Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second decisive issue in Great Britain's war of blockade: keeping the Italian Navy bottled in the Mediterranean. Like a rude punctuation mark after Mr. Churchill's speech came a mine explosion 12,700 miles from Gibraltar, in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Down went the Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara (13,415 tons) a few hours out of Auckland for Vancouver. All 203 crew and 146 passengers were rescued. This week an Italian submarine was reported sunk by British fire off the East Indies...
...announced granting Pan Am a new run across the Pacific: from San Francisco (via Los Angeles) 6,540 miles to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops at Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea in New Caledonia. Pan Am began surveying the New Zealand run in 1935, in 1938 was ready to start mail and express service...
...four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
Reciprocal tons of Allied bombs whistled down on Germany and most Allied air pilots were aloft daily for as long as men & machines could endure. Reported killed in an accident during the week was Flying Officer Edgar James ("Cobber Kain "D. F. C., 22, of New Zealand. Prime Allied targets included oil depots at Hamburg and Kiel, factories in the Ruhr. A French naval formation for the first time let go explosives instead of literature near Berlin, in retaliation for the hundreds killed & wounded around Paris...
Meanwhile the Canadian Communist Party was declared outlawed amid a rush of Dominion feeling against Red quislings. ∧ Nazi invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium caused a great spurt in New Zealand recruiting. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who during World War I was a conscientious objector jailed for "seditious utterances," is now all out for Allied victory, cabled to Prime Minister Churchill a pledge of "the fullest cooperation of New Zealand's Government and people, Europeans and Maoris alike." Recruiting spurted strongly on news of the latest Nazi Blitzkrieg...