WASHINGTON, Dec. 24:—Two American tankers—the Union Oil Company's Montebello (8,272 tons) and the Richfield Oil Corporation's ...
Article : 284 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 24—In the discussions between the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and President Roosevelt on co-ordination of the Allied war effort, special attention is being paid to the Pacific. ...
Article : 1,681 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25.—The Tokio radio today broadcast an official Japanese claim that Hong Kong had surrendered at 5.50 pm. local time ...
Article : 651 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—A Navy Department communique issued yesterday stated: "Radio communication with Wake Island has been severed ...
Article : 241 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The Japanese have made another landing in force in the Philippines—this time at Atimonan, on the east coast of Luzon, the main island, 75 miles south-east of Manila. On Monday, it will be recalled, a large Japanese force landed on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,049 wordsLONDON. Dec. 25.—Continuing its victorious sweep through Libya. the British Eighth Army captured Bengazi yesterday. Advance units are ...
Article : 835 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25.—The Russians continue to report the reoccupation of towns and villages in their drives against the German invaders. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 874 wordsHONOLULU, Dec. 25—Army authorities revealed today that large reinforcements of fighter and bomber planes have arrived from the ...
Article : 82 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—A message from Honolulu says that the Presidential Commission investigating the circumstances of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 94 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 25.—It is announced that Netherlands East Indies naval bombers attacked a Japanese fleet concentration off Davao ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 141 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 25.—The British combined headquarters said in a communique issued at 5 p.m. yesterday that there had been some ...
Article : 156 wordsCHUNGKING. Dec. 24.—An official Chinese spokesman places Japan's army strength at 100 divisions, or slightly more than 2,000,000 ...
Article : 149 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec. 24.—Full mobilisation of China's tremendous power to provide millions more men to be thrown into the Pacific war ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 25.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) has sent to Washington, through the Australian Minister there (Mr. Casey), a long ...
Article : 289 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Tokio radio broadcast on Tuesday night an official announcement that Davao, on the south coast of the ...
Article : 110 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Labour and management representatives agreed yesterday to forgo strikes and lock-outs for the duration of the war ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25.—A communique issued yesterday morning in Rangoon, capital of Burma, stated:—"British and American fighters ...
Article : 335 wordsHAVANA, Dec. 24.—The United States and Cuba have signed a supplemental trade agreement. ...
Article : 18 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec. 23.—A Government spokesman at Kunming said today that American volunteer pilots on Sunday shot down four heavy ...
Article : 42 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 24.—A message from Barranquilla, Colombia, says that Wilhelm Baumann, secret Gestapo chief in Colombia, committed ...
Article : 36 wordsThe President (Senor Quezon) has summoned a special session of Congress for next Tuesday to consider "special ...
Article : 30 wordsMANILA, Dec. 24.—The Shanghai radio reports that the Japanese Public Relations Officer today addressed Allied nationals in Shanghai and ...
Article : 86 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 25.—Admiralty officials of the Netherlands East Indies navy announced today that one of the navy's submarines had sunk ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—Six more enemy transports or supply ships have been accounted for by submarines of the Mediterranean Fleet ...
Article : 231 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Berne correspondent of the "New York Times" says diplomatic circles there believe that Hitler's action in ...
Article : 205 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 24.—President Roosevelt has announced that he and the Canadian War Cabinet have jointly approved of a detailed ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON. Dec. 23.—The spirit of the Germans in North Africa is deteriorating and the efficiency of the German officers is below ...
Article : 119 wordsMADRID. Dec. 24.—The German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) told the Berlin correspondent of the official Spanish newsagency ...
Article : 53 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The Tokio radio says that General Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese generalissimo, is sending a strong Chinese army from ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON. Dec. 23.—The Moscow radio quotes an Istanbul report that warlike preparations are increasing in Bulgaria where ...
Article : 53 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Commenting yesterday on the probable length of the Pacific war, the official Tokio radio said: "It is stupid to think ...
Article : 71 wordsNEW YORK. Dec. 25.—The Tokio radio says that Japan has knocked out the Anglo-American plan to blockade Japan and is now in a ...
Article : 38 wordsNEW YORK. Dec. 23.—The Tokio radio quotes the Government spokesman (Mr. Hori) as stating that Japan is conducting friendly ...
Article : 38 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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