Canadian Navy Crushing Enemy Blows in Atlantic
Ottawa reports the Canadian navy has shifted from earlier fragility to aggressor, shelling the French coast and Biscay approaches. Destroyers Haida Huron and Iroquois join escort groups as Allied forces seal off St. Nazaire Lorient Brest and St. Malo while U-boats flee under blockade.
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Ottawa
North Atlantic
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Brest
St. Malo
France
Biscay
Brittany
Bases in Belgium used by fighting Canadians in raid
Reported operations describe Canadian airmen from Basin base conducting rocket flights over German territory to test bombing capabilities. Mention of McGregor DIG and Sectrea veterans as key figures in the mission. Details are unclear due to fragmented OCR but indicate air raid activity along the Rhine with Canadian involvement and detention of some personnel.
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Otawe
Snow
Belgiat
Trafic
Coder
Conmasad
Croup Cope
McGregor
Dig
Sectrea
Tha Bate
Batavi
Basin Bore
Aescir Eure
Someland
Blackout Ends in Nova Scotia Province Wide
Halifax announces the blackout restrictions in Nova Scotia are lifted by Dr. F. R. Davis, provincial director of civilian defence. No further blackouts will occur though the area remains considered vulnerable and civilian defence will continue operations in other functions.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
F. R. Davis
Davis
Noval Scotia
Yugoslav unity urged from London broadcast
King Peter of Yugoslavia called upon Serbs Croats and Slovenes to unite and join the national liberation army under Marshal Tito in a London broadcast.
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London
King Peter of
Yugoslavia
National Liberation Army
Marshal Tito
Nineteen of Vichy militia men sentenced to death
London reports that nineteen of twenty Vichy militia men tried by court martial were condemned to death. The remaining defendant received twenty years hard labor due to extenuating circumstances, according to the French national radio broadcast.
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London
French National Radio
Land Redistribution For Polish Peasants Under Moscow Plan
Moscow broadcasts say the Polish National Liberation Committee will expropriate land from Germans and large landlords without pay and redistribute to poor peasants and farm laborers. Each recipient may gain 10 acres, with repayment of one year's harvest value over 10 to 20 years, and settlement by October 20.
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Perth National Council London
Polish National Liberation Committee
Poland
Moscow Radio
Lublin
Polish National Council
Moscow
London Daily Express to be air mailed in US
The London Daily Express will be flown to the United States in limited quantities for daily American distribution. W R Thompson, US correspondent, notes the paper has a large circulation and is published by Lord Beaverbrook. It becomes the first London paper to offer regular air mail subscriptions in the United States.
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New York
London Daily Express
W. R. Thompson
United States
Daily Express
Lord Beaverbrook
Privy Seal
Thompson
London
Calgary officer promoted to acting major general and appointed quartermaster
Promoted Acting Major General Hugh A. Young of Calgary, elevated from Brigadier to lead as Quartermaster General replacing Major General H. Kennedy, CBE, MC who is retiring. General Young commanded an Infantry Brigade overseas.
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Hugh A .Young
Calgary
H. Kennedy, Cbe
Young
De Gaulle Declares France A Republic After Petain
In Paris a formal statement from Gen Charles de Gaulle asserts the French Republic continues. An Algiers ordinance issued August 9 declares null and void all major Petain government laws and acts. The still Republic notes France remains a republic despite the Petain regime.
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Wral de Gaulle
France
Paris
Marshal Petain
Charles de Gaull
van Law
Republic
Algiers
Petain
Beaufighters Scatter Jap Convoy in Major Sea Battle
British Beaufighters scattered a Burma-bound Japanese convoy in a 23 hour engagement across hundreds of miles of ocean near Kand y Ceylon as Allied HQ called it the greatest single air and sea victory in the theatre. The enemy force was believed to number at least 15 ships in nine embarked ships and ships were attacked 21 times after initial sighting on September 9.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Andaman Sea
Rate is reduced five cents for civilian airgraph mail
Ottawa Postmaster General Mulock cuts civilian airgraph rate from ten to five cents effective September 15. The reduced charge aligns civilian mail with armed forces mail and applies to airgraph service areas including Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Airgraph letters to France and Italy may also be sent. Airgraph letters on film began in Canada in 1941. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Ottawa
Mulock
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Middle East
Africa
France
Italy
Canada
Steel Output Doubled Amid War Driven Growth in Canada
Canada extends its war boosted steel program with output doubling since 1939. Alloy steel production surged up to five times prewar levels while plate production rose 400 percent and shell steel at 200,000 tons yearly. Domestic needs and European rehabilitation drive exports and cost reductions. Decades of armoured plate experience strengthen tank and vehicle production.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
United Nations
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Butter ration cut delayed again in Ottawa
The prices board postponed butter coupon validity for a fourth time this year. Coupons 0 and 81 now expire Oct 12, and 88 and 89 moved to Dec 14 amid tighter butter stocks. Sugar Administrator Noble said world sugar supplies are strained but no ration reduction is expected this year.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
R. Noble
Germans in Alberta camps rethink France invasion outcome
The Herald reports German prisoners of war in Alberta camps have shifted views on the Allied invasion of France. Initially confident that coastal defenses would hold, many now acknowledge Allied advances from Paris to Belgium and the approaching German borders, though some Nazis doubt Romania and Bulgaria defected.
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The
France
Paris
Belgium
Alberta Camps
Germany
the Herald
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Bulgaria
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