Failure to supply data leads to oil plant confiscation
Bucharest reports Romania confiscated Autra Romane Oil Company the largest British owned firm in Romania for failing to provide production information as required by law. The move follows government appointees taking control of the company. Budapest papers say Hungary considers renewing claims to Transylvania amid postwar border tensions.
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Autra-Romane
Bucharest
Romania
Autra-Romane Oil Company
Gheron Netts
Royal Dutch Shell
Budapest
Hungary
Transylvania
Rumania
Ottawa discusses unemployment insurance bill with business and labor
July 24 Ottawa the special Commons committee heard from labor and big business. Labor supported the bill with minor changes while big business urged postponement and study suggesting a wartime measure may be unsuitable. Dawes urged a special labor department panel to review the bill and alternatives.
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Ottawa
Commons
Norman J. Dawes
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Lords Hold Secret Session on Government Foreign Policy
Lawmakers in London held a secret session to debate the cabinet's foreign policy. The discussion focused on diplomatic strategies and Britain's stance amid international tensions without public attendance or disclosure of specifics.
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London
House of Lords
Greek Steamer Adamastos Sunk by German Submarine
A British steamship saved 24 survivors from the sunken Adamastos off Palmas after a German submarine ordered abandon ship. The 484-foot 7466 gross ton former Hanover was en route from South American ports to Europe with cereals when sunk.
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Cape Town
South Africa
C.p.reuters
Adamastos
Palmas
Baleric Islands
Hanover
Lykes Brothers Steamship Co
Co. M. Lemos
Piraeus
Greece
Europe
Chester
Daladier Seized by Vichy Regime in Marseille Move
Marshal Petain's government ordered former premier Edouard Daladier and other parliamentarians confined to Marseille as part of an inquiry into France's entry into the war and the defeat. Daladier and others had left France when Reynaud's government gave way to Petain's armistice regime, arriving from French Morocco.
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Vichy
France
Marshal Petain
Edouard Daladier
Marseille
Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Petain
French
Morocco
Alberta Social Credit bank bill faces constitutional roadblock
Ottawa July 24 The Alberta Social Credit plan to form a provincial bank hits a constitutional wall as law officers say Dominion Parliament cannot enact a bill ceding banking power. Alberta treasurer Solon Low cites a unanimous opinion from provincial lawyers while MPs spar over potential bank politicization and discriminatory lending.
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Ottawa
C.P
Alberta
Dominion
House of Commons Banking and Commerce
PP. Vareou
Justice Department
Alberta Provincial Executive Council
Wahoe
Tain
Hon Solon Low
Arthur Slaght Thib
Parry Sound
Jaques
Slaght
Local Service Training School Will Be Huge Aviation Centre
Citizens monitor progress on the Service Flying Training School in the city as major construction advances. Work supports a vast aviation complex with runways planned, Stampede Grounds buildings demolished except the grandstand, and gravel and asphalt plants preparing a permanent airfield.
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Iocale
Hitler
Empire Air
Canada
General Construction Co
Wheat Bill To Be Introduced By Mackinnon
Ottawa July 24 Trade Minister MacKinnon announced a measure titled the Canadian Wheat Board Act to address lost overseas markets and large Canadian wheat stocks. The plan includes farm storage allowances and a processing levy of 15 cents a bushel on wheat used for domestically consumed flour and products, effective midnight July 23.
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Ottawa
C.P
MacKinnon
Canadian Wheat Board Act
Canada
Chinese Guerrillas Drive Back Japanese Near Hong Kong
Chinese guerrillas and regulars attacked 900 Japanese forces at dawn near Hong Kong. By noon Japanese artillery forced the Chinese to retreat to a position about 20 miles north of the city, with about 3,000 Chinese engaging.
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Hong Kong
Canadians urged to "serve by saving" for war effort
The article promotes War Savings Certificates in Canada with a theme of silver bullets against Hitler. It urges continued support of the War Savings Campaign, equating saving with active fighting in the conflict. A wartime national appeal emphasizes thrift and loyalty to victory.
