NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—According to reports from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) the German freighter Wakama, of 3,771 tons, which sailed from that port at midnight ...
Article : 571 wordsWith increasingly heavy artillery bombardment the Russian forces on the Karelian Isthmus in Southern Finland are maintaining the pressure of the offensive against the Mannerheim Line. The are reported to be using about 50,000 troops on the eight-mile front In ...
Article : 941 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—A new movement of German troops in Bohemia and Moravia towards Slovakia, with considerable military activity in Prague, is reported ...
Article : 384 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—Indications are growing that a need is being increasingly felt in Germany to justify to the German people the indiscriminate sinking of ...
Article : 439 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—The Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Mail" quotes reports from Tallinn (the capital of Estonia) that Russia is demanding ...
Article : 199 wordsDisembarking in the early hears of yesterday morning at Kantara, on the Suez Canal, the first contingent of the Second A.I.F. entrained for Palestine, where the troops will undergo further training. The vanguard entered a prepared camp in the Jaffa area later in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 900 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—This morning's French communique said that there was "nothing to report" on the western front. Last night's communique was similarly ...
Article : 206 wordsSUEZ, Feb. 13.—The first of the New Zealand troops, who disembarked at Sues yesterday, reached their training camp, also in the Middle East, late yesterday ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—The Berlin correspondent of the Amsterdam newspaper "Telegraaf" reports that the new and extensive trade agreement between Germany ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 264 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—Four more neutral ships have fallen victims to Germany's sea warfare. They are the Norwegian steamers Nederholm and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 318 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—Major-General Freyberg (Commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force) has cabled to the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON. Feb. 12.—Ice stretching from the Arctic to the Black Sea and westward to Holland has already caused hundreds of deaths is Europe and the ...
Article : 456 wordsAMSTERDAM, Feb. 13.—It is reported that German troops in the Rheydt districts behind the western front sabotaged an armoured train when front sabotaged ...
Article : 172 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Feb. 13.—The newspapers are publishing dispatches from Berlin stating that German political circles "feel deep indignation that the ...
Article : 93 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 13.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) today sent a cablegram to the Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Anthony Eden) ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—The Dominions Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) left Ismailia yesterday for Cairo, Where King Farouk will receive him today. ...
Article : 37 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 13.—The suggestion by the League of Nations that member countries should arrange to supply essential commodities to Finland while the ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—The squadron formed from the gift of £100,000 to the Air Ministry by the Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar is the first of ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.-English newspapers give great prominence to the arrival of Australian and New Zealand forces in Egypt. The word "Anzacs" ...
Article : 467 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The Director of Public Relations at the War Office (Major-General J. H. Beith), in a letter to "The Times" in reply to the advocacy ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press reports that Italy is hurriedly fortifying her frontiers with Germany and Yugoslavia, ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—Two German planes were sighted over the outer fringe of the Orkneys yesterday afternoon, but no bombs were dropped. ...
Article : 25 wordsAMSTERDAM. Feb. 12.—Holland is seething with anger over the torpedoing of the Dutch steamer Burgerdijk (6,857 tons) in the English Channel off the ...
Article : 161 wordsPALM BEACH (Florida), Feb. 12.—The United States Ambassador to Great Britain (Mr. Joseph Kennedy), who is preparing to return to London, said today ...
Article : 43 wordsHELSINKI, Feb. 13.—A Finnish patrol consisting of a sergeant and two men, missing for ten days, returned to their base yesterday with 19 prisoners. The ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The text of the agreement respecting trade and payments made between the British and Turkish Governments was published today. ...
Article : 332 wordsLONDON, Feb. 13.—By firing coloured lights a Royal Air Force plane from the Coastal Command last night guided a minesweeper to an open boat in which ...
Article : 98 wordsBERLIN. Feb. 12.—Herr Fritz Thyssen, the German industrial magnate and former supporter of the Nazis. who recently fled to Switzerland, has been deprived of ...
Article : 38 wordsPARIS, Feb. 13.—The view is firmly held by certain members of the Chamber of Deputies that Britain and France will commit a grave error if they do ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 441 wordsWASHINGTON. Feb. 13.—The United Press learns that the Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) has informed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON. Feb. 12.—Two further examples of the generosity of the colonial empire to the mother country come from Cyprus and the Bahamas. A contribution ...
Article : 121 wordsPARIS, Feb. 13.—The French police have arrested 23 more Communists. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 14 Feb 1940, Page 13
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