Myitkyina falls inching toward final capture in Burma
Allied airmen sink many ships carrying Japanese fleeing the encircled Myitkyina area in north Burma as Chinese American forces block main enemy forces at Kamaiga. The communique cites over 25 000 Japanese casualties and notes one third of Myitkyina is in Allied hands after intense street fighting.
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KANDY
Ceylon
Burma
Myitkyina
Kamaiga
China
KAMSANG
Singapore
Kamiang
Mogaung
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung valley
Fort Hertz
Indo-Burma
Allies Hold Isles Off Yugoslavia
London May 22 Allies hold the Dalmatian coast islands La Gost a and Lissa near Split and other small islands, according to a German Transocean Agency report. Germans had earlier claimed Lissa fell to the Allies on March 10.
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Isles
Yugoslavia
LONDON
C.P.Reuters
German Transocean Agency
Lagosta
Dalmatian
Split
Lissa
Maggie Sets Record In Frog Jumping Event
Angels Camp Calif May 22 Maggie owned by Merlin Fisher of Stockton is the international jumping frog champion. Maggie set a new world record of 26 feet two inches in the 17th annual event surpassing the former 15 feet 10 inch mark held by Zip owned by Eddie Robinson of Stockton.
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ANGELS CAMP
Calif
Maggie
Merlin Fisher
Stockton
Eddie Robinson
RAF student pilot dies in North Cypress crash
A Royal Air Force student pilot attached to No. 33 Service Flying Training School was killed Saturday when his aircraft crashed in North Cypress. The fatal accident occurred near Carberry and is being investigated by local authorities.
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CARBERRY
Man
R.A.F
No. 33 Service Flying Training School
R.AF
North Cypress
Deer Depredations Prompt Farmers’ Alarm in Columbia Valley
In Edgewater the Farmers Institute of the Columbia Valley reports deer have grown abundant and destructive. Herds of up to 50 deer trample crops, destroy fences, eat grain and alfalfa, damage fruit trees, berries, and stacks, and even bed with cows in barns to guard food. Farmers urge action from the Provincial Game Commission as depredations threaten livelihoods.
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EER
Kootenay
Farmers’ Institute of the
Columbia Valley
Edgewater
Provincial Game Commission
Germans To North Italy Decision Stresses Front Shifts
In Naples on May 22 a patriots communique said six of twenty five German divisions in Italy have moved north to confront patriots and Yugoslav Partisans along the border to shield the 5th and 8th British American armies. The report claims rail derailments near Verona destroyed 17 cars of war materiel and an industrial plant aiding Germany. A military council formed in Naples will issue daily communiques to guide guerrilla operations in northern and central Italy.
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NAPLES
Italy
Harold Alexander
Aled
Verona
Florence
Algiers
Wallace Off For China
President Roosevelt announced Vice President Wallace would depart for China to gather a firsthand report on a war area of urgent importance to future peace and prosperity. He travels with John Carter Vincent Owen Lattimore and John Hazard to return by mid July as a mission for the United States.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
Wallace
China
White House
John Carter Vincent
state department
Owen Lattimore
office of war information
John Hazard
foreign economic administration
Senator Benjamin Smith Dies in Ottawa at 80
Ottawa May 22 Senator Benjamin Franklin Smith 80 of East Florenceville New Brunswick died after a short illness He was a Conservative who represented New Brunswick in the Senate since 1935 Born in Jacksonville New Brunswick he was a wholesale product merchant and former minister of public works in the provincial government He moved to Ottawa in 1950 as federal member for Victoria Carleton He is survived by his widow Clarisse Lindsay McEachern of Ottawa and a daughter Mrs R J D White of Vancouver.
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OTTAWA
Benjamin Franklin Smith
Florenceville
New Brunswick
Jacksonville N.B
Smith
Victoria Carleton
Clarisse Lindsay McEachern
R. J. D White
Vancouver
Bombs Strike Kurile Islands Deep North Japan Reach
A US heavy bomber flew within 400 miles of Japan and bombed Shimushiri and Keto islands in the Kuriles Thursday night. The raid marked the deepest penetration yet in air strikes along the northern road to Tokyo, announced Sunday.
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PEARL HARBOR
United States
Japan
Shimushiri
Keto islands
Kuriles
Tokyo
Clark Narrowly Escapes Mine Blast On Italian Front
On the 5th Army front in Italy a disguised booby trap set in an abandoned German anti-tank gun nearly killed Lt General Mark W. Clark as he conducted a front survey. The blast occurred less than 25 feet from Clark's jeep as Allied forces investigated the area on a Sunday.
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ITALY
Mark W. Clark
5th Army
Clark
M P s Cheer Hon Mr King in Commons Return
Ottawa May 22 The commons greeted Prime Minister Mackenzie King as he returned from London by air and took his seat amid vigorous applause Gordon Graydon welcomed King and expressed gratitude to Britain and its leaders for the welcome The house looked forward to visits by Australian Prime Minister Curtin and New Zealand Prime Minister Fraser who attended the conference with King.
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OTTAWA
C.P
commons
Mackenzie King
London
Gordon Graydon
King
Britain
House of Commons
House of Lords
Graydon
Canada
Mr. Graydon
John Curtin
Australia
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Allied Patrols Kill 111 More Japs At Netherland New Guinea
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports American infantry killed 111 more Japanese in repelling three counter-attacks on the Netherlands New Guinea mainland opposite Wakde Island. At Wakde engineers prepare a 4,700 foot airstrip as infantry tally 676 enemy dead and Wakde resistance ends. Bombers hit Mankowari Biak Noemfoor and Hollandia mopping up adds 436 Japanese dead and 45 prisoners, totaling 3,042 casualties in the area.
