Indian troops land at Singapore to begin re occupation
Indian forces from the Punjabi regiment and 5th Indian division landed at Singapore in the early hours, taking the quay area as Allied prisoners cheered liberators. Fire damaged the Port Dickson oil tank farms while harbor structures show sunken ships from air raids. The reoccupation includes the Johore causeway and nearby airfield as Malayans and Chinese cheer.
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A. GRUMICH
Associated Press
INGAPORE
Singapore
1st Punjabi regiment
Port Dickson
Sinlapore
5th
Johore
Malaya
Canadian Brig Kay Arranges Prisoner Evacuation in Hong Kong
Canadian military attache Brig O M M Kay arrived in Kowloon to organize care and evacuation of Canadian prisoners held in Hong Kong. He will compile a complete list of personnel and pursue passage for prisoners, noting that Prince Robert cannot take prisoners aboard. The wardroom opens to prisoners as they await possible repatriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WILLIAM STEWART
P. Cable Ho
KONG
O. M. M. Kay
Chungking
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Kowloon
Kay
Kunming
Cecil Harcourt
Wallace Creery
Prince Robert
Canada
Hong Kong
Kowldon
Food distribution to Yokosuka children reported in Tokyo
A Tokyo radio dispatch said occupation troops are distributing food to Yokosuka residents including candy and chewing gum for children. The report notes New York bureau sources and reflects postwar relief efforts in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW YORK
Comei
Tokyo
Yokosuka
Left Hand Corner and DDT mothproofing debate
The Left Hand Corner OFHS fights for a stake in family woollens with DDT mothproofing. DDT dissolved in oil can mothproof wool during manufacture and, mixed with dry cleaning solvents, offers temporary protection for worn clothes. UK scientists claim progress toward general use, noting the potent chemical name dicilarodiphenyltrichloraeth ane. The London gas lamp story links Winsor to early proposals, with Davy and Scott noted as critics, and a 1807 Pak Mall lighting milestone referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Winnipeg Free Press
St. Thomas
Davey
London
Winsor
Pak Mall
Balloon bombs threat ends as Canada recalls danger faced
Ottawa reports Japan launched incendiary balloon bombs over Canada causing potential widespread fires from coast to prairie. Army details reveal balloons used high explosive loads with self destruct failures and unexploded ordnance posing risk to campers and tourists for years. RCAF pilots shot down several balloons including one drifting toward Coal Harbour BC, where dynamite brought it down after snagging in a tree.
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OTTAWA
British Columbia
prairies
Canada
anmy
Mullon
Sask
Pacific
Ontario
McBride
army
Japan
RCAF
R.C.A.F
Coal Harbor
B.C
Relaxed Canadian Army Discharge Rules Announced
Defence Minister Abbott announced a 10 point reduction to 130 in the priority score for immediate discharge from the Canadian army. Long service overseas personnel gain top priority, while others must show college enrollment or employer letters. the army can recall personnel on leave if they violate discharge agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Canada
Defence
Abbott
Tang Sunk by Own Torpedo in Pacific War
The U S submarine Tang was sunk by a torpedo that boomeranged after being fired at a Japanese ship. The incident, a freak of the Pacific war, was disclosed today in Guam on September 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GUAM
United States
Tang
British troops enter Thailand amid talks on disarming Japanese
A BBC broadcast heard by NBC reported British troops entered Thailand on Tuesday and officers held talks in Bangkok with Thai authorities on the process to disarm Japanese forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW YORK
BBC
NBC
Thailand
Bangkok
Drive Home Defeat Drives Japan To Surrender
YOKOHAMA Sept 5 The occupation of Tokyo will begin Friday with the U S 1st Cavalry entering the bombed capital Gen MacArthur will move his headquarters to the U S embassy building in Tokyo The directive orders Japan to disclose all war equipment and to place facilities under rising occupation forces Japanese and Allied officers will direct army and air units to report to senior generals Airfields offices and transport facilities must be turned over on demand
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YOKOHAMA
Tokyo
United States
MacArthur
Allied powers
Japan
