LONDON, July 1.—Large-scale demonstrations demanding a peaceful surrender to the Allied forces in Syria are reported from Beirut. Police, it ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 319 wordsLONDON, July 1.—There have been no land activities of importance in Libya, but a Royal Air Force communique from Middle East ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 296 wordsLONDON, July 1.—A Berlin claim that German troops yesterday occupied Minsk, the capital of White Russia, has not yet been confirmed. Minsk, which is on the road to Moscow, lies about ten miles east of the Stalin Line, which runs along the old German-Russian ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,367 wordsLONDON, July 1.—The great air offensive against Germany reached a new peak yesterday. The daylight operations were the most extensive ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 527 wordsLONDON, July 1.—The Moscow radio last night broadcast the following official announcement:— "Owing to the present situation, in ...
Article : 286 wordsTOKIO, June 30.—The "Miyako Shimbun" said today that the delicate and complex international situation arising from the German ...
Article : 454 wordsNEW YORK, June 30.—It is indicated that the spy ring uncovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has South American as well ...
Article : 275 wordsWASHINGTON, June 30.—"The time to use our navy to clear the Atlantic is at hand," declared the Secretary of the Navy (Colonel ...
Article : 381 wordsANKARA, July 1.—The Soviet Ambassador to Turkey (M. Vinsgrandov) arrived by air last night from Moscow. He is reported to be ...
Article : 43 wordsHAVANA, June 30.—The Italian consulate at Havana was closed today without any formal announcement being made by the Cuban ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, July 1.—The Swedish Prime Minister (M. Hansson) in a speech in Stockholm yesterday said that the decision to allow the transit ...
Article : 101 wordsWASHINGTON, June 30.—The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox) announced today that the new naval and air station at Dutch ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, July 1.—Royal Air Force fighters, without loss to themselves, shot down two Italian fighters over Malta yesterday. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, June 30.—The First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, several members of the staff and four civilians have left ...
Article : 27 wordsMELBOURNE, July 1.—In Syria the combined British and Free French forces are continuing their three-pronged drive towards Beirut ...
Article : 303 wordsEastern states casualty lists issued by Army Headquarters, Melbourne, on Monday, contained the names of 196 members of the A.I.F. ...
Article : 326 wordsLONDON, June 30.—Newspaper correspondents have been shown something of the work of the American-built Catalina ...
Article : 438 wordsBRISBANE, July 1.—Dive-bombing practice ended fatally for two Royal Australian Air Force men at Townsville yesterday afternoon when ...
Article : 113 wordsWASHINGTON, June 30—Congress worked feverishly to make the fiscal year deadline tonight by passing and sending to the White House ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, June 30.—The Moscow radio, appealing to Austrians to sabotage the German war effort, said the Serbs had sabotaged the railway ...
Article : 29 wordsSYDNEY, July 1.—Mr. Francis Birties, the well-known explorer and author, collapsed and died at his home at Croydon today. He was aged ...
Article : 173 wordsMELBOURNE, July 1.—In the first week's fighting, the German operations against Russia appear to have developed four main ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 414 wordsWASHINGTON, June 30.—The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives rejected today the Treasury's proposal for a ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, July 1.—An Air Ministry communique says that only a small number of enemy planes were over Britain last night. They dropped bombs in places in the west ...
Article : 63 wordsHONG KONG, June 30.—The edge of a typhoon from the Philippines swept Hong Kong today, grounding two Chinese river steamers and tying ...
Article : 58 wordsTOKIO, July 1.—Germany. Italy, Rumania, Slovakia and Croatia have recognised the Japanese-sponsored Nanking regime in occupied China ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, July .1—Some A.I.F. mails and military stores were destroyed during operations in the Western Desert in Egypt in the early ...
Article : 155 wordsCANBERRA, July 1.—A further concession in the importation of certain types of cotton goods of United Kingdom origin was ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, July 1.—A fashionable gathering in the Savoy Hotel lounge, including high army officers, was surprised last night to see three ...
Article : 249 wordsWASHINGTON, June 30.—The Department of Agriculture today reported that unfavourable weather conditions had delayed the spring ...
Article : 80 wordsTOKIO, June 30.—The British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) conferred with the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ohashi) today, ...
Article : 72 wordsMONTREAL, June 30.—The Montreal locomotive works today completed the first modern cruiser tank built in Canada three months ahead ...
Article : 26 wordsThe former imperial Palace in Leningrad. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 6 wordsNAIROBI, June 30.—The hearing was resumed today of the charge against Major Sir Delves Broughton of having murdered the Earl of ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, July 1.—Following the announcement yesterday that the Vichy Government had broken off diplomatic relations with Russia, ...
Article : 138 wordsOTTAWA, June 30.—Lieutenant Martin Mueller, a Luftwaffe, pilot, escaped early this morning from a prison camp in Ontario. He had ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, June 30.—A delegation representative of the Press of Iceland is now in England where they will spend two weeks as guests of the ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, June 30.—Mr. Willard Garfield Weston, M.P., the millionaire founder of the Weston Biscuit Companies and Allied Bakeries, Ltd., ...
Article : 111 wordsSYDNEY, July 1.—News was received in Sydney tonight of the death of Lieut.-Col. E. G. B. Scriven in a motor accident. Colonel Scriven, ...
Article : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, July 7.—Petrol difficulties which caused the closing of the State battery at Meekatharra (W.A.), recently have been overcome. ...
Article : 78 wordsAUCKLAND, July 1.—British children brought to New Zealand last year wider the evacuation scheme are completely happy in their new ...
Article : 49 wordsHANOI, June 30.—The Japanese military authorities yesterday seized 41 trucks belonging to the Far Eastern Trading Company. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, July 1.—Moscow had its first air raid "alert" when the sirens sounded at 1.50 a.m. today. The "all clear" was sounded at 2.45 ...
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