The Air Ministry states that the Fighter Command in 1940 destroyed 3090 planes in the defence of Britain, in the protection of ...
Article : 149 wordsA British, armoured patrol which penetrated a few miles to the south of the Italian base at 'Tobruk (60 miles west of Bardia) spe[?]t the day observing the enemy's defences, says the British United Press correspondent with the army in ...
Article : 332 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" Dublin correspondent says that Eire's Department for Supplies is appealing to Britain to help Southern Ireland solve the ...
Article : 152 wordsAccording to the latest reports from the Alb[?] fr[?] the Greeks accelerated their advance during an improvement of the ...
Article : 250 wordsThe South African Prime Minister (General Smuts) in a broadcast said: "The year, despite black beginnings, ends on a cheerful note and, as far as Mussolini is concerned, even on a comic note. One of two Powers in the Axis is a very sick man, ...
Article : 294 wordsThe first bomb of 1941 crashed on London early this morning. Heavy high explosives shook ene business district. The readers were ...
Article : 423 wordsThe Air Ministry, while not prepared either to deny or to confirm the statements, permits the publication of the descriptions of new ...
Article : 254 wordsYesterday's daylight raids, in which only two British bombers were lost, were made by a small force of Blenhelm aircraft of the ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Italian High Command in Albania has betrayed lack of decision by suddenly switching most of its Albanian Air Force to Libya, says the Athena correspondent ...
Article : 264 words"While other moves will have to be carefully prepared against, the defeat of Hitler on the invasion of Britain must therefore be, and remain, the pivot of ...
Article : 522 wordsMany captured Italian officers declared that Marshal Graziani intends to make a big stand at Tobruk. Therefore, Bardia was thrown to the wolves." ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) has received from Prince Bernard and the Netherlands. £1000 subscribed by the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King), in a broadcast, said 1941 would be crucial and there was a possibility it might see the ...
Article : 150 wordsAn Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique dealing with to-day's enemy air activity over Britain states: "There is nothing to report." ...
Article : 272 wordsA Naval Spokesman said to-day: The enemy has been making stron[?] efforts to close the entrance to our harbours by using minelaying ...
Article : 611 wordsHitler in his lengthy proclamation to the Nazi Party, began as usual with pre-war grievances, complaints that the enemies of the Reich sought to ...
Article : 381 wordsCoinciding with an unconfirmed report from Lisbon (Portugal) that negotiations between the Vichy Government and Germany had been broken ...
Article : 238 wordsThe first Australian to be wounded in the Western Desert battle was Trooper W. J. Tope, of Foster, Victoria. Tope was a member of the ...
Article : 79 wordsA su[?]plement to the Army Survey includes reference to the Australian and New Zealand war effort. [?] Australians fighting in the Western Desert, ...
Article : 113 wordsReports from several reliable quarters indicate that the Imperial Army of the Nile's assanlt on Bardia has begun after careful preparation ...
Article : 294 wordsBritish bombers made concentrated attack on Bremen last night High explosives and a very large number of incendiaries were dropped. The raid ...
Article : 73 wordsA Queenslander and men from other Australian States are among the Royal Air Force men who have received honours in the New Year list. They ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Federal Reserve Board's special report submitted to Congress for the first time in history, asked for drastically increased monetary powers at the expense ...
Article : 108 wordsA Dublin message reports that an unidentified plane dropped several bomb[?] between Drogheds (Julianstiwn county) and Meath, 30 miles north of Dublin, ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo high explosives crashed on areas previously struck, and caused casualties and considerable damage, especially in one sector which had already suffered ...
Article : 116 words"The Times" representative on the German frontier says that Hitler and von Ribbentrop have been in almost continuous conference since receiving ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London "gladly accepted" the honour of becoming an honorary citizen of Megora, Greecethe land of Euclid—bestowed on him in ...
Article : 80 wordsPaying a warm tribute to the part being played by the Empire mercantile marine towards the ultimate victory of the Empire in the war, the Navy ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Air Ministry states that several enemy planes were active over widely separated districts of England and Wales last night. A few bombs were ...
Article : 63 wordsInto the breech of a light field [?] goes a shell as Australian troops finish their training in Britain Commonwealth Department of Information Photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsStruck a terrible blow on the hack of the head. Eric Ro[?] Robinson (26), railway porter, was murdered in the signal box at Moonah railway station, near ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Minister for Food (Lord Woolton), in the course of a speech yesterday, said that the enemy was directly attacking our food ships, sinking quite a number, ...
Article : 106 words[?]ers to-day heard a new kind of noise. It was the [?] of dynamite used by Royal Engineers who were clearing away ...
Article : 108 wordsComment on President R[?] speech in which he pro[?] aid for Britsi[?]) in every Italian paper [?] the same sentence: "Our pati[?] [?] ...
Article : 59 wordsThe King, on the recommendation of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has approved of the award of the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 3 Jan 1941, Page 5
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