Hong Kong Fall Review Cites Canadian Prisoner Count
Defence officials quoted unofficial estimates for CaMiggian casualties in Hong Kong. The Canadian force deployed 185 officers and men, with 1,689 Canadian prisoners reported after the fall. Red Cross notes describe generally good health and satisfactory conditions at camps Shamshuipo North Point and Argyle Street, amid varying camp populations.
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Ottawa Defence Department
Frm Lourenco Marques
Hong Kong
dePagee
Department of External Affairs
International Red Cross
Geneva
EL. Maag
International Red Cross Committee
Northpoint
Shamshuipo
Argyle Street Camp
Axis Tonnage Has Been Hard Hit Says Report From British Admiralty
The British Admiralty reports 7,184,760 tons of German and Italian shipping sunk captured damaged or interned since the war began. British and allied navies have sunk captured or damaged 952,681 tons since the year started, raising the total German and Italian losses since war began to 6,178,681 tons. The figures exclude Soviet losses of about 750,000 tons and 44 ships totaling 256,079 tons immobilized in the Americas.
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London
Admiralty
United States
Britain
Soviet
Russia
South American
Secret stores of guns found in Eritrea aid war plants
Italian stores of arms and equipment hidden in Eritrea along the Red Sea coast are being scavenged for scrap metal to support war plants at a U S base there. The caches were accumulated over years and likely intended for campaigns against Sudan Egypt and the Arabian peninsula. Air cooled tanks for desert warfare were discussed as a potential development by a government committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eritrea
Cairo
Red Sea
United States
Sudan
Egypt
Arabian Peninsula
Eskimos Rebuild Snow Igloos for Air Raid Shelters
Kotzebue, Alaska area Eskimos near top of the world revive an almost forgotten craft building snow igloos for air raid shelters as wartime fear spreads.
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Kotzube
Alaska
Prairie leaders seek BC lumber for grain storage expansion
British Columbia timber officials told prairie lumbermen that BC will mount a desperate effort to aid prairie needs for building granaries and livestock housing. The delegation included Godfrey, Gourley, Davies, Wentz, Snider, Stoltz, Critchley, Stacey and other regional leaders from Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton.
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Vancouver
D. D. Rosenberry
British Columbia
Prairies
Rosenberry
H. Steinborgen
AK. Godfrey
Winnipeg
R. J. Gourley
J.T. Davies
Charles Wentz
Saskatoon
W. A. Snider
Moose Jaw
Norris Stoltz
Lethbridge
A. E. Critchley
Calgary
Ea. Stacey
Edmonton
Ottawa restricts color shades for paints and varnish
Mrs. Phyllis G. Turner announces a new order limiting paint and varnish shades. First quality house paint drops to 14 shades from 32, second to 10, third to six. Shingle finishes reduced to 10, varnish stains to four, barn and roof paints to four.
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Ottawa
Phyllis G. Turner
Radio Employees To Ottawa War Industry Status
Employees of privately owned Canadian radio stations are listed under section 15 of the national war services regulations. The minister may supply national war services boards with lists of essential industrial activities to the war effort. An employer in such listed activity is defined as a war industry.
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Ottawa
National War Services Regulations
War Services
Thorson
National War Services Boards
Dutch Destroyer Isaac Sweers Crew Honored by Britain
Six officers and men from the Dutch destroyer Isaac Sweers received high British decorations for bravery in the Mediterranean. The Dutch news agency said the Sweers assisted British destroyers in a night action that sank two Italian cruisers and a torpedo boat, with a second Italian torpedo boat badly damaged.
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Miicers
London
Isaac Sweers
Mediterranean
Sweers
No Cut in Postage Amid War Says Postmaster General
In the House of Commons the Postmaster-general stated little hope for postage rate reductions during the war. Speaking on post office estimates Col. Mulock noted proposals favored increased postal charges rather than cuts.
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Agus Lock
House of Commons
Col
Mulock
Manitoba Ag Minister Seeks Rail Rates for Harvest Help
Hon. Douglas Campbell Manitoba agriculture minister said the Manitoba government is seeking federal railway rate concessions to move harvest help during the coming season. The plan targets aiding farmers by reducing transport costs for seasonal workers and equipment.
