INCREASING the tempo of the war to a considerable degree, the Allies now have action in many spheres. German planes bombed Scapa Flow naval base, in the Orkney Islands, and also scouted down the east coast of England. They lost some machines. This was only a day after their raid on the Firth of Forth. Several more merchant ships have been sunk. On the ...
Article : 144 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 17.--New York 'Times' correspondent at Paris (M. Archambault) says: Launching over 100,000 men in the long-awaited large scale attack, the Germans advanced on a 20-mile front beyond a thin line of French ...
Article : 468 wordsAEROPLANES raining death and destruction from the sky will undoubtedly be one of the main features of the war. The success of the air arm has been demonstrated by both sides. German planes flew round the top of Scotland and ...
Article : 323 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 18. -- No official advice has yet reached Canberra regarding a reported early increase in petrol prices. ...
Article : 271 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 18. -- Except in the case of Germans, landing permits issued to aliens before the war are being honored. Thirty aliens reached ...
Article : 175 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 17.--President Roosevelt to-day urged an inter-Governmental committee on political refugees who represent six countries. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 329 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.--One of four new sloops to be ordered for the Australian Navy will be built by Walkers Ltd., Maryborough (Q.). ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18. -- Germany's push on the Western Front, inspired by Hitler's desire to eject the French from German soil, is already at a ...
Article : 318 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18.-- Reports from Holland state the German naval base at Emden was raided yesterday. Eye-witnesses estimates ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18.--The Air Ministry's official account of the Forth raid on October 16 said that the "most surprised participants were two ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--Paris Press gives front-page photographs of the Duke of Windsor arriving at headquarters and saluting French generals. ...
Article : 29 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 18.--New York 'Times' Washington correspondent says Germany's shortage of petrol and oil is ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17. -- The Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (Lord Gort), at a luncheon with war correspondents "somewhere in France," ...
Article : 163 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 18.--Australia's defence measures answered every purpose, Lieut.-General Squires said to-day. ...
Article : 169 wordsAMSTERDAM, Oct. 17.--A German pursuit plane compelled a British plane to land near Lingen, Germany. The plane struck a farm building and ...
Article : 77 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 18.--Australia will hear direct relays of first hand broadcasts from the Maginot Line to be arranged by the B.B.C. Making ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--The Air Ministry has announced that an observer corps reported enemy aircraft activity along the East Coast in the morning ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18. -- The correspondent of the 'Daily Mail' at Geneva says that when receiving recently a certain Ambassador, the King of ...
Article : 112 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 17.--Mr. Hallet Abend, the correspondent of the New York 'Times' at Shanghai, submitted a series of questions to high Japanese ...
Article : 275 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--A statement by the Governor-General of India issued to-day states that following discussions with 52 leaders of Indian ...
Article : 619 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 17.--New York 'Times' Berlin correspondent says neutral diplomatic circles here are convinced that an important ...
Article : 162 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Oct. 18. -- The branch of the A.M.I.E.U., at a meeting on Tuesday evening, carried the following motion: "In view of the ...
Article : 206 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 18.--The first call in Queensland for service pilots and flying instructors for the Air Force has been successful, and the quota ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--The correspondent of the 'Times' at Stockholm says newspapers report an epidemic of suicides in the Baltic States because ...
Article : 39 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 17.--The American Press Washington correspondent says that the President of the Russian Central Executive Committee (M. ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18.--The 'Times' Rotterdam correspondent says Germany evidently is trying to clear up the situation in the East before she ...
Article : 151 wordsTURKEY will not sign the agreement with Russia, partly because it would drive a wedge between Turkey and Britain. The Foreign Minister left for home. LONDON, Oct. 17.--Reuter's ...
Article : 508 wordsLONDON, Oct. 18.--Authoritative naval circles state that the German High Command has decided to employ a boasted new ...
Article : 151 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 17.--Shots were fired by a militia guard at the Archerfield aerodrome to-night when a man was seen near a vital section of the ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--A message from Amsterdam states that the German Governor of Warsaw announced that nearly a square mile of window glass ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--Mr. W. S. Morrison informed the London County Council that 49 per cent, of London school children were evacuated and ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--"Up the Republic!" shouted John Evans, John Gibson, Daniel Jordan, and James Oregan, as they left the dock after being ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--The American Press Paris correspondent says that the Duchess of Kent daily directs a group of women who are knitting ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--In the House of Commons, the Minister for Transport (Dr. Burgin), stated that it was very unlikely that British tin and ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--The Hague Government is advancing to the Royal Dutch Airlines £400,000 to buy commercial planes. ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--The correspondent of the British United Press at Beirut says the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Haj Amin El Husseine, is ...
Article : 44 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct. 18.--The Rajah of Sarawak has sent 1,000,000 dollars to the British Government as a "token of the State's desire to help ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.--A bill postponing local elections to the end of 1940, passed its second reading in the House of Commons. ...
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