CANBERRA, April 14.—"One enemy fighter was shot down for certain, 2 others were probably destroyed and a fourth was damaged during Allied operations over Lae (New Guinea) and Keopang (Timor) on Monday," stated a communique issued by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) ...
Article : 238 wordsLONDON, April 14.—The King has approved the appointment of Admiral Sir James F. Somerville as Commander-in-Chief of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, April 14.—Reports show that the Russians are attacking at various parts of the whole front and not allowing the Germans any ...
Article : 864 wordsLONDON, April 14.—Presenting the Budget in the House of Commons today the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that American Lease-Lend assistance to all countries to February totalled nearly £650,000,000 sterling. Most of it was given to the United ...
Article : 1,607 wordsLONDON, April 14.—It was announced officially in Vichy today that M Laval was entering the Vichy Government. Admiral Darlan, who ...
Article : 316 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—Admiral Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, testifying before the Naval Committee of the House ...
Article : 436 wordsCANBERRA, April 14.—Under new regulations issued today governing coalminers, if a miner falls to work at his usual occupation on any ...
Article : 909 wordsWASHINGTON, April 14.—A Chinese military mission of 8 persons under General Hsuing Shin-hul has arrived in Washington from ...
Article : 37 wordsNEW DELHI, April 14.—Referring to the statement by the Lord Privy Seal (Sir Stafford Cripps) on the future status of India that any ...
Article : 236 wordsFROM AN ADVANCED ALLIED BASE, April 14.—In another raid on Koepang last night our planes attacked shipping in the harbour, the ...
Article : 195 wordsWASHINGTON, April 14.—The State Department has informed Vichy that the policy of the United States toward Frenchmen everywhere ...
Article : 176 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—The State Department announced today that the United States and Haiti have signed four agreements. ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, April 14.—Today's communique from the British headquarters in Burma announced that the Japanese had occupied the village ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, April 14.—During combined exercises yesterday in the South of England there was an unfortunate accident in which 19 ...
Article : 160 wordsMADRAS, April 14.—The Government of Madras today declared a public holiday for all banks in the fortress area to enable them to move ...
Article : 84 wordsNASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 13.—Mr Emil Schrame, president oft the New York Stock Exchange, in a speech to the Board of Governors ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" states that after spending the week-end in the country with the Prime ...
Article : 209 wordsNEW YORK, April 14.—The "New York Times" says in a leader that Japan's apparent concentration on an Invasion of India by land and ...
Article : 280 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—Red Cross Headquarters has announced that Mr Wayne Clark has arrived in Australia to assume the post of ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, April 14.—Today's Cairo communique said: "Our columns and flghting patrols in Libya engaged enemy artillery and tanks ...
Article : 80 wordsCaptured and destroyed German tanks near Sidi Resegh in the Western Desert. Department of Information Photo ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—The treasury disclosed today that since the United States entered the war on Dec 7 last, it had received 5,589 ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, April 14—For the second consecutive afternoon and the third in 4 days Royal Air Force fighters were over enemy occupied ...
Article : 247 wordsWASHINGTON, April 13.—In the Philippines, the Corregidor Island fortress at the entrance to Manila Bay continues to undergo a sustained ...
Article : 292 wordsLONDON, April 14.—According tot the Free French Headquarters in London, the Germans are transferring the best troops of their French ...
Article : 75 wordsMIAMI BEACH. FLORIDA, April 13.—Lord Beaverbrook ended his holiday today and departed for Washington to resume his duties as ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, April 14.—Three mines were idle and 1 partly idle because of strikes and 2 resumed work on the New South Wales coalfields ...
Article : 367 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The "Saturday Evening Post," "Time," "Life" and other national magazines, for the first time in publishing history, ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, April 14.—The Tokio radio claimed yesterday that during the raid on Colombo on April 5 Japanese naval aircraft shot down 57 ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON. April 14.—The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent in Stockholm says that British naval specialists, including dockyard ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) told an Australian Associated Press representative tonight ...
Article : 190 wordsNEW YORK, April 14.—Opening a victory rally here, via the Atlantic telephone, in honour of the Soviet army, Dr Howlett Johnson, the ...
Article : 121 wordsNEW YORK, April 13.—The Mayor of New York (Mr F. La Guardia), who has been frequently criticised for his handling of the ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, April 13.—A report from Belgium states that after the Germans had discovered that the railway track at Grimberghen had ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The Government is limiting meal prices in restaurants and hotels where it is introducing menus without fish, ...
Article : 171 wordsALEXANDRIA, April 14.—Many members of the crew of the destroyer Hereward, which was sunk off Crete last May, lost their lives ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, April 13.—According to the German newsagency an Oslo report says that Quisling has established a church council under his ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON. April 14.—The corvette Heather (Commander J. G. C. Gibson, RN), which docked recently, is a little ship with a big war record. ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, April 14.—A message from Zurich, quoting an Oslo report, states that General Falkenhorst had been reappointed ...
Article : 45 wordsSUVA, April 14.—Mr and Mrs S. H. Ellis, of Suva, have donated £5,500 to the Fiji Fighter Fund for the purchase of fighter aircraft for Britain. ...
Article : 56 wordsWASHINGTON, April 14.—The Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) will visit Washington to attend a meeting of the Pacific ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON. April 14.—According to Reuters correspondent the Vichy decree suspending the Riom "war guilt" trial is for the purpose of ...
Article : 51 wordsCHUNGKING, April 14.—A communique issued last night announced that the Japanese had been driven back on the North ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, April 13.—The German radio states that the Japanese have handed the British settlement at Nanking over to the Nanking Puppet ...
Article : 24 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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