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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1944
Page
5
London reports naval gains in the Mediterranean aiming to lift Allied shipping to 10,000,000 tons for a western Europe second front by November. Opened Mediterranean routes free up ships for the Pacific while reducing sinkings. gains bring the goal within a million tons.
Canadian midshipmen first class to graduate from Royal Naval College at Royal Roads BC have arrived in Canada’s naval establishment and will serve aboard Royal Navy battleships and cruisers. The group includes prize winners R W J Cocks of Victoria and G L Hopkins of Regina. Engineers join the ranks, while others such as Alan Malcolm Cameron Saskatoon George Irvin Loucks Invermay Sask and Francis William Carson Saskatoon undertake training with warships.
British coastal anti-aircraft units along the south and southeast have been reorganized as Germany changes tactics from sneak raids to high altitude bombing. Light AA guns halted low level raids and now heavy batteries fight high flying bombers with fighter support.
London reports for August show 108 killed or missing believed killed after civilian air raids in Britain. The period also records 164 injured and detained in hospital facilities.
Reuters dispatch from Cairo reports hundreds of Germans and Croat quislings killed in a five day fight at Karlovatz in Croatia. Italian garrison of 10000 was disarmed amid the clash.
Ottawa reports that the Canadian army will continue to need men until the war ends. Defence Minister Ralston says reductions in home troops do not reduce overseas demand and that enlistment for general service must be maintained to feed reinforcement streams for future action.
Allied headquarters announced banks across Sicily reopened under occupation authorities with special military currency. Depositors may withdraw up to 5 000 lire, and no runs were reported. Officials said reforms to price decrees and rationing are planned to curb the black market as industrial and commercial rehabilitation proceeds.
Reporters describe severe hunger across liberated Sicily and the southern Italian mainland as the Eighth Army with Canadian forces advances. Breadlines grow long while families barter corkscrews and trinkets to buy food. Mussolini-era policies left Italy malnourished and dependent on aid.
Lieut.-Col C. S. Wallace, ex Toronto and Edmonton newspaperman, heads the Canadian forces field public relations staff in the North African war theatre. He directs a team of army photographers and writers serving in the combat zone.
Nazis spread rumors of crossing Switzerland and sabotaging the main rail line between Italy and France. The French underground reportedly damaged the railway about 18 miles from Chambray to disrupt traffic as a terror campaign to hinder resistance if German forces move through the neutral state.
Allied headquarters report Italian soldiers aiding British units near Taranto as German paratroopers were contacted around Gioia 30 miles northwest of Taranto. The British freed 300 POWs including two Greek generals. The Brenner Pass is described as the Thermopylae of the Tyrol.
Dr J S Thomson of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation urged education as the nation’s postwar key at the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association. R S Lambert proposed a national advisory council on school broadcasting with 16 members including provincial reps, university groups, teachers, and home and school federations.
The Canadian Wheat Board announces higher quotas raising deliveries from three to five bushels at 160 points across the prairie provinces. Manitoba accounts for 37 points, Saskatchewan 52, and Alberta 71 points.
Chinese foreign minister T. V. Soong states that Japan presses peace terms as it dwindles under pressure. He recalls a 1941 proposal offered when Pearl Harbor was attacked, suggesting Japan would quit China if China left the United Nations and joined a racial war against white nations, a plan China rejects.
B A Proulx of Ottawa in charge of theatrical distribution for the National Film Board says over 7000 American theatres are being serviced with Canada related films. He adds there is a great need for Canada publicity abroad.
London field marshal Viscount Wavell, viceroy designate of India, urged the Pilgrims Society that progress comes when spending against poverty and illness equals that against Hitler. He praised lend-lease as a major effort and said Mountbatten’s East Asia command will tighten Anglo American cooperation in India against Japan. He warned Japan must be defeated as Germany was and urged continual effort beyond victory in Europe.
Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery told Canadian officers that the war will extend into Germany and it is premature to claim an imminent end. He praised the Canadians for their key role in Italy and noted North Italy remains under German control while vowing to push into the German homeland. Maj Gen Guy Simonds stood with Montgomery as he recalled the corps’ formation and Canada’s battlefield contributions with the 8th Army. Italy’s unconditional surrender and recent Allied advances have reshaped the war outlook, Montgomery said, crediting Canadian actions for knocking Italy out of the conflict.
Dr Wilder Penfield, prominent Canadian neurosurgeon and member of a surgical mission just returned from Russia, says Russian medicine and surgery match Canadian standards while Russia excels in other areas especially in the use of blood plasma.
Burlington residents George Ganakes and John Skarlis offer $200 to the first service man who lands on Greek soil in the event of an Allied invasion. The offer reflects Greek ancestry ties in Burlington and aims to honor military action abroad.
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