British Army of Nile Sets World Speed Record in Africa
The British Army of the Nile claimed a world speed record for action and says it killed or captured the entire Italian force of about 150000 under Marshal Graziani in North Africa. It says two tanks and four armored cars escaped, with casualties under 2000. Britain vows not to release Italian non-combatants while African territories remain under Italian control. Haile Selassie was asked to prevent reprisals and a Vatican message praised Britain's treatment of noncombatants.
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Lemion
Ministry of Information
the Nile
Rodolfo Graziani
North Africa
Egypt
Graxiasi
Somaliand
Ethiopia
Somaliland
France
Africa
Britain
Dunkirk
East Africa
Italy
Haile Selassie
Francis Osborne
Vatican
Holy See
Somaland
Saskatchewan to lead in wartime wheat surplus role
Liberal MP Donald McNiven told the House of Commons Saskatchewan holds a large wheat stock that could avert famine like Joseph in Egypt. He urged broader war industry distribution, more training and power resources development, noting Saskatchewan lacks war industries and needs expanded trade and training to boost wartime effort.
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Ottaws
Saskatchewan
Egypt
Donald McNiven
Regina
House of Commons
Joseph
McNiven
Canada
Thai advance violiates peace pact border line
French Indo China authorities protest to Japanese officials that Thai troops have moved beyond the border, blocking supply routes and isolating French forces. In London, a physician, responding 132 hours after a bomb shattered a tenement, aided a trapped woman who died six hours later.
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Saigon
Thailand
New West Cambodia
London
Clydeside
German in Libya estimated 400 vehicles aiding Italian lines
A well informed source places about 400 German vehicles including tanks and armored cars to bolster Italian fronts in western Libya. Earlier estimates suggested parts of three German divisions are present in the North African colony.
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London
Germany
Libya
London hits reveal casualties to city institutions
Authorities disclose recent German air raids damaged key sites including University of Glasgow and Garscadden hospital in Scotland, and Liverpool Cotton Exchange and Commercial Exchange, plus Leeds town hall and Kirkgate market.
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London
Glasgow
University and Garscadden Hospital
Liverpool
Cotton Exchange and Commercial Exchange
Leeds
Town Hall
Kirkgate Market
Lord Somers Named Chief Scout After Baden Powell
The Scouts of the empire vote to appoint Lord Somers as chief scout in succession to Lord Baden Powell, who died in January. The announcement marks a continuation of the imperial scouting leadership.
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London
Scouts of the Empire
Lord Somers
Baden Powell
Mrs Jeph Stephen 103 Dies in Fall River NS
Reached 103 years, born 1837 the year Queen Victoria began her reign, Mrs Jeph Stephen died at her home in Fall River Nova Scotia. Ralph Stephen of Saskatoon is and son.
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Fall River
N.S
Queen Victoria
Jeph Stephen
Ralph Stephen
Saskatoon
Britain’s wartime orders total 2.7 billion dollars
Harold D Smith notes US records show British wartime orders amount to 2.7 billion dollars with about 1.682 billion paid. UK policy has been cash payments and deliveries have been settled. Remaining liabilities will come from dollar resources including securities sales, gold, and exports proceeds. None of the proposed 7 billion dollar aid appropriation will cover orders placed before the lease-lend bill.
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Washington
United States Congress
Britain
Harold D Smith
Smith
United Kingdom
U.S
United States
Refugees Flock to Nice Resort Amid War-Era Scarcity
The crowded Promenade des Anglais and chic venues show Nice's shift as refugees from Europe converge there. English and other languages mingle with French, while money dictates dining quality. A black market for butter sells at $2 a pound, highlighting wartime shortages.
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France
Discontent in Italy Reported by Athens Radio Cast
An Athens radio broadcast quoted Italian prisoners in Greece saying discontent is rising in Italy. The announcer said prisoners admitted they were fed on false rumors and that the home spirit was tending to become de- intensifying.
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Ottawa
Athens
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Greece
Italy
Athens Honors Roosevelt With City Road, Medal, Freedom
The municipal council named a major Athens thoroughfare for President Roosevelt, praising the U.S. aid to Greece in its struggle for honor and freedom. Roosevelt received a gold medal and life-long freedom of the city.
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Athens
Nake
Roosevelt
United States
Greece
Pepper urges imprisonment and disarmament for lasting peace
Senator Claude Pepper told the Canadian club during his Canada tour that international culprits must be chained in prison walls and weapons removed before good will can yield lasting peace. He urged negotiations and cited pan Americanism as a path to resolving world controveries.
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Ottawa
Claude Pepper
D Fia
Pepper
Canada
Army Officers Must Graduate From the Ranks
Ottawa reports a new Canadian army training plan with tougher paths to officer ranks. Recruits face four months of preliminary training and then a cadet course of 12 weeks to earn a 2nd lieutenant's commission, followed by advanced training for lieutenant. Promotions hinge on seniority and efficiency, with Royal Military College courses for major to lieutenant colonel and similar tests for reserve officers.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Defence
Ralston
Defence Department
United Kingdom
Royal Military College
Department
Wheat price average in Canada for 1940 41 season
The average price received by Canadian wheat producers in the first five months of the 1940 41 crop year was 51 cents a bushel. The figure was shown in a return tabled in the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
St Lawrence Seaway Plan Endorsed by U S and Canada
The United States and Canada signed a joint agreement to begin the long debated St. Lawrence seaway and power project. It aims to open the rapids section for deep sea navigation and support defense needs, with an estimated cost of 266 million dollars, mainly funded by the United States.
