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Canadian Parliament
Assembles to Start
Participation in War
New Government May
Have to Be Formed
If Legislators Balk
OTTAWA. Sept. 7 (Canadian
Press).—Parliament assembled to
day to pass on the government's
plan to throw Canadian resources
into the British war against Ger
many
The program for today was short
—mostly formality—with voting on
the war measures to come on later
days. In 1914 when Canada entered
the World War the special session
of Parliament lasted five days.
Should Parliament refuse to ap
prove measures propsed by the Gov
ernment—as is its right—a new gov
ernment would have to be formed.
The responsibility for Canada’s ac
tion rests on Senators and members
of the House of Commons.
Moves to Bolster Cabinet.
Lord Tweedsmuir, governor gen
eral, outlined in general the posi
tion of the government in a speech
prepared for delivery today.
On the eve of the special war ses
sion Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie
King moved to strengthen his cab
inet by calling James Layton Rals
ton from his Montreal law office to
become finance minister. He is a for
mer minister of national defense
and was liberal financial critic dur
ing the term of the Bennett gov
ernment, 1930 to 1935.
Capital’s Mood Changes.
Returning legislators found the
capital changed from the holiday
mood it was in when the regular ses
sion ended last June.
Then King George and Queen
Elizabeth were just completing their
tour of the dominion and Ottawa
was settling down after four days of
parading and cheering.
Today Ottawa was garbing herself
for war. Officers and men in khaki
hurried through the streets as mili
tia units were organized. Recruits
were being examined and outfitted.
Placards called for volunteers.
Guards were mounted at the defense
department ounaings.
South Africa Enters War;
Gen. Smuts Takes Helm
LONDON, Sept. 7 OP).—Britain's
dominions and colonies continued
today to rally to her support in the
War against Germany.
The British ministry of informa
tion announced that the Union of
South Africa, under a new govern
ment. had declared war on Germany
and that arrangements were being
made to withdraw diplomatic repre
sentatives.
Australia and New Zealand al
ready have declared war on Ger
many.
Gen. Jan Christian Smuts yester
day became South Africa's Prime
Minister, succeeding Gen. J. B. M.
Hertzog, who resigned when Par
liament refused to continue rela
tions with Germany.
Red Cross to Provide
Information Exchange
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Sept. 7.—The Interna
tional Committee of the Red Cross
informed belligerent nations last
night that it was setting up a cen
tral agency here for the exchange
of Information regarding war pris
oners.
The committee performed a simi
lar service during the World War.
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U. S. Submarine
Ordered to Go
To Cubtin Base
Down in South American waters.
Where German U-boats are reported
to have been seen, the United States
Navy submarine Spearfish received
orders today to curtail her shake
down cruise and proceed to Guan- |
tanamo Bay. United States Naval
Base in Cuba. At the Navy De- ;
partment it was said the orcVers were
issued because of “conditions now
existing.”
The Spearfish sailed from the
Rubmarine base at New London,
Conn., on the shakedown cruise
August 21. After visiting New York
ehe went to Bahia, Brazil.
The submarine is one of the
Navy's latest types. She was put
into commission last July 17 and is
similar to the ill-fated Squalus.
Coincident with issuance of or
ders directing the submarine to
leave Brazil, there were reports at
the Navy Department that some of
the 150 officers attending the post
graduate school at the Annapolis
Naval Academy might be assigned
to command the destroyers that are
to be recommissioned to aid in en
forcing America's neutrality laws.
Such a move, it was said, would not
result in closing the school.
HITLER WITH TROOPS—This photo (location censored) is believed to have been taken in the
Polish Corridor after forces from the German east border and from East Prussia had met to
close the bottleneck. Hitler is shown (In lead) surrounded by his generals as he was cheered by
his victorious troops.
Although the Germany authorities publish no casualty lists, the censor passed this photo, in
dicating that there are casualties. Hitler is shown entering the car of an ambulance train to
cheer German wounded. —Wide World Radiophotos.
i i
Berlin
^ (Continued From First Page.)
strategy had created there big vises
closing in on the Poles.
First. Poznan was encircled so
j that it now is held by gigantic
pincers which cut it off from Gdynia
and the south.
