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Myrtle Station Rev. G. 8. Gervan and family re- turned on Thursday after a happy and restful holiday of five weeks spent at their summer cottage on Jeffrey Lake. near Pembroke. Mr. Gervan occupied the pulpit on Sunday evening. Sunday School next Sunday at the usual hour. Church service at 3 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Butterworth of Woodville, were in the village on Tuesday of last week, calling on formel neighbours, Miss Evelyn Cross of Bala, who has been visiting for the past week with Beulah Cooper, returned home on Monday. Harvesting, the sound of the whistle of the threshing outfit and the Can- adian National Exhibition are three of the outstanding things that make us realize all too soon that our delight- ful summer is on the wane, fall is just around the corner and Christmas only four months away. However, harvesting and threshing are in full swing in this neighbourhood, and Mr. Ted Heron was the first to finish, with Mr .Chapman a close second. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Oshawa, and Miss Maud Mansfield of Toronto, were Saturday and Sunday visitors ~ with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stredwick. Mrs. A. E. Ramsey was a visitor in _ Toronto on Tuesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Will Draper, Mrs. F. Briggs and Miss Thelma Briggs called on their aunt, Mrs. Nancy Blight of Columbus, on Monday to offer birth- day greetings. Mrs. Blight was 93 years young on that day. 'Mrs. Allen Pritchard of Oshawn, visited recently with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Perrin. Mr. Luther Mitchell has commenced building operations on the foundation of the house that was burned in July. The frame work is already boarded and the roof well on the way. Mr. Nelson' Luery of Toronto spent "the week end with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. aml Mrs. D. Luery. Registration proved a very simple matter after all. Many of the regis- trants were greatly relieved when they learned what the questions really were. They had the mistaken idea that they were of a much more per- sonal nature. When given their re- gistration slips they wondered just what they would do with. them to n- sure their safely. say the least, to hear the varied com- ments and remarks regarding those "flimpsy picces of paper" one man was heard to say that he was going "to have patch pockets. made the pro- per size and sewed on his underwear. when he changed a shirt he would transfer the registration card. In "this way he would always have it with him. Well, it would be just too bad if he should happen to forget to "transfer the card and it went throfigh the wash! Another said he thought his hat band a good place. Maybe =o, providing he always wears the same hat! Many others decided that the best place was in the car along with the driver's permit. That seems to be as save a place as any, but they on't need to meet the law too far away from the car. The ladies were ~heard- to make very few remarks. They accepted their registration cards . in a matter-of-fact manner and at once tucked them away in their-hand bags for safety. We did hear one of - the fair sex say that we should have been allowed at least three for Safely sake, Mr. Frank. Lile of Bellfontaine, Ohio, was in the neighborhood last week buying up pure bred Ayrshire cattle. Mr. and Mrs. William Lantz and \ Miss Brown of Toronto visited last week with Mr. and Mus. Oliver 'Lane. Mr. Ragnar Steen of Whitby, made some business calls in thie district on Friday. The August meeting of the W.M.S. will be held tomorrow (Friday) after- noon at the parsonage. A cordial in- vitation is extended to the ladies of . the community to be present, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Simpkin of _. Toronto spent Sunday under the par- 8 ental roof. 4%. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Slute and three + children visited on Sunday with, Mis. Slute's parents, 'Mr. and Mrs. Field- ing of Raglan, Messrs. Albert Timms hnd Hugo Pradley have had the hydro installed. The power was turned on Monday. + Mrs. Russell Lunney and children are still in.the north country where Lunney is stationed at h deten- 1 camp, ,Mr. Gordon Barton was home on Tuesday of last week, He-is reliev- 'ing at Agincourt while the agent if on hollidays. Mr. Harold Black; Mr, and Mrs. Bill MeCarthey and three children of Nor- It was amusing, to| OSHAWA FAIR Sept. 9, 10, 11 We have Our Orders (Continued from front page) limitation. They work in squads, headed by a corporal or sergeant, or compel the owner himself to deliver the property. Japanese barracks - everywhefe are packed with stolen goods, ¢ $2500.00 in PRIZES Horse Races "and Live Stock Judging both days Sept. 10th, &11th Garden Bros. Grandstand Entertainment, --- Tuesday evening only, Sept. 10th We Invite Your. Exhibits and Patronage. Looting of private homes usually is accompanied by torture, rape and murder. The customary procedure is to string up the man of the house by the arms, so that his feet do not quite thuch the floor. Then his place is ransacked and his wife and daughters abused before his eyes. Special