Britain plans protection of airdromes with RAF regiment
London announces a Special defence corps to guard airfields from airborne attack. Major General Claude Liardet will command the unit, which operates under the Royal Air Force and Army direction, with ground defence under the Air Council. Details on size and overseas outposts were not disclosed.
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London
Britain
Crete
Germany
Claude Liardet
Lord Moyne
Royal Air Force
Liardet
Artillery
Army
Air Ministry
Kuantan
Malaya
Commons
War Cabinet
Norway
France
Greece
Ra.f
Naval
Ministry of
United Kingdom
RAF
R.A.F
Maliva
Spending Billions in U S Budget for Next Fiscal Year
Washington lists round figures for the next fiscal year with $56.0 billion for war 4.25 billion for normal government costs relief and farm aid 1.75 billion for interest and a funding plan totaling 16.504 billion from existing taxes 7.09 billion from new general taxes 3.0 billion in social security taxes and 35.0 billion from treasury borrowing The plan projects monthly spending rising from 2 billion to 5 billion and notes a peak near 15.5 billion this year with the public debt reaching 110 billion after borrowing.
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Washington
United States
Seldeck
Treasury
Gas Rationing Coming to Ottawa April First
Gasoline rationing will begin April 1 as scheduled. Munitions Minister Howe said at a press conference that estimates of the first ration allotments cannot yet be determined.
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Ottawa
Howe
Danes in Britain back Atlantic Charter pledge
The Danish council representing free Danes in Britain and Northern Ireland voted adherence to the Atlantic Charter and UN pact principles, stating it as if the declaration had been signed by a free Danish government.
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London
Danish Council
Britain
Northern Ireland
Egypt Breaks Ties With Bulgaria and Finland
Cairo reports Egypt will sever diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and Finland as Britain declares war on both. The government in Vichy France has also taken a similar step.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bulgaria
Finland
Great Britain
Memorial at Vimy Ridge Safe Cob Lays War Memorial Custodian
Montreal George H Stubbs custodian of the Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge is safe and well but a prisoner of war in a camp at St Denis France according to a letter received by George S Layton of the Canadian Legion war services He said 160 Canadians are in the camp and that upkeep of the memorial has not been reviewed awaiting postwar work
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Montreal
George H Stubbs
Vimy Ridge
St. Denis
France
George S. Layton
Cnadian Legion War Services
Stubbs
Dutch Precautions in Indies Reported by Van Mook
Lieutenant governor Van Mook disclosed a year of preparations for a scorched earth plan in the Netherlands East Indies. He said plans included moving or destroying oil plants and industries in danger, with oil wells to be set on fire, though Japan could likely restart production within six months.
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Sydney
H. J. van Mook
Netherlands East Indies
Split in Nazi Party and German Generals Reported
The New York Times cited an official report to the U.S. war department describing a split between Nazi leaders and a group of German generals. It notes heavy losses on the eastern front, hunger and disease, collapsing supply lines, and a possible army plot with generals like Marschner and Admiral Canari, while Hitler retains home support.
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New York
New York Times
Washington
the Times
United Nations
United States War Department
Department
Nazi Party
Eastern Front
Germany
Canari
Marschner
Hitler
Production of Munitions Reaches New Peak in Canada
Ottawa reports munitions output in Canada rising sharply as war production expands. Howe notes contracts with Britain and the US total over 3.2 billion since July 1939, with tank production projected above 1,500 in 1942 and universal carriers over 9,000.
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Ottawa
Canada
Howe
Lord Beaverbrook
Washinton
America
United States
American Republic
Great Britain
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Truce Aid For Wounded Airmen At Halfaya
Five wounded airmen from a British bomber crash at Halfaya were brought out under a white flag by an Italian medical officer to receive aid from South Africans closing in. The Italian passed through lines with surgical dressings after the South Africans granted safe conduct.
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Cairo
Halfaya
Convoy Defence Improved London
A British authority credited improved attack efficiency for sinking three German submarines defending an Atlantic convoy. He warned against assuming prisoner captures reflect German morale and suggested the Mediterranean transfer may reflect better Atlantic convoy defence and a push toward Libya’s battle.
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London
Admiralty
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Libya
Turn In Uniforms Ban Affects Japanese Cadets At UBC
Notices posted at the University of British Columbia require Japanese students who were members of the Canadian Officers' Training Corps to surrender uniforms and equipment. President L S Klinck announced the ban was decided by the military education committee on January 2 due to the present situation, affecting more than 70 cadets.
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Vancouver
University of British Columbia
L. S. Klinck
Committee On Military Education
Soviet Troops Surge Toward Sevastopol and Vyazma-Bryansk Fronts
London reports Soviet forces expanding an ever widening arc toward Sevastopol while mounting fresh divisions push toward the Vyazma Bryansk line west of Moscow. Advances in Karelia and the Crimea accompany a Moscow front drive recapturing Meshchovsk as a spearhead forms at Kaluga and Staritsa threatening Mozhaisk.
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London
Bb.c
Kuibyshev
Sevastopol
Russia
Vyazma- Bryansk
Moscow
Smolensk
Red Army
Karelia
Crimea
Meshchevsk
Vyazma
Jap Bombing Washington Drives Luzon Towns Razed
The U S war department reported Gen Douglas MacArthur the war department said saw widespread damage to defence less towns in Luzon from Japanese air raids. Baler Santa Rosa Calamba and Tarla were mercilessly bombed and completely razed with many deaths. Civilians in Arayat Camiling and San Fernando were machine gunned in the streets and Sundays holidays were targeted for churchgoers.
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Washington
United States War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
War Department
Philippine
Baler
Santa Rosa
Calamba
Tarla
Arayat
Camiling
San Fernando
Sikorski Hails Russia Pact as Step Toward Real Policy
Polish prime minister General Wladyslaw Sikorski returned from Russia and said agreements with Joseph Stalin prove definite conclusions and action. He called Poland entering real politics based on facts and noted a Russo Polish army constitution was among the agreements.
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Wladyslaw Sikorski
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Poland
Gen. Sikorski
Supplies For Russia Sent From Britain to Crimea
Red Cross headquarters reports two large consignments of drugs bandages and surgical accessories part of Canadian aid to Russia have left Britain for the Crimea.
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Toronto
Red Cross
Russia
Britain
Crimea
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