LONDON, March 17.—Advanced Red Army units are reported by the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Express" to have cut the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 562 wordsCANBERRA, March 17.—"The raid on Darwin by Japanese aircraft yesterday was directed at Royal Australian Air Force objectives and ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, March 17.—A combined British air and naval attack on the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, off the west coast of ...
Article : 205 wordsLONDON, March 17.—It is authoritatively stated that the British forces in Burma are on a line roughly from Shwegyin (90 miles ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 522 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—The sinking of two enemy vessels was announced in a Navy Department communique issued today. The ...
Article : 69 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—An announcement that United States army units are now in Australia has been made by the Secretary of War (Mr. H. L. Stimson). He said that the units included bath air and ground troops in considerable numbers. ...
Article : 863 wordsLONDON, March 17.—A continuance of increased activity in the forward area in Libya was again reported in today's communique from ...
Article : 296 wordsLONDON, March 16.—A Royal Air Force offensive in what was "promised to be the heaviest to date and which was to begin as soon as ...
Article : 213 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—The Chilean steamship Tolten was torpedoed and sunk in six minutes 37 miles from New York on Friday ...
Article : 140 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—A War Department communique issued this morning said that in the New Britain theatre last Friday a single ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, March 16.—The Vichy radio today broadcast a message from Ankara, capital of Turkey, stating that unidentified planes had ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, March 16.—The Berlin radio stated today that tens of thousands of foreign workers are building gigantic air-raid shelters for ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The Admiralty announced today that the Polish destroyer Kujawiak, on the evening of Saturday last, had saved ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The "Daily Mail" says in a leader: "We in this country desire with all our being to help Australia in her imminent ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The "Daily Express" correspondent with the 10th Army in Irak states that British Army engineers are using ...
Article : 392 wordsOTTAWA, March 16.—Fifty-four Chinese sailors rescued from torpedoed ships refused to sign on other ships. They argued that when they ...
Article : 85 wordsPORT MORESBY, March 17.— After three days' air inactivity over Port Moresby, a large Japanese twin-engine bomber descended through ...
Article : 385 wordsLONDON, March 16.—There was an air-raid alert in London this morning, the first in daylight for several months. A large number of ...
Article : 137 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—A message from San Diego, California, states that Consolidated Aircrafts' new mechanical assembly line today ...
Article : 506 wordsCANBERRA, March 17.—"Most of the R.A.A.F. personnel who have been serving in the Far East have returned to Australia," said the Air ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 359 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The Tokio official radio broadcast a Domei report yesterday claiming that 400 American troops had been captured ...
Article : 195 wordsLONDON, March 16.—A fighter squadron commander's navigating feat in crossing the English Channel in a rubber dinghy was ...
Article : 168 wordsNEW DELHI, March 16.—The Viceroy of India (the Marquess of Linlithgow), addressing the Chamber of Princes today, paid a tribute to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 158 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—British, Russian, Chinese and Netherlands envoys tonight joined with President Roosevelt in calling for unity ...
Article : 346 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—The Assistant Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles), in a statement to the Press today, said that Hitler's ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, March 17.—A message from Beirut states that the new railway from Halfa to Tripoli linking Palestine with Syria is nearing ...
Article : 50 wordsVALETTA, March 17.—Malta was subjected to enemy air attacks all day yesterday. Few casualties were reported and little damage was done. ...
Article : 34 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" reports that British trade union leaders have made ...
Article : 325 wordsTANGIER, March 17.—The authorities in French Morocco have ordered the immediate internment of all British subjects aged from 18 to ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The announcement by the United States Secretary of War (Mr. Stimson) that American forces were in Australia ...
Article : 56 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—Dr. Gilbert Fletcher, formerly of Brussels University, who arrived from Lisbon today, said that the Germans in ...
Article : 107 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—The Assistant Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) announced today that the Swedish liner Drottingholm ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The Berlin radio said yesterday that it was reported from Tokio that Japanese forces in New Guinea, after ...
Article : 160 wordsMELBOURNE, March 17.—While every form of military equipment that the General Staff considered necessary would be sent to Australia ...
Article : 324 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The "Daily Mail" says that revelations of German atrocities in Norway, which resulted in the banning of 17 Swedish ...
Article : 158 wordsAUCKLAND, March 17.—The increased danger of a Japanese thrust to Fiji and New Zealand as a result of the rapid deterioration of the ...
Article : 196 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—The White House announced today that Mr. Louis Johnson, who will head the United States mission to India, ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, March 16.—The naval correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that with the Java losses the Royal Navies, including Australian ...
Article : 123 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—The American Bureau of Shipping today announced the suspension of publication of its monthly magazine, ...
Article : 53 wordsOTTAWA, March 16.—The Department of Munitions and Supply today ordered a sharp curtailment in road construction and ...
Article : 63 wordsCOLOMBO, March 16.—Ceylon is now "defence minded." There is no comparison between Colombo, which today is a city without ...
Article : 137 wordsBERNE, March 16.—The 1942 trade agreement between Italy and Germany involves £50,000,000 a year. It was signed by Dr. Clodius, the ...
Article : 79 wordsSANTIAGO (Chile), March 16— Two leading newspapers publish a story that a certain belligerent nation whose trade with Chile has ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, March 16.—A stirring appeal made by Charles Dickens's grandson, Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens, resulted today in the ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, March 17.—The Funeral service for Lieut.-General G. B. Noothoven van Goor. Inspector- General of Dutch Forces in England, ...
Article : 90 wordsWASHINGTON, March 16.—This morning's War Department communique said that there had been no activity in the Philippines. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, March 16.—The number of persons detained under Regulation 18b at January 31 was 603. Detention orders during January ...
Article : 48 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—Chang Ching-hul, head of the Manchukuo Government, has arrived in Tokio for a week's visit, during which he ...
Article : 35 wordsNEW YORK, March 16.—The Domei (Japanese) newsagency reports that Lieut.-Col. Ichiro Sakurai has been appointed to Vichy to assist ...
Article : 31 wordsSTOCKHOLM, March 17.—It is officially stated that eight Swedish merchantmen, totalling 27,000 tons, were lost in February. They mostly ...
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