Mutiny Suppressed as Bombay Strife Surges
British authorities quell Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay and Calcutta as civilian mobs clash with troops and police. Hospitals report about 130 killed and 740 injured in three days of violence amid 300,000 workers striking in sympathy. Gandhi appeals for restraint while seamen and air force personnel face discipline questions and surrender talks continue.
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BOMBAY
C.P
Royal Indian Navy
Calcutta
Mohandas KH. Gandhi
caa
Times of Indian
New Dell
CS.T
H.M.S. Talwar
Left Hand Corner Ed Kennedy to Be Fired in Holland Agriculture
War damage cripples Holland agriculture with 9,000,000 acres. 1 to 6 years to restore fields. 200,000 acres freshwater, 200,000 saltwater, 250,000 damaged by war action, 125,000 by German buildings. Over 9,000 farms lost. crop losses 20 to 47 percent. Immediate needs include thousands of tractors plows harrows and other farm implements. Government aid focuses on livestock rather than cash grants. consolidation of small farms planned. Netherlands soil cultivation may rise per acre. prewar agriculture income over 500 million guilders. Passengers in slots trade for snacks and supplies. Hitler's main headache continues. (Continued on Page 1)
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Holeland
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Netherlands
Holland
Lone Miner Surfaces As Grimberg Rescue Resumes
A lone miner, trapped for two days in the Grimberg mine at Herford, surfaced last night. Authorities planned to resume rescue efforts after sealing the mine, following reports that a worker found an escape hatch in an adjacent working. A survivor emerged from a shaft hundreds of yards from the explosion site as conditions remained uncertain.
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HERFORD
Germany
ginsted
Monopol
Grimbere pit
Defeat Roper Amendment in Alberta Legislature
EDMONTON February 23. By a vote of 47 to 3 the amendment to the address in reply to the throne speech was defeated in the Alberta Legislature. E. E. Roper moved it on behalf of the CCF with A. J. Leisemer and W. J. Williams supporting. Debate continued as Roper questioned the throne paragraph on Local Credit and provincial actions, while praising government for referring legislation to the courts to test constitutionality.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Alberta
E. E. Roper
C.C.F
A. J. Leisemer
Calgary
ROPER
Many Missing On Broken Tanker
KETCHIKAN Alaska February 23 The Russian tanker Donbass left Long Beach February 7 with about 65 crew aboard and was reported a broken hulk south of Adak Island with 29 crew accounted for in later messages. Coast Guard stations said two tankers aided the crew with 23 rescued from the after portion while 16 remained afloat on the forward section. The Puente Hills reported women and 24 crew on the stern part. Cause of the disaster was unknown. Captain Goginov commanded the Donbass which carried 141000 barrels of gasoline from Los Angeles bound for Vladivostok.
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KETCHIKAN
Alaska
Donbass
Long Beach
Calif
Adak Island
Coast Guard
Puente Hills
Los Angeles
Goginov
Long Beach Feo
Vladivostok
Conqueror Of Singapore Is Hanged
Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita once conquered Singapore was executed before dawn in the Philippines for war crimes. He wore patched khaki fatigues and prayed for the emperor's long life as two subordinates also died. His body was buried in a field near Manila with army ID tags, in a site marking many Filipino civilian deaths. Yamashita gave a final statement in broken English asserting self defense.
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
Singapore
Bataan
Yamashita
JAMES HALSEMA
Los Bangos
Philippines
Churchill as Witness Demanded at Nuremberg Tribunal
Ribbentrop urged the tribunal to summon Winston Churchill as a witness and said Churchill warned that England would destroy Germany if it grew too strong. He filed a list of 38 names, including British and French officials, with further additions anticipated. The defense also challenged Allied charges of German violations, arguing retaliation for Allied actions, while Goering’s counsel discussed efforts to avert hostilities with Britain in 1939 and sought to call Swedish intermediary Birger Dahlerus to testify.
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DANIEL DE LUCE WUERNBERG
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
international military tribunal
Winston Churchill
Churchill
England
Germany
Ribbentrop
Lord Londonderry
Lord Beaverbrook
Lord Vansittart
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
London
mmm
Herman Goering
Rudolf Hess
Hess
Alfred
Goering
Roman Rushenko
David Maxwell Fyfe
Rudenko
tribunit
David
Naz
Goeringelim
reichmarshal
Britain
Otto Stahmer
Stahmer
Worst Gale of Year Lashes English Coast
The worst gale of the year raged along England's south coast with 80 mph gusts at Dover. The air ministry issued gale warnings for all southern districts for the first time since before the war. A weather report blamed sun spots and predicted the gales would continue for two to three weeks. Leave boats ferrying servicemen between Britain and the continent were stormbound as enormous seas affected Dover and Folkestone harbors, paralyzing coastwise shipping.
