Young Admiral in Command of the Home Fleet
Vice-Admiral John C Tovey, one of the Royal Navy’s youngest admirals, was named commander in chief of the home fleet. Sir Henry Harwood becomes admiralty commissioner and assistant chief of naval staff, with Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Blake assigned to special duties. Tovey’s career highlights include destroyer leadership in the Mediterranean and a Jutland DS.O. win. The appointments signal intensified sea warfare and echo Beatty’s first World War role.
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London
John C Tovey
Royal Navy
Charlies Mo Fortes
Admiralty
Henry Harwood
Ceeds
Geoffrey Flake
Jack” Tovey
Sir Henry Harwood
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Sir Henry
Tovey
Jutland
Onslow
Wiesbaden
Derfelinger
Defender
Admiral Tovey
Earl Beatty
Rodney
Sea Lord
Navy
Chatham
Mediterranean
HMS Patrol
Amphion
Faulkner
Jackal
Wolfhound
Children Face Bombing with Calm in War Time Schools
London reports show schoolchildren meeting air raids bravely as bombs strike a Midlands elementary school killing six seven year olds while others are wounded. Evacuated pupils and local youths line up calmly as teachers guide them through the attack.
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London
Great Britain
Midlands
Belgian Crew Rescued by Panam Near Azores
Panam radio reports the Belgian freighter Kabalo crew of 16 rescued from a drifting lifeboat about 475 miles southwest of the Azores. The captain and 26 crew members remain missing in another lifeboat.
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New York
Panam
Mackay Radio
Norway's Oslofjord Seized by Britain for Transport Use
Marine circles report Norway's largest and most luxurious ship the 18 673 ton Oslofjord tied up in New York has been taken over by Britain and will soon sail for transport service during the war.
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New York
Norway
Oslofjord
Britain
German Freighters Sold in Buenos Aires Sale
Three German freighters, the Lahn Anatolia and Nienburg, taken refuge in Buenos Aires, were sold by North German Lloyd to Argentine firm Compania Argentina de Navigation Lloyd Argentina. Ships stay idle until war’s end for about $1.4 million. British sources say they may be seized or sunk if leaving neutral waters. proceeds bolster German propaganda in Argentina. Crews’ fate unclear.
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Buenos Aires
North German Lloyd Company
Compania Argentina de Navigation Lloyd Argentina
Germany
Argentina
Capture Nazi Prisoners Near St. John’s N D
Two German prisoners who escaped from an internment camp were spotted by a rabbit hunter in an empty shack near St. John’s North Dakota and reported to police. Officers quickly rounded up Capt. Wilhelm Josting and Ernest Munch, interned after the German ship Christopher Dorum was seized at the outbreak of war.
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St. John's
Nild
Wilhelm Josting
Ernest Munch
Christopher Dorum
War orders totaling 550 million placed by munitions bodies
War orders totaling nearly 550 million dollars have been placed by the department of munitions and supply and its predecessor the war supply board. Of the total, six per cent went to Canadian firms, nine per cent to the United Kingdom, and five per cent to the United States.
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Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
War Supply Board
Howe
United Kingdom
United States
Japanese Minister Arrives Ottawa to Start Duties
Seijiro Yoshizawa reached Ottawa to assume the role of Japanese minister to Canada succeeding Baron Shun Tomii who has returned to Japan. Dr O D Skelton under-secretary of state for external affairs welcomed the new minister.
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Ottawa
Seijiro Yoshizawa
Canada
Shun Tomii
Japan
O. D. Skelton
Canada’s War Poster Highlights Commonwealth Role
A British poster promotes Canada as a fighting member of the British commonwealth of nations. It cites 12000 Bren guns, 360 planes monthly, 240 million pounds copper, nickel, aluminum output, 150 million bushels of wheat, and plans to train 20 000 pilots and 30 000 air crews yearly. It stresses Canada’s independent nationstatus and shared fight for freedom.
