Allied forces seize Djebel Azzaq west of Mateur Tunisia
Allied headquarters in North Africa announced that British troops have driven the enemy from strategic hills 15 miles west of Mateur and are mopping up posts. The operations, supported by RAF Hurricanes, involved fighting near Mateur, 20 miles southwest of Bizerte, with four Focke-Wulf 190s and one Junkers dive-bomber shot down and one British plane lost.
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NORTH AFRICA
Djebel Azzaq
Inlis
Mateur
Bizerte
RAF
R.A
Reuters
Left Hand Corner’s Forgotten Collar Tale
A humorous piece recalls a man who neglects his collar and tie, faces repeated reproach from his wife, and tries to mail a note with his missing items. The anecdote then shifts to a London Daily Mail excerpt noting Chinese merchants cashing drafts on London and New York, and a tailor’s unpaid bill in Shanghai as Britain’s war effort looms.
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Vo Mo ‘TWAIN
LONDON
London Daily Mail
New York
Britain
England
Shang_ hal
U S Destroyer Sinks Japanese Warships Off Savo Island
Cmdr Orville F Gregor led the destroyer Aaron Ward in a night action off Savo Island. The vessel engaged multiple Japanese ships at close range, reportedly sinking a light cruiser and damaging a battleship and two destroyers. Aaron Ward sustained shell hits yet continued firing, with Navy Cross awarded to Gregor.
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U.S
SOUTH PACIFIC
tookeh
United States
Aaron Ward
Savo Island
Cmdr
Orville F. Gregor
Gregor
Conductor Kills Self After Wreck
Smiths Falls Ontario chief says John C. Howard, conductor on the troop train involved in the December 27 Almonte wreck that killed 36, killed himself last night. The body was found in the Rideau River at Smiths Falls. An autopsy is to be conducted as an inquest planned for Almonte tomorrow.
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SMITHS FALLS
Ont
Frank Lees
John C. Howard
Almonte
Lees
Howard
Rideau River
W. W. Pollock
Carleton Place
Lanark County
Canadian Pacific Railway
publi
Lawrence Lowell Dies, Harvard President Emeritus
Lawrence Lowell, 86, president emeritus of Harvard University, died today at his Boston home after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge on Saturday at 11 am. During his term from 1909 to 1933 enrollment nearly doubled and the endowment rose to over 123 million dollars. His reforms included the tutorial plan, general examinations, and a new dormitory housing system where Harvard College students were placed in houses.
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BOSTON
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Harvard Memorial church
Cambridge
Lowell
Harvard College
E N Barker Dies Pioneer Police Magistrate in England
Word reached from Calgary that E N Barker a Cardston district pioneer of the eighties and longtime police magistrate at Lethbridge died November 27 1342 at Oakhart Netley Abbey England. He was 83 years old.
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Calgary
E. N. Barker
Cardston
yeasts
Lethbridge
Sir R. C. Barker
Oakharat
Netley Abbey
England
Bus Fire Kills Eleven En Route to Dance in JoJuTla
Eleven people died and 26 were seriously injured when a match ignited the gasoline tank of a bus carrying passengers to a dance in JoJutla Mexico on Monday night. Local authorities investigated the blaze as emergency crews battled the flames and rush of victims.
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JOJUTLA
Mexico
Bombing Raids Hit Burma River and Rail Lines
British communique reports concentrated air attacks on river and coastal ships moving Japanese troops in Burma from the north coast to Pagoda Point and Mandalay. Over 60 small vessels were damaged or sunk, rail yards at Mandalay were hit, and American bombers targeted Mandalay rail yards, with smoke visible from 70 miles. No British planes were lost.
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NEW DELHI
RAF
Burma
Pagoda Point
Mandalay
Rathedaung
United States
United States hits Munda air field in Solomons
A U S task force bombarded the Japanese air field at Munda on New Georgia island in the Solomons. The action, 180 miles southwest of Guadalcanal, repelled Japanese bombers as four Wildcats shot down four enemies and probably destroyed two more.
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WASHINGTON
navy department
United States
Munda
New Georgia island
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Grumman
Two Axis Ships Sink in Mediterranean Actions
The British admiralty reports a large enemy troop transport and a supply ship destroyed in the Mediterranean by submarines. Additional hits sank or damaged several ships near Sicily and Palinaro Italy while Kyme harbor installations were shelled. a crash near Crieff Ontario involved an RCAF aircraft with unknown crew.
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LONDON
C.P
admiralty
Mediterranean
Sicily
Africa
communicque
Palinaro
Italy
Naples
Kyme
Aegean Sea
Greece
LeBrun Reported Arrival Refuted in Africa Claim
A Brazzaville radio report claimed Albert Lebrun, former president of the French Republic, arrived in North Africa. London sources, deemed unofficial but reliable, stated the report was not true. The Brazzaville broadcast was recorded by the US Federal Communications Commission.
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ALBERT LEBRUN
LONDON
French Republic
Brazzaville
North Africa
federal Comminstications commission
United States
Congress Opens 78th Session Amid War Time Resolve
Washington January 6 7 The 78th Congress opened at noon with war accountability shaping policy on the home front as lawmakers from both parties convened amid high ceremony. Vice President Wallace and Chief Clerk South Trimble presided while diplomats and senior officials observed. Bills and resolutions began to be introduced in both houses as the new session commenced.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Henry A. Wallace
senate
South Trimble
House
diplomatic corps
Houses
Alexander Wiley
Rep
Wis
Chile to Break Relations With Axis Friday
Chilean cabinet was summoned by President Rios to hear Interior Minister Raul Morales report on attitudes of the United States, Brazil, and neutral Argentina toward Chile's apparent imminent diplomatic break with the Axis. Morales returned from travels to Washington, Rio de Janeiro, and Argentina. A high foreign office source said Argentina has been informed that Chile will break relations with the Axis Friday.
