The big tank battle which developed in front of our El Alamein positions yesterday continued during the night and apparently is still raging. To-day's communique from Cairo states that heavy ...
Article : 188 wordsThe American Associated Press Buenos Aires correspondent states that strong police guards twice fought and repulsed several hundred ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Germans launched a fourth and even fiercer counter-attack against the Australian positions west at El Alamein last night. ...
Article : 1,224 wordsTheir Majesties to-day inspected a number of departments of a great central ordnance factory in north-west England. This depot has ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the course of a speech, the Secretary to the Ministry for Economie Warfare (Mr. Dingle Foot) said that from Denmark and the ...
Article : 280 wordsIn Russia the most dangerous thrust at the moment appears to be south-east of Millerovo, where the enemy is spreading out fanwise toward Stalingrad and Bostov. To-day's Moscow communique stated that the Russians continued their fighting ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Army Minister (Mr. F. M. Forde), on his arrival here this afternoon, said Queensland has assumed the greatest importance in ...
Article : 605 wordsThe Pacifie War Council surveyed war problems for 90 minutes to-day. Mr. W. Nash (New Zealand spokesman) told the Press ...
Article : 228 wordsYesterday's fighting on the El Alamein front has been described in a dispatch from the B.B.C. observer in Egypt He says: The limited attack ...
Article : 498 words"The Times" Moscow correspondent adds that German tanks, except when converging on important objectives, were used on a broad front to seek ...
Article : 603 wordsThis morning's Moscow communique reports intense fighting in the Voronej area, while the Russians prevented the Germans advancing; also south-east of ...
Article : 380 wordsField-Marshal Rommel counter-attacked twice yesterday, the first of which was mentioned in a communique to-day. He aimed, secondly, to retake ...
Article : 636 wordsIn a dispatch from Australian battle headquarters dated July 15. at 5 p.m., Slessor stated: The railway station at Tel El Eisa, where the German tanks ...
Article : 554 wordsRepresentative Satterfield, who recently acted as naval observer at the American Embassy in London, told the House of ...
Article : 64 wordsEvery fourth person in the United States will be required to file income tax returns under the new taxation measure. Personal ...
Article : 90 wordsThe British Government in no circumstances will allow the French war[?] ships at Alexandrie to pass into enemy hands or control. This determination ...
Article : 169 wordsGerman sources, quoting reports from Ankara, state that Stalin has gone to Stalingrad, where he will personally direct its defence. ...
Article : 27 wordsFurther details of fighting at Tel El Eisa in which Australians were engaged on the night of July 14 are still pouring in from correspondents in Egypt ...
Article : 231 wordsThe battle for Voronej is in its tenth day and its ferocity rivals Sebastopol. The Soviet resistance is stubborn and bitter and the Germans are ...
Article : 222 wordsMagnificent work, in the words of the Admiralty, brought a big convoy through three days and nights of repeated attacks by U-boats. The officers ...
Article : 120 wordsDescribing how the Germans captured the Tel El Eisa station (which the Australians are since reported to have recaptured) the "Daily Mail's" ...
Article : 290 wordsMore information on the Bastille Day demonstrations in France reached General dfe Gaulle's headquarters to[?] night. At Marseilles four people were ...
Article : 196 wordsThe State Department has announced that the United States had closed its Consular offices in Finland and reguested Finland to terminate Consular ...
Article : 99 wordsThe United Press Kunming correspondent states that exhausted and near starvation, two elderly American Presbyterian missionaries, Mr. and ...
Article : 102 wordsFor several hours to-day General MacArthur and the Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) discussed war problems and questions of War strategy. Because of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr. J. J. Dedman) said to-day that the production executive had decided to establish a clothing council. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe rapidity of American industrial mobilisation for war is indicated by a statement of the United States Man[?] power Chairman (Mr. Paul McNutt) ...
Article : 78 wordsA survey of Queensland's beef resources will be made soon so that a consumption plan can be formulated, said the Minister for Agriculture (Mr F. W. Bulcock) ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. H. L. Stimson) announced that he had authorised a number of additional recruiting boards in an effort to obtain 20.000 ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. W. Biddle) has decided to file charges against ten of the 14 persons recently apprehended" as accomplices of the ...
Article : 52 wordsTo-day's General Headquarters commimique reads:—North-eastern sector, Salamaua. An Allied air' unit lightly bombed enemy installations in the ...
Article : 46 wordsA Vichy message from Lisbon says that the Argentine steamer Arsenutto was torpedoed off the Portuguese coast. It had a crew of 39, also three passengers. ...
Article : 44 wordsA Vichy report states that a bomb exploded in a German-occupied building at Nantes on the night of July 15. The bomb had been placed on the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 18 Jul 1942, Page 5
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