India’s War Effort Bond Strengths Across the Empire
Sir Girji Shankar Bapji, Agent General for India to the United States, cites India’s mounting war role. He notes the army growing from 170,000 at war’s start to over a million with potential to eight million, and highlights textile and jute outputs, shoes, steel, coal, and fod and food supplies aiding Allied needs. He stresses unity with the Empire and the United States as part of the defense against a common foe.
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Commonwealth
Girji Shankar Bapjal, Kbe
Cle
India
United States
Canada
Girgi
Sir Girji
Suez
United Nations
Washington
Far East
How to Stage a Play Movement and Gestures
Mary Ellen Burgess offers practical rehearsal guidance on acting movement gestures and stage presence. Emphasizes timing how to enter the scene warm up gesture before speech and maintaining natural hand positions. Advises chair approach posture and avoiding direct audience eye contact to preserve stage focus until lines are spoken.
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Ing
Mary Ellen Burgess
Regina
Fine Tooling and Halley’s Comet Credit
A Canmuian editor visits a gun plant asking tolerances for tiny toolwork. A lathe worker cites five thousandths of an inch, prompting questions and a neighbor’s puzzled guess about many such fractions. The piece notes Halley’s comet’s predicted period, clarified in 1758 after 1704.
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Bill
Army terms in Canadian papers spark a learning moment
A columnist notes Canadian papers misused US army abbreviations KP and AWOL and urges sticking to Canadian terms like cook-house fatigue and AWL. He argues the Individual Citizen's Army is a major national investment, shaping freedom and life versus oppression, and calls for informed public understanding.
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K.P
A.W.O.L
Citizen's Army of Canada
United States Army
A.W.L
War work ban in Batavia restricts civilians
Citizens assigned to civilian war work or with vital organizational roles may not leave Batavia capital of the Netherlands East Indies. A government decree threatens five years in prison and fines up to 10000 guilders for disobedience. The scope includes those in non military functions and air raid or Red Cross volunteers.
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Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Red Cross
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Arithme
Citizen’s Army
Alan Maurice
Muscovy
Russia
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
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UWS Mwav
London
Peery
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