LONDON, April 13.—The Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) made a statement in the House of Commons today on various aspects of the war including the recent operations in the Bay of Bengal. Before the loss of the cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall and the ...
Article : 1,127 wordsLONDON, April 13.—It was authoritatively stated here this afternoon that the position in Burma remains substantially unchanged. We have ...
Article : 286 wordsLONDON, April 13.—In a leading article "The Times" comments: "The replies of the various parties are typical of the universal ...
Article : 442 wordsLONDON, April 13.—Sir Stafford Cripps, the British Government's envoy to India, arrived with his party at Karachi from New Delhi ...
Article : 1,025 wordsCANBERRA, April 13.—The Allied offensive against enemy-occupied bases was continued yesterday with further raids an Koepang and Rabaul. A large ship in Rabaul harbour received a direct hit. "Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire and interception by Japanese fighters ...
Article : 279 wordsLONDON, April 13.—No important changes are reported on the Eastern Front and today's Moscow communique stated briefly that 5 enemy ...
Article : 442 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—A War Department communique yesterday afternoon said that Japanese planes had raided Corregidor (the island ...
Article : 357 wordsLONDON, April 13.—It is authoritatively stated here that a considerable proportion of the Allied forces in Burma consists of Indians, ...
Article : 65 wordsPORT MORESBY, April 13.—Although details are not yet available, heavy and successful air attacks were carried out by Allied bombers and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,333 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The Colombo correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that Japanese air-men machine-gunned the men of ...
Article : 317 wordsPORT MORESBY, April 13.—The Japanese occupying Rabaul and other towns are reported to have shot and bayoneted natives as part ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 201 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The Tokio official radio announced yesterday that Lieut-General Yoshitsugu Tate- kawa, the former Japanese ...
Article : 170 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The Navy has announced the torpedoing of a Norwegian vessel off the Atlantic coast on April 7, Forty-nine ...
Article : 195 wordsLONDON, April 13.—Squadrons of British fighters with a small force of bombers were over Northern France early yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 422 wordsLONDON, April 13.—British troops have captured an Italian strongpoint south-east of Tmimi, in Libya, a Cairo dispatch last night stated, and have routed a crack ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 414 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The Moscow radio announced today that a big convoy of British, American, and Dutch merchantmen had arrived at ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, April 13.—About 13,000 people have been evacuated from Madras since April 7. Special trains are leaving for the interior daily. ...
Article : 69 wordsBRISBANE, April 13.—Twenty-two members of the crew of a ship which arrived at Brisbane from Darwin on Saturday were charged in ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, April 13.—It was announced from Lisbon yesterday that the Spanish tanker Gobeo landed 21 survivors from the Norwegian tanker ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, April 13.—An RAF communique issued in Cairo yesterday recorded that the enemy again raided Malta on Saturday, when ...
Article : 78 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The Tokio radio reported today that the Japanese had landed on Billiton Island, a Dutch possession in the Java Sea ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The "Daily Mail" publishes a long article by Sir Keith Murdoch, managing-director of the Herald and Weekly Times, ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON, April 13.—A Stockholm message says that the German military forces In the Narvik area have been isolated in order to maintain ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, April 12.—A message from Lisbon states that a submarine is reported to have attacked two ships off Tavira (Portugal) and set ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, April 13.—Australians in the giant Sunderland flying boats of Britain's Coastal Command have become known to their ...
Article : 180 wordsWELLINGTON, April 13.—The latest official instructions for dealing with incendiary bombs admit that an earlier circular issued to ...
Article : 160 wordsMONTREAL, April 13.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr Evatt) said in a broadcast last night that the United Nations must ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, April 13.—According to a message from Vichy the Bulgarian Prime Minister (M Filoff) in a broadcast on Saturday said that his ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, April 11.—The Chung- king correspondent of the United Press says that the newspaper "Takung Pao" in a leading article ...
Article : 94 wordsWASHINGTON, April 12.—The Office of Facts and Figures says that Japan has established a special administration for exploitation of the ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The "Daily Mail" gives prominence to a dispatch from the Italian frontier stating that it is reliably reported that a ...
Article : 92 wordsNEW YORK, April 12.—Speaking today at Corpus Christi (Texas) the British Ambassador (Viscount Hali-fax. who is a former Viceroy of ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, April 12.—A message from Istanbul says it is reliably stated that the defence of parts of the north of Irak, Syria and ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, April 13.—Two street photographers, Louis Conney, a Czechoslovakian, and Robert George Johnstone, were fined today for ...
Article : 132 wordsSYDNEY, April 13.—Florence Emily May Peisley, mother of 12- year-old Florence June Peisley, whose strangled, outraged body was ...
Article : 123 wordsWASHINGTON, April 12.—Major Geoffrey Bonnell, of the Army Ferry Command, said today that thousands of half-naked African natives and ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, April 13.—Two enemy planes over two coastal towns in southern England this morning dropped bombs from a low height. ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, April 13.—A message from Vichy says that General Schaumberg, the German military Governor of Paris, announces that ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, April 13.—According to the Rome radio a decree announcing the suspension of the "war guilt" trial at Riom is being published in ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, April 13.—A Vichy report quoting a message from Berne says that the Germans are now using almost exclusively as night fighters ...
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