LONDON, Feb. 19.—Conflicting Russian and Finnish claims obscure the position on the Karelian Isthmus (in southern Finland), where the Red Army ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 794 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The Admiralty announced with regret today that the British destroyer Daring bad been torpedoed and sunk. One officer and four ...
Article : 734 wordsThe liberation in Norwegian waters by a British destroyer of between 300 to 400 British seamen aboard the German tanker Altmarck, supply and prison ship to the Admiral Graf Spee, which elicited a German protest to Norway and a Norwegian protest to ...
Article : 754 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 19.—It was learnt today that Great Britain's first contribution of training aircraft to Australia for the instruction of recruits under the Empire ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—On the western front last night a French detachment fell into an ambush and sustained losses. This is mentioned in this morning's ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—One hundred and fifty of the seamen rescued from the Altmarck left Leith hospitals yesterday afternoon. Most of them took trains from ...
Article : 929 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The German radio and Press continue to rail against Britain for her action in liberating the Altmarck's prisoners. It is suggested that reprisal ...
Article : 455 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The Dominions Secretary (Mr. Eden) returned to England by air today, after a visit to Egypt and Palestine and, on his return journey, ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 19.—A sweeping inquiry into the operation of the Ordnance section of the Australian Military Forces in relation to the supply of uniforms and ...
Article : 384 wordsLONDON, Feb. 18.—The world's biggest A.R.P. test so far has been carried out in London regional areas. It engaged 60,000 workers. Explosives ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—Lieut.-Commander R. Fletcher (Labour) and Mr. G. Mander (Liberal) are raising in the House of Commons the question of the censoring ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The convoy system is used by most Norwegian ships trading with Britain, but this has not greatly reduced the losses. Sweden leaves ...
Article : 167 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Export licenses for war materials issued in January totalled 86,070,000 dollars (about £21,517,500 sterling at the current rate ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Feb. 18.—Considerable surprise is felt in informed London quarters over the German claim that the Altmarck was an "unarmed merchant ship." While ...
Article : 586 wordsNEW WORK, Feb. 18.—To make a personal survey of conditions in Italy, Germany, Britain and France, on which he will report to President Roosevelt, the ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, Feb. 18.—In Britain's Note protesting to the Norwegian Government against the perfunctory methods of search employed in the Altmarck case; ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,142 wordsPARIS, Feb. 19.—The latest Polish victims of German brutality are Professor Chrzanowski (74), formerly of Craoow University, who was done to ...
Article : 67 wordsGENEVA, Feb. 19.—The "Journal de Geneve" says that Germany is turning out two submarines every three days and preparing a fleet of 200 U-boats for ...
Article : 40 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Pittman), in a broadcast today, said that it might become ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON. Feb. 18.—Germany has officially informed Sweden and Norway that she would regard as a breach of their neutrality any aid they might give to ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says the sharp advances in United States shipments since the war to ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 19.—While the State Department declines to comment on the Altmarck case, as American interests are not involved, all unofficial ...
Article : 274 wordsLONDON, Feb. 18.—A Garibaldean Legion of 10,000 French Italians will leave shortly for Finland under Camillo Marabini, president of the Garibaldeans, who ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr. W. J. Jordan), in a letter to Dr. Benes (the former President of Czechoslovakia). says ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsKALGOORLIE, Feb. 19.—Mrs. A. Adamson, of Victoria-street. Kalgoorlie, today received a cable message from Scotland that her son, Mr. Leslie ...
Article : 102 wordsBELEM (Brazil), Feb. 18.—Escorted by a Brazilian gunboat, the German freighter Konigsberg (6,466 tons) returned to port yesterday. The vessel, which had ...
Article : 58 wordsPARIS, Feb. 19.—"The truth is," says "Le Journal," commenting on the Altmarck case, "that British seamen boarded and took a floating concentration camp ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—The Norwegian Cabinet, a message from Oslo states, conferred today with the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and ...
Article : 378 wordsBRUSSELS, Feb. 18.—A congress of ex-combatants today carried a resolution in favour of granting help to Finland. ...
Article : 20 wordsT0KIO, Feb. 19.—The Japanese vessel Ryushin Maru has sent a radio message to her owners stating that she is returning to Japan after having been ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.—Sir Charles Cayzer. who had represented the City of Chester in the House of Commons as a Conservative since 1922, and his butler. ...
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