CANADIAN CALL-UP

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1942, Page 5

CANADIAN CALL-UP

QUEBEC SHOOTING INCIDENTS

OTTAWA, August 12.

The Canadian Press Agency says that police constables personally delivering call-up notices in the Quebec city area met armed resistance in several instances recently. Pistol shots were fired at constables and a serious situation developed in one instance, but the authorities have refused to divulge whether anyone was injured, or to indicate the extent of the resistance. The Commissioner of Police, although he had said that the Royal Canadian Police had not met armed resistance in delivering call-up notices in Quebec or elsewhere, later acknowledged that there had been two shooting incidents. One of these occurred 10 days ago in the Gatineau area, when a shot was fired at a car containing constables who were attempting to serve a notice. The shot struck the car, but it is not known whether it was fired deliberately. The second incident occurred between Montreal and Quebec in similar circumstances, when a shot was fired at a car similar to the one used by the police. The commissioner said he did not know of any other similar incidents.

The Minister of Justice confirmed that the police had not met armed resistance in enforcing the call-up regulations but said that there had been two incidents which might have been connected with them.

The Premier of Quebec (Mr. A. Godbout) said the story of armed resistance was false and apparently malicious. He declared that the report was likely to create disunion and raise people of other provinces against the people ol Quebec. NAVY CONGRATULATED RUGBY, August 13. The Navy Minister, Mr MacDonald, stated to-day, according to an Ottawa message, that the Canadian Navy has received a message of congratulation from the First Lord of the Admiralty. The congratulations were on convoy work, and as the principal business of the Canadian Navy was submarine hunting it might be assumed that the hunting was good. SHIPS FOR U.S.A. (Recd. 1.50 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 13. The Navy Minister, Mr. MacDonald, said it is probable that Britain will give the United States some of the 100 warships now under construction in Canada for Britain, mainly corvettes and minesweepers. He said that 50 had ’-been commission for the Navy this year. Mr. MacDonald said: The battle of the Atlantic is not any worse. Ships are still going through. Canadian warships are doing one-third of the escort, United States one-third and the British likewise taking a share. Additional Canadian ships convoying north and south, are operating down to the Caribbean. Mr. MacDonald added that they were making every effort to keep submarines out of the St. Lawrence, but it was impossible to guarantee they would not come in. They could enter almost any area.