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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 26, 1941
Page
5
British aviation expert outlines how fighters like the Hurricane can reach 35 000 feet, the stratosphere as a battlefield, and the coming use of stratobombers. High altitude flying brings stealth and risk, with oxygen masks, pho tographic navigation limits, and engines needing multiple superchargers.
A Frank D. Slocum letter argues England will endure Hitler’s threat, blaming surrender for defeat rather than failure, praising English courage and resolve. He says England will not shirk responsibility for failure nor shift blame to life itself, and will remain stronger and nobler.
Central Experimental Farm Ottawa develops a clear vinegar from Canadian apples by distillation to replace imported molasses based white wine vinegar. The move expands use of culled apples, lowers foreign exchange costs, and follows new cider vinegar projects in Ontario and Nova Scotia. A Vancouver plant adds a potato grading bagging line to ease parceling for households.
John Bull writes that England will rise in 1941 despite bombing. He asks his Brantford police chief brother-in-law Harry Stanley to send Canadian pumpkin squash and lettuce seeds to plant, grow, and harvest before the Nazis.
The Toronto Telegram urges the people of the British Empire to profit from wartime lessons of 1940. It calls for greater voluntary sacrifices and warns munition workers that strikes and idle hours are as serious as desertion, urging removal of complacency.
The article explains that ordinary window glass blocks UV rays, making direct sunlight essential for chickens to obtain vitamin D when other sources like cod liver oil are not available in the poultry ration.
The war effort requires intensified knowledge across society and the lantern slide service of the Dominion Department of Agriculture responds. It offers free educational lantern slides and accompanying lectures on agricultural topics with only carriage charges on receipt. A catalogue is available from Publicity and Extension Division Ottawa.
The Calgary Albertan notes the lack of word from Poland and Czechoslovakia despite them being long occupied. It suggests silence may reveal an unfavorable story about the new order and urges readers to support the war by buying War Savings Stamps as the best way to help in the struggle for freedom.
Simple knitting instruction reveals a lacy chair set in mercerized cotton. The pattern number 6554 includes stitches, materials, and illustrations. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave for the pattern. note no Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
Canadian war savings drive urged support for empire's effort against Nazi aggression. J H Wesson of Saskatchewan Cooperative Wheat Producers Limited appeals Regina audience to buy war savings stamps and lend money to fund ships, planes, guns, and food for the Allied war effort.
The article details modern army rations with mechanized kitchens and a large cook corps, including Army Schools of Cookery and 100 emergency training centers, producing about 700 cooks weekly with 25,000 trained since the war began. It also recounts Allied desert raiders led by Britons and New Zealanders, using bold patrols across the Sahara, capturing Italian prizes and disrupting caravan routes as part of the Libyan and Sudan campaigns.
Burma, formerly part of the Indian Empire, has grown its land forces in all directions and will contribute naval patrol craft and an auxiliary air unit. The territory is a major producer of oil, minerals, timber, and foodstuffs, and has supported the common cause with War Fund contributions totaling over $1,650,000, including a Burma fighter squadron for the Royal Air Force.
A Central Chinese news agency report from Hong Kong recounts 200 Japanese cavalrymen dining in a southern Honan village during a Japanese sweep. The villagers fled, leaving only able-bodied men hidden. The invaders sat to feast before Chinese fighters opened fire, killing all 200 attackers.
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