Canada plans a 200 ship government merchant fleet
Ottawa aims for a government owned fleet of about 200 cargo ships if the current ship building program continues. Munitions Minister Howe said Canada would keep ships in mutual aid with the UK, sell 70 to 75 ships to the United States to obtain dollars, and use chartered vessels to staff crews until the war ends. The Park Steamship Company operates ships with Canadian crews for a small government fee, with earnings funding fleet costs and postwar deployment. By end of 1941 Canada had built four or five ships and held 16 or 17 new ships in mercantile service.
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Ottawa
Canada
Howe
House of Commons
Howard Green
Prog
Coen
Vancouver South
United States
United Kingdom
Mr. Howe
Britain
Mercantile Marine
New Supply Route In Arctic War Effort
U S army engineers are building a 145 mile auxiliary supply route from Haines Alaska to a point on the Alaska highway west of Whitehorse Yukon. The road climbs the Chilkat pass crossing the coast range and follows part of the Jack Dalton trail. Winter snow problems are anticipated despite its view as the easiest northern route.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
U.S. Army Engineers
Haines
Alaska Highway
Whitehorse
Y.T
US. Army
Chilkat Pass
Yukon
War Loan in Africa Opens French Bond Drive
In Algiers Gen. Henri Giraud announces a French war loan in North Africa. Bonds pay 3 percent and mature in three years, with denominations from 21,000 francs upward.
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Algiers
Henri Giraud
North Africa
France
Details Of The Billion Gift To United Kingdom
Ottawa finance minister Ilsley outlined in the House of Commons how the $1 billion gift to Britain last year financed munitions and food while actual shipments exceeded the gift. He listed armored fighting vehicles and mechanical transport to allied areas, and broke down outlays into aircraft parts, shells, guns, and other war materiel alongside wheat bacon lumber cheese and base metals.
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Ottawa
Isley
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Tisley
Ilsley
Russia
Australia
New Zealand
Sterling
Mr. Isley
Molotov charges German deportations of Soviet civilians
Moscow radio quoted Foreign Commissar Molotov saying Germany organized the slavery of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians last winter. The note was sent to all foreign diplomats in Moscow.
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London
Molotov
Moscow
Germany
Moscow Radio
Newfoundland loggers eyed for transfer to shortages
Ottawa reports that Selective Service Director MacNamara said consultations with Newfoundland government commissioners through external affairs are underway about possibly transferring Newfoundland loggers to Canadian areas facing worker shortages.
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Ottawa
MacNamara
Newfoundland
External Affairs Department
Canada
Churchill Brings Top Allies to Washington Talks
Winston Churchill arrives in Washington with India based military leaders to discuss new Far East offensives and strengthen Allied plans. The White House talks mark the fifth U S UK conference in 17 months with emphasis on unconditional surrender and continued pressure against the Axis.
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Winston Churchill
India
Roosevelt
Far East
Archibald P Wavell
James Somervise
Richard Peirse
United Nations
Tunisia
White House
Churchill
Casablanca
Franco
Spain
Canadian Admiral Murray to lead critical war area
Commander-in-Chief Rear-Admiral L. W. Murray R C has been named commander in chief of the Canadian North West Atlantic. He is the first Canadian to assume operational direction in World War II for a vital war zone and brings deep anti-submarine and Atlantic battle experience. The piece notes Allied needs for more material, especially planes, against Japan and discusses Casablanca and Soviet-Polish tensions and potential Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin talks.
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L. W. Murray. R.C
Murray
Japan
Tunisia
Pacific
Casablanca
Warburton hails Allied gains in Africa over Pacific
Eliot Warburton, chief of the UK information office in Ottawa, says Allies have captured more land, prisoners, and war materiel in Africa than the Japanese have taken in the Pacific. He notes Britain bears the largest overall wartime load, with heavy Atlantic naval duties and vast manpower. The Royal Navy, he adds, has destroyed or captured over 6,000,000 tons of Axis shipping and numerous warships, with its losses fully replaced.
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Toronto
Eliot Warburton
United Kingdom
Information Office
Ottawa
Africa
Pacific
Women’s
Canadian Club of
United Nations
Warburton
Dominions
India
Royal Navy
Resistance in Low Countries Intensifies Across Occupied Europe
Reports from London and Stockholm describe growing resistance in the Netherlands Belgium and Norway as raids on rail lines increase and mass protests spread. German occupation forces tighten control with martial law and deportations while underground activity spreads toward potential Allied invasion plans.
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London
Berlin
Reuters
Stockholm
Goteborg Swedish Handelstidmninegen
S.S
Germany
Low Countries
Balkans
Europe
Belgium
Holland
United States
Foreign Broadcast
Norway
Students Shot Executed by Gestapo in Munich
Three university students Hans Scholl Sophia Scholl and Christoph Probst were reported executed by the Gestapo in Munich for distributing leaflets calling Hitler a murderer. The group was said to have circulated opposition to the Nazi regime across northern and central Germany and Bavaria and to have joined a demonstration that interrupted a Gauleiter address.
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Gestapo London
Munich
Germany
Hitler
Hans and
Sophia Scholl
Christoph Probst
Gestapo
Coleges
Bavaria
Paul Giessel
Veterans' Guard of Canada marks third anniversary
Ottawa notes May 24 will mark the third anniversary of the Veterans' Guard of Canada formation. Members will largely continue normal duties with limited celebrations. The force has guarded prisoner of war camps and sent companies overseas since October 1941, including one unit at Canadian military headquarters in London.
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Canada
Ottawa
Veterans’ Guard of Canada
Defence Headquarters
Sinc
Canadian Milietary
London
London flags mark sixth coronation anniversary
Public buildings in London displayed flags on May 12 to observe the sixth anniversary of the King and Queen's coronation. The ceremony reflected continued royal commemoration with residents noting the tradition and national pride.
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London
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