LONDON, May 31.—A communique Issued at midday today from British GHQ In Cairo with reference to the Axis offensive in Libya states; "Fighting continued with increasing intensity yesterday in the area around Kaightsbridge (a track centre about 12 miles south of ...
Article : 1,580 wordsMELBOURNE. May 31.—Extensive Allied night bombing raids against the main Japanese striking bases to the north and north-east ...
Article : 522 wordsCHUNGKING, May 31.—It was announced officially yesterday that the Chinese had withdrawn from Kinhwa, the provisional capital of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 262 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, May 30.—Brazilian armed forces are credited unofficially with the destruction of two Axis submarines and the capture ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, May 310—Berlin asserted in a special communique yesterday that "the great battle of Kharkov has ended." Today the Moscow Information Bureau issued a special announcement in which it said that the battle "is approaching its end." ...
Article : 1,191 wordsLONDON, May 31.—In what may well prove to be the greatest [?] raid of the war to date the Royal Air Force sent considerably more than 1,000 bombers over Germany last night. This vast force of bombers wee more than twice as many as the Luftwaffe sent to England at any one. ...
Article : 622 wordsWASHINGTON, May 30.—The Navy Department has announced the sinking of a medium-sized American merchantman in the Gulf of ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Moscow radio said yesterday that the Germans are using a new Messerschmitt, 115, in the Isyum- Barvenkovo sector. One Soviet unit ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK, May 30.—The US Navy Department has announced the appointment of Rear-Admiral James Kauffman as Commander of the ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, May 30.—Yesterday's Berlin communique states that the Navy and the Luftwaffe, despite bad weather, continued their attacks on ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, May 31.—A crisis is believed to have been reached in Vichy as a result of the increasing pressure of Italian claims against France. ...
Article : 252 wordsNEW YORK, May 31.—The Herald Tribune" Washington bureau says that over a score of big American transport planes are now ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, May. 31.—It was staged today in Moscow that Russian Fleet Air Arm pilots escorting a large convoy of Russian transports in the ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK, May 30.—speaking at West Point yesterday General G. C. Marshall (Chief of Staff of the US Army) definitely indicated ...
Article : 225 words"RAF fighters and bombers throughout Friday were intensively engaged in operations in support of the land battle and heavily ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 212 wordsNEW DELHI, May 310—In an Interview here yesterday General Alexander, who commanded the Imperial forces in Burma said that ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, May 31.—Further details of the attack on Nazi convoys off the Friesian Islands (mentioned in yesterdays communique) show that ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, May 31.—On Friday night and early yesterday morning a strong RAF bombing force battered an important group of factories at ...
Article : 511 wordsNEW YORK, May 30.—Federal Bureau of Investigation agents seized a number of German aliens and nationals, a quantity of arms and ...
Article : 134 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 31.—An Australian squadron- leader from Adelaide, who holds the Distinguished Plying Cross. for his ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, May 31.—The EX change Telegraph's representative at Gibralta stated that 6 Italian torpedo-bombers for three-quarters of ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, May 31.—The Government and the miners' leaders have jointly issued a dramatic appeal to the 29,000 striking miners ...
Article : 204 wordsPORTLAND, May 30.—The Undersecretary for War (Mr Patterson) in a Memorial Day speech today predicted that Tokio would receive ...
Article : 139 wordsLISBON, May 31.—Two members of the crew were killed and 4 injured when a Wellington bomber crashed into the sea near Oporto ...
Article : 28 wordsCAIRO, May 29.—The Australians' only share in the new outburst of Libyan desert fighting is in the air. Nineteen per cent of the Middle East ...
Article : 240 wordsCHUNGKING, May 31.—It has been disclosed by a Government spokesman that after the Japanese break-through in Burma, the ...
Article : 111 wordsNEW YORK, May 30.—The "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau says that the chairman of the War Production Board (Mr Nelson) is ...
Article : 171 wordsWASHINGTON, May 30.—The Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) told the Press yesterday that the War Department considered a ...
Article : 162 wordsCHUNGKING, May 31.—According to the United Press the Chinese Intelligence Department has received reports that several Japanese ...
Article : 131 wordsThis morning's Berlin communique stated merely: "Fighting is continuing in North Africa." A communique issued in Rome was ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, May 31.—Lord Van-sittart in the course of a speech in the drive for civil defence recruits., said: "Massacres and tortures would ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, May 31.—An Exchange Telegraph correspondent with the Mediterranean Fleet said that there was not yet any sign of the Navy ...
Article : 98 wordsBOMBAY, May 31.—The Maharajah of Indore, in an open letter to President Roosevelt. suggests that the United States, China and the ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, May 31.—The Vichy radio broadcast that the battleship Malaya, the aircraft-carrier Eagle, and submarines and. destroyers ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, May 31.—The Admiralty announces that as a result of the raid on the French port of St Nazaire on March 28, two officers of HMS ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, May 31.—According to the Tokio official radio, the commander of the naval forces in Singapore has declared that the ...
Article : 61 wordsObservers in Istanbul believe that Marshal Timoshenko trained throughout the winter a reserve army consisting of 100 divisions. They ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, May 31.—"Fifty Nazi bombers operated against Britain last night, causing only slight damage. Seven were destroyed and less ...
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