LONDON, Dec. 8.—Bristol was singled out by German air raiders for a concentrated attack on Friday night. A fierce raid lasted for several hours, ...
Article : 982 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 8.—On his arrival in Canberra tonight the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) said that an enemy mine had caused an explosion which ...
Article : 401 wordsMONTEVIDEO, Dec. 7.—The British armed merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20.122 tons), which on Thursday fought a long-range action in the South ...
Article : 866 wordsDriving relentlessly forward along the whole front in Albania, the Greeks have in the post few days captured towns, villages, mountain heights and passes in several sectors from the coastal plain in the extreme west to the mountains beyond Pogradetz in the north-east. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,492 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—While Italy's setbacks in Greece have been causing a feeling of optimism in Southern European States about the maintenance of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 619 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—It was announced in Rome today that Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of the General Staff of the Italian Navy, and Under-Secretary ...
Article : 676 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—Highly successful attacks on enemy centres have been continued by the Royal Air Force. On Friday night bases for German raids on ...
Article : 762 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 8.—It was reported tonight that the mined-ship was still afloat and that salvage tugs had taken her in tow and were making slow ...
Article : 404 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—Mussolini faces a grave crisis, the popular Sunday newspapers say, as a result of smouldering internal revolt, disappointment and the ...
Article : 689 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—It was officially announced in London this afternoon that photographs taken by British reconnaissance planes after the bombing of the ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—Comment upon Hitler's so-called "new order" which excites sympathetic interest here for its independence and shrewd penetration of ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The Royal Air Force has again bombed Valona (Albania) which is the 13th time this port has been attacked. The Air ...
Article : 80 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Dec. 7.—It is reported that the Brazilian Foreign Office has protested to the British Embassy at Rio de Janeiro against the halting of ...
Article : 107 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President Roosevelt, in a telegram to the King of Greece today, pledged the United States to support "a country so valiantly ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—Following are the total plane losses since the outbreak of the war:—British. 1,717; German, 5.161: Italian, 385; Greek, 12. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—Details have been given in a broadcast talk of a fight with Italian aeroplanes over the English Channel, given by the commanding ...
Article : 465 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—The following communique was issued in Berlin yesterday: -"Our air force activity yesterday consisted of reconnaissance and nuisance ...
Article : 227 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—In a leading article the "Daily Mail" says:—"The War Cabinet should re-examine the censorship, particularly as it affects the Admiralty. ...
Article : 227 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The Navy Hydrographic Office has advised shipmasters that floating mines have been sighted in the vicinity of Bass Strait, ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—It is officially announced in Rome that Mussolini has discussed 1941 food and industrial needs with Government leaders. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—A Berlin communique issued today claims that two U-boats have sunk four merchantmen and one tanker, totalling 29,000 tons. ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—A correspondent of the Associated Press on the Rumanian frontier reports that the Rumanian Prime Minister (General Antonescu) has issued ...
Article : 153 wordsKOBE, Dec. 6.—A, Norwegian ship which apparently has been used as a German prison vessel sailed from here today after a 12-hour's stay, during which ...
Article : 58 wordsLISBON, Dec. 7.—The Spanish ship Navemar (5,473 tons) has rescued 28 seamen from the British ship Palmella (1,578 tons), which was torpedoed off ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—In a recent air raid, high-explosive and incendiary bombs hit the Greenwich Observatory, damaging parts erected by Sir Christopher Wren ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The Secretary for Scotland (Mr. Ernest Brown), speaking at Glasgow today, said that it was doubtful whether any other city had ever ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The London headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Navy has published a casualty list containing the names of 22 officers and men, ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Anglo-Turkish and Empire-Turkish trade expansion is expected to result from ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—After a three days' silence, German long-range guns, mistveiled on the French coast, were active in a brief but fairly intense ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 9 Dec 1940, Page 9
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