Allied Fleets To Track Down German Raiders
Britain and France vow joint pursuit of Germany s raiding pocket battleships Deutschland and Admiral Scheer amid reports one raider sunk the Africa Shell. Sinking of tanker near Mozambique signals possible German operations in Indian Ocean and ongoing Allied dragnet dependent on fuel resupply. The ministry of information notes minimal Allied shipping damage due to German reluctance to engage British and French fleets.
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London
Britain
France
Germany
Deutschland
Admiral Scheer
Africa
Madagascar
Indian Ocean
Zavala
Atlantic Ocean
Ministry of Information
Smuts Wins Two By-Elections Under Neutrality Issue
In Bloemfontein Gladys Stein and in Brakpan Victor Ash of the United party triumphed as Hertzog and neutrality advocates faltered. Malan and Gilkinan ran as Nationalists. Smuts praised Commonwealth links and condemned a German broadcast misusing his past writings. Netherlands replies to peace proposals remain noncommittal.
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Johannesburg
Smuts
J. B. M. Hertzog
Union of South Africa
Hertzog
Bloemfontein
Gladys Stein
General Smuts
United Party
J. H. Malan
Brakpan
Victor Ash
G. F. Froneman
G. Gilkillan
Labor
Pretoria
South Africa
British Commonwealth of Nations
Great Britain
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Wilhelmina
Leopold
von Ribbentrop
Britain well supplied with foodstuffs despite limited butter and bacon
London reports ample stocks of bread flour and cereals with no immediate rationing plan before January. Butter and bacon likely to be affected when introduced. Fresh meat, fats, fruit, vegetables, and milk readily available. Government contracts to secure next season's butter from New Zealand and Ireland.
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London
British Isles
New Zealand
Eire
Prize For Canadian Story In Toronto Contest Opens
The Women's Canadian Club of Toronto offers a $100 prize for the best short story with Canadian flavor. Submissions may draw on Canadian history or modern life and must be received by February 15, 1940.
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Toronto
Women’s
Canadian Club of Toronto
Dominion
Joint War Effort Plans Between Britain and France
The article reports Britain and France aligning their economies for the war. Finance Minister Paul Reynaud met with Sir John Simon to discuss vast Allied arms purchases in the United States and managing gold reserves. Reynaud sought British help to offset France’s mobilization losses and to ease export restrictions for French purchases.
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London
Great Britain
France
Paul Reynaud
Paris
John Simon
Evening News
United States
Sir John
M. Reynaud
Britain
Long Journey Montreal Ends For Four Ford Relatives
Four young men arrive in Montreal after a 3,500 mile trek from the Arctic by dog team whaleboat and steamship to join a Royal Canadian Artillery field battery. William Ford 26 visits civilization for the first time since age 16. Patrick Baird Cambridge graduate geologist. Jack R. Ford Hud son’s Bay fur trader from Pond Inlet. Jack T. Ford from Ungava district. The Fords are related.
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Montreal
Hitler
Arctic
Royal Canadian Artillery
William Ford
Civilization
Arctic Bay
Patrick Baird
Cambridge University
Jack R. Ford
Hudson’s Bay
Pond Inlet
Organize Concert Parties Ottawa
Lieut. Col. Ralph Webb, general manager of the Legion's war services, announced Captain Morley Plunkett will head developing new soldier talent for concert work in the Canadian Active Service Force. Auditions will be held in various camps where Legion war services operate. Talent chosen will form self contained concert parties to entertain their own units while on service.
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Ottawa
Ralph Webb
The
Legion's War Services
Morley Plunkett
Candian
Canadian Legion War Services
Czech Students Clash With German Police in Prague
About 2000 Czech university students demonstrated near the tomb of the unknown soldier shoutingFreedom. Police arrested 16, and injuries were reported as clashes continued after the Oct 28 events. Havas notes President Hacha was effectively detained at Lang castle amid talks of autonomy conditions. Posters urging Germans to leave appeared as storm trooper units moved to remove them.
