Britain Tightens Blockade to Halt German Port Supplies
Britain intensifies effort to stop contraband flow to Germany. The Information Ministry defends neutral trade while condemning German charges of coercion. Nieuw Amsterdam and other vessels were searched and released. Groenlo cargo seized as contraband. Black Osprey also searched and released.
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Britain
Germany
Admiralty
Nieuw Amsterdam
Holland America Line
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Netherlands
Groenlo
Germany plans air and submarine response to British blockade
A Berlin correspondent reports Copenhagen paper dispatch claiming Germany will answer the British blockade with 3000 planes to bomb British harbors and use submarines as a counter measure with a motto low on fuel and high on resolve.
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New York
Berlin
Copenhagen
Germany
King appoints LePage as Prince Edward Island lieutenant governor
Prime Minister announces Hon Bradford W. LePage will become the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island succeeding Hon George Des Brisy De Blois of Charlottetown. LePage will assume duties October 1 according to the brief notice.
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Ottawa
King
Bradford W. LePage
Prince Edward Island
LePage
George Des Bris@y De Blois
Charlottetown
Island
Vancouver ex-16th battalion offers home defence unit
The Canadian Scottish Association with about 2000 members proposes forming a home defence unit for Canada if regular defence units are sent abroad as expeditionary forces.
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Vancouver
Canadian Scottish Association
Canada
Aged Duke London Inspires Troops With Parade Cheer
The Duke of Connaught, king’s grand-uncle, inspected the Grenadier and Irish Guards second battalions as a 9 year old in field marshal’s uniform. Soldiers loudly cheered the young duke during the event in London.
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London
Duke of Connaught
Grenadier and Irish Guards
Blood transfusion banks to aid Scottish war hospitals
Blood banks are being established in Edinburgh Glasgow Dundee Aberdeen and Inverness to provide a speedy blood supply for transfusions to Scottish war hospitals.
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London
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Dundee
Aberdeen
Inverness
Ottawa Policy Limits Enlistment To Single Men
Senator Raoul Dandurand announced before prorogation that the government will favor single men in wartime enlistments. Men with more than two children are to be refused for now, with only those who have one or two children considered acceptable. Military officers may have answered the call, but the policy aims to use unmarried recruits first and reduce allowances for large families.
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Ottawa
Raoul Dandurand
Gade
Dandurand
Campaign For Silence Rome War Rumor Control
Italian press reports a state campaign to enforce silence to protect neutrality. Offenders including a Jew in Genoa were jailed and sent to enforced domicile on an island. I Piccolo urged citizens to obey Duce and uphold patriotism while Il Lavoro Fascista said news came from foreign communiques.
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Rome
Italy
I Piccolo
Genoa
Il Lavoro Fascista
War Aims Britain Seeks Czech Relief From Domination
Prime Minister Chamberlain outlined Britain's war aims in the House of Commons. He pledged that the triumph of allied principles would lead to the release of the Czech people from foreign domination, referring to his message to Dr Eduard Benes.
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Great Britain
London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Vyvyan Adams
Prime Minster
Benes
Eduard Benes
Czecho-Slovakia
Norris Grain Co executive elected Winnipeg Grain Exchange head
S. G. Mathieson, assistant manager of Norris Grain Company Limited, was elected president of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange for 1939 40. He succeeds John W. Horn, who was given a two year term on the exchange council. Vice presidents for 1939 40 are C Gordon Smith and Stewart A Searle.
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Winnipeg
G. S. Mathieson
Norris Grain Company, Limited
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
John W. Horn
the Exchange
C. Gordon Smith
Stewart A. Searle
Ten Sons Mobilized From Thonon-Les-Bains Region
Ten sons of a local widow from Thonon Les Bains have been mobilized into the French army. All but the oldest son, a lieutenant who served in the Great War, hold private ranks. The mother, widow of a fisherman, has several sons serving now.
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Thonon-Les-Bains
France
Relief savings in Vancouver as men enlist
Two hundred married men receiving unemployment relief have joined Canada’s defence forces since the war began, producing a notable reduction in Vancouver relief expenditures.
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Vancouver
Canada
Spies Executed After Frontier Incursion Reported
Red Star reports liquidation of six violators at the Soviet southern frontier with two shot during escape and four dead. A separate Smolensk trial describes Ignat, a spy accused of espionage for Poland and Britain, being punished.
