CANADIAN CABINET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 4

CANADIAN CABINET

NEW FINANCE MINISTER APPOINTED. DOMINION’S FIRST WAR CASUALTY. ' MONTREAL, September 6. An Ottavza message reports that the Prime Minister! Mr Mackenzie King, has strengthened the War Cabinet by the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Ralston, a distinguished ex-soldier and a former Minister of National Defence, as Minister of Finance. He replaces Mr Dunning, who resigned on the ground of ill-health. Lieut.-Col-onel Ralston is not now a member of the Canadian House of Commons. Paql Gurtler, Herr Hitler’s immediate superior in the Great War, has enlisted in the Canadian Army, says a message from Drumheller, Alberta. Gurtler, who was born in Sudetenland, went to Canada after the war and is now a naturalised miner. From San Francisco it is reported that Captain Fritz Wiedmann, German Consul-General, and Herr Hitler’s Great War company commander, has resigned from the Olympic Club after being warned that its 165 members would resign unless he did. Dr. Banting, who discovered insulin, has enlisted as a captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Toronto reports. From Victoria, British Columbia, it is reported that Anthony Playfair, aged 25, a pilot officer in the R.A.F., is the first Canadian war casualty. The War Ministry has informed his parents that he died on active service.