Hudson Bay Railway Proved Vital In War Effort
Ottawa reports the Hudson Bay Railway has proved crucial to wartime logistics with large tonnage increases from The Pas to Churchill in 1942 and onward. The line, heavily invested at about 40 million dollars, supported air base expansion and grain movements while ship traffic remained limited.
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Ottawa
Hudson Bay Railway
Pas
Churchill
Hudson Bay
United Kingdom
Bay
Hudson Strait
Equipment Abandoned by Germans Near Seine Liquidation
In France the Germans fled across the Seine leaving baby robot tanks and horse gas masks for the First Canadian Army. Twenty robot tanks were found in the Domaniale forest east of Elbeuf along a large supply dump. Horse respirators featured a metal nose cap and elastic sleeve with breathing vents in the snout.
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Seine
Domaniale Forest
Elbeuf
Louvre guard recalls damage during Paris occupation
The Louvre chief guard says in four years of occupation Germans destroyed only one valued exhibit a 4500 year old mummified Egyptian sheep. A German soldier tore it to pieces in the basement while seeking shelter during gunfire between rooftop snipers and French patriots in the Liberation day parade.
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Paris
Louvre Art Museum
Louvre
Battleship Clemenceau Sunk in Brest Harbor
The Royal Air Force sank the unfinished French battleship Clemenceau in Brest harbor to prevent it falling into German hands. The 35,000-ton Richelieu class vessel had remained incomplete since the 1940 fall of France.
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London
Rla.f
Clemenceau
Brest
Air Ministry
France
Ra.f
Majdanek Horrors Outlined by German POWs at Lublin
Four German prisoners testified before a Russian Polish atrocity commission in Lublin about Majdanek. They described gasings and executions of hundreds of thousands, including 157 Polish children, with cremations, mass burials, and barbed wire confinement.
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Lublin
Poland
Majdanek
Nazi Europe
S.S
N. A. Stalb
S.-Komandofuehrer
Theodore Schoelen
Berlin
Churchill Home Return From Italian Front Visit
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives by air in London after visiting the Italian front. He appears sunburned and is met by Mrs Churchill. his return follows operations in southern France.
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London
Churchill
Italy
Air Mar- Ma
Couvcht
Thais Bedoes
France
Disorganized Nazi retreat in southern France near end
The battle for southern France closes as thousands of Nazis retreat toward Allied prison camps and remnants flee along the Rhone valley. Hitler’s 19th Army, tasked with defending the region, is largely destroyed in a fortnight of rapid Allied advances.
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Rome
France
Rhone
Adolf Hitler
Drive to smash German flying bomb bases begins north of Seine
A British general announces a special order of the day as Allied forces push north of the Seine to strike German flying bomb bases in northern France. He asserts the campaign aims to free homes from German attacks and urges relentless, final victory with the motto One more kilometre and one less bomb.
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Seine
France
England
Normandy
Free rail travel for life for Victoria Cross recipients
Canberra residents learned that all Australian Victoria Cross winners will receive free rail travel for life across Australia. The announcement outlines nationwide railway benefits for medal recipients.
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Canberra
Australia
Agreement Reached On World Security Plan
Washington reports that Dumbarton Oaks conferees issued a general agreement on an international security organization. Aims include an assembly of peace loving nations, a council with principal states and others elected periodically, and effective dispute settlement via an international court. Further details and jurisdiction are to be studied before public disclosure by governments.
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Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
International Organization For Peace and Security
International Court of Justice
National Immunization Week promoted by Health League of Canada
Health League of Canada sponsors the third annual National Immunization Week from September 10 to 16 to warn parents about preventable diseases. The GoverNor-General opens the event with a message. The National Film Board helps show a movie in theatres and media outlets carry related stories. Posters and leaflets are available in both French and English.
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Toronto
Health League of Canada
National Film Board
The
War criminals will face justice despite neutral refuges
London report quotes Sir Cecil Hurst of the Permanent Court of International Justice and UN war crimes panel. He warns neutrals hiding fugitives risk pressure and says Hitler’s status on the wanted list is not disclosed. He notes executive action may be used and accountability rests with governments.
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London
Sir Cecil Hurst
Permanent Court of International Justice
United Nations Commission For the
Commission
Cecil
Holland
Doorn
United Nations
Sir Cecil
Hitler
Mussolini
Napoleon
Wartime radio address urges reason over defeatist aims
Lt Gen Kurt Dittmar warned Germans abroad and at home that Germany must press on to resist Allied war aims. He acknowledged French reverses and Romanian developments but argued only a broader willingness to understand could end the misery. He contrasted 1940 and 1944 successes while noting Allied numerical superiority and ongoing hardships faced by British and American forces.
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London
iIn
Kurt Dittmar
Germany
High Command
France
Romania
Dittmar
Admiral Keyes predicts war end this winter in Europe
Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes told the Canadian Club in Montreal that the European war could be over by early winter and the Japanese campaign would end sooner than many expect. He, famed for Zeebrugge, heads the new commandos and plans to visit Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver, then proceed to New Zealand and Australia on government business.
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Montreal
Baron Keyes
Zeebrugge
Commandos
Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
New Zealand
Australia
Nazis booby trap Pushkin grave report shocks Moscow
The state investigating committee on German atrocities led by Nikolai Tikhanov in Leningrad reported Nazis placed a booby trap at the grave of Alexander Pushkin. The committee listed many Russians who died visiting the site.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Nikolai Tikhanov
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkin
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