Vichy Britain Hints At Immediate Armistice Demand
The Vichy government announced it asked Britain for an immediate armistice to end a month of hostilities in Syria. The request was relayed by the U S consulate, with no clear signal on Britain's reaction. Reports said fighting could end soon as Allies advanced on Damascus and other Vichy positions.
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VICHY
Britain
Syria
United States
Damascus
Beirut
Aleppo
Homs
Deferment Orders for Americans in British Forces
United States selective service officials announced deferment from military service for all U S citizens joining British forces. The order covers Canadian armed forces and directs those in British service or non combatant roles to be classified as occupied in work essential to U S defense.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Canada
Delhi conducts hourlong blackout test in New Delhi
A blackout test lasting an hour was conducted in New Delhi on July 9. Officials said other longer tests will follow as part of the rollout plan.
Naming Morpeth Village A Tale Of Whisky Theft And Lords
The village near Ridge town Ontario earned its name from Lord Morpeth after a whisky theft helped sway the choice. Previously Howard Post Office the place saw a tug of war between Morpeth and James Coll as contenders.
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HILE
Morpeth
Ridgetown
Ontario
C. K. Watson
K.C
Kent County
Roy Hubbell
London Free Press
Howard Post Office
Talbot Road
Lord Morpeth
Trinity Church
Non
Coll
James Coll
RAF Presses Nonstop Attacks at Invasion Points
Helsinki reports a dawn raid by Russian planes that insurance observers say surpassed any in the 1939 40 Finnish Russian war. An area about one square mile was devastated according to claims.
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HELSINKI
Subsidy For Wheat Urged
WINNIPEG July 9 Hon R B Hanson and prominent Manitoba Conservatives begin a western tour to gauge opinion on major western Canada issues. En route to the Pacific coast and Yukon the party will visit Regina Calgary stampede events and Banff National Park. Hanson outlines three tasks for the Dominion government before national unity in wartime, urging subsidy as a key policy.
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WINNIPEG
R. B. Hanson
western Canada
Pacific coast
Yukon
house of commons
Regina
Calgary
Banff National Park
Manitoba
Bombers Hit Rhineland Industrial Targets In Raid
London reports another RAF assault across the channel striking occupied France and reaching into the eastern Reich. Scores of British bombers aimed at Hamm Muenster and other industrial sites in the Rhineland while a force advanced toward Leipzig to bomb synthetic oil plants fueling the Nazi war machine.
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LONDON
Royal Air Force
English Channel
France
Germany
Leuna
Leipzig
Kent
RAF
notantial mic evens
Britain
Rhineland
eastern
Reich
Russia
Hamm
Muenster
Wheat Parley Opens Thursday
An international conference on the world surplus wheat problem convenes in Washington. Sumner Welles says delegates from Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and Great Britain will discuss an international agreement to divide export markets among surplus wheat producers.
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WASHINGTON
Sumner Welles
Canada
United States
Argentina
Australia
Great Britain
Heavy Losses Inflicted On Nazi Forces
Soviet reports say Germany failed to crush Soviet defences despite 10 000 tanks in a secret opening attack. Red Army claimed to have routed German motorized units in northern White Russia and stalled Nazi drives on the frontline with fierce fighting centered around Polotsk Lepel and Novograd Volynski.
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OSCOW
A.P
Germany
N. A. Losovski
JSE
GUNSOSCOW
Red army
Britain
Dunkerque
Cherbourg
White
Russia
Sebezh
Red
Polotsk
White Russia
Lepel
Novograd Volynski
Ukraine
Moscow
Sporkovichi and
Pluma
Baltic state
Leningrad
Peru Ecuador peace plan calls for neutral zone
The United States Argentina and Brazil urged Peru and Ecuador to create a no man’s land along the status quo line. Peruvian and Ecuadorian forces would withdraw 15 km from each side, forming a 30 km neutral zone, with no overflights allowed. Spain warned the border clash could invite third party intervention.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Argentine
Brazil
Peru
Ecuador
SPAIN
MADRID
Associated Press
Youth 19 Admits 2 Murders in Crime Spree
Bernard Sawicki aged 19 pleaded guilty in Chicago to the killings of Charles Kwasinski 17 and John J. Miller 19 during a four day crime spree. He confessed to the murder of Police Officer Charles J. Speaker and to killing Henry Allain a 12 year old farmer near Momence Illinois.
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CHICAGO
Bernard Sawicki
Charles Kwasinski
John J. Miller
St. Charles
Civilians Killed as Japanese Invasion Hits Szeyto District
Hong Kong dispatch cites Chinese central news agency reporting 4,500 civilians killed and 2,100 houses demolished by a Japanese invasion in the Szeyto district of Kwangtung province south of Canton last month.
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HONG KONG
Chinese central news agency
Szeyto
Kwangtung province
Canton
Eden condemns Wodehouse aid to German propaganda
Foreign Secretary Eden told Parliament that the government regrets P G Wodehouse lending his services to the German propaganda machine. He warned that broadcasts or neutral intervention would be used to deter such actions. Wodehouse was captured in France last June and held as a prisoner before being brought to Berlin for broadcasts.
