MELBOURNE, May 27.—Using flying boats instead of land bombers, the Japanese attempted night raids on Port Moresby on Monday and Tuesday but with little success. In the first raid 3 flying-boats attempted to bomb on areodrome but ...
Article : 274 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The GHQ communique issued in Cairo today said there had been increased enemy air activity on Monday night over ...
Article : 261 wordsCHUNGKING, May 27.—It was announced officially yesterday that another 1,000 Japanese had been killed or wounded north of Lanchi, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 271 wordsWASHINGTON, May 27.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) conferred with the Russian Ambassador (M Litvinov) for 45 minutes ...
Article : 494 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The bitterness and intensity of the struggle on the Kharkov front surpasses that of any previous battles in Russia. says a Moscow dispatch. The Moscow radio also is describing the fighting as merciless. ...
Article : 1,260 wordsLONDON, May 26.—Greetings from workers in many countries in German occupation were given by national representatives when the ...
Article : 550 wordsJOHANNESBURG, May 27.—Over 140 incendiary bombs have been found in various parts of the Johannesburg Liberty Cavalcade ...
Article : 345 wordsLONDON. May 27.—The Japanese Prime Minister (General Tojo), addressing the extraordinary session of the Diet today, said that Australia ...
Article : 386 wordsLONDON, May 2.—The Zurich correspondent of the United Press reports that it has been officially announced in Rome that King ...
Article : 429 wordsLONDON, May 27.—A British United Press message from Moscow says that it is reported from Stockholm that Hitler has summoned his ...
Article : 49 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 27.—Absolutely no damage to aircraft or installations and no injury to personnel resulted from the ...
Article : 80 wordsJOHANNESBURG. May 27.— Forty-eight persons, including 10 detectives, 3 sergeants and 4 constables of the South African police, have ...
Article : 38 wordsBOSTON, May 26.—Mr Harry Flory, European news manager of the United Press, who has had long experience in Europe, said in an ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, May 27.—Big issues before the Labour Party at today's sessions of its annual conference were by-election policy and the electoral ...
Article : 399 wordsMELBOURNE, May 27.—The use by the Japanese of a "pear bomb" devised to destroy planes in the air was announced by a military ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, May 27.—How the American Lt-General Stilwell personally led a nightmare march of 117 refugees 250 miles through ...
Article : 411 wordsWASHINGTON, May 26.—At his Press conference today President Roosevelt described the visit to London by a party of senior US ...
Article : 361 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The German controlled radio in Prague has announced that an attempt has been made on the life of Reinhard ...
Article : 139 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 26.—A new weapon has been introduced into the Pacific war by the Japanese at Lae and Rabaul. It ...
Article : 403 wordsOTTAWA, May 27.—The Minister for Air (Mr Power) and the British Under-Secretary for Air (Capt Balfour) in a Press statement yesterday ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, May 26.—"Help willingly given to enemy troops or persons in enemy service or to anyone who illegally stays in occupied ...
Article : 237 wordsNEW YORK, May 27.—The broadcast over the Tokio short-wave radio on Tuesday night by Mr Toshi Go (editor and publisher of the Tokio ...
Article : 445 wordsLONDON, May 27.—A Vichy dispatch today states that Marshal Petain will review French troops tomorrow at Chateauroux, in the ...
Article : 75 wordsAUCKLAND, May 28.—The New Zealand Government has instructed its representative at the joint air training conference in Canada to ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, May 26.—The Rome radio states that a meeting of the Fascist Party directorate today, with Mussolini presiding ordered a ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON. May 26.—James Taylor, of Dudley, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for having branded the word "Liar" on his wife's ...
Article : 100 wordsWASHINGTON, May 26.—A Navy communique issued today states that the destroyer Blakeley, a ship of the last war, has been damaged by a ...
Article : 232 wordsNEW DELHI, May 27.—Lieut-General Stilwell's American driver, Sergeant Francis Astolf, has committed suicide with a revolver. He drove ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, May 27.—Headquarters of the US Army forces in Britain announced today: "Lt-General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the US ...
Article : 61 wordsWASHINGTON, May 26.—In a speech at the Women's National Press Club today the New Zealand Minister (Mr W. Nash) said that ...
Article : 103 wordsSTOCKHOLM, May 27.—The Governor of Lithuania (General von Rentelen) announced that 400 alleged saboteurs comprising ...
Article : 43 wordsNEW DELHI, May 27.—Yesterday's RAF communique said that Blenheims operating in the Chindwin area had bombed and ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The opening defence in the case in which the Rev Harry Clapham, vicar of St Thomas's Church, Lambeth, is ...
Article : 84 wordsNEW YORK, May 27.—The Tokio official radio yesterday quoted a Domel report that Japanese warships had picked up 7 planes ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The Australian Minister for External Affairs (Dr Evatt) conferred yesterday with the Free French leader (General de ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 27.—Reuters Stockholm correspondent stated that complete plans for the mass evacuation of the whole of the Norwegian coastal ...
Article : 82 wordsNEW YORK, May 27.—The Tokio official radio broadcast yesterday a Japanese Government announcement of a large-scale programme to ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, May 27.—No confirmation has been received by the Allied GHQ of the Japanese claim to have occupied the islands ...
Article : 119 wordsCANBERRA, May 27.—Mr Morgan (Lab, NSW) asked in the House of Representatives today if the recent Army manoeuvres at which ...
Article : 85 wordsBRISBANE, May 27.—The body of Brian Richard Brock (56), of St Lucia, Brisbane, manager for many years of Cadbury, Fry, Pascall, Ltd, ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, May 26.—The Stockholm newspaper "Aftontidningen" states that the Quisling administration has seized the economic assets ...
Article : 30 wordsNEW DELHI, May 27.—Pandit Nehru, the Congress leader, in an interview today said: "The All-India Congress never fully accepted the ...
Article : 72 wordsBERNE, May 27.—A message from Sofia stated that a Bulgarian Military Court sentenced to death in his absence Mr Norman Davis, former ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, May 27.—Badly damaged noses, mouths, cheeks, chins and ears were being remodelled and restored to normality, the ...
Article : 94 wordsDURBAN, May 27.—A large number of French officers, officials and their families, also soldiers and sailors, arrived here yesterday en route ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, May 27.—The Acting Attorney-General (Mr Beasley) said in the House of Representatives today that members of the ...
Article : 77 wordsCANBERRA. May 27.—The Assistant Minister for the Army (Senator Fraser) said in the Senate today that no information had been ...
Article : 52 wordsNEW YORK, May 27.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" says that the Japanese are encountering a hornet's nest in the ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The Rome newsagency reports that the Prefect of Zara (Yugoslavia), the commander of carabineers at Zara and ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, May 26.—Further Canadian reinforcements, including engineers and forestry and ordnance units, have arrived at a British port. ...
Article : 24 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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