Canadian UN brigade advance toward Korea
The advance party of 345 Canadian officers and men from the special United Nations brigade sailed from the west coast and heads directly to Korea to prepare the way for the full force. Defence Minister Claxton stressed the destination of the 9,000 strong unit had not yet been decided and that hostilities ending in Korea would not end the need for the force.
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Canada
special United Nations brigade
U.S
Korea
defence headquarters
Defence
Claxton
Montreal
United Nations
Canada troops set sail from Port Lewis for Okinawa
The first detachment of Canada’s special brigade sailed from Ort Lewis Washington aboard a transport with U S forces bound for the Korean front. About 350 troops formed the advance party on October 14 to prepare for overseas voyage with a possible total brigade of 10 000 by late November. Veterans of World War II led the movement under Maj. R M Bourgeois with Lask of the Royal 22nd directing sailing preparations. The transport carried stores and equipment to set up island accommodation, and units represented included the Royal Canadian Regiment Royal 22nd Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Royal Canadian Horse Artillery service corps medical engineer and dental units.
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ORT LEWIS
Wash
Canada
special brigade
Pacific
Okinawa
Europe
R. M. Bourgeois
Gravelbourg
Lask
Royal 22nd Regiment
United allons
Korea
Canadian army
Royal Canadian Regiment
Royal 22nd
Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
service corps
Regina Firm Won’t Be Taxed On Bad Debt Reserve
Ottawa article reports the income tax appeal board ruled Regina wholesale grocery Campbell Wilson and Strathdee Limited was not taxed on 16600 transferred from its bad debt reserve to surplus in 1946. The board found no provision in the income tax act that treated such transfers as income for the year.
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Regina
OTTAWA
income tax appeal board
Campbell, Wilson and Strathdee Limited
The revenue department
W. S. Fisher
Britain’s Ambassador to Moscow on Apes in Russia
Britain's ambassador in Moscow addresses a curious issue as apes become a problem in local circles. The report outlines diplomatic caution and cultural notes amid the unusual topic.
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Britain
Moscow
Left Hand Corner Continued on Page Fours
A writer in the Ottawa Journal recounts Alfred Tennyson's father wishing him to ordain and live by the Church while friends fear poetry may not sustain him. Carlyle first asked Monckton Milnes, now an MP, to secure a pension, but Milnes worries about constituents' reaction if their representative backs Tennyson.
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ALFRED Tennyson
Alfred
Ottawa Journal
Carlyle
Tennyson
Monckton Milnes
Four-Point Soviet Peace Plan Urges German Unity
Pravda calls for adoption of an eight-country Prague plan to create a democratic, peace loving all German sovereign government. It urges nonremilitarization, peaceful economy, an undelayed peace treaty, and a unified state with occupation forces withdrawn after the treaty.
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V M Molotov
Klement Gottwald
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Poland
Bulgaria
Hungary
East Germany
Albania
Germany
Britain
France
United States
constitutional council
Plan to Move 120000 Skilled Berliners Shocks Officials
Ashington Oct 23 AP Anaga be Co Operation Ac W naa on official said Ikst'nig Ess reedFrng sunt on for removal of np 120 al in skilled workers and their equipment to other countries in need for their special skills. Berlin officials were shocked by the ECA report Dr. Paul Hertz city administration Marshall Plan questions said Allied emigration would contradict policy to hold Berlin build it up and use it as a bridgehead against the East Berlin has 294000 unemployed about a quarter of its labor force most jobless are unskilled or white collar.
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ASHINGTON
Anagabe
Ac- W naa
Berlin
ECA
Paul Hertz
Accidents Claim 3 Lives Injure Dozen in Fog
Three dead and about a dozen injured after fogbound crashes in Southern Alberta over the weekend. Victims include Jesse Porter 70 Calgary William Varty Okotoks Alta Eva Walles Morse Sask and Alice Gerald Morse Sask. A six car pile up near Raymond left four injured.
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RAGEDY
Alberta
Jesse Porter
Calgary
Eva Valles
Morse
Sask
William Varty
Okotoks
Alta
Porter
Varty
High River
Walles
Granum
Alice Gerald
Morse, Sask
Arthur Barber
Red Deer
Raymond
S. W. Sanford
Atomic Bomb Has Become Obsolete
Dr Brock Chisholm of Ottawa and head of the World Health Organization states that the atomic bomb is obsolete. He argues biological science will unleash diseases far deadlier, capable of wiping out more than half the populations targeted, in a speech at a conference on the biological hazards of atomic energy in London.
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LONDON
Reuters
Brock Chisholm
Ottawa
world health organization
Chisholm
68 U S Prisoners Slain Near Sunchon Tunnel
Brig Gen Frank A Allen risked entering North Korea to verify reports of a massacre near the Sunchon railway tunnel. He helped confirm that at least 68 American prisoners were killed by Red guards, with 21 or more survivors amid a bitterly cold night.
