Long Distance Pacific Naval Strategy Through Global Ports
London Sunday Times naval correspondent argues Pacific warfare hinges on vast distances and fuel logistics. He notes Allied squadrons in the Far East, Soviet and Dutch forces, and the need for a mobile oil train with escorts. He warns of strategic implications for Britain if hostilities widen toward the Far East and highlights the merchant shipping triangle Auckland to Hong Kong to Colombo.
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Holland
Russia
Far East
Pacific
Atlantic
Hong Kong
Singapore
Honolulu
Vladivostok
North Sea
Panama
Manila
Philippine
Dutch East Indies
British Admiralty
Far
Moscow
Far Eastern
Geoffre Layton
China
Great Triangle
Auckland
Colombo
London Sunday
Imitation Too Realistic For Milan Based Pigeon Hunter
Signor Bernasconi in Milan imitates pigeon calls to lure birds for hunting. A nearby hunter, thinking pigeons near, shot into the tree and hit Bernasconi with buckshot. The incident mirrors famed painters who achieved life like realism in art. Bernasconi was stung in the episode.
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Sire Bernasconi
United States
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Signor Bernasconi
Milan
Italy
Sire
Siro
Ontario
Sro Bernascon
Velasquez
Zeuxis
Matsya
Britain's Mystery Knight Sir George Binney Knighted by King
Sir George Binney, famed explorer and Oxford alumnus, is dubbed Britain's mystery knight after being knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George for special services in supplying valuable war material. He led an Arctic expedition in 1923, later joined United Steel and, during the war, worked with the iron and steel control of the ministry of supply.
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Sir George Binney
Britain
King George
Buckingham Palace
Sir George
Arctic
Oxford
United Steel Company
Iron and Steel Control
Ministry of Supply
Decorations Returned By Allies To Petain Regime
The desk of Marshal Petain’s secretaries fills with decorations sent back by former Allies condemning Vichy. The latest is a Legion of Honor ribbon from Dr Samuel H. Church of the Carnegie Institute New York. Church, 83, once offered $1.9 million to kidnap Hitler and wrote that under Petain’s government the Legion of Honor has lost its value.
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Marshal Petain
France
Vichy
Legion of Honor
Samuel H. Church
Carnegie Institute of New York
Church
Hitler
Petain
Canadian Soldier Wakes in English Hospital After Air Raid
A Canadian soldier with a concussion wakes in a hospital cot in England. A Cockney nurse consoles him asking if he is to die, replying yesterday’s timing. The report notes Britain’s large war factories move workers between departments by bus.
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England
Yesterdie
Britain
N.C.O
Herr Goebbels
Ottawa Journal
Swordfish Exports Stir Nova Scotia Fisheries Questions
Canadian fishermen launched nearly 28,000 hundredweights of swordfish from Nova Scotia waters last year. Scientists still puzzle over where these large, fast, weaponed fish originate as they note the sword is a jaw prolongation used with great power, sometimes driving it through a boat hull.
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Nova Scotia
Beggars and a Penny Bible Offer
A fragmented passage notes various begs and pleas to inform announce explain and reply. It concludes with a remark about the Bible now costing as little as ten cents, suggesting a sales pitch or publication notice ending with a mock plea.
Flaxseed Production in Canadian Linseed Industry 1940
The Canadian linseed and soybean oil industry produced 5,621,246 gallons of linseed oil in 1940 valued at 4,054,584 dollars. Linseed oil made up 94 percent of the industry's material value. Of 2,635,792 bushels of flaxseed used, 1,513,978 were Canadian, with nine plants operating nationwide including four in Quebec, two in Ontario, two in Manitoba, and one in Alberta.
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Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
Mutiny and suicides reported among German troops in Norway
Reports from Norway describe a mutiny at Kvarven fort near Bergen with many German casualties. On July 2 German officers were buried in Bergen. News from Norway also notes German port captains at Bod and Sandnesssen committed suicide earlier, and a June 17 officer shot himself in Oslo.
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Norway
Kvarven
Bergen
Washington
Bod
Sandnesssen
Oslo
Svoldersgate
Gabelsgate
Bodies of Manchester boys dug from rubble after blitz
Bodies of two Manchester messenger boys, William Higgins aged 17 and Walter Tierney aged 15, were recovered from under piles of rubble 100 yards from their homes after the German Christmas bombardment. The first steamboat sailed on Lake Erie in August 1818.
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Manchester
William Higgins
Walter Tierney
Lake Erie
Pattern 7077 Sweater Knitting Instructions for All Sizes
Pattern 7077 provides step by step knitting directions for a simple sweater with or without sleeves in small medium and large sizes. It includes stitch illustrations and lists materials required. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 Mc Dermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man for this pattern. There is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
Parallel Invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Hitler
A Canberra sourced reflection compares Napoleon's 1812 invasion with Hitler's 1941 effort. The piece notes shared aims, timelines, and tactics, including British sea power, scorched earth, and winter resistance, while highlighting differing outcomes and embedded Allied parallels.
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Russia
Napoleon
Hitler
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
Smolensk
Britain
United States
England
Prussia
Austria
Italy
Niemen River
Moscow
France
BBC
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Britain to reorganize propaganda effort under political warfare directorate
Britain plans a businesslike takeover of propaganda with a new directorate of political warfare. It will exercise absolute control over all concerned, drawing on experts from the Foreign Office, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Ministry of Information and the British Council to align BBC, War Office, Admiralty and Air Ministry to the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Directorate of Political Warfare
Foreign Office
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Ministry of Information
British Council
British Broadcasting Corporation
War Office
The
Admiralty
Air Ministry
New Zealand Leader Peter Fraser Tours British Docks
During a Liverpool visit Prime Minister Peter Fraser posed with a frozen lamb carcass for a photo at the docks. Dockworkers complained about delays but he praised the workers and defended efficiency saying any allegations were unfounded. He noted that dogs respond to men who dislike them.
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Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Britain
Liverpool
Mr. Fraser
Lamb
Fraser
Stolen Jewelry Retriever Noel Scaffa Dies in Philadelphia
Noel C. Scaffa, 53, former New York private detective famed for recovering stolen gems, died in Philadelphia after a stroke. He reportedly recovered more than 23.909 million dollars in jewelry during a 20 year career.
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Noel C. Scaffa
New York
Philadelphia
Scaffa
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Fird
Australia
Canberra
Western Desert
Berlin
Alexander
Bailic States
Poland
Czar
Joseph Goebbels
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