Difficult Task Faces McArthur In Australia
Washington gen MacArthur faces a formidable task directing the Battle for Australia. Military experts caution against false optimism as Japan may attempt a fierce campaign to smash Australia, with UN forces in growing strength under MacArthur. The plan favors a dynamic defence and counterstrikes, while Australians wage air hammering operations to deter Japanese footholds.
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Washington
MacArthur
Australia
United Nations
Batan
Singapore
Netherlands Indies
Jamese
Anearthur
Philippines
Canada US pact aims at boosting vegetable oil substitutes
In the House of Commons Agriculture Minister Gardiner outlined a Canada United States agreement to produce more coarse grains and wider soybean output to replace oils normally imported from Pacificwar regions. The US will take Canadian surpluses if production expands in the coming year.
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Ottawa
United States
Gardiner
House of Commons
Canada
Dominion
Pacific
Gas Rationing Exemption For Yukon Northern Areas
Ontario and federal officials announce exemptions from gasoline rationing for Yukon and Northwest Territories due to low sales. Mitchell confirms transfer of 3000 Japanese nationals from British Columbia to northern Ontario for pulp mills and logging camps. Walter Ceveer of Montreal named assistant to Donald Gordon at wartime prices and trade board. Yeller acts as deputy to textile group coordinator in price administration.
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Yukon
Ottawa
Northwest Territories
Howe
Vancouver
Walter
Cever of
Monteal
Donald Gordon
Prices and Trade Board
Yeller
Alaska Highway to join Canadian system after war
Ottawa announced Canada will accept US led surveys and construction of the Alaska highway from Fort St John BC to Alaska. US army engineers will build and survey with contracts awarded to expedite completion. US will maintain the route through war end and six months after unless Canada takes over earlier.
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Ottawa
Alaska
Canada
United States
Otawa
Washington
Mackenzie King
Fort St John
Dawson Creek
Public Roads Administration
Problem For Japan Berne Transport Challenge
The Koelnische Zeitung questions Japan’s ability to manage large scale transport after widespread territorial gains. It notes safeguarding troops bases and resource exploitation is a transport problem and that Japan must build a merchant fleet to sustain communications with the Pacific territories and the homeland.
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Berne
Koelnisene Zeitung
Japan
Pacific
Canadian Sapper Hutchinson Receives Military Medal
Sapper Fraser Hutchinson of Dartmouth Nova Scotia has been awarded the Military Medal for a secret act in England during World War II. He is the first Canadian to win the medal since the war began and has returned to his Royal Canadian Engineers unit. A separate Moscow despatch reports heavy Russian losses at Kharkov as occupation worsens food and living conditions.
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England
Sapper
Fraser Hutchinson
Dartmouth
Hutchinson
Royal Canadian Engineers
Moscow
South Western Front
Kharkov
Sabotage Suspected at Mauser Arms Works Rottweil
A large explosion rocked the Mauser arms works in Rottweil, southwestern Germany, last month. Authorities suspect sabotage and an eye witness described a man named Gamage as heavily involved.
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Longo
Frontier
Mauser
Rottweil
Germany
Gamage
Defence Of Australia Warns Of Japanese Invasion Risk
R P Bower, former Canadian assistant trade commissioner to Australia, predicts large areas of Australia could fall to Japanese forces before Allied defenses push back. He argues concentrated defense at key positions can hold, citing Tobruk as a comparable strongpoint and noting natural fortifications across the continent. Japan is also accused of using poison gas in western Suiyuan and Ichang regions, causing Chinese casualties amid ongoing clashes.
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Winnipeg
Australia
R. P. Bower
Bower
Tobruk
Libya
Japan
Chungking
Suiyuan
Ichang
Hupeh
Wartime Prices Board Announces Currants and Raisins Bought
The community prices stabilization corporation has purchased from the Australian government Canada's entire requirements of currants and raisins, the Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced.
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Ottawa
Community - Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
Prices and Trade Board
Britain sent 80 percent of military production overseas says Halifax
Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, disclosed on radio that 80 percent of total military production and every soldier with available shipping space have already been sent overseas. He said Britain uses 200 ships to sustain overseas forces and 600 fighting ships at sea to protect supply lines and hunt the enemy. The bomber command’s striking power is rising as Germany faces heavier air attacks on war production centers.
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Count Halifax
United States
Britain
Lord Halifax
Bomber Command
Germany
British Isles
North America
Royal Navy
War news policy outlines casualty lists and production communique
The government issued a comprehensive policy statement on war news including a plan to publish casualty lists. It also promised the War Production Board will issue frequent production communiques to let the public judge progress of the production program.
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Washington
United States
War Production Board
Canada allocates war supplies to allies as needed
Ottawa rejects claims of unfair Australia-Britain bias in Canadian war shipments. External affairs says Canada meets UN import needs rapidly and diverts goods to where demand is greatest, with Britain directing allocations to theaters such as the Middle East or Australia as situations require.
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Sydney Daily Telegraph
Australia
Meir
Daily Telegraph
Britain
Canada
Rtment
United Kingdom
United States
Arlier
Howe
British Commonwealth of Nations
Briain
Middle East
Duty Value Lowered on Apples by Ottawa Order
Customs Commissioner H D Scully said Revenue Minister Gibson ordered the cancellation of the 15 per cent duty on apples effective March 26. It is the first duty reduction in three years and will cut duty by 50 cents a bushel as shortages boost home consumption. Davian Dick, federal wool administrator, warned Canadian and British clothing markets will face a cut this year due to shipping space shortages, with Canada less affected thanks to accumulated stock.
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Ottawa
H.D. Scully
Gibson
Toronto
Davian Dick
Britain
Resignation of Trinidad and Tobago Governor Sir Hubert Young
Sir Hubert Young resigns as governor and commander-in-chief of Trinidad and Tobago due to ill health. The London report notes his departure from public duties and the impact on the colonial administration.
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London
Hubert Young
Trindad and
Tobago
Digging In Dublin Six Hundred Shelters Planned
Six hundred more ground shelters to accommodate 20 001 people are to be constructed in the capital of Eire. After March 31 the manufacture of dry cell batteries for portable radios will be prohibited by the department of munitions and supply. The retail sale of available stocks will not be affected.
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Dubin
Eire
Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
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Litvinoff
New York
Hitler
Philadelphia
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