Vichy Accepts Japan Demands and Moves Toward Indo China
Japanese warships appear off Camranh Bay and Cap St. Jacques after Vichy’s acceptance of Tokyo’s military demands in French Indo China. Twelve Japanese transports head toward Saigon while Hainan and Iron Island serve as Japanese bases, signaling a intensifying regional posture.
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FRANK MARTIN
Associated Press
SAIGON
Indo-China
Cap St. Jacques
Camranh Bay
Vichy
Hainan
Japan
U S And Britain Poise For Action
Washington and London prepared swift counter measures as Japan advanced into southern French Indochina. Reports cited readiness to impose sweeping economic restrictions on Japan and possible British action to shield Singapore and the Netherlands East Indies from Japanese base expansion. Dispatches from Saigon suggested occupation was imminent or underway.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Great Britain
London
Japan
Woman Slain. Suspect Held After Stabbing in Toronto
TORONTO July 24 Harold Philbrook 21 of Toronto was placed under police guard in a Toronto hospital on a murder charge after Mrs Ida Charlotte Adair of Orillia died this morning from a stab wound in the abdomen.
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TORONTO
Harold Philbrook
Ida Charlotte Adair
Orillia
Plane crash near Lawrence town kills Sgt. R M Bryant
Royal Canadian Air Force officials report Sgt. R M Bryant of Toronto was killed yesterday in a small plane crash at Lawrence town, Dartmouth NS, as announced today.
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DARTMOUTH
R. M. Bryant
Toronto
Lawrencetown
Royal Canadian Air Force
RAF Attacks Sink German Battleships Scharnhorst Gneisenau
London July 24 The Royal Air Force delivered simultaneous air strikes on the 26 000 ton German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at La Pallice and Brest France 240 miles apart In the 24 hour operation several direct hits were reported and heavy damage inflicted on docks at Cherbourg and the two ports The attacks marked the climax of a day long series of strikes against the ships continuing today as reports came in from the air ministry
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LONDON
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
La Pallice
Brest
France
Royal Air Force
air ministry
Cherbourg
Submarines Suspected as U.S. Ships With British Fleet
Rome July 24 Virginia Gayda, Fascist editor, said there is suspicion more than well-founded that United States submarines are operating with the British fleet in the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ROME
Virginia Gayda
United States
Mediterranean
Tiny Aruba Island Hosts World’s Largest Oil Refinery
The Aruba island near Venezuela houses what is claimed as the world’s largest refinery. Electrical engineer John Paul Dyer says the Lago Out and Transportation company practically owns the 20 kg two mule island cluster, with Standard Oil of New Jersey Curacao as headquarters in New Jersey. The Dutch West Indies group includes Bonaire and Buen Ayre, housing interned enemy aliens during the Netherlands invasion, with a hot climate and regular trade winds.
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Venezuela
Britain
Montreal Gazette
John Paul Dyer
Lago Out and Transportation company
Aruba
Netherlands West Indies
aribbean
New Jersey
Standard Oil of
Curacao
Royal Dutch Shell Oil company
Buen Ayre
Netherlands
Dyer
Scadia
RAF Sinks Three Ships Off Pantellaria
The Royal Air Force said bombers sank at least three ships from an Axis convoy off Pantellaria between Sicily and Tunisia on Tuesday. An Italian destroyer escort was hit and badly damaged at the stern. a 7,000-ton ship was struck by two bombs and set afire.
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CAIRO
Royal Air Force
Pantellaria
Sicily
Tunisia
RAP
Paper Plant Gutted By Blaze in Pembroke Ont
A fire destroyed the Consolidated Paper Corporation plant in Pembroke Ontario today, along with a large quantity of lumber. The blaze began in the boiler house. Company officials estimate damages between 300000 and 350000 dollars, pending a formal check of the burned properties.
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PEMBROKE
Consolidated Paper Corporation
Soviet Bombers Fail To Break Night Raid On Moscow
Soviet reports say German bombers hunted Moscow for the third straight night but failed to change the front. The afternoon communique noted stubborn fighting near Porkhov Polotsk Nevel Smolensk and Zhitomir with the Red Air Force credited for bombing German motor units and airfields. About 150 planes were said to have taken part, though only a few penetrated anti-aircraft defenses.
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MOSCOW
Porkhov
Polotsk-Nevel
Smolensk
Zhitomir
Red
Italians claim fierce air naval battle sinks ships
Rome reports a dawn to dusk clash in the central Mediterranean ending in Italian victory. The communique says a British convoy escorted by battleships and carriers was attacked by air and Italian forces, sinking a destroyer and two munitions ships, with multiple other vessels damaged or sunk.
