Bombing Costs in Hamburg Show Economic Air Power Edge
RAF and RCAF raid Hamburg costing about 88 bombers and 600 to 700 men, delivering 9,500 tons of bombs in several raids. The cost per bomber and crew totals roughly 74 million dollars, with far lower losses per ton than the Luftwaffe in the London Blitz. Civilian casualties in Hamburg are disputed, while Liverpool and Plymouth endured severe attacks with varying morale effects.
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London
RAF
RCAF
Hamburg
Luftwaffe
Stockholm
Liverpool
Plymouth
Postal service for seamen letters via Montreal line
Arthur Randies announced a new Ottawa mail program to speed letters to merchant seamen aboard foreign ships. Mail will be cleared through Montreal and addressed to the individual, ship name, CO Post Office Box 9000 Montreal PQ, built on cooperation with Canadian postal authorities naval services and the British transport ministry.
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Ottawa
Canada
Arthur Randies
Montreal
Randles
Naval Postal Services
British
Ministry of Transport
Assassination Report Sinks French Fascist Leader in Paris
Paris radio via Reuters reports the killing of Jean Moncurie, secretary to Jacques Doriot's French Popular party, by three unidentified men. No date or details given. Doriot and his headquarters have faced repeated attacks by French patriots. a previous secretary was killed in Paris last August by the French underground.
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London
Paris
Jean Moncurie
Jacques Doriot
French Popular Party
Reuters News Agency
Doriet
Return of Territory London Press Remarks by Soong
Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, in London during a British visit, said China expects Manchuria and Formosa to be returned after the war. He declined to comment on Hong Kong when questioned during a press conference.
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London
T. V. Soong
Britain
China
Manchuria
Formosa
Hong Kong
Canadian Wheat Supplied to California Dairymen
Canadian wheat shipments totaling 400000 tons will be provided by the War Food Administration to California dairymen facing severe livestock feed shortages. The allocation aims to ease feed supply constraints across the state.
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Sacramento
Cali
United States War Food Administration
California
State Department of Agriculture
Change Policy Into Open Defiance Of Nazis
Stockholm observers say Sweden may move to deny German troop transit through its territory in a bold shift after Allied victories. Government decision reportedly made or imminent, with Germany likely informed. Public announcement expected as the decisive next step in three years.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
Dinlandz
Luftwaffe Bleeding to Death as Allied Air Offensives Bite
British and American reports estimate German air strength shrinking under heavy losses in July across Europe and Russia. Analysts say Nazi production may be as low as two thirds of 20 000 planes yearly, with German fighters and bombers sustaining major hits from night raids and daylight raids on factories.
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London
Luftwaffe
Middle East
U.S
Europe
Russia
Mediterranean
Germany
Western
First Canadian woman medical officer joins army medical corps
Army Medico accompanies Sicilian invasion forces to the Middle East with Nursing Sisters of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Capt Marion Ross of Toronto becomes the first woman commissioned in the Canadian Army as a medical officer. She is a University of Toronto medical graduate with bacteriology training at the University of London and previously worked as bacteriologist for the Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service under the British Ministry of Health.
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Sicily
Middle East
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Marion Ross
Toronto
University of Toronto
Ross
University of London
Ministry of Health
Winnipeg firm lands contract for 150-bed military hospital
Bird Construction Company of Winnipeg has won the contract to build a new 150 bed military hospital at the A4 artillery training centre in Brandon. Work is to commence immediately as arrangements are completed.
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Winnipeg
Brandon
Bird Construction Company of
Wilson's Army In Middle East Is Ready To March
General Sir Maitland Wilson said Middle Eastern forces are available to Eisenhower in the central Mediterranean. He warned the outcome in the Aegean and Crete hinges on Allied advance in Italy and German resistance, while stressing readiness to seize any opening and the option of occupying zones if needed.
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Wilson
Middle East
Cairo
Mediterranean Theatre
Italy
Middle Eastern
Sir Maitland Wilson
Fisenhower
North Africa
Aegean
Crete
Rhodes
Balkans
Eisenhower
Tunisia
Sicily
Vatican
Germany
Gen. Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Pamphlets Reveal Possible Mussolini-Style Shake-Up in Germany
Swedish paper reports propaganda circles distributed across Germany under Gestapo eyes. Pamphlets claim a Mussolini style coup would trigger strikes and protests calling for peace, with the dictator figures jailed and mass crowds seizing food from Nazi villas.
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Stockholm
Germany
Gestapo
Harvest Help May Be Moved By Use Of Trucks
Edmonton reports Wartime Price Board officer Hugh McAfee says farmers in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba may transport harvesting helpers by truck with special permits for Aug to Nov 15. Permits override a transport ban for farm workers and apply only to the three prairie provinces. Transport of crop salvage and freight rate cuts are also discussed by railway officials and salvage supervisors.
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Edmonton
Hugh McAfee
Office of Wartime Price Board
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
McAfee
Prairie
George Stephen
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Stephen
Canadian National Railways
W. S. Kickley
Winnipeg
National Salvage
Western Canada
Kickley
E. C. Fisher
Peace River Block
B.C
A. Sheline
Calgary
British Columbia
Ottawa to Hold Courses for Service Officers
Educational and other selected officers of Canada’s three armed services will attend courses on discussion group techniques and current affairs. A joint committee coordinates with the Canadian Association for Adult Education and Canadian Legion Educational Services. Lecturers include W H Brittain and others from McGill Manitoba Toronto and Ottawa. Courses will be held at McGill University and other universities from August through September.
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Ottawa
Canada
Armed Services
Navy
Army
Air Force
Canadian Association For Adult Education
E. A. Corbett
Canadian Legion Educational Services
Wilfrid Bovey
Montreal
W. H. Brittain
McGill University
H. McD. Clokie
University of Manitoba
W. J. McCurdy
University of Toronto
R. M. Saunders
R. Westwater
Queen’s University
Mount Allison University
University of Western Ontario
University of Saskatchewan
University of Alberta
University of British Columbia
New Barley Shipment from Lowe Farm to Port Arthur
The first car of new barley was loaded at the Lowe farm near Morris by the Manitoba pool in C N car 510465 and shipped over Canadian National lines to the Manitoba wheat pool at Port Arthur. The 2 200 bushel shipment was grown by George J Wiebe J G Harder and Isaac Chaponsky with a yield of 20 to 25 bushels per acre.
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The
Mussolini
Hitler
Goering
Himmler
Goebbels
Royal Canadaan Air Force
J. A. Morten
Unication
Bitsy
Grant
D.F.C
Watrous
Sask
R.C.A.F
Didsbury
Alta
D. M
Morten
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Ragusa
Mihailovich
Balkan
Scutari
Reich
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