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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
8
Four German POWs testified before a Russian Polish atrocity commission in Lublin about Majdanek, detailing murders of hundreds of thousands including 157 Polish children, ovens, gas chambers, and executions amid the camp’s vast system of extermination.
Lt-Gen Kurt Dittmar addressed the German people by radio in a gloomy broadcast. He warned that Germany would continue fighting unless Allies relax war aims and adopt reason and understanding while noting reverses in France and Romania. He said German victory still depends on enemies not achieving their war aims and that British and American forces remain on a brutal, lengthy road.
The sunburned prime minister appeared without his cigar and was greeted by Mrs. Churchill and Allied air commander Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory. Churchill had traveled to Italy prior to the southern France invasion as British officers watched. In Moscow a state commission warned of a booby trap at Pushkin's grave, listing Russians who died visiting the site.
An unnamed speaker recalls being ordered to stay in barracks while bread and cigarettes were given to prisoners. He notes other German prisoners who provided similar evidence of mass slaughterings, implying a broader admission or corroboration of wartime executions.
The Health League of Canada sponsors the third annual National Immunization Week September 10 to 16 to alert parents to dangers of preventable diseases like whooping cough diphtheria scarlet fever and smallpox. A message from the Governor General opens the week with a film shown in theatres and coverage across newspapers magazines radio and ads. Posters and leaflets in French and English are provided by the league.
A British general, issuing a day order, announces a northern France offensive to destroy German flying bomb bases east of the Seine. He vows a relentless drive with the motto one more kilometre and one less bomb, aiming to free homes and families from German attacks. The push involves British American and French forces moving into enemy-occupied France to curb the threat to England.
Admiral Baron Keyes told the Canadian Club in Montreal that the European war may end by early winter and the Japanese campaign could conclude sooner than expected. The fleet hero of Zeebrugge outlined a speaking tour to Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver before flying to New Zealand and Australia on government business.
Sydney reports Australia uses a Pacific supply organization to deliver vast food and clothing aid to Pacific Islands and arranges shipments of British and American goods. The program emphasizes humanitarian relief and logistical support across multiple island communities.
Louvre officials say four years of occupation saw only one prized item ruined a 4500 year old mummified Egyptian sheep torn apart by a German soldier seeking shelter amid gunfire and Parisian riots during the liberation day parade. The museum is described as Paris’ grandest public building.
In Rome and across southern France, the battle against the German 19th army nears completion. Thousands of Nazis are being captured and scattered remnants retreat toward the Rhone valley leaving equipment behind. The bulk of Hitler's southern France defense has been wiped out in a fortnight of rapid fighting.
The air ministry said RAF aircraft sank the unfinished 35,000 ton Clemenceau at Brest harbor to prevent its capture by Germany and its use to block the harbor. The ship had remained incomplete since the fall of France in 1940.
Washington reports Dumbarton Oaks conferees reached general agreement on a proposed world security organization. It envisions an assembly of peace loving nations, a council of major powers plus other elected states, and peaceful dispute settlement including an international court of justice. Delegations will continue refining structure and procedures before public release.
Canberra announced that all Australian Victoria Cross recipients will receive free rail travel for life across Australia.
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