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DON WHITEHEAD
SUNCHON
North Korea
Sunc chon tunnel
munist
here
Frank A. Allen
Cleveland
U.S. 1st cavalry division
Allen
Pyongyang
1st cavalry division
Tale of Wayward Tank Waterborne Sherman Floats Out to Sea
A Sherman tank weighing 37 tons floated off a rubber pontoon ferry on the Yesong River near Kaesong during the US 7th Cavalry march toward Pyongyang. Cables snapped amid a strong tide and current, sending the tank downriver with five crewmen, engineers, and about 15 frightened laborers aboard.
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HAL BOYLE
1ST CAVALRY DIVISION
Korea
Yesong river
Kaesong
United States
7th cavalry regiment
Pyongyang
Art Westburg
Washington, D.C
Hunter escapes mother bear in Ladder Valley incident
In Saskatoon district, hunter William Carpenter shot three cubs under a spruce, then wounded and outpaced the mother bear with his remaining shells. He and a posse returned and finished off the mother bear guarding its cubs.
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RIVER
Sask
Ladder Valley
William Carpenter
Raver
enen
Carpenter
Begin Harassing incidents Against French Positions
Viet Minh forces began harassing French positions around Tienyen as French defense lines extend north from Langson toward Hanoi. A French military spokesman noted a small post near Tienyen faced attack while Langson’s big frontier post was abandoned last week. Letourneau, French minister in Indo-China, said authorities are confident they can hold the Tonkin delta.
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SAIGON
Indo-China
Tienyen
Tien‘i
Langson
Hanoi
Dinh Lap
Moncay
Gulf of Tonkin
Jean Letourneau
dvanee
Tonkin delta
Terror Wave In China After Executions Of Four Churchmen
Hong Kong reports via Newsdom that anti red guerrillas 160 miles southwest of Peiping launched terrorism in retaliation for the execution of four Chinese Catholic churchmen by the Chinese communists. The group claimed to have blown a power plant in Chengting parish.
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HONG KONG
Newsdom
Peiping
Peking radio
Wu Yato
Chengting
Hungarians vote on government chosen candidates
Hungarians went to the polls on October 23 for 220,000 government selected candidates for local people's councils. Many voters reportedly used the space on the ballot to vote against the single list, though the option remained.
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BUDAPEST
Hungary
Inconclusive Yes and No At Institute Talks On China
I Norman Smith reports from Lucknow that the Institute of Pacific Relations discussion on China ended without resolution. Delegates, split by ideology, could not reach a firm conclusion as American, Asian, British, Canadian tones clashed and no Chinese delegates remained to weigh in.
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CHINA
I. NORMAN SMITH
The Herald
LUCKNOW
India
Institute of Pacific Relations
U.N
Formosa
America
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Red Forces Flee Toward Manchurian Border As POWs Escape
South Korean forces pushed within 50 miles of the Manchurian border driving through North Korea. North Korean remnants fled toward mountains near Kangye as POW numbers climbed past 120,000 with 26,000 troops captured in the last 24 hours. The advance pressed toward Yalu with Gen. MacArthur’s Tokyo HQ cautious on timing.
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Associated Press
OUL
Korea
Kangye
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Yalu
MacArthur
Tokyo
Red China
Manchuria
Pyongyang
Yonghung
United States army
United Nations
aih
supmanrtart
ROK
Pukchang
U.S. eighth army
Huichong
Truman Speech Is Attacked by Soviet Foreign Minister
Lake Success New York October 23 1949 Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky condemned President Truman’s San Francisco speech calling it force based and anti doviet. He backed a Soviet peace plan urging a big five pact and one third armament cuts while warning the UN may label atomic bombers war criminals. American sources say the plan aims to blacklist Western superiority and would likely fail as in 1949.
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LAKE SUCCESS
N.Y
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
Truman
Hitler
San Francisco
Vishinsky
Stockholm
DESERE
Soviet Union
U.N. assembly
30 Dead in Peruvian Landslide
Lima, Peru Oct 23 Thirty persons are reported dead in the Santa River landslide high in the Andes with at least 100 unaccounted for and 28 injured. A side of Pisococha Lagoon collapsed, sending rock mud and water that demolished Los Cedros hydroelectric station.
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LIMA
Peru
Santa River
El Comercio
Pisococha
Los Cedros
Eight Survive Collision Vessel North Voyageur
Coast guard cutter Sorrel reports eight survivors rescued from lifeboat after Honduran collier North Voyageur vanished in a Newfoundland storm. Survivors fear the other lifeboat Serre may have been lost and crew members remain unaccounted.
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NEW YORK
coast guard
Sorrel
North Voyageur
Newfoundland
Serre
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Pravda
palley
TALE OF
MOTHER BEAR
P.O.W
Yalu River
SASKATCHEWAN
CPI
R.C.M.P
Whiteweed
R.C.MLP
Moser Jaw
Robert Panghorn
Verdun
Qée
James K. MacAulay
Winnipeg
WASHINGTON
justice department today
CANBERRA
Rekect G. Mensi
Australia
Eric J. Harrison
Lendon
Philip McBride
SASKATOON
J. S. Mills
Saskatecen
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