Churchill Reorganizes War Cabinet in UK Powers Shift
Churchill cuts nine member body to seven and appoints Sir Stafford Cripps as lord privy seal and Commons leader while Oliver Lyttelton takes production oversight replacing Lord Beaverbrook who heads to the United States. Clement Attlee becomes Dominions Secretary as Woolton and Greenwood exit.
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Lemion
Church 7
Stafford Cripps
Privy Seal
House of Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
Oliver Lyttelton
United States
Clement Attlee
Churchill
House of Compans
Dominions
Viscount Cranborne
Stafford
Mr. Attlee
Russia
Lyttelton
Middle East
Ernest Bevin
Anthony Eden
John Anderson
Britain
London
The
Daily Mail
Kingsley Wood
Arthur Greenwood
Mail
Daily Express
News-Chronicle
Liberal
Canadian Bomb Plant Largest Of its Kind In World
E. J. Brunning told the Montreal Electrical Club the new Quebec plant is probably the largest bomb plant of its type in the British empire. The facility will produce over 2,000,000 shells monthly at full operation and 3,000,000 artillery cartridge cases monthly. 10,000 women and 18,000 workers fill shells, with 34 chemical projects costing 120 million dollars to supply explosives.
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Montreal
Quebec
E. J. Brunning
Department of Munitions and Supply
Montreal Electrical Club
British Empire
Brunning
Canada
Sunk Own Ship Spreewald Torpedoed by Axis U-Boat
The admiralty reported the Axis U-boat torpedoed the 5083 ton German steamship Spreewald, 450 miles north of the Azores. An SOS first misnamed a British ship, then corrected to identify the stricken vessel. British patrols found a three mile patch of oil. survivors not confirmed.
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Loendon
Admiralty
Spreewald
Azores
Aid To China May Use Of4 Marco Polo Route
Harrison Forman, American observer in Chungking, says a revived Marco Polo path between Mongolia and Tibet could ferry U S aid to China if Burma road fails. The red route runs via Lanchow through Kansu and Sinkiang to Russia and China, with convoys of base lead material shipping to Iran and Iraq first.
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New York
Mario Poto
Mongolia
Tibet
Turkestan
Soviet
Russia
China
Burma
Harrison Forman
Chungking
Iran
Iraq
Beaselead
South Atlantic
Africa
Frank L Packard Dies Author of Jimmie Dale Series
Montreal obituary notes the death of Frank Lucius Packard at 65 in Lachine after a brief illness. Born February 2, 1877 in Montreal, he created the amateur detective Jimmie Dale and lived largely in retirement. A McGill graduate, he studied Liege and worked as an engineer in the United States before turning to magazine writing in 1906.
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Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale
Montreal
Frank Lucius Packard
Lachine
Mr. Packard
McGill University
Li Institut Montefiore
University of Liege
Belgium
United States
Japanese Losses Reported In Singapore Battle
Three Australian fliers who escaped to Java say the Japanese lost at least 200 pilots in the siege of Singapore with reports from Aneta. The pilots describe repairs to damaged planes in a Kelang area garage and a hasty retreat through heavy anti aircraft fire toward Batavia.
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Singapore
Batavia
N.E.I
Aneta
Java
Kelang
Loss Of Tankers Serious Gasoline Shortage Grows
Canada faces worsening gasoline supply as tanker losses rise and the outlook for five gallon ration coupons remains tentative. Munitions Minister Howe cautioned that allocations could be cut if conditions worsen, with April 1 set for rationing to begin.
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Howe
United States
Gulf of Venezuela
Nazis Order Move 400000 Russian Farm Workers
Berne Germany orders 400000 Russian farm workers moved from northern to southern Ukraine for a 1942 food production program. The plan follows previous disclosures of resettling large areas of White Russia with farmers from Denmark Holland and other occupied countries as part of agricultural expansion.
