British Gain South Bank in Rhine Drive Near Arnhem
Typhoons and British armor broke a six mile German barrier to the Rhine south of Arnhem, aided by U.S. airborne troops. The breakthrough linked with reinforcements, easing a critical situation as German forces counter attacked. The Arnhem bridge status remained unclear, with reports that the road Eindhoven Nijmegen near Vechel had been contested and then cleared. 9,000 prisoners.
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Eindhoven
Nijmegen
Arnhem
2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE
BELGIUM
C.P.Reuters
Holland
LONDON
A.P
Rhine
Britain
Ruhr
Berlin
NBC
Brussels
S.S
Boulogne
Dempsey
Elst
Canadians On Adriatic Front Advance 30 Miles
The 1st Canadian Division, veterans from Sicily and Italy, officially credited with a prominent role on the Adriatic front under Maj. Gen. Vokes. Artillery supported their 30 mile drive from the Metauro to the Marecchia near Rimini, crossing the Marecchia and bypassing Rimini as the month of fighting ended.
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BILL BOSS
ADRIATIC
C.P. Cable
Italy
Vokes
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Metauro river
Marecchia river
Rimini
Marecchia
Metauro
Left Hand Corner Trish Moss and Irish Moss Rust
Dr A W H Needler explains a saltwater rust affecting Irish moss in the Maritime provinces. A microscopic water creature secretes a white film that ruins moss yield and gelose, the commercial gummy. wartime trade boosted Maritime production from about 10,000 pounds in 1940 to around 2,000,000 in 1942, tapering to about 1,200,000 pounds after.
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A. W. H. Needler
federal fisheries research station
St. Andrews
N.B
Maritime
Maritimes
Europe
Road to Berlin fronts distances from key cities
Western front 305 miles from Arnhem. Russian front 310 miles from Warsaw. Italian front 580 miles from south of Bologna.
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Arnhem
Warsaw
Bologna
19 Feared Dead In Arctic Crash
United States air transport command said wreckage of a DC-47 with 19 aboard was found on Mount McKinley Alaska near Eldridge Glacier at 9000 feet. Winds icing hindered flight. a rescue party heads 70 miles to the site after next of kin were notified.
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EDMONTON
United States air transport command
Alaskan department
Seattle
Wash
Mount MacKinley
Alaska
Anchorage
Fairbanks
A.T.C
A. C. Kirkpatrick
Eldridge Glacier
Honda
Hurricane
William M. Williams
l1th air force service command
Capture Nazis At Moose Jaw Escapees Returned
Two German prisoners of war Heinz Kanmeyer and August Radter both 36 were captured in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan by Royal Canadian Mounted Police after escaping from a labor project at Heron Bay Ontario on September 15. Their accents betrayed them when they asked Air Repair Station No 43 BC Air Force personnel for cigarets claiming to seek a veterans organization. The men, German navy members, said they reached Moose Jaw by stealing freight train rides.
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MOOSE JAW
Sask
Heinz Kanmeyer
August Radter
Heron Bay
Ont
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
B.C. A.F
Bitter Fight on Peleliu and Angaur in Pacific War
The Japanese on Bloody Nose Ridge at Peleliu repelled a U S Marine assault as fighting persisted on Thursday. Marines captured five heavy guns while slight gains occurred on the west coast. In Angaur, 81st Division troops cleared enemy cave remnants. Allied air forces sank or damaged four Japanese ships and hit Hashemara and Dutch Celebes air bases.
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PEARL HARBOR
Peleliu
Palaus
United States
navy
Angaur
Dutch Celebes
Ceram
Philippines
Military Doctor Jailed Six Months
Montreal Sept 23. Capt. Joseph Emile Langis formerly with No 4 District Depot Montreal South was cashiered and sentenced to six months in prison after a general court martial on three counts alleging promises to obtain army exemptions.
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MONTREAL
Joseph Emile Langis
Montreal South
Langis
Vigilante crowd warns suspect to leave town
A vigilante group of about 100 residents gathered at a North Vancouver man’s home Friday night to warn him to depart after accusations of molesting women and girls. The target was not present when police observed the scene.
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VANCOUVER
North
Tallinn Navy Base Taken by Soviet Forces in Baltic Drive
Soviet minesweepers cleared a safe channel for the Red fleet to raid Tallinn after capturing Tallinn Estonian naval base and capital. Govorov’s Leningrad army pressed to clear German pockets along Estonia’s coast as forces near Riga tightened the noose, while Malinovsky’s spearheads hit Hungary near Bekescsaba Szeged and Arad ahead of Budapest.
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MOSCOW
Red fleet
Baltic
Tallinn
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Estonia
Riga
BUDAPEST
Balkans
Hungary
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Bekescsaba
Szeged
Arad
Tapa
VISTULA
LONDON
Warsaw
Bor
Toronto mattress firm chief faces heavy penalties
Frederick I. Brown, president of a Toronto mattress company, was fined a total of $15,000 or six years in prison plus a one year sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of unlawfully delivering defective mattresses to military, naval and RC.A.P. stores not meeting specifications.
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TORONTO
Frederick I. Brown
Ng. Brown
naval
RC.A.P
British Close In On Tiddim Jap Base
British 14th Army troops have occupied Tangzang and pushed eight miles toward Tiddim in the Chin hills operation. Tiddim, long a Japanese base for their India push, lies about 20 miles south of Tangzang, forming the immediate objective of the Allied offensive.
