Jap Balloons Drift Over Prairies Reach Canada
Ottawa reports unmanned Japanese balloons drifted across western Canada carrying small bombs. Defense HQ says attacks are scattered and pose no military threat, though some balloons landed or exploded in isolated areas. A prairie farmer’s children found one device. a veteran farmer stopped further danger. Aircraft and RCASF units monitor sightings across the region.
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Ottawa
Great Lakes
Defence Headquarters
Canada
United States
R.C.A.F
Japan
North America
Lavish tribute credits Canada for air supremacy role
London reports The Daily Telegraph lauds Canada and the RCAF for their pivotal air contribution in World War II. F. W. Perfect notes 12 million Canadians built a force that rose to fourth in operations in five years, underpinning the defeat of Germany. It highlights the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Canadian fronts, and honours earned by pilots and crews.
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Lemion
Canada
London
Daily Telegraph
R.C.A.F
R.A.F
F. W. Perfect
Germany
Britain
Attlee urges sharing armed forces for world security police
Clement Attlee told Britons they must provide armed forces for a proposed world security organization police force. He called it the price to save the world from another war as he returned from the San Francisco conference. He urged acceptance to encourage small nations to acquiesce to stronger big nations on the security council.
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London
Clement Attlee
World Security Organization
San Francisco
Security Council
Liszt House Near Miss After Weimar Bombing
In Weimar Germany the Liszt home remains largely intact despite a blockbuster landing within a few feet of the residence during Allied air raids. The incident underscores the close call amid intensive bombing sorties over the city.
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Weimar
Germany
Franz Liszt
Canadian Ships Will Serve In Pacific Waters
Ottawa reports about sixty Canadian warships will operate in the Pacific in offensive actions with British fleet support. The plan includes Uganda and Ontario cruisers, the Prince Robert, two new light aircraft carriers, Tribal class destroyers Haida Huron Iroquois Miemac, and 36 new frigates.
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Ottawa
Pacific
Navy
Douglas C. Abbott
Royal Canadian Navy
Bedford
N.S
Uganda
H.M.C
Abbott
Ontario
Prince Robert
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
Canada
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
Nabob
Puncher
Prices in Chungking soar above prewar levels
Government notes Chungking prices remain extreme with some commodities reaching over ten thousand times their pre war cost. The Chungking retail price index as of April 30 stood at 1 250 times the July 1937 baseline.
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Chungking
China
AID FOR PEASANTS MOSCOW MOVE TO AID FAMINE AREAS
Foreign Trade Commissar A W Mikoyan told Pravda the Red Army has recanedial trade to counter famine threats in Berlin and Dresden and now permits peasants to sell surplus produce at a profit.
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Moscow
A.W. Mikoyan
Pravda
Red Army
Berlin
Dresden
German Architect Named Mayor of Berlin
The Moscow radio reports Dr. Arthur Wener, a German architect persecuted by the gestapo, has been named mayor of Berlin.
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London
Moscow Radio
Arthur Wener
Gestapo
Berlin
Aluminum box car first of its kind tested in Canada
Canada's first aluminum walled box car built at Angus Shops for the Canadian Pacific Railway begins a series of test runs to assess its practicality as a war transport replacement. It weighs 4200 pounds less than a steel version, aiding possible power savings on long trains. The pioneer retains aluminum exterior with unpainted metal sides and doors, while steel ends are painted.
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Nndian Pacific Raihway
Montreal
Canada
Angus
Canadian Pacific Railway
C.P.R
United Nations Society of Canada Name Change Agreed
The League of Nations Society in Canada will be renamed United Nations Society of Canada at its annual meeting in Toronto. The group backed the peace organization emerging from the San Francisco conference and pledged support.
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United Nations Society
Toronto
League of Nations Society In
Canada
United Nations Society of Canada
San Francisco
W. F. English
Trans Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
French Policy in Lebanon Sparks Middle East Crisis
Beirut dispatch reports French Senegalese troops firing on Lebanese demonstrators, killing several and triggering a new regional crisis. Syria and Lebanon jointly refuse to negotiate further troop arrivals, blaming France. The Arab League calls for diplomatic regret as U.S. and Iraq consider coordinated responses.
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Beyrouth
Cairo
Syria
Lebanon
Levant
France
The
Arab League
Iraq
Bayreuth
Lord Haw Haw Boss Captured by Canadians in Northwest Germany
Eduard Dietze former chief of German anti Allied propaganda and Lord Haw Haw s boss has been captured by Canadian counter intelligence personnel with the First Canadian Army in northwest Germany. Dietze a dapper 45 to 50 year old man with German father and Scottish mother was a noted radio commentator before the war and broadcast Olympic Games coverage in 1936 and sometimes for the BBC.
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Lord Haw Haw
Germany
Eduard Dietze
Dietze
BBC
Allied HQ Denies Hoax Plot To Kill Eisenhower
The Allied Supreme Headquarters in Paris said reports of German assassins planning to kill General Eisenhower during the Ardennes counteroffensive last December were a pure enemy hoax. The statement said the tale was created within the German army to boost Nazi morale and sow Allied confusion.
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Eisenhower
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Paris
Gen
Arden-nes
Empire Prisoners Repatriated After European Libera tions
Royal Air Force bomber and transport command has brought back nearly 95,000 British and empire prisoners of war liberated in Europe to England. The official release notes the large scale repatriation and underscores ongoing recovery and transport efforts after liberation.
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London
Royal Air Force
England
Europe
Canadians Capture German Trawler In Bay Of Biscay
The Thunder, a Canadian Ranger Class minesweeper, captured a German trawler off the Bay of Biscay days before VE Day. Lieut Art Moore led the prize crew, removed the German crew, and guided the trawler home under Allied escort. Two bombs were found aboard. prisoners were treated as POWs in port.
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Bay of Biscay
Navy
Art Moore
Digby
Cherera
Whistles
Ramc.s. Phander
Cmdre
Hernan Mackay
Halifax
Pictou
N.S
Thunder
Haila
Moore
Lieut
AB. Dean Smith
Prince Albert Sask
Shot-Ins Day Set For Remembrance Of Sick And Disabled
An annual international day, first Sunday in June, honors the sick and disabled. Ernest Barker, a young Canadian, conceived the idea and helped form the International Shot-In’s Day Association to promote the observance. The group has clergy, press, and leaders’ endorsement and seeks a nationwide Christian spirit of aid.
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Ernest Barker
International
Ottawa and Soviet Russia begin revisions of mutual aid pacts
Representatives of Soviet Russia and Canada opened talks to adjust mutual aid arrangements after World War II ended in Europe. The Canadian Russian aid protocol ends June 30, with possible continuations beyond hostilities. Canada also has ongoing aid pacts with the United Kingdom Australia China New Zealand India and the French Committee of National Liberation, totaling 23 282 292 dollars in goods through March 31 1944.
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Ottawa
Russia
Europe
Canada
United Nations
Japan
United Kingdom
Australia
China
New Zealand
India
French Committee of National Liberation
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Anthony B. McAuliffe
Paul Reynaud
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Weygand
Winston Churchill
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Downing St
Sir Andrew Cunningham
Amy Phote
V.C
C. L Merritt
Merritt
Overwear
Col Merritt
U.S
George Wadsworth
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