Dominion sacrifice plea urged to boost war effort
Lord Stamp urged Stoke-on-Trent, Britain, Canada and other dominions to tighten belts and cut home consumption to maximize war production. He warned overseas readers underplay the value of abstinence and urged self denial to spare ships and dollars, aiming for coordinated restraint across the Empire.
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Stoke-on-Trent
Stedfordshire
Eng
Canada
Dominions
Lord Stamp
United Kingdom
Britain
United States
Empire
Advisory Board Formed for Wartime Fund Appeals
A new tonal war services advisory board will oversee voluntary war work fund appeals. Led by C. L. Burton of Toronto, it will include provincial representatives and five voluntary war service organizations. The board will demand audited expense statements and monitor public appeal amounts and proposed purposes, and regulate appeal dates.
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Orta One Samme War Services Department
Matonal War Services Advisory Board
C. L. Burton
Toronto
Boant
Aid to Chiang Kai-shek regime from Britain totals 44.3 million
Great Britain grants 44.3 million in financial aid to Chiang Kai-shek's government. Richard Butler, under secretary for foreign affairs, told the House of Commons the aid will span two terms. Half will be credits for China within the sterling bloc and half will bolster the Chinese stabilization fund.
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London
Chiang Kal-Shek
Great Brita
Richard Butler
House of Commons
China
RAF Coastal Command to Gain Stronger Admiralty Role
Britain plans to grant the Admiralty greater control over the Royal Air Force coastal command and add planes to protect western approaches from submarines and long range German aircraft. Churchill defended keeping the command under RAF with enhanced Admiralty consultation, stating the admiralty must determine operational policy while cooperating with the air officer commanding in chief. The move aims to bolster trade protection while resisting full naval takeover of shore-based air units.
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R.A.F
Admiralty
Churchill
the House
Hopkinson
Lord Beaverbrook
F ‘Ard
Hopkin
German Freighter Rhein Captured by Dutch Destroyer Off Cuba
The U S Navy announced the German freighter Rhein, which fled Tampico November 29 to run the British blockade, was in the vicinity of Cuba in the Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen s seizure. The Nazi crew scuttled the vessel before abandoning it as a Netherlands warship reported aiding British patrols in the western Atlantic. The Rhein’s earlier attempt, on November 28, followed a November 15 voyage with Idarwald and Phrygia that ended with scuttling and retreat to Tampico.
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Navy
Netherlands
Ordon
Tampico
Idarwald
Phrygia
Rew
Atlantic
Subscriptions for Dominion War Loan Rise in Ottawa
Ottawa eightieth war loan subscriptions total 589,081 dollars were received in November, raising the cumulative subscriptions to 3,407,262 dollars. Of the November amounts, 24 came from individuals who had previously purchased.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Sisley
Kent village residents use natural air raid shelters
Inhabitants of a Kent village seek protection by abandoning built structures and taking refuge in nearby famous caves. The unusual shelter choice reflects wartime safety practices as residents improvise to stay safe during air raids.
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Kent
Butter stocks fall 15.5 percent from last year
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Dec 1 butter holdings in cold storage and factories at 41,768,020 pounds, down from 49,429,463 a year earlier. Wartime Prices and Trade Board considers whether a shortage is emerging and possible butter price controls or rationing as a later option.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prices and Trade Board
Manitoba Budget Forecast Cuts Income Tax Revenue
Provincial Treasurer Stuart Gar Mer Garson told the legislature that wartime expenditures by the Dominion government would likely reduce Manitoba's income tax revenue next year by about 250 000 to 300 000 dollars. He noted that federal income tax paid by Manitoba residents is exempt from provincial tax.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Stuart Gar
Mer Garson
Dpinion
Saguenay Torpedoed as Escort Ship Hit by U boat
AJ McWhinnie of the Daily Herald reports the Canadian destroyer Saguenay was torpedoed during convoy escort in the Atlantic. 81 sailors were taken aboard another ship, 18 wounded, as repairs begin and crews search for the submerged foe at night.
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London
Bagge
AJ McWrinnie
Daily Heraldaval
McWhinnie
Saguenay
Atlantic
McWhiskie
George Miles
HSCS
Edmonton honors 22-year-old wheat king Francis Lloyd Rigby
Francis Lloyd Rigby of Wembley Alberta, 22, named recipient of a scholarship by Premier Aberhart. The award worth 864 dollars covers two senior years in agriculture at the University of Alberta. Rigby previously won the world wheat crown at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago in 1929, 1938 and this year.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Francis
Lloyd Rigby
Wembley
Alta
University of Alerta
Aberhart
Young Rigby
Chicago
University of Alberta
Rigby
Rhodesia to train 1800 pilots and 580 air crew yearly
Salisbury plans to join the imperial air training scheme with Southern Rhodesia supplying 1800 pilots 240 air observers and 340 air gunners annually. The program, set to begin mid next year, aims to bolster Allied air forces.
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Salisbury
Nomen Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
British gains ease tensions in Balkans and threaten axis plans
British success in Egypt weakens Italian forces at Barrani and hampers Graziani, reshaping the Mediterranean map from Gibraltar to Suez. Balkan neutrals including Turkey show caution, while Franco may delay axis ties as Spain weighs Egypt’s impact on its policy and alliance options.
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London
Turkey
Egypt
Berlin
Franco
Gibraltar
Albania
Marshal Graziani
Britain
Ottawa to Train Dutch Recruits for Netherlands Army
The first Canadian draft of Dutch nationals will begin training at Stratford Ontario on January 15. Volunteers outside the draft age, 20 to 26, join the war effort with Dominion consent and may enlist in the Netherlands army. Training lasts six weeks before first units proceed to England for advanced instruction. Col G chief of the Netherlands military mission outlined aims to field Hollanders in major centers once Nazi rule ends.
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Ottawa
Canada
Netherlands
Stratford
Ont
Netherlands Res
United States
England
Netherlands Army
Sas
Holland
Great Britain
Lady Tweensmanh Visits Red Cross For Christmas Parcels
Lady Tweensmanh representing the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire watched at Canadian Red Cross headquarters as 20 Christmas parcels were prepared for Canadian prisoners in Germany without UK next of kin. Most recipients are airmen.
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London
Lady Tweensmanh
Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire
Canadian Red Cross
Germany
United Kingdom
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