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LONDON
Reutera
Englani
Dover
air ministry
Britain
Folkestone
Hamilton RCMP probe into Hamilton war plant sale
Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reportedly investigating alleged irregularities in the sale of machinery from a Hamilton war plant. Some sources say the amount involved could reach about 1,000,000 dollars. The inquiry, said to be lengthy, may take weeks before any action. War Assets Corp investigators initiated the report, but officials had no comment.
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HAMILTON
Ont
Hamilton Spectator
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
R.C.M.P
Ottawa
War Assets Corporation
War Assets Corp
corporation
Veterans Return To No Homes And No Jobs
Calgary reports the first annual reunion of the 13th Feld Company RC E draws attention to returning veterans facing unemployment and homelessness. Dominion president Alex Walker CBC E urges government action as he quotes the widespread issue.
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CALGARY
Alex Walker
CB.E
Dominion
Canadian Legion
13th Feld Company
R.C.E
British Indian soldiers killed in Soersbaja fighting
Two British Indian soldiers were killed and five wounded in two days of fighting around Soersbaja following attacks by Tallanesian Nationalists on listening posts and patrols, a communiqué said today.
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BATAVIA
Soersbaja
Secret Weapon With Five Mile Freezing Radius
Dr J W Behnken of Chicago told a Lutherans group in Houston that Germany sought a secret weapon believed to freeze everything within five miles rather than burn as an atom bomb does He said the inventor was urged by a fellow-churchman not to release the dreadful secret after a seven week Europe tour
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HOUSTON
Tex
J. W Behnken
Chicago
Mussouri synod
Germany
Hitler
Missouri synod
Behnken
Europe
Dr. Behnken
Yalta Pact Denounced by Chinese Delegates
Delegates in Chungking denounced the Yalta Secret Agreement as a dark stain on Sino American British relations and demanded Manchuria be restored to Chinese sovereignty. About 4 000 students at Peiping Hot Springs and 10 000 students from 19 Chungking institutions demonstrated against Soviet control of Port Arthur and joint Manchurian rail management, while Shanghai saw 1 000 students marching outside the consulate.
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SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKENG
China
National Assembly
Yalta
Manchuria
United Nations
Roosevelt
Russia
Port Arthur
Darién
Peipei Hot Springs
ansd
mies Mmorth
Chungking
Red Army
Shanghai
Aussie Papers Play Up Spies
Australian press editors react with alarm to Canadian spy arrests and alleged Moscow Ottawa tensions. The Melbourne Age warns of disconcerting suspicions amid great power relations. the Sydney Morning Herald demands top-level meetings as diplomacy falters. The Melbourne Sun flags the transfer of secrets to an international body as safer than national leakage, while the Sydney Telegraph spans espionage history and features Mounties Work by Ratgar.
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WILLAM STEWART
SYDNEY
Australia
C.P. Cable
Melbourne Age
Sydney Morning Herald
Moscow
Herald
Melbourne Sun
Sydney Telegraph
Ratgar
No Interim Report Yet Evidence Confirms Serious Nature of Disclosures
Eleven men and two women are being questioned in the Royal Commission inquiry into espionage, with officials saying it may be necessary to interrogate more under similar orders. The in camera inquiry seeks to protect state secrets, and a interim report is not expected for at least two to three weeks.
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GEORGE KITCHEN
storf
ULLAWA
Royal Commission
Justice
St. Laurent
Juslite Rober
Taschereau
J. L. Kellock
Supreme Court
Peace Era For Russia Peace Era For Russia
London reports Stalin addressed the Red Army on its anniversary declaring a peaceful period of development for the Soviet Union. He said the army must guard borders while the people build a strong national economy, and urged consolidating gains and pushing toward a new economic upswing.
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STALIN
Russia
Union
LONDON
Red army
Soviet Union
issume sad
Moscow
Sovet Union
Paratroopers Stand By Amid Uncontrollable Riot
British paratroopers were called out in Karaché Karbachl as police fled valleys and used tear gas and charge to disperse crowds converging on a meeting place.
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KARACHE KARBACHL
Reuters
RED DEER
Alta
M. Middleton
Turner Valley
Longview
Man
James Smith
Glenn
Fort Saskatchewan
NAVAL AIR DIVISION
OTTAWA
C.P
Roger E. 8. Bidwell
Mallfax
HLMLS
Yuncher
naval service headquarters
Cmdr
A. J. H. Arbick
O.B.E
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
AIR FORCE
Air force headquarters
veteraine
Vancouver
Kimoaleu
Winnipeg
Trenton
Ont
Halifax
CLATMS CIANO
NUERNBERG
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Galeagzo Ciano
International Military Tribunal
Doernberg
foreign office
Ribbonstrop
Deemberg
Ciane
EDMONTON
C.P.J
Billy Rose
Sedgewick
Alberts
Howard Palmer
Calgary
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