LONDON, May 19.—According to reports reaching New York this afternoon Kharkov is blazing. A correspondent of the National Broadcasting Company says that the battle zone locks like hell. The roads are littered with hundreds of burnt-out German tanks and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,258 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Large enough to constitute an army in itself and accompanied by millions of pounds worth of battle equipment, the ...
Article : 182 wordsCHUNGKING, May 19.—A Government spokesman today revealed that there is increasing evidence that the Japanese are on the verge of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 800 wordsLONDON, May 19.—In the House of commons today the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Attlee) opened a debate on the war situation with a ...
Article : 622 wordsMELBOURNE, May 19.—The heaviest Japanese raid yet delivered against Port Moresby was made yesterday when 34 heavy bombers flew over escorted by 15 Zero fighters. Allied interceptor planes engaged the force and prevented accurate bombing. ...
Article : 369 wordsMELBOURNE, May 19.—Another fiendish murder of a woman, the third in Melbourne since the beginning of this month, was discovered ...
Article : 372 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Two torpedo hits on the Prinz Eugen during Sunday night's RAF attack are considered definite and a third probable. ...
Article : 681 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—An Army communique yesterday announced the arrival of additional United States Army troops in the ...
Article : 39 wordsWASHINGTON. May 19.—The United States and the Panama Republic signed a treaty at Panama yesterday covering the use of ...
Article : 102 wordsWASHINGTON, May 18.—Fears expressed by Sir Keith Murdoch, of Melbourne and by the "Sydney Morning. Herald" that Washington ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 434 wordsDURBAN, May 19.—When British ships appeared off Madagascar before the landing on May 5, native troops, forming the bulk of the ...
Article : 303 wordsMELBOURNE, May 19.—Detectives investigating the murder of Mrs Thompson have not heard from the US soldier who was known to have ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—The Tokio radio claimed yesterday that 19 Allied planes were destroyed in the last 3 days and said that only 4 ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON. May 19.—The Press reviews sympathetically Australia's' position as put by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) in his speech in ...
Article : 870 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—The House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved of a 210,000,000 dollar (about £52,500,000) increase in ...
Article : 73 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—The Chief of the services of Supply (Lt-General Somervell) In an address at the engineering societies dinner last ...
Article : 188 wordsALEXANDRIA, May 19.—Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham whom the "Times of Malta" describes as "Britain's finest fighting admiral and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, May 19.—How General Alexander's 17th Division escaped from the Japanese during the last stages of the retreat from Burma ...
Article : 264 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The Air Ministry announced that RAF fighters carried out a number of sweeps over Northern France and the Channel ...
Article : 134 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—Mrs Winston Churchill, wife of the British Prime Minister, urged greater aid to Russia in a message to a Russian ...
Article : 110 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday recomended 199,740,000 dollars (about £49,935,000 sterling) ...
Article : 79 wordsCANBERRA. May 19.—Mr Cal-well (Lab, Vic) asked the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) in the House of Representatives today if he would ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, May 19.—Hundreds of Australian soldiers who have returned from New Guinea will be called as witnesses in an. Inquiry ...
Article : 113 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—The Senate yesterday adopted and sent to the House of Representatives a conference report on legislatives, ...
Article : 91 wordsWASHINGTON, May 19.—The Chinese Ambassador in Washington (Dr Soong) reported to President Roosevelt yesterday that Chinese ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, May 19.—An official statement issued in New Delhi to- day regarding General Alexander's Army states that there have been ...
Article : 90 wordsMELBOURNE, May 19.—The RAAF was ready in co-operation with out American allies and the other fighting services to exert its ...
Article : 249 wordsOTTAWA, May 19.—Maj-General Shen, commander of Chinese air training in the United States, who is attending the air training conference ...
Article : 140 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—A battered Free French freighter arrived at an eastern Canadian port after a 3-hour running battle with a U-boat ...
Article : 106 wordsLISBON, May 19.—Sirens were sounded at a small Italian town where rioters were demanding bread. The rioters rushed into air-raid ...
Article : 153 wordsCAIRO, May 19.—The Prime Minister of South Africa (Field Marshal Smuts) arrived here by air on May 8. He has visited the South ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, May 19.—A Vichy report says that Admiral Darlan has gone to Toulon to inspect the French fleet. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Over Malta yesterday 5 German and 3 Italian fighters and 1 Italian bomber were destroyed. Four enemy fighters were ...
Article : 28 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—The Tokio official radio announced today that strong formations of Japanese bombers operating from Burma had ...
Article : 83 wordsNEW YORK., May 19.—The Tokio newspaper, "Hochi Shimbun," said yesterday that the United States demands on Martinique cloak an ...
Article : 73 wordsCHUNGKING, May 19.—Forty thousand Chinese evacuees from Burma have arrived at Yunnanfu causing serious congestion in the ...
Article : 47 wordsOTTAWA, May 19.—The loss of the 17,000-ton liner Empress of Asia is announced here. The vessel was owned by the Canadian Pacific Line ...
Article : 35 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—The Tokio official radio quoted a Domel report yesterday that 1,200 additional Filipino and American troops in ...
Article : 38 wordsNEW YORK, May 19.—At Ben-wood, West Virginia, 3 men were killed and 10 critically Injured in an explosion in the Hitchman ...
Article : 28 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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