Allies Near Second Front With Mediterranean Shipping Gains
London reports naval gains in the Mediterranean could push Allies to a 10,000,000 ton shipping pool for a Western Europe second front by November. Building and opened routes may supply 6,500,000 tons, with 1–2 million more from Italy’s capitulation. Release of Mediterranean ships boosts Pacific strength while Atlantic sinkings decline.
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India
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Reach Britain Canadian Midshipmen Join Royal Navy
Canadian midshipmen from Royal Roads College have arrived at the Canadian naval establishment and will soon serve in Royal Navy battleships and cruisers. The first Canadian class to go over during the war, they average 19, with prize winners R W J Cocks of Victoria and G L Hopkins of Regina receiving telescopes. Sub-lieutenants join the officer corps. trainees include Alan Malcolm Cameron Saskatoon George Irvin Loucks Invermay and Francis William Carson Saskatoon.
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Royal Naval College
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Canadian Naval Establishment
Canada
Dominion
R. W. J. Cocks
Victoria
G. L. Hopkins
Regina
Canadian Naval Department
Canadian Naval College
Alan Malcolm Cameron
Saskatoon
George Irvin Loucks
Invermay, Sask
Francis William Carson
Meet German Raids London
Anti-aircraft batteries along Britain's south and southeast coasts have been reorganized to meet Germany's switchover from sneak raiding to high level bombing. Light anti-aircraft guns successfully countered the up-and-run raiders. Heavies now engage high flying aircraft and fighter-bombers.
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London
Britain
Germany
Civilian Air Raid Casualties Rise in Britain in August
In Britain during August civilian air raid casualties reached 108 killed or missing believed killed and 164 injured or detained in hospital.
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London
Britain
Big Five Day Fight in Croatia Kills Hundreds
Reuters dateline from Cairo reports a five day clash at Karnovatz Croatia ending with the Italian garrison of 10,000 disarmed after heavy German and Croat Quisling forces suffered many fatalities.
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London
MEN NEEDED Panlistment For General Service Is Stil Very Necessary OTTAWA
The Canadian army will continue to need men until the war ends. Defence Minister Ralston denied any real reduction in home operational troop requirements and stressed no let up in enlistment for general service. Disbandment of some divisions was announced but overseas demand remains unchanged.
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7Th
Defence
Ralston
Canada
Banks Reopen in Occupied Sicily Under Allied Authority
Allied headquarters say banks across Sicily have reopened with special occupation currency. Depositors may withdraw up to 5 000 lire, no bank runs occurred, and officials hope to raise withdrawal limits soon. AMG will overhaul price controls and rationing to curb black market while planning industrial and commercial rehabilitation.
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Terror Campaign Threats From Nazis Across Europe
Reports say Nazi rumors claim troops could cross Switzerland to aid an occupation of Italy. Patriots sabotage the main railroad between Italy and France for several miles from Chambray. The French underground reportedly disrupted railway links to Italy, aiming to disrupt traffic for a period.
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North Africa
Italy
France
Chambray
Italians Starving Under Allied Occupation in Sicily and Mainland
Reporters describe widespread hunger among 3 5 million Sicilians and civilians on the southern mainland under Allied control. Despite some rural grape surplus, breadlines persist and people sell trinkets to buy food as Mussolini era famine continues.
Allied Forces Aid In Taranto Area Operations
Italian troops assist British forces near Taranto where German 1st Parachute Division was contacted around Gioia. British liberate 300 prisoners of war including two Greek generals. Brenner Pass dubbed Thermopylae of the Tyrol.
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Gioia
Quotas Raised for Wheat Deliveries Across Prairie Provinces
The Canadian wheat board announced higher quotas boosting wheat deliveries from three to five bushels at 160 points in the prairie provinces. Manitoba reports 37 points, Saskatchewan 52, and Alberta 71.
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Canadian Wheat Board
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
Education of Youth Set to Boost Postwar Reconstruction
Dr J S Thomson of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation told the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association that education of youth is the key to rebuilding. A proposed national advisory council on school broadcasting would include 16 members from provinces, universities, teachers, and home and school groups with CBC naming a chairman. The council could guide radio as a tool to foster national unity among the young.
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R. S. Lambert
Quebec
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National Federation of Home and School
CBC
Parents’ Association
Canada
Lambert
Peace Proposals from Japan Grow More Liberal Says Soong
Chinese foreign minister T. V. Soong told reporters in Washington that Japan keeps offering peace terms to China with increasing concessions as pressures mount. He claimed Japan would quit China except Manchuria and Formosa if China withdraws from the United Nations and sides with Japan in a racial war against whites. He recalled a proposal that surfaced the day Pearl Harbor was attacked but said China has never wavered.
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Manchuria
Formosa
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Pearl Harbor
Ottawa man promotes Canadian films to U S theatres
B A Proulx of Ottawa in charge of theatrical distribution for the national film board says more than 7000 U S theatres are being serviced with films about Canada. He notes a strong need to publicize Canada in foreign countries.
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B. A. Proulx
Ottawa
National Film Board
United States
Canada
Mr. Proulx
When Poverty Is Defeated We Progress, Wavell Says
London. Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, viceroy designate of India, urged spending against poverty, ignorance, unemployment, and sickness at the same rate as against Hitler. He praised lend-lease, urged strong India Asia command, and warned Japan must be defeated to secure global peace.
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Viscount Wavell
India
Pilgrims Society
Hitler
Lord Louis Mountbatten
East Asia
Japan
East
Germany
Greatest Mistake To See End Of War In Europe
Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery told Canadian officers that the war will reach Germany but the end is not yet in sight. He praised the Canadians for helping knock Italy out of the war and noted North Italy is under German control. He spoke in southern Italy with Maj Gen Guy Simonds beside him, recalling Canada’s role from southeastern England to Sicily and Europe. The 8th Army’s actions, he said, helped collapse Italy and shift the war. The Germans are retreating in Russia and Italy, with Canadians cited as key in the effort.
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Bernard Montgomery
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Montgomery
Guy Simonds
England
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Sicily
8Th
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Russia
Penfield Praises Russian Medical Progress Abroad
Dr. Wilder Penfield, Canadian neurosurgeon on a surgical mission from Russia, says Russian medicine matches Western science while excelling in areas such as blood plasma use. He notes Russia ranks with the West overall yet shows superiority in plasma applications.
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Montreal
Wilder Penfield
Russia
Greek soil invasion prize offered in Burlington
Burlington residents George Ganakes and John Skarlis offer a $200 prize to the first service member who lands on Greek soil if the Allies invade Greece. The anonymous donors state the prize is for the first foot on Greek soil.
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George Ganakes
John Skarlis
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