Reuter's Moscow correspondent states that a German pilot, who flew to the Bussian lines and gave himself and his plane up, declared the Germans in Kharkov already have made preparations for evacuating the city, if necessary. There is ...
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Article : 141 wordsIn Burma General Alexander's troops are about 50 miles from the Indian frontier. Japanese planes are heavily bombing the rear lines, but these gallant men are holding on grimly to assist the forward forces. The Commander-in-Chief, India ...
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Article : 370 wordsBroadcasting on the eve of the Episcopal Jubilee the Pope appealed for peace "with greater insistence In view of the menace of the ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe former French Air Minister (M. Pierre Cot) predicted to the Press that M. Laval will soon draw France into a combat war against the Allies, unless ...
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Article : 222 wordsReports from German sources say that Axis troops are thrusting far beyond the Russian positions on the Isthmus. It is claimed that three ...
Article : 159 wordsSeventeen months of unbroken service in the Western Desert has added almost unprecedented laurels to the battle honours of the Northumberland ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull), on the occasion of the opening of the National Foreign Trade Week, stated that one of the principal things ...
Article : 158 wordsJespite German claims that the battle had ended, reports from Moscow declare that the Kerch Peninsula is still the scene of a stubborn struggle ...
Article : 378 wordsRussians recaptured an important height on the Southern Front, and routed a battalion of the 257th German infantry division. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. A A Calwell (Labour) asked the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. F. M. Forde) in the House of Representatives to-day if he had read an article in ...
Article : 212 wordsA Moscow communique says, that the Russians on the Kerch Peninsula- on May 12 retreated to new positions in the face of superior forces. ...
Article : 170 wordsMembers of the militia forces serving in the home army who, since the entry of Japan into the war, have been debarred from transferring to their ...
Article : 239 wordsA Rome communique says there was lively artillery activity on both sides in. several sectors of the Cyrenaica front. Air bases in Malta were ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal. (Sir Stafford Cripps), in the House of Commons, announced the postponement of the fuel ration scheme originally planned to ...
Article : 201 wordsA communique says that American Volunteer Group pilots flying Tigers bombed the Japanese drome at Hanoi yesterday, destroying 15, damaging 25 ...
Article : 36 wordsA General Headquarters communique says our patrols went out as usual on May 12, but owing to bad visibility there was nothing of interest to report. ...
Article : 125 wordsSpeaking at the Pacific War Council meeting today, the Chinese representative (Dr. Soong) said that President Roosevelt had urgently stressed a ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Navy announced to-day that a medium sized American merchantman was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. A small Norwegian vessel was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe "New York Times," in an editorial, for the first time openly and emphatically suggests a second front in Europe. It says: "Allied hopes are ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. A. S. Drakeford) said to-day that selection boards of the R.A.A.F. were at present visiting all millitia camps interviewing applicants ...
Article : 80 wordsThe House Ways and Means Committee voted to-day to lower personal income tax exemptions from 750 dollars to 500 dollars for single persons, and ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Berlin radio says a court-martial at Ghent sentenced to death seven Belgians. Two have already been executed. One was regarded as ...
Article : 51 wordsTo meet a war emergency the National Security (Emergency Control) Regulations were extended to-day to apply to the Northern Territory and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe motion of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. A. W. Fadden), in the House of Representatives yesterday dealing with the clothing bungle, was ...
Article : 114 wordsThe King has had a remarkable winning double at Newmarket Following the win of his horse Big Game in the Two Thousand'Guineas yesterday, ...
Article : 96 wordsSquadron Leader Keith Truscott D.F.C ace of the Australian Spitfire Squadron in England, is bade in Australia. Squadron Leader Truscott looks ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Navy Minister (Mr. McDonald) announced in the House of Commons that an enemy submarine sank a second vessel in the St Lawrence River. Mr. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Tokio official radio quoted the "Nichi Nichi that six representatives of Japanese rubber factories are now in Singapore organising the supply of ...
Article : 47 wordsWilliam Charles Baylebridge, Australia's most eminent philosophical poet, has died in Sydney at the age of 59. Just 30 years ago he took the name of ...
Article : 58 wordsPresident Roosevelt to-day- signed legislation authorising a 200,000 ton increase in the submarine fleet, involving the construction of mort than 100 ...
Article : 32 wordsBills to amend the Maternity Allowance Act and Child Endowment Act passed an stages without amendment in the Senate to-day. Both Billa were ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Fri 15 May 1942, Page 5
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