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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 11, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Digest today in history world concorde Given of the i Unis Bay co n paid i um1s by an la for Ruperts i 124 years ago today in the Lami included today Lairie Northern Northwestern Quebec and portions of the Northwest territories the company kept tend around its trading posts Anil million hectares of also on this Day in 197 a Federal judge ruled that new Yorks Airport shave no right to bar the supers Nic concorde subs air France and British a i ways announced plans to launch daily concorde flights to new York consumer watch Safe scrabble Nav York the word game scrabble is now Safe for the politically the makers of the popular in which players use lettered tiles to spell out interconnecting words similar to the form of a crossword have decided to remove terms offensive to minorities from its official scrabble players dictionary the anti defamation league applauded the move by Hasbro and the Milton Bradley were pleased Hasbro is committed to taking such Quick action in pulling these demeaning racial epithets out of the said an Adl included on the list of newly banned words were Dago and the word jew used As a verb for a company spokesman said 50 to 100 words deemed potentially offensive to people on the basis of or sexual orientation would be deaths Lena Florence widow of Andrew Anderson Mary wife of Rae Archie David Marie 84 Jean Mary of Sifton fle1 John Fern of Blue a of Ashern of Calgary Margaret wife of Fred Duncan son of Linda and Alan 73 Thomas of widower of Ann Philip Maxwell husband of Elsie Kelly Lynn Thelma of Alia Marion widow of Walter 82 Willian Harry Alexander widower of Evelyn Grace Thornton Ralph of Portage la husband of mar Zilkie classified death notices c6 lotteries pick 3 winning number yesterday was 777 reaching us Winnipeg free press circulation Home prepaid inquiries advertising classified editorial photo desk sports desk Tempo Money Reader feedback 6977001 6977074 6977075 6977100 6977150 6977230 6977304 6977285 6977320 6977017 6977293 into rim email City desk City letters to the editor my Ca Library my Ca Ricy Clid Mai print Umi in Thi production of this Canadian veterans commemorated their comrades yesterday at Moro River Canadian War cemetery in nearly canadians Are buried deadly Battle lives on everything before Moro River was just a Nursery Chris 2nd Canadian infantry staff reporter memories Fortona carnage still painful Moro Italy fifty years Gene Day Croft still bristles at even the suggestion of discussing the Battle real men dont said a resident of who fought in Ortona during the second world War with the governor generals horse it makes me soft to talk about so just forget what happened to Canadian troops during the Winter of 194344 has gone Down As one of the most significant and student pained by a1 canadians have Ever there Are canadians buried in this port City on the Adriatic sea coast but the headstones do not begin to Tell the horrors of a Battle that degenerated into House House fighting throughout the Sam a Shilo resident who fought with the Royal Canadian artillery at said it was like a gang but with heavy our Guys would go into the top of a work their Way Down into the basement and then crash into the Wall of the next House and work their Way up that Witt and you do that for an entire the Battle to Cross the Moro River and then hold the Central italian town of Ortona was key to the Allied plan to capture it is a Battle neither Canadian veterans nor the residents of Ortona much of the City was levelled have hundreds of italians turned out yesterday for ceremonies at Ortona and the Moro River cemetery with Canadian veterans touring Italy on the 50th anniversary of the italian Lanfranco Berardi remembers As a child looking out the window of his family Villa just outside Ortona to see canadians storming Over the Mountain in what would become a massive f ref ight Over the main route into the i remember seeing Young men dying and although i was just five years i knew i was seeing something that would be Berardi said through an Paul Triquet of the Royal 22nd regiment won the Victoria Cross for driving the germans from the area surrounding Berardis despite being vastly outnumbered and laureat a sergeant who knew Triquet said the pc provided a much needed morale boost to the men in his but on a tour of the area Laberge said his thoughts were not of valor nor Laberge lost his Best Friend at Casa and there was no glory in i still remember like it was them bringing me his personal Laberge said As he stood on top of a Hillside looking Over the massive Berardi comic Book Aims to teach kids War history by Ellin Bessner Canadian press Italy the bloody Battles fought by Canadian soldiers to capture this Adriatic sea port from the germans during the second world War have been portrayed in a comic Book to teach students about the towns and the authors Hope to finish translating the 100page Black and White Book into English so canadians can learn about the the one Way to do it is to give them the material in a format that they can said Angela an Ortona woman who presented copies of the Book to a group of visiting Canadian the Book portrays Sites of Battles Well known to the canadians such As the Moro the Vino Ridge and Casa three Storey Stone farmhouse West of Ortona that was captured by a company from Quebec Royal 22nd the Van historians called the Moro River Campaign the bloodiest month of the whole italian Between november and december nearly Canadian troops were they Are buried at Moro River five Kilometres South of to gather research for their comic the authors travelled to London to visit the archives of the British War they also conducted interviews with Canadian and German who frequently revisit they also retrieved films made by Canadian troops at the the comic Book helped to refresh the memory of retired Vancouver businessman Bob who was in a mortar platoon with the Seaforth its you 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