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Ministry of Information
Air Force
Canada
Western Hemisphere
British Commonwealth of Nations
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic
Prairies
Valley of the St. Lawrence
Britain
Germany
Grace for Wartime London Grace at defence lunch
Lord Woolton, minister of food, offered thanks for wartime sustenance. He cited the Grace of God and the vigilance of the Royal Navy, mercantile marine courage, dock and transport workers devotion, food traders, and patient farmers who have supplied Britain's table.
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London
Lord Woolton
National Defence Committee
Royal Navy
Mercantile Marine
Devoton
Toronto Sub-Lieut Strathy among Ajax casualties
Sub-Lieut. G. H. K. Strathy, 22, of Toronto, was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Ajax. His parents were informed. The Ajax fought in the Mediterranean engagement, sinking two Italian ships and defeating ten others.
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Toronto
Pat) Strathy
Mediterranean
Ajax
Nascopie Completes Long Arctic Patrol to Greenland
The ice-breaker Nascopie under Captain T F Smellie returned to the St Lawrence after completing the 19th eastern Arctic patrol of nearly 12 000 miles. Maj D L McKeand notes it as the longest, most momentous cruise, with Greenland visits emphasized as a new feature. Canada and the United States aided Greenland after Denmark’s fall to Germany, naming consuls including K P Kirkwood for Canada.
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Ottawa
T. F. Smellie
St. Lawrence River
Greenland
D. L. McKeand
Capital
Denmark
Germany
Canada
United States
K. P Kirkwood
Bomb disposal chief honors humble homes in Britain
Capt. Robert Davies of the Royal Engineers praised bomb disposal squads for safeguarding both St. Pauls Cathedral and the nation’s humblest homes. He said the big landmark is important, but the little man’s home is his castle, held dear by all.
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London
Robert Davies
Royal Engineers
St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul's
Davies
St. Paul’s
Industrialist William Hichens killed in London raid
William Lionel Hichens aged 66 a leading industrialist and chairman of Cammell Laird and Company shipbuilders and director of the London Midlands and Scottish railway was killed in a recent London air raid the disclosure said.
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London
William Lionel Hichens
Cammell, Laird and Company
London, Midlands and Scottish Railway
Saskatoon Seaman dies in Victoria hospital
Seaman Ralph Herbert Baxter 19 of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve died in hospital in Victoria. Born in Saskatoon he arrived at the naval barracks here three months ago.
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Victoria
Ralph Herbert Baxter
R.C.N.V.R
Saskatoon
Naval Barracks
Reach Agreement Winnipeg on Wheat Price Reduction 1940 41
The Canadian Wheat Board says a general agreement was reached for the 1940 41 crop year with the Northwest Line Elevators Association the wheat pools and United Grain Growers Limited. They reduce the spread between track and street prices by one half cent per bushel and make the change retroactive to August 1.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Northwest Line Elevators’ Association
The
Wheat Pools
United Grain Growers, Limited
Prairie Provinces
Cost Of War Credit Approved By British Commons
The House of Commons approved a war credit of £1,000,000,000 or $4,450,000,000 to fund heavy expenditures through March. Sir Kingsley Wood said the war costs Britain about £9,000,000 or $40,050,000 daily.
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Great Britain
London
House of Commons
Kingsley Wood
Britain
First Canadian draft falls short of target in war training
Ottawa reports 25 525 men enrolled for 30 days of training out of 29 500 required at 39 centres. Of 29 559 called, 2 034 were medically unfit. Causes include seasonal farm work, war industry, prior militia service, student status, and absences in rural districts.
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Ottawa
Canada
Departments
National War Services and
National Defence
Quebec
Department of National War Services
National War Services Boards
London Will Remain Capital Amid War Evacuations Debate
Government sources reiterate London will stay the capital and compulsory evacuation is not ordered. Malcolm MacDonald warns of a rising wartime spread of cerebro spinal meningitis as crowds and shelters fuel disease risk.
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London
House of Commons
Malcolm MacDonald
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Borne
Reuters News Agency
Vernon Bartlett
Foreign Office
Bartlett
Times
Lord Horder
Royal Air Force
Petra
Trans-Jordan
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