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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 20, 1943
Page
3
Ottawa reports Canada studies 1944 contracts to supply the United Kingdom with bacon cheese eggs and possible butter beef. Officials say shipments may exceed stated tonnages under war time contracts as labor and price issues affect production and exports.
London reports describe the Azores accord as the opening Allied win to isolate Germany. Observers outline aims including Spanish neutrality, removal of Nazi influence, and deportation of spies, with broader goals to push Finland out of the war and curb Balkan Axis satellites.
Nine sailors from a Norwegian tanker torpedoed by a Japanese raider endured a 30 day voyage in a lifeboat across the Indian Ocean. Nineteen started after the sinking near an Australian port. ten died from wounds and exhaustion. The craft capsized but was righted. over the next 12 days six more died. On the 30th day Madagascar was sighted.
Food Minister Lord Woolton announced that Britain will distribute 84 million oranges to youngsters with two pounds per child under five and one pound for ages five to 16. Retailers must reserve stocks for five days for children before selling the rest freely.
An autonomous device guides a bomber through a dense barrage of balloon cables. The contraption navigates obstacles, allowing the aircraft to clear a path without human input. Engineers report successful rapid deployment and potential wartime applications.
Report describes a patented device by James Baker that fires a tiny chisel to pin and cut enemy cables midair as bombers progress, enabling unimpeded advance. Separate note recounts Mussolini regime declaring death penalties for Italians who resist German and Fascist decrees amid suppression of patriots in northern Italy.
A. Y. Jackson, dean of Canadian painters, is on a government assignment to record the work of the RC F on the Alaska highway and other features of the road. He is joined by H. G. Glyde, head of the art department at the Institute of Technology, Calgary, and both operate under the National Gallery of Canada.
Richard Rosson, director of Corvette K225, will receive the Navy League of Canada Award for Service when he travels to Ottawa for the film’s premiere. The ceremony coincides with the Ottawa premiere of the Navy story focusing on Royal Canadian Navy corvettes.
Shows True Colors reports Fritz Clausen head of the Danish Nazi party was arrested by German authorities and sent to the eastern front after being accused of diverting 100000 Danish crowns provided to the party by Berlin.
Prime Minister Churchill congratulates the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force in London, saying Allied power will inexorably beat industrial Germany and secure final victory. He notes bombing shifts German air force from offensive to defensive as war cabinet recognizes the strategic significance.
Four Allied fighters survive a David and Goliath clash above Wewak New Guinea as they face eleven to one odds. The Allied communique says eight Jap planes were shot down with two more probably down. the enemy squadron 32 fighters and 12 bombers was broken up and no Allied planes lost.
Beams from two searchlight crews in the Humber area caught a Nazi raider as it crossed inshore. The bomber plunged into a shallow dive and crashed to the ground, ending the attack.
Nazi occupied Channel Islands residents face about 110 dollars per pound for tea and coffee, with black market supplies due to long shortages. Acorn coffee and bramble tea are alternatives, while even tomato crops are shipped to France for mere pence per pound.
Supplies for three white men and a woman at Fort Ross in the far north may reach in early November. A United States army air force plane could land or parachute drops if needed. If the manager and staff come out the post will close until a relief ship arrives next year. Fort Ross has only month of food and has been inaccessible due to ice for two years.
Britain approves production of a huge air liner by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as a spare time project. Chief designer Leslie G. Frise finalizes plans for a 130 ton craft with 20 000 horsepower engines and a cruising speed around 250 mph. It would carry 150 passengers New York Atlantic crossing in about 15 hours at an estimated $200 a head.
War secretary Sir James Grigg told the reconvened House of Commons that British and American experts in occupied Italian territory were taking over the protection and supervision of all ancient monuments museums and art works. He added that damage due to the war was being repaired. Do Your Duty Buy Victory Bonds.
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