In efforts to speed up and improve London's transport facilities, over 2000' provincial buses are being pressed Into service. The first was ...
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Article : 310 wordsLondon's night raid ended early this morning after an unusually prolonged quiet. For hours neither planes nor gun fire was heard. Night raiders were also over Liverpool and South-west Scotland, but the provincial activity was generally ...
Article : 294 wordsSince the first threat of invasion was made salty last month, pilots of the R.A.F. have kept a constant watch on all German sea bases ...
Article : 1,094 wordsIn a series of conferences between the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzles) and the Acting-Leader of the County Party (Mr. A. W. Fadden) ...
Article : 735 wordsNedjmeddine Sadak, a member of the Turkish Parliament in in article in the newspaper "Aksam" declares "There is one language we ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Navy Secretary (Colonel Knox) said that the United States navy was prepared to defend any territory under the American flag. ...
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Article : 94 wordsThe newspaper "Volksrieht," quoting travellers from Holland, says that R.A.F. raiders against the barge concentrations on the Rhine and ...
Article : 98 wordsInquiries made by the Australian Associated Press throughout Britain reveal that air raid casualties had shown a sudden and very substantial drop list ...
Article : 497 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says that Hitler's apparent desire to pacify France and involve Spain presupposes that both must believe in a ...
Article : 337 wordsHitler conferred with General Franco from 4 p.m. to 6.5 p.m. General von Brauch[?]h and General Keitel and Air Force chiefs and Colonel General Dallman ...
Article : 36 wordsA German wireless announcement which was picked up in Madrid stated that Hitler, von Ribbentrop and Senor Suner, the Spanish Foreign Minister, ...
Article : 123 wordsExports to Britain for the first year of the war totalled 780,000,000 dollars, which is 57, per cent, above the previous year. They consisted principally ...
Article : 49 wordsA message from Buena Ventura (Colombia) states that two unidentified submarines have been reported at the entrance to Buena Ventura Bay, on ...
Article : 32 wordsSpeaking at the New York "Herald-Tribune" forum, the Australian Minister (Mr. R. G. Casey) said: "The knowledge that Americans realise that the ...
Article : 409 wordsHeater's Chungking correspondent states that despite the Japanese bombings traffic on the Burma Road remains unaffected and only minor damage has ...
Article : 192 wordsAsked whether consideration would be given to reprisals against French forces supporting the Vichy Government who had been carrying out a ...
Article : 74 wordsGermany is apparently taking the first step in the conversion of food-staffs into high explosives. According to a Gilman news service ...
Article : 264 wordsAn R.A.F. communique states: "We yesterday attacked working parties and a mechanised transport between Bub Bug and Sollum and scored ...
Article : 128 wordsReplying to a question, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. R. [?] Butler), in the House of Commons, said that any decision of a general ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Ralph Ingersoll, owner of the New York newspaper "P.M.," who has completed a three day tour of London, said that Londonere had made a magnificent ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison), speaking in the House of Commons on a Bili to prolong for a further year the present Parliament, ...
Article : 144 wordsA Shanghai message states that Chinese regulars and guerilla troops, fighting the Japanese on a 1500-mile front from North to South China, ...
Article : 117 words"Never has a force proved a greater challenge to the powers of Nazi evil than the R.A.F.," said the Under-secretary for Air (Captain H. Balfour) in a speech ...
Article : 210 wordsThe railway linking Oslo and Sweden is Mocked as the result of the derailment of a locomotive and seven waggons. There are rumoure of sabotage. ...
Article : 39 wordsDespite official denials of a bitch in the Japanese and Dutch Indies oil negotiations, the Tokio Press regards the outcome of the conference in ...
Article : 75 wordsReplying to the criticism of the granting of an exit permit to Mr. H. G. Wells to go on a lecturing tour in the United States the Under-secretary to the Home ...
Article : 136 wordsThe constitution of the select committee of the House of Commons charged with the investigation of Robert Boothby actions in connection with Czech ...
Article : 114 wordsMarshal Patain's reply to the latest German demand on France is expected to be handed over to Hitter to-night M. Laval is on his ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Under-secretary for Formen Affairs (Mr. R. L. Butler) in the House of Commons said that there was no [?]neral embargo on supplies from ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Kobayashi, the Japanese special envoy at the Batavia parleys, sailed from Sourabaya to-day for home. ...
Article : 21 wordsOpening his final election drive President Roosevelt began his first avowed political tour of the present campaign, speaking briefly from the train at ...
Article : 52 wordsThe appointment of a successor to Sir Stewart Symes, Governor-General of Sudan, whose term of office had been extended by the King of Egypt on the ...
Article : 102 wordsA Tokio message states that the Domei News Agency's Hong Kong correspondent says it is claimed as a result of air bombings of tbe Mekong ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Journal des Debats" states that three ships, bringing over 10,000 tons of foodstuffs from Buenos Aires, have arrived in Marseilles. Five other ships ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Minuter for Transport (LieutenantColonel Moore-Brabaxon) in the House of Commons stated that railway fares were being increased six per cent., making the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe export of was planes to Britain, for the first year of the war totalled 743, valued at 53,000,000 dollars, plus aircraft parts valued at 18.000.000 ...
Article : 51 wordsThe 71st War. Office casualty list contains 638 names. Of that number 30. officers and 532 men of other ranks are reported to be prisoners of var. ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. George Gibson, general secretary of the Mental Hospital Workers' Union, has been elected chairman of the Trades Union Congress. ...
Article : 30 wordsSevnty-five special trains have been booked to evacuate hundreds of thousands of children from Berlin. ...
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