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Advertising : 290 wordsLONDON, 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 wordsLONDON, 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 wordsInfantry 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]
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, 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 wordsCAIRO, Monday.- An Admiralty communique says British submarines in the Mediterranean sank one large supply ship and one of medium-size, and also ...
Article : 75 wordsTOKIO, Monday. — The newspaper "Nichi-Nichi" says one of the aims of Japanese policy regarding Australia ...
Article : 53 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—To-day's communique from the Philippines says righting on the Batan Peninsula was limited to local skirmishes while the ...
Article : 134 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday. —Eight hundred, people have died, in Shanghai in the current cold wave. The entire ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Monday. — There are indications that the enemy is preparing for an attack on Thaton, a key railway town, to cut communications ...
Article : 126 wordsCHUNGKING, Monday. — Five thousand troops of the surrendered Hong Kong garrison are living in internment camps at Kowloon under primitive conditions ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, 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 wordsBATAVIA, 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 ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 17 Feb 1942, Page 1
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