WASHINGTON, Aug 12.—Having returned from visits to Hawaii, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. President Roosevelt gave a broadcast talk ...
Article : 1,032 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—After some delay following the withdrawal of the Germans from Florence Allied troops are now reported to have ...
Article : 386 wordsSOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, Aug 13.—Liberator and Mitchell bomber formations swarmed over the main shipping base and ...
Article : 391 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"Tremendous correlated blows by the Allied air forces yesterday constituted the war's greatest onslaught against the ...
Article : 616 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—In Normandy the Germans have begun to pull out from their big salient between Vire and Mortain in the centre of the front. In the last 24 hours they have been rushing out everything not immediately needed-for their battle. Tanks and vehicles are being rushed away in broad ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 690 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"The Germans, are reported to be using a force of 200 tanks in a desperate effort to prevent a possible junction between ...
Article : 272 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"The Germans encircled in the Russians' Baltic trap are hurriedly switching reserves from other sectors in a desperate bid to stem the Russian breakthrough west of Lake Pskov, where the Red Army is advancing into Estonia with a crushing weight of tanks and guns," says ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 355 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—The German Newsagency gives this report from Paris: "Paris has become a frontline city in the ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"While the Russians after great advances are at the moment regrouping on a terrific scale and bringing up men, ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—General Montgomery has issued the following message to his troops: "We have been through some difficult times ...
Article : 200 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"The battle for Brest has begun," says Reuters correspondent with the US forces. "As American tanks and infantry ...
Article : 353 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—Algiers radio yesterday issued an unconfirmed report that the new Finnish Foreign Minister (M Enckell) had left ...
Article : 197 wordsSOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, Aug 13.—Seven of 10 Australians and Americans were wounded by Japanese grenades, ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—The Polish Prime Minister (M Mikolajczyk) has left Moscow en route for the Middle East and will probably return to ...
Article : 362 wordsA corner of the ancient Normandy town of Falaise, desperately held by the Germans to aid their withdrawal eastward to avoid the closing Allied pincers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"The German forces in the Vire-Mortain area are fighting desperately to save their Seventh Army from rout or ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—The Moscow communique issued soon after mid-night this morning was as follows: "The Russians yesterday south-west ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—Ninth Air Force Marauders and Havocs using Pathfinder technique, bombed a German fuel dump south-east of ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—Today's Allied Supreme HQ communique (No 127), issued at 9 am, was as follows: "South of Caen contact was made by ...
Article : 345 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"Southern France rather than northern Italy is the Allies' objective for the next landing in Europe," says Berlin ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—"The Red Army's break-through on a 43-miles front south-west and west of Pskov is a dagger thrust into the heart of ...
Article : 156 wordsSOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, Aug 13.—Following a mid-air collision off Cape Sawassar (Dutch New Guinea), Flying-Officer ...
Article : 175 wordsALGIERS, Aug 13.—M Felix Gouin, president of the French National Assembly, who defended the former French Premier, M Blum, at ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—On Friday night bomb-carrying Mosquitos wrecked a German "tank hospital" at Bazancourt. The Mosquito crews ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—A correspondent with Allied troops on the Vire-Vassy road writes: "Nazi parachute troops fighting one of their ...
Article : 290 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—Hard fighting has won an important success on the sector south-east of Grimbosq forest where British troops, ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Aug 13.—A communique on the fighting in Warsaw issued by General Bol, the C-In-C of the Underground Forces, dated August ...
Article : 160 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug 13.—A Chinese spokesman on Friday stated: "Chinese forces striking in a new area in an effort to thwart the ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Aug 12.—It is officially stated that the Prime Minister (Mr Winston Churchill) has arrived in Italy. Reuters correspondent at ...
Article : 43 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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