Traitorous Chinese Former Prem Has Bent Knee to Japan
Shanghai reports Wang Ching-wei has opened a conference at Tsingtao to back a Japanese approved central Chinese government. A signed gentlemen's peace with Japan allegedly grants economic dominance and military rights in key areas, while Chiang Kai-shek calls the move invalid but worthy of world attention.
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Shanghai
Wang Ching-wei
Tsingtao
China
Japan
Wang
Chiang Kai-shek
Chungking
Peiping
Nanking
Manchounkuo
Foreign exchange rules ease aid to Canadian tourism
Ottawa reports new regulation allowing merchants hotels and residents to accept foreign currency from tourists and to buy foreign currency from them at the official exchange rate with only standard bank charges. Tourists must sell acquired currency to authorized dealers within six days and possession limits apply unless special Board permission is granted.
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Ottawa
Canada Gazette
Canada
Foreign Exchange Control Board
War Supply Board Sees New Appointment In Ottawa
Lieut. Gd. Watter A. Harrison of Saint John New Brunswick named to the War Supply Board by Transport Minister Hon. C. D. Howe. PR. C. Vaughn resigns. board remains four members with Wallace R. Campbell as chairman and C. E. Gravel and William C. Woodward also serving.
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Ottawa
Watter A. Harrison
Saint John
N.B
War Supply Board
D. Howe
PR. C. Vaughn
Harrison
Vaughn
Wallace R. Campbell
Windsor
Ont
C. E. Gravel
Montreal
William C. Woodward
Vancouver
Lambs Sell High at Toronto Market in Year’s Peak Prices
Western lambs brought the year’s top price on the Toronto livestock market at 11.90 per cwt, with medium to good local lambs selling between 10.50 and 10.75. The CP report notes carloads from the west advancing bids and market activity yesterday.
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Toronto
War orders for Canadian shipyards exceed 30 million
Ottawa announces nearly 30 million dollars in naval and aircraft orders on behalf of the War Supply Board. The package includes steel anti submarine craft modeled on whale catcher designs, small high speed salvage boats, and a large number of aircraft for the Commonwealth training plan.
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OPV
AWA
Jran
C. Vo. Howe
War Supply Board
Royal Navy
Hehters
Canada
Britain
United States
Ottawa
C. D. Howe
Atlantic
Pacific
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Quebec
Morton Engineering and Drydock Company
Coal City
Canada Restricts Wheat Exports To Neutral Countries
Ottawa imposes licence controls on export of any article to neutral countries near enemy territories. Two orders in council under War Measures and Customs Acts prohibit wheat shipments to Russia or other states adjacent to Germany without ministerial permits. Prime Minister Mackenzie King says private deals did not prove wheat would reach Soviet Russia, but action prevents possible transshipment.
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Ottawa
Russia
Minister of National Revenue
Mackenzie King
Germany
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Soviet Russia
Winnipeg
Grain Exchange
Finland
Canada
Britain Sinks Exmouth Destroyer Feared No Survivors
The Admiralty said the Exmouth, a flotilla leader with Captain R. S. Benson, was sunk by a mine or torpedo and there are likely no survivors. Built for about £330,000, the ship carried heavy armament and could reach 36.75 knots amid Britain’s destroyer losses since the war began.
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London
C.P
Admiralty
Exmouth
Grenville
North Sea
Secretary of the Admiralty
H.M
R. S. Benson
Britain
Jane
Blanche
Jersey
Morgenthau Named War Purchases Coordinator
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau is named co ordinator of all large European war orders entering the United States. President Roosevelt shifts him to head a committee to manage finance and disruptions from expected total orders worth up to 1 billion dollars for war planes engines and factory expansions. The panel will assess prices plant expansion needs and potential effects on securities and exchange rates.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Stephen T. Early
Marly
Great Britain
France
Wall Street
Congress
German cruiser Blucher sunk in British raid Frustrated by patrol squadron
In a German naval raid off the English coast on January 24 1915 a British patrol squadron stopped the assault. More than 500 perished when the German cruiser Blucher sank and two battle cruisers were seriously damaged. The British cruiser Lion was disabled and towed to port.
