Canadas airmen in India battle a menagerie of pests
Flight Lieutenant K G B Wright recalls Canadian air force crews on the Burma front living among elephants, tigers, snakes, mosquitoes, lice, ants, scorpions, and many birds and animals. They sleep under nets, wear long sleeves, and use sprays to fight bites while adjusting to jungle life and sharing huts with wildlife. The piece notes curious encounters, nightly jackals, kite hawks, and sacred monkeys as well as cattle, bullocks, buffalos, goats, and even a stray tiger near a bombing station.
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K G B Wright
RCAF
India
Oyal
Burma
Bengal
Bay of Bengal
Prairies
Calcutta
Valuable Training and Sea Cadet Movement Praised
The Welland Tribune highlights Canada’s naval buildup and merchant marine strength, noting 500 warships and 58 000 personnel. It extols Sea Cadets sponsored by the Navy League, detailing training, uniforms, and two weeks at camp, envisioning Canada as a future sea power.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Navy League
Canada
Welland Tribune
Have Real Problem Figures Show Difficulties Of Officials Who Direct India's Destinies
The United Kingdom Information Office notes India has seven racial divisions, 225 languages spoken, and 17 written languages with under two percent literate in English. The figures illustrate the challenge for officials directing the empire’s fate amid world upheaval. The Montreal Gazette cites this as a testament to British governance. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon date to 600 B.C.
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India
United Kingdom Information Office
Montreal Gazette
Winnipeg CWAC makes history in parachute unit
Private Marjorie Perry of St. Boniface becomes the first woman assigned to the Canadian Parachute Training School at Camp Shilo. She will train as a rigger to pack and maintain chutes, freeing men for combat duties. Training spans two weeks for packing and a month for upkeep with Major Routh noting real value in women’s parachute work.
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Winnipeg
Camp Shilo
Marjorie Perry
St. Boniface
Man
Perry
Canadian Women's Army Corps
R. F. Routh
Cwacs
American airmen deliver juice to save boy in Berkshire
A 10 year old, Christopher Hutt, suffering a rare abdominal disease in Newbury England, could only be saved by fresh fruit juice. An American airman arranged juice from a northern airport and later a crate of oranges and lemons from Tunisia arrived at the hospital. The boy recovered.
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Christopher Hutt
Newbury
Berkshire
England
Christopher
Tunisia
Britain follows prize law for captured Axis ships at Massawa
An official note explains that under international law Britain does not automatically own captured Axis ships. A writ in prize is published in the London Gazette, then Admiralty Court consideration decides if a vessel is a lawful prize. Six ships and two docks found at Massawa face court action with potential German and Italian claims.
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Britain
London Gazette
Admiralty
High Court
Massawa
Red Sea
Italian
Eritrea
Tools Supplied For Blind Workers In Empire
The National Institute for the Blind launches a scheme to provide free tools and apparatus to any blind person in the empire who needs to earn a living. Applicants obtain a form and a list of available appliances including piano work tools, chair-caning, shoe-mending, carpentry gear, Braille shorthand machines, tape measures, thermometers, and watches.
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British Empire
National Institute For the Blind
Colonel Catches Two Fish at Ten Thousand Feet
The tale from the BBC reports Colonel H. J. Orford of the South African Medical Corps catching two eight inch fish stuck to a wing after a bird collided with the plane over Egypt. He claims a record for the tallest fishing story and the incident ends with a surviving aircraft.
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BBC
H. J. Orford
South African Medical Corps
Egypt
The Cleverest Bird and Coastal Command Gunners
A critic lauds The Snow Goose as a fine bird story while recounting Coastal Command exploits. An air gunner’s calm actions save a Wellington—he credits crew effort, and praise shifts to soldiers’ resolve and duty.
Lilacs And Pansies Linen pattern 7563
Pattern 7563 offers transfer motifs of six lilacs and pansies in lazy daisy stitch. Requires list of materials and costs twenty cents plus mail to Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Include name address and pattern number for delivery.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newpaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Will Rogers Lecture Plans With White House Visit
Will Rogers was to lecture in Washington and invited President Coolidge to attend. Coolidge agreed after Rogers described the show as a two to three hour lecture with a singing quartet occasionally joining in. The President said he liked singing.
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Will Rogers
Washington
White House
Coolidge
Will
Blitz Hero Boy Lifts Stone to Save Family
A twelve year old John Robson from a northeast English town became a blitz hero after he supported a huge stone with his back for hours to shield his mother and five others buried under debris when their apartment was bombed. Rescuers eventually freed them.
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John Robson
John
Troops well fed say Canadian army study catering overseas
Lt-Col Ralph H. Webb chief messing and catering officer reports overseas Canadian troops receive good essential rations and plenty of them. He notes rising focus on scientific food prep with nutrition courses and cookery schools for all ranks and officers. British bread remains a main dietary staple.
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Ralph H. Webb
Bristol bricklayers set national record for bricks per hour
A Bristol gang of bricklayers formed to win the government production challenge shield. Each man aimed to lay 30 bricks per hour and achieved a high of 91 bricks per hour, maintaining the pace to set a record.
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Bristol
Greeks Seek Sun Baths to Turn Hair Golden
A historical note describes early Greek practices of sun bathing to darken or turn hair golden. The text highlights belief in the sun’s transformative power and cultural grooming norms of the period.
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Burma Front
Elliott
R. H. Buckham
Brandon
G. C Abel
Melville, Sask
R. H. Regimbal
Sudbury
Ont
Hans Andersen
Massingham
London Spectator
Coastal Command
Wellington
Arados
Alice Brooks
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