Red army claims success halting German Bryansk offensive
Moscow dispatch reports the Red army rolled back a major German offensive near Bryansk, recapturing 26 towns and villages and inflicting heavy German losses. German forces, about 180,000 men with two tank corps, suffered thousands killed and hundreds of vehicles and guns destroyed. Counterattacks near Smolensk and Velnya are noted, while Kiev faces new threat as Chernigov falls.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Bryansk
Kiev- Moscow
Setolovo
Smolensk
Velnya
KIEV
Hanson Lands in Britain in Probe Trip
British airport greeted Canadian Conservative leader R B Hanson and his retinue after a trans Atlantic bomber flight. The opposition figure arrived to begin a fact finding mission as Canadian Political reports note the leader avoided questions from Mr King.
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LONDON
ER. B . Hanson
house of commons
HAROLD FAIR
Britain
Canadians Arrive in England to Join Third Division Firepower
Fresh detachments of the Canadian 3rd Division land in England welcomed by Maj. Gen. Montague. Manitoba rifles and signals and ordnance troops form the latest overseas units, with Winnipeg, Prince Edward Island and Vancouver represented. Brigadier promises five days’ landing leave. sailors recall iceberg sighting on voyage. Hockey equipment excitement signals morale boost for Canadians in England.
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Manitoba rifle regiment
Winnipegvers
Prince, Edward Island
Canada
P. J. Montague
London
Winnipeg
Jeff Nicklin
Blue Bombers
all star
Cliff Chadderton
England
Chadderton
Sgt
A. J. Hatcher
Calgary
west coast
R. C. Worthington
A. Kelloway
W. Finnie
Vancouver
D. H. Paterson
Medicine Hat Man on Radio From Overseas
Ottawa reports the national defence department announced that three Canadian airmen will broadcast messages to Canada on the Gentlemen With Wings program. The CBC national network will air it from 10 to 10:15 p.m. EDT. The airmen are LAC Trevor Drake of North Vancouver BC, Laurence Walker of British Columbia, and Adrian Lawrence of Medicine Hat.
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OTTAWA
national defence department
Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
E.D.T
LAC Trevor Drake
North Vancouver
B.C
Laurence Walker
British Columbia
Adrian Lawrence
Medicine. Hat
Tin hats and soap theft haunt wartime Britain
The article notes 2.7 million of a new tin hat type added to 14 million already supplied to Home Guard and civil defence services. It describes a pudding bowl shaped design with adjustable inner band for women, stamped in a single press. It also reports a Liverpool cafe owner blaming wartime visitors for frequent soap thefts from washrooms, creating unrest among staff and patrons.
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Home Guard
ministry of supply
Britain
Liverpool Post
Liverpool
T H Tebo Dies After Long Illness In Lefroy Ont
W L Tebo of The Canadian Press reports the death of his eldest brother T H Tebo at Lefroy Ontario after a long illness. Survived by his widow three daughters and two sons Maurice Tebo Train B C F E Tebo Victoria B C and F A Tebo Lefroy Ont are brothers
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CALGARY
W. L Tebo
Canadian Press
T. H. Tebo
Lefroy
Ont
Maurice Tebo
Train
B.C
F. E
Frankfurt Industries Are Pounded In Night Bombing
British bombers hit Frankfurt industries and other Rhine targets while RAF fighters swept the Channel in dawn raids on Cherbourg St Nazaire and a German supply ship off the Frisian coast. Two bomber crews missing. Royal Navy and German reports note several casualties, apartment houses damaged, and claims of German and British losses.
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LONDON
C.P
Frankfurt
German Rhineland
air ministry
Royal Air Force
English Channel
Germany
Cherbourg
St. Nagaire
France
Frisian
bomber command
British Isles
Britain
England
Larlin
earth
Death of Marcel Deat Reported by Berlin Radio
The death of Marcel Deat, pro Axis French editor wounded by the same assassin who shot Pierre Laval, was reported by Berlin radio and heard by NBC in New York. Berlin denied the broadcast and persisted that Deat was on the road to recovery amid conflicting reports.
