Strength Of British Sea Power In The War Effort
The article extols Britain’s sea power as the war’s backbone, noting 2000 freighters and 600 warships at sea daily, with 2600 ships sustaining supply lines to Africa, America, Australia, and beyond. It emphasizes the Navy’s role in protecting convoys, delivering troops, vehicles, aircraft, and stores while facing U boat and bomber threats.
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English Channel
French
British Isles
Australasia
Britain
United Kingdom
Africa
America
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Iceland
India
Russia
Hitler
Arctic
Tropics
Japanese Remnants to Move from Vancouver TB Hospital
Pensions Minister Mackenzie announced that 21 349 Japanese resided in a vulnerable area of British Columbia on December 7. Only 105 remained, all in Vancouver as patients or staff at Hastings Park TB hospital. The remainder would be relocated to interior New Denver.
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B.C
Vancouver
Hasting’s Park
Mackenzie
New Denver
Ravnik atrocity cited as example of Italian savagery
Windsor Star denounces the Ravnik massacre in Yugoslavia where Italian troops burned the village, killed men and boys, and expelled women and children while warning locals against sheltering them. The piece stresses Mussolini’s Rome ordered the act and warns the world to remember the atrocity.
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Ravnik
Yugoslavia
Rome
Mussolini
Windsor Star
Mozambique Population and Inhabitation Description
Mozambique is described as very sparsely inhabited with an average density of about 13 persons per square mile. The population, around five million, is predominantly native with non natives making up less than five percent. Of the non natives, about half are Europeans and the rest include Arabs Indians Goanese Chinese and other Asiatics and mixed races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mozambique
Brighten Your Home With New Slip Covers
Transform your home with fresh slip covers for chairs and sofas. Step by step directions 7397 provide instructions to sew covers for varied chairs. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Air Power Plans for Millions in Allied Forces
The United States aims to mobilize 2,200,000 of its 7,500,000 men into the air force as part of a vast air supremacy strategy. Combined with the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Training Plan, the buildup signals a formidable aerial force and unsettles Hitler in his public addresses.
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United States
Royal Air Force
Hitler
Pilgrims Return to Westminster Abbey in Thanksgiving Service
The New York Times describes American troops holding Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey with Stars and Stripes on the high altar and all States represented. The article frames the moment as a bridge between tradition and wartime unity, with reflections on history, leadership, and shared values amid the war effort.
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Westminster Abbey
Plymouth
England
Church of England
Union
Arnold
United States Army
Shakespeare
Pitt
Edward the Conqueror
Abraham Lincoln
Whitehall
New York Times
Aid To Russia in War Material Supply Exceeds Expectations
The Winnipeg Free Press notes that in the past year the United Nations sent Russia 3052 planes 4084 tanks 30031 vehicles and nearly a million tons of shells food and other war materiel. It credits merchant seamen for delivering these goods and warns production will outgrow current shipments as wartime needs expand to China and Africa.
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Russia
House of Commons
R. K Law
United Nations
Arctic
China
Africa
Winnipeg Free Press
Ditty bags tied to Nelson era patriot acts
The Burford Advance notes ditty bags began in Nelsons day with British girls packing gifts for sailors and soldiers. Cards included senders names and verses, giving rise to the term ditty bag. The piece also mentions early evidence of iron-smelting furnaces in the Nile valley.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Burford
Valley of the Nile
Teacher Shortage in Wartime Canada Highlights Pay Gap
The Federal Bureau of Statistics notes a 16 percent drop in elementary and high school teachers in Canada from 50 000 to 42 000 as war wages lure them to munitions. Pupil numbers stay near 2 million. rural pay scales drive shortages. The piece also discusses lend lease as postwar reconstruction, outlined U.S. and Allied aid flows and reciprocal material exchanges with Egypt and Rommel’s campaign context.
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Little Red
Federal Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Ottawa
United States
United Nations
Washington
Egypt
Rommel
Designs Training Plane Woman Engineer In Canadian Plant
Elizabeth Gregory MacGill stands as chief aeronautical engineer at the Canadian Car and Foundry plant in Fort William since 1939. She is noted as the first Canadian woman to design a new successful airplane, the Maple Leaf Trainer II, a primary training aircraft.
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Elizabeth Gregory MacGill
Canadian Car and Foundry
Fort William
Miss MacGill
New York
Edgar D. Hardy
National Council of Women of Canada
National Council of Women
United States
Elsie MacGill
British Empire
Canada
Hitler's Gibraltar blunder among Hitler's great mistakes
The Port Arthur News Chronicle argues Hitler failed to seize Gibraltar, isolating the fortress and threatening British control of the Mediterranean. It contends even with British defenses the Nazis could have controlled the straits if not for delaying actions and other war commitments, marking it as a major misstep after failures to attack Britain and Russia.
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Mediterranean
Hitler
Gibraltar
Russia
Britain
Africa
North
Port Arthur
The End of the Hunt in Westchester Hills
Mighty hunters stalked Westchester County seeking deer with bows and arrows only. By day one two deer lay slain not by piercing arrows but by being run over by automobiles.
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Westchester County
New York State
Manitoulin Island Hosts 100 Lakes Across Lak Huron Region
On Manitoulin Island in the northeast Lak Huron, the landscape features 100 lakes and related water systems. The note highlights ZASs as local designations within this freshwater environment.
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Manitoulin Island
Lak Huron
Zass
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A. G. Cameron
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Edmonton
J. Marshal
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
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Ont
Theodore West
Lancing
Sussex
Nelson
Ams
North Africa
French North Africa
Gibraltar Straits
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