BATAVIA, Feb. 12.—It is officially, announced that three Japanese cruisers and one destroyer were blown up off Amboina Island (about ...
Article : 407 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 11.—"There is an urgent need for a new spirit in this country," says the "Herald-Tribune" in a leading article. "It ...
Article : 589 wordsRANGOON, Feb. 12.—A communique issued by British headquarters here this morning states that the town of Martaban, at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 362 wordsBATAVIA, Feb. 12.—It is announced officially that further reports received of Japanese landings on the south-western arm of the ...
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The latest dispatch from Singapore, received about midday today, indicated that desperate fighting was still in progress, with the British and imperial forces concentrated in the eastern half of the Island. ...
Article : 1,297 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The "Evening News" says in a leading article that no excuses and no explanations can disguise the fact that the loss of ...
Article : 304 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The Russians continue incessantly hammering from within and without at the German chain stretched from the Baltic ...
Article : 1,000 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—"Our mobile columns and patrols continued their aggressive activities in the general area of Gazala, Tmimi and Mekili," ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—At least 4.000 tons of wheat a month—sufficient to feed ten or more divisions—have been shipped from French mainland ...
Article : 268 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 12.—In a second raid at Gasmata (on the south-east coast of New Britain) R.A.A.F. bombers, operating from mast height ...
Article : 186 words"We shall send you men. ships, fighting equipment, supplies—in fact, everything necessary for the successful conduct of this war. but what is ...
Article : 300 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—An emotional description of his last impressions of Singapore is given by Yates McDaniel, Associated Press ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 723 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—Lively patrol activity is officially reported by both sides in North Africa. German bombers in the waters round Malta, ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—A "Daily Mail" correspondent aboard an evacuation ship from Singapore states, in a dispatch dated yesterday:—"This ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—According to the Associated Press correspondent at Berne. the Prime Minister of Portugal (Dr. Salazar) and General ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 12.—Mr. Cecil Brown, war correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System of America, who was banned from ...
Article : 627 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—It is officially stated from Valetta that there were 14 enemy air raids on Malta during the past 24 hours. There were also ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW DELHI, Feb. 11.—General Chiang Kai-shek met Mr. Manlana Abul Kalam Azad and Pandit Nehru. the Indian Congress leaders, for two ...
Article : 125 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—A communique issued here this morning states: "On the Bataan Penisula (on Luzon Island, in the Philippines) ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—An Associated Press message from Singapore last night said that the scene in the southern areas of the island was one ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—The Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) stated in the House of Commons that the total losses of Royal Air ...
Article : 144 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 12.—Vice-Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, commander-in-Chief of the N.E.I naval forces, who [as reported from London in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 267 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—According to the Vichy Newsagency, bombs on Monday evening wrecked the local headquarters of the pro-German ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—Free French headquarters here announce that the French liner Marechal Joffre (11,000 tons) has escaped from Manila with ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—An Air Ministry communique says that planes of the Bomber Command last night attacked targets in north-west ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—The heroic defence of the Bataan Peninsula has momentarily diverted attention from the importance of the island fortress ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—The Moscow radio today quotes a writer in "Pravda" (the official organ of the Communist Party) who, reviewing ...
Article : 92 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 11.—The Navy today announced the sinking of the tanker W. L. Steed (6,182 tons) off the coast of New Jersey on February ...
Article : 225 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 11.—According to the Tokio official radio, flags were displayed throughout Japan today in honour of Empire Day. Crowds ...
Article : 83 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The State Department announced today that a United State Army contingent had been sent to the Caribbean ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—An Admiralty communique states that there were 470 casualties when H.M.S. Galatea (5,220 tons), a six-inch gun cruiser ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—Tokio's version of Japanese successes and losses since December 7 is given in a communique quoted by the Rome radio ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Feb. 12.—In reply to Mr. Clement Davies, K.C. (Liberal National), who asked if the House could have a statement before rising ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—United States Army Headquarters in Great Britain state that an American ship, with supplies for the troops in Northern ...
Article : 30 wordsCHUNGKING, Feb. 11.—A communique issued here today announces that the Japanese have suffered a setback in the north of ...
Article : 35 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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