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KANDY
Ceylon
Tangzang
Tiddim
India
Two German POWs Escape From Barnwell Hostel
Two German prisoners of war George Rauwolf and Richard Heinrich, both 23, escaped from the Barnwell work hostel around 1 am Friday night. Descriptions list Rauwolf in POW clothing and Heinrich in possible air force or POW attire. both speak German and some English. RCMP and military search ongoing. locals asked to report strangers to nearest RCMP detachment with full descriptions provided.
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George Rauwolf
Richard Heinrich
Barnwell
Rauwelf
P.O.W
Heinrich
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Alberta
R.C.M.P
PO.W
Rauwolf
Greeks Drive on Athens and Salonika Raid Report
A Toulouse radio broadcast quoted Ankara that Greek partisans march toward Athens while Cairo reports say Germans evacuating southern Greece. Allied air raids hit Salonika to hamper German evacuations. Peloponnesus largely emptied of German forces as they flee with transport.
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LONDON
Toulouse radio today
Ankara
Athens
Cairo
Greece
SALONIKA
ROME
Aegean
Peloponnesus
R.A.F
Crete
Eisenhower Wrenches Knee In Air Crash
In France Gen Eisenhower injured his knee when a plane force landed in a marshy area while helping tow the aircraft off a bogged spot. NBC chief Paris correspondent Merrill Mueller reports the general is recovering and in good health. He said the war will continue only as long as the Gestapo drives Germany to annihilate itself.
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LONDON
Eisenhower
France
NBC
Merrill Mueller
ats
Paris
Mueller
supreme commander
Gestapo
Allies Drive In Gothic Line Near Rimini Bologna
Allied forces on the Italian front widen breaches in the Gothic Line from Rimini toward Bologna and Ravenna. American troops seize Monte Citerna and Monte Tronale west of Firenzuola as the 5th Army nears the Futa Pass. The 8th Army clears south of the Marecchia river and expands the Marecchia bridgehead. The 1st Canadian Infantry Division leads the advance across the Metauro to the bridgehead and Lombardy plain.
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ROME
C.P
Adriatic
Rimini
Bologna
Ravenna
5th Army
Monte Citerna
Monte Tronale
Firenzuola
Futa Pass
5th
Ligurian
Pietrasanta
La Spezia
Marecchia
8th Army
Metauro
Gothic Line
Lombardy plain
Weston Declares West Has Best Post-War Chance
VANCOUVER September 23 Western Canada has the best prospect of any part of the world W Garfield Weston owner of Westons Bread and Biscuit Co and controller of several eastern companies said on his arrival from Calgary Friday Weston plans to make his home in Vancouver Weston predicted his western interests would be at least as large as those in eastern Canada where he controls E B Eddy Co the J R Booth lumber interests Western Grocers and Westons
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VANCOUVER
Western Canada
W. Garfield Weston
Weston’s Bread and Biscuit Co
Calgary
Weston
Canada
E. B. Eddy Co
J. R. Booth lumber
Western Grocers
Weston’'s
Co-operative Auction Sale Of Cattle Sept 27
Ottawa reports the first large co operative feeder cattle sale in central Canada will be held at Little Current on Manitoulin Island Ontario September 27. The Manitoulin Livestock Co operative conducts the sale featuring 2 000 Herefords and Shorthorns and represents property of 200 to 300 producers.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Little Current
Manitoulin Island
agriculture department
Manitoulin
Somerville Named to Washington Post
Admiral Sir James F Somerville former commander of the Eastern Fleet has been appointed to succeed Admiral Sir Percy Noble as head of the British Admiralty delegation in Washington the admiralty announced Friday night.
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LONDON
C.P.Reuter
James F. Somerville
Percy Noble
Admiralty
Washington
Captured Nazi General Praises Canadians In Boulogne
Lt Gen Ferdinand Heim, former panzer staff, lauds Canadian assault on Boulogne and its fortifications. German garrison prisoners near 9,060 with total may top 20,000 from Boulogne and Le Havre operations. Canadian 1st Army advances along Schelde and Leopold Canal while air support keeps up heavy fire on Boulogne Calais Dunkerque positions.
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WILLIAM STEWART
C.P. Cable
Boulogne
Ferdinand Heim
Stalingrad
Kiev
Schelde
Leopold Canal
Calais
Dunkerque
R.A.P
channel
Le Havre
Crerar
Dun- Kerque
DNB
Netherlands
Allied troops press Rhine link attempt near Arnhem
News bulletin reports British armor and U.S. parachute units battling to force the upper Rhine in Holland and join a pocketed airborne force near Arnhem. No confirmed link-up 74 hours after the relief columns battered the southern bank.
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RHINE
LONDON
J.P
U.S
Holland
Arnhem
Supreme headquarters
LA SPEZELA KROME
A.P
taranto
La Spezia
CHUNGRING
United States
Formosa strait
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hankow
EISENHOWER
GERMANY
Gestapo
ROBERT
MARTINIQUE
PARIS
ministry of the interior
Vichy
Georges Robert
Jean Esters
Tunis
Bizerte
AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
FRALY
FO VALLEY
ITALY
Apensines
Po valley
DANUBE
C.P
straits of Dover
upper Danube valley
Mediterranean
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Vechel
fiat
ousse
pere
COLOGNE
mie
Ma hUET
PRAGUE
SIEGFRIED LINE
Aachen
Sontinuca
Trish Moss
Burma
Postman
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Palau
Latvia
West
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WASHINGTON POST
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Terneuzen
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Niew spa
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