Hudson Bay Railway Useful In War Service
Ottawa reports the Hudson Bay Railway proved crucial in wartime logistics with weekly trains and many specials. From The Pas to Churchill the line moved 10 160 tons in 1941 and 110 841 tons in 1942 as air bases expanded. Wheat and other imports shifted, Churchill storage declined from 2 617 396 to 1 877 812 bushels, while ice conditions limit extending the shipping season.
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Hudson Bay Railway
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Man
Churchill
Hudson Bay
United Kingdom
Bay
Hudson Strait
German retreat leaves gas masks for horses amid robot tanks
In France the First Canadian Army reports German abandonment along the Seine. Twenty baby robot tanks were found in the Domaniale forest east of Elbeuf, plus horse respirators with metal nasal caps and elastic sleeves designed to seal around a horse's nose. Breathing vents sit in the metal snout.
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Seine
Domaniale Forest
Elbeuf
Louvre guard recalls damage during Paris liberation
The Louvre chief guard recalls that in four years of occupation only one prized exhibit, a 4,500 year old mummified Egyptian sheep, was torn apart by a German soldier seeking shelter during gunfire between rooftop snipers and French patriots during Liberation Day.
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Paris
Louvre Art Museum
Louvre
Battleship Clemenceau Sunk by RAF in Brest Harbor
The RAF sank the unfinished French battleship Clemenceau in Brest harbor to keep it from German hands. The half-built 35,000-ton Richelieu class vessel was not completed when France fell in 1940. The action aimed to prevent harbor blockage by the hulk.
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London
RAF
Clemenceau
Brest
Air Ministry
France
Majdanek Atrocity Details Revealed By German POWs
Four German prisoners testified before a Russian Polish atrocity commission in Lublin about Majdanek the vast Nazi death camp. They described gas chambers mass shootings ovens and crematoria with hundreds of thousands murdered and mass graves in a rolling meadow near the city.
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Poland
Majdanek
Nazi Europe
S.S
N. A. Stalb
S. S Komandofuehrer
Theodore Schoelen
Berlin
Churchill Returns From Italian Front Visit
British Prime Minister Churchill returns by air from Italy smiling and sunburned after visiting the Italian front. He is met in London by Mrs. Churchill and Allied air commander Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, along with other officers before the invasion of southern France.
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Churchill
Italy
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
Europe
France
Disorganized Nazis rounded up in prison camps near Rome
The battle for southern France and destruction of the German 19th army neared completion as uncounted thousands of Nazis trudged to Allied prison camps and disorganized remnants fled up the Rhone valley scattering equipment. Hitler's guard in southern France has been wiped out in a fortnight's campaign.
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Rome
France
Rhone
Adolf Hitler
Drive to Free Britain From Bomb Bases North of Seine
A British general issues an order of the day announcing a deep Allied push into enemy-occupied France north of the Seine to destroy German bomb bases. He says the drive will reduce English bombing targets and spare families from attacks, urging soldiers to push on one more kilometre for one less bomb.
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Seine
France
England
Normandy
Free rail travel for life for Australian VC winners
Canberra announces life long free rail travel Australia wide for all Victoria Cross recipients. The move honors their service by allowing unrestricted access on the national rail network.
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Canberra
Australia
World Security Agreement Reached at Dumbarton Oaks
Washington reports a general agreement among Dumbarton Oaks delegates on a peace and security organization. The plan envisions an assembly of all peace loving nations, a council including principal and smaller states, and an international court of justice with mechanisms for dispute settlement. Talks continue on structure jurisdiction and procedures as governments prepare final steps.
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Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
International Organization For Peace and Security
International Court of Justice
Health League of Canada promotes National Immunization Week
The Health League of Canada sponsors the third annual National Immunization Week from September 10 to 16 to raise awareness of preventable diseases like whooping cough diphtheria scarlet fever and smallpox. The event opens with a message from the Governor General and includes film showings posters leaflets and media campaigns in both French and English.
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Toronto
Health League of Canada
National Film Board
The
War criminals to face justice despite neutral shelters
Sir Cecil Hurst, vice president of the Permanent Court of International Justice, warned that war criminals would not escape punishment by seeking refuge in neutral nations. He said pressure would be applied on neutrals, noted the Doorn case as a warning, and indicated Hitler's inclusion on a wanted list could be possible though not confirmed.
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London
Sir Cecil Hurst
Permanent Court of International Justice
United Nations Commission For the
Commission
Cecil
Holland
Doorn
United Nations
Sir Cecil
Hitler
Mussolini
Napoleon
Nazi wartime radio address hints at possible settlement
Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar urged Germans to accept Allied war aims and adopt a more reasonable stance. He acknowledged German reverses in France and Romania but insisted Germany must continue while enemies pursue their aims. He warned hope of victory is fading yet noted Allied logistics and manpower favor the Allies.
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London
Kurt Dittmar
Germany
France
Romania
Dittmar
Admiral Keyes predicts war end by winter in Europe
Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes told the Canadian Club in Montreal that the European war should end by early winter and the Japanese campaign would finish sooner than many expect. He, famed for Zeebrugge actions, heads new combat commandos and will visit Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, then fly to New Zealand and Australia on government business.
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Zeebrugge
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Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
New Zealand
Australia
German Atrocity Claims Trap at Pushkin Grave
The state investigat ing committee on German atrocities led by Nikolai Tikhatov reports Nazis placed a booby trap in Alexander Pushkin's grave. The panel lists many Russians who died visiting the famous poet's grave.
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Leningrad
Nikolai Tikhatov
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin
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