Trainees to stay in Canada defence force for war duration
Defence Minister Ralston says training plan graduates will be kept in service to relieve active units and support home defence. About 100,000 Canadians have trained under the National Resources Mobilization Act with centres listing regional totals. many volunteers may serve in Canada or be moved overseas as needed.
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Dominion
London
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Montreal
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Victoria
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Calgary
National Defence
Radio skit triggers panic in Quebec audience
A CBC French network skit titled If It Happened Here caused about 30 calls in 15 minutes to CBC studios in Montreal and Ottawa. Listeners feared a Nazi raid after a fake bulletin claimed Halifax was bombed and that forces reached Rimouski Quebec City and Montreal. Some callers fainted while others sought confirmation.
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Montreal
Quebec Province
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Quebec City
Rimouski
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St. Lawrence River
Royal Canadian Air Force
St. Lawrence
New German Fighter in Use Over Northern France
British reports say the Messerschmitt 109F2 has entered action against British air forces over northern France. It is an improved variant of the 109F with the same armament, while Allied Spitfires and Hurricanes now field two cannons and four machine guns, making the 109F2 seem inferior to them in firepower.
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London
France
Italians to be interned in Kenya colony
Moving Italian nationals in East Africa will be sent to Kenya to avoid embarrassment for British authorities. The colony will house up to 2,500 Italians, with encampment at Nyeri at British expense.
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East Africa
Kenya
Nairobi
Nyeri
German exile warns of broad German discontent with Hitler
Walter Alexander, a German-born U.S. citizen living in Berlin since 1923, reports 40 percent of Germans oppose Hitler and the war. He arrived on the Excambion claiming business leaders tire of control and fear loses of freedom. Dr. Harold Stuart notes French dislike of Nazis but willingness to collaborate for scarce food.
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Jersey City
N.J
United States
Berlin
Hitler
Walter Alexander
Excambion
Alexander
Germany
Harold Stuart
Harvard Medical College
France
Rockefeller Health Foundation
Charcoal Powered Car Demo Hinted by Quebec Official
Trade Minister Drouin announced deputy Louis Coderre will drive to Ottawa in a car fitted with a device claiming to run on charcoal. He aims to prove to fuel authorities that action is possible, asserting the apparatus can be added to ordinary cars and reduce small car operating costs to three quarters of a cent per mile.
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Quebec
Drouin
Louis Coderre
Ottawa
Coderre
War Prisoners More Than Three Million Men Confined
Tracy Strong, world secretary of the World Committee for War Prisoners' Aid, reports that over 3.6 million men are confined in European war prison camps. He states most prisoners are in Germany and that, overall, powers are adhering to the Geneva conference agreement. Strong has toured British and German camps since February via the Dixie clipper.
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New York
Europe
Dixie Clipper
Tracy Strong
World Committee For War Prisoners’ Aid
Y.M.C.A
Germany
Field kitchen from wreckage aids London refugees
A kitchen built from salvaged bombed London building wreckage has been set up at a refugee settlement near London, providing meals and relief. Local volunteers and relief workers organized the effort to support residents displaced by the bombings.
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London
Competent Civilian Flyers for Ferrying Command
United States air forces survey the availability of competent civilian flyers to join the Light ferrying command created to speed warplane delivery to Britain. Col Robert Olds, head of the ferrying command, leads the effort with cooperation from private flying organizations.
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Washington
United States Air Forces
Britain
Robert Olds
I S
Further Bacon Price Increases Are In Prospect
The Canadian Press reports a possible third price rise for export bacon to keep hogs in Canada for domestic use and meet United Kingdom requirements. The June 24 increase raised export bacon prices 75 cents per hundredweight for Grade A No. 1 Wiltshire sides to 18.60, part of a series to curb cross-border flows amid parity price policies.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
British Columbia
Ontario
Vancouver
Portland
Ore
Toronto
Chicago
Italian War Losses Rise Across 13 Months
Italy reported total war losses of at least 255,361 men in about 13 months. June casualties reached 10,286, not counting East Africa, with most losses in prisoners of war. The breakdown shows 176,466 missing, 23,085 dead, 56,810 wounded. June adds 886 dead, 1,193 wounded, 8,207 missing across Greek Albanian Yugoslav fronts, North Africa, navy, and air force.
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Rome
East Africa
North Africa
Navy
Artillery Units Moved Toward Stalin Line
The Red Army announced Germany moved artillery from Dunkirk and Cherbourg to reinforce the drive against the Stalin line. German officers allegedly said their units were redeployed from the French and Belgian coasts and that dummy guns were placed in emplacements while they were en route.
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Moscow
Red Army
Germany
Britain
Dunkirk
Cherbourg
RAF pilot Malan wins bar to DSO with DFC honor
Wing Commander A G Malan, a leading Royal Air Force pilot, receives the bar to his Distinguished Service Order becoming the second airman to hold both bars and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Evening Standard notes Churchill may be godfather to Malan’s one year old son, to be christened Winston.
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London
A. G. Malan
Royal Air Force
Evening Standard
Churchill
Malan
Winston
Protection For Trainees Under War Training Program
Labor Minister McLarty announced extended protections for trainees under the war emergency training program. Officials and trainees would receive medical care hospitalization costs and pensions for permanent total or partial disability. Temporary disability remains excluded but supported if layoff occurs for a limited period.
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Ottawa
McLarty
Allies to Guard Iceland Waters Joint US British Naval Standoff
London reports Prime Minister Churchill urged in Parliament that US and British navies jointly guard Iceland's surrounding waters. He welcomed American occupation, noted Britain will keep forces in Iceland, and said coordinated action against any Hitler attempt would be mutually advantageous and in line with British interests.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
United States
Iceland
U.S
Britain
Hitler
Germany
United States of America
Western Hemisphere
Great Britain
Britain to Be Fed by U S Bombers for Berlin Raids Soon
London reports Britain's aircraft minister Lt. Col. Moore-Brabazon says United States made bombers will allow a stronger strike on Berlin for London’s raids. He cites the C-24 Liberator and larger U S models, adds Britain aims to have three large bomber types and notes delivery complexities with cash orders and lease-lead programs.
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Britain
Berlin
Co. J.T .T. Moore-Brabaxon
House of Commons
Col. Moore-Brabazon
United States
Atlantic
America
Lord Beaverbrook
United States Army
Rupert Brabner
Greece
U.S
Royal Air Force
England
Palestinian Jewish RAF flyer to submit aviation invention to air ministry
A 23-year-old Palestinian Jew serving with the Royal Air Force in the western desert has perfected a significant aviation improvement and has been ordered to travel to London to present the invention to the air ministry, per Da var quoted by the Jewish Standard.
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London
Royal Air Force
Western Desert
Jerusalem
Davar
Jewish Standard
Air Ministry
Montreal inventor seeks patents for radical anti aircraft gun
A former Bisley shooter from Hamilton Ontario arrived in Montreal to arrange patents for a radical new anti aircraft gun he described as highly effective against dive bombers. Alex R J Hil son tied for the King’s prize in the 1927 Bisley competition.
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Montreal
Hamilton
Ont
Alex R. J. Hilson
Radio photos from Russia reach New York via RCA
The first radio photographs ever transmitted directly to the United States from Soviet Russia were received in New York by the Radio Corporation of America. They showed three war scene images and marked a historic broadcast achievement.
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New York
United States
Soviet Russia
Radio Corporation of America
India’s First Plane to be Handed to Government
The first aircraft manufactured in India will be handed over to the government at a ceremony on July 24, per the British Broadcasting Corporation report.
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London
India
British Broadcasting Corporation
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