No direct attack except by bomb
ers. concentrating on military ob
jectives. is being made on Warsaw,
but again German troops are trying |
to create a vise in which they can :
hold the capital.
The strategy seems to be to cut
each of these centers off from all
supplies, then press the jaws of the
vise closer and closer in the hope
of making the enemy capitulate
without making necessary too much
destruction.
Krakow also seems to have fallen
by these tactics. Not even the
Vistula bridges were destroyed be
fore Krakow was taken.
Athenia's Sinking Denied.
The German naval supreme com
mand, once again in the most em
phatic terms, denied that any Ger
man craft had anything to do with
the sinking of the British liner
Athenia.
Every German naval craft, it is
said, has the strictest orders to pro- i
ceed only in accordance with the
practices of international law.
At Duesseldorf and Cologne, re
turning travelers report, there have
been several alarms about approach
ing enemy planes, but the popula
tion was permitted to leave their ‘
anti-aircran sneiters soon ana no
planes appeared.
With Adolf Hitler held up before ;
them as a soldier's soldier, German '
troops were spurred toward swift ,
conclusion of the Polish campaign j
before any British-French offensive ■
could develop on the western front. '
Urged to Emulate Hitler.
Col. Gen. Walther von Brauch
itsch, German chief of staff, in an
order of the day urged the Nazi
forces to emulate their Fuehrer as a <
soldier's "model of personal cour- i
age and stout determination" and <
to “keep after the enemy and apply 1
all your strength until the final de- ’
cision.” i
"Krakow, Bydgoszcz and Grud
ziadz are in your hands,” said the 1
order of the day. ]
"The Corridor no longer separates i
East Prussia and Danzig from the !
German motherland. <
“The enemy is thrown back along \
the entire front and is in retreat. :
“Old tested front fighters of the
World War as well as young soldiers
shares in the successes won in a
short time.”
DNB, official German news agency,
declared that occupation of Silesian
industrial areas had destroyed the
basis of Poland's war Industry.
The Germans now control all Po
land's heavy industry, zinc and lead
production, 95 per cent of the coal
production and 50 per cent of the
nitrates, the agency said.
Berlin received reports that the
Polish government had moved to
Lublin, about 100 miles southeast
sf Warsaw, and military quarters
predicted after the "inevitable'’ oc
cupation of Warsaw, Lublin soon
would be within cannon range.
The German big guns were being
dragged eastward by caterpillar
trucks over the rough Polish roads
The supreme army command an
nounced that its force from the
north had reached Pultusk on the
Narew River and that the Polish
Army continued a hurried retreat.
The communique said the 9th and
27th Polish divisions, the famous
Pomorska cavalry brigade, the 8th
tank battalion and the 1st and 2d
rifle battalions" had been com
pletely wiped out by casualties or
capture.
Hitler In Corridor.
Hitler was in the Corridor sector,
somewhere between Grudziadz and
ruchola, yesterday when, it was re
sorted. German troops drove into
Krakow, old-time capital, in South- !
vpstprn Pnlanri—nften pqIIpH “Prs_
and's heart."
Fifteen thousand prisoners were
taid to have been taken in the Grud
siadz-Tuchola sector, along with a
tast amount of war materials. The
5olish rout in the Corridor was char
icterized as "indescribable confu
sion.”
Military authorities said the Pol- 1
sh operations were well ahead of
chedule. Von Brauchitseh and
>ther leaders warned that more dif
Icult assignments probably he
ihead.
The implication probably was that
ifter Poland, the German Army ,
night have to come to grips with
3ritain—German propaganda is em
ihasizing Britain as Germany's foe 1
n the west more than France.
Little Indication Given.
Otherwise there was little indi- 1
:ation that Germany regards her
elf as at war with Britain or France.
)fficial radio announcers were re
erring to Britain as "the country
vhich thinks it is at war with Ger
nany.”
It was expected the air force could
»e released soon from its assign
nent in the east. Official reports
aid 18 more Polish planes were de
troyed yesterday in 12 air battles. I
Jermans asserted control of the air 1
vas complete and they ridiculed re
ports that even a single enemy
plane had approached anywhere
near Berlin.
