War Relief Collectors Allowed to Continue Work
Ottawa officials announced that organizations collecting clothing, household items, Gi and medical supplies for bombed areas and liberated nations may proceed with their work with some temporary limits. Large groups like Bed Crue and LODE may extend operations until June 30, about 200 local groups may continue collecting until September under new rules. The order covers used clothing, foodstuffs, drugs, medical equipment and base metals for kitchen utensils, with purchases approved by the Canadian United Allied Relief fund and other funds.
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Ottawa
Natural War Services Partment
Sune
E Bed Crue
LODE
Baume
Sepmer
United Allied Relief Fund
Nd Ite
Canada
Mali
UNRRA
Ire
National War Ser Ices
Army leave rules for long service men explained
Defence headquarters in Ottawa and London set quotas for rotational duty and service leave. Men on long service tours are returned after 30 days at se but the pace aims at about 2000 men monthly. The system shares leave between British bases and home areas, with several front returnees and others from Britain noted.
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Defence
Ottawa
London
Britain
Farmers May Produce More Coarse Grains
Winnipeg reports backing from the weather forecast for more coarse grain acreage in 1945 as wheat seeding is delayed by cold weather and snow flurries across the prairie provinces. Grainmen expect farmers to shift from wheat to oats and barley to support meat production, with April seeding delayed in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
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Winnipeg
Dominion Agriculture Department
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Gardiner
Red River
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Prairies
Luftwaffe leadership unravelled by relentless Allied raids
Allied sources report the German air force has lost centralized command after two years of heavy airfield strikes. Evidence suggests a disjointed force, with no clear directing authority remaining to coordinate operations.
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London
Chinese Delegates Leader at United Nations Conference
A Chinese delegates leader of the National Socialist party served as one of the two members of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
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National Socialist Party
United Nations Conference On International Organization
San Francisco
Supply program shifts to French provisional government
General Eisenhower announced that starting May 1 the French provisional government will assume responsibility for the entire French supply program. Previously Allied supreme headquarters managed essential civilian supplies for Britain and the United States. The article notes that twenty million lives and four hundred billion dollars were lost in World War I.
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London
Ger
Eisenhower
France
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Britain
United States
Ship torpedoed be lost in this war
Ottawa reports the Canadian minesweeper Guysborough torpedoed in the North Atlantic with 53 missing after the attack. Thirty seven survivors, eight injured, and three additional missing British crew. A Royal Navy rescue ship evacuated them to a British port. the action occurred in rough seas with a long 19 hour ordeal.
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Ottawa
Loas
North Atlantic
Guysborough
Navy
Abbott
Britain
Canada
First RAF prisoner returns home from German camp
WO G F Booth of the RAF, the first British armed forces member captured in this war, has been returned from a German prisoner of war camp after being liberated by British troops a week earlier. He was shot into the sea and captured on September 4, 1939, the day after war was declared. Your Duty Buy A Victory Bond.
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London
WO. G. F. Booth
R.A.F
First Canadian Army Cares For 10500 Displaced Persons
Since crossing the Rhine into Germany the First Canadian Army has aided about 10500 displaced persons from many European nations. Workers formerly in German factories and farms are housed by mixed Canadian British detachments under Allied oversight. Western Europeans are being returned home while eastern groups stay in camps until land routes to Poland Russia or the Balkans are secure.
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Rhinend
Germany
Ems River
First Canadian Army
Europe
Poland
Russia
Balkans
First Polish army unit leads Berlin assault
In Moscow Bela-Czimiersky revealed that the first infantry division of the First Polish Army spearheaded the Berlin assault after fighting with Russians from the Vistula. Poles celebrated at the Polish embassy in Berlin as London firms evacuated plan to relocate to Belgravia after the blitz.
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Moscow
Berlin
Vistula
Bela-Czimiersky
Warsaw
London
Belgravia
City of Westminster
Disputes Will Not Be Settled At Conference
Representatives from 46 nations meet at the San Francisco Opera House to seek a path to permanent peace. President Truman warns the conference is not for settling borders or reparations while Stettinius, Warren, and Lapham urge unity. delegates listen with grim resolve to forge a single voice for enduring tranquility.
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San Francisco
Opera House
Harry Truman
Washington
Mackenzie King
Canada
Truman
P F R A Gives Water From Cypress Hills to Saco Montana
Regina announces a new agreement under a good neighbor policy to supply 2000 acre feet of water from the Cypress Hills reservoir to Saco Montana for sugar beet and alfalfa irrigation. Canada and the United States share waters on a 50 50 basis and more water will flow south this time as a result of the deal.
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Regina
P.F_R.A
Saco
Montana
George Spence
P.F.R.A
Cypress Hills
Frenchman River
Canada
United States
P.F. R.A
Bonds drive gains through payroll deductions in Winnipeg
JR Reid of the War Loan Committee notes payroll deduction purchases grew from 65 million in the Second Victory Loan to 225 million in the Seventh. He states the payroll total across campaigns equals the Seventh Loan's 23 billion overall figure and praises Canadian National Railways employees for past responses, urging them to exceed quotas in the Eighth Loan drive. He adds that contributing helps the country and overseas forces.
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C.P.R
Saskatoon
Canadian Pacific Railway
R. C. Wheeler
Air Force
Lloyd A. Carley
D.F.C
Harold D. Quigley
H.C. Taylor
Moose Jaw
R. L. O’brien
National War Finance Committee
R. C Wheeler
CPR
R. J. McLeod
Saskatchewan
A. K. Warner
Mr. Wheeler
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
JR Reid
War Loan Committee Nation
Reid
CNR
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National War Services Department
Ices Board
Prices Board
Overas
Wu Yi-Fang
Ginling College
China
Ralph M Cannion
Assocation
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
C . Monty
Miles Dempsey
2Nd Army
Omar Bradley
12Th Army Group
Bernard L. Montgomery
21St Army Group
William J. . Simpson
U.S
A.D.C
Stettinius
Earl Warren
California
Roger Lapham
C.N.R
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