ONTARIO ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1940, Page 7

ONTARIO ATTACK

ON CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAR EFFORTS DERIDED AS SLOW AND INEFFICIENT. HOSTILE MOTION PASSED BY LEGISLATURE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright TORONTO. Janaury 18. The Premier of Ontario. Mr Al. F. Hepburn, today placed in the provincial legislature a motion condemnatory of the Canadian Government’s prosecution of the war and announced that he would resign if the motion was defeated. Mr Hepburn, who in the past few weeks has apparently ended the truce in which he refrained from attacks on the Federal Government, to which he had been long bitterly opposed, resumed a running fire against the Federal Government’s war effort, alleging that many of the recruits have contracted tuberculosis on account of insufficient clothing, and generally deriding as slow and inefficient Canada's war efforts. The Conservative leader, Mr s George Drew, associated himself with Mr Hepburn's criticism. The legislature passed the motion by 44 votes to 10. Ten Liberals voted against the motion, and the Conservatives voted solidly with the remainder of the Liberals in favour of it.

EMPIRE AIR FORCES CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 18. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, revealed today that squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force will soon be taking part in active operations in Europe. Reviewing valuable contributions the Dominions have already made to the Allied air strength, he sai.d “Our Imperial training scheme will undoubtedly provide the air forces of the Empire with facilities for training tens of thousands of keen young men as pilots and crews.” Seventeen cities and towns are represented among the 25 officers of the Army Co-operation Squadron of the Royal Civilian Air Force selected as an air force component of the first division of the Canadain Active Service Force. It will be recalled that a squadron of the Canadian Royal Air Force is already in Britain.