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Advertising : 23 wordsBoth Brussels and Antwerp have now fallen to the Germans. The Germans claim that Brussels was surrendered without fighting, according to a German communique, but there were severe battles before they occupied Malines and Louvain. The Swastika flag, it is asserted, is now flying ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 738 wordsIn large scale air operations last night the Royal Air Force heavily bombed important military objectives in Western Germany, all planes returning safely to their bases. Several oil depots were destroyed in Hamburg and ...
Article : 724 wordsThe French Cabinet has been reconstructed with the Prime Minister (M. Reynaud) also taking over the portfolio of War and Defence, while ...
Article : 242 wordsThe war was at a most critical stage and it was the most terrible in history, said the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) in an address to-day to ...
Article : 245 words"Any soldier who cannot advance should allow himself to be killed rather than abandon that part of our national soil confided to him. ...
Article : 95 wordsHis Majesty the King has sent the following message to the R.A.F.:— "The matchless spirit shown in ...
Article : 88 wordsAlthough the importance of the actions which began with the German hammer-blow against French defences to the west of Sedan is now fully ...
Article : 135 wordsIn addition to closing in on the Germans in Narvik, the Allies have successfully delayed the Germans' advance south of Mo. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Netherlands Legation in London states that Prince Beroard has visited the Dutch troops who are still resisting in the province of Zealand, ...
Article : 57 wordsIn a broadcast this evening the Minister of Information (Mr. Duff Cooper) expressed the opinion that if Germany lost the battle now raging ...
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Advertising : 240 wordsWounded from the British Expeditionary Forces who have arrived in England were conveyed by special train to the Midlands to-day and ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is authoritatively states that the Germans are relying heavily on members of the "Fifth Column" and parachutists in Belgium and France They ...
Article : 222 wordsA communique says: "The enemy by air attacked towns in the North German coastal region, especially Hamburg and Bremen, and in Western Germany. ...
Article : 59 wordsA general headquarters' communique issued at 7 a.m. said: "The British front yesterday held firm de[?]ite strong pressure." ...
Article : 24 wordsThe foreign Minister (Mr. Caray) has publicised the joint protests of the American Republics against the invasion of the Low Countries. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe French official evening communique states: "Fighting has continued all day with the same violence, chiefly in the region of Guise and ...
Article : 104 wordsIn [?]man bombings of Belgian homes by Nazi raiders, hundreds of civilians have been slain, and burning towns and villages light up the sky. ...
Article : 186 wordsGerman armored shock troops further advanced to the westward on French soil on the Alsne-Sambre sector during Saturday's fighting in the ...
Article : 323 wordsIt is learned that the Allies have sounded the United States regarding the possibility of obtaining quicker delivery of aircraft by taking planes now ...
Article : 114 wordsThe famous aeroplane designer. Glen Martin has announced that he has developed, with the aid of Allied experts, a formidable new combat plane, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" learns exclusively from diplomatic sources that there is a strong possibility that, if the Allies ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Prime Minister (M. Reynaud) in a broadcast to-night said that the position was grave but not hopeless. "The Germans south from the ...
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Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Mon 20 May 1940, Page 1
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