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Advertising : 12 wordsIt is learned that when President Roosevelt instructed the Departments of State, Navy and War to obtain information as possible on how the Germans were able to land as far north as Narvik and whether the British fleet was effective enough to drive the ...
Article : 618 wordsThe British submarine Spearfish (above) and the German pocket-battleship, Admiral Scheer. The submarine is reported to have torpedoed this sister ship of the Graf Spee. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 467 words"It was a quiet day at Narvik. Strong British naval forces are blocking the harbour." This, from the German High Command, is the only news at present available of the situation at ...
Article : 68 wordsFurious fighting continues on the Scandinavian battleground, although the news from there is meagre and conflicting. It is apparent, however, that the Allied offensive on ...
Article : 627 wordsThe Norwegian Government has informed Great Britain that German airmen have evidently been instructed to ...
Article : 273 wordsAn invasion of Sweden can only be a matter of hours. Germany's only chance of maintaining effective contact with her troops in Norway will be by the Baltic and Sweden. The struggle in Sweden appears to be a foregone ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Italian naval manoeuvres have been begun several weeks earlier than usual. Exercises in the cutting off of the ...
Article : 285 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that British forces had landed at several points in Norway. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Premier (Mr. R. Cosgrove) and Mrs. Cosgrove were notified by the Air Board this afternoon that their son, Flight-Lieutenant ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 164 wordsA proclamation prohibiting the export of coal, fuel oil, and ships' stores, except with the consent of the Minister for Customs, was promulgated to-day. ...
Article : 145 wordsR.A.F. coastal command reconnaissance machines carried out further harassing attacks on Stavanger aerodrome last night, despite darkness ...
Article : 163 wordsMorning newspapers have reduced their size as a result of a paper control order operating from midnight on Saturday. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Reichsbank's annual report states that the bank's total assets increased last year by 3,476,000,000 Reichmarks to 12,619,000,000, and that ...
Article : 124 wordsTwenty Algerian sharp shooters routed over 50 Germans and took seven as prisoners after a bitter all-night battle in ...
Article : 118 wordsA Berlin communique claim that a U-boat torpedoed a cruiser of the Glasgow class north of the Glasgow class north of the Shetlands has ...
Article : 296 wordsThe special correspondent in Northern Norway of the British United Press says that the survivors of the crew of the ...
Article : 55 wordsCurrency has been given in the Italian press to a report that because of the German invasion of Norway and the occupation of Denmark there is a ...
Article : 147 wordsThe American Press Association reports that the German Embassy at The Hague is burning its documents. ...
Article : 23 wordsBritish diplomatic escapees from Denmark on arrival in Brussels wirelessed that the Germans when invading Denmark flagrantly ignored ...
Article : 117 wordsThose killed in the first Narvik battle when five British destroyers entered the fiord, include Captain Warburton Lee, who was in charge of the operation. The First Lord the Admiralty (Mr. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe "Washington Star" in a leader commends the Australian Minister (Mr. Casey) for his purchase of a plane and because he has arranged a tour of the ...
Article : 93 wordsTHE HAGUE, April 15—German planes are reported to have shot down a British bomber in the Gelderland Province. All six members of the crew are ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 16 Apr 1940, Page 1
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