Young Admiral Tovey Takes Command of Home Fleet
Vice-Admiral John C Tovey named commander in chief of the Home Fleet, replacing Admiral Forbes. Sir Henry Harwood becomes lord commissioner of the admiralty and assistant chief of naval staff, succeeding Sir Geoffrey Blake who moves to a special duty.
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London
John C Tovey
Royal Navy
Bert
Charles M. Forbes
Admiralty
Henry Harwood
Geoffrey Blake
Jack” Tovey
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily Express
Beatty
Daily Mall
Sir Henry Harnocus
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Sir Henry
Tovey
News Chronicle
Jutland
Onslow
Wiesbaden
Derfelinger
Defender
Admiral Tovey
Earl Beatty
Rodney
Sea Lord
Navy
Chatham
Mediterranean
H.M.S
Amphion
Jackal
Wolfhound
Belgian Freighter Kabalo Crew Rescued After Lifeboat Drift
The tanker Panam reported to Mackay Radio that it rescued sixteen crew members of the Belgian freighter Kabalo, found drifting in a lifeboat about 475 miles southwest of the Azores. The Panam said the freighter’s captain and twenty six other crewmen were missing in another lifeboat.
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New York
Panam
Mackay Radio
Azores
Norway’s Oslofjord Seized for British Transport Service
New York reports Norway’s largest ship the Oslofjord of 18 603 tons is tied up by the war. It has been taken over by Britain and will soon sail for transport service.
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New York
Norway
Oslofjord
Britain
Children Face Bombing with Calm at British School
London reports show schoolchildren endured indiscriminate bombardment without panic. A Midlands town elementary school suffered its first wartime raid killing six seven year olds, with 400 pupils present and evacuees among them. Despite damage to a speech room and museum, students and nearby boys in a famous northwest London school heroically fought fires and helped save exhibits.
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London
Great Britain
Midlands
Britain
A.F.S
Aj Spithre Fund
German Freighters Sold in Argentina Under War Standstill
Three German freighters Lahn Anatolia and Nienburg taken refuge in Buenos Aires were sold by North German Lloyd to Compania Argentina de Navigation Lloyd Argentina. The ships will stay idle until wartime ends for about 1.4 million dollars. British observers expect seizure or sinking if they leave neutral waters. sale provides Germany about 7 million pesos for propaganda and other uses in Argentina. Crews' fate unclear.
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Buenos Aires
North German Lloyd Company
Compania Argentina de Navigation Lloyd Argentina
Germany
Argentina
Capture Nazi Prisoners Nabbed After Escape in Newfoundland
Two German prisoners who fled from an internment camp were spotted by a rabbit hunter near St John’s Newfoundland and alerted police. Officers rounded up Capt. Wilhelm Josting and Ernnest Munch, interned after their ship Christopher Dorum was seized at war’s outbreak.
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Newfoundland
St. John’s
Here
Wilhelm Josting
Ernnest Munch
Christopher Dorum
Canada’s War Orders Reach 550 Million Total
War orders totaling nearly 550 million have been placed by the department of munitions and supply and its predecessor the war supply board. Munitions Minister Howe announced the breakdown with 88 percent to Canadian firms, nine percent to the United Kingdom, and five percent to the United States.
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Canada
Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
War Supply Board
Howe
United Kingdom
United States
Japanese Minister Arrives Ottawa to Take Post
Seijiro Yoshizawa arrived in Ottawa to assume duties as Japanese minister to Canada succeeding Baron Shun Tomii who has returned to Japan. Dr C D Skelton under secretary of state for external affairs welcomed the new minister.
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Ottawa
Seijiro Yoshizawa
Canada
Shun Tomii
Japan
C. D. Skelton
Canada’s War Poster Highlights Nation’s Role in British Crusade
A London Ontario poster portrays a Canadian air force member with a message praising Canada as a fighting member of the British commonwealth. It notes Canada’s output of 12,000 Bren guns, 360 planes monthly, pilots and crews under the Empire air training scheme, and vast mineral and wheat exports as part of the 10 week Empire campaign.
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London
Canada
British Commonwealth of Nations
United Kingdom
Ministry of Information
Air Force
Western Hemisphere
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic
Prairies
Valley of the St. Lawrence
Britain
Germany
Grace for Wartime Grace by Lord Woolton at Defence Luncheon
Lord Woolton, the minister of food, offered a wartime grace at a national defence committee luncheon. He thanked God for the Royal Navy, mercantile marine, dock and transport workers, food traders, and farmers whose efforts feed the nation.
