THE Greeks are not achieving their spectacular successes without fierce fighting, but they are putting the Italians to rout on all fronts. The Italian resistance is stubborn. A great factor in the success of the Greeks is the deadly work ...
Article : 906 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- The steadily mounting death roll today provided further evidence of the severity of the terrific ...
Article : 1,142 wordsSlender lines of the first of the three Tribal class destroyers launched at Cockatoo Dock. It was christened H.M.A.S. Arunta by Lady Gowrie. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsBRITISH forces in Egypt carried out a lightning raid op a large scale on an Italian position near the border of r Libya. It was a magnificent success, for the position was captured, and 1000 Italians were taken prisoner. The air ...
Article : 2,006 wordsNEW YORK, December 9.-- Artillery and machine-guns of the Thailand and Indo-China forces blazed across the ...
Article : 920 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.-- "We are in the midst of a conflict in which more is at stoke than victory for one country or any other. It is ...
Article : 744 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- Further details of the renewed and concentrated attack last night by the R.A.F. on a large industrial area at Dusseldorf are given by the Air Ministry News Service. Over the city there were layers of drifting ...
Article : 817 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.-- Sixteen months of war had cost Australia £109,524,000, Senator M'Bride told Senator Cameron ...
Article : 64 wordsTOKIO, December 9.-- If Germany attacks America the tripartite pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan will not be ...
Article : 383 wordsAlthough the tremendous upheaval caused by the war, and the evacuation of 1,250,000 persons, were expected to cause an increase of infectious ...
Article : 250 wordsWASHINGTON, December 10.-- The departure of at least a portion of the fleet, possibly of submarines and destroyers, to Manila from Honolulu is ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, December 10.-- The American Press correspondent in Rome says that 24 hours have passed without further resignations, but some ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- A Belgrade message says: Well informed circles state that a friendship non-aggression pact between Hungary and ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- Jan Lasowski, a Pole, who fought at Narvik, where he was wounded in both eyes and totally blinded, was decorated by ...
Article : 69 wordsNEW YORK, December 9.-- A correspondent in Miami states that 50 police were detailed on the wharf for the arrival of the yacht of the Duke ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- Mr. A. O. Edwards, the backer of Scott and Black, winners of the Melbourne Centenary air race, has forwarded Sir ...
Article : 59 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.-- The final meeting for the year of the Queensland Canegrowers' Council will be held in Brisbane to-morrow ...
Article : 44 wordsVICHY, December 9.-- The British Navy captured a large French fishing boat returning from Newfoundland laden with cod. A British submarine ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, December 9.-- Pilot Erio Lock, of the R.A.F., who on October 10 was awarded the D.F.C. after shooting down 15 planes in 19 days, ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 11 Dec 1940, Page 7
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