INCORPORATING THE ROYAL GAZETTE (Established 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 20—NO. 45 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940 3D PER COPY—40/- PER ANNUIV BIG PLAN FOR COLONIES ANNOUNCED WAR CHARITIES TO BE ROTARY'S WORK FOR THE MATERNITY WING OF THE £5 MILLION YEARLY TO ENABLE CENTRALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY EMPHASISED HOSPITAL SOON READY PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT DEVELOPMENT & IMPROVEMENT ON THE ALTMARK INCIDENT Committee Working Hard On Club's 16-year Existence To Accommodate 16 Patients; Empire Fete Plans Reviewed By Members Every Facility is Planned a Norway's "Complete Indifference To British Government's Far-Reaching A committee has been appointed That the Bermuda Rotary Club The new maternity wing at the to administer the central fund which has done great community work King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, The Use of Her Waters by German Ships'' will be left after all expenses have here, as well as giving visitors a very donated by Mr. A. E. Nicholl in Scheme Laid Before Parliament been paid from the Empire Fete warm welcome and the opportunity memory of his father, the late Com­ for War Charities to be held in Gov­ to know Bermuda and Bermudians, mander Sir Edward Nicholl, will be ernment House grounds on April was emphasied by Sir Stanley Spurl­ completed in about six weeks time, PROPER INSPECTION OF PRISON-SHIP WAS 11. The fete, which will be the ing and Mr. J. J. Arnold, former according to Dr. W. E. Talbot, Medi­ REPORT OF THE WEST INDIAN COMMISSION biggest event of its kind ever presidents of the club, in a double cal Superintendent of the Hospital. NOT CARRIED OUT BY NORWEGIANS held in Bermuda, is rapidly being address given yesterday at the week­ A visit to the hospital yesterday IS "ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE" woven into shape and the com­ ly luncheon meeting in the Windsor disclosed that rapid progress has LONDON, Feb. 20. (BOP).—The Prime Minister in a House mittee are working actively to make Hotel. His Excellency the Governor, been made since December 4, when of Commons statement on the Altmark incident, disclosed that it a success. Lt.-General Sir Denis Bernard, was Mr. Nicholl laid the corner stone. 299 officers and men were rescued from the German prison ship The committee appointed is com­ present. Only certain finishing work remains who had been closely confined for up to more than three months. Further details of the Colonial Development Plan will be posed of Mrs. Hastings-Brooke, Lady Sir Stanley Spurling, the first to be done, in addition to the installa­ He had seen the statement made bythe Norwegian Foreign nd on page 3. Meyrick, Mrs. E. A. T. Dutton, Mrs. speaker, was referred to by Mr. tion of equipment. Minister and he felt bound to say this account made the action or W. H. Beck, Mrs. H. Lockward, Ernest Watlington, in his introduc­ Dr. Talbot explained the many inaction of the Norwegian Government even more difficult to Mrs. R. E. E. Booker, honorary tion of him, as the second president features of the new maternity wing, understand than he had previously supposed. LONDON. Feb. 20. (CP).—A Colonial development programme secretary, and Mr. D. H. Sutherland, of the Club. Sir Stanley confined his which will be completely modern in "We had imagined the Norwegian authorities had conducted involving an expenditure of £5,000.000 yearly for ten years was honorary treasurer. remarks mainly to references about every respect. Everything is laid out some examination of the Altmark, and our complaint was that announced in the House of Commons today by Mr. Malcolm It has been agreed that three- "where this Rotary club has been of systematically to ensure the rapid this examination had been so.perfunctory it did not reveal the McDonald, the Colonial Secretary. The money will be spent on quarters of the total net proceeds value to the community." and efficient handling of cases and to presence of British prisoners on board. schemes involving capital expenditures for Colonial development will go to war charities and the re­ Ho pointed out that the first meet­ make for the comfort of the patient. as well as in assisting Colonial governors to extend such public maining quarter will be divided ing had taken place on January 24. I There will be few superfluous articles he services as education, health, housing and agriculture. as follows: 1924 when many well-known Ber­ j around the rooms, as one of the ad­ THEY SAY no It is also proposed to establish a Colonial Research Advisory Two-thirds to the Lady Cubitt mudians attended to