Germans told they lack men on eastern front in BBC relay
The BBC quoted Gen. Dietmar saying Germany lacks enough men to face Russia on the eastern front. He noted Russian offensives and use of women in war work allow massing forces, while Germans face stricter domestic hardship. The EBU added retreating German troops in the Caucasus are hungry and panic struck.
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NEW YORK
BBC today
Dietmar
BBC
Dietmars
Berlin
CBS
Hiller
New Europe
Germany
EBU
Caucasus
Reuters
Moscow
Harold Kine
Caucasian
Stiff Japanese Struggle in Western Burma
New Delhi reported Japanese forces are resisting British advances to drive along the Mayu peninsulas in western Burma. There was no significant change near Baluedung, seven miles north of Akyab. Air attacks targeted Japanese supply lines and other objectives, and a raid on Pintha railway station destroyed two engines and damaged rolling stock.
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NEW DELHI
Mayu
Burma
Balueduung
Akyab
Pintha
Tanker safety and Roos vow to sail again at sea
Edward Roos, an able seaman and veteran tanker man, twice escaped torpedoes and says he will return to sea even if torpedoed again. He notes that tankers are safer than other cargo ships due to hull tank divisions that limit fires from gasoline spills.
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EDWARD ROOS
unti
Roos
Frederick C. Painton
St. Thomas Tim
s-Journal
Britain
Charles Coborn
U.S. Hornet Sunk in Solomons Battle Confirmed
The U.S. navy announced the aircraft carrier Hornet was sunk in the October 26 Santa Cruz Islands action. Three cruisers and seven destroyers were named as lost or missing, including the Northampton and Juneau. The battle left three carriers afloat, Enterprise Saratoga and Ranger, with substantial Japanese losses reported.
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WASHINGTON
United States navy
Santa Cruz Islands
Solomon Islands
south Pacific
Northampton
Willard A. Kitts
Juneau
Lyman Knute Swenson
Atlanta
Samuel Power Jenkins
Monssen
Charles Edward McCombs
Lexington
Naples Raid by U S Liberators Hits Naples Harbor
Cairo dispatch reports United States Fourth Air Force Liberators bombed Naples by daylight, targeting harbor installations and shipping in the 38th war raid on the Italian port. Italian communique tallies civilian casualties at 23 dead and 75 injured with limited detail on damage.
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CAIRO
United States army
Sth
Naples
Middle East
Sousse
Gabes
Stax
Wings tabloid to debut for RCAF personnel insiders
Ottawa dispatch reports RCAF headquarters announcing Wings, a new service paper for air force personnel, will publish its first edition on February 1. The tabloid will carry no advertising and be priced at five cents a copy. Sales limited to air force members. The small staff comprises former news writers ineligible for air crew.
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OTTAWA
R C.A.F
Wings
air force
Chinese Raid Attacks Japanese Airdrome in Hupeh
Chinese planes attacked a Japanese airdrome west of the Hsiang river in Hupeh province at noon Sunday. The Central News said many enemy troops were killed and fires were visible for a long distance. One Chinese plane was reported lost.
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CHUNGEING
Hsiang river
Hupeh
Chinese Central News
Theological students aid Red Cross blood drive
Kingston Ontario reports Dr E M Boyd says Queen's University theological students led last year's Red Cross blood campaign. Thirty three percent of available theological students donated blood, marking the strongest participation among denominations.
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RED CROSS
KINGSTON
Ont
E. M. Boyd
Queen's University
Tunisian Mountains Like The Rockies On The Front
War correspondent describes rugged terrain near Tunis and Bizerte with snow capped crests and narrow roads. He notes ragged Arab peasants, vineyards and orchards along routes used by Allied forces, and a cold climate contrasting with tropical war images.
Four Swedish Ships Load Food Bound For Greece
Saint John New Brunswick January twelve. Four white Swedish ships with large Red Cross marks loaded supplies for Greece under safe conduct rights from belligerents. The vessels will carry Canadian grain and Red Cross aid from Canada and the United States, though one Swedish Red Cross ship wrecked near shore en route from Piraeus to Salonika, with possible total loss of its cargo.
