Special Force Advance Party Is Off To Pusan
Allied forces form a firm line in northwest Korea as Chinese and Korean Communist units renew attacks. U.N. reports estimate at least two Chinese divisions facing U.N. troops with signs of large volumes of Chinese troops along the Manchurian border. In Korea, U.S. Marines face trouble near Hamhung and the Changjin reservoir while MacArthur signals a broad withdrawal strategy. Canadian Defence Minister Claxton announces a special brigade battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry will move to Fort Lewis for training before sailing to Korea, with remainder remaining at Fort Lewis for rotation efforts.
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eighth army
United Nations
Korea
U.S
Changjin reservoir
Red China
7th regiment
Sudong
Hamhung
Changjin
North Korea
Manchuria
Yalu river
UAWA
Defence
Claxton
Canada
special brigade
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
Fort Lewis
Wash
Yokohama
Japan
Seattle
Princess Patricia
Canadian Light Infantry
Far East
Former R.C.A.F. officer sentenced for robbery
William Thomas McGill, 36, a former RCAF squadron leader described by friends as respectable, was sentenced in Toronto to three years for armed robbery. Co-defendant John Wilfrid Muir, 37, whom prosecutors say helped rob a Toronto grocery store of 560 dollars last January, did not appear for the hearing and forfeited 5,000 dollars bail. he remains at large.
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R.C.A.F
TORONTO
William Thomas “McGill
R.C.AF
John Wilfrid Muir
pHe
Churchill's wartime despatch highlighted by Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press notes a Churchill despatch to General Wavell dated January 23, 1942 from his Washington visit. Wavell, then in command in the Far East, led the resistance to Japan's advance and had just travelled to Chungking to confer with Chiang Kai-shek.
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R. Churchill
Winnipeg Free Press
General Wavell
Mr. Churchill
Washington
Far East
Japan
Gen. Wavell
Chungking
Chiang
Fall of Amboina Ends South Moluccan Rebellion
Jakarta reports the capture of Amboina, capital of the rebel South Moluccan Republic, marking what Ali Boediardjo calls the end of months of resistance. Rebels proclaimed independence April 26. a UN commission urged ceasefire, which Indonesia rejected as a domestic matter. Central forces invaded Sept. 28 and Amphibia now lies under government control.
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JAKARTA
Indonesia
Amboina
Ali Boediardjo
Amphoina
Moluccas
Celebes
New Guinea
United Nations commission
U.N
Netherlands, East Indies
Amboiha town
Amboihese
Iran and Russia reach $20 million barter trade accord
Premier Ali Raemara announced that Iran and Russia have concluded a final barter trade treaty valued at 20 million dollars. Details remain secret at present.
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TEHRAN
Iran
Ali Raemara
Russia
Advance Party Heads to Korea to Entrain at Pusan
The advance party of specialists and veterans sails from Yokohama to Korea under General MacArthur. They will occupy three old school buildings at Pusan and await reinforcements, then begin field training outside the port early next month. Ottawa announced an infantry battalion and support troops will move to Korea late this month.
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PUSAN
Korea
Ottawa
Defence
Claxton
Yokohama
O'Hara
MacArthur
United Nations
Canadian With U K Brigade in Korea
Sapper Joseph Gallagher of Kingston Ontario, a 50 year RAF veteran who joined the British army four years ago, serves with the 29th Brigade amid 2000 reinforcements in Pusan Korea. He plans to retire from the British army and return to his wife in Canada upon expected release in April after ten years of service.
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PUSAN
Korea
Reuters
Joseph Gallagher
Kingston
Ont
RAF
army
Gallagher
29th
Canada
Police seek escaped inmate Fred Armstrong in Alberta
Alberta police hunt for Fred Armstrong a 49 year old from Woodridge Ontario who escaped after battering down a jail door. described as a strong man and former contractor with political ties and friends across the province investigators believe he may have fled toward Alberta.
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CALGARY
Alberta
Fred Armstrong
Woodridge
Ont
Armstrong
Retreat begins as French pull back near Hanoi
French troops in Indo China begin a new retreat from foothill positions 45 miles southwest of Hanoi. Official reports say Wubcanh post and a chain of outposts are evacuated in a retrenchment around Hanoi, with a series of retirements since September from frontier ports facing Red China and northwest frontier forts like Laokay. The Day river runs near the Iarea, about 35 miles south of Hanoi.
