Nazis Sweep Red Fleet Bases Along Black Sea
Soviet press warns Russia faces grave danger as Axis forces advance near the Black Sea bases at Novorossisk and Tuapse. Red Star and Pravda urge firmness, vow to halt the German drive while the Red fleet fights to defend the Caucasus front.
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Red Fleet
Black Sea
Tzvestia
Pravda
Ien
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Tuapse
Caucasian Mountains
Kuban River
Nazi Bombs Hit Hospital in East Anglia
Reports say a German air raid on East Anglia and southeast England killed several patients and staff at an East Anglican mental institution. Emergency squads worked through the night to recover the dead and rescue the injured as two wards were flattened.
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LONDON
East Anglia
England
All-Time Low Smallpox Cases and New War Etiquette Sugar Flask
The United States posted an all-time low 1432 smallpox cases with Canada also at a lull and few deaths likely in 1941. A new gadget, the sugar flask, offers portable sugar for wartime etiquette, a green plastic vial about palm-sized with a screw top and room for three teaspoons.
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United States
Canada
Saskatchewan
Paris
Minneapolis Star Journal
amy
Germans Claim British Carrier Eagle Sunk
German radio announced the British aircraft carrier Eagle was sunk today in the western Mediterranean by a German submarine. Four torpedoes were said to have struck the ship during a mid day attack on a strongly protected convoy. The Eagle, completed in 1918, displaced 22 600 tons with 748 crew and 21 aircraft.
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ONDON
Eagle
Mediterranean
Nervy Woman amputates foot after boat drive shaft accident
In Jacksonville on August 11 Mrs. C F Thompson’sSlacks foot was pulled into a boat’s drive shaft. She amputated the foot with a fish knife using a cloth tourniquet. A companion watched as a boat towed the craft 16 miles to a field hospital where a transfusion and a second amputation followed. She was reported doing well the next day.
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JACKSONVILLE
C.F. Thompson
totler
new River Marine Base
Conscripts Rioting Spreads Reach Total 1917 1918 War Draft
Ottawa reports Canada has delivered to the army upwards of 140000 conscripts for the Second Great War. The total exceeds the First War draft by about 15000 and does not include August and September calls. Home defence remains the purpose for these conscripts under the National Resources Mobilization Act.
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FRANK FLAHERTY
OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
national war services department
France
National Resources Mobilization
Bombay Riots Rise as British Help Police
British troops aided police in Bombay as 13 more were killed and 30 injured in 10 gunfire incidents during Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign. Toll rose to 28 dead and 200 injured nationwide with Hindu Muslim tensions warning of wider rioting and shutdowns spreading from Bombay to Calcutta.
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FRESTON GROVEE
Associated Press
FDOMBAY
Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Chalcutta
Dadar
Parel
Matunes
No. 8 Airman Is Drowned
Drowning of an airman from No 8 Bombing and Gunnery School Lethbridge in the South Saskatchewan River north of Bow Island is under RCMP investigation. The airman identity remains withheld pending notice to his parents. He was visiting friends when he swam Sunday afternoon and disappeared. Dragging efforts continue as the river is wide and swift at the presumed burial point.
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BOW ISLAND
Aug
No. 8
Lethbridge
South Saskatchewan River
R.C
Freyberg Wounded At Mersa Matruh In Desert Action
Gen Bernard Freyberg of the New Zealand division is shown wounded in a slit trench after being hit in the neck by shell fragment during the battle wherein Axis forces captured Mersa Matruh. Canonical caption notes Freyberg back in action. Air Force post adds Cpt J S R Roberts, RCAP, posted to western air command HQ.
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Sir Bernard Freyberg
New Zealand
Mersa Matruh
Freyberg
AIR FORCE POST
EDMONTON
J. S. R. Roberts
Royal Canadian Air Force
western air command
Holding Our Own Press War Update From Pacific Drive
Allied bombers under Gen. MacArthur widened assaults in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea as the United States and Allies push toward Tulagi Guadalcanal and Rabaul. Bombers struck Japanese ships off Timor and a large destroyer, with fires seen from 50 miles at Rabaul. ground fighting continued in Tulagi, Guadalcanal, and Kokoda as Japanese counterattacks increased.
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ASHINGTON
Douglas MacArthur
Solomon Islands
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
Solomons
Netherlands Timor
Solomon battle
Timor
United States navy
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Solomon group
New Guinea
Kokoda
Port Moresby
Laval Fears Coup Averted Amid Prisoner Exchange News
Reuters from Stockholm reports Pierre Laval reinforced police and troops to guard the Vichy regime against a rumored coup. Laval greeted 1000 French prisoners released by Germany in exchange for workers. A Vichy broadcast stated Nazi plans to swap one POW for three volunteers.
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LONDON
Reuters
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Laval
Compeigne
Geran
Germany
Pass Miners Back In Pits
Pass Miners return to work after a Monday meeting in Blairmore where 2000 men heard union leaders outline steps to address wages for boys doing men's work. The plan directs local, district, and industry bodies to pursue the grievance, rejecting a conciliation board.
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BLAIRMORE
Enoch Willliams
Coleman
Hillcrest
Bellevue mines
Robert Livest
District No. 18
UMW. of
John Stokoluk
Western Canada
Wartime production threatened by material shortages says report
Washington August 11 The Labor policy committee of the War Production Board warned that as many as 1 000 war plants could be forced to cut production this month and next due to shortages of materials. The warning emerged from a resolution adopted July 30 and learned Monday night.
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WASHINGTON
Labor policy committee
The
war production board
Rome Loses Sub ROMS from Italian Broadcasts Aug 11
The Hallan high command announced today that an Italian submarine failed to return to its base. Edmonton reports the appointment of Capt. T.W. Cogland as officer commanding the 4th Reserve Divisional Armored Corps RCA. Lt Col E Brows announced the change.
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Hallan high command
EDMONTON
T.W. Cogland
Armored Corps
R.C.A. S.C
E. Brows
ates
Corset-Fitter Hurt Hand In Tight Squeeze
In Albuquerque Aug 11 a district court awarded Maudie Lee Clark 309 dollars for injuries from fitting a girdle on a customer. She sprained her hand and finger in the incident.
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ALBUQUERQUE
W. M
Maudie Lee Clark
Hankow Bombed by U S Air Los Angeles style headline
U S bombing result reports say Hankow and nearby warehouses were struck in a low altitude raid escorted by fighters. Lt Gen Stilwell's HQ announced, noting incendiaries and high explosives with several fires started.
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CHANGEING
Ang
Hankow
Joseph Stilwell
Napan
China
Yangtze river
wat
Haiphong
Indo-China
Thailand
Burma
Saigon
India
funnatt
Formosa
Pukien
ib wee
Flier Drowns in Lake Washington Rescue by Local Boys
Ottio We Johnson of Fort Jarvis Ontario a Royal Canadian Air Force member drowned Monday night while swimming near his sister’s Lake Washington home. His body was recovered from 20 feet of water by two 15 year old boys using a home made diving helmet apparatus.
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SEATTLE
Ottio We Johnson
Royal Canadian Air Force
Fort Jarvis
Ont
Lake Washington
Axis Surface Raider Attacks Ships in South Atlantic
A report authorized for publication abroad states an Axis surface raider operated in the South Atlantic, attacking one or more freighters on Monday and another on Saturday, with broader implications for Atlantic shipping security.
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AXIS
SOUIA
RIO DE JANEIRO
department of press prepaganda
Asis
South Atlantic
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