Tirpitz Hit by British Air Attack Noted by Admiralty
London reporting via Associated Press confirms British naval planes scored several bomb hits on the German battleship Tirpitz, the 35 000 ton warship skulking in Altenfjord Norway. The admiralty offered no date for the strikes but described a heavy attack by carrier based Fleet Air Arm.
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E. D. BALL
Associated Press
LONDON
admiralty
Norway
Alten fjord
Royal Navy
Tirpitz
Scharnhorst
lsted
Jane's Fighting Ships
William James
Gneisenau
R.A.F
Altenfjord
Tirpite
Social Credit selects national chief at Toronto convention
Social Crediters say Premier E C Manning may not seek national leadership though Alberta figures back him as a potential figure. The April 4–6 Toronto convention will elect a national leader to head a new party organization aiming to contest federal seats. Manning plans to attend and speak at Massey Hall on April 6.
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TORONTO
Social
Social Credit
MANNING
Social Credit movement
John H. Blackmore
Lethbridge
Alta
New Democracy
Rev
E. G. Hansell
N.D
Macleod
Victor Quelch
Acadia
Alberta
Lucien Maynard
A. J. Hooke
W. A. Fallon
Solon Low
N. E. Tanner
New Democracy-Social Credit
federal house
Hansell
Anthony Hlynka
Vegreville
F. D. Shaw
Red Deer
Robert Fair
Battle River
W. F. Kuhl
Jasper Edson
Massey Hall
con
Left Hand Corner Tone and Tangent Notes
A fragmented column mix cites vitamin thiamin in canned vegetables and recounts a tram incident at Oxford. A reader finds a small white parcel containing a cold partridge on a crowded train carriage, suggesting it may belong to a female passenger.
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New Statesman
Nation
Oxford
Bougainville Japs Suffer as Allied Push Expands
Allied sources report an expanded Bougainville beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay after fierce Japanese attempts to break American lines. In New Guinea, the main force nears Bogadjim on the Madang corridor as 200 tons of bombs hit Rabaul, with Woleai airfield also bombed.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville island
Solomons
New Guinea
Madang
Bogadjim
RABAUL
New Britain
Woleai island
Carolines
Truk
Palau
Bougainville
Emperor range
oceachhesau
Solomon islands
TRUK ATOLL
PEARL HARBOR
United States army
Dublin
central island
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Caroline island
Marshall Islands
Chinese Attacks Alleged on Mongolia by Sinkiang Forces
Tass reported by Moscow that Chinese troops from Sinkiang violated the Mongolian border. Chinese planes bombed towns and strafed Kazakhs fleeing Sinkiang, with well informed sources saying Kazakhs were evacuated from Altai districts to southern Sinkiang late last year.
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MOSCOW
Sinkiang
Tass
Mongolian peoples republic
Ulan Bator
Altai
Allied bombers hit Steyr in Austria decimating German parts works
More than 103 enemy planes were shot down in a Steyr raid by US heavy bombers and escorts crossing the Alps. Light French naval forces destroyed an Adriatic convoy. In Italy, the 5th Army repulsed a German thrust near Rome as Cassino patrols and Garigliano artillery engagements continued.
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EDWARD KENNEDY
Associated Press
NAPLES
United States
Alps
Steyr
Austria
Adriatic
Allied
Balkans
5th
Rome
Cassino
Garigliano
Mount
Marrone
Mount Castelnuovo
Allies Repel German Flame-Thrower Assault near Rome
Allied troops smashed a German flame-thrower attack on the left flank of the beachhead south of Rome. Italian troops on the 5th Army front gained a new central peak as German forces began strengthening perimeter defenses. 5th Army artillery reported destroying at least 13 bridges behind the front.
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NAPLES
A.P
Rome
5th Army
Alps
Carroceto
Rore
Cisterna
Rome to be evacuated as bread rations shrink
Rome faces evacuation amid grain shortages and a bread ration cut to about 3.7 ounces per day. The Bund correspondent reports authorities see no alternative to reducing the population to cope with the food crisis.
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BERNE
CP -Reuters
Rome
Bund
Allied forces sink 30 U boats in March battle
CBS London correspondent Richard C. Hottelet reports that Allied forces sank 30 U boats in March during the Battle of the Atlantic.
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NEW YORK
Richard C. Hottelet
CBS London
Army airlift unlikely as Japanese push aims at Imphal lifeline
Japanese forces threaten Imphal cutting roads to Dimapur along the Burma railway lifeline. Allied HQ say crisis will be resolved without airborne drops. Glider-borne British Indian commandos disrupt Myitkyina to Katha rail and river transport, with air and ground actions across Arakan and Mayu fronts.
