U S Vessels Move to Enter British Ports
Washington signals a major expansion of US naval and air operations to Britain after the Neutrality Act revision. Secretary Knox says merchant ships will carry war supplies and new convoys may cross the Atlantic, with bases on the British Isles and possible Gibraltar routes. Guns and crews to be assigned to merchant ships, with 10 to 16 crew per vessel under a petty officer.
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Britain
Navy
Roosevelt
Maritime Commission
Frank Knox
House of Representatives
British Isles
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Egypt
Africa
Red Sea
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Atlantic
Army
Atlantic Coast
Knox
Women Letter Sorters Ottawa Experiment Expands
Post office authorities say an experiment using women and girls as letter sorters, confined to Toronto and Montreal, may extend to other large Canadian centres. With men of military age unavailable, training will include boys, older men, and women to handle the Christmas mail rush. Some smaller offices have employed women sorters for some time.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Montreal
Post Office Department
Cannot Corner Supply Ottawa Under Cheese Holdings Rule
Canada imposes a December 1 limit on cheese holdings to prevent price manipulation. Dairy board chair J F Singleton announced that no person may hold more than 35 percent of their prior year December 1 total without special authorization.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dairy Products Board
J F. Singleton
Former French Premiers Sent to Portalet Prison
Edouard Daladier Léon Blum and General Marie-Gustave Gamelin were flown to Portalet in the Pyrenees to begin imprisonment. Their trial is scheduled to open January 15.
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Vichy
Edouard Daladier
Léon Blum
Marie-Gustave Gamelin
Portalet
Pyrenees
Publisher Speaks Out on When U.S. Will Enter War
New York publisher Ralph Ingersoll, after a world trip visiting war fronts, argues Americans are cheap and ashamed of terms like lease and lend. He notes China, Britain, and Russia have fought the war, while the United States hesitates and asks when it will join.
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Ingersoll
United States
New York
Ralph Ingersoll
Britain
Russia
Lease
Lend
Decrease In Immigration Ottawa Report
A six month period ending September 30 shows a 23.7 percent drop in Canada immigration. Immigrants total 5 145 versus 6 746 last year with declines across British Isles nations and the United States. English immigrants 1 083 down from 1 508. Irish 59 from 129. Scottish 98 from 258. Welsh 19 from 32. US arrivals fall from 4 160 to 3 679.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
British Isles
United States
British Drive Foretold in Middle East
British air and naval strikes in the Mediterranean threaten a major push against Axis forces in North Africa. Churchill signals possible operations in Libya and Tripolitania if Caucasus fights ease, as Allied losses mount and Axis supply lines weaken.
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London
Mediterranean
Italy
Egypt
Libya
Middle East
Churchill
Caucasus
Africa
Tripolitania
R.A.F
Navy
War Prisoners Speak Freely in Russia and Front Reports
Soviet authorities say German war prisoners held a political conference in Russia and issued a message to Germans calling for an end to Hitlerism and a free Germany. British dispatches note German thrusts repelled except in the Crimea as Soviets press counter blows and advance in several sectors north of Moscow and in the Donets basin.
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Eastern Front
Crimea
Russia
Kalinin
Donets
Burton Named Retail Trade Administrator Under Price Control
Edgar Gordon Burton 38 of Toronto becomes retail trade administrator for the federal price control program as announced by the wartime prices and trade board. He takes the post without remuneration and will oversee critical market regulation amid wartime shortages. The report also notes German advances near Rostov and renewed Russian efforts to break siege of Leningrad.
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Edgar Gordon Burton
Toronto
Robert Simpson Co
Mr. Burton
Prices and Trade Board
Not Coming Ottawa Dr Arnulfo Arias Plans Panama Return
Deposed Panama president Arnulfo Arias renounces plans to live in Canada and intends to return home, ending speculation about exile in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Arnulfo Arias
Panama
Canada
Meighen Becomes Conservative Leader in Ottawa
Rt. Hon Arthur Meighen accepted the Conservative leadership in Ottawa and called for compulsory selective service across the war effort. He urged a non party government and criticized Liberal Powers, while maintaining he did not outline overseas conscription despite urging broader mobilization. He spoke after a handshake with acting house leader R B Hanson and a three member committee.
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Ottawa
Arthur Meighen
Conservative
Meighen
Senate
R. B. Hanson
House
National Conservative
Mackenzie King
Children Evacuees To Canada To Be Supported By Boards
London officials report undersecretary Geoffrey Shakespeare said the children's overseas reception board, with the Canadian government, will assume responsibility for privately evacuated children in cases of proven difficulty or need.
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London
Geoffrey Shakespeare
Dominions
House of Commons
Children's Overseas Reception Board
Canada
Finnish Freighter Annenberg Seized by British Warships
Marine circles report the 2,544 ton Finnish freighter Annenberg has been intercepted and captured by British warships. The vessel is expected to be condemned by a British prize court and seized.
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New York
Details emerge on new two motor bomber the Avro Manchester
Britain disclosed details of the Avro Manchester a two engine heavy bomber now in service with the RAF including its two Rolls Royce Vulture engines yielding around 2000 horsepower a wingspan near 90 feet length about 70 feet and a crew of six The aircraft has flown deep into Nazi territory including raids on Stettin and Berlin and one pilot earned the DSO bringing a Manchester home on one engine
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Royal Air Force
England
Britain
Germany
Air Ministry
Avro Manchester
Manchester
Baltic
Stettin
D.S.O
Berlin
Axis naval losses threaten Libyan supply lines in war
British naval forces battle Axis Mediterranean convoys cutting fuel and materiel to Rommel's Libya push. November sinkings reach 22 ships with nine severely damaged as Axis shipping collapses while German crews replace Italian mariners.
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Axis
Mediterranean
Erwin Rommel
Ladybird gunboat sinks but bow guns still roar over To bruk harbor
In Alexandria Egypt the Ladybird gunboat was set afire by two bombs on May 11 but the bow gun remained manned by three gunners. Lt Omar John Blackburn, 40, led the ship as flames raged and Admiral Cunningham praised the crew for courage and devotion to naval tradition.
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Bruk
Tobruk Harbor
Sir Andrew Cunningham
Omar
John Blackburn
Ottawa denies Canadian funds entering occupied France
Officials of the state department said Canadian funds may not enter occupied or unoccupied France. The remark followed a London report that Marshal Petain, France’s head of state, has received an annuity of 2670 dollars regularly from England after transferring an annuity held with a Canadian company in 1927.
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Ottawa
State Department
France
London
Marshal Petain
England
Refugee Internees from Austria Gut to England
Four hundred Austrian German internees held in Victoria and New South Wales camps have been released and are traveling to England. Both British and Australian authorities confirm they are friendly to the Allied cause after a careful inquiry.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
New South Wales
England
Conciliation Officers to Be Added in Ottawa
The federal labor department will add 12 conciliation officers to its staff soon. The three top qualified will be classified as labor relations specialists, according to labor department authorities. Positions have been advertised for the last two months.
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Ottawa
Federal Labor Department
Labor Department
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Publisher Speaks Out
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