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Moscow
Russia
Red Star
Rumania
Turkey
Sub warfare may be extended to American side
Britain hints war could cross the Atlantic as the ministry of information says Germany may seek submarine and air bases on South and Central American coasts. London warns Nazi threats to bomb open towns in Poland and vows to limit aerial bombing to military targets only if Germany honors humanitarian pledges. Civilian casualties in Poland near 1,500 on Sept 2 and 3.
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London
Information Ministry
Britain
Germany
Palestine
Falastin
Aldifaa
Ministry of Information
Atlantic Ocean
Fuehrer
Hitler
Viscount Halifax
House of Lords
Chamberlain
House of Commons
France
America
Central
Reich
Lord Halifax
Poland
Sunk Firby Torpedoed. Crew Rescued by Stricken Freighter
The British tramp firby, a 4640 ton vessel in the Canada England trade, was torpedoed and sunk 250 miles northwest of the Hebrides. Its crew were rescued by another vessel. Firby had carried Western Canadian wheat from Churchill to Europe and was scheduled for another Canadian grain shipment.
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New York
United States
Scampenn
S.S. Firby
Hebrides
Scotland
Churchill
Europe
Germany confiscates idle private tires in effort to curb usage
Germany orders confiscation of all privately owned tires not in use in the Reich. The policy, issued by the federal bureau for rubber and asbestos with the ministry of economics, ties to a gasoline decree that bans private car use after September 20. Citizens must bring tires to collection stations. dealers’ stock and spare tires also must be surrendered.
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Berlin
Germany
Reich
Federal Bureau For
Ministry of Economics
British union emissaries to Canada and United States
Special emissaries Wil Lawther and H H Elvin of the trades union congress depart England for Canada and the United States. They will convey messages urging fellow unionists to back the government until victory over Hitlerism is achieved in the war.
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Lébdon
Wil
Lawther
H. H. Elvin
Trades Union Congress
England
Canada
United States
Canada to establish bureau of information for war progress
Ottawa reports government to create a bureau of information to publish regular progress on Canada's war efforts. It would mirror Britain's ministry of information, with official reports and future measures of international significance. L. W. Brockington is name checked for chairman.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
Bureau of Information
Canada
Ministry of Information
London
L. W. Brockington
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Britain Will Not Seek Peace With Hitler
London reports quoted ministry communiques stating Britain and allies will never make peace with Hitler. They reiterate only a trustworthy German government could discuss terms, and that no compromise with the Nazi regime will be accepted.
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London
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Ministry of Information
Germany
Hitler
Europe
Berlin
Poland
France
Argentina Meat Board Weighs Beef Sale to Britain and France
The Buenos Aires national meat board considers agreements to sell 200000 tons of beef beyond normal export quotas from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Britain reportedly seeks 176000 tons while France would take the remainder, at about 13 cents per kilogram.
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Buenos Aires
National Meat Board
Great Britain
France
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil
Britain plans 1.5 million more acres for vegetables
The Ministry of Agriculture urged farmers to bring 1,500,000 additional acres under plow next year and asked allotment holders to grow more vegetables to boost farm production across Great Britain.
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London
Great Britain
Ministry of Agriculture
Authentic News Policy Outlined by British Minister
London. The Ministry of Information plans to supply only authentic news to the British public and foreign press. Lord Macmillan says less information is better than unreliable material and a weekly confidential briefing with senior staff from the War Office will be provided to accredited reporters, with navy and air officials also contributing.
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London
Ministry of Informaton
Lord Macmillan
House of Lords
War Office
No Overseas Troops London Says Smuts
The Union of South Africa will not send troops overseas for now. General Jan Smuts states the role is defense of the Union and Southwest Africa under the Defence Act. He notes the war may require mobilization of all resources to protect territory and that neutrality is impractical against the Nazi threat.
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London
Ministry of Information
Jan Smuts
Union of South Africa
Union For the
Union
Southwest Africa
South Africa
German Pacifist Hunt Expands Across Germany
The Zurich correspondent of Paris Soir says a broad crackdown on spies pacifists and underground opponents of the Nazi regime is underway in Germany. Reports from Switzerland describe raids by the secret police after signs of active anti Nazi groups in Berlin and other cities. Also noted is the activity of nationalist underground groups in Moravia Bohemia and Austrian Slovakia.
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Paris
Zurich
Soir
Germany
Switzerland
Berlin
Moravia
Bohemia
Austrian
Slovakia
Poland reports heavy air and ground losses in early war
The official Polish telegraphic agency claims 280 German planes shot down in Poland since the war began. It says 13,000 Germans taken prisoner, including 350 officers. Material captured includes 48 Nazi cannons 215 machine guns and over 1,000 army automobiles.
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Lublin
Poland
Polish Telegraphic Agency
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