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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 07, 1943
Page
5
Colonel Walter Eliot reflects on the breadth of the British Empire from Cyprus and Transjordan to West Africa and the Caribbean. He discusses diverse civilizations, colonial administration, native rulers, and the role of law, trade, and roads in development, noting both progress and missteps.
The Winnipeg Tribune reports Germans in districts near the North Sea and Channel are confiscating English grammars to stop locals from learning English and aiding allied troops in an invasion. This marks a shift from earlier Nazi efforts to study English for Britain conquest.
Brigadier J. L. Melville MC E D a noted engineer in civilian life and in two wars is named chief engineer of the First Canadian Army Oversees He is 54 and served as Field Engineer in charge of all bridge construction at Canadian Corps HQ during the final year of World War I He received the Military Cross and a bar to the MC for bridging at Canal Du Nord
The piece cites varying theories from farmers and an Indian prophet on rain linked to World War I pressures and agricultural strain. It mentions Ontario farm criticism of airplanes overhead and suggests cycles of dry and wet periods, labeling 1916 to 1918 as a rainy era peak.
An inner tube cotton cord jacket developed by a tire firm protects against chafing from broken casing. In tests a worn tire with four side wall cuts ran 4,055 miles, suggesting old tires can travel thousands more miles with the jacket.
Accidents at home can be reduced with foresight. Dark stairs should be finished in light shades and cellar stairs painted with a white edge to improve visibility and safety.
A London Spectator account notes how Ballachulish men held as POWs in 1940 used Gaelic to confuse German guards. By speaking only Gaelic and signaling a remote Russia map spot they presented themselves as refugees, enabling an escape toward the Spanish frontier.
Sergeant W O Neill of Western Australia trod on a landmine near Mubo in the jungle with two companions. He shouted a warning and all three dropped flat as the mine exploded. the others escaped unhurt. The delay saved them. He later earned the DCM for single handedly killing twelve Japanese in a separate raid.
A pre war trapeze artist now operates an overhead crane in an Australian munitions factory. She guides a dozen girls in electric crane control, inspiring others who had never seen such machinery. Additional crane drivers include a Wangaretta climber and a motorcycle salesgirl who has toured Australia.
Belgian fishermen set up a self contained colony on British soil after annexing a small Englis h Channel coast post in May 1940. In Ostend a school trained boys from thirteen to fifteen in scientific fishing, exams at sixteen, and the Belgians rebuilt the school in London with help from the Admiralty and Board of Trade. The program aims to educate youths for crew roles and for Mate or Extra Master in fishing ships, with five bilingual departments: navigation engineering mathematics languages geography and hygiene.
R. C. Morrison of North Tottenham told a light anecdote during the Empire Parliamentary Association tour. A constituent wrote asking access to a London debate for her mother and sister and added a postscript about taking them to the zoo if it caused trouble.
A Winnipeg advertisement offers transfer pattern 7354 for embroidery on cloths napkins scarfs and towels with blossoms forming a border. It includes motifs and stitch illustrations and lists materials. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man for delivery, which may take longer by mail.
The article notes small scale milkweed farming in Canada under the National Research Council with leaves stalks yielding crude rubber and floss usable like kapok. It also mentions the first lightship in English waters at the Nore in 1732.
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