ELECTIONS IN QUEBEC

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22850, 25 October 1939, Page 10

ELECTIONS IN QUEBEC

VOTING TO BE HELD

TODAY

CONSCRIPTION RAISED AS ISSUE (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received October 25, 12.5 a.m.) MONTREAL, October 24. Outstanding questions on which Quebec Province will vote at the elections to-morrow are provincial autonomy, conscription, and Canada’s participation in the war. A spirited month’s campaign, marked by allegations of gangster methods and misrepresentation on the conscription issue followed the action of the Premier (M. Duplessis) in calling for an election two years before the end of his five years’ term, on the ground that the Federal war measures threatened the province’s autonomy.

M. Duplessis charges the Dominion Government with attempting centralisation and assimilation.

M. Duplessis’s charges against the Dominion Government of attempting centralisation and assimilation drew Quebec Federal Cabinet Ministers into the campaign alongside the Liberal Party Leader, M. Adelard Godbout. The Federal Minister for Justice (Mr E. Lapointe) announced in Quebec that Federal Cabinet Ministers would resign if the Duplessis Government was re-elected, making a Federal election almost certain in that event. TWO BRITISH SHIPS ' SUNK

(Received October 24, 10 p.m.)

LONDON, October 23,

The British steamer, Sea Venture, of 1375 tons, was sunk as a result of enemy action off the north coast of Scotland. The crew, numbering 25, landed on an island after rowing 15 miles. Later, they were picked up by a lifeboat.

Fourteen members of the crew of the British steamer White Mantle, which was sunk in the North Sea, are missing. Five survivors who at an east coast port yveve to hospital. An explosion, believed to be the result of a submarine attack, sank the Swedish steamer Albania in the North Sea. The crew took to a raft and a collier picked up 19 survivors. The chief engineer and a fireman were drowned when the raft capsized, though it was afterwards righted. The survivors have been landed in England. GERMAN ATTACK ON CHURCHILL

INDIGNATION ROUSED IN UNITED STATES

LONDON, October 23

Dr. Goebbels’s latest propaganda tirade has proved a boomerang, it is reported from the United States. The first effect of the broadcast in America was to cause hundreds to telephone the offices of the broadcasting companies protesting against “such futile rubbish.” The “New York Herald-Tribune” states that one would hardly imagine that even a propaganda Minister would be so grotesque as to drag up the amazing ' theory that Mr Churchill sank the Athenia.