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SANTIAGO
Chile
Rios
Raul Morales
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Axis
Morales
Buenos Aires
Washington
Rio De Janeiro
Canadians Land in North Africa Eager for Action in Tunisia
Canadian troops, officers and enlisted men, stationed in Tunisian villas by the Mediterranean, prepare to join the North African front. Attached to the British 1st Army, they will learn from veterans and later undertake briefings in Britain before returning to combat duties. The contingent covers armor, infantry, artillery, supply and medical units as part of five overseas divisions with prior service in France, the Arctic, and Gibraltar.
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ROSS MUNRO
ALLIED
North Africa
Cable
Mediterranean
Britain
Canada
France
Spitsbergen
Gloraltar
Allied bombers devastate Rabaul shipping and attack New Guinea targets
Allied air forces struck Rabaul harbor smashing eight ships on fire or sinking and destroying a ninth with a direct half-ton bomb. A tenth vessel likely destroyed as 50,000 tons of shipping were hit. Bombings also hit Lae Salamaua Madang and Timor with airfields pounded and Sanananda Point ground forces enveloped.
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MELBOURNE
C.P
Rabaul harbor
Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Lae
Salamaua
Madang
New Guinea Gasmata
New Britam
ana
Timor
Australia
Lat
Sanananda Point
Buna
Guadalcanal island
Cape York peninsula
Seven Die In Inferno in Upper Humber District
St John s New Newfoundland January report says seven members of the Chesley Cross family died in a fire at Upper Humber while three others were rescued by neighbor Abraham Feltham who saved two children and pulled a 16 year old girl from a burned corner. Fire cause unknown.
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ST. JOHN'S
Mid
Cable
Upper Humber
Abraham Feltham
Deer Lake hospital
Feltham
Chesley Cross
Cross
Croes familly
Giraud Arrives in Dakar for West Africa Talks
Gen Henri Giraud, high commissioner for French West Africa, arrives in Dakar with staff to confer with the US mission led by Vice Admiral Glassford and with Governor General Pierce Boisson. He will inspect troops and installations and attend a formal troop review, with a multi day stay anticipated.
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JOSEPH MORTON
Associated Press
DAKAR
iDelayed
Henri Honore Girond
Krongh
West Africa
United States
William A. Glassford
Pierce Boisson
French West Africa
Giraud
Nothing to Say Declares Rome Nothing to Say Declares Rome
Rome reports on Italian broadcasts saying there is nothing new to report on the Libyan front while noting reconnaissance activity on the Tunisian front. The Italian high command provided the update on January 6, 1947.
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Rome
Italian high command
Entire Province Falls To Soviets
North Ossetia and key Caucasus towns fall to Soviet forces as Red Star reports Soviet troops recapture Nalchik Mozdok Prokhladnenski Kotlyarevskaya and other towns along the Terek river front. Tsimlyansk and Rostov approaches cited. Germans retreat under pressure with rail junctions disrupted.
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OsOoW
Caucasus
Red Star
Mozdok
Nalchik
Prokhladnenski
Kotlyarevskaya
Maiskoye
Tsimlyansk
Rostov
Kanensk
Donmouth
Reuters
London
Hitler
middle
Don
Terek
Prokhadnenski
Prokhiadhnenski
Baku
Ordzhonikidze
Telmiransk
Red banner
Naletuk
Tiflis
Prokhiandmneskt
Red
Lift Order Holds Beef In East
Ottawa reports the prices board lists orders serving beef for the armed forces at abattoirs in Toronto and Montreal districts. The action affects East region supply as military needs are prioritized.
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East
OTTAWA
prices board
Toronto
Montres
King Victor Emmanuel Tours Sicily Amid Air Raid Alarm
Rome radio reports King Victor Emmanuel completed a morale boosting tour of Sicily. He endured an air raid alarm in Palermo while being paraded before Italy's bombed districts. Earlier he visited Naples and Genoa to bolster public morale.
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NEW YORK
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Sicily
Palermo
Italy
Naples
Genoa
Chinese Beat Back Japanese Attacks In Chungking Evacuation
Chinese forces fought in western Anhwei defeating Japanese troops in street fighting over four days. Chinese communique said reinforcements entered Lihwang. Chinese withdrew from the city but fought from the outskirts. 10000 Allied prisoners held in Japan as war camps total 19000 in December reports Britain.
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CHUNGKING
si Lihuing
Anhwei
Lihwang
JAPAN
LONDON
C.P. Cabie
British war office
Hong Kong
AIX
PACIFIC
WASHINGTON
couonel
Moosevelt
White Mouse
Lord Halifax
SQUTHEEN
LIBYA
C.P
Libys
Lake Chadares
Sicques Leclerc
Jan
Britain
air
United States
James Gardiner
ALEUTIANS
Fan. G
A.P
United States navy
Atleutian
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garera
MILES
STALINGRAD
north Caucasus
Millerova
Kamenskaya
Likhaya
Koteinikovski
Blista
Mozdok-Tikhoretsk
CHARLES McMURTRY
Self
Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
GUEBLFH
RCAF
Crieff
Congress
Tunisia
GEN
Henry C. Cassidy
EMMANUEL
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