Royal Navy claims mastery of Arctic waters in 100 days
London reports the Royal Navy has united and bombed its way to the Arctic Ocean for over 100 days, keeping the Nor wegian coast supply lanes open. U boat assaults on Allied shipping have diminished, German plane attacks paused, and surface attacks are reduced to a minor threat. The fleet is reinforced by aircraft carriers and escorts, with increased carrier borne and land based air strikes against Norwegian bases and supply lines. The force vows to press the final European war showdown with the strongest ever assembled fleet, able to wear a groove in the water.
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Royal Navy
Arctic Ocean
Arctic
Atlantic
Weeth
Asone
Curtin Proposes Empire Consultative Body in London
Australian Prime Minister Curtin urged London to host an empire consultative body to prepare background material and conduct preliminary talks ahead of empire conferences. He favored a continuing conference structure, a central archive, and more frequent prime minister meetings to reach concrete decisions rather than just study issues. He noted Australia’s strength in Pacific affairs and variability in readiness among partners for European topics.
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Ottawa
Curtin
Australia
London
Secretariate
Commonwealth
Canada
Britain
New Zealand
Ottawa debate on a national Canadian history textbook
Senator Rupert Davies urged creating an authorized textbook of Canadian history acceptable to all provinces. He backed Senator L A David's motion for a provincial conference to appoint a committee to prepare the text. Davies argued that Canada currently uses over 20 different histories in public and high schools, including Quebec's French schools.
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Ottawa
Rupert Davies
L. Ontaro
Davies
LA. David
L. Quetec
Dominion
Canada
Quebec
Road Through China Must Be Built In Six Months
In Vancouver Bishop Paul Yu-Pin of Nanking urged a road link to China within six months to ensure a steady stream of supplies as Japanese forces threaten to divide China. The Manchurian-born bishop warned the Allies face a tougher mission if China is cut in two. Separately in London the Transport and General Workers' Union urged withdrawing gas-producer road passenger vehicles due to discomfort and occasional mild illness.
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China
Paul Yu- Pin
Nanking
Yu-Pin
London
Transport and General Workers’ Union
Walker Leads Five Sloops to Sink Six U- Boats
London reports credit Walker as commander of five British naval sloops that achieved the war’s greatest single patrol victories in the Atlantic, sinking six German submarines within 20 days. A German broadcaster in Calais cited repatriated prisoners praising their treatment in English camps as fair and in line with the Geneva conventions, with similar comments about Canadian camps.
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Royal
Walker
London
Calais
Canada
Wheat shipments to Greece reach Greek people says Red Cross
Ottawa reports Trade Minister MacKinnon told the commons the Red Cross asserts Canadian wheat shipments have all reached Greece. By April ninth more than 11,000,000 bushels had been shipped and were in safe hands. The food is destined to relieve starvation among needy families and individuals in Greece.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Commons
Red Cross
Canada
Greece
Ottawa Allows Lower Living Allowance for Workers
In Ottawa an order in council directed by Labor Minister Mitchell authorizes a supplementary living allowance up to 1.50 dollars per week for workers directed to new jobs who must live away from dependents, replacing the former five-dollar weekly allowance. In Montreal, relatives of 15 killed in a Liberator crash filed over 66 thousand dollars in damages before special commissioner Mr. Justice Orville St. Tyndale.
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Commons
Mitchell
Montreal
Orville St. Tyndale
German Gestapo Launches A New Wave Of Terror
London reports a ruthless new Gestapo terror wave across France the Netherlands and Belgium with mass arrests and brutal reprisals. Accounts cite the Dor Dogne region the town of Riberac Brantome St Quentin and Belgian areas where civilians were killed or injured in public square executions and forest arson as retaliation for resistance activity.
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London
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Europe
Britain
Dordogne
Riberac
Canadian trade seen reaching new record in 1944
Ottawa reports that based on imports and exports in the first four months of 1944 Canada’s total trade may exceed 5 billion dollars for the year. Trade Minister MacKinnon notes last year’s 4.796 billion dollar total was a record and that the current four months show a strong start with a large balance of trade in Canada’s favor.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Canada
Japanese Lose Over Five Thousand In New Guinea Invasions
Advanced Allied Headquarters reported more than 5,000 Japanese dead across two Netherlands New Guinea sectors. Hollandia, invaded April 22, accounted for 3,762 of the total, while Wakde-Teem near 100 miles away logged 1,347. In Canberra, Australia, the postal service shows 32 percent of staff are women serving as letter carriers drivers telegraphists sorters and assistants.
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Netherlands New Guinea
Hollandia
Wakde Toem
Hollandis
Wakde-Teem
Canberra
Australian Postal Service
Eisenhower Praises Canadians in London Visit
General Dwight D Eisenhower and Lt General Crerar returned to headquarters after inspecting Canadian troops. The Allied invasion commander praised the Canadians on their battle fitness and readiness for operations.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
HD. G. Crerar
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