CANBERRA, March 13.—"Information has been received from the Naval Board that H.M.A.S. Perth '(7,040 tons) and H.M.A.S. Yarra (1,060 tons) are overdue on their return to Australia from waters around Java," the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said today. "In view of the circumstances surrounding operations in that area, it is with deep regret that I announce that these two ships must be presumed lost. ...
Article : 1,102 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Interviewed today at Wardha by the Associated Press, Mr. Gandhi (the former leader of Congress) said:—"Despite ...
Article : 361 wordsPORT MORESBY, March 13.—Quickly following on yesterday's terrific battering of a Japanese convoy in the Huon Gulf area (on the east ...
Article : 341 wordsLONDON, March 13.—The latest news of operations in Burma is given in a communique issued in New Delhi this morning, which stated ...
Article : 238 wordsWASHINGTON, March 11.— Speaking today at a Press conference held by the Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Frank Knox) ...
Article : 484 wordsLONDON, March 13.—The German 16th Army trapped at Staraya Russa, south of Lake Ilmen, is reported by the "Daily Telegraph's" ...
Article : 892 wordsLONDON, March 12.—With the return of favourable weather the full-scale bombing offensive against Germany has been resumed and is ...
Article : 310 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—The Chinese Foreign Minister (Dr. T. V. Soong), after a conference with President Roosevelt today, said an ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, March 12.—In a speech today the Minister for Aircraft Production (Col. J. J. Llewellin) revealed that eight blind ex- ...
Article : 76 wordsWASHINGTON, March 11.—Sir Girja Bajpai, India's Agent General in Washington today visited President Roosevelt for the first time ...
Article : 118 wordsMELBOURNE, March 13.—Gasmata aerodrome, in New Britain, was attacked by R.A.A.F. aircraft on Thursday, stated a war communique ...
Article : 166 wordsH.M.A.S. Perth was commanded by Captain Hector Macdonald Laws Waller, D.S.O. (and bar), R.A.N., who was born at Benalla, Victoria. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,052 wordsLONDON, March. 13.—The Berlin radio announced this morning that the Royal Air Force bombed the North German coast last night. ...
Article : 38 wordsLying in a ward at the Perth Hospital last night, with both arms and one leg shot through and ten days' growth of beard on his face, ...
Article : 831 wordsLONDON, March 13.—The Berlin radio stated this morning that the Royal Air Force was over a city in the north-west of France last night, ...
Article : 61 wordsNEW YORK, March 12.—The Tokio radio today broadcast an account of a special session of the Japanese Diet held to celebrate the ...
Article : 348 wordsLONDON, March 12.—When Sir Herbert Williams (Con.) asked in the House of Commons today if a report had been received from ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Air Vice- Marshal Robb, in a speech said that the German Fockewulf plane as a sea raider had been largely mastered. ...
Article : 62 wordsPORT MORESBY, March 13.— After a quiet day yesterday in Port Moresby—probably due to the fact that the Japanese air force was ...
Article : 186 wordsOTTAWA, March 12.—Two Nazi airmen who escaped from an internment camp were recaptured today. One, Lieutenant Oeser, was caught ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The Victoria Cross has been awarded posthumously to Flying-Officer Kenneth Campbell, of the R.A.F., ...
Article : 233 wordsNEW YORK, March 12.—Australia is again given a good Press today. The further successful R.A.A.F. blows and the Japanese admission that ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Mar. 12.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill), outlining in the House of Commons today Captain Oliver Lyttelton's duties as ...
Article : 411 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden), in a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, dealt mainly with the ...
Article : 242 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—To-day's Army Department communique merely stated that the lull in the fighting in the Bataan Peninsula ...
Article : 36 wordsOTTAWA, March 12.—The Minister for Trade (Mr. Mackinnon) announced today that Canadian exports to Russia in February, 1942, ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The corvette Auricula has just completed towing for 5½ days a disabled Sunderland flying boat, which it brought to ...
Article : 64 wordsCOLOMBO, March 12.—The constant drone of planes, the arrival of Indian and British troops, new anti-aircraft measures and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 382 wordsNEW YORK, March 12.—Admiral Shimada told the Japanese Diet to- day (according to the Tokio radio) that Japan has lost 27 transports ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, March 12.—The special Durban correspondent of the "Dally Mail" says the French island of Madagascar is looming large in ...
Article : 232 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—The United States Navy announced to- day that the freighter Molimi (3,275 tons) was overdue and presumed ...
Article : 55 wordsMONTREAL, March 12.—The Buenos Aires correspondent of the Associated Press (American) reports that informed sources said ...
Article : 52 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, March 12.— Shipyard workers in the San Francisco Bay area have initiated a "work a day for Uncle Sam" ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, March 12.—Today's communique from British General Headquarters, Cairo, said:—During Thursday some exchange of shellfire ...
Article : 56 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, March 12.— Furious throngs of Brazilians, inflamed by the torpedoing of Brazilian ships, assaulted big German ...
Article : 89 wordsWASHINGTON, March 12.—The New Zealand Minister in Washington (Mr. Walter Nash) today gave a reception to 50 British, American ...
Article : 56 wordsOTTAWA, March 12.—The Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King), broadcasting on the occasion of the successful Canadian war loan of ...
Article : 53 wordsSTOCKHOLM, March 13.—The Minister for Justice (M. Terje Wold) had ordered the seizure of 14 Swedish newspapers for having published ...
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