Nine Japs Downed In New Guinea Fight Nazi Drive Checked West Of Stalingrad
Soviet forces report fresh reinforcements rushed to the Don bend battle after an upsurge west of Stalingrad. The Don front area remains grave south of Rostov with German forces advancing toward Kushchevka and the Azov Sea while a night cavalry strike in the Don bend, led by Col. Mingaly Shaimuratov, inflicted damage on the enemy.
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New Guinea
Stalingrad
OSCOW
Jnly Si
Red army
Don
Caucasus
Rostov
Lower
Kushchevka
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Tsimlyansk
Bataisk
Sea of Azov
US Fliers Hit Japs In Hengyang Raids
The US force reported two raids on Hengyang airfield with heavy Japanese losses. Four bombers and three Zero fighters were shot down, and several Japanese aircraft were believed destroyed. An American plane was lost but the pilot was saved.
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Hengyang
United States
force
Hunan
United States air force
American volunteer group
Raid over Nazi-Occupied Europe and English towns report
British fighters patrolled the Channel toward Boulogne in daylight raids while German night sorties struck Britain. London endured two alarms as anti-aircraft fire and shelling frightened shoppers. A Midlands town faced its first raid with damage to a church and street gunfire. eight raiders were shot down and one destroyed over its base in France.
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Arctic Barents Sea
Europe
Channel Area
ONDON
Suly
C.P
Channel
Boulogne
Britain
London
Paes nema mann
VALER FAULUKA Canadian fiers
Aghter
Helland
Midlands
Berlin
Birmingham
France
Germany
Left Hand Corner and Quaker Debate on Canals
The article recounts a Quaker meeting where Elias Hicks opposed building the W Erle Canal as speculative. A member retorts with the biblical Jacob digging a well. The piece then shifts to Brazil’s coffee overproduction between 1930 and 1940 and related disposal costs.
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Elias Hicks
Jacob
Finance minister denounces Saskatchewan election bribery claim
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Asley calling Hanson's charge that the government sought to bribe Saskatchewan electors with a 323 million wheat acreage reduction payment "misleading and mistaken." Hanson claims timing and politics influence the tax bill amid wartime austerity and election pressures.
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OTTAWA
Asley
house of commons
Hanson
Saskatchewan
Canada
Tiley
Nazis Denied Civil Courts in Habeas Corpus Case
Seven of eight accused saboteurs lost attempts to avoid Roosevelt military commission by habeas corpus. Supreme Court denied writ, ruling charges valid, commission lawfully formed, and detainees held for trial. Separate dispatch notes Gandhi to meet Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek on India issues.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
Harlan Stone
habeas corps
LONDON
Reuters
Branbay
R. Parker
Indian council of state
Mohandas K Gandhi
All-India party
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Allied Air and Naval Action Over Pacific Port Darwin
Allied airmen destroyed nine of 49 Japanese raiders over Port Darwin and damaged a transport off New Guinea. A destroyer escort was shot up, one enemy fighter and possibly another were downed, with one Allied plane lost. Other raids targeted Port Hedland and Horn Island as heavy bombers hit a Japanese transport off Gona Mission, Papua, leaving the vessel ablaze and visible.
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ALLIED
AUSTRALIA
CPjI
Coral Sea
Port Darwin
New Guinea
Alllea
Port Hedland
Broome
Western Australia
Horn Island
Torres Strait
Gona Mission
Papua
Use Wheat For Rubber
Ottawa reports the government plans a magnes ium plant fully owned by the public with quarries and a 3.5 million processing facility. Trade Minister MacKinnon cites experiments with tollweed as a potential source of synthetic rubber amid questions in the House of Commons.
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OTTAWA
national research courscil
Howe
house of commons
MacKinnon
Alexandria Raid Leaves Four Dead in Night Bombing
Axis bombers attacked Alexandria killing four people and wounding 13 with light damage to property according to the Egyptian interior ministry. Alarms sounded in Cure area and other parts of Egypt. Royal Air Force patrols harassed Axis forces along the El Alamein front with no large-scale operations reported.
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GATRO
Egypt
Alexandria
interior ministry
CAIRO
El Alamein front
Claude AuchinJeck
New Arrivals From Canada Stir Second Front Speculation in Britain
Debarkation of a new Canadian contingent and the arrival of Brig Gen Frank OD Hunter, commander of American air units, sparked renewed talk of a possible Allied invasion of Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps’ guarded House statement on intentions added fuel to the debate as observers noted Soviet Ambassador Maisky’s remarks and press commentary. A large Canadian convoy reached a British port, signaling intensified Allied preparations.
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LONDON
Frank OD. Hunter
Britain
Stafford Cripps
house of commons
secon
howser
Daily Telegraph
Statford
Ivan Maisky
Russa
Matsky
Reuters meas agency
Hunter
Bri
Hubert C Canves
Ann N Duncan
trehhing
British Trim Germans In Sea Battle
British night patrols in the North Sea and English Channel engaged German boats planes and shore guns in three skirmishes. A German trawler group near Ijmuiden was attacked set ablaze and hit repeatedly driving one British boat to port with casualties. A second action damaged more ships then daybreak. A third clash off France involved torpedo boats and motor torpedo boats with undetermined damage and no British losses.
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LONDON
North Sea
English channel
Ipmuiden
Netherlands
admiralty
Engish channel
France
Mass Mine Walkout Idle 1550 Miners Across Crow's Nest Pass
Approximately 1550 mine workers in the Crow's Nest Pass are idle today over alleged violations of wage agreements with United Mine Workers District 18. International and McGillivray Creek mines at Cole Man and Greenhill mine of West Canadian Collieries are idle. Seilevue and Hillcrest Mohawk lines continue operating. A mass meeting was called for this afternoon to discuss the dispute with operators.
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BLAIRMORE
Crow's Nest Pass
Pass
United Mine Workers of America
District 18
Internacional
McGillivray Creek
Cole Man
Greenhill
Seilevue
Hillcrest-Mohawk
Maple Leaf
Bombers Hit Abbeville Airdrome Nazi Fighters Downed
London reports Boston bombers escorted by Spitfires bombed the German airdrome at Abbeville France Friday afternoon and shot down several fighters. Eight British fliers missing. bombers returned safely.
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ABBEVILLE FIELD
LONDON
C.P
Boston
Abbeville
France
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
W. A. Fallon
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