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ROME
high command
Mediterranean
United States brands Japan aggressor in French Indo China
Washington declares Japan an aggressor over French Indo China moves and says the action threatens American security in the Far East. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, notes further conquests as a possibility and warns of risks to Pacific stability and vital materials. Ambassador briefed Japanese envoy after half hour talks.
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Far East
Japan
Great Iita
United States
Singapore
Gibraltar
Yast
WASHINGTON
Indo-China
Sumner Welles
Welles
Pacific
Three Die In Train Wreck Near Vancouver
A head-on collision of two passenger trains on the Great Northern line near New Westminster 12 miles east of Vancouver leaves three dead. Fireman A Hager of the Great Northern died at the scene, while H H Krinks baggage man of Canadian National and H H Mills CN crewman died in hospital.
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VANCOUVER
C.F
Great Northern
here
H. H Krinks
Canadian National Railways
H H. Mills
CNR
A. Hager
Seattle
NEW WESTMINSTER
Calvary Clergy Leader Named Alberta Senior Chaplain
Calgary July 24 announces that Reverend A J Hetherington vicar general of the Roman Catholic diocese of Calgary and longtime Sacred Heart church pastor is named senior Roman Catholic chaplain for Alberta with the rank of major.
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CALGARY
A J. Hetherington
Sacred Heart church
province of
Alberta
Dundalk Harbor Bombed by Unidentified Aircraft
Bombs fell on Dundalk harbor during the night from an unidentified plane. Dundalk lies about five miles south of the frontier between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland on the Irish Sea.
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DUNDALK HARBOR
DUBLIN
Dundalk
Erre
Northern Ireland
Irish Sea
Ottawa defence named for Eskimo murder trial in Hudson Bay
Madden of Ottawa to defend three Eskimos charged with murder on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay next month. Olmsted of the justice department will act for the crown. Judge C P Plaxton of the Ontario supreme court will preside. The accused are two men and a woman named Mina. They are in police custody at Mossonee Out and to be transported north.
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OTTAWA
Mo P Madden
Belcher islands
Hudson Bay
justice department
R. A Olmsted
Justice C P. Plaxton
Ontario supreme court
Mossonee
Mina
McGill to Run Summer Library Institute in Banff
Dr G R Lomer McGill Librarian and director of the library school announced Montreal will hold a three week refresher course at Banff Alberta from August 11 to 30. Lomer will leave Montreal next week to prepare for the program.
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LIBRARY INSTITUTE
MONTREAL
McGill University
Banff
Alberta
G R Lomer
McGill
library school
Clash Rumors On Manchukuo Siberian Border
Unsourced Shanghai rumors claim Russian and Japanese troops clashed near Changku feng on the Manchukuo Siberian border after a Wednesday start. Japanese army press HQ says no confirmation. The alleged incident recalls the 1938 Changkufeng clashes later resolved by diplomacy.
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Vichy
Tokyo
Siberian
Bad Roads Blamed by Nazi High Command
Berlin reports that Red Army resistance and poor roads hinder the German invasion of Russia. The Nazi briefing claims progress overall on the eastern front despite limited details. German agency says a large trapped Red Army force was defeated at Nevel near Vitebsk with 13,000 captured, while Russian losses were high due to political commissars forcing actions.
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BERLIN
Russia
Hitler
D.NLB
Nevel
Vitebsk
Red army
Serb Rebellion Report Confirmed In London Cable
Washington reports a London cablegram from the Yugoslav government in exile stating 5,060 Serbs revoked on June 28 and that as of July 12 the uprising remains active. Additional briefs note consular exchanges between the US, Italy, and Germany completed in Lisbon with Americans on neutral soil and Germans released from a naval transport.
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WASHINGTON
A.P
London
LISBON
United States
Italy
Germany
West Point
QUITO
Ecuador
Peru
U.S
U.S. navy department
congress
MOSCOW
C.P
MT, GILEAD
here
W. B. Corder
U.S. ARMY
NAVY
MERCHANT MARINE
United States army, navy and maritime commission
house of representatives
appropriations committee
VANCOUVER
New Westminster
Dorothy Rutledge
J. A. Rutledge
Hardisty
Alta
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Netherlands East Indies
Philippine islands
C.N.R
Changkufeng
SHANGHAI
Manchoukuo-Siberian
Changkufend
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