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  2. BUILDING RACE. COUNTER SEA LOSSES.]

    The "Wall-street Journal" says America has already beosted carge ship [?] by 50 per cont. "The building will counter-balance ...

    Article : 533 words
  3. FRANCE'S DEFEAT.

    At the resumption of the Riom trial M. Daladier declared that bad distribution of the defence forces were the principal causes of France's ...

    Article : 119 words
  4. FLIGHT TO BERLIN.

    The "New York Times" correspondent at Ankara says that it is unconfimedly reported that Field Marshal Rommel flew from North ...

    Article : 134 words
  5. FORCING NAZIS BACK. RELENTLESS RED ARMY.

    "The Time" special Stockholm correspondent sams up the effect of the recent bitter and pretracted Russe-German fighting, and roughly ...

    Article : 135 words
  6. INVASION OF JAVA COMMENCED Strong Japanese Forces

    The Columbia broadcasting service states that Japanese on the night of February 28 landed at three points on Java to the north-west of Bandoeng, to the west of Indramayu, and midway between Semarang and SourabayA. The points selected by the ...

    Article : 271 words
  7. RAID BY BRITISH PARATROOPS In Vicinity of Le Havre

    A joint Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry communiqne stated that a raid, in which the three services each played an equally important and independent part, was directed against a valuable German radio location unit at ...

    Article : 246 words
  8. FORTY-HOUR WEEK.|

    The House of Representatives has rejected by 226 votes to 62 a move to saspend the 40-hour week for the deration. The move was made ...

    Article : 345 words
  9. PETAIN'S PROMISE. TO BE NEUTRAL.

    The Vichy Government has promised "to abstain front any action not conforming with the position of neutrality in which the ...

    Article : 279 words
  10. NAZIS STILL IN TEAP.

    Moscow expects Staraya Russa to fall into Russian hands at any moment. The Russians have 96,000 Germans trapped in the area, and the Nazis are ...

    Article : 444 words
  11. OIL WELLS BROKEN UP.

    The Dutch have blown up oil wells and refineries at Tjepoe. It was officially announced at 4 p.m. to-day that at all three points of landing units of the ...

    Article : 92 words
  12. CASUALTIES LIGHT.

    The parachutists come over the German beach defences from the rear. The embarkation was completed in good order, and was escorted by Fighter ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. EXPECT BOMBINGS. I

    The Tokio radio has warned the population that a direct attack on the Japanese homeland can be expected from the Aleutians. If ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. TRIPOLI RAIDED.

    Tripoli was raided by bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force during Thursday night. A direct hit was obtained on one vessel, ...

    Article : 91 words
  15. GREAT NAVAL ACTION.

    Latest reports indicate that the naval battle in the Java Sea is proceeding, It is understood that while in the first stage of the action few Allied ships ...

    Article : 217 words
  16. NOT SECOND FRONT.

    It is authoritatively pointed out that combined operations in France should not in any way be confused with the opening of a second front Only a very ...

    Article : 276 words
  17. DEFENCES PARTICULARLY STRONG.

    Rear-Admiral Baron de Vos Van Steenwejk,' of the Royal Netherlands' Navy, opening the Sutton "Warship Week" to-day said that in the Far East ...

    Article : 151 words
  18. U.S. TO HAVE SHIPPING CZAR.

    President Roosevelt may appoint a shipping "czar" to assure the efficient operation of Pacific shipping carrying the flow of vital war materials to the ...

    Article : 113 words
  19. SOVIET GAIN IN SOUTH.

    Moscow announces another important success in an unnamed sector on the southern front. Since February 20, said yesterday's ...

    Article : 275 words
  20. JAPANESE CLAIMS.

    It is officially stated that in a naval engagement off Batavia early this morning we sank one Australian and one United States cruiser. Reports of the ...

    Article : 56 words
  21. DEVELOPMENTS SOON.

    The Press Association's political correspondent predicts that important developments in the relations between Vichy and the Allied Powers, ...

    Article : 78 words
  22. JAPANESE AIM.

