Russia has suffered yet another severe reverse on the eastern front in Finland with the failure of the new drive westward from Salla towards the Gulf of Bothnia, the object of which was to sever Finland's land supply lines from Sweden. ...
Article : 937 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—There is evidence of heightening anxiety over the future of the Danubian area of South-Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This new ...
Article : 599 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—It is now officially announced that the scene of the terrific explosions north of London this morning was the Royal Gunpowder Factory at ...
Article : 428 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Jan. 18.—In a statement today on the British Government's reply to the protest the Pan-American countries made late last month to ...
Article : 598 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—Reports from Tondern, in Denmark, close to the German frontier, stated last night that a major air battle had begun over the German ...
Article : 363 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—It is now revealed that the tanker that sank in flames off the south-west coast on Tuesday was the 10,000-ton British vessel Inverdargle. The ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—The bitter winter weather brought new miseries throughout Europe today. Soldiers on the west front and the citizens of Paris shivered in ...
Article : 403 wordsBERLIN, Jan 18.—It is officially announced that four officers and 26 men have been saved from the British submarines Undine and Starfish which, with ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—Treatment reminiscent of the slaveship days was meted out to British merchant seamen kept prisoner aboard an unnamed tanker which ...
Article : 386 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—A communique issued by the Berlin High Command to-day stated: "Enemy aircraft flew over north-west Germany last night, flying ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—The French Minister for Armament (M. Raoul Dautry) has been in London for consultations with the Ministry of Supply, and today he ...
Article : 389 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—In an accident involving special equipment (the details of which are secret) three men of the Queen's Royal Regiment were killed and ...
Article : 40 wordsOSLO, Jan. 19.—Speaking at a banquet at the Royal Palace in connection with the opening of Parliament today, King Haakon said that, fortunately, Norway ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—In a speech to the Overseas League today the Air Minister (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that the Empire air scheme in Canada would ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—The over-optimistic tendency to enlarge on reports of dissension between the German leaders has been newly encouraged by what ...
Article : 321 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—A further move in the growing Congress agitation to sever diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet is seen in ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—The Air Ministry states in a newsletter that the fighting power of British bombers has astonished neutral observers even more than the ...
Article : 140 wordsTORONTO, Jan. 18.—The Ontario Legislature today passed by 44 votes to 10 a motion by the Premier (Mr. M. F. Hepburn) condemnatory of the Canadian ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—Germany's trade with south-eastern Europe continues to decrease as the war and the blockade affect the neutral lebensraum (living ...
Article : 485 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that since the outbreak of European hostilities Russia has obtained ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON; Jan. 18.—The sinking of unexploded mines by rifle fire was the subject of a question in the House of Commons today. It was suggested that the ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—It is officially announced that aircraft of the Coastal Command are meeting all troopships from Australia and Canada while the vessels ...
Article : 164 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 18.—It is officially stated that 300,000 Polish prisoners of war are working on German farms and in German industry, and that an additional ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—There has been a further easing of tension in the Low Countries with the announcement today in Brussels that leave for the Belgian ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—Britain has mobilised a huge army of scientists behind her fighting forces, the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (Lord Chatfield) ...
Article : 249 wordsPARIS, Jan. 19.—It is reported that Uruguay in a Note has requested Germany to remove the wreckage of the Admiral Graf Spee as a danger to shipping. ...
Article : 60 wordsBERNE, Jan. 18.—The Swiss military authorities have asked the governments of cantons in the frontier zones to cancel licences for inns and restaurants held by ...
Article : 39 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 18.—It was officially denied today that Allied cruisers were lying off the Golden Gate (San Francisco). ...
Article : 118 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Mr. Herbert Hoover, the former President, who is heading a Red Cross drive, said today that efforts to forestall the indicated ...
Article : 398 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 19.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) announced to-day that he would reply to the motion carried by the Ontario Legislature in the ...
Article : 35 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 18.—Canada's first war loan of 200,000,000 dollars (about £44,500,000 sterling at the current rate of exchange) has been 25 per cent ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—The Amsterdam correspondent of the British United Press states that the United Dutch Shipping Co. intends to suspend its services to ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—Mr. J. McGovern, M.P. (Labour) hinted today that conscientious objectors were organising a mass refusal to appear before objectors' ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—On the western front a German attack on a French outpost in the Vosges was repulsed yesterday and a few German prisoners were taken. ...
Article : 148 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 19.—The Department of Air announced today that it is seeking applications which will close in Melbourne on February 9 for a number ...
Article : 166 wordsPARIS, Jan. 18.—The new British Ambassador (Sir Ronald Campbell), in his first public speech in France today, paid a tribute to the swiftness with which the ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—Balloon barrages now protect strategic centres from Scotland to Lands End over the sea, additional to those on land. The new mobile ...
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