LONDON, Dec. 27.—It was authoritatively announced today that small forces of the R.A.F. last night bombed targets at Bordeaux and during daylight ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) has announced that the Pacific mandated is and of Nauru was heavily shelled by an enemy raider soon after dawn yesterday. There were no casualties, but property was damaged. Nauru is on important source of phosphate supplies. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 896 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.-For three days in succession Britain has been free from night air raids. The only enemy activity during daylight yesterday was a raid by ...
Article : 340 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The question of American aid to Britain may be clarified at the week-end when President Roosevelt will deliver an important ...
Article : 606 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—The British General Headquarters in Cairo are maintaining reticence about the course of operations in the Western Desert in Libya, ...
Article : 427 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—"Local operations of limited scope are continuing successfully," states the Greek High Command communique Issued last night. Unofficial ...
Article : 647 wordsLONDON. Dec. 27.—Authoritative circles in London are interested but nuzzled by reports of big German troop movements across Hungary to Rumania. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 537 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—German long-range guns early this morning shelled the fog-blanketed coast of England across the Straits of Dover for two and a half ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—Ninety per cent of the Australian fleet is now in Australian waters,. according to an announcement by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. ...
Article : 571 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—During the Christmas period Hitler, according to reports, made a tour of the German positions on the French coast. He spent ...
Article : 329 wordsNEW DELHI, Dec. 27.—A communique issued last night reveals that one company of Indian troops, during the earlier fighting for Sidi Barrani (in the Western ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—In the East African war zone British patrol activity on the Sudanese-Abyssinian frontier, and particularly in the Kassala sector, is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 365 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Side by side with a definite appeasement movement, the origin of when is in Congress, there are persistent rumours that President ...
Article : 837 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Why there has been no aerial blitzkrieg this Christmas over three days will possible remain one of the minor mysteries of the war. Certainly, ...
Article : 277 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—The Commander-in-Chief of the German Army (General von Brauchitsch) threatens Britain with the same fate as France, but ...
Article : 432 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The Ankara radio, appealing for the formation of a United League of Balkan Peoples, declared that Turkey was willing to place all her ...
Article : 55 wordsBUKAREST, Dec. 27.—Icefloes are blocking the Danube and have caused the suspension of communications between Glurglu (Rumania) and Ruse (Bulgaria) ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—The headquarters of the Royal Air Force in Greece announced another raid on the Valona area today. Warehouses, other buildings and ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—The Moscow radio states that a Yugoslav-Rumanian agreement has been concluded under which Yugoslavia will export iron ore, etc., in ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON. Dec. 26.—A thrilling story of a parachute escape from a Spitfire is told by a Sergeant Pilot who was a member of one of the first R.A.F. fighter ...
Article : 311 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Saying that the Italian forces were experiencing "heavy resistance" in Albania, the Rome radio claimed last night that the Greeks were ...
Article : 40 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 27.—Preparations for the operation of Consolidated (American) PBY flying boats in Australia are understood to include the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Reports yesterday on the war at sea came from several sources. The Admiralty announced that the destroyer Acheron, of 1,350 tons, had ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—Criticism of the Italian campaign is made by captured Italian officers in interviews given to a correspondent with the Greek forces in ...
Article : 120 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 27.—The first move was made today in what is believed to be a Japanese attempt to gain control of the administration of the ...
Article : 218 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 26.—By 122 votes to 68 the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies today carried a vote of confidence in the Government's foreign policy based on ...
Article : 68 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Marine underwriters have announced a general reduction in war risk insurances for cargoes to and from Europe, Africa, the East ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) said tonight that it was typical of the enemy raider in the Pacific that she never approached ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Air Vice-Marshal L. S. Breadner, D.F.C., Canadian Chief of the Air Staff, and Air Vice-Marshal E. W. Stedman, a member of the Canadian ...
Article : 47 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The United States Department of the Army has sent 26 senior officers to Britain since midsummer to obtain data about weapons ...
Article : 96 wordsCANNES. Dec. 26.—The police have detained Herr Fritz Thyssen, the German magnate. The charges are unrevealed but it is believed that he is being ...
Article : 36 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The formation of "an American labour committee to aid British labour" was announced today by Mr. Matthew Woll, vice-president of ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON. Dec. 26.—During the week ended December 24 the number of loans free of interest received by the Treasury was 103, totalling £153,587. The total ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1940, Page 7
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