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Charles A. Grumich
Associated Press
NEW DELHI
India
Manipur
Imphal
Dimapur
Assam-Burma
Naga hills
Naga head hunters
Kohima
Imahal
praame
Tiddim
Burma
Chindwin river
Chin hills
Tamu-Palel
Buthedaung
Tokyo
Maungdaw
Arakan
Myitkyina
Allied Raid on Budapest First US Bomber Strike on Hungarian Capital
A large force of American heavy bombers from Italy attacked Budapest, marking the first U S raid on the Hungarian capital. The targets were the Budapest railway centre and a key aircraft factory south of the city, with fierce air battles reported over Hungary.
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ONDON
Budapest
Italy
Berlin
Hungary
15th Air Force
Naples
Pacific coast battle map hints at Japan war shift
Two admirals met the cabinet war committee as Pacific coastal defence and supply facilities came under review. Admiral Brodeur's visit signalled possible operational bases at Victoria Esquimalt Vancouver and Prince Rupert with repairs and bunkers to support an eventual strike on Japan from southwest Pacific and India commands.
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JACK BRAYLEY
CTTAWA
cabinet war committee
George C. Jones
naval staff
Victor Brodeur
Pacific coast
Brodeur
Pacific
Japan
Victoria Esquimalt
Vancouver
Prince Rupert
Howe
Alaska
United States
Aleutians
Pearl Harbor
Nippon
MacArthur
Premier of Greece Quits and Names Successor
Cairo April 3 Greek Prime Minister E J Tsouderos resigned and asked King George to entrust the premiership to Sophocles Venizelos who currently serves as navy minister Venizelos is son of Eleutherios Venizelos a leader in Greece during the First World War Tsouderos held four other portfolios including foreign affairs finance defence and labor.
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CAIRO
C.P.Reuters
E. J. Tsouderos
legation
Tsouderos
George
Greece
Sophocles Venizelos
navy
Venizelos
Eleutherion Venizelos
foreign affairs
finance
defence
labor
New Nazi Fighter in Action Over British Bombers
London report says a new German single engine night fighter with a small target and protected pilot has begun operations against British bombers, according to Berlin radio on Saturday.
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LONDON
Berlin
German prisoner Kunz captured in Detroit
Windsor Ontario RCMP report Herbert Kunz a 32 year old German merchant seaman captured in Detroit after escaping a prisoner of war camp near Toronto last Thursday police stated.
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WINDSOR
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Detroit
Herbert Kunz
Toronto
First Spring Wheat Seeded at Wes Farm
Beautiful April weather aids planting with early wheat seeding reported at the Wes farm. Crop progress marks the season as farmers begin spring cultivation.
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Wes farm
Soviet Claims German Losses in March Drives Near Iasi
Moscow announced that in the last 28 days of March Soviet forces on the southwestern Ukraine front killed 183,310 Germans and captured 24,950. Other Soviet units invading Romania pushed within eight miles of Iasi as the war expanded.
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fee
Ukraine
Moscow
Rumania
Iasi
Soviet forces push toward Carpathians and into Romania
Soviet headings under Marshal Zhukov reported Czernowitz and Bucharest directions in 115 miles apart as Gertsa fell 20 miles southeast of Czernowitz. Romanian communique admitted drive into Romania proper though pushed back north of Iasi along the Jia river as Konev’s units advanced toward the Prut.
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ONDON
Red army
Prut
Rumania
Danube river
Carpathian mountains
Moscow
Black Sea
Odessa
Berlin
Jassy
Bucharest
Ploesti
Ivan S. Konev
iines
Czernowitz
lasi
Jia river
Iasi
Konev
Russian Forces Capture 59 Towns in Rumania Front
Moscow announced Soviet troops seized 59 towns in Rumania while cutting the Deorohoi railroad near Iasi and Derohoi. In prewar Poland front, over 90 populated places fell as 22 German divisions were routed or encircled.
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RUMANIA
LONDON
Moscow
Prut
Iasi
Derohoi
Jijia
Poland
Gorekhov
Lwow
1st
TRUK
MARSHALL ISLANDS
WASHINGTON
atell
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Dublon
Truk atedl
ROME
CASSINO
A.P
U.S
United States
rovernment
Schaffhausen
Switzerland
Hull
Mendar
Charles E. Wilsom
war production board
BUDAPEST
C.P
Nasi
Germany
Balkans
Cie
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Mongolia
Bay
Katha
Ywataung
Akyab
Kaladan
Mayu
Air Commando
Canada and Pacific
Jones
Cabinet
CANADA
Zhurkov
Carpathian
Kuzov
Kuty
Tartar Pass
Zhukov
Tarnopol
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