Increasing concern at British shipping losses to-day found voice in the House ot Commons, which, according to the "Daily Mail," was the most restive since Mr. Churchill went to Downing-street, and was not lessened by Mr. Arthur ...
Article : 231 wordsLatest reports treat Greece suggest that the Italians are new making a desperate effort to held a limited area of Northern Albania. ...
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Article : 158 wordsThe massacre of political prisoners in Rumania by members of the Fascist Iron Guard has met with the disapproval of the Rumanian Government, which, in a communique, states that it is taking measures against those responsible; and, in future, ...
Article : 238 wordsIt is officially announced that hostilities between Thailand (Siam) and French Indo-China began on November 23 along the Cambodia ...
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Article : 580 wordsThe Greek attempts te capture Argyrokastron are the principal operations of the Italo-Greek war. If the town falls, the affect will be as ...
Article : 383 words"The Times" Cairo correspondent says that Greek successes have had tremendous repercussions from the tremendous repercussions in the ...
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Article : 28 wordsHarried by the Greek army and British and Greek air forces the Italians to-day continued their hasty retreat in the northern and central sectors, but ...
Article : 723 wordsIn the Home of Commons to-day Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, made a statement on war production and referred to the effects ...
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Article : 77 wordsThe Air Ministry states: "Our bombers carried out a heavy and successful attack on Cologne. They also attacked the invasion ports of Le Havre, ...
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Article : 233 wordsThe log tells of the grim tragedy on the American cutter Wing On, from Seattle, which was found wrecked on a reef at a remote part of the island ...
Article : 270 wordsIt is reliably stated that a plane carrying M. Chiappe, the French politician, to Syria, was shot down over the Northern Mediterranean. He was ...
Article : 48 wordsBulgaria's claims on her neighbours were raised in the National Assembly, but M. Kiosseivanov, a former Prime Minister, said he regretted the statement ...
Article : 195 wordsAn R.A.F. communique states: "Enemy fighters intercepted our bombers, when they were going to raid Harat Island (off Eritrea). One of ours ...
Article : 211 wordsFifteen tenders ranging in price from just under £15,000 to almost £13,000 have been received for the erection of the Archerfield control tower. Eleven ...
Article : 202 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Lisbon correspondent says that travellers from Denmark state that the Danes believe that the Germans are planning to use Jutland ...
Article : 168 wordsDespite the fact that the British fleet in the Mediterranean was only able to engage the fleeing Italian ships at extreme range, a Rome communique to-day ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Ministry of Economic Warfare states that 50,000 Dutch workers have already gone to Germany, and the number is steadily increasing. Latest ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Spanish News Agency's Berlin correspondent states that Yugoslavia and Bulgaria will not sign the tripartite pact at present. The Bulgarians' abstention, ...
Article : 60 wordsQueensland producers of lower grade copper and gold may receive assistance from, the Commonwealth Government as part of the plan to increase ...
Article : 120 wordsGenera] Catroux has announced that General de Gaulle has appointed him head of the Free French movement in the Red Sea, the Middle East and the ...
Article : 46 wordsWilliam Blanchard, a retired public servant and former employee of the State Printing Office, was fined £5 by Mr. Knyvett to-day for having printed ...
Article : 82 wordsOver £6,000,000 was subscribed to the £28,000,000 loan to-day, which was the opening date. The largest subscriptions were from the life insurance ...
Article : 80 wordsAir-Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, in a speech before the Royal Empire Society, said: "Without a pang I am leaving my native land in its hour of danger ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the Chicago "Daily News," in a copyright message, says that the British bombing of Marseilles is likely to be the first of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe general manager of the Cotton Board (Mr. J. Young) stated last night, that the Queensland cotton crop for 1940 would be only 8370 bales, about ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Nazi party newt sheet, in an article under the title "Crazy British," complains that the British are continuing the war contrary to all ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Secretary for the Navy (Col. Knox) has announced that President Roosevelt had allotted £10,000,000 for immediate development of bases ...
Article : 62 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent says it is revealed that the Killoran, the largest sailing ship in the world, which disappeared some few months ...
Article : 69 wordsYunis Pasha Salen. Minister for Defence, appointed on November 16, died on the train when travelling to meet King Farouk in connection with the ...
Article : 49 wordsApplications have been invited by the Government from people eligible for appointment as Chief Police Magistrate at Brisbane and as Police Magistrate at ...
Article : 97 wordsMavlankar, Speaker of the Bombay Assembly, and Krishna Sinha, former Premier of Bihar, have been arrested. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe second member of the Naval Board (Commodore M. W. Boucher) will return to England shortly and it is expected he will be replaced by ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral Almazon, after hie voluntary return from the United States, to which place he fled after the presidential elections last July, announced that he ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Jesse Jones, discussing the new loan to China based on United States purchases of metals useful to the defence programme, said, "While the ...
Article : 46 wordsA Swiss radio decree bans Communist organisations and prohibits the employment of members of the Communists and anarchists' organisations at ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister for Home Secretary (Mr. H. Morrison) has announced that his department is preparing plans for tunnel extensions from the tube ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. C. R. Attlee and other office bearers in the Parliamentary Labour Party have been re-elected. ...
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