The advanced British forces in the Western Desert are maintaining the pressure of the attack on the Libyan port of Bardia, which is being heavily bombed by the R.A.F. The latest communique from the British headquarters in Cairo merely states that operations in the Bardia ...
Article : 982 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Vivid dispatches from British war correspondents with the army in the Western Desert continue to dominate the main pages of the British ...
Article : 734 wordsShop assistants who had been absent from their employment since Tuesday morning yesterday decided to resume work. This decision was reached by an ...
Article : 847 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—President Roosevelt said today that the Administration was considering, as a means of giving further aid to Britain, a plan to ...
Article : 675 wordsLONDON. Dec. 18.—Latest reports from the Albanian front state that the Greeks are everywhere maintaining the initiative. Their spirits are high, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 529 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Britain last night enjoyed almost entire freedom from German air raiders. In the words of a joint communique issued this morning by ...
Article : 239 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Although bad weather kept German planes away from Britain last night it did not stop Royal Air Force machines from going over ...
Article : 347 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—The leader of the Committee for Industrial Organisation (Mr. P. Murray) said today that he would present to. President Roosevelt ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—In the House of Commons today, Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal) asked whether consultations were taking place with the Dominions ...
Article : 282 wordsNAIROBI, Dec. 18.—The following communique was issued today:— British forces, including South African and Gold Coast units, with ...
Article : 120 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—The. Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) stated today that British Treasury officials had said that Britain could not ...
Article : 44 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 18.—British military writers are now suggesting that the main Italian military forces in Libya have been overwhelmingly defeated and ...
Article : 375 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) said today that on the basis of full information, foreign developments, including the ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—A special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Malakal (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) reports that British forces are patrolling ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—In the House of Lords today, Lord Noel Buxton asked whether His Majesty's Government would make a statement regarding any ...
Article : 242 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The Belgrade correspondent of the "New York Times" stated last night:—"German troops estimated at 50,000 were concentrated at ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The Royal Air Force headquarters in Cairo in this afternoon's communique stated:—"In Southern Albania, among other ...
Article : 110 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 18.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) announced tonight that the New Zealand Shipping Co's. freighter Orari (10.350 tons), which was recently ...
Article : 123 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—While President Roosevelt's plan to lend or lease armaments to Britain will be welcomed by the bulk of the American people as ...
Article : 879 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The Ministry of Home Security announced today that during November 4,588 persons had' been killed in the United Kingdom as a result ...
Article : 96 wordsATHENS, Dec. 18.—The Commander. in-Chief (General Papagos) has ordered that until a new decision is reached Albanian civil tribunals will continue to ...
Article : 51 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.—In a speech yesterday, Dr. Osten Unden, a jurist and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that tripartite pacts and Germany's ...
Article : 141 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 18.—It was announced early this morning by the Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) that he had been advised by the British Admiralty ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—In a statement issued today, the Minister of Food (Lord Woolton) said that feeding centres in bombed areas were as necessary as fire ...
Article : 105 wordsISTANBUL, Dec. 17.—The official Ankara radio declares that an Anglo-Italian armistice is "entirely possible." The newspaper Ukcham says:—"The damage done ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Mr. Joseph Davies, Ambassador to Moscow, from 193 to 1938, in addressing the Washington Board of Trade today, asserted that ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Corporal Josephine Maud Gwynne Robins, a 21-year-old member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force Services, has been awarded the Military ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18—Intense British air activity in co-operation with the Western Desert offensive is revealed in yesterday's R.A.F. communique from Cairo, which ...
Article : 464 wordsBERNE. Dec. 17.—The President (Dr. Wetter), in a statement made today at a meeting of the Federal Council, said that the planes which dropped bombs ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The Delhi correspondent of the "Times" says that the contentions of Congress regarding the future of constitutional development are ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Nov. 17.—The long controversy over the purchase tax assumed a humorous aspect today when the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Nov. 17.—The Treasury has removed the ban on dealings between residents of the United Kingdom in respect of about 120 dollar and other ...
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