British Troops Rout Enemies After Sharp Skirmish in France
British Expeditionary Force reports a sharp skirmish near the Moselle border with five Germans killed and one captured. The British suffered no casualties, and a separate night patrol clash yielded five German dead and one prisoner. General Viscount Gort flew to congratulate reconnaissance crews.
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France
Maginot Line
Moselle
Luxembourg
General Headquarters
C. B. M. Blout
Viscount Gort
Sweden Sees Russian Assurances on Nordic Territorial Aims
Official Swedish circles report Russia has given assurances it has no further territorial claims in Scandinavia. The accord, tied to the Russo Finnish peace treaty, leaves uncertainty over whether it was voluntary or sought by Sweden for clarification. Concerns persist about Russian railway links extending toward the Swedish border and whether Finnish transport corridors will serve only commercial needs.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Scandinavia
Finland
Merchant Cruisers Ottawa Contracts Awarded for Two Vessels
The war supply board listed two Canadian passenger ships the Prince Robert and the Prince David to be converted into armed merchant cruisers. Burrard Dry Dock Company Limited of North Vancouver received a 600000 dollar contract for Prince Robert on February 9, and Halifax's Halifax Shipyards Limited secured a 535000 dollar contract for Prince David on the same date.
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Ottawa
War Supply Board
Prince Robert
Burrard Dry Dock Company Limited
North Vancouver
B.C
Prince David
Halifax Shipyards Limited
Halifax
Denmark Protests British Bombing of Sylt Island
The Danish government instructed its London envoy to protest British air strikes on the German island of Sylt. Ten bombs were dropped along the Danish coast and a joint Danish military technical commission investigated to determine the planes' nationality.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
London
Sylt
Linguaphones Installed for Canadian Army Education Program
More than 100 lingual phonographs have been installed for members of the Canadian Active Service Force in Aldershot. They enable learning French for CAF members and English for French speakers. The installation is part of the educational program for the recently inaugurated Canadian 1st Division.
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Aldershot
Cromwell Warns Allies to Perceive War Stakes for Neutral Democracies
United States minister to Canada James Cromwell told a Toronto audience that an Allied victory would secure the peace and social order of neutral democracies, while a German victory risks their self-determination. He argued democracy and capitalism are inseparable, tracing democracy to the industrial revolution and urging citizens to recognize the war's broad economic and political stakes.
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Toronto
James H. R. Cromwell
United States
Canada
Germany
Canadian Club
Empire Club
Cromwell
Hitler Fails To Persuade Mussolini On Balkan Policy
An authoritative source reports Adolf Hitler failed to sway Premier Mussolini to adopt a joint plan to divide southeastern Europe between Germany and Russia. Mussolini refused to commit and continued Rome’s Balkan policy, while German aims reportedly sought excluding British and French influence.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Balkan
Rome
Hitler
Germany
Russia
Europe
Il Duce
Standardized Ottawa to streamline Commonwealth air training hangars
The National Defence Department announced standardized building designs for schools and hangars under the Commonwealth air training plan. Forty designs were prepared by Canadian militia and Royal Canadian Air Force divisions. Canadian timber hangars will use connector type trusses for rapid erection and mobility with only the paved floor as a permanent feature. All wooden parts receive fireproof chemical treatment.
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Ottawa
National Defence Department
Engineer Services Branch
Canadian Militia
Royal Canadian Air Force
Halifax Tests Alarm in Citywide Blackout Drill
Halifax conducted its first practice blackout in four and a half months. Forty air raid sirens signaled a 15 minute citywide darkness to test the new alarm sounding system.
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Halifax
Attack on Chamberlain by illegal London radio station
An unregistered broadcaster calling itself the New British Broadcasting Station aired for 20 minutes attacking Prime Minister Chamberlain and his policies. It claimed he led the country into a costly war and ridiculed his age and leadership before ending with God Save the King.
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London
Chamberlain
God Save the King
Soviet Oppose Any Alliance Against Russia
Moscow reports Tass states any defensive alliance among Finland Sweden and Norway would be aimed at the USSR and violate the Finnish Soviet peace treaty. The agency notes such talks would threaten Article 3 prohibiting coalitions and acknowledges Oslo and Stockholm debate on Moscow’s constraints. The Finnish Russian peace treaty was ratified.
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Moscow
Tass
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Finland
U.S.S.R
Soviet Union
Kallio
Oslo
Stockholm
Supreme Soviet
Hero of Boer War Killed in Scotland Fall
Lt Gen Sir Aylmer Hurter Weston aged 76 died after a fall from the tower of his Scottish home overlooking the Firth of Clyde. A hero of the Boer War he served at the Dardanelles and in France in the last war.
