The United press correspondent in Ghungking says that Japanese parachute troops, bomber-squadrons, and artillery units, to-night appeared to be starting a big-scale drive against the British and Chinese forces in Burma. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Sir Stafford Cripps), in a statement, said: "There is no time to loseāno time for long discussion. I am ...
Article : 549 wordsDr. H. V. Evatt's activities to-day indicated that big supply questions are being discussed with American officals After seeing the ...
Article : 132 wordsA Moscow message says,that a Russian convoy with reinferee is reported to have entered Sebastepel Harbour on March 21. ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Donald Nelson, War Production Chief, addressing a meeting of C.L.O leaders, said that labour must suspend for the duration of ...
Article : 115 wordsTurkey is keenly watching developments of the situation regarding Bulgaria, Rumanis and Hungary, which is equally unsatisfactory from the Axis viewpoint. "The Times" Instanbul correspondent says that the Bulgarian Cabinet, after an obscure ...
Article : 255 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent reports a Berlin spokesman implies that the Germans on the east front are now undergoing the most difficult ...
Article : 231 words"I want your help; wtthout it we cannot get the maximum out of the situstion, and we need the maximum in order to win. To that end ...
Article : 467 wordsThe "Daily Express" says that Sweden, fearing an invasion in the spring, has ordered the complete mobilteation of the army, to meet ...
Article : 342 wordsThe Berlin radio says that the Japanese have broken through the American lines at Batan Peninsula, and have isolated several American units. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Casey-Churchill-Curtin affair continues to receive prominent publicity throughout America. Miss Dorothy. Thompson, the noted columnist, ...
Article : 352 wordsA communique issued by the commander of the Chinese army in Burma said that there was light artillery fire yesterday against the Chinese south of ...
Article : 79 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Batan, in the Philippines, reports that several copies of the ultimatum to LieutGeneral Wainwright were dropped ...
Article : 93 wordsThere is a feeling that the German Ambassador's (von Papen) hurried departure on March 21 to Bulgaria, from where he goes straight to Hitler's ...
Article : 295 wordsNight raiders attacked a town on the south-east coast of England last night, including dive bombing, and extensively damaged ...
Article : 64 wordsGandhi, in a newspaper article, says the Government would ease the situation and allay anxiety if it unequivocally declared that it ...
Article : 72 wordsBecause of the interruption of communications between Australia and China, the Federal Government has decided to suspend for three years the ...
Article : 187 wordsin unarmed and comparatively slow machines Australian civil pilots have run the gauntlet of enemy bullet and bombs and saved hundreds of lives of ...
Article : 192 wordsBritish submarines sank two U-boats, two supply ships, six schooners and a naval vessel in the Mediterranean. This was revealed in an Admiralty ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Australian Minister to the U.S.A (Mr. R. G. Casey) in a broadcast declared that the fate of civilisation for a long time to come may hinge on the ...
Article : 156 wordsDoctor N. G. Ranga, former President of the All India Peasants' Conference, has been released after two years' goal. He was goaled under the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. Biddle) has ordered a nation-wide round-up of 8000 alien seamen who have deserted their ships, thereby hampering the ...
Article : 251 wordsAnother sphere of Australian and American collaboration is proving the comradeship between the two nations to be of the highest order. Australian air ...
Article : 62 wordsWalter Winchell, in his famous radio gossip column, relates a story over the short-wave radio of a conversation between two Japanese. One was telling ...
Article : 89 wordsThe "New York Times",reports that Germany end Italy have established control commissions throughout unoccupied France, whose activities, in ...
Article : 226 wordsThe navy announced that a small United Nations' merchantman has been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. Survivors said that the ship was sunk on ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Francis Sayre, American High Commissioner to the Philippines, arrived to-day and presented President Roosevelt with a sword formerly ...
Article : 40 wordsA Cairo communique gives further details of the raid reported in yesterday's communique. The landing grounds at Tmimi and Martuba were ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "Dagens Nyheter" states that churches throughout Norway were crowded on Sunday when the bitter struggle between the Church and the ...
Article : 170 wordsReports have reached New York that the 13,000-ton Italian liner Victoria, a fast motor ship and one of the prides of the Italian merchant marine, has ...
Article : 83 wordsLady Groom, wife of the late Sir Littleton Groom, died at the Canberia Hospital yesterday after a short illness. She will be buried in Canberra ...
Article : 48 wordsThe State Department and military, establishment said that they had no information regarding British planes arriving in Cuba, and declined to ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the request of the Array Minister (Mr. F. M. Forde), the Director of the Army Inventions Board (Dr. Woolley) is in Melbourne inspecting two ...
Article : 57 wordsOver 500 volunteered to be blistered by mustard gas for the purpose of assisting the London Homeopathic Hospital's research for an antidote. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe work of the Maintenance Command of the British Royal Air Force, of which little is heard, is of vital importance in the struggle against Germany as it supplics all service requirements, from a split pin to a complete aircraft Huge reserves of bombs are also ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 94 wordsDr. John Baker, an American inspector of the Burma Road, who arrived from Singapore, declared that China now-has 30 to 40 months' supplies. ...
Article : 47 wordsA regulation was gazetted to-day prohibiting the use of newpaper posters. It operates immediately. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Moscow radio states that production in the barrel department of Krupps works at Essen were stopped for several days as the result of ...
Article : 45 wordsA Valetta communique says that the R.A.F. to-day, without loss, destroyed two Junkers 88 and one Heinkel 111 probably destroyed two, and damaged ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Tokio official radio quoted Colonel Kikusaburo Okada, a member of the War Ministry's planning bureau, when interviewed by the "Asahi" ...
Article : 102 wordsTwenty-four British warships, including the battleships Resolution, and Malaya have recently undergone refitting in American ports. Britain's thanks for the hospitality showered upon their personel in the United States were voiced by Mr. A. V. Alexander,the First ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsThe second bar of the D.F.C. has been awarded to Acting Wing-Commander F. B. Carey, former R.A.F. rigger. Carey, after he became a pilot, ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. J. S. Garden, former M.H.R who began duty to-day as liaison officer between the Trade Unions and the Federal Labour Minister ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Daily Express" correspondent at Colombo says that although Government officials assert that 99 per cent, of the Ceylonese are intensely loyal to Britain, ...
Article : 83 wordsPresident Roosevelt has nominated Brigadier-General John Marston to Major-General; Brigadier-General Alexander Vandergrift Commander-General ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Tokio official radio said that negotiations were continuing for a long term flsheries agreement with Russia similar to the terms of the working ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Madrid radio says that six Communists were sentenced to death, nine sentenced to life and 24 given shorter terms after the discovery of a ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Berlin radio states a message from Tokio says that the Japanese on March 10 completely occupied Boka Island, in the Solomons. ...
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