Turks Plan To March If Nazis Move
Sofia reports Bulgaria blocks a German Danube advance by massing troops to the south facing Turkey. Thrace shelters 40,000 Turkish soldiers ready to act if the Nazis cross the Danube. Ankara says Turkey will keep under arms the defense force for another year as the assembly extends military service.
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British forces reach El Adem and bomb Tobruk stronghold
AIRO Egypt Jan 7 A P British troops thrusting into Libya reach El Adem air port near Tobruk and seize 40 Italian planes damaged by prior raids. Tobruk 70 miles west of Bardia faces testing defences as Wavell aims to keep Italy on the defensive. Tobruk Martuba Derna bombed, one Italian plane shot down. Observers foresee possible surround of Tobruk and advance toward Bengazi. Graziani losses mount with 80 000 men gone in a month of fighting. The Med fleet imposes a blockade as RAF bombs Tobruk and strikes toward Tripoli.
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King Praises Roosevelt Speech In Ottawa Statement
Prime Minister Mackenzie King lauded President Roosevelt's Monday address to Congress as down right direct and decisive. He said the forces of freedom have no comparable strength and that aggressor nations now know where the United States stands and the lengths to thwart their ambitions.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
Estimates of U S petroleum reserves in 1940
Nature reports proved U S petroleum reserves at the start of 1940 totaling about 18 500 to 19 700 million barrels The estimates cover oil recoverable by current methods from proven pools and exclude yet unknown future discoveries or extensions Since 1935 the deepest wells have yielded oil with higher shares at depths beyond 10 000 feet In 1937 39 oil between 10 000 and 13 266 feet was found in 40 fields including eight in California five in Texas Gulf Coast and 27 in Louisiana Reader hints at Dover North Carolina as a forthcoming feature on the back page.
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United States
Nature
Binger
Oklahoma
California
Gulf Coast
Texas
Louisiana
Foreign correspondents urged to study Japanese at press briefing
Koh Ishii, director of the Japanese board of information, told foreign correspondents in Tokyo that there is strong demand among influential Japanese for government spokesmen to speak in Japanese. He spoke in fluent English and asked reporters to study Japanese starting today.
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Koh Ishii
Japanese board of information
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Five Airmen Die In Crash RCAF Bomber
Burned wreckage of a Royal Canadian Air Force twin motored training plane lay in a Manitoba field after a night crash near Rivers. Five airmen died instantly: P . M. D. McBrien 22 Ottawa LAC K J Gray Niagara Falls Ontario SGT E J Pink 22 Winnipeg SGT G J Lewis Toronto and Sgt J D Ross 19 Assiniboia Saskatchewan. A court of inquiry opens to probe the crash.
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J. D. Ross
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Germans Cautious On Roosevelt Speech Report
Berlin reports the German news agency DNB issued a 200 word summary of President Roosevelt’s address to Congress calling it a New Year communication. Officials remained silent pending study in higher quarters. DNB noted Roosevelt’s call to aid democracies with war materials without immediate payment and that it would not be an act of war.
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Landon Says Roosevelt Moves U.S. Toward War Ally Position
Alf M. Landon stated that Roosevelt's congressional message indicated the United States is moving closer to active participation in the war as an ally of Great Britain, according to a dispatch from Topeka Kansas.
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BBC Headquarters Hit In London Night Bombing
Broadcasting House, home of the British Broadcasting Corporation, was severely damaged in a night raid with several staff killed and many injured. The English and German news read during the attack continued despite the danger as Bruce Belfrage led the broadcast.
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Greek destroyers shell Valona in Albania raid
Athens reports a squadron of Greek destroyers penetrated the Gulf of Valona and shelled the Italian held town with 60 rounds, then returned to base. The Italians evacuated tens of thousands of sick and wounded from Valona, with casualties running into thousands overall.
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Albania
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Canadian names to be recorded in permanent war memorial
Ottawa reports that the national defence department plans to record names of Canadians who die in the present war in a permanent artistic document similar to the Book of Remembrance from the First Great War, ensuring a lasting tribute.
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OTTAWA
national defence department
Col J K Lawson Injured In Raid Visited Here
Col J K Lawson of Ottawa director of military training in Canada and former head of Military District No 13 at Calgary sustained minor injuries in an air raid in England. He was in Britain on an official visit touring Canadian units and visited Lethbridge last year with Hon J L Ralston the minister of national defence.
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J. K. Lawson
Ottawa
Canada
Military District No. 13
Calgary
England
Old Country
Lethbridge
J. L. Ralston
national defence
Invitations arrive late for Hongkow Japanese review
British and United States naval officers got invitations too late to attend the annual Japanese naval review in Hongkow. The ceremony had already ended. Italy and Vichy French naval attaches observed the display.
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SHANGHAI
United States
Hongkow
international settlement
Italy
Heaviest Day Attack On London City
London reports a daytime raid killing several and injuring eight as bombs struck a street, blowing a tram from its tracks. The city endured a three hour alert with no night alarm, while other raiders hit a Midlands industrial town in the heaviest daylight bombardment of the era.
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LONDON
C.P
Midlands
Believes Nazis Would Try Bomb US To Halt Aid
Dr Charles F Bove former chief surgeon of the American hospital in Paris predicted Germany could declare war within six weeks and might bomb New York to panic and block war supply shipments to Britain He urged full preparations including underground hospitals and basements strengthened as bomb shelters He planned to start courses with Gotham hospital to teach war surgery and civilian defence medical problems to physicians and civilian doctors.
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NEW YORK
Charles F. Bove
Paris
Germany
New York City
Britain
Bove
Gotham hospital
British monitor and two gunboats shell Bardia base
Aboard the monitor Terror and gunboats Ladybird and Aphis, British forces pounded Italian shore batteries and motor transports at Bardia near Libyan ports. The Terror delivered 140 tons of high explosives on Jan 3 as part of a large Mediterranean bombardment aiding the British advance.
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BARDIA
LARRY ALLEN
Associated Press
Terror
Ladybird
Aphis
RAF Bombers Hit Tripoli Wharves in Heavy Raid
Tripoli suffered widespread damage from Royal Air Force bombers in a raid that hit wharves and shipping late last night and into today. Two communiques announced the actions amid ongoing Allied air operations in the region.
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