Turkish boats and one eacn flying the Peruvian and Panamian flags.Later the warning was extended to include \u201call vessels flying the flags of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, which countries now have been declared enemy territory.\u201d The advertisement, in the Commercial News, stated: \u201cCharterers and shippers are advised in their own interests that by reason of contravention of British regulations, the British Government will impose all disabilities :n their power on trading of the undermentioned vessels .Continued on Page 2, Col.5 2, SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941 BULGARIAN LAW GIVES AMNESTY TO THOUSANDS Ivan Mihailov, Head of the International Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Among Those Affected.Sofia, May 23.\u2014(JP)\u2014The Bulgarian Parliament passed a law of amnesty today affecting several thousand political prisoners, including the Macedonian revolutionary chief, Ivan Mihailov, who has been a refugee for more than six years.Mihailov has been a thon in the side of Balkan Governments since 1925.Since then he has h?a led the International Macedonian P.evolu-tionary Organization\u2014the dreaded Imro\u2014which had as its aim the restoration of an independent Macedonia from territory now belonging to Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.He fled to Turkey from Bulgaria in 1934, and in the following year was sentenced to death in absentia bv a Bulgarian military court.Charged by his enemies with responsibility for 3,000 assassinations, Bulgaria declared him an outlaw and told citizens to shoot him on sight.Yugoslavia tried to extradite him for complicity in the murder' of their King Alexander in 1934 at Marseille.When Nazi troops entered Bulgaria this spring Mihailov was said to have turned up there again.BLACKHEADS Blackheads simply dissolve and dis-appear by this one simple, safe and sure method.Get two ounces of peroxine powder from any drug store, sprinkle on a hot, wet cloth, and apply gently \u2022\u2014every blackhead will be gone.SECURITY FLEET FOR US.TO COST $2,500,000,000 Thirteen Thousand Bombing and Fighting Planes to Be Ready for Action in Approximately Eighteen Months.Washington, May 23.\u2014'(TP)\u2014The United States War Department will soon ask Congress, informed quarters said today, for a $2,500,0'00,-000 appropriation for a new \u201csecurity fleet\u2019\u2019 of 13,000 bombing and fighting planes to be ready for action in approximately eighteen months.The 13,00'0-plane programme j would be superimposed on the present 21,000 army goal, as well as other undisclosed additions already proposed.The \u201csecurity fleet\u2019\u2019 outlay was expected to give fresh impetus to President Roosevelt\u2019s recommendations for the production of 500 bombers a month.Legislators consulted about the programme explained that if the war still was on when the planes started to roll off the assembly lines and Britain needed them, there appeared to be little doubt she would get a substantial share under the lease-lend programme.SCHOOL PUPILS STAGED DEBATE AT ULVERT0N Miss Joyce Rye Winner of Silver Cup from Ex-Chairman of School Board.DAKLAN STATES HITLER HAS NOT DEMANDED FLEET Shift In Continued from pace 1 viince of the flames.The blaze whicn destroyed homes of settlers in the Nipigon district and forced three hundred woodsmen to flee from a timber camp at Me-Klrdy, Ont., was midway in a chain of tires stretching across Canada I from the Laurentiana to the foot- - | hills of the Rockies.Nn fliipgtinn nf Franrp Ahnn.Manitoba was the only province no uuesuon ot r-rance Anan in not rep0rting fires.aonmg in Any Way Hfiri Greatest damage was reported on Sovereignty, Vice-Premier\t\u201d1, frh\u201dî NINE DEAD IN EXPLOSION AT BICKNELL MINE INVESTIGATIONS PRESSED IN U.S.STRIKE TIE-UPS BIRTHS McGRAIL\u2014At St.Vincent de Paul Hospital on May 22nd, 1941, to Mr.and Mrs.Harold McGrail, a son, Thomas Kenneth.Seven Bodies Found in Work- Witnesses Summoned iiii, \u2022 I I i | I i i AT THE NEW PREMIER THEATRE New Adm.Prices Including the Federal War Tax: Mat.: 20c, 25c; Eve.25c, 35c.¦ Ifil! Only Two Days Left to See These Two Fascinating: Screen Hits! Heroic Drama .And a Heart-Tug: I to Every Turn of the Propeller! Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, Edmund Lowe in \u201cMEN AGAINST THE SKY\" 2nd Big: Hit\u2014The Sensational Radio Personality .BOB CROSBY (Bing\u2019s Brother) And His Orchestra in a Jamboree of Joy Crowded with Youth, Pep, Son» and Swing:! \u2018LET\u2019S MAKE MUSIC\" with Bob Crosby, Jean Rog-ers, Elizabeth Risdon.Joyce Compton, Jac-ueline Nash, 11-year-old Song: Bird.\u201cFU MANCHU\u201d\u2014World Eventa Performances Daily at 2, 6:30, 8:15.\u2014COMING WED.UNTIL SAT.\u2014 Terror, Suspense, Chills.The Most Thrilling:\tMystery Picture of the Season! \u201cA SHOT IN THE DARK\" with Wm.Lundipan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez.Reg:is Toomey.Also a Thrill Loaded Medley of Bullets and Ballads! \"BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRATRIE with Johnny Made Brown, Fuzzy Knigrht.Kathryn Adams, Neill O\u2019Day.Buster Keaton in \"HIS EX MARKS THE SPOT.