WASHINGTON, June 7.—The highest circle in Washington were greatly heartened last night by an official report that United States forces had scored a crushing victory over Japanese naval units in the greatest air and sea battle fought so far in this war. ...
Article : 754 wordsSYDNEY, June 8.—Sydney was shelled from the sea early this morning. Large-calibre shells passed over the eastern suburbs. One shell exploded in Rose Bay. Another fell in Simpson-street, Bondi. An alert was sounded soon after midnight but thousands of residents ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 907 wordsMELBOURNE, June 7.—Another enemy submarine was sunk off the east coast of Australia yesterday. It was bombed by an Allied plane and ...
Article : 379 wordsLONDON, June 7.—The weekend Moscow communiques referred only to "battles of local significance" and said there had been "no significant ...
Article : 375 wordsCHUNGKING, June 7.—Although Tokio official radio claims the capture of Chuhsien, 45 miles southwest of Kinhwa, there is no ...
Article : 248 wordsLONDON, June 7.—A counter-attack by General Ritchie's Eighth Army in Libya began at 4 o'clock on Friday morning and yesterday GHQ in Cairo announced that the initial phase had been successful. Fighting 'between armoured forces went on all day, also all day ...
Article : 1,161 wordsCHUNGKING, June 7.—High Chinese quarters declared on Friday that they had received information that high Japanese diplomats, after ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsSYDNEY, June 7.—Four bodies have been recovered from 2 Japanese submarines which have now been raised from the bed of the harbour. ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, June 6.—In an interview given today to a correspondent of the "Sunday Times" in the Western Desert Air Vice-Marshal ...
Article : 783 wordsNEW YORK, June 7.—Japanese broadcasts heard in New York to 1 pm today (Tokio time) did not mention the Battle of Midway Island ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 250 wordsSYDNEY, June 7.—RAAF bomber crews, some of whom have been in service in other war theatres, have played a notable part in the ...
Article : 388 wordsLONDON, June 6.—Yesterday the Moscow radio announced that Stormoviks sank 6 merchantmen out of 2 German convoys in the Baltic ...
Article : 36 wordsCHUNGKING, June 7.—In a speech made on June 2 but released for cabling only on Friday. the Chinese Generalissimo Chiang ...
Article : 90 wordsMELBOURNE, June 7.—With the addition of the name of Stoker Arthur William Francis, of England, to the list of missing, believed killed, ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, June 5.—A British antiaircraft officer who has just returned from Russia has brought back some striking impressions of the ...
Article : 300 wordsLONDON, June 7.—Berlin radio quotes a Tokio report that General Lo-Choying, commander or the Chinese forces in Burma, has escaped ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, June 7.—Te Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings), who is chairman of the Australian War Memorial Board, has ...
Article : 162 wordsNEW DELHI, June 7.—United States heavy bombers under the command of Captain Frank Sharp attacked enemy shipping and the ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, June 7.—The diarist of the "Observer" detects an encouraging new note in Mr Curtin's "habitually cautious reference to the ...
Article : 227 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Today I witnessed a demonstration of guerilla tactics by a picked platoon of AIF men whose ...
Article : 243 wordsWASHINGTON. June 6.—At a Press conference today the of State (Mr Cordell Hull) said that Hitler's visit to Finland was a ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, June 7.—Reliable observers consider that the heavy naval engagement slightly south of Midway Island will have a profound ...
Article : 554 wordsWASHINGTON, June 7.—The House of Representatives has passed legislation designating June 13 as MacArthur Day—a day which will ...
Article : 80 wordsOTTAWA, June 7.—The Canadian Expeditionary Force at Hong Kong fought without its mechanical transport, because 212 vehicles were ...
Article : 125 wordsWASHINGTON, June 7.—Australians figured prominently in the capital's diplomatic activities yesterday. ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, June 6.—Yesterday the following communique was issued by the German High Command: "The Italo-German forces in North Africa ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, June 7.—It was learnt in Belgian circles in London that all Belgian army and reserve officers, including doctors, chemists ...
Article : 57 wordsPORT LOUIS (Mauritius), June 7.—A message from Antananarivo. the capital of Madagascar, states that a British motorised column occupied ...
Article : 31 wordsSYDNEY, June 7.—The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) said yesterday that no further news of war prisoners in Singapore had been ...
Article : 46 wordsA Free French dispatch from Libya yesterday said that large numbers of Axis tanks plus hundreds of lanes and supported by scores of ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON. June 7.—A Stockholm report says that many flat-bottomed German invasion boats are moving from the Low Countries through ...
Article : 33 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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