West Coast ports brace for Pacific war surge
The Quebec Churchill Roosevelt conference signals a sharp rise in Pacific war effort. Naval and merchant fleets will shift from Atlantic and European waters to the Pacific, boosting traffic at San Francisco Seattle Vancouver and likely Prince Rupert. British and Canadian naval strength to support the drive is expected to rise substantially.
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Pacific
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Roosevelt
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European
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United States
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Europe
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New York
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B.C
British Columbia
Southwest Pacific
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Emory
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London
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Victoria
Hitler Warned London by German Industrialists Warning
Swiss Journal de Geneve cites German industrialists warning Hitler via the Nazi general staff that the army cannot fight beyond eight weeks. The report names Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau and General Heinz Guderian delivering the grim estimate to Hitler.
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London
de Geneve
Hitler
Germany
Walter von Model
Western Front
Heinz Guderian
Butter Coupon Dates Postponed Again In Canada
The prices board delayed butter coupon validity for two pairs, postponing coupons 8 and 81 to Oct 12 and 48 and 89 to Dec 14. Butter ration will be tighter though sugar supplies are tight, with no expected sugar ration reduction this year. Canadian butter stocks as of Sept 1 were 11.5 million pounds below the 1943 level.
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S. R. Noble
Canadian Navy Strikes Back at U Boats in Biscay
Ottawa reports the Canadian navy has intensified operations off the French coast and in the Biscay blockade. Destroyers Haida Huron and Iroquois lead aggressive actions around St Nazaire Lorient Brest and St Malo as escort groups join the effort. U boats and E boats face a tightening hammer as Allied forces push the channel and west coast of France.
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Ottawa
North Atlantic
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Brest
St. Malo
France
Biscay
Channel
Brittany
Unity Call from London Aims Yugoslav Unity Under Tito
King Peter of Yugoslavia in a London broadcast urged Serbs Croats and Slovenes to unite and join the national liberation army led by Marshal Tito.
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London
King Peter of
Yugoslavia
National Liberation Army
Marshal Tito
Beaufighters Scatter Japanese Convoy in Broad Beating
Allied headquarters report a 23 hour air sea battle near Kandy Ceylon where British Beaufighters struck a convoy of escorted Japanese merchant ships Burma bound across the Andaman sea. Twenty one separate attacks followed first sighting on Sept 9 and the action is hailed as the greatest single air and sea victory in the theatre with an estimated enemy force of at least 15 ships.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Andaman Sea
Canada doubles steel output in five years postwar shift
Canada reports war expanded steel plants have doubled overall output since 1939 and risen to fourth among UN producers led by the United States Russia and Britain. Alloy steel production has surged up to five times prewar levels as the nation pivots to meet domestic demand and export to Europe. Shell steel and tank components show large gains amid armored plate and vehicle production.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
United Nations
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Rate Reduced To Five Cents For Civilian Airgraph Mail
Postmaster General Mulock announced a rate cut from ten to five cents effective Sept 15 for civilian airgraph mail. Civilian mail now shares the same rate as military airgraph service to all available countries including Great Britain Australia New Zealand the Middle East and several African nations. Military airgraph letters may also be sent to France and Italy. Airgraph letters on film were first introduced in Canada in 1941.
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Ottawa
Mulock
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Australia
New Zealand
Middle East
Africa
France
Italy
Canada
London Daily Express to Air Mail US Subscribers
Co. V. R. Thompson says the Daily Express will be flown to the United States in limited quantities for daily distribution to American subscribers. The paper, with a reported daily circulation of 3,002,738, is published by Lord Beaverbrook and becomes the first London paper to initiate air mail subscriptions for regular editions.
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London Daily Express
New York
Co. V. R. Thompson
Daily Express
Lord Beaverbrook
Privy Seal
Thompson
London
Burma Casualties in Burma and Yunnan Reported
The national military council stated that up to August 15 four thousand nine hundred eighty Chinese and one thousand one hundred sixty seven British and American troops had died in northern Burma and the adjacent western Yunnan province. Japanese dead were listed at twenty one thousand one hundred forty. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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National Military Council
Burma
China
Yunnan
Canadian Infantry and Armor Praised in Sicily Campaign
Captain H A Hyman of Regina lauds the First Canadian division and the First Armored brigade for their combat prowess in Sicily and the Rome advance. General Leese calls Canadian infantry the world’s best village fighters and praises the Western Canadian armored brigade. He also notes frontline reporters’ risky toil and leadership by Canadian officers during the fighting. Dieppe’s historical note closes the piece.
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H. A. Hyman
Regina
Canada
Sicily
Eighth Army
Rome
Leese
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