Britons Tally War Time Items and Honors
Government sponsored Briteh restaurants rise to 2062 serving 683060 sneaks daily during war. British Merchant Marine Wiebcata rejects 5661 sramen over four years nine months. Compensations reach 41600000 dollars to Ireland for bomb damage. Kitchen waste salvage nets 32976. Hendon manufacturer fined 16200 for selling stockings above price cap. Robert Shaw, 72, Winnipeg death linked to gramo phone uptake in Canada. Nine navy awards including two DSCs to Cansilen frigate Waskesla for anti submarine action. Chesterfield park during Holidays at Home to diffuse 300 air scents. Post war aviation policy urged for training with British Empire by L C L Murray of De Havilland Canada.
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Wiebcata
Oradour sur Glane massacre details emerge in London report
French headquarters in London disclose the destruction of Oradour sur Glane by 88 troops on June 14 following D day. Survivors recount machine-gunning of men on a barn floor and the burning of the church with women and children inside. The incident is cited as a wider pattern of German atrocities.
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Oradour-sur-Glane
London
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Oradour-sur- Vayres
New York Tienes
Britain broke but will rebound says Bevin
Ernest Bevin argued Britain is financially broke due to war but its indomitable will to remain free will restore strength. He cited history from Napoleon to Waterloo and warned debt would not define Britain's future, predicting prosperity ahead for a nation with fighting spirit.
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Britain
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Hitler
Napoleon
Europe
Detroit
Napoleon trail marker mocks retreat through Poland
A wartime marker reads two inscriptions claiming Napoleon’s passage through Wital during 1812 with 9,000 men and 1912 with 400,000. The tablet’s message contrasts conquest and retreat, while a statistician notes daily eyelid movements in a lifetime.
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Wital
Poland
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Wide angle camera lens aids postwar mapping effort
Dr. L L E Howlett head of the national research council optics section notes a new wide angle lens doubles strip width photographed from 10,000 feet. He cites RAF photo efficiency and the wartime program of the RCA F Research council, stressing postwar use for mapping and reconstruction in Canada.
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Canada
LL E Howlett
National Research Council
Ean
Howlett
RCA
F Research Council
R.A.F
Sunday School Lesson August 6 on Self Control and Wisdom
The lesson centers on reverence for God as the chief part of knowledge and urges heed to parental instruction. It discusses loyalty to a father’s commands through the Jonadab example and compares Christian perseverance to athletic training, urging self discipline for an incorruptible crown.
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Cape
Jonadab
Ancastor
Paul
Peter
Doctor's specialty choice for skin disease
A physician explains he chose dermatology for three reasons: his patients never summon him at night, they never die, and they never fully recover.
Railways Rush Troop and Supply Trains Ahead of D Day
In the two months before D Day British railways ran 24 459 special trains for troops ammunition and stores. Of these 1 190 trains moved 250 000 troops across Britain and 12 000 tons of baggage while stores and heavy equipment used 8 000 extra trains and over 3 000 freight cars. Ordinary freight trains delivered more than 5 000 wagonloads of supplies and equipment.
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Britain
British Railways
Air Is Not Free Anymore Says Fort William Editor
The Fort William Times Journal argues that air travel is no longer free as in the past and calls for international arrangements. It notes that land and water carry annual costs and taxes, and now air entails limits and control.
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Fort William
Ratskin leather touted by Axis press
Foreign Commerce Weekly reports a Hungarian tannery tanning ratskin into leather. It is claimed the rat adapts well to tanning and can be used for women's and children's footwear, handbags, and belts. The finish resembles ordinary kid skin.
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Axis Press
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Clever geography quiz definition from an eleven year old
A young girl on a geography exam defined a peninsula as a landmass with three sides of water and a gulf as three sides of land with one water body. The piece mentions the French likely pioneering balloon use in warfare.
Our Crossword Puzzle No 4894
Crossword puzzle grid appears with numbered hints across and down in a dense listing. Several entries are garbled but readable clues point to standard crossword terminology including directions for Across and Down, with some entries partially obscured or misspelled.
Cherbourg Ports Through British Eyes Across Centuries
British chronicles describe Cherbourg as a recurring site of naval action from 1295 raids to 1758 incursions, and the port’s pivotal harbor works begun by Napoleon II and opened in 1858 with Queen Victoria present. The piece notes the vast cost of £8 million and Britain’s long maritime focus on Cherbourg and Le Havre as key Atlantic bases.
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Cherbourg
Yarmouth
London
Ottawa Journal
Napoleon II
Louis Philippe
Queen Victoria
le Havre
Busy Post Office Women On Staff In Parliament
A London Post Office in the House of Commons has operated over 60 years for MPs and Westminster officials. Originally 12 clerks, nine joined the Forces, with women replacing earlier male staff. The busy office handles a flood of Education Bill telegrams and delivers mail to 100 points within the building with 20 posting boxes.
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London
House of Commons
Palace of Westminster
London Evening Standard
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