LONDON, May 14.—On the Kerch Peninsula, in the Crimea, where the Germans launched an offensive last week-end, the Russians have withdrawn to new positions, but Moscow denies the enemy claims. The Soviet forces are retreating in good order and inflicting "tremendous ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,118 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A dispatch from the Assam-Burma frontier says that the first men of General Sir Harold Alexander's army who have ...
Article : 414 wordsLONDON, May 13.—While the nations of Europe are debating the possibility of Germany's use of gas warfare, it is officially announced ...
Article : 183 wordsOTTAWA, May 13.—The Canadian Navy Minister (Mr Angus MacDonald) announced in the House of Commons today that an ...
Article : 261 wordsMELBOURNE, May 14.—Taking the Japanese by surprise, a force of Allied planes swept over a Rabaul airfield yesterday and plastered a group of at least 15 grounded enemy bombers. Three bombers were seen to blow up and many others were severely damaged if not destroyed. ...
Article : 515 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.—The president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr William Green), addressing the federation's executive ...
Article : 155 wordsWASHINGTON, May 13.—The Secretary of the Australian Supply Department (Mr A. V. Smith), who came to Washington with the ...
Article : 436 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.—The Union for Democratic Action and the magazine "New Republic" have jointly launched a political drive ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A report from Ankara states that Turkish military experts believe that the German forces in Russia consist of 25 ...
Article : 64 wordsPHILADELPHIA, May 13.—One of the largest tankers in the world has returned from the ocean depths and soon will again be serving the ...
Article : 167 wordsNEW YORK, May 14.—The "New York Times" for the first time in an editorial openly and emphatically suggests the creation of a second ...
Article : 96 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.—Representative Carl Vinson (chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee) demanded today ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The Vichy radio said today that it was reported from Tokio that the Japanese were massing large naval and transport ...
Article : 102 wordsOTTAWA, May 13.—The Department of External Affairs announced today that the Canadian icebreaker Montcalm has arrived safely in ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, May 14.—Seventeen months of unbroken service in the Western Desert has added almost unprecedented laurels to the battle ...
Article : 529 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The Burma campaign was reviewed by the British Commander-in-Chief in India and Burma (General Sir Archibald ...
Article : 220 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.— President Roosevelt today signed legislation authorising a 200,000-ton increase in the US submarine fleet, ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, May 14.—It was learnt in Vichy today that a French note has been sent to the United States agreeing to immobilise 3 French ...
Article : 267 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A special announcement in Berlin today claims that U-boats sank 9 ships in an England-bound convoy in the Atlantic, ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A German admission that Japan over-estimated the Allied losses in the Battle of the Coral Sea was contained in the ...
Article : 220 wordsALEXANDRIA, May 14.—Commander Jellicoe, nephew of the Admiral was among the survivors from the 3 British destroyers sunk ...
Article : 348 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.—The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives voted today to lower personal income tax ...
Article : 102 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 14.—In defensive and offensive operations against the Japanese yesterday, American aircraft inflicted ...
Article : 366 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A special correspondent of the Associated Press (American) who was an eye-witness of the Burma campaign from the ...
Article : 159 wordsWASHINGTON, May 14.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull), making a statement on the occasion of the opening of National and ...
Article : 153 wordsCANBERRA, May 14.—The greater part of north-east Australia was declared to be an area under emergency control by the Army ...
Article : 60 wordsNEW YORK, May 14.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the latest advices indicate the chances more ...
Article : 244 wordsWASHINGTON, May 13.—The President of the Philippines (Dr Manuel Quezon) arrived by train today. He was personally welcomed at ...
Article : 122 wordsBUENOS AIRES, May 12.—Dr Ramon Castroviejo, a noted New York eye specialist, arrived here today to attend the President (Senor ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, May 14.—A communique Issued in Chungking today announced that the American Volunteer Group bombed the Japanese ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The Ankara correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that new Hungarian mass terrorism has thrown Yugoslavia into a ...
Article : 217 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 14.—Men who fought in the Battle of the Coral Sea have landed in an Australian port. Their arrival ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The political correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that Sir William Beveridge, the Government's adviser on coal, has ...
Article : 206 wordsCANBERRA, May 14.—Major racing events are still being held in England and no good purpose could be served by the absolute curtailment ...
Article : 115 wordsNEW YORK, May 13.—The Tokio official radio broadcast today a "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" report that 60 representatives of Japanese rubber ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, May 14.—The Foreign Office announces that the Free French will play their "due part" in the administration of Madagascar. ...
Article : 79 wordsMONTREAL, May 14.—The Free French High Commissioner in French Equatorial Africa (General Adolphe Sice) has arrived here en ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, May 14.—Enemy air activity over Malta yesterday was on a reduced scale. It was officially stated that on Tuesday 2 enemy ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, May 14.—It was learnt today that the German troop-carrying planes, of which the Cairo RAF communique yesterday mentioned, 13 ...
Article : 158 wordsNEW YORK, May 14.—At Guayaquil, Ecuador, 20 people were killed when an earthquake of a minute's duration wrecked many buildings in ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, May 14.—An Air Ministry communique states that a Coastal Command plane last night attacked and set fire to a ...
Article : 57 wordsNEW YORK, May 14.—The former French Air Minister (M Pierre Cot) predicted today that the Vichy Prime Minister (M Laval) will soon ...
Article : 65 wordsVANCOUVER, May 14.—For the first time since the war began minor riots occurred last night among Japanese scheduled for evacuation from ...
Article : 85 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 14.—The absence of Japanese bombers in the Darwin area in the past 2 weeks is now attributed in ...
Article : 241 wordsLONDON, May 13.—Further Canadian Army reinforcements have arrived safely in Britain. The troops represented virtually all branches of ...
Article : 50 wordsAUCKLAND, May 14.—All five occupants, the two pilots and three passengers, were found dead when searchers reached the wrecked and ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 14.—According to the Berlin radio Rashid Ali the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, has arrived in Berlin and has been ...
Article : 36 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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