Canada’s Navy Over Five Hundred Ships
Navy Minister Macdonald told the House Canada has more than 12 destroyers and up to 24, more than 70 corvettes, plus minesweepers and motor launches with a total around 550 ships. He described crew sizes for destroyers, corvettes, minesweepers, and Fairmiles, noted wartime discharges, and argued for a postwar fleet of cruisers and submarines balanced for Atlantic needs with possible Pacific shifts.
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Ottawa
Macdonald
House of Commons
Canada
Sand
D. King Hazen
Saint John Albert
Hazen
Dominion
Nany
Canadian Navy
Mediterranean
Southwest
Pacific
Soviet shifts to static war plan amid food woes
London reports say unsatisfactory food conditions push Soviet strategy from mobile warfare to holding lines at all costs to retain occupied land. Harvest and lend lease are hoped to stave off a year end shortage, but a failure of either could threaten both army supply and civilian nutrition, with the home front near the border line.
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London
Russi
Soviet Union
Red Army
Vancouver Tanker Build Hinted For Wartime Shipping
The News-Herald reports on reliable authority that 10 000 ton tankers will start in a Vancouver shipyard this year for Wartime Merchant Shipping Limited. Details are unannounced but the plan envisions converting victory type freighters now under construction on the west coast with initial work in about two months and several units likely completed before year end.
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Vancouver
News-Herald
Industry Must Make Post War Work Its Job
J S McLean argues postwar recovery hinges on industry absorbing returning servicemen and expanding production. CMA leaders urge rapid creation of new businesses and departments to employ many workers, while addressing barriers to full employment such as taxation and working capital. Britain’s postwar policy cited as potential model with 300 new factories for refugees employing 30,000 workers.
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Toronto
J. S. McLean
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
McLean
New World
F. P. L. Lane
C.M.A
Canada
Lane
United Kingdom
Britain
Key Position for Canadian Air Routes Around World
Winnipeg report quotes W F English of Trans-Canada Airways on Canada as the crossroads of global airways. He says direct routes from U S population centers to Europe and Asia pass through Canada and future airways could reduce nationalism and foster peace and understanding.
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Winnipeg
Canada
British Commonwealth Air Service
Globe
W. F. English
Trans- Canada Airways
Mr. English
United States
Europe
Asia
Origin of Alaska Name Tied to Aleut Phrase
The term Alaska comes from an Aleut word meaning great country, reflecting the region as a vast land. The explanation links the state's name to indigenous language roots and geographic grandeur.
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Alaska
Ladies Invited to WD At Home Tours at RCAF Stations
Winnipeg hosts announcement inviting women's organizations and friends of the Women’s Division to visit air force stations. The WD At Home program aims to show the work of airwomen from filing to parachute packing and aircraft control, with visits planned at 11 stations before June 27.
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Winnipeg
RCAF
Royal Canadian Air Force
Girls In Blue
Canada
No. 2 Training Command
Women Friends
R.c.a.f.wd
Air Force
W.D
R.C.A.F
Central Navigation School
Rivers
Man
Service
Saskatoon
Dauphin
Yorkton
Sask
Brandon
Davidson, Sask
Macdonald
Dafoe
Paulson
Barbara Kemp
Premier of Alberta ties living and amenities on the Station
Arrangements can be made for women’s organizations to have W D officers speak and show movies of W D activities at meetings. Stations near small localities may offer day visits with lunch. A possible “Wives Day” could unite husbands and wives at the station, meeting by the commanding officer and guided by air women.
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W.D
Mass Japanese Suicide Attack Ends Attu Battle
Japanese forces at Attu village launched a final mass assault on May 29 at 4 a.m. The surprise attack trapped American units, killing several officers and overwhelming a first aid station, before the Japanese drive stalled at Massacre Bay. Many Japanese soldiers and civilians reportedly killed themselves with grenades.
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Cories Lakes
Attu
Cories Lake
Massacre Bay
Famine Reported in Occupied Hong Kong and Kowloon
The Japanese occupy Hong Kong and Kowloon face a severe famine with about four hundred thousand of the one million residents evacuated amid shortages.
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Chungking
Hong Kong
Kowloon
Trade Balance of Dominion Shows Increase
Trade Minister James A MacKinnon reported Canada’s favorable trade balance rose in the first four months of 1945 to 245 million dollars in surplus. Imports totaled 538.5 million and exports 777.9 million, with total trade at 1.322 billion, up from last year. He cited Mackenzie river development and the Alaska highway as key postwar links.
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Toronto
James A MacKinnon
Canada
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Mackenzie River Basin
Mr. MacKinnon
North Country
Ethiopians Trained With Modern Arms for Italy Invasion
Washington report says Ethiopian soldiers are training with modern weapons for participation in the Allied invasion of Italy. Yilma Deressa, a member of Emperor Haile Selassie’s cabinet, notes the change from spears and antique rifles used in 1936 to contemporary arms.
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Washington
Italy
Haile Selassie
Yilma Deressa
Kandanos Wiped Out In Reprisal Like Lidice
Photographs from Crete show Kandanos destroyed by German forces in retaliation for the murder of German parachutists, mirroring the destruction of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. A marble slab bears the inscription declaring the town's destruction as reprisal.
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Cairo
Crete
Kandanos
Grecian
Lidice
Year 1950 Foretold For Peak Sunspot Activity
The observation notes that the coming year of high solar activity is expected in 1950. This forecast identifies 1950 as a period of intense sunspot frequency based on current astronomical data.
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Earl of
Peter II
Yugoslavia
Alexandra
Greece
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R.C.A
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E. C. Manning
Aberhart
Trade and Industry
Social Credit Party
Russia
Orient
Clive Baillieu
Combined Raw Materials Board
British Supply Council
North America
Conference On Manpower
Henry Taylor
National War Labor Committee
Ethiopia
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