Armadas Off Again Today
A large Allied bomber attack hit Nuremberg and other Reich targets last night, with initial loss reports of 94 aircraft from the raid. The RAF and RCAF suffered significant losses, while the Germans claimed heavier air defeats for the Allies in a record March for the European air war. The operation marked the 17th heavy bomber raid this month and continued a campaign focusing on southern German transportation hubs.
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Austin Bealmear
Associated Press
ONDON
A.P
R.A.F
R.C.A.F
Nuremberg
Reich
Vienna
Austria
Hessen-Nassau
Prussia
Frankfurt
air ministry
R.C.AF
Leipzig
R.C.A.P
Berlin
Mediterranean
Sofia
Bulgaria
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Goering
R.A
British Lose Indian Base at Tiddim in Burma
British forces surrender Tiddim forward base in the Chin Hills 100 miles south of Imphal, as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck confirms in India. Mountbatten's HQ reports Japanese jungle parties probing eastern India's defenses and penetrating Manipur Plain communications while Imphal remains strongly defended.
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PRESTON GROVER
Associated Press
NEW DELBYI
Tiddim
Chin Hills
Burma
Imphal
Claude Auchinleck
India
Lord Lois Mountbatten
Manipur
Auchinleck
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Kohima
Brahmaputra valley
Tiddim road
Palel
Papel appar
Reds Invade Carpathians Across Prut Front toward Hungary
Soviet forces under Marshals Zhukov and Konev push from Czernowitz through Delatyn and Storozhints toward the Carpathians as the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian armies advance. Lipeani captured on the Prut frontier. 2,000 Hitlerites killed near Myakovtsky as Axis troops are crushed in forest fighting.
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HENRY C. CASSIDY
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Prut
Czernowitz
Gregory K. Zhukov
Carpathian mountains
Hungary
Rumania
Zhukov
Delatyn
Carpathians
Hitler
Stororzhints
KONEV
Ivan S. Konev
Myakovtsky
Kamenets Podolsk
Kitaigorod
Casualties In Army List Include Officers And Ranks
Ottawa reports the Canadian army's 44th casualty list listing one officer and 50 other ranks previously reported missing now presumed killed at war service, likely aboard a torpedoed ship. Defence headquarters withheld details of the operation. The list also lists multiple killed, dead of wounds and missing among other casualties.
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OTTAWA
Defence headquarters
Change in Russia Gives Church a New Respect
Liberty Magazine writer Maurice Hindus argues Soviets have abandoned world revolution to focus on nation building, restoring the family as a social pillar and elevating church life. He notes priests’ actions shifting church status, forecasts theological schools, and cites USSR autonomy as revival of tradition and Orthodox ties.
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Russia
Liberty Magazine
Maurice Hindus
Hindus
Mr. Hindus
New Republic
Will Recess For Easter The Commons Adjourns For Two Weeks
Ottawa March 31 Members of the commons meet for a short sitting before a two weeks Easter adjournment to focus on civil aviation estimates. Yesterday the house passed supplementary estimates totaling 2 754 162 to cover unexpected non war expenditures for 1943 44. The special supply bill cleared all readings and goes to the senate today. Rodney Adamson criticized the National Film Board as aiding Russian propaganda and urged a Canada centered function. Refugee aid shows 256 refugees from Spain and Portugal will be given temporary asylum in Canada under a 5 789 contribution. Prime Minister King said foreign policy aims to win the war and debate on foreign affairs awaits funding. Goldwell noted strains in inter governmental relations and urged smaller nations to engage international affairs.
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OTTAWA
commons
senate
Rodney Adamson
P.C
York West
National Film Board
Canada
inter-governmental committee on refugees
Crerar
Spain
Portugal
King
Goldwell
Pig losses down in Saskatchewan through veterinary care
Regina March 31. Losses of new born pigs have fallen from an average of 60 percent to 10 percent in Saskatchewan over the past year due to increased veterinary care, reported at a meeting of the Saskatchewan Veterinary Association council in Regina this week.
