Damaging Blows Struck as Jap Fleet Withdraws
Reports from Pacific fronts say a Japanese invasion fleet drew heavy damage near Midway as United States forces pursued retreating invaders. Admiral Nimitz described multiple ships damaged across carrier, battleship, cruiser and transport classes with no confirmed sinkings. The enemy appears to be withdrawing as the battle continues.
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United States
Midway
Pacific fleet
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Nimitz
Hawaii
Air war intensifies with massive raids on Ruhr and coast
British and American air forces pressed the greatest week of bombardment with a day sweep of over 1 000 planes against the Ruhr and Cologne regions while a heavy night attack struck the German coast. Thirteen planes were lost as defenders used strong anti aircraft fire and searchlights.
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LONDON
C.P
RAF
2.C.AF
Cologne
Essen
Ruhr
fiers
Krupp
Pine Creek Bridge Washes Out Near Waterton
From our own correspondent Pine Creek bridge just outside Waterton Park on the Pincher Creek road has been washed out by high water. Pass Creek Cameron Creek and other streams in the park are up due to heavy rains. The mail will not get through today because of the bridge washout.
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WATERTON NATIONAL PARK
Pine Creek
Pincher Creek
Pass Creek
Cameron Creek
Indians enlist in Canadian forces amid wartime drive
The article notes preliminary figures showing about 1200 Indigenous Canadians enlisted in the armed forces, with unreported enlistments likely. It also mentions Indigenous Canadians joining the American Air Force and references past enlistments in World War I totaling over 4009 men, about 35 percent of the Indigenous male population of military age in nine provinces.
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CANADA
Department of Mines and Resources
department
Provinces Cut Debts Shown In Bank of Canada Summary
The Bank of Canada April May statistical summary reports higher current revenue and expenditures for provinces and a decrease in outstanding debt. Estimated total provincial debt for 1941 is $2,130,400,000, down from $2,179,800,000 in 1940. Alberta's debt is listed at $158,300,000.
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OTTAWA
Bank of Canada
Alberta
Flood Water Again Grave At Blairmore
Blairmore reports extensive flooding as Crow's Nest Pass river breaches banks near No 3 highway. York and Lyons creeks run high, about 15 homes flooded, residents seek higher ground while rain continues and terrain remains waterlogged.
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BLAIRMORE
Crow's Nest Pass
York creek
Lyons creek
Frank
Crow's Nest Paas
Turtle Mountain
Yorks
Lyons
Canada War Bill Approved in Commons for $2 Billion
Ottawa reports the house of commons adjourned after approving a war appropriation bill for up to 2 billion dollars plus 3 billion in total payments for the 1943 fiscal year. Finance Minister Assey introduced the measure with 500 million already voted for immediate needs. The bill mirrors last year’s structure and allows temporary payments to government owned corporations aiding Allied orders.
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OTTAWA
house of commons
Assey
Canada
Brivisa
sar
British Now Superior in Armor in Libya Drive West of Knightsbridge
British tanks and infantry attacked Axis positions west of Knightsbridge and sustained a drive by armored forces. The initial phase was successful and fighting continued, with British air attacks on Martuba and Derna and raids on Syracuse. South African troops reportedly attacked Axis strong points and captured prisoners while Bir Macheim remained quiet.
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CAIRO
Knightsbridge
Tobruk
Erwin Rommel
Martuba
Derna
Syracuse
Sicily
Bir Macheim
Canadians In Raid On Ruhr
A Canadian squadron returning to Germany's Ruhr valley rode the vanguard of a strong RAF bomber force. The group of about 59 members, led by Wing Commander John Fulton of Kamloops, BC, dropped flares and used incendiaries and high explosives to aid attacks. PO J B Higham of Assiniboia, Sask, reported heavy flak and searchlights forcing a 15,009 foot dive to avoid the danger zone.
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ALAN RANDAL
LONDON
Germany
Rhur
Wing Omér
John Fulton
Kamloops
J. B. Higham
Assinibooia
Sask
Heavy Bombers to Be Used More States Says Balfour
Winnipeg June 6 Harold Balfour parliamentary undersecretary said heavy bomber planes will play an increasing role in the war. He noted one heavy bomber can replace five smaller aircraft, saving planes and men. Capt Balfour arrived from Ottawa and said the air force is a second front in the extended war program. He planned visits to training establishments in Manitoba then to Lethbridge and Vancouver.
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WINNIPEG
Harold Balfour
Brrth
Balfour
Ottawa
Manitoba
Lethbridge
Alia
Vancouver
Battle Opens West Moscow as Soviet forces hold frontline
Soviet information bureau reports heavy combat west of Moscow with central front units taking hundreds of casualties and eight German tanks sunk. Soviet airmen claim two enemy planes destroyed while munitions dumps, railway targets, and a Kalinin front garrison are reported neutralized.
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MOSCOW
Germany
central front
Soviet information bureau
Red army
Kalinin front
communiqque
BERLIN
Oldest Crude Producer Gets Shot In Arm
In Turner Valley Alberta the Model 1 well has been deepened 365 feet to 620 feet and its daily output rose from 87 to about 200 barrels. The Alberta Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board notes Model 1 has produced 560000 barrels of crude up to 1941 and it has spouted since 1930 after reclassification from a naphtha well.
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CALGARY
Turner Valley
Alberta Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
China’s Chief Sees End of Worst Period in War
Chiang Kai-Shek told a national food conference the crisis is past and China will strike back wherever Japan attacks. He warned Japan has little chance to beat China in the future and urged renewed effort to retake territories and aid small nations. Japanese dispatches claim Chinese garrisons are pressed at Chuhsien and rail towns near Nanchang.
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CHUNGEKING
China
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
national food administration
TOKYO
Domel
Chuhsien
Nanchang
Will Goering Follow Hess in a Hitler Crisis
Louis P. Lochner surveys the inner circle around Adolf Hitler. He notes Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Ernst Rohm as key figures before 1934. The piece contrasts Hess fleeing to Britain in 1941 with Rohm’s purge and Rohm’s downfall, while outlining Goering’s stature in the Nazi regime.
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LOUIS P. LOCHNER
Associated Press
NEW YORK
Hermann Goering
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Ernst Rochain
Germany
Rothm
fuhrer
Goering
ROEHM
Hess
Britain
Rechm
Rochm
Russians Sink Nine German Transports in Baltic Raids
Reports from Moscow say nine German transports and another vessel were sunk over three days by Russian Baltic fleet air forces. One ship reportedly went down in a raid on a German naval base.
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NENE NAZE
MOSCOW
Stormayik bembers
Baltic fleet air arm
Moscow radio
SAN JOSE
Costa Rica
APJ
La Tribuna
United Fruit
Alenas
Gulf of Mexico
Puerto Liman
JAPAN
CHUBSIEN YOKYO
China
Chauhsien
Chekiang
Domei
LETHBRIDGE FLIER
Lethbridge
William Peebles
B.C
J. Peebles
Young Peebles
REGINA
E. L. Gray
STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK
Jane &—AP
New York stock exchange
Teo
RUBE BERLIN
high command
Germany
Flanders
VICHY
Geneva
Switzerland
Otto Abele
Vochy
WASHINGTON
VANCOUVER
C.P
Vancourtr
BERLIN
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Mid-Pacific
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William Rhodes-Moorhowse
R.A P
LEST HAND
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LIBYA
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Afrika Korps
Cruewell
Itelans
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Gulf of Finland
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