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THROUGH THE EYES OF THE CAMERA "One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words"--Chinese Proverb Situation in Balkans Becomes More Critical RUSSIA This Central Press Canadian map illustrates the present critical state in which the Balkan States find themselves. 1--A German army division is en route to Rumania's oil fields, which the German troops will garrison and effect a reorganization and training of the Rumanian army. 2--Bulgaria is expected soon to join the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis--s move which would threaten the Dardanelles. 3--Meanwhil>, Russia is reported exhibiting great interest in the strategically placed Bosphorus and Dardanelles. 4--Greece is re- ported still opposed to any territorial concessions though Italian-dominated Albania is anxious to acquire northeastern Greece and the Macedonians se>k either independence or union with Bulgaria. 5--Turkey is in a highly perilous position, caught between conflicting ambitions of the axis powers and those of Soviet Russia. Saved After Week in Open Boat Lieut.-Gov., Manitoba R. F. McWilliams, of Winnipeg, has been named lieutenant-gover- nor of Mantoba to succeed Hon. W. J. Tupper. Mr. McWilliams will take office on November 1. Canadian Prize Given up for lost until a British flying boat sighted them in mid- Atlantic, survivors of the torpedoed City of Benares climb aboard a British warship which the plane led to them. There were 46 persons in the boat, six of them children, and they had drifted eight days before their rescue. Saving of the 46 reduced the total of lost to 248 persons, including 77 children. Red Troops Watch German Troops Riding at anchor in a western Canadian port is the $1,500,000 German freighter Weser, captured by the Canadian armed cruiser Prince Robert off the coast of Mexico. Carrying 19,000 barrels of oil, the Weser was believed acting as a submarine "mother ship." Car Crash Victim Russian concentrations on the left flank of German troops occupying Rumania have been reported in Bucharest, Civilians were ordered from Cernauti (1), reports said, to make room for Russian. troops; Red naval ships were concentrated 2 Leova (2); Russian monitors sank two Rumanian patrol boats at "hilia (3); and long-range Russian guns were mounted at the junction of the Prut and Danube rivers (4). Tom Mix, veteran cowboy-actor and star roded performer, was in- over in Arizona. - stantly killed when his car turned with: A. Vv. Alexander, first lord of the ; London Cleans up After Nazi cat Be a Raid AAAI This bullding was left a mere shattered shell of walls after raid by Nazi bombing planes. It was condemned as unsafe to passers-by. So down it comes. A clean-up demolition squad of British ARP workers brings down the tottering wreckage. Pals Across Border Send Their Best = - TE ---------- TAKE EM Nl. 6. AWAY There's no doubt about the sentiments of the unknown U.S. soldier who took time to chalk this message of good wiil on one of the 300 light tanks now arriving at Camp Borden. "There's life in the old gal yet" was the inscription revealed on another of the machines as Canadian soldiers unloaded and hauled It away for reconditioning. British Actress Learning to Fly : Lady 3 : Nall 7 Flying Is a serious business with- Tamara Desnl, who has a part in the Canadian film, "49th Parallel". Each morning at 7 o'clock she is on hand at the hangars in Hamilton, Ont, to start lesson flights with Instructor W. Charles Warren. Miss Desni said she intends to volunteer as a pilot to move planes from manufacturing plants to military bases when she returns to England soon. She began her flying four years ago in France and continued lessons in England. King Visits Admiralty During Raid Despite the fact that an air-raid was in progress at the time, the King refused to postpone his visit to the admira'ty, He is shaking hands 0 | Admiralty, outside the building, - while Nazi bombs were bursting as little as a half-mile away. Testify in Trial of Suspended Toronto University Lecturer *, Norman Freed and Morris Erlich, interned as Communists, are shown here accompanied by an armed military guard as they appeared at Toronto city hall to testify at the trial of Dr. Samuel Levine, University of Toronto lecturer, who is being tried for a breach of the Defence of Canada Regulations. Both Freed and Erlich were roomers in the Levine house in which communistic literature was seized. Note the patches on their trousers, which are placed there to mark them as internees. High Commissioner Shares Joke With Officer Cadets > ' . oie Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey is pictured talking with Canadian officer eadets during a visit to a shore training camp for Canadian naval officers in Britain, New Ontario Minister of Mines Sir Wilfrid's Nephew *, A nephew of the great Sir Wilfrid, Robert Laurier, of Ottawa, RIGHT, was sworn in, ABOVE, by Chief Justice Robertson in the presence of Premier Hepburn, as Ontario minister of mines to succeed Hon. Paul Leduc, who vacated the Ontario cabinet to accept the post of registrar of the supreme court of Canada. Crew of German Freighter on Way to Internment A bh 3 i On 'her first voyage after being re-fitted as an armed merchant-cruiser, H.M.C.8. Prince Robert pounce: ed on the German freighter Weser off the Mexican coast and acted so swiftly that the Nazi crew did nol have a chance to scuttle the ship, although 21l preparations had been made to set her afire at a moment' notice, The captured crew of the Weser are pictured here under guard at a western Canadian port.