Eichelberger
Krueger
Korea
Hodge
Gen. MacArthur
Emperor Hirohito’s rescript opens Diet session
Emperor Hirohito urged Japan to win world confidence and obey national commitments as he opened the 88th extraordinary Diet session. The House of Peers adopted a resolution acknowledging defeat and ordering state minister reports on causes, while critics accused Tojo’s government of deceiving the public about wartime strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RUSSELL BRINES
TOKYO
Hirohito
Diet
House of Peers
disputch
Tojo
Baron Reijiro Wakatsuki
Mulberry Harbor Model Tours Canada After Ottawa Opening
A large scale model of Mulberry Harbor arrives in Canada on a nationwide exhibition tour after an Ottawa opening. The prefabricated harbor used in the Allied 1944 invasion of France weighed about 1,000,000 tons with six miles of piers and dual ports for British-Canadian and American forces. It will visit about 13 cities over the next year, illustrating the port-within-a-port concept approved at the 1943 Quebec conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DOUG HOW
OTTAWA
Dieppe
Canada
British War Office
Europe
chiefs of staff
France
Quebec
Normandy
Hudson's Bay Company
Engineering Institute of Canada
Alleged Slayer Of Trelle Is Held
SAN BERNARDINO Calif Sept 5 John Gilbert charged with the murder of Herman William Tretle 50 a former Canadian champion wheat grower was surrendered today by his attorney at the home of a friend in Fontana Sheriff Emmett L Shay said Giliberti claimed Trelle was killed in a struggle for the possession of the latter s shotgun when he called at the Overholtz ranch house after he had been discharged as a ranch worker last Saturday Three months ago Trelle ousted Giliberti as manager of the ranch The sheriff said Gilibert declared Trelle came out of the house with a shotgun pointed the weapon at him and pulled the trigger They wrestled for its possession and Treille was fatally wounded An inquest has been set for tomorrow and Treille s funeral is planned continued on Page Three
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN BERNARDINO
Calif
John Gilbert
Herman William Tretle
Fontana
Emmett
L. Shay
Giliberti
Trelle
Overholtz
Trelie
Giliberts
Gilibert
Treille
Trefle
Record of Japanese Prisoner Atrocities Publicized
The U S state department released a ghastly record of inhuman treatment, torture, and murder of prisoners by Japanese officers and men with names, dates, and places, vowing punishment. It details 240 protests and notes fear of provoking Japan before surrender, with the Puerta Princesa massacre highlighted as the era’s worst atrocity. The report promises to submit evidence to authorities for accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. BLACKBURN
WASHINGTON
state department
Japan
Japs To Pay For Cruelty
Information from prisoners of war for war crime trials will go to Gen MacArthur for courts martial. The American command plans liberations across northern Honshu and southern home islands with Formosa under Chinese occupation. Generals Wainwright Beebe and others hold information on Japanese officers. MacArthur seeks names and locations of Allied camps and burial sites. Prisoner totals rise as 850 arrive, bringing freed to 2,368, soon to grow with more transports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MARLIN SPENCER
YOKOHAMA
MacArthur
Robert L. Fichelberger
8th Army
éth
Honshu
Formosa
Geoffrey Raoul Lempriere
RAAF
Rabaul
Ashion
Eschelberger
Wainwright
Beebe
Hideko Tojo
Gen. Macarthur
Wiigata
Kobe
Manitoba General Election Likely This Fall
Winnipeg dispatch reports Manitoba will hold a provincial general election this fall with polling possibly on October 22 or 23. The throne speech proposes an Active Service Election and Representation Act to add three service members to the legislature and extend voting to armed forces personnel, lowering voting age for active and discharged personnel, raising MPPs from 54 to 58, and avoiding delays in dominion provincial negotiations. Lieut Gov McWilliams states ministers oppose extending terms or delaying conferences, and an early appeal to electors is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
Manitoba
R. F. McWilliams
west spring
British Columbia
armed services
army
navy
air force
Guy
No Word of Complaints From Occupied Area Report
Japanese press allegations of looting and rape near Tokyo prompted a response from the 8th Army public relations office stating no complaints had been filed in the occupied area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YOKOHAMA
