How Wartime Bermuda Aids Defense of Empire
Report traces Bermuda as a crucial Atlantic linchpin with British naval bases and a busy censoring hub. It describes aircraft carriers, minefields, and the Excambion voyage, plus censors, hotels Bermudiana and Princes, and the role of women in wartime mail screening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermuda
Atlantic
Florida
Abdout
New York
Halifax
West Indies
Porto Rico
Nova Scotia
Germany
North America
Gilbert Island
United States
Britain
Darre
Imperial Airways
Japan
Mustrious
Ark Roya
Pacific
Midway Island
Excambion
Conasnbip
Httle
Air Mall
Mall
Hampton
Bermudiana
Prinevas
Lue Magazine
England
Hayal_Navy
Secret Service
Canada
British Council
London
Ciiition Madrass
Masons
Coupon Rationing and War Policy Dominate Ottawa Start
The Week reports severe tea coffee couponing and a shift from voluntary to enforced rationing under Wartime Prices and Trade Board rules. Ottawa debates manpower, conscription, and emergency measures while Parliament faces taxes housing loans and anti Communist policy questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayatem
Prices and Trade Board
Ottawa
Mitchell
Ric M. Little
National — Selective Services
Canada
National Selective Service Organization
Prairie Provinces
Justice
St. Laurent
Tisley
Commons
Alberta woman returns to service in Canadian forces
In World War I she served as a lieutenant in the Austrian army and fought alongside her husband in the Austro Ukrainian campaigns. Now in the current conflict she joins the Canadian Women’s Army Corps while her two sons pursue military roles, including a son-in-law in the Royal Canadian Air Force and another son in the Edmonton area cadets awaiting age eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bermuda
Great Sound
Hamilton
Maine
Excambion
Hamilton Harbor
Canadian National Line
Edmonton
Mussina
Shestra
Shakevich
Alberta Women's Service Corps
Canadian
Ex MP Killed in Fall in Horbury England
Col Emit William Pickering former MP for Dewsbury from 1918 to 1922 died after a fall from his carriage in Horbury England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.P
Horbury
England
William Pickering
Dewsbury
Rooster Mascot Adopted by South African Medical Unit
A rooster mascot named Mascot is adopted by a South African medical dressing station near Acroma. The unit nicknames the bird after a commander and uses the nickname Maj Gent Pode Villen in local war-time reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caird
Acroma S
Pode Villen
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Communist Party
Communist Party of Canada
Payiament
C.C.F
House
House of Commons
Stillegal
National Resources Mobilization
Senate
Mackenzie King
Isley
Towe
Housing Ltd
Uyers
Asley
Astey
Lyman Duff
Hong Kong
Howard Green
Don Vancouver South
Defence Department
Pre Moton
Western Pacific
By Thurstan
Topham
Law
Prutey
Adora
Miles
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