Britain and France to Command Sea in War Outlook
Analysis argues Britain and France would command the sea at the start of a new war. It outlines blockade plans for Germany and Italy, convoy protection, trade route patrols, and coastal bombardment. It compares fleets, notes Axis forces lag, and cites new detection devices and stronger armaments as the anticipated counter.
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North Sea
Berlin-Rome
Britain
France
Coas
Jutland
Germany
Abe forms new Japanese cabinet amid Manchukuo focus
General Nobuyuki Abe is tasked with creating a cabinet to pursue a moderate policy after retirement. Emperor Hirohito asked Abe to replace HirTanuma as prime minister while balancing international tensions with Soviet Russia and Japan’s China campaign. Shigemitsu named as likely foreign minister candidate.
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Tokyo
Nobuyuki Abe
Japan
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Hirohito
Abe i
Hiichiro Hiranuma
Soviet Russia
Manchukuo
China
Abe
Great Britain
United States
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Britain
Ontario Motion Seeks National Registration Week
Ontario deputy minister E A Horton announced a Dominion request to proclaim a National Registration Week to count unemployed transients and relief recipients in Canada. Horton spoke at the Ontario Municipal Association convention and said unemployed men would sign the form when seeking work or relief.
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Toronto
E. A. Horton
Ontario
Dominion
Canada
Horton
Ontario Municipal Association
Communists in German camps granted privileged prisoner status
The Kurier Warszawski reports that 12 000 Communists remaining in German concentration camps have been designated privileged prisoners. Germany promised freedom for all Communists to satisfy a non aggression accord with the Soviet Union and has already sent some from Dachau to the Soviet Union. Others are planned to depart Germany soon.
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Warsaw
Kurier Warzawski
Independent
Berlin
Soviet Union
Germany
Dachau
Kurier Warszawski
Plaque Unveiling Set for Emma Albani Birthplace
A commemorative plaque honoring Emma Albani will be unveiled September 24 in Chambly Quebec, marking the birthplace of the renowned Canadian opera singer who died in London in 1930. The announcement confirms the event.
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Montreal
Emma Albani
London
Chambly
Que
Japanese goodwill flight crew endure high altitude crash scare
Takeo Ohara of Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi sponsors recount a harrowing near catastrophe in bad weather during a goodwill round the world flight. Two crew members lost consciousness after climbing above 20 000 feet as windows iced over, others feared they were goners until oxygen revived the exhausted crew.
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Nome
Alaska
Takeo Ohara
Osaka
Mainichi
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Higher Pay For Militia Ottawa
The government is understood to have approved the schedule of pay for troops now performing duties due to militia mobilization though no formal announcement has been made. Details of the rates will follow in a few days and will be higher than the pay given to Canadian troops in the Great War with increased separation allowances for wives dependents and parents.
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Ottawa
Wheat Exports Totals Rise Over Year In Canada Week
Dominion bureau of statistics reports overseas wheat clearances for the week ended August 25 totaling 1,885,710 bushels, up from 1,733,931 the prior year. No exports to the United States for consumption. in bond shipments down from 5,000 bushels. Cumulative exports August 1–25 total 10,445,119 bushels, above 1938’s 5,434,936.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Canadians Fix Thanksgiving Date for 1939
The secretary of state announces that Thanksgiving Day in Canada will be observed on Monday October 9, 1939. This follows the usual practice of the second Monday in October.
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Secretary of State Department
Ottawa
Canada
Brown paper parcel over golf course found to be Bocaccio book
A brown paper parcel dropped from an aeroplane over a local golf course was believed to contain a bomb. It proved to be an Italian 1882 edition of Boc caccio. The owner was not found.
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Stoke Pages
Security Dependence on Early War Entry Urged
Rear Admiral Yates Stirl ing told the national convention of the United States Veterans of Foreign Wars that America's security rests on defeating dictators at war onset. He argued neutrality laws block material aid to allies, closing ports to protect Atlantic cities and industrial life, a stance he called ungrateful and harmful to national interests.