re- finements of torture are reserved for fathers who hide their daughters. After the mass executions, the rap- ing and the looting, a military govern- ment is established in the occupied Chinese town. But this is not the end of barbarity. The killings never cease Some of them are utterly cold-blooded and wanton; some are reprisals for the guerilla sniping of sentries and ENTRIES CLOSE SEPT. 4 val were Sunday visitors at the the raiding of railways. Clarence. Harrison home. Dorothy From hundreds of authenticated and Phyllis McCartney who have been cases of cold-blooded murder, in every holidaying with- their grandparents, part of the occupied zone, I will cite veturned home with their parents. three examples. In Taichow, a Jap Mrs. Harry Austin of Toronto, sentry called a farmer over to him visited on Sunday with Myrtle friends and stabbed him through with a bay- while Mr. Austin went on to call on onet. A countryman bringing pro- relatives in Woodville. 'duce into the city passed soldiers en- Mr. and Mrs. Will Lynd and baby gaged in machine-gun practice. They Neil, of Beaverton, Mr. and Mrs. H. turned the gun on him and killed him, Painter and children of Prospect, Mr. A farmer chased his runaway donkey and Mrs. Manley Wilson of Oshawa, past a sentry. The sentry shot him, were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. presumably because he did not stop Elwood Masters. and kneel. ; Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter and Jack,' 'There is a studied routine of hirutal- Miss Dorothy Hadl and Mr. Jas. Edgar ity at - every -cily - entrance - where all of Toronto, were Sunday guests of farmers bring their produce to mark- Mrs. R. Chisholm, ct. A farmer's wind is knocked out Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stacey, Mr. and of him with a rifle butt. Groups of Mrs. Oliver Lane visited on Sunday farmers ure trussed up like pigs and with Mr. and Mrs. David Broome of left by the roadside all day. A pop- Solina. ular game is to cut off the'cars of Kenneth Slute returned home on ¢ountrymen, Sentries delight in strip- Sunday after a happy two weeks with ping young Chinese women under pre- relatives in Toronto. Harold is visni- tense of searching for revolvers, ing in Brooklin with his uncle and' Sometimes the naked women are tied aunt, Mr. and Mrs..Frank Thompson. 'to posts for the day. Old women are Workmen at the school are making. knocked down with a rifle butt or good progress with the building of the' smashed in the face by a Samurai fist. basement. . Iixecutions in reprisal for guerilla To --<*e@e>------ lattacks arc carefully staged to im- UTICA press as many Chinese as possible. In Hankow the execution place was - Best wishes to the newly weds, Mr. the Bund skirting the river; the city's Batty and Miss Olga Lakey. busiest thoroughfare. Day after day The young people held a weiner the oflicers of foreign merchant ves- roast at Chalk Lake on Thursday ' sels and gunboats had to sit helpless evening of last week. 'and watch hundreds of civilians being A dance will be held in Memory |yyrdered. Some of the captives were Hall on Friday evening, Aug. 30th, iga)lowed to escape into the river, where under the auspices of the Blue Bird' Japanese riflemen picked them off as Club. Music by Williamson Orchestra. they swam. = 'Miss G. Prizeman returned to To- ronto, after spending her holidays with her grandmothgt Mrs. Ackney. ~ Mrs. Carl Wilbur spent a few days | J. If guerillas. are captured in the jnuntains, they are mayched long dis- i tances to be executed in the presence of villagers rounded up to watch, 1 with her son Mr. R. Wilbur. gz Miss Audrey Spraugh and friend holiday at Mr. H. Giebner's. Mr. and Mrs. W. Reid and family of Toronto calling on the Kendall's recently. have the diary of a-Japanese-soldier .in which he tells of escorting a group of captives all day long, two or three being executed at each village reached on the march. The first lot was shot, the second beheaded, the third burned Mr. Jack Geer spent-a week with his grandmother pus. Fred Thom. to death, Along the railways of North China, able-bodied men are conscripted to "i guard the lines and are held respons- Remarks from the Registrar, Mr. F.' 'ible for any damage. If the railway Chappell, for South Ontario. 'is sabotaged, the unfortunate guaran- The response to the reqest for help; tors are massacred and replaced by in this clectoral division was splendid.' others. If a conscript runs away, his 1 wish it was practical to send a per-' father, brother or son is executed. sonal message of thanks to all those The Japanese army is proud of this who did such excellent work in this [arrangement and calls it the system great patriotic service. of "railway-loving villagers." The ladies and gentlemen who! In April 1939 the 'army published formed our staff of deputy-registrars notices in Shantung newspapers that and voluntary assistants were ap-'all males between the ages of 12 and pointed regardless of party or creed,[d0 living in villages from which and without exception they worked] guerilla attacks were made would be devotedly at their task, both before' shot. This was no idle threat; whole and during registration. The result