Allies Sink Over Fifty German Submarines Says Paris
French estimates place more than 50 U boat losses by the Allies since the start of the war. Germany, starting with about 60 subs, may have 35 remaining after Allied destroyers reportedly sink four per week. Front line troops repulsed four German raids between the Moselle and Vosges.
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Paris
Germany
France
Moselle
Vosges
England
British Isles
London
Britain
Finland
Helsingfors
Lake Inari
Aberdeen
Star of Scotland
Strathalbyn
Strathrannock
Mild In Medicine Hot But Snow Falls At Swift Current
Last Wednesday the low reached 12 above and the weather turned milder until last Sunday with a 16 above low. Monday was two degrees warmer and last night dipped near freezing at 28 above. At 1 p.m. today the temperature was 48 with a 15 mph southwest wind from Lethbridge, while to the east snow falls from Swift Current to Winnipeg.
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Lethbridge
Swift Current
Winnipeg
BC Attorney General Pledges Help for Ducks Unlimited
Gordon Wisher said the British Columbia game board will cooperate with Ducks Unlimited to preserve wildlife. He met T G Main in Vancouver to discuss a game survey in the province amid provincial detectives seizing 1000 copies of the Mid West Clarion in Montreal.
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Victoria
CLP
Gordon Wisher
British Columbia
Bume Board
Ducks Unlimited
Vancouver
T. G. Main
Montreal
Nine ships sunk in North Sea and off Scottish coast
Danish freighter Jytte of 1877 gross tons sank in the North Sea with survivors reaching a northeast English port. British trawler Zealous, 324 gross tons, sunk by German planes with crew rescued. Danish freighter Bogo, 1214 gross tons, sunk by a mine off the Scottish coast. some of a crew of 17 saved, according to Copenhagen.
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Jytte
North Sea
Copenhagen
Air Force offers skilled jobs beyond pilots
The Royal Canadian Air Force announced opportunities for Canadians in many trades beyond flying. Areas include metal work, cabinet making, machinist, plumbing, radio mechanics, photographers, cooks and clerks. Requirements include fitness, high school level education, and ages 18 to 40, with up to 45 for highly qualified applicants. Ontario plans expand St Thomas training with 2,009 to 3,000 capacity and multiple specialized schools are envisioned.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Defence Department
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada
Ontario
Ontario Blorpital
St. Thomas
R.C.A.F
Bacon Board Named by Govt
Ottawa reports the Bacon Board includes J. G. Taggart as chairman with S. E B. Todd Adrien Motin and others. The board carries out terms of the agreement with the United Kingdom to supply up to 5 600 000 pounds of bacon and hams weekly. The chairmans appointment was announced last week and the Order in Council has been passed.
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Ottawa
Bacon Board
United Kingdom
J. G. Taggart
Saskatchewan
S. E B. Todd
Industrial and Development Council of Canadian Meat Packers
Toronto
Nazis Barred From Foreign Broadcasts Sentences Hit
In Berlin and Danzig eight people were sentenced in the last 24 hours to prison terms from one to two and a half years for listening to foreign broadcasts. In Danzig five family members were jailed two and a half years for listening to French and British broadcasts and telling neighbors what they heard.
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Berlin
C.p.havas
Danzig
Stores Stay Open Late This Week Amid Shortened Weekend
Stores will remain open until 9 o clock Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings this week. They will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
Old criminal is young in years
Michael Rottare aged 17 pleaded guilty at City Police Court to six charges of theft and was remanded for sentence. He received two years for theft from Central garage plus six months on five other theft charges, to run concurrently, ending a crime career that began when he was 11. He jumped bail of 300 dollars after release on forgery charges in Calgary.
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Michael Rottare
Prince Albert
Calgary
Rottare
Canadian Troops Settle In Overseas Camp in England
Canadian volunteers in khaki settle at a new camp in England after a long ocean voyage. The last of their troop trains arrived from Halifax and Ontarians complain about delays during unloading. The camp offers coby huts modern facilities and large recreation spaces as Major General McNaughton reviews arrangements and visitors include Colonel Hamilton Gault and Mrs. Gault.
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Gillis Purcell
England
C.P. Cable
Canada
Halifax
Salisbury Plains
Coby
Military Staff College
Camberley
A. G. L. McNaughton
Canadian Active Service Force
Hamilton Gault
Gault
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
Winnipeg
LARCENY SPREE LINKED TO ROTTARE ARRESTED IN LETHBRIDGE
Police traced a series of thefts including six chick ers from H Reed and items from Central garage Black hardware and a parked auto. Rottare fled by bus to Lethbridge where a call led to his arrest. He faces a history of convictions from Calgary juvenile court through 1939 with recent forgery and uttering charges and $300 bail set.
