Allies Smash Nazi Drives In Tunisia Campaign
Allied troops repelled all Von Arnim attacks in northern Tunisia, destroying 24 German tanks in three days and killing at least 600 Axis troops. Central Tunisia saw Sbeitla captured and forces push three miles east. Allied air forces downed 25 Axis planes in the campaign, while Axis counterattacks near Beja faded after losing six tanks. Further south Bri t ons and American units killed about 300 Axis troops and routed machine gun posts as advances continued toward Rommel’s trail with Sheitla Kasserine and Feriona occupied.
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WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
North Africa
Jurgen Von Arnim
Tunisia
Sbeitla
Beja
Tunis
Mediterranean
El Avausga
Medjez-El-Bab-Goubel- Tatares
Rommel
Sheitla
Kasserine
Feriona
Ferlana
RAF
U.S
Posed as French Officer, Seaman Gets to Jail
Vancouver report says M. J. G. Florent Morin, 25, pled guilty to posing as a lieutenant commander in the Fighting French navy for six weeks. He received one year in jail with hard labor from Police Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson. Officers arrested him in a chief steward's uniform decorated with gold braid for unlawfully wearing a uniform closely resembling an Allied service.
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VANCOUVER
M. J. G. Florent-Morin
Mackenzie Matheson
R.G.M.P
Left Hand Corner War Time Notes and Car Ad Snippet
A jumble of wartime notes and ads mentions U S Army marriages in Canada, a nurse and her dog, tire fines, apartment hunting payments, maternity hospital shortages, and war film commentary. The Fergus News Record excerpt notes officials failing to drive in winter and a brief cross section of Canadian cinema.
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U.S. Army
Canada
Red Cross
Manny Farber
New York
New Republic
United States
national film board of Canada
Stuart Legg
Fergus News Record
Wellington
Lynch To Jail for Conspiracy in War Sub Contracts
Patrick Lynch, president of Engine Works and Trading Incorporated, is jailed for three years and fined 50000 for conspiring to defraud the federal government and three companies of 200000 in war sub contracts. Paymaster Patrick Noonan receives two years. Daniel Taughter nine months. Lynch's son Donald two months. Defense lawyers acknowledge willingness to plead guilty to five related charges. Justice Lazure rejects appeal steps and outlines the harsh sentence for the four convicted men.
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MONTREAL
C. B
Patrick Lynch
Engine Works and Trading Incorporated
Wilfrid Lazure
Patrick Noonan
Daniel Taughter
Lynch
Donald
John Ahern
E.C
Ahern
Justice Lazare
U S Bomber Leads British Cruiser to Sink Axis Tanker
A Liberator bomber crew from the United States and a Royal Air Force Flying Fortress helped guide the British cruiser Sussex to sink a fully loaded Axis tanker 500 miles off Cape Finisterre. The tanker’s crew fled in four lifeboats but German fighters and U‑boats prevented rescue. Canadian airmen were identified among the Fortress crew and the action was confirmed by a joint admiralty and U S ETO communique.
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ONDON
Cable
Sussex
Cape Finisterre
Spain
R.A.F
FO. J. Smith
Nova. Scotia
Set
C. L. Jocar
Regina
Sgt
Spina
Hamilton
Ont
admiralty
European theatre of operations
United States army
Army Casualties Ottawa Report of 1st Overseas Casualty
Ottawa dispatch reports the Canadian Army lists three men dead, two wounded seriously, and seven in serious condition from overseas service. No Alberta men were listed among the casualties.
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OTTAWA
Alberta
Civilian flier killed in training crash near Bittle Man
Officials of the No.7 Air Observer School RCAF announced Monday night the civilian pilot killed Sunday night with three overseas airmen when their training plane crashed near Bittle Man was N. W. Andreson formerly of Prince Albert Sask.
Parliamentary News Bulletins from Ottawa March 2 1940s
In the House of Commons New Democracy leader Blackmore warned that a supernational international government would destroy the British Empire and threaten the BNA Act while defending provincial authority. Diefenbaker pressed farm debt relief after a Privy Council ruling. Perley questioned wheat policy and US quota plans before the 1943 marketing policy decision.
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OTTAWA
C.P
New Democracy
Blackmore
house of commons
house committee on reconstruction
Paul Martin Lib
Essex East
Canada
British Empire
Mr. Blackmore
BNA
Act
John Diefenbaker
Lake. Centre
prairie provinces
agriculture department
privy council
H. E. Perley
Qu‘Appelle
MacKinnon
United States
U S Raid on Naples Reported by Middle East Command
Cairo reports American heavy bombers attacked Naples hitting the docks and mole area and downed an Axis fighter. An Heinkel 111 was shot down near Tripoli during a failed attack, another was lost at sea. Ground defences at Tripoli claimed a raid destruction and one Allied plane remains missing.
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CAIRO
Naples
moles and dock
Middle East
Tripol
Tripoli
Italian Envoy Post to Turkey Cancelled Amid German Protests
Ankara March 1 The appointment of Dr Augusto Rosso as Italian ambassador to Turkey has been canceled due to German protests. Rafael Guariglia, formerly Italy’s envoy to Paris, will take the post. Guariglia was recently replaced by Count Galeazzo Ciano as ambassador to the Holy See. Germany objected because Rosso is married to an American and reportedly has two sons in the U S Army.
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ANKARA
Turkey
Augusto Rosso
Ratfaele Guariglia
Paris
Guarigia
Galeazzo Ciano
Holy See
Vatican City
Rosso
Sudbury detectives seek owner of ten pounds butter
Sudbury Ont. March 2 detectives seize ten pounds of butter in a house while arresting a juvenile on a charge. They are still searching for the owner of the butter as local shortage concerns persist.
