SHOTS AT POLICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 3

SHOTS AT POLICE

QUEBEC INCIDENTS CALL-UP NOTICES SERVED

DENIAL OF RESISTANCE

(10 a.m.) OTTAWA Aug. 13. Tlie Canadian press agency states that police constables who were personally delivering call-up notices m the Quebec City area met with armed resistance in several instances recently. Pistol shots were fired at the constables and a serious situation .developed in one instance, but authorities refused to divulge whethei anyone was injured or to indicate th extent of the resistance. The commissioner, Mr. Wood, although who earlier had said that the Royal Canadian Police had not met with armed resistance in delivering cad ' a P notices in Quebec or elsewhere latei acknowledged two shooting incidents, one of which occurred 10 days ago m the Gatineau area where 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 firen deliberately. The second incident occurred between Montreal and Quebec under similar circumstances when a snot was fired at an automobile similar to the one .the police used. Mr. Wood said he did not know of any other similar incidents. The Minister of Justice, Mr. St. Laurent, confirmed that the police did not meet armed resistance in en.orcing the crll-up regulations but said that there were two incidents which may have been connected with them. The Premier of Quebec, Mr. Godbout, said the story of armed resistance was false and apparently malicious. He declared that the ieport was likely to create disunion and raise people in the other provinces against the people of Quebec.