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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
3
Report describes how Canadian forces removed their Canada badges and regimental flashes during a security pause before attacking the Gothic Line in Italy. They briefly appeared before Florence and struck the Gothic Line while towns remained out of bounds during the ban. A photo shows a regiment's prank after security was lifted.
The passage urges sustained support for Canadian sailors after Germany’s defeat. It notes Allies may celebrate separately, but Canada will still shoulder postwar duties in the Pacific. It calls on Navy League to supply care items in large quantities for ongoing service of seamen and sailors.
Canada has rapidly grown the Royal Canadian Navy from about a dozen ships and 1,700 personnel before the war to hundreds of ships and roughly 100,000 sailors. The country is now the fourth largest sea power, with Britain the United States and Japan ahead, and Canada expected to rise to third after Japan’s decline, reflecting vast gains in bases yards and supporting facilities.
The Royal Canadian Navy saw 109 ships in the European invasion with 10 000 sailors. A record convoy of 150 ships moved over 1.5 million tons of materials. In summer North Atlantic duty was done by Canadians and they sank 13 surface ships and 15 submarines, while sharing in destroying many enemy craft.
The navy plans to expand after the war with a permanent force near 15,000, adding two aircraft carriers two cruisers and light destroyers. Annual costs could reach 50 million dollars but details await peacetime budgeting. Canadians can proudly note the navy’s role against the Axis.
At a New York Port of Embarkation camp Mas ter Sgt Galan Swank of Conyers New York and Staff Sgt Marcell Swank shared a bloodied Bible carried through multiple campaigns. The elder served in the Argonne Forest in the last war and the pair traced a history from Dieppe and North Africa to El Guettar Sicily Salerno and the Italian drive before returning home.
Implement company FACTORY Canadian Co operative Implements buys Gregg Manufacturing Co machinery and farm hardware plant in Winnnipeg for 400000 dollars. J B Brown, president, states prairie governments will assist the deal. C C I is made up of farmers from Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The Netherlands reports contributing over 2 million tons toward the ship ping PDOL initiative created by United Nations agencies. The effort aims to bolster humanitarian relief and maritime operations amid ongoing global supply challenges.
A collection of light jokes and humorous exchanges. The prompts include a wife described as systematic, a boy and trumpet dispute, a black patched hat comment, a fuse anecdote, a tree climbing scene, an orphanage choice about a boy, a maid and butler exchange, and a quip about being a self made man followed by a wife and three daughters as a twist.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board guidance explains ration book timing and birth certificate rules. It notes tea and coffee coupons in book five remain unused after lifting restrictions and outlines how an automobile age changes on October 1. Birth documents not required if hospital signatures on a statutory declaration accompany the application.
Canada has trained more than 200000 air force personnel under the British commonwealth air training plan, at least half of whom are highly skilled air crew members.
An advertisement promotes Kellogg's All-Bran as a daily cereal to ease constipation by providing bulk. It urges regular use with plenty of water, notes it is a nutritious cereal not a medicine, and mentions availability at grocers with two handy site references. Written from Kellogg's London Canada production.
On Christmas morning the New York publisher James Gordon Bennett gave a waiter a roll of six $1000 bills. The waiter, shocked, turned it in. the next day Delmonico revealed the bills. Bennett insists the money be returned to his waiter, asserting he never makes a mistake.
A tropical butter fat spread from creamery butter in Australia and New Zealand resists melting below 105 degrees F. If it does melt, it can be re-incorporated by stirring. The spread has proven a boon to troops in the Pacific.
Lorraine McAuley of Winnipeg and Joan McMaster of Orangeville earned permission to learn the drums at H M C S Conestoga in Galt. The new drummers boost morning divisions and inspections as several hundred Wrens train. Grace Prestiey of Regina plays the big bass drum.
Sgt Edna Mitchell of Vancouver and Pte Shirley Granger of Kimberley B C were the first CWAC members to visit the U S Army Recreation Camp at Santa Monica California. The pair were hosted by Uncle Sam and enjoyed a 14 day holiday amid palm trees beaches and film city fame. They stayed at the camp and ate at the canteen before returning to Vancouver.
Second Lieutenant Ther ese Vanier of Montreal, a CWAC officer, was posted from England to Paris where she rejoined her father, Major General George P Vanier, and returns to the city she fled in 1940. Her career includes service in London and a recent commission, amid a census of CWAC life in London Ontario barracks featuring plush pets on bunks.
A historical note recalls carrot leaves once viewed as decorative by English women of Queen Elizabeth I era. The claim links botanical flair to royal fashion, though evidence remains sparse and crafted legends surround the practice.
A London cable to the Ottawa Journal argues Britain bears greater wartime devastation and civilian losses than France. Paris remains largely intact while London endures extensive bomb damage and higher service casualties. Britain also depletes overseas credits and gold reserves, unlike France.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones replaces pendulum clocks at Greenwich Royal Observatory with quartz crystal chronometers accurate to 110000th of a second per day. The new method aids Greenwich work and checks service instruments, with wireless time regulators now controlled by it.
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