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Article : 92 wordsPowers are being taken by the Government to enable the Home Security and Military authorities to remove road signs in any part ...
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Article : 36 wordsThe Germans, attempting to hold up the Soviet advance, mined large areas, says a Moscow communique. Soviet sappers, working under heavy fire, ...
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Article : 196 wordsThe Berlin radio, quoting a Tokio report, says that for the fifth night in succession Japanese planes heavily bombed Rangoon on Sunday night. ...
Article : 28 wordsMarshal Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by a party, of staff officers, has arrived in India for discussions with the Indian Government ...
Article : 138 wordsJapanese forces last night crossed the Salween River under cover of heavy artillery fire, and despite stiff British resistance they are now advancing ...
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Article : 377 wordsA Chungking communique states that a smashing Chinese counter-offensive resulted in the recapture of Waichow with heavy Japanese losses. More than ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-night's reports of operations on the Russian front reveal that activity generally was brisker from Lake [?]men to Lage Ladoga, and "The Times" ...
Article : 398 wordsSingapore went to work as usual this morning, although fighting was proceeding under half an hour's drive away. Several residents in the outer ...
Article : 68 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander) in a speech said that the war at sea had taken on extra strain and stress. The navy ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Japanese, in addition to inf[?]tration eastwards, have also landed fresh troops overnight in the Krangi estuary. They have been hotly ...
Article : 146 wordsA Berlin radio message from Tokio says the Japanese troops which landed at Kranji, on Singapore Island, met their first resistance near Mandi, a mile ...
Article : 73 wordsMonday's East Indies communique stated that Japanese troops were moving southward from Balik Papan, apparently to attack Banjermassin, the ...
Article : 140 wordsA correspondent cabling from Singapore this evening says that the fourth air raid on the island took place this afternoon. The city, he says however, ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Indies officiail war correspondent in Sumatra reports that hardly any town of any consequence in Sumatra was not raided. The Japanese, who ...
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Article : 48 wordsSir Malcolm Watson, director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a speech, said ...
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Article : 141 wordsReports from London that the Empire air training scheme is undergoing revision in London were confirmed by the Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin). It ...
Article : 164 wordsThe casualties so far in yesterday's Sourabaya raid were 51 killed and 54 injured. Most fatalities occurred when a bomb directly hit a stationary ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Paris radio says: "If Singapore falls, Gibraltar will be the last pillar of the British Empire: There are indications that Gibraltar, too, may be ...
Article : 50 wordsA Rangoon message says American volunteer fliers in the Chinese army shot down a total of 136 Japanese planes in the defence of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Vichy radio from Home says it is believed that the British retreat in Libya has now come to an end. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Singapore Hospital, plainly marked with a red cross, is reported to have been directly hit during one of to-day's Japanese air raids. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn army communique states: "Enemy aircraft yesterday morning attacked our positions in the P[?] area on the east bank of the Salween River. Later ...
Article : 169 wordsNazi stormtroopers shot 17 workers at the Skoda works, Pilsen, following a strike at the end oz January. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Vichy news agency says that the Japanese fleet was observed off Banjermassin, at which it is presumed the Japanese made an attempt to land. ...
Article : 36 wordsA Singapore communique says that an enemy landing from boats on the north-west coast of the island occurred between Sungei Kranji and Pasir Laba ...
Article : 620 wordsA special communique admits there has been some further withdrawal of our troops owing to strong enemy attacks, which have been supplemented ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Wed 11 Feb 1942, Page 5
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