Britain Warns of Heavy Sea Losses in Atlantic May War Push
London reports indicate April ship losses rivaled the war’s worst months. Admiralty figures suggest about 460,000 tons lost, with Mediterranean tolls lifting Britain and allies’ total near prior peak. A U.S. senate briefing cited 12 ships sunk in three months, but officials say reported losses likely understate actual figures.
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Admiralty
Ministry of Information
Washington
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Britain
United States Senate
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Emory Land
U.S. Maritime Commission
Admiral Land
U.S
Emory S. Land
Rep
Mich
Maritime Commission
Vandenberg
United States
Land
Bliss Appointed Assistant Overseas Music Director at BBC
Arthur Bliss, then living in Toronto, has been named assistant overseas music director of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He will work with former colleague Kenneth Wright, appointed BBC music director last December.
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London
Arthur Bliss
Toronto
British Broadcasting Corporation
Kenneth Wright
BBC Music
Manion Honored by London Empire Parliament Group
The United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association hosted Hon. R. J. Manion, former Canadian Conservative teacher, at a luncheon in London.
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London
United Kingdom
The
Empire Parliamentary Association
R. J. Manion
CPR Acquires Majority in Four Western Airlines
Sir Edward Beatty announced at the Canadian Pacific Railway annual meeting that CPR has acquired a majority interest in four western Canadian airlines Mackenzie Air Service Yukon Southern Air Transport Starrait Airways and Ginger Coote Airways. The group is being reorganized under former executives and managers with details to be settled. none of the firms is in competition with Trans-Canada Air Lines.
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Western Canada
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Sir Edward Beatty
Mackenzia Air Service Limited
Yukon Southern Air Transport Limited
Starrait Airways and Transportation Limited
Ginger Coote Airways Limited
Sir Edward
CPR Naw
Sir Edward Added
Trans- Canada Air Lines
Whitby Heads Voluntary Blood Donor Army In England
Col Lionel Whitby leads a 100000 strong voluntary blood donor force serving the British army at home and abroad. Donors aged 18 to 80 from five southwestern counties supply 2000 pint-sized bottles symbolizing life saving blood for about 20000 casualties.
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England
Lionel Whitby
Col. Whitby
Foreign Agents Arrests in Nazi News Operation
Attorney General Robert Jackson announced that Manfred Zapp and Guenther Town, German citizens, indicted for failing to register as foreign agents, have been arrested and held without bail on deportation charges. They were taken into custody and are held at Ellis Island immigration headquarters, as officials say they did not maintain treaty merchant status under which they entered the United States.
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Washington
Robert Jackson
Manfred Zapp
Guenther Town
Jackson
Zapp
Tom
Ellis Island
N.Y
Justice Department
United States
Arms For African Troops In War Review
Lord Moyne told the House of Lords in a war review that the Balkan reverse has given two or three months to reinforce our position in the eastern Mediterranean. He said Greece losses include light equipment and destroyed heavy armaments, while larger quantities arrived at Red Sea ports.
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London
Lord Moyne
House of Lords
Balkan
Mediterranean
Greece
Red Sea
United States Halts Machinery Exports to Russia
The United States stopped all exports of machinery or equipment usable in defence production to Russia. The policy was adopted despite Soviet diplomatic efforts to obtain permits and despite some machines having been ordered and paid for months ago.
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Washington
United States
Russia
South Africa Approves Canadian Nurse Plan for Defence
Prime Minister Smuts told parliament that plans to introduce nurses from Canada for the defence force of the Union of South Africa have received his approval. Negotiations are proceeding.
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Cape Town
Smuts
Canada
Union of South Africa
Italians To Take Over Berne Report
Hungarian radio reported that German troops in Greece at noon would be replaced by Italian forces to free German units for concentration elsewhere.
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Berne
Greece
Joint Defence Board to Align North American Resources
Washington reports that the United States and Canada will form closely collaborating economic defence boards to speed up North American aid to Britain and hemisphere security. The new bodies will complement the Canada United States defence board and push the April 20 productive effort agreement backed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Britain
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt
King
Menzies Honored in Canadian Parliament During Visit
In a rare courtesy the House of Commons welcomed Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies with thunderous applause. Speaker King suspended business to record his address while MPs lauded Australian heroism in Africa and Europe and pledged unity of English-speaking peoples in wartime.
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Dominions
Great Britain
Robert Menzies
House of Commons
Commons
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Mr. Menzies
British Commonwealth
King
Canada
R. G. Menzies
Commonwealth of Australia
House of Compans
Dominion
Mr. King
Africa
Europe
Young RAF Ace Eric Lock Credited With 22 Nazi Planes
Pilot Officer Eric Lock, at 21, is credited with 22 enemy planes and is the war’s youngest recipient of the Distinguished Service Order. He also holds the Distinguished Flying Cross with a bar.
