The Air Ministry announced that the R.A.F. reconnoitred Northern Italy last night and bombed certain military objectives. It is officially stated that a flight of South Africa's heavy bombers from Kenya visited Italian Moyale and successfully and heavily bombed Banda Hill and other military objectives. All returned safely. ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. A. G. Cameron) to-day announced that the Italian liner Romolo had been intercepted at se[?] by an ...
Article : 453 wordsR.A.F. bomber squadrons yesterday and last night maintained vigorous assaults on enemy positions from the Channel to the ...
Article : 445 wordsGermany to-day has reached the peak of her drive in an increasingly desperate gamble for victory, according to French military circles. It is said that 100 German divisions have been pressed into the blazing onslaught against the French ...
Article : 253 wordsTo-night's French communique says: The battle to-day attained its greatest violence on the whole front. It is evident that the enemy is ...
Article : 372 wordsItaly's first war communique states: "At midnight on Monday a pre-arranged disposition of our land, sea and air forcees was carried out in perfect ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the Central Court two naturalised Italians—G. Alterio and V. Marturano—were each fined £50 or 100 days for having unlicensed pistols. ...
Article : 30 wordsNine hundred Italians were arrested last night. All others must report to the police. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe smoke cloud over Paris bega[?] to clear about noon and the sun shon[?] feebly. It is unofficially suggested that the authorities laid the ...
Article : 273 wordsIt is officially stated that R.A.F. coastal command planes in the afternoon successfully attacked enemy naval forces in Trondheim harbour. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Mr. C. R. Attlee) told the House of Commons to-day that 14 Italian ships had been seized already. Three had been ...
Article : 645 wordsThe Istanbul correspondent of the British United Press advises that usually reliable circles say that the Turkish fleet is steaming ...
Article : 422 wordsBehind the shuttered windows of the Italian Embassy the Ambassador (Signor Baslianini), his wife and four children and the Consular staff are ...
Article : 422 wordsSearchlights picked up an enemy aeroplane off the south-east coast early this morning. Anti-aircraft guns went into action, after which the plane ...
Article : 38 wordsShipbuilding yards in four States, including Queensland, will build thirteen high speed patrol vessels for Britain as an urgent war measure. ...
Article : 178 wordsThe city, sleeping for the first night under the shadow of war, sprang to life at 2 a.m. when motorised columns of Egyptian troops, tanks, and ...
Article : 124 wordsViolent riots accompanied the round-up of Italians throughout Britain late last night. Anti-Italian demonstrations are occurring, notably in the ...
Article : 228 wordsThe official news agency claims that German patrols reached points 37½ miles to the north-west and north-east of Paris. These forces are cutting off ...
Article : 326 wordsThis map shows the territories in Northern Africa and the Near East possessed by Great Britain, France and Italy, now the scene, of conflict. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsThe German news agency says that a violent encounter occurred last night between German torpedo motor boats and British destroyers during German ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Admiralty announces: "The German official news agency report that violent encounters took place last night off the east coast of England ...
Article : 94 wordsThe House of Representatives' Appropriations' Committee submitted a report for a £341,200,000 supplementary Defence Bill, with funds to ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Board of Trade will remove, from June 14, the pegged minimum prices on grain futures trading. This will facilitate the marketing of the ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 13 Jun 1940, Page 7
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