Extensive serial activity reported in the week-end included as the greatest since the war began. Some plants flew as far as eastern Germany and leaflets were dropped over Vienna and Prague. All the ...
Article : 836 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—Fighting is reported from all fronts in Finland, but no new major engagement has been announced. Russian aeroplanes bombed ...
Article : 983 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—The Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Anthony Eden) and the High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce), accompanied by Lord ...
Article : 464 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—Last night and Friday night were both quiet on the' western front, according to communiques issued in Paris, but early on Friday ...
Article : 309 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—Speaking at Glasgow today the Chancellor of the Ex-chequor (Sir John Simon) outlined the unprecedented sacrifices expected of the ...
Article : 604 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—There is news from both Holland and Belgium of further defensive measures taken in those countries. ...
Article : 513 wordsPARIS, Jan. 13.—A second-lieutenant and three sergeants piloted four French planes which engaged 12 Messerschmitts and brought down three of them. Flying ...
Article : 115 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Jan. 12.—The Foreign Office announced today that an inquiry had established that it was highly probable that the three bombs dropped on ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Jan. 12.—The first decorations for bravery in the field in the present war were announced today, with the award of the Military Cross to an ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—The aeronautical correspondent of "The Times" states that the German Press has published photographs of Royal Air Force four-gun ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 107 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 13.—Canadian war expenditure to December 31 was 46,192.000 dollars (about £10,265,000 at the current rate of exchange). The war ...
Article : 99 wordsIt was announced officially yesterday that British fighter patrols had shot down a Heinkel bomber off the south-east coast of Scotland, near the Firth of ...
Article : 418 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—A communique issued in Sofia today announces complete agreement between Turkey and Bulgaria concerning the maintenance of peace in ...
Article : 309 wordsPARIS, Jan. 13.—The Government is doubling the sales tax, making it 2 per cent, and is abolishing the patente tax. France's oldest tax, which has been ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14—Sir John Simon's speech, in which he called on the nation to take "drastic medicine" to save itself from the more unpleasant disease of ...
Article : 312 wordsPRETORIA, Jan. 13.—The Government is instituting export permits on Monday for all European countries excluding the United Kingdom, Eire, ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Jan. 12.—The Wave of arrests which started in Prague is spreading to the provinces in Bohemia and Moravia. The Gestapo arrested 688 ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—A new type of 3in. anti-aircraft shell developed in the United States has now been made available to France, according to aviation officials ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—The Leader of the Labour Party (Mr. C. R. Attlee), in a speech this afternoon, said that Nazism had no gospel except the worship of ...
Article : 328 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says it is reliably reported that 60 German pursuit planes have been ...
Article : 120 wordsTwo German planes on Thursday bombed and machine-gunned the British freighter Pitwines (932 tons) off the Yorkshire coast. Fifty bombs were ...
Article : 719 wordsCAIRO, Jan. 13.—It was learnt today that 51 Germans had been interned. A report yesterday stated that the police had arrested 27 Germans at Cairo and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Jan. 12.—In a statement issued today, the Parliamentary Under- Secretary to the Ministry of Supply (Lieut.-Col Liewellin) said that ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Jan. 12.—The first squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force ever to be recruited for active service abroad Is now being formed. It will ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that Coastal Command machines attacked three enemy destroyers off the Horn Reefs (25 miles off the coast of Jutland) last ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 432 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—France will permit the transit of arms and volunteer. to Finland from Italy and Spain. Some Spanish quarters have denied that ...
Article : 161 wordsZURICH, Jan. 12.—The "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" states that thousands of German Jews are being employed in order to make up the labour shortage. ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Jan. 12.—In a letter to the London Chamber of Commerce in reply to a request for guidance as to whether evacuated business staffs should return ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Jan. 14.—The Berlin radio announces that Germany's exports of motor cars to overseas countries have ceased "owing to the war." It is pointed ...
Article : 49 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—President Roosevelt has expressed the opinion that Democratic and Republican leaders should confer and agree on a ...
Article : 75 wordsGIBRALTAR, Jan. 13.—The Prize Court here has ordered the seizure of 90,000 feet of nickel tubing aboard the United States steamer Exiria (5,000 tons) ...
Article : 39 wordsPARIS, Jan. 13.--The police yesterday arrested 20 persons and accused them of forming a Communist clique in an important aviation factory at St. Denis. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Jan. 13.—Hundreds of civil servants employed at the Ministry of Health are refusing to go to Blackpool in accordance with evacuation ...
Article : 39 wordsBERNE, Jan. 13.—Switzerland has imposed a 30 per cent tax on war profits. plus 10 per cent on profits more than 25 per cent above the pre-war level. ...
Article : 65 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 13.—The United Press correspondent at Hong Kong says that the British authorities there have inaugurated a contraband control system. ...
Article : 44 wordsOSLO. Jan. 13.—Norway's defence estimates total £11,800.000 in a Budget of £48.700.000. The Government proposes to double the income lax and place a ...
Article : 39 wordsLUSAKA, Jan. 13.—Northern Rhodesia has offered 200.000 as a contribution to Britain's war effort. It will also train air pilots. ...
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