The capital, taking no chances,
was ordering blackouts so complete
that walking even a block in the
busiest sections at night was diffi
cult and occasional cigarettes glowed
with startling brilliance.
Searchlights occasionally cast
beams upward and the vast defense
organization was keyed for instant
action, but nothing has happened.
An announcement this morning
said every community presenting
any target of military significance
was equally well protected by de- j
fense planes and anti-aircraft artil- j
lery.
There was a marked disposition j
in well-informed quarters to believe
that France was not enthusiastic j
about the war and that there was a
chance she would leave all initiative
to Britain.
German propagandists were assur
ing Frenchmen and the world that
Germany understands that France
was dragged into declaration of a
state of war
Hourly the radio challenged Brit
ain to produce conclusive proof that
the liner Athenia was sunk by a
German submarine DNB. official
news agency, charged that •'the
Athenia was torpedoed on orders of
the British propaganda service in
hope it would create another inci
dent with an effect on American
opinion like the sinking of the Lusi
tania.”
British statesmen and writers,
especially David Lloyd George.
Britain's World War prime min
ister, were quoted to the effect that
separation of East Prussia from the
Reich by the Versailles-established
Polish Corridor was a fundamental
injustice.
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Emergency Advisory
Council Completed
By Morgenthau
Three Economists
Join Bankers on
Federal Group
By the Associated Press.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau completed his Emergency Ad
visory Council today with the ap
pointment of three economists.
The men, who join three bankers
given similar appointments Tuesday,
are Prof. Jacob Viner of the Uni
versity of Chicago and Walter W.
Btewart and Winfield W. Riefler.
both of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, N. J.
The three previous appointments
were Earle Bailie, investment ban
ker; W. R. Burgess, vice president
of the National City Bank of New
York, and Tom K. Smith of St.
Louis, former president of the Amer
ican Bankers Association.
Secretary Morgenthau said the
economists would be asked primarily
to act as "lookouts” on the financial
horizon to spot and analyze new
problems as they arise.
The Secretary told a press con
ference Mr. Stewart formerly was
an adviser for the Federal Reserve
Board and the Bank of England, and
that Mr. Riefler also was a former
Federal Reserve Board adviser as
well as the first chairman of the
Central Statistical Board of the
Government.
Roosevelt
<Continued From First Page.)
as many Coast Guard vessels ordered
Into the North Atlantic yesterday to
patrol the eastern coast line.
Text of Roosevelt Order.
The President's order to ferret out
spies came late yesterday in a state
ment saying:
“This task must be conducted in
a comprehensive and effective man
ner on a national basis, and all in
formation must be carefully sifted
out and correlated in order to avoid
confusion and irresponsibility.
“To this end, I request all police
officers, sheriffs and all other law
enforcement officers in the United
States promptly to turn over to the
nearest representative of the F. B. I.
any information obtained by them
relating to espionage, sabotage, sub
versive activities and violations of
the neutrality laws,"
Attorney General Murphy, in a
separate statement issued earlier,
said:
"There will be no repetition of the
confusion and laxity of 20 years ago
which caused havoc. At the same
time, we do not want to turn our
activity into a witch hunt.”
Panama Militarized.
The Panama Canal Zone, mean
while, was placed under military
rule, a step taken previously only
during the World War. Mr. Roose
velt placed Maj. Gen. David L. |
Stpne, commander of the Army
forces there, in charge of both civil1
ind military administration. He will
supersede Brig. Gen. Clarence C.
Ridley, the civil governor.
Secretary of War Woodring said
:he order followed long-standing
plans for the security of the Canal
luring times of international ten
sion.
The new coast patrol, to be aug- !
merited as fast as decommissioned
destroyers can be repaired and
manned, will extend several hundred
miles out to sea and eventually will
cover the short line from New Eng
land to the Caribbean and Panama
Canal. Airplanes also will be util
ized.
Will Spot Belligerent Craft.
The patrol will furnish the Gov
ernment information on the pres
ence of belligerent craft in waters
adjacent to the United States so
shipping in the vicinity may be
warned. Embassies of the belliger
ents will be informed neutral ships
are in the area where their fighting
ships may be operating.
State Department officials expect
the President to extend the arms
embargo soon to the Union of South
Africa. The Union Minister here,
Ralph W. Close, advised the depart
ment late yesterday his country had
joined Great Britain in the war
against Germany.
