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Article : 708 wordsArmy, navy and air force preparations were advanced a further step yesterday, and all troops are now standing ready for any eventuality. ...
Article : 469 wordsThe subjoined messages, in addition to others so indicated on this page, were received last night from "The Age" special representatives, who furnish an exclusive service from 'various parts of the world. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe momentous news that President Roosevelt had sent a message directly to the Emperor Hirohito over the heads of the Japanese Cabinet was ...
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Article : 226 wordsA Berlin message reports that King Leopold of Belgium married a Belgian commoner, Mademoiselle Mary Libia Baels, on September 1. ...
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Article : 215 wordsThe British Admiralty has described the brief career of a U-boat whose commander, Captain Forster, jumped on to an attacking corvette and ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the British cruiser H.M.S. Dorsetshire has sunk a 10,000-ton German commerce raider in the south Atlantic. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 156 wordsForty-six American road workers and transport experts have arrived at Manila en route to Rangoon in order to repair and widen the Burma-road. ...
Article : 126 wordsA 4000-ton Norwegian merchant ship was torpedoed within sight of Gibraltar and sank in one minute. Twenty members of the crew jumped ...
Article : 44 wordsThe first batch of 200 V.A.D.'s to arrive in the Middle East from Australia are waiting in Palestine for allocation to Australian hospitals in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 8 Dec 1941, Page 5
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