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Advertising : 42 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—After being withdrawn from the Malayan mainland, all Imperial troops are at battle stations for the siege of Sing of Sing Singapore Island. on Friday night tens of thousands of troops streamed over the ...
Article : 815 wordsAbove is shown the causeway between Johore and Singapore Island. This is reported to have been breached by the defenders. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsBATAVIA, Sunday.—The Japanese have launched a full scale invasion attempt on Ambon Island (650 miles north-east of Darwin). A furious battle is progressing ...
Article : 734 wordsNEW YORK, Saturday.—Military losses in the present war are much less than those for the corresponding period of the ...
Article : 90 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.—The Senate Appropriations Committee to-day unanimously approved of the ...
Article : 109 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday—An army communique says the Japanese troops are in full retreat towards Canton after a fierce five-day battle ...
Article : 259 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.— "Invitations" by the Japanese to surrender have been rejected by General ...
Article : 222 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The vanguard of Marshal Timoshenko's armies striking through the Ukraine south of Kharkov are reported to be only 37 miles from Dnepropetrovsk, where last autumn the Russians blew up their great hydro electric dam rather than let it ...
Article : 535 wordsSINGAPORE, Sunday.—For the second time within a year the A.I.F. forms part of a beleaguered garrison. The withdrawal to Singapore island ...
Article : 714 wordsNEW YORK, Saturday.—The correspondent in the Batan Peninsula of the Associated Press of America says the ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON. Sunday—Imperial Japanese headquarters say that in the Malaya Peninsula the Japanese force have ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—It is officially revealed that 869 men lost their lives when the British battleship Barham (31,000 tons) was torpedoed in the ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Sunday—The Air Ministry announces that the bomber command aircraft last night attacked the docks at Brest Saint Nazaire and Le Havre. ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Sunday—The Moscow radio says that a number of Russian social welfare officials have been imprisoned for ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—Malta had five alerts last night and five to-day. The damage was negligible, and there were no casualties. ...
Article : 28 wordsHONOLULU, Saturday—Admiral Nimitz, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, told the press to-day:— "Operations by the Japanese in recent ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—After the recapture of Benghazi by Feld-Marshal Rommel's forces, the 7th Indian Infantry Brigade was trapped by the Axis forces which swept to the east and north of the town. It is now trying to fight its way out and two columns have succeeded in rejoining the main British forces. ...
Article : 609 wordsTHE PUBLIC was prepared last week for the news of the Allied withdrawal to the island of Singapore. A long seige is ...
Article : 244 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—After inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese in close-range fighting, the British forces yesterday withdrew from Moulmein, third city of Burma, and 100 miles cast of Rangoon, the capital ...
Article : 354 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—American war material and men are flowing eastward across Africa in several rivulets, but not yet in ...
Article : 96 wordsMELBOURNE. Singapore.—Although the water supply from Johore to Singapore was cut off, emergency reserves and chlorination plants established on ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON. Sunday—Berlin announces that Quisling has received the title of Prime Minister of Norway. The present Government has resigned. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Mon 2 Feb 1942, Page 1
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