Soviet Forces Press German Lines as Thaws Rise
Soviet dispatches report Red Army advances amid spring thaw pressures near Smolensk and Gzhatsk 100 miles west of Moscow. German air strength grows with heavy counterattacks while Soviet air forces hit tanks trucks and artillery. Murmansk fighting draws dozens of planes as combat widens on multiple fronts.
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Moscow
Red Army
Smolensk
Kalinin Front
Donets Basin
Prava
Gzhatsk
Lake Ilmen
Staraya Russa
Donets
I. Yermashev
Kuibyshev
Yermashev
Hitler
Newspapers Declared Essential Service in Canada
Elliott M. Little and Labor Minister Mitchell announce newspapers and news associations as essential services under the national selective service plan. They say newspapers must keep qualified staff, with flexibility to reassign workers if surpluses or shortages occur.
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Ottawa
Elliott M. Little
National Selective Service
Mitchell
Mackenzie King
Canada
Little
Warning Of Critical Days Ahead In Canada War Review
Prime Minister Mackenzie King outlined fresh war measures including two new army divisions as a mobile reserve for coastal defence, expanded aerial strength, and unlimited naval expansion. He warned of a long struggle but expressed confidence in victory for the free nations while stressing the need for national unity and continued production. Hanson urged Canadians to heed the warnings and support all efforts to win the war.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie King
King
Free Nations
Mr King
United Nations
Hanson
Glider Buffer Use Hints at German Tennis Ball Demand
The ministry of economic warfare explains Germany sought tennis balls for a novel purpose. The balls are used as a buffer in glider landing gear, a detail that clarifies a previously puzzling nationwide appeal.
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London
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Germany
Britain speeds sugar push as war production soars
London officials report war production up over 40 percent since September with a drive to exceed all capacity. More than 1,000,000 workers in engines, 300,000 in ordnance plants, and 20,000 in smaller factories support the effort. Ottawa orders reallocate sugar for industry and households, with exemptions for condensed milk makers and sailors and isolated workers receiving higher rations.
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London
Aman
Ministry of Supply
RAF bombs Paris suburb and Polish priests moved to Dachau
The RAF hit Paris suburban industrial plants on March 3 causing heavy property damage estimated at about 140000 Frances. Nazis claim 350 buildings destroyed. In London the Polish Telegraphic Agency reports 70 Polish priests aged 60 to 80 were removed from a home for aged clergy at Ciechocinek and sent to Dachau concentration camp.
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Paris
Royal Air Force
London
Polish Telegraphic Agency
Ciechocinek
Dachau
Germany
Canner Price Cuts Set for April Across 35 Fruits and Vegetables
Ottawa wartime prices and trade board announced reductions in prices charged by canners for about 35 kinds of domestic canned fruits and vegetables. The step aims to bring cost prices to wholesalers and retailers into reasonable relation with maximum selling prices.
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Ottawa
Senate approves £1 billion gift to UK and wheat act referral
The senate passed the government bill granting a 1 000 000 600 gift to the United Kingdom and gave second reading to the wheat acreage reduction act. The wheat bill was sent to the banking and commerce committee for study.
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Ottawa
Senate
United Kingdom
Banking and Commerce Committee
Two Army Divisions Authorized for War Effort
Prime Minister King announced in the House that two additional army divisions, the 7th and 8th, will be mobilized to bolster the wartime effort. Since the Japan outbreak, about a dozen new battalions and extra anti-aircraft and coastal defense batteries have also been mobilized. Ottawa reports W. H. Male of Toronto was named deputy to James Stewart as administrator of wartime prices and trade board for rubber, gasoline, and automotive equipment conservation.
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Ottawa
King
House of Commons
7Th
Sth
Japan
W. H. Male
Toronto
James Stewart
Prices and Trade Board
Beaverbrook arrives to aid Anglo American supply group
Lord Beaverbrook former British minister of production arrives by plane from Miami to help form an international organization to coordinate Anglo American supplies and production efforts.
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Washington
Lord Beaverbrook
Miami
Churchill Pilot Earned O B E in King’s Investiture
Captain Kelly Rogers who piloted Prime Minister Churchill from Bermuda to Britain received the Order of the British Empire at a royal investiture conducted by the King. He is pictured with his sister Mrs Carroll an officer in the W A A F after the ceremony.
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Kelly Rogers
Winston Churchill
Bermuda
Britain
Roosevelt
Rogers
Mrs. Carroll
W.A.A.F
Serbs Executed in Reprisal for Belgrade Killing
Berne says seventy five Serbs were executed in reprisal after the murder of a police chief in Belgrade. The Budapest dispatch to Neue Zuercher Zeitung names Police Chief Kosmajac and a detective as victims shot by Komitadji. The killers remain at large.
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Berne
Switzerland
Belgrade
Budapest
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Sali
Kosmajac
Department of Police
Komitadji
India Defence Against Danger Of Jap Attack
Britain readies for a Japanese assault on eastern India with forts along the 1400 mile eastern coast and Ceylon as a key hub. In the west, Britain's defenses center on the Khyber pass while Far East command reorganizes under Layton and Pownall at Ceylon. India arms, numbers cited hover near two million plus, but training and equipment gaps remain.
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India
Japan
Andaman Islands
Calcutta
Britain
Khyber Pass
Madras
Cittagong
China
Burma
Ceylon
Trincomalee
Port Blair
Andamans
Netherlands
Surabaya
Java
Geoffrey Layton
Singapore
Far East
Henry Pownall
British Imperial Board
Ganges
Brahmaputra
Archibald Wavell
Importance Of Middle East For The Allied Cause
London argues the Middle East is Britain's second front for 1942 and a major focus of Allied strategy. Raids, air sea and land operations, Libyan front defense, and keeping Russian maritime routes open shape the grand pattern for 1942.
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Middle East
France
Rommel
the Times
Russia
Great Britain
Red Army
Britain Foresees More Attacks on Russia Supply Lines
British circles warn of increased German strikes by air, sea and subs on supply routes to Russia as summer orders loom. They note intensified U boat activity in the Caribbean and off the US east coast, while pledging US and British naval effort to curb the threat and protect the Atlantic convoys.
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Britain
Russia
London
Caribbean
United States
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Medal of Honor Awarded to General MacArthur
The United States War Department announced the congressional Medal of Honor for General Douglas MacArthur for conspicuous gallantry in action against invading Japanese forces. President Roosevelt directed Nelson S. Johnson to present the medal in MacArthur’s name to General MacArthur, the Army’s highest decoration for valor.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States War Department
Richard K. Sutherland
MacArthur
Roosevelt
Nelson S. Johnson
United States
Australia
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R.A.F
Joseph W. Stilwell
Peiping
China Theatre
Chiang Kai-Shek
Churchill
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North Cape
Bay of Biscay
McNaughton
White House
A. G. L. McNaughton
Leighton McCarthy
U.S. Army
Gen. MacArthur
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