British Navy and Air Force Drive in the East
The Admiralty reports a coordinated naval air and land offensive with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force driving Italian forces from Egypt into Libya. Fleet bombardments supported land advances, harassing retreating columns and bombarding Sidi Barrani, Maktila, Salum, and Bardia as the Malan submarine Naiade was sunk during the operation.
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Lomion
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Egypt
Libya
Fleet Air Arm
Maktinia
Sidi Barrani
Maktila
Salum
Bardia
Mediterranean
Naiade
Spain seeks ships to rush wheat and corn from Argentina
A plan to mobilize all available Spanish ocean-going ships to Argentina for wheat and corn was disclosed as a step to ease a food shortage. Steamship owners offered ships. aims include deliveries before end of January with British permission for ships to bring supplies. Bread rationing may tighten further as wheat remains scarce due to civil war losses and poor harvests amid ongoing conflict.
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Madrid
Argentina
Eport
Navy Ministry
Spain
Alaskan Trapper Burns Beacon to Signal Plane Home for Christmas
Prospector Fred Hume, after eight months in the Alaska wilderness, fired a spruce tree beacon near a snow lettered HELP to attract a passing airplane. Pilot Roy Dickson and Dr. A. S. Warkowski finally landed on a lake. Hume, healthy, planned to return home to Valdez for Christmas after 20 days of failed snow-signals.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Fred Hume
Hume
Roy Dickson
A. S. Warkowski
Valdez
Should Be Controlled Ottawa With Butter Import Imminent
Canada may need to import butter to bolster vanishing stocks. The wartime prices and trade board favor government supervision if imports occur. Oleomargarine ban proposals were not considered. board prefers butter to meet needs. May 1 last year reserves were 10 million pounds. if consumption remains high, reserves could run out by May 1.
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Ottawa
Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Hector McKinnon
Burden Grows as Bank of France Loan Rises
The official journal disclosed that the Bank of France increased its provisional non interest loan to the French government from 65 billion to 75 billion francs to cover costs of German troops garrisoned in occupied territory.
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Vichy
Bank of France
Family blood drive at Lenox Hill for Britain
Wallace S. Jacobs and 23 family members gathered at Lenox Hill hospital to donate blood for Britain. Seventeen donors were accepted, a move Red Cross called one of the largest family mass donations on record.
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New York
Wallace S. Jacobs
Lenox Hill Hospital
Britain
Red Cross
Christmas Truce Proclaimed in Gandhi Campaign
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, proclaimed a Christmas truce from December 23 to January 4 as part of the Congress party campaign against Indian participation in the war.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Congress Party
Revolt in Abyssinia Quietly Gathers Momentum
London reports that Ethiopians resisting Italian occupation appear to be making progress. Under-secretary Richard Butler told the House of Commons information from Abyssinia is limited but the revolt movement is gaining footing and the government pledges aid to Haile Selassie and all Ethiopians willing to fight for freedom.
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London
Ethiopia
Richard Butler
House of Commons
Abyssinia
Butler
Haile Selassie
Britain mobilizes 3 million under arms for potential invasion
Britain warns of Nazi invasion as 1,000,000 home guards plus coast defense and mobile troops stand ready. The government says victory requires a deep strike into Axis powers, with 3,000,000 under arms and ships and air forces prepared to strike Hitler and Mussolini.
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London
Great Britain
Hier
Ministry of Information
Germany
Italy
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Hitler
Mussolini
Britain
War Office
Admiralty
Marine Corps
Lord Beaverbrook
Albania
Africa
Difficult Times For Cavaliero As Axis Struggles Deepen
General Ugo Cavallero, leader of the Fascist General Staff after Badoglio, faces a troubled front as Axis forces retreat in North Africa and Greece press Italians in Albania. British officials warn Hitler may attempt to disrupt Christmas with moves at sea, while the war office proclaims no invasion season.
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Ugo Cavaliero
Marshal Badoglio
Egypt
Libya
Albania
Cavallero
Hitler
War Office
Danish Vessels in American Ports Face Seizure Plan
The United States weighs taking over 37 Danish ships tied up in U S ports since Denmark's occupation. The plan would likely free the vessels for Britain but requires legal authority and possible special congressional legislation. Officials from the maritime commission treasury and navy have discussed it without a firm decision. Danish shipowners have been negotiating with American operators in New York on disposal.
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Washington
United States
Denmark
Britain
Maritime Commission
Treasury
U.S. Navy
American Congress
New York
Gift From Coventry Plant Aids Bombed City Victims
The American Viscose Corporation reports 17,000 employees contributed 11595 to aid Coventry England bombed victims. The gift was sent from its Wilmington Delaware plant in recognition of the city’s wartime suffering.
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Wilmington
Del
American Viscose Corporation
Coventry
England
German Troops Withdraw from Versailles Amid Petain Arrival
Delayed dispatch reports German forces pull back from Versailles the former French royal seat as anticipation grows for the arrival of Chief of State Philippe Pétain in Paris signaling potential shifts in occupied governance and regional control.
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Paris
Berlin
Versailles
France
Petain
Canada Negotiates Purchase of 60 Wasp Aircraft Motors
The Canadian government seeks to buy 60 Wasp 1100 horsepower airplane motors stored for two years in a Mexican air force workshop. Negotiations are ongoing with Indalecio Prieto representing the defunct Spanish Republican government. Motors were sent from the United States to Spain but the civil war ended before shipment.
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Mexico City
Indalecio Prieto
United States
Spain
Naval guns to be built in Canada under big western program
Ottawa announced a large munitions push with naval gun manufacture to be located in western Canada in one or two plants, plus five more for gun mountings. Western sites include Manitoba Alberta and Nova Scotia with Britain funding much of the project.
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Ottawa
Canada
W. F. Drysdale
Drysdale
Manitoba
Alberta
Nova Scotia
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
West
Britain
Department of Munitions and Supply
Shell
Churchill signals 1941 offensive plan in Britain
In a Parliament address Churchill says Britain is geared for an offensive in 1941 not just defense. He asserts confidence to withstand Nazi attack by land, sea, or air with U.S. aid, and envisions a possible early British counter-attack across war theatres if Hitler forces invasion.
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Britain
Germany
United States
Churchill
Hitler
Albania
Egypt
Berlin
Italy
Libya
Greece
Damage To Wheat In Manitoba Warned By Experts
Manitoba agronomists warn that millions of bushels of wheat on western farms face serious mite damage. H. E. Gray of Ottawa outlined control by moving or turning grain to crush mites. Mitchener noted mites are nearly invisible and warm spring weather could worsen the infestation.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
H. E. Gray
Ottawa
Dean A. V. Mitchener
University of Manitoba Entomology Department
Gray
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Britain to pay compensation for wartime damage
Sir Kingsley Wood announced in the House of Commons that Britain will provide compensation to all adult citizens killed or injured by enemy action. The plan covers injuries already incurred and increases will apply from December 24.
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London
Britain
Kingsley Wood
House of Commons
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East
Blizkrieg
U.S
Priscilla Lane
Priscilla
Mexico
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