Berlin Grips Under Power Outage Amid Barricades
Reports from Berlin describe electric power off for days as women and men join street barricades. Moscow radio warns of a fearsome frontal assault by Soviet forces with other German cities resisting. Frankfurt on the Oder prepares to stand to the death.
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London
Berlin
Peraden
Getey
Transcen
Aid
Joseph Aal
Frankfurt
Oder
Asault
Moscow Radio
Germany
Stassfurt
Magdeburg
Reguar
Moscow
Munich
S.S
Dachau
Surplus War Materials Planned Destruction in Canada
War Assets Corporation, handling surplus war materials in Canada, outlined plans to remove surpluses from former war plants and destroy up to 75 percent of Canada's war goods after the war. Destruction would include obsolete training aircraft and high horsepower motors, salvaged into ingots, with explosives dumped at sea, all after thorough testing.
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Ottawa
War Assets Corporation
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Carswell
Canada
Red Cross to Sustain War Work After Hostilities End
Jackson Dodds CBE, Montreal chairman, declares the Canadian Red Cross will continue wartime duties until troops are demobilized and liberated countries rebuilt. He cites ongoing hospital visits, blood donor clinics, and peacetime projects, noting one sixth of the Dominion’s population volunteers.
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Calgary
Canadian Red Cross
Jackson Dodds
Montreal
Canadian Red Cross Society
Dominion
Mr. Dodds
Children return home as England recovers from war
About 700 children have returned to England from the United States where they had fled during the 1940 air attacks on England. The move marks a step in post war adjustments as families reunite and communities rebuild after the wartime evacuation period.
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London
England
United States
Disturbances Reported Inside Germany
New York radio reports describe chaos in Frankfurt and Berlin with anti war protests and a typhus claim. A Stockholm based CBS correspondent cites a refugee alleging Nazi troops opened fire on demonstrators, killing several and trampling a person.
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New York
Germany
Frankfurt-on Main
Berlin
Moscow
Charles Shaw
CBS
Stockholm
Frankfurt-on- Main
Sweden
Frankfurt
U.S
Gestapo
Westhafen
Shaw
Eschenehimstrasse
Troops Tied Down On Manchurian Frontier
London reports the Soviet government has forced Japan to keep 24 infantry divisions three motorized brigades and seven armored brigades along the Soviet Japanese frontier in Manchuria. A large share of Japan's mobilized land forces remain tied down and fighter strength is hoarded for defense of the home islands.
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London
Imperial Command
Manchuria
Philippines
Japan
Urges Dominion Status for India at Commonwealth Talks
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan urged a scheme for India to gain dominion status at a dinner in Claridge's hotel. He proposed Britain announce an agreed postwar plan within a year after the war ends or implement a provisional scheme lasting until Indians agree on their own.
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London
India
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Claridge’s
Viscount Kemsley
United Kingdom
Britain
Wizard Robot Was War Secret Closely Guarded
A British war secret, the distant reading gyro-magnetic compass called the DRC, was essential to RAF and USAAF bombers. It powers George the autopilot and relays constant corrections to bomb sights and radar, ensuring accurate targets despite bomber maneuvers. Invented at Farnborough in 1930, the device’s secrecy was rigorously maintained.
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London
R.A F
Dominions’ Air Force
United States Army Air Force
D.rc
George
DRC
Farnborough Research Establishment
England
Grain crop values projected for western Canada
Edmonton Trade Minister James A. MacKinnon said the 1944 45 grain crop has an initial gross value to producers between 425 and 450 million dollars. About two thirds of this sum has already been realized by farmers.
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Edmonton
James A. MacKinnon
Canada
Prices board lifts rationing on canned rhubarb and crabapples
Ottawa reports that canned rhubarb and canned crabapples are removed from rationed fruits and may be bought without surrender of preserve ration coupons. Three-fourths of the average war plane’s weight is aluminum.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
New Air Lines Ottawa Civil War Time Agreements
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced two aviation agreements with the United States. Canada gains six new entries including Halifax to Boston and Victoria to Seattle, while the United States gains routes like New York to Quebec and Seattle to Whitehorse. The deals cover civil trans border air services and wartime military air transport routes.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
United States
Canada
Toronto
New York
Boston
Quebec
Washington
Montreal
Seattle
Whitehorse
Figures Show War Costs On Rhine Front For Canada
A British source reports on a ten mile Rhine front won by the Canadian First Army. It details 1400 heavy guns, 350 ammunition types, 35,000 vehicles, 1.3 million gallons of gasoline, 100 miles of new roads, and 63,000 tons of gravel. The drive yielded 7,000 German captives with 700 more daily, and four bridge heads are planned along the river.
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Washington
Rhine River
Rhine
World Map Reveals German Plans for Occupation Map
Ottawa report describes a Nazi era world map found in a Dutch school purportedly showing German control of Canada and the United States. It marks vast northern territories as Germanen with Noordamerikaniden and assigns other regions to Axis partners and satellites.
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Ottawa
Dave Rosenes
Europe
Netherlands
Canada
United States
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
British Columbia
South America
Hitler
Mussolini
British Isles
Norway
Sweden
Italy
Spain
France
Germany
Balkans
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
China
Gasoline ration to remain unchanged for next year
Ottawa says Canadian motorists will keep the same April 1 ration with no early increase. Munitions Minister Howe cites Allied petroleum demand and uncertain war outcomes. He warns the supply position remains critical and depends on the war’s tempo and duration in Europe and the Pacific, with possible relaxation as demand eases.
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Ottawa
Howe
Canada
Europe
Pacific
Jeep name declared public domain by Dublin office
Dublin officials ruled that the word jeep has fallen into the public domain, denying Willys Overland Motors of Toledo exclusive use of the name in the industrial and commercial registry.
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Dublin
Willys Overland Motors, Inc
Toledo
Jeep
Yugoslav Forces Attack German Column Near Sarajevo
Marshal Tito reported Yugoslav forces attacked and cut off a German column southwest of Sarajevo while a second column withdrew southward in disorder.
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London
Tito
Sarajevo
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A.T.S
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Victoria
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M.B.E
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Buckingham Palace
NEW Air Lines
Roosevelt
Stalin
Western Front
Holland
Netherland Front
Jack Brown
Coaticook
Que
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Lyle Ludwig
Bill Budd
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Scotty) Stewart
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