Five POW Trains Speeding East Across Canada
Five long troop trains bearing large numbers of German prisoners of war head eastward from Alberta and Medicine Hat toward Halifax for shipment to Britain aboard the Mauretania. The evacuation moves include about 3,000 prisoners on the Thurs day liner with subsequent consignments from Ontario and Quebec camps.
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Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Wainwright
Britain
Alberta
Germany
Germain
Ontario
Quebec
Alogether
Dominion
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Secbce
Halifax
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Indian Family Missing at Coast at MonsKwito Harbor
Provincial police said a family of four Sermon David his wife Agnes and two children Matilda five and Lews one were missing for several days from their cabin at Mons Kwito Harbor near Tofine. A family canoe was found at Mosquito Harbor after a 35 mile coast search failed to locate them.
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VICTORIA
Sermon David
Agnes
Matilda
Lews
Monsqwito Harbor
Tofine
Mosquito Harbor
Three Million People Affected By Pay Rise Strike
NEW YORK Feb 11 7 Philadelphia's transportation system halted as 9653 employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company walk out demanding a 25 cent hourly pay raise and other benefits while the company offers 12 cents. Only 1087 taxicabs remained. emergency measures moved essential workers. Across the nation a separate strike falters in New York harbor with arbitration talks aiding 3500 tugmen and fuel shortages persisting despite a state of emergency in New York City schools closed and light restrictions. Washington hints at a wage price policy to back steel wage increments, while 1,470,000 United States transit workers are affected. (Continued on page three).
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OTTAWA
C.P
Finance
Jistey
lab
dawy products board
NEW YORK
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
I.U. Transport Workers’ Union
Tugboat Owners’ Association
United Maine Division
American Federation of Labor International Longshoremen’s Association
Wiliam O'Dwyer
Washington
White House
United States
Alberta Coal Moves to Ontario Grows Under Government Plan
Ottawa reports rising Alberta coal shipments to Ontario as a household fuel. About 1,000 tons daily with a total subsidy of 656 dollars and reduced freight rate 4 dollars. Officials say anthracite supply may not return to prewar levels and Alberta coal will see wider use. Minister Howe expects coal control to be removed next spring as Canadian production rises with returning miners.
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OTTAWA
Alberta
Ontario
Howe
Peron and the Caudillo Myth Revisited
Delos W Lovelace analyzes Juan Domingo Peron as a South American caudillo figure. The piece notes his charisma, boldness, and appeal to the underdogs, plus his control over the Secretariat of Labor and Welfare to raise wages and benefits. It references the 1943 revolution and whispers of revived influence.
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Caudillo
Delos
W. Lovelace
New York Sun
Peron
Hitler
Colonel's League
alang
Secretariat of Labor and Welfare
Morae
Juan Domingo
Per
Nehru calls revolt if famine grips India
Reuters dispatch from Bahraich, India quotes Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, former president of the Indian National Congress, saying the Indian people will not tolerate famine. If famine exists in the province he tells an election mass meeting, I ask the people to revolt against the government. Let the government be prepared to face it.
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LONDON
Reuters
Bahraich
India
tor day
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian National Congress
Dutch Offer To Indonesia Eyes Commonwealth Proposal
A Dutch offer to create a Commonwealth of Indonesia in the East Indies is described as a starting point for talks. Indonesian spokesman Hadji Agus Sahm notes low expectations but accepts the gesture. The plan envisions a 25 member Dutch cabinet, Indonesian democratic assembly, and citizenship rights across the kingdom. A British communique reports Indonesian clashes in Semarang and allied munitions seizures near Soerabaja.
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BATAVIA
Commonwealth of Indonesia
the East Indies
Hadji Agus Sahm
Sutan Shajyar
Jubertus J Var Mook
Netherlands East Indies
Netherlands
Semaiang
Soerabaja
West Java
Secrets of Yalta Pact Revealed Three Russian Demands
London dispatches detail the Far East agreement made a year earlier in which Stalin secured Soviet possession of the Kurile islands and the pledge to enter the war against Japan within months. The text shows Russia would join the war after Germany's surrender and maintains status quo in Outer Mongolia with preserved Russian rights prior to the Japanese attack.
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LONDON
RUSSIA
Yalta
United Nations security council
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Soviet
Ukraine
Germany
Hiroshima
Japan
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
Churchill
Outer
Mongolia
P O W Evacuations Begin From Local Camp to Britain
The first evacuation of prisoners of war from the local camp was completed Saturday evening with no incident. Army photos show POWs boarding two special trams bound for Halifax and then Britain as guards supervise and Capt Gordon Millar verifies identities by dental charts. Ten captives remained unidentifiable until dentures and facial features were checked.
