Nuevo Laredo Plans Public Works At Border City
Mexico City July 2 Cal Rater M Pedrajo Nuevo Laredo Customs director reported to President Avila Camacho yesterday on plans for new public construction in the border city President Avila Camacho today offered 3500 tons of cement sent to Nuevo Laredo to be used in the improvement program The president also suggested a new auditorium be built next year.
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Mexico City
M. Pedrajo
Avila Camacho
Better Plane Insignia Change Reveals WWII Desert Sightings
Cairo dispatch reports US planes in the Middle East now bear a yellow circular insignia around a white star for visibility and security. Major Bowers explains the update. pilot Lieut. James A. Deeds notes the dramatic loss of German attack planes after a raid on Messina. Separate San Antonio crash injuries list Pvt. Ramsey Bateman and motorist Jake Brune with severe injuries.
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Cairo
Maj
Harry Bowers
St. Louis
California
James A. Deeds
Oakland
Cat
Deeds
Bowers
Middle East
Mediterranean
Yoffi
Penestlan
San Antonio
Ramsey Bateman
Brooks Field
Prea
Commerce Streets
Jake Brune
Morales Street
Uce
Jeasanton Raed
Heavy Japanese losses along the Yangtze fronts
A Chinese army spokesman reported heavy Japanese casualties along the upper Yangtze from May 4 to June 30 totaling about 55 070. He cited new fighting near Hangchow, captured Japanese materiel, and 3 Japanese planes shot down with 10 rivercraft sunk. He noted renewed attempts to relieve the Owchihkow garrison and quoted prisoners claiming Allied successes sparked Japanese pessimism.
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Yangtze River
Hang- Chow
Chek
Owechihkow
Yangtze
Shasi
Jap Shipping Hit By Bombs
NEW JESHI July 2 Mitchell bombers of the U S tenth air force dropped more than nine tons of explosives on Jap shipping in the Irrawaddy river near Mandalay. Bombs straddled several boats with near hits reported. all aircraft and crews returned. RAF bombers raided storehouses and encampments at Akyab Western Burma while fighters attacked shipping along the coast and inland. More than 20 sampans including large ones with oil drums were sunk or damaged off the Arakan coast. Attacks damaged two river steamers two barges and several sampans and about 16 railway trucks were shot up. No planes were lost.
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U.S
Irrawaddy River
Mandalay
R.A F. Bontiers
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Burmia
Arakan
Irrawaddy
Ruhr Bombing Effects Spread in Ruhr Valley Miners
Bern July 2 Weltwoche reports the Ruhr bombing has caused deep fear among miners in the valley. The paper says workers feel their livelihoods are threatened and warns British raids may heighten grim desperation across families of soldiers at the front.
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Switzerland
Weltwoehe
Ruhr
Reich
Germany
Japs Concentrate in Manchuria War News Collage
A chaotic Manchuria dispatch from a Chinese paper claims Britain will stand firm under Churchill as Allied forces plan Siberian attack. It notes strategic shifts in command, Europe first priority, andJapan pressure while American efforts to unify Asia-Pacific fronts are hinted at amid unclear details.
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KPI
Pacific
Kung Pag
Onurchil
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Japan
Siberia
Europe
Dow Belon
Korea
Orta
Manchuria
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