Japs Launch Major Drive Burma Front
Japanese forces begin a major offensive in southern Shan states Burma aiming to sever the Mandalay Lashio railway and threaten Chinese forces in the Toungoo region. The push, moving from northern Thailand, seeks to isolate Chinese units and jeopardize the northern Burma India supply route before the monsoon slows operations.
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CHUNGRING
China
Burma
Mandalay
Lashio
Toungoo
United Nations
Thailand
India
Japs Claim They Sank 15 Ships In Less Than Hour
Tokyo reports a Japanese commander claims warships near the Indian coast sank 15 large enemy merchant ships in under an hour during a morning April 6 surprise attack on a British convoy. He described dozens of vessels in the convoy but the claim lacks confirmation.
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TOKYO
India
Calgary Rotary Club elects G Brownlee president
Calgary April 15 17 Mr G Brownlee of Calgary was named president for 1942 43 of the Calgary Rotary Club yesterday. He assumes the new office on July 1.
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CALGARY
G. Brownlee
Calgary Rotary Club
Brownlee
Schoolboys Help Build Army Trucks For Local Firm
About a hundred secondary schoolboys spent Christmas holidays helping a local truck builder. Due to labor bottlenecks, the firm asked heat masters and senior pupils to volunteer. Boys and masters worked in a garage turned workshop with stoves and a separate messroom. Each boy has an insurance card and work card and earns trade union perks. Three boys oversee one body as they gain drill, plane, and spanner experience. Continued on back page.
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British Broadcasting Corporation
heata
claire
Aussies Form Guerrillas Forming Striking Guerrilla Units
Melbourne April 15 Australian guerrilla units patterned after Britain's commandos are forming into a formidable strike force. Army Minister Francis Forde said volunteers include prominent peace-time sportsmen. Training emphasizes realism vigor guile wrestling ju jitsu bushcraft silent slaying and sabotage as the force grows.
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MELBOURNE
Britain
Francis Forde
giile
Gen Johnso n Dies At 59
Gen Hugh S Johnson once a harsh critic and wartime figure dies of pneumonia at 59 in Washington. He rose from captain to brigadier general and helped organize the National Recovery Administration during the New Deal era.
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Gen.Johnson
Washington
Johnson
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
Gen. Johnson
national recovery administration
NRA
US Air Force Attacks Japanese Bases in the Philippines
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced a major US air strike on Japanese air bases at Manila Cebu and Davao in the Philippines. Reports said Nichols Field Manila saw hangars destroyed and runways damaged while Davao faced bomber losses and dock damage. Cebu suffered sunk transports and ground damage as planes and seaplanes were shot down or damaged.
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US ARMY
AUSTRALIA
Douglas MacArthur
United States air force
Manila
Cebu
Davao
Philippine Islands
Nichols Field
Menila
hanpars
Mindanao
additon
Philippine
Hundreds of Tons Bombs Dropped On Ruhr Arms Plants
RAF launches second nonstop aerial offensive across occupied Europe with daylight raids on the Ruhr while night bombers pound German industry. Reports say hundreds of tons of bombs dropped nightly, 11 bombers missing, and strikes reach Le Havre docks and hinterland airfields as coastal defenses tighten and German radio stations go off air.
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Ruhr
ONDON
C.P
Royal Air Force
continent
Europe
air ministry
Hitler
ministry
Le Havre
Hilverston
Luxembourg
Calais
Paris
Exchange Telegraph
English Channel
Cap Gris Nez
Rumor of Judicial Changes in Alberta Court
A Calgary dispatch from Ottawa reports that Judge W. A. Macdonald, Calgary district court judge, may join the Alberta Appeal Court succeeding the late Justice Clarke. Expected soon is C. J. Ford of Calgary to replace Macdonald. Macdonald is brother to Hon. Angus Macdonald naval minister in Ottawa.
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CALGARY
Albertan today
Ottawa
W. A. Macdonald
Alberta
A. H. Clarke
C. J. Ford
Macdonald
Angus Macdonald
naval
Slavs Rout Nazis in Vojvodina Action Report
Moscow radio said Yugoslav troops routed a German punitive expedition of 5,000 men and are believed to control Sarajevo and Valjevo. An Italian garrison near the action was reported surrounded and starving.
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MOSCOW
Sarajevo
Valjevo
U S Plans Billion Dollar Sub Program
Washington April 15 Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Committee, introduced a bill to authorize building 179000 tons of submarines at about 1 billion dollars. It was estimated the appropriation could fund about 100 submarines.
