RAF Blasts Duisburg and Ruhr in Night Raid
London reports RAF attacked Duisburg and Ruhr industrial points with explosive and incendiary bombs, continuing a day and night hammering. Eight bombers failed to return while coastal command planes struck off Norway, torpedoing a tanker and losing two planes.
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LONDON
Duisburg
Germany
Ruhr
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
air ministry
Norwegian
coastal command
Jast
Lord Brabazon Fined For Speeding In Bow Street Court
London April 10 Former transport minister Lord Brabazon was fined £1 for speeding in Bow Street court. Police testified he rode at 37 mph in a 30 mph zone. May police Frasniven Lowns Phace River Alta April 9 The town council weighs policing by the RC MSP. a committee will report.
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LONDON
transport
Lord Brabazon
Bow Street court
R.C.MLP
Frasniven LOWNS
Wartime rumors in Fergus target pay for war committee
The Fergus News-Record debunks a circulating tale that the wartime Fergus war committee head earns 200 dollars monthly and a stenographer 175, naming the chair, secretary and stenographer with their salaries as zero for each. The piece questions rumor origins and its impact on public morale.
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Fergus News-Record
Ontario
Fergus
News-Record
Ty ai
Toronto Star
Germans Fail To Smash Red Lines Near Donets
German forces renewed assaults south of Balakleya aiming to break the Red Army line and reach an unidentified settlement along the Donets river. More than 1,200 German dead and several tanks were reported as the Russians repelled the attacks. Red Star and AP dispatches note fierce battles in the Izyum area and continued bridgehead defense along the Donets.
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Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
OSCOW
A.P
Red army
Balakleya
Donets
Red Star
Izyum
Bely
Smolensk
Red fleet
Stormovis
Black Sea
Isley Makes Loan Appeal in Toronto Dinner Speech
Finance Minister Isley urged broad subscriptions to Canada's fourth Victory Loan opening April 26. He warned the war remains critical, Russia needs aid, and emphasized the U-boat threat and Nazi Europe fortress as reasons for not easing the effort. Toronto aims to raise 238 million of 1.16 billion sought.
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TORONTO
Isley
Canada
Asley
RUSSIA
Europe
Day In Parliament and Actions on Budget and Trade
The House of Commons will continue budget resolution consideration while the Senate adjourns to April 13. Yesterday the House passed measures extending the Minstitions aid Supply Act and a wheat acreage reduction program for prairie provinces and British Columbia farmers, approved a 70000NG sale to Belgium, and set guaranteed prices for sunflower seed and rapeseed. Prime Minister King announced a consulate general for New York with Hugh D. Lewilly named as customs commissioner. The Senate did not sit.
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house of commons
senate
house
prairie province
British Columbia
MacKinnon
King say
New York
Hugh D. Lewlly
customs
nonsil
British Bombers Roar Across Japanese Lines in Burma
New Delhi April 16 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Japanese shipping and highway targets in southern Surma Taungup and Mayu areas. A 60 foot cargo barge was sunk near Talungup while seven trucks were hit on Taungup Letpa road and 10 to 12 trucks destroyed on another convoy. Blenheim bombers supported by Hurricanes hit two Japanese villages on Mayu peninsula. RAF patrols operated over Hathedaung Mayu area and Hurricane escorts repelled a Japanese fighter surge over southeast Bengal. Two British planes missing.
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NEW DELHI
Surma
simsa
Talungup
Taungup
Letpadax
thhe Taungup-Daie
Mayu Peninsula
Mayu
Hathedaung
India
Mandalay
Bengal
Mercy Flight Rescues Woman Near Grande Prairie
The RCAF revealed a mercy flight using a warplane as an improvised ambulance to rush a critically injured woman to hospital after cars bogged down on muddy roads. Wing Cmdr. W. G. McFarlane said the accident occurred about 50 miles northwest of Grande Prairie on the Northwest staging route.
