Australian forces are in the van of the assault on Bardia, the beleaguered Italian stronghold on the Libyan coast. Just after dawn yesterday the Australian, supported by tanks, penetrated a sector of the Bardia defences, This information was given in a communique ...
Article : 402 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 3.—A story of heroism and devotion to duty by the officers and crew of the passenger liner Rangitane (16,712 tons) was revealed ...
Article : 1,563 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The first definite development in Vichy after the clouds of speculation which covered talks between Vichy and Berlin is an announcement ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Bombs were dropped on various places in Eire, including Dublin, on Wednesday night and yesterday morning and again last night and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 666 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Last night the Royal Air Force again attacked Bremen with great violence and found fires started on the previous night still ...
Article : 803 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The German air attack on Britain last night was concentrated chiefly on Cardiff. The raid began shortly after nightfall, when ...
Article : 426 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The Balkan scene remains confused, but reports of great numbers of German troops in Rumania continue to filter through. A dispatch ...
Article : 400 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 2.—A correspondent of the United Press who has returned from the island of Martinique says that passengers on the first ship to reach the ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Striking evidence of the influence exercised by the Leader of the Free French Forces (General de Gaulle) is to be found in the success of ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The formidable task of clearing the wreckage from the City after last Sunday's heavy raid began in earnest on New Year's Day. Fifteen ...
Article : 369 wordsSHANGHAI, Jan. 3.—The large French liner D'Artagnan (15,105 tons) was delayed here today because of the desertion of 26 French members of the crew, who ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Royal Air Force planes yesterday attacked the important Italian base at Elbasan in Albania. The R.A.F. headquarters in Greece state that ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Jan 3.—The Greeks, despite the difficulties due to increasingly bad weather, are maintaining the initiative against the Italians on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 970 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Following the announcement yesterday morning by the Italian Under-Secretary for Air (General Pricolo) that German air squadrons ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Minister of Food (Lord Woolton) has been congratulated on his action in telling the public bluntly how the country stands on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 475 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 3.—The construction of a new Italian line from Valona to Elbasan is unlikely to stem the Greek advance when the Italians failed to hold ...
Article : 375 wordsLONDON, Jan. 1.—Sergeant T. Gray, V.C., of the Royal Air Force, has been killed in action. With the late Flying-Officer D. E. Garland, V.C., he ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The establishment of a special organisation to secure prompt and vigorous action by various Government departments and authorities in ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—An expert on Arabian affairs, in an interview with a representative of the Australian Associated Press today, said that behind the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—In an article in the Rome "Giornale d'Italia" Signor Gayda (who is regarded as Mussolini's unofficial mouthpiece) declares that Britain and ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Berlin radio stated today that important questions would be discussed at a meeting of the Italian Cabinet on Saturday at which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—While Royal Air Force machines have been incessantly attacking the Italians in Libya Rhodesian and South African squadrons have been ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON. Jan. 2.—Recognition of the aircraft industry's part in the war forms a notable feature of the New Year honours, workmen and high ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The Admiralty announced today that the British submarine Thunderbolt had sunk an Italian submarine proceeding under escort to a base ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Among Australians in the R.A.F. who received Service honours in the New Year honours list are Flight-Lieutenant K. C. Donovan, of ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) today discussed the Far Eastern situation with the Chinese Ambassador (Mr. Quo Tai-chi), who is ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The German High Command, in a half-yearly review of its operations, says that the Luftwaffe made 2,000 raids on Britain between August 8 ...
Article : 113 wordsISTANBUL, Jan. 2.—All German nurses and governesses, totalling several hundred, have been ordered to leave Turkey within 15 days. ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—A Rome communique says: "Our artillery in Libya shelled mechanised forces and naval units. Bombers attacked an enemy base and ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Ernest Edward Dowling Clarke, a member of the R.A.F. and younger son of the late Sir Rupert and Lady Clarke (now the Countess of ...
Article : 46 wordsBOMBAY. Jan. 2.—The first batch of Italian prisoners from the Western Desert, consisting of four generals, 300 other officers and 627 men, arrived here ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 4 Jan 1941, Page 7
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