Hun Troops Hammer At Russ Lines
Berlin dispatch reports Nazi air raids batter Zhitomir on the road to Ukraine and claim German troops press the Stalin line. Nazi propaganda cites penetrations along the front with high command silent on such claims as German planes strike railway facilities near Zhitomir, a key hub southwest of Kiev.
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BERLIN
Zhitomir
Ukraine
Germany
Stalin line
Kiev
D.N.B
Zhitmir
Lwow
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Moscow Push Thwarted by Red Army
German drive against the Stalin line was virtually stopped for four days. German losses were said to be enormous as forces regrouped and supply lines reorganized amid widespread guerrilla activity in the rear. The Red Army reported heavy action at strategic river crossings south of Novograd Volynski and along the Dnieper and Dniester fronts with significant tank and infantry losses.
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Vichy
France
Henry Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
Red army
Novograd Volynski
Dnieper
Dniester
Dnieper river
Ukraine
Former Deputy Attorney General of Alberta Dies
Arthur George Browning former deputy attorney general of Alberta died at his sister's home in Toronto from a stroke. Age 80 born in British Columbia he served as official children's guardian and chaired the Northwest Mounted Police board before resigning in 1926. Survived by daughter and brother William of Seattle funeral services scheduled Wednesday.
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TORONTO
Arthur George Browning
Alberta
George Harris
Browning
British Columbia
children’s guardian
Northwest Mounted Police board
Edmonton
Browning and MacDonald
William
Seattle
Death of James Sinclair Remembered in British Columbia History
The Left Hand Corner recalls James Sinclair who died in New Westminster. He was a great grandson of Dr. John McLaughlin and linked to the fur trade era from conquest days. He knew Sir James Douglas and Sir George Simpson, and crossed the Rockies before railroads. The obituary notes his pioneering role as an early schoolteacher.
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New Westminster
British Columbia
Vancouver
Mr. Sinclair
John McLaughlin
White Eagle
Oregon
mountains
Pacific
Fort Vancouver
conqnest
James Douglas
B. C. Historical Association
Sir George Simpson
Hudson's Bay Company
Rockies
James Sinclar
Japanese Claim Full Blockade Of South China
Hong Kong July 8 The Japanese army claimed a complete blockade of the South China coast and announced the capture of Wongkong seaport near the Kwangtung Fukien border about 200 miles north of Hong Kong Describing Wongkong as the last loophole for war material shipments to China the army asserted control of the coast.
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HONG KONG
South China
Wongkong
Kwangtung
Fukien
China
Canuck Flying Ace Of Desert Breaks Barriers
A 21 year old Canadian pilot in the Royal Air Force tops the western desert reconnaissance list. From Battleford Saskatchewan, he joined after washing dishes in London. He has fought in England France Greece Syria and Libya and shot down an Italian Savoia bomber near Rhodes aboard a Glenn Martin. He was wounded near Beirut and bailed from a crash. Names are not released due to service regulations.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
Greece
Syria
Libya
Mediterranean
Rhodes
Revolt in Grain Belt Grows in Oklahoma and Kansas
Farmers in 13 northwest Oklahoma counties and one southern Kansas county join a wider movement in alliance with groups in nine Kansas and Missouri counties. The National Agricultural Producers Association plans to lead a nationwide fight against a 49 cent per bushel excess wheat penalty. A federal suit challenging the penalty was filed in Oklahoma City after a 37 state referendum approved strict marketing quotas for this year's wheat crop.
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ENID
Okla
agricultural adjustment administration
U.S
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
National Agricultural Producers Association
Oklahoma City
King Warns Of Result If Hitler Wins
Prime Minister Mackenzie King warned at a Prince Albert recruiting rally that a Hitler victory even in Europe would trigger an economic drought for Western Canada, eclipsing past droughts. He urged unity, argued inaction would fail, and urged Westerners including foreign nationals to volunteer for defense.
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C. R. BLACKBURN
PRINCE ALBERT
Sask
C.P
Europe
Canada
Mackenzie King
King
Regina
Iceland Move Is Welcomed by British Press
London reports jubilant British reaction to the United States occupation of Iceland. The Daily Mail calls the move an Anglo American lake and notes other Atlantic islands pose risks. Officials see it as an inevitable step in U S foreign policy. Iceland lies within the German blockade zone.
