The British offensive against the Italian armies in the Western Desert of Egypt has already resulted in a victory of the first order, as it was described by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon. After driving through the Italian position to the coast on Tuesday the British forces captured ...
Article : 1,601 wordsThe revised rates of income taxation necessitated by the Budget agreement between the Government and Opposition, under which the statutory exemption was fixed at £200—on increase of £50 on the figure stipulated in the original proposals—were accepted ...
Article : 1,497 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—The Royal Air Force has a big task in the Middle East, dividing its attention between Albania and Libya. The preliminary raids in the ...
Article : 637 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—The Greeks continue to gain ground along the whole Albanian front, despite unfavourable weather and Italian reinforcements in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 567 wordsLONDON, Dec. 11.—The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent on the Italian frontier says that he has received information confirming the reports of. serious ...
Article : 162 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 12.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) revealed to-day that the Australian cruiser Australia took part in the action off Dakar ...
Article : 343 wordsLONDON, Dec. 11.—From the head- quarters of General de Gaulle (leader of the Free French forces) a communique was issued last night on the operations ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 156 wordsALEXANDRIA, Dec 10.—In the Australian camps in Egypt all eyes and thoughts are turned longingly to the west. Though news of the attack in the ...
Article : 376 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 12.—Because of the Budget compromises there is a substantial variation in the case of lower Incomes in the table of weekly deductions. ...
Article : 250 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—An Admiralty communique today revealed that the German freighter Rhein (6.031 tons). which left Tampico (Mexico) 12 days ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 362 wordsLONDON, Dec. 11.—The following Royal Air Force communique was issued in Athens today:— We again raided Valona on Tuesday. ...
Article : 42 wordsALEXANDRIA, Dec. 11.—The cutting out expedition by the Western Desert forces was undertaken in face of heavy Italian local superiority in both land and ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, Dec, 12.—The following communique was issued in Rome today:—" We completely repelled some sporadic enemy attacks on the Greek front ...
Article : 46 wordsATHENS, Dec. 11.—"Estia," the leading newspaper in Athens, says that the Greeks from the bottom of their hearts hope that the valiant "soldiers of the ...
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 12.—Legislative effect will be given to the recommendations of the an-party committee on the wartime company tax, by a Bill submitted ...
Article : 1,854 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—The Athens correspondent of the British United Press reports that the Greeks are recommissioning Italian destroyers found ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Dec. 11.—The Istanbul correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph reports that the Turkish Foreign Minister (M. Sarajoglu), in a speech before ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—The following communique was issued in Rome today:— "Operations are still in progress in North Africa. There was fierce fighting again ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 180 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 12.—The newspapers feature the capture of Sidi Barrani, which has sent the Egyptians wild with joy. The newspaper "Al Ahram" used for its ...
Article : 57 wordsATHENS, Dec. 12.— The Greek Dodecanese Committee issued a statement to-day saying that reports reaching Athens from the Dodecanese Islands sound like ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Dec. 11.—It was officially stated in Rome today that the Italian casualties to November 30 totalled 19,824, as follows:—Italians, 3,655 dead, 7,538. ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 12.—The Swiss radio re-orts that Yugoslavia has asked all foreign correspondents to leave the frontier district of Yugoslavia in the vinicity ...
Article : 36 wordsZURICH, Dec. 12.—The military correspondent of the German "Westfalischer Landeszeitung" published a long article on the day that the British offensive in ...
Article : 128 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 11.—Air Marshal A. W. Tedder has arrived in Cairo to take up his duties as Deputy to the Air Officer commanding in the Middle East in place ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 13 Dec 1940, Page 13
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