Reynaud Warns France Faces Life at Stake in War
Premier Reynaud urges U S support as France endures desperate days. He lauds soldiers who fought six days and nights, vows France’s soul not broken, and calls for air aid from across the Atlantic to crush Nazi Germany. He says the day of resurrection will come. Over 300,000 Junior Red Cross members in Canada fund ambulances for the Allies.
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Reynaud
Atlantic
Europe
Roosevelt
Italy
Paris
Hitler
Dunkirk
Flanders
Réynaud
Toronto
Red Cross of Canada
Sabotage sinks into Buenos Aires port target
An act of sabotage at Buenos Aires damaged the British Royal Mail freighter Gascomy, blasting its center hold and killing an Argentine stevedore with five others injured as port authorities suspend loading and warn of further bombs on ships in the harbor.
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Buenco
Nazi rationing bites deepen German food crisis
London reports indicate the Allied blockade is crippling Germany’s economy and war effort. Nazi orders call for killing most dogs not used by the military. Rationing cuts are extensive with staple foods down by 11 percent sugar 30 percent cheese 41 percent fats 43 percent meat and 71 percent eggs. Germany also faces flour shortages and a weak European wheat crop outside Italy is feared.
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London
Germany
Italy
Prepare For Refugees In Toronto Ships Expected
Dr Gordon P Jackson Toronto medical health officer told the health board he must be ready to aid in looking after hundreds of refugee children from England France the Netherlands and Belgium who may arrive at any time Toronto will act as a distribution centre The province warned only 36 hours notice may be given Children aged nine to fourteen will come in groups of 300 to 500 and go to the Odd Fellows Home used as a general clearing house.
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Toronto
Gordon P. Jackson
The
Health Board
Odd Fellows
Madrid Declares Non Belligerent Status in War
A non belligerent Madrid reiterates its stance as the government issues a decree declaring non belligerency amid Italy’s Mediterranean entry. The decree omits the word neutrality and aligns with recent Spanish press sentiment.
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Mediterranean
Italy
Britain
France
Postmaster General suspends Empire air mail routes
The Empire air mail service is temporarily suspended, affecting principal routes to Malta and Egypt and connections through Palestine Iraq India Ceylon Burma Hong Kong Malaya Australia New Zealand the Sudan East Africa and South Africa.
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London
Empire Air Mail
Malta
Egypt
Palestine
Iraq
India
Ceylon
Burma
Hong Kong
Malaya
Australia
New Zealand
Sudan
East Africa
South Africa
Alaska Defense Plan Moves to Anchorage
Secretary of War Harry Woodring announces a force of field artillery and infantry will be sent to Anchorage Alaska to guard the new American army air bases as construction and defense efforts continue.
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Washington
United States
Harry Woodring
Anchorage
Alaska
Bomb attack damages Soviet embassy in Chungking
Japanese warplanes bomb Chungking inflicting the heaviest strike on a foreign embassy there since last May. The Soviet ambassador said staff would continue work though the building is unusable. Other targets include the British ambassador’s garden and the German Trans-Oceanic News Agency and British United Press facilities nearby.
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Chungking
China
Trans-Oceanic
United Press
Effective work of air forces over wide front
A summary of Allied air operations from equatorial Africa to Arctic Norway reports low flying bomber waves hitting the German right wing near Paris, raids on Cologne and other western towns, and home defence shooting down a bomber off Britain. Bombers hit Italian Turin and Genoa while RAF and South African units struck Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Tobruk harbor with fires and naval targets attacked.
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Norway
Paris
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Trondheim
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Genoa
Kenya
Egypt
Eritrea
Red Sea
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Ethiopia
Tobruk
Royal South African Air Force
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Massawa
Italian East Africa
RAF Bombers Hit Seine Valley Targets In Persistent Operations
RAF forces engaged targets east of Rouen in the Seine area and nearby woods. Enemies harassed by bombing and machine gun fire, two fighters shot down, four of our aircraft missing. Bomber crews attacked forest concentrations, set woods alight, and dodged a superior enemy formation of twelve Messerschmitts. One bomber damaged but returned on one engine.
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Lamare
Messerschmitt
Exchange Nationals London Trade Between Italian and British
About 500 to 600 Italians including women and children are being exchanged for roughly the same number of Britons in Italy. The exchange reflects wartime prisoner and civilian swap arrangements between the two nations.
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London
Italy
Mayors Endorse War Effort At Ottawa Meeting
The Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities backed the government war drive. Ottawa Mayor Stanley Lewis urged municipalities promote war savings certificates rather than funding tanks or aircraft. He noted Ontario law bars using municipal taxes for such purchases, complicating local donations.
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Ottawa
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
Federation
Stanley Lewis
Canada
Lewis
Ontario
Britain rushes aid as forces move to France
British and Polish troops arrive from Narvik and thousands more are sent to the French front. Churchill and Eden visit France while Petain joins talks. US Ambassador Bullitt stays in Paris as German bombings threaten Tours. Times urges urgent dispatch of tanks planes and divisions. About 40 British women ambulance drivers remain with the French.
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Daily Herald
War Office
Churchill
Anthony Eden
John Dill
Imperial General Staff
Henri Petain
Tours
United States
William Bullitt
Paris
The
Times
Hitler
Channel
Ambulance drive in British Columbia gains pledges
Red Cross officials report cheques from organizations across British Columbia to fund ten ambulances. A dozen other clubs have pledged additional vehicles, boosting the regional relief effort.
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Vancouver
Red Cross
British Columbia
Common Cause Unites Britain and France in War Aid
London reports Britain pledges utmost aid to France and vows deepening unity as Allied forces deploy to the Seine line. British troops hurled into the front, with thousands more en route, amid reports of St Valéry en Caux losses and Le Havre defense.
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London
Britain
Great Britain
French Republic
France
Seine River
Italians Must Register Under Defence of Canada Rules
Ottawa imposes registration for all Italians naturalized since September 1929 and bans firearm possession. The order in council, under Defence of Canada regulations, also requires fingerprinting and recording details of detainees.
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Ottawa
Defence of Canada
Ottawa Liberal Proposes Youth Training Memorial for Norman Rogers
Reverend Daniel McIvor, Liberal MP for Fort William, asks Parliament to build a memorial called the youth training memorial. He lauds Norman Rogers for advancing the youth training scheme during his tenure as minister of labor.
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Ottawa
Daniel MclIvor
Fort William
Norman Rogers
McIvor
Defence
Labor
Ambassadors Arrive in Moscow From Allied Nations
Sir Stafford Cripps and Erik Labonne arrived in Moscow aboard the same plane as new British and French ambassadors to Soviet Russia. Concurrently, Italian ambassador Augusto Rosse returned to Moscow by train.
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Moscow
Stafford Cripps
Erik Labonne
Soviet Russia
Augusto Rosse
Trans-Atlantic cable cut disrupts Rome to Buenos Aires link
Reports indicate a cut to the trans Atlantic cable severing the Rome to Buenos Aires connection with Spain routed service interrupted. Informed sources say communications to South America from Rome are disrupted pending repair.
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Buenos Aires
South America
Rome
Spain
Grim souvenirs sold from Gravesend shells in estuary raids
After German raiders shelled a Thames estuary town, Gravesend residents sold shell splinters as keepsakes, turning wartime debris into mementos amid the enduring memory of the attack.
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England
Thames Estuary
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