Shipping Expert Named.
Other developments yesterday:
1. The Treasury announced that
Basil Harris, veteran shipping ex
pert and official of the United 8tates
Lines, had been given the joint title
of Commissioner of Customs and As
sistant Secretary. One official said
he will be the key man in taking
care of shipping angles of neutrality
from an advisory and administrative
standpoint.”
It was pointed out that the Cus
toms Bureau has the actual machin
ery through which shipments of mu
nitions or other restricted items to
belligerents are regulated.
Mr. Harris' appointment was an
nounced shortly after Stephen B.
Gibbons Assistant Secretary in
charge of customs. Coast Guard and
other divisions, resigned to re-enter
private work. The new appointee
succeeds 81-year-old James H. Moyle
of Salt Lake City as head of the
Customs Bureau. Mr. Moyle was re
tained as an assistant to the Secre
tary, but his duties have not yet
been specified. Mr. Harris was ex
pected to take the oath of office to
day.
The reorganization also placed the
Coast Guard under Assistant Secre
tary Herbert E. Gaston.
> Ship Saboteurs Hunted.
2. Orders went out from the Ma
rine Inspection Bureau directing all
steamship Inspectors to take special
precautions against saboteurs who
might try to damage vessels leaving
American ports. The bureau said it
was possible agents working for some
of the belligerents might seek “to
hinder supplies to opposing bel
ligerents.”
3. Secretary of State Hull said this
Government was still gathering in
formation on the sinking of the
British liner Athenia. Asked if a
protest to Germany would follow if
American lives were lost in that
disaster, he said all that he could say
was that the Government was trying
to assemble the actual facts.
The Secretary also made clear in
his discussion with newspapermen
that there can be no evasion of real
meaning of the neutrality embargo
by transshipment of war materials
to belligerent nations through Can
ada, not yet officially at war.
Spain Sends Note Here.
4. An exchange of notes with
Spain was made public in which
both governments expressed a con
viction that the war should not be
permitted to spread to nations not
now involved.
5. Myron C. Taylor, chairman of
a committee which has been at work
for months on plans for assisting
refugees to leave Germany, called
on both Secretary Hull and the
President. Mr. Hull said that while
the war had complicated that prob
lem, it was receiving constant at
tention and that a meeting of the
committee called for October 16 and
17 would be held as scheduled.
6. The Federal Communications
Commission appointed a committee,
composed of Chairman James Law
rence Fly, Commissioner Thad H.
Brown and Commissioner T. A. M.
Craven, to study radio broadcasting
of European war news. At an ex
ecutive session, the commission dis
cussed radio broadcasting “in rela
tion to the European situation.”
7. The War Department, mean
while, announced expansion of the
newly-formed War Resources Board
by the addition of John Hancock,
New York industrial banker, as a
seventh member. As naval com
mander, Mr. Hancock was in charge
of naval purchases during the World
War. With Chairman Edward R.
Stettinius. Jr., and four other mem
bers, Mr. Hancock conferred yester
day on existing plans for industrial
! mobilization at the War Department.
Red Cross to Make
War Hospital Supplies
Red Cross chapters throughout
the country are being instructed by
the Central Committee of the Red
Cross to begin production of hospital
supplies for Europe. Chairman Nor
man H. Davis announced today,
following a special meeting yester
day.
Chapters with production units
are to be asked to make surgical
dressings, bandages and hospital
garments for immediate shipment
to Europe, Mr. Davis said. Other
chapters, not yet so completely
equipped, will be asked to ‘start
making garments for refugees and
clothing for war-suffering children.
Pending the receipt of informa
tion from Europe as to the specific
requirements of the Red Cross So
cieties of the countries involved in
war, the American Red Cross will
not engage in mass production. Mr.
Davis indicated, although a com
plete program has been worked out.
NEUTRALITY AIDE — Basil
Harris, veteran snipping ex
pert, who today becomes com
missioner of customs in
charge of Treasury Depart
ment shipping problems aris
ing under the Neutrality Act.
Mr. Harris resigned as vice
president of the United States
Lines to take the Government
post. —A. P. Wirephoto.
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