Note: The following article was written by a Staff Officer of the Royal Canadian Navy. Because of naval his name can not be diâ€" vulged. In the course of his duties, says a note from the Director of Pubâ€" lic Information, it has been necessary for this officer to study carefully all German claim:;; of successes against the British naval forces, and to check the facts against these claims. How ridiculous most of these claims are, and the purpou> for which* they are made, the Canadian naval officer exâ€" plains in his @rticle.â€"Editor The Adâ€" vance. (By Staff Officer, Royal Canadian Navy) Recently public attention has been focussed on the conflicting claims of the British and German Commands in the matter of air activities by a grapâ€" hic radio of an attack on a convoy and by a USA. newspaperâ€" man‘s eyeâ€"witness account of a Gerâ€" man air raid on the South coast of England. The second case was treated similarâ€" ly. The Gerinsn radio claimed that 3 merchantmen totalling 17600 tons were sunk, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, and 4 merâ€" chantmen were severely damaged, some of them being set on fire. They adâ€" mitted the loss of 2 planes but claimed 4 Hurricanes, The facts were that 1 ship of 799 tons was sunk and 1 escort vessel received damage to her starâ€" board engine as a result of a near miss. That did nct prevent her from reachâ€" ing port safely together with the res: of the convoy. 7 German planes were definitely des cane was lost ed sea power because she has been reâ€" strained by it, and has never been able to use it herself to the extent she deâ€" sired. (2) Germany has concentrated on air power as the only means of deâ€" feating Great Britain. During the last war Germany had a powerful navy which she could not make effective; during this war she has a small navy and must find some other weapon to ecnibat the British Fleet. The British Fleet must be destroyed not only for military reasons, but also because it is what CGermany hates most in the Britâ€" ish Empire. A constantly recurring Whv do the Germans repeat day after day these claims of nonâ€" â€"existent air successes?â€" There are two basic reasons. (1) Germany h_as.,alwa}ys fearâ€" Staff Officer of Royal Canadian Navy Deals With Nazi Propaganda phrase in German conversation and writing for decades has been "If it werent for the British Navy . . ." Germany‘s Air Force must gain the mastery of the seas if she is to win. This fact is realized in Germany more clearly than anywhere else in the world for they have unpleasant memories of the effect of sea power on the resuit of the last war. Germany also realizes that the whole world is watching anxiâ€" ously the contest between air and sea power. If aeroplanes are superior to men of war, the British Isles will fall, if not Germany will fall, Hence, from the German view air power must be superior, for in their country the only crime is fallure. CGerman aircraft and German propaâ€" ganda set out on a well planned camâ€" paign to master the British Navy. It will be recalled that they practised on fishing smacks and lightships before working up to their larger targets. Then followed an orgy of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, with an occasâ€" ional aircraft carrier or shore establishâ€" ment thrown in for good measure. It seemed as if a squadron could be anâ€" nihilated by one or two aircraft "layâ€" ing their eggs" at leisure. Gradually ali our warships disappeared. A few stubborn ones like Ark Royal, Warspite, and Glasgow, rose again from the deep to be disposed of by the Italian Air Force. If Germany had sunk all the naval units she claimed there would be no reason to procrastinate about invadâ€" ing Fnmgland because there would be no navy. The result hoped for was that all those countries that had feared Great Rritain because of her Navy would take heart, One country did and is continuing the good work by bombin§ the navy out of the Mediterranean, alâ€" though leaving a trail of its own naval units behind. According to the Gerâ€" man and Italian reports the British Navy has been forced into hiding at Alexandria and Gibraltar by Italian aircraft and even those bases are rendâ€" dered practically valueless. The German radio siated that in the first instance 4 merchantmen werse seriously damaged, 10 British fighters were shot down and only 1 German plane was lost. Actually no ships were hit. 1 German bamber and 2 German fighters were brought down while the rest made off. The 10 Hurricanes and Spitfires reported destroyed must refer to 1 Hurricane that came home for ammunition. No British planes were lost, Vol. XXV. No. 63 Another result aimed at was to alienate from Britain those countries who had benefitted from the Britizsh (Continued on Page Three) Faked Reports of Successful Bombing of British W arships is Designed to Dupe German People Into Believing that Air Power is Superior to Sea Power, Because of Nazi Fear of British Navy. l’.