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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1940
Page
2
London columnist notes wartime mood as 1940 nears its end. Churchill reviews the war with a grim forecast, warning of a prolonged struggle ahead. The piece reflects on Britain's somber winter ahead and the absence of triumphant optimism.
A reflective piece on Hitler’s failed invasion plan and Britain’s defense during the Battle of Britain. It credits air power, notes German losses, and highlights Hitler’s stubborn strategy and divided command, with a hint of a forthcoming continuation.
A British World War II feature profiles Acting Squadron-Leader D R S Bader, the legless RAF pilot in command of a Canadian squadron. It highlights Desoutter limb technology, its medical and industrial impact, and Bader’s famed backward somersaults and DSO-winning leadership of a Huricane squadron.
In the October issue G H Mosher notes that six years after chemistry brought transparent plastics to aviation new possibilities emerge for aircraft shapes and performance. Oval designers seized on this crystal clear, glasslike material with translucent properties that promise advances in the aerial age.
Albert Mott, private in the Queen's Own Rifles, was found guilty on all three counts of gross indecency in a Bishop's Falls case. In St. John's Supreme Court the special jury returned the verdict and Hon. Mr. Justice Higging sentenced him to eightteen months in prison.
A college professor asks if the new student has been through calculus and the Kansan replies that he only passed through at night on the way here. The exchange appears in the Christian Advocate.
A Home Missionary Society worker offered a raffle for a poor widow to a notoriously harsh man. He refused, joking that he could not keep her if he won, illustrating town humor and local social satire.
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