Canadian Frigate Sinks German Sub
The Canadian frigate Annan destroyed a German U-boat in a North Atlantic night battle using gunfire and depth charges, taking prisoners including the U-boat commander. Seven Canadian sailors were wounded. officers and crew received awards including Distinguished Service Crosses and Medals. The action, fought at close range, left the submarine blasted and the Annan victorious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HM.C.S. Annan
Annan
Atlantic
Annan's bridge
Co. P. Balfry
DS.C
R.O.NR
St. Johns
Que
John Corbett
R.C.N.V.R
Edmonton
Alta
Balfry
Lieut
Corbett
OTTAWA
C.P
Navy
Macdonald
North Atlantic
Anran
Charles Patrick Balfry
St. John's Que
David M. Howitt
Douglas William Barker
Victoria
James Wilson McLeod MacKenzie
St. James
Man
Daniel George Stone
Winnipeg
D.S.M
John Harper Corbet
George Arnold Westbrook
Vancouver
Wetaskiwin
Cyril Lebeau
West Kildonan
Anna
British House of Commons Likely to Welcome Service Veterans
London report notes high interest from ex service members for the next general election. In 1912 MPs stood at 707, with 263 service candidates already listed. Conservatives claim 50, Liberals 128, Socialists 66, Commonwealth 12, Communists 7. About 49 MPs now serving intend to stand again, 44 Conservatives, 33 Army, 8 Navy, 8 Air Force. Final candidate lists may double the current service total as young veterans flood the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
London
Ottawa Journal
Westminster
Commonwealth
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
service notal
Red advances near Vienna and Wiener Neustadt rise in WWII drive
Allied and German dispatches report Soviet forces 10 miles south of Vienna in the Baden area and near Wiener Neustadt 25 miles southwest. German lines claim a counter from Bratislava toward Bratislava with heavy fighting at Modra and border thrusts toward Bratislava as Malinovsky drives north from Slovakia toward Brunn.
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LONDON
C.P
Wiener Neustadt
Messerschmitt
Vienna
Stalin
BADEN
ard
Werner Neustadt
Transocean
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Bratislava
Slovakia
Bruenn
Czechoslovakia
Modra
Malinovsky
amy
Sratislava
Budapest
Trarsvecaee
Fourteen Japanese Admirals Reported Dead in Action
Domei agency announced the death of 14 more Japanese flag rank officers in action bringing total reported enemy losses since May 1944 to 108. The latest casualties include Vice Admiral Noritada Islel and 13 rear admirals.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Domei agency
Noritada Islel
Premier Manning Sees Lending Firms Plan Alberta NHA
Edmonton April 30 Premier E C Manning expressed satisfaction that lending companies will consider loan applications in Alberta under the National Housing Act He said he was glad operations would begin under the NHA in the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EDMONTON
E. C. Manning
Alberta
Okinawa Is Sliced In Two
United States infantrymen and marines cut Okinawa in two by reaching the east coast near Tobura as the 24th Corps of the 10th Army advances across the island. Progress along the front averaged several thousand yards amid scattered resistance with carrier aircraft and heavy guns giving close support.
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GUAM
United States
Okinatwa
navy
10th Army
Tobura
Japan
Korena
Okinawa
Naha
Coal Commission In Calgary Operators Seek Govt Aid to Restore Markets
The Western Canada Bituminous Coal Operators Association urged the Carroll Commission on Coal in Calgary on April 3 to provide government assistance for western coal markets. They called for stable conventions, ongoing federal cooperation, assigned operating representatives, provincial government support, and railway cooperation to restore former market areas and ensure full-time operation. They argued reserves are adequate and the issue is market recovery and tonnage, not supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CALGARY
C.P
western coal
Western Canada Bituminous Coal Operators’ association
Carroll Commission on Coal
lands and mines and trade and industry departments
Canada UK wartime supply pledges inked in Ottawa pact
Ottawa reports British and Canadian ministers signed agreements ensuring Britain will take all Canada’s beef bacon ham and eggs to end of 1946 with talks in Washington to follow for further wartime supply arrangements. Prime Minister Mackenzie King noted preparatory Ottawa meetings with Lyttleton and Llewellyn while Gardiner and Howe expected to represent Canada in Washington. Canada will supply eggs in shell and focus less on powdered eggs. Finance Minister Isle y outlined a $3 000 600 000 interim war appropriation with projected 1944-45 expenditures near 4.679 billion.
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OTTAWA
CG.P
Col
J. J. Llewellyn
Agriculture
Gardiner
Britain
Canada
Mackenzie King
commons
Col. Wewellyn
Oliver Lyttleton
United Kingdom
Isley
house of commons
Europe
Mr. Ilsley
Far East
MacArthur
Tisley
British Land Behind Nazi Lines In Italy
British Eighth Army forces landed behind German lines on the narrow land between the Comacchio lagoon and the Adriatic. Allied headquarters called the action a successful local operation, with eight enemy positions captured as landings occurred between the sea and the Po Di Primaro river and along the lagoon’s eastern shore.