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Adolph Hitler
Canada
Hitler
Med Hat Fans Boost Bomber Fund With Local Gifts
Medicine Hat LO LA E chapters thank citizens for Tag Day donations and old gold and silver gifts for the Bomber Fund. Special contributions included Mrs H Lang four dollars twenty five, Mrs Brotherton eight dollars five, Connaught Golf Club ladies thirty two twenty five, Ladies Social Credit tea sixty one dollars five, total forward to the Rolinghrone Bomber. In Tobruk harbor British planes hit a jetty where submarines were seen, four explosions followed per RAF report.
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Lo.la.e
Medicine Hat
Bomber Fund
H. Lang
Brotherton
L. A
Canadian Legion
Tronas Elder
Social Credit
Rolinghrone
Empire
L.C.D.E
Cairo
Tobruk
Libya
Royal Air Force
Medicine Hat Horticultural Society General Meeting
The Medicine Hat Horticultural Society will hold a general meeting Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in City Hall.
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Horticultural. Society
The
Medicine Hat Horticultural Society
R A F Attacks German Factories and Oil Depots
British night air raid targets included aircraft factories at Gotha Kassel and Wensendorf oil depots at Hamburg and Gelsenkirchen railways anti aircraft batteries and airdromes across Germany and the Netherlands Bomber raids on Dunkerque harbor and Flushing docks were reported One plane failed to return and two German planes were shot down
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London
C.P
Air Ministry
Coma
Gotha
Kassel
Wensendorf
Hamburg
Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Netherlands
Dunkerque Harbor
France
Flushing
Amsterdam
British capture Nasiryeh and Axis gains in 1915 totals
British forces seize Nasiryeh along the Euphrates as Austro German troops take Poltuisk in Poland and force the Narew passage. Berlin claims 1,500,000 Russian prisoners in the conflict.
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Nasiryeh
Euphrates
Poltuisk
Poland
Narew
Berlin
Germiuinie
U S Conscription Plan Proposes Sept 1 Registration
Washington reports preliminary registration for the United States conscription program set for September 1 with 400000 initial draftees to begin training about a month later. War Department officials say agencies are already preparing the selective service system though Congress has not yet acted. Early trainees likely will be men aged 21 to 31.
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Washington
United States
Congress
War Department
Nazi Raiders Battle Over Sea and Thames Estuary
The air ministry reported four German planes shot down by Royal Air Force fighters in addition to nine previously announced. A German auxiliary vessel with naval escort was attacked in the North Sea and a convoy battle over the Thames estuary left six German planes down and three officers killed or missing. More than 100 bombs were dropped on shipping off the southeast coast and an 86 year old woman was wounded in Scotland.
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London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
North Sea
Fleet Air Arm
Admiralty
English Channel
Thames
Scotland
Wheat payment set at 70 cents a bushel in Canada
Ottawa reports the 70 cent per bushel rate for No 1 Northern wheat basis Fort William will continue for the coming crop year. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange remains open and cash and futures prices stay near current levels. Growers may deliver their entire crop to the board this year, not limited to 5,000 bushels under the 1939 act.
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Ottawa
Fort William
MacKinnon
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Registration Machinery To Be Ready Soon
Ottawa reports registrars across Canada are lined up to handle a national registration on August 19 20 and 21 with dates labeled provisional to allow quick changes Judge Davis deputy minister of National War Services said the machinery is being prepared for operation and official dates may be announced in the Commons Friday The Canadian Teachers Federation holds its annual meeting in Hamilton from August 12 to 17.
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Ottawa
C.P
Canada
Justice T. C. Davis
National War Services Department
Davis
J. G. Gardiner
Commons
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
Hamilton
Canadian Doctor Waved Through German Column in France
A Canadian doctor from Beauharnois, Quebec, bravely slipped through a German mechanized column near France on June 18 while fleeing toward safety in London. He rode with the convoy for about 35 miles risking capture as his wife remained in German-occupied territory.
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France
London
C.P
Beauharnois
Que
British
Petain
Dl League
England
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Indian Ocean
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Deladier
Varcoe
Med. Hat
R.A.F
Dunker
U.S
R.A. F
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