World Happenings Briefly Told In 188 Words
Reports from London note projections on atomic energy timelines, with Prof HS Maney stating a decade before industry integration. Herbert Baker is cited on England wool production costs and future reuse figures. A London Telegraph correspondent forecasts the next treaty ship to be scrapped, likely the 30 000-ton Rundoey, finished in 1925. Princess Margaret Rose appears publicly at a Bethnal Green children's club, while Britain tallies 20 000 annual fatalities and nearly 1,000,000 injuries from accidents. A Kent mansion gifted by Winston Churchill to the British Legion will serve as a rehabilitation and convalescent home for ex servicemen. Canada announces a national clothing drive beginning June 17 to aid war-devastated Europe.
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Herbert Baker
England
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Bethnalreen
Britain
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Winston Churchill
Canada
Ofurope
Canadians urged to back reserve forces study
Brig. G. A. H. Trudeau urges education of Canadians on maintaining peacetime defence forces. He promotes associations like United Service Institutes to foster ties and recruit reserve navy army and air force personnel, noting five reserve commands and the need to bridge evolving military changes.
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Canada
G. A. H. Trudeau
Trudeau
Navy
Army
Air Force
United Service Institutes
Brig. Trudeau
Ous
German scientists aided Allies by leaking atomic info
In a wartime note the article claims German scientists unintentionally helped the Allies by publishing atomic research in books and magazines. Allied intelligence suppressed further disclosures as Britain and the Commonwealth urged closer Canada Britain United States and Soviet Union alignment to maintain peace.
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Acientiata
Hitherland
Milan
Ustedian
London’s Apsley House Seeks Sale Amid Historic Pageantry
The aged Apsley House in London, long tied to the Wellington legacy, may be sold to the government. Once guarded by a high fence and linked to royal grants, the site overlooks Green Park and Hyde Park and faces modernization costs. Meanwhile London’s revived customs face loss yet endure in rituals like the Ash Wednesday cakes and ale tradition of the Worshipful Company of Stationers. The piece also notes sunspot temperatures around 4700 degrees Celsius.
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West End
Apsley House
London
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Great Britain
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Wellingtons
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St. Paul's Catheral
City of
Theompany
Ferton
Unique 10 ton Queen Elizabeth paint job recalled abroad
Detailing a 1942 Esquimalt repaint of HMS Queen Elizabeth during a troop conversion. Canadian Magazine recalls 24 dozen 4 inch brushes and 20,000 pounds of paint used for camouflage and corrosion resistance, highlighting wartime effort and material costs. Also mentions an electro organ cost comparison and a 105 foot landing craft bought in Exeter for family use.
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Fiquimalt
B.C
Canada
Esquimalt
St Thomas
Conservatory of Music and Art opens for Canadian troops in Aurich
In Aurich Germany the Canadian Army Occupation Force opens a Conservatory of Music and Art run by the YMCA to serve personnel. It swamps with 180 applications though only 55 pupils can be accommodated in nine classrooms with eight German instructors. Students praise the program as vital for musical education in the Army.
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Conservatory of Music
Aurich
YMCA
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Harvey Yodgins
Vancouver
Pte. C. J. Homick
Windsor
Ontario
Queens Own Rifles
Cpl. G. Tosto | Waryk
Arbakka
Manitoba
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Frank Haufek
Winnipeg
Conservatory
Ratzeburg
Lubeck
Holland
Knights of Columbus Instrument Depot
London
Rm. L. Massey
Montreal
Salt Beds Could Supply Work For Years In Ontario
An editorial from the Kitchener Record argues Ontario salt beds beneath the Gea erick to Amherstburg region hold a thousand feet of salt over about 3,100 square miles. Modern mining pumps brine from the beds for uniform small grain salt. Salt has long shaped trade routes, taxes, and the move from nomadic to agricultural life, with regional use in Africa and Tibet cited.
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Kitchener
Canada
Ontario
Geaerick
Amherstburg
Moose Jaw
Herald
Abyssinia
Africa
Tibet
Wasteful Nation Talk Sparks Canadian Debate
A ranting editorial blasts Canadians for food waste and picky eating. It claims many would survive on garbage, cites spoiled youth, and criticizes restaurant service as failing taste standards. It absurdly notes the Vancouver News-Herald published Music in 1465.
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Vancouver News-Herald
Health League backs pasteurization for safe milk
The Health League of Canada campaigns for compulsory pasteurization across provinces, noting Ontario's existing law reduced milkborne diseases. It asserts pasteurizing milk is safe, affordable, and does not impair taste, urging Canadians to seek certified, properly handled milk and offering home methods details. The piece also includes trivia about a Russian soldier misidentifying Winston Churchill and a Northumberland farmer unaware of Gladstone.
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Health League of Canada
Ontario
Health League
Canaans
111 Avenue Road
Toronto Ontario
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