According to a direct cable message received from Reuter's correspondent in Hong Kong, fighting on the island continued to-day on the lines held yesterday, with local successes for the defending troops in the southern area. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe official Chinese spokesman to-day placed the Japanese army strength at 100 divisions, slightly more than 2,000,000 men. He said that short' ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Ministry for Supply says that a large number of Valentine and "Waltzing Matilda" tanks are participating in the vigorous Russian ...
Article : 143 wordsThe presence of a senior Australian Minister at Singapore Is becoming more Important daily as the war in Malaya moves slowly ...
Article : 451 words"The Times" Stockholm correspondent says that Russian progress towards relieving Leningrad became more apparent over the week-end; particularly along the Moscow-Leningrad railway, where the Russians have now regained the Chudovo ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Central News Agency reports that Chinese sentries sighted five escaped Japanese pilot prisoners on board a small sail-boat in the Min River, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Chungking radio says that American pilots downed three Japanese planes over Kunking, on the Burma Road. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Rand "Daily Mail" says the public is entitled, after reassurances, to expect that Hong Kong is capable of withstanding a long siege. "No doubt ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Imperial forces are pursuing the enemy in Libya at a real blitzkrieg rate, reports a Press correspondent with the Eighth Army. ...
Article : 385 wordsHitler's decision to remove Marshal Brau chi ts ch and himself take up supreme command of the army in the field caused a sensation in ...
Article : 479 wordsAn official statement from Washington says that President Roosevelt continued preliminary conferences for the joint planning of unity of action among ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "New York Times" Washington correspondent says that five subjects are reported at the top of the list at the forthcoming talks: Firstly, the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Domei news agency states that the Japanese are attacking Mt. Taping and Mt. Kili, the last British strongholds at Hong Kong. They also ...
Article : 71 wordsFollowing a meeting of the Emergency Connell and the State War Advisory Connell to-day, the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) announced ...
Article : 92 wordsA British fighter wing, controlling the operations of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian and South African Air Forces has ...
Article : 97 words"The Times" correspondent in Moscow says the Russians are using large forces of ski troops on deep raids through the forests to cut the German ...
Article : 229 wordsThe English and Australian public must be prepared for the announcement of further withdrawals by British forces holding the Perak-Kelantan ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Navy announced that two ships were attacked in the Eastern Pacific. The Lahaina was sunk, with two dead and two missing. The Samoa ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. E. L. Granville, in a speech in the House of Commons, said: "Why does Parliament adjourn for Christmas while Hong Kong and Malaya are fighting ...
Article : 69 words"The Times," in a leader, says all sections are of the opinion that Britain sympathises with the Australian proposal that the Commonwealth should ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Domei agency reported that peace and order has been restored in Guam. Amidst the Japanese activities against Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Tokio radio says the official spokesman (Mr. Hori) said to-day that Japan was conducting friendly negotiations with Russia. Mr. Hori did not ...
Article : 33 wordsPresident Roosevelt conferred with the Russian Ambassador (M. Litvinov), the Chinese Ambassador (Dr. Hu Shin), and the Dutch representative ...
Article : 81 wordsA Scottish trader named Read, who lived for many years on the Malayan, east coast, told the Associated Press representative an astonishing story of ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Tokio official radio says that the army and navy have announced that a large number of troops, supported by the Japanese navy, have been landing ...
Article : 87 wordsA Moscow communique to-night says: "We fought the enemy on all fronts to-day. There was fierce fighting on the Leningrad, central and ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Tass agency says: "Despite fierce resistance, we are pushing back ihe Germans in the Maloyaroslavets area, where the enemy has gathered his ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) said in a statement to-day: "After carefully weighing the evidence, I can now state that in the Atlantic ...
Article : 180 wordsHitler's order of the day included a lengthy passage referring to his own experiences in the last war, when he says he was wounded twice and even ...
Article : 223 wordsSweeping new measures to conserve stocks of rubber and all hard and soft fibres for the manufacture of rope, cordage, twine and string involving the ...
Article : 275 wordsA communique issued at 7.30 p.m. said: "There is nothing to report from the North Malaya fronts. There was some activity over Kuala Lumpur this ...
Article : 84 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" aeronautical writer says that reports reaching London indicate that the Germans are regrouping their main air forces. The ...
Article : 139 wordsIn a sump pit at the fellmongery works of G. H. Mitchell and Sons Ltd., Hindmarsh, to-day three men were drowned after having been overcome ...
Article : 214 wordsA General Headquarters communique says: "By Sunday evening our mobile columns which had advanced through and south of Jebel el Akhdar were ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the "scorched earth" policy was carried out in Penang before the evacuation. The power station and the Penang tin ...
Article : 36 wordsUnited States war communiques from Washington state that heavy fighting is in progress on the Lingayen Gulf, 150 miles north of Manila, where ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Berlin radio says Marshal Brauchitsch, in an order of the day to the troops, said that recently he had asked Hitler to relieve him of his ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is officially stated that it is reliably reported that in a recent bombing the Japanese used a type of aircraft similar to the Stuka dive-bomber. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Tokio official radio quoted a Domei agency dispatch from Bangkok, which stated that Sir Ism al Almarhum, Sultan of Kelantan, had returned to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Federal Executive Council tonight passed regulations conferring upon State Governments unrestricted powers to regulate or prohibit race ...
Article : 122 wordsA War Department communique says that in the Manila theatre two Japanese landing attempts made at Lingayen Gulf, and at Santa and ...
Article : 85 wordsThe wholesale and retail prices of cold and pasturised milk will be increased by one half-penny a quart in Brisbane from January 1, but warm ...
Article : 63 wordsThe "Daily Mail," in a leader, says: "The more we read of Malaya the greater must be our uneasiness. It is a serial story of inexcusable slackness, ...
Article : 104 wordsAll camouflage nets for defence purposes were being made by volunteer organisations and will become the property of the army, said Professor ...
Article : 102 wordsConferences held by the Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin), with other Ministers and the chairman of the Australian Shipping Board, reveal that ...
Article : 99 wordsThree planes this morning bombed the Nichols field, and a second group of six planes bombed Cavite and dropped leaflets over South Manila. ...
Article : 73 wordsA Manila newspaper reports the sinking; of three Japanese transports ont of the armada of 80 ships that brought Japanese troops to the ...
Article : 152 words"Nichi Nichi" reports that 713 British soldiers, mostly Canadians, were captured on Hong Kong island to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsChristmas this year gives the Australian forces in the Middle East a welcome if unexpected opportunity for celebration. The Australian troops in ...
Article : 136 wordsA message received in London from the Governor of Hong Kong (Sir Mark Young) to-day quotes a communique issued in Hong Kong early on ...
Article : 171 wordsA Manila bulletin reported to-day that four Philippine merchantmen, totalling 13,188 tons, had been sunk, and two others were missing, in the ...
Article : 35 wordsAlthough the ban will operate from New Year's Day the Queensland Turf Club's meeting for that day will not be affected. Coursing meetings in ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Manila correspondent of the Associated Press says it is officially announced that American and Filipino troops are more than holding their own ...
Article : 228 wordsPetrol ration tickets stolen from fuel delivery waggons had been bleached to remove the cancellation marks and uced again, stated the Chairman of the Fuel ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is officially announced that New Zealand troops are no longer engaged in the Imperial advance in the Western Desert. ...
Article : 33 wordsRecruiting for both the A.I.F. and Air Force declined to-day, but the Navy figures were slightly higher. Sixty-two offered for the A.I.F., and 46 were ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Dutch Government in London has declared war against Italy on the ground that Italy is allied with HoIland's enemies—Germany and Japan. ...
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