Regardless of the cost, the Russians continued throughout Friday and Saturday the fierce offensive against the Mannerheim Line, in southern Finland, that began on February 1. Planes, tanks, guns and infantry were used in large numbers. ...
Article : 861 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—In a speech at Bristol today the Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood) revealed that the British output of aircraft had doubled in a year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 245 wordsPARIS, Feb. 11.—The secret session held by the Chamber of Deputies, which began on Friday, closed yesterday, after which the Chamber publicly expressed ...
Article : 363 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Two important announcements were made in Washington on Friday. One was that the Under- Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 633 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—It was officially announced last night that a British destroyer had sunk two U-boats which had attacked a convoy. "It is not the ...
Article : 281 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—One German air raider was brought down and two others are believed to have been seriously damaged when Nazi planes launched a fresh ...
Article : 999 wordsLONDON, Feb. 9.—Tension in the Balkans has been heightened by the action of the Turkish Government [reported in "The West Australian" on ...
Article : 697 wordsLONDON. Feb. 10.—"We got bumped off in Heligoland Bight, but the crew was saved," reads a postcard which has been received by a brother to a survivor of ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—The Paris correspondent of the "Sunday Times" says it is felt there that the result of the secret session of the Chamber of Deputies, the ...
Article : 67 wordsTHE HAGUE, Feb. 11.—It is revealed that at the meeting last week of representatives of ten nations to form a committee under the League of Nations to ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—The Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the United Press says that the German freighter Uruguay (5,846 tons) at Pernambuco and the ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Feb. 9.—Frank comments on the air war during the last month are offered by an anonymous contributor to the monthly entitled "Fighting Services," ...
Article : 218 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Speaking at Sheffield today, Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P. (who was Minister for Transport in the Labour Government from 1929 to 1931), ...
Article : 364 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Minister of Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) stated yesterday that United States officials were co-operating with the Norddeutscher ...
Article : 170 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—President Roosevelt, addressing the American Youth Congress today, said that the Russian dictatorship was as absolute as any ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON. Feb. 11.—A communique issued in Paris on Friday night stated that between the Moselle and the Saar artillery fire had been markedly more ...
Article : 343 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—General Weygand (Commander of the French forces in the Middle East), who is on a visit to Egypt to confer with Lieut.-General Sir ...
Article : 375 wordsWASHINGTON. Feb. 11.—The Maritime Commission has approved the transfer of ten United States freighters of a total of 60,000 tons, to British and French ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Feb. 9.—Giving to journalists today impressions of his recent visit to Finland, Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—The British merchant ship Oregon (6,000 tons), which the Germans claimed to have sunk on February 2, was towed into the river ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Speaking at Bristol today on the course of the war, the Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood) said: "Never in any great conflict in ...
Article : 524 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—A British Official Wireless bulletin issued on Friday night said:—"Official circles here learnt with satisfaction of the forthcoming visit to ...
Article : 556 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—The German wireless claims that a U-boat has returned home after sinking 38,000 tons of enemy shipping. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—Although comparatively few foreign volunteers are actually serving in the front line in Finland, apart from Swedes, the numbers ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 393 wordsLONDON. Feb. 10.—For five minutes today a south-east coastal town trembled as if shaken by an earthquake when coastguards exploded by rifle fire two ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—In the course of a speech at Bristol yesterday the Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood) said: "Between the Thames and north-east ...
Article : 170 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 11.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that a rising trend in Russian imports from the United States ...
Article : 92 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Feb. 11.—The police arrested 200 leading Communists in a series of raids yesterday in Stockholm, Boden, Goteberg, Malmo and other cities ...
Article : 210 wordsSOFIA, Feb. 10.—The Bulgarian Minister for Trade (M. Zagoroff) has gone to Belgrade with a strong economic delegation. ...
Article : 20 wordsTHE HAGUE, Feb. 11.—The Dutch Government has decided to introduce a Bill for the construction of three battle- cruisers. ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON. Feb. 9.—Representatives of Australia and France attended a ceremony at the Eltham memorial to men of the British 29th Division today, when ...
Article : 99 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 11.—Bohemia and Moravia will be incorporated in the Reich Customs union on April 1. The Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10—It is authoritatively stated that the odds against a merchant vessel being sunk while in convoy are 500 to 1. ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON. Feb. 10.—The Prague correspondent of the Associated Press says it is reliably reported that the German authorities have placed in protective ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—A Copenhagen message states that Danish frontier guards saw a foreign plane drop four bombs on the German island of Sylt (in ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—A new edition of the German Foreign Office publication entitled "Polish Atrocities against Germans in Poland" alleges that the Poles ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON. Feb. 10.—The Dutch steamer Burgerdijk (6,857 tons) has wirelessed that she is sinking off the south-west coast after a collision. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—The London Trades Council has passed a resolution protesting against the French Government's action in imprisoning the Communistic secretary ...
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