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Lord Woolton
London
National Defence Committee
Royal Navy
Mercantile Marine
Toronto Sub-Lieut Pat Strathy KIA Aboard H M S Ajax
Sub-Lieut G H K Strathy aged 22 of Toronto was killed in action aboard H M S Ajax. Parents in Toronto were informed. The Ajax fought in the Mediterranean engagement sinking two Italian ships and defeating ten others.
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Toronto
Pat) Strathy
Mediterranean
Ajax
Nascopie Completes Long Arctic Cruise to Greenland
The ice breaker Nascopie under Captain T F Smellie returned to the St. Lawrence after completing the 19th eastern Arctic patrol of nearly 12 000 miles with Greenland stops. Maj D L MecKeand called it the longest most momentous cruise in the vessel’s history and noted the Greenland visit as newly important since Denmark’s 1940 invasion. Canadian consul for Greenland is K P Kirkwood.
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Ottawa
T. F. Smellie
St. Lawrence River
Greenland
D. L. MecKeand
Capital
Nascaple
Denmark
Germany
Canada
United States
K. P. Kirkwood
Humble Homes Pride of Bomb Disposal Chief
Capt Davies of the Canadian Royal Engineers told a London luncheon that bomb disposal teams take equal pride in clearing bombs from humble homes and from St Pauls Cathedral. He stressed that St Pauls is a national edifice but a small home is a castle to its owner.
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London
Robert Davies
Royal Engineers
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's
Davies
Industrialist William Hichens killed in London raid
William Lionel Hichens aged 66 a leading industrialist was killed in a London air raid. He chaired Carmell Laird and Company Shipbuilders and served as a director of the London Midlands and Scottish railway.
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London
William Lionel Hichens
Cammell, Laird and Company
London, Midlands and Scottish Railway
Saskatoon Seaman Ralph Baxter Dies in Victoria
Seaman Ralph Herbert Baxter 19 R C N V R died in hospital in Victoria. Born in Saskatoon he arrived at the naval barracks there three months ago.
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Victoria
Ralph Herbert Baxter
R.C.N.V.R
Saskatoon
Naval
Reach Agreement Winnipeg With Wheat Board 1940 41 Pricing Plan
The Canadian Wheat Board announced a general agreement for 1940 41 with the Northwest Line Elevators Association the wheat pools and United Grain Growers Limited. It reduces the spread between track and street prices by one half cent per bushel and is retroactive to August.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Northwest Line Elevators’ Association
Wheat Pools
United Grain Growers. Limited
Prairie Provinces
Worth~ West Line Elevators’ Association
Cost Of War Vote Grants Large UK War Credit
The House of Commons approved a war credit totaling £1,000,000,000 or $4,450,000,000 to cover heavy expenses through March. Sir Kingsley Wood, the chancellor of the exchequer, said Britain is spending about £9,000,000 or $40,050,000 daily on the war.
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London
House of Commons
Kingsley Wood
Britain
First Canadian Military Draft Falls Short of Target
Ottawa reports Canada’s first compulsory wartime muster drew 25 525 volunteers toward a 29 500 target for 38 training centres. Of 29 559 reported, 2 034 were rejected as medically unfit. Causes include farm and war industry postponements, militia veterans not listed, student status delays, and distant districts missing notices.
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Ottawa
Canada
Departments
National War Services and
National Defence
Department of National War Services
National War Services Boards
London to Remain Capital as War Warns of Winter
Government pledges London will stay the capital with no compulsory evacuation. Parliamentary sources note a wartime rise in cerebro spinal fever and urge leaving only if it does not disrupt business. Minister MacDonald cites crowded shelters as a factor and reports 489000 London schoolchildren and 500 expectant mothers leaving weekly. The Times and others discuss defense measures, air raids, and public morale.
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London
Londen
House of Commons
Malcolm MacDonald
Reuters News Agency
MacDonald
Vernon Bartlett
News Chronicle
Pariament
Foreign Office
Bartlett
the Times
Lord Horder
Timea
Royal Air Force
Petra Natives Sustain Life in Ruined City
In Trans-Jordan's ruined Petra, a population of about 160 natives lives in ancestral tombs and survives on only two meals per week, tracing origins to pre Christian era ancestors.
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Petra
Trans-Jordan
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