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REGINA
Saskatchewan
the
Saskatchewan Veterinary Association
Churchill Wins Broad Confidence Vote in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill, aged 69, appeared vigorous as he secured a decisive confidence vote in the House of Commons. Close allies in London reported he is well and in good health, despite earlier public concerns.
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LONDON
C. P.Reuters
Churchill
house of commons
German troopship Monte Rosa torpedoed off Norway
London report says a 14,000 ton German troopship, formerly the liner Monte Rosa, was torpedoed twice by RAF Beaufighters amid heavy flak during raids on a convoy off Norway. Two escort ships damaged and an MB-110 shot down. Berlin claimed seven of 18 attackers shot down. Montreal observer FO Arthur Fair recalls shooting at a Messerschmitt.
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LONDON
C.P
RAF
R.C.AF
Norway
Monte Rosa
R.A.F. Beaufighters
Death of Sir Charles Vernon Boys at 89
Sir Charles Vernon Boys, a noted physicist aged 89, died yesterday in a hospital in Andover after a brief illness.
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LONDON
Sir Charles Vernon Boys
Andover
Montreal Vickers plant chosen for postwar DC-4 contract
Parliamentary bulletins report Munitions Minister Howe stating the Montreal Canadian Vickers plant will build the DC-4 transport, with the Malton Victory Aircraft plant coming into volume Lancaster production. he denied plans to shift the DC-4 to Malton. Also notes on beef surplus marketing, US shipments embargo, and farm return delay.
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OTTAWA
Howe
Canadian Vickers Limited
Montreal
George Drew
Ontario
Victory Aircraft Limited
Malton
Ont
Vickers
WEST
C.P
Crerar
R. W. Gladstone
L. Wellington South
Gardiner
Earl Rowe
P.C
Dufferin-Simcoe
United States
Defence
Ralston
finance
Prices Board
Labor
Mitchell
Karl Homouth
Waterloo
Premier Drew
H. J. Symington
Trans-Canada Airlines
Royal Securities Corporation
Drew
Eden Likely to Quit Foreign Secretary Post for Commons
London march 31 reports suggest Anthony Eden will resign as foreign secretary to devote full time to leading the house of commons. The most likely successor named is Lord Cranborne, Dominion Affairs secretary, seen as a key proponent of Eden's policy.
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LONDON
Anthony Eden
house of commons
Lord Cranborne
Dominion
Eden
News-Chronicle
Neville Chamberlain
Cattle Price Floor Debate Across Commons Ottawa
In the Commons on Thursday, MPs pressed for action to protect cattle feeders as government officials explained cattle price floor operations. Resources Minister Crerar outlined the mechanism while MP Mark Senn noted that high flour prices do little when buyers cannot sell cattle. Agriculture Minister Gardiner was absent as supplementary estimates were deferred, and Blackmore urged a Friday statement on measures to avert losses in 1944 beef operations, citing precarious conditions for Southern Alberta feeders and others.
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OTTAWA
C.P
commons
Crerar
Mark Senn
P.C.Haldimand
Gardiner
New Democracy
Blackmore
Alberta
Canada
Toronto Packers Overloaded With Western Beef
Toronto packing plants faced a flood of Western Canada beef as meat prices slid to year's lows. Cattle sales ranged from 11 to 12.40 dollars per cwt for heavy steers, with butcher stockers and feeders quoted 7.75 to 13.25 dollars, and canners down to 5 dollars. Western lambs rose to 14.25 dollars per cwt, while local sheep fetched 3 to 6 dollars.
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TORONTO
Canada
Isle West of Truk Raid Opens Palau Strike
Allied task forces struck Palau sixty years after Pearl Harbor as heavy bombers hit Truk and surrounding bases. Nimitz reported ongoing attacks with Japanese planes seen fleeing. U S navy planes hit Woleai and Hollandia in related strikes. The aim was to trap Japanese ships and scout routes toward Palau in the central Pacific.
