Gen Crerar Tribute Frames Canadian War Repatriation Plan
Ottawa dispatch notes General Crerar praising his troops and outlining repatriation plans. He said the 1st Canadian Corps moved from Italy to join the 2nd corps in Europe under an understood return to the 1st Army when possible. He cited 30,000 high point score men sent home and 16,000 volunteers for Pacific service, while key personnel would depart more slowly to maintain overseas organization.
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Ottawa
Crerar
Italy
Bnd
Europe
Mediterranean
Turing
Service Corps
Shipments Higher as Grain Moved From Lakehead
Montreal report says grain movement from Lakehead to eastern ports reached 242,872,000 bushels by August 1, surpassing last year by 25,000,000. Plans target maximum shipments through navigation end for Britain, liberated countries, eastern mills, and feeding use, though coal, iron ore and wood pulp traffic may keep ships busy.
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Lakehead
Montreal
Great Lakes
T. C. Lockwood
Great Britain
Lockwood
Atomic Bomb Cost Shown Justified by Short War Time
Washington reports President Truman announced the atomic bomb project cost two billion dollars, arguing even nine days saved from war justify the expense. Treasury experts say the outlay equals less than nine days of wartime spending at current rates. A grain dust explosion at Port Arthur damaged Regina’s No. 5 terminal elevator, built 1926 and expanded in 1927, with a one million dollar annex. officials say insurance covers the loss. Canberra set for August 20 premiers meeting to seek postwar price control powers for stability during transition. Bavaria is identified as Germany's second largest state by area, noted in a separate item.
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Washington
Presient Truman
Treasury
Regina
J.D. Read
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Limited
Port Arthur
Co-op. Elevator Co
Canberra
Australia
Commonwealth
Devastating Atomic Blast Wipes Out Hiroshima Area
Reconnaissance photos show about 60 percent of the 69 square mile city destroyed while five major industrial targets were wiped out. A white plume rose thousands of feet as dust blew into the air from the immense concussion, with the fire far surpassing a normal blaze. Sir Victor Mallet sails for Madrid to assume the British ambassadorship, studying current problems on arrival before engaging with the Spanish government.
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US Army Strategic Airforce Headquarters
AUS. Army Strategic Air Forces
Yokohama
Hiroshima
Spain
Victor Mallet
Madrid
Viscount Templewood
Samuel Hoare
Foreign Office
Mallet
Sweden
Nurses released Ottawa war surplus prompts reserve retirement
In Ottawa a surplus of Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps nurses after Europe’s end and repatriation of overseas sisters allows many to be released. Any nurse may apply for reserve status or retirement, with other officers eligible for retirement or reserve return if they meet service criteria and age thresholds. Retirement points are earned per overseas and Canada service months, with 35 or older nurses moved to retirement and others placed on reserve or corps lists.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Army Medical
Europe
Canada
Defence Headquarters
Newfoundland
Washington
Hospital Ship Service
Corps
Bones Found Near Alberta Town Spark 30-Year Mystery
Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigate a 30-year-old mystery after human bones, a collar button, and possible ground sheet remnants are uncovered beneath a tree ten miles north of Athabasca Alberta by William Templeton and Bob Richards. The bones are almost powdery and being shipped to Edmonton for further examination.
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Alberta
Alta
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Here
William Templeton
Edmonton
Bob Richards
Athansia
RC MP
Seamen Union pushes national employment plan at Ottawa
The Canadian Seamen's Union presented a brief to the Dominion provincial conference in Ottawa urging a national full employment program with adequate federal taxing powers. It calls for a permanent merchant fleet of at least 300 ocean-going ships under federal oversight.
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Bries
Ottawa
Canadian Seamen's
Toronto
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Dominion
CSU
Commonwealth defence plans and London talks discussed
Richard Frost of the London Commonwealth relations conference reports that no centralized empire government will be acceptable to the Dominions. A commonwealth planning staff to align defence is envisioned, but self-sufficiency is ruled out. Canada stresses concerted U S action for continental defence while preserving shared spiritual values with the commonwealth nations.
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London
Dominions
Commonwealth
Richard Frost
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Royal Empire Society
Frost
RES
Canada
United States
Trip Arranged for Three Youthful Veterans to Return
Halifax report details how three young Royal Canadian Air Force officers from Saskatchewan and Quebec were selected to fly back with General Crerar after serving as personal air crews in Europe. The trio, Fit. Lt. Ivan Moreside, Strasbourg. Fit. Lt. J. R. Spraggett, Montreal. and FO. G. L. Wilkinson, Duxford, were surprised by an advance return plan arranged by Crerar, who refused to sail without their safety aboard his planes.
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Halifax
Ue de France
RCAF
Canada
H. D. G. Crerar
Ivan Moreside
Strasbourg
Egyptian premier seeks British treaty revision and troop withdrawal
Premier Nokrashy Pasha asked the Egyptian senate for authority to negotiate with Britain to revise the 1936 Anglo Egyptian treaty and called for withdrawal of foreign troops from Egypt. He praised United Nations support for Egypt's democracy and independence as justification.
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Fal
Egypt
Cairo
Nokrashy Pasha
Britain
United Nations
Argentina lifts siege freedoms after eight decades
Buenos Aires reports the government lifts the state of siege and removes all restrictions on speech press assembly and political activity, signaling a transition to broader civil liberties after years of control.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Rhine reopens to river traffic to Coblenz by September
Rhine will be reopened to river traffic from Coblenz to the sea by the first week in September. Depth charges were used to clear shattered Rhine ridges from the river.
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Heamford
Wemple
Rhine
Coblenz
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Gen. Crerar
Bavaria
Germany
V. M. Molotov
Clement Attlee
Nurses
Earl of Athione
Pring
Marchal
Harold Alexander
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