\" IliilWIilM! iiimmir (In Sherbrooke, Quebec) TODAY TO SATURDAY THE screen has never SEEN ITS EQUAL ! 20 dazzling star*! 200 glorif i e d girls) Spectacle, drama, romance! 10 HIT SONOSi Minnie from Trinidad '\"You Stopfyad Oof of o Oreom STEWART JUDY GARLAND LAMARR LANA TURNER wltk 1DNY MARTIN JACKIE COOPER \u2022 IAN IIRTII \u2022 CHARLES WINNINOER\u2019EBWARD mRETT HORTON PHILIP HORN Added Attraction They were both young.,, gay penniless; They were both looking for millions to marry; But when they meet.and kiss in the dark .get set for the most hilarious love tangle in \u2018TREE AND EASY\u201d with RUTH HUSSEY.ROBERT CUMMINGS.Canadians In Continued from Page 1.\u201cWe have n number of Canadians with us; and tough, scrapping soldiers they are,\u2019\u2019 the Colonel commanding the parachute corps told The Canadian Press.\u201cThey are Canadians who came from the Dominion, most of them around the start of the war, joined British regiments and then volunteered for this new service.\u201cI\u2019ll wager they rank with our best paratroops.\u201d An English sergeant who has made many leaps said \"Some of my buddies are Canucks and they\u2019re turning out lo be daring jumpers and handy with our particular fighting tactics.I wish I could give you their names but we still keep that under our hat.\u201d The paratroops are all volunteers who served in British regiments.They are picked for youth, initiative, hardiness and daring, and receive extra pay for their dangerous job.Seldom are they seen outside their base or training camps and when one appears on a London street in khaki battle dress wearing his parachute corps emblem \u2014 light blue wings with a white dot on a parachute in the centre\u2014it creates a mild sensation.\u201cThis is not a daredevil business but is calculated and scientific and for this reason our training casualties have been practically nil,\u201d said a Colonel.\u201cThere have been more volunteers than we can handle and the number that leave the service is negligible.\u201d At a training school the volunteers are given rigorous physical training and then start jumping from platforms.A dummy airplane fuselage is used to instruct them in dropping rapidly through the hatch in the bottom o\u2018f a plane.After_ this initial training they are assigned to parachute units where they get actual parachute jumping practice and specialized infantry training.\u201cDropping the men is only a small part of the job,\u201d said \u2018 the Colonel.\u201cThey must be able to fight with special tactics.\u201d The movies illustrated the amazing development of the army\u2019s sky raiding corps and showed a\u2018squadron of planes dropping about two hundred paratroops.The men popped out of the hatches in the bottom of the planes at second intervals, a secret automatic device opening the \u2019chutes.Each carried weapons, some Bren guns, some tommy guns, or rifles and revolvers.The paratroops wear flying helmets, gabardine jackets over battle dress, high leather boots with rubber soles, and knee pads similar to those worn by Canadian basketball players., i^n\tthey enn release their chutes ami harness in a few seconds, ready to harass the enemy with guerrilla fighting.Uleerton, May 23.\u2014An interesting event was the well-attended debate held in the David Dunkerley Memorial by the senior pupils of the Intermediate School.Their subject was \u201cResolved that Canada has ueUer vacation facilities than the United States.\u201d The affirmative sled was upheld by Wilfred Lofft, captain, Marjorie Gil-chiist and Gladys Massey, and the negative by Walter Couchman, captain, Joyce Pye and Muriel Patrick.Miss Helena Johnston acted as Chairman and Phyllis Skillen as time-keeper.The judges were Mayor J.Gardner Smith and the residan-clergy, Rev.A.W.Seton, B.Th., and Rev.H.Denton.The decision of the judges, announced by Mr, Seaton, was in favor of the negative side.The first prize, a silver cup from ex-chairmen _of the School Board, was won by Joyce Pye, who was also awarded a cash prize.Ths second prize was won by Gladys Massey, and third prize equally by Marjorie Gilchrist and Muriel Patrick.The second and third prizes were also money, all of which was donated by Mr.and Mrs.Chester Lyster, of Toronto.Mr.Lyster is a graduate from the school here, and ounger son of Mrs.C.N.Lyster, of Kirkdele.who attended the debate, after having recently celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday.A silver collection was received by Lome Bogie and Garth Husk.A sale of candy helped swell the proceeds, which will be donated to the Red Cross Society.The silver cup has already been won by Leo Mooney, Aleca Hughes and Muriel Patrick, the School Board having had their names engraved on it, also the date on which it was won.The evening was brought to a close with the singing of the National Anthem with Miss Laurie Fraser as organ accompanist.General Note* Mr.Elwyn N.Doyle, of Montreal, is spending the vacation week-end at his home here.Mr.Ralph Bilton, from Alberta, has been visiting friends hors while vacationing.Miss Alice Bothweli, of Montreal, was a week-end guest of Miss E.Walker.Mr.and Mrs.Melzar Cummings and little daughter are guests of Mr.Cummings\u2019 parents, Mr.and Mrs.F.A.