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London
Aylmer Hurter-Weston
Firth of Clyde
Aylmer
Dardanelles
France
Valuable confiscation decree targets Jews in Prague
In the German occupied protectorate Prague, Jews are ordered by a special decree to deposit all securities stocks precious metals and jewels at designated banks within two weeks. The measure targetsJewish residents and aims to centralize valuables under German control.
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Prague
Cannot Stop Shipments London
The government informed the House of Commons it cannot prevent shipments of oil through the Black Sea to Germany. Ronald Cross said under the Montreux convention belligerent warships cannot pass the Straits of Bosphorus to the Black Sea to establish contraband control. The pact, signed in 1936, closes Black Sea entrances to belligerent warships unless under League mandates or mutual aid within the league framework with Turkey as a party. Britain and France have a similar pact with Turkey signed last year.
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London
House of Commons
Black Sea
Germany
Ronald Cross
Montreux
Straits of Bosphorus
Turkey
Britain
France
France To Buy Horses Toronto
J. W. Mc Callum assistant director of production services for Canada told the Canadian National Livestock Record board that France will begin purchasing Canadian bred horses in April. He declined to estimate total numbers but noted a recent US order for 6 000 horses.
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Toronto
J. W. McCallum
Canada
Canadian National Livestock Record Board
McCallum
United States
Seizure of Opium Cargo in Uhenfels Capture
The German freighter Uhenfels carrying a $1,000,000 opium cargo was captured off the African coast last November. The 7,063 ton ship, seized by a prize crew, was towed to Freetown Sierra Leone before arriving for examination in drydock. London announced the seizure on November 8.
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Gibraltar
Uhenfels
Freetown
Sierra Leone
London
Japanese Protest Over Soviet Shootings on Sakhalin
An informed source reports Soviet soldiers killed in two border incidents on Sakhalin March 16. Japan protested to Russia after the clashes, with a claim of Russian fire targeting civilians. Early notices cited about a dozen Soviet and two Japanese casualties. Hochi urged prompt action against a perceived Soviet advance, noting consequences of the Finnish Soviet truce.
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Tokyo
Sakhalin
Orient
Mission Is Ended says Welles offered no peace plan
Sumner Welles declared no peace or mediation proposals were offered by any belligerent or European government during his fact finding visits. He stressed his mission was to gather information for President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State before sailing home from Genoa.
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Tome
Sumner Welles
United States
Roosevelt
Welles
Genoa
Europe
RAF Bombers Strike German Sylt Air Base
London reports the Royal Air Force conducted a seven hour raid on the Sylt air base, striking German hangars, barracks and seaplanes. Eyewitnesses on a Danish island heard heavy explosions as Britain vowed retaliation for the Scapa Flow attack.
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R.A.F
Nazi
London
Royal Air Force
Sylt Island
Scapa Flow
Romee
Hindenburg
Sylt
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Germany
Britain
Toender
Denmark
Sylit
House of Lords
Lord Strabolgi
Labor
Viscount Halifax
Orkneys
Britain Replies To Italy Protest On Allied Economic Warfare
London publishes a ten page note reaffirming use of legal measures against Germany while criticising indiscriminate wartime methods. Italy’s protest over the seizure of German coal aboard Italian ships is settled, Mussolini strengthens defence with Marshal Graziani as spring fronts loom.
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London
Italy
Germany
Compmn
Rome
Mussolini
Rodolfo Graziani
Graziani
Ilduce
Adolf Hitler
Brennero
Aiding The Empire Enlistment Slowdown Reported
St Johns Newfoundland reports that over 5 000 men have been raised for empire service. Emerson cites 2 000 foresters and 625 sailors already crossed the Atlantic for special service, with 1 000 general service and 670 Royal Artillery volunteers enrolled. 822 mercantile seamen applications received. RAF enlistment call forthcoming. General naval volunteers exceed requests and await further call.
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St. John's
Nld
Newfoundland
Emerson
British Admiralty
Atlantic
Royal Artillery
Royal Air Force
General Naval Service
Finns Flee Hanko as Reds Advance in Baltic Base
Hanko Finland, once thriving with 8000 residents nicknamed Gibraltar of the Baltic, becomes a ghost town as locals rush to move belongings across the Hanko peninsula before Soviet possession under the Moscow peace terms. Trains trucks buses and bicycles ferry people and goods to safety ahead of the Red Army's arrival.
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Hanko
Finland
Red Army
Moscow
Belgian Architect Fined for Illicit Letter Exports
Paschal Koettgem, a Belgian architect in Shoreham Sussex England, was fined 222 dollars and sentenced to one month in jail for attempting to send letters out of the country by non postal means.
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Shoreham
Sussex
England
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