Return of Canadian troops to Canada speeds up in 1945
Motion of repatriation accelerates as about 29 000 troops are slated to sail to Canada in August after 15 900 left for Canada in August. By end of October veterans from the RCHA and Saskatoon Light Infantry may return home, with total overseas strength estimated at 282 829 across the Mediterranean northwest Europe and the United Kingdom.
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Rad Oeynhausen
Germany
Netherland
Britain
Canada
Dominion
Rch.a
Saskatoon Light Infantry
Europe
Mediterranean
United Kingdom
Canadians Begin Long Homeward Voyage From Kowloon
More than 300 Canadian prisoners of war sailed from Kowloon aboard the Empress of Australia on the first leg of reunification home. Escorted by the cruiser Prince Robert the transport would stop at Camp Stanley to load civilian internees before heading to Manila for processing and eventual return to Canada within about five weeks.
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Hong Kong
Kowloon
Camp Stanley
Manila
Canada
Prisoners of War to Arrive Dressed. Back Pay Due
The inter service committee on prisoners of war says Canadian POWs liberated from Japanese territory will return home correctly dressed and receive back pay with 3 percent interest. A 12 page booklet notes some men may get uniforms from another service but exchanges will ensure proper dress on arrival.
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Ottawa
Interservice Committee On
Governor General and Princess Alice Sail to England for Holiday
The Governor-General and Princess Alice depart Ottawa aboard the Empress of Scotland for a two month English holiday. They plan to return to Canada around November 20 and stay until February or March when Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander succeeds the Earl of Athlone.
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Ottawa
Alice
England
Canada
Earl of Athlone
Harold Alexander
Sir Harold Alexander
the Vale
Windsor Forest
Alexanders
Rideau Hall
Canada Seeks Credits Tie to Tariff Concessions in World Trade
Ottawa argues that extending large U S credits to Britain cannot end imperial trading preferences. Canada says US tariff concessions must accompany credit relief, with Britain needing about 7 billion dollars in credits and Canada prepared to contribute up to 1 billion dollars.
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Ottawa
United States
Britain
Lord Keynes
Washington
Canada
Commonwealth
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Egypt
Japanese officers commit suicide with grenades at Singapore surrender
Report states three hundred Japanese officers killed themselves with hand grenades during the Singapore surrender ceremony. The claim notes mass self inflicted deaths within the Japanese forces as they capitulated.
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Singapore
Return of Territory asks for Eritrea restoration
London reports that Emperor Haile Selassie appealed to the United States Britain France and Russia to restore Eritrea to Ethiopia. The broadcast cited promises that Ethiopia would regain all historic frontiers in northeast Africa.
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London
Haile Selassie
United States
Great Britain
France
Russia
Ethiopia
Northeast
Africa
Eritrea
Tax Exemptions Could Rise in October Budget
Ottawa reports expect Finance Minister J L Isley to raise tax exemptions to 800 for singles and 1500 for married couples when presenting the October budget. MPs cite credible sources as saying 1945 earnings and 1946 taxes will be affected. A seven percent base tax may be eliminated on 1946 income, with unions urging higher exemptions for singles and married people.
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Ottawa
Finance
J. L. Isley
Sevral
Isley
Ilsley
Trades and Labor Congress
Canadian Congress of Labor
Canada’s Meat Surplus listed for devastated countries demand
In Ottawa Agriculture Minister J G Gardiner told the House of Commons Canada has a great meat surplus and faces no shortage. He noted Canada must supply about six percent of the meat needs of devastated countries and outlined steps to boost hog production and advance price signals to farmers for a year ahead.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. G. Gardiner
House of Commons
Gardiner
GH. Castleden
C.cf
Yorkton
Western Fairs Officials Confer On Postwar Plans
In Ottawa J Charles Yule manager of the Calgary fair and stampede and Walter Jackson secretary of the Western Fair London Ontario spoke to the Central Canada Exhibition Association board. They discussed postwar activities and noted western fairs continued during the war with armed forces moving out of fairgrounds three times yearly for shows at Calgary and Regina.
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Ottawa
J. Charles Yule
Walter Jackson
London
Ont
Central Canada Exhibition Association
Yule
Jackson
Canadian Fairs’ Association
Calgary
Regina
Saskatoon Professor Herzberg Joins Chicago Astronomy Dept
Research professor Gerhard Herzberg of the University of Saskatchewan is named professor of spectroscopy in the University of Chicago’s astronomy department. He will move to Williams Bay Wisconsin to work at Yerkes Observatory and continue atomic and molecular spectroscopy studies. He earned a PhD from Darmstadt and did post doctoral work at Goettingen.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Gerhard Herzberg
F.R.S.C
University of Saskatchewan
University of Chicago
Williams Bay
Wisconsin
Yerkes Observatory
Herzberg
Institute of Technology
Darmstadt
Germany
University of Goettingen
UK jewelers plan domestic clock making to meet demand
London reports the National Jewellers’ Association doubts 40 000 Canadian clocks will satisfy demand and plans to begin watch and clock production in Britain at the earliest opportunity.