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SAIGON
Indo-China
Hanoi
Wubcanh
Red river
Red China
Laokay
frontier fort
Chapa
Wubanh
Day river
Phuly
Rejection Seen for Russian German Unification Plan
Washington reports a Russian proposal to convene foreign ministers on a four power plan for a unified German state faced swift rejection by the United States Britain and France. Officials call it a propaganda stunt aimed at scuttling western plans to remilitarize Germany, while noting it would undermine Potsdam provisions. The plan urged nonremilitarization and withdrawal of occupation troops and sought a single German constitutional council.
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WASHINGTON
Germany
Britain
France
Prague
London
Paris
United States
Russia
Canada May Produce Canberras Jet Bomber
Ottawa reports Britain aims to have Canada build the Canberra jet propelled bomber and Montreal's Daisy dair plant named as a possible site. Defence Minister Emanuel Shinwell said it is an idea not yet settled while Canadian authorities cite obstacles. The Canberra could be used by Canada and the United States. Shinwell spoke after Atlantic Pact talks in Washington. Continued on page two.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Britain
Canberra
Defence
Emanuel Shinwell
United Kingdom
Shinwell
Montreal
Canadair
WASHINGTON
R.C.AF
Claxton
Fockema
U.N. Approves Veto-Free System of Collective Security
The United Nations backed a veto-free framework for collective security by a 52 to 5 vote. L. B. Pearson, former Canadian external affairs minister, urged member nations to back the measure and place armed forces on call for U.N. use. The 60-country political committee approved the resolution 47 to 5, with the Soviet bloc opposing the section on aggressive warfare.
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U.N
L. B. Pearson
Canada
Dominion
Pearson
Lake Success
Yugoslavia
assembly
G.N
WEST
Stockholm
TOSS BONES IN RIVER INDIA'S BURNING GHAT
In New Delhi India a burning ghat near the river is described with a cemetery like area and cement platforms where corpses are laid on piles of wood. The narrator visits at dawn to observe Hindus disposing of the dead, noting a calm scene with lawns trees cows and firing rituals.
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I. NORMAN.SMITH
The Herald
NEW DELHI
India
renda
Australian quads born in Melbourne
Two boys and two girls were born today to Mrs. Jane Ogilvie in Melbourne. Both mother and quadruplets are reported to be doing well.
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MELBOURNE
Australia
Reuters
Jane Ogilvie
Newcastle disease breaks in Monarch district
In Monarch-Nobleford area Newcastle disease infected a flock owned by J. Molenaar, with 380 birds destroyed to prevent spread. Only case in Southern Alberta, linked to a BC hatchery, owner eligible for compensation, health officials monitoring for any further outbreaks among geese ducks turkeys and wildfowl.
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MONARCH
Newcastle
Nobleford
J. Molenaar
British Columbia
B.C
A. W. Allan
Lethbridge
Dominion Dept. of Agriculture
Alberta
Alan
Harvester strike ends as UAW talks succeed
International Harvester Company and the United Auto Workers Union announced an agreement ending an 18 week strike by 24,000 employees. Also reported, part of the UN ban on Franco Spain was revoked allowing diplomats to Madrid and Spain to join agencies, while a Chinese Red divisions count in Korea was cited by US officials. A battered goose decoy was examined by relatives of missing men, and Grover Cleveland Alexander, famed pitcher, was found dead in St Paul, Nebraska. Puerto Rico National Guard units were stood down as calm returned.
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LH.C
U.A.W
CHICAGO
International Harvester Company
United Auto Workers Union
C.LG
U.N
SPAIN
NEW YORK
United Nations assembly
Madrid
France
EIGHTH ARMY
Korea
EDMONTON
Alberta
Guy
Alta
Vancouver
Coates
GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER
ST. PAUL
Neb
Grover
Cleveland Alexander
Calgary
NATIONAL GUARDS
PORRTO RICO
SAN JUAN
Puerto Rive
Nev
Lele
nik pane
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SUE LPHENT
No. CANADIAN INFANTRY
Special Force
Associated Press
ALLIED
Princess Pats
Canadian Army Special Service Force
James O’Hara
RAND CORKER
Amboing Falls
U.K
Moscow
BURNING GHAT
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