“""""" tb P AP P AC CA 4 """"""‘"' Second Section 'l""""""‘. Ehe AMtbpante destroyed and only 1 Hurriâ€" | Engiry into Death *‘ of Settler in Area «+ Near Cochrane Building Permits Down Considerably for Month of July Building operations in Timmins apâ€" pflar much. ~below usual these The‘ buildihe issued" for July are only 40 per cent of the amount for June, and June was below that of the same month in any recent year. Preâ€" sent indications are that building for 1940 will be much ‘below that of last year. Cochrane, Ont.., Aug. 14â€"An investiâ€" gation into the death of Pacific Rouâ€" leau, 63â€"yearâ€"old Kennedy township settler, whose boay was found on the floor of his farmkouse Friday, has been ordered by Chief Coroner E. R. Tucker. The aged settler‘s body was located on his farm, 15 miles east of Cochrane, when Provincial Constables M. Scanâ€" lon and T. Houldcroft investigated the man‘s strange disappearance recently. Below will be found the official sumâ€" mary of buliding petrmits issued in the town for the months of June and July: Month of July The following is the summary of building permits for July, 1940: Business Section The body was removed to R. JM. Smith‘s undertaking «parlors,. The cause of death is not known. In a search of the homesteader‘s efâ€" fects, police found he was a member of the outlawed "Jehovah Witnesses" sect, Little is known of the man in this district and, as far as could be learned, he had no living relatives. Rouleau came to the Cochrane reâ€" gion in 1913 and settled on the site f his present farm. An excellent carâ€" penter, he built himself a fine home and worked his land by himself. Serge uniforms are being manufacâ€" tured in Canada at the rate of almost 3,000 a day, boots at 4,700 a day, and socks at close to 6,700 pairs daily for the army and the air force. New Building ....;......:....... Alterations Additions June 1949 The following is the official sumâ€" mary of building permits for the month of June of this yvear:â€" New Builldings .. Alterations and Addltlons New Buildings ... Alterations Addmons The London, England, War Office on Tuesday issued a statement dismissing reports appearing in foreign newspapâ€" ers in regard to alleged damage done to Gibraltar in recent air raids by the minions of Mussolini The War Office stated that the reports were no nearer the truth than Hitler is, and no more to be trusted than Mussoliniâ€"or words to that effect. The polite lanâ€" guage of the British War Office was to the effect that these particular reâ€" ports were grossly exaggerated, to say the least. No Large Contracts for Building in June or July. New Building Alterations New Building Garages and Sheds New Bulldings Canada Now Producing Equipment in Quantity "The truth is that damage has been negligible and casualties slight," the War Office said, adding that Gibraltar is "prepared for any eventualities and has ample resources of all kinds to meet them." Another official statement, this time from the Spanish Embassy acting on instructions from the Madrid Governâ€" ment, categorvically denied newspaper reports that Spanish ships in foreign ports had been told not to sail. No such order was issued, the Embassy stated, and Spanish ships would conâ€" tinue to carry o6 normal trade, Late Pacific Rouleau Was Member of "Jehovah‘s Witnesses." Report that Damage at Gibraltar is Negligent Total Published at Timminea, Ont., Canada Every MONDAY and THURSDAY is Additions Garagts ana Sheds Residential Section Residential Section Business Section $ 3,500.00 2,000.00 $20,614.00 $ 1,750.00 $50,492.00 20,160.00 28,207.00 2,400.00 11,834.00 Of 30 economists asked as to what they considered the future of gold, 16 replied. Seven saw the future value of gold secure, seven were inclined to agree, with important reservations, mostly suggesting it wouldâ€"depend upon wise management by the United‘" States. Two tock a frankly . pessimisti¢: view. / As to what the United States should do to assure the advantageous use of gold, six recommended â€"steps toward freer international trade.. Two urged restoration gold ‘to circulation in the United States. Two opposed it. Several said that when the time is ripe the Unifted States must coâ€"operate to reâ€"establish sounder â€"currencies, some mentioning a world monetary conference. Two recommended estabâ€" lishment of a big world bank financed with American gold. Two suggested use of gold to purchase military bases. Two mentioned continued purchases of gold as an aid to Great Britain. Edwin W. Kemmerer, Professor of International Finance at ~Princeton, who has been monetary advisor to sevâ€" eral governmentsâ€" Economists do nrot agree, but most exâ€" perts see the prospect of great adâ€" vantages accruing from the $20,000,â€" 000,000 in gold. Among those who saw the future gold reasonably secure wereâ€" New York, Aug. 14â€"The United States holds threeâ€"quarters of the world‘s monetary goldâ€"traditional basis of money and synibol of wealth., Does that make the country as rich as Croesus, or, as suggested by Walter Funk, German economics minister, as poor as the boy who won all the marâ€" bles, and so couldn‘t find anyone to play with? "After the present war, as after the last one, the world will gradually reâ€" turn to the gold standard, because efâ€" forts