Nazi Torture Methods At Belgian Breendonk Camp Exposed
British released a 12 page report detailing Gestapo torture at Breendonk and other Belgian depots. It lists six torture methods including thrashing, hanging, burning, crushing fingers, and electric needles. About 500 men died there, with 300 shot and 15 hanged and many starved or abused.
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Breendonk
Belgium
Tir National
Brussel
N-A
Edith Cavell
Britain
Chiang Kai-shek vows constitutional government for China
President Chiang Kai-shek in a New Year message to China declared a constitutional government will be established within the war's end. He said a peoples' congress would be convened within 1945 to draft and promulgate a constitution, with transfer of power to the people once military conditions allow a decisive counter-offensive.
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Peoples’ Congress
Kuomintang
Relief ship Vega Delayed En Route to Channel Islands
Official word from London states the steamship Vega with relief supplies from Canada for German occupied Channel Islands arrived at Guernsey in late December. The vessel departed Lisbon December 22 but faced delays due to bad weather while crossing the Atlantic toward the English Channel islands.
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London
Vega
Canada
Channel
Guernsey
Lisbon
English Channel
Overseas Mail Squadron Has Splendid Record
The R C A F overseas mail squadron enters the new year with new equipment and six routes from Rockcliffe to Prestwick and beyond. It carried nearly 2,000,000 pounds of servicemen mail, about 120,000,000 letters, across France Belgium Holland Italy North Africa Tunisia Egypt and the Middle East. Despite crashes and a missing plane, crews delivered letters to Canada from fighting fronts in four to five days. Operations expanded from Prestwick to Gibraltar Algiers Foggia Bari Naples and Cairo, with later detachment in Gibraltar and daily Normandy airfield service after D day.
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Ottawa
R.C.A.F. Overseas Mail
Rockcliffe
Prestwick
Scotland
France
Belgium
Holland
Italy
North Africa
Tunisia
Egypt
Britain
R.C.A.F
United Kingdom
Canada
Gibraltar
Algiers
Foggia
Bari
Naples
Cairo
Middle East
Azores
Normandy
Ortona honors Canadians who died in Moro River battle
The Italian town of Ortona gathered for a service commemorating Canadian soldiers fallen in the Moro river fight and related street battles. Freed Dec 28, 1943, the observance was postponed to Sun day the 31st by Mayor Michele Albanese to allow wider attendance.
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Ortona
Italy
Moro River
Michele Albanese
Prime Minister Churchill Presents Marlborough Set to Shah
London report notes Prime Minister Churchill sent a four volume set of Marlborough to the Shah of Iran. The volumes were specially bound and tooled with the Shah's crest on front and back covers.
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London
Churchi Hex
Iran
Marlborough
Promise Victory from Nazi Leaders in New Year Proclamation
London dispatch reports Nazi leaders including Hermann Goering issuing a new year proclamation via DNB. The leaders promise that victory remains possible despite hardship, with Goering asserting it is their duty to carry war into enemy territory and that Germany will achieve victory and peace under Hitler.
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London
Hermann Goering
D.N.B
Goering
Adolf Hitler
Australian high commissioner to Canada retires
Herbert Evatt announced that Sir William Glasgow, Australia’s high commissioner to Canada since 1940, will retire. Evatt credited his personal qualities for the strong Canada Australia high commissioner exchange and noted he was the first such appointee to a sister dominion.
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Canberra
Herbert Evatt
Australia
William Glasgow
Canada
William
Ottawa
Mr. Evatt
Sir Wil- Hat
Sir William
Brst
Special payment to MPs during December session
Ottawa learns that MPs will receive a special payment of 200 dollars for the short December session amid the conscription crisis. Normally MPs get 4000 dollars per session. cabinet ministers do not receive the extra 200 dollars since they already receive indemnity plus salary.
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Ottawa
Canada 1944 mineral production falls to 1939 low
The Dominion bureau of statistics reported preliminary estimates place Canada's mineral production at 482,260,463 dollars for 1944, down from 527,946,462 dollars in 1942 and 45,686,000 lower. The metals group led the decline.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
British Submarines Sink 165 Japanese Ships In 1944
British submarines sank at least 165 Japanese ships in 1944, including a cruiser and a destroyer. Of the total, only 10 were warships. the rest were merchantmen varying from large freighters to coastal vessels. Some sinks remain probable, and American submarines reported sinking over 3.5 million tons of Japanese shipping since entering the war.
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London
Preas
Japan
Royal Navy
Navy
James Forrestal
Washington
United States
Burma
Sumatra
Andaman and Nicoban Islands
Nazi method shocks London reports on massacre in field
London papers quote Supreme Allied Headquarters reporting that two German tanks fired a hail of machine gun bullets into 190 captured American soldiers after they were searched for valuables and lined up in an open field.
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London
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Farming Units Made Available For Veterans
Ottawa announces that about 3 000 small land holdings will be made available this year for veterans already discharged. New homes may be built on these holdings and a limited number of full time farming units will be released in 1945 for exceptional cases. The Veterans Land Act aims to assist full time farmers and workers seeking small rural homes with grants and support, while reserving much acreage for veterans overseas.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie
Stort
Olafson's Olafgow Bridge Aids Italian Front Crossing
Canadian Captain Olafson of Sagkeeng introduces a light portable 15-foot bridge that weighs 160 pounds and spans up to 60 feet with four sections or 90 feet with six. The "Olafgow Infantry foot bridge" is now the standard tool for establishing river crossings in the Lombardy plains and beyond.
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Adriatic
Lombardy
BE. A
Oleg) Olafson
Eafonia
Sagk
Lamone River
Income Tax Outlook For 1945 In Ottawa
Informed circles expect no cut in 1945 income tax levels in Canada. Any potential change would likely raise rates if production and overtime work are not harmed. The 1944 budget ended compulsory savings, making income tax lighter for low earners and heavier for middle and high earners, with Canada’s rates generally lower than the US but similar to Britain, though Britain eases in the top brackets.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Buying Swiss Goods Berne
A group of United States army officers visited Switzerland to negotiate purchases of watches typewriters and other Swiss manufactures for American forces in France.
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Berne
United States Army
Switzerland
France
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Herbert Morrison
Labor Party
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John H. Parks
Mill Creek
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Beaver Club
Anedian ‘Army
Vincent Massey
Mra Massey
Cpl
T. M. Hedley
Oak River
Man
A. E. McCabe
Prairie River
Sask
Sokdlers
Provost Corps
Oiafson
Baxtonia
Saak
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