Britain plans for protection of airdromes
Britain will form three special defence corps to protect airfields from airborne attacks. Major-Gen Claude Liardet will command. the units operate under the Royal Air Force but stay under army direction. The plan, tied to air council oversight, aims to defend RAF, naval, and aircraft production airfields within the United Kingdom.
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Air Ministry
Kuantan
Malaya
Commons
War Cabinet
Norway
France
Greece
Crete
R.A.F
United Kingdom
Washington Plans Record World War Era Budget
The United States outlines a massive fiscal plan beginning next July, totaling 56 billion for war plus 4.25 billion for normal government costs and 1.75 billion for interest. Financing relies on 16.5 billion from existing taxes, 7 billion in new general taxes, 2 billion in new social security taxes, and 35 billion via treasury borrowing with extra nonbudgetary agency borrowing. Public spending rises from 2.6 billion to 5 billion monthly, with war spending peaking at 18.5 billion this year and nearly tripling in the next fiscal year, leaving a debt near 110 billion after borrowing.
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Washington
Lsted
United States
Treasury
Gas Rationing Set for April 1 in Ottawa
Munitions Minister Howe announced at a press conference that gasoline rationing will start on April 1 as planned. He could not yet estimate the size of the initial allotments for the first rationing period.
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Ottawa
Howe
Danes in Britain endorse Atlantic Charter pledge
The Danish council representing free Danes in Britain and Northern Ireland voted to adhere to the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations pact, stating the declaration would be as if signed by a free Danish government.
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London
Danish Council
Britain
Norther
Ireland
Egypt Severs Ties With Bulgaria Finland in War Break
Cairo reports Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and Finland, nations at war with Great Britain. The move also covers the Vichy French government amid ongoing global hostilities.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bulgaria
Finland
Great Britain
Memorial at Vimy Ridge soldier reports safe and well
George H. Stubbs custodian of the Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge tells George S. Layton of the Canadian Legion war services he is a prisoner in a St Denis France camp. He thanks for three Red Cross parcels and notes the memorial stands with upkeep to be addressed after the war. He cites 160 Canadians held in the camp.
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Montreal
George H. Stubbs
Vimy Ridge
St. Denis
France
George S. Layton
Cnadian Legion War Services
Red Cross
Stubbs
Dutch Precautions for oil fields in Dutch East Indies
H J Van Mook disclosed a scorched earth plan by the Netherlands East Indies to deny oil fields to Japan. Plants moved or prepared for dismantling, with unmovable facilities to be destroyed. Oil wells would be set on fire, though Japan might resume production in about six months.
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Sydney
H. J. van Mook
Netherlands East Indies
Split in Nazi Party and Generals Reported on Russia War
New York dispatch cites an official report to the U S War Department detailing a rift between Nazi leaders and German generals amid harsh Russian winter battles. It cites 1 25 million German dead or missing, 12 of 21 armored divisions destroyed, hunger and disease, and a plotted army coup led by Admiral Canari and General Marschner. Hitler remains popular at home, with insufficient rebel organization for revolt.
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New York Times
Washington
the Times
United Nations
United States War Department
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Russia
Germany
France
Poland
Nazi Party
Canari
Marschner
Hitler
Production of munitions rises to peak in Canada
Ottawa reports munitions production in Canada is expanding rapidly with Howe noting contracts for Canada and Britain exceeding 3.2 billion dollars since July 1939. Tank output may top 1,500 in 1942 and universal carriers approach 9,000 as aircraft and other production also rise. United States and Canada share steel priorities under a new production pact.
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Canada
Howe
Lord Beaverbrook
Washington
America
United States
American Republic
Great Britain
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Under A Truce Cairo Five Wounded Airmen Rescued
Five wounded airmen of a British bomber crew were brought out under a white flag by an Italian medical officer from Halfaya. He crossed the lines to tend to them and was allowed to pass back through with safe conduct. The Italians cited lack of medical supplies in Halfaya. South Africans at the siege provided surgical dressings.
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Cairo
Halfaya
Convoy Defence Improved by Admiralty Statement
A British authority cites improved Atlantic convoy defence after three German submarines were sunk. He warns against claiming prisoner captures indicate German morale decline and notes a German move to the Mediterranean may reflect shifting U boat strategy and the Libya battle impact.
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London
Admiralty
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Libya
Notice Demands Japanese Students Turn In Uniforms
At the University of British Columbia notices call on Japanese students who were members of the Canadian officers training corps to surrender equipment and uniforms. President L S Klinck announced the ban on January 2 after a military education committee meeting, affecting more than 70 corps members.
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Vancouver
University of British Columbia
L. S. Klinck
Committee On Military Education
Soviet Troops Push West as War Targets Vyazma Bryansk Line
Reports quote Soviet dispatches from Kuibyshev describing an expanding arc toward Sevastopol and German retreat to meet threats from east west and north. Fresh Russian troops from vast reserves move to central front while reserves and captured Nazi arms bolster the Red Army offensive. Meshchchovsk retaken southeast of Moscow as Kaluga spearhead advances raise the southern Moscow region flank near Staritsa and Mozhaisk.
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London
B.B.C
Kuibyshev
Sevastopol
Russia
Vyazma- Bryansk
Moscow
Smolensk
Red Army
Karelia
Crimea
Meshchchovsk
Meshchevsk
Vyazma
Jap Bombing Ruthless Methods Used Against Defenceless Towns
The War Department reported to Gen Douglas MacArthur that Japanese air raids razed defenceless towns in northern Luzon. Baler Santa Rosa Calamba and Tarlac suffered complete destruction with many deaths. Civilians were machine-gunned in Arayat Camiling and San Fernando as attackers targeted Sundays and holidays.
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Washington
United States War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
War Department
Philippine
Baler
Santa Rosa
Calamba
Tarlac
Arayat
Camiling
San Fernando
Polish Leader Sees Soviet Agreements as Real Policy In Action
Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish prime minister and commander, after returning from Russia, said the agreements with Joseph Stalin prove definite conclusions that mean action. He described entering a sphere of real politics where only facts count and called the pact a beginning toward policy with broad world impact. The accords include a Polish army on Russian soil.
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Wladyslaw Sikorski
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Poland
Sikorski
Supplies for Russia aid moves from Britain to Crimea
Toronto Red Cross headquarters reports two large consignments of drugs bandages and surgical accessories part of Canadian aid to Russia have departed Britain for the Crimea.
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Red Cross
Russia
Britain
Crimea
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