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EDMONTON
Royal Canadian Air Force
W. G. McFarlane
RCAF
Northwest
Grande Prairie
Acreage Cut Before House
Canadian Press sketch from OttawaApril 10 reports passage of a bill to extend one more year the wheat acreage reduction bonus for prairie provinces and British Columbia farmers while a measure to extend indefinitely the life of the munitions and supply act saw limited action. A Friday night sitting ended with a blackout at 9 pm. government pressure to tackle urgent war measures was voiced. An amendment to remove a clause tying bonus approval to tenant consent was defeated amid questions from Liberal MP Graham and others.
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C.R. BLACKBURN
OTTAWA
CP& bill
prairie province
British Columbia
house of commons
Mackenzie King
BF, T. Graham
Lib
Swift Current
Sinking of U.S. Merchant Vessel Off East Coast Reported
The U.S. Navy announced the first sinking of a U.S. merchant vessel by an enemy submarine off the east coast since last summer. Survivors landed in Miami as officials noted the August 1942 prior attack and declined to say if this signals a new U-boat campaign in American waters.
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WASHINGTON
United States
United States navy
navy
Miami
Fie
New Japanese Army Chief in Burma
Tokyo radio announced that Lt Gen Masskazu Kawabe, former chief of staff of Japanese expeditionary forces in China, has been appointed commander in chief of the Japanese army in Burma. Kawabe, aged 56, succeeds Lt Gen Shojiro Hida.
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BURMA
NEW YORK
Masskazu Kawabe
China
Tokyo radio
Associated Press
Bawabe
Sho- Jiro Hida
Surrender Of All Central Tunisia Looms As Allies Rout Axis
Allied forces under Montgomery closed on central Tunisia as Sfax fell and Rommel retreated along the coast. British, American and French troops pressed a rapid advance from Gabes toward Tunis, with over 20 000 Axis prisoners reported and Rommel shifting to a bottleneck defense south of Enfidaville.
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Tunisia
Rommel
Tunis
Montgomery
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
NORTH AFRICA
Bernard Montgomery
8th Army
Sfax
Tunisian
African corps
Marshal Rommel
Enfidaville
Sth
Morocco
London
Mahares
Gabes
Tuna
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Medjez-El-Bab
Fondouk
aechigion
Mareth line
Mannerini
United States
2nd army
Te Herald mF
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Sousse
Pichon-Fondouk
Kairouan
Dive Bomber-itis: British leaflet offers wartime nerves cure
A British army pamphlet for 8th Army troops outlines ways to beat dive bomber jitters. It favors practical tasks, zigzag trenches, and staying busy to blunt fear, with sketches showing fire extinguisher saves and fake pit tricks to lure bombers.
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WASHINGTON
Tobruk
8th Army
Tommy
Jerry
Canada Car Loadings Rise in Week to April 3
Ottawa April 10 The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports total car loadings in Canada reached 65 167 for the week ended April 3, down from 66 989 the prior week but above 57 455 in the same week last year.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Seeding Wheat Report From Canadian Pacific Railway
April 10 report from Acheson of the central agricultural agenda notes Jack Harder of the Gretna district near the international boundary as the first person in Manitoba to begin seeding. Agents predict seeding will be general in southern areas next week.
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WINNIPEG
Acheson
Canadian Pacific Railway
Jack Harder
Gretna
Ma iuba
Britain United StatesSpain sign cotton pact in Madrid
Madrid reports a three-nation agreement with Britain and the United States guaranteeing Spain 50 000 tons of cotton for the first half of 1943 and not less for the second half. Other dispatches note Roosevelt aid for underprivileged races and French advances in Tunisia as Axis targets, with US stock feed import plans and a probe into newsprint control.
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BRITAIN
U.S
SPAIN
MADRID
foreign ministry
United States
ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON
Alf Mr. Landon
PICHON
LONDON
Algiers
Tunisia
Djebel Zela
Kairewan
CANADA
Amiralla
Chener Davis
BATILE
NORTH AFRICA
KRUPP
Duisturg
Ruhr Valley
house of representatives
Paul W. Shafer
Mich
congress
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Fondovk
Alousie
Paknassy
LEIROUAH
JILF OF
TUNI
El Guettar
Sekhire
Kai
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asts
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7th Army
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Cairo
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