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  2. RUSSIANS RECAPTURE STREETS Fighting in Stalingrad

    The Russian defenders of Stalingrad have recaptured more streets in the north-western suburbs of the city. No report of any German advance in the Stalingrad area in the past 24 hours has been, received, but the Germans are still pressing the ...

    Article : 204 words
  3. SCOUT TORTURED.

    A United Presa correspondent in the Solomons, in a delayed, dispatch dated August 21 says the Japanese caught a scouting native, Sergeant ...

    Article : 135 words
  4. MIDWAY BATTLE.

    Colonel Harold Shannon, Commander of the Marines in the Midway battle, arriving in New York, told reporters that the only Japanese ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. COIOSSAL BOMBS. DROPPED ON GERMANY.

    Colonal [?] bombs, nearly few t[?], the largest thr world has known so far, are now being dropped on Germany by the R.A.F. ...

    Article : 461 words
  6. TOUGHER THAN HUNS.

    Carrying on what the Jearnal "American." calla a ene-man campaign to aroase the nation to the difficulties ot the task confronting ...

    Article : 418 words
  7. WIDE ALLIED AIR ACTIVITY South-West Pacific Area

    Allied air activity in the South-west Pacific "was spread over a wide area on Saturday. Lae, Buna, and Buka, in the Solomons, were all bombed, and a Japanese cargo vessel and amotor boat in Vitiaz.Strait were damaged in a low-flying ...

    Article : 216 words
  8. TOOK HEAVY TOLL.

    H.M. Submarine Urge (Lieut.Commander I. P. Tomkinson) has been lost by enemy action. The Admiralty states she torpedoed and ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. "IMPOSSIBLE NOW."

    The North American Newspaper Alliance correspondent (Ward Morehouse) in Northern Ireland, stated that an actual second front ...

    Article : 353 words
  10. FIGHT FOR LIFE.

    The midday Russian communique records the recapture of several more streets in Stalingrad and successful engagements in the regions of Mosdok, ...

    Article : 878 words
  11. OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.

    To-day's communique reads: North western sector.—Reconnaissance activity only. North-eastern sector.—Lae: In a ...

    Article : 212 words
  12. GERMAN FEAR.

    Many families were ordered from Ostend after a few hours' notice because the Germans fear another Dieppe, according to ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. MILES BETTER"

    New British tanks now coming into production were described by the Secretary of State for War (Sir James Griff) aa miles better ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. BITTER STREET FIGHTING.

    Street fighting is increasingly reported from Stalingrad, where one of history's most dramatic and most bloody struggles is entering the second ...

    Article : 415 words
  15. PATROL ACTIVITY. STATIC DESERT POSITION.

    The latest Cairo communique reports patrol activity and artillery exchanges. Bombers and torpedo-carrying aircraft attacked enemy shipping in thc ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. MUNICH BOMBED.

    The people of Munich, birthplace of! the Nazi Party, looking around this morning no doubt would recall the words of Super-Marshal Goering that ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. WAR IN JUNGLE.

    An Australian doctor, a militia captain, lay back in a clean Australian hospital ward, stretched luxuriously. "What a show," he said. "Rain, mists, ...

    Article : 798 words
  18. SHIPPING BOMBED.

    A Cairo communique states there was patrol activity on the night of September 17, and land operations on September 18. were confined to ...

    Article : 130 words
  19. U-BOAT WARFARE.

    The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel F. Knox), addressing the annual convention of the American Legion, declared that the submarine was the ...

    Article : 250 words
  20. NORTHWARD MOVE.

    The Canadian Press says that the loss of the corvette Charlottetown, the patrol vessel Raccoon, and the sinking of four merchantmen, which were ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. HAMPERED BY SMOKE.

    A Berlin military spokesman says that vast fires are raging in Stalingrad and great clouds of smoke and' flame render the operation of the ...

    Article : 734 words
  22. LESS AIR ACTIVITY.

    To-day's Cairo communique states that patrols were active in the Western Desert, but air activity was on a reduced scale on Saturday. There is ...

    Article : 59 words
  23. AIRCRAFT-CARRIER,

    The Navy has reported that the new aircraft carrier Lexington, replacing the one sunk last May in the Coral Sea, win be launched next ...

    Article : 45 words
  24. GERMAN SPY.

    The court sentenced a German spy, Heinz.August Lunning (31), to death before a firing squad. It is the first death sentence for espionage in the ...

    Article : 43 words
  25. BRITISH NATIONALS.

    The Exchange Telegraph's Calcutta correspondent, in a message on September 9 (delayed by the censor), says a meeting of British Nationals, drawn ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. BRITISH CRUISERS' WORLD-WIDE SUCCESSES

    Wita the safe arrival recently at besieged Maka of a British convoy from Egypt—similar to abe one shown in thia picture—escorted by a cruiser force under the command of Rear Admiral P. L. Vian, K.B.E., D S.O., which fought off fierce and determined enemy ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 143 words
  27. AXIS ATTACK

    The Foreign Minister (Senor Aranha) has predicted a strong Axis attack against Brazil. "They will send 50 or 100. planes to destroy our cities ...

    Article : 85 words
  28. BRITAIN'S KITE BALLOONS BRING DOWN CONVOY RAIDERS.

    Special kite balloons for British and Allied merchant ships' protection have rendered enemy divebombing and mast-high attacks a hazardous undertaking. They have been: the means of savinghundreds of merchantmen daring attacks on coastal convoys round-Britain, and have accounted for at least six enemy aircraft. Picture shows: A coastal convoy of small ships on tts way from one ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 82 words
  29. ROAD OBSTRUCTIONS

    A communique from the offieer com manding East Africa states that after a successful engagement with the French south of Andrfba, on the road ...

    Article : 144 words
  30. SABOTAGE ACTS.

    A message from Paris says that three acts of sabotage occurred to railway lines in Paris in the last 48 hours, also several German cars were damaged, ...

    Article : 51 words
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