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Article : 370 wordsA Rangoon communique stated that enemy air activity in central and southern Burma in the past 24 hours was fairly widespread. Three alerts were ...
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Article : 464 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — First-class navigation by the crew of a Catalina led to the rescue of a bomber crew after their aircraft had been forced ...
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Article : 237 wordsTHE Prime Minister (FieldMarshal Smuts) said in a speech that the war had entered its last and most dangerous ...
Article : 79 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A small party of A.I.F. men, who have returned from Malaya, expressed confidence in the ability of British forces to hold the Japanese ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Bomber Command aircraft in force flew to North-West Germany last night. It heavily attacked Wilhelmshaven, which was the main ...
Article : 97 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — Admiral Muselier, whose Free French naval force seized the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfoundland, said he ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Sydney is facing its first milk shortage, and unless there is good general rain throughout the milk zone in the next few days, the Milk ...
Article : 46 words"Military departments are so wrapped up in themselves and the men on parade grounds that everything seems to have gone by the board," declared Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 135 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, Sunday. — The question of a united front against the Axis Powers will be discussed at the Pan-American conference, which ...
Article : 187 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Prices of certain kinds of confectionery and weights of certain fixed-price lines will be adjusted from the opening of business ...
Article : 139 wordsTHE Government's firm stand, although it has caused considerable criticism from within the ranks of the Labour Party, has surprised the miners. The ...
Article : 287 wordsSANTIAGO (Chile), Sunday.—Tokio despatches to the newspaper "La Hora" today quoted Mr. Masayuki Tani, director of the Government Press Service, as ...
Article : 110 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Sunday.—Medical authorities report an epidemic of eye disease never before found in the United States. The Californian State Health ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The "New York Times" correspondent at Mexico City says the Government possesses a document in which a Spanish secret agent ...
Article : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Final details of an agreement between the Federal Government and Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. for the production of a ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Sunday—A Washington message states that it has been officially disclosed that the United States, with the aid of the R.A.F., has started a ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Some idea of the large quantities of valuable supplies sent to Russia by Britain was given in a broadcast by a man who sailed with a ...
Article : 113 wordsMEXICO CITY, Sunday.—Mexican Radio intercepted a radio order from Japanese Imperial headquarters instructing the Pacific Navy to sink at sight ...
Article : 42 wordsMONTREAL, Sunday.—The War Department at Washington disclosed that a number of large transports and liners designed to carry airborne infantry with ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Associated Press correspondent at Vichy says Admiral Darlan has placed 42 generals on the retired list. More retirements are ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—A Cairo communique says that the total number of prisoners wno have reached internment camps and hospitals in the Delta area is ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. G. F. Schellenberger, Federal general secretary of the Hospital. Dispensary and Asylum Employees' and Allied Government Officers' Federation. Melbourne, is visiting ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The "New York Herald-Tribune" correspondent at Washington states that former King Carol of Rumania has been informed that ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Scottish Distillers' Association has recommended an increase of 50 per cent in the selling price of this year's Scotch whisky. A ...
Article : 45 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—A U.S. navy communique states that enemy aeroplanes attacked the American President liner Ruth Alexander of 8,000 tons, which ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 12 Jan 1942, Page 2
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