British Seize Sidi Barrani Plane Remnants Found
Mysterious disappearance of a plane near Lake Erie yields items recovered by searchers near Port Bruce including an aircraftman's cap helmet parachute and seat fragment. The finds are linked to Pilot Officer L A Hood and two crewmates from Oshawa and Minaki. In Ontario, fishermen and divers resume efforts for the bodies of Air Craftmen Bert George and John Debenham lost in Lake Huron.
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Mingal
Ont
Lake Erie
Port Bruce
L. A. Hood
St. Joseph
Asai
AC. W. Bourne
Oshawa
J. M. McNally
Minaki, Gnt
Goderich
Greeks Use Cretan Troops In Albania Frontline
Greek sources report Crete borne troops join the Albanian front against retreating Italians. The Cretan fighters, famed for toughness and knife work, support Greek advances on all fronts amid government hints of major moves. The RAF raids Valona, hitting a ship munitions dump and buildings despite Italian fighters.
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Athens
Crete
Albania
Royal Air Force
Valona
British Army breach at Sidi Barrani pushes toward coast
London reports the British Army captured Sidi Barrani 70 miles from the Libyan frontier and took many prisoners including three Italian generals. Cairo says over 6,000 Italian prisoners and large war supplies were seized as RAF planes claimed six Italian planes shot down. Britons press toward Buqbuq while pockets of Italian resistance remain near Sidi Barrani.
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London
Sidi Barrani
Graziani
Cairo
Western Desert
Marshal Graziani
Royal Air Force
C.P
Egypt
Mediterranean
Buqbuq
Tere
Delay in Greek conflict reshapes Middle East war aims
Churchill revealed that Britain's Nile army delayed attacks in Egypt after Italo-Greek hostilities began. Mussolini reportedly ordered the Greece strike to forestall a British drive in Egypt, while Italian plans and Axis efforts faltered. New British victories and Italian discontent emerged as the war shifted.
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Britain
the Nile
Egypt
Middle East
Mussolini
Greece
Churchill
Parliament
Mediterranean
Italy
Africa
Il Duce
Albiunia
Hitler
Funds To Fight the War Flow To Ottawa
A department statement describes Mr. Moncrieff and allies funding a Dominion wide campaign with a circular letter and a large poster. It notes 400 to 500 dollars in small coins has been donated by children, families, schools, churches, and workers, sent to the Finance Minister in envelopes marked To Buy a Hurricane.
Raiders Again Attack London
London endured the first night alert since Sundays raid as raiders crossed the capital and anti aircraft batteries fired. Additional raiders were reported over Liverpool and towns in the southwest and northwest. A German plane dropped bombs on an East Anglian town while RAF bombers hit railways and docks in Germany and occupied areas with two British planes missing.
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London
C.P
Liverpool
R.A.F
Germany
English Channel
Acute Housing Shortage Hits Medicine Hat
In Medicine Hat a serious housing crisis emerges as families of airmen lack accommodation. Carl Sillak and his wife and two children camp in a tent after buying a lot on Third street and Birch avenue. He planned to build under the National Housing Act, but it is not operative in Alberta, prompting a winter shack and storage tent effort.
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Medicine Hat
S.F.T.S. No. 34
Carl Sillak
Third Street
Sleak
Elkwater Lake
Birch Avenue
Alberta
Sillak
Canadians in Royal Air Force Casualties Reach 170
London report states since the war began 170 Canadians in the Royal Air Force have died. Of these 82 were killed in action, 75 during active service, 18 died on active service. The missing list stands at 157, with 86 prisoners, five interned and 20 wounded.
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London
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Submarine Believed Hit After Saguenay Torpedoing
London dispatch reports the submarine that torpedoed the Canadian destroyer Saguenay is believed to have been hit by a salvo from a destroyer. A. J. Mac Whinney, Daily Herald naval correspondent, says 81 Saguenay crewmen were transferred to another destroyer, 18 wounded.
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London
C.P
Saguenay
A. J. MacWhinney
Daily Herald
McWhinney
Postwar World Vision With International Police Air Force
London officials report Home Secretary Morrison envisions a cooperative postwar world guarded by an international police air force to deter bomber threats. He rejects peace under Nazi domination and notes Europe could unite economically if rivalries vanish.
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London
Morrison
Germany
Europe
Canadian Red Cross Passes Its Objective
National officials announced the Red Cross appeal has passed the five million dollar objective and total receipts reach five million nine hundred four thousand nine hundred eighty nine. Final Alberta figures may raise the total beyond that amount.
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Canadian Red Cross
Toronto
C.P
Canadian Red Cross Society
Alberta
Prem Andrew visit seen as significant in London talks
London reports say Northern Ireland premier J M Andrews held cordial talks with Prime Minister Churchill and other ministers. The visit comes as Britain battles U boats and air raids, with coast base access potentially favored if an understanding with Northern Ireland and wire is reached.
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London
J. M. Andrews
Northern Ireland
Winston Churchill
Andrews
Britain
Ehe
Wire
Mexico Seeks Direct Ties With Canada
Mexico would welcome direct diplomatic relations with Canada, saying it seeks stronger continental ties. Foreign Minister Padilla noted no talks about resuming relations with Russia, and no developments since last week on Britain and Spain, with Britain relations having broken over oil expropriation.
