British Troops Route Enemy In Sharp Skirmish In France
British Expeditionary Force reports a sharp skirmish near the Moselle border where five German troops were killed and one captured while British forces suffered no casualties. A separate German raid two weeks earlier resulted in two British deaths and one wound. General Viscount Gort visited reconnaissance crews at an airfield to commend the air wing involved.
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France
Maginot Line
Moselle
Luxembourg
General Headquarters
C. B. M. Blout
Viscount Gort
Sweden reassured on Russia no more Scandinavian ambitions
Swedish circles report Russia has given assurances it has no further territorial aims in Scandinavia. It remains unclear if these assurances were voluntary or sought by Sweden for clarification of the Russio Finnish peace treaty terms. They worry Russia’s railway links to the border could be used beyond commerce.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Scandinavia
Finland
Merchant Cruisers Ottawa Contract Awards Detail
The Prince Robert and the Prince David are slated for armed merchant cruiser conversion under war supply board contracts. Burrard Dry Dock Company Limited of North Vancouver won $600,000 for the Prince Robert on February 9, and Halifax’s Halifax Shipyards Limited secured $535,900 for the Prince David on the same date.
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Ottawa
War Supply Board
Prince Robert
Burrard Dry Dock Company Limited
North Vancouver
B.C
Prince David
Halifax Shipyards Limited
Halifax
Danish Protest Over Bombing of Sylt Island
The Danish government instructed its London envoy to protest British air raids on the German island of Sylt. Ten bombs fell along the Danish coast as a mixed Danish military and technical commission probes which air force conducted the inquiry to identify the perpetrators.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
London
Sylt
Lingua phones installed for Canadian 1st Division
More than 100 lingua phones have been installed for members of the Canadian Active Service Force. They aid those learning French and for French speakers wishing to learn English as part of the division's educational program recently inaugurated at Aldershot.
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Aldershot
Cromwell Links Democracy and Capitalism in War Outlook
United States minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell told a joint Canadian Club Empire Club audience that Allied victory avoids threats to neutral democracies and that democracy and capitalism are inseparable. He warned against viewing democracy as outdated and said true democracy arose with the industrial revolution. He questioned Nazi lebensraum logic and the right of subjects like Austrians and Czechs to choose their government.
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Toronto
James H. R. Cromwell
United States
Canada
Germany
Canadian Club
Empire Club
Cromwell
Hitler Fails to Extract Balkan Pact from Mussolini
An authoritative source says Hitler failed to pressure Mussolini into scrapping the Balkan policy. Mussolini declined to commit to a Germany Russia division of influence. German plans reportedly seek to exclude British and French influence in the Balkans.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Balkan
Rome
Hitler
Germany
Russia
Europe
Il Duce
Buildings Standardized Ottawa Plan for Commonwealth Air Training
The national defence department announced standardized hangars and school buildings under the Commonwealth air training plan. Forty designs have been prepared by Canadian engineer branches and RCAF divisions. Timber hangars will span 112 feet by 126 feet with connector type trusses for rapid erection and removal. floors are paved and wooden sections treated to be fireproof.
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Ottawa
National Defence Department
Engineer Services Branch
Canadian Militia
Royal Canadian Air Force
Halifax Tests Alarm Blackout Drill
Halifax held its first practice blackout in four and a half months. On a signal from 40 air raid precautions sirens, street lights and other lights were extinguished for 15 minutes to test the new alarm sounding system.
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Halifax
Illegal Broadcast Attacks Chamberlain From Abroad
An unlicensed station calling itself the New British Broadcasting Station went on air in London and attacked PrimeMinister Chamberlain and his policies for about 20 minutes. The announcer claimed he led the country into the “most ridiculous and unprofitable war in history” and mocked his age and fitness for office before closing with the first bars of God Save the King.
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London
Chamberlain
God Save the King
Soviets Oppose Alliances Against Russia
Moscow-Tass stated the Soviet Union would view any defensive alliance among Finland Sweden and Norway as aimed at the U S S R and contrary to the peace treaty between Finland and Russia. Article 3 of the March 12 treaty bans coalitions against either party.
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Moscow
Tass
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Finland
U.S.S.R
Soviet Union
Kalio
Oslo
Stockholm
Supreme Soviet
Hunter-Weston Killed in Fall From Scottish Tower
Lt General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston aged 76 died after a fall from the tower at his Scottish home overlooking the Firth of Clyde. He commanded at Gallipoli and served in France in the last war and was a Boer War hero.
