Russian raids widen across Finland and Arctic front
Reports from Helsingfors say Russian fliers bombed Helsingfors and over twenty towns in southern and western Finland while machine gunning two trains. In Kirkenes troops moved north in the Arctic Petsamo sector as battleships and other vessels report hits. A Finnish coastal battery is said to have hit the Soviet battleship October Revolution. Unverified reports claim the German liner Gneisenau may be sunk in the Baltic. Netherlands air battles over Utrecht also noted.
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Baltic
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Comitas
Flushing
Helsingfors
Finland
Hal ‘Ors
Turke
Kirkenes
Norway
Arctic
Petsamo
Vinland
Arctic Ocean
Koivisto
Paris
Havas
First Heavy Snow Storm Delays Winter Travel Across Region
A significant snow storm blanketed the area last night with up to three inches by early afternoon, delaying bus service and piling drifts on roads. Medicine Hat saw the heaviest snowfall while Brooks and Swift Current had lighter accumulations. Temperatures rose to 9 above yesterday and hovered around 27 above today, with north winds at about 22 mph.
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Medicine Hat
P.an
Inquest Into Orion Tragedy Is Adjourned Again
The inquest into the triple shooting deaths of Irens Bodin Ivan Ridley and Ernest Brodin near Orion was postponed as jurors chaired by Coroner Jr I B Patterson reconvened. They viewed the death car and examined a bloodstained cushion with bullet holes before adjourning the inquiry to Thursday December 28.
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Irens Bodin
Ivan Ridley
Ernest Brodin
Orion
Jr. I. RB. Patterson
Irene Bodin
H. Armitage
W. G. O. Rose
Co. J. Kent
M. H. Smith
E. O'Connor
J. A. Bellforemany
Hitler's Week Turns, Germany Scuttles Ships in Shakeup
The report notes 100000 tons of German shipping sunk or scuttled by order as the war unsettles Germany. Captain Landsdorff of the Graf Spee dies in Buenos Aires, following Hitler's directive. ominous signs loom for the Nazi regime and its ally Soviet Russia as events unfold.
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Admral Graf Spee
Columbus
Landsdorff
The
Spee
Buenos Airea
Hitler
Germany
Menzies Proclaims Australia’s War Aims Worldwide
Prime Minister R G Menzies announced Australia will broadcast in German, English, Spanish to explain war aims. He said Germany started the war and aims to establish law and order globally, with Australia pledging to serve peace, deter brute force, and play its part in the Empire until victory.
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Melbourne
R. G. Menzies
Australia
Germany
New Gealanders
Scosmer
Empire
Mr. M
Woald
Riafic
Pease
Astraiia
Ustralia
Vstralia
Lomesti
Smuts Credits Swift Action For Peace In Southwest Africa
South Africa’s Prime Minister General Jan Smuts told 1,000 supporters that swift government action in April kept Southwest Africa from becoming a war zone. He cited a German-trained population and warned of European plots, insisting Afrikanders’ safety and honor required defending the region.
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Standierton
Transvaal
Union of South Africa
Southwest Africas Police
Poland
South Africa
Jan Smuts
Smuts
Maier
J. E.S. Hertzog
Aftica
Africa
Europe
Germany
Austria
Czecho- Slovakia
Great Britain
Southwest
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Arrives in France
25 years ago in 1914 the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry landed at Havre as the first Canadian unit in France. German attacks near Chalons and La Bassée were repulsed and French forces advanced between the Aisne and the Lys on the western front.
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Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry
France
Havre
Chalons
la Bassec
Aisne
Lys
Calgary Alderman Lenihan Arrested on Defence Regulation Charge
Calgary Alderman Pat Lenihan a Communist council member was arrested today on a Defence of Canada Regulations charge. He appeared in police court reserved election and bail set at 250 with remand to Jan 3. The charge stems from an address at a Dec 3 meeting forming a Canadian Labor Defence League.
