LONDON, Thursday.—The main battle in Malaya is being fought in the Bakri-Bukit Payong area, in north-west Johore, and to-day's Singapore communique says heavy fighting continues there. ...
Article : 1,203 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—In the past 24 hours several more inhabited localities have been recaptured by the Russian forces, according to the Moscow communique. No further details are given, but the German communique speaks of defensive action against ...
Article : 1,112 wordsSINGAPORE, Wednesday. — Troops who were trapped by the Japanese in the Slim River area continue to filter through the ...
Article : 304 wordsThese British anti-tank gunners have a hard task hauling their 2 pounder gun up a rocky hillside in Northern Ireland, but they are tough lads, and fighting fit. So if there is no road to take a motor-tractor the gun must be hauled by man-power instead of horse-power.—(Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The "Soviet War News" says the Soviet of Moscow is organising the rehabilitation of liberated areas on the Eastern Front. The Germans destroyed practically the whole basis of economic life in these areas. Agriculture ...
Article : 426 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Lieut.-Colonel Swift, of the U.S. General Staff, testified before the House of Representatives Military Affairs ...
Article : 70 wordsWASHINGTON, Wed.— The Rio de Janeiro conference is expected to approve of a gigantic war production ...
Article : 82 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs.— The delegates of all the American republics have agreed to break off relations with the Axis. ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Salvage recovered under the municipal scheme in the past two years has been worth £4,575,000 sterling. ...
Article : 34 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) said to-day that he believed responsible authorities in Australia, China, and the Dutch East Indies understood that the directors of the united nations' ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Free Belgian Agency relates that only two of five Belgian youths who set out from the Belgian coast for Britain in a small ...
Article : 130 wordsNEW YORK, Wednesday. — The United Press expert for the Pacific, Mr. Dan Roberts, in an extensive treatise on Australia, concludes: ...
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Advertising : 338 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — An enemy bomber was brought down off the east coast of England last night. Earlier a single raider dropped bombs on places in ...
Article : 53 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The Navy announced that the United States steamer City of Atlanta had been sunk and the Latvian freighter Ciltvaira ...
Article : 40 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Remarks made by President Roosevelt at a press conference to-day are understood to be intended to reassure China and Australia, where some uneasiness has been reported regarding the priority given to the battle against Hitler over the battle against Japan in the matter of American aid. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 23 Jan 1942, Page 1
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