Japs Slew Captives In Groups Of Ten
In Port Moresby a wartime statement reports Japanese forces killed captive Australian officers and men on New Britain and New Guinea after capture. Three survivors recount being among ten trapped on New Britain. others were shot or bayonetted with hands bound. One officer forced to commit suicide. another escaped feigned death as a Japanese officer checked the fallen.
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YONEY
Australia
C.P
New Guinea
New Britain
Port Moresby
Rabaul
Francis Forde
King questions YMCA work during Royal visit to English RCAF station
During a dinner at an English Royal Canadian Air Force station His Majesty the King asked Mr E R McEwen about civilian work and YMCA equipment support for Canadians in England. McEwen explained YMCA methods and goals and the king expressed interest in the organization’s wartime and postwar roles.
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YMCA
RCAF
Royal Canadian Air Force
England
E. R. McEwen
Air Force
Campbell
McEwen
phils
Jumps Clear RAF Student Escapes Plane Crash
A Royal Air Force student pilot survived an emergency landing near Bowden airport after his training plane cracked up. He leaped from the cockpit before the craft burned, escaping unharmed despite the apparent engine loss.
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R.A.F
BOWDEN
Alta
RAF
contre
Soviet Fliers Destroy 119 Easter Sunday
Soviet aviation reports on Easter Sunday claim 119 German aircraft destroyed in sky battles and on airfields, with Soviet losses at 17 planes. From Uibyshev dispatch, overall eight days by March 29 to April 5 saw 415 German planes downed versus 84 Soviet losses. plus 2,300 Germans killed on the Leningrad front and 18 settlements recaptured.
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Leningrad
Kalinin
UIBYSHEV
Russia
Red army
Havock Lost Off Tunisia in World War II Action
The admiralty announced the British destroyer Havock was wrecked off Tunisia with one sailor dead and the crew of 145 believed safe. The 1,340 ton ship had aided in destroying six German merchant ships and the munitions ship Havensfeldt at Narvik on April 10, 1940, and was part of a force that saw two of five destroyers lost.
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LONDON
admiralty
Tunisia
Havensfeldt
Narvik
ROME
high command
Havock
MacArthur’s Footsteps in Bataan Portrait Transfer
Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright, senior officer of American and Philippine troops defending Bataan, is pictured in the Philippines before General MacArthur. The photograph, taken recently, was moved to Australia.
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Jonathan M Wainwright
Bataan
Philippines
MacArthur
Australia
Allies Dig In Burma Front
New Delhi dispatch reports British and Indian troops in western Burma have pulled back to new positions about 65 miles from Minbu after demolishing oil area facilities at Thayetmyo and Aslanmyo. Thayetmyo lies 40 miles north of Prome on the Irrawaddy, with Japanese pressure nearby. The exact landing point of Allied forces was not disclosed as the communique notes ongoing maneuvers.
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NEW DELHI
India
Burma
Minbu
Thayetmyo
Aslanmyo
Prome
Irrawaddy
Bay of Bengal
Allanmye
Thayetmye
Jap Fleet Off China Reported Near Amoy
Chungking dispatch says thirteen Japanese transports and six warships sighted off Amoy on the south China coast. Three divisions concentrated on Formosa, destination not ascertained. In Burma Chinese forces engage the Japanese south of Kutbuangan. Japanese push north along the Irrawaddy, advancing with tanks and hundreds of trucks. Spokesman appeals for more aircraft for Burma.
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CHUNGKING
China
Amoy
Formosa
Burma
Kutbuangan
Taurigeo
Prome
Irraweddy
British Bombers Raid Ruhr and Rhineland Again
British bombers raided the Ruhr and Rhineland for a second night despite bad weather. More than 1000 tons of explosives and fire bombs struck German war plants from the French coast to the Rhine city suburbs. Five planes are missing and two enemy ships were hit yesterday off Norway.
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LONDON
C.P
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Cologne
Le Haire
Rennevilliers
Park
air ministry
Norway
coastal command
More RAF Trainees Arrive in Canada for Training Rise
The Canadian Press reports hundreds of British air trainees have landed in Canada along with wartime travelers heading west from the United Kingdom. Included are 32 Australian airmen veterans of Europe’s sky battles and several WAASF women and wives of RAF officers, who will help train Canadian forces, with WAASF cypher experts set to teach the growing Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
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OTTAWA
Canada
United Kingdom
air force
Europe
Britain
Royal Air Force
Atlantic
WAASF
Tyrone Power Applies for Naval Reserve Enlistment
Tyrone Power, film actor, enlisted in the United States naval reserve after applying today in New York.
