An American Army communique issued in Washington at 2 p.m. states: "Major-General Brereton reports from India that heavy American bombers raided the docks and other military installations at Rangoon on April 29, inflicting severe ...
Article : 245 words"The Times," in a leader, says: "When Dr. H. V. Evatt left Australia there was no little misapprehension there of the attitude of London and ...
Article : 146 wordsWhile the Luftwaffe made another reprisal raid on Exeter last night, strong forces of bembers attacked decks and shipping at Mamburg, ...
Article : 280 wordsThe Messes communique to-day emphaslead the local nature of the fighting on Russian fronts. A Supplementary report states that ...
Article : 94 wordsThe United Press declares that a move to reorganise the Government of Spain to include conservative elements opposed to greater ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Sir Stafford Cripps) in a postscript to the 9 pm. B.B.C. news, gave a lucid summary of the pressent political situation in India, and followed this with some general considerations of post-war problems from the stand ...
Article : 251 wordsA Moscow communique states that the Russians in various sectors of the Leningrad front in three days killed 2000 Germans, The Russians occupied ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Scharaherst, Gueisenan and Prias Engon sailed from Brest on February 11 in an effort to concentrate with other German ...
Article : 251 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent says that most of the meagre news from ttie Russisn front comes from the Black Sea and Arctic extremes. ...
Article : 163 wordsOn the eve of the coming Russlan campaign, poland will have in the field largor forces than she could muster at any moment since ...
Article : 288 wordsAn air-raid alert was sounded in Marseilles at 1.45 a.m. Anti-aircraftguns went into action north of the town against unknown planes. No bombs ...
Article : 71 words"There were many differences of opinion concerning these suggestions, so much that it seemed to me that our plan just about hit off the happy ...
Article : 515 wordsMilitary observers view the recent developments without surprise. They maintain that the strategic loss of Rangoon cut off the possibility of ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Tokio official radio says that Japanese troops have advanced 30 miles eastward from Cota Bato, on Mindanao Island, Philippines. ...
Article : 49 wordsRed Army units on the whole front to-day swore to carry out Stalin's May Day order to make 1942 the year of the Germans' final defeat. "Pravda" ...
Article : 73 wordsSir Stafford Cripps, when broadcasting, said: "The great " majority of people now realise that it is personal human values that count, not merely ...
Article : 479 wordsThe Air Ministry states that many squadrons of Spitfires carried out a sweep during the morning over the Calais area, flying at 27,000 feet. Near ...
Article : 238 wordsA Chungking communique says that fighting is progressing in the vicinity of Mandalay, which was evacuated on Friday morning while the Chineas were ...
Article : 74 wordsA Moscow night communique says there were no important changes on the front Twenty-five German planes were destroyed yesterday for the loss ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Noel Baker, M.P., said in a speech, to-day that the collapse of Hitler, Musselial, and Japanese militarists was coming in sight. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe circulation of 100,000 begus circulars in Paris alleging that an extra, bread ration would be available caused hundreds to quouse up ...
Article : 63 wordsAllegations which the Minister for Labour (Mr. E. J. Ward) made in Parliament last week against the management of certain mines to justify ...
Article : 358 wordsThe American Volunteer Group communique says that Chinese bombers, acting for the first time on the Burma front, supported by American ...
Article : 56 wordsThe fall of Mandalay is the principal feature of London morning papers though details are very meagre, mainly from Chungking. The "Daily ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Tokio official radio quotes the Domei agency as saying that the fall of Mandalay has converted the city into a "jumping, board for the Japanese ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Moscow radio says that many prominent Fascist Party members were arrested and shot at the end of last month because the were opposed to ...
Article : 58 wordsThree members of the R.A.F. shot down in s raid on Trondheim on April 27 reached the Swedish border. They baled out when the plane was shot ...
Article : 51 wordsWhere is General Giraud Commander of the Ninth French Army in 1940, who escaped from a German prison camp at the fortress of Koenigstein? ...
Article : 267 wordsThe "Daily Mail," pointing out that the Ministry had stated there was nothing to report on the night of May 2. describes the German report of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent somewhere in Burma writes: "I left Mandalay while the city was still on fire. Homeless people fringed the ...
Article : 164 wordsGeneral MacArthur and many nigh officers of the Allied forces were present at the funeral of Brigadier-General Harold George to-day General Sir ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German radio, broadcasting in Russian, said the Laval Cabinet in the presence of Marshal Petain, Had decided to retaliate for the RAJ1, raids on ...
Article : 160 wordsIt is announced in Vichy that Admiral Darlan received the Japanese Admirals Nomura and Abe, who are going to Berlin and Rome respectively ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. E. Bevin), in a speech, said that Britain was working out plans for the right moment for other unnameable fronte ...
Article : 205 wordsThe management of Stanford main mine has submitted to Regulation 77. An order was made on Friday directing the reinstateinen of the dismissed ...
Article : 91 wordsBombers on the night of May 1 effectively raided aerodromes at Menidi and Maritsa, and a submarine base at Portolakl Bay, Leros. We also at ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Tokio official radio says that the Domei agency reports that the almost complete returns of the April 30 elections for a new House of ...
Article : 125 wordsThe "New York Times" correspondent at Istanbul states that a special agent who escaped from Yugoslavia last week disclosed that Yugoslavia was ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Berlin radio, quoting a Copenhagen message, announced the death of a former Prime Minister of Denmark (Dr. Stauning). It was reported ...
Article : 77 wordsMalta was twice raided on March 3. once by a small Italian formation strongly escorted by, German fighters, of which one was destroyed and one ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Senator J. S. Collings) issued an ordinance to-day under which each member of each family and every visitor to Can ...
Article : 79 wordsThe president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr. W. Green) and the president of the Congress of Industrial Organisation (Mr. Philip ...
Article : 75 wordsFresh raliway sabotage in occupied France resulted in the killing of 15 German soldiers when a train was wrecked last week near Caen. ...
Article : 36 wordsA car in which,the Spanish Minister of Labonr (Senor Jose Giron) was about to leave for Valladolid, was blown up in front of his Madrid home on May ...
Article : 46 wordsThe battered and naked body of a woman was found at 6.45 o'clock on Sunday morning in the recessed doorway of a beauty salon in 'Victoria ...
Article : 135 wordsMarines defending Kronstadt and Sebastopol have congratulated Malta on its award of the George Cross. Kronstadtsent this message: "We are ...
Article : 100 wordsLieutenant Hans Krug (22), a Nazi bomber pilot, who escaped from a canadian internment camp, has been recaptured here after a 16-dayon ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Vichy radio says that 55 French hostages have been executed at Lille as a reprisal for the assassination of two German soldiers. ...
Article : 31 wordsEarners of £500 and over pay pearly ten times as much in the Common wealth taxation as the group earning £300 and under, though the latter ...
Article : 88 wordsLieutonant-General Delos Emmons warned 3500 air-raid wardens in Honolulu: "The strategic location and importance of Hawaii indicate that we ...
Article : 63 wordsA fire in the married men's quarters at the Glen Davis shale oil works on Saturday night destroyed nine homes, and left 31 people, including children, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe hearing of consciontions objectors' applications for exemption from military service has been suspended for the present. Several applications ...
Article : 38 wordsA General Headquarters communique said that small parties of the enemy patrolling eastwards of their forward positions yesterday were forced to ...
Article : 36 wordsA report from Berne says that foreign planes flew over Swiss territory three times last night. Bad weather prevented anti-aircraft operations. ...
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