The R.A.F. sent between 200 and 300 bombers and still more fighters to engage the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prince Eugen and their massive escorting forces when the German warships, penned at Brest for the past 10½ months, made their ...
Article : 266 wordsThe "New York Times,"in an editorial, commenting on the details of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands attack, says: "This feat shows that ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Federal Government is considering the recall of a number of Australian airmen now serving in Britain, the Minister for Air (Mr. ...
Article : 127 wordsImportant Russian successes were announced to-day. Not only have the Russian troops reached White Russia at a point north-east ...
Article : 254 wordsThe B.B.C. interrupted its programme at 12.30 a.m. (Australian summer time, Monday) to broadcast the following message sent by Reuter's special correspondent in London to that agency's Singapore office:— ...
Article : 204 wordsWhile heavy rain restricted visibility to a few yards two steamers collided four miles out from North Head, between Sydney and ...
Article : 224 wordsThe magnificent gallantry of the A.I.F. in Amboins, in the Molucca's, 580 miles from Australia, in bitterly contesting every step of the way ...
Article : 310 wordsThe Russians, driving west between Moscow and Leningrad, stormed fortified positions which the Germans had built preparatory to a stand until ...
Article : 29 wordsA Rangoon communique states: "The situation on the Salween front has quietened after heavy fighting in the Paan area, where there were ...
Article : 64 wordsWithout waiting for Singapore to fall, the Japanese have struck at Sumatra. Palambang, with a population of 120,000, lies 54 miles up the Moesi River, which ...
Article : 122 wordsPresident Roosevelt conferred with American and British naval and military chiefs at White House to-day. According to Press ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Earl of Cork and Orrey in the course of a speech to-day said Japan has built a special type of motor ship designed as a ...
Article : 55 wordsAgain, their fighters not having run the gauntlet of a vast incessant "flak" barrage, could concentrate on the sole task of attacking British bombers and ...
Article : 278 wordsHeavier Soviet forces are following in the wake of the cavalry, unit, which on February 4 broke the German defences on the Leningrad front. The ...
Article : 52 wordsThe official Tokio radio denied that Japan had suffered a naval defeat in the Marshall Islands raid on February 1, and said that the United States ...
Article : 77 wordsAdmiral Luetzow, broadcasting, said: "The British propaganda blamed the weather for the German penetration of the Channel, but this is untrue. The ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Moscow radio declares that Russian dive-bombers attacked a German aerodrome on the Karelian front and destroyed four Messerschmitts and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Malayan Broadcasting Corporation, reported at 5 p.m. on Saturday: "The battle for Singapore raged this morning with undiminished fury. Our ...
Article : 155 wordsThe British United Press correspondent in Rangoon says that the Japanese are attacking in strength in the Paan area, apparently hoping to reach across ...
Article : 53 wordsHigh British and American strategists conferred with President Roosevelt to-day. Informed circles believe that the discussions included the ...
Article : 110 words"Pravda," commenting on the new mobilisation order of February 14, says the Red Army must destroy Hitler's boasting plan for the spring offensive. ...
Article : 53 wordsA communique issued at 4 p.m. states: "In the Philippine theatre, General MacArthur has awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to Sergeant ...
Article : 97 wordsAn R.A.F. Middle East communique states: "Our fighter aircraft was again active over Cyrenaica yesterday. Enemy aircraft ...
Article : 121 wordsThe new naval set-up in the Southwest Pacific is: Admiral Helfrich commands all naval forces in the A.B.D.A. area; Commodore J. A. Collins, former ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Tokio radio says that on the night of February 14 British troops at Singapore were still fiercely resisting. The bulk of the defenders ...
Article : 79 wordsThree Queenslanders, Pilot Officers Ralfe Cowan, D. Evans and Harold Whillans were among pilots of the Australian Spitfire squadron who ...
Article : 240 wordsIt is believed that the Prinz Eugen has been sunk. The cruiser and one battleship were hit by bombs. R.A.F. observers said that the Prinz Eugen ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Netherlands East Indies Foreign Minister (Dr. Kleffens), writing in the "New York Times," says: "The Netherlands East Indies have become the main ...
Article : 184 wordsReuter's Burma correspondent says that the bitterest fighting in the war was in Burma in the last few days after Japanese thrusts across the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe official radio says that Japanese occupied the Seletar naval base at Singapore at noon to-day. The official radio says that General ...
Article : 83 wordsA General Headquarters communique states: "Operating over a wide area west of Gazala on February 13 our patrols and mobile columns,supported ...
Article : 191 wordsLord Winster, in a speech, declared: "Victory is not something we wake up and find in our stocking, put there by a Russian or American Santa Claus. The ...
Article : 179 wordsA communique issued at 9.30 a.m. states: "In the Philippine theatre there was heavy artillery duelling and aggressive infantry skirmishes during the ...
Article : 70 wordsCharles Murchison, the Regional Director of the Office of Civilian Defence, has warned army officers in charge of civilian defence in the ...
Article : 69 wordsA German radio broadcasting the account of the Channel action, in a statement compiled from official quarters, said: "The warships left the harbour ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) has convened a Navy Court of Inquiry into the cause of the fire on the Normandie. Proceedings have already ...
Article : 45 wordsHold-up men and window smashers were active in browned-out streets of the city and suburbs last night. A woman was attacked opposite the ...
Article : 164 wordsTorpedoes, deadliest sea weapon and a submarine specialty, are examined aboard British submarine depot ships at regular intervals. They are "parted" for inspection and given a test on the bench to make quite certain that at the right moment they will not fail to find ' ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 77 wordsThe "New York Times," in an editorial, says: "The successful dash of the three German ships through the English Channel to their home ports is, in ...
Article : 599 wordsThe Australian Minister in Washington (Mr. R. G. Casey) conferred for 45 minutes with the Russisn Ambassador (M. Litvinov) in a general exchange of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Under-secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Wells) to the Press, said, in his judgment; the Act of Havana does not apply to the islands of St. Piere ...
Article : 214 wordsMr. E. L. Granville, in a speech, said that nothing short of a fresh Cabinet or national union, composed of ruthless men responsible to Parliament, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe German battleship Gneisenau, which figured in the sensational dash from Brest to her home waters. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsThe secretary of the London Trades Council (Mr. Willis), in a speech, declared: "We must break loose from the stupefying magic of Mr. Churchill's ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Toki[?] radio broadcast that hostilities c[?]ed at Singapore at 10 p.m. on Snnday following an historic conference between the ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 16 Feb 1942, Page 5
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