Are Under Attack By Canadians Confirms Sinking
Navy minister Angus Macdonald disclosed that two U boats were attacked near Newfoundland last month with one possibly sunk. He said submarines were located at the Belle Isle Strait and along the Atlantic approach, with others sighted south and east of the island. He noted many subs between Belle Isle and Iceland and near the Dakar convoy route.
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OAKVILLE
Ort
C.P
Navy
Angus Macdonald
Newfoundland
Strait of Belle Isle
Atlantic
Belle Isle channel
Belle Isle
Iceland
Macdonald
Dakar
Fire destroys six hospital units at Camp Borden
Barrie Ont November 5 fire gutted a half dozen Camp Borden military hospital buildings. Twenty ton tanks were used to demolish wooden structures in the flame path before crews gained control. Six hundred bed hospital evacuated safely as nurses and orderlies moved bed patients to safety. The complex consisted of about 15 one story buildings.
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BARRIE
Ont
Camp Borden military hospital
ooden
muilitery base
Skull Cup Use Found in Kodiak Island Prehistoric Cultures
Smithsonian official Dr Ales Hrdlicka reports new finds of drinking cups made from human skulls at Kodiak Island prehistoric village sites. Skull drinking practiced worldwide in ancient times, with Kodiak Islanders labeled as skull cup users. Hrdlicka notes low disease and unique medical practices, including skull surgery, among these people. The piece mentions police pursuit and a continuation on the back page.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
America
Ales Hrdlicka
Smithsonian
Kodiak Island
ent
Krdlicka
South America
Europe
Hrdlicka
RAF Bombs Rhine Ruhr and Coast of France
London dispatch reports RAF bombers struck industrial targets in the Rhineland and Ruhr last night resuming raids after weather disruptions. Docks at Ostend and Dunkerque were hit along with a merchant vessel off Terschelling. One bomber lost. a Hudson of the Canadian squadron hit a large ship off the Frisian Islands with no Canadians among its crew.
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LONDON
C.P.1
R.A.F
Rhineland
Ruhr
Germany
air ministry
Ostend
Dunkerque
French
Terschelling
Britain
coastal command
Frisian Islands
minstry
RCAF
Cabinet Plans Nationwide Unemployment Insurance
Canberra reports the federal cabinet plans to introduce a nationwide unemployment insurance scheme arguing it would create large credits to aid postwar reconstruction efforts. The plan aims to stabilize workers as the country rebuilds after the war.
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CANBERRA
Arrest Japanese in India and Burma report names Suzuki Matsunaga
A British Navy official stated two Japanese nationals were arrested in India and Burma in the last few days with few details. Reports name Suzuki arrested in Karachi and Matsunaga detained in Rangoon.
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INDIA
BURMA
LONDON
Navy
Suzuki
Karachi
Matsunaga
Rangoon
Canada US Joint Defence Production Committee Formed
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced at Parliament that a new Canada US joint defence production committee will coordinate both nations defence material output. The move follows recommendations from the joint defence economic committees and expands joint machinery beyond strategy and raw materials to include production capacity coordination.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
home of commons
United States
Canada
joint defence board
joint economic committee
joint
Canada War Effort Told In Commons
In Ottawa MPs review how Canada with 12,000,000 people is expanding wartime factory output and sea power. Defence and War Services ministers outline industrial and sea efforts as Opposition figures press for action and Russia relations. Submarine lend-lease transfer ceremony marks Axis vessel handover to Britain and Poland at Groton base.
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OTTAWA
house of commons
Defence
Ralston
Ale Miniister
War Services
Thorson
Hanson
Russia
Hansell
GROTON. com
United States
Thames river
German claim threepart split of Red Army in Crimea
Berlin reports Russian forces ripped into three segments after German troops forced passage through the Yaila Mountains to the Crimea south coast between Sevastopol and Kerch. A communique said pursual continued south and east as the Maz air force bombed Sevastopol and Kerch, claiming sunk Soviet transports and merchant ships. Concurrently Nazi air units hit Moscow Tuy Lemherd region targets and Gorki auto mobile and aircraft works. In other dispatches US engineers arrived at Basra to assist the trans-Iranian railway, Alfred Duff Cooper reached Sydney from Singapore, and Egypt ordered two meatless days weekly under martial law to conserve livestock.
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BERLIN
Yaila
Crimea
Sevastopol
Kerch
Mazi
Kereh
Yaltamah
Gorki automobile and aircraft manufacturing
Moscow
Anti Nazi Demonstrations Break Out in Finland
Helsinki turmoil leads to 21 arrests as crowds denounce Germany amid Finland's wartime alignment against Soviet Russia. BBC reports Socialist minister Valno Tanner faced pressure to quit coalition. Marshal Mannerheim reportedly rejects American peace efforts with Russia.
