British Dig In Last Bases On Burma Front
British forces brace for a triple thrust toward Mandalay as twin Japanese offensives near Lashio and Mandalay push within about 100 miles. Chinese troops contest positions around Taunggyi Hopong and Shwengyaung while Irrawaddy front rests. The defense hinges on holding last bases as Japanese manpower surges.
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Burma
Mandalay
Lashio
ONDON
C.P
Taunggyi
Hopong
Shwengyaung
Sittang
Mandelay
Irrawaddy
Pinchaung
Man
PERIL
NEW ‘DELHI
Allies Seek United Front in War Effort
London reports Clement Attlee pledging renewed United Nations resolve on Anzac Day. He asserts Britain and the United States will stand with Australia and New Zealand, promising increasing aid and unified strategy to turn the tide against the Axis. He warns Hitler misconceptions mirror Kaiser past errors and stresses concentration of forces at decisive points.
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LONDON
C.P
Clement E. Attlee
Dominions
United Nations
ares
Australia
Britain
United States
New Zealand
Hitler
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oceania
Mr.Attlee
Ancient Romans Paved Deserts With Aqueducts For Fresh Water
In a desert theater the water limit dictates daily rations. The Romans built stone lined galleries to carry winter rainwater into aqueducts to avoid saltwater intrusion. Modern Royal Engineers clean and extend these relics to supply British troops with fresh water. Many wells and reservoirs thrived in late Roman times when western desert populations were larger.
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Libya
Alexandria
Cyrenaica
Royal Engineers
wettern desert
Soviet Front Drives Across River Capture Two Nazi Villages
Soviet forces on the central front crossed a river, breached barbed wire, and seized two Nazi-occupied villages before Germans counterattacked and were repelled with heavy losses. Red Star reports shifts to defensive fortifications on the southern front. A battalion completed a night raid series with 2,070 German fatalities. Russians mass artillery on the Leningrad front as Red Army casualties exceed 1,000 in recent actions.
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KUIBYSHEV
Russia
Red Star
Leningrad
Red army
Coast city hit by Nazi air raid kills and injures many
London dispatch says a south coast city suffered heavy bombing by Nazi dive bombers just after midnight. At least 32 killed and hundreds homeless as high explosives and fire bombs rained down. Exeter later identified as the attacked town, home to a historic grammar school founded in 1628. Three people died in a churchyard blast and a London couple perished in a wrecked home while a 19 month old set of twins was found alive but injured. Air-raid crews hunted debris at daybreak as the bombardment continued along the coast.
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LONDON
C.P
high command
England
Exeter
Plymouth
Bristol
Naz
Bathroom Fixtures Now Standardized
OTTAWA April 25. Wartime prices and trade board push standardization of sanitary fixtures. Manufacturers with board approval adopt a program for lavatories baths sinks and other sanitary items. The order eliminates 24 bathtub sizes and shapes 16 lavatory designs 42 kitchen sinks and withdraws about 82 production items.
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OTTAWA
Kenya officials mull evacuation of women and children
London dispatch reports the Colonial Office says Nairobi officials in Kenya Colony are weighing a plan to remove women and children from the Mombasa area but have not reached a final decision yet.
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LONDON
colonial office
Kenya
Nairobi
Mombasa
Anzac Day Observed in Grieving Melbourne Scene
Australia marked Anzac Day with solemn ceremonies in Melbourne amid gravest wartime conditions. Allied leaders and UN officers led by General Douglas MacArthur attended services at the shrine of remembrance as thousands observed in silence. Dawn pilgrimage by veterans proceeded before daylight despite bans on large gatherings. MacArthur sent a message to Anzac forces tributes from American comrades yesterday today and tomorrow.
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MELBOURNE
Australia
United Nations
Douglas MacArthur
Gall Upoli
dren
MacArthur
seriou
John Curlin
Allied and Japanese Air Battle Reported in New Guinea
Allied and Japanese air combat over Port Moresby ended with seven Japanese fighters shot down. Allied raids hit the airfield at Lae while Komjatum village was reported sacked and burned. A Central Daily News call for a unified Allied strategy urged one wartime war council for all theaters.
