Collectors For War Relief May Carry On Work
The Prices Board through the National War Services Department allows continued operation by all organizations collecting used clothing, household articles, food and medical supplies for bombed Britain and liberated European nations. Large groups like the Red Cross and O.R.C.E. may proceed until June 30, with about 200 local groups until September, while new purchases and urgent needs are reviewed by Allied relief and UNRRA.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
National War Services Department
Britain
Red Cross
1O.C.E
United Allied Relief Fund
Canada
Allied Military Relief
UNRRA
Dignity
Army Leave Rules Ottawa Define Overseas Return Procedures
Ottawa publishes army orders detailing leave categories rotational duty long service and miscellaneous for personnel returning from overseas. The plan counts time in actual theatres double and sets quotas with 2000 men returning monthly. Four from the front for every one from Britain illustrates the distribution between long service and battle area returns.
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Ottawa
Western Hemisphere
Canada
Defence
London
Britain
German Air Force Defunct After Allied Bombing
Allied reports indicate the Nazi air force is no longer effectively directed. Dismantled by two weeks of heavy air attacks on crowded fields, the force shows only scattered remnants and little organized structure remaining.
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London
Chinese Delegate Dr Carson Chang Leads Social Party Figure
Chinese delegate Dr Carson Chang heads the National Socialist party as one of two Chinese representatives at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson Chang
The
National Socialist Party
United Nations’ Conference On International Organization
San Francisco
Farmers May Produce More Coarse Grains
Weather favors more coarse grain acreage in 1945, with less wheat. Cold, showery conditions delay seeding in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, forcing farmers to shift from wheat to oats and barley to support meat production. Seeding delays push expected wheat area down from early estimates.
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Winnipeg
Dominion Agriculture Department
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Gardiner
Red River
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Prairies
Eisenhower Announces French Control of Supply Program
General Eisenhower states that from May 1 the French provisional government will assume responsibility for the entire French supply program. Previously Allied headquarters handled provision for essential civilian needs for Britain and the United States.
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London
Eisenhower
France
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Britain
United States
World War I Human Cost and Economic Toll
A stark tally shows twenty million lives lost and a staggering four hundred billion dollars expended across nations engaged in World War I, underscoring the war’s immense humanitarian and financial impact.
Ship torpedoed Ottawa expands losses in North Atlantic
The Canadian minesweeper Guysborough was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. Of 53 missing including one officer and one rating from the British Navy, 37 survived, eight injured. Survivors say two men glimpsed the U boat periscope. Rescue ship ferried survivors to a British port, suggesting the sinking near Britain. The loss marks the fourth Canadian sweeper and 22nd Canadian warship lost in the war.
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Ottawa
North Atlantic
Guysborough
Navy
Abbott
Britain
Canada
First War Prisoner Returns Home From German Camp
WO G F Booth of the RAF, the first British service member captured in the war, was released from a German prisoner of war camp after liberation by British troops a week earlier. He was shot into the sea and captured on September 4 1939 the day after war declaration. Your Duty Buy A Victory Bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
WO. G. F. Booth
R.A.F
First Canadian Army Cares For Displaced Persons in Germany
Since crossing the Rhine the First Canadian Army has handled about 10 500 displaced persons of various European nationalities. Civilians are cared for by mixed Canadian British government detachments under Allied Military Government, with return of western Europeans to their homes ongoing and eastern and southeastern Europeans remaining in camps until overland routes via Russia or local linkups are ready.
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Rhine
Germany
Ems River
First Canadian Army
Europe
Poland
Russia
Balkans
First Polish Army Leads Berlin Breakthrough
In Moscow commander in chief Rola Czimiersky disclosed that the First Infantry Division, part of the First Polish Army, stormed Berlin after fighting with Soviet forces from the Vistula. Poles in War saw celebrated the Berlin entry with a reception at the Polish embassy.
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Moscow
Berlin
Vistula
Rola-Czimiersky
Warsaw
London Firms Plan Belgravia Return After Evacuation
Many London business firms evacuated move back not to the blitzed crowded city but to Belgravia houses in southwest London. Companies arrange with City of Westminster council for the restart and occupancy of stately homes.
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London
Belgravia
City of Westminster
Paris Peace Conference Opens as Nations Seek Enduring Truce
In San Francisco 46 nations gathered at the Opera House to pursue collective influence for lasting peace. President Truman spoke by radio urging not to settle specific borders or reparations, while Stettinius Warren and Lapham echoed the need for success, stressing no nation can risk failure.
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San Francisco
Opera House
Harry Truman
Washington
Mackenzie King
Canada
Truman
U.S
Stettinius
Earl Warren
California
Roger Lapham
P F R A Provides Water To Saco Montana Area
Regina reports the P F R A has arranged to supply 2 000 acre feet of water from its Cypress Hills reservoir to irrigate sugar beets and alfalfa near Saco Montana. Canada and the United States share waters on a 50 50 basis. half the flow can be diverted north. The dam on Frenchman river will irrigate 3 000 acres when working fully.
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Regina
P.F.R.A
Saco
Montana
George Spence
Cypress Hills
Frenchman River
Frenchman
Canada
United States
P.F.R.A. P.F.R.A
Bonds Drive Boosts Payroll Deductions for Victory Loans
J R Reid, War Loan Committee liaison, notes payroll deduction growth from 65 million in the Second Victory Loan to 225 million in the Seventh. He says total payroll bond purchases in all Victory campaigns equal the Seventh Loan’s 2.3 billion peak. Reid commends Canadian National Railways employees and aims to surpass quotas in the Eighth Loan.
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H. C. Taylor
Moose Jaw
R. L. O’brien
National War Finance Committee
R. C. Wheeler
Saskatoon
C.P.R
R. J. McLeod
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
J. R. Reid
War Loan Committee
Reid
C.N.R
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Wu Yi-Fang
Ginling College
China
Ralph M. Cantlon
Assocation
Saskatoon Star Phoenix
Monty
A.D.C
Miles Dempsey
2Nd Army
Omar Bradley
12Th Army Group
Bernard L. Montgomery
21St Army Group
William H. Simpson
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