at managed paper money stanâ€" dards will break down. Such standards cannot® be internationally maintained on a large scale, and in a democracy like the United States would soon be wrecked by politicians through the exâ€" ploitation of the moneyâ€"issuing funcâ€" tion for fiscal purposes, with resulting harmful infiation." He urged maintenance by the United States of the present price of gold, reâ€" storing gold to circulation, and at a propitious time, the calling of an inâ€" ternational conference to restore and improve the gold standart. Most Experts See Benefits in Hoard of Gold Held by U.S8. F. Cyril James, principal and viceâ€" chancellor, McGill University, Monâ€" treal, former professor of finance and econcmic history, University of Penâ€" nsyivaniaâ€" "If at the end of the war, the United States coâ€"opserates wholeheartedly with other democratic powers for effective reconstruction of world economy, the hoarding of gold in US. Government vaults will turn out to have been a major contribution the future prosperâ€" ity of the United States and of the world. If such coâ€"operation and wisâ€" dom are not forthcoming, the outlook is very uncertain as to both the value of gold and its monetary usefuiness." Nine French ships in the Canadian ports of Sydney, Halifax, MOntreal and Vancouver have been requisitioned by Canada under the Defence of Canada Regulations. Authority to dispose of these ships and their cargoes and any other ships that may be later requiâ€" sitioned was granted by Orderâ€"iuâ€" Councli, Maiority See the Future of Gold as Secure. French Ships in Canada Have Been Requisitioned From all parts of great British Commonwgalth volunteers have rushed to the defence of the mothâ€" erland and scores of thousands from the dominions now help garrison the Isles against the exâ€" TIMMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 1940 HIS MAJESTY INSPECTS NEW ZEALANDERS of Haileybury, Aug. 14â€"No inquest will be held in the death of Max William Hartske, of Mountain Chutes, in Elk Lake district, victim of a fatal shooting accident near his father‘s home at the weekâ€"end, ‘and ‘in ‘which the 17â€"yearâ€" old youth diéd <within a few minutes from terrible head injuries sustained when a loaded gun which had been placed in a cance was discharged as the victim was entering the craft. Dr. J. S. McCullough, of New Tisâ€" keard, chief coroner for Temiskaming, who with Provincial Constable Arthur Souliere, of Haileybury district headâ€" quarters, investigated, held the cirecumâ€" stances were accidental. According to the officer, the youth, with a younger brother, Frank, had started out in search of a hawk and it was almost immediately after they had placed the canoe into the water of the Montreal river that the fatality occurred. Local Legion Planning To Establish Recreation Centre for C.A.S.F. Men The loaded weapon had been placed in the canoe, which the youths carried to the water, a short distance from their home. Max entered the cance while his brother balanced the craft, and as the former was taking his place the gun, whose butt was resting on the centre ‘thwart, discharged, the older lad receiving the contents full in the face. The victim was a son of Max Hartske, wellâ€"known resident of the Mountain Chutes district, Hold Death Near Haileybury Was Due to Pure Accidert No Jury Inquest Into Death of Young Man Victim of Shooting Accident. Rest Room and Writing Room Will be Provided for C. A. S. F. Men on Leave. Other Features Will be Added. Expect to Have Smokers and Other Entertainments for Toronto, Aug. 9. 1940 High on the mountains the beacon lights glimmet Rousing each valley and warning each glen; Stars of our Empire shaill never grow dimmer, Freedom still lives in the hearts of our men. Blow ye the bugles and gird ye for battle Blow ye the old warning clarion call, Waken the echoes until the skies rattle, Britons, your duty is manning the wall Sound the Reveille, ye trumpets of Empires, Blow ye the Charge, yve bugles of fame. Sons of Britannia, arouse like your grandsire Prove yve vour right to inherit their name. Echoes on hill tops of sounds in the valley Bring ye the tramping of guardian feet, Trumpets of Britain are sounding the rally Drums of the Empire rhythmically beat. The booms of our noon guns round the world rum! Ships of our navy guard every shore. The walls of our Empire are built not to crumble The Lions and Cubs of Britannia roar. Sound ye the Fall In, ve trumpets of freedom, Heroes shall follow where heroes have trod, To fizht in their might where Righteousmess leads them, For freedom and liberty true gifts of God. Sterling LeR, Spicer, LMeut.