villages have been utterly destroyed of their thoroughness has meant that and every inhabitant killed. compilation will be made much easier.! It would not have surprised afy of Special reference should be made us who have lived in Japan if the navy to the wonderful service given by the| had adhered to the Samurai tradition Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Hun-|of honorable conduc But the navy dreds of citizens have been appre- planes have vied 4 army "jjlanes in ciative of the intelligent aid given by showering death and destruction on those quiet but efficient girls in the open towns. And the navy has sunk uniform of Guides, while every deputy hundreds of wooden fishing junks. registrar is loud in praises of the work Rolls of the Fishermen's Guild in of the Scouts as intelligent messen- Hongkong alone show 8000 men, gers and helpers. This was particular- women and children thus drowned in ly noticeable in the schools in the six months, vicinity of Oshawa and Whitby. The white shoes of mourning are The fullest co-operation was re- seen everywhere. A survey among ceived from the citizens. There were 1500 people.on relief in Huhow show- probably sick people upon whom it ed that nine out of ten had lost a was not possible to call due to the father, mother; sister, brother, son or limited time available but there is no daughter at the hands of the Jap-| doubt that adequate provision will be | anese, made for their subsequent registra-| Foreign protests against this pro- tion ; when they are sufficiently. re- gram of barbarity have merely caused covered to go about their own affairs.[a certain amount of concealment, I estimated that we should be pre-| Soldiers were cautioned to' avoid pared to register 32,68 people. At!places where foreigners congregate. actual close of registration, we find, Yet refugee camps established by mis- that 385,081 were registered. In Portisionaries and other foreign residents Perry the number was 1007, are raided at night for girls and in the "THE REGISTRATION \ \ Q E (RE------E day for able-bodied men to do forced labor. All relief work has been per- sistently hampered and blocked. The cruelty of the Japanese army in China is one of the blackest pages in history. Barbarian invasions of ancient days furnish no parallel. An army under tight discipline, literate, civilized in all the superficials, using the most modern technical develop- ments, is resorting to the, bestial methods sof savages. There can be only one explanation. It was blurted out by a high .officer who listened to an American's protest against the conduct of his troops. He could not interfere, he said. "We have our orders." Registration of Rifles and Shot Guns By an Order-in Council passed on July 29th, 1940, the Defence of Can- ada Regulations were amended by adding Regulations 37B and 37C. A copy of which follows: Pursuant to the Provisions of Re- gulation 378, paragraph 3, sub-para- graph (a), the Attorney-General of Ontario has authorized the registra- tion of rifles and shotguns in respect of which application for registration is made to be performed by the fol- lwing persons: 1. The Chief Constable, the Chief of Police, or head or acting head of the Police Force of every City or town in Ontario. 2. The Clerk of every township and village in Ontario (except the villages and townships here inafter named). 3. The High County Constable of the Counties of York and Lanark. 4, The Chief Constables of the Townships of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, Scarboro, Teck "and Tisdale. The Chief constables of the villages of Forest Hill, Long Branch, Swansea, Humberstone, Delhi and Fergus. 6. All members of the Regular Force of the Ontario Provincial Police stationed in Northern Ontario dis- tricts. Paragraph 2 sets out that all rifles and shotguns must be registered! by September 16th, 1940. Upon registering any firearms a certificate containing the information refered to in regulations shall be pre- pared in triplicate. The original shall be given to the owner of the firearm; the duplicate certificate shall be re- tained by the registering official; and, the triplicate certificate shall be for- warded to the Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Ottawa. Full instruction shall be forwarded to persons | authorized to issue certifi- cates. rnpt To Local Gun Onis Owners of guns in Port. Perry are to make registrations at the Clerk's oflice, in Reach Township with the Clerk at Manchester, and for Scugog with the Township Clerk. SERVICE TO WAR INDUSTRIES. Canadian industry is- today should- ering the great responsibility of sup- plying, directly or indirectly, an ever increasing quantity of War materials for Canada and the Empire. Electricity. and electrically operated! equipment Play a very important part in this production. to assist industry in every way pos- sible, -to ensure that this production is not retarded in any way because of inadequate application or use of electrical energy. In addition, the Sales Promotion Department of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission has made available the services of Power and' Lighting Engineers to work with us in: assist- ing you with any problems whatever, dealing with the application and use of electricity. This service includes: 1. Plant surveys--ip ensure that yout motors are of the right size and type for the job; that your wiring is adequate to keep losses to a minithum, and to take care of increasing loads. . 