WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Sweeping changes in the service commands in Hawaii were announced last night. The army, navy and air ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 751 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Communiques from Hong Kong are still being heavily delayed. It is known in London that heavy enemy bombing ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 362 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Allied troops have entered Portuguese Timor, which is 400 miles north-west of Darwin. According to German reports the Allied troops include Australians and Dutch. The Netherlands East Indies Government Information Bureau has ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 476 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—"Britain is quickly developing highly important contacts in Washington and Moscow for the purpose of securing ...
Article : 505 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The War Department issued a communique last night saying that in the Philippine theatre the situation ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 333 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Secretary of War (Mr. H. L. Stimson) issued a statement today saying that the United States would ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—"Very important further Russian progress on the whole front between the Baltic and the Black Sea" in the preceding 24 hours, including "the very serious discomfiture—resembling a rout—of the German left wing on the Moscow front," was reported by the Stockholm ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 909 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Japanese attack on Hawaii has caused a continuous rush of enlistments throughout the United States. ...
Article : 346 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 18.—The British forces in north-western Malaya have withdrawn about 30 miles from the River Muda line, which they ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 524 wordsAccording to the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Express." the Finnish lines on the front of the Svir River (north-east of ...
Article : 298 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec. 18.—An official Chinese statement issued last night urged the A.B.C.D. Powers (America, Britain, China and the ...
Article : 57 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The United States Maritime Commission announced today that all the seamen's and longshoremen's unions ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The steamship Corregidor (1,881 tons), which operated between the Philippine Islands, struck a mine in Mania Bay last ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The Chungking radio quotes the Khabarovsk (Siberian) radio as stating that Russians are carrying out large-scale ...
Article : 52 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 18.—Japanese air attacks on the Anambas Islands, between Malaya and Borneo, were reported in a communique issued last ...
Article : 202 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Last night's War Department communique said that in the Hawaiian theatre there had been no further ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Brilliant manoeuvring enabled an R.A.F. pilot, although heavily outnumbered, who was on reconnaissance across ...
Article : 162 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Replying to a question about co-ordination of military commands among the Allies, President Roosevelt said ...
Article : 190 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Details have been revealed of the Japanese proposal—the rejection of which has already been announced—to the ...
Article : 197 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 18.—The Aneta newsagency learns that Dutch bombers yesterday made a fierce attack on a concentration of Japanese ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 158 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 18.—In the absence of news the Commonwealth Government does not think it possible that members of the A.I.F. have ...
Article : 88 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—The Air Force Command announced last night that American planes, while reconnoitring, had attacked an ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The National Board of the garment industry released a report in Atlantic City last night saying that there ...
Article : 209 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Pan-American Union has fixed January 15 as the date for a meeting of American Foreign Ministers in ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—How Buffalo fighters flown by R.A.A.F. pilots scored quick successes against enemy aircraft raiding Penang is revealed ...
Article : 143 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Congress passed a Bill tonight granting President Roosevelt very extensive war powers, including power of ...
Article : 221 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 18.—The compulsory national civilian service ordinance has been extended to all persons of Chinese nationality in ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 18.—The Rajah of Sarawak (Sir Charles Vyner Brooke), who is in Australia, will be returning to Sarawak soon. the representative ...
Article : 110 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 17.—A Tokio radio message picked up at San Francisco states that the Japanese arrested on December 14 the Bangkok ...
Article : 60 wordsBOMBAY, Dec. 18.—The Japanese report of a bombing attack on Rangoon is officially described as "a bare-faced lie." It is also denied that ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 19 Dec 1941, Page 7
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