LONDON, Sept. 16.—A communique issued from the British military headquarters in Cairo shortly before midnight last night stated that the Italians, on ...
Article : 616 wordsThe Royal Air Force gained its greatest victory so far on Sunday, when it repelled with enormous losses attempts by German formations totalling about 400 planes to attack London in daylight. Few raiders penetrated to the capital and their bombs caused only a small number of casulaties. ...
Article : 1,253 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—Continuing its heavy offensive operations on Saturday night, the Royal Air Force "systematically sought out and broke up the ...
Article : 653 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—The German long-range guns on the French coast began shelling the Dover area at 11 o'clock this morning. The bombardment ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—General de Gaulle (the leader of free Frenchmen), like high British authorities, regards the Battle of London as merely a phase of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 568 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—The huge time-bomb which was dropped by the Germans near St. Paul's Cathedral last Thursday has been removed by experts at the risk ...
Article : 360 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Sept. 15.—The Oslo correspondent of the "Dagens Nyheter" says that Germany has created a vast military zone on the south-west coast of ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—An Admiralty communique states that two mine-sweeping trawlers. Libra and Conquistador, destroyed an enemy aircraft by gunfire ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—Both in the Press and among the general public the latest phase in the Battle for Britain—the savage attack on the people of London—is ...
Article : 528 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—A German raider again attacked Buckingham Palace at noon today, but there were no casualties. It is officially stated that the ...
Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 16.—The Sydney City Council today unanimously approved a motion by the Lord Mayor (Alderman S. Crick) that he should send to the King ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—Interviewed today by the Australian Associated Press, Major-General Sir Charles Gwynn, the well-known commentator said:—"The ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Sept. 10.—In the nine days beginning last Saturday week when they began the bombardment of London the Germans have lost 465 planes and, it is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 137 wordsLondon had five air raid alarms yesterday. The fifth warning sounded at 8.15 p.m. and the all-clear did not come until 5.34 o'clock this morning. An Air ...
Article : 340 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—Berlin had an airraid alarm from 11.28 to 11.57 last night, and a second one shortly after midnight. A Berlin message claims that ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—"The Times" publishes a report from Berlin stating that foreign correspondents have been informed that tours of inspection of ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—The following communique was issued today by the Berlin High Command:—"Reprisals on London were continued during the ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—According to a message from Rome, Signor Farinacci, the director of the newspaper "Regime Fascista," states in an article:—"In the ...
Article : 53 wordsCAIRO, Sept. 15.—The Commander-in-Chief of the British Air Forces in the Middle East (Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore) today inspected a squadron ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 227 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—Londoners, in their keen observation of every turn and development in the air war on their city, have discerned an increasing enemy ...
Article : 431 wordsJERSEY CITY, Sept. 13.—Dr. Charles F. Bove, head surgeon of the American Hospital in Paris, who has arrived from Europe in the liner Excambion, states ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—It is revealed that at St. Thomas's Hospital (where Nurse Barbara Mortimer Thomas, formerly of Sydney, lost her life) four of ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—A 26-year-old woman showed amazing fortitude when, with both legs and both arms fractured, she was pinned for 7½ hours yesterday ...
Article : 66 wordsThere were two raid alarms in London this morning and two more in the early afternoon. The first, at 10 o'clock, lasted a little over half an hour. The next, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 149 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The President of Yale University (Mr. Charles Seymour) told the American College of Hospital Administrators at Boston that ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, Sept. 16.—A French officer who has just arrived on the Palestine border after an adventurous journey from Aleppo (Syria) says that the ...
Article : 337 wordsLONDON, Sept. 15.—A west window in Westminster Abbey was slightly damaged in a recent raid. The window dates from the Eighteenth century and depicts the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 17 Sep 1940, Page 7
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