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] ry HOOT DOWN 22 ITALIAN PLAN IN EGYPT PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. AAA The Oshaua Daily . Times PROBS Partly Cloudy and Cooler Tonight and Wednesday; Scattered Snowflurries, AAPA! a OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1940 Single copies 3c TEN PAGES. VOL. 27--NO. 113 GREAT VICTORY IN EGY 4,000 Prisoners Captured By British REACH SEA TWIXT ITALIANS AND LIBYA Both Fascist Wings In Full Flight Before Advancing Grecians Ii iportant New Posi- tions Captured by Greeks Both in North and South Drives Aimed at Elba- sani and Chimara-- Weather May Save Italians From Annihil- . ation Athens. Dec. 10 (CP) Greek forces | were reported today to have captur- | *#ed important new positions after in. | flicting heavy losses on units of the | Italian 9th Division in a hand-to- | hand battle. This apparently was in the north- ern section of the Albanian front, where the whole region around Lake | Ochrida was said 'to have been | cleaned up and the pace of the Greek drive generally accelerated. It is aimed toward Elbasani, 25 | miles from Tirana, Albania's capital. | On the southern sector also, the | Italians were said to be retiring | steadily toward Chimara, with the Greeks pressing hard on their heels toward the port of Valona. Both wings of the Fascist fighting front in Albania were reported in full flight today with the Greeks ad- vancing hard on the heels of re- treating Italians toward the big port of Valona and Elbasani, 25 miles * from Tirana, the capital. Today's Greek high command (Continued on Page 10, Col, 5) SUGGEST STRIKES IN WAR INDUSTRY BE MADE TREASON Idea Seen as U.S. Congress Possibility-- Held Quite Justifiable Washington, Dec. 10.--(AP)-- United States House of Represent- atives members seeking ways of preventing strikes in defence in- dustries said today that congress, as a last resort, might be asked to make any stoppage of preparedness production punishable as treason. Representative Sam Hobbs (Dem- Alabama), member of a house judi- clary subcommittee empowered to (Continued on Page 10, Col, 5) | a weekly average of 65 weeks of | '| plane for the Royal Canadian Air Fewer Vessels Sunk In Week of Dec. London, Dec. 10. (CP)--The ad- miralty announced today 13 mer- chant ships totalling 52,229 tons were sunk by enemy action in the week ended Dec. 1, compared with | | war of approximately 62,000 tons. The latest report included nine British ships totalling 41,360 tons, | three allied ships totalling 5,734 | | tons and one neutral ship of 5,135 | tons. It was added that the Germans | claimed they sank 227,500 tons of | shipping in the week ended Dec. 1. { ot Today's figure was down 35,000} ©. | tons from the previous week and! sing was approximately one quarter of the highest week's losses in recent | months, the 198,000 tons sunk in | the week of Oct. 14-21, CHARGES POLICE FLOGGED UNION | MAN IN WINNIPEG Alderman Makes Startling Charge Before City Council Winnipeg, Dec. 10 (CP) -- Ald. John Petley charged at last night's city council meeting that a member | of a Winnipeg trade union had | been flogged at the central police | station but that the union had re- | fused to complain to the police | commission because he said the union felt it would be futile to ex- pect redress. It was Ald. Petley who charged at a council meeting last March 5 that the Winnipeg police depart- ment was inefficient. Those charges led to a royal commission investiga- tion and the report of the commis- sion, headed by Mr. Justice W. J. Donovan, exonerated the depart- ment of all major charges. Petley said the union member told him he had been hand-cuffed to the police station cells with his feet off the floor and there beaten by police, Petley did not reveal what led to the arrest of the man or the disposition of his case. | |" through [FLAMES IN NAZ) HELD PORTS SEEN FROM KENT © R.AF. Wreaks Havog: in Lorient and Boulogne --Bomb Bremen London, Dec. 10. (CP)---A Bremen airplane factory, the Nazi naval base at Lorient, France, and the Docks of Boulogne were heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force last night, the air ministry announced today. A British bomber shok down a| German fighter plane, the ministry | said. One British plane Fires, started by Force along the coas couldibe seen fom today still 'Wurning fiercely. Th mid-channel haze and a ' drizzle ssed by mid-morning and the suh eaking through the clouds re- vealgd the fires from which clouds ack and white smoke were Britons Miss Bombisits Britons were pleased but puzzled Wa Sag guenay ay to Port Unaided DST Bow Submerged Ploughed Still No Trace of | Lost Local Flyer today by a new lull in the Nazi air | siege as more than 24 hours passed without alarms or reports of bomb- | ings. Throughout , the night sky over London for planes which (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) Oshawa Civil Guards Hold Last Parade for 1940 Wednesday Night The weekly meeting of the Osh- awa Civil Guard is to be held Wed- nesday evening at 8 o'clock at the | Legion Hall, Centre street, when the | speaker will. be a member of an | Ordnance Corps recently returned from England who will tell of the activities of the ARP. in England. | This subject has been placed before | € | the Volunteer Civil Guards here at | recent. meetings. The meeting on Wednesday will be the last for 1940, due to the holi- day season, but starting on Wed- | nesday, January 8, 1941, the weekly meetings will be resumed, the of- ficer ccmmgnding stated today. His Worship Mayor J. C, Ander- son will be present at the meeting on Wednesday evening and will outline some of the steps now be- ing arranged to convert the Vol- unteer Civil Guards into a Civil Defence League. It is expected that at the beginning of the new year civil defence will be placed cn a broader basis. } Finance Minister is Ob jective For Swelling "March of Dimes' Ottawa, Dec. 10 (CP).