Ports on West Coast See Surge in War Shipping
The Quebec Churchill Roosevelt conference signals sharp Pacific coast activity boost for naval and merchant shipping. Transfers of ships from Atlantic waters and a rush of personnel to the Far East are expected to swell trade through San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, and other ports. Royal Navy and Canadian vessels prepare for intensified Pacific operations with Esquimalt dockyard ready for overhaul and support.
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Germany
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Vancouver
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British Columbia
Southwest Pacific
Pacific Zone
Lord Leathers
Mr. Churchill
Emory
Land
United States War Shipping Board
London
Washington
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Royal Navy
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Esquimalt
Victoria
Hitler Told War Council Eight Week Limit Warned
The Swiss Journal de Geneve quoted German industrialists warning Hitler that the army could not continue fighting beyond eight weeks. The report cites Field Marshal Walter von Brauch? von Model and Col Gen Heinz Guderian delivering the estimate and urging caution.
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London
de Geneve
Hitler
Germany
Field Marsha
Walter von Model
Western Front
Heins Guderian
Butter Coupon Dates Shifted Amid Ration Cuts in Canada
Ottawa reports another postponement of butter coupon validity affecting two pairs of coupons numbered 87 and 81 with new dates Oct 12 while coupons 88 and 89 move to Dec 14. Sugar administrator RO Noble notes no butter ration reduction this year despite tighter world supplies and a planned plant to adjust purchases. Canadian butter stocks on Sept 1 show a deficit of 11.5 million pounds versus 1943.
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Ottawa
RO Noble
Canadian Navy Crushing German Vessels In Western Europe
Ottawa reports the Canadian navy, once scarce in the bleak North Atlantic, now drives back German raiders off Brittany and along the French coast. Destroyers Haida Huron and Troquais lead efforts near St. Nazaire Lorient Brest and St Malo with former escort groups joining the patrol. The Biscay blockade is described as revenge with a vengeance as U boats E boats destroyers and merchant ships flee ports and face the kill. Security limits released details on U boat sightings while confirming a heavy toll on German ships since Brittany fell to American forces.
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Ottawa
Atlantic
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Brest
St. Malo
France
Biscay
Brittany
North Atlantic
Calls for Unity in Yugoslavia Urges National Unity Army
King Peter of Yugoslavia, speaking from London, urged Serbs Croats and Slovenes to unite and join the national liberation army led by Marshal Tito.
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London
King Peter of
Yugoslavia
National Liberation Army
Marshal Tito
Beaufighters Scatter Japanese Convoy in Sea Battle
Allied headquarters reported air and sea action off Ceylon where Beaufighters attacked a Burma-bound convoy of Japanese merchant ships. Twenty one separate strikes followed first sighting on Sept 9, described as the greatest single air and sea victory in the theater with an estimated enemy force of at least 15 ships.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Andaman Sea
Canada doubles steel output in five years postwar aim
Ottawa reports Canadian steel plants have doubled total output since 1939 placing Canada fourth among UN producers after the United States Russia and the United Kingdom. Alloy steel production surged up to five times prewar levels while plate and casting outputs rose 400 and 240 percent respectively as wartime needs drive efficiency and exports.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
United Nations
United States
Russia
United Kingdom
Airgraph Rate Cut in Canada Military Mail
Postmaster General Muleck announced a rate reduction from ten to five cents for airgraph mail addressed to civilians effective September 15. The new civilian rate matches the armed forces rate and covers any country with airgraph service, including Britain Australia New Zealand the Middle East and several African nations. Armed force mail can also go by airgraph to France and Italy. Airgraph letters on film were first introduced in Canada in 1941.
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Ottawa
Muleck
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Middle East
Africa
France
Italy
Canada
Air Mail Subscriptions Bring Daily Express to U.S.
The London Daily Express will be flown to the United States in limited quantities for daily distribution to American subscribers. Dc V R Thompson, chief US correspondent, notes the paper’s 3,002,738 daily circulation and links the Express to Lord Beaverbrook. It is the first London paper to offer regular air mail editions in the U.S.
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New York
London Daily Express Secon
V. R. Thompson
United States
Daily Express
Lord Beaverbrook
Privy Seal
Thompson
The
London
Burma Casualties in Burma and Yunnan Reported
The national military council says up to Aug 15, 1945, 4,280 Chinese and 1,167 British and American troops were killed in northern Burma and western Yunnan. Japanese deaths total 121,140. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Chungking
National Military Council
Burma
China
Yunnan
Canadian infantry and armor hailed for battle valor
In Ottawa a Canadian officer lauds infantry and the First Canadian division and First Armored brigade for their famed performance in Sicily and the rush toward Rome. He praises war correspondents and frontline reporters for risking danger to tell the story. He notes officers often bear higher casualties and cites a unit that lost all officers in the Hitler line breakthrough while a private led a stand. Dieppe history also touched.
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H. A. Hyman
Regina
Canada
Sicily
Rome
Leese
Monty
Eighth Army
Hyman
Falaise
Supreme Headquarters
N.C.O
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