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ROME
Valti di Comacchia
Adriatic
Allies Box Nazi Chiefs In Final Mountain Stand
Allied forces close in as Germany is sliced into traps in northern Germany and the Ruhr. Hitler and his core are boxed in by rapid Allied advances, with Canadian pushes into Holland threatening further envelopment. Continued on Page Three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DEWITT MACKENZIE
Associated Press
Hitler
Bavarian Alps
Germany
Ruhr
Holland
British-Canadian Holland Trap Closes 106th Birthday Remark
One of the oldest women in Canada celebrated her 106th birthday near St Hyacinthe Quebec on Saturday. Mrs L Harneis, with five children, the eldest 82, and the youngest 72, is described as in comparatively good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST, HYACINTHE, Que
Canada
Canadians Close on Zuider Zee as Germans Try to Flee
First Canadian Army troops push to within 25 miles of the Zuider Zee while British 2nd Army nears the North Sea in a coordinated drive to trap Germany army group H. U S 1st and 9th armies seal Ruhr fate, with Holland and northern Germany defenses being cut to ribbons. Recklinghausen falls to the 9th Army as Muemater is cleared by British and American forces.
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ARIS
Zuider Zee
North Sea
U.S
Ruhr
Holland
Germany
Johannes Blaskowitz
OSNAB
Muemater
Westphalia
Sth
Hamm
Europe
Annabrueck
Hepburn To Lead Liberals In Ontario Election
Mitchell F Hepburn was named leader of the Ontario Liberal party on the eve of campaigning. The appointment, announced in Toronto, awaits ratification at the May 1 Liberal meeting. Hepburn, former Ontario premier, said Liberal victory would bring sound postwar policies.
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TORONTO
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario Liberal party
Ontario Liberal
house of commons
senate
Ontario Liberal Federation
Ontario Liberal association
Hepburn
Ontario
Queen's Park
postch
Ontaro
Start Road Work Soon on Alberta Highway 4
Preparations are underway to begin Alberta's 1945 road construction and repair program. Southern crews will start on Highway No. 4 between Lethbridge and Coutts as soon as weather allows, with the initial 50 mile stretch near the boundary to Craddock slated for early work and Craddock to Lethbridge to follow after engineering reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EDMONTON
C.P
Alberta
Pubiic
W. A. Fal
Lethbridge
Coutts
United States
boundary
Craddock
Cradsock Lethbridge
Road to Berlin fronts distances listed
The report provides distance measurements to Berlin from major fronts. Eastern Front shows 32 miles from Zrlin, Western Front 155 miles from the Werra river near Eisenach, and Italian Front 544 miles from the Reno river.
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Zrliln
Werra river
Eisenach
Reno river
Lethbridge Herald marks five-figure March circulation
The Lethbridge Herald hit 10,025 paid daily circulation in March, a five-figure milestone not achieved in 37 years of daily publication. The staff celebrated as the paper reflects on growth since 1907 from a four-page start to serving Lethbridge and Southern Alberta, aided by irrigation, beet sugar, roads, railways, and education developments.
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Herald
Lethbridge Herald
ita
Lethbridge
Alberta
South Alberta
St. Mary-Milk River
the
Canucks Establish Two Bridgeheads Across Twente Canal
Canadian forces created two bridgeheads over the Twente Canal between Zutphen and Hengelo in Holland as British and Canadian troops cleared most of Arnhem island between Arnhem and Nijmegen. The 1st Canadian Army operates as a unified force northeast of the Rhine with divisions under Gen. Crerar and Dempsey.
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El MUNRO
HOLLAND
h. Cabie
Twente Canal
Zutphen
Hengelo
Crerary
Arnhem island
Arnhem
Nijmexen
Enschede
Rhine
Aschaffenburg Falls and Wurzburg Entered by US Army
Across April 3 reports state Aschaffenburg fell after a week of fighting while 35 miles southeast near Wuerzburg U.S. 2nd Division units pushed into the city amid heavy bombing. Muenster is captured by British tanks as the 71st Army Group HQ notes advances in Westphalia. Air attacks target Nordhausen as RAF Lancaster bombers strike barracks and concentrations.
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ASCHAFFENBURG
WUERZBURG
7th ARMY
MUENSTER
U.S
71st ARMY GROUP
Muenater
Germany
United States
w1th Airborne
LONDON
Reuters
Nordhausen
air ministry
RUTHERFORD
PINCHER CREEK
Fit
Milwaukee Grain and Stock Exchange
transportation department
PHILADELPHIA
Eastern Penitentiary
prion
Herbert Sawith sa
ARGENTINA
FRITZ MANDL
BUENOS AIRES
Srits Mandl
ferent
Aguinian
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Princess Pat
W. UL, Clark
Windsor Star
desert
Los Angeles
Reds
OKINAWA II
Coal Commission
Italy
Allied Airborne army
thIng
BBABY
3rd Army
Meiningen
Patton
Middle of
Reich
Bremen
Hannover
Recklinghausen
ch alao
Suderwich
Berghagen
Ruhr Ruhr
AIMgLO
MENGELOO
aeris Boorn
DEVENTER
WEM
CLEVE
vegoen
HEINE
OUESTEN
MECKLINONALISEN
ROAD
BERLIN
Canucks
RAY
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