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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
2
Hon. C. C. Ballantyne announces the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service to defend Canada's coasts. An international effort with the UK and USA supplies personnel and equipment, outlining uniforms, pay, training in the USA, and recruitment rules for 23 to 40 year olds.
Canada approves the allied food controllers policy on wheat products adopting the war loaf. Twenty percent of substitutes must be used with wheat flour to conserve flour and wheat for a reserve against potential poor harvests and continued food needs.
The article praises the British fleet as a decisive factor in wartime logistics. It notes four years of war, the navy securing transport of men, materials, and food, and describes the scale of allied needs including 20 million personnel, 2 million animals, and vast tonnage of naval military supplies.
A wartime assessment notes six months of German setbacks in the west, Allied initiative restoration, and gains in Piave, Rus, Vienna, and Palestine. It cites about 200000 prisoners and 2000 cannon, warns against overconfidence, and foresees continued but difficult progress as fresh Allied forces join the push while the foe retreats across French and German soil.
Captain von Mantey of the German admiralty told a Dort mund league meeting that Germany loses about five submarines monthly and 125 officers and men. He said Scheer and Indenburg will find ways to hold the enemy, dismissed fear of America, and claimed the U boat war could have prevented a larger British naval victory if more battleships had been built. He warned of England’s strength and cited the aim to deter U.S. and Russian forces.
Amid wartime gloom readers face government advertisements urging support for agriculture and munition sectors. The notices call for production and readiness, noting workers need clothing and asking for surrender of surplus suits to aid the campaign.
A cluttered fragment references a factory start and oil production figures in China, with stray phrases about marks and daily output. The text is incomplete and offers unclear details about the event or entities involved.
Experts report the greater portion of wheat grading No 1 in the Western district this year with high quality nationwide. Samples arriving at the Winnipeg Grain Exchange equal or exceed previous years as favorable weather and lack of heavy rains during ripening aid grading. Notable shipments include several high grade flax samples from Manitoba grown largely for the British government.
Captain E A Baker, sightless from a German bullet in France, is appointed to the Department of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment to lead blinded veterans training. A Queen's graduate in electrical engineering, he served thirty days in Flanders, won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre, and now works as trouble manager for the Hydro Electric Power Commission in Toronto. The policy aims to train all blinded Canadians at St Dunstan's in London, with Baker arranging the program before veterans return home.
A 4000 ton railway bridge spanning the Missouri River at St Joseph Missouri was moved 136 feet on freight car trucks to allow a longer span. The bridge was raised by hydraulic jacks averaging seventy tons per jack and traffic was halted nine hours fifteen minutes while actual movement took thirteen minutes.
A doctor instructed to seek warmer climate. the patient reveals the trip was to collect a debt. The Boston Transcript notes the quip reflects a humorous misperception of a medical consultation.
The piece argues Britain’s entry unified against Germany sealed the war’s outcome. It credits Britain's stamina and conquest of bold campaigns, noting Britain’s vast military manpower, sea dominance, and global support to France and Belgium. It highlights the Allied naval blockade, empire contributions, and strategic actions from Suez to Salonika guiding victory.
A Russian doctor provides the true origin of the term Bolshevik. He cites 1903 within the Russian Social Democratic party when the division between majority Bolshevists and minority Menshevists emerged during a vote on revolutionary methods.
A testimonial from R B of Upper Sackville Nova Scotia claims years of pimples and blackheads were cured after using Cuticura. The ad offers free samples by mail and directs readers to Cuticura Dept A Boston for more information.
The New York Commercial urges a world wheat reserve to counter a 20 year pattern of dwindling carryover and looming crop risk. It notes England’s and France Italy’s reduced output, and calls Canada and the United States to expand winter wheat acreage to prevent a famine. It also cites Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy for worms in grain.
In Victoria British Columbia the observatory’s secondary Newtonian mirror arrived after long polishing begun in 1916 and finished late last year. The six foot mirror weighs about six tons and its seventh inch surface is optically exact within four hundred thousandths of a wavelength, promising a star image near a perfect point.
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