Nazis Take Paramushiro Bad Mauling Report
Soviet field dispatches describe the Red Army pressing from the Dnieper region destroying five trapped German divisions near Nikopol and tightening a ring around remnants near Cherkasy Apostolovo captured. In the North Pacific US warships bombarded Kurabu point Paramushiro.
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MOSCOW
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Dnieper
Rodiun
Mavlinovsky
Nikopodl
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ivan S. Konev
Cherkasy
Apostolovo
Red Army
Japanese Defenses Fire While Task Force Shells Paramushiro
Allied ships under Rear Admiral Wilder D. Baker bombard Paramushiro as Japanese gunners fire in bursts along beaches and at sea. No attacking ship is struck. U.S. Maj Gen Davenport Johnson and Brig Gen E D Post join the force aboard Admiral Baker’s flagship during the operations.
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Pacific Ocean
Sea of Okhotsk
Wilder D. Baker
U.S. army
E. D. Post
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Alaskan department
General Post
Paramushiro
Russian Troops Penetrate Narva Suburbs
Reuters dispatch from Moscow reports Russian troops have breached the eastern suburbs of Narva, the fortress town eight miles inside Estonia, as fighting continues in Nikopol where 75,000 German troops are trapped on the lower Dnieper.
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NARVA
LONDON
C.P
Estonia
Reuters
Moscow
NIKOPOL
Dnieper
Loss of Nikopol cripples German war industries in Ukraine
Pravda reports Nikopol and Krivol Rog targeted as key manganese suppliers for the Reich. Malinovsky cut off five German divisions on the Dnieper near the Buzuluk river mouth, three miles from Nikopol. Nazis vow to fight to the last in their sectors as heavy rains flood Ukrainian rivers and hinder mobility.
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Nikopol
Pravda
Malinovsky
Dnieper
Buzuluk
Krivol Rog
Hitler
Ukraine
Cherkasy-Kanev
Zvenitgorodka
Davy Jones and His Legendary Pirate Career
A port journal recounts Davy Jones as a famous pirate around Bom bay and Ceylon, noting his 1621 dismissal by the East India Company for insubordination, mutinous raids on Mogul ships, sinking captives, and his death by Burning at sea. The piece mentions Shaw and a Manchester Guardian attribution.
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Davy Jones
Port of London Authority
Bombay
Ceylon
Morgan
Blackbeard
West Indies
Jones
East India Company
Malabar
Java
hadeen
Civic nominations fill southern Alberta towns
Nominations reported across Cardston Blairmore Claresholm Raymond with multiple candidates for town council school boards and hospital boards. Cardston lists four council nominees and six for school board. Blairmore reports uncontested council and school board. Claresholm fills school board seats by acclamation and lists three council nominees. Raymond notes five council nominees and two school board elections with one retirement replacement.
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Alberta
CARDSTON
K. L. Lee
L. Stutz
Reg. Smith
S. W. Low
P. C. Gregson
L. M. Rasmussen
B. Y. Low
B. Payne
Dr. S. O. Williams
Floyd Godfrey
municipal hospital board
William Cooper
H. Nelson
BLAIRMORE
J. Krkosky, Jr
William J. Gray
Sam Bannan
D. Campo
E. Williams
Claresholm
J. Morkin
A. W. Miller
Magnus Granum
R. J. Doyle
T. C. Milnes
G. M. Godney
Raymond
E. Nilsson
R. Pack
W. Van Orman
Ira McBride
Harry Fairbanks
Myron Holmes
Golden Snow
W. A. Anderson
Dr. Mandill
Kwajalein II US Triumph in Pacific Island Campaign
United States 7th Army Division completed the conquest of Kwajalein Atoll 78 hours after the initial assault. Japanese resistance collapsed on the final day as infantry and tanks isolated strong points with light casualties. Gugegwe Bigej and Eller islands were reported captured, with the lagoon under US control and Turner directing amphibious operations.
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JOINT EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Kwajalein Atoll
United States
7th Army
Kwajalein Island
Marshall Islands
Ebeve Island
Kwajalein
Pacific
PEARL HARBOR
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific fleet
Gugegwe
Bige
Eller islands
Bigej
Re Open Banff Jasper Scenic Highway May 24
The Jasper Banff scenic highway is planned to reopen by May 24 with road crews starting work as conditions permit. Maj J A Woods superintendent of Jasper National Park said the scenic highway, closed during winter, will resume service once weather allows.
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Banff
Jasper Scenic Highway
EDMONTON
C.P
Jasper- Banff
J. A. Woods
Jasper National Park
Parliamentary News Bulletins From Ottawa In February
Ottawa reports indicate few mobilization call ups among active duty men due to strengthened mobilization administration with occasional errors. Veterans note frontline service and wage control debates as ministers clash over labor board nominations. Agriculture data discuss packing plant congestion and wheat quotas and rail car allocations amid wartime policy.