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WASHINGTON
Carl Vinson
house of representatives naval committee
MacArthur's War Plans in Australia Developments
U S Army headquarters in Australia reports Gen Douglas MacArthur has not yet taken over Southwest Pacific command but is actively shaping war plans with Australian chiefs. He remains in command of U S forces in the Orient since last July, with headquarters moved from the Philippines to Australia. Discussions in Washington have occurred but no decision received.
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U.S. ARMY
AUSTRALIA
Aled supreme command
southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
United States
Orient
Philippines
Washington
Gen. MacArthur
con
Two Nazi Tanks Wrecked By British Guns In Desert
Cairo reports a British column fought a superior enemy armored force of 30 tanks and anti tank guns at Temrad near Gazala, destroying two tanks and damaging five others. Air activity was limited by sand storms with Axis bombers and Malta air battles noted. German and Italian claims of enemy losses followed reports of British air superiority over North Africa.
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CAIRO
Egypt
Middle East command
Temrad
Gazala
Toorak
Dulletin
Derna
Maruba
Malta
Mediterranean
ROME
Haliaza high
lvely
Wallan
Gennen pith
keip
Mata
Vichy Hints Change Soon In Politics
BERNE Switzerland April 15 German controlled Paris radio hinted Vichy would soon announce a shift in international relations signaling solidarity with Germany. Efforts to avoid breaking with the United States persist amid Laval’s return to power and friction over a U.S. consulate in Brazzaville. Leahy met with no government leaders as U.S. shipments to French North Africa were held pending clarification. Laval seeks peace while maintaining ties with both Germany and the United States per BBC report.
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BERNE
Switzerland
Paris
Vichy Trance
Germany
Vichy
United States
Pierre Laval
U.S
Brazzaville
Free French Equatorial Africa
Marshal Philippe Petain
William Leahy
WASHINGTON
French North Africa
Sumner Welles
New York
North Africa
Red Cross
France
LAVAL
BBC
Rewly
Fetain
CBS
Will Decide Vichy View By C. R. Blackburn
Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrives in Washington to consult President Roosevelt on Canada's stance toward Vichy France and Laval's return to Petain government. He will weigh British and American reactions before deciding Ottawa's representation and policy, noting the delicate proximity of Vichy possessions to the Americas. The impact of a Vichy ministry in Ottawa remains undecided pending allied policy.
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WASHINGTON
Canada
Ottawa
United States
Mackenzie King
Roosevelt
wil
Pierre Laval
Petain
White House
American
Britain
Ring
Vichy
France
Ofinea minitia
Soviet Troops Break Through German Defenses Near Bryansk
Soviet troops smashed the first German defense line guarding the Bryansk salient 200 miles southwest of Moscow and pressed into the second line amid heavy fighting. Guerrilla detachments behind German lines in Smolensk and White Russia captured soldiers and officers as the Red Army pressed a westward advance aided by captured communities and German losses.
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UIBYSHEV
Russia
Bryansk
Moscow
White Russia
Red Star
Smolensk
Kalinin
central
Soviet information bureau
Leningrad
Beg
N. Zhuravelev
Moscow News
Newspapers Big War Job Urges Press Unity in War Effort
At the national meeting in Toronto CP president W Ripert Davies of the Kingston Whig Standard says Canadian newspapers and The Canadian Press must expand their wartime reporting duties. He notes staff shortages due to enlistments but commends executives who maintained high news standards. He emphasizes member cooperation as the cooperative's core purpose.
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TORONTO
W. Ripert Davies
C.P
Davies
Kingston Whig-Standard
Elephant ends in tragedy as train derails in India
In Lucknow on April 15 a passenger train struck an elephant crossing the tracks. The locomotive derailed and the elephant and its driver were killed while no passengers were harmed.
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LUCKNOW
India
C.P
Canadian Seamen's Union urges strong merchant marine
Toronto April 15 the national executive board urged the government to establish a distinct and effective Canadian merchant marine in proportion to the country's military and industrial importance in the anti Axis front.
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MERCHANT MARINE
TORONTO
the
Canadien Seamen's union
Drew says he faced threats over Toronto gambling crusade
Conservative Leader George A. Drew told Ontario legislators on first reading of a bill to padlock gaming venues that he received threats from two sources linked to Manny Feder urging him to drop the vice-suppression effort.
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TORONTO
C.P
George A. Drew
Ontario
Col. Drew
Manny Feder
Netherlands Revolutionary Socialist Party
Antta
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Ching
Ranma
National Heraid
Chinew
Burma
MOSCOW
Yass
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