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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
3
Lieut.-General Crerar told Second Canadian Division veterans at Dieppe that the 1942 raid provided essential experience for planning the Normandy landings. He praised Canadian forces for a costly, vital action that helped ensure the Allied invasion would succeed.
Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar warned of a current shortage of forces and promised a new total mobilization to stabilize the western front. He claimed Allies’ breakthrough mirrors 1940 Maginot-line events and argued fronts are shorter today. Nazi voices urged time and attrition while preparing internal defenses and guerrilla bands under Hitler.
Ottawa reports Major General Maurice Pope returns to key planning roles for the end of the war and demobilization. He becomes military secretary to the cabinet war committee and a member of the chiefs of staff committee, advising the prime minister and coordinating with army navy and air force leaders. Pope compares to Leahy and Ismay in advisory capacity.
Ottawa reports a sugar supply crisis as European liberated nations demand more from the UN stockpile. A prices board spokesman calls the situation bad and warns it could worsen before year end. Canada currently meets only 20 percent of its needs and relies on imports from a UN pool that has no surplus.
Louis J. Trottier, chairman of the unemployment insurance commission, stated that all fund contributions from employers, employees, and the government remain intact. By July 31 the fund totaled $216,171,931, with interest on investments covering benefit payments. July contributions plus interest amounted to $6,585,122, while benefits paid were $134,432, producing a net increase of $6,450,690.
United States ambassador to Canada Ray Atherton completes a 9000 mile journey through the Canadian west and northwest. In an interview he says he is returning inspired by the unconquerable vitality of the western world and reassured that the North American spirit is ready to serve the world.
In a cemetery above Dieppe lie 880 graves of Second Canadian division raid force killed August 19 1942. Most interred are Canadians. The graves are numbered with no names but a roll of names is kept by a cemetery attendant.
The British Eighth Army and Canadian troops smashed the Gothic Line in two days, outperforming expected three week resistance. Lt Gen Leese and Gen Alexander led the plan centering action near the Adriatic, with high ground seized and a drive toward the Adriatic that began September 2 and continues.
The Swedish Red Cross said 2,635 British Canadian and American prisoners of war and civilian internees will be arriving in Trelleborg by ferry from Germany on Sept 7 for exchange. The Canadian quota was not specified.
Twenty tons of Canadian made clothing will be sent to France for relief of French children in liberated areas. This shipment is the vanguard of 110 tons of clothing medical supplies and food being sent to Normandy by various organizations as a gift of the Canadian Red Cross.
The 78 mile Skeena highway between Terrace and Prince Rupert BC opens after an 11 million dollar construction. A 40 car caravan of cars and army trucks traveled the route to mark the ceremony on September 4 with officials praising the new coastal inland link.
The largest convoy ever to sail the seas arrived in the United Kingdom with total close escort by the Canadian Navy and air cover from the RCAF and RAF. The 150 merchant ships carried over 1,000,000 tons of cargo, with Cmdr. George L. Stephen of Halifax leading the escort. The convoy’s safe, timely delivery was acknowledged by the Admiralty.
British naval planes hit the 35,000 ton battleship Tirpitz and at least 16 other vessels in northern waters. The attacks damaged radio stations hangars and coast installations along the Norwegian coast near Hammerfest. Nine German planes were shot down and several more damaged. 11 British planes were lost. Planes were from carriers under Admiral Sir Henry Moore.
Stockholm reports Swedish minister Gustav Moeller declares Sweden will deny asylum to war criminals and send them back to their countries for justice. He notes frontiers have welcomed refugees, but during this war acts of horrific cruelty have occurred mostly in occupied nations.
More than 50 agents parachuted into Belgium in advance of the Allied entry into the country, Allied headquarters disclosed. The secret Belgian army prepared landing grounds to receive supplies and troops, while sabotage increased as the Allies approached, including the destruction of 180000 gallons of gasoline the Germans needed.
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