Collectors For War Relief May Carry On Work
Ottawa reports that the prices board through the National War Services department allows ongoing war relief collections. Large groups like the Red Cross may continue until June 30 while about 200 local organizations may operate until September, gathering used clothing footwear and other items for shipment abroad. regulations let shipping of pre February 20 items proceed immediately.
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Ottawa
National War Services Tepartment
Kreuseheld
Briain
Red Cross
United Alief Relief Fund
Canada
UNRRA
Colectors of
Colectors of War Charity
National War Services Department
Prices Board
Fife
Army Leave Rules Ottawa Regulate Oversee Return
Ottawa publishes orders detailing army leave categories rotational duty long service and miscellaneous. Rotational duty men with lengthy overseas service stay in Canada while long service troops with needed qualifications return after three days at home. Quotas set by defence HQ in Ottawa and London. current pace about 2.0?4 per month. Four front line soldiers return for each Briton sent home.
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Ottawa
Oversea
Western Hemisphere
Canada
Defence
London
Britain
Nazi Air Force London: Luftwaffe Dead as Allied Attacks End Control
Allied officers report the German air force no longer has organized command. What remained of its operation was crippled by two weeks of relentless Allied bombing of crowded airfields, leaving a disjointed, directionless force.
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London
Fife
Chinese Delegates Visit San Francisco for UN Inference
Dr Carin Chang leads a Chinese delegation to a United Nations inquiry in San Francisco drawing attention to an international organization. The funder and leader of a nationalist party is among the two Chinese delegates noted in the report.
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Carin Chang
National Socialist Party
United Nations Inference On International Organization
San Francisco
Wu Yi-Fang
Ginling College
China
Farmers May Produce More Coarse Grains
Winnipeg dispatch notes the weather supports curling toward more coarse grain acreage in 1945 and less wheat. Cold, showery conditions delay seeding in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, with May 5 as a benchmark date in many areas. Prospects hinge on moisture and soil conditions, as farmers shift toward oats and barley to back meat production.
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Winnipeg
Dominion Agriculture Department
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Gardiner
Red River
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Prairies
Eisenhower assigns French supply program to provisional government
General Eisenhower announced that starting May 1 the French provisional government takes responsibility for the entire French supply program. Previously Allied supreme headquarters managed provisions for essential civilian needs in France on behalf of Britain and the United States.
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London
Eisenhower
France
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Britain
United States
World War I Ration Losses Counted in Debates
The record notes estimates of twenty million lives and forty thousand dollars tied to wartime rations, with figures also mentioning nine hundred thousand losses attributed to supply constraints. The figures underscore the global human and economic cost of rationing during the conflict.
Ship Ottawa torpedoed by U boat in Atlantic
The Canadian minesweeper Guysborough was torpedoed in the North Atlantic with five officers and 48 men missing. Navy Minister Abbott announced 37 survivors, eight injured, and 72 missing including one officer and one rating of the British Navy. Survivors report the ship did not sink immediately and two men glimpsed the periscope of the attacking U boat. The loss occurred after a 19 hour sea battle aboard a vessel crowded on lifeboats and Carley floats, with only six of 42 rescued after a long night.
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Ottawa
Soas
North Atlantic
Guysborough
Navy
Abbott
At Attak
Britain
Canada
First War Prisoner Returns Home From German Camp
WO G F Booth of the RAF, the first British armed forces member captured in this war, was brought home from a German POW camp after liberation a week earlier. He was shot into the sea and captured on Sept 4, 1989, the day after war was declared. Your Duty Buy A Victory Bond.
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London
WO. G. F. Booth
RAF
First Canadian Army Cares For Displaced Persons From Germany
The First Canadian Army in a Rhine crossing zone handles about 10,000 displaced persons from various European nationalities. Most were forced to work in factories or on farms under German control. Care is provided by mixed Canadian British detachments. war prisoners stay with national officers, civilians are housed in Allied camps. Western Europeans return home promptly. eastern and southeastern Europeans stay until safe routes to Poland, Russia, or the Balkans are secured.
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Rhine
Germany
Emst River
First Canadian Army
Europe
Poland
Russia
Balkans
First Polish Army Stamps Berlin Breakthrough
In Moscow General Rola Czimiersky announced that the first infantry division of the First Polish Army, trained with Russian forces since the Vistula, led the storm into Berlin. Poles celebrated the victory with a reception at the Polish embassy in War saw.
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Moscow
Berlin
Vistula
Rola Czimiersky
Warsaw
Evacuated Firms Move to Belgravia Homes in London
London business firms evacuating to avoid the blitz plan to return not to the crowded city but to stately Belgravia houses in southwest London. They are arranging with Westminster council for accommodation and allowances.
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London
Belgravia
City of Westminster Council
Disputes Won’t Be Settled At Conference In San Francisco
Representatives from 46 nations gather at the San Francisco Opera House to seek a path to permanent peace. President Truman warns the talks will not resolve borders or reparations while Stettinius, Warren, and Lapham urge unity as delegates listen under a vast vaulted ceiling.
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San Francisco
Harry Truman
Washington
Mackenzie King
Canada
Opera House
Truman
U.S
Stlettinius
Earl Warren
California
Roger Lapham
Stettinius
PFR A Provides Water For Saco Irrigation Under New Accord
Regina announces a new agreement supplying 2,000 acre feet of Cypress Hills reservoir water to Saco Montana for beet and alfalfa irrigation. Canada and the United States share waters 50 50. PFR A will divert up to half the flow, with the rest continuing south.
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Regina
P.F.R.A
Saco
Montana
George Spence
Cypress Hills
Frenchman River
Canada
United States
P.fvr.a. P.F.R.A
Bonds bought by payroll deductions rise in Victory Loans
J R Reid of the War Loan Committee told Cana dian National Railways canvassers in Winnipeg that payroll deduction purchases soared from 65 million to 225 million across loans, and that total Victory Loan payroll support in the war equals the Seventh Loan’s 2.2 billion. He praised C N R employees and urged exceeding the Eighth Loan quota.
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A. K. Warmer
Mr. Wheeler
C.N.R
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
J. R. Reid
War Loan Committee
Reid
Mr. Reid
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Assocation
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Monty
A.D.C
Miles Dempsey
2Nd Army
Omar Bradley
12Th Army Group
Bernard L. Montgomery
21St Army Group
William H. Simpson
Armmerican
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