Saar Valley's strategic industrial weight highlighted in Guardian piece
The Manchester Guardian outlines the Saar region as vital to Germany with about 130,000 workers and an annual net value near £30 million. It notes Saar coal and iron underpin Hitler's war economy, exports rising above regional German averages, and long term importance given 12 percent of German coal resources.
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Saar
Germany
Manchester Guardian
North Riding
Yorkshire
Saarland
East Prussia
Upper Silesia
France
Life On Cocos Island As Told By Australian Press Bureau
A summary of Cocos Island describing its status as a stop on the Australia to England air route via Africa. It notes welfare benefits for all ages, free medical care, housing, land, fuel, furniture, and tools, strict punishment for murder by drowning, and a wage system based on chits. The village is four wards with a mixed Malay, Zulu, Tamil and Chinese population and 2 percent annual mortality with 6 percent birth rate.
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Cocos Island
Australia
England
Africa
Canadian labor groups pledge wartime harmony with government
Three unions the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, the All-Canadian Congress of Labor and the Canadian Federation of Labor issue statements urging labor peace during wartime. Leaders say cooperation with government and employers is essential for uninterrupted war production and national effort, with calls for equal partnership and patriotism guiding dispute resolution.
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Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
All-Canadian Congress of Labor
Canadian Federation of Labor
Canada
Germany
K J. Tallon
Trades and Labor Congress
A. R. Mosher
All- Canadian Congress
W. T. Burford
Federation
Mosher
Burford
Canada Leather Footwear Output Rises In First Half
Canada produced 11,249,700 pairs of leather footwear in the first six months of the year, up 300,000 from the same period in 1938, with imports larger than exports and an average consumption of about two and a quarter pairs per person. The year’s six months show the highest output since 1937.
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Canada
Dominion Statistician
Wartime Prices Board Narrows Sugar Hoarding
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board led by Hector B McKinnon secured voluntary release of about 2 million pounds of sugar from plants that bought months ago. The sugar returns to refiners for distribution while officers in 20 cities probe excessive purchasing by individuals. Authorities study evidence in several cities for potential hoarding and profiteering charges. Flowers shipped from Cornwall England in 1938 weighed 5 000 tons a record.
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Prices and Trade Board
Hector B. McKinnon
Halifax
Vancouver
Dominion Weights and Measures Service
King and Queen Align With War Duty and Civil Defense
The King and Queen follow wartime orders and stay ready in safety roles. The King wears service uniforms, works long hours and studies military reports while the Queen visits nursing centers and organizations. They attend no social engagements and carry gas masks during air raid warnings.
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King George
Army
Navy
Air Force
A.F.P
London
Empire
Whitehall
Fraulein Mutterer Among First POWs in Western Theater
Fraulein Helen Mutterer, an interpreting stewardess aboard the Georgie, became Britain's first prisoner of war in the western field after being removed to the brig of the Carintha en route to England. She reportedly said she would prefer an English prison camp to returning to Germany as a free citizen, a sentiment echoed by many Germans.
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Britain
Fraulein Helen Mutterer
England
Fraulein
Germany
A Strange Mammal Bingie the Platypus Dies in Melbourne Zoo
Bingie the platypus, the world’s strangest mammal, died in Melbourne Zoo where it had lived for three years after arriving as a baby. The creature, about 20 inches long with a duck bill and fur, suckled its young and fed on worms and small prawns. Platypuses inhabit rivers in southeast Australia and Tasmania, living in water entrances and burrows where they sleep and raise offspring.
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Bingie
Melbourne
Australia
Zoo
Tasmania
Luggage Label Collector Amid Bombing Fallout
In the Dorchester foyer London a man showed luggage labels as if prized stamps. A bomb destroyed a Madrid hotel hours later. His display included labels from a polar hotel near the South Pole and a parchment inscribed Lhasa label from Tibet. Also notes Salmon and trout flesh colors explained by oil coloring.