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New Guinea
Netherlands New Guinea
Wakde
Mankowari
Biak Island
Schouten group
Hollandia
Noemfoor island
Manokwari
Biak
Girl and brother survive Cassino dugout five months
A 17 year old Italian girl and her nine year old brother emerge from Cassino ruins after five months living in a German dugout. They wore ragged German paratrooper uniforms and survived on sauerkraut from German rations. Norman Hall of Durban, a sapper, sold them from the dugout. Their parents were killed in raids.
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CASSINO
C.P.Reuters
Norman Hall
Durban
South Africa
King's World War unity praised after UK visit
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that his UK visit yielded strong support from the King, Queen, and all Britons. He praised the conference of prime ministers for unity and purpose, stressing Britain's gates of freedom depend on Dominion aid and foreseeing a great, difficult struggle ahead.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
house of commons
United Kingdom
British Commonwealth of Nations
King
Loennon
Britain
Japs Admit Raid on Marcus Island
A Tokyo radio broadcast claimed enemy naval craft attacked Marcus Island from the east on Saturday and Sunday. The AP notes Japanese installations suffered damage and 32 raiding planes were shot down. Marcus Island lies midway between the Marshall Islands and Japan, about 600 miles east of the Bonins.
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Sea
Tokyo radio today
central Pacific
Minamotori island
Tokyo
Associated Press
Minamateri
Marcus Island
Marshall Islands
Bonin group
United States fleet
Allied daylight and night raids hammer Kiel Duisburg and targets in France
Allied air forces including 500 heavy bombers at Kiel and the Pas De Calais pounded coastal fortifications as 750 RAF bombers saturated Duisburg with 2800 tons of bombs. Canadian, American and RAF planes carried out a massive day night assault to cripple German troop and supply movement ahead of the anticipated western invasion.
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LONDON
Kiel
Pas-De-Calais
France
R.A.F
Duisburg
Hannover
Belgium
R.AF
Europe
Germany
RAF
Naz
Cape Frehel
St Malo
Tokyo Lists Peace Terms To United States
London dispatch reports publication in the Japanese periodical Metho of terms reportedly demanded by Japan in peace terms. The list includes confiscation of the entire American navy, paying all expenses for arming ships, placing merchant fleet ships at Japan's disposal, destroying naval facilities, and a punitive payment if any Chinese ship is scuttled.
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LONDON
United States
Metho
Berlin
Japan
United Staes
Chinese Hit Enemy Hard in Burma Offensive Retake
Chinese forces report the initial phase of their westward offensive from the Salween river toward North Burma as concluded. Allied Noth Burma HQ says American bombers struck a Pratas Island radio station, while reports from Henan detail counterattacks and Jap reinforcements.
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CHUNGKING
Salween river
Yunnan
Burma
westeran
Fridas
Maren Pass
Henan province
Loyang
Peiping-Hanhow Jauwat
Noth Burma
Pratas island
Hong Kong
Philippines
Peiping-Hankow
Canton
Hankow
Canadian Troops Pierce Hitler Line Near Pontecorvo
Canadian infantry breached barbed wire defenses northeast of Pontecorvo on the Liri valley’s edge as Allied forces push south of Cassino. Polish and French-Canadian units advance at Piedimonte and Monte Leucio while Kesselring moves mobile reserves to the front and German losses mount amid heavy fighting around Terracina and Terracina’s approaches.
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APLES
C.P
Hitler line
Pontecorvo
Terracina
Tyrrhenian Sea
Pico
Liri
LINE
Ontario
fallen Cassino
Douglas Amazon
PIEDIMONTE
8th Army
Monte Leucio
Cassino
Mount Corvo
highway six
Albert Kesselring
Rome
Terracini
Loan Breaks All Records in Victory Loan Drive
Ottawa officials of the national war finance committee call individual purchases as of Saturday the Sixth Victory Loan’s most satisfactory feature with $629,708,000 raised, over $43,000,000 above last autumn’s Fifth Victory Loan. Subscriptions to the Sixth Loan reached $1,388,? million, about $24,623,300 more than the prior issue.
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OTTAWA
national war finance committee
Planes shot down and Burma front advances across Europe news
U S Strategic Air Force in Europe reports seventy two enemy planes destroyed in Monday sweeps with five heavy bombers and eight fighters lost. Allied forces gain road junctions west and north of Mogaung and Fort Hertz in Burma amid monsoon conditions. Bulgarian developments expected over ultimatum notes as anti German sentiment rises. Tito’s partisans destroy a German column in eastern Bosnia and report many enemy casualties. Anzio beachhead thrusts continue with prisoners taken and flank operations near Littoria. Indian prisoners escape to Switzerland as German civilians flee toward Swiss borders.
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NAZE
LONDON
U.S. Strategic Air Force
Europe
MYTTKYINA KANDY
Ceslon
Myitkyima
Burma
Vihed
fanning
Mogaung
Fort Hertz
BULGARIA
GENEVA
P-Reutersi
TITO
Josip Broz ‘ Tite
Bosnia
sokolac-Mokro
Croatia
Vojvodina
war bulletin
ANZIO
ZIO BRACHHEAD
Italy
Pontine
Littoria
SWITZERLAND
ZURICH
C.P.-Reutersi
Epinal
France
Neuweiler
Basle
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Dresden
LW. Keech
North Bay
G. W. Wiley
G. E. McGil
Bee
PETER
Sen
B. F. Smith
M.P
Mr. King
NPS
Churchill
Commonwealth
Dominion
Kine
Briain
MARCUS
Rhine-Kerne
Dortmund
Dortmund-Ems
Low Countries
Second Tactical Air Force
Terraema
Pontine marshes
anc
Fondi
Monte San Biagio
failen
Terracia
SPA
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