Bombers Attack Hamburg and Le Havre in Night Raid
A strong RAF force, despite bad weather, bombed Hamburg and other northwest German targets last night. Le Havre docks were struck as well, with some planes forced to abort due to conditions. Weather earlier had halted Tuesday night raids. Ottawa reports a regional advisory committee formed at Victoria to handle supplementary grant applications for dependents of servicemen.
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LONDON
FLA.F
Germany
Hamburg
air ministry
Le Havre
OTTAWA
Victoria
Anti Nazi graffiti and Home Guard women push in wartime Britain
Independent Belgian report notes Brussels defiance with tarmac slogans reading Down with Hitler Long live England Hurrah for the RAF Tong Live de Gaulle. BBC recounts white painted car created night letters. Secre tary for War bars women from Home Guard yet volunteer units rise with 50 groups capitalizing on local demand.
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BBC
Brussels
Hitler
England
RAF
de Gaulle
King Tosit War Council Meeting in Washington Planned
Prime Minister Mackenzie King will travel to Washington for a meeting of the new Pacific Council. Australian external affairs minister Dr. Herbert Evatt announced the plan at a luncheon in Ottawa with King’s tacit approval. Defence, air and navy ministers weigh attending, with parliament recess until April 20.
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OTTAWA
C.P.j
Mackenzie King
Washington
Pacific Council
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
King
Ottawa Canadian club
Defence
Ralston
Air
Power
Pacific
Navy
Macdonald
United States
Second Legless Pilot Fights in RAF
London April 9 Britain’s second legless pilot has begun operational flights following Wing Commander Douglas Brader’s example. Sub-Lt. Colin Shaw-Hodgkinson, 21, who lost both legs in a prewar crash, has earned his wings and will fly a fighter with the Meet air arm.
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LONDON
Britain
Douglas Brader
Colin Shaw-Hodgkinson
ir arm
Student engineers on Alaska road work
Student engineers from the University of Alberta are being employed by the United States Public Roads Administration for work on the Alaska highway. This development was learned today.
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EDMONTON
University of Alberta
United States public roads administration
Alaska
Bombing of Ceylon Naval Base Sinks Two British Cruisers
The British eight inch gun cruisers Cornwall and Dorsetshire were sunk by Japanese bombers in the Bay of Bengal as Allied naval and air actions hit merchant ships in the Indian Ocean. More than 1,100 survivors, including commanding officers, were rescued. Trincomalee, on the northeast coast of Ceylon, was bombed this morning with no civilian casualties reported. two enemy planes were seen over Colombo but did not drop bombs.
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QNDON
Cornwall
Bismarck
Bay of Bengal
India
admiralty
New Delhi
Indian Ocean
Orissa
Mediterranean
Peary Sunk After Five Direct Bomb Hits at Darwin Harbor
Lawrence Farley of West Virginia, one of 53 survivors, described five direct bombs from Japanese planes sinking the destroyer Peary in Darwin Harbor on February 19 after the ship arrived from the Philippines. He recalled a fierce attack, with stern and aft engine room hits, and said he was burned and plunged overboard before being rescued by an Australian lifeboat. The Peary sank within an hour as the raid continued, with the navy also reporting the loss of Langley and Pecos.
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YATES McDANIEL
Associated Press
MELBOURNE
Peary
Darwin
harnor
Philippines
Lawrence Farley
West Virginia
Farley
Cavite
U.S. navy
Langley
Pecos
Three Lethbridge Men Graduate At Officers' School
Victoria April 9 officers training centre Gordon Head graduated another group of Canadian Active Army officers. All received the rank of second lieutenant with many granted captaincy. Named from Alberta G V Stott J Steventon W Yalden Thompson B Johnson Calgan WH Foster D G McCrory Spin cer Seley Grant Pritchard Boyd. Edmonton Snelon Mere dith McCleland Hamilton LeCours Medicine Hat names included.
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VICTORIA
Active
Gordon Head
leutenant allness
ALBERTA
G. V. Stott
J. Steventon
Liewtt
J. St. J. Miler
W. Yalden-Thompson
B. Johnson
Capts. Calgan
WH Foster
D. G. McCrory
W. BR Spincer
A. V. Seley
W. M. Grant
E. J. Pritchard
E. L. Boyd
Edmonton
Snelon
Bati
R. F. Meredith
HW. A. McCleland
D. J. Hamiltfon
Lethbridge
E. A. LeCours
Medicine Hat
Tipsy Cyclist Fined in St. Louis Breathes 15 Days
A man in St. Louis was fined 95 dollars and sentenced to 15 days in the city workhouse after riding a bicycle while intoxicated.
