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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
3
The Canadian government has studied international air traffic control, noting its strategic location and aviation development. It stresses protecting Canadian rights in U S agreements on landing fields and airlines for war purposes. Some urge prewar agreements, though no official position is stated yet.
A Reuters dispatch from Patna says eight people were sentenced to death for the murder of two Canadian RAF officers on a train Aug 10. Two others received life terms and five got five years. Names were not released though one officer was thought to be PO Joseph Henry Smith of Kamloops. The victims were dragged from a Delhi Calcutta bound train at Fatwa station and their bodies thrown into a river. Thirty-five faced trial. three were discharged and 17 acquitted.
New Zealand minister to the United States Walter Nash said Wellington would consider granting the United States access to air and naval bases after the war as part of a reciprocal mutual defense system. He suggested talks with concerned nations before war’s end to advance the Atlantic Charter, naming New Zealand Australia the Netherlands Britain China India and the United States as participants.
London. Sir Archibald Sinclair, the air secretary, told the House of Commons that dive bombers ordered from the United States are arriving and, in some cases, have been placed in operation at British bases.
Unconfirmed reports from Berne indicate large German forces crossing France toward the Spanish border. Diplomatic circles question whether the actions signal any planned German military venture.
Herbert V. Evatt attorney general and external affairs minister will tour Washington and London soon to discuss supply issues and Pacific policy connected to Allied global strategy, according to informed quarters.
Moscow reports discovery of large colonial style resources in Russia including oil teal iron gold and other non ferrous metals rock and phosphoric fertilizers for farming, indicating a broad new wealth base post revolution.
Rear Admiral V Brodeur warned of possible German concentration of 400 to 600 U boats near Halifax and Newfoundland to harass Allied convoys. He suggested the St Lawrence River might be opened to navigation to maximize protection for Atlantic convoys. He spoke during a visit to a Canadian naval exhibition and stressed Canada must decide escort allocations amid limited escort vessels.
Winnipeg Free Press reports a U S army headquarters store to supply units and civilians on the Alaska highway may be set up in Winnipeg under consideration in Washington. Fires on the Alcan highway boosted the need for a western Canada warehouse. A small staff would be attached, and officials survey possibilities for about 50,000 square feet of warehousing on a railway siding.
Paris reports police raided motion picture theatres in French cities to conscript workers for Germany. Pierre Laval's government struggles to meet a 250000 worker quota and warns food card refusals for those not registering. Geneva Journal notes French workers already employed on Atlantic coast fortifications.
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison in a Guildhall speech outlined a post war political and economic plan for Britain and allies. He proposed a world political association and international control of currency commodities and commerce to mobilize free peoples after the war.
Hitler, still in the east, addressed a Munich gathering via read proclamation urging tenfold terror on saboteurs and traitors while promising the German people unity and perseverance. He warned the struggle could last years and called on rival nations to contribute to the war effort. War Savings stamps note added at end.
Relatives of Hong Kong prisoners invited to form a Hong Kong Fellowship to provide regular general information from Japanese camps. Supported by the Admiralty War Office Colonial Office and Red Cross. About 3,000 members expected with 1,400 Canadian soldiers among those captured. News will be general, not individual prisoner reports, to ease anxieties.
The munitions department announced an order in council permitting Japanese and Chinese labor for the war duration in British Columbia lumber and logging on provincial crown lands. It extends rights on crown lands not restricted for military reasons, aiming to offset lumber shortages for 1943. 4,000 more Japanese loggers may work in the southern interior, aiding the Okanagan valley fruit crop, with total BC removal costs cited at 4,633,354 up to Dec 31 and labour department expenditures of 3,134,695 plus 1,455,722 from mines and resources on camps and wages.
A Polish government spokesman states Poland intends to keep the September 1939 frontier, calls Russia’s 1941 occupation hostile, and denies any Polish plans to shift eastward. Britain and America are urged to seek clarity on Atlantic Charter implications and allied unity. The government rejects accusations of friendliness toward Soviet Russia and denies prewar cooperation with Germany.
A Zagreb report notes fierce opposition to Axis attempts to crush Bosnian Partisans. Since the new campaign began, about 5 000 Partisans have been killed and an equal number wounded, with fighting in deep snow at altitudes around 6000 feet. Axis casualties are not detailed. Italian losses last year neared 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 substantial progress in groundwork for talks with the U.S. on postwar economic and financial issues.
Bombay outlines 54 civilian awards for bravery during the Burma evacuation. Highlights include a man who ferried a herd of elephants over mountain routes to save 100 people from starvation and a Roman Catholic priest who stayed behind with children.
A Netherlands source reports German forces hastening coastal fortifications by evacuating another 100,000 residents from The Hague Ijmuiden and nearby areas. Large coastal cities are being razed to clear land for forts.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden indicated in the House of Commons that Madam Chiang Kai-shek will visit Britain before returning to China. She is presently a White House guest of President and Mrs. Roosevelt as London awaits her itinerary.
Allied headquarters in Australia reported that Allied bombers forced a Japanese warship aground at Rabaul New Britain damaging two other warships and a merchantman. The communique named the action as part of ongoing operations in the Pacific theater.
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