Talk Grave Turn In War Talk Grave Turn In War
Hitler and Mussolini met in a north Italian city for military talks, Berlin radio reported. The meeting occurred yesterday, July 19, with a communique stating they discussed military questions. The pair last met April 7 to 10 at Hitler's HQ to confirm agreement on measures. Strong events follow the fall of Tunisia, Ruhr bombing, and Sicily invasion.
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NEW YORK
Hitler
Mussolini
Berlin
Associated Press
Fruehrer
Wo Dace
Italy
Tunisia
Ruhr
Sicily
toom
Mutinies Sweep Italian Troops Frontline Drive In Sicily
Allied communique notes mutinies among Italian troops led by German officers in western Sicily as American and Canadian forces push inland. British Eighth Army assaults Catania, while forces near Enna close in. reports of heavy Axis casualties and mass surrenders rise amid strategic inland advances.
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Catania
Enna
Louis V. Hunter
North Africa
C.P.j
Allied
Algiers
Messina
8th Army
Agrigento
Porto Empedocle
Eighth Army
Caltanissetta
Piazza Amerina
Morocco
radio France
Gerbini
PEN Pha
Catania plain
Sir Bernard Montgomery
G. G. Simonds
Kingston
Ont
George S. Patton
NASIS
ae ieee wSSeL
Bernard L. Montgomery
Catanne phkun
stromz
tha nar
Bombers Hit Paramushiro Near Japan From Aleutians
The Navy announced heavy American bombers based at Amchitka attacked Paramushiro in the Kurile chain on Monday, starting fires and scoring near hits on shipping. The force, described as a formation, likely dozen planes, operated from Amchitka in the western Aleutians, about 861 nautical miles away. The raid marks the first strike so close to Japan proper, aimed at pressuring northern defenses in coordination with campaigns against New Guinea. Canton Island also reported Japanese air action with no damage or casualties.
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WASHINGTON
A.P
navy department
North Pacific
Paramushiro
Amchitka
Aleutians
Japan
Kurile chain
Toxio
New Guinea
Navy
Frank Knox
South Pacific
Canton Island
RAF Hammers Japanese in Burma and Arakan Actions
British reports say RAF Beaufighters along the Chindwin river set fire to an oil storage tank opposite Alon while returning raiders observed smoke rising to about 5,000 feet. Hawker Hurricanes and Mohawks attacked Kalemyo Minbya Rathedaung Mayu peninsula targets and sank a 70-foot boat. One plane was lost.
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NEW DELHI
C.P
R.A.F
Arakan
Burma
Chindwin
Alon
Kalemyo
Irrawaddy river
Blenheims
Rathedaung
Minbya
Mayu peninsula
Mallards nest in crow nest high above ground
In mid May Ken Rutherford of Bniksdale Manitoba, with companions, found four female Mallards nesting in an old crow nest about 12 feet up a tree. Five eggs were in the nest, lined with down. The note cites previous cases in 22 years of this bird behavior and mentions similar nests in barns and hawk nests.
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EN RUTHERFORD
Bniksdale
Man
Chickadee
Winnipeg Free Press
Ken
Canaan
A. W. Hamilton
Solstirth
Basswood
Norman Warrington
Russell
Raid on Rome and Norway Bombardment Reported
Berlin radio claimed a Soviet amphibious force attacked Varangerfjord near northern Norway, with landing craft shelled by shore batteries and many vessels damaged. Allied forces described Rome aerial raid as highly successful, with over 500 American bombers and extensive destruction to rail yards, steel works, and aircraft facilities.
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LONDON
C.P
Berlin
Varanger fjord
Norway
Vardee
Barents Sea
Fisher peninsula
Soviet Union
Barents
Belman Morin
Associated Press
LLIED
North Africa
Rome
United States
Cairo
Littoria
San Lorenzo
imperial city
Rome airdrome
Tabonselli
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Force
James H. Doolittle
strategic air force
Fourth Italian General Nabbed
Allied headquarters report that Gen. Giulo Porcinari commander of the 54th Napoli division has been captured in Sicily becoming the fourth Italian general in Allied hands in North Africa and Sicily.
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NORTH AFRICA
Giulo Porcinari
Naples
Sicily
Italian POW deaths in lightning strike at camp
A lightning bolt struck a tent at a Macon Georgia camp on Monday killing three Italian prisoners of war and injuring ten others, authorities reported. The incident occurred during an event where the POWs were gathered.
