Unity of the Empire Stressed at Gathering
London officials and Dominion leaders laud Canada's war effort at a Canadian club luncheon in London. Major-General A G L McNaughton emphasizes unified resolve to defeat the threat to Europe and the world. Anthony Eden and Oliver Stanley praise Canada's army and moral support, while figures like Lord Mottistone and the Earl of Bessborough attend as guests. The event highlights Canada's first division composition and its wartime training and leadership.
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London
Agl McNaughton
Serce
Europe
France
Canada
United Kingdom
Dominions
Anthony Eden
Empire
Oliver Stanley
McNaughton
Stanley
Lord Mottistone
Earl of Bessborough
R. B. Bennett
Vincent Massey
Edmund Ironside
Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Connaught
Ypres
Vimy
Passchendaele
Camberley
Quetta
Mira Pane Shipped Hurricane Plane for Britain
Victor M. Drury of Canadian Car and Foundry Co Montreal announced at the annual meeting that the Fort William plant built a new Hurricane plane for Britain. The machine has been shipped to Great Britain and work will proceed at full speed to fulfill the order. extent and value not disclosed.
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Montreal
Canada
Great Britain
Victor M. Drury
Canadian Car ‘and Foundry Co
Fort William
South Africa Defends Emergency Powers Bill in Assembly
Prime Minister smut and ministers argued no link between Canada's elections and South Africa's political crisis. They noted South Africa's year old general election produced a strong party choosing to join the war. Labor minister Madeley condemned Hertzog's peace with Nazis as horrifying and unthinkable.
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Ape Town
Smut
Canada
South Africa
Nhr al Smuts
King
Hertzog
W. B. Madeley
Labor
Survivors Tell of Highwave Sinking by German Bomber
Nineteen survivors rescued by a Dutch motorship recount a German aircraft dropping twenty bombs on the British steamship Highwave off the coast. The ship sank in four minutes after the four attacks, with five bombs per dive. Two crew members were wounded by machine gun fire. all crew were rescued as the Dutch vessel took them aboard.
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Flushing
Netherlanas
Duty Free Parcel Arrangements for Canadian Forces
Postmaster General Hon K G Power announced new duties free arrangements with the British government. Gifts for members of the Canadian Active Service Force or Canadians in British units will be admitted free into the United Kingdom. Parcels for British troops in France posted by private individuals will also be duty free. Previously this applied only to Christmas parcels.
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Ottawa
Honk G. Power
United Kingdom
France
No Economics Minister Named in Britain War Effort
Prime Minister Chamberlain plans no cabinet post to supervise the economic side of the national war effort. An official announcement to the House of Commons is expected on February 12 as the Labor party pushes for an economics minister.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Labor Party
Finnish Army Seeks Canadian Airmen For Northern Flying
The Finnish army reportedly seeks experienced Canadian airmen with northern flying experience. No official Finnish consulate statements. potential enlistment of bush flyers aged out of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Applicants would receive railway fare to New York and onward to Finland. provisional status applies until enlistment.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
New York
Finland
Royal Mint Report Shows 21 Million Cent Pieces Issued
The Royal Canadian Mint reported that in 1999 more than 21,160,000 one cent pieces were produced totaling 9,320,692 dollars. The mint also issued 1,220,732 one dollar pieces 288000 fifty cent pieces 3 489 60 quarters 5 619000 ten cent pieces and 420000 five cent pieces.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mint
Early War Casualties Show Fourteen Western Front Losses
The War Office released the first casualty list: 14 British personnel lost on the Western Front since Britain declared war. The Leicestershire Regiment bore the brunt with 3 killed and 11 wounded in patrol actions. One woman nurse EF Davidson also listed among the deaths. War Secretary Stanley notes most fatalities arise from accidents and disease, with road accidents more deadly than disease.
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London
Germany
War Office
Leicestershire Regiment
EF. Davidson
Queen Alexandria
Imperial Nursing Service
Stanley
Hungary Presses for Revision of Postwar Borders
Budapest reports Count Stephen Csaky Hungary’s foreign minister told the parliamentary foreign affairs committee Hungary will not concede its claims to revised boundaries set after the last war He urged Roumania to reach terms on Transylvania and expressed friendly admonition for an accord Transylvania an area over 22000 square miles was transferred from Hungary to Romania in 1918.
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Hungary
Budapest
Stephen Csaky
Roumania
Transylvania
Roumani
Ajax Returns Home Plymouth Indiana
The Ajax arrives at Plymouth after two years abroad ending with action against the enemy. The commander-in-chief of the station and the board of Admiralty express welcome and congratulate the crew on a safe return and wish them a well earned leave.
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Plymouth
Indiana
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Board of Admiralty
Ajax
Parliament Hill War Dormitory Overflows in London
The article notes that the London equivalent of Parliament Hill has become a vast dormitory during the war. Leading ministers cannot sleep in their departments or nearby and are available at any time.
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London
Eng
Waitenau
Parliament Hill
Ottawa
German Sub Destroyer Reported Sunk in Convoy Action
A British steamship Vaclite of 5062 tons was sunk in a convoy by a German submarine. The submarine was later sunk by a British lifeboat. The Prime Minister announced in a speech that the German submarine was destroyed.
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London
Vaclite
Chamberlain
Finnish Army Repels Russian Forces in Early War Fronts
Helsinki reports show Finnish troops repelling Soviet divisions in Ladoga sectors and encircling Siberian ski battalions. Finnish garrison on the Isle of Mantsi holds against repeated Soviet assaults while Rovaniemi suffers heavy bombing losses including civilians and hospital casualties. General Hugo Österman says Russians failed to break Finnish defenses since the war began two months ago.
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Helsingfors
Rovaniemi
Lake Ladoga
Pitkarsanta
Finland
Isle of Mantsi
Lake Front
Kitela
Hugo Oesterman
Air Training School Ottawa under Commonwealth plan
Air Training School Ottawa is being assembled under the British Commonwealth air training plan to man air schools across the Dominion and probably 10,000 will be flying instructors. Hundreds of competent fliers have already been enlisted from flying schools and commercial companies to assist Royal Canadian Air Force instructors in teaching young Canadians to handle a military plane.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Royal Canadian Air Force
Local craftsman grinds flour at home in Colchester
Munnings, Royal Academy of Art member, rejects wartime flour standardization in Colchester Essex. He has begun grinding his own flour using a kitchen table mounted device similar to a coffee grinder. He adapts a compact mill to produce fresh flour amid wartime shortages.
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Colchester
Essex
Munnings
Royal Academy of Art
Government keeps food costs in check to curb inflation
Sir John Simon told the House of Commons that Britain’s government spends about 4.45 million dollars weekly to keep basic food costs within reasonable bounds, aiming to prevent inflation and ensure affordability for citizens.
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Britain
London
Sir John Simon
Exchequer
House of Commons
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