Naval Strategy for the Pacific Long Distance War Reach
The article outlines Pacific naval strategy stressing long range operations and the need for a fleet train of oilers and support ships. It notes American British Dutch and Soviet forces in the Far East, with emphasis on supply lines between Auckland Hong Kong and Colombo and the risks to merchant shipping in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
America
Britain
China
Dutch East Indies
Admiralty
Holland
Russia
Far East
Atlantic
Hong Kong
Singapore
Honolulu
Vladivostok
North Sea
Panama
Manila
Philippine
British Admiralty
Far
Moscow
Far Eastern
Geoffrey Layton
Great Triangle
Auckland
Colombo
London Sunday Times
Imitator Bernasconi Compared With Famous Painters
Milan resident Signor Bernasconi attracted national attention for his lifelike animal and bird imitations. He once planned pigeon calls from a tree to lure quarry. a hunter shot at him by mistake, wounding him with buckshot. The tale parallels Velasquez Zeuxis Matsya and a bee painting, noting Bernasconi was stung in the incident.
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Sire Bernasconi
United States
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Signor
Bernasconi
Milan
Italy
Siro
Ontario
Siro Bernasconi
Velasquez
Zeuxis
Matsya
Signor Bernasconi
Mystery Knight Sir George Binney Knighted by King George
Sir George Binney a forty year old explorer and former Oxford student is named Britain's mystery knight for secret wartime services in supplying valuable war material. He led an Arctic expedition in 1923 and later joined United Steel Company then worked with the iron and steel control of the ministry of supply since the war.
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Sir George Binney
Britain
King George
Buckingham Palace
Sir George
Arctic
Oxford
United Steel Company
Iron and Steel
Ministry of Supply
Decorations Returned Over Valued Legion of Honor
Marshal Petain’s secretaries see a flood of decorations returned by Allies and France friends condemning Vichy. The latest is a Legion of Honor ribbon from Dr. Samuel H. Church of the Carnegie Institute, age 83, who once offered $1,000,000 for Hitler’s kidnapping and wrote that under the Vichy government the Legion’s value is lost.
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Marshal Petain
France
Vichy
Legion of Honor
Samuel H. Church
Carnegie Institute of New York
Church
Hitler
Petain
Canadian Soldier in England Wakes in Hospital
A Canadian soldier injured by a severe air raid wakes in a British hospital to a Cockney nurse asking where he is. She replies that he woke yesterday and asks if he was brought to die. The report notes large wartime factories moving workers between departments by bus as a wartime fact.
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England
Yesterdie
Swordfish Landings Puzzle Origins as Nova Scotia Fishermen Report
Canadian fishermen landed nearly 23 000 hundredweights of swordfish from Nova Scotia waters last year though sources dispute the fish origins. The swordfish is a large swift predator with a flat sword extending from its lower jaw used as a weapon. Scientific questions remain about where these fish spawn and migrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nova Scotia
Boat Fisheries News
The Bible Now Sold For Ten Cents Says Bold Ad
A playful spoof ad notes the Bible is available for as little as ten cents. The piece mocks persistent sales pitches and features repetitive begged phrases before concluding with the price offer.
Flaxseed Industry Output in Canada for 1940
The Linseed and Soybean Oil Industry of Canada produced 5,621,246 gallons of linseed oil in 1940 valued at 4 054 584. Linseed oil accounted for 94 percent of the materials value. Of 2 535 792 bushels of flaxseed used, 1 513 978 were Canadian. Nine plants operated nationwide, with four in Quebec, two in Ontario, two in Manitoba, and one in Alberta.
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Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
Mutiny and suicides reported among German forces in Norway
Reports from Norway describe a mutiny at Kvarven fort near Bergen with many German fatalities. By July 2 German officers were buried in Bergen. News notes that port captains at Bod and Sandnesssen died by their own hands, and on June 17 an army officer shot himself in Oslo at Svoldersgate and Gabelsgate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Kvarven
Bergen
Washington
Bod
Sandnesssen
Oslo
Svoldersgate
Gabelsgate
Parallel Invasions: Napoleon and Hitler in Russia
A German officer report praised Australian soldiers and drew a historical parallel between Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia and Hitler’s 1941 campaign. The piece notes shared traits, timing, and outcomes, including winter hardships, scorched earth tactics, and massive losses on both sides.
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Russia
Napoleon
Hitler
Western
Furse
Adolf
Europe
Great Britain
Roth
Smolensk
Waterleo
Britain
United States
England
Prussia
Austria
Italy
Niemen River
Moscow
France
BBC
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
British plan to centralize wartime propaganda control
The British government decides to run propaganda with businesslike efficiency under a new directorate of political warfare. It will centralize oversight, drawing from the foreign office, economic warfare ministry, information ministry, and the British Council, coordinating BBC, War Office, Admiralty, and Air Ministry to enforce conformity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pep
Joseph
Directorate of Political Warfare
Foreign Office
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Ministry of Information
British Council
British Broadcasting Corporation
War Office
The
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Bodies of Manchester boys found after blitz heroism
Bodies of William Higgins age 17 and Walter Tierney age 15 were recovered from rubble 100 yards from their homes after the German Christmas blitz. The report notes their brave acts and identifies their ages and names. A separate line mentions the first steamboat on Lake Erie in August 1818.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
William Higgins
Walter Tierney
Lake Eris
Pattern 7077 Sum o Ats Sweater for all ages
A knitting pattern advertisement explains Pattern 7077 for a sweater with or without sleeves in small, medium, and large sizes. It notes illustrations and stitches, lists required materials, and asks readers to send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E, Winnipeg, Man. It also states there is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Union
McDermot Avenue
Man
Alice Brooks
Fraser greeted by dock workers during lamb loading in Liverpool
New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser visited Britain and toured the Liverpool docks. A BBC report notes a photographer forced a photo with a frozen lamb carcass as Fraser’s presence halted unloading briefly. Fraser praised the workers and dismissed efficiency complaints, saying the men simply want to do their jobs.
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Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Britain
Liverpool
Mr. Fraser
Lamb
Fraser
Noted New York private eye Noel Scaffa dies in Philadelphia
Noel C. Scaffa, 53, once a prominent New York private detective famed for recovering stolen jewelry, died in Philadelphia after a stroke. He reportedly recovered more than 3.9 million dollars in gems during a two year career as a trusted retriever of stolen jewelry.
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Noel C. Scaffa
New York
Philadelphia
Scaffa
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Western Desert
Berlin
Herr Goebbels
Ottawa
Alexander
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Poland
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Fird
Alice
Liverpool Doeckhands
Dockers
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