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  3. PALEMBANG CAPTURED IN JAPANESE ONSLAUGHT ON SUMATRA

    LONDON, Monday.—With the loss of Singapore the focal points of the Pacific war for the time being are the battles for the Netherlands East Indies and for the Bunna Road. To-day's Batavia communique announced the loss of Palembang, the great oil centre. It stated that the attack by parachutists on Saturday was followed by a landing in considerable strength to-day ...

    Article : 913 words
  4. RUSSIANS DRIVING TOWARDS OLD POLISH FRONTIER

    LONDON, Monday.—The Russian forces advancing into White Russia are reported to have outflanked big German fortified points and to be driving swiftly in the direction of the old Polish frontier. ...

    Article : 400 words
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    Infantry training in the British Army new covers a wide field and include! landing and assaults from boats, The picture shows British infantry leaping ashore from launches during battle manoeuvres on a lake in Northern Ireland.-Department of Information. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. WHY SINGAPORE SURRENDERED

    LONDON, Monday.—The lasf message received from General Percival, British G.O.C. in Malaya, before the fall of Singapore, was one to General Sir Archibald Wavell, despatched yesterday afternoon, which stated that owing to heavy losses, ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  7. Two Enemy Supply Ships Sunk

    CAIRO, Monday.- An Admiralty communique says British submarines in the Mediterranean sank one large supply ship and one of medium-size, and also ...

    Article : 75 words
  8. Japanese Plans For Australia

    TOKIO, Monday. — The newspaper "Nichi-Nichi" says one of the aims of Japanese policy regarding Australia ...

    Article : 53 words
  9. ENEMY REGROUPING FOR PHILIPPINES OFFENSIVE

    WASHINGTON, Sunday.—To-day's communique from the Philippines says righting on the Batan Peninsula was limited to local skirmishes while the ...

    Article : 134 words
  10. Shanghai Threatened with Starvation

    CHUNGKING, Sunday. —Eight hundred, people have died, in Shanghai in the current cold wave. The entire ...

    Article : 123 words
  11. ENEMY PLANNING ATTACK ON KEY RAILHEAD IN BURMA

    LONDON, Monday. — There are indications that the enemy is preparing for an attack on Thaton, a key railway town, to cut communications ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. HONG KONG PRISONERS AT KOWLOON

    CHUNGKING, Monday. — Five thousand troops of the surrendered Hong Kong garrison are living in internment camps at Kowloon under primitive conditions ...

    Article : 118 words
  13. ST. NAZAIRE ATTACKED BY R.A.F.

    LONDON, Monday. — R.A.F. bombers attacked St. Nazaire, in occupied France, last night. A single aircraft made an enemy supply ship off the Norwegian ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. OILFIELDS WRECKED

    BATAVIA, Monday.—It is understood the Dutch have destroyed the Palembang oilfields. This is the greatest instance of deliberate destruction in the world's history. Beside it the Russians' destruction of the Dnieper Dam was a mere splash in ...

    Article : 240 words
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