MacArthur leads Hollandia Aitape landings in New Guinea
Allied forces launched coastal invasions at Hollandia and Aitape on the New Guinea coast. General MacArthur described the operation as Bataan in reverse as 140,000 Japanese troops were neutralized or isolated while 60,000 faced annihilation between Hollandia and Madang. Airstrips and bases were secured with light beachhead losses and rapid inland advance toward three midline airfields.
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MacArthur
U.S
Aitape
Hollandia
Philippines
New Guinea
A.P
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Solomon islands
Australia
Hellandis
Madang
New Britain
New Ireland
Bougainville
Wewak
rce
Heilandia
Tanahmerah Bay
Dutch New Guinea
Netherlands
Bogia
Alexishafen
sion
Tanah- Merah Bay
Humboldt Bay
Holland
Netherlands East Indies
Allies Clear Kohima to Dimapur Road in India
Allied forces have opened the Kohima to Dimapur road and completed relief of the Kohima garrison in Assam. Mountbatten’s HQ said Japanese threats persist on parts of the route but immediate danger to the Bengal Assam railway at Dimapur appears removed.
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ANDY
Ceylon
Kohima
Dimapur
Lord Louis Mountbatten
India
Kohima-Dimapur
Bengal- Assam
Ukhrul
Imphal
Burma
Warong
Mogaung
Mandalay
Myitkyina
Manao Gahtawns
Ngan Gahtawng
Lonkin
Arakan
Buthedaung
Moulmein
Martaban
BRANDY
Bengal-Assam
Joseph W. Stilwell
Allies Predict Clear Luftwaffe Defeat Amid Invasion Fever
London reports a joint British and U S air ministry statement calling the assault on the German aircraft industry climactic and near finish while Berlin pledges readiness for coming events. German planners threaten to flood Holland’s dikes as Allied Chindits and Chinese forces push back Japanese along the Burma Front.
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LONDON
Germany
Berlin
British
air ministry
United States strategic air forces
Holland
England
Britain
Europe
Transocean
dispatch
Hunting With Bow and Arrows in Ontario
The Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries plans to designate an area for exclusive bow and arrow hunting. Critics argue archery is difficult and could harm wildlife as inexperienced hunters flock to the sport. St Thomas Times Journal notes hunts should be humane and quick.
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Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries
Ontario
St. Thomas
Allied Air Drive Strikes Fried richshafen and Munich
Allied bomber formations of about 500 heavy aircraft with escorts attacked Fried richshafen factories and Munich outskirts while targeting rail yards at Bucharest and oil centres at Ploesti. The operation marked an eighth straight day of the greatest aerial offensive, with cross-Channel raids against Belgium and western Germany and German claims of fighting back.
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Britain
Friedrichshafen
Munich
Italy
Balkan
Bucharest
Ploesti
Hitler
Belgrade
RAF
RCAF
Belgium
Germany
LONDON
English Channel
air ministry
Vilverde
Brussels
speecy
Mennheim
R.C.AF
France
Mennheilm
rales
Mosasuitos
RCA.F
England
Parliamentary News Bulletins and Legislation Outlook
Ottawa reports outline a May budget target by Finance Minister DOSLEY. House debates Alberta bank petition, irrigation witnesses for the Canada Land and Irrigation Co., and a broad legislation program including family allowances housing farm prices and health plans depending on provincial talks. Empire conference plans and Princess Elizabeth's birthday message to Canada close the items.
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OTTAWA
Do sley
commons
J. G. Turgeon
Cariboo
commons reconstruction committee
D. W. Hayes
Canada Land and Irrigation Co
Medicine Hat
Rita
Victor Meek
Dominion Water and Power Bureau
King
Fatal Gravel Dump Accident Near Keoma
Pred Semagalski a 1st Ukrainian bachelor and maintenance worker with the provincial public works department was fatally injured on the Keoma highway while helping dump gravel from a truck operated by F Hambley Beiseker. He slipped and was run over by the wheels.