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Mexico City
Padilla
Mexico
Canada
America
Russia
Great Britain
Spain
Britain
Food Situation Grim in 1917 Echo in Britain
Britain's agriculture minister Hudson warned the food situation is as grim as in 1917. He urged farmers to boost home production, recalling Lloyd George’s intensified food campaign of 1917.
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London
Hudson
Britain
Lloyd George
Officials Suspended in Alberta Game and Fisheries Branch
Edmonton, Dec. 11. Hon. D. Bruce MacMillan confirms two Game and Fisheries Branch officials are suspended pending a full departmental investigation. W. H. Wallace, provincial game commissioner, and G. M. Spargo, director of fisheries, face inquiry related to matters tied to a Calgary bribery hearing involving W. W. Colpitts, farms supervisor.
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Edmonton
D. Bruce MacMillan
Agriculture
Game and Fisheries Branch
W. H. Wallace
G. M. Spargo
MacMillan
Calgary
W. W. Colpitts
United States Grants Loans to Argentina and Uruguay
Jesse H. Jones, lending administrator, announced government loans totaling 60 million dollars to Argentina and 7.5 million to Uruguay. The announcements reflect U.S. financial aid initiatives during December. The loans were disclosed from Washington by the federal lending office.
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U.S.A
Washington
C.P
Jesse H. Jones
United States
Argentina
Uruguay
Medicine Hat song writer Henry Banks boosts patriotic tune
City readers hear Henry Banks with Canadian Boys Are Marching praised by Robert Bullen who hopes Melody Maids will perform it at a Friday patriotic concert. Christmas trees to go up soon and Tuberculosis tests continue for seventy St Theresa college students.
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Medicine Hat
Henry Banks
England
Robert Bullen
St. Theresa College
Railway near frontier damaged in RAF raid
Reuters dispatch from Aden reports the Addis Ababa Jibuti railway believed badly damaged in a Royal Air Force raid on a station near the French Somali land Ethiopian frontier. Officials of the United Church of Canada confirm partial evacuation of missionaries from Japan is underway.
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London
Reuters News Agency
Aden
Addis Ababa- Jibuti
Royal Air Force
United Church of Canada
United Church
Japan
Soldier Enlisted in 9th Anti Aircraft Battery
Port Coquitlam BC December 11 Bombardier Paul Reynolds Scott 20 whose body was found last month in a railway refrigerator car near Empress enlisted in Vancouver in 1939 with the 9th anti aircraft battery his father said today Ottawa officials reported no trace of Bdr Scott and questioned the name Raylon Paul Scott as the man with army number K 18060 no record of service or discharge was found pending further identifications.
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Port Coquitlam
B.C
Paul Reynold Scott
Empress
Vancouver
Frederick W. Scott
Scott
Ottawa
National Defence Department
8Th Army Field Regiment
C.A.S.F
England
Defence Department
Raylon Paul Scott
Paul Reynolds Scott
Alberta sets 1940 oil production record
Edmonton December 11 Alberta's 1940 oil production is estimated at 8 200 000 barrels a new record disclosed by Robert E Allen Calgary chairman of the Provincial Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board The estimate shows an increase of 605 589 barrels over the previous record of 7 594 411 barrels
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Robert E. Allen
Calgary
Provincial Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
Wait Decision on Return of Roosevelt
Commerce Secretary Jones said a decision on U S financial aid to Britain would go to Congress and could not be decided while the administration is away visiting the Caribbean with President Roosevelt on a cruise.
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Washington
Commerce
Jones
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Congress
Caribbean
Greece agrees to withdraw troops from Salonika
Meeting Allied demands Greece agrees to pull back all forces from Salonika except one division. British casualties near 1,500 as Bulgarians reinforce in the Vardar Valley during withdrawal.
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Greece
Salonika
Vardar Valley
Think Measure Aimed at Japan
New York dispatch reports that Domei in Tokyo says the United States extends export licensing controls to iron ore pig iron and certain steel products. The move is viewed as a new economic measure aimed at Japan.
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New York
Domei
Tokyo
United States
Japan
J B T Allen K Gibson Elected President In 1941
J B T Allen Gibson was elected president of the Medicine Hat Junior Board of Trade for 1941 at the annual meeting held in the Assiniboia hotel. Frank Bowker became vice president and five executives were chosen: Harry Hutchings Jack Bellam Henry Leinweber Paul Zehren and Gordon Posey. The club reported a successful year amid wartime, honoring nine members in active service. A smoker followed the meeting with 55 paid members present.
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Allen K. Gibson
Medicine Hat Junior Board of Trade
Assiniboia Hotel
Frank Bowker
Harry Hutchings
Jack Bellam
Henry Leinweber
Paul Zehren
Gordon Posey
J.B.T
Dave Starling
Bill Roxburgh
Bill Ross
Jack Prasow
Tommy Knight
Fred Millican
Lyle Wyatt
Bud McCombs
Gordon Simmons
Tribute of Silence Observed by Junior Board of Trade
At last night’s annual meeting a half minute of silence was observed and will be at future meetings to honor those who died in the services. The gesture paid respect to Medicine Hat’s three young men Davé Smithson Bert Wright and Ken Michie who died in Majesty’s services in recent weeks.
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Board of Trade
Medicine Hat
Davé Smithson
Bert Wright
Ken Michie
Majesty
Eaton's Christmas Shopping Party Starts Tomorrow
Eaton's store hosts a Christmas shopping party beginning tomorrow with a six page section preview. The feature highlights seasonal sales, gift ideas, and store events aimed at shoppers seeking holiday bargains and entertainment.
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Eaton
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