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Dorchester
London
Madrid
Arctic Circle
South Pole
Lhasa
Forbidden City
Tibet
An English Tourists Learn of Harlem Diversity Shock
A Leeds England party visiting New York and the World’s Fair was surprised by Harlem’s African American population. A writer from Leeds noted they had never seen a Black person in sixteen years, apart from vaudeville scenes, highlighting a stark contrast with British cities. The piece cites London’s rarity of non white residents and suggests colored encounters provoke curiosity and speculation.
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Leeds
England
New York
Harlem
British Isles
London
Canada
Liverpool
Cardiff
St. Thomas
Novelist Ethel M Dell Dies in Hertfordshire Home
Ethel M Dell the famous novelist died in a Hertfordshire nursing home. Her books sold over three million copies in North America over three decades. She authored The Hundredth Chance Great Heart and The Lamp in the Desert. She lived quietly near London Guilford and never gave press interviews. In 1922 she married Lieut Col W T Savage.
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Ethel M. Dell
England
Hertfordshire
North
America
Guilford
London
W. T. Savage
Gainsborough Worked Paint Brushes On Six Foot Sticks
The renowned artist Thomas Gainsborough reportedly used brushes tied to six foot long sticks to speed painting sessions. This practice reflects his dynamic technique and bold approach to capture movement and light in his portraits.
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Gainsborough
Victoria and Albert may not be retired yet
The Victoria and Albert may return to her old berth rather than be broken up as the keel for a new royal yacht has not yet been laid. The vessel served four sovereigns and could be repurposed as a hospital ship if required, with the new yacht planned as oil burning.
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Victoria and Albert
London Daily Sketch
Queen Victora
Edward VII
George V
George VI
Not So Fast Fish and Chips in Wartime London
The London fish and chips will include bones for the duration due to wartime shortages. Fish fryers cannot obtain filleted fish, and the public is asked not to grumble as markets adjust.
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London
Food Defense Department
Canada’s Air Force Faces Enlistment Backlog and Veteran Aid
The Canadian air force numbers about 2400 active personnel with a backlog of 25,000 recruits awaiting enlistment. Veterans from the Royal Air Force and several thousand potential recruits could help in training, supply, and administration while younger pilots handle high speed fighters. Noted figures Col Billy Bishop, Col Ray Collishaw, Roy Brown and others remain prominent in aviation histories and many still influence civil aviation. Bishop heads the Air Advisory Council and will contribute to the wartime RC AF edition.
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Canada
RCAF
Royal Air Force
Dominion
Auxiliary Air Force
Billy Bishop
Ray Barker
Collishaw McLeod McLaren
Roy Brown
Quizley
Royal Flying Corps
Col. Bishop
Air Advisory Council
Collishaw
Calm Canadian calm as nation declares war in 1914
The article notes Canada declared war on its own initiative a week after Britain, creating a precedent for the British Commonwealth. It emphasizes the calm response of Canadians, with Sunday peace and orderly worship, reflecting Dominion restraint in a time of crisis.
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Canada
Britain
Dominions
Seas
Buffalo Courier-Express
Failure Of League Sometime And The World In Peril
The essay argues that postwar adjustments require nonviolent political change. Versailles aimed to be dynamic via the League of Nations, but its failure endangers global security. The United States bears responsibility for the crisis as world conflict threatens Europe and the Atlantic world.
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Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
League
United States
Europe
Baltic
Big Ben
New York Sun
Trained By Sons Sapper Clarke Faces Tough Spot In Canada
Sapper Charlies Clarke of the 11th Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers in Sarnia Ont is re enlisted after service in the last war with the Canadian Mounted Rifles. His two sons, a sergeant and a lance corporal in the same unit, now drill the father as part of the family military cycle. Buffaloes provide about 25 percent of the milk supply in India.
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Sapper
Charlies Clarke
11Th Field Company
Royal Canadian Engineers
Sarnia
Ont
Canadian Mounted Rifles
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