The Air Ministry announces that a new command of the R.A.F., to be called the Army Co-operation Command, for the purpose of co-operation ...
Article : 443 wordsThe Air Ministry states that squadrons of the bomber command last night renewed attacks on the port of Hamburg aad dropped ...
Article : 538 wordsIt is reliably reported that the Imperial Conference on Wednesday decided to give Chungking a "last chance" to consider its attitude to Japan, ...
Article : 118 wordsThe correspondent of the British United Press in Athens says it is authoritatively stated the last of the Italians were driven from Greek soil yesterday. The Greeks are pushing on. An Athene communique says: "The front line fighting ...
Article : 321 words"The Times" Lisbon correspondent says that a Spanish air mission, beaded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ansaldo, has returned from a visit ...
Article : 93 wordsGerman long range guns heavily bombarded the Dover area last night. Meanwhile, the R.A.F. attacked the invasion ports on the coast between Calais and Boulogne, which were frequently illuminated by flashes. ...
Article : 299 wordsEmulating the boasts, threats, and claims of Hitlers recent Munich speech, Mussolini, in a bombastic outburst in Rome ...
Article : 349 words"Good Lord, Hayes, what are you doing here?" This remark by the commanding officer of a casualty clearing station in Palestine to an ...
Article : 150 wordsAn R.A.F. communique states: "One of our planes was shot down near Sidi Barrani during a fight with three Italian aircraft, and after destroying ...
Article : 91 wordsLast night's raiders came over in waves, starting earlier than usual, but the first was halted by a heavy barrage that lit up the Thames. They ...
Article : 322 words"The Times" Athens correspondent says that the Italian commander (General Soddu) appears to be drawing reinforcements from Ecutary, Elbasan ...
Article : 452 wordsDiscussing the German news agency report of a short earthquake and violent gale at Boulogne last night, causing several ...
Article : 112 wordsAn Air Ministry communique states: "British bombers last night attacked oil refineries at Gelsenklr[?]h[?]n. Other aircraft bombed ...
Article : 81 wordsEven in modern war, with all its horrors, chivalry is not yet dead. Perhaps it is most evident amongst the British "knights of the air." The ...
Article : 291 wordsTo-day's enemy air activities are dealt with in an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique, which states: "During this afternoon there was some ...
Article : 339 wordsA radio spokesman, announcing to-day that 223 people had been killed and a large number injured in Hamburg on Friday night, described the raid as a ...
Article : 94 wordsThe R.A.F. is believed to have damaged the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway on November 15. hitting a bridge and the track at Diredawa, which was ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral stoppage on all war industries on the South Coast is threatened because of the failure to-day to reach a settlement at the Metal ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Sen. H. S. Foll) announced to-day that the original Greenslopes site has been selected by the Federal Government ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Air Ministry announces the following changes in the Fighter Command: Temporary Air Marshal Douglas, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, will replace ...
Article : 321 wordsThe losses of planes from the outbreak of the war to November 15, based on Air Ministry and Greek communiques, is: British 1648, German 5058, ...
Article : 109 wordsA message from Tokio says that the newspaper "Ashai" declares it is unconfirmedly reported that Britain and America have concluded a secret ...
Article : 125 wordsPilot-Officer Len Bayliss (19), single, fell from a plane in which he was instructing a pupil over Randwick (New South Wales) to-day, and was killed. ...
Article : 169 wordsBeer and spirits will probably be dearer in Brisbane after the introduction of the Federal Budget. The alternatives will be a straightout increase in the price of a ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano) left Rome last night for Berlin, according to the Berlin radio. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn R.A.F. communique says: "We again bombed Brindisi on the night of November 15, attacking the railway station, aerodrome and oil tanks, ...
Article : 32 wordsAccording to information which has reached military circles in London to-day, the Greeks, after the advance of the past few days, are ...
Article : 273 wordsIntensification of the recruiting campaign and calling up of the 25-year-old group was hinted by the Minister for the Army (Mr. P. C. Spender) to-night. It ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsThe conversations between the Chief of the German General Staff (von Keitel) and the Italian Commander-in-Chief (Badoglio) are a sien of ...
Article : 628 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Helsinki correspondent says that the Norwegian authorities have ordered the headmasters to expel boys participating in ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Ankara correspondent says that M. Gerede, the Turkish Ambassador, on his return from Berlin, where he saw M. Molotov, ...
Article : 60 wordsWhen Frank Byrne (38), labourer, appeared on a shooting charge in the Criminal Court to-day the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Sheehy) said that after ...
Article : 109 wordsWireless telegraphy claims the attention of Polish airmen in Britain. Although the invader has planted his foot in their country, such men as these are not beaten. On land and sea and in the air they will fight on until freedom once more lives in Europe.— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsAn Oxford aircraft, flown by Pilot-Officer Thomas Kirk, which failed to return from a night flight from Ohakea aerodrome, was found in the hills near ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Dagens Nyheter" reports the suppression of 50 Norwegian provincial newspapers. The rest aro only allowed to select haedlines from a list of 10 ...
Article : 37 wordsFewer than 1000 votes were counted to-day in the by-election for Kalgoorlie in the House of Representatives. They slightly increased the lead of Mr. ...
Article : 106 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent says that the Germans have reached an agreement with the Quisling Government to send Norwegians to ...
Article : 75 wordsRain which has fallen in many of the cotton growing areas gives reason for the hope expressed at the Department of Agriculture to-day that a ...
Article : 75 wordsA conference of Commonwealth representatives and State Premiers to-day approved of the Commonwealth plan to make loans, aggregating ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Berlin news agency states that the Deputy Premier (M. Laval) returned to Vichy from Paris and immediately reported to Marshal Retain, ...
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