Australia Safer Now Says Forde After Air Strikes
Australia’s position is much safer after two months of danger as Army Minister Francis Forde notes week end air wins with Australian and American airmen destroying at least 20 Japanese planes and damaging 19. He warns vigilance remains essential and credits Britain and the United States for speedy and generous help.
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VERN HAUGLAND
Associated Press
U ARMY
AUSTRALIA
Army
Francis Forde
TESCO
Britain
United States
Dominion
Commonwealth
Wright aids Little in Ottawa appointment
Austin Wright of Montreal general secretary of the Engineering Institute of Canada has been named assistant to Elliott M. Little a director of national selective service. Wright has served 14 months as assistant director of the wartime bureau of technical personnel headed by Little and is on loan to the government from the institute.
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OTTAWA
CPK
Austin Wright
Montreal
Engineering Institute of Canada
Elliott M. Little
national selective service
Wright
bureau of technical personnel
Little
Left Hand Corner Bishop May Lose Leg Soap Rationing Odd Irish
Imbalanced clipping mentions Dr C M Chavasse bishop of Rochester may lose a leg after an old injury from rescuing nine people from a mirrorboat wreck near Giant's Causeway. It notes his brother Noel Chavasse, VC and MC recipient, plus athletic feats at Liverpool College and Oxford. Also a letter to the Manchester Guardian praises soap rationing steps and hints at future allowances.
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Rochester
London
Ottawa Journal
Giant's Causeway
Dr. Chavasse
Liverpool
Noel Chavasse
V.C
ALO
Liverpool Scottish
Liverpool College
Magdsien College
Oxford
Cambridge
England
Manchester Guardian
ministry of food
3700 Japs Die Burma Battle Report
Chinese communique reports 3700 Japanese killed in the 12 day battle of Toungoo, eastern anchor of the Burma line. Losses included mortars, guns, horses and bicycles. Japanese patrols push toward Nyaungbinzeik as reinforcements arrive. Air raids yesterday destroyed a truck and wounded troops. Irrawaddy front shows no change though planes continue bombardment of British positions.
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Toungoo
United Nations
Burma
Manchi-Toung00
Nyaungbinzeik
Prome
Irrawaddy river
Burma war front
Irrawaddy
Set Guaranteed Prices For Sugar Beets In Ontario
Ontario farm products control board chair G F Perkin announced price scales for sugar beet producers with Canada and Dominion Sugar in Chat ham Ont. Beets at 14 percent sugar will earn 7.26 per ton up to beets at 20 percent sugar at 10.20 per ton. A minimum of 6.25 per ton applies to beets testing under 14 percent. Prices await wartime prices and trade board ratification and have been tentatively approved by sugar administrator S R Noble.
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TORONTO
C.P
G. F. Perkin
Ontario farm products control board
Canada and Dominion Sugar company
Chatham
Ont
Hitler Loses 102 Planes In Day's Fighting
Soviet and German air battles intensified as the Red Army claims 102 German aircraft were shot down or destroyed on Saturday. Russian sources report 40,000 German troops killed on the central front between March 23 and April 4, while Leningrad endured a major bomber raid dispersed by AA fire and fighters.
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OSCOW
Moscow
LENINGRAD
Red army
Red Star
Red
Hed army
Commandos Raid Narvik Report Amid Swedish Border Noise
Reuters quotes Aftonbladet that British troops and planes raided Narvik area last Friday with explosions heard on the Swedish side near Narvik fjord. London sources dispute raid information. A Stockholm dispatch to the New York Times says British commandos raided Narvik early Sunday causing many casualties and damage to shipping in the German harbor.
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LONDON
L.P
Reuters news agency
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Narvik
Norway
NEW YORK
New York Times
Group Captain James To No 4 Command Changes Announced
Calgary April 6 Staff changes involving three high ranking Royal Canadian Air Force officers have been announced by Air Commodore G R Howsam air officer commanding No 4 training command Group Captain A L James officer commanding No 7 SPT 5 at Macleod since it was opened in the fall of 194¢ will come to the training command as administrative officer He will be succeeded at Macleod by Wing Commander R F Davenport from eastern Canada Group Captain C H Flynn 4 F has arrived at command to take over duties in the training branch.
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CALGARY
R.C.AF
G. R. Howsam
M.C
No. 4 training command
A. L. James
S.P.T.5
Macleod
R. F. Davenport
Canada
German claims on Slav deaths at wartime meeting
Moscow reports Lt Gen Bundoroy told an all Slav assembly that 5,000,000 Slavs were killed by Hitler in Slav lands and that many were sent to Germany for slavery. He stated life or death for Slavs is being decided in Russia.
