Canada to export beef surpluses to United Kingdom wartime
LW Pearsall of the Canadian Meat Board told the Commons that any beef surpluses beyond domestic needs would be frozen and sent to the United Kingdom for the duration of the war. The plan, tied to price floors and market conditions, prioritizes domestic beef while halting live cattle exports to the U.S. for the time being.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
LW. Pearsall
Canadian Meat Board
the Commons
Great Britain
United States
Pearsall
Hamer
Agriculture Department
Meat Board
Britain
One in eight Canadians bilingual in 1941 census
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports that slightly under 13 percent of Canadians spoke both English and French in 1941, with about 115,000 speaking neither. Of those fluent in an official language, 7,735,486 spoke English only and 2,181,146 spoke French only, while 1,474,009 spoke both.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dureau
Commonwealth air policy urged by Mrs Tate in Canada
Mrs Tate, Conservative MP and member of the British delegation visiting Canada, urged Ottawa leadership in shaping a postwar air policy for the commonwealth. She called for a unified commonwealth foreign, defence, and postwar policy, stressing a strong contribution and unity among nations.
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Bettinh
Canada
Ottawa
Mavis Tate
Tate
New Zealand
Bermuda
Commonwealth of Nations
Brazilian captains jailed for espionage in Rio de Janeiro
A Brazilian artillery captain and two defendants were sentenced to 30 years in prison in Rio de Janeiro after conviction for espionage. Ten others including the former ambassador and a German naval attacker were tried in absentia and received 20 to 25 year terms. At least 93 percent of Britain's 1943 weapons program are new, and this share is expected to rise as the year continues.
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Rio de Janeiro
Iman Ambascador
Britain
Appointment of Archibald Javell Viceroy and Governor General
British official announcement names Field Marshal Sir Archibald Javell as viceroy and governor general of India amid wartime Burma theater concerns. An Oxford linked note mentions a postwar plan for education with a $1,125,000 cooperative college funded by a penny per member per year for seven years.
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Burma
Sir Archibald Javell
India
Ene Education
Oxford
Co-operative Union
British Submarine Hits Supply Ship at Sardinia
London reports a British submarine entered Porto Torres harbor in Sardinia and fired a torpedo through a breakwater opening, sinking a medium sized supply ship named Ralftoad cut in two. The attacking commander was Lieut. RB Lakin, formerly commander of the submarine Ursula.
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Ith Bab
Sardinia
London
Porto Torres
Admiralty
Ralftoad
RB. Lakin
Ursula
Britain’s Aircraft Output Nears Double of 1940 Forecast
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin told the Women's Co operative Guild of Labor congress that British aircraft production today is nearly twice his 1940 estimate, thanks to more women workers and higher production standards. He noted Britain is producing more aircraft than Germany.
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Britain
London
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Congress of the Women’s Co-operative Guild of Labor
GOING BACK TO CHINA
Washington reported Madame Chiang Kai Shek will return to Chungking soon per Chinese foreign minister T V Soong. He said she does not plan to travel via London en route and emphasized the voyage details.
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China
Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
T. V. Soong
London
Empire Planes Take Heavy Toll Of Axis Shipping
RAF and RCAF air campaigns have sunk or damaged a substantial portion of Axis shipping supplying western Europe. Over the past 12 months nearly a quarter of a million gross tons were lost, with total sinkings and damage approaching a million tons since June 1941, excluding the Mediterranean. Coastal convoys and rail strikes further press Nazi logistics as German shipyards strain under a 1,000,000 ton air-attack loss.
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Empire
London
Western European Front
RAF
RCAF
Mediterranean
Norway
Low Countries
France
Hitler
R.A.F
Germany
North Sea
English Channel
Increase Granted Clothes Pins Along Longitude Line
The prices board ended a price dispute by approving a rise in clothes pin costs citing higher manufacturing expenses. Pins will cost 12 cents for three dozen in Ontario and the prairies, 15 cents in the western provinces, and 16 cents for British Columbia.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Fort William
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Look to bombers for poison gas attacks, Porter says
Washington reports Maj Gen William N Porter head of the U S chemical warfare service told a senate committee gas would be dropped from planes in bombs or spray if used. He said shells or cylinders would unlikely propel gas into enemy lines as in the First Great War.
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Washington
William N. Porter
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service
Senate
Porter
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New Veerey
R.C.A.F
Koap
R.c.af. Canso
Cpl
H. Knelson
Bladworth
Sask
William Bedwell
Marchwell
J. D. Hooper
Peterboro
Ont
Charles Spence
Montreal
Lyndon Hunt
Sarnia
Barry Mott
A.F.C
Toronto
Simcoe
E. N. Nicholl
Winnipeg
House of Commons
House of Lords
A. G. L. McNaughton
G.O
First Canadian Army
England
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