A Berlin communique states that in Atlantic waters between the African and the United States coasts U-boats sank ll ships, totalling ...
Article : 124 wordsMoscow reports no vital changes in the Stalingrad area today, but in the northern suburbs the Germans have gained some ground. The Soviet communique states that in heavy fighting, Russian artillery has inflicted many casualties on the ...
Article : 189 words"Till the soil or fight" would be the ultimatum to able-bodied agricultural workers under a suggestion submitted to the House ...
Article : 116 wordsA heavy toll is being taken of Japanese planes and shipping in the Solomens Archipelago. In one raid on Guadalcanar, carried out ...
Article : 354 wordsMain interest in Britain in Mr. We[?]ell Willkle's call for the opening af a seceond front is his remark that the Allied military advisers ...
Article : 275 wordsAustralian troops have launched an infiltrating and outflanking attack against the Japanese in the Owen Stanley Bange. Late reports from the battle front indicate that our troops are making good progress. The battle is for Ioribaiwa ...
Article : 204 wordsTributes to the gallantry of the British merchant seamen were paid by officers of a British destroyer just returned to home waters after' ...
Article : 239 wordsThe award of a bar to his Military Cross to Captain W. W. Cobb, of Winton, Queensland, and the Military Medal to Corporal A. Else, ...
Article : 512 wordsMarshal Timoshenko is reported to be launching double relief offensives in order to ease the German pressure against Stalingrad. ...
Article : 317 wordsThe "World Telegram," in an editorial, criticising Mr. Wendell Willkie's statement, says: "Perhaps some military leaders need public prodding to ...
Article : 187 wordsSince the Japanese were halted in the vicinity of Iorubaiwa our patrol activity has steadily increased, and the present Allied pressure is the result of ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Columbia Broadcasting Systems correspondent, Larry Lesuer, broadcasting from Moscow, says the Germans at Stalingrad are ...
Article : 523 wordsSir Arthur Salter, head of the British Shipping Mission to the United States, revealed that during September, for the first time, ...
Article : 122 wordsReater's correspondent from the German frontier says Russian long-range bombers recently raided the Czechoslovakian towns of ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Navy issued a statement that Admiral Nimitz. General Arnold and Admiral Ghormley in a conference somewhere in the Pacific Jointly ...
Article : 70 wordsAllied leaders do not need prodding to open a second front, said the Secretary of the Colonies (Mr. C. R. Attlee). You can take it for certain that we ...
Article : 64 wordsWallace Reyburn, the "Montreal Standard's" correspondent at the Dieppe raid, speaking at a luncheon at the Canadian Club, answered ...
Article : 306 words"The Times," in a leader, reviews the rapid German east-west military transfers of the last war. which finally forced Russia from the war, and adds: ...
Article : 311 wordsAs part of a general plan to make greater use of the man-power available in some sections of the army it is understood the Army Legal ...
Article : 125 wordsThe disallowance by the Senate, on the motion of the Opposition leader (Senator McLeay), of the National Security Regulations governing the ...
Article : 474 wordsA Navy communique on the North Pacific on September 24 says that a force of heavy bombers attacked enemy installations at Kiska, but the results ...
Article : 123 wordsGerman armoured units, supported by fresh shock troops, were rushed in at the week-end by transport plane and are now thrusting against ...
Article : 254 wordsMarshal Petain has protested to the German authorities in Paris against the German gauleiters measures against French nationals in Alsace and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee has rejected the proposal by the Treasurer (Mr. J. B. Chifley) that a taxpayer paying alimony or maintenance to a ...
Article : 141 wordsThe "Dany Telegraph's" Cairo correspondent says that the amount of cargo unloaded at Suez through which General Alexander's command draws its ...
Article : 159 wordsA suggestion by Mr. P. C. Spender that Lieutenant-General Gordon Bennett should be transferred from his present command to a senior post in ...
Article : 188 wordsChinese forces inflicted considerable casualties on Japanese forces, striking east, south-west and. south-east of Kinhwa in Chekiang. Enemy thrusts ...
Article : 158 wordsRenter's correspondent on the French frontier says two of Laval's Cabinet members, M. Romier, Minister without portfolio, and M. Barthelemy, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury's challenge to the social conscience of the nation at an Albert Hall meeting on Saturday made a great impression. ...
Article : 113 wordspire heavyweight boxing champion, today was found shot dead at his home in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, where he was visiting his wife on ...
Article : 87 wordsThe State Governments have been asked to reduce speed limits to conserve petrol, the Minister for Supply (Mr. J. A. Beasley) disclosed to-day in the House ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Secretary for State (Mr. Cordell Hull) told the Press that State Department and the Vichy Embassy were endeavouring to obtain all facts ...
Article : 42 wordsIn an attempt to stamp out the present wave of sabotage sweeping France, the German-controlled Paris radio says that people denouncing saboteurs ...
Article : 44 wordsA Cairo communique says patrol activity was continued on the night of September 26. There was nothing from the land forces yesterday, and the desert ...
Article : 113 wordsCurfew was Imposed on the municipal area of poona yesterday following disturbances in which 22 were arrested. The demonstrators stoned a mflltary lorry. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Wall Street Journal" says that aircraft manufacture has become America's No. one industrial giant. From an infant industry four short years ago, ...
Article : 104 wordsForty-six survivors from a convoy to Russia in July arrived in Britain this morning. Frank Cooper, of Sunderlands, a carpenter, said: "After our ...
Article : 96 wordsThe American Press Chungking correspondent, in a belated dispatch, reported that a mighty wave from six to 20 feet deep from the Yellow River ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Berlin radio said that Hitler addressed 12,000 servicemen leaving to-day for the front He reviewed the "glorious German history which has ...
Article : 77 wordsThe police are still hunting for the Hindu barrister, Trikandaa, leader of the underground Congress movement, Trikandas's name appears in the ...
Article : 58 wordsA Chungking communique revealed that the Americans for the first time encountered the new Japanese twomotor two-seater fighter designated ...
Article : 75 wordsLieutenant Colonel H. M. S. Irwin. commanding the Eastern Army in India. broadcasting to the troops, said: "There is nothing ahead of us in India which ...
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