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MOSCOW
Bundoroy
RAF Bombers Fire Rangoon Docks From India Bases
American fortress bombers pounding the Japanese from new India bases set huge fires in Rangoon docks Burma last Friday night. All attacking planes returned safely to their base.
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LONDON
India
Rangoon
Burma
RAF Bombers Hit Rhineland and Paris Areas
British air force raids target Rhine land and Paris region with up to 300 bombers and about 1000 tons of explosives. Cologne raided for the 105th time as Gnome-Rhone works near Paris receives strikes. several targets in Germany and the Paris suburbs reported.
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COLOGNE
Australians Raid Dutch Port in Java Sumatra Area
Australian sailors and airmen conducted a commando like raid on a Netherlands Indies port held by Japan. They looted war equipment, destroyed munitions, and evacuated survivors from a torpedoed merchant ship as they returned through the Sunda Strait near western Java or southeastern Sumatra.
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NEW YORK
Apri
Netherlands Indies
Sydney
Java
Sumatra
Sunda Strait
CBS
Australians Repel Jap Invasion At Rabaul Beach
Melbourne reports the Battle of Rabaul where 150 Australians mowed down about 1,500 Japanese on Halauaa Beach, as Australian garrison survivors arrive. Japanese losses exceed 2,000. Australian casualties near 700. Air battles decimate both sides and Halauaa Beach is described as the key engagement.
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Kabaul
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Rabaul
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Rabauls
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Hahaul
Enemy Air Fleet Loses 57 Planes On Alaska's Burma Road
EW DELHI April 6 Japanese bombers carried the war to India proper today with raids on Vizagapatam and Cocanada, northern Madras coast towns about 400 and 300 miles from Madras. The strikes, launched from an aircraft carrier in a Japanese task force in the Bay of Bengal, damaged harbor areas and caused casualties. Royal Navy ships hunted for two Japanese carriers believed responsible for the Colombo assault, as reports noted 57 planes were lost in the raids.
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Vizagapstam
Cocanada
Madras presidency
Vizagapatam
Tinnevelly
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Indian Ocean
Colombo
Ceylon
Trincomalee
Burma
Cerlon
Nizampatam
RAF bomber forced landing off Costa da Caparica
An RAF bomber from the NAN Army unit in Britain made a forced landing on a beach near Costa da Caparica ten miles southwest of Lisbon. The four crew members fired the craft then dined at a nearby hotel before surrendering for internment.
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RAF
Costa Cacaparica
Sete ae fees
Bataan Defenders Repel Japanese Assaults New Air Raids
Washington April 6 The U S war department said American Filipino forces in Bataan repulsed a heavy attack on the right centre and thwarted a new attempt to land troops on the east coast under cover of darkness. Corregidor remained free of air strikes though two Japanese dive bombers attacked forts Frank and Drum without damage.
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WASHINGTON
United States war department
Bataan
department
Corregidor
Frank and
Drum
cavite
Manila Bay
Crerar Heads One of Two New Army Corps Pro motions
Ottawa reports the 1st Canadian Army headquarters formed under Lt Gen McNaughton with Acting Lt Gen Crerar named commander of one new corps. A second corps commander position remains vacant as eight promotions and appointments are announced alongside the establishment of Canada’s first army headquarters since 1919.
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Army Corps
OTTAWA
C.P
United Kingdom
A. G. L. McNaughton
malion
I. D. G. Crerar
McNaughton
Canada
Ganade
Vimy Ridge
New Landings By Japanese on Solomon Isles
April dispatches report additional Japanese landings in the Solomon Islands threatening New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. The broadcast says forces were landed from destroyers and may be used in advancing against New Caledonia and the Hebrides, with New Hebrides under joint French and British control.
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Solomon Isles
NEW YORK
All-India Radio
Sydney dispatches
Solomon islands
New Caledonia
Australia
U S Submarines Sink Japanese Vessels. War News Roundup
The Navy reports U S submarines in the western Pacific sank two Japanese tankers near the Caroline Islands and a freighter in Japanese waters. Other items note a Crystal Lake man’s suicide, three merchant ships' safe ports after submarine encounters, some Bataan fighting gains for Japan, Rabaul air raid damage, Nazi Russia stance before a spring drive, and a British merchant ship torpedoed off the U S coast.
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WASHINGTON
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United States
western Pacific
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