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Eric Lock
F.A.F
Menzies Praises Australian War Contribution and Unity
In a speech he accepted the greatest honor from Britain as representative of Australia. He praised Australian soldiers and navy in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, defended the Greek expedition, and urged unity with Canada. He spoke of forging a free postwar world and brotherhood among allies.
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Menzies
Australia
Middle East
Mediterranean
Greece
Canada
Mr. Menzies
Convicted of Sabotage in Irkania Seizure Case
All 39 seamen aboard the Italian freighter Ir cania were found guilty of sabotage by a federal court jury after the vessel was seized by the United States Coast Guard in Jacksonville Florida on March 30.
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Jacksonville
Fla
United States Coast Guard
Escape Routes Across France Border Said Easy By Refugees
Refugees report a secret organization operates along the German occupied line in France, helping people exit to Portugal. German patrols fire on escapees, with four or five killed weekly. Fees vary from free to thousands of francs, and 20 to 30 guides devote full time to arranging escapes, aided by locals and even some Germans.
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France
Portugal
Nerissa Sunk Off Irish Coast With 122 Lives Lost
The Nerissa, a Furness liner on the Boston Halifax Liverpool route, was sunk about 50 miles off the Irish coast with 122 lives lost, including 12 Americans. Sixty passengers and crew perished, 35 saved, after a suspected submarine attack. Capt. George Watson survived. The 5,583-ton ship built in 1926 had a long wartime history of naval peril.
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Britain
George Watson
Irish
Halifax
Furness
Bermuda
North Atlantic
Boston
Liverpool
Greenland
Glasgow
Hamilton
Conditions In Berlin Mask Damage From British Air Raids
London reports indicate labor and commodity shortages in Germany. A Swedish observer notes Berlin’s bomb damage seems minimal at first glance but becomes visible behind scaffolding. Gasoline scarcity has reduced traffic to a few taxis, shops show goods either unavailable or sold out, and consumer items like coffee tea and cocoa are scarce.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Evacuating More Civilians From Gibraltar Fortress
Further evacuation of civilians at the earliest possible time from this British fortress was announced. Lists of those to leave include more than 1,000 names, among them many Spanish refugees who had found shelter here since the Spanish civil war.
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Gibraltar
Reach An Agreement Vichy on Army Occupation Costs
Vice-Premier Jean Darlan and German officials in Paris announced an agreement envisaging a 25 percent cut in the cost of supporting the German army of occupation. The move signals cooperation between Vichy France and Berlin on wartime expenditures.
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Vichy
Jean Darlan
Paris
Future World Decided By War Says British Commissioner
Montreal remarks by Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald framing a postwar world order. He says the aim comes from the British Commonwealth, not Nazis, with victory through shared effort. He stresses Canadians must play their part and Britain will endure with food and weapons.
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Montreal
British Commonwealth
Malcolm MacDonald
Montreal Board of Trade
la Chambre de Commerce
Commonwealth of Free and Equal Nations
MacDonald
Britain
Labor Conditions Discussed At Ottawa Conference
Federal Labor Minister McLarty met with provincial labor heads to review contract conditions and enforcement under Dominion government contracts. The sessions, described as informal, aimed to elicit frank views and covered conciliation work underway. Attendees included Saskatchewan minister R. J. M. Parker and Saskatchewan labor commissioner H. F. Johnstone.
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Ottawa
Dominion
McLarty
Federal Department
R. J. M. Parker
Saskatchewan
H. F. Johnstone
Saskatchewan Bureau of Labor
Education And Democracy speech by Carrothers at Toronto luncheon
C C Carrothers, former London Ontario school board chairman, told Associated High School Boards delegates in Toronto that Ontario's education system is not the best in Canada. He cited British Columbia as ten years ahead and noted Saskatchewan's pride in its system despite lower teacher salaries.
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C. C. Carrothers
London
Ont
Convention of Associated High School Boards
Ontario
Canada
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Poppy Fund Ottawa Campaign Window Set for 1941
Ottawa organizers set all community chest and affiliated welfare campaigns for 1941 between September 1 and November 10 to keep the final week free for the Canadian Legion poppy fund. The decision was made at a meeting chaired by J. M. MacDonnell of Toronto with representatives from major cities.
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Ottawa
Canadian Legion
Canada
J. M. MacDonnel
Toronto
Defeating Sub Campaign London
Capt. Austin Hudson of the Admiralty told the House of Commons that recent results in the anti U boat campaign are encouraging. He said that U boats claimed as sunk could not be announced as it would assist the Axis.
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London
Austin Hudson
The
Admiralty
House of Commons
Beaverbrook and Moore-Brabazon Receive Audience with King
Lord Beaverbrook was received in audience by the King at Buckingham Palace on his appointment as minister of state. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who succeeded Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production, was also received by His Majesty.
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London
Lord Beaverbrook
Buckingham Palace
J. T. C. Moore-Ebrazabon
Food For Britain Purchases Lard and Pork for Aid
The agriculture department bought 24,625,055 pounds of lard and 41,379,796 pounds of pork meat products for disposal under British aid and domestic relief programs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon
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