Pacific coast defences ready for action
Ottawa reports Canada has strengthened its Pacific coast defences from Yukon to the international boundary. Navy and air force support, with daily Royal Canadian Air Force patrols, link coast stations in a North American air defence chain from Mexico to Alaska.
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Ottawa
Canada
Pacific
Dominion
Yukon
Ian Mackenzie
British Columbia
Vancouver
Victoria
Royal Canadian Air Force
R.C
Canadian
Alaskan Panhandle
Bering Sea
Siberia
Britain
Russia
Canadian Milk Output Rises in Third Quarter 1941
Canadian production of milk in the third quarter of 1941 reached about 7 billion pounds, up 4.9 percent from the same period a year earlier. The year’s total was projected at 17 billion pounds, up 4.3 percent, while creamery butter output hit nearly 107 million pounds in Q3, about 7 percent higher. Through nine months, butter production totaled 233.6 million pounds, up 9 percent from the prior year.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
German Commandant threatens Paris with reprisals
Lt Gen Ernst von Schaumburg, Paris commander, warned the population of Paris that harsh reprisals would be taken if suspects in recent German soldiers attacks were not handed over within one week. The threat followed an incident in which a German medical corps officer was shot on Boulevard Magenta.
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Paris
Ernst von Schaumburg
Boulevard Magenta
Explosion at Dujitza Munitions Dump Kills 1500
Havas reports 1,500 people killed in a munitions dump explosion at Dujitza Serbia. Nearly every nearby building was destroyed. The munitions, stored in the Dujitza bank vaults, likely exploded during combat between Communist forces and Serbian government troops.
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Berne
Havas
Dujitza
Serbia
Dujitza Bank
Modest Nazi claim on British sea losses in November
German assertion of 231000 tons sunk in November shows a two thirds drop from April peak and signals dwindling Allied tonnage losses. British and Axis moves constrain Atlantic effort as Hitler shifts air and U boat assets to Russia and the Mediterranean to aid Rommel and Libya.
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Britain
Hitler
Admiralty
Berlin
Atlantic
Baltic
Mediterranean
Libya
Rommel
Russia
Sicily
Greece
Farmers Exempt From Wartime License For Feeder Stock
Ottawa reports farmers may buy feeder livestock for finishing and resale without a license from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. C R Murphy, licensing director, clarifies the order exempts farmers except when they act as dealers reselling stock.
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Ottawa
Prices and Trade Board
C. R. Murphy
French Warned of Severe Punishment for Desertion
The Algiers radio said French officers soldiers and officials who desert to enemy territory will face severe punishment. It warned no Frenchman should let political or military changes lead him to commit high treason, citing Maxime Weygand’s North Africa era.
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New York
Algiers
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
Latin to be official language in New Europe
Il Messaggero reports plans for scientific relations to use Latin as the official language of the so called New Europe. The Institute of Roman Studies prepares modern Latin dictionaries for that day 2441.
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Rome
Hitler
Europe
Il Messaggero
Institute of Roman Studies
B C Flood Tragedy After Calgary Bus Plunges into Creek
A Greyhound bus bound for Calgary plunged through a flood weakened bridge on Lizard Creek near Fernie British Columbia. Three people died or were missing and 13 others were injured or safe. An infant survived and a woman dragged from the wreck is believed drowned. Leonard Rowe of Mortlach Sask. was among the injured.
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Fernie
B.C
Greyhound
Lizard Creek
Leonard Rowe
Mortlach, Sask
Shanghai Harbor empties as British ships leave on Dec 4
For the first time in a century no British merchantmen anchor in Shanghai on December 4. The last British ship slipped away overnight, leaving a nearly empty harbor once crowded with British commerce. Only a few Japanese freighters and the Conte Verde remained, having sought refuge at the war onset.
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Shanghai
Hong Kong
Savings rise in Ottawa October deposits
Savings deposits in October totalled 1,591,700,000 dollars, up from 1,555,152,000 in September and 1,599,464,000 in October last year, per the department of finance monthly bank statement.
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Ottawa
Department of Finance
Serbian Front: Three Axis Divisions Strike in Morava Valley
Serbian forces under Gen. Draja Mihailovic resist an Axis assault in the western Morava valley as three German and Fascist divisions with tanks and aircraft attack Uzice sector. Partisans report several rear operations and high troop spirits despite withdrawals. Bosnia Montenegro and Slovenia fronts show local activity with no new developments.
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Cairo
Yugoslavia
Morava
Draja Mihailovic
Uzice
Bosnia and
Montenegro
Slovenia
War Savings Stamps Sold In Stores Ottawa
National War Savings committee spokesmen favor retailers selling war savings stamps and certificates. The Retail Merchants Association of Canada British Columbia division proposed the idea, calling it splendid and deserving full consideration. A resolution was forwarded to the committee last week.
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Ottawa
National War Savings Committee
Retail Merchants Association of Canada
British Columbia
No Change Made Ottawa
The agriculture department reports cattle feeding in 1941 42 will be similar in scale to 1940 41 with a shift in feeder distribution. Eastern Canada faces roughage shortages while western districts have abundant feed, altering the usual eastern emphasis on feeder cattle fattening.
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Ottawa
Agriculture Department
Canada
Department
Trucks to Move Goods Over Burma Road Soon
Washington reports 14 000 American made trucks will move war equipment over the Burma road to China under lend lease. 264 American trained pilots have joined Chinese service and 100 Curtiss P 40 fighters are set for this effort. Officials say 4 000 to 5 000 trucks already run the road with 10 000 more to operate in 1942 to transport about 16 000 tons monthly.
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Washington
Burma Road
China
Defence
Lashio
Burma
Kunming
Yunan
Arnstein Committee
Far East
Pocket Battleship Bogota Rumors Plague Shipping Circles
Rumors say a German pocket battleship prowls the Pacific, with alleged U S patrols sighting it near the Galapagos but losing track in bad weather. Informed sailors expect attacks on South American shipping before moving toward Australia, recalling the Graf Spee’s fate.
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Bogota
Colombia
Pacific
United States Navy
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos
Panama Canal
South American
Graf Spee
Atlantic
Ottawa introduces office girl class in civil service
Shortage of office boys leads to a new government employee grade called office girl. The civil service commission invites Ottawa girls aged 16 to 17, with the same rank salary of 38.50 a month and duties as office boys.
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Ottawa
Civil Service Commission
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