Proper addressing speeds up Canadian Army mail delivery
Thousands of letters to soldiers overseas depend on precise addresses. Base Post Office staff correct errors, and omitting unit numbers or regimental identifiers causes delays. Use full details once available, as “Canadian Army Overseas” alone slows arrival.
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Thore
London
Wilds
Timbucto
Canadian Postal Corps
Canada
Canadian Armoured Corps
D Company
Rome the Eternal City Under Mussolini’s Monumental Drive
The article traces Rome from mythic founding to a modern metropolis of nearly one million, home to the Vatican within 28 acres. It notes Mussolini’s 1926 15 year drive to rebuild Rome with grand fascist monuments, new roads, and a showcase Colosseum stage for Axis display.
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Rome
Tyrrhenian Sea
Tiber River
Italy
Vatican City
Romulus
B.C
Palatine
Capitoline
Mediterranean
Symmachus
Vatican
Tiber
Campius Martius
St. Peter's Church
St. John Lateran
St. Peter's
Mussolini
Colosseum
Duce
Hitler
Painted Dogs Artist Maud Earl Dies in New York Hotel
Renowned painter of royal canines Miss Maud Earl died at the Volney Hotel in New York. Born in London, she rose to fame after 1884 with dog portraits favored by royalty including King Edward VII and Queen Victoria. Her works featured Caesar the bulldog and Showball the collie among others.
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Maud Earl
Volney Hotel
East Seventy-fourth Street
New York
London
Royal Academy
Victoria
Edward VII
George V
Edward
Caesar
Miss Earl
Britain’s 1943 Q1 munitions output tops 1942 by 40 percent
Output in Britain during the first quarter of 1943 rose 40 percent over the same period in 1942. One in three munitions workers, including shipbuilding and heavy engineering, is now a woman. Columbus named Dominica Sunday Island after sighting it on a Sunday in 1493. About 12 000 Polish airmen serve with the Royal Air Force. 2527.
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Britain
Dominica
Sunday Island
Columbus
Alarm Clock Shortage Worsens Morning Struggles in Sydney
Demand for alarm clocks soars in New South Wales with over 25 000 clocks needed immediately and around 100 daily inquiries. Wives fear missing their husbands for work as factories switch to war production reducing supplies. Some rely on crying babies to wake them.
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Sydney
New South Wales
Fom
America
Canada
Patriots in Norway Outnumber Quislings by 100 to 1
A 1940s report claims radio confiscations left Norwegians aligned with patriots vastly outnumbering Quislings by at least 100 to 1. It notes license holders fell from 460,000 to about 8,500, a figure said to include more Germans than Norwegians.
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Norway
Quislng
Sperm Whale Emission Sends Vapor Upward
A sperm whale releases a low puff of vapor that moves forward and rises, observed as a brief atmospheric display a noted maritime scene.
Children embraced farming life after wartime help
City children in Great Britain join farm life through salvage drives bee keeping and honey vending. Evacuated youths meanwhile gain interest in farming after helping with harvests and chores. The U K Information Bureau notes many now plan to become farmers, moving away from urban drift.
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Great Britain
U.K. Information Bureau
Dutch Executions Statement Across Occupation Period
The Dutch news agency Aneta, via Vrij Nederland, reports about 2,200 Netherlands executions by Germans from invasion through February 1943, with a significant rise since then and about 100 killed in the first week of May.
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Aneta
Vrij Nederland
Tramp Outside Newspaper Office Sparks Recipe for Success
An office boy reports a tramp lacking food for six days outside a small-town paper. The editor orders him brought in to learn how the man survives, joking that discovering the method could help run the paper for another week.
Not Generally Known Refrigeration Vital To War Industries
Gordon Roe notes refrigeration sustains 34 vital war industries with 22 unable to operate fully without it. Precision airplane parts require continuous temperature control, air conditioning rooms prevent material changes, and air force facilities use rapid cooling to simulate extreme flight conditions.
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Gordon Roe
R.c.af
Air Force
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Britain Arms Up With New Mighty Battleships
The five Royal Navy battleships lost in war are replaced by 35 000 ton battleships. Eight destroyers fell, but more than double that number were built to replace them. At war start Britain had six carriers and by North Africa landing days HMS Furious was the survivor among carriers. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Britain
H.M.S. Furious
North Africa
Air Cadet No 300 Unit Joins League Network
The 300th Air Cadet squadron, based in Biggar Saskatchewan as No 300 (Fisher) Squadron, received Department of National Defence approval on July 22 and affiliated with the Air Cadets of Canada League. The organization, now nation wide with 22 000 cadets, aims for 35 000. Wing Commander D R MacLaren leads as national president with Arthur L Melling as executive chairman and Group Captain D C M Hume as national director.
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Air Cadet Headquarters
Ottawa
Air Cadets of Canada
Department of National Defence
Air
League
Fisher
Biggar
Sask
Canada
D. R. MacLaren
Winnipeg
Arthur L. Melling
Montreal
D. C. M. Hume
R.C.A.F
Air Force
Goebels States British Opinion Limits Policy
In contrast to Britain, Dr Goebels argues Germany is more sensitive to bourgeois morals, curbing wartime policies. The New York Times notes this explains the Nazi leadership's delicacy.
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Great Britain
Dr. Goebbels
Germany
New York Times
British Empire cash purchases in U S exceed lend lease deliveries
During the first three years of war British Empire cash purchases in the United States totaled about 7 billion dollars, a sum larger than the United States lend-lease deliveries to Britain in the same period.
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U.S.A
U.S
Britain
Rural Housewives Get Extra Coupons For Temporary Workers
Canadian rural housewives receive extra ration coupons through the Local Ration Board to cover tea coffee butter sugar and meat when serving twelve or more meals for temporary workers. Applications must detail the work type number of workers days and total meals to secure a Transient Labor Ration Card. Coupons share value with regular rations and have no expiry date. Workers over two weeks must use their own ration book.
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Canada
Ration Administration
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Not Courtesy Calls Important Visitors Go To Ottawa
Dr. H. V. Evatt and Gen. Henri Giraud visit Ottawa for conferences with Canadian officials as Canada ranks high among Allies in the UN supply picture. Prime Minister Mackenzie King notes Canada’s growing role and the diverse leaders meeting on external affairs matters and war fortunes.
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John Dauphinee
H. V. Evatt
Henri Giraud
French Committee For National Liberation
Canada
United Nations
Mackenzie King
External Affairs Department
False alarm at Nova Scotia cottage as radio plays on
A New Glasgow resident returning to his summer cottage after three months found an intruder inside. He heard a strong masculine voice from within and, armed with a bludgeon, approached the veranda. The culprit identified the radio as Station CFCY from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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New Glasgow
Nova Scotia
CFCY
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Nazis mock Allied troops with light broadcasts
Berlin short wave programs aimed at North Africa troops include songs like Home Sweet Home Blue Skies and Keep the Home Fires Burning followed by English dialogue. The pieces instead provoke laughter among the fighting men rather than homesickness.
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Berlin
North Africa
Goebbels
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