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LONDON
Eden
house of commons
France
Germany
Berlin
Invents New Type Anti Aircraft Gun In Montreal
A fore ver Bisley from Hamilton Ont arrived in Montreal to arrange patents for a radical new anti aircraft gun. Alex R J Hilson described the device as highly effective against dive bombers and tied for the co Prize in 1927 Bisley competition.
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MONTREAL
Bisley
Hamilton
Ont
Alex R. J. Hilson
U.S. Farmers Forecast Biggest Grain Harvest Since 1929
United States farmers expect a summer harvest of four major cereals wheat corn oats and rye worth about 3.3 billion dollars at current Chicago prices, up from last year and the largest since 1937. Estimated total yield around 4.387 billion bushels, with wheat valued near 950 million dollars at Chicago prices.
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FRANKLIN MULLIN
Associated Press
CHICAGO
United States
Italian Publics News Warn of U S Naval Move to Iceland
Rome reports the United States has sent naval forces to Iceland. Newspapers denounce it as an imperialist gesture. Popolo Di Roma argues Roosevelt would build Western Hemisphere outposts and rapidly erode Europe.
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ROME
A.P
Iceland
Popolo Di Roma
Roosevelt
Europe
Willkie urges bases in Northern Ireland and Scotland
Wendell L. Wilkie after a White House conference urged establishing U S military bases in Northern Ireland and Scotland and said Iceland should be occupied as a first step. He stressed open sea lanes and asked for effective aid to Britain rather than lip service. He planned two California speeches on national unity, in Los Angeles July 23 and San Francisco about ten days later.
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WASHINGTON
Britain
Wendell L. Wilkie
White House
United States
Northern
Ireland
Scotland
Roosevelt
Iceland
Willie
Great Britain
Collapse of Mussolini Foretold by Italian Exile in Ann Arbor
Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian diplomat and cabinet member, told an Ann Arbor audience that a British victory would bring immediate collapse of Mussolini’s regime but warned that a revolution before that would be fruitless. He said Nazi influence gives Italy no path to uprising.
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MUSSOLINI
ANN ARBOR, Mich
Carlo Sforza
Count Sforza
Nazi Germany
Italy
Tea price rise shocks Toronto tea houses
Tea prices in Toronto jumped five to ten cents a pound over the past week. Officials cited shipping bottlenecks and higher insurance as factors, with expectations the increase will spread across the Dominion as costs rise at the source.
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TORONTO
Dominion
Roosevelt to seek extra cash for arms production
Administration sources said President Roosevelt would ask Congress to double the original seven billion dollar arms appropriation. They noted the first fund has grown to about eight billion, with most lease lend material going to Britain and some to China, possibly Russia, while the destination of materiel is not the issue for the new appropriation.
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WASHINGTON
Administration
Roosevelt
Weill
United States congress
CHINA
Britain
Russia
German claims of gains on Baltic front overshadow Russia battles
Berlin reports from July 9 state German spokesmen claim major gains on the northern Baltic front while the High Command offers one vague update on Russia. DNB says German forces captured Parnu and Viljandi in Estonia and Ostrov near Pskov as Russians retreat after thwarted defense plans.
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BERLIN
Russia
Hitler
DNB
Baltic
Parnu
Viljandi
Estonia
Ostrov
Pskov
Leningrad
Latvia
Viljand
USSR
Portugal Sends Troops to Azores from Lisbon
The liner Carvalho Araujo sailed for the Azores today with the third contingent of Portuguese troops to be sent there in as many months. Portugal protested to the United States in a note made public June 12 against President Roosevelt's May 27 speech that German control of the Cape Verde and Azores could endanger America. The Portuguese note insisted Portugal would defend the islands.
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LISBON
Portugal
Carvalho Araujo
Azores
United States
Roosevelt
Cape Verde
America
Canadian Pensions Minister inspects Beaver Club
Canadian Pensions Minister Iaa Mackenzie spent two hours today inspecting the Beaver Club in London, a Canadian Servicemen's recreation centre, during a July 9 visit.
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BEAVER CLUB
LONDON
C.P. Cable
Iaa Mackenzie
Women officers to help form Canadian Air Force
London reports two officers of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force will be sent to Canada to advise on forming a Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Names were withheld. Montreal reports Po W L Bill O'Brien seriously injured after being shot down in an air battle. He is the son of Col and Mrs W P O'Brien. The June aircraft deliveries totaled 1,176 in the US, down from May's 1,334. The West Indies Mauritius and East Africa sugar crop exports have been bought for shipment to the UK or Canada. Over 3,000,000 men are in European war camps as nations prepare for the Geneva talks. Eastern governors urged a 26 percent reduction in petroleum use. The US may buy up to 200,900 tons of foreign lead, possibly from Canada. A 350-mile blitz drive by infantry units will be staged from Fort Osborne in Manitoba starting July 16.
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CANADA
LONDON
C.P. Cable
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
department of national defence
air ministry
MONTREAL
C.PJ
C.PJ)—PO. W. L. (Bill) O'Brien
England
W. P. O’Brien
U.S
WASHINGTON
soutice of production management
United States
WEST INDIES
AFRICA
Gee. Hall
house of commons
Mauritius
East Africa
United Kingdom
EUROPE
NEW YORK
whele
Dixie Clipper
Harold Ickes
A.P
Wall Street Journal
WINNIPEG
C.P
Fort Osborne
Manitoba
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