    The lull in the battle for Rangoon continues, but the Japanese bombing of the Andaman Islands (in the Bay of Bengal) is regarded as a sign that ...

    Article : 319 words
  23. GERMS NOW IN WAR. IN THE FAR EAST.

    Not only have the Japanese committed atrocities in captured areasnotably in Hong Kong—but they have introduced the horror of germ warfare ...

    Article : 298 words
  24. RANGOON SITUATION.

    It is authoritatively stated that the situation in Rangaon is very serious, despite the heavy Japanese losses between the Bilin and Sittang rivers. It ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. POST-WAR WORLD.

    Sir Earle Page, in a speech te the British Federation of Business and Professional women, said: "The war can only be won by united effort and a ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. ELEMENT OF SURPRISE.

    Surprise was no unimportant factor in the success of the parachutists operation. With their faces and teeth blackened, the troops dropped from a ...

    Article : 570 words
  27. JAPANESE ESPIONAGE.

    The Dies Committee charged in its third major report on subversive activities that the Japanese carried on intensive espionage propaganda activities ...

    Article : 252 words
  28. WAR-TIME LIVING.

    Practically all newspapers mention likely drastic cuts in sport, petrol rations, and travel facilities. The former president of Trade Union ...

    Article : 228 words
  29. PAN-AMERICA. I

    Central and South American States are planning in co-operation to resist Axis aggression. High, army officers from all the South ...

    Article : 176 words
  30. EARLIER MESSAGES.

    A Bandoeng message says the biggest naval engagement in the Far Eastern waters is still raging in the Java Sea. British; Dutch and American warships, ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. SURPRISE ATTACK.

    A Moscow communique says that Russian troops are continuing active operations. An artillery unit on the central front, in a surprise attack on ...

    Article : 73 words
  32. U.S. NAVAL COMMUNIQUE.

    A navy communique issued at 4 p.m. states that a major naval action occurred on February '27, whereby the combined Dutch, British, Australian ...

    Article : 441 words
  33. "GREAT WHITE WAY."

    The end of New York's "Great White Way" is foreshadowed by an order issued by the Office of Civilian Defence directing nightly the blacking-out of ...

    Article : 101 words
  34. ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN.

    A Chungking message says that it is officially reported that the United States volunteer fliers protecting Rangoon shot down at least 47, possibly ...

    Article : 79 words
  35. RUSSIAN GUERRILLAS' SUCCESS.

    Russian guerrillas in the Leningrad province report, according to a Press message from Moscow, that in the course of the past six months they ...

    Article : 98 words
  36. CAMP ATROCITIES.

    Although the Japanese are permitting the Y.M.C.A. War Prisoners Aid Service to operate in the Far East, there is no indication that they will allow ...

    Article : 164 words
  37. TOBACCO SUPPLIES.

    Alleging that tobacco distribution has been inequitable since the introduction of rationing, authorities and traders expect that supplies in future will be ...

    Article : 125 words
  38. "BLACK MARKET" DEALS

    The "Sunday Express" states that death and penal servitude for life are being considered as penalties for the offences of buying cr selling In the "black ...

    Article : 47 words
  39. FROM WAKE ISLAND.

    The Tokio radio says that Imperial headquarters claimed that the Japanese guns on captured Wake Island fired at an enemy cruiser when a squadron, ...

    Article : 98 words
  40. REAL LIFE

    Joe Come, comedian, who died on February 20, 1941. obsessed with the [?] that he had no money, left £[?] He spent the last years of his life in ...

    Article : 80 words
  41. IN BATAN AREA.

    A communique issued at 9.30 a.m. says: "Fighting has lessened in the Batan area, with operations limited to minor skirmishes. General MacArthur's ...

    Article : 67 words
  42. ACROSS PACIFIC

    Mr. John [?] the public relations officer of the Ferry Command of Canada, has revealed that some Catalinar ware flown across the Pacific to ...

    Article : 53 words
  43. IRAN CABINET RESIGNS.

    A Swiss radio message from Tehran says the Iran Cabinet has resigned. No reason was given. ...

    Article : 33 words
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