Japan is reported to have had its first air raids yesterday in daylight, when the capital, Tokio, and also the ports of Yokohama and Kobe, and the industrial town of Nagoya, are said to have been bombed. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe many recent R.A.F. raids, including attacks on North Italy, and mine-laying flights over German coastal waters and estuaries, ...
Article : 620 wordsThe Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (General Marshall) in an interview, after reviewing the United States troops in Northern Ireland, ...
Article : 119 wordsA communique issued at 4 p.m. states General Brereton repoted from India that American heavy bombers conducted a heavy night ...
Article : 32 wordsSince the war began New Zealand airmen overseas have won an average of six awards a month. The 200th award was announced to-day. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe French Government changes announced in Vichy, and quoted by agencies in London,leave four key posts in Laval's hands. Nominally, Laval will be the third personage in the Government, Petain being the Chief of State, and Darlan ...
Article : 208 wordsJapanese Anny Headquarters an nounced that 4500 British troops had been killed or wounded in Burma, and 150 captured between March 10 and ...
Article : 81 wordsA Moscow communique to-night states there wre no important changes on the front on April 18. Six German planes were destroyed ...
Article : 161 wordsAn extention of the Empire air training scheme is expeeted to remit from a conference in Ottawa early next month. ...
Article : 226 wordsA Burma communique states on the night of April 16 the enemy tried to prevent the destruction of Yenang-yaung oilfields. Small parties managed ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Tokio official radio stated that Premier Tojo, the Navy Minister (Admiral Shimada) and the Foreign Minister (Mr. Togo) had an audience with ...
Article : 58 words"His determination to pervert France, in order the better to subjugate and exploit prompts him to select certain people particularly ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Berlin radio, commenting on the Vichy Cabinet, says that Laval, in his first term of office, showed understanding of the New Order, and opposed ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of "The Times", says that German military experts are complaining that especially difficult ground conditions continue on ...
Article : 341 wordsIt is officially stated that the main Chinese forces on the Sittang front, in Central Burma, have withdrawn to a new line after many days of powerful ...
Article : 84 wordsThe capital is greatly elated through reports of the Tokio bombing, which, according to general opinion, indicates that the Allies took the inititative ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Berne radio says it ia officially announced that foreign made balloons, to which a metal container holding inflammable liquid, ...
Article : 49 wordsWhite House discloses that the Russian Lend and Leace supplies sent in Mareh exceed by 250 percent, the deliveries made in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe French Ambassador (M. Marcel Peyrouton) has informed Marshal Petain by cable of his resignation following the appointment of Laval. ...
Article : 28 wordsA "Nichi Niehi" report says that the Japanese have landed on Slberu and Nias islands, off Western Sumatra, and began mopping up the enemy. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Tass Agency from Geneva says that the French-German agreement under which three French battleships and other warships will be placed ...
Article : 411 wordsThe United Press says that the Japanese Government broadcast a warning to the people to prepare for further attacks by the United Nations planes, ...
Article : 597 wordsIndications ara that the Chinese troops are to have a bigger role in the Burma campaign, while the United States will assume main retponsibility ...
Article : 405 wordsIt is officially stated that the new Cabinet comprises: M. Laval, Chief of the Government and Minister, for Foreign Affairs, ...
Article : 360 wordsInformation from every quarter agrees that the Germans have decided to concentrate the whole of their military might against Russia, to the ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Associated Press says it is learned authoritatively that raids against the Japanese were not made from Chinese bases. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Air Ministry states that in daylight yesterday, and in the evening, 12 Lancaster bombers took off for Augsburg. Their target was a machine ...
Article : 205 wordsAustralians and Dutch had fully agreed to General MacArthur's authority, said the United States War Secretary (Mr. Stimson). ...
Article : 162 wordsThe B.B.C. European service an nounced that Field-Marshal von Leeb has been relieved of his command. His successor will be General von ...
Article : 42 wordsProduction of many basic war materials had been impeded by cartel patent systems and Assistant AttorneyGeneral Thurman Arnold. He was ...
Article : 154 wordsFrench fighters went aloft when a British bomber on April 17 circled over Casablanca naval base and aerodrome. The bomber immediately flew off. ...
Article : 26 wordsA small force of Hurricane bombers, escorted by squadrons of fighters at tacked targets in Northern France this afternoon. ...
Article : 28 wordsTen United States generals and six Filipino generals are believed to have been captured by the Japanese at Batan. ...
Article : 351 wordsThe Australian Army reprcsentative in Washington (Lieut-General E K. Smart), Dr. H V. Evatt, and Australian staff of experts throughout the night discussed ...
Article : 58 wordsThe leader of the Yugoslav guerrillas (General Mikhallovitch) has appealed to Marshal Petain to Rive the signal awaited to all oppressed peoples of Europe from ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Chunking correspondent of the Associated Press says that the Formasan revolutionaries have sent a petition to the Chinese Government ...
Article : 55 wordsHow a woman worshipper saw in a vision the sacking of Rochester Cathedral 700 years ago is disclosed by the Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Chavasse). ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King) told the Canadian Prers in Washington that Canada has made no definite commitments to any ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Canadian Prime Minuter (Mr Mackenzie King) revealed in Washington that President Roosevelt may visit Ottawa within a few weeks, and ...
Article : 43 wordsAs from midnight on Saturday the Commonwealth has assigned to General MacArthur all sections of the Australien defence forces. This was ...
Article : 259 wordsThe life of the cartoonist, David Low, will be dramatised by the B B C. in a 30-minute broadcast next week. Two acton will impersonate Low, one ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo army deserters, James Testerman and Charles Lovett, have been convicted of first degree murder in closing G-man Jubert Treacy on ...
Article : 52 wordsLondon County Council votes for civil defence in 1942-43 total £14,307,000. A further £828,000 will be-devoted to capital expenditure, most of which is for ...
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