Interview With A Former Jap Envoy To Canada
Canadian military attache Col L V M Cosgrave visits the Tokyo Canadian legation after Allied bombardment. The envoy tours the damaged city, meets Tokugawa Prince in the Diet lobby, and discusses Ottawa news and wartime prisoner conditions with the former minister.
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Canada
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Swim Jegation
Col L. V. M. Cosgrave
Canberra
Australia
Col. Cosgrave
T. P. Symonds
St. Andrew's Church
Mainichi
Tokugawa
House of Peers
Ottawa
Diet
King
Viscount Bennett
England
Japan
France to vote in October general election and constitutional referendum
Paris campaign begins for the October 21 general election, the most significant post war vote in Europe. About 650 members will be elected by proportional representation, with a concurrent referendum on whether to retain the 1875 Third Republic constitution or form a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution.
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Paris
France
Blow to Franco Paris
Franco told to withdraw troops from Tangier International Zone in Morocco after Tangier conference in Paris. British ambassador Sir Victor Mallet and Bernard Hardoc conveyed the decision to Madrid. Move is seen in Paris as a serious blow to Franco.
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Paris
Franco
Spain
Tangier
Morocco
Madrid
Victor Mallet
Bernard Hardocd
Attlee Warns Against Repeating War Mistakes
London reports Prime Minister Attlee marking six years since Britain's entry into World War II. He cites Japan's Manchurian invasion as a breach of peace that eroded League credibility and stresses law as universal to preserve peace, referencing 1914–18 losses and the atomic era.
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London
Attlee
Britain
Japan
Manchuria
League of Nations
Mr. Attlee
India
Coal Shortage Warns of Severe European Famine Next Winter
The Office of War Production warned of a worldwide coal shortage that could trigger drastic disruption of order in Europe next winter. Britain may export little coal, Russia struggles to meet even essential needs, and the United States faces deficits of up to 15 million tons of bituminous and 12 million tons of anthracite, with 22 million tons needed for Canada.
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Washington
Office of War Production
Europe
Britain
Russia
Donetz
United States
Canada
Belgian Police Discover Secret Room Of Black Market Food
Belgian police and a Canadian Army provost marshal raided a Campine luxury hotel building and uncovered a hidden chamber behind false walls and a sliding panel. The room held 200000 francs worth of black market food supplies.
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Brussels
Campine
No More Censors End of Press Censorship Abroad
British press censorship is abolished for non military news and dispatches. The British section in Tehran ceased activities, and censorship is lifted for British Egyptian non military reports. American correspondents in Cairo still submit despatches to U.S. censors. France ends all censorship as ordered by the provisional government.
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London
Britain
Teheran
Cairo
United States
Provisional Government
France
Meat ration tokens to give Canadians about seven each
The wartime prices and trade board announces the first meat ration token distribution will provide about seven per person. About 80 million blue tokens will be issued across the Dominion, slightly larger than nickels with a hole in the middle and stamped Canada ration and viande meat on both sides.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
Dominion
Canada
Last Stand Of Canadians At Hona Kone And Hong Kong
Maj. Gen. Maltby recounts the courage of the Winnipeg Grenadiers who fought three days in Hong Kong with a single company. He recalls Brig. Lawson’s last stand and the deaths of Lawson’s aides Hennessy and Lyndon. Maltby, released after 3.5 years as a Japan prisoner, honors Canadian units and notes a 1943 diphtheria outbreak in camps.
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India
C. M. Maltby
Hong Kong
Crown Colony
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Maltby
John K
Jake) Lawson
Toronto
Ottawa
Japan
Rc.a.f
Brig. Lawson
Col
Patrick Hennessy
Maj
Charles A. Lyndon
Edmonton
Nations food and agriculture conference set for Quebec
Quebec City will host the United Nations food and agriculture conference next month, according to reliable reports. Delegates from multiple nations are expected to attend the event in Quebec to discuss global food security and agricultural policy.
