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Advertising : 285 wordsBritish cavalrymen, now mechanised, signalling by semaphore to other tanks of the squadron from their newly-arrived American-built cruiser tank. These fast tanks, built in factories of the U.S.A. are arriving in large numbers for British armies in the field, and many of them go direct to Egypt ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The latest Rangoon communique reported no change on the Bilin River front. There is no confirmation of the Japanese claim to have crossed the river, but it is possible that some patrol parties have done so. ...
Article : 977 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—How everything was against the British garrison in Singapore, the defence of which, indeed, seemed foredoomed to failure, is shown by a correspondent of "The Times," who, in a despatch from Batavia, analyses the factors that ...
Article : 1,207 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Admiralty stated that the German ship Spreewald had been torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat or an Italian submarine. An ...
Article : 141 wordsHONOLULU, Wednesday. — Dummy periscopes made of wood, bamboo, glass, tin cans and coral have been found in the ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — The Bombay "Times" says the British War Cabinet is obsessed by the war in the west to the exclusion of other ...
Article : 216 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Russians are continuing their advance on the Eastern front and ate smashing German counterattacks. The midday Soviet communique states that on one sector of the south-western, or Kharkov, front the Germans ...
Article : 510 words..LONDON, Wednesday.— The Tokio Radio says that prisoners counted in Singapore so far total 49,000— ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—To-day's Batavia communique reports that Japanese bombers made a raid in North Timor. Referring to ground fighting, it states that in many places in Borneo fighting still continues, but in North Celebes fighting in Minahasa Is almost at an end. ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON, Wednesday — To-day's Cairo communique states that our fighting patrols and mobile columns, protected by fighter sweeps, again operated over a wide ...
Article : 83 wordsWASHINGTON, Tuesday.—To-day's Philippines communique reports that heavy enemy artillery fire from the Caviat shore bombarded the American ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW YORK, Tuesday.—The "New York Post's" Washington correspondent says the United Nations have a common front in ...
Article : 276 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — The Berlin radio says a secret document found in the papers of the former French Premier (M. Daladier) reveals a plan to ...
Article : 76 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Tuesday. — "Dagens Nyheter's" Berlin correspondent says the Germans are using a new blood substitute for transfusions which is ...
Article : 45 wordsWASHINGTON, Tuesday. —Opening a debate on a huge arms appropriation, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — R.A.F. 'planes attacked North-West Germany last night, all returning safely. Two Coastal Command aircraft are missing ...
Article : 163 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Tuesday.—Six thousand workers in Norway have been precipitately transferred from their own jobs to assist in building fortifications ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Over Britain, an enemy aircraft dropped bombs on the east coast of Scotland last night, but no damage was caused. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 19 Feb 1942, Page 1
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