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Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
United States
Canada
Roosevelt
United States Congress
International Rapids
St. Lawrence River
Panama Canal
Senate
House of Congress
W. L. Mackenzie King
Great Britain
St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
Foodstuffs For Overseas Washington Reveals Aid Plan
President Roosevelt said the United States has ample food and ordered the agriculture department and public health service to prepare a list of needed foods for Britain and other nations. Britain would receive most shipments, Spain some. The Red Cross will send two grain cargoes to unoccupied France, and concentrated vitamins will be included in Britain’s supplies.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
Public Health Services
Great Britain
Britain
Spain
Red Cross
France
Canadian officer dies saving nurse in London blast
Lieut. J. D. Wright of Sarnia reacted heroically when a bomb struck a London restaurant. He shielded Miss Thelma Stewart of Toronto, a physiotherapist with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, from the explosion and died in the act. Miss Stewart was slightly injured.
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London
Lieut
J. D. Wright
Sarnia
Thelma Stewart
Toronto
Canadian Army Medical Corps
New Lane of Destroyers Proposed to Shield Atlantic Shipping
Shipping sources say U S experts urged Britain to abandon the convoy system in favor of a continuous lane of destroyers across the Atlantic from Labrador to the British Isles. Forty destroyers would patrol a 50 mile sector ten times daily, with ten in refit or transit, ensuring each merchant ship stayed within an hour's reach of a warship.
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New York
United States
Britain
Atlantic
America
Great Circle
Labrador
British Isles
Start Drive to Keep Food From Reaching Nazis
Britain seeks full U S help to cut Axis access to food and war materials. Prof Noel Hall states collaboration may involve export licensing to block supplies to Germany and occupied Europe. Medical stores vitamins and even oatmeal are restricted under Red Cross supervision as the situation remains fluid.
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London
Britain
United States
Noel Hall
Washington
Hall
France
Red Cross
Europe
Five European Countries Pay Hefty Occupation Costs
Britain’s under secretary for foreign affairs R A Butler told the House of Commons that five occupied European nations pay the Reich cash totaling about £1,050,000,000 annually beyond losses in materials. Norway bears the highest per capita burden at £25, Denmark £8, Belgium £8, Holland £6, and France £20. estimates for Czecho Slovakia Poland Romania and Bulgaria were not available.
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London
R. A. Butler
House of Commons
Germany
Norway
Denmark
Belgium
Holland
France
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Rumania
Bulgaria
Butler
Britain urged to stand firm against invasion threat
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told London listeners to resist panic and not flee as Nazi Germany threatened invasion. He asserted military plans rely on civilian resolve and warned against flight that aided the 1940 continent refugees.
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London
Herbert Morrison
Britain
Harvard President Seeks British American Science Exchange
Dr. James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, told MPs in London he is pleased with the willingness to cooperate on defence related exchanges of scientific information between Britain and the United States.
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London
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
Saboteurs in Bulgaria Reported Damaging German Supply Lines
An anti German Bulgarian informant escaped across the Turkish border to Istanbul and described a wide sabotage campaign in Southeastern Europe. He said saboteurs dynamited two German oil trains, blew bridges, and damaged telegraph lines across southern Bulgaria. He named Balkan leaders and said many operatives were funded and trained for espionage and propaganda.
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Istanbul
Europe
Bulgaria
Radio Men Recruited From National Registration
Hon. J. G. Gardiner told the House that nearly all radio men to operate new night bombing devices for Britain were traced through last August's national registration. He said 1,500 such men were located in one city. He answered T. C. Douglas on interdepartmental cooperation to use the register to place men in industries.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
National War Service
House of Commons
Air Force
Britain
T. C. Douglas
C.C.F
Weyburn
War Services Department
Dive Bomber Crashes After Narrow Shot by Gunner
A German dive bomber attacking two naval auxiliary vessels was shot down by a naval gunner who kept the Lewis gun trained on the plane until it was 50 feet away. The bomber struck the mizzen mast of a drifter, carried the mast into the sea, and broke up as it sank.
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London
Exemption Move Passes Ontario Jurors Bill
Dental surgeons newspaper editors reporters and printers would be exempt from jury service by an amendment to the jurors act. The committee also raised the age limit for jurors from 65 to 70 as the bill advances to the legislature.
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Toronto
Ontario
BC Proposes Three-Cent Egg Export Subsidy
Hon. Dr. K. C. MacDonald British Columbia minister of agriculture announced at Pacific Coast Poultry Producers Association meeting that export egg exporters would receive a subsidy of three cents a dozen provided the eggs are turned over to the producer.
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Vancouver
K. C. MacDonald
British Columbia
Pacific Coast Poultry Producers’ Association
North American Aviation ships 1000th Harvard trainer
Los Angeles based firm said the British Air Commission accepted its 1000th Harvard advanced trainer. The first aircraft was delivered 18 months ago.
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Los Angeles
North American Aviation Corp
British Air Commission
Re-elected leader tops Canadian Wool Growers meeting
Chris Jensen of Magrath Alberta was re elected president of the Canadian Co operative Wool Growers Association at the annual meeting in Toronto. It will be his fifth consecutive term.
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Toronto
Chris Jensen
Magrath
Alberta
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers’ Association
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