Allied troops mass in Near East amid war effort
Viscount Samuel notes large Allied forces from Britain France Australia New Zealand and colonial troops in a vast eastern Mediterranean reserve. He cites expanded roads and a Haifa refinery project moving Iraqi oil 600 miles, with 3,000 men employed, while Arab land restrictions spark local opposition to Jewish settlement.
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London
Manie East
Viscount Samuel
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Lord Samuel
Near East
Egypt
Turkey
Great Britain
New
Palestine
Haifa
Iraq
Explosive Tested by Baltimore Inventor in Public Trials
A Baltimore inventor demonstrated a new oxygen-carbon explosive to about 75 press members, propelling an eight-ounce charge a 40 foot pole height. He announced readiness for U S senate military affairs committee tests and predicted initial government trials within three weeks. The tests aim to prove stability amid criticism of liquid oxygen bombs.
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Baltimore
United States Senate Military Affairs Committee
Congressional War and Naval Committees
Barlow
French armament experts arrive at Marine Industries, Sorel
Technicians from France arrive in Canada to advise Marine Industries Limited of Sorel Quebec. The group, all from Schneider-Creuzot's plant, will stay two years at the Sorel guns factory. Ten French-Canadians joined the experts after a training course in France.
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Montreal
Canada
Marine Industries, Limited
Sorel, Que
Marine Industries
Schneider-CreuMt
Sorel
France
Ark Royal Returns Home After Five Month Cruise
Ark Royal has returned to port in London after a five month voyage. The carrier’s crew reported the long deployment concluded successfully despite prior German claims of sinking the ship earlier in the war.
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London
Sue Acres
ATK Royal
Ark Royal
New Zealand pilot Copper battles Messerschmitts on Western Front
A Royal Air Force action over the West saw Copper and two other pilots engage nine Messerschmitts. Copper claimed two kills and was shot down, parachuting into a French ploughed field after a perilous escape through a 3000 foot cloud layer. He was rescued by a French captain.
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Royal Air Force
New Zealand
Copper
Messerschmitt
France
Germany
No Man's Law
German Offensive Alarm on Northern France Border
Military reports indicate strong German interest in Allied troop strength and defense positions along northern France. Reconnaissance flights revive fears of a planned offensive via The Netherlands and Belgium. An explosion aboard destroyer La Railleuse killed seven sailors and left many unaccounted for or missing.
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Paris
Sungen
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Naval Ministry
la Railleuse
Aestroyer
Stefani
Tangier
Morocco
Espionage Alarm Grows Over 74000 Enemy Aliens in Britain
Naval intelligence chief Captain E Altham says 74000 German and Austrian refugees roam Great Britain with few restrictions, complicating espionage detection. Admiralty concern prompts Home Secretary Sir John Anderson to review and possibly tighten rules.
Fire at Nazi Plant Near Berlin Sparks Alarm
A fierce fire raged in a guarded military supply plant near Berlin, likely at Berg electricity works in Wilhelmsrun, burning a wooden warehouse. Police sealed details as wartime censorship limited information while observers feared powder stores and ammunition were involved.
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Wunitton
Berlin
Berlina
Wilhelmsrun
DNB
Berg
Ottawa to Buy Horses for Cavalry and Draught Needs
French government officials expect to purchase thousands of horses in Canada for cavalry and light draught use. Inspections mid May. purchases likely routed through large Canadian purchasing boards. Horses sought are five to ten years old, 15 to 16 hands and weights ranging 1 100 to 1 200 pounds for draught and 70 to 1 100 pounds for cavalry. Desired mix is 60 percent cavalry and 40 percent draught. Canada farms should meet the demand with little difficulty.
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Ottawa
Ture
Canada
France’s Reynaud vows virile acts to wage war
Paris Premier Paul Reynaud told the nation in a broadcast that the government must wage war and act promptly. He charged Hitler and Russia with a conspiracy to conquer Europe and erase French liberty, saying France is not surprised this time and will not be invaded.
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Paris
Paul Reynaud
Hitler
France
Reynaud
Russia
Europe
Byurprise
Long-record Ottawa prime minister Mackenzie King outlined
The article notes Mackenzie King as a long-serving Canadian prime minister, joining Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier in extended tenure. At 65 he had led for almost 14 years, with five general election victories equaling a historic record. Laurier served 15 years and Macdonald 20 years.
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Ottawa
A Mackenzie King
John A. Macdonald
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Mackenzie King
Sir John
List of Ships Lost in the North Sea and Related Sinking
A Bergen Aftenblad report details the sinking of the 3794 ton freighter Comet en route from Bergen to Buenos Aires, torpedoed while held at Kirkwall contraband base. It notes other losses including the tanker Daghestan and the Castlemoor, with survivors and damaged vessels scattered across the North Sea and Atlantic routes.
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London
Britain
North Sea
Kirkwall
Bergen
Norway
Buenos Aires
Castlemoor
Rossington Court
mid-Atlantic
Italo Balbe
England
Saba
Amsterdam
Jost
Comet
Orkney Islands
Scotland
Bergen Aftenblad
Rumors of German Japanese base plans in Hainan
The Shanghai press reports that Germany seeks a submarine base on Hainan near French Indochina and may extend unrestricted naval warfare to the Far East. General Eugene Ott is said to be authorized to negotiate for a shipbuilding plant on Hainan and to probe a German Russian Japanese trade monopoly in China.
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Shanghai
Germany
Japan
Hainan Island
Far East
Eugene Ott
Tokyo
Hainan
China
News Chronicle
Policy Is Necessary New York War Resource Cutbacks
British consul general in New York Geafrey vy. Hag gard warned that Allies must curb purchases of nonessential foreign commodities as the war strains continue. He noted curtailed U S exports such as tobacco and fruits and said Britain and France must redouble resource management for a long war. He stressed foreign resources are not inexhaustible and trade disruption in wartime is unavoidable.
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New York
Geafrey Vy. x. Haggard
United States
York
France
Great Britain
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