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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1945
Page
3
Berlin endures blackouts as civilians and women join barricades amid a feared Soviet assault 30 miles away. Moscow says riots erupt in Stassfurt and Munich with tank supported clashes and police disarmament.
War Assets Corporation previews plans to remove surplus war materials from former production sites. Carswell says up to 75 percent of Canada's war goods may be destroyed after the war ends, including obsolete training aircraft and 1000 horsepower motors. Destruction will be planned and tested thoroughly with ingots produced in open hearth furnaces and explosives dumped at sea.
Montreal chairman Jackson Dodds CBE says the Canadian Red Cross will continue until troops are demobilized and liberated countries are rebuilt. He notes hospital visiting, blood donor clinics, and peacetime projects must expand with many Canadians, especially women, volunteering in knitting, packing POW parcels, and making surgical dressings.
CBS Stockholm reports a refugee from Frankfurt says Nazi SS troops opened fire on demonstrators in Frankfurt- Main killing several. Police clashed with crowds on the main boulevard as crowds besieged a prison. Troops fired and a monk was trampled to death amid a two day paralyzing strike in Frankfurt industries.
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan urged a scheme for India to gain dominion status soon during a Claridge's dinner at the British Commonwealth relations conference. He proposed Britain announce after the war that any plan agreed with Indians would take effect a year after the war ends, or adopt a provisional plan for a wartime period if no agreement is reached.
About 700 English children have been brought back from the United States after wartime evacuation when England faced attacks. The movement reflects ongoing wartime relocation and concern for child safety during the 1940 air raids.
The Soviet government has forced Japan to keep 24 infantry divisions three motorized brigades and seven armored brigades along the Soviet Japanese frontier in Manchuria. About a third of Japan’s mobilized land forces are thus tied down. Japan withholds fighter strength for Philippines and other areas to preserve a reserve for homeland defense.
London reports reveal the distant reading gyro-magnetic compass, the wizard robot, made possible British and American bomber successes. Fitted to all long range bombers, the DRC controls the automatic pilot and continuously corrects bomb sights and radar to ensure accurate target release under any maneuver. Invented at Farnborough in 1930, the secret has been strictly preserved.
In Edmonton, Trade Minister James A. MacKinnon said the 1944-45 western Canada grain crop will yield a gross initial value to producers of 425 million to 450 million dollars. About two thirds of this amount has already been realized by farmers.
Ottawa reports that canned rhubarb and canned crabapples are no longer rationed and may be bought without surrendering preserve ration coupons. The article notes that three quarters of the average war plane’s weight is aluminum.
Captain Joan Proctor of Victoria British Columbia with the Canadian Women's Army Corps stands after receiving the MBE for devotion to duty from King George VI at an investiture in Buckingham Palace.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced two aviation pacts with the United States expanding cross border routes. Canada gains six new entries including Halifax to Boston and Victoria to Seattle while the United States gains several routes linking New York Boston Quebec Ottawa Seattle to White Horse.
A British military source details Canadian First Army operations on a ten mile Rhine front. Reported costs include 1,400 heavy guns, 35,000 vehicles, 1.3 million gallons of gasoline, 100 miles of new road, 63,000 tons of gravel and stone, and 700 Germans captured daily as bridgeheads expected.
Ottawa reports Lieut. Dave Rosenes found a Nazi era world map in the Netherlands school. It marks Canada as largely German and the United States entirely under German control with Norsk and Romanen zones in Europe and broader Axis outlines including Africa Australia and parts of Asia.
Canadian Munitions Minister Howe says the Allied petroleum pool remains strained and no early improvement in supply is expected. He warns rationing hinges on stocks and war tempo, with relaxed allotments only when demand warrants. In Dublin a court denies Willys Overland Motors exclusive use of the name jeep. Marshal Tito reports Yugoslav forces attack and cut off a German column near Sarajevo with a second column retreating.
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