Attlee Reflects on War Lessons on Sixth Anniversary
London remarks mark six years since Britain entered the Second Great War. Attlee links Japan’s Manchuria action to global conflict, warns peace rests on League of Nations authority, and notes the atomic age demands a secure world order and shared victory with dominions India and colonies.
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Japan
Manchuria
League of Nations
India
Europe faces severe coal famine next winter warns officials
Washington reports a world wide coal shortage with potential drastic effects on law and order. Britain will ration and export little, Russia cannot meet its own needs, and the United States may see up to 15 million tons short of bituminous coal and 112 million tons short of anthracite. American requirements include 22 million tons for Canada.
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Europe
Washington
Ofice
Britain
Russia
Donetz
United States
Canada
Meat ration tokens to give Canadians about seven each
Ottawa reports wartime prices and trade board will distribute meat ration tokens to the public. About seven tokens per person are planned across the Dominion. The blue tokens are slightly larger than nickels with a small hole in the middle, stamped Canada ration and meat viande on both sides.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Dominion
Canada
Pearson says UNRRA faces huge tasks after war
Ottawa. Canadian ambassador to Washington L B Pearson, fresh from Europe, says war devastated nations face tremendous needs and UNRRA will have a difficult task in the coming months. He notes UNRRA relief efforts should eventually aid Canadian trade as people adjust to Canadian goods.
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L. B. Pearson
Washington
Europe
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Pearson
NO MORE CENSORS pendents Will No Longer Have
Britain abolishes wartime press censorship with outgoing despatches no longer inspected for military security. British and Soviet Iranian and Egyptian censors lift nonmilitary news while American dispatches still pass U S censors. France also ends censorship as provisional government orders abolishment.
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London
Britain
Teheran
Cairo
United States
Provisional Government of
France
France votes in October general election and referendum
Campaigns begin for the October 21 general election in France expected to shape the republic’s constitutional future. About 650 deputies will be elected by proportional representation, with a referendum on using the Third Republic constitution or convening a constituent assembly.
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Paris
France
Constituent Assembly
Russia plans vast Pacific coast development near Alaska
Soviet radio reports Russia intends a large scale buildup along its northeast Pacific coast. It claims construction of new harbors on the Kamchatka peninsula opposite Alaska as part of the expansion.
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San Francisco
Russia
Pacific
Kamachatka Peninsula
Alaska
United Nations FAO Conference Set for Next Month
WASmuaurus Quebec cry has been chosen as the site of the United Nations food and agriculture conference next month, it was learned reliably.
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Wasmuaurus
Quebec
Two Ottawa Women in CWAC Head for California by Thumb
Cpl Marie Spearman and Pte Barbara Dennison both of Ottawa travel 6,000 miles to California by foot and hitchhiking. They use the slogan Cossbermin or cast and say the ride will be as much a test of grit as a way to reach the Golden State.
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California
Ontario
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Golden State
Cpl
Marie Spearman
Barbara Dennison
Ottawa
Canada to finance France purchases in Canada says official
An official spokesman said France seeks extensive Canadian purchases possibly up to 450 million with part cash and part long term credit. France buys cash items continuously and would value Canadian long term credit. It was understood Gen de Gaulle was assured Canada would seek parliamentary authority to extend credits to France amid ongoing negotiations.
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Ottawa
France
Canada
Gen de Gaulle
Trouble Feared in French Indo China Landing
French authorities expect potential turmoil when they return to French Indo China, though scope unknown. General B Jacques le Clerc, a surrender signatory, says he will command about 8000 troops upon landing at a French Indo China port on a date he would not reveal. He notes Laos sided with the Allies among the semi autonomous states.
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Yokohama
Jacques le Clerc
le Clerc
Indo-China
Kingdom of
Laos
Blow to Franco as Tangier troops ordered home
General Franco, Spain’s head of state, must withdraw his forces from the international Tangier zone in Morocco. The decision, made by British, American, Russian and French representatives in Paris, was conveyed to Madrid by Sir Victor Mallet and Bernard Harden. Paris regards it as a serious blow to Franco.
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Spain
Tangier
Morocco
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Victor Mallet
Bernard Harden
Port in Firth of Clyde closes after five years
More than 3,000,000 tons of cargo and American military equipment have been discharged at the war emergency port in the Holy Loch, Firth of Clyde, handling liners such as the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary and Aquitania. Use of the port has been discontinued after nearly five years of operation. A Montreal council on Christian Social Order statement on human relations in industry and commerce was mailed to principals and newspapers.
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Mergency
Firth of Clyde
Glasgow
Holy Loch
Montreal
Montreal Council On Christian Social Order
Mussolini Daughter Interned on Lipari Island
The interior ministry announced that Edda Ciano, daughter of Benito Mussolini, has been interned on Lipari, the Sicilian island once used to imprison anti fascists. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Rome
Ministry of the Interior
Edda Ciano
Benito Mussolini
Lipari
Sicily
Last Stand Of Canadians At Hong Kong Told By Maltby
Maj. Gen. Maltby, released after three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner, praised the Winnipeg Grenadiers and Quebec Royal Rifles for facing three days of Chinese resistance in Hong Kong with a single company. He recalled Brig. Lawson’s fiery last words and noted their disciplined defense while awaiting grim parole knowledge. He also described the death of Lawson and aides Hennessy and Lyndon, and a 1948 diphtheria outbreak among prisoners.
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India
CM. Maltby
Hong Kong
Crown Colony
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Maltby
John K
Jake) Lawson
Toronto
Ottawa
Japan
Formosa
Quebec Royal Rifles
Brig
Lawson
Brig. Lawson
Col
Patrick, Hennessy
Charles A. Lyndon
Edmonton
Surplus Canadian Army Vehicles Aid Europe Transport
Major General D E Dewar of the Canadian War Assets corporation announced an initial sale of about 3,000 surplus Canadian army vehicles to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The deal, via the Canadian Mutual Aid board, aims to set a pattern for using Canadian materials to assist needy European countries. About 3,000 Canadian personnel will move the vehicles, and delivery will help relieve transport bottlenecks hampering crops movement in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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London
D. E. Dewar
Canadian War Assets Corporation
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Canadian Mutual Aid Board
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Lotteries Banned in Alberta After War Ends
Attorney General Lucien Maynard told a western Cosmopolitan clubs convention that Alberta will have no more lotteries unless Dominion laws are amended. He noted wartime lotteries were mainly for charity and urged appealing to Ottawa to change the current lottery statutes.
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Edmonton
Lucien Maynard
Alberta
Maynard
Ottawa
Belgium Police Find Hidden Rooms With Black Market Food
Belgian police and a Canadian Army provost marshal raiding a Campine luxury hotel uncovered a secret wall system behind false nails and sliding panels. A hidden chamber yielded a cache of black market food valued at 200000 francs, revealed when a telephonic booth trick opened a wall segment.
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Brussels
Campine
France
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