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Article : 220 wordsDoctor G. H. Gallup, founder of the Gallup polls, in a speech by radio to a luncheon of the Institute of Public Opinion, said although ...
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Article : 331 wordsThe Republican Leader (Mr. Wendell Wilkie) after luncheon with President Roosevelt at White House to-day said he had been relieved to learn that the ...
Article : 89 wordsA Vichy message from Belgrade says that over 900 Communists, "including women,'" were shot when German occupation troops ...
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Article : 98 wordsThe Finns have intimated that they have two divisions on the Svir front, where the Russians are on the offensive, plus two German regiments. ...
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Article : 83 wordsNinety per cent. of China's war strength remains to be thrown into the conflict, the Kuomintang central executive committee declared to-day in ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Russians are exerting great pressure on the Ladoga front, and are also threatening the Germans at the Neva River eastwards of Leningrad. ...
Article : 53 wordsA War Department communique says Army bombers renewed the attacks on Japanese vessels off Legespi (Philippines), seriously damaging an enemy ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Maxwell, head of the United States military mission, said to-day that supplies of American equipment to North Africa were so far ahead of ...
Article : 58 wordsA Hong Kong communique states that the Governor on December 13 rejected the Japanese proposal to start negotiations for the colony's surrender. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn Admiralty communique states that the French Admiralty has issued a communique that on December 8 the steamship St. Denis, carrying ...
Article : 240 wordsIt is unlikely that plans for Government control of aircraft production will be as drastic as was at first indicated. Adjustments are likely to take the ...
Article : 191 wordsIn subordinating civil administration to the defence of the Commonwealth it was inevitable that there should be some confusion and very great losses ...
Article : 205 wordsA Tokio naval commxinique says that the Japanese forces at dawn on December 10 landed at Apra (western Guam) and attacked a number of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe first decisive battle of the new war in the Pacific is being fought now in South Kedah. It would be wrong to attach too great importance to it, ...
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Article : 141 wordsAccording to the Berlin military spokesman, General Bommel reported to Berlin that he has concluded building west of Tobruk a new strong ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Central News" says that 3000 Japanese were wounded at Kowloon and sent to hospital at Shumchum and Tamshui. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the evacuation of Kowloon has been completed. ...
Article : 18 wordsOn Tuesday morning Macassar had an air raid alarm. This was given when it was reported that listening posts on the islands off the south coast of the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Defence Minister (Colonel J. L. Ralston) in a statement to-day, said the position of Canadian troops at Hong Kong was undoubtedly, at ...
Article : 46 wordsA General Headquarters communique states that bad weather with heavy sandstorms temporarily slowed down the rate of advance of the British forces ...
Article : 67 wordsThe American Press correspondent says the Philippines Secret Service announced to-day that Remon Mantile, leader of the anti-American Ganap ...
Article : 52 wordsA warning of the serious effect of the war position on overseas trade, was given to-day by the Director of the Customs Department's division of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator D. Cameron) said to-day that he was thoroughly satisfied with the aircraft output to date, but he hoped ...
Article : 153 wordsBecause of the changed situation in the Pacific, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which adjourned to-night, after a two-day emergency ...
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Article : 191 wordsThe Tokio radio says that the Japanese landing on Wake Island was followed by repeated Japanese aerial attacks. Barracks and warehouses were ...
Article : 255 wordsFlight-Lieutenant C. R. Caldwell, of Sydney, who is serving with the R.A.A.F. in Libya, has been simultaneously awarded the D.F.C. and bar for ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Navy disclosed to-day that the Japanese two-men submarine captured at Hawaii apparently had traveled 100 miles. The length is 41 feet, beam five ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Associated Press correspondent aboard a British cruiser off Cyrenaica on December 16 cables: "Firing one of the heaviest barrages of the war, a ...
Article : 210 wordsA drastic revision of the reserved occupations' list may be expected shortly, to enable the Commonwealth to meet the new man-power demands ...
Article : 95 wordsThe first experience here of a time bomb was when a Japanese bomb which was dropped several days ago, exploded to-day. There were no ...
Article : 36 wordsAsked in the House of Commons whether the Prince of Wales and Repulse bad adequate sea or land-based fighter escort the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Navy announced that the Japanese shelled the Hawaiian Islands of Johnston and Maui during the last 24 hours. ...
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Article : 34 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander), replying to Mr. Morris Jones in the House of Commons, said the Admiralty had no ...
Article : 100 wordsAmerican army headquarters at Manila to-night announced that 26 Japanese aircraft had been destroyed in an attack on a Japanese ...
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Article : 52 wordsThe radio announced a Domei dispatch from Shanghai, stating that the Japanese fleet captured on Monday the United States liner President Harrison, ...
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