â€"Col.. R.C.A.M.C. Down on your knees and ask God‘s benediction Pray God to grant you His Grace as of yore. Stand up like Britons,firm in conviection, Fight yve and freedom shall live evermore. Hail to our sailors who man Britain‘s seaways, Hail to our soldiers whoe continents roam, Hail to our airmen who fly heavens leaways, United, undaunted, they guard freedom‘s hom® pected German total attack. King George is shown as he inspected members of the New Zealand forces who are training in England. Owing to the fact that at t:ie preâ€" sent time there is an Active Service Unit stationed in Timmins, and also taking into consideration the large number of G.A.S.F. men visiting here on leave, the officers of the local branch of the Canadian Legion, reâ€" viewed the question of opening a reâ€" creation centre and writing room, at the Legion hall. The need was proven to be essential and the officers gave instructions to this effect. Full faciliâ€" ties for writing will be provided, such as ink, envelopes and . notepaper. magazines, ~books and papers will ‘be available for reading, and if desired by the men other features will be added from time to time. In. time it is expected to have smokers and other entertainment with C.A.S.F,. men takâ€" ing part. The opening of the reading and wriiing room for those in the C. London, Englandâ€"British headline writers coined the "conchie" to fit ‘conscientious objector‘ into big type â€"and the public adopted the word. J. Wright Conchie of Kidderminster, a veterinary surgeon and the family spokesman, pointed out today he joined the army in 1899 and "all my brothers and +cousinsâ€"all ‘Conchiesâ€"who were medically fit have been in the army or navy for the past three years." Family Doesn‘t Like Its Name Used for Pacifists But the Conchie family, proud of its long fighting history, is unhappy about it and demands that the press think up some other name. A. S. F. is expected to be greatly apâ€" preciated by the men, with the evenâ€" tural establishment here of a Legion War Services recreational centre. world rumble Published at Tmmins, Ont., Canada Kvery MONDAY and THURSDAY Wilhelm Kunze, successor to Fritz Kuhn as the leader of the Germanâ€" 'American bund, tells a congressional that passage of a bill to ‘compel registration of foreignâ€"controllâ€" organizations would force the bund [out of existence. That is what the icauntry wants.â€"(From the Milwaukee . Journal). Ottawaâ€"Nex â€" regulations extending national registration in Canada to classes originally exempted have been issued by Orderâ€"inâ€"Council. The new order affects nuns, citizens on active service and inmates of asylums and penitentiaries, who are now required to register under such procedure as the chief registrar deems advisable. All persons in Canada over the age of 16 will register on August 19, 20 and 21. The Orderâ€"inâ€"Council also orders all employers to instruct their employees to produce registration cards on August 21, Name, address and occupation of any unregistered employee must be reported to the Department of National War Services and to the "nearest police officer." Failure to carry out these regulations on the part of an employer is punishable by a $200 fine or three months in jail. The new regulations also permit inâ€" dustrial plants and firms with 100 or more employees to carry out their own registration. Plant registrars and their assistants will serve on a voluntary basis and are not restricted to any given date to question employees proâ€" viding the cards are completed by August 21. Employees are free to reâ€" gister either at the plant or at the regular booth in their polling subâ€" division. The new regulation will relieve congestion and delays in registration depots. Proprietor Nabob Road House Gets Three Months Firms Required to See That Employees Are Registered A person who is away from home during the period of registration is required to go to the registration booth most convenient, where his card will be filled out and he will be issued with a certificate. He must first satisfy the registrar that he is unable to register at home. People who are out of Canâ€" ada on the registration days must go to their own post office within thirty days after their return to Canada, comâ€" plete a registration card there and get a certificate. Te ‘t t Some weeks ago, referring to the German practice of leaving their dead on the field and on occasion marching new troops over the dead bodies of the men mowed down, The Advance suggested the danger of disease and pestilance following in the wake of such inhuman practices. Reports from Porrentruy, Switzerland, suggest that Nazi methods have had their expected results. From this Swiss source comes the story that epidemics of smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever and paratyâ€" phoid affecting the Moiche Plateau area in Germanâ€"held France were disclosed this week. Swiss authorities are said to be taking special measures to preâ€" vent the spread of these diseases. The region where the epidemics are now raging was the battleground June 15th between German motorized units and tens of thousands of Poles, Spahis, French and other troops trying to escape from the Maginot Line area. Aliens Must Register. Cerâ€" tificates Issued to All. Americans and other, aliens resident in Canada must register, but will, not be subject to ~compulsory militaty training, e t | T‘wo second offense drunks, Jerry Martin and Fred Desjardins, were each given the alternative of fines of $50 and costs or jail terms of 30 days in police court on Tuesday. "Thirty days will give you an