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NEW YORK
Tyrone Power
United States naval reserve
War's Biggest Raids Directed At Invasion Ports Off Australia
Australian and American air forces carried heavy raids on Rabaul and Gasmata in New Britain while bombers attacked Lae New Guinea. Madras faced its first air raid alarm as Ceylon prepared to defend against invasion. Dutch East Indies leaders fled Java with pilots as Japan reorganizes forces.
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Australia
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
Ut NATIONS
Alles
Rabaul
Gasmata
New Britain
Japan
Sydney Herald
United States
Lae
New Guinea
Madras
India
Bay of Bengal
Ceylon
London
Ceylon defence force
Ceylon light infantry
planters’ rifle corps
eebbe
Netherlands East Indies
L H. Van Oyen
Java
Hubertus J Van Meck
Netherlands islands
Sydney
Alexandria Is Bombed In World War II News
Cairo reports Alexandria was raided by Axis bombers last night with eight killed and 32 wounded and only slight property damage. The Italo command claims lively Libyan patrols and that planes attacked British concentrations southeast of El Mechn. Malta faced another bomber raid as Axis forces press in the Mediterranean.
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CAIRO
ministry of the interior
Alexandria
Italan high command
El Mechn
RAF
Derna
Bepgasl
Malta
Heroic Tales From Bataan Rise In A World War II Memoir
Melbourne April 7 Associated Press staff writer recounts bold acts of American officers in Bataan. Captain Arthur Vermoth allegedly ambushed Japanese patrols, drawing a grenade and using a firing pin to kill several enemy soldiers. A Filipino scout reportedly decapitated a man and felled the rest of a party, illustrating extreme ferocity in the jungle fighting.
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CLARK LEE
Associated Press
MELBOURNE
Bataan pevinculs
Arthur Wermoth
First A Jap Then A Shave At Harlingen Air School
A serious faced student at the US Army Air Corps Gunnery School in Harlingen Texas contemplates war the day he meets the enemy. Sergeant T. K. Reeder from Charleston South Carolina, a member of a west coast bombardment squadron, awaits his first combat before shaving. He has resolved to get himself a Jap first.
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Army Air Corps
Harlingen
Tex
T. K. Reeder
Charleston
Speedy shipbuilding in Portland launches minesweeper raid
In Portland Oregon from April 1 to 4 the USS Annoy a minesweeper was launched by the Commercial Tron Works. Hours after launch 80 percent of the hull of the next vessel lay in place being assembled from sections slung into the Willamette river.
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PORTLAND
Ore
USS. Annoy
Commercial Tron Works
Willamette river
Waiters Win Longest Strike in New York History
After four years of walkout, waiters at Joe's restaurant in Brooklyn secure a closed union shop for themselves and nearby eateries and gain a pay raise. The dispute began over a one day job and ended yesterday, concluding what is described as New York's longest strike.
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NEW YORK
pickering
Joe's
Brooklyn
Indian to Become War Minister Proposed by British War Cabinet
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, head of the Moslem League, said Britain would name an Indian defence minister. The plan met Hindu Congress opposition as negotiations continued with Sir Stafford Cripps and US envoy Louis Johnson. Jinnah, Azad, and Nehru met Cripps as talks moved to possible page three continuation.
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NEW DELHI
India
HCr
Britain
Mohammed Ali Imbah
Louis Johnson
White House
JOHNSON
Jinnah
Sir Stafford Cripps
defence ministry
Mr Johnson
Maulana Abul Kalan Azad
All-India Congress party
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress party
Japanese raid in Bay of Bengal reported by radio
News bulletins from April 7 indicate Japanese units raided Colombo Sunday and attacked a British naval unit in the Bay of Bengal. Other items report US sub sinking a Japanese liner and cargo ships, Brazil arming merchant ships, Soviet forces capturing German-occupied areas, Helfrich taking command of Dutch Pacific forces, and a South African bombing disrupting lines between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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INDIA
LONDON
Heuters
Colombo
Bay of Bengal
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STEIK
ALL-INDIAN CONGRESS
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LYDEES
All-India Congress
WASHINGTON
navy department
China Sea
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KVIBYSHEV
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ee ee
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PACIFIC
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Netherlands
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Johannesburg
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