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  2. JAPS LOSE FIERCE TANK BATTLE ON BIAK ISLAND

    Fierce tank and plane battles, artillery duels, naval bombardment and hand-to-hand clashes between ground forces are making the battle for Mokmer aerodrome, on Biak Island, the bitterest fight the Americans have yet ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 557 words
  3. 14,000 TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED IN 48 HOURS

    A new high leye in the Allied air offensive was reached yesterday when more than 2,000 bombers and fighters, for the third day in succession, roared out from Britain to attack targets in Germany, France and Belgium, while between 250 and 500 ...

    Article : 665 words
  4. DESPERATE GERMAN EFFORTS TO SAVE ARMY

    Gigantic tank and infantry battles are developing along the entire length of the line from Valmontone to Campo Jemini. In an endeavour to prevent a break through to Rome, the Germans are keeping up heavy ...

    Article : 930 words
  5. RUSSIANS TO MEET ALLIES IN BERLIN

    Tension is hardening on the Russian front as both sides prepare for what promises to be a gigantic thrust, says ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. Wedge Driven Into Soviet Defences

    The Moscow communique says that the Russians repelled an attack by large enemy forces of tanks and infantry north from Jassy. At a cost ...

    Article : 151 words
  7. U.S. GRATEFUL FOR AUSTRALIAN CO-OPERATION

    During a conference with the Australian Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley), the U.S. Secretary for State (Mr.Cordell Hull) said he was ...

    Article : 105 words
  8. FRENCH ACTIVE IN PRE-INVASION PREPARATIONS

    In a broadcast to-day, M. Henriot declared that the Allied air forces were operating in conjunction with squads of French saboteurs, who cut ...

    Article : 99 words
  9. GEORGE CROSS AWARDED TO CHIMNEY SWEEP

    Anthony Smith, 45, a chimney sweep, has been awarded the George Cross for gallantry in a raid during the February-March blitz against ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. JAPANESE RENEW ATTACK ON CHINA'S RICE BOWL

    Headed by well-equipped crack shock troops from Manchuria, 150,000 Japanese have been thrown into the offensive in the Hunan and Hupeh Provinces. Chinese military authorities admitted that the border drive had already developed into the ...

    Article : 411 words
  11. Gen. MacArthur's Communique

    Dutch New Guinea—Babo: Our medium units struck the aerodrome, damaging several parked planes and starting fires visible 35 miles. ...

    Article : 610 words
  12. Roosevelt Not Impressed By Spain

    According to the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times," President Roosevelt indirectly is taking the issue with Mr. Churchill's ...

    Article : 119 words
  13. AWARDS FOR SKILL DISPLAYED IN ATTACK ON TIRPITZ

    Twenty-five officers and four ratings of the Fleet Air Arm, who took part'in the recent attack on the German battleship, Tirpitz, have been ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. 60 AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS IN PACIFIC

    Captain L. P. Lovette, Director of Public Relations in the U.S. Navy, disclosed that the Allies have 60 aircraft-carriers in the Pacific. ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. GERMANY USING CANAL SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTATION

    The disorganisation, caused to the German communication system by the concentrated air blows, has caused the Nazis to make more use ...

    Article : 116 words
  16. Ecuadorean Exiled Leader Returns

    Private despatches say that American lend-lease tanks played a key. part in the revolutionary fighting at Guayaquil, which resulted in the ...

    Article : 102 words
  17. JAP ISLAND BASES BOMBED

    Liberators bombed Saipan Island in the Marianas during daylight on Sunday, says the Pacific Fleet communique Moderate heavy calibre ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. MUNITION SHIP EXPLODED

    BOMBAY, Tuesday.—The Government of India is paying £19,000,000 compensation for civilian losses caused when an ammunition ship ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. MUNITION EXPLOSION

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Although [?]o one was killed, a number of persons were injured, largely by flying glass, when an explosion in an ammunition ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. U.S. AMBASSADOR RETURNS

    LONDON, Tuesday.— The American Ambassador (Mr. John G. Winant) returned to England by air this afternoon from a fortnight'S Visit ...

    Article : 45 words
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