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SAINT JOHN
N.B
Red Cross
Greece
Piraeus
Salonika
Swedish News Exchange
Chad Army Captures Murzuk and Sebha in Fezzan
London reports Fighting French headquarters announce Brig Gen Jacques Leclerc’s Chad army has captured Murzuk, capital of Fezzan, and Sebha 100 miles north. Italian communique says Italian troops retreated in Pezzan area. Conquest of Fezzan claimed complete as most garrisons taken prisoner. Further north, advance elements engage motorized forces, enemy withdraws leaving armored cars and booty.
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LONDON
C.P
Jacques Leclerc
Chad
Murzuk
Festan
Libya
Sebha
Pezzan
Tripoli
Fort Lamy
Lake Chad
Fezzan
Ingold
Beausejour Bank Holdup Lands Two Teens in Custody
Royal Canadian Mounted Police say Edward Rattai and a 21 year old youth from Lydiatt Man are charged with a 7000 dollar Beausejour bank robbery. They entered at gunpoint and forced the manager and three employees into the vault before fleeing in a horse drawn sleigh. A chase through deep snow ended with capture fifteen minutes later. no one injured. The two suspects were remanded for one week.
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WINNIPEG
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Edward Rattai
Lydiatt
Man
Royal Bank of Canada
Beausejour
William Craik
Needham Named Associated Director of National Selective Service
Ottawa reports the appointment of Charles F. Needham of Toronto, a Canadian National Railways executive, as associated director of national selective service civilian. He will coordinate civilian side of selective service efforts.
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OTTAWA
Charles F. Needham
Toronto
Canadian National Railways
national selective service
Mitchell
Needham
A. E. Pequeenat
selective service
the
Mutual Life Assurance of Canada
Waterloo
Ont
Pequegnat
Victoria Cross awarded to Captain Sherbrooke
Wins The V C London Jan 12 Captain Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke commander of the British destroyer force received the Empire's highest award for valor for protecting an important convoy to Prussia. The citation states he was wounded in the face and temporarily lost the use of one eye during the engagement with a superior German naval detachment.
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LONDON
C.P
Victoria Croxig
Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke
Prussia
Sherbrooke
Air Gunners Elevated by Ottawa Commission
Ottawa dispatch reports that the air gunner roster was updated with newly commissioned personnel. Sgt. William Inverarily of Alberta and Tudor receives commission status as of Monday, according to R.C.AP. headquarters.
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OTTAWA
R.C.AP
Alberta
William Inverarily
Tudor
Six Key Towns Taken By Reds
Red army cavarly drove 15 miles into German positions after capturing six key Caucasus towns. Russian forces, led by Cossacks, peered across Georgievsk Mineralnye Vodi and Rostov fronts, with flag planted on Mashuk and Beshrau mountains as they widen the Caucasus front.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
Red army
Kuban river
Caucasus
mountains
Don
Red Star
Kuban
Osetia
Kabardino Bakaria
ROSTOV
Georgievsk
Mineralnye Vodl
Yuligorsk
Budennovsk
Karamik
Elsiovodsk
Zimovikint
Euberle
Naz
Mashuk
Beshrau
Pyatigorsk
tne otter
Mineralnye Vodi
hinally
Georgievak
steppes
Aleksandrovsk
U S Corn Prices Frozen During Wartime Controls
Washington action freezes corn prices across exchanges and local markets for 60 days to halt price surges. Stabilization director James F Byrnes authorized the ceiling, with Agriculture Secretary Claude Witkard approving. Futures and cash prices hit the highest levels seen since Jan 4 to 12, and local markets reflect yesterday's peak.
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WASHINGTON
office of price administration
United States
James F. Byrnes
Agriculture
Claude Witkard
Dutch forces suffer heavy losses in guerrilla war
Melbourne dispatch reports the Royal Netherlands East Indies army lost 159 officers and men, including Dutch and Indonesian troops, in operations on islands north of Australia during the second half of 1942. Most losses occurred in guerrilla fighting, with one engagement leaving 200 Japanese dead and Dutch losses of six.
