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  2. COSTLY AIR RAIDS.

    The Air Ministry states that the Fighter Command in 1940 destroyed 3090 planes in the defence of Britain, in the protection of ...

    Article : 149 words
  3. BRITISH PATROL NEAR TOBRUK

    A 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 words
  4. EIRE'S PROBLEMS.

    The "Daily Mail's" Dublin correspondent says that Eire's Department for Supplies is appealing to Britain to help Southern Ireland solve the ...

    Article : 152 words
  5. ADVANCE QUICKENS.

    According to the latest reports from the Alb[?] fr[?] the Greeks accelerated their advance during an improvement of the ...

    Article : 250 words
  6. BROADCAST BY GENERAL SMUTS

    The 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 words
  7. FIRST BOMB OF 1941.

    The first bomb of 1941 crashed on London early this morning. Heavy high explosives shook ene business district. The readers were ...

    Article : 423 words
  8. NEW BRITISH PLANES.

    The Air Ministry, while not prepared either to deny or to confirm the statements, permits the publication of the descriptions of new ...

    Article : 254 words
  9. DAYLIGHT RAIDS.

    Yesterday's daylight raids, in which only two British bombers were lost, were made by a small force of Blenhelm aircraft of the ...

    Article : 331 words
  10. LACK OF DECISION.

    The 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
  11. DEFEAT INVASION PLAN.

    "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 words
  12. INTENTION TO MAKE STAND.

    Many captured Italian officers declared that Marshal Graziani intends to make a big stand at Tobruk. Therefore, Bardia was thrown to the wolves." ...

    Article : 246 words
  13. NETHERLANDS GIFTS

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) has received from Prince Bernard and the Netherlands. £1000 subscribed by the ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. HOUR IS NEAR.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King), in a broadcast, said 1941 would be crucial and there was a possibility it might see the ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. NOTHING TO REPOR[?]

    An 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 words
  16. WAR EVENTS.

    A Naval Spokesman said to-day: The enemy has been making stron[?] efforts to close the entrance to our harbours by using minelaying ...

    Article : 611 words
  17. HITLER'S HARANGUE.

    Hitler 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 words
  18. FRENCH SHIPS.

    Coinciding with an unconfirmed report from Lisbon (Portugal) that negotiations between the Vichy Government and Germany had been broken ...

    Article : 238 words
  19. FIRST AUSTRALIAN.

    The 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 words
  20. DOMINION ARMIES.

    A su[?]plement to the Army Survey includes reference to the Australian and New Zealand war effort. [?] Australians fighting in the Western Desert, ...

    Article : 113 words
  21. ASSAULT ON BARDIA BEGUN.

    Reports from several reliable quarters indicate that the Imperial Army of the Nile's assanlt on Bardia has begun after careful preparation ...

    Article : 294 words
  22. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.

    British bombers made concentrated attack on Bremen last night High explosives and a very large number of incendiaries were dropped. The raid ...

    Article : 73 words
  23. NEW YEAR HONOURS.

    A 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 words
  24. MONETARY POWERS.

    The 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 words
  25. BOMBS NEAR DUBLIN.

    A Dublin message reports that an unidentified plane dropped several bomb[?] between Drogheds (Julianstiwn county) and Meath, 30 miles north of Dublin, ...

    Article : 54 words
  26. FURTHER DAMAGE.

    Two high explosives crashed on areas previously struck, and caused casualties and considerable damage, especially in one sector which had already suffered ...

    Article : 116 words
  27. GERMAN REACTION.

    "The Times" representative on the German frontier says that Hitler and von Ribbentrop have been in almost continuous conference since receiving ...

    Article : 168 words
  28. LONDON'S LORD MAYOR

    The 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 words
  29. MERCANTILE MARINE.

    Paying 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 words
  30. OFFICIAL REPORT.

    The 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 words
  31. EVERY BRITISH EMPIRE MAN WILL FIGHT

    Into 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 words
  32. PORTER MURDERED.

    Struck 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 words
  33. TIGHTEN BELTS.

    The 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
  34. STOP PRESS!

    [?]ers to-day heard a new kind of noise. It was the [?] of dynamite used by Royal Engineers who were clearing away ...

    Article : 108 words
  35. AMERICA WARNED.

    Comment on President R[?] speech in which he pro[?] aid for Britsi[?]) in every Italian paper [?] the same sentence: "Our pati[?] [?] ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. AMERICAN WINS.

    The King, on the recommendation of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has approved of the award of the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture ...

    Article : 42 words
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