Japanese Read Cold Facts Of Surrender In Tokyo Announcement
San Francisco dispatch notes Imperial surrender terms pledging limited occupation and humane handling of Japanese citizens. Tokyo press warns against wishful thinking while stressing Potsdam standards and the Allies may view Japan as defeated but with cautious leniency.
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Demel
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Workers Shortage Hits Meat Plants Across Canada
Across Canada meat packing plants report worker shortages exceeding 1,000 as A McNamara deputy minister of labor notes high priority given to packing plant labor demands. Ontario cities including Toronto Kitchener Hamilton London Stratford Guelph Barrie and Quebec ports Montreal Hull face gaps as Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Prince Albert Moose Jaw Winnipeg and Brandon also report shortages. Also Gatineau hills area eyed as national war memorial. Britain reports 111,825 unemployed as of July 16, up from three months prior.
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Bank of Canada Chief Says War Savings Stamps Won’t be Discontinued
Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada, declared there is no plan to discontinue war savings stamps and war savings certificates this year or next. He emphasized continued government support for wartime saving programs amid ongoing financial measures.
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Ottawa
Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
Outlook is Grim Europe Faces Worst Winter Ever
Frank Munk of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration warned at the Canadian Institute of Public Affairs that Europe will face its worst winter yet with hundreds of thousands of children at risk from hunger and cold. He blamed widespread destruction of productive activity and warned the supplies might run out by November unless coal and transportation are solved and relief is intensified. Prof Arthur J. Dempster, a former Canadian, emerged as a leading authority on mass spectrography in American physics.
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Frank Munk
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Canadian Institute of Public Affairs
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Canada immigration index at lowest ebb in 45 years during war
Ottawa reports Canada s immigration index has fallen to its lowest level in 45 years due to wartime disruptions. Officials note prior waves of assisted immigration and a 1943 total of 7445 grants versus 38241 in 1913, with 9040 immigration last year. Servicemen returning from Europe and ocean shipping priorities limit passenger arrivals as authorities weigh policy changes.
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Canadas
Canada
Europe
Japanese Order Guides Public Contact With Landing Forces
The Japanese government warns the public to avoid fraternizing with Allied landing forces and states the army will assume responsibility for supplying living quarters and food. Ottawa lifts wartime restriction on leather soles for civilian shoe repairs, allowing full leather soles. London estimates removal of wartime impedimenta may take two years without extensive help from German prisoners.
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Nowon
Prices Board
London
Industria
Britain
Ottawa Cuts Ottawa Board Steps To Speed Industrial Man Release
Ottawa officials announced a new procedure to accelerate freeing key industrial men from the armed forces. District committees will now send recommendations directly to the relevant service, bypassing Ottawa review. The aim is to release several thousand men in the coming three months to meet job demand.
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Canada
Arthur MacNamara
Fleet Wiped Out Guam and Japanese Fleet Largely Destroyed
Admiral Sherman reports at Manila that the Japanese navy virtually no longer exists. From 12 battleships at the war’s start only one remains with crew removed. Of nine first line aircraft carriers only two left without crews. Heavy cruiser numbers are down to two, light cruisers gone, destroyers down to 26, submarines from 140 to 16 plus six German subs possibly added before V-E Day.
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Forrest C. Sherman
Manila
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Jatsuragi
Singapore
Said
Berlin Properties Taken Over by US Military Government
The United States military government has taken custody of Berlin properties owned by 24 American-controlled firms with prewar capitalization in the hundreds of millions. Officials said the properties, some heavily damaged, will be returned to their owners. A Montreal dispatch notes Belgium seeks Belgian banknotes for deposit, and a total eclipse of the moon is expected December 18 and 19, 1945.
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