British Drive May Be Looming in Middle East
British air and naval actions in the Mediterranean and Libya hint at a coming major offensive from Egypt against Axis troops gathering in Libya. Churchill noted operations may demand more shipping, while observers weigh timing, with Mediterranean shipping damage and Axis naval losses suggesting a decisive blow could unfold if Caucasus campaigns allow.
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London
Mediterranean
Italy
Egypt
Libya
Middle East
Churchill
Caucasus
Africa
Tripolitania
RAF
Women Letter Sorters Ottawa Extend to Canada Centres
Ottawa authorities indicate post office plans may expand use of women and girls as letter sorters to Toronto and Montreal and other large centres. Government rules prevent employing men of military age, so training is under way with boys, older men and women to handle the Christmas mail rush. Women have already worked as sorters in smaller offices for some time.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Montreal
Post Office Department
Ottawa acts to curb cheese cornering in Canada
The Canadian Dairy Products Board moves to prevent cheese cornering amid a short supply for domestic use. Under an order by chairman J. F. Singleton no person may hold more than 35 percent above their Dec 1 prior year total without board authorization.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dairy Products Board
J. F. Singleton
Not Coming Ottawa Deposed Panama Leader Chooses Home
Dr Arnulfo Arias, Panama the deposed president, has abandoned any plan to reside in Canada and will not pursue living there.
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Ottawa
Arnulfo Arias
Panama
Canada
Meighen Accepts Conservative Leadership in Ottawa
Arthur Meighen accepted the Conservative leadership in Ottawa declaring support for compulsory selective service within the war effort. He urged a non party government and criticized Liberal powers, while noting Prime Minister Mackenzie King would not push overseas conscription without public consultation.
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Ottawa
Arthur Meighen
Conservative Party
Meighen
Senate
RB. Hanson
House
National Conservative
Bas
Mackenzie King
Publisher Speaks Out on World War Travel Shock
New York editor Ingersoll pens a front page PM editorial after returning from a world tour. He says traveling the globe makes an American feel cheap and ashamed, noting allies have shouldered battles while the US lingers on WWI entry. He derides lease and lend as mean. He asks when the nation will enter the war.
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New York
Rupusner Walph Ingersoll
Britain
Russia
Ingersoll
Decrease in Immigration to Canada Reported
The immigration branch reports a 237 percent drop in six months ending September 30, with 5145 immigrants vs 6746 a year earlier. British Isles arrivals fell from 1927 to 9, English from 1083 to 59, Irish 129 to 59, Scottish 258 to 98, Welsh 52 to 19, and US arrivals declined from 4160 to 367.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
British Isles
United States
Overseas evacuation plan shifts child arrivals to Canada
London officials said the children's overseas reception board and the Canadian government will assume responsibility for privately evacuated children in cases of proven difficulty or need. The federal labor department will add 12 conciliation officers, with the top three to be labor relations specialists, as advertised for two months.
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London
Uconney Shakespeare
Dominions
House of Commons
Children's Overseas Reception Board
Canada
Otawa
Federal
Labor Department
1941 Wheat Crop Estimates For Canada
Canada's 1941 wheat crop was estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at 302,626,000 bushels, down from 551,390,000 in 1940. The second seasonal estimate shows a drop of 3,833,000 bushels from the first, due to smaller acreage and yield. Alberta is cut by 4,000,000 to 90,000,000 bushels, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba stay at 136,000,000 and 5,000,000 bushels respectively.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Refugee internees released in Australia head to England
Melbourne reports that Austrian German internees brought to Victoria and New South Wales last year have been released from camps and are en route to England. A joint British Australian inquiry found them friendly to the Allied cause.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
New South Wales
England
Air ace Collishaw returns to Dominion for new post
Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, Canada’s noted air ace with sixty victories, returns to the Dominion en route to a new position. A Nanaimo native, he remains with the RAF and is regarded as a leading aerial strategist. His Libya campaign tactics aided the British advance in North Africa last year.
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Mediterranean
Africa
RAF
North African
Italy
Raymond Collishaw
Canaan
Dominion
Collishaw
Nanaimo
B.C
Remy
Egypt
R.A F
Libya
German War Prisoners Speak Freely for First Time in Russia
Kuibyshev Russia via AP reports a German war prisoners conference adopted a message calling for end to Hitlerism and a free independent Germany to be dropped behind enemy lines. Soviet and German actions include retreats, counterattacks, and raids around Crimea, Moscow, Rostov and Leningrad amid broader Donets basin activity and rail junction captures.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
S. A. Lorovsky
Foreign Office
Germany
Associated Press
Uasia
Lozovsky
United Press
Eastern Front
Crimea
Kerchenski
Caucasus
Sevastopol Anapa
Moscow
Kalinin
Donets
Rostov
Sea of Azov
Leningrad
Churchill Suggests Ancient China Custom for Critics
In a House of Commons speech Prime Minister Churchill lightly proposed adopting an ancient Chinese practice. He said critics of the government could orally address the emperor and, if they then committed suicide, their words would be highly respected and no ulterior motives would be inferred.
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London
Churchil
House of ‘Commons
China
Details emerge on the new two motor Avro Manchester bomber
A Royal Air Force station in England disclosed details of a new two engine bomber used over Germany in recent months. The all metal Manchester, with a 90 foot wingspan and 70 foot length, carries six crew and uses powerful Rolls Royce Vulture engines.
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Royal Air Force
England
Britain
Germany
Air Ministry
Manchester
Baltic
Stettin
Berlin
Ladybird the ship they couldn't sink at Tobruk harbor
Fateful tale from Alexandria records the British gunboat Ladybird, officially sunk, still firing from a bow gun as Tobruk harbor reels under German air raids. Three gunners remained at their posts as flames rose, earning praise from Admiral Cunningham for Lt Cmdr John Blackburn of the carrier.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Tobruk
Sir Andrew Cunningham
Devil-Mayre
Cmdr
John Blackburn
Not From Canada Marshal Petain Annuity Report
Ottawa officials denied Canadian funds could enter occupied or unoccupied France. They commented on a London report that Marshal Petain, French chief of state, has received an annuity of 2670 dollars regularly from England after transferring an annuity taken out with a Canadian company in 1927.
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Marshal Petain
Ottawa
State Department
France
London
England
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