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LONDON
Iceland
United States
Atlantic ocean
Britain
the
Daily Mail
Atlantic
America
Azores
Cape Verde
Dakar
Germany
Heaviest Bombers Of RAF Lash At Hun Strongholds
British aircraft engaged Germany in northern France and beyond in a sustained air offensive. RAF heavy bombers escorted by fighters hit a synthetic oil plant near Lens and Bethune, with nine German fighters destroyed and seven British fighters missing in the Lille attack.
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R.A.F. Lash
LONDON
C.P
English Channel
France
R.A.F
Lille
channel
Russia
Lens
Bethune
air ministry
Williams homers as American All-Stars crush NL in 17 5 victory
Slugger Ted Williams belted a towering ninth inning homer with two on to cap a late American League rally and beat the National League 17 to 5 at Briggs Stadium Detroit. Joe DiMaggio grounded into a bases loaded out but one run scored on a botched double play as a crowd of 54 674 watched.
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Williams
Detroit Stadium
Vaughan
BRIGGS STADIUM
DETROIT
Ted Willams
Boston Red Sox
Willams’ wallop
Boston
Joe DiMaggio
Petain Moves to Abolish Universal Male Suffrage in Vichy
Marshal Petain told the Vichy constitution committee that universal male suffrage should be abolished and that the state must be formed by natural groups within an authoritarian, hierarchical system. He said authority should not rely on counting votes but on the natural groups that sustain a state and nation.
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VICHY
France
A.P
Marshal Petain
Petain
Nazi Submarine Destroyed By British Gunboat in Strait of Gibraltar
British gunboats in the Strait of Gibraltar destroyed a German submarine with depth charges. The attack occurred as the sub was sighted by a plane near a convoy of 27 merchant ships, including four tankers, escorted by two destroyers. Bodies of two German sailors were recovered.
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LA LINEA
Spain
Strait of Gibraltar
Occupation Of Iceland Aimed At Blocking Nazi Pincer
Berlin reports no comment on US troops arrival in Iceland while Washington describes the move as a step to thwart a German blockade plan. Officials link the occupation to defending Atlantic sea lanes and preparing against a two pronged threat from Germany.
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Iceland
BERLIN
United States
state department
Germany
Russia
Hitler
Portugal
Gibraltar
Russian Mission Reaches Britain
A Soviet military mission of army, navy and air force officers arrived in London today and will liaise with Britain's three services. Maj. Gen. Golikov, deputy chief of the Soviet general staff, heads the group with Rear Admiral Khartamov among its members.
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LONDON
Britain
Moscow
Golikov
Khartamov
Soviet Repels Germans in Baltic and Leningrad Sectors
Moscow dispatch reports strong Soviet resistance north of Ostrov near Leningrad slowing German advances. Fierce clashes occur around Borisov on the Baltic front as forces press toward Bolotsk on the upper Dvina. In Lepel near the Dvina Berezina canal, fighting continues with Russian defense tight.
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Ostrov
Leningrad
Moscow
Borisov
Baltic front
Bolotsk
Dvina
Lepel
Berezina
Britain Reserves Right To Sink Enemy Shipping
Britain warned Turkey it reserves the right to attack enemy shipping wherever found in response to a Turkish protest over the July 4 sinking of the French vessel St Didier in Adalis harbor. The incident prompted a French embassy investigator to travel to Andasus Antalya as Britain guards against Vichy and Axis moves around Salonika and the Levant army.
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LONDON
Great Britain
Britain
Adalis
Turkey
ANEKARA
Andasus
Antalya
Salonika
Greece
Levant
Henri Dentz
RAF bombs Wilhelmshaven in renewed strike raid
News briefs from July 8 report heavy Royal Air Force bombers attacking the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven, plus various World War II dispatches from London and other cities detailing broadcasts, warnings, and military movements across Allied and Axis fronts. The notices include calls to Britons to strike now, Red Cross nurse detachments overdue in Britain, a Winnipeg crash, and naval actions near Riga bay.
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ONTARIO
CALGARY
Albert
AMERICAN RED CROSS
LONDON
United States
Britain
Red Cross Harvard
England
WINNIPEG
C.P
FO. T. J. Cook
Montreal
LAC. E. W. Orr
Vera
Sask
Lilyfield
here
Osbert Peake
home affairs
house of commons
McNAUGHTON
TORONTO
A. G. L. McNaughton
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC
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B.C
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GODFREY ANDERSON
Savoia
Beirut
CANUCER II
hhis
London Press
Bremen
Hamburg
Holland
Belgium
Marshall Petain
ROME
WASHINGTON
equator
Arctic
Reich
Roosevelt
congress
Trinidad
British Guiana
Americas
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