British Navy and Air Force Drive in the East
The admiralty details a coordinated Mediterranean offensive with the fleet, land forces, and the Royal Air Force driving Italians from Egypt into Libya. Naval bombardments target coastal bases as torpedo planes harass shipping, while the desert retreat accelerates under sea and air support.
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British Navy
AIR Force
East
London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Royal Air Force
Egypt
Libya
Fleet Air Arm
Maktinia
Sidi Barrani
Maktila
Salum
Bardia
Wheat For Spain Urgent Plan To Mobilize Spanish Ships
Spain aims to rush all available ocean going ships to Argentina to fetch wheat and corn as a remedy for a severe bread shortage. Steamship owners pledged ships, hoping supplies arrive before January end amid credit and British permission hurdles. Scarcity stems from Civil War losses, scarred planting, bad weather, and wartime trade blockages.
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Madrid
Argentina
Navy Ministry
Spain
Home For Christmas: Alaska Prospector Survives Wilderness Ordeal
After eight months in the Alaskan wilderness Prospector Fred Hume triggered a passing plane by crying wolf and signaling with a spruce beacon carved HEL P. A crew later landed on a lake near his cabin with a physician aboard. Hume, in good health, sought to return home to Valdez for Christmas, having burned a tree to attract attention after days of failed snow signals.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Fred Hume
Hume
Roy Dickson
A. S. Walkowski
Valdez
Butter stock shortages prompt possible imports under control
Canada may need to import butter to bolster dwindling reserves, with the wartime prices and trade board preferring butter imports over oleomargarine and urging government supervision. May 1 reserves stood at 10,006,000 pounds. continued December to May consumption could exhaust stock.
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Ottawa
Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Hector McKinnon
Burden Increases as Bank of France Expands Loans
The official journal reported France raised Bank of France lending capacity from 65 billion to 75 billion francs a provisional non interest loan to the French government to cover costs of German troops stationed in occupied territory.
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Vichy
Bank of France
Record for One Family Donates Blood for Britain
Wallace S. Jacobs and 23 relatives gathered at Lenox Hill Hospital to donate blood for Britain. Seventeen were accepted as donors, a Red Cross official said the event ranks among the largest family mass donations on record.
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New York
Wallace S. Jacobs
Lenox Hill Hospital
Britain
The
Red Cross
Christmas Truce Proclaimed in Gandhi Campaign
Mohandas K. Gandhi announces a Christmas truce from December 23 to January 4 as part of the Congress party’s push against Indian participation in the war.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Congress Party
Ethiopian Revolt Gains Momentum Against Italian Rule
London reports a revolt in Abyssinia against Italian occupation appears to be making progress. Foreign Under-Secretary Richard Butler told the House of Commons that it is Britain’s policy to aid Emperor Haile Selassie and any Abyssinians willing to bear arms against the invaders.
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London
Ethiopia
Richard Butler
House of Commons
Abyssinia
Butler
Haile Selassie
Britain mobilizes 3 million under arms for invasion threat
Britain warns of Nazi invasion as 1,000,000 home guards and thousands of coast defense and mobile troops stand ready. The Ministry says the war will be won when the army strikes deep into the axis, with 3,000,000 under arms and supplies rolling to coastal defenses.
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London
Great Britain
Hiler
Ministry of Information
Germany
Italy
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Hitler
Mussolini
Britain
War Office
Admiralty
Marine Corps
Lord Beaverbrook
Kahans
Albania
Tough times loom for Cavallero in troubled war fronts
General Ugo Cavallero who heads the Fascist General Staff after Badoglio resigns faces a bed of thorns as Italian forces retreat before a British onslaught in northern Egypt and Libya while Greeks push Italians in Albania. A British spokesman warns Hitler might disrupt Christmas and the war office asserts there is no closed season for invasion.
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Ugo Cavallero
Marshal Badoglio
Egypt
Libya
Albania
Cavallero
Hitler
War Office
United States considers seizing 37 Danish vessels
The United States weighed taking over 37 Danish ships tied up in American ports since Denmark's occupation. Officials from the maritime commission treasury and navy discussed the plan, but no decision reached. Legal authority and payment require possible special congressional legislation. Danish owners have been negotiating with American operators in New York.
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Washington
United States
Denmark
Britain
Maritime Commission, Treasury
U.S. Navy
American Congress
New York
American Viscose workers send Christmas gift to Coventry
In a show of global charity 17 000 employees of the American Viscose Corporation contributed 11595 dollars as a Christmas gift to the Coventry plant in England to aid victims of the bombed city.
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Wilmington
Del
American Viscose Corporation
Coventry
England
Versailles Paris Left Stand as Troops Withdraw
German forces have moved from Versailles the seat of the French kings in anticipation of Chief of State Petain’s arrival in the capital. The report notes the German withdrawal pattern and the shifting status of Versailles during the delay in Berlin communications.
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Paris
Berlin
Vee- Sailles
France
Petain
Canada Negotiating for Sixty Wasp Motors in Mexico
The Canadian government is negotiating to buy 60 Wasp 1100 horsepower airplane engines stored for two years in a Mexican air force workshop in Mexico City. Indalecio Prieto is said to represent the defunct Spanish Republican government in the talks. The motors were sent from the United States to Spain but the transfer did not occur when the Spanish civil war ended.
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Mexico City
Indalecio Prieto
United States
Spain
Big program to make naval guns in Canada
Ottawa announces a major munitions plan with naval gun production across three plants and mountings in five more, likely in Manitoba Alberta and Nova Scotia. Western Canada may host one or two plants as war production expands, with Britain funding portions and Labour shifting to meet demand.
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Canada
Ottawa
W. F. Drysdale
Drysdale
Manitoba
Alberta
Nova Scotia
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
West
Mr. Drysdale
Britain
Department of Munitions and Supply
Churchill says Britain ready to attack in 1941 not just defend
Prime Minister Churchill tells parliament Britain is being geared for an offensive in 1941 with US aid, not solely for defense. He asserts Britain can withstand German blows and launch counter actions in multiple theatres, noting preparations in Egypt and Libya began months ago and that an early offensive could end the war quickly.
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Britain
Germany
United States
Churchill
Hitler
Albania
Egypt
Berlin
Italy
Libya
Greece
Manitoba conference warns of wheat mite damage risk
Agronomists in Winnipeg hear H. E. Gray’s paper warning that millions of bushels of western wheat face mite infestation danger. Turning or moving stored wheat is advised to kill mites. Manitoba and Alberta have not reported infestations yet. Mites are near invisible and heat damage can destroy grain if moisture rises in storage.
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Winnipeg
Manitobba Agronomists
H. E. Gray
Ottawa
Dean A. V. Mitchener
University of Manitoba Entomology Department
Gray
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Britain pledges compensation for citizens harmed in war
Sir Kingsley Wood announced in the House of Commons that Britain will compensate all adult citizens killed or injured by enemy action. The plan covers injuries already incurred with increased rates payable from December 24.
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London
Britain
Kingsley Wood
House of Commons
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Naiade
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U.S
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Priscilla
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