Churchill reshapes war cabinet with Cripps and Lyttelton
Prime Minister Churchill announces a seven member War Cabinet including Sir Stafford Cripps as privy seal and House of Commons leader and Oliver Lyttelton as minister of state in charge of production. Lord Beaverbrook goes to the United States. Kingsley Wood and Arthur Greenwood exit. Clement Attlee becomes Dominions Secretary. The changes aim to realign the top team amid critical pressure.
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Churrchil
Stafford Cripps
Privy Seal
House of Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
Oliver Lyttelton
United States
Kingsley Wood
Arthur Greenwood
Clement Attlee
Churchill
House of Compans
Dominions
Viscount Cranborne
Sir Stafford
Mr. Attlee
Russia
Lyttelton
Middle East
Ernest Bevin
Anthony Eden
John Anderson
Britain
London
The
Daily Mail
Conservative
Mail
Daily Express
News-Chronicle
Liberal
Canadian Bomb Plant Largest Of Its Kind In World
The Montreal plant, described as probably the largest bomb plant in the British empire, will produce 2,000,000 shells monthly across 21 calibres. Canada has delivered 15,000,000 cartridge cases and produced over 10,000,000 fuses, with 34 chemical projects costing 120 million dollars to supply explosives. 18,000 workers are in filling plants, rising to 27,000 at full capacity, plus 20,000 in 150 other plants making ammunition components.
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Montreal
Quebec
E. J. Brunning
Department of Munitions and Supply
Montreal Electrical Club
British Empire
Brunning
Canada
Sunk Own Ship Spreewald Report From Admiralty
The admiralty said Axis U boat sank its own ship the 5083 ton German steamship Spreewald after an SOS from January 31. The vessel reported torpedoing 450 miles north of the Azores with a false British ship name, later corrected. British patrols found an oil patch but no survivors were indicated.
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London
Admiralty
Spreewald
Azores
Aid To China Hints At New Supply Route Via Red Route
New York The old Marco Polo road between Mongolia and Tibet to Turkestan and Soviet Russia could carry U S aid to China if Burma Tract is severed. Harrison Forman says China has diplomatic ties with Tran and is negotiating with Iraq. Convoys of base lead material might cross the south Atlantic and Africa to Tran and Iraq then rail through Russia to Chungking. The red route via Lanchow has improved since the Japanese invasion, enabling motor caravans.
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New York
Mongolia
Tibet
Turkestan
Soviet
Russia
China
Burma
Harrison Forman
Chungking
Tran
Iraq
Beaselead
South Atlantic
Africa
Siberia
Lanchow
Kansu
Sinkiang
Loss Of Tankers Deepens Canadian gasoline shortage
Ottawa reports Canada's gasoline shortage worsening as tanker losses rise. Munitions Minister Howe told The Canadian Press sinking of U S tankers in the Gulf of Venezuela would not directly affect Canadian supply. Rationing coupons likely to remain at five gallons when the plan starts April 1, with possible adjustments if conditions justify.
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Howe
United States
Gulf of Venezuela
Nazi plan to move 400000 Russian farm workers to southern Ukraine
Berne Germany orders transfer of 400,000 Russian laborers from the north to southern Ukraine as part of a 1942 food production drive. Nazis also outline resettlement of large White Russia areas with farmers from Denmark Holland and other occupied countries to expand agriculture.
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Berne
Germany
Ukraine
Russia
Denmark
Holland
Australian nurses decline evacuation in Singapore scene
Melbourne reports wounded Australians reaching Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies where several Australian nurses refused evacuation from Singapore to remain and tend 4,000 wounded empire soldiers, showing steadfast wartime resolve.
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Melbourne
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Singapore
Death of Frank L Packard Creator of Jimmie Dale Series
Montreal obituary reports the death of Frank Lucius Packard 65 in Lachine after a brief illness. Born February 2 1877 in Montreal he graduated from McGill in 1897 and pursued engineering in the United States before turning to writing for magazines in 1906.
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Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale
Montreal
Frank Lucius Packard
Lachine
Mr. Packard
McGill University
L'Institut Montefiore
University of Liege
Belgium
United States
Heavy Japanese Air Losses Reported In Singapore Battle
Aneta reported by three Australian fliers who escaped to Java that at least 200 Japanese pilots were lost in the fighting for Singapore. The youths said Japanese forces held Kelang airfield and repaired damaged planes in a nearby garage before flying out under heavy machine gun fire.
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Batavia
N.E.I
Singapore
Aneta
Java
Kelang
Greece Under Nazis
J Wes Gallagher, AP war correspondent, returns from Europe after a two year swing through 16 countries and four wars. He praises the Italian Greek and German Italian Greek campaigns and notes Greek civilians endured the worst defeat with mass starvation expected to claim millions.
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New York
J. Wes Gallager
Associated Press
London
Gallagher
Greece
Athens
Coun
Vansittart warns disarmament and reeducation of Germany
London reports Lord Vansittart, ex chief diplomatic adviser, urging that after the war all Germans must be disarmed for a generation to redo their education. He spoke to the Never Again Association, saying Germany should be happier after regeneration and warning against leniency toward Germans. He tied disarmament to adherence to the Atlantic Charter and warned of prolonged Allied occupation if not enforced.
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London
Lord Vansittart
Germany
Churchill
Roosevelt
Japan faces strategic limits in a global expansion
The piece argues Japan cannot sustain a wide reach across about one third of the globe. It notes heavy commitments in China and Burma, with Chiang Kai-shek's forces and Soviet border clashes tying down Japanese troops. It warns an invasion of Australia or India would stretch supply lines, risking exposure to the United Nations, while U.S. and British pressure could erode Japanese outposts in the western Pacific.
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London
Japan
India
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Hitler
Russia
United States
Britain
United Nations
Burma
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Singapore
Strait of Malacca
Capetown
Suez
Persian Gulf
Vichy
Middle East
Western Pacific
New Zealand
Aus
Tralia
U.S. Pacific
Marshall and
Gilbert Islands
Train Airborne Troops For The British Forces
War secretary Capt. David Margesson announced that the British army is training airborne troops and has para chute and air landing units ready for action. He noted new armored divisions are forming, especially in the Middle East, and that equipment shortages delayed converting infantry to armored units. He described Libya tank warfare as challenging and warned against signs Britain would not send soldiers abroad.
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London
David Margesson
Middle East
Margesson
Malaya
Germany
Japan
Libya
United States
Britain
Training in England for Canadian Armored Division
A number of officers and NCOs from a Canadian infantry division under conversion to an armored division will travel to England for attachments to the Canadian armoured formations overseas. They will train with the tank brigade in southern England, visit British armoured units and tank gunnery schools, and then return home to pass on new armored fighting developments to accelerate Canadian training.
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England
Armored
Canada
Hitler designates Bohrmann as third in line for succession
A New York Times despatch from Berne, Switzerland reports Hitler appoints Richard Bohrmann as No. 3 in the Nazi hierarchy after Rudolf Hess and ahead of Hermann Goering. Bohrmann is described as a violent anti Catholic Nazi.
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New York
New York Times
Berne
Switzerland
Hitler
Richard Bohrmann
Rudolf Hess
Marshal Goering
Bohrmann
Riga Typhus Ban Shuts Gatherings in Latvia
The Deutsche Zeitung in Ostland reports German authorities in former Latvia have banned all gatherings and assemblies in the Riga area to combat typhus spread. The order highlights strict control measures affecting residents and public life in the region.
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Berne
Deutsche Zeitung
Ostland
Latvia
Riga
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