--Canada's dimes are on the march, moving from all corners of the dominfon to the office of Finance Minister Ils- ley where they will go toward the purchase of a Hurricane fighting Force, Already $560 has come in. Postage is unnecessary to place a 10-cent plece in this "March of Dimes" which originated in Corn- wall, Ont, and spread throughout the dominion, An official of the finance ministry. explained that all business letters addressed to a mini- ster of the cabinet are delivered postage free, Many people have not been con- tent to send only'a dime. One wo- man in western Canada wrote that she was # her 10-cent piece ald ut would work its way out of the en- velope, so she wrapped it up in a dollar bill.. The campaign started some two weeks ago, the idea being to drop a dime in an envelope, address it to the finance minister and mark it "to buy a Hurricane." Some people are paying postage on their "march of times" letters anyway. Others are putting a 25- cent war savings stamp on their | letters. First contributions came from a group of employees in a Cornwall mill. Next dimes trickled in from Fort William, Ont., then from Win- nipeg and then from all over, even from the United States although American letters mush carry post- age, and | the .early morning rush ! | hour, rooftop spotters watched the A.C. ERNEST W. BOURNE Fingal, Ont, Dec. 10 (CP)--The disappearance of a Fairey Battle Bomber during training operations here Sunday was still a mystery toe day. Searching airplanes and lake vessels have failed to find any trace of the bomber .or its three-man crew. Three men are missing includ- ing Alrcraftsman Ernest W. Bourne of Oshawa. The airplane vanished into a cloud while towing a "drogue" or target over Lake Erie for another airplane from the bombing and gun- nery air school near here. It has not been seen again. Sea Saga Told Told by Sea- men On Arrival in Britain -- 21 Seamen Lost and 18 Injured in Clash With Submarine London, Dec. 10 (CP) -- A Saga of the sea was dis- closed today as Canadian | thaval men, described how their ; er the Saguenay, At sisted in- Ryle port afiferi® tilt with Y g submarine, ' Fi aguenay was brought a ll under the guidance of Cmdr. George Miles, a man the crew described as a 'model skipper', and whose scraggly beard gave evidence of his long vigil on the bridge where he directed a skeleton crew. For four and one-half days the Saguenay, which was en- route to Britain when attacked by a submarine lying idle on the surface, pushed her way fseveral hundreds ofy miles through battering seas, her bow so far under water that the prow could not be seen from the forecastle. 21 Seamen Lost Ottawa, Dec. 10 (CP)--A brush with an enemy submarine in the Eastern Atlantic has sent the Cana- dian destroyer Saguenay to port for repairs, and resulted in the death of (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) War Is Between Capital And Labor, Says Hitler, Claiming He Defends Labor Says He Is Ye Fighting for "Have' Nots"' Against British, American and French "Haves" Berlin, Dec. 10 -- (CP) -- Hitler shouted "We will defeat the entire world" in a speech to munitions workers at a Berlin factory today. Hitler pictured Germany as the champion of labor in a war between capital and labor. The speech was studded with attacks on capitalism and democracies, "Our capacity for work is our gold, our capital, and with it we will defeat the entire world," he declared. Labor's Champion New York, Dec. 10--(AP)--Hitler (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) Alger, Dafoe Should 'Have Tried This Idea Lynchburg, Va. Dec. 10 (AP).-- pital as a result of a spinal fracture, may be down but he's not out of these hot council budget sessions Last week his fellow members mov= ed the meeting from city hall to the hospital. Yesterday the meeting was held at city hall with Patter- son "sitting in" at the hospital end of a two-way address system. +» Councilman C. G. Patterson, fn hes= RALSTON TALKS 10 KING GEORGE AT BUCKINGHAM Received by His Majesty at Buckingham Palace London, Dec. 10. (CP Cable)-- Hon. J, L. Ralston, Canadian Minis- ter of National Defence, was re- ceived by the King at Buckingham Palace today where he had an op- portunity to tell His Majesty first hand of Canada's military effort in the war, Later Col, Ralston was guest of honor 'at an official government luncheon resided over by Viscount Cranborne, secretary of state for the Dominjons, The afternoon was devoted to conferences with various high offi- clals at the war office, to which Col. Ralston was accompanied by Maj-Gen. H, np, @. Crerar, chief of the Canadian General Staff. "The ministeq hopes shortly to visit Lt-Gen. A, @, 1, McNaughton's corps headquarters, He will also confer with L Briusn government heads. cloakejl In that false Ulster is ready, Churchill Tells of Successes In First Phase of Offensive ToDrive Italians from Egypt 2 Nazi Spies Executed in London Jail Posed as Refugees -- Used Secret Radios at Night London, Dee. 10 (CP). --Two Nazi German agenis were executed just after dawn today at Pentonville Prison. The official