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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
3
Ottawa reports Lt General Kenneth Stuart urges active army role in victory. He urges Army Week June 29 to July 5 and stresses moral loyalty and independent thinking. Officers must know men, aim for high standards, and keep learning.
German radio reports lively talks in Italy on purging Fascists seen as ballast. The issue began with the education minister and has spread to the fascist monthly Gerarchia which says the party is full of strivers lacking inner conviction and mass admissions have become a burden.
London reports the Czecho Slovakian government led by President Eduard Benes pledges postwar punishment for all Germans from Hitler to the Nazi guards for crimes committed in Czecho Slovakia.
Mrs Wallace Campbell OBE, national war work convener, told Red Cross workers in Halifax that the Canadian Red Cross aims to pack up to 70000 boxes weekly for British prisoners of war, with current output around 40000 boxes per week.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board outlines a sugar rationing system effective July 1. Consumers, industrial users, public caterers and institutions are categorized. private shoppers receive coupons, while public caterers and institutions file forms and face 70 percent of 1941 quarter usage limits. Retailers must deem registrations, and wholesalers handle coupon transfers and refinery purchases.
In Wardha discussions among Gandhi Nehru and Azad shape India's path to independence. They differ on timing and tactics with Gandhi proposing a world stage movement possibly risking jail and hunger strikes to rally support, while others weigh delaying a direct challenge to British rule.
British and Canadian air crews bombed Emden on June 6 destroying a large Nordwerke shipyard shop and severely damaging another. Nine smaller buildings burned out and two large warehouse-type structures were demolished as photographs showed widespread destruction.
S F Grisdale deputy food administrator wartime prices and trade board said in an interview here he is confident Canada has passed the most acute period in beef shortages. En route to Ottawa after a tour of western centres he said there is no scarcity of beef west of Winnipeg. Equalization of prices with United States markets had made it just as profitable for the farmer to sell his stock for domestic use as to export them.
The Department of External Affairs announced relief supplies for Canadian POWs and internees in the Hong Kong area will be sent aboard a diplomatic exchange ship departing New York for Lourenco Marques. At Mozambique the cargo will transfer to a Japanese exchange ship bound for Japan for distribution by the International Red Cross delegate. The program, in cooperation with Canadian and American Red Cross societies, includes surgical and medical supplies food tobacco clothing and comforts. The ICRC agency in China is meanwhile coordinating cereals and medical stockpiles at Hong Kong and Shanghai for local authorities. Over 1 600 Canadian troops are among Hong Kong prisoners from the failed defence and 1 689 Canadians were reported captured after Hong Kong fell.
C. S. Henley announced labor shortages in BC spruce camps have been filled by soldier-loggers granted six months’ leave. A parallel plan to recruit for war industries is in a tentative stage.
Exclusive pages will publish George Cross holders alongside peers baronets and others of ancient lineage in the next edition. The imperial civilian award for gallantry will be shown with the names of common folk who have earned it.
Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons and anti aircraft units have been operating with United States forces in Alaska for days. Lt Gen Kenneth Stuart said he attached significance to Japan s moves in the Aleutians and noted the defense implications for air bases used as jumping off points for raids on Japan. He added there is no reason for alarm over the Aleutian invasion.
London gossip claims King Peter of Yugoslavia, 18, may be unofficially engaged to Princess Alexandria of Greece, 20, daughter of Princess Aspasia and the late King Alexander. An official statement was expected after King George of Greece returns from the United States. Alexandria, residing with her mother in a London flat, is a cousin of the Duchess of Kent.
The House of Commons approved a 1 billion pound war credit at Sir Kingsley Wood's urging bringing Britain's total authorizations in the conflict to over 10.05 billion pounds and weekly expenditure to about 84.25 million pounds. The chancellor said this is the costliest war in history but reassured no faltering ahead.
Vancouver medical health officer Dr Stewart Murray told the Metropolitan health committee that one ward at General hospital has closed due to an acute shortage of graduate nurses. Other hospital services will be curtailed for the same reason.
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