WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—In a surprising and dramatic move Mr. John L. Lewis, founder and former president of the Congress of ...
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Article : 375 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—The Japanese forces in Malaya have maintained heavy pressure against the British and Imperial fronts along the Muar and Segamot Rivers. In the Muar area, the enemy has succeeded in infiltrating a number of troops southward in the coastal belt and there ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 618 wordsCHUNGKING, Jan. 19.—A Chinese army communique last night said that the Chinese forces pursuing the decimated Japanese units in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 152 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 19.—The War Council meeting in Melbourne tomorrow will still be without definite knowledge of the arrangements that ...
Article : 582 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—Big forces of Japanese planes raided Singapore yesterday morning. The first "alert." was soon after breakfast. Observers ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 414 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—Senator T. Conally (chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) told a Press conference yesterday that ...
Article : 280 wordsANKARA, Jan. 19.—It is reliably reported from Belgrade that German troops are hurriedly withdrawing from Serbia, where they are ...
Article : 131 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The War Department announced in a communique yesterday afternoon (early this morning, Manila time) ...
Article : 177 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Navy Department has disclosed that President Roosevelt today requested an additional 11,000,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—Hitler issued the following Order of the Day in connection with the death of Field Marshal von Reichenau, who was ...
Article : 549 wordsHONOLULU, Jan. 18.—Foreign broadcasts heard in Honolulu last night reported Japanese troop concentrations in the Marshall Islands ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 186 wordsMONTREAL, Jan. 18.—Six survivors from a torpedoed Panamanian vessel are now in hospital at an eastern Canadian port, after 3½ ...
Article : 125 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 18.—General Sir John Dill has arrived here by air from Washington for conferences with the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 99 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 19.—The Allied Supreme Commander in the South-West Pacific (General Sir Archibald Wavell) visited the ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—The "'Daily Mail's" Madrid correspondent states that when the Chief of the German Navy (Admiral Raeder) and the ...
Article : 128 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Secretary of Agriculture (Mr. Claude R. Wickard) has issued a warning that the United States is faced with ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—Yesterday's Admiralty communique announced that His Majesty's submarine Perseus was overdue and must be considered ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The Tokio official radio said last night that 1,200 prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—The Berlin radio said yesterday afternoon that the Japanese had landed on Amboina Island, in the east of the ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Jan. 19.—The Domei newsagency claimed today that Japanese forces on the west coast of I [?]alaya were less than 25 miles from ...
Article : 174 wordsRANGOON, Jan. 19.—A communique last night announced that Imperial forces were contesting a Japanese advance along the 22-mile ...
Article : 99 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 18.—The Tokio official radio claims that the sultans of northern British Borneo have surrendered to the Japanese in ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Jan. 18.—The Berlin radio states officially that a military convention was signed in Berlin today between Germany. Italy and ...
Article : 60 wordsBATAVIA. Jan. 18.—The Lieutenant-Governor of the Netherlands East Indies (Dr. H. J. van Mook), who is at present in the United ...
Article : 61 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Costs Rica has been allotted £125,000 sterling from lease-lend funds to buy arms. The Public Works ...
Article : 48 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—It is officially announced that an army bomber crashed at [?]ton, Oregon, at 11.30 a.m. today, killing ...
Article : 29 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas Intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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