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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 03, 1943
Page
7
Canada has funded a major study on future international air traffic control. Ottawa aims to protect Canadian rights in landings and airlines for war purposes and weighs early postwar negotiation versus waiting until hostilities end. Official positions are undecided though some officials favor early talks.
A Reuters dispatch from Patna reports eight men sentenced to death for the murder of two Canadian Royal Air Force officers on August 10. The officers were dragged from a train at Fatwa station, beaten, and thrown into a river. Two others got life terms and five received five-year sentences after a trial involving 35 defendants.
New Zealand Minister to the United States Walter Nash said New Zealand would consider offering air and naval bases to the United States after the war as part of a reciprocal mutual defence system. He indicated talks with involved nations before war’s end, including New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, China, India, and the United States, to advance the Atlantic Charter.
London sources report Sir Archibald Sinclair the air secretary told the House of Commons that dive bombers ordered from the United States are arriving and in some cases have been placed in operation at British bases.
Berne reports spoke of large German troop crossings into France heading for the Spanish border but diplomatic circles doubted any imminent German military venture.
Herbert V. Evatt attorney-general and external affairs minister will visit Washington and London soon to discuss supply problems and Pacific policy as part of Allied global strategy, informed quarters said.
Moscow reports colossal discoveries of oil, coal, iron, gold, non ferrous metals, rock, and phosphatic fertilizers since the Soviet revolution. The vast resources promise to reshape industrial plans and agricultural outputs across the Soviet state.
Rear Adml W G Brodeur warned that if 500 of 600 submarines concentrate to harass Allied convoys next summer the St Lawrence River may be closed to navigation to protect Atlantic convoys. Speaking at the Canadian naval exhibition he urged Canadians to understand the navy must decide where attacks on U boats occur and how many escorts are available.
Winnipeg Free Press reports a U S Army headquarters store may be set up in Winnipeg to supply army units and civilians on the Alaska highway. A small staff would run a warehouse with about 50,000 square feet sought on a local rail siding amid recent highway fires.
Police raids on Paris area theatres accompany Laval regime efforts to force 250000 additional workers for Germany. Reports say food cards may be denied to non registrants amid German labor needs. Geneva Journal notes French workers already in German fortification projects along Atlantic coast and near Russia.
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison outlined a postwar plan at the Guildhall calling for a world political association led by Britain, the United States, Russia and China. He argued for international control of currency commodities and commerce to mobilize free peoples after the war.
London reports on a Munich party proclamation read for Hitler while he fights in the east. The text vows mobilization of Europe’s spiritual and material values and warns of ten-fold terror to crush saboteurs and traitors, with the nation urged to endure hardship for victory.
Verwood Sask born Flying Officer Walter Franklin Parks was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after a bombing raid on Lille. His aircraft was hit but he continued the attack, showing remarkable courage under anti aircraft fire. A Nazi rally broadcast in Munich marked the 23rd anniversary of the party's founding.
Relatives of Hong Kong prisoners invited to form the Hong Kong Fellowship to circulate official general information about camps. Supported by the Admiralty War Office Colonial Office and Red Cross, the plan aims to lessen anxiety without naming individual prisoners. About 5 000 members expected and some 1 500 Canadian soldiers were captured when Hong Kong fell December 24 1941.
The munitions department announced an order in council allowing Japanese and Chinese labor to work on provincial crown lands in British Columbia during the war. The move aims to offset a lumber shortfall and could add about 4,000 Japanese loggers in the southern interior, with total wartime costs reaching over 4.6 million dollars.
Poland says the fronter between Poland and Russia must be the 1919 1939 line and rejects changes by Russia as hostile. It appeals for Allied support to uphold Atlantic charter boundaries and denies cooperation with Germany against the Soviet Union.
A Budapest dispatch cited by Zagreb reports 5000 Partisans killed and as many wounded since the latest campaign began in rugged high terrain. The despatch notes Partisans attacked supply depots while Axis casualties are not named. Italian losses last year topped 6000 dead and 6000 wounded.
Foreign Secretary Eden told the House of Commons Britain is eager to cooperate with the United States and other United Nations in creating an international police force after the war. He noted considerable progress in groundwork for talks with the US on postwar economic and financial issues.
Gallantry during the British evacuation from Burma last year earned 54 awards for civilians. The recognitions include a man who ferried a herd of elephants over mountain tracks to save 100 people and a Roman Catholic priest who stayed behind with some children.
A Dutch source says Germany is hurrying coastal defenses by relocating another 100000 residents from The Hague Ijmuiden and nearby areas and demolishing large coastal city sections to build forts.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Madam Chiang Kai-shek will travel to Britain before returning to China. She is presently a guest at the White House with President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Allied headquarters report in Australasia states bombers grounded a Japanese warship at Rabaul New Britain and damaged two additional warships and a merchant vessel. The action underscores ongoing Allied pressure in the area.
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