\tCummings.Mr Cummings has spent several years in the Canadian West.Miss Winnifred Waterhouse, of Drummondville, and the Misses Mabel and Nellie Waterhouse, of Richmond, were week-end guests at the home of their parents, Mr.and Mrs.B.\tD.Waterhouse.Declares.where timber valued between 000.WM) and $5,000,000 was destroyed by flames sweeping through the U.K.FIRE SERVICES ARE BEING UNIFIED London, May 23.\u2014-The Fire Services Bill bringing Britain\u2019s firefighting forces under unified control was given Royal Assent yesterday and thus became law one week after its introduction in Parliament, the British Broadcasting Corporation said last night.(In the House of Commons Tuesday', the bill was the cue for a caustic attack on the Government by Viscountess Astor, Conservative.Lady Astor charged the Government with \u2018Tack of leadership on the home front\u201d and said Home Secretary Herbert Morrison had neglected blitzkreig defences.) New York, May 23.\u2014(/P)\u2014Mrs.Pauline Arnoux MacArthur, seventy-three, prominent in finance, art and international social circles, who numbered Marshals Foch, Joffre and Petain among her acquaintances, died yesterday.Her father was the tate State Supreme Court Justice William Arnoux, of New York.U.S.Watching Continued from nage 1.strictly' to its armistice obligations.Officials here emphasized that Vichy's action in permitting Nazi warplanes to utilize Syrian airfields for attacks on British forces in Iraq provided a \u201cdisturbing example\u201d of the aid the Vichy Government might give Germany' in Dakar, Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia \u2014 or even in unoccupied France.The United States, it was said in informed quarters, will continue to maintain a close watch on all aspects of Vichy.Berlin \u201ccollaboration\u201d and \u201cwhile no specific action is now contemplated \u2014 will be ready to act whenever hemisphere interests warrant.It was likewise said there would be no more shipments of food to unoccupied France or supplies to the French North African colonies until the United States received satisfactory\u2014and preferably written \u2014 assurances that Vichy would not go beyond the armistice terms in cooperating with the Nazis.State Secretary Hull\u2019s statement that there had been no recent developments that changed the general situation in this hemisphere was said in informed quarters to have been based on information from Vichy and from the Government of Martinique.Martinique authorities are understood to have officially informed American consular officers at Fort-de-France that on the basis of official dispatches from Vichy there was no intention of extending Vichy-Nazi \u201ccollaboration\u2019 into the Americas.Vichy, May 23.\u2014LP) \u2014 Viee-Fre- Laurentian district of St.Donat, mier Jean Darlan in & broadcast ^ue- Ei*ht hundred fire-fighters, speech today said Hitler had not ask- including 400 soldiers in that area ed for the French fleet or any wer*\tto hold back th« fire colonial concessions during the cur- u rai\" came, rent negotiations.\tof.tb?\u2018w:orst £res .ln the Darlan declared \u201cGermany began oistorlr pi Northern Ontario was the war alone and judges herself bu!:nlnK in bhe ,Gofa,mua area-thirty able to end it alone against any ^Tes South of Sudbury.Forestry coalition \u201d\t&\tj branch officials were ready today \u201cOn FK« rnciiU rvf\tSei1^\t111611 fr0m North Bay progress,\u201d Darian asserted, \u201cdirectly ££ ^ ^ftimat^Tt S square depends the future of France.It is miies necessary for her to choose between ; North of the Sudbury-North Bay life and death.The Marshal and region the mining communities of Government have chosen life.; Timmins and Kirkland Lake re-_ He read that in June, 1940, the ported some relief from the fires, victor could have refused us an most of them definitely under con-armistice, beaten us and wiped trol.France off the map of the world\u2014 I On the far Western flank of the but he did not do it.\u201d\tjfire front, H.E.Gray, homesteader Now, Darlan said, \u201cIn May 1941, of the Rocky Mountain House dis-the victor has agreed to negotiate trict of Alberta, and his wife and with the French Government.\u201d i seven children were saved after the The Vice Premier said he had gone'wind changed direction and sent a to Berchtesgaden to confer with Hit- bush fire roaring against their 1er at the latter\u2019s request, but said cabin.They lost their home, cloth-Vichy \u201cfreely chooses the road ing, furniture and all Gray\u2019s winter which she has taken.\u201d\ti wages.\u201cAt no moment in the conversa- '\t\u2014- tions (with Hitler) was there a F'orty\u201dThl*e6 question of France abandoning ini\t< any way her sovereignty,\u201d he said' Continued from page Î.emphatically.\ti Canadians among them, were intern- Darlan told the French people e