LONDON, June 5.—In a third successive night attack large forces of Royal Air Force heavy bombers on Monday night and early Tuesday morning ...
Article : 649 wordsEarly yesterday morning the Germans launched a new offensive in great force against the Allied line Northern France in an effort to break through to Paris. The onslaught extends along a front of about 120 miles from the Laon-Soissons region north-westward to the Somme and the sea. Two main thrusts are reported; one ...
Article : 794 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Italy's future as an active participant in the war still hangs in the balance. Official circles in Rome declare that Italy's entry into the war ...
Article : 1,154 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Now that the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) has told how he feared that the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders would be ...
Article : 903 wordsLONDON, June 4.—"We shall go on to the end," declared the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in a stirring peroration to his speech in the House of Commons ...
Article : 745 wordsLONDON, June 4.—Half an hour after the momentous speech by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in the House of commons, the authorities ...
Article : 863 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Following the week-end raids on Marseilles and Lyons and the bombing of. Paris on Monday afternoon German planes last night again ...
Article : 420 wordsLONDON, June 4.—The Berlin radio, in a special announcement issued from Hitler's headquarters tonight, claimed that British, French, Belgian and Dutch ...
Article : 440 wordsLONDON, June 4.—It was officially stated today that British forces in the Bodo Area (120 miles south of Narvik, in Norway) have been withdrawn after ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, June 5.—The speech by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) is widely applauded for its sheer courage. Some of its implications, ...
Article : 593 wordsLONDON, June 4.—Flying-Officer R. L. Glyde, of Perth (Western Australia) has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for showing "great dash and ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, June 4.—The Secretary for War (Mr. Anthony Eden) said in the House of Commons today that the calling up of men for the Army was being ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) told the House of Commons today that the flying training organisation of the Royal Air ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, June 5.—A Swiss High Command communique, Issued yesterday, stated that Swiss planes had shot down two or three German machines in a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, June 4.—Special squads of police in a series of raids today detained scores more leading members of the British Union of Fascists, and other ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, June 4.—In reply to a question in the House of Commons today about the advisability of the transportation of internees and prisoners of war to places ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, June 5.—As the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) revealed in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon. 335,000 British and French troops were ...
Article : 543 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The Speaker (Captain FitzRoy) announced in the House of Commons today that he had received a letter from Captain A. M. Ramsay, M.P. ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, June 5.—A Madrid message states that the Greek steamer Yonna (not listed in Lloyds) was shelled and sunk by a German submarine off ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Dominions Office (Mr. G. Shakespeare) in a written reply to a question in the House of Commons ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, June 4.— Replying to a question in the House of Commons today, the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) said that it might be convenient to hold a secret ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, June 4.—Prominent American organisations in Britain are equipping and maintaining a fleet- of ambulances and first-aid units. The United ...
Article : 81 wordsROME, June 5.— Twenty Britons, mostly from the commercial staff of the British Embassy, left for London with their families today. A crowd of Britons ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The first case of its kind under the new defence regulations was heard at Mansfield today when Sidney Hawkins House (50), was fined ...
Article : 76 wordsPARIS, June 4.—"If Italy enters the war, she will do so deliberately for the sole purpose of waging war," said the French Prime Minister (M. Reynaud) in ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Pointing out that the present scale of unemployment in the building industry costs £18,000,000 a year, Mr. G. Hicks, Labour member of ...
Article : 87 wordsBELFAST, June 4.—The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (Viscount Craigavon) has left for London to discuss defence matters. It is announced that a ...
Article : 51 wordsALEXANDRIA, June 5.—Hundreds of Italians are leaving Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Today 250 Ballila boys travelled by, train to Port Said to board the ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, June 4.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) stated today that the Limitation of Dividends Bill had been dropped. This ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, June 4.—Three hundred and ninety suspects have been arrested throughout Eire. The internment camp at Curragh is overflowing and Cork Gaol ...
Article : 31 wordsMOSCOW, June 5.—The Moscow newspapers published a 2,000-word report of yesterday's speech by the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill). They did not ...
Article : 30 wordsThe daily overseas information published in "The West Australian" is, with the exception of British Official Wireless, transmitted over the beam wireless and ...
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