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  2. JAPANESE THRUSTS CONTINUE

    A Chungking communique states that fighting is progressing in the vicinity of Mandalay, which was evacuated on Friday morning. The Chinese are holding Taunggyi. ...

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  3. BRITAIN'S "BATTLESHIP OF THE AIR"

    Britain's "Stirling" bomber (four-engined) has figured prominently in raids over Germany and the occupied countries during the last year. Larger even than the formidable American-built flying fortress substratosphere bomber, the Stirling carries a bomb load of eight tons and, when fully loaded, weighs 30 tons. It has a speed of 300 m.p.h., a range of 2,000 miles and is very heavily armoured, its defensive armament ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. NAZI WARSHIPS BADLY BATTERED

    Confirmation has been obtained of the severe damage sustained by the German ships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. The Gneisenau has been located at Fdunia (on the western shores of Danzig Bay). This vessel was severely damaged along the ...

    Article : 286 words
  5. BERLIN REPORTS FRENCH AIR RAID ON BRITAIN

    Subsequent to an announcement by the British Air Ministry that Britain had been free of raids on Saturday night, the ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. RUSSIANS FORESTALL HITLER'S OFFENSIVE

    Red Army units along the whole front yesterday, swore to carry out Premier Stalin's May Day order to make 1942 the year of Germany's final defeat. "Pravda" calls the German threats to launch a Spring offensive a ...

    Article : 307 words
  7. ENEMY LOSSES OVER NEW GUINEA

    The latest air activity is outlined in an official communique issued today from General Headquarters. The communique was in the following ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. HAMBURG ATTACKED BY R.A.F.

    The Berlin news agency announced that the R.A.F. raided Hamburg last night and that six of the raiders were shot down. The Air Ministry in London confirmed that the R.A.F. was over enemy territory last night. ...

    Article : 325 words
  9. JAPANESE MILITARISTS GAIN POWER

    The Tokyo radio, quoting a Domei report, stated that the almost complete reports from the election on April 30, ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. EXETER ATTACKED BY ENEMY RAIDERS

    It was announced that Exeter was attacked last night by enemy raiders, 30 planes taking part. Two enemy planes are known to have been ...

    Article : 226 words
  11. OFFENSIVE RAIDS ON ENEMY BASES MAINTAINED

    The Air Ministry announced that Fighter Command aircraft attacked strategic points along the Norwegian coast early this ...

    Article : 195 words
  12. U.S.A. PILOTS IMPATIENT WITH JAPAN

    "Home by Christmas" is the slogan adopted by Americans here, who are becoming impatient with Japan's failure to bring bombers over. ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. DESTROYERS IN BATTLE IN N. ATLANTIC

    A Berlin communique states that German submarines, surface vessels and a Luftwaffe formation attacked a strongly protected enemy convoy ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. R.A.F. POUNDER ENEMY BASES IN PORTH AFRICA

    Bombers on Friday night, effectively air-raided aerodromes at Menidi and Maritsa and a submarine base at Portolaki Bay, Leros. ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. U.S. CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES

    The War Department has issued a list of casualties in the Philippines, including 30 officers and 91 men, but it was explained that the list was ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. MASS LAUNCHING OF DESTROYERS

    The Navy to-day launched, inside 50 minutes, four new destroyers at the Kearny shipyard. Governor Edison, in a speech, ...

    Article : 39 words
  17. AIR RAID ALERTS IN FRANCE

    Vichy announced that an air raid alert occurred at Marsailles at 1.35 a.m. and also at Toulon. Anti-aircraft guns went into action ...

    Article : 40 words
  18. Trek Across Swedish Mountains

    A message from Stockholm states that seven British airmen, one Australian and one Canadian, who were shot down during the raid last week ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. AXIS SHIPPING LOSSES

    It is announced officially that 1,250,000 tons of Axis merchant ships had been sunk in the Mediterranean since Italy's entry into the war. ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. HONOLULU PREPARES FOR AIR RAIDS

    Lieut.-General Delos Emmons warned 3,500 air raid wardens of the strategic location and importance of Hawai[?] and indicated that the islands ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. LOOTERS ACTIVE AT BATH

    LONDON, Sunday. — Following a wave of looting from bombed buildings at Bath armed Home Guards are patrolling the streets in order to take ...

    Article : 38 words
  22. JAPAN EXPELS IRANIAN MINISTER

    NEW YORK, Sunday.—The Iranian Minister to Tokyo has been ordered to leave Japan. It is suggested that the action is a reprisal for the ...

    Article : 34 words
  23. DURHAM MINERS STRIKE

    LONDON, Monday.—Miners and boys, numbering 1,500, employed at Durham Colliery, went on strike over a disagreement on rates of pay for ...

    Article : 27 words
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