Canada Offers To Send Aid To Australia In War Effort
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons Canada stands ready to assist Australia in every possible way in the Pacific war. He recalled a Perth message from Prime Minister Curtin urging Canadian forces cooperation and noted Australia seeks planes and tanks, with Canada possibly providing such aid and further support as time progresses.
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Ottawa
Australia
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Perth
Curtin
King
Pacific
House
Hanson
Canada
Canaan
Canadians Ready to Help United States in Case of Attack
Defence Minister Ralston told the House that units of the 6th Canadian Division could be sent to the United States if deemed desirable. The force might be rented except for home defence personnel unless volunteers support such duty. The report notes the Navemar sinking and Axis broadcasts claiming British submarine torpedoing.
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United States
Ottawa
Defence
Ralston
House of Commons
Overseas call to C W A C members for overseas service
Ottawa reports 400 to 500 members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps likely to be called up for overseas duty by year end. Indications show the initial group may ship abroad as early as this summer.
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Ottawa
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Australia Leases Internees For National Interest
The Australian government announced it had completed plans to utilize internees in the national interest on a voluntary basis. The internees are friendly civilians sent to Australia by the British government from the Far East for labor and skilled work.
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Melbourne
Australia
Far East
Curtin Announces Immediate Industry Shutdown Plan
Perth Australia Prime Minister John Curtin announces government will close non essential industries across Australia immediately and redeploy labor to support vital defence production. Significant national policy aims to strengthen wartime capacity and accelerate defense output across the country.
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Perth
Australia
John Curtin
United States Accelerates Allied Supply Efforts in Pacific
President Roosevelt reported at a press conference that the United States is making strong progress in sending supplies to Allied forces fighting the Japanese in the southwest Pacific. Food shipments have been dispatched to two departments in southern France to quell food demonstrations spreading in that region.
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Washington
United States
Southwest Pacific
Roosevelt
France
Canadian Liner Lady Hawkins Sunk Off Puerto Rico
The 7,988 ton Canadian National cruise ship Lady Hawkins was torpedoed by an Axis submarine in the Atlantic near San Juan Puerto Rico. About 250 dead or missing with 71 survivors landed in New York were aboard, including 13 Canadians and six Newfoundlanders. The U S Navy hunted the U boat seen off the Texas coast as searchlights lit the wreckage. Halifax reported Nova Scotia crew and passengers among those aboard with heavy loss of life described.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Montreal
Atlantic
United States Navy
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Helgesen
Coama
New York Herald-Tribune
Herald-Tribune
Halifax
Nova
United States
Canadian
Protection Of Forests Schoolboy Battalion Proposed In BC
Victoria Lands Minister A Wells Gray said provincial authorities asked the federal government for authority to form a battalion of schoolboy patrolmen to guard British Columbia forests against possible enemy incendiarism this summer. The program would fall under air raid precautions and could involve 1000 youths in addition to regular forestry patrols to defend against incendiary bombs from enemy planes.
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Choolboy
B.C
Victoria
A. Wells Gray
British Columbia
Missing Nazi flyer Capt Johann Schmid reported by German broadcast
Reuters reports a German broadcast saying Capt Johann Schmid an acclaimed German flyer credited with destroying 41 planes is missing. The note describes him as one of the most brilliant German airmen and notes his disappearance after action.
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London
Reuters
Johann Schmid
COMMANDS SQUADRON LED BY STAN TURNER IN TRANS-CHANNEL SWEEPS
Squadron Leader Stan Turner, a Dunkirk and Battle of Britain veteran, now commands a Canadian fighter squadron. He has 12 confirmed enemy kills and earned a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross last August. Turner helped form the famous all Canadian unit led by Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, who is a prisoner in Germany. He has been leading an English squadron on trans-channel sweeps since leaving the Canadian outfit.
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Stan Turner
Dunkirk
Britain
Toronto
Douglas Bader
Germany
Turner
Fighting In All Seas Chicago Navy Secretary Knox Speech
Navy Secretary Frank Knox told a Chicago luncheon that the United States fights a single total war across all fronts in the Pacific Atlantic Russia China Malaya Libya and that the navy is doing its job. He warned against misreading remarks about Hitler and stressed strategic value in keeping some actions secret to confuse enemies.
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Chicago
Frank Knox
United States Navy
Chicago Association of Commerce
Hitler
Pacific
Atlantic
Russia
China
Malaya
Libya
United States Asiatic Fleet
Curset
Increase in civilian and air force trainee allowances
The labor department announced new allowances for civilians and air force trainees in the war emergency training program effective February 2. Single men at home will receive $7, those away from home $10, and heads of families $15. The revision also changes payments for single trainees away from home to $5, for single men at home to $7, and heads of families to $13, with all payments covered by the Dominion.
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Ottawa
Air Force
The
Dominion
Maple Sugar Exempt From War Sugar Ration
Ottawa reports that the three quarter pound weekly sugar ration applies to all refined cane and beet sugars including brown sugar, not just white sugar. Maple sugar remains exempt from the rationing order as clarified by wartime prices and trade board chair Donald Gordon at the conference.
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Ottawa
Canada
Donald Gordon
Prices and Trade Board
Food Situation In German Occupied Europe
Viscount Cranborne told the House of Lords that except for parts of Greece, Yugoslavia and Northern Norway there is no acute food shortage in Europe. He cited a population of about 130 million in occupied areas, with around 60 million living near prewar levels. He warned the blockade remains our chief offensive weapon and abandoning it would be criminal folly.
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London
Reach Singapore Safely After 40 Days Evading Japs
Two British officers and seven Gurkha soldiers, cut off in northern Malaya, reached Singapore after forty days. They fought their way through tight corners, crossed a main road heavily used by Japanese trucks, then paddled a small sampan 200 miles across the Malacca Strait to Sumatra.
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Singapore
Malaya
Malacca Strait
Sumatra
Beaverbrook Reveals Atlantic Charter Meeting Details
Lord Beaverbrook said the first Churchill Roosevelt meeting that produced the Atlantic Charter occurred in Newfoundland. He cited Churchill’s proven reliability with the United States and Britain's pledge to aid Russia with half of the effective tank production. Beaverbrook noted Britain’s push for greater output, Churchill's constant pressure for more, and the plan to send American troops to Northern Ireland, with Roosevelt replying yes.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Roosevelt
Newfoundland
Supply
Washington
United States
Russia
Britain
Northern Ireland
Swiss seek Hong Kong info on British Canadian troops
Ottawa said Swiss government as protecting power for British and Canadian interests has opened a communication link with Hong Kong to obtain information on British and Canadian soldiers held or missing after the Hong Kong defence. Canadian troops, notably Winnipeg Grenadiers and Quebec Royal Rifles, suffered heavy casualties as Japan attacked Hong Kong. The Swiss chargé d’affaires in Shanghai has coordinated with the Hong Kong consul to report on wounded, prisoners of war, and overall British interests.
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Hong Kong
Ottawa National Defence
China
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Quebec Royal Rifles
London
Shanghai
Demand For Horse Saskatoon Report Warns Of Shortage
Peter A. Taylor secretary of the Saskatchewan Clydesdale Breeders Club told members at a meeting tied to the Saskatchewan Live Stock Breeders Association convention that demand for good horses at a remunerative price would arise before supply could meet it. Ottawa government to consider British war cabinet representation if consultative machinery proves unsatisfactory says Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Commons.
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Saskatoon
Peter A. Taylor
Saskatchewan Clydesdale Breeders’ Club
Saskatchewan Live Stock Breeders’ Association
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
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