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Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Belgium
Vingtiem Siecle
Prague
Havas
Emil Hacha
Lang Castle
Konstantin von Neurathreich
Bohemia and
Moravia
Vlagka
Russia
Stalin
Jane's Fighting Ships predicts limited U boat threat and global naval build up
The almanac notes Germany may have at most 84 submarines now, down from 111 in 1917, while Soviet Russia leads with at least 150 subs. It also lists 34 capital ships under construction worldwide, including several over 40,000 tons, with builds in the United States, England, Germany and Japan.
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London
Germany
England
Jane's
Soviet Russia
Russia
United States
Japan
Thyssen Fails to Explain Departure from Germany
Fritz Thyssen, German steel magnate and Nazi backer, eluded questions about leaving Germany. Located at the Locarno hotel in Lucerne with his wife and child, he cited Swiss law restricting political remarks and said he would stay indefinitely at the Swiss lake resort.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Fritz Thyssen
Ruhr
Adolf Hitler
Locarno Hotel
Germany
Thyssen
Swiss Lake
First Aid Training Growth in Canada Expands
October activity shows rising first aid and home nursing instruction in Canada. St John Ambulance reports 28 000 first aid books and 7 000 home nursing books distributed. New local centres opened at Olds and Medicine Hat in Alberta.
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Ottawa
Canada
St. John Ambulance Association
Olds
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Ottawa to Track Health of Canadian Forces Using New Stats
Up-to-date statistical methods will monitor the health of the Canadian active service force. The director-general of medical services plans a compiled medical statistics system with coded records to provide constant information on force health.
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Ottawa
Medical Services
Department of National Defence
Wheat surplus called blessing to the empire
Agriculture Minister J G Gardiner told a United Grain Growers dinner that Canada holds the world’s largest wheat surplus, calling it a blessing to the British Empire. He urged expansion into cheese bacon and eggs, warned against hoarding, and favored market access and possible government control of bacon.
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Winnipeg
J. G. Gardiner
Canada
United Grain Growers, Limited
Dominion
Gardiner
British Empire
Fatal Circle Closing In On Germany Says Paris Leader
Edmond Miellet, radical Socialist chairman, warned in Paris that Hitler faces a fatal circle, citing Germany's weaknesses including internal hostility, Baltic and Black Sea losses, naval limits, air inferiority, and inability to outlast two rising empires. He urged French patience toward victory.
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Paris
Edmond Miellet
Chamber of Deputies
France
Adolf Hitler
Miellet
Germany
Baltic
Black Sea
Balkan
Russia
United States
Poland Seeks Settlement Terms After Allied Victory
Diplomatic circles in London anticipate Poland seeking compensation from Germany for lands lost to Russia after a Allied victory. General Sikorski and August Zaleski arrived to discuss a second Great War settlement with Viscount Halifax. Poland stresses its substantial wartime contribution and plans to visit Polish sailors in a British port to distribute decorations.
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London
Poland
Germany
Russia
Wladyslaw Sikorski
August Zaleski
Viscount Halifax
Foreign Office
Sikorski
Zaleski
France
Bank of Poland
Banfield Papers Colorful Meteor Film Shot in Canada
Toronto missionary and filmmaker A. W. Banfield captured what is believed to be the only colored moving pictures of a meteor flashing across the sky. He filmed the event during a fishing trip in northern British Columbia at a meeting of the Toronto Amateur Movie Club.
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Toronto
A. W. Banfield
Toronto Amateur Movie Club
Banfield
British Columbia
Private pilots in Canada volunteer for air force service
Practically all private pilots in Canada have volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, it was learned here.
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Ottawa
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Captain Plunkett
Czech University
Finland
Hjalmar Procope
Washington
Procope
Europe
Watcis
Mr. Gardiner
Fort William
T. A. Crerar
Mines and Resources
Wladimir d'Ormesson
le Temps
le Figaro
American Club of
Austria
Vienna
Ronald Campbell
Lebrun
Ronald
Royal Air Force
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