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Calgary
Pat Lenihan
Defence of Canada
Norman Dingle
Lenihan
Fea
D. C. Sinclair
Labor Defence League
French View Might Be Realized
Paris December 24 report reveals exiled copy of the yellow book shows the French ambassador to Berlin Robert Coulondre warned Hitler that the real postwar victor would be Trotskyist Communism. He voiced this fear in an August 25 interview when Hitler sent a personal note to Premier Daladier hoping France would avoid war.
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Paris
Berlin
Robert Coulondre
Hitler
Hon J A Macdonald Dies At 81 Former BC Judge
Victoria report notes Hon J A Macdonald aged 81 former chief justice of the provincial appeal court died today after a long illness. He entered politics in 1905 elected Liberal member for Hossiand and later became party leader in the provincial house.
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Victoria
J. A. Macdeonald
British Columbia
Hossiand
Close Shave as Troopship Missed Collision in Fog
A troopship carrying Canadian soldiers narrowly avoided disaster in dense fog near Britain. The two ships passed within feet, lifeboats were damaged on the outward vessel, and the Samaria returned to port for repairs. A separate incident saw a British civil plane strike a balloon barrage in Manchester, killing two.
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London
C.P. Cable
Great Britain
Samaria
Manchester
Eng
First Canadian Division to be supported by RC AF squadron
Ottawa reports Hon Norman Rogers announces overseas despatch of the first Canadian division with 6 000 to 7 000 extra corps troops. The force will include medium and field artillery engineers signals army service ordnance and hospital units from both permanent and auxiliary RCA F branches plus a separate RAF squadron.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Norman Rogers
National Defence
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Roger
van Vliet
City of Toront
R.C.A.F
Canada
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
England
Rogers
Army Service Corps
Ordnance Corps
Hore-Belisha Praises Canadian Forces at Aldershot Camp
Secretary of War Leslie Hore-Belisha visits the Canadian active service force at Aldershot and calls them unbeatable after a 25 mile two hour inspection. Vincent Massey and Brigadier Crerar accompany him as Paris hails Canada's arrival.
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Aldershot
England
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Dominion
Debarkation
Marke
Vincent Massey
United Kingdom
H. D. Crerar
London
Hore-Belisha
Paris
Cp-Havas
Great Britain
Canada
Georges Bidault
L'Aube
Wartime Censorship Notes Quietly Used by Press
Canadian wartime censorship operates through notes from Ottawa chief press censors under the Defence of Canada Regulations. So far 3¢ notes have been issued, yet they rarely affect readers, with Canada’s wartime news flow coordinated by The Canadian Press from its New York bureau, distributing overseas despatches received from The Associated Press.
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Frank Flaherty
Ottawa
Canada
Defence of Canada
New York
United States
Associated Press
Bennett Urges Canadian Credit Confidence for U S Firms
Toronto dispatch reports former Prime Minister R B Bennett told a luncheon gathering that Canadian businessmen should assure U S partners Canada’s credit is sound. He said the United States is deeply interested in the outcome of the current war, a defense of Christian civilization, as are Britain and France.
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Toronto
C.P
U.S
R. B. Bennett
United States
Canada
Bennett
British Empire
France
Christmas Supplies Reach Far North By Airplane
Edmonton fliers delivered train-loads of Christmas mail and supplies to Coppermine and Aklavik after weather delays. Copper mine received its first air mail since last August. Four Arctic planes held up by bad weather finally brought essential goods for the Christmas celebrations.
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Edmonton
C.P
Coppermine
Aklavik
Arctic
Akjiavik
Americans may join Canadian Royal Air Force under new rules
Ottawa reports that amendments to Royal Canadian Air Force regulations last night opened the way for American recruits to join the RC A F reserve. Previously only British subjects could enlist for commissions or non commissioned ranks. The Oct 28 order in council loosens birth and citizenship requirements for air force reservists.
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Ottawa
C.P
United States
Royal Canadian Air Force
United Kingdom
Canada
Air Force
Air Force Reserve
R.C.A.F
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Gulf of Bothnia
Jika Aistralia
J. A. Macdonald
R.c.af
West
East
M. Bidault
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