03 May 1941
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 03, 1941
Page
1
Canadian Press reports heavy German raids on Merseyside with bombs dropping on ships and factories, feared casualties and destruction. East Anglia also hit as Hamburg and northwest Germany face counter bombing by British forces.
Announcement states T. Eaton Co has purchased the Hull Block in Medicine Hat’s business district. Plan calls for extensive alterations to convert the building into a modern Eaton department store. The existing Medicine Hat store is in the Heli Block.
A letter from Chicago debates whether motor car drivers should require medical examinations to prove fitness. It cites New York Magistrate Solomon who criticized the current system as inadequate, arguing human reflexes behind the wheel should be checked like car brakes. The piece references a Lincoln Park meeting of the American First Committee at 3730 North Clark Street.
British bombers hit Hamburg last night causing extensive damage and large fires in docks and industrial zones with Emden and Rotterdam oil stores also targeted. Nazi controlled ships off the Netherlands coast were attacked. one set afire and another believed sunk. Four British planes reported missing.
Four British soldiers stranded in Libran Desert after a raid were left by their unit amid water scarcity and injuries. Trooper Ronald Moore from Tahapi New Zealand Guardsman John Easton from Edinburgh Guardsman Alexander Winchester from Glasgow and Pirate Alfred Fishe from Manchester endured two gallons of water and a brutal escape over miles of sand. They survived after being abandoned as a fight unfolded and a commander was captured.
Ottawa May 2 6 The house of commons approved a 33 million wheat acreage reduction program vote subject to later discussion of payments to farmers who switch land uses as general estimates for agriculture are reviewed. Two Ontario Liberals protested before adjourning for the weekend.
Cairo reports say assaults on Tobruk have tapered off after costly efforts to breach Libyan ports. British forces near Salum in Egypt conducted a surprise foray, taking prisoners as the daylong attack near Tobruk was repelled with heavy enemy losses.
In North Vancouver on May 3 a work boat named Chummy No. 4 sank off pier B after being struck by freighter propeller wash. William Oakley is believed drowned as police dragged Vancouver harbor for his body. five men were aboard the Burard Drydock Company Ltd. vessel.
Report from Vichy and neutral circles claim 26 United States merchant ships loaded with arms and munitions for British forces in the Middle East arrived at the Suez Canal. Confirmation could not be definite, but the rumor spread widely among diplomatic and French quarters.
The admiralty announced the British withdrawal from Greece was completed at the cost of four transports and two destroyers. Only one sunk transport carried troops, with 700 men rescued by British destroyers. The Diamond and the Wryneck destroyers were later sunk by German dive bombers, with feared heavy casualties.
Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the British ambassador to Iraq, told London that all is quiet in Baghdad though the situation remains tense and no incident has occurred. Nazi broadcasts had claimed he distributed leaflets and was chased back to his embassy. The threat of an Axis provocation of a holy war heightens Middle East tension.
British air units reported sinking a destroyer and a merchant ship in the central Mediterranean after three direct hits. The action occurred as Allied raiders attacked Axis targets in the western desert, damaging Italian trucks and vehicles near Feiaza Pass and Lake Asciang.
Aerial view by Associated Press reports a key battle at Lake Habbanivah 60 miles west of Bashdad as British and Iraqi forces fight to guard oil pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa. An airfield base supports patrols over the Mosul fields toward the Middle East oil corridor.
A British force withdrawing before a German advance reached a road fort in southern Greece. A Greek policeman redirected the column when a fork appeared, allowing the unit to embark on destroyers. The incident was reported by the BBC last night.
British and Iraq forces clash at Habbaniyah airfield for a second day with reports of artillery silenced and ongoing fighting. A Swiss radio quote claims Iraq destroyed 26 British aircraft at the base 60 miles west of Baghdad while British forces deny the tally.
A British ministry statement says several British aircraft were destroyed on the ground and casualties occurred during fighting with Iraqi troops. It refutes reports that tanks were delivered to an airfield at Rassia and notes that fighting continues in Iraq.
Detachments pursuing control of a second airfield were repelled. Premier Rashid Ali Gailani of Iraq reportedly urged Adolf Hitler for aid as the TRA's actions continued.
A mid east wartime bulletin reports Yugoslav premier Gen Dusan Simovic said Yugoslav forces have blocked the Danube so effectively that the Germans cannot transfer Romanian oil into the Reich by barge for at least three months. The update also notes British losses in Greece seen as near miracle and other war developments.
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