LONDON, August 16.—Vital German oil supplies were further depleted last night when bomber squadrons of the R.A.F. again struck at refineries and storage plants in the industrial ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 522 wordsLONDON, August 16.—Goering's mighty air force is launching great raids upon the British Isles in wave after wave, but he has not breached the aerial ramparts seriously at any point, and it has proved that against numerical superiority ...
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Advertising : 200 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The King has sent the following message in the Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair): "Please ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The formation in Australia of a security force (described in the cables as similar to the Home Guards) coincides with the end of ...
Article : 364 wordsLISBON, August 16.—Fifteen survivors from the tanker British Fame were landed at the Azores. A U-boat torpedoed the tanker, which was on its way ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, August 16.—An Air Ministry communique states that R.A.F. planes last night bombed the Fiat aero ...
Article : 348 wordsHELSINKI, August 16.—M. Tanner, Minister for Public Welfare, and M. Keikkinin, Minister for Agriculture, have resigned from the Cabinet M. ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, August 16.—A leading article in the Spanish newspaper "Arriba" on August 13 accused Britain of holding wheat and oil supplies for Spain, and ...
Article : 217 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The British Government is determined to maintain and intensify the blockade. She will not be deflected from her rigid purpose by the appeal of M. Baudouin (Foreign Minister of the Vichy ...
Article : 912 wordsSHANGHAI, August 16.—The Shanghai Municipal Council has carried a resolution supporting the defence commanders' majority decision, at the same time acknowledging the Japanese opposition, and agreeing to consider ...
Article : 318 wordsWASHINGTON, August 16.—President Roosevelt announced to-day that he was negotiating with Britain for defence bases. He said: "The United States Government, ...
Article : 582 wordsTOKIO, August 16.—The Domei Newsagency has received a message from Hong Kong saying that five Siamese divisions are reported to be ...
Article : 67 wordsCANADIAN HOSPITAL BOMBED.—Chungking, August 16: The United Church of Canada Hospital at Tzelutsing was considerably damaged when ...
Article : 114 wordsNEW YORK, August 16.—A report from Ogdensburg (New York) says that President Roosevelt, en route by train, announced that he would be conferring ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The first noteworthy clash between the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and certain members of the House of Commons was marked by questions regarding the personnel of Lord Swinton's Anti-Fifth Column ...
Article : 421 wordsSHANGHAI, August 16.—It is officially stated that the patrolling of the British defence sector will be shared by American and Japanese forces. ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The crews of five trawlers returning to port de the machine-gunning. A bomb damaged which dropped eight bombs and ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, August 16.—It is officially announced in Athens that a partial mobilisation of Greek reservists has been ordered for August 20. The commanders of the ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The German Newsagency, ignoring the London exposure that German Red Cross planes are ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, August 16.—The Hungarian—Rumanian negotiations, which opened this morning at Turnu Severin, were broken off after 30 ...
Article : 168 wordsATHENS, August 17.—The Italian naval attache to-day called on the Premier and apologised for bombing the destroyers and explained that ...
Article : 33 wordsOTTAWA, August 16.—The Naval Ministry has announced the arrival in England of a draft of Canadian naval officers for intensive training and ...
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Family Notices : 247 wordsLONDON, August 16.—It has been authoritatively stated that the situation of the British forces in Somaliland is critical and that it may be necessary to retreat to Berbera. There must clearly be limits to the sending of ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, August 17.—An R.A.F. disunity list includes 316 names, including 100 killed in action or killed on active service: also over 100 missing. ...
Article : 127 wordsNEW YORK, August 16.—The Mackay radio broadcast that the British freighter. Clan McPhee, was torpedoed approximately 400 miles north-west of ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 17 Aug 1940, Page 2
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