Praise for Britons Spirit in War Effort Amid Global Tensions
London speech by Sir John Simon lauds British resolve and unity in wartime, notes German misgivings about Britain’s defenses, and praises Finnish and Polish envoys. He highlights the Admiralty plan to use trawlers as mine sweepers and the rapid rally of fishing towns to support supply lines.
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Great Britain
Adolf Hiter
John S.mon
John
National Defence Public Interest Committee
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
Britain
Sir John
GA. Gripenberg
Harry Nathan
Labor
Germany
Admiralty
Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Kennedy
Rawalpindiles
Canada Public Debt Figures for March 31 1938
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canada’s total net public debt on March 31 1938 at 5 827 41 109 dollars. It includes net direct debt of the Dominion government provincial direct liabilities and municipal direct liabilities. Federal net direct debt was 3 101 667 70 dollars with outstanding funded government debt at 3 252 977 584 dollars.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
London
New York
German gasoline plant in Stettin to boost output
Gasoline Washington 3, a Redorcker, United States consul at Frankfort on Main, advised the commerce department that Germany is building a gigantic synthetic gasoline manufacturing plant at Stettin in northeast Germany. He said the plant would have an annual capacity of 80 metric tons of gasoline and would take two years to complete.
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Redorcker
United States
Frankfort On Main
Commerce Department
Germany
Stettin
Federation Of Nations Forms A League For Common Liberty
In Ottawa Hon Alfred Duff Cooper predicts postwar Europe may form a federation or league of nations with an international center of authority and sanctions. He argues small, regional federations ease obligations and cites the British Commonwealth as a pattern. The three essentials he lists are command of the sea, ingenuity, and access to raw materials.
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Alfred Duff Cooper
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British Commonwealth of Nations
Duff Cooper
Germany
Australia expands war effort in Ottawa talks
Australia pledges 26 500 air crew and 50 000 ground staff under Empire defence plan negotiations at Ottawa. Canada expected to contribute more due to winter and Australia's aim to keep its separate identity. About 6 000 Australians to go to Canada while the rest train here with imports of latest aircraft from the United States and Britain.
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Sydney
Austranas
Ottawa
Commonwealth
Australia
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Nazi party asks Bucharest residents to send aid to Reich
In Bucharest the Assembling For Supplies Party urged all German nationals living in Roumania to send identical food and hygiene packages to “friends and acquaintances in the Reich.” A typical package included coffee tea chocolate table oil ham lard powdered milk and fat. A second model package focused on soap for toilet laundry and shaving.
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Reich
Bucharest
Roumania
Naat
War Hits German Higher Education Shrinking Classrooms
War has reduced German higher education to a minimum with only about six universities remaining open. Some medical students are stepping into roles as physicians and surgeons called to the front. Historic universities such as Heidelberg and Freiberg near the French border are closed.
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Germany
Berlin
Heidelberg
Freiberg
Vancouver plans to push wheat exports to Ottawa route
A three member aldermanic committee will draft a brief urging the British Columbia government to press Ottawa for diverting more of Canada’s wheat exports through Vancouver. The note signals regional trade push and federal alignment.
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Flyor Lyie Reora
British Columbia
Ottawa
Canada
Vancouver
Fire destroys Fredericton barracks and exhibition buildings
Chief Kal A Walker says the Fredericton exhibition blaze was arson. The main building burned from end to end, with unofficial damage around 75000 dollars. Three soldiers, Richard Harrington, Dudley, were hospitalized. details on injuries were not released. Firefighters arrived within three minutes to the scene.
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Fredericton
Kal A. Walker
Richard
Harrington
Dudley
Funy
Czecho Slovak Legion Aims For Canadian Reform
In Toronto Wart, head of the Czech legions, spoke on wartime ties and heard a northern Ontario farmer salute the flag and declare readiness. The man, Jan Utvar from Tabor, Bohemia, showed a Siberian Legion discharge and sold his farm to rejoin the legion, awaiting decisions on a potential Czech Canadian legion.
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Cape
Wart
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Ontario
Siberian Legion
Jan Utvar
Tabor
Bohemia
Jan
Aid From India to Dispatch Eight Battalions Next Year
A new demit project plans eight battalions to British India for WWI service under the pledges of armed aid. The troops will be commanded by the eldest son of the Maharajah of Nepal.
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British
India
Nepal
Bracken Warns Western Farmers Over Wheat Prices
Manitoba Premier John Bracken urged western farmers at the Union of Manitoba Municipalities convention to accept directing authority from Britain or Canada and warned against counting on war to boost wheat prices. He argued the war economy may not solve farmer losses and urged fair pricing to avoid operating at a loss.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
John Bracken
Union of
Western Canada
Great Britain
Dominion
Deal With German Railways Collapses in Wartime Barter
Buenos Aires reports the four million three hundred fifty thousand dollar barter deal with Germany for wheat and wool and rail equipment has fallen apart due to wartime restrictions. Krupp Thyssen and other German firms said they cannot fulfill contracts for 900 freight cars 30 sleepers and 66 switching locomotives already ordered. Wheat already shipped and paid for with German credits totaling 1.1 million dollars held in Buenos Aires. the agreement called for 100000 tons of wheat.
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Krupp and
Thyssen
Germany
Floods isolate villages in southeast Netherlands
Heavy November rains raised the Rhine Waal and Maas to high levels flooding rivers in central and southeast Netherlands. Several villages were cut off and highway traffic interrupted as a defence measure was taken against rising waters.
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Netherlands
Rhine
Waal
Maas
East Anglia Theatre Housed in Former RAF Hangar
A large venue in East Anglia, claimed to be England’s biggest theatre, occupies a former airplane hangar with a 5000 seat capacity. The RAF plans to invite nearby troops to concerts at the site.
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Reeper Errr Nny
East Anglia
England
RAF
Crerar Declares Canada United and Ready to Aid War Effort
London report quotes Hon. T A Crerar telling Germany that Canada is more united in the war effort than in 1914. He cites Canada’s vast resources, wartime production, and trade, noting wheat harvests, nickel, copper, zinc outputs, and an air training scheme to produce 25 000 pilots annually.
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T. A. Crerar
Canada
British Broadcasting Corporation
Germany
Royal Air Force
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Australia
New Zealand
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Campinchi Says Submarine Losses Cut German Menace
Cesare Campinchi reported that more than half of Germany’s submarines were lost since the war began, reducing the submarine menace to Allied shipping. He confirmed British reports that an antidote to German magnetic mines exists and described electric beams and magnetism as the remedy. French naval craft seized two German freighters, including the Trifels and the Santa Fe, one carrying coffee for six weeks, plus nearby oil and petroleum.
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Tnerrench Murusces
Cesare Campinchi
Germany
Campinchi
Atlantic
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