RAF Raiders Smash Augsburg Diesel Plant in Night Raid
The RAF's daylight offensive includes fresh fighter waves as London notes heavy damage to Augsburg's diesel works, source say. Four bombers shot down on the outward trip and three over the target amid new Lancaster and Stirling air operations.
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Hamburg
French Attack Nazi HQ at Arras Reported
German occupation authorities announced a new attack against Nazi headquarters at Arras in the occupied zone on April 15. Reprisal measures against civilians in Pas de Calais, where Arras lies, have been ordered by the Germans.
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Pas De Calais
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Youth in Britain Mobilizes for Civil Defence Effort
In Britain thousands of youth serve nightly in civil defence roles with 2000 trained boys in Liverpool guarding posts citywide. ARP and messenger squads operate across townships to keep communications open during air raids. Farm and forestry youth squads contribute in agriculture areas.
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Liverpool
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TG SON
London
Ottawa
Anderson
Croydon
Cambridge University
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King Edward’s Horse
Heavy Raid On Rangoon and Burma Wells Burning
A U S heavy bombers raid Rangoon in Burma during the night with docks and harbor installations hit. British sappers burn 6 000 wells near Magwe as Yorkshire Light Infantry conduct delaying action north of Magwe before rejoining main forces.
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U.S
Rangoon
Burma
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India
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Gwa
Yorkshire Light Infantry
Magwe
Yenangyaung
Allies Agree on MacArthur Supreme Command
General MacArthur's spokesman said all United Nations governments are in complete agreement on his supreme command in the southwest Pacific. He added that formal organization of the area will take place in the immediate future.
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AUSTRALIA
United Nations
Douglas MacArthur
supreme command
Concrete Isthmus Road Links Oceans In Wartime Build
Sped by wartime need a one lane all concrete roadway across the isthmus was completed today creating a third six weather route between ocean shores supplementing the canal and the rail line. In Northern Ireland Gen George Marshall with staff and Harry Hopkins arrived to visit US Army operations.
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canal
U.S. ARMY
NORTHERN IRELAND
United States army
George Marshall
Harry Hopkins
i Roosevelt
Soviet Drive Pushes Finns Back on Northern Front
Moscow reports say Soviet forces captured a resistance center in the north, inflicting major Finnish losses with over 1,000 officers and men killed or captured. Soviet troops consolidated positions and pursue remaining Finns as Kalinin front claims 35 German blockhouses, 10 earthworks, and two tanks destroyed in one day.
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Fass
Moscow radio
Soviet
Soviet information bureau
Kalinin front
Red air force
Sea of Azov
Laval Forms New Cabinet and Governing Authority
Laval forms a new cabinet and keeps three key posts for himself including foreign affairs, interior, and information. He assumes the role of chief of the government under the high authority of the state, with accountability for policies and actions, as announced by an official statement.
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VICHY
Pierre Laval
eday
Leval
slite
Premier Aberhart declines to speak for plebiscite
A Calgary letter from Premier William Aberhart to the vote yes committee states he will not campaign province-wide for the 1942 plebiscite. He says the matter is federal and he wishes to keep provincial affairs separate from Dominion obligations. The premier adds no media statements will be made on the issue.
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CALGARY
William Aberhart
Calgary Herald
Alberta
Edmonton
Canada
Free French Lose Surcouf Submarine
London April 18 The Free French say the submarine Surcouf is lost after being overdue The vessel of 2880 tons was the world's largest submarine and carried a sea plane The crew complement was about 150 men and the ship was linked to the St Pierre Miquelon operation off Newfoundland
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LONDON
St. Pierre-Miquelon
Newfoundland
wasa
Cherbourg
France
Howe Appeals For Yes Vote
Massilien minister Howe urged residents at Port Arthur meeting to support the April 27 manpower plebiscite. He said he would resign and use his influence to form another alignment if conscription ever came to Canada and his government refused.
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PORT ARTHUR
Ont
C.P
Massiliens
Howe
Canada
Hower
Reward posted for Yankee pilot in Tokyo raid
Huntington Park Calif April 18 1 000 reward posted by Harry J Burk tire dealer for information leading to the identity of the Yankee pilot who wins the reward He pledges the bonds to his kin and expresses strong anger at the war events as Tokyo is bombed in today’s raid.