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CALGARY
Pred Semagalski
bachelor
Acme
public works department
Keoma
F. Hambley, Beiseker
Jail Parents Three Years Jail Parents Three Years
COCHRANE Ontario April 24 Justice E R E Chevrier sentenced Walter Gillis of Schumacher to three years in penitentiary on manslaughter charges for the deaths of his four children in a March 10 fire. His wife Mabel Gillis fainted during sentencing. she too was sentenced to three years. The couple were convicted last week by an assize jury of manslaughter for the suffocation deaths of the children in their Schumacher home in the Timmins district.
Pincher and Magrath Over Top in Victory Loan Drives
Pincher Creek unit leads Sixth Victory Loan drive with $250000 subscribed against a $233000 quota, surpassing prior rallies. The area includes Coney, Lundbreck, and Waterton Lakes Park. a Big Loan rally heads to Cowley Tuesday. Magrath unit opens with $99456 in sales toward a $78000 quota, with Spring Coulee and Del Bonita over quota and 400+ subscribers amid fine weather aiding canvassing.
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PINCHER CREEK
Fincher Creek
Pincher
Coney
Lundbreck
Waterton Lakes National Park
Cowley
MAGRATH
Magrath Victory Loan
Spring Coulee
Del Bonita
Bond Sellers Start Drive in Sixth Victory Loan Campaign
Ottawa reports the Sixth Victory Loan drive opening with 150000 Canadians urged to buy bonds toward a 1200000000 target. Navy unit K 225 led by sea with 8100 purchased toward 3500. Army in Italy oversubscribed. Massey Harris plants sold 720000 toward 678000 objective. London Life Insurance and Erie Mortgage Co. together purchased 18500000 and 1750000 respectively. Robin Hood Flour Mills of Moose Jaw also bought bonds.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
Middle East
R.C.A F
Italy
MASSEY-HARRIS
FP. A. Stephens
Thorold
Ont
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
A.F. L
Massey-Harris Company
London
London Life Insurance Company
Soviets Plan New Attack Ahead of Campaign
Soviet dispatches from Moscow report that after lifting the siege of Leningrad and advancing toward the Homanis region, the Red Army is massing for a fresh campaign along a 500 mile overland front from Kursk. Rear services are moving to new bases in anticipation of spring offensives, with likely coordinated action with Western Allied blows.
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MOSCOW
Leningrad
Homanis
erlin
Kursk
London
Berlin
Scandinavian telegraph bureau
Allied bombers hit Parma railyards and Italian ports
In a major night raid, Allied heavy and medium bombers struck the Parma railyards in north central Italy and hit Genoa Livorno Piombino and Santo Stefano on the west coast. The Mediterranean air arm reports 51 enemy planes destroyed yesterday, 47 in Austria. Seventeen Allied aircraft were lost. Along the Anzio front, Allied troops repulsed two German thrusts and patrol clashes and artillery duels continued elsewhere.
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NAPLES
Parma
Italy
Genoa
Livorno
Leghorn
Piombino
Santo Stefano
Austria
Mediterranean air arm
Wienerneustadt
Bad Voslau
Schwechat
Anzio
Carano
Carroceto
Rome
Mount Marrone
Cassino
Al- Hed
U.S Forces Advance in Hollandia Drive New Guinea
Allied units report good progress in the Netherlands New Guinea invasion with forces ashore at Aitape reaching Tadji base inland. BBC quotes further Japanese movements toward the Allied beachhead from the Wewak sector amid ongoing heavy fighting and air cover.
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U.S
HOLLANDIA
New Guinea
Reuters
United States
Netherlands New Guinea
Aitape
Tadji
BBC
Ait’ pe
Wewak
CRIMEA
LONDON
Sevastopol
Moscow
CHENGHSIEN
CHINA
CHUNGKING
Chinese high command
C.P.R
CROW’'S NEST
CROW'S NEST
B.C
J. A. Yeager
Swift Current
Sask
AUSTRALIA
CURTIN WASHINGTON
Curtin
C.P
home office
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NEW. GUINEA
Admiralty
Assam
Kayo
Luftwaffe
HUN
News of
Limburg
Armand de Menten de Horne
Great Britain
Fle
ha masses
St. Truiden
Armand
TRE
MANETF
Gillett
Lethbridge Herald
FRIEDRICHSHAFFN
Mackenzie King
Empire
avianaring
Hansellisc
Macleod
pariament
ELIZABETH
Earl of Athlone
North
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