Mosquitos In Berlin Raid by RAF Mosquito Bombers
London May 17 The RAF Mosquito bombers hit Berlin last night with no losses reported. The raid, the first on Berlin since May 9, came despite poor weather as Britain’s heavy bomber fleets prepare for renewed attacks on Fortress Europe. Allied fighters also conducted sweeps, with a Canadian Mosquito squadron claiming seven enemy aircraft over northern Germany and one Canadian plane reported lost.
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LONDON
Berlin
air ministry
Europe
Pans
Britain
Germany
Fall of Cassino Nears as Allied Drive Reaches Liri Valley
Allied forces push toward the Adolf Hitler line in southern Italy with the 8th and 5th Armies advancing on Cassino. British units seize Pignataro while Americans enter Castellonorato and Scauri, amid heavy fighting and German counterattacks. The Cassino stronghold appears close to collapse as the Liri valley fringe battle widens.
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Pignaturo
Castellanorato
Scauri
Liri Valley
Noland Norgaard
Associated Press
APLES
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Anzio
Rome
Pingnataro
Cassino
Formia
Gulf of Gaeta
NAPLES
Liri
Pignataro
London dispatch
Doug How
Gari river
Gari
Rapido
tav
Cassinos
Prena
iro
Casilina
Seven Filers Known Dead
Halifax May 17 A widening toll in the Newfoundland air disaster brings the known dead to seven from three training aircraft missing since Saturday. Two airmen are safe and up to five more may be missing. Survivors report the missing crew from a Gaspe crash walked to a village after two days, with rations intact. Names identified include G A Robertson of Barrachois and G A Wilson of Peterboro England.
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HALIFAX
Newfoundland
Charlottetown
RALAF
Eastern Air Cyonum
Marches Point
St. Georges Bay
Port Aux Pasques
Gaspe
RCAP
Barracnois
G A Robertson
Barrachois
G. A. Wilson
Peterboro
Eng
Chinese Cut Lifeline in Burma Front
Strongly supported from the air, elements of the Chinese 2nd Division advance down the Mogaung valley in northern Burma and cut the main road to Ka maing, the Javanese base. The communique notes stubborn Japanese resistance and heavy casualties as Allied bombers target north Burma positions near Myitkyina. Meanwhile in India’s vicinity, Japanese efforts near Imphal are repulsed as Chinese forces press across the Salween in a drive toward China.
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KANDY
Ceylon
C.P
Mogaung
Burma
Kamaing
Malakawag
Myitkyina
INDIA
Imphal
Salween
Japan
China
Daletme
India frontier
Impha
Kaladan
Army Padre Pleads Guilty To Indecency
OTTAWA May 17 Magistrate Glenn Strike suspended sentence in the case of Capt J W Siebert a 34 year old army padre and remanded Cpl Armand Lemay 23 a Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps member until today after they pleaded guilty to charges of gross indecency. The magistrate said he was justified in suspending Siebert’s sentence after hearing two character witnesses and two psychiatrists.
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OTTAWA
Glenn Strike
J. W. Siebert
Armand Lemay
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Siebert
Conciliation Board to Be Appointed for Montreal Tramways
The labor department announced a conciliation board will be appointed to handle a dispute between Montreal Tramways Co and the Canadian Brotherhood of Transportation Workers in negotiating a collective agreement. The row concerns 4,300 employees.
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CONCILIATION BOARD
OTTAWA
labor department
Montreal Tramways Co. of
Montreal
Canadian Brotherhood of Transport Workers , C cl
Soviet wartime medicine in the 1940s report says blood banks and female donors lead
The Bulletin of War Medicine and The Lancet describe Soviet medical efficiency in World War II. Russian hospitals value rapid, skilled care with clear stationing, high blood donation rates, and strong female participation. Wounded are sorted at front clearing stations, and 70 percent return to fighting. Nine percent of trainees are women. Back-page continuation flagged.
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Reginald Watson-Jones
Bulletin of War Medicine
Lancet
New York Times
USSR
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Watson-Jones
Russia
Noted Wit George Ade Dies At 78 In Indiana
George Ade a 78 year old author and wit died Tuesday night in Kentland Ind after suffering three heart attacks in a week. Ade gained national notice after the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and wrote for the Chicago Record beginning in 1890. He created the column All Roads Lead To The World’s Fair and later produced stage hits including The Sultan of Sulu in 1902.
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KENTLAND
Ind
George Ade
Ade
Chicago Record
Lafayette
Chicago
H C Speeds Up War Vote
Ottawa May 17 The commons may finish study of war appropriation estimates this week paving the way for the budget next week. Only five departments remain to be studied including trade commerce pensions health mines resources and finance.
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OTTAWA
The commons
public works
fisheries
secretary of state
Canadian Postal Corps
house
trade and commerce
pensions and health
mines and resources and finance
department of agriculture
commons
Muimister
Fournier
Canada
GIMLI
Giml
J A Ross
pouriss
aden
Coast Halibut Tie-Up Ends Coast Halibut Tie-Up Ends
Vancouver and Seattle fishermen and vessel owners voted to resume fishing after a month-long tie-up. W. T Burruss, secretary of United Fishermen’s Federal Union, said the fleet would sail at midnight May 19. The decision ends a coastal halt affecting the Pacific halibut fleet.
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VANCOUVER
Seattle
W. T Burress
United Fishermen’s Federal Union
British Columbia
Victory Loan Near Record in Canada May 17
The Sixth Victory Loan total stood at 1,336,125,500 dollars, within 27 million of the last loan, with officials optimistic the final cleanup will be the highest on record. Individuals and large buyers exceed minimum objectives, and the army and air force totals push the combined purchase near 47 million, far above the Fifth Victory Loan.
