During last night the Red Army strengthened its position behind Kharkov in heavy fighting at a centre about 25 miles south-east of Kharkov. Moscow reported that the Germans attacked violently, but the Russian forces counter-attacked and ...
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Article : 177 wordsThe Japanese merchant fleet has Jost 1,857,000 tons or about one-third of its entire total tonnage, said the Secretary for the Navy (Colonel F. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Commander of the Allied Air Forces is the Pacific (Lieut.-General Kenney), after conferring with President Roosevelt, told the ...
Article : 249 wordsAllied forces in Tunisla have captured the important read and railway junction of Gafsa after a 30 miles advance in which they met ...
Article : 234 wordsOur ground patrols operating in the area north of Buna came across an extensively fortified defence system near the mouth of the Mambare Biver. The Mambare River enters the sea at a spot approximately 50 miles north of Buna and 90 ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said in the House of Representatives to-day that the problem facing Australia was to continue to ...
Article : 578 wordsConflicting reports are circulating regarding the situation at Haute-Savole. "The Times" Geneva correspondent states that no new ...
Article : 403 wordsA formation of Flying Fortresses bombed the Rapopo aerodrome in Rabaul early on Tuesday evening and spread much destruction amongst ...
Article : 480 wordsThe German news agency says that the British Eighth Army launched an attack against the Mareth Line last night. The scale of the fighting ...
Article : 390 wordsThe slowing up of the German counter-offensive in the Middle Donetz, the continuation of the German retreat on the Smolensk front, where ...
Article : 705 wordsRaymond Clapper in the "World Telegram" asks: "Are we inadvisedly starving our forces in the Pacific? If Japan's shipping margin is really small, ...
Article : 77 wordsVice-Admiral Greenslade, commandant of the 12th Naval District, speaking at the Propellor Club to-day, said that General MacArthur should be given ...
Article : 35 wordsThe newspaper "P.M.'s" military commentator, discussing the Japanese activity in the South-west Pacific, says that the weight of evidence ...
Article : 55 wordsA Berlin High Command communique says: "After the repulse of the Russian attempts to break out, we tightened the ring around them ...
Article : 345 wordsThe "Herald Tribune" publishes from London an R.A.F. spokesman's statement that "vast numbers of American daylight bombers and a great reservoir ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is now known whom the Bomber Command attacked Essen for the second time within the week (in the 1000-ton raid on the night of March 12) Krupps ...
Article : 348 wordsWhilst efforts were being made out-side the Chamber to overcome the deadlock that had arisen over the Senate's insistence on the deletion of ...
Article : 457 wordsReligious leaders paid a tribute to Cardinal Hinsley, for whom Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung in Westminster Cathedral on March 22. The ...
Article : 265 wordsAttempts by a section of Opposition members to have the soldiers' pension rates increased first by 50 per cent. and then by 33 1-3 per cent. were ...
Article : 180 words"The Times" correspondent with the Eighth Army in Tunisia says the co-operation of the R.A.A.F. squadron with a Fighting French ground unit ...
Article : 235 wordsDalmatian Church leaders have protested to the Axis authorities against the Italian atrocities, and the order by the German Commander in Croatia in ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Clement Davies in a House of Commons debate on the navy estimates, after a bitter personal attack on the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. ...
Article : 147 wordsAfter the meeting of the Pacific War Council the British Minister in Washington (Viscount Halifax) said that the problem of malaria among troops and ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who are fighting in the present campaign in Burma, were in the same brigade at the Cape ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Senator R. V. Keane) told Mr. F. Brennan in the House of Representatives that persons requiring brandy in small ...
Article : 102 words"The Times" correspondent at the German frontier says that 600 of the Greater Reich's 2500 newspapers are closing down. Four hundred others ...
Article : 124 words"When you are fighting for democracy said Sir Charles Marr to-day to the House of Representatives during the Repatriation debate, "you should ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said in the House of Representatives to-day that at the moment he saw no occasion for holding a secret session to ...
Article : 77 wordsThere are 13,206 persons in the Commonwealth Public Service whose salaries range between £400 and £1500 and over, according to information ...
Article : 116 wordsThe late Sergeant R. H. Middleton, V.C., who shortly before his death was recommended for promotion, has been posthumously given a commissioned ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Admiralty states that two enemy bombers were shot down yesterday by the destroyer Derwent during an unsuccessful attack by 12 aircraft on an ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Chairman of the Rationing Commission (Mr. A W. Cules) announced to-day that the clothes ration scale would not be altered in the coming rationing ...
Article : 109 wordsThe British United Press Algiers correspondent says that General Giraud ordered the removal of all publicly displayed pictures of Marshal Petain, ...
Article : 79 wordsMore expeditious handling of prosecutions for breaches of the Prices Regulations were promised to-day by the Attorney-General (Dr. H. V. Evatt). ...
Article : 76 wordsAdmiralty light coastal ships, manned by members of the Norwegian Navy, penetrated a Norwegian flord early on March 14, torpedoed and sunk [?] ...
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