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SUDBURY
Big Jap Convoy Off New Guinea
Allied headquarters in Australia reports a large Japanese convoy sighted in the northeastern southwest Pacific. Fourteen ships, warships and cargo vessels, head toward New Guinea under weather cover, with fighter planes protecting them. The Allied air force plans to attack when weather allows.
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VERN HAUGLAND
Associated Press
ALLIED
AUSTRALIA
southwest Pacific
Allied high command
New Guinea
Talasea
New Britain
Alled
Ubili
Willaumes peninsula
Camp riots kill 48 Japanese POWs in New Zealand
Forty eight Japanese war prisoners died in a mutinous outbreak at a Wellington camp. The deaths were announced today as authorities described the incident at the war prisoners camp.
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WELLINGTON
1 000 Tons of Bombs Blast Nazi Capital
Allied air campaign intensifies as 1 000 tons of bombs hit Berlin in under half an hour. Canadian RAF crews led by Halifaxes and Lancasters join the raid, with 19 planes lost, and fires visible from Bremen and Hanover. Berlin reports heavy damage and casualties, while British and Canadian commands underscore the operation as a major raid.
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Berlin
Balfour
Alan Randal
ONDON
C.P. Cable
L R.A.F
Halifax
R.C.A.F
sergeyer
Harold Balfour
air
Germany
France
Associated Press
New York
Bremen
Hanover
London
RAF
Luebeck
Bern
R.AF
R.C.4
Mackenzie King On the Wagon A War Time Pledge
Rev John Coburn told the United Church Ministerial Association in London Ontario that Prime Minister Mackenzie King has been sober since the war began. Coburn quoted King noting the pledge caused moments of embarrassment including a visit with Prime Minister Churchill and that Churchill invited him back for another weekend.
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LONDON
Ont
John Coburn
Ontario Temperance Federation
United Church Ministerial Association
Mackensie King
Coburn
King
Churchill
Mr. King
Dr. Coburn
Robbery at Bank of Montreal in Montreal
An unmasked gunman held up the Bank of Montreal on St. Catherine Street East Monday, pointing a revolver at cashier J. T. McKinnon and demanding cash. He escaped with 470 dollars.
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MONTREAL
Maren
J. T. McKinnon
St. Catherine Street east
Bank of Montreal
Giraud Backs Atlantic Charter in North Africa Speech
General Henri Giraud pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter in a speech to the Algerian Economic Council, saying he accepted it heartily and without hesitation at Allied headquarters in North Africa on March 2.
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NORTH AFRICA
Algerian economic council
Henri Giraud
Debate on Budget Starts Wednesday in Alberta Legislature
Edmonton March 2 Debates on Solon Low s 21 1 0 0 0 budget will resume Wednesday with J H Walker independent Warner delivering the main opposition reply. The budget shows a 291 808 deficit with no new taxes though a postwar reconstruction fund of 1 000 000 is provided. Dominion finance minister J T Tisley may propose wartime revenue compensation for provinces in his Ottawa budget speech Tuesday.
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EDMONTON
C. P
Solon Low
Alberta
Workmen's Compensation board
J. A. Mahaffly
ind
gary
house
Walker
Low
Dominion finance
J. T. Tisley
Ottawa
Rationing Cuts Oil Use in Canadian War Effort
Ottawa reports fuel oil heating rationing saves over 100 million gallons annually as munitions dept surveys oil status. Of 1,277,937 car ration licences, 872,978 are AA or A category. New ration plan set for April 14 will put all cars on SA basis and require proof of need for extra gasoline.
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OTTAWA
munitions department
Day In Parliament Reforms Urged As Budget Address Planned
The House will continue debate on a government motion to form a special reconstruction committee and re establishment effort, with Finance Minister Isley delivering the budget at 8 pm. The senate will sit. yesterday T J ONeill urged immediate reforms and M J Coldwell supported the stance while the senate did not sit.
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House of Commons
Isley
senate
House
T. J. O'Neill
Kamloopss
M. J. Coldwell
C.CF
Timoshenko drives into German lines in northern front
Moscow reports Marshal Timoshenko leading a renewed offensive across two sectors of the northwestern front. He pushed into German positions west of the Valdai Hills, recaptured hundreds of villages, and swept over more than 900 square miles. The eight day campaign left about 68,000 Germans killed and 3,000 captured.
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MOSCOW
Red Army
Timoshenko
Valdai Hills
Kharkov-Kursk
Stalin
Germany
Izvestis
Lake Timen
Alamein Wounded Arrive in Northwest England Hospital
The first group of Allied soldiers wounded at Alamein Knightsbridge and Libyan desert reached a northwest England military hospital during the weekend. The contingent includes 65 men who have lost limbs.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
alh
Alamein
Knightsbridge
England
U S Submarines Sink Five Japanese Ships in Pacific
United States submarines in the Pacific and western Pacific sank five Japanese non combatant ships and damaged two others in the latest Navy Department report. The same update notes continued RAF raids on northern France and Belgium with Whirlwinds damaging locomotives and one plane missing. Australia declares readiness to meet new Japanese threat as MacArthur reports rising Japanese troop and shipping concentrations north of Australia. U S dive bombers set fires in the Munda air base area on New Georgia in the Solomons. Navy Secretary Knox vowed the destruction of the Japanese Navy, promising total defeat.
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U.S
WASHINGTON
navy department
United States
Pacific
western Pacific
LN SEXTE
RAF
LONDON
C.P
R.4 F
France
Belgium
air ministry
arament
AUSTRALIA
CANBERRA
A.P
dir
Arthur S. Drakeford
MacArthur
MUNDA
New Georgia
Solomons
KNOX
IA.P
Navy
Frank Rox
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