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London
National Jewellers’ Association
Canada
Britain
British Prisoners Of War May Return Via Canada
It is learned that arrangements are being made by the British high commissioner's office for transit through Canada for numbers of liberated British prisoners of war from the Far East.
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Ottawa
British High Commissioner's Office
Canada
Far East
Figures Re Pensions For War Service In Canada
Ottawa Veterans Minister Mackenzie reported by July end 33 000 ex servicemen and dependents received disability pensions totaling nearly 17 million dollars annually. Of these 119 118 pensions 15 621 served overseas 3 497 in Canada. First World War pensions brought total beneficiaries to 90 442 with 37 147 677 annual liability.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie
Canada
C.W.A.C
C. Was
Canadian Prisoners Freed from Hong Kong Eligible for Pacific Star
Defence Minister Abbott told the commons liberated Canadian Hong Kong prisoners would qualify for the Pacific Star. Earlier HQ said Commonwealth servicemen freed from Japanese territories did not qualify. Time as a prisoner of war was not counted in this or other service stars.
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Ottawa
Abbott
Hong Kong
Defence Headquarters
Victoria eyes Prairie Farm Act extension at Ottawa talks
At the reconvening of the Decminion provincial conference in Ottawa parliamentary officials hinted that British Columbia may seek an extension of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act to the province.
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Victoria
Ottawa
British Columbia
President Truman honors Gen Wainwright with Medal of Honor
Washington reports President Truman presented General Jonathan M. Wainwright with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest decoration for valor.
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Washington
President Truman
Gen
Jonathan M. Wainwright
United States
Japanese leaders detained as occupation tightens grip in Tokyo
Gen. MacArthur ordered 40 Japanese officials questioned and held including former Premier Hideki Tojo who wounded himself. Ten cabinet members tied to wartime actions were detained. Allied divisions plan further landings with U S Army units to arrive around Sept. 23 at Aomori and Otari Hokkaido.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Britain
United States
United States List
Aomori
Honshu
United States 77Th Infantry Division
9Th Corps
Otari
Hokkaido
Navy
Masaharu Homma
Phillippines
Homma
Bataan
Jose Laurel
Philippines
Jorge Vargas
Heinrich Stahmer
Pratap Mahendra
Aryan Army
Tojo
Shigetaro Shimada
Shigenori Togo
Nobusuke Kishi
Ken Terashima
Michiyo Iwamura
Kunihiko Mashida
Hiroya Ino
Chikahiko Koisumi
Sadaichi Suzuki
Koreans Protest U S Army Orders in Korea
Demonstrations erupted in Seoul against U S forces keeping Japanese rulers in place after 35 years of occupation. General MacArthur in Tokyo pledged protections as troops remain south to enforce surrender. Washington officials express astonishment at lingering Japanese authority in Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
United States Army
Little Empire
Gen. MacArthur
Tokyo
Washington
Prison Camps Found Working In Japanese Coal Mines
Allied prisoners of war in northern Japan were located at four remote camps in Hokkaido. U S naval fliers established radio contact with 1 556 prisoners in Bibai Ashibetsu and Akabira camps. Supplies and medicine were dropped by carrier planes. Prisoners were forced to labor in soft coal mines.
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Ominato
Japan
United States
Hokkaido
Bibai
Ashibetsu
Akabira
Allied Council Calls For Return Of Obnoxious Germans
At its fifth meeting in Berlin the Allied control council led by Eisenhower Montgomery Koe ni g and Zhukov decided to ask neutral states Afghanistan Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Tangier and Vatican City to repatriate obnoxious Germans and their families to Germany.
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Berlin
Allied Control Council
Germany
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Koenig
Zhukov
Afghanistan
Fife
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tangier
Vatican City
Victoria Elevator Ships Record Grain to India
Victoria's grain elevator, idle in the postwar slump, resumes activity with 390000 bushels sent to India aboard the American freighter Sammont six weeks ago. The 8000 tons marked the first overseas shipment to any country besides the United States since 1939.
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Victoria
India
Sammont
United States
Remodel Krupp Works Hamburg as European ordnance depot
Plans to remodel the Krupp plant on Hamburg outskirts into a vast army ordnance depot for Europe. Some original German draughtsmen join the project under the direction of British officers.
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Hamburg
Krupp
Europe
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