To-day's Singapore communique indicates that our forces in Malaya are making a general withdrawal from various areas in which operations are taking place. It is belived in London that the Japanese are endeavouring to accomplish an ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Ankara radio says it is reported from Budapest that General Keitel's visit has proved most important. Hungary would play an important ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) told the House of Commons to-day that a committee will investigate the circumstances under ...
Article : 109 wordsA gigantic war production plan for the Western Hemisphere, including the abolition of all trade barriers and the establishment of a ...
Article : 282 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" special Chungking correspondent says that General Mo ying-chin, War Minister and Chief-of-Staff of the Chinese ...
Article : 231 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Moscow correspondent, stating he has every reason to believe that the Russians are already in Viazma, says that Mojaisk fell to the innermost of at least three pincer moves along the Moscow-Smolensk highway."I ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. E. S. Land (Chairman of the Maritime Commission), in a progress report to Congress, said that the construction of Allied shipping ...
Article : 264 wordsAn Air Ministry communique says that Bomber Command aircraft went over north-west Germany in force last night an strongly ...
Article : 221 wordsA high Government official to-day said that vast emergency, steps, taken since December 7, have resulted in an unprecedented strengthening of the ...
Article : 233 wordsThe United Press correspondent says that best informed diplomatists here have finally abandoned the hope of a separate ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "Daily Mail" says that Fire has given permission to Pan American Airways to use the Foynes flying-boat base for the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe American Associated Press correspondent in Buenos Aires states authorities declared to-day that certain further modifications must be made in the ...
Article : 168 wordsMajor-General Bennet revealed this morning that fighting had begun on the east coast area, held by the A.L.F., to which the enemy is believed to have ...
Article : 546 wordsThe accomplishment of the second operation would require such tremendous forces of men and material that the Germans appear to believe that the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Red Army's drive against the badly battered Nazi forces is in full swing from Leningrad in the north to Kharkov in the south Dispatches that ...
Article : 240 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent says the Germans admit that further withdrawals on the central front may be expedient. They appear to ...
Article : 175 wordsReports circulated to-day state that Germany has sent a new warning to Brazil and perhaps other South American Latin countries that a break of ...
Article : 54 wordsVery few particulars are available regarding individual British subjects in enemy occupied territory in the Far East, but it has been learned through ...
Article : 172 wordsThe arrest of 60 non-commissioned police and 348 constables is without parallel, the Police Commission told a Press conference. Searches following ...
Article : 187 wordsA British communique says that in bad visibility three strong enemy columns, comprising between them the bulk of the remaining Axis tanks, reconnoitred ...
Article : 224 wordsAccording to a communique issued by the Netherlands East Indies fighting forces slight air activity has taken place over many points in the outer provinces ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Tokio official radio, citing Imperial Headquarters, claimed the destruction of ten Netherlands Indies aircraft, including six flying boats, since ...
Article : 98 wordsThe "Izvestia" says increasingly violent fighting ls going on "at an important populated point" as the Russians' advance from the Kalinin region ...
Article : 162 wordsIn a temperature 35 degrees below zero, the Red Army to-day is driving the Germans back along the route to Borodino, Viazma, Smolensk and Minsk. ...
Article : 135 wordsA war Department communique states that the Japanese renewed heavy attacks in Bataan Peninsula. The attacks were particularly fierce in the ...
Article : 336 wordsA Rangoon communique says that British land and air forces inflicted heavy casualties on Japanese and Thailand troops driving westwards towards ...
Article : 38 wordsThe immediate cessation of collections for all charitable and patriotic purposes was advocated by the vicepresident of the Executive Council ...
Article : 169 wordsDrawing the distinction between retribution and vengeance, the Archbishop of York (Dr. Temple) in a presidential address at the Convocation of ...
Article : 142 wordsAn official stated that Chinese bombers had dropped 20 tons of explosives on a Japanese air base in Indo-China to-day, causing, heavy ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Senate to-day passed and sent to White House a 775 millon dollar authorisation for shipbuilding and repair facilities. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Government is seeking to ascertain where the people who travelled long distances to the Wellington races got the petrol for their cars. There is ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that General Rommel's new move is not likely to prove a "counter offensive reconnaissance in force," which is a species ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Stefani news agency from Saigon states that the Burmese Government is moving from Rangoon to Mandalay. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe unified Korean committee in the United States has disclosed that the Korean army fighting against Japan number 35,000, of whom 9259 officers ...
Article : 36 wordsA communique issued at 6.20 p.m. states: "In the north-west of Johore contact has occurred at North Mersing between enemy parties pushing south ...
Article : 247 wordsA Rangoon communique says: "Our troops bold some positions east of Kawkareik. Ten Japanese bombers, escorted by 16 fighters, attacked ...
Article : 237 wordsTo meet the danger of invasion by Hitler's hordes which is no less present there than in other parts of the British Isles, an adequate Britsh garrieon is maintained in Ireland, whose members impart as much realism as possible into their training. Recently a battalion underwant a "toughning up"exercise and rigorous assault course to improve its fitness to meet possible incursion by the enemy... ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsA R.A.F. communique reads:."We raided the Catania aerodrome for 10 hours on the night of January 19 and scored direct hits on aeroplanes, ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) stated to-day that inspections carried out by local supply officers indicated that some retailers and bakers ...
Article : 78 wordsA Chungking communique states that 400 out of 1000 Japanese who besieged Hawakang on the Honan front were killed while attempting to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe City Coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day found that Bruce Edward Holden (17), a Cockatoo Island apprentice, died on January 4 as the result of a "very ...
Article : 117 wordsA late communique from Singapore reports fighting in the Mersing area, on the east coast of Malaya. Australian forces are opposing the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Government spokesman says that 40,000 Japanese and civilians have been evacuated from different parts of Japan to Shaghai for fear of Allied ...
Article : 67 wordsA Rangoon communique states: "Effectively suppported by the R.A.F. our troops have given a good account of themselves at Kawkaeik, causing the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 24 Jan 1942, Page 5
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