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NEW YORK
Marcel Deat
Pierre Laval
Berlin
NBC
eastern front
Deat
Chinese Crush Japanese Drive Near Yochow
Chinese dispatches report a Japanese offensive in north eastern Hunan Province repulsed by Chinese troops. Invaders retreat toward bases 25 miles southeast of Yochow after about 3000 casualties claimed.
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CHUNGKING
Hunan
Yochow
Germany critiques Roosevelt speech as undeclared sea warfare
Hamburger Fremdenblatt claims Roosevelt fired the starting gun in undeclared sea warfare by ordering shoot first. German press notes the speech, marks it as lies, and signals reduced dialogue. Reports from Odessa to Leningrad boast aerial bombardment while Labor Minister Seldte orders fat-factory upgrades to extract fats from wastewater.
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Roosevelt
BERLIN
Germany
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
U.S. navy
Dienst
Odessa
Leningrad
Franz Seldte
Seldte
Press Is Critical of U S President in Tokyo Address
Seigo Nakano, nationalist leader, warned Japan would fight to the last man if diplomacy with the United States fails. He claimed Britain and the United States aim to pressure Axis powers, while Japan would seek to expand southward if talks in Washington fail.
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TOKYO
Seigo Nakano
Japan
United States
Nakano
Roosevelt Churchill
Britain
Domei
Chugai
America
Hibiya Park
Tohokai
Washington
U.S
Atlantic
south Pacific
Manila
Singapore
Australia
World Cost of Living Advances
Ottawa reports world cost of living trends show an overall rise. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes U S prices up three percent from 1940 to June 1941, led by higher food costs, while Canada’s cost of living index rose 2.3 percent between December and June.
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OTTAWA
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
national industrial conference board
Canada
British Lose Eight Ships In Atlantic Convoy Assault
The admiralty reported that a British convoy in a raging Atlantic gale survived with eight ships lost after two U-boat attacks and an air assault. Three ships fell to torpedoes and four to bombs, with one later foundering. Lt Cmdr G A Thring led the escort as the Deptford and Brandenburg aided survivors. An air strike by six bombers followed, sinking another merchant ship.
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LONDON
C.P
Atlantic
admiralty
Cmdr
G. A. Thring
D.S.O
Brandenburg
Deptford
Arming U.S. merchantmen seen as next move
Washington reports describe arming U.S. merchant ships as a likely administration proposal to accompany Roosevelt orders to shoot on sight in defense waters. After the Panama-registered Montana was torpedoed off Greenland, lawmakers weigh neutrality act repeal, weapon procurement, and potential clashes in belligerent zones.
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JACK BELL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
United States
Roosevelt
Iceland
state department
navy
Montana
Greenland
congress
Heavily Laden Axis Supply Ship Sunk by Netherlands Sub
News dispatches report a heavily laden Axis supply ship of about 6,000 tons sunk in the Mediterranean by a Netherlands submarine operating with the British fleet. Other briefs cover Dave MacKay missing season due to permit denial, increased planes to Russia, Catania raid, Nazis to internment, polio and sleeping sickness cases, RAF claims on Axis ships, and a Norway court martial verdict.
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LONDON
C.P
Mediterranean
by & Netherlands
Royal Netherlands admiralty
DAVE MacKAY
PASSFORT EDMONTON
topnotch repkde
Chicago Black Hawks
National Hockey league
Alberta war services board
United States
RUSSIA
CATANIA
RAF
ROME
Sicilian
IRAN
FAR EAST
TEHERAN
India
Siberia
Ahwaz
EDMONTON
Stony Plain
Alta
Whitla
Medicine Hat
R.A.F
CAIRO
Royal Air Force
OSLO
Norway
seendry
apd
thyte
John Nesse
Altéapedt
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aire
Spitsbergen
A. E. Potts
Queen Elizabeth
Saskatchewan regiment
C.O
Potts
RPornh Papa
Ukraine
Chernigov
49th tank corps
R.B. Hanson
MR. KING
R. B. HANSON
B. HANSON
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Spitzbergen
Overseas
Churchill
End of Sanger’s Circus
SEREAVED
German
Rhineland
RED SEA
department
Alexander
Kirk
Egypt
Dienst Aus Deutschland
foreign office
White House
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