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Berne
Germany
Ukraine
Russia
Denmark
Holland
Australians Refuse Evacuation Nurses Stay To Help Wounded
Reports from Batavia reveal that several Australian nurses chose not to evacuate from Singapore. They remained to tend about 4,000 wounded empire soldiers despite the danger and risk.
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Melbourne
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Singapore
Greece Under Nais tion During Year New York
J Wes Gallagher, war correspondent, returns from London with tales of Greece under German occupation. He notes widespread starvation, two million deaths expected from starvation within the year, and severe hardship faced by Greek civilians after the campaigns.
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New York
J. Wes Gallager
Associated Press
London
Gallagher
Greece
Athens
Coun
Hope Gilmour Engaged to Lieut Alastair Buchan
London announces the engagement of Miss Hope Gilmour of Ottawa to Lieut. Alastair Francis Buchan youngest son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir. Buchan serves as adjutant of the 4th Canadian Reconnaissance Battalion. Gilmour served with the Women's Transport Service and has worked with the Polish army as an ambulance driver in Britain.
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London
Eng
Hope Gilmour
Alastair Francis Buchan
David Gilmour
Gilmour
Ottawa
Lieut
Buchan
Lord Tweedsmuir
Lady Tweedsmuir
Canadian Reconnaissance Battalion
Paris
Miss Gilmour
Vansittart Urges German Disarmament for a Generation
Lord Vansittart, ex-diplomatic adviser, told the Never Again Association that after the war Germany must be kept disarmed for at least a generation and undergo re-education. He warned that forgiving the German people risks aiding a pan German campaign and urged strict Allied control and continued occupation to ensure lasting disarmament.
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London
Lord Vansittart
Germany
Churchill
Roosevelt
Japan faces limits as it eyes Indian Ocean expansion
The analysis argues Japan cannot sustain a global push from Burma to its mandated islands. It notes heavy commitments in China and Burma, risk to Australia and India, and the danger of stretching supply lines as the US and Britain counter. A successful Indian Ocean project could expose Japan to US naval attrition in the Pacific.
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London
Japan
India
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Hitler
Russia
United States
Britain
United Nations
Burma
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Sumatra
Barneo
Celebes
Java
Batan Phillippines
Australia
Singapore
Strait of Malacca
Capetown
Suez
Persian Gulf
Vichy
Middle East
Western Pacific
New Zealand
United States Navy
Marshall and
Gilbert Islands
Train Airborne Troops For The British Forces
The British army is training air borne troops and has parachute and air landing units ready for action Capt Margesson announced new armored divisions formed to reinforce the Middle East He noted equipment shortages slowed conversion of infantry to armor and anti tank regiments are nearly complete He warned Libyan tank warfare leaves Britain at a disadvantage while stresses need for defense and shipping priorities
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London
David Margesson
Middle East
Margesson
Malaya
Germany
Japan
Libya
United States
Britain
Armored Training Pilots Canadian Officers in England
A Canadian infantry division slated for armored conversion sends officers and NCOs to England for training with the Canadian armored formations overseas. They will spend weeks with the tank brigade in southern England, visit British armored units and tank gunnery schools, then return to Canada to disseminate new armored fighting developments. In Berne a New York Times dispatch says Hitler names Richard Bohrmann as No 3 in line of succession after Goering, noted for strong anti Catholic views.
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England
Armored
Canada
New York
New York Times
Berne
Switzerland
Hitler
Richard Bohrmann
Rudolf Hess
Marshal Goering
Bohrmann
Authorities ban gatherings in Riga area to curb typhus
An order published in the Deutsche Zeitung in Ostland reports that German authorities in former Letvia have banned all gatherings and assemblies in the Riga region to combat a typhus outbreak.
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Berne
Deutsche Zeitung
Ostland
Letvia
Riga
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Marco Polo
Ness
Tanaka
F. F. Worthington
Defence Headquarters
Nais
Staryva
Lieut. Buchan
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