SINGAPORE, Dec. 17.—The latest news of the fighting in northern Malaya is that the Japanese are approaching Penang, the island base off the west coast 375 miles from Singapore. It is confirmed also that Japanese troops have landed in Borneo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 751 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—"If Singapore falls into Japanese hands territories around the Indian Ocean will be helpless against Japanese attack," ...
Article : 379 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Japanese and Italian broadcasts received in New York report speeches in the Japanese Diet by the Prime Minister ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 484 wordsLONDON. Dec. 17.—A communique issued today in Hong Kong states that the Governor (Sir Mark Young) has rejected a Japanese ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 340 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Japanese have been unable to make any further progress in Luzon, the main island in the Philippine group, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 561 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The fundamental issue in the world struggle, of human liberty against tyranny, was the text of a broad ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 992 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Both Houses of Congress voted on the voices today to give President Roosevelt all the extraordinary powers ...
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Special communiques issued late last night and early this morning in Moscow revealed further Russian successes on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 777 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The United States Maritime Commission took over the French luxury liner Normandie today. It was announced ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 151 wordsBATAVIA. Dec. 17.—After a conference with the United States Under-Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) the Netherlands Minister in ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—The sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and battle-cruiser Repulse by Japanese planes in Malayan waters last ...
Article : 314 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec. 17.—A Government spokesman stated yesterday that General Chiang Kai-shek (the Chinese national leader) had ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The "Daily Express" states that the Japanese have occupied the Portuguese colony of Macao, west of Hong Kong, at ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 17.—Passengers who have arrived in Sydney by a flying-boat which had played hide- and-seek with two Japanese fighter ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 452 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—The Navy Department announced yesterday afternoon that the Japanese had shelled Hawaii Island, Maul ...
Article : 244 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The American Federation of Labour issued a declaration tonight expressing "sincere regret for the destructive ...
Article : 149 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—President Roosevelt announced tonight that Mr. Justice Owen Roberts, of the Supreme Court, would be chair- ...
Article : 288 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The Tokio radio broadcast a Japanese naval communique this morning claiming complete occupation of Guam the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The Royal Air Force yesterday continued the offensive against enemy objectives near and far. During the afternoon ...
Article : 336 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 17.—It is officially stated that the Japanese are using two types of low-wing monoplane fighter aircraft-the navy ...
Article : 102 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The Tokio radio quotes a Domel (Japanese) news agency report that two contingents of Japanese troops have ...
Article : 119 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16:—The Federal Bureasu of Investigation arrested a German, Baron Froelich de Meyers, near the Los Angeles port ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—A special communique issued by the German High Command from the Fuehrer's headquarters today said: "In the ...
Article : 63 wordsMEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—The Mexican President (General Avila Camacho) has requested from Congress a Bill permitting military forces ...
Article : 66 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 17.—A 6,000 ton passenger vessel has just reached Singapore after an exciting journey from Hong Kong. It carried British ...
Article : 116 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—The Navy Department disclosed today that the Japanese two-man submarine captured in Hawaii on ...
Article : 118 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 17.—Despite the Tokio radio claim last night that the A.I.F. had been annihilated, the Japanese have yet to meet the ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—Dr. George Gallup, founder and director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, which conducts the Gallup ...
Article : 165 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16.—The Argentine Government proclaimed tonight a nation-wide state of slege. It permits court-martial proceedings ...
Article : 27 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 17.-The Legislative Council passed through all stages yesterday a Bill providing the death penalty or life impri- ...
Article : 46 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The Montevideo correspondent of the United Press states that the newspaper "ElPais" has reported that the German ...
Article : 37 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 16.—Canada yesterday completed its part of the Empire Air Training Scheme with the opening of the last scheduled ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON. Dec. 18.—Vichy reports state that there were three attacks against Germans in Paris today. A bomb killed six occupants of Gestapo ...
Article : 61 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16.—The important Italian airline Lati has discontinued its service between Rome, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro and ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON. Dec. 17.—The Rome radio announced today that General Hugo Detorelli, commander of the Fascist Torino Division on the ...
Article : 31 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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