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ST. LOUIS
Soviets Bag 139 Aircraft in Three Days of War
Soviet fliers and ground gunners destroyed 139 Nazi transport planes in three days of a ten day period. The German press release notes Germany is rushing planes and men to the front. An AA unit claimed downing five Junkers 88s from a February factory release and three more in March.
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secret service
England
channel
KUIBYSHEV
Russia
Germany
25th Anniversary of Vimy Ridge by Gordon Canadian Press
The piece recalls the 25th anniversary of Canada’s Vimy Ridge victory on April 9, 1917, credits the Canadian Corps and allied forces with a decisive breakthrough near Lens, notes heavy casualties, captures of enemy troops and weapons, and links the historic triumph to ongoing Allied vigilance in Europe.
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Hf. W. GORDON
Vimy Ridge
Dominion
United Nations
Europe
A. G. L. McNaughton
Julian Byng
Canada
Arras
Germany
British Empire
Vimy
Somme
Lens
Sth
imperial
No Man's Land
Germain resistager
Defences On Bataan May Have Been Overcome Says War Dept
The War Department reported Japanese advances in the Philippines suggesting that Bataan's defenses may have been breached. Lt Gen. Wainwright said Fort Mills received word that Japanese forces enveloped the east flank and an attempt by his corps to relieve the position failed from extreme troop exhaustion. Details were unavailable, but the indication was that Bataan's defenses had fallen. The attackers reportedly outnumbered the defenders by several times, with many defenders in foxholes on the peninsula.
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Associated Press
ASHINGTON
United States war department
Philippines
Bataan
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Fort Mills
little peninsula
Manta Bay
Wainwright
Canada to mobilize manpower with democratic selective service
Ottawa April 19 CPI The government’s national selective service program will mix segregation in practice but protect individual rights as far as possible Elliott M Little national selective service director said last night on CBC In his first public address since appointment he said the program aims to place each Canadian in the job he or she can do best in the war Public employment offices will be
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OTTAWA
CPI
national selective service
Elliott M. Little
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Little
Never Pause In Struggle Says Churchill
London April 9 Prime Minister Churchill accepting a cheque from Free Danes at 19 Downing Street declares we shall never pause in our struggle He foresees Denmark freed soon and restored to its independent honored place among free nations of Europe Weather must turn the weather to unleash the first heavy thunder drops of the storm to beat tyranny.
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LONDON
ICP
Churchill
Downing street
Denmark
Europe
Allies Meet Axis Threat In Desert War
AIRO Egypt April 9 AP British headquarters reports Axis troops moving to establish a strong point between Tmimi and Ain El Gazala with 125000 troops advancing. British columns counter at Sidi Bregisch 36 miles south of Tmimi as Rommel drives anew. Italian broadcasts claim British attacks repulsed and German Italian air forces bombard Alexandria and Malta bases.
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AIRO
Egypt
Tmimi
Ain El Gazala
Tobruk
Sidi Bregisch
Luca
la Ven
Jel
Valetta
Malta
Big Italian Cruiser Sunk by British Submarine
London reports that a 10,000 ton Italian cruiser was torpedoed and sunk in the central Mediterranean by a British submarine. The admiralty said destroyers and aircraft escorted the cruiser, eight minutes after hit broke up. Survivors were picked up by a destroyer as Italy has lost multiple cruisers since the start of war.
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LONDON
admiralty
Mediterranean
Italy
Fiume
Pola
Zara
Matapan
Cmdr
E. P. Tomkinson
Britain
H.M.S. Urge
Royal Navy
Labor Rejects National Govt In New Zealand
Wellington New Zealand April 9 A Labor party conference rejected today a proposed national government and decided to prepare for a general election. The Labor party has been in power since 1935.
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Labor
New Zealand
WELLINGTON
Labor party
natonal
Understanding on India Reached Says Cripps Plan
In New Delhi April 9 1940 reports said a general understanding on the main points between Britain and Indian leaders had been reached. The All India Congress and Hindu Mahasabha reportedly agreed to a national government with Sadia government guiding India until postwar Dominion status. Mahasabha reportedly would hold two seats.
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H.R. STEMNSON
Associated Press
NEW DELHI
India
Britain
All-India Congress party
Hindu Mahasabha
Sadia
Stafford Cripps
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
the
Bindu
Mahasabha
Savarkar
Bombay
Roger Lumsey
congress party
Nazi talk settlement talk in Istanbul involves cession to German navy
News digest reports in Istanbul that Germany may settle with France by ceding the entire French fleet to the German navy amid ambassador Von Papen's return from Berlin. Other items note MacArthur learning of Bataan's fall, US air unit claims against Japan, Australian air raids on Rabaul, and Babe Ruth's pneumonia diagnosis.
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Turkey
Gutman
Germany
France
Bataan
Australia
ixcite
CHUNGKING
APA
flcers
Leigun
Yannan
AY.G
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