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London
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
Firth of Clyde
Sir Aylmer
Dardanelles
France
Valuables Seized from Jews in Prague Protec torate
In the German controlled protectorate of Prague a decree orders Jews to deposit all securities stocks precious metals and jewels at designated banks within two weeks. The measure targets valuables held by Jewish residents amid wartime confiscations.
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Prague
Cannot Stop Shipments London
The government told the House of Commons it cannot block oil shipments through the Black Sea to Germany. Ronald Cross said under the Montreux convention belligerent warships cannot pass the Straits of Bosphorus to the Black Sea to enforce contraband control. The 1936 pact closes Black Sea entrances to belligerent warships unless under League mandate or mutual aid with Turkey. Britain and France hold a similar pact with Turkey signed last year.
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London
House of Commons
Black Sea
Germany
Ronald Cross
Montreux
Straits of Bosphorus
Turkey
Britain
France
France To Buy Horses From Canada in April
J W Mc Callum, assistant director of production services for Canada, told the Canadian National Livestock Record board that France will begin purchasing Canadian bred horses in April. He declined to estimate total numbers but noted a separate U S order for 6,000 horses was placed recently.
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Toronto
J. W. McCallum
Canada
Canadian National Livestock Record Board
McCallum
United States
German freighter Uhenfels seized off African coast
The Uhenfels, a 7,063-ton German freighter, was captured last November and seized after a prize crew took it to Freetown Sierra Leone. A $1,000,000 opium cargo was part of the prize. The ship arrives for examination in drydock.
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Gibraltar
Uhenfels
Freetown
Sierra Leone
London
Second Jap Protest in Tokyo Over Sakhalin Shootings
An informed source says Soviet troops fired on Japanese on Sakhalin Island on March 16 in two incidents. Japan’s foreign office protested Russia twice, the second claim involving Japanese civilians. Early reports cited about a dozen Soviet and two Japanese casualties in a border clash. Hochi urged prompt action against a Soviet Near Eastern advance and warned of Finnish-Soviet truce repercussions.
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Tokyo
Sakhalin Island
Orient
Mission Is Ended Rome
Sumner Welles said no peace plan or mediation proposals were offered to him by any belligerent or European government during his fact finding talks for President Roosevelt. He stated he did not convey any peace suggestions to any European power and his mission was to gather information on present European conditions.
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Rome
Sumner Welles
United States
Roosevelt
Welles
Genoa
Europe
RAF Bombers Raid Nazi Sylt Air Base Longest Yet
London reports the Royal Air Force conducted a seven hour raid on Germany's Sylt air base, described as the war's longest sustained attack. Eyewitnesses near Denmark's Romo noted 82 bombs and four loud blasts, with one explosion hitting an ammunition depot.
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R.A.F
Nazi
London
Royal Air Force
Germany
Sylt Island
Scapa Flow
Romee
Hindenburg
Sylt
Chamberlain
House of Lords
Lord Strabolgi
Labor
Viscount Halifax
Orkneys
Britain Replies to Italy Protest on Allied Economic Warfare
London says its 10 page reply to Italy's March protest defends use of legal wartime measures against Germany and neutral obligations. It notes the coal seizure issue was settled but outlines principles of economic warfare and neutrals. Rome reports Mussolini assigned Graziani to defense measures amid expectation of spring German action.
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London
Italy
Germany
Compmn
Rome
Mussolini
Rodolfo Graziani
Graziani
Ilduce
Adolf Hitler
Brennero
Aiding The Empire at St Johns War Enlistment Update
Justice Commissioner Emerson disclosed that St John’s Newfoundland has raised over 5,000 men for empire service. Two thousand foresters and 625 Royal Navy special service men have crossed the Atlantic, with 1,000 general service and 670 Royal Artillery enlistees joining. 822 merchant seamen applications received, plus RAF enlistment pending. Volunteer naval service exceeded needs and reserves held for a further call.
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St. John's
Nld
Newfoundland
Emerson
British Admiralty
Atlantic
Royal Artillery
Royal Air Force
General Naval Service
Finns Flee Hanko Area Before Soviet Takeover
In Hanko Finland once thriving city of 8000 people dwindles toward a ghost town as residents flee with possessions across the peninsula before the Red Army assumes control under the Moscow peace terms. Hanko was leased by Russia for 30 years to serve as a military base.
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Hanko
Finland
Red Army
Moscow
Belgian Architect Fined and Jailed in Shoreham Letter Plot
Pascal Koettgem a Belgian architect was fined 222 and sentenced to one month in jail for attempting to move letters out of the country by non postal means in Shoreham Sussex England.
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Shoreham
Sussex
England
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