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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
2
British tanker crews face peril to keep Britain supplied with oil. The article recalls daring rescues and risky transfers, where tankers fuel cruisers and bombers, risking fire, explosions, and enemy attack to sustain wartime operations.
A central press map shows British forces reopening a Far Eastern war theatre. Led by Gen Archibald Wavell Indian and British units push 50 miles into western Burma, occupying Maungdaw Buthidaung near 60 miles from Akyab. Reports say an airdrome may be established en route to Akyab.
Practical guide listing protein sources and foods including meat fish eggs cheese milk and vegetables. It outlines a weekly food budget of 20 dollars with split categories, shopping tips, meal planning, and cooking practices such as thoroughly cooking pork and using water from vegetables for soup.
China aims to reconquer the Burma Road as its critical supply funnel in Far Eastern strategy. The road, built rapidly, was China’s main link to the outside world aside from the old Central Asia desert route to Russia. With Russia’s aid wavering during the European war and the Burma Road lost after Japan’s invasion, China has been holding its ground without Allied help while the United States shifts war material to its own needs after Pearl Harbor.
Sir John Latham, Australian chief justice, argues divisions within Japan will not break wartime resolve. He says only a true defeat of Tokyo and major cities could end Japan’s will to fight. He notes Japanese belief in racial superiority and the risk of Australian subjugation if Japan wins.
The Army supplied American soldiers with food baskets for Christmas to ease burden on hosts. Each basket included bacon coffee milk fruit tomato juice butter lard tea and rice. Two Canadian woods dominate aircraft use Sitka spruce from British Columbia and yellow birch from eastern Canada.
Conservation efforts in the munitions department cut about 4.5 million dollars and thousands of man hours annually. Reuses of wooden boxes save 2,000,000 boxes and 1,000,000 pounds of steel nails each year. Webbing replaces wooden handles saving 1,200 miles of Manila rope. Rubber grips are eliminated saving 500,000 pounds of rubber yearly. Redesigning a large anti aircraft shell cylinder saves 1,250,000 dollars and 2,750,000 man hours annually.
Geological survey results show one promising oil structure in British Columbia near Monckman Pass and two in Alberta namely Dyson Creek southwest of Calgary and Cowley area. No deep testing yet, but gas seepage noted at Cowley and structural faults may impact depth prospects. An unrelated line mentions wedding rings formerly worn on the right hand.
Dr Britnell explains Canadian Food Administration methods to estimate 1943 civilian and military needs. Factors include exports to Britain Newfoundland St Pierre and Miquelon West Indies and Red Cross parcels for prisoners of war. Minimum nutritional standards set at 70 percent of National Research levels for vitamins minerals. calories and protein rules differ by group. Production plans aim to meet essential civilian military and export needs within existing resources.
Crochet a decorative chair set reading Home Sweet Home without words. The pattern includes charts and set stitch instructions and lists required materials. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man to obtain Pattern 7456 with name address and pattern number.
A Metropolitan Life Bulletin reports dramatic gains in life expectancy for diabetic children since insulin. Today a 1Q year old may live to 50, versus little more than a year after onset in 1922. At age 30 life expectancy is 27.14 years, up from six. at age 50 it is 14.44 years, about 50 percent higher. The extra years are active and valuable.
A historical note describes warlike tribes of Independent Negroes inhabiting the Ti besti mountains in southern Libya. It notes the existence of nearly 600 different kinds of parrots.
An official report cites Britain’s wartime losses with 2,250,000 buildings destroyed and 43,667 killed or wounded. It notes Italian planes aided German raids on London and Mussolini laments heavy bomb damage in Italian cities while praising shared bombardment of civilians. The piece contrasts British suffering with Italy and Germany’s actions, ending with calls for reciprocal payments.
A note mentions there are just over 100 books printed before the sixteenth century. It also states that hedgehogs show a high resistance to many poisons, a fact presented without explanation.
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