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army
Royal Canadian Air Force
navy
air force
bave
Nazis Expect Russ Drive On Lwow Fronts
German broadcasts said the Nazis anticipate an early resumption of large scale Soviet attacks on the Lwow Kovel and northern Romanian fronts with Russians massing troops. The Moscow communiqué reported local actions on the Tower Dnestr sector. The Soviet note claimed heavy losses as German attacks were repulsed north west of Tiraspol. A Soviet tank unit reportedly killed 490 Germans. Polotsk near the Latvian Polish border and Riga line rail targets were heavily bombed with stores and trains destroyed. In the Sevastopol siege, 50,000 Nazis were killed and 61,587 prisoners taken.
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LONDON
Lwow-Kovel
Moscow
oris
Dnestr
DNB
Tiraspol
Polotsk
Riga
Sevastopol
Premiers Propose World Peace Organization After War
STOP PRESS BULLETIN reports a joint statement by Churchill Mackenzie King Curtin Fraser and Smuts that a world organization should be created after the war to preserve peace and security with power to prevent aggression. They vow to prosecute Germany and Japan and to ensure a lasting peace while Britain prepares a tentative plan resembling League norms for future discussion with the US and USSR.
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LONDON
Mary
British Commonwealth
Churchill
Mackenzie King
John Curtin
Australia
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Jan Smuts
Union of South Africa
Germany
Japan
South Africa
League of Nations
Britain
United States
Russia
Last Trip Scherff Bags Five Germans Over Britain
Australian flier Scherf of the City of Edmonton Mosquito squadron earned a fifth “last trip” victory by destroying five Nazi planes and damaging two during a late day foray near Kubitz Bay and Stettin, with observer Flt Lt Colin Finlayson. The duo downed a Focke Wulf 190, Heinkel 177, Junkers 86, and two unidentified planes, plus damaged an ME-111 and a Dornier 18 flying boat. Returning with 15 wing holes from a bird strike, the mission left the squadron at 54 air kills and 118 enemy planes destroyed overall.
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BRITAIN
C.P. Cable
Charlie Scherf
City of Edmonton
Germany
Baltic seaboard
RCAF
Scherf
Colin Finlayson
Victoria
B.C
Kubitzer Bay
Stettin
Great Britain
Baltic
FC J Caine
Edmonton
MacKinnon Urges Broad Canada Trade Expansion
Canada must avoid drastic export curtailment warns Trade Minister MacKinnon in Hamilton as he outlines a long term program for trade growth. Key points call for UK as a main outlet, broader international markets, a Canadian merchant fleet, and export credits especially for heavy equipment. He stresses foreign trade underpins national life and rejects protectionist shocks.
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HAMILTON, Ont
C.P
Canada
MacKinnon
United Kingdom
Jaluit Takes Heavy Blow In Pacific War Report
A May 17 dispatch from Washington notes a heavy blow to Jaluit by Navy and Marine planes and hints at an upcoming mop-up. Japanese garrisons in the Marshalls are highlighted as part of a broader Pacific war pattern. A dispatch suggests the assault could trigger a broader eastern offensive and isolation of key islands.
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PEARL HARBOR
navy
Jair
Washington
Marshalls
Ishlines
oyere SINCO
Arpetiea Polen
mrad
germi
Partisans advance in the Balkans as Allies halt traffic
Allied air power disrupts transport on the Lika road while Yugoslav partisans push east in Bosnia. They report heavy fighting in the Lika sector of Croatia and say the town of Zivernica has been captured as operations intensify along the Dalmatian coast and surrounding areas.
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s LONDON
S’arigiac
Marshal Juap
fTites
nerce
gia ino et per
duvein
Lika
Croatia
Bosnia
Zivernica
Jap Trap Looms as China Faces Japanese Advance
Chungking reports Japanese vanguards 125 miles west of the Peiping Hankow line and 40 miles south of the Lunghai rail line threaten Leyang in Northern Henan. Chinese high command says Loyang remains in Chinese hands as they retake sections of the Peiping Hankow railway. American fighter-bombers hit Japanese positions while Chinese forces push toward Tungkwan and the Yellow River bend.
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CHUNGKING
Peiping - Hankow
Lunghai line
Leyang
Henan province
China
fien
Loyang
Peipingiankew
Sunehai
Tungkwan
Yelow
Chinas
great northwest
Chinese Central News Agency dispatches
Peiping-Hankow
teshan
Mingkiang
Peiping-Hanken
yen
jah air
Dew offenan
Monnay wong
attrast
Saiween River
World War II Briefs From London and Ottawa
May reports from London and Ottawa cover Prime Minister Mackenzie King meeting the King at Buckingham Palace after reviewing Canadian troops, Allied air raids over Denmark with two aircrew losses, Eisenhower massing forces in southern England for an invasion, an inquiry into Canadian German prisoner camps citing alleged mistreatment, CBC radio time for Social Credit, Russian bombers hitting German supply depots at Minsk Baranovichi and Kholm with large fires and explosions.
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MACKENZIE KING
LONDON
C.P. Cable
Amaster
Buckingham Palace
Mr King
DENMARK
CP - Reuters
tud Tactical Air Force
Dwight D. Eisenhower
England
Paris
Wednesdas
Way
C.P
Wiednesdas
Nansittart
house of lords
Canada
Nausittart
SOCIAL CREDIT
CBC RADIO
house of commons radio committee
Social Credit Association of Canada
Canadian Broadcasting Commission
Minsk
Baranovichi
Kholm
Moscow
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Castellanorate
Spigno
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Antone
San Giorgio
ance
Ausonia
Esperia
Rapido river
East
H.C
Scherff
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Ma. Kars
Camma Serer
Jaluit
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