Canadians Land Largest Troop Contingent in Britain
A massive convoy of Canadian troops arrived in the United Kingdom marking the largest force to land there this war. Led by the First Canadian Army Tank Brigade, the units included a 1200 bed hospital from Montreal with 80 nurses, forestry corps troops, infantry and artillery reinforcements, and air and naval personnel. Geoffrey Shakespeare praised the historic arrival, noting Canada’s tank formation first overseas and declaring resolve to defend freedom against Hitler. Ottawa also announced a $1,000,000 plan with the British Columbia fruit board to market part of the 1941 Okanagan and Kootenay apple crop.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Atlantic
Britain
Royal Navy
Montreal
Canadian Forestry Corps
Scotland
Infantry
Artillery
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Tank Brigade
Ontario
Alberta
Quebec
Geoffrey Shakespeare
Dominions
F. F. Worthington
England
Gordon B. Johnson
Vincent Massey
Shakespeare
Ottawa
Vominion
British Columbia Fruit Board
Okanagan Valley
Kootenay
British Columbia
Jam for Britain aid includes 200000 pounds in jam
The ministry of food announced that the Canadian Red Cross will send Britain 200000 pounds of fruit in jam form for the current season. The gesture strengthens wartime food relief and supports British households during shortages.
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Ministry of Food
Canadian Red Cross
Britain
Canadians Return From Britain For Army Courses
A group of 16 Canadian majors and captains have returned from service with the Dominion forces in Britain to take army courses in Canada. They will have a brief furlough before new assignments. Capt Cunningham earned the George Medal for removing an unexploded time bomb in a British factory. Other officers include Maj CA Lyndon Edmonton Maj A T Dixon Regina Capt G P Hartling Edmonton Capt LH Young Winnipeg Capt J S Adam Victoria Capt A F B Knight Winnipeg. The group says Canadians overseas are in good spirits and eager to confront Hitler as Germany invades Russia, though they note chocolate bars and cigarettes are scarce in Britain as many crave candies on arrival in Canada.
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Britain
Canada
Douglas Cunningham
Calgary
Cunningham
George
CA Lyndon
Edmonton
A. T Dixon
Regina
G. P. Hartling
LH. Young
Winnipeg
Adam
Victoria
A. F. B Knight
Hitler
Germany
Russia
Fish Story London and Canada Salmon Claim
J P Bickell returned to Britain after a Ottawa Washington trip for the air ministry and visited the Royal Canadian Air Force mess in Newfoundland. Fresh brook trout were packed in a tin and taken aboard a bomber to Canada where a RAF cook prepared a dish for passengers. Reports of Buckingham Palace denying the salmon breakfast claim followed.
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London
Toradition
J.P. Bickell
Britain
Ottawa
Washington
Briish Air Ministry
Royal Canadian Air Force
Ness
Newfoundland
Canaman
C. G. Power
Bickell
Royal Air Force
Canada
Buckingham Palace
Toronto
Britain to Maintain Diplomatic Ties With Finland
Foreign Secretary Eden told the House of Commons that Britain will keep diplomatic relations with Finland and that relations with Sweden remain normal. He said Sweden plans neutrality after allowing a German division to cross into Finland during the Russo German war.
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Britain
Finland
London
Sweden
Eden
House of Commons
Perth pilot earns Distinguished Flying Cross for convoy attack feat
Acting Squadron Leader JR Thompson of Perth Ontario attached to RAF squadron 139 in the Middle East led a flight to base without navigational aids after a convoy attack last May. The air ministry says the dramatic exploit occurred during an attack on a large convoy west of Lampedusa between Malta and Tunis.
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London
JR Thompson
Perth
Ont
Royal Air Force Squadron 139
Middle East
Thompson
Air Ministry
Aaid
Lampedusa
Malta
Tunis
Wheat quota initial delivery set at five bushels per acre
Edmonton minister MacKinnon said the 1941 wheat crop quota would be at least five bushels per acre and rise as space opens. Temporary storage plants at Port Arthur and Fort William will hold 51,000,800 bushels. Exports may reach 225,000,000 bushels, reducing July carryover to 475,000,000 to 500,000,000 bushels amid a wheat surplus danger.
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Edmonton
MacKinnon
Port Arthur
Fort William
Barred From Civil Service Order During War
Government issues an order in council barring any male of military age from civil service appointments. The directive allows only those ineligible for service or those needed in the public interest to be appointed while the war continues.
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Ouawa
Service Commission
Air Training Plan Aims to Boost Canadian Air Squadrons
Prime Minister Mackenzie King outlined an Air Training Plan at Boundary Bay praising 18 months of prep and forecasting a rise in Canadian air squadrons serving with the Royal Air Force. Air Minister Power traveled to England to secure expansion of wartime air forces.
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Vancouver
Canadian Air Force
England
Mackensie King
Boundary Bay
Power
Canadian Air Unite
Royal Air Force
Lord Beaverbrook Calls Urgency in Production War Watchword
Lord Beaverbrook, speaking with Gladstone Murray of the CBC, urged urgency in all efforts and speed in production as the supreme wartime necessity. Newly named by Prime Minister Churchill as minister of supply, he expressed full confidence that North America will respond with maximum continuous effort to avoid panic and achieve results.
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Lord Beaverbrook
Ottawa
Gladstone Murray
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Churchill
North America
Knox defends navy stance on German threat in Atlantic
Washington secretary of the navy Frank Knox reiterated his pledge to use the U S Navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace. When asked about Senator Burton Wheeler’s demand that he resign over the speech Knox said, Let you write an answer to that yourself.
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Washington
Frank Knox
U.S. Navy
Atlantic
Burton K Wheeler
Questoner
Confer With Russian Staff On War Plans
London reports that British and Russian staff chiefs in Moscow discuss Soviet confidence in beating Germany. Lieut Gen McFarlane aids on the eastern front as Russia plans to receive Britain's aerial tactics and production methods. Analysts note possible Russian fortifications and uncertain fate of isolated troops along the Dvina Minsk axis.
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London
Soviet Union
Major McFarlane
Tank
Blitzkrieg
Russia
Eastern Front
Moscow
Rus Man
France
Britain
Royal Air Force
Great Britain
Bri- Hah
Dvina
Minsk
Baltic
Latsian
Canadian Red Cross to Ship 5000 PRISONER OF WAR parcels weekly
Dr. Fred W. Koutley national commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross Society said in reply to a request from the Australian Red Cross that Canada will ship 5000 prisoner of war food parcels each week for Australian soldiers captured in the east. Britain cuts gas ration for private citizens by about one sixteenth, reducing per car mileage from about 200 to 165 miles monthly.
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Red Cream
Toronto
Fred W. Koutley
Canadian Red Cross Society
Australian Red Cross
Canadian Society
Britain
London
Banting Institute Appoints Dr Best Head in Toronto
Dr CH Best, linked with Sir Frederick Banting in insulin discovery, begins duties as head of the Banting Institute in Toronto. The appointment marks a milestone for the institute’s research program and ongoing diabetes studies.
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Toronto
CH. Best
Sir Frederck Banting
Iulin
Banting Institute
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Rothesay
W. C. Hyde
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Royal Canadian Artillery
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Hyde
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