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Winnipeg
Douglas Campbell
Manitoba
Churchill in New York Pictured From Egypt Trip
Capt Randolph Churchill son of Britain's prime minister arrives in New York aboard USS pilots from Egypt en route to London wearing a back brace after a rushed rib injury. He suggested during a visit that if luck held the United Nations might win the war by end of 1943.
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Randolph Churchill
Britain
New York
Egypt
USS
London
Churchill
United Nations
Merchant Marine plans hinge on available crews
Ottawa notes during Howe’s briefing to the House of Commons that government plans to enlarge the Canadian merchant marine are constrained solely by the number of crews available. The statement emphasizes staffing as the sole limiting factor in expanding fleet capacity.
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Merchant Marine
Ottawa
Howe
House of Commons
Beed Cattle Panel Hears Plans for Feeder Stock Supply
Wartime Prices and Trade Board adviser Sam Taggart told the beef cattle advisory committee that the Wartime Food Corporation would coordinate eastern and western cattle interests to assure a steady year round flow of finished beef for Canadian consumers. George Ross of Aden Alberta, president of the Short Grass Cattlemen's Association, presented the western ranchers' viewpoint on feeder stock supply.
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Fred Lote Eoat
West Ottawa
JG. Taggart
Foods Ad
Prices and Trade Board
Beef Cattle Advisory Committee
Taggart
Food Corporation
Crown Company
Prices Board
George Ross
Aden
Alta
Short Srass Cattlemen's Association
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Canadian glider plane passes flight tests in Toronto
Officials of de Havilland Aircraft report the first Canadian made glider passed tests with a two hour flight reaching 5800 feet. The craft endured a forced spin and various dives before being towed aloft by a Tiger Moth and released at 1380 feet.
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Canada
Toronto
de Havilland Aircraft
Women for War Industry Registration Considered in Ottawa
Officials weigh a Dominion wide or localized registration of Canadian women to locate workers for war industries and military service. Elliott M. Little anticipates a registration within months as part of a plan to muster 250,000 workers in five months, alongside a biweekly registration of unemployed men.
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Ottawa
Nativice
Elliott M. Little
Selective Service
Little
London's Secret Guns Test Marked Night of Air Attack
London residents report a rare demonstration of new anti-aircraft guns as they joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in manning predictors during a large Nazi raid under a full moon. The unfamiliar twang signaling shots and the flurry of activity helped deter the German force, preventing concentrated damage while night fliers remained active.
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London
Istrians
England
Auxiliary Territorial Service
War housing plan to spur sun permanent homes in Ottawa
In the House of Commons Finance Minister Isley announced extension of the National War Housing Act to promote small permanent homes in congested areas. A later supplementary estimate would provide 1,000,000 dollars to aid this effort and a further 2,000,000 dollars to guarantee loans for converting large houses into two or three apartment dwellings.
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Sun Permanent Homes
Ottawa
House of Commons
Finance
Isley
Queen Accepts Canadian Mobile Kitchens Presentation
At Canadian Red Cross headquarters in Berkeley Square the Queen accepted seven mobile kitchens from Canadian women. Viscount Bennett stated the gift shows Canadian sympathy and pride in Britain's wartime heroism and endurance.
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Women of Canada
London
Women of
Canada
Canadian Red Cross
Berkeley Square
Viscount Bennett
Rivetter Sets Record at Canadian Shipyard
Johnny Gorenko and his rivet gang in Vancourt set a new Canadian record by driving 1,226 rivets in a seven hour ten minute graveyard shift at a west coast shipyard. The previous mark was held by B Hanson.
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Oliver Lyttleton
Ministry of Supply
F. Cyril James
McGill University
Dominion Association of Chartered Accountants
Algat
Bluebeard's Tower
Bourne Field
US Marine Air Station
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Caribbean
Bluebeard
Bluebird
of Women For War Industry
Rivetter
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