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UNITED NATIONS
Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Lae
Komjatum
Central Daily News
Northern Ireland
India
Mackenzie King urges yes vote in manpower plebiscite
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King in a Friday night national CBC address urged Canadians to vote yes in the upcoming manpower plebiscite. He warned that a no vote would imply loss of trust in government and parliament and warned of a serious threat from Germany and Japan seeking sea supremacy and possible attacks on the western hemisphere. He noted Paris radio broadcasts urging a no vote and stressed Canada must aid allies to keep war away from the western hemisphere.
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King
OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
Paris
Canada
Mr. King
Canadian broadcasting Corporation
Germany
Japan
White Brigade in London arms secret Nazi patriots
The German effort to curb pro British sentiment in London, April reports from the Belgian government service describe a secret White Brigade arming patriots to act when Allies land on the continent. Six members were executed or imprisoned on sabotage charges as strikes and anti-German campaigns disrupt production. incidents include powder omission at a Herstal cartridge factory and smuggling explosives by miners.
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LONDON
information service
rvenily
lethers
Herstal
Benan
Beaverbrook's Sister Dies in New Brunswick
Newcastle NB April 25 Miss Annie Aitken sister of Lord Beaverbrook died at the old Aitken home here today. Miss Aitken was a daughter of the late Rev and Mrs William Aitken.
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NEWCASTLE, NB
Annie Aitken
Lord Beaverbrook
Aitken
William Aitken
Rostock Hit By 400 Tons R A F Bombs
Rostock was battered overnight in a second 1000 mile raid on the Baltic coast war plant. British authorities estimate over 400 tons of explosives were dropped in two attacks. The Heinkel works and Neptune shipyards were hit as fires flared. Docks at Dunkerque and targets across France and the Low Countries were struck by night raids.
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ONDON
C.P
Rostock
R.A.F
Baltic coast
Britain
air ministry
Heinkel aircraft works
Neptune
DUNKERQUE
English Channel
France
Low Countries
Norwegian
Dover Strait
Calais
Boulogne
mershalling
London
Jail Break Frees Three in Alberta
Three inmates escaped last night from Lethbridge provincial jail where they served sentences from nine months to two years less one day. Kenneth Warris 21, Mickey McKay 2?, and James G. Oplinko 19 are at large. police descriptions and a car theft near Marquis hotel are noted amid a full search by RCMP and jail officials led by Warden Herbert Holt.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Kenneth Warris
Mickey McKay
James G. Oplinko
Royal Canadian, Mounted Police
Herbert Holt
Harris
McKay
Opinko
Marquis hotel
Hard Fighting Out of Bermuda
At a St George's Day dinner in Bermuda Rear Admiral James James spoke of "hard and successful" fighting by British and United States forces from the Bermuda base. He said they came to build a base and to fight a base, noting strong combined naval and army action against western Atlantic submarine activity, while promising details could not be shared.
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HAMILTON
Bermuda
C.P. Cable
United States
James James
U.S. naval operating
Bermeda
James
Atlantic
First wheat above ground near Taber area
News briefs from April 25 report early sown wheat showing above ground at Taber in the Taber area. Other items note air base attacks near China, a Chinese counter-stroke halting a Japanese flank in Burma, General Giraud's escape from Koenigstein, a Berlin fire blamed on children, and German plane losses totals for the month and week.
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TABER
CHENA
TOKYO
Japan
China
GIRAUD
BERLIN
Henri Honore Giraud
Abe Baler
Franee
Koenigstein
Germany
LONDON
C.P
Granewalg
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Soviet Front
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B.C
Ted Field
Edmonton-Yukon
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Yukon
Royal North West Mounted Police
Field
ATLANTA
Georgia Power Company
White Brigade
BEAVERBROOK
NEW BRUNSWICK
R.C.M.P
CHUNGKING
API
Entmsa
Taanggyi
MOSCOW
A.P
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