announcement of the execution identified the two as Jose Waldberg, a German citizen born at Mainz, and Karl Meier, a Nether- lands subject of German origin born at Koblenz. It sald they had been arrested soon after they arrived in England, but the date was not given They were executed at 9 a.m. to- day (4 am. ED.T.) at the gloomy North London prison. It was the first announcement since the war started that spies had been execut- ed. The two German agents were con- victed at the central criminal court Nov. 22 under the Treachery Act. Waldberg, 25, and Meier, 24, were accused of having a radio transmit- ter which they erected in secluded spots in the countryside at night. The men, authorities said, appar- ently had instructions to pose as re- fugees from German-occupied terri- tory and to move about the country, picking up whatever military infor- mation they could. They were said to have been sup- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) Couldn't Save Nazi Ship from Scuttling London, Dec, 10--(CP)--The Ger- man freighter fdarwald sank after a prize crew placed aboard by the British cruiser Diomede, failed to prevent her scuttling, an official announcement said today. The Ger- man crew of 45 are prisoners aboard the Diomede which sighted the German ship off Cuba Sunday. The British raced up to the ship and put out the fire started by the Germans but were not able to prevent her sinking as she was fill- ing fast from open seacocks, F ree French Forces Aiding British in Egyptian Desert British Premier Declines to Say Whether Fascists at Sidi Barrani Cut Off From Libya by Bold Thrust Between There and Buq Bugq, 35 Miles West of Italian Base Offensive, Due to tories in Albania Open Earlier, Was Postponed to Enable Royal Air Force to Give Greeks Assistance Which Aided Vic- over the Western Egyptian London, Dec. 10 (CP) -- The Air Ministry has : announced that twenty-two Italian planes were shot down desert in fighting yesterday. London, Dec. porting today on the ° ful" between Sidi B "most important' the Nile, "It is too soon," ations which are in progress. added that British warships coastal positions of the Italian Sidi Barrani. shortly in a seciet session. oo - 10 (CP) -- Prime Minister Churchill, re- 'preliminary phase' on Italian positions in Egypt, said that they had been "success- and Jlaslosed that British forces had reached the coast arrani and Buq Bug. to a question, declined to say whether this meant that the Italians at Sidi Barrani were cut off. (Bug Bug is 35 miles west of Sidi Barrani, about half way between that town and the Libyan-Egyptian border.) He said Royal Air Force aid for Greece which had proved in the Greek victories had caused a tempor- ary postponement of the attack against the Italians in Egypt, in which Free French forces had co-operated with the army of of a British attack Mr. Churchill, replying CAN'T FORECAST SCOPE the Prime Minister said, forecast either the scope or the result of the considerable oper- "to attempt to But we can at any rate say that the preliminary phase has heen successful." Mr. Churchill said the Mediterranean fleet and the Air Force "are of course co-operating closely with the army, " and -have bombarded the various forces, particularly Maktila and He also announced substantial increases in coastal coms mand aircraft for the protection of convoys in waters around Britain and said the House would debate shipping problems TAKE 4,000 PRISONERS London, Dec. 10 (CP) -- British forces have taken 4,000 Italian prisoners in their drive in the Western Egyptian desert, a communique of the African Command announced today. Storm Two Camps' Ontario Regiment Unit is Stationed 's Parent in Ulster EDITOR'S NOTE: Sam Robertson, superintendent of The Canadian Press London bureau and war co:respondent, made a 500-mile 'tour of Northern Ire- land's defences and describes it in this article, of three. By SAM ROBERTSON (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Belfast, Dec. 10 (CP).--The mist- capped hills and rolling valleys of northern Ireland today seem as se- first of a series rene as they have been pictured down through the years by fash- joners of lyrics. But the truth of the matter is that a Dbattle-anxious force is serenity, even anxious, to face up to the axis enemies if they are emboldened to try an invasion. In keeping with the numerical strength of the available manpower that is being increased, defences steadily are being strengthened. The air and sea arms of the scheme worked out to meet an enemy thrust are prepared to play their part. Significant as are these 'various factors, they 'are over-shadowed by the fact that the army, directed by, Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Pownall, general officer commanding, is thoroughly equipped for its job, In the words of one high staff of- figer I met during a 500-mile tour (Continued on Page 10, Ool. 4) London, Dec. 10--(CP)--Desert= trained British troops were reporte ed today to have stormed two strongly-defended Italian camps, south of Sidi Barrani, and military observers declared the big surprise raid started yesterday seemed to be developing toward .a full- fledged offensive, These @ircles added, however, that so far the "strategic position of the Italians have not been greate ly altered by, the operations" in which more than 1,000 Italians have been capi They sald doubt that the met with "ini ere could be no itish forces had success" in the an advance posts positions the Brite not be expected to similar gains. im-