opporâ€" tunity to get a bath and get fed up," Magistrate Atkinson told Philip St. Thomas, who was convicted on a charge of vagrancy. John Rozon Denies he is Proprietor. Stated Was Working for Frank Jemmett. Police Found People Drinking in Shack. Found Also 96 Pints of Beer and Part Bottle of Liqguor. flce Box Well Stockedâ€"With Beer. A ‘charge of failing to pay wages, against Sam Koza, was withdrawn when the accused paid the complainâ€" ant, Mike Rocovitza, $26.50. There were the usual minor traffic charges which included speeding, drivâ€" ing with four in the front seat of a car, overloadinz trucks and driving without lights., A lot of foiks don‘t believe anything they read in the newspapers unless they‘ve written it themselves and thein nobody else does. â€"alcay Epidemics Now Rage in _ Germanâ€"Held French Areas T‘wo Second Offense Drunks Get Fine or Term Option JUST WHAT IS NEEDED UNBELIEVERS In a bed upstairs was a man, named Frank Jemmett, with his wife, Rozon said that he had been at the place for a week. He told police that he was the proprietor of the place and that he rented it for $40 a month from ‘Charles Pexton, of Timmins. There were three well furnished rooms downstairs in the place, the ofâ€" ficer said. The furnishings included an ice box, filled with ice and beer. Also found were 96 pints of beer and a part bottle of liquor. There was a tray on which were twenty small "shot glasses" some of which contained small quantities of liquor. In one room were two women and one man. Two men were in another room. They were drinking beer, While they were there, the officers testified, one car, containing six men, drove up. When they were greeted by an officer in uniform they promptly sped away. Later a taxi containing a number of men, drove up. They took hasty departed when they saw . that a raid was in progress. On the stand Rozon denied that he had been selling beer. He said that he was only working for Jemmett. Reâ€" cently, he said, he came to Timmins from Sudbury, He went to Jermnmett‘s wife and asked if there was anything he could do around the place until he obtained a job in one of the mines or somewhere else. He admitted that he told officers that he was the propsietor but said on the stand that that stateâ€" ment was a mistake; that it was not he who was the proprietor but Jemâ€" mett. Without further sentenced. TIncivility to an officer cost Gerald Derasp not only a couple of front teeth and some broken bridgework but a fine of $10 and costs with the alternative of $20 and costs, following a police hearingonâ€"a charge of disorderly conâ€" duct on Tuesday afternoon. John Rozon will spend the next three months in jail at Haileybury, In police court on Tuesday afternoon he was convicted of keeping liquor for sale. Incivility Costs Teeth, Bridgework, and Fine of $10 Provincial Police Sergeant J. A. Stringer said that he and Constable Worrall paid a business call to the place occupied by Rozon, on the Nayâ€" bob road, at 12.45 am. on Tuesday, Constable James Kennedy said that on the evening of Saturday, August 3, he saw a bottle drop out of Derasp‘s arms on Third Avenue. He went over and asked him to pick up the pieces of broken glass on the sidewalk. At that the amccused became very wrathy and refused "in no uncertain terms." He cursed the officer and told him he was no scavenger. When he tried to push the officer aside and go on his way the constable took him inâ€" to a nearby taxi stand and telephoned for the police car. While in there Derasp kept popping up and down and swearing. After the officer pushed him down for the third time Derasp got up with a threatening gesture, The police knuckles got there first. Cursed . Policeman _ When Asked to Pick Up Pieces «of Bottle he Broke. The policeman told the court that the accused man was under the influâ€" ence of liquor. I pick it up," he asked the court, "There are lots of jam and pickle botâ€" tles broken on the street and not pickâ€" ed up." "Haven‘t you got a billy, Why did you break my teeth with your fist?" asked the accused from the prisonâ€" ers‘ dock. Derasp said that he was taking a bottle of wine home when it fell to the sidewalk and broke. He refused to pick up the pieces of glass when the ofâ€" ficer told him to do so. "Why should The accused said that he remoAâ€" strated with the officer and when told to "shut up" refused. At that the policeman hit him. He said that he had not sworn at the constable. "Contrary to the statements of the old men of Vichy," Gen,. de Gaulle deâ€" clared, "France still possessed powerful means of fighting at the time arms "Would you rather T had hit you with the billy than with my fist?" counterâ€"questioned the witness. France still had the strength and weapons to continue the war at the time she sued for peace, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, independent French leader, said today in a worldâ€"wide broadcast to the French people. Other witnesses, even one for the defence, said, however, that they heard the accused swearing at the policeman. (Gen. Chas. de Gaulle Says France Could Have Gone On Single Copyâ€"Five Cents ado Rozon ‘was