With the end of the first year of the war approaching the British Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) made a comprehensive statement on the course of the struggle in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,801 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Following the agreement between the United States and Canada to establish a joint Defence Board to consider the defence of the ...
Article : 485 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The negotiations between Rumania and Hungary concerning the latter's claim for the return of a large part of Transylvania were ...
Article : 276 wordsThe British armed forces have been evacuated from British Somaliland and an Italian communique reports the occupation of Berbera (the chief town and port) on Monday afternoon. The enemy launched the invasion in strength greatly superior to that of the ...
Article : 869 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The Royal Air Force on Sunday night attacked objectives in France and Germany near the Swiss frontier and again raided ...
Article : 315 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—German air activity over Britain yesterday and last night was restricted to desultory raids over widespread areas by small numbers ...
Article : 1,001 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—The Bukarest correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph says that owing to the German declaration of a total blockade of Britain the ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—An air raid alarm was given in Berlin at 12.42 o'clock this morning. The all-clear was sounded at 2.22 am. ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON. Aug. 19.—A correspondent of "The Times" who was recently in Belgium says that German propaganda there has been notably successful. The ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The Admiralty announced this afternoon that Skua dive-bombers of the Fleet Air Arm yesterday located and stacked two enemy transports ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The decision to form a joint Canadian and United States Defence Board appears here as one of those rare turns in the affairs of ...
Article : 543 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—"Our planes during armed reconnaissances over England," says a German High Command communique, "attacked armament ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—An R.A.F. communique issued in Cairo today stated:— "Our bombers on Sunday made a night raid on Derna (an Italian base in Libya). ...
Article : 352 wordsBERNE, Aug. 20.—It is officially announced that the British Government has expressed the deepest regrets at the violation of Swiss territory by British ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—An Englishman who returned to England yesterday after living in Rome, Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid and Lisbon has commented illuminatingly ...
Article : 333 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) has received the following message from the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill):—"Please ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—It is authoritatively stated that Britain has not received any Note from Germany regarding the treatment of parachutists. ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—One task of the R.A.F. bomber command to which little attention has been given is minelaying throughout the Baltic. Almost every ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—Although there is no attempt to conceal the chagrin at another setback to British prestige, particularly in Africa and Asia, where ...
Article : 832 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—According to a report from Berlin Hitler has sent the following telegram to Mussolini: "I and the German people most heartily ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—In the House of Commons this afternoon the Foreign Under-Secretary (Mr. Butler) said that there had apparently been a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—Immediate steps are being taken to remedy the position that has given rise to complaints of excessively rigid censorship of messages ...
Article : 240 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 19.—The Canadian Government indicated today that it was moving rapidly to give effect to the Canadian-American mutual defence ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—The Air Ministry announced tonight that Royal Air Force planes last night again bombed aircraft factories in Turin and Milan, in northern ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—A German High Command communique issued today says that one U-boat sank the armed merchantman Ampleforth (4,576 tons), that ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—The Admiralty announced today that nine British ships, totalling 32.257 tons, were lost during the week ended August 11, compared with ...
Article : 49 wordsCAIRO, Aug. 19.—Ahmed Maher Pasha, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, and leader of the Saadist Wafdist Party today urged Egypt's entry ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—Two Irishmen—a passenger and a seaman, were killed when a German plane bombed and machine-gunned the Great Western Railway ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—As a result of an examination of the steel splinters found at a point on the south-east coast last Tuesday it is now believed that the ...
Article : 172 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 20.—Reports furnished by the British Government enabled him to say that newspaper accounts of the successes and losses by ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Aug. 20.—It is reported from Vichy that all railway traffic between occupied and unoccupied France has been suspended under German order without ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 21 Aug 1940, Page 7
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