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MELBOURNE
Royal Netherlands East Indies army
Australia
Netherlands
9000 Steelmen Strike At Sydney
About 3000 Dominion Steel and Coal plant workers in Sydney Nova Scotia walked out during the day shift protesting the Barlow Steel Commission report urging no wage changes in the Canadian steel industry. Maintenance crews remained. the company sought an immediate union conference. The union president had not yet issued a statement.
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SYDNEY
Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
Barlow Steel Commission
United Steel Workers of America
C M. Anson
Reserve personnel barred from crossing border in uniform
SARNA Ont June 12 0 Personnel of the reserve army will not be granted permission to visit the United States in uniform except on special authority. This does not affect active army rules allowing uniform crossings. It is announced in military orders here.
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SARNA
Ont
unis
United States
Gutterman Dies in Pittsburgh at 71
Pittsburgh observer reports the death of Arthur Gutterman 71 internationally known lecturer poet and playwright. A humorist noted for The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup his death occurred last night in Pittsburgh.
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PITTSBURGH
Arthur Gutterman
U S Fliers Raid Tripoli and Tunisia Front Update
Allied dispatch reports US bombers hit Tripolitania battering the Ghadames fort while French forces drive Germans from a mountain pass 23 miles south of Pont Du Fahs. Axis troops encircled near Jebel Boudabous as fighting continues. French gains include Rarachouan south of Pont Du Fahs.
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WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
ALLIED
North Africa
P—Flying fortresses
Tripolitania
Marshal HRommel
Ghadames
Tunisia
Pout Da Fabs
Tunis
Algeria
Jebel Boudabous
Batrouan
Sousse
Pont Du Fahs
Medjez-El-Bab
Rarachouan
Ruhr Feels Sixth Raid On Huhr Area Nightly Action
The air ministry said the R A F struck the Huhr again last night in the sixth raid on nine nights. It did not state targets hit but noted one bomber from the command was missing after the raid.
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LONDON
air ministry
R.A.F
Huhr
bomber command
U S Protest Over Nazi Transfer of American Detainees
Washington reports the state department protested Nazi plans to move Americans from Lourdes France to Germany. The detainees include diplomatic and consular officers, press correspondents, Red Cross representatives and relief workers. Negotiations via Switzerland seek exchange of staff.
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WASHINGTON
state department
Germany
Lourdes
France
Red Cross
United States
sta
Cat Triggers Brief Blackout in Shreveport Test
During Shreveport Louisiana's first blackout test a cat and dog fight interrupted the test. The cat chased by the dog leaped to a filling station roof then dropped onto an electric light cord and lit up the premises.
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SHREVEPORT
Reinforcements for British near Tripoli in World War II
British advanced units east of Tripoli near the Wadi Zem Zem are reinforced with tank forces. Separately, ten U.S. airmen die in a B-24 crash at Alamogordo Army Air Base during a routine night flight. Reports also reach Istanbul of unrest in Bulgaria amid German pressure on Sofia, while Japanese losses in the Solomons rise as four Zeros are shot down and one American plane is lost. Three Montreal children perish in a Point St Charlie fire. Canada appoints M. I. Stewart as trade envoy to Panama City, replacing H. W. Brighton for health reasons.
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MONTGOMERY
TRIPOLI
LONDON
C.P
Wadi Zem Zem
Tripolitania
Morocco
Ecouter
U.S
ALAMOGORDO
N.M
Alamogordo army air base
pianr
BULGARIA
ISTANBUL
Dalayed
Sofia
JAY
SOLOMONS
WASHINGTON
Jat
Solomon islands
navy department
MONTREAL
Point St Charlie
STEWART
PANAMA
OTTAWA
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John Barrett Taylor
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Charles P. Mason
US.S. HORNET
R.C.A.F
ROSS MUNRO
C.P. Cable
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Bow river valley
Bantt
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Rockies
storward
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Leclerc
C. F. Needham
N.S.S. Post
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Reds
Gutterman
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