The United Prees correspondent at Chungking says that Mr. Kung Ksui, who is head of the Chinese National Transportation Board, ...
Article : 123 wordsA New Delhi communique states that British forces in Burma have withdrawn from Prome, on the Irrawaddy front, after a fierce battle with the Japanese which lasted all night. The communique states that large Japanese forces attacked ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Minister for Home security (Mr. Herbert Morrison) bes termlasted Sir Warren Fisher's appointment as special Commissioner for ...
Article : 651 wordsA communique issued at 9.30 a.m. states: "In the Philippine theatre there was aggreasive patrol activity on both sides of Batan ...
Article : 415 wordsAn official spokesman, amplifying a Canadian Press report that Canada would be represented on the Munitions Assignment Board, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe President of the Indian Congress (Dr. M. Azad) and the President of the National Congress (Pandit Nehru) conferred with Sir Stafford Cripps for over an hour this afternoon, and handed over the draft of the Congress Work ...
Article : 258 wordsAn Air Ministry communique states: "Last night aircraft of the Bomber Command bombed industrial objectives and ...
Article : 230 wordslt is known at the Ministry for Economic Warfare that among the valuable cargoes which have Istely reached Germany fram French ter ...
Article : 490 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the Chinese are operating in the Sittang River to the north of Toungoo. British forces around Prome are guarding ...
Article : 48 wordsIt was unofficially stated, that the Congress resolution is: Firstly, it reiterates the Congress views about the war, emphasising that it favours the ...
Article : 335 wordsAnother large convey of tanks, aircraft and other war meterial has reached Murmansk, after four attacks from the German navy in ...
Article : 78 wordsThe leading Chinese vernacular newspaper, "Ta Kana Pao," reports a sinister gathering of Japanese diplomatists from all near ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Agent-General for India (Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai) had a 100 minute conference with President Roosevelt, but refused to disclose to the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Chungking reported that the British General (General Harold Alexander) is taking supreme command of all the ...
Article : 63 wordsA communique states that the 33rd Japanese division, which recently landed from transports at Rangoon and joined with another, have united for ...
Article : 73 wordsNational Security Regulations issued to-night establish a Stevedoring Industry Commission to ensure that ships are speedily loaded and unloaded, and ...
Article : 296 wordsThe United Press correspondent on the Toungoo front says that the Japanese resumed the bombing of Chinese frontal positions after a week's respite. ...
Article : 165 wordsA Burma communique states: "There were no changes of importance on the Irrawaddy front. A large British reconnaissance patrol destroyed an ...
Article : 104 wordsA 10001b. bomb wag dropped every 15 seconds during the R.A.F.s threehour raid against Lubeck, all falling within the target area. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe British United Press correspondent in New Delhi says that Sir, ...
Article : 17 wordsA Chinese spokesman stated to-day that Japanese, covered by cruisers and destroyers, landed at Akyab, thus placing the British forces at Prome in ...
Article : 86 wordsSenator Connally, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, interviewed by Press representatives, said: "On the basis of information ...
Article : 159 wordsThe appointment of Lieut-General Gordon Bennett as Corps Commander at Perth is one of the most significant developments in the recent army ...
Article : 246 wordsFlying across the moonlit Strait of Dover, a considerable number of German raiders heavily attacked a southeast coastal area early this morning. ...
Article : 76 words"The Times" correspondent in Stockholm says that the Germans to-day allowed an unusual amount of information from Berlin in reference to ...
Article : 160 words"The magnificent material which I am confident will develop into an even more formidable fighting unit than the 452nd" is the Commander's considered ...
Article : 424 wordsUnder an order issued to-day the principal executive officer of the State Civil. Defence Organisations is authorised to direct any male between 18 and ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Commonwealth Public Service is being combed to find men of military age who can be released for active service. Official estimates show ...
Article : 155 wordsThe rationing and standardisation of civilian clothing is foreshadowed in a woven and woollen materials' order gazetted last night The order pro ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. W. S. Farish, president of the Standard Oil Co., continued his testimony to-day. He said that all Standard oil wells, pipelines and refineries ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsFishermen's reports about ten Norwegian ships indicate that two were sunk and one set on fire. One was grounded on the Norwegian coast, two ...
Article : 126 wordsThe King was shown a battery of recret anti-tank guns during a tour of the Southern Command. Black-faced commandos staged a mock night attack ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Senate Committee investigating the war programme declared to-day that the lack of over-all planning by the armed services and the mistakes ...
Article : 97 wordsFive New South Wales collieries were idle on Thursday. Most of the men at Bulli resumed work, but a number of surface bands refused, and mine ...
Article : 118 wordsThe International Red Cross Committee at Geneva has received in formation from the Japanese Red Cross that the Japanese are prepared ...
Article : 108 wordsThe only, two army leaders in Australla who have led their men against the Japanese met in Melbourne, for the first time on Thursday. They were ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Swiss radio says that a message from Buenos Aires states that the Japanese Ambassador, after a conference with the Argentine Government ...
Article : 57 wordsA new United States army newspaper, similar to the "Star and Stripes" in the first great War, will be published soon, and will be named "The Yank." Spacial ...
Article : 50 wordsAustralian and United States cooperation is no longer a high sounding aspiration, but a cold, hard fact, said the Minister for Air (Mr. A. S. Drake ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "New York Times," under the title "A Guest we Would Like to Keep," bids carewell to Mr. R. G. Casey, and says: "He made himself singularly liked here. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsThe Mayor of New York (Mr. F. La Guardia) has disclosed that drastic financial war-time curtailments had slashed five million dollars from the ...
Article : 55 wordsPresident Roossvelt has accepted the resignation of Mr. Alexander Weddell, Ambassador to Spain. Mr. Weddell is at present hare, on leave preparing to ...
Article : 50 wordsMillions of civilian identity cards win be posted this week-end. The cards will impose on the postal service the largest single load in history, and ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Daniel Steen, the ftnt Norwegian Ambanador to Canada, has presented his credentials to the Governor-General (Lord Athlone). ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Sat 4 Apr 1942, Page 5
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