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Washington
Quebec
Surplus Canadian Army Vehicles Sold to UN Relief Agency
Maj. Gen. D. E. Dewar said the Canadian War Assets Corporation has completed an initial sale of about 3,000 surplus Canadian army vehicles to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The sale, via the Canadian Mutual Aid board, aims to spark more transfers of Canadian materials to aid European nations, with about 3,000 Canadian personnel to move the fleet on the continent and help restore transport for crops and essential goods in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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London
D. E. Dewar
Canadian War Assets Corporation
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Canadian Mutual Aid Board
Czechoslovakia
Poland
French Indo China Return Faces Possible Native Turmoil
Gen. B Jacques le Clerc, the French surrender signatory, said he would command about 8 000 white and native troops when they land at a French Indo China port on an undisclosed date. He noted Laos is the only semi autonomous state in the colony to side with the Allies.
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Yokohama
Jacques le Clerc
le Clerc
Kingdom of
Laos
Port in the Sea Closed After Five Years of War Use
More than 3,000,000 tons of cargo and American military equipment were discharged at the Holy Loch war emergency port in the Firth of Clyde. The port has been discontinued after nearly five years of operation and handled liners such as the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary and Aquitania.
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Firth of Clyde
Glasgow
Holy Loch
Montreal Christian Social Order sends labor and press notice
The Montreal council on Christian Social Order mailed a statement on human relations in industry and commerce to Canadian members of parliament labor leaders school principals and daily and weekly newspapers to inform public debate.
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Montreal
Montreal Council On Christian Social Order
Canada
King Sends Message To Far East People
London reports the king broadcast to Singapore and Far Eastern peoples stressing unbroken ties of loyalty and affection. He praises liberation from Japanese aggression, expresses sympathy, and pledges restoration of security and happiness with God’s help. The message also honors the queen and notes the long work ahead.
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London
Singapore
Singapore Radio
Far East
France eyes large Canadian purchases up to 450 million
Ottawa reports France seeks extensive Canadian goods possibly totaling 450 million dollars with cash and long term credit. An official says buyers must find sufficient Canadian supply as negotiations continue with French purchasing agents and government departments. Generated credits would require parliamentary authority, with Gen. de Gaulle assured of support during his visit.
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Ottawa
France
Canada
Gen. de Gaulle
Lotteries Banned In Alberta After War End
Attorney General Lucien Maynard told a western Cosmopolitan clubs convention that Alberta will ban lotteries once hostilities end unless federal law changes. He noted wartime charitable lotteries and urged appeals to Ottawa to amend current lottery legislation.
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Edmonton
Lucien Maynard
Alberta
Maynard
Ottawa
Pearson says war‑torn nations need huge UNRRA help
Ottawa for a few days Canadian ambassador L B Pearson told reporters that the needs of war devastated countries are tremendous and UNRRA will face a difficult task in the coming months. He chairs UNRRA's supply committee and says gifts to UNRRA should aid Canadian trade as people grow accustomed to Canadian goods.
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L. B. Pearson
Washington
Europe
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Pearson
U.N.R.R.A
Germany’s Final V weapon said to carry deadly gas
London report in the Daily Express claims Germany collected 10 000 tons of bombs and shells filled with a new lethal gas. One drop would kill a man within 20 minutes. The gas was described as Germany’s last V weapon planned for use.
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London
London Daily Express
the Express
Germany
Russia plans northeast Pacific coast development
The Kharovek radio broadcast says Russia will build new harbors on the Kamchatka peninsula opposite Alaska as part of a large-scale development of its northeast Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
Russia
Pacific
Kamachatka Peninsula
Alaska
Edda Ciano Interned on Lipari Island
The ministry of the interior announced that Edda Ciano daughter of Benito Mussolini has been interned on Lipari an island off Sicily once used to imprison anti Fascists.
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Ministry of the Interior
Edda Ciano
Benito Mussolini
Lipari
Sicily
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