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HUNTINGTON PARK
Calif
Harry J. Burk
Burk
Pearl Warber
American fier 10
Tokyo
All Japan Under Bombsights During Seven-Hour Raid
Allied bombers struck the Tokyo Yokohama region for the first time with incendiaries and bombs prompting air raid warnings across Honshu Shikoku and Hokkaido. Fires casualties and damage followed. nine aircraft were claimed shot down. The imperial family remained safe and theaters largely operated despite two cancellations.
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Imperial Family
Tokyo
Capital
Kobe
Yokohama
Nagoya
Tokyo-Yokohama
Honshu
Japan
Shikoku
Hokkaido
United States
Russia
imperial palace
Domei
imperial headquarters
wwe
oO Domei
All Japan Under Raids In Broad Allied Strike
Communique from Emperor Hirohito's headquarters says enemy planes attacked from several directions. Bombs fell on Kobe, a 650000 port 376 miles south of Tokyo, and on Nagoya, a 430000 manufacturing center, with warnings in other Honshu areas.
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Kobe
Tokyo
Nagoya
Honshu
Berlin Radios Claim American Carrier Sunk Off Japan
Berlin based German news agency reported unconfirmed Tokyo claim that an American aircraft carrier was sunk off the east coast of Japan. Reuters noted Kokyo radio gave multiple air raid versions with no corroboration. The report suggested Axis fishing for information amid uncertain sources.
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LONDON
DNA
Berlin
Reuters
Tokyo
Japan
Kokyo radio
Tokyo-Yokohama
Nagoya
Kobe
Axis
DNB
War time price board curtails retail deliveries in Canada
Ottawa reports a War Time Prices and Trade Board order to limit retail deliveries pick ups exchanges refunds and sales on approval to conserve rubber gasoline and materials for the war effort. Merchants urged to use cross counter handoffs and wrap only prepacked items. No pickups for parcels under one dollar except for fresh meat fish or bread. Deliveries by freight express and parcel post unaffected.
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OTTAWA
prices and trade board
Sliding Beef Price Urged by Canadian Federation Leader
TORONTO April 18 H H Hannan president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture says the War Time Prices and Trade Board should set a ceiling on beef with a one cent per pound monthly reduction for six months from January to June. He notes no beef shortage and calls the market adjustment temporary. The beef industry is in normal healthy condition despite a current price crisis due to multiple factors. Continued on Page Three.
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H. H. Hannan
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
federa peer
Prices and Trade Board
C.P.A
United States
CPA
Ottawa
Canada
Calgary premier declines radio plea on man power plebiscite
J M Miller secretary of the Vote Yea Committee says Premier Aberhart told him he is too busy to speak on a province wide radio network in support of an affirmative vote in the April 27 man power plebiscite. Aberhart would not issue a press statement at the request of Calgary officials.
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CALGARY
J. M. Miller
Aberhart
Miller
Mulock Warns Japs May Raid Coast of B C
NEWMARKET Ont April 1 Japan will raid the coast of British Columbia and whether it will develop into more than raids we do not know Postmaster General William P Mulock said at a meeting in support of a Yes vote in the April 27 plebiscite It is better to keep the fighting at a distance than have to fight on Canada east and west shores This is the greatest crisis facing the British Empire and Canada ever faced.
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NEWMARKEST
Ont
Japan
British Columbua
William P. Mulock
Canada
Demolition of Huema Oil Wells Pressed in Burma
Allied and British forces continued to blow up oil wells in the Irrawaddy Valley despite Japanese counteractions as they conduct rear-guard operations above Rangoon. Corregidor guns silenced more batteries in the Philippines and disrupted Bataan bridges. Russians claim capture of Germany’s top pilot Wegner, blamed for bombing London landmarks. Allied air raids hit Rabaul and damaged a Japanese transport. The U S government announced it now controls all privately owned merchant ships in the American fleet.
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Rangoon
Burma
Irrawaddy
WASHINGTON
United States war department
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Phiippines
Bataan Peninsuls
KUIBYSKEY
Keocha
Germany
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Westminster Abbey
Nai
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