The Allied position on the Toungoo front (Burma) appears to have improved considerably. This is announced in the latest communique from New Delhi, and follows the news that reinforced. Chinese troops have recaptured the aerodrome north ...
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Article : 121 wordsRecent revelations will rasait in a drastic overhaul of America's War effort. Following criticism of labear's demands, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 731 wordsGerman plans for a big Spring campaign against Murmansk have been smashed by a surprise Russian attack on the Aretic front says the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Express." The Soviet forces were covered by units of the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe King, broadcasting, said: "Since I last spoke to you we have been through very hard and anxious times. We have shared the ...
Article : 672 wordsIt is officially stated that His Majesty's destroyer Campbelltown rammed the main dock gate at St. Nasaire, in occupied France. Five ...
Article : 307 wordsA Burma communique says patrol activity continues southwards from Prome. A force between 4000 and 5000 mixed Japanese and Burmese are reported ...
Article : 257 wordsIn an effort to check the Russian advance the Germans sent over waves of dive-bombers, but these met with a disastrous repulse. ...
Article : 229 wordsA Moscow communique says that Russians continued the offensive operation to-day and captured sever. inhabited localities, and also repulsed ...
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Article : 89 wordsSnb-Lientenant Colin Hodgkin son (21), attached to the air branch of the Royal Navy, lost both legs in. an air crash while ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Tokio official radio claims that the Japanese in Burma advanced north-west of Rangoon and reached a point 31 miles from the important oil centre ...
Article : 176 wordsThe German radio says that the Russians are using a great number of tanks and heavily attacking the German lines to the north-east of Gjarsk. ...
Article : 100 wordsImportant changes in war plans were announced to-day. A war appropriation provides for an army of 3,600,000 by the end of this year. ...
Article : 297 wordsIn the earlier stages of the battle for Toungoo small parties of Japanese cavalry and traitor Burmese infiltrated round the Allies flanks to try to ...
Article : 228 wordsA military spokesman says that the Japanese are preparing a two-pronged drive towards Siberia, probably from North Manchukuo and Inner ...
Article : 59 wordsThe German High Command, ampliflying the statement of the operation at St Nazaire, stated that shortly after midnight on March 28 waves of enemy ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr. H. V. Evatt), in a speech at the overseas writers dinner, attended by the country's leading political ...
Article : 409 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Sir Stafford Cripps) said at a Press conference to-day: "I do not want to leave India before I know whether the British proposals ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Berlin radio states that the Bulgarian Premier (Professor Filoff), in a speech to the Bulgarian Parliament, announced a state of war between ...
Article : 111 wordsAustralian soldiers imprisoned in a Chinese grass house after the fall of Singapore drew straws to decide who should settle the sentry when they ...
Article : 410 wordsThere had been a substantial increase in the number of internments of people against whom there was evidence of subversive activities, the Army ...
Article : 304 wordsBulgarian troops who have been massed on the Turkish frontier since 1938 are moving away since the King Boris-Hitler interview. The Bulgarians ...
Article : 34 wordsAmong the Indian leaders whom Sir Stafford Cripps met to-day, according to messages from New Delhi, were Dr. Azad, Congress piesdent, and Mr. ...
Article : 63 wordsIncreased social services to be provided by the Commonwealth Government, forecast earlier this week, were announced in the House of ...
Article : 233 wordsA War Department communique from the Australian theatre says that the United States Chief of Staff (General Marshall) has received the following ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Treasury announced that the American Bosch Corporation of Massachusetts had dismissed 23 employees with German names, although they were ...
Article : 239 wordsOn his return from Canberra at the week-end, the G.O.C. Australian Troops (General Sir Thomas Blamey) said he had gained the impression that ...
Article : 130 wordsThe executive issue of the National Mobilisation Act gives the Government almost unlimited power to conscript Chinese man-power and material resources ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Sunday Express" says that the Japanese two-man submarines were modelled on a 19-ton British craft built in 1905, the tests of which were watched ...
Article : 65 wordsSeveral heavy explosions in the Remington arms plant wrecked a two-story building and also set fire to several buildings, including nearby resideneee. ...
Article : 66 wordsJoseph Harsch, cabling to the "Christian Science Monitor," stated that during the past fortnight Australia had passed through three totally different ...
Article : 73 wordsThe motorzhip Siella, under safe conduet guarantees from the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy, arranged by the Red Cross, sallad yesterday with ...
Article : 52 wordsM. Victor [?] Polish Minister to Canada, has pressanted his credentials to the Governor-General (the Earl of Athlone). ...
Article : 32 wordsA single raider bombed a train near a north-east, coaststown last night, causing casualties. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Japaness Ambassador to Moscow (Mr. Sate) has arrived. ...
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