While some phases of the war in the Balkans are still obscure, it is clear that the Germans are delivering a terrific assault from Bulgaria against Greece along the Struma Valley and against Yugoslavia along a subsidiary valley running westward of the Struma. The objective in Yugoslavia is apparently Skoplje and the Vardar Valley. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,910 wordsLONDON, April 8.—Mercantile shipping losses for the week ended March 30 were higher than those for the previous week. A statement issued today by the ...
Article : 412 wordsLONDON, April 8.—It was state officially in Rome about midday today that Italian and German forces advancing from Bengazi had reoccupied Derna (on ...
Article : 802 wordsLONDON, April 7.—The Ankara radio gives a statement by the Yugoslav Minister in Moscow (M. Gavrilovitch) on the Russo-Yugoslav treaty of friendship and ...
Article : 123 wordsATHENS, April 7.—The Australian forces in Greece are ready to take a big share in meeting the German invasion. They are in position in rugged mountain ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 950 wordsLONDON, April 8.—The opening days of the Balkan campaign have defined the issues—for Hitler, the imperative necessity of winning a swift and complete ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 603 wordsWASHINGTON, April 7.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) in a Press statement today, described the Russo-Yugoslav pact as an encouraging ...
Article : 81 wordsSINGAPORE, April 7.—It is officially announced that 22 men lost their lives and 20 were injured when the Admiralty salvage vessel Buffalo (300 tons) struck ...
Article : 43 wordsMELBOURNE, April 8.—Germany is reported to have reacted unfavourably to the Soviet-Yugoslav pact. Although diplomatic commentators do not minimise the ...
Article : 419 wordsSANTA CRUZ, Tenerife, April 7.—A Spanish steamer, the Gabo Villano, bound for South America, has picked up survivors of two torpedoed British vessels. ...
Article : 26 wordsTORONTO, April 7.—The Navy Minister (Mr Angus MacDonald) disclosed today that a Canadian armed merchant cruiser had intercepted two German ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, April 8.—It is now known that the Yugoslav forces have launched an attack on the Italians in Albania from the north. The first intimation ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, April 8.—According to the Vichy correspondent of the Associated Press (American) an official French dispatch from Beirut says that Iraki troops ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, April 8.—The German High Command issued the following communique early this afternoon:— "Despite countless difficulties of ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, April 7.—An heroic deed has been revealed by a Royal Air Force observer who was released from a prison camp when the British forces entered ...
Article : 160 wordsALEXANDRIA, April 7.—Broadcasting to French North Africa and Syria today, General de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, declared that they had ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, April 7.—Instructions have been given to the British Minister to Hungary (Mr. Owen Molley) to withdraw his mission from Budapest in consequence ...
Article : 69 wordsNEW YORK, April 7.—The Washington correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor" says that if the Allied forces in the Balkans can prove in the ...
Article : 293 wordsHONG KONG, April 7.—The British Commander-in-Chief in the Far East (Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham), who is visiting Hong Kong, ...
Article : 272 wordsSAN JOSE (Costa Rica), April 7.— Captain Gabriele Locatelli, who is accused of setting fire to the Italian freighter Fella (6,072 tons) last week at ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, April 7.—It is officially announced that clocks will be advanced a further hour from May 4 to August 10. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, April 8.—Broadcasting from Vichy yesterday an appeal for national unity, Marshal Petain referred to the threat of the Vice-Premier (Admiral ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, April 8.—A message from Ankara says it is reliably reported that within the next few days Turkey will call up two more classes to the colours, ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, April 8.—The Ministry of Economic Warfare has announced that navicerts must be required for all goods shipped to Eire from May 1. This will ...
Article : 66 wordsGOTHENBURG, April 8.—Swedish anti-aircraft defences went into action yesterday when three Russian planes flew over Gotland Island (in the Baltic Sea). ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 9 Apr 1941, Page 11
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