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Boston
Yates Stirling
National Convention
United States
Atlantic
Germany's Occupation Rules Slovakia Amid Power Shift
Bratislava reports Slovakia surrendered powers to a German army of occupation with an estimated 300,000 German troops at key passes along a 250 mile frontier to Poland. Premier Tiso backs German rule as essential for independence against Poland, while Slovak authorities warn of German court punishments and requisitioned supplies.
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Bratislavia
Slovakia
Poland
S‘uehrer
Hitler
Czecho-Slovakia
Josef Tiso
Bratislava
Tiso
Hlinka
Guards Step Up Patrol At Hudson Bay Grain Port
Special guards were assigned to patrol government property at Churchill Manitoba after workers found the water supply to the government terminal elevator cut off. A take-off valve from Rosabelle lake appears opened and RCMP Corporal P Graves leads the probe to determine if sabotage caused the outage.
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Churchill
Man
Hudson Bay
Rosabelle Lake
P. Graves
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Record Tourist Business Banff Alta
All time peak in tourist business at hotels hosteleries and camps in the Rocky Mountains operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway was reported by Sir Edward Beatty. U S holidaymakers supplied most rail traffic as European tensions redirected steamship vacationers to mountain resorts.
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Banff
Alta
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Pacific Railway
Edward Beatty
United States
Europe
Honey Awards at Canadian National Exhibition
Toronto Western Canada entries won two awards in honey judging at the Canadian National Exhibition. F. L. Hand and Son of Farmingdale Saskatchewan took the liquid honey light in glass class. C. G. Pearcy of Kelowna British Columbia was first in the sections of comb honey class.
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Toronto
Western Canada
F. L. Hand and Son
Farmingdale
Sask
C. G. Pearcy
Kelowna
B.C
New Wheat Crop Winnipeg Protein Indicates Higher Baking Quality
Preliminary tests from the board of grain commissioners show the new crop wheat may exceed last year in protein content. Early lab data from 997 samples before Aug 23 yield 3 percent above last year with Manitoba 14.1 percent, Saskatchewan 14.7, Alberta 14.5. Only a portion of early harvests analysed. final western Canada average not yet estimable.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Commissoners
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Currency Export Ban Imposed in Australia
A government proclamation bans gold and currency note exports from Australia and tightens overseas exchange controls. It caps bank sales or exchanges at 5000 pounds per person per month for business use and limits private remittances to 5 pounds monthly.
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Canberra
Australia
Vessels Warned of Mine Menace in Danzig Gulf
The Polish radio warned vessels near the Gulf of Danzig to avoid a danger point three miles off the coast. Messages in four languages urged pilots from Gydnia, amid fears Poland is laying mines to deter Germany over Gdynia Danzig and the Polish corridor. Poland mobilizes reserves, Europe watches Warsaw mission progress.
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Danzig Gulf
Warsaw
Gulf of Danzig
British United Press
Gydnia
Germany
Gdynia
Danzig
Baltic
Poland
France
Britain
Adrian Carton de Wiant
Jacques Faury
Slovakia
Free City
Edward Boselmann
Canada prepared for war as August 1914 echoes return
Ottawa presses measures for national defense with permanent forces guarding coasts and key sites. Sir Robert Borden recalls 1912 London study of Imperial defense and the rush to preparedness, including censorship and emergency powers. Parliament meets Aug 18 1914 amid war declarations and rapid mobilization.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
Sir Robert Borden
Sir Robert
London
Imperial Defence Committee
Robert Borden
Quebec
Vancouver
Glace Bay
N.S
Canso
Sydney
Saint John
N.B
Seattle
Robert
United States
Rainbow
Pacific
British Columbia
Algerine
Shearwater
Duke of Connaught
Wilfrid Laurier
Europe
Change Ritual Wording Philadelphia
The Royal Order of Moose unanimously resolves to remove the term dictator from its rituals and titles of elective officers worldwide. The term has appeared since the group's founding 32 years ago and will be replaced by governor in all usages.
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Philadelphia
Royal Order of Moose
Sawmills Operate At Peak Demand In New Westminster
Fraser River port sawmills employ about 3000 men and run day and night to fill orders. Lumbermen report business at its highest peak in nearly a decade, saying conditions are almost embarrassing in their strength.
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New Westminster B.C
Fraser River
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