Thursday night's terri[?] bombing of C[?]ventry, coupled with the almost in[?]essant attacks an London and the Royal Air Force's battering of ...
Article : 1,117 wordsThe Air Ministry news service to-night issued the following full description of Friday night's R.A.F. raid on Hamburg, when the second largest city in Germany had one of its longest and heaviest air bombardments in a series of raids which ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Washington State Department has admitted that the situation at Martinique has been dangerous, declares the "New York Post's" ...
Article : 181 wordsThe latest report from Athens states that fierce fighting is continuing at Korea. A report of its capture reached Salonika, but Athens states that the Italians are still holding the mountain north-east of the town. Flames from the burning ...
Article : 236 wordsMr. Henry Macmillan, of Vancouver, who, before the war was the world's largest individual timber exp[?]rter, has been appointed ...
Article : 779 wordsNo solution has yet been reached of the air raid shelter problem, and hundreds of thousands of Londoners still are condemned to sleep ...
Article : 199 wordsAn R.A.F. communique says: "During attacks on Korea yesterday the R.A.F. seriously damaged one enemy fighter. One of our ...
Article : 178 wordsHitler promised that his meeting with the Soviet Premier (M. Molotov) would provide a bombshell. The world still awaits the ...
Article : 386 wordsFighting the first major battle of their war with Italy on enemy soil, the Greeks have captured at the point of the bayonet a great part of Mt. Ivan, ...
Article : 717 words"One raider reported a terrific explosion midway through an attack, and many fires which were set raging. "One great blaze-could be seen from ...
Article : 499 wordsThe Associated Press Salonika correspondent says that the Greeks are reported to be smashing into the Italian army west of Lake Presba. Military ...
Article : 47 wordsIt was announced to-night that the King had approved of the award of the Victoria Cross to the late commander, Acting Captain ...
Article : 96 wordsKing Faronk, of Egypt, has summoned Hussein Sirry Pash[?] to the Palace, and has requested him to form a new Cabinet Hussein ...
Article : 87 wordsA night communique states: "Intense artillery and air activity is continuing along the front. We have taken 700 prisoners, captured 10 guns and shot ...
Article : 87 wordsA communique from the R.A.F. headquarters in Greece states: "Our aircraft successfully bombed and machine-gunned a moving Italian motor ...
Article : 307 wordsBritish bombings have caused Le Havre to be evacuated for the second time, while 7000 German troops concentrated there for an inva[?]ion of ...
Article : 188 wordsA raider unsuccessfully attempted to bomb British warships last night. Bombs fell on the land, injuring seven and causing slight damage. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Observer's" diplomatic correspondent discussing the likely reason behind the visit of the Spanish Foreign Minister (Senor Suner) to Paris and ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Government has banned American correspondents sending out news after November 18. because the United States had refused visas for correspondents of ...
Article : 34 words"L'Action Francaise" says that the R.A.F. attacks on Le Havre caused the re-evacuation of the city. Bombers last night scored a direct hit on an ...
Article : 68 wordsTwo Nazi merchantmen, one of which has been acting as an armed raider, are believed to neve been sunk in one day by British warships in the Caribbean Sea. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe State Government has cabled Mr. Weddell, the Ambassador in Madrid, asking for official information of the status of the United States' correspondents and ...
Article : 56 wordsMasking its account of the R.A.F. raids last night with hollow sneers at the R.A.F's. "lack of courage," the Berlin radio says that the British ...
Article : 239 wordsDespite adverse weather, R.A.F. bombers during the night heavily attacked objectives in Hamburg, aerodromes and ports in enemy and ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is announced that the ban against American newspaper men in Spain has been cancelled. The incident is now considered closed. ...
Article : 54 wordsAll Germans are reporting to their Consular offices throughout Greece. About 500 Germans are believed to have left Athens in the last two days. ...
Article : 35 wordsFrederick Leighton Morris, a former Guards officer, who was fined £100 on November 8 for having removed a 100lb. unexploded German bomb ...
Article : 51 wordsA Swedish ship of 3628 tons, loaded with 6000 tons of chrome for America, ran aground and was badly holed off a small island near the New Caledonia ...
Article : 64 wordsThe city is expecting a concerted Empire effort to curtail production of goods which do not contribute directly to the war effort. While there is no suggestion ...
Article : 310 wordsA Rome communique states that great numbers of planes last night at tacked Brindisi. The efficient intervention of Italian anti-aircraft batteries ...
Article : 65 wordsHamburg suffered another severe battering by the Royal Air Force last night, and our planet dropped many tons of bombs on the big ...
Article : 205 wordsBritain's Local Defence Volunteers—the Home Guard, now over a million strong—is taking over duties on the Thames. Each patrol is fully armed and in a motor-cruiser it responsible for a sixteen mile stretch of the river.—Commonwealth Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsThe Admiralty announces that British light forces bombarded Mogadishu. Hits were scored on targets on the shore and shipping in ports. Italian ...
Article : 46 wordsEight hundred American women and children evacuees from the Far East arrived in Sydney to-day en route to the United States. The only pleasant aspects ...
Article : 146 wordsBut for the war Australia's most brilliant lawn tennis player. Miss Nancye Wynne, would possibly have joined the professional ranks. Negotiations were in ...
Article : 141 wordsA leading member of the aircraft industry told the "Sunday Dispatch": "While it would be wrong to describe the damage to industry at Coventry as ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 18 Nov 1940, Page 5
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