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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 03, 1940
Page
4
The Twillingate Sur publishes notices from the North Coast region. It includes notes on home affairs and announcements with an office on the North Side, Newfoundland. The paper lists a rate for notes and reserves the right to edit and date stamp submissions.
Training efforts expand across the Empire including Newfoundland with Junior Red Cross led by Miss Hilary Herbert. Home nursing and Red Cross classes aim to prepare women to aid sick and disabled, while noting local training gaps for certified nurses and doctors.
Reports from Great Britain and Europe note severe winter conditions with heavy snow in places. In Newfoundland the situation differs with little snow and frost, some roads nearly bare, and wood shortages complicating fuel access. The Bay Roberts Guard cites a northward climate change affecting travel and wood supply.
The record discusses protests published in the Evening Telegram St Johns by Board of Trade supporters. It notes Hon R B Ewbank and Hon J H Garvin promoting the deal as beneficial to Newfoundland’s coast merchants fishers and overall industry while acknowledging potential treaty changes.
A son of Mr and Mrs Wm Pennell of Gilesporte joins the third Naval Draft of Special Small Boat men Ronald C Pennell and Aaron Cull are named. Seal netters report odd experiences due to weather with Newfoundland crews hauling reduced catches at Change Islands and Herring Neck.
George J. Carter Ltd. closes its branch and transfers stock to Herring Neck at year end. Crow Head resident Jobo Sharpe Sr. marks his 95th birthday on Monday January 29. Congratulations to Miteea Jean Joan Harvett and Neville Cook who passed their supplementary papers and earned junior diplomas of the CHEK.
Readers listed include Mrs. Roland Stuckey and Mrs. Marty White among many contributors such as Arthur White Norman Barnes and Lewis Anstey. Amounts range from two to forty dollars with totals around three dollars and ninety-one cents noted amid names and places like Black Duck and Granville.
Reports from East to St John s describe Finnish encirclement of Russian units and heavy losses near Lake Ladoga where 90 000 Russian troops are stranded amid wounded and dead. Britain s war measures close access around Tientsin as Italian and South African leaders align in a drive for a republic independent of Britain.
Reports from London and beyond detail Smuts supported peace moves defeated in the Assembly, Churchill praising Britain's sea power in Manchester, and sustained air raids across the North Sea. Russian and Finnish actions, Nazi rhetoric, and Allied shipping measures shape a volatile wartime panorama with new naval and aircraft campaigns and political shifts in South Africa and Newfoundland.
Young men from New World Island settlements enlist in the Navy after visiting the Magistrate's Office. Those already in England are praised for their fine physique and conduct. The note recalls Naval Reservists' distinguished service in the 1914 18 war and accolades from the British Admiralty.
A Newfoundlander, Roderick Roberts of Wesleyville Bonavista, was a prisoner on the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during the naval battle off Montevideo. He had worked as a wireless operator on Newfoundland Railway steamers and was captured when his ship was sunk. All prisoners were later liberated after the Graf Spee sought shelter in Montevideo harbor.
The Toronto Telegram argues that a 300 mile neutral zone lacks basis in international law and cannot be enforceable. It views the extended zone as a mere gesture without power to deter belligerents from naval engagements in the Atlantic.
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