Grim telling of Italian defeat in desert war
A stark account portrays Italy's collapse in Egypt with Graziani's shattered spearhead at Sidi Barrani and mounting Italian surrenders. The piece warns of morale impact beyond battlefield losses, suggesting Mussolini's regime could be fatally undermined if more divisions are lost and Allied pressure continues.
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London
Mary
Mgurt
Rome
Dimeter
Italy
Mussolini
Cairo
Churchill
Marshal Graziani
Graziani
Sidi Barrani
Suez Canal
Africa
Britain
Mediterranean
Egypt
Albania
Hitler
Churchill maintains RAF coastal command under Britain’s Admiralty
In Parliament, Prime Minister Churchill rejects breaking up the coastal command from the RAF. He supports increasing Admiralty control and more planes for naval war aims while keeping consultation with the air chief. The debate follows pressures from Lord Beaverbrook’s Evening Standard and Nationalist A. Hopkinson.
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London
Britain
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Coastal Command
Churchill
PLA F
Air Officer Commanding
The
House
RAF
A. Hopkinson
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Navy
Hopkinson
Standard
Fleet Air Arm
Advisory Board Formed Ottawa War Funds Appeals
The National War Services department announced a national war services advisory board to control voluntary war work fundraising. Led by C. L. Burton of Toronto, the board includes a representative from each province and five voluntary organizations. It will require audited expenditure statements and review fundraising asks and proposed uses, and regulate appeal dates.
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Ottawa
National War Services Department
National War Services Advisory Board
C. L. Burton
Toronto
Publc
Axis stance downplays Egypt and Albania as minor episodes
Nazi spokesmen dismiss British success in Egypt and Greece victory in Albania as mere episodes. They claim the Axis military and economic course remains absolutely uninfluenced by these episodes.
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Berlin
Egypt
Albania
Kent Village Inhabitants Use Natural Air Raid Shelters
In one Kent village residents have natural air raid shelters dug into nearby caves. They use these familiar caves for protection during danger periods.
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Kent
German freighter Rhein runs blockade and is abandoned
The Rhein slipped from Tampico on November 29 to break the British blockade but was found off Cuba in the possession of Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen. The Nazi crew scuttled the ship as they abandoned it, with reports of earlier encounters and Dutch naval involvement in western Atlantic patrols surprising observers.
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Washington
United States Navy Department
Tampico
Mexico
van Kinsbergen
Cuba
Navy
Idarwald
Phrygia
Edmonton Scholarship Honors Wheat King Francis Rigby
Premier Aberhart announced 22 year old Francis Lloyd Rigby of Wembley Alberta, the world wheat king, won a scholarship worth 864 dollars from the Alberta government. The award covers two senior years in agriculture at the University of Alberta where Rigby studies after his wins at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago 1938 1939 and this year.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Francis Lloyd Rigby
Wembley
Alta
University of Alberta
Aberhart
Young Higby
Chicago
Rigby
Rhodesia air training scheme to train 2100 air personnel yearly
The Rhodesia Salisbury section of the Empire air training scheme will start mid next year and will supply 1,500 pilots 240 air observers and 340 air gunners annually. The program aims to train a total of 2 080 air personnel per year.
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Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Honor Roll Established for War Savings Subscriptions
The war savings committee creates an honor roll for firms and workers with high regular war savings certificate subscriptions. Bronze, silver, and gold seals will be awarded based on 75, 90, and 100 percent participation. First awards are planned for early next year.
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Tawa
The
War Savings Committee
British Success in Egypt Eases Balkan Tensions
The British advance in Egypt drives Italians from Sidi Barrani and shifts the Mediterranean balance from Gibraltar to Suez. Balkan neutrals Turkey Bulgaria and Yugoslavia show stronger anti axis stances, reducing fear of a Nazi march eastward. Franco's Spain drifts from axis help as Italy’s Graziani strains to renew attacks, while fuel and munitions limits bite.
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Balkan
Turkey
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Egypt
Berlin
Franco
Gibraltar
Saguenay Destroyer Torpedoed As U-boat Hit By Salvo
The Saguenay was torpedoed in the Atlantic while escorting a convoy. 81 men were transferred to another destroyer, 18 wounded, as Admiralty repair crews work to fix the Canadian vessel.
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London
Saguenay
A. J. McWhinnie
Daily Herald
McWhinnie
Atlantic
George Miles
Admiralty
H.M.C.S. Saguenay
Manitoba faces tax drop from higher war expenditures
Provincial Treasurer Stuart Garson told the legislature that increased Dominion government war spending is expected to cut Manitoba income tax revenues by about 250 000 to 300 000 dollars next year. He noted that federal income tax paid by Manitoba residents is exempt from provincial tax.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Stuart Garson
Garson
House
Butter Stocks Drop 15.5 Percent From Last Year
Dominion bureau of statistics reports final revised figures showing Canadian butter in cold storage at 41 768 020 pounds on December 1 compared with 49 429 463 pounds a year earlier. Wartime Prices and Trade Board considers whether shortage signals action possibly pricing changes to curb consumption and avert rationing.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prices and Trade Board
Britain records 44.5 million aid to Chiang Kai-Shek government
Great Britain grants 44.5 million in financial aid to Chiang Kai-Shek's government. Richard Butler tells the House of Commons the aid comes as half in credits for China in sterling bloc countries and half to bolster the Chinese stabilization fund.
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Britain
Chiang Kai-shek
London
Great Britain
Richard Butler
House of Commons
China
Fascists Explain Debacle on Greek Front In Italy
Roberto Farinacci in I Regime Fascista blames the Greek front setback on poor command decisions and claims Marshal Badoglio opposed the Greece campaign and needed more divisions. He defends the regime’s military funding and urges national morale against British propaganda and imaginary catastrophes.
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Rome
Roberto Farinacci
I Regime Fascista
Pietro Badoglio
Greece
Dominions urged to sacrifice for war effort
Lord Stamp appeals Dominion peoples to tighten belts and curb home consumption to boost wartime production. He stresses abstinence, saving ships and dollars, and urges ready adoption of self denial across the Empire to support the United Kingdom.
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Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
Eng
Canada
Dominions
Lord Stamp
United Kingdom
Britain
United States
Training Next Month for Netherlands Troops in Canada
Netherlands soldiers recruited in Canada will train at Stratford Ontario beginning January 15 for six weeks. The first draft of about 300 men includes volunteers outside the 20 to 26 age range with Dominion consent. After training they go to England for advanced Netherlands army formation and to help restore order in the homeland after Nazi defeat.
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Ottawa
Netherlands
Canada
Alles
Col
G. J. Sas
Stratford
Ont
England
Holland
Great Britain
Lady Tweedsmuir Attends Parcel Packing for POWs
London reports Lady Tweedsmuir, representing the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire, visiting Canadian Red Cross headquarters to oversee the packing of 20 Christmas parcels for Canadian prisoners in Germany without UK next of kin. Most recipients are airmen.
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London
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