Tokyo
8th Army public relations office
Japanese Surrender Near In China Expected Soon
Nanking reports Gen Leng Hsin stating formal surrender of Japanese troops in China would occur within a week with ceremony likely Sunday. Troop disarmament planned, 78,000 officers and men, 14,000 sick and wounded, 7,800 civilians in Nanking. 400,000 civilians in city. Mass air movement of Chinese 6th Army to Nanking underway. US planes to assist. About 700,000 tons to be handled over ~45 days. PMID
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DONALD HUTH NANKING
Leng Hsin
Nanking
China
Leng
Chang Kung-Po
prppet
6th army
Chihkiang
6th arry
United States
Chiang Kai- Shek
Troops On The Move From Halifax Carrier Hit Parade
Homeward bound armed auxiliary aircraft carrier Puncher sails from Halifax with 619 army 76 RCAF and 6 navy personnel aboard including 41 Wrens. The Canadian Press reports the homeward movement of mixed service crews from the carrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Puncher
army
RCAF
navy
Edmonton bids opened for Pot Hole Coulee project
Bids were opened in Edmonton Tuesday for the Pot Hole Coulee reservoir job. Ben Russell, director of water resources, said seven bids were received but it would be some before a contract is awarded. Meanwhile, George Smith of Tilley, who has the $89,000 Aetna irrigation scheme project, is already moving dirt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Pot Hole Coulee
Ben Russell
water resources
George Smith
Tilley
British American Oil Announces Union Oil of Canada Purchase
Vancouver dispatch reports British American Oil Company Limited, led by A. H. Miller, vice president in charge of sales, announcing the purchase of the Union Oil Company of Canada. No financial terms were disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VANCOUVER
Union Oil Company of
Canida
S Oil Company Limited
A. H. Miller
British Amercan Oil
First Move Towards Disbanding Pacific Force In Canada
Ottawa September 5 A first step toward disbanding the Canadian Army Pacific Force was taken over the weekend with orders halting movements of Pacific volunteers to assembly areas in Canada and outlining the disposal procedure for all members of the force, defence headquarters announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Canadian Army
Pacific Force
Canada
defence headquarters
Fall Manitoba election set but date awaits declaration
Manitoba voters will head to the polls this fall though the exact date remains unannounced. The throne speech at the special session opening noted the fall election, with October 23 repeatedly mentioned as a possible polling day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MANITOBA
WINNIPEG
First Prisoners Reach Manila
The hospital ship Oxfordshire arrived in Manila with 319 prisoners of war and internees from Hong Kong including 18 women. Nationals aboard were Britons Canadians South Africans Australians Indians Norwegians and one American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MANILA
Oxfordshire
Hong Kong
Colombo
Ceylon
CBS
New York
A. J. Curtiss
troop movement command
Mantis
Michel Fire Eases After Rainstorm In Natal, B. C.
Canadian report says a wildfire near Michel, Natal district, threatened the mountainside Friday night. A morning rainstorm reduced danger as power lines sustain damage delaying Michel mines operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MICHEL
NATAL
B.C
Japanese Boats Confiscated After Action Near Yokosuka Base
In Tokyo Bay on September 5, U S naval occupation forces said twenty Japanese boats were confiscated after failed actions near the Yokosuka base and nine submarines were boarded by American prize crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
3rd FLEET
Tokyo Bay
Yokosuka
Fire destroys woodpile at Arctic Ice yard Winnipeg
Fire swept the Arctic Ice Company yard in South Winnipeg last night destroying a woodpile. Fire Chief D A Boulden blamed the blaze on possible children. No damage estimate was provided.
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WINNIPEG
Arctic Ice Company
D. A. Boulden
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ALLIED P.O.W
Taree
Brig. O. M. M. Kay
U.S
Httle
Puerta Princesa
Yalawa
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OFEN
B.A. OIL CO
Be UNION Om COMPANY
ICE COMPANY
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Rise Stevens
Metropolitan Opera
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Misa Stevens
Lloyds
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