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Britain
Lethbridge Herald
Halifax
Gordon Millar
Lethbridge
Indonesian Dispute Shelving Hinted Amid Talks
London Feb 11 The United Nations security council weighs delaying action on the Indonesian dispute pending Batavia talks between Dutch and Indonesian representatives. Russian charges of war in Java sparked a new exchange between Soviet foreign commissar Vishinsky and UK Foreign Secretary Bevin as members seek to await Indonesia’s reply to a Dutch proposal for a commonwealth before convening a five power inquiry. Mgr Bevin warned against a commission in Indonesia and Van Kleef Jans of the Netherlands dismissed Vishinsky’s alarm. INDONESIAN.
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JOHN M. RIGHTOVER
LONDON
Batavia
United Nations security council
Java
Andre; Vistansky
Bevin
Brita
M. Vishinsky
Netherlands East Indies
Indonesia
Mauretania carries 43,000 Canadian dependents to Halifax
Operation Daday began as the 35,877 ton Mauretania sailed into Halifax with 43 of the more than 49,000 dependents of Canadian servicemen bound for destinations across the country. Absence of crowds contrasted with prior troop voyages. Many reunions await further travel. Brides for Military District 6 disembarked as trains prepared to move families.
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pwr
Mauretania
Liverpool
Military District 6
Anxiety Over Food Policy Debated In Britain
The United Kingdom, dependent on imports for about 60 percent of its food, faces a food shortage and debates next Thursday in Parliament on the Labor government's agricultural policy. Agriculture Minister Tom Williams will defend assured prices and land policy while Anthony Eden's Conservative opposition argues farmers lack warning and more labor and machinery are needed to boost 1946 crops.
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JAMES MceCOOK
ONDON
Cablett
United Kingdom
House of Commons
Tom Williams
Anthony Eden
Britain
General Homma Found Guilty at War Crimes Trial
Manila dispatch reports Lt Gen Masaharu Homma convicted of ordering the Bataan death march and other atrocities. He was sentenced to be shot after a five week trial before a military tribunal. Prosecution linked him to the fall of Corregidor and open city bombing.
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Masaharu Homma
Bataan
winehood
ayet man
Homma
Bucaan
Mama
MacArthur
Wainwright
Philippines
Tomoyuko Yaridimte
gabons
Yumiashite
Corregidor
Priliypnines
cortudst
Yamnastita
Peron’s Campaign Train Derails in Argentina
A special train carrying Col. Juan D Peon during his presidential bid derailed between Rosana and Buenos Aires. Peron escaped injury but the incident delayed travel nine hours after he had spoken in Rosaria. He criticized Labor party toleration and urged changes, challenging the party’s influence.
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Col
Juan D Peon
Argentina
Rosana
Buenos Aires
Peron
Rosaria
Labor party
Cissensiat
German Civilians Resent Nürnberg Trials Poll Reveals
FRANKFURT Germany Feb 11 An United States army poll disclosed that German civilians resent the idea of Nazi organizations on trial at Nurnberg Except for a communist major most questioned objected to indicting groups such as the SA and SS on trial with 29 of the leading Nazi survivors The poll showed sustained interest in the Nuremberg proceedings and some belief that all defendants should not be convicted Rudolf Hess was named most often by those in the minority arguing not all leaders were guilty
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Germany
ifi
United States army
iil
Naal
Nuemberg
S.A
trak
Naz
Nuerobergy
Rudolf Hess
U.S. Constabulary Raids German Camps Near Nuernberg
U S Army constabulary raids displaced persons camps near Nuernberg and Munich to seize evidence and disrupt groups hostile to Warsaw and Belgrade governments. Other items note U S opposition to Russia-led UN inquiry in Dutch East Indies, Tokyo alert for Japanese underground, a Calgary bus bicycle crash death, new defence evidence in Barra murder appeal, Howe denying resignation talk, and Calgary printers potentially going on strike over wage scales.
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TOELZ
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United States army
Nuernberg
Munich
Warsaw
Belgrade
DUTCH EAST INDIES
LONDON
C.P
United states
Russia
United Nations security council
Edward Estettinius
Ukraine
United Nations
TOKYO
Reuters
imperial palace
CALGARY
Lockhart Nelson
RCA
Edmonton
BARKS
Lawrence Ross
Barra
Bowness
Frank Bishop Thomas
Hows
gettemen
booth walema
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Yalta Pact
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Eelco Van Klef
Jens
Vishinsky
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Gen. Homma
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