The Australian official war correspondent (Sargeant Fitchett.) says that for nearly 60 miles from Sidi [?]ar[?] to Sollum there is ...
Article : 767 wordsA spacial report received in Athens to-night says that the Italians abandonad [?]sura afer [?]ing the town. According to ...
Article : 244 wordsAustralian troops with their British and Allied comrades are tightening their grip on Bardia. It is reported, without confirmation, that they cut the cliff-top coastal road to Tobruk. Lorry loads of soldiers are arriving hourly for what is ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) paid a glowing tribute to the valour of the Australians in the successful attack in the desert operations when, in the House of Commons to-day, he reviewed the war situation. His review ...
Article : 215 wordsGeneral smuts, in a speech, hinted at the possibility of industrial consription becauses the Union was largely thrown on its own ...
Article : 96 wordsAnnouncing that the First Sea Lord had signalled congratulations to the Commander-inChief of the Mediterranean Fleet, ...
Article : 107 wordsAn impassioned appeal for patience towards Japan "watch is not waging an imperialistic war of greed and aggression against ...
Article : 450 wordsAn Air Ministry communique says: "There was little enemy activity last night. A few bombs were dropped in the south and ...
Article : 266 wordsThe radio in Athens stated: "The Fourth Italian Grenadiers were completely dispersed and disabled around Kinrara, where our troops captured new ...
Article : 115 wordsPoints in his speech emphasised by Mr. Churchill were that British forces in Libya, with continued success, were contending against odds of 3 to 1, 4 to ...
Article : 914 wordsIt is believed that the Italians troops trapped at Bardia nimber nearly 20,000. A British military spokesman last night ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Italians executed the Albanian Nationalst leader, Petrol Marko, at Tirana for distributing handbills urging the inhabitants to revolt. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Cairo correpondent says that British reinforcements [?]ent to support the siege of Bardia are believed to include fresh troops from ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Admiralty announces the capture of [?]structions from an Italian submarine to attack with out warning Spanish ships ...
Article : 90 wordsBritain has signed contracts for the construction of 60,000,000 dollars worth of cargo ships. Thirty will be built in a new ...
Article : 84 wordsAn Admiralty communique states that during Wednesday night one British battleship passed through the Strait of Otranto and carried out a heavy ...
Article : 96 wordsIn a speech at the American Society's farewell lunchean for him, Colonel Nomura, the new ambassador to America, said that the United States ...
Article : 239 wordsThe "Chicago Times." on first-hand information from "unimpeachable sources." states that German planes severely bombed Dublin and Belfast ...
Article : 35 wordsRome officials admitted that German transport planes were carrying Italian reinforcements to Albania, also that some German dive-bombers might be ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Italian prisoners captured in the Western Desert battle so far counted total 31,546, and include 1626 officers, says an official communique issued by ...
Article : 563 wordsMr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons emotional[?]lly tributed the late Marquees of Lothian for his help during the most oritical time through which, the ...
Article : 323 wordsAn Admiralty communique, relating to the Navy's part in the Egyptian and Libyan operations, discloses that shore batteries fired on all British ships ...
Article : 88 wordsAnswering an urgent appeal from Mussolini, squadrons of huge German transport planes are reported to be flying over the Adriatic with Italian ...
Article : 59 wordsThe correspondent of "The Times" in Tokio, comment[?] on Mr. Matsuoka's speech, said that despite his evident goodwill and geniality the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Minister for Information (Senator H. S. Foll[?] said to-day that no casualty lists of Australian troops fighting in the Middle East had ...
Article : 55 wordsNineteen German ships seized in the Dutch East Indies when Holland was invaded, are now chartered by the British. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin) in the House of Commons said that there had been stoppages in munitions factories, some of which were caused ...
Article : 221 wordsWhile the soldiers in Egypt and Palestine are stripped to the waist in the burning sun and sand, the Australian troops in Britain are muffled ...
Article : 166 wordsSenor Delpozo, envoy of the Spanish. Foreign Minister, who came to England three months ago at the [?] gestion of Sir Samuel Hoare, officially ...
Article : 429 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Foreign. Affairs (Mr. R. L. Butler), in the House of Commons, reiterated the hope that. Spain realised the importance Britain ...
Article : 84 wordsMembers of Parliament visiting their constitutencies at Christmas will carry the impression of proud confidence gained from the Prime Minister's ...
Article : 160 wordsAll ships registered in Australia and engaged in the coastal trade must in future be fitted with degaussing eqipment to protect them against ...
Article : 108 wordsA German plane bombed the Irish Channel mail steamer Cambria, 20 miles from the Irish coast on December 18. All the bombs missed owing to the ...
Article : 66 words"The several battles fought on the front of No. 1 or 2, divisions show that we have no reason to shrink from contact with anything like equal terms ...
Article : 1,172 wordsThe State Attorney seized a black ledger listing 200 members of the German American Bund. allegedly serving in the United States milittary forces or reserves. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 21 Dec 1940, Page 5
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