LONDON, Dec. 29.—After a period of quiet lasting over 89 hours—the longest since the Nazis launched their total air attacks on London—the sirens wailed in ...
Article : 875 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—After the Christmas quiet Royal Air Force bombers on Friday and Saturday nights launched terrific raids on the invasion ports ...
Article : 1,449 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Signs are multiplying of the growing awareness in the United States of the importance of British victory to American security. ...
Article : 645 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—The Greeks report further progress in three important sectors in Albania-in the coastal area, where, according to an Athens ...
Article : 695 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—Dispatches from Egypt report the further strengthening of the British and Imperial forces investing Bardia, the Italian coastal base ...
Article : 732 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—It was reported from Vichy on Friday that important negotiations in which developments are imminent which are likely vitally to affect ...
Article : 1,383 wordsA British convoy in the North Atlantic was attacked by a powerful enemy warship on Christmas Day, one ship being slightly damaged. The raider withdrew at high speed when engaged by H.M.S. Berwick, one of the escorting cruisers, and escaped owing ...
Article : 579 wordsMANILA, Dec. 28.—It is understood on reliable authority that United States naval authorities are paying close attention to a report that at least 12 German ...
Article : 507 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 29.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) said today that an Australian warship had gone in pursuit of the raider which shelled the ...
Article : 420 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 29.—This morning the "Herald-Tribune" after noting the reports that a Standard Oil tanker has been sunk off Africa, that Nauru has ...
Article : 465 wordsATHENS, Dec. 28.—The main body of the Italian fleet has been driven from the Southern Adriatic and has sheltered at Flume and Pola in order to escape ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The broadcast to the Italian people made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) on December 23, in which he appealed to the Italian ...
Article : 193 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 28.—The naval spokesman today characterised as "false and fabricated" reports that German vessels in Japanese-controlled harbours in ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—A story made public by the Air Ministry shows how a running fight just above the sea today between a Blenheim bomber of the ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The Rome Radio, attempting today to explain the "alleged raid on Corfu on Christmas Day" said that the raid was very limited in ...
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Naval circles believe that there are perhaps eight Nazi surface raiders operating in the Atlantic and Pacific. It is believed ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The City of Manchester today accorded a civic funeral to the 72 victims of the recent air raid. The Lord Mayor, aldermen and councillors ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—A Royal Air Force spokesman in Athens said today that 50 Italian planes had definitely been destroyed since the outbreak of hostilities ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 82 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 27.—The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey announced today that its tanker. Charles Pratt (8,982 tons) had been sunk and that two of the ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—The 30th Newfoundland naval contingent arrived at a West Coast port today. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—Fire from shipmounted anti-aircraft guns has destroyed 192 enemy aircraft from the beginning of the war to December 2. Planes whose ...
Article : 106 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 28.—Naval and other official sources said yesterday that they had no information regarding the reported attack on Nauru by a raider which bore ...
Article : 86 wordsMANILA, Dec. 27.—Reliable quarters state that four Danish ships which took refuge in the Philippines when Denmark was overrun will be turned over to ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The Bremen radio states that the British submarine Seal, which was damaged off the coast of Sweden several months ago, was ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—According to "Aeroplane" 743 American planes were shipped to Britain in the first year of the war. The value of aeronautical ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Negotiations seeking to improve Anglo-Soviet relations were started when the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) conferred with the Russian ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—Observers in London, commenting on the attack on Nauru, note that the Nazi forces have now added an attack on an undefended ...
Article : 80 wordsMONTEVIDEO, Dec. 27.—The newspaper "El Pais" urges the Uruguayan Government to obey popular clamour and adopt measures favourable to Britain, ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Dec. 27.—The Bremen radio quotes a message from Naples stating that King Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess Marie Jose. wife of Prince ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—A communique issued in Rome today stated that an Italian submarine that had been operating in the Atlantic had not returned to ...
Article : 31 wordsMANILA, Dec. 28.—A group of French residents in the Philippines has announced the formation of a local chapter of the Free France movement. ...
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