A Navy communique states that in the Far East a United States submarine has sunk three enemy freighters and one passenger and cargo ship in Japanese waters. Three sinkings are in addition to these reported in previous communications. ...
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Article : 262 wordsSir Girja Balpai, India's Agent-General to Washington, to-day visited. President Roosevelt for the first time since the creation of his office. After ...
Article : 113 wordsThe constant drone of planes, the arrival of Indian and British troops, new anti-aircraft measures, and the evacuation of civilians from the ...
Article : 205 wordsRegulations issued in Canberra to-day reduce interest rates an unsecured loans received by companies, other than banks, from 1[?] ...
Article : 367 wordsInterviewed in India by the American Press correspondent. Gandhi said: [?]espite my love of the British, I think their imperialism is the greatest crime ...
Article : 58 wordsThere is at present no evidence that British subjects [?] Japan, and in territories occupied by Japanese forces, have been subjected to treatment ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) to-night confirmed the Washington report that Mr. Gasey had yesterday interviewed President Roosevelt on his ...
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Article : 48 wordsImportant Soviet successes have been announced in a special communique broadcast by the Moscow wireless. The communique stated that in ...
Article : 425 wordsDr. T. V. Soong, the Chinese Foreign Minister, after a Conference with President Roosevelt to-day, said that an ambitions plan ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Moscow radio says a message from Cairo states that Admiral Reader was issued a secret circular ordering that the ...
Article : 111 wordsSir Bijoy Prosad Singh Roy. President of the National Liberal Federation of India, said that Mr. Churchill's statement had caused disappointment. Sir ...
Article : 45 wordsA German radio massage from Hong Kong says that, despite attacks from the American navy and enemy pishes, strong Japanese reinforcements and ...
Article : 67 wordsFurious throngs of Brazilians, inflamed by fhe the forpedoing of Brazilian ships, assaulted big German department stores and other Axis enterprises in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Tokio official radio says Admiral Shimada told the Diet to-day that Japan had lost 27 transports and 18 warships in the Pacific so far, and ...
Article : 103 wordsOfficial Chinese dispatches report furious battles against the Japanese in the Shantung Province, and at Siangshan harbour, in Ghekiang Province. ...
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Article : 119 wordsThe Press publishes a report from Ceylon of the evacuation plans. Women, children, and residents not employed in essential war work are ...
Article : 65 wordsThe President of Brazil (D. G. Vargas) has decreed the partial confiscation of Axis funds and property in Brazil. The decree said that property ...
Article : 50 wordsIt was stated in London that there was no fresh news from Burma. Our forces are infact, although they suffered heavy casualties and [?] now ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Secretary for the Army (Mr. H. L. Simson), inspecting the canal defences, declared: "I have been much pleased by the spirit of the garrison. I ...
Article : 84 wordsWhen Sir Herbert Willams, in the House of Commons, asked if a report had been received from Major-General Bennett, and when it was proposed to ...
Article : 178 wordsActing immediately to give effect to yesterday's decision of the Federal Was Cabinet that work must be continued under prevailing awards when ...
Article : 60 wordsMrs. D wight Davis, National Diractor of Volunteer Services, American Red Cross said to-day that all shipments of medical supplies and food from the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Pope celebrated the third anniversary of his coronation. The chief ceremony was held in Rome, with Papal Mass in the Sistine Chapel. The ...
Article : 63 wordsA General Headquarters communique states that the situation on the Prome road has been stabilised around Tharrawaddy. Operations on the Toungoo ...
Article : 17 wordsWith the return of favourable weather, the full-scale bombing offensive against Germany has been resumed, and it is intended from now on ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "Evening Star," in a leader, doubts whether the Australian forces in New Guinea are strong enough to resist further landings, and adds that ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Japanese High Command, according to reports heard by the C.B.S., admit that three ships were either sunk or forced aground, and six others, ...
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Article : 116 wordsThe "Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent says that the State Department made the moat urgent representations to the Vatican concerning ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Chinese Ambassador (Dr. Hu Shih), addressing the Canadian Club luncheon in the presence of distinguished diplomatists and politicians, said he ...
Article : 93 wordsAt Colonel Knox's Press conference to-day Admiral Hart declared that the Japanese had won the first great campaign of the was in the Pacific because ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Duke of Gonnaught left £160,676. Sir Charles Connibere's personal estate in England was £[?] in addition to real estate in victoria not ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Diet, in a special session celebrating the conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, heard the Premier (General Tojo) assert that "the main fleet ...
Article : 218 wordsPhotographs reveal that the Gneisenau, considerably damaged, is lying in a dry dock at Kiel. The deck plating forward of "A" turrett had been ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Moscow radio says that Vichy has handed Madagascar over to the Axis and that German technicians and engineers already have taken over port ...
Article : 19 wordsDefying President Rooseveit's warning the House voted by 116 to of to forbid the Governmental Commedity Credit Corporation to sell Government ...
Article : 46 wordsA Chungking communique says fierce battles have peen in progress between the Japanese and Chinese forces in the Shantung Province over the past 10 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Air Minister (Mr. A. S. Drakeford) issued the following communique to-night: "Gasmata aerodrome was attacked by Australian aircraft yesterday. ...
Article : 25 wordsTen airvivers of the united Sistes steamship Oregon arrived at Baragos lad night. The Oregon was shalled and sunk off puarts plats, dominiegn ...
Article : 3 wordsThe Under-Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) told the Press to-day that reports that Vichy might agree to accept Japanese aid in Mad[?] ...
Article : 37 wordsA communique issued at 10.30 a.m. was very brief, merely stating that the lull at Batan continues, making the fourth day of inactivity in the ...
Article : 19 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Stockholm says there is confitmation that the Prinz [?]ugen was more severely damaged than at first believed. ...
Article : 102 wordsAn R.A.F. Burma communique says British bombers yesterday, for the second day in succession, heavily attacked enemy positions at Mouimein. ...
Article : 18 wordsMessrs. Ridlington, [?]eddes and [?] Limited [?] [?] [?] at [?] Asstess the [?] [?] over the Controlled [?] [?] ...
Article : 22 wordsLieutenant-General Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps, said: "An immediate all-out offensive" was the best course for the United States. "Planes ...
Article : 40 wordsFor exceeding the quota of cosmetic sales, Woodlands Chemists Lt., London. and three directions were fined a total of £40,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe newly appointed Chief-of-Staff to the Chinese Army (General Stilwalf) after a conference with Marshal [?] [?] left for Burma. ...
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