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OTTAWA
Mitchell
Gordon Graydon
James Sinclair
L. Vancouver North
RCAF
United Kingdom
Mediterranean
North Africa
Canada
labor
Sinclair
national labor board
Gardiner
commons
Minesweeper Chedabucto Lost After St Lawrence Collision
The minesweeper Chedabucto, famed for saving Halifax from a prior disaster, is a total loss after a night collision in the St Lawrence. One man died Engineer Sub-Lt. Donald William Tuke of Haileybury. The wreck left about 69 others safe as the vessel listed and towed to shore before beaching. A sister ship Swift Current aided salvage efforts with a kedge anchor.
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OTTAWA
Chedabucto
Halifax
Navy
Macdonald
St. Lawrence
Donald William Tuke
Haileybury
J. H. B. Davies
New York
United States coast guard
H.M.C.S. Swift Current
Helsinki Bombed as Russian Raids Burn City
Fires raged in Helsinki at noon after two Russian bombings Sunday killing 38 people and wounding 232. Bombers dropped mines and incendiaries, crippling transport and striking central targets. Stockholm reports cut lines amid fear of a third raid. Swedish aircraft conducted extensive patrols.
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STOCKHOLM
Feo
Helsinki
Sundsy
London
Finland
Moscow
Reval
Tallinn
Sweden
Stockholm Aftonbladet
McNaughton Meets King in Ottawa Confidential Talk
Lt Gen A G L McNaughton spent over four hours with Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Ottawa but both offered no statements to reporters. McNaughton declined to discuss plans or health and said he would return to Seigniory Club later. King called the discussion confidential and would not comment. A Toronto Telegram report questioned the health rationale in a resignation document.
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OTTAWA
C.P
A. G. L. McNaughton
Mackenzie King
King
Gen. McNaughton
Seigniory Club
Que
Canada
Laurier House
TORONTO
Toronto Telegram today
Clifford M. Sifton
Winnineg Free Press
London
McNaughton
Former Cabinet Minister Arthur Sauve Dies in Montreal
Montreal February 7 Former Conservative cabinet figure Senator Arthur Sauve postmaster general in R B Bennett’s government died in hospital after a long illness at age 69 Sauve began in journalism rising to editorials of Nation Le Canadien and La Patrie later entered politics representing Two Mountains and served in both provincial and federal offices including Privy Council postmaster general and Senate appointment in 1935.
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MONTREAL
Arthur Sauve
R. B. Bennett
Conservative
Two Mountains
house of commons
Privy Council
senate
Japs Suffer High Losses On Burma Front
Allied reports from New Delhi say heavy losses to Japanese on the Arakan front in southwest Burma as Mountbatten forces consolidate near Buthedaung. In the Chindwin valley Allied units attacked two Japanese groups, inflicting casualties without loss, while B- bombers hit airfields at Heho and Aungban and dive bombers attacked positions near Buthedaung. A Japanese fighter force trying to strafe was intercepted with two planes destroyed and five damaged, one Allied fighter lost.
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NEW DELHI
C.P
Arakan
Burma
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Buthedaung
Chindwin
Heho
Aungban
Mandalay
Chindwin valley
American troops repulse new German assault near Cisterna
American forces at Anzio regain ground after a strong German push three miles west of Cisterna. Despite night fighting and heavy artillery, the Allies restore positions on the beachhead and push back Nazis to starting lines. British 8th Army advances along the Adriatic front near Cassino.
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EDWARD KENNEDY
Associated Press
ALGIERS
Anzio
Cisterna
Rome
Carroceta
Aprilia
France
Carroceto
im. Cassino
Mount Cassino
crest
8th Army
Adriatic
Russia May Ignore Polish Government in Exile
London reports that Soviet Russia’s new Ukraine foreign office may sign a treaty with a "new" Poland and ignore the Polish government based in London. Moscow radio says liberation from the Fascist yoke will bring a democratic Poland and closer Ukrainian Polish cooperation. Aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force laid mines in enemy waters with no losses, per a Sunday communiqué.
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LONDON
Russia
Ukraine
Poland
Moscow
C.P. Cable
R.C.AF
R.C.AP
Cabinet Pre-Session Meeting in Alberta Legislature
Alberta cabinet meets at the legislature to discuss legislation and government policy ahead of a two day Social Credit caucus starting Tuesday. James Hartley ML A for Macleod to chair the caucus.
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ALBERTA
EDMONTON
C.P
Social Credit
James Hartley
Macleod
NIKOPOL
LONDON
Red army
Dnieper
monitor
SASK
REGINA
Saskatchewan
CLEVELAND
national administrative committee
the
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Michigan
Ohio
U.S
CANADA
WASHINGTON
Clyde Reed
Kan
war food administration
Marvin Jones
W.F.A
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Paramushiro island
Cmdr
Harry Smith
fleet air wing
Tokyo
Italy
Manchester Guardian
G. B. Shaw
Kwajalein II
U.S. Triumph
Whole Atoll Falls
Marshalls
RICHARD M. JOHNSTON
Canadian Press
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John Blackmore
New Democracy
Karl Homuth
P.C
Waterloo South
J. A. Ross
Souris
Col. Ross
Winnipeg Free Press
Canadian Wheat Board
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