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NEW YORK
A.P
Helsinki
British Broadcasting Corporation
N.B.C
O.B.C
Germany
Finland
Soviet Russia
BBC
CBS
Valno Tanner
Marshal Mannerheim
B.B.C
Hitler
Russia
Beet growers in Southern Alberta receive largest advance payment
From Our Own Correspondents Raymond reports cheques will be issued tomorrow for more than 1000 Southern Alberta beet growers. The initial payment for sugar beets delivered up to October 20 totals 1 396 000 dollars at eight and a half dollars a ton. This marks the largest payment ever made to beet growers in the region and will circulate new money benefiting local businesses. Further payments will come for beets delivered after October 20 and there will be a final payment on 1940 beet deliveries before year end.
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RAYMOND
mais
Alberta
LaGuardia Re Elects Third Term As Mayor
Washington reports Fiorello LaGuardia won a third term as New York City mayor defeating Democratic nominee William O Dwyer. Despite a close race he secured another four years in office with President Roosevelt’s backing this year.
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WASHINGTON
fiorella LaGuardia
New
Parliamentary News Briefs from Ottawa November 5
Prime Minister Mackenzie King described his Hyde Park meeting with President Roosevelt as a purely personal visit while noting a free exchange of public matter discussions. Parliament discussed Japan import permits, assurances on orders, CBC integrity, and expansion of the Canadian Forestry Corps to 26 companies.
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Mackenna King
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Hanson
JAP PEECHTS
Japan
Japanese empire
Manchukuo
Capt Black
CBC OTTAWA
house of commons
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
War Services
Thorson
CBC
ars
CBC 5
CBO
bureau of pubic information
FORESTRY CORPS
Canadian Forestry Corps
Defence
Ralston
Germans to use waters west of Iceland for major submarine war
Washington reports German strategy shifts to the waters west of Iceland as a primary theater for Atlantic battle. U-boat packs increasingly raid near Tealand and the approach to American defence lines, sinking Panamanian ships and damaging US escorts while the Reuben James tragedy is acknowledged by the Navy.
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Washington
Iceland
Germany
batts
United States
Tealand
Reuven James
stroyer Kearny
navy
Salinas
Greer
navy department
Reuben James einking
Japanese envoy Kurusu to go to Washington in effort to ease ties
Tokyo reports the government will send Saburo Kurusu former ambassador to Germany to Washington by Trans Pacific Clipper to seek accord with the United States amid the serious situation. Radio discussions between US Ambassador Guenther and Secretary Hull led to a January delay of Clipper’s departure from Hong Kong to permit Kurusu’s arrival.
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TOKYO
Nay
Saburo Kurusu
Germany
Washington
United States
United Staty
Joseph Guw
Seselary Hull
Hong Kong
Reds State Nazis Make No Progress
Reds report German forces failed to gain, holding steady defenses around Moscow and the southern flank at Tula during a 48 hour battle. Soviet officials say Germans threw in reserves from the 3rd and 4th tank divisions and the 9th infantry division, while Russian artillery hammered German concentrations elsewhere near Moscow.
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KUYBYSHEV
Russia
Moscow
Tula
S A Lozosky
wassar
foreign affairs
Volga
Nara
Okariers
South Sicily Bombing Report From Italian High Command
The Italian high command said British planes attacked southern Sicily again yesterday. They reported one raider destroyed by anti aircraft fire and another shot down by pursuit fighters. Two other British planes claimed down after a raid on Bengasi in North Africa. German dive bombers hit near Yambut, and British planes clashed between Pozzallo and Ispica in Sicily with injuries reported.
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ROME
tod
Sicily
Bengast
North Africe
Germain
Yobrut
Pozaoa
Italy
Ispica
Tares
Injured Canadian Air Force member from Hillspring
Glen Boyd Woolf son of Mx AB Woolf of Hillspring is reported seriously injured overseas after an automobile accident in the AW3rd casualty list released by the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa. The list notes he is serving in Canada and the family is well known in southern Alberta. No other Albertans are included.
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GLEN BOYD WOOLF
AB. Woolf
Hillspring
Royal Canadian Air Force
Ottawa
Canada
Alberta
Perigueux
MOSCOW
LPi
Soviet information bureau
Jiecow
BERLIN
Crimea
PUNTARNE
Costa Rica
San Francisco
Elsenard
AUSTRALIA
BEE
LONDON
C.P
British Broadcasting Corporation
Murtin
ALTA
EDMONTON
O.P
CALGARY
Hugh Wailer Simpson
Ogden shops
Aberhart
Calgary Board of Trade
Fred E. Spooner
Prairie Regional War Labor Board
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