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H. Reed
Pashley
Sergi J. Sheward
Lethbridge
Rottare
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose Return for Christmas
Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose arrived in London from Scotland to spend Christmas with the King and Queen. It is their first reunion with their father since mid August, shortly before Britain declared war on Germany. The Queen had previously visited them in Scotland in October.
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London
Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
Scotland
Germany
Bomb Blamed on Irish Terrorists in Birmingham
A bomb exploded at a Birmingham department doorway and police believe Irish Republican Army terrorists planted it. Sandbags around the building limited damage.
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Birmingham
England
Irish Republican Army
RAF denies RAF bombs two German towns on Sylt
The Air Ministry said a German News Agency report claiming the Royal Air Force bombed two towns on the island of Sylt in two raids today was entirely false.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Sylt
United States Farm Prices Rise Sharply
Chicago reports a Christmas market lift as white chalked price figures on trading boards show gains for wheat rye and soybeans since late November. Wheat up about 24 cents in three weeks rye 26 cents and soybeans 29 cents pushing prices to two year highs.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
United States
Battle actions near St Hubert and Dukla Pass reported
Twenty five years ago on December 20 1914 reports from the Canadian Press note the Battle of Champagne began with Allied defense against German assaults near St Hubert Belgium. German forces captured Lowicz Poland while an Austrian division was said to be routed at Dukla Pass in Galicia.
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Russia
Finland
Germany
Poland
Champagne
St. Hubert
Belgium
Lowicz
Gallicia
Dukla Pass
Cross Country Meals For Troops On Halifax Train
In Halifax a trainload of Canadian troops en route to Great Britain and the front received heavy provisioning. For a typical movement of 481 men from Toronto meals included 1,000 pounds beef and 350 pounds lamb with thousands of eggs and sausages. The commissary car run by Steward Arthur Mills and a 13 man staff fed soldiers from morning to night with two meals daily and cleaned 10,000 pieces of cutlery and crockery.
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John Leblanc
Halifax
C.P
Canada
Great Britain
Toronto
Arthur Mills
Horticultural Society Sets Annual Meeting Date
Executive of the Horticultural Society met at City Hall last night and decided to hold the annual meeting on Friday January 12 at 8 p.m. in City Hall. Open to all interested citizens. Annual reports will be submitted and officers elected for the coming year. Weather: light rain or snow, temperature 46 to 48 degrees.
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Horticultural Society
The
Sir Eugene Fiset Named Quebec Lieutenant Governor Elect
Former Deputy Minister of National Defence Sir Eugene Fiset of Rimouski, a Liberal MP since 1924, was announced as the next Lieutenant Governor of Quebec to take office January 1. The 63 year old veteran of the South African War and First World War service, who has held top defence posts and faced multiple honors, will succeed Hon. Be. L. Panatide whose term expired in May.
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Ottawa
Hugene Fiset
Peter Rimousxi
Bassistre
National Defence
Qubec
Mackenzie King
Eugene
BE. L. Panatide
House of Commons
Rimouski
Quebec
Rimousi
J. B. R. Kiseé
Defence Department
Defence Deepartment
So Africa
Paarneberg
Army Medical Corps
Order of St. Michael and St.George
France
Belgium
Saint Sava
Serbia
Checho-Slovakia
Hous of Commons
Rimousk
L. Taschereau
Quenec
Captain Langsdorff Dies by Own Hand at Buenos Aires
Captain Hans Langsdorff, commander of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, killed himself at the naval arsenal in Buenos Aires after the ship’s loss. The German embassy issued a communique stating he sacrificed his life for the fatherland.
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Buenos Aires
Des
Hans‘ ‘Langsdorff
Graf’ Spee
Naval
Kehler Pleads Guilty To Brooklyn Slaying In Rage
Ernst Kehler a Winnipeg born amateur boxer known as Haas confessed to killing Walter Engelberg secretary of the German Consulate in New York. He described a burst of rage after advances. He was arraigned in Brooklyn charged with murder and extradition proceedings began.
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Ted Farah
Toronto
Ernaest Kehler
Police
Walter Engelberg
New York
Nazi
Ikxehler
Winnipeg
Haas
Engelberg
Brooklyn
James Parker
Michael Kearns
King’s County
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