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English
Blucher
Lion
Montreal’s Rene Morin named CBC Board Chairman
Rene Morin of Montreal is appointed chairman of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Brigadier General Victor Odlum of Vancouver becomes vice-chairman. The announcement follows L. W. Brockington’s retirement on Oct 18. Other board members include J Wilfred Godfrey Nathanson Plaunt Poulier Fuller and Eastland Fuller.
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Ottawa
Rene Morin
Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Victor Odlum
Vancouver
C. D. Howe
L. W. Brockington
Morin
J. Wilfred Godfrey
Halifax
N. L. Nathanson
Toronto
Alan
Blackout to stay till Nazi bomber threat is gone
In the House of Commons debate on wartime blackout casualties, Transport Minister Wallace said the blackout must continue until a sufficient portion of the German bomber force is destroyed to make air raids no longer a real menace.
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London
House of Commons
Uan Wallace
Turkey May Sign Trade Pact With Nazis
Reuters reported that Turkey was nearing a trade agreement with Germany after quotes from the Turkish minister of commerce in Istanbul. The article notes Turkey already has mutual assistance and economic pacts with Britain and France.
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London
CPI
Reuters News Agency
Turkey
Germany
Istanbul
Britain
France
Britain weighs breaking with Russia over Finland invasion
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that severing relations with Russia would require careful consideration. Sir Alfred Knox pressed Britain to cut ties over Moscow's invasion of Finland, but the PM said such a decision cannot be answered in a simple question and answer.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Russia
Alfred Knox
Finland
Moscow
Lefleche and Kenny Appointed Attaches to Paris and Washington
Major-General L. R. LaFleche is named military attache to the Canadian legation in Paris and Air Commodore W. R. Kenny becomes air attache to the Canadian legation in Washington. They join the legation staffs and report to the legation head and the Minister of National Defence. The Paris attache will brief on military developments, the Washington attache on U.S. aviation progress.
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Ottawa
L. R. LaFleche
Paris
W. R. Kenny
Washington
LaFleche
Kenny
Canada
National Defence
United States
Nazi Bombers Reported Over Shetland Islands
London reports aircraft believed to be German bombers over the Shetland Islands north of Scotland with an air raid warning lasting 31 minutes. Three invaders said to have dropped bombs, but no official confirmation yet. British fighter planes pursued the attackers.
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London
Shetland Islands
Scotland
Paris
Lauter
Wissembourg
Oege Helsingfors
Lake Lasoga
Kollaanjoki
Aittojoki
Finnish Communiqus
Interim Wheat Payment Proposal Moves to Ottawa
Edmonton dispatch reports J E Brownlee, former Alberta premier and UFA counsel, traveling to Ottawa to press for an interim 20 cent per bushel wheat payment for the 1939 crop before 1940 seeding. The guaranteed minimum price is 70 cents per bushel on up to 5,000 bushels for at least 12 farmers.
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Edmonton
J. E. Brownlee
United Farmers of Alberta
Nowen
Ottawa
King George Tours Aldershot Canadian Troops in Cold Inspection
King George inspected Canadian troops at Aldershot on a chilly winter day, driving over 50 miles to review units before moving over there. He spoke with officers, lunched with Major-General A. G. L. McNaughton, and observed the first Canadian division in full celebration of Canada Day in a stern, ceremonial setting.
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Aldershot
King George
A. G. L. McNaughton
Canadian First Division
Canada
Dominion
Lyich
McMaughton
Vincent Massey
Allied Retaliation Urged Against German Industry
Lord Marley warned in the Ontario legislature that Britain and France would bomb German industrial centres if non military objectives were attacked. He said civilian deaths would be unavoidable but insisted industrial targets in the Rhineland must be hit when necessary. He praised Canada’s war effort and noted air force pilot training as a key contribution.
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France
Nazi Germany
Germany
Europe
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
European
Toronto
Britain
Lord Marley
House of Lords
Ontario
Mitchell Hepburn
Martey Arste Taok Wold
Rhineland
Canada
Ministry of Information
Bulgaria
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