German U Boats Suffer Heavy Losses This Year
London reports Allied hunting of German submarines destroyed upwards of 3 U boats in the Atlantic from March to November crippling the U boat fleet. Churchill and Roosevelt announce November merchant losses lowest since May 1940 and note Azores bases aided anti-submarine successes.
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London
Atlantic
Hitler
Europe
Churchill
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Karl Doenitz
Washington
Azores
Portugal
Churchill Visits 4th Queen's Own Hussars in North Africa
Prime Minister Churchill, honorary colonel of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, rode with the regiment in North Africa and spoke of hope for enemy abandonment in 1944. He wore an army uniform with ribbons and inspected the unit, noting its transition to tank duties and past actions in Greece Crete and the desert.
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North Africa
Churchill
4Th
Queen's Own Hussars
Greece
Crete
Desert
Hussars
el Alamein
Egypt
Cyprus
Casablanca
Damaged Bremen Faces Long Recovery After Allied Bombing
A traveller described Bremen as 70 percent damaged with harbor districts crippled for three years. No ships could sail the Weser to Bremen after the raids, with Bremerhaven handling munitions and a Nazi official citing 6,009 to 7,000 killed and 20,000 wounded.
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Stockholm
Bremen
Weser
Bremerhaven
Small Staff Ottawa Aids Santa Aid as UN Relief Agency Grows
Ottawa expects many Canadians to apply for relief jobs but notes UNRRA will have few positions. Canada will supply relief to occupied Europe and distribution will be run by local governments. UNRRA will act only after Allied armies hand over civilian administration.
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Ottawa
Santa Claus
United Nations Reef and Rehabilitation Administration
U.n.b.ra
Canada
Europe
U.N.R R.A
U.nrr.a
United Nations
Wheat acreage to stay at 1943 level at conference
A. M. Shaw of the federal agricultural department said the Dominion provincial agriculture conference recommended keeping Canadian wheat acreage in 1944 at the 1943 level of 17,488,000 acres. The talks also floated modest changes in oats barley flaxseed rape and sunflowers with limited confidence in gains.
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Ottawa
A. M. Shaw
Federal Agricultural Department
Dominion Provincial Agriculture Conference
Shaw
Meeting Planned for Dominion Prime Ministers in London
Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons that arrangements are made for a meeting of dominion prime ministers in London with details under discussion. Dominion leaders have visited London separately during the war but never together.
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Dominion
London
Clement Attlee
Council
House of Commons
Attlee
Britain
Allowances to dependents not stopped for crimes
Defence headquarters stated allowances to dependents of soldiers are not stopped for crimes or misdemeanors by the soldier, except when pay is stopped for absence without leave over 21 days. The note refers to Edmonton dispatch quoting W J Williams of the Canadian Legion, saying investigations are underway into cases where allowances were cut off due to the husband’s punishment.
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Ottawa
Defence
Edmonton
W. J. Williams
The
Canadian Legion
Legion
Courage of Mrs Gordon in lifeboat earns British Empire Medal
London reports Mrs Margaret Hope Maberley Gordon survived 52 days in an open lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed. The King awarded her the British Empire Medal for enduring great suffering in the lifeboat commanded by Third Officer James Whyte. they were the sole survivors when the boat was rescued.
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London
Margaret Hope Maberley Gordon
Gordon
H. J. North
Sea Cliffe
N.Y
James Whyte
Whyte
Japanese Submarines Sink S S Henry Knox in Persian Gulf
Cadet Midshipman Maurice W. Price recalls two 300 foot Japanese submarines sinking the cargo vessel Henry Knox in June. He says the subs looted lifeboats and equipment before submerging. Eleven of forty one crewmen remain missing and two died in lifeboats.
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Los Angeles
Maurice W. Price
Price
Persian Gulf
Wisconsin Battleship Launch Aimed At Tokyo
The United States Navy launched the battleship Wisconsin on the second anniversary of Pearl Harbor, built over about 33 months at a cost of 90 million dollars. Jane's Fighting Ships lists the ship at 860 feet long, 108 feet beam, about 52,600 tons displacement, and 33 knots speed with nine 16 inch guns.
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United States Navy
Wisconsin
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Ralph A. Bard
Navy
Jane’s Fighting Ships
Jane's
Most Significant Allied Conference Says Smuts
Field Marshal Jan Smuts called the Allied conferences the most significant in a century and urged secrecy. He warned of heavy work ahead and anticipated victory by Christmas next year, saying unity exceeded expectations and crucial cooperation was secured for peace.
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Cairo
Jan Christian Smuts
Smuts
Union of South Africa
Britain
United States
Russia
Brighton MP foresees English army meeting Soviet advance
Lt-Col Anthony Marlow, Conservative MP for Brighton, said in Brighton that the end of the war is in sight and that when the Soviet army enters Germany an English speaking army would meet it halfway. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Brighton
Eng
Anthony Marlow
Germany
It Makes Us Jealous of Fat Newspapers Abroad
Stanley Bell, London Daily Mirror managing director, says wartime Canadian and American papers are larger than those in England and expresses envy. He urges readers to buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Montreal
Stanley Bell
London Daily Mirror
England
Farm Machinery Moves Into Top Priority Class
Ottawa reports a new Washington committee will survey world demand for agricultural implements and allocate production. Canada’s farm equipment output rises with quotas tied to 1940 levels, though bottlenecks curb growth and rationing continues into 1945.
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Ottawa
Europe
Washington
Farm and Food Machinery Committee
Combined Production and Resources Board
Canada
U.S
Governor General backs Scout book program for Europe
Ottawa reports the Governor General and Chief Scout approved a 1944 Boy Scout week and a plan to supply basic scouting books in Polish Flemish Dutch Norwegian and Czech Slovak languages for use in occupied Europe after the war. The project budget ranges from 7500 to 10000 dollars.
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Ottawa
German POWs Arrive for Alberta Lumber Camps
Two carloads of German prisoners of war from Lethbridge internment camp arrived in Edmonton en route to lumber camps at Chisholm and Smith in northern Alberta. Guards were provided by the Veterans' Guard of Canada. The prisoners, among the first to work in winter lumber camps, will live in specially constructed facilities.
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Edmonton
Lethbridge
Alta
Chisholm and
Smith
Alberta
Veterans’ Guard of Canada
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