Cruel Japanese Abuse Reported by Prisoners in War
Camp narratives recount brutal beatings and painful interrogations endured by Allied airmen after capture. Flt Lt Kenneth Wheatley and Flt Lt M C Haskenson describe clubs struck to limbs, refusals of medical care, and forced bowing at cell doors as guards maintained harsh treatment since raids on Tokyo. Additional pilots detail similar abuse and the policy shift toward treating prisoners as criminals.
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Kenneth Wheatley
Banff
Alta
M. C. Haskenson
Berwyn
India
Hoapital
Herbert Ivena
Scott
Sask
Keith Studdy
Sanford
Man
John Vaneta
Blairmore
Richard Corsett
Toronto
Ko W
Stephens
Windsor
Ivens
Prizon
Frt
Haskenson
Tokyo
Settry
Lift restrictions on bus routes resume in Ottawa
Munitions Minister Howe announced that the transit controller's restrictions on bus routes and schedules have been lifted to meet growing public transport demand. Operators will resume previously restricted routes and schedules and can extend to underserved areas, subject to provincial regulations, aligning with a policy begun last July when the 50-mile limit was removed.
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Ottawa
Howe
Calgary considers bylaw to lift ceiling above city to 1000 feet
Alderman Brown proposes a civic bylaw to require a minimum 1000 foot ceiling over Calgary. The legislative committee will study current regulations and the city’s authority. The action follows the fatal Mosquito bomber incident in Calgary that killed both crew members, sparking a push to curb publicity stunts by veterans.
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Calgary
Ald. Brown
Freddie
Post office still in use long after build in Cobham Kent
The Cobham Kent post office once used by Charlies Dick ens for stampa ink and paper remains in service many years after its construction.
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Cobham
Kent
England
Charlies Dickens
HAS PROUD RECORD F J Fighter Command’s aerial victory tally
Air ministry data recounts Fighter Command destroying thousands of enemy aircraft and shooting down nearly two thousand flying bombs during Britain's WWII air war. From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain era, pilots achieved historic single day records and defended the homeland against V weapons with sustained air offensives into Europe.
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London
F.af
Britain
Luftwaffe
Air Ministry
Firth of Forth
RAF
Douth
Germany
Austra
Fghter
Women in Canadian forces face Pacific service question
Ottawa reports that about 49,000 women in Canada's armed forces await decisions on Pacific theatre deployment. Wrens may be sent if needed, but current policy keeps servicewomen in uniform and continuing duties in France and Belgium, with possible roles in Germany with occupation forces.
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Ottawa
Planga
Canada
Germany
Pacific
Wrens
Navy
RUC
A.F.W.D0
C.w.ac
Pacific Service
Air Force Blue
France
Belgium
Great Powers May Control The Peace Projects
In San Francisco leaders from the Big Five nations China France Britain Russia and the United States flexed influence at a United Nations conference as small states pressed for greater say. Key votes stalled experiments to empower the general assembly with a security council role and to grant broader initiative powers while Britain pressed for a stronger international labor office and Stettinius urged drafting a bill of rights for the new world organization.
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San Francisco
World Organization For Peace
China
France
Britain
Russia
United States
General Assembly
Security Council
New Zealand
Assembly
International Labor Office
Stettinius
World Organization of United Nations
Holland
Denmark
Germany
Athony Eden
U.S
Edward Settinius, Jr
V. M. Molotov
T. V. Soong
Trials Start For Four Types Of Romanian War Crimes
London report that Bucharest radio announced the first trials before a people’s tribunal against 25 former Romanian officials and officers. The accused face four crime types linked to the Odessa occupation, crimes against anti-Fascists, crimes against Russian prisoners and deportees, and crimes against civilians on Russian soil.
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London
Bucharest
People's Tribunal
Odessa
Russia
German Prisoners Exceed Four Million Says Grigg
War Secretary Sir James Grigg told the House of Commons that allied forces had captured more than four million German prisoners from the battle of El Alamein to April 1945, with about 100 German divisions destroyed between November 1942 and April 1945.
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London
James Grigg
House of Commons
Alamein
Allies impose rules in occupied Germany language and bans
BBC reporting from Flensburg cites Allied military government edicts in Germany ending Nazi party activity and propaganda, establishing English as official language, banning German publications and films, and altering curfew restrictions through May, with continued limits for late hours in late May.
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Gremeay
London
Flensburg
BBC
Germany
National Socialist
Nazis Party
Ministry For Propaganda
Britain to skip formal victory parade after Japan defeat
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that no formal victory parade or celebrations would be held in Britain until Japan is defeated, signaling a cautious postwar approach and timing of public rejoicing.
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London
Church MM
House of Commons
Britain
Japan
Demand for Speedy Trial Of War Criminals
London reports rising criticism of coddling German POWs while an international conference on German war crimes opens in London on May 31. Allied investigators probe Nazi crimes against Allied personnel and civilians as British press decries treatment of top Nazis. The Daily Mirror complains leaders live in luxury behind bars while guarded on army rations.
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London
United Nations War Crims Commision
Paris
European Theatre Judge Advocate Section
News Chronicle
Darian
Badoglio
War Material Reassigned From Europe to Pacific Theatre
Allied Supreme Headquarters in Paris says usable American war material no longer needed in Europe will be sent to the Pacific theater as quickly as possible, with most ships direct. Canadian equipment largely to stay in Europe, while some may arm reformed forces and liberated nations. General Gilland outlines redeployment to support ongoing European troops until redeployed supplies reach the Pacific.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
Paris
Europe
Pacific
Morris W. Gilland
Ross Munro
Munro
China
Far East
Gilland
United States
War Department
Lancaster Plans Move of Lancasters to Canada
Canadian bomber crews in the United Kingdom may fly back to Canada as about 160 Canadian built Lancasters become surplus after the end of the war in Europe. The plan is under discussion at high levels in London and Ottawa.
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Canada
London
United Kingdom
Europe
Ottawa
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Daily Mirror
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Luenburg
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