LONDON, May 22.—The Red Army organ "Red Star" stated this afternoon that the gigantic battle which has been raging in one sector of the Kh[?]rkov front for 4 days is still going on but the Germans, after Immense losses are showing signs of beginning to crack. The Russians ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,089 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 22.—After a remarkable escape from a ship which was bombed and damaged by Japanese bombers 154 ...
Article : 461 wordsWASHINGTON, May 22.—Senator Brewster, addressing the Senate yesterday, criticised the American precautions against U-boats. He ...
Article : 164 wordsMELBOURNE, May 22.—The sinking of 1 Japanese heavy cruiser and 2 large cargo vessels by Allied submarines is announced in today's ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 416 wordsLONDON, May 22.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr Evatt) yesterday morning visited an Australian Spitfire ...
Article : 805 wordsCHUNGKING, May 22.—The Chinese High Command announced yesterday that Japanese troops had been landed near Foochow and were ...
Article : 506 wordsMELBOURNE, May 22.—Following Investigations by detectives and military police into the murders of 3 women in Melbourne this month, ...
Article : 409 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Lord Nathan (Lab), speaking in the House of Lords debate on post-war policy towards Germany, said yesterday that ...
Article : 681 wordsLONDON, May 22.—A special communique issued in Rome today claims that Italian submarines attacked a United States naval formation off the ...
Article : 87 wordsWading knee-deep in icy water through forests in a sector in North Karelia the Russians, supported by heavy artillery, have launched a new ...
Article : 353 wordsMEXICO CITY, May 22.—The Foreign Office yesterday announced that the Axis nations had rejected Mexico's note of protest and demand ...
Article : 60 wordsHALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 21.—The Minister of the Navy (Mr Angus MacDonald) told the Halifax Service Club today that 99 per cent ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, May 22.—The Free French authorities have published the following extracts from a report by a French officer who has escaped ...
Article : 344 wordsWASHINGTON, May 21.—On the occasion of the national maritime day tomorrow American shipyards will launch 27 merchantmen within ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The award of 3 Victoria Crosses is announced tonight for daring and valour in the recent combined operation on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 483 wordsNEW YORK, May 22.—Brigadier-General Chennault, commander of the American Volunteer Group in China, in an interview in Kunming, ...
Article : 66 wordsNEW YORK, May 2.—In an apparent attempt to elicit information the Tokio radio today broadcast further purported details of the Coral ...
Article : 310 wordsNEW YORK, May 22.—Senator Hill and George, expressing the belief that the Japanese would not attempt to attack India at present ...
Article : 67 wordsAUCKLAND, May 21.—Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, US Navy, who was appointed to command the Allied forces in the South ...
Article : 264 wordsCAIRO, May 22.—Yesterday's RAF communique aid that objectives in Crete and Libya were attacked on Tuesday night, ...
Article : 214 wordsCHUNGKING, May 22.—China is not worried about food, regardless of the outcome of the Japanese drives in South-West and Central China. ...
Article : 74 wordsWASHINGTON, May 21.—The Navy Department announced today that preliminary work had begun on raising the burnt and capsized ...
Article : 190 wordsNEW YORK, May 21.—Writing in the New York "Herald-Tribune" Mr Wilfrid Fleisher, in a thorough political, economic and historial ...
Article : 490 wordsNAIROBI, May 2.—Interviewed on returning to Pretoria after having visited the South African base and forward troops, the Prime ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, May 22.—This morning's Moscow communique states that fighting continues on the eastern part of the Kerch Peninsula. ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, May 22.—A Vichy report says that it is now learnt that a second French submarine was sunk in the British attack on Madagascar. ...
Article : 28 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, May 22.—The former Netherlands Consul in Sydney (Mr Elnik Schurman), who has arrived from Australia en route for ...
Article : 153 wordsWASHINGTON, May 22.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) at a Press conference yesterday said that the conversations with the ...
Article : 175 wordsAUCKLAND, May 21.—The need to regard Australia and New Zealand as bases from which the enemy can be attacked was emphasised by ...
Article : 113 wordsBUENOS AIRES, May 21.—The Argentine Foreign Office has announced that Japan has agreed to permit a Red Cross ship to carry ...
Article : 41 wordsWASHINGTON, May 21.—The Office of Facts and Figures states that Japanese broadcasts today disclosed the existence of an-anti-Axis ...
Article : 73 wordsBOMBAY, May 22.—The Chief of the US Technical Mission (Dr O'Grady) said yesterday that India's war production must be developed ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, May 22.—Today's New Delhi communique said that RAF bombers yesterday again attacked the Akyab aerodrome, dropping ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, May 21.—In a speech today the Dominions Secretary (Mr C. R. Attlee) welcomed Russia's "kickback." "We have plans too," ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, May 22.—It was reported from Vichy yesterday that 2 cruisers and an aircraft carrier had arrived at Gibraltar followed by a ...
Article : 84 wordsPolish troops formerly stationed in Scotland have arrived in Russia. They had been in Britain since the fall of France and are highly ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The King and Queen, with Queen Mary, watched for 8 hours the manoeuvres of the Guards Armoured Division of the ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, May 21.—The Tokio official radio reports that the Siamese Government has asked young King Ananda Mahidol to return ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, May 22.—According to the Oslo radio 15 Norwegians have been shot and 2 sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to ...
Article : 47 wordsOTTAWA, May 21.—Committees of the United Nations air-training conference today continued their sessions in secret. The Canadian ...
Article : 61 wordsNEW YORK, May 21.—The Tokio official radio states that General Hayashi, a former Prime Minister, has been named president of the ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, May 22.—An Air Ministry communique states that shortly after midnight last night a few enemy planes crossed the north-east ...
Article : 51 wordsBEIRUT, May 22.—Four spies were shot at dawn yesterday after a military trial. Others were imprisoned for terms ranging from 5 ...
Article : 49 wordsGENEVA, May 22.—Twenty Germans are reported to have been killed by 2 fresh dynamite explosions at the Paris headquarters of ...
Article : 31 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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