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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
3
Ottawa has studied the problem of international air traffic control for the future. Canada, due to its location and aviation development, seeks to protect its rights in all US aviation dealings. Some urge prewar negotiations to avoid postwar complications and competition, though no official position has been announced.
A Reuters dispatch from Patna reports eight men were condemned to death for the murder of two Canadian RAF officers killed August 10. The officers were dragged from a train at Fatwa station by a mob and beaten to death, later dumped in a river. Thirty-five faced trial. three were discharged and 17 acquitted.
Washington based New Zealand minister Walter Nash said New Zealand would consider offering U S access to air and naval bases after the war as part of a reciprocal defence system. He urged inclusive talks with nations including Australia Britain China India and the Netherlands before war ends to advance the Atlantic Charter.
London Sir Archibald Sinclair announced to the House of Commons that dive bombers ordered from the United States are arriving and some have been placed in operation at British bases.
Unconfirmed reports claim large numbers of German troops crossed France toward the Spanish border. Diplomatic circles in Berne doubted the movements signal any German military venture.
Herbert V. Evatt attorney general and external affairs minister will visit Washington and London soon to discuss supply problems and Allied global strategy in the Pacific, according to informed quarters.
Moscow reports colossal resources including oil coal iron gold non ferrous metals rock and phosphoric fertilisers discovered in Russia since the Soviet revolution signaling vast potential for industry and agriculture.
Rear Admiral V G Brodeur warned that 35 to 600 German submarines could mass around Halifax and Newfoundland next summer to disrupt Allied convoys. If this occurs the St Lawrence river may be closed to navigation to protect Atlantic convoys, as Canadians debate escort resources and convoy protection priorities.
Winnipeg Free Press reports a U S Army headquarters store may be set up in Winnipeg to supply army units and civilians along the Alaska highway. A small staff would operate the warehouse, with surveys for 50,000 square feet of warehousing on a railway siding.
Paris dispatch reports raids on motion picture theatres as Laval's government struggles to meet a 250000 worker demand for labor in Germany. Threats to cut food cards for non registrants emerge, with Geneva Journal noting French workers already pressed into fortifications along the Atlantic coast and in Russia.
London. Herbert Morrison outlined a plan for a world political association and a center of currency, commodities, and commerce. He urged Britain, the United States, Russia, and China to mobilize the free peoples after the war to form this global framework.
Hitler, speaking via a 1,000 word proclamation read for him, promises mobilization of Europe’s spiritual and material values and a tenfold terror to break saboteurs. He asserts German unity behind the Reich while warning the war may last years and attacks on home front and traitors. He remains with troops in the east as France bears fault.
Flying Officer Walter Franklin Parks of Verwood Saskatchewan was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after a Lille bombing raid in which his aircraft was hit by anti air fire yet he pressed on and completed the attack. The report notes the Nazi rally in Munich where Hermann Esser read a party proclamation marking the 23rd anniversary of the NSDAP. Hitler issued a self praise laden speech asserting his lifelong fanaticism and destiny to lead Germany.
Encouragement to buy War Savings stamps regularly as they are expected to mature into War Savings certificates, promoting ongoing savings.
Relatives of Hong Kong POWs invited to form a Hong Kong Fellowship to provide regular news from Japanese camps. Backed by the Admiralty War Office Colonial Office and Red Cross. The plan aims to share official general information rather than individual prisoner reports. About 5,000 members expected with roughly 1,500 Canadian soldiers among the POWs.
The munitions department announced an order in council allowing Japanese and Chinese labor in British Columbia’s crown lands lumber and logging during the war. It aims to offset a lumber shortage, with an estimated 4,000 additional Japanese loggers in the southern interior. Costs and prior removals of Japanese from protected areas totaled over 4.6 million dollars.
Polish government rejects any change to the 1939 boundary with Russia and denounces accusations of pro German or anti Soviet alignment. It asserts the wartime frontier must be restored and denies any plan to shift borders east beyond the Dnieper or Black Sea regions. The statement stresses Allied unity and repudiates propaganda.
Berne reports Axis forces face stiff resistance as 5 000 Partisans are said killed and another 5 000 wounded since a new campaign began. Skirmishes occur in deep snow at about 6000 feet while Italian losses last year reached about 6 000 dead and 6 000 wounded.
Foreign Secretary Eden told the House of Commons Britain seeks cooperation with the United States and other United Nations to form an international police force after the war. He noted progress in groundwork for talks with the U S on postwar economic and financial issues.
Gallantry and bravery during the British evacuation from Burma last year were recognized with 54 awards to civilians. Awards ranged from a man who guided a herd of elephants over mountain tracks and saved 100 people from starvation to a Roman Catholic priest who stayed with children.
A Netherlands source reports Germany speeds coastal fortifications by moving 100,000 residents from the Hague Ijmuiden and nearby areas and demolishing large coastal city sections to build forts.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that Madam Chiang Kai-shek will visit Britain before returning to China. She is now a guest at the White House residence with President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Allied air forces forced a Japanese warship aground at Rabaul New Britain and damaged two other warships and a merchant vessel, according to an Allied communiqué from Australia.
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