discuss the pos­ vantages of the new building is built- examination That the shipping news is good "I find it Committee with an appropriation of £500,000 yearly. Community Fund and one-third sibilities of forming a club here, in receptacles in the walls. far as it goes. The new policy was announced simultaneously with the pub­ to the Sunshine League. Both these moved by the strong Rotary spirit Many of the rooms, all with as­ the Norweg lication of the recommendations of the Commission which in­ societies have had their responsibil­ of a visiting Torontonie.n. phalt tile floors, lead into one another. I That perhaps better is to come. played con: vestigated social and economic conditions in the British West ities increased owing to the war and Sir Stanley told of the help given The labour room has an acoustical Indies. their funds are considerably cim- by Rotary to crippled children and ceiling which will deaden noise; That there is certainly a lot of Am.e til pi r tprriti Ger- ilssion, under Lord inished. how many of the children had boon there is a fine room for sterilising can travel and a fair share of it is The proceeds from the showing restored to normal activity. He added instruments and appUances, and a expected. ippointed in 1938. Thsy ns statement was cheered on SHIPPING LOSSES LAST of the film "Gone With the Wind" thaf-because of the long arm of this I delivery room. The formula room series of rei •m.monda- ides of the House. ering t very aspect of social WEEK WAR'S HEAVIEST will be devoted to the fund, and it movement such xvork had been | contains, among other things, a That the presentation of "Gone economic life in the Caribbean is hoped that it will be possible to facilitated by the assistance of tho pasteurising machine to purify the With the Wind" is very much ap­ NO OFFICIAL REPLY The British Government send a cheque direct to the Red New York Rotary Club, as they had milk given to the babies. The nur­ preciated. The British Govermr.en ie report in principle, 15 Neutral Ships Sunk With Cross in England. helped in other instances. He also sery room is divided into three sec- Mr. major recommendation, The amount to be allotted to the described the Boy Scout work done | tions: one for the basinettes or cribs, no That the cynic says the wind hasn't official communication apa rom tlie Government accept, in- British Losses Five B.W.A.F. will be paid by the Com­ by the club and explained how many I another for bathing, and the last for gone yet. of the members had given their an incubator. This room also has an the original protest handed the • the establishment of a central mittee administering the Fund at . tizf.tion under a comptrollsr intervals as required. The B.W.A.F. Foreign Secretary on Saturday, but LONDON, Feb. 20. (CP).—British Continued on Page S Continued on Page 8 That anyhow the Empire Fete should | bably have read the i competent staff for planning, authorities asserted that last week's will finance all societies under it get a great help. all wou!d pro •nsultc.tion with Colonial ad­ engaged in war work and will be press accounts and the statement British and neutral shipping losses of the Norwegian Foreign Minister. orations, furt he r development were the heaviest of the war but asked to earmark a stated sum for That the prices of admission are as •Ifare services. Another recom- the I.O.D.E. (all chapters) and also After revealing the events leading said that four German submarines high as the cause is good. up to the rescue of the British pris­ lation is the appointment of an were "definitely sunk" and two for the Sailors' Home for the enter­ Finns Repulse Attack On Railway ctor general of agriculture. The tainment of sailors. When each oners from the German prison ship others were believed to have been That a new air service has been as described in Professor Koht's •h Government will provide a destroyed by the Royal Navy or the amount allotted to the B.W.A.F. planned for a long time. ?.l sum of £350,000 for develop- is used up the organisation con­ statement, Mr. Chamberlain said Air Force. Line Running From Viborg it would be seen "that on not one schemes which can be started Successful attacks on six U-boats cerned will render a statement to the That the negotiations have been Committee administering the Central occasion but three or four the Nor­ ?diately, in anticipation of pian- were said to have occurred within protracted but a hearing of the b\ the organization which is Fund and apply for a further grant. wegian authorities failed to carry a six-day space last week which, HELSINGFORS, Feb. 20 (Reuters) King Gustav pointed out that petition is promised.