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LEIF ERICKSON
Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR
T.H
Philippines
central Pacific
Palau
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Pacific fleet
Carolines
Nimitz
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Korkor
Babelthuap
Caroline islands
MacArthur
southwest Pacific
Truk
Eten
United States navy
Woleat island
Hollandia
Wewak
Boys Save Two Fliers In Crash Near Retlaw
Two Vulcan RCAF airmen were injured when a light training plane crashed two miles north of Retlaw Friday morning. Local youths Roy Webb and Lloyd Baker rescued the fliers then aided them at the Retlaw telephone office before an ambulance took them to Vulcan station hospital. No information was available from No. 19 SFTS Vulcan.
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RETLAW
Vulcan R.C.A.F
Roy Webb
Lloyd Baker
district farm
Vulcan
Davies discharged after treatment in Savannah hospital
Joseph E. Davies former U S ambassador to Russia has been discharged from a Savannah Georgia hospital where he was treated for an intestinal attack.
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J. E. DAVIES
SAVANNAH
Joseph E. Davies
U.S
Russia
Nazis Regain Cassino Hill Action Online
In Naples on March 31 German troops moved into two positions on Monastery Hill after Indian and New Zealand troops evacuated. Small enemy groups attacked inside Cassino while Fifth Army clung to positions and repulsed renewed German thrusts. On Anzio, 65 Allied casualties occurred from air bombing. Continuous artillery activity north of Cassino persisted amid snow.
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NAPLES
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Anzio
Fifth Army
Subsidy Clash Triggers Edmonton Mine Closures
Edmonton coal-mine operators order production halted at all but two union mines after rejecting the Dominion government 65-cent-a-ton subsidy as impossible. About 500 miners face layoff as operators seek 79 cents per ton for a year. Ottawa officials say the 65-cent subsidy is the maximum offer. District 18 UMWA miners had strikes last November yielding wage gains and paid vacation.
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EDMONTON
Dominion
Edmonton union
Ottawa
Jack B. Starky
FE. W. Brunning
Emergency Coal Production Board
Brunning
Alberta
British Columbia
District 18
United Mine Workers of America
Japan to end Sakhalin oil coal concessions
London report says Japan agreed to hand back oil and coal concessions on northern Sakhalin to Russia 26 years before expiry. Japanese nationals to be removed from the island. Agreement also extends the Japan Russia fishing pact for five years.
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LONDON
Japan
Russia
Sakhalin island
Moscow radio
Sakhalin
Moscow
Tokyo
Quebec Court Martial Finds Partial Plea Deal In Buckingh am Case
In Buckingham Quebec a court martial concluded with three findings pending, accepted Pte Nelson Skinner of Granby guilty on two charges and dismissed one charge after defense argued improper wording. The case stemmed from transferring German POWs for dental treatment on March 15. Witnesses including the so called Happy Gang testified about drinking beer and dancing with prisoners at a Thurs hotel. Skinner said guard William Lee was sometimes unable to supervise the prisoners.
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BUCKINGHAM
Que
Nelson Skinner
Granby
Skinner
E. H. Feigelson
Thurs
Myers
Thurso
Cpl
William Lee
Montreal
Russians Reach 38 Miles From Odessa In Black Sea Drive
News dispatches report Soviet forces driving toward Odessa cutting the Odessa Kishinev Iasi rail line and isolating Nazi positions in the region. Stalin announces capture of Ochakov as a 32 mile advance along the Black Sea north shore is claimed.
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ODESSA
LONDON
C.P
Bessarabia
Black Sea
Kishinev
Iasi
Rumania
Stalin
Ochakov
Bug
Dniester
AUCHINLECK
IMPHAL
NEW DELHI
A.P
Sir Claude Auchinleck
India
TRUK
WASHINGTON
Truk atoll
United States
Dublin
Uman
Moen
U.S
MEDITERRANEAN
Oklahoma City
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ORTONA
Paul Triquet
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Triquet
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S.F.TS. Vulcan
Herald
Cassino Hill
LYNN HEINZERLING
Siberian
S. A. Lozovsky
Sato
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