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MACON
Parliamentary News Bulletins Ottawa July 20
Trade Minister MacKinnon told the house western grain farmers may deliver unfilled quotas next crop year due to space and car shortages. He noted 13,000 railway cars idle at Fort William west because of manpower, with efforts to relieve congestion. Talks between the Wheat Board and western pools sought car allocations, but no unanimous agreement reached.
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OTTAWA
C.P
MacKinnon
house of commons
Gorrion Ross
Lib
Moose Jaw
Fort William and
west
Mir MacKinnon
Trade Minster MacKinnon
Canadian Wheat Board
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
mainlite
Appelles
wheat board
house agricultre committee
George Melvor
T C Douglas
CCF
Weyburn
British Lords Read Bill on Canada Redistribution Delay
In London on July 20 the house of lords gave first reading to the British North America bill 1943. It provides postponement of redistribution of Canada's house of commons seats until after the war. Viscount Cranborne said the Canadian government asked Britain to pass the bill before July 24.
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LONDON
Cable
house of lords
Canada
house of commons
Viscount Cranborne
Giraud in Britain Arrives from Canada
London July 20 Gen Henri Giraud co chairman of the French committee of national liberation arrived in Great Britain today from Canada. He was received by British officials and was expected to confer with leaders on liberation plans and postwar policy.
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LONDON
Henri Giraud
French committee of national liberation
Great Britain
Canada
Voters List Fraud Aired in Ottawa Parliament
M J Coldwell CCF leader accused non existent persons and babies being added to the Montreal Cartier by election voters list for August 9. He demanded government action to end irregularities as Prime Minister Mackenzie King pledged steps to ensure a fair by election. Coldwell claimed hundreds of names were fictitious and some irregularities admitted, as debate raged for over an hour before adjournment. The by election follows the death of Liberal MP Peter Berkovich.
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OTTAWA
C. P
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
House of Commons
Montreal Cartier
Mackenzie King
Montreal
Coldwell
CC.F
King
Peter Bercovitch
Russians Tighten Noose Around Orel Front
Soviet siege guns blast the Orel fortress from three sides as Red Army tightens its semicircle. West of Orel a column penetrates 39 miles into German rear, seizing 130 villages and bringing total captured to 240 since counter-offensive began. German communique claims heavy losses as tanks and infantry repelled, defense stiff in Orel.
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LONDON
Jule
Orel
Moscow
Germany
Rustan
akeeps
Kurskallent
WILLIAM MICGAFFIN
Red army
Uniskove
Kuban
Kasimskiya
inique
Mius River
Danets
TON DNB
Malta makes thanks noted under bomb Rome graffiti
London papers report that Maltese residents yesterday wrote thanks under chalked messages saying bomb Rome on walls of heavily bombed Malta while authorities continue to assess the wartime signs and public sentiment.
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LONDON
Rome
Malta
Nazis Kill 20 Demonstrators at Vealtan Factory
Reuters reports from Stockholm quote a Swedish dispatch that German SS troops killed 20 Italian workers and that 40 demonstrators at a synthetic rubber factory demanded to be sent home. Mussolini hid in a special shelter during the Rome raid, per BBC CBS relay. A German foreign ministry spokesman warned of retaliation for Rome bombing, while Soviet communique says Mtsensk fell as Red Army drives toward Orel. Desjarlats and Dessarlus go to trial for two murders. Pearson in Washington named Allied food commission head. Rome bombing debated in House of Lords. Malta reports heavy Axis air attack with widespread shelling and anti aircraft barrage.
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LONDON
C.P
Reuters
Stockholm
MUSSOLINI
NEW YORK
BBC
Rome
CBS
Pope Pius XEI
U.S
A.P
Paul Schmidt
foreign office
Berlin
Washington
MIUSENSK
OREL
Mtsensk
Rusia
HALE -BRELOS
EDMONSON
Samuel Baptiste Desjariats
Lac Laudhe
tealtor
Carl Hemmingsen
George Pappas
Harold L. Howe
George Dessarlus
Samuel
femmingsen
L. B. PEARSON
ALLIED FOOD COMMISSION
C.P.i
d. B. Pearson
United Nations commission on food and agriculture
HOUSE OF LORDS
Viscount Fitzalan
Britain
Viscount Cranborne
lords
MALTA
VALETTA
Bemba
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