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Advertising : 7 wordsJAPANESE troop patrols have landed on the island of Pulau Ubin, at the eastern end of the Straits of Johore, presumably as a steppingoff place for a large-scale assault on Singapore ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 569 wordsLast scenes on board H.M.S. Ark Royal showing the flight deck and the order and discipline of survivors. before they were rescued from the torpedoed ship. A destroyer is seen going alongside to take off survivors. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsSOVIET forces are reported to have surrounded Rjev, the northern bastion of the German "Winter line" in Russia. The siege of the city is in full swing, and the defenders' food is believed to be short. ...
Article : 538 wordsJAPANESE air attacks on Rangoon have been intensified during the past 48 hours, and the city early this morning had its heaviest night raid. For three hours the Japanese flew over in waves; they ...
Article : 509 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.— The Associated Press of America says that military and naval experts view seriously the ...
Article : 277 wordsPRESIDENT ROOSEVELT said over the week-end that the Pacific Council had been operating in Washington and London for a month, and the War Office announced a combined British and U.S. "Chiefs of ...
Article : 614 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The pasition in Libya is still described as "rather confused," but little change appears to have accurred ...
Article : 170 wordsBATAVIA. Sunday. — Realising that a Japanese blow at the heart of the Dutch East Indies cannot be long delayed, the ...
Article : 211 wordsAN air raid alert was sounded at Darwin this afternoon. The Minister for the Air (Mr. Drakeford) announced this in a war communique tonight. "R.A.A.F. fighters were ordered into the air to intercept ...
Article : 153 wordsSINGAPORE, Sunday.—Singapore's first week of siege has passed swiftly. Apart from air raids there is little outward ...
Article : 212 wordsNEW YORK. Sunday. — Mr. William Batt, chairman of the Combined Inter-Allied Raw Materials Board, addressing ...
Article : 134 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — A Navy communique announces that combined naval forces in the Australian and New Zealand ...
Article : 177 wordsSINGAPORE, Sunday. — "We shall hold Singapore; there is no question about it," said MajorGeneral Percival, British ...
Article : 171 wordsIT was not proposed now to have a Tasmanian Minister constantly in Canberra, the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said ...
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Advertising : 143 wordsMELBOURNE. Sunday.— A.I.F. casualties in Malaya were 1,187, including 183 deaths, 359 wounded, and 645 missing, ...
Article : 108 wordsTHE date for the trial blackout of the whole of the Australian coastline is being conveyed to State ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The whole problem for American strategists is that of reaching across the Pacific to find the ...
Article : 296 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The German News Agency declares that Mr. Churchill, at a coming secret session of the House of Commons on ...
Article : 76 wordsAir and naval bates and water reservoirs are shown in this map of Singapore Island, which is besieged by the Japanese. A landing by Japanese troops on the island of Pulau Ubin, at the eastern end of the Straits of Johore, was reported yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — "To win the war we need fresh leaders and younger minds," said Mr. E. L. Granville (Llb. Nat.), a ...
Article : 125 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday. — The importance of Darwin as an Allied strategic base in the Pacific is emphasised by Edgar Laytha ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 9 Feb 1942, Page 1
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