2. A study of your processes to see where clectrical energy can be used economically to better advantage, to help! speed up production, 3. A Lighting Survey to ascertain where better lighting may reduce waste, fatigue and accidents, and speed up production. ' This service is provided to you gratis, We suggest it has many ad- vantages for you, Please let us know in what way we may particularly assist. you, : : Port Perry Hydro-Electric System It is our desire' Unwilling Canadians Proved Most Helpful to Escaping German. Three days of freedom "ended, a mild-mannered Nazi prisoner of war was placed aboard a train under mili- tary escort, bound for the Northern Ontario internment camp from which he escaped Monday. announced today by R.C.M.P; officials to be "safely under lock and key" after his arrest last night when he sought to cross Victoria Bridge, which spans the St. Lawrence River from the Island of Montreal to the mainland, Officials - said Lorentz, a naval lieutenant, was definitely indentified as the escaped Nazi prisoner after he haa been detained by A. W. Drum, a supervisor of the veterdns' guard of the R.C.M.P., and a veteran of the first Great War and the Boer War. Drum became suspicious when, while questioning Lorentz, he noticed the man had a slight accent although otherwise his English was perfect: After receiving several unsatisfactory replies to questions, he asked Lorentz tor his National Kegistration certin- cate. When the prisoner said he had none, claiming he had been in Canada only a short time trom Norway, he was detained. N Lrurther questioning revealed dis- crepancies in the man's story and finally he admitted he was the prison- er who had escaped from the camp through a tunnel more than 100, feet long. His aamission came after of- ticiuls had established his identity through handwriting tests. Lorentz sought to cross the bridge from the Montreal side, heading for the mainland, which is. sixty miles from the United States: border, It was not known how long he had been in the city. he had reached Montreal by thumbing rides in motor cars. An official said a man believed to have given Lorentz a ride for a good part of the way was "a motorist who knew nothing of the situation," When captured. Lorentz was carry- ing a parcel which contained some food and an old shirt. ~The bundle also contained --road maps and chocolate bars. Under cinternational laws, Lorentz faces- disciplinary punishment, such as being confined to cell at the in- ternment camp for a- maximum of twenty-cight days. Treatment of 'Lhe captive, Guenther Lorentz, was |- Police said the prisoner told them ~ COAL -- The Famous READING ANTHRACITE Place your order now before the Price goes Higher. Lake Scugeg Lumber & Coal Co. LIMITED, Phone 240 w, Hin After Hours 240 j. COAL Ne i OUR BREAD appetite. Our are tasty as well as satisfying, pastry for those who are particular about the flavour, We will be pleased to serve you. JEMISON'S BAKERY THE HOME OF GOOD BREAD AND PASTRY Phone 93, Port Perry. For AAP FG. Ie) POSER (STINE and PASTRY ARE DELICIOUS Just right to satisfy that particular summer hite and Brown, Bread We make to take that responsibility during the coming winter. ahead. A 'Phone 73 w i , i 3 re was wearing a civilian grey suit. A youth in a town north of Toronto showed him how to thumb a ride. Lorentz had never heard of hitch- hiking before. A gasoline station gave him a map. Free maps were something new in his' experience, Motorists gave him free rides to Toronto and on to Montreal. They {T= - - RE Sie RSE - pe OUR RESPONSIBILITY oe It is impossible for each householder to go to the "mines for their fuel, so. they must depend on some one that responsibility and try to keep a good supply of coal on hand at all times but would warn you not to let the bin get too low before ordering. There is not, and will not be any shortage of coal make delivery very slow so Resp' your coal ordered well HONE F. E. REESOR for them. We will accept However, railway facilities : I AT et vo of February, 1941, shall, upon the expiration of the term for which he was elected, continue in office for the further term of one year and un- til his successor is elected and new local board is organized. Where a vacancy occurs during the year 1942 in a local board or muni- cipal: council, the vacancy shall be fed him. They gave him tobacco. One even loaned him $2.00. Free food, free rides, free maps-- prisoners of war who recaptured is governed 'by the Geneva Convention, which does not regard escape as a criminal offense. At first it had been. believed an- other prisoner named Werner Koche, and not Lorentz, was the man who had escaped. that some one had answered Lorentz's name at morning roll-call in the camp Monday apparently in an attempt to give the impression Koche was the escaped prisoner. An intensive search had been under way for Lorentz in the dense bush country of Northern Ontario. For -| three days, armed police officers and Home Guards combed the countryside, aided by a scouting plane. A nation- wide search by the R.C.M.P. was started. Still at large is a German civilian prisoner who "escaped from another Ontario interment camp around the same time, Both Lorentz and the civilian had been transferred to Canada from British interment camps for the dur- ation of the War. Back on duty, all Supervisor Drum would say of the German's detension and arrest was: "He didn't give satisfaction when he was questioned, so 1 ordered him to be held, as it was my duty to do." The prisoner looked weary and un- washed. . Supervisor Drum stepped into his path to ask him the contents of the bundle, Lorentz held it out as he was asked who he was and where he was from. The Nazi gave his name as Harm Nielson and an address in Oslo, the Norwegian capital. He said he had been in Canada only a short time. His guttural accent, though his English was perfect: stherwise, be- trayed him. . Without making any atid pt at re- sistance, he 'went along with the guard supervisor to the toll station at the head of the bridge. A telephone call brought an R.C.M. P. patrol car and he was taken to headquarters, where further questioh- ing brought. an admission of his identity. ; : Lorentz's feet were badly blistered, showing that He. had done some walk- | ing between Toronto and Montreal. -1t ~developed, however, |- Lorentz told police in Montreal, that Canada was a land of plenty. The only thing kindly Canadians failed to give him was a registration card, and Is he had had one he would still have been at liberty NEW UNIT AUTHORIZED ON RECOMMENDATION - OF LIEUT.- COL. McNAUGHTON. The Ontario Regiment (Tank), Oshawa, along with the Three Rivers Regiment (Tank); '1st Canadian Cavalry, London, Toronto, Winnipeg and- Calgary (now at Camp Borden), and the Fort Gorry Horse of Winni- peg, and other western points, are included in an armored brigade which has been authorized for the Canadian Active Service Force, Defence Min- ister Ralston has authorized. He adds that he hopes the brigade will grow into an armoured division soon. Lt.-Col. F. F, Worthington has been promoted to be colonel and will command the brigade, which will be assembled at Camp Borden, Four battalions of the non-perma- nent active militia are designated to do spteial training and be available in case the ormored brigade should be increased. ~ These are: Essex Regi: 'Iment (Tank), Windsor; Calgary Regi- ment (Tank); Argylie Light infantry, Belleville; the New Brunswick Regi- ment (Tank). oY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT EX- TENSION ACT, 1940 (a) "Local board" shall mean school board or board of 'education, public utility commission, 'trustees or board of trustges of a police village. " if (b) "municipal council" shall mean council "of "a local municipality. . 2--Every member of a municipal council in office on the 1st day of Fébruary, 1941, and, elected or ap- pointed to office for a term of one year or part thereof; shall. continue in office for a further term of 1 year and until his successor is elected or ap- pointed and' the new couneil is or- ganized. 2--Every member of a local board 'ot a municipality, in office, on the 16th filled by a person chosen by vote of the remaining members of such local board of municipal council, as the case may be. GE No person shall be chosen pursuant to subsection 1 who is not eligible to be elected to such local board or muni- cipal council. Preparation of Voters' Lists Voters' lists under Parts I and II * | of the Voters' Lists Act shall, during the year 1941, be prepared only where an election is required to elect mem- bers of a municipal council for 1942, or where the preparation of such lists has been commenced prior to the 1st day of February, 1941, Financial Statements For the purpose of receiving the financial . statements mentioned in section 268 of the Municipal Act, a meeting of the electors shall, during the year 1941, be held on the- day fixed for the nomination of candidates for the municipal council to which subsections 1 to b section 258 applies. Vote of Electors The municipal council may, on the polling day for the election of mem- bers of council for the year 1941, sub- mit to a vote of the municipal electors the following question:: Are you in favour as a wartime measure under The Local Government Extension Act, 1940, of the municipal council elected for 1941 holding office for the term of two years? Or if a petition signed by at least five. per centum of those entitled to vote, filed with the clerk not later than five weeks before such polling day, the council shall submit such question to a vote of electors. MARSH HILL Harvest is well on the way around here. : 'Mrs, Shirley 'of Toronto, spending awhile with her sister Mrs. Chapman, Mr. Jas. Kilpatrick spent Sunday in our heighbourhood. One morning last week the people around here were awakened by the noise of the gas tractor, : Mrs. Wilmot Gregg spent Sunday evening with friends at Sunderland. We hear that Mr. John Davidson - | has accepted a school at Udney. Mr. William Boynton had a trip to New Ontario; and reports good crops in that part of the provines, » 3 »